The way Holmes textually canonically frequently regularly and often without hesitation commits crimes and/or protects criminals because he likes them, he thinks it’s a silly thing to be criminalised for, he’s bored, the police annoy him, he’s gay, he’s been drinking his respect women juice, or it was a really funny crime is just… Perfect of him actually
Literally canonically in his eyes basically the worst thing you can do is be a rich guy using your power to hurt people especially if you’re hurting women or warmongering but if women commit treason he thinks it’s hilarious and they end up besties who send each other Christmas cards every year its so fucking good
He’s 100% right about all of this by the way
Rich man: *harasses a woman and acts like a creep*
Holmes: You fucking asshole. I’m going to make sure you go to jail.
A woman: *murders her husband*
Holmes: I DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING ALSO GOOD FOR HER
The Solitary Cyclist and The Abbey Grange, respectively
Importantly, many of the “murdered husband” stories feature Doyle, via Watson or Holmes, looking directly at the reader and going “And this could have been avoided IF DIVORCE WAS LEGAL”
I hope the “What if Disco Elysium was about a witch finding her cat in the mountains” post never leaves the gaming discourse vernacular. It will never not be funny to me bc it’s got all the Gamer Entitlement™ levels of CoD bros throwing hissy fits about “woke” shit but instead of being couched in far right reactionism it’s the exact kind of “Kingdom of Conscience” style liberal outrage at anything with conviction and beliefs that DE waxed on about. Like even chuds who get mad that the game calls you out for being racist interact with the themes of DE better and understand them more than Cat Lady did.
Trying to comprehend this post shuts down my frontal lobe.
gf fandom in 2016: if you so much as hint - even jokingly! - about the nature of ford and bill’s relationship being anything other than platonic (and even then you NEED to give a disclaimer that bill is manipulating him!) then you support abusive relationships
And people really do try to interact with fandom like consumers! They want « content ». They act like they can get a refund on reading a fic they don’t like. They add fanfics to goddamned goodreads without a second thought without realizing that’s as ridiculous as adding your friend’s dining room as a restaurant on yelp just so you can post a review about it
‘Fandom’ is a contraction of 'fanatic’ and 'kingdom’.
Fanatic, from Latin fanaticus “mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god.”
Fandom is literally the place people go to be enthusiastically crazy about their blorbos! There are no normal people here!
#just opening livejournal would have killed you instantly
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”
I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.
And it’s going to happen with AI.
There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.
AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.
Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”
I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.
And it’s going to happen with AI.
There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.
AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.
Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.
Been watching Kevin Can Fuck Himself on Netflix this week. It’s a fascinating show, and easy to digest as background noise while working.
Kevin Can Fuck Himself is a serious drama sendup of the classic sitcom dynamic. It’s two different shows mashed into one another.
The show’s front is your typical Manchild Husband sitcom about a man named Kevin McRoberts. Every episode, he has a new wacky shenanigan to drag his wife and neighbors into, which usually blows up in his face spectacularly.
But Kevin is not the show’s main character. Whenever he’s onscreen, the show is lit and shot in sitcom fashion, with laugh track and applause and musical cues and all that jazz. The universe revolves around him and responds as sitcoms do to his every whim.
But this show is actually about his wife Allison. And whenever she’s away from Kevin, the show changes genres to a serious drama piece. It’s a show about the emotional and financial abuse of being tied down to the role of the Manchild Husband’s “Nagging Wife”, and more broadly the effects that his Comedic Sociopathy have on the put-upon supporting cast around him as well.
It’s the story of a woman’s quest to finally escape from the cage that her marriage to an impulsive, inconsiderate, and entirely self-centered piece of shit has trapped her in.
It’s a really fun angle. This is what the show looks like whenever Kevin’s present for a scene.
Kevin’s show has bright colors and fixed camera angles for that “filmed in front of a live studio audience” effect. It takes place mostly within this one studio set, with characters coming and going through the front and kitchen doors.
Nothing that happens ever has any lasting consequences, and no matter how much trouble he gets into, it always works out fine for Kevin in the end.
Then, when he leaves:
Allison’s story, the actual story of the show, has muted colors and a dramatic camera with four distinct walls. The camera will pan around her or zoom in on things that are important. There’s no laugh track. People bleed. People do drugs or get hurt or all the things that can’t happen on Kevin’s show.
Hers is a serialized drama with a persistent plot running from episode to episode.
These two tones are constantly locking horns with each other throughout the series. Allison might walk on set from the front door into Kevin’s latest stupid scheme and “have a few laughs” about how he’s forgotten something important to her and wants her to pick up his laundry. Then make a few passive-aggressive barbs for laughs, enter the kitchen, switch tones, and break down in front of the door.
It’s both an interesting series and artistically creative.
Community is the most important thing in this world, start building it. We may need it to survive soon
For the love of God, meet your neighbor, and rely on them, and let them rely on you. We can’t be isolated in times like these
It doesn’t even have to be that much, just go over and talk to them, volunteer with a neighborhood group or soup kitchen, donate to a food pantry, just do something for your community. Even if you can survive on your own without aid, others don’t or won’t have that Luxury
my guy definitely didnt come that bulked up. its what happens when you haven’t eaten or moved in a thousand years and ur suddenly being fed 3 meals a day and forced to do labor 7 days out of the week.
finished designing Jakub’s TOWW (ive been calling her Melinoe) and mapped out his scars/gave him more piercings. plus bonus art i did of them while i was mulling over their relationship togetherrrr
yeahhhh so chirin’s first death wasnt even violent or dramatic they just had an anxiety induced loss of appetite and once the adrenaline from their crusade and fight against leshy wore off they starved to death lmao.
There are many women out there who want to be a housewife. I, however, want to be a househusband. So, how is that going to work? You can’t be a housewife and househusband together, right?
Wrong.
Here is my guide on how that is in fact possible and how to achieve it. Women, please listen up, because this is important to you when you marry me which I know you want to do.
Step 1) I become your househusband.
Step 2) You become my housewife.
Step 3) The bank takes the house.
Step 4) Can’t be a househusband and a housewife without a house, right?
Step 5) Wrong. We pretend to move out, but actually we are just moving all of our stuff into the walls of the house, where we will live. Much like house gnomes.
Step 6) This can go on for years if we play it right, but eventually the family living there finds us.
Step 7) We get arrested on some trumped up charges like trespassing. We both know they are actually arresting us for daring to love.
Step 8) We go to prison.
Step 9) But what else is prison called?
Step 10) The jailHOUSE.
Step 11) We just can’t stop winning.
Step 12) We get out of prison but have to reintegrate back into society.
Step 13) Where do we do that?
Step 14) The halfway HOUSE.
Step 15) We just can’t stop winning.
Step 16) After we leave we have trouble finding stable employment due to our criminal record..
Step 17) So we become freelance DJs who play at clubs, restaurants, and parties.
I was on YouTube and clicked on a 28 hour long video with a black title card, and it opened with Markiplier’s voice saying, “Hello everybody my name is Markipler and this is your Daily Dose of Internet.”
It was literally just DDOI, but it had Markiplier‘s face cam in the top left corner and he would add commentary every now and then. Halfway through, his house was exploded in the heat death of the universe and his face cam showed vibrant patterns and ethereal shapes as the clips continued like normal.
i hate to admit this but i think if i were in a bad mood and spongebob were around i wouldnt be able to navigate that situation with the patience or grace it demands. and i worry he would blame himself
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