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some losers are trying to take over Pennhurst (you know, the haunted asylum) just so they can bulldoze a really fascinating historical site and one of the only disability history museums in the US and replace it with an AI data center all while kicking up all the pollution and dead bodies in the ground. cool!

slicedwholewheatbread

obviously there's a big ethical issue with hosting a haunted house on the site of atrocities but at least that shit keeps the site funded/alive for people to visit and learn about the actual history if they so choose (and 3/4 of the staff are disabled and they keep the haunt to the former administration buildings rather than the ones where people were directly abused & killed. so there's some thought put into it that I can respect, even if I'm never stepping foot in the haunt)

I went for a historical tour a few months back and the buildings are all a mess and need a ton of remediation despite them prev trying to do work on them. a bunch of buildings have been demolished over the years due to being completely dilapidated and unsafe so there's only a few left. but it's a really fascinating place that is worth preserving for the sake of education. it needs to be designated a historical site imo and given more focus as a museum instead of a kitschy horror attraction or "Useless Land" that you could slap a shitass data center on.

slicedwholewheatbread

love waking up to good news in my inbox

The stupidass developer is going to fight it, but, victory for now

duckpetan

puppygirllaika

at some point in your life you are going to do or say something racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted. Your goal is not perfection, your goal is to be the kind of person that the people you've hurt feel safe being honest with when that happens.

puppygirllaika

since people keep adding this kind of stuff in the notes: no, self-flagellating and making a big show of apologizing and "doing better" is extremely not the same thing as making people feel safe about telling you when you've been shitty. in fact, doing so is in many ways anathema to it.

alexmey-does-an-arts

I wish I could give the miis internalized homophobja

alexmey-does-an-arts

no but like i want them to actually feel it

alexmey-does-an-arts

you dont like her?

ninapekoe

Easily Consumed 🍴

magical girl shows really did snap when they assigned personality traits based off the members colors

gayhex

pink - commander and the leader. probably really nice and sweet

blue - probably very close to pink, is either 100 iq smarty pants but shy or very tough and cool

yellow/orange - very happy and positive. can vary from being newbie of the group to be older and mature, probably known as the beautiful one

purple - mysterious, usually starts off as a rival or joins the group later, but is definitely known to the members as another MG. Probably has a softer side they don’t show

squeezemetillipop

Don’t forget green - more mature and very reliable

kuramamanamahamanamana

Red - Mad

metaphoricalicecream

maybemoonbeams

okay but this implies the existence of a lost pink teletubby. a fallen leader too painful to talk about anymore

starwarsepisodeiv

tubby custard.

maybemoonbeams

unicornmitteneater

where….where are the notes……

piesandswords

in the tubby custard with the pink teletubby

yesornopolls

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houndmother

rneliflua

ohnoitstbskyen

What it looks like to me is that these churns of outrage aren't actually about anything that these creators say or do, so much as they are a kind of reflexive action in response to literally any kind of friction. Like an angry infected rash flaring up with pain when it is brushed by a feather.

The show you like is telling a slightly different story than what you want? Friction is the same as pain so it is hurting me, AAAA!!! Your expectation of what was going to happen to that character you liked didn't pan out? Friction! Friction hurts! You're hurting me!!

But where the Disney Corporation can run a fucking angle grinder across the rash and barely provoke an "ow," indie creators (especially if they are not men), can get nearly run off the internet for things like factually answering a direct question or stating that the story they are writing has main characters.

There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us.

And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!

It creates this fucked up upside-down bizarro logic wherein the corpos and the companies can transgress to almost literally any degree, as much as they want, as often as they want, but queer independent creators (and I cannot stress this enough: especially if they are not men) have to walk tightrope on a razor wire and may God help their souls if they ever put a foot wrong. We will shake and shake and shake the towers until they each fall down; I didn't like that step I think you were taking, how dare you believe you deserve to be up there!

spicymancer

I definitely feel a sort of hesitation and anxiety whenever I read people’s headcanons about my stories, because I get worried they’ll be upset that the way I write the story doesn’t match up to the thing they have in their heads. This gets especially tricky when lots of folks speculate in different directions and I feel that whatever I write WILL disappoint somebody… (or, to Skyen’s point: create upsetting emotional friction for them)

Which, to be fair? Yeah. That’s normal. Not all art is for everybody. I try hard to internalize this… there’s a really badly paraphrased Mark Rosewater quote about game design I think about a lot:

“Anything specific enough for a person to fall in love with must, by its very nature, be something that another kind of person doesn’t like.”

That’s not a bad thing. Everyone is different and if you try to make something that perfectly inoffensive to everybody, you end up with something mild and flavorless.

All this to say, I’m glad I’ve managed to cultivate a broadly cool audience who, for the most part, are super supportive of my work. I think it’s important to make stuff for the sickos (Affectionate).

dyke-terra

Especially not cis men, is a specificity that’s worth making. Trans men absolutely run into this.

renthony

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

renthony

For a specific example I have very strong opinions about: nonbinary shapeshifters. As a nonbinary person, I LOVE shapeshifters. I am also very aware of the fact that it can be a stereotype. Nonbinary people have a very wide range of opinions on this, because we aren't a monolith.

The solution is not to ban nonbinary shapeshifters from ever appearing in anything ever. The solution is to have MORE NONBINARY CHARACTERS ACROSS THE BOARD.

kidzbopdeathgrips

i just fucked the great pyramid of giza

egyptian government wasn't watching so i made love to it so sensually

kidzbopdeathgrips

they only figured out what happened when they noticed it blushing and smoking a cigarette and saw my footprints in the sand running away

yugirimistwalker

i tried drawing this iconic post 😊

kidzbopdeathgrips

looks great!

shinesurge

Bad sex scenes are fun to make fun of but I think one of the easy reasons they are frequently awful is that there's no narrative energy to them. I picked up on this by studying combat scenes and I think the problems that show up are really similar; there's this thing writers do where they treat these kinds of sequences differently than the rest of their work, the scenes feel like they exist outside the regular narrative and writers just pause the story while they happen. People are always complaining about fighting and sex in stories being "boring and a waste of time" and that's not an inherent function of these mechanics, that means writers aren't approaching them with the same thoughtfulness as the narrative, and the audience can feel it.

The sex is an interaction, and interactions should illuminate things! It's still beholden to the plot/characterization/worldbuilding rule, we should always be communicating some kind of new information or reinforcing what is already understood. You are having 2+ personalities strip down and communicate with their bodies what are they SAYING. It doesn't have to be anything profound, even just communicating to the audience "i think this person doing this thing is hot" counts; wanting the reader to get off to something is a perfectly respectable goal that can keep us on track if you're aware of it. But the writer so frequently has NO IDEA what they're actually trying to say, what the goal of the scene is beyond fucking or fighting, so we end up with bland interfacing between characters who could be replaced by any other characters doing the same thing anywhere else. It isn't hot or interesting to be directionless, pick an intention and go.

cyanswix

New Pokemon games dropped

bebsi-cola

i'll be honest. If you can't deal with someone wording things badly then you aren't going to be an ally to autistic people or indeed anyone with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or disability that impacts language.

also you are never going to be safe for people for whom english is their second language. if someone clarifies their meaning and apologises and you can't accept that over the original wording then don't bother pretending to be autism friendly.

and like part of my autism is that i become convinced that the way i interpret words is the way that they're meant. my autism is disabling to my communication abilities. i have poor emotional regulation, i jump to conclusions. a lot of my reactions are informed by prior negative experiences. i can and probably have been overly defensive in the past.

and i've been misinterpreted so much and had my words picked over and mocked for saying the wrong things and mocked for being unable to say anything at all and it always feels devastating. it's ironic that the same disability that has me treated poorly would have me react poorly to a similar situation, but that's just how it is.

so i'm not saying you can perfectly manage all your reactions just by trying hard enough. especially considering how much disability affects these things. but i do think if you are completely unwilling to give autistic and other DD/ID people leeway for how they word things or understand that they have a disability that impacts their communication and give us grace then you aren't a disability advocate.

tucsonhorse

And you have to give that grace to everyone, because otherwise you are implicitly demanding that a person tell you their medical history in order to not be treated like shit.

queeranarchism

And this applies to tons of other groups. OP mentioned people who for whom English is their second language.

Another pretty obvious group to consider is 'people who are not accustomed to the vocabulary that's common on this topic'. Example": If you broke away from your conservative-as-fuck upbringing and just arrived in your first queer community, you're not going to be familiar with the abundant jargon that has developed around queer theory and identity. It's up to others to give you some grace and time.

cacodaemonia

All of this.

A year or two ago, someone accused me of 'using the language of the enemy' when I said, "so-and-so identifies as [insert gender]." Keep in mind, this is someone who I'd known online for a few years, and who was fully aware that I'm queer as well as autistic. To add to the grassless thinking going on there, everyone else in the conversation was just like, "Yup, if someone says that, I don't trust them."

Are you fucking kidding me?? No wonder the queer community (and the left in general) is paralyzed by infighting—because everyone belittles and alienates anyone who uses anything other than The Correct Terminology of the Week!

Needless to say, I got the hell away from all of those people not long after that.

I've also had someone block me on Discord when I admitted that I really, really struggle to remember how neopronouns all change cases in different ways (I literally have to go find charts to refer to, but some pronouns are so niche that they don't even have case charts), and how that makes me nervous to interact with people who exclusively use neopronouns because I don't want to cause offense. And of course, not wanting to cause offense caused offense 🙄

So. Yeah. This kind of thing has completely worn down my desire to ever participate in queer communities, or any community that stinks of word cops.

queeranarchism

Queer communities that do this also drive away their elders.

Like, if you don't like 'identifies as', you're not ready to interact with transgender elders who still use words like transsexual, a transgender (noun), transgenders (plural noun), a transgenderist (noun), transwoman/transman (no space), FtM, MtF, biological sex, gender-reassignment, GID, post-op, sex change, stealth, and more.