Stars over meadow

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

My post about the racist AI got marked mature in literal seconds. Meanwhile the video of the near naked white guy has been up for twenty minutes, no mature marker yet!! Y'all thought I was exaggerating when I said I've seen videos of white men penises out and slanging not get marked on here, but if I put too much Brown on the screen it's Mature Label Time!!

sex ed needs to mention aromanticism and asexuality in depth or else it sucks as sex ed

no one off mentions. i mean IN DEPTH. discuss amatonormativity, compulsory sexuality, non romantic and non sexual intimacy, love being morally neutral

stop giving kids sex and romance as their only possible way to be social and intimate as well as assuming they all want and prioritize only that, these babies are too lonely for that

the notion that autistic people with "stereotypical" presentations of autism have ever been respected in society or are no longer in need of advocacy or representation would be laughable if it weren't so harmful

video game secret: there's clever wordplay hidden in the title of the game "nintendogs". the word "dogs" is cleverly added on to the name "nintendo" to form the word "nintendogs". this is actually a reference to the concept of "puppies"

every lyric annotation on Genius reads like this

You have to bully her into starting estrogen.

Don’t forget to passive-aggressively send this to the girl you know who keeps avoiding the endocrinologist

The urge to tag Shen comics

legalize copyright infringement

to be clear this is a fully sincere political belief that I have. I am pro copyright infringement and in fact anti "asking for permission to make derivative art"

a few people in the notes seem to be under the impression that this is a stance that requires caveats. so just so we're all on the same page: no exceptions. "stealing art" (copying existing works for personal gain) is a good thing.

Egg prime directive basically boils down to "better let a trans woman wallow in misery and die than maybe briefly annoy a cis man" and honestly if that's not the clearest indicator of transmisogyny I don't know what is.

The post broke containment and people are being weird in the reply, so I just want to reiterate : it is always morally correct to let someone know they have the choice to be trans. If you think this constitutes harassment there is something sincerely wrong with the way you see trans people and gender in general.

It is the right of every trans person to say something batshit insane in VC and then keep talking like nothing happened

Often starting with "this reminds me of something funny that happened when i was a kid"

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext