#irrational logic

[snozzlefrog]

I know we all love our good regular people but the little objecthead goblin inside of me still thinks of the Murdle characters like their icons

[ruburnz]

designed logico now i gotta design his boyfriend

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

[medusas-vengeance]

Men will call women's fear of men irrational but will turn around and tell women that they have no idea how vile men are 💀

[saint-augustines-pears]

Actually, no, we should know what a woman is. If you’re going to challenge a term, you have to come up with a new definition. If we are going to have a rational conversation, all terms must be defined.

If woman doesn’t mean adult female human, what does it mean? If you’re getting defensive reading this, that’s a problem. You should be able to know what you’re arguing for. You should be able to tell people what you’re arguing for. Otherwise, what the fuck are you even doing? Why are you arguing about something that, if undefined, logically does not exist?

I would love for everyone to be happy. Delusion is not happiness. I need to know whether this is delusion or not.

[dreamsy990]

some of the less nice thoughts about being aroace

extras below the cut

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closeups on my favorite panels

bonus: adios

[averlym]

litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)

[incesthemes]

i can't stop thinking about the first episode of season 6, when sam tries to convince dean to come with him, to come back to hunting. he says "it's just better with you around, that's all." it's an interesting line because sam is soulless, obviously. and even though he doesn't understand the details yet, he knows something's wrong with him.

"it's better with you around" he says, citing dean's compassion and care for others as the reason why. and how interesting is that? sam's working with plenty of other hunters who still have their souls—they're all more than capable of caring about the people they save. but sam needs dean specifically. he knows he's missing something, and he sees dean and recognizes that something in him. even cold and calculating and unrelentingly logical, sam recognizes that dean, alone, can "complete" him, give something back to him that he's supposed to have.

in episode 8 he tells dean he "needs his help." he doesn't elaborate; he never explains what he means by that. he has a whole family of hunters who'd be willing and able to help him, but still he needs dean. even without his soul, his hyperrational mind knows he needs him.

soulless sam isn't capable of caring about dean. but he doesn't need to care to know they need to be together, no matter what—to know dean is good for him, dean completes him, dean needs to be there for him.

it's like a sick reversal of season 1. sam drags dean back into this life because he can't keep going without him. because he needs him. because when you think about it logically, and sam has no other choice, there was never any other option for them.

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

[pratchettquotes]

Victor remembered being frightened of tigers when he was young. In vain did people point out that the nearest tiger was three thousand miles away. He'd say, "Is there any sea between where they live and here?" and people would say, "Well, no, but--" and he'd say, "Then it's just a matter of distance."

Darkness was the same thing. All dreadful dark places were connected by the nature of darkness itself. Darkness was everywhere, all the time, just waiting for the lights to go out.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

[thiccydriftyy]

Having Moral OCD be like

You: “I don’t support genocide killing people is bad” and moral OCD is like “uhm acthually yes you do 🤓👆 source: NONE!!!! fuck you”

[snozzlefrog]

Extremely out of context spoilers for book 3

[carlyraejepsans]

see the thing is i keep scrolling past that post that's like "what brand of character always ends up as your blorbo" bc i genuinely couldn't condense any of my favorite characters into a mold that would fit all of them. until i remembered "because, underneath it all, crowley was an optimist" and made a sound like a strangled goose.

[anglerflsh]

(guy who regularly experiences paranoia voice) hey uhm. why am I irrationally convinced of terrifying things

[the-owl-tree]

The xenophobia thing is so frustrating, like the amount of characters who the authors present as “well he’s a little racist but he’s a good guy!” as if bigotry is just this fun little opinion some people have. And sorry for ranting but the way they won’t let it reflect on any other aspect of their character, like-

Any good ideals a xenophobic character has aren’t really all that good because even if they don’t say it, there’s the implication of “except for Those People.” If a xenophobic character says everyone deserves to be cared for even if they can’t contribute, they actually mean everyone Except Those Nasty Outsiders (rip Daisy). This is most relevant to the Erins’ stock character of “good and loyal warrior who always says the xenophobic things at clan meetings” but I feel like it DEFINITELY applies to bramblestar too

i love Darktail but this book makes me wish avos was obliterated. It is wild that he has been used to multiple times to JUSTIFY the Clan's wariness and downright hatred of rogues (because that's how the authors see it! they think bigotry has some real tangible root and not that is illogical and hypocritical system of beliefs). Why is everyone so mistrustful of the rogues? Well, those EVIL and BLOODTHIRSTY outsiders almost destroyed the Clans so now we have to sympathize with the Clan cats because this ideology has been "justified". Outsiders can be bad and therefore we can't fault the Clans for being wary.

Like Bramblestar is openly spouting pretty evil rhetoric in this. He is emboldening a faction in ThunderClan that was fighting to let a cat die on the basis of them being a rogue, and Bramblestar is pretty blunt that reason he thinks they should drive the Sisters out is because they're rogues and are therefore inferior to the Clans (which is then reinforced as not a horrific thing to say/believe by Squirrelflight thinking "he's noble in his own way" no I am not kidding). I'm repeating myself at this point but like...this is bad! It's BAD that Thornclaw can say they should let a cat die and he doesn't get the shit kicked out of him, it's bad that Bramblestar can espouse the idea of Clan superiority and STILL have the text fawn over him.

like at least Crowfeather's Trial was enjoyably bad, this is just downright frustrating and depressing.

[unfortunatetheorist]

The Complete Works of Contradictory Logic in ASOUE: Volume I (Quote Debunk 10)

Part 5 - The Wide Window S1 E5

01:27 - "Good evening, and welcome to Lachrymose News, where things that are happening keep happening until they stop."

Doesn't that happen on every single news channel?

02:04 - "...some very nice people were poisoned. But first, the weather."

Why would you do that?! Important thing UNDER unimportant thing?!

03:25 to 04:23 - Just the whole scene, really. But particularly the piece towards the middle:

"He's a thief and a murderer and so far has completely escaped capture. But I have the thing that just might turn things around - peppermints!"

Yeah. What an idiot.

And also:

"You can eat them in the taxi on the way to meet your dowager aunt."

"What's that?"

"Oh, Violet, I'm surprised at you. A girl your age should know that a taxi is a car that takes you someplace for a reasonable fee."

N.B. Josephine's fears are irrational, yes, but do not count as contradictory, as viewers can easily pick up on their lack of rationale.

25:00 - "It is not a date, necessarily. It's just two adults sharing quality time together over toasted rye bread and runny yolks." ¬ J.A.

I think Josephine needs to re-read the dictionary - isn't that the definition of a date?!

26:43 - "I remember it as if it were yesterday; although it was only a few hours ago."

Not quite contradictory enough to count, this is just an example of Handler's brilliant language manipulation/zeugma.

29:05 - "That's just how it happened with my husband!" - J.A.

"That wasn't pasta" - Captain Scam, I mean, Sham

"I lost my husband to the Lachrymose Leeches." ¬ Josephine

"Good heavens! I had absolutely no idea! I swear!" ¬ Olaf

No idea, huh, Olaf? Then how did you know it wasn't pasta?

29:14 - (same scene)

"I've never even heard of your husband, Ike." - Bald Man

How do you know his name if you've never heard of him?!

More to come,

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