Making videos about Autism & Pokémon, not at the same time (yet).
#actuallyautistic
. You engage in good faith, I answer. If not, I block. Cishet, He/Him 🏳️🌈
Well, now it's no longer April Fools, I should finally put this up. This is the last time I will look at Twitter for a full year. I'll check in again next April but depending on how this goes I may not return. I think I need to do this for my mental health. 🧵
Still blows my mind that Elmo, Grover and Kermit were all legitimate, relatively common names before the muppets made it impossible to name your child that. There was a president named Grover! Theodore Roosevelt's son was named Kermit!
Now that's truly leaving a mark on culture
The other day I had a viral tweet where I said what people are doing to queer folk now is similar to how Jews were slandered before the holocaust
I still think of one reply to that tweet: "Except Jews don't mutilate kids"
& I'm like buddy
What do you think they said about Jews
Dennis Prager: "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users...had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable"
This isn't a "clip", more a sequence, and it just seems so mundane on the surface but I was sobbing by the end.
Even if Gene's never stated to be on the spectrum (🙄) this is still a phenomonal showcase. Kind but not condescending, still hilarious & meeting them at their level
Hey remember when newspapers would depict Jews with horns and a tail and we all agreed afterwards that that was a really, really bad thing to do?
Can we, uh, be a bit more pro-active about it this time?
A reminder: Not excusing Dahl's bad aspects, but one of the most famous stories he ever wrote was about a young child absolutely not "getting used to it and dealing with it"
They made a movie and everything.
Starring this man's cousin.
Ben Shapiro claims Roald Dahl's stories "are deliberately un-woke. They're all about how the world's a mean, nasty place and kids have to get used to it and deal with it"
Fight the good fight, offer protection to those near you but be aware that you might have to break the law in future.
People harboring Jews were criminals. LGBTQ+ people aren't being sent to camps yet, thank heavens, but just bear it in mind in case it gets worse.
Like, if the muppets never happened would there be lots of guys named Kermit? If Elvis was named Frank, would Frank be an unheard of name today?
It seems arbitrary too: Adolf is obvious, but yet Josef and Benito are safe. Jesus is a no-no, yet Joshua (the Hebrew version) is fine
If any of the usual "Why'd they go WOKE by making Luffy Latino and Usopp Black?" crowd show up, show them this Q & A from Chapter 549 in *2009* and tell them to sit down
Those planning on playing H*gwarts Legacy please remember you got mad at Disney for donating to people who actively fight against lgbtq+ rights. That will be you if you buy the game.
The devs have already been paid, & they'll get new jobs based on their work, not how this sells
I think it's been a failure of both fan discourse and the comics proper (though feel free to correct me if it's actually been addressed) that the question has always been
"Why doesn't Batman kill the Joker?"
Instead of
"Why hasn't the city executed the Joker?"
Recent adaptations that did this:
Castlevania
Arcane
Cyberpunk
Recent adaptations that mostly tried to copy the same magic:
Cowboy Bebop
Death Note
Avatar
HMM I'M NOTICING SOMETHING
Near the tail end of this review, Geoff talks about how much better the show could have been if, instead of retelling a story they told a new one in the same universe taking advantage of the medium.
I just realized Star Trek Prodigy and Lower Decks do exactly that.
@catherinetinker
@weebservations
Miyazaki: I hate every last one of you and the planet is a living hell but I will not allow even one of my creative impulses to go unrealized so here's some transcendent beauty I guess *spits*
Even things that are *technically* available legally (like a rare physical copy of a game on ebay) are still sold at unreasonable prices & the money wont even go to the company anyway so that definitely counts too
@WBlakeKimber
@itstherapcritic
I also love the fact that in some iterations she's so
overwhelmingly "Team Plant" that she almost exclusively eats barbecue XD
You remember the Squirrel Jokes episode of Spongebob?
It's an amazing display of how stereotyping can harm minorities, yet at the end I always thought it copped out by saying "We just need to mock everyone equally"
I just realised that's not actually what it was saying.
My channel will be deleted in 3 days.
I have to pay over $1000 & I have to seek representation to do it.
All because of a small claim from Japan, easily served to any non-MCN youtuber, circumventing all counter-claims.
I might be the first.
But I DEFINITELY won't be the last.
"How can I support a YTer?" In order from most helpful to least:
- Pledging even $1 to their Patreon
- Getting Youtube Red and watching their videos
- Clicking on the ads
- Letting the ads play all the way through
If you can't do any of those, just be sure to share them.
I'd be more charitable towards techbros if they ever, EVER brought up that it'd be way easier to replace a CEO with AI than an artist or author.
But no, it's always the artistic endeavors that needs to be "more accessible", why is that I wonder
Okay guys, I know Jesus is super popular in hispanic communities, I meant hard J 😆
Another weird one is Iago, which was name-cancelled TWICE in two different generations for two seperate characters (though the second was named after the first)😮
At the end Spongebob doesn't mock everyone the same. He mocks himself (which is always better) and he mocks THE MAJORITY. He mocks those in power, which are fish and crabs & starfish. He PUNCHES UP.
He (eventually) listened to pushback and made his act better. What a great show
Shopro has developed a technique that should scare everyone.
If any Japanese company sees you using your IP, they can take down your entire channel legally in the space of three months and there's nothing anyone can do. All it takes is two steps.
#shoprogambit
#geoblocking4all
You wanna know something?
I first read One Piece by pirating it (har har).
Then, when Shonen Jump made the amazing decision to make the entire backlog available for an affordable price, I never pirated it again.
Piracy is an accessibility issue
Funimation is being folded into Crunchyroll. With the number of Western distributors of anime dwindling, piracy might be the only way to preserve the medium.
Do you want to save anime from becoming lost media? Become a pirate.
Reminder: Autism IS a disability, as in something society fails to cater to adequately
It is NOT a disease
and calling it a disorder needs to have extremely good context, which this scene... lacks 🙄
Shopro has demanded my videos be taken down & for me to pay 0.02 yen per VIEW. This means it doesn't matter if it's monetised.
Any video that has received views in Japan is subject to Japanese jurisdiction.
And Japan doesn't really have fair use.
#shoprogambit
#geoblocking4all
Brian Jacques (Redwall) published his first novel at 47. He wrote 22 beloved middle grade novels before he died.
Alan Rickman didn't appear in any films until he was 42.
Creativity seems like a game that needs to start early but it's not.
You have time.
The takedowns become strikes whether or not the damages are paid and the channel is gone.
That's it. Boom. An easy, efficient way to remove videos with ANYTHING you don't like on Youtube outside Japan, no risk of counter claim, no fair use, point & click.
This needs awareness.
It's always freaking Blazing Saddles, and I challenge anyone to find any generation who is legitimately offended by it.
Pretty much every single of my hardest left, most sensitive chums have never even considered cancelling it because they GET THE JOKE
When an actor shocks me by being transphobic, I counter it in my head with the memory of an equally shocking ally.
Ayoade defends Gliner? That sucks, but Dylan Moran, who always played insufferably smug pricks, freaking hates him 💜
Plus Russell Crowe! Ain't that neat?
Step 1: Create a rudimentary small claim in Japan, aim it at the offending creator and send it to Youtube, demanding the videos be taken down. Make the fine too big to ignore but too small to be worth legal fees. Make it confusing and obtuse.
#shoprogambit
#geoblocking4all
This is why so many gross people "Tyler Durden" George Carlin's stuff. They're all "Wow, so transgressive, so rude, so shocking, so un-PC" while the fact that he always, ALWAYS aimed at oppressors sails merrily over their heads
Godot is almost as powerful for free and it's open-source, you don't even have to pay royalties if you publish a game you make with it. If you want an engine to learn on, Unity has lost the crown
Also if you want a Batman that kills, The Punisher is right there! Same backstory and everything! If I want to read Punisher, I'd read Punisher! But I want to read Batman!
Step 2: Since it's legal proceedings, YT steps back and washes their hands. The videos go down instantly with no option to counter-claim. The YTer is forced to go through you in your country. This is near impossible without expensive representation.
#shoprogambit
#geoblocking4all
Most folk dismiss autistic people because of them bouncing off certain experiences & think like "Got it, autistic people hate loud music"
But no, we often just like to be prepared & ADORE knowing the background first. Tell us the story, share your passion & we will eat that up
About 2 years ago my son (10) didn't know if he wanted to stay a boy. So we referred to him as they/them for a bit, even tried she/her. After a while he was just "nah, being a boy feels right"
Being open isn't indoctrination & it for sure isn't grooming 🙄
AND HE ENJOYED IT ONCE HE GOT EARPLUGS 😭😭😭
This episode could have gone in a hundred different horrible ways, even some well intentioned, like Bob just assuming Gene hates the music & accepting that without exploring it further but they NAILED it. Gives me hope for humanity.
Even disregarding the trans rep (though that is also cool and important), to me this just highlights how gross it is that we as a humanity just decided periods were "gross"
Like yeah, blood and pain sucks but kids' teeth fall out and grow back & we made a freaking fairy for it
INSANELY IMPORTANT VIDEO. ShoPro has sued and fined a 20k sub anime YouTuber to circumvent ContentID and strike his videos with no recourse besides going to court in Japan. The only defense we might have is to convince
@TeamYouTube
to give us
#Geoblocking4all
.
Yes, JR will not get much from your purchase. Yes, it's almost impossible to consume w/o your money going somewhere evil.
But everyone has a line, & if yours isn't in platforming a franchise that directly funds transphobia, that's your right.
But please don't tell me about it.
My child has Covid. They were vaxxed & boosted so symptoms aren't severe, but it's still scary.
If we can catch it in New Zealand, the country widely regarded as having the best response, you can catch it.
Please be freaking careful.
@CaptainCalvinCa
You break the law every day by going 0.05 over the speed limit. No one is meant to follow laws blindly, follow the spirit and not the letter.
Why is it illegal to pirate? It stops creators getting money. They also won't get money if you can't watch it legally. It's morally sound
Final note: please don't mistake this for cynicism or knee-jerk hating. I ADORED HP. As an autistic kid/teen it was literally the only non-comic I could read cover to cover. It made me finally understand the joy of books.
It hurts every time.
But right now it hurts others more.
Imagine if, instead of developing braille or training guide dogs, Blind people were instead trained to *act* like they could see so they didn't bother anybody.
Unfortunately that's how autism is treated for the most part.
@thelindsayellis
"I've had sex. Lots of sex. You won't believe just how much sex I get, dear reader. Just Sex, sex, sex all the time. It's exhausting really. All the sex. Trans rights."
‘BATMAN CAPED CRUSADER’ is described as “everything that Bruce Timm wanted to do in ‘BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES’ but because it ran on a kid’s channel, he wasn’t able to do it.”
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@Overlord_Mikey
See, I'd buy "they dont have the death penalty" if it was set in Metropolis but GOTHAM? The entire point is that it's a corrupt cesspit. Mobsters would want to whack people legally and they have the courts in their pocket so it seems unrealistic they don't have the death penalty
Know the difference:
Electroconvulsive therapy is a last resort for people suffering with severe depression.
But shock therapy is using devices to torture autistic children into behaving "normally".
It is weaponised trauma. And it just became legal in the US.
#StopTheShock
You may have noticed the
#StopTheShock
hashtag recently.
This is a reaction to the US Court of Appeals overturning a ban on the use of electric shock devices to 'train' autistic children to avoid what is described as 'aggressive behavioir'.
The Lola Bunny Discourse™ is so inane it's refreshing. If it wasn't so mean spirited it'd be a nice callback.
But mean spirited it is, and look. Look. Just because she got shifted from Jessica Rabbit to Judy Hopps doesn't mean it'll stop anyone from making doujin. Trust me.
Everyone talks about how Christopher Lee schooled Peter Jackson on what a stabbed man sounds like but not enough is made of the fact that he could HIT A DARTBOARD AT TWENTY PACES WITH A RUSTY NAIL
There's been a small trend of toxic thought re: mental health so here's positivity to balance it:
Medication, when prescribed correctly, is no different from glasses in any way. It's technology compensating for what the body can't provide.
There is no shame in wearing glasses.
I'm nearly done with the script for potentially the last video on my channel. I've come to realize there are big things in this that every Youtuber needs to hear, so when I've uploaded it, I'm going to need you to share like you never have before, if only to get this across.
It's all so recursive: People think LGBT+ relationships are explicitly sexual...
Cos when kids media *tries* to rep non-sexual LGBT+ relationships the only reference people have is adult media...
Cos they aren't in kid's media due to the perception it's explicitly sexual😵💫
Remember, any straight couple that acts romantically in any fashion in kids/family media is pushing for kids to learn about their incredibly graphic sexual activity.
That's what they're saying with this every time. It's the only way this stays logically consistent.
Sometimes I worry that I'm in an echo chamber, that I'm not being fair to the other side.
Then I see the other side use exactly, EX-ACT-LY the same talking points as the gay panic (replace woke with gay) and I feel a little better opposing them 👍
Trevor Noah once said "one of the only good things about segregation was that there was a clear enemy to fight, no ambiguity in what to fight for"
This has reached Captain Planet level, my gosh
@clairewillett
@MaraWilson
I think lady D helped turn the tide a bit as well, the woman over 40 whom EVERYONE of every sexuality thirsted over. Even the ace community thought she was neat!
"Why are you respecting Miller's pronouns? (They) don't deserve respect after what (they) did!"
Same reason people don't call Spacey "Kevin Fowler" after his allegations. It's not a flex & has nothing to do with their crimes. It's like calling someone ugly if they stole from you
Fun fact: Usopp's nose is actually a double reference, obviously to Pinocchio but also to a folk saying in Japan where if someone gets a huge ego or is overly confident it's called "becoming a tengu" and in manga/anime it's signified by suddenly getting a long nose!
@Shuten_Koji
@SuedeBlade
Usopp’s nose is one of those things that makes more sense in a cartoon than in live action. It was clearly a reference to Pinnochio, just emphasizing a character trait as part of the design. But no humans actually have noses that long so it’d be disconcerting in live action.
Don't forget to ask for pronouns when you first meet folk
If they're trans, they won't mind / will be pleasantly surprised
If they're an ally, they won't care
If they're ignorant they'll be confused but won't NOT do it
If they're angry, hooray! You can stop the conversation
Pokémon animation showcase~ Today's group is showing off their walk and run cycle🏃 Each Pokémon has a walk unique to their character, with subtle behaviors that show off individual personalities.
Don't worry, there's more Pokémon to be shown!
#Pokemon
#PokemonConcierge
#Psyduck
Boosting for the morning crowd
Hey
@Kotaku
@Polygon
@WIRED
if you guys were keen to report on TNM's situation you might want to look at this too
It uh... it's even worse, not going to lie