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[skuldthevalkyrie]

Get lost

Do you ever feel like someone is watching you? Tracking your every move? Waiting for just the right moment to show themselves? Once every seven days, the golden moondog and I venture into the woods for a romp. Whether it be for foraging or exercise or meditation, or a combination of all three, we make it a point to slather ourselves in tick repellent and find a trail to leave footprints…

[rbvcdeluxe]

something something max's main color being red with blue highlights something something grace's main color being blue with red highlights something something motivations something something alive and dead something something

[bunnieswithknives]

Wow Dale... There were miscalculations? And who made those miscalculations HMMMM???

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[rjshope]

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[qiu-yan]

Serious Bitch Opinion: lan wangji...would be a terrible chief cultivator. yes, he is righteous and honorable and has a stalwart moral backbone. however, when you are given the responsibility of leading others, the impeccability of your own moral character must come second to what tangible results you can actually achieve for your people. and if you want to actually achieve any tangible results, instead of getting deadlocked forever or getting done in by your political enemies, you have to learn to compromise on some of your ideals. instead of freezing out the people you find morally despicable, you must learn to cooperate with them; otherwise, you will not achieve anything. and in order to achieve your goals, you must learn that not all of your goals are achievable--that, in order to get the more important of your desired measures passed, you must give up on some others.

now, this is almost the polar opposite of what MDZS as a text champions. arguably one of the central thematic thrusts of MDZS is the importance of not compromising on your ideals, even when it would be far more pragmatic to do so. thus, if lan wangji wanted to become a leader who could actually achieve things, he would have to directly contradict one of the most important messages of the very text that valorizes him.

the moral framework employed by MDZS to evaluate its characters and convey its themes is much more focused on ideals than on results. what matters to MDZS as a narrative is ultimately not the results of one's actions, whether one's righteousness led to joy or to ruin, but rather that one attempted to be righteous even in the face of almost inevitable failure. attempt the impossible, after all. the text of MDZS does not follow utilitarian ideas; it does not condemn wei wuxian for ultimately failing to save almost anyone. rather, wei wuxian's stalwart moral character is celebrated in spite of his failures because he, unlike everyone else, tried.

unfortunately--while someone who is only responsible for their own life can attempt the impossible, someone who is responsible for the lives of millions must instead achieve the achievable.

[casgirlsam]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Cannot Unsee. Cannot Unknow.

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[utilitycaster]

The thing about both Ioun and Selena is like. I get it. I really do. So much of our scientific knowledge - medical especially - comes from knowledge we gained in blood, and a lot of it was the blood of people who did not volunteer nor consent (nor were given opportunity to consent). What protections we have now are all recent, in many cases insufficient, and themselves subject to debate. Knowledge we lack and the safety and wellbeing of many people in the future often rest on the safety of a few people in the present; knowledge we have and the safety and wellbeing of many people in the present often comes from sources we should have never had access to.

You do want to have that information. You do not ever want to have to get it, and there's no good way to decide who should have access to it, but someone has to. There is absolutely no good answer at any stage of the process, and a goddess of knowledge and an archmage desperately trying to save her life's work both have to make a decision knowing none will be a good one.

[fun-k-boards]

If you rush to insult someone for their lack of romantic partners or people they've had sex with, you automatically lose whatever argument you might've had and are henceforth incorrect about everything you say or think, ever.

[tacagen]

one of the things that fascinate me about thawne: yes, he CAN be normal with kids! surprisingly normal!

((not at all times, though. his mental illness still spills through and as usual he, in trying to manipulate or hurt others, spits out at them the exact stuff that would hurt him (or have in his childhood/barry's rejection interpretation) the most in the first place lmao))

but at the same time. his like second instinct when doing his bullshit is FUCK THEM (as) KIDS

(and, well. whatever this classifies as)

[msnihilist]

"'Channel Chasers' was the perfect ending to the original run of the show" No it wasn't, what the fuck are you talking about.

[columboscreens]

[epickiya722]

What gets me about others being upset the good guys choosing to go as far as to do something unethical is that it just feels like they're not allowed to do that because they're "the good guys". Like, there's rules to storytelling or whatever.

I, too, am saddened about Gojo's body being used and the fact Yuta is the one to possess it. Tragic for both of them.

But I expected it because it's not like the "good guys" had to play dirty before.

Hell, there was barely a reaction when Yuji had to eat 6, count them, 6 of his SIBLINGS THAT WERE FETUSES so he could use Blood Manipulation.

Which honestly doesn't surprise me because some of the fandom acts as if Yuji walked into their house and kicked their dog or something. Like, barely saw a collective reaction to that, let alone how Yuji may have felt about that. Like, since the beginning kid was already stripping away his humanity.

Oh, but now the fandom wanna get up in arms because of this? I guess because it's Gojo, who like 75% of the the fandom mischaracterizes, it's soooo bad.

Honestly, what else is left to do when the bad guys are playing dirty, too?

They're not heroes. They're sorcerers.

It was literally said a curse has to be killed by a curse.

The bad guys had been playing dirty, so why can't it be fair game?

It's just so odd to me that the same fandom acts like it's illegal for Gege to write tragedy FOR A TRAGEDY and then have all this fanworks of Gojo and even other characters being possessed by Kenjaku and Sukuna. And I see the appeal don't get me wrong.

But when you think of it this way...

Would you rather for the good guy to use Gojo's body for good or would you rather have the bad guy use his body for evil?

It's not like Yuta wanted to possess Gojo's body! Like "oh, I can't wait for my teacher to die so I can jump into his body so I can fight Sukuna because I'm the strongest now!"

NO! HE DID NOT WANT THAT!!

The good guys don't really want to do any of this but they have to.

[corvosdaughter]

pentiment not giving a definitive answer to the act i and ii mysteries isn't because all the suspects are equally likely to be guilty. i've seen people interpret it that way and then complain that the ending is a copout but like does anyone genuinely think ottilia did it. i know "possibly but uncertainly" is not that far off "equally likely" but i think it's an important distinction to make when it comes to understanding what the game is focused on.

it's not about who were the actual killers, it's not even about the circumstances that make it impossible for that to be known, it's about what made YOU point the finger at someone and the consequences of that choice. did you actually think they were guilty, or were they just an asshole? did you think it was someone else but held your tongue because they deserved to live? what about their age? community standing? did convenience factor into it? alternatively, what would happen if you dirtied someone's name and they were still around years later?

if there was a fixed answer everyone would just get caught up on whether they picked up all the hints and if they were chose the "right" or "wrong" path. that would detract from everything the game is trying to say. as it is, i think people who come away really wanting those mysteries solved, saying "i don't know who it was and therefore i might as well have spun a wheel and not wasted 15 hours to get here" have missed a lot of what it's really about.

[brionysea]

I'm trying really hard not to just be The Complainer because that's an energy I don't want to bring here when I love (present tense; I rewatch it like 5 times a day) arcane season 1 so much but does anyone remember when powder was taken in by silco and being raised by this very utilitarian merciless 'the ends justify the means' type character made jinx turn out violent and merciless as well. and vi was horrified by her and the lanes were terrified of her and piltover was falling over itself trying to scapegoat her as the one bad apple of the undercity to kid themselves into believing that everyone else was perfectly fine with being treated as less than. and that contrasts vi after vander etc. died because she was raised by him and internalised the idea that no one wins in war and fighting back against systemic oppression isn't worth the damage it causes to your own community which is why she ended up working with cait and the council like vander worked with grayson. the people who raised them shaped them into who they are today but then in season 2 jinx has a daughter and she's suddenly completely normal and well adjusted and her attachment style isn't digging her nails in until she draws blood at all. like What. what happened. didn't things used to mean something

[linddzz]

There's gonna be sort of more current event related posts going on as Tumblr really seems to be the only place I've gone to where my dash is mostly a similar feeling of like....anti-defeatist but still fucking EXHAUSTED pragmatic activism