i don't say this as a bad thing, i think it's lowkey radical and absolutely fascinating how HP has been mined for extreme sexual deviance and then used to turn a profit. but credit for that radicalism goes to horny writers and horny readers, not the tedious publishing middlemen
it's easy and not entirely inaccurate to call the Dramione stuff slop, but it's worth actually reading some of it to know how *weird* the slop is. Like, yeah, this is kind of lazy publishing, but it's lazy publishing that's turning sexual-slavery-and-impregnation fic into massive bestsellers
Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this
i won't name names but i just stumbled across what's nakedly an attempt to do 'the red scare podcast but for britain' and i crave death more than i ever knew was possible
was interested in ratings differences between lichess and chess.com and found a clickbait article on the subject with this insane ai graphic. ches.com vs The chess (83S) for the Middle-Earth (??) title
[previous post deleted because the girl on the right in the picture evidently agreed with me and has got her picture and name taken off the piece and honestly fair play]
i have no great desire to live in or visit the Gulf and that's fine but the amount of wildly racist shit you see posted about the countries and people there, totally unchallenged, is pretty revolting
possibly, altho ideally i'd see them unmaintained and gradually becoming weird monoliths, and i don't see that it's absurd to ask for a site plan that aims to preserve them while scrapping the uninteresting parts of the station. *definitely* don't see how this means that all Grade II is invalid
you watch one stand-up vid on youtube and your entire feed becomes SIX COMEDIANS BREAK DOWN THE COMEDY SCENE and KUALA LUMPUR COMEDY FESTIVAL REACTIONS and IS COMEDY DEAD and WHO KILLED STAND-UP and YOU SHOULD BE BEATING YOUR GIRLFRIEND MORE OFTEN