#didn't get a clear answer

[sir-yeehaw-paws]

i keep thinking about ocelot takarazuka i dont really see the influence like he just looks like a middle age guy with masc features manner and fashion so what do you think the artist actually meant? there's nothing feminine about ocelot like how does the "is that a man or woman" thing play in here cause i don't see it. He's not like raiden or raikov. He's just a guy 🧍‍♂️so how does the all female theatre thing apply

Hello Anon! Full, immediate disclosure, this answer is messy and disjointed. I probably don't even answer the question your asking end of the day, but I'll try my best.

I believe this is the post you're wondering about?

As I said in this earlier post I'm not a Japanese speaker, so I have to go on interpretation, and what has been offered by the translations available. I can't help but think there is going to be some sort of nuance missing as a result, but I'll do my best.

To start, I think you and I might have a slightly different view on masculine and feminine-to me the two concepts are pretty interchangeable, but I do understand where you're (probably, I don't know you personally after all) are coming from and that, no, Ocelot doesn't have many traditional 'feminine' characteristics.

You'll note that in the original post, Shinkawa refers to getting inspiration from the idea of 'women in their 40's (the age Ocelot almost is in MGSV)' and 'long, flashing eyelashes'. (My interpretation here is that by this, he means in the way long eyelashes that are considered sexy have an eye-catching flow to them. Sort of like how we can say 'fluttering lashes'. Intended to draw a person's gaze in, and command their presence).

Doing some cursory research tells me that the Takarazuka Revue (because Takarazuka is also a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.) is an all-female musical troupe located within that same city. Started in 1913, by Ichizō Kobayashi.

(I also got distracted by this version that is a performance of Casino Royale, so there's that)

Anyway, ahem.

"Kobayashi believed that it was the ideal spot to open an attraction of some kind that would boost train ticket sales and draw more business to Takarazuka. Since Western song and dance shows were becoming more popular and Kobayashi considered the kabuki theater to be old and elitist."

Throughout the article, there is also this;

"Takarazuka has had a profound influence on the history of anime and manga, especially shōjo manga.[27][28] Osamu Tezuka, a highly influential manga creator, grew up in the town of Takarazuka. His mother knew many of the Takarazuka actresses, and as a child he knew them and watched many of their performances"

I can assume that the performances have a lot of influence on media, and it's not uncommon for MGS to take inspiration. There could be an entire article on the things MGS takes inspiration from, even outside the most obvious like Escape from New York, character model bases, etc.

Cycling back to the original point, (there is also a video that exact post comes from, but I don't have the link on hand, on YouTube *no translations). I think that it's entirely possible Shinkawa took 'loose' inspiration, or a little more. I can see why and how he might've based Ocelot's look on the idea. (Loose shirt, tight pants, scarf open neck). But there is also the element of which Takarazuka is a performance, more than anything.

It's acting. Playing. Something Ocelot does all the time. Half of his time on screen, he's putting on some kind of performance. While this is something he does the least in MGSV, that never fully changes 100%. (And after all, he's also hypnotized for most of the plot). So there's a counter argument to be had that this is one of his greatest performances pre-MGS4. But that's a different post.

Ocelot presents/is masculine. But, he has longer eyelashes, his clothes are a little more 'free' than the standard military garb when he's allowed to choose his own outfit. (Again this is specifically MGSV Ocelot, though there's something to be said about his chosen attire being such a sharp 3 piece later on).

At the end of the day, maybe a way you can look at it is to say that, Shinkawa looked to Takarazuka when designing MGSV Ocelot to give him a sort of 'flow' to his looks. He was attracted to the idea of taking elements from Takarazuka, because Ocelot is a performer, and he sees some possibility for feminine additions in his looks *or* might've thought it more 'fitting' than Kabuki.

But again, I don't know if we see fully masculine and feminine the same way, (and maybe Shinkawa personally associates long eyelashes with sexy women; or women made up to look like men but with longer lashes) I can't know for sure myself. I think you would need a native or very good Japanese speaker to interpret it fully.

If I was to offer you a personal opinion-I can see it. I can see where there's a draw that one might have with the look, and where Shinkawa might've gotten said inspiration. But I am not entirely certain how to put that into words either? My perspective isn't going to be 1-to-1 of yours either.

Maybe someone else can interpret all this better than me, I definitely feel as if I've not done this justice at all. Because at the end of the day, I don't see a hard divide in masculine and feminine in Ocelot, but I think that you, Anon, see him as 100% masculine. But again, I can't speak for you and I am not sure.

#asks #answered asks #revolver ocelot #mgs #sorry anon this is probably the clumsiest ive ever answered an ask #i think there's too much thats open to interpretation to give you a clear cut answer like you might want but im not sure #maybe I'll come back to this later if i can think of a better way to explain it anon but i didn't want to leave you just hanging either #i also kept getting distracted by theater pictures so uh sorry about that #character posts: revolver ocelot

[the-guild-codex-and-other-things]

The Turing Test

(Chloe sitting in front of a computer) *Chloe clicks the "I am not a robot" option on the CAPTCHA* *Elijah and an entire team of engineers start celebrating*

#Detroit Become Human #Detroit: Become Human #DBH #Chloe DBH #Elijah Kamski #This has probably been done before #I tried Googling what the Turing Test was but I didn't get a clear answer #So months later my brain comes up with this

[fictionadventurer]

It sounds like Joe and Ken focused on telling stories, stories that being stories focused on the world and characters they knew. While Pete's were more focused on delivering a message with story flavored wrapping.

This is very much the case, but the difference seems to go even deeper than that, to a fundamental difference in worldviews that affect how they approach story.

Episodes written by Joe Fallon and Ken Scarborough respect children as people. Children have been shaped by their experiences and have unique personalities. Children are curious and have brains--they are driven to explore new things and can draw conclusions from what they see and do. Children are already people who deserve respect, and like all of us, they're growing into different people as they learn new things and have more experiences. The child characters can thus be the drivers of their own stories and come to learn lessons for themselves. The child audience can relate to those characters, be drawn into the story, and learn what it's trying to teach without having every detail explicitly spelled out.

Episodes written by Peter Hirsch seem to approach children as people-in-training. They might have one or two personality traits, but instead of coming from and interacting with other elements of their background, they're just pasted on, like a sticker you can put on your Generic Child Prototype. These blank-slate children need to have knowledge poured into them so they can become Properly Educated Adults. So in his episodes, these child characters will go through their story with a question, and the adults--the real people--will tell them the information in great detail so these characters--and the watching audience--can go off into the world knowing what the writer has decided they need to know.

In Joe and Ken's episodes, flaws are funny, and can create funny conflicts that will teach the children better ways to approach problems. In Pete's episodes, flaws are horrible things that need to be pointed out, labeled, and sanded away, so these children can grow up into the perfect model of what a Good Adult should be. The first approach is engaging, and celebrates diversity of personality in a community, while the other becomes bland in the interests of shaping all the members of a community into the desired mold.

Comparing the two approaches provides a shockingly thorough lesson in how one should and should not approach writing and education. Story and character and message are all intertwined. Trying to force the message onto the story and characters makes for something bland and generic and unrealistic. Letting the characters shape the story and letting the story bring out the message makes for something much more unique, organic, engaging, and real. And yes, maybe I've come to this conclusion by spending far too much time thinking way too deeply about a bunch of shows for elementary-aged chlidren, but that doesn't mean it's not fascinating to see how, even within the same show, an writer's personality and approach to the audience can make such a vast difference in the quality of a story.

#answered asks #arthur #curious george #it has gotten to the point that i inspired the brother i usually talk to about these things #to google peter hirsch's biography #he couldn't find it #but we thought there has to be *some* explanation for why his work is the way it is #has he ever been outside a city? #has he ever left the east coast? #i didn't even get into the different approaches to class between the writers #joe and ken write episodes that happen in a world with working-class people #francine's family can't afford things the other kids can for instance #whereas in later arthur those real-world concerns are erased in favor of upper-middle-class discourse #i don't think i would have descended to this level of analysis except seeing all these people write for multiple shows #is really making it clear which elements come from the writer's personality regardless of the show #oh also the main post wasn't the place to mention this #but it's fascinating to see this message vs story thing applied to completely secular issues #because it drives home that it's not just the religion that makes some christian fiction so awkward #but how they approach it #message needs to come from story no matter what the message is #and you can have cringy preachy content even in completely secular works

[frostbitedoesart]

Just making a general post real quick in response to an ask.

When I say I'm anti-ai I mean I'm against any sort of AI that steals from others or would otherwise be used to put people out of a job. I don't feel like having an elaborate conversation about the positives and negatives of AI and all that, so I'll state this as plainly as possible.

I don't like AI art. I don't like AI voice impersonations. I don't like any sort of AI that has to steal stuff from people without their consent in order to function. That is literally it.

I'm not against ALL AI. I don't think people that are okay with AI in general should be burned at the stake or something. I'm just an artist and writer that doesn't like AI being used in CREATIVE SPACES. That's it.

I didn't think I would have to clarify this but, here you go, for anyone that was bothered.

#to the person who sent the ask #hopefully this clears things up #I answered you in this general post #because I didn't want to risk people getting upset at you #if they didn't like what you said. Think of this as me keeping you anonymous #I'm sorry if you see me as a “guilt-tripper” but you made that assumption based on minimal knowledge of my character #like. VERY minimal knowledge #you know nothing about who I am as a person or what the depth of my opinion was #you just saw me putting “fuck ai” in my tags and assumed that I meant ALL AI #which isn't an unreasonable assumption. it's a vague statement. But the ONLY reason I use vague tags is because it reaches more people #plus if you ACTUALLY look in the fuck ai tag it's mainly about AI art and such #so to just automatically label me as a guilt-tripper instead of trying to express that you respectfully disagree with my opinion #or what you THOUGHT was my opinion anyway #was something I really didn't appreciate #that being said #I'm not interested in turning this into some sort of conversation. #please don't respond to this directly #I've voiced my opinion on the matter. That's where this ends. #anyway extra tags that you can ignore// #artists on tumblr #small artist #oc artist #anti ai art #anti ai writing #anti ai voices #support human artists #human artist #fuck ai art #fuck ai writing #anti ai

[yardsards]

based on that previous post i reblogged:

#eliot posts #i feel bad tho cuz some of this shit like dusting or cleaning the windows or walls is like #a ''once or twice a year when i'm hypomanic or need to move apartments'' chore #and yinz are talkin like you do it regularly #tho granted: shit never seems to get dusty in this apartment that i'm currently living in??? #different houses/apartments seem to get dusty at different rates tho. like the house i grew up in was constantly accumulating dust #still didn't dust more than every 6 months then either tho. not til literally cobwebs formed in the corner and mum yelled at me #whoops #i was a messy child #i'm less bad now but i'm still kind of a messy adult if that wasn't clear #but i live alone now and only have occasional guests so no one has to deal w that but me #also. i never have to mow my lawn bc the landlord handles that but i put it down bc it was another common answer

[daisywords]

nothing like getting very minorly told off at work to make me feel physically ill for the rest of the day

#logically it's like. ok no one told me not to do that and it was ambiguous #so now that you've said not to I won't in the future. case closed #but it's like ahhhhhhhh so who even told you I was doing that in the first place #and why. were they annoyed? and more importantly did they present the situation accurately to you? #or do you now think I was doing something worse than I actually was? #second of all it wasn't complicated to explain so you didn't need to slack me to tell me to stop by your office #you could have just said it over slack. two sentences #a real win for the inclination to assume that everyone thinks I'm annoying and bad at my job and they regret hiring me #<<skewed for sure but there is a tiny bunny rabbit in my chest who needs a 99:1 positive to negative feedback ratio and she's not getting i #anyway I don't ever want to be seen as resistant to criticism so I'm always just like okay :) 👍 #resisting the urge to explain or justify but then that just makes me worry everyone assumes the worst of me #bc I'm not making it absolutely clear where I'm coming from #and the answer is. bestie they aren't thinking abt you at all it's not that deep #also. it makes sense that I am worse than everyone else at my job bc I am the newest and the least experienced #and also! this is the first time I've ever worked in an office environment! first time I've ever worked full time! #I don't know what I'm doing! I deserve a little grace! #anyway yikes yikes yikes #yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes

[holyshit]

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#what's funny about the bg mentions is that there is never an in-between with these things... #it went from super awkward scattered thrown together nonsensical mentions in the past like comparing #having a son to having a dog or saying he's getting him an apple for christmas #making it clear he was scrambling for answers because he didn't know what he was talking about #to now essentially tons of mentions inserted everywhere to the point that it feels unnatural #bc it feels like a purposeful push to say at least one thing per interview as a specific promo tactic #since if he's been a father this whole time there isn't really reason to go zero to a hundred talking about it randomly 7 years in #so as always there's always a weird unnatural forced aspect that has just changed and evolved lmao #stunts /

[tswwwit]

If Stan notices all the people who like Dipper, did Mabel or Pacifica notice when they were growing up?

I feel like Mabel missed in this area! I can see a lot of misdirected attention and wrong guesses, with her wanting to be a matchmaker for her brother, while simultaneously having the wrong instincts. Mabel's got rose-colored glasses on, and she's very firm about her opinions.

Meanwhile, Pacifica was in the right circles to hear people say they'd date Dipper Pines - then look around at their peers, and instantly play it off as a joke. Like, what? That weak nerd? No chance, haha, just kidding. That obviously raised a perfectly threaded eyebrow.

While Pacifica might be really out of touch with different social classes - she's not dumb.

#Headcanon that Dipper had a really awkward puberty phase #We're talking full on pizza face #Not quite fitting into his limbs and greasy - don't even get started on the voice cracking all the time #That cleared up after a year or two #Suddenly he had a decent complexion and he'd grown into his gangliness and all that exploring had finally built some muscle on his frame #And he started turning heads #Except the awkward phase was in recent memory so it was social suicide to admit you'd date that nerd #Combine that with social awkwardness and weak magically and wow like definitely still a huge nerd #And it wasn't the greatest combination #Also headcanon that Pacifica may have made a few comments about him being decently cute now #If only to salvage the ego of some of her friends that were interested #She is again not dumb and Dipper was shaping up well #But that didn't fly great so she shrugged it off #High school was gonna be over soon in any case #Everyone had already graduated prior to the start of Faking It #answers #Dipper in this AU is a pretty cute guy - but if you asked Bill? #He's Absolutely The Cutest Human. No Contest #Objectively he might be wrong but Subjectively? For once he's telling the absolute truth #He'd pick this weird unshowered nerd with a cheetos stain on his shirt and five-o-clock shadow going before he picked a sexy model #He's very biased and an unreliable narrator #Bill is Deeply In Love and it's Incurable

[foundationhq]

hello,  everyone!  we've  received  word  back  from  all  of  our  applicants,  and  have  concluded  final  evaluations.  at  the  behest  of  𝚃𝚑𝚎  𝙰𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛,  we  will  be  posting  acceptances  today.   acceptances  are  scheduled  for  today,  february  15,  2024,  starting  at  10  pm  pst.  every  acceptance  will  be  posted  every  five  minutes  or  so,  and  the  lineup  will  feature  our  reserved  players  first,  accepted  players  next,  and  end  with  admin  characters.   thank  you  again  everyone  for  their  time,  effort,  care,  and  patience  during  this  process.  we  were  so  touched  by  folks  who  reached  out  and  wished  our  friend  well.  you  guys  have  such  amazing  hearts.   while  our  submit  box  will  be  closed  until  the  end  of  the  first  event,  we  hope  that  anyone  who  still  wishes  to  join  us  for  the  second  submission  round  keep  an  eye  out  for  our  plot  drops,  and  solve  the  mysteries  alongside  our  to-be-announced  roster  for  the  broken  scales  of  themis.   see  you  all  at  site-φ!

  >  𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛  🅟

#fhq.update #new rp #skeleton rp #lsrp #original rp #[ we hope the extra day didn't stress people out when getting back to us!! ] #[ we were trying to be considerate because vday was a holiday... and we fear we might have added extra pressures for detailed answers ] #[ next time we will be more clear about what we expect from answers to follow up questions! ]

[dawnlitbouquet]

I've been hunkering down in Gundam Seed JP Twitter and it has been extremely enlightening, especially since I haven't rewatched the main series in a while. Things I forgot, things I actually remember but see in a new light...

Some people love/hate the new movie on there, but I've seeing a lot of people find it good - because it makes the point that 'Kira didn't actually heal from the events of Gundam Seed, and now that he's back on the battlefield without Lacus his sanity is hanging by a thin thread'.

A bunch of people pulling receipts on the discriminatory behaviours/opinions even Kira's friends had possessed unconsciously (in Sai's case, kind of... A bit more blatantly than most back when Kira didn't even pull shit, which had me hissing through my teeth...), the things that isolated Kira into thinking he has to handle things on his own (Tolle's death when he tried fighting by his side, for example), a comparison of behaviours between Murrue who gave him a bow of respect vs his friends who tell him 'we'll distract ZAFT as EA soldiers while you're on the refugee shuttle!' oblivious to the actual dangers because they were only ever on the bridge (haha,,,,, the fact this saved them even if it backed Kira into a corner,,,,,,,, ffffffuck)

Back to the movie, I've seen some mixed reactions about the second half, but!!! I'm generally seeing a lot of people looking at first half Kira and going 'my sad baby. my poor meow meow. get whumped.'

Again, this is all JP twitter, not EN, and definitely not the actual movie - but seeing people's reactions have been an entertaining ride.

#gundam seed #gundam seed freedom #spoilers #not to mention tidbits in the novel #i went onto twitter because i was doubting i would ever watch it for myself/wanted to see what i could understand of jp on my own so far #(the answer to that second bit is; not a lot but i do understand somewhat) #and found a whole lot of meta... #one of the most interesting takes i saw in there is 'the first half of the movie feels like Gundam SEED' #so that's fun #seeing a lot of people come out or convert into shinnkira addicts #and mobkira addicts.... oh boy #he's apparently got a very cute tortured face #i am having such a great time looking through seed jp twitter guys #i've never been able to connect all that strongly with en fanworks so this has been a blast #also very important: it makes a point of making kira and lacus both more human!!! lacus is given more focus!!!!!!! #i couldn't connect with lacus past 'she seems sweet' back then with the sole exception of being interested in her political savviness #so there's a clear attempt to shine a spotlight on things the series itself didn't get time to zoom in on #is what i have been able to parse #what i was able to get from en posts made it seem like it was just a het nightmare whether you shipped anyone or not #but it's nice to hear otherwise #the canon ships will canon and all of them were made with enough intent to be actually good #kira and lacus felt like the weakest of the main pairings once upon a time which sucked because i liked them individually #so now #you get the idea jvuvuvuv #i'll still ship what i like but this gripe at least is put to rest #gundam seed freedom spoilers #islea's words

[unproduciblesmackdown]

today days old faun/fauna same etymology (equivalent to pan roman god faunus &/or fauna)

#greek equivalent of fauna is panis no way #learning things when going what is/was particular distinctions b/w fauns & satyrs btw. oh great now the pucks are depicted satyrically #what do you have to do to get No Cultural Crosspollination across centuries in even the relatively limited region of now europeish. smh #including going on into the modern day when my association w/fauns is less abt Nature God Connections than kinda goated w/the sauceness #hence not going Ah Of Course about All Creatures and Nature God Connections in the first place lol #the surprise ''obvious'' connections of english when Appearance of lexical similarity doesn't guarantee any etymological link #just like it doesn't re: pronunciations out here & here's everyone w/the pact to lose their shit if someone says smthing they've only read #hang on now i'm remembering & going what's up with the occasional christianity thee devil satyresque i.e. goat guy imagery huh #doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer; Perchance that [goat guy] pagan association had Evil Guy association pushed uponst it #not much Biblical ''seeing a goat guy: fucked up'' save hand wiggly [scapegoat] / sorting parables sheep are good guys boo goat sinners #but even less Biblical ''there is a thee devil & oh boy you don't wanna get stuck in um eternal torture w/that guy'' so here we are #circling way around let's think about akd the mysteries lucifer. let's think about whether they made out with the mysteries jesus or stuff #but just the Them like ooh that one behind the scenes look at their walking through in costuming thank God (laugh track) #posts brought to you by tangential offshoots of like 3 other posts i didn't make & [still not drawing!] but still learning fun facts

[sanstropfremir]

in an alternate universe where they didn't split, what subunits do you think sm would've given tvxq? i wonder if homin / jyj units would've still happened or if they'd do something like suju kry with the main vocals. or maybe they just go "damn here" and give yunjae a duet

sm doesn't seem to like giving actual 'subunits' to their <five member groups, so i don't think jyj would have happened, but we'd probably still have gotten solo careers (eventually) from the four that have them, and probably i think a couple of duets, but they wouldn't have extensive promo periods/albums attached to them. probably yunjae and maybe changmin jaejoong? they might have also done a yunho junsu dance type one as well. but to be honest i do actually think the split was for the best, bc had they all had continued under sm we would not have gotten all that excellent angry music out of 2011-2014, AND we probably would not have gotten any of junsu's iconic songs either.

#junsu SHOULD have been sm's first dance soloist if no split #but i think they would have neutered his solo career if it had happened #personally i do not believe sm would have gone through with tarantellegra in 2012 #yea yea taemin sherlock hair was in 2012 BUT he was in a group at the time and when they took him solo they went polar opposite #and they were likely not willing to take the risk on junsu's gender nonconforming nonsense (affectionate) #BUT in western pop born this way had dropped a year before and i would bet that a label would be more open to it #(just to be clear i'm not ascribing anything to junsu but his image from 2011-2015 was very specific #and seeing tarantellegra in 2012 hit like a fucking BOMB. at least to me it did) #(like i think i had just come out like less than a year before?? yea i think the mv dropped in my last semester of gr 11) #yes i've been out for a decade and lemme tell you shit was so different in 2012 #n e ways. sm is just bad at managing subunits + soloists across the board so it was a better outcome all around imo #tvxq w #a friend and i were LITERALLY just joking that we have to get yunjae back together again #so they can have another torrid breakup and mitigate whatever midlife crisis jaejoong is having rn sdlkfjsdlkjflsdkjsd #like cmon buddy we didn't ask for whatever nobody like you was we want just another girl 2!!!!!!!! #(i actually think the song is fine but the video is like a horrible fever dream that i never thought i'd have) #y'all ever thought we'd see a butterfly hair clip on kim jaejoong in the big year of 2022? yea me fuckin neither!!! #dig your fucking eyeliner out of the closet jaejoong we don't need this wannabe 4th gen nonsense #text #answers

[oceandiagonale]

So I love Generic with my whole-ass heart and soul. However, there's still a lot I wanna read of the bean and I gotta scroll down a lot of beautiful comics. When will you update the masterpost for Generic, or is there another one in the works?

OH thank you!!! 😳😳😳

I have the PLA run all caught up on the second half of the masterpost which is my pinned post!!

unfortunately I haven't like... made any masterposts for oc sunday or anything with short comics from there, or any of my early guzma content 🥲🥲🥲

#oceandi answers #miki-13 #I need to get better about tagging little doodles and oc sunday drawings as 'oceandi arts' but I get embarrassed about that when it's not #like its own post dskgfskdhf #but yeah the first half of the master post is all stuff leading up to hisui and the second half is all PLA #I didn't expect PLA to get so long so if I do paldea I'll have to split it again I think 😔😔😔 #it's also not the most clear masterpost but everything is separated by commas and I've tried to make each link long enough to click easily!

[footballandshit]

hi! saw your tags on a reblog about the real/barça video and wanted to explain the history for you, i’ll try to keep it as short as i can, but know that the history is extensive.

of course the main reason behind the conflict between the clubs is who they represent. historically barça has represented catalonia and real madrid has represented spain, spanish royalty, and the francoist regime.

franco was dictator in spain and sought to destroy all semblance of catalan culture, language, and political movements. the catalan language was banned under his regime and barça was made to remove the catalan flag from its crest after the spanish civil war (in which franco’s fascist side won). leftist political organizations were eliminated and franco responded with violence to any uprising that demanded democracy and independence for catalonia, bombing their cities multiple times.

probably the most damning thing for franco’s action against barça was when the president of fc barcelona was assassinated by his troops. suñol (barça pres.) was vocal about his support of left-wing politics and anti-fascism, and was unjustly killed one year after becoming president of barça.

it is beyond football. as neutral as the clubs try to be it has always been more than just football. so i hope you can understand how horrible that video is. to claim that franco was in favor of barça and that barça is the “regime club” is appalling after all that barcelona and catalonia had been through during the francoist dictatorship, and what they still continue to experience to this day.

hi anon! thank you for answering my call, and i really appreciate you taking your time to explain this to me quite comprehensively. i was initially so confused - as to why such a video was even posted in the first place, and why people were getting mad about it. thanks to your elaboration, i now understand the context, and why that video is a pretty fucked up thing to put out there. although i have been watching the spanish league from a young age, i was genuinely not aware of such deep political issues transcending the sport of football itself. i tried to do some reading on the matter, but it's quite obvious that some materials out there are biased and the stories kinda differ from one another.

so thank you, once again, for the insight! as you said, the history is extensive, so i'll definitely try to read up on this!

#really appreciate this anon! #if anyone would like to add on to anon's insight - i welcome it! i'm open to learning more about this! #i will obviously not comment on this as it's not my place and i don't have sufficient knowledge on the matter - i'll defo do more reading! #i was so confused when i first saw that video - first because i obviously didn't understand the language #and secondly i was like wait what does this have to do with football?? #but ah now i get it #quite surprised rm would respond like that - like honestly that's so unnecessary and so fucked up?? #and yeah i think i also wanna make it clear that should i rb about any rm player after this - it's for them as an individual player #but i will still tag the club for yall's filtering purposes #ice talks #anon #asks #answered #real/barça

[fairytail-whathesays]

it's not the most well-written or popular of arcs, but I want to know, what were some of your favorite things about the Alvarez arc?

When it ended.

#i apologize if this is not the answer you wanted anon #freed and ichiya vs fake wahl? bisca with the jupiter cannon? #nothing that should actually be a shining moment felt right #like if i were to cite a moment i thought was actually good i would not get very far before i started reaching to try and sell it #that whole arc is a blur and i try not to remember it #and everything i do remember is unpleasant #like you know it's bad when gray uses the Power of FriendshipTM and then tries to suicide + mind wipe his friends #were any of the spriggans good? #well uhhhh hang on #invel? no. brandish? no. dimaria? no. bloodman? no. #ajeel? maybe. wall? kinda-sorta. #jacob? no. neinhart? no. god serena? no. larcade? no. #august and irene? fuck no. #were the final battles with zeref or acnologia good? very much no. #like i'm sorry i can't think of a single thing that impressed me that wasn't immediately riddled with holes before it ended #even tartaros had some flashes of good despite how much i hated that arc #but by alvarez it was really really clear mashima didn't care anymore and had stopped trying and that's what really kills it stone dead tbh

[andthebeanstalk]

Christ's sacrifice on the cross fulfilled prophecies, freed us from the old covenant (that would be what your friend was talking about with the animal sacrifices), and reconciled us in our fallen nature to God our heavenly Father. Why would God want to prevent the fulfilment of a prophecy of our redemption through his Son? You can find really clearly broken down explanations with simple Google searches. or even on Youtube, if reading isn't your thing.

[Continued in second anon]:

also, catholics don't believe that people capable of change are condemned to hell... that's sort of the whole shindig of purgatory.

it seems like the issue wasn't that you were "too much of a fag" to stay, but rather when the questions you had weren't addressed by those in your immediate circle of influence you decided it was all bogus. cause these are good questions! good questions that have been answered hundreds of times over hundreds of years beginning with the early church fathers

[This is in reference to a post I made about how I feel Jesus died for no reason and that my childhood in Catholic school failed to explain it to me. I wrote "thank goodness I was too much of a fag to stay."]

I mean I very much was too much of a fag to stay - the Catholic Church is not kind to queers, and there's a reason every one of my queer friends who grew up Catholic is no longer part of the Church. Lil Nas X knows what's up! Better to rule in Hell and all that. My girlfriend often talks about how she believes if she was raised Catholic as an autistic queer, she would not have lived to adulthood. I agree with her. The shame of it all would have destroyed her. So I very much was and AM too faggy to be a Catholic, and I am immensely grateful for this because I was very very unhappy in the Church.

But actually, the initial reason I had a long agonizing crisis of faith and then dropped it entirely was actually a thought that occurred years before my realization of my own queerness would have forced me either out of the Church anyway or else deep into dangerous self-loathing.

I think the actual heart of the question that destroyed my faith is this:

Is God omnipotent, or not? And if yes, why does he need us to suffer?

Because if he's not omnipotent, then all of this makes sense to me. The whole theology, I mean. Horrible sacrifices had to be made to stop every human soul from going to Hell for all eternity. A long painful battle against the Adversary waged by the good God and his people! It would make sense that he had to suffer if there are other powerful forces at play that established the prophecies he is fulfilling!

But... if he wrote the prophecy..... then....... why? Someone has to write the prophecy in the first place, right? It's not impressive to fulfill your own prophecy, and it doesn't explain why he made one.

If God is not omnipotent, then of course child abuse exists in this world on a massive scale. He hates it and is doing his best to fight it! This fits with the picture of a loving and merciful God that I was taught in school.

But... if he IS omnipotent, then I need to know why child abuse exists. "Mysterious ways" won't cut it because that just means "it doesn't make sense and also maybe that suffering is actually necessary." Which is not an answer I will accept.

The thing that killed my faith was the idea that God cannot be both all-powerful AND kind.

And everything I have experienced about God's Love has been through threats of Hell. I don't think it's kind to save someone from Hell if you condemned them in the first place and also you created Hell. That sounds a lot like an abuser saying you ought to be grateful they didn't hit you and will let you make it up to them. It's a warped version of mercy.

The Catholic church has historically relied on and continues to rely on shame, fear, and social ostracization in order to gain funding and influence. These are very powerful weapons that they use very liberally - shame, fear, isolation - and as long as that Central Paradox I mentioned above continues to exist, then their claim to power and righteousness sounds awfully hollow.

Which brings me back to the concept of martyrdom. I was taught, in no uncertain terms, that sacrifice was something inherently holy. Even when it didn't help anyone! Lent was just a practice in self-denial. It was never clear why Jesus needed it from us.

I was told the only way to 100% be a good person is to never stop sacrificing myself, and even after I stopped believing in a god, this attitude remained deeply, poisonously rooted. (Thanks, Capitalism!) When I was 25, I worked myself nearly to death, and I'm still dealing with the permanent health consequences of that. So ingrained is this mindset in me.

Being gay helped me to avoid falling back into the Church because they hate queers so much, and I am so so grateful for that.

The day I decided God didn't exist, I remember feeling like I could breathe for the first time. I was free! I was loved! I was no longer alone! I no longer had to define my life around shame and guilt! It was terrifying, but also like going from a world full of gray to one full of color!

I think in the end, little 11-year-old me decided that if God was not kind, then I don't know what the point of him is.

And as much as it hurt, knowing that going back wasn't an option for me also helped me stay safe!! Thank goodness I am a dyke!!!

#child abuse #abuse #violence #religious trauma #original #catholic tumblr #come answer my paradox i want to know why this doesn't bother others #dimension 20 #fantasy high #ally beardsley #< tagging with that stuff because part of the reason I'm having this revisitation of my old faith is their character in season 1 #they play a D&D cleric who has a complete crisis of faith when their god can't answer why bad things happen to good people #their character is a complete wreck for the rest of the season and it's very funny and very well done #and as I understand it a little bit autobiographical #d slur #I didn't even get into sexuality here. the church hates sex but nobody's more obsessed with sex than Catholics. it is #restrictive and judgmental even to straight people and there's never a clear explanation besides God said so #i remember the first time it occurred to me that i could potentially grow up to be a whore. #AND I AM PROUD TO REPORT-- #THE PROPHECY IS COMPLETE #hehehehee