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frenchifries · 3 months

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i feel like at the start of dungeon meshi marcille comes across as a kind of frustrating character because it's like "oh great the One female protagonist is too whiny and prissy to keep pace with her male counterparts -_- thanks a lot" but the further you get into the story the more it becomes "we stan a failgirl 😍 let 👏 women 👏 be 👏 annoying!!!! 👏"

#dungeon meshi #at least this was my experience #i was like hey why do the guys get to be weird in a cool & competent way #but The Girl just ends up positioning herself as a nuisance by complaining and being overly demanding #and getting herself into troublesome situations from which she needs rescuing #but ultimately her shit taste and occasionally clueless nature end up as a major part of her charm as a character

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andthebeanstalk · 8 months

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the average person doesn't expect you to be a perfect ethical consumer, that's not possible for the vast majority of us. but what youre saying is it's better to do nothing at all and choose the worst possible options (sweat shops, overseas shipping waste, idea/product theft, all wrapped up in SHEIN) than to put even the tiniest effort in where you can.

[they are referring to this post]

What I said was "some people are doing literally everything they can to survive and have no extra bandwidth to spend extra time and money on their purchases, and it is cruel and therefore un-punk to gatekeep punkness and add additional shame to these people's lives based on that fact."

I think it's still a good thing to try to ethically consume; I literally never said it wasn't. I had never even heard of SHEIN before. Rather, I am much more concerned about what I saw as arbitrary gatekeeping based on ability and income.

And frankly how dare you claim that I am supporting sweatshops and abuse by saying that this additional work you are demanding (in this case, presumably, vetting every clothing company you buy from) is not always possible for people. It is not a light accusation to accuse me of supporting abuse.

"How dare you say we piss on the poor", Etc. 🙄 this isn't Twitter. You are determined to enforce moral purity, but you are failing to see the nuance.

Because when I say "no extra bandwidth," I mean no extra bandwidth. This is not the "car shows it's on E but actually secretly it has a lot of gas left" situation that abled people constantly assume disabled people mean when they say they are at their limit.

This is "at a certain point, people will hit a wall in terms of money and time and energy, and any energy spent after that comes directly out of their life force."

So the argument "okay but just spend a little more time money and energy actually" is not a valid one.

And the argument "if you are not able to do this specific task, then it means you're not doing anything else to make the world a better place" doesn't exactly impress me either. You said yourself that it is impossible to be a perfectly ethical consumer for most people.

How do you know what else people are doing to resist oppression? How many hours per week until your standards are met?What if someone works 3 jobs? Does that mean it's harder to be a good person if you're poor?? Why do you get to decide what specific avenue of bettering the world is the most morally repugnant or acceptable? What kind of proof of goodness and effort would make you satisfied enough to lay off on the shame?? Who are you helping??

Clothing is a fundamental human need, and some of us have to buy cheap fucking clothes quickly. Billionaires are buying their seventh yacht this month. The people who own fast fashion companies are abusing their workers and putting local affordable clothing stores out of business - and this applies for basically every company with price points that low because governments are failing to regulate corporations to enforce basic human rights.

I have $300 to spend on a new wardrobe as my old clothes have fallen apart or become too small. Do you have a way for me to get a new winter coat, 3 flannels, 10 shirts, 3 dress shirts, new sandals, 10 pairs of pants, 5 bras, 12 pairs of socks, and 10 pairs of underwear within that budget and also definitely 100% ethically sourced, with free returns in case it doesn't fit? Or will I simply have to use the cheap stores?

I have about an hour to spend on this per week. Should I continue to wear small and tattered clothing until I have the time, money, and energy to meet your standards? Did you know there are more empty homes in this country than homeless people? If I decide to splurge on only 100% ethically-produced products, and I can't make rent, and I become homeless, are YOU going to be there for me?? Or are you busy litigating the endless tiny shames of poverty in your own community?

So I ask you again, are you sure this is where you want to direct your punk energy? Because energy and time, as it turns out, are limited resources. And I would never expect you to secretly have more than you claim to have.

#original #punk #hopepunk #cripplepunk #i swear to god #reading comprehension website #how dare you say we piss on the poor #jfc 'what you're saying is we should do nothing' - what I'm saying is YOU are doing nothing by enforcing this boundary #you have to give people more credit than this. i believe you want a better world too. and it would be cool if you used your energy to #instead ask 'how do i fight for the people in my community to be clothed and have the time and income to shop ethically?'#or 'how do i support activism that pushes for regulation that could control these companies?'#monitoring how poor people spend money is a supremely Republican thing to do. as is demanding clear moral purity from every scenario.#you want a better world too. you want to demand your peers do better. - fine. good.#but you need to be asking if you have remembered and included everyone's needs when making statements like this.#capitalism is all for forgetting about poor and disabled people and refusing to believe their limits.#shame is a necessary weapon in fighting greed but it IS a weapon. be so careful where you point that shit. enough shame can kill a person #and a lot of us are already defending from it from all sides.#shaming a person who is already at their limit for not doing more is an act of cruelty. think very carefully about what that means please.#i literally don't even know what SHEIN is lol i just know classism when i see it #but I've had friends whose clothes were visibly falling apart with no income and so much so shame so deep in their hearts they were dying #and if they had seen that post it would have made them even sicker and gotten them no closer to the dignity of being properly clothed #shame is a weapon and /you need to be careful!!!!/

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bougiebutchbitch · 5 months

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wow I've sure blocked or unfollowed a lot of people I used to really like and respect over their absolutely abominable opinions recently

#this is about people being horrifically pro-!sra3l by the way #not fandom stuff #though it also could be lmaoooooo I've unfollowed some people I used to think were cool over that too #but obviously that's not comparable #just #'I think p@l3stinians deserved it because they voted in h@mas' is certainly A Take. And not a good one #as is 'well if you're j3wish and you haven't explicitly said you're pro-p@l3stine I think we can be a bit anti-s3mitic actually'#like holy shit do you people hear yourselves #folks in gaza are being slaughtered and will be slaughtered again #it's a LITERAL genocide by any metric.#that is ATROCIOUS #like pro-Isr@el people: you cannot make it any clearer that you think their lives are worth less than yours (white people's...)#But. to a certain subset of the pro-P@lestine folks.#it is also atrocious for you to demand that every jewish person in the entire world genuflect and apologise for something they didn't do #especially when jewish people across the world are actually often among the foremost critics of Isr@el #like... your antisemitism is SHOWING #yes I have been using the annoying tiktok word censoring thing because I don't wanna put this in the tags

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starlightkun · 3 months

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oh this professor gave us no instructions whatsoever for this assignment. we're supposed to draft a demand letter and pretty much all these directions r is two sentences explaining generally what a demand letter is, a few (bad) examples, and then she pretty much just tells us to make us our own facts and details of a torts case from scratch and draft an entire demand letter from that. this is a 2000 level class in a certificate program for people who arent already in the legal field. if i were my classmates i'd be terrified 😭 like i see demand letters everyday and i'm still like ?????? what do you want from me?? a creative writing exercise and a legal writing exercise in one how fun thank u soooooooo much

#like nothing about formatting nothing about professional writing nothing about like. CONTEXT #oh im so glad that i already read demand letters on the daily at work bc oh my godddddd #she seems to forget that we're not all also lawyers with 30 plus years of civil law experience???#like she treats class like we're all her peers having a fun little get together which like on one hand is cool but also #she ends up skipping over stuff that people like. need and not explaining herself at all when she makes these huge leaps #thank god i have already taken a legal writing class and also have worked in a civil lit firm for two and a half yrs bc holy shit #if this was my first exposure to the legal field i would be crying rn #talk #text #mine #ignore.mel #not nct

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jasontoddenthusiastt · 8 months

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Since when did shitting on male characters (who are victims, in whatever form they may come in) to promote female characters (who typically aren’t actively angry about what happened to them, as the “ideal” victim) become the defining feature of being a feminist comic fan

#believe it or not being a misandrist is not cool #kelseethe #not to make general statements but so far #every person I’ve seen claiming that 1. Jason is obvs wrong and we shouldn’t think he’s right or #or 2. this female character is a better trauma victim than Jason because xyz #seems to be at least somewhat enthusiastic about female empowerment and promoting female characters/stories #but only at the cost of putting down male characters #their reasoning for why this female character is better is almost always that they've undergone redemption aka ‘bettered’ themselves #by realizing it’s wrong to stay angry and have demands #by conforming to the ideals that the patriarchal systems and the men who enforce this system project onto them #not only is this rhetoric of ‘you should like x character instead of y’ just plain stupid on it’s own #but saying if you’re a woman or feminist you should like x character INSTEAD of y is even stupider #on top of how this is bordering on terf ideology #implying that cis women should only relate to and enjoy stories about other women also implies cis men should only care about men’s pov #regressive and divisive and damaging all around #why do people think Jason fans (whether they be male female or anything else) need to justify liking him #this type of shit leads to the stupidest waste of time discussions #every person who has this opinion also feels the burning desire to tag it with Jason’s name which is just. wonderful #real thoughtful of you to assume we cared or wanted to see that

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solradguy · 10 months

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If I don't lose motivation for it, there's going to come a point in Interlude where Frederick, who has since been nicknamed Badguy by like the US government or whatever for blowing up Gear research facilities, introduces himself as just "Badguy" to someone, somewhere, and I'm going to have to contend with the fact that he very probably said it with a straight face and full, unblinking, eye contact.

It's so silly. He's got to know that's a silly name to go by. "Yeah I'm a bounty hunter and I blow shit up because I'm a real Bad Dude™️." Come on... But also... Sol does have a really dorky sense of humor so... Maybe that's the joke. He knows it's goofy and he's forcing everyone else to use it but then he used it for too long and the goofy factor has long worn off except now he's stuck with it

#textpost #NGL THAT'S HOW IT WENT DOWN WITH MY SOLRADGUY HANDLE LOL #'Ha ha silly shitpost OH no one had this url already..??? HMM.... Ok I'll use it for a little bit'#*several big translation projects and gaming news articles later*#'Well. Guess I can't change it now'#It's so funny I think I've laughed literally every single time I had to introduce myself/my scanlations as Sol Radguy when it was over voic #The only thing I don't like about this handle is that I think handles that kinda brag about the person using them aren't great #Like handles with king/queen or '[x name] Is Awesome/cool/great/etc' or whatever you know?#You gotta earn a name like that. It's like you can't demand respect you gotta work up towards it #Sol Radguy was just an intended temporary joke that I ended up becoming hahah #I don't necessarily think I'm rad except maybe in a like 1980s retrowave aesthetic way perhaps #So I hope people don't look at it and think that I'm trying to say I'm hot shit or something

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loudmound · 3 months

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this excerpt from a doom eternal review is at the core of what i think made 2016's storytelling several steps above what eternal was trying to do and why i'm so pissed off at how disastrously they flew off the rails.

#stormy shouts #the review is called 'doom eternal is a dizzying catastrophe' if you want to read it for yourself #eternal's narrative suffers not only in part due to the crunch the devs were under #but also a severe lack of confidence in those that took up the helm of writing—because they don't consider themselves writers!#they don't understand what makes a story good #they just threw all the cool shit they liked at a wall and hoped that would be acceptable #and obviously... it wasn't #it's a story that refuses to take itself seriously while also demanding that you as the audience take it seriously #own your fucking ridiculousness and be earnest goddammit. campy shlock is not inherently a bloated fuckshow

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outofmymindbebacklater · 2 years

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i love all the happy gay shows that are coming out (pun intended) recently, but when are we gonna get lesbians? and not as side characters to the gay shows?

I want middle aged women just living their best life and falling in love in some fantasy show about pirates or dragons or sth

#i know it's not gonna happen because the demand rn is for gay men and gay men are watched by the straight community but #but lesbians would be seen as just for lesbians bc straight girls can obsess over gay men and it not be gay but straight girls obsessing #over lesbians would be #and also you'd never see hollywood allowing middle aged women who aren't beautiful to be romanticized #because fucking patriarchy and sexism #but GAUD i wish it could happen #and i know there are lesbian shows but theyre so damn dramatic #i dont want drama i want funky lesbians doing cool shit having a good time #shera and the princesses of power #was the greatest for this #they were cool lesbians and bi girls living their life in a fantasy world and then they fell in love #rant: over #heartstopper #spop #ofmd #gentlebeard #good omens #yelling into the void

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knowlesian · 2 years

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quick indulging in some stede angst while i procrastinate on finishing my piece on e5

i’m consistently fucked up over the blacked out form that used to be stede in the family portrait, and the metaphor it provides about the way stede handled his life and trauma: everything’s pretend. he’s not truly there, he’s living a story in his head in ways both lovely and inadvertently cruel.

lovely: looking at the world and demanding it bend to his delusional belief things could ever be other than they are. that it could be better.

inadvertently cruel: leaving mary and the kids (leaving ed) to wonder: was it me? if i was better, if i had been kinder or a more supportive wife, a better behaved child or a co-captain with less baggage or a better man, would he have stayed? would i have been worth staying for?

stede’s got a whole basketful of reasons he leaves without explaining why in both cases. but he does leave, and he doesn’t explain: those actions ripple out and hurt the people he leaves.

but also, we know stede’s general self-worth is under the fucking ground!!! less than zero!!! he has absolutely no inkling that his absence might affect someone just as much as his presence. he thinks: i am a burden people suffer. when i remove myself from their lives, i am ultimately making those lives easier, in heartbreaking part because he cannot imagine a world in which somebody actually wants him around.

i know i’m a big old hippie and a reconciliation will come faster than we might think truther, but goddamn i just want ed and stede to have the mutual validation moment! because ed needs to hear “it was never about not wanting you or not wanting to be with you, it was a gross cocktail of trauma and old fears and chauncey being a walking nightmare in so, so many ways” from stede and stede needs to hear “you leaving me? fucked me up real good in ways we may need to do some work to overcome, but only because you are somebody i always want to be around, even when things are not pleasant and conflict-free, all forever-like” from ed asa-fucking-p.

#look i love me some angst but like. i want these two to be back on the same page so much i could leap into the sun over it #this is my hopeful pirate show about: what if life could be better and people kinder #and ultimately i ask myself: what do ed and stede actually want #to punish each other for harm done or to find a way to heal and move forward #i’m super biased because i think that shit is just a waste of time and weird jesus shit in a party hat #why demand people who hurt you hurt in turn? how is more pain ever the answer? etc #it feels good in the same way mickey d’s fries taste good #piping hot: lowkey addictive #once the immediate rush fades and the fries cool: suddenly they taste lowkey gross #punishing people feels right for reasons i try to identify in myself and fight against #i try and remind myself cruelty can never ever be the point #or i’m just everything i hate with better policy positions etc

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bedcorpse · 6 months

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i hope dan and phil keep milking their fans weird obsession with whether or not they're fucking until the end of time. literally what some of them deserve after dan literally said phan shippers gave him ptsd symptoms and they all decided "okay but what if we kept doing the same shit ANYWAYS"

#emma shut up #i literally left the dan and phil fanbase bc of that shit. it's not just rpf it's the insistent demanding to know abt complete strangers'#private lives. like have you considered not outing people. that would be cool actually

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arcadequeerz · 11 months

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I just do not give a single shit about lg-bt-q disc-ourse anymore.

#Cade.Txts #sorry i jsut do not care.#i dont give a fuck about what flag someone does or doesn't use #i dont care about what people call themselves. stop trying to decide shit for othrr people #shut up and fuck off n leave people alone. u dont havr to 'understand' to be respectful #Idc if people use the blue 'gay' flag who cares. use whatever flag u want.#shut the fuck up about mspec gay people we're doing nothing wrong n if i have someone try n start #some shit w me about how i personally identify i will maul them through the god damn internet. shut up.#eat shit. i dont owe a explanation to u about why i'm abro ply gay n if u demand me to explain #im going to tell you to fuck off.#who the fuck cares what people call themselves. u might not like being called queer or whatever n thats cool #but some people do and thats nit a fucking slight aganst u.#and i say 'you' as just in general i guess. this isn't pointed at a specific person.#i dread pride month every year because people r going to throw some shitfit about something snd i jsut #i dont care. can we care about shit that fucking matters instead.#if u legimately call urself a exclusionist in 2023 your a shitstain and do nothing for the community.#grow the fuck up or get the fuck off the internet.#sorry i saw shit n i got mad lol. i'm so tired of peoples bullshit. worry about shit tht matters n not #how someone else identifies or what someone calls themselves- or what flag someone uses.#i'm just going to be unabashedly full of rage now.#i'm queer n trans n im pissed the end.

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coldgoldlazarus · 7 months

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I don't know what's better or worse

The projects I can't really do anything with because the base concept and scope simply lie outside of my field of skill (Citadel Of Splinters or Re-Pioneer, which are games; and Black Lotus or [Minigun Angel Project], which are meant to be manga)

Or the projects I can work on easily but just haven't gotten as far with as I should due to procrastination and lack of focus (Metroid Silence, Magical Girl Parallel Inversion, retooling Magical Girl Diurnal Retribution away from its original badly-considered format, The Forbidden Lands, etc.)

Or the one that legitimately straddles the line between, it's doable but is gonna take a lot of effort and branching out: [Yuri Otome Project]