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like the straightforward reading of it IS fascist! "look at me a cutesy little (extremely powerful) pastoralist elf who wants nothing more than to live my happy life when these SUBVERSIVES that the REST OF SOCIETY TOLERATES exist!"
it's not even like. being subtle! it goes from like 3 episodes in of "haha cutesy elfslop" to "ontologically evil p-zombies exist in this world and you have to kill them all. full stop" it's not even drawing parts of it! it's the whole fucking hog all the way in all the time!
ok so first of all its not good. but im not even arguing if what the elf does in story is correct or not! all im saying is that if like. dan "ideas" olson made an anime to demonstrate how fascist regimes would make media to embody their ideals he would make frieren and like. somehow this is not the first thing people discuss when they talk about it???
I know, it's wild, right? And it happens so fucking quickly, like, what, 4 or 5 episodes before it's literally stealing plot elements from Norman Spinrad's Iron Dream and like, *nobody* really even brought it up for a long time.
And sure, it has uncomfortable and direct links to real life fascist thought, but at least it's done in a way that will make most of the conflicts of the show incredibly boring and pointless and that make you think the writers don't pay attention to their own characters.
Like, if people had reacted to it like they react to Goblin Slayer that's one thing, but people acted like it was a good show for so long!
Also genuinely, objectively the first demon Frieren kills uses language to gather information about what's happened since he's been imprisoned. The later demons discuss what tactics they are going to use against the humans and why certain lies work on humans. If they were just parrots that would actually be potentially interesting on some level, but they aren't.
Frieren's demons aren't p-zombies. They have internal drives towards survival, domination, and little else as far as we can see. But in this they are not so different from Tolkien's orcs or the vampires in Buffy. This is not fascism, the demons aren't trying to subversively weaken society by promoting a distancing from the natural order or whatever. They are trying to invade and conquer. And the proposed solution is not a strengthening of national character or the establishment of a dictatorship but individual mastery of craft.
As always my opinion is that giving the villains interesting motives is a great way to explore deep themes, but it's not mandatory. You can have one-dimensional villains and still tell an interesting story, you just have to focus more on other things. Which is what Frieren does. The one-dimensional evil-ness of the demons is not a big focus of the show, it's taken as a given for the backdrop of the things the show is actually interested in, which is the personal and interpersonal developments of the main cast and some side characters. The demons are evil because "how does this character react to evil?" is an interesting question. Even the fight scenes are mostly interesting because they tell us more about the inner lives of the people we have gotten to know. For the entire magic academy arc the demons are pretty much absent, because the show is just not about them. If you like politics and want to see shows that focus on complicated conflicts without obvious moral valence then Frieren is probably not the show for you.
The demons are evil because "how does this character react to evil?" is an interesting question.
Fundamentally, I disagree with the idea that "How do the characters react to the fact that nits really do make lice" is interesting. I think it's actually quite dull.
I do find it a little frustrating to talk about because people keep fitting it into some kind of generic left-wing objection about "evil races" when my actual problem is that this specific instance is bad.
The other thing is that, I had the same experience @thahxa had, which is that after like a decade of super woke people picking apart every TV show imaginable Frieren just straight-up copies plot points from The Iron Dream and people mostly didn't even bring it up!
I found it deeply disorienting when something that was been sold as a pastoral show about contemplation and relationships suddenly turned into Lord of the fucking Swastika.
PS - My immediate response is that Tolkien's Orcs are different because Tolkien is a better writer who actually knows how to use these tropes but I've never finished Lord of The Rings so maybe I just didn't get to the part where Legolas explains that we need to kill all the Orc babies.
I believe Tolkien's solution was just never to deal with it at all. How orcs reproduce is never explained (Well, I guess actually he came up with multiple explanations that are mutually exclusive and, I believe, none of which involve babies). There are simply no civilian orcs, much less families and children.
Well, apparently there are no civilian demons, either!
The reason the Demons come off as fascist is not because they are inherently evil, or whatever, it's that...
Okay, the first demon we see is kind of just a guy. The next demons are:
An abandoned child which is taken into a village and treated like one of the villagers until its Demon nature inevitably emerges and it starts killing people and has to be put down like the dog it is, like they should have done in the first place.
A demon diplomatic envoy, who trick the humans by pretending that the war caused them grief and loss, when in reality the demon doesn't put the same high price on life as the westerner
They pretend to be moral patients in order to trick others into thinking that they can be integrated into society, when in reality they are always only looking out for their own kind and will betray any society that they are part of the first chance they get. The bleeding hearts who try to act like they are people are simply putting society in danger, so we need people with the strength of character to do what must be done to them regardless of what they say or do.
And, like, sorry, I know that this isn't strictly limited to fascist thought but it sure is at least fascist-adjacent.
I will be very surprised if any sentiment even remotely similar comes up in Lord of The Rings.
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holy shit okay may have found a game-changer for web searches...with duckduckgo it's easy to turn off the ai features permanently, but regardless of engine there's the increasing problem of the search results themselves leading mostly to ai-generated articles on random ghost websites that say a lot without any information, and then the information they do give is contradictory or otherwise just wrong. this is especially a problem for me when trying to search for, e.g., a current list of the best products in a certain category.
finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.
i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???
please do not start talking about The Definition Of Art on this post, or Whether Human Creations Have Souls. i am very tired.
Male socialization is such an evil rhetoric. Yeah I guess not transitioning at the age of 5 is my fault and I'm evil for it. Yeah I guess not having the childhood I wish I did means I'm a danger and I should perpetually apologize for it
"The fact that socialization is a specious argument became obvious to me during an exchange I had with a trans-woman-exclusionist who insisted that my being raised male was the sole reason in her mind for me to be disqualified from entering women-only spaces. So I asked her if she was open to allowing trans women who are anatomically male but who have been socialized female — something that’s not all that uncommon for MTF children these days. She admitted to having concerns about their attending. Then, I asked how she would feel about a person who was born female yet raised male against her will, and who, after a lifetime of pretending to be male in order to survive, finally reclaimed her female identity upon reaching adulthood. After being confronted with this scenario, the woman conceded that she would be inclined to let this person enter women-only space, thus demonstrating that her argument about male socialization was really an argument about biology after all. In fact, after being pressed a bit further, she admitted that the scenario of a young girl who was forced against her will into boyhood made her realize how traumatic and dehumanizing male socialization could be for someone who was female-identified. This, of course, is exactly how many trans women experience their
own childhoods."
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Though it seems the guide to safer drug use from the dhammaflow website contains all the individual ones anyway, on that page is actually another link, this one : https://dsdistro.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/26/radical-guide-to-safe-drug-use-pocket-zines/
okay you know that scan/photo of a teen girl’s diary entry that goes like “wore yellow dress today. chris keeps trying to talk to me even though he KNOWS i’m not interested! ugh! man landed on moon.” anyway that’s the mood
I keep thinking about this post as I check in on the Artemis II mission throughout the day in between doing my normal tasks. My texts to my girlfriend look like “Aw man I was making pasta for dinner and I dropped the box and now there’s macaroni all over the floor. Houston and Integrity Crew are go for translunar injection by the way”
If you're early transition, or pre transition and considering it, and you're scared, or lonely, or don't know where you're going and feel lost, or all of the above:
It gets better. I promise you. It only gets better. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week or next month. But one day you'll look in the mirror and realize that the pain you used to feel has lost its teeth, and what's left is only a shadow of what it once was.
And crucially, you don't have to sacrifice the things you love to transition either. Oftentimes, they'll bloom more. My already established interest in hiking has developed into wilderness backpacking.
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library witch, how does one secure a library job? i have 4 years of academic library experience and keep getting rejected from library jobs postgrad which is bad because. the Economy. please send help
okay so I gather you've mistaken me for someone who's good at job hunting, as if I haven't been clinging to the same cringe job since I graduated
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My last two paychecks just cleared. I just dropped $300 on a Braun Silk Expert Pro 5. Some day I will look like @bismuth-soup but brown and with curly hair
@bismuth-soup when i was buying that IPL i lowkey forgot you white as fuck, did you use that thing cranked up to the max? cause i dont think I can find a single part of my body light enough to get it to go past 50%. i'm gonna try tonight on my chest/torso lol. maybe i'll have better luck and i'll be able to do it on my arms without burning myself (it said i was too dark and i tricked it and i mildly burnt myself) after not seeing daylight for several months during the winter hahaha. it looks like for now i'm stuck only doing thighs, torso, and maybe a bit of lower legs (but they're quite dark)
Tumblr Media Violation Images (Font Identification)
Tumblr has a number of placeholder images it uses when an image is removed. The most famous, by far, is the community guideline violation image. "This content has been removed for violating Tumblr's Community Guidelines."
Most of you have likely seen this image, if not in its intended place, by someone using it for the aesthetic. Did you know that this is actually an old variant, and there was at least one even older variant?
These are all the iterations I could find for this specific media violation image, the 500x375 pixel Community Guidelines violation image, in order. All of these files are called community_guidelines_v1_500.png and the versions can be found on the Internet Archive. The newest version is also called user_guidelines_v1_500.png.
The transition from the first variant to the second happened sometime on January 3rd, 2019, specifically between 16:52 (last) and 23:30 (first) GMT. The transition from the second to the third was on July 16th, 2024 between 14:03 (last) and 14:58 (first) GMT. Differing resolutions of this image seem to have been replaced at various different times.
The first iteration's gray background style is consistent with the other media violation images available at that time. Each had a custom desaturated color graphic in the center of the image, with the text of the image as a centered subtitle. The current style is made up of a single chunk of left-justified text over several lines in the upper left corner on a dark blue background. The start of the text as well as the final period is colored according to a scheme; blue for community guidelines, pink for copyright, orange for privacy. The colored text is for the preamble "this content has been removed for" with the reason being in white. The "all" violation does not match this format exactly, instead its old iteration is simply text, and its new iteration does not have colored text. Notably, both series are color coded, but the color coding was changed.
The community guidelines violation image is the only one with three variants. All of the others only have two.
copyright_v1_400.png
privacy_v1_500.png
all_v1_100.png
The fonts
Notably, if you look very closely at the new variants you can see that almost all of them have their i-dots (tittles) off center, shifted to the left, with the right edge aligned with the right edge of the i body. Additionally, in all of the images the apostrophes are relatively ornate for the otherwise grotesque sans-serif typeface. The only new style image which does not have the tittles off-center is the newest variant of the community guidelines image.
The original images use a Helvetica typeface, likely Helvetica Neue. However, the text is not simply typed out in Helvetica, the apostrophes seemingly have all been manually replaced with the comma character. I suspect manual replacement since I do not believe Helvetica to have a style option for replacing the apostrophe with a comma.
The new variants use a custom typeface called Favorit-Tumblr. Similarly to the original variants, the apostrophes have been replaced with commas. I think the off-centered tittles lend credence to the idea that the apostrophes were manually replaced.
Sources
All of the images were taken from the Internet Archive. A full list of all indexed media violation images can be found at this link, which includes various resolutions of each. The exact change times were found using a manual binary search in a few minutes.
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