#Contextualization

[blaqekklesia]

Euro-American scholars, ministers, and lay folk . . . have, over the centuries, used their economic, academic, religious, and political dominance to create the illusion that the Bible, read through their experience, is the Bible read correctly.” Stated differently, everybody has been reading the Bible from their locations, but we are honest about it.

Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

#esau mccaulley #reading while black #christianity #contextualization

[jahsontodd]

Idk something about people from out of town coming to see the eclipse and everyone coming outside and looking up and pointing at the shadows and updating each other on how much time there is until totality and sharing glasses and warning strangers to not look at the sun without them. I like when you get a minute to just be people

#idk in midst of mess at work it was nice to contextualize #like oh actually you are little piece in big space #solar eclipse

[bloodybellycomb]

ok but barbie considering the concept of death during a party is such a realistic depiction of how nine year old girls actually play with barbie dolls.

#barbie #margot robbie #ryan gosling #greta gerwig #something something playing pretend as a method of contextualizing the world #birdy chirps

[toonaviv]

jumpscare grip

#uty #undertale yellow #starlo #ceroba #north star uty #uty fanart #my art #yknow how some friends will just Grab u unexpectedly sometimes #i think starlos someone who doesnt mind tht at all but sometimes a guy will get caught so off guard he'll scream like a girl. #(also forgot to add contextual text in the 2nd pic that starlo was abt to do smth reckless) #ceroba ithink is more reserved abt touch esp when its unprompted. starlos Usually an exception cuz thats her dearest bestest beloved friend

[hadesoftheladies]

”you’re biased against men!” but am I wrong?

#radblr #prove me wrong coward #defend your scrote with statistics #and science #come on #prove me wrong with historical data #prove me wrong with facts and logic you worthless moid #feminism #prove me wrong with contextualized data #COME ON DONT BE A WEINER #stop avoiding the evidence #men whining about being accurately observed is not equivalent to reasoning #you’re evading the truth

[morally-gray101]

when neil was going to save andrew at the hemmick's house, he knew exactly what kind of wood the door was, and how easy it would be to break through. that's what kind of guy he is. neil doesn't win fights, but he is damn good at a getaway. this is a really good example about how all of neil's knowledge is really selective because of his upbringing. we need more survivalist neil because he shows all these traits in the books, another example is when he hitchhiked from columbia to palmetto. please stop ignoring this because i want to see batshit insane neil on the run fics right now thx

#aftg #all for the game #all for the gay #neil josten #he really was a crazy man #these books suspend disbelief so well #and contextually #it makes sense #which is the worst part #it absolutely shouldnt #but alas

[arithmonym]

re-reading the locked tomb, and i'm thinking about how harrow identifies alecto as a "girl" rather than a "woman."

obviously, john had other sources of inspiration... but did you know that the original barbie doll was only supposed to be nineteen years old?

#given that tamsyn says she writes books for angry girls and her seventeen-year-old self: it feels VERY thematically relevant #i’m kicking myself a little for not picking up on it earlier!!! #also: contextualizes john and alecto’s relationship Differently to say the least. sidenote: everyone should read the magician’s apprentice #(the 2013 short story by tamsyn muir) #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #alecto tlt #john gaius

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He's sensitive about that

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wwx contextualizing when the xue yang stuff happened via years post mortem is so morbidly funny to me #now that his ´secret’ (kept for…2 days tops) is ‘out’ he really says whatever he wants to #i mean. not like it’s any change from before. WWX traded acting fruity to talking about his body decomposing #That’s how it works in courtship right? Talking about each other’s tragic deaths *is* the next step…right? #I’m glad to finally have an oppertunity to draw soggy eyes lwj #the depth of pain trapped in his orbs….much to ponder about #lwj has always been a very sensitive boy. An Orchid boy if you will; won’t die so easily at neglect #but needs special care to truly flourish #Oh! Happy comic number 50! #I’m proud of myself for getting this far B*) thank you to everyone who’s been along for the ride! heres to 100 more!

[sam-ph-side-notes]

After the chill, after the jokes, I present to you T̷̙͊̄̌H̵͉̹̲́̏̇É̵͕̋ ̸̨̻̰̹͎͛̒͛̀A̵͉̻̻̗͇̅͛͠N̶̜̽̌̓̐Ġ̶̤͑̚S̶̯̗̓͋̂͋T̵̨̤̣̼̞͗͑̅̐͠

#marble sky holly #good ol' angst #marble sky fanart #very contextual

[blackpearlblast]

honestly one of the things that's been wild for me to learn lately is that israel was responsible for enforcing the idea that the holocaust was an unparalleled genocide that stands apart from everything else that's happened in the course of human history. even before i understood well enough how deeply interconnected all genocides are, when i was a kid, i really fucking hated it. it felt so wrong to me for the holocaust to be The Genocide of human history. it felt disrespectful to other groups who had gone through genocide and it felt like weirdly dehumanizing and tokenizing to us. i didn't want to think of jews as The Group Who Went Through A Genocide, i wanted to see us how i was familiar with in our culture our holidays our art our singing our prayers. that's how i wanted other people to see us too! not that i was ashamed of what we had gone through but i just didn't want people's perception of us to just be that we were victims and i didn't want other peoples victimhood denied to them through that either. but yeah kind of wild to learn that israel and zionist rhetoric seems fairly responsible for this pet peeve of mine from childhood before i even really had a greater consciousness of solidarity or anything.

#genocide mention #holocaust mention #there was something about like ''contextualizing the holocaust'' or something maybe it was ADL or something #i don't understand how isolation is empowering #like obviously the holocaust is significant and huge and gut wrenching and i do think it being part of the modern jewish identity makes #sense but i don't want it eclipse everything else about us i think the idea that the most accessible knowledge to people that weren't #jewish about judaism was that we had been murdered and nothing else upset me. because we have candles and bread and songs and #i feel like i'm over clarifying i doubt people would take this in bad faith anyway i just get nervous

[spottedgardeneelstan]

please light a candle for peak lord shen's poor hips and waist.

#svsss #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #svsss fanart #mxtx #i dont think you can read what's on the system window but sqq is frantically googling 'fast and easy death' and 'memory removal' #i will NEVER learn what lbh's demon mark looks like. i will draw it as whatever i think is appropriate contextually forever #anyway i drew this so i could draw shen-laoshi flushed. #i need him biblically #also because people apparently think that sqq is *not* as obsessed with lbh as lbh is with him. which is SO insanely wrong

[couch-house]

some echidnas and a jackass

#sth #sonic the hedgehog #knuckles the echidna #stc #sonic the comic #fleetway sonic #fleetway knuckles #comics #fanart #id in alt text #i couldnt figure out how to word the comic but like. knuckles remembering things abt his old life is a big deal i think #paint is obviously contextual to each person and this is supposed to be paint that wasn't really For him #but he's exploring roles he couldnt have before since like. it's just him now. #he's testing things out. this is important to him. #and sonic iiisss a dick :) #incapable of being nice #anyway sorry (no im not) for not posting. ive been busy. and recovering from being busy #i had a fun two-page comic idea i might still do. or maybe not. that's a lot of work

[existential-labrador]

LOKIUS NATION HOW WE DOING

#somehow this gif is even contextually appropriate #lokius #loki #loki spoilers #loki season 2 #loki season 2 spoilers #mobius m mobius

[draculagetspegged]

Castlevania / Castlevania: Nocturne

#the contextual meaning of each is very very different interestingly #castlevania #nocturne #richter #trevor #richter belmont #trevor belmont #my edit #my posts

[quinn-pop]

let’s do some autistic meta knight headcanons!! over explaining my interpretation of meta knight yet again wooooo

this orb has NO idea how to talk to people!!! outside of work anyway. a lot of this is partially due to upbringing (suppressing his emotions all the time) but he does not know how to express emotions, like…at all.

this goes into a few things

1. yeah talking is hard. even after figuring out what he wants to communicate he will struggle. conversation can be so overwhelming, especially under pressure. he will need time lol

2. because of that, forming connections is hard. i really don’t think meta is much for shallow relationships, and certainly not early in the timeline. which also means he has very little experience with friendship. so a lot of the relationships he did have went kinda neglected, and issues that probably could’ve been worked on by talking became…*cough romk* escalated.

3. honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if meta convinced himself he couldn’t feel emotion (anymore) until like. katam-ish. he tried very hard lol

vulnerability is terrifying. (though this gesture here is also just comforting, like his little cape cocoon thing he does.)

unmasking—yeah im taking the mask thing very literally here—is a big deal and a very slow process for mk. i’m sure he has a lot of feelings on that lol. it served as a way to ensure no one could ever, y’know, see him.

i can’t say i think he’d ever fully ditch it—there’s always gonna be some days that are more stressful than others and if having it could help him get through it, it just makes sense. mainly when working.

it really is about vulnerability. granted, i don’t think he has the most expressive face (in my head every astral just tends to stare at things) but i doubt he has much control over it. can’t fake a smile but also can’t hide it. probably blushes easy because yeah, astrals; just look at kirby’s face.

just the idea that someone might be able to read his expression and know what he’s feeling before he’s ready for them to (or even understands it himself…) yeah he doesn’t want that

but emotional turmoil aside, i think his mask also hides a lot of his stims

remember that whole “suppressing your feelings” thing? yeah turns out that ignoring half your instincts isn’t a good idea. so in true meta knight style, he tries to stim as subtly as possible

1. he has the least control over his wings, so they will flick and twitch on their own. they’re usually a good indicator of how he’s feeling, not unlike the body language usually seen in cat ears and tails lol. flapping is also an extension of this of course, though he probably suppresses it more.

2. this also effects when he takes his wings out. pretty much every time he’s excited or nervous it just happens. kinda makes me wonder if his wing cape ordeal might also go into the suppression thing… (i’d say yes, but using a cape is also very comforting so it’s not necessarily a bad thing)

3. going back to the mask thing; he stims a lot underneath it. think like biting or pursing your lips. he bites his tongue and clicks his mouth. that sort of thing. his mask also makes it harder to notice that he is constantly sighing, humming, grumbling…all that

one nice thing about the mask though is that it helps a little bit with lights!!! woo

(look at him and his magically floating glasses)

sensory stuff—i think he’s mostly bothered by light and sound. maybe a bit of texture. he’s pretty sensory avoidant and perfectly happy standing off to the side not touching anything.

the one exception to this is physical affection, which is, despite all of this, most of how he shows affection. it’s a lot easier to hug someone than to try to explain your feelings for them, after all.

i think he would like pressure though. so that’s probably part of it. and i’m pretty sure there’s some connection in here to fighting (dang, is that the only way he knows how to get his energy out?)

anyway, pretty much all of this is in contrast to kirby, who i would gladly nominate as the champion of Doing Whatever He Wants. he might pick up a few bad habits, but he will never mask the way meta knight does. he might not understand how he feels, but he’s in tune enough to express it…usually.

this is a very good thing for meta because it helps him to do the same thing. kirby’s so energetic, it’s hard to not want to stim with him. it reminds meta to be kinder to himself and explore his own emotions. he can also help kirby understand themselves, so this connection is very important.

yeah, at the end of the day, everything kinda just boils down to kirby and mk as parallels

this is the conclusion i promise

to me, meta’s arc is about growing stronger by growing kinder, and this is mostly by learning to be kind to himself. letting himself be a person again, loving and understanding other people, and eventually, letting go of all the expectations placed on him and doing the things he’s always wanted to do…

autism headcanons are fun for me because it’s cathartic to write, but at the same time, it just makes sense in this sort of narrative. meta is, to me, inseparable from these things. and so is kirby! that’s a dynamic that’s a lot of fun to play with, and it’s at the heart of my kirby interpretation.

if you actually read all this WOW thank you

#i almost considered not posting this on a wednesday but then i wrote everything and uhhh yeah i think i gotta so #happy cringe day wednesday #for as many notes as i have on these characters i really don’t talk about it much #but meta knight is a special case because i am terrible at subtlety and he wouldn’t be meta knight without it #so this is to contextualize some things #because of what ill have in the next few days haha #basically these are just things i consider when writing meta #but a lot of it is subtextual and i dont know how well it comes across #kirbyposting #kirby #meta knight #headcanons #autism headcanon #this is practically an essay lol oops #i have like 2/3 of a fic that explores most of this in a way i probably won’t do again #but we’ll see if i ever finish it #god kirby concepts are so fun to chew on #i overthink everything i make so much lol

[jibunbosh]

as far as being a trans person in japan goes, despite all of the difficulties that come with that, I think one of the most accommodating things has been... just the nature of pronouns themselves, in the language.

sure, literal translations of gendered third person pronouns exist (彼 and 彼女, kare and kanojo, he and she respectively), but... like, nobody uses them. for one, they're both words for "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" respectively (even if 彼氏, kareshi, is more common than just 彼), so you run the risk of a... rather awkward miscommunication. but, perhaps more pertinently, it's much more common to just use a person's name or title.

on the other hand... you know what does have gendered nuance and is commonly used? the word "I." or, more precisely, all the different first person pronouns in the language.

just by saying "I," "me," or "my," you can... so seamlessly make a statement about yourself and your identity in the middle of nearly any sentence.

queer people use this to express their gender identity. queer people use this to express their subversion of gender roles, too. in retrospect, it makes saying "my name is [name] and my pronouns are [pronouns]" feel so clunky when I can just... move on to my next idea, and just casually convey similar information!

speaking english in the states, i feel like it can be dangerous, sometimes, to introduce yourself with your pronouns, especially when the whole point is to greet people you're meeting for the first time. best case scenario, it's like, oh, those are your pronouns, that's cool. worst case scenario, it's "oh, pronouns? you're one of those trannies, aren't you?" much more commonly, though, is "oh he identifies as a woman," which Makes Me Want To Tear My Hair Out All The Time Why.

when i'm in japan, though, I can just be me, and simply, casually, refer to myself as such. and I think that's pretty cool.

(for more on queerness and gendered language in japanese that delves into A Whole Lot More Nuance, check out this tofugu article)

#that being said you still shouldnt overuse the first person pronoun in sentences where its contextually obvious if you wanna sound fluent ww #japanese #language #lgbt #trans #linguistics #rambles