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Leslie | 27 | she/they/he | ♉☀️♏🌙♌⬆️ | 90% Memes | This blog is not TERF or SWERF friendly

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[atyourperil]

is anyone here ready for fat transgender summer can we give it up for fat transgender summer

[pixeljade]

[tlirsgender]

You are not a People Pleaser your lack of boundaries are not a virtue and one day you are going to boil over and lash out at your loved ones who had no idea they were hurting you because you never told them

[tlirsgender]

Your lack of boundaries are not a virtue 🗣🗣🗣

[tlirsgender]

The person in my notes telling me to "have compassion for traumatized people" is exhibiting the exact behavior I'm talking about re: (not) taking responsibility for your own communication so I think this type of person Does need to hear Hard Truths, actually. Something being a trauma response doesn't exempt it from harming your relationships & the people in them. Enabling it won't help anything cause ultimately you still have to do the work on yourself and use your fucking words

[tlirsgender]

Ok? Ok. Now everyone else in my notes saying some variation on "yeah this is me I'm working on it" I'm giving you a sticker

[karpad]

This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

[junglejim4322]

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

[junglejim4322]

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

[junglejim4322]

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

[kianamaiart]

Kind of a dumb question, but who do you overall feel about the current indie animation boom? Is it sustainable? Is there really a boom or is it more like people becoming aware of the stuff on the internet? Do you think indie stuff has a chance of competing against big studios?

Hoq do you overall feel about the current indie animation boom?

There's good and bad. Overall, it's been SO inspiring to see people take their projects in their own hands and it's really nice to see such an amazing variety of projects that you'd never see a big studio pick up. I think it's really important that artists get the opportunity to make stuff just for them and feel creatively fulfilled.

Is it sustainable?

As it is right now, it's not sustainable. So much of indie is done out of passion and is largely dependent on volunteer work unless you're already loaded. Because even if you kickstart, it requires that you have an audience willing to pay you a lot of money and then even if you have that, the money's usually not enough. People vastly underestimate how much money it takes to make a fully animated project with fair rates. I've seen most projects do kickstarters for maybe $30k-$50k for an 11 min fully animated pilot but in reality, a fair budget runs from $300k on the very low end and $1M being a pretty standard studio budget. That also speaks to another issue that I see come up a lot. Often, people running indie productions don't know how to do so and don't have the proper experience. Even though they mean well and just want to make their projects, it often results in a show that's poorly run, exploitation, issues with transparency, underpaid artists and unclear schedules. This isn't to say everyone new to animation shouldn't try! I'm not trying to gatekeep or anything, but there might need to be more education around the subject and these showrunners should REALLY try to research first or at the very least COMMUNICATE AND PLAN.

Is there really a boom or is it more like people becoming aware of the stuff on the internet?

Is it a copout to say both? Because internet indie animation's been around FOREVER. Since early youtube and newgrounds. But I do think there's a difference in the kind of indie animation that's being made. Rather than just quick, funny animated shorts, artists are now trying to make series and stuff that would be on the level of something you'd see on a network. Fully animated 11s and 22s with large season runs. Getting your work out there is so accessible now and anyone can do it! Which I suppose could be considered a boom.

Do you think indie stuff has a chance of competing against big studios?

Kindaaaaa? Depends on what your meter for success is and what it means to compete. In terms of viewership and fanbase? Sure. Like the amount of eyes GLITCH gets on their stuff goes crazy and studios would kill for that amount of views. Same with Viv/Spindlehorse's stuff. But on a commercially successful and financial level? Not yet. Youtube ad rev is pennies, animation costs a lot to make, indie folks don't have shareholders and investors and usually aren't making a profit. And on the merch front, from what I've seen, even if merch does well, that money just gets reinvested into making more of the show and creators themselves don't get to pocket any of that money. Even on a smaller scale like for myself. I haven't made any money from this project. All the money I got from plushies and ad rev went right back to paying everyone for episode 2 and other aspects of the project. I'm working for free and a lot of your favorite indie creators are too. That's not sustainable like I mentioned before and sustainability imo is a large part of what is needed for indie to truly compete and be on the same level as these larger corporations

[jewish-lgbtq]

The Hormonukiah, a functional menorah made out of testosterone bottles by Minneapolis-based trans Jewish artist Levi Moos.

[waskitty]

tell me what your 10th, 29th, and 96th top songs were!

[iwait4youalexg]

Oh!

[treecitysessions]

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

[treecitysessions]

People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively

[treecitysessions]

“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….

[the-bedheaded-league]

It’s crazy to me that people read Sherlock Holmes’ obsession with Irene Adler as romantic when it is so clearly the same kind of obsession that gay men have for Lady Gaga

[starxipan]

YOU DID IT. YOU PUT THE THING INTO WORDS.

[hiveswap]

You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

[hiveswap]

"But i'm-" there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you're defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you're taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you're actually doing something good.

[nirtonic]

[Image text: there's actually no political label or identity that absolves you of doing harm.]

[angelicguy]

everyone who complains about DEI is a too dumb to live motherfucker who would be dead in a ditch somewhere if the world actually forced them to go thru the social darwinism they're convinced they would thrive under

[angelicguy]

"we need to encourage excellence not hand out participation trophies" if any of the people in your life were honest about how they feel about you you would have killed yourself 10 years ago

[finefeatheredfabler]

I believe in the separation of church (fandom) and state (media creators)

[macklesufficient]

bad news everyone: i have a take

[macklesufficient]

the loneliness epidemic/gen z dead-eyed stare/poor socialization of younger generations and increasing rudeness of older ones is kinda an internet thing and kinda a pandemic thing but it is also the well-meaning chickens of the Stranger Danger movement coming home to roost

[macklesufficient]

something something everybody thinks violent crime is at a high when it’s at a 30 year low, something something training your children to see everyone outside of their family as a threat until you yourself believe it, something something. again this was well-intentioned, people want their kids to be safe, but when you’ve heard “dont talk to strangers” all your life it’s hard to kill that instinct as an adult

[macklesufficient]

but yeah if you’re an early 20-something person, it might be helpful to be directly told this: talk to strangers. that rule only applied when you were a child. you not only should but must talk to strangers

[passing-as-normal]

[cikero]

ITS BEING RENAMED TO NEW WOKE CITY