Elegant Dinner Party!

You're not my supervisor!

[bahari-official]

me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

[jadequarze]

Full body commissions:

1) Bastien Denuit @gaysleepsnake

2) Kassandra Strand and Isobel Sandoval @an-earp-in-national-city

[counterspelling]

Endless Fantasy High Yours, the police house Okay, the police house, I forgot, thank you so much. Well, this all checks out

[akajustmerry]

I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

[wolfnanaki]

The swiftness and brutality of Hbomberguy’s complete evisceration of James Somerton’s career cannot be overstated.

[mamapluto]

Can somebody give a tldr of what happened? I've only seen reactions.

[zwoelffarben]

James Somerton is a white gay business major who built a 337k subscriber, ~3,500patron career as a content creator (derogatory) on youtube by serially plagiarizing the work of other queer theorists.

The image you see of a lot of text on screen highlighted in a bunch of different colors is the script of one of his earliest and most important videos color coded by who a particular passage was plagiarizing as he read their words out loud as if they were his own without credit.

Hbomberguy and Kat together identified 18 distinct victims of somerton's creditmongering in this one video alone, as well as plagiarism of equal measure in at least half of his catalogue of videos with the rest of the catalogue still being highly suspicious but not yet identified as plagiarized.

In addition to the plagiarism, he's also being called out for misogynistic beliefs which tend toward being the only thing of his own which he injects inbetwixt the words of others, his use of identity as a shield from criticism, his darvo-ian tactics of denying a plagiarism occured (using the following he built to SLAPP in the court of public opinion), and his 'film studio' Talos has over the course of several years and $64K dollars donated to it expecting it to make indie films has produced NOTHING but movie posters created using stock image assets packs and more empty promises.

Hbomberguy decided to use his 1.3m subscriber base worth of clout to destroy the man's career with two hours of non-stop evidence and receipts (with a two hour preamble on the details of other plagiarists's activities to establish a baseline).

[phantomrose96]

zwoelffarben's summary is supremely good. I would like to add a few bullet points about the details that make this just so unbelievable to watch.

"Plagiarism" can cover a wide umbrella of pulling from sources without citation... This is in fact THE most egregious kind you're imaging. Verbatim, word-for-word reading out of articles written by small-time queer authors that James simply pretended were his own words, research, and opinions.

He stole the words of not one, but TWO different people who died of the AIDS epidemic. Stole their words and voices and gave none of it to their memory.

Nearly everything plagiarized was verbatim, save for a few intentional word-replacements: He would take "homosexual" and replace it with "queer". "Trans" and replace it with "LGBT".

He would occasionally skip over parts of articles while reading them verbatim if those parts were anecdotes that clearly did not belong to him, like one belonging to a trans writer talking about their trans experience.

He did, occasionally, interject his OWN few sentences... exclusively to include misogyny. In the middle of reading someone else's words about Ted Bundy, James interjects his own sentence about the "hordes of white women swooning over Bundy." He claims it's all "straight women" denying the gay rep in Yuri on Ice in the comment section of his YOI video. HBomb checked. There are no such comments. He has a "women have it easier" rant about ND Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar... who are transmasc and nonbinary respectively. (But hey, misgendering is cool if you don't respect their assigned gender right?) He repeatedly shits on the "straight woman" author of Love, Simon, despite her being bullied into coming out as bi due to exactly this, and when she gently asked him to stop deriding her as a straight woman fetishizing the gay experience, he continued to do it and acted like she'd blown up at him.

And maybe you're wondering "He copied so much verbatim. How did no one catch him?" They did. People did catch him. And he got them bullied into silence by claiming the people who noticed the plagiarism were sending death threats, were doxxing him, were anti-queer trolls, and were lying. The main person who caught him asked HBomb to keep her name out of the video and talk about her as little as possible due to the enormous harassment she'd been through.

He preached so much about being a voice for queer people, about how people needed to support him since he was doing this kind of work for queers no one else was... while stealing from, silencing, and squashing every small-time queer author doing the ACTUAL work that he lifted in order to fund his massively lucrative internet career.

[gaysleepsnake]

Reblogging to add a link to a podcast episode recorded by Verity Ritchie/verilybitchie on their "Bisexuality in Video Games"vid versus Somerton's on functionally the same topic (that came out ~2-3 months later) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-somerton-3-94126743

It's an example where he's not necessarily directly plagiarizing someone (though I think they found a line or two that was stolen from an essay on queer history in video games; they have links in their patreon post) but still produced content that was extremely derivative, just fucking factually wrong (eg. he doesn't even correctly list all the possible queer romance options are in Mass Effect when complaining about the male Shepard options), and contradictory in the same video to his own points (eg. calling queer romance options/NPCs universally cop-outs while praising Stardew Valley as a bastion of indie queer video gaming when its queer content is completely optional).

[tropiyas]

shawty got them evil bottom jeans

[tropiyas]

boots with the curse

[catchymemes]

[mimi-maru]

[nurabelmax]

Day 6 - Camp

[turns-out-its-adhd]

[literaphobe]

UH WHAT

UH...... WHAT.........

[eirenical]

This entire article is eye-opening, even as someone who has ADHD and has read a lot about it already. There's so much more there than just the bit about the glucose-craving brain. SO. MUCH.

This might have been the bit that hit me hardest, actually:

it would be easy to misinterpret the following scenario as a standoff between two partners: Imagine that your partner asks you to pay the electric bill, and you say to yourself, “OK, I have time to do that today.” But when you sit down to do it, you keep getting distracted. The ADHD brain needs higher stimulation in order to complete this rote task with minimal payoff. Your ADHD brain says, “That task is way too boring, and I refuse to focus on it. Find something that interests me more, which offers me a bigger dopamine reward, and I’ll work with you.” It doesn’t matter that you know you should pay the bill as promised; if your brain won’t engage, it’s an ugly standoff. Perhaps, after a day of procrastination — when your partner will be home in 20 minutes and the bill is still unpaid — there may be enough of an adrenaline rush from a sense of crisis that your brain will engage and you pay the bill.

The ADHD brain and its owner are at odds with one another. It’s difficult to compel a disengaged brain to engage by force of will. In fact, much of the treatment for ADHD involves learning to psych out the brain, so that it will attend to necessary, low-stimulation tasks.

Appreciating the tug-of-war within that pits intellect against neurobiology increases compassion and acceptance for one’s hidden struggle.

I feel SEEN. OTZ

Seriously, though. Read the whole thing. It's a good one.

[blackwoolncrown]

Add to this that it's not just that your brain says "I don't want to"- the prefrontal cortex literally shuts OFF.

[51ft]

its just her, my babygirl,

[bunchabears]

inspired by this tweet:

[nihilnovisubsole]

do you ever find yourself bedeviled by writing ideas that are the equivalent of finding a single carrot in your fridge. your brain goes "we should write a pirate story" or "we should write a parisian thief caper" and you ask, "all right, what do we cook with that, then?" and it says "no other ingredients (:"

[angry-eevee]

Dame Aylin is the most relatable camp NPC. If you dare interrupt her perpetual date she hits you with a "I prithee, go fuck thine self; I wish to gaze with burning desire upon my snack of a wife, and mayhap... fuck nasty a-non. 😏😏😏"

[demilypyro]

Tom Cardy: Perception check

[redundantz]

brain worm crew