#creating the right culture

[captainzigo]

colored the lineart of this old miku art and it looks nice :) i neeeeed to draw peeeooople more

[sha-brytols]

i think that's the reason that one post that's like "there's literally a character in the comics that's exactly like the oghren yall are imagining in your heads" bothered me so much because um. oghren being a dwarf was kind of like the whole foundation of why his particular character arc was so compelling .

[psqqa]

yes, yes i know edgeworth’s big wet eyes and loser boy personality have captivated us all, but listen. listen.

phoenix wright

phoenix “genuinely unable to reconcile the girl on the stand with the girl he dated for eight months, a cognitive dissonance so profound it’s ultimately explained by them being literally two different people, but which he first sits with for five years and does not talk about at any point to anyone” wright

phoenix “don’t mention that name to me. i don’t want to talk about it. i don’t want to think about it. i am just going to keep myself in this state of perpetual crisis mode focus on other people’s problems until eventually i die and get to hang out with mia on the astral plane and never have to deal with any of these emotions ever again” wright

phoenix “overnight loses his career and reputation and sense of identity while gaining an adopted, probably pretty traumatized eight-year-old daughter, and rather than leaning on his friends for help, or getting therapy, or taking any time to process any of this, he *checks notes* spends seven years dedicating all his free time and energy to investigating the weird fucking circumstances around it and maintains a friendship with the guy he suspects was behind it all” wright

phoenix "runs across a burning bridge and falls through it, half a day after the game establishes that he is terrified of heights, because his friend is on the other side of that bridge" wright

phoenix “i sure felt surprised. maybe i had my poker face on” wright

phoenix “looking back on it that was actually a pretty dark period in my life” wright

phoenix “don’t ask me how i got started. i don’t remember” wright

phoenix “only you stood still, your eyes calmly watching” wright

phoenix “sometimes, life just sucks” wright

just

phoenix wright

crunchiest man in the world

and all i wanna do is chew and chew and chew on him

[kick-a-long]

Leftists and tankies talk about Israel like maga and republicans talk about trans people. They hyperventilate about shit that doesn’t affect them that they do not understand and only want more harm to fall on not just Israelis and Israel but also Jews and anyone that doesn’t exactly participate in their hierarchical bullshit. Just like bigotry against trans people spills over to hurt all gender identities, sexual orientations, women generally as well as men who don’t perfectly perform gender no matter how cishet they are, the far left’s antisemitism has fucked over any goyim who doesn’t want to live under christofascism or throw themselves or their community into the fire (literally, anti Israel ppl ask ppl to light themselves on fire) for the sake of a complex subject that the far left actively avoids learning about themselves. Oh! And let’s not forget the terrorism. Both domestic, foreign, and hate crimes that trans ppl and Jews have been facing for just doing community service/outreach or living their lives.

On top of that, the hate has a hugely negative impact on the groups the hate is meant to be “defending.” Hating Jews and Israelis makes life worse for Palestinians and hating trans folks makes live worse for kids. Gender has become MUCH more controlled since I grew up and more kids kill themselves because with trump in office they don’t see a future where they can live truthfully, not just trans kids. Palestinians are now glued to Hamas in the minds of their “advocates” as terrorist raping and suicide bombing asses. Trump is in office. He wants to erase trans people or jail them, wants to nuke the whole Arab world, with max civilian casualties, and deport any left in the us. And there’s less chance than ever of authoritarianism in America or the Arab world being replaced with human rights, stability and self governance.

I only see a lot of harm and bigotry and messing with minorities for the power trip of it. I’m sick of coddling these presumptuous deluded power tripping assholes. That’s my “both sides” take.

[liminalweirdo]

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense."

[nachobsns]

anyway i have to give a presentation for my ap gov final tomorrow which originally was just going to be about the effect of conspiracy theories on political activity (think qanon, jan 6 etc) but i ended up putting it off until tonight, predictable because i'm 17 with roblox on my phone and haven't taken my adhd meds for a long time, but it means i have much more liberty to change the premise last-minute and considering the horrifying news out of colorado today i think i am going to adapt it to cover the overlap of conspiracy theories with antisemitism and the pipeline to like. radical extremism. it probably won't go over especially well with my classmates because Room Full Of Sheltered White Upper Middle Class Teenagers From An Overwhelmingly Liberal Small Town Has Exactly The Opinions On Israel/Palestine That You Might Expect, but the teacher at least worked in israel for several years as a part of her thesis so i know worst comes to worst she will back me up and also? we are literally 5 days from the end of the year i'm scared but so is like every jewish person in the world right now so i am choosing not to give a shit about what my classmates think. wish me luck

[transformersconfessions]

I’ll never not be bothered that the most diverse TF show, Earthspark, seemed to be turned on by all the biggest and most well-known activists in the fandom… who like or have grace for things like IDW, TFP, and TF One. And the reasons these people hate Earthspark make zero sense at all, but it’s impossible to argue because I saw them harass people and send their big fanbases after people. I remember when one big-name fan engaged in harassing a Black woman for thinking Earthspark was good and that people should support the show? I’m still angry about this today. I’m sorry, but if you characters like the IDW or TFP Decepticons but do this it’s just embarrassing!

PSA you can dislike a show without claiming a show obviously pro-immigration is secretly anti-immigration or that a show that has heroes who are abuse victims in it is secretly vilifying abuse victims.

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[macchiatosdumptruck]

At this point I don't know how to explain what protagonists are and how they work

[lorelune]

i've said this before and i'll say it again, the left fucked themselves over when they started using sociological frameworks and theory but not IRL discoursing (literal use of the word) with other folks about how to APPLY those frameworks. discussion is so central to the understand of sociology and how to apply larger concepts on the real world. it ALSO teaches folks the vital skill of being able to discourse in a way that doesn't like... focus on the individual and instead is ABOUT the discussion and the topics itself.

[mariacallous]

Former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption has warned that organisations are potentially misinterpreting the landmark ruling that defined women by biology earlier this week.

Lord Sumption told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme that, contrary to much of the commentary on the Supreme Court ruling, judges did not take a side and did not provide an obligation to create single sex spaces.

The ruling has been interpreted by many as an exclusion of trans women from single-sex women’s spaces.

The ruling followed a legal challenge against the Scottish government by the campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) over the definition of “woman” in Scottish legislation mandating 50 per cent female representation on public boards.

Lord Sumption’s comments come after Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, suggested that she would pursue NHS trusts which did not protect single-sex wards.

Instead, Lord Sumption argued that while many have taken the ruling to mean that service providers are obliged to provide single-sex spaces based on biological sex, the ruling meant that excluding transgender people from single-sex spaces was allowed, and not a breach of the 2010 Equality Act.

He said: “That’s the main point, which I think has been misunderstood about this judgment. I think it’s quite important to note that you are allowed to exclude trans women from these facilities. But you are not obliged to do it.

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Dean and Cas make out while watching a quiz show and Cas keeps interrupting to answer the questions until Dean tells him to knock it off. Then Dean thinks he's got Cas into an insensible mess from making out bc he keeps breathing out words instead of vocalising them, but when Dean listens closely he realises Cas is still answering the tv questions and gets in a huff.

[gryficowa]

Application? You can't invent AU, which will replace the original when it becomes the original, because people will eat you alive

HP fandom and anti-HP fandom fandom is like anti-ai and pro-ai, they don't understand how it all works

Rowling gained fame by taking the clues that already existed, so her work was not the original, it is impossible to erase HP from pop culture (because it would mean censorship of history), you can only replace HP

"We cannot talk about her and her art", that is, we should also remain silent about her transphobia, acephobia and about this court case about being a real "woman"?

See how dangerous it sounds, because you also have to remain silent about it, since talking about her gives her strength

Anti-Rowlig people forget that they are still talking about her, because talking about what she does is still talking about her, that is, you are not allowed to talk about "being a woman", because she is related to her

You can't erase this woman and her art, because she has an impact on people, you can only throw her out of her side by replacing her influence in pop culture

Unfortunately, because pop culture has been eating himself for years and less and less original works are created, Rowling is growing in strength, because there is no competition that would knock it down

A frenzy for nostalgia does not help either, because people run to franchises than the originals (so that's why now we live in the pop culture of cannibalism and everything that had an impact ended a decade ago)

Even "The Owl House", which is a better HP It did not drop Rowling from her throne, so we have to analyze what works and do with Rowling what her work did with her predecessors

Do you want to end? You must replace her with something stronger than her work, since her shit did not lose her is the only thing you are left

We have to create and count on the fact that she will finally succeed to lose everything she won through HP

It all starts with Au you will become the original

You can't ignore and remain silent about someone who has an influence on people's lives, you can only knock him down with his own weapon

[sofia-not-sophie]

Help I’m thinking too hard about the unexplored world building implications of the seven kisses lead to pregnancy in a world where there seems to be/have been a patriarchy and also somehow it works interspecially despite humans and akiridions having entirely different modes of existence/bodily function

[gammija]

ugh made the mistake of reading the comments on a blogpost about male flight in higher education

[wheucto]

with that new revelation in ii2 e16, i feel like there's... a lot less to know about the world of ii. at least, not to know for sure.

because, before then, you could extract some information from passing comments. remember the french or whatever pizza delivery guy who tried to pass as italian, but spoke spanish instead? from that, you could determine that 1. france, spain, and italy are places that exist and 2. if those countries exist, why not all the countries in the world?

but. but, according to what cobs said at least, mephone4 seems to have made everything. he made the weird looking grass. if he made that, then why not anything else? did that guy exist before he came onto the show? probably not! and if he was made that day, was the concept of "france," "spain," and "italy" made that day too?

there's no way for us to know what the normal world of ii looks like. do they have parallel countries to us? well, we know their continents aren't parallel. it follows that their countries wouldn't be, either. who knows what their history is like? how the normal objects are like? will we know?