#to provoke some thoughts

[supermauswithagun]

In the '90s and early 2000s there was a series of Christmas postcards published in Hungary, all painted by disabled people. Note that these people were mostly NOT trained artists, and we are speaking about post communist Eastern Europe where the life quality of disabled people were low, and the Internet was not yet widespead enough to help at least with tutorial videos. Still, these people made art with lots of practice and a bit of help when it came to publishing.

Mozgainé Palotár Mária: White snow is falling (2004, painted with mouth)

Cserepes Andrea (I know no details about this picture)

Kormos László: Christmas lights (ca. 1996, painted with feet)

I have much more postcards in my collection from all over the world, from the USA through the Czech Republic to Finland, all of them painted by disabled artists. Disabled people were here making art before the invention of AI, and they'll be here after AI finally fucks off.

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

[arugulaeater]

actually I'm kind of curious about this because it was a huge debate among my peers in my community

Clarifications under the cut:

The poster is in a public space where it is typical for everyday people to post things. It is not someone's private property or possession. Think piece of paper taped to a telephone pole, not sign in a storefront or in someone's yard.

The poster is not protected by law; you are very unlikely to face legal consequences for vandalizing it. Caveat: some peers have argued that it risks being socially consequential because an organization or demographic that you are a part of may be judged as intolerant/oppressive/disruptive/otherwise unpleasant if people witness your actions, and thus advocated against vandalism for fear of damaging your public image.

The poster is not an expensive or personal piece of artwork; it is a mass produced print on letter paper.

You are vehemently opposed to the message displayed on the poster, but it is an opinion that people are free to have in your country.

The 4th option refers to things like intentionally putting your own poster over top of the bad poster or otherwise making the bad poster harder to view; some people argued that targeting the poster for removal is out of line, but posting your own messages is an innocent action that you are well within your right to do (in this context, posters regularly eclipse each other as new ones are posted over top of outdated ones due to limited space)

The poster is part of a campaign; it's not unique. There are many postings of it across the community.

This is all assuming that the offending poster is not old and would typically not be considered fair game for pruning for quite some time, and that it is being specifically targeted for removal because of its message (rather than petty vandalism or because it's obstructive or damaged). E.g., if a poster is advertising an event happening on April 20th, it's typical to prune it after that date but not before.

Of course the situation that prompted the real life debate did involve a specific offending message, but I'm not going to specify what it was for now because I think it'll skew the results as people will just end up voting based on whether they like or dislike that message, which isn't the point of this. For this poll we are assuming that it IS a message that you are very opposed to; you can substitute in your own opinion that you have strong feelings about.

Please reblog for sample size!

[seizethedeansofproduction]

guess who rewatched gravity falls

[lesbianelsas]

You are much changed.

idea from astvaryking on twitter

[supermauswithagun]

I know most americans are deathly afraid of communism, but let me introduce you to one of the actually good inventions of the communist era: microdistricts.

You know those ugly grey panel blocks rising high around historical cities of Eastern Europe? They were not built on a whim but with serious urban planning. Microdistricts were designed to house as many people as possible on a still human friendly area (between 30 and 200 acres) with public service buildings of all kinds but no major motoways crossing the district. That meant people could get everywhere walking or by public transport, and the district was actually safer for children and the elderly because no cars were zooming like crazy around. (Try to zoom with a Trabant anyways.)

This is the microdistrict where I live now.

Fucking ugly, right? But hear me out. Here we have, in walking distance:

- schools, from kindergarden to high school - healthcare services: every microdistrict has at least a family doctor’s and a pediatrician’s office, you know, universal healthcare or something - grocery stores, mostly supermarkets althought we have bakeries, butcher’s shops and fruit and vegetables stands as well, and some microdistricts have their own farmer’s markets - culture, no, really, communist microdistrict came with at least a library and a cultural center, they had to spread propaganda somehow, but we still have those (hopefully without the propaganda, but you know how it is) - public trasport, in my case buses and a subruban railway line connecting this district to the city center - nature!!! parks!!! football (soccer for Americans) fields and playgounds between the houses! here we have a whole ass hiking trail along a river! you walk out of your boring panel block and there are ducks and swans and you can go fishing! (- originally microdistricts also had workplaces, since they were built around factories or other industries, but with the fall of communism most of these were closed down)

And now if you believe that I’m living in some communist utopia, I have to tell you that this is the infamous Csepel district, one of the poorest districts of Budapest, where crime is high, property values are under a frog’s ass, but poor ass librarians like me can live, even without a car.

My question now is: why American urban planners don’t make microdistricts? Okay, maybe without public healthcare services, because you don’t really have those, and maybe without public transport, because your country is dependent on the car industry, but still. Why no schools? A supermarket? At least a library or something?

When I’m looking at the American urban housing areas it reminds me of a prison. When I’m looking at my little fucked up microdistrict it reminds me of a prison with the gate accidentally left open. I know it’s not much, but still.

The amount of people getting 0 upvotes for calling this shit ugly is kaczynski inducing

[itsdefinitely]

do girl jeri and boy jerry exist explicitly to torment me

[erikkarlsson]

to all the sports “writers” mad that sharks winning the lottery proves that “tanking works,” i regret to inform you that this team actually tried very hard to win every game. they just suck.

[la-pheacienne]

I am going to be a killjoy and choose violence again but I did not like the spectacle of Marie Antoinette holding her decapitated head in her arms in the olympics, at all. I don't give a shit about Marie Antoinette the person, she was a traitor in the context of a war and she would rather betray France than give away her privileges. This is what happens to traitors in that context and she absolutely had it coming. I won't shed one tear for her, sorry if that bothers people.

However. The executions of the Terror are not something to make a spectacle of, they are not something to mock. They were an inevitability, a historical necessity yes, but they are not an esthetic, nor a pop culture reference. They were inevitable, even necessary because of the revolutionary context, because it was the people of France who demanded those executions, and when I say the people of France I mean the working class, the peasants, the sans culottes, people who lived in extreme poverty and misery. This was not just a civil war, this was a class war. Centuries of class inequality, oppression, hunger, injustice, needed a release and that release was inevitable, but the factors that led to it, the structural inequality, the privilege, the injustice, they are still relevant today. Those people, the people of France, did not ask for the king and queen's head so that, two centuries later, the political and economical elites of this world can sit comfortably in the seat they paid hundreds or even thousands of euros for, and mock and have fun watching Antoinette's decapitated head in a spectacle that cost around 300 millions, the same political and economical elites that are right now funding genocides, that are right now maximising their profit off the Olympics, that are right now destroying the welfare system and impoverishing the people of France, who are unemployed, homeless, and stuck in ghettos. But it's alright I guess, because we have democracy now so these people can still watch the spectacle in their TV (if they have a TV) from their 9 square meter apartment in Sarcelles or Seine-Saint-Denis that takes 80% of their salary. If they have an apartment. They must feel really lucky they don't have a king or queen anymore and all their problems are solved. What a fine mockery. I don't think the Jacobins would be impressed with this turn of events, I don't think that's why the french revolution happened because the french revolution is not an esthetic and the social struggles that led to it are still here, very much present.

I would advise people to leave Antoinette's head alone because she's dead and has been dead for 250 years. There are a lot of heads that are far too comfortable in their class privilege, right now, in 2024.

[supermauswithagun]

Algorithms. The answer is: algorithms. Certain social media sites (I'm looking at you, TikTok!) make searching almost impossible but keep feeding a constant flow of content to their users through their algorithm. Those users are used to EVERYTHING being about them, but since they not necessarily know how the algorithm works, they take out their frustration on the content creators. After all it's easier to shout at a guy who made some video, than blaming a nameless faceless computer program for not knowing your personal preferences.

That's why a lot of people don't understand sites like AO3 where you have to search for your own preferred content. Sometimes the same people come into our library and tell me that our online catalog is broken because it's not offering them results curated to their very specific preferences. They simply can't search.

I don't blame them for it, but I'm fucking angry about algorithms and social media painting the ability to search as something outdated and useless when on the internet you literally cannot live without it.

This also very much applies to fanfics. Some people need to take a step back and think before they make straight fools out of themselves.

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

*stirring my half cooked thoughts into the pot*

Once again viewing IWTV Daniel & Claudias vampirism through a feminist angle and how their Turnings can translate to the way we view entertainers and gender. Daniel being allowed to grow old- wearing his age like a badge-before becoming a vampire. His merits and character has nothing to do with his youth. He is seen as quite desirable. Compare to Claudia who was never allowed to age-made to be a little dolly and bird- whose own merits continue to be stunted. When it became clear that she was a woman who in her own right was shedding her "youth" . She quickly became undesirable. We never get to see her wear her age and she has to work twice as hard to be seen. As a black woman this is made doubly harder for Claudia

Whether this was even a tiny spec of thought that crossed the show runners minds, I can't help but compare their individual fledgehood to how the media respects and caters more to older male performers and older women are pretty iced out.

[noven-warsh]

Thinking about how kid!Denji's dialogue fits Makima as well:

"Analysis" below

"You've never had a family. You were always drawn to that word."

Makima wanted to build a family since she didn't have one to begin with (Because the government got to her before a kind and loving person did). Her idea of a "Perfect World" was not only about making sure her people had the best lives without fear, but it was also about making a world where she thrived.

But here's the thing: She could've successfully went along with her plan if it wasn't for her unhealthy obsession with Chainsaw Man.

She had 7 dogs who loved her,

People who loved/were willing to love her (even if it was because of her own manipulation)

And with so much more that she had, she could've done anything and everything she wanted (as long as people were inferior to her).

She could've built her very own happy family with the support she got from everyone and anything.

But, she didn't.

She was so blinded by her love for Chainsaw Man that she was willing to throw everything away for him

She threw all that away when she chose Chainsaw Man.

In a way, Makima and Denji's love for Chainsaw Man makes it tragic for the both of them:

Makima was unloved, so she chose "the hero of hell", her hero, Chainsaw Man. But in doing that (choosing to ignore everything as she chased after CSM), she lost everything, and even herself.

Denji was unloved, so he chose his hero, Chainsaw Man. But in doing that (choosing to ignore everything as he played CSM), he lost everything, and even himself.

And that's the duality of the panel.

[deconstructthesoup]

On a scale of the Magnus Archives fandom to the Hazbin Hotel fandom how good are you at acknowledging and respecting a character's asexual identity

[supermauswithagun]

I think a lot of people don’t want to help anyone at all, they just want a doctrine to tell them who to hate, because hating the right people somehow make them feel better about themselves. Just like (surprise!) the nazis. Please, we are better than that.

I don't think people on this website understand what "you should love jewish people more than you hate nazis" means

do you hate nazis because they're fun to hate on and easy to ratio? or because of the material harm they have caused, are causing, and will continue to cause? when you see a nazi, do you see an acceptable target? or do you see an active threat? what do you do to help jewish people outside of these situations? anything at all? do you have positive views on judaism? do you try to better yourself by listening to jewish voices on topics of bigotry?

I'm not going to complain about a nazi getting punched for being a nazi, but the issue isn't as simple as just punching nazis. you need to love jewish people more than you hate nazis if you want to address the root causes of antisemitism

[softmeetscreatureplz]

Yayyyy depressing (ish*. I have much sadder ones but. :) ) quotes from various web weaves. Whooooooooooo

[kohakhearts]

given the opportunity i could be approximately 500% more annoying about any of my creative projects. but unfortunately .my brain is soup,

[supermauswithagun]

How did we return to this imaginary Victorian Era where "literally screaming and crying" because of seeing something slightly distressing became a sign of virtue and good upbringing?

I mean I think people should curate their own fandom experience and whatnot and it's perfectly fair to just avoid things one is uncomfortable with...

That being said. From personal experience? Immunizing myself to all my discomforts by browsing through pixiv and kink memes with raised eyebrows while searching for things I am interested in back when tagging was non-existent has really made my fandom experience much more pleasant nowadays.

I have preferences, for sure. But I have no fear. I have no cringe. The filthiest, grossest fanwork holds no powers over me. I am a god.

Like honestly dl;dr and block on sight is respectable and all but I genuinely think everyone could just benefit from purposefully exposing yourself to your nOTP and non-triggering squicks sometimes? (And obviously don't go bother the creators for it.) If only so that it makes it easier/safer to search for content you like without living in fear of accidentally glimpsing something you hate and having that ruin your day.