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cake is such an underappreciated band. i can’t believe we brought back low rise flare jeans before we brought back cake in the top 40
i’m just saying cake’s music would be widely regarded as so sexy if it wasn’t for all the mariachi horns and vibraslap and the vocalist didn’t always sound like he was explaining his suicide plans to a gun store clerk in sacramento. the world wasn’t ready for them
The fact that it sounds like a dispassionate reading of a terrorist manifesto is a feature
I am somebody who currently really enjoys running around in masculinity because I am in an extremely harsh environment. I think when I feel differently, I will want to express myself differently. I don't like how many people act that you need become a new person to do that.
Flat fullbody commission
the amazing digital circus is a show about empathy and what it does to you if you go too long without a support system so the show starts with sympathizing with Pomni (the most empathetic person, easy), ep2 is empathizing with an NPC in a game (no flaws), ep3 is empathizing with a man who has dementia, ep4 is empathizing with someone who annoys you when they're unmasking, ep5 is asking you to empathize with a rich white woman and so on....
so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love
and some people failed the empathy test
All of this and also it's a cautionary tale for those who cannot bring themselves accept help. Pomni (and Ribbit before her) empathized with Jax and tried so hard to help, but Jax refused to take anyone's hand until it was too late – understandably due to her past, but still.
But even if it was too late, it wasn't meaningless. Jax did finally take Pomni's hand and did find a moment of peace before she lost herself. And that was worth something. Someone finally understood her and would remember her for who she really was inside.
It's such a good tragedy because there were so many opportunities for Jax's story to go right but it just couldn't. Jax was so convinced that she was a terrible person that she did some pretty awful things to validate that and it ultimately destroyed her.
But after all that, she was still a human being and still deserved compassion. Empathy may not have been enough on its own to save Jax, but it wasn't meaningless either.
i agree
too many stories fall for the happy ending trap, where the main problem is systematic violence, which can't easily be fixed in real life, but happy ending makes the audience feel like they achieved necessary change without anything in the real world actually improving
as heart-wretching finale as it was, if it was a happy ending neatly tied with a bow it would erase the gravity of transmisogyny and imply that systemic hatred can be solved by just "being nicer," ignoring the institutional and cultural weight the character was crushed under
there's still time for Leeroy and there's still time for YOU
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I really enjoy the embryonic-stage xkcd comics from before randall munroe knew how to make them funny
I still think about this one on a regular basis
never forget
me: it's fine, I'll be quiet. we can just watch it
me, three minutes into the first episode:
Didn't realize they made emergency thermal blankets for babies
It's scary to think about babies in an emergency but I guess it's a crazy world out there
Emergency baby
[Francisco de Goya]
Are Mummies "subterranean monsters"?
yes
no
Are Bog Mummies "subterranean monsters"?
yes
no
All these industries with shortages of workers and they can’t figure out why.
Im proposing the hypothesis that the reason we don’t have enough doctors/pilots/bus drivers/etc is that maybe, just maybe, having your entire industry function as a lifelong hazing ritual isn’t the best recruiting strategy.
Doctors are subject to 8 years of post-secondary education and are forced to work 48 hour shifts.
Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.
Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.
Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.
Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.
Work should not be designed to make you a miserable burnout and yet here we are.
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I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks
I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.
Or even like... Cannon warfare.
Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.
One siege tower and that shits cooked
Again I say- one of my favorite pieces I've made for artfight :]
Sometimes I see people be wrong about occult shit and I just kinda let that shit float by. Like, I can properly recognize that this would not be the time or place to have a big Online Argument about a fairly nuanced topic that is difficult to discuss even in the best of circumstances. The more I learn the more I'm okay with people being wrong about stuff. Like, it's very hard to turn sneering combative pedantry into knowledge. Its much more productive to turn casual interest into knowledge.
That Sneering Combative Pedantry just kinda makes me sad, because its not actually about trying to inform anyone. It's about you. You want people to see you as a erudite intellectual with important thoughts, more than you actually want to cultivate the thoughts of others.
It's a common joke that historians aren't allowed to cum unless they're calling someone else a hack fraud. This stems from, you know, spending several years studying something can make you rightfully opinionated on that subject. But the inability to chose battles is --imo-- a mark of emotional immaturity. Save that shit for the booth, where it really matters.
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still a wip but god. god i love her so fucking much
There is a really frustrating thing where some kinds of speculative story are hard to write because they will be assumed to be bad (clumsy, harmful, regressive) metaphors for real-world events or people, rather than exploring completely speculative ideas. Like:
"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.
"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.
It almost feels like death of the author, like "Death of the most obvious metaphor" - If you couldn't reach for the (tormented) parallel between being an alien species and being stateless, what stories could someone tell? If your changeling-baby was neither disabled nor adopted, what would the story be about? Etc.
