#reactionary discourse

[notabigrock]

This is a chain of reactionary energy that completely missed the original point being mocked. Instead of thinking of ChatGTP like a calculator, think of it as a friend being used as a sounding board. Using external resources to help brainstorm is completely normal process and it only sounds weird because you’re making it sound weird. No, it’s not anywhere close to perfect because it’s not supposed to be, not anymore than a friend is supposed to be perfect. It’s not supposed to replace thought, and if you use that way you’re frankly a fool, but no one was suggesting using it that way in the first place.

generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

[triviallytrue]

more to the point i think it's cool that we get to explore the infinite diversity of ways humans can have relationships and i get rather angry when people turn this into a discourse football

[dead-pidoves-dirt-takes]

“You’re not oppressed for being proship!”

Okay cool, I agree, I never said I was.

But also,

You’re not being oppressed because people create art that’s personally unpleasant for you.

[theweeklydiscourse]

People are feeling helpless right now; because they feel helpless, they are reaching for control in a situation where they feel they have none. So, they reach for something smaller than the overarching white supremacist and misogynistic culture at large, something that seems feasible to defeat through their internet activity. They want to believe that “dark romances” are a driving force behind these white women’s choice to vote for a horrible and racist candidate because a literary genre seems easier to get rid of than the president.

They are willfully blind to the more likely reality that these women would have voted for Trump regardless of whatever books they read. Literally, just look at them and tell me that you wouldn't have at least some idea of who they would be most likely to vote for. People are being so reactionary about this and want to point the blame at the most convenient target.

This dumbass TikTok comment launched a barrage of discourse about the “real-world implications” of reading dark romance and somehow nobody can see that the author of that comment is also a dumbass with zero reading comprehension. To me, it seems clear that the commenter was making a joke that connected their conservative politics with the books they read. It’s another moron with zero reading comprehension making a sick joke.

REALLY? Is that the ONLY reason they voted for him? Do you think that there could be ANY OTHER LARGER SOCIETAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THAT DECISION?

[chicago-geniza]

get irrationally angry about my active problems list whenever i see it on my after-visit forms because it looks exactly like the most insufferable 2016 tumblr user's bio where they list all their diagnoses and now those diagnoses in and of themselves have become memetic shorthand for "annoying, terminally online person" so i have a learned, discursively mediated response to my own medical records

[werewolf-cuddles]

I don't know when the generative AI defenders switched to repackaging the discourse as a matter of accessibility and ableism, but it's pretty fucking disgusting and disingenuous imo

like... imagine being so defensive about using generative AI that you feel the need to use disabled people as a shield

[centrally-unplanned]

I'ma explain the Stardew Valley fascism thing because I am bored and sometimes explaining obvious things is good for your brain. So the idea here is that "the simple country life" of farming, hanging out your small town neighbors, building an elaborate produce gift-based harem, and existing in perpetual tranquility with them is very appealing to fascist/reactionary aesthetics. Cosmopolitan urbanity is a disease, a blight upon society, sucking the spirit of the yeoman people out of their souls and blending it with degenerate races/liberals until they are too weak and dependent to fight the forces of globalism and they cope by being gay living in the pod. If the people could just return to the land, work by the sweat of their brow, they would have beautiful blond wives and their spirit/t-levels would soar to the heights God intended for us. Or whatever. So Stardew Valley is an indulgence of that fantasy by letting you reject urbanism, embrace tradition, and thus it has fascist aesthetics.

The problem here is A: what the fuck you are talking about, and also B: misunderstanding cause & effect. The appeal of farm life does not cause a fear of rootless jews queering your children outside of the most banal ways, the fears come first, the farming life is stapled on. Which you know, because everybody loves the farm life as a fantasy! Not in practice, obviously, which is why its a video game and not an agribusiness contract. But we all love the fantasy of a beautiful farm in the countryside, being one with the earth and baking rustic dinners in bronze kitchenware on hand-carved wooden tables. Since 90% of people don't take that fantasy and blame its lack of actualization in their lives on filthy immigrants, its probably not the causal factor in these things! People liking trees is not problematic because it has (virtually) no political implications without a ton of other context. Most people have more than one fantasy after all, often contradictory ones.

But if you are a political radical doing propaganda on the internet, its far more appealing to the audience (which includes yourself) if your vision is all-in, has the carrots and the sticks. For some the insane rush of a totalitarian world order wiping clean the slate of human society and re-ordering it according to your own mercurial whims is enough regardless of why, but for some (pathetic losers ofc) out there they need a little more juice, something concrete. So its married to reactionary aesthetics for the full picture, that this political order will deliver the farm life unto you. That works because, again "everybody" likes the farm life, that is way of broadening the appeal. But its neither the problem with the vision nor the cause of the political ideology. Some people who authentically like the farm life become farmers, you can just do that. Most don't, because they just wanna play a video game.

To clarify, what I am not saying is that the "reactionary aesthetics" are irrelevant and could be swapped out. My point is that instead they are universal. They are normally built out of uncontestably positive things. Those blond tradwives are hotties! Wheat is pretty and tastes good! You can't remove that from culture outside of being a fascist yourself. None of that makes fascism what it is, its all the other stuff. And when people make media out to be fascist, they are almost always bringing in from the outside 99% of the secret sauce. It is case by case of course, there is authentically authoritarian media out there. But in practice, 90%+ of these accusations are "Stardew Valley is fascist" level. Its a very silly debate to get drawn into.

[genuinely-bad-posts]

how do you go about finding genuinely bad posts?

I follow your blog

[allgremlinyaps]

also while I'm in a poking-the-beehive mood, I will at some point have to write a little meta blurb about the take that the creators of atla/tlok had a "fetishistic obsession" with "brutalizing" Korra. look. this is actually some very old 2010s discourse and while its a concern that I take seriously when people bring it up, I just dont think it holds much water. As someone for whom Korra is, like, THE character I'm protective about, I promise I'm super sensitive to any hint of mistreatment of her and... I think there really is a fundamental difference between how Korra and her struggles are treated in this show and how people like say COUGH Joss Whedon COUGH HACK treat female characters and their suffering... I dont have time to get into it tonight cus I need to go to bed so instead I'm just gonna let this fester here unaddressed like so many of my other possibly divisive posts LOL...

but like when I saw that discourse cropping up again in *2024* and VERBATIM to how it was said in 2013... . lol no... I'm not 11 anymore I can actually voice my opinions on this coherently now sdhshs (hopefully)

[bricksotherblog]

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(from Lavender Woman, Volume 2, Issue 5, August 1973)

op be like: this could mean anything

[miiiwu]

Yeah man if you have asthma or don’t like the smell of pot smoke youre a reactionary cop who hates your neighbors and wants to imprison and kill all drug addicts. I am a very serious person and a real activist btw.

[technicoloryuri]

You make a good point, however I just finished jacking my penis and realized I don't care

[wraithfangz]

the whole "omg BH are so selfish and stupid" and "they deserve to tpk/suffer massive consequences/not have a good ending" attitude makes it really difficult for me to actually want to engage in constructive, critical conversations surrounding BH's choices.

There were no objectively "good" or "correct" choices. That's the whole point. Bells Hells have been indecisive on what's the right thing to do because that was never an option to begin with!

and the whole conversation around BH having to face severe consequences for these choices is also just....yeah no shit? Do y'all think that they don't know that? This has been the root of their indecision for the past 118 episodes; they have been terrified of the consequences.

Because there were going to be negative consequences regardless of what they chose. The tragedy of all of this is that they never should have been put in this position in the first place. It's supposed to feel unfair because it honestly is unfair.

I truly fail to see what the "least" selfish decision here was. Or what else they were supposed to do. Or how this was inherently and objectively an "evil" thing to do? Especially when they have made it clear that they don't want to kill/hurt the gods!

Is it slightly naive and hubristic thinking that Imogen alone can control Predathos? Sure, I can agree with that. But that's why I'm waiting for the story to play out before having any final thoughts; because, who knows what the hell is going to happen next. That's what makes this all so fun and fascinating for me tbh.

Narratively, everything has been building up to this encounter with Predathos. There's so much more to Predathos than I think we (including Bells Hells, and maybe even Ludinus) initially believed, and that's so exciting! So I, for one, am choosing to trust Imogen and Bells Hells on this one, and that Matt has a plan/direction that isn't complete and utter doom and gloom.

[overlyinvestedinlife]

You would really think Carlos is a bum who’s never won anything with the amount of people saying the match is over cause he’s down a set and a break??? Like???

It’s one set and one break in a best of 5 match, and he’s the defending champion and you’re saying “he choked the match away” pls be so serious

[epiphainie]

i can't tell you how excited i am that you're writing a buck centric fic. i trust you and maybe two more people with how you'd handle his arc and relationships

i can't tell you how big i grinned at this. there's been a low humming anxiety i've had for months atp about what the fuck im even still doing in this fandom but the idea of this fic feels right. i have too many thoughts about buck, bt, buckandeddie, buck and bobby, buck and the 118 that i think i need to put into a story bc everything else feels like i'm fighting the fandom even when that's never my intention and i'm truly so done with this restless feeling i get whenever i think about these characters and dynamics i love, like i think that feeling needs to be snuffed after becoming something productive

sorry i emotionally dumped on you a little lol

[badempanadaofpatmos]

Americans are hereditary reactionaries it's not just their culture they are genetically incapable of holding anti-imperialist views.

They must be destroyed for the good of humanity.