Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
2d ago
Yeah, that little dig sticks out as being the most narrative-over-reality. I distinctly remember Trans being pushed as the new demanded-empathy super-stimulus that every BPD person I knew was torn up about way back in 2012. Back then it wasn't even about encouraging people to be trans, it was "LOOK at these POOR people TRAPPED in the WRONG body" with much beating of chests and tearing at shawls in sympathy.
It's amazing how you can bootstrap a social movement by this method; suddenly every alt girl reacted to the R-word or mis-pronoun-ing the way a 20something beardy arab guy reacts to disrespect towards the Prophet, or an Italian guy reacts to something said about his mother by someone who has never met his mother.
It's not bad as sci-fi, but I find the prose itself a bit uninspired, and the film is a much better film than the book is a book.
Blindsight is also a first contact story that's superficially similar in premise, but much beaker and more pessimistic, and the prose is a lot purple-er.
Tchaikovsky is someone I have a hard time liking for some reason, but I have to respect his hustle. Service Model felt like a drawn-out joke, but a good joke. Alien Clay was interesting until it got all ineffable and commie, and I found the villainous regime to be a bit cartoonish. Made Things was cute.
She's a maskie. If you don't think that's bizarre and off-putting, you spend too much time among urban leftist queers.
Skulldrinker
11d ago
Not to pooh-pooh, but I found the series took a dive around/shortly after Ghost Story, or it's possible I just aged out of the books. They're romantasy for lonely dudes (but still way better than the romantasy for women, as far as I can tell secondhand)
Skulldrinker
12d ago
If anything, I was impressed with the restraint of the film itself. It could have dropped a lot more extraneous details or references to modern gender dating war cliches from one side or the other. My impression was one of the writer expressing his commentary, regrets and self-loathing regarding his younger-self stand-in MC. Other negative depictions of men just pile on buzzword stereotypes ("and then the tech-bro situation-shipped her due to his toxic insecurity and red-pill-negged her, something-something-agency, something-something narcissism, podcast")
Skulldrinker
12d ago
You're doing that thing that leftists do right now.
Skulldrinker
13d ago
It viscerally captured a bunch of feelings and experiences that I haven't seen portrayed before. Took me straight back to my 20s in a not great way. The worry that the person who says they love you is just mentally ill and loving you is a symptom of their mental illness.
Also loved seeing The Simpsons references.
Skulldrinker
13d ago
This might be an example of the classic Little England attitude; they're all from foreign parts.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
Dang, you beat me to the Noticing
Skulldrinker
17d ago
Waaaaait a minute...isn't this just courtesans all over again?
Skulldrinker
18d ago
Yeah. But, well, Influencers.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
Tankie left will selectively use the language of the Mental Health Left when it suits them, to cover or to pander.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
Yeah, you just don't mention it again and everyone assumes it was a miscarriage and you don't want to discuss it. But yes, Influencers are obnoxious, I know.
Skulldrinker
19d ago
Maybe aborting your downs-y fetus is something you should do in private. This is intentionally trying to court controversy.
Skulldrinker
22d ago
Instead of "white people being disfavored," maybe "shitty people who happen to be People of Color will take advantage of the special protections afforded to them to victimize others or avoid consequences. They know that if they say 'Racism' people like those cops or you will immediately jump to their defense. So maybe be slightly less credulous when someone cries wolf/racism." might be more convincing?
Skulldrinker
22d ago
Is the video taken by the victim available anywhere? All I see is bodycam footage. Or the videos taken by the perp where he says the stabbed guy isn't stabbed?
I was at Chicago's Navy Pier the other day and the theater there was showing ads for a play of Brokeback Mountain.
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