#see you in utopia

[cutetanuki-chan]

John's chapter in Nona are so funny cause John keeps throwing all of this names

while Harrow is like

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #shitpost #harrow the ninth #'see I made an utopia' John you don't even have a twilight John

[nebulouscoffee]

"My name is Nyota. I'm the communications officer, I- I was born in Kenya- I used to have a cat, named Kamili. My first memory is watching my dad play the piano. I'm real."

Okay but I was wholly unprepared for how much it would mean to me to see more of Uhura's African identity actually being canonised by this show. The "I'm real" especially got to me; just a throwaway line but it really made me think of the Ben Sisko/Benny Russell parallels! Nyota, born in the 23rd century, is exactly the sort of person Benny Russell dreamed could exist in the future. She is real! She exists!

#celia gooding uhura u are everything 2 me #although. ten whole series of ''sci-fi utopia'' and we are still yet to actually SEE Africa or Asia properly lmao #literally this woman was having a traumatic flashback she was like OMG I'M AT THE SHUTTLECRASH AGAIN #meanwhile I was like OMG SHE'S IN KENYA AGAIN!! #STAR TREK SHOW ME 23th CENTURY AFRICA PLS #star trek: you can have a peek of skyscraper in the corner #me: omg a peek of skyscraper in the corner #(lol ok but in all seriousness. how the global south fits into a quote unquote ''developed'' TECH utopia is an important question!! #you could sidestep it in the 90s ig but now it feels like they're just being cowards about it lol) #all the same I am glad to have characters like her actually acknowledge where they come from in so many words #it does mean something #snw

[mwagneto]

why is everyone suddenly jackdoctor posting. like i'm not complaining i've just been indescribably sick over that entire storyline for years so it's funny to see it picking up steam again

#UTOPIA IS UP NEXT IN MY REWATCH BRO I WILL LITERALLY DIE 😅 #and i keep seeing that utopia clip someone posted that i still can't hit play on like oh my GODD you want me to die #the way it's like. already batshit crazy if you just watch dr who but then here i am having #consumed literally hundreds of hours of extra content and soso deeply ill #YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT.... HHNNHNYJTNJFHFHFHFHDHB #so glad i get to force THREE of my friends to watch t.orchwood with me coz I #never got to talk abt it before and now I'll finally be unleashed. lordddddd #like ohhmy god it's not even like... like i dont SHIP them i dont think i ship anything in dw #but what an incredible story especially after you get All of jack's side of it. hough #i should whip up a list or a watching/listening order or something the catalogue of dweu in #my head has to be of SOME use other than making 3 specific ppl sit through it with me.... #doctor who #jackdoctor #jack harkness #trying to start a tagging system for dw after 7 years on tumblr is gonna bite me in the ass

[klanced]

Keith’s parents were bi4bi but in the sense that Krolia thought Texas Kogane was butch and Texas thought Krolia was a twunk

#voltron #BSHABEHWWBBSHXJSIAJQBWQBA. okay okay okay. okay. hi. #Krolia #Texas Kogane #keith #shitpost #do you see my vision though #voltronpride #2/3 of my voltron pride posts are me desperately asking for people to buy into my ideal utopia

[biracy]

The way people on this website like confidently assert their superiority over "TikTok teens" (concept I have complained about at length) bc "they wouldn't survive in the NINETIES when everyone said FAG and DYKE". Like yes obviously people shouldn't police other people's language usage but also treating people like cringey loser idiots for not feeling super comfortable personally using terms that could potentially carry a lot of baggage for them that you don't know about is extremely bizarre and I cannot believe this is where we're at. This is "if you are uncomfortable with me calling you A Queer it's because you're a terf" all over again except with this shitty faux-edgelord coat of paint over it

#also if i see one more cis person call people 'trannies' bc 'solidarity' i'm exploding the world. shut the fuck up #open mick night #lgbt #there are so many layers to this btw #continuous mocking of 'puriteens' or whatever by adults #idolizing a fictitious 70s/80s/90s Queer Utopia With No Infighting that never actually existed in that form at all #weird gay neoclassicism #and then ofc the edgelord thing which is the same as the 'transSEXUAL' thing which as established i am over #look. you were all so annoying you made being a transfag or whatever boring. are you happy now

[quotidianish]

I love when characters have a weird relationship with their identity as an immigrant (psychoanalysing silly tf2 men) (demo n heavy)

#The long title is for a fic I’ve always wanted to write #Mostly about how they both heard of America through media in their nation as an ever welcoming utopia #Mikhail dreams of it or a world like it during his hardest times #It’s something that sticks with him throughout life the early naive idea of a country free from strife #Then when he arrives and suffering is everywhere #Hatred Directed especially at people like him and Tavish #Blah blah blah idk #They bond over it. TWO FUCKED UP IMMIGRANT BOYS!! Are you interested (shaking) #The scene in particular is seeing some dead guy on the street #People are ignoring said dead guy and they try to brush it off #sorry for rambling woopsie #tf2 #art #tf2 demoman #tf2 soldier #tf2 heavy #tf2 fanart #team fortress 2 #quotidianish

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many people insisting "the ends will justify the means" without ever asking whether the means have literally any chance of achieving the end in the first place

#'is this about -' this is about every online leftist i have ever met #listen. many if not most of you are going to have to die in the inevitable Glorious Revolution #but cheer up! at least we ALSO don't have any fucking plans for building a functional society afterwards #bloody revolutions just sort of naturally lead to utopias right? that's why we have so many of those around? #just. over and over and over again i see people advocating for just taking whatever the absolute most radical action is #without ever once asking themselves 'what actual; tangible good will this accomplish other than making me feel good about myself?'

[lakecountylibrary]

That moment when someone asks, hesitantly, how much it will cost and I get to say :D it's free :D :D

#they have a split second to be nervous about why I'm grinning at them before it sinks in and they are grinning too #this time it was about our Libratory services where we turn old film into digital files but it comes up a lot for other things too #need to replace your library card? free. brought a movie back late? free. want to go to that lecture on the history of Halloween? freeeeeee #and it's always a joy #library life #public libraries #be the post-capitalist utopia you wish to see in the world uwu

[torgawl]

i'm so in love with wrio. that man is the embodiment of mercy and compassion. he is so... human. despite the deep disdain for atrocious acts that hurt others, especially acts that remind him of his own pain and traumas, he is able to keep himself in check and hold on to his values. despite being so proactive in fixing the wrongdoings of people that actively harm those under his care and assuring that everyone is supported in the best way possible; despite knowing he could have not controlled other people's hearts once they were in too deep in their own sins, he still feels helpless and incompetent. he recognises he cannot fully empathise with those who have been hurt for he has not experienced what they have and he understands that some wounds might not be able to heal even with all the attention and efforts, or at least not that easily. and it pains him. his whole life he's been trying to protect others. all his hard work during his time at the fortress and taking over it's administration has granted him the power and resources to actually change lives in a more restorative way, with a bigger amplitude than just the people who he's close to. yet he's only human. and not everyone wishes to be saved. and he doesn't hold back from breaking his own rules if means he is guaranteeing the best outcome for the greater good, for the well being of all of those he's sworn to protect. and although he earned himself a respectable title and even got used to being referred to in that way, he doesn't see people at the fortress as innmates but as equals. he never stopped being the little boy that was sentenced to live over a decade of his life there. and he is so good at what he does and he is so successful at restoring people's hopes in life, at giving them a second chance to become who they want to be, that there's people who actually want to stay there. he is the literal personification of turning your own pain into goodness, into love. love for community and love for others. he found meaning in making the world a better place and i just think that's really fucking beautiful.

#cerberus preventing the dead from leaving the underworld vs wrio whose compassion makes people not want to leave the fortress #god he makes me go feral #sorry for wrioposting everyday shjshdh he never leaves my mind #i saw someone point out the 3 heads possibly meaning past present and future and how we get to see a bit of all of those aspects through #his quest and i think that's really cool #also how the main themes surrounding his character are redemption and retribution #dwelling into these topics is just fun and i think they did it really well and again i think wrio is incredibly well written #i just think it's cool to see a character in a position with power to punish others be someone who was also judged by that same system #i think it's cool that rather than blindly following authority he used his power to change and reform the system #he created this utopia of the perfect living conditions and managed to sustain them #it makes you feel a certain type of way when you strive or wish for this type of equity and justice in the real world too #obviously it's only a slice of the cake but it's a relevant slice of the cake #not to enter a socialism and politics conversation but wriothesley and his quest share a very radical ideal and i think it's relevant #to acknowledge it #something something stories about revolution #i'm a bit sleepy tired it's so late but well i had to write something bye #genshin thoughts #genshin impact #my post

[moncuries]

i am feeling monumentally sad right now and ive journaled but it is not going away. and not bc surgery is looming over me, ive quelled that beast.

my circle is so extremely supportive of me. i was able to fundraise my surgery cost entirely from friends and family. i am extraordinarily lucky.

i have had two conversations with my mum leading up to tomorrow. one, we went on a hike, and she told me she was feeling anxious about the operation. i said me too, whats on your mind? and we talked. she worried about what i would miss.

the second, she texted me tonight while i was at work. why hadn’t i told my brother the surgery date? she imagines he feels hurt at being out of the loop. sorry, i told her, that was my bad.

nobody i love has asked me how i’m feeling. nobody.

so i told her this, and she said i’m sorry, that was such a failure on my part. and i said okay. thank you. and she asked me how i’m feeling and i couldnt find the words to say much more. maybe if she had asked me earlier. what do you even say to that

and dont think you need to worry about me. i will be well looked after. and more than anything, i’m excited. i’m just also a bit heartbroken

#top surgery #see you on the other side boys #and truly im alright #just reflecting on this a little i guess #sometimes when you’re living in such an outwardly supportive community i think people around you assume that the utopia that they #perceive is also the one you experience #life is good and im doing something ive wanted for a long time #but there is so much more to this feeling than just the joy #trans

[meadowlarkx]

One of my favorite things about the worldbuilding in The Left Hand of Darkness is the "perverts" in Gethenian society—those who are permanently in one of the kemmer forms. The "normal" person on Gethen goes through a kemmer cycle with periods of somer, but that's not every Gethenian. People whose bodies don't work this way get treated with repulsion. Genly compares them to "homosexuals" in his society, and that comparison is really instructive. Gethenians may not have gender roles and identities the way we do, but they do have societal norms, including about bodies and sexuality. And those norms leave people out. They are imperfect and sometimes they are unfair. I think this is part of the point.

In subtle ways, this theme is woven throughout the book's descriptions of Gethenian cultures. To stick to sexuality, something similar can be said about the different norms surrounding incest on Gethen and the empathic treatment of Estraven's past relationship with Arek. There is no taboo about incest between siblings on Gethen, only on siblings vowing kemmering, but if a child is born of it, the parents have to separate (and it seems like Estraven is separated from Sorve because of this). The reason for including this element, in my reading, isn't to impose our own moral standards by "showing" that Estraven's relationship with Arek was "bad" (in fact, we learn fairly little about it, beyond that Estraven cared deeply for him.) Instead, I think it's partly to demonstrate the dissonance between Gethenian mores and our own, and unsettle both. Because, like Genly, we see Gethenian norms as strange, we can notice that they bring about particular situations and cause particular hurts. Even the custom of vowing kemmering monogamously for life, which sounds more familiar, is shown as double-edged. Estraven breaks a taboo by making his "false" vow to Ashe, but was trying to build a new life with Ashe really wrong?

These things are not 1:1 to any "real life" issue, but like everything else in this story, I think they're chosen because they are provocative. It's really meaningful to me that even in terms of gender and sexuality, Gethen isn't painted as a utopia, but as a real place. Le Guin shows us two sets of norms and asks us not just "are our norms arbitrary and/or constructed rather than essential truths?" but also "are norms always socially constructed? Should we question them sometimes? What harm is done to maintain them? Who is being left out?"

#the left hand of darkness #lhod #my posts #thank you alix jouissants for reading over this and aiding me to express more clearly <3 <3 <3 #and idk i am obsessed with ''estraven the traitor'' being a name from folk legend. with the way the character who comes across most moral #and most thoughtful betrays the norms of patriotism and of prejudice against ''perverts''. vows twice and had a child with his sibling #it says something powerful i think about what is really important and more important about a person ultimately. character of all time. #this is not to say the normless utopia could/should exist or that the portrayal of gethenian cultures is wholly negative btw--not at all #constructed =/= useless or without power/meaning or completely arbitrary either #just it is such a thoughtful book. and it's saying so much on so many levels #obviously i haven't even touched here shifgrethor or suicide or the budding nationalism... and i don't have my copy on me. #maybe some of this seems obvious but it feels worth highlighting #edit: there's more to say about the sibling thing and ursula's logic in why a society that places different associations on sex might be #mainly concerned with avoiding kids born of those unions--but i'm thinking here about what we see of estraven's experience

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

“Voting doesn’t matter”, “ I hate electoralism”, “we should take away their power until they learn better”, oh just give up and admit you don’t like the concept of democracy.

#politics #I’m seeing more and more opinions like this floating around #there’s no mythical society where everyone secretly agrees with you and the people you hate are disenfranchised and this creates a utopia

[mayrine]

mfs be like “ I have a bad attention span” and then their favourite youtube video is an 8 hour analysis of a 20 year old show that they have never and will never watch

#I am mfs #This post is about The best (and worst) show you haven't see #I've watched that video so many times #wtf is wrong with me #video essay #youtube #Pyrocynical #youtube videos #youtube essey #utopia #utopia show #sleep deprived ramblings

[klanced]

from aroace yoi pfp user to lesbian voltron pfp user, can we all eat ice cream after this war is over

x

#ask #fishshit #do you see my vision. do you see the utopia i am envisioning. #blorbopoll #lancesweep #shitpost #5 days from now. we lie on a battlefield. the where doesn't matter. i can barely even remember the why. does it matter? we're dying. #we're dying. we've been dying all night. we never stopped really. #i look at you. at one point i remember our uniforms looking different. but here in the mud we all look the same. #we all wear resignation the same. we're all waiting for the same thing after all. #i reach out. or maybe you reach out. we brush hands. it's the warmest thing i've felt in a long while. we talk. about ice cream. #i want to eat ice cream with you so badly. i tell you. so let's do it. you say. together. let's go together #let's go together i smile.

[jojotier]

how do you write a story where the protagonist dies?

not one where the protagonist is fighting you every step of the way- not one where she is begging you to spare her life. I feel like that's easier, because you just set fate in motion, and hey, for the story you want, you can't interfere. it was always going to end like this. like yes I'm mourning you, but the laws of this world I've built dictate that your death is inevitable. Sorry. It will be over soon. Then we can rest.

but what do you do when your protagonist wants to die?

not because of suicidal ideation, because that, too, would be easier to deal with. you show her that life is still worth living. you show her kindness, and love, and even if she still constantly wants to die at least she can see that she might need to work on that, and you can at least promise her that things will be okay. it got better for me, so it's really just common decency to make sure it gets better for you.

but what if your protagonist has lived too long? What if there isn't any getting better because this is better, this is as good as it's going to get, and to live is to repeat a thousand years of illness and stasis?

The win state's long since been reached. She's loved and lost and longs only to go home to the place her mother and her mother's mother and her grandmother's mother has died.

how cruel am I, then, that my first instinct is to deny her?

#suicide mention #death mention #writing #my writing #original writing #or really just woes of writeblr i guess jbhkjnl #backburner projects #idk how to describe it its like #there's a hidden violence to even a true utopia #and like i don't mean a fake 'utopia' trying to hide a dystopia i mean a true blue Utopia #where humans have reached the apex of kindness and compassion and civilization and strive to tell stories #and because of how perfect everything is #people must therefore shy away from when struggles become Imperfect #when the sick and dying snap and snarl and push you away #when the illness makes them see shadows in the corner. when they stop being so easily ''''pitiable'''' bc they no longer are #the picture perfect Good Patient #because to be human is to be angry and bitter and vindictive too just as much as it is to be good #and im tired of pretending that morally good characters arent allowed to snap and be irrational #but also god i wish i could help

[ben-the-hyena]

Tumblr/Twitter when they love a movie in which the villain species came where the good guys' species lives, passed as good at first by earning their trust and brought "civilization" but then show their true colors and exploit, destroy and kill : This is an anti-colonialism movie :) awesome allegory, very deep

Tumblr/Twitter when they dislike a movie in which the villain species came where the good guys' species lives, passed as good at first by earning their trust and brought "civilization" but then show their true colors and exploit, destroy and kill : THIS IS AN ANTI-IMMIGRANT MOVIE WE HAVE TO CANCEL IT >:(

#thinking of TDC AOR and Angry Birds for both cases. they BOTH are anti-colonialism !?! #the pigs are literally more 'advanced' converting the 'savages' (the birds still living in a little utopia and simple houses) #earning their trust and respect but they actually are led by a king (whereas the birds don't have much authority figures) #and then not only steal resources/eggnap unborn babies to eat them but gratuitously destroy the whole home because why not #all to make their own country richer and people happier at the depend of 'lesser species'. it IS colonialism ! #just say you don't like the Angry Birds movie (it IS less good that AOR which is phenomenal and smarter) but still ! #if you see this as anti-immigrant what does it mean about what you actually think of immigrants ? #movie #tumblr #twitter #lol #double standards man. ALWAYS that on these hellsites + #colonialism #immigration