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The second you start talking about some mysterious "they" that are controlling society in some fashion, you are engaging in dangerous conspiratorial thinking even if you're being woke about it. "They" did not institute the 40 hour work week specifically so you would be too tired to revolt. "They" did not invent the sleek minimalist aesthetic in order to crush the spirit of art in the common people. "They" are not pushing mediocre media into the mainstream in order to poison people's critical thinking skills.
Your best case scenario after that is you talk to someone who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about and you get embarrassed because you can't answer basic questions about your own ideology because you never learned anything past "the ruling class/capitalists/politicians are making things bad and if we got rid of them the bad things would all go away!"
Your worst case scenario is obviously the woo-to-fascist pipeline and you end up believing Jews are poisoning American food supplies with GMOs in order to turn us all into beta cucks, so like . . . maybe just stop blaming "them" before you fall down that route.
Obligatory round of disclaimers: Yes, sometimes people do bad things. Be specific about exactly who is doing what instead of ascribing it to some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, sometimes things in society are bad. Learn to identify the root causes of complex social issues instead of assuming that they're actually extremely simple to fix and we're just not doing it because of some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, minimalism isn't for everyone. Learn that some people don't share your tastes and get the fuck over it for the love of god.
#surprise! this was actually just my way of complaining that that 'classical tutor' post is going around again#complaining about the degeneracy of modern society because our cars aren't colorful enough or whatever#what if i told you that sometimes societal tastes and customs change naturally over time#and not because of targeted interference from vague groups of shadowy elites#anyway! be specific in your words and actually work to understand the underlying causes of things#and above all else understand that sometimes people just like things that you don't like#and that's not a conspiracy. it's not even hard to understand. like come on people#skepticism umbrella
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IN CASE YOU MISSED THE MEMO: HERE'S THE THING ABOUT DRAGONS
#coyoteworks#art#digital art#original art#digital painting#dragons#queer artist#artists on tumblr#i had to crush this image like fucking crazy btw it was like. nearing 200 mb in file size#anyways uhhh picked colors based on the gilbert baker pride flag (not directly eyedropped though)#was just kind of thinking about dragons as narrative tools and how people of marginalized groups frequently identify with them#so i made art about it. naturally#its 4am i need to sleep gootbye
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Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.
For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do āwhat Lou Jitsu would doā and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.
And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi YÅroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws āSkullyā as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.
I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes theyād love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the āFaceā of the group and shoulder the attention even if itās potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt raph#rottmnt leo#rise Raph#rise leo#I really do love this bit of character writing a ton#again itās so small but like this is consistent!#little Raph just wanted to have fun with his bros š#Leo immediately coming in with the save both times (and more - remember Bug Busters?)#I really love too how none of them pointed fingers like#it was Understood that Leo would speak for them#listen thereās a reason Leo is the Face Man and itās NOT just because heās got a pretty face#he can talk both himself and his fam out of situations and I wish we saw it even more because itās amazing to witness#circling back to Raph his bold nature is something I ADORE about him but I donāt see it brought up a lot which makes me so sad#like this boy is a RAPHAEL he is bold!!#and itās cute too how the other bros immediately go along with it too#imo the Raph in these tot flashback is the same Raph that glues them all together as a bonding exercise#side note but damnā¦Leo saves them from punishment in the tot short and immediately gets jumped š#but yeah man I think a Lot about the little dynamics between the bros and how those dynamics could have first came into being#Leo being the face of the team and having been it since childhood-#-makes all the moments of immediately choosing to sacrifice himself when HE royally messes up all the more notable#if itās one bro or the whole group individually heās more chill about it but often still lets himself be the talker to get them out of it#he will do his damndest to get his brothers and himself out of trouble but once theyāre in it heās in the front with a smile#his own safety be damned#Raph is actually the same in that respect - heāll jump into danger fists first but all bets are off when a brother is in danger#and like how Leoās been the face - as the eldest Raph has been the de facto leader of sorts#heās the one who is shown to make up their games! and I think thatās very cute#anyway their clashing in the movie is so interesting for a lot of reasons but one of them is that it shows how-#-even a longstanding dynamic like Raph and Leoās thatās WORKED for so long is still susceptible to flawsā¦and to time
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My pet peeve is that carcinisation got turned into a meme that "ALL ANIMALS EVOLVE TOWARDS CRABS XDXDDXDXD" when it's a very niche thing that only happens in crustaceans. Not even all of them, just some very few groups. That are all closely related to crabs anyways. It's not even that funny.
#I honestly don't know what that guy was thinking about when he made the term#it's convergent evolution. what you're seeing is convergent evolution. in very related groups.#you don't talk about the 184964 attempts of nature at making filter feeders anemonization or some shit like that#cosas mias#evolution#carcinisation
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Still thinking about that little angel I dreamt about a bit ago so Iāve been binging other angel stuff and felt inspired to try to draw him as @hoaxghost ās style of angel.
#weirdly the halo was the hardest part to figure out because he very explicitly doesnāt usually have one. but man Iām charmed by it now#I was worried about balancing whatās damage he received VS slight cracks that ended from that damage making him a bit too human in nature#but it turned out pretty nicely even if it was hard to keep them simple and contained#still very proud of the stylization on his eyes making it look like the bottom one is a teardrop#nope heās a freak#also yeah committing to he/himing the angel#less in a Boy Way and more in a likeā¦ gendering a hen male because you need to refer to that specific hen instead of the group#the boy vs the girls#idk if that makes any sense but thatās my own grammar and how it affects the little grub#my art#my ocs
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[ID: a drawing of pye from outer wilds, standing with her writing staff. she's wearing an orange nomai space suit without the helmet, and she has a light brown face with curly darker brown fur. end ID]
figuring out how i want to draw the nomai, so here's a pye since i am obsessed with her !!!
#outer wilds#pye#she was one of the easiest to start recognizing across text because she is involved in so many different things#but then i saw the scroll where she was calculating trajectories to the sun station and i Was in love immediately#and i love that the sun station was designed (by the game artists not by pye) to look more weapon-like than anything else the nomai built#as a way to show how it goes against their nature to do something so destructive and high risk#and since pye is the one kind of leading that and being so vocally For it it implies that she is also acting against nomai nature#but i dont think thats necessarily true!! a majority of the nomai agreed or else the idea would have been voted down#(even tho it did spark arguments)#and the oldest nomai recording we have access to is from escall making a split second decision to warp to an unknown place#just to follow a signal the group was curious about and it put them in danger!!! that killed people!!!#like i know its more about the potential damage to the solar system and the life there but#throwing caution to the wind for scientific discovery is very much nomai nature From What I Saw !!!#not that i am saying the game creators are wrong lmao but i mean like. i think it is against their nature AND so very exactly their nature#at the same time and thats why there Was so much debate about it#and i think pye is the embodiment of trying Everything Possible (and impossible) to find answers and learn#AND SHE IS SEXY FOR IT#ANYWAYS. clears throat#blow up that sun girl hashtag women in stem
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found a baby yaku amidst the Sketchbook-glitch-corruption wreckage..... wondering if he flipped skin tones between black and red and everything in between until he saw his to-be-grandparents (and started mimicking THEIR skin tone....... )
#thinking about yakumo having weird lil homunculus proportions or other such variations#what if he just always had massive hands compared to body size. yaoi hands from birth-transformation#he was so anti-snake that he looked at hands and said YES. THIS IS THE LEAST SNAKEY I CAN BE. I WILL GO 600% ON THIS FEATURE SPECIFICALLY#changing forms from entirely obsidian... or red in patches.... or striped... or other combinations...#because he only had murals to base his human form off of? at least at first?#were the murals in colour? shaded with gradients and lighting oh so conveniently?#then how was he to know what skin tone humans are supposed to have???#imagining the first few times he encountered his grandparents in his cave#maybe they only saw a shadow with eyes darting back into the darkness#just a really long black noodle with semisnake semihuman eyes (just a hint of sclera)#and every time they visited#yakumo observed more of their features#and took on something similar to their proportions...? or hair colour? or skin colour?#and maybe even when he's first adopted into the family and leaves the cave#he's still a vibrant pink and everyone thinks he somehow got sunburnt inside a cave or smth#but then he starts seeing all the other people in the village#including diff age groups and kids who are supposedly around his age#so he starts to slowly morph his body toward those characteristics#his skin gets beige-r. reshapes his eyes a bit.... grows a bit of nose.....lengthens his limbs a bit...#(the big humans seem to treat me the same as that speCIFIC group of smaller humans... so maybe i should use them as a Model)#like... how do you even age in a human body when you have no reference for how humans age?!??!#did yakumo stare at several children in the village and watch their growth year by year#and match his body to their changes just to fit in?#did nature just know what to do?? and he just naturally grew like a human without manual manipulation?#I DEMAND ANSWERS#nu carnival yakumo
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Okay gang, here's a silly little game. I've assembled six teams of blended Narnia and Tolkien/LotR characters. Here they are:
For bonus points, tell me in the tags where you're going on your road trip, who has what role (driving, snacks, aux) on the road, and what you'll stop off and see along the way
#this is shameless inspired by the lotr national parks poll#but the crossover potential is just too good#also for characters who wouldn't reasonably fit in said VW bus just handwave it#everyone basically fits okay?#narnia#pontifications and creations#ask me hard questions#tolkien legendarium#i myself am going with team 5 (to no one's shock)#we're gonna hit national parks across america#Bilbo and Treebeard can trade off as DJ#EƤrendil gets to help drive and navigate#Lucy is in charge of snapping pics out the window#Reepicheep can lead us in some road trip games or something idk#i feel like this would be a really lovely group to just sit and stare at natural beauty in silence together#which is kinda my jam#occasionally pointing out something really especially lovely#would be fun#edit: as if I left put your fave character I'm sorry both these series have about a million so it was bound to happen#and for Narnia in particular I was trying to bias it towards Narnians rather than friends of narnia#also i was seriously tempted to do a 'team dragon' which would be all the tolkien dragons + eustace haha#polls
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Cdream be like: You can't put yourself in the Prison anymore bc of the woke >:(/lh
That man is a mess like it's facinating how messy his vision of reality is for others and himself
it is fascinating fr, and does remind me of how we'd talk a little bit about how his perspective may betray what kind of environment this guy might've been in pre-dsmp. the stick-up-his-ass about rules and rule-following, the neuroticism about conflict, and the ease with which he jumps to punishment as being the appropriate response to people who cause problems (a perspective that, quite evidently, to a certain extent, does apply to himself, doesn't it?) all seems quite indicative of someone who lived in an environment where punishment being the natural consequence of stepping outside the lines was generally something that went unquestioned. of course, this is speculative, and it's not that a #tragicbackstory is necessary to explain what the fuck is up with c!Dream, and it's hardly about justifying the choice to abuse a teenager into behaving, lmao. but while exile served his goals and exile was a lot of petty, spiteful cruelty for petty, spiteful reasons, i do think there's something to be said about how clearly c!Dream hadn't expected c!Tommy to respond quite so severely to exile and how he thought he would be "fine" with potatoes in the prison and the language he used both about exile and his own early prison stay about shit like "getting better" through punishment. of course, punitive justice as a norm is kind of ingrained in our own society (just look at the rhetoric around deserving in this fandom, lmao, which speaks more than well enough for itself) and of course that reflects onto the dream smp as well, considering how many of the characters talk quite freely about the idea of punishment/deserving/what have you, but few characters are quite as obviously a stickler for rule-following as c!dream and exile and then prison are uhhh definitely on the more extreme end of things. anyway. just some food for thought
#my asks !!#tw abuse#it's part of why i get a little uncomfortable with the rhetoric about abuser/victim that is so common on the internet these days#bc there's often this notion of these two categories as being mutually exclusive completely distinct groups of people#and well honestly being abused normalizes abuse to a person? many people who think beating a child is fine actually were beat themselves#if you live in a world where the framework exists that punishment is the natural consequence for breaking the rules#then you will believe and often later on enforce the idea of punishment as the natural consequence for breaking the rules#there's stuff with c!dream re: this topic that's more speculative and there's stuff that's less so#(especially if you look at the weird ways he seems to be about his own redemption to c!wilbur during pogtopia)#(and that in relation to the consequences of the revolution)#but anyway. just a little ramble
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i really loved sumeru, donāt get me wrong, but one thing iāve really enjoyed about fontaine is the way most of the main cast have independent relationships with each other. clorinde is separately friends with wriothesley, furina, and navia. wriothesley is friends with neuvillette and sigewinne. neuvillette is close to furina, sigewinne, and navia. it feels more organically like people that know each other rather than a cohesive friend group. the only separate group being the fatui characters. in sumeru, it felt like the characters were bundled into very distinct groups, which worked for them. but iām enjoying the way the fontaine characters interact on an individual to individual basis, and that makes me excited for future fontaine events to see them interacting in group social settings.
#genshin impact#clorinde#wriothesley#furina#navia#neuvillette#sigewinne#mineš«#not making any of my comments about the romantic/platonic nature of the relationships#just appreciating the way they chain or web rather than distinctly group
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Tress scratched the best itch for me, Iāve been craving a good fairy tale and it was just perfect. I kept slipping so hard into the fairy tale aspects that I kept getting caught by surprise whenever a cosmere thing stopped beating around the bush and revealed itself, actually. While Iām sure that wasnāt fully the intention, it was a really fun way to read some brandermansanderman coming fresh off of sunlit man and how intensely locked in I was with the Connections. Genuinely Tress is such a fun little romp. I love girls who sail in fucked up seas and this is a genre I want more of please thank you.
#it was so much fun I did have my suspicions about a few things because of fairy tale tropes but I didnāt get all of them!#I was taken by surprise by many things!#not...not the glowing woman being elantrian I did get that one especially with the floor map#I wonder if that changes actually#like does her cockship make aon-Connecting maps of the places she goes to so she can fuck around with locals?#whatās with space travel resulting in callus dicks manipulating the local planetary populations?#is this related to one of the many groups fucking about with the cosmere or is it just the nature of the people funding these excursions?#will zellion ever have sex?#all these questions and more to be added next year in bransandermanderson strikes again part five of ten alphabet assemble#I want to see the other seas now though ): the worlds are so cool that Iām never quite ready to say goodbye#I want to linger between the pages and sift the words between my fingers like sun-warmed sand#it feels too soon to say goodbye#cosmere#tress of the emerald sea#tress of the emerald sea spoilers
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have I somehow ruined myself for perfectly average movies? I watched both Robots (2023) and The Deer King (2021) and both of them were fine---Deer King was better, but suffered from trying to jam too much into a single film; Robots should have been more black-humored, delighting in its lazy sociopaths and their vaguely squalid world. But that's it, that's all they were---fine. Just fine.
Does this mean I have to watch exclusively Films now? I can't get into a movie unless it's black and white, or two hours of characters speaking sideways and having neuroses at each other?
#I thought the deer king's hints of a broader bigger world were very effective though; some were devastatingly beautiful#(there's a scene where one of the narrators is talking about the tension between the imperial zolians#and the native aquafaese people; and on screen you're watching a mob of native aquafaese agitate their zolian guards#you cut to a young aquafa woman running hand in hand with one of the guards; they run to a river gorge and there's no escape#......and then you cut back to the main adventuring group; who are walking their horses past the river#you see the couple's blood-stained clothes caught on a branch in the river. nothing more is said.)#in that respect the movie was lovely; I loved its worldbuilding I loved the hints of more.#but it wasn't well-structured and I got the sense it was trying to be miyazaki without knowing quite how to pull it off#I also loved that science saved the day! natural resistance and cultivating antibodies for vaccination. love that nonsense.#a proscenium for our dreams
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Me, the majority of the manga: haha why are the cops of the underground called border patrol? That's such a specific job for the general police to be named after.
Ohhhh. Oh that's why.
#suddenly henri's offer to take him back to the human world is feeling more like a deportation thing#m!ik#mairuma#m!ik spoilers#a guy in charge of the border patrol is racist. previously they would have deported iruma but now they probably just wanna kill him#and also the minority group of the many ears being deemed a threat to the netherworld#and them using an official excuse of nature conservation to look better about squashing a minority groups' harmless bid for independance#yeah the name's making a lot more sense now
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i have finally landed a job interview and i have Such mixed feelings about it
#on one hand: fucking finally i will be making my own money#on the other hand. sigh.#cant wait to do something i dont enjoy for at least eight hours per day five days a week#clenching my fist and thinking about the things i can buy to convince myself this is worth it#crafts. i can contribute to kofis. art. tasty beverage without feeling monumentally guilty. saving up to move somewhere i want to be#absolutely unprompted#i would add on the pro that id be less of a family disappointment#But that ship has long since sailed. any pride my parents express will just make me uncomfortable/mad so technically its a con!#'finally youre contributing to society' i dont WANT to contribute to society#society is a capitalistic hellscape. society needs a fucking reform#fuckign... biting people...#i belong in the paleolithic area. i would kill it at hunter-gathering. everyone would want me in their hunting/foraging group#id live so bright and fast and then die of eating the wrong mushroom... as nature intended...
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Idea: one of those "Ash somehow ends up in a group chat (usually with the Champions or Legendaries, sometimes with other characters) the first day of his journey and it messes with the series" AUs that've been popping up on AO3 lately, but instead it's a group chat made up of alternate versions of himself. One of them's the canon version (or at least close to it), the rest are AU versions, at least one of them is Ashley (not sure if trans or just genderbent. leaning towards trans), and all of them are from post-series and trying not to give too many spoilers because they don't want to overwhelm their "mini-me" or make things too easy for him 'cause if they do he won't grow as a trainer and person like they did (not that he'd want them to coddle him like that anyway. He's always wanted to get through on his own merits not have victories just handed to him). Also Arceus told them not to (who else do you think would've set this up?).
Granted, sometimes even when they do give spoilers it doesn't help much between them not having perfect memories, being from alternate timelines so a lot of the details are different between them, and forgetting just how stubborn and bull-headed their Kanto Era self could be.
I call it the "Self-Help Hotline" AU
#pokemon anime#pokemon au#group chat au#self-help hotline au#ash ketchum#arceus#arceus chooses chaos#arceus did at least think to only pull from aus where pokemon exist. that was not a guarantee given the infinite nature of the multiverse#might have one of the ashes be the irken one from my invader ash au#by the time of post-series he has realized he's not an invader and is no longer trying to take over the earth#though he Does occasionally make jokes about how as the World Monarch he's ALREADY taken over#he knows that's not what it means he just thinks it's funny to act like he doesn't know#ashley thinks it's weird that most of the ashes in the chat are guys#especially since infinite possible universes means equally infinite ashes of any gender#the rest of them also think it's weird and wonder what that says about arceus#might have the ash from the rainbow hero trilogy timeline in there might not idk#if he's there he might get jealous of the fact that the rest of them had full-time companion groups on their journeys#including mini-me ash
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