thoughts on "tradwives" as a 19th-century social historian
It's great until it's not.
It's great until he develops an addiction and starts spending all the money on it.
It's great until you realize he's abusive and hid it long enough to get you totally in his power (happened to my great-great-aunt Irene).
It's great until he gets injured and can't work anymore.
It's great until he dies and your options are "learn a marketable skill fast" or "marry the first eligible man you can find."
It's great until he wants child #7 and your body just can't take another pregnancy, but you can't leave or risk desertion because he's your meal ticket.
It's great until he tries to make you run a brothel as a get-rich-quick scheme and deserts you when you refuse, leaving your sisters to desperately fundraise so your house doesn't get foreclosed on (happened to my great-great-aunt Mamie).
It's great until you want to leave but you can't. It's great until you want to do something else with your life but you can't. It's great. Until. It's. Not.
I won't lie to you and say nobody was ever happy that way. Plenty of women have been, and part of feminism is acknowledging that women have the right to choose that sort of life if they want to.
But flinging yourself into it wholeheartedly with no sort of safety net whatsoever, especially in a period where it's EXTREMELY easy for him to leave you- as it should be; no-fault divorce saves lives -is naive at best and dangerous at worst.
Have your own means of support. Keep your own bank account; we fought hard enough to be allowed them. Gods willing, you never need that safety net, but too many women have suffered because they needed it and it wasn't there.
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As any self-respecting Zane stan, of course I've seen Decoded. And of course I loved the sweet but subtle character moment of him being bashful and awkward when Jay brought up the statue.
For the longest time, I've always interpreted this moment as Zane being his typical humble, bashful self. And while I'm sure that's true to an extent, recent events from Dragons Rising have led me to consider an alternative interpretation.
If I may bring your attention to this quote from DRpt2:
"Zane had impressive shoes to fill. No one could live up to him, maybe not even Zane himself."
I dunno. There's just something about the fact that Zane's own legacy has outgrown him, that he's overshadowed by the memory of his past self, that rather than a testament to the love his friends and community have for him he instead sees the statue as an insurmountable burden he can never hope to live up to...
Which brings me to yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment from the Shadow of Ronin video game (I know it's canon-ness is debatable, but hear me out for a sec)
While everyone is gathered around Nya and speaking to Borg via hologram, Zane is...gone. He's off in the distance, standing at the base of his statue, just...staring at it.
God, and when you add this all up to Zane's Ice Emperor baggage...yeah.
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marta svetek -- voice of gregory, vanny, roxanne wolf in fnaf: sb and its dlc, ruin -- has joined kellen goff in voicing her thoughts on ai reproductions of her voice. again: if you want voice actors to maintain a living wage (and their own mental health), please respect her wishes and ensure that this kind of behaviour is heavily discouraged in the future.
full text of thread below the cut for brevity:
Been getting tagged in all kinds of posts and popular TikToks of people using AI voice clones of my FNAF characters to have them sing or say all kinds of random stuff.
You might think it's fun.
But really it's contributing to the problem all VAs are facing in the wake of AI.
The more these AI voice clones get used, the more they're normalized, and the more businesses see it as a viable alternative to real VAs when making content for you. Slowly but surely, most of your favourite VAs will be out of work.
Not to mention what this will cost in terms of future generations of VAs. Incredible performances we'll never get to experience because most businesses will more often than not go for the cheapest, quickest option as soon as the technology is up to scratch.
This is made even worse by the fact that we currently have very few legal protections against the unauthorized use of our voices using AI. And we're being pressured to waive those too, for a fraction of their worth. This is one of the big reasons the current strikes are a thing.
If you enjoyed my work in FNAF and have any respect for the amount of time and effort VAs put into bringing characters to life, don't use AI voice clones in your fanart. I can't express how violated I feel every time I hear my voice say words that aren't my own.
And just in case it wasn't clear - I have never consented to having my voice, likeness or any of my performances synthesized into AI voices/avatars etc.
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Free G3 Monster High Episodes (to be continued)
SEASON 1
1. The Monstering or option 2 (for those who may not have access to the Nick website)
2. Food Fight or option 2 (for those who may not have access to the YouTube channel)
3. Unfinished Brain-ness or option 2 (for those who may not have access to the YouTube channel)
4. Case of the Moondays or option 2
5. Portrait of a Monster or option 2
6. Witch Hitch
7. Part of the Pack
8. That Thing You Deuce or option 2 (preferred option, as it’s through an official medium)
9. Werewolf Weekend or option 2 (same information as #8)
10. Paw-zzle Pieces or option 2 (same information as #8)
11. Nightmare Nightmore or option 2 (same information as #8)
12. Out of Step or option 2 (same information as #8)
13. Pyramid Scheme or option 2 (same information as #8)
14. What’s Up, Watzie?
15. So Familiar
16. Crushed
17. Over Bro-tective
18. Horoscare
19. Flaunt Your Skeleton
20. Creepover Party
21. Creature Clash
22. Monster Movie
23. Earworm
24. Spell the Beans
25. Growing Ghoulia
26. Casketball Jinx (same link as above)
27. Cleo in the Kitchen
28. Case of the Missing Squeak (same link as above)
29. Pet Problems
30. License to Rock (same link as above)
31. Power Heist
32. Monster Midterms
33. Fur-mergency
34. Boogey Nightmare (same link as above)
35. Best Fiends
36: Scareer Day (same link as above)
37. Stone Alone
38. Horsin’ Around (same link as above)
39. Moonlit Fieldtrip
40. A Little Boost (same link as above)
41. Fresh Waters Run Deep
42. Sew Fierce
43. Witchful Thinking
44. Monster Match
45. The Monster Way
SEASON 2
1. Rule School
2. New Witch in Town
3. Play It Again, Clawd (same link as above)
4. Mummy in the Mirror (part of the beginning is missing; the first few minutes can be found in this video)
5. How to Scare a Banshee (same link as above)
6. So Chill
7. Mixed Up Meowlody
8. The Haunted Sand Castle Caper
9. Fangs for the Memories
10. Two-Riffic
11. Monster High-Jinks
12. Vamps Just Wanna Have Fun (same link as above)
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