mimzalot

folks call me Mim °˖✧ヽ( ˇᴥ ˇ )ゞ 30 yo | aussie-born samoan/scottish

[onlymagpie]

Pearl centric post

[reggiemess]

Sometimes people think they're dealing with a Torment Nexus but what they actually have is a Jumanji. And sometimes people think something's a Jumanji but oops it's a Torment Nexus.

[reggiemess]

Now. Sometimes you have a third thing- you'll have yourself a Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. And buddy, I can't help you there.

[reggiemess]

So a Torment Nexus is something that is either a metaphor for a larger societal problem (e.g. The Platform, The Long Walk) or a social issue/trend taken to an exaggerated extreme (e.g. The Purge), with a lot of shades of grey in between (e.g. Squid Game). If it isn't about a larger societal issue/trend/structure it isn't a Torment Nexus.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn't need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a "Would this be fucked up or what?" situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

Now. A Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory is a trap based around morality and vices. These can be cultural, religious, or bonkers bullshit like "children shouldn't chew gum." There is generally not discussion or criticism of this morality system. Regardless of the morality system used, if it's not a trap, it's not a Chocolate Factory.

[ospreyonthemoon]

So a saw trap is a willy wonkas chocolate factory and the twilight zone is a jumanji?

[mimzalot]

been sayin some cool things in social situations lately with no one in the chat to clip that shit. ugh. zoom calls should have a clip function

[mimzalot]

been reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the swift way it goes through historical drama is making me realise that I had no reason NOT to write my elaborate Three Houses fics, actually. in fact this has more or less the same pacing as when I used to write 'fics' on twitter

[mimzalot]

got an ereader. loaded that Claude and Hubert fic by @schistcity onto it immediately. looking forward to rereading it and remembering why it made me sick in the head ❤️

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[imperfectangelcollectorblog]

[avvos]

doodle

[platonbatonn]

updated my oldest ouran fanarts

[achillesinhighheels]

[dindjarism]

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 2015 | dir. J.J. Abrams

[autumngracy]

[mimzalot]

smiles unsettlingly over my Silent Hill f playthrough. hey, chat? what do you mean you could sit through an entire game unpacking a white man's psyche when it comes to his feelings about [redacted] but you can't extend empathy towards a teenage girl experiencing the cosmic horror of being perceived as a woman in a world that hates women?

[platonbatonn]

soul eater posca zine #2 collection, batch 4

[auspex]

surely the conses wont quence

[sour-charity]

peer reviewed

[stsebastiens]

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

[mimzalot]

I recently got a job at a company where I'll be delivering anti-racism training and doing racial justice work and so it's probably the most inconvenient time in the world to say that I've completely lost faith in my Theory of Change and have no idea how to rectify it. damn. that's really annoying

[mimzalot]

you know when there's a new game release with a protagonist that isn't white/male and there's a leftist in the room that starts saying 'and here come the hate comments 🙄🙄🙄' you know. you actually started that. the self-fulfilling prophecy of preparing for haters means that now you're bringing the hater energy to the party. the party where the hater energy was not present until you started talking

[platonbatonn]

sh brainrot (its getting back to me now btw...)