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lily orchard arguing "civil rights activists are always 100% justified in any form of violence whatsoever and the only reason why they arent depicted as wholly justified in any and every scenario in fiction is because cishet white men writing them want to preserve the status quo" is really uhhhhh not great
dont get me wrong i understand fully oppressed people resorting to violence. sometimes violence is all you are left with to get the point across. sometimes violence is necessary if people are facing overwhelming violence. im not here to lecture "it is never okay to use violence ever" because thats a fucking stupid position to take. sometimes violence is necessary for people who are oppressed, or as self defense in abusive situations.
but irl a lot of movements are co-opted by horrible people who then perpetuate the systems of inequality they said they would destroy. dictators have used "helping the common, oppressed people" as a way to rise in power. even for people who are well intentioned its not so simple you can just kill all the bad people and everything will be fine, because undoing systems of oppression take a lot more work than just killing everyone in charge (like a lot of white leftists for example have it in their minds there will be one big revolution where all the rich people are executed, resources perfectly distributed, and everything will be peaceful and just and great once the revolution is over we just have to wait for it which. is laughable at best)
but there is also a pattern of behavior where lorch does seem to think if you just kill everyone in charge all oppression will go away. money can be redistributed, racism and homophobia and transphobia and everything else will go away, and everything will be fine. so long as the people using violence are the victims of abuse or oppression, whatever violence they use is completely justified because in her worldview victims cannot be perpetrators. you are either a victim or you are a perpetrator. your violence is justified or unjustified based onto which category you fall into.
zuko is a character she likes, so he cannot be someone who perpetuates violence and harmful systems he has to unlearn, nor someone who benefits from rampant imperialism despite being... an imperial prince. because he was exiled (with an army of imperial soldiers and a war criminal uncle) and was a victim of abuse. zuko's arc cant POSSIBLY be about redemption from the horrible actions he took, because he was a victim of abuse, it has to just be about him learning he was abused and escaping an abusive situation.
she shows kuvira an example of "interesting ideas to explore in the avatar setting that is ruined bc white men have to validate the status quo and cant let oppressed people challenge that" which is uh. interesting. not to say the avatar universe doesnt have real issues of racism but kuvira is def not. a good example of that shes a military dictator and a foil to early story korra. and also has been a very violent person since she was younger lashing out at everyone without a care of what she destroyed and who she hurt but whose actions were excused when she was younger bc "shes been through a lot". but i guess lorch would see kinship with her in that regard
#im half awake and rambling#tl;dr lorch says if ur oppressed or abused violence in any way is always justified#and has really weird examples of such#which i hate stories that take obviously justified violence of an oppressed ppl and demonizes it#but uhhhh#im not gonna watch her korra video btw#korra wasnt that great to me but i know her opinions on it will be dogshit
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sueño concepts as I redesign her, yes hi I will turn another sans au into a woman :) welcome to my blog, here it’s skelly women KEKFKFK
also fairy versions of them for original things below
#I just#it’s the vibes. We got another big gorgeous lady in the squad#next to fang and Merlot hehehehheh#she’s gonna be a really feral dream and because I’m silly she has good ties with her brother#cause tired of the shitty sibling dynamic ioncare#she’s his lil sis and sombra so aware she’s the most violent volatile monster goddess ever and he’s so proud of her JFKGMJGK#sketches#concept art#As I said I will be taking some of my san ocs into original stuff soon. Sueño n sombra are another example of it alongside merl fang and#also thorn who I have an alternate design in plan#but I still enjoy drawing them as utmv either way!#Dreamtale#dream sans#nightmare sans#my ocs#sombra#sueño#seam#error sans#relay/betatale#utmv#undertale au#undertale ocs#don’t be weird about em ok
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hey so can we as a fandom stop being fucking weird with and to MICO? thanks
#this is specificlly about how parasocial the fandom can be towards him and other creators#the cast of epic has shown several times to absolutely love epic but they are also separate artists#and yeah troy for example has just yoinked hermes but not everyone does#mico has stated his discomfort over it. he's blocked tags. he's blocked people. he asked for his stage name not to be used on epic#SPECIFICALLY because of this. he said clearly he loved working on epic but he doesn't want to be defined by it#he wants to be an independent artist and people are reducing him to just telemachus#LET THE MAN LIVE.#he's being really polite about it all despite just how fucked up it all is and despite how tired he is of it#stop asking him to play epic songs on concerts. stop calling him telemachus. stop being fucking weird about him.#i know jorge says we're all his friends and that's beautiful but can we stop reducing people to their roles#they're not a one trick pony guys please
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seriously what is it with tennis players and dishwashers?!
#this is weird guys#where does this strange reluctance to use one of the most practical household inventions come from?#i'd really like to know#and of course with novak it has to be an example of mindfulness and meditation#nole please#jannik sinner#novak djokovic#dishwashing#(i can't believe i just tagged that)#tennis
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So uh... Immediately after Wrestle Kingdom, the big show that brings in both new and lapsed NJPW fans, and Wrestle Dynasty, the AEW crossover show that was intended to bring new overseas fans to NJPW... New Japan management decided to take the only commentary staff member who speaks any Japanese at all off commentary for two months? So the only remaining English language commentator will just not have any clue what anybody is saying during the entire show? Right when a large influx of new English speaking fans is expected? And they're doing all this just as Kidani, who owns NJPW's parent company, was complaining to Tokyo Sports about how NJPW isn't getting enough overseas fans? Have I got that right?
#this is a rhetorical question please do not answer it#I don't even know what to say about this mess#btw if you ever wondered Milano is always translating stuff from English to Japanese on Japanese commentary#And when Miki Motoi is there she translates both English and Spanish into Japanese on commentary#I don't watch the English language commentary so it doesn't affect me personally but it is really just one more example of uh#an ongoing trend huh#I get that there's some kind of backstage business math that's leading them to choose to work with AEW#plus Kidani's weird belief that American wrestling is superior and more evolved than Japanese wrestling#but from my perspective as a long time NJPW fan the partnership with AEW has just made NJPW worse and less fun to watch
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Anyway. I'm gonna start using, "None of These Words are in the Silmarillion," as a catch-all phrase to describe that phenomenon in the Silm fandom where some concept appears from nowhere, based on nothing, makes no sense, and is treated as irrefutable canon for 3-12 business years.
#making headcanons: great!#having widely accepted established fanon: also great!#however the silm fandom takes it to a whole new level#and every once in a while youll see something like. 'and as we all know elrond is actually the secret lovechild of galadriel and gil-galad'#and youll be like 'hold up wtf we do NOT all know that please explain'#and theyll be like 'well clearly you never finished the silmarillion because its very clearly established at the very end'#and if you continue to press them they will point to a passage that doesnt even mention two of those characters#and meanwhile you dont say this because you dont want to be rude but youre thinking 'why the fuck would you make this up'#like normally even when its annoying broadly accepted fanon clearly adds something to the experience of being a fan#theres some meat there and the issue is that everyones using the same meat. and maybe you dont like that meat but its still clearly meat#the silm fandom is unique in that many of these situations are uh#i mean theres no way to be polite about it i guess#many of these silm fandom headcanons are meatless#they are uninteresting in the extreme and change nothing#and im really baffled about how people get so invested in them#what would it change if elrond was the secret lovechild of galadriel and gil-galad?#i mean. weird incest plotline i guess but often you can tell that no one has even thought that far ahead#and by the time they do think to that point its too late. the random headcanon is too deeply ingrained in their understanding of the lore#and they dont know its not canon anymore#and you wonder if youre going insane#is this what it feels like to go insane?#you try to tell them that elrond isnt actually related to either of those people#and they say 'read the silmarillion rube'#this is obviously not a real example because i dont want to be eaten alive#but its not. that far off from a real example
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dnd camp week 2 starts tomorrow, this time with the high schoolers instead of the middle schoolers and also only six instead of nine and i am better prepped for it. wish me luck anyway tho bc we don't have class thursday for juneteenth and trying to fit this camp into a week is already challenging. also thank you everyone who gave advice last week, especially whoever it was that mentioned the wild sheep chase one shot bc that saved my ass and will probably save my ass again this week
#im definitely. more excited for the high schoolers. i love high schoolers#they're quiet at first but once you get them going they are so INTO IT and that's not just for dnd#bc by high school age you dont really have any more of the 'im here bc my mom signed me up' kids#by this age they're here bc they have an interest in the topic and that's SO much fun#also like. middle schoolers are weird bc they haven't matured as much as the high schoolers obv but they like to PRETEND they have#so it's hard to get them to like. do anything that could even remotely be conceived as 'kid stuff'#bc they're all like IM A BIG KID NOW I GOTTA PROVE THIS TO EVERYONE COSNTANTLY#so like for example. roleplaying in dnd. playing pretend is kid stuff i can't let anyone know im into this bc im 13. basically a grownup#but by high school they're starting to get past that especially as like nerdiness has become more mainstream#and worldbuilding with them feels a little more intentional and less like. a bunch of random things we think sound cool#anyway. tentatively excited. this is the third time ive taught this class hopefully ive got it more or less figured out by now
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{{ hewwo yes, hi, it's time for your annual ice breaker from me, GT/Tina/whateveryouwannacallme.jpeg because I remember promising that I was gonna do one and then I did not whOOPS
anyway, ice-breaker:
what do you think this rpc needs more of (doesn't have to be dragon ball related, could be any, especially if you're a multimuse or crossover heavy/friendly blog)?
one, two, three--GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
#OOC: Out of Limits#{{i missed my blog's anniversary last march smh smh but it's been 2 years since i've joined officially#{{i'm not sure if i have anything to add because i'm ALWAYS learning but--!!#{{I think more people need 2 embrace canon divergency/portrayals more????? i haven't seen TOO much of ppl's bad behaviors thankfully-#{{But i've listen to y'all talk about it so i'm extra careful of certain writers bc of it.#{{I've even blocked someone for it bc the way they treated a canon was SUPER weird. I hope this isn't vague blogging by accident--#{{--or messy for me to say????? if it is let me know ;w;;; i just wanted to give an example in the tags aaaaa. but yeah- that's my thing!#{{ and again- aside from ONE really bad experience- everyone else has been kind or sweet to me. so i'm not sure what to add ;w;
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chat please if you see cosplayers on roblox, PLEASE be normal. there is a person behind that roblox character and they are probably not comfortable with you constantly backshotting them and being overall *very* weird. unless you know them, please refrain from that. thank you and goodnight.
#roblox#this has been a psa#please i just want to play games in peace#i am NOT comfortable with that#especially if im playing a character that im really attached to#for example ive had a problem with people being weird about my chance avatar#please. please be normal.#roblox cosplay#roblox community#mainly this has been a problem for my forsaken avatars#but as a whole this is also not something you should do#kind of a#rant post#if you are my friends who follow me#hi. this doesn’t apply to you. proceed with your sillys.#everyone else. Fuck off.#roblox forsaken
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i know it's been said before but it's still startling every time i get the reminder that apparently a lot of young people think "gay panic" is "getting flustered by having a gay crush on someone" instead of. y'know. a legal defense for a homophobic hate crime
#personal#the litter box#i know language evolves over time but i'm baffled by how this one happened#like what context did someone see the phrase ''gay panic'' in that could be remotely interpreted as that#granted it seems to be more common to hear about trans panic as a legal tactic to reduce charges these days but. it's still weird#like i'm reading a fanfic rn and one of the warnings the author had was ''gay panic''#and like. bro we're not anywhere near a court and no one has died unless some major shit happened offscreen so huh????#and then i was like ''oh one of the characters is about to realize he has a crush or something''#starting to think people don't bother looking up what words and phrases mean before using them#it's so photosynthetic#(note: this is an intentional example of a word being used in a situation where it is not really applicable)
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One of the interesting bits of trying to resume working on the game after so long is looking back at my ancient Draft Placeholder versions of an image from 4 yrs ago trying to remember what the hell I meant back then, to hopefully interpret it into some more final (ish..) form of the same thing .. making slow progress lol
#At this point I've decided it's just a consistent design decision to have the sketchy slightly wonky sort of art ghbjj#I simply don't have the digital art skills/tools/patience (mostly that) to do 100% digital things and have a Clean Polished Professional#Neat Looking Perfect Crisp Lines sort of thing like one would see in most games. I'm drawing everything in pencil half decently (not strict#ly making sure every line is straight or that the perspective even makes sense) and then scanning it in and coloring it on the computer#and that's about it. In another world I could hire an artist or two to do professional backgrounds and charcter art or etc. - but as I am#a mere penniless peasant hermit with functioning issues who has to do every aspect of everything themselves - I'm just going to do#what is possible within the time frame/my ability/etc. and then just be like ''ah you see! actually this is intentional~ it has a homemade#crafty hand drawn sort of charm about it - yes? this was the direction all along!!'' LOL#Which for the record I'm not like complaining that it's necssarily Bad or anything - more just I suppose not the Professional Polished#style you Typically see in a lot of things - again the like - sketchy unclean lines of it all.#(like I think usually people use some sort of symmetry tool to make sure that all sides of a box are neat and clean and have that#Professional Game Art type of feel about them - rather than 'this is a scan of scraggily pencil lines in which I did not even bother to use#a ruler or try to get them all that even' lol). So it's not that it's BAD really.#just I think.. perhaps ''unconventional'' compared to the examples of other#games I've looked at. BUT. the point is to convey an idea. I think your art has failed if you do not convey a concept properly. But so#long as it meets your purposes and is not SOO cluttered/scribbly that nobody can even tell what's going on (unless that IS your intention)#then like.. I think it's fine. You can tell a house is a house even if it's not polished. No worries. (<convincing myself)#ANYWAY.. also 'Nanyevimi Market Quest' is still SUCH a placeholder name but I genuinely can never think of anything else so#I've just been going with it for now ToT... There's no distinct actual throughline story/plot so there's no 'theme' to base a title#around. Kind of like how 'The Sims' is just called the sims because naming it like 'Sims: Downfall Of Pleasantview' (one of the#towns in TS2 i think) would be a weird misname since what happens in the game totally depends on what you choose to do with it#So you can't really name it anything THAT specific (a player might not even choose to have a house in Pleasantview. what then? etc).#So it's just like..uh well...GENERALLY speaking.. everyone is uh.. on a personal quest..vaguely.. which takes place in a Market street full#of shops.. and you are mostly talking to shopkeepers... BUT it's not just a Market Quest since it's also in a fantasy world.. so we need to#give the fantasy world name.. and that's about it. I'm just at a loss for anything else. Maybe the like 2 and a half playtesters I#manage to scrounge up will have better ideas ghhh.. 'Nanyevimi Quest: Get To Know Some Shopkeepers' 'Find A Job In Fantasy World' you could#say 'Market Adventure' but some would argue just having a bunch of conversations and wandering around is not much of a real adventure.#don't want to set people up for thinking there's any drama or combat or anything. 'Do Menial Errands For Mentally Ill Elves Simulator' ghjg#(also sidenote: the '''chibi'' style versions of the characters on the menu screen....EVIL.. that style is SOOO hard for me to draw in for#some reason.. I just can't get the proportions right/have trouble fully ''simplifying'' the design.. took me HOURS lol... aUGHh)
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I have an idea for the requesttober, could you make Scriabin like an endermen? I feel that Scriabin would be an endermen if he were in Minecraft's world
Day 11 - No eye contact >:(
#My art#Requestober#Minecraft#Vargas#Scriabin#Edgar#Scriabin would make a good Enderman haha#I wonder if he'd be a bit indignant since y'know - the Nether is Right There and he's totally a demon! He needs to be from Hell!#But then there aren't really any demonic creatures in the Nether - Nether Skeletons maybe? Haha ♪#Besides Endermen are cool! They teleport and get mad when you look them in the eyes it's very fitting lol#I wasn't sure if I wanted to give him a purple colour palette somewhere - switch out his blue glasses for purple? :0#But I opted to just stick with the classic for greyscale :) You can imagine him as a purpley-grey haha#Man it feels like forever since I've drawn them in Minecraft haha - I have played with my Edgar skin since!#It turned into a performative art piece of throwing Edgar off every high cliff I came across - don't ask I was in a weird mood lol#Man it'd be so fun for them to do one of those modded Minecraft playthroughs where Edgar has to try to beat the game#While Scriabin has the morph mod for example and can just turn into random stuff to get in his way (or maybe help? Nah lol)#Only turns into the ''cool' mobs and then the ones that are the most effective at killing Edgar hahah ♪#''Here I know a way you can win right away >:)'' ''Wait-'' *turns into the Ender Dragon as soon as Edgar gets stone tools* lol#It's fitting for Edgar to stay a human but it'd be fun for him to be able to morph too!#Maybe only into ''normal'' mobs lol - he turns into a sheep and Scriabin immediately dyes him red#Oh no that's a cute imagine of Enderman!Scriabin picking a red flower and then putting it on sheep!Edgar stop me now lol
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"is gooseworx upset about digital circus becoming a cocomelon ass thing id be so angry lol" I cannot express to you how much they have achieved the DREAM for an online indie animator. they got millions of views with A PILOT ALONE! the original characters are already being cosplayed and the models are being thrown into random ass meme videos as if its a massively famous IP! all that with an indie 3D studio! AND the cg actually looks incredible!!! think they're gonna be okay if some content farms use their models for some brainrot finger family video.
#speakeasies#the project very clearly has a bright future.#sure there's something to say about how people jump into making something into a fanbase too fast#welcome home being a good example#but that was different because the creator of that wasn't really ready for the characters to be fandomized vs an animated pilot#and also have you met middle school age kids online this is what they do best lol#and we can also talk about how weird and exploitative those cocomelon content farms are#but don't pretend like you wouldn't be so happy if you were in their shoes#like you just sound jealous at a point#sorry this is me writing a long post about a tweet I saw months ago but#literally saw a post that was like if my characters got put into a Cocomelon video I would off myself oh poor gooseworx#like dude dont be dramatic no you fucking wouldnt lol#catastrophizing ass#not like this would ever happen but if my characters got put into something like that I would just laugh and go on with my day#tadc#the amazing digital circus
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four walls playlist

#wow i feel weirdly self conscious about sharing this actually 😅#it's such a random assortment of songs lol#i would like to note that often the music i write to isn’t the same as the music i listen to for me#idk if any other writers here are the same about this??#but yeah the stuff on this playlist is really just whatever has helped me get into the right mood or headspace for the fic#for example#inhaler is on that list and i find them weirdly good to write to for this fic but also i literally never listen to them in my own time#same goes for coldplay#but then also there are obviously some artists i ADORE with all my heart on that list too (hello mansions and qotsa)#also maybe this is weird but i don't actually listen to a lot of miles/am stuff while i'm writing this fic#the stuff i do is all from just before/after the time period the fic is set#which i find SUPER helpful for getting into their headspaces#and i don't like to muddle it much with things they wrote later if that makes any sense??#anyway#i'll stop rambling about it now#hope anyone who checks it out enjoys!! 😘#ps#new chapter of four walls is coming very sooooooooooon!#milex#milex fic#four walls#lulu posts
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#while im at with all this opinion posting#i think people are very afraid of being or being seen as reactionary luddites that they adopt objectively kinda weird positions#like being extremely skeptical of the idea that changes in educational policy can impact e.g. literacy#<-wrt to the whole can college students read books thing. lol.#and also. granted this has nothing to do with the actual issue. but that teachers response really baffled me...#giving les mis as an example of a book that isn't relevant anymore as if it isnt abt the injustice of poverty/policing/prisons...cmon!!!#its a long book that is difficult to read and i dont think very many people could or would want to read the whole thing in a school term#but its actually absurd to act like its not interesting or relevent like u cannot be serious with that...
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Also when I make shitposty jokes like that I LOVE taking them Way Too Seriously. Like. Yeah that's funny, but what does it Mean actually, for Freyja to say all that to Moe? Is she propping herself up, rubbing salt in the wounds of someone who could not achieve "goodness" as presented to it, by explicitly stating she was raised as a lotus flower, already a pure and divine being from the start? Who, as you can plainly see, manages to embody that purity and divinity to this day, whereas Moe has failed to? By saying she smells nice like vanilla all the time, does that imply that Moe could stand to have better hygiene habits, or at least is self-conscious of the times it gets forgetful and/or neglectful in that regard? Or at very least is just extremely self-conscious that it sweats a lot when nervous (which is nearly all the damn time)? And when Freyja leaves the beetle for dead in such a specific way, is Moe thinking of and empathizing with the protagonist of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis?
#moe tag#moe lore#there's an eviler option for the second example. btw. not telling you what.#i really did just make like. the world's most abandoned stray cat of a guy.#world's most pathetic sopping wet beast. who has so many problems. an ungodly amount of complexes.#maybe the ultimate power fantasy is being so outrageously sad and soggy and bitey on top of that for good measure#and having a lot of weird and embarrassing things going on but.#still being beloved. being safe to be all those things.#you have to work with the people who love you who you love of course. that's a constant lesson moe is learning#but you can be loved AND safe. you can be safe and loved.
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