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Looks like a Honey Pot to me. *side eye* Which one of you'se is in management?

If you hate working in customer service right now, join this server to be with your fellow members of the working class. This has nothing to do with this blog. though.

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To be fair I've seen several posts similar to this one so a lot of what I say below covers them as much as yours. The broader sentiment that BLM should not be used or talked about through fanworks, photoshops, etc. Because it is a real issue, about the life, death, and future of very real and injured people. So I get it. On the other hand...

A poster, like the one I posted, and writing about BLM in fan works spring from the same source. That's why I connected your post to that photo. Young people writing about one of the biggest events happening in their short lives and processing it through the only creative method they may have is not 'bad'. Communicating about BLM through fandom, or using media as a perspective frame, is not some malicious act or insult. It might readily seem gauche at best but these kids are trying to learn and structure how they feel about world events or even their own lives. This happens across nationaloties and borders. If a PoC writes a fanfic about BLM events, it comes from the same psychological need to conceptualise and sort events as non-PoC. The big chip, of course, is the vast difference between an American PoC who'se using fanfic to grapple with their lived reality and something that has affected and will continue to shape their future and non-PoC who are usually outsiders looking in with an attempting to empathyze and failing at it.

The fanworks are cringe, stupid, and out of place. Even if the the writing is used to sort through their personal shit, it's the kind of writing that shouldn't be published because of its gauche and disconnected nature. Disconnected from both source matrial and reality. But most of the people doing this are young and stupid and yet to pick up on this and I just don't feel like yelling at kids about how WRONG they are is particularly productive. Especially as, at it's core, it isn't even malicious.

They're going about it in perhaps not the best way, but when a kid that doesn't have their own income, modes of transportation, or even independant living, tries to show support to the movement in the only way they have, they're not being bad people. They can't donate, go out on marches, and many can't even show support openly because of family etc.

I suppose, ultimately, I can't get behind the notion of yelling at someone for supporting BLM. Seems counter intuitive.

I need white people in fandoms to shut the entire fuck up. Using real shit like police brutality, antiblackness and racism etc for fan fiction or headcanons is very tone deaf and just insensitive. Just please for the love of god look outside of the books the movies and the games and ya know and actually think and look at what black people and other poc are talking about.

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I need white people in fandoms to shut the entire fuck up. Using real shit like police brutality, antiblackness and racism etc for fan fiction or headcanons is very tone deaf and just insensitive. Just please for the love of god look outside of the books the movies and the games and ya know and actually think and look at what black people and other poc are talking about.

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Just got a call from my cousin at work.

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It's a ship you fuzzy prune! Remember a ship can ship ships but a boat can not boat anything.

First! Sorry for the shadow, I don’t have any prime places to take pictures without shadows right now. Second! Ignore moonmoon dog, the main focus is the comic strip here XD. So yes, another comic about my wonderful school life. I swear this happened.

What is written:

1) Me: “Why did I fail this test, teach? I got the answers right baised* on the segment of Noah’s Ark you gave us?” *Note: I know the word I was going for is based, but I did this quickly.

1) Me: (In thoughts) “Nice way to force kids to read the Bible, I dislike you.”

2) Teacher: (angry and shouting) “BECAUSE YOU CALLED NOAH’S ARK A BOAT!!”

3) Me: (In thoughts while being sarcastic) “I hate Christians…”

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What exactly do you refer to as Darwinism? The theories of natural selection he became famous for or the bastardised versions of social Darwinism that were created by idiots that didn't understand his work but saw an opportunity to use it as a bludgeon against minorities and the poor.

Let me lay it out to you logically then. Natural selection says that the individuals with the best adaptitions survive and reproduce. One of Humanities most successful adaptations is social group living to preserve the life of individuals, and thus the group over all. Following in this manner, charities and Safety Nets are the most natural option.

Now get off yer high dick horse and stop acting like atheism somehow unplugs people from all understanding of society and ethics like their god damn machines. Or that people need some kind of deep thought moral thesis or imaginary friend in the sky to guide them.

apparently, evangelical cartoonist Jack Chick passed away last night

let us remember him by taking a moment to laugh once again at this classic

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Watership Down's main theme is interactions between different groups and societies. And which of these interactions are 'good' and which are 'bad.'

The book starts with one group, humans, exterminating another, the rabbits, simply because they were simply in the way. The first warren wasn't just destroyed. The book describes how the tunnels were filled with poison gas, among other horrors, and then the rabbits were dug out.

Then we see Cowslip's warren where the rabbits are kept alive only to be killed. Less the malicious cruelty of earlier but still clearly horrifying.

So we have an established line of 'humans bad' thus far. Then we get to see Efrafa and suddenly the horrors having been commited by humans are being done by other rabbits.

During these major poles of the story we have our main characters pulling through and surviving by being kind, smart, and helping others. The rabbits of Watership Down save a bird that can barely communicate with them but that bird aids them in their time of need. Bigwig is being strangled but unlike hiding and looking away, the main group work together and save him. Hazel is shot and his brother loves him so deeply that he can find him and help save his life. Humans may kill the rabbits but their tools (the boat, the train, even the dog) save them.

The book ends with Hazel being saved and released by humans to drive it's ultimate moral message home. It's a simple message of 'help and be kind to others' but if it weren't for the horrors the rabbits faced that message would have no teeth. It'd just be preachy.

The bad things add weight and meaning to the good. Without the terrible events we see the good of the character's actions would have no impact and resonance.

And that's why it's not just for kids but important to them. In a world of pink posters saying "sharing is caring" that is utterly devoid connection to children a story like Watership Down is a living example of why those morals are good and important.

The stars are beautiful but you need the night to see them.

Final Thoughts on Watership Down and children.

So I want to put out my final thoughts on Watership Down and how the dark themes should be done in children’s media. I had thought about this a lot since finishing the new Watership Down series and I feel like putting my thoughts out there.

First thing I want to say is that Watership Down is a children’s book, the author even admits to telling his own children these stories before bed and that it was his children who encouraged him to put the stories together in a book. Plus, if you think Watership Down isn’t a children’s book I would like you to check out Warriors aka the wild cats book. Sure the writing isn’t as good but a lot of horrifying stuff happens in the series, like the negative affects of child labor leading to the mass death of children adding on top of that kiddnaping children for this very purpose. The main villain dying in exactly the same way as the villain in the also infamous movie Felidae. This is all in the first series of books, if we continue we have kids being forced to kill and going through a heavily detailed mental breakdown from it, essentially children having to organize a coup against a bad leader only to mess up and put the wrong cat as the leader in place of the originally bad leader who, in detail, also tortures and kills any cats that step out of line. This BTW is only scratching the surface of what happens in the Warrior cats mainline series not counting the extras like the novellas. Yet everyone universally agrees that Warriors is a children’s book series. Now to be fair I think that thanks to the one nightmare scene (if you watched the movie you know what I mean, it’s like the second one.) I don’t feel Felidae is good for kids, but I bet it would have been given the same rating as Watership Down’s original movie if it didn’t have the mating scene. So the question is why do people think Watership Down isn’t for children? Because everything else points to it being so.

Children already see bad things happen, children already live through bad shit, I fail to see the benefit of attempting to protect them form seeing the bad in the world from their media. In fact, I dare say, it is actually hurting kids. Through seeing how Efrafa treats rabbits and all the more gory details of the original it helps kids understand empathy, it helps kids understand how the world can be harsh, it helps them develop and understanding of how to cope and continue. Where as without it, children are left with sugar coated hints at the issues without showing how bad they really were. I was watching a video on YouTube where a guy was comparing the old Watership Down movie to the new one and directly states that seeing the harshness in the original helped him understand Nazism and why it was so bad. He stated that even though he didn’t really understand it at the time from his young age, it helped him understand later on in life. This is why Children’s movies like Watership Down’s original one are so important, it is important to show a movie unafraid of the bad that happens.

I know the director of the original movie came out and stated that the original movie wasn’t ment for kids, but I ask you this; did he show anything worse in the movie then what was written in the books? In fact the books descriptions of these events, particularly the destruction of Sandalfoot Warren, stuck out to me as being more horrifying then in what was shown in the movie. And I already went over how the book is a kids book. You could also say the author made things more dramatic in the books but I don’t buy that, the destruction of Sandalfoot Warren, particularly with how horrifying it was is way to important to soften, even for his own kids. If you notice, the humans and their actions bookmark the part of the story the reader is in, there is a reason why humans destroying Sandalfoot Warren is at the beginning, Cowslip’s Warren is in the middle, and Hazel’s human rescue is in the end. Humans are a destructive force that seems to move the earth itself, and is completely selfish, but humans can also do good too. Without the horrifying nature of Sandalfoot Warren’s destruction the meaning behind the other two human interactions would be lost. Thus, I believe the story that was originally told to the authors children and what was written down are extremely similar.

So I feel that the original movie, alike the book, were meant for children and is beneficial for children to watch. Do I feel that the movie and books are good for children of all ages? Well if you’ve seen any of my responses before this post then you’ll know my answer is no. I feel like the original Watership Down movie was a prefect example of what real young adult movies should be, I feel the movie is for ten and up.

This is one of the reasons why the new series upon watching it felt so bad and one note, without the teeth everything had just lost the meaning it is supposed to have. That and other stuff the new series did poorly.

Also before people get on me by saying I hadn’t watched the movie or read the books, the original Watership Down movie was my favorite movie to watch when I was six. I still have the caset (how do you spell that word XD) and I remember watching it so often and rewinding it that there are scenes where there is so much wear and tear that the caset player has a problem reading and displaying it. So I am very familiar with what is in the movie. I also read the book too, not the sequel though, I didn’t even know the book had a sequel until recently.

My final point is that movies like Watership Down original are important, and we should strive to create more movies like it. And that attempting to be Soccer moms and keep all media for the kiddies clean of nearly everything that could hint at dark themes is not only impossible, but destructive to the children.

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Everyone talking about chaos and anarchy now that Tumblr has been taken off the iOS app store needs to have a seat.

You weren't there when Neopets decided to fire all their forum moderators. You have no concept of true web anarchy.

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Ya know? There were links in my original post but Tumblr seems to have eaten them. Instead just have a whole URL of proving my point.

https://www.abc15.com/news/national/alert-staff-school-lockdown-credited-with-stopping-mass-school-shooting

Remember when this photo was making the rounds and everybody was mocking it in horror. This should not, after all, be a necessary thing for little kids to learn.

Well I change my mind on the whole thing. I’m of the opinion now that, deapiye the need for it being tragic, this poem is excellent. It’s great. Dare I say, life saving.

I mean that very literally.

While we obviously need gun reform and better social structures, healthcare, and support to slow these horrible events. The Lockdowns at least are a semi-immediate thing that we can do now to save lives while working on those long-term goals.

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the other day i learned that taking a long time to fall asleep is called “sleep latency” which is just the funniest thing to me tbh

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untitled comic!!

Written and sketched by Alex

Drawn by Sidney

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“The politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder”

 - Harry Patch, last British veteran of WW1

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i feel like i just had an encounter with jesus

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Bruh…

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“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!

To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist, to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get a past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism which, while many don’t bother to give, I would provide without hesitation.

Some say “I don’t need approval.”(which I sincerely don’t believe). Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?

And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone, face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.

So, what makes you different?

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Day 21 ☆ Artist: Chuteki

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