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While we’re talking about censorship, I need everyone to stop playing this little amnesia game where we pretend not to remember what internet and fandom has looked like for the past 20 years. Weird and taboo porn has always existed, it used to be a LOT easier to access, and you won’t die if you look at it. We simply cannot continue placating the crazy mob of people who are scared of sex and love overstating harm, they’ll call you a pedophile literally no matter what, and they’ll roll around in their cognitive dissonance like a hog in mud when you point out that the other group calling you a freak and a pedo are the conservative alt right. Fucking exhausting being a fag and a pervert in 2025.

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hate when I see the comment "big news for unemployed people" on internet drama. really discounting the dedication of us chronically online employed people. does my 15 minutes in a public restroom at work scrolling online mean nothing to you...

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i'm confused, what do you mean by 'media literacy is a mostly fake concept'?

i just don't think it's like... useful, or describes something that's meaningfully real. like, the idea of 'media literacy', the ability to read media for its 'correct' meaning -- i don't place value on the ability to 'understand' what the 'author' 'meant'. i think that producing readings is, yknow, an active process that produces meaning, rather than uncovers it, and of course the meanings you can produce through readings depend on the contents of the text but they equally depend on its context, on you and your context... and of course, i think some readings are more productive, more useful, more grounded, or more interesting than others, but i don't think that's a matter of 'literacy'.

and, yknow, the ability to produce these readings is a whole set of different skills, not really one that can be put on a continuum. like yknow it is possible to be very good at like... psychological character analysis, or at producing meaning from vivid visual imagery, and then completely lack the background and understanding needed to produce coherent political-economic readings. it is possible to be extremely well trained in the vernacular of one medium or cultural tradition and lack fluency in another... there is just not one unifying skill that makes you Good at Understanding Media

& especially i think the concept of media literacy often gets deployed to kind of like, ignore or paper over ideology. like people will clown on ben shapiro whenever he says some stupid fucking shit about a movie, but like... y'know, he is misunderstanding the movie on purpose, to come to the political conclusion he wants to? like, his opinions on superman (2025) don't come from him neutrally trying to do Media Analysis in a vacuum, they come from him watching tyhe film through the lens of "what can i say about this on my right-wing talk show". and so on, right, i think the concept of 'media literacy' (and tyhe 'piss on the poor' meme associated with it) is often used to close one's eyes to people's ideological (& sometimes material--shapiro needs to be able to say dumb things about how movies are Bad because of Woke to make money!) investments that underpin their analysis

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HUGE fan of the enemies forced to work together trope. not even in an enemies to lovers way just 2 ppl who absolutely despise each other being forced to tolerate the others presence and being like once we’re done with this i won’t fucking hesitate. top 10 tropes of all time

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Another comic based on a favorite post of mine, because what can I say? I love posts

Original post by @cryptotheism

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New page up!

CF / dA

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why did my neighbors name their wifi network this

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also pls tag the first game you remember playing

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may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

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also pls tag the first game you remember playing

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Sun and Moon

Red and Teal

WLW

Pls?

Look at this delight in my ask box. Look at the stars and the frost flakes, the sun and the moon, and the ferns, the twigs, the splashes of water. Look at the women who look at each other.

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John Biggers (American, 1924-2001), Hands. Charcoal on board, 18½ x 24¼ in

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Im like that dude in home stuck who has to eat poisonous slime that makes him high or else his base instinct make him start killing all his friends

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everyone who interacts with a post on my blog is entered into a secret lottery wherein a winner is randomly chosen for me to go thru their blog for a minute or two. thanks for playing, everyone

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tonight i swore a blood oath to the minimum wage workers at my local subway

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