#to reach and accomplish

[diomedrian]

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[stuckinapril]

i literally have the bestest friends ever. like of all time

[grassoftunnel]

Choice Theft in the second degree, with utter disrespect

“To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. ”

from Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

The way Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo constantly refer to the rape as being like…The One Sin that Kinzo ever did in regards to Beatrice 2. As though they weren’t there actively helping him to raise her in isolation, imprisonment, lying to her about the world, about herself. As if that’s not also a nightmarish abusive situation already, just on it’s own. We have so little of Beatrice 2, but it’s an undeniable fact that she was a human utterly devoid of agency in every single way.. They stole from her even the choice to be angry or upset or aware about what was happening to her, what had happened to her. Of the choice to be a human and not a witch. Of the choice to be a daughter and not a wife. Genji’s half-truth phrasings during the games too when dodging confirmation from the siblings about whether Kinzo had a child with his mistress are especially disgusting. Since he’s not just outright lying like Nanjo, but denying Beatrice 2’s personhood as an individual, and slyly using Kinzo’s grooming logic that she was not really herself, but someone else (her mother), even if he did genuinely feel bad for her. I’m sure Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo contented themselves by thinking that a bird in a cage doesn’t long for the outside. But that’s a theft in itself. And this choice theft is only continued with Sayo. Robbed of her own unsurgically-altered body. Robbed of the context of her life. Robbed of the ability to make choices based on those two things. And then in telling her, far too late, she is robbed of the mundane, uncomplicated love that had existed in her heart for Battler. Robbed of a lineage not tainted by the most horrific abuse. Robbed even of the ability to look at her own father, at the people who raised her, with respect. Like…HELL IS NOT HOT ENOUGH!!!!

[havocmadden]

so you're just... admitting you wrote a bad movie on PURPOSE?????? i am going to hunt everyone involved in this film's production for SPORT. i am going to buy chekov's gun and start shooting it AT THEIR HEADS.

[ruthytwoshakes]

my one and only Tadc post (this is a lie)

I was picked up by the armpits and buckled into the car seat of the clown car know as the digital circus kicking and screaming. I like the lesbians though they’re cool.

[worfsbarmitzvah]

honestly. at no point since i first became aware of politics have i ever felt excited for the future of america. i feel excited now

[standardpoliticalsideblog]

i actually find it kinda funny how for a while tumblr went through a phase of understanding that guilt-tripping for reblogs is bad, and the practice never fully died out but it definitely went way down...and then everyone just forgot all about that and now literally every single post that is the slightest bit political or involves donations has like three different "i see you not reblogging this you selfish evil piece of shit who contributes nothing to human society how dare you not reblog this if you don't reblog this you are personally responsible for thousands of deaths"

[iristial]

FINISHED ALL THE COURSEWORK

And slept after staying awake for 36+ hours!

LIFE IS GOOD AGAIN

(Well, I still have stuff to do before the next semester but I'm so relieved I feel like I'm being held together with a single piece of sticky tape)

[pandasaurio-espacial]

Cult of the Lamb achievements on steam are crazy like:

1. Get your first follower <(˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)>

2. Defeat God without getting hit (ง ◣_◢)ง

[waywardsalt]

bc its been bouncing around in my head i think another little tiny grievance i had with totk is that i got to the end and just felt a sense of ‘well what the hell was that all for then’

[valkaryah]

“When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times… I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end. Without a song, a man ain’t got a friend. Without a song, the road would never bend. Without a song.' So I keep singing a song.”

the archive footage of the final sequence of Elvis (2022)

[simptasia]

once upon a time, my mum crawled into my bedroom drunk at 3 am, woke me up, squished my face in her hands, breathing scotch smell directly into my face holes and told me earnestly "my baby girl. my sweet beautiful girl. you could turn zachary quinto bi"

[foldingfittedsheets]

First all day session with my test and I’m feeling... Like this could be okay! We’ll see! I still need to figure out some corrective blend shapes but the materials they chose deform nicely. I have a pretty good start, and my wonderful friend is gonna help me with some basic Python on Sunday.

[idontwantrobyntodie]

Reading log!

June’s reads, because I forgot to track them earlier. The Wrath and the Dawn was going to be a hate-read because being a hater is fun sometimes, but it kickstarted some Thinking and now I have 6 pages of a for-fun essay about how fairy tale retellings tend to be more sexist than the original fairy tale. Yay!

July’s reads, minus On The Road by Jack Kerouac, which I read for class via online pdf (“Read” is a strong word, there was a lot of vague skimming and youtube audiobook turned on 2X speed). All good books, but HIGHLY recommend Piranesi

[superfluouskeys]

while i'm complaining about nothing, i used to occasionally get this shitty little sleep mask at like walmart or something for a couple of dollars, it lasted as long as it lasted, whatever, and trying to find a new simple shitty little sleep mask is weirdly impossible??? why are you putting things in it why is it WEIGHTED what are you DOING

[howldean]

welcome to single-issue voting you’ve come to understand what single-issue voting is