broadcasting from the moon

People on twitter have been saying this website is extremely white and tbh its making me very curious what the demographics of this site are (of my own reach anyway) so

saves your life but passive-agressively

redesign

it really frustrates me to think about how people are inevitably going to take Remmick’s one (1) singular statement about how much he resents the way the Irish were colonized and forcibly converted to Christianity and use it as fuel for “actually he had a point” and “he was right actually” and “he’s not really the villain here” posts, when the whole point is that Remmick is, through the vampiric hive mind he’s creating, forcibly assimilating people into yet another manipulative and parasitical system. he doesn't value the cultures of the people he assimilates—notice how all the vampires he turns dance to his culture's music using his culture's dances, and how he only uses the languages or knowledge other vampires have to offer when he needs to manipulate someone. Remmick is extremely transparent about the way he sees the people he turns as resources to exploit.

this but also also. in the history of white people, they detail how italian and irish immigrants in the US felt buoyed and privileged in the new racial hierarchy made possible by enslavement and theft of Black peoples in America. in europe, anglo/germanic people were seen as top-of-the-line whites while everyone else was less so and were marginalized. but in america? where there are even "lesser" people? suddenly the formerly oppressed could be part of the elite class of general White. it's not just perpetuating a cycle: it's taking advantage of the new punching bag class of non-white peoples

been pondering murderbots organics vs inorganics ratio

I love reading about these kind of translation decisions.

Romance language translator: well we don’t have a gender neutral pronoun so I guess we’ll flip a coin for male or female