I contain multitudes

The musings of a gay black geek

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[thesituation]

i don’t even like men and admittedly i haven’t seen the movie yet but it’s incomprehensible to me how so many tumblr users seem to have watched sinners, a movie with michael b jordan, one of the most attractive men in the world, in a leading role in both suits and tattered slinky tank tops … and still laser focus in on the pasty irish guy .. it’s like, such a good example of the racism within “fandom” on here

[lovetheirloves]

A ship containing Michael B Jordan isn’t in the top 3 ships, but White Guy/Reader & White Guy/You sure are. Y’all got two whole ass Michael B. Jordans in this movie and you did this instead?

[fipindustries]

i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.

[fipindustries]

like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"

[fipindustries]

you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.

[phaeton-flier]

The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.

[foone]

the annoying thing about the privacy nightmare that is age verification is that this is 100% doable with double-anonymity: The verifier doesn't know what site/app you're verifying your age on, and the site/app doesn't need to know your personal information.

The fun part is that you could do this extremely easily by just bundling a key with an item you can't buy unless you're 18. Like a beer that includes a PGP key, or a pornographic magazine with a page that's a randomly generated key.

The site/app doesn't need to know WHO you are, only that you have access to something you can only get by being 18. This way they're putting the burden of verifying your age onto someone else, someone else who is already legally required to do exactly that.

But no one is interested in developing this because the point of age verification has never been age verification. it's always been governments trying to tie a real-world ID to internet identities, and companies trying to get more private information on users so they can sell it to advertisers.

(and also, it's not like this would be a good system even if it'd work and do what it says it'd do: We shouldn't be blocking minors off of large parts of the internet just for the sin of being underage, especially when "mature" labeling gets applied to more than just pornography. Queer teens shouldn't be separated from their support groups by parents who don't think they're mature enough to learn about that, for example)

[beautifulscreaminglady]

what op said

[hawkster359]

It's occurred to me that Hardison's style of grifting is exactly what happens when you do it in a TTRPG. Going in with half a plan, appealing to the humanity of underappreciated NPCs, adapting on the fly to cover whatever the fuck the rogue is doing in the background. Pop-culture references that nobody else recognises strung together into a semblance of a character. Peacing out with no explanation once you got what you came for. What an icon.

[gayblackgeek]

It may be time for me to be back on Tumblr more regularly, at least on my phone, the vibes have just not been right elsewhere

[fallout-lou-begas]

has anyone else spent all of january with "Objective: Survive" displayed on the left side of their HUD

[artbyblastweave]

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

[jasmello]

[dear-julien]

Doctor Who is getting a taste of what Star Trek went though

[virovirokun-has-adhd]

[fozmeadows]

Writing about the human relationship to technology, Douglas Adams once said something to the effect of that whatever tech exists when you're born is normal and natural, anything that's invented when you're between 18 and 35 is exciting and revolutionary, and anything invented after that is against the natural order of things, and I would like to posit that a similar phenomenon exists regarding mainstream perceptions of social justice. Whatever level of diversity we grow up with as kids is normal; whatever causes are championed when we're teens to mid-thirties we consider progressive; and whatever change is pushed for after that we look on as excessive, wrong and a sign of things going too far. And while this isn't a universal problem in either case, it still happens often enough to be noteworthy.

Which is why, I think, so many people who watched shows like Doctor Who and Star Trek as kids remember those earlier seasons as apolitical: because what was progressive in 1975 or 1990 is vastly less so now, such that, in hindsight, it's easy to feel there was nothing really groundbreaking happening at all. But what counts as progressive is defined in large part by context, and as children, particularly if we're not made aware of the political dimensions of a given story or how adults are fighting for or against its right to be told, we just assume that what we're seeing is normal. As such, if we come to think of "progress" as a specific set of actions or exceptions to that childhood norm (as opposed to a guiding ethos arguing for representation, acceptance and equality in a broader sense), our concept of what's radical can easily get fixed at the point at which we first became aware that "normal" could be challenged and improved upon in the first place.

And when that happens, we end up conflating a particular, context-dependent progressivism for the sum total of what progress could or should aim to achieve, such that any "new" type of progress looks antithetical to the static notion of progress we've internalized. Because "progress," under this definition, is something we're already supposed to have achieved: that work (we say) was done back when we first became aware that change was necessary, such that any claim to be progressive now is just troublemakers inventing new issues to be mad about. But this logic forgets that, in social justice as in other fields, certain developments can't occur without groundwork or foundations being laid down first. The changes we're trying to make now are only possible because of the changes that came before, which is precisely why they're being made now instead of then - or rather, why they're being made more publicly now. People have always been chipping away at these various inequalities; they just weren't always visible to the mainstream, and so many of those unaffected by them assumed they didn't exist at all.

[petite-ursus]

It's. HAPPENING.

(July 2nd 2024)

[luntfontanne]

SHE SAID. BITCH.

[shieldfoss]

[littjara-mirrorlake]

oh??? what's this???

EVERYBODY SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGIC THE GATHERING

[eugene-my-love]

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

1952

dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

[evilrashida]

I love boobs

[teapotsahoy]

Leverage fic Idea

the hairdresser Parker goes to with requests like “I need to look like someone who keeps her diamonds on a spinney wheel to decide which ones to wear,” and “I need to look like someone who has inherited a bunch of money and doesn’t know what to do with it,” and first she’s like, cool, high school reunion?  Wedding? but then the requests start piling up like:

I need to look like someone who owns a successful chain of pizzerias but lies to people at parties and tells them she’s a venture capitalist

I need to look like someone who thinks it’s a good idea to try to buy drugs from a car salesman they just met

And she’s like.  Undercover cop?  Really inept undercover cop?  But no cop tips like that.  And then the requests start to get really involved

I need to look like someone this person [photograph] would be friends with

I need to look like a woman who is sexually dissatisfied because she has never noticed she’s a lesbian

I need to look like someone who doesn’t know how to rig a climbing harness.

So the hairdresser is like, extremely niche sex-worker specializing in very specific requests?  But eventually she’s like, no she’s definitely getting peoples’ money in a less transactional way, and finally she’s like, “hey, if I had knowledge that someone in the nail business was trafficking women from Indonesia to work as manicurists, do you, like, have a friend who could get that shut down without involving Immigration?” and Parker’s like “Hahahahaha WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT but also definitely yes.”