We often talk about "ludonarrative dissonance" in terms of morality and situations like "the story says violence is bad, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to kill things" but my actual fave version of it is "the story says you have a very serious plot-relevant time-sensitive thing to do, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to buzz off into the world and search for collectibles for five weeks"
this post started a transformation, I'm a furry now
call me a mousegirl the way I eat a lot of cheese and get chewed on by cats
I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”
So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”
Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.
Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.
But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.
I had a dream that they started putting urinals in all the women's restrooms—not with trans women in mind, but because it was the new TikTok fad for cis women to pee standing up.
as i sit here waiting for twenty minutes of software updates for my fire remote once again, i think about the brighter future steve was trying to lead us toward and i weep.
r.i.p. the from far away channel changer thing
steve may not have been breaking entirely new ground when he invented the from-far-away-channel-changer-thing but it was creative and it didn't require batteries and he was so proud of it, the kids had no right to shit on his creation like that
when i was a kid i thought the jingle cats were real and my favorite band
My magnum opus!