Drawing a one-to-one correspondence between media consumption and behavior is always dicey—and never more so than when a high percentage of the audience is consuming a very different text than the one that is there. And it’s important to take a step back and check for alternate interpretations of the media we’re criticizing. All too often, feminist critiques of heterosexual porn wind up saying more about our views of women and sex than they do about the porn itself.

In conclusion: porn research is very bad and we don’t know anything. So it goes.

via: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/polysemy-and-porn

Not really sure where this video came from, I came downstairs in the morning and it was already fully uploaded. Dan doesn’t know anything about it either. Doesn’t seem like it’ll get me in trouble though so F it, we’ll let it rock. Weirdly enough it sounds like he’s listening to Shoegazer Watched The Stars from NMH2 for most of the video. With a brief appearance by 1811 from Lost Judgement.

Absolutely hilarious.

The tsundere is a well-known anime trope, that many people still love to this day. But something happened to it since its inception, and I want to talk about that.

The “database” is a very interesting comparative media concept; will keep it in mind.

Waifus are a very well-known part of anime culture. So many have strong opinions on them, and yet very few know the full story.

Wretched and revolting on all accounts. How one can live like this I will never understand. I hesitate before even calling a ship with 3 fics a rarepair. How one can complain about only 5k fics is beyond any line of rationale

Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.

A modern classic in sci-fi.

Fictional Wikipedia article about the first ever successfully emulated brain scan.

Absolutely terrifying to read.

“Meh,” I said. “Meh. Meh. Meh. Meh. Meh.”

That was the part that led to the apocalypse.

I was struck by a wave of holy light. The heavens opened and poured into me. My soul rang like a bell.

Yet again, cis men ruin a neat thing for everybody.

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While skeptical grandma takes a nap in the hammock, a little boy and his grandfather go on a pirate expedition. This Internet Archive entry features a digital copy of the book “My grandpa is a pirate”, which is available for free download, borrowing, and streaming.

This Internet Archive entry features a digital copy of the book “Alberic the Wise, and other stories” by biologist Ernest E. Just (1883–1941), offering a collection of his fiction writing.

Slime Molt Time Mold would be very interested in procedural rhetoric in order to help people learn cybernetics.