#UNWISE POSTING

[the-nyanguard-party]

transition would not fix her but it'd be fun to do that to her

[yoylefake]

hey. fuck you (turns your algebra into objects)

[etirabys]

// incoherently getting this out before going for dinner

there's a twitter user who I believe is a friend of a friend – shows up on my feed sometimes, generally makes funny and enjoyable posts. Once made a post that was like, "when men have messy apartments I'm like yeah okay, but when women have messy habitats I'm a little freaked out and I judge them more"

I was. amazed by this. My dude, this is literally sexism! You have wrapped around all the way and returned to normal sexism! How do you not recognize this! I almost pointed this out, but decided we didn't have the rapport / character limit for this conversation to have P>0.8 of going well, and scrolled on. And my read was that they made this post because they exist in a milieu where it is normal and accepted to react differently to men and women. (Tumblr is like this as well – c.f. bisexuals going "when men do blah it's gross, when women do the same it's different and cute, idk why?" I wonder why indeed.)

almost everyone in my extended irl and internet sphere wants Equality in some vague way. they want the Dynamics to not Be Fucked, but they mill around doing things that are not "literally trying to treat people the same way regardless of gender". And my axe to grind is that (1) anything other than genderblindness will tend to deposit you back into Literal Normal Sexism land, (2) even if you're in some New Weird Sexism land, it's still sexism and you should cut that out.

when I was younger I used to be a hardliner on "literally treat people the same way". then I became more corrupt or less autistic or whatnot and now recognize this isn't possible, but I still think genderblindness should be the starting point. And people seem so freaking interested in doing anything but this. They want to analyze gender differences and digest them into different gender-based treatment. They themselves have personal or social incentives for wanting or giving certain kinds of treatment. And those incentives will win out over (my) (genderblind) ideology

I was hosting a party last week, and found out a potential woman attendee had (1) drunkenly gone around grabbing men's asses at a prior event, (2) made public posts complaining about being shot down unnecessarily cruelly when one of them declined to cuddle with her. Said guy was telling me this in an uber back from buying alcohol and I was amazed, like, wait, you're relaying this so casually – don't you want her banned? Should I ban her?

And he didn't want that. He said that while he now disliked her, and felt slightly violated, he didn't mind that much, and he didn't want her banned just because a man in her position would have been banned. Fairness was not near the top of his priority list the way it is on mine. (Which is his prerogative.) It was one of many moments when I perceived that very few people on any ideological branch are on board with the idea that seems obvious to me, that we will not have equality until we are willing to treat people equally. The forces of unequal treatment are just that powerful.

Everyone else in the car (iirc including another harassee) was also like "yeah nah don't ban her", so I acquiesced, but I feel passionately that every exception to equal treatment we make because we just don't feel like it undermines the whole project – a culture that won't ban her cannot defend the norm of banning male harassers either.

sigh. I'll soon shut up and hit post and go out for dinner, and probably during dinner I'll start squirming about participating in culture war and delete this

but. come on! I know this isn't 100% possible, but can we shoot for 90% or 80%? Can people not see that new double standards, of any kind, are not the way out?

internet user pedestalizing young attractive women or interpreting their behavior much more charitably than they would for another demographic: being nicer to women is feminism, yes? I am fighting the incentives that make things weird and bad?

[isbergillustration]

They Keep Following

[lowpawly]

shinx time 😏

[somsonsomsoff]

magma doodles!!

[thelonelyshore-if]

I'm about to give the MC a choice that is so bad--

[madbard]

Thinking about how nobody noticed Ford had been replaced. Sure, Stan’s a talented con-man, and sure, he would have been careful to keep them away.

But no one in town realized he wasn’t the scientist, because Ford never went into the town. His best friend chose to forget he had ever existed. His family didn’t realize he’d swapped places with his brother, which means they were either already distant before the portal incident, or they just. Looked “Ford” directly in the eye. And did not recognize him.

The child raised to believe he was only valuable because his intellect could produce money for his family, grew to be a man so singlemindedly focused on his research that he ended up completely alone.

A man who vanished into thin air, with only his estranged brother to grieve him.

[umblrspectrum]

Can we get more of the murder drone x rain world au?

ok

[daenystheedreamer]

parasite in chief in his idiot hat

[skyrim-forever]

He’s your fav character because of that one cool scene, he’s my blorbo because his handful of character traits provide enough for me to ground him in source material while simultaneously extrapolating on him in ways said material cannot due to inherent limits of mass-marketed media

We are not the same

[darliings]

draw your self ship like this

[kidvoodoo]

🖤💙🩵🩶🤍

More of a…revealing shot under the cut

[isbergillustration]

His Eyes

[m0use-trapped]

[Mousetrap finds themself in the shared game room not long after they said they would. They spent a few minutes deliberating and talking themself in and out of going to find Diamond. The last time the two spoke, it was on very uncertain terms, and Mousetrap had been half-convinced that they would not be a welcome interaction. They reminded themself that they did not have to say who they were. They would not be recognized.]

[As MT scans the room around them they spot Diamond sitting in the corner, on their phone the Jenga tower fallen over and seemingly abandoned. Their hair was longer then it had been when MT had seen them on Child Proof, also with light blue ends.]

[As soon as they see Diamond, Mousetrap hesitates and almost turns around. They shake their head to clear the thought and continue forward. They won't be recognized.]

He- hello. Jenga giving you- trouble?

[They speak quietly as they stop a small distance from the table. Their hands are in the pockets of their hoodie, and their gaze is somewhat nervously darting around the room.]

[eddsmoped]

>YTPs

is there no lawyer on the Eddsworld team to tell them what fair use is. you quite literally legally can monetize a copyrighted source if your work is transformative. I can think of no better example than a YTP and they deadass are listing that as something you aren't allowed to monetize HELP MEEEEE