#and moral standards

[luckthebard]

I don’t know why this is something we apparently need to re-explain to parts of the CR fandom every few years, but if I see one more post that implies that the way Samuel Oscar Riegel is approaching his character’s faith journey is “culturally Christian” I’m gonna McFucking lose it.

[fagsystem]

Friendly reminder that health isn't a moral subject. The idea that being unhealthy is wrong is ableism plain and simple, despite living a very healthy lifestyle I will never be healthy.

I would love it for everyone to thrive. I do encourage everyone to take care of yourselves. But not because it is right or wrong, not because you're bad if you don't.

I could talk for hours about all the different reasons someone might not take care of themself. Disability, being neglected as a child, personal crisis, financial difficulties, sedentary working conditions, time poorness. But even if someone is completely able bodied, neurotypical, finaically well off, and in the upmost position of privilege. Even them. They aren't doing anything wrong by being unhealthy.

Including. This may be hard for some of you to hear. Including if they're fat. Even if they are fat for no reason other than loving high calorie, 'unhealthy' food.

Your health isn't a topic of morality where you are good or bad. It's no one else's business. You aren't bad for being unhealthy.

[sam-not-samwise]

People who purposefully skinny/twink-ify Samwise Gamgee are my mortal enemies.

He is canonically fat!!! And that is not a bad thing!!!! He is cool and kind and a badass and loving and he is loved and he does this all AND IS ALSO FAT

[oxeyesaint]

one of the things that makes (movie) poolverine work so well is that i think wade is legit the only love interest in these movies that has not ever told logan who he is. like the whole "you're not an animal, logan", and "girls flirt with the dangerous guy but they don't take him home" deal. wade has never really done anything like that, in fact he's pretty encouraging of whatever the fuck logan feels like doing at any given moment.

[reliand]

"He's a soulless vampire! How can you ship him with Buffy when he's hurt her?!"

I could not give less of a fuck that he is soulless when it comes to a discussion with you about this. Because you don't want a discussion. Every time I try, you bring up "Seeing Red" as some kind of gotcha.

Characters with souls have done some pretty horrible shit to Buffy. The Buffyverse is full of characters who do evil things all the time, despite their souls, so sometimes I'm not sure it's a good litmus test...especially when you don't hold other characters to the same standard whether souled or not.

[maxdibert]

They’re always going on about how ‘Snape joined a terrorist cult that killed people because of their origins,’ but they conveniently forget that ‘Snape betrayed that terrorist group and actively worked for 18 years to destroy it.’ Apparently, for these people, social reintegration through personal sacrifice for the greater good doesn’t count as redemption, but getting a girl pregnant before turning 20 does.

[spookyspeks]

I wish it were socially acceptable for disabled people on benefits to have nice things

[bruciemilf]

Re: your most recent ask YESSS SAY UT LOUDER!!!!!!!! BRUCE LITERALLY STOOD BY HIS PARENTS MURDERER'S BEDSIDE WHILE HE DIED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE WHO WOULD!!!!! BATMANS COMPASSION AND EMPATHY IS SUPPOSED TO DEFY BELIEF, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BEYOND COMPREHENSION!!!!! HE IS THE LODESTONE FOR EVERY ROBIN, THEIR GROUNDING FORCE, THEIR MORAL TRUE NORTH!!!!!

Yeah!!! To me, Bruce is not moral creature. He’s a virtuous creature

[mariaendingmp3]

[lord-squiggletits]

*sighs deeply and turns to the microphone again*

I'm reminding IDW1 readers that the reason Optimus felt pain when first bonding with the Matrix has nothing to do with him being "unworthy" or the Matrix thinking he's "not a true leader" and has everything to do with the fact that when he bonded with it, he felt the collective emotion of every single Cybertronian in existence and the strongest emotion all of them were feeling was pain and suffering.

I'm further reminding IDW1 readers that the Matrix doesn't have any divine power or godliness at all and the ability to wield it is solely based on how much a person believes in their own worthiness to wield it, which is exactly how literal colonizer, mass murderer, and caste system creator Nova Prime was able to wield the Matrix back in his day.

Literally the entire climax of Lost Light by JRO is Rodimus doing a pep talk to get everyone on the ship hyped/confident enough to feel worthy to wield a bunch of Matrixes. The whole fucking point of that ending was to show that "worthiness" isn't something only to be bestowed on a single chosen hero but rather a sense of self-worth that anyone is capable of achieving with enough faith.

Can people please please please stop with these insinuations/misbeliefs that because OP felt pain upon bonding with the Matrix it's somehow a sign of his inherent sin/unworthiness/shittiness/narrative evilness and actually read the comics they're making assumptions about? I beg.

[chaiaurchaandni]

also remember that no form of resistance is ever acceptable to the colonizer. and that includes non-violent resistance (the great march of return) + non-violence is only successful against a force that has a conscience. but if your opponent had a conscience, he would not be oppressing you in the first place.

[barib-yariel]

average keffiyeh ashleigh: jews need to go back to poland. they should go back to europe. all of them need to leave. they gotta go.

trump: palestinians should leave gaza

average keffiyeh ashleigh: that is against international law. this is a war crime. it's immoral. you can't do that. don't even joke about it. I can't believe you even said that.

[bumblingbabooshka]

I love Milchick...I love how he seems incapable of not lying and manipulating other people (Sending Irving the 'You're gonna get murdered if you keep getting cozy with Burt' painting without informing Cobel beforehand is when he first got on my radar) and how he wants the innies to be treated better but it seems like he only wants that so they'll be more complacent and productive and everyone on every conceivable side (Innies, Outies, Families, Kier himself) hates him for whatever he's doing or not doing and no one respects him and yet he persists even when it's pretty clear that whatever he's doing isn't even effective anymore because I don't think he knows what else to DO. It paints a picture of someone who's dedicated himself to Lumon and who knows how Lumon says it would like him to act and has no backup in case that fails. What is Milchick's personality? Though we see him outside Lumon, we never see him not working. Really the only thing we can say for certain about Milchick is that he is an extremely hardworking, persistent, and (forcefully) patient person. (Forcefully = It's implied he has HAD to be patient with others in order to advance. Think of how comfortable Drummond was with disrespecting and belittling him.) I know some people want him to be a 'Good', Kind, Benevolent Guy who sees the Innies as his friends because of his Kindness Reform thing but I'm wary of that mentality bc I know if he's not a paragon of virtue it's going to lead to a lot of negativity because black characters aren't thought of as being complex and Human in the way white characters (think Cobel, Helena) are. I really do wonder what his life looks like. You could argue that the character he most closely resembles (other than Natalie, who at this point is more tertiary) is Helena - not in her enormous privilege but in her enforced emptiness. Cobel's life was consumed by Lumon-Business work but she also had the Religion-Kier and that horrific slight working to pull her away from it all and keep going when all was said and done. I separate Lumon & Kier because...in my opinion, though they're deeply intertwined, they do seem like two different heads on one beast. Cobel had a Kier shrine, not a Lumon one. Think of how much Cobel mentions Kier as opposed to Milchick. It's of COURSE different but I think of those who leave the church while still believing in God as an example of deeply intertwined yet still different. Both Helena and Milchick are shown to be emptier than other characters. They're alike in their total lack of...displayed personhood, despite Helena's assertion that she IS a person, not Helly. How much of what she says and does is through her own will? Then, Helena sees (through Helly) her body being daring and loved. This is when she splits away from Milchick, she has found Something Else. Milchick has nothing to divide him. There's the racism and disrespect he experiences at Lumon but he's lived under that for maybe his entire life. Does he even believe in Kier? What I'm saying is that there's no other grass he can see. Cobel can dream of burning Lumon down for what they did, Helena can dream of a romance with Mark, Milchick has NOTHING without Lumon as far as we know right now. I've seen some people be of the opinion that "Milchick chose this, if he hasn't pulled away by now then let him suffer" but I don't think that's correct. I don't think it's incomprehensible or indicative of him being Evil. Think of Miss Huang, who in one episode says they shouldn't treat the innies as Human and in the next apologizes to Dylan, near tears. Think of Cobel who treats Mark like a science experiment/stupid child yet also says she cares for him. To me Milchick is a very mysterious character. Friendly and frigid, polite and unsettling. I want to know about him!! I want to see a bit of his true face and I'm sure it'll be ugly in the way many Severance characters are. And also beautiful, in the same way.

[rickktish]

unpopular opinion on tumblrstake:

the abortion question (at least as far as the world goes) comes down to the question of whose agency is more important: the mother's or the child's

pro-lifers believe the child's agency(life) is more important than the mother's life

pro-choicers believe the mother's agency is more important than the child's life

both of these solutions are bad actually! and i'd even go so far as to say that they are equally bad, because ACCORDING TO MORMON THEOLOGY, the mother and the child are equal as children of god!!

the church policy elder anderson was going over was actually the church's solution to this moral dilemma: if you chose to have sex (were not raped, because rape is NOT A CHOICE on the victim's part), and if you got pregnant as a result of that choice, then the moral choice to make is to carry the baby so long as 1) it will not put your life or health at risk and 2) the baby is not going to die shortly after birth anyway. This way the agency of the mother (the choice to have sex, REMEMBER THAT ABORTION IS NOT LOOKED DOWN UPON IN CASES OF RAPE) is fulfilled because it is her agency alongside her partner's which has led to the conception of this child, and the agency of the child (who, if you will recall, the church views as a fully realized person waiting for a physical body to be able to enact their god-given right to life and agency) is not violated.

And the important thing about anderson's talk is that if you do or have made the choice to get an abortion due to reasons other than rape, incest, or medical need, IT IS NOT THE END. It was NOT the morally correct choice, but that does not mean that you are cast out! You can repent. You might need to let go of some things to be willing to accept that there is a need for repentance (looks pointedly at the talk chatter where people were going off about how terrible Anderson was for talking about elective abortion being morally wrong) but repentance is always there. Christ will never turn you away.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

c//a stans when adora wants to be a hero to help and protect glimmer: wtf this is so toxic! glimmer is making adora work too hard and she doesn't even appreciate it. adora owes glimmer nothing!

c//a stans when adora is forced to sacrifice her own happiness or safety for catra's sake: i see nothing wrong here

[ace-and-ranty]

It's interesting that both El and Orion have a deep seated feeling something is Wrong with them, but in El is because of her capabilities, and in Orion is because of his wants.

Orion has a disquiet that his obsession over hunting is kinda fucked up, but he deals with it all right, makes it a positive "saving people" thing, strives to be better when inspired by El.

But El's biggest sin is what she can do, not what she wants to do, and it scares her so badly, so so badly, she's convinced it will turn her evil any day now, and BOY she's not dealing well with it.