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coccinelf · 8 months
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Ok so queer tv-shows are important, I love queer tv-shows but I think it’s also important to get queer main characters in mainstream shows. We tell stories to empathize with others, learn about others and grow. We can’t go on forever segregating queer main characters to “queer tv”. It needs to merge sooner or later. I think it’s happening right now and I’m over the moon.
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thetisming · 5 months
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rip to some brilliant lines
"i dont know, i mean what would we even do? run away to some place exotic and like, flirt with random foreign guys? OKAY I'M IN!"
"getting awfully wordy for a carriage driver." "well i actually used to be a writer until someone took my job." "okay. just take us to paris."
"nice to meet you, Vaseline!"
"and i may be guilty, but youre not that... guilt free!" "yeah, tell 'em boy!"
"i'm proud to announce i am no longer playing the virginal!"
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tkmk · 1 year
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i don't care enough to actually watch the video, but i have to say i'd be extremely surprised if this really was the "biggest pokemon blunder of all time".
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The Surprising Strength of Brazil’s Democracy
Seeming similarities between the attack on the presidential palace in Brasilia and the US Capitol abound. But Brazilian democracy has proved more resilient.
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From the angry mob’s chants about a stolen election to the physical desecration of edifices of democracy to a shaken national political class trying to make sense of how things descended into political violence, seeming parallels between the violent attack on the Brazilian Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court and Congress buildings by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro this January 8 and the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, abound. But appearances can be deceiving. Unlike January 6—which delayed the peaceful transfer of power in the United States for the first time in the country’s history—nothing of substance was interrupted in Brazil. The rioting in Brasília unfolded after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had taken place, on January 1. The rioters stormed empty public buildings in Brasília, as Brazilian politicians enjoyed the weekend elsewhere. As for Bolsonaro, the so-called Trump of the Tropics, he had already decamped for Florida.
More important, there is no Brazilian equivalent to “Stop the Steal,” the movement that powered January 6. Devoted to undermining the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election, the movement enjoys widespread support within the Republican Party and among conservative media outlets. At least 150 election deniers were elected to the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterms, an increase over the 139 Republicans who voted against the certification of electoral votes on January 6, 2021. By contrast, election deniers in Brazil appear to lack political patrons. No major Brazilian politician is on record as denying that Lula won fair and square, and a reported 92 percent of Brazilians rejected the attacks. Indeed, the most prominent voices questioning the Brazilian elections are in the United States, including former Trump adviser Steven Bannon. Even though political violence driven by conspiracy theories and mass delusion about a stolen election will forever unite the Trump and Bolsonaro administrations, Brazilian democracy fared better than American democracy under a president who was hell-bent on undermining the institutions and norms that he was elected to protect. There’s much irony in this turn of events, since Brazilian democracy only dates to 1988.
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homoquartz · 6 months
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i haven't formed a full thought about this yet but i'm noticing this trend in movies/television that depict a time from about the 60s to the 80s are drenched in nostalgia for casual racism. like it's weird?? the way they linger on imagery, especially of Native people, depicted offensively. like "wasn't this a funny time, when everything was simple and campy?"
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sugarless5 · 2 years
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What I say: Eh, I’m not really a vampire book person
What every single book I pick up on people’s recommendation with only a vague notion of the plot and eventually become obsessed with turns out to be: a vampire book
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☕️Voting is meaningless because your vote doesn't really matter.
generally disagree.
this argument usually from from the angle of rationality. it's not "rational" to vote. but i think voting can be very meaningful for a number of reasons, even if it's not exactly rational. i generally encourage people to vote and believe voting is a civic duty, but also if someone doesn't want to vote i don't really press the issue for reasons i'll get into.
first, just because something is irrational doesn't mean it's meaningless. on the contrary, a lot of the most meaningful parts of our lives are irrational. there are a lot of ways in which voting can be irrational but meaningful. there is the "expressive" view. the idea that voting is a chance for people to express themselves and affirming their identity, to themselves and others.
there's also the "mandate" theory. that a candidate who gets significantly more votes than his opponent will have a greater mandate to rule rather than someone who only barely won. it signals to lawmakers and other politicians that this candidate and whatever his policies are have broad popular support (and this works in the opposite direction too). this is a powerful message. and i'd take this a step further and say that if a new, more radical candidate gets a considerable number of votes but still loses (say 15 or 20%), there is an increased chance that in the next election the winning candidate will try to appeal to the people who voted for that candidate or in order to. so voting is essentially a measurable expression of a particular politician's "mandate" to rule.
sometimes people like to compare voting to a "meaningless ritual" like rain dancing. but it's hardly meaningless and so what if it's just a ritual? i've always said we need more ritual in our life. but like rain dancing, voting is an ancient, noble tradition that (if done right) fosters a sense of community and civic-mindedness and can be a spiritually fulfilling act. it symbolizes our dignity and freedom and kinship, for we are all equals and our vote -- our judgements and opinions -- are given equal weight. no one is above us.
another point, littering. do you litter? probably not. by why not? you're just one person. you littering isn't going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. the impact of you littering in the world is negligible, basically 0. but you don't do it, because part of what makes "not littering" work is that everyone collectively agrees not to. it might make rational sense for a person to just throw his trash on the ground rather than expend the energy to walk 20 feet to the nearest trash can. but you don't, because you do what's right. you do your part to make the world a better place. to make it more like how you want it to be. and so does everyone else. and the world is better for it, than if everyone behaved "rationally". sometimes being irrational is, ultimately, the more rational choice.
same goes for voting. i believe voting is a civic duty. but even excluding that, voting gives you a say (though small, at least it's equal to all others) in how the world should be. and so if you believe in doing good and making the world better you should vote. not because your vote is going to make a difference on its own, but because it's the right thing to do. it's you doing your part, as a matter of principle, however irrational it might be.
and that's another thing. if not voting is the "rational" choice to make then you leave the voting in the hands of the irrational. so now you have the rational subject to the whims of the irrational and the irrational get to influence public policy. idk. it's starting to look like it's more beneficial to be irrational and being "rational" only lets you feel smugly superior.
there are also all the myriad intangible benefits that come from voting. there's the above mentioned "expressive" point (letting everyone know what type of person you are), feeling good about your choice (especially if your choice wins, but also just in participating), fun (maybe i'm weird or my town is weird but it's usually a pretty big community event and i enjoy it.), educating yourself and raising your awareness, the bandwagon effect (i know this from personal experience. in 2016 none of my family was going to vote until i said i was voting. then everyone voted and so did some of their friends. so my one vote actually resulted in probably another 15 or 20 votes.), etc.
also, you gotta play to win.
i will say though i think principled non-voting can be meaningful. and while i generally encourage people to vote as a matter of civic duty i don't really press people i disagree with too hard (never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake). because the fewer people that vote actually increases the weight of individual votes. this is a part of the reason why i'm not a fan of compulsory voting.
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shopcat · 10 months
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the baby has one parent's little face marking thing and the other's coat because they're a little horse family the world is a beautiful place
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basshole-astard · 8 months
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PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like "gatorade is bad actually!" and "don't drink fruit juice it'll just dehydrate you!" and neither of these are true!
regarding fruit juice: there's apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that's simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won't do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won't completely dehydrate you as long as you're also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can't go wrong with fruit juice!!!
regarding gatorade: maybe this isn't an every day drink, but guess what: if it's 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don't have AC, or you're moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you're sweating buckets: that's when you drink a gatorade.
gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren't doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you're sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that's intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that's its intended use case!!!!
no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!
Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It's fine if you drink things that aren't water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn't going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!
honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you're doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3
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mobius-m-mobius · 5 months
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#the Nowhere Man who waits and the God of Stories who watches
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jonhparrish · 8 months
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It's been very funny having people say "Go to blah blah website now that Twitter is falling apart" and then go to said website only for them to also be falling apart and making random changes no one asked for.
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templeofshame · 9 months
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Just reflecting on the awkwardness of a moment of explaining to a white person who says "slay" a lot how I have become a person who says "girl" a lot via drag race, but I don't feel comfortable/appropriate using other "drag slang" generally when it's from aave... like "slay"
They didn't seem offended... and did not stop saying "slay" a lot
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wrongspacetime · 5 months
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The Fall of the House of Usher 1.08 | The Raven (2023)
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aeide-thea · 1 year
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on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance
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hexbladescurse · 14 days
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"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.
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but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)
mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…
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the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.
every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.
first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic
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which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.
which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.
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the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.
walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?
well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.
you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?
it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.
when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.
and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.
kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.
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yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.
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