Random Nerdy Stuff That I Love

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I think the mentality of "why bother doing something if you're not good at it?" feeds directly into "if you're good at it why aren't you monetizing it?". At its core I really think its about commodifying every last shred of labor and experience.

THIS

Adding that this is literally a huge reason we don’t leave unsolicited criticism on things like fanworks- fanfiction, fanart, fan crafts etc. Because there’s a LOT of people out there who are just doing this for the fun of it. They’re doing it for the same reason people go on walks- to feel good. And receiving crit they didn’t ask for doesn’t feel good.

One was possesed to save lives, the other one to destroy them. Holy fucking shit.

literally cackling

ppl w nonbinary genders are not all just “between” male and female. gender isn’t a male/female zero-sum game pls stop

this took me a while to unlearn, until someone basically said “look, colors are a spectrum. if you assign pink to women and blue to men, that doesn’t make every other color a variation of purple” 

^potentially helpful way to conceptualize this

wine? pringle? glass of wine? pringles?