autismdragon

"I'm pretty sure JK Rowling writes fantasy books?" is one of the funniest things ive ever seen written lol.

bad at burgers,

Lol did we eat shit at a burger making competition or something?

Nutomic sucks ass but it should be noted that so does Shinigami Eyes. Leftist acounts that are proactivly critical of democrats or anti-zionist lose their green and go neutral constantly. Most noteably recently I noticed that Shaun lost his green on twitter and youtube. Which has to have been because whether because of an actively liberal admin team or just whatever the algortyhm is being susceptible to bad actors, liberals were able to mass report him as "neutral" for being critical of Biden lol.

Folks this situation is actually driving me insane.

HAHA OOPSIES! Spread misinformation! Still standing by my transphobic opinion though!

this 'death of the author' thing is classic reddit-ism championing less engagement and less intellectual rigor in our media and art discourses,

Depends on how its used. If anything I see things like "your autism headcanon is wrong because the author didn't intend that" as a reddit-ism.

Sometimes its used that way, sometimes its not. Most people citing it have no idea what the entirety of Barthe's theory was anyway. They can mean anything from "I dont think I should have to engage with the reality of the LIVING author's intent, the blatant bigotry in the work, and the actual hateful things they are actively doing in the world" to "I dont care if its intended, [character] reads [neurodiverse or queer] to me".

No yeah unironically that would be a net good for everyone and if they really weren't transphobic they would agree with that. I have some mostly nostalgic affection for Harry Potter left over in me, mostly emotional attachments to a few specific characters, it would be nice to be able to able to engage in transformative works and shit without supporting her so if she was dead that would be great.

(I disagree with being so dismissive of death of the author though. Bartes's whole theory sucks because the idea that authorial intent means nothing isnt true but the way people tend to be mean it when they cite it is things like "headcanons are as real as you want them to be, it doesnt matter if the author intended them" and as someone who's had my autistic headcanons dismissed because of "the author didnt intend that" I think thats important.)

like 'art' is supposed to be some transcendental ultimate expression of humanity,

Uh the Harry Potter books and movies are not super high levels of art or anything but I disagree with this. "Art" is not a superlative. Bad art is art. And you don't need to be saying something super deep, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to be art. (Also art is subjective and you can find deep meaning in seemingly shallow things, the reason why I dont have time for people trying to do that with Harry Potter right now is because it gives money to the face of the transphobia movement, not because I think theyre wrong to do so).

He's on of the "Pod Jons" from the Pod Save America podcast that gets made fun of a lot on here and on Chapo. They're all former Obama staffers and like, turbolibs (but hilariously got turned on by even more turbolib turbolibs for thinking Biden should step down and got the Berniebro treatment for that lol).

This is, as I have stated before, an unacceptable conflation of two spheres of my existence. I am upset.

What are the power dynamics between the rocks and the water?

Obviously i know the reason is in theory money but come on.