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what r/CuratedTumblr doesn't show you is that half of the people whose really good and nuanced takes are posted there tend to have the most dogshit hateful ignorant opinions on some different but equally sensitive topic.

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it is important to remember that a significant proportion of this website's 'bookworms' consists of people who want the hays code to be restored and applied to every piece of media, people who believe that only books targeting children and teenagers are worthy to be engaged into, and people who had never read an original literary work in their entire life.

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there are three different types of claiming a piece of media is deeper than it seems. 'green eggs and ham (1960) by dr. seuss is actually a left accelerationist manifesto, and it directly anticipates various theses of srnicek and laboria cuboniks': harmless funny bullshitting, everybody can tell you're not actually serious, and you have some self-irony about your passion for finding deep subtexts. 'naruto (1999–2014) by masashi kishimoto is actually very deep and nuanced when it comes to covering timeless themes like one's purpose in life, war, human connection, handling emotions...': it is clear that you're not familiar with the taste of cantaloupe and used to chew on shoelaces. 'naruto (1999–2014) by masashi kishimoto actually provides a deep analysis of the neo-medievalism, the nature of modern-era states, and the psychology of a human deprived of their agency': looks like you're driven by your desire to maintain the image of an intellectual to the point that you don't allow yourself to enjoy simpler, amusement-based works.

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if some knowledge or activity was gatekept from you and your conclusion is 'i think this knowledge or activity shouldn't exist and be entirely forgotten by everyone because being available only for certain population groups makes this activity inherently defiled and impure' i'd recommend to have a second thought about it. if you had a second thought about it and your conclusion is the same, i'll think you're a douche.

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another missed opportunity on rateyourmusic is getting to sort your album rating comparisons with someone by number of ratings on each album. so you can much more easily perhaps see how deep you both go into different areas and such. call me rym. huge thungs could be coming your way👍👍

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pet peeve of a day #1: when people list 'reading' without any additions as their hobby while describing themselves. like, what exactly do you like to read? xix century british gothic novels? sexy vampire fiction? thomas pynchon? 1960s hard sci fi? russian isekais about darth vader allying with stalin? french transgressive prose? traditional japanese poetry? popular science astrophysics books? all the editions of joe miller's jests? stephen king? cyber feminism theory? cookbooks? digimon angst yaoi fanfiction? guides for car repairing? hungarian modernism? ada limón? biblical apocripha? 'my year of rest and relaxation'? osho? chivalric romances? war criminals' memoirs? urban fantasy? roland barthes? or perhaps you don't see any difference because you're fascinated by the process of recognizing letters and words by itself? yes, i know that the answer is usually 'recently trendy ya romance novels and also i liked a few books from my school curriculum', but please just say it and stop implying that reading is a homogeneous activity that doesn't need any nuance when described.

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this is neither a bait nor complain, but a sincere question. what do you even do with neopronouns in the context of international communication. like, for example, let's imagine that i'm friends with some neopronouns user here on tumblr (as for now this is a hypothetical scenario since i don't know anyone here on tumblr except for my two irl friends x_x) who only speaks english and use neopronouns which are designed to resemble 'traditional' pronouns in their structure (e.g.: ze/zer, xe/xim) or are made of english nouns (e.g.: moon/moons, pup/pups). let's then imagine that i'm talking to my irl friend, speaking my native language (which isn't english, but it also has gendered pronouns) and telling them about my tumblr neopronouns friend. how should i refer to my tumblr friend when speaking a language other than english in this scenario? should i simply transliterate friend's neopronouns? should i come up with some translation of my own if neopronouns are made of english nouns? should i firstly consult my hypothetical neopronouns friend and make zer/xim/moons/etc rack zer/xim/moons/etc brain over how should these pronouns be adapted to a language unknown to zer/xim/moons/etc? additional question: what do i do, if my native language has gendered verb endings, which is a case of many languages, including mine?

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in view of the the common 'stop using chatgpt and learn to search for the info you need yourself' sentiment, i'd also like to recommend to stop relying on streaming services recs/generated personal playlists when it comes to finding new music. it actually doesn't help you find various new stuff, it flattens your perspective and locks you in an isolated echochamber where you're deprived of context and the possibility of active choice. 'but how would i learn about new music' there's a lot of options. ask your friends for recs. browse online communities for genres you like and artists you like (communities for artist X tend to have threads for 'artists which sounds like X'). browse websites like RYM or LastFM. read reviews and articles on online musical media: from Pitchfork to local obscure webzines. there are also books and podcasts dedicated to modern music history. yes, every of these options requires more effort than just opening playlist on Spotify and listen to whatever algorithm decided you'll be listening to today. but these options guarantee that it is you who is responsible for your content choices.

'but what if i don't like what i found' search for more. you won't die if you didn't like something. some people tend to become actively afraid of accidentaly consuming content they don't like, and i'm not talking about triggering topics. i saw people suggesting putting AO3-like trope tags on every printed book's cover so people will only reach for tropes they like. seeing people actively wanting to renounce their will to explore, research and form their own taste and wanting to be spoonfed with the same shit every time is actually terrifying.

streaming services algorithms aren't even that good. especially when it comes to niche genres and music with non-english lyrics (i personally witnessed spotify taking 'lyrics in particular language' as a specific trait more important than anything else and starting to suggest me artists which have nothing to do with artists i actually listen to except for the language they sing in). you'll find more interesting music if you start exploring it yourself. i promise you. you're better than that.

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i kinda wish i had to wear a bra so i could feel more naked by not wearing it. like, when i'm naked, according to the common standards of propriety i'm only missing one piece of clothing which presence would make my current clothing state being mostly sfw. i wish there was more so my nakedness would be defined by missing more clothing. does this make any sense to anyone?

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cosmonaut’s calendar

this is about the guy in our yard who swings on a swing set all day, any day, in all kinds of weather

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ideologies tier lists on tier maker dot com be like: — an actual ideology; — an umbrella term consisting of 5,000 very different ideologies; — a local scent of fascism practiced in one particular country; — stuff that actually exists, but is rather a philosophical movement or a cultural studies concept than a political ideology; — political studies concept that is applied to regimes post hoc; — 400 'ideologies' made up on some discord server by merging together several mutually exclusive and oddly specific types of radicalism and their content is limited to their names; — an actual ideology which was practiced several centuries ago and couldn't be applied to modern world politics in any meaningful way.

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cisgressive cinema? i doubt so

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"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.

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'let people enjoy things' gang when the thing you enjoy isn't in the top 10 most popular recent things:

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elves of our town 9 — the satanist elf

whoever heard of an elf being a satanist of all things? but we have one here: a grand connoiseur of boxed wine and awful fortune-telling cards with nude maidens pictured, covering their shameful parts with fireballs,

he has to take the unified elven exam next month, and instead of cheat sheets he has some scribbles in roman-jewish pidgin written backwards, and a pirate cassete in which lower demons are hissing to the blastbeat,

a laughing stock, a nerd of the nerds, he also doesn't wash his t-shirt, but when the moon's coming up behind the newspaper stand, he's adjuring the dead blackberry, the new- born ashberry, and in fire and blood the schoolground arises,

and when the star goes up, when his harvest is ripe and the minds of the homeless, hunted and small are open, he's finally freeing his pure, pristine wings, and the eyes would hurt, but they don't hurt somehow.

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elves of our town 8 — the detective elf

he smokes for sure, but these days it's mostly puff bars or juul outmoded already, and if the case is tough, he's reaching for his lip; his ears dangle from under the deerstalker hat in the mirror like two willow twigs

full of terrifying suspicions... all the companion elves, with moustaches and revolvers, are long-married or had sneaked out from this mad-ass marsh, filled with unidentified corpses to the top, and the job opened on

hh, is vainly vacant; they don't take money from him anymore for the living room burned with acid, perforated by shooting, so the notes only work to light a fireplace, and it should be lit hotly this season, cause even the wind

is walking with an axe outside the windows and husking lone ladies all around... stranglers, safe breakers, black widows, mad gassers have multiplied, they're all working for him alone, without them he'd be yearning completely, poor guy.

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elves of our town 7 — the seafarer elf

they say elves can't grow a beard: that's bullshit pure and simple! this one has it down to his knees, with tangles stronger than ropes, if you rummage through it properly, you'll find some oysters, stars, crystals of salt among the hardtack's crumbs;

october is fierce in the sea, no match to the city's hypo- chrondriac wimp in his faded ash poncho, but this old bastard doesn't think of his holiday pay, and is still dragging his fossil skeleton frigate bypassing the billows; the white

whale has owed him money since their latest card game, and the squid (that one, the wrecker of pirates) hasn't lived at his registered address for five years by his efforts, and he watches comely melusinas not without passion, but he'll never

give them his wolfish grog to commune... although he's no taller than binoculars, he curses so strong that even the sea devil himself has his ears curled like a rapana's shell, just check it out, he sailed to us once, i've drank with him once, why would i lie?