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Man of words
#s16 spoilers#iasip#it's always sunny in philadelphia#always sunny#macdennis#analysis#parallels#I didn't exactly know how to name this thread but i had some scattered thoughts on it#dennis is the one mac depends on to define things. he's the man of words. but this situation is very limiting#firstly because mac can't read subtext. and dennis will rarely be open in his words. but he also doesn't know everything.#cant define everything. and by forcing the situation to have dennis speak for both. what actually happens is mac gets silenced#and when mac cant speak. no one besides dennis can ever possibly understand him. and that is very isolating. because den wont be open. cant#but they trust each other. theyre following each other's lead. and they're missing the right words#den defines his own self worth in the relationship by being able to have the right words. mac is the man of action! after all#but if mac learns to speak for himself. if mac doesn't depend on den (chokes). if mac is noticed for his appearance as den becomes insecure#(''what if my shirt falls off?'') what does den have left for mac? but mac will fall for him no matter what.#''make up or not you are the golden god! it's all about what's in here💗''#maybe words arent necessary anymore. dont ask just do. and mac's the man of action... OR IS HE.#mac doesn't really act now does he. they got it backwards. don't they? mac got a lot better with his words in time...#idk lots to think about let me know what u think lolll#threads
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i love how fanghua are so danmei coded. fang duobing as the protective nianxia ml whose life was so monumentally changed and shaped by a shifu he met only once when he was younger but whose small act of kindness moved him so deeply that he spent most of his life trying to get stronger, working hard to finally be able to catch up to and be worthy of that glorious shifu that he so admired.
except he finally meets that shifu again years later as an adult and he's finally caught up to him but now their positions are reversed - li lianhua is now the sickly one, and fallen from grace; fdb is now the (physically) stronger one, the young hero, and he becomes friends with and falls for llh who he now no. longer wants to be the disciple of. instead, he now wants to protect and care for li lianhua like one protects and cares for a lover.
#mysterious lotus casebook#fanghua#fang duobing#li lianhua#莲花楼#llh obviously reciprocates; the most obvious evidence is in the deleted scenes in the scripts; so many lines abt how much fxb means to llh#anyway ik i simplified what llh and fdb are to each other in my prev posts but that post was just to explain to western fans who said they#didnt pick up on fanghua romantic hints/coding. but ofc their rs def has layers and complexities#but to me most of all llh (llh not lxy) & fxb are Equals. the show goes to such great pains to establish them as equals#it doesn't have to be romantic no one has to ship them we all have our own preferences#but at the very least theyre literally canonically best friends#in the show they very explicitly are & acknowledge each other as equals. best friends. zhiji. *equals*!!#anyway i love how they reject and transcend social hierarchies to form their own unique relationship on their own terms#their real rs is something that cant be easily defined but the two of them have chosen the word zhiji for it
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why is sexual attraction mostly defined by "gender you want to fuck". what if i don't want to fuck any gender in particular? my sexual attraction is not about gender at all. the concept of sexual identity is breaking before my eyes today wtf why did i never realize how strongly reliant on the concept of gender it is. by that same logic, asexuality also feels like something relative to gender in the same way the term nonbinary is relative to the binary..... hmmmm ....i am having Thoughts
#basically what im saying is: why cant i let my kinks define my sexuality lmao#wouldn't that be easier?#it's in the dynamic.....in the association......#<- the things that turn me on i mean#; words generated by me#asexual
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garcian smith…
#my favorite smith. look i may draw kaede the most but thats cause shes the easiest for me to draw out of all of them#garcian is my favorite but hes hard to draw cause his face is so defined#can the internet talk about him for like forever please. his depths… the ending…#also the implication that hes above harman and kun or at least after the ending he is#the three eyed being feels like an entity on the edge of like. becoming themself to the fullest#the tip of the iceberg! and this is what harman and kun fear#and this being is also in emir. i wont say its him 100% because it was also nightmare iirc?#possibly in the same way with how kun is technically a reincarnation but has only been alive like 300 years#alive in this form too. he dies but he does come back as kun lan and its not seen as another reincarnation#emir is his own rabbit hole and i cant even put him into words#garcian is a really good character lets all pay attention to garcian please#i speak#killer7#kill the past
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i think i favor platonic h@rrykim rather than romantic (not in an elitist way . I looove all the romantic h@rrykim art I've seen too.) . But. There's at least one or two experimental nights they don't talk about again.
#i suppose the best way to define it might be#homoerotic platonic#i do think its kind of cute if harry does experiment and he realizes that it was nice but he doesnt want to be that way with kim#but like he felt safe to try#and kim's able to move it along and keep their friendship normal afterwards whether or not harry's awkward about it#i cant word that exactly how i mean in my head but thats ok hopefully someone gets the gist
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cant even lie to u tbh i think wolfwood broke in2 my top chara list bye
#he clawed and climbed his way up there ☝️#vash comes before him though dont get it twisted🤬☝️#no but theres smt abt this guy …#srsly srsly thought i was going to hate him#bc of the stamp characterization but noo😭 hes so goofy in trimax#and then his story is soo soo interesting and his death gave it like . x factor 293728 ykno#crossing my arms tbh#n then like . i hear aome sad mitski song idfk and then i feel like that squidward pic w his face sucked in#something soooooo good ab characters whos deaths r so motivational for both the mc and the collective cast#to the point where they become more akin 2 a symbol or like . YK i cant think of the word. bt their essence becomes this bigger than them#thing that defines the tone for the rest of the series#yah T__T#also his official art is just so good too#trigun came out of nowhere tbh i was just complaining ab needing a series for the past six months and now i cant get wnoughHAJAHAG#wolfwood#trigun#trigun spoilers#trigun maximum
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I am eagerly waiting for my society to figure out that our sex is more complicated and nuanced than "male and female" and I think a nice baby step would be admitting that our concept of sex is...
...inadequate?
...incompatible with a comprehensive understanding of life?
...silly?
I don't think humans will ever have the perfect terms for perfect comprehension but...it's kinda human nature to try to find the words. Are you telling me that this type of terminology (link to the Wikipedia article) is the best we can do? Even when discussing creatures that clearly are not compatible with a binary view of sex?
Like, if we can't even admit that complex sexes exist somewhere on the planet, how could we fathom that they exist within us?
#sorenhoots#for now i give up trying to reseaech this funky little creature. its fascinating and i will try again later to learn how it works.#at LEAST after coffee.#i do kinda love this example because its elucidating the issue of sex being defined as 'reproductive capacity' versus 'gamete production'#versus 'chromosomes.' the way they say that the males have testes and the females have ovotestes and then the other source uses different#definitions to try to convey that REAL females are 'unknown' and i sorta understand that theyre trying to say 'we did not find any of these#that only possessed ova' but it fails to convey so MUCH! i cant wait to try to figure out what it means by that parasitism part. i like to#think about it myself before checking the data. maybe it's something like angler fish where they possess a sort of 'chimeric' testes? ah but#that is another word that has several incompatible definitions. i mean 'chimera' as in 'tissue originating from cells from a different#zygote' i guess (rather than 'from a different species.' and rather than the yknow :3 lion snake chimera).#but like if the sperm is just...from a male...what makes their gonad an ovotestis rather than 'this is a female who can store sperm which is#something seen in plenty of other animals'? do these reproduce by transfering their TESTES cells rather than just their sperm??? the part#about leftover sperm makes it sound like the testes gets reverse-engineered from the sperm. and if a creature can do that...i dont know what#'sex' that is but its REALLY not male or female. either way lol our current language is not able to contain the data.
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can i be so honest. every critique ive read of nope so far has been very lacking
#myposts#genuinely it seems like the only way people feel comfortable with interacting w this film is through the lens of 'spectacle bad'#without ever really defining what 'spectacle' means for the record!#it often takes of these contradictory meanings even in the same sentences which makes the whole thing feel worse bc like#i dont think YOU know what YOURE talking about#and the same w how the movie talks about race#earnestly if the only thing u think it has to say about race is like. people of color are either excluded from or tokenized in hollywood#then ur going to have to square that w ur critique that spectacle is bad end of sentence#is it the characters saving grace that they are exempted from an exploitative industry or should that industry be exploiting them??#bc if ur saying hollywood is bad bc excluding ppl of color + spectacle exploitation u seem to be implying that we should want#people of color to be spectacized and tokenized. and i dont think most people making those statements would agree w that#i genuinely think its the fault of this overreliance on the word spectacle as the thing that holds it together#which sucks actually bc i havent even seen people super digging into the word itself and how fascinating its usage as the bad miracle is#idk. i think theres more to the movie--way more--than just the sin of looking#witnessing and understanding through the look is so significant and so good in it. it is OJ looking at emerald him Seeing her#that gives jean jacket its name. its recognization#we learn to be less afraid of the monster when we understand it--when we see it--and know it doesnt want to be looked at#do you see what i mean?#and thats aside from how it complicates the black horror narrative itself--how it highlights desperation induced by poverty#induced by racism and racially justified disregard as legitimate problems that cant be solved by galacybraining 'nopeing' out#they try to leave--and try to Not Look to abandon the spectacle as spectacle based critique says is the main concept of the movie#and thats not possible. it doesnt work. they go back and going back necessitates looking and engaging w spectacle#like literally the answer is not as simple as 'to spectacalize is Wrong' bc the victorious endstate of the movie#is for these characters to reclaim the history of spectacle theyre denied by disenfranchisement. she takes the frame by frame pictures#their names are attached to it forever and cant be forgotten as the jockey is. how can you square that?? honestly#idk. just watching this yt video where some white woman is talking about how nope is about and only about the entertainment industry#its just not the whole picture
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the tragedy of outlining an original story with 4 main characters is that they need names and not temporary nicknames that later bc their actual names like mr suit and mr jacket, and I am not good at figuring out names until much much later
#the defining details for these 4 are not easily broken down into single word descriptors. ALAS#ive changed one character's name 3 times and i might do it a 4th#i cant call him mr gay arm in this outline bc it makes me laugh and this is about american healthcare#(its a cyberpunk story. im also complaining abt everything in america with it.)
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I don’t like engaging in label discourse because it’s stupid, but last night I was thinking about the bi lesbian discourse especially and like…
Okay. Words mean things, sure, but also. Sometimes words mean different things to different people, and that’s. Fine???
Does the existence of the American biscuit invalidate the existence of the English biscuit? Of course not.
But that’s an imperfect metaphor, because the point is that no human experience can be summarized by a single word, and if people want “lesbian” to have exactly one rigid, widely recognized definition, my only question is… why? Why do you want to be able to boil yourself down into one word?
How does someone else calling themselves a lesbian make the word less meaningful for you? It’s just. Stupid. Language is imprecise and we are all just trying our best to explain who we are with the words at our disposal. Policing labels helps no one, it’s so dumb
#idk this is just on my brain#I legitimately cant comprehend caring that much about how other people choose to define their experiences#words can be sacred. these ones arent#anyways. if it’s not clear. this blog is a safe space for ppl doing whatever the fuck they want with labels#if anyone wants to debate this with me. dont lol#i will simply block#not tagging this with anything relevant because i dont want to invite discourse onto my blog#u can rb if u want tho idgaf
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anyone else simultaneously super anti-gender labels but also feel insane over the fact you have no words to define it. the struggle continues on
#GENDER IS SUCH A BAD OBSESSION FOR ME I CANT EVER STOP THINKING ABT IT ONCE THE THOYGHTS GET TRIGGERED WEH#not a vent btw im jsut like. 😔 man gender hard am i right fellas#im very much I NEED TO USE THE RIGHT WORDS FOR THIS while also knowing yhe words dont matter at all#but also how ppl will see me based on however i choose to define myself has so much baggage that comes with it. i need to choose carefully#oh well!!!!!! such is yhe life of a queer#💾
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im just thinking like,, you didnt even need to make it move for it to be a duck, right? sculptures of ducks are also ducks. an alive duck is just like a more specific kind of duck the same way a mallard is a more specific kind of alive duck, right?
#maybe trying to define something by including Every variation of itself and excluding everything else is just like. not necessary?#because like i dont think human language works that way#the words we use for things are not based on categorisation like that#so youre like trying to use words against their own nature#and for what#like waht is the point of that if you can just specify your kinds of ducks#right#i think im being stupid#i cant tell if im saying the common sense position or not#Youtube
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What do you think gay men are attracted to in men that they can’t be attracted to in women?
It can’t be anything about femininity or masculinity obviously. That’s both sexist, and cultural so can’t be what drives men-only attraction.
It can’t be anything about stated identity because someone could lie just as easily as they could tell the truth in such a statement, and it makes no sense because homosexuality and heterosexuality exists in other species with no stated identities. It’s not like other animals without gender are all pan.
Saying idk it’s the vibes or some indescribable trait men have that women can’t but “I can’t explain” is a nonanswer.
Soooooooo what is it? Or do you think any sexuality but bi/pan is just cultural performance or an identity rather than an inborn orientation?
Bestie gender itself is a performance, don't know why you're asking specifically about gay men tho when it's quiiiite clear I'm a lesbo lol. But there are clearly people who preform masculinely and feminally and of course those who don't preform either or switch it up. And of course it's not all based on gender presentation but also sexual preference, I would not like to have sex with anyone with a dick regardless of gender for example. So like yeah everything is performative and built on culture and society because that's just how humans work. There are many factors that influence the people we're attracted to and labels are just there to be labels. A gay man can say he likes men but that doesn't mean he likes all men yknow, labels just make shit easier to get across.
Anyway this was a random ass ask but kinda fun to think about for someone who is currently doing a queer theology course lol.
#rav speaks#ask#queer theology#sexuality#gay#lgbtqia+#im not like the best with words specially when its late#but uh yeah#humans in general are pretty performative and are all heavily influenced by everything around us#really i belive that we shouldnt need all these little labels to define everything and just be#but i do also understand that having labels does creat some ease#its easier to say im asexual and/or les rather than explaining those identities#i do think we tend to go a biiiiiit too far with microlabels but hey they make others happy so who am i to judge#i dont know if ive actually answered your uh questions right#but like idk its a tough topic aha#im not a biologist or psychologist in anyway shape or form i cant tell you how human brains actually work#but yeah methinks its probs actually a mix of inborn and performative#like your gonna be born with a preference but the specifics will shape as you grow and labels are still jsut labels#i can tell ya that i have never been interested in dating anyone male presenting tho#but when i was young i also wasnt interested in dating anyone so who knows lol
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yknow when i first watched the first yoshiwara arc i thought "tsukuyo is such an interesting character... it's a shame that she'll most likely be a one-off character" and oh boy am i glad i was wrong
#krispeaks#i. have my own problems with how tsukuyo is treated in some arc#or some of the fanservice dynamic she has with gntk#and if canon didnt try to ship gintsu that hard i wouldve shipped them more#cos they're so great like??????? their backstories almost identically mirror each other#also the trend of like gntk being surrounded by smokers who r unhealthily (depends on how u define the word) in love w him#and those times gntk went out of that much trouble to save tsukuyo. and the many many more times tsukuyo chased after gntk#you cant tell me they wouldn't die/live for each other#which is why yall should come with me in hijigintsu hell#geez gntk how come sorachi gave you 2 tsun smoke addicted authority figures whose backstories made you reveal your own#ok im gonna sleep. bye#jiwa perak
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why does the library of congress have like 500 different subject headings for autism in children and autistic children and only 2 for autism in adults and 0 for autistic adults. why does the national library not believe in autistic adults
#currently processing an autism dictionary thats just like defining autism related words#and our cataloguer tagged it with autistic children and choldren with autism#its a dictionary!!!!!#its in no way exclusive to children!!!#i think allistics should never be allowed to touch autism related topics again if they cant learn an even basic amount about it
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