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@nota1eks
my ao3 | my artfight
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i generally post about: the terror, frankenstein, cherik (xmen), 19th century, sometimes misc political stuff.
nikola tesla themed alt @nikkytesla ; bookmarks acc @koturovics
not a minor. sorry pedos no luck here.
if i say "dni: people with a dni", how would that work ?
my philosophical cycle of "was victor's creation of the monster an act of hubris?" over the years
yes: he's interfering in the cycle of life and death (my immediate take as a child)
no: everyone has the right to have children. even men.
yes: it is wrong to dig up dead bodies and sew them together
maybe: to deny resurrection-men their due respect, and furthermore to put down the medical use of corpses in this historical context, isn't a productive take. i disagree with shelley's opinion, although i acknowledge that that is what she meant.
yes: victor's creation is an allegory for males interfering in female reproductive rights
no: i suppose victor could be envious of female reproduction because gender envy (transgender)
yes: the transgender take is, in this way, quite a ridiculous reach. the other evidence lies in how victor's illness is described in the larger context of Romantic views of disease; i don't agree with the interpretation thusly.
no: everyone has the right to have children
yes: everyone has the right to have children, but that doesn't make it right.
yes: the creation of more sentient beings (via reproduction or reconstruction) is highly unethical. via uterus or needle-and-thread.
i'm sure my opinion will change again and again, but for now i believe (as described) that the horror of frankenstein lies in the horror of reproduction. as such, it is also a story of cycles of violence: the inaugural act of any parent-child relationship is the abuse that is creating the child in the first place. any generational cycle of violence can therefore only be truly ended by the end of the bloodline (which we see at the end of the novel).
magneto being a jewish holocaust survivor is integral to his story btw. i just saw a bunch of people on the internet talking about how it doesn't make sense anymore because he'd be like a hundred years old but you know what else doesn't make sense... a man with retractable claws coated in metal. or a woman that is blue and can shapeshift. or superheroes as a whole.
and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.
^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.
having a crush as an aro/ace person is actually evi
no bc they’re hot and kind and smart but if i do but the lightest flirting—well, i talk with my hands. hands upon which sit aro and ace beaded bracelets. what are they to think?
saw them in public yesterday btw. just sitting there. they waved at me. i waved back and kept walking. I AM GENUINELY A CHUD
they vape. KILL MYSELF
crush is gone and has been replaced with general disgust. the year is 2026, and you are a leftist. and you give nicotine corporations money? gtfo
thank you for the tag, @always1958 :) love the song you mentioned a lot.
10 people you'd like to get to know better
last song: just look at my spotify, and the last song I listened to was mmmbop by hanson, lolol
currently watching: youtube videos. I'm not currently watching a tv show or anything. it takes a lot to get me to watch new stuff.
current obsession: I cannot stop playing the game raft but on peaceful mode because I'm a little baby.
currently reading: avenue of mysteries by john irving. I love his books, but this one is a little boring to start. we'll see if I manage to finish it.
currently working on: a crochet project for my partner as well as outlining like five fics, I swear.
last google search: fl oz to liter conversion because my partner is from another country and he doesn't know fl oz.
since I'm posting this quite late, tagging any of my mutuals or followers that would like to do this :)
I LOVEEEEE TAG GAMES HELLO MUTUAL
last song: “the stars in his head (dark lights remix)” which I’m listening to rn. shoutout Colin Stetson. for the knowledge of the uninitiated, he makes abstract avant-garde jazz. he made the song that goes with the “that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow” meme
currently watching: idk if this counts but I’m on my third go-though of Quinton Reviews’ series on iCarly/Victorious/Sam&Cat on youtube. nearing the end of the 30+ hrs as I’m on the last Sam&Cat video
current obsession: koturoverse as always. I suppose I’m also really into Peter clines’ other book god’s junk drawer (Dietrich & Dak Ho’s relationship specifically). Otherwise I’m obsessed [read: making thrice weekly] with my “sardines and olives pasta special” (it’s good, trust)
currently reading: on a stall with mary shelley’s the last man. re-reading w bernard carlson’s Nikola Tesla biography. most actively, I’m going to finish the June issue of the Atlantic before bed.
currently working on: bunting for a pride event, as I’m on an organizational committee. Pride is in July in Nova Scotia because we hate ourselves and want to sit out of the normal people fun
last google duckduckgo search: john lennon murder site “why did he go there?” meme to show my father.
Millions must do the tag meme. Open to anyone:DD
Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.
InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation
They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.
Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.
He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.
just saw someones one star review of frankenstein that said "annoying scientist and ugly tall man fight over who is more depressed" and im not lying when i say i let out a literal screech of a laugh
having a crush as an aro/ace person is actually evi
no bc they’re hot and kind and smart but if i do but the lightest flirting—well, i talk with my hands. hands upon which sit aro and ace beaded bracelets. what are they to think?
saw them in public yesterday btw. just sitting there. they waved at me. i waved back and kept walking. I AM GENUINELY A CHUD
they vape. KILL MYSELF
ok im logging off for the night bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz that's my pencil sharpener
I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;
The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.
And I am not going to mince words here:
A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.
That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.
"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.
So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.
#imo the potluck analogy applies- it would be rude to critique someone's icing technique at a potluck bc it wasn't as good as at the bakery #but if they had decorated their cupcakes w hate symbols it wouldn't be rude to tell them that's gross and gtfo #in fact it would be inappropriate to NOT say anything in that situation #or to complain that another guest who did point it out was 'ruining everyone's potluck' #and pointing out racism in fan works is 100% the second thing not the first! (via destructions-daughter)
There's also a tendency to conflate anyone who critiques general trends with bad faith randos. Like, there is fandom behavior that is 100% racist and should be talked about, but there are also trends of racist/sexist/ableist preferences.
If I say "I am uncomfortable with fandom's tendency to write trans men as feminine and submissive" I do not mean "I think every person who writes feminine submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I don't even mean "any cis-person who writes feminine or submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I mean "I would like writers to seriously think about why this is so common, why they write that, and if it fairly and genuinely engages with what it means to be a trans man, or if they just think it's hot when submissive people have vaginas and didn't want to write omegaverse of m/f".
Similarly, when people say "fandom is systemically less interested in black characters, less willing to give flat black characters rich fanon than flat white characters, and less interested in black characters in ships", the response is not to explain why you, personally, just happen to like popular white guy in that fanon. Your job is to look at yourself and ask if you tend to "just happen to be more interested" in the popular white guy across fandoms, be honest, and start unpacking that. Sometimes it's easier to love the flat character who's already getting 10,000 fics with headcanons and art and meta.
If somebody says "I wish there were more gluten free options at the potluck. I hate always showing up and not finding anything I can eat*", they are not asking you to throw your cake in the trash and weep. They do not want to hear your long speech about how actually this is your grandmother's recipe, and you've tried it with rice flour actually, but it just didn't work. You think about what you can do, and you listen to how they feel.
*The metaphor here not being that you can't read fic that isn't "good rep". The metaphor here is that it can be isolating to be in spaces where nobody is trying to make sure people like you are welcome.
i know we’re being hunted for sport right now by a giant supernatural bear we’ve angered but we have GOT to do something about the sodomy problem we have on this boat
sounds about right
@lieutenantfest - day 6 - jopson
I understand that you were aiming for a morally grey protagonist, but in practice what you've ended up with is more of a moral beige.
@ancient-tree-with-deathwish replied:
how do you distinguish grey from other colours beyond black and wite?
Distinguishing features of moral beige:
The protagonist is constantly agonising over Hard Choices; however, circumstances always conspire to prevent them from actually having to make those choices, so in practice they're just angsting over stuff they might have done.
The text exhibits a recurring pattern whereby the protagonist seems to to have made a Hard Choice, but new information is reliably revealed shortly thereafter which retroactively establishes that whatever they did was the morally upright course after all.
The protagonist's moral impulses are straightforwardly heroic, except in one specific context which lacks any clear real-world analogue; for example, being prejudiced against telepaths.
The protagonist's actions are consistently reasonable based on the information available to them – they're merely operating on bad information basically all the time due to a bizarre conspiracy and/or a series of increasingly implausible misunderstandings.
The protagonist always ends up doing the right thing (for some fuzzy value of "right"), but, like, they're really grumpy about it.
fun character types
character who is not allowed to kill themself
related: suicidal character who physically can't kill themself
alive character who has successfully committed suicide
character who hasn't died but has committed thematic suicide of the Self
character who thinks they're suffering karmic punishment for killing/trying to kill themself
