sigmaleph

There’s a famous movie about how thing X is good.

Someone makes a movie about how thing X sucks.

Deeply obnoxious person: “Leftists won’t let you make a movie about how X is good anymore. They want to tear down everything you value.”

You and I can’t make movies because we don’t have the money. But if a filmmaker wants to make another film about how X is good, I don’t think there’s a cabal of producers stopping them.

Alternatively: if leftists make a movie about how thing Y is good, you wouldn’t say you’re “tearing it down.” You’d say you’re Just Asking Questions about whether thing Y is actually bad.

feotakahari

In the 2000s, I watched a movie where the main character’s son goes missing during a plane flight. She blames this on a man the movie refers to as “an Arab,” and he’s openly angry at the racism.

After she gets her son back (from a white guy), she and the Arabic guy share a look. I’m not great with facial expressions, but he didn’t seem angry, so I interpreted it as silent forgiveness. And I wondered if it was a white scriptwriter who wrote an Arabic person forgiving a white person for racism.

mindstalk

I did walk downtown.

Park nearby doesn't look bad.

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stardust_rifle

utterly adore omega/omega stuff in omegaverse. what if you were a gay guy who was also a lesbian

stardust_rifle

Author's note on an mpreg fic.

Okies, before you all start screaming in your adorable fangirl way 'OMFG, Shin-shin is faaaat!? How could you!!!11 *sobbies*' I will remind you he is pregnant, it's natural!

You people are weak and will not survive the winter.

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Found someone advertising their Ye Olde Proxy Service (http://mukunoki-jp.net). Sadly, all the Wayback Machine captures are very broken, but as I've been archiving, I keep remembering how good we have it, nowadays, as a fandom. You can just dump your fic on Ao3 instead of going through the trouble of posting to 3-4 different LJ comms and maybe your own personal website, and trust that people will actually find it. Dealing with proxy services involves using Actual Companies instead of "some guy with a website". You can stream foreign music legally instead of relying on shady download links. I know reminiscing about the Good Old Days is everyone's favorite pasttime, but, like, can we just stop and go "holy shit, all of this would have been literally unimaginable ten years ago???"

(and this is also true for anime fandoms, like, jesus christ i can't even begin to describe how wild it is that shit like "crunchyroll" or "anime on netflix" or "being able to buy anime merch off of amazon" and "mainstream celebrities being openly anime fans" exists!!! like this shit is crazy if you sit down and think about it!!!)

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Found a Gackt/Mana comm with one dedicated user who was still posting in 2023. The dedication. The power. The unbridled "no sir, i will not be getting out of this chair" energy. I have no choice but to bow down at their feet.

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Third instance of seeing a hide/Yoshiki fic start off with some kind of reference to the author's girlfriend or wife. It's not like them being the Pairing Of Choice For Sapphic Fujogya makes no sense, but it is very charming.

~~and mildly inflates my conviction that my bandoman yaoi of choice is superior to your bandoman yaoi of choice~~

stardust_rifle

Fanlore is great because it means you stumble upon these really wonderful blasts from the past. I might start calling myself a trannyslasher now.

mindstalk

Aomori morning:

Bed was more comfortable for sleeping than I feared. OTOH it's not good for using a laptop cross-legged; I'm best off just sitting on the floor with a table. The host ruled out providing a floor chair or something.
Civil twilight starts at 3:40 AM, in the northeast; the Venetian blinds on my north-facing windows do jack. I managed to get some more sleep between 5 and 8, I think, then got up, figuring I should keep good habits as I'll need to check out at 10 Monday. Then lots of noise happened at 9, so good call.
Back to the supermarket, 6 minute walk for me, but kind of unpleasant. Partly not many plants lining the way, like the potted plants I'd see in Osaka. Partly the cars: even on these residential streets, they seem to go relatively fast, like Taiwanese drivers. Sapporo may have been a very car city, but it had lots of sidewalk, and still-tame drivers.
Though on the way home, I took a different route, and ended up avoiding much traffic at all. Woo, annoying residential streets.

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feotakahari

I never got into Ave Mujica because you’re apparently supposed to watch the other seasons first, but here’s what I’m getting from fandom osmosis: it draws you in with characters who have a cool aesthetic, then repeatedly undercuts them every time they try to act cool, so they have to be their messy selves instead. And that’s what I would call a really cool idea.

This is also what I’ve gotten from osmosis about Final Fantasy VII.

feotakahari

I don’t get those posts about how to talk about your left-wing beliefs to right-wingers. Maybe that’s because the right-wing “translations” are my beliefs. Like, you’re supposed to translate gender stuff into “I don’t want the government telling me what to do with my own body.” But I don’t want the government telling me what to do with my own body!

mindstalk

May 18

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mindstalk

I realized another reason this part of Hakodate reminds me of San Francisco: hills, and streets that go up the hills like a middle finger raised to contour lines.

So, I'd decided to go to Aomori today, and assumed it'd be by shinkansen with walk-up ticket, that being reasonable. But last night I discovered there's a ferry. Slower, but cheaper. Hmm! I wouldn't want to pass on good train views, but I'm not sure if there are any. The track isn't coastal; looking at it on Google Terrain, you'd think it has to pass through lots of mountain tunnels (boo) or cross lots of valleys (whoo). My one short-notice source recalled neither, which is odd, though admitted she was busy online.

Well, been a while since I was on a boat, I decided this morning I'd do that. (I put the P in INTP.) Taking a taxi to the terminal ate up much of the savings. (There was a cheaper streetcar + bus option, but I was leery of big luggage on a bus, and it was just... eh.) But before that I had to pack, not having packed at all last night! Took like 33 minutes, minus some backpack stuff at the end, with some cleaning mixed in as well; I feel if I'd focused on just packing, wouldn't have taken that long. I am getting more optimized for short stays.

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feotakahari

Why would a billionaire be a Zionist anyway? They’re the people least likely to be affected by a pogrom.

feotakahari

An American blogger is getting dunked on for assuming non-Americans know who Ariana Grande is. Personally, I don’t even assume Americans necessarily know who Ariana Grande is. Work in an office, and you’ll meet people who seem unknowledgeable and uninterested in all forms of art. I assume they go hiking or something.

wolffyluna

I've cracked. The propaganda has worked.

I have put in a library hold request for the first volume of Witch Hat Atelier.

feotakahari

Ads in the windows of martial arts schools: “Teach your kid martial arts to protect them from bullies.”

School administrators: “I don’t care if it was self-defense. You both fought, so you both get punished.”

I guess the martial arts could help you dodge and run away, at least.

feotakahari

Is it just me, or does Prokopetz seem miserable lately? It’s like he’s gone from laughing at people who lack media literacy, to begging for anyone in his reblogs to show media literacy for once.

feotakahari

There are five Dark Pictures games now, and I'd say House of Ashes was the only one to be above average. Two if you count The Quarry as an unofficial Dark Pictures game. I'm kind of surprised they're still selling well enough that the publisher lets the dev keep making them.

stardust_rifle

*drags this meta old enough to vote in the united states into my journal for my flist like a cat dragging in a dead bird to leave in your bed*

stardust_rifle

The problem with the "uh, people who infodump a lot, think about it, would you REALLY like it if someone just started monologuing at you about the things they're interested in" post on Tumblr is that a lot of autistic people do, in fact, genuinely prefer that mode of social interaction to a more equitable and socially typical conversation. One of the first interactions I ever had with my boyfriend involved him infodumping about furry porn at me for almost a solid hour, and I found that behavior extremely charming!

feotakahari

Now I’m wondering how rancid the What Happens Next discourse would have gotten if the main character was a trans girl.

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being a bi dude who used to be a lesbian is such a weird positionality honestly

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why did we stop trying to reclaim tranny?

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Hakodate, second stay, May 18-21

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Splintering a chunk off the discourse iceberg

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i'm so glad i found this one again because it's so influential to how i think about rpf

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