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WOTD: theofascoligkakracy

MAGA for short.

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Radfems and TERFs are always like "I'm a feminist!! That's why I think women are weaker than men and also should never express sexual desire I disagree with and also I hate any expression of femininity in men and masculinity in women and think all men(and anyone I think is a man) are violent monstrous predators that women need to be separated from for their own protection." and it's like. You are a conservative. You are a fucking republican. Oh my god. You wouldn't know feminist if it walked up and punched you right in the face.

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First console listed was a Sega Megadrive (because, you know, UK).

But before that I was playing games on an Amstrad CPC 464, loading off tapes. And we had something like the Binatone TV Master that you connected to your TV and could play "Tennis" (Pong) and a shooting game and some other bits.

Can't remember the first game. It was one of Spindizzy, Head over Heels, Batman or something like 3D Grand Prix. Several of the Dizzy games came after that.

also pls tag the first game you remember playing

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That's a weird way to say "I shoved details of your story into a GenAI image generator and want to pretend that the output is ART!"

🙄 No.

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What the fuck were the police going to do about a kid listening to heavy metal with a few black candles? 🤨

Oh, wait, never mind. It's the USA 😐

This is both objectively hilarious, and a reminder of how easily stupid people are fooled.

The Satanic Panic was fucking INSANE, y'all. This shit was everywhere, and ya boy was in parochial school at the time, so they REALLY went hard into how serious and deadly this whole thing was.

Meanwhile, little kid Wil was listening to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, WASP, Maiden, and playing the hell out of D&D and other fantasy tabletop games.

It was my first, and most profound, experience with a large group of people -- my teachers and other authority figures -- being completely consumed by bullshit that I knew was fake. I would watch these breathless news stories and listen to my teachers repeating whatever nonsense they'd been fed at church or on talk radio, and know in my heart and soul that none of it was true, because I listened to the music and played the games and watched the movies, as did all of my friends, and none of us were conjuring black masses (though if we'd had the candles and robes, I'm sure we would have cosplayed it).

The Satanic Panic shaped a lot of my values and convictions. I was in 5th grade when I began to wonder if these teachers and other adults who came to school to lecture us about the dangers of the music and games I already (secretly) loved knew they were lying, or if they were just stupid and easily misled. (I suspect it was a little from column a and a little from column b, as it frequently was with those right wing christian nationalist nutjobs who ran my school).

I remember so clearly when I saw through them all, and realized that all of it was bullshit.

So I guess I have the Satanic Panic to thank for giving me the push I needed to completely reject religion as a fear-based cult built on lies.

I was in 5th grade when I figured that out. It's wild to me that there are full-on adults today who haven't caught up.

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Actually, for this image (and most line art/blocky colours), GIF comes out smaller. In this case, 9% smaller with a 32 colour palette. It doesn't make much difference and it won't get compression artifacts if you save it again and again and again.

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I was looking at this with @the-pen-pot and it all just felt very Eliza-y in that way that GenAI does:

"what's the secret behind your words?" is a really weird way of phrasing a "how do you write your stories?" question, especially with so little run-up. It's got that pseudo-intellectual feel that people are spotting in generated text.

When given some details, it's immediately on to "I can relate" - that smarmy, ingratiating friendliness that chat bots have been trained with

But then "I also did that when I was just writing about myself randomly" and… yeah, sure, there's self-inserts in fanfic, but "writing about myself randomly" just feels off. And quite forced that they had something relevant and personal to bring up

They say "if I hadn't chosen this as my profession" as if they're an author, but then they say "I just have a[sic] 4 years in my profession" and yet never name a profession - which is strangely evasive and indirect

Biggest red flag: when told that @the-pen-pot doesn't draw, they say "So how do you draw your OCs?". And authors also drawing their own OCs (if they have them in fanfic) is surely really rare.

Second biggest red flag: Then when asked "Which OCs?" as in "name the OC that you're interested in" then they give a generic "this is what I mean by OCs". And then explain it away as "being confused" when told that it's strange to ask about OCs in fanfic (which can happen, but isn't the main point for lots of fanfic)

Also:

There's some phrases like "gotta say" and "thanks for your advice dear" that make this feel like it's not English as a Second Language

The punctuation, capitalisation and spacing is off in various places and yeah, sure, it happens a bit on phones. But various bits feel like "this became two lines because I pasted it from somewhere and so something capitalised it"

So, yeah. Deep "you're not really in the fandom, and you're probably using GenAI to create your messages" vibes.

So, the moment I got this message I have to admit I was a bit suspicious. I do try and give people the benefit of the doubt, but eh. This person is either a bot or a commission scammer or both. (some of their wording seems a bit off, and in the latter part I was intrigued what might happen after the oc blunder and how they might recover -- if they had actually read King & Court they would at least know one of the villains is an OC.)

Username skellyfyerreads (not tagging for obvious reasons) Their blog is mostly empty, but they seem not to care about fandom. They just contact people at random. A reverse image search on their profile picture brings up a wattpad comment on an indiana jones animaniacs cross over fic basically soliciting the same way, and there's an answered ask on their blog from a sherlock writer who they appear to have approached in the same sort of way.

Just block and move on, and do listen to your gut. 👍

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Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

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I love this For Honor trailer not just for the obvious charm but for it showcasing how as armor evolved, it maintained its ability to become fancy and memorable. Sometimes fashion armor looks like a breastplate and the world's floofiest coat and hat.

It goes perfectly with this video that reminds us that ridiculous armor doesn't need to be sexy. Sometimes ridiculous armour is cloth and oil, and sometimes its a perishable foodstuff or a mascot costume with 2 bottles of dairy or double denim.

Armor, particularly when you mix in magic and sci-fi, can be so many things—so we really must stop defaulting it to being tacky lingerie. Be clever, prize historic accuracy or just be silly.

Just don't make boring bikini armor and then tie yourself in knots trying to legitimize it.

– wincenworks

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Also I wanna say. I read books and read fanfiction that had 'adult content' in it from about the age of 13? I very specifically remember being in Year 8 and reading the book 'Marked' by P.C. and Kristin Cast. A scene confused me because it had reference to a character giving someone a blow job in a back alley. So I asked my mum to explain it to me and she took the time to sit down and explain what 'blow jobs' were. She didn't take the book away, she just explained and I learnt something and it wasn't scary it was just. A learning moment.

As I got older, I started needing online resources because I wasn't being told the information elsewhere. I remember in year 9 we had sex education that focused on condoms. At the end of the class I awkwardly went up to the teacher and asked about lesbian sex and protection. I was told that wasn't something we talk about in class and that id have to learn when I was older. So I turned to the internet, and looked it up there.

And look. I'm not saying that there's not a problem with increasingly younger kids being given free reign online without parents even thinking to care what they're looking at. I also don't think that 7 year olds should accidently stumble upon BDSM scenes. But how often is that actually happening?

And teen-agers who are figuring out who they are, what their sexuality is, and just you know. Reading stories. Writing stories even. Deserve avenues to think about and explore that and just generally work things out for themselves.

Also, the much much much more dangerous part of online behaviour for children and teens is grooming and predators online and these laws are going to do a dogshit job at stopping that from happening. Especially as the laws are explicitly teaching that online safety is about giving your personal details out to websites and companies rather than. You know. Keeping yourself safe online through pen-names.

Sorry I know I've been on one about this today, it just pisses me off.

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The online safety act, being written in such a way as to make it so that anything (not just porn) that might be harmful to children needs age verification, is absurd.

We're now in a situation where the government are trying to give 16-17 year olds the vote, but doesn't trust them to use the internet.

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Clearly this was a common problem for people across a broad stretch of the world!

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

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fuck em up gang

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What did I do to deserve that? 😭

On Twitter (in the Before Days), if you blocked enough accounts that posted the adverts then you apparently got some really bizarre, low-budget and ridiculous adverts.

I keep saying "not interested in that community" to SO MANY crap community suggestions and Tumblr's "For You" just punished me with a very devout post from a Christian community.

Apparently, if you're not interested in various flavours of geeky communities then you must need sky fairies in your life 😐

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§62 paragraph 7:

Content which— … (c) realistically depicts serious violence against a fictional creature or the serious injury of a fictional creature in graphic detail.

So in theory Tom and Jerry are arguably fine because it's a comic rather than realistic depiction of violence. Even the "frying pan over the head" ends up with a dented pan and a HUGE lump.

But in practice, "hitting someone over the head with a household object" seems like a fairly realistic situation, so it's not exactly clear cut.

Also loving paragraph 9:

Content which encourages a person to ingest, inject, inhale or in any other way self-administer— (a) a physically harmful substance; (b) a substance in such a quantity as to be physically harmful.

So if I find a way to encourage someone to get someone else to administer it (which isn't ingesting, injecting or inhaling) then I'm presumable fine under the law 🙄 Just as long as you don't make it a stunt or challenge, because that's covered under paragraph 8.

The dumbass online safety act has also included harm to real and fictional people and animals under their definition of "stuff that hurts children and should therefore be censored". Like bitch tom and jerry fall under that definition. In my little pony twilight gets her ass whopped on multiple occasions because she gets into violent fights. Literally every precure magical girl anime involves fighting and getting hurt and that's are mainly aimed at children. In snow white a teenage girl is poisoned. Literally i dare you people to name 5 children's books/shows/movies that have no character hurt ever. And ik the government's not gonna start banning snow white and tom and jerry for little kids so it's very obvious this ban is only gonna ban whatever they want to ban.

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internet safety we were taught as kids: don't share ANY personal information with ANYONE EVER the british government: you don't want to give these random third parties your photo or driving licence showing your name, birthday, address and signature? are you perhaps a nonce?

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California Gov Gavin Newsom responds to Taco's new $200 million dollar White House ballroom.

Literally installing a garish Mar-a-Lago style den of treason, corruption, bribery, espionage, facelifts, and boob jobs in the White House.

The optics are 🤮.