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thanatos picks zagreus up after death by natural causes challenge

“I am the man with no name. King Theseus of Athens, at your service.”

A continuation of the Twitter discussion that Theseus is essentially the Ancient Greek version of Zapp Brannigan. You shall not unsee this ever.

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Sorry but I have to add what Trump could see (x)

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Art by ROCKYS || Daily Cat Cartoon

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2020 is really going all in huh

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Arnold Schwarzenegger funding grant to open shuttered polling places

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randalfthegray

This? An utterly scorching take.

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heyfunniest

well this is rEALLY EFFING CUTE.

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Nils Verberne on Instagram

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closet-keys

why none of them got into The Good Place

exigencelost

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

egyptiann

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

thedreadvampy

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.