If anyone was curious about why I haven’t written any fic in a while, haha. This literally took all summer! Very happy with it, though. You can read my fanfiction on here (among other things)!
anything less hygienic than im personally accustomed to is objectively disgusting and culturally backward, anything more hygienic than im personally accustomed to betrays a fascist overcultural fear of the natural body
Propaganda is baked into our daily reality so seamlessly and thoroughly that it mostly feels like common sense.
It’s why we defend brands like they’re old friends.
It’s why we discuss celebrities we’ve never met and who don’t know we exist as if we know their hearts, defending or condemning them based on how talented their publicists are.
It’s why we confuse relatability for trustworthiness
It’s why we mistake emotional resonance for moral principles.
It’s why we think our opinions are purely self-generated despite being nudged by countless carefully curated narratives which have more (and more subtle) ways of reaching us than at any time in human history.
It’s why we treat people’s lives, public policy, and geopolitical matters like team sports.
It’s why we need to constantlyinterrogate our own assumptions, habitually subjecting them to fact checking, methodical scrutiny, and cynicism.
It’s why we need media literacy and media ecology to be taught to kids of all ages.
It’s why everyone should read Orwell, Huxley, Neil Postman, and Marshal McLuhan.
It’s why we should all study logic, rhetoric, and ethics - so we can understand and apply moral reasoning based on principles.
The point isn’t whether or not we’re affected by propaganda, because we all are.
The point is whether or not we know we’re affected…which ironically is the exact blind spot that makes people think they’re immune.
The moment you assume you’re above that influence? That’s when it’s working best.
I love you robots and artificial intelligence with mental illness. I love you repression being depicted as literally deleting archived data to preserve functionality. I love you anxiety attacks being depicted as a system crashing virus. I love you ptsd being depicted as an annoying pop-up. I love you anxiety disorder being depicted as running thousands of simulations and projected outcomes. I love you artificial beings being shown to be human via their own artificiality.
Don’t get me wrong I have no issue with reading sex and romance but as an aro/ace looking to read about strong and complex character relationships both original and fan-fic it feels a lot like if a morally neutral witch cursed you so that no matter what you ate the very last bite always, always tasted like peanut butter
Tasting like peanut butter on the last bite actually becomes the best case scenario. Sometimes you start eating something delicious and it's EXCEPTIONAL, such a complex flavor profile, but then the initial flavors get totally overwhelmed and it's just. All peanut butter. Where did all my other flavors go. Why does peanut butter taste like disappointment and wasted potential.
I’m just an easy mark for dumb pilot humor. Today the captain was like “we’re now at altitude, feel free to move around, my one rule is you must stay inside the plane” and I lost it. It’s funny because you would die a horrible death akin to standing unencumbered on Pluto
honestly the most frustrating thing i believe about mcrp is that planning is often looked down upon as not being true to the art form- but oftentimes good rp (and the most narratively and tonally consistent rp) is in some form planned. while obviously the charm of improv is in the inherent surprise results of the interactions- the idea that a thought out and satisfying story can come from NO RULES is often ummm. well not true. i even think this could be good in the life series even tho i’d argue it’s much much lighter on the rp compared to other series im thinking of
they’re trying to do some D&D shit without a DM. which is Fine I Guess in theory but in practice often falls apart because, as it turns out, guidance often improves amateur storytelling! putting improv actors in scripted scenes often ends very badly—those post-credits epilogues were rough—but even having an endpoint in mind and maybe a handful of story beats to hit along the way can make all the difference.
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