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enlitment · 3 months ago

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-> Mary Shelley, hitting a nail squarely on the head

#jstor #jstor my beloved #mary shelley #romanticism #voltaire #v #rousseau #jean jacques rousseau #tw: jj #history #age of enlightenment #enlightenment #philosophy #philosophy memes #history memes #shelley #thinking about them again

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canisalbus · 1 year ago

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This is a weird ask that kind of relates to the headcanon of Vasco being a blood donor.

What's is Vasco's and Machete's blood type?

Maybe they like hook eachother up and die if they have incompatible blood types.

That's the way to go. Kinda romantic?

(A reference to a show that I hope someone here gets-)

This has no bearing whatsoever and I'm picking these based on nothing.

It would be ironic if Machete was O-, which is the universal donor type. It can be given to anyone without adverse effects, which makes it very useful in cases of trauma and emergency when the receiver's blood type is unknown. But he wouldn't be able to donate because of his chronic anemia and low weight. Type O- can only receive O- blood.

I'm tempted to give Vasco O+. Over 80% of human population is compatible with it so it's always in high demand, and I like to think as a regular donor his blood would have extremely high chances of being put to good use this way. Type O+ can receive O+ and O- blood.

Neither of them are that uncommon, and it would be kind of funny if they had the same group by chance but were only halfway compatible.

#I'm not getting into blood type-personality type theories because I don't like those all that much #and I guess I'm trying to avoid the rare special blood groups since I feel like that could come across as needlessly gimmicky #especially when I'm not going to do anything with this information #I did think about the possibility of blood transfusion plotline at one point #because yes there is certain macabre romanticism and intimacy in voluntarily sharing your literal lifeblood #but they're a little early for that #european physicians started esperimenting with blood transfusions in mid 1600's but the results were poor and the research was abandoned #things picked up again when they discovered blood types in early 1800's and slowly figured it out from there #I'd be curious to know what show anon is referencing #answered #anonymous

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child-of-hurin · 2 years ago

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Part of what charms and compels me in Jeyne Poole's arc is her reaction to her predicament. All the female POVs in this book are dealing with a lot of gendered violence, and they all deal in different but dignified forms... Jeyne is not a POV character and she is absolutely not dignified lol. She cries and begs, she is utterly helpless. But unlike most women in this book who are utterly helpless, she survives. It's frustrating how fans refuse to celebrate that, simply because there is no glory in it.

#Sometimes I wonder if that's part of why fandom is so uncharitable towards her #like if she had some self-sacrificing sense of dignity maybe people would like her more... if she were resourceful or proud #boo!#she's perfect #i also think the absurd notion of arya 'mercy killing' her stems from this too? tbh #like - you think this woman is too pathetic to live? that even if she escaped bluebeard's castle her life is better over?#people will call grrm a grimdark author but this shit you see in fandom is 100000% more cruel than anything this man wrote #her pain is too real to her for games of honor to hold any meaning! she tears the veil she ruins the veneer #she has no noble bearing no honor no ambition no wolf no lover no knight she will not rise from this taller and wiser #none of the ways in which she'll change will be for the better and her pain will only reward her with more pain - the pain is worthless!#here is a child-bride suffering and nothing about that suffering can be made beautiful or meaningful- besides her escape #which theon instantly romanticizes.... what a moment #we flew!#i can't wait to read about her again #jeyne poole

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undead-moth · 7 months ago

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I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

#The Bear #SydCarmy #I was like a casual fan of this show two days ago #and now seeing how little respect this show gets from it's fanbase I'm losing my mind #I mean I shipped SydCarmy before anyway but now it means so much to me #it means so much to see such a realistic and purposefully well paced romance take place #so many shows portray romantic relationships and their beginnings in ways that just don't really happen in real life #and this show very purposefully said no. These are characters who are strangers. who are working together. Who are in a tense environment #and each of them has problems - one of them the type of problems that makes developing new relationships pretty difficult #these two would not get together right away. It would take a long time. And there would be ups and downs.#And even when that's the case. Even if when it takes a long time and doesn't go smoothly and is hard -#it can still be beautiful. It can still be romantic. It can still happen and here's how #and I'm just so inspired genuinely. It is so difficult to write romance without being cliche and so difficult to write it in a way that #could actually happen in real life and I really do hope I can write something half as good some day #and then to know so many people have no appreciation for it at all #because they prefer the shows that have characters make eye contact a few times and then confess their love for each other like #it's just fucking sad. So sad that so few people have any appreciation for good writing especially the difficult of romance writing #like I really just don't even know what to tell you. In real life these two would not have confessed to each other yet. They would not have #kissed yet. They would not have even realized they have feelings for each other yet because those feelings would still be developing #and I also want to point out that given the disparity in power between Syd and Carmy in season 1 it wouldn't have been healthy for them to #get together much sooner. He was her boss. He was also her idol. Before they can even get together that needs to be balanced out.#And then on top of that don't you see the value in Carmy realizing the dream girl he's romanticized in his head - Claire - isn't actually #what he wants? Don't you see the beauty in him being disillusioned from that? And realizing that Syd is what he wants?#Don't you see the beauty in Syd having an idealized vision of what Carmy The Great Chef is like realizing she was wrong and that he's human #and flawed and then realizing - she loves him anyway? She loves him more for not being on a pedestal and for having his flaws?#Are you telling me that even thinking about this doesn't move you? Doesn't make your heart ache a little?#And again - ship and let ship - but what is Luca? What is Luca if not just what she was hoping Carmy would be when she wen to The Beef?#What is he if not just another man who she has not seen under pressure yet? Not seen reliving trauma yet? Not been her boss yet?#It's easy to look at him and think he's better than Carmy - and that's the point. That's the point The Bear is making.#It is easy to want someone you don't know. It's hard to want to someone you do know. But that's what love requires and that's the point

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comic-sans-chan · 1 year ago

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obsessed with julian asking "what did they do to you? is it some kind of punishment device?" in the wire because my god if this man didn’t go from "this is garak my super cool spy pal who i go on secret missions with and sometimes fuck teehee but also yeah his planet’s kinda fucked up and he’s got some weird ideas but we’re working on it" to "this is garak he's my precious little angel babyman who has been horribly traumatized and brainwashed by his government but it's okay because i'm a doctor and i will fuck and suck the fascism out of him if it’s the last thing i do" in just two years. shit's wild

#i'm having a moment #again #my posts #garashir #julian that entire episode is really just ''the power of love compels you!!!!!!!'' i can't stand him #garak was blorbo from julian's shows for a hot minute there and julian was writing all kinds of woobified fanfiction about him #like i've cried a hundred times over the wire from garak's pov cuz i see it as the episode where he started to respect and love him fr fr #but for julian i think it was more of an eye-opener like. he wanted to exonerate garak of all his crimes to try to justify his crush on him #and i don't think the wire exactly proved him wrong... but i do think it revealed key details and context that he was missing before #like that garak wasn't just some underling spy he was almost the head of his organization #basically garak canonballed julian's beloved headcanons so he had to start from scratch #obsessed w garak recognizing that julian had romanticized him and being like ''ok but what if i'm just a bloodthirsty killer? what then?''#like they went thru All That just for julian to meet tain and come back like #''Your Boss Dad Is Evil The Plan To Heal You With My Dick Is Back On''#gold star for trying i guess but ur gonna be loved no matter what apparently

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crystallizsch · 1 year ago

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okay so hear me out (lil addition to this post)

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arttsuka · 3 months ago

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I don't know who needs to hear this but, being ok with portraying a character as a brutal murderer because they're killing a 'bad' guy but attacking someone for portraying SA (that was implied in canon) in any way or form is just. No. Wrong.

#ya'll are sensitive butterflies not 'woke' not anything. you want the internet AND real life to be black and white. guess what. life is grey #still bitter about that one jar meme I redrew with Anya but then I literally get people asking me to draw her murdering Jimmy #you understand that's bad too right? you understand murder isn't ok? but we can have fun with murder but not a 'meme'? ya'll are a joke #personally I don't care. draw murder. draw anything. don't normalize it tho. don't romanticize it #if seeing fanart of something makes you this upset (when the intentions were clearly to have fun) please get off the internet #use critical thinking and stop attacking people #I'm complaining again but ffs #mouthwashing #this ruined my day #I saw people attacking an artist because they drew the mouthwashing cast as animal crossing character and Jimmy was a wolf and anya a deer #not art #text #me complaining #there are other fandoms I've encountered this problem but I can't recall rn. I'm too upset

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tranz-regent · 2 months ago

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waz writing the only lezbian character in worm az an inceztouz rapizt a good choice? no

do i find him making it extra clear that she waz, in fact, a rapizt in ward after the fandom zpent agez 1) acting like no sa happened at all 2) victim blaming victoria for it or 3) zomehow doin both, underztandable? honeztly kinda yeah

#i mean even when itz not incezt (ezp of ziblingz) people dont want to think abt zexual azzault zo if itz not like. beating you over the hea #people will ignore it (ex: mouthwashing and nightmare on elm street)#and then if you are zuper clear about it people act like youre exploiting zurvivorz or romanticizing/zexualizing/normalizing/etc abuze #(ex: hazbin hotel and nightmare on elm street again)#there iz no winning #bleh.

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selfshipseaside · 1 year ago

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#This is for curiosities sake only! I've been seeing a lot of people identifying as this recently #so I want to gauge how many we have here and self-shipper's opinions on it as a community as well as Yumejoshi's #I'm a bit mixed about it.#Not in a negative way #just a “trying to be aware” kind of way. I think mayhaps it might be getting romanticized/used more because of the Japanese terminology #rather than say. it's literal differences in title and identity. I just don't know! That's why I'm asking.#lord knows this community has an asian fetishist problem!#fandom spaces and titles get murky and it's hard to gauge a lot of things like intention #So let me know y'all!!#Once again. not trying to be negative whatsoever. I'm just curious!#selfship #selfshipping #yumejoshi #yume #self ship community #self ship poll

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vyeoh · 2 years ago

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If you make a figure skating au you're contractually obligated to make everyone intensely toxic and weirdly homophobic in the unique way only skating clubs and liberal suburbs are

#vio.txt #figure skating #this is mostly a joke do whatever you want lmao #but also. get some of that rink politics in there!!!! the girls are always fighting!!!!#wheres the mom who runs the club exhibitions and gives girls spots based on how pretty they are #wheres the fucking. crime family vibes of the 4 main families that run a rink #perhaps i am thinking about this again as i am debating with myself if buying $600 used skates on ebay is worth not having foot damage #i did NOT dedicate over a decade to this sport for it to be romanticized like this /j #but also im tempted to make a figure skating au if not just to draw crowley in jonny weir outfits

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mushroomjar · 1 year ago

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What you have to understand is that horror is extremely romantic and romance is extremely horrifying

#cat rambles #horrorposting #thinking about my lesbian cannibal x serial killer ocs again. sorry for romanticizing the horrors it will happen again

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thedragonagelesbian · 1 year ago

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wyll has a specific thing for rangers and here is my evidence

has flirtatious class-specific dialogue at the tiefling party but ONLY for ranger and ONLY above an approval threshold

calls minsc 'the beloved ranger'

becomes a ranger in the hells if he breaks his pact with mizora & loses his warlock levels

#bg3 spoilers #in conclusion he is down for cyrus sooooooooo bad soooooooooo quickly which like we all already knew but #alas i dont think i could make a ranger multiclass work on top of the intended bardlock/bardadin #but its cute to think about wyll wanting to learn cyrus' survivalist skills #if i wanted to get naval gaze-y and character analysis-y id say ranger as a class really exemplifies #who wyll/the blade of frontiers wants to be without having to rely on mizora for that power #ie archetypical solely self-reliant monster hunter type #it is like so much of wyll founded on a certain degree of romanticism #but being able to do all that while also finally being his own man & owning his own soul again is such a lovely ending for him

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toytulini · 8 months ago

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Disclaimer im just processing some thoughts im not cancelling the show

have almost thoughts about how i find the like....narrative on here that if you have chronic "zebra" conditions youd want a doctor like House and wouldnt sue for malpractice bc at least youd have a doctor that cares about whats wrong with you but lets take it one step further. so often he does NOT give a shit about the patient and actively endangers them frequently with his god damn heoric era of medicine approach? non zero amount of times he gets a diagnosis but it comes too late, or he gets a diagnosis after their first wrong 3 guesses of the episode shut down the patients kidneys and they either have to get a transplant or they are just, doomed due to other preexisting conditions etc? idk. i know ppl are almost certainly exaggerating and just letting off steam about the very real failures of our current medical systems and the ableism baked in and All That Shit. i just think its weird how ppl romanticize House who STILL, FREQUENTLY, MULTIPLE EPISODES will actively dismiss shit in the exact way that is a problem in our current system, especially when hes being Forced Against His Will To See Clinic Parients, he loves to be dismissive as fuck of symptoms and if he was a real doctor i think he'd be fucking 50/50 on cases he Notices Something To Dig Into vs cases he dismisses as an Anxious Hysterical Woman Who Wants Attention, the only reason he's Right so frequently in his snap judgements is cos it reinforces the narrative. its like a crime drama that has the mastermind serial killer masterfully using "loopholes" and lawyering up all sneaky and dodging Justice and if only our poor little cop protags were allowed to do A TEENY BIT of Justified Police Brutality, they could Save Lives!

and like sometimes in the show they will have a patient die despite his efforts to narratively punish him. not to mention, i think its been at least mildly brought up and glossed over how much they absolutely do not think about insurance costs for these ppl for the insane amount of tests that find nothing and Wrong Medications To Force A Diagnosis they use? i think it was brought up once in the episode following a day in the life of cuddy where she had to fight a lawsuit bc a guys insurance like didnt cover his thumb being reattached but chase reattached it anyway while in surgery cos it was The Right Thing To Do and the guy didnt have the money to cover it and the insurance wouldnt pay unless he sued the hospital or whatever. thats like the only time its come up. whereas like frequently the doctor I go to for osteopathic manipulation tries to check in with me and make sure im covered by insurance etc and that im not going to go broke or get buried in medical debt seeing her.

idk. just some Thoughts. not a defense of our current system and all the flaws it enables and enforces etc. his approach to medicine is really reminiscent to me of what I know of the Heroic Era Of Medicine which i dont...love? and hes framed on here as being an asshole but would kill for his patients to get them a diagnosis etc. but hes definitely extremely paternalistic to patients ? and despite some good clippable lines about ableism and being against eugenics, it honestly feels like his stance on that is kind of a toss up.

#toy txt post #AGAIN THIS IS NOT A DEFENSE OF OUR CURRENT SYSTEM NOR AM I TRYING TO 'CANCEL' THE SHOW #i am simply processing some Thoughts about it #and wishing better doctors upon all of you when you need them #doctors who Listen To You and who Put In The Effort and The Work to figure out why you feel like shit #who also arent calling you slurs the whole time and throwing random fucking medications at you that destroy your liver or whatever #but give them data. idk. like sometimes in the show it does seem like they need to do that! like the patient is actively dying and the risk #to info ratio is such that it makes sense. other times its like you like definitely couldve done other things to rule shit out but you #needed to fit this whole patient arc into a single episode #not to mention i feel like any doctor who approached shit even close to the way he does would Not have his success rate #no matter how smart the payoff would Not be worth it bc theyd kill more patients. they would not be getting lucky everytime. real life does #not have a plot narrative to fulfill if house treated you he'd just fucking kill you #also one more disclaimer I AM AWARE DR GREGORY HOUSE IS A FICTIONAL MADE UP BLORBO CHARACTER #AND THAT MOST OF THE PPL JOKING ABOUT THIS DO NOT NEED THE REMINDERS OR WARNINGS OR DISCLAIMERS ABOUT HIM ETC ETC #IM SIMPLY THINKING ABOUT HIM AND THIS SHOW AND REAL LIFE #and am only a little bit uncomfortable w the level to which his approach is romanticized on tumblr dot com. but i understand why and like #fair enough #anyway watching house MD is like a sawbones episode displaced in time and Very Worrying #i just have the finale of s7 left and then i will start s8 #and i am dreading the aphobia episode. but it cannot be worse than the horrific intersexism and transphobic he's put on display right #right?#i guess its probably not worse in that from what ive seen on tumblr. he is being aphobic to an adult and not a teenager. so #also house is infuriating bc if you remove the doctor bit. i have met this man so many times and i want to kill him ♡#the guy who is just allowed to stampede through life being a total ass with no pushback or accountability and terrorize people #hes a bad employee and a worse boss #okay turning reblogs off on this cos i dont trust ppl. i think i have replies restricting to mutuals too so #that way this doesnt break containment and get misinterpreted

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thsc-confessions · 2 years ago

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"I'm worried about controversial stuff coming up about this ship opinion situation, but here we go-"

"I dislike Toppat Henry x Charles/ Henry x Toppat Charles, especially that second one. The artwork I see of it (especially Toppat Charles x Henry, not so much on the other option) leans into toxic relationships for me and I dislike it heavily."

"As much as I love Henrles (tied with Polythreat for me), that situation of "Enemies to lovers" is the one type of Henrles ship that just.. turns me the wrong way unfortunately.." submitted by anon

#honestly same--#I don't hate the IDEA of toppat henry x charles (or vice versa) it could work as an interesting story #it's just the way ppl execute it #like why do they make toppat henry/charles yandere for the other?? and kidnap them and like??? all that extra stuff????#especially toppat charles bcz it wouldn't even make sense likeee I don't think henry would need to be kidnapped to want to join the toppats #and they romanticize tf out of it it's nasty :[#again toppat henry x charles and vice versa COULD work imo you just gotta execute it properly #aka don't make them kidnap and abuse each other????#but yea bcz of how (most) ppl execute it it turns me away too #also dw about controversial stuff coming up abt the ship opinion things #as long as you guys discuss/confess it civilly it should be fine #I actually like ship confessions (negative and positive)#as long as it's not like. “I ship charles x galeforce” bcz ew nasty #if I ever get some sort of proship confession I'm ignoring it I'm not posting that shit😭#whoops I rambled a bit here sorry—#thsc confession #thsc #mod dave #thsc confessions #anti stickvin #but like #specifically toppat stickvin #tw toxic relationship #anon

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lemonduckisnowawake · 10 months ago

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The bad thing about being a random medias lover but also being someone who studied lit and/or classics for 8 years is that I LOVE Epic the Musical so much (unironically) but am Pained by the reinterpretation of Odysseus' character in an attempt to character drive his epic.

Like obviously, it's not going to follow the OG story and themes perfectly and Jay's been clear on that. But also, I keep seeing so much missed opportunities to throw in some Golden Age of Athens philosophies (though I know the epics obviously happened way before) into the story or Missed Themes of the original epic that I know aren't the POINT of the musical but....

Anyway, what I am saying is that calling Epic the Musical an adaptation of the Odyssey PAINS ME as a literature student but makes me VERY happy as just a literature enjoyer

#lemon duck quacks #epic the musical #you guys don't understand how i want to re-read the underworld books from the OG and compare it to the underworld saga #i DO have a post rambling about some of the diversions to the canon themes but posting that depends on my mood #...maybe i should just so i don't have 400 drafts anymore....#but then again. i am of the unpopular opinion that most people overly romanticize penelope and odysseus' relationship #not that it wasn't great just that i think people are trying to christianize their relationship and make it more palatable for #a post christian world/worldview without even realizing it #but that's what i get for being pretentious

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