#guess what! your actions dont happen in a vacuum!

[nonegenderleftpain]

I repeat: good for you. Enjoy your movie. But you are choosing to be in line with a violent bigot when you do so.

I already commented on why studying and reading works like Lovecraft is not the same as adding to the support of someone who is currently alive, thriving, and actively using their sway and interest in their work to *literally affect laws on trans rights.* You can separate art from artist all you want when that artist is 6ft under, but when they are still actively getting people killed, you have to accept that your continued engagement is helping them. Full stop. Continuing to stick your fingers in your ears doesn't make you right.

Why do you want to watch a movie written by a violent transphobe? Why do you want to continue supporting her? Her works are filled with racism and antisemitism, including the Fantastic Beasts series. So why is that something that you leap to watch? I guaran damn tee you're not doing it to study the effects of appropriation of and stereotyping of indigenous cultures, so comparing it to studying historical literature is a pretty flimsy excuse.

"Does having an interest in content in general make me a bad person?" No, it doesn't, and you know that. Trying to exaggerate my point to make me sound unreasonable or hysterical isn't going to work here. I didn't say that being interested in literally anything ever makes you a bad person, and you know that. I didn't even say that being interested in *this* makes you a bad person. I didn't even say engaging with it makes you a bad person - it takes more than that to make someone a bad person. But it does mean that you are actively choosing to engage with something that a multi millionaire is using as leverage to strip UK trans people of their rights. There is no way you can couch that that will make this content harmless.

Freedom of speech protects you from the law, not from people telling you you're doing something fucking shitty. Pulling a freedom of speech argument because I asserted that you have to own up to the reality that you would rather argue with a trans person about how your desire to watch a film is the hill you wanna die on when they point out the harm it's doing to real life people is... I don't actually know how to address that except wow.

Yes, I'm going to tell someone not to do something that's against my principles. It doesn't matter if the movie is out yet, it's COMING out? It's not like this is a maybe that's up in the air, WB makes so much money on HP that there's no way it's just gonna get cancelled cuz there are too many people like you that are in full support of it getting made so you can pirate it. You realize that it being around to pirate means she gets to make millions on it, right? Has that clicked with you?

It is not "hiding from the world" to insist people not support violent transphobes. You know what is? Pretending that you sitting at home pirating a film putting millions of dollars into the pockets of people working to spread JKRs work and influence to more kids happens in a goddamn VACUUM. This shit has consequences. Every damn Google search you do to find the film to pirate adds to analytics and advertising. I'll ask it again - WHY is it so important for you to defend this content? WHY is the racism and antisemitism and transphobia not enough to put you off? You need to sit down with yourself and think about those questions instead of trying to sidestep away from them by claiming free speech and claiming that I'm telling my community that we're not worth more than a movie.

You are choosing HP over trans rights. You watching that film is more important to you than listening to us when we ask you not to. Own that. Don't stick your fingers in your ears. It's not bullying to point out that what you're doing is hurting real people. It's not bullying to make it explicitly clear that you are choosing entertainment over supporting our community. And not just choosing entertainment, choosing *this piece* of entertainment when there is a whole world of media to engage with and enjoy. You have spent this time arguing with a trans person about how important this piece of racist media written by a transphobe is to people instead of sitting down and listening to us. Put that energy into actively advocating for trans people instead of trying to make us sound like bad guys for asking that people maybe stop supporting this work. And don't claim that you do, a quick glance at your blog says otherwise.

If you really were just gonna sit at home and watch the movie and not talk to anyone about it, you wouldn't still be backing this horse.

Hey, so they’re making a Netflix Harry Potter.

With that in mind, we’re all gonna remember that JKR is a terf who has literally been cited by legislators engaged in legislation that actively harms trans people, and we’re not gonna give her any more money.

That means not streaming the new show on Netflix, because regardless of how much influence she has on the production, she gets paid for it.

We’re gonna make the show flop. We’re gonna show Warner Brothers that we don’t forget (of course, how would we forget, it isn’t as if she’s stopped), and that their business association with terfs is no longer profitable.

It is NOT like Lovecraft, because Lovecraft is very dead and his works are in the public domain. By consuming Lovecraft media, you are not giving any money to old Howard.

[lizardswithoutlegs]

HOOOOOWOWOAH BOY

ART ASKS

when i walk into a building i get to eat everybodys pencils and they cant say no

do it 

( also thanks for asking ! ) 

itd bother me a lot less if everybody came to my apartment and took one of these beautiful eggs

YEAH UNFORTUNATELY IM STILL..... WORKING THROUGH THE SAME WAITLIST but im comparatively REAL CLOSE to being done with it and i should be opening up sometime later in...... the Year

Boy Have I

theres This messy thing from a while back and then also

THIS, from even FURTHER back, when i didnt realize how fucking RED all the outlines on my things were because of the monitor i was using, two for the price of one

why not both

i do Not but it you ever see me walking on the street please throw handfuls of teeth at me theyre the only things my wretched body can digest and im always hungry

OH MAN ok so, an art telephone game is based on, of course, the game telephone, where one person says a phrase and then whispers it to the next person, and so on and on until the person at the very end says whatever they heard and if its done right the final sentence is wildly different than what you started with

an ART telephone game is the same kind of concept, except one person draws out a scene or character, and then other artists draw THEIR interpretation of whats going on, and so forth until the last person can end up with something COMPLETELY different than what the first scene was

youd think thered be less room for error with drawings, but as each person ONLY sees what the person ahead of them has made, they can get PRETTY OUT THERE - im gonna be a part of pythosarts game, and theyve done a couple of em before - for example one round started with THESE as the first two drawings

and then fourteen interpretations later, ended up with these as the final two

its good its real good

I Cant Control Where Bigfoot Goes, I Can Only Take Note Of Where Hes Been

YEAH, sort of ! on the main, iguanamouth, i have a bunch of different tags for art depending on what they are but not really a catchall one, BUT i do have an art only blog where everything gets tossed over ! 

HONESTLY THE ADVICE i got is basically what all art advice is gonna boil down to eventually - you gotta just. do it. you gotta DO it

absolutely nobody you know who draws things well started out at the level theyre currently at, and putting down the things youre visualizing onto paper is a combination of getting the the technical aspects down as much as getting the idea in your head

and that goes with figuring out anatomy and how bodies are put together ! ive got to use references for a Million things,. especially the dragon hoards - theres absolutely nothing wrong with using references for your drawings ! and being able to create accurate representations of things without looking is something that comes more with drawing something over and over and memorizing the body shape more than just, feeling like you should KNOW how to do something

so dont beat yourself up for needing references. if youre trying to shy away from them a little bit but still cant make something look nice without em, try using several different reference photos to put together an entirely different pose ? 

theres ALSO the SHRIMP METHOD, which is great for practicing and getting good at one particular thing - this probably isnt SUPER HELPFUL but good luck ! 

god i tried. exactly ONCE maybe fourish years ago but it wasnt art, i was trying to stream the lion king movie and i had no idea what i was doing, i didnt realize i needed to wear headphones so the sound wouldnt snowball into a feedback loop of my own voice that never ended but i kept laughing and it kept distorting worse and worse, like the audio version of saving and resaving something as a jpeg

it was just me and my friend ronni in the stream and ONE other person who never left and never said anything and i kept addressing them out loud like WHO ARE YOU and that only compounded the noise problem and eventually i gave up

anyway i havent tried since

i uhhhhh dont think i COULD, really - fear especially is something thats kind of subjective and one persons Big Terror could be neutral or even cute to another person

like for me i used to have a lot of childhood fears about the ocean, and how deep and dark and vast it was, to the point where i couldnt play a lot of water levels in video games, even ( but i had almost drowned several times when i was Very young which probably had, a little somethin to do with that )

maybe sometime ill try to explore things IM afraid of, but its hard to encompass a psychological response in an image !! could be a fun experiment, though ! !

a few PLANT ANIMAL AZKZ, HUH, DONT HAVE A WORKING Z KEY

SHIT DUDE THESE ARE... SO GOOD thats the official name EVEN IF i didnt use. a daffodil as the flower base. it doesnt matter 

yes

i got A BUNCH of flower and plant themed suggestions and theyre all REALLY GOOD ( way more than these ) but straight up im taking a break from em for a while - if anybody is else is reading this though you should definitely tackle one of em

WASABI ASKS

Do Not Feed Animals The Paste

i keep going back to read this ask because you could replace wasabi with my name and its the exact same. its the same. i feel like i have to hide somewhere

this was real and this is the award they gave us

there were other awards but the judges refused to give them out. they burned them in front of the other dogs. we won

it depends on the age ! wasabis pretty much an adult, so her sheds are pretty infrequent ( usually once every 7-8 months ) BUT when she was still growing back like 6 years ago, she would do a full-body shed every other month !

wasabi accepts tokens of appreciation in the form of : fruit, green beans. No Exceptions

i would never seperate wasabi from her hands

absolutely..... not. not even a little bit h h hh a this isnt a disney animal companion, i dont even know what “kind of like a dog” means with , a lizard who cant make any vocalizations or get up on their hind legs or NOTHIN sometimes if i hold a piece of fruit on my hand and she reaches for it she gets confused on whats what and tries to bite my fingers instead

ONCE WHEN SHE was attacking her reflection in a mirror i put my hand in front of her face to break eye contact and she SUNK HER TEETH RIGHT IN THERE but immediately let go like “oh whoops”

lissten . . .  wasabi is so sharp, just absolutely everywhere, and these are the sharpest. the grabbers

heres a lil battle damage from earlier today actually

this is pretty tame BUT the long long lines are from claws, and the thinner, closer together ones are from holding her and her scales scraping against the skin. so not even just the Body is completely safe ! this is not an animal youre gonna wanna get your face real close to if theyre in a walkin mood

she doesnt even MEAN to scratch the shit outta me, its just kind of a byproduct of being a big tree lizard. her tail is absolutely the worst thing to get hit by though. the WORST. lucky me she doesnt attack anything that isnt a dog or a vacuum cleaner or her own reflection

ahhh i got her when i was 16 ! and i dont know her exact age but she was somewhere between 3-6 months when i get her - SHES probably closer to 9 years, but ive had her for about 8

LENGTH THOUGH...... the last time i measured her she was just barely under four and a half feet, but that was a few months ago and its possible shes. Just Slightly larger. shes currently sleeping as i type this so i guess we will never know

duel me

too late for coats..... its all tail action now

ROCK ASKS AND ALSO ASKS ABOUT PUTTING ROCKS IN YOUR MOUTH

oh MAN i feel you . . . . . . . . . . i dont think i could actually Bear To Eat any for real but some of em. just. they. i gotta. just. bite on em a LITTLE just a little bit, a tiny bit, a nibble

when i was real young i used to tap things against my teeth to tell what kind of substance they were made of based on the feeling/hardness/density WHATEVER and i still sometimes do it when im checking stuff out and. it uhhhhh sure is interesting finding out not a lot of people did that

a handful of these delicious raw agates, just for you

please stop spying on me

i DO NOT but you may eat this piece of bornite

meet me at the airport and ill cover your bus fair

theres a lotta different ways to figure out what kind of rocks you got but when you have absolutely no clue on where to start your best bet is to search for the biggest distinctive features of it, and try to narrow it down based on the results

like for something like these pieces of chalcedony, you could try “waxy green translucent mineral”, and from the search results find a few candidates that might be what you have on hand, and then look into each one to see if you can get a definite answer 

ive got a handful of rock and mineral guide books that i always pick through whenever i snag something im not sure of, and if youre REAL into it those are always something you could start keeping an eye out for 

now this is a REAL superficial way to telling what something is and wont be useful for a good chunk of minerals ( as a lot of samples can look really close to something else ) and THIS is a much more in depth way of telling something apart, but its also a lot more time consuming ! so good luck. and good eating.

Just Try And Fucking Stop Me

ANIMAL ASKS THAT ARENT............ ABOUT MY LIZARD

im married to this one actually

fuck. ok. heres. a secret. a In the ask Post secret. wasabi goes through a period that lasts a month every single year where she carries eggs in her gut, and spends that month not eating and digging around in everything, trying to find the right spot to lay these eggs. and. when it happens i never know what to do with them, and i dont want to just THROW THEM AWAY so i. eat them. i eat the eggs. i fuckin eat the eggs dude

Theyre All Goddesses

unless you plan on having your lizard roam around outside whenever they want, the outside environment doesnt really matter much for most reptiles as long as you set their habitat up right ! BUT i do know that australia has bans on certain reptiles ( iguanas are one of them ) and so youre gonna have to look up whats actually available in that area 

 bearded dragons are native and those are always a good option, but so are a lot of geckos - its really gonna depend on what youre into ( but i dont really recommend anoles if thats an option, because theyre fast as Hell and dont like being handled )

what the fuck is a bee

oh geez im sorry ! i remember going through this with spiders a lot when i was younger to the point where looking at photos of em used to be a fuckin, TRIAL 

you could try a really gradual exposure deal, where you start off with getting comfortable with just images, and slowly working your way to dealing with one in a controlled setting ( like a petstore, maybe ? not HANDLING em or anything, but just being near one in a way where its absolutely impossible for them to touch you )

the shitty thing about this kind of phobia is that even if you KNOW its irrational theres sometimes not a lot you can do about it, but if you can stand looking at photos of them you could try learning up about them, and finding out the types of species youre likely to encounter around your house, and seeing how many ( if any ) are ones you should avoid ?

i know some people that have major problems with snakes are because theyre unsure if the ones they find are poisonous or not, and it might go a long way to confirm that the reptiles you meet wont be able to harm you even if they TRIED ( which is gonna be the case with a lotta house geckos, they cant do SHIT youre a GIANT )

very VERY few lizards have venomous bites, and the worst most of em can do is give you a bloody finger if theyre large enough, and even then its usually not much worse than a cat scratch !

still though, if youre really serious about trying to get past this, dont force yourself too quick into what you think you SHOULD be, and take tiny steps outta your comfort level when you can

this probably isnt uhhh SUPER helpful hh hhah but good luck !  shit im going through this post and its like ALL reptile photos. im sorry

i feel about them, with my hands

MMM it shouldnt HURT them unless theres something Really wrong, considering its a natural procession of growth, BUT its definitely itchy as hell, to the point where reptiles trying to remove it will drag their bodies over stones or walls tryin to get it off

sometimes wasabi drags her whole hind foot over her head like a dog to get it off and it is. a Sight

ahhh honestly there arent a lotta reptiles thatre gonna do much more than TOLERATE the touch and not really, enjoy it, like a dog or cat or bird

but speaking from experience with wasabi, youll probably want to avoid most the head and stick with the top of the back near the sides - wasabi doesnt enjoy having her tail messed with much either, but shes ok with her dewlap and feet being touched

the most important thing to keep an eye out for when youre touching one is their body language, because  THATS gonna be a dead giveaway for whether you need to back off or not

closing their eyes is a sign of stress, not enjoyment ! same with tilting the head back, but if thats ALL theyre doing then youre probably not gonna face any retaliation

B U T if theyve got an extended dewlap with a raised body or tail off the ground, not a good idea to interact with em ! thats a defensive posture, and you risk getting hit with a tail or even bitten if your hand gets too close

youve got more to risk with males, who are way more territorial and generally larger, but if they seem pretty chill when you approach and dont stand up and stare at you, youre probably in the clear

COCK of the ROCK

I HAVE im so jealous of anybody whos got to see one in person - actually handling one is a level beyond that which i could even comprehend

OTHER THINGS.....

no but i was bit by a pigeon once

this is the only joke i know

i fuckin WISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ayy im into it - honestly i havent been following the band so much as just kinda, picking up whatever anybody else mentions and so my knowledge on Gorillaz Lore is pretty uhhhh h hh h scattered but im definitely interested in seeing where this goes

i remember watching the first and second season and it being pretty good - some of the episodes and jokes are hit and miss but you absolutely got me with the creature and alien design

havent seen any of the third season yet though !

i mean the fruit ones could be pretty up there 

how bout. an abstract concept. who cares about physical forms wheres the dragon of melancholy 

why come theres nothing to eat in my apartment but bread. im good otherwise but its all just bread

i havent watched either of em in YEARS and YEARS but i distinctly remember. these lil dancing mushrooms

oh wait FUCK 

FUCK !!!!!!!!!

no... NO.... she is not allowed to eat ANYTHING from the plan shelf, try as she MIGHT

im a little mad that this sill isnt bigger because the only other one that gets sun is in my room and wasabi WIll... absolutely eat those. no doubt. a convenient and expensive salad, for my awful gremlin 

god im looking at these and its all jade plants isnt it

little golden books taste the best but they can make you sick if you have too many at once. my favorite genre for snacking is sci fi fantasy but anything over 300 pages tends to get a little tough if you dont break it up with smaller chunks. non fictions always a gamble because the taste is wildly different each time but you can usually tell how ripe it is by the cover color

ayy im already a big fan of some of their stuff, ive got a couple songs from them in my music tag - im especially into i miss you and their shut up and bring it here remix

TOP FIVE THINGS

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this is barely related but once i filled up a bathtub with water and then dumped about ten bags worth of mint tea into it and then just. soaked around in the tea. listen it was really nice. id try the cheese

i dont have any ships but i was on one of those model pirate boats once for a school trip. our boat was named naruto and the other one was named sasuke and the captains shouted “make them kiss” and ran them into each other. everybody on board drowned

youre trying to trick me into googling yoshi without shoes and its not going to work

me reading this message from the safety of my apartment :

nice try, but wrong again ! : )

THIS IS GOOD info, thank you

oh SHIT the other side of paradise, take a slice, life itself, and season 2 episode 3 are all my Big Faves

the way you phrased this makes me think you already have a strong opinion on it

hey uh. coming from a person who was absolutely CONVINCED that theyd be dead in the future when they were 12, a not insignificant part of that was me feeling that there was something irreversibly wrong with me for not behaving or acting in certain ways based on what was going downstairs

and obviously im still HERE but it means i can understand how devastatingly terrible it can feel when youre that young and it seems like the way you behave and feel are flawed, or dirty, and anything that can lessen that feeling and make you comfortable in your own body is huge, can save your life

not that im saying its always a LIFE OR DEATH decision !

i guess if youre viewing it as adults forcing a child into making decisions that you dont think theyre capable of understanding its easy to be hesitant about getting behind it, but nobody is forcing a child to be trans. nobody has tricked them into feeling this way. you cant just walk in and get started on treatment on an immediate whim - some programs require 2 YEARS of concrete evidence before theyll even consider it

i feel like you should try speaking to the parents of trans children before you really put down a concrete opinion on whether this is a good or bad thing, and seeing the difference ( if any ) its made in their lives 

people whove detransitioned, or found they had ultimately a different identity than the one they were exploring could also be an avenue to look intto ! i have several acquaintances who, after a period of years, found they werent trans but wouldnt take back the time where they were figuring out if they were, and i know this doesnt invalidate the friends i have who ARE 

ultimately this is what it boils down to for me : Its Sure Gotta Beat Being Dead

i WILL give you that ive definitely seen a lot of overreactions to seemingly innocuous topics on this website

but youve also got to keep in mind that everybody who is saying these things MEANS them, and to them theres a completely reasonable explanation to why they feel that way

im not saying you should blindly accept any criticism you get, but to instead try to get a grasp on WHY theyre responding the way they are instead of immediately dismissing it

its because i cant drive and they wont let me sit in the front on account of the smell

NICE THINGS

AHHHH I GOT.. a bunch of other really sweet messages to the point where id feel weird about putting em ALL UP BUT... IF YOU SENT ME SOMETHING i can promise i absolutely saw it and it made my day better and just, holy shit, thank you for taking time out of your life to say anything to me at all

because you didnt have to, even a little bit

youre all beautiful and im kissing you on the mouths all at once. no take backs

[butchclericbeast]

I feel like your take on history also depends though on what periods you study. Because with this post im having a very strong conflicted yes and no reaction, esp with the 3rd point, bc yeah change can happen incrementally but not always. Sometimes it happens overnight--COVID-19, anyone? Or in a much shorter time span than it would have otherwise, like in the 1960s and 1970s when a bunch of marginalized groups organized, some of them in revolutionary ways: not to overthrow the government persay, but in their reimagining of the world, like the Black Panther Party who used armed defense and created new social programs that were, in their structure, revolutionary (their health clinic in particular springs to mind). And I feel like this example is particularly important bc you had a lot of anti Vietnam protestors who were revolutionary in perhaps their use of violence, and you had hippies who were revolutionary in their attempts to create new ways of living in communes, but the Black Panther Party were for the marginalized in their use of self defense and their creation of new infrastructure to support their communities. Not only that, but to find empowerment. Really, this time period of political conflict, numerous grassroots movements with revolutionary ideas and purpose, and collective empowerment did more to change the landscape of American culture than voting ever could. (Although it should be noted that while the cultural war was won, the economic one wasn't: many of these groups were marxist and that never really became mainstream, and the backlash with conservative social movements and Reaganism really pushed back against that. But dont it get wrong, Reagan came to power through that conservative grassroots work.)

It could be argued that this was a revolution of sorts, if a cultural one. But really, the point OP is trying to make is about overthrowing the government. Which like, yeah. The removal of one power means having to fill that power vacuum and if no one is willing to in your movement, someone else gladly will. We can see that in Egypt's Arab Spring which ended in a coup (first one that sprung to mind for me, although my in depth knowledge on it is shaky). I see a lot of people mentioning the American rev and thats really a poor example because its less of a revolution and more of a rebellion. The colonies already had their own structures that they could fall back on, really, they were just seperating from Britain. Someone mentioned the Haitian rev which is a much better case study. No one is mentioning any socialist ones, which is a shame, because as someone who has studied Cuba a lot, you can really see what works and what doesnt and why. But the point still stands: overthrowing any government is a messy, violent process.

I guess what my point is then is twofold. First, that overthrowing the government is not the only revolutionary action you can take. I'm not even against voting, its fine, lesser evil, but once you pick the lesser evil you still have evil. the revolutionary action comes in when you organize, protest, march, collaborate with mutual aid, and use the grassroots to elevate everyone. yes, this is also dangerous and often violent, on a sliding scale, but change doesnt happen without this. it just doesnt. because as someone who has also studied history, no government is ever going to just represent your interests. it doesnt have to be overthrow the gov vs electoralism, theres real work to be done.

My second point is to less to the original post and more to a sentiment i see in the notes because the world we live in right now is not viable, its actively destructive. we are seeing on a wide scale the inability for capitalism to respond to crisis, like the pandemic. and this is a big problem in a decade that is going to be defined by crisis because of the climate catastrophe occuring which, most importantly, capitalism has no response to. no ability to defend against, if the last few years are any indicator. a catastrophe that will kill far more people than any violent armed conflict. here theres no room for incrementalism because taking too long to respond means its over. this isnt just a hypothetical conversation anymore, or moral considerations (bc i could go into how its easy for us to make the best of our system when our comfort directly depends on the exploitation of the third world, and how we have more slavery now than at any point in history, but i digress). its do or die, because if something doesnt change real soon we're going to see some of the worst this planet has to offer.

so what now?

from observations, I feel like many people took “history books are full of propaganda” and ran with it and instead of more deeply investigating history from varying sources, they just don’t know jack shit about history

[tbhstudying1]

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I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

[gogoakechi]

@glowing-gravity im on mobile so i cant post your reply and i forget a lot of the details but Basically

one of the biggest flaws with persona 5s storytelling is the complete neglect to show the consequences of trauma and changes of heart Within the story. like sure characters such as yusuke and ryuji have obvious trauma but once their problems have reached its Cinematic Conclusion they are just not expanded upon whatsoever. and the same goes for those who have a change of heart. not to mention theyre just shipped off to jail (or killed) as if theres NOTHING to learn from whats its like to grieve your own actions. its all from the perspective of "its always the opposing party doing something wrong, not us". the story just ends up being vengeance smut rather than. yknow. actually changing people for the better and seeing the results of your justice in a fundamental sense?????

and thats where kamoshida comes in. theres a few reasons why i picked him, but its mostly because of how personal he already is with the thieves. hes not just some fucking rando bad guy, they spent a good amount of time and effort on his character and relationships. he would already KNOW who the phantom thieves were. and so would most everyone else at school. and with the change of heart i think hed have a very sincere investment in the kids hed formerly been intimately abusing. also just for the fact hes the first palace so hes best set up for the role id like to give him......

Team Dad. like i said before, hed be the only adult that knows who the phantom thieves are. maybe after a palace or two he comes back outta prison like "hey kids Um. So. yeah im really sorry about all that and ive been going to therapy and shit and you dont have to forgive me but, if im ever gonna make peace with myself, i just thought id say i want to help you in any way i can." because the shame is immense and he needs to make it up to them as best he can. its the destruction and struggling of his pride that leads him to kinda plead for the chance to make it better for them. if i remember correctly, he had said he planned to kill himself to atone for his cruelty, and then readily accepted anns demand to turn himself in, and that to me shows a strong will to right his wrongs whatever it takes.

hes also kinda just trying to rebuild himself after everything that happened but its extremely difficult when the change was so sudden. he remembers who he was only a day ago. someone he could never bear to be now, but the thing about a change of heart is that Desires are stolen, not necessarily character. so hes struggling to reconcile who he is fundamentally with his complete reset of morals, and to figure that out hes called to act.

but yeah he (nervously) offers to help the thieves with anything they need, considering hes a whole adult and theyre all children, but this also includes moral support straight from his New Fangled Heart. he also helps them avoid getting caught, stages coverups, and makes up for a lot of the dumb things they only got away with because this is a video game. the phantom thieves get an adult they can talk to and kamoshida finds purpose in his life again

and overtime we watch kamoshida work through his own guilt and grief and find love in himself again. p5 took the easy route by making the bad guys just Stop Existing after they quit being bad, and i really think that did a great disservice to the message of the game. there IS no afterwards in persona 5. theres only conflict and resolution existing in a vacuum. and through that it can instead give the message that bad people will always deserve shit even long after theyve stopped being bad. that who they were and what theyve done will continue to define them. im especially looking at this from a first person perspective of "i think im a bad guy, ive done bad things, i guess ill just punish myself and nothing else that would actually make this mean anything". it NEEDS to incorporate the message that bad people can become good and i think kamoshidas the perfect candidate. he was practically set up for this.

besides i am just so fucking stupid for the Asshole Learns To Love trope. also sorry if this doesnt make sense im falling asleep

kamoshida redemption au keeping me up at night

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fluffmugger: peccatopotpourri: quilavastudy: I get really confused when americans, when talking...

I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

[galaxytale]

heres another example of fiction effecting reality: any time someone has ever saw a piece of futuristic tech in a sci-fi show or movie and was like “i wonder if i can make that real” and then did

or anytime a fan of some show w a robot in it creates a robot in real life that behaves similarly to the fictional one

or any time you make any art inspired by a piece of media in response to it? guess what happened.

fiction can and does effect reality. nothing exists in a vacuum. you just dont wanna accept that Your Actions Have Consequences

did yall not learn that a lot of fairy tales had morals in them to teach children to be good people ((ex. if ur a good kid santa brings u shit and if ur a bad kid a demon will come and kidnap your ass and eat you)) in school or did yall just fuckin forget

bcos uhhhh fiction (ex. santa and krampus) does affect reality my guys