justamotorsportlover

[another-goblin]

I like the metaphor of Dr. Ratio being a doctor who tries to cure the disease called 'foolishness'. It helps understand the character better.

First, let's not forget that he's actually a medical doctor:

But he sees himself as more than that (and Screwllum agrees):

That alone can say a lot about him, and that's why I don't agree with some of the ways some people interpret him.

Would a doctor get angry at somebody for being too ill? (they probably would for not using the medicine the doctor prescribed, or not taking their condition seriously.) Would a doctor be disgusted and abandon somebody for being too ill? Would a doctor take pride in being healthier than their patient?

......

But is this metaphor warranted? Doctors save and improve lives; what does education do?

We know how dangerous ignorance can be. Our real world gives us a lot of examples of that.

Besides, Ratio himself found a cure for some terrible disease threatening humanity and resolved "the energy crisis of the century."

So I'd say that education can save and improve a lot of lives too.

......

What exactly does he 'cure'? The words he uses, like 'foolishness', sound very vague. But if we interpret it as ignorance, then his work as a teacher makes sense. He also gives lectures seemingly outside his curriculum (remember that series of faux movie posters where he looks super excited to give a lecture about astronomy), organizes conferences (his voiceline about the Express's archives), and urges us to go to university and join some debate event. That's a lot, but these are some conventional things you'd expect from an educator.

On the other hand, this looks more like life coaching or counseling:

 It's basically the idea that humanity should start thinking by themselves and not rely on geniuses who don't care about them (btw he holds a similar position about the Aeons; people shouldn't rely on them too).

This is very different from these things I listed above.

So he sort of does both, I guess?…

......

Another thing is, there is a big difference between a physician treating an individual patient, and a researcher curing a whole disease (the way Ratio himself eliminated that actual disease). And again, he seems to do both, with both his conventional educational activity and, well, 'life coaching'.

What he did on Herta station is a good example. For the researchers on the station, he showed that despite the presence of 2 (or 3) geniuses on board the station, only our TB could help them; that they could have discovered the truth by themselves if they weren't so dependent on the geniuses.

And at the same time, it was a lesson for the TB about how if we really try, if we don't rely on people just telling us what's happening and what to do, we can make sense of a complicated situation by ourselves.

......

BTW he reminds me of Dr. House (from the show 'House, M.D.' Do people remember that show? From 20 years ago? oh god…)

I don't think they have a lot in common if you dig deeper, but there are some similarities on the surface, that can help you understand Ratio a bit better.

They don't mince their words and don't care what other people think about them.

House is dismissive of people who bother him with trivial problems. (reminds me of Ratio's "Don't ask a question if there's already an answer" and "If you have a problem, are you sure you can't solve it yourself?")

House is the most rude to other doctors for not doing enough (the same way Ratio is extremely critical of other scholars - people who are priveleged to have access to knowledge but don't do anything worthwhile with it. And, in a smaller degree, to his students - people who already have access to higher education but don't take it seriously enough, in his opinion.)

But he will cure those who really need his help, whether they want it or not.

[army-in-the-stars]

Byeon Woo-Seok x GQ Korea

[thievinghippo]

other inquisition things I'm angry about? that blackwall wasn't shirtless for this scene. what could have been...

[untilyouremember]

Nina the Starry Bride

Available digitally on kmanga

Available in print

[louisisalarrie]

With all the chatter around the Oasis reunion and everyone and their mother (i.e. socceraid) hinting that people would love another band to reunite, is there any news on the potential plans for said reunion you hinted at earlier this year?

I’ve not heard anything further, unfortunately! But will keep an eye and ear out and have a dig around, see if there’s anything weird going on behind the scenes…

[cyclondoojay]

what? Valentine's day? today? (really yesterday) I don't know what it is... but instead GET THE SIBLINGS AND THEIR LOVE.

[moonfromearth]

Marissa: Thanks so much for everything, Lou. Lou: It was my pleasure. Marissa: And we can come back whenever we need? Lou: *walking away* Anyway, see you later.

Marissa and Dani's stay had finally come to an end, meaning Lou once again has the house all to herself!

[magnetictapedatastorage]

parents decided to get the cat killed. came home and theres no more trace of it. wig

[clockworkbee]

[so-you-melted-22]

i'm obsessively checking my email in the hope that a fanfic i'm really obsessed with is finally updated and i think i'm slowly going insane

[aqueeracademic]

morse being queer (and other commentary) pt 8:

season 2, episode 4, “Neverland”:

TW: episode is about child abuse

- there is nothing capable of preparing me for this episode

- these posts are very quickly becoming my reaction to the episode rather than an analysis of queer behavior and we all have to live with that

- i love that morse is in a choir but it also doesn’t make any sense to me that he would willingly engage in a group activity

- let alone when the group activity is inherently religious

- bro just made escaping from prison look easy

- morse is never gonna wear that scarf ever again 😐

- “bloody place turns my guts. bleach, sweat, boiled cabbage, and everything on tick. never-neverland.”

- i’m gonna write my dissertation about jakes

- the way that people just did absolutely nothing about child abuse in that period is absolutely wild to me

- “we’re not strangers, we’re coppers!”

- believe it or not, that does not make it better thursday!

- i need to pay attention to this episode

- because this is the one plot i could not get to add up the first time i saw it

- actively keeping notes below this as we speak

- the way morse huddled under thursday’s umbrella he’s so 🥺🥺🥺

- MORSE IS A MUNCHHHHHHHH

- munch activity

- i can’t blame him i’m also obsessed with monica

- the wintergreens are so annoying

- jakes is a fucking flirt with any man he’s in a ten mile radius of and i hate him for it

- also i love him

- wish i was him

- it’s all very complex!

- morse stopping to look at engagement rings 🫤🫤🫤

- strange is so embarrassing

- i’m obsessed with him

- jakes coming to morse with URGENCY to tell him about the kid

- childhood trauma bonds them and i will not elaborate

- jakes reaction to the guy pulled out of the water 🥲

- his actor does such a good job being subtle but intentional i’m obsessed

- morse has such a short temperament for people who are bad at their jobs and i respect it so much

- everyone shut the fuck up

- i feel PHYSICALLY SICK watching jakes meet deare

- the way his face just changes so completely is fucking sick.

- and morse being the only one who noticed the sudden change in him 🤮🤮🤮🤮

- ALSO jakes’ face when morse is discussing the origin of aldridge’s coat

- it’s like he’s terrified morse is going to figure everything out but he’s also desperate for morse to figure everything out

- his voice is so small i want to be DONE

- morse is so quickly able to tie it to blenheim vale i am obsessed with his brain

- “i didn’t stay in oxford to work under mcknutt”

- you TELL HIM MORSE

- comparing them to the lost boys in neverland is so insane to me

- because FIRST OF ALL the use of the word “lost” is devastating. not only were they ‘troubled’ when they were kids, making them undesirable and easy to get rid of, but it also implies that they would never feel safe or at home in their future ever again because of what happened to them at Vale.

- they are the lost boys because they were never granted security in childhood and therefore will never feel it as adults

- BUT ALSO.

- the idea that the lost boys are known and remembered for never growing up

- they never get older.

- none of them will ever move past their childhoods because of what happened at the Vale. they will never grow past it. they will never grow up.

- i am FUCKING SICK.

- morse thinks of the most normal thing he can imagine if he can’t be a cop because he thinks being a cop is all that makes him special

- “it’s what people do”

- morse, babes, YOU are not people

- county police being helpful for once

- morse hates old white men (not thursday) as a RULE and i respect him for it

- “oh, Jesus” “you alright?”

- ^jakes seeing that wintergreen is dead

- i’m ending it all

- everything about jakes in this episode is so fucking personal and he’s so deeply affected by everything and can’t show it

- deare is so sketchy and thursday is the only one who clocks it

- benny topling being the first time they see how messed up the kids are is so…….

- like do you think once morse realized jakes was there he put it together? like do you suppose he realized that jakes must be so traumatized he can’t even talk about it???? because i bet he put it together

- doorknobs in britain are way too high up

- why is it by her head

- they should be low

- like? where your hand is?

- jakes handling the beads 😀 i’m so normal about him i promise 😀

- “there were five or six of us, and Petey. Petey Williams…. Me, George, Benny, Ed, and the two Petes. Big Pete, little Pete.”

- “Little Pete what?”

- he’s figuring it out. i hate it here!

- they were FUCKING CHILDREN. THEY WERE KIDS. LITTLE KIDS.

- sometimes i think morse should be allowed to fucking murder people

- “One weekend, Big Pete went off, and we all knew where he’d gone, only this time he never came back.”

- the way they all tried to find him after they got out and never did 😀 i can’t handle this shit rn

- the fact that the fucking cops are helping cover it up i HATEEEEE it here

- props to dr fairbridge for not abusing them but also fuck him for never doing anything to help them

- bright needs to get OFF his high horse and listen to morse

- not a single person cares who you’re friends with! not a single person cares how high up or powerful they are! they are bastards and child abusers trying to cover up their crimes!!

- everyone say thank you frazil!!!

- fr keeping morse alive another day via the newspaper

- dying because morse recognizes that jakes is someone he can trust and therefore seeks him out to help him

- “little pete” 😧

- he’s so gentle when he says it i’m dying

- the way jakes leans across the table and reaches for morse

- i will #neverforgive morse for just LEAVING JAKES LIKE THAT

- i know you’re in a hurry and i know you need him to join you because you trust him

- but listen.

- you could have said ANYTHING to make him feel less guilty about what he did

- and less guilty about not being able to go

- he shouldn’t have just walked away

- angela did what she SHOULD have done and i support her

- she did what morse and thursday and jakes should all be doing tbh

- look, murder is wrong! but in this scenario it is the only. option.

- thursday gives morse the option to leave and tells him he won’t think less of him, while morse made jakes feel bad for not pulling through

- woah!

- they fr just shot him

- 0 warning

- that was crazy

- murdering a FRIEND in cold blood just to frame morse is so crazy

- “history is written by the survivors” so… not you?

- morse panicking when he hears the second gun shot 😭 i hate him but he’s so baby

- GO ANGELA GO

- NO ANGELA NO

- morse getting arrested and no one doing ANYTHING to help him is fucking insane

- bright just fucking stands there

- jakes 🥲

- he looks like a child in that shot of him

- because they’re the lost boys

- and they don’t get to grow up

- the three musketeers finally finding Pete’s body is my final straw

- you’ll all be glad to know that i understood the plot this time!

- i am no longer an idiot

[mayyosgallery]

Scavengers are important, To me. (Pikemann posting)

[ritsukaaoyagi]

Hi! Sorry if this is a silly question, but what’s the current state of the Loveless manga? Is it still being released regularly, is it on a hiatus, or something else entirely? I’m catching up on the manga after taking a ten-year break (lol) and wikipedia says that it’s still being released????

as far as i know, it’s not officially dropped but i’m pretty sure it’s on an official hiatus. i consider it dropped because it hasn’t updated since maybe 2017-18… and i don’t think yun cares about it anymore hahahaha. vol 13 was the most recent volume and it just had a ton of filler iirc

[willgrahamscock]

I think staff doesn't realize that all they have to do to make this website profitable is stop changing the UI, leave tumblr as it used to be and ask people to donate to maintain the server it runs on. Ao3 gets double and triple their donation goals because we are dedicated to keep it alive and it would be the same with tumblr. The first step is to accept that we hate change and none of us are leaving. Let us reblog our little images and stop trying to turn this website into a cash grab. This website is full of little freaks with disorders, we are not profitable but we are loyal. Let us have one place where we feel at home.

[newttxt]

leashes for zosan

[apbeezah]

the graff and carlotta dynamic

i think about them...... so much

bonus image under the cut :)