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AutumnDasher

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She/Her | Opinionated Rambler | Gay | Artist | Allegedly likes ‘Doctor Who’
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if you are shocked and horrified by patricia taxxon's banning and her treatment, the action you can take right now is to ask yourself if there are any other people whose continued harassment and stalking you are, passively or actively, participating in. are you following a drama blog? a drama channel? is there a "fucked up and dangerous" internet creator whose personal life you're deeply aware of, despite their wishes? fucking stop. cut that shit out of your life. block the drama account. unfollow. disengage. it does not matter what they've done (let's be real, what she's done), them being constantly stalked and harassed is not making anything better.

i do hope that this is redundant information for people who are already following me, but i do hope this post is spread enough that the people who need to see it do.

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P.T is a PlayStation 4 Exclusive horror game about repeatedly walking through the same hallway that became impossible to play after it was delisted from the PS4 store, being digital only and unable to re-install if you had previously purchased it. It was beloved and acclaimed when available and its ultimate fate turned it into a cautionary tale about the unreliability of digital-only gaming and the importance of having a physical thing you can rely upon to enjoy a work of art and entertainment.

On an unrelated note: PlayStation is going full-digital and joining the corporations attempting to kill physical media to price gouge consumers and gain a greater amount of control over their products to the detriment of the customer.

PT was a demo and it was delisted because the game was cancelled by the publisher. People created an emulator for this demo ages ago, you can still play it

If gamers cared so much about physical games then they should actually buy them - 85% of games are sold digitally on PlayStation.

P.T’s fan-preservation only shows the failings and impermanence of digital exclusive distribution. The only way to play P.T today is through REMAKES, they’re not the original

The Insomniac leak shows that people prefer to buy physically WHEN GIVEN THE OPTION. The higher percentage of Digital Sales is because there are tons of games that don’t have any physical release

Don't let corporations withhold the art you love and make experiencing them illegal

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.

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I love talking about doctor who to my best friend cause I will just say shit like "bill was saved by her lesbian love and turned into sentient water/space fuel" or "they once found two missing doctor who episodes in a mormon church basement" and Im not even lying

i was once recommending docto who to my friend's boyfriend (as you do) and i told him "ah it's just a really cool sci-fi time travel show about an imortal alien and his friends :)"

and my friend (who hears every ramble of the show i have) told me "nooo, tell him about the weird stuff, you're describng a normal show doctor who is not normal"

ohhhh youre a transfeminist? thats really cool! now really quick before we continue talking, does your transfeminism have space for isuggestforcefem, patricia taxxon, and the countless other massively lolcowed trans women? just, yknow, asking.

The biggest bullshit with Adultism is basically that the people will defend it with: "Well, if we did not force X on kids, kids would not do it, because they hate X."

And then you actually look onto the research.

Kids do not generally hate learning or school. Quite the opposite. Children tend to enjoy learning and are naturally curious. It is exactly the fact that they are forced into school and into the rigid structure of it that often punishes curiosity but also is hostile towards the differences inherent in people, that kids hate it.

Kids do not naturally hate medical care. While medical care is scary at times, the fear usually comes from medical care scenarios being defined by adults overriding a child's agency, not explaining things to him, and otherwise being abusive, that makes children afraid of medical procedures. Additionally the way a lot of medical procedures go hand in hand with denying a child's reality ("Look, it is not that bad") tends to be traumatizing to children.

There have been studies done in this. If you explain a child - even a toddler - what you do and why, children will generally be a lot more okay with stuff like needles and simple procedures, and will even agree to necessary surgical interventions.

If you create a learning environment that allows more for self-directed learning, and involves less specific testing, most kids actually will enjoy learning.

The way kids hate school, and are afraid of doctors is the result of those interactions being associated with violence and coercion. The hatred is because of the coercion, rather than the hatred making the coercion necessary.

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Anonymous asked:

How do you not get that:

1. Aang killing Ozai would just make him a martyr for his ideals and his supporters would use that as fuel to continue his legacy.

2. Aang killing Ozai is the true death of his culture’s ideals. The Air Nomads did not kill anyone, and if they did, they were basically exiled from the temples. That’s why Yancheng told him his role as Avatar trumps his ideals.

3. The universal symbol of harmony and balance to all of the nations taking away Ozai’s bending completely sends a much stronger message than killing him.

Aang killing Ozai would just make him a martyr for his ideals and his supporters would use that as fuel to continue his legacy.

As a general rule of thumb if you're going to say "We can't do X or Y will happen" it would help if Y didn't happen anyway.

Aang killing Ozai is the true death of his culture’s ideals. The Air Nomads did not kill anyone, and if they did, they were basically exiled from the temples. That’s why Yancheng told him his role as Avatar trumps his ideals.

The problem isn't that Aang is a pacifist. The problem is that Aang's pacifism and nervousness about killing someone only showed up now and only at the final hurdle. Aang held no qualms whatsoever about absolutely brutally beating the stuffing out of everyone up to that point.

It's that age-old lazy writing trope of "Spare the villain to show how nice you are, casually ignore all the mooks you blasted into oblivion up to that point."

I'm sorry that Doylist critique makes your brain break, but don't take it out on me.

The universal symbol of harmony and balance to all of the nations taking away Ozai’s bending completely sends a much stronger message than killing him.

It sends the exact same message: Don't fuck with the Avatar.

Here's the main issue: Aang's pacifism and dislike of fighting and violence would work narratively if he wasn't in such a viciously violent series.

Avatar as a series has often bent over backwards specifically to include a fight scene where it doesn't belong. Characters like Vaatu, Zaheer and Kuvira exist exclusively to fit bending fights into problems that otherwise can't be solved by them.

Avatar will break itself in half to include violence, even to the point of retconning in a violent, imperialist Air Empire 1,000 years in the past, but still wants to go "uwu viowence bad, we should stop fighting."

You want to have fight scenes because you think they're cool, but then you also want to have a pacifist message because that's the default "good guy" position, and you don't know how to square those two.

Pick one: Constant, giant, spirit laser anime fights, or pacifism.

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A young Black boy was killed by police in Austin, TX yesterday. He was killed over a water bottle in his waistband assumed to be a gun. They’re trying to call this killing a “suicide by cop” since the young boy was the same person who called the cops, but I think we all know how fucking ludicrous that sounds. His name has yet to be released

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