#retroactivity

[publicatiosui]

(There) ...is what Heidegger called the hope for authenticity—the hope to be one’s own person rather than merely the creation of one’s education or one’s environment.   As Heidegger emphasized, to achieve authenticity in this sense is not necessarily to reject one’s past. It may instead be a matter of reinterpreting that past so as to make it more suitable for one’s own purposes. What matters is to have seen one or more alternatives to the purposes that most people take for granted, and to have chosen among these alternatives--thereby, in some measure, creating yourself. As Harold Bloom has recently reminded us, the point of reading a great many books is to become aware of a great number of alternative purposes, and the point of that is to become an autonomous self. Autonomy, in this un-Kantian and distinctively Bloomian sense, is pretty much the same thing as Heideggerian authenticity.  For members of the literary culture, redemption is to be achieved by getting in touch with the present limits of the human imagination. That is why a literary culture is always in search of novelty, always hoping to spot what Shelley called “the shadows that futurity casts upon the present”, rather than trying to escape from the temporal to the eternal.   It is a premise of this culture that though the imagination has present limits, these limits are capable of being extended forever. The imagination endlessly consumes its own artifacts. It is an ever-living, ever-expanding, fire. It is as subject to time and chance as are the flies and the worms, but while it endures and preserves the memory of its past, it will continue to transcend its previous limits. Though the fear of belatedness is ever present within the literary culture, this very fear makes for an intenser blaze.

-- Rorty, The Decline of Redemptive Truth

[fieriframes]

[Retroactivity.]

[roaldamundsen]

I won't lie daddy. kitten is a little worried

[flagellant]

yeah we might be brothers in christ but so were cain and abel so shut the fuck up before i decide to find a rock about it

[stealingpotatoes]

wanted to draw/design my dao gang all together (then i got slightly carried away and did camp outfits too)

(commission info // tip jar!)

[ravennowithtea]

busy days, busy nights ✨🌙✨

[stemmmm]

ok a third one. i've got a third one

context: 1 2 3

[brawltogethernow]

I haven't picked up Dungeon Meshi yet, but I'm so mad on your guys's behalf the official English title is Delicious in Dungeon. Weakest and most pitiful title localization job I've ever seen, and I've lived through some shit. This is worse than Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts to me. More distracting than Case Closed. It's pathetic. Just keep it simple and call it Dungeon Cuisine. If you're married to the alliteration call it Dungeon Dining. Dungeons, Drive-Ins & Dives. Even just Delicious Dungeon or Dungeon Delicious, even Deliciousness in the Dungeon would be less stupid. Dungeon Delicacies? I'm fucking begging you. Who okayed Delicious in Dungeon? Nothing was asked of you and you delivered less than nothing.

[transmechanicus]

If you wanna see the hot emo tgirl selfies you need to accept that there’s a solid 18+ months before that point where she’s kinda mid and you gotta cheer her on regardless

[morningstarwrites]

tail touching 👀

preview for ch. 35 of my fanfic, Of Saints and Sinners!

[regicidal-defenestration]

[animatedjen]

Run Boy Run - Cal Kestis

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

[claraoswalds]

I'm just... post-bi-generation. Ah, it's more than that.

DOCTOR WHO The Giggle