Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from “banal” to “insightful” on the input side and “kind of deep” to “incredibly fucking dumb” on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.
so the other day a castmate of mine was talking about having once been a little girl (at this point, i all but short-circuited because said castmate is a man in his mid-sixties and my brain had its little moment of “!!!!! trans person!!! and he’s OLD!!!!”) and being asked if there was a famous person he looked up to or wanted to look or be more like. and he said— again, as a little girl at this point— “santa claus!” and everyone thought he was weird for it.
and this story doesn’t read as well over text because you really have to see the guy. but he looks just like santa claus. he’s got the long white hair and the beard and the belly and everything. and i just. the amount of secondhand trans joy i experienced is truly insane. i’m gonna get old! i’m gonna get old the way i wanna get old! hey everybody you’re gonna get old; we’ve been doing it for years!
anyway shoutout to the santa claus of my cast and to every older trans person we love you so fucking much
Going around preemptively blocking radfem blogs because a gender post escaped into the ether and I don’t know what kind of dead rats it’ll drag home.
The way you do it is find one then just go through it and block all the radfems they reblpg from then go through those and do they same and repeat til you’re bored. They all share around each other’s circle so you just kinda cut off the network that way. For anyone who maybe is new to getting harassed by radfems n stuff. I just kinda make it regular practice but if you ever get in a bind about it, y'know.
Honestly yeah–I had one single poll hit terf circles and blocked all the ones who interacted with it with extreme prejudice, and now they’re just gone other than the occasional one I can easily and swiftly block. It’s kind of funny how efficient it is!
the terf hatemail game has finally been upgraded with some more girlboss econ major email swag, i shall reserve a slot for it on my calendar when i return after the holidays
as per your last ask, i shall terminate myself post-haste
I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at
“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion
It’s worth noting that many, MANY players spoke out against the ban, including the aforementioned Crosby and McDavid. Dermott took it one step further and just said “fuck it, Imma use the tape” which is typically only used on designated Pride nights. He just did it on (I think) a regular-ass, non-Pride game.
STOP HAVING WHITE VOICE ACTORS PLAYING NON-WHITE ROLES
stop depriving non-white actors opportunities to act and get recognized!
Voice actors often don’t know who they’re reading for or what franchise they’re in (that’s what the strike was recently about, so they’d know whether they were in a small first time game or the 4th installment of a major franchise, if they were replacing a beloved voice actor, etc.) so please don’t harass the actors, until recently they legally didn’t have the right to know who they were reading for and were usually not told until months or even years later.
Definitely go after casting, directors, and studios executives. Those are the people making the decisions.
They still don’t have the right to know. They got fucking nothing out of that strike. They can know the code name (which might be a serial number or whatever) and if it’s a sequel. That’s it. That’s the extent of the “transparency” they won from the strike.
As a perfect example of this controversy, if you haven’t looked up interviews surrounding Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross, it’s worth it.
Laura Bailey herself explained that when she auditioned for the role, she was given no information about what the character looked like. It was only after she was hired and arrived for recording that she was shown concept art and discovered the character was a WOC. She was uncomfortable about the situation.
Meanwhile, Neil Druckmann revealedthat they were already working on concept art of the character when they hired Laura Bailey. They finalized the character’s design as a WOC after they’d hired a white voice actress, so that was a conscious decision. He was also very flippant about the situation as a whole.
Like people above have said: Yes, whitewashed casting is a legitimate and real issue. But unlike actors in film and stage, voice actors are often totally blind to what they’re auditioning for. They get fucked by NDAs and legal red tape bullshit. Go after the casting directors and execs and high-position game devs that knowingly make these decisions.
This reminds me of a time I got shunned on Tumblr for complaining that Shao Jun wasn’t voiced by an Asian VA. That was around 2013ish, so I’m glad people are being more vocal about this issue now.
STOP HAVING WHITE VOICE ACTORS PLAYING NON-WHITE ROLES
stop depriving non-white actors opportunities to act and get recognized!
Voice actors often don’t know who they’re reading for or what franchise they’re in (that’s what the strike was recently about, so they’d know whether they were in a small first time game or the 4th installment of a major franchise, if they were replacing a beloved voice actor, etc.) so please don’t harass the actors, until recently they legally didn’t have the right to know who they were reading for and were usually not told until months or even years later.
Definitely go after casting, directors, and studios executives. Those are the people making the decisions.
They still don’t have the right to know. They got fucking nothing out of that strike. They can know the code name (which might be a serial number or whatever) and if it’s a sequel. That’s it. That’s the extent of the “transparency” they won from the strike.
As a perfect example of this controversy, if you haven’t looked up interviews surrounding Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross, it’s worth it.
Laura Bailey herself explained that when she auditioned for the role, she was given no information about what the character looked like. It was only after she was hired and arrived for recording that she was shown concept art and discovered the character was a WOC. She was uncomfortable about the situation.
Meanwhile, Neil Druckmann revealedthat they were already working on concept art of the character when they hired Laura Bailey. They finalized the character’s design as a WOC after they’d hired a white voice actress, so that was a conscious decision. He was also very flippant about the situation as a whole.
Like people above have said: Yes, whitewashed casting is a legitimate and real issue. But unlike actors in film and stage, voice actors are often totally blind to what they’re auditioning for. They get fucked by NDAs and legal red tape bullshit. Go after the casting directors and execs and high-position game devs that knowingly make these decisions.
This reminds me of a time I got shunned on Tumblr for complaining that Shao Jun wasn’t voiced by an Asian VA. That was around 2013ish, so I’m glad people are being more vocal about this issue now.
adventurer behind me in the dungeon says to her partner “how do we get to the inner sanctum?” and her partner says very firmly “have you ever been in a dungeon before? you explore it and chambers are revealed”
I don’t understand why so many TERFs are afraid to be called TERFs. You call yourself a radical feminist. You espouse viewpoints that are designed to exclude trans people from the scope of progress and vilify them as enemies of feminism. But when someone calls you a trans exclusionary radical feminist, it is a slur?
when people are like “oh so you’re just gonna judge someone for their political beliefs?” yes actually. I think someone’s values and opinions is a pretty reasonable thing to judge them for.
In response to this event, some redditors created r/charityraid, with the goal of concentrating the power of thousands of users into a single charity at a time to hopefully break a few more sites.
As of 9/21/21, the site has updated with more wishes. The incredible spike in donations is amazing, but if you want to and are able to keep the momentum going, there are over 300 waiting to be filled at https://www.onesimplewish.org!
most annoying thing about researching combinatorial game theory is how every paper on the subject ends with “BUT HEY,
not a lot of people know this but conway would typically begin lectures with "hello cambridge, welcome to game theory”
the Sprague-Grundy theorem was independently discovered by Sprague in 1936 (“Über mathematische Kampfspiele”) and by Grundy in 1939 (“Game Theory: Why every game is secretly Nim SOLVED! How deep does it go!?”)
The best thing about Tumblr is that your dash is a mixed bag, your feed is just whatever the people whom you trust to have good taste have decided to talk about. I love seeing fandom content about things I’ve never seen, watched, or even heard of, with absolutely zero context. Seeing someone post a sentence like “hey have you ever thought about how since Elain was created just before the second Undoing, she technically speaking doesn’t have a soul like the other constructs of the North-East system, but she was still the one who likes music and the first one to cast a vote against cannibalising Georg.”
And all the comments are like “oh my god she enjoyed music ;___;” and “now I can’t ever watch the piano scene again without crying”, “fuck you op, why did you notice that”, and several sobbing gifs, and I’m here like “hmm. Incomprehensible. But I’m glad that you’re all having fun.”
i know we won’t but GOD i hope he never tells her he’s an alien i hope we have a whole series of ruby thinking he’s just a time travelling human until he gets hurt and is like ohhhhhh ruby love can you check my pulses and she’s like check your fucking what now
DESCRIPTION: A video clip of Pedro Pascal on the YouTube interview show Hot Ones. After eating a chicken wing with really spicy hot sauce, he’s panting from the heat & says “Can somebody step in here and let me bite into their flesh? Can somebody give me a cup of blood?” The background music grows more intense as he speaks.
That trans girl mutual you think is so cool? The one you have a huge crush on? Yeah I have some bad news for you buddy. She’s taken. She’s dating a she/they. That she/they is on here too and their blog consists entirely of the most unfunny normie reblogs you have ever seen in your life. Some real “what is Harry Potter was in the TARDIS” type shit. And they’re monogamous. They’re monogamously e-dating. They call each other “my wife” sometimes too so it’s hard to tell but they might actually be monogamously e-married. You can fix her. Only you can save her. Slide into her DMs right now.
Losing it at the people in the tags like “I did this and it worked” or “my ex’s new girlfriend reblogged this”…. I think this might be my most destructive post yet
