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They'll feel bad about this in a few years. Someone will take a photo of a National Guard pig brutalizing a student and get a Pulitzer for it. They'll make a nice little memorial commemorating it. The next EDI hire president will be sure to thank the brave students of Columbia for their radical action years ago before sending in more pigs to deal with whatever is happening on campus then. They'll golf clap as whatever NGO leech who wants to claim credit for the encampment movement gets their next grant. All will be well.

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I actually can’t with mainstream media clamoring to suck Biden’s dick off with “he just gave a SHARPLY WORDED statement about the attack on the World Central Kitchen convoy” because not only do you immediately find genocide apologist language strewn all over it, but it’s also incredibly telling that he only ever addresses Israel’s continuous attacks when the majority of the aid workers were white. This is not to say that their deaths should not be making waves—they were brave aid workers who were tragically killed, as many have been, at the hand of Israel. But this has been Palestinians’ reality for months

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maybe it's just because I've been having these conversations for too long but sometimes watching a youtube video essayist analyse something is kind of like watching a third-grader run through their times tables. it's like... yes, very good, that's all true! so... what now...

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thinking about the time i was walking in one of the few patches of woods that exist in my suburban hometown and i stepped into a clearing and had a sudden moment of heightened sensory awareness of all the different species of mammals and birds and insects surrounding me and it all felt so beautiful and magical and then and i realized Ohhhhh this is pokemon. like this emotional experience, the childlike wonder of encountering wildlife in the small pockets of nature in your suburb which is getting unnervingly further developed with each passing day, is exactly the thing that compelled satoshi tajiri to create pokemon. it's straight up what the first pokemon games are about.

and it's only now fully occurring to me that the logical endpoint of this realization is that i could simply Make An Actual Pokedex. like, there is nothing stopping me from going into the woods with a camera and a notebook and making detailed little entries for all the different species of animal i encounter. i or anyone can just do pokemon in real life and it would be a magnificent use of free time

#i guess plenty of cool people do already basically do exactly this #pokemon

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kerouac – mexico city blues (choruses 228 + 229)

#poetry #words #jack kerouac #existing in milk #tumblr you bitch let me upload the audio of kerouac reading these back to back

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theres something unidentifiable that is deeply deeply wrong but i'm literally just sitting in my room

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avatar is not a perfect series (or even close) and we're not doing anyone any good by insisting that it is.

it's a wonderful and groundbreaking children's show with narrative and thematic ambitions far beyond the general expectations of the era, but the writers were not always fully up to the task of making good on that ambition, and sometimes (oftentimes, even) they fell back on their young audience's lack of critical faculties, especially in season one. the show constantly gravitates towards big, tricky philosophical questions, but it sometimes arrives at unsatisfying answers by way of parables so simplistic as to be irresponsible (jet, the great divide). it routinely places the characters in difficult, complex emotional situations, but sometimes those situations arise and resolve through sequences of (inter)actions so forced and rushed as to be comical (bato of the water tribe). not to mention the no-brainer problem elements like aang and katara's painful unnatural romance, or the fact that momo has no reason to exist. i love atla, really i do, but it's a flawed show that sometimes struggles to be its best self.

you can't handwave this stuff with "well it's a kids' show, cut it some slack," if you're also going to say that atla is a masterpiece that adults can enjoy just as much as kids. i see this contradiction so often re: various animated children's media, and it makes me seriously doubt that it's ever going to be recognized as a serious respectable artform the way its proponents ostensibly want it to be.

being a good art lover means freely discussing the shortcomings of your favorite works, i promise you it feels better this way

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #art thoughts

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Obligatory 'in good faith' but when you talk about mental diagnoses not being legitimate - do you mean universally? Like, brains are organs and things can go wrong in ways that can be identified and dealt with, and families can have longstanding histories of these things. Is your point that these just aren't identifiable in distinct groups/'diagnosis'? am I using a different idea of what a diagnosis is? Is it just 'yeah brain conditions exist but the field is so fucked 50% of them are bullshit'?

it is more the latter than anything else. obviously some neurological conditions are 'real', in that they are terms that identify discrete and consistently diagnosable conditions -- e.g. epilepsy and TBIs. when i made that post i was talking about psychiatric diagnoses specifically, which despite using a similar language to that of medical diagnostics are basically just made up as hell. like, the DSM is just made up as all hell. the diagnoses in it (and, indeed, the processes provided for making those diagnoses) are not rigorous or consistent.

sure, some of those diagnoses can be useful for treatment and understanding of the conditions in question under some circumstances. but the idea that psychiatry is, like, 'a biological medicine of the brain', while flattering to psychiatrists, is basically totally disconnected from the realities of psychiatric research and practice. for the most part, psychiatry is not concerned with 'brain conditions' but instead with the categorization and pathologization of behaviour.

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apologize to him

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#poetry

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fandom girl who says the divine comedy was biblical fanfiction & metalhead boy who says technical death metal is directly descended from classical music

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someone give it to me straight if i basically dug the first five episodes of one piece but then found the subsequent eleven more or less irredeemably bad is the show just not for me

five episodes into one piece. there are so many different little ways in which this show is kinda bad and none of them undo the fact that it is obviously fundamentally good. pacing is fucked, action is fucked, politics are fucked, i would die for luffy

#one piece

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okay wait no this usopp/kuro chapter is probably what i was hearing about, skimming the descriptions and seeing that this is going to last nine fucking episodes. i mean, this scenario definitely has loads more emotional/thematic content to it than the buggy shit, but that content is spread so painfully thin. it ends up feeling like the show is literally losing the plot, like i'm having to actively remind myself what luffy and friends are even doing here, that this is a Show About Something. i've seen a couple people advise skipping most of the first chunk of the show entirely but like, apparently nothing until episode 54 even technically qualifies as filler? is the show always like this. is it a thousand episodes long because they're just thoughtlessly replicating the manga beat for beat regardless of how poorly the pacing ends up translating to television.

side note, what is up with none of the places in this world having names? everyone is like "oh no! pirates are gonna attack [the village]" rather than calling their home by its name? this isn't what good worldbuilding looks like lmao

five episodes into one piece. there are so many different little ways in which this show is kinda bad and none of them undo the fact that it is obviously fundamentally good. pacing is fucked, action is fucked, politics are fucked, i would die for luffy

#one piece

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okay episodes 6 and 7 are offically too Kinda Bad for me, basically nothing about this works. the main band of three are great and their conditional symbiosis is genuinely compelling but oh my GOD i do not care about captain buggy and this nameless ghost town this is just shitty television. had heard about how there's a fight that gets needlessly stretched out over like five episodes and yeah wow this sucks balls lmao, shame this happens so early on

five episodes into one piece. there are so many different little ways in which this show is kinda bad and none of them undo the fact that it is obviously fundamentally good. pacing is fucked, action is fucked, politics are fucked, i would die for luffy

#one piece #art thoughts