I finally have my Redbubble up!! Enjoy!!!
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I'm not very aware of hockey booktok but like what's going on over there?! It seems awful
not well-versed on it either. I think @hard4softthings knows more than I do. but tl;dr FROM WHAT I KNOW -
Seattle Kraken find out about BookTok that they seem to interpret is promoting their players. They ask one influential BookToker if she wants to have an all-expenses paid trip to a Kraken game (presumably to grow the Kraken's following among the new generation). Problem with BookTok is that, unlike HockeyBlr and Ao3, BookTok has very little understanding of a fourth wall. BookTokers went to games with signs like "krak my back Wennberg" (one of the players) which. Yikes.
So Felicia Wennberg, wife of Alex Wennberg, writes an Insta story post that's like "we love our fans but like please don't do this, Alex is a married man and it's making us uncomfortable, not to mention that if he were a woman and the people doing this stuff were men this would be clearly viewed as sexual harassment". Alex later posts a similar story. BookTok does NOT receive this well and begins attacking the Wennbergs for... asking people to not catcall Alex while he's working??? I guess??? And posting nasty comments on their Instagram posts dating back a while...
I also think there was something about Felicia being a racist because the BookToker she called out was Black? Which, I don't buy that she's racist for asking a Black person not to do something bordering on sexual harassment, but again, I don't know all the details here.
Just don't go on TikTok ever for any reason ever and you'll be fine. That's the general rule I stick to in life and it serves me well.
Also, lock your fics, lock your tumblrs, and generally work to keep the fourth wall intact because people will be ANGRY and posting nasty stuff on whatever they can find. Which, you should be doing this anyway because NHLers generally don't want to look up their name casually and find posts thirsting over them, fics about them boning their teammates, and whatever else have you. Except maybe Tyler Seguin but that drama is a WHOLE other can of worms.
Again, I might be wrong about this but this is just what I understood from the posts I've seen about it. If I am wrong, please feel free to correct me.
Good luck. o7
Here’s a really good recap (idk who this YouTuber is but apparently it was a big deal they picked up the story)
They’re very un-biased and break down p much everything that has happened
This TikTok was also just shared with me on discord and it’s a really well spoken, well thought out POV from someone sort of at the epicenter by association
It’s @EmilyRathBooks on tiktok and it’s their 4th most recent video after their pinned videos (sorry I don’t provide links from TikTok bc of tiktoks privacy issues when you share links)
Ultimately yeah, stay off TikTok, keep fandom shit in fandom spaces, keep it secret keep it safe, be respectful of these ppls boundaries when they set them, don’t be assholes IRL @ games, in person events etc
Be weird online privately, not in person.
icicaille_ (on twitter) requested: fitzier + refuge
BRENDAN FRASER as RICK O’CONNELL ODED FEHR as ARDETH BAY THE MUMMY (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers
and happy best friend day to them
“Progress Shark” outside the Australian Museum, ahead of Sydney Mardi Gras/World Pride Festival 2023.
More flags should be inflatable sharks
[ID: meme of a kitten standing on its hind legs, with its head bowed as if in shame. Text says, “sorry for apologising about apologising. It will happen again”. End ID]
Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.
Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison
Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck
Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it
Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.
In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.
To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.
There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.
This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.
We are in danger of inventing another critically acclaimed cult film bro jerkoff film that doesn't exist....
everybody in the club get earnest
"comrade in arms" yeah i bet he was in your arms. every night. fruit
like why are mobile games allowed to lie about what they are in ads. wasn’t that illegal at one point
Here is a link to the US Restrict Act (commonly known as the TikTok ban) as it is currently written.
Please read the actual bill and share even if you do not live in the United States. The precedents this piece of legislation would set would have far reaching impacts on how the internet is used for everyone in the future.
We've got a problem here. I know most people here probably hate tiktok, and for some good reasons, but believe it or not there's actually a good amount of good on tiktok too.
But this isn't about banning tiktok. That's just a cover for this, given power thanks to Meta (Facebook) lobbyists pretty much paying the United States Government.
For the tldr: This act, while saying it's to insure American's personal information will be safe from foreign powers, it goes much deeper than that.
- It will give the United States Government the power to remove and ban ANY online service they deem "a security risk" while making it so they do not need just cause and do not need to clarify or release a public statement.
- It allows them the power to gather American's data without our knowledge or consent and even force us to submit documentation for anything they wish.
- It protects the government from scrutiny on this, and if you try to speak about it and inform people on what it ACTUALLY allows, they can claim it to be false information and charge you.
- It prevents you from using a VPN as it's seen as a breach of information security, thus they can charge you.
- Failure to abide by these "guidelines" can lead to a fine up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS and/or 20 YEARS in prison.
- And above all it does NOTHING to prevent AMERICAN companies from collecting and selling your data.
And that's not even everything it does. This isn't about banning tiktok. It's about control, taking away our freedom of speech, censorship, and selfish monetary gain. This doesn't just affect tiktok users. This affects ALL Americans, small businesses, communities, and even those that use American online products, like Tumblr.
The US is turning into a fascist regime, where they are slowly but surely stripping away our rights and freedoms even more than they already have. And it terrifies me.
If you're not an American, please share this. We already have a hard enough time knowing what goes on with those in other countries. This could make it all the more difficult.
And if you are an American, share this, then contact your state representative and your state senators. Email, phone, even mailing a physical letter for crying out loud. You can search "who is my representative and senators?" on Google, bing, duck-duck-go, or whatever, and it'll take you to where you can find that out and even how to contact them.
Calmly and professionally tell them that not only do you NOT support the TikTok ban(since that is the cover they are using), but you DO NOT support the Restrict Act.
And let them know that if this bill is to pass, you will be spending all your time and energy supporting their opponents in the PRIMARIES. They do not expect Americans to contact them about this, so not only will they see us going out of our way to contact them, but by saying you'll be supporting their OPPONENTS, they'll have to either listen or have to spend thousands of not millions of dollars in campaigning so they don't lose their nice day paychecks, and to them this is all about money so it'll hit them where it hurts.
It doesn't matter what political party you're on, because BOTH parties in office want this. This is not about sides. This is about the ENTIRE government stripping our rights away so they can keep lining their own pockets.
And while we're at it? Review bomb anything related to meta it Facebook. Meta started all this because they couldn't compete with tiktok or buy it, so they paid lobbyists to convince congress to ban tiktok so they didn't HAVE to compete.
And here's the kicker... Many people of congress actually bought stock in Meta RIGHT BEFORE this all started. They are LITERALLY trying to manipulate the market for themselves. So let them burn.
