[meatthawsmoth]

Gaslighting is active manipulation to make someone question their sanity, memory, or perception of reality. It’s not lying, remembering something differently, or disagreeing with someone.

[naprasno]

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СРУБ is a post-punk band based in Novosibirsk, Russia. Main theme of songs is nature worship and Russian occultism

[redrockingchairdotmp3]

“i cannot perform basic household duties while other people are in my house” crowd make some noise

[canisvertigus]

we can’t make noise, someone’s home

[thecyndimistuff]

I feel like we say “unfollow ppl if they make u feel uncomfortable” but i feel like we don’t say “unfollow ME if you feel uncomfortable/stop enjoying my content” enough. Which should mean the same thing but still. You guys don’t need a reason! Doesn’t matter if you’ve been following me for a week or a year!

[afloweroutofstone]

Which way, Western man?

[dracaeza]

[senatortedcruz]

[katelyndanger]

[hellsite-yano]

[call-me-poncho]

[call-me-poncho]

I’m having a stroke

[tramtheram]

Listen a lot of us including myself have treated PragerU as a joke but it’s a very real propaganda machine and it’s damage is very real

[memewhore]

[youngalientype]

[abbaswift]

this tweet is life changing

[remnantglow]

cant stop thinking abt ursula k. le guin’s essay abt the carrier bag theory….. she’s like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. let’s shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping. and i’m like

[remnantglow]

and THEN she’s like, a novel is also a carrier bag. there’s the Hero’s story, sure, but there’s room enough in fiction for every experience, for every little thing, and it’s that other story, the life story, that she seeks……. o|-<

[remnantglow]

turns out the entire essay is online (thanks, Anarchist Library) and i really can’t recommend it enough

[rem-ir]

[greenjudy]

Highly recommended essay.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

[themself]

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

[westenra]

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

[lunaescribe]

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are. 

[weird-barbie]

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS INTO WORDS.

[jhscdood]

YUP. Plus like. Let’s all remember (in the US) we’re dealing with the impact of compulsory cultural xtianity. Which holds to the belief that a person not only can, but WILL be “corrupted” by any thought, idea, concept, theory, artwork, book, movie, or person that is not Morally Pure. If you engage with it AT ALL, it leaves a stain. The result of this believe system is that no one is able to perform critical analysis, because even the act of analysis is considered coming too close to avoid being corrupted.

Thst is why so many people are ready to cancel books, actors, and ideas the moment there’s the merest mention of immorality. To continue engaging with the piece is to be corrupted. To investigate the truth of the claims of immorality is to be corrupted. To even have engaged with the piece in the past when it was considered “pure” is to be retroactively corrupted. And if you’ve been corrupted, the belief is, then you must be wholly rejected by those who know you so that THEY are not corrupted.

It’s not that people are unable to perform critical analysis anymore. The critical analysis isn’t the point. The point is, “I was told 1984 contains rape apologism and if i do anything except utterly denounce the book, my community will reject me for being corrupted.”

This is religious extremist, cult-like behavior that has entered the secular world (in the US) over the past 20 years or so, and it’s really, really hinky.

[solarsyrup]

Since the two best-selling games of all time are Tetris and Minecraft, I think we can safely say that people fucking LOVE squares

[k25ff]

(art by soup-erb on Tumblr)

[sushinfood]

Excuse the fuck out of all of you but you’re

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

[melvinandlugnut]

OH CRAP I FORGOT ABOUT THE CUBE

[bubonickitten]

they’re good cubes, brent

[onenicebugperday]

Bunny Harvestman, Metagryne bicolumnata, Opiliones by Andreas Kay

[bug-maniac]

I love him with my whole entire heart. :(

[titkoks]

i really didn’t think it could get worse, and then-

[hell-aint-a-bad-place]

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[killfridge]

LMFAOOOOO

[lifeofcynch]

OH MY GOD.

[stephanemiroux]

Me at the start: weird but this isn't that bad.

The second bit:

The ending:

[totalspiffage]

It's true that like once you start having ambiguous gender feelings it's a little bit of a free for all like yes I'm a woman but I'm also male and I like being called a boy but I'm not a man like sorry I'm on Advanced Gender nuance now but also my gender is that stuffed fox on a chair.

[unluckyxse7en]

@bashircore

[andhumanslovedstories]

Was thinking about the rust belt, then the Bible Belt, then the sun belt, then the corn belt, and I was like “how many goddamn belts does America have” and it appears to be about 20 belts, proud to announce America is a final fantasy character

[yourfavelovestranswomen]

You love and support trans women!

[lambda-complex]

[scientifichubris]

Mad scientists will be like "I know a place" and then strap you onto the autopsy table

[cunt-inent]

only an autopsy if you're dead... please use the proper name for my vivisection table