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Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi
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tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake
This. This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors. There’s a certain danger, here. A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.
What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises. “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.” I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks. It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.
“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.” Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.
The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle. Shake of the head. What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse. What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?
Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times. Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed. Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks. So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.
These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level. Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado. It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.
And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next. “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty. “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.” Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field. And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers. Self-satisfied, smug in superiority. As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.
#errors#continuity#sci fi#presentism#star wars#titanic#world war i#science marches on#history#started a new post because i got waaaaaay off topic here#if you think the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) should've had feathers#you're a lot more ignorant about paleontology than the people you're trying to criticize#science was not handed down to us in its perfect complete form circa 1943#stop for a second before you call out someone else's reptilian denonychus#someone else's oxygenated moon#and ask: am i better read#or am i just more recently born?
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Media I Experienced In 2023 That I'm Thankful For
It feels crazy to process that another year's effectively gone by already. A lot of people will always say "this year was worse than the last" in the context of a lot of things, and I'm usually one to disagree with that sentiment. This year though, it's been tough for entertainment in general. But that's not what I'm here to talk about, I wanted to share some of my favorite experiences from this year, and look back on the wonderful and impactful media that I've been able to read or watch!
Witch And The Beast - Kousuke Satake
Yes, this is the third volume's cover, I know. I just really love the color choices and style for it.
Anyways, this was one of those series that I'd always see and never pick up. It took some severe pestering from a friend for me to finally pick it up, and it was totally worth it.
I would say it's definitely far from bad right from the start, but I'd also say that once you reach around volume 3, Satake really catches their stride and provides some beautiful work in the volumes leading up to their hiatus. If you want a world all about magic that prioritizes form over function, it's impossible to not recommend The Witch and The Beast and its wonderful appeal.
A Home Far Away - Teki Yatsuda
Yes, this is a one-shot manga, but the grip that it had on me after I read it was so intense. You know how you can tell when a one-shot wants to go past that single volume but can't? This is like the exact opposite. The pacing, themes, characters, all of it is so well structured for a single volume run that you end up with aimless frustration that it can't continue.
The themes of various types of trauma and the idea of searching for a savior in someone else are just so strong alongside the systemic failure in caring for and helping minors. It's just so so strong and painful in how it represents a slow slip into helplessness as they claw at each other to try and unearth their freedom.
Also, definitely read their serialized manga The Yakuza's Bias! Totally different vibe that is just full of absurdity and humor.
Pandora - Hagiwara Rei
Pandora was a very healing manga to read. Beautiful watercolor artwork is donned by each page in the various short stories appearing in this work. Though each is a different person in a different situation, the themes of survivor's guilt, loss, and the hope to be found at the bottom of despair are very strong to feel. If people are looking for a heavy but positive and emotional read, this is certainly a great choice.
Okinawa - Susumu Higa
I don't think it's a secret to say that anti-imperialist Japan manga is seen as "few and far between" in English. We have a lot of impactful and important works that haven't been translated or are currently out of print, so Okinawa came along at a really great time to help drive the point home alongside other experiences like Godzilla Minus One (which is on this list, of course).
Anyways, stepping away from the general act of the war, or the (typical) experiences of it post-war, Okinawa is an incredible read for displaying the interaction and relationships between the Okinawan people and the two separate armies that occupied their space. It does a wonderful job of not painting anyone as inherently evil, but showing the sinister nature of war and the aftereffects that it leaves on a people. Very very worthwhile read that I can't recommend enough.
Until I Love Myself - Poppy Pesuyama
It's only two volumes, it's a manga essay, and it deals with LGBTQ+ content among other things. This is something that was essentially destined to be criminally underread and underappreciated.
What Pesuyama does in exposing their difficult experiences and personal trauma is beyond valuable to people that find themselves in similar positions. The idea of sexism distilled into every aspect of society through the patriarchy, and how that's reflected on someone that doesn't feel comfortable in their own body is almost impossibly poignant. The frustration, the distance, the fear, it takes an incredibly personal experience and without losing even an ounce of that value is able to translate it into something that almost any reader can grasp. An incredibly powerful piece from an equally brave author, it's also an invaluable resource and experience for many out there.
Skip and Loafer - Misaki Takamatsu
I'm a big P.A. Works fan. I've got a lot of their art books, I watch a lot of their series, I just think they do a lot of good work. I also had my reservations about them doing the Skip and Loafer anime, but it was wonderful.
Simply put, it's a modern classic in the slice of life/high school era genre. The characters feel perfectly childish and immature, the direction of the story and its themes are perfectly on the nose. It just has the perfect balance of everything you could hope for. There's not really much to add past that, really. If you like slice of life or high school stuff, you'll love Skip and Loafer. Incredibly refreshing experience.
Heavenly Delusion
I'm a massive fan of the manga, and I was coping insanely hard when I saw that first trailer. I was praying I was in for greatness and wasn't going to get scammed, and Production I.G brought out arguably their best work in the last decade for it.
Mori Hirotaka and the rest of the staff did an absolutely phenomenal work in transforming Heavenly Delusion into an anime. Massive restructures and thematic changes that feel like sheer art within the context of the series. Ishiguro couldn't have done it better himself, and he made that point known on Twitter. Right up there next to Frieren (and even above it depending on the significance of various criteria) for the greatest anime of 2023, and puts itself in contention for one of the best in the 2020s. Absolutely a must watch.
Undead Girl Murder Farce
Mysteries and series that really encourage you to analyze and break them apart are some of my favorites to experience. Include historical context, a penchant for intense showmanship rooted in Japanese culture, and animation and direction that will knock your socks off, and you've got the Dark Horse of the summer season.
Undead Girl Murder Farce had me absolutely hooked from the very first episode, bringing almost SHAFT-like direction and execution that brings out the absolute most in something so fluid. Lapin Track struck gold with this work. Even though they were struggling a little towards the end, they provided and endlessly satisfying and creative experience that had me on the edge of my seat breaking apart every single little frame for meaning and value. An absolute treat for a mystery fan.
Blue Giant
Like many, I discovered Nut (the studio) through Tanya The Evil. Crazy visual effects and ridiculously competent visuals for such a new studio, I was immediately enthralled with their quality.
Not that Blue Giant as a story isn't incredibly good, but that in this context, Nut brought out every last drop of greatness that could have existed in this movie. I'm really struggling to come up with more to say, but it's just so visually stunning that the experience as a whole just feels like a performance on an incredible level. Simply great, I guess I'm forced to say.
The Boy and The Heron
It's Ghibli, it's Miyazaki, need I say more really?
I don't, but I will. I went and saw it twice in theaters so that I could experience both dub and sub for it. Something that people should be 100% experiencing in theaters, and absolutely should be watching multiple times. Miyazaki doesn't tell just one or two stories with this movie, it's so many experiences in his life rolled into one. A love letter to the man behind one of anime's most beloved studios, but also one that leaves lingering feelings of sorrow for some of what Miyazaki instills in it. So yeah, watch it to your heart's content.
Godzilla Minus One
Last, but certainly not least, Godzilla Minus One. I loved it, I knew I'd love it from the moment I laid eyes on the trailer. The idea of Godzilla being presented in North American theaters, to North American viewers, as a direct and destructive of the atomic bomb and its effects on the Japanese population just set something off in me.
North America's view of Godzilla as some sort of anti-hero over the years has weakened the original sentiment that barely existed here in the first place. Minus One sets the record straight in devastating fashion, and adds to the theme in spades. I'd love to explain but I want as many people as possible to experience this without any spoilers, so I'll leave it at being one of the best Godzilla movies bar none.
And that's the list for this year. I think overall it was a "weaker" year, but I'd be more comfortable with calling it a radicalized year. The bad stuff got worse, but the good stuff got better. The best experience of the year were incredibly good because of that, but it overall felt like slimmer pickings than the prior year.
Not that this list couldn't have added any number of entries like Scott Pilgrim, Frieren, Kamonohashi Ron, Bleach TYBW, Gwitch, and so on and so forth. More so that I wanted to keep this list a little more contained. The idea of importance or appreciation begins to lose its value when everything is important or overly appreciated.
Anyways, that's all the past, this post is in the present, and I've got my eyes set on the future with things like the Hokkyoku Department Store movie, Dandadan from Science Saru, Delicious In Dungeon, and plenty, plenty more in 2024!
So with all that said: happy holidays and I hope people have been enjoying having time off and getting to spend some with their families and friends!
#majo to yajuu#the witch and the beast#魔女と野獣#a home far away#teki yatsuda#okinawa#susumu higa#skip and loafer#skip to loafer#スキップとローファー#until i love myself#jibun no karada wo yurusu made#heavenly delusion#tengoku daimakyou#天国大魔境#undead girl murder farce#undead murder farce#アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス#the boy and the heron#how do you live#君たちはどう生きるか#godzilla minus one#godzilla minus 1
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Whoa, this book! I read it in two days and now I feel… some kind of way.
Some chaotic impressions (and mild spoilers):
It’s giving American Gothic + Gaiman + Night in the Woods + Beauty and the Beast + Haunting of Hill House + all these prestige American TV series about quaint little towns where everyone is hiding something ugly + that song by Hozier about decomposing together in the woods
Who’s the villain: beasts, vengeful women, evil capitalists, well-meaning family members, regular people, bigots? ALL of them?
Loved the main character. Opal is not a Strong Female CharacterTM. She’s a scrappy survivor, thief and liar because she knows no other way, but there’s plenty of kindness in her. Bonus points for crooked teeth
Depictions of the broken American Dream: lack of health insurance & super expensive asthma medication (as always, reading stuff like this is disturbing for a European, to say the least), oil companies getting away with polluting people & planet etc.
I love it when there’s a made-up book as the hook of the story + an entire mythos surrounding it.
A+ Beauty and the Beast-esque romance, but she’s no beauty and he’s not really a beast. Just two lonely people martyring themselves because they think that’s the right thing to do & expected of them
The House is a character in its own right. Love it when Arthur pats it like it's a pet <3
I loved the many versions of the House’s story and how they differed depending on who told it. Wealth, race & bias all played a role. In the end it all tided neatly together to give a satisfactory resolution
The end part dragged a bit and felt a bit too whimsical, perhaps because for the most part the story was very grounded in reality and “real-life problems”
Harrow’s prose feels too baroque-y at times but it fits the genre and the vibe. It was my second encounter with her books. I DNFed The Once and Future Witches pretty early on, but now I feel inclined to try something else of hers
Stand-alone – yay!
tldr: distrustful, traumatised characters looking for a home; spooky vibes; engaging, layered story; tons of feels & a bonus hellcat
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do you have opinions on cbt
Hahaha everyone has opinions on CBT. For the radical queer trauma therapist circles I run in I’m actually pretty pro-CBT. For the average person involved in mental/behavioral health, I’m probably anti-CBT.
[For context, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a famously evidence based type of therapy which works by targeting thoughts/cognitions. It theorizes that thoughts cause behaviors which cause feelings which cause thoughts all around and around in a spiral of doom for which the easiest intervention is targeting the thoughts. It can be very regimented, hence it’s easily studied, hence why it’s so “evidence based.” You basically identify “cognitive distortions” like catastrophizing (I failed my exam and so I’m going to fail out of school and live in a cardboard box) and reality-check them (it’s one exam in one class and I can still pass the class if I get a decent grade on my final). You also identify the thought/feeling/behavior spiral (thought=I failed -> I will be homeless, feeling=fear, shame, behavior=avoiding the professor and anything associated with the class.) It’s definitely bigger and more complicated than that, but you get the idea.]
For a lot of people with anxiety and with OCD especially, it can be so life changing.
For a lot of people, especially people who are trauma survivors or whose presenting problems are connected to trauma, it can feel like gaslighting.
(Fun fact! Part of the reason TF-CBT (trauma focused CBT) has such solid evidence behind it is that it ignores the wild survival bias in its studies. People who have a lot of trauma or really intense PTSD tend to drop out. Those who stay mostly have success with it and provide happy little data points)
I think certain parts of CBT can be so useful – noticing thoughts, identifying cognitive distortions, checking in with reality – and I think using the triangle with clients (the little triangle of “thoughts,” “emotions,” “behaviors”) can be super useful, and I do it fairly often.
Personally, I find a lot of my clients can do (most of) the mental/cognitive work on their own – what they really need help with from a trained professional is actually a felt sense of safety and emotional processing which require therapeutic flexibility and other modalities -- and a longer period of work.
Some people like a very concrete, structured approach, especially if they’re new to therapy or skeptical of the value of therapy. Also, a lot of people only can access therapy for a short time and a lot of people only want to be in therapy for a short time, and you can make changes quickly with CBT. Also, from the therapist end, there are a million free CBT trainings and workshops you can do vs. most other modalities where you have to pay $1000s for trainings (on top of getting a graduate degree).
Insurance companies and payers in general LOVE CBT because it’s structured, evidence-based, and short-term. You also require clients to do homework, which is basically like extra therapy time you don’t have to pay the clinician for. You can also train people in it pretty easily. I think it’s important to understand *why* CBT is held up as the best/standard therapy type now, and it has a lot less to do with CBT itself and more to do with service provision and structural factors around paying for therapy and with what can be effectively researched.
I’m reading Richard Schwartz’s “No Bad Parts” right now about Internal Family Systems therapy, and I’m now thinking of CBT within that framework. Basically, CBT is an effective part of the overall therapy system but it’s being asked to do too much, and so is overfunctioning and causing problems. We really should just let it settle into its own niche.
It’s not my therapy niche! But it has a place.
(If you were asking about Cock and Ball Torture therapy that would probably fall under the category of “experiential” therapy. Not sure it’s really been studied, but I’m sure there would be enthusiastic participants.)
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Last post on this -
I genuinely would like people who take the opposite POV on this to just think about it, and their own personal answers to this question, which I am not presuming to know. I'm just presenting the question:
Keeping in mind that my opinion on incest is shaped not JUST by the fact that I'm a survivor and aware of its impact on me, but also by how its shaped my entire life, the years I've spent trying to work my mind around why it happened, how it impacted me, how it affected my views of the world, the years of study I've put into the phenomenon of incest and its impact, absorbing all kinds of opinions and input about it while trying to make sense of its place in my life and history.....keeping in mind that my views on incest and even its impact on me were NOT always consistent or linear and there have been periods of my life where I held different opinions on it, and some points where I even internalized a lot of the same things people say in fandom to talk about how harmless it is or how its no big deal and thus am actually QUITE familiar with those POVs and the reasons and arguments for thinking those things -
How many people who kneejerk dismiss my reactions to incest as overwrought, too skewed by personal bias, etc.....can honestly say they are as informed on the subject? I'm not even talking about whether or not any individuals reading this are survivors themselves - as I just acknowledged, I'm fully aware that incest survivors can disagree on a lot of this as I myself have held to different opinions on it at prior points in my life so please don't go there -
I'm simply asking you to ask YOURSELVES.....if you're not a survivor yourself, if your knowledge of incest and its possible impact is secondhand or hearsay....
Can you genuinely, in all honesty, say that you've put as much time and contemplation in actively seeking out additional information, counter-arguments, and dissenting opinions to weigh all sides of this before making up your own mind and only THEN coming to the conclusion that its actually no big deal?
Because that is the part that bothers me the most - how often I see survivors dismissed by people who are citing points of view that are EASILY rebutted by even just relatively basic information out there about WHY incest is deemed so harmful, not because of interbreeding or genetics but through the lens of family dynamics and societal impact upon survivors.
I know I've made post after post over the years refuting various pro (or 'neutral') incest talking points or detailing just why its so much more insidious and harmful than a lot of people deem it to be after just a cursory look at a few biased opinions in favor of it.....
And pretty much none of them have ever been engaged with.
And I know I've never seen posts actually TALKING about incest and its impact on people and families getting any kind of traction in fandom circulation.
So I'm genuinely asking, because if people who argue on behalf of it or who dismiss it as no big deal are basing that on having put time and effort into INFORMING themselves on the topic before drawing their own conclusions as to its harmlessness....
They're not basing that on conversations happening in any fandom spaces I've ever seen draw much attention. So they'd have to either have personal knowledge themselves (and while I make no attempt to presume the survivor status of any individual, I will NOT pretend that the entirety of the pro-incest fandom camps so abundant on tumblr and Ao3 are made up entirely of survivors, that's a completely different thing than asking people to be mindful of the possibility a single individual might be speaking from personal knowledge), or they'd have to be seeking out informed stances on the possible harm of incest through non-fandom spaces before deciding that yeah, actually incest is no big deal.
And I'm sorry, but I do not see that latter possibility as all that likely, based on ANY fandom experience I have when it comes to controversial topics and lived experiences.
So.....if there are a lot of people out there whose insistence that incest is no big deal is rooted entirely in just having internalized fandom opinions in DEFENSE of it or its lack of capacity to do harm....
I would like to ask people to reflect on that, and the implications.
If your own stance on incest isn't based on personal experiences or having sought out or informed yourselves on BOTH arguments in defense of it and in CRITICISM of it.....
Maaaaaaaybe skip the condescending takes about whether people who cite it as a bad thing that does harm have done THEIR due diligence before deciding that yes, it actually IS harmful and SHOULD be spoken out against?
Something to think about, is all I'm saying.
#okay now im done#i usually lie about that the first time I 'move on' from a topic but this is the second time Ive said that about this today#so this time should be right
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objectively im aware of the issues with a shadow in riverclan but also as a “bad trauma survivor” (read: somebody whos paranoid, lashes out, and self-isolates, currently in recovery) the book speaks to me on a personal level in a vaccuum and i cant really make myself hate it. and honestly some of the criticisms i see get REALLY close to the “if a trauma survivor lashes out at the wrong person then theyre an inherently horrible person” thing thats so common in fandom. if you get what im saying? like i dont think thats what theyre saying (im autistic and have a hard time looking past initial impressions) but also the phrasing is. eh.
its like in the grand scheme of warriors and the writers history of misogyny the issues are there, but the way some people word their takes makes me. Uncomfortable. if that makes sense. (this isnt me defending the writers or looking for a fight just something ive noticed that im having a hard time wording)??
that being said feathertail should have thrown leopardstar into a volcano and i cannot comprehend her decision to forgive her
No no you’re good! I understand what you’re trying to say, I definitely understand where you’re coming from. While I can definitely understand where you’re coming from, I think it’s worth mentioning (and I’m just preaching to the choir here, you seem well aware of these issues so I’m not trying to argue or dismiss your feelings) that Feathertail’s feelings are supported by the narrative. You’re meant to understand why she’s angry and lashing out, her feelings are justified by the story. So when people are discussing this, (and of course, I think being aware of wording and the potential hurt one can cause is important), her lashing out at Sasha in itself isn’t the issue, it’s how the narrative treats it.
Sasha in herself is a “bad victim”, she is someone who loves her abuser and, whether people want to admit it or not, it can lead a lot of people to invalidate the abuse people face because of this. So why is Feathertail able to forgive Leopardstar and not Sasha when the former plays a far larger in what happened to Feathertail? How does that play into Feathertail’s overall larger arc of forgoing outsider attachments and devoting herself to her Clan? And what is the narrative trying to tell us about Sasha, a character who, as I’ve stated, does not play her victim role “”right””?
Not saying you’re arguing that Feathertail’s treatment of Sasha is right, you’ve pointed out you recognized the underlying bias the narrative has. I’m just trying to speak to why this plot line is a bit of a double edged sword in trying to discuss “bad victims”. I definitely understand what you’re saying though, it’s always worth keeping real people’s feelings in mind when discussing these things.
You’re absolutely right on the last point, she should’ve fed Leopard to that fox lol
#deer rambles#discussions of abuse cw#abuse cw#im not proofreading this so if you need clarification lemme know!#obviously disclaimer im just voicing my take on the whole thing#you’re not wrong for feeling a bit uneasy about how people talk#just remember most people are talking about overall trends in the book#and the more unsavory things this book implies
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Tagged by @cadmusfly.
Last Song: Napoleonically speaking, I read the last song I listened to (thanks to Victor Hugo). Le roi d'Yvetot is by Jean-Pierre de Béranger (1780-1857), a popular chansonnier. He was under Lucien Bonaparte's patronage for a bit. This song satirises Napoleon, and apparently Napoleon heard it one day and was like "haha funny". I found a record of it below.
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There's also this recent version, which is clearer and more dynamic.
William Makepeace Thackeray made a translation of it, as seen here. Someone also posted the French text in the comments of the first song, so you can machine translate to get the literal meanings.
More generally, I've been on a nostalgia trip listening to older songs. Time-Forgotten One (時忘人) strikes me as apt for this blog, because the lyrics explore grief and survivor's guilt in a post-war context (with a twist at the end). Of his comrades, the singer muses:
Even though the long-drawn-out war has ended / where have they gone / have they gone to a land where no grass grows / and continued the fight there？/ I continue to wait for them
I remember fighting with comrade whom I could entrust my back to / Now I am the only one left on this street, where have the familiar faces gone？
Translations adapted from here (if you want to experience the story in its glory). The creator hinayukki also posted a remake recently.
Currently Watching: Two reality TV shows, which I need to catch up on.
Three ships: Any kind of ship, right? Not my favourite or anything? Okay. I define shipping by two people interacting with and reacting to each other intensely, whatever that may mean. The following are some I would actively promote.
Ney/Soult: From comrades and work friends to "bitter rivals" (and scholars continue their feud). I love a good friends to rivals/enemies to something else, and their historical relationship gives me so much material to work with. You can create something very historically-compliant and trace various narratives depending on what you focus on. Desaix/Saint-Cyr: Two giants who respected each other equally and were intimate friends (to the point of using "tu" with each other). Hot/cold foils (commented on contemporaries and later writers). There is also some tragedy in outliving one of your closest friends (of which you have so few), ascending to a higher rank than he did in life, while disliking the institution who bestowed the accolades upon you. Bernadotte/Brahe: This is just here for how codependent they were. Bedside counselling deep into the night? Brahe having a room of Bernadotte statues? Matching rings with braided hair? So much potential.
Honourable shout-out to Jourdan/Kléber as a thought experiment of the ephemeral variety (I think my bias for the Rhine armies is showing). I would also like to mention [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], but I suspect it would get me dragged through the mud by fans of Ney (as he is represented in popular tradition), haha.
Favourite Colour: Gold and green, currently.
Currently consuming: The last food I had was vegetable broth.
First ship: In the Napoleonic fandom, it would be NapJuno (because of the plausibility).
Relationship status: Complicated
Last Movie: The Holdovers (2023). A good alternate Christmas Hallmark movie.
Currently working on: 1) The Ney and Soult Get-Along T-Shirt AU, where Ney escapes arrest with Soult's help post-Waterloo. Here's a WIP of it choked with purple prose to prove it isn't dead:
2) A Lannes WIP. 3) A non-Napoleonic fic that I desperately need to finish so I can be more active on here again.
Tagging: Anyone who wants to do it—go ahead.
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Hi Nestlings!!
I was in a bit of a depressive slump last week, but I am feeling much better today! 🩷
As promised in a previous post, today I will go over which Hellaverse characters embody the “Gal is Mind” mindset. I explained it in the last post so please refer to that one when looking it up <3
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I only dropped one point for each character before, but this time, I plan on going more in depth. (!!! This post contains spoilers for Hazbin Hotel Season 1 !!!)
From least to most “Gal” imo:
4th: Velvette
😈 Velvette is one of the most stylish baddies in hell and would more than likely be open to trying many gyaru substyles! (She already looks the part!)
😈 However, she’s missing a key factor of the gal mindset…she’s kinda a dick lmao (thats an understatement lol)
😈 She’s immature and loves to stir the pot with drama. (And last time i checked, that is the total opposite of how to be a good role model lmao)
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3rd: Cherri Bomb
😈 I love Cherri’s design sm!!! Definitely giving Black Diamond vibes!!! The hair tops it off and reminds me of sujimori hair!! I plan on making an outfit inspired by her at some point! ❤️❤️
😈 as for her personality, she means well and is one of Angel’s best friends. What doesn’t make her very gal to me, is that she enables her friend and tempts him into drugs and other bad behaviors. Granted, partying is good in moderation (and a part of gyaru culture!) but over indulging and causing a ruckus in the process definitely ain’t it :’)
😈 on the other hand, she is very loyal to angel and sticks up to his abuser, Valentino (see the Addict MV), albeit in her own anarchic way. But loyalty and sticking up for ur loved ones is definitely a big part of being a gal 🩷
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2nd: Angel Dust
😈speaking of the spood, he has a lot to offer as a potential gal!! As some of you may know, I just LOVE this outfit (above) from the Poison MV!! He has some of the best outfits and they can definitely be interpreted thru a gyaru lens! Not to mention he has that sex appeal™️ (tho its more complicated than that, which is a whole other can of worms qwq)
😈 A lot of people feel seen in his struggles as SA/grooming survivors (myself included). When he stood up to Valentino in ep6, (basically everything good he did in that episode lol), he showed sm strength. 🩷🩷
😈 what shows his gal flare to me the most tho, is when he owns his flaws in “Loser Baby” like yes we’ve messed up and no one’s perfect. And that, I think, Is very important as a gal!
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1st: Fizzarolli
😈 ok so i may have a bit of a personal bias with him bc like me, Fizz is also disabled! Albeit physically (whereas I’m autistic, but still, it’s nice to see someone like me with the charisma and poise that he has!)
😈while his outfits may not me that gyaru aesthetically, Fizz is very stylish and struts with confidence! He went thru a lot to get to where he is! (Another thing abt him that I see in myself lmao)
😈 At the end of the day all these qualities make Fizz very human (imp??) and authentic! And authenticity imo, is definitely one of the most, if not most important parts of being a gyaru ❤️
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Sorry for the long post! 😭 I really enjoyed making this tho!!
See u soon, love u!!
Xxx,
~Serena
#gyaru#alt fashion#gyaru blog#jfashion#hazbin hotel#serena songbird#ギャル#helluva boss#hazbin hotel spoilers#girlblogging#girlblog
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Replies are turned off on the post and I would feel weird talking about this openly on my blog in front of my followers if I reblogged it, so I hope you don't mind me contributing to the conversation via an ask? (I'm discussing abuse specifically bc that's what I have experience with)
I've had similar thoughts as an abuse survivor bc the abuse I experienced was similar in a lot of ways to the oppression I've experienced, but (as a personal opinion) I don't think discussing abuse survivors as their own marginalized class is a useful framework mainly bc of the fact that there's not a coherent oppressor class in abuse. Our current definition of marginalization involves a class benefiting directly or indirectly from pushing another class into the margins of society, and I don't think abuse on its own necessarily fits that definition. It would be difficult to define a class based solely on whether or not individuals have performed specific actions (abusing another person), and when we consider social bias against victims and etc like you mentioned the lines become even blurrier bc those actions are performed by people other than the abuser. I guess the class could be "everyone who hasn't been abused" but that would still be difficult bc people can simultaneously be survivors of abuse and also abusers themselves (as in familial cycles of abuse, for example). There's also the issue that "people who haven't been abused" don't necessarily materially benefit as a class from the fact alone that abuse has occurred or survivors aren't supported. Neurotypical people may have privilege over survivors with PTSD/depression/etc, men may materially benefit from the fact that woman survivors are disempowered, cishet people may benefit as a class from homophobic and transphobic abuse that serves to uphold the cisheteropatriarchy, and so on, but those are examples of existing forms of oppression and I can't personally think of any examples resembling class privilege that aren't
To be clear, I'm not arguing here and I hope it doesn't come across that way. I'm more like philosophizing, I guess? It's an interesting conversation to have and there's definitely something to be said for the similarities between abuse and oppression and how victims of both are treated. I also agree that it's definitely worthwhile to discuss the intersection between abuse survivors and oppressed groups bc there's definitely some sort of something going on where abuse and oppression feed into each other. I don't really have an answer for what else I would call it. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that abuse is a tool of oppression, since they so often go hand in hand and even when the victim isn't part of an oppressed group themself the abuse is usually still acting to uphold oppressive systems in one way or another? (Cis male survivors being emasculated works to uphold misogyny, for example.) But these are my two cents on the discussion if you want them. I'm sorry this turned into an essay 😅
replies look to me to be turned on? Maybe i limited them to only mutuals some time when the transphobes were once again on to my blog sorry about that. 🙈
Thank you so much for all of this!!! You're like completely right I think. And don't worry at all, like that's why i phrased it all as questions and a conversation cause it didn't feel fully right to me either and I think you really do pin point why. I also think often times other survivors who haven't processed the violence they have experienced can be more cruel than people who were never on any side of it. I'm fully including myself in this category, I do not mean to point fingers, which is I think part of why this felt relevant to me, like unlearning my own biases against survivors feels a lot like the unlearning of other -isms.
The only benefitter of violence and the lack of support and accountability systems that actually care for victims' needs I can think of would be the state, which is an institution and not a class of people. But the state as the institution that has the monopoly on legitimized violence would have an interest in the upkeep of social hierarchy through violence and in normalizing the tools it itself uses to exert it's power and it (financially, in the short term) benefits from not taking preventative measures and emergency support and long-term care structures. But that's really abstract and truely not like. An oppressor class. It's kind of a similar conversation to when people were talking about how schools often actually benefit from bullying and refuse to acknowledge the actual causes of it.
But yeah like what you're saying about abuse as a tool of oppression makes a lot of sense. Maybe a term like rape culture would be more helpful than like what I suggested? Maybe denial culture, but that sounds too gentle almost? I think what I want from this is some sort of framework for unifying the struggles of survivors of all kinds and for talking about the ways in which people are biased against believing and supporting survivors and also how like the structures we live within are actively hostile to acknowledging huge sources of stress and trauma like the climate crisis but also oppression and marginalization, genocides, etc and also to building effective supports for the people harmed.
still not sure if this is making sense but thank you so so much for your contribution that's really helpful!
#I'm just trying to articulate some sort of framework here to like help myself tie together the connections I think I'm seeing#But I'm not sure it's working I'm trying not a political philosopher or anything#Ask#Ohh also should I add this to the post? I can for sure do that!
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Some of the stuff that FEH has put out makes me wish Trial Maps were a thing again. It'd let fans use enemy characters without breaking the story.
Eh,
As a concept, I loved the Larva (Epi?) paralogue in Nopes - you are basically playing as Larva, going to help his genocidal "allies" to run away from the Empire and the CoS, to the point where you fight against Cethleann, Cichol and Seiros.
And Larva in this map, is nothing but obnoxious, calling everyone beasts, mocking the Empire for not knowing why they fight, sprouting platitude about "fighting for his fwends" (the same ones he just dissed seconds ago) while deshumanising the Nabateans all along, calling them beasts and such -
Given the backstory between Agarthans and those specific Nabateans - the survivors of a massacre he knows of, hell he calls the main perpetrator an "ally" - there's little to no doubts that Larva here is being a big ball of, uh, prejudice and bias - ergo we're playing as the enemy!
However, because the Fodlan games are, the Fodlan games where only people belonging to factions from the latest feh banner are challenged and contested, there is no payback, no result from this paralogue. No Barney wondering why the eff was a Larva like fighting against Saint Seiros and people familiar but with a different hair color, no reason/justification behind this random battle, where lo, Larva fights/defeats survivors of a massacre he, uh, "didn't agree with" but totes supports given his views, mocks people for not knowing why they fight for but never reveals the audience or even Barney what this dream was about (I was helping Goneril run away from Cichol with Cichol's sister's knee plate, the one he obtained after vivisecting her and eating her liver!).
So, in a nutshell, I think you can make a game where you play as "the enemy" and call it a vilain route or a "bad ending" route and remembers Fates?
Everyone can be a hero in their own eyes, sure!
But with the Fodlan games, especially Nopes, given how hard the AG gang beats themselves for "maybe we're bad for invading the Empire to stop the war after it starts to hunt its randoms for funsies but trufax Randy is very nice and kind he let a random soldier escape while he was busying destroying a village" - you have the feeling that the "everyone" from the earlier maxim is just, the SB and GW and with that paralogue, the Slither gangs.
FE16 gave more "heroic tunnel vision" to each of its factions through each route, even if SS was a bit more nuanced - but you know who doesn't get any "heroic tunnel vision" or pov in those games?
And only gets an infodump at the end of the most superfluous route ?
Ultimately I'm not too keen on the Trial Maps designs (you're talking about the maps where if you finish the game 5 times you get a free unit right?) because I think that if you have a character you should write a plot that can accomodate for that character's presence without breaking it - but again, Trial Maps were the only ways KT found to give us playable Nabateans (Rhea'n'Sothis) and lines, since the main game refuses to do anything with them, like letting them talk in the microphone.
Short story, long story : a good story can fit "enemy characters" and have them follow their own plans (maybe in a gaiden) to give more insight on them, what they think and/or why they are thinking this, but it should be integrated in the game and shouldn't demolish it because "everyone's story is equally valid", or, and worse, shouldn't bank on the game not giving a voice to the last faction that is piled on by every other without even being able to reply.
#anon#replies#it's always the same thing with this verse#nice concept but terrible execution#they could have done so much and refused#at this point if we had to play a WoH DLC I bet we would have had uwu Nemesis'n'Dudes during their last fight drinking or playing games#because some zealots are out for their blood and they might die tomorrow#and of course we will never know or hear from said zaelots's pov like rhea finally bringing justice for Zanado#Cethleann wondering if with the end of the war it means she can finally stop hiding without being afraid of being torn apart bcs pointy ear#the larva paralogue seriously#3 nopes
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I've decided I'm going to say a few things now, instead of holding into them for another month or two.
I was informed of an article on screenrant about the Marauders issue where Kate Pryde gets to benefit most from the Genosha stuff. Two things stood out to me. Why is the article capitalizing the word Ghosts? And why are they making this article two whole ass months after the issue they're talking about was published?
That's when I started to put two and two together. This story was conceived in a manner that allowed Kate Pryde to benefit most from Genosha, where the loss of her father is treated as infinitely more important when "wrapping up" Genosha than the experience of an actual survivor of the genocide who experienced it firsthand. The story was constructed in such a way that they bent over backwards to act like Lorna has no history with the island when she's there, because to acknowledge her history would mean overshadowing what they've decided is their most important objective of fawning over Kate Pryde.
To be clear to Kate Pryde fans, I have no problem whatsoever with her getting a spotlight. I don't have a problem with her leading her own team book, or having the loss of her father and its impact on her acknowledged and explored. I don't even necessarily have an issue with her leading the action taken in those issues. I think Lorna would've been more appropriate, but this isn't the only way Lorna's history with all this can be acknowledged and respected. What I do have a problem with, though, is how the X-Men comics office is so unwilling to show even the most minimal of respect toward Polaris as a character to the point where she's clearly only here cause they think having her show up for a couple panels and whine about lack of coffee is enough involvement for her.
But here's the two and two together part of it.
I've been told by others that Kate Pryde is Jordan White's favorite X-Men character. Jordan White also knows how important Lorna's experience on Genosha and surviving the genocide are to the character. I know that second part for a fact because I told him myself back in 2018.
If Kate Pryde being his favorite character is true, then that means Kate getting to be the focus of the Marauders "wrap-up" of Genosha all while Lorna is treated like she's worthless to the story of something she survived all comes down to White's bias controlling the story. Exactly how he's controlling it doesn't matter. He could be forcing this by editorial mandate. Or the writers could be pitching this way to please him. Both reasons boil down to Jordan White being the direct cause of the X-Men comics office being this horrendously disrespectful to this aspect of the character and what it means to fans that resonate with it.
#polaris#lorna dane#x-men#marvel#jordan white#jordan white is trash#x-men comics#bias#editorial bias#disrespect#editorial mandates#editorial dickhood#genosha#genoshan genocide
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DISCLAIMER BEFORE ANYONE SAYS OR ASSUMES ANYTHING ABOUT ME: i am not a proshipper. i am not an anti. i do not use any shipping discourse labels because i've been actively traumatized by both communities and have no desire to put that label on myself. i am just a person capable of critical thinking who enjoys analyzing media sometimes. i do not condone harassment over fiction, and i also do not believe any form of media is free from critical analysis or criticism, especially if it includes harmful propaganda and/or portrayals of marginalized peoples/societies which serve to perpetuate or legitimatize a pre-existing societal bias. do not call me an anti. do not call me a proshipper. do not assume things about me in bad faith. ive got no time for that and ill block you if you do this.
i actually think i kinda have a grasp on what's being said here so lemme explain this bc this is kinda how i feel? i'm gonna explain as best i can since its nearing 3 am and im a lil tired. forgive me if i dont explore every angle of nuance here btw again im tired but the adderall is in my blood so.
ahem.
my main talking point is this: there is a difference between exploration of something, which can include varying depictions and portrayals of a subject, vs propaganda for something, which has the intent of swaying you towards one side or away from one side or blah blah blah you know what propaganda wants to do i'm sure
exploration of dark and taboo subjects such as CSA/SA/abuse in general, paraphilias, mental illness, incest, so on and so forth - especially when done by survivors of those things - are almost never propaganda, no matter how they're being portrayed. someone using fictional characters within a fictional context to cope with their own trauma is, 99.9% of the time, not trying to endorse that behavior in real life. they also often assume the people reading it will understand that they the creator are not trying to endorse that behavior in real life.
example: most people who create fiction based off the mafia do not actually want to be mobsters, nor do they think others should be, nor do they endorse the real life mob, even if their portrayals can sometimes be problematic in other ways and/or contribute to certain problematic societal ideas about gang violence esp when committed by white people, but that's an entirely different issue than the one at hand and has more factors in play.
a deeper example: while a work of fiction can definitely reveal certain creator biases and/or how the creator feels about certain topics, it doesn't mean that every detail in the fiction is weighted the same way. someone may have clear biases towards, for example, women, in their work based on how they write their female characters, but not condone murder in that same work just because murder is part of the plot and/or is framed as a net positive in the storyline. you can have a work which clearly shows a creator's true feelings or thoughts or philosophies or what-have-you on one topic, but not on another, within the same work. learning which of these is true and when is a learned skill. i can't tell ya to do it myself as i am not a teacher
despite it seeming like it should be easy, on the other hand, spotting propaganda can actually be really fucking hard. i am not here to talk about how to spot propaganda, and perhaps will reblog this at a later date with links on how to do that as i am too tired to both write this and look for reliable resources on doing that, so if you want that for now, sorry, you gotta search elsewhere. however, this difficulty often leads to the main conflict i see online:
people believe that an exploration or portrayal of a dark/taboo subject or a subject which contains something that is immoral or illegal in real life, which does not outright condemn that thing, and/or appears on a surface level to be a "positive" portrayal (air quotes bc what counts as positive changes depending on who you ask) even when made by real-life survivors of the thing being explored, is the exact same as propaganda meant to push the emulation of that thing or behavior in real life, by real people, to real people/others/whatever.
this is the issue i and others keep running into online, over and over and over again. people are unable to tell the difference, they are unable to tell the target audience of a work, they are unable to understand why someone would make something a certain way, and ultimately the material upsets/triggers/disgusts/bothers/etc them, and all of this leads to them treating the first group of media like the second. because of that, they assume those creating that content are encouraging its real-world application and that the creators think these actions are okay, or that they will/want to/have perpetrated those acts in real life as well. once they've decided this, it's essentially impossible to convince them otherwise
ignoring the fact that you cannot make these assumptions about a stranger online in good faith literally ever, this is a huge problem. a nazi creating propaganda indoctrination white supremacist fantasy fiction material is nowhere near the same as a CSA & SA survivor creating works of dark fiction/art to cope with their trauma, but a lot of people consider it one and the same because they literally are incapable of seeing the difference. they can't analyze either work by either creator, and are unable to see how the nazi's fiction is different from the survivor's. even if the subjects portrayed in the works are different, too
these people will also insist that any humanization of a villain they deem "bad" or "problematic" enough - which, again, is dependent on who's making those decisions and not any kind of clear standard - means that the creator condones/believes/enjoys those things the villain does, and people who enjoy that character also condone/believe/enjoy those things the villain does. the ultimate irony of it all, of course, is that these people are consuming the exact same media with the exact same characters and exact same story and exact same plotline as the people they are attacking, and many of those people also enjoyed that media. they just seem to think because they enjoy blorbo blingus The Good Guy(tm) instead of zorbo zingle The Bad Guy(tm), that makes them morally superior instead of, yknow, just someone with a different opinion who is reading/watching with a different lens than someone else
obsession with moral purity, moral superiority, and in general an abstract concept of morality, is what has ultimately led us here. in an attempt to be seen as "acceptable" by the masses of the world - regardless of whether they participate in fandom or not - for whatever reason one has, has led some of us to turn on each other within fandom spaces
fear of predatory abusers lurking in the shadows, as well as an inability to actually identify the signs of a predatory abuser caused by a society whose goal is largely to protect those same predatory abusers, as well as a sadly large and growing number of victims of abuse growing up online and sometimes being abused and/or preyed on online (as i myself was) who thus are hypervigilant for this sort of thing due to their own trauma, has all led to a willingness to attack and destroy anyone we think might possibly maybe sorta kinda be a little suspicious without a second thought to the actual probability of that person's guilt, as well as the inability to stop and ask ourselves what we're really doing when we attack people over fictional portrayals of things as well as whether or not these fictional hypothetical transgressions are truly worth destroying someone's livelihood and life over or whether they're something we can simply block and ignore and not worry about
simply liking or disliking something in media has become a source of literal panic attacks for a lot of people because they drive themselves mad looking for a "good, moral, logical reason" to like or dislike something rather than just accepting it for what it is
our lack of understanding combined with an unwillingness to be open to the possibility of alternative interpretations for anything has driven people to commit atrocities. someone is literally dying right now because of it. actively dying. will die soon. because of antis deciding their creations meant it was okay to lie about them being a pedophile (they weren't), get them fired from their job due to these false claims, resulting in them losing their health care, which has 4 years down the road, resulted in their eventual death.
we. must. do. better.
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How do you feel your version of Lyf would react to some cannon Norse myths (utgard-loki, sifs hair etc, Baldurs death) If you know any. I think its funny how people think lyf would react.
Heh. Do I know Norse Myths? Yes. Yes, I do. I was the kid who was really, really into all forms of mythology. So yes, I have thoughts on how Lyf would react to Norse myths.
Honestly, it depends on the myth being shared. I think, if it was the right myth, they might think it was mildly funny (like Thor in a wedding dress). But they’d probably decide that many of those myths had an anti-Loki, pro-Odin bias. Which, compared to the Bifrost Incident, they kind of do. In the myths, Odin’s the wise, all-knowing protector of the world, and Loki’s the trickster who brings about the end of days, however indirectly. This does not track with Lyf’s experience.
And if they ever read the myths around Ragnarok and see the names of the supposed survivors. . . Well, that’d be an interesting day.
Mostly, though, they’d be confused as to how the myths got to Earth in the first place. And they’d probably end up blaming the Mechanisms for it.
The real question, though, is which person is stupid enough to introduce Lyf to the Marvel version of Norse myths, since Thor 1 and 2 are definitely out at this point. My money’s on a season 1 Tim, if they become friendly. . .
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Sorry to ask but I read your bio and searched your blog but since you don't tag it I didn't find anything. Just wanted to know what you meant by "anti psych"? because I definitely am against psychiatry, I just wanted to know what it entailed for you as well (if it includes psychology, ...) Feel free not to answer! <3
Hey there, anon! Nothing to be sorry for at all, this is a very valid and important question! I hope I can answer it well.
Anti psych means different things to different people. On the most basic level, it means being critical of psychiatry, psychology, its implementation and effects. For some, this means being actually against it on a fundamental level, while for others it means acknowledging its flaws but otherwise supporting it. I fall somewhat in the middle, at least right not - I have at one point been fundamentally against it, but not anymore.
My criticisms of psychiatry and psychology are mostly these:
1- I don't believe psychology is a field of medicine like the others. It is necessary, but the personal bias and the subjectivity of it is much higher than in other fields. Pretending it isn't is infantile and futile.
2- Psychological training in most countries and regions is severely lacking, and as such professionals are much less qualified than they should be. This worsens point 1.
3- Both psychiatry and psychology have been, and still are, often used as covers for abuse and neglect. Not enough is being done to change this.
4- The legacy of psych is infinitely more negative than positive. This is not sufficiently known or acknowledged.
5- Mentally ill people are treated like shit by the institutions and people that are supposed to help them.
6- Relating to points 3 -5, we would need a major, and I mean MAJOR, reform, expanding theory, practice, institutions and worldview, to actually make psych more good than bad
My anti psych beliefs are based on my experience being a patient of psychologists long term since I was a kid, being an inpatient at a psych ward multiple times, working near mental health institutions, having been to psych school, having friends attending psych school and working in the field, knowing certified psychologists and psychiatrists, having talked to other mentally ill people, some of them other psych abuse survivors, and studying and being informed in medical bias and the horror stories surrounding psych.
That being said, I still think psych helps a lot of people, it helped me at times, and I do take medication so I'm not like a fervent psych hater.
Hope this answers your ask, anon!
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Post #1: Amber's Idea of Photo Evidence
I want to thank the literally ONLY Amber Supporter to make a response! All the responses will be broken up so that the conversation of each individual topic can be better understood. Any questions I ask that are similar to others will be in the same post.
The first post features my criticism of Amber Heard for lying to her expert witness psychiatrist with pictures she took meant to make Johnny look like he was on drugs at a time he was struggling with sobriety, but in every photo, upon cross-examination with Johnny's lawyer Camille, Amber had to admit that none of the pictures actually showed the information she told her psychiatrist witness, meaning the doctor was forming his conclusions with incorrect information meant to make him have an unfavorable bias against Johnny.
To me, this is the action of an abuser and not an abuse victim.
Amber supporter @recognize-abuse say its wrong for the quality of Amber's evidence to be scrutinized, regardless of if she is the abuser or the abusee because society should not have expectations on how much or how damning of evidence a person has when they make an accusation. The mind is too traumatic to make such logical decisions in a hostile living situation.
Much of my rebuttal is pointing out that Amber is literally lying about her evidence and so, by damning her own character, it becomes more difficult to believe that if she could take pictures that can't prove her accusations and didn't take pictures that could prove her accusations, it becomes more difficult to believe her narration. Also, the legal system requires scrutiny of evidence to function.
Full Discussion below:
Me: If Johnny has cut Amber more times than he has even punched her, then why doesn't she have an photo evidence of that? Why did she take a photo of Johnny sleeping on the floor as evidence that he passed out after cutting her in a drug-fueled rage and when Camille asked why she didn't take a picture of the actual puncture wound, all Amber could do was stare blankly and say that didn't occur to her...
recognize-abuse 1) This is what we mean when we say the scrutiny AH gets is a reflection of how society expects a perfect victim. It's not easy to figure out the perfect response when you're actively going through trauma. It's not hard to believe that something that seems obvious as a neutral third party is something that didn't occur to a potential victim. Its the same as how SA victims are criticized for freezing (not screaming out or fighting back). Our bodies and brains are not primed to operate normally during a traumatic event. This is important because (and I must sound like a broken record here) scrutinizing this kind of thing hurts all survivors and victims even if Amber Heard is an abuser. Criticizing documentation, how good it is, how bad it is, if there's too little, if there's too much, is a huge problem. Yes of course you need evidence, but when it comes to the documentation the victim has, it will never be perfect.
Me: Actually, no, it’s not unfair to question this, because this isn’t about what “society thinks” it is about what two lawyers asked Amber to testify to and the civil right that both Johnny and Amber have to build narratives supporting the evidence they have. That’s how court works.
Amber, with her lawyer Elaine, painted a narrative that she took pictures of Johnny sleeping as proof that he was knocked out after a drug-induced rage where he cut her. (It is her right to make whatever narrative she wants.)
On cross-examination, Johnny’s lawyer Camille asked why if this incident included him cutting her, why didn’t she also take pictures of her wounds. Amber said it didn’t occur to her. (It is Johnny’s right to question her narrative and present his own.)
Amber presented more pictures of Johnny sleeping as proof that he was on drugs, the logic being that in one picture he had vomit on him. In cross-examination Amber admitted this was more likely to be ice cream, but her point still stood that Johnny falling asleep with ice cream in his hand was PROOF that he was on drugs. (Amber had already told her expert psychiatrist witness that the picture was of vomit, so when HE testified this evidence as part of his conclusion on Johnny, Camille had to tell him that Amber already admitted that it was actually just ice cream. He really was confused and frustrated by this. He was also told other things by Amber that other witnesses testified against, such as that Johnny was so brain-damaged that he needed his lines read to him by ear-piece and a co-worker testified that wasn't the case at all and Johnny liked to listen to music while taking shoots.)
Another picture he was so unconscious from drugs that “he didn’t notice the cigarette burning him” In cross-examination Camille got Amber to admit that there is no cigarette OR cigarette burn on Johnny because she “took it out of his hand before it burned him” and THEN took the picture… Camille pointed out to her claiming it DID burn him was therefore untrue.
Amber presented a picture of freshly placed cocaine and an unsmoked cigarette and presented that as proof Johnny was using drugs again. (In cross-examination Camille got Amber to admit that the drugs were unused. Camille then asked if Amber had any pictures of Johnny actually using or even in the same room AS cocaine and Amber said no…)
That’s how court works. You are supposed to scrutinize things. You are supposed to object to hearsay, speculation, and unfounded claims like a picture of Johnny sleeping MEANS it was because he was drunk. Johnny's legal team has asked time and time again why Amber takes so many pictures that imply drug use and domestic violence and so few pictures that show drug use and domestic violence. (And why she lies about what her photos implying things actually show.)
I am surprised you are using vague generalizations and stereotypes instead of the facts of the case. It’s a month-long case, being broken down and analyzed by lawyers, psychologists, and domestic abuse experts all over YouTube. What outlets are you using to following the due process of evidence, witnesses, and proper legal counsel of this case? Feel free to link anyone analyzing the testimonies, too!
Anyway, here is the testimony I’m getting this from:
Amber’s Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Ku-sN4Q8s
The Cross Examination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3VhTd8r4A
#believe amber heard#believe all women#believe amber#pro amber heard#pro johnny depp#anti johnny depp#anti amber heard#depp v heard#depp v heard trial
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