violet allen

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:31 UTC

Seems like a pretty big change in focus!

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

simply stop having connections to other humans so they can never disappoint you, leftistly

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

i really hate how much lefty advice is basically "willpower yourself out of having emotional responses that are inconsistent with the political project and stop being a social animal."

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

classy racist comedy is having a black servant who the witty white protagonist messes with a little bit

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

i favor screwball comedies, which are not necessarily less racist but more urbane (blackface is pretty broad, base comedy), but you really never know.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

being a lover of movies from the 30s means you are constantly playing a game i call Blackface Roulette. it's not just that there's blackface. it's that it can happen in any movie for no reason at all with no prompting or signaling beforehand.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

i agree! i understand that it depicts experiences that are rarely depicted in art, and i get why people cherish that, but it shouldn't foreclose other readings.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:32 UTC

my (snotty artfucker) analysis is that a lot of people are not used to seriously reading ambiguous, dreamlike texts and seek to impose a layer of literality between themselves and the symbolic

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

i saw the tv glow discourse is fascinating bc i don't think i've ever seen a movie where so many people will present an interesting, thoughtful interpretation of its elements, then say it is the only way to interpret the film and if you don't agree you are wrong and a bad person.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

one time this guy i was talking to at a party totally went off about twee hipster acoustic music in a really aggressive way. i think he maybe thought i would agree with him because i am black, unaware that i own three ukuleles and a banjo.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

if i were a music journalist i would devote myself entirely to finding the person who wrote "Rock 1" preset on the Suzuki Omnichord, which you might know better as the Gorillaz "Dirty Harry."

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

i will die on the hill that the matrix can be called a trans film and certainly has trans themes as expressed by its trans directors but that it is not a trans allegory bc that's not what an allegory is

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:49 UTC

i know only i care about this kind of thing. i've been trying for years to get one of my friends (any one of them will do) to do a podcast with me about the non-disney animated films of the 80s and 90s. the world needs serious cinematic analysis of the flight of dragons and the american rabbit!

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

remember the swan princess cartoon from the 90s? did you know that they've made 11 and counting direct-to-video sequels and also it is some kind of mormon thing? wonders all around us.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

i haven't really put fiction out on submission myself since like 2017 and i forgot that it makes me pepe sylvia-level obsessive about rejections and submittable statuses and things like that

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

i've never been part of a literary scene, but i think i'd be really good at it. i'm good at gassing people up, i can't keep a secret, and i can nurse a vendetta for years without showing a hint of malice until the moment i taste sweet satisfaction on my lips. also i guess i like books or whatever.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

the way i feel about people in the uk arguing over trans accommodations that are common all over the us with no trouble at all is how i imagine how people in the uk feel when they see us arguing over socialized healthcare

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

like this fantasy version of the world where dudes are like, "what's up, bro? dope how you thrifted a coach bag that perfectly matches that vintage jumpsuit. how many public bathrooms did you poop in today? hella sick, bro!!"

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

the constant insistence that cishet men supporting trans women is a bros before hoes thing is the weirdest thing to me about terfdom. like I understand its rhetorical utility, but it truly makes no sense as a description of any kind of reality.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:14 UTC

why is swing lo magellan the most streamed dirty projectors song on spotify? it's a mid album track but it has two and a half times as many streams as their biggest single. is this some kind of algorithm thing? was it in a commercial?

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:21 UTC

oh, i remember fitocracy. it didn't work for me, but i knew a bunch of people who were really into it. sucks it's bad now. enshittification reigns.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

it could also be like an app or something. whatever. i will sell you this idea for $500.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

i think you could make a ton of money if you made a gym that was anime-themed and they calculated your power level based on how often you worked out and they gave your ranks or badges or something based on how long you have a membership. if i were a capitalist that's what i would do.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

ngl, i thought i had seen all the possible forms of racism, but "social disapproval of racism is a psyop to keep people from realizing the truth about aliens and fairies" is a new one.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 19, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

fighting over voting on here is pointless. if you are pro-voting, your time is better spent phone banking, canvassing, etc. if not, your time is better spent organizing your community/workplace. you are not going to unravel the contradictions of neoliberal consensus on the sandwich fucking site.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

sometimes i'll be scrolling and see something that makes me feel angry or upset, then keep scrolling and forget what it was i even saw, but i still feel the anger and upset lingering, and that more than anything makes me feel like this is a bad technology for humans.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

part of the reason why i extend a lot of grace to people i find annoying on here. they're probably fine irl. people are so quick to cast others as villains in a manichean drama, but they are probably just annoying bc this is the annoying website. (i do mute them, though, bc i don't need to see it)

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

yes! the performance is very strange. also, i think about how much i am influenced by engagement with the performance. no one cares when i like a book, but boy do those numbers go up when i complain about star wars.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

i often think about how social media winnows our personalities. like, in real life, i am actually a fairly cheerful, go-with-the-flow person, but 90% of my complaints and criticisms are aired out here, so i feel i come off as much more critical and know-it-allish than i do in the world.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

a sudden portent moves through me like a lightning bolt. my third eye opens. here is my revelation: there's going to be an AI mayor soon. some shitty company is going to pay some podunk town to let the AI be mayor. they let dogs be mayors sometimes, why not a computer? it will be stupid and awful.

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