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[heatexhaustion]

[sourcedumal]

Say that again!!!!

Y’all better stop with this ‘I’m not like these OTHER Black kids’ bullshit out here. 

[thereasonforthewordbitch]

yes cuz niggas tired of hearing bout how the hood niggas bullied you in high school and the black girls aint like you cuz you like anime

[mongolian-ass-eater]

True, but at the SAME TIME we can’t deny that there is and was PLENTY of niggas calling these same kids “oreos” and roasting them for “trying to act or talking white”. That doesn’t help the internalized racism being shunned and being constantly picked at to validate blackness.

[kandutchess]

yea i don’t understand why yall want these same black kids yall bully for this behavior to be so willing and happy about it. yall tired of hearing about black nerds being bullied but then stand to the side and watch it happen all the time. yall tired of hearing it well i guess they tired of LIVING it. and maybe that fake comradiere they have with other non black people is the only comfort they have.

yall want all the solidarity in the black community but then at the same time yall step on black people who don’t conform. yall want everyone to do all black only, but then turn around and ignore black people. fuck all yall.

yall make someone hate themselves for not being black enough, and then turn around and shame them for feeling that way. yall look down on black nerds because they rather read a comic than zane, because they stan for an asain entertainer and not a black one, because they might be into some alternative culture that isn’t rooted in black culture–and then turn around and say “yea just because we shit on yall for not acting black but that doesn’t mean yall not black.” like shut the fuck up.

why dont we stop trying to police how black people should fit into black culture then? why dont we just allow black people to like rap OR j-pop and not demand that they must choose a side. how about we dont ostracize the black nerds who wanna talk more about pop culture and social issues. how about we accept black nerds/geeks/otakus as they are and maybe they wont be trying so hard to distance themselves from the black community.

[lastsonlost]

FUCKING YES. 

Thank you so much @daisyology .

Y’all act like this was some lunch money and swirlies in the bathroom bullshit. No we were black kids dealing with gun-toting, gang affiliated, drug dealing previously arrested BLACK bullies. From home to class and back there was never one second of peace just one brutal ass whoopin after another.

Every step of my high school life niggas were literally try to kill my ass for not being the right kind of black. I spent more time leaving the ER then i did leaving class. Every other day I was crawling my bloody ass out of the damn Street after getting knocked the fuck out. Where was this unity when I was pushed down whole flights of steps, beat with a fucking stick, and hand textbooks thrown at me?

where were you people when I had to hide in the boys bathroom until everybody left the school?  Where were all of you the many times I was so desperate to just end it already because I was sick and tired of being physically beaten?  Where were you when the “bullying” got so bad (as if it wasn’t bad enough already) I decided to take a gun to school?

I didn’t just have a few bad days, I had 4 fucked up years and it’s a miracle that I got through any of it at all, no thanks to you people. Please tell me when you had my back? I don’t remember anybody talking me out of a window or convincing me to take a gun back home.  When i was being “bullying” the only black person that had my back was me, thank you very much.

Nobody said shit. Nobody did shit

[reality-ensues]

That’s cause niggas don’t give a shit about other blacks until it’s convenient to do so.

[thatgirlwithanopinion-deactivat]

I always see this post and I always want to reblog it, but I can’t because of how much it angers me, I can’t quite find the words to say that accurately describes it. I love how they address that “yeah I know you’re upset and all because you were punished for being different and/or trying to succeed by your own race…” then proceed to tell us, with VALID greivences, to just “meh, shut up about it and come together in solidarity with us”. Um no, sorry that’s not how it works. You can’t just erase people’s lived experiences of rejection, ostracization and sometimes being beat into submission and then ask those same people to hold hands with you.

For some of us, hurdle after hurdle was put in our way by other black people and you wanna act like we’re the ones who need a reality check? You wanna act like it’s the white man who’s the active threat? I didn’t get into fights with white people at school. I didn’t get laughed at by white people at my school. I didn’t get punished for trying to get good grades by white people. As soon as I graduated from my majority black middle school I booked it to somewhere else. And if you’re going to act like we need to adjust ourselves, it ain’t going down like that.

[black-girl-against-feminism]

Black people need pushing this fake unity shit to get at “the man,” and preach respect for every single human being on this planet. You can’t watch niggas get jumped, robbed and bullied while you laughing and shaming them, and you wonder why black people don’t trust each other.

[viewtifulmarkovich]

I’m surprised how many people in these notes are on the opposite side of the debate. This isn’t a “I can’t find no nerdy black girls” thing nor is it a “All the people who teases me were hood” thing. This is a “Throughout both middle school and high school I was consistently demanded to prove my blackness through both physical and social opression. This was not only at the the behest of classmates but from family as well, some even immediate asy parents or siblings” thing. So of course scorn for the circumstances or cultural elements that bore those kinds of enemies would stay in your heart, that’s not some shit you just “grow up” from.

Furthermore I see many of you making the mistake asserting “anti-blackness” with whatever specific grievances someone has. The refusal to engage with certain elements you consider mandatory to blackness does not equate to anti-blackness. Saying a those of the ghetto have a responsibility to actually try towards the changes they demand is not anti-blackness. Not being completely comfortable with the whine put on ya is not anti-blackness. Having polarizing interests is not anti-blackness.

For context, I was raised middle-class and had popular-ish friends so this was never a true problem for me. Had difficulty relating to my family but still love em to death. When it did become close to a problem in school I fought a couple of niggas, because I ain’t bitch-made. But the issue still stands that this shouldn’t be a problem in the first damn place.

TL;DR what everyone else said. I just felt it necessary to add something. Don’t actually be anti-black though, that’s dumb.

[lissanaria-deactivated20220607]

I always hated that there was a fucking measuring stick for what it meant to be black, or people would be like, ‘well you lost your black card’. LOL. Like I’m sorry, pretty sure we were all born with that fucker and no one can take it away. Watching anime or not being into sports, liking classical music, or insert whatever the fuck thing doesn’t mean someone isn’t black. For me, because of family trying to force me into a fucking box as to what that meant, it took until I was well into my twenties to actually be proud of my heritage. 

There’s a billion ways to be black and all of them are fine so long as we aren’t trying to shred each other to death. Enough of the world does that for us anyway.

[feminists-against-feminism]

Blackness and whiteness aren’t real. Solidarity is ideological fraternity, not racial fraternity. I’m me, not my race, and I see you whether you try to hide behind your race or not. Hope you all see me too.

[afterthesemessagesberightback]

Tweets and posts like this are 100% why I’m happy to have been an antisocial weirdo in high school, thank you very much.

[untitled74285]

This shit is not cute anymore lol. Y'all are not in highschool no more y'all are grown ass adults. You need to go to therapy and sit down and talk about your experiences and why you think it was the responsibility of fellow black youth to save you from the trauma you faced in highschool when you could barely handle it yourself. You also need to fucking realize that like,, black children acting out and having some qualifiers for blackness is a result of systematic oppression from whites. Wtf is wrong w/ yall. Yall wanna bootlick so bad. I mean really…“other 12-18 y/o didn’t save me now I don’t trust any black people”, “black teens called me an oreos in highschool so all black people are so terrible whites would never treat me this way😭😭”, “Race isnt real therefore i dont owe fellow black people anything”. Please grow up this is not a cute look.

[thefuckisabook]

This sure is an awful lot of words that doesn’t resolve the fact that what this is is a demand that these black people reach out to the people who in a very real way ostracized and othered them in the first place, putting the onus on them to undo the damage the black community did TO them.  If you want a single, united black community, then it is the responsibility of that community to reach out and mend rifts, not of the outcasts to come join a group they will naturally associate with negative experiences out of some percieved solidarity they have never been a beneficiary of.  You don’t create unity from obligation, you create it from fucking COMMUNITY.  If you can’t find a way to invite these people back in without insulting them and making them out to be the villains, you will not ever get them back in.  If you want to serve as an agent and member of a united black people, then you need to take responsibility for what that means, and that means resolving the issues within the black community, not expecting the victims to come and resolve them on your behalf.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thefuckisabook]

USA population: 360 million, 94th for murder rate

Germany population: 80.3 million, 187th for murder rate

Norway Population: 5.6 million, 216th for murder rate

Finland Population: 5.5 million, 155th for murder rate

Now, I’m not saying that more training wouldn’t be helpful, it’s one of two major things I advocate(the other being mandatory body cams), but I do think directly comparing apples and oranges isn’t terribly helpful to discourse.  There might, just maybe, be some differences between the USA and Germany that can’t be summed up by two numbers.

Oh, and fuck Finland, we’re not making it a degree, we don’t want the training of police handed over to the private sector, thank you very much.

[theliterarywolf]

So... Who wants to explain to me, without using the words 'uncomfortable' or 'cop-out', why the concept of 'Evil Races' in something like high fantasy or D&D is a bad thing all of a sudden?

And if you try to use any links to real-world racism, I'm revoking your media-consumption privileges.

[thisblogwillbegone-deactivated2]

I’m still new to D&D so consider what I have to say to be taken with a grain of salt, but I find that it can be limiting to the imagination and creativity if you play as an “evil race.” 

What if you want to play as said evil race but still wanna align yourself on the side of Good or Neutral? Why would an entire race be considered evil? What about individuality?

I don’t doubt that people would want to play as a race without being defaulted to being a villain. I consider it the same way that in recent years, people have been portraying monsters in a more domestic, wholesome light and even as the good guys in comparison to the automatic evil image they had in media before. Or at the very least showing monsters that are both good and evil in the same piece of media. 

[theliterarywolf]

I accept this counter, since it is better thought out than most and actually makes good points, with this grain of salt:

When people are making their own campaigns and mediums, they get to make the penultimate decision on what species is the 'evil' one, for antagonist reasons. While a lot of people do choose orcs, there are people who focus on Mindflayers and others. Which is why I agreed with the last anon I got in saying 'if just they changed the wording to "evil species", people wouldn't have this issue'.

Am I the type who would rather have a coalition of villains from different species being an antagonist group? Yes, because it allows for more creativity and character design opportunities.

But it seems like there was a bit of a scorched earth approach to D&D doing away with the concept as a whole rather than examining what the nuances involved are.

... I don't know, it just feels like ever since that one guy (who had never even PLAYED D&D before) wrote up that Twitter tirade about Orcs being racist allegories of black people, I'm just seeing really... Not great approaches and 'analysis' of fantasy and tabletop tropes.

[cookingwithroxy]

I think inherently the problem is that people do not understand how racial alignments work.

[trutown-the-bard]

Alignment is supposed to be a guide for role playing and is crucial for certain classes that are locked into certain alignments for story reasons (Paladins, Bards, etc) though even that has been undone by recent editions of DND. All playable races have no set racial alignments and the ones that do are classic enemy canon fodder (goblins, the undead, etc). Alignment is meant to be a guide to what your characters moral compass is supposed to be. Removing it will just encourage more players to act immorally and against type because they don’t know how to role play.

[cookingwithroxy]

Didn’t they reduce the alignments in 5e to five selections?

No, wait, that was 4e, but I’m pretty certain that the choices there influenced what we see now.

‘Until D&D 4e we had nine alignments: lawful good, lawful neutral, lawful evil, neutral good, neutral, neutral evil, chaotic good, chaotic neutral, and chaotic evil. Now we only have five alignments: lawful good, good, neutral (now called unaligned), chaotic evil and evil.‘

[f0rgemaster]

No we still have the 9 alignments unless youre saying "we dont truly have them anymore"

I honestly never liked the evil races thing just cause im tired of the people i play with in one offs that im just meeting being immediately suspicious of my character (if theyre a player) or outright saying "evil characters arent allowed at the table" (if theyre dming)

I just wanna play a chaotic neutral gnoll fighter who was raised as a gladiator, whats so wrong about that?

[cookingwithroxy]

I. Did point out it was something from 4e. Like, literally in 4e they removed almost half the alignments. That happened.

in 4e they removed half the alignments. They might have put them back in 5e, but that doesn’t change that for 4e, they removed half the alignments.

[thefuckisabook]

Nothing’s wrong with wanting to play a chaotic neutral gnoll fighter, but in character, there is baggage associated with some races, and you will suffer scrutiny for it.

It also helps to remember that most evil races are evil due to the influence of the gods that created them- Lolth lured the Drow into the underdark and corrupted them, goblins and orcs are lorded over by brutish war gods, and so on.  Once you understand that “evil race” isn’t a biological element unless a species is only barely intelligent, but a cultural or magical one, it becomes a lot easier to understand.  Can their be a good Drow?  Sure, go ahead, but I’m gonna ask for more backstory than average because I’m gonna want to know who you’re playing, and I’m gonna want you to be open to potential rebuke and consequences- Lolth is a jealous goddess, and the people of the surface rightfully fear her servants.  A gnoll is a “savage” race known for brutality and a shunning of civilization, and so you’ll carry the influence of their relative barbarism with you, in a similar way to how the Romans once claimed that the Gauls who came to serve as citizens of Rome couldn’t speak latin, despite near fluency.  Noone will assume that you are an exception until you’ve proven it to them- and depending on your race and their temperament, that may never happen.

[blaqpanther]

Lemme guess... fanboys hate Korra bc she's a she??

[erinthebrave]

Fan girl here. I don't hate Korra the character, I just hate the herky jerky weak ass story telling. Everyone gets to lightning bend now, despite iroh telling us it requires complete acceptance of oneself and is something that even Zuko "pretty powerful bender" who opened his chakras can't do. Blood bending has been outlawed instead of appreciated/used for medical breakthroughs. Aang was a fucking terrible father and partner and led the world into a state where non-benders revolted against benders (we never see the kind of persecution even from azula), "lava bending" comes from being mixed race which is stupid as hell since we see earth benders on the prison rig in a:tla book one bending flaming coal, air benders being "re released" into the world because spirit magic instead of the much more likely theory THAT AANG HIMSELF SAYS IN BOOK ONE (maybe some of them got away, hid).

The original story explained so many hard topics to kids. LoK is.... So hard to follow and just brainless. They tried to tell mental illness, found family, but a:tla did that too. And better.

[fixchick]

Also while i like what korra was meant to be the fact that her story arc canonically regressed as the seasons went by and yet no come-upance or satisfaction from that series plot was given is kinda unsatisfactory. And no I'm not saying I wanted them to hurt korea. Honestly its the amount of times that them broke korea down only to give her crazy powers that were unparralled previously only to then break her down again is exactly the character plot inconsistencies that I dislike

[erinthebrave]

Agreed. They made her entire story about trauma. Which is a trope I'm honestly tired of seeing. I'm tired of seeing a woman constantly get beat down. Her PTSD, her depression.

She started the series super confident, accepting her role thanks to white lotus mentoring, and was doing the work on her spirituality homework. And all we see is her suffer and suffer and suffer to where she eventually just leaves the physical world with asami. She literally "walked into the light."

Being a woman, and watching a woman endure traumatic event after traumatic event, was horrifying. Seeing a woman get scarred by her sister. seeing a queen die on screen. Asami becoming an orphan. Katara's accomplishments completely overwritten. Suki not even present. Kuvira's tragic backstory. Tenzin's wife (that's how unvalued she is, I think her name was pema????) is just an air bender baby factory who doesn't teach air nomad culture or history to the kids. Or do anything except be tenzin's weakness. Zaheer's plot device girlfriend who had to die so he could get super powers.

You can't call it girl power if you just make us watch crimes committed against the female lead cast. Sexist assholes been having female leads in all media for as long as there have been stories. a:tla had more girl power than LoK could ever. Think of ty Lee, Suki, motherfucking PoW Hama, aunt Wu, kyoshi, yang Cheng, Ursa (you'll never tell me she *didn't* straight up murder azulon), Kya, Kanna!!!!! toph, YUE, Jun, AZULAAAAA 🔥🔥🔥🔥, ugh there's so much wonderful, diverse representation. And they weren't *all* traumatized on-screen. Living through a fucking 100 year war was trauma enough.

LoK was season 8 of GoT before season 8 of GoT. It was honestly hard to watch.

[cobraonthecob]

👆👆👆

Korra as a concept was good.

The execution?

Messy. So, so, messy.

Along with how messy the writing was, the Gaang also suffered. Katara is practically in Aang’s shadow, never does anything of value apparently, Toph becomes a cop even though she hates rules, Aang is a bad dad for Drama™️, Sokka barely exists but at least he did like two things of importance, and Suki wherest?

Zuko is probably the only one that didn’t get messed up in LoK (can’t remember how badly screwed over he was in LoK), with the exception of being allowed to be in the same area as Katara bc apparently being in the same frame as she is (too much power apparently, is your faith in your canon ship that weak????). (Though I would say that the worst that happened to him happened in the comics)

ATLA fans have a reason to be upset about LoK, and it’s not just bc of LoK’s characters.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

I like how people say “everyone can be lightning benders” as if Legend of Korra showed us two named lightning benders and two anonymous lightning benders total, a grand total of ONE more lightning bender than the original series showed us.  Lightning bending is also not about ‘being accepting one’s self’ and Zuko COULD lightning bend, theoretically, after he left his father.

Lavabending is not ‘from mixed heritage’.  It is a special form of earthbending.  People of mixed heritage in AtLA don’t gain powers from both bending types.  If it was due to blood, then Avatars couldn’t do it, which they could.  And if it was a mixing of bending, then non-Avatars couldn’t do it.  Ergo, lavabending is just a rare aptitude for earthbending.

The original Gaang also made a point not being in focus specifically to give the new characters a chance to grow.  Aang and Sokka were both dead at the time, Katara was Korra’s waterbending teacher, described as the greatest healer of the age and attempted to heal Korra in Season 4.

Aang wasn’t a BAD father.  Aang was a man who, upon having an airbending son, devoted himself to training that son to pass on his entire culture to him. Or is it unbelievable that Aang wouldn’t have residual trauma to the point of being the survivor of his entire culture?  Aang gave special focus to Tenzin, rather than Kya or Bumi, because Tenzin had the job of surviving the entire Airbender culture.  The fact that Kya and Bumi resented Tenzin over that is irrelevant.

Toph was 10 with overbearing parents, which made her rebel against rules but The Runaway makes it clear she’s realizing her behavior was dangerous.  To pass on metal bending she had to train people, which meant rules and routine.  Nevermind that Toph’s actual growth was her letting go of her children to the other extreme that her parents had, doubtless because she didn’t want to smother them like her parents did.

And oh no, Korra gets put through the ringer.  As if that’s a bad thing.  Nobody complains when a male character is beat to shit and dragged into the mud, such as Zuko, but when it happens to a girl it’s suddenly bad.  Stuff like this holds BACK female characters and is one of the reasons why we now see ‘unbeatable, boring, all powerful’ female characters showing up in media nowadays.

Saying Asami is an orphan but ignoring that Bolin and Mako are orphans too?  Saying P’li getting blown up and ignoring Tarlok and Amon being blown up?  Kuvira’s tragic backstory while ignoring Tarlok’s growing up with abuse?  Pema being ‘only Tenzin’s wife’ (despite Pema actually providing Korra with advice) and ignoring how Bolin was strong armed into marriage with Eska?  Lin being scarred but ignoring Mako being electrocuted, Hiroshi being crushed, Varrick being Vader-choked, etc.

People acting as if Korra didn’t have an arc or it decayed didn’t get Korra’s arc.  Which was for an egotistical, brash, selfish individual who only identified as The Avatar to eventually be humbled into someone empathetic, selfless and more tactical who developed a personality beyond “I’m the Avatar” in an era where The Avatar was quickly becoming irrelevant.

Korra’s arc was the opposite of Aang’s and if you watch the entire series start to finish with that in mind, you’ll see that.

[kingofdersecest]

We never actually SEE any non-benders get mistreated, despite that being the plot of the first season.  Bloodbending getting retconned to be able to block chakras permenantly, and being able to do it without a full moon.  The love.....parallelogram between Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin.  Kora being able to instantly unlock air bending despite losing the rest of her bending, her being cured five seconds later, her being given energy bending, her being given the FUCKING AVATAR STATE despite not having mastered air bending yet, or gone through Guru training like Aang did. (I mean not that the Avatar state means anything considering how little it helps Korra throughout the series as she always seems to get her ass kicked despite having it) Korra having mastery of three elements when shes five fucking years old for no goddamn reason, oh wait, there is a reason. The memes “Im the avatar and you gotta deal with it” Yeah, thanks for that. Why not break your own fucking canon for, le funny may may.  Then we have the awesome civil war plot that was dropped for the stupid “Dark Avatar plot” How the world of avatar was changed from the four elements being based on Eastern Mysticism was retconned into a “Light vs Dark. Good vs Evil. God vs The Devil” boring linear bullshit. “Oh hey, that Avatar is just a reincarnation of the Light spirit born to do battle with the Dark spirit” Like I know people have made the jokes of Aang being “Kung Fu Action Jesus” but like.....the Avatar lore, is now literally that.  Oh speaking of that, Korra broke the Avatar cycle, since she can no longer contact her past selves, whoopsie.  Then we have the air benders being remade with bullshit spirit magic, cause you cant have permanent scars of warfare and genocide. Nope, gotta handwave that shit away.  Korra was a goddamn mess. 

[thespectacularspider-girl]

1.  Because non-benders WEREN’T being abused.  We saw that benders could be homeless/poor, that non-benders could be rich and both could be in politics. Benders were a scapegoat created by The Equalists in order to facilitate Amon’s takeover of the city.

2.  Bloodbending was not retconned.  It was explicitly stated that bloodbending still requires the full moon, which is why Yakone went out of his way to never bloodbend on the full moon. His abilities were unique, similar to Combustion Man in the original series.

3.  Triangle.  The Bolin bit was him projecting his feelings one sidedly on Korra.  It was ended in S2.

4.  Aang got The Avatar State without mastering any of the other elements, nor completed the Guru’s training.  Her being able to energybend was through The Avatar State, Aang giving it to Korra like the Lion Turtle did to Aang.

5.  Korra didn’t master any of the elements at that age.  She performed three acts of minor bending on par with what Katara and Toph both did at a similar age.  Korra was a physical bending progeny and could bend multiple elements, this isn’t a break in any of the established lore.

6.  Season 2 is a mess.  Most people agree on this.

7.  If you think Vaatu/Raava is a “God vs Satan” archetype then you need to expand your horizons beyond Abrahamic faiths, look into other Eastern religions or stop getting all your complaints from Youtubers.

8.  Korra didn’t, Unalaaq did.  But it’s funny how nobody blames Aang when Azula seemingly destroyed the entire Avatar Cycle when she killed Aang in S2.  Nevermind that the past lives have never mattered beyond the previous Avatar, save TWO occasions.

9.  I like how you chide the series on not drawing upon Eastern Mysticism but then ignore “stupid spirit stuff” as if “stupid spirit stuff” granting random magic powers isn’t a hallmark of several Eastern folklores.  The scars still exist because the new Airbenders are not culturally Air Nomad, which is highlighted through S3, with Tenzin’s frustration and trouble adapting the culture and teachings of his father to a more modern age.  Almost as if a culture goes through a genocide, it will be irrevocably changed from that point forward, if it even recovers in the first place.

[kahavave]

Imma just put this here; my biggest real problem with Korra is that the writers always wanted to imply that the bad guy might have been right but weren’t willing to go the extra step.  Amon MIGHT have had a point, but then he started mutilating random people.  Tarrlok MIGHT have had a point, but then he became the anti-christ.  Zaheer MIGHT have had a point, but it turns out his idea of freedom boils down to “if you’re bad at fighting, then you deserve to get killed”.  Kuvira MIGHT have had a point, but then she started using forced labor camps.

[thefuckisabook]

If lightning bending is a job that doesn’t pay well, yeah, people are going to assume that it’s a common, easily accomplished task as portrayed.  Difficult to master, rare skills, like lightning bending, pay highly because that form of labour becomes a sellers market.  Hell, you’ve immediately ignored basic logic to claim that the four on screen are the sum total of what we should assume exist- we know the named characters don’t work like slaves, so we can assume there’s atleast one other shift, possibly two or three, unless the factory can literally only run when those four people are on shift at the same time.  You’ve assumed that the characters portrayed performing a skill are the only ones performing the skill when the context in which they are portrayed clearly illustrates it as a common, low value skill.

When discussing this show you always seem incredibly willing to throw away context, claim it isn’t retconning only to jump back in and say the retconning is good when your nose is rubbed in the explicit contradictions, and push forward with myths the creators themselves have dispelled, such as them not knowing during production of season one that seasons two through four would happen(the other three seasons were given the green light before season one aired, and season one was pitched to them as a way of testing the waters for a new series).  For all that you’ll angrily critique people who like things you dislike for being uncritical, you’re unwilling to apply that same standard to yourself and things you like.

Oh, and since you criticized that dude for not liking the spirit stuff in Korra- I want you to pick any given spirit introduced in Korra and tell me what it’s the spirit of, minus Rava and Vaatu(who they fucked up, by the way, in lots of ways, not least of which being that Yin is black, feminine, and passive- their Yin is masculine and very active, nevermind making one outright evil- god/the devil is honestly a better metaphor, simply because Vaatu and Rava fail so utterly as a Yin Yang metaphor, also ignoring that there was ALREADY a yin yang metaphor in Avatar, and one that remembers that the two concepts are, by definition, interdependent).  Spirits in Avatar represent things, whether it’s the moon, the sun, the ocean, the woods, possibly knowledge(? He’s mostly the archetypal bringer of knowledge) or the earth itself.  The spirits seen in Korra are treated less like unique incarnations of the world and more like bizarre wildlife with c-r-a-z-y powers!  Haha dragon fruit that turns into insects how WACKY!  Spirits in Avatar are treated with respect, while the ones in Korra just... aren’t.  If you care about the spiritualism of the Avatar world, you won’t find anything in Korra that can compete with the season one finale.

[skygenders]

“without the police there would be mayhem”

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) was watching educational documentaries last night

[skygenders]

No??? You can donate food that is given to people who want it. I haven’t heard of them being low on supplies. There has also been some food vendors there. But why would they be low on food ?? They are still in a city and people can come and go.

[dicktouching]

There’s been a widespread effort to start several lies about the CHAZ, including food scarcity and supposed chaos, but everyone I know locally who is there has said it’s all well supplied, calmly run, and feeling wonderfully supportive and communal.

[kaldicuct]

Then why are they asking for food and fucked up their “garden”?

[soulwind42]

The food thing is either somebody claiming to be them, or they just don’t know what’s going on in their own territory. The garden is because they’re dumb, and supposedly trying to do a community garden.

But then, they have no internal leadership, so who knows. It seems some of the stores wre still open, however.

[kaldicuct]

So you don’t believe they invited in a bunch of homeless who promptly stole all the food?

[soulwind42]

Wouldn’t surprise me one way or the other. I think its more likely that the communal food was stolen, but plenty of them are just buying stuff from the stores around the area.

[kaldicuct]

I’m not catching the difference between the food storage that was meant to feed everyone vs the communal food. I’m operating under the assumption it’s the same thing.

Now the communal garden is a whole other cluster fuck.

[soulwind42]

Yea, and I’m seeing mixed messages as to what they expect to accomplish with it.

As for the first part, the difference to me is whether or not they’re staving. We already know they’re stupid, lol

[kaldicuct]

Give it a few more days.

[amarretto-cowboy]

They already got warlord….

But hey, on the 2nd night they watched The 13th on a projector outside so therefore all is well right?

Ita going to hell and will probably collapse by next week

[kaldicuct]

Sooner if I get impatient.

[amarretto-cowboy]

Nah. I dont any entity to intervene because then people will claim all would have been a perfect everlasting utopia if they would have been left alone when we all know damn well that this will fall apart.

[kaldicuct]

They are just gonna say it anyway.

[gone69-deactivated-deactivated2]

What all of this is ignoring is that the CHAZ is a bunch of like minded people with the same or similar goal. This nation as a whole is not. It’s an incredibly bad example.

[kaldicuct]

Doesn’t matter, they are trying to break the first rule of any campaign. 

Logistics. Without resupply, they can be a literal hive mind, and it wont matter.

You got resupply or an ability to supply yourself, you can make it work. They don’t. 

[gone69-deactivated-deactivated2]

I was mainly pointing out that even if you take the original post at face value they are providing a very bad example because a nation is not a group of like minded people taking over a city block.

[sashibunbun]

Dude, it’s shorter than Pride and the Cap Hill Block Party. And quite literally boosting the COVID ravaged restaurants in the area.

Oh wait you guys probably don’t even get how with how little people actually from or working in that area seem to think it is.

The truth, a lot of restaurants in that area, a lot of which are getting a lot of business again.

What every fuckass not in the area seems to think, houses all around.

[gone69-deactivated-deactivated2]

That…that doesn’t refute the fact that a group of like minded people is not a good example to base a system off of because a nation is not filled with like minded people. This CHAZ thing is not something we can reliably say is an example of what the world would look like without police because it does not fully represent the population of a nation.

Also all I got from what you’re saying is that the restraunts in the area are seeing more business. Which has nothing to do with a damned thing I’ve said. The rest? Idk what the fuck you’re saying. As in the words are not registering in sentences I understand. Now that could be my fault, my ADHD does tend to make my brain decide not to understand plain ass English sometimes.

[sashibunbun]

Oh misread what you said, but that’s true. Also just getting tired of the Cap Hill Workaround to have Pride and The Annual Block Party whatever it’s being called Zone misinfo.

[thefuckisabook]

There’s been a widespread effort to start several lies about the CHAZ, including food scarcity and supposed chaos

Y’all don’t believe the video footage huh

[eclipzex77]

May I see that? Not saying you’re lying, but I haven’t seen any footage of that yet.

[thefuckisabook]

of... general chaos?  Dude, have you not been watching the CHAZ?  Like I don’t think we can have video footage of food scarcity(and my understanding is that all their shit about being independent or w/e is undercut by how much they’re eating at restaurants, so I’m not sure they’re capable of being short on food), but there’s lots of footage of people being violent, yelling at each other because they can’t figure out how to do things, etc.  My fave involved someone yelling “is noone in charge” because... holy shit do you not understand your own ideology

[ed-longshanks]

at least the "punch a nazi! (attacks center-right republican)" crowd will hopefully settle down after this

hope the dude gets off easy cause this is obviously self defence

[cyrodiil-burns]

You know they’re gonna bury him anyway right

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

Mayor and DA already declared him guilty

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

https://www.abqjournal.com/1466753/apd-protest-shooter-arrested-charged-with-aggravated-battery.html

Former council candidate charged in protest shooting

Video appears to show shooter throwing woman to ground before protesters advance on him

[drdrunkpigeon-phd]

fuck sake

[nunyabizni]

You have got to be kidding me

Correction, it appears as if he started the fight, if so he's screwed.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

From everything I'm seeing so far:

He was at the protest, tried to get to the front, girl blocks his way repeatedly walking backwards into him and pushing with her back, he grabs her and throws her behind him.

He immediately gets jumped by the crowd, hit with objects including the skateboard, he brandished his weapon, everybody backs off and he retreats.

This is the breakoff point for his assault, he's guilty of that unless he can prove she elbowed him in the face or some shit. Everything they happens after is them assaulting him while he tries to retreat.

As soon as he holsters his gun, they assault him again, he's hit with the skateboard by someone yelling "We're going to kill you!" He draws and shoots only the person who hour him with a skateboard.

So he's a fucking douche but he was in defense in the second assault. If someone retreats and wants nothing more to do with the fight, you can't start it again and especially not aggravated assault because at the point they turn and flee, you aren't reasonably afraid for your life. There's decades of castle doctrine case law stating this, and years of stand-your-ground law.

Their duty was to approach and inform the police immediately while someone followed him to see where he went. If they'd done that he'd be awaiting simple assault charges with no arguments on his behalf. Instead they instigated another assault against him and skater boy is going to be shitting into a bag from now on.

[thefuckisabook]

Thing is, they flee when he pulls his gun.  That video footage clearly shows that he goes beyond self defense.

[kaldicuct]

No it doesn't. They flee after he's shot the one guy. If he had kept shooting the others after that, you'd have a point.

[thefuckisabook]

The guy he shot, specifically, has already turned away and begun to run when he fires the gun.  Watch closely.

[kaibacorpintern]

kaiba's like "if you throw your kuriboh card into the air, I can pin it to the wall from 20 feet away" and yami's torn between outrage over the thought of skewering kuriboh and wanting to see kaiba actually pull this off

[sfitty]

i would like to remind you that this man literally knocked a gun out of someone’s hand by throwing a card at it

[sphereshots]

inaccurate. he stops the hammer with it

[thefuckisabook]

Both events have occurred, Kaiba has thrown playing cards at guns on many occasions

[sindri42]

And this series has the audacity to name somebody else the “King of Games”

[thefuckisabook]

Well, one of the two characters threw playing cards at guns several times, the other played ice hockey with frozen nitro glycerin and a hot stove, split a six sided die in half to roll a seven, and learned an entire game(dungeon dice monsters) from the ground up with no knowledge of the game during a game against its creator which he then won.

Also, this

[kaibacorpintern]

kaiba's like "if you throw your kuriboh card into the air, I can pin it to the wall from 20 feet away" and yami's torn between outrage over the thought of skewering kuriboh and wanting to see kaiba actually pull this off

[sfitty]

i would like to remind you that this man literally knocked a gun out of someone’s hand by throwing a card at it

[sphereshots]

inaccurate. he stops the hammer with it

[thefuckisabook]

Both events have occurred, Kaiba has thrown playing cards at guns on many occasions

[ed-longshanks]

at least the "punch a nazi! (attacks center-right republican)" crowd will hopefully settle down after this

hope the dude gets off easy cause this is obviously self defence

[cyrodiil-burns]

You know they’re gonna bury him anyway right

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

Mayor and DA already declared him guilty

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

https://www.abqjournal.com/1466753/apd-protest-shooter-arrested-charged-with-aggravated-battery.html

Former council candidate charged in protest shooting

Video appears to show shooter throwing woman to ground before protesters advance on him

[drdrunkpigeon-phd]

fuck sake

[nunyabizni]

You have got to be kidding me

Correction, it appears as if he started the fight, if so he's screwed.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

From everything I'm seeing so far:

He was at the protest, tried to get to the front, girl blocks his way repeatedly walking backwards into him and pushing with her back, he grabs her and throws her behind him.

He immediately gets jumped by the crowd, hit with objects including the skateboard, he brandished his weapon, everybody backs off and he retreats.

This is the breakoff point for his assault, he's guilty of that unless he can prove she elbowed him in the face or some shit. Everything they happens after is them assaulting him while he tries to retreat.

As soon as he holsters his gun, they assault him again, he's hit with the skateboard by someone yelling "We're going to kill you!" He draws and shoots only the person who hour him with a skateboard.

So he's a fucking douche but he was in defense in the second assault. If someone retreats and wants nothing more to do with the fight, you can't start it again and especially not aggravated assault because at the point they turn and flee, you aren't reasonably afraid for your life. There's decades of castle doctrine case law stating this, and years of stand-your-ground law.

Their duty was to approach and inform the police immediately while someone followed him to see where he went. If they'd done that he'd be awaiting simple assault charges with no arguments on his behalf. Instead they instigated another assault against him and skater boy is going to be shitting into a bag from now on.

[thefuckisabook]

Thing is, they flee when he pulls his gun.  That video footage clearly shows that he goes beyond self defense.

[skygenders]

“without the police there would be mayhem”

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) was watching educational documentaries last night

[skygenders]

No??? You can donate food that is given to people who want it. I haven’t heard of them being low on supplies. There has also been some food vendors there. But why would they be low on food ?? They are still in a city and people can come and go.

[dicktouching]

There’s been a widespread effort to start several lies about the CHAZ, including food scarcity and supposed chaos, but everyone I know locally who is there has said it’s all well supplied, calmly run, and feeling wonderfully supportive and communal.

[kaldicuct]

Then why are they asking for food and fucked up their “garden”?

[soulwind42]

The food thing is either somebody claiming to be them, or they just don’t know what’s going on in their own territory. The garden is because they’re dumb, and supposedly trying to do a community garden.

But then, they have no internal leadership, so who knows. It seems some of the stores wre still open, however.

[kaldicuct]

So you don’t believe they invited in a bunch of homeless who promptly stole all the food?

[soulwind42]

Wouldn’t surprise me one way or the other. I think its more likely that the communal food was stolen, but plenty of them are just buying stuff from the stores around the area.

[kaldicuct]

I’m not catching the difference between the food storage that was meant to feed everyone vs the communal food. I’m operating under the assumption it’s the same thing.

Now the communal garden is a whole other cluster fuck.

[soulwind42]

Yea, and I’m seeing mixed messages as to what they expect to accomplish with it.

As for the first part, the difference to me is whether or not they’re staving. We already know they’re stupid, lol

[kaldicuct]

Give it a few more days.

[amarretto-cowboy]

They already got warlord….

But hey, on the 2nd night they watched The 13th on a projector outside so therefore all is well right?

Ita going to hell and will probably collapse by next week

[kaldicuct]

Sooner if I get impatient.

[amarretto-cowboy]

Nah. I dont any entity to intervene because then people will claim all would have been a perfect everlasting utopia if they would have been left alone when we all know damn well that this will fall apart.

[kaldicuct]

They are just gonna say it anyway.

[gone69-deactivated-deactivated2]

What all of this is ignoring is that the CHAZ is a bunch of like minded people with the same or similar goal. This nation as a whole is not. It’s an incredibly bad example.

[kaldicuct]

Doesn’t matter, they are trying to break the first rule of any campaign. 

Logistics. Without resupply, they can be a literal hive mind, and it wont matter.

You got resupply or an ability to supply yourself, you can make it work. They don’t. 

[gone69-deactivated-deactivated2]

I was mainly pointing out that even if you take the original post at face value they are providing a very bad example because a nation is not a group of like minded people taking over a city block.

[sashibunbun]

Dude, it’s shorter than Pride and the Cap Hill Block Party. And quite literally boosting the COVID ravaged restaurants in the area.

Oh wait you guys probably don’t even get how with how little people actually from or working in that area seem to think it is.

The truth, a lot of restaurants in that area, a lot of which are getting a lot of business again.

What every fuckass not in the area seems to think, houses all around.

[gone69-deactivated-deactivated2]

That…that doesn’t refute the fact that a group of like minded people is not a good example to base a system off of because a nation is not filled with like minded people. This CHAZ thing is not something we can reliably say is an example of what the world would look like without police because it does not fully represent the population of a nation.

Also all I got from what you’re saying is that the restraunts in the area are seeing more business. Which has nothing to do with a damned thing I’ve said. The rest? Idk what the fuck you’re saying. As in the words are not registering in sentences I understand. Now that could be my fault, my ADHD does tend to make my brain decide not to understand plain ass English sometimes.

[sashibunbun]

Oh misread what you said, but that’s true. Also just getting tired of the Cap Hill Workaround to have Pride and The Annual Block Party whatever it’s being called Zone misinfo.

[thefuckisabook]

There’s been a widespread effort to start several lies about the CHAZ, including food scarcity and supposed chaos

Y’all don’t believe the video footage huh

[ghostpalmtechnique]

“You couldn’t possibly understand how painful/upsetting this is because you aren’t the same race/gender/religion/whatever as the victims” is… telling, in a disturbing way, about the psychology of people who say it.  For plenty of us it’s dubious at best on a visceral level and obscenely false on an intellectual level that “that could just as easily have been me” is a requirement for being horrified by the suffering of other people.

[stateoffelicity]

Sign the Petition

Justice for Lakeith Smith and A’Donte Washington!

Please sign the petition!!!

[sindri42]

If people die as a direct result of a felony you commit, you are responsible for killing them. If you were breaking into people’s homes with guns and getting in shootouts with the police while inside somebody else’s home which you broke into everything that follows is your own damn fault.

The questionable part of this is a 15-year-old being charged as an adult. If any of the other three people breaking into homes and shooting at people who survived were adults, they should have been hit with the murder charge while this kid spend a while in juvie instead of going to prison for the rest of his life.

And even Murder 1 should only give him 20 years; six and a half decades for a third-degree charge is ridiculous.

[gregg-so-hot]

The thing is, they didn’t even count the police officer’s offense as murder. It was a “justifiable homicide.” So how could the felony-murder law apply if it officially was not murder?

[sindri42]

No, the police did not commit murder. The police defended themselves against the armed robbers who were actively shooting at them. The five people who broke into somebody’s house carrying guns committed murder, because somebody died as a direct result of the violent felony they were committing.

This isn’t an ‘everybody involved is equally guilty’ thing, this is a ‘If you shoot blindly into a crowd and somebody dies you killed them even if your eyes were closed’ thing.

[direthorn]

I'm sorry but it's still a bullshit charge and you know it. They're pulling legal gymnastics on a citizen, while courts across the country handle felon police officers with kid gloves. It's a double standard taken way too far.

[sindri42]

What do you consider the appropriate charge to be when you pick up a gun, break into somebody’s home, start shooting at people, and somebody dies?

They definitely should have been more lenient on a 15-year old kid when he does something this incredibly stupid, and 65 years for an unintentional and indirect killing is bullshit. The sentence is a load of shit. But the crime itself doesn’t stop being valid just because the criminals were black.

[thefuckisabook]

The whole point of felony murder is to make people afraid to get in shootouts with the police.  The charge should exist, and it is a good thing it exists.

[unclefather]

I dont know who the hell the B stands for but god its disgusting that you ship anyone with Dib. Thats a whole ass child, freak. Wanted to follow for the Pokemon content but you're out here shipping whatever the fuck badr is. Dont fucking ship the kids with irkens jesus christ

HUH????? BADR IS MY NAME ITS A NAME IN ARABIC I DON’T EVEN WATCH ZIM DUGDHBCHBVHJVFH WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ON

[pokemonblack2white2nintndods2k12]

this is what you guys get for naming ships in your show in such a stupid way

[diedforeverlol]

same energy

[menstits]

holy trinity

[deadlock]

The fourth horseman

[bewizard-remaking]

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

[cure4psycho]

Here’s another for yall

[rafa-starkiller]

Klubb deserves a mention

[above-average-gravy-deactivated]

Tumblr gremlins lack any form of reading comprehension and misunderstand literally everything, more at 11.

[psyeyeonyou-deactivated20200616]

This is what happens when you’re addicted to outrage.

Have a hammer? EVERYTHING looks like a nail!

[servalias]

we got a new one

[ashbelero]

Hahahahaha

Hahahahaha hahahahaha hahah

[existential-pasta-deactivated20]

W

What

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

No note post

[that-is-not-milk]

this post is broken in every way possible

[r4cs0]

Yay it me

[steellegacy]

The myth that knights could barely move in their armor has finally been dispelled by Thrillist

[ninjagiry]

They say “finally” like we havent known for ages….

[durnesque-esque]

Lol. It’s almost as if properly fitted armor was designed so that the people in it could move around a battlefield.

[is-it-too-late-to-cancel]

There’s videos of untrained people trying on armor and going “it’s hard! I can barely move!” Which has perpetrated this idea that knights armor wasn’t moveable. Given this video though, it dispels that myth.

[excellent-monster-girl-ideas]

Good to know I’m not screwed when Crusadin’ Time™ comes around.

[sindri42]

I love how in every shot the firefighter is moving carefully and deliberately while the other two look like they’re rushing as fast as they can, and then the firefighter comes out with the best time.

Anyway, an armored soldier will always be less mobile than a lightly loaded one just because they’ve got less weight to move, but somebody trained to fight in full armor is definitely going to be able to fight in full armor. If they couldn’t, that would be a serious flaw in the armor design and it would be either fixed or discarded because there’s a war to get to and not being able to fight once you’re on the battlefield means you aren’t coming back.

[thefuckisabook]

This still really bothers me because the dude in full plate is… just wearing plate.  Like, no sword, no kit, no nothing.

Also- and I just now noticed this- is he not wearing any gambeson?  Like, not even under his helmet?  Dude helmets do NOTHING without a good gambeson what the fuck are you doing?

I bet this dude has juust enough under the plate to make it look like he’s wearing full armour so they could make this video the way they wanted.

[sirobvious]

Having a sword on his belt might’ve gotten it caught on some of those bars, but otherwise wouldn’t have slowed him down much because swords only weigh 1-3 pounds.

Also he’s totally wearing a kind of gambeson called an arming doublet, which was historically thinner than the thick gambesons that poorer soldiers would wear as their only protection, and designed specifically to go under plate armor of that era. Instead of wearing a whole maille shirt, the arming doublet only has maille attached to it in very specific locations to just cover what little is left uncovered by the plates.

So yes, the knight is cutting down on weight a lot in this video, but he isn’t cheating, because real 15th Century Knights dressed like that to cut down on weight too. It’s historically accurate.

Also the helmet probably has internal padding. Some helmets were like that back then.

[thefuckisabook]

An arming sword(the lightest sword you’d likely see a knight carry) weighs about 1 kg, and would typically be a secondary weapon, for a knight carrying a longer weapon, such as a lance or spear.  A kite shield would typically weigh 4-5 kilograms.  A poleax would way about 3kg, a spear about 2kg, and halbard 4kg.

For the sake of argument, we’ll assume our man has the lightest load out, and ignore the additional weight of sheath and dagger, and assume this knight has no need of anything not directly in use in combat.  So, that’s a kite shield, an arming sword, and a spear.  That’s gonna be about an additional six kilograms.  Why does that matter?  Well, first of all, a big part of why the knight isn’t as slowed as the soldier is weight distribution, and the extra six kilograms isn’t going to be spread out in the same way.  Second...

It’s an entire fifth again the weight of his entie gear.  When 20% of your weight is deliberately excluded, yeah that might stilt things a bit.

(and yeah the guy was wearing gamebeson, I looked up the original video, but in fairness, they had him pose without the padding for his head(no, that helmet did not have internal padding) which made it seem as though he wasn’t wearing gamebeson)

[tastefulcrucifixparty]

this has 100% been talked about before but younger members of the lgbt community (especially on tumblr) NEED to understand that “gay panic” doesn’t mean “oh no i’m a teen panicking because i might be gay” it means “literal legal defense used in cases where a person has murdered someone upon finding out they were gay”

[thefuckisabook]

Gay panic: 21 attempted uses.  

One murder case that became manslaughter(William T Simpson, 1954).

one case where the charge was again dropped to manslaughter, but testimony was not merely that the victim sexually propositioned the defendant, but instead sexually assaulted defendant and attempted to prevent him from leaving, and the court explicitly denied the concept of “homosexual panic”(james bearly, 1970).  

One case resulted in a manslaughter charge which was set aside and a second trial granted, but I can’t actually find any more info on what happened, I suspect the man may have died before the second trial, as I can easily find both the original case and appeal that led to the second trial being granted, but not the second trial(John Durkin, 1981).

One case where the man who attempted to use the defense was found by the supreme court of California to likely be a member of a subgroup of homosexual men who have few sexual contacts and morbid fear of venereal disease.  Nothing to note I just think it’s really funny that the supreme court of California officially ruled that he was probably gay(Thurman Anderson, 1983)

One case where a man’s conviction was overturned then reinstated(unknown victim, 1986, I believe the victim’s name may have been expunged to avoid unfairly prejudicing a jury, as the victim was apparently well known in area as a possible child predator).

One case wherein witness testimony indicated that the murderer was in fact, and the victim straight- prosecution presented psychiatric evidence(???) that the murderer may have been the one to initiate sexual contact and become violent when he was turned down, resulted in murder conviction, death penalty(Richard Lynn Earnest, 1987).

Another case of the killer claiming to be sexually assaulted and attacking in response, another manslaughter charge(this time voluntary manslaughter), killer appears to have had a mental breakdown and given confession while in police custody awaiting the arrival of his lawyer, which could support this being a genuine case of excessive “self defense”(Stephen Lamie, 1988).

A man claiming to be assaulted while sleeping in his truck, beating his supposed attacker to death, resulting in a second degree homicide conviction which was later set aside and manslaughter conviction reached instead(Victor Hempstead, 1992)

One case had a judge throw out the defense, on the basis that in Wyoming reduced capacity defenses are not allowed in general(Mathew Shephard, 1998)

One case in Alabama that should have been a hate crime but wasn’t because Alabama didn’t have sexual orientation as a protected characteristic in 1999(Billy Jack Gaither, 1999)

One case which resulted in a hung jury, followed by a guilty plea, involving high school students(Larry King, 2008)

One case in which the PA seems to have fucked up by offering only the opportunity for 1st degree murder(indicating premeditation) in a case in which the perpetrator is known to have been severely intoxicated at an earlier point in the night, leading to an aquital(seriously how do you fuck up this bad, he claimed to defend himself against an attempted rape at sword point(yes, really), but the glasses weren’t disturbed, why wouldn’t you just go for second degree murder- I am tempted to believe the PA didn’t want the conviction)(Terrance Hauser, 2008)

One case of a black man who eventually pled guilty to manslaughter in the killing of a white supremacist.  No, I don’t know either.(Richard Barret, 2010).

One case which is claimed to have involved the gay panic defense, but didn’t, instead involving regular old self defence, instead claiming that the victim flew into a rage and attacked the killer(despite an absolute lack of evidence for such, lack of injury on the killer, and the fact that the victim was stabbed in the back).  Convicted of Criminally Negligent Homicide, for some reason(Daniel Spencer, 2015)

[pukicho]

If Cthulhu is supposed to be so incomprehensible, why do some people draw him as a lil bitch with a tentacle beard and a big ass forehead ??? I can comprehend that, and its stupid

[queeryutbrb]

how would we go about drawing a truely horrible, incomprehensible ancient sea monster-demon-god?

[pukicho]

It’s fucking easy you just

[pukicho]

[perfectcromulence]

This is why I sometimes still long for the days where my only visual representations of the Cthulhu mythos were the silhouettes used in my 3rd edition Call of Cthulhu boxed set. The details were literally left to the imagination:

But if you want a good pic of Big C that isn’t just an octopus-headed bastard with bat wings, try this version by Walt Simonson of all people:

[morlock-holmes]

That’s a pretty great Cthulhu!

[the-willing-victim-of-a-cannibal]

[curiooftheheart]

Cthulhu isn’t incomprehensible. He’s actually described pretty directly.

Sure it’s weird but it’s not really incomprehensible like some of them.

[unadulteratedpiratepizza]

Dude, you need to reread your own “evidence”. That’s not Cthulhu being described, but a Statue of Cthulhu, made by the cult that worshiped him. The cult had no idea what Cthulhu actually looked like, so the idol was made to represent their idea of him.

The actual Cthulhu is an incomprehensible being

[thefuckisabook]

Cthulhu is not incomprehensible.  That’s more azathoth’s thing.  Maybe nyalothtep if it didn’t spend all its time pretending to be humans.  Cthulhu is a big monster man, but the threat isn’t his appearance, it’s his psychic strength.  If he was truly incomprehensible, I sort of doubt that a sailor would have been able to handle his appearance long enough to ram the fucker.

Lovecraft did write,

there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order

But given in context this is a second hand account, and that we get examples of what he appears to mean by contradictions, and several fairly effective descriptions, it would seem that the contradictions are in the construction of Cthulu, and not its shape.

Three men were swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned

great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water

the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon

The awful squid-head with writhing feelers

the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn

Its gelatinous green immensity

And Lovecraft was not afraid to directly describe things that cannot be comprehended in three spatial dimensions, so if that was what he meant about Cthulhu, we have every reason to believe he would have written it.  For example, from Call of Cthulhu alone,

One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable. 

Parker slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn’t have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse.