how now spirit?

Lake. They/them. Goddess of Spring; Queen of the Underworld

[fairycontessa]

Post to find my common tags :)

[christopher-reeve]

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[sophsun1]

The Golden Girls – 6.14: Sisters of the Bride

[thedupshadove]

Opera plot: Local Noble realizes that his affections for Pretty Village Girl have a rival in the form of Honest Laborer. Having read enough romances to know that a girl asked to choose between a rich man and a poor man will always pick the poor man, whereas in a love triangle between two rich men it's anyone's game, he decides that his chief object must be to elevate his rival's wealth and status as quickly as possible. What the Compte de Genre-Savie over here forgot to account for, however, was the overwhelming power of the Pygmalion Effect, and now he has to deal with watching two people he's in love with develop ever-stronger feelings for each other. Eventually all of this resolves via...I don't know.

[queenofattolia]

#first of all: ''comte de genre-savie'' is PERFECT. just great. absolutely no notes.#I would love an opera with this exact plot. bonus points if the comte is genuinely genre savvy#he keeps bringing up opera tropes only for the other characters to look at him like he's insane.#the score is diagetic to him; when he points out reoccurring themes or transitions to minor keys#the other characters ask him what the hell he's talking about. the whole chorus gets together to sing about how#comte de genre-savie is going mad. the comte tries to sneak away and keeps getting pulled back in.#I wonder if you could even push it further - have it so that only the comte can speak or 'hear' spoken words;#all other characters communicate in recitativo secco or formally composed songs#then you can have scenes where the comte is speaking but the other character in the scene can't hear him.#this can be played for laughs (the comte tries to order something from a shopkeeper; the shopkeeper walks away as he's talking)#and for dramatic effect (the Honest Laborer is singing a heartfelt duet with the Pretty Village Girl#and neither of them can hear the comte saying 'I love you' in between their lines)#........I am into this actually. I had to convince myself that this wasn't just cyrano de bergerac but no. it isn't. I'm into it.#upon the stage (via @notbecauseofvictories)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I read this one story once, no idea what it was called, where there was a girl in love with a poor man who also had a rich suitor. Her father was rich in his own right, and didn't have access to the men's finances but wanted his daughter to marry as rich as possible.

She pointed out to him that it's not always easy to tell how rich people are on a limited timescale; some wealthy people live frugally by choice, and a poor man can borrow a great deal of money to impress a girl's family if he feels like he's being investigated for such a thing. Tracking down their friends and interrogating their social circles would be a faux pas and very time consuming. The best way to tell, she suggested, would be to give both men a massive gift of money and see what changes it made to their lifestyle. Someone who already has lots of money will probably not think that much of the gift and not change much, whereas to a poor man (even one borrowing money to look temporarily better off) it would make a huge difference and the increased standard of living would be clear. That way, he gets a good idea of how wealthy the two suitors are and instead of looking nosy and money-obsessed, he looks incredibly kind and generous.

The father praised this ingenious strategy and gifted both men a huge sum of money. The daughter eloped with her true love the next day, now that they had enough money to start a new life together somewhere else.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

My main account got @-ed on this scam (no I won't say which one), and it occurred to me that some of the people here might not realize this is a scam.

It is. Do not click any mystery links. DO NOT give them any personal information. And DO NOT respond to messages like this.

[joleneghoul]

i think censoring subtitles is actually ableism

[lost-my-gender-in-the-war]

When I took ASL classes, my teacher explained that interpreters should interpret EVERYTHING, including slurs and things that they’d normally be uncomfortable saying. She said something along the lines of “deaf people have the right to swear.” I think that applies to what they’re allowed to see as well.

Why shouldn’t deaf people be able to fully express themselves and consume media the same way a hearing person can? If everything you watched had random bleeps every time there was a swear word, you’d be annoyed, so why are deaf people not receiving the same consideration?

[tuttle-did-it]

It's like they assume deaf people can't handle seeing these words.

Youtube always does a [_____] when a word like 'fuck' or 'shit' is said.

I've lost count of how many times I was watching a film on tv as a kid, or even a film on prime where they will write 'shoot' instead of 'shit' or 'screw' instead of 'fuck.'

This still happens, by the way. Very regularly. The last film I watched on Prime, the subs said 'darn,' instead of 'damn' and 'oh no' instead of 'shit.'

Oh, the worst one I saw- instead of 'get fucked,' it was 'get stuffed.'

please stop treating me like a child.

Even when I WAS a child, I still deserved to see 'damn' when a character said 'damn.'

[teashadephoenix]

I actually just watched a video about this from an interpreter who was advising learning interpreters to "interpret the fart."

in other words, an ASL interpreter is there to present the scene exactly as it happens to a deaf audience. therefore if the hearing audience can hear the fart, the deaf audience should too.

(she also brought up the inherent ableism in farting in front of a deaf person assuming you'd be able to get away with it.)

so yeah i wholeheartedly agree. subtitles should not be censored. Image IDs for screen readers should not be censored. There's probably a whole host of scenarios I can't think of where censorship is an option, and one should choose censorship in none of them.

One has a duty to present oneself the same way to a disabled person as one does an abled person.

[tuttle-did-it]

Update, for at least the videos I’ve been watching. YouTube is no longer writing [_____] when a word like fuck is said.

They are giving no indication in the caption whatsoever that words they don’t like are being said. It skips over them. There’s no space, there’s no indication that they’ve been censoring a word. It just carries on from the previous “acceptable” word to the next “acceptable” word. No space to tell you that they have just censored something.

If you are for example profoundly deaf, and you happen to blink at that moment, or the camera is off the person who’s just said the offending word, you don’t know the word was said. There’s no indication that they have censored something. I’m quite certain this is extremely intentional.

I think this is dodgy as hell.

But as I posted yesterday, the UK is trying to force YouTube to prioritise content that is approved by the UK government because people have stopped watching BBC. Personally, I find this incredibly Orwellian and dangerous. It’s bad enough that they censor disabled people. It’s bad enough that they treat us like we are children who cannot handle these big scary words like fuck.

But now the UK is pushing to sensor YouTube even more. This is a fucking problem.

[hppjmxrgosg]

"going out to get milk" is a common turn of phrase used to describe a man abandoning his family.

the "milkman" is a common figure in stories depicting a woman's infidelity and adulterous affair.

this implies that the ability to provide milk would both decrease the likelihood of a man abandoning his wife and children, as it would eliminate the need for leaving to get milk AND would secure that man's marriage, as his wife would have no need to seek milk from an extraneous source.

therefore, all men should produce milk, through various means such as:

- being a cow

- being an almond

- being a woman

- being a coconut

- being in the omegaverse

- being an oat

(list is exemplary and not finite)

in this essay, i will redefine the nuclear family and explain the seductive and inflammatory nature of the 1993 "Got Milk?" commercials.

[hppjmxrgosg]

you shut your mouth.

[animentality]

[centali]

"inflation is often a result of profit motivation as a result of making up extra costs" so you agree? capitalism is profit motivated solely and therefore cannot accomodate human needs?

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[forestshadow-wolf]

If your successful company went out of business because you paid your employees a livable wage it wasn't a successful company

[lakevida]

i bet the pain will end if i arrange a perfect enough sentence about it

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[douche-canoe-regatta]

poetry

[saywhat-politics]

The same Republicans who were hysterical when asked to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID19 have no problem wearing masks to spread their White Nationalist Christian hatred.

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[ravioliet]

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense

[lowpawly]

people foolishly dismiss desserts and treats as having no nutritional value when they actually are necessary for refilling your sanity stat. to prove my point please observe the emotional stability of the next person you meet who doesnt let themselves ever eat any form of dessert

[starlit-meadow]

i miss when subscriptions didnt really exist and you could just pay one time to buy an app or some software, and then just.. have it. without ads. without recurring costs. without more paywalls. it was just yours forever.

[malelavellan]

hey duck

[malelavellan]

youre no good duck

[malelavellan]

youre never gonna be shit

[malelavellan]

ya just like ya fatha