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Random tangent: I donât think Jason would internationally hurt people around Bruce to get at Bruce. I feel like at most theyâd be collateral damage. Idk Iâm relying heavily on my flawed memory of utrh for this tho. His interactions with Dick there was too minimal for me to get a proper read on him.
I feel like this is one of those up to interpretation type deals where I firmly believe he would considering how he reacted to seeing Bludhaven get destroyed - he was way more concerned with using it as an opportunity to hurt Bruce then showing one ounce of care if Dick was alive or not - as well as the interaction he had earlier with oynx - I'm gonna go on my own wee tangent opps so heres the thing I think people misunderstand about Jason he a ends justify the means type guy and people get confused bc of that line he says to Bruce later when he's says smth like "I'm not talking about two face or riddler just joker" but the thing is he was talking about Bruce only having to kill the Joker not himself - Jason has already shown multiple times by that point that he is willing to kill a lot of people if he thinks that they will justify his ends - that includes killing henchmen and lower criminals and its not like he's finding out everything about everyone who gets in his way to see if they deserve to die no Jason is more violent then a lot of people seem to be willing to admit and he's willing to own up to that violence bc to him it's justified and to try and get back to the actual point (sorry anon about that) Jason's means justify the ends thing also means he doesn't mind hurting dick or oynx unnecessarily to antagonise Bruce
#ask#anon#like i said tho#this is one of those#its up for interpretation#like i firmly believe that jason is more willing to use violence against those close to bruce to hurt bruce#but i understand why people may disagree#its the same with the whole#did Jason actually expect or want bruce to kill the joker#im firmly in the no side#i do think people need to realise just how violent jason is#like before he died#hed probably be closer to how people think he is#he thought that it was okay for a select few to die#but they had to be scum of the earth bad#now hes a wee bit more flexible
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I think we need to have a serious re-evaluation of what "leftist" means bc there ain't no fuckin way authcoms are on the same left as me lmao
#atlas entry#from what I understand broadly speaking âthe leftâ does not exist. at least not in the the way âthe rightâ does#âthe leftâ is just a political alliance of convenience between people with sometimes seriously varying views#who only banded together bc of their common cause against the right#bc you can draw a pretty straight line between neo-liberal establishment Republicans and far-right groypers#but the difference between anarcho-communists (good) and authoritarian communists (stupid) is so vast that the two may would be opposed on#pretty much every issue except the âcommunistâ part. and even on that front there's plenty to disagree on#in fact. and this is me swinging wildly at a hornet's nest. I would say but for the communism authoritarian communists should really be#considered right-wing (because of the authoritarianism). the fact that they're communist doesn't make them any less fascistic#I think one of the big issues is that âcommunistâ has become a âbig tentâ that people use as short-hand for a number of other positions#so many people stopped identifying as feminists when they started identifying as communists bc they think communism includes feminism#(it doesn't)#or they stopped identifying as anti-racist bc they think communism includes anti-racism (it doesn't)#so when you talk about fascist communists it creates a cognitive dissonance where people are like#âBut wait fascism is all the bad things and communism is all the good things so how does that workâ#and like no. communism is just an economic theory. that's it. it doesn't necessitate anything else#Anyway this wasn't meant to be about why authcoms are stupid but they are so I don't feel bad for saying so lol
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I didn't say they don't believe in the staged finale, but they think it's a retcon. A retcon is when something is added to the story that contradicts past information, rewriting it, so they think the finale was originally real and c!dream wanted to do all that, and only closer to the prison break, cc!dream decided to change that part of the plot or something
and it's funny because theories about the discs finale being staged started popping up literally right after that stream and a lot of c!inniters were making fun of or even harassing people who were creating such theories, and also, the content creators themselves admitted that it wasn't a retcon and that a limited circle of people knew about it, it was just kept a secret from everyone. I just really think it's pointless to talk to people who thinks everything is about c!tommy and who think that all of c!dream's actions are centered around c!tommy, that, well, they continue to believe that even though it's refuted by the plot and by the content creators and by the people who love and analyze the character.
it's just, ugh, what kind of conversation can you have with someone who believes that c!dream is a one-dimensional character who was only written to be obsessed with c!tommy and be the "perfect villain" for the "perfect victim", who believes that all characters are just an extension of c!tommy because to them c!tommy is all that matters in the plot. it's simple, these people hate dream smp and they don't care about the efforts of content creators to create interesting multifaceted characters, they are only interested in c!tommy. you can't get a sane dialogue from a person whose brain is so washed that he believes in the stupidest conspiracy theory in the world, and with some c!tommy fans the sameđ¤ˇââď¸
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Kinda the same thing isnât it? Eh whatever. Regardless, you make a good point though Iâd stray away from derogatory terms when talking about peopleâs opinions even if they arenât based on fact. Itâs honestly less of a conspiracy theory and more just ignoring the truth. Conspiracy theories are somewhat based on the unknown, in this case all the info we get comes from the same place - so you either believe streams and the cc!s and lore they make or you donât and if you donât then thatâs not a âtheoryâ thatâs just an opinion based on misinformation and the lack of truth. Which you are right is rather unproductive to discuss if we canât agree on the facts, but also we are on a public platform so I kinda see it as also having the discussion with all the other 400 something notes lol. Anyways, even if it was rather unproductive, I kinda came out learning something new and thinking about something in a new way, so I had fun which is the whole point of being here anyways. :)
Now what is kinda funny to me is this whole retcon, rewrite, discounting lore thing anyways, because for example c!Dream was originally supposed to fight with Pogtopia but because everyone was joining their side, cc!Dream had to switch to balance it out so they can even have a war at all and created the revive book so that it made sense for his character. So one of the moments I see used against c!Dream to show he is heartless and doesnât care about friendship and stuff, is actually more so an instance of a rewrite⌠and yet we all take it at face value and base whole arguments on it, because at the end of the day, it is the lore we have. Whatâs interesting to me, is that part of the fun of the Dream smp is that itâs a mess, something cc!Tommy talked about recently. A mess, I personally like to take and look at things in a way to see if there are ways and angles where things can make more sense. Thatâs part of the fun of this crazy story telling. Itâs why I started writing fanfiction in the first place, to fill in gaps or plot holes in lore. If you want a structured story more so centered around a protagonistâs specific suffering then go read Harry Potter (not to reduce that story to just that of course donât come after me thatâs not the point). But to take out things or not look at certain things in the context of other things that happened because they donât follow the less messy dream smp timeline youâve created in your mind, is to defeat the point. What will you decide wasnât intended next, if Tommy burning down Tubboâs house isnât important, if staged finale wasnât supposed to be a thing, then what about Tommy finding Technoâs house, didnât cc!Techno say how that wasnât supposed to happen? What about the revival book experiments, they were from a video not even a stream can I say those are a retcon and unimportant since the timeline doesnât even make sense and actively contradicts itself? What about Tommyâs beach party, could the ccs just not come so they had to improvise and rewrite it so itâs empty on purpose? Like why are we deciding was is and isnât lore or important lore? You wouldnât discount a book or movie or tv show because it doesnât make sense, youâd either try and understand how to make it sense or rewrite what you think would have been better - but at that point it is fanfiction it is your world now, you can do anything you want there but that doesnât make it canon. Honestly to look at the dsmp as anything less than its entirety is a disrespect to the Tommy, to Dream, to Technoblade and everybody else c!s and cc!s alike. And thatâs why I reblogged in the first place, because I felt like it was disrespectful to Technoblade and that felt very wrong to me. You can slander Dream all you want, but donât discount or take away from part of Technobladeâs legacy.
#plus op private messaged me and was very nice so it felt more safe to discuss than with some of the more aggressive anon asks I haveâŚ#hello there#dsmpblr#dsmp#dream smp#did someone order an essay?#anyways⌠I learned something so there ya go. I donât have a conversation with a person with an opposite religion as me to change their mind#but to understand them and see if they can understand me⌠we may walk away from the conversation just as head strong in our beliefs and#opinions as before but maybe we learned something or maybe we became stronger in our beliefs or maybe it resulted in us looking at things#in a different way than before#we need to stop fearing disagreements. if we surround ourselves with people who think the same things we are not going to be able grow#if someone is not hostile and open to talk then itâs okay to disagree. and not all conversation is about converting or winning#or proving your opinion is right sometimes itâs about understand where other people are coming from and why
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Something about shippers of popular ships/rarepairs or people who back up popular interpretations of a media in general that makes them terribly insecure about their own stances
So insecure, in fact, that they revel in getting to go out of their way to try to dunk on their opposition by "informing" them that they're totally and unequivocally wrong
#fandom wank#i just be ramblin#this is vague and untagged on purpose#It's also like. Listen. I do understand that sometimes you feel like everyone is against you and it's good to feel like you've got#something that proves you may be right and also not crazy#But uh. Maybe perhaps talking shit about ships in their ship tags or going on people's posts to tell them how wrong they are about X thing#is not the look#I also can't tell you the amount of times I've seen people get high and mighty about this shit even when someone's interpretation/theory wa#a fun thing they weren't insisting would be canon or when someone's fictional ship art was never intended to imply they thought it was#basically canon in the source material#Also it's just annoying#It just makes people think ''Huh if they're so sure that they're right and canon backs them up then why are they afraid of people#disagreeing with them. People can't change canonâ so why are you afraid of them as if they can do so?''
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No need to worry, the screams of fury emanating from her room are just because she made the terrible decision to read someone elseâs list of the â100 Best Classic Fiction Works in Englishâ
#Usually it wouldn't bother me that we disagree on some of the items on the list- that's a good thing!#And the point in looking at lists like this is to find out other people's opinions and recommendations#And you always know they're going to be biased#And the fact that it's male dominated isn't all that surprising especially for adult literature#However#What really got to me was this particular individual this utter HAM included children's literature#And that's where the gender bias not only became obvious; but it also became clear that this wasn't a list of classic books#This was just a list of the only books this guy had read#Female writers wrote a hefty portion of what we traditionally call children's classics#I know this because I actually read fiction as a child (adulthood less so)#And unlike this journalist I was diagnosed with Little Girl and therefore expected to read books by both men AND women#I'm not angry at this guy; he's obviously made the attempt to unlearn some of his assumptions#Especially with adult fiction#I'm more saddened by how obvious it is that boys of his generation were expected to only read books about boys; by men#And then we wonder why they grow up with a bias towards works by men as adults?#I just thought children's classics had to be an exception; even if they read stuff by men in other areas SURELY they'd read classics#like the Secret Garden or the Railway Children or Black Beauty especially in cases where the woman only used initials so you couldn't tell#It was a stupid fucking idea to put children's literature on the same list as adult classics anyway as children's lit is such a huge genre#But I'm sorry I read Robert Louis Stevenson (loved it) and Jack London and Mark Twain and Kenneth Grahame just like this guy#So I don't understand how he managed to miss out on everything except Little Women (which is sometimes marketed to adults which may explain)#It's not news of course that boys are often not expected to read books that aren't about boys we know this#What really got me is a) I would have thought the books often (rightly or wrongly) marketed as 'classics' would have been exempt from this#And b) now I know this dude didn't do his due diligence when creating this list because he clearly didn't think he needed to go back#and expand his knowledge of children's literature before throwing his list together based on what he personally read as a boy#Like personally if I was going to make the controversial decision to add children's lit to an already controversial list of classics#I for one know that I should go back and read the things I missed out on as a kid#For example my knowledge of children's classics is thoroughly determined by mid-twentieth century British views#Hence I read a lot of stuff from the Edwardian era#Hence I also didn't read many books by non-white writers- something which I now know to have been dictated by outside circumstances#So I would be very hesitant to just list off as 'the best children's books' all the ones I alone had read
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There's been a Limbus Tier List floating around so here's my take :)
Original -> https://twitter.com/Lobo_Ryuu/status/1668559857140793350?s=20
#Yea!#Had to edit the final character on because she wasn't in the list but the urge to put her in my HATE tier was too strong#Also if you disagree-- idk man just make your own#limbus company#lcb#lcb spoilers#limbus company spoilers#kinda anyway? Maybe?#Especially w/ tags below this#now you may be wondering: Why is [x] villain-esque character low- but [y] is higher on the list?#well you see#Backstory and intent#I'm far more lenient towards characters if I can understand them- maybe not condone- but if I understand- then sure#Now if a character is just an asshole for exactly no reason? Kill. Kill them.#Example: Legit NO ONE in the <screw yourself> tier had any legit reason for the shit they did- Hence- Kill them.#But [redacted spoilers] few characters? Its screwed up but I also can follow mentally how someone got there-#-And therefore can be sympathetic toward seeing people in shit situations doing their Damn Best to make it through#That city SUCKS so yea-#-Makes sense of the kinds of terrible things that happen for people to survive every day#I hate that the city sucks so much but it is interesting to see it continuing on anyway#anyway if you made it this far then thanks for coming to my tag rambling session lmao#Idk how to properly word these thoughts into an actual post-#so tag ramblings instead
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So I ordered Wide Sargasso Sea to read lets see how that goes
#im struggling to understand why j*ne e*re exists#(censored so I don't show up in any tags asdfghjkl not for hate reasons)#and I think this book May help#like genuinely. this book has flabbergasted me#it's worse than dr*cula#my mind cannot wrap itself around the fact that people read that book and were like 'sounds normal to me idk'#like how did that happen. how did that book happen.#I disagree btw with the Jane v Bertha framework. I think it's reductive. But I want to Understand
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You'd think I'd learn and just start blocking people who disagree on a fandom post, cause it just ends with me being annoyed and feeling stupid for engaging with people who want to cherry pick your argument and ignore anything they dont have a counter for (whether their counters are good or not). Or they act like they haven't argued like they have. Plus I always think I've written a fairly polite rebuttal and then the response makes me wonder if I was ruder than I intended, or I reread and realize I was an rude without meaning to be and I feel like an ass.
I just wanna gush about media ok. Someone slap my hands away from the keyboard when someone argues, me included
#I need to just block people iI swear#need to learn to just shut up more#but also#ppl gotta learn to just scroll away from fandom shit they disagree with#make your own post arguing your view if it bothers you so#rather than either jumping on other peoples post or making posts villifying people for not seeing things your way#and i dont mean 'i disagree with/dont understand these fans viewpoint'#i meant the posts saying people are stupid and horrible and fake fans for enjoying a thing a certain way#like so long as you recognize moral...consequences?#i dont care how you enjoy a media#may not like it#but thats why filters and blocking and good ole scrolling away exist
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By Bernie Sanders | July 13, 2024
I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump â a demagogue and pathological liar. Itâs time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism.
I strongly disagree with Mr. Biden on the question of U.S. support for Israelâs horrific war against the Palestinian people. The United States should not provide Benjamin Netanyahuâs right-wing extremist government with another nickel as it continues to create one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history.
I strongly disagree with the presidentâs belief that the Affordable Care Act, as useful as it has been, will ever address Americaâs health care crisis. Our health care system is broken, dysfunctional and wildly expensive and needs to be replaced with a âMedicare for allâ single-payer system. Health care is a human right.
And those are not my only disagreements with Mr. Biden.
But for over two weeks now, the corporate media has obsessively focused on the June presidential debate and the cognitive capabilities of a man who has, perhaps, the most difficult and stressful job in the world. The media has frantically searched for every living human being who no longer supports the president or any neurologist who wants to appear on TV. Unfortunately, too many Democrats have joined that circular firing squad.
Yes. I know: Mr. Biden is old, is prone to gaffes, walks stiffly and had a disastrous debate with Mr. Trump. But this I also know: A presidential election is not an entertainment contest. It does not begin or end with a 90-minute debate.
Enough! Mr. Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate and should be the candidate. And with an effective campaign taht speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly. Itâs time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.
I understand that some Democrats get nervous about having to explain the presidentâs gaffes and misspeaking names. But unlike the Republicans, they do not have to explain away a candidate who now has 34 felony convictions and faces charges that could lead to dozens of additional convictions, who has been hit with a $5 million judgment after he was found liable in a sexual abuse case, who has been involved in more than 4,000 lawsuits, who has repeatedly gone bankrupt and who has told thousands of documented lies and falsehoods.
Supporters of Mr. Biden can speak proudly about a good and decent Democratic president with a record of real accomplishment. The Biden administration, as a result of the American Rescue Plan, helped rebuild the economy during the pandemic far faster than economists thought possible. At a time when people were terrified about the future, the president and those of us who supported him in Congress put Americans back to work, provided cash benefits to desperate parents and protected small businesses, hospitals, schools and child care centers.
After decades of talk about our crumbling roads, bridges and water systems, we put more money into rebuilding Americaâs infrastructure than ever before â which is projected to create millions of well-paying jobs. And we did not stop there. We made the largest-ever investment in climate action to save the planet. We canceled student debt for nearly five million financially strapped Americans. We cut prices for insulin and asthma inhalers, capped out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and got free vaccines to the American people. We battled to defend womenâs rights in the face of moves by Trump-appointed jurists to roll back reproductive freedom and deny women the right to control their own bodies.
So, yes, Mr. Biden has a record to run on. A strong record. But he and his supporters should never suggest that whatâs been accomplished is sufficient. To win the election, the president must do more than just defend his excellent record. He needs to propose and fight for a bold agenda that speaks to the needs of the vast majority of our people â the working families of this country, the people who have been left behind for far too long.
At a time when the billionaires have never had it so good and when the United States is experiencing virtually unprecedented income and wealth inequality, over 60 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, real weekly wages for the average worker have not risen in over 50 years, 25 percent of seniors live each year on $15,000 or less, we have a higher rate of childhood poverty than almost any other major country, and housing is becoming more and more unaffordable â among other crises.
This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We can do better. We must do better. Joe Biden knows that. Donald Trump does not. Joe Biden wants to tax the rich so that we can fund the needs of working families, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. Donald Trump wants to cut taxes for the billionaire class. Joe Biden wants to expand Social Security benefits. Donald Trump and his friends want to weaken Social Security. Joe Biden wants to make it easier for workers to form unions and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits. Donald Trump wants to let multinational corporations get away with exploiting workers and ripping off consumers. Joe Biden respects democracy. Donald Trump attacks it.
This election offers a stark choice on issue after issue. If Mr. Biden and his supporters focus on these issues â and refuse to be divided and distracted â the president will rally working families to his side in the industrial Midwest swing states and elsewhere and win the November election. And let me say this as emphatically as I can: For the sake of our kids and future generations, he must win.
Bernie Sanders is the senior senator from Vermont.
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okay so there are people who are taking this shit too far: having reading comprehension issues is not a moral failing, not understanding something even when repeated is not a moral failing, the only thing thatâs bad about it is acting entitled and rude
#just like Iâm allowed to not understand why people donât get it#people are allowed not to get it#if u disagree with a post more power to u you can ignore it#even if you donât#if youâre not a dick no one should bother u about it#I donât care if someoneâs blog is entirely about bob the builder itâs not okay to imply that theyâre lower than u#if u think that you donât agree with me ur just a dick#that post was NEVER about intelligence#and maybe I dropped the ball on a few people who annoyed me thatâs on me#but thatâs not an excuse to act like people interested in cartoons are these leery individuals#most people watch cartoons#I watch cartoons#I may not watch bubble guppies or whatever#but I have ââcringeyââ interests#that post wasnât about cringe#nuance is dead#its either OP SAID NEVER TO WATCH CARTOONS or YEAH OP THOSE PEOPLE R ALL FREAKS AND WEIRDOS and bro take a break#u have become the cartoon discourses đ#and so have I#so here we are#toondiscourse
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đŞDark Hourđ¤
- Astrology Observations -
Having Venus in your 4th house can make you automatically to attract people with traditional values even if are not traditional yourself
Libra Risings can have it hard in relationship since their 7th house is ruled by Mars (Aries) which rules over war and conflicts
Cancer Placements can turn out to be manipulative if you do them wrong or if they simply just wake up and say 'lets be toxic today' and im not talking about all cancer placement natives
The dark side of a Venus in the 12th/Pisces Venus is that they tend to idolize their relationships/partners a lot, making a lot of scenarios in their head
Virgo or Cancer Venus may have a 'savior' complex in their love relationship, like trying to save themselves or trying to find someone who can save them
6th house Sun or Moon may have lots of encounters with animals, is like animals feel some kind of "calling' from you
Gemini/Leo/Taurus/ Venus may like to cosplay/playing the role of a character matches a lot with their personality
If you have unevolved Virgo Placements, you may hate when people disagree with you or when ppl come witn a counter-argument for you
Mars in the 8th house can get crazy if they don't get physical touch. Some might crave it and not have it 100% all the time
Moon in the 10th house feels like everyone is watching every single emotion of yours and may react to your sensitivity. You may get called 'over sensitive'
Moon in the 8th/12th house can struggle to talk about their feelings if they are surrounded by people with a toxic energy
Scorpio Moons can also struggle with 'feeling love' especially if they never experienced that properly. Don't press them to show their love for you early in a relationship let them feel safe first
Leo Chiron is a placement where they may nedd attention from others but not that type of "spotlight attention" rather just to be seen and understood by others
The dark side of Taurus Placements is that they tend to be very greedy and I talk here about their finances and money, of course if they are unevolved
Uranus in your 10H can make you change/switch your job more than once or twice, and can indicate having a confusing time with choosing the right job
Moon in your 2H can talk about 'working with love' and putting your heart into everything you do. You get rewards for your kindness
Unevolved 10th house placements can turn really materialistic if they have the chance, looking only for money and that's it
Capricorns are used to expect the worse in some situations since they have been thru multiple such situations in their lives
Uranus in Aquarius generation can be attached to technology 24/7. In love with technology, their phones are their world
Gemini and Virgo Moons are the first indicators of someone having anxiety/stress/panic attacks/overthinking
Pisces Placements but mostly Pisces Suns/Risings can use escapism a lot, trying to create their own reality in their head rather than living in the actual one
Scorpio Venus/Mars natives, some of their hidden fears can be betrayal/getting cheating on. This can possibly be one of the reasons why they can attach fast to people
Saturn/Pluto/Moon in the 8th/12th houses the planets become more dark in these houses, getting
Cardi B has a crazy chart because she has BOTH Jupiter and POF in the 7th house and is still still coming to the man who cheated on her??? (Never mind her Venus in the 8th house explaining everything)
A water sign in your 11th house can indicate you can understand people deeply and attach to them emotionally
Earth signs in the 1st house can indicate you tend to put a lot of pressure on themselves, being hard on themselves, criticizing themselves sometimes quite a lot
Mercury - Moon aspects natives can get therapeutic with other people, they like to talk about deep stuff with others and tend to share a lot from their live experiences
Jupiter in Sagittarius can be a good placement if you want to explore the whole world or just simply travel Jupiter can help you to manifest that
Jupiter - Mercury or Saturn in harsh aspects tend to be close-minded or afraid to open to new things/learning or knowing about them (I'm talking for the aspects generally not the people)
Moon or Venus at 5° or in the 5th house can make you have a baby fever more when you're young, like in your 20s. Wanting to be a young parent (this does not apply to all)
Mars or Neptune in the 11th house tend to attract people easily with their energy/personality. People get interested about you too
North Node aspecting Saturn in harsh aspects is not easy, actually is a very challenging position in your chart
North Node in the 8th or 12th house tends to live intense lives or have intense life situations, even near death situations
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I really hate my friends mom
#like. i know people like this exist. i know this isnt like. that far out of a belief for a lot of liberals. like.#they may not always SAY it. but you know they think it.#and i KNEW she thought this way already. this is the same lady that once said that a white person could totally understand#the black experience better than a black person if they studied it#but its truly horrifying that i have relatives who are friends with this person and think shes AMAZING#this came up cuz she was trying to convince althea that fixing her gut health would make her autism less severe#which. is not backed up by science btw.#but shes convinced that it 100% is#and that because we're autistic we cant disagree with it#and she wonders why i never want to do things with althea when shes going to be there#like lady if i have to be in a room with you for too long i may start biting you#shes accusing us of sounding like antivaxxers. like. lady. look in the fucking mirror#''youre not a scientist you dont know what you're talking about'' NEITHER ARE YOU#lady i read research papers about autism for FUN. i may not be a scientist and i may not be great at articulating myself#but i know more than yoy#you
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You know what's sick as hell about the design of the Briar Senates??? It's that their design mirrors the weapon of the Draconias đâ¨
I know they're getting flak rn bcs they feel like "boomers who's against any progress because they value toxic tradition" but i don't really think they're like... entirely evil lol or the root of every bad thing that happened in Malleus'/Lilia's life (though im side eyeing them as one of the perpetrators still lol)
Tbh, removing them would also cause more harm (just some social issues inside the fae society tbh) than good imo, (I know many ppl say this bcs they think removing the Senates would make it possible for the peace between human and faes, but the thing is, the Senates aren't the only group that thinks this way, almost the entirety of Briar Valley does lol so forcibly removing them now would only come off as "Malleus forcing "human ideals" on the faes just because he has spent 4 years with the humans"(plus is the understanding between humans and faes truly achieved if you try to silence one group(even if that group is kinda disagreeable with anything human related lol), plus realistically the faes would trust their fellow faes first rather than some humans,
so for me, Briar Senates doesn't give off the vibe of toxic old people who drags others down in their toxic practices (while that can be an accurate description i feel like it generalizes too much about their behaviour), rather than that, Briar Senates feels more like thorns, like thorns that surrounds Briar Valley, they're not exactly harmful unless you go against them, but ultimately they're still protection for Briar Valley.
Which makes it fitting that their design has a similarity with the Draconia's weapon, they're the thorns that protects the Draconias, even if it means sheltering them.
And, tbh, if the Senates other job is to ensure Draconias lives, they're kinda doing a "decent job"??? If we can assume through Maleficia's (and Malleus' case), since we didnt hear about her leaving the Senate's side, she managed to survive for so long, unlike Meleanorđ Also could explain why they're so enraged when Lilia arrived with the news that Meleanor died and why they hated the weak bcs what would weakness could protect JJDSJD Kinda wish their hatred against Lilia wasnt that he was a weak bat fae, but rather they doubled down on the fact he failed protecting Meleanor, imagine if Gen. Lilia wasnt as great in magic as the fae nobles were, yet he still managed to earn a position beside the Princess, all that hard work only to fail at the most crucial time, it wouldve make sense in the Senates' side to say, "Meleanor shouldnt have appointed him" (because "he's weak from the start")
oh additionally, this is just my assumption, bcs I felt like the way the Senates recoiled when Lilia hatched the egg was kinda... random?? so this is my made up reason lol Remember, the Senates were adamant that Maleficia should only be the one to hatch the egg because she's a Draconia, but Lilia did it and he's not a Draconia, What if because Lilia hatched the egg, it also affected the development of Malleus?? Like maybe for instance, it affected Malleus' lifespan, maybe he still lives more than one thousand years but he won't live for another thousand years like a pure Draconia because he's been hatched by Lilia as opposed to who they wanted it to be, which is Maleficia, OF COURSE Lilia hatching the egg is heaps better than Malleus dying before being born, but this is just my auto thoughts regarding the random hate reaction the Senates did when Lilia hatched Malleus lol
Interestingly, the placement of the stone of Draconia against the thorns (of the Senates) can also be hinted at their relationship with them??? In Meleanor's case, her stone is on top of the thorns, which may indicate that she's not under the Senate's commands or that its just telling she just lived distantly from the Senates, most importantly her stone is bigger than the thorns which may tell the fact that the Senates worships her because she's powerful and greater than them, and she's not someone who can be trapped/ordered around within the Senates. But, tragically, in Malleus' case, his stone is under the thorns, like its telling that he's under the Senates protection at all cost and his stone is little compared to Meleanor's because he's still young.
I also have a theory that the Senates are part of Briar Valley's land, like its been canonically said that they're the dead faes of Briarland, which makes think that their death is similar to the death of Conall from Maleficent 2, when Conall was buried, his body literally morphed to the land, which makes me think this is how the Senates used to be buried, when they die, they become one with the land, that's why you can't just remove them, when they are literally the Lands of Briar Valley,,,, get it lol
Though this is making me think that if this is the case then Maleficia's city,,, if the Senate's presence are the strongest there bcs that's where they're nearly buried, does that mean around Black Scale Castle is just lowkey a graveyard.... Is that why Halloween is special for Briar Valley bcs they have close ties/respect for the dead and Halloween is essentially about honoring the dead đâ¨
Off topic, but maybe the thorns part of the Draconia's staff may also tell about their age. Notice how Meleanor's staff has 3 twists which may tell that she's atleast 300~ years old, (if each twists signifies a century), while Malleus' staff only has one twist on its thorns which is accurate considering he's only 178 years old (one century).
If this is true, I'm kinda curious about Maleficia's staff... does that mean hers will be convered in thorns (she needs at least 7 twists (7 centuries~ and more) there on her staff đâ¨)
#twst#twisted wonderland#disney twisted wonderland#twistedwonderland#malleus draconia#disney twst#twst malleus#lilia vanrouge#lian notes#twst malleus draconia#twst maleanor#twst maleficia#twst diasomnia#twst headcanons#twst theory#maleficia draconia#meleanor draconia#maleanor draconia#twst meleanor#briar valley senates#twst theories#twst wonderland#i love you bitter old people (senates) they deserve the worst <3#(by worst i mean them experiencing the good side of humanity and reflect about how awful their#generalizing on them have been lol)#overthinking about briar valley politics again at 1am#even though i knowww full well TWST would never expand on the Senates' morality deeply like this lol
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one thing i enjoy about orv is how morally grey kim dokja is, especially in the beginning. during the beginning of the novel kim dokja seems to have almost no empathy for the people around him, and his number one priority is progressing the scenarios with himself being a secondary priority and saving others coming later. he does undeniable good, like saving jung heewon and caring for lee gilyoung - and he does some much more questionable things, like selling his food for coins knowing that it will disappear soon and people need the coins to survive.
this part of orv gets ignored a lot and chalked up to kim dokja's self-hatred, which i disagree with. yes he hates himself and yes he's an unreliable narrator who paints his actions in a worse light because of it but sometimes he just does objectively bad things. and it's interesting when he does! particularly in the beginning, he is focused completely on self-preservation and often steps on others in the process. his actions force you to ask questions like how responsible is kim dokja for those deaths on the subway car, or at that first subway station? is he obligated to try and save the people around him? how strong is that obligation? is it right of him to use his future knowledge the way he does, to decide who lives and dies? they're fairly basic questions, and orv doesn't particularly insist on answering them, but i enjoyed thinking about them nonetheless. the fact is kim dokja was often cruel, to strangers and his companions both, if different types. and you lose these questions when you ignore that. and thats not even to discuss the parallels between his exploitation of yoo joonghyuk's story and the way constellations gobble up incarnations while enjoying their pain. even if yoo joonghyuk eventually decides he considers it worth it, kim dokja still subsisted off of a living being's immeasurable pain for years, and that's a fucked up thing!
and to ignore kim dokja's less-than-moral actions also ignores kim dokja's character arc! kim dokja feels guilt at the end of orv for actions he wouldn't have thought twice about at the beginning and that is because he has changed and matured over the course of the novel and pretending he was always that way erases that. and i dont see why you would want to!! his journey towards seeing his companions as human and learning to care about the 'extras' he previously discarded and coming to understand the damage he inflicts with his self-sacrifice is interesting to watch and discuss. i've seen the stark contrast in empathy from early kim dokja to later kim dokja chalked up to sinshong not being quite sure how to write him yet and while i think that may have played a role i also think they did a good job of building and showing these changes through arcs like the demon world arc, the fruit of good and evil arc and the journey to the west arc
i think i lost my point somehwere but in summary kim dokja does some fucked up shit and some of it is basic edgelord apocalypse murder and some of it is genuinely interesting to contemplate and all of it is important to his character
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People often talk how inaccurate self diagnoses can be for things like autism and while I personally disagree, I found it to be true to some degree. But in a completely opposite direction.
When I just found out about a possibility of me being neurodivergent, maybe, like, a year ago? (Thanks to a peer review by my friendsđ) I took an online test for a self diagnosis - RAADS-R. And there's a reason they say "it can be inaccurate".
I think my first "score" was something close to 80 out of 240 possible. It meant I had some of the traits, but a lot of neurotypical people could score that high too.
But I got curious. And so for the next year I was doing my research. Finding out about spoon theory, about energy levels, about light and sound sensitivity, struggles with social cues and such.
I took the test again, a year later. I scored 167.
If your conclusion is "well, obviously you were influenced and the results are biased" you won't be entirely wrong. But the reason for it is not that I faked it. It's that I paid more attention to myself.
If you're living your whole life masking, you're taught to ignore absolutely every symptom of what may be autism or ADHD. My whole life I was thinking that I'm "weird" or "broken" or "different" or or or. I knew that I'm living my life somehow different than people around me. It felt like everyone got a tutorial how to live this life and I skipped it. But I could never understand why.
So, why did I score higher the second time I took the test? Because the first time all of the "weird" situations were never linked to autism in my brain. I had two dots, the connection between them being autism. But I never recognised the said connection, due to the high-masking nature that helped me to cope with everyday struggles.
But the second I made the connection, suddenly everything made sense. Suddenly, it's not "I'm too sensitive", it's not "something is wrong with me", it's not "why am I not enjoying this while others do?". It's fucking autism(and ADHD too, lol.)
That's the reason your diagnosis may be not as accurate as you think. Your brain can try and protect you from making the connection between your experiences and the diagnosis. Or, of course, there's a possibility to make a wrong connection, too.
But you're the only one who can find out. There's no one out there who knows you better than yourself.
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Why does Chappell Roan get so much hate?
most of the hate she gets can be summarized with one word: misogyny. people hate when women are sure of themselves. but iâll just be observing the ways this may present through her natal chart.
đŕžŕ˝˛â¤ď¸đŕžŕ˝˛ Tenth House in Cancer
this is going to be the house of notoriety/fame, because itâs the most public house in the chart, thus it represents our place in the public eye. it rules our relationship to the public as well.
in cancer, the nativeâs is known particularly for lunar themes (and contextualized to their own moon placement, as moon will be the lord of this house). chappellâs relationship to the public is one that is nurturing, empathetic⌠in some ways, a guardian. she may be known for her emotions (which she is) or intimate life (which she is, in a way). in my opinion, the tenth house also shows how we are publicly commodified. & i notice people try to commodify her emotions quite a bit.
her tenth house lord (moon) is in sagittarius and conjunct sagittarius pluto, in her third house - the house of communication and thought. and her moon is rejoiced in the third. thus, she will be known for her opinions.
let it be known⌠this is a very intelligent and well-spoken woman. like i really donât give a fuck what nobody say, all of the clips i see of her speaking shows that sheâs very thoughtful and intentional in how she speaks. and that is all the jupiter, pluto, & moon influence in this house. jupiter = wisdom, truth, justice. pluto = depth, taboo, complexity. moon = conviction, the mind, & the shadows.
however, because her tenth house lord is in the third conjunct pluto, her vocality is going to attract a polarizing response. this is usually because it almost âtriggersâ the general public, especially triggering a deeply emotional response (10h in cancer, lord conj pluto). people kinda want to disagree just for the sake of without even genuinely engaging with her thought. sag pluto gen is a generation thatâs already highly political (imo) but because that malefic informs her tenth house lord, she will almost be reprimanded for it.
it also causes an issue of parasociality. when u have ur tenth house in cancer, this causes people to already think they know u more than they do. however, the lord being conj pluto can show obsession, aggression, or possessiveness toward her from the public. like âhelicopteringâ her. in the third house, it can show they wish to have dominion over her thought. but she is natively a very emotional speaker with a lot of convinction (3h sag moon). moon is a defensive planet so sheâs going to always defend her standpoint / feelings, & this angers them more.
a woman with a tenth in cancer is going to have submissiveness projected onto them. people expect them to just lay down and take it. they expect conventional femininity & womanhood, but chappellâs femininity & womanhood as an openly lesbian woman deviates from the convention. her vocality deviates from the convention. etc. so the fact that her moon is in a self-assured & righteous sign and her moon wants to defend itself frustrates the people who hate her.
đŕžŕ˝˛â¤ď¸đŕžŕ˝˛ Fourth House Venus in Capricorn Opposite Tenth/MC in Cancer
as venus represents grace and charm or likability, her venus in capricorn and in the fourth doesnât necessarily mean she is dislikable, and it doesnât mean she doesnât have those venutian qualities. but it means u have to know her or understand her more intimately for them to show. itâs saved for her intimate life.
in fact, venus is one of the quieter planets in her chart. in a sign of saturn, it shows reservedness. in the fourth house - the house of invisibility - it shows this romantic, feminine, graceful side of her isnât as acknowledged. despite that literally being her chart ruler, since sheâs a libra rising.
but again⌠her tenth house in cancer opposes her venus in capricorn. saturn already causes an effect where people interpret it as a lack of, so people think she outright lacks these qualities because they donât perceive them.
her public image is at odds with her venutian expression to the public. which pisses them off because like i said before, that tenth house in cancer/first house in libra causes people to want to project submission onto her. but sheâs not a submissive person.
the nature of libra/venus and capricorn/saturn is structure and balance. thereâs a reason why saturn exalts in a venutian sign. sheâs someone who deeply values peace, contrary to popular belief. her worldview/mindset/soul (first house) is literally in the sign of fairness & balance (libra). her chart ruler is in the sign of structure (capricorn).
but⌠the thing is that because her chart ruler is in a saturnian sign, sheâs willing to more stubbornly assert herself. sheâs comfortable making others uncomfortable for the overall goal or objective. and people hateee a woman with boundaries.
đŕžŕ˝˛â¤ď¸đŕžŕ˝˛ 1H/Ascendant in Libra Opposite Aries Saturn, 4H Venus in Capricorn (Chart Ruler) Square Aries Saturn (Venus Dispositor)
those with saturn harsh-aspecting the ascendant may struggle to be understood, accepted, or given grace by others. saturn rules isolation, so a lot of times, those with saturnian influence in the chart are isolated & unwelcomed.
this effect is also felt with the chart ruler is harsh-aspecting saturn, which it is in this case. and saturn is also the dispositor of venus. again, venus = grace/charm.
đŕžŕ˝˛â¤ď¸đŕžŕ˝˛ Misogyny
i did have a long ass drafted post about the astrology of misogyny, and maybe iâll post it later. but for now, i can briefly speak on natal placements i think indicate a woman will experience a disproportionate amount of misogyny, relative to women with similar behaviors.
1H Libra Lilith - reference the myth of lilith
Moon conj Pluto/Venus square Saturn - the planets associated with womanhood are aspecting the malefics
Pisces Sun, Aqua Mercury, & Pisces Jupiter Conjunction - people hate women with big/strong personalities or women who are intelligent or provoke ur thoughts
Jovial Women (Sag Moon, Pisces Sun/Jupiter) - as i said above
đŕžŕ˝˛â¤ď¸đŕžŕ˝˛ Upcoming Solar Eclipse in Libra
the eclipse is on her ascendant (the house of health & the mindset) & opposing saturn (deterioration, exhaustion) so iâm not shocked sheâs experiencing a menth health decline as a result of the dogpiling. the reaction she got for a very tame take about both kamala & donald being pieces of shit was ridiculous considering theyâre both endorsing multiple genocides. i advise she stay private during this time anyways.
all the hate she getting lowkey making me wanna tap in, so yâall gon fuck around and make a fan out of me. but yeah.
hope this was interesting.
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