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reading het romance novels is so fucking goofy because the leads will be like "we shouldn't have sex yet... the time isn't right... it would be Wrong" but then they'll go right back to sucking/eating/fingering/ jerking each other to completion and still be like. "wow good thing we haven't had sex yet we're being so responsible :)" how do these people Live like this
LITERALLY is what I've BEEN FUCKING SAYING
HIS HAND WAS IN YOUR PUSSY, GIRL
this post is almost a year old and has been very low drama all things considered, but the number of people who have felt the need to explain that sex where a penis enters a vagina is ✨ special✨ because it could result in pregnancy are so funny. yeah man I have a uterus, I know how that works. what part of that negates that reciprocal oral is also sex.
i opened bluesky for a bit which is not something i do often and a bunch of different people on my timeline there getting mad about what they assume an article they haven't read says based on its headline.
ALTso so many different people all retweeting this uncritically as if the article is Actually About how hard it is to go for 48 hours without using an AI program yourself. when in fact you can literally see in the Single Sentence of Text that the screenshotter included that the premise of this article is "make as little contact with machine learning as possible" and if you know anything about how anything in the world works it should make perfect sense why that's difficult to do even if you've never touched chatgpt in your life.
it would be soooooo much easier to take the truly adamantly hardline anti ai people more seriously if they took themselves seriously enough to actually engage with the discussion instead of just flipping their lids whenever they see something they assume is on the other side of the culture war from them
like to be clear i dont think this is a great article. i dont think the decision to just group in the kind of AI that helps the city optimize garbage truck routes with the kind of AI that lets harvard students dox you with their sunglasses in real time elucidates anything about the current moment we're living through. it's pretty much clickbait that ends with a big SHRUG instead of any real insight. but it's far from being the stressed-out detox diary of an AI evangelist that people are treating it like it is because of the headline.
the ratio of people in the quotes pointing out that people are misunderstanding the article to people who are saying shit like this is so grim
ALTits just fucking embarrassing to see people who think they're championing artistic and intellectual integrity act like this. i wish i could physically beam into this person's mind the irony of telling people to think for themselves as a rebuttal for an article they did not read and are responding to entirely based on an internet stranger's framing of it's headline. exhausting exhausting stuff
being 23 is so awesome cause I can bring a Cola can into my room before bed and nobody makes me put it back in the fridge! *realising i sound like a loser* i mean uh being 23 is so awesome cause I can take the bus to go have a sleepover at my best friend's house and we can stay up as late as we want! *getting visibly nervous* and then later... we have sex with eachother. *checking for audience reaction*
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“Where did the potatoes come from?” is a good question to ask a work of fiction… rhetorically. It pokes at cultural blindspots and the ways in which an idealized mytho-Europe exists in popular imagine as this static independent Setting™️ divorced from history, an endemic ur-aesthetic for fantasy that reveals what the author and reader are willing to suspend disbelief for and take for granted. It’s accepted that Fantasy Europe can exist with all the spoils and culture and class dynamics of a colonial empire without all the yuck of conquest and extraction.
But oh god sometimes when a book tries to answer the potato question literally… it’s worse.
The book we’re reading now is retroactively trying to justify the society of the first book without colonialism and it’s just like. Stop. Stop. You are actually showing much more of your ass and unexamined biases now than when The Potato Question went unanswered. “We achieved Ur-Europe wealth and culture though equitable international trade without a military force of any kind, no seafaring capabilities, no intimidation, no slavery, no conquest, just pure honest salt of the earth exchange of our Natural Wealth™️ with other imperial slave-making nations” no you didn’t. You didn’t. The fact that you think you did is pissing me off.
Anyway The Potato Question isn’t just about potatoes or any specific product—that’s just the surface level element. You can have your Fantasy Europeans eating only “starchy tubers” or “trading for seeds” and that only addresses the most surface-level aspect of The Potato Question. Culturally, aesthetically, economically, a recognizable Fantasy Europe only makes sense in the context of empire. There is an empire and Christianity-shaped hole awkwardly in the center of every Fantasy Europe that you just can’t fill with anything else.
Which isn’t to say that you, reading this, are bad and that you shouldn’t read or write about Fantasy Europe. It’s just the reality that we’re working with and you can’t simply write your way out of that context completely and declare it “problem solved”.
you have to be in a certain specific mood to listen to classic rock because sometimes a guy is playing his guitar and you're just like shut the fuck up man
Something you have to understand is that traditional genderswap and forcefem stories all operate from the idea that becoming a woman is a shameful indulgence: it is framed as being proof that a given "man" has Failed At Masculinity and would be more suited to being a woman (read: submissive, especially to men).
This, obviously, is a purely patriarchal viewpoint, and thus it is wholly at odds with the actual lived experiences of trans women. I personally consider the person I am today an improvement in every way over the mediocre life I led before I transitioned, and I don't have a submissive bone in my body. You couldn't pay me to give a shit about what a man thinks or feels about me.
And so, nowadays we have a slow reclamation of the genderswap genre by trans women. Rather than being framed as a shameful cautionary tale, it's often become a form of wish fulfilment: a joyous scenario where you can finally live free from the shackles of patriarchal expectations and live up to your full potential as your true self. Men rarely if ever feature in genderswap stories aimed at trans women, because their experiences are just not important to us.
Still, it should be understood that the large majority of genderswap stories are still not written for us, and still exist for the titillation of cisgender audiences, which can make finding the rare story with Good Vibes like searching for a needle in a haystack.
This is also why a lot of the criticisms I see of reclaimed feminization works sort of... fail, in my view
As in, this is a movement to subvert a horrendously transphobic genre and turn it into something empowering for trans women. It's necessarily in response to the bad stuff, but a lot critics seem to act like the affirming stories just showed up out of nowhere, and weren't written in the context of "there are endless stories that portray men being turned into women as a shameful bad thing."
That's how we get questions like "but what about the poor cis men though? :(" or "why isn't there a version of this for trans guys? :((" from people who don't have the context that these works are written in.
That context being that there's a whole genre of fiction out there that tells trans women "The worst, most humiliating nightmare we could subject someone to is to make them like you."
Trans-affirming feminization stories are counter-propaganda to that, they're not just a thing that appeared in a vacuum!
you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"
like i feel like one of the roadblocks to actual feminism for so many women is their inability to be comfortable grappling with the fact that they're allowed to recognize that something is rooted in misogyny and still personally enjoy it. like that's fine to do. no one is saying you can't like something or find personal empowerment in it, but pretending like you don't exist in the world and that your thoughts and opinions exist in a vacuum separate from society isn't helping anyone, especially not yourself. how can you even be sure that you actually enjoy doing those things if you refuse to even consider a world without the automatic expectation that you do so? no one cares which things about patriarchal society you personally like as long as you're not being a hindrance on those who want to be free of those expectations. denying that there's a problem because you believe that you personally benefit from the problem in some way is being a hindrance to those people. like damn i wish you'd want to get out of the box too but if you're not going to then you could at least stop taping MY lid shut
hamid makes a friend
ALT[ID: Digital fan art of the scene from Rusty Quill Gaming episode 51 of Hamid and the fire elemental. The fire elemental, a huge humanoid figure made entirely of flames, is crouching inside a large red crystal and looking down at Hamid. Hamid is standing next to the crystal looking up at the elemental, with one hand resting against the surface of the crystal. The elemental has one hand raised to match Hamid’s. Hamid is tiny in comparison, smaller than the elemental’s hand. End ID]
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anti party technology
"anti-party technology" is something the villains in children's cartoons use to oppress kids that spell it like "kidz"
Murph being the straight man all fucking season to the wild and whimsical shenanigans only for his entire family to roll up in the finale like the fucking three ring circus of clowns they are was TOP TIER.
