#rant complete

This morning my wandering thoughts steered towards how much this platform has changed since I first started posting. I miss the early days where engagement and interaction used to feel more inspired.

What do I mean by this? Well thinking about it I feel like we’ve all started to become desensitized to creation. Especially now with AI taking over. Creation of all types, art, audio, video even creation of self. The only way you used to exemplify hard work was to work hard and share. People noticed this and for some it provided inspiration garnered a sincere reaction and felt real. Now so much can be quickly fabricated and the airwaves are flooded with all this created content it’s hard not to become desensitized to true creation.

Oh look an amazing photo, that’s a really great piece of art, what a cool drawing, wow you look like you’ve worked hard to get so fit and on and on and on. A lot is still genuine but a lot is also now being fabricated and it’s blurred the lines. Detracting from the real, the hard work the genuine because we’ve seen so much and also sometimes struggle to know what is truly real.

I miss the real, and times where the only place that really wowed you with created realities was the movies and the magic they used to create those worlds. Now people can generate them in seconds on phones and tablets.

I see AI being used a lot in the fitness realm to enhance or create a desired look. It used to be big companies and pro photographers using lighting, airbrushes and other tricks to accentuate the desired look. No I can create it myself in seconds. No doubt it’s a cool advancement in technology but it leaves me less impressed with what I see. Like I can’t help but question it now and wonder if someone’s look has been enhanced or fabricated.

Like I see so many fics where for some reason he gets painted as the emotionally well adjusted one between himself and Arthur. I'm not saying he's not better than Arthur about keeping a clear head about his own sense of self and desires instead of letting them get mixed up with what other people want from him, like Arthur does. But. Fucks sake. That is a dude who will ghost you before talking about how you hurt his feelings, right there. Zero conflict management skills.

Meanwhile, Arthur grew up in a large family and is constantly serving as a mediator to the rest of the gang. And yet so many of the fics I've seen paint him as painfully incompetent at even basic social skills, which simply isn't accurate. He's coarse and has a temper, but he's still Dutch and Hosea's protege.

I had Captain Marvel ruined for me

I had Endgame ruined for me

I had Far From Home ruined for me

And now, AND NOW, as if that wasn’t e-fucking-nough!!! Some inconsiderate ARSEHOLE has ruined Stranger Things 3 for me

Are you fucking kidding me? At least I’m a whore for marvel and I can kind of excuse stumbling on spoilers because I spend so much time in the tags. But really??? You fucking tag a Stranger Things spoiler in the ‘Natasha Romanoff’ tag, don’t use a read more line, don’t announce there are spoilers, don’t even TAG IT so people can block it.

I am fucking done. I swear, I SWEAR, the next person who ruins something for me I will find you, and I will come to your house and fucking end you.

Has it honestly got to the point where we all have to watch something, in its entirety, within the first twenty-four hours of release or some idiot on the internet ruins it for us????

“Or, How OUAT still doesn’t take its gay fans seriously.” 

This will be a short rant. 

Disney covets its Princess line. It is closely guarded, monitored, and controlled. It is their biggest asset. Their ultimate money maker.

This is why we were so excited for the possibility of Emma Swan (with or without Regina) to come out as gay. She was, and still is, a Disney princess. An ORIGINAL one, at that. She’s the daughter of Disney’s OG fairy tale couple. Legit Disney royalty. 

Newsflash: Ruby, Dorothy, Alice.... not one of them is a Disney Princess. Alice had her own animated classic, so you could argue that this is an improvement from “Ruby Slippers.” But it’s a hollow point. Especially since she’s, as of yet, still a tertiary character and not a OUAT lead. 

My point is that, until Disney puts an LGBT character front and center in it’s “exclusive” Princess category, it will remain evident that the company undervalues one of its larger fanbases. They are telling us, in the crudest financial terms, that we don’t matter. Not that much. A huge mistake, in 2017. 

We’re here. We’re queer. And we’re magic. 

And Disney is run by...