Hearsay Heresy

there is nothing lemon squeezy about any of this

T'was the mustache of comp-het 😔

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

i'm OVERCOME!!! christine daae i LOVE YOU!!! i love you angry christines and feisty christines and christines who yell or grit their teeth or simmer or fly off the handle. i love you christines who are scared and confused and summon immense courage regardless. i love you sad christines, i love you depression sludge christines, i love you dissociating for years and floating through life christines!! and i love you christines who are silly and lively!!! i love you christines who are sheltered and i love you christines who are world-weary!!! i love you christines who are trying to be kind and i love you christines who try to be kind but fail and i LOVE you christines who can be MEAN!!! off-putting christines! people-pleasing christines! christines who love goblins OR shoes OR riddles!!! i love christine daae!!!!!

Fascists get months and these guys get decades....just incredible how far the USA has fallen.

The internet is functionally one gigantic propaganda battleground. Therefore, in any given competition, whoever has the fewest hang-ups and sore spots to prod will win.

If you want to do any good online, you have to be so fucking psychologically healthy you guys. You have to be so emotionally well-supported and able to articulate your feelings to a trusted confidant. It's not optional.

Otherwise the atmospheric pressures of the online social environment will compress you into a cube.

There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

honestly I hate “can you pet the dog?!?” not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of “can you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loop” and that very quickly fell away to being “well now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or they’re going to get letters”

One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any “click button to see cute animation” would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

unfortunately i have free will so im about to make art that is going to appeal to basically 4 people. let us hope those 4 people follow me.

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human