curlfeather did nothing wrong

the post that goes "tumblr loves to subvert something thats already subverted and just end up with the thing again" is sadly what is being done on here among progressives about rape culture

i actually don't think it's a bad faith nonequivalent argument to point out that artists are perfectly capable of holding a moral stance about what they will produce and sell when it comes to AI, but not when it comes to gambling or sweatshop labor. i can't really imagine why being righteously opposed to AI is just natural regardless of whatever hypothetical financial benefits could be gained from it, but expecting a similar stance towards extractive business practices or exploitative labor conditions is some sort of unbelievably high bar to meet. Why? Can anyone explain to me why other than pure, naked self interest from artists that AI is a more legitimate moral concern than those other two things?

i understand why the fire scene/po3 ashfur is often depicted this way as ashfur as a character is very easy to make fun of and use comedically and the majority of comparisons that would bring these aspects of him out the best are correlated with younger people but i do feel we are losing awareness of the fact that he was long fully grown in the arc and the scene. he was grown at the start of the arc beforehand! this is a middle aged man! he’s terrifying!

this is a large part of why red-streaked emo ashfur has always bothered me because if anything his fear factor is what should be being played up for a faithful reconstruction of the scene. this isn’t akin to you reading a fourteen year old’s bad and melodramatic poetry, it’s you nodding your head along as your abusive father rants to you about his qanon conspiracy theories because you know if you don’t he’ll hurt you. it’s a man who asked you out at a bar following you out and lamenting to you while holding you at knifepoint after you turned him down. he is well into his adulthood and appears entirely normal to those around him - something that explicitly makes him more of a threat to the characters in the text, who doubt anyone would believe them if they came out about his actions. he’s well-liked, conservative, and holds social power over the people he’s threatening.