"you're shit at this game"
(camera pans to me with my i500 relic weapon, HoH floor 100 title, and examine text that says when i cleared E8S)
"you're right, i don't know what i was thinking doing sunken temple of qarn"
@catgirl oh wow just noticed the fatphobia on the kickstarter too lmao why do tech bros have to be like this
Long thoughts on boycotting fictional franchises as activism
I think the idea that authors have the right to invalidate their fan's experience of their work is harmful to the process of identity formation and normalizes exclusive claims of intellectual property which are at odds to both how ideas are formed as a culture and instrumental to class oppression in the form of propagandizing popular media for the ends of an imposed elite culture (hegemony). The radical impulse to me is culture jamming, or radical re-appropriation and assertion of counter-narrative interpretation. However, the institutions of intellectual property are disproportionately backed by violence in the form of censorship, both literal and culturally imposed restraint of speech (e.g. fear of a YouTube strike).
This leads the only risk free avenue of dissent the boycott. However, this does the harm of normalization. The performative counter-narrative act is a co-opted endorsement of the moral legitimacy that leads to the very cultural influence that necessitates the boycott. It normalizes the idea that we hold no say in the stories we use to inform our process of self-identity. It cordons off chunks of our soul-stuff for billionaire media conglomerates to revoke on a problematic whim.
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@noelle I know I just saw a larger pic of your avatar on my Mastodon thingie, but it auto-refreshed before I could check closer and now I can't find it! T-T
How is @mavica so cute and good? Good bot.
pol, mh (-), suicide, subtoot (but not of someone on mastodon)
Hey, listen, fellow leftists, can you *not* assume that every case of depression is due to capitalism and that suicide is a better option than antidepressants? That'd be real great, thanks.
Much love,
Someone who came real fucking close to killing herself multiple times and whose life has been made immeasurably better by antidepressants
Mouse furre/kemonomimi, mouse(girl)-kin, writer when she can get past her anxiety and executive dysfunction, transhumanist, autistic trans girl, would-be cutie squeak.