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PSA

I would like people to know that this blog, although full of funny memes supports the trans gender community

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This blog also supports the Jewish community

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And the plight of the people of Palestine

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And no, that is not a contradiction because the actions of the Israeli government are not the will of all Jewish people but the acts of an oppressive regime

This blog also supports Ukraine

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Even if their allies have done or are currently committing questionable or immoral acts

All these people are currently facing genocide and my stupid little blog will support them and their struggles in what little way it can

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telomeke

This is potter Nicola Swann @madewithmudpottery, talking about Digni-TEA mugs.

Tiktoks linked here:

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melinoephilia

Analyzing Anya & Xander's Duet

Aside from the general sadness of the episode, one of the sad things about "Once More With Feeling" is Anya and Xander's "I'll Never Tell" song. First, let's start with the most obvious. When Xander sings about Anya in this song, almost all his lines about her positives have to do with her body/looks and being in her "tight embrace" (we all know what he was really talking about). In fact, if you go through the lyrics of the song, the only time he compliments her personality is when he calls her a charmer and says she's sweller. But if we look at all the things he sang previously, is it charmer for her personality or because of what she does for him? (satisfy his sexual urges). On the opposite end of this, he has many criticisms of her personality within the song, "She clings. She's needy. She's also really greedy." Furthermore, if you want to take his insecurity lines into account, you can see that while, yes, he's insecure, which is fair, anyone can be insecure, they're also implying that he believes she's only with him for monetary purposes, and views him as disposable DESPITE her clear dedication to him (and willingness to live in his parents' basement). Don't even get me started on the "Am I marrying a demon" line. While I can understand that fear, on account she was a demon for a thousand or so years, it completely ignores all the human growth she had and character arc she went through.

Now let's start on Anya's verses. While yes, she does criticize him a bit, almost all her lines have to do with one of two things. A) the way he treats her. OR. B) insecurities centered solely on her. She doesn't compliment him much in this song, but she doesn't disparage who he is as person much either, and when she does it's either things all couples complain about like, "he snores" and most fair of all "his penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe," or things that critique his behavior in their relationship, "I talk. He breezes." and "Say housework and he freezes." Now I will acknowledge one line she said "His eyes are really beady." Yes this is a diss against his appearance, but this also comes with her interrupting a long verse of him just disparaging her personality and she was like just trying to stop that train by changing the track. It should also be noted that this verse against her personality came directly after she called out his habit of hiding behind buffy when things get rough, so he is clearly lashing out having not liked the feeling of feeling emasculated. Another note is that all but one of her complimentary lines toward him have to do with his personality. "He's swell," and "My knight in shining armor."

From her lines in the song we can see how insecure he makes her, because ultimately we have to remember this is a song about their relationship. "Will I look good when I've gotten old," "when I get so worn and wrinkly. That I look like David Brinkley," "I've read this tale. There's wedding. Then betrayal," and most importantly "Like it's all just temporary."

Lastly, just a quick assessment on their perception of their relationship that comes in near the end of the song. Xander sings, "Am I crazy?" whereas Anya sings, "Am I dreaming?" She views this as a dream, something not possible but somehow is, whereas he views it as something crazy, a word with negative connotations, that what he's doing could be done by someone not in their right mind.

My summation? While this song is upbeat and peppy, it actually was telling us exactly how their love story would end, as well as who would be the one to run. Xander, as much as he's central to the scoobies, was and always will be a sexist coward. He never loved Anya, he only love what she could do for him, and she was also the only one interested in him.

Anya wasn't perfect, but she 100x deserved better.

marthajefferson

the origin of the letter 🇦

(from the documentary The Odyssey of the Writing, 2020)

ecology-of-the-inhuman

Documentary is called “The Secret History of Writing” done by BBC

theheartspeaksloudest

https://youtu.be/hbmyXjqXlEY

weaselle

this has always fascinated me. I first learned it about 25 years ago, and ever since, every time I see a capital letter A a tiny voice inside me goes “bull!”

petermorwood

Fun to see an actual scholarly version of this, because I first read it as explained (-ish) by one of Kipling’s “Just So Stories” a very, very long time ago…

high-quality-tiktoks

No own quite like a self own. Well played Wyoming.

visceralcoma

wait doesn’t that also technically apply to gender affirming surgery and care?

theoriginaljordge

I laughed so hard when this first hit local news articles.

It’s been a delight seeing other people notice

The place with the hardest “freedum!” criers accidentally created a freedom

Very on brand if you look up how Wyoming gave women the right to vote while joining the union

(hint, they racismed so hard they accidentally became intersectional feminists even though the largest city in Wyoming at the time had only 3 black women)

silvaris

The Milky Way by Ilkka Hämäläinen

odinsblog

Remember what CBS’s former CEO, Les Moonves, said about giving Trump billions in free airtime?

It’s happening all over again.

CNN is enabling Trump today, and tomorrow they’ll pretend they were always fighting against him.

If selling out America to a rapist traitor who sold secrets to Russia makes them richer, CNN does not give a single fuck.

The media is complicit.

odinsblog

BULLSHIT ALERT🚨 🚨🚨

Lmao. It’s such a bullshit take. I’m Black and I can promise you there aren’t “half” or any of My family members who agree with Trump or want to vote for him. Saying “I want to vote for Trump” at a family gathering is the fastest way to initiate some honest to God, Black-on-Black violence. Please believe me when I say that Black people like Candace Owens, Tim Scott and Kanye West are outliers, nowhere close to the norm. 🦝🦝🦝

Anyway… everyone in America already knows where Trump stands. Trump’s 90 minute infomercial masquerading as a “town hall meeting” did not show us anything we didn’t know already. And there are no “undecided voters” when it comes to Trump.

America doesn’t need to be subjected to CNN lending Trump their platform to hear even more of his racism, misogyny or anything else, to get the full picture.

That CNN Town Hall was a giant fundraiser for Trump and another rallying call to white supremacists and violent hate groups, and CNN facilitated it.

MASSIVE dereliction of duty by CNN.

Journalistic malpractice.

Hell, we can’t even call it journalism at this point, because the goal wasn’t to inform or educate, the goal was ratings and ad revenue.

Didn’t we already see this okie doke with Les Moonves and CBS?

I guess Chris Licht and CNN won’t be happy until the next January 6th is successful.

thoughtportal

The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

Since the bombing, the bones of two children, 14-year-old Tree (Katricia Dotson) and 12-year-old Delisha Orr, were kept at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2021, Billy Penn revealed that according to the museum, the remains had been transferred to researchers at Princeton University, though the university was unaware of their exact whereabouts. The remains had been used by Janet Monge, an adjunct professor in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor in the same subject at Princeton University, in videos for an online forensics course named “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology,” as case studies.[27] Present-day MOVE members were shocked to learn this, with Mike Africa Jr. stating “They were bombed, and burned alive … and now you wanna keep their bones.”[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

telltaletypist

someone should have sex

demilypyro

not it

efoxgirl

leepacey

#can someone please explain the origins of the ‘CELIBACY’ boy band gif to me? #I have yet to figure them out via @platypusparfait

so the original clip is when BTS was on james corden's show, and even the interview itself is so funny bc like one day before they came on his show, corden made fun of BTS fans and essentially said they're all ~dumb teenage girls~ and therefore their opinions don't matter, and obviously the fans did their usual thing on social media and nobody cared because it's james corden

BTS comes on the show the next day, they immediately bring it up and call him out on it, they obviously all hate his ass (and they never come on his show again), corden's making excuses for himself and avoiding accountability and being like "poor me i'm the real victim here!!!!!" and one of them literally responds to that by interrupting him and saying "we accept your apology :)"

after that, someone made this tiktok (and i saved it bc it makes me cry laugh every time):

and then someone used that tiktok to make the gif, and as far as i can tell, the first ever use of the gif was on the celibacy sweep tumblr poll:

boxingcleverrr

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

catie-does-things

Maybe not the biggest culprit behind the Radioactive Bad Takes on this website, but the one that’s bugging me the most lately: Please, I am begging you, learn what genre conventions are and read the text accordingly.

Fiction is not reality and pretty much every genre of fiction has certain standard ways in which it deviates from reality. And I’m not just talking about how we shouldn’t nitpick the physics of how Superman is able to fly. There will be ways in which the characters’ behavior and relationships will be informed by the genre as well and it makes just as little sense to judge them by realistic standards as it does to complain about something in Star Wars being scientifically implausible.

For example, “Adults are Useless” is a well-recognized trope in children’s literature. But that’s not because children’s authors are all going around writing adult characters who are terrible parents or teachers. It’s because the protagonist of a story written for children is almost always going to be a child, and the protagonist of the story has to get into trouble and solve problems themselves for the story to be any good. Yes, in real life, teenagers shouldn’t be fighting in a war. But if the grown-ups stepped in and stopped the teenage protagonist of your action-adventure series from fighting, there would be no story.

Does that mean the grown-up characters in that series are evil people who use child soldiers? No, because we accept a child being in these kinds of situations as a conceit of the genre of children’s fiction, and we interpret the characters and their choices accordingly. We don’t apply a realistic standard because the very premise is unrealistic to start with.

Another example: An adult hitting a child in real life is horrible. But if the child is a superhero, and the adult is a super villain, and they are in a cartoon, then we can’t read it the same way. All cartoons with any kind of action or fighting in them use violence unrealistically, and if the child and adult characters are presented as equally matched adversaries then that’s how any violence between them has to be understood. The villain might be a real bad dude, since he’s, you know, a villain, but hitting a child superhero in the context of a super-fight does not make him a child abuser, specifically.

I’m focusing on children’s books and cartoons here because I think that’s where tumblr fandoms have the biggest trouble with this but it applies to everything. Characters in a romantic comedy won’t behave realistically, characters in fairy tales won’t behave realistically, characters in police procedurals won’t behave realistically, all of them will behave as characters within their specific genre have to in order to make that genre work. The second you start trying to scrutinize every single action a character takes by realistic standards, you miss the point.

Repeat to yourself: “It’s just a show, I should really just relax.”

roach-works

reminds me of how every couple years some dipshit comes along and says, ‘i’m going to FIX the romance genre! i’m gonna DEFY convention! my characters don’t get together and they don’t live happily ever after because that’s how real life is!’ and then everyone who bought their book, which was billed as a romance, judges it to be a terrible romance book, because it doesn’t do what a romance book is supposed to do. and then the author flips their shit because how dare people judge them for being bad at the thing they failed at on purpose.

soundsfaebutokay

Shoutout to the geniuses STILL whining about love at first sight in fairytales and Shakespeare plays. Get the fuck over yourself and learn what suspension of disbelief is.

And this doesn’t just apply to complaints, but also praise. Nobody said it better than Ursula K Le. Guin:

In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don’t know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it’s coming from, what it’s trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers’ blank ignorance of its genres (children’s fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn’t read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, ‘But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?’”

swordofsun

There’s a film from 1993 that illustrates this concept perfectly and anyone who is still confused should fo watch it.

Yes, I’m talking about Last Action Hero.

The conceit is that through ~~magic~~ a kid’s favorite action hero comes out of the movie and into real life. Shenanigans insue. Through the course of the movie the action hero has to learn how to function under real world rules. Things just don’t work or happen the same way in the real world as they do in action movies.

The point is really driven home at the end when the action hero has life threatening wounds in the real world. The kid manages to get him back into the movie world where everyone pats him on the shoulder and tells him to walk it off. And he does. Because he’s now working under action movie rules again.

You can dislike the genre conventions, but complaining that a slasher flick has the teen protagonist going into the basement after the power mysteriously cuts out the day after their friend is brutally murdered means you don’t understand slasher flicks. You look like an idiot to be perfectly honest. A conceit of the romance genre is the happily ever after/happily for now. If you don’t have that your book isn’t a romance book. It just isn’t.

Learn your genre conventions or look like a fool for complaining about things that happen in the genre.

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splathousefiction

So I want to say something here that's worth mentioning:

The internet as we know it today is completely un-navigatable without an adblocker of some form. It's likewise completely unsafe. While an adblocker won't prevent user-end actions that lead to viral compromise, the situation is so fucking dire that even the fucking feds recommend you use an adblocker.

I was/still am an IT professional for longer than some of you reading this have been alive. Putting an Adblocker on a clients computer, regardless of if it's consumer grade or corporate, is the first thing I do. Most ad blockers allow you to white list websites in order to avoid having to deal with shit like what Youtube is doing.

Youtube is preying upon consumer ignorance of white listing in an effort to generate revenue via Youtube Premium. It's fucking dumb as hell, and it's going to directly lead to another wave of compromised systems across the board.

Do not be misinformed. Ad blockers absolutely are a necessary part of the modern internet usage. Please read the wiki on your adblocker of choice (I recommend Ublock Origin) and read up on whitelisting. Don't fall for this fucking scam Youtube is pulling, and most certainly don't stop using your Ad Blocker.

getvalentined

I actually don't think that Premium is the goal here—I think the goal is to get as much user data as possible regardless of whether or not they're paying customers. I have a very good reason for believing this.

See, I have Premium, and I have for like four years. I am exactly what you would assume they want all users of the platform to be. I pay monthly for access to a handful of features that I find useful, and they don't serve me ads at all.

I still make sure to block all tracking cookies whenever possible, because I'm not using the Internet strictly for YouTube, and I'm not in the business of allowing myself to be tracked all across the web when I can avoid it.

A couple weeks ago, YouTube stopped working for me entirely. After having it running in the background more or less all day while I was drawing, it suddenly stopped loading anything but the skeleton.css stylesheet, which looks like this:

Nothing here is clickable, it's literally just a bunch of static graphical elements. I couldn't access my account, settings, anything. I was completely locked out of the service.

I did some digging, and found out that this is one of the things that happens when the anti-adblock protocol catches up to uBlock Origin and shuts down people who refuse to remove that protection. But...I have Premium. The platform doesn't serve me ads at all. There is absolutely no reason for them to block my access to the platform.

Still, I tried turning uBlock Origin off, and it didn't change anything. Weird.

Eventually I got ahold of someone in tech support, and I was told to do the following:

Stop using Firefox, reinstall Chrome, and only use that to access YouTube. This is because that is apparently the only browser that is "truly compatible" with the platform, and if I'm using another one then they can't promise that it will work. (This is a lie, and after a half hour of back and forth with the agent she admitted it, linking me to a page showing all compatible browsers, among which Firefox is prominently listed.)

Completely uninstall any adblockers I have on any browser that I use, because having them at all could cause YouTube to block my access. I was not told to whitelist YouTube, I was told to completely uninstall the extensions on any and all browsers, and then try to access the platform again. This kind of explains the fact that turning UBO off didn't work—the implication here is that my account was flagged as having an adblocker active, even on an alternative browser, and the account itself would be blocked until they were removed.

I was told that unless I completed both of these steps—and these were the first troubleshooting steps offered to me, as a note—then we wouldn't be able to move forward with the tech support process. Literally, if I did not do these things, the agent would not even attempt to provide any more help. I basically told her that was unacceptable, and we went back and forth for a while longer. She told me that adblockers are not a form of Internet security, so removing mine would not leave me vulnerable to anything, and told me to install Chrome an additional four times. I told her that I was not going to install Chrome. She told me that we couldn't move forward unless I carried out every step she instructed me to do in order to fix the problem.

I told her that I was sorry if I seemed nasty, but it seemed like she had no intentions of actually offering any help and was just following a script telling her to make me install Chrome—and that she needed a better script. Her response was "I'm sorry I don't have better news for you," and that ended the conversation.

Again, one more reminder, I have Premium. I am not being served ads at all. That didn't matter, I was still instructed to uninstall those extensions outright, and refused assistance or access to a platform I pay for unless I agreed to do so.

Want to know how I got the platform to load again?

I manually turned off JUST the tracking cookie blocker.

They don't care about users' money, they care about users' data. They care about knowing what you are doing and where you're doing it, even when that information isn't being used to serve ads.

Anyway I cleared my cache/cookies, updated the extension, logged out, restarted Firefox, manually turned the tracking blocker back on, and logged back in. It's worked fine since then.

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tits-n-trix

What kills me is 3 out of the four are sticking to the bit and the last one is playing 4d chess on em with the concepts

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emmaharwoods

decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.

emmaharwoods

don’t just reblog this, please take time to actually read through the website. it’s the least you can do as palestinians are being killed by the thousands and world leaders are turning a blind eye to a genocide happening in real time. i’ve seen the headlines about the israeli airstrike on al-ahli hospital that killed hundreds of palestinians change in real time, with western media outlets refusing to call it what it is— a war crime. the tide seems to be shifting a little bit in regards to media making excuses for israel to commit these atrocities which is probably because of how much people are showing out for palestine.

please read and share and pray that we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.