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nbapprentice · 5 days
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As always don't forget about eSims
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nbapprentice · 12 days
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As always don't forget about eSims
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nbapprentice · 17 days
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eSims for Gaza is facing constant eSim shortages.
They get over a thousand requests for connection a day, but their email inbox is regularly sitting at 300-500 eSims. With the bombardment of Rafah and continual internet blackouts, the need for more eSims is particularly urgent.
Even if you have already sent an eSim or donated to an eSim donation drive, there is more you can do. The team is calling for people to campaign in their communities to help spread the word about eSims and encourage donations.
You can help by printing out posters and putting them up in local businesses, on telephone poles and notice boards, or wherever people are likely to see them.
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[ID: Poster headed “eSIMs for Gaza” with an illustration of a red poppy, a QR code, and a link to tinyurl.com/gaza-esims; copy reads “Sending eSIMs is an immediate, concrete way to help Gazans on the ground. Scan below to learn how you can get involved.” End ID]
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nbapprentice · 19 days
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genuinely, honestly, I wish fandom could move past "depiction isn't endorsement".
because it's really meant to be sort of the baby beginner step to media literacy but in fandom spaces it usually acts like a trump card to shut down critical discussions. it's one of the thought terminating cliches of fandom that discourages learning how to interrogate the text beyond "fiction isn't reality, dummy".
yes, the popular whump fic in your fandom isn't endorsing torture, but also, can you tell when the canon for your fandom is endorsing a message? how do you then choose to interact with that canon, and do you get defensive when people are critical of the source material?
depiction isn't endorsement, but can you tell when fandom trends are misogynistic or racist? can you see how killing off a black female character to "punish" her in fanfiction with the framing that she deserves it, and the popular narrative in a certain fandom that a heroic black man is a possessive liar and a white villain is a good man deserving redemption, is endorsing a message in fanfic? do you argue that it's "just fiction" when people get very understandably upset at misogyny and racism in fandom spaces?
yeah, depiction isn't endorsement, but do you think this is where it starts and stops as the only thing you really need to know? do you think people who are critical of things aren't engaging with it properly, or being mean, because they've forgotten the golden fandom rule of "fiction isn't reality"?
nbc hannibal isn't endorsing cannibalism as a dietary choice, but top gun maverick and call of duty: modern warfare were quite literally sponsored by the us military as propaganda for recruitment.
I'm not saying don't enjoy the ip that's making you happy or calling for moral purity in your media habits or whatever. just saying that there's a lot to media literacy beyond the feel good affirmations that periodically circulate fandom, and those affirmation posts both lack necessary nuance and discourage people from engaging with said nuance.
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nbapprentice · 29 days
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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.
you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.
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to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.
to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.
if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)
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nbapprentice · 4 months
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people who rt activism posts and act all grandiose about social justice but simultaneously are pr*ship really think that cruelty and bigotry are separate issues from sexual exploitation which is perhaps one of the wildest case of compartmentalizations ive ever seen
what if i told you sexual violence, which you clearly get off on, is one of THE tools of control of any kind of oppressive entity. what fucking then.
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nbapprentice · 4 months
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People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”
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nbapprentice · 7 months
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i think we need less "its OK if u love problematic media its OK if u love characters who are bad people" and more "we all definitely consume shit media and we can get something out of it despite its failings but, and here's the important part, you don't need to build a fandom around every shit media or character you find compelling. you can 100% get through consuming and analysing media without suddenly building a little digital shrine for the war criminal. this is extremely possible to do."
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nbapprentice · 9 months
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hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)
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nbapprentice · 9 months
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I think the central thing wrt discourse about "characters who do bad things" is that, (whether or not through some level of intentional study with the intent to hone that skill, and whether or not it's even a conscious process), many/most viewers do have some level of reading comprehension and basic analysis when interacting with a text. And because of this, we can observe the points an author is making or the ideas a text is exploring through the juxtaposition of the events/character actions/plot and the tone/framing/themes.
Narrative art is a form of communication, and being able to understand and engage with that communication is fundamental to the process of experiencing that text for most people.
For a basic example, imagine a narrative wherein there is a protagonist who kills a bunch of people to achieve their goal. If the tone/framing/themes surrounding these deaths are, say, typical to an action movie (the protagonist is framed as a badass, the audience is primed to cheer them on, the victims are portrayed as faceless and villainous, the emotional tone is satisfaction), then that is noticeably different to the viewer than if the tone/framing/themes surrounding these deaths are typical to a horror movie (the protagonist is framed as disturbing or monstrous, the audience is primed to feel moral disgust towards the protagonist, the victims are humanized, the emotional tone is fear).
Similarly, we can tell the difference between a narrative that involves a plot of rape followed by the rapist and survivor entering a relationship that reveals the author/creator understands sexual violence and takes it seriously (wherein the tone/framing/themes surrounding the event have to do with evoking feelings of violation and betrayal and loss of bodily autonomy, with a focus on long term negative impact, the survivor is framed as sympathetic, the audience is primed to empathize and feel the sensation of being existentially trapped) versus one that reveals the author/creator either does not understand they are depicting sexual violence or do not take it seriously (wherein the tone/framing/themes surrounding the event have to do with evoking feelings of humor, eroticism, satisfaction, and fun, with either no long term impact at all or a positive one in which the event leads to a relationship that the audience is primed to view as good, happy, and satisfying). Even if the same base plot and character actions are the same, the surrounding tone and framing are communicating what we are intended to feel and believe about the plot taking place and the characters' actions.
This is why it is fully possible to have well written characters who do terrible things, or plots dealing with very sensitive issues, and still be a text that feel (to a given audience member) morally/ethically sound and in line with their deeply held values. And why it's possible to have well written characters who do terrible things, or plots dealing with very sensitive issues, and be a text that feel (to a given audience member) deeply morally/ethically objectionable and communicating a position that they are adamantly against.
If someone is objecting to a text being transphobic, for example, they are not objecting to transphobia ever being portrayed in text, they are objecting to the ways in which the text itself, overall as a piece of art in the actual world, communicates transphobic ideas to the audience.
Creating art that presents fictional events and character behavior which justify in-world/in-narrative violence towards marginalized groups is a central tool of propaganda for this reason. The art in and of itself is designed to communicate the position that violence against these groups is justified.
This is why it feels extremely disingenuous when these kinds of genuine criticisms and analyses are reduced to, for example, "people can't even separate fiction from reality, no one is going to go out and commit murder because they played a first person shooter." That's a strawman. The actual analysis being commented on is usually more specifically, for example, "first person shooters that depict the player/protagonist as a US soldier and rewards the player in tone and theme for killing enemies who are all depicted as people of color in the Global South communicate inherently dehumanizing, racist, and imperialist messages, and saturation of media with these messages does influence people's values over time.
TL;DR: conflation of plot with theme/tone is a bullshit way to avoid engaging with genuine ethical criticism of narrative art.
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nbapprentice · 10 months
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ok im gonna be deadass right now i think people need to reflect on how they treat black and brown characters in media especially when they find them attractive. like there’s nothing wrong with finding them attractive, but it’s just the copious amounts of fetishized art and fics that are made of them so frequently that it’s literally just a straight up racism problem
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nbapprentice · 10 months
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Idk who this guy is but I’m just gonna leave this here without comment and hope the audience I’m indirecting it at finally understands something for once
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nbapprentice · 11 months
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people are so much more obsessed with feeling like or being told that they are a good person than actually having any ethical fortitude whatsoever, so they find it completely impossible--when a fault is pointed out to them--to go, "oh, i hadn't thought about that. my bad." which would often be literally all that's reasonably expected.
and instead they double down with the attitude of "how dare you suggest i'm a bad person!!" because that's how they interpret, "this behavior is harmful" and end up being worse than the original offense.
please just grow up! swallow your fucking pride, learn that you do not in fact know everything, and that sometimes you make mistakes. and when people point out those mistakes in good faith they are generally just trying to reduce harm by helping you not to make that same mistake again.
i know there are a lot of disingenuous people out there who just like to chase clout and pile on and will use anything as a tool to do that, but you cannot just close yourself off to all criticism because of it! you cannot just assume that you are never wrong and someone is always out to get you or else you will genuinely become a shitty person because you'll cut off all room to grow!
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nbapprentice · 11 months
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i fucking hate this trend online where someone will mention a stereotype or a dog whistle- i.e. jewish people and goblins. for example. someone will say “[game, persons opinion, media, etc] uses the stereotype of a money hungry goblin- which is an antisemitic stereotype” and theyll get a bunch of fucking reply guys and devils advocates in their replies going “WOW YOU SAW GOBLINS AND YOUR FIRST THOUGHT WAS OF JEWISH PEOPLE??? so you think jewish people are goblins! who’s the REAL antisemite??? i am very smart.” like you are dumb as all fucking hell actually being able to recognize stereotypes and dog whistles and point them out is in now way agreeing with them. are you fucking stupid. genuinely.
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nbapprentice · 11 months
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actually let me make a post, since i keep having to see the same stupid, stupid arguments over and over.
i don’t mind if media has incest in it. i mind when media pretends incest is happy, healthy and normal. i don’t mind that the greek myths have incest in them. i mind when absolute weirdos like you all refuse to understand that there was a reason, a social, cultural reason, why incest existed in the greek myths. if you studied greek myths without studying the history of the real people who believed in them, then you really don’t know anything at all.
genuinely: would y’all be defending the game as intensely if zagreus violently assaulted megaera before taking her by force, as would happen in the actual myths? if thanatos was a child, since the greek myths never had any relationships be between two adult men? i know some of you would because that’s the kind of people you are, but those of you who want to believe you wouldn’t support a sexual abuser simulator: be real now. you just think incest can somehow be a neutral topic that existed in the myths just for funsies and not that big of a deal as long as you get your “wholesome pansexual polyamory.” you’re all so fucking obnoxious bless your hearts
and if you think the game genuinely removed the incest: lol. rofl. lmfao. look at this and leave me the fuck alone.
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nbapprentice · 11 months
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i hope every idiot showing up here from twitter realizes yall are really defending jacking off to incest as long as some pedophile freak from 3000 years says its okay?? yr genuinely embarrassing my god
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happy hades II announcement dont forget these three bitches were all raised by the same woman (that makes them all adopted siblings btw and adopted siblings fucking is incest) and the writers had them have sex and called it romantic. well that’s your “zanthagmeg is incest and the supergiant writers aint shit” reminder for the night
ps i know the greek gods fucked each other’s family all the time i know it i get it i fucking know they were despicable rapist pedophiles who fucked their sisters and their brothers and their cousins i KNOW its just weird when it gets re-packaged as “polyam bi representation <3″ thats it thats all i gotta say to you weirdos who think are classic lit scholars OH my god
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nbapprentice · 1 year
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ok i've generally stayed away from this topic because it's quite uncomfortable, but i've seen some people on here say or imply that written CP is acceptable in comparison to image or video CP because 'technically no real child was involved', and it makes me realize people wrongly think the only function of CP is sexual arousal for pedophiles. it's not. CP is also used as part of the child grooming process. the material is exposed to a child in an attempt to normalize and gradually introduce them to the abuse they will experience. you can literally look this up if you don't believe me, not that anyone defending CP of any medium has done research in the first place. you do not understand the extent of abuse, and you don't care to because it inconveniences you.
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