I Am The Soup

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

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I don't believe Aang was a bad father in the way the show said he was because it's contrary to his entire personality. Someone who helped form the Air Acolytes would never neglect his son because he's not a bender or his daughter because she's not an air bender. Just like I don't believe Luke "There Is Still Good In Vader" Skywalker would try to kill his nephew, it's contrary to his entire personality, Luke would not see his nephew any differently than he saw Anakin, especially when he hadn't yet done anything wrong while Vader had genocided half the galaxy and murdered a bunch of children.

I believe that Simba struggled to raise his daughter because he was overprotective BECAUSE he knows how fucking easy it is for someone to die in the savanna. It happened right in front of him. He also didn't get raised to adulthood with his parents so ofc he's not the best as knowing how to talk to his daughter or explain things to her, he got raised in the wilderness by two gay weirdos. Of course he's insanely hostile to outsiders including the lionesses that decided to follow Scar, Scar killed his dad and nearly caused a collapse of the local ecosystem. And during the course of the movie he has to actually come to terms with how he's letting his trauma control him and it's drive his daughter away. He gets to apologize and admit he was wrong, he gets to grow.

And yeah you could argue we don't really get to see Aang or Luke interacting with their families because that's not when the story is set but there are still ways to make sure your characterization is consistent, and I'd argue in cases like Aang and Luke where you don't get to see them when they were raising/interacting with their young families it's even more important for you to keep the characterization consistent because we don't get to see the character grow and change we just see where they started and where they ended up, so if you change too much it's gonna feel weird.

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME