#Engaging Topics

[academicswithlily]

This list provides a curated selection of high-impact and engaging topics within the field of computer science that are suitable for assignments. Explore these areas to gain insights into cutting-edge technologies, trends, and research in computer science

[borderlinereminders]

do you know how sad it is that as a recovery blog you can’t manage your disorder and don’t realize you’re experiencing it?

Do you know how sad it is that you’re taking the time to send me asks like this?

I do actually want to talk about this though. I don’t see a need to fix everything. Some things aren’t hurting me, or are low priority when I want to focus on other things.

Meds haven’t stabilized my moods and with my coping mechanisms, I have control of my impulses and know how to handle depressives and anxiety.

Instead, I just accept my disorder. I use times of being manic to prepare for depressives. I meal prep and freeze it. I pre make products for my business. I sometimes queue a bunch of posts.

“Accepting it” really bothers a lot of people but trying so hard to fix it was causing me so much anxiety and stress. And some things aren’t fixable. So, I learn to live with it. And I think that’s valid.

I work on my behaviours that are harmful (impulse control, lashing out at people, sabotaging my relationships, etc), but I can’t just fix my disorders.

It’s a disorder that isn’t ever going to just “go away”. I’ve learned to adapt to work with it instead of trying to fight against it. And let me tell you, my mental health has never been better 🤷‍♀️.

[moyazaika]

hmm

[aroaceleovaldez]

not to complain about the show again but genuinely I think people should be WAY more pissed off that s2 cast an abled actor as a character with Down syndrome - particularly a character whose entire arc and narrative presence is focused on the fact that he has Down syndrome and how Percy has internalized ableism and how Percy unravels that (and also chewing out Annabeth for her ableism).

Like. Tyson has down syndrome. This is a very core part of his character, because like I've said before: the entirety of the first series is centered around and hinges on disabled stories and themes. If you are having an abled actor cast as Tyson you have already failed step one. Cause either you are actively erasing Tyson having Down syndrome or you are having an abled actor try to portray Down syndrome and neither of those things are okay.

[sluttypatrickstar]

now would be an incredibly sexy time to support queer creators on youtube who cite their sources, read the work of the people james somerton didn't bother to credit, and - if you've got the time - do your own reading into the topics he talked about on his channel

[pericardium-and-glass]

With how popular the transformers franchise is online, it always surprise me that it's so niche irl. Today was the first time where I've met a stranger outside of a fan-culture context/event that: a) is a fan of transformers, and b) willingly talked about being a fan of transformers without prompt. Made my day.

[son-of-avraham]

I've been doing a lot of reflection as of late, especially after this past class.

This past class was about the Torah and Tanakh in general, and the way the rabbi talked about the commandments (specifically the ten commandments) has made me really reflect on how I interpret them, specifically the fifth commandment, or honoring your mother and father.

This is a commandment I have wrestled with for a long time - in fact, it brought me away from g-d at multiple times. I was severely abused when I was incredibly young by my mother, and I used to feel insulted at the implication that I were to honor her while she got to live a better life. It was hypocritical, in my eyes.

But this rabbi surmised that this particular commandment was because parenthood is an act of creation, something that is like the g-d from which we come from. My realization is this: I don't think we're necessarily meant to take even these commandments literally.

I this particular commandment is more of a call to honor creation - creation is a gift, and like any gift, many people simply will not like it and will discard it. The person who abused me created me, but she did not honor creation. She didn't honor me, but I can still honor it.

I have started to honor creation much more. I'm too young, too unstable, not mature enough to be a father (though I fantasize about it), but I create all the time. I create relationships, I create with my hands through crochet. I create memories, I create my world. And I can honor who I am and where I came from that made me who I am. I've been learning one of the mother tongues of my family (Italian, since part of my family originates there) and it was judaism that inspired me to do this.

I don't think g-d wants me to honor my abuser. I think He wants me to remember the Holy action of creation. When I am a father, that act of creation will be Holy, and indeed, I am already joyful about the thought.

I have seen many people struggle with this particular commandment, but I think this perspective helps me personally. I don't think I ever have to forgive my abusers (plural), and I don't think I am commanded to simply because they happened to be family. I am commanded to recognize the holy, to elevate the mundane. In doing so, I will remember g-d. Through creation, I honor g-d and everything he has done for us, for me, and for our collective people.

[agentnoun]

i'm retiring from Clair Obscur Discourse for a while due to my recently having turned Evil so to commemorate the occasion i will be posting Hot Takes

these are things that a) i have thought enough about to be sure i'm right, b) i have previously made people really annoyed and/or mad by asserting, and c) i will not be phrasing diplomatically because i think it's funnier not to and, as previously established, I’m evil now.

the verso ending is the one that makes narrative sense. if this game had only one ending and it was the Maelle one i think it would be a bad and unsatisfying ending to the story. (this does not mean that I think the verso ending is an uncomplicated happy ending, far from it, see the next point. it does mean that i think if the game had only one ending, it would be the Verso one.)

there isn't a Good Ending. while i think the Verso ending is the "True Ending," that's a different thing.

and while i understand that it's a common trope in discussing this game that all ending discussion needs to be prefaced with "there is no good or bad ending," i actually disagree with that. there might not be a Good Ending, but there is a Bad one. yes, i mean the one you think i mean. yes, i understand that many, many people will find this claim downright offensive.

this is not at all limited to this game, but people have a strong tendency to disregard the actual text of the game ("text" meaning all of the game's contents, not just the verbal/written parts) to add details to both endings that aren't implied by either, possibly as a way to brute force them into being "happy endings." no, i don't think there's any chance Maelle will move on or leave the painting before she dies in her ending, or that Verso will ever be happy. no, I don't think Maelle would, could, or even should repaint her friends in another canvas in the Verso ending and my reasoning for that is "the entire rest of the game's story screaming why that's a bad idea."

(the above does not apply to fan fiction--fic is, well, fic and can do whatever the author feels like. i'm talking about interpreting the game itself, not extrapolating/inventing details in fan works. if I had a problem with that I would be a Weirdo, and not the fun kind.)

i am extremely tired of people pointing at Visages as a sign that real/original Verso was also a liar and manipulator because i don't think that axon could be screaming "masking" louder if it tried and i really hope nobody thinks that someone masking mental health issues is "lying" or being "manipulative."

ending with a somewhat colder take: the romances didn't need to be there. they don't really add anything. the Sciel one is better than the Lune one and at least makes narrative sense (i.e. if it was just part of the main narrative i don't think it would be out of place) but with Lune it feels like she and Verso have two completely separate relationships between the main story and the "relationship level" scenes.

also if you read this far you are legally required to play Mother 3, I don’t make the rules. ok bye!

[ovaryacted]

I’ve been laughing about this whole topic since yesterday not because it’s funny, it’s absolutely not, but because it’s fucking ridiculous that we are giving history lessons on racism and the people who have been calling this shit out for months are right and have been right despite the constant gaslighting.

Do you know how crazy it is to be a non-American 40 year old conscious human being and intentionally use racist & violent American imagery in a fic for an incredibly minuscule character played by a Latino man of color who’s the child of political refugees? Do you know how crazy it is to also have a reader-insert acknowledge the confederate flag, and still fuck the person that hangs it in their space? Like do y’all see how fucking crazy that shit is? It’s insane just typing that out. When I said y’all move like the feds in this fandom preaching about inclusion & community in one breath while doing the very thing that jeopardizes and harms those that are excluded from said “community”, I meant that shit, and I was right.

As much as we like to deny it, writers have their own motivations and intentions for creating and sharing the projects that they do. If you as a writer actively choose to add racist themes in your writing to intentionally make a character problematic, it’s a reflection of who you are, because you didn’t need to do that and yet you still decided to do it anyway. Would you as black American want to read a fic where the reader insert fucks a racist? No. Then why do you as a white person, especially a non-American, think it’s okay to do the same? Would you fuck a racist? By the way some of y’all keep dismissing the intentions, that’s up for debate because a lot of y’all would rather fetishize the shit out of that man than have a lick of common sense.

If you really are a “brilliant” writer and person, you’d practice what you fucking preached and wouldn’t need to add racism in your fics when we have enough of that shit in real life. Instead, all you are is a coward, a hypocrite, and a loser and that’s all there is to it. This goes beyond fandom and community, this is real life. And if you have a problem with BIPOC individuals in particular talking about this and setting y’all straight, I suggest shutting the fuck up and opening your ears since you’re not gonna fix your mouths to be the allies and advocates y’all say you are. 🤷‍♀️

[tls12lessthan3]

thinking about orvs metatextual engagement with its genre and specifically how that interacts with its women again. kim dokja is a self insert for the reader - what he thinks is largely meant to represent what we think, especially in the beginning before sing shong really fleshes out his character. kim dokja sees the world through tropes, directly acknowledging the genre around him and the cliches we expect e.g. the overpowered mc, the scheming villain, the beautiful heroine.

but a major part of his arc is deconstructing this reductionist view of the world in a way that parallels the author's deconstruction of the genre, and that plays really well with the way orv writes women. yoo sangah is perhaps the best exanple - shes introduced as the heroine, a one-dimensional pretty girl who in any other novel would become kim dokja's love interest. but the authors allow her to be her own character, directly challenging the stereotype of the heroine and calling attention to the genre's typical lack of depth for such a character. i think this undercurrent plays in the background often but really comes to the forefront when yoo sangah reminds kim dokja of her putting pepper in their bosses' coffee, a memory kim dokja had supressed because it didn't fit with the pretty girl persona he made for her.

i interpret that moment as yoo sangah pushing her way out of the mold of heroine often found in these stories, demanding a depth be added to her character, asking kim dokja - and thus the reader - to see her in her entirety, to see the heroine archetype for what she could be. orv is at all times in conversation with its genre, and its simultaneous writing of female characters with agency and depth and acknowledgement of the tropes these women are expected to fulfill is undeniably a part of that. and its a part i enjoy. most of the time.

[leliwardens]

see. one thing that always stood out to me about dragon age is the genuine attempts to integrate minorities into the world in a grounded way. this isn't to say it's always been done well, or even good, and sometimes is downright offensive esp compared/contrasted to the groups that inspired them. but when i think about other series that seemingly have racism for the sake of racism, (often simply bc they need x stand-in for this world) i've always appreciated dragon age for trying and doing more than that.

however.

if we had to sacrifice some of the fictional worldbuilding and lore to create better, more socially aware writing for real minority groups, then i'd be fine with that, welcome it even! but we know that's not and never was the case with veilguard bc why the FUCK are the qunari written like that.

[dorkja]

FallingFlowers ORV Fics

Hello! Just wanted to make this introductory post—welcome to my blog! It’s mainly me reblogging posts regarding ORV, possibly other fandoms, or rambling about the pains of writing (as I also attempt to write my first original novel!)

Most recent fics with links:

words left unsaid (still, my heart is yours) (currently updating; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: M)

why do I love you? (5.2k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: M)

One of the Boys (3.5k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: M)

thanatophobia (4.9k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: G)

The rest can be found below!

Confessions of a Dying Lover (7k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: T)

ashes in the wildfire (41k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: M)

joonghyuk does not dream of bunny boy sunbae (24k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: T)

Peeker’s Advantage (19k words; Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk; Rated: M) [Now with a podfic by the lovely @kickit-kick ]

…and there’s more to come! Stay a while, won’t you? :)

[madrevolting]

[cultkinkcoven]

@ null

Let me go ahead and give you a proper response, because I think this needs to be addressed.

Fucking hell.

I wrote a whole probably better worded response to this that Tumblr destroyed so you get this.

*deep sigh*

Lets try this again slowly. You are obviously very upset and running with things completely out of context. It's incredible to me that of all the things said in that post, you somehow came to the conclusion that my argument is that it's okay to draw naked kids. Truly incredible.

I am not defending pedophilia. Pedophilia does not need to be defended, it is a mental disorder. The word "pedophile" is not the same word as "child predator" let's get that very clear right away. I don't care how uncomfortable it makes you. I refuse to moralize primal human psychology.

The point of my post was to stop moralizing primal human psychology, desires and fixations. Full stop.

I am not defending illustrated CSAM, I am not saying it's okay that this content exists or encouraging its creation. I am making the very real and important distinction between illustrated contextual fantasy and illegal CP content. No, drawing r34 of a cartoon character isn't going to immediately catch you a charge. It is highly dependent on the context and the way the act is portrayed. There is an immense amount of nuance here and I'm not going to discount it to make your life easier.

I'll say it again: We as a people do not know how to determine why something is actually wrong. You yourself clearly do not.

The issue with the situation you describe has always been children being exposed to inappropriate content. It does not matter if it is illustrated, real, written in text or spoken aloud.

Children being exposed to any type of inappropriate content is traumatizing. It is not the existence of porn or fetish content that hurts kids, it is being exposed to it by predatory adults.

This content cannot harm children unless an adult is actively harming them. Your abuser could have used any kind of content to groom you. Your issue is not with the existence of fetish content or grown adults engaging with consenting adults in private.

Your issue is with *children* being *exposed* to inappropriate material. And fetish content, sexual content, violent content, is not for children.

Yes, consuming extreme and illegal fetish content can increase your predisposition to causing harm.

But fantasized illustrated and exaggerated content is not snuff. Eroticism is not porn and porn is not snuff. Two consenting adults engaging in pet play is not bestiality. Furry porn is not bestiality. Age play is not pedophilia. There are no children and no animals involved in this situation. Watching real depictions of crimes will erode someone's sensitivity to it., that is true. Watching campy exaggerated horror movies does not make you a violent freak who loves murder. Finding an image of a fake anime girl hot does not directly translate to finding real children attractive or wanting to engage with them. I'm so sick of us watering down what pedophilia is.

Adults engaging with other adults does not harm children. Full stop. Is it weird? Yes, as fuck. It's allowed to be weird and gross. That does not make it harmful.

I said in my reblog that inappropriate content does not belong on all ages sites. Extreme fetish content must be restrained to monitored and moderated adult only forums so that illegal content can be identified and investigated. Porn is traumatizing for children to see in general. That does not mean we need to ban porn for the entire population. The issue isn't the porn. It is the access to it by minors.

Does this mean illustrated CSAM okay? No. I said that multiple times, idk how many times I have to say it. No. No. No it is not definitely okay. Not everything needs to be so aggressively black and white. It does not have to be the worst thing in the world to be a red flag. It is not normal. It is still problematic, it is still inappropriate. It is still a red flag. It is still risky.

What that means is that we need to approach these things with consideration and respect so that it does not evolve into something dangerous.

It means keep fetish content where it belongs, on adult sites.

It means report fetish content when you see it on public platforms and social media sites

It means keep adult conversations between adults.

Predators exposing kids to inappropriate content is not the fault of sex workers trying to make a living. Predators exposing kids to inappropriate content is not the fault of adults coping with their condition in non-harmful and private ways.

Pedophilia is a mental disorder, and I refuse to moralize human psychology. The mass majority of people who suffer from this condition are former victims of childhood sexual assault. I am not defending predators or predatory behavior. Not all pedophiles are predators and I refuse to persecute a group of people with no justification other than my discomfort. I don't care how hard that is. Life isn't easy. I am willing to preserve the uncomfortable nature of the truth if it means preserving the truth.

People who have problematic, unethical and illegal fetishes, kinks and, fixations deserve space and empathy. I will say it 1000 more times.

You observing behavior between sexual predators means nothing to me. I am not going to assert that all people who engage with paraphilias act the way that sex traffickers do. Nor am I going to assert that all drug users are irresponsible addicts. Again, too simple of an explanation for an incredibly complex topic and a gross generalization of a huge group of people. I will not treat an entre population as if they are corrupt. Doing so does not stop the corruption.

You still think I'm a deplorable monster? Block me.

And the next time you see disturbing content that is not for you, Block that too.

Block and avoid things that make you feel uncomfortable and unsafe. Do not engage in conversations that are not meant for you.

I swear there always has to be at least one person who takes a single sentence completely out of context and just runs with it, its like one of the inevitabilities of the universe or something. I guess it wouldn't be a Luciferian take if it wasn't unjustly distorted by at least one person so.

[sysig]

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[whales-are-gay]

im not a train autistic but i believe their beliefs