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Moonside OP wrote

Reply to Sacrificial Trash (Or Why We Hated High Guardian Spice) | Sarah Z by Moonside

Remember the great upset of 201X when Crunchy Roll announced their own magical school girl anime? I was there, on the front lines, seeing Fans With Concerns get infinitely mad about a kinda underwhelming trailer for a children's cartoon. (I have the gnawing suspicion that the trailer was actually directed towards actual parents and kids inorder to market CR as a wholesome place for families and not just otaku perverts. It was a silly trailer none-the-less.)

The reasons for upset may have been different than what was openly claimed and once the outrage machine went brrr, it was infinite bad takes on CalArts style that clearly hadn't ever read the original John Kricfalusi essay, smh. That essay was mad petty tho and should be rightly ignored as an old man (old before his time indeed) yelling at clouds.

But one bad cartoon aside, while caring about bad faith art and media criticism has its value on its own terms, this kind of upset is especially worrisome for the possibilities and livelihoods of artists from marginalized groups. The scrutiny and standards applied to them is unfairly high and Sarah Z along with co-writer Emily take on these topics and more on this autopsy of the High Guardian Spice controversy.

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musou wrote

Reply to Gwoss Dispways of Power - Gretchen Felker-Martin on the moral sadomasochism hiding behind displays of purity in social media queer art circles by Moonside

when i was fresh out of 20 years of republican evangelical brainwashing, Shakesville was one of the places that helped me make sense of what had happened to me and how much i didn't know about the world and the experiences of other people. it took me several more years after that to realize that a lot of the people on that website would have me replace one inflexible moral absolutism with another. and as in the church, those with the most influence were the ones most likely to be corrupted by it.

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Moonside OP wrote (edited )

Reply to Gwoss Dispways of Power - Gretchen Felker-Martin on the moral sadomasochism hiding behind displays of purity in social media queer art circles by Moonside

This piece is partially inspired by the recent fallout of Ana Mardoll, but by no means limited to it or commenting on him/xer as a person. (I forgot the proper pronouns, but I want to engage less with them as a person rather than more so mea culpa and w/e.)

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Moonside OP wrote

Reply to comment by nomorepie in The Horrifying Panopticon of West Elm Caleb by Sarah Z by Moonside

She uses the time effectively, imho. Though it could have been an actual essay, I think the format suits the content quite well. (It's commenting social media on a social media platform, which I think is relatively justifiable not only through audience overlap - people willing to watch an hour long video on social media beef are going to be invested in social media - and given that Sarah Z does not have a platform in legacy media and couldn't reach audiences in similar way through other media.)

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Dogmantra wrote

Reply to Cars Make Your Life More Expensive, Even If You Don't Have One by Moonside

I hate cars. March/April 2020 was super scary and difficult, but going out to empty streets was so refreshing.

To transfer fuel burning cars over to electric is gonna take a ton of infrastructure change that I think justifies a much bigger overhaul of the transportation system. Bring back the trams!

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devtesla wrote (edited )

Reply to Poland's rise to cultural power - UnHerd by Moonside

this article kind of glosses over that there is a frighting conservative government in power in Poland right now, which seems a little weird. I suppose there are governments like that all across the world right now though

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Dogmantra wrote

Reply to Etymology of Trigonometric functions. This cleared a couple of things tbh. by Moonside

I saw a gif of this on twitter with less explanation a while ago and I felt suddenly enlightened. This is cool. It's so neat how geometry feels like a specific thing contained in its own bubble of "maths about shapes and that's it" but actually it's just another way of writing equations and relationships that can be really useful in things that aren't to do with actual physical shapes in the real world.

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musou wrote

Reply to An interesting new blog: A Plea for Political Empathy by Moonside

i think one major flaw in the narrative constructed in that essay is that it assumes the democrat and republican party platforms haven't changed over time. both parties have moved quite a ways to the right over the decades in question, and the makeup of their constituent bases changed as well.

i definitely think irrationality and demonization of the other plays a massive and important role in the current state of american and global politics, but i also think identifying it as the problem rather than a symptom with many contributing factors is a dangerous oversimplification.

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hollyhoppet wrote

Reply to That life advice thread by aethermyte

I'm afraid I don't think I have any great advice but I wanted to say hi it's nice to see you again <3.

This stuff can sometimes depend highly on your state or province or even at the city level though. Maybe your state or province or city has a disability resources page on their website?

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