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When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.
404 has been knocking it out of the park since they started. Please support their original reporting on this! If you subscribe to nothing else I highly recommend them. Their podcast is great too.
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
why does this keep happening
“How were LGBT people able to hijack the rainbow!?!”
Uhh, well Jake, we started using the rainbow to connote gayness and you immediately stopped using it because you were pants shittingly afraid of looking gay.
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I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.
Polk, being petted during the thunderstorm: Mep.
Me: I know, I know --
Polk: *angrier* MEP
Me: I don't control physics! There's a high static charge --
Polk: MRAAAOW
Me: no listen, there's a high static charge and you are the softest thing I've ever touched --
Polk: RRRAOW *hits me in the face with her tail*
Me: And petting you is giving you constant shocks! If you'd let me stop petting you it would stop!
Polk: *aggressively headbutts* MEP!
Me: Yes, true. There is no sun without the shade.
Sometimes I forget that Mithrun wears pants and not boots that reach his ass
Teleporting does kill you but it also launches your soul through samsara in a sort of geostationary orbit velocity, so you reincarnate instantly.
Reminder, if you ever pay someone for a commission on Paypal (NSFW OR NOT) you SHUT THE FUCK UP in any text box it gives you.
(No this does not mean try to be a snarky comedian and say it was "bomb materials" or "fuck u" or whatever. Don't play with people's livelihoods, just shut the fuck up and don't type anything at all, it's not that hard.)
Jinpachi the hermit cat.
Sound on please.
I need you to drink a bunch of coffee on and empty stomach and get really into the idea of gardening okay. I need you to love it. Spend hours scrolling pinterest looking at beautiful gardens. Keep scrolling. Internalize their shapes, ponder their -yeah keep drinking coffee. No it's important that you not eat for this- anyway, need you to conceptualize the idea of gardening as virtuous. Yeah. Yeah I made a breakfast sandwich, you don't need to worry about that right now. You want to garden now right? You want to buy a bunch of seeds and dirt and shit, maybe some cute overalls to wear while you garden? Perfect. Buy all that shit. Yeah- yeah right now. Buy all that shit on Amazon right now I'll wait.
Okay good. Now go outside and try to garden. I need you to become rapidly disillusioned with it. Like you just don't find it enjoyable at all. The sun is too hot, or it's too cold, It takes consistency you don't really have time for, you're hungry, you don't have time to shower and make it to work, you --yeah I know gardening is hard and it's hard to do it. That needs to be your main takeaway! A sense of a nonspecific wound-- oh shit sorry, yeah I'll cover my mouth when I cough where are the fucking napkins.
Like, there's tension between the image and the praxis right? Like you just don't fuck with it that much. Yeah the sandwich is fried spam, an egg, slice of pepper jack, some pickle remoulade. Yeah the Ukrainian bakery around the corner sells ciabatta fresh every day its- actually it's not important. I need you to feel really bad that you don't like gardening, and I need you to cope with this feeling by valorizing the idea of gardening even more. Like now you see yourself as an unworthy knight who failed to live up to the expectations of your pure and righteous lady. Yeah. The modern world is an evil place preventing you from self-actualization through gardening. Don't worry about how. It is, isn't it? Like that's true, right? Yeah --okay yeah more coffee-- just like, if anyone asks you why you don't garden very much, *that's* when you get intellectual about it. Practice coming up with reasons why it's hard to garden. That shouldn't be too difficult. The clothes you bought are really cute aren't they? You should like, wear them and take selfies in them. People will love it. They'll love you.
keeping this brief, I KNOW I have been discoursing about discoursing which is very annoying but like. The thing is. I think the vast majority of people online are in agreement that if you say "I like this thing!" in a post, it is 100% unambiguously a dick move to come onto the post and say "I don't like this thing." I think, however, some people believe that if you say "I don't like this thing" on your blog, instead of it being 100% unambiguously a dick move to say "well I like it", it is in fact an open invitation to either smugly claim they only talk about things they like because they are better than you, or an invitation to tell you to stop because they like it, or both. and you must beat these people with metaphorical hammers. always and forever.
Potentially unpopular opinion but this trend to "bookclub" fics in private servers largely ends up excluding the author from a lot of positive reader feedback. It's treating fan creatives like they aren't, y'know, -part- of the fandom community, is what I mean. In my experience it does not actually foster community despite having the outward appearance of doing so.
Like, it's not even about wanting to be showered with praise. It's that this person spent a lot of time making the thing yall are gushing about. Don't you think they, more than anyone, want to chat about it with other people who love it too? Putting them on some weird exclusive pedestal isn't flattering or validating. They're just another fan who wants to talk about The Thing We All Like, Together.
Anyway, I am once again encouraging yall to talk to creatives whose work you enjoy, they don't bite. 💜
(Literally you can just compile a few of the things you said in the server about it and copypaste where the fan creative can see it. Simple!)
fairly reliably when someone is mean and weird to you on Tumblr, you can look on their blog and all their recent posts will be about how unhappy they are in their interpersonal relationships and/or how frustrated they are that their creative venture hasn't found success. and it's like ohhhhh okay, I get it. you're clawing at other people because you're actively drowning. my sympathies, that sucks, but I'm not a lifeguard so carry on.
This is only tangentially related to my other post but sometimes I will see this either stated or implied "why would anyone ever want to read straight novels?" and it's like well sometimes I just want to read about a woman and straight novels are the easiest way to do that, and sometimes I want to read about a man and a woman together and straight novels are the easiest way to do that, and sometimes straight novels are fantastic or interesting or funny or devastating.
Nobody is required to read books about straight people. But there's this condescension that I see sometimes, or this pretending that reading only gay (primarily M/M) stories is somehow morally superior, and it really irritates me. Calling all straight romance/romantasy "hetslop" is frankly just as obnxious as people who call romantasy just "fairy porn."
#also a sizeable amount of f/m romance isn't straight#it's bi. and i've seen some wild biphobia aimed at published bi authors writing bi romances from m/m and f/f writers and readers#bc of that attitude that their reading/writing preferences are morally superior @poetikat
I'm going to be honest, I think I've seen like...2(?) bi f/m romance novels (not m/m/f or f/f/m or f/f where there happens to be a f/m romance that's not endgame or m/m where there happens to be a f/m romance that's not endgame but just f/m). I've found them to be incredibly rare.
I'd love to know what bi f/m romance you're reading, because I've never found enough to consider it anywhere near sizeable.
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