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Incidentally, this is why I don't care that the recent Wuthering heights wasn't realistic period dress or society etc. It was blatantly symbolic (and Symbolic!) and wasn't trying for realism or period accuracy, so I don't criticise it for period inaccuracy. Like, who walks across the moors in a massive tulle gown in real life? No one ever, and that's the point. It's obviously performance, and that's what its going for. My criticisms are based on other criteria.

But this new adaptation of S&S seems realist - the colour palette and grading, the costumes and hair that aren't accurate but look like something real people at some point in time have worn, the characters that read like real(ish) modern women... It's trying to read as realist without being realistic and just. What's the point in setting it in the past then?? Why adapt Sense and Sensibility, a realistic realist novel, into an unrealistic realist movie?

I'm just so tired of earth tones being "realist." People wore bright clothes! The past wasn't drab, honestly it might have been brighter than now given our whole obsession with beige minimalism.

But no, it's not realistic unless it's BROWN and BORING

This is just modern minimalism imposed on the past. Just make a modern.

I assume this has something to do with the meanings of their names, but I'm not sure because I think Zhang San means "three"

Zhang San’s name is literally 张 one of the most common Chinese surnames in the world and 三 as in the number three. It’s an incredibly weird name.

(translation notes from the novel)

Maybe it's a homophone or it is about Xiahou Dan's name. I don't know Chinese so I have no idea.

I also don't know why Wang Cuihua's name is amusing, so if anyone knows I would love to learn.

Here ya go! The “uppies plz” emote without the text :D!

kiki: well first of all I wouldn't do it without his permission and second I know what it's like to have your personal stuff rummaged through and I don't want to do that to desert

But here's Kiki's reaction if desert allows her to read it

And I was wondering if later in the future you might put more drawings of the gods of like BP Zeus children both his sons and daughters and maybe Poseidon children too???.

I’m glad you noticed!! I did add Hera’s blackened hands in my art because in Discarded Treasures both Ares and Hephaestus were fiery births. Ares with the flame of conflict and courage while Hephaestus was a flame of industry and creativity. However, holding her newborn sons caused Hera to burn her hands permanently.

And you’re right! She is visibly healthier and younger than Canon!Hera as

1. She is from Ancient Greece. And therefore much younger than Canon!Hera in the modern age.

2. She doesn’t deal with a shameless, philandering husband embarrassing her every other day.

And

this image:

Im just kidding. Though she is really cute in it.

Truth be told, when UM came out I thought Sannyo was Super cool. Her "You darn fool" expression was probably the best expression in the whole game. but somehow, when the full game was out, she wasn't my favorite. I liked Tsukasa and Megumu and thought Chimata's outfit was crazy fun.

Though even then i preferred Sannyo's outfit design to everyone else's.

But Sannyo slipped from my mind due to what I'll call "Stage 3 syndrome" meaning, after the demo, Everyone likes the 3 stage demo characters for a while and pick a favorite among them, but when the main game comes out they get pushed aside really quick and people, more or less just move on to the new characters

But when I read her power and stuff in her Omake.txt she quickly became the coolest character in there. Of course she's a newer stage 3 boss so I obviously never expected to ever see her again.

(Though tbh my dislike of the smell of smoke probably wasn't scoring her any points, she was honestly at a disadvantage the whole time. I just like her enough to think it's cool when she's using her power instead. Besides, given what she says it's made of, it probably just smells like strange flowers anyway)

But then despite my assumption I'd never see her again, She appeared in Lotus Eaters chapter 29 and continued to appear occasionally after, Not only that......

She had the COOLEST, most cinematic intro in the entire touhou series. It was like 5 pages of slow walking through her Den politely greeting people, using her power, and even making aside comments with cynical gambling advice. Then meeting Mamizou at the door with a confident bow.

she's also got a crazy gap moe range of interests from obscure flowers to Dragons, proudly wearing the name Madame Komakusa, the after what is called the queen of Japan's alpine flowers.

And a crazy range of emotions. (Plus Lotus Eaters loves having her do something fun or cute in the background during her shift hours, even if the script dialog isn't calling for her)

she's mysterious, yet she's as expressive as an actual main character, she's got a range of principles, interests, and an incredibly cool gap moe thing going on. It's so rare for characters that were more or less side characters in their respective games to be this well rounded, I mean she's from freaking stage 3. But, She's awesome, adorable, and mysterious.

If morality is both subjective and culturally defined how should we determine when to intervene to prevent harm?

Interesting and good question!

Here’s the thing: Morality is subjective, yes, until we decide as a group on what we’ll base it on. Then we can objectively make decisions about what is and isn’t moral.

Most people (atheist and theist alike) tend to be in rough agreement that maximizing well-being and minimizing harm is a good baseline for morality, so from there we can objectively make decisions. Though, that being said, some things will inevitably fall into a grey area that kinda comes down to personal preference and point of view (e.g. if abortion counts as murder or not).

In the case of something more concretely good vs bad, for example, we know for a fact that slavery causes harm to those enslaved, so based on our decision to minimize harm, slavery is bad. Feeding the hungry, on the other hand, greatly maximizes well-being, so it’s good.

It’s also worth noting that sometimes while we agree on the end goal, we may disagree on how to accomplish it (e.g. I might prefer the government be the one feeding the hungry vs you might prefer that charities do so instead, but we both agree that the hungry should be fed).

In other words, it’s complicated. Lol

I think that morality is ultimately something of a group-wide learning experience that’s been going on for millennia, which is part of why ancient texts typically read as pretty horrific from our point of view – we know better now, so the thought of selling one’s daughter into slavery is mind-boggling to a modern reader, but in Ancient Hebrew culture it was just “how things are done” because women were seen as more like property than people. 

I’m sure there will be plenty of stuff that we do that will seem abhorrent to civilizations of the future (if we last that long) that we don’t give a second thought to nowadays. 

Now, as to when we should act: it kind of depends on the situation (as usual, context is key). I think the more harm a situation is causing, and the more immediate the issue, the more likely we should interfere.

Hi anon!

Never heard of that expression, so I have no idea what to answer...