high as fuck watching the neverending story and I think we need to give it more appreciation for being the only film I am aware of that takes the concept of The Narrative to its furthest conclusions and directly implies that you, the “real person” watching this movie, are also fictional and being watched from outside another story
remember when we were like ok surely the only sound narrative choice is resolving this love confession that they CHOSE to set up and then see to fruition. theyre gonna have to address that for there to be any real conclusion right?? And instead they gave dean a dog and he killed himself.
internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing
date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.
happy 10 year anniversary!
This post.
This fucking post.
It is in some ways, the only piece of evidence I have that there was a time Before.
Please remember this, chess is just a game. Real people aren’t pieces. And you can’t assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is — that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess, deserves to lose.
The preponderance of evidence is that most trending calling posts on Tumblr alleging sexual misconduct by trans women are fabricated by the same relatively small group of bad-faith actors, and that these bullshit callout posts outnumber the legit ones by a considerable margin.
If you think you can tell the legit callout posts and the bullshit ones apart just by looking at them, you’re almost certainly wrong.
Like most mechanisms of social control which are based on ostracism, callout posts tend to be most effective against people who are already in a position of vulnerability, and concomitantly, tend to have no significant long-term effect when deployed against people in positions of power or authority.
What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you’ve never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person’s life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.
Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of “better safe than sorry”, but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true “better safe than sorry” course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!
“But I thought we were supposed to always believe allegations of sexual misconduct” well, the thing is, “false allegations of sexual misconduct are rare” and “false allegations of sexual misconduct disproportionately target specific visible minorities” are both true statements. There’s no algorithm for being a good person – you really do have to think this shit through every single time it comes up.
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