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25 · Italy · I post about vampires and asoiaf and gothic fiction

[whizzergoindown]

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[littleguysdaily]

[therowanhawk]

$1.50 plus this slim jim wrapper i found on the ground

[littleguysdaily]

Sold!

[chromatophorium]

What!? There was bidding going on my guy Stumps?! ...Well I guess he's not my guy Stumps any more... Aw dang...

[littleguysdaily]

I can give you a Stumps clipping and then you'll have another Stumps

[historiaetal]

That raises many disturbing questions

[littleguysdaily]

Nah, Goofy and Pluto raise disturbing questions. This is just how plants normally work.

[kyropinesis]

excuse me, but goofy and pluto are like humans and other apes. closely related species but not the same. this can be seen in how goofy walks plantigrade and bipedally, while pluto is digitigrade and quadrupedal

[sushi1056]

we are really going to have this debate today aren’t we

[kyropinesis]

are you going to argue that they’re different versions of the same species, which has different types of walking? when dogs and wolves are generally regarded as different species? and wolves and coyotes are different?

[sushi1056]

Obviously different species. Look at how they walk

[kyropinesis]

i am pointing out that pluto is digitigrade while goofy is plantagrade. that is not what is pictured

[littleguysdaily]

Sorry, gang, gotta weigh in on this one. Pluto and Goofy are both cartoon dogs. The idea of them being different species of cartoon dogs doesn't hold water for a few reasons. - Pluto does not have digitigrade legs. Here's a real dog with real digitigrade legs.

We should all know how that works. The weight rests on the 'toes', the bones which parallel our ankle joints are positioned higher and act as locomotive joints as opposed to weight-bearing joints, and the knee/hip are similar to ours. Okay, so here's Pluto:

Pluto puts his weight on his ankle, and his knee is the main locomotive joint. He's plantigrade. I'm actually finding it impossible to grab examples of him walking in a such way that doesn't suggest that he and Goofy have extremely similar anatomical structures, (minus Goofy doesn't have a tail and Pluto has less digits* - but those can be chalked up to individual variation.) *Sometimes Pluto summons a thumb out of nowhere in order to complete a gag so who knows.

Walking comfortably as a quadruped is not evidence of him being a different species; some humans can do that. He can otherwise emote as well as Goofy, shows as complex an emotional range as Goofy, is as much a character as Goofy is. Rarely we get Pluto's internal monologue, and it is complex and very human. The only reason he is considered less anthropomorphic is because he acts less anthropomorphic. And doesn't wear clothes; lots of cartoon animals don't wear clothes, though. But, I mean, Goofy can talk. Pluto can't talk. Right? - Pluto Can Talk Pluto only speaks in barks and some maybe human-sounding interjections (huh, yeah, woah), but his earliest incarnations delivered some dialogue. He could, once upon a time, speak some english and communicate with Mickey. His lines were brief, and his character's ability to talk was phased out pretty early.

It may be worth noting that 75% of his spoken dialogue was racist enough that The Walt Disney Company went back and redubbed those few lines with barking. So, I mean. That might explain why they don't let him talk anymore.

I think I started replying to all this with a different point, but now I guess my point is that the Goofy/Pluto situation raises so many questions that after taking the time to read more about Pluto and draft this reply, I am more convinced that Goofy and Pluto are the same kind of cartoon dog, and I have even more questions about what the hell is going on here.

[staroutofspace]

"Goofy doesn't have a tail" actually does lend credence to the distinct species theory. Unless Goofy is a tucking king, we must refer to the ancient wisdom:

If it doesn't have a tail, it's not a monkey Even if it has a monkey kind of shape. If it doesn't have a tail, it's not a monkey. If it doesn't have a tail It's not a monkey, it's an ape!

@kyropinesis is right, Goofy and Pluto are as distinct as monkeys and chimpanzees.

[littleguysdaily]

It does not lend credence to that; there are older (and newer) versions of Goofy that DO have a tail, just the majority of his design iterations (seem to) exclude it. There are also other explanations for why his tail went missing. If I see a guy with one leg I don't go "oh wow the missing link!"

If anything the inconsistency of this detail over the last century lends a lot more credence to the "tucking king" theory.

[universallypanned]

Caius! 0/10 would not support him in a fight against werewolves. 

[theaisyapping]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[universallypanned]

lil baby jane! don’t you dare try to tell me that aro never tried to get her and alec to wear cute clothes and peter pan collars. also - imagine being stuck at age 13, forever???? no wonder they’re either trying to torture people or create something akin to the sweet release of death. 

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[witchlingcirce]

This + Jaime saying he’d pick his hand over Joffrey coming back to life. He’s a real family man ❤️

[ilynpilled]

[witchlingcirce]

Just upon my Affc reread but these lines reminded me that some people seem to think Cersei only loves her children because she views them as an extension of herself.

Just in general that’s such a boring way to engage with Cersei’s relationship with her children & her parenting style. She obviously has genuine care for all of them even if she doesn’t express it in a particularly loving way.

[decorativecollar]

I don't mean to be rude, but I'm very interested in Cercei so I wanted to add another perspective.

In my opinion, you can use the first quote to claim the complete opposite.

"She must remember to ask the steward" - she doesn't even consider being present for her son's meals herself, even if she worries he's ill.

"She could not risk Tommen growing ill, not with Myrcella in the hands of the Dornishmen" - this worry isn't even for Tommen himself, she's just worried about the political consequences!

Even considering the second quote:

It's just a fleeting thought that leads to its consequence: paranoia. She does nothing to teach him how to rule (she doesn't know it herself). This is just after a paragraph lamenting how Tommen is not fierce enough like Joffrey and Jaime.

She certainly doesn't love him for who he is...

[creamycuppy]

[awesomebutunpractical]

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

[decorativecollar]

kept reading the great Gatsby's reviews and now I'm mad that no one else commented on the antisemitism? hello? have we read the same book? does no one care?

[the-cpusystem]

IIIII WROTE ABOUT THIS IN MY FINAL ESSAY IN ELA!

(the rest of the essay went on to talk about the sexism, classism, and homophobia that's shown in the book, but the antisemitism was the main focal point)

[decorativecollar]

It's very interesting, thank you for sharing!

Now that I've started to read classic American literature (I'm Italian so I never got the occasion) I've been shocked by the blatant, explicit racism. I have read a lot of old books where there are stereotypes, or where all characters are white, but I'm not used to the stuff they wrote in the 20s and 30s. Appalling

[decorativecollar]

I keep hearing people lamenting how no one reads books anymore and they don't mention that a new book is 25 € at a bookshop? Who can afford that? If it weren't for a special combo of local_library+libgen+vinted+gutenberg I could never read as much as I do

[decorativecollar]

I forgot to praise my 2009 kindle that is not connected to the internet and has no touchscreen. I love it.

[decorativecollar]

I think that spending too much time scrolling on the phone can drain your will to read in a way that people don't talk about enough. This is also true for studying, I think. Based on personal statistics