A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.
Some of my best ideas come when I see something another writer has written and decide I want to take their idea in a completely different direction, and the next thing I know Iβm thirty pages deep into a notebook of where exactly my different take would go, complete with themes and characters and maybe even some dialogue.
I hated the ending of The Craft, and wound up writing about a group of aspiring witches who nearly get corrupted by the demon who was posing as their idol/mentor but manage to pull each other back from the darkness with the power of friendship.
I read an MCU isekai fanfic and realized Iβd have had the character choose different powers and drawbacks from the list they were given, and created a comedic but loving critique of over-sexualization in comic books and manga starring a bunny girl superhero.
I saw a throwaway joke in a Cinderella retelling and noticed the context of the joke was similar to a plot point in Pride and Prejudice, and came up with a post-story exploration of how the stepsisters are totally unprepared for life outside of gold digging on the marriage mart, and then having to wrestle with their own failures and shortcomings on the rocky road to redemption.
The best stories are the ones that spring out of your own head, drawn out by whatβs happening around you.
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man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
Skillet is good because theyβre a Christian rock band with lyrics that can be applicable outside of a religious context and arenβt afraid to cover βheavyβ topics like depression and crisis in faith and their lead singer sounds like he gargles gravel every day.
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Why are people having so much issue with the article, I agreed with it? The title isnβt the most eloquent thing ever but the article wasnβt encouraging cheating, where you go behind your partners back, but instead looking at the issue of cheating as a not black-and-white thing where thereβs one horribly evil person who just wanted to have fun/get laid with one traumatized-for-life victim. Instead, like most- nah, let me say with ANYTHING in real life beyond fiction, the article sees the grays in cheating and why the person cheated in the first place. Not to say that cheating isnβt a horrible thing to do, but I feel like people need to understand that there are reasons people do the things they do. People who cheat are human beings. They could feel horrible about it, they could be trapped in a marriage or relationship that they donβt feel they can escape, they can feel insecure and unloved. Again, not to say itβs something you should ever do, but dehumanizing someone over a mistake is just as bad in my opinion. Thereβs nowhere where they can talk about their experiences, and itβs likely we know a lot of people who have cheated in our lives even if they havenβt (or were too scared) to tell us about it.Β
Iβve been thinking about Legend of Korra while rewatching Avatar for the umpteenth time, and the conclusion I keep coming to is that I donβt hate Korra the character, I just think she deserved a better show.
Season 1 remains my favorite season of LOK because it had all the setup for a really interesting series. Youβve got a naturally hot-headed main character whoβs been trained as a soldier all her life, except thereβs no war for her to fight, and fighting would in fact only make things worse. That is an amazing personal journey for Korra to go on; navigating tense social situations and learning how to be a negotiator, having to talk through problems instead of just punching them. The Equalist plotline was the perfect antagonist for a character like Korra, and I was genuinely disappointed when that storyline ended with the first season; it really shouldβve been the main conflict of the whole show.
They mention in Season 2 how raising Korra in the compound and bringing teachers to her actually did her a disservice, but the rest of the show never really expands on that, which is a shame, because it couldβve been such an amazing arc to explore.
i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way
Hi, I saw a post on here the other day implying that Russia is pushing/making pro-Palestine propaganda (something along the lines of its surprisingly easy for Tumblr users to fall for Russian propaganda using the pro-Palestine movement as an example). I feel like I've heard this before but nothing concrete, and I'm genuinely curious if you know whether this is happening and to what extent?
These images illustrate how the Soviet Union visually equated Zionism with Nazism and colonialism throughout the 1960s and 70s.
Youβll notice striking similarities between these graphics and the infographics commonly seen on social media today.
This is not coincidence.
Most of the slogans and frameworks used in the "Free Palestine" movement today weren't created by Gen Z activists. They were engineered by the KGB and Soviet Agitprop (Agitation and Propaganda) departments over 50 years ago.
The Great Pivot
In 1948, the USSR actually supported Israel. But when Israel aligned with the West, the Soviets needed a way to turn the "Global South" against them. They launched a massive ideological campaign to rebrand Zionism (the movement for Jewish self-determination) as a form of "white supremacist colonialism."
They created a state-sponsored "science" called Zionology. The goal was simple: make Zionism synonymous with the worldβs greatest evils (Nazism, Racism, and Imperialism) so that opposing Israel became a "progressive" moral requirement.
The crowning achievement of this era was the 1975 UN Resolution declaring "Zionism is a form of racism." This wasn't a grassroots human rights initiative; it was a Soviet-led diplomatic hit job.
Though the UN revoked it in 1991, the damage was permanent. It gave activists a "scholarly" and "international" license to treat the Jewish state as uniquely illegitimate. When you see modern infographics using these exact terms, you are seeing the tail-end of a 50-year-old Soviet PR campaign.
And yes, Russia is doing this again (along with Iran and Qatar).
Why Russia is doing it again
A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation β and theyβre spoofing reputable new
The research for this study was supported by The B.L. Manger Foundation, Inc. Executive Summary Since April 2023, Russia has been running an
For at least two years, Russia has been running a global disinformation campaign that has targeted Ukrainian, French, German, and Israeli au
Today, Russia (and its modern disinformation machine) uses the Israel-Palestine conflict in the West as a wedge issue. They don't have to invent new lies. They just amplify existing tensions. By flooding platforms like Tumblr or Twitter with high-emotion content, they force Westerners to pick sides and fight each other.
If Russia can make young Americans believe their government is funding a genocide, it weakens domestic support for all Western foreign policy, including support for Ukraine.
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It is surprisingly easy to fall for it because this propaganda is designed to look like social justice. It uses the language of liberation to hide its origins in Cold War geopolitics.
When you see a post that frames a 3,000-year-old indigenous connection as settler-colonialism, or equates the Star of David with a Swastika, you're seeing a Soviet turd that's been polished for 21st century "progressives."
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The Essential Guide to Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and Jew-Hatred by American Historian Gil Troy
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call βZionism.β To fight
Anti-zionism is perhaps the most sophisticated form of anti-Jewish bigotry precisely because it was designed to masquerade as political crit
Going to add another source that covers specifically Academic "Antizionism" and how that derives from Zombie Soviet bullshit. Feel free to remove/ask me to delete if you don't feel it serves your point.
Shaul Kelner Fall/Winter 2025
See also from 1999:
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 37) concerning anti-Semitic statements made by
and 2011 (Links are good)
Various state department pages that are still un-fucked with as of yet (Links are good)
everyone go ahead and pre-order or request that your library buy a copy of Dara Hornβs upcoming book The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, publishing September 1. She goes into so much detail about this stuff and how far itβs gotten into lefty environments, especially Ivy League and higher education
You see, boys forget what their country means by just readingΒ βthe land of the freeβ in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more.
JAMES STEWARTΒ in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTONΒ (1939)
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