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comradekatara · 1 day

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a really defining moment of aang and sokka’s relationship is that sokka literally lets himself get beat up for aang’s amusement and entertainment like a day into knowing him. like he is literally letting aang drop him onto the ground from a not insignificant height over and over again just to see aang smile and laugh. he is putting his own safety and physical wellbeing at risk because it makes aang happy. and there’s a lot we could get into here about how sokka fundamentally views himself and his body as a vessel through which to provide services to others instead of a whole human being in his own right, but what matters for the purposes of this post is that it’s very immediately established that sokka will do anything to see aang enjoy himself, to the point that he will quite literally put up with physical abuse without complaint to make aang happy. so when people are like “it’s crazy how sokka is so smart and yet loses all his braincells whenever he’s around aang,” it’s like yeah, teenage boy adhd2adhd communication will do that, but also a large part of it is sokka contorting himself into an image that he thinks aang will appreciate, because he knows just how valuable preserving aang’s childhood joy and laughter is.

and what’s beautiful is that through actively becoming this person for aang’s benefit, he also actually starts to internalize the sentiment. through the process of letting himself be silly and goofy for the sake of making aang happy, he also absorbs some of that sillygoofy happiness and regains some of his own childhood joy and laughter and sense of wonder he truly thought he had lost forever. he’s not just helping aang retain his childhood, but aang is also helping sokka regain his sense of humanity. the sokka of book 3 is someone who enjoys “wacky, time wasting nonsense” and throws beach parties, a far cry from the sokka of book 1 who thought fun and joy were luxuries no one could afford. his selfless love for aang is also self-affirming, helps him to embrace aang’s point of view, to love himself slightly more than he otherwise would have. because to love aang is to necessarily let kindness into your life; it’s to learn how to be free.

#sometimes i remember that aang is fictional and i cannot actually be friends with him and i feel genuinely distraught #but i am comforted by the knowledge that we WOULD be friends were he real and that’s what matters #aang #sokka #aang&sokka #analysis #there are a bunch of rly fucked up directions i could take this post #but i think I’ve talked abt the fucked up aspects of their relationship plenty lately #and there’s also smth just so beautiful & poignant & sweet about how sokka doing his whole ‘denying the self to serve another’ shtick #kind of just backfires with aang because he inadvertently learns how to have fun #i do also think suki is really the person who increases his general happiness levels the most tbh #but like. aang laid the groundwork for sure #holds them….

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vodkassassin · 2 days

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I just read your "stop commenting like the author is dead post" and I completely agree with you. May I ask if there is anything one can say to an author (other than thanking them for their work and complimenting the fic) if they have suddenly stopped posting out of nowhere? There are some authors who posted regularly and just completely stopped and I'm tempted to add something like "I hope you are doing well and that everything is okay" but I don't want to make them feel bad or that they have to justify their decisions. How would you feel to get such a comment? My intention is not to guilt them into updating but good intentions can still make people feel bad

I have had comments where people say exactly that (the “hope you’re doing well and that everything is ok”) and I’ll say that this is the angelic other side of the coin of the “update now!” devil side.

Saying “i noticed you haven’t updated as you usually do, I hope everything is ok.” (Oftentimes this comment type continues on to specify that they are not asking after an update but instead are asking after the well-being of the author, such as “no pressure or anything! Just hope that you’re doing well”) this comment highlights the fact that the commentor is only asking because they noticed that the trends of the author’s posting have changed suddenly without warning and it’s made them concerned for the author. The commentor in this case is asking if the author is alright and letting them know that the commentor is hoping for their well-being. It’s coming from a kind place, a human place. It lets the author know that the commentor acknowledges that they are a person, too.

That’s completely different from comments that just say “noticed this hasn’t updated in a long time. Are you still working on this?/Why is it always the good stories that get abandoned?” Because THIS comment communicates to the author that the commentor does not care about the author themself, only the content that the author provides for them. Chapter updates are only a transaction in the eyes of the commentor, one that they feel entitled to despite not paying for them, and they’re annoyed that they have not received their product as per usual. They are commenting on the change in the quality of service and wish to voice their complaints to the provider for slacking. It lets the author know that the commentor does not see them as a person, but as a source of media.

So while the two comments above are similar aside from how they’re worded, they communicate two different mindsets. One is someone asking after another person’s wellbeing and wishing them well, and the second is someone annoyed that the content creator they feel entitled to the content of hasn’t been ‘doing their job’ despite not being paid for it at all.

Hopefully this helps clarify why we authors find it so offensive and insulting to receive the second type of comments.

But rest assured, we (or at least I personally) actually find the first type of comment as something nice to receive bc it means you care.

#ao3 etiquette #fanfic readers

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cytharat · 1 year

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look at these two colour coordinated idiots (affectionate), not a single braincell between them 💙💗

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heynhay · 7 months

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mid week klance because my queen @klanced is on the struggle so I made lawyer au

#klance #hope this invigorates you in these turbulent times Katie klanced #they would work at the same firm I think but like fight over cases and be rivals #I think it would be so bad at one point they’d be the reason some dude gets convicted guilty #but only for something small and funny like now he has to do. 5 hours of community service #and it’s like. voltron law. and shiro runs it #Keith is the hotshot up and coming nepo hire. but he’s good #lance has been there only barely longer but acts like he has a 10 year lead #why am I kind of cooking this up rn….. hold on…#idk how law firms work or courts. someone finish this #voltron #vld #art #my art #also midweek klance bc it’s not heynhay posting klance Friday this week it’s heynhay posting ****** Friday

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sing-me-under · 5 months

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I don’t know why, but I get really tired of fics where they’re like “Bruce has been sheltered his entire life and has absolutely no sense for normal people” as though he didn’t go on a world tour in literally every iteration of his existence before becoming Batman. Yes, he was absolutely sheltered as a teenager, and maybe he still held onto some naïveté in his early Batman years, but Batman literally faces every fucking crime there is, and I bet that little Bruce stubbornly traumatized himself with true crime shows and case studies. One does not become Batman and stay sheltered. Yes, unlike most people, he had the safety net of a home and a fat bank account to return to, but that really only applied in the States with legal identification. This man just kinda traveled the world with like the bare minimum and built a name and network for himself from scratch from pure skill, stubbornness, and his weird Mary Sue aura where everyone wants to fuck him. I can guarantee he’s nearly starved to death on multiple occasions, has slept in the worst conditions possible, and actually been fucking tortured in every sense of the word. You don’t need to be born and raised in poverty to have experienced food insecurities and the worst that humanity has to offer.

Anyway, this is just me just being fed up with the fics and posts where they treat Bruce as if he’s never experienced a single hardship in his life beyond the death of his parents when he was 8 years old. Bruce Wayne is the most empathetic, self-sacrificing motherfucker in Existence. He’s still an over controlling asshole, but he’s self aware and tries to understand why criminals do crime things.

Batman deserves to have a backstory where he actually developed and experienced his own coming-of-age as a mature member of society instead of being some vengeful middle school syndrome kid maneuvering a skin sack of nearly 300 lbs of muscle and fancy technology.

#personal #dc #this is me liking the concept of The Batman #origin story of BRUCE WAYNE #I’d prefer he have his People Are People revelation before becoming Batman #but to each their own #I still dislike when people treat Batman as if he’s JUST a rich guy in a bat costume beating up people just trying to survive #or when they treat Batman like some Holier Than Thou Because Rich People Can’t Understand Being Trapped In Circumstances #I like the takes where the Bats’ patrols are primarily community service efforts #like subtly setting community networks of trustworthy and reliable free clinics shelters and the like #The government ain’t helping but Gotham’s beauty is in its people #Bruce Wayne loves Gotham #and he should deserve to be loved back #Batman is a terrifying force but he is still kind to criminals and victims alike #except when he’s grieving and on the verge of committing murder #in which case he needs to get his sense knocked back into him #god I love people #This whole post is an incoherent ramble

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unopenablebox · 1 year

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this bit of this long post is the part i feel obliged to warn people about:

i am just not ever going to systematically tag every post in which untrue things are said like they’re true as “unreality”. the reasons i am not going to do this are many, but include that it is genuinely very difficult for me to decipher which instances of sarcasm and evident falsehood are supposed to be the morally wrong or confusing ones to expose people to, and in general i am not a good person to follow if it is really important that all statements are factual and unambiguous. like, is the post about how in the cambrian era it was always sunday morning and the ocean was made of sprite ‘unreality’? is it ridiculous enough that it no longer counts as unreality? is it still unreality if it is clearly meant to be describing the impressions created by scientific illustrations of the cambrian, where that really is the atmosphere of those real scientific illustrations? the question occurred to me just now making this post, months after i reblogged it, but is not a filter i am capable of preemptively applying to things like that and you should not follow my blog if you would need that!

the rest of this is just me being sulky about goncharov discourse (well, about meta-goncharov discourse, i guess, as in, i am responding to the current discourse on whether it is acceptable to do goncharov posting, as opposed to “goncharov discourse” the joke about the imaginary film)

the other issue i experience with the moral imperative to label factually incorrect statements is because, uh, if i am making a joke premised on a particular pretense, and immediately follow it with an extensive description of how it was a joke and what the pretense is, it has ceased to be a joke. the post no longer contains a joke in it, because i have put a warning label on it that is in strict opposition to the thing that was supposed to be the joke part.

it’s not that it’s funny to intentionally mislead others. such jokes are premised on assuming others will understand that you are making a joke about something that is not true, since for instance i found the cambrian era post funny in part due to my knowledge that in reality it was sometimes not sunday morning back then and the ocean was made of water. but the joke is that one is pretending something obviously false is true, so by labeling it as “not true” you are no longer making the joke. i’m sincerely sorry that this kind of joke is bad for some people, but it is not the case that it is obvious or effortless to label this kind of thing, nor is it the case that doing so would not impact this kind of joke in the first place; it in fact makes it not a joke anymore.

it’s also not some kind of intrinsically cruel attempt to trick other people. like, the goncharov thing is in fact premised on assuming that other people have seen the goncharov shoe post and that goncharov knowers are the ones enjoying and sharing the joke. it’s not a malicious conspiracy crafted in the hopes that some of your followers have managed to spend two years not seeing the original goncharov post and will believe the movie is real. extensive serious-sounding analysis of an imaginary movie is funny because the audience knows the movie is imaginary and that the writer is in fact making up scenes for there to be symbolism of.

but the jokes. do not work. if you have to systematically re-explain the premise of the joke every time you make it to avoid anyone ever not knowing what you’re talking about. this is also a competing access need, actually: if i am supposed to self-police to avoid ever making a joke based on ironically saying something i think is obviously false, then i am curtailing a significant portion of my ability to ever make jokes online, because that kind of humor is part of how i grew up expressing myself and how i continue to communicate with others. if i am supposed to extensively label everything that’s a reference to something not directly contained within the post, that is in fact curtailing my ability to talk about things with other people, because i do not have anything even remotely resembling a reflexive ability to evaluate my speech for this kind of thing.

some people find it easy to maintain personal blogs with this kind of extensive signposting, or don’t have any particular inclination to make jokes in which things are not true or not labeled, and that’s good for them, and i’m glad they exist since there are people who need things communicated in that way. but it’s morally fine for me to have a blog which is not maximally accessible to all of humankind at all times. and i’m going to continue doing it

#i am happy to try to adapt things about my blog to avoid harming others but sometimes i can't-- or even won't-- do that #a personal blog is not some kind of service one provides that one has an obligation to make easy for others to access or understand #i am perfectly aware that i exist within a social context and there are plenty of things i do in fact do in response to that awareness #and due to a desire to make the experiences of my online social connections pleasant or communicate successfully #but like. there is no systematic harm that emerges from not getting why i said X on my blog #it's not useful to anyone else it's a blog. you don't need my blog for things and i shouldn't have to manage it #like it's a public resource. it's my blog

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krispiecake · 11 months

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okay. what is so hard about giving your autistic service user a simple heads up if theres gonna be strangers in their shared living space like. I’m not even asking for timings, names, or an introduction. I literally just wanna know if im gonna be seeing strangers while i try to do my washing or if someone is moving in that day and i will be seeing them from now on. i do not get why that is so difficult and unreasonable and crazy. i feel insane because i get why NT people might not care but i just feel like i shouldnt have to repeatedly explain to everyone why it DOES matter to me and have everyone act like i just need to get over it. screams of agony and so on.

#brought to you by a bunch of strangers being in my way as i try to collect my washing from the communal laundry room #theyre here to clear out some old furniture from a flat #i dont need to know literally anything about them at all btw i just want a heads up that. you know. theyre here.#like simply ‘hey just to let you know theres some people clearing out a flat so if you see any strangers coming in and out dont worry’#see how easy that was? i did it in 15 seconds. boom. done. easy fucking peasy.#did not inconvenience me in any way shape or form.#BUT i know if i had said that to. say. an autistic service user who has this kind of thing in their care plan #it would probably ease their anxiety and intrusive thoughts they have surrounding this kind of thing. something they have disclosed #many many times to multiple members of staff.#and it is literally in their fucking care plan. which staff wrote.#whatever point is that sometimes things matter to me bc of my diagnosed disability and MH conditions and i’m very tired of pretending they #dont matter because they dont ‘get it’ or cant take 15 seconds out of their super crazy definitely busy days.

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chipjrwibignaturals · 1 year

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god looked thru some of my own posts i should work on the jrwee carrd more tomorrow. or at least like try and get ppl who can help w all the lorem ipsum gaps

#‘zoz aren’t you trying to back away from fandom’ yeah and im bad at it fjsmdnfn #honest answer is more… idk doing something that feels like a Service to the community (like the carrd or my transparent files)#feels Different. admittedly maybe some of it is like an Unhealthy thing but. it’s nice to feel helpful yknow fjsksn #at the very least I’d love to fill in tbe blanks but there’s also some sections I planned/started working on that id like to finish #things that aren’t even Linked anywhere like! idk #def would need to add a like ‘last edited on’ bit as a failsave in case I Never do update it again #so like. future proofing the Project (bc it’s tied to my premium carrd acct so I can’t like… hand it over to someone else to maintain after #idk just having thoughts ig. but also I DO like the carrd but ALSO also I don’t think anyone uses it or cares abt it in the first place #idk it’s intended to kind-of ‘’replace’’ the post I have linked in my pinned— which was ALSO linked by others and. idk man chskdn

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jinouchibhue · 2 years

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Listen I like fighting with terminally online minors occasionally but there's this blue haired woman who keeps showing up on my for you page and it's giving touch grass.

#like it's not THAT serious you know what I mean?#going on and on about being a vet or doing some kind of community service or whatever #and it's like no one's going to physically stop you from reading all the bl novels you want girl come on now #jinouchi.txt

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inkskinned · 4 months

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i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

#spilled ink #warm up #“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol #btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can #run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her #but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like.#ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone!#like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate''#we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!

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themirokai · 1 year

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I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

#went down a rabbit hole #got mad #webnovel #this is a scam #how to ao3 #fan fiction #please spread the word #long post

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creature-once-removed · 6 months

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#thinking about Izzy Hands is making me feral about the position of first mate #it's such an interesting position because it's in such a weird liminal position #the strongest connection point between the captain and the crew when it comes to communication and management #I think what made Izzy's arc this season so surprising #while still hitting practically all the strongest fandom plot points that were generally used and speculated about with him #is that previously to s2 we only saw and mostly only imagined one half of that transitive position #we saw Izzy as first mate in service to his captain #but there's a whole other side to the job #which is service to the crew #and through context we were actually told that Izzy has got to embody that as well to at least some degree #because for all his missteps and questionable actions he's been Blackbeard's first mate for years #and also in spite of all of his aggressive actions towards the Revenge crew we see him just hanging out around them even in s1 #and fandom just never really paid attention to that (completely understandable because he really is an asshole to everyone)#but I love how s2 leans so heavily into the 'people' aspect of people management #which is what Izzy's job is #and this kind of being twice beholden to something #no wonder he is the way he is #he's been ground up in that space of tension for decades #no wonder he longs to belong somewhere so deeply #his job is literally 'middle man who needs to play both sides'#what a fantastic position for a character #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #Izzy hands

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captainjonnitkessler · 5 months

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I think I can trace my intense hatred for the whole "regulations are just corporate bullshit, building codes are just The Man's way of keeping you down, we should return to pre-industrial barter and trade systems" nonsense back to when I first started doing electrical work at one of the largest hospitals in the country.

I have had to learn so much about all the special conditions in the National Electric Code for healthcare systems. All the systems that keep hospitals running, all the redundancies and backups that make sure one disaster or outage won't take out the hospital's life support, all the rules about different spaces within the hospital and the different standards that apply to each of them. And a lot of it is ridiculously over-engineered and overly redundant, but all of it is in the service of saving even one life from being lost to some wacky series of coincidences that could have been prevented with that redundancy.

I've done significantly less work in food production plants and the like, but I know they have similar standards to make sure the plants aren't going to explode or to make sure a careless maintenance tech isn't accidentally dropping screws into jars of baby food or whatever. And research labs have them to make sure some idiot doesn't leave a wrench inside a transformer and wreck a multi-million dollar machine when they try to switch it on.

Living in the self-sufficient commune is all fun and games until someone needs a kidney transplant and suddenly wants a clean, reliable hospital with doctors that are subject to some kind of overseeing body, is my point.

#i know i've complained about this a hundred times before. AND I'LL DO IT A HUNDRED MORE #just. god. apply ANY critical thinking of whether your self-sufficient society can scale up to a population of 300 million #and that's just for the us!

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feretra · 8 months

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i went downstairs to see if there was any milk in our communal fridge, and there was a note from management about how their food got stolen out of it and STOP PUTTING FOOD IN THE COMMUNAL FRIDGE.

y'all, i live in a senior building. people here do not care. their level of fucks left them years ago. someone just took the note and wrote "then buy your own fucking freezer" and someone else added "and keep it in the bathroom you've hoarded because we rely on this fridge to eat"

as someone who regularly uses the communal fridge to provide meals and food to these resident grandmas and grandpas, i have started a revolution.

#ooc #[ it started during the pandemic because a lot of them couldn't leave home ]#[ i'm also severely immune compromised but i didn't mind running errands ]#[ and taking my excess meals from my services and putting them downstairs for others to use ]#[ we are a low income / food instable building and our mobile food shelf didn't come during covid ]#[ so i also worked with a friend who runs a food shelf and took some pet food and excess and left it for them as well ]#[ and it kind of slowed down after covid stabilized but i still donate meals and food regularly ]#[ and take my neighbors to the store or doctors ]#[ i am a catty bitch yes but i am very much about my community ]#[ these grandmas and grandpas accepted and love me even though i am flaming anarchist and lesbian ]#[ my family can't even do that ]#[ i will move the world for these old people they good people ]#[ and they started a revolution in my honor lollll ]

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