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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
sheepfilms
Show & Tell
Keni
Acquired Stardust
Sade Olutola
Product Placement
trying on a metaphor
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Peter Solarz
Andulka
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tumblr dot com
shark vs the universe
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@zillysqueaks
LMAO WAIT I JUST REALIZED MY ZILLYBLOG HAD BEEN GONE FOR DAYS
looks like a Tumblr hiccup? I just got an email from support that said "your blog has been restored, sorry about that". there was no initial "we've deleted your blog" or "this was reported for x reason" or "this was flagged" email
but I'm scrolling back now and realizing yeah, I've been reblogging to this account instead for a couple days. that's so weird lmao
i’m not posting the actual tiktok because it involves another patient being recorded without their knowledge and clearly not doing okay but y’all we were so close to mental illness being destigmatized. we were so close but now the general public sees mental illness as two separate groups - the quirky relatable depression and anxiety, and the weird cringy scary schizo-spectrum disorders, ocd, personality disorders, and so on. #mentalhealthmatters as long as it’s not one of those weird scary illnesses
These people acting like nt ppl don't think killing urself and self harm is "just as crazy" the lack of empathy is insane
OJ simpson has entered valhalla
OJ has gone to the section of heaven where they put black men who are addicted to white pussy
OJ is getting his uncancered prostate pounded by blonde women in eternal paradise
OJ simpson has been reincarnated as a beautiful buzzing bee that will pollinate numerous flowers across southeast american suburbs. And maybe fall in love with a white woman along the way
If you had to pick, what's the ONE trait in a fictional character that makes you immediately go "oh this one's mine"
The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117
The internet is flooded with AI-generated photos and they're getting harder to spot.
Most of the time AI is used for click-farming, but lately images have been used in fake news stories and product scams.
Most important: THINK CRITICALLY. AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes. Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy.
If you're not sure, don't share! You might be spreading misinformation.
I think that saying novels should only be about good normal upstanding characters is uh. Encouraging authors to appropriate other people's experiences, and goes against the "own voices" principle. Because you have to have something wrong with you to write a book.
A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”
She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.
The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.
Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.
Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.
Little girls being taught by TikTok at 10 and 12 that they have to have a “beat face” or a “snatched body” to be adequately feminine will go on to become recruiters and HR employees and managers in a decade.
We already know that women who don’t wear makeup are discriminated against in interviews. The next generation of interviewers were raised by Sephora and Ulta; it’s going to get worse, not better, unless there’s a concentrated campaign on breaking the connection between makeup+professionalism.
Looks like Wattpad is having a NSFW purge. People are talking about it on r/wattpad and r/fanfiction. Anyone here use wattpad and notice? I wonder what the scale and criteria they are using is.
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Oh boy. AO3, brace yourself!
Here's the r/Wattpad master thread.
And a thread on r/FanFiction.
I haven't had time to dig into them yet.
Someone's moving to AO3 guide. I'll be interested to see what they say.
As someone who uses the big 3 Fanfiction sites, I've noted that many Wattpad users flock to AO3. Said users have no ide...
just looked into wattpad and at first sight I havent noticed any changes#they still have the lgbtq+ section and lots of gay smut. idk
And you won't. That's not how purges work.
What happens is that they hit a lot of individual works, frequently ones that don't even violate the guidelines, while failing to catch tons of equivalent works. When authors complain, they'll get no response or a highly ambiguous and useless one about what the problem was.
Because Wattpad hides the actual totals of works and has no comprehensive index, you'll never know how much was quietly deleted.
I've explained this before in a post about TikTok purging omegaverse content and/or hiding it from searches:
NSFW content is profitable. It is even profitable to the platforms that claim to ban it.
When platform conduct purges, their goal is not to eradicate nsfw content. Their goal is instead to make an example of just enough nsfw creators and purge just enough nsfw content to maintain their public-facing image of wholesome family-friendly respectability, while continuing to profit off the remainder of the nsfw content.
They make sure the porn-banning rule in their TOS defines porn vaguely enough to allow them to delete any content they want at any time for any reason. It's not about creating a safe kid-friendly space. It's about looking good to their shareholders and wielding power over their userbases.
Yuup.
"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?
Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.
Oh my god
depression: kill yourself
Me: kill me yourself you coward
you: suck my dick me, an intellectual: inhale my richard
here it is! the post that started a “me, an intellectual” hell frenzy, and is officially ⭐ the worst post of 2016 ⭐
you: the worst post of 2016
me, an intellectual: modern art
This is actually very normal human behavior. It's just that most people (in the USA) think "Jesus strengthens me" instead of "I am a pikmin, dandori time"
This is literally why stories and fantasy are so useful to humans. We cannot tackle every mundane challenge with enthusiasm, and facing against profoundly daunting tasks can be deeply demoralizing, and you don’t get to feel cool or heroic for filing 400 pieces of paperwork.
We arm ourselves with stories and fantasy, so that the laundry can become a charming hurdle to overcome, and the daunting stack of bills is the leviathan we the brave knights must slay.
Humans have always been like this. So many cultures have stories or mythology or even rituals about literally embodying another being better suited to the challenge one currently faces.
Stories are armor. Stories are fuel.
