I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it’s now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.
No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.
However, it’s very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It’s also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.
It’s obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it’s dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can’t have an impact on the way people think about violence.
I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.
Let me pass on something important someone else said, though I forget who:
Video games do not cause social problems by being interactive or letting you have a gun. But video games are still stories and ALL stories have the capacity to affect people’s world views. Very rarely do they do so on an individual level, though they can, but in aggregate they’re a large part of what a culture IS. You do not develop an unthinking hatred for people of color and willingness to commit violence by playing Modern Warfare or Resident Evil 5, but they’re still CONTRIBUTING to a culture where these are DOMINANT NARRATIVES about people of color and sending Americans overseas to kill them.
I just think dating is a scam like 90% of the time. Joker voice And I’m tired of pretending it’s not
I can buy the concept of romance existing but the social song and dance of Dating specifically is so, like. Ok. So we’re all just expected to walk around performing desirability & having coffee with people you find mildly interesting & Hopefully you will Feel Something for one of them. & if you keep it up long enough you can get legally bound and financially dependent on each other and have kids or something, not because you want them but because you’re so fucking normal. This is supposed to be your #1 priority in life btw. Are you insane?
And people will be like “you’ll never be happy if you don’t successfully have coffee with someone you think is mildly interesting, it’s so sad that you’re not having coffee with someone you think is mildly interesting” & I’m sitting here like I don’t think that’s true actually I think I’m doing pretty good. I have other things fulfilling my admittedly lower than average need for human connection, like friends
Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -
why are your legs so long?
I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?
i will never shut up about maned wolves
just look at it
look at this
one of the animals for sure
wretched beast
If it’s neither wolf nor fox, then it’s cat software running on giraffe hardware.
I think y'all should know that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog which looks like this.
I was not ready for corgi-bear.
you’re definitely not ready for the maned wolf Front Angle then
Confirmed creature post
If you put the maned wolf and the bush dog together, they would be the henchmen for a villain or loveable comedy duo
Maned Wolf: *peering over the long grass using it’s beautiful long legs*
Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -
why are your legs so long?
I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?
i will never shut up about maned wolves
just look at it
look at this
one of the animals for sure
wretched beast
If it’s neither wolf nor fox, then it’s cat software running on giraffe hardware.
I think y'all should know that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog which looks like this.
I was not ready for corgi-bear.
you’re definitely not ready for the maned wolf Front Angle then
Confirmed creature post
If you put the maned wolf and the bush dog together, they would be the henchmen for a villain or loveable comedy duo
Maned Wolf: *peering over the long grass using it’s beautiful long legs*
talking about impenetrable accents/dialect just reminded me. when I was in Milan a couple of years back I was staying in this little rathole hotel and I had the biggest fucking migraine, so I was like non c'è problema I’ll just go buy painkillers. of course every pharmacy on the map in a three block radius was closed, so my stupid ass just starts wandering around trying to figure out on the fly if you can get OTC from supermarkets in italy.
I walk into this little everything store (to my foreign eyes the kind of place that back home could sell you a bunch of carrots, a 6-pack of beer, pantyhose, bleach and a screwdriver set) and I see some household basics in the back but not what I need. with the confidence of a person who is only in the city for 3 days because he got bored and packed a bag and booked the cheapest flight available the week before (<= MENTAL ILLNESS), I was like no worries I know some italian, I can just ask.
I grab a bottle of water, walk up to the counter, and I’m like Ciao, hai il paracetamolo? And the guy is like che, and I’m like paracetamolo. Per la mia testa. And he’s like che?
This is where I would have said ‘aspirina’ except I can’t take aspirin for medical reasons, or 'antidolorifico’ except I don’t know that word and I’ve got no phone data for google translate and also I’m stupid. So in my fucked up leith-glasgow-italian accent I’m like paaa-ra-cetta-mollll-ooo. He’s like ohhh bene, bene, and he calls another guy out of the back and asks him to go get something. Other guy then walks out of the store into the street, and before I can be like hey, che la fuck, he comes back and hands me a huge bundle of herbs.
At this point I’m like okay this entire interaction has been a bust, but these guys have been very nice and patient and they’re both smiling happily at me because they’ve been of service, so I’m like ahh perfetto, grazie, pay them a couple of euros and leave.
EVENTUALLY I find a pharmacy that’s open, and my head is fucking killing me, and my phone still isn’t connecting, and now I have this small shrubbery poking out of my coat pocket, so I don’t even bother looking around the shelves. I just walk straight to the counter and I’m like uhh ciao, scusi. And hearing my nightmare of an accent the guy answers in english and I’m like thank christ, do you please have paracetamol. Not aspirin, I can’t take aspirin. And he’s like yeah yeah hold on, goes into the back, comes out with what I need.
Only when he comes out he gives me this look, and then he starts laughing. And then he pretends he’s not laughing and rings me up and I pay, and as I’m leaving I can see him losing it. But I don’t care, my head is going to explode, I’m going back to the rathole to close the blinds and fall comatose for four hours.
When I get back to my hotel room I take off my coat and remember the huge bouquet of herbs in my pocket. They smell amazing, and I’m like I’m pretty sure this is parsley in which case I can just get some tomatoes and mozzarella later and make it work. but since I have no idea what that interaction was, I want to make sure. I bring out my phone to get a visual reference of what parsley leaves look like, and because I was using it for google translate earlier I put 'parsley’ in the wrong box like a dope and translate it to italian.
prezzemolo
I wish I could have been the pharmacist in the moment he looked at my tired pissed off anglophone ass, heard me say 'paracetamol’ in my fucked up accent, and turned around saw what was in my pocket. I’d have lost my shit too.
Respect to the first guys who, after you left, said “what a nice bloke. He looked so tired. We can relate. Whom amongst us has NOT had a parsley-related emergency”
In a 1996 by-election, one of the candidates for Australia’s parliament changed his name to Steve Grim-Reaper so he wouldn’t get mixed up with other candidates
Affini might not be real but florets sure are. You just have to find a suitably traumatized queer person and give them affection and they will literally beg you to put them on a leash
the only way to tell if a man is truly gentle is if he has green moss and algae all over him from sleeping quietly, motionlessly, at the bottom of a crystal clear riverbed
i’m gonna be straight up, we’re at the point where we’ve so thoroughly proven that debate is ineffectual at best in terms of convincing shitheads of fucking anything that, if you do so now, you’re basically just a fucking ally to them
don’t fucking platform nazis. don’t give them the time of day. block them, maybe hurt their feelings too, but just block them.
you need to understand that social ostracization actually fucking works in terms of dissuading behavior. it may not change a person, but it’ll change what they do. you trying to epicly own them with facts and logic achieves less than nothing—it gives them exactly what they want: attention
i’m gonna be straight up, we’re at the point where we’ve so thoroughly proven that debate is ineffectual at best in terms of convincing shitheads of fucking anything that, if you do so now, you’re basically just a fucking ally to them
don’t fucking platform nazis. don’t give them the time of day. block them, maybe hurt their feelings too, but just block them.
you need to understand that social ostracization actually fucking works in terms of dissuading behavior. it may not change a person, but it’ll change what they do. you trying to epicly own them with facts and logic achieves less than nothing—it gives them exactly what they want: attention
i’m gonna be straight up, we’re at the point where we’ve so thoroughly proven that debate is ineffectual at best in terms of convincing shitheads of fucking anything that, if you do so now, you’re basically just a fucking ally to them
don’t fucking platform nazis. don’t give them the time of day. block them, maybe hurt their feelings too, but just block them.
you need to understand that social ostracization actually fucking works in terms of dissuading behavior. it may not change a person, but it’ll change what they do. you trying to epicly own them with facts and logic achieves less than nothing—it gives them exactly what they want: attention
i’m gonna be straight up, we’re at the point where we’ve so thoroughly proven that debate is ineffectual at best in terms of convincing shitheads of fucking anything that, if you do so now, you’re basically just a fucking ally to them
don’t fucking platform nazis. don’t give them the time of day. block them, maybe hurt their feelings too, but just block them.
you need to understand that social ostracization actually fucking works in terms of dissuading behavior. it may not change a person, but it’ll change what they do. you trying to epicly own them with facts and logic achieves less than nothing—it gives them exactly what they want: attention
“OK” SO IT SEEMS AS THOUGH MY GENETICALLY MODIFIED KILLER BEETLES HAVE ESCAPED. HAS ANYONE SEEN MY FUCKI🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲OH G🪲OD🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲 SHI🪲🪲T🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🧪AAAHHHHHHHHOOOHhh Hey. That One Learned thge basics of Chemistry . #Proud
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
I’m so tired of the way suspicious meat is always human meat like for once I just want to be surprised. Let it be something else I’m so tired of it being human meat
Look I love horror I’m a big fan of it but guys. It’s been overdone. At this point when I reach a point in a story where the meat starts being suspicious I roll my eyes because we all already know it’s just some guy. Mystery meat could be so much more why won’t we let it be more
Oh my steak is a guy? Yawn. Boring. That’s every steak in horror.
Give me meat that just spawns randomly in your fridge. Meat that has no clear origin. Where is it from? We don’t know. What kind of meat is it? No clue. It’s mystery meat (non human (as far as we’re aware of)). That’s already a bit scarier if only thanks to not knowing how hygenic it is
Give me horror meat that isn’t human bt has it’s horror rooted in reality. Give me parasite pork that takes over your brain functions. Give me fucking prion disease at this point I’ll take it. I’m so starved for mystery meat where the twist ISN’T that it’s human c'mon people we can do better than this
Give me meat that IS genetically human but can’t be matched to anyone’s DNA!!! Where the fuck is it from?? We don’t know!! Scary!!!
Oh people keep disappearing but hey at least the food is really good so that’s something right? Womp womp you’re eating a guy. Boring. Been there done that. Give me something new
Give me a guy who works in a slaughterhouse who swears on his life he’s killed the exact same cow every week for the past 6 months and every time it gets harder to pull the trigger as it looks him in the eyes like it knows him
you go over to your friend’s house and he cooks two chewy, bland, rectangular cuts of meat. Not pork, definitely not beef… maybe venison. In the morning you wake up and go to the kitchen to find he’s taken off the cover plate of the light switch by the sink and he’s carving out a neat rectangle of the flesh behind it.
Or how about “people keep disappearing but this food is really good”, HOWEVER the food in question isn’t anything resembling meat. If you can come up with a scenario where “eating a vegan salad” is somehow “consuming human flesh”, then you’ve earned the right to use that trope.
And I don’t mean “the plants were fertilized by human corpses”, that’s boring and also not really that horrific; I mean “somehow this cucumber slice is a genetic match to the third victim”.
i read the cutest reddit thread today where this 19 yo boy was “babysitting” his 15 yo little sister while his parents were away on vacation and she got this horrific period and needed to be taken to the ER.
and this sweet 19 yo boy was doing all he could to take care of her, giving her meds and water and then packing stuff up to go to the hospital once reddit was like “yeah if she’s soaking two tampons in an hour you should go” - but being only a little older than a child himself, he didn’t know what to pack, so he brought like three things, and one of them was SUNSCREEN.
lmao everyone on reddit was like “you’re a really good brother but sunscreen?? for the hospital??” lmao they are roasting him. also op’s sister changed his name in her phone to “spf” and their dad calls him “bananaboat” now. this guy is never living this down
(also his sister is ok and it turns out their family has some kind of genetic blood disorder)
the brother kind of reminds me of that post that’s been going around abt that abandoned five-week-old kitten that was taking care of a few two-week-old kittens that were somehow with him and he was just trying his best but he was so small
Hi guys! So I know we all don’t actually read the terms and conditions of things and just hit agree assuming there’s nothing important in there (I do it too oops) but if you take writing commissions or anything involving money, then there’s actually something in the AO3 terms and conditions to be aware of.
Linking to a personal website or blog/social network where you are taking donations, posting commissions or mentioning published works is permitted, but advertising it directly on the Archive is not, nor is using language which one might interpret as requesting financial contributions. For example, you can say something to the effect of “check out my Tumblr if you want to know more about me and my writing” and include the link to the site, but you cannot specifically state anything about donations, commissions or sales on the Archive.
Today someone reported one of my fics as violating this condition - presumably because I’d mentioned my patreon in the author’s note (I wasn’t actively requesting donations either… I’d literally just mentioned that it existed, and that the fic in question was written as a thank-you for hitting one of my goals).
I’ve written to AO3 to check whether just saying ‘thank you to those who support me on patreon’ is fine and I’ll let you guys know when they get back to me, but if it’s still going too far in terms of being a ‘commercial promotion’ then I’ll just avoid mentioning this in the future! :’)
As I said, someone did actually report my fic for this - so there are people out there who are noticing/reporting these situations. Please be aware of this if you take fic commissions, or use patreon or ko-fi, because your account could end up suspended, which of course no one wants!
<3 <3
UPDATE: AO3 got back to me - you’re not allowed to mention or link to patreon at all, regardless of how it’s phrased. Not sure if it’s the same for ko-fi but it might be better to be safe than sorry!
<3 @kahnah23 relevant to you and possibly some others~
That’s a fucking bullshit rule, I’m sorry. They shouldn’t deny you the opportunity to advertise your own work.
this isn’t just a self-determined descriptor; that’s a legal definition that requires adherence to specific rules and laws regarding income, profit, and donations.
this isn’t a “bullshit rule” just meant to prevent creators from advertising. in op’s post, the contact from ao3 offers a roundabout way to advertise. this rule ensures that ao3 and the organization for transformative works to stay a non-profit organization - this “bullshit rule” is essentially a way so that ao3 and the other services that the organization for transformative works can stay online.
Hey, folks! A bit of clarification on this point. Courtesy of the lovely people from our Legal and Abuse committees, here’s how things are:
What the TOS FAQ says is: “We want the Archive to remain a non-commercial space. That means that it isn’t the right place for offering merchandise, even fan-related merchandise. Linking to your personal page (not, for example, an Amazon author page) is fine, even if the personal page includes some items for sale, but the Archive is not advertising space.”
We made this rule to keep the Archive focused on its original mission of protecting noncommercial transformative works, and to avoid confusion about the relationship between the Archive and individual creators. Donations to individual creators are not donations to the Archive, so they don’t affect our status as a nonprofit as such, but we still need a rule that enables our small, hard-working abuse team to enforce an anti-commercialization rule as fairly as possible.
It is acceptable to mention something like “This work was commissioned by Mary Sue,” but creators should not link directly to their fundraising pages or solicit donations on the Archive. We do not want to suspend accounts over this, and creators are given notice if there’s a problem. We presume good faith, and if you think Abuse has made a mistake about your work, you can appeal any decision requiring the removal of a link.
Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?
You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.
this is crazy bc I remember when i was in school, if a guy had spare tampons in his backpack he was deemed the most universally popular guy by every single woman in school. The rizz you get from having tampons on you as a man is immeasurable.
Most of my friends since i was like 14 have had periods and they mostly stick to two brands, the day i started carrying them on my backpacks i unlocked a level of loyalty and care i could not articulate if i had a poetry degree. I met my soon to be wife because that day i was the only person around her who carried pads and she has never stopped telling people about it, i’m getting married because of the immeasurable rizz given to me by openly carrying pads as a dude
you know when you really want to talk abt your OCs but don’t know what to say so you’re just holding them up like Simba with a bunch of exclamation points overhead?
Yeah.
Image description: art showing a person crying and holding up many tiny people, labled"OCs", the person holding them up is labled: “wants to talk about them but brain is made of smashed bananas” end Image description
I’ve been scream laughing at this for several days
the first time i ever saw this video it made me spit out my drink all over my desk which is somewhat ironic considering the content of this video
[Video Description: the camera person grabs a bottle on a table and pulls it closer to them, cheerfully exclaiming “let’s see if this one does anything!” when they pop the lid open, the brown liquid in the bottle turns pink and begins shooting directly upward out of the bottle like a fountain. the person says “ah-” but is cut off as the video freezes and zooms out, with text under the still reading, “Ah / It appears to have done something”, as Waltz no 2 by Shostakovich plays in the background. End VD]
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