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
Sometimes I like to fantasize about teaching people from the past about modern technology.
It doesn't have to be that far in the past, either. How would I explain a modern tablet computer to someone from 1990?
it's like those things they sometimes use in business, except a million times faster and you mostly use it to send textual messages about sandwiches to hundreds of strangers.
Know your lines? Of course you know your lines! But I don't want to just hear your lines...I wanna hear what's in YOUR SOULS!!
Tumblr's block feature is not working for me and it's really frustrating. I'm not sure if it has to do with an XKit conflict but I really don't want to see posts from awful blogs on my feed.
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
"tumblr turned having decent values into a commodity and a bragging right, now everyone is scrabbling all over each other trying to reach ideological perfection, not out of a willingness to do better, but out of fear of isolation from their peers or the thrill of feeling morally superior to everyone"
feelin' this tbh and i'm not even an anti-sjw in the slightest
it's not a bad sentiment but whenever I see someone make a post like that it's always some anti-SJW blog.
I do occasionally see things that make me raise an eyebrow (calling Pearl bird mom is offensive to Jewish people?) but I dunno, I just kinda don't care?
Harassment is one thing, but usually it's just people making inane posts, and inanity is bothersome but not moreso than the alternatives on other large websites.
I use reddit too and that place is usually a lot worse, even if it is still tolerable in places.
i don't know man, i don't like a lot about tumblr's attitude but it's def vastly preferable to 4chan
not a big fan of how people will literally call anyone whose views don't line up with theirs human garbage and scum (Donald Trump? Sure! People that ship something problematic that are probably like 13 years old? Um...)
plus there's a lot of unwarranted self-righteousness that i've noticed in people i know irl that obviously use tumblr
like this one girl i know that hates bernie sanders and talks about how you can't trust him because he's a white man...and she's super white
idk man there's a lot of good things about tumblr but the bad things about it are really, really bad
But Bernie Sanders is Jewish? That girl is uninformed.
anyway, I live in the sticks, so I don't know. I guess I just don't know any of those people. And honestly I'd rather deal with leftist infighting than nazis any day of the week, but I suppose that's a false dilemma.
I do think people often use terms like "problematic" or just "wrong" when what they actually mean is "weird".
Shipping can be weird, I wouldn't really describe it as wrong most of the time.
i don't know man, i don't like a lot about tumblr's attitude but it's def vastly preferable to 4chan
not a big fan of how people will literally call anyone whose views don't line up with theirs human garbage and scum (Donald Trump? Sure! People that ship something problematic that are probably like 13 years old? Um...)
plus there's a lot of unwarranted self-righteousness that i've noticed in people i know irl that obviously use tumblr
like this one girl i know that hates bernie sanders and talks about how you can't trust him because he's a white man...and she's super white
idk man there's a lot of good things about tumblr but the bad things about it are really, really bad
People on tumblr can sometimes miss the nuanced approach to all things.
Not everyone is like this however, and there's generally quite a few posts that work towards adding nuance to the debate.
But that also comes with the fact that nuance is a thing that needs to be grasped.
It's like early-wave feminism rhetoric in that sense, rejecting the patriarchal norm of being a house-wife without accepting the nuanced approach that some women will choose to be house-wives.
It is however a great amount of "Anti-SJW" that tend to melt down nuance in almost every single instance they can.
Know your lines? Of course you know your lines! But I don't want to just hear your lines...I wanna hear what's in YOUR SOULS!!
I'm starting to get annoyed because I've seen about 2 posts saying that Helga/Arnold is an abusive ship because of how she acts towards him, comparing it to Hiccup/Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon? I made a post about how it sounds off to me and tried to not sound like an asshole but I have a bad feeling that someone will come across it and blast me over it.
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
on a more serious note: I would defs agree that people in general will more readily point out wish fulfilment characters when they are female, and that that's a problem, but I still don't like that sort of character usually
Well yes, and there's really nothing wrong with that.
It's just that things like Twilight or indeed most Batman media that's not Bruce Timm-related subconsciously reinforce odious gender roles, and that should be commented on.
I always hated the Batman comparison, tbh. For one thing, Batman didn't start out with all of those qualities; those were added by different writers over literal decades. For another, it's well known that the main thing about a Mary Sue isn't so much the character's traits, but how buttkissing they get from the narrative. And Batman has gotten way too much of that at times, and that has garnered complaints. I mean, it's arguably half the reason why nobody likes JLA: Act of God.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I feel like Iron Man is a sue by now.
Not comic book Iron Man, who is an alcoholic and thus nobody fully trusts.
But movie Iron Man, who is not allowed to be an alcoholic. And people don't trust him because he's too clever and unstable, which just reinforces the narrative that he should always be trusted.
TBH Mary Sues don't "hurt" anyone, but very few instances of bad media do: we know this because the ones that do (twilight, 50 shades of grey) are explicitly pointed out. I mean, you don't see Sharknado hated on as much and in terms of quality it's around the same.
There's nothing inherently wrong with liking something bad if it doesn't hurt anybody. I hate the shit out of SAO, but the worst it can do is cause people to grow a sense of entitlement (something much better things than SAO also do). But that also doesn't mean that one can't criticize something for being bad*.
* although especially vitriolic/selective criticisms (like the ones mentioned in the post) do warrant criticism in and of themselves
I'd probably use Eragon as the Twilight equivalent. Not exactly the same, but same medium, same 'everything revolves around this one snotty teenager' mentality, same hackneyed use of existing tropes (though Eragon's more likely to copy wholesale than to alter foolishly), and same horrible morality (Bella's complete dismissal of everyone who isn't a loverboy or related to a loverboy, Eragon's complete contempt of anyone who doesn't worship at his feet)
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So is thinking what that would sound like to someone from 1920 in the first place, really. It is all very silly.
Dismissing her as an anomaly is part of why things like Twilight exist.
It's just that things like Twilight or indeed most Batman media that's not Bruce Timm-related subconsciously reinforce odious gender roles, and that should be commented on.
I'm sorry if I did.
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I'm sorry for upsetting you.
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead