#also fwiw i'm not limited to that type

[benedictusantonius]

Timmy, definitely just twinks in general, Star Trek

The first time I saw Timmy I thought somebody was playing a joke on me by creating the living embodiment of my type:

Tall

Skinny

Smooth

Dark Hair

Anyway, just because I frequently tag his photos "I want to fuck that twink in twain" and "I want to paint that back like a Jackson Pollock" and "I hate how much I love him," I don't know why you think I'd be into Timmy.

I do like Star Trek though. LLAP.

Tell me what you associate with me.

[thedreadvampy]

fwiw if you want to introduce more variety to how you draw faces I strongly suggest thinking really hard about noses

noses give you so much information about someone! they're usually one of the first things which define how we think of someone's face (after all - they're by far the feature that takes up most of it).

They change as we age - they take up more of our faces and move away from our mouths. babies almost all have round little tips of noses with no definable bridges, while depending on the type of nose an adult has they may get bonier and sharper or softer and flatter with age. nostrils widen, skin creases, eyes drop back from the bridge. I think often people try to age faces by putting wrinkles around an unchanged nose and it throws stuff off.

They're also a really racialised feature. like there is no one Black Nose or East Asian Nose or Desi Nose or White Nose, obviously, there's huge variation within and across ethnic groups, but there's a lot of overlapping trends in nose shape for different ethnicities and it's often a big contributing factor to people drawing characters of colour that kind of look like palette-swapped white people? like there are so many nose shapes that are super common but because they're relatively uncommon for white people, they're just not the noses people often learn to draw as standard.

but also a diversity of noses says so much about a character, the same way that their build or eye shape or face shape does. like. a long sharp narrow nose in a bony face? a round, slightly flat nose on a face full of smile lines? an upturned, softly rounded nose with freckles and no bridge? a long hooked nose with a curved tip? a crooked, broken nose? a bulbous, reddened nose? noses can imply strength, weakness, innocence, experience, childishness, wisdom, suffering, whatever you want to get out of a character design. don't neglect the nose!!!!

and like. obviously depending on how stylised the art is there's going to be information lost, but that's the thing - there's a real upper limit on how much variation you can put in eyes or mouths or face shape in simpler styles without making it overly realistic, but you can go really nuts on nose shapes! even with just one or two lines or one simple shape you can imply so many different noses by changing little things!

and yet really often I look at people who are trying to broaden variety on faces and they mix up everything except the noses, which stay like a circle or a triangle or a line or whatever their standard noise is, and as a result there's still this sameness to all the faces.

bc eyes and mouths and jawlines are all very well but noses are, in my opinion, the most varied part of the face. I can't think of any two people I know who have the same shape of nose except maybe me and my identical twin.

(and I'm not talking big Vs small, or hooked vs snub vs straight vs flat. really look at people's noses in real life cause there are so many variables)

(some leading questions under the cut)

how big is it? how long from the front? how far away from the face does it sit in profile?

does it have a rounded tip? how round? some people's noses have a profile that's basically a triangle point, some people's are basically a round tip with no visible cartilage above it, and everything in between.

What's going on at the bridge? in profile, is there a clear dip in between the brow and the bridge of the nose, or does the brow come straight down to meet it (or, if you have a kind of striking profile like Hangman Adam Page who looks like an early 2000s DreamWorks character, is your profile one line from brow to the top of your nose)? from the front, is there a clearly defined edge to the bridge of your nose or does it curve out? how much of the space between your eye sockets is nose, on a range from 100% to 0%?

What shape is the top of the nose in profile? Is it a straight line from bridge to tip? does it curve down? does it curve up like a ski slope? does it come to a sharp stop and angle out into a round tip?

does it have sharp edges? does it look bony, with a pronounced ridge? or is it all soft lines? Does it meet the cheek at an angle or at a curve?

does the tip come to a sharp point, or to a curve? does it angle up (so you can see the nostrils from the front), or down (so you can only see the line of the nose)?

how big is the base of the nose compared to the bridge? from the front, does it flare wide across the face at the bottom, or is it almost a straight line down? is it broader higher up the nose?

what are the nostrils doing? how big are they? are they round, or slit-shaped? do they sit behind the tip, with the noise all contained in a single pyramid shape, or do they sit to the sides? do they sit along the face, point forward towards the tip, or point up higher than the tip?

how does the nose interact with the other features? does it dominate the face? is it a tiny wee thing? does it sit over a very long upper lip with a pronounced philtrum, or is it almost touching the mouth? How much of the space between the eyes is taken up by the bridge of the nose? do the eyebrows curve towards the nose, or meet them at a hard angle? if they wear glasses, where on the nose do they sit?

colouration - is it all the same colour, or pinker at the tip or over the bridge? are the insides of the nostrils visible, and are they pale or dark pink? does the top of the nose get more sun - is it darker?

surface details - are there creases at the bridge or around the nostrils and cheeks? are they from scowling (vertical) or laughing (horizontal)? does their nose scrunch up when they smile, or flare when they're angry? is there hair? freckles? piercings? scars or breaks?

like the nose, jaw and brow are the structure around which the rest of the face is built. if you get to a place in your art style where you're comfortable playing around with that then you immediately add so much more diversity and life and verisimilitude to your characters!

also noses are just great. like they're so fun to draw and there are so many different gorgeous noses! I'm so into noses that usually the way I find how I want a character to look is to draw the eyes, draw the nose, then redraw the eyes and build the whole face around the nose.

(this advice is coming from the fact that the most common compliment I get on my art is the diversity and believability of characters and I would say that's like 50-60% in the nose/brow)

[highdio]

WAIT! did you see my submission that asked about the whole "show me your fear/how will i rule" flashback? i wanted to ask a lot what you thought. can you dig it up? i remember asking you if it gave nuance to what Dio thinks about his egotism. Seeing himself as so powerful, he's the "only" worthy being who could lead humanity. seeing it as a obligation of some sort. please i am really curious about your view.

I don't think I ever got your earlier ask so it’s good you followed up. Re: the "show me your fear" sequence in CDDH, if I'm being honest it made me cringe a little when I read it, like it came across as tryhard.

The best way for me to explain this is by comparing it to the anime scene where Enya says a lot of the same stuff:

Here Enya does the talking, like she's Dio's hypeman. Dio? He doesn't say anything, and honestly it's kind of funny: she's there going on and on about the Joy of Fear while Dio's sort of just there, chilling in his bedroom with a bunch of naked women.

imo having someone else talk about fear while Dio barely acknowledges that we're doing a scene here is more in-character than the battle monolog in CDDH that you're asking about. That's the thing about how Araki writes Dio, and I think this gets lost sometimes: Dio doesn't usually go out of his way to impress you. An obvious early example is when young Dio's introduced in that boxing match but he's off to the side on the hill, nowhere near the ring, leisurely lacing his gloves. There's a lot of scenes like this, where Dio assumes this passive, unhurried posture (from not leaving Egypt to go after Jotaro, to turning his back to Hol, sitting down and reading a book during the 'Shooting Dio?!' chapter). He doesn't have to go out of his way to do much, instead people get drawn toward him. Once you notice this, it becomes a blueprint in terms of how Araki writes him.

I've have the same criticism with the scene earlier in CDDH where Kadono has Dio boastfully reveal to Kakyoin that he orchestrated Kakyoin's family's trip to Egypt (??).

Anytime he's got Dio taking that pro-active a role I think, no, Dio's too lazy for that. While it's all true that Dio's ambitious and plans for contingencies, he's just not going to go out of his way to lash out or attack. He just sort of waits. Araki says it this way:

“DIO is more of the reactionary type, so [if he'd beaten Jotaro and a new opponent appeared] he probably would have continued to take root in Egypt and wait for his prey to come to him.”

Going back to the CDDH "fear" scene you asked about, while the gist of what he's saying is consistent with Dio's character - he's always testing people's fears, limits and motivations - it still comes across as if it's written too in-your-face, like he's saying a bunch of stuff he doesn't need to say. Even the stylistic choice of putting Dio's dialog in speech bubbles bounded by thick, jagged black borders feels tryhard.

Please remember that Dio is a guy who got his minion to cut off his own head by saying very few words interspersed with a ton of ellipses.

This is what I mean about Dio being softer in approach/more passive in canon than in CDDH and in fanon. It's charisma that draws you in rather than him over-acting.

The other part of your ask about Dio seeing himself as the 'only being worthy of leading humanity' as an obligation also seems a little off. I don't think Dio feels obliged to humanity at all, only because Dio sees himself as a top-of-the-food-chain being and humans as prey. fwiw I still think Dio's primary driver is more along the lines of a top-level athlete in the sense that at some point he's competing with himself to 'transcend' his current peak performance level; ruling over humanity doesn't factor into this as much. ofc you could probably get away with headcanoning him as more interested in ruling mankind, but imo he'd do that for the ego-trip or as some sort of sociological experiment rather than through any perceived indebtedness.

[voidcatdoll]

FYI, you can also search by tag and get those filters! Either find a story with the tag you want and click on the tag, or go to the tag search, enter the tags name at the top and make sure to sort by uses and descending (it defaults to names and ascending for some fucking reason). I assume there'll be a tag (or tags) that'll fit the type of story you're looking for pretty closely.

Also, you can exclude things in the "edit search" menu! put "-[thing to exclude]" in the Any Field option at the top and that'll be sorted out. You might have to put it in quotation marks if the tag contains spaces or special characters used for filtering options, just click on the question mark next to the field to look up what those are.

I'm afraid the only thing you'll have to deal with is people not always tagging stuff. AO3 is very loose there by design. Its an archive, and its mission is to make preserving fanworks as easy as possible first. Thats why the only thing it really enforces with tagging is the correct fandom tags and putting appropriate warnings on your work. This policy also makes it unlikely that AO3 does what e621 just did and pulls the rug out from under everyone by going and deleting everything belonging to a objectionable category of works. AO3 was created and it was put in place explicitly to prevent that happening again.

(its also just impossible to enforce the kinda policy e621 has on AO3. e621 is images, its easy to quickly look at and make a judgement call for a moderator. Imagine you get a report on AO3 and now you need to read a novels worth of fiction to figure out if the report is legitimate & if anything else is missing. Its just a limitation of the prevalent format as well)

fwiw I'm sure a lot of authors will add a tag if you ask them nicely, & I think making that part of the culture is the best bet at improving that aspect of the reader experience on AO3.

i flipping hate ao3's layout there's too many goddamn words

[llycaons]

rest of my comments are going under a readmore bc this is a lot. how exciting! I'm staying up late to read like a kid again hehe. um spoiler warning for the first hundred pages of alexandra rowland's a taste of gold and iron, because I really do commment on like, everything

the misunderstandings beginning from before they really meet properly, based on reputation and an event that was hastily covered up, actually makes a lot of sense. unlike frustrating 'why is he so oblivious!' plots, it's an understandable misunderstanding of the type of person kadou is, only resolvable through extended interpersonal contact (hehe!)

I like kadou, but evemer's judgement of him also makes sense to me. when he was like why IS he eating so richly if he feels so bad? shouldn't he limit himself in penance? I was like hmm much to think about!

also kadou sleeping with one of his guards is ethically pretty dubious. arguably so is this relationship, but we'll see how it goes. I would much rather read something like this where the guard is extremely judgemental and critical of the prince than something like tgcf where one is a god and the other is a worshipper

'five days is how long you mourn a parent or child' THAT'S IT??? in some eras people went into mourning for YEARS. months at least. can't tell if this is a remarkably foolish choice or an indication about this culture

I really like evemer, too. he has a strong moral code and his judgements stem from honest adherence to his belief in justice and fairness. he's extremely straightforward, he's not afraid to criticizehis charge, and he clearly loves his mom. also it's fun to watch a servant be hostile and critical of a royal, even if just internally. and he has a point. kadou isn't exactly an impressive or ascetic or particularly strong-willed person

so the big issue of national security centers on trade secrets surrounding...maintaining a maritime monopoly on trade routes. okay? I can tell it's important while not being overly anxious. if it's not solved their country will decline in power, but nobody will like, be mass murdered.

on the flip side, it's not like their national power is upheld with the kind of violence the goblin emperor's state was. I can see the comparisons - maia and kadou are both shy, nervous, compassionate young men - but I don't think this book will spout the same political bullshit that I hated so much in tgo. I hope not. actually if this book avoided politics of the lower classes entirely that would be cool bc I really don't see it handling that well with a royal mc

evemer and kadou are both extremely relatable ngl. like I've been in both their shoes - terrified of vague uncertainties, of people's judgement, of embarassing myself. and also being the competent one, judgemental of people in a position of responsibility not able to get it together.

I really do enjoy how judgy evemer is. another thing that annoyed me abt tgo was how uhh servile and scraping the staff was bc maia was just THAT perfect and good and pure of a leader. but evemer has little to no respect for kadou, takes no pleasure in serving him, and has already stated that he thinks going without food will build kadou's character. he's a little out there but he feels like someone with integrity who expects a lot of the people he serves

he's a little insane actually but that's okay. character development 👍

the author uses the barely-altered and thus familiar 'for the gods' sake' instead of the incredibly corny 'oh my gods' WHEW

I do have to say tho. kadou genuinely has an anxiety disorder and nobody seems to know that's a thing? or well, he just calls it cowardice. nobody's been rude about it but the fact that he doesn't know about it means that it's not recognized in this setting as a genuine uhhh disorder ig. and he's dealing with it all alone

so this is a vaguely SWANA-inspired fantasy, but the religious system is original to the setting

fwiw part of the reason I hate the cover is bc they look like two white guys to me but shit, I don't know. who can say where those models are from. but they're darker-skinned in my head

so kadou makes some bad decisions when he's freaked out and anxious and yeah it's partially on him for not managing his 'cowardice' better but also he has very little off the type of support he clearly needs. someone needs to introduce deep breathing to him....being assertive...communicating...I feel for him but I also understand why his family and staff are frustrated

his terrible decisions and panicked incompetence should make me annoyed with him but honestly I just feel bad. like he's really struggling! so I'm more like *fondly* oh, you <3

damn...he's back to fucking to the guy who started this mess. bad idea!!!! on the other hand....he literally has anxiety

it's smart that this part isn't explicit (sabe the good stuff for later, lol) but I really hope the actual get-together for the main couple is

I usually don't like guard/royal relationships bc of the power dynamic but I think it's being interrogated and handled fairly well here

kadou snapping and throwing himself into a self-destructive spiral is a great way to shake up their dynamic

the writing gets a little shaky here - more of evemer's plain straightforwardness?

anyway it's great when he was like damn this guy could stand to be punched just a little. nobody in his position has the right to feel sorry for themself. he's wrong - kadou is legitimately suffering - but the lack of hero-worship even as he takes his duty seriously is rly nice

and he's not gonna actually let kadou get hurt, or leave him there at a bar with people he's intentionally provoking. you know he's not

actually the metal-tasting has only come up a few times. it's not hugely plot-relevant or even that weird or obnoxious, as I was worried it could be for such a specific and unique magical trait

side note - france exists in this setting? or at least the french language, tho it's not called that. cadeau like a present, huh...

the scene where evemer was all proud of suggesting kadou learn to spar and kadou was like 😯 really...you'll teach me...and then immediately knocked evemer out like 'Ive been trained in fighting since I was a toddler, you idiot' had me laughing so hard. what a turnaround!

of course evemer assumed all of kadou's issues would be solved with Military Training! of course he assumed he couldn't fight - he thinks he's flighty and careless and weak. and instead of immediately clarifying, kadou let him sit in his smug satisfaction for a few minutes and pretended like he didn't know how to throw a punch, until it was time to completely take evemer by surprise and knock him on his ass. HA!

I was wondering how kadou was even alive bc he doesn't seem to have any hobbies or interests or friends so like, what did he even do in his 25 years before the story started? besides get tutored and spend time with his sister. but it's such fun to see he has a real strong personality and a sneaky streak under that shyness and protectiveness for his people

he's also mean as FUCK to both evemer and all these commoners bc he's miserable and wants them to hurt him. like we're all surprised we didn't know he had it in him...but it's a great contrast! up until now he's been the quiet shy nervous physically smaller one, so turning this around and making him aggressive and tough and physically powerful is really refreshing

welp, that was chapter four! whew

[logicalstansadvice]

How yall feel about the lack of promo for Sharper? // Streaming services notoriously suck at promoting their projects and Sharper is a small movie so I don't expect anything besides maybe a few zoom interviews and a couple of magzine articles.

I don't think Ghosted will get that much promo either since it's also going straight to streaming after a brief limited theatrical run. Apple is just using Cevans and Ana de Armas to create buzz and garner new subscribers for their platform. Btw, those Timothy Chamalet ads are so cringe 😂

Anon 2: I mean, Ghosted (with Cevans and Ana de Armas) will be released in April on AppleTV+ and they're already promoting it. // FWIW I watch YouTube daily and have seen zero promo for Ghosted and near daily promo for Sharper. The promo is for new mystery/thriller-type shows on AppleTV+ and Sharper is included with a couple others in the same promo.

Anon 3: CE and AdA are at another level of fame than Seb or even Julianne Moore or John Lithgow. Pam and Tommy was heavily promoted because of Pam and Tommy, not Seb and Lily. Sharper won't be advertised the same way. Sharper also seems to be a complex movie with a lot of twists that can't be put into salacious soundbites. I'm assuming they think it's a good movie if it's still got theater dates. So best guess is that most advertising will be simultaneous with reviews.

Anon 4: Total Film said Sharper has the most secretive press tour. So maybe it's kind of a strategy to stay low-key before it release? Because everyone can find the script on internet if they want to read.

Anon 5: it is with a24 but they're only a partner in this movie. in case you don't know apple tv is SHIT when it comes to promoting their movies. 🙄 i hate them so much. if you go to their account you'll notice most project they promote are this close 🤏🏽 to their premiere when they start promoting them. it's a stupid thing they always do.

💄

[pceexistsinthevoid]

sorta helpful/sorta not "about me" post

I was in the mood to come across really catty when i first wrote this. i've tweaked it since, but it's still there. sorry.

(last updated: 11/14/2024)

General info

Name stuff:

"pce" (my initials) is the main thing to call me

you can say the individual letters or pronounce it like a word, i don't really care

i am a member of the lowercase name club, though, thanks

Pronouns:

basically any pronouns (I always include the "basically" because i do, ultimately, have my limits, but i promise they're not limits that are easy/feasible to cross if you're the type to care about using the correct pronouns)

Age:

I tend to be both older and younger than people assume. (over 18. legally an adult somehow. I don't really specify beyond that for very "fun" reasons.)

Boundaries/reasons i might block you:

vast and unknowable. (if you make me tired just thinking about you, there's a good chance you're gonna be blocked idk. same with if you're not good at distinguishing yourself from a spam/porn bot)

Location:

The Void, generally. (born, raised, and currently residing in the upper midwestern united states. whatever you assume about me based on that, you're probably correct. unless you're not, but idrc either way)

Other social media:

letterboxd, if you wanna see me in the grips of my various fixations

i have other things, but am not willing to share them. don't even worry about it.

Appearance:

This is pretty much all you'll ever get

if you want to picture the rest of the person making these posts, fwiw I'm white/blonde haired/blue eyed/5' 10".

i am also extremely hot, you're welcome. (sometimes that's a joke, sometimes it's not. i'll go along with whatever you want it to be within reason)

Preemptive responses to questions based on my observations of how people interact on social media

"What specific mental illness and/or neurodivergence do you have?": that's for me to know and me to find out.

"why do you talk about/reblog stuff that talks about politics I disagree with?": because I want to.

"You're not funny": cool. If I were making jokes for someone like you I'd read your diary or bother to listen while you spoke.

"i wanna give you medical advice based on the things you describe and/or reblog": don't. i won't immediately think you're a bad person, i just won't listen to/take said advice and think that there's probably (read: definitely) better ways to spend your time.

"am i annoying you by making myself known to you?": not inherently, no. I am a standoffish little weirdo, unfortunately, so i see how you might get there, but, i mean...i generally leave asks/reblogs/replies on for a reason. i'm not naïve about how this site works. if you talk to me with the respect you should have for any person, i won't have much of an issue with it.

"how often are you actually here when you're posting?": sometimes. when i see a long hiatus incoming i typically try to warn you, but obviously i can't always do that. i never tag the queue, though, bc i just kinda don't want to.

[manogirl]

No but these are very good questions!

This is what *I* would consider the definition: a piece of visual media (TV or film) that centers the romantic relationship between two men. There may be other storylines, or side plots, or overarching mysteries, but ultimately the story is about two men falling in love. The show should be structured around the beats of the relationship, regardless of what else is going on around them.

(I also think a true BL should have a happy ending, but that's my own romance novel bias coming into play. I also sort of think they need to have very limited runs. When a show has two seasons and the couple breaks up in episode 1 of season 2 only to get back together by the end? UGH WHAT'S THE POINT. But like, I'm talking one season.)

That said, it means some shows might not be BLs that are sometimes named as BLs: Laws of Attraction or say, Manner of Death. Or shit, What Did You Eat Yesterday and the second season of Ossan's Love. FWIW, I love all four of the listed shows very much. I'm thinking about a WDYEY rewatch as I type this. I'm just not sure they're BLs.

Anyway, I don't think the West really does BLs. Maybe some movies come close. Maybe. You might could convince me I'm wrong. Maybe.

i think the first ever bl every person watched should be publicly available information about everyone in the fandom. cause that will tell me more about you than any personal information or eventual tier rankings ever could.

[highdio]

Hey! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but, I have been into JoJo for some time now and never really bought any merch for it because I don't have much space! Do you have any recommendations for something to buy for someone like me without the room for something like a figure or poster? Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask!

Great ask and I feel like I don't have as good an answer, so first off, if someone reading this wants to reply with suggestions in the comments/reblogs with suggestions, feel free to add.

Some ideas:

1. Maybe look for merch that serves another purpose at the same time so it doesn’t need its own designated space - like apparel, glassware/dishes, jewelry, etc. There's lots of Jojo goods in these categories.

2. Small merch. Especially if you don't mind chibis, there's some lines of SD Jojo figures like Chara Heroes, World Collectable Figures, tomonui ('microorganism' Jojos), tsums, etc. (fwiw I don't recommend nendoroids as much if space is an issue bc, like larger figures, they've got boxes you'll want to hold onto plus accessories ... unless you can limit to just a couple of them). Plushes seem to take up a lot less space than figures since they don't need a dedicated location for display.

3. Designate a small space to display a couple of Jojo items (I have a bookcase top that's only 11 x 18 inches that I keep a few of the figures I really love on top of).

4. Hanged-up or keychain merch. Basically, stuff you can carry around with you. Again, there's some good Jojo merch in this category.

4. Artbooks and manga volumes. It's usually easier to find room for books than figures/other goods and there's some really good Araki artbooks.

Hope some of this is helpful.

Also fwiw mfc has a ‘goods’ category and while iirc it’s far from complete, it can give you an idea of what’s available for each character. Since he doesn’t have much stuff here’s Diego’s link as an example: https://myfigurecollection.net/entry/41383. You can see in addition to his figures, he’s got a drinking glass (along with Valentine), coaster, t-shirt, and the infamous cell phone holder (also fwiw, some of these type goods are harder to track down but always rewarding when you find).

[highpriestmckickass]

Well I had a big long thing typed up, but I'm on mobile and it ate my post. Rip.

TLDR I think it does a terrible job summarizing SSC in particular, but certainly hits upon a very fair criticism of it, and the rationalist blogosphere more generally.

First off a disclaimer, I'm not really a rationalist or rationalist-adjacent, I just saw this blog occasionally and was a contrarian kind of teen. So I could be missing some context here.

There were some very good posts (this one in particular pretty much single-handedly pushed me from "using trans people's preferred pronouns is the right thing to do, but it's a polite fiction" to "yeah no it's genuinely correct"). And some pretty bad posts (the ones linked by the NYT, and also this one in particular). Also some much less-culture-war-y abstract topics like emergent behavior and what constitutes productive debate.

So I don't think the picture painted by the NYT is super accurate. It's not some "Dark Enlightenment"-style pipeline designed to pull people into the alt-right, I think it was a genuinely good faith attempt to ground things with better epistemology.

But it certainly did attract those people. Turns out it's hard to distinguish genuine truth-seeking from JAQ-ing off, and the deliberate rationalist openness to taboo leaves a lot of room for bad actors to swoop in. I know for me personally, some of those posts (esp the early livejournal ones) had me on a "we should do egalitarianism instead" train for a while, and there's a lot of ways for that to slip into much worse forms of anti-feminism, depending on which atmosphere you're in. (FWIW the fix for me was actually having non-adversarial, low-stakes, 1-1 conversations with female friends on the topic. Turns out that's a better environment for learning then shouting on the internet... >_>)

I think (as an outsider with limited info into the history here) the rationalist belief that "we should be open to and carefully consider ideas people might disagree with" (a respectable virtue) too often meant "things that my social sphere might disagree with", and since that's usually a liberal background, that was disproportionately "things that are neoreactionary", creating a haven for ideological predators to snag people.

That'd have been a much more interesting, and fairer, article about this. Instead we got this "ooh spooky secret blog all the SV elites conspire to protect".

Well this turned out about as long as and less meandering then the original post. Oops.

new article about SSC in the new york times is going to cause some absolutely rancid discourse