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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
prokopetz
prokopetz

It annoys me in a “read a second book” kind of way when Discworld fans who have zero exposure to any sort of fantasy literature outside of Discworld misconstrue every common fantasy trope as a Discworld reference, but when Homestuck fans who’ve never read any long-form webcomics apart from Homestuck mistake everything for a Homestuck reference it’s funny as hell. I am fully aware that this is a double standard on my part, and I have no intention of revising my opinion.

prokopetz

@catsune-miku replied:

it’s easy to tell someone to go read a book, but i’d feel bad telling anyone to go read a long-form webcomic

I mean, the medium isn’t that bad.

Just maybe don’t recommend they start with the one that took sixteen years to get to the end of the first chapter.

Or the one that’s currently in the middle of a flashback inside an intermission to the prologue to the prequel to act one.

Or the one whose author decided it would be fun to do a fifty-page fight scene in spite of the fact that they post about eight pages a year.

Or the one that’s eighty chapters in and has yet to pull the trigger on a single one of its growing collection of Chekhov’s guns.

Or the one that has about a billion viewpoint characters spread among five independently operating sub-groups and keeps flipping between them any time there’s a risk something might actually get resolved.

Or the one that got cancelled mid-conversation because the artist got a job drawing cartoons for Netflix.

Or – you know what? I’ll come in again.

prokopetz

@strawberry-crocodile replied:

gosh i wanna know what all these webcomics are

The specific examples I had in mind off the top of my head were Freefall, Mastery, Dresden Codak, Gunnerkrigg Court, Girl Genius and Strong Female Protagonist, respectively, though several of those blurbs could plausibly describe multiple comics. Heck, The Abominable Charles Christopher hits about three of them at once, and I’m honestly not sure how many I’d pin on Minor Acts of Heroism!

EDIT – I would also like to issue a correction: Molly Ostertag, the artist for Strong Female Protagonist, got a job writing for Disney. It was her wife, Noelle Stevenson, who got a job drawing cartoons for Netflix.

arctic-hands
arctic-hands

PT in a dress because I can't bend to put on pants 🤘


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[Image Description: a selfie of me (white, chubby, too long shoulder length brown hair) in a messy room wearing a white mid calf-length pullover dress with black polka dots, a blue denim vest, and a blue denim bucket hat. And black socks. End ID]

arctic-hands

So this is my third time posting this anywhere but I have like three pullover dresses and an inability to haul a hamper up the stairs and then throw laundry into the bottom half of our stacked washer/dryer, so if you could help me out via my Amazon wishlist full of clothes I can actually put on myself and are made out of fabrics I can actually wear I'd be much appreciative. Plus a pair of non-boots Crocs and some fanny packs for the non-pocketed dresses.

Edit: forgot to actually add the wishlist lol

arctic-hands

The "XXL" sports bras that claimed to fit a D cup a relative bought me for PT neither fit an XXL body nor covered a D cup. I haven't added any new bras to my list yet, because I can't find a reasonably priced brand that fills me with confidence. Does anyone have any suggestions for big sports bras on Amazon?

cl-assy-methbaby
yasferatu

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The fact that grimes commented lmfaooooo

dogelectorate

She's actually "correct" in a nefarious way by asking you to Google it yourself because, yeah, OP is wrong. He doesn't use child slavery to source lithium...

He uses child slavery to source cobalt to make lithium batteries

So by asking you to do your own research on the lithium sources, she's derailing in his favor.

glowstone

This is the same tactic the United States Atomic Energy Comission (now just the Department of Energy) intentionally misinformed uranium miners, mine owners, mill employees, and the general public during the uranium boom in the 40s-60s.

The AEC would put together "informational" seminars, videos, and presentations as propaganda for mine staff, miners, downwinders, the public, anyone involved. Their main tactic was the insistence that "Uranium is so weakly radioactive, it presented no hazard in uranium mines " and while that is *technically* correct, Uranium isnt what kills you, its the Radium and Radon that Uranium decomposes into... the VERY carefully selected words by people headong organisation are always insidious. Dont expect them to mean anything but exactly what they say.

The worst part is this tactic WORKS and we need to be pointing out the other part of the story not being told by these people whos only agenda is to grow their bank account while sacrificing human lives.

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irate-badfem-harpy
antiplondon

From the Glinner Update

alpinestag

I firmly believe that the trans movement will come crashing down when children of trans families grow up and speak out about the trauma they were subject to because of their trans parents.

antiplondon

I hope you are right.

unhingedcherhorowitz

I thought chest feeding and giving birth was gender neutral and had nothing to womanhood.

So where does trans women’s impulse to do this come from? Why do they feel motivated to insert themselves in chest feeding when they know they are not capable and on the off chance that they do lactate, any milk they produce will be low quality and lacking nutrients. What’s the point of distressing an infant this way when the “birthing partner” is RIGHT THERE and has all the capabilities. Just for once some consistency of thought and logic would be nice.

See how when trans women want to play act at being a woman all of a sudden the concept of a “woman” breastfeeding is important. Important enough to stress out a newborn.

But when actual women are talking about mothering they have to use language like “birthing partner” and “chest feed”. These people are terrorizing women and children

chadradfem

Surely that will be deeply distressing for a baby to be forced to suckle on a man’s nipples where no milk will come out? They will just be left hungry and crying and I cannot understand why anyone thinks this is a good or rational thing to do

irate-badfem-harpy

I made a whole long comment on a different reblog but by the time I hit the “reblog” button the person I was reblogging from had deleted their own reblog so mine died. I’m not going to be nearly as articulate this time but please bear with me:

Fathers in the nomadic Aka Tribe in Central Africa regularly “nurse” their infants. It isn’t a gender affirmation whatever, it’s because work is split relatively evenly between the sexes, so if the mother is out hunting while the father is gathering or vice-versa, the father will allow his child to suckle at his breast rather than screaming or fussing while he’s trying to work. Once the mother returns the baby is handed off for a feeding, and nobody bats a fucking eyelash over it. They’ve been doing it this way for like at least two thousand years.

The fact that western men won’t nurture their infants unless it’s part of a worryingly protracted sissy fetish scene is doubly disrespectful. Their nipples don’t have to produce milk for them to hold the infant they “helped” create skin-to-skin and slip a nip in its maw til Mama’s off the shitter. And an infant suckling at your breast doesn’t make it a female breast!!!???????!!!!!

It’s all “nipples are gender neutral #freethenipple” until a man asserts that by forcing an infant to suckle at his useless breast for sustenance he is a lady 🙄

krismichelle429

why why why, WHY do they gotta be like this? why can’t they just get a fucking hobby. I blame the porn.

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pragmatismandmagic
pragmatismandmagic

My job has switched back to in person, but the services we provide are still partially online. That means that a few days a week I have to take a bus into work to sit down at a desk, pull out MY OWN laptop, and log into a zoom room with several coworkers, 2 of which are at different desks a few rooms over from me and 1 who is SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME. I spend my 4 and a half hour morning shift in this zoom room waiting for costumers to drop in to this "virtual help desk". We get 1 or 2 people on a good day. Usually we get no one.

I put in a request with my manger to work from home for just these virtual shifts, explaining that it takes me an hour each way to bus into work. My request was denied with no explanation.

I used to do these shifts from my own room where I could practice ukulele and clean while waiting for the customers that usually didn't come. Can't do that anymore.

krismichelle429

god forbid you get to control any aspect of your work time ever, amirite? fucking corporate thieves. they should be paying you for the drive

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