#and then it goes to black sheep.

[essektheylyss]

hot take: "Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene" goes SO hard and of all of Hozier's songs, it gets absolutely NO credit for slapping as much as it does.

[mlmebomb]

severe brainrot for this roleswap au @callowayrat and i are coming up with

(ignore how fucked gray looks, I have BAD art block </3)

[maskyartist]

look i cant forget how to use CSP while i doodle mindlessly in mspaint so here

have a mindless doodle in clip studio :D

[botseeksbot]

vb creators deciding hatred was funner to write than brock and that brock only reacts w violence or gruff indifference or whatever the fuck they said . how are you so wrong abt a guy you created

[vortexclubparties]

Victoria Chase's Instagram, featuring a post from September 2013 ꩜

[fandomdancer]

I love that sometimes when I'm doing the most mundane things, the characters in my head start talking. Today, Laura was carrying in some groceries, and Jim decided to....help. By sneaking up behind her and wrapping his arms around her chest and putting his face in her neck.

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"Jim, I'm trying to bring in the groceries!"

*muffled* "So'm I!"

*Giggling* "I can promise you THOSE aren't groceries!"

*moves his chin to her shoulder* "See now, that depends on what definition of 'dinner' you're usin'! I'm pretty sure I got a nice, nutritious meal right here."

*Laughing harder* "Jim Gutterman, if you don't take your hands off of me and help me bring these bags in, you won't be having any kind of dinner tonight!"

"Any kind?"

"Any kind."

"Well that about clears things up for me then, how many more bags we got?"

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I don't know what scene this is going in but it's gonna have to go somewhere. I love them.

[vv3spa]

our common goal was waiting for the world to end

[throwawaytabs]

ive realised, its not that my family is against me or out to get me, its just that theyre indifferent to me & they want their kicks one way or another

be it drama, resources, revenge, someone to take their emotions out on; they want their kicks and dont care who gets hurt or traumatized. especially not me.

white family be like

[ghoulsaint]

…my Prince

[quietwingsinthesky]

The good spn prequel that exists in my head aka a show about Mary and her weird cousin Nick and being doomed from the start.

[exbeaut]

i need another book like Diavola (by jennifer marie thorne) please

[intyalote]

i can admit ready steady go isn't half bad as an OP. but for a long time it was one of my least favorite l'arc songs... maybe they thought it didn't matter because everyone would already like it from the anime idk, but if you listen to smile in full it's really hurt by being sandwiched between kuchizuke and lover boy, two infinitely more interesting songs. especially weird when the second half of the album (from time goes on onwards) has such great flow.

[mahi1313]

Black Friday/black sheep 🏴‍☠️👍✔️

[bluastro-yellow]

I can project on fictional characters. as a treat. to keep on going

[the-acid-pear]

I love it actually when there's things i just have to pin on L.L. like sure X sucks and sure Can isnt as perfect but this bro ain't beating the allegations this family is all terrible in fun and particular ways

[orcboxer]

Okay let me try this one again. The Trolley Problem sets up a scenario that sucks to be in. You either kill one guy, or you kill five guys. Nobody likes these options. We all don't want this be happening. That's kind of the point. It's a moral quandary. It's supposed to feel bad.

Now, according to a recent post floating around on tumblr, choosing either of the two options demonstrates "learned helplessness" and makes you a neolib sheep. The only correct answer, the post states, is to reject the question altogether. (Or to change the parameters of the question to include an option that saves everyone, thus eliminating the moral quandary.)

It sounds nice, doesn't it? Fuck this bad situation, we control our imaginations, so let's imagine a situation that doesn't suck. Hah! Bet you didn't think of that!

Here's the problem. Even though I think most situations generally have at least one solution that is both Feasible and Not Terrible, I have to admit that there are some situations (as in, not zero of them) where all the feasible options are unpleasant. This is a natural consequence of living in a world where A Lot Of Things Suck.

But if shitty situations do exist, even if it's super super rare, then it's not unreasonable to ask, "How should we make decisions when we find ourselves in a shitty situation?"

This is the beginning premise of the Trolley Problem. It says, "Hey what if you were in an unambiguously shitty situation? There are many shitty situations, so let's imagine one that is contrived enough to get everyone on the same page regardless of political affiliation, AND really emphasizes the key parts that I want to discuss."

Tumblr says "let me stop you right there. What if instead...we imagined a different scenario that wasn't as shitty?"

Well, okay, but then we're not talking about the same thing anymore. That doesn't actually count as an answer to the problem, you're just changing the subject to a completely different thing.

Tumblr goes on to say, "Exactly. That's the only thing you should ever do when confronted with an ethical quandary. Frankly the fact that you are willing to even consider a scenario that sucks suggests that you are fundamentally incapable of considering less shitty scenarios."

I just want to say I think that's bullshit. I don't think every problem is a trolley problem, but I do think that some problems are a trolley problem. And I think that those problems are worth discussing, even though they don't feel good. The trolley problem exists as a framework to discuss those problems.

Maybe our aversion to difficult decisions has an impact on our ethical reasoning, and maybe we should actually question how our ethical standards hold up under the weight of that aversion. So maybe moral quandaries like the trolley problem are worth discussing. And if you don't want to engage with the quandary, then don't - you don't have to concoct a whole essay about how the quandary is inherently morally bad.

It's possible that what you really want to say is that it sucks when people treat certain situations as trolley problems, when those specific situations actually do contain unambiguously feasible and unambiguously perfect solutions. I would agree with that.

But like. Let's not pretend that you can reduce all of ethics down to unchallenging black and white moralism.