#which is intentional I fear

[gay-simple-and-chaotic]

yapping at my friend about how A2 is so Icon For Hire-coded to me. I love her. tmi perhaps but she's the only one out of the three I'd call hot (which isn't to say the others aren't cute as hell and in my head like no tomorrow! they are. help). Maybe it's the fact that I know she'd throw me against a wall and then just walk away bc I am a little wuss who'd be choking and wheezing pitifully and she'd be like ":/ you're like the definition of nonthreatening and my remaining vestiges of the person I was before that fuckass mission make me feel bad about the idea of killing you." and then she just walks away. and that's kinda hot. I might be the target audience I fear

[camembri]

zoro and sanji are sooooo into promises and oaths it's unbearable. dork ass losers probably exchanged vows before they even had their first kiss. imagine sitting at the Sunny's dining room table at 8am sharp and you hear stuff like "nobody else can kill you, I feel it in my bones, I will chase you to the edges of the earth to make sure of it" whole time they're arguing about who has to pass the salt to usopp. everyone else thinks they're banging but this is all a prelude to like holding hands or something.

[borgialucrezia]

we really don't talk enough about how cesare (who proclaims himself to be honorable) actually has an extreme level of self-absorption and narcissism. they jump out on different situations especially in his vindictive sexual harassment of the women he slept with for wounding his ego. like his abuse of ursula (who was deceived by his chivalrous façade) for leaving him and taking a will of her own vs. his aggressive grabbing of caterina's breast when she taunted him at his sister's wedding (shows that he's still bitter over her rejecting him at forli).

[caeslxys]

here's the thing. laudna would have stopped it. if she knew delilah was about to fracture the gnarlrock. if she could parse her own feelings from hers.

and here's the thing. imogen has been plagued by nightmares for a decade. and this rock is the first bit of solace outside of her trust in laudna that she has ever had.

and laudna was just involved in shattering it. this tiny bit of solace.

and. here's the thing: laudna would've stopped it.

and. here's the thing. imogen would've stopped it. the only reason imogen didn't go is because she was specifically afraid that she would attempt to intervene and ruin their relationship with the volition before it ever began.

and here's the thing. liliana set out 25+ years ago specifically to spare her daughter. and that seemingly has not ever wavered as her core motivation. but people keep being drawn to the moon. kids keep being drawn towards the moon. and liliana is a mother. she was a mother before she ever knew she was an exaltant.

for 25+ years she has worked to "cure" imogen. the only solace she probably ever received was in at least attempting to console the kids who found themselves lured in by her same pull.

liliana begs imogen not say that they may have to kill each other. she breaks at hearing imogen's resolve. but there's kids, imogen. there's kids here. imogen. she can't leave. she's a mom.

and, here's the thing: imogen's her daughter. the daughter liliana left. or tried to leave. the daughter she only had through dreams. and imogen is working with the volition. and imogen has been her sole drive for 25+ years.

and imogen might have just been involved in shattering the little solace she might have ever had.

and, here's the thing: imogen would've stopped them.

[puhpandas]

the thing is that I literally love the idea of 3 star fam never wanting to go back to the pizzaplex and not feeling any sense of duty for what goes on there once they're free and just. only doing the mimic trapping and that's it and letting Cassies dad (if they even knew about him) do all the dirty work mimic duty of setting up mxes and they just finished it once he died but like. are they going to TREAT it like that.

would they treat it like 3 star being desperate to live normally and wanting nothing to get away from everything freddys but until they end things for good, as the only people left who can, and a reason that they HAVE to go back with cassie being manipulated by mimic, theyll never be truly free and they have to face their fears/abuser to achieve that, but their absence was purposeful this whole time because of them wanting nothing more than to be involved, or are they just not going to touch on it and their absence will feel random and meaningless and Cassies dad important for no reason without that 3 star characterization and itll be mid

[lucabyte]

hiii hello so we are just going to go out on a limb here and ask if it'd be cool with you if we wrote some kind of fanfic based on / set in what we understand to be your post canon setting for isat? we might just spend a bunch of time thinking about scenarios within it rather than write any actual fanfiction But we have definitely strayed into Wanting To terrain so we wanna ask before we get too caught up in the idea. your take is awesome and we know we've been putting our thoughts in our reblog tags but at this point we are runnning out of "normal words" there are emotions only poetry masquerading as prose fanfiction can convey now. anyway totally understand if not Have a good day !

oh absolutely go right ahead!! It's my thought that i make fanwork in a communal sense so, if it inspires other people that's kind of the ideal outcome LMAO. But yeah go nuts!!

My musings on postcanon are vague at best and lightly self-contradictory anyway so its not exactly a 'setting' anyone could Fuck Up since 1. its not really Mine per se (it is a fanwork. and to me fanworks are just kind of... for other fans?? to me?? idk lol. like i didnt make the canon lol im not staking claim or authority on anything it feels weird) and 2. i think like the only solid 'plot points' in my perception of postcanon i bash dolls together in is like. Loop came back only a couple months at max while the party was still travelling around After picking up Nille (ambiguous vague timing) and they and Siffrin are going through great pains to obfuscate loops identity because theyre sure that for some reason they are paranoid revealing this would be Bad. and then just all the shit i detailed re: isabeau torment nexus. so like. these three posts (x) (x) (x). and uh. yeah thats like it. i dont keep a clear order of events in my head at all i just think its fun to maximise polycule disaster bullshit for whats probably outright Months before resolving it into "oh okay theyre together now its okay guys dont worry" in whatever level of romance through qpr that you please. which as someone who thinks the whole party is just gonna fall into some weird fucking extended qpr-polycule inevitably im sure u can assume my thoughts are similarly. vague as hell and mildly contradcictory. again.

anyway uhhh yeah go nuts show nuts (optional) have fun the above is to just hand you more posts to feed to your Mind Maw and have ideas about if you want them since generating ideas in other people is What Poasts Are For 👍👍👍

(edit: oh i am reading more of ur tag rambles that i missed just now. :) i like your thourts and reads!)

[fatal-blow]

something i think about constantly is this one guy at the nursing home i used to work at whose hands and fingers had crumpled in on themselves, not as a fist but sorta like an accordian or a zigzag, where one set of joints was pulled into the palm but the tips of the fingers were pulled outwards

and the last time i was at my nana's, i noticed the tips of a couple of her fingers had something similar going on, where it looked like the tip of the middle was permantly pulled to the side, making it crooked at the end

and my mother of course with all the health problems as me has the same crooked fingers, all pulled in similar directions

all of them say that arthritis caused it

if i look at my own hands, the tip of my middle finger peels backwards, which i was told was a symptom of Ehlers-Danlos, hypermobility, where the fingers would overextend themselves. the knuckle of my ring ringer doesn't jut out as much either, and my pinkie fingers are typically stiff and lately, as i continue my treatment, it almost feels like they're getting pulled off to the side as well. ive even developed a small callous on the palm right below the pinkie, where the bone seems to press against (and theres no other reason i would have a callous there)

i also think about how arthritis is supposed to start in the extremities, the hands and feet, and again in my feet it's the pinkie toe that's crunched up and pulled to the side, and the pinkie toe which i first noticed was getting less crunched as i continue treatment

and it all just perfectly aligns with the muscle tension patterns characteristic of neander foot/morton's foot. the primary compensation pattern is turning the feet outwards (to make the big toe reach the ground properly), which overuses the fibularis muscles. the fibularis brevis muscle in particular connects to the beginning of the pinkie toe, like so

...so if that muscle is overtight, which toe is going to get pulled out of place first? the pinkie toe.

and all that would perfectly explain why overusing muscles can lead to arthritis, because that's what arthrtis is: muscles that get so, so, so overtight that the joints themselves can become damaged just from how hard the muscle is pulling on them, damage which accumulates overtime and gets progressively worse because, well, you can't just not use your muscles

and it's??? treatable??? even has a distinct cause???? im curing my own arthritis??????? hello???

[ashton-slashton]

Btw I had a long, LONG-ass post locked and loaded but I deleted it in favor of this: I couldn't vote this year, and I can't just up and leave the country, and yeah I'm scared. But being scared isn't going to DO anything for me personally except give me a fucking coronary, which is ALSO an outcome that conservatives would like. So I'm going to live my life, get on the internet less (and yeah that means here, too, sorry guys. DM me for my discord or even phone number if you like.), and engage with my local friends/community more. Because that's all I, personally, can even do.

I'm not the boss of anyone, especially not my mutuals and least of all my random assortment of followers, but I'd suggest that y'all maybe try to do the same, and remember that the average person is a lot less cruel than this world would have you believe. Stay safe ♡

[apprentice-s]

what are everyone’s thoughts on the allura ships

[whispering-kavka]

guys i've been feeling really happy about my art style lately ^-^

[fictional-men-enthusiast]

Old Flesh + The Parliament is conservatism.

I said what I said and I’m not taking it back.

[eebie]

the underwater episode of bojack horseman makes me so SAD ..

[sysig]

You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)

[mechieonu]

FROM THE START self-love and acceptance has been one of the major themes of the series and if ANYONE could benefit from that tigress is RIGHT THERE

[macchiatosdumptruck]

When I say I am having Thoughts about how johnjoshhayden seem to be wilfully misunderstanding the very base of miyagi's character I am Serious

[stardustizuku]

On Authorial Intent and Other Vices

So, I’m a firm believer of Death of the Author. Which makes me highly skeptical of any reading of a text, in which you try to attribute authorial intent or authorial politics to the analysis.

To me, what the author intended is of extremely little consequence.

Because as I’m reading the text, and as I’m interpreting it, I have no clue who the author is.

I have no idea about their past, their background, their politics or who they are as a person.

You can, maybe, find their gender or nationality but as pseudonyms exist - you can get that wrong too.

So if you attribute any authorial intend with limited resources to what politics or view the actual author has, you risk contamination.

That means, you are superimposing your own views into the text, with a facade of objectivity.

Let’s say a piece of text, describes a woman being murdered and raped.

If you assume the author is man, you may say they put this for self gratification purposes.

If you assume the author is a woman, you may infer that she’s speaking from the female experience trauma.

Or you could also assume it’s internalized misogyny.

Or also assume it’s straight up lazy writing.

But because you don’t know who the author is, what their views are, or even what intention they were having when they wrote it - you are left with speculations.

Which more often than not, falls into bioessentialism or stereotypes.

Bear with me for a second.

Bioessentialism is the belief that there are certain attributes that are inherent to men or women. TERFs often wrap this up as a “women are always frail victims” and “men are always violent perpetrators”.

This bleeds into the reading of the text. If there’s a violent scene and it was written by a man - it must mean it was done as an act of aggression and hatred. If it was written by a woman - it must be a depiction of victimhood.

Which, obviously, is bullshit.

And a bias that I don’t think a lot of people are aware they have. One that a lot of people default to, too.

This leads to an environment where you apply a moral judgment to the author, based on the type of fiction they create.

Which very quickly slips into “anti-rhetoric” which I will always say is TERF-lite. It’s radical, bioessentialism feminism that negates any sort of nuance.

It is solely focused on whether the author is good-or-bad, sexist-or-not, racist-or-not, etc etc.

You stop engaging with the text, but instead with the hypothetical politics of an author you have no idea what their intentions actually were.

Now. That isn’t to say that authorial intent is worthless. Or even that we shouldn’t analyze it.

Authorial intent is an excellent lense through which you can analyze a text - when you know the author and the politics of said author.

(Else, as I said before, you’re playing a guessing game with whatever stereotypes of the person’s race,gender,age,nationality,sexuality, etc you may have).

I’ll pull up the easiest and most recent example of it we have: JK ROWLING.

While it’s definitely useful to analyze her stories with Authorial Intent in mind - I feel like a lot of people who do it with the intention of saying “you could tell she’s a terrible person, by looking at what she wrote”.

And while I understand the sentiment, it inevitably goes hand in hand with “you can always tell an author is morally bankrupt, because of what they write”.

Which again, is dangerous.

Not only because it assumes you can recognize dangerous patterns of behavior through the fiction someone writers - but because it assumes that those who don’t write those patterns are inherently good.

“This person only ever wrote about good defeating evil, so that must mean they’re a good person”

Case in point: JK herself again.

Before the entire controversy of her being a TERF came out, people praised Harry Potter for being extremely progressive. And assumed she was a huge ally!

Because they assumed she was a morally good person, people interpreted her story as that of: a poor abused child rising up to defeat a fascism regime.

But now that she’s come out as a TERFy liberal, the analysis has changed; the story is now about a privileged boy fighting to maintain a status quo that benefits only him.

The story hasn’t changed. You haven’t changed. The only thing that changed is your perception of the author.

And to me it asks the question

“What is more important? What you THINK the author is saying, or whatever you heard?”

To me, what they said matters, but it matters way more what I heard. Obviously. This is what I interpreted, it’s the lessons I learnt.

But I also think that it’s important to highlight that, Authorial Intent is never objective.

No person is.

Unless you have a direct quote from an author saying “I intended x when I wrote y”, you are not being objective.

You have no idea what they actually meant.

And trying to guess what they were trying to say, while interesting and worthy of discussion, is never going to take a center stage when discussing the text.

Because the text becomes whatever the audience has decided it to be.

It’s nothing more that pieces of writing. And if tomorrow everyone agreed Harry Potter is a trans ally - in our collective he would become it.

It’s an idea. And if that idea becomes bigger than the text - suddenly authorial intent loses all meaning, aside of a footnote.

There’s a reason the marauders fandom has gained its own consciousness, detached almost entirely from the canon of the books.

The text exists far beyond what an author has intended. And limiting yourself to just what you think the author said, limits not only your analysis of the text, but also your analysis skills.

Authorial intent is but one lense of analysis. One that I find limiting. If you want a full radiography, you have to interact with more than that.