#what was the saying?

[unpopularfanopinion]

I feel like it's time to remind everyone about Max Nordau(worst art critic in history) https://zaksmith.tumblr.com/post/107546756753/the-worst-critic-in-the-history-of-the-world and his Degenerate Art Theory

Simply because when you break down both antis and conservatives arguments against XYZ fiction/media/art they both rely on Max Nordau's Degenerate art theory of art criticism. Being a conservative in many ways has less to do with what opinions and viewpoints you have, and more with how you approach and get to those opinions. (Didn't scientists run CT scans and found that conservatives have bigger fear/disgust reactions to things than liberals did?)

But the Max Nordau approch to art criticism is as a follows(quoting from the essay I linked to)

A. Stuff I don’t like is probably made by people who have something wrong with them. B. Stuff I don’t like probably mostly appeals to people who have something wrong with them. C. There are no possible good reasons to like or make what I don’t like. D. The stakes are incredibly high. E. I refuse to check any of this.

And how it looks in practice(again quoting Zak Smith's essay)

A. Identify a societal ill. B. Claim a work is contributing to it. C. Dare the audience not to see the connection, scaring them into thinking they lose the intellectual high ground if they don’t see it and the moral high ground if they don’t believe it. D. Ignore the counterargument and call anyone making it names.

Sounds pretty familiar to how anti's approach to any ship or even entire genre of fanfic they don't like. Some-one writing NSFW RPF including non-con, incest, age-gaps, of real teenagers. It MUST be gross predatory adults who are just drooling at the thought of doing those things in real life. It CAN"T possibly be other horny teenagers being attracted to other teens, or teens being trolls/edgelords by writing the grossest thing they can think of. You know normal(even if seldom discussed) teen stuff.

Antis are conservatives and you really can't change my mind about that. Because just like conservatives they refuse to try to see or understand any opinion, perspective, or position but their own(I won't say facts, or information, because we know conservatives don't care about those)

[tummybuddylifedaretocare]

one time I used the ben affleck smoking reaction image in the family group chat and my mom replied with the funniest possible response which was: "mommy doesn't know who the guy is???" and that phrase has not left my brain since. I'll see blorbos on my dash that I don't recognize and I'll be like well it seems mommy doesn't know who the guy is.

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[gaydeadwizardsfromthe70]

Why would you make him unable to leave? Why would you leave him stuck in that place? Do you want me to suffer?

There's never been life for him there.

And then Sirius is stuck there too and it's just the two of them in that fucking Place again and it's history repeating itself.

And he never got to grow up and will always be a kid, but he'll never be able to move on from his trauma and pain and from the consequences of his actions, not even in death he'll find peace.

regulus black, who after he died, haunts 12 grimmauld place. he is silent and watching, a depressing aura surrounding him. talking occasionally to kreacher.

enter sirius after escaping azkaban. he expects the house to be empty, with just kreacher inside. imagine his surprise when he sees his little brothers ghost, forever 17. his little brother, who has indents of hands all over his body from the inferi. his little brother, who never got to finish school or even reach adulthood. his little brother, who is dead but also here. forever a ghost haunting 12 grimmuald place.

[valdotpng]

an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

[guiiay]

jinx and isha visit a walmart

[aropride]

interaction i have with shocking regularity is when someone’s complaining abt someone they know and theyre like “ughh they’re 21 and dont have a job and refuse to learn to drive” and then they remember who they’re talking to (me. 21 cant work cant drive) and go like

[bartex-x]

so theres this trend on twitter of people showing their favourite media tropes and i just wanted to show you mine :)

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[gorgo4ne]

Can the guy at the bottom kill himself or something

[battleaxeproficiency]

feeling very frustrated about the ways people are talking about hurricane Milton. lots of needless, borderline fear mongering language with very little actual helpful information.

information about Milton that might ACTUALLY be helpful:

Hurricane Milton is shaping up to be the third strongest hurricane ever recorded.

Make sure you have an evacuation plan if the order is given or if you've already been told to leave.

there is also a code for free Ubers to evacuate effected counties, as well as shuttles from evacuating counties to nearby storm shelters

Prepare/secure your home

Find your nearest shelter and be prepared to leave

If you want to stay in the loop about the hurricane, WESH 2 News has ongoing coverage ad-free on YouTube.

General resources/information:

Please for the love of God stop preying on people's fears and causing panic. Know what resources are available to you and how to access them. If you approach this hurricane carefully YOU WILL BE OKAY!!!!! YOUR LIFE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE RUINED!!!

Please link other resources you find or think other people might find useful!

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[ursulaklegay]

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[borrelia]

erm. official tumblr page btw.

turning off reblogs bc now you dipshits saying i've left out context are letting the goddamn oxford comma guy and his ilk in my notes. good job brave tumblr warriors o7