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oldpainless posted:I would rather accuse 100 people of animal abuse and be wrong 100 times than to not accuse 1 time and be wrong that once A pleasure to have instagram royalty here
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Read After Burning posted:Anyway, have whatever this is...y'all are lucky I'm not posting the workout video he has, saying he's "training for his debate with Biden". I'm a dog owner and I've never heard of that but sure, but I'm confused how a) the dog having a headache is abusive and b) how you're supposed to do anything about it
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:I'm a dog owner and I've never heard of that but sure, but I'm confused how a) the dog having a headache is abusive and b) how you're supposed to do anything about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_pressing It's actually a sign of something worse, but yeah. Not driving your pet to the vet the second you see them do that isn't exactly abuse in my book. I've had cats all my life and never even heard of this. My cats are absolute dipshits and staring at a wall wouldn't stand out to me at all.
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Tony Phillips posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_pressing Seriously, my cats stare at the wall when they see something on the other side.
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Tony Phillips posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_pressing Yeesh that's a depressing read. Thankfully all my dog does re: walls is try to chew on them because she's a loving idiot
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AceOfFlames posted:They are my sibling. I have to engage with them because they are among the few people I know in this town where I don't speak the language. They are one of the few people who care if I live or die and no one wants to expand their social circle at this age with a foreigner in this part of the world. But, as often commented in this thread, you can't reason somebody out of ideas that they weren't reasoned into.  I am happy to say that the comments don't agree with him.
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Read After Burning posted:Cats and dogs apparently press their heads against the wall as a symptom when something is bugging them head/brain-wise, although sometimes it's just them being weird little guys and nothing more? Can confirm, head-pressing is something that should be concerning and needs to be checked out.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:"What would you say if the head of Whole Foods made these decisions? Would you blame their advisers, or would you blame the CEO?" Can't believe they let Hunter Biden on the supreme court. Really just let that slip huh?
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Brawnfire posted:Seriously, my cats stare at the wall when they see something on the other side. Your cats are probably looking for mysterious creatures called greebles.
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Brawnfire posted:Seriously, my cats stare at the wall when they see something on the other side. Mine are staring at probable mice. I know this because they regularly catch mice. 
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Panfilo posted:
Dilbert Mental Health Tip #9: Kill Your Son 
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You did a genre hurt. You did a no comfort.
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The poster is complaining, I think, in inscrutable fanfiction language which I can only barely parse, that they thought that season 2 of a show made a character experience a hurtful situation and did not also give them a resolution to that pain, and this must be fixed. They have written a fanfiction on a website called "archive of our own" which fixes it, and neil gaiman should look to this for cues.
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This is the knowledge that being friends with fanfiction weirdos back in high school has bestowed on me: "hurt/comfort" is a genre where a character is in some kind of pain or distress, and another character comforts them (romantically or sexually, I guess). Think like "WOLVERINE RETURNS FROM A BATTLE WITH X-23 AND CYCLOPS TENDS TO HIS WOUNDS" or whatever. "Hurt/no comfort" I assume is what it says on the tin...stuff just sucks poo poo for those characters, I guess.
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Yes that also, there is an entire genre of fanfiction which is about your favourite fictional characters doing therapy on each other. With their dicks or otherwise.
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Also taps into a long standing and surprisingly widespread belief that all fiction is (or should be) positive escapist comfort and anything that isn't that has failed. If you're not offering comforting escapism why am I watching/reading you?? That same argument, fed through a super racist filter, is basically how you get chuds arguing that minorities shouldn't be in their films and videogames.
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It seems that we have reached a stage where art is all adaptations usually made by people with active contempt for the source material consumed by fans who believe that all art must be directed exclusively to them. Everyone on Earth is becoming a sociopath.
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Actually no what the gently caress am I talking about. Gaiman has widespread popularity. He could tell these people to fully suck his dick.
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Reminds me a little of this I can completely understand why Mitski fully quit social media and just has a manager post tour dates, media, and requests like this for her.
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It's also in no small part (because that's obviously about Good Omens S2, which just game out) something my friend and I have observed in some fandoms: that there are people who want their favs to experience no obsticles what-so-ever. Not even that they don't want their favs experiencing set-backs or things like that, but that at no point should anything stand in the way of their favs getting whatever their momentary desire is. You see it a lot in some of the, um... It's hard to describe them without sounding like a dick, so I'll just say "softboi" fandoms, like those around Bob's Burgers and Steven Universe.
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Neito posted:It's also in no small part (because that's obviously about Good Omens S2, which just game out) something my friend and I have observed in some fandoms: that there are people who want their favs to experience no obsticles what-so-ever. Not even that they don't want their favs experiencing set-backs or things like that, but that at no point should anything stand in the way of their favs getting whatever their momentary desire is. You see it a lot in some of the, um... It's hard to describe them without sounding like a dick, so I'll just say "softboi" fandoms, like those around Bob's Burgers and Steven Universe. Bob's Burgers, though? Bob's Burgers has a "softboi" fandom?
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Vib Rib posted:I've never seen Steven Universe, but despite having also never heard the term, everything I know about it and its fandom makes "softboi" sound fully believable. You'd be suprised how little the tone of the actual work influences this. The main issue isn't people wanting their escapism fluffy and light though, it's the subset of those people who become enraged they aren't getting it and try to make it everyone else's problem.
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Neito posted:It's also in no small part (because that's obviously about Good Omens S2, which just game out) something my friend and I have observed in some fandoms: that there are people who want their favs to experience no obsticles what-so-ever. Not even that they don't want their favs experiencing set-backs or things like that, but that at no point should anything stand in the way of their favs getting whatever their momentary desire is. You see it a lot in some of the, um... It's hard to describe them without sounding like a dick, so I'll just say "softboi" fandoms, like those around Bob's Burgers and Steven Universe.
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Vib Rib posted:I've never seen Steven Universe, but despite having also never heard the term, everything I know about it and its fandom makes "softboi" sound fully believable. Buddy, wait till you find out what they did with the villain in The Lorax.
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Steven Universe is a well-written show that's fun and also thoughtful, and is best enjoyed without any internet connection in the deepest darkest woods. Never do any Googling about it or read anything anyone has ever written about how they feel about it and you'll do alright.
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Vib Rib posted:I've never seen Steven Universe, but despite having also never heard the term, everything I know about it and its fandom makes "softboi" sound fully believable. Bob is the soft boi in question. Because he's nice, and a father figure, and actually loves his kids, which, for like 90% of people into softboi stuff, is like crack mixed with meth mixed with your father actually telling you he loves you and accepts you. It's a very "Daddy is good, and anything that stops good is bad, therefore even the slightest inconvinience is a full-on evil.
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Platystemon posted:Buddy, wait till you find out what they did with the villain in The Lorax. oepsy-poops i did a heccin ecocide uwu
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Coolness Averted posted:But that's baked into both shows. Like from the beginning it's made very clear the Belchers struggle financially and all have issues they struggle with. I don't watch Steven Universe, but from what I've picked up it's about gay trauma aliens. Yeah, in Steven Universe that's definitely set up from the very start. The first episode features a song that's clearly meant to be allegorical for the series about a cartoon mascot that loses his family, and the second episode is all about how Steven is struggling to connect to and process the various aspects of his mother's legacy, a theme that continues through the entire series. Platystemon posted:Buddy, wait till you find out what they did with the villain in The Lorax. In case you somehow don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us5Y_Kba7To
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Actually no what the gently caress am I talking about. Gaiman has widespread popularity. He could tell these people to fully suck his dick. Apparently, he often has and they've often obliged
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Platystemon posted:Buddy, wait till you find out what they did with the villain in The Lorax.  they're even brothers, goddammit.
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I have never watched a single episode of Steven Universe and I never will, despite goons telling me it's good, because every adult I know in actual life who enjoys Steven Universe is a loving nightmare person. Only Rick and Morty rivals it in terms of bad fan representation of a show.
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mycatscrimes posted:You'd be suprised how little the tone of the actual work influences this. Pretty much this. Fandoms are what they are, I'm in a couple, but there are people who have expectations and when those aren't met they go positively feral. Then again this applies to most media and the public in general and not just fandoms so
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Mr.Radar posted:Yeah, in Steven Universe that's definitely set up from the very start. The first episode features a song that's clearly meant to be allegorical for the series about a cartoon mascot that loses his family, and the second episode is all about how Steven is struggling to connect to and process the various aspects of his mother's legacy, a theme that continues through the entire series. What happened to some corners of the Steven Universe fandom is, in it's own way, the leftist/progressive/queer version of right-wing fans of RatM getting mad that their stuff is suddenly political. And it's hard to criticize from a baseline companionate perspective because the argument ("Hey, maybe you're becoming a bit too conflict avoidant and need to step out of your comfort zone") sounds a lot like right-wing and baseline rear end in a top hat criticisms ("Get out of your safe space, you triggered lib").
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Neito posted:What happened to some corners of the Steven Universe fandom is, in it's own way, the leftist/progressive/queer version of right-wing fans of RatM getting mad that their stuff is suddenly political. And it's hard to criticize from a baseline companionate perspective because the argument ("Hey, maybe you're becoming a bit too conflict avoidant and need to step out of your comfort zone") sounds a lot like right-wing and baseline rear end in a top hat criticisms ("Get out of your safe space, you triggered lib"). I have no context for this, so is this like, is the conflict avoidant thing a plotline in the show or something?
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Heath posted:I have no context for this, so is this like, is the conflict avoidant thing a plotline in the show or something? It's going back to my original point that they don't want any conflict or obsticles in their show for the characters they like.
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