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(second century warlord making a joke at the expense of those who lived in the past) first day as a first century warlord: i can’t write anything down cause paper hasn’t been invented yet
does that warlord not know about papyrus
no, undertale hadn't been invented yet either
The leftist belief that MAGA are all secret socialists who just need to see how good socialism is to be converted should be showing signs of truth in New York City, right? You have a rock star socialist mayor. He's saying all the right words. Surely that means he's winning over Republican voters there, right?
What's that? MAGA think he's a radical Islamist who wants to impose Sharia Law, force girls to wear the hijab, mandate reading the Quran in all public schools, and persecute every Christian on sight?
Ah.
joining the war on pigeons on the side of pigeons
Well, that made me happy. 😌🎠❄️
Didn't realize it was a barn at first so I thought by Belgians she meant. People.
No same I was excited
"why was the ending so rushed it was so good up until the ending" the answer is the same every time no matter the media you're talking about: the author is a bee and had to go back to the hive to defend the queen
she’s happy that I’m back!
I’m letting her read everything you say
@creekfiend was very kind in sharing some writing resources with me, and I thought I'd pass along the kindness by listing them down below.
N.K. Jemisin's article 'Describing characters of color in writing'
Mary Anne Mohanraj's article on approaching characters of colour
Renee Harleston's article How to 'Write Characters of Color Without Using Stereotypes'
Working with Colour, a resource site for writers
the book Writing the Other by by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, which had a description that cut deep, because I've definitely fallen into this trap out of fear:
and then a video recommended by @sheprd (thank you!) about pitfalls in descriptive language
if anyone else has more resources to add, feel free to reblog with them! this is something I want to learn more about.
I was talking yesterday about how I should probably change the skin colour of a character in a not-yet-written book, because that character is a large, aggressive dragon-shifter and I was worried about her being read with unintentional and offensive subtext.
I haven't gotten my hands on Writing the Other yet (it's still in the mail!) but from reading my way through these articles and watching the Princess Weekes video, I now understand that 'white-ifying' a character you're worried about is a lazy and cowardly solution. so, if I do ever finish the book Eres loses Everything, I'll keep her as is, do my best to be thoughtful, and hire a sensitivity reader to pick out any blind spots.
thank you to everyone who passed on resources, I really appreciate it!
here are a few more resources I've found, if anyone’s interested:
Writing Diversely FAQ
Writing With Colour blog
A conversation between many writers on writing diverse characters
Four Tips to Help You Incorporate Diversity and Inclusion in Your Writing
A Medium Article: "Yes, You Should Be Afraid to Write “Diverse” Characters"
adding another resource to the list! the website WritingTheOther.com is a treasure trove of articles, videos and podcasts, with online classes available.
Person in my gas station talking to someone on the phone: ...We're in Ohio...
Me, knowing we're in Utah: ????
Thank you for the map for context. It makes this 1,000 times funnier and intriguing.
Today in ‘everyone on LinkedIn is insane’ may I present… reading a book is a class flex.
I hope everyone knows that when I suggest a book I enjoyed, I’m absolutely trying to flex my ‘fun isn’t hard when you have a library card’ middle class dilettante lifestyle.
Also, I’m reading WHILE I watch my third grader play soccer tennis so, skill issue.
Recession Indicator: "Middle Class Flex"
I think that someone privileged enough to have that much time to scroll should probably be listening rather than speaking.
the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you
Im joining the war on avatar Korra on the side of avatar Korra
Scooped this molecule of a snake off of the bike path
Illegally smol
The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering
Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts
This is just twerp behavior, but like you can't pretend that you're arguing in good faith when you "break down" the term "women's spaces" into a cluster of situations that doesn't even include the focus of the complaint. All of the examples are either exemptions or excuses.
The only time "female-only" spaces are even acknowledged, it's in defense of grandfathering in trans men who joined these spaces before they came out. As though this is the only or even most common way this happens! Like they're getting kicked out!
No one, certainly no trans person, is arguing that trans men can't go to Planned Parenthood. It's honestly offensive to invoke a strawman on that level.
This is about trans men who participate in, seek out, and even organize spaces that implicitly or explicitly define "woman" to exclude trans women.
It's about looking the other way when a "women-only space" is hostile to trans women and actively supportive of trans men.
It's about minimizing transmisogyny out of self-interest, so much so that you tie yourself in knots trying to pretend that inclusion in "women's spaces" isn't really a privilege, because after all they still misgender you.
(This is arguable; the double standard can absolutely extend to welcoming trans men as trans men and still excluding trans women. See also recognizing nonbinary people unless they are AMAB.)
It's about promoting transmisogyny by using "AFAB" (and its lexical antecedent "female") to define a class and affinity group that connects trans men and not trans women to cis women.
And it's about defining trans men as passive victims in all of this, even when your "unpacked" set of case studies all but positions them as founding members of these trans-woman-exclusionary "women's spaces!"
Which is it, really? Are trans men so entwined with these "women's spaces" that they can't be expected to find other hangouts since they are not women, or is it not partly on them that these "women's spaces" are cesspits of transmisogyny? Are they marginalized by the obvious transphobic implications of defining trans men as women or lesbians or "female?" Or is the real harm the part where trans women problematize this longstanding elision?
Like you cannot argue these things simultaneously: Including trans men in "women's spaces" is affirmation and erasure. Access to women's spaces is crucial to trans men but should not be regarded as any sort of advantage for trans men. Trans men who choose to attend events defined as "female-only" are not limiting womanhood in a way that erases the lived experience of trans people, but trans women who think trans men should not include themselves in any space labeled "female-only" are.
Oh, you just don’t like listening to trans men at all huh
I literally cannot go to a gynecologist in my area right now because, regardless of my legal gender, I look too much like a cis man and they don’t believe I don’t have a dick. If I get cancer, I’m not gonna find out until I’m nearly dead from it because cis people say “women’s space” and include the fucking gynecologist’s office. But instead of considering how anyone else may be using the exact phrasing you’ve chosen to use over just saying what you mean, you conclude I’m arguing in bad faith and I must be a malicious actor. Yet again malice is assigned to trans men because we are trans men. Great /s
I’ll concede that I don’t like it either when other trans men actively choose to join “women’s only” spaces that exclude trans women. I just also want to look at the other circumstances that may have pushed him to make that decision and change those rather than assuming the worst of him.
By your logic, inclusion in men’s spaces is a privilege not afforded to trans men but afforded to trans women. And I don’t think that’s fair for either of us.
And again, I would want those trans men, if they can, to push for trans women’s inclusion. Just like I’d want trans women in gay men’s spaces to push for trans men’s inclusion if they can.
You are the one assuming I am okay with basing anyone’s inclusion on ASAB. You are again putting words in my mouth
I need you to ask this very important question: are there any spaces in a given area trans men are actually welcomed in, or are their only choices “one that doesn’t respect you at all or nothing”? If a mixed gender trans space opened up that was very explicitly inclusive of trans men and respected them as men*, how many trans men do you think would still choose the lesbian space over that? That second one is honestly more about how you perceive trans men than anything else; if you think we’d choose the lesbian space, that says an awful lot about what you think of trans men as a whole!
(* This inherently means not assuming the guy has the same privileges as cis men and doesn’t treat him like he’s violent or anything because testosterone)
The more I read all this the more convinced I am you just don’t view trans men as anything but privileged monsters. And quite frankly, I have enough problems I cannot spend multiple days endlessly debating people who don’t view me as a member of a vulnerable minority (trans people) because of the belief that my gender supersedes any struggles I may actually have. So I think I’m done with you. Hopefully someone out there is able to reason with you because it clearly cannot be me.
The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.
Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.
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#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op
The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.
This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.
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Approximately one THOUSAND felonies
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