#informed opinion

[empahla]

Do You Have An Informed Opinion?

That last one is brutal. Do you have an informed opinion? Are you sure? Do you know what an informed opinion is? Did you build your opinion from the ground up, or is it the opinion you were taught from birth? Indoctrination is a popular word these days. Did you adopt familial and cultural opinions whole cloth, or have you made revisions? Do you challenge established opinions? Not just other…

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

i had a friend who was raped as a teenager and had a really strict mum who did not let her go out so she was really lonely. when she turned 18 she started going clubbing and since we live in a city with a big fetish scene, she started going to the kinky venue. since she was young, naive and very pretty, she was immediately roped in by older men who did bondage shootings with her and everything. she started working in the club. to me, she was clearly groomed, but she works in a fetish shop now and is fully immersed in the scene

i have a friend who answered a job ad for a secretary when she was abroad and she and her friend ran out of money but when they arrived there it was a brothel. they both prostituted themselves for several months. they were only 18. she still talks highly of that brothel, how clean and safe it was, and wants prostitution to be legal

i read the gut wrenching biography of a thai woman who ran away from home, whose parents refused her education and treated her brother very preferably while openly hating her, and entered prostitution in sex tourist destination pattaya at only 13. she was paid by men in their 50s first for her virginity, then to piss on her. she exited at 19 and developed psychosis. she defends sex buyers, hates feminists and wants prostitution to be legal

do you see where im going with this? brainwashing is real. despite the obvious facts, the grooming, the system that pushed and pulled them, the men taking advantage of them; they defend it. so yeah, we shouldnt dismiss firsthand testimony and personal experience, but always take it with a grain of salt, always contextualise, always see it as one part of a bigger picture. liberals dont do that and have duped too many people into not doing it either. „if thats her choice its none of our business“ fuck you!

[crypticmillipede]

stardew valley hot(?) take:: if you pick anything besides “experimental noise rock” for sam’s 2-heart event where you decide his band’s sound, you are simply wrong and non-canonical argue with the wall

like i’m sorry, you really think the town’s resident grunge/emo trio would play “cheerful pop” “hi-energy dance” or “honky-tonk country”?? these guys look like they feed off the souls of dying Hot Topics

[erinwantstowrite]

if you want people to get into the canon comics and lead everyone away from fanon misinterpretation (which is a losing battle because there will ALWAYS be this) then why not be helpful instead of being a dick about it 🤨

the comics are hard to get into because it's hard to know where to start, and there's so much content that people are able to fill themselves in by reading fanfic or watching something on tiktok or seeing posts about it on here. perhaps instead of telling people they're stupid for not realizing your favorite character is being mishandled by others, you could write up a list of your favorite comics and/or how, if you could read them for the first time again, you would order your favorite comics to get the best reading experience. and also write your own fanfiction and draw your own fanart or make a passionate post, answer questions politely

[sergle]

Opinion Time, bc this is something I've been really curious about: for LONG HAUL flights (think 20-30hrs) is it better to be the Window Guy so you can fully lean against the wall to sleep, and control the window, or the Aisle Guy so you can stretch your legs (and also Piss And Shit) more often without disturbing your seat neighbors?

bonus points if you've been on many long flights and have an Informed Opinion about the seat you were in

[colorful-horses]

pony review clips

[transmascpetewentz]

"Converting to Judaism" lol you're not even a real Jew you just want an excuse to be a Zionist pig

...ok???

[nalufichelpplease]

I have been saying for years now that natsu can cook. He grew up alone and needed to learn to survive on his own. He can’t always be out there buying food as much as he would probably love to. He loves trying foods and flavors and wants to eat everything (literally) so he teaches himself how to replicate foods he loves! This bleeds over into Lucy and how if Lucy loves a food he will learn to make it for her for special occasions (which let’s me real with sentimental natsu that could be always).

Lucy on the other hand cannot cook. She grew up wanting to but she was never allowed in the kitchen. She can boil pasta and other very basic essentials but she can never get the flavors right. She cannot balance the flavors always adding too much salt or acid to a dish and not knowing how to save it. She never gets the timings right always burning something because she walked away or forgot to chop something. Natsu never minds he loves her and wants to eat her food says it’s full of love.

Lucy can however bake! It’s a science it’s a recipe that is written out to the gram and has timings all over it. She can follow written instructions and mix everything together well. She prides herself on baked goods and the guild is happy to let her. Erza has been known to ask for strawberry cake often. She will make natsu spicy chocolate brownies once a month at least because he inhales those things.

Natsu cannot bake. That man cooks with his heart (years of practice) and thinks winging baking is easy! It isn’t. He creates mush and burnt things and it’s not good. Lucy will try everything though because he made it!

They slowly teach each other once they move in and now they are an unstoppable duo of the kitchen <3333

[quesocheeso]

3am idea-

Pigsy is the one to hammer in that Wukong didn't cheat.

Macaque checked out Xiaotian and, seeing Tang and his certain...resemblance, drew some conclusions. Of course, he wants to tell Pigsy immediately that his partner is a cheating wh-

He doesn't get the chance for a while until S3, when Macaque finally gets the chance to ask about Xiaotian, unaware of the giant box he opened until Pigsy is ranting about the "assholes who abandoned a toddler in the rain-"

Except that doesn't make sense, his mate would never abandon a child, unless Wukong didn't cheat.

...LBD possesses him before he can apologize.

Macaque trying to stir up shit is so funny,, he just like me fr

Good plot anon, though I think that wouldn’t really work in the au

I think we need to remember I’m here for the drama, but like realistic drama

So while Pigsy can attest that MK is adopted, that’s kinda even worse because now there’s no one who can attest to how MK came to be, Pigsy can take Tang out of the blame list so that’s good, and while Macaque can take Wukong’s name out of the blame list because he wouldn’t abandon a child, that don’t mean MK’s “other parent” wouldn’t have the guts to do it

I also want to say how Macaque doesn’t outright accuse Wukong about anything, I think I’ve mentioned he technically has no right in a way, but he beats around the bush and does small comments and insinuates things trying to get Wukong to spill the beans while trying to act like he’s indifferent to it (newsflash he is not)

He is gauging what precautions he needs to take to ensure that his own kids are safe and able to maintain their birthrights

[mxtxfanatic]

Let’s talk Yi City Arc! I’ve seen a few posts since my time in the fandom that talks about the Yi City Arc as unnecessary or out of place in the whole of the mdzs narrative. I’ve even seen some suggest that the disconnect is because Yi City was originally a separate story to mdzs, a sort of prototype, if you will, to explain it away. I, too, after my first read questioned the significance of this arc to the overall story. However, the Yi City arc and its placement so early in the novel is actually just a huge and very clever spoiler to most of the important plot points of the overarching story… if you know what plot points to look for, which an un-spoiled first-time reader would not. So let’s talk about those spoilers:

1) The righteous cultivation clans’ refusal to stand against evil—and, really, their indulgence of it—leads to the wiping out of an entire clan and a monastery as well as the deaths of two powerful cultivators unaffiliated with any major sect.

The “righteous” cultivation clans happily ignore that fact that the Jin Clan is amassing power through unscrupulous guest disciples, and it is only when Xiao Xingchen, an outsider, brings the crime against the Chang Clan to light do they bother to pretend to do anything about it. However behind the scenes, the Jin Clan assassinates their only real opposition, and the other clans, great and small, continue to do nothing as Xue Yang is released to commit another massacre. The Jin are never held responsible for their actions. Likewise, all the clans turn away from Wei Wuxian, an outsider, when he calls out the Jin Clan’s crimes against the Wen remnants and accuses them of amassing power via poaching vassal clans and attempting to steal his tools. Behind the scenes, the Jin work to undermine Wei Wuxian’s reputation before joining in to massacre Wei Wuxian and the Wen remnants. The Jin are never held accountable for this, which directly leads into the Xue Yang situation.

2) Xiao Xingchen has his reputation slandered by Xue Yang killing others using his sword.

After Xiao Xingchen kills himself, Xue Yang begins using his sword to enact “vengeance” on the remnants of the Chang Clan, who he considers as having “betrayed” Xiao Xingchen. Finding the signature of Xiao Xingchen’s sword on the slain bodies leads the cultivation world to believe that a disillusioned Xiao Xingchen is killing in revenge. In much the same way, Wei Wuxian is used as a scapegoat by the cultivation world whenever bad things happen, such as the presence of walking corpses or the mass digging of graves. In neither situation does any clan investigate the true events of the situations, happy to blame the easiest suspect and allow the unrest to continue. In both situations, Xiao Xingchen and Wei Wuxian are eventually found innocent of the crimes for which they are accused, and the true culprit is revealed.

3) Xiao Xingchen is betrayed by someone he considered close to him, which eventually leads to his death.

Xiao Xingchen, due to being literally blinded by his sacrifice, ends up running into, rescuing, and caring for his mortal enemy, Xue Yang. Taking advantage of Xiao Xingchen’s blindness, Xue Yang tricks him into murdering a bunch of innocents and his best friend, causing him to commit suicide. Wei Wuxian, similarly, is betrayed by a close friend he kept near, figuratively blinded by a former childhood friendship and the present debt he felt owed to said friend’s parents. This misplaced trust directly leads to his death.

4) Xiao Xingchen must give up his eyes for Song Lan to see again, because Baoshan Sanren is not magical.

This is probably the biggest spoiler of the entire arc, but by the time you get to where this information is relevant, you’d probably have forgotten that this was even said. Xue Yang blinds Song Lan after destroying his home, and to atone for this, Xiao Xingchen goes to his master, Baoshan Sanren, to beg for her help. However, Baoshan Sanren cannot make something out of nothing. Mxtx explicitly writes that tidbit into the narration. Song Lan goes up the mountain blind and comes down with eyes. Xiao Xingchen goes up the mountain with eyes and comes down blind. Song Lan was given Xiao Xingchen’s eyes.

Much later in the story, Jiang Cheng loses his golden core. Wei Wuxian offers the miracle solution of Baoshan Sanren “giving” him a new one. Jiang Cheng, obviously skeptical, questions Wei Wuxian up until the moment he must go up “Baoshan Sanren’s mountain” alone. Wei Wuxian descends, alone, looking pale and weak. Later, when Wei Wuxian is ambushed by the Wen, Wen “Core-melting Hand” Zhuliu touches him and is visibly shocked by a discovery that he then keeps to himself. Jiang Cheng emerges from the mountain with a new golden core, while Wei Wuxian emerges from the Burial Mounds with a new cultivation method wholly independent of the need for a golden core. The Yi City arc tells us why this is: “Baoshan Sanren” cannot make something out of nothing.

And these are just the major parallels I remember off the top of my head. However, while a reread makes a lot of these parallels directly applicable to specific plot points in Wei Wuxian’s own story, I would argue that the biggest role the explicit paralleling is meant to play for a new reader is to make you question the dominant narrative of the main story. The narration tells us that Wei Wuxian is a bloodthirsty man who may as well be a demon, known for cruelty and vengeance. We see none of that from his character when he is resurrected. Then we get a mini-drama where a man with attributes Wei Wuxian directly relates to, with a story Wei Wuxian directly compares to his own life, is scapegoated by society, killed, then eventually vindicated. If nothing else, the Yi City Arc is meant to make you, as a reader, stop and go “Hey, wait a minute, what if Wei Wuxian isn’t the bad guy here???” And once you understand that, you should start questioning everything the prologue told you, just like the juniors start to question what they were told about Xiao Xingchen post Yi City in their group debrief.

[backjustforberena]

Rhaenys is such a quiet character. In the course of the series, she doesn't raise her voice. She never shouts. She never sobs or rants or does anything like that. She doesn't hit anyone or run or rage.

Her most tragic moments are quiet: she is silent as they take the Crown from her, she whispers accusations and bitter truths to her husband, speaks calmly to those who wrong her, or imprison her. It is Meleys who roars, not her, when confronting the Greens. She does not speak.

Even with her own death, the command to Meleys is quiet, there are not tears, no shouts. No scream.

But. But. The audience knows she feels. They know she has a riot of feeling in her, a violence and a dragon in her. We've seen what she keeps caged. What she overrules time and time again.

We have an exception to the quiet.

Rhaenys collapses when she believes herself to be looking at the dead body of her son.

And she is screaming. For nearly twenty seconds straight, with it implied to go on and on, the woman who never lets anyone see her hurt, who had gone through her daughter's funeral just YESTERDAY as a picture of grace and solemnity... is screaming, on the floor, stripped bare to her impulses.

There's no attempt at control. No dignity. No logical mind overriding her. This is her at her rawest. When nothing else matters.

When she has her heart cleaved from her chest, she screams.

[millybrowm]

i don't mind if people don't like AJR's music, that's fine, we all have different taste, but the people who are obsessed with making fun of them because they're "cringe" really rub me the wrong way. like, i'm sorry you feel uncomfortable leaning into vulnerability and sincerity; couldn't be me.

[britts-galaxy-brain]

Lily + her diehard stans: They have no evidence! They're just harassing me because I'm trans/for clout/for attention/because they're bored/because I insulted a show they like/ect!

Also Lily's diehard stans: I didn't even watch this video. I refuse to even look at any of these documents. I clicked off this video after 5 seconds. You have no evidence so I'm not taking you at your word. But I'm going to take Lily's word as gospel even though she's never shown a single shred of evidence to back up anything she's said and her stories change every time she tells them.

[whatsitzface]

Fuck every percy jackson "fan" who is still complaining about percy & annabeths HAIR COLOURS being different then in the books. I hope Nico is blonde so that all of you cry and scream like fucking toddlers

[haveihitanerve]

Bruce: what does adopting children do for me? Bruce:... Bruce: *deep inhale* Bruce: what does AIR DO FOR MY LUNGS??!?!?!?!?

[socialjusticeinamerica]