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Just wanted to let you know I thought about this post so hard I ended up cosplaying it 😌

#the damage buff from that url

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

i'm not seeing enough appreciation for the absolute master class that is the moment grace chooses to remove his helmet for the first time in the xenonite tunnel.

For Firefox users who weren't aware of the AI kill switch, type about:preferences#ai into the address bar, and you should see this:

Note that, on mobile at least, this DOES NOT turn off the AI Summaries feature. To turn that feature off you need to go to Summaries and toggle the separate switch:

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

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ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):

I want people to understand how jarring this was. Most car horns are either a single tone or two tones somewhere in the neighborhood of a minor third apart:

i, a rock collector, had to go to the ER yesterday because of a gallstone attack, here is how my father messaged me