Anonymous asked:
Antis in the Warriors fandom are the most annoying people. “Age gap too big” this and “it’s incest because they’re third cousins” that. My sibling in StarClan we are talking about cats that A) age very differently from humans; they become adults in every sense of the word at about a year old, and it’s therefore not uncommon for a cat to have great grandchildren while still in their prime and B) live in a very insular society where it’s forbidden to mate with outsiders and relationships beyond parent / child and siblings are rarely if ever acknowledged.
These are CANON pairings they’re bitching about, too. “Umm if you ship two characters that the authors put together you’re a pedo and / or fucking your cousin IRL” get bent. Either accept that your very narrow concept of Moral and Sexual Purity isn’t going to apply in a book about fictional cats, even if it is fOr ChiLdReN, or find a new fandom to ruin with your obnoxious presence. Because you’re clearly not enjoying this one, and no one else likes having you here.
Ugh yeah seriously
Anonymous asked:
Blocking only creates uninformed bubbles.
actually blocking creates a fun internet experience where the people u dont like cant bother u
Anonymous asked:
Trigger warning for the second part of the article bringing up suicide, anorexia nervosa, sexual assault, and racism, but google "Examining Media Myths psychologytoday", for a look at how certain "common knowledge" things about media influence are either debunked or apocryphal.
Favorite quote from that article, from the bit about Bugs Bunny and carrots: "Then there are examples of cartoon animals with signature foods that didn’t set off a naughty animal feeding craze. There’s no rash of people giving lasagna to cats, pizza to turtles or, for that matter spinach to sailors (and no, the rare knucklehead doesn’t prove a point). We highlight the case that seems to fit (Bugs Bunny and carrots) and not those that don’t (Garfield and lasagna, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and pizza, etc.) This is clear confirmation bias. Sometimes apparent relationships can pop up due to chance alone, when we focus only on these cases this falsely reinforces our belief in a correlation where none exists."
Article anon here, I changed my mind. This is my favorite quite:
"Advertisements and fictional media are very different. Advertisement is designed to change behavior, whereas fictional media (some pretensions aside) usually is not. Also, we’re talking about very different outcomes here: switching from Coke to Pepsi is a very minor behavior, though lucrative for Pepsi. Switching from a peaceful happy youth or even a peaceful but depressed youth to a mass killer is a much more substantial change. It’s an apples-to-oranges comparison we can entirely disregard as, frankly, a bit silly."
I'd say "turning someone into a rapist/pedophile" is in the same category.
Anonymous asked:
AOT anon has returned with a gift!
TL; DR: Antis’ moral condemnation of AOT fans has functionally created a perfect environment for gamergate but anime, and worse.
First off, i want to state that I agree that there is a lot of very thinly veiled antisemitism within AOT’s canon, and no number of screencaps about people saying genocide is bad is going to avoid that—be it titans and blood libel, the ghettos and the armbands, the tacit implication that genocide against the Eladians—despite being morally reprehensible—would be a necessary measure to stop them from destroying humanity, i’m sure you all are at least somewhat familiar with these talking points. This is not a condemnation of AOT’s fans, I certainly don’t think you’re all secret nazis or someshit, I’m just highlighting that there is miles of ground to cover for a critical analysis of AOT for anyone who’s willing to approach it in good faith.
However, as many people have pointed out, a lot of these references are allegorical and/or subtextual in a way that means that the only people who would really pick up on them are either already deeply antisemitic themselves or make a concerted effort to keep track of antisemitic tropes and talking-points. My point is the people who would be best targeted by a propagandistic anime/manga like what AOT is claimed to be won’t pick up the message it’s supposedly trying to spread. To a lot of people it’s just a good story with lots of gory monster killing, a gritty conspiracy and some juicy emotional arcs. And, from their view, the Antis who treat their affection for a story as something morally condemnable are being completely unreasonable; they’re reaching, they hate morally and emotionally complex media, and they’re out to kill everyone’s fun. And, this is a reaction that can be very easily exploited by any remotely fandom-savvy far right recruiter: Antis are snowflakes becomes SJWs are snowflakes, criticisms of the status quo is overly sensitive whiners trying to take away the things you love, the SJWs are thought police, harassing marginalised groups is good and necessary because of The Culture War, and actually all even slightly left-leaning critique of something popular must have been engineered by The Communist Jews Who Wanna Take Over The World, so on and so on. We’ve literally already seen this with gamergate. A Feminist™️ took issue with misogyny in the gaming scene became The Left Wants To Steal Our Video Games and the only way to protect them is by calling Anita Sarkisian the k-slur and sending people death threats—except that time, most people weren’t actually accusing The Average Gamer of being a bad and terrible person for playing WoW. Antis turning criticism of a piece of media into a moral condemnation of anyone who consumes it makes the process of media criticism entirely too personal in a way that plays right into the hands of fascist reddit and 4chan types, and antis should, by all respects, be the types of people to pick up on that faster than most—but they seem to care more about their larping as the Last Bastion Of Morality than actually engaging thoughtfully with media and good faith discussion around it, and i kinda really hate that. I know this is long, but in my defence I dod warn you that I have a Lot Of Opinions on Antis’ reactions to AOT.
This is how the far right pipeline works. It's not an over night thing, it's not a switch. It's this slow spiral of paranoia
Anonymous asked:
AOT anon has returned with a gift!
TL; DR: Antis’ moral condemnation of AOT fans has functionally created a perfect environment for gamergate but anime, and worse.
First off, i want to state that I agree that there is a lot of very thinly veiled antisemitism within AOT’s canon, and no number of screencaps about people saying genocide is bad is going to avoid that—be it titans and blood libel, the ghettos and the armbands, the tacit implication that genocide against the Eladians—despite being morally reprehensible—would be a necessary measure to stop them from destroying humanity, i’m sure you all are at least somewhat familiar with these talking points. This is not a condemnation of AOT’s fans, I certainly don’t think you’re all secret nazis or someshit, I’m just highlighting that there is miles of ground to cover for a critical analysis of AOT for anyone who’s willing to approach it in good faith.
However, as many people have pointed out, a lot of these references are allegorical and/or subtextual in a way that means that the only people who would really pick up on them are either already deeply antisemitic themselves or make a concerted effort to keep track of antisemitic tropes and talking-points. My point is the people who would be best targeted by a propagandistic anime/manga like what AOT is claimed to be won’t pick up the message it’s supposedly trying to spread. To a lot of people it’s just a good story with lots of gory monster killing, a gritty conspiracy and some juicy emotional arcs. And, from their view, the Antis who treat their affection for a story as something morally condemnable are being completely unreasonable; they’re reaching, they hate morally and emotionally complex media, and they’re out to kill everyone’s fun. And, this is a reaction that can be very easily exploited by any remotely fandom-savvy far right recruiter: Antis are snowflakes becomes SJWs are snowflakes, criticisms of the status quo is overly sensitive whiners trying to take away the things you love, the SJWs are thought police, harassing marginalised groups is good and necessary because of The Culture War, and actually all even slightly left-leaning critique of something popular must have been engineered by The Communist Jews Who Wanna Take Over The World, so on and so on. We’ve literally already seen this with gamergate. A Feminist™️ took issue with misogyny in the gaming scene became The Left Wants To Steal Our Video Games and the only way to protect them is by calling Anita Sarkisian the k-slur and sending people death threats—except that time, most people weren’t actually accusing The Average Gamer of being a bad and terrible person for playing WoW. Antis turning criticism of a piece of media into a moral condemnation of anyone who consumes it makes the process of media criticism entirely too personal in a way that plays right into the hands of fascist reddit and 4chan types, and antis should, by all respects, be the types of people to pick up on that faster than most—but they seem to care more about their larping as the Last Bastion Of Morality than actually engaging thoughtfully with media and good faith discussion around it, and i kinda really hate that. I know this is long, but in my defence I dod warn you that I have a Lot Of Opinions on Antis’ reactions to AOT.
Anonymous asked:
I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet but there’s a campaign called “protect clean fiction”
Basically it’s set up by a Christian homeschooled teen who has been brainwashed to think smut in fiction = porn = dirty and it just looks like a bad strategy to promote their own books.
what REALLY concerns me though is how deep they’re into this religious cult to the point where on their own website it says people don’t write stories in “god honoring ways” which also “uplift biblical themes” anymore so they aim to “educate” people about fanfics written with “excessive lust”
They also push for a better rating system and attempt to remove “porn” but it’s even MORE concerning that this teenager invites total strangers into their DMs to talk about porn (mainly on instagram)
I’ve also seen a rather huge Christian group on Facebook where this teen probably got the idea of “clean” fiction from. Most of the members are also adults
Their last post on the “clean fiction” page was how they were going to post less on social media because they don’t have a work/life balance and feel overwhelmed. This teen is pushed into the role of an adult way too early and has been brainwashed to believe in religious puritanism it’s scary
also just throwing this out there but there’s nothing dirty about smutty fiction or sex in general. I hope that kid gets out there quickly 😓
oh yeah I think someone else sent in something about that what a mess
Memories of Minō, Osaka 🍃
Some photo studies of one of my favorite places that I’ve seen in Japan so far
Staff Pick of the Week
For my staff pick, I wanted to delve into a recent fixation of mine. With Spring rearing its head, I have been fascinated not only by flowers, but by what they represent. Flower language is something that has been around for quite some time, and while I had taken a peek into the world of flowers briefly some time ago, I have once again been drawn in by their beauty and what they represent.
Flora’s Interpreter is a book written by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), which was originally published in Boston by Marsh, Capen & Lyon in 1832. It has since gone through revisions and the sixth edition - which is what we have in our collection - was released in 1838.
The book offers basic information for each flower listed in the book, followed by its meaning and a poem that Hale carefully selected to compliment the meaning of each flower and give the reader a better understanding of what it is the flower represents and the feeling it should invoke. In her introduction, Hale states:
“Flowers have always been symbols of affections, probably ever since our first parents tended theirs in the garden of God’s own planting. They seem hallowed from that association, and intended naturally to represent pure, tender, and devoted thoughts and feelings.”
Some of the poems have responses that deepen the meaning behind the original poem and ties the message of the specific flower together neatly and beautifully. Hale’s intention with this book also was to peak curiosity and interest to young people in hopes they might find an interest in botanical research.
I believe this book does a wonderful job encapsulating the emotional aspect of flowers and highlighting the(sometimes forgotten) messages they hold.
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– Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern
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Jason is getting ready to throw some hands if you’re curious.
Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks.
friendly reminder that there are no minimum requirements you have to meet before you can write and post fanfic
- you don’t need to be perfect in the language
- you don’t need to have spectacular grammar and spelling and punctuation
- you don’t need to have an intricate plot with subplots and red herrings
- you don’t need to write a minimum number of words
- you don’t need to be a “name” in the fandom
- you don’t need to be caught up with every piece of canon content out there
- you don’t need to be a superfan or know everything about every character
all you need is an idea and a willingness to write it down. the rest will come in time ❤
And nothing else has to come either. This is a hobby, the only thing you need to do is have fun. If you’re writing grows and improves great, if you never get any better great. The only thing that matters with fanfiction is that you have fun.
Anonymous asked:
Hot take but shit like "kill ur local pedo" isn't going to do shit to help victims of child predators. I've seen it on twitter recently and it just seems yikes.
yeah it’s extremely performative
Anonymous asked:
Honestly, I'm so damn sick of the Representation talk. Look, yes, I want to see more POC and queer folk, but seriously? Not every character of color and or queen character HAS to be representation.
Sure, if a creator wants or makes a specific character that They Wanted As A Model When They Were a Kid - sure! Go ahead! Because even people start trying to dedicate that Every Black Boy Has To be Soft Steve Urkle 2.0, Every Black Girl is the Trendy Bestie, every Asian is the Geeky & Awkward, Every Latino or Indian character is the Comedic Bestie because it's Positive and Safe... I hate it.
Seriously, for "representation", so many yall just fall back into rigid "positive" stereotypes that characters can't be characters and so we don't even get POC or queer characters that are very distinctive because they were made to be a clean cut cookie. Meanwhile, white characters, ironically, just get treated as characters - not as representation - so they experience the adventure, the conflict, the challenge, the everything, because they were written with flaws.
Anonymous asked:
So it's like a whole genre of posts to make fun of someone saying that they grew up in a conservative household and that whatever anime or "cringe" show is the reason they stopped being homophobic or even realized they were queer themselves. But like, they grew up in a homophobic household, before this they were likely isolated from queer people and ONLY exposed to negative things about them, so their first time hearing a message that being queer is okay, whatever form the message comes in, maybe sometimes it's "cringy" to 2022 tumblr users, whatever.
Like, my aunt and uncle stopped being homophobic because they liked Modern Family which had a gay couple in it. Probably not IDEAL representation sure and probably an example of "gay characters for a straight audience, not for actual gay people" but it made me feel safer to come out to them.
I don't really care WHY or HOW someone stops being homophobic as long as they stop. If it's because of a corny show than sure, I'll take it, but to others it's like "how DARE you unlearn homophobia in a way i don't approve of??"
