the things i do for love

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Joined March 2021
My brothers gf keeps bragging about how he spends more time with her than with me but like ok bitch who fucks him better?
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"loss of fandom etiquette" and when there used to be entire communities dedicated to the vicious mocking other people's fic.
Fanfic had always been a hobby people did for fun. I think the true "crisis" here is the loss of fandom etiquette, and the widespread entitlement in thinking that everyone has to listen to the unsolicited opinion you disguise as "critique".
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i am also guilty of looking at fandom of yore with rose-tinted glasses, but i think shit like sporking is one of the reasons fic writers developed an almost pathological culture of resistance to the idea of improvement. there's been a real overcorrection.
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although to be fair, i guess they did have something akin to etiquette in the way they made a sport out of mocking other people's fic.
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i actually miss when fic was more ambitious and pretentious. i'd gladly take weirdly formatted lapslock songfic over ai slop anyday. i love intention, even when it doesn't work.
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so you agree you’re behaving like a child?
Delivery, unfortunately. The post is short with no context and explanation which is going to be read as sarcastic or egotistical. There are no examples, which makes its usefulness void, so it gains the tone of mom telling a kid what to do, so everyone's knee-jerk reaction is "no"
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THIS. reading might be good for the brain, but have we considered what it does to the immortal soul? exposure to trash literature actually harms the delicate female brain, which is incapable of discerning fantasy from reality! the only book these harlots need is the good one!!!
I lowkey don't like when ppl act like all reading is good and 'expanding your knowledge' in some way bc most of these books are self-published, unedited, and full of grammatical errors. like at worst this stuff is actively reinforcing literacy issues
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woman with an audrey horne pfp forwarding the opposite of ethel cain’s “transgressive art bad when men good when women” thesis by concluding “transgressive art good when men bad when women” we are literally never getting out of this hell of our own creation 😭
Replying to @kennixonette
these ppl are on there not understanding that the protagonist of a book isn't literally them, the reader . which is not an issue that a fully literate person experiences
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can’t believe ive been watching this show for years and this is the first time its struck me
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watching the clone episode and it opens with “i was 12 years old when my sister was taken from me” like woaw that’s a backstory with some legs
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i wish people would stop trying to launder their moral/aesthetic offense as legitimate feminist criticism. if you were serious, you’d engage with the film as a whole and just not this picture of tits you keep sending. oh no, we can see their dirty pillows!
A man getting turned into a dildo is simply not prurient in the same way as this. Cain is entirely correct that our film industry has not and does not produce "films about political persecution" wherein the director simply has no choice BUT to oil up a bunch of lithe young men
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i genuinely think much of the backlash towards the devils is rooted in people’s discomfort with seeing naked women on screen in a non-pornographic setting. to these people, the female body itself is a pornographic display.
they turn his charred femur into a dildo, my friend. and although the nuns are performing a fake possession to avoid being executed, what we’re witnessing as viewers is the orgiastic release of pent up libidinal energy whose suppression the church require as a form of control.
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hey so i just want to go on record stating my strong opposition to the gender essentialism of “edgy art bad when men but good when women” and publicly call for a return of feminist criticism that actually engages with art instead of just trying to police it.
Replying to @pentazmore
how? ethel is a character, and like she said it’s different coming from a female creator. and just because it wasn’t your take on the movie does not make her interpretation wrong. i literally agree it’s a completely disgusting and stupid movie
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yes, father what’s his face is tortured and burned at the stake while the nuns are not. you’d know that, if you’d actually ever seen the film.
she’s not critiquing the movie she’s critiquing the industry and what happens to father what’s his face is wayyy different from what happens to the nuns you can’t deny that
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cannot believe ethel cain stans of all people are out here talking confidently about the sins of a film they’ve never even seen. a million southern gothic pinterest boards does nothing to quiet the censorious impulses of your average american.
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okay but i am laughing at the idea of a stalker romance where both the guy and the girl are stalking each other. that’s true love baby.
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i’m so tired of natalie wynn posting obvious ragebait and then acting dense when people react. but what i can’t figure out is if it’s just pure engagement farming bc rent is due, or if she has some psychosexual fixation and gets off imagining herself as a victim of an angry mob.
Replying to @ContraPoints
I want to help people interpret this tweet because many are struggling. When I say “worse than I thought” I’m proposing a counterfactual situation: what I expected Trump 2 to be. I was expecting Hitler. Trump 2 is very bad, but not Hitler bad. I therefore am massively relieved that it’s not Hitler bad. So, although it is bad, though millions have died (as expected), the situation is much less bad than my expectation of how bad it was going to be. The fact that my expectations of how bad it was going to be are worse than what it is, does not imply that what it is, is not bad. Merely that it is less bad than the counterfactual situation—that is, less bad than my expectations.
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counterargument: ebert was embarrassed by his early career foray into sexploitation filmmaking. his script for beyond the valley of the dolls includes multiple rapes, murderous queers, and a sleeping woman being forced to fellate a gun before her brains are blown out.
when you actually list it out it becomes really clear that most of the time Ebert was "wrong" about a great movie it's because he was really sensitive about the depiction of rape, which I can't really get huffy over.
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sister jeanne laughs in madeline’s face when the girl says the nuns are there bc they love god, correcting her that they’re there because they’re women who are unwanted by society. its painful to watch people try to wokescold a movie that already knows and addresses your point!
Replying to @AceHainley
ALSO disabled women at that time were sent to become nuns so it’s possible her being there in the first place was involuntary! i have more thoughts but i def have to watch it again to get my head straight
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this is a very shallow, very reactionary interpretation of the devils and embarrasses me as someone who likes ethel cain. was i wrong to assume she had something going on upstairs? im surprised how unwilling she is to engage with the movie/how deeply she misunderstands it
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dude, her humanity was never in question and you’re the one who brought it up while trying to temper your own seeming belief that she’s a genius 😭 look, i’m sorry i expressed mild disappointment in ethel cain’s shallow film analysis but i think we’re all going to live.
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also, i already addressed why i think she may not have actually seen it. the thing she claims movie is about is not what the movie is about. maybe she played on her phone the whole time idk? either way, my opinion of her as an interpreter of the arts has been lowered! thats all!
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ethel cain’s complaint about the devils is ironic to me bc *my* biggest complaint about the devils is that there isn’t enough focus on the nuns! no offense to oliver reed, but i am MUCH more interested in vanessa redgrave’s sister jeanne than i am in father grandier.
Replying to @cyrilwoodcock
Finally the queen has arrived. “A spirit wholly opposed to the seriousness with which one ought to take the things of god, and that fostered in her a certain glee which destroys the compunction of heart indispensable to a perfect conversion to god” how can we not stan?!?!
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