#bigger issues to think about'

[gibbearish]

maybe this was common knowledge and ive been severely out of the loop but the fact that russel t davies is gay is kind of rocking my world rn?

[gingerswagfreckles]

Whenever I see people get into another slap fight about who's indigenous to the Israel/Palestine area it just makes me want to scream because it literally doesn't matter. It doesn't matter?? It doesn't matter!!! Sorry if this is some crazy sacrilegious thing we aren't supposed to say anymore but we are no longer talking about shit like cultural appropriation or who should be allowed to build this or that temple we are literally talking about whether it's ok to hack a civilian's head off with a garden hoe or shoot dead medical workers who have their hands tied behind their backs or rape a teen girl three times and then lock her in her car and set it on fire and laugh as she burns to death or force civilians to walk into buildings that have been booby trapped by a terror organization or strangle a literal 9 month year old baby to death and I cannot fucking believe people will use arguments about who's indigenous to an area to justify this shit but they do. They really do.

Pop quiz for all the terminally online braindead leftists out there who have been so brainrotted by tiktok that they forgot what human rights are: Who was indigenous to Germany during the Holocaust, the ethnic Germans, or the Jews?

Follow up question, do you really think it mattered? Is there any universe in which you would think the Holocaust was ok because the Jews aren't indigenous to Germany, and the Germans are? What fucking warped schools of thought are you producing with your AI generated short form video content algorithms, that is turning you into some crazy blood and soil lunatic who thinks we can use someone's DNA or culture to determine whether or not it's ok to kill them?

[starryeyed-seer]

Look, buddy, you either come to the Neath because you're trans, or you live long enough in the Neath you become trans. There ain't any other way.

[agnesandhilda]

watched conclave last night and then read the wikipedia entry for the book and now I'm wondering about the category ten shitstorm that a publicly intersex pope would cause

[untherapized-eddie]

i've said this before but i think this show was at its best when the opening season disasters set up some themes/storylines that continued on into the season. i think the tsunami arc was so great not just because those eps themselves were high quality, high drama, great effects, wonderful character moments etc., but because of how the eps set up some stuff that lingered for so many characters. for may, for buck, for chris; just to name a few.

the past few seasons we haven't had that. i enjoyed beenado and the plane landing but if you removed that from the season does it affect anything that's happened since?

[emiliagrant]

Buck and Tommy ♡ flirty, kinky and in love

[fictionadventurer]

I think I underestimated how cool it is that Little House books are a "woman remembers her childhood" children's classic by an author from a working-class and rural background. Most working-class books of the genre have urban settings, and most rural girlhood classics come from a family that's in a fairly stable community--maybe not rich, but comfortable enough that they don't have to worry about whether they'll make it through a winter.

Laura Ingalls grew up dirt poor in a family that knew how to grow or build or hunt or make everything that they needed, because they had to. Yet when she grew up, she got into a position where she could publish about it. Which is pretty astounding, because people in her situation are usually too busy doing the farmwork to write about it--they don't have connections to the publishing industry. Yet she did, so we get to hear from someone who knows that farm and small-town setting intimately, and not because she grew up and and ran off to the city as soon as she could escape, but because she still lives it and loves it and advocates for it.

She knows the details of that life and loves it. Like, she genuinely cares about raising the chickens, not as a housewife's hobby, but as an important source of meat, eggs and money for the family. It's grounded, earthy, sensible, but also romantic, because she while she's doing farm work or house work she's noticing the little moments of beauty or thinking about the big issues of life. But it took a long series of coincidences to get this ordinary farm wife into a position of wanting to write, being able to write, and having a national audience for her writing, so I just want to appreciate how amazing it is that it happened.

[johnconn]

Grifter and Nightwings interaction in urban legends would be a hundred times funnier if you consider that they both secretly remember each other from spy wars but they both don't want to admit it. Dick because Spyral is not a time he wants to look back to and Cole because he lowkey got his ass handed to him

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodenby]

*slaps side of cybersix cartoon* this show can fit so many trans experiences in it

like, the genderfluidity of it all? you're is presenting as a man here with this identity and as a woman here with this identity but is always still you. one of the things the story says over and over about our protagonist's love interest is that, in whatever way, he cares so so much about our protagonist in Both of their identities. The story is not just about one it's about both.

a transmasc experience? The coat that's a bit too big for you but makes your shoulders look wider, the shirt that's big enough to hide in, your voice doesn't really pass and you're just hoping it'll be overlooked, you get hurt and you don't want to go to a hospital because they would see through the disguise, you don't want to give your name to someone who might realize it's not official. If they see through the disguise you're in danger. you've finally reached a part of your life where you can make connections freely as a person but there's always this doubt of is this real? do i deserve this? what if they knew? and they can't know because that would implicate them in the same danger. i cannot be this and live this all the time because of how i was created, because of the dangers around me. and at the end of the day, when it comes to the final hour, I'll have to give this up, won't I? you put the glasses down. but you survive anyway, and you can get them back, if you want.

but just. the more I watched of this show the more it's just absolutely hit me in the feels with a transfem narrative? like in the way galaxy the prettiest star has a 'you're in disguise as a man to keep yourself and those around you safe' transfem narrative and like specifically a partially closeted/sometimes in guymode transfem narrative. your childhood photo that you keep with you is ambiguous enough on your gender to not give anything away. you go to work in mens clothes that don't quite fit right with a man's name and you hope no one sees through that facade because if they do you would be in danger. You go home and at night you change your hair, you put on your makeup and nails and heels and you go back out as yourself. and you are incredibly strong and you are in incredible danger but deep in your heart you feel alive. and at the same time there is a voice in your head that says you are not real, you are not a real person. you are not the right kind of person. you are not the right kind of woman. you don't deserve the things that real people deserve. you'll try to turn away someone who loves you because of that but because he loves you for yourself he doesn't care. You face danger and you survive anyway and you're loved. It just. it hits me right in the feels. I love her.

so much trans. very gender.

[epickiya722]

You know what, Tracer wearing the Deku skin is even funnier to me remembering that Horikoshi drew Deku, his own character now, wearing Miruko's costume for the Year of the Rabbit sketch.

[spookygibberish]

Dogstock are typical of what are often deemed the ‘evil’ races in many other fantasy works. They were created by some higher force to be slaves, they are carnivorous by nature, they resemble animals other than human in dentition and build. They growl and bite and walk behind.

The Uhasr (a dogstock culture) are descendants of such slave-infantry that was abandoned when the empire that used them to capture the steppes decided the land wasn’t so profitable after all, and more pressing matters drew their attention elsewhere. Like tools left spent on the ground, the unneeded, excess dogstock were left to survive on their own in Hochkiskuph. The native peoples, of course, did not welcome them any more, or see them any less as oppressors when the hand released the lead. To the Hochkiskuph peoples, the Uhasr are a predatory ghost, an echo that consumes them even in absentia. To the Uhasr, one human is much like another, differing in number and equipment, but never in essence. Uhasr are a species of wild animal with a human face. Humans are prey on two legs. Humans smoke and poison uncovered dens on principle, Uhasr abduct and consume men and women and children all the same.

A common trend I have noticed in media which aims to humanize monsters, is that it often relies on passivity. Humanity is contingent upon kindness. The monster that is A Person only so long as they are a harmless thing at heart, something which can be understood and befriended. Their violence is reluctant, their hearts noble. Grace is a concession to the dominated. Only the toothless beast, declawed and pinioned and caged, is one which has earned its personhood. The ontological enemy supersedes the ontological man.

[nillisaie]

I saw something last night that really bothered me and it honestly probably shouldn't, but it did and it's how someone said they bought the Alastor pride merch even though they weren't ace themselves. And I couldn't figure out why exactly aside from the obvious me being crazy jealous and overprotective over the deer that I adore, but I think I figured it out

When I checked the website yesterday morning, it said that over 100 people bought that shirt. It's probably several hundreds now. And when I saw that number, I thought "wow, so many aces!" I thought all of the ace and aroace and probably aro too fans were buying it up in support, because they felt represented by Alastor like I did. But this person saying how they got it despite not being ace themselves made me realize that those 100s and 100s of people buying the shirt aren't all aces or aros or any aspecs. A good portion of them are honestly probably aphobes themselves who just want to sexualize the deer man who isn't interested. And that honestly hurts a lot. Just the thought of finally being able to hold this shirt honestly makes me want to cry, because it's the closest thing to being able to show my colors I can get without possibly outing myself and aphobes are buying it because sexy deer. It's honestly making me wonder if my attempt at saying I'm (aro)ace! by dressing head to toe in Alastor stuff is pointless, if people just see me as some fangirl instead of an actual ace in the hole like Alastor. If I wear this shirt, will people even know I'm wearing it because I'm ace?

[atthecenterofeverything]

i don't actually care when the argument "this terminally online person is clearly arguing about something that doesn't matter at all in the real world and has no material basis, if they had real problems or were doing something real in their community they would stop discoursing and care about real issues" is applied to a situation where I agree - I've seen it deployed over and over by the most annoying liberal leftists in existence to shut down discussions of transmisogyny, family abolition, and any communist theory or project that goes too much against "common sense". I've never seen a "discourse prediction" post supposed to make fun of crazy discourse that did not include at some point a very important topic that is just treated as out there by most ppl bc it affects people who are not considered full human members of society.

hatereading people who trigger this kind of reaction in you is fine but I can't handle ppl who repeatedly invoke this line of thinking without 1. recognizing the capacity in themselves (and myself too of course) to care deeply and argue about things that don't really matter and 2. occasionally questioning their own assumptions when encountering ideas that seem to go "too far" or be "impractical".

which is not to say you should give every random poster a deep thorough analysis but ignoring them instead of screenshotting and mocking and boasting of how offline and detached from discourse you are (as a tumblr user.......) and how this person needs to do hard manual labor instead (hm.) is ime more productive to nourishing the "ruthless criticism of all that exists" practice in yourself

[shkspr]

there is nothing ableist about the fact that if you cannot make the type of art you want to make due to disability, ai Does Not enable you to make that art. no matter what your disability is, and even if youre 100% ablebodied, you cannot make art with publicly available generative ai tools. you are not making art. that is not what making art is.

you are doing the exact equivalent of typing a search term into google except instead of simply returning results that have been made by other people it just mashes those results together. badly. im not passionate about ip law, i dont give a fuck truly, the fact that its not your art that you created is not a moral judgment, it is just a fact. using a publicly available generative ai tool Is Not creating art.

if your disability precludes you creating what you want to create artistically Without the use of generative ai tools, then unfortunately that type of creation is just something that you are not able to do. thats how being disabled works sometimes. the use of these tools is not an accessibility aid that empowers disabled people to do art. it is an internet toy that produces bad images for you to look at.

[starlitvases]

"Hey Starlit! What's your opinion on origin syscourse?"

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"Starlit..?"

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Oh sorry, I was reading an article on how black and brown felons were scored more harshly on their predicted re-offense rate compared to their white counterparts with similar crimes by an AI tool, thus them receiving harsher sentences by human judges upon seeing the scores. What were we talking about again?

[diamonds-at-y11]

Saw everyone talking about how Minecraft story mode is a better adaption than the literal MOVIE and it got me thinkin

Minecraft story mode is the game I vividly remember playing on our xbox in the little room connected to the attic with my sister beside me. I was a Minecraft obsessed kid and this game was so COOL to me at the time. Minecraft??? My beloved game??? But with a story???? That I get to be a part of and change??? Obviously a lot of people don’t like Minecraft story mode and that’s completely understandable, it’s pretty silly and hard to take seriously, but one thing it was was GENUINE. It had unique characters and a story that was new and exciting while still completely grounded in the world of Minecraft. You fought monsters and rode mine carts and interacted with cool red stone stuff and survived a fall from thousands of blocks up by falling into water and when that stupid fucking pig died a pork chop floated on the ground. It was so stupidly, unambiguously, completely, genuinely Minecraft. You were literally a character born and raised in the game. It even had beloved Minecraft YouTubers as guests in a silly murder mystery (that was actually the coolest thing ever ngl). It was for the fans, fully committed to the world the fans already loved. 

Who is this movie even for?? Why does it make this wishy-washy half commitment to the very game it’s adapting?? WHY IS IT ISEKAI?? Where’s the nostalgia?? The childhood experience of playing around in the silly block game with your siblings, not a care in the world?? Why is the sheep on sonic trailer levels of horrifically realistic?? This game is about BLOCKS thats its whole THING that’s why we love it you FOOLS. Why are there curves!? (That can’t happen without mods!!!) WHY IS JACK BLACK HERE?? 

You had such a beautiful, beloved, game with such genuine heart and meaning. The end poem literally makes me CRY and I don’t CARE how stupid that sounds. I don’t even want to try to describe it just go read it. And I just know the movie is going to have such a surface level depiction of what the game is, designed to be brainrot easily consumable for 7 year olds. Something tells me the people who made this movie would just skip past the credits anyways.