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hi ‘map positivity’ blogs run by minors are apparently ‘in my orbit’, thanks tumblr, so a) what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck and b) if this is because someone i follow or who follows me is following blogs like this, maybe, don’t, or block me. like. no matter your stance on ‘non offenders’ this blog was run by a 14 year old, clearly going through shit. like. no.

“lilo and stitch was racist because lilo wasn’t in enough merch” oh my god the su crits are really Like This. just targeting every piece of media that’s ever tried to do good. like. yes. disney is racist. disney’s marketing is especially racist. but. you can just say disney is racist. pick out a film that’s genuinely problematic. but faulting a film that still stands up as great representation because of how it was marketed in 2002 makes you sound like a ridiculous child

earendil-elenion:

clitcheese:

are holodeck characters horny by default, or is it something you have to adjust in the settings menu

Originally settings, but Star Fleet got sick of people breaking it trying to get the horniness jusssst right so they made it default

my train of thought is like. if you give people a Horny Meter, they’ll just slide it up to 100%. but no one really wants that. That’s Way Too Horny. i bet the horny slider tells you it’s set at 100%, so people stop trying to push it up, but it’s really only set to like a reasonable, more manageable amount of horny. starfleet engineers would set it to just the right level of tense, Will-They Won’t-They slow burn.

Riker is like, That Guy from every story i’ve ever heard from lesbians and ace women that goes like “in high school i told myself i had a crush on a guy because i thought he was the kind of guy i was meant to be attracted to”. he’s like, tall? and he has a jawline? guys in movies have jawlines. his eyes could be described as “piercing” when he doesn’t look like a smug piece of shit. he logically must be hot.

like. i tend to headcanon almost every woman as bi, because 1) i’m bi and i’m biased and 2) they’re all intended to be straight and fall in love with dudes, and making them bi is an easy and painless way to be able to relate to that at all. but Deanna Troi is a lesbian, and riker is a demon taking the form of her internalised heteronormativity. every character who fucks riker and leaves by the end of the episode is a lesbian coming to her senses. no one attracted to men has ever looked at riker as a sexual candidate. he looks like a chore. he’s the product of a writing room full of men all with unhappy unsatisfied wives going, “what do women like?”. Women Like Bad Boys, Right. so let’s make him the Absolute Fucking Worst. he’s like they tried to write Kirk 2.0, taking all the bits that straight men thought made kirk attractive. women must love guys who fuck around with hot space women. that’s what makes him hot. women must love bad acting on characters who seem constantly frustrated. he does sports is sports a character trait? Make him an Alpha Male, women love that, none of this ‘brave, smart, selfless hero who tackles serious ethical dilemmas’ nerd bullshit.

it’s so strange that there’s a macguyver episode of all things, where nazis are the bad guys and it feels like something that can’t be made today. a lot of macguyver is those Special Learning Moment episodes with messages like “Don’t do drugs”, “Keep your guns out of the reach of children” and like, i wish “Nazis were unforgivable cowards and their ideology should be stamped out before it can take a foothold in the US” was on that same level again, as something so obvious to your average child that it’s basically overdone. but no now it’s divisive. now it’s anti free speech to… write an episode critical about a racist ideology. now it’s unreasonably political. now it’s blatant virtue signalling. now it’s just this postmodern SJW bullshit, unlike Back In The Good Old Days where we just might not have been paying the slightest bit of attention

that post about who prisons should/shouldn’t be for is really surreal like I Do Not and Probably Will Never Have The Spoons To Get Into It as much as this topic deserves but. it’s wild how leftists on this site see very clearly how

  1. police are corrupt, racist, ableist to their core, originally founded to capture escaped slaves and crush protests and riots
  2. police only exist to protect capitalist interests and, i guess to give the illusion of safety to white upper and middle class people
  3. criminalisation has always failed, always does more harm than good, and always targets marginalised groups. see the war on drugs, see how it hasn’t affected white people and our drug use in the slightest, see prohibition, see sex work
  4. prisons are dehumanising by design and do not act as a deterrent to potential criminals
  5. crime rates are a direct function of poverty and quality of life, and the presence of cops and Tough On Crime policies haven’t been proven to have any impact on crime at all
  6. all judicial systems are imperfect, and risk people being imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. this applies even in a perfect world to hypothetical courts free of all racism and biases, which we’re currently failing at

but we’re only up for prison abolition Until A Certain Point. i get why that is, the idea of rapists and unrepentent/unjustified/cold-blooded murderers On The Street where they’re ‘free to strike again’ is terrifying, on a close and personal level. but it’s amazing that i’m seeing people say they don’t trust cops, don’t trust prisons, don’t trust capitalist states to have our interests at heart, Except for when it scares us to go without those things. like if you’re for prison abolition at all, if you think in principle there’s nothing a human being could do to deserve their human rights being taken away by the government, then that needs to include the Scary Crimes done by Scary Bad People. because you’re falling for the illusion that the current system is protecting you from them already, and they’re not.