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24 • He/They • Bi/Poly • US East Coast Full of Mental Illness Artist, Writer, Roleplayer, Dungeon Master Doin Ur Mam

[calware]

the truly evil part about lolcowing is that the targets are almost always people who have done something/things that are unsavory at best or objectively harmful at worst and that is used as justification to treat them however you want with no recourse whatsoever. like you suddenly have permission to dehumanize someone for what, fucking entertainment. and if anyone tells you to cool it for a minute, suddenly they're supportive of that behavior, making you effectively immune to anyone who disagrees. like apparently nobody's ever heard of disproportionate punishment

[j0jin-deactivated20210309]

[dbrann11]

Funniest thing I have seen in 2020

[leeisstillawake]

[mxcheese]

Ok but legit the funniest part of this is that the cat just knows what he’s about to do before his tongue is even out. He’s done this more than once. A lot more.

[briannyssey]

as a longtime self-effacing individual, I can tell you that it's deeply uncomfortable for folks when you denigrate yourself by measuring yourself against them. To them it'll almost feel like you're using their accomplishments or qualities as a weapon for hurting yourself, punishing them for having that quality you admire. Probably dont do that

[potato-lord-but-not]

Mooooreeeeeeeee Graces because he is in fact fun to draw sound the alarm the rumors are true

[jacobtheloofah]

Visit Original Link

side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

[jacobtheloofah]

hey so uh next year will be a decade of dobonhonkeros. how about that shit huh.

[obstinatecondolement]

Happy ten year anniversary of this post.

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[rosslynpaladin]

I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.

[pretzelsalt]

I need y’all to know that we used to have to scrape bugs (SO MANY BUGS) off of our car windshields after a roadtrip. Our front bumpers were covered in dead bugs. But now, the bugs are already dead. They don’t exist to get stuck on the windshields.

[leebrontide]

So I volunteer with a local branch of an eco org, and just got out of a meeting to see if we wanna endorse a local candidate, and I was really heartened that this 60 year old white guy from HOA-ruled exburbia, running in that community with a good chance at winning, had his sights firmly set on clean energy, protecting water, and holding back AI data centers.

[leebrontide]

He and his family had also been part of ICE resistance, btw. Which I can not over-emphasize is the norm in much of the extended metro right now. The degree to which every rando you meet probably did at least a little something is very very high.

It’s really reminded us that more people care than you might assume.

[leebrontide]

Did another one. Another exburb that has traditionally been pretty white, pretty NIMBY. We were deciding whether to endorse an un-opposed democrat running out there.

She's one of the thousands of environmental scientists fired by the current regime, with a history in international diplomacy, running on a ecological justice platform. On making sure the environment is protected and the most vulnerable be first protected. She could name those vulnerable populations without mincing words of flinching. She loves landback and mass transit and helping voters vote.

She's going to win this big chunk of midwestexburbia.

And, again, she was key in her area at ICE resistance. This has become next to a prerequisite for running in Minnesota, now.

I want you to think about that.

Resistance to a federal agency as a key prerequisite to holding state office. We keep seeing it. People want to know- people ask- when we and our neighbors were in danger, what did you do about it?

I am gonna keep saying it- the democratic party belongs to the people who show up to steer it. So show up. Not just once every 4 years. Every time. Every chance you get. It's free. It's important. It needs you. Caucus. Vote in local elections. Go to town halls. Hell, run for something! She wasn't in politics 6 months ago and she's gonna win! Grab that steering wheel in your own hands and pull.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[rybieradio]

Mama balloon dogs and the balloonlings

[thememedaddy]

[audhdspacewizard]

I'm dating myself but

[teathattast]

[segamascott]

this is honestly such a good idea

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[ivy-michaels]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

people are always saying “they have should be at the club” about characters who would immediately have a panic attack if even put in the general vicinity of one

[genderkoolaid]

idk who needs to hear this but get off 4chan. and if you are already off 4chan, also get off the 4chan you have built into your mind.

[genderkoolaid]

to be clear its not even that 4chan is a homogenous pit of pure evil. there's a lot of people on the site and they are human beings with interests seeking community. i say this for those reading this post who go "well but i'm not on 4chan to be a nazi, i don't engage with that kind of really rancid stuff"

even if you are on the least rancid edge of the cesspit, there is still a reason it is a cesspit. by which i mean that the overall culture of 4chan is the problem, the ways of thinking and engaging with yourself and other people and society it encourages people to adopt are the problem. the overall callousness and cruelty and irony poisoning are the problems. get off 4chan.

[lakevida]

the menstrual cup and menstrual scepter

[lakevida]

your majesty what is upppp

[kosmicpowers]

"nuwho is too sexual" every character in classic who is 000.1 seconds away from fucking sloppy style have you fucking seen Delgado Master and the way he looks at the Third Doctor with some sort of psychotic need to bend him over and take it raw

[hungry-mongoose]

*nibbles post*

[kosmicpowers]

Can I help you

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[me playing the new Stellaris Nomads DLC]

it's kind of weird that settled empires hate me just because I don't have a home planet. why would there be prejudice against people just because they move around-

[looks at camera]

oh right

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I was so caught up in the joy of space travel for a moment I lived in a world where anti-Roma and Traveller racism doesn't exist

[dragon-in-a-fez]

now that I'm thinking about this, hey George Lucas what's up with the Jawas