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[kalessinsdaughter]

the absolute most melted-brain take from anti-boycott goofs is the inevitable 'oh you dont like THIS where were you for THAT?' i dont know maybe because THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES IN DIFFERENT AMOUNTS AT DIFFERENT TIMES

i know this is usually bad faith argument from conservative scoundrels but i see others trot it out sometimes and it is biggest eyeroll. the ‘all things need to mean the same amount to you at all times or you are WRONG AND ILLOGICAL about your convictions’ crowd is such a mess

‘youre vegetarian now? where were you in 4th grade when you had cheeseburger?’ ‘oh you boycott this ai thing? where were you when other thing youve never even heard of happened?’ absolutely braindead trot. sorry devil its ok for buds to start taking action they didnt take before

goofballs: 'HOW DARE YOU START CARING ABOUT THIS THING? THE ONLY LEGITIMATE BOYCOTTS DEFY SPACE AND TIME EXISTING IN A PERPETUAL STATE OF UNDERSTANDING EVENLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS ALL TIMELINES ENDLESSLY INTO BOTH FUTURE AND PAST'

#this #exactly this #'HOW DARE YOU GROW AND LEARN #AND REEVALUATE YOUR OPINIONS #AS YOU ACQUIRE NEW KNOWLEDGE #AND BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS' #is not *in any way* a progressive outlook #without change there can be no progress

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I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. 

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”

Happy Valentine’s Day.

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[kalessinsdaughter]

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

#writing resources #writing #kids #children #child development #linguistics

[kalessinsdaughter]

Impopular opinion: I wouldn't call detox facials "healthcare".

Sure, the ethics of your vampiric spa treatment are dubious, but no more so than any other of the myriad beauty/spa/wellness treatments that bleed people of their money (and sometimes actual blood) for questionable effect.

If it's OK when humans do it, can we really sneer at a vampire for doing the same thing?

I know that’s kind of the go-to thing to show that a vampire character is “one of the good ones” or whatever but it actually seems a little bit more fucked up for a vampire to steal blood from a blood bank than for a vampire to attack people for blood, at least as long as it’s not the kind of vampire where a bite is instantly lethal like it never stops bleeding. 

People can recover from losing some blood but blood bank blood is constantly in short supply and is reserved for people who imminently need blood transfusion of a specific blood type or else they die.

#ethical vampirism

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Beginning tomorrow, I'm going to start linking the previously posted chapters of A Thing of Vikings on AO3 at a rate of one per day. When I am all caught up with the existing chapters, I will begin posting the next book/arc of A Thing of Vikings on my usual update schedule of weekly on Sundays.

The thing is...

With 154 chapters, it will take me 22 weeks to do so, starting on 6/1/24 and ending on 8/6/24, with Book V beginning with Chapter 155 on 9/6/24.

Call it a way to build hype, give a countdown (count up?), and get people up to speed on my work.

(And yes, this is totally because someone suggested that I do exactly this, and I replied that I'd have to have started already at a rate of one per day!)

#a thing of vikings #httyd #how to train your dragon #alternate history #historical fiction

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I don't think I've ever seen a 100 percent exact TV or movie version of a novel or play, ever. And there's a very good reason for that.

It's the same reason you can't just translate a text from one language to another word for word, and expect it to flow smoothly, or even make sense: you need to adapt it to fit the syntax and idioms of the new language. Otherwise it will, at best, be clunky, slightly off, and difficult to follow. Or, at worst, a garbled mess that takes effort to untangle enough to grasp the meaning of.

Good adaptations, be it to another language or another medium, are true to the ideas and intentions of the original, but not necessarily to the form of the original.

Hello, Mr Gaiman. Big fan of your work

Had a question for you about book-to-screen adaptations, in the midst of the Percy Jackson Disney Plus series and the upcoming season of Good Omens.

Why is it that adaptations like these tend to only be about 70-90 percent book-accurate, even with so much author involvement? Do you guys not stand by your work, or think things can be improved upon while the adaptation is in development? Or do creative teams recommend taking certain things in a different direction and cutting things out? Given how a series release allows for less of a time constraint to fit the content in, I just wonder if there is some other limiting factor here that's preventing what I guess I'd call a "true adaptation," you know what I mean?

Not really. A book is not a film or a TV series, just as a TV episode is not a novel or a stage play or a comic. Different media have different strengths and weaknesses: you do your best in adaptation to play to the strengths and avoid the weaknesses of each medium.

#book adaptation

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

#'my kids know where the off-button is and how to press it' #this #it's that simple #but also please be a dear and tag your stuff appropriately

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"GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike."

When somebody tells you in that much detail what they're going to do if you let them... believe them.

Please get registered early, and vote.

#abortion rights #us elections 2024

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“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”

Yeah, no.

[kalessinsdaughter]

How do you know if you’re antisemitic?

Well, if a Jew telling you you’re antisemitic won’t make you believe it, here is a guide to help you figure it out yourself.

1. Do you think Jews, en masse, are ACTIVELY REPLACING/ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE some other group — especially a somehow more deserving group? (For example, White people, Black people, African people, Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, indigenous people, etc.) Do you feel there are JUST TOO MANY JEWS IN A GIVEN LOCATION?

2. Do you think Jews are PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE NOT? (For example, White, PoC, “Real” Jews, Indigenous/Native, an Ethnic Minority, Devoted Citizens of [YOUR COUNTRY] etc.)?

3. Do you think Jews are CONTROLLING OR ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL SOME INTEGRAL ASPECT OF SOCIETY? (For example, the government, media, banks, business, medicine, etc.)

4. Do you think Jews that you criticize are UNIQUELY BLOODTHIRSTY OR GENOCIDAL — especially when hoping for personal achievement or cultural supremacy? (For example, trying to stage a global war so they can control the world; using/consuming blood of Christians and babies to do satanic rituals; sexually seducing non-Jews in order to contaminate bloodlines and erase other pre-existing identities; immigrating to a new location with the intention of murdering those who already exist there; desiring to murder Arabs, Muslims, or Palestinians in their homelands by means of genocide in order to control a region at the exclusion of other ethnicities, etc.)

5. Do you think Jews are APPROPRIATING A PRIVILEGE THAT THEY DO NOT DESERVE AND THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM? (For example, freedom, wealth, power, whiteness, G-d’s favor, a safe home in the Levant, Arab land, colonial power, representation as a minority group, etc.)

6. Do you think Jews at large or the specific Jews you disagree with and who wield power in a way you disapprove of CAN BE COLLECTIVELY LABELED? (For example, might you call them slaves, vermin, insects, dirty, scheming, communists, fascists, Nazis, satanic, Zionists, scum, etc.)

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS YOU ARE AN ANTISEMITE. This is literally textbook antisemitism. If you answered, well yeah but only “the Jews in Israel” or “the ones who vote for Bibi” or the “ones who moved to my town/country/region” or if you saw something on one of the lists and think “well no fair! That one is actually true,” your exception isn’t exceptional. You haven’t found the one true bad thing that Jews ACTUALLY are. It’s not some conspiratorial propaganda to equate reasonable beliefs with hate. You’re just hateful. Some part of you hates Jews. And you have to confront what that part of you is and you have to destroy it if you want to engage in any conversations that impact Jewish welfare anywhere in the world.

One way to start deconstructing is to ask yourself “Why do I feel this way?” “From whom did I learn to think this way?” “Who in my life approves and supports me thinking this way?” “Am I comfortable telling a Jewish person I feel this way in person?” “How do I think a Jewish person will feel/What do I think a Jewish person will think if I tell them this?” “Do I care what they feel or think? Why or why not?” “How would I feel/what would I think if someone felt this way or thought this way about me or an identity I value deeply?”

#antisemitism #deconstruction #bias #i/p #anti zionism #long post

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Because English isn't my first language and the posts commenting on Doctor Who: The Giggle are driving me nuts:

#doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who the giggle #14th doctor #15th doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #doctor who spoilers #doctor who 60th spoilers #dw #dw spoilers #dw specials #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #english language #pants #poll

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Let's Drop A 14th Doctor Bi-Generation Theory

Doctor Who just aired The Giggle and I've got to say it's... a mixed bag. Great idea, but it feels like it needed two parts. The second half felt a bit rushed. Not bad, just rushed.

Now, as for the ending, I have a theory involving the Doctor's Bi-Generation.

In short, Bi-generation is basically time lord therapy. Taking all that world weariness and tiredness from living so long and splitting it off into a separate being. Like taking a weight off your shoulder.

For so long the Doctor has been treated as an old man, tired and world weary but trying to keep a brave face. The 11th Doctor may have been played by a 26 year old but he felt like a 60 year old. The 14th Doctor was only a few days old but felt like he was 100's of years into that life already.

But with the 15th Doctor it's different, it's like the Doctor is a young man again. Excited and happy to see the universe, like he's taken a weight off his shoulders. Because that emotional weight is literally a different person now, one that doesn't have to be moving all the time. One that can rest and process the things that happened.

Even the 15th said it best "We fought the gods of ragnarok and we didn't stop for a second and go 'what the hell'?" And that has consequences, that consequence of course being bi-generation.

As for why bi-generation is only now a thing? Because the Doctor is one of the few time lords who actually surpassed 13 regeneration's, with the 11th being granted a new set in The Time of the Doctor.

So of course bi-generation is a myth, because Time Lords tend not to live long enough for it to become needed. But the Doctor did live long enough to need it.

Now we have fresh new era ahead of ourselves. And I'm actually excited for what's next.

#doctor who #14th doctor #15th doctor #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #the doctor #doctor who spoilers

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I think the fallout to Oct 7 will be particularly damaging to the feminist movement because a central tenet to the feminist movement is that no one, ever, should be sexually assaulted, no matter what, so to hear us and uk based feminists describe recognizing the testimonies and direct evidence of sexual violence against women in Israel or supporting Israeli SA survivors as “colonial feminism” that they would not partake in actively collated the safety of women with the body politic of a national governmental which I thought was the thing we had all agreed not to do?

#antisemitism tw #rape tw #antisemitism #rape #feminism

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she's so real for this.

for context, her original post:

#a fine example of anti-Zionist antisemitism #also of ad hominem Tumblr call-out and cancel culture #and virtue-signaling #can we not be antisemitic jerks? please? #antisemitism

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Sometimes we could all use a reminder. (source)

#this