#correct action

[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…

[rjshope]

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[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.

[alluralater]

reminder that people who enable/do nothing when it comes to acts of sexual harassment are basically just as awful as the aggressors. they normalize, justify, and regularly excuse those behaviors and sweep it under the rug. who you decide to call a friend does in fact reflect on you. if you're happy to be around people that engage in predatory behavior and you perceive a clear pattern of it yet do nothing about it, then i'm literally never talking to you again. that goes double for people on here where there's this strange idea that there are no consequences in an online space. there are. damaging other people by staying silent or sitting on the fence when you have the power to do something is a consequence and that shit comes back around ten fold to you. you'd deserve every bit of it. dangerous by association is a thing, and you are.

[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.

[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.

[sunshineandlyrics]

Dev Patel talking about representation while promoting Monkey Man (26 March 2024)

[cerealbishh]

If the time is right and the time is tonight

Go on and kiss the girl

[sysig]

whoops i asked in the wrong place. would you be willing to do a request of the vargas boys in a SAW trap? thank you in advance <3

Day 2 - Was it not obvious enough

[carlyraejepsans]

for real WHERE does the idea that [utdr humans] are nongendered so that "you can project on them" come from. their literal character arcs are about NOT being a blank slate to be filled in by the audience

i think i understand the assumption on some level for undertale, because there is a very intentional effort to make you identify with the "player character" in order to make your choices feel like your own (the beating heart of undertale's metanarrative lies in giving you an alternative path to violence against its enemies after all, and whether you're still willing to persue it for your own selfish reasons. YOUR agency is crucial).

of course, the cardinal plot twist of the main ending sweeps the rug from under your feet on that in every way, and frisk's individuality becomes, in turn, a tool to further UT's OTHER main theme: completionism as a form of diegetic violence within the story. replaying the game would steal frisk's life and happy ending from them for our own perverse sentimentality, emotionally forcing our hand away from the reset button.

i think their neutrality absolutely aids in that immersion. but also, there's this weird attitude by (mostly) cis fans where it being functional within the story makes it... somehow "editable" and "up to the player" as well? which is gross and shows their ass on how they approach gender neutrality in general lol.

but also like. there's plenty of neutral, non PCharacters in undertale and deltarune. even when undertale was just an earthbound fangame and the player immersion metanarrative was completely absent, toby still described frisk as a "young, androgynous person". sometimes characters are just neutral by design. it's not that hard to understand lol.

anyone who makes this argument for kris deltarune is braindead. nothing else to say about it.