hello! I’m Chloé, a nerdy ace trans gal :3

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  • yea, that’s pretty much it. third spaces include stuff like bars, public libraries, parks, public squares… basically, places where you can socialize outside of work.

    they still exist, obviously, but many of them have disappeared over the years, especially the ones that don’t expect you to pay. it’s even worse in suburbs, especially car-dependent suburbs, because those are zoned as housing only (so no libraries, bars, sometimes not even a park), and if you’re a kid you can’t drive to a city, so outside of school (and maybe extracurricular activities, if your parents can afford those), you’re stuck at home where the only place you can socialize is the internet.



  • the antagonists of stardew valley are joja, and the protagonists are you and (arguably) pierre, two small business owners. which are still capitalists (owners of capital), even tho they work.

    stardew valley is a game which criticizes big capital (it shows how it alienates you from work, both in the beginning and with the villagers who work there, selling the town over to joja closes the community center definitively, they threaten to make pierre’s go out of business, their shitty products are polluting the water…), but also celebrates small capital with great naivety (you as the small business owner are responsible for repairing many things around town, including especially the community center, and you, pierre and harvey as small business owners are never criticized by the game in the same way joja is)

    which is fine, it’s a game, it’s meant to be fun, of course the player has the most agency. it probably wouldn’t be as fun if you were a proletarian farm worker with little-to-no agency.

    but that doesn’t make it anti-capitalist. stardew valley is a libertarian-right game, it’s the game that says “the problem isn’t capitalism, it’s corporatism!”