important that you never forgive ice agents, ever. even years after all this is over (and I do believe we will make it out on the other side, alive and for the better,) they live in shame and disgrace forever. no excuses, no forgiveness. they ruined their own lives when they decided that human freedom and liberty was an acceptable sacrifice for a paycheck
Oh, the comments are GOLD
Great job everyone
anyone who ever wonders if people will care about their AU fanfiction because it’s “too different” should just look at the Protomen as living proof that people will love it no matter what
People don’t care how different your AU is from the source material. The Protomen’s story is about 20% source material. If it’s good, people will love it.
i think we've done a great job expanding the view of what a child's favorite animal can be. kids these days can say they love axolotls or pangolins or coelecanths and their decision is respected. maybe their parents can even find them a stuffed animal of it if they know where to look. and i think that's beautiful
your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate
Hiiii can I ask a personal question? It's okay if you don't want to answer! My partner suspects they might be a trans woman, but they're a bit scared to transition bc they're 34 and they think they're too old for it. I'm being very supportive and telling them that time will pass anyway and that you're never too old to transition, but idk how else to really help. I started my transition at 17 so yeah... Got any words of wisdom that I could give them?
My advice is that I just hung out with my friend who transitioned in her thirties starting last year and she's literally the happiest she's ever been in her life. I can see the light coming back to her eyes every time I hang out with her and she is so filled with joy and love that it makes my heart full whenever I get the chance to interact with her.
It is never, ever too late to make a change that will make you happier. Maybe the best time to do it was yesterday, but the second best time is right now. The only true deadline for transition is death, and lemme tell ya, spending between now and then as a happier, more true version of yourself is the best thing you can do. There's trans people who started in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and hell, even 70s. Probably some people who've done it in their 80s and 90s too! And those people are happier than they were yesterday. I think we should all pursue the happiest version of ourselves, and even if it brings some hardships we wish we could avoid, god, it's worth it. It's so fucking worth it.
fwiw we started transitioning in our late 40s and well,
30 vs 60 :)
it's only too late when you're dead innit, made us way happier with ourselves
the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it
sometimes it gets anthropomorphized into a character or a divine figure or symbolized by something more tangible like a river or a car or a boat but it is a character in its own right and you should think of it this way
We need to bring “read another book” type energy to like, fandom in general, and I’m not joking.
If you could go back 20 years an get people, at scale, to expand their taste in fiction beyond Harry Potter, we would not be here right now.
People focusing on the Harry Potter series on this post are missing the point.
The point isn't that Harry Potter itself is the problem, it's that a large fandom obsessed with one work, and only one work, to the exclusion of all other works, combined with a rapturous devotion to that specific creator, resulted in a socio-political landscape where one very popular author of children stories can single-handedly swing a society into a genocide.
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actually i am gonna give you guys a genuine answer to that. not the anon because they obviously don't actually care, but the rest of the new followers i seem to have picked up off that youth lib post.
why do i give a shit about social media restrictions? well, i went to the library three months ago with my two teenage brothers to sign them up for new library cards (they just moved) and i was told that under 18s can't have a library card, even a restricted kids-books-only card, without a parent there in person to give consent.
that's fucked for abused kids for sure but that's also fucked for kids whose single mum works two jobs and can't get to the library while its open. and there is NO good reason for it except to appease parents who want to control what their kids can read.
people coming onto my posts telling me 'kids should just do X' have not actually looked into the possibility of doing what they are suggesting. kids now cannot do what you did when you were a teenager even a decade ago. abused kids, disabled kids or kids from low income families ESPECIALLY cannot do those things. they are running out of places to go.
interviews and studies with teenagers repeatedly prove that they WANT to hang out with their friends in real life, and it is getting harder and harder to do it. the internet is one of the only places they can all spend time together, unsupervised, without spending money or getting hassled or moved on by adults.
social media bans won't fix that. they won't even keep kids off social media. they're just going to make life harder for everyone, increase the amount of tracking and monitoring EVERYONE is subject to, and force kids to lie about what they're doing to any adults that actually DO give a shit about them.
may you heal so hard that you start exploring your hobbies again
Audience culpability and character agency in the Protomen
VI: Sons of Fate // The Protomen, Wikipedia // Ayers, Agency in the Protomen // Lamoreux // VI // How to Draw a Circle // Ayers // Hoover, Urgencies in Interactive Theatre // Consume
the very concept of a “work life balance“ is such a slap in the face considering how many workers are expected to deal with ridiculous commutes, having to remain professional even off the clock because they represent a company, being called in for a shift at a moments notice and having to drop everything or they’re fired, doing unpaid overtime etc etc. capitalism has never given the working class the supposed luxury of true free time or a personal life divorced of the working environment and no amount of encouraging people to organise their time better is going to make up for that
Sometimes, it’s just fun to draw a centipede
joe when you meet emily!!... actually, nevermind
be kind and respectful to fanfic writers
be kind and respectful to fan artists
be kind and respectful to people in your fandom
be kind and respectful to people
Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.
You think you don’t do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. I’m fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?
Often the intent is to let you know so you can get better, not to damn you for all eternity.
