#i know all these are human emotions but damn ?????

[tou-dai]

There are people who keep doing fucked up things

Like rape, abuse, being a nazi etc

If you want them to live among people "like normal", I totally respect that

I think everyone should be safe, healthy, and free

I don't remember what quote it was tho. Something like, "your freedom ends where mine begins"?

I've had 8 concussions so you'll have to excuse me (one of them being from my abusive ex wife, a relationship in which i was .. damn. Only a victim of a crime/series of crimes)

Anyway

Point is i think people saying "separate these people from us in a humane a way as possible" is very reasonable

Considering some of these people do not want to be reformed

I think anyone who is compassionate and considerate of the consequences -- one way or another -- would much rather these people (no matter their demographic) be treated kindly

To be given what they need

But also: do not allow them to hurt others!!!

This is harm reduction!

I think the issue people have

Why they clutch their pearls

Is because we've all done fucked up things

Perhaps for extended periods, knowing, being in our emotions or whatever

Maybe just being ignorant and/or unwell

So we don't want to be exiled or put in jail!

And no one should have their safety, health, and freedom fucked with!!!

But now what?? It's 2025 and you have some of the worst human beings to have existed to be at the helm

Why?

Not only that: but there are people who support and relate to them, no matter what evil shit they do!!

Yall

We need to have a truly real conversation about our acceptance of intolerance and fucked up behavior in various forms

And where we draw the line

Because humanity is going to keep having this happen until we do

Edit bc I think this needs to be said, too:

There are people who want to abuse and people who want to be abused

Just like that old song (which i love ngl)

And i think everyone has a place or inherent worth

It's just our world is not designed to bring the best out of people or nurture them well

But people are also disingenuous about stuff -- they lie to themselves and others about things

Like how good or bad they are. Whether there is such a thing. Where the bar is. When it's appropriate to talk about it etc

Like many many people would say Elon/Trump need to just die

But there are many others who support them and fascism

Exactly what do you propose we do with such people?

With their votes?

How can we help them?

There are disabled minorities, like myself, who are seen as degenerates or useless

But we have many talents and ideas which are amazing

We are not afforded the opportunity to be who and what we are

Yet these assholes are at the helm

What to make of this?

We are fighting.

Who is fighting and how hard? Doesn't that depend on circumstances and constitution?

If you gave me 1 million dollars, I'd keep 100k and give the rest away.

How many could say that?

But people would judge those like me, who have destroyed themselves, body mind and soul

Just to survive

Or to be seen as human

..

I guess we'll have to see how this goes

venmo: @torchport

cashapp: $onepeaceman

"so youre saying we should just allow rapists and abusers to remain in society?" where else would they go ⁉️😭🙏 so confused can you show me this place outside of society

[amutamika]

I have the headcanon that Mobei Jun is touch repulsed but also touched starved. Hear me out.

Demons don't really have emotional bonds (at least that's what we are taught, even though we see that there are exceptions, see Tianlang Jun for example). Mobei Jun is also one of these exceptions. As a kid he was practically glued to his uncle. Only to be betrayed by him as he tossed out little Mobei Jun into the human realm. This must have shattered something inside of Mobei Jun leading to his ongoing trust issues. And it makes sense because demons learn that even their own family can turn against them in a blink of an eye. This is the reason why he doesn't trust Shang Qinghua fully, even after more than a decade of them knowing each other. Therefore, only really starting to see him in a different light after Qinghua saved him in the final boss battle.

With his trust gone he also starts to feel touch repulsed. But also craving the touch of another, because in the end Mobei Jun has feelings and emotions. And he is deeply lonely.

And this is how I imagine it all play out with our two idiots:

And then he stumbles over Shang Qinghua. They are both young. And Shang Qinghua is so incredibly touchy. Right at their first meeting he clings to Mobei Jun's leg like his life depended on it (which it did). Mobei Jun hated it, but more so because it stirred up a longing deep inside of him.

And that's were the pining of these two idiots start. Mobei Jun man handles Shang Qinghua because he wants to touch that damn idiot, but doesn't know how he should do that in another way. He wants him close, that's why he follows him to An Ding Peak. But he doesn't get that feeling. Demons don't do relationships. Demons don't do love or anything else.

Over the years this dynamic goes on. Mobei Jun demanding Shang Qinghua's attention whenever he starves for a warm touch, but pushes him away whenever he gets repulsed by it. But over time he feels less repulsed by his human servant.

And then the day comes where Shang Qinghua explains that acting pathetic is the way to a 'straight man's heart'. And it clicks. The reason why he wants to touch Shang Qinghua is because he likes him. But at that time his violent outburst have lead to Shang Qinghua flinching whenever he tries to touch him. And so he slowly but surely stops hitting and throwing Shang Qinghua and instead pat his head, sit closely next to him, doesn't really let him go out alone. Until Shang Qinghua stops flinching and becomes used to Mobei Jun.

So used to it that Shang Qinghua thinks that it is totally normal that Mobei Jun pulls him close whenever he feels like it, snuggles up to him, wraps him in his coat and demands his presence at every waking hour... And also sleeping hour because Mobei Jun decided at some point that it is easier if his servant is always by his side leading to Shang Qinghua sleeping at first in the same room as his king and slowly moving to the soft bed with the big cushions.

Mind you, Mobei Jun thinks they are dating. Shang Qinghua thinks it is just a thing they do (but wishes he could just press his face into Mobei Jun's chest). Mobei Jun moves slowly but surely in his endeavor to get closer to Shang Qinghua. Until the day comes where Shang Qinghua finds out that Mobei Jun thinks they are in a relationship (post about that here).

After which they are basically glued together. Shang Qinghua works in the same room as Mobei Jun. When MBJ leaves the room, SQH just takes his documents with him and follows his boyfriend. And on days where the king has to work overtime, Shang Qinghua sits close to Mobei Jun or in his lap reading. Sometimes even falling asleep right there. Meanwhile, whenever Mobei Jun catches his boyfriend reading on the couch or the bed he plops down, resting his head in Shang Qinghua's lap, demanding head scratches.

Mobei Jun is still touch repulsed when it comes to others. But there is one touch that he needs. And it is the warm touch of his dumb, idiotic, human husband <3

[hiemalsborderland]

nono, you like chishiya because you see him as your smart little cinnamon roll, i like chishiya because he's a humanity-lacking, empty, selfish, pathetic asshole who lacks the ability to converse with and understand others so badly he feels practically nothing. i like chishiya because he's so fucking apathetic he doesn't even care that he might die- not because he's a 'chill guy' but because he is SO disinterested in life he doesn't see the value in living. i like chishiya because hes jealous of people who try hard because he knows damn well he could never be as human as them, because he knows there's something wrong with him. we are not the same tiktok chishiya fans. nono, you like niragi because you see him as your hot aggressive crime committer, i like niragi because he's been so traumatized by the things others have done to him he's become the thing he hates in a desperate attempt to feel like he deserved everything he went through. i like niragi because he puts up the facade of being all confident and mighty, drowning himself in the power he forces other people to give him with the goal of seeming less emotional and voiding himself of potential weak spots. we are not the same tiktok niragi fans.

[kelpweedkelpweedingkelpweeds]

Ok, so I think I'm slightly ready to talk about the comic (really I'm not but my brain has been thinking about them for an hour straight I have to let some of it out) This comic answered a hundred questions in my head and in the process produced a thousand more to replace them. The exploration of hyuna's thoughts as she was dying, it's so wonderfully complex and exactly what I expected out of vivinos.

Hyuna's feelings towards Luka is less so "I want to hate you, but I can't", rather it's "I hate you, you caused me so much pain and yet at the same time I pity the things that caused you to do this to me and I still care about you". A popular opinion is that as Hyuna spun Luka around her intent was revenge, and my 2 cents on it is that yes payback was part of it, but her kneejerk reaction was to save him.

There's still no official confirmation for Luka's role in Hyunwoo's death but he holds a major part in it. Hyuna cared deeply for her brother; it's no wonder she would hold bitter feelings towards someone who caused her to lose someone she loved. Hyuna knew that Luka loved her more than himself; she knew that she was the only person whose death would make him feel anything, not even his own. So she let herself get shot, made him lose the one person who ever made him feel human, made him feel the human grief of watching someone you care about sacrifice themselves, made him understand how the other performers on stage felt as they watched their friends die in front of them. This was her revenge, letting him feel the same pain she did, the same pain he inflicted on so many others on stage.

But at the same time, Hyuna isn't cruel. Her character is about love, love for humanity and the hope for freedom. As she heard that bullet fired, her first thought wasn't to make him suffer, it was to protect him. That she didn't want to see him die. Because watching him bleed out would cause her so, so much pain. It could be considered selfish, as she is the head of the resistance and he is the alien overlord's favourite pet, the person symbolizing the thing she swears destroy and never return to. But for someone who loves the world so selflessly, her love for Luka is and always has been selfish, and so is her resentment. He is her only weakness, the only person she would sacrifice her life for to teach the meaning of loss and pain.

She tells him that she leaves a puzzle for him to solve, which can be interpreted as figuring out human emotions for the first time. She understands him well enough to know that it will work, for he loves her more than anything else and loves her enough to at least try and move on like she wishes him to. Perhaps he may never find the answer, perhaps he might die before he has the opportunity to, but Hyuna knows he will try desperately, that perhaps in the process he could be given the chance to be human, as he deserved to.

She didn't let herself get shot for the satisfaction of watching him cry for the first time, she died because she loved him and wanted him to come to understand grief and gain the ability to move on, things that he was deprived of since his birth. She never forgave herself or Luka over what happened, but she wanted him to learn to forgive himself, so that maybe he could do what she couldn't. She knew she didn't have to ask him for forgiveness; his love for her poured out of him like water, he could never hate her for the selfish thing she did. So Hyuna died with bitterness lingering towards him, but ultimately came to peace with the fact that she loved Luka, that she would die for him, that only he could bring her back to the damned alien stage as her burial ground.

Y'all I nearly cried writing this, can I PLEASE do a self indulgent post next about how pure Luka's love towards Hyuna is I DONT WANT TO DEAL WITH THE COMPLEXITIES OF HUMAN EMOTION IM BARELY HANGING TOGETHER RIGHT NOW

Here have a stupid lil image of them (sorry Hyuna isn't coloured in I know it's really bad but when all you can think about is how tragic they are all I want to do is draw them happy for the rest of eternity)

[highly-illogical]

hes not the same as TOS spock bc hes young! he's angry! he feels too much and doesnt have the experience of human contact (aside from his mother) to help him regulate that and show him that emotions are an okay thing to have.

hes raw in ways that TOS spock is able to handle better bc hes been on that damn ship among all these illogical humans for longer (also his entire planet got retconned so youll have to forgive him for that)

quinto did a fantastic job of playing a spock that doesnt really know who he is yet, who wants desperately to be vulcan and also wants desperately to feel at home somewhere. anywhere.

a spock who clings to the rules because rules are logical. if you follow them, then no one can tell you that you're wrong.

and then here comes jim kirk with his self satisfied smirk and smashes that entire thing to pieces. here's jim kirk installing a virus into his test in order to beat it, backchatting starfleet command at his own disciplinary hearing, sneaking his way onto the enterprise and somehow landing the position of first officer as captain pike- spock's captain- waltzes into certain death to keep his crew safe.

jim has broken arguably every rule. he flaunts protocol. he's loud, brash and damn near unlikeable and yet he keeps winning. spock doesn't understand.

now spock is acting captain and rules are meaningless. hes following protocol to a T and it's not working. his planet collapses in on itself, more than half his race is wiped out, his mother dies in front of him and he has to keep going. the bridge crew follow his orders but its clear they dont like him all that much. jim presses and pushes until something gives and he maroons him in a desperate bid to distance himself from feeling. from everything that jim is because he can't afford it. the crew does not like him any more for this choice.

and just when hes maybe getting a lid on things, maybe dragging the last shreds of self control around himself here's jim fucking kirk, screaming at him about how he can't feel and how he's an emotionless machine and all the bleeding inside of him screams right back that he does. he feels so much and it hurts so terribly (back away from me, mr. kirk) and he wants nothing more in that moment to make jim hurt as well so he does.

he doesn't realise what he's done until he feels jim's pulse beneath his fingers and hears his ragged breathing on the silent bridge.

^^ right here is some of my favorite acting in the movie, the way that spock lets go of him and stands on shaky legs, eyes fixed on nothing in particular and in this moment of weakness, he falls back on protocol again. "doctor, i am unfit for command." he tells mccoy and he steps away, haunted. quinto absolutely ate that shit up.

the difference between TOS spock and AOS spock is that TOS spock is selective with his violence. he understands that it is necessary though he doesn’t enjoy it and will use the minimum amount required.

AOS spock will rock your shit and top your boyfriend

[angelflms]

oh boy. guess i have something to say about CK after all. get ready. it's gonna be a fucking doozy because ima bout to piss off so many people.

yall cared wayyyy too much about robby (this is coming from a robby lover).

for a cheesy, straightforward show, some of y'all didn't understand its tropes at all. or at least what it was trying to tell you, especially when it comes to the roles miguel and robby are supposed to be in.

miguel has been and always will be the show's karate kid. he was supposed to be the daniel of the story, hell even GQ just said it in an article about the show recently. robby was always supposed to be a johnny-like foil to miguel. the thing is that the show tries to bamboozle you into thinking otherwise because of who's training them, how they're trained, and how they act because of the type of training they're initially recieved.

yes, miguel acts very similar to johnny in the show. yes most of the og TKK call backs they make with him are in relation to johnny, but he is the underdog character. you know how everyone expected johnny to win in TKK because he was a fucking champ and such. it's almost like how we as an audience for awhile assume that robby is gonna be the final end all champ of the series. but just like with johnny, we're proven wrong. it's just that the bullet was in a different gun this time. it's the one in the ck gi who won this time.

idk why people get so mad over miguel's victories when it was always supposed to be him that was gonna win. the show is called cobra kai for a reason, therefore, the final winner of the show is gonna be someone from that dojo. it only makes sense. and since the main karate kid that started off the show was a ck member originally, surprise! he's gonna be the final victor of the show.

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now im seeing a lot of hatred towards johnny's character, again because of robby. now yes, johnny was a fucking horrible dad. and as a girl who's bio dad is a piece of shit like johnny was and has never been in my life (even started a business similar in the world as johnny's), i understand robby's dad pain a lot, even more so than miguel's.

but what you don't understand is that cobra kai is a show about generational pain. generational trauma. generational grief. generational hurt. the whole story revolves around pain that started 30 years prior (even further if you bring up kreese). the show also is about breaking the cycle once brought upon you to better the future for those who look up to you.

johnny is close to miguel because he was his second chance at being a better father figure to him. he didn't expect that he would get robby back in his life the way he did (robby literally told him to rightfully stay away) so he focused heavily on miguel and his family. now once he and robby reconciled, it was a huge breaking the circle moment because johnny lawrence is a victim of physical and verbal child abuse from both his step-dad, sid and his father figure, kreese. kreese was to johnny what he is to robby, but less abusive. and robby was to kenny what johnny was to him, but robby eventually broke the cycle, something that johnny was able to eventually do himself.

that emotional scene between johnny and kreese wasn't just emotional but kreese's final moment of realization that he was a horrible man and father figure to johnny. he hurt him so bad that he couldn't be a normal human being, which in turn caused him to be an absentee parent to robby. not saying that it's okay but it's understandable. not getting that johnny is a broken person just ruins the whole point of the show's point of generational pain, something the show is nearly spoon feeding the audience to.

yes johnny is horrible as a father, but damn it the man didn't have a father figure as a model. all of his figures were abusive, absentee drunks who never saw his potential. that was a norm for him.

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ive said many times that y'all talk wayyyyy too much shit about miguel for no reason. and the way this season ended and how much y'all are upset, im starting to look at a lot of you in a side-eyed way. like his character arc is poorly written but that's not his fault. the writers hate him i feel. look i love robby and i hated the way he went out but at the end of the day, you need to understand that he wasn't gonna be the final guy. maybe i think too much in terms of the nuances of shows but i'd like to think this was the most straightforward show about fighting out there. like there wasn't much of a hidden message as they told you what they were. maybe yall are too lost in the fact that y'all care so much about robby that you don't care. maybe im missing something as i have only been in the fandom for over a year. or maybe y'all just subconsciously racist atp because the hatred miguel and xolo get for no reason is beyond me.

but i will give everyone this: the show's writing sucks.

they didn't know how to write certain characters and i feel like it was due to wanting to please everyone because i remember the death threats this fandom threw towards so many people during the lockdown days. but the show genuinely can go past surface level shit and it sucks. i wrote a whole thing dedicated to how miguel's storyline should've went post-coma because honestly they fucked his character up BIG time. but at the end of the day, i do think, even with good writing, he deserved that ending. i just wished everyone else agreed.

[recent-rose]

intrigued by the idea that jayce dooms viktor to become the herald because he loves viktor too much to let him die. but mage!viktor could also choose not to save jayce from the storm in order to save himself from that fate, and yet he too loves too much to let go of jayce. endless cycle only broken by their choice to go together.

[rustedleopard]

I wonder if Flowey ever just... let Clover stay dead for longer than a few seconds after they died in a fight just to see what happens. I mean, he basically is the master of their fate and would probably get bored of seeing them repeat the same three routes over and over and over again. I feel like in between trying to push Clover to fight Asgore, he'd probably find the time to entertain himself watching other characters react to Clover's death to mix things up a bit.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Rewatched Eddie Begins yesterday and at the start his mom is talking about how Ramon was out of town for each of the kids, and how Adriana had been an emergency C-section. In the retirement party episode the story about little Eddie crashing the truck when his mom went into labor was also Adriana. So Eddie was alone and scared and his mom was in emergency surgery and when his dad finally showed up he needed comfort and got yelled at instead.....

[reueslee]

Working on a Burr animatic that I don't think will get much attention because it's about Burr's childhood rather than some flashy point in his life but I feel deeply emotional towards Burr and how he broke a cycle of abuse in his family so I want to make art somewhat honoring/bringing attention to that

[sleepingfancies]

And now Odette is on the brain too. Its so over

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Okay what other soul-crushing books about the meaning of humanity can I read?

[savage-rhi]

I'm very much a, "fuck yeah and fuck you, I don't need validation! I'm me, cunts!" kinda fella, but sometimes I could use support.

[colloquialcolors]

huh so. watership down. is a solid book. solid. book. compelling characters, thought through world building, build up and payoff in good amounts, somehow pretty hopeful despite the ongoing danger and threats throughout. like. damn. nice.

and honestly. less tragic than i was expecting! excellent. holding these little rabbits in my hands.

[sovamurka]

Doomsday // Конец Света (2022)

Varvara 'Varya' Bazhenova & Azazello 'Azik' Mitrohin

- Why didn't you tell me about all of this?

- Because you fell for a demon. For the beautiful and magnificent one!

- Are you dumb? I fell for someone who talked to me when nobody else gave a shit and who looked at me differently!

- And you don't care for who I am?

- And you left me because of this?

- I didn't. I just... panicked. I felt awful, scared, anxious and...

- It's completely normal. You're human now, remember?

[neverendingford]

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