You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know, it just occurred to me that there would likely be a sect of Tumblrians who got really incensed that John Green appeared on The Colbert Report, but I tend to keep tabs on a few particularly annoying people of that type (morbid curiosity more than anything) and I haven't heard a peep about it.
On the other, a woman, Rebecca Sugar, created Steven Universe. There's probably some ridiculous double-standard involving this sort of thing, if it were to happen.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
and less appealing art
Say what you will about Lazlo, but it had some beautiful backgrounds
(the presence of Joe Murray's style for the characters could have been a point, but have you seen the later seasons of Rocko? They're funnier, but the animation has clearly been watered down)
On the other, a woman, Rebecca Sugar, created Steven Universe. There's probably some ridiculous double-standard involving this sort of thing, if it were to happen.
well, looks like he took down the tweet and apologized, which is good
still a shitty joke
meanwhile Wikipedia appears to be in denial over the whole Page sexual harassment thing; that he was fired gets a brief mention in the Clarence article but references to the reasons for the firing get deleted
Wikipedia is very sensitive to negative information about a living person that's not impeccably sourced. Is there a major newspaper source, or other credible journalism? No? Then it isn't going to stay. Blogs etc. are unlikely to be considered sufficiently solid for something like this.
Specifically the policy says that accusations of criminal actions don't get covered unless there is a conviction, or, one presumes, the person themselves confesses.
The policy in question. I don't agree with how far they have gone since I stopped being involved with the project, but it says specifically:
For people who are relatively unknown, editors must give serious consideration to not including material in any article suggesting that the person has committed, or is accused of committing, a crime unless a conviction is secured.
Paranoia about libel, coupled with the constant drumbeat of people trying to smear people they don't like by editing their Wikipedia articles.
Skyler Page isn't even deemed important enough to have an article about him, so Wikipedia's not likely to consider details of such allegations important enough to mention on the articles on his creations.
(I personally think the "Notability" standards of Wikipedia are fucking awful, and the idiots who thought of them should be metaphorically shot. Especially since it contributes to systemic bias since the people deciding what's Important Enough are generally from a pretty narrow demographic (native English-speaking young nerds, primarily male and white, from North America, Europe or Australasia).
On the one hand, people who imply that aromantic people are "broken" are jerks, and this person may well be one of them; on the other hand, saying that your significant other completes you is not a shot across the bow, and by saying it is you are tacitly making everything about you.
^^Which is disappointing, because it really does do a good job highlighting how silly Tumblr is when you view it with even the slightest amount of detachment.
^You know, it occurs to me that people on Tumblr have a bad habit of making "everything about you" for people who waste so much energy saying that you shouldn't be offended by jokes about men/white people/cis people/heterosexual people because they're not about you.
(FYI I'm usually not offended by them, nor do I even dislike them, but I'm not a huge advocate for them either, mainly because so often it's about laziness with the subject of your joke rather than venting as is so often claimed)
Washing dishes is so repetitive and boring that it allows me to open my mind and think deeply about things. It's almost kind of nice.
And just because it's happening to another part of the body doesn't mean it's still not happening. It's like making love to someone while your feet are submerged in tubs of Crisco. Without this being your fetish or your partner's fetish.
^You know, it occurs to me that people on Tumblr have a bad habit of making "everything about you" for people who waste so much energy saying that you shouldn't be offended by jokes about men/white people/cis people/heterosexual people because they're not about you.
(FYI I'm usually not offended by them, nor do I even dislike them, but I'm not a huge advocate for them either, mainly because so often it's about laziness with the subject of your joke rather than venting as is so often claimed)
Absolutely.
Sometimes it's not about you. They preach but they do not practice.
Well, the fact that up until at least Gen IV all of the trainers had pretty western-sounding names didn't help. The only thing that would indicate they weren't white is the fact that the setting is loosely based on Japan, which isn't always obvious.
i guess i never really thought of the pokemon protagonists as being of any particular ethnicity, i just considered them to be little self insert dudes/ladies
Well, in the English versions of the games at any rate. It makes sense that you wouldn't really internalize the fact that these characters are supposed to be Japanese(ish) when the version you're most familiar with has trainers with English names.
White people often seem to assume anime protagonists are white... it's weird.
i think it's because the designs are so heavily stylized that their don't display any markers generally used to identify ethnicity, so it makes sense that people would project their own onto the characters
i guess i never really thought of the pokemon protagonists as being of any particular ethnicity, i just considered them to be little self insert dudes/ladies
Same. But then I'm also white so it wasn't hard for me to imagine them as being white as well. And also Japanese, and so forth. I don't know, that was always like the last thing on my mind, compared to training a team.
there's something ironic about the fact that they screenshot the original tumblr.txt entries thus making it less accessible (screenreaders, extra clicks because twitter's image interface cuts things off, etc.)
^^Because it sounds smart and it calls attention to itself. More than anything, I feel, there's a want for validation within teenage social justice people. Even if they deride "asking for pats on the back," they seem to want them really badly. That's why call out culture is such a prevalent thing; it's a really easy way to make yourself seem cool and smart and educated, and, most importantly, better than Them.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Say what you will about Lazlo, but it had some beautiful backgrounds
dammit, i enjoyed some of his cartoons...
still a shitty joke
meanwhile Wikipedia appears to be in denial over the whole Page sexual harassment thing; that he was fired gets a brief mention in the Clarence article but references to the reasons for the firing get deleted
this seems like the kind of thing that shouldn't be too hard to cite reliably, though
the talk page discussion suggests that mentions are being deleted due to a perceived lack of relevance, not due to a lack of available sources
still, i feel like this is the kind of information i would want to have, if i were consulting the article from a position of ignorance
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
can we stop acting like romantic love “”completes you”” as a person because i’m pretty sure aromantic people aren’t broken or incomplete
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Perfectly Ordinary Chinese
Pan-Occidental Canadian
It's clunky and has historical baggage attached. It's not a term I'd be comfortable using.
I'm not sure i understand the point in tumblr.txt.txt, unless it's just a cheap recursive joke.