Cringe is the right of all sentient beings

On one hand: this imagery touches on themes of freedom vs oppression and how in shedding the various layers of shame placed upon us by the regime we can transcend to a higher place above the forces that seek to hold us to unjust societal standards.

I’m reading some Chinese gacha pretty boy dating sim drama and Chinese fans complained about a guy being too tan, too buff, too western, and looking gay to the point the company issued an apology and removed the character. But I was looking at him and he looks the same as all the other guys

Google translating Chinese comments and news articles and people are sending cow dung to the developers offices . Damn this pretty boy dating sim shit gets serious !

I like how there’s a universal fandom behavior that unifies fandoms across the globe and that is sending threats to the people who make the things they like. Truely Otome fans, gamer bros, Weebs, and other fandomites aren’t that different.

Very tenuous link to one of my favourite tweets

I don't know who needs to hear this but you need to stop dehumanising people even if those people are "abusers" or "creeps" because you need to understand that you are not immune to doing something equally as bad

And here'a the even harder pill to swallow: since the world isn't split into "abusers" and "good people", in the same way you or someone you love can inflict abuse/violence on others, the people who HAVE inflicted abuse/violence on others can, in fact, change and become better people

every day i walk into work and my manager says “here is the rule you must enforce” and i go “got it bossman” and i spend a couple days enforcing the rule and then my manager comes up to me and says “why are you enforcing the rule? we changed the rule yesterday and didn’t tell you” and i go “ok bossman new rule it is” and then a customer comes in asking to break the new rule and i say “sorry you can’t it’s the rule” and they say “but you don’t understand the rule doesn’t apply to me” and then my manager comes out and says “they’re right the rule doesn’t apply to them” and i ask why and my manager says “it just doesn’t.” and then the next day we get rid of the rule entirely and no one remembered it existed in the first place.

Me when the characters in a story start arguing and letting their nasty sides out and i get to see if their relationship can stand it, grow, or if ultimately they break apart. Or maybe even a secret third worse thing.