#insert communist thing here

[fakeoldmanfucker]

No matter who wins, we have to keep fighting. Don't let them trick you or demoralize you into complacency and fear.

[edenfenixblogs]

As a non-Zionist Jew, I've been thinking about a funny thing about all the communists on this site that say astoundingly heartless blanket statements about how all Zionists deserve (insert horrible fate here) based on the fact that SOME Zionists have done bad things and use an otherwise innocuous ideology to further their own selfish and harmful ends:

Communists want to condemn people because of the harmful actions of some of the ideology's adherents doing bad things? Communists are unwilling to listen to Zionist Jews who say that the Kahanist and Revisionist branches of Zionism are not reflective of the ideology as a whole? It's communists who are saying these things????? Really?!?!?!?!?!?

Because...I have some news for you about Russian and Chinese history, just as a starting point.

Like, if you can recognize that Stalin and Mao and many others have abused communism and its fundamental values in order to fuel oppressive and murderous ideologies and ALSO realized that the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and the Hollywood Blacklist were ALSO harmful and wrong, you should also be able to understand that Zionism has a variety of different adherents with varying goals as well.

It's almost as if an ideology based in guaranteeing safety, equality, and equity for large numbers of people is something that can be easily exploited by power hungry maniacs but that isn't itself inherently evil...

[bonebrokebuddy]

I get that this is due to people not read comics but, if you want a fun lighthearted batfam dynamic, I cannot recommend enough putting your story and characters in the Silver Ages. I see so much fanon material that would fit in this setting perfectly and it pains me that it’s not more popular or well known.

If you don’t know what the silver age of comics is, I’d recommend checking out this article!

And here for the 1956 Comics Code Authority.

It might not be in continuity anymore but the silver ages were such a large era of comics that defined the characters. And the format & restrictions of the silver ages allows you to easily bypass several common issues folks have with plots. In modern comics, there’s constant interpersonal drama because there has to be, if you resolve all those issues then you can’t sell more comics & they lose a lot of tension.

But due to the Comic Code Authority that is no longer an issue!

Randomly ignoring a dark past that makes connection between characters difficult [the poor aging of Jason’s bag of heads making it difficult for him to reunite with the rest of the batfam, for example] because it doesn’t fit with the theme you want?:

Comics are episodic in this era. Think of it like a early 2000s TV show. Things that happened in past comics/episodes often won’t affect the current story at all as the setting resets to default at the start of every comic. Additionally, literally all gore, torture, or explicit descriptions of murder is banned due to CCA restrictions, so you can choose to have it simply never have happened!

Characters that don’t fit at all in a story but you want a crossover for?:

The Silver Ages had SO MANY crossovers of heroes solely bc it sold comics. How compatible they are doesn’t matter in the slightest. The thinnest of reasons why they met works perfectly. You can even just have the characters know each other already and go “I know who can help me with this case! [Insert character you want here]! I met them in my last trip to Antarctica!” You only need maybe one sentence, two if you’re feeling frisky, to explain why they met and then you’re free to run wild.

Want a character to randomly acquire a superpower or meet a long lost cousin they have for one comic and then it’s never mentioned again?

I cannot state how frequently this happens. Silver Age comics were pretty much written cover first. Meaning the cover was made and the story was written after with the philosophy of “if my comic cover is more bizzare and eye catching then kids will buy it!” Like, there are multiple comics where Superman’s head got turned into an ant and Batman gets powers practically every other World’s Finest issue. Like it’s not even an “au” to do these things. That’s just what the Silver Ages were like.

Comic science and comic physics run rampant as well as bizarre villains! You can have so much fun with this!! Heroes often play the straight-man in bizarre scenarios with over-the-top villains in this era, making that aspect shine brightly can make for an inherently funny plot. You could either keep it fun and light or turn it into a psychological horror as the characters realize they can’t disobey the CCA code and have to follow a specific plot.

Also the restrictions of the CCA at the time would also help create some fun and unique plots if you wanted to keep the plot time-period accurate.

There’s a lot of restrictions but there are still many ways to create conflict in your fic! Plenty can come from the CCA directly!

Canon or HC LGBT+ characters could be pressured to not come out or face tremendous backlash. Time accurate homophobia, essentially.

McCarthyism and paranoia ran wild. Oh no someone suspected your blorbo of being a communist/socialist and now it’s ruining their life!

Characters dealing with how the CCA’s restrictions/their reality is inherently bigoted and can’t be themselves. (See: comics on topics of racial & religious prejudice aren’t allowed, characters can’t speak in “slang” or “vulgar language” and “good grammar” is emphasized (often targeting minorities), and the sanctity of family must be respected (no divorce, no queer people).

Also! Crazy over-the-top villains with deadly stakes are played with a lighthearted tone. Play it straight and suddenly your comic changed genre into horror if you think about it for more than a second.

Characters that used to be antihero’s are just straight up villains now or suddenly wake up with massive gaps in their memory and no one else can tell them why. There is no grey with the CCA. Just good and evil. Because that would make the villains sympathetic and we can’t have that!

If you want to just have a fun, campy and lighthearted tone however, that’s the Silver Age’s bread and butter. While keeping the CCA’s code in mind is good to keep a Silver Age story feeling time accurate and Silver Age-y, it’s definitely not necessary to follow each and every rule.

Here’s some more links to free silver age comics and places you can go to find information on silver age comics if you want to learn more that aren’t fandom wikis but rather made by nerds with a passion to catalogue and share their interest to others.

Your local library has a decent chance of having an omnibus of 50s-70s comics or you can order one from a nearby library if your local one doesn’t carry them.

A local comic shop or bookstore. Silver age omnibuses & “50 year anniversary/best of” type collections are usually present and have a good variety of silver age comics.

Jenny Blake Isabella (the creator of Black Lightning) has delightful reviews of the Batman Silver Age Omnibus on her blog that add context, critiques, and overall are a delight to read

Takes some hunting but this Silver Age Comic blog has a bunch of single issue reviews of Silver Age Batman comics.

Want a specific issue to read? Here’s super brief summaries of soso many issues curtesy of The Comics Archives blog.

The Internet Archive also has a few:

Batman & Superman world's finest. The Silver Age. Volume one

Justice League of America, the Silver Ages volume 1

Batman: the dynamic duo archives. vol 2 (I cannot find volume 1)

A good tip to find legal and free comics decently intact is to search [comic run title/character hero name & issue number if you have it] + “blog” + “review”.

There are so many in-depth reviews of comics in blogs by comic fans out there that practically share most of the comic panels in the post while giving context to past issues while the poster adds personal insight and opinions on the comic. Is it going to give you the whole issue unfiltered? No. But it allows newbies to get insight from old fans and old fans to get a new perspective on a comic they’ve already read. Blog reviews are such an underrated way to get new fans into comics considering how great of a resource they are! Don’t know if you’ll like a comic run? Read a bunch of reviews on it from different blogs! It’s truly so underrated.

I see a lot of dc fans that don’t read the comics because they don’t like the violence and dark tone of modern comics or don’t know where to start. Simple solution: Why are you reading reading modern comics then? Give the Silver Ages a try! They’re utterly corny and campy & I love them dearly.

They fit all of those bills with the CCA. Plus, with the episodic stories of that era, you can just pick up an omnibus, open it at a random issue and start reading. Hell, you can toss a stack of silver age issues in the air 52-pickup style and read them that way and you’re still be fine. You rarely, if ever, need knowledge from previous comics as they’ll often directly explain what happened to you. If you really need previous context, just like modern comics, they’ll directly tell you which issue(s) to read first.

Lastly.

It’s good to keep in mind the “By it’s time. For its time. Of its time” rule of comic analysis when reading old runs. Comics are: relevant during their time of publishing, for its intended audience (in this era, young american boys with a non-nuanced worldview) & with little care of how it’ll age, just that it’ll sell.

How history ties itself to comics is fascinating but also it’s good to be a little “👀👀 uh zoinks scoob that was a bad narrative or character decision that didn’t age well” and not dismiss it because that poor interpretation does have historical value as how it shows the moral, social, and political conflicts of the time in a neat little bow. Even if that bow is like, puke green.

Writers of comics will follow the misogynistic and racist ideals along the historical & social conflicts and ideals during the time of the comic’s publishing date. It’s uh, just kinda something ya gotta deal with when reading a lot of old comics runs. Most collections of silver age Batman/best ofs don’t often have comics that aged super badly but if you end up encountering any, it’s good to keep this in mind.

If anyone is inspired to write something based off of this, please tag me so I can read it!

[sawbuckplus]

Watching everybody I know on the left pontificating about the proper way to conduct audits, after getting their accounting degrees from the University of Internet this week, is absolute cringe for me. Guys, listen, I say this with love… You don’t know dick about shit and it’s fucking embarrassing. Just stop. You sound like idiots. So now, as a guy who used to be an auditor, who has defended companies from dozens of audits from different government agencies, I’ll try to correct some of your incredibly stupid NPC talking points you keep endlessly barfing up. First off, you need to know there’s a difference between an outside audit and an internal audit. An outside audit is when somebody who isn’t part of your company comes in and checks your stuff. 

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You do NOT need to be an accountant to be an auditor. Anybody who says this is a total dumb ass with zero grasp of how any of this shit works in real life. The people who make up your audit team are recruited from whatever skill sets are necessary to audit that particular system. I (the accountant) have been on audit teams with IT guys, programmers, lawyers, and even machinists. (why machinists, because I was auditing a factory, and I could count the parts, but I couldn’t tell you if the parts were bullshit or not) So if you are auditing a computer system, then your auditors would obviously require computer people. Fucking duh, morons. Holy shit. The reason most auditors come from an accounting background is because most fraud, waste, and abuse comes from fuckery on the books. But if the fuckery is taking place in the particular systems before they get to the financials, that’s where we bring in systems experts. Next, you morons are acting like the entire organization is half a dozen 20 somethings, because that’s who got doxxed first and you fuckers are too stupid or dishonest to realize that’s not the entire team. Newsweek has compiled a list of known DOGE staff so far, and their ages are 33, 42, 28, 34, 67, 30, 33, 36, 33, 47, 25, 24, 43, 23, 25, 45, 19, 28, 21, 44, 39, 57, 45, 41, 32, 28, 22, 37, 37, 35, 24, 42, 36, and 36.

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But (insert sob story here about how some good necessary wonderful saint of a government employee or super awesome wonderful government program got cut here) REEEEE!!!! Except too bad that’s total bullshit. The time for a gentle, caring, measured (slow), careful pruning of government to only remove the bad tissue with a scalpel was generations ago. We are now at the axe and TQ time before the patient dies. Yeah, that sucks, but that’s what happens when you procrastinate going to the doctors while a cancerous tumor the size of a fucking watermelon grows out your back.

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Next, Elon now has access to our personal data! REEEEEE! Which is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard, because if Elon wanted all our personal data he could just buy it off the Communist Chinese, from one of the last seven times our incompetent and unaccountable federal government leaked all our data, for way cheaper. This is just idiotic obfuscation.

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If a company’s records were full of broken bullshit, the government would assume the worst, fine the ever living fuck out of you, and possibly send you to jail. Because the government’s default assumption when a company’s books are all fucked up is that it is on purpose to hide fraud. Except when our government’s books are filled with things like 30 million dollars to fund a Transsexual Peruvian Orchestra, and 99% of that money never made it out of northern Virginia, we’re supposed to assume that’s just nice fluffy goodness, and HOW DARE YOU assume there’s anything dishonest going on.

Read the whole thing, and then take a wander through the comments. Well worth your time.

[abbysmultiverse]

Okay so one of my favorite things about PJO is the chaotic chapter titles. So that being said, I present to you

✨chapter titles in my PJO/TOA dr✨

���My dad falls out of the sky”

“We inhale carbohydrates”

“My dad fights kids on Roblox”

“The most gutturally shocking flabbergasting gobsmacking plot twist”

“SWEET CAROLINE *insert gunshots*”

“Meg gets claimed by the communist party (or at least that’s what Harold thinks)”

“My dad fights his ex (Yes, again.)”

“I help hide a body. (It’s not what it looks like. I swear.)”

“MOOOOOMMMMMM!!! LESTER AND MEG ARE MAKING A TITLE SEQUENCE!!”

“I fight calypso for real this time”

“Leo blows up again, this time I go with him.”

“Piper fights Calypso. (Leo holds her earrings)”

“Percy didn’t want to be a half-blood but I sure as hell did”

“And they were roommates (oh my gods they were roommates)”

“My dad says gay rights and confirms Patrochilles.”

“C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G song”

“I come out”

“A monster tries to kill me but at least it uses my correct pronouns”

“my dad shifted here. (If you squint)”

“I get roasted by a twelve year old”

[a-very-tired-jew]

We have to talk about Leftist Antisemitism

One of the things I have been grappling with since Oct 7th is the rise of antisemitism in Leftist spaces. Often we find ourselves falling into the same old position of blaming the Right for these issues. However, over the past few decades minority voices have pointed out that the Left has issues with bigotry in its own way. For myself, and likely many other Jews, growing up in Leftist spaces I heard antisemitic jokes and lines all the time. However, they were never the overt hate fueled rhetoric I would hear from the Right. Conspiracies were relegated to "The Rothschilds control the world" rather than "The Jews control the world." Regardless of how you feel about the rich, the Rothschilds are a dog whistle for Jews. Hell, my own family members would say this same line because the majority of us are on the Left. So obviously we take a position regarding the ultra rich. However, this Rothschilds line isn't the only dog whistle. Often there were jokes at your expense from outside your in-group. Common refrains that *insert Jewish dog whistle* couldn't be trusted due to *insert conspiracy coded in Leftist language*. That's the issue... The antisemitism on the Left is coded in a language that makes it more subtle than overt rightwing antisemitism. But how did we get here? It definitely predates Oct 7th. We can partly lay blame at this at the feet of something that feels like an old and tired trope at this point: Russia. In particular, the good ole USSR. You see, dear reader, regardless of how you describe your sociopolitical and economics leanings, and regardless of whether or not you reject USSR style Communism, their style and impact still influence you and the rest of the world. As Leftists we often stand opposed to many aspects of Western capitalist ideals, which in turn exposes us to many of the anti-Western writings, philosophies, beliefs, etc... The issue is that the USSR has a very sordid history with antisemitism. Some of you may be saying "but wait! There were Jewish Bolsheviks! Stalin even supported Israel!", don't you worry. We'll get there. While there may have been Jewish Bolsheviks and members of the party post revolution, it does not change the policies and actions that preceded and followed. Robert Weinberg, Dara Horn, David Nirenberg, and other historians have all written extensively at some point or another about this very issue. I highly recommend Dara Horn's latest piece for the Atlantic "Why The Most Educated People in America Fall for Antisemitic Lies". She briefly covers this topic. If you can't access it, well here we go. Zionism as a concept had already been around for a few decades by the time the Communist Revolution occurred, having been solidified by the Dreyfuss Affair in the late 1800s. Zionism is/was also considered Jewish nationalism. While a Jew could be a Russian Jew, German Jew, or any other "nation" Jew, they were still considered an other and thus they could never truly be a nationalist for that country. Only for Israel/Zion. As such, Jews in the USSR were not trusted as it was argued they could not be truly devoted to the Party. Jews were then labeled as Zionists. Zionism was considered anti-Communist, and racist due to the Party purposefully putting out that the "chosen people" line meant that Jews were supremacists and believed themselves to be better than others (The chosen people line actually refers to us choosing to adhere to certain laws). As such, Zionist activities were shut down as they were an act of treason and betrayal. This means that synagogues, shuls, business, and more were shut down as a means to disrupt the "Jewish conspirators". It did not matter that Jews were involved in the revolution, if you were Jewish you were an other and could not be trusted. pt 1.

[oldtvandcomics]

I am a bit hesitant to Go There, but it IS really relevant now, so here we go.

Guys, you people from the USA have NO IDEA how communist countries work, and this makes you extremely vulnerable to propaganda.

When I was in middle school, I read this book about French queer history, I unfortunately don't have the title any more. Either way, possibly the part that stuck with me the most was about how around the 1950s, there was this rumour floating around in French queer circles, according to which the Eastern bloc was so super queer friendly and a good place to be. Then they eventually realized that this was NOT the case, and that queer liberation came from the other part of the world.

So basically, that is what you all are doing.

And I understand! We all want to imagine that a better world is possible, and that it even exists somewhere that is more or less within our reach. Nothing more human than that. But China isn't Utopia, it is a country under a totalitarian regime. And, as we previously established, you guys have no experience in how that works.

I know close to nothing about China (apart from the fact that they make damn good fantasy TV shows with BEAUTIFUL visuals), but I AM from a formerly East bloc country, and the way people on here talk about the communist era is consistently somewhere between off-putting and, frankly, alarming. Posts like "OMG, I just looked up the exact meaning of comrade, and it means friend! 😳" Like, guys. Seriously.

And just like that, while it is of course amazing that people are making friends over there on Red Note, I am seeing many of the same "didn't think this through within the cultural context" takes floating around. Some of the obvious ones being:

"OMG everyone is so friendly!!" -> You are outsiders who are in their space, of course they are being polite. Also, they are just as happy about this chance to talk to you as you are to talk to them.

"All the posts are so nice!" -> They are not allowed to post political content, especially not where they complain about politics. Also, the idea of curating social media as to make yourself look happy and well-off is NOT a foreign concept to us, either.

"They can afford X" -> The userbase of the platform you are on is upper class. Also, while comparing the prices, you always must ask yourself how much this is compared to people's salary.

"Insert USA Thing shouldn't be normal!" -> I mean, you are right there, it isn't. We have been telling you since forever, so you didn't have to go to China to hear this.

"They lied to us when they told as that the Chinese are all monsters" -> Yes, obviously. Why are you realizing this only now.

"China can have all my data lol" -> Trust me, you do NOT want a surveillance state to have your data.

Another thing that you need to know about places that are subjected to such strong censorship: People develop their own coded way to communicate. (Think Hays code Hollywood) You do not know those codes, for obvious reasons, like not speaking their language, not knowing any metaphors or euphemisms or historically relevant references that they may be using, and nobody telling you for their own safety.

This is especially important if you are going to interact with a vulnerable group, like the LGBT+ community. They have their own way to navigate these subjects in relative safety. If you burst into their space and start openly yelling about their taboo topic, then you will do more harm than good.

[system-of-a-feather]

We would love to hear more about being a "system of zero" - is it related to ur Buddhism? It sounds v interesting

Kind of? Its one of those things that I think is something that happened and is the best way of describing our experience as it just kind of innately formed, but our Buddhist perspective made it so we were 100% okay with it and 0% motivated to change it

I talk a little more about it in depth here and here, but full fusion into what we call "Feathers" is different from how we've experienced fusion in the past in the sense that past fusions (while we were still dissociative enough to have it be a CDD diagnosis level) usually eventually form a sense of self, identity, and what not; they would hold their fused parts identities but then there would be this third blend that had a name and traits about them that they'd identify with and that would be a lot more "this is [insert part] and they are easy to define with [traits and core beliefs about self and what not]".

XIV 2.0 was a somewhat temperamental, combative and abrupt but also very good at understanding, listening, and caring; he was very anti-america and pretty anarcho-communist in ideals (different in practice but).

Riku TM was very sociable, a bit of a martyr complex, very knowledge and curiosity driven, chronically and sometimes toxically optimistic / positive; seemingly likable and sociable but also somehow less authentically compassionate and understanding than XIV against most awareness.

Those sorts of descriptions felt very easy to make and they developed this concept of self that each individual part had and held onto about what made them, well them. They meant a lot to each of those parts and honestly, they still mean a lot to a lot of those parts when we choose to engage specifically in one of those lens. There's the whole person vs parts language, and for us, they're entirely synonymous beyond the context; but for the sake of discussing identity, sense of autonomy, and self in the level of "headcounts", each of those parts felt like they were a person of their own that was a part of a larger thing. There was a sense of autonomy, independence, distinction and definition to those parts. They could zoom in on themselves and find their fused-parts and if they focused they could also find those parts having that same sense; but even without doing that, Riku TM and XIV 2.0 - for example - were concepts, entities and identities that identified well... just as themselves.

Our fully fused state "Feathers" very much doesn't really have any defining personality traits or desires or labels or identity traits of really any level that we really feel strongly belong / are attached to us and nothing really gives us a sense of "that's me" or "this is what makes me me" or "these are things that I am proud of and hold close to me because I did it" or anything like that; and that include the name "Feathers".

There are things you can use to describe our fused self that we'd go "Oh yeah thats a fair description" (buddhist, generally trans, Asian American, On the Left Politically, we like birds, etc), but that acknowledgement of "yeah thats fair" comes from a very detatched observation and objective lens as we take the perspective of someone looking at us. It's very hard to argue that I'm NOT Asian American, NOT trans, NOT politically left, and NOT Buddhist when you look at how we act, so I guess we are those things.

But if you were to ask us things that really make us who we are? Eh, our existence in itself is the only thing that defines us as "Feathers". We like birds, but thats subject to change and we are okay with that. Our sense of self doesn't rely on birds, or really any personality trait or behavior or identity label. Feathers simply is Feathers and Feathers simply exists.

And as a result, there isn't really much in our life that makes us go "oh I'm me, I'm a unique and individual person, I am separate from others, I am an individual that exists in this world, I can be defined by things and I have things that truly make me Feathers rather than anyone else" other than just that I experience myself.

So I don't really identify as a person or really have an identity or sense of self - but not in the "unstable sense of self" way that is discussed clinically in some disorders like BPD, but more in the "I don't operate with that as a concept, the only thing that I do have is my existence."

Riku TM and XIV 2.0 have a sense of self, a sense of definition and seperation from not only part to part but themselves and others / the world. Feathers just... doesn't.

Feathers is an experience, a concept, a shared experience of multiple parts, but they're not really a *person* because they're not exactly this independent and autonomous thing.

It's kind of hard to explain if you aren't there, but I kind of like to think of it as like... ya know, Imma still Yongey Mingur Rinpoche's analogy from the book I'm reading because its a good analogy to the simultaneous acknowledgement of a thing existing without it really being its own independent thing

But think of the concept of "space". Most of space is empty, it doesn't really exist and it doesn't exactly do much on it's own. Its a general concept of things beyond the Earth where a lot of other things exist. Stars appear, planets appear, things move and explode and fade out of existence. The stars and planets and all that are Things, but Space is more of a Concept than a Thing. Space is made up of many impermanent pieces that pop up here and there, but space in itself is this constant binding concept that ties those impermanent pieces together. Space continues to exist regardless of the more concrete and tangible yet impermanent pieces that come and go

Similarly, my parts are like stars and planets - they are Things that are defined, more tangible and impermanent; they come like waves and sometimes they are clear as day, other times they are out of my awareness. Feathers - our fused whole - is more like Space. Its constant, always present, but hardly defined by anything other than the emptiness it has and the occasionally appearing impermanent pieces that are a part of it.

Feathers exists as a thing of its own in the way space exists as a thing of its own; yes kinda? But generally speaking, there is no real good way to define where Space Begins and Ends and thus is hard to really say that Space is a Thing of its own. You can throw definitions and things that seem to be good measures of what Space Is, but most of those things are likely more impermanent things and aspects of space; just things that seem to stand out the most and stay around the longest.

But thats all really like esoteric ramblings to really just say that Feathers doesn't exactly identify as a Thing or a Person or a Self or a Part. Feathers is just an experience and an existence and it's just the mental space / sense of self (or lack there of) that we spend a lot of time in.

So if we were to define our headcount as JUST our fused self, on one hand you could say we are a System of One, but if you wanted to be most accurate to how we feel, we are honestly a System of Zero.

And I feel like we were Just Fused Like That and because of our Buddhist background, we looked at it and went "Huh, nice, thats cool and nice, I'm perfectly fine existing like this and find no need to create any limits or definitions to this experience"

We find it very freeing and peaceful to not really identify with much of anything too seriously. Feathers is Feathers and that simplicity of self is just such a simple self to live as and live in.

Can't have identity crisises if you don't have an identity in the first place /j

[inmediaslex]

HEIGH HO

HEIGH HO

THIS MOVIE FUCKIN BLOWS

A week ago I made a promise to you all. I said I’d see Snow White and hate it for you so you could be free to watch The Day the Earth Blew Up. I have kept that promise. Thank me. Thank me for enduring this so you can live your life not fucking watching Snow White.

Now I must give a quick kudos to Rachel Zegler who tried so hard to save this mess. In other films she is a radiant star brightly shining for us all to behold. Here she’s a match in a mine shaft. Yes. She is light. But her fuel is scant and her glow is meaningless. Because she is in Snow White. Please God let her have a career after this. This is not her fault. Nobody can stand there in the pretty pretty Snow White dress and spin speeches of La Redistance and not look like a fucking idiot. The fact that the speech would work in a different costume just speaks to Zegler’s power. Would I follow her into battle to recreate the benevolent communist monarchy of Pre-EQ [insert kingdom name here]? Hell yes. But is this character Disney’s Snow White? No.

Okay enough praise. Let’s talk Snow White.

First off what the fuck did they do to the Seven Dwarfs? No seriously what the fuck are these terrifying homunculi? Their heads are as tall as their bodies and they have wrinkles that’re just uncomfortable to see. Yes the retooled Heigh Ho is great and by far the best song in the movie but my God these designs. They look like someone snuck onto the set of the Minecraft movie and stole some of those godawful pig goblin people and gave them plastic surgery. Which, if my theory about them being last minute additions to this movie due to fan outcry is correct, might actually be what happened. Pretty sure every scene with these damn things was thrown together in reshoots with poor Rachel on a blank set dancing with herself. Especially since there’s another merry band of seven we are later introduced to alongside Prince… Robin Hood?

Okay he’s not a Prince. He’s a dude named Jonathan who robs from the rich and… and robs from the rich. He’s just a bandit who targets only the Queen. This smarmy bastard has such a quick flip flop of personality that I’d swear a changeling got him while Snow White was blinking. He starts stealing food from the palace. Food only. Then you see he’s been stealing silver which is never brought up again. Then he takes an arrow for Snow White and is suddenly filled with righteous fury and wants to save the kingdom. And his buddies the Seven Merry Men just kinda go with whatever he’s doing at the time.

But there is a kingdom that needs saving from the most blank faced villain of all time. The Evil Queen, portrayed by a new Disney audio animatronic, is an impressive performance for a robot, but really shows that no matter the amount of effort you go in trying to replicate human emotions there is just something missing.

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After a quick Google search I have been informed that Gal Gadot is in fact an actual human person who simply cannot act unless she’s fighting WWI with Chris Pine. I retract my previous sentence, and now must add a hearty “what the fuck was that?” Gal, honey, you’re playing the very embodiment of vanity and hateful contempt. Every second on screen should be filled with malice, dripping with pride, and simply bubbling with selfish hatred. Where the hell was all that? Aside, of course, from the glorious scene where she transforms into the Hag. In this moment we see her using guile and subtlety to trick Snow White into taking the Apple. Playing directly into Snow White’s mind and twisting her own good nature and love of her father onto her. It’s really quite beautiful and easily Gadot’s best scene. Potentially the best scene in this sack of ass.

Look. It’s a pretty movie. At least when they’re out in the woods. The Queen’s city is drab and terrible to be in because of course it is that’s the point. The woods and Dwarf Cottage look great though and I’m glad I got to zone out staring at the backgrounds while this movie happened in front of them. This just is not it though. Hoping this and that Lilo and Stitch movie tank this live action thing they keep doing, but as it stands this just… this ain’t it. We gotta get this to stop. It’s just tarnishing a beautiful legacy.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at its core, is about making the emotional beats work. It’s not a tale of a revolution. It’s one sad little girl escaping abuse and finding a better life away from the person who caused her harm. It’s about someone being shown love and kindness for the first time in her life and the warmth we can all feel from that. It’s not about the political upheaval. It’s not about overthrowing a monster. It’s about one little girl who is such a shining beacon of love and joy that nobody with a soul could stand to harm her. Rachel Zegler made me believe she was that person. That she was such a kind and loving person that she could be the fairest of them all. But that’s all the Snow White that was in this movie.

Someday when spring is here

This fad will find its end

And Lex will sing

When Disney stops this thing

Someday when the remakes downtrend

[communist-hatsunemiku]

I have been thinking of writing something with Miku as protagonist, something not too original: the Terminator, Miku version.

Miku is sent to the past (our present) to save the future of music (insert even more dystopic future here), in a physical body, and has adventures while she learns about humans and human music.

It's it too ridiculous? Any tips?

Tbh isn't that premise like, one of the actual official descriptors of Miku's "backstory". I remember someone mentioning something extremely similar! Like there a few nuggets of official Miku canon and this sounds like one of them. don't let that dissuade you from writing the story tho, it's a fun premise!

It's definitely not too ridiculous, but I'm far from an actual story writer. I have a way with words and am a good writer but my ADHD seriously hampers my ability to do anything longform. not impossible, just would be a lot lol.

BUT I will workshop a few things just for shits and giggles.

The body Miku ends up in when She travels back in time should be like, the wrong one. Her intitial planned body suffers a disaster, or there's some silly mixup and She end's up in an absolute junker Miku android body, I'm talking exposed wiring, missing limbs, almost scary to look at. This could be fraught depending on what direction you go with it. I think there's a real chance you could write something that is pretty ableist(like in the end Miku is in a perfect fixed body and She's much happier or something). Great care would need to be taken with portraying a character in your story like this, but it could be really fucking cool. OH also reading your ask again, something you could do is, through some mishap, the version of Miku that ends up in the past has Her memories wiped accidentally, and therefore sort of has to find Her way to Her true purpose. This would allow Her to "learn" about humans and human music in an organic way.

My second idea is just have a fuckton of Miku's in your story, Miku is perfect for a bunch of clones of Herself getting into hijinks. It could be a rogue contingent of Miku clones sending one of Themselves back in time. Miku is being sent back by a rogue group of time traveling hacker Mikus. (I mean this sounds like the premise to xmen days of future past. Which means you could be telling two stories simultaneously. What Miku does in the past changes the present in real time for the characters.)

Miku's a good vehicle for anti corporation, anti copyright law, pro piracy, pro open source shit. Like this dystopic future you mention is basically the most nightmarish "fascist corporations control literally everything down to the music you listen to" future imaginable, and Miku's whole thing is how diverse and adaptable people's music with her is. She has come to symbolize(in this world, but really our actual reality as well) communist and socialist values, and these evil corporations cannot co-opt Her image because of this. She's simply too deeply ingrained as a anti-corporation anti-fascism symbol.

BUT these corporations are going to try anyway, they are going to devise their own twisted version of Miku software: insert evil sexy EVIL(x2) corporate Miku who seeks to undermine everything our hero Mikus are doing. Potential for lesbian hijinks very high

[kaifougere666]

Don't repost my work.

Welcome!

-Not available for commissions, stop asking :]

-When I grow up, I want to illustrate children books, its my dream

DNI:

(DNI image not by me)

I am poly, pan, ace trans and a communist and born on Halloween 👍

My alt blog for reblogging things and post things I don't post here is @kai666secretblog

I also post animations on YouTube

https://youtube.com/@KaiFougere666?si=gY90mRedpdsdCPyV

And have a Discord server !

I make a lot of Canon X OC and [self insert]OC x OC here are my current/main crushes

○ Fender Pinwheeler, Loretta Geargrinder (Robots 2005)

○ Raggedy Andy

○ Velvet and Veneer (trolls 3)

○ Joost Klein (the only real man here)

○ Hidden Phantom, Sage Harpuia (Megaman zero)

○ Periwinkle (fairly odd parents)

○ Sebastian solace (pressure)

○ Willy Wonka (catcf)

○ Frank & Len (Ruby Gloom)

○ Snufkin, Joxter, moomintroll (Moomin)

○ Ayezl, Gabriel (My OCs)

○ Sebastian (Stardew valley)

○ Jonah, Adam, (tmc)

○ R&D (dandy's world)

○ Rouxls Kaard (deltarune)

○ Grell sutcliff (Black Butler)

And here are my comfort characters:

○ Tweek Tweak, Craig Tucker (South Park)

○ Sundrop, Moondrop (Fnaf)

○ Cosmo, Wanda, Dev dimmadome (FOP)

○ Sophia, Vegnini (Lies of P)

○ Jack Walten, Rosemary Walten (Walten files)

○ Charlotte Wiltshire (hello Charlotte)

○ Joxter, Snufkin, Moomintroll, Snorkmaiden, too-ticky, moominmamma (Moomin)

○ Jonah (tmc)

○ Herb Cookie (Crk)

○ Undertaker (Black Butler)

○ Goob (dandy's world)

○ Xie Lian (TGCF)

[Xie Lian is my biggest comfort character]

My lore is edgy and don't make sense! But feel free to ask me about it :D

my OCs and main lore:

[Little lore infos]

Main lore plot

The twist before the finale

Last part before the end

The end

Note: my lore is inspired by a lot of things and certain religions. But, these are my own characters, even though they might be similar to existing divinities they arent them. They are other persons from them ! Also, in my lore, all gods were assigned duties that they didn't choose.

Excpet if the duty was passed from a family member!~

There are no good or bad guys here, only guys. (gals and non binary pals too but you get me) also, religion is a blury subject in my lore and it won't be mentioned (I'm not educated enough on the matter anyway)

Momo: 1 (main character)

Lillith: 1

Anasui: 1

Tenshi: 1

Marianne (Mother of Momo) : 1, redemption arc(pt1)

Arie (Marianne's mother) : 1

Morio Amos (father of Momo) : 1

other lore: 1

The gods and the assembly :

Assembly members:

Lodjaý

Blaorne (Deity of death)

.

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Ayezl (goddess of ice): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Ezili (goddess of water) : 1

Solaria (goddess of the sun in the milky way) and Lunaria (goddess of the earth's moon) : s, L

Eguillati (goddess of time) : 1

Demetheria (god of nature) : 1

Cerys (Goddess of love) : 1

Supernova, étoile-Azure: 1,

Pele (goddess of earth, fire and lava) : 1

Fujinowa (goddess of the wind) : 1

Anahid (goddess of the moons of Saturn/ mum of lunaria and solaria) : 1

Devil OCs

Leviathan: 1

Belzebuth: 1

Asmodeus: 1

Satan: 1

Azazel: 1

Lucifer: 1

Hades: 1

Luccia: 1

Alexia: 1

Archangel OCs

Lantzel: 1

Anomia: 1

Azalée: 1

Gabriel : 1, 2, 3

Here is my character hub profile if you wanna check it out, it propably will never have all of my characters, but the ones that are there have detailed infos

My second lore, and the one that's the less messy in term of story:

In the heart of time/au cœur du temps: 1

[ao3feed-twiyor]

THIEF x FAMILY

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3dXeVuc by 1moreFrenchFry Sancha Pilar is a thief down on her luck. She's penniless, jobless, crewless, and very, very much blacklisted in the criminal underworld. Stuck in Berlint, the capital of the communist country of Ostania, without an ally to turn to or a heist to hatch, she grows needlessly bored. But things change when she learns an old Acquaintance - the Westalis Spy TWILIGHT - is in town. And here's something else - he is deep undercover. As one of the few people who knew his identity as a secret agent and lived to tell the tale, Sancha blackmails him into helping her. Inadvertently, she becomes involved with Twilight's scheme herself, eventually learning that a former funder and likely rat of the the criminal organization she formerly worked for is in town : Stanwin Blackbell, CEO of Blackbell Heavy industries. Quietly, she resumes her heists at night while during the day she babysits Anya, Twilight's-for-the-mission-fake-daughter. But as her scores grow bolder, her activity gains the attention of the State Security Service, causing Sancha to become embroiled with Yuri Briar, a secret police officer and also, conveniently, the brother of Twilight's for-the-mission-fake-wife. Words: 1800, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English Fandoms: SPY x FAMILY (Anime), SPY x FAMILY (Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Original Characters, Sancha Pilar | Serenade, Loid Forger | Twilight, Anya Forger, Yor Briar Forger | Thorn Princess, Yuri Briar, Bond (SPY x FAMILY), Franky Franklin, Sylvia Sherwood | Handler, Becky Blackbell, Becky Blackbell's Father, Becky Blackbell's Mother, Martha (SPY x FAMILY) Relationships: Bond & Anya Forger & Loid Forger | Twilight & Yor Briar Forger | Thorn Princess, Loid Forger & Original Character, Anya Forger & Original Character(s), Yuri Briar/Original Female Character(s), Yuri Briar/Original Character(s), Loid Forger | Twilight/Yor Briar Forger | Thorn Princess, Becky Blackbell & Anya Forger Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Thieves, Heist, OC insert, Found Family, Domestic Fluff, Blackmail, Stealing, Crimes & Criminals, Babysitting, casing a joint, stealing from rich people, Forced Proximity, Attempt at Humor, Comedy, Romance, Bickering, Revenge, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Unreliable Narrator read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3dXeVuc

[teh-tj]

What's your favorite flavor of biphobia? TW: I'm using some offensive language here. This is a satire of the types of biphobia I've seen. 

Homosexual biphobia: Bisexuals are fakes who'll leave me when their phase is over.

Homo-biphobia: Bisexuals are just gays, which is bad because (insert homophobic reason here).

"Woke" biphobia: Bisexuals are only attracted to two genders, why aren't you attracted to people who identify as non-binary or futanari dragons? If you don't identify as pansexual you're just as bad as homophobes.

Sex negative biphobia: You like all genders? Guess you're just an STD-ridden bug-chasing slut.

The "partyer": You're bi? Cool, if you don't attend my shitty parties/orgies you're just a useless prude/faking it.

The historical denialist: So what if ancient texts explicitly said it was somewhat common for people to have lovers from both genders in some ancient societies? They never used the phrase "bisexual" so really all of history was straight people until communists invented queers in the 1960's.

The actual (former) phaser: I was "bicurious" when I was your age, kissed a dude once. You'll grow out of it.

The armchair psychologist: You're just an incel, you just need some good pussy/dick and you'll see the light.

The fujo (for men): That's so hot, I'm going to try to hook you up with every queer man I know!

The fetishist (for women): That's hot, wanna have a three-way with another chick? I bet you'd be into that.

(If you're nonbinary/other I guess the fujo and fetishist could work with you too, or some other thing. I don't know what you're dealing with so comment your version.)

[anarchistauthor]

The Junk I Write

I'm an author who wears many hats, I'd say. I've got four books, two of which are very SPN-like, since they star a vampire who eventually works her way up to becoming the goddess of hell (it's complicated), one of which is a fairly conventional superhero story starring a bunch of queer communists, and a medieval fantasy book about people who turn into weapons and kill shit. And that's just my *finished* works.

In the drafts are sequels to all three of those series, a magic school thing I'm working out, a body-horror book about a girl turning into a monster like The Thing and using that power to murder the ones who did that to her, a spy thriller which (no joke) was inspired by Game of Thrones, something I call a "mecha western" which I think describes it better than I could put into words here, and more fanfiction than I know what to do with. And, like always, ideas keep coming to me. (I have ADHD)

So here's the thing: Basically anything I write is derivative in some way. Basically anything ANYONE writes is derivative in some way. If you read my books, and you've also enjoyed the same kinds of media that I have, it won't be hard to pick up their scent. Several major characters in my works got their start in trashy fanfiction which sits on my Google drive and only a handful of people get to actually read. That doesn't mean my novels are based on those fanfictions, and in fact, they have very little to do with the source material other than surface similarities. My novels are original, whether you believe it or not.

Take, for instance, the newest thing I've been writing, which I shall here codename "Greek Gods Thingy." GGT is not a book about actual Greek gods, but about a pantheon I made up based on some archetypes. There's a god of the sky, of the sea, of war, all that good stuff, but they're not the same as their equivalents in any particular real-world pantheon. And, no, this is not the part that's related to my fanfiction.

GGT's protagonist, a young lesbian called Ember, is chosen by one of the gods to do his bidding, and that's basically the plot, whatever. I actually tried to write this thing like a year ago, but I couldn't really pull it together. It felt off, I wasn't vibing with the characters, and in general I was doing kind of a crappy job, only ended up writing like 3500 words. And then, recently, I got the idea to cut and paste a character from one of my fanfictions onto Ember. I'm not gonna say what series it was a fanfic of, but it will be pretty obvious if you've seen the show and pay attention to Ember's mother in particular.

But here's the thing: The more I write it, the less copied it is. It's a completely different setting, different plot, different everything, just with the main character starting from a similar place in her life. I don't know if this applies to anyone else, but when I make an OC for a fanfic, I'm not doing it to self-insert or whatever, I'm crafting a person I love, who I love writing about. And then, what almost always happens is that I say, "Sucks that this character is stuck in a world I don't have ownership of," and then I end up making my own shit for them. That's basically what my medieval book was, too.

That doesn't mean the original work is a copy of the fanfic. If anything, it's freeing great characters, allowing them to spread their wings and prove their right to exist in something real. That's what Ember's done. And genuinely, I can't wait for this book (or any of the rest of them) to be out, so I can share my love for these babies with the world, and hopefully you all love them too. And, frankly...the idea of """real""" authors being judgmental of fanfiction is absurd to me. Fanfic makes writing better, it expands a person's voice and in many cases gets them into writing way before they have enough confidence to try publishing a novel.

Yes. Write that garbage fic of yours. Polish it, sweat over it, let it keep you up at night because you want it to be perfect. It might show you that you have it in you to write something your own. Or, maybe not. That's fine too. Either way, flexing your creativity is always a good thing.

Unless you're a nazi or some shit.

[fulltimefeline]

Who is this MEOWER?!

Art by TangyOranges

So glad you asked, darling.

Hey there, name’s Navi! I’m just a silly little cat doing silly little things on the internet. Talking about yourself is a complicated thing, hmmm…

I’m a demisexual polyamorous non binary transfem with OCD, pronouns are she/they, who also happens to be quite the communist (yes I read theory, insert nail polish emoji here).

My favorite color is purple, I speak Spanish and English (Spanish being my main language), and needless to say, I’m queer as fuck.

Tech is my main passion, and I love art of all sorts!

Not sure what else to say about me... Oh, I love MCR. Also I’m the biggest swiftie in the world.

…

I contain multitudes.

(that was not a sex joke, but it could be!)

Psst, cats are the best thing ever!

[airdeari]

"You're gonna wanna see this one, chief," an officer said to their Communist ghoul of a commander, who appeared to be doing nothing but standing on an elevated platform and sneering over the dark, vast room lit by the blue light of monitors.

"What? Chief?" barked the commander, disgusted. "That's the language of Capitalist pigs!"

In front of each computer, innocent, god-loving Christians sat blinking their bleary eyes at their screens, hands shackled to their keyboards. Pacing the aisles between their seats were the evil Chinese officers brandishing rods, ready to rap any knuckles that weren't tapping fast enough like nuns in Catholic school. Wait, that makes the West sound bad for some reason. Scratch that one out. Make them have whips. Yeah. The echo of whip cracks rang out through the high ceilings of the coding concentration camp, and shit, because of the evil Commies, who we are America is better than.

"I'm so sorry, Supreme Leader," said the officer from before, using his proper form of address. "I just wanted to tell you about our newest recruit's progress."

They pointed, looking sidelong in the direction of their hand as if afraid to look at the thing head-on, their finger trembling ever so slightly. The shadow cast by this prisoner of the comically evil Communist cell was smaller than all the others, and fuzzier.

"It's responding well to the treatment," they said. "You've got to see it."

"Very well," huffed the evil commander. With his hands folded elegantly and evilly behind his back, he descended the stairs to the main floor of the open air prison. Meanwhile, the officer from before was dragged off by the secret police and executed immediately by off-screen gunshot for insubordination, to no fanfare but their own cries of protest, suddenly silenced.

Down on the floor, buzzing above the desperate ticking of keys was the sound of kitty cat paws going tappa tap tap with epic gamer swag. The source of the sound, and of that ominously small and fuzzy shadow, was a litle kity.

"hewwo =^w^=" said the kity, who was very cute, but very evil because it was hacking for the Commies, even though it was being forced to in a prison labor camp, because we don't like it so everything it does is wrong and their fault always.

The evil commander nodded his own greetings to the cat. "I understand you're doing very good work here," he said, then squinted at the convenient desk placard and read, "maia."

"? i dont speak chinese lol" maia said, slow blinking.

"You have done very well, comrade. Officers!" the commander boomed, to make an example of the prisoner. "Fetch this comrade a pudding as a reward for its sick af hacking!"

For a while, maia just said "? ? ?" while comically and cutely tilting its head, then it saw an officer inserting their key into a massive padlock on a decrepit minifridge, out of which they pulled a small, slightly dented cup of unbranded generic Communist slop. The small kity hopped up and down on its desk in excitement upon seeing the pudding, saying "yayayayay n_n i loveee pudding its the only reason i do my silly little girlhacking tbh!! thank u china u are sooooo epic and i swaer allegieacnce to communism now"

As the officer set the pudding cup down on the desk, peeling back the foil lining on the top, maia shoved its whole little snoot into the tiny opening. When it pulled up its head to lick a circle of pudding off of its mouth, the residue remained around the rest of its face and it looked like a clown. It shook its head to fling off the pudding. One droplet hit a giant red button that said NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES and depressed it and then all of the nukes in the world hit the United States and everyone in America died the end

giving yall full permission to write RPF about me in the chinese praise kink based hacking camp cause it's a hilarious concept and i need someone to explore it in writing