#shitty philosophy

[yourlocalnerd07]

Humans are really just animals but we try to pretend we're not. Empathy? Yeah, that's because we're HUMAN and CIVILIZED. Forget that other species do this too. Pets? Ew! What am I an animal? (Rubbing someone's hair is a common way of showing affection)

A lot of how we act is a drape over the animal backend that we are. It's a charade to make us seem more profound than we actually are. Some people, however, come wtih disabilities that tear a gash into this wall, exposing the animal nature inside. They aren't more animal than you or I, they just aren't afraid to show it.

#nerdposting #shitty philosophy #text post

[vaxolang]

Shitty philosophy

Acrylic painting on canvas

size 30x23 cm

#vaxo lang #shitty philosophy #acrylic painting #acrylic #creepy art #red #contemporary artist #contemporary art #contemporary painting #figurative art

[crybabyblackbear]

do you feel

that rumbling, too?

a quiet trembling

that need to run

to grasp

to tear with your claws.

do I need to rip away my own flesh

or someone else's to feel better...?

or maybe

I just need

a hand

in mine

and a soft reminder

that it's alright to

be

#shitty poetry #shitty philosophy #eldritchcore #grief #restlessness #therian

[bluegoblinzz]

So I was just thinking about how fundamental questions about how the universe, our minds, and society work all can affect how one thinks or acts. Questions about free will bring about ethical questions. Questions about whether or not oneself exists bring about questions of what it means to KNOW things, which brings about more wariness of taking information at face value.

And that me thinking: what if a fantasy society of Mary sues, like the elves built a society AFTER thinking through all these questions, and the reason they are good at everything is because they know “the answer to life’s questions” so to speak?

#fantasy #writing #elf #philosophy #shitty philosophy

[fellthemarvelous]

Holy forking shirtballs

I'm choosing violence today. I started this on Twitter, but I'm going to finish my thoughts here like I always do.

But what really blows my mind the most is the way that people look at Aziraphale's "choice" at the end, as if he had one to fucking begin with.

I'm sorry, but Aziraphale knows how messed up Heaven is. He told The Metatron, more than once, that he did not want to go back to Heaven! We can debate what each of us means by "choice" all night because my "choice" and your "choice" might be two different concepts. He could have been strong armed by The Metatron or he could have looked at where things were headed and realized he had no choice but to intervene himself.

You need to ask yourself what Aziraphale has a moral imperative to do.

What do we owe to each other?

Seriously, if you have not watched The Good Place, I recommend you go and watch it, because it absolutely shaped how I've viewed Good Omens 2 since its release.

My levels of frustration with the bad faith mischaracterizations of Aziraphale are off the charts. If you are blaming him for everything, implying that he should have to grovel and that Crowley has a right to hurt him back, you have missed the point of Good Omens entirely.

I defend Aziraphale, but I don't think one of them is more right or wrong than the other. They're equals. They're a group of the two of them, acting and reacting to each other throughout history. They're Alpha Centauri.

I cannot even begin to explain how fucking devastated I felt when Crowley said these words, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. What he said took a lot of courage because he's finally admitting something they've both been too scared to publicly define for 6,000 years. Crowley has had to spend so long with a rough outer shell because he fell and had to hide all of his softness.

The look on his face was one of pure joy when he created that nebula, but I think the fact that he got to share that moment with Aziraphale is what has always stuck with him.

So yeah, seeing Crowley with a broken heart at the end of "Every Day" was sad for me as well.

My brain still lives here!!

But Neil has said that Good Omens 3 is not quiet, gentle, or romantic. I imagine it's going to be more like the the first season in which they are not central to the plot. GO2 will help us make sense of how they ended up where they are when we see the bigger picture with all the other major players involved with GO3.

Aziraphale was still a soldier and accidentally got himself discorporated in his own magic circle in season one. He had a platoon waiting on him to start Armageddon, and he deserted them to go save the world with Crowley instead. Aziraphale is a deserter. I need everyone to remember that. He yeeted himself out of Heaven and sought out Crowley before even locating a body just to warn him about what was happening so they could try to save the world together.

I can't help but think of 1941 and that magician who had been arrested for being a deserter.

Aziraphale disobeyed orders. That took courage but it branded him as a traitor against Heaven. They tried to destroy him for it the same way Hell tried to destroy Crowley for his part in stopping the war.

Aziraphale and Job are the only characters we have seen interacting with God directly. Aziraphale has spoken to God before and he is determined to do so again.

Aziraphale knows Heaven is flawed, but he also knows it's supposed to be good. He wants it to be good. He does not like the way the system works and he wants to make a difference. (And I'm pretty sure he's also determined to talk to God without being intercepted by The Metatron.)

Since when is that a bad thing? I don't get it. And I've had this discussion before.

If you need to change the system by burning the old one to the ground, it's still change, and we don't know what Aziraphale has planned.

It seems to me that people just want to see Aziraphale fail because it would punish him for returning to Heaven instead of running off with Crowley.

Some of y'all take everything Aziraphale says or does and twist those things into malicious anti-Crowley actions because you think the only reason Aziraphale exists is to make Crowley happy, and if he isn't thinking only about Crowley then he's doing something wrong.

Aziraphale does not exist as a plot device to further Crowley's character. They come as a pair. They've been learning from each other for 6,000 years. Crowley challenges Aziraphale just as much as Aziraphale challenges him.

You can be mad at Aziraphale all you want, but villainizing him is gross. Defending Crowley does not mean you have to tear down and mischaracterize Aziraphale anymore than defending Aziraphale means you have to tear down Crowley (but I don't see that happen on nearly the same level it happens to Aziraphale). Stop painting Aziraphale as an abusive partner, for fuck sake.

Aziraphale knows there are flaws in the system. He wants to make a difference, and since he has seen that Gabriel can change, then maybe the whole system can. He has to at least try, and if he can succeed then maybe he and Crowley can stop hiding and finally be together without having to look over their shoulders all the time.

Why is that a bad thing? He's just as protective of Crowley as Crowley is of him!

But don't forget that Aziraphale's wing was covering Adam and Eve too. As much as a wants to protect Crowley, he has a moral imperative to keep humanity safe as well.

He sent Adam and Eve into the unknown with a flaming sword so they could protect themselves.

As much as he wants to be with Crowley, there are 8 billion people on Earth heading toward the Second Coming and Judgment Day. They'll work together to fight alongside humanity in the end. Aziraphale should not have to humiliate himself just to earn Crowley's forgiveness. That's a rancid notion.

The Resurrectionist was a whole ass moral dilemma for Aziraphale, which is why I brought up The Good Place earlier, but that's a post for a different time.

Aziraphale has his own motivations and they're just as important as Crowley's, and they don't have to be chalked up to Aziraphale being the bad guy. Weird, I know, but shades of grey.

"To the world."

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale defense squad #yeah i'm being bitchy #no i don't care if you're offended #no i'm not interested in your aziraphale hate #i'm not interested in hearing takes about aziraphale being toxic from people who can't even be objective #some of y'all need to watch the good place because you need a lesson in moral philosophy #we should be able to have discussions about the characters without gross takes calling aziraphale abusive #az and crowley approach everything from wildly different perspectives because of where they are #just admit y'all shit on az because he doesn't look or act like crowley #I'm so done with the shitty aziraphale takes #they aren't even interesting enough to debate #they're just annoying

[shittysawtraps]

john kramer gets a cat and it immediately becomes his favorite apprentice

#shitty saw traps #saw franchise #mod amanda #john: a life on the streets and you have only become more resilient and appreciative of life’s little pleasures. #you truly encompass the soul of my philosophy #cat: meow

[archerygun]

I think it’s so fucking funny that platonic love is named after Plato. The guy that was so down bad that he developed the soulmates theory that nobody can be whole without a romantic partner because the gods split us in half or some shit and we’re incomplete without our missing half.

Whoever did this, I love you. The spirit of Diogenes is pissing himself laughing right now.

#also fuck his shitty theory lmao #plato #funny #amatonormativity #diogenes #philosophy

[lazaruspiss]

the part of bruce being abusive where he still loves the people he hurts is important guys. like you know it's possible to hurt people even when you love them, right? you know that it's possible to do terrible things without fully realizing and/or admitting that said things are terrible, right? you understand that relationships can be complex, right??

#also: abusers are often still humans with thoughts and feelings. i do not say that out of sympathy or fondness. #treating them like monsters without any internal depth takes away their agency and cheapens the intimacy of the damage they cause. #my boogeyman goes to church and holds the door open for old ladies and can feel pain and loneliness #im sorry but most shitty people don't just sit around being evil 24/7 #what makes them shitty is their actions #not an internal state of being evil #hiiiiiiiii welcome to laz rants about human morality. again #i need to take a class on moral philosophy or smth and get it out of my system lmao

[cobblestonevoid]

Words cannot express the love that I hold for bad art. Art that society would call in poor taste, a waste of time and money, poorly executed, not deep enough, too deep, et cetera. I hate the way the narrative is so strongly pushed that art has to have a point, or meet specific criteria, or be profitable. Art with a motive other than joy in creation and the expression of thoughts or feelings or opinions feels disingenuous, or at the least severely diluted. Creative expression is so beautiful and visceral, and that’s only compounded when it’s not created for any sake other than making art.

#victorian aestheticism would LOVE me #art for art's sake #long live bad art #shitty art #thoughts #art #philosophy #aestheticism #the aesthetic movement #oscar wilde #my thoughts #my thots #ideas #writers when they think too hard

[noisytenant]

every time standpoint epistemology is used to assert sole authority over defining the reality of a situation, an angel dies violently

#indexed post #Today I'm getting mad about zionist jews claiming authority on the definition of genocide #But the phenomenon shows up in various capacities and it's basically always faulty logic + shitty philosophy

[may-sapphic]

philosophers who dont know the fancy words are just labelled as insane

#shitpost #thoughts #philosophy #shitty poetry #i need to learn the fancy words #im not crazy

[inevitablemoment]

Vicky Allagash Conway - You Love, Therefore You Are

I made this moodboard back in June 2021, and I'm finally sharing it with you, as Chapter 10 of will be posted later this afternoon!

Check out Vicky's complete wedding look here!

#You Love Therefore You Are #Jamie x Vicky #Tracy Pollan #Michael J. Fox #Jame Conway x Vicky Allagash #The Philosophy of Love #Vicky Allagash #My Shitty Outfits #Fic Extras #OTP: What A Perfect Feeling #Wedding Fic #Bright Lights Big City #Michael x Tracy #Michael J. Fox x Tracy Pollan #Fanfic and Fandom

[crybabyblackbear]

This morning I woke up wondering if

the reason more recent werewolf stories have the werewolf killing their loved ones is because

when we're hurt or confused or angry

and our friends or family try to reach out

we lash out

to protect ourselves when we feel most vulnerable

regardless of the threat your people pose

and suddenly we find

the blood of our loved ones on our claws

and their throat in our teeth

and it hurts

hurts

hurts

to realize that for a moment

you would ever hurt

someone that loves you

and forgives you,,,

#werewolf #werewolves #folklore #horror #shitty philosophy #cryptidcore

[shortfatbitch]

We don't have to put everything in the bagel. Some things make life worth living!

#everything everywhere all at once #eeaao #everything bagel #i said this after allowing my sibling to gnaw on the shitty devotional book a relative gave me for xmas #my new life philosophy #op #please allow a little whimsy in your life

[dreadfutures]

I really like this article that came across my dash today. I want to go out and read his books now, but as a preemptive summary of how climate change and justice are both global and interconnected, across peoples and between concepts, it seems really thought provoking.

Especially this:

On a cursory read, the sweeping history of what Táíwò calls “global racial empire” could lead you to think there’s no room in his account for human agency, for bucking the course of history and changing the world right now. But Táíwò doesn’t think history dictates what people do. History may create the constraints and boundaries within which people make choices, but they still make choices. The more those boundaries are expanded, the more actions that are available to people, Táíwò’s argument goes. And, perhaps, if people are more free and empowered, they will be more likely to coordinate and solve big problems like climate change.

[...]

In our conversations I got the sense that, if there’s one thing about Táíwò’s account that keeps him awake at night, it’s how close this belief is to an article of faith, rather than a reasoned philosophy. He knows there’s no guarantee that greater human freedom and empowerment will stop climate change, or bring about justice. If given more choices, people might pick the wrong ones. Nevertheless, Táíwò thinks it only makes sense to let them try.

#personal #hopepunk #philosophy #colonialism #climate change #i needed to hear this after the shitty comment i got today honestly

[bluewithpurplepolkadots]

I’m sometimes wondering about the irreparable damage the whole idea that ‘your otp reflects what you want irl about relationships’ has done to writing in fandom. Like not only in like people hating people for shipping pretty innocuous things like a bog standard and not even that offensive enemies to lovers. But even within the more considered acceptable pairings (or hell even the maligned ones desperately trying to prove they are perfect) the quality is just… not there.

It’s all wish fulfilment and no story like that claimed statement.

Like I’m sorry but your blorbo doesn’t really seem like the type to really be a passionate and emotional feminist when he keeps calling the main heroine a little girl.

Like.. maybe he can go through a character arc? Isn’t that a little more interesting? Or maybe he can just get punched in the face and later whine to one of his minions and they have pity sex instead. That’s fine too. It’s a little weird to have a character speak like a therapist trainee on YouTube when he canonically has the emotional constipation and the temperament of a donkey with bowel issues.

#Like I also really like friends to lovers but like #some people talk like they’re in a therapist session in them in fanfics with no argument before hand #where’s the misunderstandings #The clash of philosophies #the disagreements #Odd thing I’ve noticed is that occasionally when I’m reading some romance I like sometimes the writer is like aroace #or if it’s m/f the writer is a lesbian: it happens more then you’d think in both cases #they’re able to like craft interesting interactions I guess divorced from shallow wish fulfilment #Don’t get me wrong there’s obv still shitty aroace or lesbian writers a bit too into showering their specific blorbos with ‘gifts’ too #but like #it’s kind of like I’m reading a canon x reader and not actual canon characters sometimes it feels like #Sometimes anyway #Writing #fandom