#web anarchy

[il0v3mywife]

As we move off of major social media apps I want to remind folks of the days when people had personal websites! I personally love neocities which is a free (unless you want big huge files then it’s still cheap) HTML webplatform where you can build your own website. It’s not the most user friendly so I think I might start making tutorials on my neocities (which needs a major revamp) if people are interested (looking at u @spinnychaircirclecasting) and then prob posting about that on here also

[okaydays22]

[knightswan]

shots from the paswg teaser as stamps!!!

[yellow-yarrow]

Nihilism & Elysium web weaving

Disco Elysium / Russian nihilist movement wikipedia page / What Is To Be Done by Nikolay Chernyshevsky / Full Core State Nihilist / Émile Zola:Germinal

additional info: Robert Kurvitz has named Germinal as one of the inspirations for the game, in which coal miners strike, and then attack the mines. The violence of the angry proletariat that will destroy the old world one day and create a new is one of its themes.

What is To Be Done? is an utopian novel and it was an inspiration to nihilists (and to different kind of people on the left)

Full core State Nihilist is a story that takes place in Elysium, it can be read here

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[yurimaxxing]

omg i saw the stocking pixels you did from paswg (they were so cute!!!) and i was wondering if i could req some panty pixels :3? please and thank you!!!

thank youuu…❤️ here you go 🍟

[fairiesontheweb]

[alpaca-clouds]

BELLE and the fantasy of a non-corporate internet

Just a little thing I kinda want to end out this week speaking about democratized media on. Because there is this little thing in Mamoru Hosoda's newest movie BELLE... I am honest: I am not entirely sure whether it is something Hosoda and his team thought about when making this movie. But... this movie has this wonderful little anarchist moment.

BELLE is all in all not really an anarchist movie. Nor is it Solarpunk. But it picks up this theme, that goes through several movies Hosoda has done. His "internet triology" how I like to call it:

Digimon Adventure: Bokura no Wargame

Summer Wars

BELLE

Three movies that are not only connected in aethetic, but also in theme. All three of them having a plot that takes place online for good chunks.

And that theme is of the internet connecting people all around the world. Of allowing people all around the world to connect.

The Digimon Adventure movie focuses on the idea of the young millennials in that movie having access and understanding of this new virtual world, that the older generation lacks. In the Japanese version of the movie there is a prolonged gag sequence of Yamato and Takeru trying to get access to the internet with a lot of confused adults thinking about whether or not they have this access.

This shifts in Summer Wars, where the internet suddenly is a place that everyone uses over a lot of different access points. In the finale we see people use the internet via phones, laptops, high end computers and video game consoles. Though it also gives a warning of us not relying on it too much.

And then we have BELLE, which focuses on the internet as a place where people can truly be themselves and connecting with each other, while being unable to connect in the real world (partly because of distance), as well as the internet of a place to rediscover yourself and as a medium to help each other.

But all three movies kinda have one scene in common. There is a scene towards the finale where all seems lost and the character outmatched by the antagonist. (I am gonna say something about the antagonists in a moment.) And then... everyone gets together. And by everyone I mean everyone. In Bokura no Wargame it is the emails of encouragement and the spirits of all those kids and teens watching the battle that allow War Greymon and Metal Garurumon to fuse into Omegamon. In Summer Wars it is the fact that everyone risks their accounts by handing them over to Natsuki that allows them to beat the AI in hanafuda. And in the finale of BELLE it is everyone banding together to sing and no longer supporting the self-appointed moderators that allows Suzu to make Kei hear her voice. It is the connection of people via the internet that allows people to succeed in these movies.

But there is one thing in which BELLE differs from the other two movies - or rather all three movies differ from each other.

Bokura no Wargame still very much is set in Web 1.0, before social media and the bottlenecking of the internet. Again, the movie makes this big thing out of the internet being a thing for the youth.

Meanwhile Summer Wars is set within a very corporate "everything platform". And while this movie does have some message about "yeah, maybe having all that data within one system is a bad thing, actually", there is not really a comment about the company running OZ and whether maybe one company should not own the one platform that in this world basically IS THE INTERNET.

BELLE is different in that regard. Because BELLE makes a point out of the fact that U is an open source platform that was created to... basically run anarchical. There was not supposed to be an central control. That the users were supposed to have control over their experience on the platform. But because the creators also did not want to have "control" over it, big companies just took over and devided U up between themselves, creating that moderation team that is seen as the antagonists within the movie. And here is the thing: That big scene of everyone coming together and singing? Yeah, that is the scene in which the users take the control over the platform back from the companies. And since U is basically the the internet in this world... Part of the finale is basically the users taking back their control over the internet.

And... I don't know. I have not seen people talk about this so far. But to me it is the nice and utopic part in this movie.

The internet is such a great thing to connect people. And that is something that Mamoru Hosoda has definitely understood better than many other film makers. And we just... should not let big coorporations take this from us.

[bobauthorman]

Opposites Attract

Oz and Salem's dynamic is interesting to me because both were crafted to represent a specific quality, but end up personifying the exact opposite quality.

Salem is supposed to be stillness. Her immortality is supposed to render her into a fixed point in time. She does not age, and all damage done to her is undone. She represents the previous era of mankind, wielding sorcery that can never be achieved again.

And yet, she is the one that has changed the most. She goes from helpless damsel, the Girl in the Tower, to cunning mastermind, the Wicked Witch of the West. By throwing herself into the pools of Grimm, her physical appearance changes heavily. And she not only causes the end of the old world by encouraging the people to rebel against the gods, but she keeps invoking the destruction of the show's status quo through her agents. By her own will, she becomes anarchy.

And Oz was clearly designed to be change. His immortality puts him in different bodies every time one dies. He ages. His mind alters as he and his host/victim join souls, and vice-versa. As (Self-installed) leader of the Huntsmen, he is supposed to represent the current era.

But however, Oz, by his own admission, never learns his lesson, instead using his troublesome reincarnation as a means of running away from his problems. And while their minds adjust, he and his body's souls soon reach an equilibrium where neither are indistinguishable from the other. And while he is supposed to focus on the growth of Huntsmen and humanity, he relies mostly on the ancient magic and gifts provided by the Two Brothers, having no real faith in the current mankind. He remains in stasis.

[aspechc]

😮 For me, team ranchers from the life series are acespec and no one understands their relationship, not even them. Jimmy is an autistic sex-repulsed ace still discovering himself and Tango is some type of aroace-spec with adhd, he's never bothered to think about it long enough to figure out exactly what and he probably doesn't even know the terms. They don't think, they just feel, if anyone asks what they are to each other they just say "Ranchers!" The specifics of their relationship and boundaries may change, but they will always be each other's rancher, whatever it means at the moment. The ranchers are ranchers!🤠🤠

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[memoriesofthingspast]

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[emita-ita]

golly I just LOVE it when big search engines get worse and worse! and give me less accurate results to show me unrelated popular and clickbaity things!

[angadgautama]

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[halfmoon-horse]

Can... Can someone explain to me how "abolish the police" is supposed to work? Aside from being a catchphrase wtf is that supposed to achieve? "Police by consent" yes I get that but you're saying having no law enforcement at all is better than a law enforcement that is simply not murdering and profiling and assaulting etc people?? Are people actually that stupid?