#i will not reblog the post and argue with the op. i will not reblog the post and argue with the op. i will not reblog the post and argue wit

[jadeharleyinc]

thank you for linking me to that reblog chain instead of killing me in the notes, i appreciate it (i imagine it's been a pain in the ass dealing with like a dozen replies all making the same argument i am lmfao)

i think saying "you could've used ontological instead of inherent" and "it is interesting that the user chose not to use the words victim but specifically attacked" is kind of nitpicky like, this website is full of ESLs and people who just haven't heard the word "ontological" before. it's hard for me to acknowledge this as a dogwhistle when it's basically a thesaurus dot com moment.

"In this statement, ontologically makes way less sense since, as far as I'm aware, absolutely no one has said that women are ontologically more likely to be hurt at night" i don't agree with this point! i think it's absolutely a part of the patriarchal violence playbook to argue that it's in the nature of womanhood-in-itself to be ontologically more likely to be hurt, that women are vulnerable to violence and might even Deserve It. hence why my moderately-generous reading of OP's post is that it's important to fight that conception of gender, to not let internalized biases color one's experience of transmisogynistic violence and tell oneself that being at risk and suffering is inseparably "part of womanhood".

i also don't think a misunderstanding of how TERFs work could be a secret indicator that OP is mad at feminists and transfeminists. frankly none of these strike me as dogwhistles and at this point, once you're replacing words with synonyms and critiquing ultra-specific word choices ("saying something is inherent is not the same as saying its ontological, as inherentness can be an aspect of societal manifestation, but ontologically is about the abstract philosophical concepts"- are we grading a paper here? is this really an appropriate level of scrutiny?), maybe the evidence just isn't strong enough. personally i'd be more inclined to grit my teeth and let this sort of post go by, rather than quote-dunk it with the standard banter about killing the original poster.

not sure what to make of the "most generous reading" in this post since i've established what my moderately generous reading looks like. but yeah this is why i think the statements made are deserving of a different interpretation.

I think I'll kill you instead

[llycaons]

I saw a slightly obnoxious post like 'wow you realize it DOES make you feel better when you read more books and do x and y and z' and had my typical instantly contrarian thought of 'well sometimes....but some books this year I read pissed me the fuck off' but readings those books enhanced my enjoyment of the books I actually like so in a roundabout way I guess it was true..

[misspermitted]

I wanna say that I totally get Xuening’s decision to break Zhang Zhe’s heart. I would’ve done the same thing. She knows he’s going to let himself die. She knows hes breaking. She manipulates the situation the only way she knows how, and it goddamn works. He starts eating. He hates something else.

It’s tragic but call it fate or just personality, they’re not suited. She will ask him to compromise his morals more, he just wants peace, and all of it came to a crescendo.

[kreftropod]

To the Anon who sent me an ask saying I "should feel fucking awful" for "giving you hope": I'm sorry about your situation, truly. But what did you want to achieve by sending that ask to me?

For context I reblogged a post earlier, mentioning that I hadn't double-checked the info yet as I was at work (my memory is shit, so I reblogged it to remember to check it later). I did check it later, found that the links didn't confirm what the OP claimed, and decided to delete the reblog as I had no reason to keep it on my blog anymore.

I'm going to assume that you're an adult, Anon, and as such it's your own responsibility to check sources and not trust random strangers on the internet (such as me). If you had checked the sources yourself, you would have been able to see that the post didn't add up (lawsuit too new to be approved yet, and the amount of money OP mentioned seemed taken out of thin air). I'm sorry that I didn't sit down and tell everyone that I, a nobody, decided to delete the post from my personal blog. It would perhaps have been a courtesy to do so, but it isn't a responsibility you can demand of strangers on tumblr of all sites.

Again, I'm sorry about your situation and about you getting your hopes up over something I reblogged, but lashing out against a stranger doesn't help anyone. I promise I didn't reblog, and later delete a post without telling you, just so I could hurt you personally.

I do hope you have a kinder new year than the one we're both currently suffering through. Cheers mate

[bloodcoloredglasses]

Sorry yall im turning off reblogs it was fun at first and i like all the essays and shit but i really just made this to rant about my own experiences and frustrations and im glad that ive given some ppl new perspectives but it just feels at some point that ppl just saying same thing over and over that its not applicable to everyone (i never said it was, im just ranting abt my own experience) and saying "kff connotations make me uncomfy" which is cool and all but IM TALKING ABOUT WHY I PERSONALLY LIKE USING IT AND YOU GOTTA INVESTIGATE TO SEE IF LITERALLY ANYONE IS KFF SO LIKE. IDK. invalid invalid invalid all your arguments are invalid and it feels like i am yet again being admonished for my preferred language usage and im op i get to turn off reblogs. Also im having the worst god damn day of my life unrelated so my threshold for bullshit is so fcking low right now. Dragon journal reblog and some other people's too i liked they were nice i appreciated that but then a lot of ppl started doing the thing i said was upsetting to me and it was starting to snowball. This post was a vent not an invitation to argue. polite conversation = good, telling me i am misusing language and you dont like it = literally what i am complaining about

When i use kin as a verb i use it in the same way i use introject as a verb and it's just weird and upsetting when ppl insist kin can never be both an action and an identity. I can say I introjected Valentino and nobody says shit but then I say I kin Valentino and suddenly it's a big problem of language misuse and implying that kin is not an identity?? Is my fictive identity somehow not real if it has an element of action to it? It happened in the back of my brain while I wasn't looking, but it was nevertheless an action, and we experience our kin identities in the same way. Why the hell do people accept system experiences so easily but then purity test the exact same experience if framed as kin

[juniperhillpatient]

dying because I went to my girl Piper Shaw’s tag & found out someone loved her in season 1 but hated season 2 for making her date a minor. I love tumblr logic ur so real for that that IS her worst crime & totally ooc she’s so ethical & normal in season 1.

[lottieratworld]

whats with ppl that reblog a post just to disagree with it completely in the tags. like not reblogging someone who reblogged with their own comment, just... writing your own rebuttal in the tags.... its weird....

[snoopyfan1283]

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man does anybody else think this thing s ucks :/ lol

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🧑 replyarguer

Um, NO? What is actually wrong with you? This thing doesn't suck at all. I think you're fucked up for even thinking of writing this, let alone posting it publicly.

🛀 squeakycleandisagreer

^^ Yeah, I agree with @replyarguer. Bad post, OP. You didn't even consider the reasons why the majority of rational people might like this thing in the first place?

🐼 panda-pwns-bad-posts

This thing doesn't suck. Maybe YOU suck. My gods, you are so stupid that it hurts. I'm going to lose so much respect for my mutuals if they reblog this post.

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#yup :/ it sucks lol

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#yup :/ it sucks lol

[athetos]

If you’re going to be a jerk and harass someone because you thought their joke post wasn’t very funny enough can you at least have the decency to not do it on my reblog of the post because I don’t know why losers think they can start fights with random people over literally the most banal shit ever in my notifications you’re just getting blocked.

[bookishfeylin]

Pls as if every other character SJM writes doesn’t also have a “darkness” (aka DEPRESSION/TRAUMA) to them 😭 That’s the worst take I’ve ever seen tbh.

Nonny it's so badddddddddd

I'm not sure if you actually saw the post or saw me complaining about it in my recent tags but either way... It's wild the way these people will bend over backwards to make Feysand the center of the universe and pretend staples of Sarah's writing point to them. It's really embarrassing to be honest.

[thedisablednaturalist]

At the people harassing me about how walkable "of course doesn't mean no cars!" Check out this post I just saw. NO discussion or even a mention on how disabled people will get around. Only one person in the rbs mentions cities where there are cars only allowed on weekends (ok so disabled people can only go places 2 days a week??). The person is simping for how Disneyland is designed bc it's SO WALKABLE. No mention of how Disneyland has a train system (although it could be better) and how they literally let disabled people get on rides ASAP cause they know how much it sucks to have to roll or walk with mobility assistance your ass all around that park in the hot and humid weather. Hell even abled people hate walking around the park and end up being cranky.

We are always an afterthought.

(do not harass the op. I am not doing this to sic people on them or start a fight, I am just linking it for proof)

[clouds-of-wings]

I would actually argue that great art accomplishes both - it is skillfully done and has some kind of deeper meaning. In that regard, the image on the left is perhaps a bad example since it "only" looks pretty (apparently, I haven't looked at a zoomed in version), and also the idea that art in general is somehow worse today is not true. There are people who make art that is both intelligent and skillfully executed today as well. But I suppose the meme is more about what is seen as "high art", what gets into reputable modern art museums, what the "elite" values. And the stuff that is stock-market traded and which I sometimes get ads for (link is in German but you can see the artwork and the current value, about 23k€).

I don't want to be mean about abstract art, but I really haven't seen any so far that sends any kind of deep message. The meaning that OP sees in the painting on the right is - forgive me - a meaning that could be found in any kindergarten level book. It's not particularly sophisticated or thought-provoking. I follow some contemporary artists like Herta Burbe and Erik Johansson (NOT saying those are the best or most intelligent in the world, but they appeal to me and are the first that come to mind since I see their work in my feeds a lot) who do representational art of different kinds and whose caricatures/photomanipulations, respectively, often have meanings that make "Things aren't always what they appear" look like the platitude that it is by comparison.

To me it's really hard to see anything particularly deep in the abstract or experimental art that is hailed as such. I don't say this as someone who's simply too close-minded to appreciate this art form, I hope, and I have explored my own emotional reactions to abstract art on my blog before (x), but visual allegory can only be as complex as the things that you are able to actually show visually. If all you have is coloured blobs, it makes it really hard to say anything particularly intelligent. If you have all the phenomena of the material world at your disposal, you can create much more meaning because you have more to recombine and play with. Then, the more skill you have, the better your message comes through and the more attractive your work looks.

An additional problem (maybe this is a bigger problem than the one I mentioned above) is that the more abstract your art is, the more varied will be the things that people read into it. Which can be a good thing, but at a certain point it's questionable whether there is still any actual communication happening between the artist and the audience or if everyone just reads something random into it that was on their mind anyway, like with a Rorschach blot. That would, once again, make it hard for that artwork to have any kind of message.

I would really love to be wrong about this because very simple-looking abstract art that ostensibly is super deep is of course popular among people who see themselves as modern art connoisseurs and/or scholars, but I haven't really found anything that disproves this viewpoint. Art is of course more than just an intellectual exercise, but since this is what this post is about and what OP claims is the point and the great thing about the painting on the right, I dare focus on this aspect for the moment and say - actually, from what I've seen, representational art tends to be far better equipped to make complex, interesting statements about life, and additional skill seems to also broaden the palette of what you can express with your art.

So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.

[to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky]

love when you tell a person on tumblr dot com you’re done engaging in a repetitive back and forth conversation that’s going nowhere with them and yet they continue on trying to win and argue you into admitting they’re right. Like okay guess I’ll just be using the block button then lmao

[kiyomitakada]

i know its a classic. possibly cliche already. but i do wonder about Tumblr In The Death Note Universe probably more than i should

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if i see one more post attributing kira's powers to ~supernatural powers~ instead of the obvious fact that the cia is doing a coup I'm going to start giving You the heart attacks

💅 toxicbff

of course i saw the news how does that not prove my point further

the idea that all the police around the world could be mobilized by one single person is ridiculous (just look at this list of how many civilian militia there are globally)

heart attack victims don't seize the way "lind l tailor" did

i don't know how to tell you that You Can't Kill People Just By Knowing Their Name And Face because this is Real Life and not the newest grimdark marvel villain

people need to stop being scared of the ~bogeyman in the closet~ and wake up to the fact that usamerica is trying to take over the goddamned world

💅 toxicbff

im going to kill you all and nuke this website

#sayonara you weeaboo shits

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DO TRUMP NEXT

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LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

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❤️‍🔥 lovesickened Follow

i know its stupid but im so fucking scared for my brother i heard that seven people died this week at the prison he's in and iinjust dont kenow what to do ihate him for ehat he did to mom but i never wanted him to die

#vent tw #delete later

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🏎 fastandyurious Follow

if i get a single more comment about why i don't tag "genderbend" on my kiratective fics i'm going to blow up the entire building. we don't know EITHER of their genders. why don't YOU tag your mediocre yaoi genderbend instead

🔆 sparkling-world Follow

…OP, you realize the news reports all consistently use "he," right?

🏎 fastandyurious

of course i do???? just because you see something on the news doesn't mean you have to believe it?????? they don't have any information on kira yet but i'm supposed to believe the fbi knows their gender already??????? also kira is literally a fucking girl's name my classmate in elementary school was called kira

🔆 sparkling-world

Kira comes from the Japanese romanization for "killer," it isn't gendered whatsoever.

Also, evidence shows the majority of serial killers are male, so I'd argue that the statistics favor the fujoshis here.

🏎 fastandyurious

well evidence shows that female serial killers are just more fun to write about and I'd argue that you're ignoring my fucking POINT which is that we DON'T KNOW KIRA'S GENDER and if people don't want to read lesbian kiratective they can FUCK OFF MY BLOG

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I offer you an Eggman in these trying times.

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@lashitpostcalligrapher yo can i get "the statistics favor the fujoshis" on my tombstone

#fandom: kira rpf #ship: kiral #never heard it called kiratective before… #also uh. prayer circle for op's classmate lmaoooo

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BOYCOTT EIGHTEEN MAGAZINE

THEY ALLOW KIRA-SUPPORTING MODELS AND ARE COMPLICIT IN THIS MASSACRE

SOURCES HERE AND HERE (TRIGGER WARNING: KIRA DISCUSSION)

PUSH BACK AGAINST HEART ATTACKS

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golly gee ^_^ suddenly i feel like taking to the high seas in a way that the eighteen company cant get profit from. oh no ! who left this link here

🐦‍⬛ kuro--misa Follow

thanks for the link but jesus fucking christ man what happened to free speech. misa-misa's parents were killed by a burglar who kira punished. did you all expect her to just sit there, look pretty, and say nothing about it?

you people only like models when they're nice pictures for you to consume. you only like them two-dimensional and smiling and hot. the second a woman actually speaks her mind she's thrown to the wolves

💃🏻 modelingmadness

DID YOU NOT SEE MY BANNER YOU PIECE OF SHIT

#BLOCKED

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lol. lmao even

#they blocked me but whatever #official eighteen site just said misamisa wont be in the next issue #(eighteen sucks but i kind of want to use it more out of spite now) #so much for apologism huh? #god. i feel sick. #hasn't she been through enough.

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Imagine you're going home after a long day. Suddenly there's a sound. "Huh? Whose there" you ask, dropping your keys on the floor. Then you feel it. A knife pressing in your neck.

"Don't move kitten" Kira purrs behind you. "You're all mine now…"

#kiraxreader #kiraxoc #kira #kira rpf #kira investigation #kira fucker #kira fudger #kira lover #kira haters dont touch #kira haters please touch #kira supporters please touch #l

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asahi-the-student-deactivated201

Hello, everyone! My little sister told me about this microblogging platform (I admit, I'm a Twitter refugee) and that many of you are discussing the Kira investigation on here. I'm really interested in hearing what your thoughts are!

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let the record show he lasted like. a day

#i think it was the imagines that did him in #bro is so sensitive :p

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kiyomitakada

the world could be beautiful

[ @deathnotetober day 14: trigger ]

[solar-nightengale]

@lizardthelizard You wanted my thoughts, you're getting them 😏 Three and a half weeks later but you're still getting them ehehehe 😌😌😌 (Idk what to make of them so have fun with that word wall of mayhem)

August 2.18 | Zelena 3.16

[sweaterkittensahoy]

So, today I reblogged someone with "Jewish" as part of their user name, and I did not add anything to their post. This person was saying "You can be Pro-Israel AND Pro-Palestine because it's about human beings, not little dolls for you to play with." And, I thought this was a very succient way to explain the issue.

Literally not five minutes later, someone reblogged my reblog to argue that it isn't antisemitic to be against Israel because Israel is on land that should belong to Palestine.

Keep in mind: The person I reblogged from was NOT saying a fucking thing except that Israel and Palestine both have a right to exist. In fact, I have made at least a few posts from this here blog making the exact same point. That both countries have a right to exist.

But no one's ever tried to ride my ass on me saying that.

And yet, I reblog a person who clearly identifies as Jewish, and suddenly, oh, someone's got THOUGHTS. Antisemitic thoughts. Because the actual OP said Israel and Palestine have a right to exist, and this person turned it into "You're fine with Israel occupying territory that isn't theirs" which is literally NOT what was being said.

I blocked the person instantly because that's what I do when bigots show up in my feed. I wish I hadn't though. I wish I'd paused just long enough to reblog and point out how fucking antisemitic it is to see "Israel has a right to exist" and immediately turn it into how Israel as an idea and a country are untrustworthy and dangerous.

But I didn't. And OP turned off their reblogs, so I can't reblog the post and add this to it. But I'm adding it here. Because if you see someone say "Israel has a right to exist" and someone else immediately go into a whole little rant about how no, it doesn't, one of these people is a fucking bigot. And it's the fucker who said Israel shouldn't be allowed to exist.