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it’s a really beautiful thing to engage with an artist’s work, i think. it’s such a unique glimpse into someone’s mind and such a wonderful invitation into the worlds they’ve created in their head. i think that to read or engage with an artist’s work with care means to see them, because an artist or storyteller is uniquely and often beautifully found in their work.
#I love it.#I cannot describe just how much I love it#there are worlds in artists’ heads and to be able to see them… to be able to meet the people they e invented for that world-#through their work#to get to know them#and to love them#and to laugh with them#and to cry with them#is such a unique and human experience#to build a connection with the characters that someone else dreamt up#that someone else loved enough to write.. or draw.. or animate#I love it more than I can express#and when I say ‘artist’ I mean ‘someone who creates’ be it writers.. animators.. artists (in the drawing sense).. etc etc
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the fact that people still use the "no one would talk to a friend that way" "no one would grieve for someone like that if it was just platonic" etc arguments to prove a ship is canon is so annoying to me. yes i get it, we got queerbaited hard but where does it say that romance has to be higher than a friendship or no one said friends couldn't also be lovers or vice versa....? i normally say "popular media tropes that usually are for romance" when i talk about fiction but pulling a blanket statement like "NO ONE talks to a friend that way" is so invalidating to so much of our queer experiences. the beauty of queer friendship literally lies in the emotional fulfilment we get from our friends in a way that i don't normally see in cishet friendships for whatever reasons. so idk it's just been bothering me to see these kinds of posts every now and then. "you wouldn't do [x] for your friends" i would actually. i would sell my soul for them. i would kill for them and kill myself for them. i would do anything for my friends that i would do for a partner. the "proof" for a ship doesn't have to be by invalidating their friendship. also like aren't most of the ships so powerful when they're also each other's closest friends? do y'all not think of your partners as your best friends?
#sorry for the rant#i know that popular media tropes have changed our mindset on romqnce#it wasn't a thing in my country but now the dating scene is so westernised that it's the same here#im not saying people can't experience romance or friendship differently#in the context of queer people specifically i've noticed that most people struggle to differentiate between platonic and romantic feelings#and often feel a mixture of both or somewhere outside both#it's intense! Regardless#I'm also trying not to invalidate romance or people that experience it totally separately from friendships#but i genuinely wonder#do you stop being friends with the person you're dating#how does thay make sense#them not being your bestest friend?#anyways I'm aroace and in a qpr#maybe i'm just a little sensitive#but queer people also talking in a very heteronormative of looking at romance also confuses me#are we really putting a tag on how much someone grieves???#first of all human relationships dont work that way!!#there's no need to place them in different positions#it's not a competition#every relationship is unique to the two people involved in it#only they can categorize their relationship not outsiders
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"sex and romance are what make us human!"
Actually nO our evolution to be able to differentiate shades of green and pick out other colors in underbrush to forage is what makes us human.
You rove around in a field picking berries like the millions of years of humans who came before you, and tell me you *don't* feel human
(and obviously, this is the beauty of it, there will be people who DON'T relate to this post! Because the state of humanity cannot be identified by a single experience!! And that's fantastic!)
#aroace#asexual#aromantic#aspec#aro#ace#human experience#humanity#humans are ALWAYS unique from each other#and thats beautiful#brb falling in love with humanity
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i love you trans men i love you trans women i love you nonbinary people i love you genderfluid people i love you bigender people i love you agender people i love you genderqueer people i love you people whose gender can't be expressed in a simple label i love you trans people!!!
#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbtqia+#queer#trans#transgender#trans positivity#queer positivity#i was struck with a profound sense of admiration and awe for the uniqueness of the human experience
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Sun and Moon as Two Broken, Overcompensating Parts of a Whole
I think treating Sun and Moon as opposing coping methods in the same person/body could be an interesting slant to the Daycare Attendant. Where Moon is the part of the DCA that needs them to stop, to rest, they can't keep going on like this. And Sun is the part of the DCA that can't stop no matter what, that has to keep things together, that can't let them rest because the moment they relax everything will fall apart. The need for rest vs the need for progress, acted out in two personalities in one body. Neither are fully right, and neither are fully wrong. They can't give up and succumb to their circumstances (Moon), but they can't keep burning themselves out trying to shove broken pieces back together (Sun). And actually, both are making what the other needs a hostile option. Sun needs to rest, but he can't because the moment he does, Moon will shove him down forever. Moon needs the drive to keep going, but Sun is actively burning them out and making it so excruciating that Moon can't even consider trying. Since neither can reach true peace solely with their own methods, they overcompensate with their faulty coping mechanisms and spiral almost past the point of no return.
That's why merging into Eclipse finally gave them peace. Because together, they have the ability to rest, take things calmly and slowly, not succumb but allow space to breathe. Whereas apart, they literally split at the seams; Sun will forever keep trying to run and Moon will forever keep trying to stop. Crucially, because both are a part of a whole--they'll never be able to operate on their own entirely because they each need the other to be their whole self. Which is literally what Eclipse is. Yin and Yang slotted together.
(This post is a mix of speculation and ideas for how the DCA works in a narrative. It's not meant to be a lore analysis or 100% canon-accurate, just to work from a story perspective.)
#just some thoughts#been thinking about how these two work as seperate-yet-the-same-person for a while#it's an interesting challenge for writing a non-human character#because the DCA has to be human enough to be grounded in human stories and archetypes--to be relatable#but the DCA also is not human and doesn't quite exist in the same way#like they're two people in one body but also the same person and also different manifestations of the same person#they have unique memories and personalities and experiences but the line between them gets very blurry#dca fandom#fnaf dca#fnaf daycare attendant#fnaf sun#fnaf moon#dca sun#dca moon#there's way more you could do with this but I'm very tired#also I feel like this is a fairly obvious way to take the themes of their characters but I don't think I've seen it explored in this way#(which tbf I'm hardly well-read in DCA AUs but I've come across a fair few)#if anyone has anything to contribute please feel free
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the way i see this coming every time and it still makes me go "AHH????"
#essay abt the elevation of Brothers on supernatural to the highest level of human bond possible#due to samndean's uniquely stifling experience w/ brotherhood#cesar: more like an old married couple#dean: yeah man it's exactly like that! wait.#spn#liveblog tag#11.19#jesse: i lost my brother years ago#sam: i cannot fathom the wrenching agony that must be consuming you alive i am so sorry from the bottom of my heart#anyway thank u nancy won for giving us cesar and jesse i think i love them we'll see
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Throw back to that one night i was on the bus returning home from my art classes, and we passed by a street with a lot of strip clubs and such. There was this little convenience store, with the usual cold fluorescent convenience store lights, nestled in-between dark clubs with neon lights showing the outlines of women in bikinis. It had two rows of ice cream freezers, one on each side of the entrance, and there were two girls dressed in tiny shorts and colorful bras sitting on one freezer on the left row, eating ice cream, while a young priest was leaning on the freezer opposite them holding an ice cream of his own. And I know, rationally, that he was likely pestering them about the word of his god and sin and whatnot, but for the few moments I saw them, from the way they were sitting and with the familiar sight of a convenience store and ice cream freezers, they looked like 3 best friends gossiping on a friday evening, eating ice cream and laughing and actually, truly embodying whatever love humans are supposed to have for each other.
#that street is a gateway to a different universe i swear#the amount of unique experiences I've had on that street#like a Bermuda triangle where humanity is for a moment beautiful and kind
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if you mock children's theatre i hate you 🫶
#one of my favourite shows that i've seen was a production of fiddler on the roof junior#the girl playing hodel was legitimately incredible#and even when children's theatre productions are legitimately not good you should have some fucking sympathy#they're human they make mistakes#and for all you know it could be their first experience with theatre#don't ruin it for them#my first time doing theatre i genuinely sucked but i loved it and kept doing it#and now i'm at the point where i'm looking at majoring in musical theatre#somebody's first show not going well doesn't mean they won't improve#especially if you don't make them feel like shit about not being perfect#also i'm turning 18 this year and i've made so many mistakes onstage#everyone has bad shows#regardless of age#it's not uniquely worthy of mockery for kids to also have bad shows
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When I find it hard to do certain things, I like to pretend I am a neanderthal living in a cave with my clan, and I must do The Thing in order to survive.
So, when I'm doing cardio at the gym, I'm actually chasing and tracking a mammoth, and when I need to cook, well, I'm not cooking on a stove top, I am hurdled over the first fire and watching the fat of our kill drip down onto the burning wood. And when I find it hard to crochet, I pretend that the first winter storm is coming and our clan needs me to make blankets to hurdle under and that I must contribute.
I hope whatever you do to do The Things will help. It is a uniquely personable trait to motivate yourself through pretend and stories. That's what makes this life interesting - that's what makes you feel larger than yourself 💛
#mental health#positivity#it helps that i absolutely adore learning things about ancient people too - it's endlessly fascinating#unironically if somebody has textbook/video recommendations about neanderthals/ancient civilization let me know i will froth at the mouth#i like talking about this because it gives other people ideas about how they can motivate themselves#and personally the feeling of being ancient or a part of something old makes me feel that#in addition to the There Are 8 Billion People principle i work on the There Have Been ~117 Billion People Here principle#i find it comforting to think that i don't stand out significantly in a good or bad way because of the sheer NUMBER of people who have live#the human brain is bad at computing those numbers but... just... that's an insurmountable number#there truly are very VERY few experiences truly unique and that's not a bad thing#that just means that you aren't forgotten nor are you alone in anything#i was watching a video about somebody making flax into thread using a paper that was published about ancient textiles#and holy shit i wanted to bite somebody because i was so interested in it and it's just so humanizing to both us but also ancient people#those people probably used very very similar techniques that the video maker did - at first she used a rock to get the fibers#and then she remarked that saliva helped to get to the fiber of the flax and i wonder how many ancient people also did that
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i think there's something to be said about what exactly it means to be "non-human" in a story that is as much about humanity as wolf 359 is, where even the dear listeners are defined less by their own perspective and more by what they fail to understand and therefore reflect about the human perspective - to the point that they don't even have their own voices or faces or identities that aren't either given to them or taken from humans. they speak to humanity as a mirror.
even pryce and cutter are "very much humans" - pryce defined by her resentment of and desire to transcend its limitations, and cutter by his aspirations to redefine and create a "better" type of human - and find the idea that they might not be human laughable. it's interesting that they have distinctly transhumanist aspirations when their goal is the narrative opposite of common science fiction fears: that we will expand the definition of humanity so much that we'll lose whatever it is that makes us human. pryce and cutter's transhumanism narrows the definition of humanity to the worthy and the useful, as defined by them; "there will still be a humanity; it'll just be our humanity."
in direct opposition to that, i think it's meaningful that the show instead expands the definition of humanity in ways that include lovelace and hera, who in another show with different themes might be considered (in the descriptive, non-moralistic sense) non-human. i will always make a point of saying that personhood and humanity are two often-related but meaningfully distinct concepts, especially when talking about sci-fi and fantasy. i am talking about humanity.
the question of how hera identifies, and what social pressures influence that, is a complicated one. i've talked about it before and i will talk about again. what's important for the purposes of this post is that i think the show considers her fundamentally human. think about her role in shut up and listen - consider jacobi's lion example and the concept of different paradigms - that even things that are close to humans, comparatively speaking, understand the world in different ways. whatever differences hera may have from the others, it's primarily in experience, not fundamental understanding. she shares their emotions, their concerns, their values, their thought patterns. she has an appreciation for music, which the show considers a hallmark of humanity. she fits within the framework of humanity as the show defines and is, in her own words, left feeling "uneasy" about how difficult it might be to communicate with beings who don't. and it's significant that this takes place in shut up and listen, of all episodes, specifically because the way she is clearly and unambiguously included in the show's understanding of what it means to be human highlights the ways she and lovelace are othered by eiffel's careless comments that suggest otherwise.
(i don't want to get too into these details for this particular post, but it's worth noting that hera will refer to 'humans' as a category, often when she is upset and feeling isolated, but has never said that she 'isn't human' - she has never been upset that people are treating her 'too' human. i've seen it said about the line "you need to get it through your heads that what goes for you doesn't always go for me", but that's a frustration related to ability and safety, not identity. far more often, she will refer to herself in 'human' terms - referring idiomatically to experiences or body parts etc. that she doesn't literally have - and is upset primarily with comments referring to her status as an AI. it does not diminish how being an AI influences her perspective and experience, but again, so much of that is in terms of ability that it feels almost inseparable from a discussion about disability.)
lovelace's humanity and hera's humanity are so interlinked and directly paralleled in the text that i think it's impossible to really argue one of them is "not" human without making implications about the other. in desperate measures, lovelace tells kepler he's "not human" and he responds "you're hilarious. on a multitude of levels." later, defending lovelace against kepler's repeated dehumanization, hera very pointedly uses the phrase "that woman." in out of the loop, hera says she's never met anyone who "worked so hard at being inhuman" as jacobi, who says "what do you know about being human?" hera very emphatically responds, "i know plenty." later, defending hera against jacobi's repeated dehumanization, minkowski pointedly uses the phrase "that woman." with the care taken towards language and the way scenes and turns of phrase will parallel each other, that's not a coincidence. it might seem strange to have the "non-human" characters be the ones to express criticisms based on perceived "humanity" (something hera will do in other contexts as well - "we don't have funerals for animals" etc.) but in the broader context of the show, i think it's the point.
so, whether hera would ever call herself human, or be comfortable with that, is a complicated question for another time and depends on a lot of other factors. but wolf 359 is a show about humanity, it includes her within its definition of what it means to be human, and i wouldn't be comfortable definitively saying she's not human because of that. it can't be a neutral statement within the particular context of this show.
#wolf 359#w359#hera wolf 359#there are so many concepts here that could be posts on their own#but this is already too long. sorry.#i think it's also worth noting how often i see the discussion of hera and humanity conflated with the discussion of#whether hera would want a body and while i think there's some degree of influence in that. if she has human experiences without human form#there's something uniquely isolating about that that could influence her decision. BUT. the form she exists or doesn't exist in#is separate from whether the show includes her within its 'in group' of humanity. which thematically it does.#hera can be considered equally human without ever having any type of physical form. that's part of expanding the definition#and i think that's an important distinction.#anyway sorry i'm kind of passionate about this it just. doesn't quite sit right with me i guess#in a lot of cases i think it's important to acknowledge that non-human characters have different experiences from human ones and#a lot of science fiction will (or should) decentralize the human experience. but it's core to the themes of wolf 359. it's different.#i think hera is so interesting as a take on the 'human AI' character because. the mistake a lot of them make is having a character#'learn how to be human' and it feels patronizing. but hera is. a fundamentally human person who has been told she isn't#and internalized that. and i think that's much more complex and. well. human. i know she's just a fictional character but#i can't help but feel a little defensive sometimes#it's also part of a larger discussion but feeling inhuman is a not uncommon human experience. it is within those bounds
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#perspective#diversity#uniqueness#world#interconnectedness#humanity#experiences#empathy#compassion#understanding
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popular post on webbed site: I can't believe my country is the only country that does [extremely common universal thing], man, we're just built different!
#Babes you're human - you share the human spirit and many of your experiences statistically will be commonplace#Not everything has to be about being built different#Y'all aren't unique bc you figured out how to jury rig something#That's just...jury rigging#MacGyvering if you want a better term
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Eve and Lilith discussing motherhood though 🫠
One who gave up EVERYTHING, sacrificed for her 50+ kids her whole life, the kids who were a punishment and the most human beings she had ever met, for whom rebellion (I like to think) looked like being endlessly understanding of the human condition, of how unfair it is to try to measure up to unknown divine standards
The other one who somehow got what had been divinely denied to her, who (assuming that fandom attitudes translate to in-universe attitudes) is criticized for not being good enough, who could never be a traditional mother what with her being the de-facto ruler and leader of Hell, duty-bound to her citizens, actively pushing back against the colonialist divine
#Rambles#Hazbin rambles#like i don't think Eve and Lilith would be like. besties or gfs or anything.#if you ask me Eve will always be a little weird and sour towards Lucilith just bcs of the tricking thing#even if having her eyes open ends up being. not good but important like she recognises it was a hard pill to swallow but SOMEONE had to#but but but. there's still so many unique experiences that only them can relate to#even if it's in a “oh when faced with these options we were given the diametrical opposites” way#really its mostly about the humanity vs the divine but especially as it relates to womanhood#(/losing my mind in the tags lol DONT MIND ME)
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okay so update on the malaise (did i post about the malaise here at all? anyway)
the sun was out today and this has been a game changer for me
also i bought a sun lamp for the days when nature does not provide
decent chance that this will fix me
#is anyone on this sunlight thing?#surely i am the very first person to notice this#anyway no human experiences are fully unique and sometimes you’re just a sad animal with sad animal needs
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I’ve been going insane over my OC’s lately. Catch me at 2 am being like “okay so here’s the intricacies in the way autism manifests in the sad farmer dad I made up for crackerjack’s gay love who I also made up”
#my OCs#henri Beaumont#Pierre Beaumont#I love giving my character’s autism#I’m on the spectrum myself so it’s just like. what if I took some of the stuff I experience and just turn it up a notch#it’s so fun to explore the human experience and how everyone is unique and just ajsbdisndinakdnwk
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how fast i write in an hour
#ooc#f.allout 76 reference ...#finding this note reminded me that no human experience is unique. thank u random enviornmental storytelling skeleton writer. me too.#no shortage of enthusiasm (8 ... just speed
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