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so, I am already Adoring the discourse on The Creator, the new sci fi AI film that came out recently, but I’ve yet to see anyone talk about the fascinating religious undertones to the whole movie? Like, I’m Christian. I’ll be the first to admit my bias here: I tend to look for faith and spiritual undertones when consuming media because it’s an integral part of the way I see the world. but this movie was SO COOL?? Like, the Complete Lack of any sort of faith shown in the American characters in contrast with the AI and the Asian characters, a total shift from the modern cultural idea that religion and AI are incompatible. There are monks that are droids and simulants. The kid uses her technology powers by making a “praying” motion. There’s a robot preaching a pretty classic Judeo-Christian Messiah narrative to a bunch of kiddos. There’s only ONE American character given any sort of obvious religious identity and it’s that One Trooper Lady when she mentions Valhalla. This is such an interesting decision and I’m fascinated to know what y’all think of it. NOT TO MENTION (and this is by FAR my favorite part) the fact that the religion and the AI conflict and the treatment of human life are all implicitly bound up together. The Americans believe that the AI are ‘just programming,’ that they aren’t real, that they don’t have souls. The New Asians don’t. And that seems to bleed into the way they treat Humans as well? The kind girl near the beginning of the film, clearing the blast zone with Taylor, panics when she sees an AI online for the first time because she recognizes that he behaves like a person, while Taylor is cold, unresponsive, and insists that it’s just programming. The Americans SAY they value human life because humans are really people and AI aren’t, but they treat civilians and combatants, AI and Humans, Exactly the Same. Almost like, if you reduce one thing with a soul to ‘just programming, not of value’ that starts messing with the way you treat Everything Else. The New Asians, as far as the narrative tells us, don’t plan on retribution for the war. They’re careful with civilians, to a certain extent (I don’t love the van scene with the kiddos tbh :( feel like that was out of place? And the AI lady, the girlfriend of Taylor’s friend who was killed as well, interesting nuances there) and they treat one another like people ought. There’s very little distinction given between the more android and more human AI, which I think is awesome, and the climax of the arc of Taylor’s character happens In A Temple. The end of the story is a message of hope for reunification in heaven AND hope for reunification on earth. That’s. That’s so cool. Like. I think that’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in Ages. I can’t Ever remember seeing that kind of message done in a story that isn’t painfully preachy. One thing that often bothers me about modern film and media is the idea that religion and spirituality has to be handled in one of three ways: entirely unmentioned, preachy to the absurd, or blatantly disrespected. It’s not a universal problem, but it’s pretty widespread. I couldn’t tell what faith the directors ascribed to in this film, but I could tell they were discussing it intelligently and I LIKED THAT. I liked it a lot. I can’t speak for anyone but myself, my tastes, and beliefs: I’m willing to bet a lot of Christians won’t like this movie because they’re hung up on the lack of a blatantly Christian or preachy narrative. I’m willing to bet a lot of other people won’t like it because it tackled spirituality at all. But I liked it, because it looked at the world we live in and spoke of what it saw. It wrestled with the topics of death and life and souls and heaven and national pride and racism and capitalism and love and what it means to be a good person and it did it really well, and I admire that.
please please let me know what y’all thought of the movie? I’m really interested in knowing what people picked up on or thought the movie was saying. God bless y’all, and have an excellent weekend :) 💜
#the creator#the creator 2023#action movies#religion#discussion#yall I haven’t even Talked about the score yet#This is what happens when I get on my bs#I start Talkin#long post
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they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?
they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.
you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.
you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.
mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.
you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.
#writeblr#warm up#to be clear let me state again: i think you should id however you fucking want if it helps you seek peace#but there is a HUGE difference between being like '.... im undiagnosed but i think i might be X'#and a person who is like ''omg my intrusive thoughts made me buy a birkin!!!''#babe mine made me throw up bc they disgusted me so much <3#mine made me hurt myself evenly. even when i wanted to stop. i have had to put my hand on the stove MULTIPLE TIMES#and again i'd rather have 10000 people get help for something they don't need help for#than have 1 kid NOT get help#but there has GOTTTTT to be a middle ground here#bc at this point it isn't ''raising awareness''#it's . fucking misinformation. and ''what this picture says about you!!!!!''#& yes! im mostly talkin about ppl who are actually disgusted and offended by signs of mental illness#but use it to defend THEIR actions#like babe you hate when kids start yelling in the walmart? but you YOuRSELF can yell?#you are depressed so it's fine you were cruel to your spouse?#but if your spouse spends too much time in bed she's a lazy fuck?#your partner needs to do everything for you bc of your history in trauma? but when SHE has needs she's being clingy and gross?#HUGE difference here between whom i think most of my followers are btw. like#all it takes is fucking anyyyy empathy or kindness . like.#anyway it's hard to explain im hoping we all know the person im talking about lol
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welcome back to my accidental newfound journey to redraw every frame from this movie i GUESS
#mcu#xmen movies#xmen first class#erik lehnsherr#magneto#snap sketches#hello chat. i started watching a new miniseries and i decided i needed to draw something while i did so#series was edge of sleep. if Y'CARE. i thought it was solid .... surely gon be thinkin of the endin for a bit me thinks ..#but yeah NATURALLY. since twitter was putting the screenshot on my timeline ANYWAY.#can we tell i just wanted to draw this fuckass pose because TRULY i was not drwaing All That in the background#i can draw planes/machines but thats when i plan(e) to alright im not free styling that after renderin the bloke#unfortunately i couldnt just leave him in the white void so. we Kinda Try round here i guess#anyway next time i draw movieverse it gon be another scene redraw look at that !!!!!!#ive got silly non-redraws in mind too i swear ...... for now i just have shapes and scenes to appreciate#because the shapes of michael fassbender fascinate me in ways i must draw#ok im sleeping now im talkin nonsense !!!! i have a test in the morning </3 the world is so cruel .....#goodnight everyone :]]]]
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Killer got an ass whooping and Color got a headache after. The end.
Color belongs to Superyoumna
Killer belongs to Rahafwabas
(I had an idea of this for awhile, maybe I'll redraw this later on)
#sans au#undertale#color sans#killer sans#othertale#something new#killertale#utmv#my art#headache...#I'M TRYIN TO POST DAILY DW#If I can't post art daily I'll just randomly start talkin non-sense and stuff to keep my blog alive maybe
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mean to him
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#pod watcher#watcher#watcher entertainment#*my posts#at first i didnt hear ryan mess up that word and i was like. why the fuck did shane start baby talkin
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Saw this screenshot and thought of toki and pickles
#jay talkin#metalocalypse#toki wartooth#pickles the drummer#am having a sad ass day but know what makes me smile. these idiots#i couldnt understand pickles when i first started watching i promise i can nos#im just up to the finale of s2 thats what i have 2 watch next#srry for not linking back to the og textpost i think op either deleted it or deleted their blog#so i couldnt like. link it even once i tracked it down
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not generally a fan of how the game implements terminology like this but this is so funny to me it’s almost worth it. shut up lucanis i need you to be listening and learning rn
#rook voice ‘idk how he rly feels he hasn't even shown me his wings :\'#the lucanis romance is weirrrdly paced btw unless i missed sm#it’s locked in per dialog options and other companions are commenting on it but it hasn’t been brought up as in game dialog between them??#my cope is that everyone is aware of this development but auri who has resigned themself to the idea that it’s never going to happen#lucanis leaving that conversation like what a relief we finally understand each other while auri goes back to their room and#starts blasting someone like you#talkin#auri de riva#lucanis dellamorte#taash#dav#dragon age#dav spoilers#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers
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Prompt 239
Y'know what I think would be hilarious for a DP and PJO crossover? Percy & co finally getting to Kronos, straight up ready for anything after they pass through magic and portal of green and-
There's the smell of cookies. Freshly baked cookies, a warm oven, something about it reminding them of home in this strange place of floating gears and ticking clocks.
And there's a long, serpentine tail twisting through the gears, twisting up and down and across in a size that could hides yet reveals just how large this entity is. There's power soaking into every inch of this place, every centimeter nearly sending lightning up their legs with each step.
The ticking is getting stronger, a distant gonging of the hour echoing through a place that should feel cold and empty like the ringing of bells in the end of times.
And suddenly there's a kid- a teen like them, human yet not- with a cookie half in their mouth and hair flickering like the cosmos as they peer down from above them with a frown, eyes brighter than the sun yet darker than the moon.
"Oh great, what did my half-siblings do this Time?"
#prompts#dp x pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#danny fenton#clockwork#not ghost king danny#space core danny#All gods of time are part of Clockwork#DPxPJO#Clockwork is the primordial force of Time itself#CW has been waiting for Space to finally form its own Primordial and is cooing over Danny constantly#CW: You end up destroying *One* timeline and the kids who disowned themselves start freaking out#CW: smh at least I have my dear children who actually enjoy my company and baking#Jordan (Armageddon) Ellie (Infinity) Jazz (Mind): I mean what kind of timeline we talkin about#Sun Core Dan#Moon Core Dani#Ocean Core Jazz#Danny to Percy & Co: So there's a 50/50 chance you'll believe me but I feel like there's been some sort of misunderstanding here-
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what if when i started things i.... finished them??? 🤔🤔 whoah.... 😳
#these are MONTHS OLD and UNFINISHED and they were starting to pile up so i figured i might as well post them altogether 🤷🏻♀️#rain code#ari art#yuma kokohead#makoto kagutsuchi#rain code shinigami#master detective archives: rain code#still rlly like the makoto + yuma one. theyre chillin. where are they chillin? what are they talkin about?#who knows i didnt finish it lol
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encounter design is an interesting subject bc while I do enjoy games where every fight is designed to be fought and cleared by the party, it's not the whole of what an encounter can be and it's a shame that so many people think that's the only option, like, for some even just stepping back as little as removing the concept of "every encounter must be winnable" is too much for them
Like, again, I like walking into every fight knowing I am intended to be able to clear it in games built in that manner, it's very fun to navigate a battle with the foreknowledge that it's possible for me to handle in some way or another, but this design also inherently removes a lot of the tension from the situation, which is fine for a heroic fantasy adventure, but less useful in, say, a survival horror campaign
and "should encounters be assumed to be winnable" is just a tiny part of encounter design, which itself is just one segment of a larger game, and it already has such a strong effect on how the game feels, imagine how much it'd change if you altered even more of your approach, or removed the concept of them entirely
The mechanics inform the feel of the story you're telling through the game and I think that's really cool, and I really love seeing how different games emulate their different priorities through the design of their systems and it's a shame to see so many people disinterested in this and think any system out there can or even should do literally everything equally well all at once
#different systems with different goals SHOULD have different things they're proficient in#it's part of what makes learning them so fun#I kind of got away from the idea of encounter design specifically#and just kinda started talking about how mechanics affect the feeling of the game in general but oh well#that's why I just made my own post ig#jawkan talkin
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September hit and so did Ruggie brainrot
#He's been running in my mind being silly since the month started and i have yet to snatch him and plop him into memes#tuna be talkin#twst#twisted wonderland#twst ruggie#ruggie bucchi
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they really did put izzy down like a three-legged elderly dog, huh. diagnosed him with narrative arthritis and then didn't even bother trying him on pain management before picking up the gun and walking him out back.
#ofmd critical#izzy hands#sincerely. this has got to be up there as one of the most shoddily written / poorly handled character deaths i have ever seen#still feeling baffled over the fact that iz survived a gunshot to the leg (that he lost a ton of blood from as is shown on screen!)#as well as severe infection and a major amputation#only to then be taken out from a single bullet to the famously invulnerable side of the body.#and christ don't get me started on 'this was a kindness to him' as if that's not the grossest statement you could make#about a recently disabled character whose healing arc had barely even begun to take form :|#gray's talkin tag
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#columbo#season 1#prescription murder#autism incarnate#doc tell me why when i start talkin about the capabilities of the Western Electric 1500 Rotary Telephone people give me a look
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the moment you both hide inside a coat closet as grown adults is also probably the moment you should understand that you're exactly the same brand of dumb and accept fate.
#And start kissing#Yes I woke up before 7am on a Friday so I could watch a couple episodes lol#lbfad#love between fairy and devil#xiao lanhua#dongfang qingcang#📺 talkin
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Respectfully, MM Donnie just looks like a mouth breather.
Not like ‘he looks stupid’ kind of mouth breather, I mean homeboy looks like he forgets he has nostrils and breathes out of his mouth- kind of mouth breather.
Like the sewers are completely quiet and everyone is having dinner and whatever and all anyone can hear is Donnie’s loud ass open mouth breathing noises with that whistle in his teeth and everyone can hear it but him.
Just look at him
#mutant mayhem#tmnt#tmnt mutant mayhem#mm donnie#When he starts going to highschool the mouth breathing stops bc EVERYBODY dawgs on him for it#but not in the funny way his brothers do#i’m not trying to be mean#or like push the ‘nerdy mouth breather’ stereotype#It’s just every time I look at him his mouth is open and he ain’t even talkin
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my fatal flaw is being too forgiving
#Either that or jealousy#Like sometimes she’d b super cruel n make me cry.but then she’d b nice n i’d tell myself 2 forget all about the meanness#Cause that’s just her ‘personality’#No !!!!! Being mean is Not a personality !!!!!#If she starts talkin 2 me again i will promise myself.Not 2 forgive this time#Cause forgiveness ≠ being kind !!!! We must remember 2 b kind 2 ourselves too !!!!
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