i feel so bad for this fish because imagine being it and you just exist in the ocean and some weird terrestrial creature decides to give you a name that makes it sound like you committed medical malpractice
the US education system isn’t even that bad. many countries have objectively worse-funded education systems, but don’t display the same belligerent idiocy as them. the fundamental issue is that USAmericans have no real reason to care about the rest of the world, as it will never meaningfully affect their lives unless they decide to go on vacation or take part in an invasion. their lack of intellectual curiosity is because the rest of the world never really registers as a real place.
love the notes on this. ‘oh actually our education system is really underfunded’ that’s very unique of you. no other country is like that. i know people who are not legally allowed to attend higher education because of their gender who demonstrate more intellectual curiosity about the world than you. 'actually we’re all struggling and just trying to survive so theres no time to care about the world’ no you’re right the USA is the poorest country on earth after all. would sort of break the argument if people from much more impoverished countries showed significantly more interest in learning about the outside world than usamericans do. almost like people everywhere suffer from lack of access to education but the imperial core uniquely generates people who have no material reason to care, specifically because of their privilege even in poverty. 'um actually most of us can’t afford a vacation overseas’ so, again, since you’re not going to be invaded, and your government isn’t at the international financial gunpoint of a foreign empire, you will literally never be affected by other countries.
you tell a usamerican that the people they bomb, invade, coup, and sanction have it worse than they do and they start sobbing and crying about how they’re actually the least privileged people on the planet, because they don’t have [social welfare that western europe has] because, again, they don’t see the rest of the world, outside the west, as a real place.
addendum for all the yanks suffering from brain fungus in my notes: no, your education system is not uniquely propagandistic, either. every capitalist country has its education warped to support the ideology of its ruling class. similarly, and, even more insane of a claim to make, the US’s unique lack of intellectual curiosity is not due to inadequate mental healthcare. the idea that the rest of the world are all just getting amazing therapy is absurd, 42% of Palestinian children suffer from moderate or acute PTSD.
both of these claims reinforce what I already said, that usamericans literally do not see the rest of the world as being real, and self-victimise because they compare themselves exclusively with other western, imperial core countries like the EU. the only way these claims make sense is if they see 'the rest of the world’ as Germany and Sweden, and see the entire global south as a vague rhetorical construct that can be disregarded (through casual, joking reference to the incredible levels of imperial oppression of the African continent).
having not actually read the post at all, and instead jumped into defensively yelling about 'oppression olympics’, this likely won’t reach any of them, but still.
nobody ever asks if the so called “mind controlling false god” might just have like really cool vibes or makes good points about things or is cute and people just like to do what she says and think what she thinks and be what she wants
we’re working on 15 new Joker movies. we’re working on 40 new Star Wars movies. we’ve got 57 distinct LotR spinoff shows coming soon to 57 different streaming services. we’re expanding the Gumbyverse
As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.
I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I’ve managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I’m sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.
An excerpt from the linked post:
“The dataset of AO3 on HuggingFace is currently disabled, meaning: you can’t download it but you can still see the relevant information of the dataset and it could be available again if the copyright infringement/DMCA takedowns requests are countered. As far as of April 23 (today), the AO3 dataset has only 4 copyright infringement notices. I encourage eveyone to do one, since (quoting): "the scraper has not agreed to take down the entire repo. At this time, the scraper has agreed with taking down art from the person who owns the copyright. That means each of you will need to request a takedown”.
EDIT: I apologize for not including this in the OG post, but yes, as others in the comments have said, the database “was created by processing works with IDs from 1 to 63,200,000 that are publicly accessible.” Work ID means the number in the URL of the works, so if your work has a matching ID between 1 to 63,200,000, then your work is in the dataset and you can fill a DMCA or a copyright infringement notice. The CSV thing on PaperDemon is just a list that you privately (via email) send to the user who did the dataset so they identify your work in the dataset and delete it. So you can do it just, copy and paste your works’ ID to an excel file and send that.“
I love the trope in conspiracies/stories/mockumentaries that’s like “all of these unrelated cultures had this same ultra specific type of creature, so that means they must have been real!!!!” And then the creatures are just like
Human but big
Human but small
Human but found in place where you wouldn’t expect
Lizard but big
Horse but a lil funky
Deer but a lil funky
Other big mammal
It’s like buddy you’re not gonna believe this but these are all based on things that are, in fact, found everywhere
(There’s also very real commentary that can be made here about how people have a sameness and lack of appreciation for indigenous stories and they all belong together in one kind of bin in their heads but that’s way too deep and serious a topic for this post)
Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the wringer. I’m putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it’s all their fault
hey dude im going through a really rough patch can i please crash on your couch for a couple of days i just have a suitcase full of clothes and like a thousand skeleton warriors
Worst Case vs. Best Case Scenarios by Karina Farek.
This is a great joke, but it’s also a wonderful strategy for reducing anxiety that I learned about in therapy. If you’re ever nervous about something, just ask yourself: what’s the best thing that can happen? What’s the worst thing? What will most likely happen?
It does wonders for your nerves, really does.
I can not explain how much this comic has helped me over the years. I think about this constantly and it helps so much.
i’ve been on this site for 10 fucking years and the fact that black people and trans women are systematically chased out and have been chased out one by one from this website is really fucking gross. I hate this website. Racist fucking website.
there used to be so many more black bloggers here prior to the “nsfw” ban, this is not a space marginalized people can use to talk about their issues, terfiest place on the internet tbh.
Even before that. I remember that for about 3 years there was an annual black out. Then when the purge of “Russian Bots” happened damn near 2/3 of all the popular black bloggers I knew disappeared from the site. And people were profoundly disinterested in questioning the validity of Tumblr’s claim that the accounts were Russian agents. Didn’t matter that I knew some of them IRL it fit their world view and that was that. Hardly ever see significant black blogs on here anymore.
Chat they made Minecraft into a silly goofy cringe movie even through Minecraft is actually about life and earth and the universe and tearing meaning out of the ground and molding it with your hands into something that you can be proud of. They made the pink sheep look ugly and funny for a cheap laugh when it should’ve been a beautiful moment where you, age eleven, come across this rarity, this beautiful anomaly and you hold its face in your hands and stare into its chocolate brown eyes and you realize what the whole world is about. Chat they made it into a joke
“i don’t comment on ao3 because i don’t wanna be annoying or weird” skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread
im adopting the ‘dark jock’ aesthetic. i’m going to lurk around crumbling old institute buildings in a black tanktop with a skull on it and a backwards ballcap and i’m going to get dark academia people to write my essays for me while i call them nerds and doofuses and prep for the big dark football game
my wife and i like to torture each other when we lay down for bed at night by tickling or poking each other. as a deterrent we’ve created an entity called “The Bird” which will attack you as a way to show we’re no longer comfortable with whatevers happening. we’ll say “The Bird is coming” or “The Bird is going to get you” instead of “hey stop doing that” then we peck each other with our hands. here’s a visual to help
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