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no way i just saw people in tiktok comments crying screaming throwing up at the idea of aslan being a jesus figure. worsties the lion literally dies to save edmund (the sinner) and then rises from the dead. he tells the pevensies he can be found under a different name in our world. what else could this have meant
Reminds me of this meme:
"A lion? I'm Jesus Christ.
Get in the car."
MORE BLACK MAGICAL GIRLS MORE LATINA MAGICAL GIRLS MORE INDIGENOUS MAGICAL GIRLS MORE TRANS MAGICAL GIRLS
As a trans woman. Me. That's why I got rid of it. Try to keep up.
the most burnt out girl in the world would like to remind you that she's actually really lazy compared to the people around her and she could probably use some extra work to keep her honest
everything is getting worse and thats why it's SO so important that we have fun and hang out and play and im being serious im being unimaginable amounts of serious
the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.
still pissed at that argument. ~because you were being gendered as a failed man the gendered abuse you suffered by your peers your entire life before you transed your gender shouldn't have hurt you if you just rejected patriarchal hierarchies~ sorry i can't belief system my way out of isolation and alienation, especially when the overwhelming majority of my in-person friendships have been based around the circumstance of going to school together or working together and haven't lasted past those circumstance
regardless of the queerness that i would later grow into, the shit we experienced as a cishet boy and briefly cis bi man would still have been harmful if we hadn't ended up not a man
and like, the harm being done to us was not dependent on us accepting the belief system it was coming from.
Things that work in fiction but not real life
torture getting reliable information out of people
knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour
jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact
calling the police to deescalate a situation
rafting your way off a desert island
correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes
effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else
ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences
heterosexual cowboy
This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.
ok i’ve been curious about something. can you name a character who is, all three at once,
1. canonically female (no variation)
2. canonically the protagonist of her story (if it’s an ensemble cast you have to say you can legitimately see her as The main character)
3. your personal #1 favorite character in that story (ties are acceptable)
?
yes
no
super nuance bald extract button (use this wisely)
Facebook was trying to sell me on its AI "tools" by suggesting I transform a family photo into "anime style."
The photo in question was the last photo of my husband, our baby, and me before our son passed away (we knew at the time he was dying). It was a solemn picture, it was NOT for playing around with.
But AI does not care. It cannot care. It operates under the assumption that every little moment, no matter how intimate, exists for its exploitation, for its consumption. We aren't allowed to process our most human emotions without the intrusion of the machine.
It's sick.
Absolutely exhausting to see people's response to "hating men ultimately leads to all types of transphobia. It doesn't belong in feminist spaces and ultimately harms everyone involved. Hating men is in fact not decentering men." And seeing half the comments be "well trans men are all evil misogynists who need to die" or "maybe I wouldn't hate trans men if they stopped acting like they're oppressed" YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM
Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?
I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.
I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.
But. Like.
Consider Iron Man.
Iron Man is a fake person that Stan Lee made up one day, following the ancient human tradition of sitting around a campfire sharing fictions with one another. He does not exist, he has no tangible impact on the world, he is an entirely imaginatory figure living in an entirely imaginatory world.
And yet, if you were to try and sell a comic book featuring Iron Man, you would have to pay the Disney Corporation millions of dollars for the right to tell a story about an imaginary billionaire in a metal suit. Otherwise, you would be committing a crime.
It is actually a crime to sit around the campfire and tell stories about this imaginary billionaire if you don't pay large sums of money to the company that controls the made-up idea of him. He does not exist and is valuated in the millions, possibly even billions of dollars.
A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."
And yet one storyteller is afforded much more dignity than the other, is legitimized more than the other. Why? Because a billionaire who controls an invisible financial stake in an imaginatory man put a rubber stamp on the first writer's forehead that says "Financially-approved!"
Isn't this all just a little ridiculous? That an imaginary billionaire can have a real-world net worth more than most people's entire families combined, and people can be charged with actual crimes for telling stories around the campfire without a piece of paper that says they are "Legally Authorized to Imagine a Billionaire"?
I understand this take, I vibe with this take, but I must disagree with some specifics. First of all, Disney isn't going to send lawyers after you for telling stories around a campfire. Copyright law allows for fair use, and non-commercial purposes fall under that. You only need to look as far as AO3 to see hundreds (thousands?) of Unofficial Iron Man tales. Parody is also fair use, which is why, for example, Robot Chicken can have a sketch where Iron Man confronts a version of The Mandarin that's even more of a racist caricature than the one in the comics.
What IP laws do cover are the specific renditions. You can't produce and sell copies of old Iron Man comics, or DVD copies of the 2008 movie, without getting in legal trouble. And that's a much muddier argument. There's also Trademark law, which is why you can't make an original movie starring a character named Iron Man. Trademark law also stops someone from filing bottles with colored water and calling it Coca-Cola. It's meant to protect both businesses from copycats and customers from frauds.
Now, all that being said, copyright law lasts entirely too long. It should last, like 10 years tops.
I have more to say specifically on the first sentence. Looking at NFTs as an extension of IP law is, I think, misleading at best. If anything they were an attempt to ape IP law, and update it for the digital age in a way that our governments are disinclined to do. Technology has been outpacing IP protections for decades now, and Congress's attempts at remedying the problem have been ham-fisted and ineffective. One could examine NFTs in that light, but I think it's at best a distraction. NFTs are above all else, a financial instrument.
Stocks, bonds, futures, crypto, and NFTs are all bits of data that society claims have value because someone is willing to buy it. They, of course, have no inherent worth, but because you can convince someone that it's meaningful it becomes so. Stocks, in particular, are a made up thing that lets capitalists think that because they traded money for a piece of paper, they now have a right to control the people who work for the corporation they bought stock in. A corporation, of course, is another made up thing that organizes capital for the benefit of the shareholders. NFTs aren't IP law reductio ad absurdum, they're stocks. You're just holding stock in Bored Ape #236 instead of Comcast.
I agree with most of this, but again disagree with the comment re: copyright law should only last ten years.
Because, again, copyright is part of the livelihood issue - and again why fanfic writers shouldn't be charging money for fanfic (and can get sued for it) and why authors shouldn't read fanfic of their stuff.
There are writers - published authors - who have been writing the same series for over a decade (Seanan McGuire has multiple series like this, and Brandon Sanderson has his whole Cosmere thing going on, not to mention others). If their copyright on the first book only lasts for that first decade, then suddenly any character they introduced in that book (as well as the setting, etc. - anything introduced in that first book) would suddenly be public domain. Anybody could publish stories with the characters etc. introduced in that first book, and if their stories are more popular or make more money, then they could kick the original author out of the income they get by writing that series.
This is something you see happening with other media, too. When the Hannibal TV series was airing, the people creating it had the rights for every character except the ones introduced in Silence of the Lambs, because MGM had those media rights. (And the people with SOTL eventually made a Clarice-focused procedural show, but they couldn't use Hannibal because he was introduced in an earlier book, and they only held the SOTL media rights.) The author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit has recently had the film rights returned to him because Disney didn't make anything re: Roger Rabbit after a certain period of time (I think film rights revert after ten years if something is made, but it can be less time if they end up not making anything - they can't hold the film rights in perpetuity - that's why Sony keeps rebooting Spider-Man every so often, because if they don't, they lose the film rights and those revert back to Marvel) - and he's expressed wanting to make another Roger Rabbit movie. But it wouldn't be anything like the Disney film because Disney still holds the copyright to what they changed/added/etc. and the books are WILDLY different from the Disney film.
I'm not a huge fan of corporations holding copyright in perpetuity.
But I do think that the original creators should hold the copyright on their creations until their death or they decide to release it.
I also kind of think that copyright should be held by the kids for a few years after, just in case that's how they've been provided for, so they have time to figure out their financial situation, but. That's another thing.
given how prolific the deltarune theory industrial complex is I cant imagine any way for the game to end without making a lot of people very angry
tobias "rhododendron" dogs relaxing after finishing his dream game when ralseitheon airstrikes his apartment complex for confirming hungry bunny theory instead of dark uncle theory
"i know this show was made for children but i enjoy it too." > awesome and cool. watch whatever you want forever.
"i know it LOOKS like it was made for children but its SECRETLY for us. calling it a kids show is an insult cause kids could never understand these THEMES and EMOTIONS. we're the TRUE fans." > i dont think i trust your opinions. you seem lame as fuck.
bro LMFAOOOO
