#Political Equator

[utilitycaster]

Forgot to put this on the scrupulosity/fear of liking a character who isn't a good person post yesterday but I think this explains something that's always irritated me - what I like to call the "mold that grew on the campaign" problem. I used that term initially to describe people who hated Essek because they almost always treated Essek as, well, some mold that grew on the campaign and not a character whom Matt created and whom the cast became interested in interacting with extensively to the point that his story became what it did - through constant choices that Matt and the rest of the cast made. Because if you treat Essek not just as a character you dislike - which is valid - but a Bad Person whose story tells you Bad Things and it's Bad to like him - then you would have to consider that the Critical Role cast told a story in which he was redeemed, and if you think that's bad or misleading then you need to consider that they're people who don't agree with you, which means [in this understanding of morality, to be clear, not like, what I think] that either you and they are not morally the same which means one of you is bad which means you liking their work might be bad. So Essek is talked about like mold - not deliberately crafted and introduced to this process* but rather some ambient rot that isn't really anyone's fault. Except perhaps the fans, which would mean that Critical Role is bowing to fan pressure even when those fans have bad opinions, which also says something about them that is perhaps bad.

Obviously this isn't the only case; perhaps the most egregious one was the already infamous "you can't criticize improv" line which implies that none of this has any skill or intent involved, but hopefully this was illustrative. Disliking or liking a choice is valid; but denying the agency - that someone made that choice - never is.

*yes some processes do deliberately introduce mold, you know what I fucking mean. mold on bread rather than mold used to make blue cheese.

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[dreadeves]

considering how strong the tale of two cities seems to have influenced tid, it’ll be fascinating to see the similarities between twp and (presumably) le morte d’arthur, because cc tends to know her shit when it comes to classics. livvy is strongly guinevere to me, and kit morgan le fay, which i guess makes ty merlin. ash is like, lowkey king arthur. but it’ll be interesting to see who she decides to parallel who

[cavitychemicals]

shoutout to this wording in trump's transphobic bullshit bill that makes it so that everyone on earth is classified as "female" (because it says "at conception" when no human fetus is producing testosterone or exhibiting any "male" phenotypic features until later in development.) there's only one gender now ig

[transmasculinizing]

in my silly little brain i hc that bruce saw how malnourished jason was and made sure alfred made him way more food then he needed.like everyday he would ominously walk up to jason and asks "did u eat breakfast?" and jason whose still getting to know bruce just nods nervously then bruce goes to the kitchen and sees theres still leftovers and says "why didnt you finish? i thought you liked alfreds cooking" "im full" "I THOUGHT U LIKED ALFREDS COOKING"

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

As a Floridian (currently living elsewhere) I cannot tell you how devastating these NOAA cuts have been. Many meteorologists have noted how hard it has been to track storms. The new FEMA chief claimed to not know there was such as thing as hurricane seasons.

I know it's easy to make fun of people goofing off during hurricanes. I know it's easy to laugh at people making videos and tik toks and tweets and Instagram about hurricane parties. Hell, I know it's easy to make fun of Floridians (and I know Hurricanes effect other states, and have done horrific damage in other states) but let me remind people:

Hurricanes kill people. They do. Wind, flooding, diseases in the water, drowning, lack of access to emergency medical care, destruction. Hell, people have died of dehydration because they lost access to clean water in just a few days.

It's hurricane season right now. June to November, half a year of these storms forming. We don't even need to mention global warming to point out that the storms get more devastating year after year. Hell, last year (my first in a different state) my town got destroyed. We're still recovering.

A hurricane can and will kill. Unhoused people who cannot seek shelter will die-and how can they know when to seek shelter (if available) when no one can tell them when a storm that cannot be stuck-out in comparison to a typical storm is coming? How can hospitals prep when the biggest warning is only a day? How can schools and buildings that are shelters prepare if only given hours?

How can people find out where to go if they live in an evacuation zone? Hell, how will they know when to evacuate?

I tend not to talk about politics here-I try to make this a space away from it all since I do stay informed in other manners-but every day this week it's stormed bad-worse than a typical thunderstorm-for a few hours every day.

It's infuriating, for many reasons beyond cut funding, that this current government is so focused on just...I don't even know how to describe it. Anti intellectualism?

IDK. I'm just tired.

[yourlocalthanatologist]

[ceasarslegion]

Anyway. Leaves this here

[moncuries]

i log onto twitter dot com. i see americans talking about alberta’s politics. i log off twitter dot com.

[justablah56]

saw someone say something about a line from a show and math not working a certain way and blah blah blah 'the writers don't know what they're talking about lmaoo' but. *they* are wrong. and that *is* in fact how that works. and I'm being so brave and not going into the comments of their zero note fandom post to say oh actually that's not correct, and here's how that actually works :]

[fite-club]

i still personally dislike the "pansexuality is like if bisexuality wasn't so shallow and cissexist" take, sorry!

[ssaltlicker]

People not understanding that silco is arguably as oppressive to the people of zaun as piltover

[ebitenpura]

it's downright fascinating to me that so many interpret Aymeric's "gods it might be love" reaction to the WoL as actually romantic, when the man himself hasn't so much as even shared a drink with them at this point. To me, it feels like he's in love with the idea of the WoL--maybe not the person themselves, though that's a part of why he looks at them so deeply. either way, interesting fanbase interpretation of a man who is clearly searching for hope incarnate, whatever form it takes.

[myenterpriseisparked]

I love Threshold Day so much.

[moonydulac]

if you've witnessed the last 10 months and land on "Israel has a right to defend itself" as the most normal stance, do us a favor and stop pretending to give a shit.

[mcaelius]

please tell us about jedi cicero please

i would if i had anything to say about it other than . a vague collection of nebulous thoughts and concepts 😭 i need to rewatch star wars (it's been a year) and then answer this quastion Properly. i just had like two or three neurons fire wrt lightsaber forms evil master+padawan dynamics and a split second of . hang on unrelated semi-related i just had a vision i think clodius should wear darth maul's tits out robes. my penis