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Arivia posted:I distinctly remember telling my mom when I was reading Xanth at like 10 that it wasn't a sex thing, it was just a joke and now I am very embarrassed. You're really shouldn't be, Piers Anthony's Xanth writing was calculated to make the grossness seem normal and unobjectionable to kids in a way that makes me feel sick to my stomach in retrospect. It's really, really awful, and I ate it up at 10 as well. Not a kid's fault at all for not seeing that it was inappropriate.
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Arivia posted:that would make sense if it was a general discussion about xanth, yes. but i distinctly remember discussing with my mom how in this series the satyrs or something had to collect the panties of young girls but it totally wasn't for sex it wasn't that kind of book series. so i'm still pretty embarrassed. Fair enough, my sympathy for the embarassment.
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Bargearse posted:Neoptism fail-daughter. Reasonable assumption from the screen name, but Ana Mardoll is NB with xie/he pronouns.
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Arivia posted:Still afab though. Correct but that doesn't make it accurate to call him a 'fail-daughter'? It's still incorrect to call a transmasc NB person a woman if they are afab?
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Nov 3, 2022 14:47
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Potentially. I'm not remotely qualified to comment on that issue, so I won't. Just wanted to clarify Mardoll's gender.
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Nov 3, 2022 14:52
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I would just let my kids read Redwall if they liked it and talk to them about stereotypes and how texts can be fun but flawed. It's good to introduce kids to the idea that you can think critically about what messages something sends and not have to totally disavow it and salt the earth behind you. I think a lot of adults grow up still having the inability to process that something they like can have flaws and it's still okay to like those things, leading to endless YA twitter level discourse. (Yes, there are things it is reasonable to reject entirely for their flaws, especially in regards to reinforcing real life bigotry, and that's also a good conversation to have.)
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Dec 20, 2022 04:11
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Also Mariel of Redwall is a loving badass.
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Ambitious Spider posted:When 'i was in college in the W years, people would do a "man shot". You did the shot of tequila, snorted the salt, squirted the lime in your eye and than had someone punch you in the face. It was real dumb They should just make this post the primary definition of 'toxic masculinity' in the dictionary.
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Read After Burning posted:PETA is low-hanging fruit, I know....but it's 2023 and we're still doing this "pouring salt on meat = IT'S ALIVE, HEART STILL BEATING!!!" poo poo? Wow, I didn't expect the way it moved to be so gross. Like it was full of insects, eugh eugh.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1661903048078131201?t=oPw87lv3_Zdpvo194SQJaw&s=19 Twitter may be garbage spiralling around the drain, but the community notes feature is sublime.
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Arivia posted:the original artist is a queer trans person and you can buy it from them here: https://twitter.com/artbyveya/status/1662852985305681921?t=7HlaAlnGAqg-gZ44EIOuyQ&s=19 Hell yeah
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Air Skwirl posted:They aren't actually whales. Dolphins are just Lite Whales imo
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Vertebrates are the trees of the animal kingdom
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:it's true, the lineup of USA, state, and most popular college football team flags at my local Walmart is the only way I don't forget where I am I wish we could replace them with state flags, because I play a lot of geoguesser and every american suburban hellscape looks the same. The US is huge, your american flag tells me nothing! >(
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Vib Rib posted:The actual problem was that trusting a text AI to detect when someone was writing about that turned out to be unreliable, to say the least. And how this in turn led to invasiveness where many people expected privacy. Also it turned out the dataset it had been trained on included a whole bunch of fetish fic including rape and pedo stuff so it wasn't just a matter of the AI learning from users- it was also springing that poo poo on people who didn't want it because it was already in the data. https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/08/ai_game_abuse/ disclaimer Idk anything about this site but the info about the AI dungeon training data provided is accurate.
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Endorph posted:turns out feeding an ai the entire content of random fanfic sites and then also trusting that ai to censor that in a reasonable way is incredibly stupid on both ends Just scrape everything and feed it to the magic box. Disruption! Innovation!
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Antigravitas posted:El Reg is a venerable computer toucher site that is reasonably well regarded. Their headlines used to come off as very irreverent and weird (though they have heavily toned it down lately), but their info tends to be solid. Good to know, it's hard to figure out what unfamiliar google results are reputable and what are trash these days. I will remember this one has a rep for being a good one!
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:As much as I love Mothman, I wouldn't trust him with bridge construction. He was trying to warn everyone that the bridge failed inspection! ...He has a civil engineering degree.
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Personally my hot take is that men demanding a woman in the relationship be subservient to him and know her place as a second class citizen is not really equivalent to a woman having unreasonable standards about height or wealth, even if that woman is also kind of a dick about it.
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Read After Burning posted:Here's some mopey rear end on Reddit (this comment is on a post about several new restaurants coming to downtown San Jose): Crossing my fingers for a nuclear weapons test site to come to my town and really improve the night life.
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I think if you are 20 you can handle some people pointing and laughing at your lovely takes about women.
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I've read lots of good art projects that are about worldbuilding as an excuse for illustration, or speculative biology, or horror, but the thing that makes them good isn't that they have a ton of unnessecary details, it's that they are executed with creativity and passion, and have a unifying theme or aesthetic that helps it hang together. I think even something that is specifically an exercise in making up and sharing a world is carried by things other than just raw worldbuilding, in this way. (Rust and Humus is a really beautiful one that's all about endings and beginnings.)
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Jul 16, 2023 20:09
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The anatomy of a moral panic is to identify a real issue (child abuse, human trafficking, drug overdoses, etc) and then redirect energy and outrage away from a complicated, difficult to solve issue (abuse of authority by trusted family or community members, the failures of the immigration system/misogyny/capitalism, a broken healthcare and social service system) to a conveniently already mostly powerless scapegoat. The Satanic Panic came in the wake of increased cultural awareness of child abuse as a thing and redirected suspicion away from people it would be inconvenient to suspect or inconvenience like parents in respected families, respected members of the community like clergy, and other potential authority figures in a position to abuse the trust of a child to a convenient Other of evil scheming daycare workers that want to undermine God and the American family. It turns something that could actually threaten the status quo into a reason the status quo is not only in no way involved, but actually under attack by these evil outsiders!
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Jul 17, 2023 23:31
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It's really easy to get people to believe in folk devils, and extremely hard to dismantle actual broken entrenched systems.
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Jul 17, 2023 23:46
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There is nothing inherently wrong with ukeleles but because they are seen as quirky and unique, a certain kind of insufferable person is drawn to them. It used to be even worse, circa like 2007-2012
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Sitting on the web, watching the IoSM thread invent established concepts from feminist theory from first principles.
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It's because he tells them what they want to hear, which is that women belong to men and they are entitled to women's sexual availability. Simple as.
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In this fantasy, women are replacable and beneath them. If he doesn't leave the date, he prioritizes her, and gives away that he isn't so central to her that she'll simply do anything he wants and put up with whatever he does. In the fantasy, it is also trivial for him to find other women, because he is so important and women want him so much. The inferiority and availabilty of women is central to this mindset, and this collective chest beating about how this is obviously how they would act and obviously right helps reinforce to them that it is the correct worldview. But yes, it's also goofy as hell.
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For years, you have been asking, "Who is Astro Turf?"
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Panfilo posted:So does these reactionaries simply pretend this kind of content doesn't exist? They seem to make the classic mistake of comparing the best example of the thing they like to the worst examples of the things they hate. When one of the Guilty Gear devs said confirmed they decided to officially write Bridget as a trans woman a whole bunch of western nerds started a conspiracy theory that it was an evil rogue western translator lying about his works. They are really attached to the conservative paradise Japan that exists in their fantasies.
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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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I imagine when you've set up a world where any outlandish thing can happen, the challenge is less thinking of a way to solve a problem, and more finding the solution that will actually feel satisfying.
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steinrokkan posted:Nah, he mostly just wrote whatever. 1 weird trick creative writing professors don't want you to know!
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grittyreboot posted:Just let us have it. We don't have much going for us. Just a terrible local soda and the ability to correct people's pronunciation We can all come together to agree that people who say 'lewis-ville' are psychotic
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Indiana has a genuinely lovely section in the southern part that's all rolling hills; it starts where the glacier gave up. It's a little slice of the Kentucky landscape north of the Ohio and it is indeed beautiful.
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when u think about it ravers are just appropriating preteen girl culture with their kandi
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Aug 11, 2023 02:58
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Yes, far worse... People who accept money to read ad copy...
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:Mexican people say "tah-ko", up in Canada we say it like "taw-ko". But then if you actually DO try pronounce it properly with a Canadian accent, it sounds really weird, so we just keep saying it wrong. In my area/for me "tah-co" and "taw-co" sound exactly the same said out loud. Language is funny.
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Air Skwirl posted:As long as we can agree that "tack-oh" is absolutely wrong. 
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Air Skwirl posted:They used to breed dogs for certain functions. There's a now extinct breed of dog that existed to just run a tiny dog sized hamster wheel to turn meat over a fire so the meat would be evenly cooked. Now they're bred for form over function, which would be fine in the context of dog breeding being okay, but they ignore a lot of health issues it causes. Wait tell us more about the hamster wheel dog, that sounds extremely whimsical.
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