#loglt

[panvani]

A ridiculous fear pursued me, in fact: one could not die without having confessed all one's lies. Not to God or to one of his representatives; I was above that, as you well imagine. No, it was a matter of confessing to men, to a friend, to a beloved woman, for example. Otherwise, were there but one lie hidden in a life, death made it definitive. [...] That absolute murder of a truth used to make me dizzy. [...] I pulled myself together, of course. What did one man's lie matter in the history of generations? [...] I also told myself that the body's death, to judge from those I had seen, was in itself sufficient punishment that absolved all. Salvation was won (that is, the right to disappear definitively) in the sweat of the death agony.

- Albert Camus, Le Chute (The Fall) tl. Justin O'Brien

[ellohcee]

hdhdgd uh oh. I told myself to try focusing on something else tonight but. Hm, so like, does your angst train need more fuel?

I wouldn't protest some angst fuel 👀

[aprilohneil]

@fanfic-inator795 I would love to write a whole post on this one day, but in summary: I don't think Donnie's shell should be considered a weakness! At least in canon? Donnie is a spiny soft shell turtle - his shell is meant to be like that!

A lot of people interpret it as a metaphor (? can't think of the right word) for a disability, and I'm not saying that's wrong or people shouldn't think that, I've found a lot of posts/fanart/fanfic that I've really enjoyed that interpret Donnie's soft shell as a disability. It's just that I've seen some people really infantilizing him or treating him as if he's super fragile because of it.

In the series, we saw him fight multiple times without his battle shell without any problems or worries - especially in "Insane in the Mama Train", where he purposefully left it behind knowing that he was going up against strong enemies. AND his brothers and Splinter also knew this, and weren't worried about him. I don't think there was any moments in the series where Donnie was depicted as vulnerable because of his shell? It's been a while since I've done a watch through so idk that might be wrong.

And then suddenly in the movie, it became a problem, a weakness he had to consider? I wouldn't care if it had always been apart of his character, but to me it seems like they only just decided to include that. If you're going to give a character something that could very easily be considered a disability then commit!! Include it although out the series, not just when you think it'd add suspense!

unpopular opinion probably but I really don't like how they handled donnie being a softshell turtle in the movie!!

[panvani]

Immediately getting into "oh also Essun like crazy abused her daughter"

[panvani]

Come on man

[panvani]

Thots so far is that it's cute

[panvani]

Reading The Witcher. Is Ciri literally a child or

[panvani]

I hate sci fi I hate sci fi I hate sci fi

[panvani]

Remembers the person who got actually morally offended that Alabaster and Syenite had sex

The Imperial Orogene naming theme makes it sound like I'm posting about Steven Universe and or Houseki no Kuni so I'm never using this blog again

[panvani]

This man is so epic he can will the blood out of his penid

[panvani]

They put jokes in Her Body and Other Parties

[panvani]

Dorian Gray was really so important

[panvani]

'Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,' such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. 'Blorbo Blorbo,' their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start.

[panvani]

It is nice to read a fantasy series where characters aren't talking about how Women Exist To Fuck And Get Pregnant constantly

[panvani]

Also being like "well people would like classics if they weren't FORCED to read them!!!" is very silly 1. because it ignores that sustained reading- the literal act of reading, without factoring in such skills as critical analysis- is an acquired and practiced skill, and that people who do not read long passages on a regular basis often have trouble reading extended prose works and 2. because it implies people like classics and young adult fiction for the same reasons, which they absolutely absolutely do not

[panvani]

And like ultimately I think what a lot of people are unwilling to contend with is that all art is fetishism and you gotta get to a point where you figure out what's the morally aesthetically artistically acceptable fetishism and what isn't