#(short for reactionary)

[pattern-recognition]

people who tell you to not study WW2 history because it’s prolific with internet edgelords are the same type of people who say to not watch quality foreign films because they think filmbros are annoying or that christianity is progressive because some atheist youtuber acted cringe

[mostlymaudlin]

i believe in the power of fem andrew minyard's belly <3

[robotpussy]

hm the diversity everybody seems to be ok with (all white cast and a token) is what forced diversity actually is, not when the best person for a lead role just so happens to not be white/mostly not white cast but we all know what people mean by "forced diversity" so I'm not gonna lament too much anymore

[tiercel]

Tumblr talking about making its site the same algorithmic slop pile as every other social media bc the users migrating here are too soft brained to curate their own feeds

[dandelionjack]

revolutionary optimism ... wish i had an ounce of it. wish any of it rang true

[tabbytiger]

me getting angry be like: *gets angry abt the situation like hours or days or months or years after it happens bc I’m so conditioned to always be calm and forgiving or TOO calm and de-escalate in the moment*

[medicasino]

i'm seriously tired of this like,,, constant feeling of never really feeling important to anyone. and it's like, it's 100% on me, it is 100% my fault i feel this way but,,, eugh

[aiceje]

could you please explain the joan of arc fascist thing?

so this article seems to summarize things fairly well. basically french far right catholics, monarchist, old school fascists (think: Mussolini-era), neo-fascists etc love Joan of Arc. You really see a lot of old facho French men cum in their unwashed underpants every time jeanne d'arc is mentioned on TV. Also fachos organize pseudo-Medieval festivals once a year because they heavily romanticize the middle ages (Philippe de Villiers, who created the Puy-du-Fou theme park, is a facho). What is the link between joan of arc and random theme parks in fuck-all, France, you may ask? well White supremacists basically think white French culture(s) is under attack and think the middle ages is the last time France was 'pure' and 'white.' And bc little Jeanne d'Arc's selling point was that she was a virgin, they probably kind of view her as an untouched white woman or something, idk! Honestly I am from a trotskyist and atheist family, i know nothing about catholicism or the middle ages, but there's just noxious vibes around jeanne d'arc in France. I didn't even know she was considered a feminist figure under I heard american and british friends mention her and it was a moment of cognitive dissonance.

[wreckedhoney]

^^ "coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse"

not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)

[mazovian]

r/patientgamers may be the only good subreddit

[transfemgorgug]

hm. this is not worth my time

[becquerel]

reblogs are off because i have the worst notes known to man on this at the moment.

anyone proudly commenting about how "actually hobbits & halflings ARE shotas" you are the exact people im criticizing and do little to nothing in terms of helping little people fight the ableism they face by continuing to equate shortness to being a child. it is not cute and it certainly isn't funny. it's just deeply depressing to read people continuing to be reactionary like that.

[oncewild]

my uncle c was one of the few given conscientious objector status after being drafted during the Viet Nam War, and I can tell you people were not good to him for doing it "the right way" either

because there is no right way to oppose the State in the eyes of people who choose to align themselves with it.

it sounds like a joke but literally so many of you would've been supportive of the vietnam invasion by america and would've accused draft dodgers and draft card burners of being divisive

[girlspecimen]

i never got the hate around rupi kaur admittedly her poems don’t rlly resonate with me as much as they seem to have with her dedicated audience but good poetry is something both very subjective and personal that if lots of people do find solace in her work i think that alone makes it worth publishing

[lostlanguage]

waiting for hair to grow so boring, i want my long hair back !

[sera-wasnever]

People who latch onto ai as a buzzword thing to hate are both a) buying into the marketing of everything called 'ai' being the same magic artificial intelligence technology and b) entirely limiting their idea of what it is to how it personally affects/might affect them. You will not stick it to the exploitation of artists by loudly condemning like... Sci-fi that explores the concept of artificial nonhuman sentience just cause they refer to it as artificial intelligence.