#use-value vs value

[madamemarmot]

Production focusing on status symbols and luxury goods, on advertising and branding, while ignoring use-value spells death in an age of climate crisis. There are so many vital issues to be addressed--guaranteeing universal access to food, water, electricity, shelter, and transportation; combating rising tides and flooding; protecting ecology; and so on. We must prioritize the production of things necessary to respond to the crisis, not things whose worth resides only in their capacity to produce value. Slow Down by Kohei Saito

[cynicalmusings]

anaxa is actually such an incredibly deeply passionate lover (both in a romantic sense and his general care for others). he just doesn’t let himself ruminate on it for very long at all and deludes himself into thinking he is acting 100% out of reason whereas he’s actually such an emotionally motivated person; and when he cares about somebody, he cares with his whole heart and body and soul and whatever. he’s just very good at performing, so he fools everyone about that fact, including himself; he’s caught up in his own facade.

[3416]

mitch jumping in to defend auston!!! do you remember the first time it happened? it's only my second season following the leafs so i don't know much about their rookie years

probably the first and most memorable time it happened was their rookie year (i was also not around during this time)... mitch jumped into a fight to defend auston against massive ass 6'4 rasmus ristolainen and tackled him lol... and then in the media afterward they were both extremely bashful about it. auston says mitch is an unbelievable teammate and one of his closest friends and he'd rather have been in the fight himself if he knew it was mitch that was getting in there. here's the video of it / here's a gifset of the fight itself / here's a gifset of their responses lol.... they have always been pretty hesitant to get into fights and scrums in general (i have a hypothesis abt them knowing they're much more valuable when they're nOT in the box or putting themselves in a position for potential injury), but the feistiest they get is definitely about each other specifically lol

[toastytrusty]

thinking a lot tonight about my favorite hickey interpretation which is that he is essentially a failed religious fanatic. to Me it is so much more compelling if he genuinely reveres the tuunbaq. he doesn't want to dominate it, he wants to worship it, or exist alongside it. he is deep in delusion and truly believes he has a genuine connection to it. he thinks that if he sacrifices the remaining men he has under his control to it, the tuunbaq will accept him as a follower. he has always believed himself separate to britain and its empire, an exception to its corruption. he believes that using the imperialist system to get away from the imperialist nation he hates makes him different than those who use the imperialist system to carry out explicitly imperialist endeavors. he thinks his past actions are inconsequential, thinks his resentment exempts him, thinks denouncing britain and allowing the tuunbaq to kill his crew will win him the respect and acceptance of this godly creature. but it doesn't. he isn't different. the pain he has caused for his personal pursuits is just as damaging as pain caused for grander, imperial pursuits, and is in fact the same thing. he is just as much a force of destruction as anyone else, just as much a target of the tuunbaq's rath as anyone else. perhaps more than anyone else. he lived his life hating britain, yet he still exhausted his endless quest for connection and purpose within the british framework before looking outside of it. he thought crozier saw things the way he did, recognized the same things he did, and he played the imperialist game as he saw it to be (abusing native people), attempting to chase that connection. but when crozier came up lacking and he came up brutalized, he stopped trying to find it there. he thinks instead that the tuunbaq sees him, recognizes he is different in a way crozier never did, can give him the soul bonded Purpose that he so deeply craves. he is genuinely mystified by it, sees it as so much larger and holier than anything britain has ever offered, and thinks it respects him the same way he respects it. tuunbaq killing him is much the same as crozier lashing him. he committed acts of violence to appeal to both of them, thinking it would win him their respect and admiration, only to end up as a subject of their violence in return, because he isn't what they want and he is never able to truly connect with people in the way he wants

[in-asterism]

wheee

[fromtheseventhhell]

Another reason that Stansas hate the idea of Arya and Dany being friends (outside of them wanting to demonize Dany) is that they've convinced themselves that Dany and Sansa are the only main female characters, so if a Stark sister is going to have a significant relationship with Dany it has to be Sansa. Arya being constantly downplayed and treated like an accessory to Sansa has generally led to the consensus that her relationship with Dany will be defined by whatever Sansa's relationship (positive or negative) with her is. That's why Arya is always being left out of the "we were robbed of [x] female character friendship" conversations and why theories about Dany/Arya getting along are treated as Sansa hate; Arya, as a character, is seen as secondary to Sansa by a lot of people

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

I think my most toxic trait as a Zenos enjoyer is wanting to 1v1 everyone who says that Zenos actively wants to kill his opponents

Like, completely disregarding that it is actively ignoring the text even in StB there (and that he consistently wants the WoL especially to live), he, uh, is written as having a desire for more the opposite to happen. Very, very consistently. His drive to live is solely linked to brief moments of pleasure-from-struggle and when that drops he explicitly wants to die so he can preserve the moment (and like. *looks at the end of 6.0* if he wanted to kill the WoL he would not be disappointed when they fall before the game allows it, nor would they have lived after given his will was strong enough to bring them back if they bite it). He wants struggle and lacks the ability to give enough of a shit to hold back if someone walks up and says they're going to go for his head.

Like, death is a side effect of what he's after, it's not the goal and he explicitly considers it a waste of life. Even fighting isn't the goal, the goal is to struggle, to need to put effort in. The WoL is just the only person to put him in that state as he currently is, hence his obsession.

[ahappydnp]

Like how did they even book a BBC1 radio show???? Like weren’t they basically nobodies back then??? I like can’t believe high execs looked at them and were like yeah why not

idk if this is a real question or a joke but real answer is the BBC wasn't getting the young people viewers and they knew vaguely of youtube and internet people so as a way to get the Youths interested they approached popular creators

and phil was kind of perfect for the 2011 christmas special radio pilot as he had experience hosting shows (like battlefronters, apartment red, sap) AND had done an unaired pilot radio show with someone else prior but it didn't get picked up. so he had experience in traditional media plus an editing degree so he could edit his own content. also they've talked about how their managers back them were really pushing for traditional media as that was all they really knew back then.

so phil got offered a trial run radio special and asked if his bestest buddy could be his co host and then a magic happened that even stuffy radio execs saw

[madamemarmot]

Essential workers like care workers are currently forced to work long hours for low wages precisely because their work is helpful and considered to be a calling. Indeed, it's the fact that it's a calling that's being exploited. Furthermore, they are often held in contempt by administrators who create needless levels of supervision and regulation without actually helping anyone at all. Slow Down by Kohei Saito

[grapecaseschoices]

tell me you've never played with wyll or gale in your party without tell me you've never played with wyll or gale.

i'm not gonna main tag this

i just wanted to complain.

[uncanny-fellow]

My only take on the KHML news is that I'm really surprised they even tried to make another mobile game while UX was dying and DR didn't even get to finish properly, if I recall correctly? (Of course correct me if I'm wrong — my memory is hazy.) Obviously UX saw a decent amount of success for a while but I just don't think the odds were ever looking good for the future of another KH mobile game by the time it was announced.

I hope they put what they've accomplished so far into a new project, in whatever form. Because I really do want to see what they cooked up. But also Kingdom Hearts has been one of my favorite series for 20 years and I have to admit the mobile games era has not been my favorite. I love their stories, DR especially, but the storytelling always feels really limited by the mobile format.

[inseparabiles]

btw. one observation about this environment (tumblr + fandom)

made so many casual friends and acquaintances after joining the Gladiator sandbox and without fail all of you are referring to us with plural they/them like regardless of whether this interaction happens in English or Finnish and I just want to say like.

Never felt this degree of unquestioning, casual, lovely and welcoming respect when it comes to this matter before like. You're all being so natural about it and no one's ever asked one thing or questioned how it should be done or anything it's like y'all just. Like it comes naturally and that's never been the case before and just. Nobody asked you to do this. Nobody expected you to do this. Nobody ever does it and even when we ask we expect that people just kind of forget it and don't do it more than once in a blue moon and give up on it in general and we never push because it must be weird and we understand that and just treating us like a person is enough,

and yet. Every time some new person comes to talk to us it's like they've known us for years and it's all regular and everyday to them.

byah. tearing up about this a little bit because the norm is that people snicker and cringe when you talk about DID or try to exist as a system that lives as multiple. You don't even know any of us by name and you still just default to "you (group)" and it's so. It's the nicest thing when we're used to constantly self-censoring and putting ourselves in the singular so as to not make people uncomfortable.

Love you all. You make us feel like a part of the team like it's nothing.

[rosykissdiary]

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝟒: 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆

𝑨 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈’𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆:

𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆

𝟏. 𝑫𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍:

- 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: 𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒂 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕.

- 𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔: 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.

𝟐. 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔:

- 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒀𝒐𝒖: 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆. 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚.

- 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌-𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔: 𝑶𝒄𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌-𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚.

𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚

𝟏. 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔:

- 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆: 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅.

- 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔: 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.

𝟐. 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕:

- 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂: 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔, 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔.

- 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂: 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏��𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔, 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕.

𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌

𝟏. 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔:

- 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔: 𝑷𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆. 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔, 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕.

- 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔: 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔. 𝑨𝒔𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.

𝟐. 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔:

- 𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔: 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 “𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔” 𝒐𝒓 “𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆.”

- 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚: 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚, 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔.

𝑬𝒙𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆: 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒔

𝑳𝒆𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔.

- 𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆:

- 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍: 𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝑰𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕, 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆, 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈.

- 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆: 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔.

- 𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚:

- 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔: 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑺𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅.

- 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕: 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅.

- 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌:

- 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔: 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈, “𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔,” 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚.

- 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏����: 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, “𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆” 𝒐𝒓 “𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒆𝒅.”

𝑩𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆, 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈. 𝑨 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍-𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.

[sallykie]

I've decided. I don't like the HTTYD movie sequels' xenophobia era. I don't think the themes should have gone that way.

[boundinparchment]

Logging out might not fix me but I don’t feel like I matter as a writer anymore rn so I’m going to go into hiding.

[tea-cat-arts]

I'm willing to at least hear out most of the "xyz plot point is heavily tied to abc cultural context" brands of posts but the "wwx isn't meant to be read as morally gray" and "the western fandom made up Sizhui being wangxian's son" brands of post make me feel like my cultural ignorance is being used to gaslight me