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“More than you know” A Merlin fanfic on ao3 Username: rebelwithoutenergy

[anyataylorjoys]

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

[seeveekat]

Hey this movie is really important in queer history! It was the first feature length film directed by a black lesbian! You can watch it here for free!

I really recommend you do because while it is a rom-com (and a drama), it also looks at how the stories of black queers are over looked in history.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I do consider "let people enjoy things" to be a sort of thought terminating cliche at this point. while there are of course exceptions it seems to most often be employed as a knee jerk response to any critical or dissenting opinions no matter how impersonal, which isn't so much taking a stance for the freedom of individual taste as expressing a profound discomfort with criticism being expressed at all.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

this isn't, of course, about instances where someone is a complete tool and actively harasses people for their differing tastes; this is about the cries of "let people enjoy things" being tacked onto any articulation of criticism no matter how nebulous.

the wording is genuinely so interesting. "let people enjoy things," as if the naysayer somehow possesses the ability to ruin another's fun just by speaking criticism into the world that the enjoyer might, possibly, see and be tainted by.

[homunculus-argument]

Honestly, if you're a kid and an adult tells you "they're just trying to get a reaction out of you :)" as a response to being told that some younger kid is tormenting you, that should count as full permission to punt that little shit. Like I would never hit a child, but if you're seven years old and a five-year-old is being a cunt at you and adults just tell you "oh they just want to find out what happens if they keep doing that", wouldn't only be fair to let them know what happens if they keep doing that?

Siblings should never be left responsible of raising each other, but if adults have decided that they are allowed to fuck around, wouldn't it only be your right - or even downright duty - to let them consequently find out?

[gothasain]

I would love it if y’all could help me find this Bucky fanfic I read a couple years ago on ao3 that I loved but forgot to bookmark. The fmc in the plot commits these “crimes” that are basically just crazy, elaborate pranks that Bucky is asked by Shield to foil. It’s tagged as something like Doofenshmirtz and Perry the platypus dynamic.

Anyway, it had this dream sequence about love that fundamentally changed the way I view relationships. The dream takes place in snowy woods and involves chopping logs for fire. And an omniscient voice tells him love is freely given, no strings attached.

I tried to look for it, but no luck. I figured if anyone could help me find it, they’d be here. ❤️

[kosmogrl]

my humor might be broken cause I find this trend actually funny

[n00dlel0af]

[tofumarinado]

"there should be some kind of test you have to take before having kids" -> wrong, extremely dangerous and highkey eugenicist and racist "the youth should have safe and effective legal pathways at their disposal to make sure their human rights are constantly protected and upheld" -> based, centers the youth, gives minors more power to fight inequality and does not reinforce the idea that parents are immune to scrutiny from their kids

[mosswall]

Also, "People looking to become parents should have free and easy access to resources that will help prepare them for parenthood, including educational resources about childhood development and psychology, so they don't get blindsided the first time something they aren't prepared for happens and ruin their kids lives because they just don't know what they're doing" -> creates resources that allow good-intentioned parents not to become bad parents, challenges the idea that parents can just follow their instincts to be good parents

[politijohn]

Source

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[tzikeh]

...*sigh*

*taps mic*

[communistkenobi-archive]

the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think there’s something very revealing about bad media that you don’t get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between what’s actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if it’s particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the author’s skills are with the story they’re trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like you’re discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget you’re turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!

[communistkenobi-archive]

also I like complaining a lot

[roboco-san]

the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

[talenlee]

Games Workshop tried to argue, to a court, in front of like, actual adults, that any time someone bought something that wasn't one of their products, that was a stolen sale for them.

They didn't win that court case.

[byjove]

A large part of the reason families were bigger in the past was because marital rape was not considered rape and birth control/abortion methods were ineffective, dangerous and/or illegal. We can dance around this and act like our great great great grandmothers just loveddddd being mamas so much that they decided out of their own free will to have 11 children. We can pretend that they DECIDED to have big families because it was a financially advantageous decision so they could have more labor around the farm. But a lot of children in the past were fundamentally unwanted and not conceived out of love, children were not a choice women got to make. We need to admit that and stop pretending historical women were inherently more maternal because they were impregnated at the age of 15 and kept having babies until they were 40. That did not make them loving mothers, it did not make them ‘the divine feminine’ and it sure did not make them happy.

[guerrillatech]

No surprise there

[sailorsally]

Unpopular opinion but if you don't enjoy the process you should find a different thing to do.

And I think this is true in general but now I'm talking about it in the context of AI.

If you don't enjoy making art and only care about the end piece and how it'll look and how much traction it"lol get online then making art is not something for you, find something you enjoy from start to finish.

Same goes for writing: if you do not enjoy writing and rewriting and then some more and instead want AI to write for you, being a writer is not something you should pursue.

Sure, not every part of creative process is going to be equally enjoyable but you should get satisfaction from solving the problems along the way and you should get a sense of accomplishment on your way of "making the piece yours" and you should have a sense of ownership once you are done.

None of these things will come from typing in a prompt into chatGPT. And I am sad to see so many people are missing on the opportunity to experience the joy of making something with their own hands and brains.

[sirfrogsworth]

Holding up snarky signs doesn't seem to be working.

For me, it isn't about whether this action is appropriate or not. It's about how this kind of action is inevitable.

I'm going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.

"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"

If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.

[wormsical]

it would be one thing if it was just the horrors but it's all the little horrorcitos también

[guerrillatech]

[guerrillatech]