Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
Word for today: wisdom of repugnance
The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad
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this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all
Hmmmm I think some people perhaps have this problem where whenever they find a post that’s commenting on a cultural Trend or Pattern in a way that makes them uncomfortable they instead construct an uncharitable bad faith reading of it where it’s actually commenting on them as individuals so they can dismiss it more easily.
Like how so many people are coming across that post about tomatoes and potatoes in fantasy settings which is pretty clearly trying to imply something along the lines of “maybe the near-universal inclusion of crops like potatoes and tomatoes in so many fantasy settings which are otherwise completely and exclusively inspired by medieval Europe says something about the way ppl from the global north tend to take staples of European culture that were introduced to Europe through colonialism and mentally project them backwards in time as something that was always part of European culture” and choosing to instead interpret it as “if you personally as an individual writer dare mention a potato in your fantasy story without a detailed 20-page scientifically accurate explanation of why this european-inspired setting has potatoes in it you’re a bad unrealistic writer” because thinking of OP as a realism-obsessed pedant who doesn’t understand the concept of suspension of disbelief and lacks the ability to conceptualize the idea of things in fiction being different from reality makes it easy and convenient to ignore any uncomfortable implications that might come from them having a point.
In the above article, note that an anonymous but reputable source testified that AF staff is understaffed and overworked. You can see, when comparing the current staff (as of June 28th 2023), and last year’s staff, that in between last year and this year alone, SEVEN staff members quit pretty close together. This includes an administrator who has not been replaced.
Re: the above point: ArtFight staff has always been understaffed, but this issue seems to be a lot worse this year (2023). The mods have also said that they are receiving lackluster communication from the admins at this time. This is why early bird signups and even Discord roles have been so late.
As of 2023, there is also only ONE PERSON working on the site BY HERSELF
TLDR: the ArtFight staff received a heavy hit in terms of a lot of staff quitting in rapid succession last year, which included someone in a very high-up and important position, who has not been replaced for this year. This has led them to be even more understaffed and overworked than normal for 2023’s ArtFight. This is why early bird signups have yet to be released, 3 days until the fight begins, and why it took multiple days just to get Discord roles out. Moderators are not receiving communication from admins, and there is only one coder working on the site’s development all by herself.
Furthermore, ArtFight has had a lot of issues and incidents in the past; a LOT of which could be explained by disorganization within the staff, such as someone not receiving their $300 donation reward, staff not communicating with each other, not reading reports, and lack of communication.
Basically, ArtFight staff is disorganized, not good with with communication (with each other and non-staff), understaffed, and overworked. They are a small team doing this in their free time for no pay, so bear that in mind, but the cracks are starting to show with 2023’s ArtFight, as there is mod talk of postponing the game before it has even begun, among other things.
07/22 update:
12 mods and counting are mass-resigning, after discovering that
one of the admins has been pocketing and living off of the donation money that was supposed to be going to site maintenance, in secret.
And, of course, it goes without saying that the others mods haven’t been payed a dime.
Some of us are old enough to remember when literally everything took about 4 weeks to ship.
My couch is arriving in 4 weeks and company gave us a $200 gift card in apology after telling us it would take 4 weeks when we bought the thing. I-this instant gratification is really doing something to us. I know I sound like a grumpy old woman but it is ok to wait for things if it means fellow human beings are treated fairly.
around when I first started dating my boyfriend i bought myself this novelty blanket that looks like a photorealistic tortilla because I am SUCH A SUCKER for novelty shit. when he saw it in person for the first time his eyes lit up, which should have been a warning sign for the indignities to come.
so he’s a first responder and his day shifts start obnoxiously early as far as I, a pampered corporate asshole, am concerned. almost invariably when he’s at my place there will be an alarm at an hour that is downright unconscionable that will make him wake up and roll out of bed to get ready and will simultaneously make me burrow under the pillows grumbling about how surely nobody actually NEEDS their lives saved this early in the morning, after which I will promptly attempt to go back to sleep
he is a clever man and he knows this is when i am most vulnerable to attack.
every single time we do this dance, he quietly dresses, packs up, goes about getting ready to leave, and then when i have juuuust fallen back asleep, he returns with the tortilla blanket. He finds it no matter where I have hidden it.
He then creeps silently up to my side of the bed and uses his superior speed, strength, and reflexes to wrap me up in it incredibly tightly while i am still dazed and sputtering, so that i cannot move my legs or arms and am reduced to humiliating halfhearted magikarp flops that do not deter him from at least attempting to kiss my forehead.
then he goes to my bedroom door, opens it, then pauses, turns around, looks at me, the soft human filling of the facsimile of an enormous burrito he has just constructed, and says in his best romantic lead voice “I’ll see you soon, beans.”
you cannot understand how devastating it is to my ego that i am beans.
most of the notes were just like “this is why we should communicate better and just say it” but i feel like this person elaborates a bit on the deeper root of this problem
we need to make fun of people who eat at chick-fil-a. if you eat at chick-fil-a you are directly funding police militarization and are intentionally anti-lgbt at best. it should not be socially acceptable to eat at chick-fil-a. it costs zero dollars not to eat at chick-fil-a. if you eat at chick-fil-a you are a spineless dweeb and stand for nothing. internalize that.
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