Some nerds were doing that thing where 40k fans are like "OH NO SEXZ IS HERESY!" when it's pretty definitively not and is basically one of the only things in 40k that isn't heretical (as long as you're not doing evil slannesh shit) and it got me thinking about repression of sex under "in bad country regimes".

And a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooole fucking thing in 1984 was how liberating and humanizing it was that the author's grungy middle aged self-insert was boning a 19 year old member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and, like... America has several thousand different Junior Anti-Sex League and I'm not sure if the USSR ever had any? Like, yeah, maybe they did, but under capitalism Americans have literally convinced themselves they'll go to hell if they see a tiddy and the English famously just hate joy. So what the fuck was Orwell trying to critique with his "Junior Anti-Sex League" in spoooooky Stalinist England?

  • miz [any, any]
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    8 hours ago
    (cw: sa)

    probably has something do with how Eric Blair attempted toremoved his childhood friend (when they were both adults, iirc one was 18 and one was 20) and she never spoke to him again

    • miz [any, any]
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      6 hours ago

      is there some reason the brassica napus filter cannot be fixed? really makes it feel like no one's at the wheel of this bus

      EDIT: what I mean is, the regex eats the character priot to the proscribed word, making it even harder to read

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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        7 hours ago

        it was a recent addition to the filter because many users aren't as diligent as you are about using content warnings around graphic discussions of non-cabbage related uses of the word. it was added at the request of some of our users.

    • miz [any, any]
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      8 hours ago

      thinking about it more, Julia is probably the author's fantasy version of Jacintha Buddicom