Watching everyone flee the site inspired me to make one.
So far I’m still ironing out the details, but you can hang out and talk and stuff, or promote your Patreon and streams.
Message me privately if you’d like an invite link!
Looking at Smash Bros. Ultimate with its whole Spirits and leveling gimmicks reminds me that if this game were made by any other AAA publisher (especially Ubisoft, EA or Activision/Blizzard), there would definitely be microtransactions in the game to buy better spirits or power-ups, or most certainly loot boxes. In Smash, you have to earn them through actually playing the game, and in an era where publishers are desperate to monetize every segment of a video game, that’s almost unheard of. For all the flaws that Smash - and indeed, many Nintendo games overall - seem to have, they’re at least not pulling shit like that.
… aaaaand of course she had a Tumblr.
Combing through her social media, cops found Lecron posted frequently about the Columbine shooters, and glorified other mass murderers, like Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston in 2015. She even visited Columbine in August, promising the trip would be “fun” and that she was eager to share photos.
Lecron maintained a Tumblr account called “CharlestonChurchMiracle,” which featured dozens of photos and GIFs of serial killers and mass murderers like Ted Bundy, Nikolas Cruz and Adam Lanza, all interspersed with posts referencing depression, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
Tumblr did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jeff Fortunato, assistant special agent in charge of the Cleveland division of the FBI, said at the press conference that Lecron and the jailed Roof have been in contact since at least July.
She even tried to send the convicted killer Nazi literature, the release said.
Glad she was caught before anything happened, but holy fuck, just knowing there’s content like that on this site going untouched is alarming. Tumblr’s trying to be the next Facebook, but with what’s left on here after the NSFW purge, it’s likely going to be the next Gab instead.
I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to look at headshots and what you might be able to tell from a headshot. So for the past few years I’ve done a small experiment with them.
Some troubling shit always occurs.It works like this: I bring in my giant file of head shots, which include actors of all races, sizes, shapes, ages, and experience levels. Each student picks a head shot from the stack and gets a few minutes to sit with the person’s face and then make up a little story about them.
Namely, for white men, they have no trouble coming up with an entire history, job, role, genre, time, place, and costume. They will often identify him without prompting as “the main character.” The only exception? “He would play the gay guy.” For white women, they mostly do not come up with a job (even though it was specifically asked for), and they will identify her by her relationships. “She would play the mom/wife/love interest/best friend.” I’ve heard “She would play the slut” or “She would play the hot girl.” A lot more than once.
For nonwhite men, it can be equally depressing. “He’s in a buddy cop movie, but he’s not the main guy, he’s the partner.” “He’d play a terrorist.” “He’d play a drug dealer.” “A thug.” “A hustler.” “Homeless guy.” One Asian actor was promoted to “villain.”
For nonwhite women (grab onto something sturdy, like a big glass of strong liquor), sometimes they are “lucky” enough to be classified as the girlfriend/love interest/mom, but I have also heard things like “Well, she’d be in a romantic comedy, but as the friend, you know?” “Maid.” “Prostitute.” “Drug addict.”
I should point out that the responses are similar whether the group is all or mostly-white or extremely racially mixed, and all the groups I’ve tried this with have been about equally balanced between men and women, though individual responses vary. Women do a little better with women, and people of color do a little better with people of color, but female students sometimes forget to come up with a job for female actors and black male students sometimes tell the class that their black male actor wouldn’t be the main guy.
Once the students have made their pitches, we interrogate their opinions. “You seem really sure that he’s not the main character – why? What made you automatically say that?” “You said she was a mom. Was she born a mom, or did she maybe do something else with her life before her magic womb opened up and gave her an identity? Who is she as a person?” In the case of the “thug“, it turns out that the student was just reading off his film resume. This brilliant African American actor who regularly brings houses down doing Shakespeare on the stage and more than once made me weep at the beauty and subtlety of his performances, had a list of film credits that just said “Thug #4.” “Gang member.” “Muscle.” Because that’s the film work he can get. Because it puts food on his table.
So, the first time I did this exercise, I didn’t know that it would turn into a lesson on racism, sexism, and every other kind of -ism. I thought it was just about casting. But now I know that casting is never just about casting, and this day is a real teachable opportunity. Because if we do this right, we get to the really awkward silence, where the (now mortified) students try to sink into their chairs. Because, hey, most of them are proud Obama voters! They have been raised by feminist moms! They don’t want to be or see themselves as being racist or sexist. But their own racism and sexism is running amok in the room, and it’s awkward.
This for every time someone criticizes how characters of color and female characters of color especially are treated in text and by subsequent fandoms. It’s never “just a television/movie/book”. It’s never been ”just”.
“…and by subsequent fandoms.“ <— bless this addition.
This one is always worth reblogging.
When I say, “Representation matters,” it’s not just the presence of PoC, women, PwD, LGBTQIA, in narrative, it’s the roles are those characters are occupying.The hall of mirrors that is the interplay between fiction and real life becomes a negative feedback loop with real consequences, because we internalize things and then we act them out.
Storytelling is a powerful thing. What stories are we telling, and why?
How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
Change the paradigm. Change the stories. Change the world.
I’ve finally finished backing up the entirety of my adult blog and have ceased to update it. It will be officially deleted in six days, just before the 17th. Feel free to enjoy what’s there while it’s still up.
Also, as for what I’m going to do here when 90% of the blogs I follow are gone… I have no idea just yet. I’ll figure it out as I go.
Today’s Celestia Challenge is… Greeting Cards!
“When you want to give friends abroad good cheer, send them a card for this time of year.”
Whether these greetings are cute, humorous, or even naughty, you can a find of any sort for this occasion. What sort of greetings would our Equestrian pals be sending is up to you? Could they make their own greetings, or find something they think their friends would like?
You have 30-minutes to draw and 15 minutes to submit! Have Fun!
AnonymousSo, I said Tapu Lele. That was a tournament that went on from November 30th to December 2nd. You had to register your game to participate and then compete in at least three matches.
There was also an event for a shiny Tapu Koko, but that was from a code giveaway last year.
The bots are in the direct messages now.
And the NSFW art blogs are the ones getting removed.
Tumblr you fucking retard!
(And this is coming from one myself!)
Tumblr is owned by retards and hires the most incompetent shitskins/women(male)/feminists. This is news?
This website was founded eleven years ago, will die in eight days, and it took exactly that long for us to find the stupidest fucking thing ever said on here. Congratulations, we’ve truly reached the end of the game.
gendernihilistanarchocommunist:
Supreme doxxing skillz!
While this funny, please read the article, because you need to know what these people have been caught planning.
ZPS set up a website with pictures of the 1,500 rioters they’d identified, but visitors to the site could only see 20 pictures at a time. So frantic fascists went to the site’s search bar to see if they’d been named.
“The first thing they’re doing is using the search function on the website to input their own name, or somebody they know, but who nobody else knows, in order to see if this website really works,” Ruch said, “to see if it’s really possible that we identified 1,500 people.”
The site received a traffic boost after a far-right website linked to it, Ruch said. ZPS built a map of names that appeared in the same users’ searches. From those searches, alone, they learned the names and associates of approximately 25 rioters they hadn’t previously identified.
“What we got was quite a network of who knows who, and who else was in Chemnitz,” Ruch said.
U.S. anti-fascists have pulled similar stunts. This summer, undercover activists cozied up to the organizers of a far-right march, and offered to make a website and coordinate T-shirt orders for the event. The website, which did not charge for T-shirts, asked participants for their names and addresses, supposedly to calculate shipping costs. Instead of sending free T-shirts, the activists behind the website published the names and addresses they received.
ZPS’s performances have previously landed it on far-right extremists’ hit lists. In April, German police arrested a soldier who was suspected of planning far-right terror attacks, which he allegedly wanted to blame on refugees. The man also reportedly kept a list of leftist figures he wanted to murder, among them ZPS affiliates.
A September investigation into the alleged would-be-terrorist revealed a larger ring of suspected extremism among Germany’s military elite. Germany’s FOCUS magazine reported that the criminal investigation had uncovered a network of far-right soldiers and officers planning for apocalyptic violence on “Day X,” when they would take over the country.
“It’s terrifying, but I don’t want to live in a country where I can’t do radical political art,” Ruch said. “We need to know who this is, who finances it, who the driving forces are.”
good on ZPS for sure but uhhhhhh holy fucking shit that bolded paragraph made my stomach flip upside down
