#god this class pissed me off

[taigacryptid]

today in my history of film class, we watched and had a discussion on Jules and Jim (1962) so spoilers for that.

spoiler free: LOVED this movie. the cinematography, the characters, the metaphors and visual storytelling, augh perfect

with spoilers:

my classmates almost immediately started the discussion with attempts to diagnose Catherine, claiming she was bipolar and narcissistic or simply insane. which BAFFLED me. all the focus was on her possibly being mentally ill and trying to stick a label on her. there's def a discussion to be had about mental health, but it shouldn't be about saying Catherine's a bad person. she's good and bad, she's a faithful wife and a slut, she's devoted yet flippant, stubborn yet free-spirited. she wants to start a family with every man she loves, but she also wants to have risk and fun and adventure and be tied down to nothing.

that discussion point was also very reminiscent of how feminist women would be discredited by men who claimed those women were crazy and shouldn't be trusted with any political power like the right to vote. shit like that is still spewed by misogynists who think women would start wars when they have their periods. unwarranted focus on mental health is only used to strip others of their autonomy by putting their opposition in mental asylums or prisons.

before this, we watched In the Mood for Love (2000) and Madame Brouette (2002) and mental health was never brought up. Mrs. Chan and Mati were both championed as complex women with relatable motivations and feelings. Mrs.Chan was never called depressed, and Mati was never called bipolar or dangerous. my classmates never afforded Catherine any of the same understanding or sympathy, she was simply crazy.

people love to go "i wanna see complex female characters!" and then they can't handle Catherine from Jules and Jim, or Korra from Legend of Korra, or Katara or Toph from Avatar The Last Airbender, or Catherine from SOMA, or Himeno or Makima from Chainsaw Man, or Marcille from Dungeon Meshi, or Gwen from Spiderverse, or Mae from Night in the Woods, or Caroline from Portal 2

[hana-no-seiiki]

help.

[chaoticprussia]

im not super well versed on the history of africa. yet another thing the school system decided it wouldnt bother teaching me. sigh. but i absolutely LOVE all the flags theyve got.

eventually one of these days im gonna sit down and try to read as much african history as humanly possible. its gonna happen. when i find the time and the will to read.. but it will happen.

[jabeur]

all the wta singles matches in a slam being during the day is evil many people have jobs and why would i spend my evening watching a domestic abuser instead of paolini rybakina

[crybaby-bkg]

I love mythology so much and it’s taking everything in me to not write a full fledge fic about a Cupid and Psyche au omfg

justttttt Cupid Bakugou who is just so, so fucking beautiful. he’s always been recorded by other mortals for being akin to sunlight himself—all golden hues and sharp angles and high cheekbones and massive wings. wings that span as wide as an entire village, that sparkle when the light hits them, loud when they beat to send him soaring into the skies above. but his mouth? his attitude?

everyone always wonders why he was never the god of war, instead. but he’s damn good at his job, with his arrows propped up on his back, swift with discharging them into another stupid mortal who’s fallen for the local towns idiot. but hey, they’re in love, and it’s his job to enforce that love go over well.

and then he sees you—the most beautiful mortal, that you’re even compared to the gods, to his mother. he wants you so bad, if not to treasure and keep you against his side as he travels over the oceans cold waters, than to keep you safe from the vile men who want you as their partner and the disgusting women who envy you for having it all.

omg and the part where he takes you to stay in his palace and asks you not to ever look at his face???? it’s killing him, to wear that mask to your nightly dinners, to be able to look at the soft curve of your mouth when you frown and ask him to reveal himself. to be able to look at how you stare back at him, eyes pretty and furious, frustrated and mad, wanting to go back on the conditions you agreed upon because having to sit across from him without seeing him is absolute torture. I am. vibrating.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

the miraculous ladybug fandom really loves hating children for being children. they are literally kids. they are fourteen years old. "alya césaire bashing" should NOT be the top alya tag. what did she do wrong? have an underdeveloped brain since she's, oh, idk, fourteen? or-or is it because she *gasps* has made mistakes? why is "classmates bashing" a popular tag? oh noooo they're kids and they made mistakes! + the writing in those episodes was bad and they were ooc! how dare they! "adrien agreste bashing" - okay. he's flirtatious and has feelings. sue him for acting like the suppressed teen he is. like oh my god. even the lila hate,,, y'all do realize she's a child, right? you're allowed to hate her but wishing death upon her?the way that people write about/refer to lila is sick.

"alya césaire redemption" FROM WHAT!!! why does she need to be redeemed? gosh. no matter how many classmates bashing-related tags i filter out on ao3, i still actively struggle to find fics without it. these characters are 1. fictional and 2. children. if you can't handle kids being kids then stop watching???

not only are they kids, but they're traumatized kids. marinette and adrien aren't the only traumatized characters. every single classmate got akumatized and tried to kill the city's heroes and destroy the city. alix erased people from existence. how do you think she felt about that after the fact? ivan, a fourteen year old kid, was the first person to get akumatized. the first. he had no idea what was happening, people gave him so much crap for it, and then it happened again. sabrina almost killed chat noir. kim tried to make chat noir kill ladybug. alya tried to unmask her hero live. sabrina literally became invisible.

like... and not just that, but they've all been heroes, too. as exciting as it may have been at the time, you can't tell me they aren't at least a Little traumatized after fighting literal villains. oh, and they've been victims of akuma attacks. is chloe a bad person? kinda, yeah (but also partially bc of bad writing-). but she was almost like boiled alive, killed, was taken hostage countless times. max had to deal with the aftermath of markov's akumatization. when juleka became akumatized in "guilt", the classmates were forced to sit and get consumed by guilt. they've had to watch their family get akumatized, watch their friends or partners get akumatized, live through the guilt of knowing they hurt someone so much they got akumatized. bc they're human and they're kids. ofc they're going to hurt someone. it's natural. let them be kids!

[chocosvt]

oh

[blackcurrant-juice]

angry that my new meds actually work

[paanzermensch]

(reffferring to last post)

ARE YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING KIDDING ME.

[popcorn-plots]

I wanted to write a poem

To my class, my teacher, my world

but the words wouldn't come.

I wanted to write a poem

telling them that AI is not a god.

But I couldn't find the words, hidden behind my screen

If AI is not a god, why do people worship it?

If it turns evil, like those shitty sci-fi movies, do we crucify it?

Cut it's sides, lash it, force it on a cross with a crown of thorns

saying that we knew all along, jeering until it turns on us, benevolent in its anger?

I wanted to write a poem

but I couldn't find the lines

I wanted to write a poem

to show what I thought

but how do I compare what AI has become to human ideology?

AI is not a god, but it has a halo of binary code and a server of believers

I wanted to write a poem

but the words aren't forming

and I'm drowning in my thoughts

people tells me to "ask chatgpt",

to talk to a robot

and find my answers in plagiarized words

but they say it in the same way they tell me to turn to god

AI is not a god.

so why do people want it to be

@salidqueen

[angered-box]

i survived. without lunging at that girl

[surpriserose]

-> have to annotate comic pages for class

-> not allowed to do it physically have to do it digitally

-> tool suggested doesnt even let you resize text?????

-> i have to make 10 annotations of 50 words each??????? That shits not gonna fit???????????

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

cant go too far from tumblr its the only website that isnt horrible to people with npd

[mothalas]

im so normal about my fav cousin getting deployed to the frontlines

[cartoon-skeleton]

group work is Not It. I should have known better than to enroll in an engagement course that involves planning workshops with a group of other students……. guess who is doing all the work! :^) Back in tha day my teachers called me a ‘natural leader’… fun fact!!!! I am actually not! I do not like being in charge! it is actually just that people take advantage of me! Hope this helps

[baluciarz]

this uni experience is actually so toxic to my mental health and it's all in my head because I believe everyone hates me (I'm right)