The blog of Erik A. G. '59

Boomer | he/him/his/his/himself | raised in California, now living in Iowa | I seem to post about gender issues and politics in cartoon and fandom meme form, with occasional raccoons, pangolins, and other charismatic animals. Also see my sideblogs at erik-even-gayer and erik-even-wordier.

[argumate]

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has to be the coolest government agency, like they get the sea and the sky, the fish and the birds

[wizardarchetypes]

the place where so many haunted house genre stories fall apart is where the writers try to explain why the house is haunted and it completely defangs the story because the explanation is never as scary as the haunting itself. "this house is haunted and bad things happen here" can be so artful and outrageously scary. "this house is haunted because Specified Bad Thing Happened Here" falls flat again and again. i'm not saying it can't be done but i'm almost never satisfied by it and often it ruins the whole story for me.

[wizardarchetypes]

the thing is, a Haunted House story is not the same as a Ghost story. In a Haunted House story, the Haunted House is a character. Usually a main character. In a Ghost story, the ghost is a character. A Ghost's story may be explained by showing us the Ghost's origin. But a Haunted House story cannot be explained by showing us the origin of one of the House's ghosts. That's just one ghost. We're talking about the House.

[crippled-peeper]

“trans women experience (horrible harmful traumatic oppression), while trans men experience (fanfic I wrote while taking a dump because I don’t know any of them)” top ten most annoying tumblr posts

[liberalsarecool]

Women frighten conservative men. Any instance of independence and reactionary Republicans go medieval.

[sprinkledsalt]

"Well I asked ChatGPT and it said--"

Stop. I am tired of being expected to pretend this isn't stupid as fuck. I do not care about the text that the chatbot generated. It can be inaccurate as hell as a search engine but it's especially idiotic to say you asked for ShitGPT's advice or take on a real-life situation. It has no authority. It has no brain. It has no sentience. It has no life experience. It is a computer program merely designed to sound like a human. I don't have to listen to what the fuck text it spits out about a real life situation when it cannot live a real life, nor do I have take you seriously because you fell for a human-sounding computer. If you want people to take you seriously, start by not earnestly telling them what the digital Magic 8 Ball shit out.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[prokopetz]

I've never found it unrealistic when an adventure game protagonist can hear the faint echo of stone grinding upon stone and know by the sound alone that it must be that mysterious door they passed by twenty minutes ago spontaneously opening because these are just skills you develop when you live with cats.

[asker101]

How does this make you feel?

It fills me with rage.

It does not fill me with rage (another negative emotion)

It does not fill me with rage (a positive emotion)

Remaining time: 21 hours 5 minutes

[ultrafacts]

[daysleftofsecondterm]

957 days left

[athelind]

Source

[daysleftofsecondterm]

listen to Granny on 957 days left

[thememedaddy]

[liberaljane]

[anxietyproblem]

[libraford]

P!nk's performance in Peter Pan costume at the Tony's last night would be considered 'adult cabaret performance' in ohio under HB249.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[hotforalbumart]

Which album art do you like best?

The Ladder - Yes

Heaven to a Tortured Mind - Yves Tumor

Neither (both!)

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[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)