If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.
On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.
Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.
But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.
What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.
Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:
“At 19, I read a sentence that re-terraformed my head: “The level of matter in the universe has been constant since the Big Bang.” In all the aeons we have lost nothing, we have gained nothing - not a speck, not a grain, not a breath. The universe is simply a sealed, twisting kaleidoscope that has reordered itself a trillion trillion trillion times over. Each baby, then, is a unique collision - a cocktail, a remix - of all that has come before: made from molecules of Napoleon and stardust and comets and whale tooth; colloidal mercury and Cleopatra’s breath: and with the same darkness that is between the stars between, and inside, our own atoms. When you know this, you suddenly see the crowded top deck of the bus, in the rain, as a miracle: this collection of people is by way of a starburst constellation. Families are bright, irregular-shaped nebulae. Finding a person you love is like galaxies colliding. We are all peculiar, unrepeatable, perambulating micro-universes - we have never been before and we will never be again. Oh God, the sheer exuberant, unlikely face of our existences. The honour of being alive. They will never be able to make you again. Don’t you dare waste a second of it thinking something better will happen when it ends. Don’t you dare.”
one thing I’ve only just noticed is that a lot of sjws, correctly or incorrectly, believe that as a result of their suffering/oppression, they should be entitled to things to balance it out (like sex, love, friendship, etc.) kinda like how you get the bullet bill in mario kart when you’re in last place. It just strikes me as deeply unhealthy, and honestly I don’t really understand how people have descended to this point where they’re actively fucking up their mental health 1/2
and I don’t really know what I can say or do. I get that people generally want to find something or somebody to blame for their problems, but it just freaks me tf out coming from young affluent westerners, who definitely have problems, but definitely aren’t completely fucked ygm? 2/2
It’s because the whole identity politics conversation boils down to nothing more than convincing individuals with any kind of minority/marginalised/etc label that they’re lesser and can’t possibly achieve anything because of their label(s). It actively discourages individuals from improving themselves or going after their dreams.
I mean, women should go into STEM and politics and other traditionally male-dominated fields, but there are constant snide remarks stating that, oh, by the way, the atmosphere there is toxic and full of misogyny and you won’t get very far being a woman in there when all the men pass you over and belittle you and by the way, you should really study gender studies so you can understand how bad it is for you and other women right now!
Black people? Amazing. Kings and queens. But really, you can’t allow internalised anti-black racism to happen by having “white” interests, because you’re gentrifying yourself. You could go to university and you should! But, you know, it’s all racist. Get into a bunch of different fields so we can all have real diversity! But just remember that you won’t get far because you’re black and nobody will really take you seriously. And all the famous, well-loved black successes are tokens.
And so on.
What does identity politics encourage? Professional “activism” online where you spread hate and discourage others! Don’t worry, you’ll get paid via Patreon. Or you can do art commissions! As long as they fit the strict criteria so you’re not labelled a bigot. E-begging is also valid, because as soon as you list your labels (don’t worry, you’re guaranteed to have more than one) then the world knows how obviously poor and needy you are, just from those labels. Because that’s not bigotry somehow.
The thing is, bigotry warps. It honestly feels like every generation, there needs to be a new spin on bigotry to give something for the general population to focus on. Far from all people in that generation are deliberately bigoted of course, and most just want to live their lives the best way that they can, focusing on their own individual struggles and issues whatever they are, but the loudest and the standard hateful need excuses to both hate and not try.
Ironically, being the most enlightened that we’ve ever been – and obviously there are still a lot of issues to solve because we’re still far from perfect – a lot of new issues are appearing because of internalised bigotry or the “benevolent” revamp of standard bigotry.
It’s a real mess, and the greatest irony is that despite “SJW”-types obsessing over “microaggressions,” they genuinely have no idea how macro-aggressive their bigotry is when it comes to the groups that they claim to care about.
“homer’s enemy” is such a fascinating simpsons episode because although it was largely panned by viewers for being too dark (even by the show’s standards), it’s gone on to become the number 1-rated simpsons episode of all time [according to IMDB] and most people who were young kids at the time the episode first aired (myself included) consider it one of the most iconic and classic episodes of the series
like damn, it was always a running joke that homer is much too incompetent and lazy for his line of work and yet somehow still manages to live in a decent 2-story home in a nice neighborhood but this episode hit it on the fucking nose with how unfair and ludicrous it all is
The show creators wanted to make this episode unsettling. They wanted to show what would happen if a real person ended up in Springfield.
The message of “Homer’s Enemy” is far more Chesterton’s Fence than Peter Principle, and I think a lot of people miss that.
Everything Frank Grimes says is both obvious and true to the viewer.
The twist is that Frank Grimes is from our world, but Springfield isn’t. Where he ended up, nuclear power plants ooze glowing green goop and undereducated drunks pour sodas on control panels to short them out rather than investigate error messages. In our world, Springfield would be a slightly more colorful Pripiyat, the town evacuated in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster. But that keeps not happening!
The fundamental logic of Springfield is that of TV: big stuff happens, but it all has a way of returning to the status quo after 22 minutes. The Simpsons constantly makes reference to all the outlandish things Homer did, as if this mid-30s man actually did all the things he supposedly did over the last three decades of TV. They still callback Poochie, for chrissakes! It’s TV given self-awareness and this license to acknowledge its built-in logic.
For all his supposed knowledge and competence, Grimes’ skills of observation failed him miserably. He was driven to madness by a world that didn’t play by his rules. The lesson of “Homer’s Enemy” is that you can’t demand that a world you barely understand follow a set of rules that you do.
goddamn every time i go thru the notes of this post i find more and more in-depth analyses and interpretations of it, i’m impressed
