#mortharris

[umbraastaff]

we still have never seen lup and garfield the deals warlock in the same room so while there is strong evidence AGAINST my lupfield the deals wizlock theory i refuse to believe it has been CONCLUSIVELY disproved

OK, I MEAN, FAIR ENOUGH I GUESS

obviously griffin’s character Tom, a warlock pretending to be a wizard, was foreshadowing for this

[titleknown]

you would be Green and Blue and you would be from Ravnica because if i have ever met anyone in my life who i think is a Simic then you are that person

...Hm, looking them up; the philosophy of “WE’LL MAKE NATURE COOLER, NATURE 2.0, THE SEQUEL NATURE!” is kind of the one that applies to me; and I’d kill to have Cytoplasts IRL.

Tho Momir Vig’s Simic seems more my type than the current Simic, because GODDAMN YOU FUCKING HIPPIES, YOU HAVE NO VISION!

[tyrantisterror]

i'm so glad you watched The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra b/c i was thinking about it recently and let me tell you, TLSOC is even better when you're blitzed out of your gourd on pain meds post wisdom teeth-extraction. it's a lovely movie.

I will take your word on the pain med bit.

[the-precisionist-procurator]

mortharris replied to your post: did you see that one of the possible backstories...

perhaps you are actually in DEEP COVER, pretending to be disgraced so that you an acquire all the pestilent and obstacudent literature of the high wilderness for your love

HMMMM

[incorrectfallenlondonquotes]

mortharris

cant believe the bazaar just rickrolled me smh

the bazaar rickrolled us all, jim. one meme Too Many. they entered the cybernetic age and all the information and possibilities was just Too Much for it to contain. now memes will richochet throughout eternity. as a great vulcan prophet once said, “it is good to die young and not see the inanity of your elders.”

[titleknown]

either Neon Man or Teratoma Man

[Relating to this post]

Welp, multiple people have said Neon Man, so that’s probably it. Tho, trouble with the Maverick side of the equation is, I’m not really sure I quite have a particular animal I identify with.

Like, I never really was a particularly outdoors-y kid, tho thinking about it; Corvids; bully-breed dogs, Javelinas, coyotes and saguaros come the closes thanks to my life in Arizona, but IDK what y’all amongst those would associate me with...

[titleknown]

Music Aesthetics: "Ora E Sempre" from The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus | "Tank!" by the Seatbelts (the Cowboy Bebop opening theme) | Neil Cicierega's "The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny"

Well, wouldja believe I had to look that first one up. And I have actually seen that movie.

Tho, while I’d say those aren’t exactly my aesthetic, you have done a pretty good job of getting into its orbit and those are definitely within my stylistic realm...

[titleknown]

Re: "why do people defend the worst possible examples of free speech", I think there's two explanations. First, I think it stems from not understanding that the freedom to speak comes with the freedom to take the consequences for saying horrible things, and second, I think it's lived experience again. I know that you have had friends fall victim to terrible shit, but others haven't, and in *their* experience, attacks on free speech *are* the worst thing. (1/?)

I'm not saying that trying to cure, contain, or erase outbreaks of pedophilia is a *bad* goal - I'm merely saying that it's not one that *occurs* to a good number of people because they *haven't* seen what you have. They haven't seen people get away with terrible shit; they've *only* seen artists get attacked (and, frankly, opening with the case of an artist getting attacked kind of delegitimized your argument - that sort of thing makes people without your experience understandably angry). (2/?)

And, finally (oh look a third reason) - while I will never deny that a firm line *exists*, I will *always* deny that I have perfect knowledge of it, and I think that willingness to engage in debate on *where* the line falls in a not unambiguous subject shouldn't be automatically taken as "permissiveness". I totally understand why it angers you, but I truly believe people are working from the best of intentions here. (3/3)    

A fair point, also evidenced by the chungus I responded with my response to saying “I don’t see any evidence [pedoshit] hurts anyone,” though I will also say that; while privelege discourse has had its problems made very much evident; the same dynamics kinda apply to the sort of argument-by-lack-of-experience here, IE they argue against it because they haven’t seen its impacts and talk down anyone who has.

Also, a fair point on the liminality of art, but I will also say that the problem is that so much of our previous decade’s relationship with art was characterized by such an emphasis on that liminality as a shield for never talking about the social impacts; especially in fandom in the wake of the culture wars, and I it kinda ties into how culture was trying to be “ambiguous” and “shades of grey”  in the sort of darker-and-edgier content that thrived on that attitude in the 90s/2000s.

And, of course, that “ambiguity” let SO MUCH bad shit slip through. See South Park or, again, the normalization of pedoshit via imported hentai on 4chan and (from what I know of) certain aspects of fandom culture. So; I think there’s a reason why so many people seem wary of any sort of ambiguity; and tut-tutting that ignores the historical context that that worldview is opposing and comes off as wanting that previous status-quo back.

Just my two cents IMO...