constantly curious autistic anarchist

genderfluid trans lesbian. millennial. Trying to get started on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@OmniLiquid I am about as far left as possible and trans rights are human rights.

[omnilily]

I told y'all I wanted to be a vtuber, and so here it is. My first vtubing video. Reacting to tumblr on reddit on youtube. And now I'm posting about it here on tumblr. The circle is complete. Go watch it!

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[moniquill]

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[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[reading-writing-revolution]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[syrren]

A comic adaptation of Zoe Leonard’s “I want a dyke for president” (1992) 

[cbk1000]

As a society, we need to go back to understanding that strangers on the internet are, you know, strangers. I feel lately that I'm seeing a rise in 'An author I love blocked me because they took my comment the wrong way' posts on the ao3 subreddit, and then the comment is them calling the author a fucking bitch or something like that.

Don't do this. Tone doesn't translate well in text, and if you don't have a rapport with that author, they are not going to interpret, 'You're a fucking bitch' as, 'Author I hate you for being so talented and making me feel so keenly.' They're going to interpret it as you being an asshole. You can shit talk with your friends because you have an established relationship with them and can distinguish between playful banter and genuine anger. You do not have this with a stranger, no matter how much you like their fics. You will have a much more pleasant time in fandom and not get cockblocked from interacting with your favorite writers if you remember this.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#something about jokes from the in group are not the same as jabs from the out group and you are the outgroup.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[abbiistabbii]

The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

[liberalsarecool]

Brain dead, uninformed strongman, built on the corrupting myth of white superiority. Promises absurd growth, delivers debilitating Dark Ages.

[rostekhorn]

The problem is that there's basically nothing you can indict Trump for that doesn't involve admitting that a whole fucking shitload of people other than him are also eye-wateringly stupid.

His willful ignorance may be appalling, but it's basically just Fox News Brain at work. A stupendous part of the American public firmly believes that they either know everything, or can figure it out with as little trouble as how to flip a light switch; that everybody they've decided is outside the circle of "my kind of people" doesn't know anything and is only lying about to make them personally feel bad; and that the correct response to hearing any news they don't like is to change the channel so that the real story can be explained to them in a way that comforts their prejudices. Trump is what the average Fox News viewer would be if you sat him down in the White House.

The fact that he's this fucking stupid and yet still has managed to fail upward his whole life is pretty much how the entire economy works. Modern CEOs increasingly don't even try very hard to make their own companies succeed; it's just a place where they chill for a few years before moving on to the next CEOship. A lot of them (George W. Bush) crash everything they ever manage because they're stupid, but the practice is so widely tolerated that others (Mitt Romney) have literally made a business model out of it. To acknowledge that our economy is built to reward failure, mediocrity, incompetence, and outright vandalism is basically to admit that capitalism doesn't work, or if it does, it certainly isn't the kind of capitalism we've been practicing since Reagan.

As for the way his stupidity is wrecking the government, well, literally all the things he's doing have been longstanding Republican wish list items for fifty years, even if they've previously been unable or unwilling to take them quite this far. War with Iran is what the neocons have been calling for for a quarter-century. Gutting the civil service is what Grover Norquist "drown the government in the bathtub" type libertarians have been demanding for a lot longer than that. Banning abortion is, of course, one of the founding causes of the religious right. Tariffs have always been popular in both the Wall Street and Main Street factions of the party, both to promote American industry and because they love to think that all our problems can be solved by just shutting out foreigners. When it comes to immigration, ethnic cleansing is what the anti-immigrant side has been demanding for as long as it's existed, and ICE's abuses and violence are basically what we've been building towards with the accountability-free security state for most of a century. Etc. Of course we're seeing negative consequences for all of these things, but they're all negative consequences that people have been sounding the alarm about for decades and for all that time there's nevertheless been an entire ecosystem of supposedly serious people at all levels of public policy advocating for them anyway.

To fully admit everything that's wrong with Trump is basically to indict the entire American political system and much (possibly most) of its population, and to admit that it's more badly in need of an overhaul than at any time since the Great Depression, maybe even the Civil War. So nobody wants to do it. They'll probably eventually turn Trump into a sin eater who was individually a crazy aberration while blessing the next generation of GOPers wanting to do the exact same thing as completely unconnected to him, like they did with George Dubya.