#bad fundamental mistake

[princessclai]

at least i am not wrong about a superior mate lol

ravage ravish random forced contraction at the grammatical level

forced contraction creation but snap a twig barely vibrate a golden twig gold twig lol

hahaha yay mistakes and Synonyms and word crimes and consequences I don't care about bc u not steal three u steal atomical and eukaryotic and prokaryotic and deca and meca and deci and lol

he mad someday or maybe not bc

i quit but he didn't

but maybe I'm wrong but

all de and a descendants ascended etc

. Stephen Hawking

You are dancing to me, but I know that.

maybe a random ballroom accident

I hope that is not true, Ascended and Descended Geniuses. I love all of you, Satan and Lucifers tooses lol because I'm an amateur spy too. as ss lol secret service perfectprotector imperfectperfectionist

wah sambulance

it ok maybe i snap too much somehow someway when u go GAWKING again

astronomically dwarfsupernovaburritobabyexplosion

mommy energy daddy energy

2 too tutu sry didn't do

I'm . but ° O π WAH

I wanted to be a pediatric surgeon.

but tortured and raped . . . etc instead

accident rage ravish ravage

but I'm in love with russian male superiors and Ukrainian male superiors and slavic Cyrillic male and female superiors and male and female harvard superiors and etc coexist at Harvard bc mature enough to UNC Chapel Hill superiors

I should be dead soon.

another cruel joke miracle to find

perfect mate in every state every sense zen

i failed again. at zen. I can't stop laughing, but you're so cute, Buddhist Monk Senpai. I'm not allowed to be a Buddhist Monk as a female, and I respect that, so I'll bring you more than white rice and your descendants, asc . . . not allowed. I do not have free will.

.,. -_- ^_^ ^~,

I wanted to and tried to become a pediatric surgeon. Due to extenuating circumstances, many times, etc, I was forced to fail. 🍼 Due

maybe a pacifier this time because im a yellifier mentally right now but apathetic emotionless

a pathetic crying mother

an evil FOUNTAIN of YOUTH

wah, i couldn't be perfect at evil after all like u

to sickness, ()[]{} wtf those idk need to ask Harvard grammar at PhD

didnt stalk me enuf that time i guess lol

big fundamental mistake

but i learned about evil to prevent it too 1 % deception due to sociopathy to protect and preserve and reverse extinction but oops

perfect evil exists

perfect perfect exists

live evil

4evr

in conditions u too dumb to understand

hope this stops u taylor swift

IT ISN'T TOO LATE I GUESS

lol she doesn't know i exist probably

#FUNDAMENTALS #GENZ #GENZKEDZ

[anghraine]

It's interesting (if often frustrating) to see the renewed Orc Discourse after the last few episodes of ROP. I've seen arguments that orcs have to be personifications of evil rather than people as such or else the ethics of our heroes' approach to them becomes much more fraught. Tolkien's work, as written, seems an odd choice to me for not wrangling with difficult questions, and of course, more diehard fans are going to immediately bring up Shagrat and Gorbag.

If you haven't read LOTR recently, Shagrat and Gorbag are two orcs who briefly have a conversation about how they're being screwed over by Sauron but have no other real options, about their opinions of mistakes that have been made, that they think Sauron himself has made one, but it's not safe to discuss because Sauron has spies in their own ranks. They reminisce about better times when they had more freedom and fantasize about a future when they can go elsewhere and set up a small-scale banditry operation rather than being involved in this huge-scale war. Eventually, however, they end up turning on each other.

Basically any time that someone brings up the "humanity" of this conversation, someone else will point out that they're still bad people. They're not at all guilty about what they're part of. They just resent the dangers to themselves, the pressure from above, failures of competence, the surveillance they're under, and their lack of realistic alternative options. The dream of another life mentioned in the conversation is still one of preying on innocent people, just on a much smaller and more immediate scale, etc.

I think this misses the reason it keeps getting brought up, though. The point is not that Shagrat and Gorbag are good people. The point is that they are people.

There's something very normal and recognizable about their resentment of their superiors, their fears of reprisal and betrayal that ultimately are realized, their dislike of this kind of industrial war machine that erases their individual work and contributions, the tinge of wistfulness in their hope of escape into a different kind of life. Their dialect is deliberately "common"—and there's a lot more to say about that and the fact that it's another commoner, Sam, who outwits them—but one of the main effects is to make them sound familiar and ordinary. And it's interesting that one of the points they specifically raise is that they're not going to get better treatment from "the good guys" so they can't defect, either.

This is self-interested, yes, but it's not the self-interest of some mystical being or spirit or whatnot, but of people.

Tolkien's later remarks tend to back this up. He said that female orcs do exist, but are rarely seen in the story because the characters only interact with the all-male warrior class of orcs. Whatever female orcs "do," it isn't going to war. Maybe they do a lot of the agricultural work that is apparently happening in distant parts of Mordor, maybe they are chiefly responsible for young orcs, maybe both and/or something else, we don't know. But we know they're out there and we know that they reproduce sexually and we know that they're not part of the orcish warrior class.

Regardless of all the problems with this, the idea that orcs have a gender-restricted warrior class at all and we're just not seeing any of their other classes because of where the story is set doesn't sound like automatons of evil. It sounds like an actual culture of people that we only see along the fringes.

And this whole matter of "but if they're people, we have to think about ethics, so they can't be people" is a weird circular argument that cannot account for what's in LOTR or for much of what Tolkien said afterwards. Yes, he struggled with The Problem of Orcs and how to reconcile it with his world building and his ethical system, but "maybe they're not people" is ultimately not a workable solution as far as LOTR goes and can't even account for much of the later evolution of his ideas, including explicit statements in his letters.

And in the end, the real response that comes to mind to that circular argument is "maybe you should think about ethics more."

[tin-can-iron-man]

I'm just gonna say it again real quick:

Yes!! Iron Man is a tragedy! It has and always has been since the very first appearance in 1963 which describes itself, Tony's life, and legacy, as such.

Tony causes most of his issues himself, he is his biggest villain, a majority of his rogues gallery are caricatures of the worst versions of himself brought to life (when they're not just being racist cuz...60s...). The worst thing about being Tony Stark is that he can't stop being Tony Stark (he tried!!) That is the point.

The majority of pain Tony goes through, is pain he inflicts on himself, whether intentionally or inadvertently. That is the point.

He is not A villain (at least. Not usually. There are...some rough moments and arcs that are. Not great. As there is with any character as old as he is). But he is his own main antagonist.

[ziracona]

Mike missing his shot to kill Hector and change the trajectory of his life and stay the man he wanted to be, because Ignacio got in the way and he wouldn’t shoot through him

Mike missing his shot to kill Walt and change the trajectory of his life from death to anything else, because Jessie got in the way and he wouldn’t shoot through him

[bitchthefuck1]

you know what, I actually will talk about this because it's bothering me. The issue with focussing so heavily on syd and carmy's potential for a romantic relationship isn't that there's something inherently unintellectual about romance or whatever, it's that a lot of people seem incapable of doing that without immediately flattening the story and ignoring or intentionally misreading any and all nuance for the sake of that romance. Every scene suddenly becomes about how it impacts their relationship, every analysis is done through a romantic lens, every frame or line of dialogue becomes about finding some easter egg or hint that "proves" these people should start dating. Their dynamic is absolutely a fundamental part of this show, but if you can only see it as a will-they-won't-they, you miss so much of what the story is actually trying to say with these two.

There are good versions of this story where their relationship is romantic and there are good versions of this story where it isn't, but as soon as you decide them being together is "the point," you lose the ability to actually judge the story for what it is, not what you want it to be.

[oblivioustoast]

huh wasn’t expecting anne with an e to make me cry so much or trigger childhood trauma

[eponymiad]

one of these days Im going to find the energy to type up every single Lost allusion Yellowjackets has made (up to four MASSIVE ones per episode, looking at you 2x6) because I don't see anyone else doing it on here and like. This show does not exist without Lost. These showrunners are writing a love letter to Lost.

[ratkingsystem]

i dont even mean this in a catchy, buzzword way but i really do think autistics trigger the fuck out of people with NPD. it keeps being a pattern in a VERY specific type of person in my work life. a lot of ppl w NPD have a very paranoiac sense of "everyone is trying to get me and tear me down" thing that comes w the grandiosity. not just 'wow i am great' but 'i will achieve greatness and i HAVE to and it won't be okay if i don't' and the fundamental belief that people 'lower' on the social hierarchy are secretly envious and making up ways to fuck you over and take what you have (yknow, bc Everything Is About You). being allistic on top of that - assuming your experience is default and everyone knows these minor social tics & anyone who doesn't respond in kind is being minorly petty at the very least - and you have someone for whom every little autistic social mishap is triggering the "secretly hates me is out to get me is trying to signal to me that i am cringe" alarms. i will play my tiny violin here and say if they see you as hot or conventionally attractive, they WILL NOT assume you are weird or neurodivergent, not in a billion years, they ONE BILLION PERCENT WILL ASSUME it's obvious that you are trying to signal you think you're better than them. it's really sad and it's a really stressful way to live but it helped me to understand WHY this dynamic was happening

[buffyspeak]

honestly i remember there being a lot of Rage on the alec stanning side of the fandom because of 3.04 and how upset/off he seemed after his fight with jace / in his very sweet scene with magnus. but now watching it’s like. yes he’s possessed but they don’t know that yet, for all the people in his life (including him - he has a hard time talking about it with alec because he feels backed into a corner, but he seeks out luke to learn more about his mother’s history) jace struggling with some kind of mental illness is a very real possibility! and lashing out at people when you’re coming to terms is sometimes part of that! i’m not saying it’s justified or that in an ideal world he wouldn’t apologize, but i just find it so strange that on a website so adamant that we need to accept and not demonize even the messiest parts, it was still sort of a prevailing idea that jace was like. evil for this when he was struggling?? like yes he was unknowingly dealing with effects of being possessed too but undeniably he is mentally struggling in the process.

[beauzos]

the Confederate generalships whenever they got orders from each other during the Seven Days Battles

[nohkalikai]

this would be a practical technical course they said but all i've seen is academics treating third world countries as fun playtime, the same practicals rehashed and divorced from context, and 'technical' courses that completely refuse to be based in any sort of theory

[noriakicatkyoin]

Feel like people who dont like asa n feel the need to bring up denji to say "but he has it worse she needs to chill out" hate women a little bit. Or theyre the same type that terminally are on the shinji hate grindset and i jus dont understand that one

[daisy--haze]

some mistakes :)c

1: wangshu inn, my fav location in genshin. i still really like how i drew it but i didn't realize the inks would reactivate with water until i started adding more value, which.. did not motivate me to continue lol

2: cass!!! one of my favorite portraits i've ever done!! and then i spilled silver paint on it.

3: duke!! i don't really have a problem with this one aside from some things that are just a result of me being a less experienced artist when i drew it, but i was never really happy with how i drew duke's face. i always picture him having a more long face instead of round

4: xiao painting which i still like the colors and brushwork of but it's just too muddy to continue

[wizardofgrace]

randomly seeing a convo in chinese on my dash and slamming my face into it snorting it injecting the hanzi into my veins to feel the rush again i miss you i miss you i miss you

[arolesbianism]

Smth smth Jackie being more emotionally driven and Olivia being more logically driven smth smth

[argentconflagration]

when the subject of "why do people believe things that are seriously wrong and harmful" comes up it feels like you kinda hear one of two perspectives:

"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"

or

"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"

and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)

they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)

they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)

they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)

they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)

they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)

they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)

they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)

the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)

you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:

natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)

being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)

random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)

you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up

and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.

i know you're doing your best. we're all doing our best.