#got wank for ts

[cascigarette]

imagine thinking sam "I felt like a freak my whole life amongst my family and my peers and society as a whole" winchester isn't queer coded

[lesbianclaryfray]

i will never understand why we’re always on the first batgirl. or why babs always has to be batgirl because she’s the most “well-known” (which i’ve seen cited as a reason for babsgirl’s return in n52). dick grayson is the first and most well-known robin but he gets to grow the fuck up and move on. jason gets to be red hood. even tim sometimes gets to grow up to make room for dami!robin. but babs can never be oracle and cass/steph can never be the only/main batgirl because…? because having disabled superheroes is too far? because having more than 1-2 women in the batfamily is too much work? it’s such bullshit i can’t believe dc keeps getting away with it and people keep defending it

[kedreeva]

getting real tired of people who think the only way to talk nice about characters they like is to put down characters they don't. it's not cool, it's just mean and petty.

[homemadesterekpie]

The fucking nerve of the tw tumblr account I-

AHAHAHAH I KNOW RIGHT

[thewingedwolf]

someone compared rhaenicent with swan queen and everything clicked into place re: why ali grates on me and why i have a hard time getting behind that ship lol

[hussyknee]

Hi, hello! What do you know about Colleen Hoover? Seeing a lot but not getting a lot about her. Are her books harmfull or is it just dark fiction, does she put trigger warnings or not?? Genuinely just curious what you happen to know, if you're up to sharing.

Colleen Ballinger the YouTube star not Colleen Hoover the author! Colleen Ballinger is a musician who used to produce "satirical" music videos under the name Miranda Sings (apparently, I've never heard of this woman before this week), and has been accused of grooming her underage fans and a fuckload of inappropriate behaviour with minors (cw: child sexual predation).

She responded to the allegations by, uh, playing a passaggro non-apology song on a ukulele*. The internet reacted predictably, which is how people like me, who haven't been following anything on YouTube in years, got to know about any of this.

(Someone made a Tumblr post saying T*ylor Sw*ft's music all sound like the sad ukulele song to them, but some people thought OP was comparing TS to a groomer so that created some wank on here too.)

The scandal also brought to light some horrifically racist videos of Ballinger's (there's also one where she seems to be doing blackface but it's currently in dispute. Fwiw I think it's blackface). What really sticks in my teeth is that one of the most popular characters she played in her videos was a caricature of an intellectually disabled person based on her own cousin?? Those weren't buried unlike the racist videos, but didn't seem to have merited any backlash until now??

I just did a twitter search to link some of them and the results are somehow even worse today. Also there's one of her confessing to killing her dog which is triggering as all fuck. So, uh I'm not linking anything but be careful if you look this shit up yourself. I know most of us were pretty gross and ignorant in 2014 ourselves but this is BEYOND.

Frankly, I'm only following this vaguely because I'm a pathological rubber-necker and weak for internet drama. 😂 But the overt nature of the racism and ableism, and the fact that accusations of mistreatment and exploitation by other underage fans and Black and Asian employees had all been dismissed for years until now, while not surprising, is still pissing me off.

P.S: Anyone armchair diagnosing Ballinger with narcissistic personality disorder or BPD or whatever is an ableist stigmatizing neurodivergent conditions. Just make up a neurodivergent character for laughs like she does and be done with it. Thanks.

*I've linked to a tweet that has her "apology" video embedded, instead of to the YT video itself. Please don't give these people's pages themselves more traffic.

[kedreeva]

did you read the CNBC article "Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm griup claims it's a 'collusive scheme' by suppliers"? Given how knowledgeable you are about your own birds, I'm interested to hear your thoughts! I particularly found it weird in the inflation numbers comparison where eggs went up by 59.9% in December while the "poultry" category only went up by 12.2%. Doesn't that seem counter-intuitive since it takes much longer to raise meat vs eggs even with the flu? I'm not trying to grill you at all I just like your blog and would like to see your thoughts on it :)

I have no idea why you think eggs take a shorter time, but meat birds are ready for butcher at 6-8 weeks old, and egg birds are a minimum of like 4 months, if not 6-10 depending on breed.

Don't listen to people (general) on farm groups. I'm in several, and day in and day out I see some real hot takes on stuff and a lot of people who either don't know what they're doing or are doing stuff that's like, actively harmful. The people that know what they're talking about burn out trying to argue with the people that are Very Convinced that they're right as they say the most wrong things. I'm locked in combat to the death in one group over the people there using the phrase "fertile but not fertilized" to describe an infertile/unfertilized egg. There's literally no such thing as "fertile but unfertilized." An egg is infertile or fertile, or it's unfertilized or fertilized. But by golly you cannot convince them this is the case, even directing them to google to check for themselves. I've seen med recs for overdoses and underdoses. I had one lady tell me she poured some injectable meds under her bird's wing, and flat out refuse to give more via injection or buy the pour-on version because didn't "want to overdose him." MA'AM you didn't DOSE him!!! What you did was the equivalent of pouring cough syrup on your hand. I chased my own tail for WEEKS with a lady that INSISTED 12 accidental fires in a single year, across all the farms in the US (you know, the 2.5 million farms in the US), meant that there was a government conspiracy to cause a food shortage, and that's why she kept chickens. You might be able to find A Person on those groups that knows anything correct, but the groups at large are often not great for anything other than sharing cute pics and finding homes for excess birds.

Now don't get me wrong, if a company CAN charge a little more for something and get away with it, they're probably gonna try, and I'm sure that some of that is involved, in some places more heavily than others. But also we lost almost 58 MILLION chickens, a lot of them egg layers, to HPAI last year, from around march to june (like, for reference, the US has about 300 million egg-type production birds, across ages). There's also a higher cost in fuel, and likely an unwillingness to hire people who have standards about how they're treated factoring in. Given the processing/shipping/distribution time and the requirements (including the cost of materials, testing, cleaning, disposal etc) of sanitizing land and having to let it sit for a period before being able to resume production, that lag and then sept-dec 2022 zone was exactly where I expected the price rise to happen, and at least from what I've seen, it's already coming back down (from $6 to $4 around me anyway) as those lost facilities have reached laying ages. I expect it will keep going down, provided HPAI doesn't devastate the industry again this year.

If you want a visual representation of what the fuck happened last year, here's from the USDA:

So no, I don't think it's weird and also I don't think it's a conspiracy. Shit just happens sometimes, and instead of taking the hit to their profit, they took it out of egg prices because they had an excuse to raise them to cover costs and possibly make extra while people were tolerant. That's not really a conspiracy in my book, it's just capitalizing on a thing that happened. you know. like capitalists.

[amorremanet]

i enjoy the way complaining in the tags still feels like muttering to myself

[dyed-red]

Not to be self-satisfied dick but this review of episode 2 of TW feels like a lot of vindication for issues I have with the prequel and what its missing:

And not to double down and be a total bitch but the way the writer keeps pointing out weird character retcons and calling the gang the Scooby hunters or the Scoobies is giving me life

[kedreeva]

Do you have anything to chip in with the Ramsey Loft discourse?

no

[homemadesterekpie]

i can’t believe i’ll have to go through this again

[prince-of-elsinore]

I find it so funny when hellers call it "gatekeeping" to insist you have to watch the first three seasons of the show to get it, as if it's the same as saying "you're not a real fan if you can't name X writer or director or character" I mean it's not like this is Grey's Anatomy or NCIS, folks, it's not some procedural drama, it is a show with a plot and season arcs, and the first five seasons are actually all one long arc, so yeah, coming in at season 4 is like showing up to Hamlet in Act IV, can you imagine having the audacity to claim your criticism and interpretation are just as valid as those who actually arrived on time and saw the whole dang thing? No one's forcing you to watch s1-3, but pretending that it's gatekeeping when people who did watch the whole five season arc suggest your opinions don't have a firm basis in the text? It's laughable

[him-e]

The center of alt-right and radical right-wing ideology in Star Wars fandom is on YouTube, a favorable (and profitable) home for indignation against non-white and non-cis male individuals built up on 4chan during Gamergate. It isn’t difficult to find videos of mostly white men belaboring their strongly held belief that women and minorities are ruining video games, comic books, and Star Wars. [...] Whether they realize it or not, they are diligently carrying forward Steve Bannon’s master plan to change culture in order to change politics. And there is no better target for such an agenda than a franchise considered to be a cultural touchpoint of modern Western myth. The shared narrative across this group’s thousands of videos is simple: First, Kathleen Kennedy ruined Star Wars by allowing women to work in too many creative jobs at LucasFilm. Then, Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars by emasculating Luke Skywalker, creating the character of Rose Tico, and letting Rey win a lightsaber fight before going through an extensive training montage. And before all of that, Disney ruined Star Wars by hiring both Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson. For anybody not radicalized enough to believe this narrative, these types of videos with outrageous headlines written in all caps and memes do look, well, silly. It’s simple to look at these people, have a laugh, and walk away. But we do unfortunately have to pay attention to what these angry (mostly) white men in front of a web camera have to say because [...] the systems of power leveraging this kind of enmity online are organized, ruthless and tied back to some of the most hateful people in the United States.

In Plain Sight: How White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Hate Targeted the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Won by Rewriting Ripley

[venturoushearta]

Do you ever think about how Clara was labelled a control freak because she watched her friend die and change into a completely different person and received absolutely zero emotional support for it because yeah