#PROVIDE? i mean probably**

[uncanny-tranny]

The bourgeois or "exploiting class" doesn't inherently include the person who gets their nails done biweekly, or the disabled person who has a carer, or the guy who got a $70 video game for full-price, or the person who relies on medication (yes even the ones you don't think they "need"), or anything else like this. None of these people will, on average, have the ability to exploit workers by means of ownership or whatever.

While you are busy fighting with fellow workers, you are still being exploited by your boss, by capitalism, by (potentially) not having healthcare, by being overworked and underpaid, and so are they.

#politics #feel like this wording isn't satisfactory for me but fuck it we ball #used bourgeois because i think as a colloquial word it's recognized but like... #...i dunno i think some people use it to mean 'person who can do [x]' even if they quite literally own no means of production #like the idea that you're exploiting a worker by agreeing to a service they provide isn't what bourgeois means #if i paid a carer to care for a disabled person they aren't being exploited by that disabled person... #...HOWEVER that carer absolutely can (and probably will be) exploited by the systems of power (eg their boss or capitalism) #perhaps it's too late at night for me to be posting about this but it's something that bothers me! #*especially* when it comes to disability and other groups already exploited by marginalization 👍 #if your leftism percludes the disabled (including the terminally and profoundly) or the elderly or the queer or so so much i don't WANT ITTT #saw a disabled person i follow lament how afraid they were to have a carer out of fear of Being a Bad Exploitative Person #and they obviously need one and that makes me so fucking angry to know that they are needlessly suffering

[shima-draws]

I recently stumbled across a theory that Bee isn’t even the ORIGINAL Bee, she’s just a robot her father created to replace the real human Bee who presumably died years and years ago (Bee did say in the birthday episode that she got really sick one time, so there’s actual canon evidence to back this up). Honestly I really dig this one bc the angst potential is huge, it really fits into canon so well regarding Bee’s general behavior and how others view her. And her being a robot is already so isolating for her, but imagine if she’s just a replacement--that’d probably make her feel even more out of place than anything, which is why she connects with Puppycat so well.

Also tying this into the reboot, if the Bee that Puppycat babysat for a day was the original human Bee, that would make things SO sad. Imagine being on the run in a “monstrous” form for years and finally returning to one of the planets you feel safe to hide on...only to find out that the girl you once looked after is dead and has been replaced with a robot. And that robot is well aware that her entire existence is a feeble attempt at preserving what once was, that she’s not human, that she’ll never live up to the original human version of herself. Oof.

Maybe Puppycat originally decided to stay with her out of pity, but over time grew to really care about her as her own person. And I feel like Bee would definitely appreciate that 🥺

#I LOVE this idea tbh. Also Bee knowing that she's a replacement and when she refers to the time she got sick #She really means the original human Bee that got sick and passed away #Bee and Puppycat #BAPC #Bee #Puppycat #BAPC Lazy in Space #Bee and Puppycat Lazy in Space #Also this validates my Bee/Space Outlaw ship which was previously invalidated by the new reboot. LMAO #And this theory provides even more fuel to the angst fire AND ties Bee and Puppycat even closer together. #Puppycat would probably be upset on Bee's behalf at how she's a 'replacement' but he also grows very protective of her #Bc he knows what that's like. He knows what it's like to live a lie #Shima speaks #IDK I just really vibe with this one. And it COULD be a probable thing in canon too like there's no real evidence to dispute it yet

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I keep coming back to the breakfast scene, re: Jack, and noting that I don’t think it’s Jack's intention for Ed to be ashamed. He’s working on pointing out Stede's inadequacies as a pirate and reminding Ed of the good old days, assuming that Ed will fall right into line next to him. He also assumes that someone as apparently delicate as Stede will be horrified by the burning people alive story (and we have to remember that Jack’s knowledge of Stede comes from Izzy, who definitely thinks Stede is effeminate and weak).

Jack's right in a sense—Stede is horrified, but it’s more about what he’s seeing as a part of Ed’s past and his struggle to reconcile that with the Ed he knows. He’s also questioning Ed’s honesty, since this was the man who said that he didn’t actually murder anyone. So there’s a whole layer going on between Stede and Ed that Jack isn’t and can’t be aware of.

But Ed’s reaction IS TO BE ASHAMED. I don’t know how his expressions throughout can be read any differently. This is not him having fun reminiscing, and his eventual excuse to Stede that “technically, the fire killed those guys” is weak and he knows it—he will not look at either Stede or Jack as he speaks. Jack is accidentally shaming Ed in front of Stede, under the assumption that Ed will see how Stede isn't a real pirate and will reject him. But it’s the start of Ed’s spiral into the fear that he is a monster, not good enough for Stede, and that Stede is already starting to see that.

You can’t read what happens later in the episode as independent of that scene. It’s not Ed’s slow realization that he’s outgrown Jack. It’s Ed trying to fit back into the mold that Jack and Izzy are constantly telling him is the only place he fits.

Throughout the early part of the episode, Ed is constantly switching back and forth between “it’s fine, I’m a pirate, Jack’s a pirate, we’re all pirates” and “I don’t want to be like this and Stede is seeing this and I’m not good enough for him.” Right from the start, he tries to rationalize away Jack’s behavior because he 1) sees it as hurtful (and apologizes to Stede for it) and 2) doesn’t want to see it as hurtful because he sees himself in Jack. He’s trying hold onto two things at once and isn’t able to reconcile them.

To say that Ed isn’t aware of what’s happening to some degree, and that the entire day with Jack only starts going wrong for him when Jack kills Karl, is to miss Ed’s character progression and the reveal of his deeper psychology. He leaves with Jack because of the shame that was developing right from the start, when they woke Stede up. He can’t hold onto the contradictions any longer and decides that he must be what Jack makes him out to be and it’s better for everyone if he abandons himself to that before Stede can reject him.

(Stede also shouldn’t have to stand around telling Ed that what he and Jack are doing isn’t hurtful, just in order to make Ed feel OK. What they’re doing is hurtful. It hurts Stede and it increasingly hurts the crew. Ed is absolutely participating in that and trying very hard to pretend that it’s all OK when he is increasingly aware that it isn’t. So when it all comes to a head, he sees all that he’s done and the pain he’s caused to someone he loves and he thinks that’s all he can ever do.)

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #calico jack #gif #ofmd meta #i'm probably just repeating points that have already been made #but the persistent “ed is having fun” narrative is getting to me #anyway #i don't know why the entire opening of the episode gets discarded like it's not important #since i did have someone get very mad at me for not providing evidence #here's evidence

[askblueandviolet]

Tú, alcalde. ¿Hablas español? Eso sería genial :D

"Yes, I know many languages! Mandarin, cantonese, english, brazilian, french, italian, and of course, spanish!"

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#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk mayor #monkie kid mayor #lmk macaque #monkie kid macaque #blue and violet #I'm so sorry I had to use google translate for this 😭 #I am unfortunately not fluent in spanish #but the Mayor probably is! #I mean they did spend like 500 years looking for the skeleton key and went around the world #they picked up many languages #many more than the Mayor lists here #they probably know a few asian languages too like indian and japanese and maybe vietnamese too #Idk about russian but they might know a bit #over time they have probably learned and forgotten languages #they might have been fluent in latin once but forgot when people stopped using it #the reason Mayor knows Cantonese is because my family is from that general providence of china that speaks it #so yeah its a little self indulgent #actually if any of you realised all of the Chinese food I mention in the blue and violet series and especially in colours- #-is probably from the Guangdong province in China or Hong Kong #dim sum as mentioned in the latest chapter is a thing that came from Guangdong haha #and the egg tarts too in the egg tart chapter #funny huh? #anyways sorry for the rambling I got a little carried away #Macaque is very confused

[piratesmyass]

Still so soft about Izzy trying his best to comfort Stede but not knowing what to say so he turns to physical touch, that is so autism of him to do (yes im projecting, this is my blog, fuck you)

#I have done it at least 4 times #Twice with my little brother when my mother was being a bitch to him and made him cry #Once with a classmate #And i even once did the exact thing izzy does #Like what the fuck am i supposed to say #I don't know what they need to hear!!? #But everybody at home provided touch when i was upset #I hated it myself #But i thought since they do it it probably means something to them #And it seems to work?? #izzy hands #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #stede bonnet

[mars-and-the-theoi]

Feeling Lady Hestia’s influence in my kitchen today. Have 2 pies in the oven (pumpkin, of course), a roast in the crockpot, spiced hot chocolate on the stove, and potatoes peeled and ready to be turned into mashed potatoes. Feels good to be out of my flare (finally) and in the kitchen again.

#as we near thanksgiving I get into my ‘pie trials’ as I do the pies for it #so today I’m practicing my pumpkin and probably next week I’ll practice apple #then I’ll practice my chocolate pie then the peach pie #just to make sure I’ve still got it all down and whatever tweaks need to be made can be made and I’m not left scrambling at last minute #I mean it’s not big deal if I am kinda screwed over last minute as other folks never have any problem bringing other desserts if I ask them #to (and they did so last year) but still everyone really likes my pies and I always feel bad if I don’t provide on that end so #helpol #hellenic polytheism #hellenic pagan #hellenic pantheon #hellenic paganism #hestia deity

[wizardfrogsbutevil]

Do you think edyn grieves for the little brother she never truly got to know? Sure, she saw him throughout his childhood and (briefly) in his adulthood but that was always the him the elders moulded him to be. Their influence was always there, even when he was at his most vulnerable with her. She loves him as he is, obviously, he's still her brother and he has grown to be a wonderful person but she can't help but wonder who the little boy untouched by the elders' lies and manipulation would have grown up to be. She thinks he probably would have been a researcher like their grandfather.

#i think she probably views pre elders gill and present/post elders gill as different people #i mean the elders basically provided him his every thought it seems given everthing about his early campaign self #so he mightve been a different person entirely #i read a really sad fic and its gotten me into a Mood #jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi edyn #edyn tidestrider #jrwi gillion #gillion tidestrider

[alsojnpie]

idk. i kind of feel like my doodles could poison the ai on its own. i don't really get it. are people manually going in and attaching significance to the images that get scraped? or does stuff get organized based on tags? or does the ai itself decide the relevence of images based on what it already knows? either way i think my art is a dangerous snack for their machine. maybe i should post MORE now. i was kind of assuming the second explanation but i know so little about this and i don't see other people talking about it so i feel like I've got it all wrong somehow

#just thinking like. 'why don't we take bikini bottom and push it somewhere else' level of ideas #like let's just start tagging stuff with nonsense. that'll learn ya #unless someone is manually attaching meaning to the images i guess #but if they were going to do that then why scrape it. they'll probably get so much junk #the bots alone provide a ton of junk data. is that not an annoyance somehow? #I'm sure this whole post betrays how little i know.

[moonsnqil]

i spend a lot of time thinking about neil's annual income bc if we compare exy to almost any existing sport the salary really isn't that much until you join the major leagues which I assume is exy's court. a rookie nba player makes around 950k which is great but it seems like a lot of average pro athletes really don't make a whole lot, anywhere between 80k to 150k. basically I'm concerned that until neil gets his name really out there in the world of pro exy and before he joins court, this boy does not have much of a living wage after the moriyamas take their cut. yes he can do brand endorsements or sign with whatever various company but that's still a thing that comes after you get know so until then I'm worried for him

#do not by any means take the numbers i said here as fact #this haunts my thoughts everyday tho and i cannot be the only one right? #on the bright side his pro team can probably provide housing or something so thats one less bill for my boy to pay #i was actually neil jostens financial advisor in another life #aftg #andreil #the foxhole court #tfc #all for the game #nora sakavic #andrew minyard #neil josten

[adipostsstuff]

New theory: at least one of Kotoko's parents is a police officer and she (and her brother most likely) were trained to become police officers themselves.

#HEAR ME OUT #so many things fit together when you think of it like this #Her mindset is exactly like cop mindset and it would make sense for it to be something she was trained into from childhood #She has been taking martial arts lessons from a young age using protection as a reason #Her parents would have had to allowed her to take them. What of they were the ones who set her up for them in the first place? #It would explain how she became Like This with the no persecution thing being true #She didn't go through an event that make her like this. She was taught to be this way #Well you could argue having cop parents and being pressured from a young age is traumatising in itself but I digress #It's the kind of trauma most wouldn't really recognise as such because it's common and not very extreme #She goes to a prestigious university which likely cost a lot in tuition. Her family would need to provide for it. Likely made her go into i #Which would mean she was probably ostracised from her family once she was sent to court and had to drop out #Because a good cop shild would not do this #This would also make her foil Kazui because they had similar childhoods #But one stepped into it a bit too well while the other wasn't ever able to truly fit in #milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #everyone needs to see my vision

[uncanny-tranny]

Theory without interacting with your fellow man is defective. In order for you to have a rounded sense of politics and what your community needs, you must strike the fine balance between theory (i.e., empowering yourself to understand the way ought to work) and actual interaction with others (i.e., understanding how the world actually works).

Theory without human connection is incomplete and human connection without theory is aimless.

#politics #studying theory alone is how you get people who say there is only one experience for [x] group to have for instance #in many ways theory can only provide /so much/ nuance before it becomes unusable. that's the way language naturally works. #in order to actually USE theory you have to apply it - either that or you have to seriously consider how it would look in /your/ community #i've probably made a point like this before but fuck it we ball #the last sentence is a bit nuanceless (this is a word now) but it's the overall idea of what i mean

[anervousmirrorball]

this makes me feel like everyone is going to look at everything i do and judge me for it. this just makes me feel more pressured to do everything "right" and extremely worried of making mistakes and taking the wrong decisions sometimes. im not perfect. you're certainly not perfect. i don't know why anyone would expect any person to be perfect either

#not gonna talk about what exactly #but this #this makes me feel like i wouldnget judged for everything i do in my life #top this fear with the fear of being disliked by people #im a people pleaser and sometimes i make wrong decisions #it doesnt mean i dont feel guilty about them #and im scared it makes me a bad person #and honestly i probably was never a good person to begin with #because ive always tried to please everyone around me? #the dilemma is real nevertheless #i want to cling onto something that provides me comfort #while also not get hated on for doing something that seems right #although no matter what i do it's gonna get looked at with judgement and criticism

[andthebeanstalk]

Yo I don't know if anyone else is seriously bothered by this but those "good luck" posts where everyone goes wow this post really works you HAVE to reblog it or else you won't get the good thing that happens when you reblog it and therefore it's your fault if the good thing doesn't happen because you didn't reblog the post,

Yeah, those posts. They don't ummmmmmmmm

They don't work.

Like, listen, a little prayer of good luck to give yourself hope is one thing, but every single one of these posts has a comment that is like "this is literally magic I received life-altering amounts of money because of this post REBLOG THIS NOW." And assuming these accounts aren't just also the original poster emotionally manipulating people - And brushing over how foolish/cruel it feels to give false hope and additional tasks to those in poverty AND moving on from how absolutely shitty these posts are for people with compulsion-related disorders or difficulty discerning reality--

it feels to me that the more we make up magic that doesn't exist in this world, the harder it is to see how things really are, and the more it obscures from us the magic that actually does exist. Things like magnetism, electricity, human thought and connection, emotion, storytelling, machinery, fire. That's the sort of magic we have in this world. These magics are real and they can be manipulated in miraculous and terrible ways.

And maybe it's just the way my mind works, but if I am able to convince myself that a photo of a four-leaf clover has any amount of cosmic power over my life, then I am no longer looking clearly at my situation and what I need to do to change it. I am no longer able to truly see the magic that IS there.

I feel the same way about astrology honestly. I don't think it's bad to believe in as long as you're not ascribing it to unwilling people, but I personally do feel like if I believed the shapes the Romans saw in the stars made me who I am, then not only would I deny myself autonomy, but also I would miss out on the magic of the stars as huge lonely nuclear light giants indifferent to and ignorant of the lives of humans in terrifying and beautiful ways. I might even dismiss scientific discoveries that didn't fit my view. And I think I've seen enough of the damage that can do for one lifetime. (I am aware that I probably wouldn't have so many problems with astrology if I wasn't a furious ex-Catholic. But again, there's nothing wrong with faith as long as you're not slapping it onto other people.)

But, gods, I hate these fucking good luck posts.

I am not poor due to the stars or the lack of luck-money posts on my dashboard. I am poor because I live in oppressive power structures that I hope to see burn in my lifetime. I need as clear a view of this reality as possible.

If you want to spread positive magic, you have to spread love and information and images/stories of a beautiful shared future that other people are invited to be a part of.

I'm a big believer in Hope. I believe hope is a sacred thing. But I'm not a big fan of false hope.

So in conclusion, if you reblog this post and then tomorrow something very lucky and seemingly unrelated happens, it had nothing to do with this post.

The only Magic will be the magic of unfathomably huge amounts of data transferring all across the world instantaneously to reach you and show you words that came from someone else's heart and mind.

The only Magic will be however it makes you feel to know that if you need luck, at least one other person in this world wants good things to happen to you: I care that you are found. I care that you are loved. I care that you are safe. I care that you live long enough to find or be found by happiness and that you then live for a very long time after that. And I don't need to meet you to know that I'm right.

Know that I will spend the rest of my life working to build spaces where you would be welcome. And maybe you and I will never meet, but I happen to know there's a whole lot of people like me in this world. And I happen to know that as long as you are alive, there is a chance you will grow old in warmth and comfort, surrounded by friends. There is a chance that your old eyes will be crinkled at the sides with laugh lines. And that's magic. That's real magic.

#original #if I'm honest I think I made some of these points better in the tags of that one post I have about the cake #but clearly I'm processing something so #hopepunk #cripple punk #cripplepunk #good luck #magic #you have no idea how much I wish other types of magic existed cuz I really want to be a wizard but that doesn't mean there's no magic #i want Magic Missile but all I have is an autistic drive to see things without ambiguity. XD #too much false hope can kill a person. it's so irresponsible to spread false hope. spread real hope. tell the fucking truth. #there are things in this world worth hoping for. real things. tell someone they are worthy of good things. that's hope. that's good luck. #it's actually quite lucky to be unexpectedly told kind and true things. like finding $20. except my poor ass can actually provide it #not tagging this with astrology so people are less likely to yell at me lol #there's probably a better version of this post in which I cut a lot of the bitching at the start but hey I needed to bitch #it's my right as a hot bitch. #edit: ALSO another thing this reminds me of is how a lot of white women who practice witchcraft really want to believe that they #at some point in history were a persecuted minority. 'we are the great-great-granddaughters of the witches you didn't burn!' #like sorry no there have been no witches burned and no witches hung the horror of it all is that they were just normal women #white people are not the great great granddaughters of witches. we are the great great grandchildren of slave owners. #any narrative that leads us to forget that is extremely suspect.

[fated-normal-767]

I don’t think you ever elaborated on Iris stabbing Python in the thigh with a screw driver, care to change that ?

hm. I think I do care to change that (read more because I wrote a whole damn paragraph about that freak❗️)

well initially a damaging impact to a central part of a computer system would be like stabbing an ice pick into someone’s brain, so it’d cause almost all typical signs of a seizure; sudden muscle movement, collapsing, inability to respond coherently to input, and possible inability to breathe. Python designed himself to have extremely human responses and biological systems, so despite a lack of real lungs or muscles, all of those are still entirely possible visible symptoms. In terms of actually being stabbed, it’d have the same feeling of pain as being stabbed while the impact was just in pythons ‘flesh’ but impact with an actual motherboard component would cause an override of initial programmed reactions (in which he’d normally feel a human amount of pain and react as if physically injured due to the stimuli created, even if no key components are damaged at all) and start causing responses and stimuli more in line with a program trying to desperately diagnose, redirect, and reassign errors. In order to figure out what solutions should take place, an error diagnosis would require increased awareness of both the sensation of the stabbing, and all the created error input, probably causing signal and awareness of other stimuli to become temporarily impaired, and an appearance of either collapsing entirely or going into shock. The pain of the stabbing would probably come back at this point, after being dulled by error inputs. For a redirecting of necessary functions, he’d probably lose feeling entirely in the site of the injury, and gain an increased awareness of sensation at any other sites of key components, which then are assigned any recovery processes, and at which point, shock and seizure symptoms would wear off, but python would remain unconscious for a short period of time till all errors were repressed or dealt with to a limited extent- if he remained unconscious till entirely repaired, he’d be incredibly vulnerable to more injuries with absolutely 0 ways to defend himself. Shortly after regaining consciousness he would feel nauseous, or some similar experience, and would probably be much more vulnerable to sensory overstimulation and overload considering he has less capacity to process stimuli.

#whether this is my medical knowledge programming knowledge or strange freakish behaviours talking I do not know. #but. hm. I mean it reads like a medical report but it can also be easily read as about gay sex (unintentional but not surprising) #this is the basic medical perspective on what must’ve happened #but be aware that iris was there too and he was freaking the fuck out #most likely trying to help but with extremely limited knowledge of how #so probably just providing more ‘unwanted’ stimuli for the already overwhelming seizure type shit #and unwanted is in quotation marks for whatever reasons you think it should be ❗️ #maybe this can’t be read as like gay sex at all and there’s just something wrong with #my perceptions of medical situations and analysis. but it’ #it’s Whatever. #theproject.

[leopardom]

posting my gifs these days and seeing how they look and how they’re doing statistically-wise makes me think about ✨that anon✨ from a few days ago who said that my content doesn’t deserve any engagement

what if they were right in the end?

#to say that i don’t feel insecure about anything i post from Monday on would be an understatement #it’s not like i get zero notes and don’t get me wrong i’m glad people seem to still like my gifs #it’s just. something feels off and idk what it is #maybe i’m posting a bit too much and i indeed show up a lot in the jo hashtag and that’s annoying? idk #i mean i do need the validation from time to time maybe that’s why i post too much. there’s nothing else i can provide anyway #but yeah something feels very off and i’m super insecure about everything #this is probably my brain fucking with me big time rn but yeah the insecurity is here for good #anyway i’m still trying the “fake it til you make it” thing so i’ll keep posting gifs etc even if i feel weird about them #this is emma speaking

[velidewrites]

Okay okay I’m finally wrapping up all my deadlines

#YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS #feycien is coming #probably this weekend or right after #until then I am happy to provide snippets #and by happy I mean desperately holding myself back from throwing them at you every ten minutes