Just anecdotally, as someone trying to advance feminist thought in public: there are fewer places willing to take such pieces, and fewer audiences willing to engage with even the most elementary and remedial feminist ideas.

Been seeing the complaint that the end of Hazbin Hotel S2 is an unearned power of friendship copout crop up here and there, and while I'm guessing this is due to a growing dearth of media literacy + the younger part of the fanbase being a bit loud, that takeaway misses the whole point of the scene.

Thomas Jefferson

Since I've been posting about Hazbin Hotel a bunch, thought I'd go ahead and share my top 5 songs as well. 5. More Than Anything 4. Easy 3. Gravity 2. Live to Live 1. Hear my Hope Honorable Mentions to Poison, Loser, Baby, Losin' Streak, and You Didn't Know

Current feelings on the Hazbin Hotel characters as of S2. 1st tier list is ranked by how well-written, interesting, and fun I find the characters. A lot of the B tiers can 100% make it to A with a bit more development. 2nd is ranked by my personal opinion of each character. All tiers are ordered.

As a girl who grew up in the southern US, July is actually shaping up to be a pretty good month it seems.

Got around to watching Hazbin Hotel, and while I have a lot of opinions, the thing that stood out to me was that I do think the portrayal of Adam as someone who places the preservation and enforcement of hierarchies above all else was one of the most brilliant decisions Vivziepop made on the show.

The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.”

You know, when you’re talking about forced intercourse, I think it’s fine to use the word “rape.”

I wrote about the rise and fall of Graham Platner, a candidate whose political appeal rested on him looking like exactly what he turned out to be. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me Too did not go far enough.

Starting to believe that the obsession some Leftists have with capturing the "working class white male demo" is the Left's equivalent of Democrats who believe with their whole heart that they can get the center-right vote if they can lean just a "tiny" bit more centrist.

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

a coda i’ll add here is that my feelings about platner are no different than they were a month ago. the NYT story painted a picture of a predatory and unsafe man, but a woman had to share the graphic details of her rape for it to be enough.

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

Last year I wrote this about Graham Platner and models of masculinity on the populist left, which I still stand by. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mario Kart Wii often gets compared to Melee: Universal tech, top to mid tiers are all arguably viable, best character isn't overcentralizing. But the truth is that it's actually much closer to Brawl: Vehicle-specific tech, only top and a couple high tiers are viable, Funky/Daisy centralized meta.

Idk who needs to hear this, but there is no "gender war". Women didn't try to take away men's right to vote, to education, or for property. Women don't write laws that control a man's body. Women didn't built systems that strip men of their any freedoms. This injustice does not go both ways.

Celebrating 250 years? More like celebrating 250 years of male mediocrity~ *the crowd in my head erupts into uproarious laughter*

Tbh, my evil prediction for Mega Malamar was that it would have a signature ability that rolls a spread Hypnosis whenever it was switched in. That was about the only thing I could come up with that would justify its meme stat spread. Probably a good thing I'm not on the balancing team.

Lot of people think Game Freak gives a huge amount of favoritism to Greninja, but I think it's actually quite the opposite. If anything, their actions indicate that they resent how popular the frog got. (1/a lot)

A trillion dollars is nice, but it does nothing to relieve the despair he feels in knowing that his eldest will never be a man.

Decided to look at the view count for EoSD's trailer on Nintendo's Japanese channel, and aside from outperforming every non-Nintendo game when combining views from both English and JPN channels aside from Kingdom Hearts and Deltarune, it has the third most views of any one video from the stream.

In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.

Strongly doubt it would be in the base game, but Majora's Mask would literally be perfect as a Xenoblade-esque DLC expansion pack for the OoT remaster.

EoSD on Switch was the last thing I expected tbh.

Poor and working men are meant to have women of their class to abuse and dominate as compensation for the exploitations and humiliations of capital. When you point out that allowing this is a violation of class solidarity working class women, you’re accused of siding with management’s interests.

Crucially, manhood thus defined *requires* a subordinate gender class. You can't "dominate" on your own—you need a person, or a group of people, who you can prove your strength on by inflicting your violence or your will.

The right's vision of masculinity is a domination contest in which participants have to perform greater and greater acts of cruelty and vulgarity and deny themselves more and more pleasure and comfort in order to meet ever more outlandish demands for strength.

So many men's supposed principles have been revealed to be nothing but plain misogyny, and it's been dispiriting if not surprising.

Platner stuff has been on my periphery for a little while now, but with how ardent certain men are that he should still be supported despite being a misogynistic duffel bag, I kind of assumed he'd already won the primary and that Dems up there were stuck with him. Maine's primary is on June 9th.

A really crucial source of these sexist & anti-feminist sentiments by left/liberal pundits is their insecurity that their soft-handed lives of white collar work mean that they're not real men. They think they can reconcile with masculinity through an aspiration to a kind of brutish, hostile sexism.

"The Left needs to make a greater effort to appeal to men." No, we don't. We explicitly want to tear down the systems that in large part are made to benefit men (wealthy and white, yes, but above all else, men). It's much easier to reach out to those most disenfranchised by these systems.

Excited to learn about how roughing a woman up and confining her in a room that you do not allow her to leave, between bouts of voicing weird elaborate rape fantasies, is the kind of working class authenticity that the Democrats really need and a reason to like him *more* actually.

*taps earpiece* I'm told that giving a shit about violence against women is a psyop and bourgeois

I know I sing the praises of Stadium 1 and 2 a lot, but they really do so much to elevate the Gen 1 and 2 experience. Giving you access to 3x speed for the GB games once you unlock the hard mode is brilliant.

Ugh, I totally messed up with the mail-in ballot stuff. Been on a strict step limit from a surgery I had a couple weeks ago, and I only finally managed to get my ballot to the outgoing mailbox yesterday morning. Turns out it's probably not going to be postmarked on time due to a policy change :/

The version I got was, "You aren't moving from that table until you finish it." My memory is hazy, but I think I recall bed time temporarily being disabled during this, too. Thankfully, I think my parents were also neurodivergent, so we just same-fooded most nights, but the nights we didn't... oof.

Had surgery recently and on lots of pain meds rn, and I am very confused by whatever is going on with this 3rd Starfox 64 remake.

I know I gush about them a lot, but the fact that, including R2, the developers made a combined total of 234 unique teams for Pokemon Stadium (266 if you include the '97 and '98 Japan exclusive cups) is incredible to me. Then they went and made 186 more teams for the sequel 2-and-a-half years later.

People say it's unfair to hold Pokemon Champions to the same standard as Stadium or PBR because it's just meant to be a battle simulator, but here's the thing... The Stadium games and PBR were also primarily meant to be battle simulators. Everything else was included because care was put into them.

Random Majora's Mask fun fact: Did you know that Igos du Ikana and his lackeys take 2x damage from Deku Link's Bubble? Because of this, each of his lackeys will be knocked down from only 2 Bubbles while Igos du Ikana himself still only needs 4. Deku Link's spin attack easily stuns them all, too :)

Having a blast playing Pokemon Champions rn!

My short review of the Mario Galaxy movie: This is the first video game movie I've seen that not only embraces being a video game movie but actively relishes in it. Whether that's good or bad is going to depend on your taste, but Miyamoto's philosophy of focusing on fun permeates every scene.

a curse in time 🌓⌛🎭 #majorasmask #zelda

Mario Galaxy Movie was fun~