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here's to another year of being a substance abusing pseudo intellectual
if no one got me i know 60s folk revival got me
I love consuming the most traumatizing content like it's a light snack :>
On a more serious note, horror enthusiasts need to start joining the profic movement before it's too late. Horror is, in my opinion, inherently anti-censorship. When puritans start to "sanitize" all our "problematic" content, it won't just be fetish stuff, it'll be horror too. I've already seen pro-censorship narratives being pushed in horror spaces. Horror is about freedom of expression, not squeaky clean cheap scares!
you can meet such nice people by making mid Star wars porn
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)
I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.
Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.
That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.
"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.
This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.
i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(
technology is politics by other means
Age verification has never been and never will be for "the safety of children." It is to collect personal data, that could be used in nefarious ways, and mass surveil.
Please research and resist your countries bills to pass similar legislation. This isn't fear mongering but if you take a look at what is happening in the world right now-- with AI, palantir, and ICE databases, you'll understand why this is a terrible idea.
whenever they announce new star wars anthologies, on some level i am always thinking of the festivals in ancient greece that had poetry competitions, and you'd have a bunch of different bards coming into town and telling homeric stories. those rhapsodes would get to stand on stage and perform in front of an assembled crowd at a sanctioned community event, so their version of the story would have credibility and authority (unless they tell it 'wrong' enough that the audience doesn't like it). everybody who was there and heard the story now shares that story, so it's a common cultural token inside the community.
but there are of course hundreds and thousands of times that average people would tell homeric stories, while they were weaving, or around the campfire, or while on a ship, or any sort of small group. we know that at least some people would even roleplay as homeric figures in bed (looking @ you, alexander), and so would be telling stories just to and with their intimate partners. all of these private, inter-personal, non-authoritative stories are all homeric, but they're not the homer that survived, not the homer that was stamped with approval and given circulation by local authorities.
the question of who control the narrative of star wars is interesting when thinking about modern corporate, extractive intellectual property law. the corporation hosts the festival and ensures all the stories are based on a cohesive set of intellectual property assets. their relative authority is granted by being the stories that can generate profit, and so the 'real' ones, becoming circulated community tokens by virtue of this central authority. the corporation control the bards that get on stage, and so control the story that way.
but as a private citizen and fan of the star wars corpus writ large, i can listen to these stories and enjoy them, but they don't have the same authority to me that they might hold to other people. they're just telling one version of the story, with a louder mic and a bigger stage, but at this point imho they're no closer to homer (lucas in this case lol) than many amateur bards. if a rhapsode told a story about odysseus that had him doing something that you personally don't think odysseus would do, you can go on living, knowing that everyone else is familiar with the 'wrong' version, and tell it yourself, your way, to your friends.
so seeing new anthologies drop, i'm excited to go to the festival and see the bards tell the new stories and appreciate how those stories are nested inside a dense web of context and lore that adds more and more referential, inter-textual meaning. but if one of the stories feels like it doesn't 'fit' inside the mesh of star wars in my mind, i'm pretty comfy just letting it exist beside and around me, accepting that it's authoritative to most of the community, but not to me and my murmured stories at night lol
A reminder that darker fiction has a right to exist and explore themes that people are uncomfortable with. Yes, even if it's romanticized. Yes, even if you personally don't like it.
Authors have always written about things that they don't agree with morally, and I hope to god they always will, despite how shitty people treat them for doing that now.
The difference is that a fetish is bound to the floor while a kink is suspended from the ceiling
“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”
— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)
Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down
(Why does this belong on my decidedly not-fan-fiction-related blog, you ask? Because this quote illustrates very well how assuming that anything where people put sex in it is debasing it, objectifying it, or simply ‘sexualizing’ it, etc. often misses a lot of the real picture of why people do that thing.)
what are thoughts on the theory that palpatine is maul's true father?
I know if this was true he would've done some space magic bullshit with mother talzin but I choose to believe she got him mpregged and he left after the birth
After the whole Rey Palpatine debacle I say no bloodlines! No more family trees! No Skywalkers and absolutely no Korkie Kenobi.
I think Maul Palpatine would solidify his connection with Palpatine in an uninteresting way. It would give him a reasonable claim to Palpatine’s legacy, when the tragedy of Maul is that he was never actually a part of it. It’s waaay more depressing that Maul was stolen from his family and told he was a part of something he never was. It would suck if he turned to to be a secret rightful heir with a undeniable genetic tie.
Although… I do think Palpatine x Mother Talzin is pretty hot. No idea how the ship would work, but two toxic old hags…😏
i am banned from eating my herring inside. they make me eat it on the smoking area by the loading dock, under the theory that it already smells bad there. but it was raining today which was preventing my breakfast, so i was feeling sad and hungry and then i realized that there was a large cardboard box in the dumpster from a previous delivery. like a fridge sized box. so i fished it out of the dumpster, then tipped it on its side and had a nice little cardboard cave to watch the rain and eat my fish in. which was a great experience. very soothing. very zen. at least until the security guard from the day before stepped outside to smoke. then i tried hiding from him by crawling deeper in the box, which unfortunately did not work. instead he saw a sort of damp sniveling pale hairless creature eating fish in a box, and delivered the verbal killshot of "good morning, mr. smeagol." which is how my day was ruined before 8 am.
I’m getting threatening scam emails from author john green
reminds me of this one time i went to give a blowjob to this really sexy 38 yo man who was very masculine, wore a leather jacket, and smelled really strongly of mens cologne; i remember i got down on my knees and he was caressing my face while i was unbuttoning his pants and to my surprise when i pulled down his pants he was wearing lace panties and fishnet garters. i remember how he was looking at me while i sucked his big cock. yes i swallowed
Things we don’t need to hear!
well i thought it was interesting. :/ peace and love on planet earth
Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.
It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.
And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.
I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.
Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.