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why is peace always the justification for violence?

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The fact that the creators of arcane, artists and writers, didn’t dumb/water down their work is what makes it a masterpiece. They didn’t take the audience into account when they created their art. They put their heart and soul into it. You rarely see that in todays entertainment.They took 8 (9?) yrs to make 18 episodes! Everybody agrees the artwork is beautiful, next level quality. But I want to assert that the writing is also. The difference in the way they are perceived is in the fact that the writers didn’t take into account the audience. They didn’t write an easy to understand story where motivation/actions are laid out step by step. They told the story they wanted to tell the way they wanted to tell it. They’re not trying to hold anybody’s hand or spoon feed us. That’s why so many ppl are complaining about ‘bad writing’. To be frank, it’s just going over their heads. Because you don’t have the media literacy, maturity or life experiences to understand a story doesn’t mean it’s bad, it means it’s too much for you. You literally just ‘don’t get it’.

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friendly reminder my ask box is open for advice, opinions, ask games, or just saying hi :3

I’ll include some of my current interests in the tags

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glorious evolution

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Am currently on episode 3 of Arcane season 2, and I don’t think I’ll ever like Cait. I am a Cait anti.

I just don’t feel like she really cares about Vi. Every interaction with Vi has been done with selfish motives to either further her own goals or just to make herself feel better. She uses Vi to accelerate her own agenda so much to the point of convincing her to kill her own sister on multiple occasions. Not to mention her insistence of Vi becoming an enforcer, the thing Vi despised…

And now she’s using the secrets of her mother’s legacy—who felt that citizens of the undercity deserved clean air to breathe—to purposefully harm those same citizens without remorse all just to get to Jinx.

Cait, they could never make me like you.

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Pherson of the Year - Round 1 Match 6

Who has contributed more to phannie culture in 2024?

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I want the foucault essay please.

Well... since you asked...

The thing is, the move from the London apartment(s) to the phouse represents not only a symbolic shift in the visual language of their videos but a material change in both Dan and Phil's lives and in their relationship with their audience. Furthermore, we can use it to understand some of the murkier aspects of phandom history if we care to delve into an investigation of sexuality, conformity, and desire.

The London apartment is a place well and truly of its time, from the geek chic decor to the midtwentysomething string lights in Dan's bedroom. It was a serious undertaking for two twenty-somethings who had just gotten a radio job, and were committing to live in a very expensive location on an entertainer's income. They have spoken about the difficulty they experienced in separating their work and their public personas from their private lives, which is perhaps most poignantly demonstrated by the fact that they literally slept with cameras and lights pointing at their beds.

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault (and forgive me, I've donated my copies of his books since I left college, so I'll be working from memory) describes the modern phenomenon of the "panopticon"-- a disciplinary tool of the modern era where rather than physically restraining or controlling transgressors, people are kept in line by the feeling that they are constantly being monitored. The knowledge of societal norms, and whether an individual has violated them, is the axis on which power turns.

During their time in London, Dan and Phil were experiencing a meteoric rise to fame which no one could have anticipated. Suddenly it seemed that their every gesture, every movement, every interaction with one another, was under constant scrutiny from millions of viewers. One can only imagine the degree to which that feeling spilled over into their day-to-day existence, because it must have-- I can't imagine putting on an act for the camera, scouring the footage for bits that seemed too revealing or vulnerable, and then trying to sleep in front of the same camera which, even if it wasn't on, represented the watching, monitoring gaze of the internet.

The social norm in question here, of course, was being gay. Mostly, anyway. A transgression of sexuality. Foucault has a lot to say about this too, of course, in the several volumes of his History of Sexuality. I won't get into that too much here. To summarize with a butcher's brevity, the modern conception of sexuality is, like that of criminality, shaped by the need to cognize, label, categorize, and scientifically observe it. At other points in the past, even when sexuality may have been perceived as deviant or wrong, it was treated as an act, not as an intrinsic flaw. To identify someone as being homosexual, or queer, or trans, or what have you, is a relatively new invention.

Were Dan and Phil gay? Were they just friends? Were they bisexual? Did they actually live together? Did they fuck? The near-rabid desire to get to the bottom of these questions was shaped in part by a societal urge in our culture to pin people down like butterflies in a collector's case. The knowledge of bodies, desires, and the latent Catholic urge to demand they all be confessed in excruciating detail haunted Dan and Phil wherever they went online.

In this new era then, are we doing any better? I think we are. Where the London apartment is documented by floor plan down to the last inch (and worse yet, was at one point doxxed), the phouse is an intentionally private space with plenty left to the imagination, where I do so hope the boys are living WITHOUT cameras pointed where they sleep. There's something interesting to me, too, in their disinterest in framing their relationship in concrete terms. The nature of their celebrity is bound to expose them to scrutiny, both from friendly and unfriendly gazes, but I feel like the main difference in their attitude these days is a plain refusal to allow the surveillance to dictate their lives. Some things, they just don't want to talk about. Some things they do (and oh boy, do they love to talk about those things).

Our cultural frameworks do us no favors in understanding this kind of ambiguity, but I think it's to our credit as an audience that overall I see more and more people embracing it. Foucault is a bit of a downer overall, but he concludes the History of Sexuality vol. 1 by saying something to the effect of, the best we can do is to follow our desires and try to find joy for ourselves and our communities in doing so. And a radically liberatory approach to desire and joy is I think exactly what this community cultivates at its best, for our boys and for ourselves.

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want a butch who’s obsessed with me. want a butch who’s so devoted that it flusters me, makes me get all red in the face. i want to be on someone’s mind 24/7, i want admiration and fixation. i want a butch whose love for me is 100% apparent and physical, whether it’s through words or touch or time, and i’ll undoubtedly give that same 100% back <3

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“you remember that?” i remember every little thing about you

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christmas light @amazingphil called to me

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something blue

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Best RPF Ship - FINAL!

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dan and phil say go vote phan <3 / ref

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Forget It Takes Two, I’m more devastated about the fact that Dan and Phil never played Thank Goodness You’re Here on the gaming channel. Like that’s literally Phil’s life story. Can you imagine the insane Northern lore drops at every single turn. I think it would kill Dan.

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>"nobody's gonna help you in the real world!!"

>go outside

>love and support in many places as long you have the courage to ask for it

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Growing up is actually just enjoying the exact same things you enjoyed at 14 years old, but in a more gay way

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ineffable husbands is so insane. i know that's a good omens thing but ineffable means not to be uttered because it's too great and for so long we did not utter the word phan but now we're in a time of reclaiming when they're not only tagging phan but they're tagging ineffable husbands on their couples halloween costume photo do you UNDERSTAND THE INSANITY