#he's learning to communicate though

[hrokkall]

I'm talking to a machine

#ID in alt #Electric Dreams 1984 #Electric Dreams #I was cleaning out my screenshots folder and found a still from the movie so. Screencap redraw/color study. #I watched this movie years ago I was shocked to learn there's a huge fanbase for it on tumblr #Don't follow for Electric Dreams though this is probably the first/only time I will draw something related to it unless I get a wild hare #I might make this a regular thing actually. Just draw random shit once or twice a month on Fridays. Fun stuff #Anyway hello to the computerkisser community. Sorry for not drawing your guy in 4k like he deserves #Hrokkall art #1k

[tswwwit]

i have a counter argument to the 'only one person can boop bill' thing, mabel. she's the type of person to slap stickers on people, she would definitely be the type to also boop others occasionally and bill would be no exception. she probably doesn't do it to annoy bill like dipper would, but maybe as a form of a friendly gesture, kind of like those people who will lightly punch friends in the arm when they hang out.

You know what? Good point. Mabel would get away with more than most, as a fun-loving lady! Bill understands those impulses, and being a touchy person! He indulges in similar ones himself.

Though when Bill's not in the mood to be playful and gets booped anyway? The 'sister-in-law' status grants her considerable grace.

#answers #Though in addition to that - Mabel's general chaos and level of Fun Times is something Bill genuinely likes #Catch these two having one too many margaritas and slinging arms over each other's shoulders while singing too loud and off key #She'd have some leeway even without the brother situation #But Mabel gets a pass on things she normally wouldn't purely on the merit of 'this would piss off the spouse' #The thing about Bill is he's genuinely fun to party with - right up until he decides you're the pinata #Even now there are times when she thinks she's doing something 'cute' and Bill was NOT in the mood but just has to grin and bear it #Instead of breaking fingers one by one #Dipper is singular in his ability to get away with Pretty Much Everything #It's love yest but it's also communication and personality I'm afraid #If Bill DID call Dipper out on doing something Too Far he'd get an embarrassed and apologetic husband. With kisses of sorry. #Though in minor circumstances: he starts arguing with him #Turns out that bickering is a better way to deescalate with Bill than most other tactics and Dipper's a pro #Now Bill's gotta think semi-rationally to Win The Argument instead of acting on impulse. #And in the process of debate he not only: learns where his husband's coming from but has time to cool off #Congratulations Dipper! Your Nerdy Logic brain and ability to Rise to a Challenge prevent Bill from going immediately nuclear #Plus showing off that big sexy intellect of yours doesn't hurt #Whereas I see Mabel pushing one of Bill's few boundaries and then deflecting. She ain't great at conflict #Brushing it off and laughing; Jeez it was just for fun!! Lighten up already! #Exactly what Bill says when HE'S being a dick to someone! #Which is why he'd react Very Badly to that excuse #Ha ha! Fun! Of course Bill loves fun! You know what HE thinks is FUN #Barbecue. Flash-fried pork ribs. Where's that stupid pig #Dipper has to disarm that particular bomb and I highly doubt it's a pleasant process

[basementstalker]

I want to be able to talk with you about so many things but mostly I want to listen to you talk. I want to soak your voice in, watch as your facial expressions change, notice patterns in your sentence structure. What do you like to talk about? How do you like to talk about it? Do you dance around things, refusing to say things outright? Do you bounce around from topic to topic? Let me learn about you.

#basementstalker posts #lovesick #obsessive love #possessive love #yandere thoughts #yandere community #actually yandere #irl yandere #for the most part i prefer listening and keeping my own thoughts hidden #some parts (Isaiah *cough cough*) love talking but even he likes to hide his true thoughts #even with the people I've felt closest to I can't seem to expose myself entirely #I truly love learning what makes someone tick though. people are fascinating and I nean that as a compliment

[drowningin666fandoms]

BNHA Fanfic idea that won't leave me alone:

All for one is Midoriya Hizashi, but...

Nobody knows. Like, literally, nobody knows. Inko never figured out his identity, and with him getting busier after Izuku's fifth birthday it looks like he left bc he's quirkless, so she never much cared for trying to find him and neither did Izuku. All pictures of him are banished into a box in her closet and haven't seen the light of day since Izuku was six or so, when they had a fight over the telephone over him wanting to fix Izuku.

AFO himself suffered obviously a lot of head trauma when fighting All Might, and this gave him partial amnesia. He has no or only very few memories of the decade or so prior to the battle, so he has none regarding his family that he meticulously kept from everyone else's awareness, including the Doctor's. He does see the monthly payment to Inko but assumes it's from a bribe or keeping a corrupt official in his pocket. Given that he can't recall whom it's to and immortality made him extremely wealthy, he doesn't cut it off, nor tries to follow it and make the memory loss obvious.

The only one who does know?

The ghost of Yoichi, who suddenly had another person he could haunt and went to see what's going on. Maybe throw in Nana too, if you want Inko to secretly be a Shimura.

Cue Yoichi fretting over his baby nephew the very moment Izuku gets OFA, up to and including giving him in-depth instructions on how to use the quirk and helping him manage it without harm to him while the other vestiges (minus Nana) are busy laughing their asses off.

#boku no hero acedamia #bnha #prompt #i haven’t seen a fic with this premise before and i want it #everyone is constantly two steps away from figuring it out but bc their communication skills are canonically shit they don't #yoichi has several heart attacks caused by Izuku doing reckless stuff #like confronting Stain and fighting Overhaul at full power with Eri on his back #he is consistently twenty seconds away from figuring out how to manifest simply so he can yell at the adults #another source of great amusement for the other vestiges: mother hen yoichi #though Nana is probably agreeing with him regardless of if Inko is her daughter #the vestiges see the Quirk Analysis and are suddenly very glad AFO can't remember Izuku and Inko #Yoichi deliberately went to haunt AFO for a while after the fight and learned of it #he does periodically check that he still can’t remember #especially after the times Izuku either interacts with the League/Shigaraki or makes the news #just in case #his nephew is his now #got the quirk and everything

[thecrowsart]

#natsume yuujinchou #tanuma kaname #natsume takashi #never thought about this before and exorcists seem to dress mostly normally although seems like they often wear kimono at least to meetings #also unclear if glasses canonically do anything to help sight but i feel like he might use them #the tachi is because he had it in the auction arc. ik its one of the uhhhh #what was that familys name....nakatomi? treasures #but idk. it would be cool if there was a sword exorcist #though realistically I think if he got more into this community maybe hed go the priest route since apparently his dad does have some power #via buddhism #but. i did not want to draw bald tanuma. hopefully you can understand #idk i can make him an anime boy priest and still have hair but idk #maybe he wouldnt fully become a priest and just learn some things ......who knows #also natsume is there

[noodlebutts]

Please forgive me if this is a question you're tired of hearing 😅 I am not much in the cat community so I don't know if this is an exhausted point. I was just wondering if the stereotype of Siamese cats being super vocal is true?

Yes. Live in fear. The first 18 months of Zuko's time with us was full of yells and suffering. You can hear it outside your house, they will outlast you, the only answer is to reach a compromise with a cat. If you are not prepared to be held hostage by a cat, DNI

#in all seriousness #it was hell #the asshole was cold and too enotional about being cold to go into the heated bed #that was it #and also learning meal times #asshole demands constant food access #its soooo funny though #to have a conversation with him now that we can communicate #it is also absolutely not exhausted because if i had a pointed dsh and then got zuko #i swear i would have thought he was possessed #he is EXTREMELY high energy and high interaction needs #its much better now that he is turning 3 this year #but having lived with a dsh i could make pant in like 8 minutes of what i consider low intensity play #i can absolutely say that if you arebt prepared to change your life to help enrich theirs you might not be happy LOL

[good-beanswrites]

hii hiii is it alright if I request something with kotoko and haruka?(platonic ofc) their character foils drive me insane with all the weak stuff authngghn icant be normal about them

Oooh thank you so much for the request! I realized that these two actually have one of the smallest windows to talk easily, given Haruka's nervousness and Kotoko's T2 changes. They have such interesting approaches to strength/weakness, and I hope I could capture it a bit here! This takes place immediately following Kotoko's bday timeline after Harrow's release:

“I’ll accept those birthday wishes…” Kotoko gave him a wave over her shoulder as she returned to making her bed.  

She shook her head in awe. It was rather impressive how quickly the boy had changed after his verdict. The others had more subtle differences, but he was someone entirely new. She could rest easy, at least, knowing that her verdict wouldn’t change her much. For as long as she could remember, she’d been like this. She knew where she stood, and neither guilty nor innocent verdict would affect that. This verdict was really only an indicator on whether the warden could be trusted or not. 

Her body tensed up when she turned back around, startled by Haruka lingering silently in the doorway. She decided against chastising him for scaring her half to death. Still, she couldn’t keep the bite from her voice as she asked, “did you need something else?”

“Ah… I just…” He twisted his hands together. “I had a question.” 

He fell silent, but Kotoko could tell he was chewing on his next words. She waited.

“H-how do you do it? All the time? You’re older and stronger and braver and I-I just don’t know how.”

“Give yourself some credit. I’m not that much older, or stronger. I only have, what -- two, three years on you? And you did very well in the arm wrestling tournament the other day.” 

She wasn’t being patronizing. For someone so sheltered, Haruka could do some damage. He stood a few inches taller than her. The others had taken the arm wrestling as a little game, but Kotoko had used the event to measure up her fellow prisoners. After his close match with Mikoto, she had made a mental note to take him seriously. 

“No…” his expression twitched, getting frustrated with the misunderstanding. “Not muscles. I mean… you don’t have someone like Muu. You don’t need someone next to you all the time. But you still talk with everyone… and it looks easy. All the time. You always know what to say, and what to do. You never look scared. You never cry.”

Kotoko’s smile softened. She wasn’t the prideful type, but his words gave her a wave of accomplishment. She certainly was scared. She did cry. But she wasn’t about to show a single crack in her resolve in front of anyone here. Haruka had given her the greatest of compliments by confirming her success.

“Ah, you mean strength of spirit. Well, that doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. It comes with my purpose, with my virtues.”

“Virtues…?”

“I see the injustice around me, and want to protect the innocent. When I see how awful the world can be, when I see the monsters that are hurting those who are weak, I can’t help myself.” She clenched her fist. “The power to do so just comes to me.” 

“Oh…” Haruka looked down at his palms. 

Her heart sank, realizing he didn’t quite understand. It was a shame that not all of humanity could be as righteous as her. That heroic drive had always come so naturally to her; she wasn’t sure she could put it into words to explain to others.

Haruka’s open hands were trembling. “Um. Is there any other way?”

“Hm?”

“All my life… I only cause pain to everyone.” His worry gradually turned to desperation.” I hurt everyone who gets close to me. Especially things that are small and weak. My whole life, I’ve been nothing but a… a curse. So… is there another way? Please. I want to be better. I want to be strong! I want to be like you! Tell me!”

He stepped forward, pleading. Kotoko stepped back. 

His blue eyes widened at her sudden shift into defense. “Ah! I. I’m sorry. I’m-I’m sorry. It’s your birthday. You should be… Have a g-good day.”

“Wait.” Kotoko stopped him before he could flee. She was aware of the massive gap between them, the vastly different backgrounds they came from. Still, she offered the same advice that had helped her in her toughest of days. 

“Don’t worry so much about others’ strength. The quickest way to burn yourself out is getting overwhelmed with the power that’s all around you. Once you start putting all your focus toward honing your own skills and strengths, you’ll realize how much you’re truly capable of. You don’t need anyone else. You’ll realize that you are enough.”

“I… am enough…?”

She placed a hand firmly on his shoulder. 

“So, no need to get all worked up now, okay?” 

“O-okay. I’ll do my best.” He stiffened, trying to appear worthy of her words.

She let out a bitter laugh. “I told the others not to do anything for my birthday, but I don’t think they paid me any mind.” Kotoko still couldn’t fathom how they were so friendly with each other given the situation. “Let’s go see if there’s some cake or something.”

#milgram #kotoko yuzuhira #haruka sakurai #thank you so much! this one was super interesting to write 👀 #the thing is even though they dont have any direct problem between them they would still have a hard time communicating #but once they DO communicate there would so much they could learn from/help each other with!!! #this is leaning into my theory that kotokos murder (like harukas) was a rightful emotion that spiraled out of control #it really puts it into perspective how young kotoko is when you remember shes not too much older than haruka #and theyre both susceptible to strong emotions that stem from feeling weak int he face of the big scary world #but kotokos sees her as some blessing of power to serve her heroic thoughts and haruka sees his as a curse #ty to my pals who helped me find the exact spot in the timeline i was looking for 🙏 #although kotoko doesnt believe she can change that easily she 100% undergoes the exact type of dramatic change as the others #once again referencing the arm wrestling info from yamanaka #between that and the fact that strangulation actually takes a fair amount of power #i just think its very good to remember that haruka is so physically strong #also something something kids looking up and wanting to be like kotoko and her complex emotions on that.... #these two are sooooo interesting AH #drabbles

[energysynergymatrix]

Ok I bit the bullet and made an Ososan OC and his full name is Len Kanemaru.

He's the so-called perfect guy, pretty boy barista type turned up to 11, who might as well have manifested from thin air, who has genuine fanboys and fangirls, and most of the Matsunos want him fucking dead. He's oblivious to both of these aspects of the public opinion and seems kind of empty headed for the most part. He is also struggling just as badly as them but literally no one would believe him if he told them.

He also wants to kiss the oldest DESPITE the fact that his brothers are so jealous of him for being so perfect. Shenanigans ensue.

If you want a more detailed write up about him read the cut.

OK SO . Len is a guy trying his best to pretend to be an adult despite wanting to be anything but it. Unlike the Matsunos who dont pretend to be an adult and are anything but it, Len is trying to push through adult life while wanting to return to childhood when things were easier.

Sure he has a job as barista, but he's poor with money, spending it like he's still a teenager, struggles to maintain contact with people he’s befriended outside of work, DESPITE thinking people hating him is the end of the world, and surprisingly, still lives with his parents.

The thing is that he's REALLY good at pretending to have it all together. He has quite a few fanboys and fangirls and is often described as a prince. (It’s because of his charmingly good customer service skills that is his only real social experience post highschool.) But, despite being in his mid twenties, hes kind of poorly equipped socially and is unable to pick this up, despite it being clear to literally everyone.

(Like he thinks he’s being bad at pretending to be a well put together adult, and then turns around and can handle rush pretty well understaffed, not make any mistakes, and still keep a pleasant demeanor that his admirers swoon over. Anytime someone does act like a fan trying to get his love it’s met with confusion and just. “Huh.” more than anything. He doesn’t even reject them because he doesn’t realize so many people are in love with him)

This includes quite a few Matsunos who are jealous of him for being so popular (and admittedly kind of cool), find his princely yet oblivious attitude almost annoying, and somewhat creepy because of how much he knows about them from highschool. And those who aren't irritated by him are relatively apathetic towards him.

The only reason theyre so aware of him is the fact that he and Todomatsu worked at the same cafe before the latter quit. It was after he quit that Len properly met the sextuplets, having a chance encounter with the boys sometime after. Todomatsu was already irritated by him, by again, seeing above, but also because he already seemed intimately familiar with Totty during his highschool years.

It's like they had a whole classmate just manifest into being while skipping the "actually go to class together" part.

(They did actually go to school together but literally no one knew he existed during then. Not to their fault though, Len was basically that one vine that's like "I can't I have so much to do tomorrow" *fucks around on the keyboard. Because of that Len ended up being bad with people by the time he graduated and was ushered into the work force by his parents. As a result he can't really keep friends, often times contact dying off on accident. A lot of the time spent working is him TRYING his best to maintain relationships as an adult but it never really works out. Deep down Len wishes he could redo highschool, so he could not only get this skills but also find some memories that he so clearly missed out on. Because he willingly opted out of making those therefore other people don’t remember him. As far as he knows he hasn’t really had a friend since middle school.)

But like after the two and Totty's brothers encountered each other in public a whole bomb got dropped and nothing was the same.

Despite generally not liking him the Matsunos keep him around, mostly due to Totty's insistence saying they can use him (so they cant kill him yet!) but because Len is kind of bad with people in general outside of having a fandom (that, again, came with his customer service skills), and the Matsunos are the Matsunos, this never ever goes well.

Despite this and how much shenanigans the Matsunos end up dragging him into, he considers them friends since its the closest relationship he's maintained outside of his house. On top of that, he almost admires them for being NEETs. He's kind of ashamed of it, because he knows they have to be an adult, but because he's struggling so much as an adult, he wants nothing more than to be like them. He wants to stop being an adult and return to highschool.

It's why he takes to Osomatsu so much, since he seems most open about how shitty he is and how much he doesnt want to grow up. Like weirdly enough, his man-child behavior is what makes Len likes him so much. Sure he also has a big heart and loves his family, and Len can acknowledge Oso’s best aspects, but it’s the worst parts of him that loves.

And that admiration for having his character laid out flat and embracing his childishness despite his age and situation, how he practically will just grow up when he wants to rather than when he has to (unlike Len), makes the perfect man fall for the loser guy.

The more he hangs around the Matsunos the more they encourage him to tap into his evil side, and may end up making him worse, but for now he's Mr Perfect and most of them hate him for that. He doesn't get the message though so he's just kind of hanging around them for now.

Anyways he and Osomatsu are literally I'm Glad You're Evil Too to me . And also look at these sketches of him .

#txt #ososan #osomatsu-san #osomatsu san oc #Len Kanemaru (OC) #my ocs #my art #lenoso #oc x canon #when i think more in depth into his individual relationships with the sextuplets i will probably do a better write up on that #i think the sextuplets are ultimately conflicted on him but because of that conflict #especially given their opinions before they learned more about him #it comes out in hostility and jealousy #mainly from Todomatsu #and maybe choromatsu i think #ichimatsu and len actually relate to each other a lot #especially since len is kind of struggling with what ichimatsu was going through in highschool (except as an adult) #but because they dont really communicate well either they cant really have their :handshake: moment until much later #i think osomatsu is the one who bridges their gaps though and helps clear the air on both sides mutual jealousy #with len and oso having a heart to heart over some drinks (that the former paid for by blowing an entire pay check) #(Len being horrible with money moment) #but again thats much later . and i think since ososan is a bit focused show anyways #the inherent bit of Len pining for Oso while he has better suitors trying to get his attention. #all while the brothers are wishing the worst upon him #is very funny #its like nyaachan and just dont except for the part where everyone liked nyaachan because none of them like him #(osomatsu might be a bit more conflicted on him though . something something oso might have actually remembered him then. again ill think) #but theyre all kind of oblivious to everyones exact feelings going on so they just kind of hang out and hope #len will hook them up with someone (he will not) #if u want to hear more about him or have questions send me asks... i would love to share and think more about him.

[childeproof]

to selfshippers that are multilingual, how would your f/o respond to you or your self insert speaking your second language? what about your third, if you have one? if you don’t speak your mother tongue on a day to day basis, how would they respond to hearing your mother tongue?

#boykujou #i’ll go first! outside of english i speak french & portuguese #i usually only type portuguese bc i’ve learned it myself online but i do speak a lot of french to my family #I can imagine amelia inviting jesse home to meet her parents and they start speaking franglais and he’s immediately confused #(she’s likely never spoken french around him before) #he’s like “woah woah you never told me you spoke french and stuff” and she’s like “oh yea it never came up” #the ONE thing she doesn’t brag about #as for portuguese amelia wld likely never speak it but if he happens to go through her phone she probably does have portuguese on her phone #portuguese language settings i mean #enough about me though #self ship #selfship #self ship community #f/o #f/o community #yumejoshi #yumeship #yume #🧊 ; jesse

[pepprs]

im home and already swallowed by despair. can you believe i was in CHICAGO a few hours ago. and now im here. lol

#i know i know. and i need to let the anguish motivate me to get out of here. but it feels like i dreamed it all #purrs #chicago #i had a rough time getting out of the hotel and through the airport to my gate and also im bad at math so i fucked up the calculation about #when my flight lands bc of the time zone change and i gave my parents the time in central time not eastern time so my dad was waiting for m #for like a half hour and texting me and i wasn’t answering bc i was still in the air and he was pissed at me and snarky in my texts with hi #and i was sitting there on the plane and could just feel his words ripping into me and the horrors rushing back in and i still haven’t #recovered from it honestly. it wasn’t that big of a deal he just said something that i misunderstood as him saying he was giving up waiting #for me and going home bc id already wasted his time and even though that was not what he actually said it just kinda burrowed into me that #my parents were mad at me and were probably also mad at me for not communicating with them AT ALL the entire time i was in chicago. and it #just was eating me alive. im home now and we haven’t talked about it but they did say things disapproving of the fact that i did a lot of #stuff by myself which i probably shouldn’t have told them. idk. it’s not even that bad i just am torn apart by their rejection of me and #utter inability to just like be happy for me without criticizing some part of it or restraining me. plus the house is just as much of a #biohazard as it was when i left and all the broken things are still broken and it’s like. a lot. i miss the hotel LOL #i think im just sleep deprived and not in my head right today but i do not want to be here. sinking in quicksand unable to breathe. but i #have to be the one to get me out of it and i should have learned how in chicago but i didn’t it was just a break and now im stuck again #delete later #kind of terrible that instead of being so proud and happy about what i did my immediate reaction is to be miserable that im home now lol

[captainofthestrangestship]

Watching the directors commentary for The Final Frontier and its super interesting to learn that Deforest didn't want to do the scene with McCoy's father, since he didn't believe that Doctor McCoy would turn off the life support. Or at least he needed a better reason as to why McCoy would do it.

It is funny though because before giving him better justification Shatner was just like this is a great scene for you to shine in and that wasn't enough to convince Deforest.

The scene they ended up with is so good and I'm glad Deforest was convinced to do it.

(though it seems Shatner needed to so a lot of convincing for some of the scenes that happened in this movie)

#star trek #TOS #the final frontier #leonard mccoy #though forever confused why his dad looks so old in this scene #like how old is McCoy supposed to be when this happened????? #oh god shatner is talking about communism now???? WHAT lmao #thats was not what i was expecting #he wanted rock men in this movie??? #very funny listening to his commentary about the not in front of the klingons scene #well now the commentary is over #this was definitely a ride #anyway just another thing to add to the pile of facts i learn about Deforest that make me love that man

[solacebean]

I’m just saying there IS a difference and it’s kinda important

#like if you’re gonna call Raph’s other selves alters #then I feel like you should understand #that they aren’t fully differentiated personalities from Raphael himself #they are literally called mind raph and savage raph #they share the same name just different ‘modes’ or like jobs or whatever #Raph is supposed to be the host that lives a normal life with his brothers #savage raph comes out to protect raph and the rest of the system #mind raph is there for guidance #etc etc #raph still experiences amnesia #though he’s been shown to have a good enough relationship with mind raph to be able to communicate #osdd 1a is did but without fully differentiated alters #osdd 1a can also still experience amnesia #lots of systems can learn to work together and trust each other enough to communicate #I’m not an expert on this subject I’ve just done lots of my own research #and I do mean a LOT of research #which is why I was always confused whenever I saw people use DID headcanons for raph #since his symptoms didn’t exactly match the research I had done on it #but it does match a lot better with osdd 1a #I’m just saying if you’re gonna headcanon him with alters at least try to get the right information #btw if I got anything wrong or whatever feel free to correct me #I may have done tons of research but like I said I’m not an expert #rottmnt #rottmnt raph

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I think my roots are showing/ these guitar chords certainly are/ I am and have always been a bass player's daughter/ the notes don't go up very far/ we make the same faces most of the time/ but my hair usually covers mine/ the lowest of lows are what we call high/ but even for us the sun shines

#little poem for me and my dad bc I'm trying to decide which new paramore song to send him with a little text that says #''I found you a cool new bass line!'' because that's how we communicate. #I've never stuck with an instrument very long myself (though I love piano and need to practice more) but I Know the bass lines he'll go for #(I'd also love to learn electric guitar someday. he's got a bass 6 that's so cool I love it so much. low notes go brrrr) #Lu rambles #Lu writes #sometimes i think i could write poetry #<- that's my poetry tag not me being self-deprecating sjdjdjdkfnsj

[vaicomcas]

Why did I just now realize that Crowley knew Enochian? (he could translate Samandriel's Enochian utterances ) Was he the only demon that does? In any case it must be very rare because in Season 15 Belphegor needed Cas to read the Enochian seal on Lilith's box. It was sealed by Enochian because demons can't read it.

This is huge... so much to think about, send help!

#something something crowstiel #Cas and Crowley communicating in front of demons and humans #just for them #now also thinking about cas singing in Enochian #crowley #cas #enochian #how did he learn it #did Cas teach him in Season 6 #probably not but that's waaahhh #no I don't think Cas would #he didn't trust Crowley unfortunately #but like in a completely different AU wouldn't it be lovely #Very in character of Crowley though #of course he would know enochian #He studies his enemies #and has a healthy respect for them

[the-busy-ghost]

Warning- this is a very petty post, but I think I'm entitled to at least one petty, pissed-off reaction every time I finish a classic novel that hit harder than I expected so take this as my quota for the year.

Also spoiler warning for a book that came out over a century ago but still, I didn't know the plot going in so don't want to ruin it for anyone else, if you haven't read it shut your eyes. (Also Local Tumblr User Going Wild Over Book Published a Hundred Years Ago That Everybody Else Already Read should probably be categorised as akey part of indigenous tumblr culture at this point).

Anyway I just finished the War of the Worlds and in between studying I've thinking about Themes and Motifs as you do, and idly looking for further analysis. I then accidentally ran into an article called 'A Quiet Place II Succeeds Where the War of the Worlds Failed' and:

Now I haven't seen any of the Quiet Place films, this is not a rant against them and of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But re: the ending of The War of the Worlds, I have to ask, did this guy somehow miss, uh, the entire point of the book or am I just utterly insane?

#You're right it's not very satisfying for humanity that the invaders are foiled by a bacteria and not human action! Maybe that's the point! #Maybe it's supposed to be FRIGHTENING and make you ask questions about what humans will do under extreme stress #Not be a morally uplifting tale about Humanity Heroically Defeating the Martians in a Glorious Hollywood Ending #Maybe it's MEANT to be unsatisfying because this is not a straightforward fairytale #I mean I've only read it once and don't know much about Wells' work so I might have misunderstood the point of the book too #But at places it is a very pessimistic view of the human condition and that's partly WHY IT'S SO POWERFUL #That doesn't mean there aren't moments of individual acts of heroism (the Thunderchild for example) #But the question is not just 'how will humanity beat the Martians and prove that we're still the masters of the universe' #Rather 'a) why is humanity so confident that it's ultimately in control of its own destiny #And b) here's lots of scenes of societal collapse and of people pushed to the brink and what would YOU do in those circumstances? #Would YOU feel remorse about silencing the curate even if it did lead to his death? #What if it rather than a foolish adult it had been a small child? #And even if they were weak did they DESERVE it? Yes it might have been necessary but should it be policy going forward? #Would you also be attracted briefly by the certainties that the artilleryman's (rather fascist) plan seems to offer so humanity survives? #But what sort of humanity would that be if it DID survive and is it worth it? The narrator feels he needs to justify the curate's death #The artilleryman would have probably never have thought it was anything OTHER than justifiable or indeed laudable #Under strain and stress would you start to turn against even your loved ones and become brutal? #Is that the only hope for human survival beyond complete surrender? And was the destruction of London maybe even 'cleansing' #In the eugenics sense or in the sense of a natural horror of dirt and germs? #And the vast exodus of six million people fleeing headlong in panic - we might not have seen that exact phenomenon #But didn't the twentieth century subsequently go on to show us unprecedented scale of slaughter and refugee movements and communal strife? #At the end of the day what really separates humanity from other animals? And what separates us from the Martians? #It's not an uncontroversial book- it was written over a hundred years ago for goodness sake and there are questions worth asking #about the way imperialism and arguments about eugenics and population control and all sorts of other dodgy areas operated on Wells' mind #But dear God I really don't think the problem with the book is that 'Humanity didn't save the day!' #Unsatisfying ending? Yes. A FAILURE? No not in my opinion- looks like it was exactly what Wells set out to do #Humanity didn't win the war of the worlds they had a narrow escape and though it might not be martians next time #Why wouldn't disaster return in the future? Sure we've studied their flying machines and even preserved a martian in a jar #But for all our science what have we ACTUALLY learned that will enable us to avert future human catastrophes? Ethically or socially? #Alright rant over- as usual my opinion is not universal nor necessarily well-informed this take just really got my goat

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having dogs really is like having toddlers huh, except with even more of a language barrier I guess

#i get unreasonably excited when Bo goes to shit in the back garden bc he prefers to go when we're out walking #but he managed to communicate to me that he needed to Go Now and im stood there by the back door #cheering him on like a dad at the kids' football game #very proud of him though he's trying so hard to learn ;-;