#Simple thoughts and views

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[gothicrepetitions]

Feminist Perspectives on 9/11, J. Ann Tickner

[soundleer]

so...toki likes clocks...huh...

gently. slides over the entity.........

-> turns brain off

-> sees the entity

-> "hi gramps" (respect)

[vagueeyes]

a yawning donkey

[loveridden1999]

i've had a guy say to my face that he does not support lgtbqia+ because his idol is cristiano ronaldo. i can't make this shit up dawg the fuck.

[kathybluecaller]

Finally got around drawing Aioros :D

[milfbrainrot]

something sick and twisted about how michaela was "training" simone to take over part of the charity, hence her being a mini-michaela, only for that to actually... pan out as accidentally training her to become her husband's new wife

[fireolin]

I wonder how long social media will be allowed to continue uncensored in the US? And sites like Ao3?

Censorship has started already in the sense of people being arrested or not allowed into the US based on their views, with their phones being inspected.

But once they've got education, museums, and libraries defunded and under their thumbs, they're not going to leave social media alone. It'll be the same as under any other authoritarian regime.

So, people of tumblr, enjoy this freedom while we have it.

Still, I hope people in the US can successfully resist this madness.

[obligatory-name-change]

i like the concept of a huskerdust overlord!husk au but like. it is very much just being sold to one direction

[silveryair]

Did anyone else know that there was blood in your bones. Like. Inside of them

[fatelcved]

What kind of love are you?

Love as a Choice

You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

Love as a Threshold

Your love does not ask for much. Your love does not take. Your love is free, and unquestioned, and here for wherever needs it. When you fall in love, it is as gentle as a breath in the night. It is quiet, and it is effortless. It is tender. If your love was a house, it would readily welcome all who come through. If your love was a hearth, it would warm the hands of whoever stopped by, whether for a day, a month, a year, or forever. When you fall for someone, it is without strings, without conditions, without need. You love for the sake of loving, for the sake of caring for those who need it. You love with a giver’s heart and a giver’s hands and are made so much stronger for it. Being loved by you is to always feel at home. Your love may not always be well-received by those unprepared to linger, but it is unforgettable all the same.

tagged by: @un1awful thank you very much hehe <3 tagging: whoever sees this and hasn't done it!!

[4urum-4rgentum]

I'm pretty sure me being a child of divorce also has smth to do with me being an atheist.

Even though I wasn't raised to be that religious (I was reading the Qur'an atp but I saw it as a thing to be studied and they didn't tell me the meaning, i could just recite it) But idk having your view of love, respect, trust, relationships and the world on the day you turn 8 does smth to a bitch.

[lecinea]

I now have seen several people claim that the "morally grey Wei Wuxian" crowd thinks that no one can really be objectively right or wrong when to me it seems the opposite is true?

Like, I think torture is wrong. End of sentence. So it doesn't matter if it's unnamed demonic cultivators, Wen Chao & co or a collection of random innocents who happen to be related to an asshole. All of it is morally wrong. So Wei Wuxian was doing something morally corrupt. Do I understand why he did it? Absolutely, but that doesn't make it the good and just thing to do.

Same goes for the mass murder. I think there is never a good and moral reason for a massacre. Which means I think it was wrong to kill the Wens, it was wrong to kill the Jiang and it was wrong to kill the various cultivators at nightless city. And because I can already hear the shouts of 'self defence!', once the body count hits the triple digits I don't think self defence is still a valid excuse.

To even target Wei Wuxian more, I think the desecration of corpses is wrong. I think what Wen Qing and Wei Wuxian did to Wen Ning is honestly quite horrifying and that the only reason we as a fandom don't talke more about how sad it is that Wen Ning's soul is pretty much trapped in a dead and decaying vessal until resentful energy can no longer keep it together is that there is this idea that any way of being 'alive' is better than being dead. From a daoist view, Wen Ning and other fierce corpses are being kept from the cycle of reincarnation. That's bad! That's not good or moral in any way. Again, I completely understand why Wen Qing wanted her brother back and why Wei Wuxian actually did. But that doesn't make it right.

This doesn't mean that Wei Wuxian isn't a hero, he absolutely is. Most of his actions were done with good intentions and came from a place of wanting to protect people and fix things. But that doesn't suddenly make all of his actions good and moral. And that's okay, that makes things interesting! It creates space for nuanced discussion.

I don't pick and choose what I think is good or bad. I think some actions are inherently bad, no matter the motivations. But in fiction, where there are no actual victims, it's interesting to look at those motivations and try to understand why an action was taken. In a work like mdzs it is quite pointless to try to look for actual moral purity, because pretty much every character has at the very least murdered someone and most have done worse. So why would I weigh Jiang Cheng's torture of demonic cultivators of unknown guilt heavier than Wei Wuxian's torture of Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao? What if those demonic cultivators were worse? If they gleefully killed babies and made their tiny corpses dance in front of their crying parents, would Jiang Cheng's torture of them then be justified and good? Would that change things? I don't know. To me, action of torture would still be wrong.

So in conclusion; because I have strong morals and do think that some things can be objectively right or wrong, I think Wei Wuxian is a morally grey character.

[redhotarsenic]

Dealing with people is so exhausting sometimes…

[apathyfairy]

life is so fucked up because everyone wants you to be someone at 17 and have your life figured out by the time you graduate high school at 18 but let me tell you!!!! only now in my late 20s am i finally starting to understand who i am as a person and what i want from life!!!! society literally dooms us by telling us that if you don’t have your shit together by 25 you might as well give up but they’re wrong!!!! 20 and 30 really are still so young!!! you have to grow and learn and that all takes time it doesn’t happen in your teens!!!!

[jam-packed]

been very into borderlands lately

how do i make this abt motogp..........