👾 @alis@fandom.ink

It's-a-me, elsewhere, vol. 2(020)!

https://alis.me/
https://alisx.dreamwidth.org/
https://ask.alis.me/
https://twitter.com/lokabrenna
https://www.pillowfort.social/alis
https://www.patreon.com/alisfranklin
alis#0290

So I never did an #introduction but I probably should, so...

I'm Alis! I'm an #sff #author and I love #monsters and so I write books about monsters. I also sometimes (very rarely) draw, and (mostly) play way too many #videogames.

I'm also the admin of fandom.ink, a small #fandom centric Masto instance, inspired by the #tumblr exodus and aimed at #fanart, #fanfic, #RP, and other general fannish content. (Also cat photos.)

So... hi!

And also there's apparently a non-commercial version of cheerleading but that the company behind the commodified version sued the organisation over naming rights, so now they have to call themselves something different: https://thencata.org/

TIL cheerleading in America is so ubiquitous basically because it's a commodified monopoly that makes one single company a craptonne of money: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/what-a-cheerleading-monopoly-says

I don't know why I'm surprised, but...

​

Watching fish videos on YouTube has got me in the mood to do a big ol’ spring clean on the tanks…

All that being said: I did actually enjoy this book and I've enjoyed... parts of the TV series.

But golly gosh darn it Hill, like his da', is just so gosh darn problematic...

Also (while I'm on the subject) it's kinda.. wild that Hill has so many ~Thoughts On The Working Class~ when he's literally the son of a billionaire.

Like, at least King was actually legit poor before he became like one of the 20th century's wealthiest authors. And, yeah okay; Hill was born before King "made it". Technically. Just.

But... still...

Also it's kinda way more obvious in the TV version (I think because Manx spends more time "young" than the book implies?) that this is totally at least a partial parody of TWILIGHT except, like. Aimed at a different market.

Except the thing is? If you're "parodying" something in that way? Yeah, you're not actually parodying that thing; you're parodying its *audience*.

Which... well. Ref. how fucking much this story hates teenage girls and 🤔 🤔 🤔

So... this has actually been pretty faithful to the book (at least the first main "era" of the book) which is... kinda unexpected?

Also Lou remains the best character and 100% does not deserve the fat shamey shit the narrative puts him through I stg.

(Which kind of like... the ~problematic elements in the novel are deeeeeeeefinitely more noticeable in the TV series. Like... yikes.)

tfw when you hit a big long-ass text post

read it halfway

think "oh right idgaf"
hit j

and move on

"hey... that's good for the bushfires, right?"

Eeh. I mean, it can help control them but what it's actually going to mean is that all the loose topsoil and toxic ash and burnt shit is going to wash downhill, and very likely contaminate the ocean/a bunch of rivers/sources of drinking water.

So, like... y'know...

Oop. Storm time…

favs can have a little problematic, as a treat

Peak Bougie is being given a cup of cold lemon water and Kafka quotes to sip while you wait for the clerk to come sell you hand cream.

I had a dream I adopted a stray pet galah for some reason and we went to the pet store to buy it a “sleeping cage” (it was going to be free range when we were home) but the aisles of the pet store kept shifting and every time we found one bird cage we could never find it again.

Obviously this is my subconscious telling me it’s shitty to keep large parrots as pets.

(But I do still want one.)

I actually almost bought one once ages ago, but as I was looking at it, the shop assistant came up to tell me about how it ~cleaned energy~ by ~releasing ions~ or whatever, and I had to nope tf out on principle.

Alright, so... having purchased my waterbottle-with-the-crystal in it, my next Embarrassing I-Don't-Think-It's-Magic-I-Just-Think-It-Looks-Cool Confession is that I want one of those giant salt crystal lamp things.