“but if you’re pro-union, why are you anti-cop-union?” because cops are not laborers. what cops do is not labor. they are enforcers of the laws that oppress laborers and exist solely to protect capital. don’t bother me with stupid questions.
As an engineer, I see the wreckage of The Titanic as a monument to a critical failure in design that must never, never be repeated. The single “positive outcome” of The Titanic Disaster was that it exposed just how woefully unsatisfactory the safety regulations for seafaring vessels were at the time.
The Titanic had 20 lifeboats which, in total, at max capacity, could hold 1,178 of the 2,209 passengers on board the ship. Only 18 out of 20 lifeboats were launched, many of which were half full, cutting down the number of passengers on board to just 712.
That is a disgrace. That is a profound waste of human life.
But the real tragedy is that the Titanic actually exceeded the safety regulations of her day. According to the letter of the law at the time, she had more than enough lifeboats. It was assumed that if, god forbid, the hull was breached, she would stay afloat long enough that passengers could wait on board to be rescued.
To compound this issue, the ship had no real evacuation protocol, and the crew members who were expected to execute a mass evacuation were completely untrained in how to do so. There was one cursory drill performed while she was still in dock, during which only two lifeboats were lowered.
Nearly every mistake made in the Titanic’s safety protocols can be attributed to the naive assumption that the worst case scenario couldn’t possibly happen.
OceanGate’s Titan submersible flies in the face of every safety regulation put in place since The Titanic Disaster. Just like The Titanic, The Titan was built and deployed assuming that every aspect of its voyage would be executed perfectly. When you’re dealing with human life, perfection is a dangerous thing to plan for.
We have safety regulations for a lot of reasons, and The Titanic is one of them.
This is an interesting story because people my parents age are like “How dare he” and people my age are like “oh same”
What’s even more interesting is he’s not serious. In India there’s a culture of intense deference to parents. He believes that this is a very unhealthy way for people to live and so he’s using this court case as a way to tell people that the idea of “you must grovel in gratitude to your parents because they brought you into the world and fed and clothed you” is a bad thing and that parents have to feed and clothe you because it’s their damn job and they chose to have you.
He really gets on with his own parents and his mother has publicly voiced her support for him.
Tl;dr: This isn’t incel bullshit like the dude who’s parents evicted him last year, this is a political protest to unhealthy expectations parents have for their children even though he isn’t pressured into those expectations by his own parents.
rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between “damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)” and “damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)”
I am also “damn, girl, you wrote this? (forgetful)”
I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.
(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)
You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?
according to wikipedia, before
There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.
If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.
elizabeth bennet said “i can’t fix him nor would I for a million dollars” and fitzwilliam darcy said “wait she thinks I need to be fixed? …. she’s right, I’ve gotta work on myself and learn how to be more understanding and generous” and then he did. and elizabeth was like “shit…. he’s so understanding and generous now…. makes me realize that my stubbornness and pride in my discernment are obstacles in the lives of myself and others” and then they got married and that’s why pride and prejudice has been a bestseller for two hundred years
goddd please just hire voice actors again. like actual voice actors. no more celebrity voice actors please just hire people who know what they’re doing the or voice acting industry will cannibalize itself more than it already is. let jack black do whatever he wants though
Sucks when you like lose your teeth in a dream and you’re like “Fuck I cannot believe this is happening in real life and not in a dream. My teeth are really gone now, no takebacks.”
I know it’s fun and edgy to say that if Romeo and Juliet had lived they would have had a miserable marriage but I super disagree.
They share a poetic, romantic sensibility that no one else in the entire play has. Everyone else is either bawdy (Nurse), or witty (Mercutio, Benvolio), or practical (mom and dad Capulet, Rosaline - even though she never appears). Romeo and Juliet, however, experience their feelings at 11 without judging themselves. They are incredibly present and self-aware about their feelings, and they are the only two people in the play that are the same level of Extra, and that’s what they immediately recognize in each other.
They have fun together in a way that is more in line with Shakespeare’s comedy couples than his tragedy couples. They tease each other and play word games even in dire circumstances. They balance each other’s idiosyncrasies and compliment one another’s senses of humor.
But most importantly, it’s a matter of “What’s the Stronger Choice?”
Which I’m constantly harping on about. It’s sad if two people die young. It’s devastating to witness the deaths of two people about to share a beautiful life-long love.
You have to make the audience believe that they are perfectly suited (and Shakespeare does help you with that). You’re making for a lukewarm production if you dull the tragedy by letting the audience walk away thinking: “oh well. It never would have worked anyway.”
Can I add the line from Juliet where she calls Romeo her husband and “best friend”? To me, she sees a world where they’re companions, and not just as lovers but as friends.
Their first dialogue is a freaking sonnet, like, does Shakespeare have to draw you a diagram?
Yeah, I mean he spells it out pretty clear. He absolutely does not depict these two warring families as being in the right, considering they’re killing each other off. It’s not ‘stupid deluded teens are too silly and in love for the Real World’, it’s that love is really what the Real World should be about, but their families are the deluded ones for not seeing it.
Please, please report people who put their ko-fi or Patreon on their AO3 without mercy. Just click the link at the bottom of the page that says Policy Questions and Abuse Reports and say the user is engaging in monetisation. Say where you saw their ko-fi link or mention (author’s note, whatever) and copy the info on their user profile, too, in order to make it easier for the volunteers.
If you’re concerned, there’s nothing punitive about this, it’s just enforcement of the TOS they agreed to when they signed up. And there’s no real risk of the fic being removed, either. AO3 will contact the author and nicely ask them to remove the link, and that’s it.
Yeah, that too.
Literally the only downside is making too much work for the Abuse team. (Cry me a river, guys. In my day, we had like 2 active people, and even at the much smaller size, that was a problem.)
If you want, you can let authors know it’s not allowed and then report their asses if they’re rude about it. Or you can just report them in the first place.
But this bullshit should be stamped out.
Wait can someone explain what I’m missing here because it sounds like a bunch of whiny babies being upset that people are monetizing their own work. I get its a site policy but 1. Why are you being a cop you losers and 2. Who cares? Why is it a rule?
If I’m missing something here I’m genuinely curious. Who is it hurting to drop a ko-fi on your page? Or do y'all just love being cops?
I did not donate seven years of free labor to build AO3 so that some other dipshit could monetize my work.
And yes, it is monetizing AO3 itself because the whole reason people want to put kofi links there is that it’s easy to find fics on AO3. AO3 also lacks constant competition from other ads.
AO3 is as awesome as it is because we built it to not be monetized.
People who don’t get that are shitting on the people who made and still make AO3 possible with their work and their donations.
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Go post your kofi links on a corporate site like tumblr/twitter/etc., not one built by your fellow fans. Disobeying the AO3 rules is just rude.
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Look, when you do whatever on a big social media site, you’re fucking with corporate overlords.
When you’re doing stupid shit on AO3, you’re coming to a dinner party I planned and hosted and then pissing into the flower arrangement in the middle of the table.
The only whiny babies here are the ones demanding other fans provide them with a storefront for free.
You don’t sell your vegetables at a charitable food bank. You rent a booth at the farmer’s market.
You don’t set up your book kiosk in the lobby of a public library. You go to a flea market, or somewhere else that allows you to set up a book kiosk.
AO3 is fandom’s food bank. It is fandom’s public library. It is not your storefront. If you want to sell your work, don’t do it on a nonprofit website volunteers built for the *explicit* purpose of creating an anti-capitalist fandom oasis.
There’s also the VERY REAL problem that the main defense of transformative work – aka fanfiction – to keep us from getting our asses sued into the stratosphere by Disney, Marvel, etc. is that we don’t profit from it. If you are writing someone else’s IP for money without their permission, they CAN sue you, and if it’s somebody as big as Fox, Disney, etc., they WILL sue you. The main way I can tell fandom has done a good job of making safe spaces for ourselves is that these young’uns coming up don’t remember getting Cease & Desist letters from very scary lawyers.
So that’s why you report people putting kofi links on AO3 - because by doing so, they’re painting a giant fucking target on fandom’s back.
