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I guess the biggest problem with tentacle porn is that it seldom has a positive message

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my gaming setup ignore the beast

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Léon Étienne Tournes - Intimité (1901)

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okay so I've been playing a bunch of No Man's Sky, a game whose main unique feature is its mind-bogglingly huge universe of procedurally generated planets, most of which have still never been encountered by human players. when you make first contact with an undiscovered planet, it starts out with a random name. just today I've discovered Snesfin, Inkiew, and Roranbu-Anuki. but a minute ago I landed on a planet with, and I must stress this again, the randomly-generated name of:

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The cat and the dad she said she "didn't want"

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I just felt Santa move me to the nice list. I'm sensitive to these things.

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I love being gay I love being butch I love being transgender I love being sexy

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Realized my top 50 games OAT post got lost with my previous blog and the list needed updating anyway

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Thought experiment: what if girls kissed

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I hit 3000 followers on this blog, which means I should probably do another follower survey! Please leave a response :)

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The worlds best ally to trans youth would like to reassure you that no one is giving kids hormones or surgery and it's all perfectly reversible

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different anon. can you tell me what makes lex luthor superman’s perfect foe

Lex Luthor, in many ways, represents the absolute pinnacle of humna achievement. He's intellectually brilliant, successful in business, the arts, and science, and he has trained himself to the peak of physical fitness. And yet it's not enough. Superman possesses everything he does without expending even a fraction of the effort. That infuriates Lex. To him, Superman's very presence degrades humanity and makes it lesser.

Lex is a narcissist, both in the colloquial and the clinical sense. He cares deeply for humanity and its flourishing, but this is expressed solely through the vessel of Lex Luthor, whom he regards as the natural representative of humanity writ large. He is, in his mind, the smartest, most competent, and most capable human being on the planet, and therefore it naturally follows that he should be placed in charge to guide and protect the little people who are otherwise beneath his notice. It is a perversion of the altriusm that is the driving force behind what Superman does - while Superman is motivated by a deep and unconditional love of Earth and its people, Lex can only think in terms of possession - it's not enough to save the world, it's not enough to uplift humanity, he has to own it - and remake it in his image.

While Lex can intellectually grasp what Superman does and what his motivations are, he can never fully understand it - it's an understanding that will forever remain out of his grasp because he filters all information through the lens of "what would Lex Luthor do?" Lex Luthor would never help people without asking for something in return, so Superman doing so immediately makes him suspicious. This solipsism is also why he would never be able to discover Superman's secret identity. It would never even occur to him that Superman might have one - both because Superman is extremely upfront in interviews about being from Krypton, and because Lex would never stoop to such a dual identity himself. Even when he engages in underhanded and surreptitious schemes to destroy Superman, Lex never uses a codename or pseudonym. Even when Clark Kent is right in front of him, his glasses off, saying exactly what Superman would say, Lex cannot put two and two together.

Speaking of Krypton, an interesting tension exists wherein Lex in many ways fits in better with Kryptonians than Superman does, just as Clark Kent fits in better with humanity than Lex does - the Kryptonians were a people who valued science and logic above all else, and while they certainly would not have approved of Lex's megalomaniac tendencies, they would have viewed him as an intellectual titan and a worthy member of their society for his achievements.

This is important - Clark and Lex are, in their best incarnations, childhood friends. They bonded closely when Lex came to live in Smallville. In Clark, Lex found someone worthy of his attention, someone who would engage with him and not write him off as a freak for his intelligence or his lack of social tact. In Lex, Clark found a kindred spirit, someone who felt out of place in humanity and was constantly striving for belonging and acceptance. The acrimonious split between them is a core tragedy at the heart of both of their characters. Clark is haunted with guilt at having been unable to save his friend from the lab accident which injured Lex and caused him to lose his hair. There is always a nagging feeling at the back of his mind that he could have kept Lex from going down the path he eventually did, and a kernel of hope that someday they could reconcile, that they could be friends again.

It can never be, though. To Lex, Superman simultaneously represents everything holding humanity back and everything Lex wishes he could be. The idea that Superman could ever reduce himself to live among the ordinary people is repulsive to Lex. His obsession with Superman is complex, layered, and nuanced, and expresses itself in many ways from the murderous to the psychosexual. He is what Lex uses to project his own fears, insecurities, and shortcomings - his failure to make the world a better place, his failure to accomplish the wonders he would be capable of, if he wasn't spending so much time trying to destroy Superman - in Lex's mind, this becomes "I could have saved the world if Superman wasn't in my way."

Superman, of course, always has a rebuttal waiting for him.