#folk ethics

[harmonic-psyche]

Best post I've seen on the topic of "deserving" and the justification of killing.

re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them

[mxtxfanatic]

The way that fanon can affect how people view canon, going so far as to warp the source material to fit their fake opinions is a double-edged sword. It can be something as funny and harmless as curly-haired Luo Binghe or blond Yang Qizhan or something as terrible as some of the biggest and most wide-spread translators of mdzs all deciding to translate “gui dao” as “mo dao” despite those being different words in English, different characters in Mandarin, completely different meanings, and the whole point of the novel being that these are two separate things whose differences must be hammered home multiple times in the story. That so many people independently (I hope) got together to mistranslate that one phrase built entirely on a misconception meant to be debunked in the story means that so many people miss this major deconstruction because “well, if the people who know the og language all say it’s this, who am I, a reader ignorant to said language, to challenge them?”

[r0semultiverse]

[harmonic-psyche]

1,000% fully agreed and endorsed!

My basic view of the world is that it is absolutely imperative to consider yourself an agent that can be held to high moral standards and is responsible for your own choices, but for everyone else doing so ranges from useless to actively counterproductive and harmful.

[aro-culture-is]

aroace culture is being able to stay awake for any amount of time on pure willpower. i don’t need caffeine, caffeine needs me

(genuinely though, please take care of your physical health. we were like this, and we pushed ourselves too hard and got so tired and stressed for so long that out body quite literally will never recover)

[popsicle-stick]

small bit of a thing i'm working on (amongst other work i should actually be doing)

[funkbun]

Fun fact:Whare I'm from we call blue raspberry flavored things Filbo flavored. I'm from Texas :]

no fuckin way.... y'all got filbo flavored treats over there

[cubbihue]

me: i am doing very important things. big deep research for my story. lots of research. research you woudlnt even believe. for my story. important work. very important for my story.

my google tab:

[dozydawn]

Needlepoint embroidery (found works made from hobby kits, unpicked and reworked) by Matt Smith.

[popnovelspn]

Are villains really villains? Do you have to become a monster to slay a monster?

[funkle420]

some of the things I've learned in the Adventurer's Bible are so chilling... really drives home the fact that this is a completely different world with medieval-like stuff going on. I'm especially chilled by what Laios and Falin said about the "mountain people"...

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Profits & Prices: Who makes what and what is paid by whom? Songs of commodities, costs, collateral, consumption, and compensation.

Cover image is a butcher selling mutton from Ms.4182 tav.138, the 14th-century Tacuinum Sanitatis held by the Biblioteca Casanatense.

The Money Crop- Malvina Reynolds

Who Reaps the Profits? Who Pays the Price?- Leon Rosselson

Working Reward- The Haymarket Squares

Pound a Week Rise- Siobhan Miller

Hey Ho- Tracy Grammer

The Hand That Feeds- The Crane Wives

Tomorrow Will Follow Today- Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Age of the Robber Barons- David Rovics

The Falcon- Mimi & Richard Farina

Dictatorship of Capital- Alistair Hulett

You Stay Here- Richard Shindell

Le Diable et le Fermier- Windborne

Chemical Worker's Song- Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith

Dying to Make a Living- The Local Honeys

Black Trade- The Unthanks

Something in the Rain- Tish Hinojosa

Free Enterprise- Jan Hammarlund

The Ballad of Accounting- Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl

The Capitalist Blues- Leyla McCalla

P.O.P. (Profit Over People)- The Moods

The Butcher's Sher- Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird

21 tracks; 85 mins. [Spotify]

[my other playlists]

[finrays]

Me reading another overblown, exaggerated fearmongering statement about “science violating the laws of nature” written by a journalist or book author: …well someone has been watching too many Saturday morning cartoons, lol

[ethicstownpod]

Audio drama tumblr, please share your wisdom with me

*after @wpwcpod, of course. This is for waaay in the future, I'm just curious about what people like.

Gothic daylight-horror set in the 1950s English countryside. Ann and her mother spend the summer with her so-called "crazy" uncle. With objects appearing and disappearing in the house, a man missing from the village, and a masked assailant stalking the property, it's all Ann can do not to go a little crazy herself. (This is not an 'ooh, is he mentally ill or are there ghosts?' fake out. This is a ghost story and also this dude experiences hallucinations. The hallucinations don't bother him, the two are unrelated).

Modern-day tragi-comedy. 21 year old accountant Chris' plans to commit suicide keep getting interrupted by their family. First it's the anniversary of their dad's death, then they're the sole person entrusted with the knowledge that their (formerly engaged) older brother is gay, someone has to help their little sister write her university application and it isn't going to be mum. All the while, Chris updates a maybe-fictitious, maybe-culpable vlog-style audience about their plans and their mental state.

Literally what it says on the tin. A very faithful modern day adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde but with Very Explicit Yearning from Utterson. Despite being called a homophobe the first time I tried to do this (I added lesbians. That did not go down well. I have zero regrets) I do have a degree in gothic lit, so I know what I'm about, son.

[stormandmoonlight]

two common talking points about non-voting from the left:

1. depriving the Democrats of your vote will show that you will not empower genocide and punish them for doing so

2. the Democrats will not be affected if the Republicans win power because they are the same class

does anyone else see a contradiction in terms here?

[agentc0rn]

there's just something special about tumblr. The reblogging system in general and just...all these ideas expressed in the most flexible, open, personal and profound ways that no other social media platforms have ever come to replicate (closest might be...twitter? idk).

I always read the extra thoughts that people leave in their reblog comments and I just feel like i'm getting a virtual bundle of hugs.

I'm glad I decided to come back here. Not solely for scoring metric points but to genuinely connect and share ideas with others.