#Think of the Property Value

[nomikkh]

This is some Phantom of the Opera shit. Phantom of the Suburbs.

[umbralsong]

I'm rewatching this mainly to study the components adapted by D&D regarding the Meereen plot with the slavers.

Dany was necessarily aged up, they adapted the Dothraki to be somehow more orientalist and racist than the books (no word for "thank you?" gtfo), and completely neglected Dany's own relationship with being enslaved. Even the most crucial aspects of her early abuse are hand-waved, even when there is a literal in-text comparison to Dany and Khal Drogo's enslaved people wearing golden collars.

GRRM famously wondered what made Aragorn a "good" king, and wondered about his tax policy. Here, he adapts it by having Dany's freed advisor, Missandei of Nath, tactically hit the slavers where it hurts - taxes. People can sell themselves into services, but former enslavers can't sell those they used to own, and husbands cannot sell wives. However morally dubious, these policies have a chilling effect on the trade. There are many unhappy components to Dany's compromise with slavers, but it is my opinion that GRRM is demonstrating the limits of compromise with people who don't believe in the humanity of others.

My research means there is a lot I can go into (like the inherent racism of the whole plot), but I feel the most crucial is the fact D&D, Confederate sympathizers that they are, distilled Hizdar's character to Brown Face to pretend that Dany is a white settler colonizer Just As Bad as the slavers for taking away their sacred fighting right of watching poor people butcher each other and laughing as helpless people are eaten by lions :(((

[comradesummers]

the only reason anyone would willingly choose to live in sunnydale is that the property value is really low. which begs the question, why the fuck is cordelia living there? isn't her family supposed to be rich or something? i know cordelia's dad was committing tax fraud, but if you're going to get rich by stealing from the government you might as well use the money to not live on a hellmouth.

[canonical-transformation]

actually Sigewinne/Wriothesley is a PETA-disapproved ship 🚨😦🩸 because it's very stressful for the poor little guy with his poor little human emotions. 🙁🙁😥😥 He didn't sign up to be an alien sea slug's pet chewtoy! 🚫⛔🚫👎 That's why the ethical alternative ⚖️☮️♻️ is Sigewinne/Zandik, because the latter would eat as many syringes as Sigewinne told him to (for science!), and he'd get a kick out of it. In this essay,

[ganondorf]

guy who only makes/looks at anime fanart: yeah no modern art is just so uncreative and useless

[marcsnuffy]

lorenzo & snuffy dynamic. to me

[durn3h]

Slowly coming to realize that my girlfriend's family in Venezuela is more than just comfortable middle class

[ms-hells-bells]

Have you seen the creepy video about Dalai Lama straight up kissing a boy? I hate men and religion so much

i am guessing it's that asian elder generation gap, some of the stuff the old folks in some countries there are like 'this is acceptable' is wild. but that doesn't make it okay, preventing the normalisation of violating children's boundaries as adults is so important in preventing sexual abuse.

but i don't think it was a case of intentional predation. kissing on the mouth in some cultures does not have sexual connotations. i have complicated feelings. many tibetans can be blinded because they see this man as a literal holy figure, and men have used that shield in many cultures and religions to abuse children. it is also easy to become highly defensive when it feels like the world is judging your cultural practices, right or wrong. but also, it is suspicious that this video blew up months after it was posted online, and it blew up shortly after the dalai lama announced a mongolian AMERICAN boy as the reincarnation of a buddhist figure, which was extremely strategic, because the last new figure the dalai lama announced was immediately abducted by the ccp and basically never seen again.

here's an article that shows the more tibetan side. though this doesn't change that 1. i'm anti religion and 2. i am anti men, or any adult, violating the boundaries of children just because they can. i think that's the case, even when much of the time, due to culture, the touching is not considered sexual in nature by either the adults or children (when they have grown up). bodily autonomy is key in raising a healthy, patriarchy, and hierarchy free community.

[theunawerewolf]

Let me be very, very clear: I am anti-censorship when it comes to fictional depictions of any sort. I am anti-censorship in writing, in painting, in drawing, in song, in WHATEVER. I don't care if what you're creating was created to cope with trauma or if you're writing a taboo subject because you get off on it and you want to explore that. Even things that I think are gross and won't read myself, I will die on the hill that says you're allowed to create it. I am anti-censorship even about that thing that squicks you especially. Things that are amoral in real life, illegal in real life, or unpopular in real life. Fiction is not hurting anyone; characters are not real people. If you are sharing your work, and you are clear about the content it contains, then the onus is on the person who is perceiving the work to decide for themselves if it is something they can safely receive.

[will-you-pick-me]

Bro executive dysfunction is kicking my ASS y'all. It's 2:30 pm and I still ain't had coffee or breakfast LMAO

[apothekosm]

Got a visit from her favourite funny little butler, who told her that if she went and unleashed unspeakable evil by taking just one (1) life, he'd sing her praises. What he didn't tell her was that she'd find a fresh dress to wear in the process! That urge is... well, it's not like keeping it 'under wraps' was going to work out in the long run anyway. Right?

[selamat-linting]

vagueposting but it confuses the shit out of me when people on tumblr praises someone for founding a company like, so many of you here proclaims yourself a leftist but thinks its commendable when someone is creating jobs like, did you read anything about the exploitation of surplus value or have you been phoning it in? no matter how kind a boss is, profits are still the result of the worker's labour power, one that the bosses dont fucking deserve to take. even if the company is in the red, the time and effort spent by the workers will never be properly compensated. but okay, fine, this is a capitalist world, we all gotta work to eat and being a ceo is not a sin but like, dont act like starting a company is a moral act either.

also some of you trust company pr way too easily. no matter how much a business brands themselves as a counterculture or as an alternative, theyre still operating under capitalism! to survive they have to follow what sells or at least signal potential growth to investors. whatever idealism they have will be quickly eroded and there's always an effort to cut costs that could endanger workers. this is a universal truth in all industry. more business competition only means that there will be more of the same shit in different wrappers. same brand of cereal with different boxes. and the workers will never ever get any material benefit from it because the trickle down effect is a fucking myth no matter where it is or who youre working for. a rising tide lifts all ships is a myth. honestly bullshit like this could be spotted from a mile away but so many people i know are always shocked whenever a company they think is good are doing a crime even (especially) the self proclaimed leftist ones. what the hell? i thought yall are reading marx! i thought youre all observing the news and the world around you!!!

[multi-lefaiye]

i need to write my essay about jack and spencer tftgs being soulmates so i can be fully cringe on main

[ozymoron]

eveery one shu t up im having blorlbo thoughts oughh

[ravenkings]

my spicy hot take of the day is that fanfiction as a medium is inextricably tied up with the capitalist mode of media production

[starlooove]

“If you devalue a human life you give them the right to devalue yours” bitch fuck you