#structure of reality

[raayllum]

*takes your face in my hands* listen to me. listen. sir sparklepuff was created as a christ figure. listen. he was born to die. made to be sacrificed. aaravos is god. a mostly jewish team of protags are fighting against god and pre-determinism. viren is called to sacrifice his son on a hill and it's their subsequent breaking point. aaravos is willing to sacrifice his son. soren is a judas who made the right choice. viren is literally entombed in a cave. listen to me. *crying* what father makes a son just to kill him? 

#fic: twice as many stars #somewhat canon tho #aaravos #tdp #the dragon prince #mine #sir sparklepuff #bc someone already made assumptions on this post: #i was born and raised christian for 16+ years. i went to catholic school for 10+ years. one of my cousins is a jesuit priest #if yall can't handle other ppl discussing and examining various lens through which to explore #the christ story / structure / meaning as christians #you're never gonna be able to handle the reality of jewish ppl good g-d

[handweavers]

of all the questions in the world "why are you trans" or "why are you gay" has to be one of the least interesting ones that exist but it's often the go-to question for conservatives when faced with the existence of lgbt people esp in conservative countries in my personal experience. and i've been trying to figure out why they ask that because it feels like such a stupid question on the surface like what do you mean 'why'??? but it occurred to me that the question really is "why did you choose to be open about this/make it my problem" and many try to answer by saying "i didn't choose i was born this way" which i personally find to be an unfulfilling answer, especially because that isn't really what the person is asking. they ask that question not necessarily because they can't fathom why people have such feelings but because they can't fathom why we would act on them, why we would be open about it, why we would do anything but keep those feelings very tiny and miserable within ourselves.

like i think most people regardless of their politics can understand to some extent the concept of gay attraction or gender euphoria, can recognize some aspect of that in their own experience, and if you come from a conservative country or culture you'll discover many people who have such feelings but have entirely stifled them, stamped them down, disregarded them, and it's clear those feelings still haunt them. people who will say "of course everyone has feelings for people of the same gender you just can't act on them" with a straight face or "everyone has wished they were a different gender but we cant do anything about it so oh well" not realizing how they sound and they're upset with you because you didn't ignore those thoughts or disregard them. they aren't exactly upset with you because you have those feelings, they're upset with you because you aren't ashamed of them, and whether that specific shame is a feeling that they relate to or the shame they're familiar with is of a different kind, if you're from a culture where social shame is so powerful and encompassing, the idea of someone not also being internally or externally crushed by that shame and taking their life into their own hands is upsetting. to see someone do that and not suffer consequences of doing so feels wrong to them.

like we have family members who remained stuck in marriages that made them miserable, in towns and villages that made them miserable, in jobs and lives that make them miserable, even if they had the material means to escape, but did not do so because of shame and some sense of duty, like that misery means something. perhaps those who did not have the material means to escape their misery, but you did, and what results is resentment and blame. and they look at you and it's not even necessarily that you're gay or trans or whatever that they hate you for, but because you escaped that shame, you were miserable and you decided you did not have to be and you did something for yourself, and just that act is often seen as selfish and upsetting within this cultural context.

esp in cultures where this kind of misery is seen as familial duty, so by forgoing such misery and the social expectations placed upon you you are simultaneously shirking your familial responsibility, in a society where familial and communal ties are everything. so when family members ask me "why are you trans" i just answer that i chose happiness and i am content with my choices, and the rest is something for them to work out.

#its always my malaysian indian side asking this not my white side. so ive been trying to understand why that is especially when #they arent hateful to me the way some in my white side are. their discomfort with me feels different. its reactionary yes but its not #the same context the same structures at play the same social expectations the same material reality even

[waywardsunlight]

let's go lesbians

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #marcille donato #dm fanart #dungeon meshi fanart #farcille #the cycle of consumption and being consumed in a dunge- #getting sent to jail for overthinking cute anime #weird place to say it but I really admire ryoko kui #i love. how much she puts into her world and the very well-thought out structure and reality of the dungeon it's cool

[variousqueerthings]

there’s so many ways that queerness exists in texts, unintentionally and intentionally, coded and uncoded and partially coded and baited and confused and limited and expansive, and then there’s whatever is happening with Hawkeye Pierce, M.D. of the 4077th MASH unit

#hawkeye pierce #MASH #there is of course also the constant mist of gender/sexuality queering that hangs over the narrative because of its structure #its structure as comedy (often subject to whimsical departures from acceptable gender/sexualities) #its structure as anti-establishment and anti-conformity #its celebration of non-conformist personalities and lives and its redefinitions over and over of madness and mutual aid #its structure - of course - as found family #its structure as an island in a sea of militant and fascistic surrealism and answering the questions of: #well what does the alternative to that violence look like? #so the idea of intentionality/unintentionality sort of doesn't matter #because it's creating a manifesto/ethos of sorts that speaks the same language as queerness #and it's down to the DNAs of its structures #(not even mentioning the structures of echoing the realities of those making it -- ethnicities - romantic lives - cultures and religions - #friendships and political beliefs - family structures created on the set of the show itself) #but yes hawkeye pierce is depicted as fascinatingly overtly queer and comedy is (like horror... which....) an acceptable space #for him to be this #(which -- when the horror and tragedy takes more of a front seat his funny-man queerness is somewhat diminished #but a. still very much present b. given an air of drama that legitimises it further c. underpinned by seasons and seasons of existence #d. embedded in that self-same DNA of the structures -- he IS the main POV character #which means he's carrying so much of that idea of non-conformity/civilish disobedience as good and right/whimsy/gender-and-sexuality/etc #so you see... there's whatever is happening with hawkeye pierce M.D.

[carefulfears]

thinking about "you have a life" / "i don't know what i have" + "what do you want, dana?" / "i want everything that i should want at this time of my life" + the perceived shame in scully's loss of normalcy... "unlike you, mulder, i would like to have a life" + "do you believe in the afterlife?" / "i'd settle for a life in this one" + "don't you ever want to just stop? get out of the damn car? settle down and live something approaching a normal life?"

her friend ellen saying, "well, first you have to get a life." tara, pregnant with their christmas gift, saying that life before one grew inside her was "somehow...less, just a prelude," while barren dana cries in the kitchen. "i know you and dad were...disappointed...that i chose the path that i'm on."

thinking about how mulder said, "this is a normal life," and how she smiled. (he doesn't know any different). how, in the end, he said, "hey, scully? i know it's not your normal life, but thanks for coming out there with me."

(christmas before quantico, "i guess i'm afraid of making a big mistake. dad thinks i am." and missy's response: "it's not his life, dana.")

her application to adopt emily was rejected: "you're a single woman who's never been married or had a long-term relationship. you're in a high stress, time intensive, and dangerous occupation."

bill's reaction: "sounds like something your partner would say. this isn't about any little girl, dana. this is about you. it's about some...void, some emptiness inside you that you're trying to fill."

and mulder to the judge: "the fact that she can adopt this child, her own flesh and blood, is something i don't feel i have the right to question, and i don't believe anyone has the right to stand in the way of."

(that last christmas with missy before everything: "there is no right or wrong. life is just a path...just don't mistake the path for what is really important in life. the people you're going to meet along the way. you don't know who you're going to meet when you join the FBI. you don't know how your life is going to change, or how you're going to change the life of others.")

and ultimately, it all leads to a leather couch. and after contemplating that sacrifice of normalcy, what she should want, the decisions she could have made, she says, "i once considered spending my whole life with this man...what i would have missed."

she could've been a doctor, like her father wanted. she could've settled down, married waterston, had a normal life, like her friends and brother wanted. but what would she have missed?

"what if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong?" / "and all the...choices would then lead to this very moment. one wrong turn, and...we wouldn't be sitting here together."

#i truly believe that what's made this show so lasting and rich to so many generations #is how completely in touch with raw human experience it always was. there was always this kind of bleak undertone of...this is how it is... #and very rarely was it ever overcome or accepted or boldly subverted. it just was. #the pressures and the grief and the traps of abuse and trauma and power structures. this is how it is. this is how it feels. #'people thought the storyline and characters for x-files made it a 'dark' show but i never saw it that way. #i always thought mulder and scully were the light in dark places.' #my favorite quote about the show and why i think it's so comforting. it's the harsh reality of the world #of which mulder and scully are not exempt #but it's also mulder and scully going wherever they are needed with their unending kindness and their perseverance and their passion #and they bring all of those things to each other too. that's why she chose THIS life. despite it NOT being normal. #despite it NOT being what her father wanted for her. despite it NOT being easy. she chooses it over and again #because he is bringing light to dark places and she wants to be where he is and she wants to be doing important work. she wants to be #'on the side of the victim' #and that's rarely supported by societal structures and it's hard. but like she says #what would she have missed?? #txf.txt #you people make me crazy when you dismiss her decisions and act like she Ruined Her Life or mulder Ruined Her Life #congratulations! you've missed the point! #all things #emily #dreamland

[miyuecakes]

"no politics" rule is shorthand for "this space is not safe for POC"

#not art #disk horse #no politics rule is how we end up in spaces where someone experiencing a fucking earthquake #is forced to muzzle themselves because its technically political #and the connection to POC is that the reality is that POC just experience the brunt of tragedy more often #climate change hurts global south countries far more than in the global north #due to the way production is organized but also capacity to cope with tragedy #which is a legacy of : colonialism and white supremacy #also applicable to supremacist structures inside countries #marginalized peoples tend to be placed in more geographically more vulnerable areas; see: environmental racism #again nothing inherent about the global south or POC #but because of the way the world is organized and hierarchicalized by colonialism-- our existence is just MADE inherently political #and no politics means no space for us to exist without sanitation

[rubiatinctorum]

I get where people are coming from when they say Diaspro in Winx lost the plot for the sake of being turned into a minor villain and that's all once Valtor enabled her to do what she did in S3, but I feel like that was a reasonable narrative choice. It's only a love potion at that point (while I could go on all day about the ethics of love potions, of course, a later season has her straight up trying to do direct murder). She's a noble, guards will do her dirty work, and I understand that she would feel like getting revenge on Bloom while getting back together with Sky. She was promised a position — romantic AND political — she nearly had and then it was taken from under her by a random fairy who wasn't even "supposed" to be in the running. I don't think what she did was nice, but it makes sense for the story and for her character for her to want to reclaim her position in the way she did. Sky's love was an accessory, in part, to her political ascension, and thus he is again rendered accessory and accomplice by the love spell. And, sending guards after threats seems to be the thing to do in the magical universe if you're a disgruntled noble, so it's probably not unfamiliar for Diaspro to have seen occur before or want to do. It's not a uniquely rotten response any more than Radius' behaviour towards the monster (who, he didn't know it, was Stella). If we fault her for this action rather than only the intention behind it, we need to examine how the worlds in Winx Club deal with threats to their monarchs in general, which sounds interesting but I frankly don't have time for tonight. Diaspro did wrong, but she didn't do uniquely wrong there, and Eraklyon has the punitive security structures in place to have enabled that.

Diaspro's later appearances seem to flatten her motives and the symbolism behind why her relationship with Sky was important and what she does about it (who cares what Diaspro's political aims are and how her status might reflect how she deals with problems, the audience needs to see Bloom thrown into fire I guess), but I feel like seasons 4-8 weren't really that good anyway, so I can't even claim this as a fault of the writers doing Diaspro specifically wrong instead of them just doing the whole show wrong at that point. It might be related, and it might be a coincidence, but a lot of the writing choices seemed to become more flat to me right around when the art shifted to that lifeless godawful Flash simulacrum of S1-3's art.

Also like... idk but if some long-haired hottie wizard in a sick coat and contemplative eyeshadow told me he could help me get my promised chance at both romantic and political success back, I'd at least hear him out, yknow, see what he had to say (<- don't trust me I simp for Valtor)

#rubia speaks #winx club #winx #diaspro #winx diaspro #not supporting women's wrongs but parsing them in context #actually you know what. love u bloom but i have a diaspro apologism streak in me #love potion BAD AWFUL ROTTEN but the guards? we need to interrogate the king about that one i think #and make ur guards pass a basic test on the obvious visual difference between a fairy and a witch idk :/ #is diaspro entitled to sky's love and the political position of being his wife? no. does it narratively make sense for her to be mad? yeah #is her position of having been given the expectation of a certain status and result and having it 'undermined' a compelling one? yeah! #i think there's a lot to say about expectation vs reality and the burden of unfulfilled unsealed commitments in Diaspro's situation #and the societal structures in Eraklyon that allow her to act outside of due process because she's big mad as long as the king is cool w he #how the nobles protect their own class and interests even when Sky is acting unusual from VALTOR'S FUCKING MAGIC DAMN #now if she could just drop the magical coercion and the classism and the witch slander.......... #interesting how that arc makes Bloom almost an underdog when... babe.... ur a Princess. #Sky's not out here marrying a commoner he's courting a princess of another world #.... sociopolitical views of Domino by other worlds? Bloom acting vs not acting the part of how a princess acts on Eraklyon? #Bloom as a Lesser Princess because of the condition of Domino? #Association with the Winx and Alfea in general making of her a symbolic commoner? #much to consider about Bloom's 'underdog' role compared to Diaspro in the Eraklyon Engagement Era

[anglerflsh]

is there actually a specific definiton for being "socialised as [gender]". Counting the fact that different societies and cultures will inherently socialise their people differently- are there things that are genuinely counted as 'universal' in the "socialised as x" phrase? I see it used a lot in radfem arguments and the more I see it the less sense it makes. It's a bit just replacing biological essentialism methinks. Being "socialised as male" means different things for not only every culture but for different social classes as well, it's plain reductive if anything isn't it

#[.txt] #my fault for looking for internal structure to radfem/terf arguments tbh. #to be deleted probably because I'm not risking getting harassed online again <3 however I'd like to know other's takes on it #mostly I suppose it can be argued that there is a general tie-in to socialisation and how it works to maintain i sistemi di patriarcato #but it feels so... separate from reality to claim that there exists a universal male or female socialisation. #even in western culture it changes from class to class like- this isn't as universal as you think

[fauxbia]

Clary!! I had a dream with her in it (among other nomai) and I remember very distinctly that she had beautiful hazel eyes. So I decided to give her a design to go along with them!!

#outer wilds #outer wilds clary #it was a very cool dream (a few ow base game spoilers below!!) #generally outer wilds themed. same vague loop stuff #i had to dive down into this deeeeep ocean that was really vibrant with so many vivid colors #and navigate my way through reefs and crevasses and caves to reach a structure in the depths #it was like the vessel in general design #and i had to go through a bunch of black hole warps and find my way through the structure #puzzle out how to find the way forward #that kinda thing #and at the end there was a black hole warp way above me #and when i jump in i was taken to some kind of limbo #a room in stasis outside of time and reality #and a bunch of nomai were there!!! including yarrow n clary (they're the only ones that were identified) #none of them knew how long they'd been there or even really how they died #but ultimately the purpose of that limbo other-reality was to make a new world and a fresh start #idk i found it intriguing #faux art

[albarrancabrera]

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Opticks

Tesla #55105 Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

#Opticks #Tesla #Tesla series #pigments gampi paper and gold leaf #magnetism #magnetic field #magnetic flux #nature force #reality structure #experimental photography #artists on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #albarrancabrera #albarran cabrera

[rotzaprachim]

you’re thinking about how easily massive numbers of the wildly antisemitic tankies would have been pulled into the actual political tenets of (esp early to mid 20th century) armed Zionism and you’re laughing?????

#This folks is why analysis of ideology and the structures of an ideology is important #Rather than just random ass ethnic signposting #A lot of people see Zionism as something suspicious and jewy that had to do with Jews - I don’t like them #But the reality of Zionism as an initially distinctly leftist branch of political ideology that sought to liberate an oppressed people #With that tiny niggly wiggly issue of the fact people might #Already have lived on that land???? Ohhhh boy #All these cottage core back to the land the world would be better if I could reject modernity and return to the ancient ways of Farming #Society is broken it cannot be fixed the only option is to found a New Tough society that will fix all our previous problems #And we’ll get round to it in heavily armed leftist commune farming settlements #Which we will defend with violence because any violence in the name of an oppressed people is justified and our legitimacy comes from the #Rifle!!! #The only reason you see this ideology as inherently removed and bizarre is antisemitism and the only reason you see yourself removed from i #Also antisemitism!!! #You would have done numbers in ahdut ha-avoda you would have called Ben gurion abbaleh/ #Remember: a bunch of the people who got sucked into this of ideology weren’t the *rich Republican aipac Jews*!*’ your head #They were broke often very secular Jewish leftists working dead end gig economy jobs in farms and sweatshops for whom the idea of a Brave #New World with a. Brave new culture was very appealing and liberating #It offered something new to the broken. #It’s important to talk about this stuff to talk about how it can be undone #But also. The world is not divided into the Oppressed and the Unoppressed #Your political ideology does not stop you from hurting others #No political ideology even anti capitalism or leftism is innately pure- all can harm others #No ethnic and cultural identity no matter how oppressed is free from the potential to subjugate others #No identity or ideology is greater than the right of other people to live freely #Cycles of oppression and the pyramid structure of many empires result in oppressed people harming other oppressed people #Many many goyim think that they’re removed from the logic of Zionism because they aren’t Jews because it’s something wierd and jewy #But I see a lot of the most destructive logics parroted by leftists every day

[whetstonefires]

I really enjoyed Witch King and think it's Good but need to announce the ludicrous brass balls involved in the title.

Because it's named after the main character, who is known by that title, we establish that right out the gate.

Fairly soon after, we establish that he, like Dorothy, is not a witch at all. Although he is on good terms with them and uses some of their techniques.

Bit after that we learn that witches don't hold with kings, or indeed with governance. Kai says eventually that they don't have enough communal norms to even rebel against if you wanted to. Fascinating.

The flashback-to-origin-story half of the narrative terminates before we reach the point where people started calling Kai the Witch King.

We never find out how that happened! We never even really see anyone using the title except when he's being introduced to one major supporting character by another in the first or second chapter! It's wild. Witch King without Witch King. Garfield without Garfield.

This is so funny to me I can forgive the letdown, because to be quite honest by the middle of the book I was counting on the origin of the title as a sort of tying-together moment for the whole narrative, linking the end of the earlier timeslice to the beginning of the later one, and was astonished that it didn't come. It makes the novel feel weirdly unfinished to me, like Wells accidentally left off the last few chapters somehow.

I have been denied catharsis about the title of the book. 🤣

#hoc est meum #like to an extent this is a matter of taste #wells NEVER has as much structure as i expect a novel to #and she only does close zoom and super wide pans #no mid-scale information ever #which is a very clever way to make sure her settings hold shape and feel concrete without getting bogged down in the infinite complexity #of reality #but witch king minus witch king is Slightly Egregious #witch king #martha wells #i enjoyed the heck out of it! #but it's hanging in my head in a somewhat unpleasant way #because my brain doesn't think i finished reading it #confess to a mild sense that this book while there's nothing WRONG with it needed a bit longer in the oven #to marinate in its own juices as it were #spoilers #i also felt i'd been promised more information about the precursor race to the fell and raksura #than was actually provided #so again matter of taste #wells is so good at tightly-paced action sequences with emotional punch that with the right framing they substitute #for narrative resolution #but i don't think she quiiiiiite stuck the landing here #hellboy voice: king of the witches! me! #i got so mad i thought #why NOT fight a whole army of skeletons? #honestly i think he and kai would vibe #despite being wildly different sorts of demon

[cpunkhobie]

white middle class to wealthy people are so crazy to me like. How are you so alienated from the system you live under

#jonah with a megaphone #Ik why it’s because of the racial and class hierarchy and how the system is built to support certain people and harms others etc etc etc. #ik why #But like. On a personal level howd u lack just that much critical thinking. Why dont you get that we hate the system but still live under #It. This is mostly about that post that got mad at people for hiring cleaners and then tried to say like. The people who did were lazy #Etc. but then the conversation devolved into how it was actually racist to hire undocumented people as cleaners or anything and like. #You understand conceptually that undocumented people deserve the same rights and privileges and protections as documented citizens but you #Don’t. Get structurally. and realistically. That we are still living under a system where those rights aren’t available to them #So you’re saying that they just. Shouldn’t be fucking hired??? That people shouldn’t fucking pay them for their goods and services??? #im not talking about like. Walmart which is a megacorp where the morals and standards we view them are completely different #im talking about immigrants running their own businesses and people saying people using those services are exploitative like. Do you hear #yourself. You’re saying they shouldn’t be fucking paid. You’re saying they shouldn’t be getting their own work. Do you hear yourself #your ideas of race and class is so alienated from actual reality it’s baffling. How do you live like that #mixed kid rage

[tomurakii]

Just caught up to bnha. What the FUCK

#so deku being optimistic and believing all people are redeemable. his one good trait. lead to shigaraki's soul being fully lost #and taken over by afo. who katsuki just died to supress. #so in being sympathetic to villains he not only a) failed to redeem the villain and b) killed the villain #but also c) revived a worse guy and d) made his best friend's sacrifice pointless #but also instead of fixing any of those things with rewind he gets his arms back or whatever. cool. nice #what is the message here I wonder #UGH I HATE IT HERE. BNHA IN REALITY WILL NEVER LIVE UP TO ITS POTENTIAL #BECAUSE WHAT GENUINELY READS AS A STRUCTURE FOR A CRITIQUE ON POLICE VIOLENCE IS TO HORIKOSHI JUST AN EXCUSE FOR COOL FIGHTS #COOL. C O O L #WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COMMENTARY ON THE GLORIFICATION OF STATE VIOLENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. IS INSTEAD #JUST A SHOW WHERE SOME KID GETS SCHOOLED ON THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST EVIL I GUESS. AND ITS UP TO THE STATE™️ TO KILL THEM FOR IT #ALRIGHT. OKAY #bnha #tomura shigaraki #whatever. whatever #bnha spoilers

[voltstone]

S4 WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD AND WEIRD

I love the fourth season. It does so many things right. But also. …it's kinda a mess.

Like a very pretty mess. But a mess. And I could write a wholeass essay on it. Don't feel like it right now.

I will say this one thing now though: it has always confused me how of all the seasons, S2 is the one that really explores being a kid in an apocalypse without really an adults to guide said kid, and not…S4?

Sure, there's adults in S2, but Clementine is stuck in this weird grey zone where she can't really rely on them, and has to be her own adult. And this does include Kenny, depending on what people choose to do, and what they interpret. Because he was easily just as bad given the specific scenes. Better, given other scenes, but the bad was…really bad.

But then there's S4. And like, yeah sure, the schoolkids are there to represent a healthy but struggling community—in that there's things to work through, but they genuinely care for each other, and they do whatever it takes to survive, regardless of what they think a "liability" is.

But like. The season never really explored the extent of what being abandoned by adults really would imply??

Like why is S2 the only one where exploring substances as a kid is a thing? Clementine can smoke and drink there, and that's with adult influence. Whereas with S4, nothing. Even though the fishing shack looks like it's a hotspot for booze.

I dunno if I'm making sense. This is why I generally write essays and not splurge on a post. Lol. But. I just. I just wish S4 really explored what the adults leaving did to those kids, man. Beyond what the season did.

S4 in this regard just felt like they knew what being a troubled kid implied, but they actually never wanted to depict kids doing more adult things, other than survival, even though Clementine 1) could've smoked and drank before because…the adults around her were…hmph, and 2) she is literally raising a child on her own. Like it beats around the bush but in a weird and obscure way that I don't have the energy to pick apart.

I just.

#volt's shit #twdg #the walking dead game #twdg 4 #twdg clementine #twdg violet #twdg louis #twdg marlon #twdg brody #twdg tenn #twdg mitch #twdg willy #twdg ruby #twdg aj #i 100% know i didn't get all i wanted to across but im just pooped #but given the major fic im writing for the fandom this is something i think about *a lot* #like i get it they're kids still #but the reality is without a structured society kids are *easily* roped into the same environment that the adults are in #which like no shit just look at clementine #but it's her character which confuses me because telltale *has* illustrated what a kid without guidance does #and what happens is they explore things wayy too early and get to the point where they shoot someone at a bar over “business adulting” stuf #on accident but still she landed her ass in airport jail #i just dont get why the schoolkids didnt get the same treatment? #obviously the game doesn't just ignore it but it does beat around the bush in a weird way

[bang-bang-gang]

my heart is not open for juiceboard. he is but a shadow of a shadow.

#veraposting #thoroughly considered rewriting the waluigi being the individual shaped by the signifier copypasta #but then i got too caught up reading about post structuralism and i got Real Thoughts by accident #cardblade STOOD for something. he served a purpose. he was real #juiceboard isn’t real. he blurs the line where reality ends and fiction begins #the people are cheering for the idea of a thing but they lost sight of what the thing actually was #also his structure is so fundamentally misshapen he can never touch tips with toni schiavone the way cardblade did