#is also fun

[phenakistoskope]

i lowkey wish bisexual hadn't fallen out of fashion as a description of gender expression, because if it retained that old meaning, i could identify as bisexual²

[intermundia]

We should start calling Palpatine You-know-who so the human cockroach gets confused with Voldemort and finally dies in all ways that matter.

First, let me say, so true bestie. Palpatine needs to die and die completely and badly. You know my feelings on this—I wrote him being killed outside of time in LT just to make sure his consciousness got completely crushed into oblivion.

Second, let me derail slightly so that I can talk about one of my favorite books that I own: Ontological Humility: Lord Voldemort and the philosophers by Nancy Holland.

From the back cover:

Neither self-effacing modesty nor religious meekness, ontological humility is a moral and philosophical attitude toward transcendence—the unknown and unknowable background of existence—and a recognition and awareness of the contingency and chance that influence the course of our lives. It is a concept that Nancy J. Holland finds both throughout the history of philosophy and across the volumes of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Tracing it through the philosophical thought of figures ranging from Descartes, Hume, and Kant to Heidegger, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida, Holland uses the Harry Potter saga as a guide to illustrate the concept, revealing a whole set of ethical imperatives. Connecting the concept to contemporary gender and race theory, she demonstrates its implications both for our understanding of the philosophical tradition and for the way we live our lives.

Fucking amazing, right? I vividly remember finding this at a used bookstore. The title Ontological Humility caught me, and when I saw the subtitle I think I ascended to a new plane of reality. I adore it when pop culture is taken way too seriously, adore it. Despite all the current issues around Rowling, it’s very much Holland’s book/interpretation/analysis and is worth reading.

The thesis is essentially that it is the ultimate form of arrogance to believe one can conquer death, and that arrogance is tied to racism. Magic is something “given” in the Harry Potter universe, and Holland argues that Harry and Dumbledore are humble before it and recognize its limits, instead of taking the gift as something deserved. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are certain they deserve this power and that those who lack it are inferior. Harry is humble, willing to die and relinquish the gift, and Voldemort is arrogant, unwilling to die and feels entitled to the gift.

Holland draws the parallel to privilege, to those who life has “given” much, and think that they deserve it because of some inherent or achieved virtue of their own, rather than accept that chance or fate is responsible. The ethical imperative is to be humble and understand that the world is shaped by forces we cannot control or completely understand. Instead of being like Voldemort and seeking more power and feeling entitled to superiority because of the gift, we must recognize its transcendent and passing nature.

Basically, we must not seek to dominate those who do not have privilege, but rather be prepared to renounce it as something unearned. We all die, basically, and the ethical imperative is to be humble before that fact and generous in our unknowing of why and how.

Anyway, to pivot back to Star Wars, Palpatine seeking domination over all life, trying to wield power not fit for mortals to endure outside his lifespan, is all a dramatization of his incredible arrogance. I don’t even want to get into Anakin’s relationship with death lol. The Jedi generally are humble, and it is their humility that makes them strong. Each individual Jedi isn’t seeking to dominate with their privilege of Force sensitivity. They are much better ethical examples than the Sith.

[excieotm-blog]

          plotting call? like this and ill throw myself at ur dms or something so we can try and plot out some threads or somethin similar maybe?

[letmebeachild]

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11) I do ^^ I mean I enjoy the feeling of being a kid, so sometimes even when I'm not regress I just do agere stuff if that make sense

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(Today's random picture is a page from my bucket-list notebook)

[manystarredface]

If u watch Outlaw King for no other reason than the romance between Husband and Wife, u’ll still be happy. It’s mutual pining at its best. The historical war for Scottish Independence is also v cool and awesome, but im also Living for this romance.

[v-mystery]

what do u do for fun aside from terrorizing kids

I wasn't aware I was someone who sounded like I had hobbies other than terrorism.

[samscorch]

that moment when you can't decide which character to kill off

nah jk I know exactly who I'm killing