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now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself
"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code
I don’t know how we’re letting trump get away with all this shit when I truly believe that if you threw a blanket over his head he would think it was nighttime and go to sleep like a bird
ik misogyny is real and all and I live this daily but it'll never cease to amaze me how in pop culture a woman will say smth Slightly off color and it can tank her career immediately (especiallyyyyy women of color & queer women) and then male celebrities are out there with 10k rape allegations and u still get people defending his honor like he sent their kids to private school and bought their mom's house like
googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much
I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"
When I was younger, this was “sobering up at the Denny’s with like three friends afterwards.”
Could use more options like that nowadays.
theres a phenomenon that happens on here i have been calling "normalize loving parents posting" which is when you spend a lot of time on tumblr and are exposed to a lot of one specific counter-cultural narrative day in and day out until you start to forget what the dominant ideas are for most of the human population and thus feel the need to "defend" things that are widely accepted and popular. it's called this because of the time a bunch of text posts about shitty dads were circulating and then people with good relationships with their dad didn't feel included enough and started making "uhmmm can we normalize loving parents? not everyone has a deadbeat dad, MY dad is great" type posts, seemingly forgetting that good relationship with dad is a cultural norm that is expected and encouraged. i think its good practice, especially when im annoyed, to stop before i hit the post button and ask myself if this is a real issue or if im normalize loving parents posting. because often im about to try to normalize loving parents
common examples of normalize loving parents posting:
saluting our bravest warriors who aren't afraid to stand up and advocate for the status quo
i love reddit so fucking much
trans people will literally go “i have a complicated relationship with my history with gender and sometimes see it as a gender i ‘used to be’ and i don’t really look like a cis person of either gender and i don’t think i can fit it into simple categories” and everyone will spontaneously combust
i remember being at some lgbtqia+ group when i was at an all girl’s school and i was one of two trans people, i was the only butch or even vaguely masculine person in the room, and i said something along the lines of “i consider myself a guy who used to be a girl” and five minutes later one of my friends(if you would say that ig) went “yeah so he was always a boy, he just didn’t know it yet” about me. and i had to stand there like What Did I Just Say. Can Anyone Hear Me
now i make posts like “sometimes trans men used to be girls and sometimes trans women used to be boys and it’s ok if we think about it like that” and everyone immediately acts like they want me dead
the action this person took is bad because it's directly harmful and exploits and leverages their social capital "also they're cringe" not what I said "adults who like cartoons are always shitty" no they aren't "their artistic tastes reflect their bad morals" I don't believe that is the case "typical tenderqueer" I honestly just think you're being homophobic "mid 30s polyamorous neurospicy kinky asexual picrew icon fanfic writer" do you even care about the bad thing they did or are you just using this as an excuse to make fun of people you don't like
I literally saw someone earlier mocking fascists by exposing the (completely legal, in written form) porn they’re into. My brothers in Christ, I don’t think you’re as against fascism as you say you are
See also: leftists and liberals whose go-to mockery and criticism of Trump is that he’s fat.
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you are like a poet of some sort
Our favorite horror writer is back at it again! This week we read Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, a truly harrowing mixture of pregnancy horror, social horror, and eels. In this episode, as you can probably imagine, we talk a lot about abortion rights, fucked up pregnancy stuff, and infanticide. Like honestly probably way too much discussion of infanticide, oopsie, sorry about that. Proceed with caution accordingly.
Look, I remembered there’s an actual tumblr for our podcast. Anyway, this has been my least favorite Grady Hendrix book, but I do keep thinking about it a lot. The intro to the book is the author being like “why I as a cis man am writing about pregnancy homes for teen girls where they went to have their baby and give it up for adoption, often coercively.” Grady Hendrix writes fantastic women. I trust him to approach this story. And yet, I was disappointed by his handling of the subject matter in a way that I didn’t expect: the story was overall too tasteful.
I think with Own Voices at its best, something you get is a fearlessness of portraying a kind of person or category that you represent. The ugly, the cruel, the vindictive, the traits that intersect with ugly hateful stereotypes and yet are present in some real people. The pregnancy horror in this case—like the literal horror of giving birth—is written well. The horror of having your baby taken away from you was as well. But I really wanted a character that genuinely hated their baby. I think pregnancy horror separate from infant horror is a little toothless. (“Toothless” is a word that came up a lot discussing this.) Like above we warn about discussion of infanticide, but not because it features meaningfully in the book. This is one of the rare books where my main feedback for it is that it should have been more cruel and less tasteful.
she touch my yippee till i yay
well personally i like it when there’s incest and necrophilia and murder and cannibalism and abuse and torture and gore and mutilation and body horror and sexual depravity and death.
