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kink: deleting someone’s pointless comment by reblogging the post from the same person they did
I mean, that’s censorship but okay.
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if you’re 26 and older, reblog.
I remember when I was 26. The mastodon hunts were the highlight of my day, and we cheered whenever we made fire...
having a best friend who meets your level of freak is unmatched. you present them with the most unhinged, deeply buried thought from the depths of your psyche and instead of blinking blankly they just go "oh absolutely"—and I think that mutual brain rot like that is the highest form of intimacy actually.
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
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i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while
i am kissing you on the mouth right now
you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events
Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks
other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:
Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia
Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff
Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh
Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time
Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut
how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.
I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!
listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell
it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp
updating this post for 2025:
Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit
Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"
Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling
Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke
Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression
Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need
bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today
Reblogging from myself to also note: country music has roots in black history. It is important to note that while many stars of country music have been white, the genre has been appropriated and exploited to prop up white American nationalism. The creation of an entire “Urban Country” genre at the Grammy’s is inherently racist and denies the origins of country music as we know it today. Google is free but it’s also slop now so here are some links. Please feel free to DM me with more or add on to this. I am white and learned these things after years of growing up while my family listened to pick-up truck country music and yee-hawed about invading Iraq. I’ve relearned to love it and its roots when I became better educated on its history.
A new Ken Burns documentary explores African-American influences on country music's origins, long before the rise of Lil Nas X
Beyoncé is the latest artist to stir up conversation about country music and Blackness, but she’s not the first. Those roots go back to the
If you picture a stereotypical country music band, you might call to mind a crew of musicians playing the banjo, a mandolin, the fiddle—mayb
Artists like Beyonce and Lil Nas X are drawing mainstream attention to a tradition that is alive and well—thanks to the contributions and in
[points to Johnny Cash's everything]
thinking again about TvTropes and how it’s genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes
reasons for this:
basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective that’s not…ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that it’s an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.
like in a literature or writing class you’re learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. You’re learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.
here’s the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didn’t, we couldn’t…understand stories.
TvTropes’s approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.
Every TvTropes article is basically, “Here is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what it’s doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.”
all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that
I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because they’re Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.
But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropes’s commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their “merit” or literary value or whatever…is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.
In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.
On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; it’s not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are “lineages” of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that story—the story of that story?—as the “canon.”
like, storytelling is inextricable from context. it’s inextricable from how big the writers’ budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not
An incomplete list of really useful or interesting reads from TvTropes.
please note that yes many of these are concepts that exist elsewhere and a few are even taught in fiction writing classes but TvTropes just does an amazing job at displaying the range of things that can be done with them
legitimately so much of the terminology I use to talk about storytelling, and even think about it in my own head, i learned about from TvTropes
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Watsonian vs. Doylist
Trope Tropes, for all the ways tropes are used, deconstructed, subverted, and played with.
The Oldest Ones in the Book, which is basically my favorite thing on the entire Internet
Punk Punk, for -punk subgenres
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness, Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
The Weird Al Effect is a fun one
Chekhov’s Gun, Chekhov’s Boomerang, Chekhov’s Skill, and further variations
Law of Conservation of Detail
Law of Conservation of Normality
Anthropic Principle
Word of God, Death of the Author
Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
Genre Savvy
Flashbacks and Chronology breaks down all the ways you can handle chronology in storytelling
Show, Don’t Tell is a very good breakdown of what is showing, what is telling, and how both can be used effectively.
Lampshade Hanging
Noodle Incident is just fun imo
Genre Title Grab Bag
Fridge Horror
Rule of Cool, and also Cool of Rule
The Smurfette Principle
The Hays Code - not a trope but a very good breakdown of how the Hays Code affected storytelling in film
this is just a really short list of examples I encourage people who write or otherwise create stories to browse around on this site it’s so useful
Informed Attribute is one of the ones I reference most often as an editor.
Theory of Narrative Causality is one of my personal favorites, because it's kind of fun when a story acknowledges that things are happening in the story because that's what makes it a good story.
Also Applied Phlebotinum, because sometimes you don't need to know how something works, it just does, and that's all that matters for the purposes of the narrative.
I have more than one person in the notes of my post saying they did not in fact know that the ACA stopped insurance companies from being able to deny coverage for a pre-existing condition in case you were wondering where we're at. People don't know the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, they don't know it's why they have healthcare, they don't even know what it does. How do you even deal with that?
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walking into the sea
"they used it to give you healthcare" ok lol let me stop you right there. They made a bunch of compromises they didn't have to in pursuit of "reaching across the aisle."
We could've had the public option! The individual mandate was some libertarian shit that the Dems agreed to and then suddenly the Republicans had a problem with it! They dragged the debate rightward and Dems let it get dragged and then passed some milquetoast incrementalist shit that still allowed private insurance companies to run rampant the way they are now. Sure there are good things in there but don't give the Dems too much credit when WE COULD HAVE HAD THE PUBLIC OPTION.
We could have had the public option if Massachusetts hadn’t blown it the special election after Ted Kennedy died but they elected a Republican. They didn’t have the votes in the senate for a public option after that. Feel free to piss on Joe Lieberman’s grave about it. They did not make compromises in the name of reaching across the aisle during the ACA negotiations. That’s why they needed 60 votes in the senate. They made compromises to get support from the more conservative members of their own party. Those people are basically gone now, many replaced with Republicans. Democrats got slaughtered in the 2010 midterms over the ACA. I have healthcare because of it. If you have a preexisting condition or you’re on your parents’ insurance in your 20s you do too.
#i think everyone who's mad the dems “didn't do enough” with the aca#should be forced to watch the ER episode where a kid almost dies of diabetes after his dad begs carter to delay diagnosis#in order to avoid the kid having a pre-existing condition insurance won't cover when his new plan kicks in in a few months#and then they should have to very sincerely thank the dems for making sure that shit can't happen anymore#like yes the state of US healthcare is still horribly dystopian#but we no longer have that one problem and it was a very big victory at the time#and lots of people think we should go back to insurance companies being allowed to fully deny coverage for pre-existing conditions#so perhaps we should all be a little more grateful that's no longer a thing#most especially those too young to remember it being a thing#bc like i remember my parents worrying about what would happen to my brother's insurance#if my mom changed jobs after his food allergies were diagnosed#i remember them worrying how we'd afford his epi-pens out of pocket#and i remember that ceasing to be a concern with the aca#so like if you personally don't remember pre-aca health insurance at all you don't get to blame democrats for not doing enough#when some of y'all aren't even doing the bare minimum and actually *voting* @rinielelrandir
Seriously I think that episode of ER should be required viewing!! One of the other characters points out how dangerous it is for Carter to agree to delay diagnosis but the alternative is the family being unable to afford treatment because the insurance company wouldn't cover it.
Sometimes I think the pre-ACA reality that allowed insurance companies to do this was so absurdly cruel that within a few years people just forgot. Every post about the ACA and pre-existing conditions inevitably attracts two kinds of comments: "that never actually happened!" and "this literally happened to me." Like yeah it is hard to believe that was allowed but it was! There will be people voting in 2028 who weren't born when the ACA was passed. It's our job to make sure they know this history; we shouldn't be having to explain it to people who were adults in 2010.
I'm glad your brother was able to get his epi-pens and that the ACA eased that stress for your family! When my congenital heart defect was diagnosed when I was 2 part of the conversation was the doctor telling my dad he couldn't jobs or I would lose coverage. Like... imagine trying to process your child's newly diagnosed heart condition and then also at the same time having to process that you have to keep your current job for the next 20 years if you want your child's medical care to be covered. My dad was a public school teacher (with a union!) which had its ups and downs, but at least it was stable during the 2008 recession. That's such an evil situation, I get angry thinking about it. I got my CHD repaired two weeks before the ACA was signed into law so even though I was in middle school I was following it with interest.
This June, I need Gen Z queers to understand that some people are closeted.
I am saying this as a Gen Z queer, before y’all get your guns out to fucking shoot me.
But I need y’all to understand that if someone doesn’t give you their government name in a queer space, it’s not because they’re “mysterious,” and you do not have permission to take it upon yourself to figure out their “real identity” and go digging for them online like a private investigator. First, that’s creepy and a violation of privacy and reasonable boundaries. Second, some of us keep our private and professional lives very separate because we need to keep food on the fucking table and a roof over our heads, and our private life could jeopardize that.
“Why won’t you tell me about your parents?” “Why can’t I know your real name?” “Where do you work?”
1.) Not all our parents would bake us a fucking cake when we come out. Some of us are closeted. Surely you understand this? You also do not need to know my parent’s names or occupations; we are both adults. I do not need nor want to mix you and my private life with my parents and my public life.
2.) Trans people do not owe you their dead name or government name
3.) I’m not telling you for the sake of job security. I am a government fucking caseworker working amidst a fucking lavender panic!
“There’s no way you’re a different person outside this; you’re still you at your core. What harm is there—”
No, I am a completely different person. A different person with a different personality and different interests and a different name and presentation. I am a completely different person because I keep this life and my public life private to avoid fracturing 90% of my interpersonal relationships and 100% of my professional ones.
“You’re not out? But you’re so confident.”
See— that’s part of the issue. Y’all assume someone is in the closet because they hate themselves or lack self-identity. Some of us know exactly who we are, but need to prioritize financial stability or else our entire life gets exponentially harder immediately.
You meet queer people over the age of 40 and one of the first/earliest questions is “who knows?”
I need y’all to start bringing that energy. Because it’s not always safe for someone to be out and not everyone is safe to be out around.
There is a misnomer that “the closet” inherently means “doesn’t know they’re queer” and not “isn’t out widely and publicly.” “Outness” is often a patchwork.
idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time
The issue isn't not wanting to condemn Israel or the israeli government. The issue is that jews and jewish organizations have to do it to exist in public, whilst others don't. And even then that's not enough as an israeli jewish DJ who is antizionist and done activism was still boycotted because he is an Israeli jew.
Like imagine if all Americans residing or visiting outside of the U.S suddenly had to condemn Trump before being allowed to attend Pride, to host a panel or lecture in their field of expertise, to check in to a hotel room, to just exist in public or online. And even if you condemn Trump, people still refuse to exist near you because of where you were born.
Its just an exhaustion of always being immediately assumed to be a bad person before I get to even share my actual opinions and beliefs.
Whilst the NZ government is nowhere near as bad as the Israeli Government, I, a jew who has never stepped foot in Israel, am always expected to condemn the Israeli government but never at any point has anyone asked me to condemn the NZ government, not online and not irl.
People see me as an extension of a government of a country is have never stepped foot it, before they see me as an extension of a government of a country i was born, raised and still live in.
It's also not something leftists do to any other diasporic people. It's horrific, but there is absolutely nothing unique about Netanyahu's behavior. Not a single thing. Authoritarian leadership, war crimes, bombing of civilians, denial of humanitarian aid, forced displacement, persecution of Muslims—you name it, it's happening somewhere else. And yet, we all collectively understand that it's batshit fucking ridiculous to, for example, demand that Chinese people denounce Uighur labor camps, or that Russians denounce the annexation of Crimea, or that Saudi Arabians denounce the bombing of Yemeni children, and on and on and on.
you are all too comfortable with implying a lack of intelligence is a moral failing and your intelligence and/or academic skill makes you in some way superior/a better person, sometimes even going as far as ""joking"" about "natural selection", that the nebulous "stupid people" should all die. this is a eugenicist thought pattern and you sound like a fascist, just so you know.
cognitively & intellectually disabled people are real, more common than you think, and exist in online, in real life, and in your communities. we see it when you say things like that. not only do you have no way of knowing if the person you're talking about is one of us or if they're some kind of "acceptable target" to you, but when you equate intelligence to morality, you hurt us all the same. make space for the intellectually disabled in your activism or admit you're a fascist like the rest of them
the mythbusters once tested "herding cats" and at one point they brought in a proper trained herding dog and the poor dogs face when the first cat responds to his herding with swipes and aggression is to look at her human and go 😰 the sheep is broken?? what do i do boss??
how many names do you have? (not counting diminutives or shortenings, so alexandra and alex are one name for these purposes, also not counting names you would prefer not to use, such as deadnames)
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having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.
It's also okay to have been pro-death penalty before you knew better.
When I was younger I was pro-death penalty. And I won't beat myself up too much about that. I was a hurt, damaged abused person who wanted to believe there could be a measure of justice for the things that were done to me.
But, here are some of the reasons I changed my mind
1.) Death by lethal injection is not as painless as we are led to believe.
2.) The death penalty is disproportionately applied to inmates of color and
3.) People with mental or learning disabilities are unfairly sentenced to death row without proper access to reasonable accommodations in their defense. (There has been a significant effort to vacate the death row sentences of those with learning disabilities.
4.) (No articles for this one. This is just a deeply held belief that has formed over the years for me.) Our government should not be allowed to execute its citizens. There should be no class of people that any government is allowed to sentence to death. Because if you give them a class of people they are allowed to kill - they will find a reason to legally kill anyone they want.
Lethal injection is just some pseudoscientific bullshit made up by people who want the death penalty to remain while understanding that people hate being confronted with death and will turn on it given time. If it was about ensuring a quick reliable death the US would be using the guillotine, but then people would realise how fucked up it is and WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.