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icon by pumi-envy I use exclusively she/her/hers pronouns in english. do not call me "they."

[chyyldofdasun-deactivated202603]

by Ellen von Unwerth

[indouscurse]

you have to consciously unlearn racism and continue to watch for it because it will come out without realizing. because so much of society is structured around it. shrugging and going "i dont care" or "i dont know how else to say it" means you are okay with being racist and hurting other people with how much you dont give a shit about them.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

also i feel like a lot of games, shows, movies, etc. just don't respect their audience tbh. not even necessarily saying the audience always deserves respect but. cmon you at least have to pretend they do. bc if you dont why are you even making shit for them like whats the point.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

im sure someones said it before but mascot & other horror taking the aesthetics of things made for kids just comes off to me as childish and not in the obviously intended way lol. like horror plays off the fears of the audience and every child-horror game I see seems to be playing off a fear of adulthood. and its all so hollow

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

and im not even saying this genre of horror can't be good. I've seen good mascot horror and ive seen plenty of dogshit. im not saying you can't enjoy it. im just saying that if you consume it do so critically and more importantly self-critically.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

like what is the media assuming of you, the audience member. are they right? are you even the intended audience? if not, who is? what are you assuming of whatever you're playing, watching, whatever? thats surface level but you get my point.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

im sure someones said it before but mascot & other horror taking the aesthetics of things made for kids just comes off to me as childish and not in the obviously intended way lol. like horror plays off the fears of the audience and every child-horror game I see seems to be playing off a fear of adulthood. and its all so hollow

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

and im not even saying this genre of horror can't be good. I've seen good mascot horror and ive seen plenty of dogshit. im not saying you can't enjoy it. im just saying that if you consume it do so critically and more importantly self-critically.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

its very clear that some of y'all only developed your framework for how to enjoy things and have fun through fandoms and fetishes. and I hate to break it to you but the vast majority of things that exist for you to derive joy from are neither fandom nor fetish related and trying to view them through that lens will actively harm your experiences and the experiences of those around you

[isuggestlandback]

[eroscestlavie]

I feel like whenever you get too doomer about the idea that the entire population harbors some deep undeprogrammable homophobia you have to remember that in the 2010s hearts & minds were being changed by shit like Glee

[eroscestlavie]

I want everyone to understand that the message here is not “tv is good for fixing people’s politics and we should rely on it to do so” it’s “many people are in a state of such suggestible neutrality about gender & sexuality issues they don’t know much about that even television, something that is generally bad and dumb, can convince them to hold something resembling a conviction about the topic”

[isuggestlandback]

ANYWAYS maybe europeans aren't the best people to be speaking up about indigenous issues. If you want to learn about indigenous issues, the best way is directly from indigenous people.

And not the dutch.

[medusadyke]

i don't think we made fun of those people that were trying to posit andrew hussie as a trans woman enough because people sure still seem to be on that wave

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

Hello White Boy from Europe. Your task is simple. All you have to do is stay in your lane and not make ignorant jokes making light of the harm your people have caused to the indigenous population of the Americas. Yes, that's right, all you have to do is literally nothing. Just keep your mouth shut! It is that easy!

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

im sure someones said it before but mascot & other horror taking the aesthetics of things made for kids just comes off to me as childish and not in the obviously intended way lol. like horror plays off the fears of the audience and every child-horror game I see seems to be playing off a fear of adulthood. and its all so hollow

[headspace-hotel]

Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?

[headspace-hotel]

The textile book: okay here is some of the ways that textiles are important to human life

me: Okay!

The textile book: Clothes separate the vulnerable human body from the conditions of the outside world, and in doing so absorb the sweat and debris of human existence, accumulating wear and tear according to the lives we live. In this way, various lifestyles and professions are represented by clothing, and the clothing of a loved one retains the imprint of their physical body and their life being lived, as though the clothes absorb part of the wearer's soul

Me: ...oh

The textile book: The process of weaving a garment and the process of a child being formed in its mother's womb are often referred to using the same language. Likewise, when a baby is born, a blanket or other textile material is the first material object it encounters and protects it. Textiles can create the idea of two things being inextricable, as with being "woven together," or can create the sense of separateness, as with a curtain or veil that separates two rooms or spaces, even separating the living from the dead, or separating two realities, such as a performance ending when the curtain falls

Me: ...oh God

The textile book: Odysseus's wife Penelope undid her weaving in secret every night to delay the advances of her suitors. In this way she was able to turn back the passage of time to allow her husband to come home. Likewise the Lakota tell a story of an old woman embroidering time by embroidering a robe with porcupine quills. If she finishes the embroidery, the world will come to an end, but her faithful dog pulls out the quills whenever her back is turned, turning back the clock and allowing existence to continue.

me: ...is...is...is that why we refer to the fabric of space and time?

The textile book: The technological revolution of textile making is sadly underappreciated. The textile arts are possibly the most fundamental human technology, as once people created string and rope, they could create nets for catching fish and small animals, and bags and baskets for carrying food. In the earliest prehistoric times, the first string or cord perhaps came from sinew, found in the body of an animal. Because of this perhaps the body of a living being could be understood as made of a textile material. Indeed textiles have the function of preserving life, as with a surgeon stitching back together the human body or bandages being placed on a wound. Textile technologies are being used to create life-changing implants to restore function to injured parts of the body, as though a muscle or tendon can be woven and made in this way. Cloth can be used to create a parachute that will save a human's life as they plummet out of the sky. Ultimately, the textile technologies are used to enter new parts of the universe. [Photo of an astronaut and details explaining the astronaut's suit]

Me: STOP!! MY MIND IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THIS

[headspace-hotel]

The book is "Textiles: The Whole Story" by Beverly Gordon

[patrickbatemanamericanpsycho]

When the group chat arguing and bro starts messaging you privately

[redstonedust]

they're not super common but i really do appreciate characters who are introduced as one gender and later revealed to be closeted trans. i like that it challenges the audience to really think about how they perceive trans people because realistically not every trans person you meet is going to be out to you at first. yes we introduced this character as a man and now we're asking you to reframe her as a woman after you've already gotten to know her. can you be normal about that? can you be normal when it happens to people you know in real life? i hope you can.

[garbuge]

my family wasn't this strict, but in some sects of buddhism you're not allowed to eat the "five pungent vegetables", onions garlic shallots leeks and umm chives i think, really any of those kind of vegetables. probably some monk ages ago was tired of onion farts stinking up the temple. anyways, one time my brother made a soup using all five of them. he said, "one sip of this, and you'll be reincarnated as a flea."

[flanneldragon]

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.