#us folks dont get much representation

[silverselfshippingchaos]

k.abru d.ungeon m.eshi the man that you are...

[spitinsideme]

Honestly, girl (and anon), you're so right. Like, bro, I'm a furry, and that knot shit always grosses me tf out. It seems to me it's normalized in my Fandom, but hey, that's a different conversation entirely. We should get more afab representation with nsfw fics and art. But that is not to say I hate folk under the Trans umbrella lmao. I need to get to writing more stuff and actually finish it like God damn I have a problem with abandoning shit.

yeah !!! i mean obviously its normalised in lime furry since its a thing in that community mostly, but i think that there is so little attentiin to vaginas in like MOST places actually which really sucks. i think some of this is that lesbian relationshios are somewhat rare to come across (not as much anymore, but still) and even then lesbian sex is MUCH rarer. like healthy lesbian sex not for men to wank off to. i do also havw to say that a lot of people label lesbians as pure and shit, like people who dont have sex and its this like "oh theyre just two girls in love !!" and whenever lesbian sex IS talked about, a lot of people are quick to go "oh thats all for male gaze" as if women dont have sex wkrh other women in wlw relatiionships ? i dont think people mean bad when theh sah these things, but when SO MUCH of lesbian sex is accused of being only for the male gaze it makes lesbians seem like these pure relationshios where 5hey can do nothing rxcept go on little dates and its sort of infantalised in that way ? like two tirls being togethe4 is nothing more than two girls holding hands and kissing (but not with any sdxual feelings !) and going on walks togeher and shit. i think that this is very obviously in the movie love lies bleeding, whwre i have seen many people say the sex was "clearly for the male gaze" when it really isnt. if we assume everything is for men, then what do we have left ? i feel like this is a whole other problem that is relevant to this actyally, but its a differnt problem entirely and has its own thing going on

we need more oussy representation !!!! give us aroused vaginas !!!! explain that wetness running down her thighs in detail please and thank you !!! make her squirt !!!

[orionsangel86]

So, I'm not in the Good Omens fandom, but having seen the "controversy" over a potential sex scene (or even confirmation of a sexual relationship) and it's striking me that the "asexuals vs. other queer identities" thing used by fandom puritains is LITERALLY the classic "divide and conquer" tactic used to prevent effective unity among minorities since time immemorial. By making the different letters of the rainbow alphabet fight each other, they can never unite enough to get ANY rep, and the fandom puritains are basically doing exactly what status-quo loving studios want.

Yeah this 100%.

I may have calmed down on the salty rage after getting a good nights sleep, but if there is one thing I really can't stand its the incessant infiltration of queer spaces by puritans.

I wish more people could see that the rhetoric they are parroting around the echo chamber is just anti sex puritanical conservative bullshit and not the "call for ace representation" that they think it is.

It is very much an attempt to divide the community and turn sex positive queer folk and asexual people against each other (when actually they are the same people).

Asexuality is simply a lack of sexual attraction, it is not a complete disgust and repulsion of all things sexual to the point that you must ban the entire internet for daring to think of the word sex!

Whats so funny about this is that I am totally on board with the ace Aziracrow headcanon, but these people are claiming META ANALYSIS that might indicate any hint towards sexual desire or an interest in sex between them is somehow gross and aphobic.

I dont even think Aziracrow will be having sex in s3. Its unlikely. But if they do drop a few jokes and hints about the possibility, the last thing we need is a fandom full of puritans blowing up acting like its the end of the world because two male presenting beings might have possibly fucked.

Once you peel back the layers it does end up just looking like your run of the mill conservative christian homophobia. Fandoms must become more skilled at recognising the signs of puritanical infiltration and must start fighting back and thinking for themselves rather than following the crowd because it seems like they are "supporting ace people".

Honestly I'm tired. I've been calling out this bullshit for 8 years in fandom. It only seems to have got worse.

[mueritos]

Hey. Idk if this is me growing up or just being disillusioned with inter celebs etc. Im a 23 yr old trans man so I grew up and was inspired by chella on the YouTube community. But now I just…don’t like chella man anymore. I feel like…he became an industry plant? Over the pandemic asking fans for money to send to him directly to help others and not showing where the money was going exactly incident as well as just becoming older I noticed he seemed to almost want to become the next Keith haring or basquiat? He almost…now seems very fake? He takes deals with brands to be representation but doesn’t do much to call out certain brands for their faults etc.

Idk anymore

I give Chella credit in that he was one of the few transmen that I looked up while I was young, especially with him being BIPOC. Showing him to my family helped them understand me. But that's where the inspiration kinda stops, because it was painful to be surrounded by years-in-transition trans men online when I was absolutely nowhere I wanted to be. That was a me problem tho. But I also didn't know much about his whole donation incident.

Ig heres what I have to say. It's not great to view other people as your justification of your morals. We don't know how people have had to live or how they live now, we don't know what decisions they have to make, and we dont know what kind of fears or goals they have. Chella is allowed to do whatever he wants with his art or his modelling career, just like how I genuinely believe anyone else in the world is capable of making the right decisions for themselves (even if we dont like those decisions!). Im not really concerned with figuring out if hes an industry plant or a "class traitor" (lol) or even if he's "fake". To be honest, I'm all for BIPOC folks getting their $. Does that mean I enjoy seeing wealthy BIPOC folk perpetuate classism and racism? No. Just cuz someone is succeeding for themselves doesn't mean people cant critique them. I guess what Im saying is I see waaay too many people online take the things they enjoy and the people they follow as projections of their morals: "no! stop [Insert celebrity name] you're being problematic and its makes us fans look bad!" Like....Okay lmfao. People are grown adults and are going to make decisions for themselves. Just because you might enjoy a celebrity does not mean your morals are based on how good of a person they are.

and youre allowed to not like the same things anymore just like how people are allowed to change, for better or for worse. I think within online communities there is way too much pressure on "looking" like a good person versus actually being one...because sometimes BEING a good person makes you look absolutely vile in terms of online spaces/communities love of isolating, removing, and deleting "problematic" (and vulnerable) people from their spaces with no trial, discussion, or attempt at conflict mediation. Yea yea I do think people have every right to be criticized just as they have every right to make whatever decision they want, but what Im trying to get at is to really stop viewing anyone with a platform as someone you can other once they dont meet your standards. This is not the same as denouncing or critiquing someone for really egregious behavior (white supremacy, harrassment, bullying, interpersonal violence). Once you kinda start living by your own morals without needing other people's actions/behaviors to justify/define them, you learn to focus on building connections rather than destroying them.

again, this is a much nuanced topic and you prolly werent expecting me to go into this. but ive grown over the years and have engaged in some nasty and vile mob mentality behavior that i just dont vibe with anymore. im not really the kind of person now to speculate online or publicly what other people are doing or should be doing or whether theyre problematic or not. I don't really care about Chella man or most celebrities rn. People r just gonna be people, and I will always have empathy for those of marginalized identities. Free will, autonomy, and self determination goes both ways, but so does accountability, transformative justice, and reconciliation.

but also like kill ur idols lol

[bandofchimeras]

hey so fuck Taika Waititi. And every cowardly Hollywood jockey that signed that pro-Israel letter instead of using their reach to push for justice. It's just extra disappointing when it's someone who ostensibly cares so much about liberation.

OFMD changes my life genuinely for the better. It opened me up to the possibilities of love. It is a groundbreaking show for the sheer amount of representation it showcases. The characters, storyline and community continue to mean a lot to me. but as usual with fandom, the celebrity cult of personality surrounding any actor isn't healthy anyhow.

so don't get it twisted my friends, don't do the H*rry P*tter crybaby tango. your feelings and love for this show can be real and we can still put that aside to protest one of the shows producers and stars supporting a genocidal state. 🤷

also a little bit unsurprising given Taika's shows problems with anti-Blackness. but dont confuse folk storytelling community with the celebrity who brought the inspiring content to us. any more than you would confuse a whole people with their government.

I'm fucking incensed. And sad.

[bigmack2go]

I dont like the headcannon of davey being jewish.

Why? I am glad you asked!

Now listen dont get me wrong here!

Representation is so important especially for religions because in that department even the most popular ones r being bullied these days and then that religion isnt just any but the most hated one in history. The religion that was blamed for practically anything bad that has happened in the last 500-1000 years. In ww|| children didn’t even know this WAS a religion. In Germany they were taught that the word “jew” stood for a monster, like the wird rabbit stands for an animal. Idk if this makes sense but they LITTERALLY didn’t know any better which i personally find makes it worse. The ppl KNEW that they were wrong, and that they couldn’t convince poursouled children of anything unless they made up lies. The thing those children hated was justified. Anyone would hate a monster that only brings evil upon us. But they conected it to a name that describes something else.(the movie jojo rabit brings this accross extremely well and truthfull! It’s available on netflix and i think on prime!) And thats the problem. They knew they were wrong but they needed someone to blame for their own failures and problems. ANd WhO bEtTeR tHaN tHe OnEs ThAt HaVe BeeN aT bLamE fOr ThE pAsT 700 YeaRs???

This began with the germanians spreading Christianity around Europe when jews were still a majority. It was generally a seen as a sin to get along with a Christian, and as we all know in the middle age there have been some babaric events towarts (but also by) religious ppl.

In thirteen-sixty-something the thing got to a whole new level when in (i think it was italy but idk) a fountain was moisted with bacteria and brought back black plague for a lot of people, which obviously got word all around the world quickly. And with that obviously also rumours. The thing is that those rumors were LOADED.

Thats how the hatred toward jews specifically began. People thought they were witches that poisoned their food causing them all to get sick.

(Sry i didnt mean for this to turn into a history lesson hahaha)

So yeah. Representation is so important and I totally stand behind that!

That being said however i genuinely don’t like it with Davey and here’s why:

Im have no problem with the headcannon itself and obv not with people having thah headcannon. What bucks me is how that came to be.

It just feels sooo cliche taking the one character named david jacobs and saying he’s jewish.

I mean

Seriously

David jacobs

David. Jacobs.

David and jacob (lemme guess his sisters name is sarah hAHa- oh wait-)

Like it might be just me but that’s loaded with stereotype.

This might sound weird and/or mean but i genuinely get the feeling, the only reason ppl hc him as jewish is his name.

On top of that theres the fact that i generally just feel like its forced at this point. Again. I stand for representation with everything in me. but people just decided (rather than felt/knew) they needed to represent jewish folks and picked out ONE (1) (s i n g u l a r) character (LITTERALLY NAMED DAVID JACOBS!! Idk if u can tell but im getting rly worked up abt this)and said his family is jewish.

(Then if course theres the fact that i cant deal with the fact that he would have been killed at least in wa|| if not earlier due to being an non-arian jew but he prolly would be killed in one of the worldwars anyway so thats not much of an argument lol)

THATS IT! TYSM if u read this completely!

I also wanna take the opportunity to compell everyone to support palestina!!!!! I’ll put some links down below!

As a Christian i am lucky enough to not be bothered with shit by people i cant deal with but not everyone has that! So here’s just a gerneral reminder to educate and support people of any minority!!!

I will put some links so u can read up about the history of discrimination towards religion and jews!⬇️⬇️

1 Wikipedia article generally summarising antisemit!sm

2 definition

3 antisemit!sm+ history of rivalry between Christianity & Judaism

4 on discrimination and hate/ harassment towards religions in school and workplaces

5 discrimination WITHIN religion

6 some facts

7 using religion as an excuse to BE descriminating

8 read about judaism as a religion, rules and beliefs

[replicasoul]

fooooooooooooooooooor the System Ask Game: 2, 5, 8, 10 ( :) )12, 14, 16, annnd 18

OOF EVEN MORE okay i did 2, 8, 14, and 18 from pale's ask so ill just do 5, 10, 12 + 16 for yours lets see

5. who has the most contrasting personalities? what are they like? i mean we kinda All Do in one way or another. i tend to be a lot more Energetic and Talkative than other folks (to the point that it can be A Problem when i cant pull myself away from like. Ultrakill or w/e bc Stimulation) TV tends to be a lot calmer and quieter, and tends to have more of a flat affect when speaking. it Will go off about like, writing stuff tho, which is nice to see Althea's got the whole guard dog thing going on but also just tends to be the most Blunt out of us usually? which can be rly helpful and then Sonora is just kind of a drama queen (but in a good way) and u can kinda spot them a mile off if theyre actually being themself 10. do you have any nonhuman alters in the system? literally all of us. there WAS one person around for a bit who went for a more human representation of their form for a bit, but then ended up going with protogen after that, of all things (not bad but very unexpected) we tend to switch around what we're feelin like a lot of the time but i typically go with robot, TV is often an object head, carina's got the whole Lesbian Mothman thing goin on, etc it varies but we basically never vibe w/ human designs 12. do you like music? which alters have the most contrasting tastes in music? our system name is Heartsong, Yea we like music. theres definitely stuff we all enjoy but we all have our own little niches for things: Althea - Joy Division, Talking Heads, other 80s stuff like that Carina - tv room and sappy/upbeat early 00s pop stuff TV - Blood Cultures, Night Moves, etc Sonora - Shamir, ZABA by Glass Animals, Hana Vu X0 - Ultrakill OST, Your Smith, femtanyl, anything stupid or with a high BPM (or both) Red - Sewerslvt, Soundgarden, and a lot of other embarrassing stuff we grew up listening to just to name a few w/ these 16. what are your hobbies? do any of you share hobbies? we share Most hobbies honestly, since we dont have a lot that we Can do. mostly just like, Media; games, movies, tv, etc. Writing as well but thats like. Passion/Sometimes A Job more than smth id call a hobby. Streaming is more of a hobby i guess? we dont do that as much these days. same with Drawing (we rly Want to but Nerve Pain Wrist Explosion Attack) Carina wants to get back into playin tennis @ some point, and we all wanna do swimming again when we can actually afford a swimsuit and have pool access same goes for musical instruments; we played trombone for like 7 yrs and had been learning piano for a bit, just have access to Neither atm anyway yea. not a lot that isnt Overlapped there

[emissaryorca]

not my 2 am ass waxing philosophical about the vgm jazz/remix scene (source: I’ve been a cellist and pianist for 10+ years and i like vgm. next slide)

when i was in high school it was nigh impossible to imagine video game music meaning much more than “silly haha chiptune” or “Brahms or Dvorak wannabe” (aka cinematic orchestra--think Halo, Uncharted, AssCreed, etc). chiptune i should mention has its own merits and real ppl not only being good composers but also working to find suitable leads or balance sound channels for that good ear-feel (Mega Man 2, Metal Gear 2, Chrono Trigger, OutRun, Street Fighter 2, this list has no end). I see a lot of parallels w/ how classical music “pros” in the mid 2000s/early 2010s treated old school vgm + how the bigwigs of warner bros view animators--the medium they accompany downplays their value to those “on top” who assign a niche’s value for all us peons on the bottom. thankfully for us, some stuffy old violin maestro telling us that Hades’s music "is derivative” wont stop Darren Korb from setting the room on fire (musically. though he might moonlight as an arsonist idk the guy)

but now in the 2020s there’s a full-blown out and proud community of video game rearrangers working to just melt minds with their breakdowns and solos. I’ve been listening to ocremix since middle school so we’ve been around, but with insaneintherain now working on original music for games, he joins the ranks of folks like Chipzel, Danger, + Lena Raine who have been avowed game fans and now work from that inspiration. almost giving back, in a way. Pat Bartley, Adam Neely, the Consouls, and the 8-Bit Big Band are a few of the names spearheading an increasing awareness for the goldmine of a source that is vgm, to the point where the 8-bit big band’s cover of Taking Over the Halberd won a fucking Grammy. you can no longer hold orchestra elitism (”true musicians dont play kiddie music!!”) over me because everyone can hear how good these guys sound. theyre skilled, driven, and by God do they love video game music. + if ppl insist that the Grammys are how we must measure musical worth, well, best of both worlds. they garner a reputation and the gamers get one! your awards shows don’t lie, do they...?!

like i know this makes me a corny ass fucker but passion has kept this scene alive, kept ppl championing for its representation in the wider media. I wouldn’t canoodle over 02′s theme from Kirby 64 if I didn’t love the source track, and insaneintherain wouldn’t make so much of his identity Pokemon jazz if he didn’t want to devote his heart + soul to what he grew up playing. from what I can tell this passion is insular--from and for fans. no head honchos telling us what racks up views or is truly meaningful, no. if we remix Snake Eater in this house it’s bc the original track makes me feel things, not bc my director says it’s valid for using a full orchestra or whatever (which it does, plus Cynthia Harrell’s voice makes me tap dance, but that’s not the point. the point is emotional attachment, something that a purely technical discussion about tone or timbre falls short of covering. nostalgia and passion, hand in hand)

anyway thanks for reading this love letter to the one true flame that’s kept me from throwing myself off this mortal coil. have this funk version of Corridors of Time. vibe with the breakdowns and pat’s face-melting solo. maybe do a little triumphant, cathartic crying? i know i might

[pixeljade]

You know what. When i was in my teens and 20's i always had a mentality that older folks not seeing my pount of view was because they were old-fashioned and stagnated. But now that im in my 30's i can see thats not all that it was.

Like these days, I see a lot of extreme rashness in 20-somethings and teens, where they think they're right, despite their thinking being based less on logically looking at things and more pissed at the lack of change in the world. Which is like, completely understandable! Especially when you look at the current state of society. But simply because you're right that things NEED to change doesnt mean your change is CORRECT, if that makes sense?

That last reblog kinda illustrates it perfectly. Millenials like myself, when we were in our twenties, used that desperate need for change to build the modern social justice movement; but in retrospect we also fucked up in several ways. We focused too heavily on individual cases, and individual responsibility, and things like callout culture became the centerpiece rather than solidarity and accountibility. And now, the next generation is taking the next steps, making those same mistakes; policing folks' language rather than trying to build networks to tear down the root causes. But telling them that is often useless, because they hear us Millenials saying "hey. That shit doesnt matter in the long run" and think "This is just them disregarding my Youthful New Take Styles".

Another great example was talked about at a panel i went to at SPX, where everyone was talking about how they were led to queer spaces and discovering their own identities, through HIGHLY problematic media in the early 2000's. And thats a lot of what I'm looking at now, with recently rediscovering an old hard drive of genderbend and bodyswap manga I was into before coming out. Theres lots of gender essentialism in them (I rolled my eyes at the characters in Kashimashi saying "I have to be with a boy now that im a girl"), but at the same time, I'd never have come out if not for that. And a lot of the people building better representation these days have shit like that to thank too.

I'm rambling now, but I guess my point here is that there's definitely a presumptuousness amongst youth that I think teens and 20-somethings could do to recognize. You dont know as much as you think you do. This is not a statement that older folks know better inherently, we don't, but arguing over who's more correct is pointless. We should acknowledge our limitations as humans, and start comparing our perspectives to get a better idea of the full picture.

[freebooter4ever]

Just in general i do feel like us boring monogamous bisexual folks who fall in love with one person at a time and cant fucking fall out of it dont get as much representation precisely because of the boring LOL. Nobody wants our stories, WE dont want our stories. :P

[floralovebot]

man people who racebend characters of color are REALLY showing their asses in how they think we're all interchangable and see us as a checklist for "Getting A Good Grade In Woke :)" rather than just... acknowledgment of the existing natural diversity of planet earth and the different ways people make life of it.

its insensitive to reimagine disneys tiana as asian, not because asian people dont face racism or cant enjoy cooking or didnt exist in 1920s new orleans- but because tiana is the first and still only black disney princess and was written and designed as such. her race informs and deepens her writing and her struggles, her love for her dad and specifically wanting to validate a jim crow era black man's sacrifices for his family, her connection to him and her community through her cooking when they all struggle to keep food on the table. similarly mulan shouldnt be rebranded as african american, not because black women couldnt exist in china or never crossdressed to join the army or dont face misogyny- but because mulan is a folk hero of historical chinese legend and as mulan, specifically cannot be divorced from that background. (also, frankly? the early white princesses arent really as well written for the most part, and their culture of origin is virtually never taken into account aside from visuals in their development, if that).

thats what ticked me off so bad about the monster high reboot. nb frankie was so cool and an asian draculaura was so fun but then they just... took away the black girl? and by extension, her sisters and thus ALL the black girls and like, dude not cool? nothing wrong with her being latina but being afrolatina is a different experience than being african american. afrolatinas deserve rep but that doesnt mean they shouldve taken clawdeen from african american girls. then there was some back and forth as to where specifically draculaura's family is from, and lagoona's origins vary from source to source dolls vs movie vs tv too and you just really feel the lack of effort and cohesion in the writing rooms. it really is just all just numbers on a chart, quotas to be filled there.

even with shows like winx where its ambiguous at times and kind of a raceblind take at others, theres so little for ANY of us that redesigning without that in mind becomes poaching. why would you take when ive been given so precious little? why would you want to change this one gift from people like me that lets me know i'm seen and loved? sure, other people deserve to have that too but if they want to borrow then take those who have so much they wont even miss it?

asdfghjkl sorry for the essay, i guess i had a breakthrough in how to put why this specific issue gets to me.

YESSS THANK YOU

Like it's so fucking weird to me!!! And GOD I wanted to say something about gen3 Clawdeen but I wasn't sure if I was "right" or if it was my place to say but exactly!! Being afrolatina is wonderful and they deserve representation too but it is still ultimately a different experience from being black american and they shouldn't have taken that away from black girls! I'm glad that mixed kids have her as rep now but they shouldn't have taken her away!! They very easily could've made a new character to fill that role instead!

AND YES to the winx point!! At the end of the day, it doesn't matter that some of the girls races or ethnicities are more ambiguous, they still have Canon races and people shouldn't be taking that away and giving it to someone else. That's not how representation works! Ever! Like if someone redesigned Aisha to be asian, that wouldn't make me happy or give me More representation. All that would be doing is taking away representation from black people! Same thing with Musa, Flora, Nabu, etc.

It also feels So fucking scummy when a white person's excuse is just that they Personally didn't see a character as their canonical race/ethnicity and that's why they changed it?? Like I don't give a shit if You personally don't see Nabu as an Indian man. That doesn't change his blatant coding. Same with characters like Flora who are more ambiguous. It doesn't matter if You Personally don't like her being Latina. She is. Fucking deal???

[deviantartdramanow]

Club is a terrible lgbtqa ally

Loser always acts like it’s a competition between the oppressed lgbtqa folks and the disabled folks. Cries that the disabled folks dont get enough representation and the gays are ‘stealing the spotlight’. Look, my guy yes I know it was wrong for Hitler to kill disabled ppls on sight, or for the olden times when families would put their kids or relatives in mental wards when they deemed them 'too unfit to care for’ when some of em had something as simple as bi polar disorder. But they are NOT being oppressed as much as the lgbtqa who are getting murdered in the streets and shot up like animals simply because of their preference! That is STILL happening today! Disabled folks are being WAY more protected than the lgbtqa that’s for sure! Oh but just because Clubby’s austim card for being a pedo is not working like it used to, that he’s being 'oppressed’. -insert eyeroll here-

He barely even goes around wishing his pride represented friends anything! Just thinks because he can color a few stupid crystal hearts in the pride colors, INNCORRECTLY MIND YOU, that he can get away with shit like preying on minors in his stupid fucking diaper rp fantasy and sicing gellygirl and tam on his enemies who spoke out against his abusing them in past rps. I hope a fucking parent catches his ass and takes him to court for mentally scarring their kid with his gross rps. Club, Karma is coming and it wont be gentle, mark my words.

Also again FBI has been tipped off, so only a matter a time before he’s caught by a sting operation on DA with a fake minor who’s an agent. ;3

[fresne999]

Yes, Act. Do the work. This is a time to rise up not in defense of some status quoa, but to lift the world towards progress.

There are so many ways to get involved. VoteForward is a great fact based organization and there's not that much writing. Working Family's Party is also a great party pushing to get progressives into place to help all of us.

Let's see adding some suggestions:

I've been volunteering for 4 years with the Northeast Arizona Native Democrats, which works to build representation for Native Americans in NE AZ. I postcard, I phonebank. In general it's a pretty chill phone bank. https://neaznativedemocrats.org/

I've written postcardst to voters through NEAZ, postcardstovoters.org and  https://grassrootsdems.org/. Postcarding is great for folks who maybe don't have easy access to a printer as with VoteForward, and requires no person to person interaction.

Want to spread progressive messaging on your social media, try www.Wedecide22.com

Want to listen to a podcast about progressive wins? Words to Win By about progressive messaging that works. Linking to one of my favorite episodes. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/dont-buy-it/

Not comfortable phone banking, but want to do more, you can volunteer with a voter information hotline to help inform voters about their voting rights. Think of it as customer support for democracy.

Got $ and want to donate? Here's a few.

Movement Voter Fund - Vets grassroots groups across the US, funds the most effective ones. https://movement.vote/2024campaign/

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I can never tell which of my posts are going to explode (it is never ones I put work in) but I pray to God this one does

The past few weeks I have seen an explosion in doomerism and defeatism about Trump. Some people seem to have just decided to call the election for him for reasons that don't even make much sense

(He was almost shot and that always helps! Look at Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt! Reagan was already president and incredibly popular, and the shooting happened 2 months into his first term; Roosevelt was shot when he was campaigning in 1912....in an election he lost)

Trump has never been popular, he has never won the popular vote, and he has never had popular support. For the past 3 years, especially post Roe V. Wade, Democrats have increasingly overperformed especially in special elections. There were so many polls predicting 2022 would be a Red Wave, that turned out to be false due to faulty and biased polling. I'm not saying a Dem loss is impossible, but it is a lot less of a sure thing than the doomsayers are making it out to be

How does Trump win? Apathy. Despair. Low Turn Out. While many of the "Trump is guaranteed to win" posters I'm sure are real people who are justifiably scared, I think we underestimate just how many are people at home and abroad, who want a lower turnout, who want Trump to win.

I used to hear a joke growing up that "If voting did anything, they would make it illegal" Well considering how hard Republicans are trying to discourage voting and making it hard to do, it must do something.

Don't despair. Don't panic. Don't retreat. ACT

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Spread this far and wide. Tell your friends and your family. Make clear to them what is at stake if Trump wins.

Additionally, here are two volunteer organizations that I help out with

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Working Family's Party - an organization working to help progressives win in primaries and general elections. I particularly like working in their text bank program. Want to help in a phone bank but don't like talking on the phone? this is perfect as you send texts to encourage support and voting

Spread this far and wide. Tell your friends and your family. Make clear to them what is at stake if Trump wins. Feel free to add other resources and organizations that

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yikes... you worshiping male characters regardless of what they do while criticizing jen walters for the few bad aspects of her show that can be attributed to the writers and not her... your blog says everything about why you make it a point to hate watch she-hulk every week and it's incredibly disappointing. i'm not some mcu fan who loves everything they put out, but man, it's tiring seeing people criticize media like she-hulk in bad faith waaaay more than mediocre white male media. oh well :/

This is... actually really funny because you don't always get anon hate that tells on itself so much.

I've been very clear and consistent about specifying that I don't dislike Jen Walters and in fact really like how she's portrayed by Tatiana Maslany. Her performance is the only really worthwhile thing the show has to offer, and it's why I find it so frustrating that they don't really do anything interesting with her. Every post I've made has been about the writing or specific narrative choices or the CGI or something to that effect.

As for me "worshipping male characters", whomst??? I'm not even really sure who this is about, as there's not a single male character I've posted about uncritically on here. Best guess is that this is about Matt Murdock, which like... I drag him constantly for being a shitty person and a crappy friend. I think his narrative arc is incredibly compelling and the Netflix series was really good, but I hope I don't need to explain to you that there's a difference between finding a character's narrative compelling and liking them as a person/co-signing their behavior, especially when you also criticize that behavior.

I think a lot of the criticism for she hulk has been bad faith dude bros whining because a woman was in a marvel thing, and that's dumb bullshit, but you can't lump all criticism in the same boat. My problem with she hulk, which is my problem with a lot of marvel's stories centered around women, is that they market them as though they're some groundbreaking feminist storytelling and then do very little to actually develop the story or characters well and coast on mediocrity that's only made passable by the talented women they cast. It's a huge disservice to the characters and to anyone who actually gives a shit about them. I'm not going to applaud them for crumbs, and if you're going to sell your work on it's "feminist storytelling" then you sure as shit better deliver more than a shallow girl power narrative. It's 2022.

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DEAN WINCHESTER IS BISEXUAL

fuck you

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second mod: bureaucracy overhaul

i think the way the game handles government bureaucracy is generally alright through the scaling institutions and the general representation of government services but . quite frankly it leaves a /lot/ to be desired.

the only input good for your government is paper - which makes paper /very/ expensive, pops have little to no opinion on the size of the institution unless they intertwine with another mechanic the pop is aware of, and primarily only employs bureaucrats and clerks, who are largely homogenous pops - politically speaking - and are frequently against the institutions their buildings represent!! bureaucrats and clerks are largely liberal, though they can belong to the petite bourgeois, which is wild when you consider the variety of forms institutions can take, from reactionary police forces to religious schools. these careers are not represented by the political affiliations of the workers at these buildings and they dont create new jobs to represent these professions!!

so, whats the fix??

i would change institutions so that most of them - excluding colonial affairs, social security, and workplace safety - create new jobs in every incorporated state, with the level of the institution affecting how many jobs are created per state, with employment of those jobs creating the benefits normally represented by the institution. additionally, changes in laws create changes in the jobs created.

for example: religious schools create clergymen, private schools create capitalists, and public schools create academics. your health system might create doctors - who lean intelligentsia, but can go for the industrialists or petite bourgeois - and law enforcement will always create enforcers, who overwhelmingly go for the petite bourgeois. the more people you hire, the greater their affect on the political process is, as every institution career is at least middle-class.

additionally, pops should have opinions on the level of investment in an institution, especially as far as it affects your government expenses!! for example: most interest groups will want at least a certain level of funding for law enforcement, but opposition to the institution intensifies from its detractors when hitting levels 4 and 5, generating radicals and encouraging political support for law changes that will result in caps on the level on the institution. industrialists will entertain institutions like social security and workplace safety but actively agitate against them if bureaucratic government expenses rival a governments investment into the private sector and the clergy will always want as much investment into religious institutions as possible and back broader general funding if a government incorporates clergymen into its general bureaucracy.

additionally, the more debt your government accumulates, the more unhappy people will be with a large bureaucracy, especially the parts of it they already disagreed with . if youre millions in debt but continually throwing funds at law enforcement, expect the rural folk and trade unions to start radicalizing! if discontent grows large enough, the game can even prompt you with events to immediately roll-back the size of your bureaucracy in exchange for a decrease in radicalism (although expect everyone who just got unemployed to have some thoughts). it would also be nice to have a game mechanic that tracks whether or not you're actually using your colonial growth and provides an option to repeal your colonial institutions - for example, if youre the united states and still on frontier colonization, you should get the option to automatically repeal that law when youre out of places you border to colonize, or more reactionary pops should agitate for that colonial growth to be used within a certain amount of time or adopt more aggressive postures on colonialism

(frankly, pops should in general have more opinions on foreign affairs, but . that feels like it would incorporate way more knowledge of whats going on with the game behind the scenes so im saving that post for . another day)

anyways i wanna start a thread about the mods i would make for victoria iii if i . knew how to mod. or could get it to reliably work on my laptop so filter the tag on this post if you dont wanna see that stuff