I really am getting worried about all this misinformation.
I mean, people have been wrong about things for ages. But with this new age of instant communication, things that aren't true get spread way, way too fast.
anyway, given that very, very old misconceptions still linger, I'd say it's more a function of how the human mind works than anything else.
Let's be honest here, if any of us had suggested that this person wasn't actually the actress earlier, no one would've taken it seriously, because it's just a strange situation.
I should note that writing a poem as if you are another, nonfictional, living person, is intensely creepy and is in fact literally putting words in someone's mouth.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
As bizarre as this turn of events is, I'm a bit relieved to hear an actress didn't willingly played a character for a number of movies then turned around and bitched about her character.
It's just that I can't go five minutes without feeling the need to fact-check something. Whenever a story about some new invention or some terrible thing comes up on Tumblr, I can't take it at its word. I can't trust information anymore, I guess, and that bugs me.
shrugs-
Anyway, I think the poem's more from Cho's viewpoint than Leung's. She never actually mentions playing Cho Chang. And it's not like using a fictional character to express your poetry is anything new. One of my bigger poems is me talking through the mouth of Icarus. And I doubt that there was any confusion when she put the poem on her own facebook page, likely performed it under her own name, and put it on youtube with a description about who she was and what the speech was about.
It's just a matter of things getting lost in translation. And by translation, I mean Tumblr.
Now, let's all learn a valuable lesson from this: the internet will lie to you at the drop of a pin. Never trust it.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
This is giving me a headache, mostly because of all the reactions to it. >_>
I am curious as to how Dumbledore not constantly announcing his flaming homosexuality is "pretending he isn't gay".
I've run into this problem a few times with my being bisexual, because people expect you to just tell them that you're bi, or at least "act" bi. As if it's somehow their business.
The problem is that the only single gay character in a saga that is positively brimming with hetero romance between dozens of characters... has to keep it a secret to the audience. It may be *sort of* a way to be more diverse, but it also accomplishes not very much that is positive.
This is giving me a headache, mostly because of all the reactions to it. >_>
I am curious as to how Dumbledore not constantly announcing his flaming homosexuality is "pretending he isn't gay".
I've run into this problem a few times with my being bisexual, because people expect you to just tell them that you're bi, or at least "act" bi. As if it's somehow their business.
The problem is that the only single gay character in a saga that is positively brimming with hetero romance between dozens of characters... has to keep it a secret to the audience. It may be *sort of* a way to be more diverse, but it also accomplishes not very much that is positive.
It doesn't keep it a secret, it just doesn't need to be anywhere other than subtext. Law of conservation of detail, y'know.
This is giving me a headache, mostly because of all the reactions to it. >_>
I am curious as to how Dumbledore not constantly announcing his flaming homosexuality is "pretending he isn't gay".
I've run into this problem a few times with my being bisexual, because people expect you to just tell them that you're bi, or at least "act" bi. As if it's somehow their business.
The problem is that the only single gay character in a saga that is positively brimming with hetero romance between dozens of characters... has to keep it a secret to the audience. It may be *sort of* a way to be more diverse, but it also accomplishes not very much that is positive.
it's not a secret though, it just doesn't come up. There's no real reason for it to.
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
One of my friends basically just said "I could talk about how I hate how much the news media is treating this like it's important and not the wars that are happening all over the world, but I won't" and when I told her it was too soon for this kind of misery poker crap that people always seem to do when a tragedy happens, she said, and I quote "sit down tucker."
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Actually I did think about it: the world is violent, why is Boston a center of focus? Because it isn't *expected,* because regular first-world civilians in Boston are not supposed to be the ones dying in this system. But even still, we should let Boston have the appropriate attention, because death is death anywhere in the world.
Earthlight Ray said:Actually I did think about it: the world is violent, why is Boston a center of focus? Because it isn't *expected,* because regular first-world civilians in Boston are not supposed to be the ones dying in this system. But even still, we should let Boston have the appropriate attention, because death is death anywhere in the world.
It's getting more attention because it's closer to home and we have better media. What do you expect people will find out about first?
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
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Triggers could be a sound, or a household object, or a word. News like this is going to reach someone with PTSD and if it doesn't "trigger" a flashback (which I don't think is likely anyway?) then reading about it or seeing it come up some more is even less likely to cause a flashback.
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 accidentally set tags to list posts by 'number of notes' instead of 'most recent' at some point today.
I checked the 'gravity bone' tag to see what the most popular post was (there's a lot of decent stuff in the gravity bone tag). The top two were about Pewdiepie's LP, and I just cried and cried
One of my friends basically just said "I could talk about how I hate how much the news media is treating this like it's important and not the wars that are happening all over the world, but I won't" and when I told her it was too soon for this kind of misery poker crap that people always seem to do when a tragedy happens, she said, and I quote "sit down tucker."
Well, I'll put it bluntly: Fuck her. Death is death, violence is violence. This awful thing just happened and comparing apples to oranges like that is just...
By the way, how did I only just find out about this situation in Boston? Really, how? Am I that spaced? I feel terrible.
I've noticed it's a common thread among social justice types to assume that any opinion that runs counter to theirs is anti intellectual.
Opinions have degrees.
It is not necessarily anti-intellectual to not be on the same degree of believing something that a "social justice type" is, but it's pretty regressive to disagree with opinions like "all people should be treated equally", "the media unfairly stereotypes minorities", and "women are people" in their entirety.
I've noticed it's a common thread among social justice types to assume that any opinion that runs counter to theirs is anti intellectual.
Opinions have degrees.
It is not necessarily anti-intellectual to not be on the same degree of believing something that a "social justice type" is, but it's pretty regressive to disagree with opinions like "all people should be treated equally", "the media unfairly stereotypes minorities", and "women are people" in their entirety.
I've noticed it's a common thread among social justice types to assume that any opinion that runs counter to theirs is anti intellectual.
Opinions have degrees.
It is not necessarily anti-intellectual to not be on the same degree of believing something that a "social justice type" is, but it's pretty regressive to disagree with opinions like "all people should be treated equally", "the media unfairly stereotypes minorities", and "women are people" in their entirety.
And I agree.
But I've honestly seen someone argue that Lady Gaga is a transphobe and you'd be stupid to think otherwise. That's what I was talking about.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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mean, people have been wrong about things for ages. But with this new
age of instant communication, things that aren't true get spread way,
way too fast.
worried enough to post it twice evidently.
anyway, given that very, very old misconceptions still linger, I'd say it's more a function of how the human mind works than anything else.
Let's be honest here, if any of us had suggested that this person wasn't actually the actress earlier, no one would've taken it seriously, because it's just a strange situation.
I should note that writing a poem as if you are another, nonfictional, living person, is intensely creepy and is in fact literally putting words in someone's mouth.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
shrugs-
Anyway, I think the poem's more from Cho's viewpoint than Leung's. She never actually mentions playing Cho Chang. And it's not like using a fictional character to express your poetry is anything new. One of my bigger poems is me talking through the mouth of Icarus. And I doubt that there was any confusion when she put the poem on her own facebook page, likely performed it under her own name, and put it on youtube with a description about who she was and what the speech was about.
It's just a matter of things getting lost in translation. And by translation, I mean Tumblr.
Now, let's all learn a valuable lesson from this: the internet will lie to you at the drop of a pin. Never trust it.
The problem is that the only single gay character in a saga that is positively brimming with hetero romance between dozens of characters... has to keep it a secret to the audience. It may be *sort of* a way to be more diverse, but it also accomplishes not very much that is positive.
The problem is that the only single gay character in a saga that is positively brimming with hetero romance between dozens of characters... has to keep it a secret to the audience. It may be *sort of* a way to be more diverse, but it also accomplishes not very much that is positive.
It doesn't keep it a secret, it just doesn't need to be anywhere other than subtext. Law of conservation of detail, y'know.i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
The problem is that the only single gay character in a saga that is positively brimming with hetero romance between dozens of characters... has to keep it a secret to the audience. It may be *sort of* a way to be more diverse, but it also accomplishes not very much that is positive.
it's not a secret though, it just doesn't come up. There's no real reason for it to.It's getting more attention because it's closer to home and we have better media. What do you expect people will find out about first?
In a word filled with rational people, you'd think the study of the mind and the effects specific things have on it would be a number 1 priority,
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I checked the 'gravity bone' tag to see what the most popular post was (there's a lot of decent stuff in the gravity bone tag). The top two were about Pewdiepie's LP, and I just cried and cried
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
well, if you weren't around a computer or television yesterday, it's pretty understandable.
I only found out late in the day cuz I was asleep.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Opinions have degrees.
It is not necessarily anti-intellectual to not be on the same degree of believing something that a "social justice type" is, but it's pretty regressive to disagree with opinions like "all people should be treated equally", "the media unfairly stereotypes minorities", and "women are people" in their entirety.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis