I used to really like the ✨ emoji but now she's best friends with AI and I feel like I can't trust her anymore
NO do NOT let them win. We can save her. We can wrest her association back from AI. She doesn't deserve this and we can't abandon her.
has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author
the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/
every day of my life i read someone being like “why doesn’t this story just solve the problem immediately and casually? they just drag it out and make it an issue” well. because that’s the Story
it's so hard being the only person watching sayonara lara who doesn't have the media literacy of a preschooler
lara: *flashing back to her sister explaining that the light shines when she’s in love*
the audience: this doesn’t mean anything and isn’t usable as an easy visual shorthand for who she does and doesn’t have feelings for
it’s so hard being the only person watching sayonara lara who doesn’t have the media literacy of a preschooler
This is what I was alluding to when I discussed that the volume of name changes you have to make as a trans person highlights the ridiculous amount of documentation attached to you.
[ID: post by arne ness @arne__ness: "you used to be able to rent a hotel room under a fake name now i need an app to do my damn laundry"
Lesbian Rod Se... (cutoff) @LRSerling replies:
It really feels like the entire world has turned into an inescapable panopticon. I look back on the pre-computer days and they almost seem like a time of ridiculous freedom, where you could just skip town and start a new life whenever you wanted". End of ID.]
a while a go there was a post going around, about how being the only person who actually reads signage and instructions makes everyone else think you’re the smartest person alive,
but lately, I’ve been thinking about how having the slightest bit of media literacy and genre awareness makes everyone else seem like the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet
more of a peeve than a strong stance or anything, but it does get under my skin a bit how much people beg for permission to say bad words, like it's something you checklist into unlocking rather than a word you understand the implications of (however you'd use it) and then consciously choose to say or abstain from saying. but also, acknowledgedly, that's just a single spur on my gripe-leviathan of moralism, which is a consistent feature
"does he have permission to say..." "... well I'm allowed to say..." "what are some slurs I can reclaim as..." like good god take some agency, you're not allowed to do anything at all and have no permission from anyone
*Holding out my hand in a peace sign* You can't spell execute without cute! *In my other hand drags a long gnarled blade scraping loudly against the stone*
One weird experience of transitioning is failing at ur assigned gender role the whole time and everyone constantly deriding you for it but then u come out and it's like we lost a beautiful gender conforming warrior today. Must grieve for my wonderful child who pissed me off by being ugly and weird since day 1
