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[oldmanpusspuss]

I dont care about ethics but rpf seems like it requires a lot of research.

Yeah but that's secretly the fun part.

[guiltfactory]

i would like if something horrible and invasive was happening to him and his boundaries were violated and he was uncomfortable and scared

[thesilliestpotato]

Ursa Major (Greater Bear) & Silna

[froggerland]

Been thinking about Tozer and his friendship with heather a lot……..

[phneltwrites]

some fave jopping posts

AS I APPROACH KPOP RETIREMENT HOME AGE (MID 20S)

[girlnaviy]

old doodles for fun

[girlnaviy]

fitz

[armadillorollup]

Moby Dick Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.

[girlnaviy]

dont disappoint me

[fellweather]

some of the seals in the seal hospital zeehondencentrum (from reference)

[armadillorollup]

Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[sieaweasel]

These two😭

[ghostbees]

Had to draw my faves too!

[jelatinivan]

edward little will soon find the obvious easy way out

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[manuciruja]

[2productive]

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

[patrice-bergerons]

Stories often use their characters as mouthpieces for the narrative and/or the writer, and I am fascinated by the Terror's take on this, because the characters are so often wrong.

For example, consider the conversation between Blanky and Francis in episode 7, when they are about to abandon the ships. Blanky tells a story about the time the Terror almost sank only to come thru in the end and concludes about the present day "she may well triumph" with perfect sincerity of belief. In another show, one can imagine the Terror coming thru for the walking men just when all hope seemed lost, following a thaw. And yet, we know even as Blanky says those words, that the ship is doomed--it will never sail again.

And this keeps happening through out the show. Bridgens tells Peglar about the men who found themselves in hostile country in Persia, who "walked for hundreds and hundreds of miles through desert and snow, with no food," and survived, when we know they very much so will not. Lady Jane speaks with utmost conviction about being able to feel Sir John calling to her when we know that Sir John is long dead. The examples go on and on.

The most interesting thing this does is that it makes statements that would otherwise be read as the writer's ultimate verdict on the topic into these beautifully nuanced and ambivalent things. For example, Bridgens tells a dying Fitzjames that he was a good man. Was he? He who is being poetically killed by the ghost of a Chinese sniper whose worth he once equated to a roasted duck? Is self-awareness and remorse enough to make up for that when it makes no tangible difference in the real world?

Francis tells Goodsir that "even if God is seeing every last thing we do here, you have nothing to fear. Not you. You're clean, Goodsir. Clean--even if your hand is forced by swine." Such a resounding statement which in any other context would have absolved Goodsir of everything he has done. But does it? Goodsir certainly does not accept the absolution himself, and his suicide is...something.

I could go on, and I am not saying that as a result Goodsir is damned and James an awful man--rather that I love the way we are invited to interrogate these verdicts and decide for ourselves.