#Tool Dissectional

[gromky]

Mary Magdalene would never let her loved ones down

insp @normalbrothers absolutely brilliant Pietà set

[theriverbeyond]

person inventing cavader dissection as a part of medical training: in order to heal the body we must first understand it in a three dimensional multisensory way

person inventing dissection tools: what if we created a saw trap for the hands

[canichangemyblogname]

I appreciate your post about Hen and Athena. I’ve only been around a few months and while there’s been nothing surprising about the continued racism in this fandom (I’m just a tired black woman trying to have a good time), it’s been ridiculous to watch folks double down when called out or think things were cute that were absolutely ridiculous in their execution. Despite having writers of color, this show misses a lot but also the complacency in fandom of not only racism and misogyny but specific misogynoir is just ridiculous. I mourn for fans im sure have just NOPED out bc of how pervasive it is and would have had incredible things to contribute.

Thank you for reaching out! I’m glad you’re here and appreciate sharing a fan space with you. 🫶

I have seen the way racial harassment, racist ideas, and biases have pushed out friends and fan creators. And I have seen how black and brown fans are treated differently for calling attention to issues of racism in fandom. Fan spaces are chronically white, and that is reflected in fan interpretations, the way a fandom engages with a piece of media, and the way white fans interact with black and brown fans.

There is a lot of unchecked racism, ableism, misogyny, and homophobia in 911 fan spaces, and I *know* fans have “noped out” because of its pervasiveness. I believe that these spaces should be welcoming and safe and fun for any fan. People shouldn’t have to worry about whether they’re following “safe” blogs or feel anxiety scrolling through tags and art as they wait to be confronted with racist takes or whitewashed caricatures. And the fact that fan content is created for free is no excuse.

I want fan spaces to be more welcoming, and I think calling attention to commonly held regressive ideas is *one* thing I can do. It’s not the *only* thing I should do, tho. I think it’s important to love black and brown fans and the amazing perspectives they bring more than I hate racist takes. It’s also important to show genuine interest in black and brown creators and reach out to make genuine connections. This is, after all, a community. Making a space welcoming includes showing support for the amazing creators who are here. It’s not just the racist takes and racist interactions that push black and brown fans out, but the disparate treatment their art and contributions receive. Because amazing people *have* been alienated from fan communities, and these spaces feel empty without their voices.

[saltedcoffeee]

omg someone pointed out david's talent could b used for propaganda n my third and fourth eyes opened simultaneously

[aesrot]

Timothy malpractice rand,,,, none of his science or medical experiments are anywhere near ethical. They both left ethics at the door like several hours ago……….. rolan just letting rand poke around inside him, tear open his stomach, expose his ribs and break open the bones to get to his heart and lungs. Pulling on the veins and nerves and tendons and muscles to see what he can make twitch and spasm and pull. And rolan feels so out of control, so out of himself, so deep in Rand’s hands that he barely even notices any of it. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s an indescribable eldritch feeling and he clicks and clicks and clicks and clicks and clicks and clicks and it’s hard to tell whose really losing their sanity

AUGH YESSSSS and because of how different his body is and functions, rand needs a knife to make way through the flesh, through the ribcage, the bones are too hard and slippery for him to pull just w his hands, but when he can, he'll tear the skin and tissues and muscles with his hands, and sometimes with his teeth, sinking them into rolan, giving into some primal instinct he didnt even know he had. Rand follows the course of his veins, holds them between his fingers and presses them, sometimes pulls them and tears them and watch as rolan's skin gets paler, his eyes fluttering and rolling as he gets too close to unconsciousness. it happens, rolan passes out multiple times, but rand tries to keep him awake as much as he can, its a lot more interesting that way, to watch how he responds to each of his movements. its so similar yet so different from what rand experienced dissecting small animals in biology class, it makes him even more invested, even more curious to explore how rolan works.

[metanarrates]

Sorry if this feels really sudden but was there any specific catalyst that got you interested in media analysis as a hobby? Or did it happen organically? Intensive dissection of art and information wasn't really a habit of mine up until I watched/read Hunter x Hunter for the first time, so I can firmly say "yeah this series is what got me to work on my critical thinking skills" but this of course means fandom was pretty crucial to my development as an individual... was wondering how common/unusual that is for those of us who participate in these spaces 🤔

I've always been something of an analyst! my grandmother was a preschool teacher who switched to being a high school english teacher, so she was a huge influence on me as a kid. she taught me how to read when I was 3, and she lived in my family's house on several occasions during my childhood. i LOVED to read and my grandmother was a very capable teacher, so she was teaching me about literary devices and such when I was literally around 9. my parents are very highly educated people who also like book and film criticism, and my siblings also loved reading, so I just sort of grew up viewing literary analysis as a tool to help me enjoy reading and writing more than I already did. character analysis was and is a common form of discussion around my family dinner table.

however, most of my childhood and teenage education was about literary analysis as a tool to emphasize what an author did well. I didn't get into media CRITIQUE until I was around 15 years old and discovered twilight criticism on livejournal.

to give you some background, I didn't have unfettered internet access as a kid. my parents believed it wouldn't be healthy for my development and heavily monitored my internet usage. my smartphone, when I got one, had its internet browser locked down UNLESS my parents disabled the parental locks on it. but when I was around 15, I became friends with a trans dude at my school who Loved tearing apart bad media. we would hang out and read horrible smut fanfiction while trying not to laugh as a regular activity. around this time, I figured out how to jailbreak my phone to allow me to browse the internet more freely, and in doing so discovered livejournal communities that were dedicated to in-depth critiques of certain media.

i was OBSESSED with those critiques. i had never seen comprehensive literary analysis used to explain why something sucked, and it was very exciting to my teenage brain. i reread certain critiques over and over again, just because the type of analysis going on was something I had never seen before. some of these authors were very educated and talked a lot about feminist lenses of analysis, racial lenses of analysis, etc. and i just wanted to learn more. I started reading critical essays on other works as a major hobby, and my friend and I would regularly discuss media critique. since then media analysis has just been a Huge interest of mine.

so as far as your question goes, i suspect my background is pretty unusual. most people I know who got into fandom did so as a kid or teenager. and I definitely did get into fandom in my late teens, don't get me wrong, but I had an ENTIRE background of literary education under my belt already by the time I became a regular denizen of the internet. fandom ended up not being very influential to my critical thinking skills at all lmao

[creepyscritches]

I haven't watched trigun yet bc as you all will recall I am incapable of being normal about biblically critical themes and allegories

[eldritch-araneae]

People often say that journaling is good for your mental health and I wonder how is this different from monologing in your head? Bc I have ADHD and my brain sees journaling as waste of time since I already do it in my head and won’t let me do this.

[butterfirefly]

You know... I might actually need some sedative if Kaneshiro reveals Kaiser's thought process when he approached Ness, and I would definitely need to get shot by a tranq gun if he did it not because he thought he couldn't win without him, but because he just... wanted to help him.

[valsyr]

yes this is a freya blog .  no y’all are not exempt from me talking abt odin

[rinnysega]

what's floating? :0c

It’s where you shut yourself in a sensory deprivation tank (no lights or sounds) and float in epsom salt for an hour+

(You strip naked but the example is wearing a bathing suit)

I’ve been doing it for a few years now and it’s helped reduce stress, anxiety, depression etc, and improves sleep and creativity. It’s not a substitute for a therapist but it’s a great pairing to go with it (think of it like a glass of wine paired to a meal). Recently it’s been helping me heal from some mental and emotional trauma by allowing me to focus on myself and meditate with my thoughts with no outside influence or distractions.

It can be scary the first few times but when you let go of your fear and breathe, you really get to know a deep, spiritual side of yourself! And the salt makes your skin feel super soft 🥰

[zeveth]

How your muse handles pain and/or trauma.

1) when reacting to extreme pain or trauma (inflicted on THEMSELVES) your muse feels: helpless | angry | afraid | shocked | defeated | detached | unreal | nothing

2) when reacting to extreme pain or trauma (inflicted on OTHERS) your muse feels: helpless | angry | afraid | shocked | defeated | detached | unreal | nothing

3) in a life-and-death situation, your muse would: save themselves first | risk their life for someone else | risk their life only for someone they care about

4) has your muse done any of the things mentioned in the third question (above) and regretted it? yes | no | it's complicated

5) has your muse ever: lost a loved one | lost a family member | personally seen someone close to them die | been in a war

6) regarding past trauma, your muse is: indifferent to it | sensitive about it | keeping it bottled up | insecure about it | afraid of others finding out about it | accepting of it

stole it off the dash, go for it :]

[mishkakagehishka]

hellooooo korka. do you have any big influences on your writing style? specific stories/authors you read that really inspired how you write. thank you love <3

Ooo!! Interesting question :o i guess it's been so long since I've started developing my style, i can barely remember who i was inspired by most... i think i remember reading writers who used irony often, and i loved using it myself, giving the omniscient narrator a dash of personality. Sometimes i wanna use it again :> Right now, I mostly wanna take inspiration from Marinković and the like. I found his mastery of wordplay so good, it really made everything feel profound.

I think with me, right now, i take more inspiration for themes and motifs (from Poe, from Baudelaire, so on) than for a specific style, but every once in a while I'll read a book, have to pause and backtrack to analyse what devices the author used that made the paragraph i'd just read pop lol. I can't remember what books those would have been back when I started writing (and which have probably influenced my style a lot more than any recent), but I very distinctly remember reading Cyclops by Marinković and thinking "This is the sort of style I want to write in, this is the sort of vocabulary and flow and wit I want in my writing". I think I mould my style more by reading about literary periods these days - I love mixing elements of the romantic period with elements of avant-garde especially

[metallteeff]

okay i will rant for like two seconds my once a month rant but i have recently realized fucking psychology or i guess like modern/pop psychology especially is destroyingggg art. so bad.

like as writer/artist for like the past 2-3 years i’ve found myself being like oh i need to be able to perfectly articulate how my stories deal with mental health and then i get in this awful loop bc i’m not writing anymore im dissecting.

and on the audience part too it’s also awful. i love metas and analysis etc etc but it’s all turned into this strange phenomenon of like “proving a theory” and so many of these metas (im just going to use that for the catchall) focus on the same dissection.

just lately when it comes to art and discussion old or new academic or twitter rants i feel like i constantly see people asking “what is wrong with the artist to make them make this” instead of understanding the emotion or subject present in the piece and dissecting that as it relates to you. it has ti be clinical and hard fact and true to the creators intent.

i hate this approach so much and the way i see it effects my writing has made me crazy so i’m glad i’ve realized. i do not like to see abstract concepts put into a box im sure no one else does but being in like online art culture it’s so so so bad for that because no one can discuss anything online it has to be a debate. and then you’re debating art instead of analyzing and sharing experience.

this is all very vague and that’s kind of the point. what i’m talking about applies to anyone from like brain rotted edge lord anime girl artists to characters in mainstream/high production projects. there is no separation of art from artist on the basis of how does it make you feel it seems like it’s everyone’s wondering what’s going on in the artists head and trying to use their art as tools to figure it out. i think that has terrified me in creating and it’s made me feel like i have to make it present in my art in the first place so i have “nothing to hide” but why does an audience need to be in your psyche???

this is not me saying exploring mental health and illness and symptoms of it in art is a bad thing, it is exactly the opposite. it’s when it turns into everyone fighting about how xyz proves their headcanon correct and then no one else is allowed to interpret a character another way when the point of most art from the people i know and/or admire want the exact opposite. every character should be a mirror to a large variety of people and experiences. the same shade of green should excite one person and disgust the next. i am just so tired and appalled and over the like compartmentalization of art to enjoy it as a monolith go fuck yourself!!!!!

and i kind of got off topic with the subject of psychology present in art but looking at art with a psychological lense can be fun but that’s the lens you should already be using in the sense of connecting emotionally to pieces. i’m seeing yourself in the art right in front of you. most people (especially people who don’t create art often) go into art immediately trying to “figure it out” which i understand but how to you make it clear to everyone that they already understand, they just need to listen to what is there in front of them.

to look at art through a clinical lens is the death of art is maybe a more accurate way of talking about it. to look at art and try to dissect it, not for yourself, but to say “i know exactly what the artist was thinking” you’ll never be right. it’s fun to joke about in the basis of relation to the art but then that’s just you relating. that’s your experience and perception. you will never know the artists intent.

this is more specific and a little more silly but i feel like that^ over laps with people freaking out about character and “good/bad” representation. saying gay characters can only act this way. that characters with plurality can only be portrayed like this. that characters with a disability or neurodivergence or this or that can only say this list of things or else you’ve made a “harmful character”. of course there is harmful stereotyping but i would hope everyone able to publish and produce stuff knows what to do and not to do. i know that’s not realistic but i hope majority of writers don’t need a strict do and does list to write all of their stories!

i really mean this more in the way of making a strict view of how exactly to portray a certain character especially when it comes to marginalized identity and psychology then makes a new box that pisses people off. people did not like autistic people being portrayed as emotionless genius robots who parade as people and that’s normal because that is fucked up. but why now does every autistic character need to be almost a joke about being “too weird”. why also does a character need to be confirmed by the creator to be anything. it’s definitely nice but to me if a character portrays your experience without being confirmed anything, why not just enjoy the character in the way you perceive them. i’m also just a really big fan of ambiguity and surrealism in art so that’s how i prefer to take it but i don’t understand why every single aspect of art needs to be labeled for enjoyment. it’s killing it.

i kind of got off track with this but i hope it’s clear how i feel like psychology effects art in the ways of when you confine symptoms to one box and you put people into those boxes and those people love art and make art. then the perception of art will be affected and it’s hurting it badly. it is okay to be uncertain but i think psychology is hurting people and art badly in tandem

[flylikejetstreams]

full apologies if that was rhetorical and i'm just rambling but i think taylor is reliably narrating her perspective, but shes maybe not including the full reality of the situation (see: "you will inevitably create a reality in which only your experience exists" from the nyu graduation speech), its a pretty human thing to do but still something to be aware of

no no it was not rhetorical, ramble away! but yeah i agree. it is a normal thing to do, especially when creating art, which is why i think it’s ultimately kinda harmful to assume we know everything about a situation based on a song dksjsmjs but leave it to this fandom to dissect