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This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

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old gods are waking

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i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?

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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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”Kill them with kindness.”

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dude.

that scene where oliver confronts james after he broke his nose ... it's a love confession. god. it is. you’re like a bird. this fragile, elusive thing. if i could catch you, I could crush you.

(why is this romantic as hell and back? nothing anyone would ever say to me would be as romantic and crushing and full of terrible desperate yearning as this)

and then james says that line from romeo & juliet balcony scene. something something about it translating into i hate myself because i’ve done something hateful to you.

it's like when oliver told colbourn that as actors they felt two things at the same time, what their characters felt and what they were feeling. so james is trussed up and confused with his actions and in love with oliver and quoting ROMEO MONTAGUE. this isn't duality, it's parallel. it's one thing on top of other.

...and of course the scene ends with oliver holding james's hand over his heart and james staring at it like he's just realised... the enormity of this. this unspeakable thing.

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to people who moved on from IWWV - what kind of sorcery do you practice? what witchcraft is it? wdym you don't think about it everyday? wdym you don't think about oliver spending 10 yrs in prison to protect james? james and oliver finally knowing how they both feel just to get separated again? or oliver's "It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still" monologue?

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richard haunting the narrative the whole time, james being doomed by the narrative the whole time and oliver narrating unreliably is so special to me

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Do it for the meme. http://blinkingguy.com

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Oliver really thought he was protective and possessive over James just because he wanted to be his only best friend. Honey, you are gay and in love with him.

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m l rio really said "you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough" and thought it justified making me lose my mind over a bunch of emo theatre kids huh

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i honestly love that oliver says to meredith „i look at you and suddenly all the sonnets make sense“ (or however the sentence goes) cause shakespeare wrote sonnets for the fair youth who was a man that he probably loved but also to the dark lady. but one of the key differences was that the ones to the fair youth showed more of a spiritual love while the ones to the dark lady were very sexual. and the fair youth could be connected to a real existing person while the dark lady is probably purely a creation of shakespeares imagination. so, james-the fair youth, meredith-the dark lady

this sentence leaves so much open to meredith and they talked about homoeroticism in class so they surely also talked about this, of course she would know

also, there were so many more sonnets written about the fair youth than about the dark lady its already hinting

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Yeah yeah, draw the shakespearean drama kids in the twelfth night pose, real original

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a twink is essential to a captivating piece of literature

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extremely funny that Oliver spends the first 2 acts of iwwv like “I’m the most regular 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I’m the least attractive among these extraordinary talented people 🥺🥺 honestly I’m super unimpressive and meh” while the book establishes that the two most hottest people in the school want him So Bad it makes them look stupid

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my fav genre of books is called "what the FUCK richard"

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the fact that the main criticism of If We Were Villains is the fact that the characters are one dimensional is crazy to me bc it shows that these people missed the entire point of the book. the characters are so immersed in the world of Shakespeare that they become the archetypes they acted as in the plays. they take part in the worst kind of method acting as they strive to be perfect. the whole story is centred around themes of losing yourself in an act. OFC THEY HAD NO DEPTH, THEY EACH STARTED AND ENDED THE STORY AS ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY, THE SHAKESPERIAN ARCHETYPES THEY PLAYED. SOMEONE WENT TO JAIL OVER IT AND TWO PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF IT, THE PLOT OF JULIUS CAESAR PRETTY MUCH PLAYED OUT IN THEIR FUCKED UP LITTLE ARTS COLLEGE. OFC THEY'RE ONE DIMENSIONAL MY GOD.

anyways :D