Fundamentally you’ve got to understand about me that I’m adherent to the “orcs became orcs by choice” theory. And everything else goes from there
Like listen it could be SO GOOD. Tolkien’s understanding of what “good” and “evil” and “innocent” and “fallen” are is so so deeply Christian/Catholic and I thought we didn’t like that on this website?? (tr*dc*th Tolkien fandom don’t interact) So why is barely anyone applying transformative fandom to his elves vs orcs lore?? Like what if during the Cuivienen era a few elves just made their way to Utumno and asked for protection, simply bc they saw the fires in the darkness and went “sweet, civilization!”? And Melkor said “sure” and gave them big muscles and cool claws and tusks so that they could defend themselves better in the wilderness? There is so much here listen–
It can be about rejecting conventional views of what is “ugly” or “savage” and seeing beauty in the big beefy form of an orc. It can be about rejecting forced Christianization. It can be about choosing to slide downwards into the community of the Othered Lil Nas stripper pole into hell style. It can be about embracing nuance and really thinking about why certain groups of people make certain decisions in the course of statecraft and culture and civilization instead of staying beholden to a false good vs evil dichotomy. It can be about reading the Silm as propaganda and really getting into why the elves and men would not understand what orcs are about and choose to pass them off as homogenously evil. It can be about asking tough questions about why some people are Othered anyway. It could be about ditching the boring ass “orcs are redeemable bc they were once elves” nonsense and settling at “orcs are redeemable NO MATTER WHAT”! It could be about rad transhumanism themes. There is an untapped goldmine here just listen—
going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi:
going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi:
I think every lesbian who says she wouldn’t date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin
it all boils down to “penis steals women’s purity” and there’s literally no non-shitty way to believe that. being gay doesn’t give you a get out of jail free card for being sexist
I’m so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.
there’s a phenomenon when it comes to enjoying a male character in a piece of media where it’s so much fun and i love my blorbo and i want to talk about my blorbo and read analysis of my blorbo but i realize very fast and very hard that the majority of fans made up a version of him that appeals to their horniness and it’s become the popular and standard interpretation and i do not care for that guy at all like i’d beat him with hammers actually
The root of my frustration with a lot of trolley problem discourse is that ‘What does it mean to act ethically in a world where shitty luck and the actions of strangers you’ll never meet have left you without any purely good options?’ is, like, possibly one of the most relevant and universally applicable questions moral philosophy might help answer.
Saying it’s a bad question because it’s the negligent trolley engineer’s fault literally exactly misses the point - yes how to deal on a personal level with systems and infrastructure that designed without much care for human collateral damage is an incredibly useful thing to think about!
i’m surprised i’ve never seen anyone say that, because they didn’t design the system, therefore nothing they choose to do is their fault and isn’t a moral statement.
the whole point is that it’s simple. simplistic. and yet we can’t find an answer to even the simplest question. people keep changing it to make themselves feel better about it. it’s common that people won’t even engage with it, as if denying it is a solution. i guess that is a form of “this isn’t my fault or my problem”. if you act, you “take responsibility” for it all.
are you responsible? how much? does changing the parameters from a lever to shoving matter, and why? does it matter if you designed the system or not? why does it matter who the people are or how they got there?
life isn’t fair and people don’t like confronting that. there MUST be an out that leaves you unambiguously the good person. that’s the just world fallacy: if only you can figure out how things work, nothing bad will ever happen to you, nothing bad will ever happen to anyone again, you’ll never do anything bad again. you’ll never deserve to be on the tracks, you’ll never be forced onto them.
except that’s a childish fantasy and life isn’t fair. all you can do is try to make it more fair, which is the whole point of the question: what does that mean? why does bitching about it matter, when all that does is put moral paint over it to deny responsibility and thus consequences? why are there consequences when all you did was try to help? why is your trying to help nitpicked as if you designed the circumstances?
The trolley problem is the ethical equivalent of physics questions that start with “ignoring friction…” because they’re teaching you a Newtonian formula. Throwing the textbook across the room and declaring “Aha! The rolling ball would experience friction, actually!” does not make you look good at physics. It makes you look like a idiot with so little understanding of the basic concept of the question that you’re not worth talking to about physics.
Some of you think of Cops as kind of a symbolic figure representing “telling you what to do” & you’re Posting things like “acab includes fandom discourse” and I thuink the 80% white website needs to remember the reason why we hate cops is because they kill people
We hate cops because they’re a weapon for enforcing the state’s interests through violence. Like, they kill & imprison people. The antis don’t have a Quite Literal boot on your neck please god log off or talk to a Black person or something
To be SO fair like really generous there is something to be said for unlearning the habit of figuratively “policing” other people especially in the context of, like, not being a fucking snitch, “kill the cop in your head” etc etc, but can we not completely lose the plot re: what cops Are
You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up
end of january affirmations
im not doing anything wrong and no one is mad at me
there must be a place for me in this world because here i am
my art doesnt suck
instagram is nothing to me
The explicitly pornographic ads paired with porn bans to appeal to advertisers is really aggravating, but I also want to take a moment to complain about really disgusting ads. Cartoon person with disturbingly photorealistic boils and shit, getting giant worms pulled out of their bodies, body horror shit like that. What the fuck is this supposed to be advertising? Why would you show this? Why can’t I block it? It always pops up when I’m trying to eat, too. Why is this allowed? Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you FUCK YOU
