#this reads like a history textbook

[philsmeatylegss]

Hiii I just saw a post Abt the v day video and how it's fucked up and such and I was just wondering why? I found it a few years ago but it was just kinda cute tbh what's wrong with it? Lmao I'm definitely a newer phan, I only started really following their stuff in like 2017 so I don't know too much about early dnp lol

Oh fuck I’m old

I think it’s safe enough to finally talk publicly about it.

Basically the vday video was a video Phil made for Dan for Valentine’s Day. He uploaded it privately onto his YouTube channel which Dan had the password to so Dan could see it. At this time, Dan was on vacation (pretty sure in India) and he wouldn’t have been able to see a video of that quality just through text or email. Shitty luck, the same time he privately uploaded it, infamous YouTube glitch happened where all private videos became public. And one of the videos that went public was the v day video.

There’s a lot of jokes about Dan in 2012, but it’s actually really depressing. Dan wasn’t out yet and he had a fuck ton of trauma surrounding his sexuality. 2012 is when dnp started blowing up enough to where they became part of popular early YouTube so people saved the v day video when it was uploaded.

They’ve only addressed it a few times in which they said it was an April Fool’s prank, which obviously doesn’t make sense, but what were they supposed to say? According to legend, people would keep reuploading the video and Phil would spend hours taking them down one by one and it would say “AmazingPhil took down this video for copyrite.”

It was a catalyst to just a really shitty period for dnp. All aggressively heterosexual clips from Dan’s liveshows are my 2012. “FYI I like vagina” is 2012. People were contacting his 14 year old brother to ask about him and Phil. That alone is both fucked up to drag a kid into this, but remember that Dan still wasn’t out to his family. It was probably so fucking terrifying when his YouTube life, especially regarding his sexuality and relationship, clashed with his family life for the first time.

There’s a noticeable difference between their relationship in videos from 2009-2011 and 2012-2015. And it is most likely because dnp blew up pretty big in 2012 and started going from making YouTube videos for fun to doing it as a job with the added pressure of millions watching. And the catalyst, or at least metaphorical catalyst, from the switch between being openly touchy feely giggles to strict, five feet apart mates is considered to be the vday vid.

It was a big problem in the phandom since it was leaked to around 2017ish. A lot of people were circulating it and word was that they were still being taken down years later, implying that Phil was still searching for the video years later.

The phandom used to be primarily 12-16 year olds. And when you’re that age, speaking from experience, you don’t understand the complexities of the situation and just kinda thought “teeheehee phan is real XD.” When in reality, it was a very sensitive and serious thing that wasn’t meant to ever be seen by the public. It’s literally where the cherry lube and kissing at the Manchester Eye reference is from.

Rightfully so, the video became more and more taboo to mention and most people caught on that it was a shitty thing to upload or share it. It used to be really taboo and affectionately was often referred to as “the video that shall not be named.”

It honestly has a backstory that is so story-like that it seems unreal. So much had to happen for it to be leaked and the impact it had on them was so large it’s like a black hole in phandom history.

It’s possible not all of this is accurate, this is just the basic lore of it. So while I don’t think the internet police will drag you to prison for saying you watched the vday video, this is the context behind it. Do with it what you will.

Spending your entire preteen, teen, and now 20s as a phannie will fry your brain in unimaginable ways. I knew this off the top of my head😭

#I truly don’t realize how much of my life I’ve dedicated to these fucks until I have to recite their lore #this reads like a history textbook #it’s not right #maybe it was the first sign I was destined to be a history teacher #has enough time passed where I can explain the vday vid or will I have to delete this? #asks #dan and phil

[doberbutts]

Thank you for defending Nazis. They're just little guys. Just misunderstood, with genuine grievances. I noticed you accidentally forgot to defend child rapists. Dumb commies like you are all the same 🙄

Piss on the poor! Also I'm not a commie and never claimed to be one.

#anyway 'Germany was hurting after WWI which allowed Hitler to rise to power' #and 'antisemitism was escalating at an alarming rate which created a very dangerous situation for Europe's Jewish population' #and 'by leaning into the antisemitism that already existed in Germany at the time Hitler was able to rapidly radicalize Germany's population #are all just like. history. ever read a world history textbook or did you sleep all through your history classes? #case in point if you're not able to identify why or how things got that bad then you're doomed to follow the same path

[that-dumb-dinosaur]

someone please send Ezra wookiepedia articles, he has noooo idea what is going on

#sabine please explain things to him #why are you being as vague as possible #he was gone for like 12 years lmao so much shit happened #he needs to go read a history textbook #ahsoka #ahsoka series #ahsoka tv show #ahsoka show #ahsoka series spoilers #ahsoka tv show spoilers #ahsoka show spoilers #star wars #ezra bridger #trexi pterodactyl screeches

[uncanny-tranny]

I know this is a very unoriginal observation (much like any other), but I'm finally reading The Great Gatsby, and even I wouldn't describe men the way Nick does.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #i did watch the 2013 film for my ap english class though (i think they didn't have enough time left for us to actually read it) #like the way he described tom was very. superfluous in my opinion. something you want to tell the class NICK (joking) #i find myself really partial to the general writing styles of that time though #i haven't even gotten that far in the book either i'm just barely past the part where daisy is introduced #so nick is just waffling about his family history and how he rents for $80/month #which is relatable when you consider inflation. nick i hope you eat you landlord #i can see why people don't like this writing but i am endlessly fascinated by the prose #maybe i should just free myself from the impulse to hide behind layers of self-censorship and live like nick does #tbh tho i still prefer non-fiction and textbooks BUT fiction is valuable and is useful #fiction is like play - it lets you explore different possibilities and thought in a safe environment

[brother-emperors]

Mazarin and d'Artagnan! like. listen. I'm reading Charles Samaran's book on d'Artagnan, and 'Colbert a dit que d'Artagnan fut une créature de Mazarin; rien n'est plus vrai,' sure was a sentence to read.

D'Artagnan, Capitaine des mousquetaires du roi, histoire véridique d'un héros de roman, Charles Samaran

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#d'Artagnan #cardinal mazarin #drawing tag #french history tag #ngl if anyone has any recs/pdfs they'd be willing to send my way on the historical figure of d'artagnan or 17th century french history #focusing on. like. this sort of thing. mazarin. richelieu. the man in the iron mask mystery. textbook recs. feel free to hit me up! #OH and politics ofc. im always interested in reading about politics. or anything else that could be interesting. my curiosity is broad. #ngl most of the english language texts on d'artagnan are about his book counterpart which is fun but not what im interested in rn #(and the texts don't need to be in english: i can read french) #WAHOO alright tags out of the way its been a hot second since ive made two posts here in one day

[spiritofjustice]

just found out that utopia, on an etymological level, means “nowhere" (or, literally, “no place”). interesting to think about how the Nowhere Islands were considered a utopia prior to the Pigmasks.

if you think about it like that (insert “it’s not that deep” image here), it feels like Nowhere’s utopian nature inherently forewarns its own demise.  no place can ever be utopian, and even Nowhere, paradoxically existing as utopian and not at all times, can’t escape that.

like, even prior to the Pigmasks, i get this feeling that Nowhere was never able to be a utopia forever. Tazmily was built upon the notion of destroying one’s memories in hopes of creating something better. it inevitably led to its own destruction in ignorance of suffering and evil. ignorance of that begets those things, i guess, so inevitably, the utopian paths leads down towards dystopia. inherently, utopia is its own undoing-- at least in Nowhere’s case it is.

there is no such thing as utopia. to have a loving, kind society takes active effort and energy. i don’t think the villagers were selfish for how they chose to go about creating Tazmily; it’s understandable. but it was a lesson to be learned-- that they can’t avoid the effort of kindness. without active choice towards kindness, they became cruel with ease.

it’s why Nowhere can only improve if the people who live there-- not just villagers, but everyone left behind there-- choose to make the world better than it once was. the core of Mother 3 is Lucas choosing kindness at every possible turn no matter the cost, after all.

#Psy's no punctuation posts #mother tag #mother 3 #like theres something to be said there ig #found this out while reading the afterword to 1984 and was so awed by that. had no idea that's what utopia meant! #or maybe i did once but i definitely forgot about it lol #considering the book Utopia gets brought up a lot in World History- it's possible i read some textbook that told me what utopia meant #but hey in any case now i know!

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #peter capaldi #michelle gomez #i miss them... #seeing all these dw actors in other shows lately and i'm just like I HOPE YOU'RE ALL COMING BACK TO THE 60TH #i watched the first hotd episode this morning #and i'm just like SIGH fine i will keep watching just because i don't feel like reading the actual fire and blood history textbook #but also because dragons #ANYWAYS #i miss dw a lot!!!!! is it autumn yet?? #(even though i don't want to be sad about jodie leaving but......)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Hello.

You and gay-jesus-probably have successfully made me question everything with your view that Tears of the Kingdom is imperialist propaganda, so that's been fun.

Anyway, I decided to share this discussion with the Zelda fans on reddit, and perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of them disagreed. Here is what they said (I'm Alarming_Afternoon44):

So what do you think? Have I and all these other people just been duped by the game's manipulative framing? Or do they actually have a point?

And if you'd rather not answer this, or would prefer if I censored the usernames, just tell me and I'll delete this.

Hey! Thanks a lot for reaching out, and I'm glad it made you think stuff through!!

Honestly, as I mentioned in this post, I am not super interested about in-world conversations about who oppresses who, because what can be assessed from the game is super vague and more vibes-based than evidence-based. Within the text, of course that the Good Zonais are good and the Bad Ganondorf is bad! But that's my whole point! The narrative has been deliberately crafted so that the zonais and Rauru (and Hyrule) are as blameless as possible (and it's not doing a great job at it overall to be frank; we would not be having these conversations about how offputting it all feels for a non-zero number of people if it did do a great job). More importantly, I want to focus on what sort of real-life narrative it all parallels. Because people make stories, and people live in the real world.

Not going after everyone's throat here, gamedev is hard and the hydras that are AAA game production do end up doing super weird stuff, especially since the thematic ramifications are absolutely never prioritized (and it's also always the same kind of people who make the final calls and push out what can and can't be talked about also). And as fans, we tend to have trouble stepping outside the lens of lore and take a look at the bigger picture sometimes; not as an attack on any individual part of that decision-making process but to just pause, stop, and question our standards, our priorities and the kind of reality (or skewing of reality) the stories we tell each other reflect.

Again: do we want to take videogames seriously or not? If we do, then we need to accept they are a vehicle for ideology, just like any other artform. And sometimes, you push out questionable ideology, sometimes without meaning to, because you didn't unpack your own biases as you did. And it's even fine to do it, nobody is perfect, a 300+ people team spread over 6 years certainly will not be that. But that it wasn't prioritized is, in my opinion, a problem. As a narrative designer, I want games (at least the narrative side) to be held to a higher standard than this. It's literally my job to work with the industry so it can hold itself to higher standards of quality --so the whole TotK situation is quite frustrating to witness from a very pragmatic, work perspective where I already spend my days trying to convince people that things mean things. I have a vested interest here in not having the companies I work for being given a free pass by gamers to do literally whatever as long as it's fun, especially when we're talking about a billion-dollars company suing its own fans left and right for any perceived slight. Nintendo are not underdogs here. It's fine to point out they cut corners and maybe promoted messy ideologies, voluntarily or not.

So long story short: no I don't believe anyone here has a point in regards to what I think is actually important, which is why these choices were made in the first place. If you look at an imperialist text expecting the text to tell you that it's imperialist instead of recognizing a framing used for propaganda by yourself, you're never gonna find any imperialist text ever, obviously not!! I'm sorry if I sound a little gngngn here, but I don't know why audiences have, at large, this feeling that lore and story beat decisions materialize themselves already formed and without any human bias, meddling, intervention, internal politics or approximations (it seems that people can only conceptualize this part if they have actual names to attach to the story, but without clear authors it's like there are no authors and so no bias, which is... a very strange bias in itself). I can promise you that it does not work that way in practice: every narrative department on every big game is a battlefield --some nicer than others, but all of them very emotionally draining either way.

So yeah, I guess that on these grounds, I disagree with every point raised here. Sorry Reddit :/

But thank you for the ask and sorry if I didn't go more into details as to why. The big Why I Dislike Rauru Post and the Gerudo Post might have some more specific rebuttals, but I am not super interested in debating small detail stuff tbh. I feel like it's no use if the frame of reference isn't being understood in the first place.

#totk spoilers #totk #totk critical #thoughts #asks #yeah I just disagree with a lot of these in general but I just don't feel like going through them one by one sorry ;_; #feel like I'm starting to repeat myself #especially for a game I liked okay but will definitively not revisit in the long run #tho @ the last redditor: yes thank you for proving my point because do you actually know about afghanistan's recent history :)) #like... who funded the mujahideens' war not so long ago :))))) and for what purpose :))))))))) #everything said by that redditor is 100% far right propaganda it's not even a little bit anything else it's textbook applied imperialism #it's.... yeah how do you want to have these sorts of conversations when the real life parallels are unackowledged #I don't know it's just.... so frustrating to me that so many people have such a hard time to unpack external influences in media #or do not know how to pull apart thematic framings from in-world fluff #sorry if I sound a little dry but it's just... it's all a bit tiring honestly #I'm glad this made you reconsider things! or that you took the time to read stuff through even!! thank you!!! #and thanks for compiling the whole thing!! #I feel like it's a good way of showcasing well... the narrative doing a good job at defending itself #but not disputing that the entire framing is deeply flawed #at least in my opinion

[derpinette]

this year i really had a module called "british culture" &i got my best grade on it out of all of them this semester

#wooed the corrector/maybe my professor if he was the one doing the correction bu laying out my Television Interest faxxxxx #that were in the textbook we had to read now i know so much about those Isles & i hate the english so much #& i am scotland & ireland biggest fan #i also found the contents of my textbook in some chinese learning(?) website that looked a million years old #like for chinese people who were probably going to the UK to learn about it & its history ETC #the reason why i even retained so much is because i got hooked by the mentions of my TV Interest sprinkled in & it developed from there #like cheese in a mouse trap #shockingly the most i retained is the history bit starting from the iron age to like now ( well the late 90s/2000s anyway ) #my professor was probably like wow she really did read the textbook. which i did but only because of the Mentions here & there #otherwise i would not really GAF as much as i did #i am physically incapable of caring about anything unless it is tangentially related to whatever my interest is #which is why i graduated highschool by a miracle from the Heavens last year because i literally had nothing but my Interest #in my mind no matter what i tried especially during prep days. i graduated with a 10/20 flat BTW that is 10.00 ... Trve Miracle

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

we should have gotten a scene of todo bending his powerful head over a desk and tutoring yuji. their calloused hands affectionately brushing over pencils, etc. in the process accidentally catching ryomen sukuna, greatest of demons, king on the blood throne, he-who-eats-his-enemies-hearts up to date on the last fun and funky 1000 years of japanese history.

#jujutsu kaisen #sukuna ryomen #todo drawing little diagrams for yuji about the economy of the 1500s and yuji is listening (he’s a good boy) #but sukuna is Locked In #surprisingly invested he does not care about these little ants political games but he loves 1. gossip and 2. slaughter #and history delivers #he was wondering why these little bitches weren’t in Kyoto anymore #plus it means Kenjaku won’t be able to pull as much condescending bs on him later #unfortunately todo’s teaching does assume knowledge of basic facts any teen would know #like who oda nobunaga is and what went down with the heike #so sukuna is getting the most fractured contextless discussions #like walking into a 400 level college class in a subject you don’t know #except the subject is History For Teenage Boys and you’re just a very dead demon #I think the punchline is that one day yuji is writing an essay on population shifts in the Tokugawa or whtv #and a voice just goes ‘8 BILLION?’ and he considers quitting school and becoming a monk #*sukuna voice* yes kenjaku I know about these Americans and their world wars. according to a high school textbook I read.

[phosphorus-noodles]

fuck the whole entire world ig. i’m going to reread dungeon meshi chapter 56 for the 4th time

have fun out there brave soldier ^-^

... wait FOURTH?!

#mental illness spotted 🫵 #/silly aff #whcjdkjfs... if it weren't for history textbook chapters to read... #:( #soon... #semester's over whether i like it or not in less than a week.. #have fun don't die etc etc #pho.asks #thinkingabout-girls

[age-of-moonknight]

“Party Monster,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #18.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Federico Sabbatini; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight vol. 9 #Moon Knight 2021 #Moon Knight comics #Soldier #Reese #First of all I love the first panel of that second page and secondly….Soldier…light of my life… #didn’t you already die for the Midnight Mission??? #Furthermore congrats Mr. MacKay on the textbook understanding of modern (late fourth/‘fifth’ wave) terrorist recruitment methods??? #I’m particularly impressed by the understanding that recruiters do not create bad actors out of nothing #but that each actor already feels some isolation from society as a result of perceived/experienced slights such as racism/injustice #that recruiters can spot and cultivate by bringing potential recruits into echo chambers to create a sense of group belonging #although keeping print outs of manuals is sooo third wave it’s all about the dark web/external hard drives/or online magazines these days #(Alphabet Agency Individual reading this I swear that this is all in jest) #anyway congrats again to Mr. MacKay for having an internet search history that might look like mine???? #(this time I swear it and the TOR browser are all for academic purposes) #latest release

[thepeopleswing]

People who think the capitalist allies were the "good guys" in WW2 need to learn that the brits and french especially were just terrible. They wanted to bomb the USSR and invade Norway and Sweden early on in the war, spent several years defending their colonial holdings, and then terror bombed half of Europe in a useless bid to make the Germans surrender or to reduce their ability to fight, which it didn't, only succeeding to kill a bunch of civilians, many of whom were themselves being occupied by the Germans. Thousands of French, Belgian, and Dutch dying because the Allies didn't give a fuck. This is not to say the Axis were better, they were far worst in every regard, but that's not why the allies fought them.

#like seriously they sucked so much. please go read a history textbook or something. #leftism #ww2 #ww2 history #text

[waitinqroom]

crazy how many ppl i follow on IG suddenly decided to be blatant islamaphobes

#the anti islam things some ppl are reposting are genuinely SICKENING. #yall will just hit like & repost on whatever u think fits ur perfect victim narrative #even if it’s just. flat out hateful misinformation #the way it’s been 22 years since 9/11 and brown ppl are still subjected to this alienation from the west. horrific. #that’s all i’m gonna say abt this whole thing. but i’ve reblogged some more info in the past few days that imo make things crystal clear #in terms of history and this ONGOING conflict. btw i also find it incredibly transparent how all of the white people decided to care about #this specific conflict NOW. when shit has been happening for YEARS. read a fucking textbook bro #r

[empressofthelibrary]

Posting the wip bc I'm about to start color swatching, and I dunno if this is gonna survive the inks but I love the energy in this sketch

Katie doesn't have a surname yet but I'm already sold on her

#she brings her textbooks home on the weekends and reads ahead bc she likes learning and knows the teacher can't or won't cover it all #she started getting into journalism bc she was calling out the school system glossing over things in history classes and biased teaching #when the school paper wouldn't publish her article she printed it out herself and started jamming it in lockers and desks #she got a week's detention and had to do a report on defemation and libel but she decided it was worth it

[hjemne]

Computer, show me gifts for undiagnosed autistic father, yes advanced maths textbooks, yes steam train memorabilia

#i love him dearly #he got me a completely random (but seemingly brand new) physics textbook for christmas when i was 13 #like i still read it #but it was a very unusual gift for a teenage daughter #its so funny that me and my sister have such a hard time being believed when he suggest to doctors that we might be autistic/adhd #because “theres no family history” #my brother in christ there is no DIAGNOSED family history but boy howdy is there a row over which spoons everyone uses at family gatherings #rambles