One Day At A Time

Welcome to the People’s Flag Wars!

The People’s Flag Wars is the next flag tournament I’m hosting! In this tournament, anyone can submit a flag that they have created, so this competition is for the people!

I am still shadowbanned despite contacting staff, which makes things a little difficult. I was going to take submissions through my messages, but unfortunately this is not currently possible. Thus, I am taking submissions through asks or by messaging my main account, @alexknight002. The number of contestants in this competition depends on the number of submissions I receive.

Rules:

1. Any flag you submit must have been designed by you. It does not have to be an official flag and can be any flag created by you. For instance, it can be an official design that was accepted, a fictional flag, a flag redesign concept, a personal flag, etc.

2. Only one flag per person can be accepted.

3. Alongside the flag, please submit the name of the flag, whether it is official or unofficial, and the meaning or symbolism of the flag.

4. If submitting through asks, please don’t submit the the flag anonymously, because I want to credit everyone.

I hope everyone has fun with this tournament! Submissions will be open for a while, so I don’t know when the tournament will officially start.

frankly i just think a lot of the discourse on steven universe was and remains shortsighted and childish. a lot of viewers and critics just stubbornly refuse to take the conditions of a production into consideration whatsoever. which, you know, i can understand that as a casual viewer of media, you don’t have that full context you just have the show. but when you get outlandishly vitriolic, as many online critics love to do, a lot of the time you just end up making villains of creators who most likely agree with you on a lot of the stuff you’re criticizing because *the studio forced them to put that shit in and would sue them to hell and back if they admitted to that fact.* i’ll never forget that like three hour “steven universe sucks” video where the critic in question just straight up personally yelled at rebecca sugar over the network’s release schedule, as if she had any control or input on that whatsoever!

at a certain point this level of projected auteurism transitions seamlessly into abject illiteracy. it’s a mode of criticism which treats art as if it emerges from a vacuum, as if artists working within any mainstream media machine have absolute creative control of what makes it onto the air. this critical mode gives endless, endless cover for exploitative censorious media corporations who force talented artists to work under the most untenable of conditions.

why do we care about this? what is it that we really care about? everyone wants the art to be good, but comes at it from an astonishingly naive perspective that corporations absolutely encourage. because if all responsibility for the work falls on the author’s head regardless of how many suits put themselves between the author and the finished work, then the suits just get to keep on doing what they’re doing. this is how we get marvel movies halfway through production before a script has even been written, how we get exploitative minirooms that refuse young screenwriters the long-term career experience of tv writers rooms past, how we get an environment where queer artists pushing boundaries in indie spaces with no financial or institutional support face infinitely more scrutiny with MUCH higher stakes than anything that actually has a real impact on the world at large.

“Reflect Nolan! Ponder upon it! Shouldn’t you have used a more specific mental verb when pummeling down Mark, bludgeoning him? With "think" alone he may have thought you wanted him to calculate something!”

Interviewer: What do you think about starting an initiative on campus here at UK, to be more inclusive to women who have penises? So we can put urinals in the womens restroom for them.

Student: Sounds fantastic.

Interviewer: Oh, does it?

Student: Yeah.

Interviewer: What about- Let’s take it one step closer, y'know more- for inclusivity here on campus, but free tampons and pads in the mens restroom for men who have periods?

Student: Sounds great.

Interviewer: Ok- You dont see anything wrong with those statements?

Student: No.

Interviewer: What men do you know with periods?

Student: I generally use- ones like in Willy T* have pads, I use them pretty often.

bennett: so do you think we should put tampons and pads in the men’s restroom? dude: sure, I mean, I don’t really care. if a dude needs a tampon, he can have one. bennett: but would he need one? like, what would he use it for? dude, thoroughly unimpressed: I don’t know, that’s his problem.

“she’s looking to be punished in some way.”

“it’s just that she, partially as atonement, just really wants to take every single bullet, throw herself on every single grenade, so that nobody else even has the option of getting themselves hurt.”

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!

ajdhf.

well that’s just,,,

REXCELLENT

HELL

YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES.

HAIL TO THE QUEEN

LONG MAY SHE REIGN!

Tumblr:

neurotypical older sister having to parent her autistic-coded younger sister but she respects and validates her sister nonstop 

good representation of an autistic child even if unintentional [see autistic people expressing how similar they are to her here- 1, 2, 3]

no white ppl in brownface 

good music 

decent filmmaking 

autistic people who like it

aliens 

- Villain redemption

- A character coded to be lgbtq without being a stereotype

- a social worker who actually cares about the well-being of the child

- Found Family before it was cool

- A platonic love story which is rare for Disney where two misfits find solace in one another

Lilo is what happens when you support your autistic child. Stitch is what happens when you don’t. Notice how he calms the fuck down and becomes able to weigh actions and consequences once there’s someone in his corner? He stops trying to destroy everything and focuses his energies on protecting the people who are protecting him (and Lilo, not everyone is onboard with Stitch yet). Up to that point he struggles to connect, and so he lashes out, instead.

Part 2/2

This was a short story originally written by @batneko ! You can read the original post here: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

Thank you for reading ☺️

I was just talking with a friend about how by dictating what “beautiful” should be, our culture limits out ability to see the beauty in the world. There is nothing inherently ugly about things our culture does not consider “beautiful”. We were talking about how awful it was that our culture was actively making our perceptions of the world ugly by blinding us to so much beauty. And I was thinking is this might be about control or power. No, Mr. Haig is right. It is about money. Our culture is set up in such a way that people profit from us not seeing the beauty in the world. And that is just sad.

I chose to wake up every morning to see the true beauty in the world and to shed the power our culture has on my perception a little bit each day.