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Should Have Stayed a Draft Day

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The truth is that the grim display on the Jean Pormanove streams has ample precedent in pre-internet media, at least in the U.S., where exploiting eccentrics and other vulnerable people was for decades common practice on daytime T.V., drive-time radio, and the reality television boom at the turn of the millennium. Audiences of the 1990s and 2000s didn’t need a “constant stream of short-form content” to find themselves compelled by transgression and cruelty; they seemed happy to consider it appointment viewing. After decades of obsessive right-wing agitation about violence, immigration, crime, sexual deviancy, and disorder, designed to identify vulnerable groups for abuse, it seems only natural that ritualistic humiliation would be fully entrenched and naturalized as a genre of entertainment.

Streaming really is the modern equivalent of daytime TV.

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Marriage

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Discussion of various candidates for the longest single-syllable word in English, depending on your definition of what counts as a "real" word. "Strengtheds"?

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Guys all the science says polyamorous people are “normal” and “just like us” instead of sick freaks please help me to instead find science that justifies my beliefs :(

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out of the blue

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This is a 3D figure, not digital art

the original figure:

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It's so important to acknowledge the very real and sometimes truly horrible failings of the healthcare profession and the pharmaceutical industry while never ever ever letting them drive us into the arms of pseudoscientific bullshit. This is something I feel really strongly about.

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My favorite part of Nier Automata so far is that 2B is the only one actually committed to the whole Emotionless Machine thing. Like we open on her monologuing about how life is meaningless suffering and she wants to kill God and then it's all business as she watches her squadmates die and starts slaughtering robots but once we're off mission and start interacting with other people or having conversations with 9S and 6O we realize that no, actually, everyone else does have emotions and regularly wants to express them but 2B gets pissed off whenever someone tries to feel something on the clock cause it's not mission relevant but nobody ever takes a hint and gives up on reaching out to her so we have awkward scenes like 9S trying to get her to use a nickname for him mid-fight or 6O crying over getting rejected by another girl and 2B is just standing there like "why the hell did you think I would want to have this conversion". Like 9S will call out hostiles and she'll just go "I'm aware" girl does NOT give a shit about any of this. She's fully willing to kamikaze herself but you couldn't bring her to a birthday party with a gun to her head. Girl of all time.

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License

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Detective Denise

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Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th

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The truth is that the grim display on the Jean Pormanove streams has ample precedent in pre-internet media, at least in the U.S., where exploiting eccentrics and other vulnerable people was for decades common practice on daytime T.V., drive-time radio, and the reality television boom at the turn of the millennium. Audiences of the 1990s and 2000s didn’t need a “constant stream of short-form content” to find themselves compelled by transgression and cruelty; they seemed happy to consider it appointment viewing. After decades of obsessive right-wing agitation about violence, immigration, crime, sexual deviancy, and disorder, designed to identify vulnerable groups for abuse, it seems only natural that ritualistic humiliation would be fully entrenched and naturalized as a genre of entertainment.

Streaming really is the modern equivalent of daytime TV.

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My Boss the Demiurge 8

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My Boss the Demiurge 5

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i’m not like, actually surprised, because i know the stigma around even sex acts i consider tame are still everywhere but ANAL??? you’re villainizing my girl for liking anal. what the fuck are we DOING let her LIVE

liiiiiterallllyyyyy like wooowwww I thought all the epidemic-causing, duty-ignoring, lying, brainwashing, drugging, food poisoning the poor, man-stealing, and demon bigotry might be redeemable...but anal? On purpose? 😬

She was already manipulating/hypnotizing and fucking around with powerful royals in a way that falls under lese majesté, treason, poisoning/assault on a royal, being annoying, etc, but we're going to act like exposing revenge porn of her consensual butt sex is the pinnacle of her crimes?

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I can tell I'm a wokeist because I really did feel the slut shaming in The One Within the Villainess killed much of the momentum of the final court scene, to say nothing of the unsatisfying (though unsurprising) not-yuri end. The white lotus character was never going to be nuanced, but there was no need to highlight her love of anal as one of her most damning crimes.