haha, zombies!

"STOP WAVING," they scream. I ignore them. She grows yet another set of legs to keep pace as the train speeds up to get away.

I just needed to make sure more people saw this.

On this day in 2013 Wendy Davis filibustered the Texas Senate, stopping abortion restrictions from being placed on Texans.

I got home from work that night and learned that she was still filibustering and that Senate Republicans were doing their best to stop her. I got in my car and drove the five or so miles between me and the Capitol.

This is what greeted me.

I don’t know how many people were there, but I was so encouraged to know she wasn’t alone. That I wasn’t alone either. She was almost at the end, I want to say thirty minutes to midnight when they declared her filibuster over and the vote would commence. I probably forgot exactly what they did to end it, maybe she took a sip of water or something.

So for the last half hour we screamed. That is a very long time to scream at the top of your lungs. We screamed so loud they couldn’t take the vote. We screamed for our lives. By the time we quieted down it was 12:01 and the vote failed.

That was nine years ago today. Today of all days I think of that night, about what we can do together. It brings me some comfort. I hope it brings some for you too.

This is the most powerful call to ratio I've ever seen. It's like she's performing an incantation.

“NO!….RATIO!!!”

Honestly obsessed with her

hey guys I just remembered this gif

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You know in the movies when someone tries to jump onto a solid-looking green surface in the woods and it turns out to be deep fen?  This is the opposite of that

lmfaooo

This game is literally the funniest thing that’s ever happened and also only like top five Greatest Hits and also only like top 20 Whose line skits

old time mob boss

I'm trapped. #girl

I cannot stress enough how much I love The Good Place.

The best part is that Marc Evan Jackson (who plays Shawn) doesn’t know a damn thing about Pewdiepie. The writing staff gave him that and he delivered it perfectly regardless.

Can we talk about how fucking absurd it is to actually believe that PewDiePie holds a candle to the atrocities committed by war criminals..

really? the man who is consciously introducing MILLIONS of children world wide to fascism isn't as bad as a war criminal? he's creating future war criminals you fucking idiot

Cite your sources, pewdiepie engages in satire. Maybe if people paid attention in school, you would know the different between being a neo-nazi and making satirical content.

We live in a world where a guy paying poor people to hold up a sign saying "death to all jews" while jews face hate crimes around the world and a person can UNIRONICALLY call that satire and say that OTHER people need to go back to school for not knowing what satire is.

Just let that sink in.

the good place has a morality system which is based on impact, not intent. by citing pewdiepie, the show isn't commenting on if he's "actually" racist or not; the show is pointing out that his actions put more harm into the world than good. regardless of his "true intentions," by paying someone to hold a "death to all Jews" sign and promoting channels that support white supremacy, he has done more harm than good.

and before anyone complains about how "he raised money for charities" or whatever, that doesn't negate the harm he's done elsewhere (especially given the whole fiasco with his recent "attempt" to donate to adl. regardless of your opinion on whether it was right or wrong to cancel the donation, there's no denying that white supremacists felt, once again, emboldened by his actions).

this "impact vs. intent" morality actually goes pretty well with the claims his fans make that these acts are satire. anyone who studies literature could tell you that true satire, effective satire, mocks oppressors/the powerful by mimicking them to such an absurd degree that no one can mistake what they say for agreement. people generally cite jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" for a reason — he calls attention to starvation in ireland by suggesting they eat babies. it's absurd and appalling, exposing how poorly the english treated the irish.

this is why pewdiepie's actions are not satire. he doesn't seem to be mocking antisemites; he's simply behaving the same way. that's not satire. that's just being a white supremacist. paying people to hold a sign and promoting a channel are not big, ridiculous actions that obviously point to satire. using the n-word when you're mad at a game is not satire. those aren't big, ridiculous actions that clearly mock those who hold those views.

that's just supporting those views, plain and simple.

and that's the point the good place is making. even if his fans are correct and he's being satirical, he's still harming people. he's still exposing people to antisemitism, using the n-word, and exposing kids to channels that promote white supremacy. he's creating a place for white supremacists to find each other and feel emboldened to share their views with children.

so that's what this means. he has put a lot of bad into the world, and no defense of "it's a joke!" negates that.

PERIOD!! you articulated your point so well

Also: none of these people are considered unambiguously evil in the world right now

Elizabeth Holmes was the youngest female “self-made billionaire” ever who started a medical technology company.

Henry Kissinger was head of the National Security Council and secretary of state under Nixon and Ford and was awarded a freaking Nobel Peace Prize.

And PewDiePie is the most subscribed-to Youtuber in the world.

These aren’t traditional villains who are universally despised, and regardless, the fact that PewDiePie isn’t widely considered to be particularly evil is what makes this a joke. A pointed one.

Holmes committed massive medical fraud, Kissinger perpetuated war and crimes against humanity, and PewDiePie is an unabashed antisemite and white nationalist - who literally shared a video of protestors being murdered in the car attack at Charlottesville - for his audience of young kids. These are all people who are pretty difficult to defend, and yet plenty of people, particularly powerful people, are happy to bend over backwards in order to do so.

And this show doesn’t pull its punches. That’s a big reason people love it.

Also, it's just a joke. Nothing wrong with a joke, right, pewdiepie stans?

Also, it’s just a

joke. Nothing wrong with a joke,

right, pewdiepie stans?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

me after one activia 

Idk what this is from so I’m just assuming it’s Jamie Lee Curtis living her life

Reblog if you want Jaime Lee Curtis to come punch your local homophobe

sorry i cant come over today. it's the whole eagle pecking out my liver thing. tomorrows not good either. yeah it's the eagle again, im kind of booked up for a while actually

*cackling*

If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.

The people who believe this crap are the anti-vaxxers of fandom.

Oh god. They kind of are, aren’t they?

I’d go bigger and just say that they’re the conservatives/reactionaries of fandom–or, to frame it differently, this is how conservative and authoritarian ideologies express themselves in the context of Fandom.

my opinion on AO3 is that it’s an important asset but i still find it scummy that they’ll ask for money but when their users try to ask for money they slam them with their non-monetization rules. Like Anne Rice is dead and this isn’t the 90s anymore, people are making money from fandom please catch up with the times.

I think you’ve misunderstood:

AO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam.

It’s not a public service. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked.

People who want to do fandom differently, including making money, are welcome to go build their own site with their own money or their own donated labor.

AO3 does not forbid commercial links because they think fans making money from fanworks is immoral but them making money (to run the damn site) is fine.

AO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks.

They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court.

In case people missed it: The OTW will not honor DMCA takedown orders that are basically, “I own X work and that’s a fanfic of it, and that’s copyright infringement so make it go away.”

The OTW says, lolnope, we don’t think that’s copyright infringement. If you disagree, sue us.

The OTW says: Disney - we will not remove explicit Mandalorian fanfic. Rowling, Warner Bros - we will not remove trans Harry Potter fanfic. Gabaldon - we are not removing Outlander fanfic no matter how much you think it’s illegal or a personal violation. Yarbro, if someone puts “The Adventure of the Gentleman in Black” on AO3, you will need to actually take it to trial to (try to) get it removed; none of this C&D order followed by fans caving because they can’t afford a lawyer.

…So far, nobody has sued them. (This is, in my mind, the strongest proof we have that fanfic is not copyright infringement. In 13 years, not a single person or company has scrounged up a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against AO3/the OTW for hosting fanworks.)

But they’re not willing to put themselves on the line for commercial works. Those get considered differently in copyright law. They’re not always infringing - there’s a whole history of parody books & songs to prove that - but the OTW is not dealing with them.

The OTW does not care if fans are making money. The OTW cares if fans making money interfere with its legal defense of its archive.

If you are not a copyright lawyer, your opinion about the situation is not going to be considered.

when i say i’m never leaving this site

Didn’t even watch the movie

Thought exercise. You are me, you are hungry, you want to make my world famous pancake recipe. This recipe needs four eggs. You have three eggs. Do you:

a) go to the store. yes you have a cold, but you could be in and out fast. then again you could run into someone you know. embarrassing.

b) go across the street to your grandparent's house and ask to borrow an egg. you may or may not get a lecture about not being at church. is it worth it.

c) use two of the raw eggs and two hard-boiled eggs. surely this will work out fine

if you picked c, congratulations, you correctly picked my thought process. i have committed an affront to god and my tummy hurts so badly

actually oddly enough the pancakes tasted fine, despite all of the bits of whole egg falling out of them, which is where the affront to god kicks in

anyway if this ever happens again i'm just gonna go to the store. experiment failed, we'll get 'em next time

i didn't....i didn't even think to do that

I could've...used other ingredients......?

actually you know what in fairness to me i've been on a lot of cold medicine this week while battling a virus. from now on i'm only making sandwiches

i'm no longer on ungodly amounts of cold medicine! i wish i could tell you i have no memory of making this post, and by extension the pancakes, but unfortunately i do!

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