Gaya thinks a lot

[Gaya thinks a lot]

What if we start hassling the children/grandchildren of past asshole politicians? Like, what if we made a show out of going around asking people “how do you feel knowing that your grandfather voted for slavery?” or “do you believe your dad was right when he voted for segregation?”, etc etc.

Like, what if we make super clear that the current crop of politicians will be held to some actual standards, and how fucking ashamed their kids will be of these things once progress actually eventually marches on?

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[thenib]

Gemma Correll.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[guerrillatech]

[stophelping]

Ask and ye shall receive

[roach-works]

@nkjemisin​ ‘s Emergency Skin is also a delicious and satisfying read

[gayahithwen]

A slightly different version of this I’d also like to see: The richest people try to flee the dying Earth, but their spaceship breaks down after a few years, because their businesses have disincentivized people from working on sustainable tech for so long that people don’t know how to build anything without planned obsolescence.

They could fix their onboard computers, if only they had thought to put a USB port in any one of them - but pfft, that’s legacy tech, who needs it?

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[wilwheaton]

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[gayahithwen]

Sad but ironic if Democrats manage to win the mid-terms only because the Republicans are killing their own base.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[stantler]

Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

[stantler]

This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah

[loki-zen]

I mean agree but I also think this is a reason to separate (it’s not clear who is conflating the two in this post, the accuser or the accused) ‘you said something that is (or is related to, or promotes homophobia’ - being even more specific is good) and ‘you are a homophone’

[gayahithwen]

I’m accusing you, a whole ass lesbian, of having internalized homophobia from the way you were brought up by homophobes, and I think you really need to sit down and think about your own words/actions for a moment rather than just hiding behind your identity as if it’s a shield.

You know white people who respond to any criticism of “that was kind of racist” with “I’m not racist! I have black friends!”? That’s how you sound when you refuse to consider other people’s point of view out of hand.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[virginalbehemoth]

first they phased out the 22 episode season then they phased out the 13 episode season and now they’re phasing out the 10 episode season like can you guys go watch fucking movies or something and stop trying to “tighten” television

[princeoftherunaways]

#like. you are not coming to tv to watch tv if you want something short and easy to digest. part of tv’s structure is that it’s long and comp#licated because longer seasons allow for more detailed looks into characters#like tv isnt just movies chopped up or stretched out it’s an inherently different medium that allows audiences a level of detail movies cant#provide

[frontier001]

And if I hear ONE MORE PERSON argue “you get more QUALITY with shorter seasons!” I’ll literally strangle them. Because it’s BS! What you get is a condensed SERIALIZED story. And like orange juice from concentrate, you’re losing so much more than you’re supposedly gaining. Like characterization? Long form storytelling? A break from the incessant pursuit of plot and story points? Imagine condensing any great novel to 1/4 of the chapters. Pick any great novel and eliminate 3/4th of the chapters. What are you left with?

[flo-nelja]

We need both. Having a unique format is bad, any format.

[gayahithwen]

I hope the reason for the change is that they’re working on improving working conditions within the field, because I’ve heard a lot about how American TV shows abuse their staff with ridiculous hours/forced overtime/etc… but I kind of doubt that’s the reason for the shorter seasons.

And, you know… giving workers better conditions doesn’t mean we have to go short-form only, we could have long-form TV too if they’d just hire more people.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[everetterice]

Very true!!! ER.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just 'parent'

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people

[gayahithwen]

What about “pen” as a short form of “parent”? Should be easy enough for a toddler to learn, and easy to use Like, yes, it’s also a thing (writing implement), but I feel like contextually, it’s unlikely to be confused. But, only likely to work as long as said parents are actually on board with it, and not sarcastically bringing pens to their kids when they try to use it.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[captainanarchist]

This is just The Magnus Institute.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Nope.

They have a gas-based firefighting system instead of sprinklers for obvious reasons. It does lower the percentage of oxygen in the building, but not enough to kill anyone.

I found this by googling “Yale library fire oxygen.” It was literally the first result.

Fact-checking is your friend.

[crazyintheeast]

It’s true. It’s not the fire suppression system that kills you. The Librarians come and personally murder you for starting a fire in a library. But you didn’t start a fire you say? No matter. You are collateral damage. Everybody gets killed to show that arsonists have no chance of escaping justice

[brunhiddensmusings]

an orangutan traveling at non-euclidean speeds erupts from the aether to clothesline you into another dimension

[thefrysh]

god im trying so hard to decipher that last addition and im coming up empty

[lavvyan]

Ook.

[gayahithwen]

Alright, because I’m apparently in the mood to explain jokes today, but:

The orangutan is a reference to The Librarian from the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. The Librarian is an orangutan due to a magical mishap in an early book, and he will violently resist any attempts to be turned back into a human. He will also inflict grievous bodily harm on anyone who calls him a monkey. He’s an APE. Nomenclature is important.

Also, in the Discworld novels, libraries are places where reality fractures from too much knowledge concentrated in one place (kind of like a metaphysical black hole), which allows experienced librarians to travel instantaneously to any other library at any other point in time and space.

So yeah, it’s a reference to Discworld, and if any of that sounds interesting to you, feel free to ask me for recommendations on where to get started, because this is the kind of series where “from the beginning” is not necessarily the best place to start for most people.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[diocletianscabbagefarm]

if a French historical figure’s date of death is 1794 you got a 90% chance of guessing the cause of death right

[peteseeger]

Botulism

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

hot air balloon accident

[moonlandingwasfaked]

that werewolf problem they had in a small village 

[naamahdarling]

bees

[badoccultadvice]

bought a cursed diamond

[gayahithwen]

I feel like y'all are probably being silly, but. Just in case someone who’s not in the know on the specific dates comes across this: The French Revolution (the one where they chopped everyone’s head off) was 1789-1799. More specifically, the worst of the Reign of Terror was 1793-94. So most likely cause of death in France 1794 (at least for anyone important enough to have a Wikipedia article) = Mme La Guillotine.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[liberalsarecool]

Our inhumanity needs to go.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[gayahithwen]

What if we started actively disincentivizing landlords letting real estate stay empty rather than renting at reasonable prices? Like, give them a maximum of three months to get a new tenant in, and then they start accumulating fines for the unused space.

And some similar system to disincentivize the ridiculous airbnb market as well. Make it unprofitable to have homes sitting empty in a city where people with jobs find themselves living in tents. Hell, make it unprofitable to have homes sitting empty anywhere that has a homelessness problem.

[gayahithwen]

The fine? The full rent amount they’re asking for. You think $1700/month for a studio apartment is reasonable? Well, until you get someone into that apartment, you’re going to be fined that same sum every month.

For Airbnb, a lower cost, but still based on how many nights/month the space is unused, and the fine will be based on the asking price per night.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[luneloving]

how you program your mind when you’re at a low point is so impactful. resorting back to toxic patterns when you’re low is only strengthening those neural pathways and programming your mind to make those unhealthy choices or think those unhealthy thoughts every time you’re not feeling well. alternatively, trying your hardest to cope in a healthier way every time you’re feeling bad will strengthen those positive neural pathways, and as time goes on, it will become easier to make healthy choices and say no to toxic patterns. this of course isn’t to say that you should feel guilty if you relapse, it is not by any means easy to reprogram your brain and sometimes we relapse and that’s okay, so long as we’re trying our best to treat ourselves better.

[rideintothegrey]

The first “positive neural pathway” I developed was learning the importance of ‘be patient with yourself’. Within that concept I include being kind to yourself as part of that patience, as well to have something, some task/goal/aim, to be patient about. It is pretty much the foundation of how I am much less of a mess than I could be.

[gayahithwen]

The first one I’m conscious of learning is this one: don’t argue with people who want to pay you a compliment. Even if it doesn’t feel true to you, say “thank you” and move on, rather than trying to prove to them (and yourself) why their words aren’t ACTUALLY true.

Second thing: make self-aggrandizing jokes instead of self-deprecating. It’s a tiny change, but saying “I am beauty, I am grace” when you stumble, rather than “ugh, I’m such a klutz” really does make a difference over time. 🙂

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[t-high-la420]

the switch from ‘a girl worth fighting for’ to coming upon the decimated village in mulan is THE MOST kick-in-the-teeth mood change IN ALL OF CINEMA

[furikomaru]

That scene shift did more for our generation’s understanding of the horror of war in ten seconds than Game of Thrones did in eight seasons, and it did it without showing us a single dead body. 

[genresavvygentleman]

OKAY BUT HOLD ON THOUGH.

I’ve spent the past… five? Let’s say five - the past five years analyzing the structure of Disney Musicals as part of the process to write my own/a parody of them, and the thing is that all the modern ones have roughly the same number of songs - except Mulan.

Mulan has about half, because after AGWFF ends with that unresolved final phrase, there are no more songs until the end credits, which isn’t even sung in-universe.

Mulan wasn’t even the REALM of fucking around - when they arrive at that village, when the true horrors of war are brought into the story, not only does it interrupt THAT song, it breaks the entire fucking mold - the movie’s damn genre changes; it is no longer a musical.

And the Huns represent this from the start - Jafar and Hades are notable for not having proper villain songs, but Jafar does get his Prince Ali refrain and Hades and his plan get sung ABOUT by the muses. No scene with the Huns has any singing, they are mentioned once in song (the second line of Man, natch), and they of all Disney Villains are probably the most serious - no jokes, no witty asides, no sassy delivery of dry humor. The Huns are an invading army who plan to straight up kill a fuckton of people, including children, and AGWFF’s sudden end is the moment when our happy go lucky MUSICAL protagonists finally come in contact with them and their work directly - and it breaks them. Because shit like the Huns cannot exist in happy go lucky musical world. They just exist in our world. The real world. And you can’t sing your problems away here.

The end of A Girl Worth Fighting For is a brilliant use of metanarrative sensibilities to convey a message. It is utterly perfect.

[truelight8]

Daaaamn, Tony. That’s fucking deep, my guy

[genresavvygentleman]

I didn’t spend two years and thousands of dollars on a Master’s Degree in literature to NOT over analyze every text I engage with.

[unwriter-sc]

It showed the horrors of war more effectively than a lot of media that loves to throw sexual assault and mass murder around like it’s a pigskin.

[tallsunflowerboi]

also i think i saw this on a different reblog chain, but someone pointed out that at the end of the song ‘A girl worth fighting for’ not only do they pan to the destruction of the village but they focus on a doll lying in the wreckage. And all through the song the soldiers are describing the ‘perfect’ girl to fight for, to explain why they’re fighting at all before stopping on the doll. 

The doll basically wipes all the previous lighthearted descriptions and fantasies of the soldiers away. Cause now they realise that this, this doll that probably belonged to a little girl, who likely died scared and in pain, is why they fight. The innocent children, the elderly, the mothers, all the people who were relying on them to protect them cause the Huns did not care who they killed. 

[gayahithwen]

You could argue that while the song might end musically, thematically it continues to the end of the movie.

Because yeah, the song is literally about what kind of girl they consider to be worth fighting for. And at first they’re young and kind of naive, and they imagine only romantic love or close family is worth fighting for.

And then the music ends and they have the first realization upon seeing the doll. Because they realize that they don’t care that they didn’t know that child. They don’t care that they didn’t see her die. The fact that she died at all is wrong, and they’re changed by that.

And then, the rest of the movie is them learning of another girl they could fight for, choosing NOT to fight for her at first, because she broke the rules, but in the end coming to the conclusion that not only is she worth fighting for, so is their own femininity.

Like, yeah, the cross-dressing is played for laughs, because it’s the 90s. But the fact that these men are willing to dress up as women in order to actually have a chance to deal with the situation, rather than honorably charging straight into battle (and most likely die)?

Also, I feel like with this extended view of AGWFF, it goes from “a girl worth DYING for” to “a girl worth LIVING for”.

[Gaya thinks a lot]

[tilthat]

TIL the average American will meet around 10 unapprehended murderers in their lifetime.

via reddit.com

[armsnotsigns]

Ive met way more than 10 cops