#special interest discourse

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Speaking of Code, what exactly was the Jedi Code? Not to get attached to people? If so, they break their own code by having padawans and younglings. You mean to tell me that you can’t be attached to your master and teacher, the one who taught you everything you know?

Sounds like BS to me. Unless someone can explain it too me.

[menlove]

the way beatles fandom drama is literally the way that it is bc 90% of the people here are autistic. and all in contradicting flavors too.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

the only time spop treats entrapta as a grown adult is when they make jokes about her wanting to fuck robots.

[neokamui414]

I really really really really want to write like a 50,000 word essay talking about the success and popularity of horror movies within the last 2 years that reflect on and explore the late 20th century phenomena of the Satanic Panic; so stuff like Late Night With The Devil, Maxxxine, Longlegs etc. and compare and contrast them with the fact that we are seeing a simultaneous reemergence of Japanese media that does the same with what could arguably be seen as the closest cultural equivalent to the Satanic Panic in East Asia, known as the Japanese Occult Boom. So stuff like the Silent Hill 2 Remake and anime like Dandadan.

And then juxtapose all of that against the current sociopolitical and economic circumstances around the world, since it is a very well documented fact that interest in the supernatural, paranormal, mystical and occult, all grow exponentially during times of sociopolitical uncertainty and upheaval.......

The problem is that my autism and ADHD would make it very very difficult for me to actually write it down in essay format so someone should bother me on this app and get me to talk about my thoughts and feelings on this topic. Please please please let me rant about my current biggest sociological/anthropological special interest!!!!

[pastryjay]

No, OFMD did not 'promise' the viewers a safe time (only happiness, no angst or death) then 'betray' them with Izzy's death, as i've seen some complaining.

The show is called Our Flag Means Death and there is death and angst from season 1 episode 1. At no point did the showrunners promise us 'this is a show where all characters will remain safe'.

Being a comedy doesn't mean the story will be all joy and light. Comedies using upsetting topics and death is not unusual. It's actually quite common! If done well, comedy can give a contrast to angsty moments making them more heartbreaking.

The writers have a story they wanted to tell and have said since season 1 aired that there is a 3 season plan for the show. It's likely that they planned major plot points for each season (like Izzy's death) before S1 was filmed. They didn't change the plot to kill Izzy because they wanted to make the show darker or to spite fans. You are not owed a perfectly happy story when the writers have set out to tell something different.

If you're a person who can only handle stories where everyone is always happy, that's fine! Stories like that exist! It just makes no sense to watch a show with death in the title then blame the writers for 'betraying' you when death happens.

[capoismail]

Etoiles highlighted something that i really agree with and that i thought by myself as well a few days ago so im sharing it:

According to him, one of the main issues of the purgatory event is that while the players are evenly balanced in the teams, the admins didn't take into consideration the fanbases balancing; green team's ccs have big fanbases, red team literaly has all the fan favorites, but blue team's ccs tend to have smaller fanbases.

He used the example that if Quackity spawn kills, because he has a huge fanbase people will say he played well, but when Badboyhalo does it he gets insulted on Twitter for it just because his fanbase is smaller and it's unfair to him.

[grandwretch]

its so funny to me when ppl realize that the founding fathers weren't puritans like guys actually puritanical ideals weren't as prevalent in colonial america as you were led to believe. your elementary school teacher lied to you about history just as much as they lied to you about biology. they were a small religious sect that eventually grew larger as a reactionary movement against social freedoms. most of the founding fathers thought jesus was just some guy. when they said 'under god' they didn't mean The God; they mostly meant 'i mean there's got to be some guy up there doing all this shit right? so we should all probably be good people to make him happy'. john adams said he thought organized religion was stopping us from achieving utopia. there were gay people in colonial america and everyone knew they were gay. the entire country was not massachusetts.

[dareduffie]

overhated female main characters who are products of their environment and are blamed for every conflict in their story because for some reason an extreme lack of media literacy has become the cool and interesting thing to do

[autiartistic]

art is inclusive, it's for everyone, everyone can do art, everyone can create. No, i don't think generative ai is inclusive, art already is.

and i mean it, i've heard people saying ''oh but it's not inclusive because disabled people can't do art'' and i honestly couldn't disagree more.

you know where i wrote my first stories? in my school books, in my sketchbooks. in anything i could write on.

you know when i started drawing? back when i was five or six, i've been drawing all my life. in anything you could think of, napkins, paper, my high school table (which i even carved), walls, on the floor, my own clothes, with absolutely anything that can leave a mark, a pen, paint, markers, chalk, Anything I Could Find.

when i was a kid, i had plenty of severe motor and vocal tics, i still do, as i have tourette's syndrome it just waned a bit. the thing is that, even when my motor tics made me mess up the drawing, the words, even if my lines weren't clear, and were woozy, i created, i made art, in my own way, even if my hand couldn't draw in prolonged times as i moved it.

I Did Create Art.

paul smith who had a severe spastic cerebral palsy used a typewriter to draw.

chuck close had a paralysis, he adapted his work, after it.

i have a mutual, on one of my social medias who has a motor disability who also does art.

we are very capable of making art, and yes i am gonna speak for everyone here, even if it's an ''unpopular'' opinion or even ''problematic'', you can do art. you can pick up a pen, with your hands, feet, mouth, eye-tracking technology, adapt tools and you can create.

you can make a whole literary universe, you only need your imagination.

you can dance with your limbs, with your body, with your hands, you can dance with mobility aids.

fuck, you can do acting, without even comprehending ''normal'' social behavior, even if you mess up.

you can create music with only the palms of your hands, with daily noises.

the thing people don't understand, is that it doesn't gotta be perfect, it doesn't has to look nice, even, perfect.

everyone and anyone can do art, you just have to find your own ways to do so.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Me: wants to watch Star Wars

Also me: lacking motivation to actually watch a movie/show…

[onemillionfurries]

sighs and throws my hat into the kink discourse ring

as long as everyone involved in a scene is a consenting human adult, i see literally no reason why what theyre doing is any of our business.

yes, that includes the kinks that you dont like and make you uncomfortable.

[bonesfool]

kinda pissed off that people who I've never seen talk about rap before are making memes about the kendrick v drake beef (especially all the people comparing it to the fucking Hmbomberguy James Somerton video like tell me you don't know shit about black culture without telling me Jesus Christ), but I'm glad its become a catalyst for the conversation that so many white people on here just do not engage in black art forms

a lot of people have been boiling it down to if you claim to universally not enjoy rap, a genre that is almost universally populated by black artists, producers and record labels you're racist. this is certainly true, especially if you don't treat other genres as monoliths you can write off. (cough cough we all saw those tags on that one post)

But as someone who has a special interest in protest music (usually American protest music specifically) I think that even if you genuinely do not enjoy the sound of rap, if you consider yourself to be an American leftist, and have not made any effort to at least learn the history of rap you're not only racist, you're also uneducated and I would go as far to say not a real leftist. Why? because rap is inherently political: both in the sense that all music is political because all art is political, but also in the sense that rap uniquely political as a black art form

I've seen a lot of people saying "not all rap is about drugs and violence" which is a true statement, but ignores the fact that a lot of rap *is* about drugs and violence. and for a fucking good reason, both of them dominated the urban black experience in the 80s and 90s, and therefore have a disproportionate appearance in black art. Rap was born in American urban centers in the 70s/80s, a time when Reagan and Nixon's policies had completely divested federal support from urban centers, deindustrialization had made growing wealth in black communities suddenly become unsustainable, and racist policing laws had been put in place to funnel black men into drugs and then into the prison industrial complex (read The New Jim Crow if you have not, this post is already too long and if you don't know about the war on drugs im not gonna whitesplain it to you more than I already have).

Point being, it has always sucked to be black in this country, and rap was birthed in a time where uniquely targeted racism was driving much of federal policymaking. It was a time where mainstream politics were directly reactionary to the progress made by civil rights activists in ending Jim Crow and other de jure racism. So much of rap (particularly gangsta rap) was born as a genre of protest music, and much of it continues to be to this day. If you don't have at least passing familiarity with the giants of the genre (I'm not saying you even have to like their music, you just have to know the artists' and songs' significance in American countercultural history) I simply do not trust your knowledge of American leftism or protest movements

All this to say, I want to wholeheartedly recommend the documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution. It's on Netflix and its 16 episodes covering the history of DJing, hip-hop, and rap. It has lots of interviews with prolific and influential producers and rappers, and you can also hear some of their music throughout the series, so its a great place to get a comprehensive view of the genre and maybe see if there are any subgenres to your taste

[nashdoesstuff]

ship discourse my beloathed

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

Do you have any idea what features it would be worth adding to Adora to show that she is a First One?

i feel like the princesses were already unnatural enough that colored hair or eyes won't cut it. maybe they could have given adora something subtle that you wouldn't notice until she was revealed to be a first one.

maybe irises that are fully black, or limbs that are just slightly longer than normal, or eyes that close vertically (kinda like double trouble's). i'm a sucker for features that are generally considered uncanny or off-putting, and i feel like it would be interesting to give a feature like that to the heroes rather than the villains.

[tomwambsmilk]

need some of my succtuals to play red dead to elevate the fandom discourse just a little bit. I'm drowning in x reader smut over here and I need at least one (1) of you with whom I can discuss themes and motifs and what the hell is going on with d*tch v*n der l*nde

[mostlymarginalia]

I think it's fun listening to people go off on tangents about the things that interest them.