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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

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Whoeee its been a while since i last drew my comfort character, sorry jon.. now you're lankier and wonkier than i've ever drawn you

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ginkgo leaf wall hanging quilt commission 🌿

cotton fabrics with hand carved block prints, quilted and sewn with the free motion foot on my machine

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i can’t do this, sam.

i know. it’s all wrong. by rights we shouldn’t even be here. but we are. it’s like in the great stories, mr frodo. the ones that really mattered. full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. because how could the end be happy? how could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

but in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. even darkness must pass. a new day will come. and when the sun shines it will shine out clearer. those were the stories that stayed with you. that meant something. even if you were too small to understand why. but i think, mr frodo, i do understand. i know now. folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. because they were holding on to something.

what are we holding on to, sam?

that there’s some good in this world, mr frodo. and it’s worth fighting for.

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"The Broadband Sessions" is an interactive surrealist modern art project using the medium of a Discord server (and considerable amounts of marijuana). It is the creation of a 29 year old disabled transgender man.

Combining elements of internet roleplaying groups with poetry and stream of consciousness, Broadband follows themes of the multiverse, dimensional travel, internal and external divinity, pop culture, art, and storytelling, taking place over massive spans of time and across multiple worlds.

Audience members are encouraged to participate and interact with a large and growing cast of characters, both in weekly episodes that serialize their adventures and at any time through encountering them across the server's various channels.

The Broadband Sessions uses language in a way strongly inspired by art movements such as Dadaism. Therefore, it may not be easy to follow for everyone all of the time. However, the author is currently organizing a chronological catalog of each episode so far, along with breakdowns of their contents, which should make the storyline more accessible.

TBS is not yet open to the public. Work is in progress to begin inviting small groups of people at a time while keeping the server and its contents safe/building a responsible and healthy community.

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Domesticated microraptor breeds

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Record Some pieces I drew last year Bolly the Walrus and Bastian the Sea lion

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"The Broadband Sessions" is an interactive surrealist modern art project using the medium of a Discord server (and considerable amounts of marijuana). It is the creation of a 29 year old disabled transgender man.

Combining elements of internet roleplaying groups with poetry and stream of consciousness, Broadband follows themes of the multiverse, dimensional travel, internal and external divinity, pop culture, art, and storytelling, taking place over massive spans of time and across multiple worlds.

Audience members are encouraged to participate and interact with a large and growing cast of characters, both in weekly episodes that serialize their adventures and at any time through encountering them across the server's various channels.

The Broadband Sessions uses language in a way strongly inspired by art movements such as Dadaism. Therefore, it may not be easy to follow for everyone all of the time. However, the author is currently organizing a chronological catalog of each episode so far, along with breakdowns of their contents, which should make the storyline more accessible.

TBS is not yet open to the public. Work is in progress to begin inviting small groups of people at a time while keeping the server and its contents safe/building a responsible and healthy community.

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Kim Kitsuragi is a fascinating character because there's not that much fun or interesting or compelling about him. And yet somehow over the course of playing Disco Elysium the game rewires your fucking brain around him. He's the middest man you've ever seen in both appearance and personality but at some point he says something kind to you or something critical of you and you feel like you just got hit by a truck and you need his approval like you need oxygen and like how tf did this happen. what are you

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This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent power fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of whump, and/or hooking up with various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization that I personally don't like (I have neither the time nor the desire to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

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Harenadraco🏃‍♂️

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when I say writing as a craft is dead and shipcourse killed it I'm implicating both sides in it, by the way.

Like, between proshippers being like "writing is just playing with dolls and you don't have to respect your characters at all! characters aren't people lolol" and antis implying that giving your characters BACKSTORIES is pedophilia... I'm not taking writing advice from any of you people

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when you look at a burn, a laceration, an abrasion, a cut, a graze, or a scrape, and think how painful it must be. remember the videos of palestinians undergoing amputations and other surgeries without anesthesia or other painkillers. never forget that a few days ago, a patient still on an iv drip burned to death. we've been witnessing these war crimes and crimes against humanity for way too long. do not let these things to happen to you first, before you start caring for them.

i wrote this post to spotlight my friend @hatem1190. can you stop for a second and consider the visible and invisible wounds of his family members? it pains me to see his campaign stuck at less than 10% for almost three whole months already. money should be the least of his concern in times of survival but this cruel world had him thinking of ways on how to gain your trust to help him. he is showing us evidences after evidences of how genuine his fundraiser but you guys keep letting him down! shame on all of us!!

if you feel as helpless as me, then please do consider donating and sharing to give our international palestinian friends hope and support in the middle of the carnage facilitated by the western imperial powers. fucking condemn your country abetting a genocide by supporting palestinian organizers with all your might here. damn it.

please campaign for him. i am sure a lot of you has a wider reach than me. make tiktok vids of him. talk to your friends who can donate. keep them in your mind as you work and live normally. join anti-imperialist groups. stand in solidarity and speak up with your voice as loud as possible. there are so many ways to show that you indeed give a fuck.

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I can think of a really easy solution to this problem.