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i keep seeing anti-labour memes about how they're just tory lite and listen. listen i fucking get it ok they suck ass they do. sure kier starmer is flawed as fuck and labour is diluted conservatives sure. but diluted. is still LESS. if this election is gonna be a pick the lesser of two evils situation u gotta nut up and fucking vote for the lesser evil. i don't give a shit. srsly I dont care. I know it sucks I know its bad but u can't. u can't sit it out. u can't protest vote. it won't work. and the tories will stay in power
no matter how much u can hate on starmer (and trust me I hate on him a LOT) he will be better than the tories.
blair was also a labour leader considered tory lite and u kno what? yeah he sucked ass but he got Some shit done. the NHS flourished a lil under his leadership u can hate him all u want for not having been a left enough leader but he was a damn sight better than the tories wudve been
so when the election rolls around u gotta fucking suck it up buttercup. I hate seeing this kind of anti-labour rhetoric even in meme form cus it's just gonna either discourage voting especially among the left, or it will completely split the vote. and then we will b truly fucked.
vote smart. vote labour if u have to. unseat the tories and fucking get them the fuck out of power
#uk politics#im gonna tag this as nuanced#and wait for the hate mail#cus god forbid i have a nuanced take#on the reading comprehension webbed site#but listen. we gotta be smart about this#morals in voting are for local elections#not the general one#in the general election u have to pull ur thumb out and pick whatever option will beat the tories#even if u hate em#sorry#thats just how it is#kier starmer#labour#fuck the tories#tories out#anti tories
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i am literally begging people to stop putting sexism and transphobia on my dashboard please fucking think critically abt ur internal biases for 5 secconds and please accept even an ounce of critisism without assuming that someone is attacking you unfairly
alot of you have extremely sexist beliefs that you dont recognize because within social media as a whole these are incredibly normalized, covering blatent homophobia and misandry in tumblr buzzwords doesnt make you not sexist it just lets you be sexist and homophobic and transphobic in a way that is socially acceptable and incouraged within a queer centric space
i keep seeing posts talking abt how people actively like artwork (writing, photography, drawings) more when they find out its of a butch lesbian and not just a dude, and like, if your opinion on a peice of media can change solely based on the gender of the person being depicted by it, with zero change to the character, then that implies an inharent bias against men like, just because its men doesnt mean it isnt sexism
same thing where people think that media depicting gay men is better when it explicitly isnt written by a gay man, like that implies a fundimental disrespect of the work based on the sexuality and gender of the author. if you like an artwork but then you find out its written by a trans women, and all of a sudden you think its garbage, you are transphobic, but when people try to point this same bias out for the works of queer men this is largely written off.
i know ppl will argue abt punching up and whatnot, and while i do in some ways agree with that overall sentiment, i think that we should be striving to uh, not be sexist at all, rather then just being misandrists instead of mysogenists, like, if you only care about sexism when it hurts women/women ajacent people then you dont actually hate sexism you just want it to harm a different group of people, you dont hate the system you just want to be ontop of it and benifit from it
misandry and mysogeny present in different ways, they arent a directly comparable thing, different people have things worse in different ways so its rlly hard to take a group and say "this group has it worse", like yes generalizations like that can help in an extremely broad sense, but the world is not black and white and this kind of shit is mindnumbingly complex, trying to act like there is some kind of objective scoreing system for who is more oppressed then who is just unproductive and harmful
and moreover, someone having it worse then you doesnt make you less deserving of trying to make your situation better, i dont experience racism and in many many many ways i have it easier then poc people, that does not make me undeserving of support and that doesnt make me complaining or trying to better my situation unreasonable
we can care abt the lives and want to better the situation of different groups simoltaniously, we dont have to stop caring about racism because we want to better transphobia
i get that transwomen have it rlly bad and i do not experience the exact same struggles as them, and therefore cant comment on alot of them, but so often i see erasure of queer men in order to give more focus to transwomen, and just because trans girls go through alot of shit doesnt make that ok
one thing that people have to recognize about misandry and specifically transmisandry that you dont really have to see as much with its mysogeny counterparts is that they have far more attention and people care far more about activism for queer women/women in general, queer mens experience and specifically the transmasc experience is very very very often erased and written off even by supposedly trans friendly and queer sorces, people care more about butch lesbians then they do trans men dispite the insane ammount of overlap between the two groups, when researching about historical butch lesbians alot of them are just, trans guys that people are misgendering and mislabeling as butch lesbians because ooooo woemennnnn
being transmasc myself i can say that like, the erasure of trans men is an extremely large issue, for large swaths of history the experiences of trans people arent paid attention to at all, and even looking at media coverage today, if people are going to talk abt transgenderism they are talking about it specifically under the lens of trans women
this is largely because misandry (specifically, people thinking that having cock and ball makese u somehow predatory) makes trans women an easier punching bag, trans women get more attention because they are easier for radfems (misandrists) to be bigoted against in a more violent way, if you assume all men and amab people are violent and predatory by nature then this makes justifying violence against trans women easier
and yea being a punching bag for the media is fucking hard but it does mean that activism for that group is much much much louder, more people are complaining about trans women so more people know abt the specific issues they face
but dispite trans men yaknow, also existing and recieving a shit ton of transphobia and erasure over history they dont get talked about as much, people hate us and are violent twards us but we dont nessasarily get the same outrage for our treatment
trans men are just as often get the dismissal for being women, and the outrage for being men as trans women do we just dont get as much support and thats really difficult! often people seek to treat transmasculinism as some kind of new thing like, i get the comment often that "usually its boys that wanna be girls" and its like, no. its not. its simply that people care less about us
i think that its really easy to misenterpret me here so im gonna just get this out of the way, i dont think that women have it easier then men in a broad socital sense, but also, i dont nessasarily believe that means that my complaints are invalid, being a queer woman is not a walk in the park, and neither is being a queer man, and both groups experience homophobia transphobia and sexism in different ways, so acting as if saying one is objectively worse then the other is unfair and reductive
i think that if we want to get anywhere in regards to making it easier to be trans then we need to talk about all queer experiences, you cant just, only care about trans women you have to care about all trans people, and moreover queer people in general, this means you HAVE to be vigilant about people wrapping up sexism in a tumblr buzzword packadge, you need to consume things critically and you are not immune to pipelines, people dont just wake up and become radfems you get continually fed more and more extreme idologies, being fed things that you 90% agree with untill you eventually become completely removed from the groups you were supposed to stand with
you can care about the oppression of multiple groups at once, and if you think activism in any way involves the erasure of a certain group then you have fundimentally misunderstood what youre supposed to be doing, queer men exist and they deserve support and respect and you need to be able to support and respect them without being like "ohh she is soooooo trransfemme coded" like. men can be queer and still be men, they can be queer and still deserve your love and support, i am begging.
also yes i am aware that outside of my specific experience of tumblr people fuckin hate trans girls and women in general and they dont feel the need to do this shit. but that doesnt mean what im talking about is not an issue and is not something that people need to change and address. if you find urself doing this shit you have got to reflect on yourself, you arent immune to transphobia or homophobia or sexism ESPECIALLY if you think that you somehow are magically immune. nobody is. no identity is. everybody is suseptible to this shit and it takes active critical thinking in order to combat it
#the beast speaks#i keep seeing this shit on my dash crying screaming throwing up i am begging people to get even a single ounce of reading comprehension#i get this is the piss on the poor webbed site but i try to have hope in humanity and every day i am disapointed further#retchid opinions
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get to know you better game! answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better. tagged by @galahadiant
last song I listened to: Incandescent Ruins - The Mountain Goats!
currently reading: finishing up Flannery O'Connor's short stories, a historical nonfiction overview for work research, Victoria Goddard's At The Feet of The Sun, Blood and Ash series (IT'S SO BAD. HOLY SHIT. it's for hater bookclub and is probably the worst thing ive ever read), FMA manga, James Baldwin's Notes from a Native Son, Fun Home
(i always have a zillion things on the go and switch between as the mood strikes)
currently watching: nothing?? i dont really watch tv ;-; i put on critical role when crafting if that counts? technically I ave snk, the bear, and the untamed all on the go, but i watch VERY sporadically, mostly just when im too sad to read or play video games, which i prefer to tv
currently obsessed with: when am i NOT obsessed with something? I dont think I really 'get over' obsessions, inasmuch as they enter the ever growing rotation in my heart, and everyday it's a wild guess what will get me super emotional. in 2024 thus far it's been: Sad Russian Man Simulator Pathologic, Pentiment (video game), BG3, Under Jurisdiction Book 1 by Susan R Matthews*
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*this is NOT a rec. omg. this is not a book most people would enjoy. it is super graphic and violent and deliberately horrifying and uncomfortable. i loved it. it very much asks questions and explores themes at the intersections of all my interests - submission to Duty vs. Authority, questions of loyalty and devotion even to a 'bad' person, mercy and justice to 'bad' people, being worthy of care regardless, questions of autonomy and dehumanization and what does choice really mean when you are not free?, facing the monster of the self and refusing to hide from it and acknowledging the terrible thing you are, questions of responsibility, duty and care of a Master over his servants, and man to man, family angst, religious angst, what does the ends and the means really mean when it's harm reduction? when it's doing something unspeakably awful to prevent something even worse?
THAT BEING SAID. it is still like. a book about a doctor who is forced against his will to become a government sanctioned torturer in an evil space empire. and to his disgust and horror he realizes he's a sadist. he's not only /good/ at it, some part of him /enjoys/ it. and he has to live with that knowledge, that burden, that guilt. Andrej is Not A Nice Man, by any means, but maybe, MAYBE, he can try to be a good one, or as good as circumstances permit. im compelled by this exploration of things so horrifying. we cannot look away from the horrors. cannot refuse to ask the difficult questions. and art is just. the place for that exploration of things too terrible to stomach irl
#THAT WENT ON A RANT#i could keep going abt the value of BAD SCARY art#and fiction where bad ppl do bad things#and why that's NECESSARY to explore in fiction#but this is the no reading comprehension webbed site#so like. i rest my cast#case*#there is no room for nuance/ we need kids tv morality out here#and so. i will think my thinky thoughts alone#ANYWAY thank u percy!!!#the duality of fran
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why are you bringing up trans men on a post about lesbophobia. i am uncomfortable when we are not about me?
me: it's wrong to shit on queer people just because you've experienced ____phobia, similar to how it's wrong to shit on trans men.
you: this is the worst thing that has ever been said
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I’m not going to recommend getting all of your news from tumblr. Giving the Associated Press app or website a scan whenever you feel prepared to brave the horrors is also a good idea.
But the way news gets shared on tumblr is honestly fucking magnificent. Firstly, the supernatural meme is effective. It gets the fact that Something Has Happened out quickly and with researchable keywords.
Then the comments often include sources, updates, and context. I can’t think of anywhere but tumblr where you’ll so consistently find a explanation written by a scientist in a relevant field breaking down why the situation was preposterous to begin with, or descriptions of how the event unfolding is affecting people living in the country it’s happening in, or an analysis of why a particular source/description of an event is misleading. These posts are also specifically written to be understood by people who don’t have prior knowledge.
We pass around regular reminders about the importance of fact checking, the ways that statistics can be misused, information on biased sources, and alternate sources in the event of information being paywalled.
And I personally feel like it’s a valuable bit of levity, because as much as we joke that we process more information on a daily basis than a medieval peasant would in a lifetime, the near instantaneous spread of news from all across the world all the time is genuinely harrowing to experience endlessly. But passing world news around as a joke is getting the news spread, and all things considered, we do a decent job of making it balanced, digestible, and informative.
Spoonful of “haha we get our news through memes” to help the horrors go down and what not.
Basically, hellsite (affectionate).
#the reading comprehension of this webbed site… could be worse actually#tumblr news#tumblr#supernatural news
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Media literacy is so bad we have people out here saying that obvious, well-constructed plot points are "out of character" and that a song about a specific woman's experience is "mocking womanhood", all because nothing comes with a 20 minute TEDtalk style disclaimer titled This Is How You Should Feel About This Media.
I am.... on my knees, begging people to please. Please relearn context clues, their purpose, and how to use them. Engage your critical thinking skills. Learn to recognise and understand that just because something doesn't apply to you personally, does not make it Bad or Wrong or Problematic.
I need you to relearn how to engage with media. I promise, you will have a much better time in life, just in general, once you realise that not every single piece of media in the entire world needs to directly apply and be specifically targeted to you and your experiences.
#media literacy#reading comprehension#i am. so tired#maybe posting this on the piss on the poor webbed site is a bad idea but like.#its either this or i start making tiktoks and i refuse so
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I am so sick and tired of the way people rec cdramas to other people on this site (and tbh other places). it's perfectly FINE to not know anything like the thing the person really likes but it's like.
"Omg! I watched The Office recently and really loved it! I exclusively enjoy shows about humor and modern workplace dynamics! what should I watch next?" and instead of reccing anything reasonable people are like "WATCH GAME OF THRONES YOU'LL LOVE IT!! I PROMISE ITS MY FAVORITE ENGLISH SPEAKING SHOW! totally BLEW ME AWAY when I saw it five years ago! the leads are sooo hot."
When like, maybe, idk, the correct option would be to recommend Friends to op or something.
#not tagging this because I'm salty#I'm just#why pals#I know this is the bad reading comprehension webbed site but like#my god
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IM NOT TALKING ABOUT TAGGING I SAID NOTES I SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED PUTTING TRIGGER WARNINGS IN THE NOTES BECAUSE THATS WHAT THE FIC I WAS READING HAD AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE SILLY TO ADD ON BASICALLY EVERY CHAPTER IN THE CHILD DEATH GAME WHEN THE TAGS WERE ALL ALREADY THERE PLEASE
#icarus speaks#PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONEEEEEEEE#I KNOW THIS IS THE READING COMPREHENSION WEBBED SITE#BUT PLEASE 😭 I JUST WANT TO SEE MT MUTUALS IN MT NOTES
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i know i should probably just mute it at this point but one more person going „ummm actually tumblr user kirkwall u should know the answer to ur post is dragon age“ on my bg3 post and im gonna start biting ppl. it’s a rhetorical question. i even mentioned da in my tags. christ alive
#not to mention that da isn’t even the answer it’s just another example!#insisting ur choices are canon is annoying for both da and bg3#'but they made choice xy canon in a da comic‘ isn’t ur excuse to be weird abt bg3 lol#nina talks#another post i will probably regret due to this webbed site’s reading comprehension!
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people who use ai are impatient.
which in our everything-has-to-be-faster society, makes a lot of sense. but they’re sacrificing quality for time.
it’s sorta been a huge snowball effect over the course of several years now. more fast food places, faster service. tv show seasons getting shorter, episodes getting shorter. now you don’t wait for the next episode every week, just binge it all on a streaming site. vine’s 6 second videos. the tiktokification of sites through youtube shorts, tumblr live, instagram reels. hell, even the fact that full length music videos are rare nowadays.
it’s frustrating because we’ve been going in the “get faster at everything” direction for a while now, and we’re really starting to see the full effects of “people raised in a fast-paced society will have a lot less patience.” we no longer have an attention span for anything. we need to be on our phones while watching a movie. we need to watch a video to eat. the mundane is drown out by content, content, content. i have to push myself to do things i genuinely enjoy like art and writing because it takes longer than endlessly scrolling.
i didn’t really have a point to this. it’s just something i’ve noticed.
#anti ai#punnybee buzz#to be clear (because this is the ‘zero reading comprehension’ webbed site:#i am NOT promoting ai. i do NOT support ai#all i’m saying is that it makes sense that ai is as big as it is#it makes sense that people want free stuff fast more than quality stuff#it’s annoying and really disheartening at times
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Remember that post you made about a talk with Dana Terrace in October? Apparently of many claims were contradicted in the current posthoot.
An example is Eda’s Requiem is where the crew was made aware of the shortening (the show wasn’t cancelled, just shortened), but Dana claims it was Follies at the Coven Day Parade.
If Dana really did actually considered canceling the show at the end of season 2 just to spite the executives, I think that makes her really scummy.
We’re you telling the truth or lying?
hello! no, i have not lied about any of those things.
at the event, dana said that the crew was let know about the shortening during the *production* of eda’s requiem, whereas, in the post-hoot, she mentioned that follies was the first episode they *wrote* from beginning to end with the knowledge the show would only have 3 seasons in mind.
if you know anything about animation production pipelines, you’ll know that multiple episodes are worked on at the same time, at different stages, so they probably couldn’t do much about it at the time since all of s2a must’ve already been written at that point, picking up with a different pace with s2b (follies, and so on). if anything, we have a little more insight on how toh’s pipeline works now that we know that the timeframe for the show’s shortening to have affected the plot is however long it took to go from eda’s requiem to follies.
about the other thing, yes, i literally agree. it would’ve been scummy, that’s why she didn’t do it. it was just something she thought at the moment because she was pissed off over her show just getting shortened. that’s just what she said.
… are there any other claims you think the post-hoot contradicted? that post is merely just stuff dana said at a small talk at pixelatl written down that i thought other fans would find interesting and i wanted to share. i have no reason to lie about any of that.
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also because this is tumblr i feel the need to clarify that i don’t actually think we should kill every single man on this planet and i am not actually a misandrist.
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so reading shakespeare as a grown adult without obligation is actually kind of nice
#ari speaks#i enjoyed billy shakes as a youth tbf. but always having to enunciate in a way that was so weird when reading shakespeare out loud was. bad#also since its so fuckin old a lot of it is. just search the play on a webbed site you will probably find it in full.#checkin out some macbeth now. it actually is. comprehensible still it's like a little brain exercise.
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come with me i will teach you about gacha club reaction video discourse
#jk i cant#i however CAN tell you about the lack of reading comprehension on that goddamn webbed site
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Pro tip: always write your discourse posts like you’re talking to children
And I don’t say this *just* to make fun of webbed site reading comprehension, I do sort of mean it.
See, when you talk to children you think “oh, they haven’t learned much, something that seems common sense to me might be completely new to them”, and that’s an important mentality to keep when you’re online, because the internet can connect you with literally any kind of person from literally any walk of life. Always keep in mind that something you consider obvious and self-evident might be nonsense to someone else, and try to make your meaning as clear as possible while needing as little contextas possible
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Only my followers get to experience the controversial bobbie opinions. Love y'all <3
#bat chatter#aka 'i turn reblogs off whenever i dont want annoying people in my notes on the Reading Comprehension Webbed Site'
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