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Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes in Germany

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

thetetra

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

derinthescarletpescatarian

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

aiweirdness

no clue if you've seen it or not but there's a currently unfolding story where someone denied an autonomous ai's code contribution, and it published a callout post on the maintainer

yes! still thinking about this one. i think the maintainer was right to call it kind of a big deal.

i ended up writing a whole blog post about it

#ai

politijohn

Source

Adios, Due process

mariographique

Cadre dans un cadre / Frame in a frame par Mario Castonguay

Capté à l'intérieur de la Cité Impériale de la dynastie des Nguyen, à Hue, au centre du Vietnam

Captured inside the Imperial City of the Nguyen dynasty, in Hue, in central Vietnam

do-not-u-dare

let’s talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went “actually! these phone things aren’t safe for kids but it’s magically ok once you’re eighteen. guess you’ll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause we’re gonna take the devices away from you. IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING”

do-not-u-dare

ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores don’t accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I can’t text and I can’t email and I cant drive to them either and I can’t even fucking get public transport without a phone either. can’t order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that it’s not just about instagram?

foxes-in-love

buggie-hagen

He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his truth. ~Psalm 96:13

389

#music #eyie #tdah

buggie-hagen

Faith is that worship which receives the benefits that God offers. ~Apology of the Augsburg Confession 4:49

are we too far gone

by Gray Jacobik

this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world

riven-wanders

Reblogging again cause I tried this site last night and if you need background noise to focus this is perfect for that, I was locked the fuck in on a task. And it’s also just gorgeous to listen to