#contradicitons

[mosscollector]

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of man. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

[letoiididnothingwrong]

Modern net discourse is defining misinformation as shit that you don't believe regardless of evidence.

[ganondoodle]

just to make this clear, im not doing much better, but the messages i did get helped a little bit and i plan to answer them too, i just cant do it all at once q-q

[panvani]

Like the way I experience attraction is very much informed by my own exp with Funny Gender but also I think a lot of the intellectual block people who engage w me from a place of genuine love and good faith seem to experience comes from an insufficiently nuanced understanding of gender

[anhedonia2]

can a baby be political?

[xoxoxoogoinimsane]

i love this game sm everyone should play it rn

[some-brave-apollo]

I love the characters in Far Harbor and the roles they play in the story. I love DiMA and his endless contradicitons. I love Tektus and Allen's parallel personalities. I love the sincerity of Sister Mai and Brother Ware. I love Mitch and his cranky uncle. I love Erickson and his dogs. I love DiMA's morally grey boyfriend and his ex-Courser girlfriend. I love Jule, and wish her the best. I love Aster and the implication they named themself after their favourite plant. I love Brooks and how he accepts the charge card.

[crmsnmth]

Introvert

Please repeat the question What is it you really wanted to ask? I've got a problem with pretending Call it delusional comfort I'd rather spend my time alone (Stop saying this) Then talk to another person (I am desperate for human attention) Like a quote over a stock celebrity How to be tough in the age of social media A field I'm not really sure I'll ever understand

I wasn't paying attention Can you really blame me? I can't change my habits and routines Why would I, I've been caught red-handed I've always been a loner (That's not true) So I refuse to accept the idea of love (It's all I perilously want) Just stop trying to sound so tough You don't match where I have risen I'm only doing this to get a reaction out of you

That's not a question Do you think it'll be that easy? I'm not even sure how I'm supposed to know that but I'll gladly spout some unoffensive material I don't need anybody but myself (I'm not good company) It's not like I ever wanted to talk anyway (I'm a sucker for good conversation) I'm deverything I say I'm not A metaphor in human skin A walking contradiciton

(It's never over)

[fununtitled]

Yashahime (S2) Ep.46 - Rion loves and hates Humans or Demons?😵‍💫 - FunUntitled Reaction

Aloha Half-Demon Royalty! We tried to clarify if Rion/Kirin-sensei loves/hates humans/demons... It's very confusing and full of contradicitons😵‍💫. Let's figure this out together in his week's episode.

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[duasamudera]

Rear-view Mirror 🚙

Dated back to.. I can't remember the year.. but it was year 11.

So during therapy 2 weeks ago, I was told to document more. And look back every time I need to. Since I have ditched a lot of things from my past, this was the only ones worth looking back to and try to document I could find.

I have somewhat, as of tonight, feel pieces of my (old) self reattaching and being rediscovered within me. I used to have the ability to "stay quiet" alot more for a longer amount of time, which by time, feels more and more impossible as the weight of life's burden get heavier. Alot of the time, it made me felt misunderstoond or unseen. And I realized I could keep my composure in those years, and walked so lightly, because I wrote. Alot. So, let's see how this exercise works for me, now that I feel the need to do it again.

Obviously there is completely nothing wrong with speaking up (at the right places and at the right time). Only I feel sometimes it is very counter productive, despite the need of it. And yeah, turns out, staying quiet at the end of the day, gave more space to present many other perspectives that would be hard to be seen if I crowded myself and my surrounding with words. I have found myself talking to myself in spare gaps of time, which was very me in the old days, that is why I thought I will give this another try. Yeah, me and my contradicitons.

So, I realized, why is it that lately I have been having the need to talk more, even if I thought I felt somewhat calmer? And I realized, I actually felt overwhelmed. I am internally "progressing" in many ways people, heck, even I do not notice if I don't stop and see. I am about to be 6 months clean off psychiatric meds and antidepressants, which is the longest I have been in almost a decade. But yeah, there were so many things, sometimes, in my head I wanted to not come to waste, it overwhelms me. Even in full awareness that all of those are merely guests to be observed.

I mean, maybe it's true a lot of things are stuck in my "throat chakra", but I am a spirit being experiencing life inside a material body, so... maybe my very weakness now is what I was made for... if I could go through this, if I could unplug this burden from my throat that has been making me feel shut down, pushed away, and quiet down. If I could let go of that deep pinch on my chest everytime I remember it. If I could manifest that tingle on my stomach into drive, to build strong foundations, security and legs to keep walking, climbing... then I could create more benefits in my life towards myself, towards others, and actually connect to actualize with the universe..

I simply want to feel whole even through times where I am completely broken and in pieces.. even through times when I feel I cannot see any goodness within myself.. even through times I feel like I am nothing without the roles, the love and support, and the privileges I have.. I want to simplify my life, because I am simply just an existence. And it is so calming to feel and remember it without the need to feel I want to end it.

I am healing. And healing is me.

[senblades]

hmm... I didn't really have anything in mind- but I really love what you spelled out for Sumi in the tags! I think it really fits her character and her whole "coming into her own" arc

As for Ren and Akechi? uh, making this up on the spot, but:

For Ren: given the common headcanon that his parents are kinda... eh, I would say that he probably initially learned piano because his parents wanted him to. He went through the whole "take piano exams and go to recitals to compete" thing, before his relationship with his parents finally broke down (damn brat, I'll sue, and all that) and stopped playing piano for a while. I would say that Ren's... arc? (this is a really niche au but I think I love it) is learning to love the instrument again despite lingering resentment, and learning to enjoy playing music for playing music, rather than some checklist of "well-rounded individual"

Akechi, on the other hand: looking at his whole backstory- I would doubt that he started learning violin as some tiny virtuoso; violins are expensive- expensive to have, expensive to learn, expensive to maintain; so I doubt Akechi at any point up to his mid teens would have had the resources to start learning. But! Once his life gets marginally better (or worse, if we're fitting this alongside the canonverse) I would say he picked up the violin as a "Fuck you" to high society, while simultaneously having those "please accept me, I'm doing everything right, aren't I?" feelings. Contradiciton! As is Akechi's M.O. After he gets over all that though, I'd say he and Ren have a similar journey of learning to love their respective insturments without letting their initial experience with it ruin them.

Again, completely off the top of my head- but it's some ideas!

I don't have strong feelings one way or the other whether or not this au exists in a world where the Metaverse is a problem- but I think it can fit either way! (It's also really funny to imagine Akechi being like "Make this quick, I need to practice violin later" @ palace rulers)

Hello, I have seen your chamber trio art and lost my mind a little bit, I'm in a rabbit hole of every cello-focused song that has ever touched my heart, so I'd like to share this with you: "Remember Us" by Gabriel Royal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEjYmO5-dLk

Happy Thursday, thank you for sharing your art!

Ooh thank you for sharing that song! It somehow hits my favourite kind of music- already added it to one of my playlists

And I'm glad you like the art! I'm a classically trained violinist and a, uh, slightly less classically trained pianist, so turning the royal trio into a chamber trio was a niche and fun way to blend my interests together

<3 <3 <3

[hymnsofheresy]

dont talk about wanting to be catholic if you cannot accept Church teachings bc you think you know better than Jesus and the church He created

....i don’t wanna be roman catholic. at least not currently. 

[gogtopia]

Di u still lovw me

yes my cgeorge insanity is not enough to break that bond 💖

[kritilektwal]

The knowledge comes from questions and not from answers.

[fastwalker]

Would you consider having an open relationship (i.e., one where you can see other people)?

Yes

What would be more likely to bother you in a relationship?

Not enough space

Is jealousy healthy in a relationship?

Yes

🤔 okcupid just confirms to me that most people, especially polys, are idiots 🤔

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Hello,

What do you think about Harry's new merch for coachella? Or his merch in general?

When I see it, it's so aesthetically "un-appealing", boring etc. That I wonder what's the point of that merch? It makes me think maybe they don't put the effort because they (or someone) don't want the money going there? But that makes no sense, and also I'm not sure they do not profit from it. But I'm sure if it was a bit more elaborate, people would go crazy to get it.

Do you have any thoughts?

Harry's merch is one of the biggest mysteries of this fandom to me, and I have lots of thoughts and struggle to resolve them.

The first contradiction is that he always has great imagery to work with, because Harry and his team are pretty intentional about things like album covers and invest heavily in them. But to turn great imagery into good merch requires careful thinking about fonts, placements, and the colour and shape of the blanks. And most of Harry's merch shows exact the opposite of careful thinking. I thought some of the Fine Line cover merch was well done. Nothing special, but competent. But other merch from Fine Line looked like it was put together in 10 seconds by someone whose main goal was to minimise the printing colours, nothing was even competent from HS1, and some TPWK merch is legendarily bad (even if Louis would get it as a tattoo according to some guy in Amsterdam).

I think this set of merch runs into exactly the same great imagery not used well problem of earlier merch. The rabbits stuff seems OK and I think the white long sleeve tee with yellow bubbles on it is well laid out. But with everything else the placement is just slightly off, or slapdash. 'Harry's House' in thin small pink letters across the chest and then an image on the back where it'll be covered by long hair is certainly a choice. But not a well executed or thoughtful one.

The second contradiciton about Harry's merch for me is that it never speaks to who he is as an artist at all. There's just this huge gaping cavern between how he presents himself and the aesthetics of his shows and the aesthetics of the merch. And that's true on individual pieces, and the collection as a whole. There's never anything cool and Harry in there - or anything besides the very obvious. It doesn't fit his brand, it just repeats element from his brand.

Now the most obvious answer to all this is that nobody cares and that merch can print money so this is what they do. And I think that there must be at least some element of that.

But at the same time Harry wears his merch, including the extremely ugly merch. He's also interested in and engaged with merch more broadly - he's worn a lot of other people's merch - and obviously really likes merch. I do have to sometimes wonder if he actually likes the merch, which asks more questions than it answers.