theyre making another movie

I won’t let them.

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

I feel like "x or perhaps some kind of y' is such a deeply underrated tumblr phrasing I love using it so much

hello tumblr wudm fandom ))

Shout out to this man who watched Father Jud punch someone in the face and said to himself "Plan A) Father Jud teaches Wicks about Christ's love, Plan B) Father Jud knocks some sense into Wicks. A win-win either way, but let's hope he tries plan A first."

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and im losing sense of time

i keep seeing that post about how frustrating the buff guy -> petite girl type genderbending is, and i wanted to add my two cents regarding the addition of ‘just swap pronouns and don’t change the design’ approach because i think these are two sides of the same coin, as they both fail to really delve into what i think is the most interesting aspect of this design exercise.

the reason i find genderbending to be such a fun and interesting challenge is because, if you actually want to be good at it and put thought into it, you have to really consider the character’s canon gender expression and think about what it means to them and how it reflects in their outward appearance and presentation.

is this male character buff because he likes to work out / be strong, or does he aspire to achieve conventional heteronormative male beauty?

is this female character a tomboy because she likes to express herself in a more masculine way, or is she doing it to fight gender norms?

the answers to those questions should produce very different designs!

this website loves to say that gender is a spectrum, but sometimes i genuinely wonder if people actually understand what that means. 

gender expression, much like gender, is also a spectrum, which is why keeping the character exactly the same won’t always work, in the same way that just making the character conventionally attractive won’t always work. but sometimes, a buff dude would actually just be a hot girl. lady bane, however, would 100% look exactly the same.

me frm 2016 lookin @ me frm 2022

wh…what?

BRO??????????????

u seein this shit, bedroom demon?

World Heritage Post

God created man as brothers, not foes. He gave them the earth to be cultivated by their toil and labor. Each and every man is to enjoy the fruits of the earth and receive from it his sustenance and the necessities of life. The various nations are simply communities of men, that is, of brothers. They are to work in brotherly cooperation for the common prosperity of human society, not simply for their own particular goals.

Part of what makes JD Vance the most insufferable human is that he constantly talks in interviews and press conferences like he’s so much smarter than everyone and is insulted to have to explain things and it’s only because we are stupid that he has to and it’s funny because that’s just… objectively not true at all. He not only got radicalized into fascism but by THE dumbest shit ever. Curtis Yarvin’s arguments about history fall apart if you just took AP Euro in high school. Vance talks about “the executive has ruled” in a way that shows he doesn’t understand even middle school level U.S. civics, and yet somehow the man went to Yale Law. Some of these guys are just really mean, some are just really dumb, Vance is both and it’s obvious every time he opens his mouth.

By this own admission, Curtis Yarvin took very few humanities classes when he attended Brown University and it … really shows.

One of the dumbest ideas that he came up with as Mencius Moldbug was that Elizabeth I used less propaganda than modern politicians, because of her obvious legitimacy in the eyes of her subjects.

First of all, Elizabeth I made extensive use of propaganda. All monarchs of her time did. All those detailed portraits of her are propaganda with symbolic meanings and so were the coins with her portrait on them and her famous speeches and her financing of poetry, music, and theatre.

Second, no, not all her subjects recognized her as their legitimate sovereign. Many Catholics regarded her as illegitimate and instead supported the claim of Mary, Queen of Scots. That was … kind of a very famous thing that happened and there have been numerous movies and TV shows made about it. Yet, apparently Yarvin had never heard of this fact or didn’t consider it important when he decided to write out all of his ideas on politics in tedious detail.

I’m frequently mystified as how anyone can possibly take Curtis Yarvin seriously and yet, it seems that at least some do.

Good lord, that lots of people in England were still Catholic and thus didn’t accept Elizabeth's rule is something that comes up in even the most casual survey of 16th century English history. It’s something I bring up when I teach music history of that time period (because several of England’s big name composers of that period were secret or not-so-secret Catholics who continued to be so privately even as they were also composing music for the CoE).

The Yarvin New Yorker profile this past year was very revealing. The interviewer doesn’t directly challenge him and just kinda lets him talk (other than discussing what a creepy, entitled weirdo Yarvin was to him throughout the process), which I think works here because Yarvin is very forthright about all the ways he’s bad at history. One part that stands out is when Yarvin says “all you need is one primary source” to prove a claim; a high schooler could explain to you why that’s not true and likely to make your results super biased. It all makes clear that while Yarvin thinks traditional historians don’t like him because he has shocking ideas and is smarter than them, it’s really due to his garbage, ultra-lazy “methodology” failing basic standards of any kind of humanities research — like you wanna say “bro, there are conservative historians, including apologists for monarchism, and they don’t do that shit because this is How To Research 101.”

His idea that monarchy is a more stable system than democracy is what I find particularly laughable. Disproven by even the barest engagement with the histories of Europe, of China, of anywhere with a long tradition of monarchical rule. Having no means of getting rid of a bad ruler other than a violent coup is inherently less stable than removing them via elections or impeachment. Making it impossible to use those means in a flawed democracy makes that society less stable (the U.S. right now, also Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) Even people who don’t study history can see that in pop culture — fucking Game of Thrones educates you better on that than Curtis Yarvin.

I think techies with little humanities education are impressed by him because he uses a lot of big words and sophistry that makes him sound smart to people who don’t know any better. Not sure how that explains Vance, except that despite his educational pedigree, he remains stupid and easily led. And arrogant and desperate for power.

He makes a hash of Confucianism too, as I've written about before.

Sophistry is the exact right word for these dipshits. They are sophists. Maximum disrespect intended.

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

> sees nihilistic depiction of human nature

> looks inside

> hope :)

“reminder that x character did terrible things” spoken not in like a scoldy or judgemental way or that they need to repent for their sins or whatnot. but as in “i love my guy who sucks. why are you taking the sucks out of my guy. that’s literally the best part about them.”

in this essay I will

GOD i can't fucking do ANYTHING WRONG (throws beer bottle at the wall but it bounces off and lands perfectly right side up)

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whos there

@my-mom-does-not-have-it-going-on