#it's not a question of morality tho
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"andrew would be a rogue in dnd" "no he'd be a barbarian" "actually I think he'd be a fighter-" wrong, wrong. all of us, including me, were wrong.
he'd be a paladin. nobody else takes an oath more seriously than him.
#his oath would be morally grey and questionable but by god would he stick to it like glue#neil tho#neil is a rogue who took a level in bard just so he could cast vicious mockery#aftg#all for the game#andreil#andrew minyard#neil josten
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in order to say "wei wuxian is morally good," you must first define what it means to be morally good
though this is by no means exclusive to them, one logical fallacy i sometimes see wei wuxian stans make in their arguments is that they begin their analysis of wei wuxian as a character with the statement "wei wuxian is morally good."
so their argument becomes:
wei wuxian is morally good.
a morally good person would do XYZ.
therefore, wei wuxian would do XYZ.
alternatively, when they're objecting to someone else's argument about wei wuxian, their counterargument becomes:
this argument says that wei wuxian would do ABC.
a morally good person would not do ABC.
wei wuxian is morally good.
therefore, wei wuxian would not do ABC; the other person's argument is wrong.
while this is in fact a valid argument structure to use for other kinds of traits (ie. "brave," "doesn't think of the consequences," even something like "afraid of dogs"), this format of argument in fact cannot be used for a descriptor as vague as "morally good"--because, unlike the other traits, "morally good" is not precisely defined enough for the above argument structure to work.
"morally good" is not a character trait in the same way that "wants to defend the weak," "is angered by innocent people being harmed," and "does not fear consequences" are character traits, because what is considered "moral" can vary significantly from person to person. what a utilitarian considers to be moral, for example, diverges significantly from what a deontologist considers to be moral. if i were to say "wei wuxian is a morally good person," i have frankly said less about wei wuxian's personality and more about what i myself believe to be ethical.
thus, the reason why the above argument pretty much never works in the wild is that the depolyers in question rarely actually define what they mean by "morally good."
consider the case in which two different wei wuxian stans write on their blogs "wei wuxian is a good person." however, the first person follows a moral philosophy that centers courage in the face of certain failure, while the second person follows a moral philosophy that centers reason and pragmatism. thus, what the first person actually means to say is "wei wuxian is someone who courageously chooses the correct path even when he is doomed to fail," while what the second person actually means to say is "wei wuxian is a reasonable and pragmatic person." these are no longer the same statement.
or consider the case in which the first stan follows a moral philosophy that centers agent-neutral harm reduction, while the second stan follows a moral philosophy that centers agent-relative reciprocity. in this case, what the first person actually means to say is "wei wuxian is someone who helps others regardless of whether they've helped him before," while what the second person actually means to say is "wei wuxian is someone who always repays kindnesses done unto him." again, these are no longer the same statement.
in general, if one wishes to argue that "blorbo is morally good," one must first specify what exactly they mean by "morally good," because not everyone follows the same definition of "morally good." many blorbo stans, however, don't actually do this. instead, they write their arguments as if their own definition of morality is already universal law; a reader can thus only reverse-engineer what the op believes to be morally good from their post. and this leads to no shortage of disagreements: two different blorbo enjoyers might find themselves in an argument over what they believe to be their blorbo's characterization, when in reality they are actually disagreeing over what it means to be ethical at all.
on the topic of disagreement, another fact that must be acknowledged is that wei wuxian himself is also a character with his own specific thoughts and feelings. wei wuxian is not an abstract paragon of righteousness whose definition of morality just so happens to perfectly match the reader's definition of morality; wei wuxian is a specific fictional character with his own specific thoughts as to what is right and what is wrong. and every reader has to accept that what wei wuxian considers to be right can in fact be gleaned from the text--and that what wei wuxian considers to be right will not always match what the reader considers to be right. wei wuxian might, in fact, disagree with you.
thus, if you want to make any sort of statement regarding wei wuxian's moral character (whether that be "he is morally good" or "he is morally bad") you in fact have to consider not just one, but four different questions:
what do you consider to be morally good? what moral framework and/or school of moral philosophy do you use to determine what is ethical?
how well do wei wuxian's actions adhere to what you personally consider to be morally good?
what does wei wuxian consider to be morally good? what moral framework and/or school of moral philosophy does he use to determine what is ethical?
how well do wei wuxian's actions adhere to what he himself considers to be morally good?
all of these are different questions! they cannot be conflated with each other.
to write a good analysis, you must accept that [what you consider to be morally good] will not always match [what wei wuxian considers to be morally good]. when such disagreements arise, rather than distort wei wuxian's character to match what you personally believe to be morally good, perhaps consider just allowing wei wuxian to disagree with you instead. even if he's doing something you honestly can't defend, maybe wei wuxian is still striving to live as best he can according to his own ideals, and it just so happens that his ideals do not match your ideals. you really should not distort wei wuxian's motives or beliefs just to make him more palatable to you, simply because you have wedded yourself to the idea that "wei wuxian must be morally good by my own standards."
closing thoughts: this isn't really exclusive to wei wuxian stans. i've seen all sorts of character stans in all sorts of fandoms make this same logical fallacy. i certainly think that some of the jiang cheng analyses i see from fellow jiang cheng stans are born less from an objective analysis of his character and moreso from the op's desire for his actions to align with their moral compass. but, out of all the characters in MDZS, it seems like people commit this logical fallacy when discussing wei wuxian specifically far more often than they do with any other character, save perhaps lan wangji.
#mdzs#yanyan speaks#yanyan haterpost#not tagging the man in question lmao#also its literally ok if he does something bad once in a while. it's not the end of the world. not everything he does has to be perfect#also i actually don't really see jiang cheng stans or jin guangyao stans doing this as much. tho they still do sometimes.#probably because both of those kinds of stans are aware they're arguing from a defensive position#so they have to be as clear as possible lest their argument be dismissed entirely#meanwhile certain [censored] stans take it for granted that everyone agrees with the statement “[ya boi] is morally good”#and thus fail to define what they mean by “morally good”#mo dao zu shi
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i think fandom spaces would become much more enjoyable across the board if people stopped flipping their pancakes over other fans enjoying characters that they don't like. or, god forbid, like them but in 'the wrong way.'
#salty peak sect 🧂#jin guangyao#jgy haters you do realize that you are as integral a part of this wheel of dead horse reincarnation as jgy stans are. right?#you realize that our liking jgy and believing he did good things does not in any way detract from your ability to enjoy wei wuxian#as your specialist good boy. right?#you realize you could just scroll past takes about people enjoying jgy without deciding to drop your own pass-agg vaguepost#questioning our morality in the tags. right?#you get that it's weird to act like we're the weird ones for responding to provocation. you have to get that that is a weird way to think.#consider instead: staying in your lane!! minding your business!!!#you can in fact just leave us alone! you can do that! the power is yours!!#nb: this is not directed at the people who have genuine questions/commentary about jgy that are critical in nature. that's fine.#please recognize i am not talking about you!#i scroll past so many of your posts even tho i disagree with them#because your stuff is not the stuff that is making me benafflecksmoking.jpeg#maybe sometimes i'll comment if i think i have something useful to add#and if i think OP is not going to be a dick#most of the time i frankly would rather get high and read xiyao fanfic#that is usually why i am in the tags: to read fic and look at cute fanart#i am not visiting the tags because i want to pick a fight! truly i'm not!#however. if you start one. i will probably finish it. 😌 hth
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oh no
#I can’t have another fictional man#esp not a morally questionable one#and ethically questionable#esp not one that’s not super popular idk tho#sabretooth
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i’m gonna say it the shameless fandom sometimes has a weird obsession with making fans prove that they disapprove of their fav characters’ quote unquote bad actions as a way to prove their intelligence or something
#shameless#this crosses to every character#it’s like people want a disclaimer every time someone says they enjoy a character#‘I like this character’ ‘so you’re ok with the fact that they did this???’#or ‘yea but u don’t agree with this heinous act they committed tho right?🫵’#serious question. is shameless the first piece of media u have consumed#. does everything need to be spelled out for u???#it’s like it’s seen as a way to make fans prove their intelligence#ppl need to feel like they’re smarter than others to sleep at night or smthn ig#gOD forbid even ‘terrible’ people make for good tv#terrible in quotes bc it’s subjective and no one’s rly angelic or evil at the end of the day#and I feel like I’ve seen fans post about not liking certain actions bc they’ve felt pressure to do so#not that they are lying. they just shouldn’t have to prove that stuff is my point#and I’ve seen less of it on here lately I suppose and more on the dreaded TikTok#but anyway#there’s an obsession with moralizing fictional characters or smthn idk#some things just go without saying is my point. u don’t need to be spoon fed everything#there’s actually a conversation in there somewhere about declining media literacy and antintilectualism in gen z#but I’m not gonna get into that
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The tail is actually conscious and it wraps itself around Rio’s hand when Agatha’s are busy! Hope this helps :)
Anon I need you to know I spent all day wondering what in the hell this ask was pertaining to before finally remembered I was yelling in tags about Agatha's COAT tail last night😂 have quick sketch before I go make dinner
I've never drawn Agatha before forgive me
#oh course the first time I draw Agatha it's her being smug. Of course. Love me the morally-questionable smug ladies.#BUT MAAAAN WHAT IT UP WITH THAT COAT TAIL THO I NEED TO SEE THE BACK CLEARLY WHY IS IT JUST FLYING AROUND FREE WITHOUT EVEN A SWING TACK?!?#agatha harkness#agatha all along#captain's art log#captain answers
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MILI DROPPED ANOTHER BANGER WOOHOOOO Anyway it made me think of Nine so. yeah :)
+ as a bonus, the original sketch that I ended up completely scrapping bc the vibe didnt fit
#something about the way nine clings to the ideas that sonic give him even after hes grown disillusioned and resentful towards him is so.#like deep down he really does crave that connection he made w sonic even tho he doesnt fully recognize the extent of it#and even if he did he wouldnt let himself accept that connection regardless both bc trust issues but also bc its like.#the friend sonic knew and that drew him to nine is tails. but nine is not tails. and he cant *be* tails either#and sonic does recognize this! while his trust & initial draw to nine is bc of tails he does recognize that nine is different!#nine doesnt see it that way though#from his perspective sonic is still only letting him help bc he is a version of tails#and not because sonic cares about *him*#the fact sonics main goal is to get green hill back- and as a result erase the shatterspaces and their inhabitants from existance#doesnt exactly help#and the potentially questionable morals & ethics of that aside#its not like sonic cant care about the people he meets regardless of if he thinks hell get to see them again#my head hurts i should stop here actually#tails nine#nine the fox#miles nine prower#tails the fox#miles prower#miles tails prower#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sth#sonic prime#art#my art#xanders art#digital art#fan art#OH I ALMOST FORGOT. the song in question is Hero by Mili :)
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IF TWO EQUALS DON'T REPRODUCE HOW THE HELL ZAYNE AND XAVIER MADE THIS MF???????
#love and deepspace#love & deepspace#lads zayne#lads xavier#love and deepspace zayne#lads sylus#l&ds#l&ds zayne#l&ds xavier#lnds zayne#lnds xavier#lnds#i am not complaining tho#this game will take me to bankruptcy i swear#blood evol let's go#you gotta love a man with trauma and questionable morals#is he part of onychinus#is it enemies to lovers#gosh i gotta stay loyal to zayne#send some help pls#imagine being mc and pulling off all 4 of them#i wish it was me fr
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questioning sexuality is so exhausting
#(edit: sorry for the rant in the tags and i just. i want someone to talk to me)#i keep on doing it for no apparent reason#someone was talking about lust yesterday and i realised today that.#even tho id thought i don't experience it. i possibly do. but exclusively towards women.#i hate it here!#for a multitude of reasons i will never have a relationship with a woman but! i may be incapable of having a relationship with a man!#at some point in the last few months i have abruptly pivoted from definitely wanting marriage and kids to being ambivalent on marriage#and not wanting kids. that's such an outlier in my life that it might just be a mental health thing tho idk#but at the same time i. want to be loved.#i don't know what i want anymore and im tired of questioning myself#i definitely overthink it but idk how to stop it#and i hate hate hate how the moral obsessions have bee lately#this isn't entirely related but it kind of is#like Am i a terrible morally bankrupt person for having certain thoughts or is it just religious ocd go brrrr?? am i overthinking it?#i don't know. i don't know!#for a while labelling myself as arospec ace kinda calmed that down but. i don't know#i do't want to be attracted to women. i don't want to have to look away so often. i don't want any of that.#but i don't know how to stop it.#i don't even know if i'm attracted to men at all.#this is a cry for help and encouragement and prayers no matter what your views on these matters are#queer stuff tag#i nearly fessed up to my friend yesterday about same sex attraction and i might've except that it would have probably outed me as#the person who anonymously sent in a question several months ago about the side b movement to a church thing#ive only told one person at church about any of that sort of stuff and it was very vaguely worded#also see: this friend is the mother of the boy i?? i don't even know how i feel about him#i increasingly think it wasn't romantic at all. but i don't know#i would love any encouragement you got. anything at all.#i don't know how much this stuff is affected by the fact that i consider myself unloveable and think it highly unlikely any boy will ever#care for me#now im rambling. sorry
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btw i forgot to tell you but i passed one of my final exams partly because of designated survivor ahjdgjdfjd
#it was so funny tho#because i uhhhhh didn't study enough#but the prof likes me :) so he asked me additional questions hehe#and he was like okay can you tell me what designated survivor means? (i don't think we've discussed it in the class but whatever)#and i literally went. i watched a tv show about it :D#and he was like oooooh yea there is a tv show! awesome can you tell me about it?#and i told him i only watched korean remake so i'm not sure if it's the same AGJSFJDDJS SORRY I'M A CLOWN#(i got a better grade)#k.txt#the moral of the story is be friendly and take part in discussions and when the exam comes you will get bonus points 😏#that's not the first time something like that happened lmao#i show up for the exam unprepared and they're like ?? you're always so active in class... did something happen??#yea that something was me studying the night before exam only#BUT ANYWAY. thank you designated survivor: 60 days for a better grade
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Haha, look at these losers [celebrities], why can't anyone famous be normal these days? When I'm famou- realises I'm a bad person
#not a childliker or abuser tho#just morally questionable#npd#actually npd#naturally narcissistic#npd safe
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wow this post got depressing really fast. sorry
if you think about it. if you were just some random no-name cultivator who somehow got invited to the phoenix mountain night-hunt, and you heard something about 1. hanguang-jun of the sterling reputation, 2. wei wuxian the demonic cultivator already flouting social norms, and 3. a forced kiss....which would you believe? that lan wangji forcibly kissed wei wuxian? or that wei wuxian forcibly kissed lan wangji?
depressing thoughts.
#mdzs#jiang cheng#wei wuxian#lan wangji#not tagging the ship bc i heard there was discourse about this scene#anyways god this started out as a funnypost but got depressing real quick#sa mention cw#yanyan polls#anyways. “comforts” here probably just means a mix of giving wwx food#and going “do you want me to break his legs” “who's legs” “uhhhh nevermind”#also more seriously. imo jc negotiating a marriage between wang and xian as a result of witnessing this would in fact be morally despicable#bc jc doesn't know if wwx is also interested. so from his own pov he would be selling his shixiong to the guy who forced himself on him...#come on jc don't do that#if he talks to wwx and wwx is into it tho. well that's a different story. then that's just wwx's questionable proclivities
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who gave bro the haircut of a 10-year-old boy who is way too invested in football?
#mon el#bro what happened???#still good to see him tho#even with his ugly ass hair#and questionable morals
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//holds u gently as the realization sets in that we have fucked up big time//
@peterlorrefanpage I took my time answering this, because I am melting gomen
Okay, so I don’t post about OCs here really, but I guess as real life animation woman Hannah Barbara left the HB characters to me in her will (real, not clickbait) I can safely claim all Wacky Races characters as my own now. I mean they are kinda OCs now with the Boardwalk AU.
Anyway some background info: In an early concept for Perils of Penelope Pitstop Dick was supposed to be a bodyguard for Penny’s younger brother, Johnny (according to some sources anyway). I mean, yeah, sure he’s qualified for the job (softly shaking head, like no, he’s not, absolutely not), so notorious child-hater Dick Dastardly and matching him in stupid boyfriend Red Max would trust the unpredictable serial killer with the child. I do think Lil’ would be “decent” if he is in a good mood and can use the child as blackmail material. He would still teach that child some bad things, like where to stab someone to avoid the ribs and get straight to the heart, but as soon as that child doesn’t serve a purpose for him anymore… yeah, best to order a tiny coffin.
For the baby I used the Tom and Jerry Chuck Jones design.
#Peter Lorre#Hanna-Barbera#Wacky Races#Dick Dastardly#Wacky Races Dick Dastardly#The Red Max#Wacky Races The Red Max#Lil' Gruesome#Wacky Races Lil' Gruesome#Faustian Fables#Faustian Imagery#As to which one of PL's characters would be the best babysitter#Why Hans Beckert of course that man is crazy about kids haha#No I jest it joke#Serious answer would be János and/or Felix#They are the most domestic family oriented ones he plays#Kids are assholes tho and post-accident Jani might be bullied about his looks tho I fear#He would not hurt a child tho he has morals#Same with Felix#Okay this is already long enough I hope I answered the question
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The colors of the copper on blackberry dye seem to have shifted from maroon to a very rich milk chocolate brown--which I will hardly complain about, since that's a hard brown to get. I do hope I get something more permanently reddish/purplish with alum--that's what I'll try next. I'm just waiting for the 9 pounds of raw fleece to arrive.
Last night I carded a lot of that blackberry dyed fleece and then put it on the blending board with about half of the white (which was the previous distaff dressing) as a little stripe to one side. Idk, just curious how it'll turn out and seemed more interesting to spin that way. Carding first definitely helps with consistency--both colors were willowed first and put on the blending board, but only the brown was carded as well, and it is much easier to keep smooth and least kind of even.
The one improvement of this phone camera over my old one is that it has a timer setting, so I can actually show where my hands normally are (sometimes anyway). Fairly comfortable although my distaff hand is starting to cramp. Might just be one of those days or might be too heavy for me, but the shape at least is good.
You can probably see that the white is still all over the place, but the brown is pretty even, just with lumps still on occasion. Also, the new height of this spindle means it's perfect for lap spinning rather than impossible to lap spin with, so I'm very happy about that.
#spinning#handspun yarn#distaff#supported spindle#id tag the breed name normally but i dont know what this stuff is (its some of the more aged wool i have in my stash lol)#natural dyeing#blackberry#if you are wondering what is up with the banners its an attempt at anti-radfeming my posts#since they insist on reblogging them and blocking seems to do nothing#hopefully they will be effective bc i love them and my fiance sent them to me ❤️#if not tho we'll phase into tasteful cock drawings#and if that doesnt work just straight up dick pics#its my blog and i love cock so thats not a problem for me and would actually probably improve morale#not jumping straight to it because im gonna assume most of the people who enjoy my fiber arts posts dont necessarily also want dicks#on their blog#but me not having to see radfem trash reblogging my experiments and research obviously takes priority#i use those terms loosely but hey i am writing it down. and trying to get answers to questions. so im pretty sure technically i am#conducting experiments and research at least on occasion#and now i have to go back to work. if anyone wants to mercy kill me on the way out the door id really appreciate it
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If you think about it my metalocalypse insert is actually kind of Ramona Flowers coded (all I do is dye my hair and have 4 exes 3/4 are cool)
#tw alchoholism#tw rehab#JUST IN CASE THOSE THINGS UPSET ANYBODY 🥺#excuse the meh looking skwisgaar too IM STILL TRYING MY BEST TO DRAW HIM :(#I messed up and I had to draw over it.. it looks way better than the one I originally did tho so#anyways marc rikki and jon are my besties dw 🫶🏼 they are not evil (well. Marc isn’t evil but the other two are morally questionable 😄)#self ship#self ship community#f/o community#fictional other#self shipping#self ship art#metalocalypse oc#metalocalypse self insert#🐰🌟 lucky bunny
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