Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@Anarkat isn't that true with all genres of music, though? after all, the same thing afflicts rap, country, r&b, etc... even 'hipster music', where the status quo is obscurity, lol

@Anarkat (however, honestly, i am cynical of such "popular is bad" statements not only with how that critique gets leveled along gender lines, but also because i've mainly seen it come from ...people who want to me to buy "counter-culture". it often gets used as this sort of tribalism, Preps and Jocks versus the Goths and Nerds, that i got way enough of in middle school and am happy to not revisit.)

i *could* delete and redraft that toot after noticing that minor error

oooooor i could just say that uhhhhhh

the minor imperfections show you that the organic toots are all natural and hand-crafted. it's, uhhh, wabi-sabi, innit

@Anarkat ngl (there is a vein of anti-beatles sentiment which is also very much still present against modern pop music - essentially, "if this is popular with teenage girls, it must be worthless and of no merit". and you'll notice that people who talk about the beatles being significant will often still hold this belief in there - they did their groundbreaking things after or in spite of rising to prominence with teenage girls most gripped by "beatlemania". obviously, i think it's bullshit.)

@Anarkat ehhh i'm not going to throw all pop music under the bus THAT hard tbh, or popular things in general. most people tend to consider the beatles as groundbreaking beyond simply being pop music, but i'm just not seeing it, was my point - and ditto skyrim, which is presented as groundbreaking but isn't quite so much.

@Motodrachen actually it's because unicorns all reverse-furried themselves into extinction (proof: a unicorn can only be tamed by a hot virgin girl. unicorns are the og reply guys)

by the time the zoologists were out there outfitting some of them with human masks it was sadly too late 😔 like if u cri every tiem

how you can tell i'm a bio major not a cs major: saw someone rightly pleased with themselves for deflecting a 3k client amplification DNS attack; took third reading before i realized it was DNS, not DNA, and they were not talking about preparing a sample for a client to use for gel electrophoresis

because i was stuck there going "ooer idk what numbers you're shooting for but 3k sounds like a good start to me" for a good bit

@cozykaffe@snouts.online part of the evolutionary defense to deter predators (turning on all lights is like a squid shooting ink)

for this reason it is recommended to approach rally cars slowly while making soothing noises, possibly while also offering some moomin-related merchandise in case a finn is in the driver's seat and is nervous about the idea of social contact with another human person occurring outside of a sauna

also if you consider the initial boy band concept of the beatles, i think the monkees did it better lmfao

LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE IS A BOP AND YOU CAN PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

this is probably the hottest take i have ever put on this website.

the beatles mainly just gentrified ideas to be palatable to audiences. skyrim did much the same.

if you look at any musical concept the beatles did, you can p much find another artist doing it better. they got lucky to be in public imagination and placed themselves there via marketing. ditto skyrim (and its rereleases ad nauseum).

honestly, skyrim and the beatles hold the same place for me

historically significant... ...not because they were actually doing anything unique, all the elements were being done by someone else better at the time, but worked mostly as an aggregate for concepts and was there at the right time with a good marketing department, so that everyone ascribes this to them and not their inspirations lmfao

"oh i'll just take a quick look around breath of the wild" i said yesterday. then it was 2:30 am. whoops

botw is, i think, the game that skyrim wanted to be. i'm not gonna knock it too hard because skyrim was, i think, historically important in many ways. i've just never really had the experience of being... really lost in it, if that makes sense. at some point it always seemed like bland drudgework to me.

botw, tho? botw done got me, lol

ON TO MORE IMPORTANT THINGS

(whenever i do a 'movin' right along' type toot, please imagine me doing a bayonetta-style move like this to announce thus)

(no i haven't played bayonetta)
(this is not going to stop me however) (listen i'm bad at video games ok. i'll get a let's play watched someday)

aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAnyway

someday i'll learn to just block/mute instead of giving people the benefit of the doubt lmfao

@druid boy that unique path you walk sure is the big grand eight-lane paved highway of misogyny, eh? "a lady bringing objections other ladies have brought before?! BOOO-RIIINNNGG. i am clearly superior because i am Enlightened. i will now demonstrate this by regurgitating some slogans straight out of the Hot Topic breakroom circa 2002, because i alone am Unique."

maybe if i was a naked anime girl i'd be interesting enough to listen to :^) ah well.

have a good tantrum, my dude.

@druid ah ok. yeah, it becomes much clearer now.

thanks for keying me in with the idea that a hymen is something you've "taken" and are pleased about doing so. it's just run of the mill misogyny. i gotcha now. thanks for cluing me in there.

if your path - your unique path, you love so much - includes throwing away voices of women (sex workers, here), objectifying women, and dismissing objections to this as "petty trifles" - well, it ain't so unique, it's just same-ol' same-ol'.

@druid so what if sex workers are doing so because they care about the role? are they not being true to themselves as well? what makes their actions soul-damaging and harmful beyond the normal tolls of work, but the other stuff okay?

because honestly your logic seems to be "it's okay when i get to benefit, but not okay when i don't", which is lockstep in formation following just about everyone who has railed against sex workers but still puts up pictures of sexy ladies for them to enjoy lol.

@druid by that same logic, then, don't you throw a lot of other stuff under the bus?

isn't the same damage-to-the-soul being done by actors who play pretend at being in love for the entertainment of others? after all, being in love is beautiful and fundamentally sacred-to-self, too. or isn't the same damage-to-the-soul being done by songwriters imagining a bad breakup to write a song about? are they also betraying themselves by selling that fundamental sacred-to-self beauty?

@druid draw racy pictures even. this is what i get for being muddleheaded while posting lmfao

ofc this all depends on the definition of "things inside that cannot be replaced", mind you, because if you're taking that extremely literally, now would be a real good time to have a sit down and learn some anatomy - real anatomy, not hentai anatomy - about what the hymen is, what it signifies, and how it *naturally* sees itself out most of the time.

@druid if you consider sexual aspects to work to be especially bad - you also have to take a moment and consider where you draw the line. if sharing that intimacy for profit is harmful, what about actors? are they harming themselves that way? what about people who draw racy photographs? can you share those sexy anime girls that were surely drawn for profit (even just via patreon) and be sure that you are not paying for someone selling "the things inside [them] that cannot be replaced"?