It does help actually, to post the whole context of Hank Green supporting sex workers
Raise your hand if you’re just incredibly fucking tired of people taking things the Green Brothers say out of context to make fun of some of the straight white dudes that use that privilege to their advantage to help marginilized people.
The Green brothers speak out about racial injustice, financial inequality, homophobia, housing issues (including homelessness), mental illness (ESPECIALLY John, who has gone through intense depression and anxiety in the past), and many other topics.
They provide dozens of free resources for students online, specifically Crash Course, and every year during the holidays they donate thousands of dollars to multiple charities.
They actively acknowledge their privilege and use it to lift other people up and provide resources for those who don’t have the same privilege.
I’m sure many people don’t know this, but John and Hank CREATED VidCon. They’re the reason VidCon exists today. They were some of the ORIGINAL YouTubers, and they’re one of the only platforms on YouTube that has stayed true to their original content idea.
People LOVE to hate on them. They love it. John was sent so many death threats and harassed so much that he gave up all social media but YouTube for a long time. The reason? People claimed he was glorifying cancer (which if you’ve actually READ the book, he doesn’t) and that he was a “pervert” for writing about high schoolers (as if LITERALLY every single book about a high schooler isn’t written by someone older than 18 I mean Jesus Christ people). Hes spoken on this a couple times but stopped because people just ignored him and dragged his name through the gutters.
The hate on Hank is, from what I’ve seen, fairly recent - he was kind of the forgotten brother for a while. Until he published a book where the main character was bisexual. And he said positive things about trans people. And then suddenly “Hank Green is just a dumb man and his opinions are trash.” Almost like people didn’t like that the “science man” was openly supportive of homosexuality
The Green brothers acknowledge when they get things wrong. They speak out on injustice, on inequality, and they always, ALWAYS try to do what’s right. They are some of the most wholesome straight white men I’ve ever come across in life in general, and it infuriates me that people reduce them to “okay? okay” and “oh didnt he do Crash Course?”
And now hank green is the honorary father of gen z and science tiktok
if i was best friends with an eldritch monster millions of years old that has witnessed the births and deaths of entire galaxies who then turns his back on all that because he thinks i’m the most beautiful thing creation has to offer i would simply kiss him. rip to dean winchester but i’m different
there is truly no one on earth i trust less than people that just really hate jon and who love invalidating his trauma. like yes we’re all allowed to have our own opinions but ur vibes are rancid goodbye
#to me they are the same ppl who think vriska like #legit did nothing wrong
the best period of doctor who is in the late 90s/early 2000s when it was just a bunch of books written by gay people and none of the higher ups cared enough about the franchise being palatable to a wide audience to stop them from saying dr who was gay
it was also a bunch of radio shows and none of the higher ups cared
enough about the franchise being palatable to a wide audience to stop them from frequently making it r rated absurdist horror
a vaguely related (& more tumblr relevant) thing I find interesting is the push towards ‘stories being predictable is good actually’ and ‘happy endings are important’ which isn’t strictly wrong but which I suspect to be heavily coloured by the fact that fanfiction is a fundamentally predictable genre of writing in which happy endings are almost ubiquitous
& i find it interesting bcos when I re-work fanfiction ideas as original stories (i do this a lot) generally one of the first things I do is re-examine the original planned (happy) ending and by and large I throw it out bcos it doesn’t thematically make sense.
not always! sometimes my original ending works but a not insignificant amount of the time it’s like ‘yeah I shoehorned in a happy ending here bcos I ship these characters & want them to end up romantically involved’
& like a lot of fanfiction involves re-writing the ending of a work to be happier which is a perfectly valid thing to do but i sometimes see people conflating this w ‘improving canon’ when a lot of the time there’s probably a reason why the original story had a downer or bittersweet ending
and to be clear i think a lot of people writing fix-it fic do understand the above just fine but at the same time there’s a demographic of younger writers who are potentially internalising this sort of thing the same way I internalised ‘symbolism bad’
#okay I get this and more power to you #but I don't think this is a reaction to fanfic #lol it's bc so many franchises lately have had totally awful endings #in the name of shock value #that we are all collectively learning that #thematically sound endings are better than shocking ones
As a queer person that mostly has queer ships, I do not appreciate the idea that some gay ships “are for straight people, if you know what I mean”. No, I do not know what you mean and I don’t care either. Stop judging gender and sexuality of people over ships, you gazoos.
#shut the fuck up and let ppl ship things #there is no combination of this joke that isn't going to hurt ppl in our community #literally shut the fuck up
i absolutely love the fieri thing btw. it makes no sense. theyve never done this before. its not a holiday, literally just guy fieri’s bday and they did a whole thing for him and link to that weird guy fieri gif + cryptic quotes blog. its so nonsensical but harmlessly fun
really makes me feel like a lab rat in a maze. missed that feeling.
I started playing Paradise Killer cause I saw you recc it a while ago and I'm so confused. Are you supposed to be in the beginning or am I just dumb lol
Answer:
Go find people and talk to them! Ask about their alibis. Go look at the building where the murder happened and investigate (get onto the roof ASAP). Use your weird AR Investigation Vision to find all the ppl, and chat ‘em up, and activate the fast travel points next to each one so you can start cross-referencing their stories.
Me, lil miss fucking “you mentioned a video game just now, did you know this recent labor issue that that the dev is dealing with, i’m going to tell you all about it”
ME!!!!!!!
VC be laughing with me rn, its literally so fucking funny
"Mhhh, yes, daddy corporation, stick that boot deeper in my throat, I love how it tastes! Mhhhh!" -Arcturus
Answer:
okay after talking to VC a bit, I think this is from the fact I made some of the B-B-B-B-BREAKING NEWS posts about Trump being deplatformed? which got really big unfortunately and I’ve LOOOOOONG since blocked the notifications from it because it’s fully left my tumblr sphere and entered like seven others. so I ASSUME this is that?
but also lol anon you do not follow me. we are fucking sickle and hammer as fuck here.
this is so fucking funny actually. just like three days ago my pals and I all took “what is your political alignment” tests and I reign supreme as THE most radical “so left we’ve gone back to the red party” shit, lol.
anyway, until twitter is taken over by its workers and they form a co-op, yes, the least they can do deplatform violent extremists and hold them to the standards they have been putting leftists through for years, byyyyyyyye
#i usually just block and delete these #but this one is funny and its my birthday #Anonymous
You don’t have to write some genre-redefining masterpiece. You can write a story about two people very simply falling in love. You can just write a story about a person going to the store. You could, if you were so inclined, just re-write Star Wars but like, make all the names start with M.
Don’t let the fear of not-writing something transcendent stop you from just writing.
I’ve written the same “they hate each other but there’s sexual tension and then they kiss” plot about 500 times and it still NEVER gets old. I’ve read 10 fics from the same writer that all have basically the same premise and structure and relationships, and EVERY time I lose my mind reading them.
Sometimes boring stories are the best ones.
#this is like #my MO #i am not interested in writing something SUPER DEEP #i will never have that ability #but i like writing strange niche porn #and soft stories of recovery #i love that #because idk about y'all but I can't READ those stories all the time #so maybe y'all want something fun and 'lighter' too sometimes
Gotta say, the trend of “Politicians play video games” AOC began started off strong, but it really should have stopped when Mitch McConnell started getting into Doki Doki Literature Club.
you can’t fucking catch me i read urls now
#no no #i think he should play it #i would love to subject him to that
In which the winter solstice has snuck up on Martin. Having not inherited any celebrations or traditions from his mother, Martin begins the careful navigation of forging his own.
Every time I see a joke about how Sasha “I like to staple archival documents together and meet up with inhuman monsters alone in deserted areas without telling anyone and casually violate my coworker’s privacy by hacking their files” James would have been a much more competent archivist than Jon and would have effortlessly seen through Elias’ lies because she is a flawless queen I sever approximately a dozen optic nerves from rolling my eyes so hard.
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