are you ready to rumble?

Hey here’s my ✨Convictions✨:

- I will fistfight anyone that tries to gatekeep your gender identity

- aro/ace ppl are queer

- fetishization of marginalized groups in media & fandom is gross (looking @ you fujoshis)

- fiction should be judged as fiction and not as moral instruction

- mainstream veganism is colonialist and elitist but this doesn’t invalidate reducing harm to animals, people, & planet

-> taking down big oil is not mutually exclusive w reducing your own carbon footprint

-> factory farmed meat is incredibly cruel and evil and directly affects human wellbeing

Feel free to message me abt any of these in good faith

Pinned Post y’all murder is bad but hannibal is a funny gay idiot man this is fiction. please. hot take: non-didactic media is valid also fujoshis can leave the door is right there :) rye talks

kinocharlley

theprideful

why closed captioning should always be provided on every video:

Deaf People Exist
auditory processing disorder is a Bitch
people with ADHD can find it hard to concentrate on what is being said without the words in front of them
^autistic people for the same reason
autistic people may also find it hard to interpret verbal messages within the context of the video, so it's useful to have written alternatives to fall back on
do you know how painful it is to be excluded from every joke, every video, every conversation because others just Can't Be Bothered?
some people live in a conservative household or with family who don't share the same ideals, and they may not have privacy to view things on their own, so they may need to watch things with the volume extremely low or muted
We Want To Watch Videos In Public, Dammit

feel free to add on!

as always, ableism will get you blocked (:

theprideful

a lot of people have been saying this, so I'll go ahead and add it:

having written words in front of you when the language they're speaking isn't your primary/native tongue is very helpful for comprehension and fluency

the-stray-liger

Not everyone is fluent in every language and sometimes accents can make it hard to understand what is being said

setsailforthestars

• helps children learn how to read

wyrm-town

• Some people are hard of hearing

• Tinnitus is also a bitch

• You ever eat some really crunchy food and it’s super hard to hear over all the crunching?

derinthescarletpescatarian

theconcealedweapon

invisiblelad

I was just explaining how I saw “To Wong Fu,” in the theaters as a 17 year old with a bunch of highschool friends and absolutely nobody was scandalized. This drag panic is entirely orchestrated and much ado about nothing.

astoriachef

I mean, somebody’s going to mention Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, or Flip Wilson as Geraldine, but way back in the fifties, Milton Berle was on Texaco Star Theater and your grandparents or great-grandparents loved it.

themarchrabbit

A reminder that drag is old. It's so old it's ridiculous. Drag has been done in theater since the beginning of theater. And sometimes those characters are supposed to be another gender [Peter Pan is usually played by a small adult woman, and Edna Turnblad from Hairspray is famously a woman's role that's supposed to be cast with a drag queen]. Sometimes it's just a part of the show. [Some Like It Hot, where the two male characters are disguised as women to hide from the mob, and one ends the movie with a wealthy man] Drag queens as a trope have always been sassy, world-weary, and absolutely confident in themselves and their ability to attract men. Hell, sometimes the joke is that they're [deliberately] making a straight male character uncomfortable and we're supposed to be laughing at the straight male's discomfort. Law & Order has shown drag queens for decades with asshole detectives referring to them as "ma'am" when they're in drag even as they're trying to avoid the sequins.

This rhetoric is frightening because of how quickly the neo-fascist movements in the US have managed to get it to take hold.

queer rights transphobia homophobia

thehobbits

stickandthorn

One of the worst parts of current internet culture is that it makes good old fashioned complaining so difficult. I don’t wanna cancel anyone or bully anyone, I’m not trying to form a hate mob I’m not calling anyone out, i just wanna bitch about something. Because complaining is fun, good for you, even. Is that too much to ask? Where is the room for shooting the shit?

derinthescarletpescatarian

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

saltiestgempearl

I’m gonna be extra pissed if literally anyone on this website gets this wrong because of the sheer amount of “if you engage with Harry Potter in any way you’re a horrible person” posts I’ve had to see with my own two eyeballs on this website. Please God, at least let every one of you all be able to identify Rowling as the second statement.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The amount of people I've seen condemn these protestors for using the wrong words:

would say otherwise.

important

derinthescarletpescatarian

dduane

Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of u

Stack Diary

If you use Zoom, be aware that they’ve decided they’re going to use your input (from both free and paid accounts) to train their new AI tools. And there’s apparently no way to opt out of this. :/

So here are some open source alternatives.

thehobbits

twocarsonenight

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

twocarsonenight

lots of people are reblogging this and tagging it #piracy—i should clarify, this is not piracy! ripping DVDs and CDs to have your own copy is fully legal, because it’s your legal right to do what you will with your property individually. it only becomes illegal if you then distribute that file on the internet.