#negative effort

[slayerdurge]

the thing that drives me absolutely crazy though is that gortash is presented as this commanding dominating tyrant and yet it's consistently shown that the thing he appreciates about durge (or tav for that matter) is when they're not willing to submit to him & when they are strong enough to either stand against him or to stand with him & when they are his equal.

an insane thing for someone like him to want. you'd think he'd want to rule alone and yet the insight checks all show that he actually prefers to share so long as there's someone around worth sharing with.

"Half a smile shows he is teasing you. He doesn't think for one moment you'd fully submit to him. Nor should a spawn as formidable as you."

[spearxwind]

If you guys will forgive me making a sappy post, life is genuinely about love. Finding people and things to love. Not just romantically, but in general. Loving your friends. Loving the things you get to do. Loving a partner. Loving what you watch or read. Get lost in the world around you sometimes, in nature, or in community or in family. Appreciate the little details, be vocal about it, let loose all the compliments in your head. Especially when we live in such a hateful world, it's so important to just... love. Anything. Everything.

[drawingwithdonnie]

WAR IS OVER!!!

[eshithepetty]

"Haha Dream BBQ is so random and incomprehensible" "did they take drugs to make this lol" "you're actually not meant to understand anything in this series it's ok" "Joel G just makes up stuff on the spot based on what would be funny" "it's just random for random's sake" "is this AI" "stop theorising, it's not that deep" SHUT UPPPPPPPPPP

[woodencritter]

One of the fatal flaws of this fandom is its inability to ignore hate comments

It doesn't matter how much I ignore and block, I still find out about the same discussions again and again, because the great majority, especially large accounts, are unable to protect their peace

The people has forgotten the golden rule: do not feed the trolls

There is no point on trying to defend our favorite characters from these people, they don't care, they are just here looking for a fight and this fandom always gives them that fight

I would really want these people to shut up, the only reason that these trolls return is because we continue giving them attention, as harsh as it sound, at this point this “protectors” are also part of the problem

Please PLEASE, just ignore them. “I think this character is not fucked as these people say because ...” I know. We all know. All the people who are here for love of the series knows. So I don't understand why they have to keep repeating themselves again and again. These trolls are not going to change their opinion or feel bad, they simply bloom with your reaction

So please... learn to ignore and block. Learn to stop being consumed by negative comments that only exist to bother others

[equalperson]

BTW "destigmatizing mental illness" doesn't just mean being tolerant when someone says they have a psychiatric diagnosis or go to therapy, it also means investigating how your own view of "evil" may overlap with the signs of madness.

this is because the mainstream idea of what a "bad person" looks like is heavily influenced by sanism, thus most people's perception of what makes someone bad is literally just them being mentally disabled.

to support the crazy, you must accept that grandiosity, delusionality, attention-seeking, rage, homicidal ideation, and many similar experiences are not inherently dangerous. likewise, you must also understand that love and empathy are not the ultimate goods that everyone makes them out to be.

madness can easily be an abundance of the former and a lack of the latter, not just the quiet insecurity that most people reference when they talk about "mental health."

ultimately, the world will never be a truly safe place until it's a widely acknowledged fact that there's no such thing as villainous cognition or emotionality; prejudice is the source of all evil, not abnormality.

[aliusfrater]

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

[bocchidaily2024]

Day 72: beautiful boccherfly

[lucishell]

idk how well videos do here but

[watermelonsloth]

One of the most interesting parts of Naruto that I haven’t seen talked about nearly enough is the concept of offering a hand to someone who has done you wrong and you have no reason to like.

Naruto hardly ever offers help to or has meaningful conversations with anyone who… for lack of a better term, isn’t an asshole. From condescending Neji to serial killer Gaara to fascist dictator Nagato, Naruto primarily redeems people he has no reason to respect, let alone like. Yet, save for maybe Haku and Nagato, Naruto is the first person to open a line of communication and offer sympathy where they don’t offer him any. This is all based on a core principle of the Naruto series:

Bad People Are Still People

They have reason behind why they think and act the way that they do, they have feelings and fears and interests, and they have both the capacity for good and to change. Naruto’s “talk-no-jutsu” is him appealing to an enemy’s humanity and inspiring them to do better in the same way he inspires his friends.

[moderndaymadscientist]

curse of being an artist on tumblr [1 note] [3 notes] [1 note] [0 notes]

[unikhroma]

really sucks to see someone mention the 100% fanon thing that queen and/or swatch tried to kill spamton at some point as a bullet point in a broader analysis post about him and see it go unchallenged

[ozsvessalius]

also on the topic of the show treating mental illness poorly.

as a system, other tai's treatment also really disappoints me.

like, again, this is a situation where they have this golden opportunity to represent a heavily stigmatized disorder that is heavily misrepresented due to being misunderstood in a way that stands against our common portrayals.

but no, instead, AGAIN, she's apparently just simply evil. truly "other". deserving of being ostracized and separated from the "real" taissa bc she "isn't" her. she isn't the "real" love of van's life, despite her being the reason that taissa even reunited with van in the damn first place, and being the one trying her best to keep them safely away from the rest of the group in the domestic bliss they never got to have together.

she doesn't even get the damn humanity of being given her own fucking name. not even a fucking shitty nickname like "dirt" bc she ate dirt when tai was fucking starving to death in a desperate attempt to keep her alive!!

no, she's just "other tai". EVIL tai. unworthy of anything at all bc she's just EVIL and an enemy to the REAL, GOOD tai.

fuck off, man. fully entirely Fuck Off.

other tai could've very easily been a truly (and i mean this with FULL sincerity) groundbreaking representation of dissociative identity disorder(s). because, at least personally for my system's experience & from discussions we've shared w other systems, it's not uncommon for the first impression of alters to automatically be negative. protectors can be interpreted as persecutors for doing the hard shit that nobody else in the system wants to do/can handle doing, but it still has to be done to survive. to move forward. to truly heal.

other tai has numerous moments like that, where she takes over solely because tai can't bring herself to do something hard. or when tai is truly at the end of her desperate rope, other tai comes in to make sure they make it out alive.

there was setup there for them, instead of a two second clip of tai just throwing other tai aside, to have a genuine moment together. maybe they duke it out at first, but in the end, other tai says something like "i was just trying to protect us, and her (van). i just wanted to keep us alive." and tai realizes all along she's been misconstruing her and her actions, and they make peace with each other, and sharing a body.

we wouldn't even need to address anything again after that. it would wrap it up nicely enough that it wouldn't matter "which tai" was fronting, bc they both accept that they, together, are taissa.

but no, instead, oh she's just fucking evil. and needed to be "conquered" through being beat down like some fucking supervillain, and the "real", "good" tai is triumphant. and van died just to bring "real", "good" tai back. when again, she was only even with tai as an adult in the first place BECAUSE of other tai??????????

TOMATO!! TOMATO!! BOOOOOOOOOOO

we can humanize and sympathize with fucking cannibalism but wilderness forbid mentally ill people are seen as human beings who deserve love, understanding, compassion and sympathy.

[longlatitude]

Did anyone else watch the gay fishing anime? Just me? Ok.

[rapidhighway]

oh im being so lazy and useless and shit hnnnngnnnnrff I'm even trying to finish a thing for my class but im so behind on everything I literally do nothing for these classes idk ughhh

[problematiq]

this one’s for @greengay