#the body principle

[bietrofastimoff23]

he's SUCH a son of his father, i'm crying-

shifu taught him not only kung fu, but also how to bring others to a heart attack through emotional swings.

they're such assholes. love them <3

#[ I've been talking about this since the premiere ] #[ Shifu tried to make Po a politician #while he raised Tai lung on the principle of “kill their spirit then their body” ] #tai lung #shifu #master shifu #kfp #kfp4 #kung fu panda #kung fu panda 4 #my post #bad english

[onwardmotley]

hello I saw your tags - can i ask about alectophant theory?!

Alectophant is my exhaustively researched and very serious theory that Alecto's problem with the body John made is not that it's a blonde barbie body, nor simply that it's a physical or human body at all, but:

Nona chortled. “Not one bit.” Nona hated having hands.

“Well, tell me your theories,” Nona demanded, feeling much better from sheer excitement. “Say them out loud. Am I nice? Am I good-looking? Do I have lots of friends? Does everyone listen to me? How many legs do I have?"

Nona made her body stand on its two feet. Two feet—the worst number for feet; not so many that they were ever useful, not so few that you didn’t have to think about them.

John had made her so ugly, so unbearably ugly. The terrible face, with the terrible arms and legs and the terrible middle part, and the terrible hair, and the terrible ears: the nose too short, the ears too brief.

her ideal body is an elephant.

Problems Nona has with human form:

hands are dumb

two is a dumb number of feet

(her only specifics about the body John made) nose too short, ears too brief

Features of an elephant:

zero hands (who needs them!)

four feet (a useful number!)

enormous (and practical!) ears

a VERY long nose that's way more useful than stupid hands

And, finally:

Nona looked down at the animal she had drawn, and thought perhaps she understood. She said, “No, I made it up. It does work, I promise. See these things? They’re its ears,” she said, in much the same tones as she would have explained to Kevin. “This thing is its nose, and you can’t see it because I didn’t draw it, but the mouth is under here. When first it was born it used to live in a river, but then it got cold so it had to get large. I know the legs can’t rotate, but you don’t think that’s stupid, do you?” She looked up at Camilla and the Angel, then said, “Am I in trouble?”

She draws one for the Angel.

In conclusion:

#Nona the ninth #Gideon the ninth #Locked tomb #The locked tomb #nakdraws #I'm writing and formatting this at 3 am so. #the drawing isn't named as an elephant but its most distinctive features being its ears and nose #and Nona thinking she has to explain what they are - ie they don't look like quote unquote normal ears and a nose #a mouth hidden under the nose and legs that don't rotate #and originally being smaller but getting larger as a response to the climate cooling #all sounds like an elephant more than anything else to me #And it's what she thinks animals should look like on best principles #Nona re: 🐘 @everyone: you might not like it but this is the ideal physical body

[svengalia]

"Look up, Little Cat. Look up and see the stars."

#star trek #saavik #the pandora principle #star trek tos #the original series #body horror #eye strain

[crippleculture]

cripplepunk isnt for able-bodied people and its also not for people who lick able-bodied people's boots

#cripplepunk #anyways if you say able-bodied nd ppl can join in on cripplepunk you arent cripplepunk #you literally dont agree with one of the core principles therefore you are not part of it

[mybrain-fanficedition]

How the marauders would drink out of cans

(all according to me-- this is just for fun)

Sirius: Tips back his head and arches his back (as if he were a dancer) in the most dramatic way possible

James: Uses a straw and stares at whoever he's talking to with the biggest puppy eyes over the drink

Peter: Uses magic as a sort of straw

Remus: "I DRINK LIKE A NORMAL FUCKING PERSON WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU"

I swear I actually know how to draw, I'm just lazy lol

#Remus is fed up with the others #but secretly he loves how Sirius shows off his body #and he thinks James is adorable (in a platonic way) #and he has to admit Peter's idea is kinda smart #But it's the principle of it #remus lupin #sirius black #james potter #peter pettigrew #marauders #the marauders #drinking #art #marauders hc #marauders headcanon #dead gay wizards

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

xie lian took 2 days to heal after his stab wound on beizi hill

he tooks several months to recover after the temple scene with white no-face

he took a year+ to heal after being trampled in banyue

the quick pace of healing after the temple scene makes me headcanon that he didn't give himself enough time to do it properly, meaning he was in a lot of physical as well as mental pain during the no-face arc.

#thinking about book 4 makes me want to throw up #in a good way #like.... take a good person. #completely remove them from their life. rip away their support systems. #force them into situations that make their principles and core beliefs dangerous liabilities #isolate them. make them question their own sanity. #redirect their guilt onto others and hand them a weapon. #brutalize their body and mind until they are so tired and injured they cannot think straight #and then use them as proof that they are truly actually an evil person #..... #urghghhh #tgcf spoilers #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hob #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #white no face #bai wuxiang #jun wu #white clothed calamity #tgcf book 4 #i speak #tgcf meta

[uncanny-tranny]

You know... it's okay to trust your body. If you are separated from your body to such an extent you feel you cannot trust it, I truly from the bottom of my heart empathize and feel grief for you, but you can trust your body.

It's okay to listen to your body and to heed what it is telling you. I wish you (and your body) well wherever you go. You deserve the peace of mind to feel able to do what you want.

#positivity #mental health #mental health support #gentle reminders #this is something i struggle with myself so that's why i said i empathize (well... i guess as much as you CAN empathize) #(because even if you have gone through the same thing... it's not going to look the same as somebody else going through that) #(and while it can be valuable to express empathy it doesn't mean you truly 'get it' from the other person's point of view) #i struggle sometimes not to feel like my body is fucking with me because sometimes i expect it to function at bare minimum #or i just assume that when it is in debilitating pain that it's just... somehow to fuck with me and i am cognizant that this isn't true #i am cognitively aware that the body isn't Specifically Designed to have a Fuck With You mode even if it feels like it #but my experiences with disabilities and general unwellness made it easy for me to alienate myself from my body #in order to preserve myself i felt the need to separate myself from every flaw (or 'flaw') i have #so when people are confused about why you could mistrust your /own body/ it's stuff like this that can somewhat illustrate it #i think we don't really talk about this but i think it's more common than i would assume #(mostly based on the There Are Eight Billion People principle) #hm making this also makes me realize that abuse absolutely plays into how i mistrust my body. hm. #mistrust in your body feels like self-protection and self-preservation in this weird and almost twisted way (at least in my experience) #but then you start mistrusting *everything* and nothing feels... GOOD or NORMAL anymore #i'm going to play mahjong about this 🫡👍

[alectothinker]

the unwanted guest vs [redacted bc spoilers]

bc im insane about this story and its references

anyone getting jb priestly an inspector calls vibes from the unwanted guest ?? a couple things i noticed:

the stage play format + old timey rich family house setting (fireplace, butler/maid, calling card etc) is very similar to AIC 

from the play: "The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer. It has a good solid furniture of the period. The general effect is a substantial and heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike."

ianthe straight up calls pal "inspector" lol

pal questions ianthe indirectly to reveal her guilt about killing/exploiting babs (v like the inspector vs the birling family)

from sparknotes (lol): "Strangely, the Inspector does not ask questions about what they know about her death. His questions, instead, prompt each family member to struggle with and eventually face guilt for Eva/Daisy’s death." "The Inspector’s questioning unravels the mystery of how each family member has used social standing, influence, and power over others without personal consequence, devastating the young woman’s life." ^ vs pal calling out 3rd house heir and lyctor ianthe tridentarius for seeing+spending babs (who had been assigned cavalier status at birth) as a resource 

 Pal: "you never stop to check the price tag. You just pay whatever's asked, up front, and walk away."

vs AIC: "The play, as events unfold, suggests that an empowered class exploits the underclass without consideration of consequences for its exploitation."

consequence being that tern's whole life was fucked, and ianthe never considered that her own soul would be corrupted (in her pov) by babs'

Lastly, pal vs the moral of AIC: 

"The Birling family’s collective guilt conveys Priestley’s message that it is the social duty of every human being to examine the impact of any action on others and to care for and help them, without self-consideration."

vs everything that pal says in the story, +in ntn, paul still tries to help ianthe/babs: "There’s still time, Ianthe. Time for you, and for Naberius Tern.”

someone on tumblr has probably written this meta but to me TUG is pal (+tamsyn) laying out how systematically exploitative the necro/cav relationship can be (with ianthe helping out a lot lol). which imo aligns pretty closely with what priestly is trying to say with AIC, and also with dulcie's hamlet quote: ‘Use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping?’

also TUG feels like some sort of. idk awakening in pal? and therefore paul? cant wait to see them fuck shit up in new and interesting ways. ok thats all pls lmk if yall have thoughts!! i last read AIC in middle school for my GCSE's LOL

#leaning heavily on sparknotes here #the unwanted guest #the unwanted guest spoilers #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #ok spoilers in the tags stop reading now!!!!!! --> #also found it interesting that pal (the most morally principled representative of the most morally principled house) #got to interview ianthe (morals hater of the gaslight gatekeep girlboss house) #and induce an existential and moral crisis #that was bad enough to let him him take over the body for a while #and by interesting i also mean very funny #text

[okimsimp2023]

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If lovers of anthropomorphic animals are called Furry...

...What stratum of society do I belong to???

#Am I... a xenophile? #crazy?? #Am I gay????? #a lover of anthropomorphic objects???? #is there in principle a fandom where people love anthropomorphic objects? #I don't know!!! #but it's funny to me with this bullshit #like you know #I've never met a person who would say: #Do you love (an anthropomorphic object with a human body)? But that's crazy #It's (an object)! #lol #hear me out #tawog #the amazing world of gumball #larry needlemeyer #cuphead #cuphead show #king dice #cuphead king dice #don't hug me i'm scared #dhmis #dhmis red guy #red guy #tadc caine #the amazing digital circus #caine #my bullshit #simp #simping

[precalamity]

talos principle 2 is like. you play as the worlds most puzzle-solving baby. you are experiencing vaguely shakespearean visions on the regular. gods like to talk to you. the only people in the world you know are an old british dyke, her pet twink, and two men on their third divorce of the century. sometimes there’s a cat.

#like no ‘human’ aus but if melville was around in our time she would’ve worked at an auto body shop and had old pinup magazines on the walls #talos principle 2 #Byron/Alcatraz #I say vaguely shakespearean bc my theory is Miranda is a tempest reference #but who knows

[lord-squiggletits]

Y'know the thing about writing feral/unhinged versions of Orion/Optimus, is that you can't go too far into the feral/unhinged direction to a point where OP's core character traits are lost or become too diminished. After all, in a multiple-continuity franchise like TF, part of what makes the stories make sense is that even if details change (sometimes major details), the characters are still recognizably themselves to one degree or another. (Although this isn't always the case due to executive meddling or some characters being such blank slates from their initial G1 appearances that there's basically nothing to model them off of, but I digress.)

It's pretty much another reason why I love IDW1 Optimus, bc he literally is a canonical feral/unhinged Optimus who's unhinged as a direct consequence of who he is as a person and what he's been through. Like, he still has those fundamental character traits of trying his best to be moral and make good choices, trying to be a role model, etc, except after 4 million years of war and untreated depression he's basically holding onto his sense of self by his fingertips. So when he "goes feral" e.g. losing his temper and beating up/killing people or saying hurtful things, he's feral in a way that's directly tied to his normal personality and not just as a random quirk he has.

IDW OP's feral moments arise from the gaps between "Optimus' attempts to be who he thinks he needs to be" and "the reality of the world that he can't fix/seems to only make worse" that cause him to lose hope, or become cynical, or lose his temper. But in this case, the unhinged-ness makes perfect sense because it arises out of Optimus trying and failing to be the best person or to make the most morally good choices he's trying to make. Basically, the "feral/unhinged" label is just another way of me trying to say that he's not just unhinged because he's weird or because he's a bad person, but because it's an emotional reaction (more like an emotional explosion due to pent-up emotions) to the context he exists in.

I'd also say that IDW OP's personality being generally reserved/stoic and (trying to be) noble works in tandem with those moments he has of going feral because it makes him more realistic. His psyche is treated in a way where the writers are like, "Hey what if the pressure of having to be everyone's idol and be the best person in the galaxy at all times actually broke Optimus down mentally and emotionally?" It makes IDW OP far more relatable. Instead of naturally being a perfect Christ-like figure who never wavers in his morals or convictions and is just naturally a nice person who always has the wisest and best answer, being a good person is something that IDW OP has to consciously strive to be. Even when he feels like it's useless, or the cycle of violence will never stop, or any attempts he makes to help only ends up with things becoming worse.

And I feel like this does a service not only to IDW Optimus as a character, but also as a sort of moral/philosophical perspective for the reader to ponder upon? I feel like culture at large (or at least my experience of it) tends to believe that "goodness" in a person is simply an innate feature that people are born/not born with, and that being "good" means that you must be good at all times, both in your actions as well as the way you feel emotionally about yourself and the world. Like, there's a tendency for our vision of "a good person" to be good in every aspect at all times without having to try to be a good person. So I think IDW Optimus' character stands as a good example of how someone can be good at heart but still struggle to maintain those feelings of optimism and hope and justice. It's a good idea to have such a paragon of a character (in-universe and out-of-universe) be so conflicted and to even be mistaken, misguided, or make things worse because it shows that goodness is as much about "trying to behave/act in a way that is good" and not just "existing as an innately good person."

It's way more realistic for a person to want to be good, try to be good, and sometimes/often fail than it is for them to just be a good person. I enjoy the fact that IDW Optimus is both a good person at heart, but also has to strive to be a good person and live up to other people's expectations of what they see in him. I like how he wants to be a good person and change society for the better, but he also spends a good amount of time either feeling hopeless and alone or being angry at/detached from other people because of how frustrated they make him. He's realistically portrayed as someone who wants to be good and hopeful and change things for the better, but is also mentally and emotionally broken by that burden because of how impossible it is for him to Fix Everything and be the Perfect Prime/Leader/Autobot that people see him as. It's this fascinating mixture of "yes, this is who he is as a person" but also "there are things he desires to be that he could never possibly become or live up to."

This got really far off based from feral/unhinged Optimus sdklfjaslkdlfkas. The TLDR is that if people want unhinged OP, I feel like they should give IDW OP a chance because he IS unhinged but he's unhinged in a way that's a realistic/thematic representation of how being an Absolute Good is impossible. And how being a good person isn't just about Existing And You Are A Good Person, but rather goodness is a constant state of flux in which you adjust, you make mistakes, you lose your temper and feel hopeless, but then you pick yourself up and try again.

Also IDW OP really likes climbing in dangerous wilderness and jumping out of flying vehicles which I think is very feral and sexy of him to do.

#squiggposting #idw op love #idk if i adequately explained it in the body of the post. but i really do feel some kind of way about the idea of like #being a good person isn't about just being static. always being the same person. just naturally being good and nice all teh time #but rather being a good person will cause you to be CHALLENGED and being a good person calls you to ACT #and you WILL make mistakes. there's never a situation in which you're all wise and always have the right solution or are infinitely patient #but goodness is something you can CHOOSE something you can BECOME and you can still have negative emotions and CHOOSE to be good #like being a good person is a continuous process of self improvement. you aren't just born a good person #and i'm not trying to tear down the notion of 'goodness' or say it doesn't exist #rather i'm trying to say that it's far more comforting to hear that you don't have to be The Best Person at all times #it's comforting to know that good people aren't just Effortlessly Good because they were Just Born That Way Naturally #there certainly are some people like that but most of us aren't like that. and i just like idw op for that reason #he shows that like. you can be a fucked up mentally ill guy who despairs and loses his temper and is basically suicidal #but you also still genuinely try to be hopeful and try to help others. like you are good because you Try To Be Good #and you Try To Hold Onto Your Principles bc giving up or becoming evil isn't an option for you #but also trying to be A Good Person drives you fucking crazy bc we live in a universe where that perfect good simply isn't possible #so the result is an optimus who's at once Noble Paragon and Unhinged bc he's unhinged as a result of trying to be a paragon

[qqueenofhades]

I really wish that when George santos announced he was running again, he had put on an obvious fake mustache and decided to run under the name to Seorge Gantos

I mean, he's clearly hard up for money (all that hard day's work in scamming apparently does not provide skillz to pay da billz), so I assume he's doing it to rake in donations from some gullible saps and/or punish the rest of the NY Republican House delegation for voting to expel him. But you know, American politics are often grim and depressing, so having The Congressman Possibly Known as George Santos out there griftin' for a living does provide some much-needed levity.

#anonymous #ask #i do wonder if he's gonna try to run under another new name #or as a democrat #just because i don't think he has an actual bone of principle or honesty in his body #at least it's funny etc #politics for ts

[paranormeow7]

reading watchmen. it’s a really good comic and I’m enjoying it. but. Rorschach is so funny to read tbh. I know he was written that way intentionally and I like the way they showed he’s not better than the guys he looks down on but. my god does he sound like an old dude who’s mad about someone with blue hair coming into his workplace. not like he’d be a republican, because he hates corrupt politicians like everyone else, but I can tell he wouldn’t vote because “everybody sucks” and he’d probably think he was a sigma male (or above that, he’d probably hate Andrew Tate too)

good comic, clever characterization. my dad made me read a book before playing animal crossing lol

#actual sugar post #he’d have such a fun time being an “”intellectual” on twitter #but on a character design principle I fucking love his mask #it’s so clever and cool how they made him so expressive through body language and the inkblots alone #taking notes #rambles #watchmen #rorschach

[loodppaz]

been thinkin about all the cheap diy folks did in alt scenes back in the day, and now i’m imagining Eddie calling Steve out of nowhere on a day off

“Hey, do you have any kool-aid? Like, the packets? Specifically Cherry. Oh, and the blue one, berry-something-or-other.”

Steve is confused but checks his cabinets to find that he does, indeed, have those flavours

“Sweet, could you bring ‘em over? See you in 10, bye!”

Still confused, Steve does as asked, and pulls up to Eddie’s place with kool-aid packets in hand, knocks on the door, and Eddie comes out

BLONDE

#Stranger Things #Steddie #Eddie Munson #Steve Harrington #just picture steve helping eddie dye his hair #and arguing with him the whole time that if he wanted his hair done he could've just asked steve to pay a professional he's got the money #and eddie just insists that it's the principle of the thing and besides this is more fun #why eddie is dying his hair is up to you but come on #we've all done body mod therapy at one point in our lives

[the-feminist-philosopher]

This is why I hate scrolling through the #feminism tag.

The tag is full of nothing but misogynistic vitriol and violently sexist language from women who are hiding behind being a self-proclaimed feminist to avoid being held accountable for their misogyny.

We talk about how violently transphobic radfemmes are, but when will we start talking about how horribly misogynistic they are?

Are these women completely incapable of introspection? Do they not hear themselves? Do they not hear their own hypocrisy? They really tagged this #feminism and hit "post." They really thought these words were liberation-related.

The worst- by far- is when they sound self aware by adding a "I sound like an incel" or a "I know this sounds misogynistic" or a "this sounds anti-feminist" and yet still maintain that they're somehow a feminist. You cannot espouse explicitly anti-feminist ideas and be a feminist.

#and they're always- ALWAYS- anti-body autonomy #which is the most explicitly anti-feminist position to take #you cannot be anti-body autonomy and still be a feminist #feminism #I think they they think 'feminism' = hating anything feminine and hating on men #Because I've yet to meet a radfemme who has an explicitly feminist worldview or even an understanding of basic feminist principles

[blvck-coffee-dad]

Could we stop making smarmy, sarcastic "apologies" to folks for their relationship choices, attractions, etc? (eg: "Sorry you're attracted to men" or "too bad you're trapped in monogamy," etc.)

You might've accomplished your goal of snark toward that particular person, but there are likely innocent parties in your line of fire and you've just let them know that you pity them or have less respect for them for something that's none of your business or concern.

#similar principle to not making fun of people's bodies