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Quality Contributions Report for October 2026

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@FiveHourMarathon:

Contributions for the week of September 28, 2026

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Contributions for the week of October 5, 2026

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@YE_GUILTY:

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@Shakes:

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@OliveTapenade:

Contributions for the week of October 12, 2026

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@coffee_enjoyer:

@FCfromSSC:

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Contributions for the week of October 19, 2026

@Shakes:

@Iconochasm:

@Dean:

@Primaprimaprima:

@naraburns:

@satirizedoor:

Contributions for the week of October 26, 2026

@Shrike:

@hanikrummihundursvin:

@FCfromSSC:

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I'm kind of sad that I missed all the Malfoid discussion. Glad to find it here though.

It was good fun, but to be honest my main takeaway from it is that I hate culture warriors.

Malfoid is a cute premise and led to lots of adorable creativity, and within approximately five seconds discussion around it was hijacked by 1) right-wing morons who think that it's somehow evidence that the masses yearn for their retarded combination of racism and ethno-nationalism, and 2) left-wing morons who think that the whole thing is evidence of incel misogyny and radicalisation.

It really makes me want to strangle both camps.

Can you not just... let nice things be nice?

Let people have good things. For once. You parasitic idiots.

I do find the far right versions of this to be cringe, but as usual I find them to be tamer and less harmful than the far left. Note the asymmetry in the parasitism: it's fanfiction and memes. They're not getting access to the Harry Potter License and making canon works with racist Malfoid. They're not infiltrating an ongoing series and then degrading the quality, making a cringe propaganda piece and preventing authentic version of the work from existing. When the left claims something they get into the canon and ruin it. We don't have good Star Wars 7-9 because the left ruined it. They're not making woke fanfictions, they are subverting the canon and the IP, effectively pushing out the original, neutral creators.

Meanwhile, when the right claims something they make fanfiction. All of the wholesome, politically neutral Malfoid content still exists, and then the right wing stuff exists too. It's not parasitism because they're not denying anything, they're not squatting on an IP, they're just making their own versions alongside the others. The threat is that when the right claims something, the left will threaten to cancel people making and enjoying it. If you don't like the right wing culture warriors you can just ignore them and enjoy the wholesome version of the content. If you don't like left wing culture warriors you are screwed because they are unavoidable.

We don't have good Star Wars 7-9 because the left ruined it.

I think Disney corporate could have ruined Star Wars VII-IX without politics. For that matter, George Lucas could have ruined Star Wars VII-IX, and given the way he ruined episodes I and II that would be the way to bet. The problem is the existence of the plot holes (most obviously Rey's backstory) that Disney tried to fill with woke politics, not the woke politics.

I think politics made movies worse by suppressing criticism of movies that were bad anyway, more than by causing people who could have made good movies to make bad ones.

I think Kathleen Kennedy herself is a stronger argument. A lot of the core problems with the sequel trilogy do seem to come down to her personal character flaws, which at least rhyme with woke politics in a chicken-and-egg situation.

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