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I am personally outraged that my lame ass personal post was tainted by a spambot liking it

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I am glad my friends are all doing something I can participate in and discuss with them but at the same time it reminds me of the days when that was all the time and not just a special occasion and it’s really bittersweet.

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I don’t want to come across as flippant or disrespectful of either person, and so I hope I don’t.

Dusty Rhodes and Christopher Lee dying one right after the other is mindblowing, man. They were, culturally speaking, polar opposites: Dusty being the hero of the common man, a professional wrestler that was a tube of meat whose lisping rants and earnest, hardworking attitude won the hearts of the “lower” classes regardless of race, which even now seems hard to do for a lot of media. He resonated with people in a way not a lot of people could, and as someone that is simply too young to have experienced him in the moment he was always this endearing old hot dog. You didn’t always know what he was saying, but you enjoyed hearing him say it just the same. He understood spectacle and the sort of energy you needed to bring to the medium, and he did it like few others.

Then you have Christopher Lee. He couldn’t be further from Dusty on the surface: Refined, the definition of class and nobility. Based on everything I’ve heard about him he could have applied himself to literally anything and excelled, and judging by his musical career he did exactly that. His voice, his face, his personage is indelibly imprinted on the archetype of a certain strain of villain; Refined and well-spoken, charismatic and dangerous with enough flair to impress and the grace to use the perfect amount for the situation. The sort of man who knows firsthand exactly how it sounds when a man is stabbed in the back, and uses this knowledge to make sure a wizard living in a tower surrounded by angry tree-people dies realistically.

And it’s crazy to think how both of them, in their own polar-opposite ways, shaped not only their respective domains as much as they did but our cultural perceptions and, through their craft, the way we see the world.

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I keep wanting to write things in response to things but I feel like if I do then I’m taking away from the message of the thing I’m responding to and I don’t want to do that because that message is important and it’s not my intention nor do I feel it’s my right to shift attention towards facets of the thing that relates more to me

Funny thing is that not that many years ago I wouldn’t hesitate to do it, completely oblivious to the situation and thinking “I am contributing to a healthy dialogue” and while I think I would be I’m also not sure that’s more important than letting people have their voice and time to be heard in this situation

Trying to be aware of other people is hard and I’m tired.

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[8:28:35 AM] Miscellaneous: So it began on facebook, where someone I know shared a post from J-List that immediately exploded into drama [8:28:53 AM] Miscellaneous: it was bizarre and hilarious but not the focus of this tale [8:29:35 AM] Miscellaneous: so I'm like, "I know someone who would appreciate a Sailor Moon dildo, let me click on the link and send it to them so we can have a good chuckle" [8:29:44 AM] Miscellaneous: it did not lead directly to the product [8:29:46 AM] Miscellaneous: what it led to [8:29:52 AM] Miscellaneous: was pandora's fucking box [8:30:13 AM] Miscellaneous: and that fucking can equally be taken literally or for emphasis [8:30:41 AM] Miscellaneous: now I know about J-list. That doesn't surprise me, but I haven't been there since I was a wee baby [8:31:06 AM] Miscellaneous: they sell "the tears of a 2-D girl" as lube now [8:31:12 AM] Miscellaneous: this is how far they've come. [8:31:23 AM] Miscellaneous: and it's a lot like seeing, say, a moose in real life [8:31:27 AM] Miscellaneous: you know moose exist [8:31:44 AM] Miscellaneous: you know they presumably hang out in the area you are currently in at the time [8:32:03 AM] Miscellaneous: but seeing one in the wild emerge from the trees with its bullwinkle ass face, well [8:32:38 AM] Miscellaneous: it evokes a similar feeling to when I look at the name of a product like "Zhang Xiao Yu Hole ~ The Dignity of Great Pussy" and realize [8:32:55 AM] Miscellaneous: people buy this thing. they have a set inventory and it is dangerously low. [8:33:25 AM] Miscellaneous: This is a funny old world, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

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So I keep seeing on my dash stuff about GamerGate, most notably with the introduction of death threats the argument "You shouldn't use the dangerous and obviously insane people that have attached themselves to our cause as an example of the movement as a whole."

And I'm just like

That is exactly what people do with feminism all the time. I am not going to assume that every person using this argument is a hypocrite, but I hope at least some folks out there that need to actually start making these connections do, you know?

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I made money off of a thing I drew.

This is baffling and exciting and I am happy and scared because what if it's too much money