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thewebcomicsreview:

Can you link a screenshot or something? Works fine for me when I try?

As for Sam and Fuzzy, I haven’t gone through the archive, but I’ve been following it live for a few years. It’s a hard comic to talk about it’s good enough that I don’t have much criticism but not quite good enough to make me go “HEY EVERYONE GO READ THIS” like I do for, say, Ten Earth-Shattering Blows. 

Although, now that I’m flipping back a few pages, Gertrude complaining about not wanting to be a “mascot” while the dress color and camera angle of her hair make her look suspiciously like Micky Mouse is a really good subtle gag. I’m not even 100% sure if it was on purpose, but A+ character framing there, wow. Maybe I should talk about Sam and Fuzzy more.

here’s what comes up when I try to ask on desktop.

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

           (2/2) but I kinda feel uncomfortable in my own masculinity and like if I were a girl everyone would like me more and treat me better. Maybe I’m nonbinary? What doesn’t help is that I know a ton of trans girls and they all have S/Os no matter how autistic they are, meanwhile I’m kinda attractive and semi-funny and I’m an incel. It feels kinda like men are seen as meathead dudebros if they’re masculine, and soyboy betas if they’re not, but women are praised no matter their level of femininity.             

“lol all of prat’s followers are eggs” lmaoo the egg thing is mostly for the bants given the sphere of theory im attached to. Tho i can’t help but realize that me, Being, has the effect of causing undertow in that regard.

“if I were a girl everyone would like me more and treat me better”

that is suuuuuch a um,

if this is what you think, you will have a rude awakening. lmfao ESPECIALLY SO if you make the big troon leap. It’s like a monkey paw wish. People WILL treat you “better” but it will always belie the fact that you will be patronized and treated like a child when they do so. That their niceness is just FDIBD and motivated by libido. And that’s just if you “pass” as a woman. You need to realize that the way women are treated in society is significantly more different than what you are used to. You will come to cherish the moments when you are treated with respect. I think it’s very common for men to imagine that being a woman is waaay better but, it really isn’t. It’ll be just as it is now for you, but with certain pressures and debilitating issues you WILL learn about. You will still be a friendless neet, except with softer skin. lol

I think at the moment, youth are extra fucked (explicitly young men) because the masculine ideal has been systematically destroyed and is constantly being undermined and eroded by capitalism because traditional male roles are increasingly rendered obsolete by the accelerated development of technology. What men follow or chase now is in effect, the simulacra of manhood in various forms. This fundamental loss of what it means to be a man in an advanced and increasingly clerical society is behind feelings like yours. What’s more, it’s likely beneath the past two decades of neoreaction as young men grasp at pre-modern history and faith to provide structure in their lives to these ends. The sort of order and discipline they can’t otherwise find in hyper-modernity.

The future of manhood and living as a man is increasingly like that of what you, personally, experience as maleness. The meathead dudebros too, are just as adolescent and listless as you are, since the maleness that has been attacked and rendered obsolete is the aristocratic, even “gentleman” signifier of such. The visceral semblance of the patriarch. A signifier that has been under assault since the French stormed the Bastille. And on a side note, the French still try relive those days (albeit in race riots or yellow vest sort). They are still trying to make sense of that shit as a person with PTSD revisits and seeks triggers and situations similar to the trauma that caused them it, in hopes of comprehending what happened and overcoming that trauma. Except it’s on an unconscious societal scale. Toppling the previous order the way they had has left France with hundreds of years of complex PTSD and the rationalization of that trauma thru the French canon.

This is probably the aristocracy and neo-monarchist order that Moldbug grasps for. Also, the neocameralist leanings of him would have simply brought him back to the destructive nature of capitalism, which is indeed why the altright has broke against the surf and receded back into the ocean of tepid conservatism. In the end, in it’s own founding principles, it would’ve enabled capital.

And to that, there is a weird refusal by the far right to recognize that their enemy is capital.

They spend an obscene amount of energy going after the symptoms of decay (see: gender specials, immigration, whatever), the churned up humanity that technocapital has only begun to wrought. The culprit is not one all knowing group (in spite of how relieving it must be to behold this staggering global force of disorder as something controllable, let alone directed by some hand-wringing puppeteers), but an overarching impetus by the entropic order of capital and what lays within the noumena of which we make phenomenal as capital, to rend the fleeting, tenuous order we adhere to.

trilllizard666:

michaelmilkers:

…………….brain development?? 19 and 24 are in incredibly different places mentally and psychologically its not rocket science

not always

A good formula is “Divide by 2, add 7″