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I wonder how many people who read Blackle's I Found Evidence of My House Spinning went on to discover "Horse Autopsy with Lizzie McGuire Iceberg Explained" which is an unfiction video featuring the same character. That video is possibly my favorite piece of unfiction cus it has such a bizarre premise, but really delivers on it, about this doomed alternate reality where autopsy games are a popular children's passtime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PmV_di-3iA

@mushroomdonoteat@misskey.fryer.net.au Catgirl: I'm cute, please love me Doggirl: I'm loyal, please love me Dollgirl: I'm yielding, please love me Robotgirl: I'm useful, please love me Plushiegirl: I'm cuddly, please love me Angelgirl: I'm sorry, please love me

@kaisla@eliitin-some.fi I have been an amnesty international donor in the past and I will be again when they retract their apology and republish all their findings regarding the anti-rights movement in the UK in full unabridged form, until then I am more than happy to take my money elsewhere, to organizations that actually do stand up for trans rights, and I've sent them an email stating as much.

@kaisla@eliitin-some.fi We can make demands too, y'know? Either trans people are included in their mission statement, even when it's inconvenient for their bottom line, or they are not a real human rights organization, simple as.

@kuriko@wetdry.world cooking is vibe, baking is following instructions

The funniest example of this phenomenon where fans will take any information said out loud by a character as gospel even though there's no indication whatsoever they are honest or know what they are talking about is the way people have devised explanations for for how Han Solos claim that his ship "made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs" could be technically accurate when not only is it likely that Han is full of shit judging by Obi-wans reaction, the script outright says so.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org It's not a coincidence that many of the cultures who experience intense heat on the regular also has a tradition of a midday nap of some kind.

One aspect of social media bans and OS age restrictions for teenagers that I haven't seen brought up as much is just how profoundly insulting they are. Like, teenagers have been RUNNING forums, chatrooms and microblogging instances and been maintaining operating system distros pretty much since it was remotely possible for them to do so. To then have legislators turn around and treat you like a child, barring you from something you helped create is just the height of arrogance.

My favorite interpretation of Rouge the Bat is that she actually is not as endowed as her outfit is designed o lead you to believe, she wears shapewear because a) she likes it and b) you'll be surprised at how many gemstones you can smuggle out of a building when you can just stuff them in your bra without anyone noticing.

@Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz There is something that really stings when I have to look at the copyright date of a comic to figure out if it was drawn yesterday or a hundred years ago, cus the problem it's gesturing at has not stopped being relevant.

@Deixis9@beige.party I love the "we're right next to Irelands biggest arts college lads, it's not a good look". Like, just buy an art student a beer and put a bic in their hands, it's not that hard.

@lety@doesstuff.social I'm still very charmed by a variant I saw on fedi once that definitely needs a particular audience to work, but is fun when you can get away with it: "What's up, sluts and slurs?"

The problem with the awawawa protocol of doll-to-doll connection is that awawawa for dollposting reasons and awawawa for flustered anime girl reasons mean slightly different things and that can shortcircuit some attempts at communication.

The main issue I have with a lot of amateur writing isn't any of the typical pitfalls like Mary Sue or bad grammar, it's that so much of it is simply describing the TV episode you're imagining in your head, and that's just not the most efficient use of the medium. The main and most devastating weapon of prose fiction is the voice. Which point of view is used, word choices and metaphor, what details the narrator remarks on, what digressions they go on etc. is what makes a novel, and that's the reason why some novels are really hard to adapt.

The King in Yellow is my favorite "fictional book that will drive you insane with eldritch knowledge" cus it's not a musty tome of magic, it's a play and presumably written to be performed on at least some level. The idea of giving a bunch of actors The Script That Will Drive You Insane is one of those things that's really funny at first and become gradually more horrifying the more you start thinking about the implications. Perfect premise for a cosmic horror story in other words.

@elilla@transmom.love @coolbean@brain.worm.pink Trying very hard to come up with a respectful way of saying "daaang, Brazilian girls are pretty" Maybe it's more like girls are pretty but, y'know, the jeans shorts and the bikini tops does not hurt.

It's always surprising to me to learn how relatively new the concept of a teenager is, it really doesn't enter common parlance until the 1940s and you can find clumsy articles from the time discussing this newfangled phenomenon of the teen-ager. In retrospect it explains why youth culture starts to become a big deal starting in the 1950s and then really kicking into high gear in the 1960s, that's when you're really starting to get the first crop of people growing up to firmly think of themselves as teenagers and a separate category from their parents (as opposed to something closer to an adult that owes deference to age). And it is very telling that many of the cultural developments since has involved taking more and more rights away from teenagers, folding them into the category of children as soon as they started challenging the status quo en masse.

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social Now, what's actually going on is more like "the game is still in the alpha testing stage".

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social I'm less talking about a specific version of the game and more talking about how fanartists tend to highlight characters and themes that are a lot more intriguing to me than anything that's apparent from official promotional material or what little of the game I've tried, to the point where it kind of feels like I got a janky generic first person game and everyone else got a version of the game with sexy catfish ladies in it.

I wanna play the version of Voices of the Void all the fanartists have acess to, that game seems awesome.

The funniest aspect of art made by trans people is how obvious the metaphor can be without cis people clueing in to what's going on until it's literally spelled out for them. The Matrix is a classic example, but The Amazing Digital Trapped in a Nightmarish Reality where Your Name and body is Arbitrarily Chosen To Reflect your Personal Insecurities is not far behind.

@jasmine@chaosfem.tw I see this happen with neurodivergence a lot too, neurotypical people will tell each other to say "people with autism" when me and most autistic people I know prefer to just be called autistic cus like... that's what we are, there's no need to dance around that. "Person with autism" sounds to me like someone thinks of autism as like, an accessory, a thing you could remove from someone and still have the same person, and that's just not how I experience autism.

Would you consider it incorrect to refer to an autobiography as a biography?

@WahFo@meow.social Fascinating what a popular color purple is.

@jwtownshend@toot.wales I quite enjoy Charles Brubaker's Trickfilm zines (https://ko-fi.com/bakertoons/shop) zine covering independent internet-based cartoons.

@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space I've refreshed my memory on the story, it was Donna Lee Parsons, founder of the punk label Rats Cage Records, who released Beastie Boys early albums. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/beastie-boys-paid-for-trans-womans-gender-affirming-surgery/

@goaty@meow.social Back in the days there was an atheist organization in I believe britain? it was a while ago, who took out a bus ad that said something to the effect of "god is probably not real, so stop worrying", and that made everybody mad.

Reading the Roger Rabbit novels is a trip cus they've pretty much been entirely eclipsed by the movie. You got people arguing about Jessica Rabbit who don't even know that the toons speak in actual, physical speech bubbles.

@goaty@meow.social Energy drinks are restricted to 15+ in Sweden, though of course you generally don't get carded for it if you're clearly an adult.

@goaty@meow.social I imagine the opposite would be pretty fun too, lets drop some Tech N9ne on a white metalhead, see what happens.

What seems to help a lot is if you keep in mind the genre the story is in. Cus like, as weird as Undertale/Deltarune gets, it never really stops being being a coming of age/adventure story, barring perhaps some horror elements here and there. Considering your theory from the lens of "would this make a satisfying plot point in a coming of age adventure story?" really ups your batting average significantly.

@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space I don't remember the details off the top of my head, but I remember reading an article about how they helped finance the transition of a friend of theirs, so "fight for your rights to blåhaj" seems like something they'd be on board with.

@atax1a@infosec.exchange The only people you can trust are the people who know how to ERP with another human being.

One thing about english as a second language that I find pretty cute is when someone is good enough at english that they can narrate and hold lengthy conversations in the language on a fluent level, but they don't have access to the more subtle ways of showing emotions and nuance that comes from it being your native language, and as such they end up having a slightly theatrical affect when speaking the language. (I say they as if this isn't exactly how I speak when speaking in English, tho I think I'm usually more on the monotone side than the "community theatre version of myself" side.)

Fandom has a recurring tendency of learning about a concept, deciding without actually looking up what the concept is that they can probably guess what it's probably about, then building a whole edifice on that guess.

You can't tell me John Darnielle wouldn't release a B-side only single if he could, dude put some of his best songs on the B-side of japanese exclusive singles or compilation cassettes, he's an utterly maddening artist to fixate on.

@halva@mk.absturztau.be You literally can just buy calenders with the phases of the moon printed on them, it isn't even a particularly suspicious item to own.

I know millennials can't shut the fuck up about flash game websites, but you need to understand what a cataclysmic downgrade it's been to go from fully immersive websites with minigames and entire animated sequences to like, different colored squares all competing to shove advertising in your face.

@tiefling@bardicperspiration.club I wanna talk about how the song The Evil Dance of Nosliw Pilf by The World/Inferno Friendship Society covers most of those topics (there isn't that much explicit sex in it, though there is kissing and tbh the song is about a 'dance' that allows you to astral project, the sexual subtext writes itself) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ypupnIfemY

One fun thing about the Discworld fandom is the way they've created these extremely detailed and evolving reading order documents that track all the different sub-series of Discworld to help guide peoples reading experience (starting with The Colour of Magic and going in chronological order is probably not going to be the best experience. Most of them are standalone enough that you can probably just start reading with whatever book happens to look most interesting to you, then you can use one of the aforementioned guides to find the books in the series that are most like it in terms of characters and themes.) I hope someone has done a paper that's just them compiling a bunch of these to see how they've evolved and if there are any taxonomic ambiguities.