#live pragmatic

[visenyaism]

They weren’t lying, framing voting as an opportunity to cancel out the vote of one personal reactionary enemy of your choosing in order to prevent people like them from seizing the levels of power as opposed to a personal value judgement slash complete and total sanction of every action of an administration does feel good as hell

[theblogs2024]

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

haven't seen the wicked movie yet but will concede it's an extremely astute way for ariana grande to come out as white blonde

[lokh]

also i think if roleswap laios and canon laios met theyd immediately start fighting.

[whetstonefires]

You know I'm realizing one reason you keep seeing mdzs modern AUs where the Jiang parents are alive mainly so they can dramatically fail and betray Wei Wuxian by cutting him off financially--defaulting on his college tuition or formally disowning him etc--isn't just that people want to translate the Burial Mounds II arc into modern terms while keeping Jiang Cheng clean of it.

(Despite the fact that the internal logic of Jiang Cheng's character is largely built around him being a person who would abandon someone he intensely cared about under these specific circumstances.)

It's because it's hard to set up a modern analogue for the way that Jiang Cheng is responsible for Wei Wuxian, as his Sect Leader.

We live in a highly individualistic society. People are trying to write Wei Wuxian Tragically Wronged, and because there's a normative expectation that people in the position of parents will provide you with resources, and certainly won't withdraw them without warning, but no such assumption that people in the position of siblings necessarily owe each other support, making this work in modern setting with Jiang Cheng in his canon role would require a lot of extra work, just to get a less readily resonant result.

But I keep thinking about it. Because something that's getting lost here is, not just the nuances of character and relationship, but like...it's sort of key to the story that cutting Wei Wuxian off was, in fact, Completely Socially Appropriate.

The level on which it was a betrayal is subtle, and deeply cutting. And intensely tied up in the very different opinions each of Jiang Cheng's parents had about what obligations existed in their family wrt Wei Wuxian, and what these meant.

The level on which it was the obvious, normal course of action is blatant. That is to a huge extent why it happens: because Jiang Cheng's instinct to conform is a survival instinct, reinforced by trauma, and Wei Wuxian's choices meant he had no coherently compelling reason not to obey it, and enormous peer pressure to do so.

The fact is that Jiang Cheng was making a reasonable choice, the actual thing 'anyone would do in that situation,' unlike Wei Wuxian and Jin Guangyao's respective wildly warped ideas about what that is.

Wei Wuxian wasn't betrayed by Jiang Sect like your foster parents cutting you off because you're disobedient. Wei Wuxian was betrayed by Jiang Sect like your brother refusing to drop fifty grand to bail you out of jail.

Of course Wei Wuxian tells him not to. And of course the fact that Jiang Cheng already chose in the moment not to pay a cent because Fuck You Wei Ying still stands there glaring, a precedent that can never be taken back.

And then later he's betrayed by Jiang Cheng like your brother cooperating with a police investigation into a manslaughter you really did commit, that's being handled like domestic terrorism. And then like your brother calling the cops on you. And then like your brother helping the cops find where you're hiding.

I'm personally fascinated by the way Jiang Cheng's lifelong resentment for the way Jiang Fengmian reliably bailed Wei Wuxian out of everything informed those decisions to do the normal thing, the way he's reacting against his dead father as well as against Wei Wuxian and the actual situation.

But even without that daddy issues angle, the fact that the person who made that choice was Jiang Cheng, and that it was simultaneously the reasonable appropriate normal upstanding citizen rational thing to do and so shitty Wei Wuxian would be entitled never to forgive it is sort of. The Point.

Of the scenario, and also to a considerable degree of the entire finely tuned narrative construct that is Jiang Cheng.

[yeah-uh-the-pilot]

Lady Featherington really out there saying “Men love mansplaing, let them”

[novelconcepts]

In watching more interviews with Liv about Van and the escalation of Van's pragmatism to such dark degrees, I find myself genuinely baffled that anyone could ever think Van the bad guy. I mean, I'm perplexed at finding ANY of these girls The Bad Guy. The bad guy is the situation. It's being lost. It's freezing. It's starving. It's being scraped down to the barest bone of being alive. They make choices that might be snippy, or cruel, or hard-headed, sure--Shauna refusing to just hash it out with Jackie; Jackie being too stubborn to come inside; Taissa refusing to discuss her situation plainly; etc--but by the time we reach the end of season 2, it doesn't even matter. Petty bullshit doesn't matter. Jealousy doesn't matter. Those things are still going to be present and complicated, because--for all their choices, for all the distancing they're trying to do--these kids ARE still human beings. But it isn't the point.

The point is survival. Plain, simple, straightforward. Van's pragmatism is survival. It is the difference between living another day with blood on your teeth or dying pretty. It is the difference between fighting forward through the fire and the snow and the hell of it all, and laying down to die. Van knowing, in watching the ritual violence of Shauna beating Lottie nearly the death, that they will be killing and eating one another soon. Van coming up with the cards for the hunt. Van not blinking when the moment comes, Van choosing a weapon that doubles as a tool to bring the body back, Van refusing to apologize for staying alive--it's not evil. It's not Bad Guy behavior. It's purely about survival, because there is nothing else left to her--or to any of them. They can play the pretty little Sweet Angel Girl game and die, or they can get dirty, bloody, horrific and fight. Van chooses the fight. Van chooses to fight for herself, for her lover, for her team, even knowing not everyone is going to make it out...because the alternate path there is that no one makes it out. Van knew the baby wouldn't live. Van knows the rest of them won't, either. Not unless they start making the hard choices.

And, honestly, the fact that Van sees this narrative coming. Comes up with this plan. Brings out the cards. To me, that is the opposite of Bad Behavior. That is as close to justice as anyone can find in the wilderness. If someone else came up with an idea, maybe it would have come down to voting--but that would have had such a human element to it, with bitterness or hostility or whatever ultimately petty shit always comes of humans selecting who to Other. The cards don't leave room for that. It isn't fair, because the situation isn't fair, because Man vs. Nature isn't fair, but it's as close to a just system as they could possibly find. It's the kindest solution to an unwinnable game. Not to bring it back to American Gods again, but all I can think is "it's easy, there's a trick to it: you do it, or you die." Van gave them that.

[maddyscrsideblog]

In agony over Orym's upfront ruthless determination to complete the mission and make sure everyone else does what they have to do and his hidden, secret deal to make sure everyone makes it home safe in exchange for spending the rest of his life in service

[nicorobinphd]

stg, being an enjoyer of jane twdg is like being forced into an expert-level course on the way misogyny manifests in video game spaces.

god forbid a woman be complex or difficult or provably mischaracterized (see tags) at the end of her arc to service the culmination of a man’s storyline.

[bumblingbabooshka]

T'Pring and Stonn from the @startrekswimsuitspecial

[paintedpeeta]

Everlark getting the zoomies whenever they start referring to each other as husband and wife (my headcanon is that they totally get married; Katniss seems like a quite traditional gal in that aspect, re: Peeta has a crush on her and she immediately fast tracks to marriage as the inevitable result of this) and just using every opportunity to mention it; “good morning, wife” whispered over pillows; “husband, can you come help me?” when she’s carrying firewood in, etc.

totally agree on the marriage thing, i know some people can see them rejecting that kind of formality but i personally don’t. i think they’d fill out the paperwork (with as little fuss as possible, probably just them and some witnesses) and then have an intimate toasting just the two of them. it’s not a huge deal, both of them agree that they already felt married for a while before they actually made it official - but as you say, katniss does immediately make that link in her head.

(and i’m sorry i love to think that she’s the one who floats the idea to peeta. i don’t really think she’s the one who proposes - although i like that thought too, but she’s at least like “…why haven’t you asked me to marry you yet?” in her classic blunt as a hammer way and he’s just dumbfounded like “i could ask you right now.”)

and can you just imagine peeta finally being able to refer to her as his wife, and it being real? he would never pass up the opportunity to remind everyone and anyone who would listen - least of all katniss herself, who is probably called ‘wife’ thirteen times a day. and also, could you imagine his reaction to her calling him her husband?

just think of her helping out in the bakery, dealing with orders and that side of things (that past of trading at the hob would so be put to work in the family business baby) and just being like “hmm, i’ll have to double check with my husband but that doesn’t seem like enough eggs to me.” and of course he hears her from the kitchen, and of course his heart stutters because he’s her husband. he is definitely not okay, and he never gets used to it either.

[quotelr]

Our ability to convert time determines how great we will become

Sunday Adelaja

[cdroloisms]

im ngl while it is true that the "c!dream is obsessed with c!tommy and always has been and all of his actions are singularly motivated by said obsession" take is obviously untrue and exile was meant to service some greater ends in c!dream's plans, i think that the fact that c!dream does disproportionately blame c!tommy for shit going wrong in his life and that exile was carried out with more than just a little amount of vindictive pleasure in controlling c!tommy and abusing him is like, going a bit too overlooked lately, lmao

[obsidianquill]

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James

[thatsheetyghost]

I don’t know how else to say it, and you can criticize him as much as you want (and to be fair, a lot of it is probably very accurate), but BIDEN IS THE ONLY VIABLE CANDIDATE TO STAVE OFF FASCISM IN THE US.

Could he do more? Maybe. Has he done nothing? Absolutely not; he’s been far more supportive of unions in the US. The past year we have had major labor victories in the US, and such victories would probably not have been able to happen under a GOP administration.

So to say you won’t vote for him under a single (albeit very bad) misstep in international politicking is absolutely fucking delusional and insane; you don’t give a shit about the Palestinians, you just want to stick it to Sleepy Man and allow even worse people in to not only give Israel funding forever, but to also enable genocides to happen IN THE US.

I don’t think the Palestinians being murdered by the Israel war machine would think highly of people who would throw their minority friends/neighbors/family into a fucking woodchipper to “”protest vote””. It’s a fucking pathetic virtue signal for Internet brownie points that works against pragmatic progressive policies.

I’m not requiring anyone to love Biden, he’s not great, there are a lot of valid issues with his administration, but look at his opposition next year: the GOP, lead by a fucking rapist criminal who want to genocide anyone non-white, non-straight, and non-Christian; they want to enact a cultural fucking genocide in my country, and I won’t just bend the knee to weirdo Marxist-Leninists screeching at me to start a revolution against one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

Fucking use your brain, vote Biden 2024.

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

Very funny that shuro got mad at laios for not letting him sleep and asking him about the east but doesnt seem mad abt the 4 hr lectures on monster biology that def also happened. Knowing what we know abt him he probs was low key into it.