no, but feel free to re-upload and re-distribute copies however you see fit

i’ll go ahead and confirm for you that for you: yes, it intentionally resembles the anarchy symbol as well as several other things. the formation of hierarchical cults with “canon” practices and central authority would be antithetical to the purpose and goal of empowering the downtrodden.

funny thing is the last time i bothered thinking about utilitarianism was when i was reading about the zizians using it to justify murdering just whoever they pleased. i’m not convinced it works, it’s a school of philosophy for stupid pedants who want to feel smart and justified in whatever they already think.

utilitarianism: for when you need the worst possible take delivered in the most insufferable manner using the least amount of critical faculty to answer the questions nobody asked.

yeah people love to bang the “death of the author” drum and i think it’s because they’re just lazy and hate thinking about stuff. it’s a valid way of reading but it’s also the most low-effort and least insightful imo.

it’s tainted by the knowledge that the creator is a disgusting monster who convinced me that he was just the coolest dude, so i can’t enjoy it anymore.

popular =/= good though.

in fact awful things get popular all the time.

i was unaware of any actual incidents with her until now. i read fall of atlantis as a kid and literally cried when it was over because i loved it so much. re-read it as an adult and the pedophile apologia is so blatant that i immediately stopped reading it and stopped mentioning her name at all.

i’ll call it death of the author when they’re actually dead, until then it’s self-excused support.

even as a kid i recognized HP as slop and it feels vindicating that society is finally catching up

it literally could not be easier in TYoOL 2025 for you to open a new tab and find out those details. your own willful ignorance of the facts is a poor argument.

gaiman is at least actually brilliant and well-studied. rowling is a hack and her work sucks.

but yes, fuck them both. they are monsters.

if you think the issue is that she “has an opinion” you’re not even trying. there’s a crazy amount of content available where the controversy is explained in excruciating detail by trans people and our allies. it literally could not possibly be easier for you to inform yourself on this matter without arbitrarily demanding yet another person spend time and effort to loop you into a conversation you don’t actually seem to care much about.

yeah learning about gaiman was hard, his work meant so much to me.

tbf i didnt recognize any the names but reading about each one was like “oh yeah that thing, i knew about that”.

drag is literally just a gay clown show.

i don’t have an aversion to clowns but i do have an irrational dislike of drag, i wouldn’t say “fear” but i have a definite aversion.

i think the makeup and costumes are awful, i think the shows are awful, and i think the elevated place and disproportionate spotlight in “queer culture” that it occupies is awful, and think the way i’m straight up not allowed to talk about how the local “queens” spent months nearly harassing me to suicide over my appearance when i was early in transition for the sin of being trans and working at a store in “their” neighborhood, is really really fucking awful.

yeah i might hate drag shows and drag culture a bit. i’m sure it’s totally irrational and an issue with me being informed about a historical drag culture that flat out no longer exists and is surely nothing to do with the scene and community i experienced as they exist today.

imma still come out swinging at nazis to defend them tho. not one inch, these are my bastards.

to elaborate on the reference in case you haven’t seen or don’t remember the movie, the scene has the protagonist explaining his job which entails calculating the cost of recalling a line of vehicles versus paying out wrongful death settlements at the rate that said vehicles have a deadly malfunction, and how if the latter is less they just don’t do the recall. spacenoodle is quoting the listener’s response when he finishes, and Atropos is quoting his reply.

Watch Fight Club if you haven’t, it’s an important one.

the “show” being a crude drawing of a guy shooting another guy is a nice touch. gotta get that televised ultraviolence in! USA! USA! USA!

this is what we should all be doing anyway. fuck tv.

NSFL flag may have just sold me. i’m so tired of staring down a vague title and trying to calculate the odds of tits vs gore