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as much as i get the sentiment behind "make more bad art" there's gotta be a better way of communicating "you don't have to be technically proficient or hold yourself to a specific standard of practice" that doesn't sound as backhanded lol

halfhumanhalfasleep

highlandkall

you can't just leave this in the tags 😭

personsonable-deactivated201908

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

miaislying

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

personsonable-deactivated201908

decay exists as an extant form of life

miaislying

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

world-heritage-posts

world heritage post

tesb

The Force will be with you, always. HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!

autistobrat

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

aquilacalvitium

Write it badly or it'll never be written

aquilacalvitium

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

depsidase

daddynietzsche

throwback to that time in my existentialism class where the professor asked ‘who thinks hell is other people’ and half the class slowly and meekly put their hand up

then the prof was like ‘…i mean who originally said it’

annabellioncourt

there are some posts that sound utterly made up for the joke or for the notes, but this one I whole heartedly believe

kurloz38

Sounds right to me…

jadagul

That quote is amazing to me in that it’s quoted completely accurately and yet in a way that means something completely different from what it meant in context.

(Sartre was claiming that Hell was other people. He was not claiming that other people were hell.)

sigmaleph

…I can’t actually tell what distinction you’re drawing there. Can you expand?

jadagul

The line comes from No Exit, which is set in Hell. Spoilers for No Exit follow

In particular, three people who have been condemned to hell are trapped eternally in a room together. And at first they think they got off easy without any pitchforks or fiery lakes or anything. But over the course of the play they discover that they have been chosen very specifically to have neuroses and character flaws that interact with and torment each other.

Each one needs the approval of a second in an unstable RPS cycle so that any time one of them might be satisfied by a second, the third swoops in and ruins it.

And when they figure this out, one of the characters expresses his understanding, that hell isn’t physical torture. “Hell is just—other people.”

So the point isn’t that other people, generically, are hellish; it’s rather that you can build a hell out of other people.

But when I hear people quote it, it’s usually sort of an introvert-pride thing. “Other people are hell; you should spend time alone.” And that’s not the point at all. It’s a statement about how bad unhealthy relationships can be, not a statement about how all relationships are unhealthy!

See also Sartre’s own comment here:

“hell is other people” has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell.

diapordias-deactivated20180627

Reblogging for the original post which was hilarious and also for that explanation which is beautiful

galsinspace

Another big point in No Exit is that the characters find out at the end that the room they’re in is not locked. They could just leave, but they’re each of them incapable of just leaving without winning their arguments. So really, hell is when we stay in dysfunctional relationships that harm us, when we can’t just leave other people be and move on.

hgedits

The Artemis II crew naming two previously undiscovered lunar craters (one after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife).

shsl-hubris-guy

reasons to watch School Spirits:

compelling murder mystery

paranormal drama w/ a story clearly planned out from the beginning

Rhonda Rosen

well-written and nuanced depiction of imperfect abuse victims

natural progression into the supernatural mysteries following the murder case

Rhonda Rosen

accurate and respectful queer rep

realistic depiction of religious trauma and guilt

morally grey & sympathetic, human antagonists

did I mention Rhonda Rosen?

Rhonda Rosen

strong female protagonist that leads the story forward

lesbians are real

Quinn's entire arc in season 3

overarching themes of atonement and forgiveness

Rhonda Rosen <3

s3e4 (4 doses, iykyk)

theme song that foreshadows key parts of the plot well ahead of time subtly

Quinda

I really like Rhonda Rosen too

queer joy & healing

evil & human villain

grounded, 3-dimensional characters in supernatural circumstances

Rhonda Rosen :)

flawed, complex characters that grow slowly without just changing immediately

Xavier redemption specifically goes crazy for like no reason

"pair of girl best friends and the guy they bully so hard" rep

Rhonda Rosen my beloved

ghost sex, if you're into that

MA so people can say fuck

exai

julius-caeser

BOYS NIGHT, 15th March, Senate! bring your own booze! remember what happens in the senate stays in the senate ;). BOYS NIGHT BOYS NIGHT BOYS NIGHT

beaft

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

beaft

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

beaft

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

beaft