"Male author writes male character who is widely lusted after by the female fans" isn't impressive or noteworthy when it's a character who follows the formulaic Cool-Guy, Boyfriend-Material, Thirst-Trap archetype because like. You can study up on that for 10 minutes and understand the script. You can copy-paste a guy like that.

"Male author writes male character who is widely lusted after by the female fans" is extremely impressive when it's Arataka Reigen. That is absolutely organic and almost certainly unintentional to the highest degree. No playbook on that one. That is undeniable authenticity in the irresistible failman market and I think ONE deserves an award even if he doesn't want it.

To be clear. BONES the studio absolutely knew what they were doing. But this is after they recognized the exact rare-metal value of the weird ugly sweaty failman with no friends and the only common sense in the series. You can't not fuck him.

i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

I was a participant of the now cancelled UBI pilot in Ontario Canada. I was happier, safer, was able to move and work at better jobs.

And oops there it is. Better jobs.

Better jobs

It's a class barrier. They need a poverty class to function

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

Being able to force every last job in existence to make itself sufficiently respectful, acceptable, and worthwhile to the worker that someone will choose to do it when NOT goaded by the threat of starvation is probably both the greatest positive effect UBI would accomplish AND the real reason it faces so much opposition.

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

and there it is.

Capitalism needs an underclass. It's not that these jobs are less valuable - in fact, many of them are necessary for society to function. (thank you, sanitation workers!) It's more that capitalism needs these jobs to be seen as less-than so that they can get away with treating these people like shit - bad wages, bad treatment, etc.

If everyone got UBI, a lot of jobs would stand empty. Not because people don't want to do them, but people don't want the bad treatment that comes with them. Employers would be forced to change their methods if they wanted to hire and retain staff, and they don't want to do it.

#honestly you could probably hire retail workers at like $5 an hour under UBI#but you wouldn't be able to schedule them for a clopen on a weekend and threaten their livelihood if they're five minutes late#would that be worth it? probably to like normal people. megacorps... well.

Something I really love about Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle is the point he makes about overcorrecting from the original trope. Sanitizing queer art to the point that nothing bad happens to queer characters ever is not only unrealistic, not only shitty to tell queer people what part of their stories they are or are not allowed to tell, it's also just putting us in another box. The beauty of queer art is when we just get to create what we want to and tell our stories authentically. There's a place for fluffy feel-good queer romance and horrifically fucked up queer horror. As long as queer people and those who love us get to tell our stories in a way that is meaningful, that resonates with the people who interact with it, that is all that should matter.

They mad asf in the comments btw tho he’s right

NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT

in the contemporary world, the most fundamental human right - and, it often seems, the least protected one - is "being both Allowed and Able to go Somewhere Else." the rest is commentary.

the torments of prison are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. the most terrifying and degrading aspects of childhood are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. misogynists wail and moan and fearmonger about divorce and equal opportunity employment because they Allow Wife To Leave. borders and immigration restrictions exist, in no small part, to Prevent People From Leaving countries where they will be exploited and/or oppressed. fuck you for trying to leave. fuck you for exerting any control over your life whatsoever. that makes you the one at fault, actually.

david graeber described three fundamental freedoms: freedom to move, freedom to disobey orders, and freedom to reorganize social relations

fundamental human right

[ID: Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan @morninggloria posted on 11:50 AM · Jan 12, 2026;

I keep seeing people saying "Why Minneapolis?" I have a theory that I haven't seen people discussing.

They chose Minneapolis because it is the largest blue state city where ICE has the manpower to enact the appearance of a terror campaign/ invasion. Minneapolis gives them the ideal setting for creating the #content that they're trying to create in order to seed terror elsewhere

The couldn't pull this off in Los Angeles. They got some photo ops last summer, but the city is frankly too big, and would expose their manpower's smallness. They couldn't pull this off in New York because agents would be pulled limb from limb like the witch in Weapons.

San Francisco would require ICE agents to be able to run up hills, which we know is difficult for a lot of them. San Diego is too full of white normies.

Above all, getting the right picture/footage drives the Trump ethos. With the Twin Cities, ICE is trying to tell the US that they could do this anywhere.

They can't. At least not yet.

If they could, they would.]

R.I.P. Malik Ali, the falafel vendor 💔

Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda

absolute menace but still such a good boy :')))

CAUSE I'M A PUNKROCKER YES I AM!

clark shouting "people were going to DIE" in the face of the "think of the consequences of your actions" argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can't look at a genocide and just twiddle your thumbs bc you're a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you

Lex and Clark in #Superman be like

Superman losing his composure only when people shrug off the lives of others. Doesn’t matter how well he knows them. Doesn’t matter if they’re even human.

He gets upset at the Justice Gang for brutally killing a rampaging Kaiju and not even attempting to find a way to move it or at least euthanize it more humanely.

The only time he raises his voice during Lois’ interview is when she digs into his interference in geopolitics, because people would have died if he hadn’t acted. The only time he yells at Luthor is when Luthor abducts Krypto. The only time he cries is when Luthor murders someone he barely even knew.

He saves a fucking squirrel for god’s sake. We’re so back.

they cast a puppygirl named weed as krypto