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[theabigailthorn]

oh hey there

I didn't see you I was just hanging out in front of my Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend (Nebula, 2024) poster in my Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend (Nebula 2024) crop top drinking a nice cup of tea from my Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend (Nebula 2024) mug and admiring my collection of Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend (Nebula 2024) stickers!

[franeridart]

The Housecat Philosophy - Ep 65

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[artbytesslyn]

Fuck consistency!! let your art be stupid and ugly!! Be unmarketable!! make them cringe!! don’t you want your art to feel alive?? don’t you want it blemished and dirty??? Real even???? Put moles and scars and splotches on skin draw scratches and dirt everywhere make everything old and worn out and your drawings will be lived in and your characters will be alive

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you. I'm sorry.

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[constarlations]

Pokémon Timeskip Series: Champion Dawn 🌸❄️

Known as Sinnoh’s Ice Queen, Dawn is best known for her intimidating yet caring nature. She’s fierce and calculating, never leaving any room for error especially when it comes to battling. On her off days you can find her in the contest hall, a hobby she picked up from her mother, or in the Battle Frontier/Pokémon Lab to catch up with her best friends. It is said she was recently engaged to a certain johto boy (Ethan. It’s Ethan.) however they will not publicly revealed their plans for the wedding as of yet

Made a timeskip adult champion Dawn design a while back! It’s still my favorite of my timeskip series hehehe I hope you enjoy!

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[scribz-ag24]

Imagine if Wiggglytuff met Darkrai before Darkrai lost his memories.

rip darkrai you were a fun one-dimensional villain

[navree]

You keep saying refusing to vote for Biden on moral grounds because of Palestine is ineffective because Trump would be worse, but that really isn't the point. Largely (with the exception of a few extremists and a contingency of people who wouldn't have voted anyways) the philosophy of a movement that has people withhold their vote is to force a significant policy change that wouldn't have changed otherwise. Its a form of protest. I understand from your perspective, election-focused and pragmatic, it is a threat to whoever is running, but if Biden had wanted the votes being withheld he would have capitulated.

Not that this isn't a moot point since he's out, but whatever.

See, this is intensely fucking dumb.

"force a significant policy change" it would not. One, because Biden is the president of the United States, and Israel is not one of those states. Short of sending the CIA to, idk, assassinate Netanyahu in his bed, which most of these people would be against I think because of how much they bitch and moan about US foreign policy at any given opportunity, he cannot actually make an independent foreign power do what he wants and what is electorally convenient for him. Like, I'm very sure Biden would love it if Netanyahu and his partisans stopped acting like fucking freaks for five minutes, if only so that it would stop being a PR nightmare for him. But that's not happening, because he cannot control what Netanyahu does. He could vastly reduce the support the US is providing Israel, and in my view he should, but that's not going to stop what Netanyahu and the Israeli government is doing. Because, I hate to break it to you, but the reason they're carpetbombing Gaza is because they want to be carpetbombing Gaza, and even without US aid they will continue to do it, even it just means with older and less effective weapons. Ultimately, the change that leads to a ceasefire and an end to the war is going to come from the actual parties involved, not Joe Biden.

Two, you've already gotten the significant policy change. Biden has, on multiple occasions now, come out in favor a ceasefire. He has actively been working, along with the Qatari government, to try and broker some kind of peace agreement between Israel and Hamas, but those two keep on fucking it up because they're both run by bloodthirsty psychopaths who don't care one iota about the people they're meant to be governing and only on killing whoever they want. That's been open fact for months now. And it has meant fuckall. The people doing their moral purity about how they'd never vote for Biden were still doing it, just moving the goalposts on what they wanted. First it was ceasefire, then it was 'no ceasefire until [insert impossible demand here] is given', because moving goalposts is what these people do. It's the same mentality as people who saw that Biden was doing COVID stimulus, or cancelling student loans, or reclassifying marijuana, and decided that the issue now was that he wasn't doing enough of it. It's a movement that's been consistently comprised of dogs that caught the car, and are angry that they caught the car because now they can't complain, and they don't want to actually affect meaningful change, they just want to complain because that's easier. And if that's what these people have been doing for his entire presidency, why on Earth would any reasonable person suddenly believe it's different on this one specific issue?

Three, cool you're protesting, then what? Your protest is utterly unserious and completely meaningless if it's not going to have any tangible effects, so what's the next step? You've decided to make your moral purity stance an issue that the vast majority of you learned from infographics on Instagram rather than listening to the voices involved (which is why the red triangle brigade is still a thing on Twitter), so what happens now? No political party is ever going to capitulate entirely to it, because the constituency is just too small (that "uncommitted" gambit was only getting like 10% of the vote wherever it was happening, Biden won over it as a literal write-in candidate in at least one state), so other than the compromise that's already happening, the goalpost movers are gonna withhold their votes because blah blah blah my morals. And their next step is, what? Trump gets elected. And their movement, which has no thought or serious effort put behind it or any actual attempt to provide material aid to the people actually suffering, has helped put a man who is going to be far worse for it in power. The "significant policy change" is going to be that Trump gives Netanyahu whatever he wants and he proceeds to wipe Gaza off the map. The "significant policy change" is that President "Trump Heights" actively makes things worse for the people this protest is supposed to help, as a consequence of that very protest.

It's not about me only being concerned with being "election focused" or some cold hearted bitch. It's about me, as a person who thinks what Israel has been doing since the start is godawful and deeply horrendous, realizing that this entire "protest" is not only asinine but will result in deeply negative consequences and very real harm for the people this protest is purported to be for, and being sickened by that. I live in the real world, and in the real world action speaks far louder than intent. I don't have to acknowledge that the protest wants this or that outcome or what the hypothetical impossible asks that are never going to be answered are, because I understand that they will not matter. What matters is what you get out of your protest, what gains are received, how that protest actually affects change, not the change it gives wishy washy lip service to.

[nateconnolly]

Ted Lasso: All right, guys, listen up. The things in the world originate only because of their relation to other things. That means they have no essence or existence of their own. Their true nature is that they are “śūnya" or "empty”.

Coach Beard: Emptiness isn’t their true nature, either.

Ted Lasso: Say what now?

Coach Beard: Emptiness isn’t truer than the false natures of the things that are empty. 

Ted Lasso: Now how the hell does that work? 

Coach Beard: Emptiness did not arise independently, either. Its existence is also dependent upon its relation to other things. If there was nothing to be empty, then there would be no emptiness. 

Dani Rojas [excitedly, like a little kid with a new toy]: if all things are empty, then emptiness itself must be empty, too! 

Ted Lasso: now that right there is what we call “insight beyond insight” back in Kansas 

Higgins: Er, wouldn’t that make nirvana empty as well? And if it’s empty, doesn’t that mean there’s no reason to try to achieve it? 

Jan Maas [unfiltered Dutchman]: Thoughts like those are why you’re still stuck in samsara. 

[theabigailthorn]

New episode of Philosophy Tube will be on Nebula this week - I just need to render and do the subtitles and metadata!

The YouTube cut will be out on December 8th!

I'm excited for this one, I reckon it's some of my best work - especially on the editing

[franeridart]

The Housecat Philosophy - Ep 64

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[enlitment]

I'm pleased to announce JJ Rousseau's officially finished!

POV: You're reading Confessions and mark down any time something unhinged happens. Might have gone a bit overboard with this one...

[lieutenant-teach]

Attachment vs love, Jedi morals and choice in Star Wars

The amount of people who are presumably ‘fans’ of SW, but a) don’t know SW definition of ‘attachment’ b) don’t know SW definition of ‘balance’ – is astounding. They don’t care about actually learning what SW themes are (Read some Lucas quotes, damn it! It’s not some hidden knowledge.), but quick to jump on pro-Jedi fans to slaughter their views and ‘prove you’re wrong, the Jedi are actually bad’. The ‘Acolyte’ series really doesn’t help! Just – why??? Why do people don’t learn material before engaging in conversations! Even when said material is given freely – read and learn, if you don’t know about Lucas’s definition of ‘attachment’ and ‘balance’! But nooooo, we won’t learn! Won’t even try! There’re whole archives of Lucas’s quotes and analyses of SW, right here, on Tumblr – why not have a look?

And with all this lack of studying we have stupidity like ‘Luke’s attachment saved everyone’ or ‘Jedi were flawed with their morality’ or ‘Jedi didn’t give therapy to Anakin’. I’ll explain once again (I’m far from the first to say it):

1.Luke save everyone with LOVE, and Anakin damned everyone with ATTACHMENT.

2. Jedi morality is right in SW world. They may make mistakes as individuals, but their morals are correct in GFFA. They don’t go enslaving planets and killing babies like Sith, who ARE bad guys.

3. Jedi philosophy is actually therapy exactly for Anakin’s case. Too bad he didn’t want to respond to this therapy – because one of main ideas of SW (as made up by Lucas, everyone agrees he knows better) is CHOICE. Both Anakin and Luke made their respective CHOICES. They knew what was bad and what was good. And both made their own CHOICES. (Any anyway, Prequel SW are movies for KIDS from late 1990s – early 2000s. No one showed therapy as we understand in now in 2020s, in such movies back in those days.)

So, if you’re in good faith and you just lack info, go @david-talks-sw, @smhalltheurlsaretaken – you’ll find everything about Jedi, attachment, etc. If in bad faith – still go read, this may challenge your views.

[fjordfolk]

not @ anyone or anything but every time i get a question regarding dog training specifics or resources on here get into a little panic and ??? because well. I've told you guys about Melis for a full year. do you think we train these animals

[mayasaura]

I think if I were really going to insert Harrow into the Ace Attorney setting tho, she'd be a defense attorney. One with an even more extreme philosophy than any in the game so far. She specialises in sentencing trials and plea bargains, representing guilty clients.

She knows that the falsely accused aren't the only ones who need someone in their corner when it feels like the world has turned its back. She learned that a long time ago, from a childhood.... friend. Someone she owes more than she could ever possibly repay, who believed in her and forgave her even when they both knew she didn't deserve it.

[sopheadraws]

Picrew & "What Kind of Character Are You?" uQuiz <3

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