#moral imperative

[austajunk]

Maybe rain code Makoto in 3 or 29?

He’s silly and I can see him wearing either.

Was it okay to babygirlify my favorite slutty man just a little? I had to.

[planetoidsfun]

Moral Imperative.

From the sketchbook

[captainjonnitkessler]

also. hate discourse around indigenous knowledge because it's like Yes the indigenous people have knowledge based on historical uses that should be adopted into the mainstream. But then somewhere down the line it becomes "white people can NEVER truly understand indigenous lands, their ancestors came from EUROPE" and its like ok that is anti-immigration & blood quantum rhetoric. people's knowledge do not come from their genetics Nor do they come from ancestor spirits. Why is this a left position

Oh yeah supposedly-left people on tumblr are fucking weird about bloodlines and heritage. I genuinely can't stand it.

In this case it's perpetuating Noble Savage stereotypes about how indigenous people are inherently good and pure and magically connected to the land, instead of literally just being regular people.

A lot of times people insist you need to Find Your Heritage in order to "heal yourself spiritually", which I think is insulting nonsense. And as a mutt with no real intention of finding out my family history, it's really disconcerting to be told that I can't ever really love or understand the place I live, because my great-great grandparents didn't live here. It's extremely anti-immigrant, it reeks of blood and soil nationalism, and I will be ranting against it until the day this website dies.

[uncanny-tranny]

Another bonus to learning a fiber art is being able to speak to others in a Lovecraftian language that nobody else understands...

...and also being able to read things like THIS:

[willowcrowned]

one thing I really enjoy about the good place is its portrayal of not only how difficult but how deeply annoying it can be to follow an ethical code, even when it’s a good one

[rohirric-hunter]

JRR Tolkien: This is my fantasy race that I invented

JRR Tolkien: They come of age at 33. I've made this a plot point

The fandom: Okay........ but......... obviously they're considered adults at 18-21.

JRR Tolkien: They come of age at 33. Hope this helps <3

The fandom: No, no, no, don't be silly. People become adults at 18-21

JRR Tolkien: In this fictional culture that I've invented people come of age at 33.

The fandom: Okay but clearly what you mean when you say that is something else. I don't know what you mean by it but obviously it's something other than coming of age. Something made up, probably. It's definitely not important.

JRR Tolkien: It's hugely important and I spend a whole chapter setting it up

The fandom: But an 18 year old is an adult, tho......

[puppygirl-slimegirl]

the "yeah boymoder let your tits out" post has done more for society than any marine

[godsfavoritescientist]

I think bill should blow up theraprison forever and ever 👍

[gorillawithautism]

i know that palestinians will bear the brunt of this election no matter who wins so

i donated to a campaign today.

did YOU? 🫵

if you didn't, donate to this one that was vetted by @gaza-evacuation-funds i don't care if it's a couple bucks or a couple hundred. even if it's just a couple cents. donate.

if you have time to stress about an election that will kill palestinians either way, then you have time to help them

[rxttenfish]

gonna copy + paste some merfolk information i wrote on the other blog about how i write them because i like it

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Honestly, while I do talk up merfolk and seeing merfolk as providing the same instinctual and automatic reaction and sensations as seeing a large predator much too close to you, and the deep fear that that provides — that is something that mainly applies to people who are less familiar with Miranda and, thus, less familiar with merfolk. People who are more used to Miranda and have acclimated to being around merfolk a lot wouldn't have that same reaction, or would only really have it in specific circumstances or when they are particularly thinking about it.

Mostly I talk about it a lot just because I'm interested in writing merfolk as truly inhuman, and it's one of those things that I have gripes over in xenofiction. Miranda's expressions aren't human, her body isn't human, none of her reactions are human, and that's a huge gap to try and cover between merfolk and humanoids! It really does feel more like you're talking to a particularly smart tiger, and she breaks a lot of the fundamentals of basic socialization for any other species! It's hard to get comfortable around her for the same reason people often have huge issues with anything that strays radically from the human facial plan or that they can't immediately sympathize with!

This is also the same reason why this starts to go away as people get closer to Miranda — not because she's any less of a merfolk or any more human, but because it's easier to automatically associate what she does with her moods and thoughts and her as a person. It's a degree of familiarity that starts to get so ingrained that it becomes subconscious, not just taught or learned but lived.

Think of it like the difference between someone who doesn't know anything about arthropods, and thus groups them all into "scary" and "frightening", and someone who has learned how to tell them apart, what the different species are and what their different body parts are, how to read their body language, how they move and what they do and how to behave around them. Even if the latter doesn't necessarily have more positive feelings about them, they still no longer possess that immediate jump of "this is not like me and I cannot understand or cope with that."

And, yes, this is why so often the narration and Miranda's actual emotional state or thoughts don't actually line up. Miranda might not think this as anything special and might be comfortable and relaxed, but not every muse will have the familiarity and understanding of her to realize it!

[stars-in-a-jam-jar]

I think the thing that made me Actively Angry as a child when there seemed to be some kind of fucking epidemic of that particular brand of Bad Obnoxious Humor (usually toilet humor, but sometimes Just Bad And Obnoxious) written into children's films was that I was always very aware as a kid that films were things made by adults ever since I saw a credits sequence and asked my dad why some random name was appearing in front of the character from the movie. So it felt like the people making the film were transparently saying 'Yeah, children are dumb and obnoxious, right? They'll see themselves in this and they'll laugh 'cause it's structured like a joke.'

Like I cannot express to you enough how much simmering rage was contained in my tiny child body whenever I found a joke in a piece of children's media bad and obnoxious and gross for no reason; I would see it and emotionally go, 'You People Know How To Make Things Good And Pleasant!!!! I know you do I've seen Finding Nemo and Thomas the Tank Engine!!!! You're doing this to spite me.'

And it still makes me actively angry, btw, I'm just now angry on behalf of the unfortunate children subjected to horrible art that does not value them.

[secret-made-of-secret-sauce]

I think it should be illegal for me to have done my capstone in political philosophy and have ocd i think someone should have warned me my life studies would go. In circles. Forever

[valacirya]

The ideal post-reconciliation Feanor & Indis dynamic should absolutely be this:

Indis: bitch Feanor: blocked Indis: wait unblock me i have to tell you something Feanor: unblocked Indis: bitch

[10001gecs]

idk the person who @d richard siken was stupid but i also think that when you're a popular artist you have to dissociate from social media because otherwise you will be overwhelmed by the psychic horror of stupid people enjoying your work and then you will start to be a cunt to them

[hitching-hyacinth]

Possibly controversial opinion but I truly do not think not having an age more specific than 18+ listed on your blog is problematic. Like obviously people are entitled to set boundaries for who they’re comfortable interacting with in a kink space including needing to know more specifically how old people are but like exact age is personal information that strangers online are not entitled to know and I do not like the trend of treating it like it is morally incorrect not to list your specific age on your blog. You can say dni if you don’t have a specific age in your bio without implying that that’s an obvious no-brainer boundary that everyone has or that it’s sketchy or creepy not to broadcast to every stranger who stumbles across your blog exactly how old you are