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joyboythehopepunk · 9 months

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going forward

i know there are a lot of fuck heads that have used ideologies to separate.

as someone who is brown, trans, neurodivergent, aspec, and otherwise just weird af i would like to avoid any sort of bigotry.

be that as it may: we gotta do something about the idiots and the bigots.

i'm not sure how humanity is going to get passed this unless we address the elephant in the room. mainly that there are people voting and people in power that should not be voting or be in power.

or at the very least these people should be accounted for when making decisions that would be beneficial or destructive to humans and the environment.

what the fuck does this have to do with transhumanism? ok. mostly bc people think we are going to fuse with technology. it is more or less happening in front of our eyes.

but people are not ... intelligent enough to use the technology we have developed. many of the greatest things that would be of benefit to humanity have been patented or hidden by the us government or governments of the world.

people are too disconnected from one another in reality. people are too disconnected from themselves.

i am the sort that believes we can learn from our mistakes. we can grow. that means admitting that some people.. just do not have a knack for caring for other living things. for whatever reason.

we need to develop a society that gives a damn about LIFE before anything else. yeah. we dont necessarily need it to be based in a spiritual ideology. it def could be secular and scientific.

the only reason any of us is here is because of the diversity of life. now humans have the power to change our fate. and we are being very bad at it. which i totally get. i have self destructive behaviors. i can be a jackass or reckless.

but the scale and length of time humanity has done what it has... it is disappointing and horrible. the amount of death our species has wrought on this planet makes me sick to think about.

but i think humans are incredible enough that we can accomplish the impossible. i think what has been hidden is big enough to also help us accomplish this.

yes: math, magic, and madness

#transhumanism #futurism #solarpunk #hopepunk #anti capitalism #anti work #late stage capitalism #conspiracy #the powers that be #tptb #science #technology #ufo #spirituality #consciousness #society #humanity #civilization

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terri104 · 9 months

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Actors strike begins at midnight

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p-redux · 2 years

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So, while Sam was posting about his trip to Vegas, sadly, Caitriona and her family were burying her father....and NO, ya dopey tinhatters, Sam was NOT there. FACT.

Cait's father's funeral Mass was announced PUBLICLY and livestreamed PUBLICLY earlier today, August 10, 2022. I'm not going to post the video (everyone already found it, so it's out there, and again, it's PUBLIC). BUT, I am going to post screencaps from the video. The quality of the livestream was super choppy and at times, pixelated, but if you pay close attention, you can see Cait's mother there, her siblings, and Cait's HUSBAND, Tony McGill there, as well as their baby boy. And not a Sam Heughan in sight.

If you watch the video, Cait, her mother and a few of her siblings are sitting in the front pew to the right. Tony, the baby (sitting on Tony's lap), and other spouses are right behind them in the second pew. Tony and the baby are on the aisle in the second row.

Below, is a panoramic view of everyone walking into the ceremony. Cait and her siblings and mom are in the front, followed by spouses, grandchildren, etc. You can see the back of Tony and he's carrying Baby McGill (he's blurred out, so don't come at me or you'll get blocked). 👇

Here is a screencap from toward the end of the video 👇 you can see the back of Cait's head, next to her mom. And you can see where Tony and Baby McGill are.

Here is a moment when Tony lifts the baby up a little to see the service better and you can see his little arm come around Tony's neck. 👇

It's super blurry, but here's a closeup. 👇 Tony's head is to the left and the baby to the right, his hand on the back of Tony's neck.

And as Cait and her siblings walk out with their hands on the casket (I'm not posting any casket pics because that's not what this is about, but in the video, you can clearly see Cait walking behind her father's casket 😥), Tony, wearing a black mask, walks out holding Baby McGill in front of him. Again, the baby's face is blurred out. 👇

I KNOW Extreme Shipper tinhatters are already explaining the TRUTH away and me posting FACTS won't change their puny minds. But, I'm still posting it because DOCUMENTING the truth and facts is important.

DOCUMENTED: Marriage Certificate where Tony's name is printed in black and white as Cait's husband. Cait announced she and Tony had a baby boy. Cait's father's death announcement--Tony is listed as a son-in-law, also on print, in black and white. And today, we get video proof of Tony McGill at Cait's father's funeral, holding he and Cait's son. TRUTH--there is only one.

Soooo, if you still believe that ALL of the above is orchestrated by the powers that be or by Cait and Sam to "hide their epic love and 5 kids," (btw where are the other alleged 4 kids? Hiding with their "Da" Sam?) 🤦‍♀️YOU ARE BATSHIT CRAZY and should seek immediate medical attention. I'm not kidding. This is a 911 situation for you at this point.

PS. You know the drill...if you don't like what I post, don't look at my blog. Love it or leave it. Simple as that.

#caitrionabalfe #tonymcgill #samheughan #babymcgill #jimbalfe #funeral #livestream #truth #facts #funeralmass #loveitorleaveit #simple as that #extremeshippers #tinhatters #batshitcrazy #911 #tptb

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odd-god · 5 months

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I wish I could just Infinity Gauntlet snap my fingers and make all these people disappear:

1. Fascists

2. Nazis

3. Bigots

4. People who think capitalism and democracy are the best we can do

5. People who abuse animals/kids/others for fun (or they know they're doing it and don't care)

#did i forget anyone #infinity gauntlet #fuck #trans #queer #become ungovernable #neurodivergent #anti capitalism #anti work #socialism #democracy #conspiracy #TPTB

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hyacinthsdiamonds · 1 year

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Production houses: but if the writers stay on strike we can't guarantee the future safety of your favorite shows 🥺🥺😭😭

Viewers who 1, have already lost their favorite shows because they were cancelled in spite of good ratings and good reviews or 2, have stopped watching new content entirely until the entire series has aired and concluded as a result of so many good shows getting cancelled on cliffhangers and thus leaving said viewers unable to gain closure with those characters and with a hollow viewing experience, so they've begun a, watching older shows they know came to a planned conclusion or b, revisiting their old favorites and enjoying the nostalgia or c, reading new books or fanfic instead: YOU ALREADY CAN'T GUARANTEE THE FUTURE OF OUR SHOWS SO GET FUCKING WRECKED AND PAY WRITERS WHAT THEY DESERVE!

#wga strike #support the strikes #writer's strike #writers guild of america #writers guild strike #edit; well this blew up a little #i just wanted to add that all our favorite shows are absolutely nothing without their writers #the bare freaking minimum is that those writers get paid a liveable wage #they are so underappreciated even though tptb would have nothing without them #a living wage is the bare freaking minimum pay them what they're worth for the work they do

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natsufatsu · 2 years

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#klaus schwab #body language #bombardsbodylanguage #dutch #politics #gideon #democracy #technocracy #conspiracy #conspiracy theories #worldeconomicforum #globalelite #tptb #politicians #politricks #newworldorder #thecircus

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angelsdean · 5 months

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I need people to understand how S&P (standards and practices) works in television and how much influence they have over what gets to stay IN an episode of a show and how the big time network execs are the ones holding the purse strings and making final decisions on a show's content, not the writers / showrunners / creatives involved.

So many creators have shared S&P notes over the years of the wild and nonsensical things networks wanted them to omit / change / forbid. Most famously on tumblr, I've seen it so many times, is the notes from Gravity Falls. But here's a post compiling a bunch of particularly bad ones from various networks too. Do you see the things they're asking to be changed / cut ?

Now imagine, anything you want to get into your show and actually air has to get through S&P and the network execs. A lot of creators have had to resort to underhanded methods. A lot of creators have had to relegate things to subtext and innuendo and scenes that are "open to interpretation" instead of explicit in meaning. Things have had to be coded and symbolized. And they're relying on their audience to be good readers, good at media literacy, to notice and get it. This stuff isn't the ramblings of conspiracy theorists, it's the true practices creatives have had to use to be able to tell diverse stories for ages. The Hays Code is pretty well known, it exists because of censorship. It was a way to symbolize certain things and get past censors.

Queercoding, in particular, has been used for ages in both visual media and literature do signal to queer audiences that yes, this character is one of us, but no, we can't be explicit about it because TPTB won't allow it. It's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge to those in the know. It's the deliberate use of certain queer imagery / clothing / mannerisms / phrases / references to other queer media / subtle glances and lingering touches. Things that offer plausible deniability and can be explained away or go unnoticed by straight audiences to get past those network censors. But that queer viewers WILL (hopefully) pick up on.

Because, unfortunately, still to this day, a lot of antiquated network execs don't think queer narratives are profitable. They don't think they'll appeal to general audiences, because that's what matters, whatever appeals to most of the audience demographic so they can keep watching and keep making the network more money. The networks don't care about telling good stories! Most of them are old white cishet business men, not creatives. They don't care about character arcs and what will make fans happy. They don't care about storytelling. What they care about is profit and they're basing their ideas of what's profitable on what they believe is the predominate target demographic, usually white cis heterosexual audiences.

So, imagine a show that started airing in the early 2000s. Imagine a show where the two main characters are based on two characters from a famous Beat Generation novel, where one of the characters is queer! based on a real like bisexual man! The creator is aware of this, most definitely. And sure, it's 2005, there's no way they were thinking of making that explicit about Dean in the text because it just wouldn't fly back then to have a main character be queer. But! it's made subtext. And there are nods to that queerness placed in the text. Things that are open to interpretation. Things that are drenched in metaphor (looking at you 1x06 Skin "I know I'm a freak" "maybe this thing was born human but was different...hated. Until he learned to become someone else.") Things that are blink-and-you-miss-it and left to plausible deniability (things like seemingly spending an hour in the men's bathroom, or always reacting a little vulnerable and awkward when you're clocked instead of laughing it off and making a homophobic joke abt it)

And then, years later there's a ship! It's popular and at first the writers aren't really seriously thinking about it but they'll throw the fans a bone here and there. Then, some writers do get on the destiel train and start actively writing scenes for them that are suggestive. And only a fraction of what they write actually makes it into the text. So many lines left on the cutting room floor: i love past you. i forgive you i love you. i lost cas and it damn near broke me. spread cas's ashes alone. of course i wanted you to stay. if cas were here. -- etc. Everything cut was not cut by the writers! Why would a writer write something to then sabotage their own story and cut it? No, these are things that didn't make it past the network. Somewhere a note was made maybe "too gay" or "don't feed the shippers" or simply "no destiel."

So, "no destiel." That's pretty clearly the message we got from the CW for years. "No destiel. Destiel will alienate our general audience. Two of our main characters being queer? And in a relationship? No way." So what can the pro-destiel creatives involved do, if the network is saying no? What can the writers do if most of their explicit destiel (or queer dean) lines / moments are getting cut? Relegate things to subtext. Make jokes that straight people can wave off but queer people can read into. Make costuming and set design choices that the hardcore fans who are already looking will notice while the general audience and the out-of-touch network execs won't blink and eye at (I'm looking at you Jerry and your lamps and disappearing second nightstands and your gay flamingo bar!)

And then, when the audience asks, "is destiel real? is this proof of destiel?" what can the creatives do but deny? Yes, it hurts, to be told "No no I don't know what you're talking about. There's no destiel in supernatural" a la "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" but! if the network said "no destiel!" and you and your creative team have been working to keep putting destiel in the subtext of the narrative in a way that will get past censors, you can't just go "Yes, actually, all that subtext and symbolism you're picking up, yea it's because destiel is actually in the narrative."

But, there's a BIG difference between actively putting queer themes and subtext into the narrative and then saying it's not there (but it is! and the audience sees it!) versus NOT putting any queer content into the text but SAYING it is there to entice queer fans to continue watching. The latter, is textbook queerbaiting. The former? Is not. The former is the tactics so many creatives have had to use for years, decades, centuries, to get past censorship and signal to those in the know that yea, characters like you are here, they exist in this story.

Were the spn writers perfect? No, absolutely not. And I don't think every instance of queer content was a secret signal. Some stuff, depending on the writer, might've been a period-typical gay joke. These writers are flawed. But it's no secret that there were pro-destiel writers in the writing room throughout the years, and that efforts were made to make it explicitly canon (the market research!)

So no, the writers weren't ever perfect or a homogeneous entity. But they definitely were fighting an uphill battle constantly for 15 yrs against S&P and network execs with antiquated ideas of what's profitable / appealing.

Spn even called out the networks before, on the show, using a silly example of complaints abt the lighting of the show and how dark the early seasons were. Brightening the later seasons wasn't a creative choice, but a network choice. And if the networks can complain abt and change something as trivial as the lighting of a show, they definitely are having a hand in influencing the content of the show, especially queer content.

Even in s15, (seasons fifteen!!!) Misha has said he worried Castiel's confession would not air. In 2020!!! And Jensen recorded that scene on his personal phone! Why? Sure, for the memories. But also, I do not doubt for a second that part of it was for insurance, should the scene mysteriously disappear completely. We've seen the finale script. We've seen the omitted omitted omitted scenes. We all saw how they hacked the confession scene to bits. The weird cuts and close-ups. That's not the writers doing. That's likely not even the editors (willingly). That's orders from on high. All of the fuckery we saw in s15 reeks of network interference. Writers are not trying to sabotage their own stories, believe me.

Anyways, TLDR: Networks have a lot more power than many think and they get final say in what makes it to air. And for years creative teams have had to find ways to get past network censorship if they want "banned" or "unapproved" "unprofitable" "unwanted" content to make it into the show. That means relying on techniques like symbolism, subtext, and queercoding, and then shutting up about it. Denying its there, saying it's all "open to interpretation" all while they continue to put that open to interpretation content into the show. And that's not queerbaiting, as frustrating as it might be for queer audiences to be told that what they're seeing isn't there, it's still not queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a marketing technique to draw in queer fans by baiting them with the promise of queer content and then having no queer content in said media. But if you are picking up on queer themes / subtext / symbolism / coding that is in front of your face IN the text, that's not queerbaiting. It's there, covertly, for you, because someone higher up didn't want it to be there explicitly or at all.

#long post #LONG-ass post #but it needed to be said!#i'm sorry if you think every creative involved with spn was a braindead asshole but the thing is.#even the most mediocre of writers understands a thing or two abt symbolism and writers working in TV are plagued by S&P #countless writers have talked abt the S&P bullshit and having to tweak and edit down their work to get past censors #it's a reality of writing for television #and the people who understand all this and understand the context of making TV in the early 2000s (to present tbh!) aren't 'delusional'#i'm sorry but it's naive to think that queer stories and queer characters are free to be told even nowadays. it's still a constant battle #times have changed but unfortunately not as much as you'd think #the confession !!!!! the confession still struggled to air and what we got was so obviously hacked down to bits!!!!!!#how can anyone think getting destiel content into the show was ever easy?#how can anyone think the pro-destiel writers weren't constantly having to be careful and underhanded in their writing?#there's a reason queercoding and subtext exist and it's this!!! it's censorship from TPTB #anyways. people much older than me have been talking abt this for ages. younger fans who are used to more open queer rep need to understand #it hasn't always been that easy and even nowadays SO many networks are still not willing to take a risk on queer stories #so creators do what they can #vic.txt

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