#what's life without a little action

[lyrashifts]

when you're shifting for the plot but the plot is legitimately a war

[erytherion]

Reading the webtoon and…

Does this imply that Kim Dokja also tried to write a questionnaire for her to fill in since she wouldn’t speak to him, that either he 1) never gave her in the end (especially if he couldn’t find her after she was released) or 2) gave it to her and she STILL refused to answer?

Because that is so so so so awful. It was already bad but if he tried so many ways to get her to speak and she still gave him no response, regardless of her reasoning… isn’t that still directly choosing to cut herself fully out of his life? Why in the hell did she lie for his sake and allow him to visit her if she wanted to never speak to him again?

I know everyone claims Kim Dokja is just like her in sacrificing himself for loved ones, but at least he tries his best to stay with them and to keep them in his life. He still chooses sacrifice, but it’s not because he intends to never return. He always returns (even if much later than planned).

The only time this differs is with 51%, when he STILL tried his best to stay with them - at least as much as he could.

I sometimes like Lee Sookyung, but I am mostly still SO mad at her for completely ignoring her child since he was 8 years old. Especially when he must have looked like shit any number of times from being mistreated and bullied by family, friends, army, employers.

But maybe that’s just the fragment in me being eternally pissed with her. She DOES love him, but like he says in the webtoon in this chapter - maybe such truths are painful enough to be false anyways, because they’re just SUCH bullshit. That’s not how affection should work, if you actually care about someone and want them to be happy.

[sadhorsegirl]

i just do think that a lot of leftist conversations surrounding works of art that want to talk about violence or god forbid pacifism at all are severely limited. which isn't to say that i don't believe violence can be a liberating force or that some narratives around all violence being bad are poorly written. but it can so easily spill over into this extreme way of reading that basically considers all literature and media to be guidebooks for real action rather than just kind of authors giving an idea a ponder lmao. like. i think stories that talk about how hurting other people can provoke complicated, even negative emotions in us have value

so seeing people argue that wicked is too liberal or whatever because elphaba didn't want to hurt the kids to get to madame morrible is always kind of funny to me. like 1) it always reads as I'm A Tough Guy posturing to me 2) people complaining it's just a transparent thought experiment when like yeah duh it is lol you got em there 3) i don't think the book is even necessarily saying she made the right call on that one; if she'd successfully killed madame morrible at that point a lot certainly would have been different! there's no guarantee that fiyero would have lived but it's certainly a possibility, and either way i think it would have changed the way elphaba saw her own agency in the world at the very least. i think we are supposed to consider it and ultimately look back on it and go maybe she should have risked killing those kids.

but beyond any moral argument i think it's another case of totally ignoring the actual themes of the book as it stands in favor of a surface level reading that takes everything in the book as "truthful" and at face value. the story is clearly fixated on the difference between good and evil without ever giving totally clear answers, but one of the few it seems to lean towards is the idea that children are uniquely positioned to be good, and are slowly morally weakened as they age and grow more knowledgeable about the world. which is an argument that also doesn't exist in a vacuum! maguire has a PhD in children's literature and when you pair that with how clearly he is writing wicked as a kind of excavated Victorian novel it makes sense why he might engage with these ideas.

both boq and glinda have scenes that associate their sexual awakening with death, the fact that it's also a pseudo-campus novel about how much potential college students have in their youth that they slowly either cash in on or lose entirely as they settle into their adult selves, and the positioning of dorothy v lurline as child saints that can (in dorothy's case, inadvertantly) save oz really all speak to this kind of perspective that children and adolescence are a precious class that need to be carefully guarded and are also capable of radical change in part because they can see the world and it's problems with new eyes.

AND THEN you pair all of that with the fact that elphaba is positioned as the only child within the narrative that sees herself as of unworthy of that supposed purity. she takes on so much shame from her childhood, and ultimately from how frex perceives her as a spiritual punishment, that she literally believes she does not have a soul as an adult. so it's kind of like she is at odds with the moral calculus of the entire narrative in how she perceives herself, and watching her struggle with moral issues generally is interesting because of that but anything that has to do with children specifically even more interesting. also. she very much almost certainly killed manek aka a known child via magic bad vibes glare so like. what's going on over there

[thereal-caramelcoffeecountess11]

how do you feel about putting sawakita into a jar and not letting him out. it would be a net good for humanity

hmm. i will look into this. please come back to me with this after he’s out of therapy

[becauseimamastermind]

people genuinely believe Suzanne Collins wrote sotr because people found Coriolanus hot in the movie?............

oh lord. we're further gone than I thought.

[ngmn2002]

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I bet after this

you'll never want that again. At least not with you hopelessly frozen in place.

Another funny thing...

........

Pfffft.... Tsukasa turned the table on him. Who would of guessed that?! ............ ............ ............

There was also that piece of Nene frozen in time, and Hanako really kind of took advantage of that thing...

his thoughts must be going back and forth with what Tsuaksa might do next. Though, I think maybe he feels 'Tsukasa' won't do much more than what he did? I have to also remember Tsukasa doesn't really care if time is stopped or not to do a thing he wants. This boy... too powerful....

Hanako should be prepared '''if''' anything new would come his way very soon.......

******

Maybe now he even regrets doing this thing... it's cool when you're the one playing the game... but it's not so cool when you're being played with. Akane really... got back at him twice by now...

so it wasn't 'low' when you threaten with it aaah.. I want to see how he would react to what Tsukasa did later on! ...... that's enough pay back for him I think.... on all he said and did.......

poor boy........

[deathsmallcaps]

So, I was just looking for a Snow White gif set, and I came across quite a few posts expressing displeasure about Rachel Zegler’s flippant attitude to the original Disney film. And while I agree she was being a bit glib, you have to remember, it’s all about playing it up for the camera. Maybe her manager told her to push a love-to-hate-it angle. Who knows. Disney is still trying to work that little bit of feminism that is truly marketable but is ‘safe’ in their standards.

But what irritates me is that those posts immediately delve into the history and animation of the work in the film. As an artist, I totally respect the work and success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was in 1937. It’s a beautiful piece, to be sure.

And Snow White was kind of modern for the movie’s supposed setting and time period! She has a bob! It’s easily demonstrated and acknowledged by the audience how hard she works, in both the castle and the cottage! She’s a upper class woman who manages to stay chaste despite living with, horror among horrors, seven unmarried men!

But, come on. She was relatively safe, barely pushing the envelope, in 1937. Women were in factories, wearing pants, and were still actively fighting for their rights at the time. All while weathering the Great Depression!

Films like Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman have already done more-feminine-modern takes on the tale. But Zegler isn’t wrong. If the original film’s story, no changes, came out today, it would be disappointing to a lot of feminists. So if you’ve watched the other live action Disney princess films, I’d say don’t knock the Snow White one just yet. It might actually offer something new but nice to more modern feminist audiences.

Just please don’t forget that something can be wonderful in one way and meh in another. The original film was an artistic masterpiece, but wasn’t the be-all end-all of feminism in the 30s. Check out this film, for example.

And hey, this is the webbed site of anxiety. You’ve all probably said things you regret, whether you ‘deserve’ to regret it or not. Don’t forget actors can make mistakes too. They’re human.

[akaluan]

Tanya the Evil always gives me Emotions when I try to read it, which does make it harder to get thru each book despite how much I love it, but I think I've made a Mistake by trying to read it while listening to Sabaton's "The War to End All Wars" album.

Y'all, I hit the song Versailles while reading Tanya's internal monologue about the cost of war while she was in the mop up of Operation Lock Pick. Y'ALL, when I say I had Too Many Emotions to continue reading, especially while on an airplane surrounded by strangers, I mean I had SO MANY EMOTIONS.

[dan-crimes]

Mfs can't understand a blunt mf they always gotta try and read between the lines or straight up deny the words you're saying and deny how you feel

[botslayer9000]

is there any possible way to brute-force vriska into positive character development

[moonsoir]

hmm wait

[vv-ispy]

ah Togami welcome back

[flowered-mp3]

y'all ever just watch someone self-sabotage themselves to the point where it's hard to watch

[thekalpar]

Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!"

"Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm.

"What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?"

"I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.

"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"

"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

[ashraffamilynew]

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[teaboot]

Mean things I can’t tell my least-favourite coworker cause it would be hurtful and I’d feel bad

Sometimes the things you get worked up and angry about are so utterly inconsequential that they make me imagine a time before written language where I may have been carried off and eaten by leopards as a small child, and I feel a kind of strange longing

Do you ever want more from life or is this genuinely it for you

You give off the perpetual aura of a distant relative’s small and untrained dog which may either let you pet it or suddenly maul you with little to no warning at the drop of a hat and because of this whenever I see you nearby I can feel my asscheeks clench so if you could maybe wear a hat or vest of some kind to indicate whether or not you are in a bad mood I would greatly appreciate it

I have difficulty imagining you as a child. You are entirely without wonder or whimsy. I imagine you once broke off as a slab of granite from the side of a mountain and slid into an employment office where you remained for years until someone dressed you in a uniform as a joke and brought you to life exactly as you are like an irritable corporate Frosty the Snowman

My determination to treat others with kindness confronted with your determination to see only the worst in all my actions constantly forces me to reevaluate my moral principals in a way that is much like a crisis of religious faith, as though your existence were a tangible proof that God was never real

I cannot imagine that you are happy the way that you are. I want to believe that you are, but all evidence available indicates otherwise. Are you like this because you are suffering, or are you suffering because you are like this

Do you ever wonder about life beyond our constructed social prison. Do you ever find yourself gazing skyward in the rain. Have you ever felt tempted to get off the bus in the middle of nowhere on your way to work just to see what happens

I am glad that you are older than me because I think that if I wait long enough you may retire so I no longer have to work with you without something terrible happening to either of us

Do you ever think about how you’re gonna die someday or do you just perpetually live in the precise moment wherein whatever obstacle in front of you is at once both entirely novel and the most infuriating thing in all of existence, like a baby with no object permanence trapped in a revolving door

I’m going to be near you for the minimal amount of time required to accomplish this one task and if you could just pretend I don’t exist for that duration I think we’d both prefer that