#it's not a passive action

[carnallyricky]

ALSO I'm NOT aro after all!!! I think I figured it out and it should have been obvious but sometimes I'm just the big dumb

[aashidoodles]

[sanasanakun]

People try too hard to make Curly an active participant in Jimmy's abuse. Isn't the whole point that he's passive in everything Jimmy does? Abuse occurs because he actively doesn't do anything? Not to call someone out or be mean, but I saw a post saying Anya's ID being in Curly's locker at the beginning shows that he intended to prevent Anya from filing an HR report and I disagree. I get where that interpretation is coming from, but I think it's a little uncharitable. I don't like being too kind to Curly because he's like...a morally mid dude at best lol But if we're going by the HR report interpretation, I would say it's more likely he requested Anya's ID in order to file an HR report on her behalf. After all, the only way to contact Pony (that we see) is in the cockpit, he's the Captain, and Pony Express sucks bad so I wouldn't put it past them to only allow the Captain to use the communication device thing. As we see before, Curly is the only one able to use tools around the ship that you would think other employees could use (ex. Swansea should be able to use the axe if he's the repair guy. Idk why they'd need an ax but that falls under manual labor which Swansea is designated for as the mechanic/fixer dude. But it has to go through Curly). I never got the vibe that Curly moved to actively protect Jimmy. He just lets things happen without say a word; Jimmy walks all over him, and by extension, the whole crew. I get why people would think that because he gives the whole "Hey Jimmy, we can get through this together, bud" spiel right before the crash. This part interests me a lot because there's so many ways to interpret Curly's intentions there. My interpretation is that Curly is on autopilot mode. The responses seem so stilted in comparison to Jimmy's. Like it's the kind of thing Curly's said before again and again and again when Jimmy's gotten in trouble. However, as others previously pointed out, I don't think Curly ever dealt with Jimmy doing something this irredeemable. He doesn't know how to respond, so he just goes for the default "You've gotten through tough situations before. Work through it one step at a time." Like the response is lame af lol I think he was in shock; he was scared (and just so I can say it one more time: he's super lame).

Anyway, this is way longer than I intended and I've said things a billion people have already stated. But uhhh tldr the whole point of Curly's character is he's passive; he never acts. He just watches. Making him an active participant in the abuse by taking actions to cover for Jimmy (like preventing Anya from filing an HR report) defeats the purpose of his character. He's a bystander.

[kryaaas]

"Jean visited Harry's apartment to check on him" NO IT WAS JUDIT!!!!

[aliusfrater]

similar cinematographic choices to portray the same imagery with insanely different circumstantial contexts

[venussaidso]

Deep law of assumption cultists when you talk about action. Not inspired action or magical action. But action. Action. Physical effort.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)

[epiphainie]

not to harp on anyone's takes and this is not apropos of one single post but i genuinely feel like i have had a whole separate perception of tommy as a character than other people in this fandom because every "tommy was ooc" post i see confuses me more and more every day. like ooc in the context of what? what do yall genuinely find so incongruent about his actions in 8x06? not incongruent with the fanon version of him we developed over the summer, but as in what the canon previously established. because in my opinion/experience we knew so little of him, he was literally a schrodinger's character, hence so much of my excitement for s8 was that we would get to see him be a real boy. we didn't know any of his demons, his depth, his interiority, how he'd react during a conflict, his fears, his hopes, his perception of his relationship with buck... we literally just filled in the blanks, and the only thing that was out of character with tommy in 8x06 was that he didn't fit with that filling. the details of the storyline and the execution was stupid (mostly the abby thing) but tommy's actions were pretty in character with what little the show told us about him. the guy who was an asshole out of self-preservation also trapped someone in a relationship to protect himself? the same guy was once again blunt and direct to spare his own heart? like yeaah

[thirdity]

If one worked with positive potency, one would stand at the mercy of the object and be completely passive. Paradoxically, hyperactivity represents an extremely passive form of doing, which bars the possibility of free action. It is based on positive potency that has been made absolute to the exclusion of all else.

Byung-chul Han, The Burnout Society

[electroniccollectiondonut]

I have not been in this fandom long enough to reasonably judge others' takes however. "EPIC fans are so silly to characterize odysseus as feeling guilty for his actions don't you know he's a war criminal" is definitely a wild one. like first of all to each their own so settle down and let people enjoy things ok. and secondly making choices with a bad outcome, even knowingly and deliberately, does not exclude the possibility of feeling bad about it later. in fact it makes for a much more in depth character because then you get to explore what he does or doesn't feel guilt over, and why, and if that guilt ever edges into regret or not.

[nono-uwu]

Puts this here and leaves

Like @l1va22 said, all of these bitches were literally born to be horrible in some way

"You can't like Ferid/Guren/idk they're a horrible person!!1!1!1" ok and i'm balls deep in ur mom

[andreawritesit]

And if Jacaerys Velaryon finally loses it because his mother is being an idiot, I will stand by him. He deserves to feel enraged. Rhaenyra is showing too much patience for people who murdered her little son in cold blood. If I was Jace, I'd be so pissed off.

[saamaton]

as someone who doesn't usually feel strongly about either lando or max i'm finding this so idiotic but extremely entertaining. i love it!

[teamfortresstwo]

“Peter Lukas gets sent back to the regency era” “Jonathan Sims gets sent back to the regency era” valid points valid points but i raise you

Tim Stoker gets sent back to the regency era

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Realizing if I put Melchior, Sahota, and Alexei on a team they could overthrow any government in under 48 hours

meanwhile, if I put Cerus, Judd, Caelon, and James on a team I don't even know if they could manage a grocery run

[blighted-lights]

the absolute worst part of being an idw ravage fan is that there is a version of ravage that lives in my head that is just. not the ravage we see canonically in mtmte. the ravage we have in mtmte fits so oddly into the story, and i've added a lot of extra thoughts/story tweaks to try and make up for it. WHICH MEANS sometimes i catch myself talking about something that makes no sense to other ppl because it Did Not Happen Like That in canon

like i was writing a meta post about ravage on the necroworld (specifically about this scene here-)

AND THEN STOPPED. because i realized i was yapping about a version of ravage that quite literally does not exist outside of my own head.