#or from having human biases

[rocaillefox]

oh yknow i think a very fun character would be like. one who doesnt search out revenge but will absolutely take it if given the opportunity. like its no skin off their back if they never get the chance to take revenge/fulfill a grudge, thats not their goal, but its not out of mercy or kindness, just a pragmatic 'i wont let this potential revenge destroy me in the process' approach to it. might have to include them as an oc in something 🤔

#ramblings #characters that hide their opinions and intentions are soooo interesting like #the patience of it! #mar does writing #like i think its very easy to present pragmatism and being 'knowledgeable/intellegent' or stoic as having no opinions at all #but the thing is. scholars are NOT outside of being human lol #every field of science is innately human bc all knowledge is constructed by humans #tbh every field is innately human #but anyways- seeming unemotional and 'logical' doesnt preclude someone from being Human #or from having human biases #and i think academia as a structure is a really fun topic to explore tbh! #but yeah i think this would be sososo fun to explore #they might fit neatly into most of my current works but. #the issue is figuring out which one would best highlight this character trait #and bring it up as a contrasting concept yknow ? #so many revenge narratives focus on a hot (emotional descriptor not attractiveness) angry revenge. what about a cold revenge #like the saying 'revenge is best served cold' but ppl always take that to mean time only ime #rather than about emotional state.

[profounddefendorcrusade-blog]

I feel bad for Starlo.

Star has a point, idk what the four were ticked off about, there is like 99% chance everyone willingly participated in the trolley problem, based on what we've seen of his behavior thus far it's not like Starlo to be that big of a jerk/drag them by force/yell at them to do it. Ed's words:

he does it because Star asks NICELY

clearly jealous

It genuinely seemed like a fun time/fun roleplay, especially since every day is the same. Like, the five are supposed to be a rowdy and adventures bunch, what exactly did Starlo do wrong, I'm genuinely confused and curious. Except taking a big liking in Clover (his posse should know that this is a big moment for him, according to Blackjack they've known each other since high school and had the same liking for westerns. So they were basically a nerd gang.) Starlo was kind, patient and considerate towards Clover the whole time, even warned Mooch about them not being bandits, taught Clover gun safety, wanted to bring his posse along for a fun time, thanked Ace for telling him about getting Clover a new hat...

Sure, at first he only liked Clover for being a human, but as Ceroba says, that changed and he grew to genuinely care about them, plus I can't help but think Star saw himself in Clover and that's part of the reason he was so proud of them all the time even when they messed up (I'll talk more about this at some point)

What exactly made Ace want to leave the gang? He even said how he doesn't mind "getting run over by the fake train"

he's so nice. says sorry for forgetting the safety goggles even when he was scatterbrained due to his excitement. I love him so much

The only real "faults" (I'll call them temporary faults) I saw in Star during the Wild East section was that he was even more enthusiastic and more proud than usual. But how couldn't he be when he met a member of the species that he has admired for so long because they have real cowboys and sheriffs on the surface (who are seen as brave heroes who deliver justice, while Star canonically feels like a nobody farmer). His posse should have realized Clover wouldn't be there forever and just let their boss enjoy himself with his "deputy who'd have to leave sooner or later anyway"(or be more patient with him/ask him why he feels this strongly towards Clover/if there's a deeper reason for that). His friends including Ceroba just turn their back on him so quickly instead. The moment he's gotten the chance to feel valued for once and put himself first and not have to take care of this whole town and everyone in it and live his dream of meeting a real human, suddenly "his personality is damaged?"

Star's literally built this whole town, organised everything, he worries about everyone, Ceroba (plus was the one to give her emotional strength before and after Clover's sacrifice), Kanako, the monsters, his family, struggles with feelings of worthlessness yet never wipes that smile off his face, always does his best to be hopeful and optimistic and make others laugh, gave his posse a nap time so they don't become exhausted, gave Ceroba a free home, didn't act upon his feelings towards her and was a 110% supportive, caring friend instead. THAT'S who he is. He's the papa bear of this friend group, the glue holding everyone together.

He was just *really* excited. Y'all know he's insecure and just wishes to escape who he is and yet y'all blame him for liking Clover so much. Yeah, the four are very clearly jealous. But why won't the four of you control your feelings for a while? As mentioned, Clover WILL HAVE TO LEAVE EVENTUALLY. They won't be Star's "deputy" forever (the kid who's just as into westerns as he is, who values justice just as much, who also values doing the right thing. Someone he clearly felt understood in the presence of, whom he loved; just look at the way he talks about Clove during Showdown). Star seems genuinely confused of what he did wrong poor guy just wanted to live his fantasy for once and feel important:

Even at the beginning Moray's like "oh no Martlet is upset" Mooch replies "don't be a buzzkill nothing exciting ever happens around here" and Ray's like "Yeah you've got a point"

If you all agreed to have a little fun with a human who will very soon leave forever why is Starlo's enthusiasm such a big problem? If the posse weren't into this after all (unless they were simply too jealous which could have been solved with a honest talk and a little patience) why are you doing this "rowdy" job with Star in the first place? Do you want your boring routine day to day life so much back? Or just for Clover to leave (which they will soon enough)? You, western enthusiasts, literally met a real human, A HUMAN FROM WESTERNS YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PASSIONATELY INTO (clearly not as passionate as Star but passionate ENOUGH to understand where he's coming from).

... okay.

#Like idk if I'm being biased because Star is my favorite character but I kinda just started thinking more and more about this and... yeesh. #Felt like a BIT of an overreaction to blame Starlo this much #No wonder he cracked #and unlike with Ceroba we actually see him do his very best to “fix” what he did “wrong” #i feel so much sympathy for this guy man #WAY more than for Ceroba #sorry fox lady #uty #undertale yellow #starlo uty #uty starlo #like dude literally had to come crawling on his hands and knees for them to forgive him #what “loyal” “supportive” friends they all are #sobbing for star #poor poor man #meanwhile everyone forgave ceroba for much much MUCH worse #she didn't need to burst into tears and beg for forgiveness even though she SHOULD have #everyone forgives her immediately on the spot + she gets a hug from clover #I'm sorry Starlo #like how was he “selfish” and “reckless” #he did something for himself for the 1st time in his life #y'all are reckless too btw #you put yourself first ONCE and they call you selfish #Star had the right to be mad at them for attacking Clover for no reason other than jealousy #wdym he's throwing you around for human business you literally wanted this #he watched the tapes more than 50 times bc that's how much he hates himself #and yet he's still been doing EVERYTHING in his power to be there for EVERYBODY

[rowenabean]

.

#told one of my local church people that I'm planning to move this year #one I've spent a bit of time with this year #and she was so excited. and she was so specifically like yes. this seems like a good thing for YOU #i can imagine you thriving in this environment i can imagine it is what you need to thrive #and it was so.... #what i need?? #I've told a few people outside my current town - and they're excited but they're also so biased bc i will be closer to them and that's fine #and I've told a few people in this town and most of them don't quite get it #not the moving - they get that - but they don't get the monastery they're just a bit confused #it was SO lovely to have someone from here who got it and gets me and i think that's a specific kind of support I'll need in the moving #and I'm like. sad i couldn't be this for my best friend when she moved? but also you can't be all kinds of friends to all people? #like. it's ok that i felt so confused about her leaving. excited for the wedding but also so so sad. that's part of being human that's part #of loving her #but this is a kind of friendship i also need

[thingscanalwaysgetworse]

Never not going to be emotional about this

#adventure time #adventure time together again #finn the human #Jake the dog #the brothers of all time #rambles from the ether #I will admit I’m biased and more emotionally invested in this episode bc it happened to come out the same month I graduated high school #but still. it’s GOOD #also I think this is one of the first times thet I cried tears of joy while watching a cartoon #I get emotional when I watch shows but usually I just cry because I’m sad #but this ending made me cry because I was so HAPPY. #that doesn’t usually happen with me #just. oughhh #I wish I could write endings like that #also I wish I could experience this episode for the first time again #I can’t watch the last few minutes without smiling #also sorry the screenshots look weird #I got them from YouTube bc I was suddenly having feelings about this episode again

[minipliny]

If you need an infographic from an internationally recognised human rights organisation, here it is.

#gaza #on top of every single other thing #but #i think i have a belief that people will take stuff from amnesty or hrw or save the children #when they see news outlets or specific groups as inherently probleMatic and biased #actually what i get is harassed on my human rights sideblog #solely by people who love owning guns #or love uncritical support of israel and try and debunk every single fucking well evidenced thing i post

[comradeboyhalo]

I agree with you a lot

I don't understand why people are excusing quackity so much. He should've been aware of all this and should have done something.

Tbh he should have never allowed this situation to happen. Imo he was ignorant at best, and negligent at worst.

While he was travelling the world and receiving prizes and recognition, his employees and volunteers were working day and night with little to no pay.

It's good that there's pressure on top of him. His name is attached to the server, to the brand. It's his responsibility. He needs to fix this.

I'm more willing to believe workers that have nothing to lose than a guy who can lose it all.

Sorry if this is too long, or too heated. I'm really disappointed at how the fandom is dealing with this, in its majority. And im glad there's someone who shares the same pov as me.

(i started rambling on this ask im sorry. i didnt word this perfectly so hopefully no one takes this in bad faith.)

almost the entire fandom + the ccs are seeing the best in him, and really really want qsmp to continue. a bit of public pressure doesn't hurt imo. as long as there's clear communication, qstudios' rep shouldn't take a hit - we're all rooting for him. its completely understandable that these reconstructions take time, that people will have to be laid off, but as long as there's clear communication between him and his workers, it should all end up okay.

i totally get all the points that the third party information may not be accurate, that its jumping the gun and sending people on doomposting spirals, but i genuinely do think there is nothing wrong with going public about working conditions. its prompted multiple admins to speak up now, and its let the head admins know that mistreatment will be caught now. having all information solely coming from the company's side is worse. and that's not being distrustful of quackity - that's just being understanding of natural bias.

its important for the fandom to amplify the voices speaking out. this doesn't mean we make crazy conspiracies on how it's all over or whatever, but qstudios has a platform to speak out on, and the workers don't. the doomposting is an unintended consequence, but this is internet fandom after all lol.

#ask #discourse #its also important to note that q probably handpicked the head admins #meanign he might take their word first and foremost #and again thats human error so allowing workers to discuss openly about their treatment should prevent that from happening #and thats not me picking on q #hell ive heard ppl have that issue with unban requests and munchy back in the day #invaded too #its natural #but this is (obviously) on a much larger scale so these biases cant be brushed aside

[uncanny-tranny]

I saw somebody discuss it a while back ago, but it was so affirming and I wanted to open a similar discussion here...

I've noticed in myself and others this intense (genuine) trigger response to people not understanding us or our words or whatever it may be, and it can feel so important that you correct people, that people know you, not a shitty cut-out version of you.

I think this is a valid response, of course. It is completely understandable, and I get where it comes from. When I was in the middle of abuse, I was misrepresented in order to be abused, so it can be a genuine trigger for something "small" you said, did, or are to be misinterpreted or twisted into something it isn't. It turns from, "this person didn't bother reading what I'm saying," to, "this person might be just like them, they're going to hurt me."

My overall point is that a huge part of living is this misinterpretation of you or your character, and it isn't your fault, and it isn't in your control. Hell, even, a huge aspect of language itself is in not being able to fully represent you or what you're saying because language is interpretive and based (in part) on other people's interpretation of what you said. They fill in the blanks with their own experiences, desires, or their own character, and at some point, it isn't really about you, you know?

My biggest piece of advice is learning how to let people be wrong. This shit, of trying to correct every single person? Personally, I have found it to be exhausting, and it feels like I'm blaming myself not only for everybody's interpretation of every little thing I do but also for abuse that led to this intense of a response. It's really hard to let people be wrong, yes, but it also has allowed me and permitted me to be more interested in my own life, not in my life in other people's brains. It's given me that specific freedom from abuse, from worry.

#mental health #mental health advocacy #abuse tw #abuse mention tw #no this isn't me saying that only abuse survivors feel this way because it is a very human and very normal emotion #*however* i have also found that abuse trauma can exaggerate that normal emotion into something more sinister #just like my trauma disorders are exaggerations of normal emotions. #this is mostly for clarity but i am aware of how other people can (and will) misinterpret this #i try my best to be clear in my intentions because it is my responsibility but i am also aware... #...that there is only so much i can do before it is excessive. because i can be 100000% careful and people will misinterpret meaning... #...or whatever it may be. that's a part of life. weirdly enough but having this blog... #...has taught me something about being misinterpreted because i have seen so much horrific accusations of me being levied... #...with no evidence. with no proof. that part of me did feel triggered by that because that shit was used by people who abused me... #...but that wasn't my fault. those people who did that? they clearly had it out for me from the get-go and it taught me not to value... #...what was said. they were biased because of how i choose to exist on here - which is queer. which is trans. which is disabled... #...not because i am secretly knavish or whatever it may be

[sysig]

Homesick (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #DAX #Hhgghghhhh ;;;; ♥ #Have I mentioned I love them lately #ZEX recognizing DAX's voice in Dexter is /so/ good ugh #For so many reasons! The implicit trust! How Dexter is able to manipulate him even unwittingly just how much of an effect he can have! #But also of being able to be honest with him in a way that he won't let himself be with other humans because well they're human #ZEX is terrible in many ways that I love him for deeply <3 His biases let him self-sabotage so easily haha #He has so much to unlearn from VUX propaganda even being as open-minded as he is! Well also in part Because of his open-mindedness lol #Fetishism rather ♪ Seeing humans as a monolith and getting so hopelessly swept up in his attraction across the board #He's a complex individual with a long history rooted in what and who he is! I like him very very much! #His biases cut both ways of course - since Dex has a familiar voice he of course must be a VUX! And here he could be ;; #Someone who just by the nature of his familiarity is safe but to actually listen to and validate him ugh ;;♥ #The thing that kills me the absolute most is that Dexter /could/ give this to him - but won't #He has his voice his cadence his accent his way of speaking - and yet #At least if DAX was actually here he could offload some of his emotions properly rather than bottling everything up #ZEX keeps a lot of things to himself :( Like he can't bear to burden anyone else with them - or else his pride gets in the way haha #He's so condescending towards humans to his own detriment <3 #At least if he had DAX he'd have more-or-less an equal - someone he could share his pain with ;; #As well as the comfort of validation and something - anything - to keep him grounded and tethered to his life #Comfort is just as precious a commodity as information - allies - weapons - supplies! It's all about balance <3

[thedisablednaturalist]

This is why only like 1% of physically disabled people actually have a job. People just assume we don't want one/can't do any job.

#wrenfea.exe #or they force us to do minimum wage jobs and then underpay us #honestly most people arent even thinking this conciously #like they aren't bigoted they are just...completely separated from our world #it never crosses their minds #ive spoken to so many leftists who pride themselves in being open and facing their biases #and they were SHOCKED and DISGUSTED with themselves because they literally NEVER considered things from our pov #they can understand what its like to be depressed or unfocused due to adhd #they cannot fucking understand what its like to rely so much upon others. what its like to be in constant pain. #what its like to not be able to move your body or not even have that body part #they do not see us as people and dont even REALIZE they feel that way #also they do not see people with neurological or severe developmental disabilities as human either #we are the hypothetical. The news story. The friends cousins sister in laws niece #chronic disability #chronic pain #cripplepunk #angry cripple #disability #physical disability #physically disabled #working while disabled #like they fucking assumed that they didnt even need to prepare anything for physically disabled people #because of course no physically disabled people actually GO to college or apply for jobs #we all sit on our asses and take the governments money or burden our poor abled family and friends!

[maddy-ferguson]

i'm part of the community notes community on twitter and i feel like i'm making the world a better place one helpful/unhelpful rating at a time❤️

#'you've rated this note as unhelpful' that's enough activism for today i think #it's what i do the most i haven't written one yet (it's been like a month of me being in i applied maybe in december or january i don't #remember) mostly because you have to like link an article sources and i'm lazy and also the tweets i see that i think need to be fact #checked often already have a proposed community note #but yeah i'm always saying unhelpful because the shit people try to put as community notes? so crazy #some of the ones that make it to tumblr are funny and that's not how you're supposed to use them but if i think it's funny i'll give them a #helpful rating but like basically people will just put mean things they would have said in the replies and everyone else will be like no #note needed + say it in the replies + you're an awful person + kys #like thank god i'm here to prevent people from seeing the things awful people want them to see presented as 'context'... #i'm biased too i can't lie i'm only human i have a political agenda. sometimes #the way it works is people who've disagreed before need to agree that the note is good/trustworthy enough to show it to everyone not x #amount of people need to think it's good which isn't a bad system i think it makes sense #and like i say: brf slt

[lighthouseborn]

oh you know i actually don't get to do this a lot because our experiences simply do not often line up but henry (handshake) me -> whales are just built different

#i don't know if i believe they're like. i dunno ''human level'' intelligent or whatever the flip the metric #people insist on measuring it with but like #i dunno man whales are just Different from other animals #they've got something going on and the things i've seen of it are probably biased in the way they present that information but like #i dunno i dunno i just think. they've got something going on!! #not in a paranoid way just like. i dunno whales are just! different!! #henry says things like ''they have souls'' and such just because. from a linguistic standpoint that's what he's got #available to describe the phenomenon he's talking about #i don't even know that he particularly believes in Souls™ but that's just the best way for him to say it u know #and. yeah. (handshake) whales are... Something

[rawliverandgoronspice]

ganondorf in descant: okay sure I snapped at fate a few times but I am also very understandable + tragic so can you really blame me

gerudos in the background: *on the verge of tears, stress-drinking and trying to prevent him from getting murdered every 5 seconds while avoiding literal extinction themselves* sure my king whatever you say

#ganondorf #tloz #descant of greatness #unhallowed vespers #gerudo #the last part of the trilogy will be uhhhh illuminating I think #about some stuff he maay not have focused on nearly as much as he should have maybe :) :) #I llllove some messy dorf + gerudos relationship where both parties kind of made the bed and both parties have to lie in it #I mean #the blame really rests on hylians/the goddesses for making gerudos cosmically lesser #but that doesn't absolve suffocating levels of pressure from one side and brutal abuse of power from the other #and also twinrova sweeping in being all like aww look at you being the greatest thing that ever lived nothing matters but you btw #let's not examine how every single king we served/raised before died performing heroics that ultimately didn't help anyone <3 #or that our vision for what gerudos should be MAY be very biased and outdated and seeping with longing and resentment <3 <3 #me as a fic author is really about finding that fictional culture I really love and think has been wronged by canon #and then go OKAY LET'S FOCUS ON THE FLAWS!!! MAKE THEM WORSE!!! WORSE!!!!!! #and still insist the culture deserves humanity and salvation regardless of the imperfection #I try at least

[inthegardenpraying]

“Listen, now. On the other hand, you have fresh, young forces that are being wasted for lack of support, and that by the thousands, and that everywhere! | A hundred, a thousand good deeds and undertakings that could be arranged and set going by the money that old woman has doomed to the monastery! | Hundreds, maybe thousands of lives put right; dozens of families saved from destitution, from decay, from ruin, from depravity, from the venereal hospitals—all on her money. | Kill her and take her money, so that afterwards with its help you can devote yourself to the service of all mankind and the common cause: what do you think, wouldn’t thousands of good deeds make up for one tiny little crime? For one life, thousands of lives saved from decay and corruption. One death for hundreds of lives—it’s simple arithmetic! | And what does the life of this stupid, consumptive, and wicked old crone mean in the general balance? | No more than the life of a louse, a cockroach, and not even that much, because the old crone is harmful. | She’s eating up someone else’s life: the other day she got so angry that she bit Lizaveta’s finger; they almost had to cut it off!” | Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue/Vintage Classics/p. 68

#the truth #Fyodor Dostoevsky #russian literature #psychology #psychology before a kill #psychology during a kill #psychology after the kill #Justifying evil deeds #trade off is one evil deed for a 1000 good deeds #the failure of act utilitarianism as purely used in ethical evaluations #fyodor dostoevsky eventually has the main character give up and turn himself in because he could not move on from killing her #The failure of justifying murder of innocent blood with 1000 good deeds #Jesus dying on the cross and his resurrection show a powerful idea of redemption #murder is pure judgement where redemption does not exist because you can't redeem yourself because they are already dead #their are no justifications for murder #the danger of justification as a means to fulfill that of our confirmation biases #rule utilitarianism would have saved the main character from justifying the killing but not act utilitarianism #the flaws of redistribution and equality instead of equal opportunity #if you can justify degrading someone's existence you can just as easily justify strengthening someone's existence #the flaw in moral relativist thinking #moral objectivism supports humanity as a whole as equally valuable and brings room for reason unlike moral relativism

[96percentdone]

Maybe I'm just autistic but I feel like a lot of infighting on this website can be boiled down to "I read a thing a person said about xyz discourse topic and here are all the secret implied messages that person is REALLY saying and by exposing the secret hidden meaning i have proven that people on side x of xyz are evil liars that support the devil" and like. idk man i think acting like everything is a coded message isn't the most helpful. y'know. maybe. maybe treating everything as a matter of ulterior motives doesn't say anything about the other side of the argument but just your own cognitive biases and what you already believe. maybe taking people's words in good faith and asking questions about the things you don't understand, or that don't mesh with how you understand the world, or that fly in the face of known research and facts is good. maybe we should do that instead of ascribing hidden meaning to human people on the internet with beliefs that are different than yours, even when they are flawed or expressed badly, like they are works of fiction up to interpretation.

#despair.txt #literally impossible to search for posts about trans issues without seeing this #everyone is doing this all the time over there #cant go into any tag about transphobia of any kind without seeing shit like this #truly i understand where the instinct comes from i do it myself #we are all humans prone to the same cognitive biases #and we will all do this shit forever #i have to read posts more than once sometimes to understand what op is actually saying #so i dont let my visceral response dictate how i feel and ascribe meaning that isn't there in bad faith #i will continue to do this forever #but oh my god is it exhausting #i really hate that so much discussion about trans issues (or broader lgbt issues) is dominated by bad faith discussion of everyone else #x can never just be x it has to be proof its anti y

[risingsunresistance]

TRUE!!! the original post was just made in reference to things that had inspired my own design and a wish to see more variety among the masked long-haired braided human designs that were absolutely DOMINATING the place at the time (nothing wrong with that, love those ones and i've drawn a few myself, just came from a perspective of missing seeing the truly unique designs that made me associate the design with the artist ;-;) but yea it definitely applies outside of just him. and outside of just pigs, looking at random animals can be a great reminder of how varied and weird some stuff can actually be :D

one of my favorite ocs, who i have drawn a grand total of two times bc i have been very lazy with art lately, actually ended up happening only because i got inspired by my own post fkjdhg

even tho it's a full year old at this point, still a pretty good drawing imo. i like his face :]

babirusa btw if you couldn't tell. he's a zombie piglin who has been withered :0

#i should draw him again #oh i should. wait i should give him an outfit i've had sitting on the backburner for a while #i have more nether outfits but just havent had any use for them. i should give him one i've been thinking about #this post was made solely to ramble a bit and show him off again #dude it is. so funny looking back at the 2019 art i have saved #and then seeing when The Shift happened. where everyone got inspired by the big artists at the time and it just took over #AGAIN NO HATE TO THOSE ARTISTS OR ANYONE WHO FELT INSPIRED I AM TRYING SO HARD TO MAKE SURE I DONT SOUND HATEFUL #IT WAS JUST REALLY FUNNY TO WATCH EVERY OTHER DESIGN DISAPPEAR FOR A LITTLE WHILE HKJFDG #some old designs are So <3 i still look back on those pieces a lot #anyone remember the short hair blond ones. miss those guys #that art of him with the knives on his fingers. if you know you know. evren this is targetted at you specifically fkjdhg #a lot of ppl have been expanding their horizons and straying from the expected designs which is fun to see again! #i still see a lot more human/humanoid art tho (not that i see much art today anyways) which sucks bc i looove how varied the pig designs ge #yes i play favorites. i favor the pig design a lot. i am a biased party <333

[marcusagrippa]

like. yes. humans are terrible a lot of the time. but holy shit it's so fucking insane that we even exist in the first place, let alone that we've built everything that we've built, let alone that we still have access to as much history as we do, and if i think too hard about stories i feel A Lot because it goes back and back and back and throughout everything that we've been through as a species, stories have always held us together, stories and dreams and poems and it fucks me up sometimes because when i'm studying poetry it's easy to think 'ugh this is so dull' but then you read one tiny line and then you're punched in the gut and you remember that this was written by a person, a person who was alive, once, and that in your hands your hold a tiny little piece of their heart and their hopes and their dreams, and it's sort of necromancy, isn't it, to read what they wrote and feel what they felt, and we're human and we've always been human, and if we've always had stories and words and poetry then they're us, really, and we're them, and i don't understand people who find literature boring because it's just it's the sum of everything that the author's ever known, every experience they've had, every other book they've read which has been the sum of everything another's ever known and there's not really a point to this but we are indistinguishable from our stories, we are our stories and our wars and our love and and and and

#this is nothing new at all but it feels new to me bc my brain has been numb from constant overstimulation for the last year and a half and i #haven't had the chance to actually experience a normal amount of human feelings in a while but when i read that one sappho fragment my brai #n exploded #i can't put it into words very well sorry #we've always wanted to be remembered!!! humans!!!! what the fuck!!!! #humans have always been human !!!!! how fucking insane is that !!!!! history is stabbing me repeatedly !!!! #i love you biased primary sources that tell us more about the author than the subject matter i love you sappho 31 and catullus 51 #i love you inspired by i love you translation i love you fragmentary works i love you i love you i love you #i love humans so much and i love that we've tried to make our (terrifying) existence a little bit less scary by making it beautiful instead #i got like two hours of sleep last night so my cringe filter is a little low. but. yeah. #classics tumblr has made me think about textual ghosts and necromancy a little more than is strictly healthy #i am tired but i am so full of wonder #this was prompted by that one bit of cat 1 and the sappho fragment i mentioned and the pharsalia and probably pro caelio too #humans #humans my beloved #humans!!!!! #poetry my beloved!!!! ancient history my beloved!!!! aaaaaa!!!!