I don’t usually share this kind of thing, and I will delete it later. But this June 20th the EU want to pass Article 13 that will destroy fair use on the internet and will effect non-EU residents too. Goodbye to making money from fan art and livestreaming games and parody videos. No can do. Visit saveyourinternet.eu to very simply send a pre-written email to you MEPs. Please spread awareness as there’s not much time.
All you people who were afraid of Net Neutrality should be terrified of this.
Okay so I arrived back to a shit storm of notes. But this is definitely something I did not know about this campaign either. Does anyone have any other articles or statistics about it being alt-right propaganda hysteria? The link above is definitely a good start with information I was unaware of. I’m just so confused now, I didn’t realise this had connection to the alt-right and I definitely don’t want to be spreading false information that could help the alt-right. My apologies if I didn’t know the whole picture. I legit thought this was another SOPA deal, because I definitely don’t want fair use on the internet to be gone and that’s what still worries me.
Excuse me? Various sources, including Julia Reda have warned us about this. I’m at this point convinced that this is not alt righters trying to lie to us. I’ve heard that even news outlets that have nothing to do with the alt-right are talking about this now.
Seriously, I’m so tired of the people that are saying that this is alt-right propaganda, and that article 13 is a good thing. We’re about to lose our freedom on the internet, and people now won’t do anything.
ARTICLE 13 IS NOT ALT-RIGHT PROPAGANDA! IT IS A LEGIT THREAT TO FANWORKS ONLINE. ANYONE WHO DOESN’T BELIEVE ME CAN UNFOLLOW ME RIGHT NOW. ANYONE WHO DOES, REBLOG! SPREAD THIS!!!
If you guys need any more confirmation that Article 13 is a bad thing for fanworks, just know that Ao3 is actively fighting against it. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN. AKA THE SITE THAT WORKS TO PROTECT FANWORKS ONLINE. THAT IS A MASSIVE FREAKIN’ CLUE RIGHT THERE.
More info for those who have though this is a scam. I wish it was!
well HOLYSHIT! spread around guys and make a livin’ hell for those bastards
I thought it seemed outta place to be alt right propaganda. This is exactly what I would expect from some of those European politicians. Cmon my foreign friends fight these fucking idiots on their bullshit! Since we couldn’t stop the net neutrality repeal y’all gotta win this one for us!
Keep an eye out for this pride flag! If you encounter someone with this pride flag as their icon, do yourself a favor and block/report them. This is the MAP pride flag. For those who don’t know, MAP stands for Minor Attracted Person, more commonly known as a pedophile. The MAP community is filled with adults who openly admit to having sexual feelings towards children, and post about how they fantasize about underaged children. It’s sick and disgusting, and these depraved individuals try and use tumblr as a platform to normalize their perversions. They appropriate the experiences of the LGBT community by feigning systematic oppression, and comparing the rightful societal condemnation of pedophiles to the violent persecution of the LGBT community, which isn’t even remotely comparable. It’s honestly reprehensible that they’d take advantage of pride by making a flag like this. It’s incrediblly dangerous because unifying symbols such as this create a platform for pedophiles to prey on children, and spread pedophilia-enabling rhetoric. Please spread this around if you can, and if you are a minor, don’t bother interacting with these scumbags. It’s not worth putting yourself in danger to call these people out or try to get them to see the error of their ways. Stay safe everyone!
It looks like the “Creator” of the flag is @/dont-mistake-our-geography, she is an avid MAP supporter and possible MAP herself. She has her main blog in her title under “stennastims” which she says she’ll follow from! So, if you get followed from either! Block them!
I honestly don’t give a shit about this sort of thing but………I care about my friends and their safety. So seeing this is scary. Pedophilia is never okay.
Thoughts and feelings about the “Ancient Magus Bride”
Hello and welcome to my opinion lol
There’s a lot to unpack here.
First off, I am a fan. Second, it’s been a few months since I saw the dang anime so my memory may be off. Third, I had the english translations so it is possible that things were mistranslated.
When I began watching/reading the series, I was extremely excited and pumped. It was an extremely gorgeous anime and manga, beautiful soundtrack as well. But almost immediately after Nevin’s scene, I was left feeling kinda disappointed. I felt it didn’t reach it’s potential.
So here’s why I think it sucks:
Why the flippin hell is Chise 15 years old???
Okay like seriously, I get that the target audience is supposed to be teenagers but man it was really creepy. Like how? Why? Damn, it was also really strange for him to bathe her too. Thankfully nothing else crazy happened (except for the neck lick).
I don’t know if being 15 in japan is different from being 15 in the US, but here, it’s just all sorts of wrong. She’s too young and way too mentally unstable.
Using Chise’s crappy childhood as “hail mary” for poor writing
I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to scream when the story would fall back onto Chise’s childhood as a crutch. And it kills me that they came up with the worst possible childhood to help fill in the plot holes. I was like:
“Hey uh Chise, what are you doing? You’re making a plot hole.”
Chise: Don’t judge me It’s because you don’t know what it’s like when no one likes you and my mom killed herself i see monsters everywhere I want to die
It was frustrating and I felt it was lazy writing on their part. Don’t get me wrong, I get what they were aiming for the ‘zero-self-esteem-broken-abused-can’t feel anything’ character but they just didn’t quite hit it.
Everyone acts out of character when the writing gets tough
This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine, when writers get lazy and just have a character act out of their natural means to cover the plot hole. To me it just takes away from that character.
I’m just gonna pick on Chise because she had the most ‘out-of-character’ scenes. There were a lot of times were she would switch between a weak-depressed-quiet girl to a determined-well spoken-strong woman, then back to frail again.
For example I believe it was the last episode where Chise was just fearless and brave, like that came out of NO WHERE. The hole damn time she was just like a wet napkin then suddenly I guess she channeled her inner woman?? Ahhhhhhh jeez
I will give props to Silky and Ruth, they were the only two who (I felt) developed naturally, character-wise.
Their forced relationship
First and foremost, purchasing Chise was an absolute surreal way to start the story and relationship. This is not a relationship, this just a cryptid who bought himself a rare magic creature to use her (idk what his intentions were)
Second, (I love Elias but) I am just so fucking puzzled to why he wants to marry her?? They have nothing in common, other than they can all see the same shit with their ‘sight’.
He’s an old being who does nothing, she should be in school or therapy. But he wants to marry her right off the bat, like this doesn’t feel genuine. It was definitely hard to connect too. I felt like, again, it was lazy writing. Rather than having something naturally develop, they just forced it with the auction: That way they have to be together!
And another thing, it kills me that Elias is just so clueless to his emotions, like where were you these last hundreds of year?? You know damn-near every spell but didn’t have time to learn yo self?? Come on boi!
Even the gottdamn ending it took Elias like 15 mins to realize that she was in a wedding dress with wedding rings ready to marry his stupid ass. DUDE YOU WANTED THIS EP 1
What is up with Cartaphilus???
What kind of funky writing was that? I didn’t even realize that he was the arch-nemesis until like halfway through the series. He felt like an after thought, like they forgot to write a villain into the story. His motives and backstory just didn’t add up. And I see that they tried to make him seem edgy with all the monster splicing and craft, but like his whole existence is an anomaly and doesn’t fit in the story.
And again I see that they were reaching for that “anti-villain” trope where it turns out that the bad guy is just hurt and misunderstood. But oof, they missed that one too.
Carta’s intentions and motives just were not very clear so it was hard to sympathize with him.
But besides all the above, it was a pretty decent anime^^
Give me your opinion, I’d love to hear it!!
Rating: 3.5/5
Diet recomemdation: Great for unstable monster-romance, and age-gap dieters.
To make your AMB Cake: Take your poorly written batter and place it in a plot hole oven at misunderstanding° over 24 episodes and add a spinkle of Harry Potter.
