#as if it was perfectly rational and reasonable

[xbuster]

I love when new DunMeshi fans try to rationalize Marcille wanting Falin to be super feminine and stuff by being like “Well, she just thinks Falin looks too much like Laios if she looks to masculine and she doesn’t want to think of him when she sees Falin,” and like. You know that’s not it. Marcille is just weird about gender stuff. Ryoko Kui made a likable character with really judgmental character flaws on purpose. You’re allowed to have complicated feelings about Marcille, you don’t need to come up with an explanation that makes it so she’s actually perfectly reasonable about everything (though it’s not like she ate a baby dwarf or anything, she’s just a little conservative about gender).

[blood-starved-beast]

But seriously, your posts actually made me realize that oh, the reason Nem reads as so rude (aside from the fact that the overwhelming majority of the ways she chooses to word her grievances ARE, objectively, very hurtful and rude) is that she's the only one actively acknowledging that hey, this is??? kinda fucked up actually? Why is Mel the one expected to do what is, by any currently understood metric, an impossible task with no assistance beyond Thoughts and Prayers from Olympians and a "go get 'em, tiger" from the assorted parental figures in camp? Most of whom then tell her that actually no, I'm not your real parent, your real parents are in time prison and I only took care of you so that you're strong enough to break them out of time prison one day.

Nemesis is the only one pointing at Mel like "you ruined a perfectly good goddess is what you did, Hecate. Look at it! It's got anxiety and imposter syndrome!"

Nemesis isn't the only one to show this concern! The only other person actively trying to do something about Melinoe's maladaptive and self-destructive behaviors is...Eris. Eris who is trying to loosen Mel up in the only way she knows how - doing the House of Hades tradition of trying to bond with someone by fighting to the Death. Unfortunately, Eris is so smarmy in the way she explains that it also comes off as insincere. The sisters are actually quite similar in this respect. It's also giving very strong "Nyx fires Dusa to force her to not overwork herself to the bone". Which is, likely where they both inherited that perspective from actually. Like Nem, Eris is like "why do you care about these people?" even.

I do think Hecate does care about Melinoe genuinely. But as I've hypothesized before, I think Titans being another step removed from humans cannot rationalize emotions and connections the same way gods or even mortals can. That's a thing that's discussed even in one of the nectar convos with Hecate. She mentions not understanding mortal the gods gestures and customs like this, though is quick to assure Melinoe that she appreciates it nonetheless. Interestingly, Nemesis mentions in her fishing(?) convo and another how she understands the mortal concept of justice, evil, etc. and those things is something setting her apart from her family. Which I think is part of the conflict between her and Hecate.

Odysseus is so interesting to me. He's an uncle/brother figure (per what Mel tells him) and he clearly cares but you can feel the sense that he keeps his distance. And that's his baggage with goddesses speaking there I think. He's a mortal interacting with gods and gods have their own perspectives on things and they have the power to Hurt You if things line up wrong. Which is part of some of the themes of this game of mortals vs gods vs titans.

Anyways you are correct and I'm just elaborating more here.

#d asks #wee-chlo #Nemesis #Melinoe #Eris (hades) #Hecate #Odysseus (hades) #hades 2 #hades II #hades II spoilers #meta #Mel's male LIs are more the supportive type both Moros and Icarus #that's what happens when Mel selectively goes for soft boytoys who lay on their backs for her as opposed to #going for emotionally messed up women who will Hurt Her to help her #EDIT TO include a read more cause this is long

[lilithfairen]

The year is 20XX. RWBY is entering its eleventh volume, with a recently-announced anthology spin-off in its concluding episodes. Certain individuals still adamantly believe that the series is dead.

Critics continue to complain about characters who served their role in the plot several volumes prior and is no longer part of the story. Every single such character they complain about is female, queer, and/or PoC.

They continue to invent theories on how every light-skinned man they stan will come back from the dead, including Tyrian Callows, despite having been gradually reduced to sand (which he attempted to eat) on-screen.

The current antagonist is a light-skinned male who consistently refers to every woman around him with abusive, misogynistic language. The critics unquestioningly defend his every action and blame the women he victimizes for his victimization of them, to the effect of "maybe they shouldn't have worn that dress".

The Bumbleby kiss has happened. Critics believe it is part of an arc about portraying Yang as an abusive psycho lesbian and Blake will eventually realize she's being gaslighted into a sapphic relationship, later to be saved by Sun whom she will immediately make love to as his reward.

The main antagonists remain the main antagonists and don't inexplicably stop having storylines.

RT releases a Pride collection with all of the proceeds going to charity. The HTDM donates to Celtic Phoenix, whose rewrite has Roman Torchwick consistently misgendering May Marigold, out of spite.

The HTDM continues to insist that Mercury Black is going to get killed off and denied redemption, all while continuing to whine (with unbashed misogyny and racism) that Emerald Sustrai already got redeemed. This is despite the fact that Mercury has in fact already left Cinder's side and joined the heroes.

Jaune says a single line in one episode. The critics compare Jaune Arc having one line of dialogue in this episode to people dying durig the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eddy sneezes in one of the volume commentaries, prompting the HTDM to start a "Stop Breathing Eddy" challenge. They then act as if they are the victims for being called out on telling one of the show's writers to actually die.

Oscar's arc of struggling with his role as Ozpin's new host versus retaining his own self continues. He stubs his toe in one episode as a minor gag, and the HTDM spends three weeks harassing the female VAs of the show for the "blatant racism" of this.

RWBY's queer rep continues to expand. The HTDM continues to whine about how "unfairly" straight white men who abuse women are depicted in the show.

More spinoff shows and games are released. The critics insist every single one is a colossal failure, which explains why they keep making more of them, huh.

RWBY-Doo has been announced. The FNDM is in jovial debate on what to name the Zwei/Scoob ship. The HTDM is divided between spewing queerphobia about Velma or insisting she's more queer than any character in RWBY (ironically, she ends up hooking up with Ilia in the crossover).

The year is 20XX, and if one thing hasn't changed, it's that RWBY critics maintain their...vivid imagination? Persecution complex? Facade of vitriol and they are in fact deliberately playing a long con to fool historians into thinking that people on the internet really were this stupid?

#i'm not sorry #i *had* to~ #rwby #rwby critics #in case it's unclear #this is a parody of something a rwby critic wrote #as if it was perfectly rational and reasonable

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

why doesnt wally just cut sallys arms off while she sleeps?

hey now c'mahn she's just a lil guy

Wally would never and i wouldn't make him. Nightlight!Sally protection squad - assemble!

#lights out wally would rather get torn apart than raise a hand to sally #there's a Reason he either hides from her or tries to calm her down instead of taking Drastic Measures #she's his beloved neighbor... he wouldnt hurt his neighbor thats so Un-Neighborly #and he wouldn't let anyone else do it either #he loves his friends so so much why would he hurt them... even if they dont feel actual pain its still a No for him #rambles from the bog #wh lights out au #like... wally doesnt really understand why itd be Wrong to do it #but he understands that its unpleasant to be 'hurt' and also he doesnt like seeing his neighbors Damaged yk yk #the Arm™️ is a tenuous exception #there's a reason he keeps it instead of sewing it back on right away. #he doesnt understand that keeping it is Kinda Really Fucked Up #his thought process behind it is 'well. barnabys not using it anyway and i want to keep him with me but i cant risk the rest of him' #wally: this is perfectly rational and well thought out #literally everyone else: THE FUCK IT IS-

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I've been thinkin' too many thoughts about the clones recently...anyways...

If it had never been acknowledged in universe…I think I might’ve been able to ignore how unbelievably fucked up the whole clone army concept is

I might’ve been able to accept it as just a convenient plot point for the republic to have an army to use

That’s what most stories do…they use a faceless army of “disposable” soldiers so that viewers don’t get too upset when so many die in battles

It’s what keeps those stories from feeling too dark

Hell, the stormtroopers from the OT are one of the most famous examples of that

But the thing is…it is acknowledged in universe

Multiple characters on multiple occasions have pointed the fucked-up-ness of it all

Even Obi-Wan in the AOTC novel is kinda horrified at the concept when he sees the clones for the first time

And it’s soooo hard to look past that

Especially with the jedi…I find it so hard to accept that the jedi are able to just ignore and accept it once the army proves to be useful

And like, yeah, when I look at star wars as a whole I understand that a lot of inconsistencies like this are just an inevitability with massive franchises

But it gets super frustrating to hold onto my suspension of disbelief capabilities when these problems are literally mentioned to and acknowledged by the jedi

Especially because I mostly love the jedi

#I just have to remember that ‘just because’ is a perfectly okay reason for stuff in fiction #that not every thing that happens can be completely rational or else there wouldn’t be a story #If I don’t then I’ll constantly be getting in my own way #stopping myself from enjoying things that are supposed to be fun #Anyways I’m gonna go back to watching tcw now #and gaslight myself into believing that the clones have rights so I can keep supporting the jedi :) #but like seriously #millions of SENTIENT HUMAN BEINGS being engineered and grown in a lab #with the specific purpose of fighting in a war that they have absolutely ZERO say in #and the reason they’re seen as better than the NON SENTIENT droids is because they can think creatively #aka THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THEIR OWN MINDS AND THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS #and they literally have no choice but to fight in this war #not okay #at all #okay I'm gonna stop now or I'll lose my mind #btw I know the jedi weren't responsible for all that #but for the most part they were okay with and/or ignored that whole clones have no autonomy thing #:/ #star wars #sw the clone wars #the clone wars #sw clones #sw gar #kamino #aotc #attack of the clones #obi wan kenobi #stormtroopers #clone troopers #jedi

[pochapal]

logic and reason catching battler into the suspicion trap because the Detective is the bedfellow of discrimination

#umineko liveblog #pure rationality serves only to exacerbate biases under the guise of objectivity #without Romantic consideration for beatrice then you're left with the demon that serves only to say 'but it's perfectly logical' #perfectly logical for a family of rich people to suspect that those Lesser than them instigated the slaughter #a perfectly reasonable assumption that anyone adhering to the status quo would make #an 'objective' read of the situation even. upstarts who should have known their place acting out #Detective as the cruelty of how much harm is done by The Way Things Are. Detective as complacency #of expecting things to slot out into a grand puzzle for you to solve like a Great Man #Detective as fascist even

[tacit-semantics]

Women love me for my overtly compulsive behavior

#actually I think I’m being perfectly reasonable and rational this time around ignoring the fact that I. always think that #but it’s different this time I promise I swear THIS time it’s based in facts. facts and logic both #logical rational factual. sorry in a very good mad while also being in a very bad mood it’s a little confusing???? I’m not quite sure what #to like. do with it. #tacit rambles

[gibbearish]

are we really back to "oh you support (blank)? name ten people who (do/are) that right now or else youre lying for allyship points and everything you have to say should be disregarded". i thought we left that back in like. 2012 misogynist nerdbro culture

#i have seen it on two entirely separate topics lately and its like. hello????? #'if you cant name 10 trans authors off the top of your head you shouldnt be talking about trans issues full stop. #i dont think thats an unreasonable expectation for anyone wanting to engage in rational discourse' how about we all go outside #because like yeah i couldnt name you too many trans authors but given my transgenderismness i think i do in #fact still deserve a seat at the table. and i dont think there should be a prerequisite academic education level to be allowed to talk. #'but you could find them for free-' yes‚ you can‚ but people should still be allowed to a) choose what they read based #off of what interests them and not mildly-to-extremely dense nonfiction writing and still Talk About Their Own Lives And Have #Opinions #shockingly not reading a lot of one specific type of author doesnt prevent a person from having reasonable and valuable opinions #if youre not capable of parsing someones argument because theyre not well-read enough then that just imo means you dont actually understand #the things youve read to be able to give them a synopsis #this isnt school. we're not being graded. there is no required reading and you are perfectly capable of giving people an #explanation on your stances if theyre unfamiliar with them #i had a b) but i dont remember what it was‚ i think it probably was part of what i covered there that i thought was a separate thought #but yeah just like. idk you can just say 'hey i would really recommend reading xyz but to summarize‚ (thing that disproves them)' #it is not . difficult to either Explain yourself or‚ if that is not possible‚ Not be condescending to the person youre not willing to teach #for not knowing #ill stop there bc ive already done that ramble before but. yes #origibberish #edit: ok upon reread i got turned around and switched from addressing the less educated one conveying their arguments #to the more well read one #bc that was the b is i was gonna talk about both #yall get what i mean though just like. split it in half and flip it turnways

[hailtotheskull]

what if i went crazy. sips my drink. or maybe i'll just keep looking at posts

#sorry im fighting off a crazy spiral i see it brewing under the water and i have to go Nuh Uh it won't happen again #you're drawing unrelated links here what happened in the past is what happened in the past and the here and now is here and now #these are not related!! seeing a reflection of the past doesn't mean it's happening again!!! there's likely a perfectly rational #and reasonable explanation! so quit acting crazy!!! ok i'm done rambling

[blackjackkent]

So, what Rakha really wants to do right now is go kill the people hunting Karlach, because they don't have anything else that would qualify as a direct plan other than the creche, and the "paladins" are closer. However, I happen to know that the paladins are level five and Rakha is level 2 and could be knocked over by a stiff breeze, so I think a better bet is a more full exploration of the Emerald Grove first.

I'm guessing that this is the result of a concerted effort on Wyll and Shadowheart's part, primarily - Wyll already knows the people of the grove and Shadowheart has fixated on Halsin as a useful lead. Gale doesn't seem to have any specific plan in mind and, left to their own devices, Lae'zel would already be heading for the creche and Rakha and Karlach would be after the paladins. But between them, Shadowheart and Wyll manage to convince everyone that at least TALKING to the healer in the grove would be a useful start before everyone goes off half-cocked.

Amused because I stopped in to talk to Zevlor and got a disapproval from Wyll purely for leaving the conversation without asking the question about whether the ritual could be stopped. XD Sorry, Wyll. I swear we'll get to a point where you like Rakha, somehow, but I doubt sincerely we're there yet.

Speaking of the ritual, down we go to the grove proper - with a quick stop to talk to the teeth-ling kids.

"Whoa. Hey! Can't say I've ever seen someone like you before."

Without preamble, he shows his hands to her, empty. Then a quick flick of the wrist, and suddenly he's holding out a tarnished gold ring between his fingers.

"Go on," he says cheerfully. "Take this ring. It's lucky."

Rakha, who has very little context for anything she experiences, has never seen slight-of-hand magic done before, nor is she familiar with the concept of a con man. So she watches this little display and is immediately fascinated. Magic - but with no surge of that visible tapestry around the boy, the network of power that Gale calls the Weave.

How?

"That was a fancy trick," she says slowly.

His eyes narrow and something subtle shifts in his expression, a flash of interest. "You haven't seen anything yet, lady," he says dryly. "Go on - take the ring and watch your fortune change!"

Take the ring.

She takes it and looks at it carefully. There is no magic on the ring either, nothing that she can sense. But the boy looks up at her earnestly as he draws a coin from his pocket. "Call it! Heads or tails."

She blinks at him, puzzled by the question.

Pocket the ring.

"Hey, hold on!" the boy cries at once. "You gotta pay for that!"

She does? She withdraws the ring out of her pocket again and squints at the boy, incredibly baffled by the entire situation.

("The boy seeks to deceive you," Lae'zel says impatiently under her breath. "His magic is mundanity. The ring likely the same."

Wyll sighs. "Be kind, the both of you. He wants to show you a trick, that's all. Let him flip the coin.")

Rakha's eyes narrow. She stands there with the ring sitting on her palm and feels foolish. "It's only a joke," she says slowly after a long silence and trying to sort through the words from her companions. "Go on... flip your coin." If anything, she is curious to learn what that means.

"Real sweet sense of humor you got there, chum." The boy looks as if he's starting to regret his choice of mark, but he presses on gamely. "Anyway, you gotta call before the flip. Heads or tails."

A long pause. "Heads?" Rakha says cautiously.

The boy grins, tosses the coin in the air, catches it, and then shows her the side with the head facing up. "Heads it is!" he crows. "See? That's the kinda luck you get from just one of my lucky rings! I've got more where that came from. Real cheap, too. Interested?"

Rakha is starting to understand the situation now that she has seen it play out, and her lips twitch with irritation. [SORCERER] "If there was magic in this ring, I'd have felt it," she says bluntly. "It's nothing but junk."

The boy flinches and raises his hands defensively. "Not so loud!" he hisses. "You caught me, all right? They're not lucky rings." His eyes grow wide, his expression twisting with sudden, exaggerated pathos. "I'm just... trying to earn money for my family," he whimpers. "My father left and my mother... she's so sick. I wish I had better things to sell than... trinkets, but it's all I have!"

Rakha squints. The shift in tone is abrupt enough that she is certain it's disingenuous and that Lae'zel is right - the boy is making a fool of her. There is nothing of value here.

Wordlessly she shoves the ring back in the boy's face.

Return the ring and leave.

#bjk plays bg3 durge #rakha the dark urge #ok so fundamentally this was not like #a scene with much of a point in rakha's case :P #did give me some thinky thinks though #one reason writing rakha is proving to be interesting is that by going real deep down the you-know-nothing rabbit hole #it often ends up a smidge comedic #and there's a challenging balance to be struck between this and not making her come across like an idiot #because i don't think she is! #she's quick - given information to work with she extrapolates lots of things out of a small amount #and makes rational decisions on how to act on that information #she just has zero context for anything #especially when the situation involves slang; it's kind of fun realizing that (for instance) if you didn't know what heads or tails meant #why would you be able to guess? #tldr using this scene that went nowhere as an excuse to write meta about my own character :P #i honestly really like rakha; she strikes me as someone who is perfectly decent (when the Urge isn't taking control at least) #but blunt and almost purely rationally-driven and needs to be met on her own terms #which so far the companions have been willing to do which is nice

[black-rose-irl]

Trying to explain to someone that this thing that they do for fun was actually like, really traumatic for you the last time you did it (and is pretty directly responsible for you ending up on antidepressants) and that the mere suggestion to do it again triggers your fight or flight response, is really something.

#irl stuff #vent post #cw self harm #it's about fucking ballroom dancing lessons #my brother needs to learn ballroom dancing and mom suggested I go be his partner #yeah no #I'd rather break my legs #not even exaggerating #shit sent me into a massive depressive spiral last time #ballroom dancing lessons were fucking torture for me in every way possible #and I don't really have the words to explain that to my mom #because for some reason she expects me to have a perfectly rational and explainably reason why it was traumatic for me #she does this for fun #I feel like an animal about to gnaw off its own leg to escape a trap at the mention of it #my saving grace is that the lessons are sunday evening and I have school in a different city monday morning #so I have to leave sunday afternoon #which is an explanation that doesn't need a ten page essay defending it #unlike 'It was traumatic and makes me want to hurt myself just thinking about it' #because mom expects my mental illnesses to have a rational reason for this shit #that's not how mental illness works #that's not how any of this works #and honestly my hatred of ballroom dancing (or any organised group physical activity) is probably one of my more rational feelings #and people think autistic people are the ones without empathy smh #sorry I'm rambling

[rosepetalsthings]

Me, fighting the urge to argue with people on Tumblr

#Discourse #I think we all know what this is about #Just repeating my mantra of this is a safe space this is a safe space #This is why I took a lil break btw #Cause there's a reason my blog turned into wayyyyy more of a discourse blog than an art blog #dream situation #Btw it's not a bad thing for people to change their mind a week later it's perfectly acceptable to realise you were wrong #Or that you were too emotionally charged to deal with it rationally until later #It's not forgiving shit or sweeping it under the rug it's just people coming to a different moral conclusion than you Jesus fuck #Leave or become fucking antis if you want but don't act as if people can't come to a different conclusion than you on something like this #Where we truly don't have all the answers! #And very little has even been confirmed!!!! #Like we know insta dms probs real #Snapchat maybe real #But we don't know anything about the context of those messages if any ever happened #If that's enough for you than great there's the door but don't act like you're superior cause others came to a different conclusion #Fuck I'm angry #Fucking some of you need to chill the fuck out for real #and realise why people outside of Stan circles may not want to make a statement on a delicate and nuanced situation #Okay okay okay I'm nice and understanding and not about to post my very mean draft about some users in particular

[sachete]

hey @neil-gaiman i'm not mad i just wanna talk

#i did not yell at my television set no of course not #i reacted in a perfectly rational and reasonable way to a work of fiction that has no concrete bearing on my life or how it's lived #good omens 2 #good omens

[yeonban]

When  Pessoa  said  “There’s  a  thin  sheet  of  glass  between  me  and  life.  However  clearly  I  see  and  understand  life,  I  can’t  touch  it”...........  Shal  felt  that

#muse: shalnark kurta. #Shal has boundless knowledge & can even understand other people's emotions; what makes them tick and why; so on so forth #despite having never felt any to the extent THEY do - if at all depending on the emotion we're talking about #but he's so disconnected from his own most of the time that he generally feels as if he's playing a VR game #instead of interacting with real people in a real world & with his own very real existence #/in theory/ this frustrates him but the irony to that is. he can't even feel frustration for more than a few mins #he'll just subconsciously shelve it away like every other strong emotion a human is capable of & continue with his life as usual #this is the direct result of my hc on how he grew up & how his parents' teaching fu.cked up a perfectly good kid #I mean we've SEEN him be nice to people for no reason even when he's at a loss bc of it. like by carrying a random grandma halfway across #a city just bc she asked for directions and he felt compelled to use his time to help her get there rather than to his own destination #it really makes me wonder how much kinder Shal might've been if he had been allowed to tap into his emotions properly #instead of being forced to toss them away and rationalize everything instead - which definitely made him crueler in itself #HM I think I might write a hc post on this bc I'm about to hit the tag limit here smh AKDJSAGDSHA

[elainemorisi]

due to Circumstances, I now have a persimmon seedling and a quince tree, and I am pretty enthused about this

#those are the two fruits I most want to grow #I chose persimmon but the variety I bought in the fall apparently didn't make it #so they offered a baby of another variety + the quince to make up the price difference and YES #now #do I realistically have room for two trees in my front yard period? #let alone a fucking persimmon? #hard maybe!! #but lawns as we know are overrated #and sunny barren DRY as FUCK lawns like this one are definitely a waste of space #so. oops it's a mini orchard now #(the objectively correct answer here is to get rid of the giant invasive maple in the front lawn #which I will do if and when the persimmon gets uh persimmon-sized #but that'll be quite a while) #(I have a back yard also. it is Very Shaded. I love trees!!) #(I am also very glad my neighbors who own 2/3 of the giant pines shading the back #realized it'd be a truly stupid expense to take them down for no reason #look if one of them miraculously falls SIDEWAYS onto my house I will be sad for sure but my dudes that ain't the prevailing wind direction #also they seem perfectly healthy (though I would like to somehow find an arborist whose job isn't primarily Cut Down) #and while I will also be very sad if one even more miraculously drops itself or a huge branch on a person in the yard... #rational risk/benefit analysis folks let's get us some)

[akkpipitphattana]

i be like “i don’t have anxiety” but then i start convincing myself my friends are conspiring against me and testing me in some way by having not texted in the gc today and having not come over despite our plans to

#like they weren’t concrete set in stone important plans so like i have noooo reason to be like this really #but also fr everytime something like this happens i’m always like ‘well they DID hide that one thing from you for years for the sake of a #joke and making fun of you behind your back and most of them still don’t see how fucked up that was’ #and like. yeah true brain maybe this isn’t just anxiety maybe it’s perfectly rational thinking #also have been feeling guilty all day so that’s not. helping my anxiety #liz rambles