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Helle, 29/ Norwegian/ Pansexual/ Pronouns: she/he/they Multifandom blog

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henry always smells like flowers

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[miiilowo]

sorry for bitching and whining. unfortunately i have to or else ill start killing and eating people instead

[crimson-chains]

Doing a museum themed stamp rally for WHA at Denver Fanexpo! Here's my prize piece, based on Monet's "Bridge over a pond of water lilies" :D I think it turned out rather nice <3

[gandolphthegay-deactivated20240]

I am the naked window neighbor and I won’t apologize

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[katharkness]

In a sense, it doesn’t matter how ridiculous it sounds to think Pepsi would genuinely honour that. Pepsi said that they would, therefore they have to, or else they’re guilty of false advertising. Companies can’t be allowed to say whatever they want in adverts, and when asked to pony up pull “it was just a joke, bro”. To use a slightly less ridiculous example, Fallout 76. One of the preorder editions can with a canvas backpack. But when they finally shipped, the durable canvas backpacks somehow became flimsy nylon. Complaints to publisher Bethesda got the response that the canvas version advertised was a prototype that was too expensive to make, so they handed out the cheap imitations instead. It took like two years in the courts for Bethesda to give people what they actually pay for. And they won because advertising law says you have to deliver on what you promise, even if it’s a Harrier jet. Introducing any level of “it’s just a joke” makes that effectively meaningless.

[breelandwalker]

A similar thing happened with the first McDonald's Monopoly game. Naturally, there were a few pieces that were super rare for the high-level prize sets or one-off big wins. But it gets even wilder - a security guard at the factory that was printing the game pieces STOLE THE TOP PRIZE PIECES and cashed them in through family and friends, and eventually ended up in a whole black market scheme with a drug ring to launder stolen Monopoly pieces and the resulting prizes. The guard actually argued fraud on the part of the printing company executives as part of his defense, claiming that they'd rerun certain prize drawings to keep the bulk of the winnings inside the U.S. (where they would have otherwise gone to Canada).

No, seriously.

[tearsinmypizza]

Also if they can get away with "it's just a joke" for the jet, then companies will start using that excuse for smaller or more "normal" things.

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Drawing of "The Vampire Lestat" 🦇🎤

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Quick Lestat piece 🍷

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Lestat drawing 🚬

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

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[gandalfsbignaturals]

isnt it really cool how your memories can just physically attack you at random

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[chekhovs-raygun]

also the idea that we're more progressive than we used to be because time has elapsed so progress must have occurred is extremely complacent.... and very easy to check, if you bother to check. the last ten years' slide into fascism means there's movies from 2001 that are more aggressively feminist or anti-racist or both than anything getting greenlit today.

[breelandwalker]

This is reminding me about the discourse that popped up a while back about the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books. They were adapted from the memory and diary entries of a woman who lived in the 1800s. They're not meant to be a statement - they're a memoir. They're a snapshot of one family's experience at particular period of time. Of COURSE the attitudes and language and events described are going to be problematic. It's ridiculous to expect that something over a century old is going to fit the same Overton Window parameters as we have today, especially considering media that is much more recent is being written off, even if it was progressive as hell at the time. (Looking at everyone who questions why Legally Blonde is considered a landmark feminist work, or why Rocky Horror Picture Show is considered landmark queer representation in cinema.)

Moreover, it lies with the reader to exercise critical thinking and educate themselves. If you're reading or watching something with material that troubles you, first question why it does. Then question why it's there. There's usually a reason.

[mariberrypie]

Agott trying to be an idgafer challenge: failed

[quietwingsinthesky]

thank god vampirism is a flexible metaphor

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s about being queer it’s about surviving assault it’s about alienation and most of all it’s about how everyone who loved you before might not be able to even look at you now, no matter how many times you try to explain that you didn’t ask to die and you didn’t ask for that death to leave you only half-eaten when it got bored of you.

[marypsue]

This is without even mentioning the broader metaphorical implications of disease and contagion; foreign invasion; colonial or imperial violence; interpersonal abuse; generational trauma; religious trauma; violent cultural assimilation; repressed or suppressed desire; the fear of no longer being able to recognise or relate to someone you love; and on and on and on.

Vampirism is a flexible metaphor that reflects the anxieties and desires of its age and its authors, and I love that for it!

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takamasa ishihara ( miyavi ) (( more ))

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