#No Beauty Without Danger

[queerbauten]

Alexander 💀

(English translation under the cut.)

ALEXANDER HACKE: I already knew Rudi from the Die Haut days. I was a guest singer on their last record, Spring. I also did some tours with Die Haut. At the beginning, I found him a bit suspicious - pretty boy Rudi. I didn't know if we could work together. I didn't really know his work and I was afraid that he was just a poser, and a Bavarian one at that. A pretty boy from Munich and Einstürzende Neubauten - and that was supposed to work?

RUDOLF MOSER: One night at Ex'n'Pop, Alex strutted up to me and said, 'Hey, pretty boy Rudi, forget about the idea that you're going to be the drummer of the Neubauten!' At that [text cuts off]".

#Einstürzende Neubauten #Alexander Hacke #Rudolf Moser #No Beauty Without Danger #all caps tw #bold text tw #text heavy

[honorthysalad]

can't tell if I'm crazy or if I actually figured out what plants hikaru died by.

#those are pictures of rhododendrons without their flowers since they wouldn't be in bloom when hikaru died #they're mountain flowers and in like greek flower metaphors they represent “danger despite a beautiful exterior” #cuz every part of them is poisonous #if bees make honey with their nectar and a person eats that honey then they start hallucinating #I think I'm just crazy tho #cuz the more I look at them side by the side the less resemblance I find but yknow #I think rhododendrons fit 'hikaru' too so either way works for me #the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn

[sol-insidious]

“Din Djarin’s identity as a Mandalorian will always be central to his character, and his devotion to his orthodox religion, warrior’s creed, and its chivalrous code of honor is a truly noble one.”

and

“Din Djarin’s devotion to his creed has fundamentally isolated him from love, his role as The Tribe’s breadwinner was as unsustainable as it gave him purpose, and the fierceness of his faith stems from unprocessed trauma and the guilt he feels as an orphan and a foundling. His views on what it means to be a Mandalorian were narrow until he met others who didn’t conform to his own creed, and in this, his status as an voluntary oathbreaker is equally as integral to his character.”

…are both takes that co-exist in my mind.

#Star Wars #the mandalorian #din djarin #character analysis #sol rambles #obligatory this is not meant to be a hot take and nobody has to agree with me on this #2nd obligatory I can interpret this character however I want to within reasonable limits #and as a person from a religious background who now identifies as agnostic #I find this more than reasonable #I honestly love entertaining the idea of Din renouncing his orthodoxy as much as I loved his redemption #Din’s relationship with his faith in S2 was so realistically messy #and it resonated with me greatly #the “is it truly faith if people just get to pick and choose what to adhere to and what to disregard?” #“wtf does that make me?” #people do turn to religion after deep personal loss #and it can be a beautiful thing as much as it can be dangerous #faith can consume you to the point where you can no longer recognize yourself without it #and I saw Din being well on that path if Grogu hadn’t come along #transcending religious identities is such a juicy motif in Star Wars #all starting with Luke declaring he’s a Jedi like his father before him #while also fiercely defying both his masters by refusing to sacrifice Han and Leia in order to complete his training #the training Yoda dictated for him #literally the embodiment of The Old Order #and what’s that saying? #none will be free until the old ways are gone forever #oh my god I am rambling #THANK YOU FOR LISTENING #Sol out

[atopvisenyashill]

not an f&b aegon ii fan, not a hotd aegon ii fan, but a secret third thing (a fan of the aegon ii that only exists in my mind)

#extreme mommy issues his father figure is his grandfather & a dude who literally cannot stop committing hate crimes deeply upset that he #could have been his older sister’s male wife but his mom said no and now he has to be king #wants to be a good husband to helaena but resents how gentle she is and dependent on his protection wears his hair short bc he resents his #father’s obsession with valyria when westeros is here now and needs him to do more than just acclaim rhaenyra decades ago and aegon #his true love is his dragon and he was never going to live long after sunfyre. the son that actually DID come with fire and blood to save #his mother but it wasn’t enough never enough because he’s the oldest son but he’s also only second born and what is a second born son than #girlson who is functionally useless as anything more than a pawn to his family. #dying miserable and alone without even his mother’s love bc he came for her too late but he CAME FOR HER!!! HE SAVED HER. too bad. #she doesn’t care anymore bc everyone she really loved is dead. dying a pawn and yet the powerful man in westeros. #letting the narrative consume him alive after sunfyre is injured and finds him on dragonstone. he knows he’s doomed when he goes up against #baela. he does it because what else do you do. you’ve gone too far. killed too many. you killed your sister’s children and she killed yours #in return and now you can’t go back. no choice but mutually assured destruction with the only woman who ever saw how dangerous he was and #how desperate for loce he was. once upon a time. he was a baby bouncing in his sister’s lap on the throne. and she was beautiful and tall #and soft and smart and she told him he was beautiful and loved and pointed out every name and held him the way a mother does. #it has to end there. if the narrative eats me and sunfyre alive it has to eat her too. he won’t go down without her. #getting on my soap box #aegon the usurper

[girldewar]

when the poll ends do you mind sharing what you vs your friend thought the key hockey concept was? I'm so curious !

yes !! so skill play ended up winning, but if you combine the two categories of fighting and physical play, they add up to way more. this came up because i'm currently going through a whole emotional journey around violence in sport and the way personal choice, bodily autonomy, and the monolith of sports culture can overlap and conflict. that's not super important but i think more people should think about it because it's a really interesting and tough topic. anyway, i was talking to my friend from rural BC, and we were talking about violence/physicality as an inherent part of hockey or if there was a way to mitigate dangerous injury while still maintaining the spirit of hockey as a sport.

she was of the opinion that physical play, fighting, all of that were essential to hockey, and there was no way to play the same game without them. i'm still working on what my opinion is, but i'm finding that more and more i come down on the side of, hey, all of these injuries are unnecessary and there's no reason for hockey -- contact sport though it may be -- to be this dangerous and injurious. there's a lot of reasons i feel this way, but one of the biggest ones is that when i think of hockey -- when i think of the most important, joyous, exciting moments in hockey, moments that made me genuinely love this sport and the place it holds in my life -- i think almost entirely about skill play. what makes hockey worth watching for me is the speed, the skill, the insane passes and bad-angle goals. kirill kaprizov sidney crosby trick shot type shit. when those players have room to play, i love this sport like nothing else.

my friend, on the other hand, isn't wrong when she says that overall, the impression people have of hockey tends toward violence. even if they haven't thought about it enough to pass judgment, the vast majority of people think first of checks and fights.

the problem i have is that a lot of times, skill players are stifled by physical play. i like puck possession, but checking turns that into an almost irrelevant part of nhl hockey, and i like when superstars have space to do insane things, but if they're injured half the year because every fourth liner in the league pretty much has free reign to headhunt without the refs blowing the whistle, i don't get to see any of that. it's the same reason i'm annoyed with the way kirill's been treated in the league -- he's a phenomenal player who can do unparalleled things on the ice, but his production has been down because he got injured a couple seasons ago and hasn't had the space (or protection from further injuries, looking at you, dops) to heal it fully and get back to form. in what world is that the best that hockey can be? i'd rather every skill player gets long, obnoxious nhl careers than keep fistfights in a sport that really doesn't need them, but i'm aware i'm in the tiny minority there.

#also the reason fighting is such an institution is because the dops is shit and refs don't call dangerous plays against skill players #& especially european skill players #but You Know #& don't get me started on the whole enforcer cte thing which um. doesn't just go away because you 'got rid' of enforcers. now you just have #actual skilled players going and getting their lights punched out every week. im sure that's fine for them #sorry this sort of turned into me on my soapbox but what it comes down to is: i don't like physical play but i'm aware that the Zeitgeist #can't imagine hockey without it and that's just something i have to figure out how to feel about #ask #anon #also i think this comes from having my sports background mostly in performing arts #like sports are a performance you know. why wouldn't you try to present the best most beautiful version of your sport possible #long post

[nerdie-faerie]

Episodes where they're separated without visuals so they can only communicate the danger over comms are always so fun

#Dw #dw lb #series 2 #Satans Pit #42 #i just think its fun when everyones isolated and the only choice is to try communicate over comms cus it inevitably isnt entirely successful #like in that moment of panic and danger where theyre so focused on trying to react and save themselves #but theyve also got other people screaming at them to tell them whats happening cus they need to know so they can also save themselves #but they cant without the others stopping to endanger themselves as they try to communicate the danger #but theyre panicking and rushed so theyre skipping over details and not giving the whole picture theres no time for exposition #its just beautiful the screaming and the panicking the trying to act but held back trying to tell the others #and the helplessness as you listen to the screams on the other end not knowing whats going on and unable to do anything

[torgawl]

afterlife geto admitting he's cringefail. we love a self aware king

i can't with the tear though... :')

#this moment is so... genuinely sweet #gojo being openly vulnerable hits hard #i'm so emotional reading this stupid chapter #gojo only being able to be himself without restrains with geto... getting to see a geto who isn't tainted by his trauma... him showing how #much he wished to be there for gojo and how he basically took that regret with him (i was gonna say to his grave lol) #okay but how come geto has no part of rip boy not even resting imagine peace shsjdhdjjddn but anyways #it's really cool to see gojo empathised with sukuna despite everything #idk it's just sweet that he wanted to teach sukuna about love #maybe because that's what made it worthy for gojo because that's what saved him despite all the twisted karma he has #it's almost refreshing seeing the word be seen in a good lighting when throughout the manga it has always been introduced as dangerous #gojo having suffered the consequences still saying no but this... this is what's worth living/fighting for. that's kinda beautiful #jjk spoilers

[cannibalisticskittles]

one last bg3/amity thought for the night --

it is so goddamn funny thinking about how astarion admits he set out to seduce the player character specifically to win their trust and their protection, with amity in mind.

like... congrats, my man. you picked the one person in the party that would have died for you immediately. from the moment you met. even after putting a knife to her throat. you could've attained the same result by doing absolutely fuck all; you did not have to do All That.

but you did. and now you've caught feelings. ya fool.

#amity just Does That. throws herself into danger for any ol joe shmoe who needs help. #she's made friends with people who have tried to kill her before it's nbd #she even employs some of them. they do good work. #plus. she is most often aware of when people are trying to manipulate her. #her insight seems quite low but that's because she deliberately chooses to take people at face value #if they say they mean no harm she will believe that even if she sees the knife flash behind their back. #she'll just also... be poised to kick some ribs if they decide to go against their words. #with astarion........ #the compliments -- 'hello beautiful' -- clued her in very early on that he was trying to win her over #bc. due to past experiences. she cannot conceptualize that being true. heard the opposite of that... a lot as a baby tiefling #so he tried to win over someone who was already won over and manipulate someone who was keenly aware he was trying to manipulate her #but who also went along with it anyway #amity: it's so sad that people dance around the matter when they want my help #amity: i wish they understood that i would help them without all the rigamarole :( #amity tag

[oatbugs]

i want to be a machine learning engineer but some of u guys r making it embarrassing actually. long but IMO important explanation below. We have bigger issues to deal w and better things to focus on.

like our planet is dying and the commercialisation of massive AI models and training the models themselves releases like hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions. and this includes very "nonessential" models that don't tend to contribute much to society (re: new fancy image generation toy). but u have decided your new career path is "AI artist" (glorified prompt-writer?) .

and just as bad, some of you have decided the biggest issue w AI is those people, the glorified prompt writers!! you draw more attention to it instead of focusing on the real problems behind AI and the ethics of training models! about the harm it causes to the planet, about web-scraping limitations basically not existing (stolen art falls under this domain), copyright laws to do with AI, the way facial recognition deals with race, about the boundaries between letting AI learn and develop in an "unbiased" way vs preventing sociopolitical damage at the cost of (potentially) further progress.

conversely, there is nowhere NEAR enough focus about how AI can help us overcome some of our fundamental problems. i love machine learning bc i find it - specifically the maths behind it - fascinating and i believe one day it could help us make very cool advancements, as it already has. i think the mathematical architectures and processes behind creating new deep learning models are beautiful. i also know the damage capitalists will inevitably do - they always wield powerful, beautiful new tools as weapons.

AND HERE YOU ARE FALLING FOR IT! it's very frustrating to watch!! if you're angry on behalf of artists, i'm begging you to protect the rights of artists and be mad at greedy companies instead of villanising a tool that can help us immensely! learn about AI ethics, learn about how it is present in our lives, what we should try to stop, what we should promote.

if you "boycott AI" as a whole with no desire to gain more literacy on the topic other than "steals art therefore bad", you will have to be against your translate app, your search engine, your email spam filter, almost everything on your phone that categorises anything (i.e. pretty much all of your search functions), NPC enemies in games, your medical diagnostic tools, your phone's face unlock, your maps app, online banking, accessibility tools that help blind and deaf people, new advancements in genetic sequencing and protein folding and treating cancer and modelling new solutions in physics and so on and so on.

the issue isn't all AI as a whole. the issue is A) how companies are using it and B) how a lot of you guys are getting mad at the concept of AI instead of responding to A.

#lol anyway #u guys r like protect artists rights and then proceed to do 0 research on how #without doing damage to humanity as a whole #and actually tbh a lot of artists contribute to this as well. like i was following a few ppl who had their art ripped off (this must be #horrible and harrowing and i can't imagine how bad the experience must be) and they responded by being like #AI IS EVIL!!! NEVER SUPPORT AI!! which is literally ! meaningless!!! #think about it kind of like nuclear physics. it can help us immensely #it can teach us a lot about the universe and it can help us w finding wonderful new sources of energy. it can be beautiful and fascinating #and it can also be utilised in a very dangerous way. once it is used in a dangerous way (as it has been) you probably wont start blaming #The Concept Of Nuclear Physics. like im gonna guess you guys don't boycott gamma rays or nuclear fission bc someone made an atomic bomb yk #maybe this analogy got out of hand 💀 but you get what i mean #AI #ai art #idk how to tag this lol #anyway #listen to artists but also listen to actual AI experts i am BEGGING U

[mymarifae]

i understand that the way language arts is taught makes the whole study of literature and narratives and themes and such seem like a boring, pointless endeavor. but it is so important to me and my sanity that you pay attention to the information presented to you in those classes. because it is integral. you will never be able to approach art in any form and come to your own, unadulterated conclusions and interpretations. you will not recognize propaganda when it is being spoonfed to you. and you will not understand that yes, the messages of the media and the art you consume do in fact subtly change your psyche and that’s why you can’t just blindly consume shit

#like you know the whole argument with the blue curtains example. 'the blue curtains symbolize the character's sadness' vs #'the curtains are fucking curtains.' #<- that latter viewpoint upsets me soooo fucking much because like oh my god you are missing the point #perhaps the author or the artist or whatever did not intentionally include blue curtains to symbolize sadness #in fact it's pretty likely that it wasn't intentional at all because that's just how creating art works #the POINT is you can draw out details to support the overall themes and messages and make them stronger and come to your own conclusions #different people will hone in on different details. that's the beauty of art. #you don't need any sort of 'correct' interpretation spoonfed to you and you should not expect it #so like. yeah the curtains might just be fucking curtains but how does approaching them as a Symbol affect our understanding of the story? #does the character open the curtains to let in the sunshine - thus freeing themself from their sadness? #or do they close the curtains and hide in the dark - trapping themself in the same miserable cycles? #sometimes things are just things to populate the empty spaces of a story and you don't necessarily need to think about them #but you Can think about them and that will make your experience all the more richer. #anyway.this whole thing means like a fucking lot to me 😂 #i'm pursuing the career i am without caring about the difficulties and the dangers because i want to do what i can to be like. #a good fucking high school language arts teacher. and to properly impart the value and the IMPORTANCE of these lessons.

[dnangelic]

it's not even my muse but when hiwatari (yknow, the hiwatari that's emotionally delicate and unnavigated and is constantly losing everything precious to him) asked himself what the difference between dark (territory of love) and krad (territory of sorrow) was

#-thinks abt dark and krad's dynamic like im playing around with a rubix cube- #oroorughhhfhfff of COURSE satoshi would ask that question. loving anything is dangerous for himmmm #it gets broken in the end #daisuke and dark know it too but they're the ones that know how to carry on and keep moving without getting swallowed up #dark's plagued with immortality in the face of infinite mortality tooooo #he's always watching things break and people die but he lets them go with love!!! #you were a beautiful artwork you were a beautiful life when the time comes he'll smile sadly and separate #from one thing after another #he can't save them he can't keep anything forever except in his memories and his beliefs #humans do anything to try to preserve their time but if you believe in eternity then it's alright <- literally what he tells daisuke #after SHoT #dark tht bastard hes talking abt himself too in that moment #*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT.

[godblooded]

the first thing people always notice about alana is her eyes.

#headcanon. dr. bloom. #headcanon. dr. bloom. a good forensic psychiatrist; maybe the best. #[they’re the frost of water turning to ice before its full freeze in the earliest winter morning. #they’re the color it turns as it thaws slow slow slow and then freezes again. they’re so cold. #but they’re purely near white blue. wolffish and beautiful at once. they can be so cruel. and she can have the kindest eyes you’ve ever #seen. she can make you feel incredibly loved or she can absolutely crumble you with a glance. she KNOWS it too. #all her emotions show through her eyes is also the problem. she lies so well because she forces herself to feel it. so potent. #she can replicate an emotion painfully well for herself. she fucking hates it. it’s so hard and so much to deal with. but without it— #she wouldn’t be her. she’s explained the way her empathy works to a few people and I distinctly remember it was trish who was like #‘Jesus Christ I wouldn’t want that shit’ without even meaning to before going ‘it sounds so overwhelming to deal with’ before Alana broke #down in tears seconds later because she’s not hard and if you think she is you’re buying what she’s selling and you’re being grifted. #Alana bloom is my most dangerous muse and I write kitty ‘nexus of nothingness embodied’ valentine. #but I tend to think: would kitty be tricked into… anything by Alana? oh yeah. like. immeasurable yeah. a yeah the size of Texas. #Alana finds your weakest point because every single diamond has a flaw and she just g e n t l y begins to chip. #she’s good!hannibal. she’s the actual good doctor like. I think Tara Jess and I have unironically convinced the fandom that’s her title. #(lmfao it isn’t it’s lecter’s but book!lecter deserves it. show!lecter was a shit therapist. at least book!lecter was amazing at his job.) #and you know who his protege is? Alana!!!! she’s so deadly I’m in love with her and I’ve loved her for years now. #me: this is the side character I’ve written for more than a decade who causes a chain reblog reaction every time I post that gif set #if you know you know.]

[twpsyn-who]

I saw a few people mentioning the possibility of Eddie choosing to distract the bats knowing that he wouldn't make it and while I'm not saying that's true (I haven't watched the show, remember? I don't know what's going on most of the time) it does kinda make sense thinking of his character. Eddie knew that just because Vecna got defeated it didn't mean people would stop accusing him of murder. And even if they found a good cover story for him, some people will still think it was him. It would never be the same. The guy took the easy way out and painted himself as a hero in the eyes of the people he cared about. A win-win situation, right?

With that information in mind, I want you guys to remember the little moment between Dustin and Eddie- more specifically when Eddie said "I didn't run this time, right?". Following the show, yeah he didn't. He has run back then when Chrissy got cursed and then when Patrick also got cursed, but he didn't this time. BUT, if we assume that Eddie knew he wouldn't make it... we assume that it was Eddie's plan all along to die in the Upside Down...

He actually did run this time. He run away from what was going to follow. That no longer was an ask for validation of his development, it was Eddie trying to lie to Dustin and himself. He was trying to convince himself he didn't run this time. That he actually was courageous and protected Dustin from the demonbats.

But deep down he knew he has run, just like always. Because that's what he's good at, running away from problems. He died knowing that Dustin's words were a lie- that he really was no hero, only a coward.

He died for nothing. He died because he was afraid.

#Moving on is recognizing that Eddie's death was lowkey insignificant yet he made it impactful #anyway I just found the concept very sad and as such very beautiful #lowkey love this more than the canon #just thinking about Eddie saying 'look at us we are no hero' and actually being right because he was not #yes he might have actually made a difference but it wasn't because he actually wanted that. it was because that was what it took for him to #die #actually I think that's when Eddie got the idea. while Steve told them to not be cute or smth like that I can't remember the whole quote #like he didn't straight up said I'm gonna die but the idea came to him #like if he could maybe find a way to be a hero... and maybe maybe die in the process... without putting Dustin in any danger... #anyway what I'm saying is in the context of Eddie actually wishing to die during that whole bait operation #I'm not saying that's what happened but is an angle that I'm really enjoying so far #my angsty heart is all for sigly suicidal Eddie with no reason to live even though he had people like Dustin and uncle Wayne to fight for #stranger things #stranger things eddie #stranger things eddie munson #eddie munson #should I tag this as a theory??? #idk man #tw suicidal thoughts #just to be sure #as that's the whole subject of this post man #incorrect quotes #in like actually incorrect cuz I'm not sure what I said is right and I'm on my way to work rn and too lazy to look it up and make sure is #right #but I watched enough Steddie edits on TikTok to be 85% confident they are ok

[curemoonliite]

Okay, wow. There is no way on Earth Neal Shusterman could have predicted the rise of AI art coming literally weeks after Gleanings came out, but that doesn't make that last bit of dialogue any less socially relevant. This short story's gonna hit me extra hard after all the talk of creating empty art cobbled off the stolen works of others, isn't it?

#gleanings spoilers #yalit #arc of a scythe #my post #fun fact: in art theory 'sublime' is used to specifically mean something dangerous but also so beautiful we can't look away from it #or as ron stoppable would put it in more modern terms 'that would be so cool if it wasn't the last thing we were ever gonna see' #we went over this in my lit theory class in undergrad and i've always been fascinated by it #so a world without death=the absence of danger=never reaching the sublime #everything would just be pleasant and beautiful and inevitably meaningless <3

[cuntboysupremacy]

people online r so stupid about plastic surgery. no, it is not transphobic or anti bodily autonomy to discuss how the cisheteropatriarchial forces of the world create the conditions and pressures for people to get fucking buccal fat removal or bbls oh my god!!!

#we need basic feminism back so bad #if u think the pressure on cis girls and women to get expensive and often underregulated/dangerous procedures that reinforce #oppressive beauty standards #imagine how much worse it is for trans girls!! #a world where women are just allowed to BE without stigma against their natural features is one we should all want!! #good lord

[yellowis4happy]

Thank you for the most succinct comeback to Whatserface’s idiocy I’ve ever seen. No waffling, no trying to argue your point, just a quick ‘there is something deeply wrong with you’ and a block. Beautiful. She’s going to keep trying to link your name now and get you to unblock and debate her, because that’s her kink or something. I’d suggest reporting her, and blocking any of her followers who try to debate you for her by proxy. I’m sorry, you are right that there is something deeply wrong here.

She can do whatever she wants bc I've already forgotten her username 💖

#but yeah there is truly something extremely wrong with anyone who wants to argue that finn had an easy childhood in any capacity #obviously in canon both he and anakin had horrific childhoods #but anakin at least like. had a mom who loved him. had a name #had a teacher who raised him like a baby brother #and a wife #finn had none of that #also these people like to pretend that anakin had no agency in turning which is BIZARRE #thats the entire reason why his story is tragic!!! #bc he made an active choice to do the wrong thing! #he was being manipulated but he wasnt without choice #and he certainly wasnt being abused #thats what also makes finn a beautiful character #he had nothing but brainwashing and abuse and he still knew what the right thing was and chose that #despite the grave danger it posed to himself #anyone who can look at these writing choices and boil it down to ''anakin did nothing wrong'' #or ''finn didnt get to know his family before he was stolen from them so he was LUCKY bc he didnt know what he was missing'' #is too fucked up to engage in argument #star wars #replies #anonymous