Nothing wilder than being on the outside of a popular non-canon ship (the kind that’s taken deathly seriously not the kind where people are just like ‘hehe what if they kissed’) where as far as you can tell the entirety of the appeal seems to be a bunch of people being like “friends don’t do that!!!!!!!!” but the thing they’re doing is like … being nice to each other. Spending time together. Occasionally making eye contact, the dirty sluts.
Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.
Truly some of the most irritating culture has sprung up around fanwork and fanfic in specific like… no, making something for free does not in fact make it sacrosanct or immune to criticism! Your right to “do whatever you want forever” or say “fandom is for fun” stops the second you’re being bigoted and making fan spaces unsafe for marginalized people!
“fandom is for fun” except for poc who have to deal with rampant racism and white people unable to acknowledge let alone take accountability for their racism
why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.
Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing
learning new things about the german rail system today
I must explain to my American followers. Follow me on this thought experiment.
Read these questions. You do not need to answer, just read them.
Who is the current head of government of Ethiopia?
Are they a king, queen, president, prime minister, dictator, or tsar?
Are they generally liked or generally disliked by their people? Why?
Are they seen as conventionally attractive?
What was their most recent scandal?
What’s a weird outfit they’ve worn while in office?
What are their interior design preferences?
Has anyone tried to assassinate them? How many times?
What’s their favourite food?
Does Ethiopia have a national anthem?
What are the top 3 most iconic symbols of Ethiopia?
What’s the most prevalent religion in Ethiopia?
What are 5 Ethiopian TV series?
What languages are spoken in Ethiopia?
What are 5 Ethiopian celebrities?
Can you draw the Ethiopian flag?
What are 5 rights or privileges granted to citizens of Ethiopia?
What structure do Ethiopian school systems follow?
What are 5 Ethiopian foods?
What are 5 Ethiopian exports?
What countries are allied with Ethiopia?
What is one topic in Ethiopia that you are more educated on than in America?
What are 3 Ethiopian stereotypes?
Does Ethiopia have States, Provinces, or neither?
Where is Ethiopia’s government capital?
What currency is used in Ethiopia?
What animal is the Ethiopian symbol? Do they have one?
What is Ethiopia’s ethnic majority?
Who was their first government leader of Ethiopia? What is an interesting fact about them?
Who has Ethiopia gone to war against? Why?
Can you name 3 wars Ethiopia was involved in?
Can you name 3 Ethiopian women famous for their beauty?
What is the current Ethiopian political climate?
What areas of Ethiopia are considered rural or urban?
Can you name 3 major Ethiopian landmarks?
Can you name 3 Ethiopian amusement parks?
Can you name 3 Ethiopian national parks?
Can a civilian openly carry a gun in Ethiopia?
At what age can a person begin drinking Alcohol in Ethiopia?
What is the age of consent in Ethiopia?
Can you name 3 infamous Ethiopian criminals?
Can you name 3 Ethiopian comedians?
What was the most recent major natural disaster to hit Ethiopia?
Is Ethiopian culture as a whole generally considered more conservative or more progressive than your own?
Roughly how much money goes into the Ethiopian military budget? Millions or billions?
What are the staple crops in Ethiopia?
What is something that was invented in Ethiopia?
Who are 3 famous Ethiopian businessmen?
What are 5 wildly popular Ethiopian musicians?
What was one viral fashion trend among Ethiopian youth?
If you could correctly answer around 40 of these, then congratulations! That is what every other English speaker feels like living in proximity to America
That is the extent to which American media leeches into everything
shit ton of people are repeating the thing about hayao miyazaki saying AI art is an “insult to life itself” and just as a reminder he was talking about the zombies that team made that were intended to be scary in how much they shook, but instead reminded him of his disabled friend. the insult to life itself was referring to the team trying to make scary real symptoms that people live with.
it was a quote about ableism. if he has said other things about AI type stuff, that is a different thing. but that specific quote was about ableism.
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this is the full quote.
His actual answer to AI is this which is just a few seconds after the insult to life speech. [source]
It’s not just to have a “do over” that doesn’t involve the original cast, it’s to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That’s just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
There’s people in the notes saying they’re going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.
But. If you can’t bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.
FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.
I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn’t be the person I am today.
If you’re thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It’s time to grow up. It’s time to move on.
Don’t even hate watch it. Make it fail.
It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.
idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren’t that close to, because sometimes you’re just the person who’s there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you’re the only one around to ask if they’re okay. and none of this is “trauma dumping” or whatever the fuck it’s just being there for people because you’re the one in the room with them.
I rarely bring this up because it feels like fairly silly and low-stakes compared to all the other effects of american imperialism, but one of the funniest things when Americans deny that living in the imperial core and the center of global cultural hegemony confers them any sort of privilege over people from the imperial periphery is that like. In order for this conversation where you tell me you have no privilege over me to even be able to take place one of us had to learn the other’s language, and it wasn’t you.
I think the fact that by default the onus of learning the other’s language to enable communication is always put on the other side is a pretty significant privilege on the cultural front.
If you have ever been tempted by a Paleozoic Pal, like a a stuffed trilobite or a full size eurypterid body pillow, now’s the time to buy one, before they and a really lovely little museum are gone for good 😭😭😭
This was the museum I went to often in my childhood. I’m no longer able to visit unless I visit family, but this place holds a special place in my heart.
As stated in the article, they hold around 7 million artifacts- many of which are orphaned fossils, with the museum taking in collections that otherwise would have been trashed.
Please consider buying a Paleozoic Pal, but I’ll also leave a direct donation link as well.
I JUST WENT INTO A FUGUE STATE AND BOUGHT ME A 16 INCH CUDDLE BUDDY WITH PLATED TEETH!! DUNKIE, MY BELOVED!!
Screeching aside, anyone who can afford to, go look through their shop! They got clothes, and cute gifts, and books and all kinds of other awesome stuff! Ye, the shipping sucks, but we need to keep our museums alive! (the good ones, not the British Museum of Thievery XP)
HE’S HERE! MY BIG BOY IS HERE!! (And yes he is my BIG boy despite only being 16 inches, you shush!)
He took nearly a month to get here, but that’s because of ALL THE ORDERS THEY’VE BEEN GETTING! OVER 1800 ORDERS! This is why I love the online community!!
Now if you don’t mind I’m going to tuck Duncan into my sweater and go work on the piles of stuff I still have to do 😅
For anyone curious what’s happening with the PRI they’re digging themselves out! An anonymous donor gave them $1 mn which they used to secure a stay on the forclosure for the rest of the year and they’re approximately a third of the way to buying their way out of the mortgage.
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