In Amazon's LotR the main antagonist uses the evil "Palantir" technology to spy on people and sell them “Rings” which are designed to ultimately give him more power
pretty funny 2 of amazon’s breakout series concern the evils of wealthy monopolies that exploit workers and sway governments to increase their profits to everyone’s doom
i am really, REALLY not okay with the idea that someone writing about sexual assault means they must be an abuser. for one thing, the vast majority of art about sexual abuse is created BY THE VICTIMS. the idea that depicting abuse makes you an abuser really fucking pisses me off actually.
something that i saw in regard to the latest abusive celebrity man that has been bothering me a lot is someone asserting that because the man in question had written sexual abuse into his work, that should’ve been a red flag to let us know that he was a sexual abuser. no. that is not how that works.
submissives, take some fucking notes. if you're not WORTH dominating, you're just a bug and no one thinks twice about you.
make yourself into someone worth that kind of devotion, and you'll find someone who sees your holiness (and holeyness)
I mean, I hate to sound trite and talk about kayfabe but...there's a coherent reason these people are always projecting about left wingers' "faux outrage"
When the priorities of an electorate aren't borne out by the priorities of a "strong government" they elect, it's not because their wildly skewed electoral systems are failing, but rather because they're working exactly as designed. Why give voters actual democracy when the mere feel of one will do?
seeing a handful of folks respond to the neil gaiman allegations with some version of “i knew it bc he married amanda palmer” and while i’m all for dunking on amanda palmer (who SUCKS) i just wanna mention abusers can surround themselves with kind and lovely people and still do abuse too ✌️
These people have studied economics, they aren't mistaken, just lying. All this "an economy is like a household" dogshit is how we let austerity create this mess and they are signalling their full intent not to fix any of it.
The interesting thing about that one for me is that the historic Labour defeat of 2019 happened on a vote share that was 8th best out of the last 12 elections, and the historic Labour victory of 2024 was achieved on a vote share 7th best of 12
FPTP is a crazy system...
The funny thing about Starmer's supposedly historic mandate to sit on his hands and entrench our managed decline is that going by ballot count Jeremy Corbyn won more votes in 2019
Oh mate it was so funny, the doc was trying so hard to break bad news to me gently and manage my expectations before telling me "we can probably only manage 20-30 sessions focusing on laying to rest the 6 worst things to ever happen to you and defying all of your low, low expectations of our system"
Intake part 2: they've just referred me for both an autism assessment and, at long fucking last, EMDR! It's taken me YEARS to fight for this outcome, I'm literally shaking with surprise and relief. This is EXACTLY what I wanted. I made it here alive? I WASN'T wrong to spit in death's eye after all??
