#but they dismissed the idea ]

[cursedgamerchild]

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

edit: it got a little too doomer-y a little too fast so one quick addition

this is hbomb's curated playlist of queer creators, many of whom were victims of plagiarism

this is producer kat on reddit calling for any more plagiarism discoveries and for queer content creators to be uplifted

please take some time to uplift these creators and recommend any you know! if you can help uncover more of the original creators whose work was lifted that would be great too :)

UPDATE- From Hbomb's twitter: "We're in the process of cataloguing everyone James Somerton plagiarised and finding their contact information. Which is quite a task, so to help us out: If you see this and happen to be one of the people Somerton stole from, please email us at [email protected]"

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#hbomberguy #james somerton #illuminaughtii #internet historian #vice #ign etc have had issues with plaigarism before #this isnt just some youtuber scandal remember #even books can fall victim to this #kaz rowe's history vids exemplify this pretty well #i'd recommend the triboulet ass slapping myth one if you want a good breakdown #and somerton absolutely had problems with the way he discussed foreign media and anyone that wasnt a cis gay man #but considering most of his ideas werent his own that doesnt dismiss the original authors' work keep in mind

[aeide-thea]

on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance

#it's such an ugly word but like. self-pleasure is good‚ actually #it's good to know yourself and what you like and lovingly treat yourself to it! #like similarly 'meretricious' is extremely tempting if you ignore the underlying metaphor #but. hard to. #language #and quite frankly i think people who whip out 'masturbatory' in this sneering sort of way #are leveraging‚ if we're honest with ourselves‚ a particular framing of it as a gross thing that boys do #because like. when have you ever heard a *woman's* self-indulgent art described as masturbatory #like don't get me wrong we absolutely still dismiss it! but we dismiss it in other ways #that are usually about how embarrassing her *yearning* is #and so even our sneering is reinforcing an idea that men Act whereas women Feel #anyway this was prompted by some things but i shoved it in the queue so now i forget what lol #so here you are getting some contextless thoughts on the use of 'masturbatory' as sneering dismissive assessment! #just what you were hoping for i'm sure :)

[bietrofastimoff23]

they really watched the first movie kfp, saw how Shifu raises Tai Lung as his son, how Shifu could not attack Tai Lung out of love for him, how Shifu refrained from touching his unconscious son because he thought he had no right, how Tigress says that Shifu never loved anyone like Tai Lung neither before nor after, how Tai Lung even years later is angry and jealous of the idea that the father has a new favorite, how Tai Lung admits that everything he ever did was just to make Shifu proud of him, how he literally knocks this words out of Shifu, how Shifu admits that he's always been proud of him, how decades later Shifu finally admits responsibility for his son's ruined fate and asks for forgiveness, how Tai Lung freezes in confusion because of his words, - and they still dismissed the idea of S&T reconciliation and farewell in kfp4 with the words "nah, it would be superfluous 🚬".

#[ I've been thinking about it for WEEKS #Tbh I'm so used to shitty decisions in the film industry that I'm not even mad. #We could really get it #but they dismissed the idea ] #shifu #tai lung #master shifu #kfp #kfp4 #kung fu panda #kung fu panda 4 #bad english #my post

[svnflowermoon]

btw please block me if you feel the need to gatekeep the queer community. cishet aspecs ARE valid and they ARE queer. the "they don't experience discrimination" argument is possibly the most stupid thing i have ever heard because aspecs experience insane levels discrimination and people are extremely dismissive of them. we our more than our suffering. our community is not yours to gatekeep it isn't fair to invalidate people's queer identities just because you can't fit them in your stupid little box of specific labels.

#like cmon guys its 2024 stop gatekeeping the community we are trying to make people feel SAFE but people are feeling the exact opposite #also like people are perfectly okay (as they should be ofc) with complicated gender identities but when someone's sexuality is complicated? #when someone's sexuality doesnt fit into a specific label or their idea of what queerness 'is'?? #people brush it under the rug and dismiss it because its 'uncomfortable' but fuck that actually people can be as complicated as they want #as someone currently questioning whether im aspec this debate is killing me why do people make it so impossible to just let people live #luc posts #queer #aspec #aromantic #asexual #aroace #lgbtq #luc rants

[a-polite-melody]

“Maybe the people who sent the anons were trolls, but the transandrodorks are defending the sentiment so actually…”

Are the “transandrodorks” defending that transmisogynistic copypasta in the room with us? Or are you just upset that trans men/mascs are speaking up and saying we aren’t okay with being labeled as untrustworthy because of there being an anon copypasta and simply our being trans men/mascs?

#my post #transandrophobia #I’m sorry but if you don’t understand how bad it is to label all trans men/mascs as untrustworthy because of that copypasta #and think being upset that that’s what’s currently happening (ie. ‘it’s understandable that people wouldn’t trust discussion of #transandrophobia right now’ is supporting the transmisogynistic asks #I think you were just waiting to pounce on whatever new idea you could use to dismiss us this time

[lgbtiwtv]

this whole rashidmand/louis dynamic is really shedding so much new light on so many interactions but the one I keep coming back to is when he says to daniel “well, the interior designer hired was a sentimentalist. some notion of hers, he was missing the natural world.” it’s the fact that he says it like it’s some frivolous/almost silly idea that louis could be missing the outside/plant life. he doesn’t say “daylight” or anything like that, he specifically mentions louis missing the natural world like….why would he miss it so much….unless you’re keeping his schedule and whereabouts under lock and key and bringing all the food to him so he never has to leave his penthouse-shaped coffin……I’m sick

#the flat out DISMISSAL that louis could possibly be missing the natural world….the idea that if louis did miss it it would be silly #rashidmand is about to be public enemy number 1 #the subtle controlling nature…the dismissal of louis’ potential unhappiness #armand controls the feeding schedule armand controls the windows armand controls how much of the outside louis gets to experience I’m ill!! #to quote amc-iwtv for the second time today: now get in your guilded cage…. #lestat come get your man!!!!!!!!! #iwtv spoilers #iwtv #amc iwtv spoilers #the vampire armand #louis de pointe du lac #m watches iwtv

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Everyone was warned and yet...

#the school for good and evil #school for good and evil #like book fans literally typed warnings and were ignored #and now we stuck dealing with the discourse all over again #yet somehow its worser this time #with people acting like sophie and agatha have to be either lesbian or straight no bisexuality or pansexuality considered #and people literally dismissing the idea the kiss is platonic....cause friends who happen to be both girls dont kiss i guess

[electric-plants]

random scholar: is the general mahamatra coming to this meeting?

alhaitham: gods i hope so. maybe then it will at least be bearable.

#haino #cytham #cyhaino #haino incorrect quotes #alhaitham #cyno #everything is more bearable when cyno is there tbh #alhaitham in meetings is just- *listens to music* *stares at bf* *randomly interjects to dismiss any stupid points or ideas* #contributing both the Least™️ and the Most™️ #he’s everything fr #genshin impact #genshin incorrect quotes

[queerfables]

I may not agree with every wacky good omens theory out there but I hope we as a fandom keep generating them. It's fun and harmless and even the ones I consider totally unsubstantiated have interesting elements that make me think about the story a different way.

I do think it's wise to consider possibilities with a healthy amount of skepticism, especially the ones you really want to be true. I would hate to see anyone crushed when their pet theory doesn't eventuate. But if we're all throwing ideas around, we might hit on something real, and even if we don't, it will keep us in meta for the years to come.

#good omens #good omens theory #this post is half aimed at the cynic in me dismissing every idea i hear #and half aimed at my own anxiety that has me dismissing my own theories out of hand #it's fine we're probably all wrong that's the fun of it #fable talks good omens

[faux-fm]

I'm gonna nerd about music and my feels for a bit but whenever I listen to this song in particular, one thing that REALLY stood out to me was at the very end of the song. Right after the high-pitched horn sound, there were bits of sounds that reminds me of how sparkles would sound like. A sound of fleeting magic in the midst of nothingness.

When this score was played in the episode, the end of the song cuts to Don's house. He was last seen playing pretend with his kids, knowing not even an ounce of the idea that his world, along others, were at the brink of destruction. If it weren't for Loki, this simple life would've never existed.

Now, hear me out. I'm very much reaching here and I'm like, 100% sure this is just my brain connecting the nonexistent dots. But, the mirror between both medias just felt really impactful for me.

Why?

Obviously, Loki's magic had given everyone a second chance. Not just his friends, or people in the TVA. Literally everyone. Even for someone insignificant like Don. The thing that saved best for the last is a mundane life everyone has, and I think it's beautiful, because you learn to perceive life on a better light knowing someone wants you to enjoy that while it lasts.

Especially for Mobius, though. It felt bleak knowing a good friend he had in a long while was taken away from him. But, he too, stepped out from his comfort zone and got to see what was his life before the TVA altered him to who he is now. He seemed uncertain of how his future is going to work now he had resigned from his position but perhaps looking back to his older footsteps would give him an idea of what's to come.

Perhaps in the end, there will be better hopes for both him and Loki. It's a fucking bleak outcome for both, and you might wonder if this what their fates were meant to be, even under the fact there are many possibilities for them to be together now. Are they really meant to be separated, despite the signs littered around the show said otherwise? That can't be it, yes?

The overall run of this song is hauntingly beautiful. Gloomy yet optimistic, it's a song that wraps the show in a light so positive yet caustic. Sure, things don't go the way you would've wanted, but the future is flux, so why not look forward for that?

I'd like to think the spark at the end is the sound of hope. And it could be anything. Hope of everyone for a better, lasting future, in the middle of darkness. Hope of TVA to run its course well in the embrace of the void. And, well...

Hope for Mobius to be able to see Loki again someday.

#living up to my fm name lmao #but yeah i really can't get over this song and i had to type this feeling out #i hope you can appreciate this thought as much as i do #bc this really helped me understand the impact of the show deeper #well - i wont dismiss the idea that i was overthinking about this but id like to find meaning in between the emptiness so 😎😎😎 #loki #loki series #lokius #loki laufeyson #mobius m mobius #fauxfm speaks #Spotify

[masterqwertster]

Shaking Bells Hells by the shoulders again: You had a very good recon mission just seeing the other side of the Bloody Bridge and extracting basic info in a small town. Take a moment to report back to people in power all the useful things you already learned. Get more spells/supplies from them. Then continue to the heart of the enemy. Time is short, but probably not so short that you can't take an extra hour or two to do that. Keyleth can tree teleport and she knows where you were. She just couldn't immediately jump to you because she had things to do/settle first. It's a war, powerful people can't come to your aid at the drop of a hat.

#my poor dumb babies #unfortunately Imogen likes the moon too much and is so desperate to know and have answers #to the point that she wouldn't consider “wait a few hours in the morning to make a real report” as an option #despite Orym's very reasonable pushes to do so #or at least try one more message for an actual timetable for ally arrival before dismissing the idea of waiting #mq cr watch #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e86

[iintervallum]

sketch of beau because I miss her

#art #fanart #critical role fanart #my art #critical role #critrole #c2 #beauregard lionett #sketch #digital art #never not thinking about her honestly #have so many headcanons for her man #i've thought of creating this dumb idea of a pre campaign comic of teen!beau #where she pitches an idea of diversifying the winery after months of planning in between studies and working #only to get dismissed entirely by her father because shes “distracted” and needs to concentrate on what shes “good at” #aka just keeping silent and sticking to book keeping #so she finally realizes that she cannot live up to her fathers expectations and begins lashing out by being a criminal #meeting tori and tony and experiencing being a rebel for some time until she gets found out through getting arrested #instead of her father getting mad at her he instead just silently grounds her to her room #where shes there for some time before in the middle of the night being dragged out by force #and tada the rest is what we know #alas i don't have the skills to plan that out properly but #i will one day do it(no promises)

[wildbasil]

group therapy (they make each other worse)

#gwyn ap nudd #edern ap nudd #blodeuwedd #arthuriana #mabinogion #pa gur #medieval literature #welsh mythology #artists on tumblr #digital art #alcohol cw #art tag #------------------------------------------------------------ #just as i don't think owain ap nudd exists i think gwyn godyfrion is gwyn ap gudd 😌 #ok hear me out though #there are lots of gwyns in medieval welsh literature and i don't think they're all gwyn ap nudd (sadly) #but my man gwyn godyfrion. look. “dyfr” means water. like in the word dyfriog (watery). and gwyn ap nudd is very much associated with water #rides the watery horse du y moroedd. has a little chat with gwyddno garanhir who's the ruler of a kingdom that gets flooded. #dormach's funny flipper legs. rival gwythyr is associated with fire. #and there's the idea that annwn (of which gwyn ap nudd is the ruler) is itself underwater. and so on and so forth #sims-williams (‘the early welsh arthurian poems’ in arthur of the welsh. 1991) suggests godyfrion as a place name. underwater maybe. #so if gwyn godyfrion is “gwyn from under the water” i don't think it's unreasonable to suggest he's in some way connected to gwyn ap nudd #“but dizzy!! gwyn godyfrion is mentioned alongside gwyn ap nudd in culhwch and olwen!” the answer is that i simply choose to ignore that #while we're on the topic. the ddylad in creiddylad = flood #ok class dismissed #anyway gwyn and creiddylad i am pleased to tell you that my irl name means “sea” 😌 i am one of you

[mikesbasementbeets]

"if they don’t tell me explicitly that mike was never attracted to el then that means he was"

[removes hands while kissing]

[unresponsive to kiss & "i love you," eyes wide open]

[the sunglasses stay on during kiss, also get off me you're crushing the flowers i carefully placed right in between us]

[no fear]

[one fear]

"idk if they don’t make it clear to me that he doesn’t love el romantically then that means he does"

"they haven't given any indication yet that he doesn't like girls..."

"yeah, mike has definitely shown attraction to girls"

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#this is NOT in opposition to elli's post i rb'd btw it's not obvious it's not supposed to be obvious. but that's the point. if you read #between the lines and pay attention to the subtext then it becomes the only logical conclusion. it's not going to be In Your Face obvious #that's the POOOOOOOOIIIIIIINT #the idea that if it's not explicitly stated outright then it's not there is just. annoying and literally not how this show works ever #a bi m*ke reading recognizes the subtext without acknowledging the fact that the whole liking girls facade is just that. a facade. #and that mike's queerness being invisible and his generally being constantly dismissed and invalidated is a HUGE part of his character #i DO think they'll make it more explicitly clear in s5 but. it IS already there if you look closely enough and don't ignore things #that don't fit into your existing perspective #anyway this post is for marianne who said it was time for gay/bi mlke discourse again #harbinger of the discourse cycle. hi #(jk don’t make discourse out of this im kidding it’s not serious) #(i mean the 'bi m*ke totally makes sense' takes never stop it's just that whenever people refute them everyone cries discourse) #(don't do that) #mikesbasementbeets posts #mike wheeler

[anendoandfriendo]

You've seen "excluding neurodivergent people is ableist" and now understand "neurodivergency is disability" but now get ready for for this one:

Neurodivergency can be disability but not every single neurodivergency is, actually. Yes, even those who technically could qualify for a diagnosis under the DSM or ICD may consider their neurtype to be beneficial to them, actually. And some neurotypes can be adjacent to the DSM and ICD without actually falling into them!

Neurodivergency can be disabled but in the way all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

The people seeing themselves as more abled for a neurotype that's disabling to you are not your enemies.

Break free of your chains, stop letting the DSM and ICD, the biggest perpetrators of ableism, define us and our communities.

#we're veey much thinking about endogenic systems here. but we're also thinking about left-handed people. #and we're thinking about how “autism is my superpower!” has been used to dismiss people who are disabled by their autism but how #there IS a potential to like. not “reclaim” that as that's not the connotation we're looking for. #there are many ideas that would make sense if they were more inclusive but have been absolutely ruined by aspie supremacists because #bigots ruin EVERYTHING and we need to stop letting them rule over us. #you get what we mean? #that whole saying where the difference between a psychotic and a psychic is like how much they're drowning so to speak. #do you understand? but do you TRULY understand? #trans people used to be pathologized under the DSM too. <3 #“that's not the same” well actually we would like to propose a solution: it is the same actually.

[mswyrr]

lucy gray baird's philosophy

I want to "yes, and" this great meta post by @burst-of-iridescent​. Specifically this part:

by the end of the book, coriolanus gives in fully to dr gaul’s way of thinking simply because it excuses him from accepting blame for his actions. if he killed sejanus, it’s because he had no choice. if he betrayed lucy gray, it’s because she would’ve betrayed him first. coriolanus refuses to believe in the goodness of humanity because that would have meant accepting the goodness that existed within him, and with that came the potential for making a different, better choice - potential that he knew, deep down, he had wasted. attributing his crimes to an innate evil that no one can overcome means that he can’t be held accountable, because it’s out of his control.

This got me thinking about how much Lucy Gray's worldview rejects of this way of thinking (and of a Calvinist*/ableist "some people are just born evil" pov people try to impose on the text, which people think is condemning him but actually... accidentally agrees with him that he was born evil and therefore can't help it??????). The book begins with several quotes chosen by the author, but I believe the one that represents Lucy Gray's worldview is Rousseau, who believed people were born with fundamental goodness.

Here's a source on him:

(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

And here's the quote Collins opens with:

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

That's Lucy Gray's pov she's come to through living and reflecting as an artist; someone can disagree with it (of course, all of these questions are open for endless debate; they have been debated endlessly!) however, it's important to respect that is where she's coming from, not being foolish or naive. It is a worthy pov that should be respected, even if you disagree. And that she came to this pov through a hard life and from much thinking and she expresses it beautifully in her art.

Here's the key exchange from the book, after Coriolanus has taken on the idea that people are just awful and her articulating her philosophy in response:

(Ballad, 495)

She's not naive. She recognizes the nuance that Rousseau does, that society shapes us. And Panem is pretty clearly a society led by people applying all the pressures they can think of on people toward evil. (And, after his heel turn, Coriolanus' is going to innovate some new pressures...) Clearly there are situations and circumstances that form us before we have much say in it, but that's not the same as being born evil.

The difference between inherent goodness and a corrupt society is, for Lucy Gray, a lot of hard work. It's a struggle. This repudiates both the version of "born evil" Coriolanus himself takes on, which relieves him of responsibility, and the self-righteous, Calvinist and/or ableist pov people keep arguing for, which makes "normal" people feel like they can be sure they're good (and ignore how we are all complicit in evil to some degree or another) because they have a "good" normal brain or they were just born so pure as a soul predestined for heaven. No, for her, everyone has to do the work. To her it's everyone's "life's challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line."

Even more pointedly, the love song she wrote him before his betrayal, "Pure as the Driven Snow," articulates her philosophy in the opening lines:

(Ballad, 481)

Again, we have her personal focus on the work of "staying on the right side" of good and evil after being born good into evil circumstances. She knows it hurts; she's led a hard life herself. "It's rough as a bair" to do that work, it's "like walkin' through fire." But it is doable.

Lucy Gray meant it as a love song but IMO "Pure as the Driven Snow" ends up a lament for the boy Coriolanus was and her love that he betrayed when he betrayed himself. And it is a direct rejection of his excuses, it is inadvertently reading him for filth for the lies he tells himself that all the world is the Games arena, all people are selfish and bad, and he isn't to blame for what he's done because he just wants to come out on top/be the victor of this "natural" "war of all against all" that is Gaul's philosophy (related to the Hobbes quote Collins begins with; I wrote a meta on that here) that he adopts.

I see her demeaned as a foolish girl who just "like bad boys" and I get so frustrated. I also get frustrated by the view that she must not have ever been sincere in loving or trusting him because IF SHE WAS then she would be a fool and his betrayal would somehow be her fault. And she'd reject the idea that she's "good" just because she's so pure or that anyone can claim we're good without doing a lot of hard work.

(Ballad, 482)

She is so thoughtful and interesting as a character. And she didn't just "like bad boys" - Coriolanus showed only his good side to her until the very end, once he'd decided to kill that part of himself. She had no way of knowing. Sometimes you trust someone and they betray you, it doesn't make you wrong, the shame is all theirs.

*Strict Calvinist predestination is some people are just predetermined to be bound for heaven and some for hell, some people are just born good and others are born bad. A lot of people in fandom seem to love Calvinism idk why. The ableism bit of this should be self-evident: there is no such thing as a "bad" brain type completely incapable of morality or a "good" brain and neurodivergence is not the source of all evil!

#lucy gray baird #thg meta #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #disagree with her if you want - but respect that her pov is philosophically sound and insightful #and i prefer the reading of the text where she's right and gaul and post heel turn coriolanus are wrong... #he could have kept trying to be good and loving for that girl #people dismissing her or being like 'she was constantly lying like a GIRLBOSS' is just so annoying - she's great as herself thank you #reject the idea that women are to blame for bad things people do #reject the idea that women are to blame for loving #that it must have been her fault somehow