The Book Nook

I'm a lover of books, video games, and all things weird and wild. I'm mlm and my pronouns are he/him. Come here for dreams and writing, or just to hang out 😊❤🌈

[bugshark]

go my tennas. eat my gifs

[marineflamez]

new animation, this time deltarune!! i love this game so dearly, so this was super fun to make! :]

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions

[yorgen-sh]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[kelseyfun]

Reblog if you say "Y'all"

[champion-of-love]

i do think there's love between daring and apple but it's definitely not the romantic kind of love.

it's when you see this girl you've known your entire life and see her curl into herself when people talk about her hair being the wrong color right in front of her face and you 'accidentally' angle your smile in their faces to blind them.

it's when you see this boy you've known since you were in diapers and he's surrounded by his fans and they're all touching him and holding him and he's clearly uncomfortable but he doesn't move an inch from where he is because he's been raised to be charming above all else so you swoop in and take him by the elbow and tell all the girls that he's yours, sorry. and you see him breathe a sigh of relief as you two walk away.

it's when you see your oldest friend frown and pick her food at lunch without ever eating any of it and you know exactly why since you read that her royal ranking dropped this week (you know that she checks it every day the same as you but the difference is that her mom calls her just to scold her for it) so you bring her an apple pie from her favorite cafe since you know it's a treat she can't ever resist.

it's when your about to fall asleep because of a poison apple you ate and you don't know when you're going to wake up and you don't know if your friends will even be there for you when you wake up (you haven't been such a good friend lately that you wouldn't even blame them if they left you) but at least your comforted by the fact that your oldest friend will still be there ready to wake you up. (briar, ashlynn, and raven all left you at one point. he's the only one who hasn't). he's the only friend you've never fought with and he understands your outbursts and breakdowns since he knows all the pressure you're under since he's bearing the same amount of weight and expectations.

it might not have been romantic. but there was love.

[peachfromcmbyn]

Yeah sorry I can't come into work today. I accidentally heard Primadonna by Marina formerly of and the Diamonds. So I need the day to be a primadonna girl. Yeah it's going to be the whole day.

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[charlataninred]

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

[sirkayleeofcamelot]

*becomes a knight strictly because the local bard is cute, and I want him to write songs about me*

[big-blog-of-cheese-day]

*becomes a bard strictly because the local knight is cute and I want to write songs about him*

[thyrell]

*becomes the village idiot because of a chemical deposit in the well behind my house*

[the274]

*becomes the evil wizard because the local strong knight is cute and I want to get beaten by them.*

[evilwizard]

*dumps my evil chemicals in the well behind some random dude’s house*

[fandomsandfeminism]

Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

[the-nerdy-autist]

Quick question: how do you do "restorative justice" for a man like Frollo who actively tries to commit a genocide?

Hitlers exist. They need killing.

[fandomsandfeminism]

There are other ways to remove a person's ability to wield political and social power to commit genocide than dropping them off the side of a burning building that are all just as effective.

I'd also like to point out that the idea that you can prevent a wholesale genocide by like, killing the RIGHT individual, is a rather...simplistic understanding of what causes genocide.

Frollo, to use him as the example, is a priest (in the book), and a judge (in the Disney movie.) He's not just a bad guy. He's an extention of the Catholic Church/The State (depending on which version you want to lean on here.) His power to do harm comes from his position within those institutions and the power of those institutions themselves. The persecution of the Roma people within France isn't because there was a bad guy, but because of those systems of power being used to kill the people that the church and the government wanted dead. Frollo getting dropped off a building wouldn't stop the persecution of the Roma in any world that isn't, maybe, a Disney film.

In the real world, it's very easy to hold up Hitler as the boogeyman. But if Hitler had died, but the war machine of Third Reich Germany hadn't lost the Battle of Berlin/the War as a whole, the Holocaust wouldn't have magically stopped just because 1 guy died.

Look. I'm not saying that there's never been a situation in the world where killing 1 guy wasn't the objectively best option in a high stakes, immediately dangerous situation. The world is full of Trolley problems and self defense situations and nuance and context.

But this post is about Restorative vs Punitive Justice *systems*, and about how many people, in general, start and end their analysis of Justice with "did the bad guy get killed?"

I would even argue that this mentality, where as long as you are sure in your heart that it will SAVE LIVES, killing people is just and good and shouldn't be questioned because some people are just bad- that mentality? Forms the core of Police killings in our culture. Justifies shooting first and asking questions never. Because once you decide that someone has done harm, they need to die for there to be Justice?

I dunno. I just think maybe as a society, we should be open to...other ideas on the matter.

[rosebramblewolf]

i havent seen the lion king in years but im pretty sure scar doesnt fall off a cliff, he gets set upon by the pack of hyenas

[fandomsandfeminism]

1. The specificity of it being a death by falling isn't meant to be super literal. My point is more broadly about Disney villains getting deaths that leave the main hero essentially blameless for their deaths, while still feeling like justice was done because the bad guy dies.

Many Disney villain deaths ARE specifically by falling ( Gaston and Frollo are the most obvious examples, but theres more- Snow Whites Queen, Ratigan from the Great Mouse Detective, etc), or falling with a twist (Gothel from Tangled and Clayton from Tarzan come to mind). But sometimes it's a little more abstract- still a death that leaves the hero blameless, but not specifically a fall (Hades, Dr. Falcifer) Technically, it's not falling that kills them, but it fulfills the same trope.

2.

Scar absolutely fits category 2. He very dramatically falls off a cliff, in a parallel to Mufasa, and THEN gets eaten by hyenas. The fall is absolutely part of it.

The fact that *so many people* felt like this comment was the most interesting or relevant comment they could add to this discussion is....a little tiring.

[homunculus-argument]

Those who think that wisdom and whimsy are mutually exclusive have neither. It's vitally important to do the right thing when the consequences are dire, and to do a whole bunch of utterly frivolous silly dumb shit when it doesn't matter what you do.

[writing-prompt-s]

uh mom you said this red string is attached to our soulmate. "Oh yes darling it's how I met your father." "Well then what does the blue and green strings mean?" "What their shouldn't be any other strings." "So by that I'm assuming I shouldn't have one on every finger in different colors."

[australet789]

ML: The only one left

A possibility (1/?)

[justsomeguycore]

horror movie showing a child’s drawing of the monster or ghost or whatever but instead of a little kid and crayons they’re like a preteen and it’s manga style

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[icantbearsedtothinkofone]

Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.

[dduane]

Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)