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I never watched James Somerton. but I do remember when there was an increasing criticism ("criticism") of Animated shows like Steven Universe of She-Ra being "female-led queer shows" showing that queer women had an "easier" time getting heard of than Queer men.

And at the time I wasnt sure how much I personally could add to that discussion or how much was my place. but now that I feel I have better words to explain my feelings I can say I always thought it was bull.

Queer women do not have an "easier" time getting heard or getting their shows produced. Steven Universe got cancelled for homophobic reasons, and She-Ra had to be extremely careful with how they made Catradora Canon.

Those shows were also teared apart by "fans" who tried their hardest to make the most bad-faith arguments for these shows.

And yes, it is important to mention, ND Stevenson goes by He/Him while Rebecca Sugar is Non-binary, and that comes with their own set of discrimination, including getting misgendered. At the time, before they were out and everyone acted on the belief they were Cis, the argument was that as queer women, they had an "advantage" compared to other queer men, and also Dana Terrace (who is Cis as far as I know) also received this criticism. Most important, they would be shit takes regardless of that

and it's such bullshit, not just because of how unhelpful it is. How it tries to tear down important works and reduce them as a competition. But because of the deeply misogynistic root on it all: that these shows could only get made for "diversity points." That the only reason they got these shows made wasn't because of the blood sweat and tears of queer people working in an industry that is hostile to them. a negation and erasure of their effort.

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I do wanna say while I'm reblogging hbomberguy stuff that I'm extremely uninterested in calling out anyone's viewers because they "should've known better" or "should've seen the red flags." The entire point of the video is that these people are exploiting an algorithm and churning out massive amounts of content. It's not a moral failing to not watch a YouTuber's entire weekly back catalog and google around for criticisms.

I got more I can say about video essays and documentaries and their issues with sourcing in general, but I'm gonna save it.

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Hbomberguy did a pretty good job pointing out how Somerton has tried to take up the air of modern queer creators, stealing the works they made to little or no money or exposure, and using them to bolster his own fame. It's a truly reprehensible act.

But I feel like it's also important to briefly touch on what he stole from the past.

The Celluloid Closet is a backbone text on queerness and cinema. Like, if you're at all interested in the subject, please read the book, and watch the doc. Yes, the language will be outdated. It was written in 1981 and the doc published in 1995. Language evolves. I was fortunate enough to both read the book and see the documentary in the early 2000s, when I attended university.

It was written by Vito Russo, who held a Masters in film and a desire to fight for queer rights after witnessing the Stonewell riots. The Celluloid Closet was first a live lecture presentation, then a book. He would try to get the book made into a documentary in the early years, and after he died, others picked up that torch to carry on his work and to pay respect to the man.

Vito Russo was also one of the co-founders of GLAAD. He was a co-founder of ACT UP. You may have, if you've watched documentaries or seen news stories about the AIDS crisis, seen parts of his speech, Why We Fight. He protested, advocated, and educated even as people he knew and loved died, and he himself was dying.

As Hbomberguy notes in his doc, he would go on to pass in 1990. This was a man who fought his ass off, even while dying, for a better tomorrow and better representation.

The fact that Somerton stole his work is beyond insulting to the queer history, and queer film history, that he purports to give a shit about.

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Hbomberguy: “And his Patreon has many empty promises for films he hasn’t even started making!”

Me: “THE ROCKETSHIP HASN’T BEEN BUILT?!? HE IS NOT ON THE LAUNCHPAD?!?”

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"We don't exactly live in a world built for humans, do we? There's no guidebook for happiness or success or a sense of place in the world, and the people claiming to have one for you are really just trying to sell you something. We spend most of our little lives struggling to make these feelings fade away or find something to placate them. It's either ennui, or being… on weed. I know it's a little pretentious, but we're all searching for a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives, and those things are hard to come by. There's a little bit of nothing in all of us. And we'd like to fill it with something. I feel like I know who I am, and how to live my life, and that makes me feel happy and somewhat complete. And I don't think I'd have ever found myself if I was trying to chase someone else's sense of completeness. Basically, no one knows how to live your life, and you might not either. But the only person who's gonna figure it out is you. And you won't find that by trying to be the next… that person. You can only be the first of whoever it is that you are."

hbomberguy, Plagiarism and You(Tube)

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okay so rewatching hbomberguy's new video, James Somerton has:

Called ND Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar women so he can make a point about how queer women have it easier

stolen an Asian transmasc person's very personal essay on Mulan and queer Asian identity

stolen from Alexander Avila, the One somewhat well known transmasc video essayist

Lied about English courts letting Radclyffe Hall "live her happy life" because perceived-female queerness wasn't legally persecuted, when in actuality, they were charged with obscenity and had their work destroyed

clearly a man whose very normal and chill about transmascs and anyone he sees as a woman i think

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im crying imagining his face when he realised this

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Okay for real though can we also talk about internet historian and illuminaughtii?? Cause both those channels also suck and deserve at least a little of the vitriol Mr. Somerton is currently receiving. Illuminaughtii positioned herself as like an expert on bad businesses and exposing mlms and stuff, and internet historian makes dreck that appeals mostly to edgy teenage boys who think saying slurs is funny. The fact that both of them were also just ripping off other people’s work to make such desperately mid content is a little funny ngl. I hope this video tanks both their YouTube careers too.

EDIT: yes I am now aware that Blair’s channel has already tanked as a result of the dramas that unfolded a few months ago while Hbomb was working on this video (1 mil subscriber count but averaging 20k views a video nowadays. Brutal), but let’s still hope internet historian’s follows suit. Everyone has latched onto the James Somerton centerpiece, but internet historian has a Huge platform (and also sucks).

It would be extremely lame if the guy who got his audience by posting 4chan edgelord bait and anti-sjw cringe and is now pretending to be a respectable channel has the only career that survives this exposé.

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The good news about Hbomberguy's plagiarism video for everyone who used to like James Somerton (I recently discovered him and hadn't got to any of the misogynistic shit yet), is that the queer analysis we liked is still out there - just not written by the thieving little shite. Great place to start is the playlist Harry created of plagarised or otherwise hardworking (but underrated) creators:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGz5EMig3r2ZDgeGzwUlSz-PzF-L1Xu1&si=KqFfYA1NntIA3JG_

Also, as he's gonna send the profits to the writers James yoinked (without the twist) from, if you wanna help financially, you could always just... Put the video on in the background on repeat...

Tangentially, I met Harry a few years back at WorldCon in Dublin, and thanked him for his videos. He gave me a hug. The guy is just as sweet and lovely, and delightfully wild-eyed*, in real life.

*Seriously, the magnificent bastard has beautiful eyes.

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loved this section, your work is awesome

You might have seen the new hbomberguy video, I got to contribute some sprites to it! https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=-pJa1FU23o5O2eYe He and his team was a pleasure to work with

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Please pay attention!

Just go and check the hashtag #Turkey and see what's happening there. People are suffering, they need help, on this platform at first I thought helping out might be very unlikely, but right now even the smallest helping hand has the power to pull them out of that desperation. Pay attention to what is shared about this event and please donate if you can. Otherwise, you can get more people to see it just by sharing. Tumblr may not be a helping app, but its users are HUMAN. Please pay attention!

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My family in Hatay still hasn't received any help. No financial aid, no food, no water, no electricity. There are barely and rescuers from other countries over there, we've lost so many people and because there are so little resources, they have to give up on searching people now.

There's nothing left of our hometown. The place my parents grew up, the place that ties me to my late grandma, the place I call my memleket.

The news coverage is gonna get smaller as the days pass. People live in constant fear of another earthquake as the ground is still shaking. My family sleeps in their car, it gets cold at night, my grandpa is 90 years old and the risk of hypothermia is enormous.

The government has banned Twitter, which was used by the victims to coordinate help. Hospitals are either physically collapsed or at max capacity.

My thoughts have settled a bit, I have been able to manage my anger and the hurt, so I put together this post.

If you can, please please please donate. Financial aid is currently what's needed, donations in kind usually don't even make it to the people.

As I live in Germany, the German Red Cross is one of the most prominent places to donate.

The "Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft" and "Aktion Deutschland Hilft" also have a donation account.

For direct donations to Turkey, there's AFAD. AFAD is the Turkish civil protection. You can donate in Turkish Lira, Euro or US Dollar. There's also a direct account for GBP donations.

The most active NGO in Turkey is AHBAP. You can donate in Turkish Lira, Euro, US Dollar or GBP.

AKUT is the Search and Rescue Association in Turkey. You can donate in Turkish Lira, Euro or US Dollar.

Edit: This is the link to the British Red Cross. The UK Government should match up to 5m of public donations.

Check this post by @moonlayl for donation links for Syria.

Please remember that even 1 Euro or 1 Dollar go a long way, 1 Euro is about 20 Lira. And please don't feel bad if you don't have the means to donate, your thoughts and prayers mean so much already.

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Recent earthquakes in turkey

Sadly the media only showcases about the damage in bigger cities, since their number of citizens is the highest. Sadly also many smaller villages were affected, such as ours. Medical help and donations barely reach smaller towns, so it's up to the smaller people to help directly.

My family has already donated all we had, and we're currently asking for any help possible since every penny helps.

SADLY A LOT OF MONEY AND/OR OTHER FORMS OF DONATIONS (CLOTHES ETC) DO NOT REACH SMALL VILLAGES

!!!If you want to help, try to find people who live close by or got other ways to directly hand donations over to the people!!!

Also look out for scammers, this is incredibly infuriating, but there are people who use these types of devastating catastrophes to scam. Always double check if the organizations are legit please!!

My family lives in Germany, the other half lives in turkey so we have direct access to hand over donations directly to the people who need it the most. We avoid German organizations since they cut a big part out of donations to keep, and we don't want that.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP

I'm currently collecting money via PayPal, once we're done collecting I will post proof of the money being sent directly to villages in turkey. I promise to provide 100% transparency.

Paypal link

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If the link doesn't work here's the link in full length

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8RsdYYtFPp

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for once again. two devastating earthquakes happened in turkey and people need your help. it's been 3 days and there are still people buried alive and about to die any minute but you can save them.

1. DON'T DONATE to kızılay.org (red cross) > why? because although they're a legit government organization, they've been pocketing donations and earthquake taxes since 1999 gölcük earthquake. there are thousands of articles about them on the internet and every turkish people asks the same question: "what happened to the earthquake special taxes in turkey?"

2. DONATE TO

Ahbap Charity (charity of Turkish singer and philanthropist Haluk Levent, very reliable person) > https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey

Haytap Animal Rights Federation (for animals affected by the earthquake) > https://fonzip.com/haytap/bagis

AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency) > https://en.afad.gov.tr/earthquake-donation-accounts

1 dollar = 18 liras / 1 euro = 20 liras

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Hi, if you’re seeing this please share!

This is a live stream project made by Turkish YouTube science channels to raise funds for the earthquake victims and you can make donations by using the YouTube giving button.

The stream will continue 24/7 for days so you can donate any time they’re all reputable channels and the funds will go to an umbrella platform called Disaster Platform including NGO’s like Ahbap, ACEV and TEGV and many other reputable NGO’s. The platform and the NGO’s are all vetted by Turkish Philanthropy Funds so everything is transparent and you can see where your money is going.

With the current exchange rate foreign donations goes a long way, so if you can please donate! And if you can’t, which I understand really, please share this post! Thank you for your care and attention.

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Hello! I've been greatly appreciating your blog, I really don't know anything about geology and today I was thinking a lot about the earthquake in Turkey and Sirya, and I wonder if you could guide me to some sort of explanation about it. My biggest doubt I guess is how an event with such magnitude is completely unpredictable. All I know about earthquakes is they happen when a tectonic plate moves against each other and that's it, that's all my knowledge regarding this phenomenon. I just want to educate myself about it a bit more, while joining everyone with my sincere prayers for all the victims and their families.

Hi this is a great question, I can definitely clarify about the mechanics involved with these earthquakes and why they were so devastating.

Unfortunately earthquakes are incredibly unpredictable, the exact location, magnitude, and depth (all things that contribute to how severe an earthquake can be) are not things that we can really detect. To give you a basic idea, an earthquake is a release of energy that happens when there’s a buildup of stress along a fault, which is a large planar fracture between volumes of rock. Faults within bedrock exist pretty much everywhere, but they’re especially prevalent along tectonic boundaries. And Turkey is mainly located on the Anatolian plate, which is in contact with the African, Arabian, and Eurasian plates:

These earthquakes were located at the triple junction of the Anatolian, African, and Arabian plates. So if we know where the tectonic boundaries and the major faults are, you’d think we’d know where the earthquakes are going to be. But it gets complicated- faults along plate boundaries aren't isolated, they're part of large-scale fault systems. We're looking at an incredibly tectonically complex area where three plates meet each other. The plate motion is constant and the stress on these faults are constantly changing. That's part of why we can't predict where the big slip is going to happen. Here's more of a closeup:

The earthquake in Turkey was located on the East Anotalian Fault system, marked EAF in the picture, a strike slip fault (similar to the San Andreas fault in California) which are notorious for shallow and damaging earthquakes. Here is the same area depicted as an earthquake hazard map (this is from 2019):

So an earthquake in this area isn't unexpected, but nobody really expected a magnitude 7.8 earthquake followed by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake at such shallow depths. Take a look at this earthquake map of the 1,000 most recent earthquakes in this region above a magnitude 5:

The sizes of the circles are magnitude and the color is depth. The point I want to make from this image is that while the affected area is earthquake prone, the area believed to be most at risk was not where the M7.8 and M7.5 occurred.

So location can be somewhat predicted, but magnitude and depth are very difficult to predict. And this was a M7.8 at a depth of 17.9 km (very shallow) followed by a M7.5 at a depth of 10.0 km (very very shallow), where both magnitude and depth contributed to severe damage through ground shaking. Basically, the bigger the release of energy and the closer you are to it, the more damage there is.

Another issue that contributed to the devastation and loss of life is that many of the buildings in this area, even modern buildings, failed seismic building codes. Buildings thought to be able to withstand the levels of ground shaking produced by the earthquakes ended up collapsing. If these buildings had been constructed better this would be a significantly less serious disaster. And Turkey has been introducing better construction regulations, but that doesn't address preexisting infrastructure or failure to adhere to these codes. Hopefully these building codes will be more strictly followed in the reconstruction efforts and we won't see this level of devastation again.

I know this has been a long post, but thank you for reaching out. This article on earthquake prediction is really well written and they mention Wendy Bohon who is an amazing earthquake geologist and has a lot of great informational resources on her twitter. One of the things we can all do is learn about where earthquakes are likely to occur and why, what level of ground shaking to expect, and how to build buildings that can withstand earthquakes. If you live in an area prone to high magnitude earthquakes, seismic building codes and warning systems will save your life.

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The earthquake in Adana is bad, yes, but have u seen Hatay and Maraş?? I live in Adana and currently staying in my uncle's summerhouse and it's pretty far away from the city, but my friend went to Hatay because her uncle's apartment collapsed while he was in, and three fucking days past, they have just taken his body out. Or should i say his corpse. She couldn't even speak when i called her. AFAD is working pretty hard and we're getting help from other countries but some people are plundering markets and other stuff, some bakers are selling bread for 14 liras (usually it's 3-5 liras) and kidnapping children, stealing goods from collapsed/damaged buildings...

What bothers me more is that there are people making fun of AFAD and the earthquake victims by wearing AFAD jackets or yelling things like "can you hear me? Where are you right now? Don't worry we'll save you" in a mocking manner and post it somewhere on the internet (i heard it's discord but im not sure). Where the fuck are your humanly feelings? You could've been the one under those cement blocks and just because you aren't under them doesn't fucking mean you can make fun this. As for the plundering part, i understand that especially people in Hatay are having massive problems about food and water etc. but i don't think anyone need a full HD TV right now. Some people that sent clothes are either really fucking stupid on a different level or they're also making of the victims because the weather is cold, it rains often and even snows in some places. The clothes they send are sleeveless night dresses and summer clothes. Why on fucking earth would anyone need that in this weather condition can't you use your brain?? Do you even have one????

Me and my family was able to escape without even having a nosebleed but not everyone is as lucky as us, and people need to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation. I'm fucking traumatized and i can't even sleep properly after that earthquake experience, i can't even imagine how hard it must be for the saved victims. Imagine sleeping soundly on your bed one night and then suddenly your beloved home becomes your tomb. Imagine the fear they had to go through.

People are fucking monsters and i would murder them all with my own hands if i had the chace to be honest.

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