#righteouss

[quetzalpapalotl]

I did always thought that the way Barber wrote Optimus was an attempt to conciliate the way all the other IDW writers wrote him plus who Optimus is a world that has moved on from him, and it's really nice to see confirmation that was the case. I just really like how Barber cares about continuity not just regarding the physical aspects of the world, but the internal aspects of the characters as well.

I did a transcription of the relevant part but it's too long so under the cut it goes:

Well, you know when I first started this stuff, you know, and I went back and I read all the IDW Comics and tried to get a bead on who some of the characters were, you know. And and it's some degree like kind of really, tried to think through, what if all this stuff happened, you know? What if it had? Even though in the like, concrete reality of the way the comics were made, Optimus acts differently because a different writer wrote him, you know? But but in real life we don't always act the same. You know, we act differently around different people, even if we are intrinsically the same person that you know at any point we aren't as consistent as fictional characters are. So there's an element of reality to that that you know that that was kind of interesting. Kind of trying to figure out well, look at if you have the way Mike Costa was writing him, plus, the way Simon Furman was writing him. Got to blame everything on Mike and Simon (laughs). But but no, there's a big dose of who do I think he is.

He wasn't in the first year of RID, a little longer than that, even, in the first year and a half or so, two years almost.  I knew if the series didn't get cancelled he would be there at some point. But I didn't know that would happen. I didn't know we'd wind up going as long as we did.  But yeah, so gave me some time to think about.

He was a Great War leader and. somebody trying to be a good person, you know, like somebody that's not trying to do villainous things, ever. I don't think that's ever a thing that he does, but in a reality where a lot of times there isn't a right choice. There's just a less wrong choice. What choices can you have with when being right is what you're all about? You know like, when the the honor and goodness is the the main thing with you. I don't know. How do you maintain that in a world where the idea of right has shifted? You know, where the the right thing during war is different than the right thing after war. 

And times change, you know. I mean you. can see that in real life all the time where our heroes from our youth, letting us down in the present day, you know? Not that I think Optimus has done that necessarily, but like, yeah, but you know the world keeps moving. And again, like that's a theme that I think cycles through the whole run of Transformers. There are people who are heroes who turn into villains given enough time, you know. Nova Prime started off with with the best event of of intentions and then turned into a, you know, horrible villain and and you can see that cycle through the original Primes.  We're trying to do good, but eventually that goes bad and Optimus trying to be the one to break that cycle, but also you know, being a part of that cycle.

I don't know if I answered the question but that's kind of what it's. That's kind of how I think of him, you know, he's trying to do the right thing, but you might not agree with him and I think that's very valid, you know. There's like a squishy place writing fiction where, I don't want to be like-, I'm just going to say what happened and then and then you decide if it's right or wrong. Because I'm framing the entire discussion. You know what I mean? Like I'm right, like this isn't, this isn't real life where where you know? I feel like that's a a thing that I've heard people use to get out of morally dubious situations, but I you know. What I'm trying with Optimus is to create a situation where there's a valid argument for what he's doing, but there's also a valid argument for not doing what he's doing, you know. Windblade has a real good point, and she doesn't agree with with Optimus, but Optimus does have a, you know, a good point on his own too. I don't know, that's that's the intention. 

Moonbase 2 Interview John Barber 2018

#not pictured the part where he talks about how the series mentions colonies and he was like #well colonies imply an empire and empires aren't really a nice thing #and that's how the series became what it is #based #also how he's not trying to give a definitive answer to who's right or wrong #especially because i feel like fandom discussions frames it like barber is trying to point out who is righteouss and good and right #and who is not #where is more about the conflic of all these people who are trying to do right but they have different idead and even struggle #to maintain their own ideals #quetzal rambles tf

[scripture-pictures]

#ecclesiastes 7:15 #firefighter #righteouss man #wicked man #daily bread #music #nightly bread #god is love #bible #Youtube

[tinynebula]

to be fair when people criticize usamericans for being incredibly self centered in terms of social issues it's not about a ranking of who's more oppressed like it doesn't matter if people in the third world are obviously struggling more than poor people in the usa because that's beyond obvious the point is that people in the third world don't have the privilege of the absolute monopoly of information and control over the entire cultural landscape on the internet which is supposed to be the only place where actual people can spread awareness over social issues without going through the filter of corporation owned news media like we're not exaggerating when we say you can't asks us to care about social movements like BLM even if they're objectively a good and righteouss cause because it goes both ways and you've proven that you won't even lift an eyelash over similar problems in the rest of the world. there are entire civil wars happening all across the globe but a senator in the usa farts in public and we all have to hear about it. and then when people get righteously mad about the group that holds monopoly over every single discussion on the internet for ignoring very important social issues somewhere below the ecuator (if they even remember that "the rest of the world" is not just europe) you decide to act like it's cringe to say "nobody is talking about this." yeah, because nobody is. once again i don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people and i don't give a single fucking shit that your education is bad. EVERYONE'S EDUCATION IS BAD. and the places that say they're better like europe, they're lying, because they don't teach them shit about colonialism, clearly, since to this fucking day they still act like they're superior to everyone else.

#anyway fuck you

[castielsparkle]

im sooo fucked up rnn THE RIGHTEOUSS MANNNN

#cas.txt #spn #cas #destiel

[gayleviticus]

not doing a 'ed and al failed when they tried to perform human transmutation. but did you know there's an even more powerful alchemist out there who managed to resurrect himself from the dead?' youth pastor moment here but something ive been thinking abt re fullmetal alchemist 2003 is the biblical Book of Job. (ofc cw christianity/religion)

There's a common thread throughout the Bible that views disaster and misfortune as a punishment for sin - the plagues sent upon Egypt; the plague sent upon Israel because of King David's error; and most significantly, the extremely traumatic exile and captivity of Israel, God's chosen people, because they oppressed the poor and engaged in idolatry. We also see more generally in Deuteronomy blessings promised for keeping God's Law and curses threatened for breaking it, and lots of Proverbs speaks about the ruin that inevitable comes to the wicked and foolish. And of course, in the Christian New Testament, Revelation promises a judgment of the world and wickedness at the apocalypse.

This kind of viewpoint is probably something we associate fairly often w religion (and not just organised religion - new agey law of attraction type stuff is not a radically different concept). Goodness is rewarded, evil is punished. A kind of equivalent exchange concerned primarily with ethics rather than 'hard work' as such, but even then they're not that disconnected; we do, after all, view diligence as a virtue and laziness as a vice.

Now, I don't think this is an inherently 100% wrong notion. The idea that goodness should be rewarded and evil punished is a sympathetic one, and to a certain extent it's true; often being an asshole ends up alienating everyone and making them hate you, and arguably on a mass-scale we see the self-devouring consequences of evil in the way ruthless oppressive capitalism is destroying the world through climate change.

But if we take this notion of divine judgment or karma or equivalent exchange as absolute… well, we end up with some extremely nasty ideas. AIDS was God's punishment on sinful homosexuals, or cancer is a consequence of not praying/believing/thinking positive thoughts enough. Poor people deserve their poverty because they didn't work hard enough and the rich deserve their wealth to do with as they please because it's a divine blessing. If we believe in a rigid one to one correlation between action and consequence then we can't avoid the unfortunate conclusion that victims of war and murder and genocide actually had it coming to them for their sins.

fortunately the Bible isn't absolute on the topic. It has voices that offer a more nuanced, alternative take. One of the most obvious is Jesus, literally God who was executed as a common criminal. Did he deserve to die? Was it a punishment for his sins? No, of course not. So if God himself can get brutally murdered by the state's 'justice' that puts a huge hole in a nice, straightforward theory of 'bad things only happen to bad people'.

But another big example is the Book of Job, which is essentially just the story of Job, a very upstanding guy who loses everything - children, property, his health. And so naturally, when his friends come to visit to comfort him, they assume, of course, that this is some kind of punishment for his sins and that he needs to ask God for forgiveness. Job is adamant he's done nothing wrong, but his friends continue to insist that these things happen for a reason.

Eventually God himself appears, and Job demands an answer - which God refuses, instead displaying his tremendous, terrifying power to argue Job as a mere mortal has no right to argue with him. But crucially, in the end, God states that only Job - who maintained his own righteoussness, and rejected the logic of suffering as punishment, all while refusing to curse God - spoke rightly of him, not his friends. In the end Job is given no clear-cut answer to why he has suffered so, but he is restored to full health and prosperity, and his innocence is vindicated.

so i guess to me fma 03 feels like a similar kind of take to Job, cutting against the grain. It goes into the depths of misfortune and suffering to question a naive, childish notion of equivalent exchange - but also, to find what's valuable in it and preserve it. Equivalent exchange as a way of rejecting reality - or as a pious fiction to constrain and capture the terrifying reality of God - is a lie, but the Elrics find value in it as a driving ethical ideal, and Job maintains that fundamentally the misfortune that has befallen him is not fair.

Neither work descends to cynicism either. Their conclusion is not that life is cruel and capricious and therefore meaningless, but I think actually the opposite; their rejection of absolute equivalent exchange is a compassionate move rejecting the cruel logic that people who suffer had it coming, while also arguing that tragedy doesn't have to mean despair. They're grim, perhaps, but not for the sake of revelling and indulging in it but because sometimes grimness is a necessary antidote to toxic positivity.

Ed and Job's friends also share a similar kind of spiritual sloth I think - a clinging to certain ideas because it makes the world a more palatable place, regardless of the implications or consequences. Ultimately there is comfort in facing the truth and understanding there is no magical defence against sickness and poverty and war and loss - but it can be terrifying too for those who would rather ignore it.

#fma 03 #fma 2003 #fma 03 meta #fma #cw religion #cw christianity #i feel like this is simultaneously really obvious and not worth talking about and also a really bizarre and weird stretch lol

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[jeanschoonbroodt]

Gospel-prophecy.

This says GOD :

'I AM the One who was willing to sacrifice My holy Son for you, but many of you despised that holy sacrifice that would have saved you for eternity. Many rejected the message of the cross. Therefore I will seek them to convince that I AM and that I AM their Judge by My holy Spirit and words, for I AM Spirit/Ghost and I AM Holy. Therefore be holy, if you want to stay in My holy Presence without being condemned. My Son Yeshua HaMashiach Wamalech HaYehuddim died for your sins/transgressions of the Law, so that you can get forgiveness for the sins that you comitted while being ignorant concerning the righteousness of GOD, which exists in this... that I have revealed My holy righteousness outside of the thora for and to those and into and over those who believe in Me and My Son and Our work of salvation and reconciliation, justification and sanctification and completion and glorification... because of Our Giving Goodness or grace by means of the by Us created faith in their hearts by Our Spirit and words and the faith in Our saving grace and work of salvation In Christ Jezus and His atoning/reconciling work on the wood of curses/cross of calvery. I AM. We call those people righteouss who believe Us and Our redeeming work on the cross... and after having received the Holy Spirit they will be Our holy witnesses who will be lead by Our Spirit to do the good works that We have prepared for them to do... so that We and Our work of salvation will be glorified in all they will speak and sing and do. I AM. By grace they were/are/will be saved through faith... and it is a gift of Us... and not because of their own works according to the law given by Mozes, the man of GOD. I AM. For all sinned and needed/need the forgiveness of their sins, which has been fulfilled in My Son and His sacrifice and shedding of His blood to forgive and reconcile all to Me. I AM."

22.04.2024.

J.M.P. Schoonbroodt. NL.

[mingzisdrgongxuo]

that's odd. i don't hear the housekeeper's cart. so it's not them stomping around being rude, trying to make waves....

just the wiggers from the past two nights.

why are they trying to play "tune-in tokyo?"

can you not function right if you're not like some dog choking on their leash? doesn't your dogg know how to heal?

same as fucking tweakers, they don't like mellow or relaxing or "chill", everything needs to be overtorqued and wound up like a child's toy.

what's it to you? is it messing up your prostitution or meth/cocaine peddling?

am i supposed to blame my sister?

or that same joto from the family, needing to stir up shit because he feels powerless, i dunno, maybe it's because he's not king of the family, or does not control anybody else's money to make people obey him.

are you lost without knowing what i'm thinking? stupid dog trying to flush out fox-holes making waves and disturbing the peace, for signs of life?

or do you get mad when i don't write crazy stuff? why? do you need it to feel better about your own problems?

personally, i think that says something about you.

do you need it the way politicians need each other to look bad, so you can have an arguement or an accusation to win?

do you feel "threatened" when you see me making friends or being normal? how is that a threat to you? were they supposed to be your friends instead of mine?

my sister is married and lives out of state. but i don't check up on her. i respect her privacy and her rightful boundaries, unlike SOMEBODY. she could be living in my old house for all i know. but what would that prove, on what manpower or resources?

to make enemies for no reason as the final endgame?

if i never returned she would have a bigger inheritance instead of only half of it. is that what you need to win? planting seeds of suspicion, distrust or doubt, just to see if you can? how righteouss. i don't exactly like thinking this stuff. you gonna screenshot or forward this to her? or is she capable of spying on me or being dishonest about her role in this equation just fine since that's the illusion you want to paint. and then there's what she inherits from me as next of kin. way more than what my was divided between my parents. does that motivate her to keep me alive?

my sister has been nothing but good to me, and a friend, she's been there in my times of need and helped at everything life throws at it. i cannot dispute any of that. i also cannot think of a time in either of our lives when i acted against her or did anything unforgiveable that would motivate or provoke ill will.

i don't appreciate some mind felcher trying to give me the 3rd degree while in contempt of their own court.

my stepmother used to speak openly in front of us, and talk all kinds of shit about her mom, "when is she going to hurry up and die". were my stepmother's words about her own mom.

the "how to host a murder" roleplaying party game, similar to clue, was a nice touch.

i don't know what that meant, i just remember the circumstances, and what my dilemma was at the time. red flag is all i know and i'm not just shrugging it off. i have to think about it if somebody else already is.

are you faulting me for not ruling anybody out when my quality of life, survival, or longevity is at stake? it's nothing against you. it's against everybody. especially those i have loose ends and unresolved shit from my past about, including previous life-threatening, documented, on-record emergencies. i survived and still live to talk about it. is that a problem for you?

this fagmob courtesy of mother's brother is no better. should have just broke your silence if you know something, instead of trying to play me against her. you sure as fuck aren't there for either of us, and plenty of time, resources, travel and money spent, to be there AGAINST us.

all up in my shit 24/7, do you have time to investigate or be up in anybody elses shit 24/7?

fuckin' wiggers back at it, playing shitty music.

why should i even feed your dialog with a complaint.

your dj/pa speakers aint shit. i don't hear you, it doesn't impress or intimidate me, no rhythm, can't keep a beat. can't dance to the shit. how do you even fuck to this garbage? black without soul. ignorant fool. go ahead and shit on the community while you try to impress your non-binary friends. don't even waste your weed on this buzzkill. wait until somebody else has shit to say about you. the mirror you hold up that you've been saving for a rainy day doesn't mean shit.

go live outside, homeless, no shelter. no running water, no sink, no mirror, no shower, no ac in the summer, no heat in the winter, eat nothing but the garbage you find in the trash cans. five years, outside, no days off. no friends, no "homeboys", no backup or support, noone watching your back, plenty of people looking to stab you in it though. noone gives one fuck about you. everybody is your enemy. everybody wants you out of your sight, kids arrange bum fights tries to entrap you over petty shit, and steals from your homeless ass because they think it makes them cool, and makes life generally unpleasant for you.

does it further their career? does it make them the bigger man or better person? i doubt it.

what do you think you have energy or patience for with people? how long did you have to wait for some spineless sociopath piece of shit to stop fighting with you, before you're "allowed" to live in peace?

must be church crusaders huh.

funny how word travels, and attitudes and behaviors change. it's almost as if they monitor my tumblr activity.

for what? in case i badmouth the landlord, (as if you dont... ) so you can screenshot my words and show them how two-faced you are.. and what a "true friend" you are to them? trying to take what i say and use it against me, as if you're mirandizing me?

is this the positivity that you're "all about"?

and you're not punished for seeking negativity or trying to manifest it, huh?

why should i give you power? you already have power, or are in power, why should i give you any? i remember what it's like to be cold hungry and alone with no shelter. i know what it's like to watch you feast and bitch about your have-nots, while i'm eating garbage, without a word from me. where somebody can just walk up to you, rob you blind or shank you in your sleep and noone gives a fuck even if they see you do it. you don't give me power, you try to take what power i have away from me. why the fuck should i give you power?

why are you watching the parking lot so intensely dickhead? are playing backup for the wigger party?

you sure are a slave over your thoughts concerning me. when do you have time to actually investigate anything, your too busy trying to get a rise out of me everyday, like your little dick depends on it.

there. words. do you feel like you have power now, that you don't have over people?

[classicslesbianopinions]

half related but one of my professors last semester pronounced constantinople like "con-stan-tih-noh-plea" and i internally screamed every time

WHAT

that’s worse than anything we can say about aristotle

#righteoussness

[minatokun]

righteoussness replied to your post “I literally cannot stop thinking about Applebee's poly tweet”

about what now

Brand twitter is jokes

#righteoussness

[girldong]

favorite ariana grande song

#righteoussness

[findingoblivion]

🌻

okay my first thought was wow why am i not following you...my 2nd thought was damn jordan peterson is a fucking idiot 

#righteoussness

[oliviridian]

righteoussness replied to your post “I feel like I'm gonna accidentally out myself with my Google account...”

can you like make a new account and move the project over?

i’ve thought about it but i’m already outing myself at my new school and I have two weeks so fuck it

#righteoussness

[seepinghoney]

wouuuld you ever go on a days/weeks long road trip

i absolutely woullddd ... hmm i would wanna go to sedona, arizona w someone/some people special .. That would be so incredibly magical *__* ^__^ i love travelling sm , i just wanna drive while someone sleeps in the passengers seat >__

#answered #righteoussness

[coolxatu]

first impression: unapproachable intimidating. current impression: approachable intimidating

omgg am i really intimidating

#i dont mean 2 be! #righteoussness #an ask

[karnalesbian]

whats ur favorite animal .?

oghdfg i love. red pandas so much i adore them but on the other hand otters. but also dogs. and cats. hamsters. rabbits. this is hard i love them all

#righteoussness