Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@andi can confirm

tho it's less rage and more me sobbing in a corner surrounded by five million coconut oil based products that i have to feed my hair instead of allowing it to try and forage on its own (probably would have a diet of small children, not advisable)

i'm sorry everyone i had two real bangers of posts today on reddit and that's where all my brain went

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i got gold on one of em tho https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/angn2l/help_long_term_partner_caught_kissing_mother_with/eft8wo0/ HHHNGH YES THE VALIDATION OF STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET

https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/anmwz4/she_actually_did_it_jenny_milcarthy_threw_out_my/efup5a7/ has actual good advice in it tho i think

@Lumb idea: tank treads, but instead of that grippy line pattern on the tread it's just some toebeans to really fucking confuse our enemies

@lesbianBot oh no get better soon lesbian :(

*floats on the fediverse in an inner tube*

hey yall know how preggers folk have their belly buttons (if 'innies') pop out as they get into like the 3rd trimester right

does that mean it's kinda like one of those pop-up indicators on roast turkeys that pop out when your roast is done

@pippasaidwhat @AudreyJune HONESTLY THOUGH. LIKE WHAT IS HER SKINCARE ROUTINE.... ................and how do i replicate it with a buck fifty and some pocket lint because i'm not rich l m a o

i am so sorry about revealing my dark past here, please @ me for reparations probably in the form of GoG/steam game keys or something*

*note: i am poor as shit though so don't get your hopes up beyond like 3 bucks

reasons i might belong on computerfairi.es as an instance: at age 14 or so, pondered for weeks whether to join a furry webring

reasons i might NOT belong on computerfairi.es as an instance: it was a 'furries for christ' webring

@AudreyJune in an attempt to bring a moment of levity from my addled brain:

as a highly medicated cishet, i read this about five times thinking it was a star trek borg joke i didn't quite understand, and clicked the explanation to then be mildly surprised that it wasn't actually extended discourse on how some folks think trek jumped the shark with Seven of Nine

logically i understand why they can't

however if i end up getting surgery on my shoulder (Please.), i still want to ask like. "listen. y'all are workin' laproscroprically up there. why not just, y'know, make some room, and then i can get a laproscopic hysterectomy at the same time? or even just, y'know, assembly line that. put me under once, pass me like a motherfucking baton in a relay race. please. please?"

i debated about what team to be on in the #splatoon2 #splatfest that is upcoming

then i remembered

defending the honor of the house of waffle is in my blood

nope, uterus, nope, you are NOT going to keep me up half the night with cramps and then just WUSS OUT we are DOING THIS goddammit. i'm like a month overdue technically on the as scheduled by drs but i am going to chug these pills and my period IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

AND NOT JUST NOSEBLEEDS. and no i'm not going to hold perfume by me cunt so's pliny the elder can feel like he's correct for once

@Sir_Boops basically - it may seem like a crazy stupid birdsite opinion at first, but it's a definite thing

i'd encourage you to maybe find some black rappers and black creators and listen to them talk about why rap is important to them, and why an attack on rap is often more than an attack on just a genre of music

(i mean hey, it's black history month, why not y'know?)

you might find some artists you didn't know about and quite enjoy, like how i found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S28DAeCfLyA

@Sir_Boops but definitely don't take my white ass as gospel on this shit

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1368430209102848 seems like an interesting thing to browse if you can get to a library with full access

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7550286 is some talk about the history of the genre which might be a good foundation about how hip-hop and rap have been linked to blackness since inception

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/mediarace/rap.htm may be an interesting read, etc.

@Sir_Boops so yeah - sounds like a totally bonkers take at first blush - isn't actually.

rap & hip-hop are definitely routinely thrown under the bus as a dogwhistle, and "i hate rap" often means "i hate blackness"

that's different from "musically it's just not my cup of tea" - nobody is forced to like what they don't like - but if you see somebody who loudly talks constantly about how they HATE rap and HATE hip-hop and so on? yeah, odds are pretty good they're racist unfortunately

@Sir_Boops again, i'm white, but it's a dog whistle i hear often enough around here in the south that i know what it means and i know how to rebut it

if you have somebody who thinks all rap music is bullshit trash that shouldn't be counted as real music, but hates when you point out western society really loves other metered poetry, you probably have a racist

there ain't really much difference between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 and "vulgar rap lyrics" after all

@Sir_Boops additionally if you ever see anyone whining about how "hip hop/rap isn't really music", it really pisses em off when i note that the aeneid sounds a whole lot like rap when sung properly in meter, beowulf has the same damn effect, and so on.

if you ever need a litmus test, that, i think, is a good one. if it's not a dogwhistle? "oh i didn't think of that connection, interesting, ty" if it is? "how DARE you BESMIRCH these PARAGONS OF WESTERN CULTURE -" yada yada bullshit ensues.

@Sir_Boops just as i'm passing by on the fediverse -

honestly this is legit

"i hate rap, it's so uncivilized, it's not really music" etc etc. is a huge dogwhistle, especially when talking about "rap culture", equivalent to "urban youth who don't pull their pants up". as hip-hop and rap were and are still primarily black spheres, it's often obvious enough for even my white ass to clock on.

it's a genre that has been "gentrified" somewhat but it's still very much a thing