#and therefore it's ok

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

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#I do really wish Eliza would stop using people to her own advantage all the time tho :/ #or at least that it would have consequences sometimes #she's not a psychopath; she's not completely unfeeling; and she won't harm people outright to get what she wants #but she can be quite manipulative and she definitely maintains a lot of relationships for the sake of what she gets out of them #while being annoyed if she's asked to put much into them #it would be nice if the writers would focus of developing either her awareness of that #or would begin to address how handling all relationships like this is A Problem Actually #especially given the fact that William is having to face similar situations #and it definitely seems to me as though the narrative intends the audience to feel uncomfortable about it #eventually leading to a point where he will have to decide between following orders and playing the favours game and doing what's right #and fair and just. #idk there are several different ways this issue could be addressed and handled tbh. #I just want to know that it IS going to be addressed and handled. #I don't want to see Eliza get away with using people and potentially hurting them for her own gain #and there never be any consequences just because she's the heroine of the series or bc she's a woman and she has to be sly and conniving #all the time #because the system is set up against her #and therefore it's ok #tag ramble #probably gonna delete this later dsfkjsdh

[wetslug]

ppl who r using poll results as a way to Prove Something about society or come to any conclusion.. i hope you are aware that tumblr users are one of the most biased population groups you could conceivably find. gob bless

#sis the variables... remember stats 101... ur data is only as good as ur sample #its like asking around at an old folks home and coming back saying 98% of those surveyed love prunes. therefore 98% of people love prunes #ok to reblog btw #polls r still fun i just hope you take into account who is responding to them

[bananonbinary]

some of yall use "amab" and "afab" as like, a woke substitute for "male" and "female" and its real weird. agab terminology is useful for talking about like, your personal life experiences and very specifically medical and legal problems you might run into. if you use it to describe a stranger then you're just going back to gender essentialism in a new hat. and implying you can clock everyone, to boot.

#'i saw an afab person' ok so you think people are assigned female because of some immutable quality to them gotcha #and that they can never actually lose that quality and transitioning is therefore essentially playacting cool cool cool #discourse /

[ihatebrainstorm]

Late night Brainstorm grief thoughts...

#he never cried out when he found out about Quark #he locked the door and merely collapsed until he was nothing but a quiet quivering heap of misery and tears #I'm sad about it and therefore you all should be too (jk jk) #ok gnnnnnn *bolts out the room* #mtmte spoilers #transformers #mtmte #maccadam #transformers fanart #maccadams #tf idw #more than meets the eye #brainstorm #perceptor #simpatico #stormceptor #lost light

[stealingpotatoes]

Was thinking... The first time Cal brought Merrin to meet everyone, and the first time Ezra brought Sabine, how did things go down?

Cause I'm kinda imagining Ezra being intimidated by Merrin (I mean, he's never really had a good interaction with her kind to my knowledge) and Cal being super chill about her, and the other way around, with Cal being intimidated by Sabine and Ezra just like, "No, she's cool" 🤣

And Merrin and Sabine are just somewhere discussing what selfless idiots their Jedi are!

Also: 🥔

merrin nation is gathering in the askbox today huh!!! i reckon everyone'd be super chill w Sabine, she's very easy to get along w. MERRIN HOWEVER probably has Ahsoka a little hesitant given the whole "ancient enemy" thing but she gets over it very quick. Luke is too busy pretending to know what a Nightsister is (he's soooo knowledgable in the force) to be scared. Ezra actively assumes Merrin is going to steal his blood, which is not helped by the fact Merrin can smell fear and enjoys pranking people (see: her jfo greez interactions and all her interactions w bode). he is shitting himself

#just in case any of u are the same person: sometimes i take a while to answer asks if they require brainthought!! #need to wait til i have free time and a working brain loll #im not ignoring u its ok!!! i just get a lot of wonderful asks and therefore have to do a lot of wording #thanks for the ask!

[vaporwavevox]

love isn't what makes you human yeah but maybe being human isn't what makes you worthy of respect

#been looking in the loveless tags lately #lots of talk about how lack of love doesnt make ppl not human or whatever #and im like. ok. yeah. #but dont you see youre doing the same thing #the arospecs youre criticizing are saying “we still love therefore we are human (therefore we are worthy of respect)” #and you say “umm excuse me you dont need to love to be human (and therefore worthy of respect)” #but. yall. why are we so concerned about what makes ppl human. why is that important #can we just fucking respect each other even if we're not human lol #idk maybe i bring a sort of nonhuman vibe to the aspec discourse that the aspecs dont like #anyway. im a robot. thanks. #alterhuman #otherkin #vox 2 nite

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

I drew three Fours!

#I would draw a fourth but the composition looks nice with 3 #my art #linked universe #art #lu #doodles #linked universe fanart #lu four #linkeduniverse #four linked universe #four lu #linked universe four #minish four #I haven’t played minish cap so I’ve got no clue if that’s actually what it looks like when he shrinks but oh well #I suddenly realized I could get the drawing app I use on my phone on my iPad! #And I can use my Apple Pencil on my iPad :D #So now I can use my fav brushes of all time that only exist on this crappy drawing app and life is therefore good #Ok but I love four he is so smol #I WILL get to those requests soon I promise! #Probably tonight actually

[stardust-falling]

Having more thoughts about Shen Jiu because of course I am.

I don’t think he has the capacity for empathy or genuine selflessness.

He spent the entirety of his formative years deep in survival mode, and because of that, he evaluates people solely based off of how they might threaten or ensure his safety and/or comfort. As far as individual people themselves with their own perspectives… honestly I don’t think he even thinks of that.

Maybe a controversial opinion, but I don’t think even YQY is exempt.

Shen Jiu doesn’t have a moral code. When every day is spent on surviving, a moral code is a luxury.

And really, he just never got out of that mode. See, the thing is, once you’ve had enough adverse experiences it only takes a little bit to trigger you back into that mindset. Shen Jiu was used to being scolded and then beaten or abused, so for him, even a simple chiding is a precursor to abuse— even if he DOES recognize that nothing more will happen, his body and mental patterns will still go into that preparation time.

So of course he never left survival mode, because even if nothing is actively happening, your mind will keep reinforcing those patterns.

For someone with a normal upbringing, as far as I can tell, empathy is something you learn and develop from those around you. Many seem to think it’s something innate and natural and if you don’t have it then there’s something wrong with you from birth. I think Shen Jiu falls into exactly this category of thought— and so he doesn’t even consider that he could try to learn and develop it as a skill he can perform, even if it doesn’t come naturally.

Of course, would he even try? He hasn’t been given any incentive. Any time he has tried to do something good, he ends up getting hurt (saving Yue Qi leading to being taken by QJL) or misinterpreted and admonished (the well ghost incident, keep in mind my earlier point about scoldings perpetuating the same patterns).

So he stays in that same vicious cycle, perpetually in survival mode and unable to escape, even in a relatively secure position (see: his paranoia).

Now, this is all relevant to the discussions of SJ’s feminism, misogyny, and/or lack thereof. I feel like a lot of discussions aren’t really getting the full picture.

SJ sees people, no matter who they are, as solely how they can affect him. Just because this isn’t exclusive to women, or because if comes from a reasonable place, does that really mean it doesn’t play into misogyny?

Let’s take another angle.

I think his abuse of LBH and other talented disciples also is rooted, deep down, in this same issue. He’s not just hurting LBH only to hurt him, his aim is specifically to stunt his cultivation. There’s jealousy at play there of course, but there’s a bit more layers to it too— SJ doesn’t think he’s capable of goodness. So reasonably, he’ll be a bad teacher. He already knows what happens when someone becomes more powerful than their oppressor. LBH may be a child now, but a part of SJ whether he acknowledges it or not sees him as a future threat that needs to be treated as such.

It’s rooted in fear— because everything is with SJ.

So does that mean it’s not actually abuse?

No. The behaviors he shows are still abusive, the reasoning just gives a lens for understanding.

Now, with his views on women— I mentioned in the tags of my original post that I don’t think he views women as people. This is based in that earlier idea of how he interprets others based off their risk and benefit to him. For women specifically, though, there’s another layer.

Shen Jiu grew up in a society where women are inherently lesser— and he grew up in an extreme version of this. He saw women being treated as property firsthand(both as slaves, as well as QJL’s views on his sister). Your worldview is shaped by the world that you view during those early years. Whether he agreed or not, SJ would still take on the patterns of his environment. This, though, is just the same as general societal misogyny and ingrained bias. I don’t think he’s any different than anyone else in this way.

But where SJ’s particular flavor comes in is that to him, women are a source of comfort. For various reasons— positive past experiences, less threatening (or at least don’t carry the dangers men do). He craves comfort— needs it really, because he doesn’t get it and his cortisol levels are always so high they’re poisoning his body. Women are the best source of that comfort for him.

It’s not that he likes them— at least, not any more than someone would like drinking water, or a coat in the winter. They’re fulfilling a survival need for him.

That is what the objectification is where SJ is concerned.

So… is it misogyny?

I’d say yes, in a way it still is. It’s not violent, and it doesn’t come from some inherent sense of “superiority as a man” but at the core of it all, he’s still not viewing women as people, and he has no interest in changing the status quo, because it benefits him to be able to go purchase comfort at a pleasure house, even if it’s not what people usually do there. The picture is bigger than just misogyny, but the traits taken as themselves are misogynistic nonetheless.

I could go into his specific relationships with women and how that informs his character, but this post is already long enough. We know that he mentally divides people by sex, and that distinction has a lot of weight in his judgment of them. Even if it comes from a place of trauma, even if it comes from a general worldview that applies to everyone, he still views women as a commodity— so on some level, and from an outside perspective, he is misogynistic.

In the end, though, it still all comes from him being stuck in survival mode. His lack of empathy, his viewing others as risks and benefits— these things themselves aren’t moral failings— it’s just a consequence of his environment. He’s a bad person because he won’t confront this, develop a moral code, and act on it, not because he doesn’t experience empathy.

But in his circumstance, there’s not really a chance for him to choose to be good. Because he’s still trying to survive, and goodness is a luxury he doesn’t realize he can afford now.

He’s scum, but pitiful, you know?

#svsss #svsss meta #zhuixing meta #shen jiu #listen I’ve been through a lot of shit and I project on this dude a lot #so ymmv on how you interpret the character but this is just how I see him #and honestly that’s ok! characters aren’t people so everyone can interpret them differently and they CAN be different from person to person #but also… I think the ‘is sj misogynistic’ answer really comes down to what you consider misogyny #is it the motives or the actions 等等 #I think the way it affects those around him is most important and therefore yes he is #but others may say the source is too different and the motives are different #and tbh other views are valid #it’s a grey line area #anyway #none of the replies to my post really encapsulated the root to it as I see it #also before you come at me I literally AM the ‘no empathy and views people as risk vs benefit’ in the post #I just try really hard to have a moral code #and consciously think about not harming/helping others #sj is just someone who DOESNT do that

[chirpsythismorning]

We never really left

#byler #stranger things #birthdaygate #st5 predictions #ok so theory! #I’ve talked about this theory a million times #but basically the opening to s5 is already filmed #they had s4 fully written and s5 planned out BEFORE they returned to filming s4 after the hiatus #which means they knew that they wouldn’t be filming again until 2023 at the earliest #which means theres no way in hell they would have s5 start off right where it ended #knowing their young actors would look vastly different #and in those same exact costumes #and therefore distracting to watch them return to that setting #with 2 years passing in real life… #like they knew that wouldn’t work #and so what if… #they simply wrote the opening scene to s5 in advance? #think about it. #they said in an interview post s4 that the s5 opening is set in stone…? #and how could they plan out s5 and have the last 30 minutes of the series clear in their heads #but not the opening to s5? #arguably the opening to s5 is something they feel very confident about… #which just begs to question… #is it already filmed? #considering the bts photos of Noah at the rink o mania location in his yellow plaid… #and considering these Easter eggs connecting Jon Mike and Joyce to Max #who was cursed… #what could this possibly mean… 🤔 #😏 #why do you think spellbound was playing right when the screen went to black? 🤫

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

FEFERI: )(APPY AROMANTIC AWAR-EN-ESS W-E—EK! You can s)(ellebrate by smas)(ing everyone w)(o says “you havwen’t met the right person” wit)( a frying pan! You can also s)(ellebrate by giving large stacks of cas)( to your local arospec!

#submission #Source: @melandrops #WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH YEEAAAAAH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS GO YEAAAAAAAAAH YES YES YES WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #arospec awareness week ended on the 25th i think but its ok its still going time is a manmade construct. #ok hear me out since march has been overtaken by st patricks day people associate the month with the color green right #ok well guess what else is the color green. aromantics. right ok hear me out #march 🤝 arospecs -> being green. therefore #arospec awareness MONTH. NOW #these tags have been brought to you by tumblr user aroacedavestrider #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #incorrect quotes #mod dave #feferi peixes #cronus ampora

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #persona 4 #p4g #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #anyone that says yosuke is nothing but mean and awful to Kanji should meet me in the parking lot #we're not going to throw hands im just going to show you my 100 slide powerpoint presentation on their complex dynamic #for me one of the most appealing things about yosuke is how human and realistic he's been written #he is simultaneously capable of immense empathy and care towards his friends while at the same time struggle with his own identity #combined with a difficultly in self expression that results in him making tactless and hurtful remarks at times #thats not to say it makes those remarks ok - far from it! #but i think reducing yosuke to just those remarks makes him a rather empty caricature #which is such a shame especially considering that his entire personal narrative arc has been about confronting himself so he can be better #but anyway yes he cares about his friends he cares about their well being so much #he didnt have any obligation or a responsibility to look out for his juniors but he did so anyway without anyone asking #and it's so!!! because kanji does not look like he needs babying at all. hes taller than both yosuke and yu and he looks way older too #kanji has taken care of biker gangs by himself and is known to be intimidating #not that any of that fazes yosuke? kanji is his friend now hes one of them and therefore yosuke immediately wants to look out for him #god hanamura yosuke you so!!! #AAAAAAAAH #he's good with his queue

[toxooz]

anyway the comic update should be next week (3pgs left) until then a ghillie König warm up scribble bc i finally caved and got the sloth pak and am Obsessed with how much more creepy he looks 😞👐

the pic that started it all:

#i never spend money on games other than the initial Game itself but MAN #it passed my rule of dont buy it unless u consistently think abt it for days and well it passed #i do want to get the whole ghost n soap pack too but brother that shit too much money im willing to spend #now i just need his peanut butter edition 😔 #he looks even creepier than his default skin (how hot of him) but i play like a clown so therefor he looks like a clown #BUT homie showed me how to do private matches with bots so i can practice without the feeling of sheepish embarrassment lmfao #bc apparently im even scared to be Perceived by randos who will never see me again in 5 seconds #thats anxiety baybay!!!! #so anyway my prayers have been answered OK i Gotta shuddup brain is playing pinball with 1000 thoughts rn peace #my art #i mean barely PFFFT #scribble #sketch #konig #ghillie #cod #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare 2 #konig modern warfare #modern warfare #call of duty modern warfare #könig #konig cod

[buttercupart]

not-so-happy Holidays

#my art #rudy holiday #mayor holiday #dess holiday #noelle holiday #deltarune #utdr #dr #claire holiday #Ok ok infodump time #ive seen a lot of ppl posit 'carol' as a potential name for mayor 'c' holiday #and it makes perfect sense! c-themed christmas name that fits the bill #but ive just never vibed with it. one i think its too close to chara (care-ull and care-uh) #two! rudy is obv based on rudolph and in the movie rudolph's love interest is named clarice #therefore rudolph -> rudy and clarice -> claire #nothing wrong with carol holiday headcanons its just not my personal one ofc #also Claire is based off a certain type of deer! if you can figure it out you get uhhhhhh #the satisfaction? #hint: she's an adult who has retained (and passed on) fawn spots

[hypermusiced]

@mudandsludg3 made me do it

#jjk #satosugu #geto suguru #gojo satoru #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen #my art #suggestive #suguru sunday #happy holiday I forgot it was suguru sunday so here u go this counts #t4t stsg #if u disagree ok this is my blog therefore it is my echo chamber #more like mine and sludge’s tbh

[randomthunk]

Hey girls, marry a cowboy! It's a leap yeap!

#oxventure deadlands #oxventure #silas flint #kat arts #fanart #ox fanart #that caption has nothing to do with the piece but the post came back on my dash and it was like 'yeah let's draw more OxDeadlands' #the only interesting thought is that the enemy is probably doing some kind of psychic damage or something #therefore the nosebleed #there's a logic there ok

[dynjir]

Memory Lane

Part 1 of 2

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Initially this was just going to be a series of really rough sketches, but the more I stared at it, the more it kept growing..?

I have no concept of reasonable project scopes <:'D

#dynart #castle of nations #law of talos #karl #rachel #unknown-person #unknownpsn #fun fact! I used to play piano when I was a kid and the flute in high school! #3/4 time actually isn't that bad #there's honestly much worse times out there you could be stuck with #but I do have memories of me struggling with it when I first encountered it on the piano #and this is actually how I got taught to get used to it :] #one thing to be envious about being a creature with no pain receptors though #is that Karl will never experience muscle fatigue #because WOW can practicing hurt your fingers OW #and therefore Karl can practice for literally as long as he wants #or at least until someone kicks him out for playing the same song 900000 times lol #also pls don't stare at the details too hard ok I really didn't plan on making this a Big Thing when I first made it