Life in Ashevegas

I probably won't post that much here.  22-year old from Western NC.  Writer.

[dismantlexsjwsxfeminism]

Hate crime charges are quietly dropped from the four people who kidnapped and tortured a disabled boy while shouting f*ck white people. How is this not a hate crime?

[robert-the-redhead-lover-deacti]

They’re black, he’s white.

[johnessex]

Actually, it’s because hate crime charges are INCREDIBLY difficult to prosecute, and carry a shorter min and max sentence than Aggravated Kidnapping (which is the charge replacing the Hatecrime/Kidnapping combo).  These thugs going away for life (which is now an option) is more important than scoring a meaningless (from a legal standpoint) ideological victory.

[frost-ronin]

Lmao

[autisticthrawn-deactivated20200]

Okay but how much is of that is “yeah EA really fucked up with this” and how much of it is racist white people angry because the lead character of the story is an South Asian woman?

[thivus]

[ndnmccree-moved-deactivated2023]

[kurocatworld]

By  た.ま‏ @sin05g Source: twitter

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

[moikoa16]

@red-faced-wolf

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

Oh. My. Goodness @hmw2177

[hellsbells-zelsbels-archived]

OH MY GOOOOODDDDDDDDDD

[celtisart]

My full Little Witch Academia piece for the awesome @trigger-fanzine that I participated in! :) So many fantastic artists took part in it.

[ithelpstodream]

[unicornlordart-deactivated20190]

Remember the good ole day when nerd didn’t go outside and try and converse with you while playing FUCKING POKEMON GO.

SERIOUSLY, YOU’RE PLAYING A FUCKING GEOCACHE GAME AND BITCHING YOU RAN INTO OTHER PEOPLE.

[the-smiling-pony]

Speaking of

[cheshireinthemiddle]

She made Pokemon Go about misogyny.

She got a game that literally encourages going outside and shows this in all of its advertisements, then complains when people talk to her while playing said interactive game.

[colorsofsocialjustice]

Encourages people to interact even, and made out that doing so with women is bigoted. Seriously, can these people get their heads out of the asses, please and thank you. - Purple

[bizarrodf]

my favorite thing about this is it is literally one of these comics

[boobs-in-a-bobsled-deactivated2]

OH NOOOOOO~~! Someone tried to talk to me because we’re doing the same silly, but fun thing! How dare they?! Now I have to interact with people in a p-p-public place?!!!?

I am embarrassed for this person.

[deforestkelleys123-deactivated2]

Okay like I’m not gonna lie.

It’s really upsetting to me that George Takei is openly against Sulu being gay in Star Trek Beyond.

Like I respect he’s allowed to have opinions on a character he once played but I 10000% agree with Pegg that introducing a new character and making them gay ran the very likely risk of them becoming The Token Gay. It takes a lot of time to establish a new character and if you introduce a character and the first thing you know about them is that they’re The Gay One then that’s all the average audience is gonna absorb about them. They’re the Gay Character. That’s it. 

But when you reveal that a long standing, established character, with a long history, also happens to be gay, like that’s a big fucking deal.

And not only that but this great, well loved character is a POC, and not only is he gay but he’s married, with a child. 

That makes a statement. That sends an important message to the audience. Queer people are everywhere. They’re your barista and your taxi driver and your doctor and your lawyer and your neighbor and your friend. 

And now they’re the senior helmsman of the USS Enterprise.

[greencarnations]

I mean, I think a lot of it comes from George Takei being from a different generation. No, really, it applies to gay men too. I run into a lot of older gay male Sherlockians, for instance, who don’t get shipping. They’re perfectly happy with that “close friendship” thing. It’s a very important relationship to them, but they don’t always really get why it would be important for the relationship to be explicitly romantic. The desire for media representation is very generational.

Also, I think Takei is also looking at it like this: if Sulu is gay, and was never shown as being so in TOS, than Takei was playing a closeted character, which he’s not happy about.

That’s how I’m thinking it through, anyways.

[roane72]

That’s pretty much what he’s said, I think. And I get that. He’s not some sort of backwards, regressive guy just because he doesn’t like this particular character interpretation. For him, I’m sure there’s a personal element of pain, since when he was playing Sulu he WAS a closeted gay man, and to think about Sulu also being closeted at that time (and yes, I know about the whole ‘multiverse’ thing that Pegg is talking about), has got to be uncomfortable.

I don’t think there’s really a right or wrong here. Pegg is doing a thing he feels is right, Takei disagrees with how he’s going about it. We can disagree with either side too–doesn’t make anybody the devil.

[anghraine]

Honestly, I’m very uncomfortable with how people are responding to Takei. Fifty years late, AU Star Trek is like, “We’ll have a gay character now that it’s fairly safe to do… Oh, how about the one with a gay actor?” And the actor in question strongly opposed using his specific character for this—not because he doesn’t want representation to exist in ST, but because he didn’t want it to be Sulu. And he was ignored. Yet somehow ignoring his express wishes is supposed to be a gesture of respect for him, and he’s being blamed for not being grateful or socially aware or whatever enough.

[elljayvee]

*mutters about how Jim Kirk was already semicanonically bisexual why not him under her breath*

This is really one of those things where I can see both sides, but also feel like this wasn’t handled very well by anyone.

[cimness]

I’m sure the creators and decision-makers were motivated by their personal respect for Takei and his activism and that’s why they wanted the character to be Sulu. Let’s not pretend that the story would be equally interesting if they’d done it to Chekov or Nurse Chapel instead - Sulu was the obvious choice, not for any in-universe reason but because of Takei’s real life. He’s a public figure who brings visibility, publicity, and good will, and the fact that we all associate him with gayness AND Sulu also probably makes it a smaller cognitive leap in the minds of many established fans. It’s blurring the line between the actor and the character.

And if Takei hadn’t been against it there wouldn’t be any problem whatsoever with that, I want to underline. 

But he IS against it, and while I almost completely agree with the OP here - I also can’t blame someone who is so associated with the fictional character they portrayed for taking it personally, when the rationale for choosing this character is so tied up in his personal life. 

This decision is literally profiting from his personal life, his personal history of pain from being closeted, and all the immense amount of work he’s put into his career and visibility and activism. They’re getting publicity and progressive brownie points for this for the individual creators and they’re also getting potential money for the evil megacorporation behind the whole production.

So I don’t think he should be upset for the sake of the original Sulu, and I don’t agree that making reboot Sulu be in a committed gay relationship makes Takei’s Sulu’s canon sexual and romantic interest in women false or puts him in a closet, nor do I think that it is disrespectful to Roddenberry’s “vision,” I also don’t think Takei is being inappropriate by expressing his feelings. I kind of wish he had handled it differently, but I definitely don’t think he should have sucked it up or refrained from speaking to the press, after the sequence of events he describes.

Nothing is as relevant to this situation as his feelings because this wouldn’t be happening if he hadn’t come out: if they’d chosen Sulu without the context of Takei’s public life and without knowing about his sexuality, the story would be completely different. We’d be talking about the history of gayness in Star Trek and Roddenberry’s progressivism exclusively right now instead of Takei’s thoughts and his personal life. 

[knightless]

#important #this is all complex guys#don’t demonize takei for having an emotional reaction to a situation that at its core is about him #doesn’t mean you have to be against gay sulu too #just means you have to try and empathize with a fellow human

(preserving @iamgwenslongroadhome‘s tags because those are honestly my thoughts about the situation, too)

[ladyhawke72]

Reblogging simply to capture this intelligent, insightful conversation which acknowledged and accepted two differing opinions regarding Sulu in the new Star Trek reboot.

[the-real-seebs]

I am not sure what I think should be the answer, but I am just so happy to see people trying to have a real discussion about the question.

[brazenautomaton]

I’m bothered by it because Sulu, in the original timeline, is happily married and has a kid. In the enlightened future of the Federation, there’s zero reason to think there is any pressure on him whatsoever to live in the closet, so this means he is either straight, or bisexual.

The new ST movies are not a parallel universe, they are a divergent timeline created by the arrival of Nero, the Narada, and Future Spock in the 2009 ST movie. Everything different is due to the presence of those people and their future technology gobbletygook.

So for Sulu to be gay in the movies, taht means that something about the arrival of Nero or Spock turned Sulu gay.

He’s already seen a younger, fitter Spock, so it has to be Nero. And I don’t think Nero was all that handsome.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

Sometimes I see a specific person (usually an anti-sjw) comment on a post, and I know instantly that I’m gonna have to scroll a long time before I have to get to the bottom of that post.

[formeregalitarianaquagirl-blog]

@siryouarebeingmocked

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

That’s actually who this post was about.

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

That dude is mad annoying

[elehayym-archive-deactivated201]

He always have a weird habit of bolding his sentences to feel “smart.” 

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I once read a thing about presentations that said that you should bold key words and phrases so people have something to focus on. Seemed like a good idea for tumblr, and a way to stand out.

Also, I don’t need formatting tricks to look smart. All I need is the ability to break people’s arguments into tiny little pieces, and a good memory.  I actually am pretty smart IRL. Though I doubt you’ll believe me, I don’t have to try to look smart. It just happens. If that was my aim, you think I’d include so much silly reaction gifs and so few big words? 

http://siryouarebeingmocked.tumblr.com/post/143630931150/rapunzel-corona-lite-hominishostilis

http://siryouarebeingmocked.tumblr.com/post/133306639143/rapunzel-corona-lite-siryouarebeingmocked

http://siryouarebeingmocked.tumblr.com/post/146826519242/rapunzel-corona-lite-i-like-this-i-like-these

Sooo precisely one post in which I replied to @Rapunzel-corona-lite used bold, and most of them are quite short. Apparently, a whopping three posts is “mad annoying”, unless she’s talking about one of my other long posts. 

Which are increasingly just a paragraph or two of commentary because someone else already provided the extended paddlin’.

But hey, if all you’ve got is minor formatting quibbles and insecurities, may I direct your attention to the fact that I use ><s for links?

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

Self-awareness: 0

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but w/e.

[theunnamedstranger]

“I have a short attention span so I dismiss opinions that take more than three sentences to read” -OP

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

tell me exactly where I said I dismiss opinions.

[theunnamedstranger]

You said when you see a post by certain people you automatically begin scrolling without reading, that’s pretty dismissive.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

“I know instantly that I’m gonna have to scroll a long time before I have to get to the bottom of that post“

apparently scrolling down tumblr means i’m dismissing people’s opinions.

[theunnamedstranger]

Well yeah, considering you said that you ignore any post longer than a paragraph or when they’re made by certain people, it’d be assumed you’d immediately dismiss the opinion of any of these people if they responded to you.

You’re still vagueposting like a coward and responding with basically nothing but non-sequiturs (LOL NO SELF AWARENESS) or strawmen (”diz guiz accusing me of dismissing ppl cuz I scroll down tumblr!111111!!1!!1!”) when confronted.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

I never said that, I’m not sure where you’re pulling that out of your ass, but I literally never said that.

Also, logical fallacies (which, who gives a shit in the first place? “Hurr you’re being illogical and I’m going to point that out to show everyone I’m superior and know how to go on Wikipedia”) only apply when you’re in a debate. We aren’t in a debate.

[theunnamedstranger]

You’re just denying shit you’ve actually said. if you say you’re gonna start scrolling extra fast when you see someone replying to a post then it’s gonna be assumed you won’t read it.

Oh you’re one of THOSE people. “I’m gonna make you look stupid for calling me out on my bullshit! Haha! Look at this nerd doing research and pointing out how I’m being flawed in my argument! I BET HE READS BOOKS TOO!”

Any exchange of disagreeing viewpoints is a debate, this just isn’t a formal debate. You don’t get to just say something isn’t a debate when it suits you.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

Clearly I know what I meant better then you do, so I’m not sure why the fuck you’re arguing what I meant when I was the one who said it.

Logical fallacies are irrelevant, because it implies I give a shit.

I totally get to say something isn’t a debate when it suits me. Watch: This isn’t a debate.

[theunnamedstranger]

Sure you do, but there’s this thing called “lying”, I’m not sure if you ever heard of it. There’s also this thing called “making a conclusion based on information given”. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s a very important thing to learn. Am I going too fast?

Aren’t you the logic above all else type? Because I’m pretty sure logic doesn’t care about whether or not you “give a shit”. 

The great thing about the truth is that it remains true whether or not you choose to believe it. I can scream to high heaven that the earth is flat, but the earth will always be round. Same here, you can keep saying this isn’t a debate and plugging your ears and all that, but the fact of the matter is that this still counts as a debate by definition. It’s a pedantic and annoying debate by this point, but it’s still a debate regardless.

Sorry, is this post getting too long for you? Maybe I could turn it into a haiku.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

[theunnamedstranger]

Alright, fine then:

Shut the fuck up dude

This argument is really dumb

Go jump in a lake

I think that’s the right amount of syllables. My haiku skills aren’t top notch.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

You’re the only one making this whole thing dumb my man.

[smartasslittlebitch-deactivated]

As soon I saw @siryouarebeingmocked I knew this was going to be a lot of discourse.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Most of it wasn’t even me!

[thedarkmod-deactivated20220623]

I like the part where @foreskin-salesman literally says he doesn’t dismiss the opinions of people when it’s in a long post, then responds to a long post with “do you really expect me to read all that shit”.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

[thedarkmod-deactivated20220623]

Can’t prove me wrong so you go for an insult.

I know when I’ve won

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

nigga what did you even win no part of this post was an argument to “win” it was literally him making a statement of personal opinion

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Nearly fucking everyone in this goddamn thread needs to check their ego.  Also the irony of bitching about long ass thread chains only to end up replying repeatedly and producing one of those long ass thread chains they’re bitching about.

[missxmisanthropist-deactivated2]

[horhardaho-deactivated20180622]

New Discourse

Gay BDSM doms are homophobic because they get off on hurting gay men.

[chanderbing]

#daredevil: a very serious show

[dxscostick-deactivated20170429]

idk whos the dood with the long hair but he is a cutie and completely my type

[johnessex]

Dude that’s Foggy Nelson.  That’s Daredevil’s law partner.  He’s the COMIC RELIEF.

[steven-universe-official-deacti]

Things I care about

Trans people being actively bullied because they’re trans.

Availability of trans resources such as medical care.

Getting rid of the stigma that being trans is a bad thing.

Maturely and constructively educating people on what being trans actually is.

Things I don’t care about

Someone on the internet using the term “futa” to refer to drawings.

[micdotcom]

Zendaya dragged a man who asked Twitter users if they would rape her in a real ‘purge’

Zendaya isn’t here for your rape “jokes” that promote violence against women. When @ogxbenson polled his followers who they would rape if the Purge were real, the Disney star immediately called him out for the disgusting question. Perhaps more shocking are the disturbing responses by men who answered @ogxbenson’s question.

[midnight-sun-rising]

This is scary. This is so scary.

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

^^^^^^^^^^ there’s no hope for children growing up I this world

[icouldplayanything]

this is a actual tweet that someone sent out and the worst thing about it is that people were saying “ oh this is so fucked up …but _______” like people knew how terrible this was and they still took it as a joke

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

I literally wish that everyone who found this funny or condoned this would drop dead on the spot like I don’t give a fuck.

[yourladyindank]

Dark humor is fine in my book, but perhaps using real people that could be made uncomfortable by your post is not a good choice.

[angryinkeddrunk]

People have the right to make gross jokes but people also have the right to be offended….

And I have to say, I am offended. That person is gross.

[official-johnny-joestar]

*Asshole makes a shitty joke, everyone else hops on to call him a dick* “Wow there’s no hope for the world rape culture is too large :(”

[supersoftly]

“Hey, this is worth writing an article on.” -Every mitdotcom writer

[freexcitizen-deactivated2016110]

There’s no reason for anyone over the age of 21 to be having a conversation with anyone under the age of 18

[double-barrel-dude-deactivated2]

“For the last time son, I wont talk to you.”

[el-presidente-deadpool-deactiva]

“im sorry students, but this is the last time im gonna say this. Stop trying to talk to me”

[le-sad-demiurge]

“I’m afraid I can’t hire you, I cannot speak to you.”

[xxxtictacion]

“I would tell that kid to get off my lawn, but society isn’t ready yet”

[gotitforcheap-deactivated201611]

“my new born baby just said it’s first word but I’m not trying to hear that” 

[sonypraystation]

“hello 911?!? help my parents are in a burnin build-”

“i dunnoo kid….you sound just a little young and….idk…. im not really feelin too comfortable with this” *hangs up*

[toastbutteregg]

im turning 21 this July stay away from me if ur 18 below

[femboy-fever]

what sort of spookyass theme music/song do i give an eldritch abomination

[johnessex]

Depending on tone, I’d go for some stuff by Atrium Carceri or Sabled Sun.  If you want something lighter, Biosphere, The Future Sound of London, or even some Boards of Canada might do.