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calling every instance of showing certain emotions "emotional labor" needs to stop. I just saw a post that was like "reminder that you do not ever need to be a good or kind person" like. Yes you DO???

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Oedipus Rex  (1957)

This adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy (in a translation by William Butler Yeats) looks almost the way it would have when staged in the 5th century BC. Stentorian oration and carefully posed tableaux abound, giving the film an uncanny atmosphere somewhere between a black mass and puppet theater.

#art #gif #cinema #oedipus rex

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observe.

#lol

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he's quoting hamilton pre-hamilton

#lol

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I’m sure this has been talked about before but the health system in Disco Elysium is so good at portraying Harry’s physical and emotional state. Like yeah, looking at bullet holes in a wall can give you a heart attack. Someone not liking you poem can cause a complete mental break. None of these things on their own will kill you, but your mental and physical state is so fragile that any one of them can be the final straw. The health system and the story convey what a mess Harry is in complimentary ways and it’s fucking awesome

And if something would actually kill or seriously maim you? The health system doesn’t get involved. You just die or get seriously maimed. You antagonize someone until they shoot you? Doesn’t matter how much medicine you have. Get shot in the leg? Yeah that’s gonna stick no matter how high your health is.

And of course the way that both low morale and low health can kill you- and the way that their mechanics are basically the same- shows Harry’s state as well. His mental and physical health are separate, but both can end his career and both are endangered every time he talks to someone or does anything even slightly dangerous.

In most video games, health functions to give you a second chance. Instead of dying outright from a bullet, you just lose health. Disco Elysium is the opposite. You will die outright from things that would kill you, and also if you aren’t keeping an eye on things you can die from the embarrassment of failing to make a jump! The health system is a way of emphasizing your fragility, not your strength. It’s super coo!!

#disco elysium

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

#feminism #sexism #terfs

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Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

#lol #barbie #fight club

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the world sure is cold and lonely

#how did luiga put it? #they're drunk and lonely so often #disco elysium

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"Blah! It's me, the alien! I'm gonna getcha! I'm the alien!"

- the alien from Alien (1979)

#lol #the alien

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#???? #psychology #could be bullshit

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#poetry #art

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#furniture

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#poetry

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The very same attitude is at the core of the so-called "anti ideology" that wants to censor fiction by applying puritanical morals.

The professor doesn't want to face the protests outside of his lecture hall, that's why he decides they're not worthy to become subject of his class, as if that made those protests somehow less relevant.*

The anti ideology doesn't want to face the more uncomfortable realities of life, that's why it forbids everyone to engage with the concepts it deems "impure", as if that made the icky stuff go away.

*even without knowing what these protests were about, they are socially relevant when they become this disruptive, whether we like it or not.

tldr; if you don't want to hear what the world around you sounds like, don't listen to 4’33”, but don't tell others to shut their ears.

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

#purity cult #rent lowering gunshots

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#meme #tumblr

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some jean uniformposting

#sure is jeanvic #disco elysium #art

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#lol