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Source: The Art of NausicaƤ of the valley of the wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
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I absolutely will die on this hill, access to fiction that makes your skin crawl and open discussion about it is the best way to keep that skin crawling fiction from happening in reality.
It doesn't matter if it is ~positively~ or negatively portrayed. If you censor it, we don't talk about it, then we can't protect against it.
If you are seriously against CSA, then you should absolutely read Lolita. Yeah, the book that set the western world on fire with weird sexual conversations.Ā
That book perfectly breaks down what a lot of very real sex abuse looks like. It details how predators look for victims (family members), it details what happens to the child who is enduring abuse (she acts out, she screams randomly, she does very poorly in school, etc, etc), and it shows who the most dangerous perpetrators are (intelligent, well liked, charismatic).Ā
That book will make your skin absolutely crawl! Once you get out of the head of HH long enough to look at the world Dolores was dumped into, youāll cry your eyes out. But you know what itāll do? Itāll open your eyes.Ā
That book has a lot of weird reactions. Some people turn on Lolita, some people turn on HH, some people turn on Nabokov, but it came out when Freud was still respected. That book came out in the middle ofĀ ālittle girls want to fuck older men and itās their fault it happened and theyāre crazyā.Ā
It turned the world around. Some of the discussions about the book are nasty!!! Even from Kubrick and Nabokov. Their discussion about Lolita makes my SKIN CRAWL!! They talk about it in a very POSITIVE and WEIRD way. But it opens your fucking eyes and thatās the POINT.Ā
Embrace disgusting fiction and then fucking talk about why itās nasty. Now YOU have the power over reality.Ā
Embrace disgusting fiction and then fucking talk about why it's nasty. Now YOU have the power over reality.
Emphasizing this last sentence because it's so well put. We have to engage with things that make us uncomfortable so we can learn to be better.
Yes! I recall reading a quote from Nabokov about why he wrote it. What I remember him saying was āI read in the news about a man who was arrested for molesting girls, and I became curious. Why would a person do that? So I wrote from the perspective of someone who would.ā
Thatās⦠thatās not even weird, I donāt think. I wonder why people do horrible things all the time.
I donāt actually think Nabokov had everything about it right. It seems to me that many real molesters are much more aware of what theyāre doing and sometimes even perving on the cruelty of what theyāre doing. HH seems kind of quaintly Freudian in comparison.
But thatās what Nabokov would have seen around explaining it, so it makes sense.
And Nabokov really does seem aware, on my reading, that HH is doing harm, and that the idyllic love affair heās dreaming of is in his head. Whatās actually going on is just seedy and gross.
Itās hard to read, hard to understand, and messy.
But those things are what make it good, rather than just āhey look I picked a shocking topic have some torture porn.ā
(I hate the term torture porn but itās the best term I can think of rn)
Nabokov gave extensive interviews and talked about Lolita often. He gets such a raw deal. I have compiled a bunch on my main blog here. i just hate nabokov misinformation so here are three for you:
Do you closely follow Lolitaās fate? I feel obliged to keep up with the destiny of Lolita. After all, people stop me on the street and ask me to comment on opinions. So I have to know what is being said about me. Lolita is an indictment of all the things it expresses. It is a pathetic book dealing with the plight of a child, a very ordinary little girl, caught up by a disgusting and cruel manā¦.But of all my books, I like it the best. The last bone always tastes best.
Nabokovā¦predicted: āThose who keep looking for spicy bits will not find them. They will not be able to read the book throughāthey will get bored too soon. The only thing that might be attractive is the diary H.H. keeps. And then, who would be attracted by a 12-year-old girl?"
Vera Nabokovā¦refilled his glass. āTell them about the child,ā she said. āOh, yes. I am rather bitter about this. I am in favor of childhoodāin fact the very first book I ever did was a translation of Alice in Wonderland into Russian. Anyway, a few nights ago, on Goblin night, a little girlāshe was 8 or 9 I thinkācame to the door for candy. And she was dressed up as Lolita, with a tennis racquet and a pony tail, and a sign reading l-o-l-i-t-a. I was shocked.ā
By all accounts and backed up by extensive interviews, Nabokov wrote a psychological thriller and expected people to be shocked and compelled by it in the same way you can't look away from a train wreck. His worst crime was total naivete. He literally never expected that anyone would take it as a romance.
nabokov wrote "don't create the torment nexus" and then children showed up at his door dressed as the torment nexus and people forever will be like "you wrote about the torment nexus, which is the same thing as being in support of the torment nexus".
The first time I asked a person about the book Lolita, they told me "it is a romance, it is about a young woman and an older man falling in love". Then the second time someone told me about it, they said it was a nauseating accusation of society. And the third person told me it was a terrible story about an adult predating on a kid.
I really wish the first interpretation never existed. I wish the author's naivete over expecting utter shock and disgust from everyone wasn't naivete but how society really is.
I don't believe censorship is the solution, but I do think such books should be restricted to the classroom with a good learning structure so as to give people context, or at least they should be released with additional commentary so a new reader can understand the entire context.
Also, such books need trigger warnings. I was a victim of CSA. When I was a kid I had a veracious need to read every book in existence, and had I accidentally come across that book and started reading it, that horrible book would have completely wrecked me. Perhaps permanently. It certainly did my head in as an adult to find out that people think such a thing was "romance".
That is censorship. Restricting who can read a book is censorship. That is exactly what it is.
As frustrating as it is that people read things "the wrong way," and they do, and they always will, making sure people "read the book in the correct and approved way and take away the correct and approved meaning" is... not a thing that should ever be hoped for.
Commentary editions are great! Restricting where and how and by whom things can be read? Not so much.
The problem is that you canāt stop people from having bad opinions. Even if you make your intentions really obvious in your text. Thatās what the torment nexus meme is about. Itās pretty much impossible to make art that is safe from harmful interpretations or bad faith readings.
So starting to censor media because it might be harmful to traumatized children or adults we end up with the Hays Code and we end up with the Comics Code and with sanitized media that makes it impossible to actually talk about or even acknowledge real life harm.
Lolita should probably have trigger warnings, it also isnāt a book for children. That doesnāt mean it shouldnāt be accessible.
mountain pass
this has been in the wip hell for so long.. i struggled way more than i should've but oh well
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This might be the best thing ever filmed.
Iāve seen the gif, but itās even better with the context of how little time it took.
please watch this show
I cannot stress enough how well this episode set up every single item. It is a master class of Chekhovās gun and efficient storytelling.
I SAW THE MEME BUT LIKE
I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS ACTUALLY LIKE THAT
You havenāt watched Community??
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āBut if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.ā
not even risking that shit
scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button.Ā
She aināt no games in real life so I take her serious all the time
Anyone with a name that starts with a āZā, ends with an āiā, and isnāt some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS
Iām not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, š š½š š¾š šæ Negative.
Nope. I know better, have your reblog Madame Zeroni.
who the fuck is Madame Zeroni
Look at these stupid children who donāt know who Madame Zeroni is
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Man lissen if you donāt know you better ask somebody AFTER you hit the reblog button
Idk who she is but I have an exam today so Iāll reblog her
idk who she is but i have an exam today so iāll reblog her
^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
Because wise, I am.
Oh fucks no sheās back lmao must reblog. Iām sorry guys
Reblogging Madame Zeroni because I would hate for my great-great grandson to get hit in the head by running shoes
And I get a little bit Genghis Kahnghis I donāt want you to get it onghis Nobody else but me (ooooh) With nobody else but MeeeeMe
I get a little bit Danghis Dahn Donāt want you to Genghis on with Nobody else but Mingus Nobody else but Mingus Kingus
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types of wizards :)
Steve Irwin in a Jaeger would be entertaining.
Look over there. Thereās a Catergory 3 Kaiju. Biggest one yet.Ā
Ahām gonna wrassle with it.Ā
#yeah but whoās his drift partner. a crocodile. just a crocodile. its not a special or humanoid croc its literally just a croc strapped in.
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IāVE REBLOGGED THIS BUT I DONāT CARE BECAUSE IT HAS IMPROVED EVERY TIME
Croc Brain: Bite and death roll.
Steve Irwin: Bite and death roll it is mate!
Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.
I LOVE THIS. THIS is the spirit of NaNoWriMo: to invent a challenge to make you write.
If I may add some ideas:
The 666 challenge: Writing six pages a day in a month (no matter how shitty) because Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Equating it with the devil is to explain why it's shit sometimes.
The 420 challenge: Get high. Write 420 words a day.
THE OTHER 51 challenge: Write 51 words a day because, yes, Hamilton wrote 51 essays in six months, but that bitch was crazy, and you can write 51 words without feeling like you're running out of time.
The Fibonacci challenge: Try to write as many words a day as required to meet the Fibonacci sequence. So, 100 on day one. 200 on day two. 300 on day three. Etcetera. If you don't hit the number in the sequence, you can respond "DO I LOOK LIKE A MATHIMATICIAN TO YOU"
If you wanna NaNo your heart out at 1667 a day, absolutely do that. Enjoy it! But if start talking now if you're looking for a group who will join you and not try to fuck AI up its server-hole.

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Chidi vs. Tahani: Intentions or Consequences?
Cool thing Iāve noticed on what is probably my 50th rewatch of The Good Place:
(I love ethics and Iām fascinated by The Good Place so this is gonna be a long one!)
One of the big questions ethicists and moral philosophers ask is intentions vs. consequences. Does the morality of an action depend on the consequences from it, the intentions behind it, or some combination of the two? Different schools of thought give different answers. So for example consequentialist theories, like utilitarianism, hold that the only thing that matters is the consequences of an action, how much good vs. bad they do in the world. Your intentions donāt matter, and could be selfish or corrupt so long as the action is a net good. For virtue ethics, intentions matter more because what makes an action ethical is how it develops your character and makes you a better person. So an action with negative consequences but good intentions is not necessarily unethical, but doing good with selfish motives is unethical.
The interesting thing Iāve noticed in The Good Place is how that question of intentions vs. actions is reflected in the characters, specifically Chidi vs. Tahani.
In season 1, weāre meant to think we really are in the Good Place, and that Chidi and Tahani are among the best people who ever lived. But early on weāre introduced to a tension in the logic of The Good Place: It doesnāt give a consistent answer to the question of intentions vs. consequences.Ā
Tahani is āBritish and condescendingā but made it to the good place because she did a stunning amount of philanthropy. Meanwhile Chidi is a moral philosopher who spent his life trying to act ethically, but heās a miserable mess as a result, he canāt do anything. Basically, Tahani is all actions with no good intentions, and Chidi is all good intentions and no action. And yet by the rules of the āGood Placeā they both supposedly qualify. If Tahani qualifies on her actions alone, then how can Chidi qualify when heās never done anything in his life? And if Chidi qualifies based on his good intentions, how can Tahani qualify when she never cared about the people she helped? Itās one of the many clever details that the show includes to hint from the very beginning that something isnāt right here.
Eventually we learn that the point system takes both intentions and consequences into account, and so in theory, the amount of good caused by someoneās actions could outweigh their negative intentions, and vice versa, and earn them enough points. Thatās how we get Mindy St. Clair. And the conclusion the show comes to is one that many of us instinctively have, I think: both intentions and consequences matter, and the degree to which they matter is context-specific. Good intentions donāt erase the harm your actions cause, but intentionally causing harm is worse. And doing good in the world and materially helping people is important, but having selfish motives for doing so detracts from that. To be ethical, your actions must have good intentions behind them and good consequences from them. Thatās a lesson our characters learn many times in many different ways.Ā
Chidi and Tahani start the show off as polar opposites, pure intention vs. pure action. And as the show progresses they each develop the other side. For Chidi, becoming a better person means becoming more decisive and active, rather than being paralyzed by indecision. He actually does things to try and make the world around him better. By the midpoint of Season 1 heās already storming into Michaelās office, demanding Eleanor not be sent away. At the end of his journey, he readily walks through the Door, without needing to know whatās on the other side. For Tahani, becoming a better person means shedding her need for attention and validation, and actually caring about the people around her and the world she lives in. Her actions become less and less about herself and more and more about helping other people. And at the end of her journey, she decides to spend eternity doing just that, designing afterlife tests to help more people get into the Good Place.
Also Eleanor and Jason kind of parallel that, where Eleanor is pure negative intention and Jason is pure negative action. Eleanor is just a kind of shitty, selfish person for most of her life, but she doesnāt do much, her actions arenāt great but they arenāt terrible. As she puts it, she was āa medium person.ā Jason is a sweet little dum-dum bird, he has a good heart, but he just⦠he does so many bad things lol. Either just for fun or because he needs money or because he and his friends are being dumbasses.Ā
They both start off with ālow-grade crappinessā in different ways. Throughout the show, Eleanor becomes a less selfish person, and actively tries to do good instead of just retreating into her selfishness, to the point where she canāt move on from the afterlife until she knows all her friends are taken care of. Jason curbs his impulses and learns to slow down and actually think before acting, to the point where he can wander the eternal woods for a thousand Bearimys until Janet comes back (just like a monk!).
And these parallels are reflected in their relationships with each other too! Chidi teaches Eleanor to do the right thing instinctively, rather than the selfish thing. Eleanor teaches Chidi not to think so much, to let his feelings and intuition guide him, and to actually act. Jason gets Tahani out of her own head, teaches her not to think about herself and her image as much. Tahani teaches Jason to think about the impact of his actions on the other people in his life before just impulsively acting. Eleanor and Tahani help each other become less self-centered, with Eleanor teaching Tahani useful life skills and Tahani helping Eleanor connect with other people. Jason helps Chidi become less inhibited and Chidi teaches Jason some restraint and patience. Theyāre all āperfectly suited to make each other miserableā but it turns out theyāre also perfectly suited to help each other become the best versions of themselves.
Anyway, The Good Place is such a well-crafted, clever show, and I love rewatching it and noticing all these details!Ā
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of A
Happy September everybody, NaNoWriMo has decided to go "no YOU'RE the baddies" because no one likes their AI-ridden sponsor, lmao. In other news, multiple authors are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.
As a disabled writer myself I find this stance to be immensely insulting, mostly because they are using disabled people as a smokescreen to push their agenda, while also completely ignoring the fact that there are plenty of tools for disabled authors to employ that don't rely on fucking STOLEN MATERIAL to get it done.
We already have TTS, Dictation, and Predictive Text (though this has actually gotten WORSE because of AI so.... thanks for nothing assholes) software to assist for those of us that may be physically challenged and further handwriting and keyboard tools for those who might have motor skill issues or are blind.
There are Graphic Organizers, Dictionary and Thesaurus for those who may not be great at organizing their thoughts or as adept at words...
So this EXCUSE they are putting forth for us and claiming we are being "classist and ableist" is disingenuous and IMMEDIATELY makes me think they got their talking points from that Lore.FM faker that tried to claim they were making software "to make fanfiction more accessible."
Only for it to have turned out to be a shell company for a larger Generative AI scheme.
It would NOT shock me if NaNoWriMo got a huge donation from an AI company with the stipulation that they have to advertise it. Would not shock me, at all.