siken saw his words being twisted and he’s having none of it god bless
#you're in a car with a beautiful boy #and the boy is actually a famous poet who casually and really succinctly explained why problematic ships are actually completely chill #and you feel your heart taking root in your body #like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for (@drunktuesdays)
Trump voters on tiktok are EXTREMELY mad about the following:
The leopards eating faces party wouldn't eat MY face
“When I arrived to speak, a boy in the front row was waiting, pencil poised above a ruled notebook. He gazed at me intensely throughout the talk, scribbling furiously away. After I finished, he flipped back to the front page to read out a question that he’d prepared and brought with him. He cited false statistics about rape, claiming men were vastly more likely to be victims, and asking why I chose to ignore their plight. He seemed nervous but excited, confident he had caught me in a lie, with the air of triumphantly unmasking me in front of all his fellow students. He was wearing a red hat emblazoned with words in white: Make America Great Again. Over the next few months, I started to notice something strange. There was always that one boy. Sometimes two or three. They watched intently, eyes shining with excitement. Then they asked the same questions. They gave the same statistics. Often they repeated each other, word for word. Particular themes started cropping up again and again. Why should we listen to you when women lie about rape? Feminism is a man-hating conspiracy designed to let women take over the world when men are the real victims of gender inequality in today’s society. Men are actually more likely to be victims of domestic violence than women. The gender pay gap is a myth.
Eventually, one boy referred to the ‘gynocracy’ and another asked a question in which he directly quoted Milo Yiannopoulos by name. Everything started to fall into place. Instead of just answering boys’ questions and gently providing robust statistics, I started asking them where they’d heard the quotes they were repeating. The answer was always the same: online.
And so hatred of women is ushered into young men’s belief systems without them even realising that that’s what it is. It isn’t hating women; it’s standing up for men. It isn’t hating women; it’s asking for ‘real’ equality. It isn’t hating women; it’s accepting biological difference. It can’t be hating women if everybody is laughing about it online. As messages and conversations like this increasingly cropped up on my radar, it began to seem like there was a gradual rise in the number of young people coming into contact with manosphere ideology. The hostility reported by girls who identify as feminists at UK schools is enormous, with repeated stories of meetings disrupted with misogynistic chants, abusive slogans scrawled over posters, and long-term verbal harassment that has left girls devastated or even forced to change schools. A young woman who identified herself as a feminist in a school discussion I attended emailed me after she was subjected to a campaign of harassment from her male peers as a result. She showed me text messages she had received from boys in her class, whose content read more like a manosphere forum than a teenage text exchange. They informed her that feminism was ‘sexist’, that men are simply biologically superior and that giving them better jobs is just the best way to progress the human race. It’s not their fault, they write; they’re not trying to be ‘mean’, it’s just the way things are. And, reading their messages, I really think they believe it. These are the arguments that teenage girls today – not 100 years ago – are facing from their male peers. Imagine having to try to confront those views among your classmates. Imagine going to school and learning alongside boys who genuinely believe they are simply genetically superior to you.
The boys I meet at schools don’t even know they hate women. They are mild-mannered and wide-eyed. They think it’s only polite to point out the factual inaccuracies and lies repeated by feminists. They have seen misogyny online so often and heard it promoted so persuasively that they wouldn’t even recognise it as a form of hate. The total lack of awareness about this form of radicalisation, and the enormous impact it may be having on some young people, is a missed opportunity to tackle the problem before it spirals out of control.”
- Laura Bates, Men who hate women
satisfying
i keep thinking about how the word sorry isnt even in there once. Insane
How Samuel Beckett Sought Salvation in the Midst of Suffering, by Andy Wimbush, pub. Aeon [ID'd]
thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird
the other day i saw someone refer to fic from 2022 as “really old” and how they were reluctant to comment on it bc they didn’t want to be a creep, and my heart just shattered in my chest. did y’all know there was a whole internet for like 20 years before social media took over everything? and we talked to each other on it! there are other ways to do all this, please don’t let corporations trap you in the for-profit cycle of endless rapid fire consumption and churn because they make it so hard to realize how anti-human it is and hard to find any of the the other options. and also, comment on old fic, a year old or five years old or twenty years old, there is a human being on the other end who put it there on purpose for you to enjoy!
I might not reply because I forget and let it get awkward, but I promise you, people who leave comments on the stuff I wrote when I was youngish and prolificish make my day in ways that are the opposite of creepy.
What’s happening here is people are applying the ethics of scrolling way back on an Instagram profile to scrolling back on an AO3 profile, without understanding the key difference that IG creeping is usually voyeuristic (looking at people’s pictures of themselves and their lives) so dropping a like on a 2022 pic is weird, but scrolling back on an AO3 profile is like getting books from the library and authors literally have their stories posted to an archive to enable readers to, you know, read them.
Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week
Drinking spiders??!
You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.
And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.
I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.
We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.
I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.
It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,
Important context is that floater in the US unequivocally means a shit someone left unflushed in the toilet have a nice day
netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken
character in a movie: buddy, i'm gonna tell you what i've got to do
netflix subtitles: i'll say what i must do
character in a movie: *exhales*
netflix subtitles: (blows raspberry)
character in a movie: ciao!
netflix subtitles: (in italian) bye!
*character in a movie: ciao!
netflix subtitles: (speaks foreign language)
IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA
THIS IS ILLEGAL
REPORT THEM TO THE FCC
THEY HAVE A LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE TO RWPORT IT
ITS REQUIRED BY THE ADA THAT SUBTITLES EXACTLY MATCH THE DIALOGUE
i reported basically every Star Trek show on Paramount+ because the subtitles were all fucked up. they sent me auto emails to let me know they were working on it, and then a real life human being got in touch with me after they had fixed it, to ask if i was still experiencing the issue. they WILL do something, they are required by FEDERAL LAW to do something.
SOMEONE FINALLY PUT IT INTO WORDS!!!
guYS THE FUCKING SIGNS
The onion buying Infowars is the best possible scenario. They actually understand how to report on alex, and they'll know what to do with his assets.
And remember: Alex does not get a dime from the sale. Everything goes to paying the Sandy Hook victim families.
Knowing Alex, he wants to stay in the studio with the cameras rolling while the cops come to evict him. He wants a big dramatic escalation as the deep state hoists him out of the chair.
He fact that it's the onion will take quite a bit of the wind out of those sails lol.
[thinks about it] yup that is indeed unambiguously a christological heresy.
The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.
Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.
Op's tags
#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op
The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.
This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.
(ID in alt)
Approximately one THOUSAND felonies
every locked tomb character is one of the characters of all time but ortus nigenad really is The Character Of All Time my guy brought a fanfiction to the gun fight AND WON
For one chapter of one book, Ortus Nigenad singlehandedly changed the entire genre of the Locked Tomb series with a simple "observe my stand,「The Man in Black」"
the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.
It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.
But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.
“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women
also the former "epidemic" being taken up in pop discourse explicitly or implicitly as a pathological consequence of feminism having "gone too far" instead of actually doing the work to connect social isolation to existing material conditions....no no don't worry about it just default to blaming women for men's sadness and dissatisfaction bc otherwise you'd have to confront capitalism and misogyny and white supremacy etc. etc. and nobody wants to do that so. its somehow very aggravating and boring at the same time. whenever i see think-pieces that follow this script i instantly fall into a furious slumber
“People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.”
- Marco, Book #30: The Reunion, pg. 71 (by K.A. Applegate)
