agrifuture:

If you made light of the Hef’s death, you might be a SWERF

Milo Yiannopoulos trash-talks pope in Catholic magazine interview

I had wondered how long before the “fabulous gays who appreciate pomp and ritual as a foundation of civilization” and the “Catholic restorationist” streams of the insurgent right would converge

femmenietzsche:

Meet The Artist Who’s Painting America’s Most Ridiculously Gerrymandered Congressional Districts With The Colors Of Various Pride Flags For Reasons We Were Unable To Completely Discern

berix2010:

homohustle:

louises-belcher:

do you ever want 95% of a fandom to shut the fuck up

I started looking thru the tags/comments because I was curious to see how many people tagged the jjba fandom (surprisingly none) and then started taking a tally of the most popular fandoms that people want to shut the fuck up:

As of 17,186 notes here are the top specifically mentioned fandoms that people want to shut the fuck up:

1. Voltron:  66
   
2. Steven Universe:  39
   
3. Yuri on Ice:  15
4. Sherlock and Undertale are tied at 13
5. Hamilton: 11
6. Supernatural: 10
7. RWBY: 8
8. The Adventure Zone, Phandom, and Homestuck are tied at 7
9. Dr. Who and Overwatch are tied at 6
10. Kpop in general: 5

I dunno what the voltron fandom did but holy fuck lol

“I dunno what the Voltron fandom did”

sashayed:

turings:

turings:

in an attempt to appeal to the pathos of my potential employers, i wrote my resume using the same format a no-kill shelter would use to describe a geriatric dog

i am a gentle, mild-mannered young man looking for a forever job to spend the rest of my years in. though i may not be the most talented and versatile person on the job market, i’m the perfect employee for someone out there, and that someone just might be you(r company)!

I’m a very special girl who has captured the hearts of all our volunteers, but just keeps getting overlooked when it comes to that forever boss to call my own! Could it be you? I can use Excel and the toilet. Vaccinated.  

deusvulture:

Me, sitting down with a hot mug of coffee and beginning to take a sip: At least this struggle over Catalan independence hasn’t spilled into the top-level domain name infrast-

Twitter:

nostalgebraist:

Tantalizingly close to being a political compass

(source)

niintendo:

okboy:

kinning out of your star sign is forbidden in the land of walmart

you people think you can just throw any words together and make a real sentence huh

oligopsoneia:

collapsedsquid:

oligopsoneia:

anosognosic:

bambamramfan:

kontextmaschine:

thathopeyetlives:

earlgraytay:

elucubrare:

it is possible that I’m an asshole, but it is 2 0 1 7 and we’re still doing books where the main conflict is “mages/wizards/magic users are banned by an Oppressive Catholic Church analogue” and i am tired of it 

A) That’s Dragon Age’s schtick at this point, y’all should stop copying them.

B) this is making me want to do a ‘evil mages vs. Christian martyrs’ thing just out of spite.

[Catholic dives into conversation like a wounded osprey]

A thing that I found even more irritating was Dishonored’s “There are horrible evil human-sacrificing magic users and an Oppressive Catholic Church Analogue that doesn’t even, like, pray, or believe in God, or do anything other than oppress the evil human-sacrificing magic users with excessive violence and everything is horrible and there is no hope”. 

Missing link is JRPGs and the fact that Prussia/Germany used to be to Japan what America became

(“Sempai, help me understand the world! Also, I might seize your Pacific island holdings.”)

So the whole one-city kingdom/Chancellor edging in/Emperor taking over/corrupt demonic Church thing

GERMAN (PROT) AS HELL

You’re not gonna have a franchise where the good guys are an institutional church, because duh, institutions are the way you portray villains.

But the good guys as underground spirituality who obey a higher moral power vs powerful warlords who use the religion as just a tool to increase their own supernatural power, with no care for the spiritual mandates of that power?

That’s just Star Wars.

(Also, the Starship Troopers sequel Marauder is a fantastic depiction of the church under fascism.)

institutions are the way you portray villains

Western individualism runs deep.

It’s kind of interesting to think up examples where institutions are the heroes. So far I can come up with:

• the odd Catholic (or Catholic-friendly) story (e.g. Father Brown, Pillars of the Earth)
• police procedurals
  
• spy stories (particularly where the villains are terrorists)

Got any more?

I feel like the standard western violent melodrama (westerns, cop stories, superheroes obviously) formula is of the protagonist breaking out of institutional constraints to shore up the status quo - methodological radicalism + substantive conservatism

(crude formulation: anything with a male protagonist that isn’t the proverbial horny english professor is narratologically fascist)

Isn’t the horny professor breaking out the institutional constraints of monogamy and employment to shore up the status quo of heterosexual patriarchy?

that’s obviously correct and i feel stupid now

in-the-garage:

how dare you slander Tomoko like this

This Is What Happens to Ambition in Your 30s

The way this piece starts is startling precisely because it’s so predictable.

“This women’s magazine explores the rough truth: professional women coming out of their youth have it hard. They were promised they could have everything, but under the influence of feminist slogans they threw themselves wholly into their office careers. But it turns out their careers aren’t that satisfying and they’re coming unhinged. Now some are thinking of dropping out. Several of the author’s professional class friends are dreaming of leaving the city to live a more domestic life.”

These were exactly the Atlantic articles Jezebel was rolling eyes at in the 2000s, Susan Faludi placed them central to the “backlash” of the ‘80s. Adapted as a movie, they were 1987’s Baby Boom, with Diane Keaton.

But I haven’t really seen one since jeez, 2007 maybe. Certainly not since the media went loopy circa 2010 or so. The Cut is a New York Magazine vertical, and I’ve noticed enough examples I count it settled that NY Mag is trying to own the wokeness hangover and be the pre-2010 “liberal, not loopy” you loved and miss. So it’s significant exactly how they’re walking it back here.

Just like their “haha guess we fucked up with all the mocking misandry” piece it’s not a full mea culpa but an off-ramp, a way for people to rationalize and narrate standing down without immediately rejecting their felt values.

After that formulaic opening it shifts to some feminist lashing-out: we’re unsatisfied at work because of the sexisms! The wage gap! Women feeling undervalued! But these bits aren’t very well tied to whatever point is being made, feels like a few paragraphs of feminist signaling softening the audience up for a not-terribly-novel inversion of Friedan: “the unsatisfied careerist is the new unsatisfied housewife!” One wonders what Faludi or 2000s Jezebel would say.

At no point does the article SAY you should have a baby but it does say your professional life will be bleakly unsatisfying and single-girl-in-the-city recreation (drinks! vacations! performative satisfaction on Instagram!) won’t fill the hole, nominates kids (and dogs! and sex! and activism!), “jokes” that Rory Gilmore maybe was into something in removing nose from grindstone and getting pregnant, and ends on a note urging you to invest your feminist hopes in the next generation.

So maybe there’s still too much anti-natalist headwind to come out and say it just now, but they’re tacking pretty close. Baby steps. ::rimshot::

The one striking thing, there’s no “biological clock” ticking in the background of this piece specifically about unsatisfied careerist women in their 30s as there absolutely would have been in previous iterations. Technology has bought women of that class another decade of fertility, maybe that’s finally been priced in to people’s expectations.

Oh another thing, you notice how it never makes an aside to showily acknowledge the distinct challenges of brown, or queer, or tbh not executive class women? Pre-2010, what did I say?

Welp, just Tinder swiped on a girl named a feminized version of “Sephiroth”, time to go drink myself to sleep

FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks

It wasn’t just lefties griping or working the refs, it really was striking that a bunch of power-adjacent media outlets ran anti-antifa pieces last week, after the issue had been relegated to millennial sites and millennial beats (and their sympathetic millennial authors) for so long.

Maybe latter-day aggression tripped some flag, I did hear sniffs on Twitter about them going after photographers (the media’s #1 topic of concern being itself). But I suspected other causes, and I count this article as confirmation.

Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.

Oh man, I’m sure Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a guy halls-of-power enough to know how to build elite consensus before launching initiatives, is furious these auxiliary apparatchiks managed to obtain those interviews and confidential law enforcement documents.

It’s like I’d been saying, there are well-established countermeasures to “let’s publicly build a movement around punching our opponents in the head”, and with a bit of care in lining things up and trading on tensions, authorities can unlock a fierce response within existing law.

I told you about the Multnomah County Republican Party, here in Portland, how they were kinda sympathetic, drawing threats and menacing for doing some really Norman Rockwell-type local politicking, and not getting backed up by civic institutions in the hands of a rival party.

(Portland recently replaced its police chief in part off of activist anger at the last one for cracking down too hard on black-clad marchers getting rowdy in the street)

Well, in recent interviews MultCoGOP officials have been mentioning that picnic rally and parade I did, but also saying that they feel intimidated from doing voter registration tabling at public events, and I don’t know if anyone else notices but that is a loud, CLANGING bell. Because of the way history played out, the protection of voter registration drives is absolutely central to the same body of American civil rights law that Jeff Sessions has been salivating to deploy on behalf of Republican constituencies for a change.

Mic's Drop: How Mic.com exploited social justice for clicks, and then abandoned a staff that believed in it.

association-of-free-people:

sadoeconomist:

association-of-free-people:

trained-chimpanzee:

kontextmaschine:

In retrospect, it looks like Mic’s commitment to social justice was never that deep — which surprised and disappointed many of the young ideologues who went to work there. (The Outline spoke to 17 current and former staffers who requested anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements.) Mic chanced upon the social justice narrative, discovered it was Facebook gold, and mined away. Now the quarry is nearly dry.

whoever drank that particular flavour of neoliberal koolaid deserved it 

Oddly I haven’t missed them.  Hell, I didn’t even notice their absence.  

I noticed they were gone because Mic actually had me blocked here

Every so often I’d try to comment on some long discussion and I couldn’t because the OP was a shitty Mic article

I was blocked also, but their pandering shit kind of blended into the rest of tumblr I guess.

In a sense Tumblr stole their thing because any self-loathing hubris filled tween could write for them.

Wait a second don’t bury the lede, Mic blocked people on tumblr (as a way of making sure the reblog chains of their official ports-to-tumblr never went through ancaps and were more hugboxy) ??

One more thing I didn’t realize could happen until someone broke a norm and it looked obvious in retrospect. 2017!

lordhellebore:

muse-of-wilted-roses:

tiptoe39:

Couldn’t stand that fic?

Think that fanartist draws your favorite character all wrong?

Wish you’d never hear about your least favorite pairing ever again?

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