#demystification

[depthchargingartz]

2 of 2.

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

one day i will make [and finish!!!] an actual animatic to a Zounds song and then i will ascend.

[rainbowpopeworld]

Source, image description in the Alt

[2percentmint]

It's May time to reblog the COOLOMETER.

From the July 1992 issue of Marvel’s “Sleepwalker.”

[geekyglamour413]

“Sex should be something that can be discussed frankly and we shouldn’t be ashamed about discussing it” and “man I’m really tired of seeing sex infused with everything around me” are two ideas that can coexist

[catilinas]

every scooby doo villain is doomed by the narrative btw

[lady-laureline]

This breakdown of masking fits my experience like a glove. If you know me, or anyone else who is/might be autistic, please watch this.

[number1villainstan]

Is Everybody Going Crazy? by Nothing But Thieves is what saionji/wakaba could have been if Ohtori Bullshit(TM) didn't get to them first

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[depthchargingartz]

spot art, anti-copyright (freely use if you are NOT working with corporate entities) If you sell this, all i want is a percentage.

[mplanetleaf]

Animal Sacrifice: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism...

[rainbowpopeworld]

Tbh, it’s a great quote in that it describes a real behavior of many people (including Aziraphale). And I kind of hate it because it’s not what I want - for myself or others.

I want to be challenged, in good faith, to see beyond my illusions. And I want to let go of those illusions that were forced upon me before I even had a choice or awareness of them. And I want to help others do the same. To create a world in which we can see what is and build what we need to support everyone.

Anyway, I have a lot of Feelings about this 😅😓

Michael Sheen said this quote in an interview in July, which I just saw today. So I decided to put it onto these two images.

The second one is more angsty, fair warning 💓💕

[icanlife]

Very tired of people who continue to argue that Bill destroying Euclydia was completely on purpose and he didn’t care about anyone at all because he’s just trying to garner sympathy in The Book of Bill, despite all the supporting evidence outside of Bill’s words that allude to how deeply traumatic it was, (so many, many things about) how he loved and misses his parents, how much of a sore spot the topic is for him, how much he wants to return home but can’t, etc. in addition to how perfectly Alex and co. crafted a parallel narrative between Bill and Ford, including how they hurt the people they love out of carelessness and blind pursuit of their dreams, justifying to themselves that the people they hurt just couldn’t understand

Yes, Bill is an unreliable narrator, and that includes all the very obvious posturing that he did it all on purpose and it was actually a very good thing, that everyone loved him, that he’s NOT incarcerated or anything and that he’s still a really all-powerful being, etc etc etc. To fully believe that EVERY vulnerability he reveals is an evil manipulation tactic, and not actual character writing, you have to interpret his very prevalent denial of weakness, which continues into the conclusion of the book where he already knows he’s lost the reader and is still denying any emotional needs or trauma, as itself a lie.

There’s a reason why the Pines family cracked open this book and laughed at Bill, calling him a fractured, pathetic mess.

The Book of Bill has a plot, a great plot, and great character writing. It’s a crazy companion to Journal 3, Ford’s story. Parallel stories, but where one ends with someone healing from their trauma, coming to terms with one’s mistakes and accepting the need for human love and relationships, the other ends with one stuck forever in their layers and layers of denial, never acknowledging their own trauma, never acknowledging their need for human companionship, grasping in desperate need at their continued facade of hating to love and loving to hurt.

Bill isn’t an always-in-control sly master of the mind, he’s a delusional and desperate man, fractured by his own trauma, who will continue to hurt others to prove that he’s in control. I’m tired of the false narrative that abusers can’t have trauma, aren’t people, giving them this otherworldly status above all humanity. Aside from not being narratively or societally productive, it undermines the ending and message of the book. Acknowledging Bill’s brokenness gives his victims POWER over him. The fact that Bill needs Ford, but Ford doesn’t need Bill is powerful. Them laughing at his desperation is powerful. Looking at someone who once seemed untouchable to you and realizing they’re just a suffering meat sack like any other human being is powerful.

The ending of The Book of Bill is the demystification of Bill. The book is a real look into his mind, telling a story that’s actually very tragic. It’s a very real story, a cautionary tale. You’re not being manipulated or tricked if you feel bad, it’s a very intentional writing decision that this ending elicits that dark pity, as he desperately fades away (arts and crafts materials confiscated) saying that he’s FINE.

So yeah, The Book of Bill and the website are a masterwork of the character, I love them, they’re incredible, and I don’t want to see such a tight character story discredited as “you can’t believe ANY of it!”

[txttletale]

it is kind of disconcerting when self-proclaimed "leftists" adopt a fully liberal position on sex work where everyone is having the just-so fictional mutually beneficial transaction central to capitalist mythmaking. idk a lot of radfem propaganda is basically positioning themselves as the last bastion of real structural critique and i think you are just doing their work for them when your argument for why sex work should be legal is "well it's consensual because the sex worker is just choosing to have sex in exchange for money which is a win-win for everyone :)".

your defense of e.g. legal protections and destigmatization for sex workers (& your corollary critiques of legislation targeting them) needs to come from a position of demystification and desensationalizing sex-as-innately-different-to-all-other-forms-of-activity and treating them as what they are, which is workers who are being exploited and are in need of protections and safe working conditions. this is not incompatible & in fact should be perfectly compatible with recognizing simple marxist truths like that consenting to have sex when the alternative is starvation is inherently coercive--in the exact same way that all other wage labour is coercive.

acting like it is incompatible is literally just buying into the reactionary SWERF worldview that accepting that fact should lead you to support oppressive legislation and the intervention of the bourgeois state in ways that demonstrably impoverish, endanger, and immiserate sex workers & it is dismaying when people who self-identify with "the left" (whatever that means but thats a different conversation) cannot formulate a (vital & necessary!) defense of sex workers and their interests and safety without falling back on obviously untrue liberal truisms.

[squeakitties]

i hope im not just a creature but also an insane weirdo that u follow despite my eccentricities being a bit off-putting to a lot of people, and in doing so gain a valuable tolerance, understanding and demystification of a lot of esoterica and sexual material

[klm-zoflorr]

TMA on a relisten is so fucking funny, I-

(for the record, ep041: too deep. Jon explores the tunnels)

The first time I listened to this, I was terrified for my poor Jon. Like? The claustrophobia? I felt his terror. I was convinced this all was a higher power manifesting in the tunnels to tell him to get out or perish.

And it was all probably just Jurgen in his underwear and a dirty wifebeater with his shitty beard and no socks or shoes, reading his funny book and literally just going like "please get out, dude". And both me and Jon just shat ourselves in terror

Damn, talk about demystification.