Cerata's things

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

its not a huge gripe and i won't get on anyone's case about it but i don't like it when people call Batman a mother. the implication that caring for a child and wanting a child must be maternal is something i find a little gross. he's not mom coded and he isn't single mother coded, there's just a very narrow definition of what people think is a mother and father's place. the fact that he appears "mom/single-mother" coded has less to do with his character and more to do with that narrow definition of motherhood (and fatherhood)

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

same but it's black people

That's right

not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

the central conceit of white boy "comedy rap" genres is that they're too racist to recognise that most classic rap is already pretty humorous in many ways, on account of wordplay being fundamental to the form,

and also steeped in pop culture from the very beginning, like the rap scene was already making music about comics and anime and video games you don't need to segregate a new genre for that

WHATEVR you do don’t think about how Steph’s rampant self worth issues (which cause a lot of her other issues) r being fueled not just how often she’s repeatably being demeaned and/or invalidated as a vigilante but also the years and years of internalized misogynistic messaging that she’s been subject to her whole life, just as a civilian. As an 11 yr old who was groomed and nearly molested, who was told she was making things up, who explicitly states it took literal years to unlearn the idea it was her fault, as a 15 yr old who calls herself fat and disgusting during her pregnancy, who insinuates she’d understand if her boyfriend cheated because of that, who is textually judged as a bad influence on Tim because of her pregnancy, who assumes one of her only friends will think of her as a bad person when she tells her about it, as a 16 yr old hearing ‘you hit like a girl’ from a hero who she’s been trying everything to impress, it only pushing her to try harder, to hit harder, like if she works hard enough and fast enough and good enough she can undo how ‘bad’ she is already, how much she’s failed as person just bc she’s failed at meeting the standards of what a ‘good’ girl is supposed to be. Do you get it. She thinks she’s a terrible person forever. And it’s so intertwined w misogyny it can’t be unraveled or separated.