i will say, “barbieheimer” as the Film Event Of The Summer is an almost too on-the-nose encapsulation of the american media landscape. one movie is two hours of faux-progressive advertising for a plastic doll, and the other is three hours of military propaganda that pretends it has anything more interesting to say than “the american military is ultimately good.” not to be that guy but jesus h christ, hollywood is a parody of itself sometimes
i will say, “barbieheimer” as the Film Event Of The Summer is an almost too on-the-nose encapsulation of the american media landscape. one movie is two hours of faux-progressive advertising for a plastic doll, and the other is three hours of military propaganda that pretends it has anything more interesting to say than “the american military is ultimately good.” not to be that guy but jesus h christ, hollywood is a parody of itself sometimes
one of the things that makes autism a disability (and why some of us choose to label it as such rather than an “alternate neurotype”) is the stress.
part of autism is just being incredibly stressed. overstimulation? stress. holding a conversation? stress. something happening to our schedule? stress. people talk about how often autism is recognized and diagnosed via our stress responses (like meltdowns) because it is just so common to see autistic people stressed because of lack of accommodations to how our brains work.
and this matters because stress kills. stress causes a lot of health issues, or it can trigger pre-existing ones by making certain chronic conditions flare up. i once had a psychiatrist very unhelpfully tell me i “just need to manage my stress” when the stress i was describing was things i could not avoid in neurotypical society and can’t “just get over”. i can do “self care” all i like but i cannot at the very base level change the way my brain inputs information and reacts accordingly.
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
There once was a man from the sticks Whose limericks stopped at line six. They were fine till line five Then they took quite a dive — But the problem is easy to fix If you just ignore the last line, it doesn’t even follow the rhyme scheme oh god I’ve really lost control of this thing I’m so sorry…
There once was a fellow named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He replied, “Yes, I know– It’s because I try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can.”
On Tumblr did lasses and lads Their way with fail poetry had. You’re having your fun But you’re fooling no one - It takes skill to do something this bad.
at this point I wish advertising in general was just literally illegal. Word of mouth only. Maybe exceptions beneath a certain net value like if you’re a startup or a family run business but if you’re already making a billion dollars then making even one single commercial or banner campaign should be a crime and I mean a crime like the CEO gets investigated on national television and goes to prison forever and everyone agrees they’re a sick fucked up maniac
toxic dysfunctional complex sibling relationships will always always be IT it’ll always sweep it’ll always top romance you can’t undo a blood bond it’ll always exist you can’t unmake it it lives it lives you both breathe it and it lives even long after one or both parties are dead
this is why stories with compelling sibling arcs will always fuck you up irreversibly and in very specific way. it’s like, you are my mirror you are my opposite you are my foil you are my blood i see myself through you i recognize myself because you exist and no one can ever destroy me quite the way you can.
wealthy people in the global north will get like irrationally angry at the idea of people in the global south pirating their work but they don’t offer sliding scale prices nor price their work differently in different countries to reflect local currencies like of course people will pirate your work, it’s their only option. like a book that costs $25 USD costs 110 malaysian ringgit plus import charges, and more if you have to ship it from abroad. 110 ringgit to malaysians is just like spending $110 dollars in the US, but in a country with a national minimum wage of what amounts to $341 USD a month. and this is only one country, like be fucking for real.
I guess this was just a vent post but it’s really weird seeing folks like op desperately seeking validation for stealing from other poor people. I’m not going to go into why authors already get screwed over (and how little control they have over pricing) as it’s been said more elegantly by those with firsthand experience.
I don’t expect people to stop stealing but I do wish they’d stop asking for acceptance of it
ETA: you could have made this post about SO many things that are morally fine to pirate because the creators have already been paid and you chose books? BOOKS?!
1. did you miss that the first 2 words of this post are “wealthy people” specifically
2. are you from the global south?
3. your tags suggesting ebooks as an alternative really show how little understanding you have about basic economics and how stupid you think people in the global south are. if an ebook costs $20 USD that is still RM 88, which for a malaysian is exactly like an american paying 88 dollars for something. the prices are not scaled, so no, buying an ebook is not magically the solution. yes, this is about books, but also any kind of media that is out there.
4. if someone could never ever have afforded to pay for something in the first place, you have not lost money from them pirating that something. if an author is poor, the problem is not poor people pirating their media but that they aren’t being adequately paid for their labour by their publishing house, on top of other fundamental failures of the capitalist system in which they live. the same failures of a system that results in people in the global south as well as poor people in the global north being unable to afford basic forms of entertainment media. “pirates” are not the enemy of a creator who is struggling; it’s the system itself for creating and requiring poverty in the first place, as well as for perpetuating and benefiting from systemic inequalities between the global north & south. please get a grip
You take a math test in school. After it’s graded, you see that some of the answers are marked as wrong, but there’s no indication of what the right answer is or where the mistake was made. You ask the teacher what you did wrong. The teacher takes that as an argument. The teacher assumes that asking what you did wrong implies that you refuse to believe that it’s wrong.
Sounds ridiculous, right?
Well, that’s exactly what happens to autistic people on a regular basis.
An autistic person does something wrong because they don’t realize that it’s wrong. As soon as they’re informed that it’s wrong, they immediately want to understand exactly why it’s wrong and what they should have done instead. But this is taken as an argument.
As one of my autistic friends pointed out (I’ve ADHD) the problem is that, a lot of the time, neurotltypicals also don’t consciously understand the rules, or even realise that there’s rules they’re following. So when they’re asked what the rules are they’re confused and think you’re being cheeky or insulting
I want to say one more thing as a cis person who experimented with labels over the years, questioned my gender, and ended up as cis after all. The trans community did not “indoctrinate” me. I had always been asking these questions, even as a little kid before I knew trans people even existed. Over the years, trans women gave me the courage to explore the femininity I wasted my youth denying, trans men taught me that manhood is what you make of it and that nobody could tell me how to define it, and nonbinary people taught me just how limitless my possibilities were. The only parts of my upbringing that left me “confused” about gender were the conservatives who imposed a vision of gender that my friends and I could not relate to. And when I realized trans identity wasn’t something I could claim after all, the community loved me all the same. I am happier, and the world is more beautiful, because of trans people. The human impulse to create and survive isn’t going anywhere, and neither are trans people.
avoid conforming to traditional gender norms by avoiding this common palette:
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try using these palettes instead!!
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Not to be mean but they’re right. None of these would ever fit together
They’re DISGUSTING, op. I’m sorry, it’s better you hear it here than have your grandma say she likes your clothes.
i actually disagree! not to bring back a certain children’s hospital and say “it’s literally color theory” unironically, but… it’s literally color theory. both of these color palettes are virtually complimentary and look pretty nice together
youve got reds, greens, and blues:
and purples, blues, yellows, and oranges:
(you’ll have to click on the images to see the full thing, i don’t want to put them one after the other and make this post even longer than it already is. sorry for the low resolution im doing this on my phone)
of course there’s variation in the values and saturation, but imo that’s a bit of a given ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wait actually fuck this post. what the hell is going on between you two
not to re-rail a post that OP himself intentionally derailed but I wanted to try out the palettes. The first one is made with the Girl Colors with no changes made to the values/saturation.
i think its ok.
The second one I tweaked the saturation and values a to my liking. Both are very low effort but as you can see I kinda got into the second one. Anyway I really like orange/purple/yellow as a color scheme so I had fun with this
hey op i hope u dont mind but i made some boys and girls in these colors ^v^
wait omg it would be so cool if there was a different character for each color and they were all in one friend group together, i would LOVE to read a story about that
omg someone should make a Kickstarter for this!!!!!
it’s interesting that there are twelve of them! you could like, based them all off of the zodiac. you know, tiger, rat, rabbit, dragon, etc
HUH
This post took so .any left turns we got back on track and turned left again anyways Homestuck on the dash again good morning everybody
Terrible post everyone, hit the showers
There’s everything in that post. Colours I can’t see because I’m colour-blind. Homestuck jokes. Casual transphobia. A children’s hospital. That’s history
This post is like trying to do an olympic sprint through a fucking minefield
it’s not even a year old yet??
what about not gendering fucking colours
IT’S SATIRE
I’M THE OP
happy 1 year anniversary to the worst post i’ve ever made
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