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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#251: Jul 25th 2013 at 2:09:26 PM

Not many female characters are given the kind of characterization that Loki is. I'd suggest Vriska Serket, but if you don't know what Homestuck is you probably won't understand. Also, she isn't played by Tom Hiddleston; I think part of the Loki fandom lately with also being a Tom Hiddleston fan. Think he had a fanbase before he was Loki.

Hermiethefrog Since: Jan, 2001
#252: Jul 25th 2013 at 3:48:04 PM

I think that's less a trend with audience reactions and more a trend with how villainous characters are written. Female villains are less likely to be complete monsters and have sympathetic backstories, from what I've seen. Male villains are more likely to be written as complete monsters, but if they're attractive, they'll still get the leather pants treatment.

I'm generalizing like whoa of course.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#253: Jul 25th 2013 at 3:57:14 PM

Well, it helps that the actor portraying him appears to agree with a lot of the fans. And that the actor appears to be very personable and charming. *shrug*

johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#254: Jul 25th 2013 at 7:22:19 PM

Vriska's badass, but she has an Ebony Ravenway vibe to her, if you get my meaning. It's like Hussie wanted to outmaneuver his audience and inserted the quintessential fanmade character.

edited 25th Jul '13 7:23:38 PM by johnnyfog

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#255: Aug 5th 2013 at 10:28:22 AM

Here's mine.

Can I just say how much I don't approve of Tumblr's arbitrary 10MB limit on audio files? Especially since most of my best track are over 10MB?

edited 5th Aug '13 10:43:33 AM by PhysicalStamina

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#256: Aug 5th 2013 at 1:08:48 PM

It's like Hussie wanted to outmaneuver his audience and inserted the quintessential fanmade character.
More like, he wanted to make a character as controversial as possible, and nothing stirs up controversy like a borderline Mary Sue.

TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#257: Aug 7th 2013 at 9:37:55 AM

So today I saw a reblog where a guy said he only types in lowercase because he hates capitalism.

For better or worse, I wound up reblogging it half-jokingly with a brief post ALL IN CAPS SAYING THAT I PROBABLY SHOULD DO SO BECAUSE I HATE COMMUNISM(!). Not that I actually plan on doing that, it just seemed too obvious.

Whether I regret this decision is yet to be seen. tongue

johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#258: Aug 7th 2013 at 3:22:46 PM

No more music blogs. I set aside one hour a day to check the feed. A Lady Gaga blog takes twice that.

edited 7th Aug '13 3:25:26 PM by johnnyfog

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Nettacki Since: Jan, 2010
#259: Aug 9th 2013 at 12:25:09 PM

Is Tumblr really infested with "social justice fags" (so to speak)? Or do people with legit concerns and calm, rational minds hang out there as well?

chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#260: Aug 9th 2013 at 1:17:48 PM

The latter exist, but the former is a Vocal Minority that can be easily heard.

I'm interested in learning the psychology behind the "social justice blogger".

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#261: Aug 9th 2013 at 3:20:57 PM

Basically, tumblr exists as a lot of websites do, with a lot of idiots with their own opinions. But Tumblr is predominantly liberal, so instead of the commonly hated people being all "booo gays" or something, they're more "why are you not vegan." and what not.

I mean, I follow a bunch of social rights things, it's not all bad and some is VERY informative.

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johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#262: Aug 9th 2013 at 4:18:19 PM

Here.

The worst ones are operating mostly out of San Francisco, those kind of places. They give left wingers a bad name. They are near uniformly white college students for some reason. They never make war on anything relevant (like police brutality), because that takes moral courage. Only on verbs. Or the music industry. Or the color of band-aids.

edited 9th Aug '13 4:18:59 PM by johnnyfog

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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#263: Aug 9th 2013 at 4:34:58 PM

Eh, some of the stuff they do has a good point, and a lot of it is the quiet erasure of minorities or things outside of the norm. It's the compilation of everything that can make it important.

Also everyone has a passion. Usually it's something that relates to them specifically. For instance, my area of focus is sexism, but another person might be more focused on race, or legal things. It doesn't make anyone bad or wrong, just means they study different areas.

edited 9th Aug '13 4:41:03 PM by MrAHR

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TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#265: Aug 11th 2013 at 8:01:10 PM

[up][up][up] Wow, it's like the worlds worst train wreck. Those people are all such terrible idiots, and yet I can't. Stop. Reading.

The fact that so many people like that exist and that so many of them are considered to actually be sane and reasonable people is very much part of the reason why I have so little hope and faith in the future of humanity. sad

KarmaMeter Glory to EarthState! from Earth Since: Dec, 2012
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#266: Aug 13th 2013 at 6:16:32 AM

[up]

They're really kind of comforting compared to the opposite extreme.

Moved to State Of Bedlam.
chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#267: Aug 13th 2013 at 6:47:38 AM

But it's interesting how both extremes are Not So Different in terms of closemindedness.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#268: Aug 13th 2013 at 10:10:05 AM

I dunno, some of the stuff they make fun of on that tumblr has a point, and really shouldn't be toted as extreme idiocy.

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TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#269: Aug 13th 2013 at 11:24:15 AM

They're really kind of comforting compared to the opposite extreme.

What do you mean?

KarmaMeter Glory to EarthState! from Earth Since: Dec, 2012
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#270: Aug 13th 2013 at 12:35:33 PM

I dunno, some of the stuff they make fun of on that tumblr has a point, and really shouldn't be toted as extreme idiocy.

Yeah. Often quite a lot of it, actually. Not that there aren't some... real gems of idiocy there, too.

What do you mean?

At least they care. It's the rampant, obstructive obnoxiousness of certain other internet places I'll not name that terrify me. That's as specific as I want to be.

Moved to State Of Bedlam.
Mars444 Since: May, 2013
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#272: Aug 13th 2013 at 1:10:49 PM

Yeah cause they're so horrifying with their desire to be happy.

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KarmaMeter Glory to EarthState! from Earth Since: Dec, 2012
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#273: Aug 13th 2013 at 1:11:43 PM

Yeah cause they're so horrifying with their desire to be happy.

I can't tell who you're responding to.

EDIT: Okay, cool. [down]

edited 13th Aug '13 1:12:34 PM by KarmaMeter

Moved to State Of Bedlam.
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#274: Aug 13th 2013 at 1:12:05 PM

Not you, dude. Sorry, shouldda had a [up] in there.

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TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#275: Aug 13th 2013 at 10:24:19 PM

At least they care.

I'm not sure it's really that simple.

Sure, maybe some of them genuinely act out of an ignorant sense of wanting to make things better, but I'm betting a lot of them are also doing it because they think it gives their own lives a sense of value and worth where otherwise, they're just normal, everyday individuals whose lives lack meaning or purpose.

Not that their caring is really worth anything if all they do with their caring is to sit around, get angry about life, and write angry, stupid, posts on assorted blogs.

And frankly, thoughtless "caring" where they don't actually put any thought into what they're caring about can be just as bad as "obstructive obnoxiousness", and leaves them just as open to manipulation by people who claim to know how they can make their 'caring' be worth something.

Trying to do something or argue for something simply because they "care" can lead to very dangerous and very problematic unintended consequences.

edited 13th Aug '13 10:24:49 PM by TheSpaceJawa


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