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you dont understand, the most important issue facing queer people today is who gets to call themselves lesbians. the only path to queer liberation is developing an exact taxonomy that puts everyone in their box /s

the way that some liberals ignore and ignored the horrors of biden and obama's immigration policies never ceases to amaze me. it was really bad! but there's a subset of people who was perfectly happy to protest trump's immigration policy in trump 1.0 and then completely ignore biden's

mr lake please i understand its a cool idea but your combat system cant support it.....

the point is not what newsom wants to do but what he finds politically useful to do. if he is vetoing pro-trans bills as governor of california, and he is trying to position himself as a "common ground with anyone" centrist democrat by talking with steve bannon, what will he do as president?

kiryu in 7 is at least a little fun. gaiden on the other hand... it's all just rehashes of ideas and setpieces we've seen before with a secret agent aesthetic! it recontextualizes 6's ending, previously a new beginning, as him just doing what he did in 5 and 6 again! indefensible

kylie i think you missed some

and then with carol, she's dealing with The Fate Of The World and everyone is like "whoa, let's take the volume down a notch, youre acting awful emotional." what a profoundly lonely experience, and one that feels very salient as a trans woman and as a progressive person

ive seen some complain that the joined should have more intelligence in their dealings with carol, but i think it's kind of wonderfully human that even with the expertise of nearly every human on the planet, the joined is so eager to please that they end up fucking things up

yeah i love how the hivemind is also kind of earnestly bad at dealing with carol in some respects! like in episode 3 when they bashfully give her a grenade like "yeah we know you were probably joking and this is probably stupid..."

im very sympathetic to carol ofc cause its her story and i really love her (also im gay), but i also sympathized with the hivemind throughout the show, and its interesting that some people didnt at all

its fascinating the different reactions to it--im in some discords where people are like "yes carol is exactly the right amount of mad. the aliens have Taken Over The World" and then i watch it with my mom and we both go "damn it sucks to see carol be so mean to them :("

theres a kind of brainworms where people assume that creatives they don't like must also hate the stuff they like. people talk about jj abrams or rian johnson *hating* star wars, as if the only reason anyone would ever make a star wars movie you didnt like was that they hated star wars.

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There's something really beautiful and human to me about how bad they are at dealing with Carol. Like, they're so concerned about her emotional state and overwhelmed by her unhappiness that they're completely unable to connect with or understand her in any meaningful way.

essentially, you cannot divorce a work from its context, but that doesn't mean we can use an author and their baggage as a proxy for the work itself.

i think there can be a valuable middle ground where you acknowledge how a change in context changes the meaning of a work, without trying to deny the ways that that work did or still does resonate with you. this is also most important internally, rather than socially, to be clear

when people find out an artist is problematic, there's this cultural moment where people declare that actually, the work was bad the whole time. people internalize this and rewrite their internal narrative, telling themselves that it was bad the whole time, and denying their own love for it

true! context can change how you interpret a work, as well as how much you enjoy it, and to some extent that's unavoidable. it's still important to acknowledge, though, that a creative being problematic doesn't retroactively poison the work

he also played the doctor in the ITYSL "baby of the year" sketch! RIP.

this is a celebrity interaction that was minor rather than an interaction with a minor celebrity. original post can refer to either

we cant maintain a state of constant panic at all times. nobody is saying that the US military could never turn against the people. what they're doing is informed analysis on how servicemembers are likely to respond to orders like the ones we're seeing now, in contexts like the ones we're seeing now

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there has to be a point where we just stop acknowledging his existence right?

i don't know about thomas, but alito at least has become a true christian nationalist

ive not played it, but every rpg ive ever read or played that had combat mechanics i liked was inspired by 4e

Milchick has quickly become my favorite character in the show. I feel like everything they've done with him this season has been perfect even when the rest of the show was slipping in quality.

@alecrobbins.bsky.social I liked the piece you wrote about Severance after s2e4--I'm curious, what did you think about the last two episodes? I'm really enjoying the show now that they're not hiding the ball on what's going on with our main characters.

the culture's a lil fucked. the gm is expected to host, schedule, and prep the games entirely on their own, while also ensuring all the players have fun. fortunately it's getting better, there's a lot more emphasis these days on the gm having fun and sharing logistic responsibility with the players.

milchick has quickly become the best character on severance