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[tyrantisterror]

Fucking MAGA shitheads hating Nolan's take on The Odyssey because of their stupid bigotry are ruining my perfectly sound hatred of it for being the work of an overrated hack.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[confield]

You cannot say that a top grossing artist is "feral" or making you "feral." You are listening to the Billboard Top 40. You are very domesticated.

[breadcunt]

Stupid ass take. The fame of the artist doesn't define how it makes you feel. Do you not see me go hogwild eating potatoes, easily one of the top 5 most well known vegetables

[confield]

We're like shooting stars you and I

[marzipanandminutiae]

"there were major systemic problems in that era of the past!"

"yes!"

"so nobody in an oppressed group was ever happy!"

"no, some of them were sometimes"

"oh so the oppression wasn't real then!"

"no, it very much was and needed to change"

"but...if they were happy..."

"humans find ways to be happy in even bleak circumstances. it's kind of a defining trait of humanity. they had to live their lives in the world as it was, even while fighting to change it, so. yeah. they made happiness for themselves the way everyone does, even now with the problems we have today. there were good things in their world, too, alongside the bad. even some things we could learn from now, though definitely not their macro-level social attitudes!"

"...ohhh you're a shill for conservative values and you wish you lived back then! got it!"

"let's go over this again"

[cheaphalloweencostume]

chatgpt didn’t invent the emdash and they can’t fucking have it. it’s mine.

[prokopetz]

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

[bicokun]

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

[prokopetz]

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.

[mariacallous]

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

[gnar-slabdash]

Reblog to give prev the TIME to write their fanfiction

[naamahdarling]

Comment on prev's fic to give prev ENCOURAGEMENT to write their fanfiction

[linren-linduil]

Reblog to give prev the ENERGY to write their fanfiction

[draconym]

I'm eternally grateful that polyamorists have created or popularized a lot of terms to describe common experiences such as feeling joy at seeing your partner happy in another relationship (compersion), societal pressure to follow a specific progression or series of milestones for a relationship to be considered Serious (the relationship escalator), and a partner of your partner (metamour).

But I think that, much like Therapy Speak and its cutesy friends neurospicy and neurosparkly, words that might be useful for describing your own life can become cliché annoying jargon when someone else starts applying them to your experiences for you.

anyway. this post brought to you by the acquaintance who asked if I was "fluid bonded to both my nesting partners." next time just ask who I'm fucking.

[moggiepillar]

[pagecommando]

The central thesis is right here and no one will admit it

Admitting it means they and the GOP have agency and have fucked up. They cannot do this because they are the Good Side of Small Uwu Little Guys in a Caring Community, you Insert Blindingly Racist Pejorative Borrowed from Actual Nazis Here.

[maple-salad]

op says we can repost

[ross-hollander]

Actual post titles...

...from the community forums for popular 3110 noteputer game BattleLords Stars of Steel, a map-painting-type strategy game:

"Melissa has started writing books and will not stop."

"Implemented O5P Teachings of Tolerance, population somehow now more xenophobic than before?"

"Making Laborer abuse more efficient?"

"Possible bug? Invader clans not invading."

"Mathematically unlikely number of cults."

"Heir is refusing to marry arranged match of his age due to explicit cougar preference. Help."

"I have been poisoned 9 times in the last 24 hours."

"Stop propositioning me, you are on trial for war crimes."

"Economy crashed as Lyrans, everybody too rich."

"Can the FWL be saved?"

"ALL HAIL ILKHAN NICOLAI MALTHUS."

"This just feels like feeding heirs to the Liao assassins."

"Why can't people with PTSD just get over it?"

"State 1 lightyear wide and 400 long."

"Genetic legacy jungle juice is actual tech."

"Focht eaten by dinosaurs. Please advise."

"I have found the ONE person in my court who was NOT a Canopian spy. Executed them immediately."

"Lost run after literally dying of boredom at orchestra. Possible assassination method?"

"Word of Blake really nice guys for some reason."

"Why do I have a brother?" (responded to by hundreds of forum-goers posting the same official portrait of Katherine Steiner-Davion.)

[ao3commentoftheday]

Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read. 

Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people. 

Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!

[zoanzon]

[ao3commentoftheday]

The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.

[ladyshinga]

People on all political sides be like "art is meant to inspire emotions in people:) UNLESS that emotion is sexual, then no matter what the art is it becomes NOT art. it's now 'just' porn and it's morally disgusting and you're a bad person for writing/drawing/producing/etc it. How dare you. That's not art, horniness is the ONLY human feeling that's evil and immoral to indulge in with art, it's IMPOSSIBLE, this feeling is always and only disgusting and impure and if you make ANYTHING in this realm we'll judge you as a lesser creator" and when you ask why this one human experience makes the exploration of it in media "no longer art" they only have puritanical/religious excuses phrased in different ways

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[nattousan]

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 

[captain-price-returns]

[janmisali]

folks I'm not looking for a theoretical solution that would work if I was making a survey website from scratch. if you don't have a specific alternative to google forms in mind that's free and can connect automatically to google sheets or some other free spreadsheet software and actually has the feature you're suggesting then it's a nonstarter

[janmisali]

I'm not looking for an alternative to the format of asking for the user to type a list separated by line breaks. I know that's a good format, and you can't convince me otherwise. I'm looking for intuitive ways to concisely explain the instructions in a way people will actually read without increasing the number of questions

[janmisali]

got an ask containing the url of a github link (and not an actual link just the url) from someone who also directly told me they didn't read through all the responses I had said to other suggestions. please don't do that

[janmisali]

do I need to explicitly say that "I don't want to make a survey website from scratch" does not mean "I want to use code made by someone I don't know who follows me on tumblr"