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@ray-gurl
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Hi, I'm Ray. I've had similar usernames elsewhere; if I seem familiar, that's why! She/Her. Bisexual. Somewhere in my 20s. Please don't follow if you aren't 18+. This is (mostly) a fandom blog.
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so many times lovely women in my life are like i don’t know what it is about him he’s the worst but he’s got this something and i’m like yeah babe it’s the lack of shame. the attraction and desire you feel are not for him, but for a lack of shame.
I think it's actually healthy to have at least one life aspiration that's abnormal to want and impracticable to achieve. It lends a sense of perspective.
Watching Muppet Treasure Island the day after finishing Black Sails the way people watched Rogue One after Andor
it's interesting that out of all the main characters (other than silver) the only one who doesn't have a backstory is miranda. she doesn't get a father or mother or even a maiden name nothing about her childhood or her education... iirc the chronologically earliest miranda story we get is her talking about her feelings upon meeting her future husband. that's kinda crazy. by her own account her life started when she met her husband. i'm using silver logic to assume that that must mean her childhood was Pretty Bad
The season 3 finale of Black Sails does such a good job of somehow still convincing me that this time the revolution will be won even though I know beyond a shadow of a doubt it won’t.
I'm confused. Did we not all grow up being told not to ever trust Wikipedia as a primary source because people have access to change it, and therefore WILL LIE on it? That we have to search further into what is being cited and from where? Why do folks keep acting like it's the source of all good and true? This hype of "It's where all the autistics add their loads of knowledge" y'all don't think autistics can be biased? What happened to the art of investigation?
Mildly kicking the hornet's nest here, but I do find it inchresting how ALL of IWTV, all you ever heard was how Louis was such a liar about everything he ever said. No amount of the writing showing that while yes, he absolutely has a history of not telling the truth to protect himself, there were other people (mainly Claudia's own diaries) that attested to Lestat being not shit towards the family; that there was still an undercurrent of truth to how race played a pivotal role in Lestat's control of the relationship; none of this ever seemed to land with these viewers.
It was "unreliable narrator" this, "emotional terrorist" that (yes, that is a real thing that went around). The idea that a Black man could not be a perfect victim (nor person) and still be a victim was just, NOT a thing, ever. So much for lovers of "morally grey". There was not a singular ounce of grace, particularly from white female viewers. I was serious when I said they reminded me of the Mistress from 12 Years a Slave 😭
And yet you're telling me that people just bought what Lestat was talking about this season, hook, line, and sinker? There was just this assumption of truth, of innocence, of "well SEE he's just suffering and that made him do bad things!" As if everyone in the story wasn't suffering in some capacity? As if everyone didn't have something to stand guilty for in this show, yet did not have their sins excused?
I mean I didn't see one singular "emotional terrorist" accusation. I didn't see one "well he's unreliable and self piteous so this probably didn't happen!" The way they said about Louis getting violently beat and dropped from the sky by this man. Instead we got Louis' two siblings, who canonically stated their disdain for this man, saying how much they like Lestat. Crazy work. Major of example of writers not disregarding their Black fans, but actively disrespecting them 😭
"Ice are you really gonna keep sharing this same picture" as long as it keeps being true, yes. 👍🏾
Watching Satine Kryze consistently get demonized by the fandom who likes to claim she "committed cultural genocide" or whatever phrase is used to frame the exile of war-mongering Mandalorians who wanted to keep up the fighting love to ignore the fact that endless war wasn't just killing countless Mandalorians but also destroying the ecosystems of the planets on which they lived.
Mandalore became a barren wasteland and they had to live in domed cities because of the damages caused by nonstop war.
Then there's Concord Dawn. A large chunk of the planet is completely missing because Mandalorians couldn't stop fighting each other.
This is what centuries of nonstop war does, but yeah, Satine's pacifist ideology was the problem and not the extreme violence and bloodshed that came before.
Justice for Satine Kryze. If she had been a man, fandom would have been praising him for his efforts.
You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light
the weird schrödinger's emotion that is "that character death was narratively satisfying and emotionally impactful and ultimately the best way to handle their character arc" simultaneously with "noooo but I wanted them to live :( :( :("
there's an immaculate feeling to listening to a song that reminded you of bad times many years later and not feeling bad about it anymore
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i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af
i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience
say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!
guys you gotta stop thinking of women in their 30s as elderly it’s just misogyny
you also gotta stop thinking about actual elderly women as lesser human beings. Youth is not a measure of one’s worth.
A new method for bypassing face scan age verifications.
Real-time interactive 3D human avatar with face tracking, blinking, and jaw animation. Built by PrivacyPuppet.
Interactive 3D avatar viewer with real-time head tracking, jaw animation, and idle breathing. Built with Next.js, React Three Fiber, and Thr
This should work on any web browser.
Use your mouse to control the head angle. Press M to toggle mouth open/close.
Don't forget to press I in order to hide your cursor and the surrounding UI elements.
It may or may not work on all sites, but worth a try.
Stay safe.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
