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joining the war on porn on the side of porn

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My absolute favorite genre of furry art is art that gives you such a weirdly calm and serene feeling because of the sheer amount of sincerity and unapologetic weirdness that's been poured into the piece. The kind of art that makes you stop and go "holy shit. I can do whatever I want actually. And that's beautiful."

We all know about sinkdog as an example of this but I'm also quite fond of this one specifically

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Spread piece I did for @princesstutuzine !

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What do liberals mean when they say "personal responsibility" ?

I'm not sure what the context of this ask is, but I can try to give an answer based on how I usually see the phrase deployed.

One of the cornerstones of liberalism is individualism, the notion that every person is ultimately a discrete atomic unit of society that can be treated as entirely separate from the rest of society when it comes to both ethics and economics. Under the liberal worldview, social and environmental context must be treated as basically irrelevant when it comes to judging a person's actions. Outside of a handful of predefined cases which depend on legal jurisdiction, all individuals are assumed to be personally responsible for their behavior.

This understanding explains many liberal reformist approaches to dealing with social issues. Anti-homeless architecture, for example, is part of a system intended to discourage individual behaviors deemed undesirable by bourgeois society. The assumption being made is that homeless people are making individual decisions to skirt their own personal responsibility when it comes to housing and employment, and so by making the consequences of homelessness and unemployment harsher, the homeless individual may be discouraged enough that their behavior is directed towards desirable (i.e. employment-seeking) behavior. This is how anti-homeless policies are rationalized and justified in the minds of its architects.

In the courts, the law is geared towards interpretations of acts that assume each defendant bears personal responsibility for their actions. For example, starvation is generally not considered a legal defense for theft of food in most jurisdictions. While the intentional starving of one individual by another would be considered a crime, the inability of a poor person to afford food is not considered under the liberal framework to be an intentional deprivation, since liberalism assigns the responsibility for poverty squarely on the shoulders of the impoverished individual.

So to summarize, when liberals deploy the rhetoric of "personal responsibility", they usually intend to assert an individualistic view of society that rejects class as an underlying factor to social inequality.

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Hello?

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Cardcaptor Sakura Cards

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when someone tries to make china out as uniquely evil ('authoritarian') for having official state censorship policies, bear in mind that three usamerican companies are currently globally enforcing censorship policies founded in a right wing christian worldview. this is the 'freedom of speech' capitalism gets you!

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Vessel au Stuff! enjoy a comic I spedran since I start college tomorrow!!! rahhhh

I kinda got lazy because I'm getting a headache rn :p

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It was funnier in my head

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If you can’t make kids at home, lab-grown is fine.

…even if they’re growing on accident like mold at the back of a fridge.

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this is based entirely off of the fact that the "complete without issue" chapter completion trophies are cancelled if you get the eggs, making the eggs the issue LKDSLKF

i just think it would be so funny if we had two mysterious forgotten guys and they hated each other

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"Um, that was... that was really bad."

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Player X Gaster is my absolute favorite ship by concept alone, this is so fucking funny to me.

(Artist is shayyuri21 on Twitter)

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I love how compared to other Researcher x Eldritch Creature ships, Gaster and The Soul/Player aren't that toxic in fan imaginings

Its honestly sweet. How they both revere eachother. Gaster is in quiet awe of the majesty that is The Soul. And The Soul is intrigued by this little creature

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hi! im sorry if this has already been asked, but how does NIGHTMARE/ERAM/the shadow mantle boss speak with kris in the japanese localization? like, what is their manner of speaking like? because in english there seems to be this air of familiarity, so i am really curious what the nuances are like in japanese!

There are a lot of interesting details about the Shadow Mantle boss's dialogue in Japanese! (JP transcriptions + translations in Alt Text)

To start with, they are as far as I know the only character in the Legend of Tenna or Original Game segments to use kanji in their speech. In the English version, they are one of the only characters to include lowercase letters in their speech instead of using all caps, so this choice in the Japanese likely serves a similar purpose of making them stand out as a bit more "real," as they talk not like a game NPC but like any other character in the Dark World.

Most of their dialogue is fairly gender neutral, and they avoid using any first-person pronouns. There are however a few instances of them using slightly more masculine grammar, such as da, darou, and ka.

Something that is much more blatant in the Japanese is the fact that this character actually speaks very similarly to Gaster! They use quite fanciful and archaic language throughout their dialogue, with many similarities in word choices. In particular, the phrase jitsu ni they use here is how words like "truly" and "very" get translated throughout Gaster's dialogue, such as in notable lines like "excellent, truly excellent" and "very, very interesting." It's a very Gaster-coded phrase for the Japanese audience!

The most pronounced difference between this character's speech and Gaster's (aside from the fact that Gaster replaces all of his hiragana with katakana, making his speech very unique and easy to distinguish) is that Gaster speaks in keigo, honorific speech, which comes across as more formal and polite, while this character uses casual speech, which could provide a sense of familiarity, as you mentioned, or could come across as more threatening. So while this character is presumably not literally Gaster himself, they might have some associations with him, which makes sense considering they are found in the Original Game's version of the Shelter.

The one other character whose speech patterns are quite similar to the Shadow Mantle boss's is Chara!

Chara also speaks in a mildly masculine tone, and they are one of the only characters in Undertale to use kanji in their speech, making them also come across as unnervingly "real" to the audience. Chara also talks about "gaining power," and this is a word-for-word match with how "becoming stronger" is translated in the Original Game.

Again, I don't think this means this character literally is Chara, but considering Chara's associations with the No Mercy route and their role as a sort of representation of the addictive feeling of "getting stronger," it's possible that the Shadow Mantle boss is serving a similar role for Kris, representing their capacity for violence (or at least their imagined capacity for it, regardless of how true this is!).