#Lindsay was right

[duusheen]

we made each other happy, Jay

[fluffyspuffy]

Not to like hate on Angel on main, but anyone who took the opportunity to beat the shit out of him was completely justified in doing so

[klazje]

“john lennon and paul mccartney fucked nasty style” i say into the mic.

the crowd boos and i walk off the stage in shame, then a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“they’re right” he says. i look for the owner of the voice. in the fifth row stands: michael lindsey hogg

[xofeno]

1. FBI: International / 4.05, The Future's Looking Bright 2024-11-19

2. Chicago P.D. / 2.08, Assignment of the Year 2014-11-19

[total-mkulia]

This one super got away from me to the point idk how I even feel about it but hopefully people will see my vision

[starspangledsoldiers]

“i made a decision, we should all quit” he said to his three best friends who all have children

[yourfavehaskenergy]

jack kelly from newsies?

Jack Kelly from Newsies has Kenergy!

[weaselbeaselpants]

Lindsay Ellis plagiarized a ndn author

This post isn't a callout and it's only my own post because the OP source I just learned it from, @neechees, doesn't allow rbgs at a certain point on that post.

After Hmbomberguy's expose on Illuminaughtii and James Somerton some people are giving a well deserved eye back to the leftube sphere that was kind of schism-d and held under scrutiny in what I feel was, a lot of the time, misinformed hate campaigns in response to genuine criticism; especially towards Lindsay Ellis who up left after she was canceled and hasn't returned to continuous video making publicly even after people have mostly agreed the hatedom directed for her Raya and the Last Dragon takes was stupid and was erasing actual SEA people's discussions of the culture. To hear and see a decent breakdown of that film's representation problems BEYOND the Ellis-parts because it's worth your wild regardless of if you've seen the movie, please watch the three part video series hosted by Xiran Jay Zhao.

To tl;dr the 2021 drama: people have held an ire towards Ellis for a long time feeling like her and her white-woman base talk over, steal, or just straight up don't apologize for their own racism towards women and ppl of color, and after Lindsay did a problematic by pointing out that Raya and the Last Dragon was like ATLA, people jumped on her.

Being both a longtime fan of Ellis and white as fucc, I personally feel like Lindsay kind of forgave herself and threw out the actual criticisms held against her every bit as much as people just kind of treated her like a punching bag. Or, to paraphrase @padawan-historian's old takes from then, they treated Lindsay like she was trying to be the ENTIRE conversation, not the start of one, and like every possible outcome that could happen over her videos was her fault personally. Some of Lindsay's loudest and nastiest 'critics' were, in fact, other white people or just people who have no good faith in addressing her fuck ups, like Lily Orchard, fe.

One 'Lindsay did a racism'point tho that I felt wasn't truly addressed in full though were claims by indigenous people that she was anti-native, especially in her videos about Twilight and Pocahontas, which yeah at the time I was very passive of you can 100% find post abt that. But then Neechees linked me to an article I, and I think a lot of other video essay-fans had never seen before. This article accused Lindsay of stealing half of her talking points on Disney's Pocahontas from theirs.

When people on the breadtube spectrum talk of Lindsay, even people who criticized her at the time. all kind of agree that the intensity of the backlash was uncalled for and, while not everyone agrees if her public silence is a 'canceling' or not, agree with her need to just take care of herself these days. For those curious, this is the article making this claim:

I am not saying you need to all unfollow and hate everything Lindsay ever touched, mkay? But I also genuinely hope that Lindsay addresses this+comes clean because holy fuck. Unlike Somerton, all I can tell you is I don't just 'believe Windsey wouldn't hurt nobody uwu~'. I am pretty certain that Lindsay care about the topics she covers, for whatever that's worth to say as another whiteperson. It's just that, like Contrapoints, I ALSO think she has a tendency to deflect criticism within that sphere and lump all her negative bagage together. This really sucks cuz not all of us are Lily Orchards or Vaush clones.

Most of us are/were casual watchers of Lindsay like we are Hbomber, Contra, Lady Emily, Folding Ideas, and ToddintheShadows (does he count as leftube idk?) and we really, genuinely don't want to believe that Lindsay stole from + refuses to listen to women of color when they call her out.

Where I like almost everyone in the leftoob analyst sphere that's ever growing and hopefully now weeding out Illumanaughtii-s and Sommerton-s of the world, there ARE controversies within the space that I don't agree with creators on. Some are dumb things like the exact takes Lindsay has about movies n shows that I just up and disagree with her on, Princess Weekes' proshipping apologia that I have LOTS of thoughts on. However, some matters are clearly personal and about maters that just don't involve me. Earlier this year, Folding Ideas and Lady Emily ctrl+alt+deleted some replies they made to Quinton Reviews, making clear that they very much still dislike him based on something that happened between Quinton, Lindsay and I think SarahZ. And by "dislike", I mean also still believeing his former editor over him on who was boundary pushing about who in their relationship. On the offchance any of those creators or their stans somehow see this, know that I'm not going to tell any of you guys how to feel about whatever Quinton did in private I'm not aware of; it's just that I also happen to believe Quinton on this issue and I don't like the guiltybyassociation mantra.

>>>>side note: I hate that every time someone says "I believe so and so after hearing their side now" ppl jump on the "you were just a stan from the beginning and never actually able to listen"-bs. Yeah, being more familiar with one creator over the other means there's bias, sure, but I kinda hate that that once held bias means you can't be held as any kind of source or form your own opinions. <<<

Big introvert vibes ahead: the thing about any big social circle of better-spoken people than you is they ALL seem like a scary meangirl's table from outside looking in. The kind that'll send goons after you with passive-aggressive "this is slander against me and I have the right to be upset abt it sorry if the stans eat you alive". They can also be made out by their fans to be harmless internet nobody's who YOU are at fault for getting mad and staying mad at cuz it's not like it matters on the internet and are clearly just out for drama and 'twofaced' yourself. I think the reality is the same thing that drives every community forward as well as drives them apart: these people are legitimate friends. They stick up for each other the same way we stick up for our personal internet friends whenever there's shit coming their way. The breadtube circle, whoever that is at this point, clearly know some shit we don't about themselves as much as they don't know shit about us and our true intentions. One of them has a platform and responsibility, where the other has power in masses and following them or not. We gotta all make the choices best for us.

Anyway. I guess, if any of the stuff about Lindsay ripping off that writer IS true, I really hope that she admits and apologizes for it. That's not cool to do to her indigenous audience, or even me, one of her white fans who expects actually allyship.

[dandylion-s]

I love that Jamie Tartt, while pouring his depressed heart out to his mom, focusses on the negative opinions about his hair first before getting to the root of the issue. Emotional catharsis is important but not as much as your look. Finally we're getting accurate bisexual representation.

[atlaswrrld]

dropping this here bc i'm curious hehehe

[gregorygerwitz]

On Stormy Seas Chapter I of XXI

Summary: When Jay - Sir Jason - agreed to the king's plan to marry the princess and take over the throne to ensure it didn't fall into the wrong hands, he thought it was a good idea. He could marry one of his best friends and be comfortable for the rest of his life. He would be a fool to pass up something like that, even with the risks that came from having so much power. He did not agree to being kidnapped by pirates mere hours after the engagement was announced.

Warnings: arranged marriage, kidnapping

Words: 5,595

Sneak Peek:

“Are you really going to be off duty all night?” 

“Is there a reason I need to be on duty? What are you all suited up for, then?” Jay shook his head with a small grin, turning his head to look at his friend over his shoulder. He’d known Adam for years, since before his promotion, since they were just kids being taught to fight with wooden swords. If there was anyone he trusted to watch his back while he was otherwise occupied, it would be his best friend. “The party is just as much for me as it is for the princess, right? Of course I’m going to be off duty.” 

There was a grunt in response when he looked back at the mirror. Unfortunately, his own appearance took priority over everything else at that moment. As ridiculous as it seemed, he was being presented to the people of the kingdom. He was to be their leader, one day, however far in the future that might be, but they only knew him as a member of the guard. If things didn’t go absolutely perfect, he might be accused of trying to take over the throne without a rightful claim to it. The king had said he would take care of the complaints from the public in a situation like that, but it was a big risk, announcing the engagement at all. 

He had to look the part, like the royal figure he wasn’t, and it had to be believable. 

“Yeah, just don’t let that crown go to your head, alright? No one is going to forget where you came from just because you’re going to have some fancy title.” 

[ read the rest on ao3 ]

[dookypickles]

soo uhh like does anyone have an unhealthy obsession with their oc x canon

[radioactive-earthshine]

Bart Allen Knowledge Check #3.2

Note: This is for the 90s comics and the comics alone. Yes, there is a correct answer.

I had to re-do this one due to misspelling a name, apologies.

This is extremely obscure so props to you if you get it right, you nerd.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

What is the Woke Right? - James Lindsay

Konstantin Kisin: James, you mentioned the term "woke right." It's a term you and I have both used, but it'd be interesting to talk about it for a number of reasons. But first of all, what do you mean by that term? Because a lot of people are very confused about it.

James Lindsay: It's not necessarily the best term. It's more accurate to-- I don't use the word "woke" to-- I use it a little too casually still, generally speaking. But I've tried to be very specific when it comes to it, to use the phrase "Woke Marxism," as in that it's a species of Marxist thought, yada, yada, yada.

So, we can very easily place that on the Marxist left, right. Well, "woke right," another term that might work for that is "Woke Fascism." And just like "Woke Marxism" is technically "Woke Neo-Marxism," this could be called "Woke Neo-Fascism."

Kisin: Why is it woke?

Lindsay: Well, that's what I wanted to get to. So, there are kind of two ways to look at why it's woke. And one is kind of philosophical and one is practical.

Practical side is, look at how they behave. They behave exactly like the woke. There's the targeted influence campaigns, there's the manufacturing of-- what the postmodernists called Legitimation by Paralogy or whatever. They create the illusion that there's massive support for this and massive distaste for that, using social media manipulations like we just talked about. They are highly invested in identity politics, the answer for them to leftist Identity politics is a reaction identity politics, or reactionary identity politics, equal and opposite, or in biblical terms, answering evil with evil, which the Bible says not to do, by the way, very specifically. And so, there's this, you know, grievance identity, everything's bad for white Christian men, straight white Christian men, we're the oppressed minority under this.

There's an ideology, and this kind of bleeds into the philosophical idea, but we'll get more specific with that in a second. There's this kind of belief that there's this ruling class that's erected an ideology to marginalize people like them that sounds very much like woke. Except, instead of saying that it's like the white people-- the white ruling class created white supremacy to marginalize people of color, especially black and Indigenous and their ways of knowing from getting inside, the woke right or the Woke Fascist side says instead that following World War II, on the back of Hitler and the idea of "Never Again," there was erected a post-war liberal consensus, starting in the 1940s immediately-- starting in 1945, the creation of the United Nations was part of this, the signing on to the United Nations was part of this, they assigned William Buckley to-- Bill Buckley to having done a rout to drive the true conservatives to the margins so that a false post-war liberal consensus conservative movement could rise up, the Neocons, and hold them out, so the Neocons become this kind of hegemonic force within the conservative faction that edges out so-called "true conservatism," and these more dangerous, so to speak, ideas like fascist ideas, like Carl Schmidt's ideas about Unbound Executives and Friend-Enemy politics and so on, that these ideas all had to be pushed to the side on the pretext that World War II or a Adolf Hitler can never rise again.

And so, therefore, the true conservatives who represented conservative politics and kept at bay the beast of the left, which they say is that the right's true function is to keep at bay the left, in other words, to have a war, right versus left, with everybody in the middle, I guess, taking fire, in the crossfire. But they believe that this postwar liberal consensus in the Neoconservative movement literally was designed to marginalize their perspectives and to keep these other more radical right-wing ideas out of out of play.

So this is a very woke way of thinking about the world, that there was a structural-- construction of the social and political and cultural environment designed to exclude people like them, in order to be able to achieve certain political agendas. And now they believe that they've woken up to these ideas. Woke. They've found them again. They've read the forbidden philosophers, Carl Schmidt, Julius Evola, James Burnham, and so on. They've read these things and they're bringing back a true conservatism that was excluded from politics roughly since the end of World War II on the bogus pretence of preventing the rise of another fascist like Hitler or Franco or Pinochet.

And so, there's a very practical explanation for why they're woke, but especially their behavior. Lots of lying, lots of character attacks, lots of saying no enemies to the right, but they don't actually even attack the left that's their enemy, so to speak, at all, they only attack other conservatives. Lots of power plays, lots of manipulative speech.

And then there's the philosophical deeper aspect. Why woke? What does woke mean? Woke up to a structural politics that marginalizes people like me, and we need to band together in solidarity -- no enemies to the right -- in order to be able to create a powerful enough oppressed coalition to flip over the power structure by putting ourselves at the center and claiming power for ourselves. This is explicitly woke. Having a Critical Consciousness about the way the world is organized. Tucker Carlson, for example, if you listen to Tucker, a lot of people really like Tucker. Tucker is pretty critical of America. He's not doing a Howard Zinn critical America Theory. Howard Zinn being the one who wrote The People's History, so the Marxist history of the United States-- propaganda. He's writing a different critical history of the United States. Well, the Constitution was not really adequate to prevent all of this. There is a post-World War II liberal consensus or world order that we're all being made subject to. Well, look at how America was involved in all of these things. America bad. America bad. America bad. Also, the UK was pretty bad too. And America bad, America bad.

There's this kind of constant critical negativity. Tou see some of these characters, I mentioned Tucker Carlson but you see some of these characters like Steven Wolf, who wrote the book "The Case for Christian Nationalism," has put multiple times on social media-- and I don't know what he said in public talks, I've only heard one of his public talks-- but you see him on social media saying more than once that he has adopted Critical Theory specifically for his own purposes and to his own ends. He has adopted-- he was recently saying on social media-- somebody sent it to me, so I have to, I guess confirm this-- but he was saying that in fact the Critical Theory he uses is not the perverted version of Critical Theory that the left has used. It's its own more correct version of critique that goes back before the left, yada, yada.

And so how do you not call the attempt to awaken a Critical Consciousness of the power structure that you believe has delegitimized your movement, how do you not call that woke, when woke means having awoken to a Critical Consciousness that there's a structural force that has delegitimized people in your political positionality. It's the exact same thing unfortunately, it's just pushing a "people in place" kind of driven fascism as opposed to a "we're going to end all oppression by becoming the oppressors" Communism.

Kisin: It's very well explained, and that's kind of why I have been calling, even though I'm not sure it is the best term, but the behavior is the same, right. It's quite obviously the same. Victimhood, cancel culture, lying about history all of this.

Lindsay: Yeah, rewriting history, lying about people, digging up people's pasts to cancel them. It's unbelievable.

Kisin: The one complaint that people have made about that I do think is valid is that they're not comparable in terms of influence and power. The woke left control-- for a period of time controlled-- what felt like everything. The woke right isn't anywhere near that level of influence at all. And frankly, you know, I wonder whether, having talked about it as much as you and I have, we've maybe drawn too much attention to a very small fringe. Because when we-- like I said, when we went to the Trump rally, I didn't see-- I didn't-- I talked to a lot of people there, I listened to all the people on stage I didn't hear in either of the statements or the response to what people were saying, the type of conversation that you see online. So, it seems to me like it's a tiny fringe that's being amplified by bot-farms and foreign meddling and whatever. I think increasingly-- I don't think of it as real, even though as you say, there are one or two people who are very influential in American politics who have flirted with some of these ideas.

==

Just fricking great. We finally start to get the woke freaks on the left under control and up pop woke freaks on the right.

Can't the normies in the middle -- the centrists, the "leans-left" moderates and the "leans-right" moderates -- get five damn minutes without more of this crap?

[total-feminism-takes]

Hello there! Um i think this blog so i am gonna send one thing i like the most about each TD gen 1 female character! May do the other gens some other time.

Eva: I like that fun fact about her being a stun actress that's epic!

Katie: I like her little background friendship with Courtney in Chapter 3

Izzy: I like how you can basically do flexible she is as a character!

Beth: I like how much she reminds me of one of my favorite people!

Sadie: I like that she got so far without Katie, proud of her!

Courtney: I like her determination, that is admirable in my opinion!

Bridgette: I like how kind and chill she is, i would hang with her!

Lindsay: I like that she believes in others so much!

LeShawna: I like how unapologetically herself she is not matter what!

Heather: I like her character development through the seasons!

Gwen: I like that despite being so standoffish to people at first she managed to pull through!

Blaineley: I like how funny she is, legitimately comedic!

Sierra: I like the potencial that she has, they should have done more with her outside of Cody!

-💕 (If that's okay?)

- 🧡

[7-oh-ta1]

Hate being a taichi main because no matter how well I understand reni's story it only makes me become MORE bitter like what the FUCK do you mean you've told this sixteen year old that his life is essentially worthless and forever changed the trajectory of his life and his self worth and your reasoning is that "he didn't channel God in his performance"? Like. Damn. No shit he didn't.