Notices by winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2020 20:58:44 JST 
winter
vii. use of SOFTWARE for EVIL PURPOSES (henceforth "MISDEEDS") is STRICTLY PROHIBITED
viii. NAZIS will be PUNCHED
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2019 17:20:51 JST
winter
this is amazing
https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2017/11/15/feminist-writer-strong-independent-woman-dont-need-no-man-except-really-wants-man-not-wait/ -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2019 06:29:49 JST
winter
it really saddens me how my generation of writers has become infected with the sjw mind-virus. at the same time we've been freed from the capitalist constraints of the publishing industry by the existence of the internet, so many have donned a new set of shackles completely unnecessarily, shackles that keep them from writing anything but bland, terminally inoffensive representation porn that says nothing interesting and conveys no new ideas. structurally it's different from the Hays Code only in that it's a grassroots phenomenon rather than one imposed from the top - it neuters storytelling in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reason.
we don't need more stories about mary sues. we don't need more stories whose every word is shaped by the author's terror of Offending an extremely thin-skinned affinity group that demands constant, unthinking worship and screams "oppression" when they are treated as ordinary human beings. the only characters who are allowed to have flaws, allowed to have complex individualities, allowed to be gritty and complicated and *human* are, of course, the Straight White Cisgender Heterosexual Etc Males, who are the only demographic available to serve as villains.
ironically, in requiring the "marginalized"¹ be treated with kid gloves, this unwritten Woke Code denies them their humanity just as much as the one-dimensional racism, homophobia, and misogyny of decades past. to err is human, as the saying goes - failure and growth and change are what separates fleshed-out three-dimensional characters from Mary Sues, from wish-fulfillment self-insertion like My Immortal or Black Panther.
but setting aside the way this style of writing diminishes and dehumanizes those it aims to lift up, what drives me up the fucking wall is the unbearable sameness of it all. nobody seems interested in telling - or hearing - anything but IEEE-standarized heroic narratives. at a time when the acidic rot of capitalism is gnawing rapidly through the foundation of our culture and society, we should be exploring new kinds of existence, new possibilities, new ways of organizing our communities and our lives, new ways of wielding political power against the decadent, degenerate, transcendentally cruel and selfish bourgeoisie.
"social fiction" - whether literary or genre - can help to radicalize simply by planting the seeds of new ideas. whether it's simple propaganda that aims to communicate the basic principles of marxism in an easily digestible way and show what an ideal socialist nation can be without shying away from the difficult parts (in other words, *not* a simplistic solarpunk utopia), or drama that tells a story set amid radically new ideas, fiction can serve to break people's minds out of the prisons of capitalism and individualism, by helping them imagine what for most of their lives has been unimaginable: an alternative.
instead, we get this wretched, simplistic pap - empty, useless inspiration porn that is all functionally identical and serves no useful purpose, not even to entertain.
we can do better than this.
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¹ scare-quoted bc "marginalized" is not a meaningful term in marxist-leninist theory, and in fact the entire idea exists in contradiction to the basic premise and undermines the goal of proletarian internationalism -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 07:26:43 JST
winter
too far, paul
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 12:09:45 JST
winter
the whole queer/millennial/sjw/whatever fetish for anarchy, the identification with ~chaos~, is really really exhausting.
it's just. like. *why.* why are we all posturing about being badass punks, about giving-no-shits, positioning ourselves against order, vilifying peace and calm? for a community that knows firsthand how important communal support is, why are we so relentlessly, obsessively, aggressively individualistic?
we seem to have adopted this aesthetic as a movement because it makes us feel cool or something. idk. i don't get it. i wish we didn't feel the need to posture. i wish we could just let ourselves be who we are.
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Oct-2018 16:08:11 JST
winter
so i spent today writing a piece laying out how to write terminal apps without ncurses (and, more importantly, how to write the library that will kill ncurses for good)
this is the result of years of experience delving into dark corners of ANSI specifications, terminfo files, and hoary manpages. this is knowledge that i’ve never seen collected in one place before. please use it, i beg you.
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 02:53:24 JST
winter
the only two genders
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Aug-2018 16:27:30 JST
winter
@kaniini i have poor vision and the lack of kanji makes it dramatically harder to read japanese text; native speakers without reading issues will tell you the same thing, because kanji give word boundary cues that aren't there otherwise. if this is an issue for some users why not split the localizations, have one with kanji and one without?
the other issue is that a couple times i've clicked on a user's icon in the side pane and it's overflowed to the point where the block button was invisible: this bot's account, for instance
https://pleroma.site/users/9
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