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@verysweetgoose @Turquoisism @Jaina_Splinters Idk what’s in her heart, all I know is what I can observe from her behavior. She behaves like someone indifferent to the deaths of others, in Palestine, in Iran, in Yemen, and so on. For me, that makes her someone who shouldn’t enjoy a major public platform without pushback.

@XiPersisted @Turquoisism @Jaina_Splinters I actually disagree with her solution too. She believes in reformation, rather than revolution. She doesn’t want children to die or genocide to happen. She just believes reformation is the most pragmatic approach. We can disagree with her without saying she wants children to die.

Lmao

@verysweetgoose @Turquoisism @Jaina_Splinters You know how I know Contra’s solution doesn’t work? Because everyone she supported had the power to stop children dying and chose not to.

@XiPersisted @Turquoisism @Jaina_Splinters Some people believe in different solutions than you; that doesn’t mean they’re pro children dying. It means they believe a different solution would be more effective in stopping children from dying. If you conflate the two, you become rigid and dumb.

@verysweetgoose @Turquoisism @Jaina_Splinters The nuance of whether children dying is good or not

@Turquoisism @Jaina_Splinters That would require people to think with more nuance and critical thinking skills.

@kzugradio @Criminalsimpson This is one of the funniest posts of all time and I’m so mad that it’s esoteric enough that more people aren’t appreciating your genius.

@EllieMgs2 @Heezy913Heather @ribcat32 @GayestFesh And they’re increasingly behind paywalls, sometimes two. Even if the quality was much better, it’s still bizarre to see someone making a teacher’s annual salary per month to do one video a year imo.

@Heezy913Heather @XiPersisted @ribcat32 @GayestFesh well they could be, but they aren't

bringin this back

@Heezy913Heather @ribcat32 @GayestFesh I thought empathy was pretty decent, but the Yoko video was terrible. It was just her reading the Wikipedia page for the Beatles and throwing in her aesthetic opinions on each, and then trying to bundle it in a fame thesis at the end that was incoherent.

@XiPersisted @ribcat32 @GayestFesh I got my notifications mixed up somehow and thought we were talking about contrapoints. I agree to an extent but did you watch her empathy video? That was excellent editing and her research and writing have always been excellent, better than 99% of YouTubers

@Heezy913Heather @ribcat32 @GayestFesh Contra? It took her a year to do an hour long Saw review that made the same points everyone has already made about them with like one costume change.

@XiPersisted @ribcat32 @GayestFesh You’re so full of shit. Name A SINGLE YouTuber writing and producing and researching and editing and designing on natalies level.

@Heezy913Heather @ribcat32 @GayestFesh Also, if you disagree, take it up with Lindsay! She’s said multiple times writing her novel was infitnelty more difficult than making her videos, and it’s not even good! (The second one is much better tho.)

@Heezy913Heather @ribcat32 @GayestFesh Relative to what? Relative to like playing a video game? Sure, it’s a lot higher effort than that. Compared to most other major art and media forms? It’s significantly less effort. It’s homework: it requires time and focus, but it all exists within a pre-existing framework.

@ribcat32 @GayestFesh Surely if she is too small as a tiny YouTuber making only a teacher’s salary per month, than the seventeen follower Twitter accounts she couldn’t help but respond to should be “too small” for criticism too, right?

@ribcat32 @GayestFesh It’s worth noting that her response to this was essentially “I’m not famous enough to warrant such focus” (which is rich coming from someone who brags about being one of the top Patreon earners and a NYT Best Selling author every chance she gets), but what’s the threshold?

@worst_egirl @tanijrou Omg lol

@XiPersisted @tanijrou

I will forever come back to this post because it’s so perfect for this moment

@worst_egirl @tanijrou It really does, I was about to screenshot and ask someone more online than me for context.

@tanijrou this sounds insane if you don't know the tumblr post i'm talking about

@DodddWhite Someone who maybe doesn’t get to as many books as they want, but wants to and enjoys the process and finds reading generates feelings and questions for them has a much better chance of writing moving work than someone who clinically grinds through 100 books a year.

@DodddWhite It’s hard because I think it’s valuable for people to understand how beneficial exploring other people’s story telling can be, but I also kinda feel like if you don’t already have that innate curiosity, I’m not sure if it’s something that can be learned.

I want to point out that reading 2 books a month is not the unscalable Everest some aspiring writers are making it out to be. If you care about being good, that's an easy threshold to cross.

@DodddWhite If you are reading simply because you think it’s necessary to become a better writer, you likely also aren’t getting what’s actually needed out of the process to inform your writing.

@DodddWhite This is obviously true, but I also think this discourse is making people a little too careless with how they relate writing to reading. Reading (and curiosity in general) obviously inform writing deeply, but I don’t think it can be treated as some box to check.

@AmericanGwyn @WhatHoARat It’s funny to use this meme, very online phrasing but then pretend you don’t know what “manga” is or what “shade” means lol

@WhatHoARat Everyone wants to be an operator until it’s time to do operator sh*t (read and write).

Sometimes a student in one of my fiction writing classes will come see me during office hours and inform me they’re going to be a novelist. I always ask the same question: “Who are your favorite authors?” An alarming number of students can’t name a single novelist. Not one.

@dishingtherock @CheddarRod @TheFlockOpinion It’s not a replayed down, it’s a safety. The refs also have discretion to put time back on the clock if they think a penalty is deliberately being used to waste time (Rule 4, Section 8). They weren’t going to do that tho because they already decided the winner of this game.

@CheddarRod @TheFlockOpinion This was a long ass time ago but I’m pretty sure they threw a flag. SF wouldn’t accept it though cause more time would run off if they replayed the down time doesn’t get added to the clock

One of the best moments from Super Bowl 47. Took 8 seconds off the clock, and would assure the 49ers offense would not be back on the football field #RavensFlock