#my stances are forward

[goobernormieomi]

this is a semi serious post so if u don’t want to read this bc its related to interpersonal conflicts and issues I had w others thats all good! Just felt it was time I said something for some people

So, I want to make it clear that if anyone has anything to apologize for to me, I’d prefer if it was directly and personally. I understand feeling anxious to do so but I find it more disingenuous if someone just makes a doc or a post talking about it instead, yes the behavior some people did against me that was quite honestly disgusting was public, but I prefer a direct apology before one decides to make a post.

I don’t want to talk too much about the whole Mel situation, ever since that whole situation where I left youtube and hid most of my stuff from the public I have wanted to do nothing with the situation let alone her ever again. I am willing to answer minor questions but only in private not publicly, I left behind that whole thing for a reason it was incredibly damaging to me.

To the people who harassed, bullied, shit talked, spread rumors, or generally had the guts to wish death on me because you were in a group with mel or in general in the fanbase. I do hope you guys mean it when you say you’re sorry, and I don’t mean that in a threatening way but in a more genuine manner. Time and time again I’ve seen people get influenced into taking wrong choices and acting so vile all for some “fun” and “bonding” and its been really, really harmful through the whole community from what I can tell.

I just want you all to feel better, find some peace, and let go of whatever it is that makes you cling to this whole situation, I mean this to everyone involved. I don’t generally hold a distaste for many of the ones who acted rudely towards me during the ordeal, most I’m willing to talk things out or simply leave in neutral terms, the only one, and I mean this clearly have it be said and done the only one I refuse to interact, forgive, and generally have anything to do with is Mel. But most of everyone else is fine by me, I understand some of you still hold negative opinions on me and thats all good and understandable.

That being said, I am making this post because of the burner account that recently made a post, I will not respond to it directly because as I’ve said before I would prefer a personal and private apology over a post in a burner account.

I wish all of you guys well, that you heal soon and that you have a peace of mind knowing I don’t hate any of you for what happened. I do get it, and I can’t hate any of you for it, I might not be happy about it but I won’t have hate towards you for what you did. Forgiven or not, don’t feel as if you need to feel guilty forever for what you said on me, I would rather you worked on forgiving yourself and not indulging in that destructive behavior again.

Thats all I have to say! this will prolly b the only time I post anything about this whole situation and its primarily for the third party people not the main person. Again, I just want to live my life, I worked to correct my wrongs and grow as a person and I intend to continue doing so, and I believe that everyone else can do the same as long as the effort is put into it.

take care you guys, I hope you all have a good night/morning/evening 🫶🏼

[tj-crochets]

Thinking about my neurology appointment again, I have another weird question for y'all! My neurologist was surprised and said it was weird I was right handed, which I am assuming is because of the reflex and grip tests she did, not because I give off a left-handed kind of vibe Wait I was going to ask if it was weird that I, a non-ambidextrous person, hit and kick evenly with both right and left sides, open doorknobs with whichever hand is closer, and use the foot pedal for the sewing machine with whichever foot it ends up nearer but can't write with my left hand But I just tried it and I can write with my left hand??? Like, not as neatly or as quickly as with my right, but it's clearly legible and not difficult to do. Have I been ambidextrous this entire time??

[doghartzy]

honestly feel like you can't fully understand why the nhl functions the way it does unless you have an in-depth understanding of american conservatism specifically. like. the nhl is run by a collection of people who function on conservative nostalgia, purposeful obtuseness, and a direct opposition to progressivism. they're the type of american traditionalists who think that we should go back to the good old days when people respected their elders and didn't think too hard about things like civil rights or what equity actually means. they believe in a homogenous culture of assimilation and obedience, and they rely on the people within that culture to perpetuate it via mutual surveillance. it's what the wealthy white american right has always been, especially since wwii and the cold war after it. and it's what the nhl has always been. it's a culture that is determined to keep itself locked away in the 1980s while the world around it evolves, and as it grows farther removed from the world it exists in, the more reactionary it gets. it's fucking. every 70 year old republican senator who refuses to step down until they keel over dead in congress. that's it. that's all.

[atopvisenyashill]

There's this weird thing going on Reddit right now where people are claiming that legally, Rhaenyra children are not bastards. And I was wondering if you agree or disagree. I think that people are just making up their own canon lore at this point.

Well. Okay I think I’m about to give an answer that is a little spicy but when I get around to my ultimate point I think everyone is going to go "yeah it makes sense that's how you feel, that tracks." Let me start with a personal story to be extra annoying-

My mom, after separating from my dad, swore of marriage. Marriage derailed her life, it had derailed my grandma's life, so she decided that even if she truly fell in love again, she would stay unmarried because clearly marriage jinxes love. She met my stepdad and as he had been divorced three times (and bitterly each time too) he agreed. He proposed to her but it was really just a commitment thing - I promise I am all in on this relationship, and by wearing this ring, you promise too. He moved in. They had one of my siblings, K, and still remained unmarried despite pushback from a few relatives and friends.

And then my stepdad needed knee surgery. And my mom couldn't put a domestic partner on her insurance. So a week before my second sibling, B, was born, after my aunt finished teaching summer school for the day, on what was a random Thursday afternoon, we all put on some nice clothes, piled into the van, and went down to city hall where they got hitched and I cried while everyone made fun of me because their toddler was literally running around the waiting room, it was not a big deal! My parents were both wearing jeans!!! We went to Baker's Square after, not even a nice restaurant! Do you know how this marriage has affected K and B? Not even a little! Do you know why?

BECAUSE NONE OF THIS MATTERS.

There is no moral or biological difference between a child born in wedlock and a child born outside of it. If you put K and B's blood under a microscope and I didn't tell you the ages would you be able to tell the difference between them? Would you be able to figure out which one of my siblings is a bastard and which one is trueborn? No, you would not because the difference doesn't exist biologically, ontologicaly, ecologically, anthropologically, whatever ology you want to bring up, and I think what this fandom finds most frustrating is that there is also no legal difference because LAWS ARE MADE UP. THEY DONT FUCKING MATTER. THEY ARE MAN MADE. I need this fandom to kill the prosecutor that lives in their head and stop arguing over whether Rhaenyra’s oldest boys are ~really~ bastards or not. The “truth” of this is just as it is for my family - it’s completely emotional, situational, and dependent on the feelings of the people involved in it!

Alicent & Otto & Criston, in both the books and the show, have an ulterior motive to insist that legally Rhaenyra’s boys are bastards. They can talk about propriety and legality all they want, but not only were those boys raised and loved by Laenor & Corlys, the concepts of marriage & wedlock & legitimacy are merely tools used to keep people in their place, something those three are very aware of because Otto manipulates the law in order to cut Daemon out of the line of succession which is exactly what kicks off this conflict in the first place! Corlys & Laenor & Rhaenyra have completely different but still existent ulterior motives to insist that legally the boys are true born. They can talk about “well technically” and cite whatever law or precedent they want but again, this same insistence on their legitimacy is a cover for the fact that if they ARE admitted to be not Laenor’s, they all lose access to power.

Not only that, but both Rhaenyra and Alicent become insistent on these competing legalities because they are worried the other will kill their children. Alicent all but confirms that she would have killed them if Rhaenyra had accepted terms with her nasty comment about their deaths when Rhaenyra takes the capital, but Rhaenyra throws her own insistence that she won’t hurt her siblings out the window with b&c.

So yeah, people are making up their own canon lore here because both Otto and Rhaenyra are ALSO making up their own canon lore here. That’s the entire point. Both of these sides have their own agendas, their own very rational fear of the other, and instead of realizing they have to compromise just a bit to get out of the shitshow they’ve found themselves in, they escalate at every turn until they’re all dead and so are their dragons.

The point is - I think everyone is missing here that George is making fun of you nerds who spent all your time insisting they’re bastards or not and debating the legality ad nauseum. He has Stannis ranting about the sanctity of the line of succession and House Baratheon and everyone misses that Stannis is a fucking loser for this because the line started one generation ago and if he didn't want Robert overthrown by Cersei maybe he should have made sure Robert wasn't raping and beating her all the time!! It is the same exact thing here!! If they didn't want Rhaenyra to have bastards, they shouldn't have jerked her around as heir for years then trapped her in a marriage she resented to fix their stupid ass mistakes and if they didn't want the whole thing to escalate into a bloody war, they shouldn't have murdered Luke and Jaehaerys!! That simple!!!!

LEGITIMACY AND MARRIAGE ARE NOT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mqfx]

my liege are you a silver hair mu qing truther. for research purposes

baby I can't answer this question due to the NDA

but as everyone knows I'm a big fan of "hair braided down" mq

[ofcowardiceandkings]

busy trying not to let panicking depresso espresso brain take over my life rn

[persephoneflouwers]

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[discluded]

*deep breath* aight so, i am trying to be logical about this, right..? although we know english is not their preferred language, and they don't use it often enough to be fluent in it, we also know that mile has studied in idaho for at least a year, which means he pretty much realizes the implications of posting bouquet of roses with the inscription "romantic afternoon"... right?? the implication being, the post is about one of the people who came on this trip with hi, and pond has already left, which leaves p'mamos, gift and his colleague/platonic bestie....? and i am somehow sure p'mamos would not bang mile, and p'gift would most def not wanna bang none of they messy asses, which pretty much leaves the last suspect... so my question is... is mile aight??? where could we possibly be going with this...?

you know mile reads books in English right 😅 his grammar isn't always the best and talking is always harder than reading or writing but he understands the English meaning of words and what their Thai equivalent is just fine

[edgarallanpoestan]

its truly wild growing up w two parents who have radically different approaches to listening to u. whenever my mom asks my opinion i hqve to hedge around what i wanna say until i know her mood, her position, what the people around her say, the phase of the moon, her last 8 meals, and the exact time of day down to the second. and even then i have like a 40% chance of saying the wrong thing and making her mad at me. meanwhile my dad asks my opinion amd i tell him my opinion and why i think that and he nids and says "okay, thank you"

[ilovebeingaturtle]

Is Fast Forward that bad? I want to fight the turtle tots

Fast Forward isn’t bad at all!!! Of course that’s my personal opinion, but still, I really liked it! There’s a post on here I made that’s pretty harsh about it AHA, but that was when I’d only seen like? Three episodes? So I was just saying my initial thoughts, and yeah it does definitely have a rough start

Once it finds its footing though its super fun! I basically enjoyed it the whole way through after that, it’s super good as its own standalone/spin-off product from 03

[rupertholmes]

resisting the urge to buy weights rn. i need to go bear mode.

[falinscloaca]

cat hacker reintroduces mspec lesbian discourse into my life my brain obliterates itself in ocd-fueled recursive self-argumentation

[procrastinateland]

since it’s 2023 and i can be as cringe as i want, i wanna come out and say that i love ocs more than i love a lot of things

[came-out-of-the-coffin-desisted]

writing out the human noble origin to be messier and more melodramatic is something that can actually be so delicious

[queerfables]

Ahaha, it's really funny, because I'm hard of hearing but I always think my hearing isn't as bad as it is (bad enough that I need hearing aids but not bad enough for my government to pay for them, unfortunately). When I first heard talk of the problems with the subtitles, I thought "I mean, I noticed a few errors, but it's not that bad." I just finished my second watch through and I've picked up enough additional errors to revise that stance. It's watchable and still thoroughly enjoyable if you're relying on captions, but you're definitely missing things.

hello Mr gaiman! loved the series, hated the heartbreak, etc. this is more a technical concern that you undoubtedly had little to do with, but as someone who requires subtitles to process the audio, it would be nice if the styling guide on them was consistent. it was very jarring for the first several episodes to call him Mr. Fell and then all of a sudden the last 2 called him Mr. Phale. (there were several other errors throughout the season, and honestly with as high a budget as this show probably had it's... a little bit disheartening to see corners cut on the subtitles tbh. disabled people love tv too 😭) the good news is that since good omens is on streaming, it must be very easy indeed to update the subtitle files. it's not like having to retract a half million copies of a DVD.

You have no idea how bad the subtitles are. I, who knows what the characters were actually saying and how far the subtitles often were from the words said, can promise cheerfully it's worse than you think.

If I hadn't been on strike I would have seen the closed captions and fixed them. I am on strike and I'm sorry to all the people who use or rely on the captions.

I understand that Amazon are getting it fixed and that our producer, Sarah-Kate Fenelon, is going to be actually going through them against the scripts. And then the changes will go up.

[candiedwords]

"Denouncing the use of AI for art (novels, music, visual art) is NOT ableist or elitist!"

No, it is. It is. Certain disabilites make it nearly impossible to create art for many of us, and many of us do not have the means to hire someone to do it for us.

But there are cases (like NaNoWriMo!) where it shouldn't be allowed because it would be cheating. (And, of course, there is the possible plagiarism issue of AI, but that's a different conversation entirely.)

Things are not black and white, and this Black and White Thinking is not good or helpful.

There can be nuance.

I also feel like the rage over the usage of AI for art comes from a very pretentious place; the various art communities are full of pretension. We're expected to sweat, and toil, and suffer for our art. It can't be an easy or enjoyable experience, or else it isn't real art. (Just look at the Boomer belief that getting your music noticed online instead of playing dive bars for years means you "got famous easy," even if that music artist isn't Famous™️.) So if someone else (who is none of your damn business) GOD FORBID uses AI in the creation of their art... your fragile artist ego is bruised.

(Let's ask why AuthorTubers are putting their foot down against NaNo now, but were mostly quiet last year when the "praying on minors" scandal got out?)

However, the majority of "art" is the creation; the ideas, the concepts. (This includes getting inspired, even heavily inspired, by existing things but putting your own spin on it, making it your own.) The rest is just the execution. (To me. You are not required to agree, so don't get pissy acting like I expect you to.)

Everyone has the right to create, and it's none of your damn business how they do so. Focus on your own work.