The impulses of mankind are by nature good, we have nothing to avoid but their misuse and their excesses
-Lafargue
Breathe deep and persist. Fix that goal in your mind. Concentrate on a single flower. You'll feel that warmth on your cheeks again. This is just a signal from beyond. It's just a passing cloud from another world. The songs of birds will fill pink skies. Remember, the weakest light breaks the deepest darkness.
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the memeification of fascism is a proven method of perpetuating and instilling it in other people. Layers of irony will not protect you once you adopt racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic terminology into your lexicon. you'll be acknowledging and nursing the mindsets and connotations borne of those words.
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Hey, knight-boy, Where's your feathered hat? What kind of warrior can you be if you're not accumulating a bigger hat for every feat of valor you perform?
-signed, a mercenary
How dare you insinuate my plumage is anything but magnificent, you strutting barnyard cockerel
I would duel you for the offence but it seems you have neglected to sign the missive
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i find it very very telling that people immediately started going kiwifarms on gooseworx right after the final episode of tadc dropped on yt and the reveal that fan favorite character Jax has been a closeted trans woman this whole time, radically recontextualizing everything about her and her actions. everyone in the fandom has been completely fine with other queer representation in the show, even Zooble who is also trans representation, but i guess a complicated and flawed transfem is just a bridge too far.
i don't care about old social media posts that have coincidentally and mysteriously "resurfaced" following the outrage of transmisogynist fans. you clearly missed the part of this where Jax is reflective of Goose's past behavior of using edgy and harmful humor to play the bad guy and push people away in order to cover up the fact that she is a trans woman. you missed the part where Gooseworx has explicitly grown past that kind of behavior and Jax is an exercise in extending empathy to a past version of herself who was trying everything in her power to be uworthy of love and care. you fundamentally do not understand the art you are a fan of.
Gooseworx's ban by @staff is transparently due to harassment by transmisogynists attempting to turn her into a "controversial figure" for "ruining" their favorite edgy jokey rabbit "man" by revealing she's been an edgy jokey rabbit woman this whole time. i will block anyone attempting to justify this ban. i do not want those who would enable such an obvious transmisogynistic witch hunt to interact with me or my content. fuck off.
crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell
i can’t stop thinking about the time my roommate and i asked our insanely ripped neighbor brian who wore flip flops year round and sunglasses on the back of his head for help with carrying a solid wood dresser up to our apartment. he wanted to get his son who was home from college to come help too so he takes out his phone and goes, “siri, call christian christianson” and turns speaker phone on while we stand there sort of stunned by the name and after a few rings cc answers, “what the hell do you want” and brian just hangs up without responding and is all, “kids, am i right” then carries the dresser up four flights of stairs pretty much by himself. we offered him a six pack of rainier as thanks which he immediately opened in our kitchen and downed 2/6 beers in 10 mins while telling us about his 1989 dodge ram 1500 he was trying to get his son to restore with him to no avail. really nice guy. we never saw his son before he went back to school but any time i ask my roommate for help with lifting stuff or reaching something he says, “siri, call christian christianson” and we reminisce about brian and his truck.
I don't know which of you needs to hear this but "narc" is not short for "narcissist" when someone calls you a "narc" for snitching they are calling you a "narcotics officer"
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You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.
there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore
children eleven thousand years ago enjoyed jumping around in puddles made from the footprints of a giant sloth. children loved muddy puddles so long ago there were still megafauna alive
There’s a record of an emperor of Japan in the 9th century talking about his cat - how pretty it is, and how it stalks birds and curls up in a circle and meows mournfully for company and escaped its collar. All completely normal ordinary cat things. And then it ends with him saying “it is superior to all other cats”. I am delighted to be united across 1200 years with this fellow cat owner with exactly the same feelings about his cat that I have about mine.
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If a trans girl tells you that she wants to start dressing more femme and your response is "but you're conforming to gender stereotypes" then she is entitled to punch you in the face as hard as she wants
Also, if a trans girl says she wants to go on hormones and your response is "but you're still valid if you don't get hrt" then she is also entitled to punch your face as hard as she wants
My completely garbled feelings after watching Season 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time:
[CW for discussion of mental health issues]
[Also, SPOILERS for ATLA S3, obviously]
HOLY SHIT.
What was that???
I watched 5 episodes of a TV show in a row. Seriously, what the heck was that?!
Though I must say, I think me blitzing through the second half of S3 was largely due to Zuko. Because when he joined the team that got me like, so hyped??? I mean, I've been the Adoption Center for Angry Trauma Babies for a while now, but when I see a character break free from the mold of their toxic parents I still go like "YES! YES!" every time. xD
Also, I've been wanting to say this back in Season 1, I've been wanting to say this throughout Season 2, and now, I'm finally gonna say it: The amount of great female characters in this show is absolutely unreal.
And I think a large part of that comes from the fact that the show just allows them to be angry. Idk if it's just my impression, but I feel like a lot of media traditionally has been kinda afraid of portraying female characters as angry/unhinged (unless they're evil).
However, that never was my personal experience - I've been quite temperamental from a young age, and I felt sort of… "faulty" for being that, given my gender. So, female characters who don't seem to have the capacity to get angry just feel sort of… flat to me. Like a dimension is lacking.
As a result, I've been trying to rethink female characters in my own writings (whatever I actually get penned down, anyway), but I always felt that I was lacking a sufficient amount of good models from other pieces of fiction. And then ATLA just supplies me with. So many I could cry from joy.
Another thing I have a penchant for, as I've noticed, is the portrayal of mental health issues - which I 100% chalk up to my own mental health issues, a lot of which originate from my perfectionism. (Fiction is my preferred medium for engaging in self-reflection, I guess.)
And let me just say, seeing Azula's development was very interesting for me.
After going through a particularly awful phase of paranoid feelings to the point of doubting reality itself in the recent past, I went like "Oh. Oh yeah." when E20 came up.
When Azula had her breakdown after losing in E21, I was just stunned.
Until I sat down later and realized how great her character development actually was.
She was the literal prodigy child. No matter what happens, she always has to win.
And then she loses.
As far as my own adventures through fiction go, I've found the good portrayal of female characters with mental problems who genuinely snap at one point to be an especially rare thing. And when I sat down and thought about it, I realized with a sudden clarity: "This is it. This is what you've been looking for this whole time."
Anyway, long story short: I'm impressed.
And I don't just say that about anything.
I feel like I haven't simply watched a good TV show, but also gained new inspiration and perspectives from it - and that, for me, is the hallmark of a quality piece of media.