Gaiman asked her, to sit on his lap. Pavlovich stammered out a few sentences: She was gay, she’d never had sex, she had been sexually abused by a 45-year-old man when she was 15. Gaiman continued to press. “The next part is really amorphous,” Pavlovich tells me. “But I can tell you that he put his fingers straight into my ass and tried to put his penis in my ass. And I said, ‘No, no.’ Then he tried to rub his penis between my breasts, and I said ‘no’ as well. Then he asked if he could come on my face, and I said ‘no’ but he did anyway. He said, ‘Call me ‘master,’ and I’ll come.’ He said, ‘Be a good girl. You’re a good little girl.’”

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What. The. Actual. Fuck…

Oh neat!! I thought that idea had been shot down, that’s cool to hear

Thanks for letting me know :) Hope you have a lovely day

That’s a strange take… But even if that logic follows, it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that’s what ALL users want, and Eugene is the sole opposition. You and I may want global search, but lots of Mastodon users actively loathe the idea.

Personally I think it’d be a better platform for it, but I get why there are folks who don’t like the idea. I also wish they’d implement quoting people, but again, I understand why some folks don’t like that idea. Downvotes don’t really make sense on microblogging to me.

That’s super cool, love the intense contrast

Huh… I think that kinda show might not make my social anxiety happy to watch 😅 it sounds stressful lol

I’ll take a look at it at some point though, it definitely sounds like an interesting show :)

Oooh, I don’t know many so I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread ☺️

That would be really weird, since if I recall correctly meta funds fediverse projects, I think including Pixelfed. I think they’ve even run an event to help devs, maybe multiple.

Dansup the creator of pixelfed has talked about it and is generally a little more comfortable with meta than I can fully get on board with

(regardless of having generally engaged positively with the Fediverse as far as I’ve seen, they still facilitated genocide, enabled mass misinformation campaigns, exploited people’s privacy, etc.)

Edit: from other comments it sounds like this is just a spam filter for short posts with links, and doesn’t get blocked if the post is longer and/or has an image 🤷‍♂️

Aw, what a lovely story

Apparently he makes them for fun in his spare time, along with building Lego sets.

Interesting, no idea if that’s my cup of tea but maybe I’ll give it a shot

Thanks for the detailed recommendation! :)

Lol, I didn’t realize I had already replied and was just editing my comment (I just edited it) so I was super confused to see you had already replied to me, four minutes before I thought I posted 😅

Ah, gotcha. I’ll take fanservice over the character trope of a character who’s entire personality is sexually harassing or spying on women, but I don’t generally like it when it feels like directorial choices are being made that don’t fit/aren’t in service of what the media is actually about, or directorial choices that remind me I’m watching a piece of media.

A lot of times fanservice feels at odds with the general vibe, or is executed in a fashion/frequency that makes me think about the director sitting somewhere making choices on the basis that they think I wanna see boobs in every shot

Like weirdly I think it was more of an issue in ghost in the shell (the show), than in kill la kill. Kill la kill was still gratuitous, but it wouldn’t really work if it weren’t, and while I prefer serious media, it being a less serious show I don’t care about immersion as much

It sounds like it may still be worth checking out though, I might have to give it a try at some point :)

Questionable in what way?

There are definitely some questionable tropes or tendencies in anime, particularly shonen, that aren’t my cup of tea 😅

No idea what overlord is but that’s some sick art

I’m so glad I reposted this here, reading the comments makes me happy lol

If you’re seeing this, I hope you have a lovely day ❤️

That’s certainly a cool thought!

As someone who doesn’t follow this stuff closely, I appreciate the clarification!

Its nice to hear from someone with more hands on experience. Hope you have a good one :)

:(((((

In cars, if horsepower was measured to be a determining factor in being allowed to buy one, then that’d be the peak power, so it’s weird to go by rated power in watts for usage rather than the peak power output on e-bikes. Generally the most productive way to measure “power” is power-to-weight-ratio anyway.

To play devils advocate a bit, cars do require formal licensing, and because everyone has one, the government has more reason to invest infrastructure into their oversight. But on the flip side, they’re also about a million times more dangerous. Here in the US the government generally wants to be as “hands off” as possible, but I know that’s not the same in other parts of the world so I’m sure I look at things a bit differently than you do on account of being American.

And do companies actually sell high power e-bikes? My understanding has generally been that folks modify them. You can buy a super car from the factory, but both cars and bikes have the potential for “hot-rodding” and performance tuning, which does feel like it complcates preemptive oversight like regulations.

Personally I also really enjoy people being able to hack on, customize and tune the tech and machines that are part of their lives. The big problem is how you operate the vehicle, but there’s strong argument to be made either way whether the scale of the issue means that preventing it is necessary since consequences are harder to enforce, or if on the other side, it’s more important to preserve individual freedom to make, and do, and tinker, knowing that some people will misuse that ability and won’t be caught, with real potential consequences for people around them.

I tend to lean more towards the latter, but I think the former absolutely has merits and can empathetise with that perspective. (we’re all but product of our social conditioning lol, how very American of me)

I definitely agree about consequences. That’s a really simple one you do shit that can get people hurt and you should get in trouble for it, idealy before someone does actually get hurt.

Man, I completely forgot about that. That’s honestly wild to think about in retrospect…