#but it's interesting nonetheless

[deaths-accountant]

There's a group I'm adjacent to of people who love arguing about politics and philosophy and education, and have a sense of humor about it, and are very science- and physics-inclined.

To anyone in that circle, I cannot recommend Dr. Fatima's Youtube channel highly enough. Her videos are very funny, vary in seriousness, and don't dumb down the subject matter - typically about the social realities of science research, and philosophy around it. They seem very well-researched, and she knows what she's talking about. They are invariably interesting.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[dragonwysper]

Also consider that fetishes in their most simplified definition place meaning onto things which otherwise have no meaning. Someone with a shoe fetish would find a footwear catalog erotic. That was never meant to be fetish material, but it is to this person.

In the same vein, as the original anon said, yes, someone can make fetish work that doesn't strike someone else as being fetishistic at all. That same shoe fetishist can make their own footwear catalog, and unless it's overwhelmingly obviously sexual, a lot of folks would be none the wiser. Fetishes are just highly personal like that.

I will disagree with the idea that applying meaning to something devoid of it is fetishism. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, or you're running under an alternate definition of fetishism, but I don't think your run of the mill symbolism is fetishism. Romanticism? Sure. Anthropomorphism? Probably. But fetishism? I don't think so. I think that only really comes into play if the interpretation is sexual.

I feel like Fear and Hunger is a work where the argument of whether the gore and SA stuff in it is meant to be for horror or for fetishy reasons is constantly talked about, but people never consider the possibility that it's both. A peron can absolutely make their work full of content that makes them horny, but be aware that for most people it's awful and shocking without much or any difference in presentation.

now this may be a reductive opinion, but I'm of the mind that you can't really separate those two categories anyway. the idea that fetishistic violence is cleanly divided from a theoretical neutral violence in art has always struck me as more of "something you convince yourself to feel better as a reader/writer" than a meaningful belief

even applying meaning to violence in the first place is fetishism, which is why people stumble over themselves when pressed about it. by its nature, you step into the gradient the moment you begin to create, calling thresholds as you feel them and assuming they must come from a uniting "common sense"

which is a very rambly way of saying that I agree with you! I just kind of simplified my thoughts in the other post because I don't personally believe the intent was to create a straightforwardly erotic work

[unapologeticallygay]

Two Young Women Kissing, ca. 1790 -1794, oil on canvas, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845)

[noerixo]

[luxurystark-jackson]

only on spn can you get the 6’4 muscle boy getting jumped and almost killed by a gandhi impersonator

bonus: the other muscle boy gets jumped and tied to a tree by paris hilton

[kaanagen]

Skwisgaar shopping for many loaves of Wonder Bread

[ojbrush]

I find OJ and Papers mischaracterization in the fandom really saddening. Its a main reason im not a big fan of payjay myself— Paper isnt a soft, uwu boy or whatever people call it. Shes shown to be physically strong (withstanding things being thrown at her, carrying a piano, etc.) and mentally strong. She's awkward and anxious but it doesnt make her a baby that needs to be protected? And don't even get me started on OJ. Sure , i do enjoy whenever people push his flaws and recognize them and incorporate them in his relationships with others (trust me, i do the same. I exaggerate them sometimes, even.) BUT its either they make him the most EVIL and Abusive guy ever, or they make him absolutely one-note with no personality. It makes me really upset.

I know its bound to happen in a fandom, especially with a ship and characters THIS old, and their fanon appearances are going to stick forever (I've done the same thing with both of these characters when i was younger) but i just wish there was some improvement on the understanding of their characters. And maybe some appreciation of them without the other. Let them have time to breathe by themselves. Not all paper content has to be with OJ, and not all OJ content has to be with Paper.

Thats just my little thought on it all, i suppose. It's just something I've noticed over the years

[welcometogrouchland]

my Stephanie Brown hot take is that she should get mad bitches now that she's single in comics. Yes yes shipping BUT the one time she had sex she was punished by the narrative via teen pregnancy. I think she should be allowed to have as much sex as she wants with zero consequences. Could be a lot of sex, could be a little. Point is she should get to do it without getting narratively baby trapped this time. she should get them pregnant, actually.

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.

[gorejpeg]

> trio of misfits…

> lalalalala…

> and then AU ver. because they genuinely make me ill. i HATE them!!!!!

> to the chophouse! NEOW!!!!

[impossiblefeat]

Some unique artwork of Team Chaotix taken from Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 169 (August 2003) page 106.

[qcoded]

I fear sonic prime would've worked better as a game. jus MAYBE .

[acediathemelancholy]

Clara🤝Kirio: having the desire to consume Iruma so he can never leave them

[meteortrails]

deeply deeply important to me that the guard dog dynamic between momo and okarun isn’t just coming from okarun’s side - as protective and subservient as he is, she’s just as possessive and prone to taking the lead in return. like okarun would maim someone for her and she’d absolutely have the balls to ask him to, yknow?

[sysig]

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