At first it's just a slight wave of new fans because the story is finally finished & the mixed opinions about the ending have a lot of people talking/posting about it. The usual stuff

Then 2 weeks pass and Airplane is found dead in his apartment. Forensics say he died exactly on the day the final chapter was posted. And people eat that UP. Nothing like a suspiciously timed death to get people talking

It spews all sorts of conspiracy theories, the next one weirder than the last (from a simple accident to -> he achieved his Life's Work and then killed himself -> someone forced him to write the story and then killed him and then even the joke of: Binghe used Xin Mo to teleport and took revenge).

New readers are joining the fandom, curious about The Chapter That Killed A Man (as one headline says).

There's also another joke going around that Peerless Cucumber finally snapped and killed him. People start @ ing him on posts & sliding in his DMs. No response. At first that's just weird because he's known for being chronically online.

Then he continues to not show any activity on his account whatsoever (even weirder) and people start tracing back and notice that he, like Airplane, has not been active since the day of the last chapter.

Which results in the next wave of attention. The conspiracies get even crazier (Cucumber killed Airplane then left the country, they faked their death and ran away together (nothing better than some enemies to lovers) (someone even suggests a murder suicide) and so on)

This is not specific to men.

It's not specific to anybody. If you're feeling overwhelmed, and you haven't been taught how to outlet that upset, a lot of people will just lash out. While it's important to recognise patterns like this in certain groups, and to prioritise someone's health and safety over someone else's feelings, pinning anything onto 'oh, evil men and nobody else experiences emotions in a way that is not socially acceptable', is reductive and doesn't help us treat the core issue of not properly helping children to deal with their emotions in healthy ways, a problem which disproportionately affects men, but also affects neurodivergent people, abuse victims, and literally anyone.

it has been socially accepted to a significant degree for centuries for men to express anger towards and power over women and children through displays of physical aggression and explosive anger. it is extremely normalised which is why it's notable that people are consistently excusing it.

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

stare directly at them without blinking

(very serious intense voice) “Stop that.”

pretend to pass out so they have to pay attention to meeeee :3

(loud and high pitched, full of fear) “WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!”

It’s not “people who contour are themselves automatically racist” but that the desired face shape created by contouring is one that, at the end of the day, pretty much reflects existing white standards of beauty. A thinner, pointier nose, smaller chin, high angled cheekbones and (on occasion) smaller lips. Also if you’re darker skinned you have to use a much lighter shade of foundation  thus ending up with an overall lighter face.

Genuinely surprised to see this from Jamie p and super glad as well. I feel like it's become such a pattern of seeing white queer creators casually say some racist shit or something to come out and then never properly apologize.

So seeing Jamie Paige be outright "No fuck y'all stupid racist white teens, she'd rather stop making music catering to you than let you make a fool of her art" is incredibly refreshing and makes me glad that to be a fan of hers and feel both seen and comfortably safe knowing that for once someone has the decency not to be a racist piece of shit!

Also go listen to Slayr right now! I remember hearing a couple of his songs before, and liking all of them, and this one is no different. Honestly I hope we get to see more hip-hop sampling and remixes of vocaloid music because its so so cool and wish it was done more often.

A bit more self explanatory, but I'm glad he's confident to state it for the people in the back that Vocaloid isn't just a white people thing. It's a bit bittersweet to me in a sense that a lot of black creators online feel the need to hide themselves, but I definitely understand (I'm guilty of this sometime too the way Tumblr acts sometimes) but I'm glad to see that people are being more openly anti racist for once and I hope this trend doesn't stop.

Also I know it's already his most popular song, but it is such a banger too, go listen to this and the rest of his vocaloid music too!

So. Imagine dozens of other teenage girls, being held against their will and brainwashed in Utah, seeing these billboards and going, "huh. I'm having a complicated emotional reaction to all of this. It's possible that I might unpack that in two to three decades."

Both of these situations arise from the same societal attitudes. This guy wanted a teenage girl to be trapped with him and unable to leave, regardless of her feelings on the matter, and for her to act a certain way and comply with his desires. He took her from her home and forced her to be somewhere she did not want to be and would not let her go, and he tried to turn her into a different thing. The difference in societal reactions to when one specific, unauthorized guy does this, compared to when someone's parents pay a fancy sounding institution to do it for them, tells you a lot about how we think about the autonomy of teenage girls.

In Utah, the reason these types of institutions are allowed is because their youth rights laws are abysmal even compared to the rest of the US. Children aren't people, they're the property of their parents. Elizabeth Smart's parents didn't want her to be kidnapped, so it was bad. Our parents did want us to be kidnapped, so it was fine.

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