🧠 -Ollie-🦴

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

It’s probably a really cool and good sign that this post I made in 2014 is going around again, right?

here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was

Oh woah you made the gross misogynistic guy a fat bald sweaty man? Should we throw a party. Should we call everyone. Should we throw you into space with a cannon.

These types of jokes rely on a belief that trans women should be grateful to experience misogyny. That misogyny is not something we already deal with every single day. And that misogyny is a mostly harmless if mean activity and not a massive systemic force that gets us raped and murdered. Calling women bitches is not funny and it doesn't become silly just because you're talking about a minority of women, that's ridiculous.

"every trans woman I meet is a bitch" should be a clue in to that maybe the narrator isn't treating trans women respectfully