#intellectually

[macrolit]

Emotionally, I wanted to stay. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 Susan Sontag

[merrilldidnothingwrong]

Fenris’ Temper

So, with Fenris, a lot of the fandom focuses on how angry he can get in conversation and cutscenes. However. There’s good reason for it, and it’s nowhere near as bad as the fandom makes it out to be. His anger in cutscenes is a direct response to him being triggered by his trauma. In conversations, it’s a different thing.

When Fenris is angry in conversations, invariably, it’s because another companion crossed a boundary they shouldn’t have. And most of the time he simply snarls, instead of outright lashing out. When he lashes out, mostly at Anders but occasionally at Merrill, it’s usually because they crossed a boundary in a far too personal manner. (Anders does this with a lot of people) But most of the time, Fenris is simply snarling in response to his boundaries being violated.

And this is important, because Fenris is a man who is only now, in the time of the game, figuring out his boundaries, and starting to live and grow, instead of just surviving. He’s spent the grand majority of his life that he can remember as a slave who wasn’t allowed to express anything that his master would disagree with. So when we see Fenris in-game, we’re seeing someone who is figuring out that it’s okay for him to express emotions like anger, or happiness, or love. And he’s doing a lot of personal growth over the course of the game.

He’s learning to read, he’s figuring out his likes and dislikes, he’s making friends for the first time in memory. He walks away from a romance with Hawke because he doesn’t feel like he’s personally ready for a romantic relationship. And if Hawke is willing to wait, he will come back when he feels ready.

So of course when his boundaries are crossed, he’s going to defend them with all the snarling of a mother bear. Because he’s spent his life not even having boundaries to defend. And Fenris is so determined to hold onto every freedom he gets. And the freedom to be upset is a big one. So no. I don’t blame Fenris when he gets upset, because while he might not always say great things when he is, every time he’s angry, it’s for good reason. - Mod Alistair

[beljar]

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Antonio Gramsci, from Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1971

[cegodaltonico]

"Mas a beleza, a verdadeira beleza acaba onde começa a expressão intelectual. A intelectualidade é em si mesma um exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto. Desde o instante em que alguém se senta para pensar, torna-se todo nariz, ou todo fronte ou alguma outra coisa assim horrível."

Oscar Wilde

[ahomeland]

From ‘How God Pursues Us through the Intellectual Life” by Rachel Bulman.

[prokopetz]

It's true that there's no practicable way to frame "style theft" as an intellectual property issue that wouldn't have horrifying consequences for independent artist, but that doesn't mean we can't have sympathy for all the artists who've spent their lives perfecting the craft of drawing moist-lipped, glassy-eyed, vaguely oily-looking anime girls in three-quarter profile and now everybody thinks they're a robot.

[just-your-average-tangerine]

Quick question: How do I learn to accept that I cant be loved and only exist to be used?

[jingler]

"this fandom is annoying" every fandom is annoying dipshit. it came free with being passionate about something.

[cemeterything]

"i wish i could exfoliate my brain" you can. by reading things that challenge you.

[ineffectualdemon]

Disability Pride month let's not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!

I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm

I learned about it from this video:

And I found the website for the campaign which is here:

Let's support all members of our community

[thecorvidforest]

boy it would be nice to be able to google something related to personality disorders, psychosis, intellectual disabilities, autism, DID/OSDD, etcetera without finding majority articles that are like “how to deal with a person with X” “how to cope with your child with X” “how to spot someone faking X” “can people with X be cured?”

[clitfisto]

the funniest thing about tumblr fandoms for good well-made thought out media is seeing people point shit out while saying "i know its not that deep but-" girl it literally is. sometimes good writers will make the curtains blue on purpose to symbolize something. you are analyzing and interpreting bro

[betaphannie]

dnp's video titles: DAN AND PHIL ARE GETTING MARRIED PHAN COMPILATION DAN AND PHIL SUCK DICK AND BALLS

me crying on the floor sobbing and throwing up: pleaase...,,,,,,,waht gayme are you playing.,,,,...,,???

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

[pixierainbows]

wish for smart autism people to STOP saying things like "most autism people actually smart ! ". is not true! is just so erase big part of autism community ! of people like Pixie, and intellectual disability autism people !

STOP say , is not okay ! people like Pixie, people with intellectual disability , are BIG part of autism community ! we deserve be part of own community !

STOP try push out of community, is ableism !

[prokopetz]

Mickey Mouse's entry into the public domain comes with significant caveats. While the Mickey Mouse who appears in Steamboat Willie (and other media published in 1928 or earlier) is free to use, there's established precedent that specific elements of a character which appear exclusively in later works which still fall under copyright may be protected, if sufficiently distinctive.

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Which raises a fun question: what voice would you give him? Wrong answers only.