#Ppl misconstrue

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[ilynpilled]

what i find so funny about tax policy discourse is when ppl imply that the simple expression of “i personally want to explore and spend time on the fact that being a good ruler involves way more than being a good person” is a very faux intellectual pretentious and self-absorbed sentiment

[2000sscribbles]

hey good omens fans: looks like georgia and anna have both unfollowed neil on instagram (it was very recent, i checked their accounts right after the vulture article dropped and they were following him, and now they aren't). i think the chances of the cast publically speaking out on the allegations right now are pretty low but if you were worried where they stand on the issue due to their silence i think this gives us a pretty good idea.

[ballsbalb]

reminder to myself: don’t look at what lando fans say about oscar, it’s not worth it

[caeslxys]

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)

As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)

He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.

(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)

It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.

(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)

[cruesuffix]

i find it hard to imagine mick crying. i just thought about it and like tried to think of situations where he could’ve cried but it feels like he’d call himself a wimp and just stop. but he must’ve cried in his almost 74 years but it’s just hard for me to imagine

i feel the same about this! i just can’t imagine him crying about anything to be honest. i’m so sorry, i’m very talkative today so this one’s a bit long too.

there’s so many moments where i’d think he would have just let go and cried. when he recounts some of the bands more dark moments, he seems very passive about it. i don’t think it’s cause he doesn’t care, but more so that he can’t properly display the correct emotion when recounting those stories. like, when he talked about finding out nikki od’ed he sorta goes “i knew that bastard would pull something like that,” not because he was annoyed, but because he doesn’t properly convey the right emotion. he’s not emotional about it, he kinda just talks about it in a very straightforward, monotone way. i don’t think he knows how to be emotional, or convey those emotions properly. i don’t think he ever has, to be honest.

not saying he doesn’t feel those sort of emotions. that quote also has a follow-up where he states he felt he didn’t do enough to help nikki. he has feelings about those situations and he definitely was worried and saddened about the news, but he’s just not the type to cry about it. just like when the band was doing their group therapy and they’d be prompted to let out their emotions. mick was always the one side eyeing everyone for crying. he hated having to gather around in a circle and sing songs. he hated all that sappy shit. i think his father (and most of the 1950’s standards for society) drilling it in his head that men don’t get emotional and don’t cry really affected him in a way. he talked about how much he hated doing the therapy in the band, and i think he has a very rigid way of thinking that is typically seen in older people.

(side note: i think this is why i’m so curious to know what kind of drunk he was back in the eighties. was he a loud one, a violent one, an emotional one, a chill one… like did he let his emotions flow out when he was wasted?? i just think it’s so impossible for someone to keep their emotions bottled up for so long idk…)

idk i see him as a very emotionally repressed person. someone who doesn’t care to see ppl be overly emotional around him and someone who avoids expressing certain emotions himself. he’s a very curious case in my opinion and i think that’s why i like him so much. i get to do a lot of dissecting when i talk about mick. if he ever has cried i wonder what the situation was and what the boiling point was to make him break down.

[agentc0rn]

I’m sorry I feel like I’m becoming more negative lately but man I reallly can’t stand this fandom and their discourse over chikorita, az, graphics and shitz. I hate it here

[phantomsies]

literacy, empathy and nuance are dead fucking arts and there really is no coming back from it.

[rodrickheffeley]

chappell they will never make me hate you

[pinkhysteria]

okay ngl i'm kind of confused by "saying you find quinn's DR's/whatever annoying/cringy is extremely cruel" type of rhetoric when we just got off a season where blue was mass clowned for her kitty kitty purr shtick to the extent of viral tweets about it? 💀

[ilynpilled]

idk why this fandom is so insecure about actually disagreeing on some things with george. like ofc i get it hes the author and ofc he has immense authority on his text but lol this is art. if you have ur opinion that u can substantiate and doesn’t require misconstruing and deliberately misinterpreting/making shit up why are u so desperate for his validation. and its usually silly shit too

[smoshingatut]

I'm kinda tired of dungeon meshi fans blatantly misinterpreting Kabru's goals, motivations, and character so they can ship him with Laios...like obviously it's awesome if you enjoy Laikabu but can you nooot twist Kabru's intentions for involving himself with the guy who constantly triggers his monster trauma and pisses him off so bad he gets brain damage so that he turns into "the guy who wants to suck Laios's dick" as his entire character? I've even seen people cut off Kabru's words to make it seem like he is admiring Laios because it would disrupt that narrative

[the-owl-tree]

i always just think it’s a) funny and b) shows a startling lack of self-awareness when warriors artists get up in arms about stuff like that. like sorry what transformative process makes your warriors keychains any different than a 13 year old’s tik tok edit, cause the 13 year old certainly isn’t making any money in this situation.

[quackity1999]

I'm being dead serious when I say I'm looking for my biology book because it had something about this water💧debate in it so give me a day to find it

get back to us soon, bud. the crowds are growing restless. there's riots in the streets. someone's trying to poison the water supply to prove their point, i've never been so dehydrated and yet i live in the fucking desert—

[muirmarie]

i've tried, because i know there's some incredibly great stuff out there, but i just really cannot read k/s lmao, i just. it really doesn't do anything for me. which is funny, bc i absolutely and obviously do enjoy k/s in a k/s/m context! but. even if it's k/s k&s&m i just. genuinely cannot get into it enough to read it?

i have a one-track mind and that one-track is playing a fancam of leonard mccoy on repeat 🙃😭🙃😭

[gurorori]

haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise