#collective voice

[marciodpaulla-blog]

The Tipping Point: Politicians, Role Models, and Our Collective Responsibility

In the heart of American society, our politicians stand as influential figures whose actions and decisions shape the nation. The roles they play, both in the chambers of Congress and on our television screens, have significant repercussions for our everyday lives. However, as our world becomes increasingly polarized, the standard set by our politicians seems to be slipping. There is a pressing…

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Guillén, tr. by Sandy McKinney, from I’m Speaking; “Poem for the voice of Marilyn Monroe”

[Text ID: “I hear your voice; it beats between my teeth,”]

[braxiatel]

bread boys more like dead boys am i right

[freefallintothevoid]

I believe in my heart of hearts that the Lego Batman movie exists in DC and that it was created by the batfamily as a way to throw off the conspiracy theorists

Maybe the superhero forums were getting too close to realizing their identities again. maybe one of their injuries had accidentally gotten spotted by the paparazzi. maybe they were just running out of plausible alibis. maybe they just wanted to be funny.

Bruce gave the world the "do the butts match" meme. His children give the world a cinematic masterpiece.

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "The Voice", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

[minnow-doodle-doo]

Batman is owned by the people, not DC. My man is a modern myth.

[mareastrorum]

An incredible amount of the Downfall discourse comes off as people trying to game the trolley problem instead of recognizing that there simply isn’t a right answer.

Everyone fucked up. This was a horrible situation that might have been prevented with more time, communication, empathy, all sorts of corrections. But it’s the trolley problem: what we have is a bunch of gods on one set of tracks and a far larger number of mortals on the other, and ultimately, the gods switched the track to kill mortals.

It wasn’t right. Of course, we could justify it—I’m a lawyer, and I could justify anything. That doesn’t change that it isn’t moral, good, or right.

“But the gods couldn’t kill their family.” Did we not watch C2, filled with shitty genetic families and centered around a group of found family idiots? Family only means what you want it to. Of course the gods could have killed their family. Half of them even wanted to! But the PCs chose not to.

“But the gods are gods, of course they should win.” Maybe it’s the grew-up-a-poor-minority-and-climbed-the-social-ladder in me, but I don’t see the virtue in an argument that those born into power deserve to make decisions about those who weren’t. One of the gods was already replaced by a mortal. Aeorians came up with methods to repel, suppress, contain, and kill gods. Seats of power change, and power doesn’t make someone right. It’s been incredibly surreal to see how many people think this is an acceptable argument.

“But if the gods die, they really die, and mortal souls are immortal.” While we know souls are immortal, the actual experience of the afterlife is a mystery. Is what Deanna described how it always is, or just in the particular plane where her soul ended up? Is it really immortality if the sense of self is lost and that soul is separated from all they loved in life? Similarly, we don’t know what typically happens when gods die because there isn’t a normal way for it to happen. Why were some gods’ names forgotten but they are remembered by the silhouette left behind? Why are other gods remembered like Ethedok and Vordo? We don’t know. Why are we belittling the fact that mortal death is an end while also arguing that it’s horrible how divine death is an end? They’re both ends! That’s a terrible thing to force on someone. It’s wrong.

The point of Downfall is that it was wrong to destroy Aeor. The Prime Deities thought so themselves. Of all the wrong choices, that was what they chose in the moment. They didn’t succeed because they were right; they were simply more powerful and outsmarted their opponents.

Downfall is a wonderful example of a story where the protagonists are not heroes. Bask in the mistakes and failures. Cry. Mourn. It’s a tragedy that every key character contributed to. It didn’t have to end this way. There’s blood on everyone’s hands. They’re all monsters. They’re all people. They were all trying to save something. No one realized they were in a corner until there was no way out but through.

The only correct argument about a moral high ground in this kind of story is that someone survived to stand over the corpses.

[yeetushaitus]

just a little celebratory drawing for the release of the ace attorney investigations collection!! aai2 is one of my favorite games EVER and im so happy that capcom has FINALLY decided to give it an official localization!!!

funny story about aai2 i started watching an lp of it like 3 years ago but was kinda losing interest in aa in general so i dropped it, came back to the exact same lp in like may-ish and then like 2 days before i finished the lp the collection was announced. LIKE U COULDNT HAVE ANNOUCED IT LIKE A MONTH EARLIER SO I COULD PLAY IT FOR MYSELF COME ON CAPCOM

anyways am currently watching like. SO many aai2 lps its not even funny

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 2 - Psyche Skills

Part 1 - Part 3

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Guillén, tr. by Sandy McKinney, from I’m Speaking; “Poem for the voice of Marilyn Monroe”

[Text ID: “Your voice like a dark forest with tiny screams.”]

[braxiatel]

ideal end game scarian in fic isn’t them being super cutesy to me. I want them to continue bickering and teasing and riling each other up and it’ll be flirting because that’s who they are. they’re both little gremlin creatures who require regular enrichment in the form of being a pest and a menace.

I want them to make out sloppy style at the monthly hermit party and take breaks to argue over who brought the best snack for the buffet table. I want their wedding to be an absolute disaster style wise because both of them were too stubborn to back down on whatever aesthetic they had decided on. I want long nights of tender touches interspersed with bickering about block palettes.

I want them knowing that at the end of the day the arguing and teasing are just both of them posturing, wanting to impress each other, wanting to be interesting and to have the other’s attention.

I want them having each other’s backs when it counts and being absolutely ready to sell each other to satan for one corn chip the rest of the time

[judasisgayriot]

what has been your favourite tour you've done so far?

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

forever thinking about how the long quiet embracing their full divinity involves The Voices coming back. like yeah being plural is basically the same thing as being a godi'll cosign that

[mournfulroses]

Miguel Hernández, from Twenty Poems; El Rayo Que No Cesa; "I Have a Need of your Voice,"

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, from "The Voice", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

[lesbianmaxevans]

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