isabelcooper.bsky.social
Author of paranormal romance and romantic fantasy. Roleplayer. Occult dabbler. Feminist. She/her, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-abortion, pro-sex, "work ethic" is a fake idea.
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Right? And it's clearly not a thing where, IDK, he was a freshman banging his girlfriend from high school, or he'd have said that and/or not been so defensive.
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(Also the SWives are wonky enough that at least one sect could decide Snape existed as an astral presence and Ms. Bizarro just interpreted him wrong.)
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Part of me is like, hey, I remember when "phallocentric" was the sort of Typical Left-Wing Academic Term right-wingers would use as parody.
The rest of me starts with "Sir, I have handled *plenty* of direct phallocentric communication..." and goes from there.
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The most middle-aged reaction to the stories I've had is deciding that I don't ever want to do ketamine because I have to use the bathroom too often as it is.
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This. Trump voters? Oh, I wish them all the suffering in the world. But a) there are no red states, only gerrymandered states and b) even bigoted Trump-voting asshats have kids, at least some of whom statistically are going to grow up into good people and tell their parents to fuck off.
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Uch, right?
Plus, now every time I tell people that I'm ENM, I'm going to have to add "NOT LIKE STEPHEN MILLER." The crypto guy was bad enough.
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You're welcome. I work for very unreasonable rates, if you're interested.
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"'[Upset statement,]'" says creepy right-wing dweeb. CRWB does seem genuinely upset. Their social media contains the following statements [ABC], and they voted for Trump, who said [PQR] in multiple public appearances. CRWB did not comment on this.
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Here:
"We couldn't get statements from anyone else [in X situation], perhaps because they, unlike [subjects] aren't white Trump supporters and thus are more worried about further persecution. However, [demographic information.]"
Done. 5 minutes, while watching TV and playing porny visual novels.
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Technically at someone else, but yeah.
I didn't vote for a bigoted authoritarian felon. That's as unlike these asshats as I need or want to be.
Also, a bit sad that I didn't think to come back with the Conan line.
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And furthermore, if you can't figure out a way to alert the public to people's opinions or situations without providing context or contradicting their bullshit--you don't even have to do it directly to their faces, it's a fucking article--then may I suggest you learn to fucking write?
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I am not the first person to point out the contradiction between "Why doesn't anyone support journalism any more?" and "Journalism requires empathy for fascists!" but it bears repeating, and it's tough to see an ostensibly for-the-people publication ignoring it.
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Given the parent, they're probably better off without him.
I'm sorry they have an immensely shitty dad, though.
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Generally wish, this is what happens when I post while annoyed.
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To paraphrase another deserving victim of a disease I generally didn't exist, you can take my delight in the suffering of my enemies when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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If "FAFO is depraved," in the words of the latest pearl-clutcher, then...well, it's far from the first time I've been depraved, though usually it involves more cocktails and fancier underwear.
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And IDK, maybe lead with "these are the people we could get to talk, here's at least the number other non-white, non-spawning-for-Jebus, non-plaguerats affected" rather than scolding people for their responses.
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It shouldn't happen to anyone, but if it's happening at all, it hits differently when it happens to them. Leopards, faces, etc.
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Gee whiz, I wonder why white Trump voters would decide they want to whine to the press about their situation and make no mention of how they got themselves and the rest of us into it.
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Then why not report on any of the other people in that situation who didn't cheer on fascism?
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And "journalists have to be completely impartial and not mention how the people in question relate to the outside world" is how we got Trump and QAnon and the "let's talk to fascists in a diner" reporting.
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Same.
I don't want the particular things making them suffer to happen, because that hits innocents, but...
...it's like Alzheimer's. I wish it didn't exist. I have family with it, and it's heartbreaking for everyone. But as long as it's happening to anyone, I'm glad it happened to Reagan.
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Just one more reason people tend to distrust journalists these days, then.
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"Across partisan lines" means giving cover to bigots and fascists, which isn't exactly putting people first.
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"Fuck that."
Isabel Cooper, today on Bsky.
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They voted for it.
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Oh, hadn't heard about that one, but word.
If I wanted to spend time with a bunch of willfully-dysfunctional twerps, there are a *lot* of dating apps out there.
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(I also have to find the recommenders who share my tastes: Abercrombie and Martin are objectively very good writers, but way too bleak for me, for example.)
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Yeah, and more so--IME--as you get older and pickier slash have less spare time. When I was a kid, just about everything remotely fantasy delighted me, but now I bounce off about half of what I try, but I think that's about life stage rather than book trends.
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(Or Betty, I guess, but the show doesn't seem to expect us to care about her the same way.)
(This has been Izzy's Sudden Mad Men Retrospective, thank you for listening.)
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(Which I guess he does at the end, maaaybe, but it took him an unconscionable amount of screen time to get there, while every other major character proceeds in a more-or-less coherent journey to being more functional. Or Roger, who exists outside the functionality paradigm.)
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(Seriously, your past is very sad and all, and the Cold War sucks, but when we've already seen you deal with it in S3 and your downward spiral in S4...okay, fucking enough. It's the sixties. Take some shrooms, bang some hippies, and get over yourself.)
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But annoying MMCs tend to be in Very Serious Deconstructions of Blah Blah Blah, which I avoid anyhow, whereas I keep getting sucked into stuff that sounds quirky and interesting and optimistic and then has That Fucking Girl as a protagonist. (Though PD has both. Sigh.)
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("ENOUGH WITH THE DADDY ISSUES, HAL" came up in the GL movie, but that sucked anyhow.)
And the last three seasons of Mad Men I tended to skip Don Draper's self-indulgent breakdown per season because JFC JUST SWING ALREADY YOU LITERAL DICK.
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"depressing deconstruction of robot anime" is not for me. I am given to understand that Walter White is very annoying, but "Breaking Bad" is also very bleak, so again: no.
I do end up yelling "GO TO FUCKING THERAPY" at many cops on my parents' mystery shows, and some superheroes, I guess.
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Oh, and "Dead Like Me"--so frustrating! Fascinating world! Every other character is awesome! Thematic waffles! And OH MY GOD GEORGE SHUUUUUT UP AND DO YOUR JOB AND THEN SHUT UP SOME MORE FOREVER YOU STUPID EMO SLACKER TWIT.
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(I went through some "is this because of internalized issues with femininity" stuff for a while but, like, nah, I like a lot of femme characters, including in the same anime. I just also need some sort of *competence*.)
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(I know Usagi's supposed to be some kind of forgotten feminist icon these days, but nah: she may be "pure of heart" or whatever but she's still fucking useless and whiny, give me literally any other of the Sailors, sorry not sorry.)