#apriori thoughts

[loving-n0t-heyting]

"scientific research has definitively proven torture absolutely never works for extracting information thus rendering any moral questions around torture-interrogation moot" no. false. cope, skill issue, and ceding too much ground to the enemy

the obvious tell when ppl wield this factoid is that the studies alluded to are never actually cited. there is ofc a good reason for this: ethical standards in human experimentation rule out the sorts of rigorous controlled studies these authoritative pronouncements always bring to mind, meaning such scholarly work as does exist has to rely on considerably less persuasive arguments-by-inference, like pointing to the neurological damage induced by most torture techniques

and anyway we all know the claims are untrue to begin with. suppose there is some information on your encrypted laptop whose privacy you value at all but only finitely, and that someone takes a baseball bat to yr stomach while yr tied up in an effort to extract the password from you with the promise they will cease once the information is obtained. wdyd? exactly

the key to such effective torture is checkability, as (relatively) non-idiotic torture apologists themselves generally admit. anscombe writes satirically:

The Report might be thought, at first inspection, to rule [interrogation by torture] out on the ground that confessions obtained by torture are unreliable, and are therefore not to be introduced. That is true; but torture could often be used to obtain ascertainably reliable information. [...] The correct position, which the Report itself puts forward, is that such evidence should be used where independently confirmable; for example, the model statute reaffirms the ability of the prosecution to produce physical evidence, or any other fact, about a crime, even though information leading to that evidence be discovered by inducements, threats, or oppressive treatment, presumably including torture.

if you need real life examples, this war criminal-adulating mealy-mouthed sycophant has gathered a handful. you might here object (as well as to previous apriori argument) that these examples are somewhat limited in scope and relevance, which might be fair were the pronouncements on tortures ineffectiveness not always so sweeping and categorical. to a universal statement one counterexample suffices as refutation.

the fact that these smug claims of total inefficacy for torture as an information-gathering technique are so readily falsified is indicative of the underlying problem: as an argument against the use of torture it is either disingenuous or made from the same false starting position of the torturer, that the question of whether to torture is a matter of "weighing" the cost to the victim against the cost to "society" as mediated by how well the torture "works." in reality, torture is ruled out simply bc it is torture, just as murdering a teenage boy to harvest his organs is ruled out simply bc it is murder. give that up and youve given up everything

[not-souleaterpost]

Manga and Copyright

I'll be honest, I'm only asking because I need the info to figure certain things out for the SE Iceberg, but I think it would be interesting for people in general, no matter what series or author we are speaking about:

Are there any general rules about "ownership" of a series, franchise, "ip" in relation to the original creator?

Like does it depend on magazine, timeframe, individual contract etc? As an example, I think back in the day most American Comic writters didnt keep any rights for their charachters, atleast in the big magazines, but did Shonen Jump and the others copy that model?

Probably not, considering the orginal creator seems to be allways credited, like thw famous line of "Original Creator ____"

But still it is obviously still beholden to magazines and othet institutions, not just the fact that publishers like Shueisha or Square Enix get credited, but more the fact that they run in magazines that hold the sway over cancelations, brand deals, tie ins, anime productions etc.

And the fact that you so rarerly hear that a canceled manga just got continued by the author on their free time would suggest that its just legally not possible (still it could just be that its either not economical to do, or the author doesnt care enough about a flor or maybe both and other reasons, maybe also a cultural thing out of respect or shame but dont quete me on that just speculating)

So if I had to guess there probably is a system where the author and publisher have partial ownership (+parts owned by other parties depending on situation) - I would have thought that probably only the magazine owns it, but the fact that Atsushi Ohkubo could connect two of his works published in different magazines with different parent companys suggests that he atleast owns it partally, and that is enough to atleast do what he did, even if there are still some strange details.

Anyways, this is all just my baseless apriori ideas, would appreciate if somebody who is actually knowladgable about this could give some info.

(Also I am only asking all this in a descriptive way, no moral judgments about if its fair or not. Personally I am against copyright in principle, but still I wonder how it works in the reality of the current legal framework and reality).

And if this seems just to be a boring question - yeah...sorry

#manga #publishing #copyright #question #legal #legal question #ownership #soul eater #atsushi ohkubo #who owns what

[rulanarinrush]

My dra fics link masterlist

Now that I have over 50 works for (s)dra (it's mostly just the first game and drabbles), I think it's probably not only going to be hard but also extremely spammy and annoying if I try make a post for every single dra fic. So here I will try to post the links to some of them sorted by pairing.

I'll do my best with regards to warnings, but please please I implore you to read all the tags before you read the fic for content warnings. Some of my fics have canon typical vioIence, canon typical su1cide themes(mostly Utsuro), etc. Most of my fics have spoilers for the games. Back out if you need to. Below the cut are the fics.

No pairings:

the fictionalist (Kinjo, ch5 kinjo's su1cidal thoughts warning, drabble).

bury the skin of your face (Utsuro, Akane, drabble)

jettison(Yamato, Mikako, spoilers for Mikako's backstory, drabble)

dies irae(Kinji, drabble, spoilers for Ch3)

around the memory rondo (Mikako, Yamato, Kinji, Kakeru, Satsuki, content warning for character d3ath and implied su1cide.)

moment, if (Mikako, Yamato)

composites, missing. (Kinjo, spoilers, drabble)

bodysuit (real Yuki, spoilers, drabble)

Yamato/Utsuro(more in multipairings):

pareidolia (spoilers)

baptism of the bodhisattva (spoilers, sexual content)

innocent light (sexual content, drabble)

incorrect conclusions (spoilers, drabble)

in your hands, ruffle. judgement (sexual content, crossdressing, spoilers, drabble)

eleemosyna (spoilers, drabble)

folie à deux (spoilers, drabble)

salvation of mind (spoilers, drabble)

existence over essence, reverse! (spoilers, drabble)

lip service (spoilers, drabble)

hearth (drabble)

Yuki/Kinjo (more in multipairings)

tip the scales (spoilers, double drabble)

ownership (spoilers, drabble).

trust (spoilers, drabble)

Mikako/Akane(more in the multipairings)

unsolvable girl(spoilers)

condemnation (spoilers, drabble)

Kinji/Kinjo(all spoilers & drabbles)

eucharist

paradox of ravens

judge judge executioner!

Utsuro|Yuki/ Mikako(all spoilers & drabbles)

the brother a rose, the sister a weed

my love is violent enough for the both of us (violence warning)

Pairings with 1-2 fics/multipairing fics:

by nature, i love (Haruhiko/Satsuki, character d3ath, tripple drabble)

cold, uninviting (Rei/Mikako, drabble)

giving (Rei/Mikako, drabble)

apriori (Emma/Kokoro, spoilers, implied character d3ath, drabble)

zurückspulen (Nikei/Mikado, spoilers, drabble)

sweet treats for sweet girls (Satsuki/Inori, drabble)

grounded (Akane/Ayame, drabble)

cracks in the plan (Akane/Ayame, spoilers, implied character d3ath, drabble)

lemon drop (Akane/Satsuki, drabble)

seven(lie), eight(true) (Akane/all the girls, Akane/Utsuro, spoilers)

dichotomy lover (Akane/Rei, Akane/Mikako, Akane/Ayame, spoilers, character d3ath)

not to step in the grave (Rei/Inori, drabble, spoilers)

in me, in me (Akane/Rei, Akane/Ayame, spoilers, implied character d3ath, drabble)

final wish of summer (Rei/Teruya, spoilers, implied character d3ath)

red of love (Rei/Teruya, spoilers)

the hedonistic treadmill for those lacking moral fiber (Utsuro/all the guys, sexual content)

lost love, new hatred, living bodies are an illusion (Kinjo/all the guys, bigtime spoilers)

Danganronpa Another IF fics

the dog underneath the train (Yamato/Utsuro)

ichor (Mikako/Akane)

kisaragi sibling roleswap au, inspired by edits by @anotherprofessional (Utsuro/Yamato, Utsuro/Mikako) warning these two have a lot of creepy sexual metaphors.

stomping on roses

i go where i am needed

I hope anyone that checks out this post finds something they liked!!! this was mostly a way for me to see what I've written and why are there so many yamatsuro fics im crying. all my utsuro/mikako fics are also a fuckin atrocity sorry

#danganronpa another #dra #dra spoilers #super danganronpa another 2 #utsuro dra #sdra2 #sdra2 spoilers #yamato kisaragi #tsurugi kinjo #mikako kurokawa #akane taira #uehara kinji #rei mekaru #yuki maeda #satsuki iranami #ayame hatano #teruya otori #kanata inori #yamatsuro #kinjomae #kinjohara #mikakane #reikane #ayakane #i didnt tag any pairings with <2 fics #besides terurei but they have all the fics as separate posts already #didnt want to spam them #and tbh? i dont know the other ship names so good luck with that #r.rush fic archive

[containscure]

"Mental health apriori"

The statement that 40% of people aged between 10 and 19 years suffer from anxiety and depression, and that one in four adults experience the disorder, is an alert to the importance of mental health in all elderly people. The balance between mind and body is crucial for a healthy and productive life. Art is a powerful form of communication and can be used to convey important messages such as the importance of taking care of your own mental health. As a communicator, I understand that mental health is essential to human well-being as it allows us to deal with life's challenges effectively and find meaning and purpose in our lives. The famous thought "mens sana in corpore sano" illustrates the importance of harmony between mind and body, reminding us that we must take care of both to achieve optimal health. It is important that people recognize the need to maintain a healthy balance and seek help when needed to promote a full and meaningful life.

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[ao3feed-danganronpa]

apriori

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ls2NxO7

by rulanarinrush

Last chilling thoughts. Drabble.

Prompt: frozen. Content warning for implied character death. For the Falcom server Drabble Challenge.

Words: 100, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa Series, sdra2 - Fandom

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F

Characters: Mitsume Kokoro

Relationships: Magorobi Emma/Mitsume Kokoro

Additional Tags: Fangan Ronpa: Super Danganronpa Another 2 - The Moon of Hope and Sun of Despair, Canon Compliant, Ch2 spoilers(sdra2), Drabble, Angst

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ls2NxO7

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #dangan ronpa #danganronpa #dr

[syzygyinfinite]

Inertia in logic and thought

We (read: most of us) look for emotional distractions almost subconsciously. Almost like we've trained ourselves to escape the touch of emotions.

Perhaps the training of the subconscious mind does not depend upon time as much as is posited. Perhaps it is more a factor of impact, than time. Impactful training - or to put it into more known, albeit none the wiser words - impactful experiences train the subconcious mind to tend to emotions in certain ways.

And to make things more complicated, the more trained our subsconscious becomes, the more training it enables, and the more training it pursues. Our subsequent perception of things is inevitably influenced by our apriori perception of things. It is an inertia in logic and thought - we (read: all of us) stick to the underlying logical flow (funny how flow and inertia form a logical contrariety) of our thoughts with every new thought, unless forced to change. And that is how beliefs come into existence, and belief systems are built up - right up till an impactful enough experience trains us to forgo one logical flow and hold on to another.

The seeking out of emotional distractions is a process reflective of a certain logical inertia which underlies all our emotional decisions and directions.

[oznobikhina]

If someone would asked me what was the most disappointing thing in all that, I mean life in general. I'd definitly pointed on a fully packed shelves of books producing dusty clouds that make my sorrow even worse as I cannot stand this type of skin. The huge membrane spread all over the territory. It is not that I would like to come to an end to be able to order fancy drinks in restaurants while the power of control and resistance. We will win this war by not involving into its affective layers of joy or sadness. The smartest person of all knows three things and they are somehow not coinciding religious attempts to retain the power through the affective control. It's Wittgenstein's famous phrase about the silence, basic laws of Dialectics and one's own weaknesess. Although I myself prefer spontaneous emergence of rhythmospheric gesture-like political realm, I would not recommend trying to obercome hegelian thought to any extent. Political economy is always libidinal economy which means that lebensinsel's and corporeal suggestions are always aroused by the intrusive impulses of the environment that sells us medicine and methods of how being cured by making us abandoning ourown hopes and dreams by demonstrating how everything is nice on their side. The revolution is not about shoutouts and broken windows. They call us parasites and use our affective involvement So the more you shout, the less energy you left for your own dreams. Territory is also about the Body and the Air. Instead of listening to the words of human beings one prefers watching their actions and this leads to way more dissapointing manner of societal existence. One thinks that social apriori should be dismissed. One catches the old memories from cafeteria's situations encoded and charged differently and sights due to the inability to cover herself from it.

[mxazimut]

TW Validism and psychophobia

Personally I would like to speak on the subject… so it’s let’s Go for a thread!

(On all the completely unworthy stuff that we hear regularly 100 times a day)

1:

“It is for your good the curatorship”

*point on the fact that a disabled psychic person can’t buy something without being criticized when buying a plush for example* (while Karen Valide buys a handbag with 500 balls and shocks no one as randomly)

2:

“Why do you touch the AAH?you’re just pretending!”

*point on the fact that our rights are unfair according to the valid and that it is a privilege to have access to certain things when you are disabled psy*

(While we are still forced to deal with the things not at all suitable for life in society but good pays your advantage obviously)

3:

“It’s the fault of screens if you’re ADHD!”

*point boomers on youth so saying completely lost who dares not laugh at hyper serious stuff and who has the nerve to defend his simple existence…naughty autistic!

(While we already existed before the discovery of high-tech but good stuff…)

4:

“Stop shouting that you’re NeuroA and then first you haven’t really disabled why you’re entitled to have a disability card?”

*guilt and pathologizing about the fact that your disability is not seen because anyway askip just has some difficulties and then it’s all… without really knowing yourself*

(While the concern is that we are constantly classified according to the “gravity” of our “pathology” review your aprioris please it becomes dangerous to get so much misunderstanding on the real subject)

5:

“You’re really screaming for nothing… when I think there are people who would dream of being in your place, you should be happy and avoid complaining!”

* Unbearable point of the life lesson on the model of “good and bad disabled” as if we were happy to have access to something that should be… logical all the time!

(Although hand washing is pure commercial bullshit but obviously jean-valid prefers to marvel at “your beautiful different because you are all wonderful »

6:

"Ah, but you're lgbt+ AND practical, but normally you can't be the 2, you're too weird... that's why you're trans... that's because you're too weird... that's really your autistic?"

Waw I don’t have the words to describe how cis NT really has no genes to ask us if we are legitimate to live peacefully without having to answer those kind of hyper-embarrassing questions that humiliate us more than anything else…)

7:

You are so brave and an example you know... and you never thought you were fashionable if you hadn't been autistic?

* Life lesson point as if we were not already accustomed enough, let's see...*

(Although it is screaming and completely eugenic but WTF… as if I were forced to prove my happiness ah the… but nan I claim my disability for the cause worries you…)

8:

“I think you're great and that autistic or not you can't see as much as that... on TV they're more... you know what... by the way I told you about the daughter of a friend who also has it?”

*point that starts from a compliment I guess but thank you I'm fine despite this kind of comment by people not at all informed on the subject because apparently TV is safe while on the contrary it's mainstream to death... then I don't know me... I've already told you about the guy I met in a bar and who told the same kind of clichés? *

(While on the fact... well by force it makes me smile nicely because the NT don't even imagine for a minute that not only am I “able to fight for a cause that is close to my heart” but in addition I am far from the old problematic clichés about the gaze of disability in general... like the DSM completely slammed to the ground now... *

9: “You talk a lot after…you did the studies really above it?well you don’t have the right to talk fall!”

*inflicting point I can’t stand it anymore… so my guy… already I am a concerned person… I express myself, it’s not like I was in charge of people “like me” as you say and I got out of the popotin every second like Sophie Cluzel*

(So in short… people who have no idea what the life of a person with a hand is really like… blah bla I speak san puts the subject rider with false and often erroneous words)

10: “I’m not crazy! Why you can cancel a YouTuber for just that?

*point where we imagine that we crazy we should be ashamed and hide and not at all to let it do but good it really is bad to know us…*

(While the feeling of wanting to do pedagogy for a community of fans using a psychophobic thermal baths ben, that’s all benefit for the person who might feel concerned and who already has trouble finding a place in a group)

[alfvy]

Epistemologi Kant

Catatan dari Critique of Pure Reason

Putusan analitis apriori: Analytical judgments are therefore those in which the connection of the predicate with the subject is cogitated through identity. ... For example “all bodies are extended,” this is analytical judgment. For I need not go beyond the conception of body in order to find extension connected with it, but merely analyze the conception. (Hlm. 7)

Putusan sintesis aposteriori: those in which this connection is cogitated without identity, are called synthetical judgments. ... When I say, “All bodies are heavy,” the predicate is something totally different from that which I think in the mere conception of a body. But the addition of such a predicate therefore, it comes a synthetical judgment. (Hlm. 7)

Putusan sintesis apriori: all events have a cause (Hlm. 8); 7+5=12; a straight line between two points is the shortest (Hlm. 10)

Intuisi atas fenomena: In whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear, that the only manner, in which it immediately relates to them, is by means of an intuition.

To this as the indispensable groundwork, all thought points. But an intuition can take place only in so far as the object is given to us. This, again, is only possible, to man at least, on condition that the object affect the mind in a certain manner. The capacity for receiving representation through the mode in which we are affected by objects, is called ‘sensibility’.

The effect of an abject upon the faculty of representation, so far we are affected by said object, is sensation. That sort of intuition which relates to an object by means of sensation is called an ‘empirical intuition’. The undetermined object of an empirical intuition, is call’ phenomenon.

It is, then, the matter of all phenomena that is given to us a posteriori; the form must lie ready a priori for them in mind, and consequently can be regarded separately from all sensation.

From this investigation it will be found that there are two pure forms of sensuous intuition, as principles of knowledge a priori, namely, space and time. (Hlm. 21)

By means of external sense (a property of the mind), we represent to ourselves objects as without us, and these all in space. Therein alone are their shape, dimensions, and relations to each other determined or determinable.

The internal sense, by means of which the mind contemplates itself or its internal state, gives, indeed, no intuition of the soul as an object; yet there is nevertheless a determinate form, under which alone the contemplation of out internal state is possible, so that all which relates to the inward determinations of the mind is represented in relations of time. (Hlm. 23)

Sintesis rasio dan empiri: Without the sensuous faculty no object would be given to us, and without the understanding no object would be thought. (Hlm. 45)

Kategori dalam rasio murni (verstand) yang membentuk pemahaman (understanding) terhadap objek yang dipikirkan (thought) terdiri dari 12 kategori:

A. Quantity

1. Universal

2. Particular

3. Singular

B. Quality:

4. Affirmation

5. Negation

6. Infinite

C. Relation:

7. Categorical

8. Hypothetical

9. Disjunctive

D. Modality

10. Problematical

11. Assertorical

12. Apodictical

Catatan Ismail Al 'Alam

Kelas Filsafat Barat Dasar

[apriorisea]

What do you think each of the boys top “love languages” are? (Acts of service, words of affirmation, etc)? You write so well, love ur blog 💛

-- Hi!! Thank you so much for your sweet words^^ That’s so nice of you. Also, wow, this is such a great question!!! I love thinking about how to categorize personalities, so I really enjoyed pondering this for a while 🤔😅Eventually I just went with what made the most sense to me, but undoubtedly these opinions could change over time. And, of course, these are just *my* thoughts, so I’d really love to hear from everyone whether they agree or disagree and why~ Thanks again and I hope you are having a great day/night 💜💕

BANGTAN LOVE LANGUAGES

Seokjin: Quality Time      -I think you could make a strong argument that he is also “words of affirmation,” especially given how much he courts praise (worldwide handsome, my handsome face, yes I’m handsome, etc etc), but.....I would also say that exact reason is why it’s not his love language. I think his personality is such that if it were his true love language, he wouldn’t be so bold about asking for it or encouraging it. So....for me, the thing that really makes sense for Mr. Worldwide Handsome himself is quality time. Of the 7 of them, Jin had the most opportunity to experience a “normal life.” He was already a college student by the time he was recruited, so I have always felt that, for him, the magnitude of their fame and the ways it changed his life has been a little bittersweet. No matter how grateful he is for his life and proud of his work and happy to be what he is, I can’t help but feel that he mourns the loss of that normalcy in a deeper way than the others. Therefore, I think it truly means the most to him when he is able to spend free, unbothered, private, and significant time with people he cares about. The ability to set down the title of “BTS’ Jin” for just a moment and be relaxed in company where he feels completely comfortable and cared for and normal is a dream situation for him. 

Yoongi: Physical Touch      -So Yoongi is, in my opinion, the most empathetic member of the group---the one who is always silently watching, listening, observing, and then handling whatever comes up. He is painfully aware of the needs of every person around him and doesn’t hesitate to step up and fill those needs where he can, and if he can’t do it alone, he helps the person find the solution elsewhere. Because of this, I think he’s very well versed in giving love in the form of words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, and even occasionally giving gifts. However, I think the way he craves affection is through physical touch. Words of affirmation is a close second to me, but I think, genuinely, when he is as in-tune to the emotions and needs of others sometimes he just needs someone to hold his hand. I also think that, for him, physical touch and quality time kind of come hand-in-hand (no pun intended): his idea of being loved is sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with someone who loves him for a long period of time. Someone who will cuddle him and hold his hand and hug him when he’s tired and stressed, when he can’t sleep at night, when he is too overwhelmed to even work. Being in a loving, comfortable environment to him means being in one where puppy-piles on the couch aren’t unheard of, where it’s not strange to bustle around the kitchen bumping into each other, and where a touch on the arm is as commonplace as a smile. 

Hoseok: Acts of Service      -J-Hope is the toughest one for me, for reasons that I can’t quite explain. I think he plays such an important role in the group that has so many nuances I can’t really pin any one love language on him---except, for some reason, the one that sticks out the most to me is acts of service. For someone who has, by his own admission, worked very hard to cultivate and embody a particular persona (one that is happy and carefree and positive), I can see him being really moved by having someone quietly do things for him that make his life easier. Making him a meal after a hard rehearsal, unpacking his things for him after a long tour, doing the dishes or taking out the trash so he doesn’t have to worry about it, etc etc. Doing the hard or tedious or daunting things for him so he has a chance to just relax, to put down the persona for just a moment and be babied a little. 

Namjoon: Words of Affirmation      -Words mean the most to Namjoon. He has intentionally surrounded himself with words his whole life: lyrics, languages, poetry, literature. He probably also enjoys an act of service or an odd hour or two doing something Namjoony (museums, nature, etc) with someone he loves, but I think, when it comes right down to it, Namjoon communicates most and best with words. However, while others need words to praise them or acknowledge them, sometimes I think Namjoon simply craves conversation that stimulates his incredibly high level of intelligence. Sometimes, he just needs someone with whom he can discuss his deepest thoughts, opinions, philosophies, ideas, fears---and who will then affirm everything he has said; not necessarily agree, but just affirm that his thoughts are valid and interesting and provoking, to vibe with him on a similar level. Also, I think he really appreciates being told that his music, his actions, his life has had a positive impact on others. And, of course, I think he, who was mocked early on for his appearance, really thrills at being complimented for things beyond just his intellect and talent. 

Jimin: Receiving Gifts      -I know, I know: the cuddle monster of BTS is surely a “physical touch” person, right?? And if not that, then certainly the highly self-critical, sensitive, classically trained performer would surely crave “words of affirmation” the most, right?? ..........I won’t actually argue much against either of those, because I think Jimin, more than the rest of them, could probably easily fall into multiple categories. Does he love cuddling/hugging/physical closeness? Absolutely. Does he adore receiving praise or affirmation? Definitely. But here’s what I think about Jimin: he is one of the most empathetic people in the group. He’s caring, he’s observant---he’s completely willing to do whatever it takes to make the people around him KNOW they are loved. He’s intuitive and highly aware of the needs of others and acts on that intuition in a pretty selfless way. Because of this, I think it means a LOT to him when someone takes the time to buy or acquire something that he either needs or wants. It’s a sign that someone else has been listening or watching him as closely as he listens to and watches others. I think he is the sort of person who appreciates gifts (especially random ones) because it shows that the other person saw something that reminded them of him, totally at random or totally unprompted. (but yes, also physical touch and words of affirmation)

Taehyung: Words of Affirmation      -Honestly, he is the only one I feel most certain about. Taehyung needs to be told that he is doing well; more than that, he needs to be listened to. Some could argue that being listened to is more “quality time” (and I wouldn’t necessarily disagree) but I feel like hearing the right words and being able to comfortably say the right words to someone who is paying close attention are extremely similar. Taehyung seems to live off the praise of those who mean the most to him. Whenever he learns a new skill (painting, composing, ‘playing’ the violin) he wants to show the world: he wants to be told he has done well. He also very much dislikes being ignored or forgotten or spoken over---all very normal things to be irritated about, but they really seem to dig at him. I could get into a whole discourse about why I think this is (his position in the group, his history within the group, his particular personality etc etc), but for now I’ll just leave it with this: Taehyung is the sort of person who loves to cuddle, loves to receive thoughtful gifts, and enjoys spending time with those he loves---but what he needs most is to hear good things about himself and his accomplishments, to be reassured, to be recognized, and to be heard.

Jungkook: Quality Time      -Here’s my thinking: as the baby of the group, as the precious maknae that was raised by these 6 other men, Jungkook received (and still receives and will continue to receive) all the physical touch (cuddling, hugs, hand-holding, playing with his hair, etc etc) and words of affirmation ( “golden maknae”, he’s the coolest, everything he does is great, so handsome, talented, etc etc) a person could ever possibly want. He’s literally never lacked those things; he has ALWAYS had at least 6 other people to snuggle him and praise him (nevermind the millions of ARMY that would kill to do the same 😂). At the opposite end of the same stick, since he is the youngest I don’t think receiving gifts is anything new or special to him; plus he seems very much the sort of person who RELISHES his ability to provide for himself (see: his fancy car, apartment, etc). He’s also been raised in an environment where things are done for him as a matter of course, so acts of service doesn’t seem to fit either. Therefore, I think one thing that means the most to him is quality time. Actually, quite similar to his hyung-nim and best buddy Jin, I think he also genuinely craves any opportunity to spend quiet, private, meaningful time with those he cares about (although for an opposite reason: Jin aches for a life he used to have, Jungkook yearns for a life he never had a chance to experience). This is also why I think he’s always very vocal about how much he loves and misses ARMY: the time spent at concerts/performances is quality time to him, an opportunity to spend time with some of the people he loves the most.

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A clip of haru and rin popped up on my youtube feed, it was the -haru gets angry- scene of eternal summer (another heated rinharu argument, I couldn't say no XD) and while I was rewatching it, idk why but when haru said "I swim for myself and for my friends" and rin replied "then swim for those friends, and for your own sake!" the expression rin made made me feel like he didn't even consider himself haru's friend or close friend, but still encouraged him to find a dream for haru himself because that's the only way they can swim together again

Haha I can't say no to all the rinharu scenes lol

Idk, I watched it a bit differently. It's definitely not the fact that he didn't consider himself Haru's friend, it's just the fact that Rin thought that he wasn't gonna be enough to make Haru's future a happy one after all the points Haru made in his yelling about 'why he swims'.

It was before the time they confessed that for them both the best team is the one when they're together. So when Haru started with his "I don't swim for this assholes to stare at me and for the records or smth" you can see Rin starting to putting it all together, he was like "okay, what for then?" and Haru goes "I swim for myself and my friends", it's like... Rin knows Nagisa, Makoto and Rei won't go for the national team xD, he can't give him that, and he certainly doesn't have enough self-esteem to think that he alone is enough to inspire him to move forward, when everyone else is not there anymore, he also doesn't know yet, that for Haru being on one team with Rin makes it apriori the best team, nevermind who are the other two aparently, bc they weren't at the point of their relationship yet to admit that at this point, cause hey, insecurity, hey.

Just loving swimming is not enough to make someone want to turn it into profession, just bc it can potentially make you hate it later on. If he doesn't want medals, glory, fame and achievements doesn't excite him, then it's even more complicated. "For friends" is also not an option, bc you can't form a national team yourself. So of course Rin was a bit lost there. Because he didn't really know what to offer him. He couldn't quite go and say "And if it's only me?"

Utsumi said about this scene that for Haru it was the moment he could finally let go and yell his true feelings out, just bc it was Rin (awwww), but for Rin it was the moment he started to think just about what Haru himself really wanted, for the first time hearing his real feelings out loud. Thinking that he should shove his own wishes away to help Haru find himself.

Basically as we know Rin automatically assumed that Haru will go with him "to the world" since like 13, bc he wanted to be with him, so from his own point of view since he didn't know about Haru wanting the same thing, it looks like all this time he pushed him into that (I guess u can say selfishly) bc he finds it hard to "go on without him".

So what Rin was going through during Haru's outburst was partially self-loathing, bc it was the moment that he realized that he put his selfish wish to be with him over Haru's own wishes (which was also to be with him, but that's well.. they love their misunderstandings) and didn't even know what was on his mind all this time.

But then he was also hurt, bc that was also a moment that he realized that there was in fact a possibility that his and Haru's dream might just not be the same one, and that's why "what dream? what future? it's only you who cares about that!" was so painful.

So like... true about the fact that he just wanted to help him, even if it meant things won't work out the way he wanted, that's why he phrased it like that in his talk with Sousuke in Yakusoku like "I'll just show him how it can be" but if he doesn't want this (me), that's okay. and that's what he said in Australia, too, when Haru turned to him already after realizing that he can have that with Rin, Rin said "we can just try it out, that's all" and if you don't like it, then fuck this and that was when Haru stopped feeling pressured and feeling like a circus monkey.

And that's why I find Rin's behavior during Australian trip twice as sweet, bc I don't know how dude was even holding on there, I'm guessing it was extremely hard for him to shove it all away and don't accidentely say smth that will make Haru feel like he owns him smth, you know. That's why he always stopped himself after "I've always admired you" for example, he goes "ahh no, can't do that", but then he slips in bed again. He like tried to tell him without this sounding obligatory like when Sousuke went "well, if you quit, he quits, haven't you thought about that?" making Haru feel quilty. Rin went like I won't lie, without you it's hard for me, but it's just bc you're so amazing and you make me feel like I can do anything, but the question he ends his speech with is whether he makes Haru feel the same way or not?

Rin's just the person who always always just GOES for the thing he wants and loves, so it was clear that he was like "I can't let you go, I just can't let you go, I'm sorry. but it also kills me to see you that way, so please please say you want this with me too". That's why it was so AAAAAA cause it's like technically both of their futures were on the line there, so the way he was holding on so well and made this about Haru is just really sweet. He was like we can travel the world together, watch oceans and fountains and fishies, eat mackerel sandwiches, swim together, be together, do illegal stuff together, I won't let the system imprison you, spread your wings, babe xD He was like really considerate, but also fought for their happiness, so it's like two for two for me.

But yeah, 2x09.. I fucking love that scene, bc of reasons, but also I always get extemely angry, too, bc I'm like.. I hate when they leave half of the stuff unspoken and then their insecurities like add some absolute bullshit to the blank spaces and it all leads to me facepalming, bc I'm like... I know what one wants and the other wants and they want the same thing, but they think they don't and just... kill me pls lmao

Anyways, I'm so glad this is finally over and we won't have to go throught his ever again. Fucking finally, now just confess that you don't just want to be in one bed with him, but to fuck him too and we're ok xD

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Apologies if this ask/point is already answered and apologies that this ask is long

Just a few moments ago, I looked back at your commom complaints about MDZS/MXTX in general. I scrolled down a litte more and saw the "The implication that Wei Ying was straight in his first life but is gay in his second" critique. Then I took a deep breath in and thought to myself "Is this seriously a complaint? It's pretty obivous that Wei Ying is bisexual. The way I interpret Wei Ying's sexuality is that he was bi-curious and then realised he was bi because of how Lan Zhan treated him. That's kinda one of the key points of Wangixan is that Wei Ying discovered himself". In conclusion, I feel like rockhard thrashers of MXTX are casually erasing bisexual men or just too blind to see the obivous and are irrationally upset at MXTX for not holding their hand through the entire narrative ._..

Hi anon, 

A lot of people seem to struggle with how to read a limited, 3rd person POV narration from a slightly unreliable character. The fact that WWX doesn’t think of himself as attracted to men during his first life does not mean that he wasn’t, and the fact that WWX doesn’t take a moment to reassure to reader unambiguously that, yeah, actually, he kind of always had a crush on Lan Zhan and just didn’t realise what it was, does not mean that WWX was “straight in his first life”. The novel does show us, in understated ways, in ways that require the reader to use a little bit of brain juice and connect the dots and read between the lines, that WWX already liked LWJ in his first life. 

My interpretation of WWX, as long-time followers of this blog will be aware, is not that he is bisexual but a comphet gay--that is, a gay guy who drank so much comphet juice that it took them a long time to realise that he was not actually attracted to the other sex. That’s because, in my opinion, WWX’s flirting with women feels very performative, very uninterested in the women themselves, but in the posturing, the getting attention, the confirmation of his attractiveness, the getting things out of sweet talking women, etc. Of course, the bisexual!WWX interpretation is totally valid. 

I think it is also important for people to reframe their expectations of queer characters in stories set outside the West and in different historical times (however vague the actual period is). Queer people throughout the world and history have not necessarily ascribed identities and labels to attraction or  romantic and sexual entanglements, or if they have these identities and labels are often not ones that can be neatly mapped unto the labels/identities that we are familiar with (and that’s not even getting into gender presentation and gender identity). I think it is easy to forget how much the labels and identities that feel obvious to us (almost as if they were apriori categories) were at heart reactionary to specific contexts, that they evolved in relation to the medicalisation/pathologisation of homosexuality/trans in the West or to the organisation for the fight for civil rights and safety in modern, ‘democratic’ societies, etc. So the internal journey of a character realising their attraction to some of the same gender in a different spatiotemporal setting, even if fictional, might not need to be written (or it might not make sense for a writer to write it) the same way it would be for a character going through the same thing in our contemporary moment in the West. Although I’m sure there are people who will say that MXTX is obviously a straight that would not think this far/would never be aware of these things (even unconsciously) in creating her story, and obvioulsy a straight that just doesn’t know how to write queer characters so it doesn’t matter than queer people might be different outside the contemporary West, etc. so maybe I’m just bringing this up for absolutely nothing. 

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If we forced schools closed & said 'hey everybody gets a gap year that doesn't go on your record at all congrats' that would be a way of actually starting to address the increased inequality via covid on education.

But instead, since people assume apriori "we're powerless to force anything on a society-wide scale," that all we can do is "try and make the best choice between a murderous rock & an also-murderous hard place - maybe throw a pillow on top of the murderous hard place then it won't be so hard never thought abt that didjya"

#covid #school reopenings

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The issue whether the HP series has adequate POC representation has been brought up quite often at this blog. The basic assumption usually is that the Wizarding World's POC population should represent that of United Kingdom's. Also, it's sometimes followed by a claim that HP fails at this, and the series is whiter than the real life UK is or has been in the past. I got curious about this, as to me it seemed like something that might be true, but also that might not be (I am interested about population history in general, and the UK and its history, and to me the claim didn't strike as something that was intuitively absolutely wrong, but not something that was absolutely right either. So, I decided to sate my curiosity and see how the matter is, to best of my abilities. I thought other people might be interested as well, and once I did the research for myself, I might as well share it). One of the moderators (Elle) made an excellent and informative dig about the subject sometime ago, but it mostly concentrated on the 2010s data, and not that of 1990s, which is when the original HP series primarily takes place in. I thought I could perhaps try to expand that to the period and also weight how the HP series fares. This strictly just a quantitative analysis. It's simply beyond my capabilities to try to answer, whether the representation is good or authentic, or anything like that. Or trying to judge it in any other dimensions, like their importance or impact (as in, are they in relevantly presented in the world and narrative or just relegated background set-pieces). This is only about the original book series, which is primary set between 1991-98, so this is not relevant for CC or Fantastic Beasts or Marauder or any other era beyond 1990s. This is because the POC population in the UK is not some static number, which is constant through the history. Like any other population it changes between decades and centuries both in absolute and relative terms (as in their total number and what is their proportion of the overall population), and the situation would be quite different between 2020s, 1990s and 1970s or 1930s. For the sake of readability, in this posting I am only showing final results and conclusions. In case anybody is interested in the process, like how and where I got the stats and I how I interpret them, about terminology and all the rest, I've added separate links at the bottom. First, if we are to determinate whether HP series reflects the UK's POC population accurately or not, we have to know what the UK's POC population was during that era. Precisely at 1991-98, but for a sake of convenience I am using data from only years 1991 and 2001. Not doing year by year, and then comparing to each individual book. Rather I establish one score for the entire book series (91-98), and then compare it against the real life score, for which I use the mean between 1991 and 2001. However, because the Irish magical population is eligible to attend Hogwarts, and it's heavily implied that the magical Ireland is tied into rest of British Isles in some way (e.g. at Quidditch World Cup we don't see separate political delegation or presence for the Irish nation, but we see one for Bulgaria. So, apparently there's no taoiseach of magic and it's said that Wales, England and Scotland all have their own separate national Quidditch teams, despite being one polity otherwise). Also, because of the HP series being so tied into Hogwarts specifically, so I am going to offer two numbers here, one for the UK proper and another for the UK, which includes the entire Ireland. The UK had the total population of 57 813 821, and 61 339 821 including Ireland at 1991. Of this, the white population of UK was 54 682 062 (94,58%), and UK+I was 58 162 880 (94,82%). The POC population of the UK was 3 131 760 (5,42%), and UK+I was 3 176 942 (5,18%). For the sake of simplicity I am going to use 94,5 % for the white population and 5,5 % for the POC population. During 2001 the total population of the UK was 58 789 187, and UK+I 62 636 187. Of this, the white population of UK was 54 152 188 (92,11%), and UK+I was 57 861 664 (92,38%). The POC population of the UK was 4 637 006 (7,89%), and UK+I was 4 725 271 (7,54%). For the sake of simplicity I am going to use 92% for the white population and 8% for the POC population. The mean and median for the white population between 1991-2001 was 93.25 %, and for the POC population 6.75 %. Let's round those up and down, so we get 93 % for the white pop. and 7% for the POC pop.. So, now the question is that does the Harry Potter series fulfill this 7% POC representation or not, which would authentic for the time period of 1990s. Overall, the POC population is statistically slightly younger, thus we would expect to have more POC representation among younger people, and less with the old, though the total averages for the entire population are as stated. I've used 3 different sets for the HP series. The only exhaustive and complete cohort of people we have is Hogwarts starting class of 1991, from which we have at least names for everyone, and descriptions for most of them. Then second set is all people at Hogwarts during the time (including both the staff and students). Then the rest of the world, including Muggle and Wizarding worlds. Differing sources are bit problematic, but I compiled one set from the book descriptions, then one which adds book descriptions to other canonical material, such as JKR's notes and interviews, Pottermore portraits, book illustrations, and so on. Then finally the movies.  Also, I didn't include people who were only mentioned or seen in visions, memories, dreams. Only those who were corporeally present at 1990s, and seen at the events books depict (except that starting class of 91, from which 11 are mentioned in JKR's notes, but never make an appearance at books nor movies). First, the 43 people who start their education at Hogwarts 1991. Books (32 persons in total) When ethnicity is known: -White: 9 (69,23%) -POC: 4 (30,77%) Of all characters: -White 9 (28,13%) -POC: 4 (12,50%) -Ambiguous: 19 (59,38%) -If White normativity (assumption that all ambiguous characters are white): 28 (87,50%) Books + Additional Canon Material (43) When ethnicity is known: -White 14 (73,68%) -POC 5 (26,32%) Of all characters: -White:14 (32,56%) -POC: 5 (11,63%) -Ambiguous: 24 (55,81%) -White normativity 38 (88,37%) Movies (26) -White: 20 (76,92%) -POC: 6 (23,08%) -Ambiguous: 0 All Hogwarts residents, min. 157 max. 214 Books (157 persons in total) When ethnicity is known: -White: 34 (82,93%) -POC: 7 (17,07%) Of all characters: -White 34 (21,66%) -POC: 7 (4,46%) -Ambiguous: 116 (73,89%) -White normativity: 150 (95,54 %%) Books + Additional Canon Material (168) When ethnicity is known: -White: 56  (84,85%) -POC: 10  (15,15%) Of all characters: White: 56 (33,33%) POC: 10 (5,95%) -Ambiguous: 102 (60,71%) -White normativity: 158 (94,05%) Movies (214) -White: 180  (84,11%) -POC: 34  (15,89%) Every character min. 302 max. 323. Books (312 persons in total) When ethnicity is known -White: 74 (90,24%) -POC: 8 (9,76%) Of all characters: -White: 74 (23,72%) -POC: 8 (2,56%) -Ambiguous: 230 (73,72%) -White normativity: 304 (97,44%) Books + Additional Canon Material (323) When ethnicity is known: -White: 110  (90,16%) -POC: 12  (9,84%) Of all characters: -White: 110 (34,06%) -POC: 12  (3,72%) -Ambiguous: 201 (62,23%) -White normativity: 311 (96,28%) Movies (302) -White: 267 (88,41%) -POC: 35 (11,59%) As a conclusion, it's a quite weird situation overall. As in it's not factual to say that HP whitewashes the period, or that POC are underrepresented for the proportion of their population (I mean, technically they are, but so are whites, because the majority of characters cannot be categorized clearly to either groups in books). Yet, there should've been numerically more clear and visible POC characters in the series. What we have is not enough for that period, despite not exactly being underrepresented. This is because ambiguity isn't a neutral position or descriptor in a society with so clear and overwhelming super-majority. The ambiguity works against POC minorities in a way that it doesn't with the white majority in that time and place (there's nothing inherent to either groups in this regard. If HP was based in let's say 1990s Japan, then the situation would be reversed. The dynamic is due majority / minority relations, not essential characteristics of any group). This is simply, because people will fall down to popular heuristics and rational statistical assumptions, when there's no exhaustive evidence to either direction. In the UK of 90s, that means white normativity pretty much. So, if you have ten visible POC characters and ten visible white characters, and 280 ambiguous ones, in the UK at 1990s for most readers with even a cursory knowledge of that place and time, that often equals 290 white characters and 10 POCs. Because individually, without any identifiers, it's more rational to assume each individual is part of the reigning supermajority. Sure, if you do so, you would make the wrong judgement for 11 individuals, but you would right 269 times. People will do this unconsciously, unless they are very conscious that statistically every fourteenth non-descripted person should be part of the minority.    Ofc, this relies heavily on what assumptions people have about the UK in 1990s, and if someone has no prior knowledge about it, then this could be different. But who writes a book about the UK of all places, and would rely that readers have no apriori conceptions or images about the place. If someone wants to establish a truthful and accurate minority presence, it should be totally clear and unambiguous. Otherwise it might well not even be there, because in this matter basic assumptions and pattern recognition about normality work against minorities by just the definition of them being a minority. It's an asymmetrical imbalance between minorities and majorities.This teetering and noncommittal eye of the beholder diversity "they can be POC, or whatever you want them to be, if you personally want to read them as such, but they also might not be, if you so decide"-approach is not doing any favors to anybody. It totally trivializes the entire issue to basically something totally meaningless, and doesn't even deliver what it intends to accomplish. With movies there isn't similar ambiguity problems, and purely by the numbers they are overrepresented by 4,5% (movies would closer to current demographics of the UK and Ireland). However, problems are more of qualitative than quantitative nature. Movies are quite odd in this regard, because quite often they don't interpret these +200 named and canonical book characters, which are ethnically ambiguous as POCs (except for couple characters like Alicia Spinnet and Romilda Vane). Instead of using the richness of more established book canon characters, they added new POC characters, which are not found in books (like Bem, Kellah and Gwendoline Hedgeflower). I had no idea those even existed before researching this, little alone their names or what they did. Ofc, if we are modeling it after reality, 7% is not going be a huge group regardless (little over 20 people out of 300. Even 10% would be 30), but they could've done it better. Although, in this analysis I didn't take any account or weight in their relevance or screen-time or lines or anything like that, but intuitively while looking at these numbers they probably are not far off from that 5,5-8% what it is was back then. I'd say pretty good overall, but they should've added POCs by casting people like Trelawney or Alastor Moody as ones, and not via new non-book characters with very little relevance. Here are links to sources and detailed explanations of how I gathered and used them. UK data https://justpaste.me/OoVX Harry Potter data https://justpaste.me/OogL

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Irvin Yalom argued that all (clinical) anxiety, all (clinical) depression

ultimately stem from fear of our own inevitable death. Sometimes an overt fear of death, sometimes a covert fear of death buried beneath layers and/or projections ...

I’m not yet sure whether I agree or disagree, both with regards to these psycho-medical conditions in general and with regards to my own mental illness specifically (being a queer theorist has given me a knee-jerk skepticism of absolute claims because they come with essentializing apriori). Discussing the idea further with my therapist is something I feel I ought to do ... something I *want* to do ...

But it does pose some interesting questions. Do I write as an immortality project? Do I teach so my influence will echo long after my voice fades? Do I practice Taekwon-Do because it gives some control over bodies (my own and others), thus gives a sense of power over life and death?

Why am I making a post of this on tumblr? Honestly, I don’t know. A compulsion to scream into the blue void, I suppose ... Maybe to a desire to provoke some thoughts among my followers?

Either way, reckon I’m going to be introspective for a while ... Especially tomorrow, during the memorial service for my Taekwon-Do Master’s grandson; an accident leading to sudden death at the age of 17 can’t not make one reflect on one’s own mortality.

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