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sheltiechicago · 7 months ago

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Meet Bára Prášilová, The Mastermind Behind Absurd Humor In Photography

Czech photographer Bára Prášilová has carved out a unique niche for herself with a distinctive style that blends absurdist humor, striking beauty, playfulness, and a touch of cruelty, all underpinned by her relentless pursuit of perfection.

#bara prasilova #photographer #absurd humor #photography #czech photographer #touch of cruelty #beauty #playfulness

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zhoras-bitch · 2 months ago

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TW animal death/cruelty.

This is a sensitive subject and I hope nobody takes it the wrong way, but I have to say that Lada's reaction to killing animals is very modern city girl coded. I’m sorry, but they live in a tiny secluded village where they grow and cook all of their food themselves from scratch. And Lada in particular is from a family of shepherds. Even if they mostly keep the sheep for wool and milk, they’d still have to control the livestock population and mercy kill the weak and sick animals. I'm not saying it is easy or fun for anyone, not should it be, but it is unavoidable, and any farmer, including Lada herself, would know that.

#the reason it bothers me is because given the setting #instead of coming of as sweet and empathetic #in this context lada reads as unreasonable and out of touch #romance club #and the haze will take us #rc lada #bitch speaks #tw animal cruelty #tw animal death

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tls123 · 1 year ago

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thinking about yoo joonghyuk and how he is not meant to give up, not ever. but then! what do you do when the person who created you strolls in and says actually, this one time you'll have to give up. not right away, sure, but you will have to give up.

1863rd round the author comes in and talks to him directly and makes him the husk of a man we find a few days away from The End, the one whose only desire seems to be to just get there (the last step of han sooyoung's plan) and die.

she is the only one who can make him give up like that, if not for the single point of failure she wove into his very being — the very reason he cannot ever truly give up

kim dokja shows up, changes the trajectories of both of their lives for fucking ever, and in general fucks everything up so spectacularly yoo joonghyuk can do nothing else but split himself in two

because he wants to live.

#fra.txt #orv spoilers #orv #yoohan is so delicious to me personally. as a dynamic #the fact that it's HER (1863!hys) who writes twts !!!#she has already made yhj go through so much. she literally made him..... THAT in his own story in the 1863rd round #do you understand? of the things she puts him through in that webnovel #probably nothing comes close to the cruelty of what they decide on in round 1863 #i'm sure someone more eloquent than me has touched on this before #but the orv brainrot doesn't spare me just because of that #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #kim dokja #rs: maybe not all hope was lost #rs: because of your story #yoohan #yoohankim

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rawliverandgoronspice · 1 year ago

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given that seems to be the new popular take in the fandom at large since totk got out: let the record show that I'll gladly let myself get repeatedly manipulated by the wind waker speech and be foolishly moved by its implications over rejecting space for humanity and vulnerability in the monstrous and the dispossessed, and then feeling weirdly smug about severing that fleeting attempt at connection and deem it obviously insincere

#tloz #wind waker #ww #ganondorf #zelda fandom critical #it's just not even nice for the writers?#like they obviously tried something here #it's thematically resonant with the rest of the text #you don't have to connect with it personally of course #the complexity of a genuine cause being taken over by self importance and cruelty and what is owed to whom in the bloody aftermath #but to reject that it tried to touch upon something ambiguous and complicated is a shame in my opinion #voluntarily depriving yourself of depth sure is a move I don't understand #(the youtuboys of the world are just *so smug* about this and I find it... kinda tragic modern nintendo seems to agree with them)#(not to mention... seeing a guy coded as foreign going “hey I was sick of having nothing and wanted more for myself” and going)#(“!!!! that's manipulative and illegitimate and deserves no sympathy whatsoever” is a questionnable gut reflex to cultivate in my opinion)#(yearning for a privilege ganon could only ever access through submission can *absolutely* coexist with tyranny and selfishness)#(and isn't that layered and complicated and unfair to everybody involved?)#(doesn't that make for MUCH richer conflict than “he lied because he was greedy for power”?)

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silver-dragonborn · 4 months ago

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The way I became absolutely enraged when Aemon dared to put his disgusting hands on Helaena and dragged her like a fucking dog on a leash.

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd spoilers #I was so fucking angry like what the fuck is your goddamn problem????#LEAVE HELAENA ALONE! STOP TOUCHING HER! STOP BREATHING ON HER! JUST STAY AWAY!#YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE #anti aemond targaryen #I know aemond stans are screaming that he would never do this but I'm sorry this is his true self #no one not even his own sister is safe from his cruelty

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aftout · 10 months ago

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mah bugs....... she got a rework.......

#you see. I havent touched dst in a while which means now that im back everyone will be drawn differently 😳#this is a natural progression.#my art #dst: a clock's cruelty (au)#dst #dst oc #original character

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nomsfaultau · 2 years ago

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Never Love an Anchor || The Crane Wives

For the fic Fault.

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rxttenfish · 6 months ago

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while aaravi remains firmly within "yeah miranda has a difficult personality and isn't very easy to get along with + has many rough edges which are slowly being worked on but still going to be an issue" after having been very much so within the camp that miranda is a Vexing Bitch upon first contact/getting to know her, she DOES go from "miranda is unpredictable and dangerous as a merfolk and large macropredator and her emotions are inscrutable and random" to "merfolk aren't very hard to understand or predict and it's very easy to stay on the safe side if you keep basic rules in mind and don't freak out the second something unexpected happens"

#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#miravi.txt #just. thinking about it!#thinking about specifically how merfolk (like most other animals) growl/hiss specifically as a deterrent #like if you start really upsetting miri and she wants space and you to Please Stop #she will probably turn her face away from the other person or turn her body away from them #while growling or hissing and pulling her fins back #and will open her mouth to bare her teeth or gape her mouth open to show her teeth (including heavily panting)#where the point is ''i will hurt you if you touch me/get closer/dont stop so please dont do that''#but a lot of people read it as her being either obtuse (if she turns away from them)#or outright aggressive for the showing of teeth and growling #when shes really not. shes being very polite in merfolk terms in giving multiple chances to avoid violence #shes going ''i am worried i might have to hurt you so please reconsider'' in a way thats very readable if youre another merfolk #who will then step away or give her her space and switch the tone of the conversation #to see whats wrong #whereas her being more deliberately aggressive/violent usually comes with minimal vocal cues at all #or (if shes specifically threatening someone such as in the case of getting aggressive over perceived threats to her social bonds)#she will often turn towards them and open her mouth and flare her fins #often deliberately closing the distance and making herself appear Extra Large #she WILL growl here but will never hiss (hissing being a more defensive sound)#and will often smack her tail against the ground or show her claws or otherwise demonstrate how large and how scary she is #as a deliberate point of ''you crossed a line and this is what is going to happen to you if you dont make it up right now''#which! both require VERY different responses but might look similar to a human!#and might end up coming off as unpredictable or random in her actions and cruelty!#when shes not! shes just doing things the way a merfolk does them #which means aaravi realizes VERY quickly after learning about all of this #just how many cues miranda gives that people are starting to make her uncomfortable and feel Not Okay #that are ignored or written off because theyre merfolk cues #merfolk are very tolerant of stress but have basically no concept of escalation of violence for that reason #because if youve ignored every chance to prevent something dangerous up until the point it goes too far

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carlyraejepsans · 10 months ago

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fridging more often than not has the opposite effect on me because I'm too mad about the women in the story being done dirty to care about the supposed emotional impact of their deaths. but man. when time travel (PLLF) hits it hits.

#professor layton #he just got promoted they were finally settling down for real he was going to PROPOSE #she was caught up in something so much bigger than her and had to see the devastating impact of her actions after she was gone #and knowing full well her days were numbered she did everything in her power to put things right #and in the catastrophic wake of their failed experiment and the chain of vengeance and grief and cruelty it caused #convinced she touched the world and succeeded only in hurting it... there he was.#his every good did an extension of who you were to him (he really did take awfully good care of that hat)#PUNCHING A WALL. FUCK.#HER ACTIONS POST TIME JUMP MAKE HER SUCH A FASCINATING CHARACTER. PRECISELY BECAUSE SHE IS DOOMED AND AWARE OF IT #GODDAMIT #i wanted to see more of her fuckignfngjd #i don't want to say goodbye to you again I can't I won't [explodes into a fucking #pl

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wickershells · 2 years ago

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Leonard Cohen, “Letter” from Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956)

#leonard cohen #lit #mine #i am so in love with these lines #separated from the poem (which from my initial impression is about a cruel woman whose cruelty is expected and therefore reciprocated?)#((‘[your dreams] mean nothing to me / beside your body’ for example. only caring for physicality so to avoid inevitable and imminent hurt))#anyways separated from that these lines ironically carry a really romantic sentiment #what you have done does not matter. you are here with me and i am touching you

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eldritchqueerture · 3 months ago

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"He's a man that not while ago I would've found pathetic and weak. Now I see him as wise and sensible."

HOW ABOUT YOU JUST STAB ME. JUST FUCKING KILL ME IT'LL HURT LESS

#something something about how facing your own mortality can change your perspective on life #something something about how watching a man you love go down a destructive path can change you #how being faced with brutality and cruelty can inspire good instead of evil #nobody fucking touch me rn #niki.rambles #rdr2

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sheltiechicago · 7 months ago

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Meet Bára Prášilová, The Mastermind Behind Absurd Humor In Photography

Czech photographer Bára Prášilová has carved out a unique niche for herself with a distinctive style that blends absurdist humor, striking beauty, playfulness, and a touch of cruelty, all underpinned by her relentless pursuit of perfection.

#bara prasilova #photographer #absurd humor #photography #czech photographer #beauty #playfulness #touch of cruelty

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express-archives · 1 month ago

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thinking about esfir.....

#— sidus gelida.#do you think she remembers crucabena's harsh and punishing hands?#do you think she remembers how their heart sank the day they realized that she wasn't going to tolerate their nonsense insolence anymore?#do you think she recalls learning the hard way that she could not disobey dottore the same way she did crucabena +#+ because his punishments were so so *so* much worse than hers ever were?#do you think esfir recalls crucabena sauntering into dottore's lab and looking at them with all the false pity in the world?#do you think they recall the previous knave's cold fingers caressing her cheek with something sinisterly satisfied dancing in her eyes +#+ when esfir was too tired from the god remains experiments to even say something nasty back to her? when she was too helpless +#+ to do anything to wipe that look off of “mother's” face?#do you think esfir remembers crucabena's cruelty.#do you think that even if dottore's *punishments* were worse... esfir still feels like crucabena was more *cruel overall?*#DO YOU THINK THAT ESFIR GETS SCARED WHEN BAIZHU TOUCHES HER FACE WHEN SHE'S ILL AND TOO WEAK TO PULL AWAY.#DO YOU THINK ESFIR DARES NOT LOOK AT HIS FACE FEARING THAT THEY WILL SEE CRUELTY.#DO YOU THINK THAT ESFIR CRIES WHEN SHE DOES LOOK AT HIM AS SHE REALIZES THAT HIS FACE IS GENTLE.#DO YOU THINK SHE SOBS INTO HIS PALM TOO OVERCOME WITH FEVERISH DELIRIUM AND TRAUMA TO EVEN HAVE A CHANCE AT STOPPING IT.

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navramanan · 5 days ago

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no one gets beyond evil, my liberation notes, my country and the youth of may like i do

#shows so dear to me shows that have touched something so deep within me shows that continue to make me feel #beyond evil for it's intricate exploration of siblinghood and grief and community #my liberation notes for that lacking sense of excitement about life and feeling so unlovable and without purpose #my country for the deep complex relationships during times of political unrest and what it does to people that love each other #youth of may for the depiction of cruelty and outright oppression and violence imposed by a government on their own people #a scene i always think of is when the two boys break out of their sports camp & encounter the protest. then soldiers shooting at the crowd #one of the boys says north korea has invaded. it cant be south korean soldiers why would they shoot their own people. the naivitë kills me #this and han kang's human acts set around the same period of time. the student protest in may 1980 #where the teen character at the beginning of the book asks why the dead bodies are wrapped with the flag #and why the national anthem is sung for them. when it was soldiers of that same country that killed them. for no reason #idk idkkkkkkk need to go to sleep #also i really really need to get back into reading and watching stuff instead of wasting time on tiktok. i say this every day #nesi rants

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void-botanist · 5 months ago

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Blorbo Felony Bingo

I'm taking @vacantgodling and @outpost51's open tags for this lovely game by @sarahlizziewrites <3

Rules: mark off the felonies that your blorbo has committed (not necessarily been convicted of)

To be honest most of my blorbos have committed maybe one or two of these, and in the least "criminal" way possible (such as forging their mom's signature on their permission slip). But I do have a few more active criminals out here:

I haven't completely decided what Marigold has done so the purple is for sure and the blue is possible. Also diversity win: they're both lesbians <3

I'll also leave an open tag!

#they are not lesbians together tho. they're from completely different settings but #yay crime gays #the difference between their DUIs is so funny to me. 99% sure Althea's was driving her father's car to smash mailboxes #and Marigold's was driving a vehicle roughly equivalent to a golf cart with her drunk ass girlfriend (Lexie)#also yeah Althea's animal cruelty is re: Christina's crow #Althea: I wouldn't touch drug trading with a ten-foot pole #everyone else: that is not the moral high ground you think it is #id in alt #blorbo felony bingo tag game #tag games #c: Althea #c: Marigold

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mejomonster · 11 months ago

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I started reading Billy Bat manga by Urasawa Naoki (u may know him as the guy who did Monster) and jesus christ its wild. Absolute experience. Judas and Jesus are in it, so are ninjas, so is lee harvey oswald (technically at least 3), theres a bat thats satire about how evil mickey mouse and disney are, there's lying cartoons galore, there's the civil rights movement, the oppressivr terror of the ku klux klan and the structural damage of segregation and fucked up laws, and the pervasiveness of advertising and the coca cola company ("golden cola") there's real events sprinkled with gratuitious fictional shit about manipulative God Billy Bat (or perhaps "administrator/guide to the human race"), a scroll that could control the world, Fake walt disney has hired killers, the looming brutality of imperialism and corporations buying out poorer areas, killing in other countries and breaking laws and whatever else is needed to acquire what they want, there's a cartoon dog kennedy assasination, a baby kevin inherits the powers of an older kevin, there's ninjas and priests, there's a small town out west full of cowboy larpers who are this comic artists biggest fan club, a secret agent Smith with a heart of gold (one hopes), a teenager named jackie whos seeing visions, there's a good and evil fake "mickey mouse" bat but frankly theyre probqbly both evil cause either way they lie and manipulate to get people to do what they want, judas cameos not only in his jesus arc but as a little kiddo, and like. Im not even halfway done. Einstein JUST showed up.

#rant #billy bat #its. an experience ill say that. its wild and im kind of floored it got published #it makes a lot of good points but its also ultimately a long winding Batshit Wild Bat Cartoon-as-God MYSTERY thriller #so its like. oh you learn about the pains of cowardice. the cruelties of corporations.#the way society doesnt value a whores life as you cry for her because she was wondetful. the way being just is hard #its hard to be brave and dangerous but it uas to be done. the vile dangers of advertizing and capitalism and profit over human life.#but then also. theres a fucking bat talking to a girl in her college class lol #its an interesting perspective in a way also cause like...#1 a lot of comic artists just full on would not touch these elements in their plots at all. and while ive seen these topics in stories #before. tjis is the most Pointed Disney/governments/corporations critique ive seen in comics. since like. its literally fake disney #ajd real ass historical figures and govts getting critiqued.#then 2 in japanese manga i havent seen foreign events covered much. and its interesting to see the perspective of #world events and america from this author. and his choice to make the protagonists who he did: a japanese american whos born american #and was in the allies as a translator. part of the US occupation when he initially visits japan.#the japanese mangaka whos older than ww2. the white upper class (truly upper class) coca cola #dynasty equivalent inheritor. a lower class black woman factory worker from florida whos outspoken and a leader and #braver than her husband. their kiddo kevin whos the most important person in the world worth saving. jackie the japanese american teen girl #eho grew up Loving fake disney and is in college. her dad the taxi driver who through other people #eventhally got the courage to go reunite with his wife and daughter jackie who left him.#(oh also a european priest and JUDAS and a ninja)#its just like. the author worked hard to put what feels like a japanese and american perspective and the Many ways those overlap and Dont #into this. as well as a variety of upper class and lower class characters. the rich fake walt disney and the poor bat town mayor and elder #who get killed for standing in the way of a corporations dreams.#jackie kennedy and the sweet girl who saved cartoonist Kevin and worked the street.#the rich dynasty inheritor of golden cola and his working class wife. how it all falls away in the deep soutj with pther lines #society draws. the poor student jackie versus the other protagonists witj a job #how kevin yamagata has not much connection to japan except a fondness for his parents. while jackie is even more #culturally removed (having never even visited japan) but her family still has their heritage of stories and places they miss and #want to visit and traditions her dad still regulalry discusses.

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