#Complicated Illusions
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My understanding of evil, age 0-10: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
My understanding of evil, in my teens: You can't really boil things down to good and evil. People are complicated. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and someone who seems evil to you is actually doing their best from their own perspective. If you could walk a mile in their shoes, you'd understand. There is no such thing as evil.
My understanding of evil, in my twenties: Look, it's basically just tribalism. We are all necessarily thrust into competition with one another. There are always going to be winners and losers. Whining about evil is just being upset that you lost the game.
My understanding of evil, in my thirties: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
#one of the hardest pills to swallow growing up#was understanding that the world actually isn't that complicated#it really is just greed#power-lust#cruelty#and hate#that are ruining society#people are making the world worse out of spite#not because they get something out of it#but because they get off on seeing you lose something#evil really is uncomplicated and simple like a saturday morning cartoon#it has been all along#it only pretends to have nuance#because the illusion of complexity makes it marketable to new suckers
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NME | 17 août 2021
Manic Street Preachers : “On s’est guidés dans l’oubli” Nicky Wire et James Dean Bradfield disent à Andrew Trendell comment leur rejet des dissensions a façonné leur glacial et personnel 14ème album, The Ultra Vivid Lament. Continue reading Untitled
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#Augustus John#Blank Diary Entry#Complicated Illusions#Diapause#Don&039;t Let The Night Divide Us#Gwen John#Into The Waves Of Love#Julia Cumming#Manic Street Preachers#Manics#Mark Lanegan#NME#Orwellian#Quest For Ancient Colour#Still Snowing In Sapporo#The Secret He Had Missed#The Ultra Vivid Lament
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NME | 17 août 2021
Manic Street Preachers : “On s’est guidés dans l’oubli” Nicky Wire et James Dean Bradfield disent à Andrew Trendell comment leur rejet des dissensions a façonné leur glacial et personnel 14ème album, The Ultra Vivid Lament. Continue reading Untitled
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#Augustus John#Blank Diary Entry#Complicated Illusions#Diapause#Don&039;t Let The Night Divide Us#Gwen John#Into The Waves Of Love#Julia Cumming#Manic Street Preachers#Manics#Mark Lanegan#NME#Orwellian#Quest For Ancient Colour#Still Snowing In Sapporo#The Secret He Had Missed#The Ultra Vivid Lament
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in kpts, almost everyone in the mafia is trapped there. a good half of them clearly want out.
porsche vehemently doesn't even want in. he resists to the best of his ability, and even once he's in, he still dreams of that bar on the beach. chay would drop the mafia in a heartbeat, if he felt that it was possible. kim's already got one foot out the door. kinn wishes he could have even half of what kim has, but he's been thoroughly convinced he's never allowed to have it.
so despite all these characters who would love to be let loose, who would kill for a chance at true freedom — would run off into the sunset and never look back — it's interesting that the narrative gives the slightest promise of freedom to the two characters who didn't know it was possible, who never even thought to dream of it. vegas and pete do not understand the value of what they've been handed.
will they ever understand? will they ever see that freedom as a gift instead of a curse?
#the million dollar question#and the answer is massively complicated imo#it's gonna keep me up at night for the rest of my life 😂#it's an excellent choice on the narrative's part but it's also fascinating from korn's perspective#present the illusion of freedom to the one member of the family who would take it as punishment#kinnporsche#vegaspete
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i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc
#what am i trying to say here?#idk! think about all of the pieces you have#dying is complicated in ohtori in countless different ways#and i find it boring to see so much ‘this character is dead and that’s it’ stuff#when death is used farrrrrrr more figuratively than some ppl give credit for#and i think the movie too does wonderful things with death#and what ‘dying’ really means#being disbelieved. being forgotten. being rejected. haunting despite this#much more interesting to think about wrt commentary on abusive relationships than it is#to think about what?? oh me when my brother died but plot twist he’s alive and can walk on this road all cool. like?????#akio doesn’t have the power to make himself revenant#he THINKS he does and he absolutely has power when he’s alive and he imbues that power with such meaning that it does live on after him#but ANTHY. anthy is the one struggling with herself and her feelings and the impact of trauma and abuse (that power!!) in aou#he’s dead? he died? she brought him back through her memories? or she’s left him (metaphorical death) and he’s haunting her??#all such interesting interpretations#i haven’t mentioned touga bc i don’t have the energy today. if dead and just illusion of others memories then why active. why awful#like in aou akio is only Obviously scummy when he’s alive. his illusory self is based upon anthy’s love for him#if anime!touga is nothing more than nanami/whoever’s memories of him before he died……. why does he actively choose to suck again and again#like nanami wouldn’t do that. unless it was meant to be a subconscious thing like ooo he’s dead all along but that’s not what her arc is#it’s not ‘he’s been dead all along’ literally or figuratively. it’s ‘he’s unsafe and i don’t want him’#sigh. once again i am asking people to think about nanami and touga’s dynamic through touga’s eyes#it’s so interesting to me how people forget to consider his motivations or feelings on ANYTHING#like sure his motivations and feelings are scummy but they’re interesting!!!!! they intrigue me!!!!#compel me even#anyway ignore how i said i didn’t have the energy for this and then typed it all out anyway#dais.txt
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I'm not a psychologist or a politician or anything approaching an expert about literally anything except a few specific video games but I feel like so many people wouldn't be agonizing over the moral implications of one (1) vote if we as the less-than-uppest-of-upper-crust had the ability to meaningfully affect change in ways other than 'spend money/do not spend money, vote for the red or blue tie'
#spitblaze says things#im aware its significantly more complicated. but i think this is whats driving a not insignificant amount of posting#biden has been doing a godawful job with foreign policy. i am under no illusion that trump will do better#you can still just THREATEN to withhold your vote. i get why some might not want to but its an option.#every presidential election since 2008 has been the most important election in american history. im tired.#idk man. i havent been super engrossed in politics since high school but ive never seen this much agonizing over whether or not#pwople should vote like. at all#personally im of the opinion that you should. its a good thing to do. but you should also exercise your power to put pressure on politician#and threatening to not vote for them is a pretty good way to do that#i gotta stop posting abour serious shit. but maybe id do it less if shit sucked less. so here we are#free palestine. if federal level politics is driving you insane then pay more attention to local level stuff. join a mutual aid org#and donate esims and food money to gaza. do things besides agonizing about november
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the 2010 film Centurion is deeply frustrating to me because it desperately wants to be about the Varian Disaster, every single beat in this movie would fit near-perfectly for the Varian Disaster, you could relocate this film temporally and geographically to Germania and not change literally anything except some of the names, and yet because Hollywood considers Britannia way sexier and more exotic than Germania it is set in Britain. this movie should be about the Varian Disaster! in every way but geographically including the drawback of the frontiers this movie is about the Varian Disaster! and yet. it is not about the Varian Disaster.
(the movie itself is fine. like, it's Agricola slander and Tacitus is rolling over in his grave, but my tolerance for historical inaccuracy is pretty high these days. don't go out of your way to watch it, but like, it's fine. if I had a nickel for every time Olga Kurylenko has played a Roman-hating British woman warrior I'd have two nickels, which is not a lot but it's weird it's happened twice etc.)
#hollywood desperately wants to do the varian disaster and they desperately want to do spartacus#but they don't ACTUALLY want to do the varian disaster and the true story of spartacus is depressing#which is why we keep getting stuff like this and gladiator (which wants to be spartacus)#not remakes of film spartacus but actual historical spartacus#minus the mass crucifixions#hollywood likes the whole 'rise up against roman imperialism!' thing but the problem is that historically none of that actually worked out#except the varian disaster. which they don't want to do because germania isn't sexy#bedlam watches movies#(I am going to watch boudica: queen of war but tomorrow because I can't do another one of these tonight)#I'd like to see hollywood tackle the fact that the roman army was the most powerful military technology that the world had ever seen#for a good few centuries. the problem is that that does not actually make a good story from a modern point of view due to. you know.#imperialism being bad.#(look I am a roman historian and MY WHOLE DEAL is roman imperialism. it wasn't great! I'm under no illusions here!)#I think that LITERALLY the only point you can actually pull that off for a modern 21st century audience#is the second punic war. which by the way would make an incredible television show.#(partially because rome's on her back foot through the whole war)#I think you could maybe do it for the year of the four emperors#but that has more complications due to like. the three other revolts rome had going on besides the civil war.#but the year of the four emperors would also make an incredible television series.#(I am BEGGING HBO to bring back rome as an anthology series. they won't do it but I'm begging.)#(I want to see jared harris play vespasian)
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i think a lot about how mohg and morgott's great runes are found together...
#elden ring#you may make your own meanings.#the note in mohg's that his rune resembles morgott's as well...#i don't agree that morgott didn't mention mohg in his cutscene because he doesn't consider him a traitor. i think it's more complicated.#but think about it. mohg is safe and far away. hidden behind every imaginable defense and very easy to simply miss#why would morgott tell you. “pillager emboldened by the flame of ambition”. why would he let YOU know about his brother.#whether it's true or not. i think he knows exactly what you might do to mohg if you found him.#that and the like. illusion+ seal 2 layers guarding the frenzied flame. and the fell twins outside their divine tower...
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My paranoia and anxiety is making me believe that the "Sun is abusive to his planets" fanon take came from me and my fics
#chel babbles#solarballs#its unlikely but maybe my fics have exacerbated that to no return 😭✌🏽#sorry i usually do this as if im not just some person writing sb fics#thinking im important#but theres the possibility and it scares me that ppl think i made the sun abusive in the sc au#when hes not#hes just a complicated character and i hope i explained he has sociopathic/psychopathic symptoms#hes incredibly tough on them due to the illusion that they might destroy themselves without his guidance
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please enjoy this hot take my husband dropped on me at lunchtime today:
you know, the one thing Aizen never did was try to convince everyone that someone else had secret total hypnosis powers that they were hiding as something else. Like, "You all thought Captain Hitsugaya had ice powers, but he is, in fact, casting illusions on you as we speak." That would have been so on brand for him and also hilarious.
#hitsugaya would spend 29 hours working out a complicated mathematical proof to show that he does not have illusion powers#and no one would read it because he got thrown in muken 28 of those hours ago#aizen having a beef out for hitsugaya is so so funny to me#he's just a little guy who's doing his best to finish his expense reports he does not deserve this#i suppose aizen views him as the biggest threat to his plans but that's b/c the competition is like#byakuya out here trying to get his own lieutenant thrown in prison for incompetence#which honestly. if that's a crime then the gotei really needs to build a bigger muken
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Is gender even a thing anymore or like... we're done with that nonsense yeah?
#i mean????#right?#tate talks#gender#gender identity#gender is complicated#gender is an illusion#gender is a lie#gender isnt real#gender spectrum#enby things
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I don't want love I can't afford.
#quotes#feelings#emotions#love#can't afford it#romantic quotes#love quotes#wise words#thoughtful#love is complicated#love is an illusion#no need to explain#dumblr
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Imagine: you are Idril and you hate your cousin viscerally and this hate is later justified in every way possible. He is a monster and a traitor and as unlike your belovéd aunt as possible. And he dies, and he does not come to the Halls of Mandos and does not reembody. Perhaps you are horrible for thinking this: but you are glad. You are glad he is gone and unable to return. He was a nightmare who crawled into your stainless city and tore it down when it was least expected. He made your father love him, and then he betrayed him, and you will never forgive nor forget it. Now there is no way he can hurt you, your husband, your son, your people– and there is no one he can betray.
and then your aunt reembodies.
Your aunt reembodies and yes, she died for that monster, but she was blameless for she was forced to marry evil and birth evil and love evil. But now she's reborn without those cobwebs of enchantment and you are prepared for her grief and rage over having been controlled. She will not be the same. But she will be back, at long last.
Except. she comes back and none of these things happen.
She doesn't care that her son is evil and treacherous, more his father's son than hers. She doesn't care. She grieves for your city and in the next breath she wishes for her son's return. So you love your aunt and your aunt loves the creature of your nightmares– the betrayer that nearly killed your son and brought your home to ruin. So you love your aunt but she does not listen when you tell her to let her son go because she never saw–
and so your aunt leaves. and it feels like betrayal. like your cousin ruining your family further from beyond the grave.
she still visits, but no one in the family knows where she lives. She is strange– both the steely eyed aunt you remember and yet sometimes she looks like she has never seen you before. you try to break the enchantment that she must be under to keep looking for your Marred cousin, but there is nothing for you to find. all your trying does is send her into a rage the likes you have only seen once before: when she dragged your father away from following your mother in death for your sake.
you love your aunt, and most days, you are sure your aunt loves you.
but you cannot understand her, and in this you have lost her as surely as when she died.
#tolkien#the silmarillion#aredhel#idril celebrindal#maeglin#our long heritage of heresy#in the heresy verse things are so so complicated between aredhel and idril because neither of their feelings about maeglin are wrong exactl#but maeglin being GONE– nowhere in Arda– is really the straw that breaks the camel's back for aredhel#and all idril is seeing is the maeglin issue which is a significant part of it but there's other shit in there as well on aredhel's end!!#my favorite dynamic for aredhel amongst the nolofinwions is that they love her but on a fundamental level they do not understand her#and she loves them back. so she forgives them for it (mostly) and says nothing of it. she leaves when it gets too much#but she always comes back#except reembodied aredhel has had an entire history created about what happened to her after she left gondolin WITHOUT HER INPUT#and BOY did they get it WRONG#and it is SUFFOCATING#here lies my three defining traits for aredhel: 1) she has been mistranslated her entire life from the very first time her mother held her#and said Irissë meant “Desired Lady” instead “Lady of Desire”/“Lady who Desires”#2) aredhel has little forgiveness and little pity but for those she cares about she will let (minor) mistakes go#(no matter how these little things build up and rot and fester)#and 3) aredhel built the enchantments that hid Gondolin and her craft is threefold: illusions and hunting and always. always. freedom.#apparently no one in her family can understand this. even after thousands of years and her DEATH#and unfortunately for everyone else reembodied aredhel reaches her limit and finally finally snaps#and this looks like it has come out of NOWHERE to the nolofinwions#shit's messy!#<- should be the slogan of Aman#my posts
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My most boomer opinion is that I hate that almost all daily online services require me to sign in with my smartphone. My smartphone is currently broken so I can't even sign into my bank account or my e-mail.
My second most boomer opinion is that I fucking hate that opening devices and replacing the battery so they can go on working for another few years is considered fucking illegal by most companies.
I don't consider doing everything online and/or with my smartphone convenient at all, because when it gets stolen or broken, you're basically handicapped. I don't want to have to make an account to find out where the mail service has delivered my package! I don't want to have to sign in with my e-mail to be able to open a locker at a concert hall! I don't want to have to get a new phone every two years! I don't want to have to go online to turn on my tv! I want off this ride!!!
#personal#fuck capitalism seriously#I'm so tired it's all so unnecessarily complicated#thinking a lot about nostalgia for retro/vintage/older technology lately and growing up in the 90s/2000s#It's just that it felt like we had a choice? Maybe it was an illusion but you could continue to do your banking on paper (like my grandpa)#or do it online or via smartphone. But now it feels like we're all being forced to live a certain way. And I hate it so much
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I hope I'm not just a gifmaker to you but also someone who made you think the two firefighter dudes were actually together for a while there.
#no seriously#how many people started watching the show based on edits with the illusion buddie was canon?#because i feel like if you watched the show based on edits#you probably thought they were together based on the sheer amount of content lol#i dont know because I didn't know much about the show before i started#which is a blessing i legit saw nothing coming#i knew of buddie but i was under the impression it was more subtext than it actually is#but since i watched after watching lone star with tarlos i was legit intrigued for a while there once things started happening with them#but yeah i don't know okay#i was just thinking about feeling deceived by gif sets and then being like#wait they're not canon?#it's a complicated feeling kspakapakpakaapa#thoughts thoughts thoughts
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Lumping sokkas actor in with actual native people is weird. That's a white man with no connection to his supposed ancestory and culture, the others are very open about it
I didn’t? I said even if you believe he’s ndn (I don’t but I don’t want to also debate that on the post)-the colorism is still an issue. As he’s whitewashing the character either way. The featurism still applies. The post was about the whitewashing of the indigenous cast he is the most egregious example.
#I don’t wanna be mean but?? reading comprehension.#he was cast under the illusion of being ndn (he’s not) so the people who casted him are still colorist it’s genuinely not complicated#asks#anon
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