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One Nice Bug Per Day
occasionally subtle
noise dept.
#extradirty
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@necrodivergent
"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"
"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"
"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."
"Nobody's there?"
"Nobody's not there!"
"So everyone's there?"
"Everybody but nobody!"
Child soldiers exist, war is not an adult topic.
Children die, death/murder is not an adult topic.
The Troubled Teen Industry exists, child trafficking is not an adult topic.
Children get raped, sexual assault is not an adult topic.
Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic.
Children get beat to the point of hospitalization at school, that level of violence is not an adult topic.
That when these things get into "kid friendly" media at all, they tend to be heavily censored is about protecting adult control over kids, not about protecting children.
"Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic." also children can be addicts. i was a child back when i was an addict
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@necrodivergent
You know me well, my sibling.
I'm sorry, disregarding the textual evidence that can easily disprove his claims, and that Andy Serkis's comments reek of racism, it is especially vile to say you won't do "diversity casting" when Peter Jackson's Middle-earth, but especially the original trilogy, were built on the backs of the Māori people of New Zealand.
For fucks sake! I can think of at least 2 Hakas filmed in the appendices off the top of my head. One of which Serkis was present for! The culture was ingrained into the set.
They could not have made that film without the help of Māori stunt people, actors, and crew, and to say that they could never lead or support a film unless they look white because of some made up rule that doesn't even have evidence to support it is truly next level evil.
Absolutely fuck off Serkis
I'm sorry I'm absolutely not off this.
How is it different than adding female representation into the story??? You created Tauriel out of thin air. You are letting Colbert write fanfiction for the next film!!! THERE ARE MULTIPLE NEW CHARACTERS IN THIS ONE EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE CHARACTERS THAT ALREADY EXIST THAT ARE BASICALLY THE SAME!?!?! (/Pos before someone gets mad) What the fuck do you mean you're trying to be true to the books??? Oh my god you sniveling coward of a man. Stop hiding behind the books and say it with your chest.
Evidence that supports diverse casting in Middle-earth (because I am still still not over it):
-The Hobbits were wanderers for a vast amount of time before they settled in the Shire who traveled much of Middle-earth
-Over half of the Dwarven Houses are from or actively live in Rhûn, the land of the Easterlings
-These houses fought in the West as recently as Azanulbizar (where Thorin receives the moniker Oakenshield, some 200 and change years before the Fellowship set foot in Moria)
-Following this thought, two of those houses are named Stiffbeards and Blacklocks. I would love to see an explanation on how those CAN'T be Black and Brown features
-To assume there is absolutely no transfer of culture, or previous interaction before their teneous relationships in the 3rd age between Men of the West, the Harad, and the Easterlings even in as minute a form as prisoners and defectors speaks to a kind of ignorance in how the world works. (For Christ's sake silk is mentioned multiple times in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Rhûn takes inspiration from the cultures where silk originated. There had to be transfer of goods somewhere!)
-There are numerous character descriptions revealing characters to be explicitly brown and/or dark
I will repeat, Andy Serkis is a sniveling coward to hide behind Tolkien's words when he is factually wrong. I hope he has the epiphany that he needs to apologize for how he has alienated half of the fan base. I am appalled by his behavior.
I mean, this is the same motherfucker who decided to adapt Animal Farm as an animated children's comedy, so claiming "respect for the source material" is outright insulting.
i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me
It's a feature, not a bug.
Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.
A true role model for today.
Gee, who knew
ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.
AI also more often avoids subplots and fails to play with time jumps and flashbacks. The systems overwrite passages about the body and senses. “Where a human author might write that a character ‘felt afraid,’ AI renders fear as a tightening chest, cold sweat, and dimming lamplight,” the study said. Humans also spin more complicated narratives involving more characters and locations than AI can handle. Humans also reference other works of fiction, specific people and places in a way that AI struggles with.
Surprise. (Not.)
No spoons, only knives left.
The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes
And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles
This is Peak Yuri media and I hope my beautiful feral daughters love each other forever
I watched this with Uptown Funk blasting in the background, and my experience was greatly improved by this.
what the hell is going on
i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.
Please god it would be so funny
there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.
for people out of the loop:
Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.
Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:
(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)
Anyway, in brief:
Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances
He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election
He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion
His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.
the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.
and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.
its important to note the "clever" politics behind all of the decisions around this; NF cannot be investigated if he isn't an MP (stupid ruling, yes, but hang on) so his plan was to cause a stir by trying to get someone to take his seat; other politicians see through the plan and don't participate which would fuck NF massively as it means he never stopped being an MP and therefore can still be investigated and imprisoned. Binface shows up because of course he does this is an excellent time to embarrass a tosser. NF is now in a lose-lose.
If NF wins, he won against a joke candidate and thus it only makes him look an idiot (homer beating 8 year olds style) with no legitimacy, AND he will still go through the investigation that most of the HoP wants to put him through.
If Binface wins, NF lost to a joke candidate, and good heavens that's gonna screw him over permanently innit.
this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this
im never leaving this hellsite
i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone
FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!
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I knew *exactly* where this was going, and I was not disappointed.
flesh flesh flesh flesh flesh flesh flESH FLESH FLESH FLESHFLESHFLESH
i don’t need to say it
don’t say anything. just reblog this if you’re thinking of exactly that thing when you see this picture
But are we thinking Loony Toons or Ito Junji?
The T in LGBTQ stands for "This content has been removed for violating Tumblr's community guidelines."
For anyone wondering
Yes I got terminated for this
Hey lads - set up a merch table and sell CDs
This tweet had me absolutely flabbergasted twice because I read this and I was like "Dame Aylin? The tall, blonde, supermodel demigoddess? How is she at all outside of the beauty standard? This is stupid" and then I scrolled down and there were a hundred replies by straight dudes who were calling her ugly and talking about anime women they prefer
Two and a half years ago now, I made a 60 second video briefly discussing the lack of variety of body-types in female characters, and I made what I thought was a very gentle and restrained argument. I showed some pictures of Olympic-level female athletes and said "hey, if you're designing physically powerful characters, maybe this is a better reference point to start from than supermodels."
It went... unpleasantly viral, and still to this day it gets a dozen to a hundred comments per day, depending on how much the algorithm is pushing it. And they go basically like this:
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of comments like this, completely non-stop. I've removed the most heinous bigotry from the screenshots here (transphobia, racism, violent misogyny, etc), but they are all the same two or three arguments, the same thought-terminating clichés, regurgitated on auto-pilot, forever.
I think it's easy to underestimate just how deeply brain-poisoned culture is by the beauty standards that are pushed on us. There is this reflexive and instant disgust response in so many people at the mere suggestion that anything other than the beauty ideal could possibly be desirable. And it is disgust, because nothing else can produce such amounts of venom and moral judgment so fast.
The women that these people are all so offended by look like this, by the way:
From the photo collection Athlete by Howard Schatz, 2002
I thought was making a mild, inoffensive, milquetoast suggestion in my video. I wrote it thinking "okay, what's the broadest, most mainstream acceptable, gentlest, most non-controversial version of this argument I can make?"
But it turns out there is no gentle version of that argument you can make. The suggestion that women in particular could or should be anything other than idealized objects of beauty is a form of totalizing violence, an obscenity, to the sensibilities of a distressing number of people.
Look, I will be the first to concede the point that I am exactly what you expect when describing That Asexual With A Massive Porn Collection, but holy FUCK, people. I like unrealistically sexualized character designs. I'll be the first to acknowledge how unrealistic and impractical those designs are, but I still like them. But the fact that so many people are this violently hateful towards the very idea that any woman anywhere should be allowed to exist as anything other than fuel for their hyper specific fetishes? To respond with that much intensity to a take that's so mild it barely even exists? That's a fucking problem.
Nobody is trying to take your porn away (except the very people you're buddying up with to Defeat The Woke, but logic is clearly not the strong suit of the type of person who makes those sort of comments), you can enjoy whatever self-indulgent fantasy wankfest is your particular poison, and I guarantee that that type of content will always have a market no matter how much the neo-Puritans try to ban it. No one is taking away the sexy, but for Satan's sake people need to get out of the mindset that the only acceptable fictional woman is the infamous Sexy Lamp.
