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I hate it when fictional villains kill their underlings. It doesn't make the villain look terrifying. It makes them look stupid instead. Bro, you're killing your manpower, making it less likely you will accomplish your goals. And I find it hard to believe that someone would want to work for them in the first place. Would you work at a McDonald's where it's known that the manager there occasionally murders their employees?

I want to see more villains who find out their underling messed up, and they just give them another chance, not straight up murder them.

#villains #villain #books #movies #tv shows #videogames #fiction #bad guys

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Characters in movies and TV shows nod too much. They give commands to other characters just by moving their heads. I don't understand that. How are the characters they're ordering around able to know exactly what their superior wants them to do just by a head nod? It's not realistic at all.

Like, a villain character would nod his head, and his henchman would shoot their restrained captive in the head. What if the villain didn't want that to happen? What if he wanted his henchman to pistol whip the guy?

It's not just head nods either. But there are a lot of non-verbal communication(like glances) in movies and shows that can easily mean something else, and other characters would know exactly what the other person wants them to do. It's weird.

#television #movies #nod #body language #fiction

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I've been watching my favorite scenes of Daybreak on Netflix lately. Them deciding to cancel this show was horrible. Daybreak was so good(after I got past the cringe of the first three episodes). It didn't even get a second season.

Episode four made me fall in love with the show, and then every episode after that one was amazing.

Daybreak's cancellation makes me wish cancelling TV shows wasn't even a thing. Haha. Daybreak, you deserved to have your full story told.

#daybreak netflix #daybreak #netflix #tv shows #tv series

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I found this comment on the subreddit childfree, and it was so ridiculous that I had to post it here and discuss it.

If someone posts pictures of their children and horrible people get aroused by it, the fault lies with those horrible people, not the parent. The OP is getting mad at a mother for posting innocent gymnastics pictures of her children on social media. Seriously?

Some people get aroused by feet pictures too. If we applied OP's logic, we might as well tell everyone to stop posting pictures of themselves or others where people can see their feet.

I'm not fond of these victim blaming type comments. There are tons of comments like that on social media posts where a girl wears something "revealing". Lots of "cover up, there are creepy men around" type of comments. People who victim blame have an awful way of thinking. There are morons who say a woman deserved it if she got sexually assaulted, because of what she wore. They are basically saying a woman deserved to get SA'd.

OP has a victim blamer's mindset. Bananapancakesforone sees a mother as a horrible person for posting innocent pictures of her children. Any picture someone posts can be fuel for a weird man or woman's fetish. That doesn't mean you should stop putting pictures online. And you definitely shouldn't shame people for doing it.

There's nothing wrong with pictures of children doing gymnastics. If someone got aroused by it, that would be wrong. If someone shamed a woman for posting her children doing gymnastics, which the OP is unfairly doing, that would be wrong.

Remember the feet example? Should people stop posting pictures with their bare feet showing, because some might get aroused by it? No. Because it's ridiculous. People getting aroused by normal pictures of children are the problem, not the person who posted them. Anyone who doesn't think so is a disgusting victim blamer, like Bananapancakesforone.

By the way, it's weird how the people on childfree are so bothered by what people do with their children. After all, they don't even like children in the first place.

#childfree #reddit #my thoughts #bananapancakesforone #victim blaming #wtf #these people are crazy #dumb #dumb people

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When the first review you get for your online story is a negative one

#writing community #writing #writing memes #story #sad #why can't the first ones ever be positive? #it's really discouraging

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Lily from The Walking Dead Game is the worst. Especially in the final season. If you make AJ let her live, she kills James, who defended her by trying to convince the others to spare her life. That's how you know Lily couldn't be redeemed. Better to let AJ kill her.

#twd game #the walking dead game #gaming #twd game lily #videogames

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I discovered the Picnic At Hanging Rock movie(1975) when I was on Google, trying to find pictures(or GIFs. I can't remember which) of long-haired girls running with their hair flowing behind them like a cape. Haha. I think there was a GIF of the character Miranda running with her hair doing the cape thing I mentioned. Anyway, that's how I found out about the movie, and then the book too, of course.

I'm bringing this up, because I want to describe what it was like when I discovered the character Irma, one of the girls in the movie who ends up missing too. But she gets found. I remember thinking she was extremely beautiful, and I just had to find out more about this character and her actress. She was stunningly beautiful.

I still haven't seen the movie, but I've done some research on it and the book. Hopefully I'll get to watch the film and read the book someday.

Here's Irma:

#picnic at hanging rock irma #movie #picnic at hanging rock movie #picnic at hanging rock 1975 #picnic at hanging rock

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I've been thinking about the movie/book Picnic At Hanging Rock lately, and it's one of the reasons why I had to make this post I'm currently reblogging. No matter how you interpret it, there's no real answer, because it's a work of fiction. It really takes the fun out of things.

My enjoyment for ambiguity in fiction leaving my body when I remember that there's no real answer and it's pointless speculating, because the entire work isn't even real:

#fiction #ambiguity #books #tv shows #open answer #movies

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I remember watching that Yellowjackets episode where Laura Lee baptized Lottie in that lake. I was happy when they hugged afterward. I was so excited to see them develop a sweet, heartwarming friendship or romance with each other.

Then the plane scene happened in the Flight of the Bumblebee episode.

Yellowjackets is a great show, but it knows how to break your heart.

#yellowjackets #lottie #laura lee #television #lottie matthews #i love how they were holding hands while walking toward the baptism spot #i loved their friendship #i still wish laura lee was alive

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When Fawkes refuses to push in the code for you in the heavily irradiated room, forcing you to die, even though he got the GECK for you in that irradiated area back at Vault 87

#fallout 3 #gaming #fallout #fallout fawkes #meme

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My enjoyment for ambiguity in fiction leaving my body when I remember that there's no real answer and it's pointless speculating, because the entire work isn't even real:

#fiction #ambiguity #books #tv shows #movies #this is why i hate ambiguity #this is why i hate open-ended questions

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I have The Slanted Worlds novel by Catherine Fisher. It's book two of the Obsidian Mirror series. I'm a bit fond of this book. One thing that irritates me, though, is the emotional coldness. Like, I don't get the feeling that the characters care about each other. And that makes it hard for me to connect with them. Like, Maskelyne is supposed to be Rebecca's boyfriend, but they don't seem like it at all. Seriously, not at all! They never even kiss. Rebecca seems like his work assistant more than anything. It's weird. There's no physical affection between them, either. I hate that.

I also have a problem with the multiple POVs per chapter thing. I wish it were like the A Song of Ice and Fire books, where there is one POV per chapter. It makes things easier to read. And it would be nice if the character's ages were stated more. Plus, I hate the main villain, Summer, as a character. She's annoying more than anything.

But there is some stuff I like about the novel. Sarah, the girl from the future, is my favorite character. And the prose is good. This book has great similes and imagery. The novel could be better, though.

#books #literature #catherine fisher #the slanted worlds #the obsidian mirror

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Does anyone know of any book series with zero continuity errors? As in, it has no plot holes, no characters changing hair/eye colors, or timeline inconsistencies, etc.

Asking because continuity errors in literature really frustrate me, and I want to believe that there's at least one book series that has no continuity errors. There are some badly written book series that have them(the Lorien Legacies series. This one is infested with them), and even some good ones have continuity errors(the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Changing eye colors, Jaime's horse changing genders, etc.).

There's gotta be some error-free book series out there, right? Can someone mention one that they've noticed has no continuity errors?

#books #literature #reading community #reading #continuity errors

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I hate the claustrophobia I feel when reading single point of view novels. Multiple POV literature will always be my greatest love. I like to immerse myself in a bunch of different characters, see through their unique gazes. It's fun.

#reading #reading community #literature #multiple pov #single pov #Warm Bodies is a great single pov book btw #The ASOIAF series is a great multiple pov book series btw

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I've seen a few petitions on Change.org, wanting Archive of Our Own to be banned, or wanting the written, supposedly "CP" taken off the site.

Funny how tons of books have murder and adult-on-adult rape, all illegal things, and those books are never considered illegal. All of the victims in those books are fictional. As in not real. Online stories or books featuring underage erotica are not CP. No child is being victimized. They're just words on a page.

Actual CP, concerning real children, is horrible. People need to be worried about that, instead of wanting fictional literature involving fictional children to be banned and the authors arrested.

As disgusting as erotica involving underage people is, writers have the right to create stories, including stories that have terrible crimes in them. And just because someone writes about a certain subject, it doesn't mean they glorify it or want to do it themselves. In stuff I've written before, people tended to get murdered. But I would rather not murder anyone in real life.

Fictional underage erotica shouldn't be illegal anywhere. No one deserves to go to prison for it. Just like no one deserves to go to prison for writing about murder, adult-on-adult rape, armed robbery, etc.

Viewing real CP is illegal because it re-victimizes the poor child in it. In George RR Martin's A Game of Thrones fictional novel, the teenage female character Daenerys gets raped by a man. Daenerys isn't a real person. There was no real rape. There are other scenes like that in Martin's books, that some of you might call "fictional CP". Should Martin get locked up for writing that? No.

Underage rape or sex between minors in fiction shouldn't be illegal. There's no real child being victimized. It's not CP.

Real CP should be illegal.

I was going to stay silent about this fictional underage sex topic, but I remembered that staying quiet when you should speak up is wrong. And freedom of speech is everything. So is the freedom to write what you want. I needed to post this.

The pro-abortionists say you shouldn't get an abortion if you disagree with the pro-choice stance. If fictional sex involving underage characters disgusts you, don't read it. You're free to do that. But calling for the banning of Archive of Our Own/AO3, or the deletions of underage erotica everywhere, plus wanting it to be criminalized, is ridiculous.

Depictions of illegal crimes in literature shouldn't be illegal. And what some people see as written CP isn't CP at all, considering there's no victim. Like there's no victim when a character in a book gets shot in the heart and dies.

Archive of Our Own doesn't deserve to get banned.

#ao3 #archive of our own #reading community #censorship #writing community

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Fiction doesn't equal real life. Erotica of minors isn't real. There's no victim, and people need to understand that.

There’s been a lot of talk about AO3 and censorship lately, due to one of the candidates to the OTW board. And I realised I have very strong Opinions:tm: about censorship and the freedom AO3 stands for.

Censorship is not a solution. It doesn’t work and it’s not even easily agreed upon where the line should be drawn. What some people might deem as immoral or reprehensible is not the same others will consider so. For example, you and me can agree that sexual stories about minors turn our stomach, yet other people would also include LGBT+ content there, even the sfw ones, and others might decide that any sexual content at all is immoral. So, how do we agree about what to ban, when nothing of it is even illegal?

because let’s be honest, it’s all fiction. As in, not real. Things like incest, rape and pedophilia are illegal irl, but not in fiction. Cause they’re not harming anyone. Really. You can find it disgusting, I certainly do, but I also recognize no person, no actual human, is harmed in the making of those stories. Because they’re made up and about made up characters. I won’t seek it out, and if I see someone making that kind of content I will most probably avoid them/block them (without harassing them), but they have the right to create any kind of fiction they want.

It always baffles me how readily understood that is when it comes to murder and violence in fiction. Nobody thinks that someone who writers murder mysteries or procedural shows really wants to go out and kill people. However, as soon as it’s about sex, people are up in arms ready to believe that those make believe scenarios are an indicative of someone’s real desires. Why is that? And since we’re on the topic of double standards: why are people clutching their pearls about fanfic, but literature gets a free pass, more or less? You go into a library and you’ll find lots of books with shocking and distasteful topics, including those that contain pedophilic content (like Lolita, to put a famous example), incest (Game of Thrones, among many others), rape, murder, etc. But they want me to believe that fanfic, the medium with severely impaired social acceptance and magnitudes smaller reach, is the actual problem that will “normalize” those ideas? Nah fam, I smell a moral panic, and people finding fanfic writers easier to bully into submission. Because this is all about controlling what forms of creative expression are deemed acceptable. Fanfic IS a form of art, popular art if you will, but still art. And by virtue of how AO3 is designed, it’s ridiculously easy to never see the kind of stories that you find objectionable.

Tags are a wonderful thing. I can specify what I want and what I don’t want in my story results when searching! Tags are the author being responsible and giving due warning. Especially the “dead dove: do not eat” tag, it lets you know that the content of the story will have questionable content, proceed at your own risk or keep scrolling. Same as the “chose to not use archive warnings” that one is a warning in itself that the story might contain triggering/upsetting content, and it’s the prerogative of each reader to decide whether they’re comfortable continuing reading or not. Ultimately, it’s all about taking responsibility for one’s decisions. People who are in favor of censorship in AO3 either don’t know how to control and curate what materials they access, or feel entitled to everyone else taking their morals into account instead of taking responsibility for their own experience in the archive.

None of the stories on AO3 is illegal. Fictional stories are not illegal, not even those dealing with unsavory topics. The archive makes people agree to continue reading whenever you click on a story with a certain rating (or without any rating at all, just in case!), so the reader is giving their consent to continue reading, they’re making an informed choice. Same as with the tags. They’re there, they’re a warning. If someone reads the tags, finds them displeasing and still continues reading, that’s on them. If I find a story with tags about rape/non-con, for example, I keep scrolling. Cause I know I will find the story displeasing and upsetting. The people clutching their pearls and going “but think of the children!” are, mostly, people who refuse that responsibility and ask the world to accommodate them and their morality. And then throw around words like pedohilia and accusations of “kiddie porn” careleslly, watering down the seriousness of such accusations. No, an explicit fanfic of twin, underage siblings going at it is not CSA. Cause there’s no real children involved in it. It might be disgusting for a lot of people (me included), understandably, but you can 100% avoid reading it and interacting with the people who write those. 

Finally, let’s not forget the recent history of fandom spaces, shall we? LiveJournal and Fanfiction.net both had purges of content, after some campaigns for censorship gained traction and popularity. So now everything relating to certain topics is eliminated! Well, except that also includes communities of support for survivors of sexual abuse (it happened in LJ). Well, except that the people pressuring for censorship weren’t happy with the gay smut either, so a lot of LGBT related stuff is now also gone! (happened both in LJ and ff.net). Except, in some countries anything sexual at all, is frowned upon, so why not ban that too? Censorship supporters will always move the goalposts, forever shifting their aim whenever they accomplish something. Because it’s easier and more comfortable to make others conform to their standards than accepting some artistic expressions will be uncomfortable to some people. And trust me, none of them will care if the dark fic in question was written by a survivor of similar experiences trying to cope with their trauma or raise awareness, or if it was done simply for titillation or to safely explore different scenarios in fiction. And the topics that were banned in those websites didn’t disappear at all, they just weren’t properly warned for/detailed in the summaries, so anyone could stumblre upon them by accident. The complete opposite of what happens in AO3.

AO3 was created by people who lived through those censorship events in different fandom spaces, as a response to it. To seeing whole communities and swathes of fan content being unceremoniously deleted overnight. AO3 is an archive and an online library, not a social media platform. It’s a safe haven for anyone to host their fan creations, but that doesn’t mean it’s a safe space as people understand the term in other platforms. In AO3 you make your safe space by using the tags. Because that is the only real way we can have a safe haven for EVERYONE. 

The thing about freedom of speech is that sometimes, you have to defend things you dislike (that, I repeat, are legal in this case), because experience has shown time and time again that as soon as you give an inch to the censors, they take more and more. And today they’re up in arms about “pedophilic fanfics”, but once that is done? It might be all nsfw content, it might be trans related content, it might be something else. But it will happen. 

#ao3 #archive of our own #censorship #fanfic #fanfiction

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There’s been a lot of talk about AO3 and censorship lately, due to one of the candidates to the OTW board. And I realised I have very strong Opinions:tm: about censorship and the freedom AO3 stands for.

Censorship is not a solution. It doesn’t work and it’s not even easily agreed upon where the line should be drawn. What some people might deem as immoral or reprehensible is not the same others will consider so. For example, you and me can agree that sexual stories about minors turn our stomach, yet other people would also include LGBT+ content there, even the sfw ones, and others might decide that any sexual content at all is immoral. So, how do we agree about what to ban, when nothing of it is even illegal?

because let’s be honest, it’s all fiction. As in, not real. Things like incest, rape and pedophilia are illegal irl, but not in fiction. Cause they’re not harming anyone. Really. You can find it disgusting, I certainly do, but I also recognize no person, no actual human, is harmed in the making of those stories. Because they’re made up and about made up characters. I won’t seek it out, and if I see someone making that kind of content I will most probably avoid them/block them (without harassing them), but they have the right to create any kind of fiction they want.

It always baffles me how readily understood that is when it comes to murder and violence in fiction. Nobody thinks that someone who writers murder mysteries or procedural shows really wants to go out and kill people. However, as soon as it’s about sex, people are up in arms ready to believe that those make believe scenarios are an indicative of someone’s real desires. Why is that? And since we’re on the topic of double standards: why are people clutching their pearls about fanfic, but literature gets a free pass, more or less? You go into a library and you’ll find lots of books with shocking and distasteful topics, including those that contain pedophilic content (like Lolita, to put a famous example), incest (Game of Thrones, among many others), rape, murder, etc. But they want me to believe that fanfic, the medium with severely impaired social acceptance and magnitudes smaller reach, is the actual problem that will “normalize” those ideas? Nah fam, I smell a moral panic, and people finding fanfic writers easier to bully into submission. Because this is all about controlling what forms of creative expression are deemed acceptable. Fanfic IS a form of art, popular art if you will, but still art. And by virtue of how AO3 is designed, it’s ridiculously easy to never see the kind of stories that you find objectionable.

Tags are a wonderful thing. I can specify what I want and what I don’t want in my story results when searching! Tags are the author being responsible and giving due warning. Especially the “dead dove: do not eat” tag, it lets you know that the content of the story will have questionable content, proceed at your own risk or keep scrolling. Same as the “chose to not use archive warnings” that one is a warning in itself that the story might contain triggering/upsetting content, and it’s the prerogative of each reader to decide whether they’re comfortable continuing reading or not. Ultimately, it’s all about taking responsibility for one’s decisions. People who are in favor of censorship in AO3 either don’t know how to control and curate what materials they access, or feel entitled to everyone else taking their morals into account instead of taking responsibility for their own experience in the archive.

None of the stories on AO3 is illegal. Fictional stories are not illegal, not even those dealing with unsavory topics. The archive makes people agree to continue reading whenever you click on a story with a certain rating (or without any rating at all, just in case!), so the reader is giving their consent to continue reading, they’re making an informed choice. Same as with the tags. They’re there, they’re a warning. If someone reads the tags, finds them displeasing and still continues reading, that’s on them. If I find a story with tags about rape/non-con, for example, I keep scrolling. Cause I know I will find the story displeasing and upsetting. The people clutching their pearls and going “but think of the children!” are, mostly, people who refuse that responsibility and ask the world to accommodate them and their morality. And then throw around words like pedohilia and accusations of “kiddie porn” careleslly, watering down the seriousness of such accusations. No, an explicit fanfic of twin, underage siblings going at it is not CSA. Cause there’s no real children involved in it. It might be disgusting for a lot of people (me included), understandably, but you can 100% avoid reading it and interacting with the people who write those. 

Finally, let’s not forget the recent history of fandom spaces, shall we? LiveJournal and Fanfiction.net both had purges of content, after some campaigns for censorship gained traction and popularity. So now everything relating to certain topics is eliminated! Well, except that also includes communities of support for survivors of sexual abuse (it happened in LJ). Well, except that the people pressuring for censorship weren’t happy with the gay smut either, so a lot of LGBT related stuff is now also gone! (happened both in LJ and ff.net). Except, in some countries anything sexual at all, is frowned upon, so why not ban that too? Censorship supporters will always move the goalposts, forever shifting their aim whenever they accomplish something. Because it’s easier and more comfortable to make others conform to their standards than accepting some artistic expressions will be uncomfortable to some people. And trust me, none of them will care if the dark fic in question was written by a survivor of similar experiences trying to cope with their trauma or raise awareness, or if it was done simply for titillation or to safely explore different scenarios in fiction. And the topics that were banned in those websites didn’t disappear at all, they just weren’t properly warned for/detailed in the summaries, so anyone could stumblre upon them by accident. The complete opposite of what happens in AO3.

AO3 was created by people who lived through those censorship events in different fandom spaces, as a response to it. To seeing whole communities and swathes of fan content being unceremoniously deleted overnight. AO3 is an archive and an online library, not a social media platform. It’s a safe haven for anyone to host their fan creations, but that doesn’t mean it’s a safe space as people understand the term in other platforms. In AO3 you make your safe space by using the tags. Because that is the only real way we can have a safe haven for EVERYONE. 

The thing about freedom of speech is that sometimes, you have to defend things you dislike (that, I repeat, are legal in this case), because experience has shown time and time again that as soon as you give an inch to the censors, they take more and more. And today they’re up in arms about “pedophilic fanfics”, but once that is done? It might be all nsfw content, it might be trans related content, it might be something else. But it will happen.