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This is my main character Spunky Boy! He will go through amazing character development, such as remaining spunky for 95% of the story, except for one arc where he becomes dark and angsty. Yes he'll snap right out of it. The many many human atrocities he witnesses will not faze him, except during 5 minute speeches when he acts like they have.

And now we have Angry Rival Boy! It will be obvious within the first 50 chapters that I actually like Angry Rival Boy far more than Spunky Boy, and I'll spend the following 200 chapters acting like Angry Rival Boy is the real protagonist.

Can't forget the women! Here are my three female characters: Titties, Bigger Titties, and No Titties. Titties' personality is Love Interest. She'll have an arc where she realizes she should define herself by something other than her love for Spunky Boy, at which point I will effectively write her out of the story because I can't conceptualize women having any kind of inner lives that aren't about men.

Bigger Titties' personality is Refined Older Sister. She has no backstory. Her family is rich. No Titties' personality is being angry and scorned, especially when every character points out how she has no titties. No Titties will be effectively written out of the story by chapter 50 because I'm not sure what a female character without titties can even do.

Oh, haha! How could I forget! I also have Matriarchal MILF, a 40 year old with gazonga titties and a drinking problem. She is VERY smart and experienced, or at least I say so. She's stuck up and likes to yell at men. I'll release a sketch on Twitter of her lounging in her pajamas drinking wine and petting her cat, to show I understand women (her gazonga titties will be bursting out of the pajama top).

The rest of the cast? 47 male characters who all have more character and development than any of my 3 (sorry, 4) women. I'll forget about 95% of these characters when I get bored of them and write them out of the plot. This is fine because I will come up with 47 other male characters, and a few more no-speaking-role Titty characters I can use to hook new readers by releasing sketches of them on Twitter. I even have one scene planned where a Titty character does something badass and useful while her gagongahonkas flip flap floop flipperoo all over the page. My audience will brand me progressive for this.

Oh? What's the plot of my show? Haha that's obvious. Magic. Friendship. There's some gimmick in this world that is really cool and interesting, and also there is a villain. Do I have the story PLANNED? What do you mean? I already told you all the women's breast sizes. Do I have an ENDING? Why would I plan to end the story???

“UH-HUH”

“THEN DO IT”

less unstructured time than ever, constant ‘extracurricular’ obligations cutting into time spent socializing, exploring, relaxing.

more supervised than ever, not allowed to take public transport or spend time alone in public spaces (previously the norm for teens and pre-teens, until media sensationalism made hypervigilance the norm). not allowed to be around peers except when adults are available to supervise/drive.

(despite the fact their parents are working more than ever? bc our whole culture around employment is abusive and exploitive. fewer and fewer families can afford to have parents at home, even as kids are allowed to do less and less without adult around.)

capitalism run amuck + defunding of parks, libraries, etc means it costs money just to exist in public, which is fucking nuts. (it also costs money just to get to public spaces. our world is less walkable than ever and public transport programs are constantly sabatoged. no wonder when kids are desperate to get their driver’s permit–at extra expense and risk.)

and when kids do try to spend time away from home, they gets accused of loitering???

you’ve built an environment composed of nothing but soulless strip malls and chain coffeeshops, and decreed that kids who spend time there are a “nuisance.” literally where the FUCK else are they supposed to exist? at the libraries you closed on weekends? at the parks & sports fields you stopped funding, the woods you tore down, the backyards that get smaller with every development? at the movie theaters & arcades & restaurants they can’t afford? on the streets they cannot drive on, on the sidewalks that lead nowhere, and where you have banned bicycling & skateboarding & rollerblading & existing for any length of time?

kids these days want to spend time outside, time in public, time hanging out with friends in person. kids these days do not want to constantly rely on the internet as their main source of socialization & leisure. but you have stolen all their options.

and the thing is, I see this meme added to my posts–to my best posts–not infrequently. to my most serious and earnest posts, the ones I write when I’m angry because I care about something, and I want other people to care too.

and it’s incredibly disheartening when i take 45 minutes of my time to write and edit a post about an issue i care about, measuring and re-thinking my words, doing my best not to be ignorant or make mistakes, reading the comments to learn from and consider other people’s viewpoints, trying to keep an open mind—when I do all that, and this is the response i get. someone taking the opportunity to insult me for doing something right. someone tearing me down casually, for fun, for a joke, despite the fact they think what I’m saying has value.

yes, it’s a funny meme. but humor is all about context. it’s funny when The Onion does this for an article, a headline. it’s not so funny when used to harass random internet users in response to positive behavior. because how is that helpful? how does that make our online world in any way a better, more inhabitable place, for anyone? if you damn people no matter what they do, what gives anyone the incentive to do better?

just. please think carefully before adding stuff like this to people’s posts. Do not punish the behavior you want to see in the world. 

The attendance for the walkout was MASSIVE!

However in response to this quick organizing of its employees, Blizzard has hired the union-busting firm WilmerHale, which is the same firm that Amazon uses to keep its workers from unionizing. 

By killing Joel and avenging her father [Abby] has already accomplished what Ellie is trying to do, and is struggling to come to grips with it. We were trying to find those parallels, and to do so in a way where it’s not on the nose but it’s still showing you how these characters — under different circumstances — could’ve been friends.