#senthessa

[solanuma]

senthessa replied to your post: Mein alter kunst- und klassenlehrer hat mich grad...

Es hat kurz gedauert, bis ich begriffen habe, dass du mit “Bild” ein altes Kunstprojekt meintest. Ich habe mich bestimmt zehn Sekunden gewundert, warum er random Fotos von dir herumliegen hat.

ähm er hat mir tatsächlich noch ein Ausdruck vom Foto mitgegeben, das er während meine Mitschüler und ich an den Bildern arbeiteten, geschossen hat

[lonestarzz]

paprikaschildkroete replied to your post

“I think my uni had an open day or something today. Downtown was...”

I feel u.but a little different.a few weeks ago my supervisor told me to tell our school intern about studying chemical engineering after he told her about studying chemistry. one colleague and me were in the room and trying really really hard not to shout at her to not study chemistry especially if she likes technical stuff as well. I was basically: yeah merseburg is shit but chemical engineering is THE shit pls come and don't make my mistake by starting with chemistry

I finally understand parents who are like “I don’t want my children to repeat my mistakes”, like, I don’t want any children to repeat my mistakes :’D and you have no idea what you’re getting into when you first choose your major and apply for universities, I mean how could you.

senthessa replied to your post“I think my uni had an open day or something today. Downtown was...”

I once took someone aside who applied for a trainee position in my law firm and told them “You’d be absolutely welcome here, but think really hard about if this is really what you want. They’re *terrible* to their assistants here.” She didn’t take the position and I’m not sure if I saved her or if I should feel guilty. But she made the right decision.

don’t feel guilty about that! I think you made the right call. with the job market being so shitty all the time I know we’re all desperate to find something, and sort of fall into that mindset of “better a horrible job than no job”, but a bad environment at work can break your spirit in the worst ways. it’s better to know what a place is like before you run into it blindly and then maybe end up dropping out or something because you can’t stand it. I’m sure she had other options and that you did the right thing :)

magical-mistral replied to your post“I think my uni had an open day or something today. Downtown was...”

i feel your pain (though i studied something different). but you can do it!!

thanks ^^” it’s funny how almost everyone you meet is like “ugh I’d never recommend my chosen field to anyone”, like....okay. the only people I ever meet who have good things to say about their majors are those doing something related to social work in some capacity, or occasionally language students

[phiillii]

senthessa replied to your post “i mean what exactly is the political message of the lion king? ‘you...”

preI never thought of it that way ... It's just Disney's version of Hamlet and if you see it in that light, Simba's relative uselessness over the years makes hella sense.

yeah, Hamlet, i know, i know... so it’s pretty understandable. but i mean STILL. what a very anti-republican, oppressive (if benevolent) system. the lions claim their right to rule derives from this being their ‘rightful place’; the fact that this works probably stems from their physical (and in parts mental) superiority. because the other creatures, from hyenas to antelopes to meerkats, are obviously sentient, but if we follow the hyenas’ own claims, they consider themselves less intelligent than lions. but does this physical+mental superiority (EVEN if the latter isn’t a result of century-long brainwashing them into actually believing they’re less intelligent and oppression of every hyena-attempt at education) justify lions eating other sentient creatures/withholding resources? the first is pretty clearly a result of the lions’ necessity to eat meat. if they do not want other lions, as is understandable because most animals are speciesist, they have to eat other creatures, and all other creatures in the tlk universe are sentient. this must be justified; not only to the other creatures, but also to themselves. i suppose that’s where the ‘your rightful place in the circle of life’ philosophy comes from. if they did not cling to that ‘everyone has a destiny they have to fulfill and the prey animals’ destiny is to be eaten’ philosophy, how could they sleep at night? but the behavior they exhibit towards the hyenas is imo less understandable and less forgivable. they are not prey animals. why do lions and hyenas not make a common ‘predator elite’ and oppress the other sentient creatures together? wouldn’t that be more efficent, as there’s more oppression potential (more physical strength) and further revolutions like scar’s will be prevented?  we do not have enough information why that’s so, so i propose there are two reasons the lions keep themselves are the only elite and keep the hyenas oppressed. one is that the available resources are simply not enough: and that the imploding economy under scar was not a result of bad legislative decisions but inevitable. this is supported by the fact that there seem to be very few lions. there simply aren’t enough prey animals around to feed a larger amount to a satisfying degree, much less all those hyenas. another reason is the aforementioned ‘everyone has their own destiny’ philosophy: the lions regard themselves as very different from the hyenas. it is the hyenas’ rightful place to be beneath. also, there are no intra-personal relationships that would help bridge differences, and considering the biological differences, at least sexual relationships are impossible. i suppose the current oppression of hyenas is a bit because of both reasons. but can that work for a larger amount of time? either the lions have to go full-on genocide on the hyenas or another war will break out eventually - people don’t like, y’know, starving. or they could include them in their society, as i said. in such a society (shortness of resources, a dissatisfied lower class, a philosophy of distinct different-ness) an absolute monarchy can be very effective, but probably only short-term: as an aristocratic dictatorship. but history shows time and time again that dictatorships are not eternal. but how could the system be improved under these circumstances? if we assume that the problem really lies in the shortness of resources, and that an improvement of technology could, as it has historically, lead to more available resources, that could be a way to include hyenas in the ruling class. I’m thinking for example a kind of animal husbandry, maybe with a kind of mass production of antelopes in the future; a better transport system to hunt in less time with more results. if there are enough resources, an enlightened enough future king/queen might see the positive outcomes of including hyenas in the ruling class. in time and with a careful education, the hyenas could be fully included in lion society and they would not have to go hungry again, as scar once promised. however, the problem of ‘eating other sentient creatures’ and the cognitive dissonance that has to accompany this can’t be solved that way. if anything, the only positive change that can occur it from the current absolute monarchy dictatorship to a checks-and-balances aristocratic dictatorship, without a single king/queen and different branches of government (maybe with socialist elements), but still very much oppressing the other sentient creatures. the very foundations of the tlk universe prevent a more republican/democratic system, as including the other creatures in the democratic body would be the literal death sentence for the lions.

[thethornofzadash]

Update: Birthday Pub Shenanigans

Location: Noel's Ballroom (Kurt-Eisner-Straße)

When? Sat 19 July, 7pm - I try to be there earlier, the table is booked for my name.

Etc: I booked the table for 12 people, so officially (according to the Doodle) there are three free seats.

[cosmogyros]

senthessa replied to your photo “fun game: how many pillows can I stack on top of Zlotzky?”

This is such an adorable kitty! <3 He should meet up with T. S. Eliot, she could teach him about tearing someone's ears off if they try to stack pillows on top of you. XD

Hee hee, thank you! (I'm sure he wouldn't bother saying thank you – he's a self-obsessed little diva – so I have to handle P.R. for him.) Haha, if he and Eliot met they might both think they were looking in a mirror! :D

[dottedmelon]

senthessa replied to your post:you should get a tattoo of a blue and green dragon with its wings extended over your shoulder blades - or something equally understated and unobtrusive

or an owl. maybe an owl - in shades of brown and bronze

Whoot-Whoot!

I love owls.

[dottedmelon]

you should get a tattoo of a blue and green dragon with its wings extended over your shoulder blades - or something equally understated and unobtrusive

This sounds cool.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

good morning! i thought a bit about something clever to say, but i haven't had my coffee yet so nothing comes to mind. is there an occasion? have you been celebrating something? not that one needs an occasion to have a drink, mind.

well since it seems to be morning for you, I suppose you don't yet know the tragedy that is teen wolf.

i am not celebrating my friend.