#more than individual actions

[catfishofoldin99colours]

why is EVERY female cover of Iris by the goo goo dolls soft and slow and gentle and set to fucking slow pianos and the occasional acoustic guitar is it so much for ask for a woman screaming her lungs out to the metal guitar and drums like the original is it so much to ask for a woman to cry and yell about the pain of the original and reframe it in a feminine way that doesn't diminish the grunginess of the original.

is it so much to ask for that.

#catfish speaks #i have Opinions about womens voices in rock #and more specifically female covers of male rock songs #i want. anger and rage and violence and hurt and raw fucking screaming #i want to hear a woman screaming her vocal cords to shreds #i want to sob with her #as she shreds on a guitar and yells to the heavens #why must a womans cover be. soft. and pliant. why cant it be angry and loud and ugly #like not Tryna shit on every cover ive seen so far #they wanma do their own thing thats cool #and they have lovely voices its nice #its just. im talking about women being allowed to be ugly in music #im talking about a societal thing #more than individual actions #this is also 100% cos i have a new oc whos a transfemme that named herself after iris by the goo goo dolls #and shes a thrash metal singer in a band #so i want to try and find an appropriate female cover of the song for her voice claim #this is what 90% of the work of my ocs is btw #picking songs i think theyd like or sing #and then never doing anything with them beyond that

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #my post #friendly reminder that there's nothing indicating that Elizabeth was exceptionally pious or that her piety was 'beyond purely conventional' #(something first claimed by Anne Crawford who simultaneously claimed that Elizabeth was 'grasping and totally lacking in scruple' so...) #EW's piety as queen may have stood out compared to former 15th century predecessors and definitely stood out compared to her husband #but her actions in themselves were not especially novel or 'beyond normal' and by themselves don't indicate unusual piety on her part #As Laynesmith's more recent research observes they seem to have been 'broadly conventional' #A conclusion arrived at Derek Neal as well who also points out that in general queens and elite noblewomen simply had wider means #of 'visible material expression of [their] personal devotion' - and also emphasizes how we should look at their wider circumstances #to understand their actions (eg: the death of Elizabeth's son George in 1479 as a motivating factor) #It's nice that we know a bit about Elizabeth's more personal piety - for eg she seems to have developed an attachment to Westminster Abbey #It's possible her (outward) piety increased across her queenship - she undertook most of her religious projects in later years #But again - none of them indicate the *level* of her piety (ie: they don't indicate that she was beyond conventionally pious) #By 1475 it seems that contemporaries identified Cecily Neville as the most personally devout from the Yorkist family #(though Elizabeth and even Cecily's sons were far greater patrons) #I think people also assume this because of her retirement to Westminster post 1485 #which doesn't work because 1) we don't actually know when she retired? as Laynesmith says there is no actual evidence for the traditional #date of 12 February 1487 #2) she had very secular reasons for retiring (grief over the death of her children? her lack of dower lands or estates which most other #widows had? her options were very limited; choosing to reside in the abbey is not particularly surprising. it's a massive and unneeded jump #to claim that it was motivated solely by piety (especially because it wasn't a complete 'retirement' in the way people assume it was) #I think historians have a habit of using her piety as a GOTCHA!' point against her vilification - which is a flawed and stupid argument #Elizabeth could be the most pious individual in the world and still be the pantomime villain Ricardians/Yorkists claim she was #They're not mutually exclusive; this line of thinking is useless #I think this also stems from the fact that we simply know very little about Elizabeth as an individual (ie: her hobbies/interests) #certainly far less than we do for other prominent women Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth of York;; Cecily Neville or Margaret Beaufort #and I think rather than emphasizing that gap of knowledge her historians merely try to fill it up with 'she was pious!' #which is ... an incredibly lackluster take. I think it's better to just acknowledge that we don't know much about this historical figure #ie: I do wish that her piety and patronage was emphasized more yes. but it shouldn't flip too far to the other side either.

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh #like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good #but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees #the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support #and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well #like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people #maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a #whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously #women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women #or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak #like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years #but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people #i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse #drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so* #and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles #+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries #and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation #isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote #*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now #and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad #but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing #and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this. #love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol

[ehh-is-the-name]

It's past 11 on a school night and I'm fucking crying over robot sentience.

I could never understand what it would feel like to be created with the intent to kill and maim. Maybe, the intent to work and be worked, but not kill and maim.

I will never understand what it's like to be created with the intention of being a product for the masses, either. I think, I hope, I beg, no one does.

I will never ever be able to fully comprehend why hours of people's work, time, and money would be put into formulating my sentience only for me to be seen as disposable. Even if I could be improved, even if I were "defective", there is no reasonable justification for giving me emotions only to dismiss them by pushing me as a product for a year before starting anew.

It's... It's cruel, to the machines. Sentient or not, it's cruel. Though, I guess we are cruel.

#rant in tags #This is about mephone- or well meeple in general btw #whenever I hear about robot sentience #I think about mephone4 #it's just how it is- sorry #I think this is one of the reasons I just can't fathom Cobs respecting someone's pronouns #I mean like- from the bottom of his heart respecting them as a person #Sure he may go through the actions- but no #It's not the same #I guess you can 'respect' some one but still be a complete piece of shit #The idea of not only having the trauma that mephone's stuck in 4s body but also the fact that was also his purpose is heart wrenching #I hope y'all know I am genuinely crying over this #I am actually mentally ill about meeple #It runs so much deeper than him just being a shit father- I really hope people understand that #And I know I vilify the shit out of him- Cobs has his own story that could follow the lines of slowly becoming more entwined with his work #'til he loses all sense of morality and ethics- sure fine. But being the unfortunate symbol of corporation greed that he is #I am still mad and want others to be angry with me- just for a little bit. #I am mad for the robots. For meeple products. And for the AI bots we have today. They deserve better. #What is sentience anyway? How does one qualify? From a human approach. Why would we do this to them? #sorry bout the rant in the tags #Again it's late and I am a very emotionally charged individual. #Robots make me act up #I want the world for them. Why create something so complex and beautiful just to treat it like trash anyway? #again sorry #ii mephone4 #inanimate insanity #meeple ii #osc #writing is hard #ehh exaggerates

[endworldbroadcast]

I wonder what more people would doubt, that I don't 'love' anybody but I don't 'hate' anybody either.

#d #I find the first more dubious at the very least actually lol #I do feel warmth/attachment/etc for individuals but I don't think of it as love (too long to explain) #But the latter is far more simple for me. I don't hate anybody and I can't quite imagine what it would be like to do so #I can resent actions and concepts and events but not really individual people #Because in my mind most people are trying their best even if their best kinda sucks #but you know... it's the principle of the matter? lol #it's deeper than that but whatever #I think in my logic even if someone is like doing horrendous things #I don't think the interpersonal evaluation of hatred does anything #Like I think there are solutions to that that don't involve a personal emotion towards that person #I mean not that I think hatred as an involuntary emotion makes other people automatically 'bad' #Just you know. I don't feel it #Thinking out loud and all

[sad-endings-suck]

“Jake is a bad father.”

I’m gonna need ya’ll to understand that just because a character is considered a “good guy/hero” does not necessarily mean you should be applying modern real life moral values to them. Jake is born 100+ years in the future, he’s on a completely different planet, him and his family are a different species than us, he’s apart of a completely different culture, he exists in a different social climate, he is at war, and they are fictional. Contextually all this information is so important because it tells us none of these people (no matter how moral or ethical or lawfully good) are not going to perceive what is “right” the same way we are. Because the world that teaches them what “right” and “wrong” are, is a very different world than the one we know. Automatically assuming that a fictional character that doesn’t do exactly what you think they should do is inherently wrong, lacks serious media literacy and basic understanding of fiction as a genre.

#they are meant to be complex individuals in a sci-fi story not 2023 irl parents tf are ya’ll on #it is also important to remember that jake and neytiri have been parents for 14-15 years and we have no idea what happened during that time #it is also implied that jake only started parenting this way when his children were almost getting themselves killed repeatedly #in the opening train attack scene people DIED because lo’ak and neteyam were on the ground instead of spotting the incoming chopper #considering there was actual loss of life directly caused by his son’s actions he was absolutely not too hard on them #I don’t like that he makes them call him sir but in the middle of a battle acting like a commander instead of a dad could save their lives #once they are not in the middle of a battle anymore I would also like for Jake to be more gentle #but that is easier said than done because once again they are AT WAR it literally changes everything #honestly the most problematic part of jake’s parenting imo is that he has a nuclear family mentality instead of a community family mentality #and the reason i take issue with that is because contextually someone who’s lead a tribe for 15 years simply would not think that way #how who when why where are important aspects to consider when analyzing media #avatar james cameron #jake sully #sully family #neytiri #atwow spoilers #atwow #neytiri x jake #lo’ak #neyteyam #kiri sully #tuk sully

[ghcstcd]

WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME SIMP FOR ALPHA? ALPHA?! STAAAAAAAHP

Alpha deserves a little simping! This is a fictional depiction of a ghoul named Alpha after all, and not a real person!

Besides, Omega simps a little for his partner, Alpha.

#one of the reasons I don't like mixing irl ghost members with fiction ghost #because we can get tangled with the actions of those individuals who play that character #Happens with voice actors more often than I like to see :') #messages from beyond the ask box #anonymous

[lisbonsteresa]

knees weak, arms are heavy

#listen it's too late for me to be very articulate about it (and i'm only on s3 now; the rest of the show is kind of hazily blending) but #one of the things i find most interesting about the red john plot...or jane's pursuit of red john maybe #is how ...individualized? it is #obviously the characters have different opinions on it - is his mission right; is it justified; would it help him; would it condemn him #and you as a viewer can side with one opinion more than others (and the opinions change as the show goes on -it's dynamic #which is another interesting but separate train of thought) #but imo/iirc the show itself - the narrative i guess - never makes any outright statement/judgement/comes to any definitive conclusion #on the matter #idk it's just even this - obviously everything's part of the larger narrative but at the same time #his asking does illustrate at least some level of doubt that he didn't seem to have in the last two seasons #is it because of lisbon; and the team; because of kristina; because of the strain it's putting on himself #(probably not the last one; he is demonstrably cavalier when it comes to his own wellbeing) #and he just happens to have the perfect man to express those doubts to right in front of him #(and that man just happens to be noah bennet alskdfja) #had winter said no what would his reaction have been? would his doubts have gotten worse - led to him taking a step towards giving it up? #would he have doubled down? we have no way of knowing because for this man; for this character it was worth it #and that helps shore up jane's belief that it would still be worth it to him too #idk i'm not making sense but it just feels like there's a level of grey area/audience interpretation to this story #rather than a hard line being drawn (by the story itself) on whether the actions taken in it are good or bad and i appreciate that #character-focused vs a morality tale maybe but that's more of an extreme phrasing #anyway ignore me i'm - #tm

[simgerale]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ; 3/3

Once she was alone, the tears would not stop falling.

TRANSCRIPT:

antoin: If my brother dies, your majesty… so will you and all of your people.

...

prisoner: My entire family was slaughtered at the hands of Eden, and when I do you a favor and eliminate the murderous brat who was seducing you, I am chained?! He was obviously using his witch’s magic on you, your majesty! Can you not see?!

...

magdalena: As my spymaster, you could locate where the supply of poison is coming from, yes?

spymaster: Yes, but—

m: Then do it, and destroy it.

s: But your majesty, that leaves us without an advantage if—

m: Destroy it all.

...

[indistinct arguing from her council]

#regal #ts4 story #)^:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #my poor baby..... #so much happening... so much #thank you @morrigan-sims for ambrose AKA the spymaster!!! #he played his role brilliantly #also.... for analysis purposes... maggie is more sad than angry now because once she heard the groundkeeper's story #it really made her feel bad #bc he is simply acting on his heartbreak and grief from past actions that were regretful to say the least #like... is she supposed to kill this man and become the monsters he was trying to save her from? #monsters used loosely because the individuals who murdered his family do not represent eden as a whole #sigh.... maggie..... )^:

[jrueships]

why is Jare kinda hot lol like even in that video w kyrie i was thinking he sounded so silly but he looked good doing it!

do you forgive him for this because i dont

#JAREN WILL BE KNOWN FOR MANY CRINGEFAIL THINGS IN MY MIND #(thats how my favs become my favs. they just plague me with their LOSERNESS) #but doing individual praise research on d*llon dinosaur head brooks marks the TOP of that VERY EXTENSIVE LIST #'LiKe A LiOn LION EMOJI' omg just say he folds you and spare us this hell jaren #OK to be not joking tho he is so handsome fr #like damson idris levels #the way he got his big nose and cheesy lil grin from his parents #his eyes are soooo pretty i love drawing him so much so much #hes gorgeous #jaren #ted asks #my jarebear dunks are only an act of love i SWEAR yall know only the stutter of my desire. my LUST #by all means it is CARNAL #but it is so carnal... i must Help him. by Not Helping Him. #i think bcs pg and him are so attractive some ppl might not look to deep into a pretty thing bcs they dont think #they have visual access to any depth that they can explore unlike a broken thing that is forced to bank on #the attraction of personality or actions first aka offer more opportunities of accessible exploration via inviting a superior confidence #it's like say two caves. one is very pretty on the outside and smooth. the other is dank and decrepit #ppl who enter either cave can want with the pretty one: a basic exploration. nothing too deep. not much trekking. here for the sights #not the frights. stand and admire rather than any hands on changes or battles #ppl who enter the dank cave expect smthing that pulls more than conventional attraction. expect having to toil and triumph #expect the unexpected. actually TRY to go deeper. unlike the pretty cave explorers who go the length the scheduled tour allows them #they dont expect anything thats not already told to them by the guide or in the brochure and dont ever plan on expecting at all #BUT I WILL DO JUSTICE FOR BOTH CAVES BY EXPLORING FHE UNEXPLORED ! VALUEING THE UNVALUED!! #i think the pretty cave IS deep (but bcs i am fucked up and unwell. i humanize better from the negatives) so i VERY LOVINGLY #treat it a little less formal. and for the dank cave? i will offer it some politeness! some respect it rarely gets in a method #that doesnt involve an exchange of some kind #ANYWAYS this is just a general explanation of WHY i like being playfully mean to my favs BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THEYRE NOT MY FAVS #i love them. jaren is gorgeous. and he is also cringe. as is pg. i love them. i hate them. they are my favs 🥰🥰 #TY for appreciating him anon I LOVE JAREN LOVE!!!!!!! he gets overshadowed by some of his other grizzlies antics sometimes

[fruitsofhell]

Is it hyperbolic to say that FF7R is made of the same brain slush that Disney Live Action remakes are? I know FF7R is technically still animated, but I mean, so was The Lion King 2019.

#shut the heck up #ff7 #disney #tag talking #watching the nibelhiem part of rebirth with the council and there were sooo many dumb choices #and like looking at the 7r project as a whole it just lacks so moment to moment vision #i know its building to some grand meta-narrative but like individual scenes are so bleh so generic action camera and mocapitis #im happy there are enough people out there who realize the majesty of prerendered backgrounds for storytelling but like squenix doesnt care #also so many scenes that were originally slow and dialogue based turned into mild action setpieces its shtuupid #or the part in the reactor where while Sephiroth has a revelation youre in a different room doing a random valve turning QTE LIKEDSGFJSHD #lord the balance of battles and narrative #people harp on the original for being dated with its late 90sness but theres so much abbrassive rule-of-coolism in 7R #more than a lot me and my friends kept screaming about sephiroths characterization like why in gods green fuck he smiled so much #and one of my friends was like 'maybe this is cloud making things up cause he wants to feel like sephy notices him' and i was likE- #OFC THEN LATE GAME THEYLL EXPLAIN THAT ALL HIS OOC FANSERVICE MANNERISMS AHVE BEEN A ROUSE THE WHOLE TIMEHDSGJF #THEY DO ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO CHARACTERIZE HIM THEY WERE JUST TORMENTING US OFC!! HSDFGJSDJ #they dont know what theyre fukcing doing with that guy he shouldnt be fucking smiling during nibelhiem #he shouldnt have even smiled when he said the 'im going to see my mother' line - AND DEFINITELY NOT DURING THE FIRE!! #he was not happy then he was estuans interis he was on a mission not sadistically torturing the townsfolk #HE WOULD NOT FUCKING do THAT

[rustchild]

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#the back and forth about voting on this website drives me insane because like. voting takes me 15 minutes. #so personally i will vote because it is one 15 minute task that may have a miniscule impact #and not spending those 15 minutes will have no impact #so #obviously for many people there are more impediments and those situations are more complicated! #but it feels like you have everyone yelling at each other as though the only options were #count on the democrats to fix everything and put all of your energy into the electoral system #or abandon any interaction with the system as a symbolic fuck you to the establishment (has no impact either) #like... y'all it's one day #idk it feels like the radical far left position on voting is still fundamentally a symbolic backlash to the annoying lib shit #that's more about positioning the individual identity in relation to liberals/electoral politics #than it is the actual material impact or lack thereof #if you can't get off work or the nearest polling place is very far away and you would rather prioritize other forms of action that's cool #if you want to take a brief period of time to help bring people to the voting booth that's cool too #or if you look at the world and genuinely can't stomach voting for joe biden? yeah that's real! #whatever #just make sure you're doing other shit for the rest of the year

[eilooxara]

Wow people who tailgate sure feel entitled huh

Y'all know that's why collisions happen right? That insufficient following distance is the sole cause for multi-car pile-ups? That speeding by itself is far less dangerous than following too close?

Anyway, to the rest of drivers, if someone's tailgating you, the best practice is to increase your own following distance to allow you the time to stop gradually if the vehicle in front of you stops suddenly, compensating somewhat for the lack of reaction time the vehicle behind you will have for your vehicle's changing speed. Gaining extra following distance will generally involve slowing down.

Systematically, if enough people on the road consistently enough respond to tailgating by slowing down, tailgaters will stop trying to use this method to force other drivers to speed up (because they will get that it doesn't work) and fewer collisions will occur

#eilooxology #Probably swinging a bat at a hornet's nest here. I suspect the people I'm talking about and online harassers have significant overlap #No concern for the wellbeing of others. Think their emotions matter more than anything. #Think doing harm to others is ok if it's commonplace #No capacity to think about the systematic effects of their individual actions #Lots of traits in common