Katseye look STUNNING at the VMAS!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

Andulka
🪼
RMH
YOU ARE THE REASON
Stranger Things
Today's Document
DEAR READER

Origami Around
hello vonnie
$LAYYYTER

No title available
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Monterey Bay Aquarium

@theartofmadeline
art blog(derogatory)
One Nice Bug Per Day
styofa doing anything
No title available

#extradirty
seen from Singapore
seen from Venezuela
seen from Trinidad & Tobago
seen from Trinidad & Tobago
seen from Trinidad & Tobago
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Australia
@spamsterlady
Katseye look STUNNING at the VMAS!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Audrey Nuna, EJAE, and REI AMI attend the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)
I think monsterfucking is about vulnerability. When you think about it
Something about knowing this being could destroy you and trusting them not to and in turn the monster is letting you see this part of them and trusting you not to be afraid or disgusted etc etc
It's also about fangs sexy
Meanwhile, somewhere else in Night Vale:
Happy Pride to the original gay podcast people
me when I go out wearing an outfit I wouldn’t usually wear: oh my god everyone knows this is an outfit I wouldn’t usually wear I’m so embarrassed
putting excelsis right after umbra was so fucked up
We satanized our eggs!
@jindoshriddle
I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.
That’s enough to keep me going.
@cryptonature Man do I have good news for you!
Also! Bonus frog!
adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive
I don’t WANT a career. I want to cuddle and sleep and eat and read and create and love and be loved.
So uh, everyone’s also feeling totally normal about this, huh?
Red Lights [2021] || ESCAPE [2025]
Same-same, but different. But still same.
5000 years ago.
Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.
With Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor and Music by Wojciech Kilar.
Heads up, the whole thing is officially available on YouTube, for the next two months
I wish I had a recording of the Atlanta Ballet's production of Dracula that they did in like 2003 or 2004. It was amazing and amazingly homoerotic. There was a moment where Johnathan falls onto his back and is inching away backwards as Dracula pursues him slowly by crawl-walking between his legs in the most sexual way. The whole production was great but that moment is burned into my memory
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.
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.
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.
WOOYOUNG in COURREGES FW25 SHOW