kulturkampf
Every time I get really cynical about queer otherkin socialist folk, at worst I sulk around about it for a couple of days. Inevitably, I end up reading something written by the sort of people who criticize queer otherkin socialist folk, and I end up bolting back to your collective side and cowering underneath your collective skirt. Because you people can be adorable loons sometimes (as can I), but the far-right is A FUCKING NIGHTMARE. Their disdain *alone* is a reason to like you.
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Seriously, this is like the third time this week I've read a biting criticism of leftists, thought "huh, this person does actually address some valid points," then followed them back to their timeline and gone "OK HOLY FUCK YOU ARE A GENOCIDE APOLOGIST DROP DEAD."
What the fuck is it about this time and place, that we're down to just two prime memetic strains, and they're both kinda sucky and fanatical and literal-minded? :(
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Wanna say I miss Discordians & Zen Beatniks, but they all turned out to be misogynistic assholes with Dumb White Problems too. Really hoped my contribution to the world would to be inspire people with some way out of the trap, but... yeah, I'm all out of ideas. Parallax is a vague, blind attempt to claw at it one last time, I guess. But shit, if they managed to turn Steven Universe into a forum for orthodoxy battles, what'll they do to us?!
Fuck Terra. Fuck humans. Fuck brains.
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NTM, I think I basically last any moral authority I had over the last year. I feel like me lecturing anyone on common sense and gentleness would be like William S Burroughs lecturing anyone on anything after he shot Joan. If I blew it, everyone else might as well too, because if I was actually *trying* to be good and failed, what the fuck's left? >_<
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@zebratron2084 2) people, including leftists and the other Officially Chill Folks, really really like going nuts with duality because it's dramatic and saves on spoons.
3) By definition as a creator, you aren't entirely in control; viewers create a chunk of the content through reception. Having the fans be gross about stuff like Star Wars, Norman Rockwell's Americana, or Steven Universe is the flip side to fans bringing redemption to work by Wagner, Dave Sim or Frank Miller.
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@zebratron2084 4) so you may as well put stuff out there and hope any compassion/patience/creativity/etc you want will manifest. It's way better than the alternatives (don't make stuff, or make stuff pushing really jerky viewpoints).
5) Personal failings kinda take the back seat here too; if someone needs encouragement to keep going, to be kinder, to forgive themselves, the encouragement matters a lot more than that the encourager might be hugely flawed.
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@Leucrotta @zebratron2084 and, to that last point: your response to the last year is not "I have no regrets and nothing I did was wrong" or "Mistakes Were Made by everybody and probably not me" or even "yeah I did a bad but look at the context and besides, was it really all that bad? and I'm such a good person otherwise!" the fact that you care, you realize that you need improvement, and you're *thinking about it* puts you *way* ahead of the curve of Common Humanity.
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@Leucrotta @zebratron2084 none of us are perfect. not one of us. not you, not me, not them. and I want to say "we're all doing our best" but I know for a fact that a fuck-ton of humans are just coasting, and that's a lot of why our world is the way it is right now. *anything* that jostles *anyone* into being even a little bit better, trying a little harder, is precious and real.
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@zebratron2084 so if I can blow sunshine...
1) sheer human commonality means no group is immune to things like joy, wildly irrational thinking, anxiety, or being a dogmatic jerk.
No source material is so good it's immune to becoming effed up in actual practice, for instance every religion out there. Very little source material and groups are so abysmal as to be without redemption.