#trying to have a moral high ground

[fiona-fififi]

Anti bucktommy under the cut. Look away if you don't want to see it.

Truly, I think the funniest thing about buddie antis who are obsessed with bucktommy is that they'll make a post calling buddie fans stupid for reading too much into a scene, and then the next post is a 10 page meta about bucktommy endgame that completely hinges on a made up personality and backstory for a poorly developed side character that just does not actually exist anywhere in canon. Like, the hypocrisy is staggering. I mean, no one has to buy into the buddie meta, but at least recognize when you are literally doing the exact same thing playing fast and loose with canon and stop making fun of people for doing the exact same thing y'all do every goddamn day.

[snailgirl07]

all these mfs being like "i dont condone violence" well i do. knock off another one

[zaunbinary]

there’s been a rise of “was silco a bad dad” discourse on tiktok and i’ve seen too much of it against my will but by far the craziest thing i saw was someone saying one of silcos faults with jinx was “pumping her full of shimmer” op purposely left out the context of why he did that and when someone in the comments was like hey she was literally dying! op said silco should’ve… just let her die. there’s so much to unpack here

the wording “pumping her full of shimmer” is purposefully done to frame his action as worse. we see how silco treats people with shimmer. he dangles it in front of them, taunting them, before throwing it to them like he’s giving a dog a treat. he can watch the effects the drug has on them like it’s nothing. with jinx he carried her in his arms, gave her a lil kiss on the forehead, and had to be knocked out before her procedure began because he wouldn’t have been able to handle seeing jinx go through it. he wasn’t feeding jinx shimmer her whole life, it was a desperate last resort he went to in order to save her life.

saying he should’ve just let her die is. fucking WILD. if he let her die they’d hate him for that too! if you hate this character just hate them as is! you don’t need to make his misdeeds even more awful he’s done enough for you to reasonably dislike him. whether you like it or not, silco was her father. jinx was his daughter. whatever view you have on silco, those two facts will always be true. of course he’d do literally anything to keep her alive. if vander did this, would you have the same reaction? would you say vander should’ve just let his daughter die? or would you call it sweet and say he was so caring and such a good father for saving his child’s life?

again you can hate silco but hate with reason. he’s a complex character in the terms that he is a complicated man in the universe. he’s not complex in the way that it’s hard to understand his actions. it’s actually really easy to figure out his motives, especially for something so clear as his daughters life literally being on the line. people are purposefully being ignorant of his nuances to feel justified in disliking him and im so fucking tired!!!!

[medinaquirin]

The utter blind hypocrisy of people criticizing Dems for trying to court too far Right while gleefully upholding the Right's obsession with moral purity and making the "right" people suffer.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[hacash]

once again I’m struck by how ‘I don’t care if Trump gets in, I don’t care about allowing matters to get worse - both for America and vulnerable countries around the world - as long as I personally feel morally comfortable at the end of the election’ is a statement that people are actually saying with a straight face and meaning it

[good-to-drive]

"Yoko wasn't a nice person" neither were the beatles....

[egonemo]

Jesus fuck, y'all need to calm your tits down and touch some fucking grass.

[tearlessrain]

jesus christ deviantart is an absolute cesspit of low effort AI cash grabbing now. made the mistake of going there to see if I could find a pose ref. I did not.

really glad I left when I did.

[ladyloveandjustice]

Look I'm not anti-pirating (especially when big corporations keep erasing shows from streaming and it's impossible to buy them and piracy is the only way they're preserved, and so on)

but i fuckin' hate how a lot of people in the pro piracy discussion have no fucking respect for artists and think they don't deserve to profit off of what they poured sweat and blood into.

"pirating is rejecting an idea someone owns a work of art"

uh yeah. people do own works of art??? They do own the art they make??? They do deserve respect and to have their labor recognized??? what the fuck are you talking about. If someone makes something, you don't own it. They deserve to get paid for it. Are you saying is someone spends years of their life crafting a beautiful chandelier or piece of jewelry or something like that they don't own it, their work doesn't matter, they shouldn't get anything for that, it's yours now. We don't live in a socialist paradise. People need compensation for labor.

If I made a book, it's mine, and I would like you to buy it or get it from the library, because I need money to survive. Most authors are living hand to mouth. Most are working multiple jobs and barely have time to write. If you steal from them, you're taking any chance they might be able to keep creating. We're losing authors to exploitative corporations, and we'll keep losing more if y'all continue to act like their work has no value. They won't be able to keep creating.

And look, I'm not innocent. I obviously use scans and that's often a single creator.. But I can own that I'm not morally justified in doing it. I'm wronging the artist. I'm not doing it out of some selfless commitment to socialism or whatever, I'm doing it because it's convenient and scanning every page from a book I own would be hard. I would never justify it by saying the author's work is meaningless and you can't own the stuff you poured your sweat and tears into, because that's ridiculous. Sure, I'm poor, you're poor... and so is the artist usually.

Whenever I'm able to buy someone's work digitally, physically, or at least check it out from the library, I do. Especially if I've relied on scans in the past. I know that's the respectful thing to do.

Nobody can stop you from pirating from small creators, but it's obnoxious to act like the artist doesn't matter and you're a hero. You take from artists and say they don't matter, no one will want to be an artist. It's as simple as that.

[sir-adamus]

the old Sharlayan position of moral cowardice, i see

[fiona-fififi]

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[douglasfeiffel]

i am really enjoying impact winter but yet I find myself wondering the same thing I wonder when consuming most vampire media: if the vampires can control how much they drink from someone, why don't they? It's hard to see the vampires we're supposed to see as good people as good people when they're murdering non-vampires left and right when they could. according to the story itself. just not do that

[horrorscoupes]

theyre virtue signaling in the caelum tag again lol. you guys have got to get jobs and find your inner peace or something this is so fucking ANNOYING. this is getting pathological. you all need to breathe and grasp that these characters arent real and the impact they have on your lives should not be this serious. go for a walk and touch some grass

[404page-not-f0und]

The demonization of sex in 1984 is very on par with actual society. Sex being seen as a task or an obligation. Hence why, in the book, and our own society, any form of sex which is done for any purpose other than creating children is seen as “disgusting”. Which then we begin to get into the ways in which Winston views homosexuality. Associating it with prisons and therefore violence, but it also entices him in the sense that it is an act of defiance against the party. 

[killuazedykeremade]

there being a tag on this site under “me too unless your a jew” being used by people who only take a little arguing that they think brown people deserve to be raped and brutalized and actually they deserve the land over those “greedy” arabs