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wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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Cdrama gang how many of the top 100 most watched cdramas on My Drama List have you seen?

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

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Spin this wheel and get your Nirvana in Fire Fuck, Marry, Kill

Please share who you got in the tags and how you feel about it!

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The arrow that has haunted Dou Zhao bursting into millions of tiny petals of purple crape myrtle, a flower that represents Dou Zhao and Song Mo's love and support for each other. The fear of the arrow ends here.

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Today, the shadow puppet show we'll be performing is called the Record of Truths.

Blossom (2024) - Episode 3

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Nirvana In Fire is sooooo crazy. Prince Jing will show up at Mei Changsu’s house and say I dont usually do this… if my dead wife I mean! Childhood best friend! Lin Shu could see me now… he’d never forgive me for seeing a SCHEMER, a PLOTTER, a DASTARDLY and DECEITFUL ADVISOR… 👉👈😗 and Mei Changsu goes wow that’s so sad dianxia… anyways here’s a very insightful point about the military that only Lin Shu would have known. and Prince Jing goes 🤨🥺 is that you Lin Shu?? and Mei Changsu says whaaaaattttt?????? Nooooooo…. And then someone asks Mei Changsu why he won’t fess up to being Lin Shu and he’s like You Don’t Understand It’s Better This Way… After all, Prince Jing could NEVER develop an unhealthy attachment to a scheming dastardly advisor like Mei Changsu, and he’s got a history of reckless behavior in defense of people he’s attached to. *sad, sad coughing* Meanwhile Prince Jing goes home and tells his mom about this hot advisor guy he’s about to start a rebellion for

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ok choose from my current fav blorbos

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ok choose from my current fav blorbos

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The NiF Exchange collection is live!

Come see this year's fan creations!

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Parapluie

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My darlings, my loves, my fellow weirdos, I am begging you all to REST after you have covid.

I know it is very hard, and our society asks you to get back up and running at full speed as soon as possible, before you’re even done testing positive even.

But please my friends, please rest.

If you push too hard too fast you might be sicker for longer, you might be doing long lasting damage to yourself.

So please my beautiful nerds, take care of yourselves and REST.

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Episode 18: fucking Cdramas!

Episode 20: fucking Cdramas.

Discovering what happened in the novel: fucking Cdramas!

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Watching Nirvana in Fire the first time:

Watching Nirvana in Fire the second time:

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A Bechdel-Style test for Disabled Characters (you know we all want one)

So – a couple of years ago, I added the book Disability Rhetoric, by Jay Thomas Dolmage (2014, Syracuse University Press) to my library. And this last week, I’ve been sitting down and rereading it more carefully. 

Anyway, between Chapters One and Two, he offers a couple of options for a “Disability Test’ for media. His first suggestion is that a movie (or whatever) would pass if it manages to depict disability without relying on any of a dozen or so common myths/stereotypes about disability. But that requires the viewers and the writers to be familiar with the stereotypes, and why they’re wrong.

But the strength of the Bechdel Test is its simplicity. It makes a powerful statement about pop media, because it offers such a low bar to get over – like cavaletti:

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I much prefer his second suggestion: does disability show up in the story without turning into a “Dis(ability) ex machna”?

Quote(s):

Dis ex machina is a play on [deus ex machina], because disability is often used at the end of a film or book to wrap things up. [snippity-snip] Cure narratives and “disability drop” also function as forms of dis ex machina—the cure of the character with a disability, or the revelation that she or he was faking it, functions to conclude the story, solve the crime, wrap up the loose ends.

Source: Jay Timothy Dolmage. Disability Rhetoric (Critical Perspectives on Disability) . Syracuse University Press. Kindle Edition.

I could see how that works as a “test” – a one question test:

Is Disability used as an simple explanation for the story?

Yes? Fail. No? Pass. 

That reminded me of a media test that I came up with a few years ago (but I haven’t come up with a snappy name for it):

1) There’s a Disabled character

2) Who  wants something

3) Besides Revenge, Cure, or Death,

4) And tries to get it.

After reading that passage from Dolmage, it occurred to me that my #3 on that list fits in with his dis ex machina idea – because if the only thing a disabled character is ever shown to want is “revenge, cure, or death,” then their entire motivation and story arc can be explained away with: “Because of their Disability..”

So, with Dis ex machina in mind, here’s a freshly reworked version of the test above:

1) There’s Disabled Character

2) Who strives for their own goal

3) Not motivated by the ‘tragedy of their disability’

4) And they’re still alive and disabled at the end.