How do I tell people that sometimes if you turn your shipping brain off you can interact with media better
Like I hate to say it but if you can’t engage with any media without descending into full-on fandom-style shipping at the expense of the themes, characterization, non-romantic relationships, and general content of the work. You might need to take a step back from shipping and maybe fandom in general. (Also to the people in the notes of this post who are acting like I said shipping in general is terrible: What this post is saying is that if you interact with all media exclusively through a shipping lens you miss a lot of stuff. I’m not saying don’t ship things, I’m saying use your critical thinking skills.)
“There’s more to media than romantic relationships” should not be a take which causes so much anger, and yet
some of you can’t imagine a way to engage with media that isn’t projecting your insecurities onto a character you share an archetypal similarity with and shipping them with a character that best fits your ideal partner and it shows
Please don’t pay the extra 30 dollars to watch Raya and the Last Dragon on top of the subscription fee you are already paying. Do not normalize this. There is no reason you should pay that much to watch a movie in your own home, a few months earlier than everyone else. If you buy into this, they will keep doing it. They are calling it an experiment for a reason.
So I do wonder how many children growing up during this pandemic are going to end up with like six thousand allergies.
My mom was a severe germophobe and it got worse as she got older and she got my dad into the habit of sanitizing everything. So when I was a baby I was allowed to hang out in dust and eat dirt and lick the cats back or whatever like a normal baby but my brother, who was born six years of germaphobia later, was constantly cleaned and living in a sanitized house.
I developed a slight allergy to bananas in my early 20s. That’s it. My brother as soon as he started eating was allergic to wheat, milk, every kind of nuts, bananas, avocados, peas, peanuts, and most kinds of beans.
After my mom died my dad kept up the sanitizing and my brother’s allergies seemed to keep getting worse. He ended up going to an allergist about it and she basically told him “Stop sanitizing everything and let him play in dirt.”
So we stopped sanitizing everything and my brother was let loose on the backyard were of course he did toddler stuff like eat dirt and chase butterflies.
Nowadays, he’s only allergic to nuts, peanuts, and bananas. And that’s not just a result of him growing up. His allergies started dropping off one by one months after he was allowed to get dirty and we stopped sanitizing everything.
When children grow up in a sanitized environment their immune systems find other things to fight. We’ve already got people saying that they’re gonna keep sanitizing their homes and their hands constantly even after the pandemic is over.
I’m not a doctor. I’m just repeating things that my brother’s doctors have told us.
Don’t sanitize everything forever. Let your kids play in the dirt and hang out with your dog. It’s good for them. Don’t turn your home into a bacteria-free hellscape. It’s bad for you.
SCP-wiki becoming mainstream was absolutely devastating not only for the quality of the site itself, but also devastating to the livelihoods of horror writers/artists across the internet.
I think the strongest argument for gatekeep is the fact that, since the original admins/community were strongarmed off the site, the most acclaimed entries have gone from “alien blood pool somewhere in the arctic that spawns horrible monsters, including an incident where it may or may not have been attempting to communicate but its ambassador “child” was killed in a panic so now it’s spawning even more horrible monsters” to, without exaggeration, “A magic space beast living behind the moon that uses she/they pronouns and runs a superwholock blog on Tumblr in a big allegory for being transgender”
Aight so I did a bit of skimming since I haven’t visited the site in a while and not only is the incredibly heavy-handed and juvenile Tumblr Blogging Alien (SCP-2721 for reference) entry fucking Protected, meaning it is immune to deletion and cannot be voted or commented on, but SCP-231; which is one of the entries that fucking defined the site and the Foundation canon and is one of the highest-rated entries to this day has been hidden from the Top Rated page and has a big Adult Content splash banner over it to dissuade people from reading it. Gatekeeping hobbies is fucking mandatory at this point.
Oh it actually was intended as a scam. The whole concept of “service economy” was invented so normal people wouldn’t recognize their dispossession when the productive industry that made their living standards possible was shipped overseas to cut costs.
Instead they were told that this was a natural process and instead they’d continue enjoying upwards mobility in the service sector - of course, in hindsight it becomes clear that what they really got was wages stopped rising permanently, gradually lower living standards and a downwardly mobile zero sum economy for their children
i rlly dont want the theater industry to die. seeing a movie is like?? a hard emotional reset when i need it most. get away from my family + my house and sit in big dark room for 2 hours eating overpriced food???? that is the closest i will get to heaven before i die. i love movie theaters so much. please God let them live
This could just be someone getting liquidated after failing to meet a margin call, but if they actually sold off people’s stock.. bruh this is bad
This is insane. Whatever reason RobinHood had to do this must have been sufficiently compelling for them to self-destruct their entire business, because no one is ever going to trust that platform again.
Biden doesn’t have a filibuster proof majority but what he does have the luxury of agreeing with neoliberal economic and foreign policy so expect deadlock on the policies people actually want and business as usual on policies people widely disapprove of
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