#Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take

[usefulquotes7]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[thehopefulquotes]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[stay-close]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[thoughtkick]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[wisdomseeker02]

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PAC: What do you have to live for?

For anyone feeling depressed or suicidal. I'm there with you. Let's see why your life is worth it. Let's hang in there together. 🫂❤️‍🩹

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Group 1 🌅: Something is being given birth to here, group 1. I know it's hard, and painful, and it takes time, but that's how birth is. For some of you it might actually be that you are pregnant. This thing or human that is coming into this world is what you have to live for. There are some illusions here, some deceit. You might be feeling or thinking that things are worse than they actually are. You might be making up stuff that don't exist or think something is true, when it isn't. There might be some other people that are filling your head with these illusions. But at the right time, in the right moment, you will see that there is action you can take to improve things, to make things better. You will see that you have control, and that you are not powerless . You will know what to do and you will do it, and everything will get better from then on. Things will change for the better.

Group 2 🌅: What you have to live for is immuning yourself to your fears, going through difficulties and dealing with them, healing from them, so that you can later on help others do the same. You'll have the power to help others break the lies they've been telling themselves, that keep them feeling low. You might have to be the strength for a particular person, a person you love.

Group 3 🌅: You deserve to live because you are innocent. Nothing that you have been through, that has happened to you, that you've lost is your fault. What you have to live for is finding that innocent happiness of a child inside you again, that freedom of all the guilt you've been carrying. You might feel like you are missing something essential, that you've lost something essential, or that you don't have enough resources. But you can be happy like a child again, regardless of this lack. You will regain confidence in yourself, and in your life, in the fact that life is worth it. Your efforts will start paying off, and things will start working out for you. You will have a desire for life again. A desire to take action and make things happen. And things will start happening, and progressing fast for you. I'm so happy for you, hang in there!

Group 4 🌅: What you have to live for is the right moment, divine timing, that is gonna make things better. It's going to break the illusions that keep you feeling this way. And you are going to really be happy and have fun again. You're going to move on and leave behind things that no longer serve you. And you're going to move to a better place in your life. You're going to adjust to these changes.

Group 5 🌅: What you have to live for is realizing that you are a worthy human being, as worthy as anybody else. You are worthy of a good life, of love, of the things you want. And things will start moving forward. You will be expressing your sexuality, your passion more. You will move on and leave behind things or people that no longer serve you. You will follow your heart and act according to it. You may have a good romantic love into your life. And be the strength for your partner. But you're going to be strong on your own as well.

I'm willing to do this question as a free personal reading for some people, so send me an ask if you'd like one. 🤗

[perfectquote]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[resqectable]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[azuresky-agere]

CLASSIFICATION AU - PART TWO!

PART ONE IS HERE

This part will go into all the nations and their stance on classifications, ect.

Mondstadt, the nation of Freedom.

Mondstadt has a good view on classification. If you want to have a job as a little, you must take at least one day off a week to regress. This is shared by the fact that every new regressor among the Knights will get a Caregiver/Babysitter assigned to them among joining (as long as they don't have one when signing up) who will act as someone to guide you through the ranks, make sure you're working good, help you regress, ect.

Regarding Venti in specific, Venti thought of himself as a neutral, but got classified as a little, and he didn't take it too well. He thought he could not regress, and it didn't really go well.

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Liyue, the nation of Contracts

Liyue is sometimes a mixed bag. With classification being a new term, most of the older residents are rather...negative. The more older people tend to not regress anymore due the hormones in their brain telling them that they're too old, and they don't need to do it anymore. So, with the classification being new, and the older people not needing to/understanding it, they can be rather annoyed.

Regarding work, it's the same as Mondstadt. If one wishes to be among the Millelith, they must be accompanied by a babysitter/caregiver at all times, as well as the weekends off.

As for Zhongli? He's a flip. Sometimes he'll regress due to stress at the parlour/PTSD from the archon war, and sometimes he'll care for Xiao.

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Inazuma, the nation of Eternity.

Classification is seen as something special in Inazuma. It's seen as being eternally youthful. Littles are often heavily loved in Inazuma, given gifts and such. If you want to become a member of the army, soldier, what have you- you must also be be accompanied by a caregiver/little. To prevent misclassification, you will be reclassified upon your first day. However, members of the personal Shogun's bodyguards must either be neutrals, or Caregivers.

[Because Ei is a regressor hehe...]

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Sumeru, the Nation of Wisdom

No littles are allowed to be scribes/be in the Akademiya. Reclassification is done at least once a month, and anybody found to be a little will be kicked out, there and then. However, upon any public event for the Akademiya [trial days for the people who want to become students or teacher's interviews], you will be checked, and reclassified without question. No littles are even allowed on Akademiya grounds without this, and people use this as a way to get reclassified for free.

Nahida is a caregiver for Scaramouche. Despite scaramouche being unable to get tested, Nahida has made an alternative test, and so- he is a little.]

Fontaine, the nation of Justice.

If a little is found breaking a law, then a caregiver must be present during all of the court case. Aside from that, caregivers are mostly optional in Fontaine, and there is no real consequence for not having one.

[Furina is a regressor, Neuvillette is a flip, too. Wriothesley is a little.]

In the fortress of meropide, however...there is a small nursery on the bottom floor for regressors to relax in, and when regressing/"crashing", Wriothesley makes sure that all the littles and their cg's are given adequate time to regress before working- and they will be paid for how many hours they've missed.

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The Fatui / House of the Hearth.

Littles are allowed in the House of the Hearth, and while Caregivers and Neutrals are permitted to take rather dangerous- and almost lethal missions, littles are not. if permitted to go on a mission, the only "mission" the littles have are intelligence gathering.

The fatui only have one little, Childe. He was adamant that he was a caregiver, but due to his trauma from the abyss/recent fontaine archon quest, the trauma made him re-classify once he returned back from fontaine. He's constantly taking suppressants in order to not regress and "prove his worth", but Dottore, Pantalone, Columbina, Arlecchino and Sandrone are all very well-trained caregivers. Although they don't particularly agree with the lifestyle Childe has, they make him take breaks, and even send him on less-dangerous missions.

The Tsaritsa is a Caregiver.

[surqrised]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[perfectfeelings]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[4libertylover]

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be." - James A. Baldwin

[thehopefulquotes]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[stay-close]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[cursedvibes]

I'm gonna wait to see how the next chapters explain the Megumi-vessel thing to really have an opinion on it, but I can say I like what this could mean for Yuuji's character. As we saw in this chapter, he is basically ready to drop dead at any moment. With the revelation that he has to die to free Gojo, he got all he really needed. He had a clear goal and the end of his life in sight. More importantly, this death would be the best he could wish for himself, since it helps the most people. He will free Gojo, who would set an end to Kenjaku & the Culling Game and also take the majority of Sukuna down with him. In his eyes, he was born to be Sukuna's vessel. That is his role as a cog in the jujutsu society machine. Already in the first chapters, Gojo gave him the clear goal to gather as many fingers as possible and then die. Like this he could have finally completed the task he was given and even fulfilled his grandpa's wish.

But now he has lost all of that. He has no purpose, no goal, he can't be a cog anymore. This means he will have to find a new direction for his life. And he has to do it himself, he can't just act on what purpose Kenjaku, Gojo, Megumi or his grandpa give him. Of course he could still kill himself like he so clearly wants to, but that would serve nobody. It wouldn't help anybody and honestly it wouldn't make a difference in the grand scheme of things, which is something that's unacceptable to him at this point. It would be something selfish he only does for himself and Yuuji is defined by wanting his actions to matter to others, to strive to serve others even with his death. As cruel as it is, I like that he now has this freedom. He could now make these decisions for himself, he has to, but that freedom to choose what to do with his life and how to end it, came at the cost of his friend, which will only mount his guilt and the trauma he has carried with him since Shibuya. It will likely make him break down again and it will be interesting to see where he goes from here. Of course he wants to safe Megumi, the question is just how.

Maybe he will also look in his past to find out what his original intended purpose really is and why he was born. This is where Sasaki could come in again or maybe he will even meet Kenjaku. They have to meet again eventually. I don't think being Sukuna's vessel was Kenjaku's only intention for him. If that was the case, they would treat him like Uraume does, just a walking meat body for Sukuna to possess. Instead, they consistently talk about and to him as an individual and actually say in Shibuya that they are looking forward to Yuuji's development. Sukuna is always addressed seperately. In any case, I can't wait to see where this will take Yuuji's character. Akutami has paid close attention to his mental state and slow negative progression (as you see in this chapter very well), so I'm confident whatever happens, it will be interesting. In terms of character development, Yuuji is very similar to Gon, but I can see Akutami taking him even further and giving him a very different resolution.

I'd also like to say that this doesn't make Yuuji "useless". At least not in the way people use that word. That "uselessness" is the entire point. It gives him new freedom he doesn't know how to handle and is the worst thing that could have happened to him (mentally) at this point. In regards to his strength, except for the first battle in the detention centre, Yuuji never used Sukuna like that, so it really doesn't make a difference. He didn't win a single fight by relying on Sukuna. And I'm honestly glad this will likely bury the "Yuuji takes on Cleave etc" theories. I think it will be much more interesting to see him carve out his own way and methods. He has exceptional cursed energy control and there is a lot you can do with that alone.

In any case, I'm just happy this will prevent him from becoming Sukuna 2.0 and/or being killed in exchange for Sukuna to take on his full villain role.

[nightlyquotes]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[lostinthewoods1991]

Does Art Bring Out the Human In You or the Animal In You?

I do not know how many more awards Animal will win. I don't think I want to know. But I thought I'll still put in my two cents. It's a movie that was so repulsive to me that I couldn't even hate-watch it. I fast forwarded so many parts where the gruesome violence in it nauseated me and by the time I finished it, I must say I did feel a sense of accomplishment, in the sense that I had scaled some very new heights of self-torture. The only redeeming plot point (if there was any) in my opinion was Ranvijay's painful need for his father's approval. The bottomless void left in a person's mind by childhood neglect was the only part of the movie that spoke to me. The rest of the plot seemed to exist only so that Sandeep Reddy Vanga could unabashedly celebrate toxic masculinity.

This brings us to the much debated question of what art should be and what it shouldn't be. What is the role that art plays in shaping people's perspectives? I've heard many people ask why art must be subjected to such scrutiny. Art is art. Simple enough? Not quite. Many days ago, I heard actor Prashanth Alexander speak empathetically, in an interview, about many topics surrounding women. He went on to talk about how the sarcasm in the dialogue "penkuttikalk athyaavashyam freedom kodukkunna oru modern family aanu njangade", in Kumbalangi Nights, had escaped a majority of the Malayali audience's understanding. The very fact that they did not understand the humour in it is concerning. When a movie like Animal receives so many accolades and becomes a blockbuster hit, I don't think it happens because the Indian audience appreciates it as a work of art. I think it's mostly because it validates their own toxicity and lets loose the animal in them. In Kadha Parayumbol, Mammootty's character talks about how art cannot change anything in society. He cites the poem Mambazham by Vailoppilly as an example for this. Despite being a profoundly moving poem about the relationship between a mother and son, did mothers stop scolding their children after reading the poem? They didn't. But, I don't believe this stands as a good example for art not influencing people/life, given it doesn't deal with themes that reflect collective mentality. In Animal, when a star like Ranbir Kapoor mouths lines like "you have a big pelvis" and "you can accommodate healthy babies" to express romantic interest, I wouldn't be surprised if many people find it cool, especially given the fact that the character played by Rashmika falls head over heels for him. Ranvijay's monologue about alpha males in the beginning was a particularly difficult one to sit through but it paled in comparison to whatever came next. The fact that there might be people who find all the violence in the movie cathartic is beyond scary. I believe it's obvious why people imitate bad things more than the good. I have felt that people selectively pick the bad for the simple reason that it mirrors their own selves. When something that they probably repressed is given such a loud outlet, chances are, they would perceive it as a liberation of sorts. On the other hand, imitating good things takes more work and I doubt how many people allow themselves to be transformed by a work of art. This is why it's dangerous to place the responsibility on the audience to make whatever they want out of a movie. I think we must face the bitter truth that we do not have a sensible audience. Their filter for good/bad in itself is a flawed one.

I understand the argument about artistic liberty to a large extent. I don't know if this is a valid comparison but I have strong reactions to people telling me what I should and shouldn't write. I have had people ask me what's the use of writing "depressing" things. My answer to that is, life isn't just about happiness. Life is a whole spectrum and it's none of anybody's business what I choose to write in my personal space. Besides, I think it's necessary for a writer (by writer, I don't mean me) to talk about emotions/states of mind that are shamed by people. Writing about it can serve as a reminder that such emotions don't make anybody any less of a human being. During times of depression, I have found more comfort and strength in Sylvia Plath's writings than in any self-help book. By validating my grief, her words were healing and empowering me. So, I do have a problem with people narrowing down definitions of what's uplifting and what's not. I don't believe that art should always be "uplifting", neither do I believe in shaming personal writings/artistic expressions by saying that they hold no bigger relevance because in my opinion, they do. If people had healthy, harmless outlets for a lot of things they felt, I do think our world would be a better place. So, censoring people even when they are getting things out of their system in ways that are harmless to themselves and others isn't fair. For most people with mental health struggles, I think they would rather just have somebody tell them they aren't alone than have motivational speeches shoved down their throat. What I am trying to say is, I personally don't believe in putting art in very tiny boxes. I do believe in the cathartic and healing effect of art when it gives expression to parts of us that we might otherwise have difficulty embracing. However, when unleashing the said parts cannot bring healing to oneself and instead, causes significant damage to others, that's when it becomes a problem. Is art about portraying only good? Ofcourse not. This is another something that many people don't seem to understand. Nobody is saying that bad things/people shouldn't be portrayed through art, in movies more specifically. The only question is how they are being portrayed. How. Do you come back from watching Animal with an understanding that you shouldn't be like Ranvijay or do you find yourself cheering him on when he maniacally kills off people and bathes himself in their blood? Do you feel like it would be cool to have a doormat for a partner? Does the movie make you want to imitate a person who unleashes violence on people who are already facing oppression in the real world? These are some of the questions that are being asked. This is a country where people look up porn sites every other time a woman is brutally raped. I mean, what even? So, art must not reinforce the evil in the society. Instead, it must disturb you, heal you and provide catharsis to you in ways that are necessary.

Coming to the final question, do we need a movie like Animal? The answer is, perhaps not in the part of the world where we are living in. Not in a society that often normalises violence against women. Not in a society that already looks up to toxic masculinity as an ideal.