#we (unfortunately) live in a society

[space-sheep08]

Actually so tired that people mainly focus on the bdsm when they talk about La Pianiste when we literally have this dynamic right here. Like, that's insane.

What if you were a little girl in her 40's who couldn't grow up because of your mother-wife who made you sleep in her bed and forced you to repress every sexual desires and thoughts of becoming your own person just to keep you close to her ? What if you fought back and yearned for dangerous things out of her reach ? But also, what if you let her because it's all you've ever known and been taught to want ?

[despazito]

the most interesting part of the new contrapoints to me that i'm still processing as a bitchy feminist was the explanation she gave for the sheer prevalence of noncon in women's erotica. that it shouldn't be taken at all at face value, but rather its a very quick and efficient literary plot device for letting women engage in sex while maintaining their status of being spiritually chaste in a society that shames women who seek out and initiate sexual encounters and brands them as whores. of course my response is we should deconstruct the shame women feel around having sexual desires that can perhaps get freaky, but to date that was the most eye opening explanation i've heard on said kink being so common.

[mentally-disabled]

im not very fond of Striker, but i do relate to his quote:

"SHUT THE FUCK UP. WHY IS IT ALWAYS A SEX THING"

[drs3x]

not trying to add to the noise about ai art or w/e but artists of all media are already undervalued and under-compensated enough as it is & unless you learn and understand this very quickly you will not be seeing the gates of heaven

[crash3warped]

so-called anticapitalists when a creator leaves their fav predatory megacorp to go indie and they learn they will have to actually share money with them to support their art

[liesmyth]

not to flex but I love how many tiny parks there are in my city... I can just sit on a bench and look at the grass and reboot my brain for a while

[wobubling]

I don’t understand why Brashen didn’t take Althea’s surname.. he’s literally disowned and the Vestrits are still a prominent trader family. And while we’re at it althea should be paragons captain cmon

[aweisz]

would anyone be interested in commissions from me. hypothetically

[muirneach]

i haven’t had to come out since like. 2017/2018 somewhere in there idr and back then i was a literal child so i kind of don’t remember how this all works. coming out as trans is one of the stupidest things ever like hey person i never really talk about deep things with heres an incredibly personal facet of my identity that frankly you have no business knowing but we live in a society so here we are. but then simultaneously i have such a huge sense of relief like oh right hiding a relatively important part of myself for nearly half my life from my dearest family member is in fact weighing on me a bit okay 👍

[antigonewinchester]

the thing about Jack's character is that his gender is integral to his role within the story and situated within SPN's existing (sexist) narrative framework:

Kelly gets pregnant against her will, decides Jack's life/powers are more important her life, and dies in childbirth to 1) create a parallel to Sam & Dean losing their mom very early in their childhoods and 2) provide Jack w/ angst over her death

Cas, Jack's first chosen father, gets resurrected partially by him in early S13 but Kelly stays the Sweet Dead Mom for Jack to mourn & feel really sad that she had to die for him to be born; when they interact briefly in S14 she expresses no regrets about dying and is more upset that Jack is in Heaven and so must be dead

Mary and Jack form a quasi parent-child relationship thru S13 - S14 and then late in S14 when Jack accidentally(?) kills her the focus is on how bad & guilty & horrible he feels, with Mary's death also motivating Sam, Cas and esp Dean's guilt & angst; Jack continues to feel really bad in S15 after he regains his soul

and honestly, I'm not even complaining! I know what I'm getting into w/ SPN and the ratio of Man Pain vs. Let's Put Our Heroes Thru Situations is workable. it's just that while the show's sexism may have gotten less overt as it went along (more female characters, less calling women bitches) that doesn't mean a baseline level of misogyny wasn't still there within the narrative.

[thepavementsings-archive]

Alex getting his own category in your chart and then not being put into it is absolutely sending me

I strive to see a better world for us all. unfortunately the 2021 offseason and 2022 season happened and we all (Alex) must face the consequences!

[qqqqqqqqqqq0]

[raytorosaurus]

frank being nervous enough about asking anthony to join the band that he likened it to asking a girl out is so funny like bro weren't you already friends

well the thing is artistic partnerships of this kind require a level of emotional vulnerability comparable in depth to not much besides romantic relationships in our culture. like we joke about adult friendship groups but it's true that most adults are missing that kind of connection with other adults who aren't their single life partner and it's why bands are so parasocially compelling if you'll pardon my buzzword lol

[emmi-kat]

It's always "don't use Googoo, they're stealing your data!" And "Corporations are evil!" And "Support small creators!"

Until those small creators leave the Googoo watchy corporation platform to make their own platform where they are not hindered by the whims of corporations in a humiliating little monkey dance for their ad revenue.

Then it's "wah! But I feel entitled to their work for free from the comfort of the Googoo watchy platform! How dare they expect creative freedom and fair compensation for their work!"

[andromeda3116]

you know i wonder where the essay is, i certainly don't have it prepared, what it reflects about society, that the '99 trigun was a fun action western-sci-fi anime with a plot that wove itself out slowly and had plenty of heart that got serious eventually but was also a quirky romp through most of its run

and the '23 trigun stampede is a dystopian sci-fi set in a crumbling desert that can barely support life with a dark plot that drags you under immediately and also does have a lot of heart but ultimately appears to have the theme of scavenging that heart from a place that gives you no reason to believe it exists

like, as time capsules i feel like it's unintentionally saying something about us, about where we've come to and come from, that the same basic story is told in two such wildly different ways, after less than a quarter-century

[panspy]

hmmmmmm.................vent post under tags...... feel free to give advice or dont¯\_(ツ)_/¯