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pick up that non-fiction book

not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.

its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're around

abyssalaquarist00

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

abyssalaquarist00

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

cdigoddess

everyone on dropout has this bloodthirsty look in their eyes, like they'd kill you in an instant for a cameo in brooklyn 99

cyberpunkpavlichenko

The moral of Death Note is that cops raise evil children

omamervt

I wish I was better about paying attention to channel names because I did watch a video a while back and this was basically the whole video summed up. Like, everyone knows Light was an arrogant fool who sewed the seeds of his own destruction but his solution to the societal problems he lamented about in the first chapter was literally something only the juvenile son of a cop could have come up with.

To Light, Crime was the source of society's "Rot." And his philosophy on what constituted "crime" was basically about normal-ass people who were willing to break the law. you know, the laws Cops enforce.

It also explains why he's indiscriminate rather than surgical. Because of his own biases, he never stops to consider the flaws in the methods of who gets arrested, or how that never actually seems to have an impact on Crime Rates tm. Cops (like Light) simply see this as evidence that they're not arresting enough people! That they're not going far enough! And these are the values our protagonist was raised with. A surgical strike would let Real Criminals off the hook, while targeting people who, yes, may be more evil by orders of magnitude, but they do it in a LEGAL way!

I don't think the story ever consciously addresses this. The Watsonian explanation for that would be that we don't really get to see exactly WHAT values Light's dad instills in his children - he's a major character, but Light spends far more time putting him on a pedestal than actually engaging with him. A couple Doylist explanations might be either that Ohba didn't condone Light's actions, and considered an outside exploration of his motivations to be either uninteresting to explore, or perhaps too much of a challenge to pull off in a story that so heavily revolves around the protagonist's inner monologue. I think it's far more likely, though, that this wasn't intentional - Light's dad was a cop so that he could be on the Kira taskforce and we could get the drama of Light being hunted by his own father, and the blind spots that created for both characters. Knowing the story, and how these characters are used, I find it hard to believe there were intentional ramifications beyond that. But that doesn't change the fact that they're there, and more than anything it serves as an explanation for why Light was the way he was.

vexwerewolf

Corollary: the Netflix adaptation that moved the action to America could've been so fucking good but they were too cowardly to write an actual exploration of how Light is basically a school shooter

batmanisagatewaydrug

uuuuh okay update on the crush discourse going on in my notes: if a friend has a crush on you and they do tell you they're unfairly pressuring you to reciprocate but if they don't tell you they're being dishonest with you so either way they've ruined the friendship. every day the most anxious minds on earth make amazing philosophical strides on this website.

batmanisagatewaydrug

at risk of being mean (lmao) (lol) the way a lot of people have started talking about crushes in my notifications sounds like this

like literally going "well I guess that telling someone you have a crush on them is okay as long as you listen if they aren't interested and don't start committing rampant sexual harassment" yeah homie I think that was implied

pankendev

the generational divide marches on. i have never jerked off to playboy bunnies. and i will never jerk off to roblox porn

pankendev

"there's roblox porn????" this website really is a millennial safe space

tpwrtrmnky

The idea of Mario and Peach having any kind of relationship beyond the occasional kiss on the nose and "mama mia" is like viscerally incomprehensible to me

Not like in a prude way I just can't conceive of Mario experiencing... urges. He's a character outside the scope of that. I'm not saying he's asexual either cause positioning him on the allo/ace spectrum implies that it's a dimension of his character that at least exists, that he has at some point noticed it. I think he just jumps.

tpwrtrmnky

Luigi probably fucks though.

tpwrtrmnky

#op interrogate yourself about why you think this right fucking now

So unlike Mario, who continues to be essentially a void with no internality, I actually act with thoughts and intent and already did do that when writing this post.

Mario is a mascot of one of the most sanitized corporate brands in existence. He differs from real, full-fledged ace people in that his sexlessness is not queer, not transgressive in any sense of the word, just a void left by his position as a player character. He has no queer identity because he has no identity beyond the fact that it's-a-him, Mario.

antigyro

Ok but why is Luigi different

tpwrtrmnky

displays internality by being capable of fear. to fear is to have something to lose. and what does he stand to lose? fucking.

tpwrtrmnky

#I think the interrogate yourself post was about the fact Mario is fatter than Luigi

I, too, am fatter than the green twig, so like, when I lay out the precise reasoning of how Mario's non-characterhood motivates this idea, it would be nice if people could not careen off into "clearly you have strange views about fat people or italians or people who wear red or whatever"

hussyknee

The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws

mousidy

the creeping allure of becoming a jax defense warrior

mousidy

like where are the crusades against caine? most of the show directs us to understand his abuse of the other characters as silly cartoon antics, not very dissimilar to how jax's abuse of the other characters is treated

of course part of the story is about the characters coming to accept their home as a real world with real emotional stakes, but I don't think it directs us to retroactively understand all the silly cartoon violence as real horrific abuse, or else caine would have been let off the hook far too easily. it seems very selective to treat the transfem character's cartoon violence so differently, even despite the other differences between her and caine as characters

it's not that I think nothing jax did was serious or awful or abusive, obviously not. she drove a friend to suicide. but I don't think putting ragatha in a mcdonalds fryer or shooting rhinoceros gangle while the words "nice shot" appear onscreen like a video game should be evaluated the same way. get serious

mousidy

the argument of holding caine to different standards because he's a computer program doesn't work for me. the finale does a lot to deconstruct the distinction between him and the other characters

it begins with the other characters finding out they are not humans controlling avatars waiting to eventually return to humanity, they are computer programs with no tether to their "human" counterparts. the finale ends with caine, a character we have considered "nonhuman" all this time, demonstrating empathy and a capacity for growth regardless. the finale very much works to challenge our assumptions about the differences between the "human" and "nonhuman" characters. it tells us our "human" characters are not human in the corporeal sense, but it concludes that they are human in the emotional sense. it affirms their value and their individuality despite their "inhumanity"

jax explicitly believes in the middle of the series that she and the others are no longer human, that they're just cartoon characters. she essentially believes they're all the same things as caine, and in accordance with that belief she acts very similarly to caine (though for jax this belief is in part a protective shell around her guilt and dysphoria. it's dissociation. this dissociation is, however, enabled by her environment being literally a video game)

the finale literally makes the case that there is not a significant "human" vs "inhuman" moral difference between jax and caine. jax was right that they're all inhuman, but she was wrong in deciding that that meant they were any less real in an emotional or moral sense

mousidy

a trans woman buys into her dehumanization and so acts inhuman, and then the narrative tells us it doesn't even matter if she was "human," she was a person who can be both morally judged and empathized with and loved regardless. what else do you think a trans woman who survived the dehumanization that is conversion therapy is going to write about?

thedorkdionysia

i think a lot of people miss just how deeply in denial jax was too. like, in episode 8, after kinger explained exactly what the circus and caine were, jax leaves to go "distract caine" and immediately has a mental breakdown about how everything she's experienced is real

maybe she's only been in denial since ribbit, maybe since even before then, but it's still pretty clear she's in such deep denial that this interaction made her realize just how deep things were, and that sent her spiraling.

mousidy

I hate the "early-transition trans women are always wearing amazon basics skirts" stereotype so much lol

mousidy

-she shops online instead of going to real stores, lol what a neet basement dweller

-she buys from amazon, she both has no sense of personal style and is an unethical consumer giving money to bezos

-she is sticking to basic, stock standard, stereotypical presentation of femininity, lol isn't it funny that she's taking careful baby steps and doesn't feel comfortable branching out?

mousidy

it's the amazon that really does it in for me. when cis women wear basic clothing it's the "clean girl" aesthetic, when trans women do it it's shallow, consumerist, mass-produced, "basic" in all the wrong ways. "clean girls" don't get made fun of for having walmart-ass wardrobes do they?

shiverandqueeef

if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

wifelinkmtg

Transformation, Horror, Eros, Phyrexia

There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. - Lewis Carroll, “The Lobster Quadrille,”

ONE.

There is a moment early in H.P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella The Shadow over Innsmouth where the nameless narrator looks out from the rotting seaside hamlet where he has lucklessly ventured, to the so-called Devil Reef some ways out in the harbor, darkened by a cloud of evil rumor—and something curious happens: the narrator experiences two opposed sensations simultaneously. The “long, black line” of the reef conveys “a suggestion of odd latent malignancy,” but also, “a subtle, curious sense of beckoning seemed superadded to the grim repulsion.” This bit of foreshadowing—the reef both calling and repelling the narrator—only finds its denouement at the very end of the story, after our narrator has narrowly escaped Innsmouth, the fish-like monsters who swarm in off of Devil Reef and their part-human descendants who inhabit the town in an unconvincing and repellent simulacrum of humanity. After his escape, the narrator does some genealogical research into his own troubled family history, full of disappearances and suicides, and concludes that he himself is one such abyssal hybrid. As he ages, he finds himself changing to resemble them, and in his dreams he swims among them in undersea palaces and gardens. The call of the deep becomes impossible to ignore:

Keep reading

goodsniff

CREATING BLUEY - Tales from the Art Director

Chapter 4 - It's (gotta be) Done! Beyond Bluey

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kalichnikov

I refuse to reblog callout posts because I'm a prison abolitionist

kalichnikov

In all my years in this website, and I've been here a long time, I can't recall a single instance of a callout post leading to actual restitution for the victims of the alleged harm the person was accused of. Even in cases where the accusations were true. Even in cases where there was legitimate harm done to another person.

Remember the sixpencee child slave thing? What happened there, exactly? Was the kid freed? No? They were just run off the website? OK so what good exactly did that do?

Remember the bone stealing witch? What exactly did that witchhunt accomplish? The person got arrested, oh that's great, the american justice system surely rectified the situation

And again, those are instances where the accusations were true and involved real substantive harm to another person. We used to joke on here how callout posts were shit like "receipts below: [several paragraphs of petty fandom drama] [three paragraphs of petty interpersonal drama involving cheating on partners or stealing food out of the fridge or something] [fabricated evidence that the person is responsible for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey]"

And that was back in the 2010s. The meta has changed. Callouts used to be a tool people used to point out actual harm a person had done, rarely, and more commonly were used as a means of bullying somebody over petty drama. Nowadays they're used to manufacture outrage and harassment against marginalized populations. They are a weapon bigots use to turn us against each other. A few manufactured accusations here, some out of context or clipped screenshots there, and people who should be standing in solidarity with each other against white supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, are instead devouring each other.

It's sinister as shit, dude, and people will still share these accusations without a second thought. So, why? What is the point? What's the best case scenario here? Raising "awareness?" what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Will we get the oh-so-trustworthy authorities involved? Are we hoping for an arrest? A conviction? Throwing a queer or poc person in prison so they can be abused and assaulted and humiliated behind bars? Is that who we are?

Callouts and the like don't serve any real good in the world. At a macro scale they divide us when we should be standing together, and at a micro scale they result in deeply traumatic never-ending harassment and threats and doxxing and worse to a person who almost definitely does not deserve it. And again, for what? A sense of "justice?" this is not justice. This is retribution. It is punishment.

It's fucking cop behavior, and I'm not gonna participate in it.

foreveriallyzombified

anyone else skipping to their lou today? how about someone else's lou? let me know in the comments below. bye.

an-adhd-infested-nerd

Yeah I’ll reblog that

foreveriallyzombified

“yeah I’ll show up at your doorstep and blow my own brains out with a hunting rifle and as you watch in horror my headless body will collect the shards of human skull from across your shitty unmowed lawn and piece it back together like a jigsaw puzzle.”

see it doesn’t sound so good when I say it

an-adhd-infested-nerd

What

foreveriallyzombified

I think maybe my thing I said was not normal ☹️

deaddogbrain

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

deaddogbrain

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw