#intelligence for violence

[carli-meows]

i upoloaded this to youtube but it might get taken down or whatever, so im posting this on my tumblr.com

[mytastessuck]

Hidenori Shoji: Intelligence For Violence

We end off Yakuza Christmas (probably should have warned you about that; I tend to get in a Yakuza mood around the holidays) with a jazzy combat track from Yakuza Kiwami. Iff you gotta fuck people up, fuck them up to saxophones.

Song Score: 1994/10

[ruegarding]

the entire point of the blue food was that it was the only way sally could consistently rebel against gabe without getting her or percy punished. sally is not and never was submissive in the books. percy himself says sally has "a rebellious streak, like me." however, sally and percy were under threat of serious abuse from gabe and therefore had to pick their battles. blue food was sally's way of telling percy "i am here and fighting with you" and "there is hope in the world still."

[zoomclown]

i know it's late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY WARREN GODBY

[valzhangism]

i know i said i was happy about how mel's story went, but the more i think about it the less i'm sure about that. this is very much connected to how the themes of classism and wealth disappeared in s2, but mel in the beginning was the epitome of piltover. she wanted to advance piltover to prove herself to her mother. to "put piltover—" and by extension herself, "—on the map."

she wanted wealth just to have it. and i'm not blaming her for anything that happened, especially with hextech! she, just like jayce and viktor, could not have known what it would lead to. i mean yeah heimerdinger said so but who the hell listens to heimerdinger? but anyway i think mel changed throughout s1, much in thanks to jayce. by the end she's become more cognisant of the mistreatment of zaunites. she's the first to vote for their peace. she was a good person all along but now she knows how to act on it. it's also seen more in s2 act 1. when she covers her painting with gold, it's symbolic—she won't act according to what her mother might think. she won't let her desire for approval dictate her anymore.

so somehow i wish those themes were. continued, somehow? like again they were dropped not just with mel but the whole show and it makes her story a off to me. there's no meaningful commentary on war or classism or how her ideology stands opposite to her mother's. like some people have said, it feels like she doesn't have much agency, even if she is really cool. and that to me is a shame because agency felt like her thing. "to shape your own destiny" as she says to jayce in s1. i know her collaborating with the black rose (but not fully joining them) and learning magic is supposed to represent becoming independent from her mother, taking her own path, but some other aspects of her character were thrown away... the more i think about it the more i'm thinking they kind of #girlboss-ed her a little bit. maybe to sell another champion. i can't help but feel like even though i enjoyed seeing her on screen, the payoff didn't feel proportionally satisfying compared to her setup in s1.

[archiveofliterature]

anyway i have Thoughts™ about how ramy is perceived to be just a mouthpiece for rf kuang's anti-colonialist views

at this point i'm genuinely gonna have to reread babel for a 3rd time to see what that means bc. huh?

of course disclaimer preface whatever you are allowed to have your own views you're allowed to feel what you feel you're allowed to not like a book

i just feel like – it's the way a queer character just exists in fiction and in the real world, where they happen to experience prejudice in regards to their identity, but cishets just perceive them to be making "queer" their entire personality

it's the same thing here? when you see a brown character talking about how he feels about britain settling in india (britain, who ends up murdering 100 MILLION indians during this settlement btw!!!) and therefore witness how that naturally results in his strong-willed anti-colonialist views – how is that just his personality? how is that just all that he is? is that all there is to pay attention to whenever ramy opens his mouth?

from what i recall, ramy loves reading and translating, loves cooking even though he's bad at it, loves his religion and okay maybe there is a reading on colonialism in those bits too but when you are literally living in a colonial world, i don't know how you expect none of it to link back. that's how writing works and that's what it means to be a poc in a white man's world

again, just some thoughts lol

[thepersonalwords]

Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.

Don Roff

[laugtherhyena]

Started reading csm part 2 properly and man Denji's lucky that Yoru is fucking stupid and can't identify him as the real chainsaw man or at least a devil thing even when she's right next to him.

[quotationadmiration]

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

[fjordfolk]

100% don't punish the growl and listen to your dog and your puppy is not an evil mastermind AND ALSO seeing how Melis behaved today and latey, feeling very validated in our approach to her outbursts of screaming thrashing gnashing teeth being less "sorry sorry never mind" and more "ok buddy are u sure though"

time will tell if she has another ride on the melty brain hormone train coming (Sparta didn't - but she might) but at this moment in time, Melis is a pretty tolerant, people-oriented, socially intelligent little dog who's displaying some very pleasant traits. and who has not growled or snarled or gotten near threshold in many months. at this rate our worst puppy might end up our best dog

[solitaireships]

I hate when people do unpopular opinion about Jayce tweets bcs without fail the “unpopular” opinions in question are the most popular opinion about him (that he’s every terrible thing ever and sucks) and racism

[majorpepperidge]

Polokus had a plan for you, until Jano sabotaged it and corrupted you with fear. And now you start to wonder, in this second-chance at life you've been given, if it all was part of the Dreamers plan from the beginning.

[squeezing André like a stress ball] this is MY emotional support black lum and I get to give him the redemption arc he was supposed to have in Rayman 4

[abrahamvanhelsings]

going fucking insane why is everyone i talk to 100% on board with the rapidly increasing militarization of our society. 'yes but russia! we need to protect ukraine and europe' listen i understand the sentiment. but has any situation in this world ever been resolved by an arms race. no. in fact things have always gotten worse. meanwhile you're advocating for the further establishment of the state's monopoly on violence and the expansion of military activity in every single aspect of our society, physically as well as ideologically. get well soon i guess.

[fandaniel]

VERY interesting about nayuta saying she thought killing would be more fun but it’s not. nature vs nurture arc being set in place for devils…..?

[bioswear]

not to sound like some political bootlicker but i could cry honestly seeing a presidential candidate who can actually string a coherent sentence together and isn’t on the verge of having an aneurysm

[fromtheseventhhell]

Thinking about the fact that Arya fits into the "Princess in a Tower" trope considering her time at Harrenhal and yet she's never considered one, simply because she doesn't fit the "right" idea of a princess. It's very frustrating that she is constantly being separated from aspects of her own story because people don't believe she fits into the role that was written for her.

People think that Arya is able to physically fight her way out of situations so she doesn't suffer in the same way that other female characters do. We know from reading the books though that this isn't the case. She is captured and forced to work, with no way to fight back or defend herself. In fact, her inability to do so is part of her struggle. She is scared, feels ashamed that she can do nothing, and is surrounded by people who she knows wouldn't hesitate to harm her. She is beaten, forced to work until exhaustion, watches others be tortured and murdered, and witnesses the impact of war on the smallfolk first-hand. Her suffering isn't magically any less because she's "stronger". Even later, when she escapes, she's unable to rely on brute strength. She has to use her intelligence to make a plan and find a way out. At that point, and even in the future, Arya isn't well-trained with a sword. The most important skill she learned from her water dancing lessons was about observing her surroundings and seeing the truth of things, not swordplay. This is far from being the only example and people need to stop judging her character based on what they think makes sense instead of looking at how she's actually written.