#the discourse (tm)

[leftistfanenboii]

Average tumblr user hit with at least 10 carhammers is a statistical error. Carhammer Matt, who has been hit by millions of carhammers in an explosion, is an outlier and shouldn't be counted

[medjedrphub]

This is a shit take, and just comes across as gatekeeping.

I can kinda understand it when it comes to writing because... I mean, if you're using AI to write your posts for you, then you should probably reconsider whether or not this is really the hobby for you.

But graphics? I'm sorry, but saying that people who use AI-generated graphics on their blog shouldn't get to participate in RP is absolute nonsense, and comes off as very gatekeepy.

Graphics are secondary to people's actual writing, and always have been. Saying people shouldn't be allowed to participate in the hobby because they didn't source their graphics "the right way" is idiotic.

Honestly, if you're going to use AI generated images, I feel that should be disclosed, but I've never been on board with the idea that people who use it should be shunned and excluded from the RPC.

[stumpyjoepete]

On a slightly more sober note, I just find it so depressing how many people are ideologically committed to not solving problems unless its with their preferred solution.

Just on the topic of GLP-1 agonists, I've seen multiple versions of this. It's not ok to lose weight unless it's through an act of willpower and discipline. Drugs are cheating. It's not ok to solve obesity unless it's by "banning addictive junk food". Drugs are letting those evil companies off the hook. (How? Does losing your customers not count? The person in question described solving this through medicine as "bleak".)

And expanding to other topics, it's idontwantasolutioniwanttobemad.jpg repeated over and over. Can't solve anything unless it's via The Revolution or it purifies the hearts and minds of the sinful or it immanentizes the eschaton or it punishes the wicked or whatever.

Bleak.

Man the Ozempic discourse is going to give me an aneurysm.

"Oh it solves obesity and also as a side effect cures your addictions? But... doesn't that just mean you're addicted to Ozempic? *smirk*"

If you say these things, I think you should get rolled up in a carpet and trampled by horses.

[sunsetofdoom]

The Stolas parenting discourse keeps reminding me of a conversation I had with my dad when I was a teenager.

I was asking about his relationship with my mom, and its ultimate end; I was about fifteen, meaning that at this point they would have been divorced for a decade.

When I asked why my mom had never told me anything about their divorce, and its really messy but understandable (to a teenager) circumstances, my dad said:

you know, when you were little, I used to try to explain everything to you? I'm not very good with small children. If I'd have found you trying to stick a fork into a light socket, I'd have sat down and said, "so, actually, that's really dangerous. That fork is metal, so it's conductive- well, I guess you don't understand what electricity is, yet. See, the stuff that makes the lights go on-"

And your mom would have just walked up, taken the fork away, and given you a coloring page. Which is why she's better with small children than I am, and it's a vital parenting skill that I don't have.

But now, you're almost an adult. And your mom is still trying to hand you the coloring page, but it's no longer working.

I think Stolas developed a lot of parenting skills that were designed for small children. But he has trouble adjusting. It's not that he's a bad parent; it's that his parenting skills are running out. Now, Octavia is old enough that he should be starting to treat her as an equal in some ways- and he can't, because he's never had one. So he's still trying to give her the coloring page, when she needs to know the truth.

[simaraknows]

i see your "'does he want to lick my boots or chop off my hands' is a Nicki reference" and raise you "what if Armand's relationship with sex is so fucked that his two modi are total submission and 'don't touch me or I'll chop off your hands' and Louis is still clowning on his trauma" in this essay I will

[edenfenixblogs]

Well Drawfee is officially no longer safe media for me :(

Karina liked multiple tweets conflating a PSA for antisemitism with Israeli propaganda and claiming that Israel planned its assault to coincide with the superbowl…

Julia liked posts claiming that the war isn’t a war. Nobody has liked anything about antisemitism or even acknowledging Jews are in danger right now.

TBH I’m devastated.

I have Drawfee art all over my home. I was actually gonna become a patron this year. I’d literally been saving to make it feasible. This is crushing. I feel sick.

[stumpyjoepete]

"@discoursedrome was right" vs "you really can't understand it unless you read the whole thread in the original German; you lose that je ne sais quoi if you try and summarize it"

me, calling across the room after seeing two tumblr people who are smarter than me having a long winded disagreement: Hey, have you caught up on the long conversation X and Y are having?

81k: Yes

me: I'm not reading all that, can you just tell me which one is right?

[jarvesque]

I think you can clearly tell which fantasy high fans have never actually played a session of any TTRPG from the reaction to the Junior Year final battle alone

[grubloved]

im always bewildered when people argue that butch is a lesbian exclusive term or that it's for lesbians but theyre graciously allowing bisexuals to use it maybe also because like what about butch gay men?????? like lol. butch isnt an anyone exclusive anything

[bereft-of-frogs]

I think I figured out the reason I get so bothered when people turn otherwise good media into ship wars. It’s partially being pretentious yes (what about the themes!! What about the plot!!!!) and partially just that unless the chemistry is off the charts I’m not particularly compelled by romance narratives.

but I think mainly, I just don’t like how it often turns the conversation into a competition. It ends up making me feel a bit gross. Like all the talk about who’s winning and who’s endgame and who’s going to be crying. It just feels like…combative and kind of mean? So it’s really not about the shipping and not about missing the point, it’s mostly about making reading a book series or watching a tv show into a weirdly competitive activity.

[ganondoodle]

i find it funny how people are trying to "prove" that Radahn agreed to Miquellas plan with how Miquella calls it 'our vow' and that Freyas ok with it ... like both of those arent yet again other peoples words, and still nothing of his side, ever

(let me just say, i feel like its important that its meticulously avoided to ever let Radahn speak, hes not in the cutscene of Miquella making his wish, the only two (?) quotes we get in descriptions all have nothing to do with any of it- could you imagine if he didnt even know? like the time Malenia stomping into his land being literally the first time he hears of it which uh .. how would you even resist that, other than try to not die by any means, since Miquella was probably out of reach already and youd do best to stay as far away as you can anyway if you knew he charms people)

also i saw in the comments of one of the very few videos i watched on the topic someone suggesting that using Mohgs body is yet another way to make it easier to control since Mohgs been under the spell for who knows how long already, 'broken into'- i just wondered .. so what if that was all planned too, like that Malenia using her rot on Radahn wasnt a last ditch effort to try and kill him, but instead have him rot away, slowly getting weaker and easier to finish off, buying time for Miquella to do all his discarding of important things he shouldnt discard while putting essentially a time bomb on Radahn.. AND to destroy his original body so it could later be discarded and whatever was left of his soul be put into Mohgs corpse instead to subdue his own will even further

[chaosinstigator]

so checo gets a post but not daniel… gotcha

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

see the thing is, i do think that it's important to read a wide variety of things as you get older, that it's good for you, and that a lot of young people were failed by systems that prioritize basically everything except their education

but i also think that a lot of the "we need to bring back shaming" crowd that makes up the majority of social media aren't actually acting in good faith when they say they "want more people to read classics." in fact, it often feels like their whole self worth relies on being able to be seen as Better Than

so as you can imagine, all this discourse is very annoying to me

[aemiron-main]

staring at the shots with the trans flag colours in the latest episode of the “feeling like you’re living in someone else’s body & having your bodily autonomy and rights stripped from you” show:

(especially with the matrix being obvious inspiration for severance vs neo being a trans allegory 🤨🤨🤨)

[thelordofgifs]

the truth is that you simply can't kill people. even if they stole your stuff.