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#shouting into the void*
joyousboy · 1 year
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demoisverysexy · 8 months
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Im watching Steven Universe for the first time and like. You all lied. This show is amazing. The characters are great, the storytelling is fascinating, and the way it handles moral questions is really thoughtful and interesting. Im really upset at what tumblr and the internet more broadly did to steven universe.
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enders-redemption · 1 month
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rdr fan culture is playing the game, looking at so many posts, and reading so much fanfiction that arthur’s dialect unironically starts slipping into your every day vernacular
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ferelden-loser · 9 months
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radhyena · 10 months
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The thing is even if you do hate Rowling and think she’s a bigot, you should still be able to see that she gets an extreme amount of hate never leveled at men. Men can straight up rape multiple people and not get the level of hate she does.
I don’t care what the person is saying. A rapist is worse than someone who says mean things online.
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slices-of-naranja · 4 months
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do any of my friends know the love I carry in every word i say to them. When I add too many words, drag on a joke that’s over, when I message them despite the fact the conversation barely ended five minutes ago? every word i speak is an intimacy that’s laced with outright adoration for them as people and all the little details that make them who they are. Do you know I love you? Do y’all know how much of you I try to commit to memory? How much I try to make you smile? do y’all know the love I feel for you?
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phdmama · 2 years
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If you can’t say something nice...
So yet again, someone decided a fun thing to do on Twitter would be to invite people to give their “cancelable” opinions about fanfic and how so many things are terrible or overrated or not well-written or whatever (not gonna lie, a loooot of the criticisms have real big not-like-other-girls energy). 
An author saw it, leading to them removing all of their fics from AO3.
The pushback to this author being upset has been along the lines of, don’t put your work out on the internet if you don’t want feedback.
I’ve been trying to understand why that response just falls flat for me, and here’s what I’m thinking. That feels very much like a capitalist consumer viewpoint. “Fic is a thing I consume and as a consumer, my opinion is IMPORTANT because you are marketing a PRODUCT to me. This is a transaction.”
And I realized, that’s not how I experience fic or fandom. For me, fic isn’t a thing that I buy and consume, it’s a gift given to me. 
This is the example I keep thinking of. When I got married, we were given a wedding gift by one of my IL’s friends, a hand-painted bone china pitcher (think Spode or Wedgewood). Beautiful. Classic. Elegant. Like, entirely not us at all. You know what we did? We wrote a heartfelt thank you letter, expressing our appreciation of the gift, the thoughtfulness, etc. What we didn’t do, have never done, is tell them that it didn’t work for us. Because that’s just rude.
Engaging with fic, for me anyway, comes from this emotional space in my heart. So the connection between writer and reader for me, is much more a relationship, even if the relationship is simply that we’re both engaging in a fandom around something we love. It’s not a transaction. 
Of course not all fic is for me; I doubt there’s any fic that every single person without exception has adored! And obviously I know my fics aren’t for everyone either! And that’s okay! Fic is such a gorgeous, lush, rich and realized landscape where so many different things flourish together, and I think that’s really beautiful. There’s something for everyone and there’s room for everyone at the table.
So absolutely, you can put your critical and negative opinions of the gifts others have given you out into public spaces, knowing that the people who have given you those gifts occupy those spaces with you. No one can stop you! 
Personally, I’d much rather focus on the joy that fic has given me, and the gratitude I feel for people’s willingness to share their gifts with me and the world.
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clockwork-nebula · 2 months
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Y'all, I love the dynamic of "Let's hang out and trip people with our red string of fate", but y'know what makes it better?
When they're trying to trip each other.
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ghost-hugs · 8 months
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gotta look out for the drummer amiright (by that i mean borrow croptops from her)
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kasperbunny · 3 months
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I keep seeing people say it's not fitting that Danse enjoys country music 😭 I find it pretty fitting and not out of character at all. he definitely puts on a country station while he's tinkering with his armor or guns, and hums along to it absentmindedly. I think it's sweet
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zezzydergy · 5 months
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A fellow dragon once told me, (a trans person), being trans makes no sense and you can’t be a different gender.
A dragon. Told me this.
How can you be nonhuman and tell me being trans is wrong???
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justagaycryptid · 1 year
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I will always think that one of the funniest things in Hannibal (2013-2015) was how close Hannibal was to absolutely just losing his shit every time he had to interact with Mason Verger
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demoisverysexy · 6 months
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Now, scientifically speaking, having large megafauna like dragons doesnt make sense thanks to the square cube law. Here are some fun ways to get around the square cube law:
- put your megafauna underwater! They can get bigger that way without collapsing under their weight
- do whatever the fuck brontosaurus did to get that big
- have your megafauna be a little smaller, instead of being the size of a chasm fiend. More t-rex size, or woolly mammoth size
- use magic! Hard or soft, who cares, just add some extra laws of physics so it works. I wont judge, I do it too.
- one I really love playing with: have your main sapient species be small, like 1 foot tall or less. That way, your megafauna would be massive in comparison to them.
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toughtink · 6 months
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here's the thing about playing around with generative "ai" aka applied statistics based on stolen data: even if it's just for teehee haha laughs and funtime for you, even if you're not using it to replace real talent in a professional setting, it's a tacit endorsement of these shady as fuck, unethical training models and companies that will happily use your teehee haha generated memes to sell their tech to others who will then happily replace real creative people with technology that seeks to undermine them and then have to rehire those people at half the pay and with none of the credit to fix the absolute sludge they're generating in place of a proper job. and that's the optimistic outcome because the alternative is they say "good enough" about this meaningless, lowest-common-denominator sludge and send it out to consumers as is.
even if you're just the consumer in this system and not one of the creatives getting undercut, why in the world would you want to read or watch or interact with something that no one could even be bothered to make themselves? why in the world would you want to encourage that future?
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Florist! willow and kindergarten teacher! hunter send tweet
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I think the thing that upsets me the most with the whole Steve/Bucky business is it feels like I never got closure. Besides a few fleeting way-too-short scenes in Civil War, I never got to really see them talk and interact after Bucky got his memories back. No catching up, no "hey, I know we've been separated for 70 something years and you finally remember who I am and there's been a whole lot of crazy shit that's happened to us, wanna talk about it?". Not even a conversation acknowledging everything they've went through or how good it was to see each other again, just some quick comments and awkward scenes in Infinity War/Endgame.
Not like they've been childhood friends forever, not like Steve went against the entire world and the Avengers to defend/save Bucky. Any character development they have aftet that is told by a few short scenes and offhanded comments. I know they've had conversations off screen!!! It's implied!!! Why couldn't you have just showed me one???
At least I get a little bit of feelings from Bucky about Steve's choice to leave in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. But it's not enough. Just one good convo between them, please. I can't take this whole they feel like strangers thing after Civil War. Seriously, everything after CW feels so strange and awkward and out of character. It's awful and I hate it.
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