i’m team “not all transformative works are fanfiction, fanfiction is a specific modern phenomenon founded on a specific relationship between reader and text that doesn’t require historical proofs to be a legitimate form” up until people start being snotty and obnoxious about it and then i am there going “hamlet is gesta danorum fanfiction”
oh there’s my team
fanfiction requires copyright laws and a community who deliberately bends them, unless it’s arthuriana and the 27 super speshul best knights who are all the king’s nephews, or i’m talking to the comicbro who worships frank miller
(tags via @nonasuch ) why stop there when you can whip out dante’s self-insert OC fic, just for sheer pettiness
Every few months I think to myself “what exactly is Wario and waluigi’s relationship. They’re not brothers so what are they” and I check the wiki and it doesn’t say their connection
I hope Nintendo says they’re husbands and they don’t elaborate
I could look for it but apparently they met in a gay app thing when Wario was looking for a partner for Mario Tennis
I like the idea that they are gay but they’re not dating each other. Nintendo should do this if they want to be funny
Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn’t call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.
Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they’re easy targets.
First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won’t call the cops on you. They’ll get your money if they really want it through taxes.
But now they’re trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they’re getting smarter, and they’ll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.
What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!
Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.
there’s a guy on twitch and youtube that calls these scammers to lead them on and waste their time, kitboga. more people also do it but this is the guy I’ve watched
he’ll describe the scammer’s tactics as they use them, especially in his youtube videos, and he says he does it because his parents got scammed, and when you’re old sometimes you have to rely on people over the phone because of things like dementia
treating them like they’re dumb does them a disservice and makes you more likely to fall for it because “I would never fall for a scam like this!” leaving you unprepared for the anxiety and fear these scammers can induce in you!
I think my favourite line in season 2 is crowley’s “he’s far too pure of heart to be anybody’s bit on the side” because any time we get to hear the way crowley talks about aziraphale to other people is a joy, but also it’s just so genuine and full of so much love. he’s not speaking about aziraphale with any agenda, he’s just speaking off the cuff. it’s ridiculously sweet. it’s also hilarious because it’s crowley’s immediate reaction to nina suggesting that they’re casually sleeping together and crowley’s like, um no, we’re not, but fyi if we were I would be treating him right!
It’s even better because it would be SO easy to have him downplay how much he likes Aziraphale to everyone he talks to, and not even in a romantic sense.
In a show that cared less about its characters, he would be playing up how very suave and very cool he is and hiding his feelings by calling Aziraphale a dweeb and making jokes at his expense to the people around them. I mean yes, he does that with Aziraphale himself, but it’s always done in a gentle, familiar tease.
But with everyone else? He doesn’t even try to hide how much he adores him, how clever and special and funny and interesting he finds him. It’s so deliciously sweet and earnest, but never in a way that feels overly sappy either. It’s just a matter of enjoying the person you love.
I fully understand that the preponderance of evidence is that George Lucas put absolutely zero thought into what Naboo’s culture was actually supposed to look like outside of what we see on screen, but as far as unintentionally effective worldbuilding goes, establishing that Naboo a. has a tradition of electing literal children as figurehead rulers of its planetary government, and b. apparently also has a tradition of assassinating these children with sufficient frequency that dressing up a bunch of other children as decoy targets has become standard operating procedure by the time of Padmé Amidala’s reign suggests that maybe the fact that this random backwater is a breeding ground for Sith Lords isn’t as unlikely as it initially appears.
“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.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
they really brought david tenant’s son in and said hey do you want to play a gay little boy in good omens 2. just a little camp mf. nepotism done right.
Ok, I need to respond to that “dominant genetic trait” tag specifically, because the reality is significantly funnier- that’s Ty Tennant, Georgia (Moffett) Tennant’s son from before she married David Tennant. David adopted him, IIRC, and he’s raised him from a very young age, so he IS David Tennant’s son, but it’s not genetic, and if you know the hilarious irony of David and Georgia’s relationship (Peter Davidson played David Tennant’s favorite Doctor, David met Georgia while he was playing the Doctor and she was playing the Doctor’s daughter, every Doctor who fan at the time was vaguely amused by this because the Doctor married the Doctor’s daughter making the Doctor become the Doctor’s father-in-law), it becomes even funnier that Ty gets to flirt with his father’s coworker. Just a recursive mess of family business hilarity. Ty deserves this opportunity.
listen. i know it’s not 2014 anymore and i know it’s just a throwaway line and that the russo brothers didnt intend for marvel action blockbuster captain america the winter soldier to become the tragic gay love story that never was but man. having steve say “it’s kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience” in a conversation about romantic relationships right before the bucky reveal is so cruel. it’s not just about steve and bucky obviously having the shared experience of being “out of time,” it’s the fact that they’ve both been stripped of their humanity in opposite directions. steve is a legend, he is an american hero and a national icon before he is a human being the same way that bucky is a weapon and a killing machine before he is a human being. steve knows that anyone who falls in love with him in the 21st century fell in love with captain america first, and that’s just not him. but then the one person who knew him first and knew him best and loved him (not captain america, that little guy from brooklyn) so much he died for it is alive, impossibly. and it’s a miracle because he’s back and it’s horrific because he’s back under the worst possible circumstances. but to steve, the winter soldier is worth tearing the world apart for because he’s always been bucky first. they find each other and suddenly they’re human again. and maybe, despite it all, being “out of time” becomes a blessing, because in this century they’d finally be allowed to love each other the way they’ve always wanted to. like real people do.
like. no. the captain america trilogy isn’t about two queer men traumatized and alienated by war and modern life rediscovering and reclaiming their humanity through their love for each other. but. i mean. it couldve been
