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still mad about this post lol so let me also say: “they taught us critical thinking in english class” is extra funny to me because there’s a genuine debate among Ed Heads about whether “critical thinking” as a discrete and decontextualized skillset can actually be taught :) so it’s pretty silly to go around confidently branding yourself as a critical thinker while simultaneously revealing that you’re extremely comfortable making assumptions about the relative simplicity of complex ideas which remain contested in their respective fields :) personally i would be pretty embarrassed to call myself a critical thinker if i also couldn’t stop myself from revealing i was totally lacking in the intellectual humility that would enable me to understand that we have yet to reach consensus on unbelievably complicated issues like how best to educate an entire population :) but i guess i was absent the day that tenth grade english covered running your mouth like an asshole on social media :)
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anna-scribbles · 1 year
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midnights listen party !!
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stoat-party · 4 months
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Look, sometimes Danse needs to be beaten with a bat, but please only beat him for things he actually did.
My boy has never indicated that he thinks all ghouls should die, nor does it appear to be Brotherhood policy to kill them. (Actually, there’s evidence that this was the case back in 3, but here they seem specifically obsessed with killing ferals). He does make one horrible comment about killing Vault-Tec Guy specifically, but otherwise 1. Is protective of villagers at the Slog, 2. Is kind to Fridge Billy, and 3. Likes Kent and rips into you if you kill him.
There are lots of reasons to hate my darling Buzz Lightyear. You don’t need to invent them.
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starrylevi · 9 months
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“Are you okay?” Levi asks you.
“No.”
“I know, you don’t look it. What’s wrong?”
“Everything is wrong, Levi. I’m exhausted…I wonder what it’s like to have a brain that functions the way it’s supposed to.”
His eyebrows furrow slightly. “Your brain is fine.”
“But that’s the thing, it’s not!” You say exasperatingly. “It’s wired differently and so it makes everything more difficult. I switch between three modes: Not wanting to exist, Surviving, and Beyond Surviving. Guess how much time I spend in each mode?”
Levi doesn’t say anything in response. His expression shows more concern than confusion this time.
“Fine, I’ll tell you. Most of my time is spent surviving. Some of my time is spent not wanting to exist. And just a little of my time is spent beyond suriving…what kind of life is that?”
Levi’s eyes look at you with sadness. “Not much of one, to be honest…but it’s yours and you only have one.” He counters.
“Well, I don’t even know if I want it half of the time. Y’know, someone told me that life is basically climbing mountains. You climb a mountain, which represents a challenge or obstacle, once you get to the top you enjoy the view for a moment…then you climb back down and do the same thing all over again. Rinse and repeat.”
Levi seems to identify with what you’re saying and he knows you’re frustrated right now but he needs to keep you from spiraling. He’s not letting you give up. That’s not the way. “It’s what we have to do, Y/N.” He says gently.
“And what if I don’t want to do anything? What if I don’t want to climb fucking mountains? What if I don’t want to constantly be challenged and given obstacles? What if I just want to sit at the top of the mountain and just be?”
Levi knows these feelings all too well…he’s wrestled with them a few times throughout his life but he’s continued to push through because that’s what you just do. And you’re going to do the same even if he has to do the pushing for you. You snap Levi out of his thoughts with your next statement.
“It would be so much easier if I just…”
“Stop.”
“But-“
“Stop.” He repeats sternly, his steel eyes boring into yours.
You grunt angrily. “You’re not even real, Levi!” You yell out at him. You’re not angry with him. You’re angry at the world, angry for the universe and your parents for putting you in this predicament, angry for placing you into a world that doesn’t accommodate you. “You are a 2-dimensional character I use to cope. There’s no way for you to actually soothe or help me. You. Are. Fictional.”
Your words don’t seem to phase him. He shrugs. “I’m real enough.”
“What does that even mean?”
“I’m real enough to you. Y/N. You are the one who brings me to life. You are the one who decides how real I should be. What does it matter if I’m not a real person?”
“It’s silly.”
“Who says it’s silly?”
“I don’t know, a bunch of people.”
“Well, fuck all of those people then. Just fuck them.” He states as if it’s obvious.
You sigh. “It doesn’t work that way, Levi…”
“So make it work that way. No one else is keeping you alive but yourself.”
“And you…” You say softly.
Levi shakes his head. “I don’t do anything. Like I said before, you’re the one who does the all the heavy lifting. I exist because you want me to. I function the way I do because you want me to.”
“So I control you?”
Levi rolls his eyes at that. “Don’t be a brat. What I’m saying is I’m just an outlet for you.”
You pause, thinking of his words. He’s not wrong. He’s just a character but he’s also not just a character because of you. “I wish you were real.” You admit sadly.
“I wish I were real too…for you.” He sighs as he runs a hand through his raven hair. “But it doesn’t matter if I’m real or not. I still occupy your brain. I still make you happy, that’s all that matters. As long as you let me live in your mind, I’m always going to be here for you.
You nod, not saying anything further.
“Okay?” He asks.
“Okay.”
“Good.”
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designernishiki · 8 months
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it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now
#I think on another level he was sorta saying like ‘hey kiryu. you’re making it extremely clear that you don’t trust me and my intentions#and I’ve been trying to show you- over and over again- that I’d do just about anything for you and your safety#but I can’t just let my mask fall off in front of everyone- I need to keep up the unpredictable morally grey wildcard act for both my sake#AND yours. because disguising my helping you as crazy random violent outbursts and weird stalker behavior#is the only way I CAN help you. do you think it would go over well with shimano or literally anyone else if I was outright helping you out#of the kindness of my heart and fondness for you? stop being so fucking dense and look past the crazy wacky nonsense for a second and#maybe you’ll realize that all I do at the end of the day- really- is help you and put my own life and reputation on the line for you.#I am an honest guy when it comes to my real values and when I told you I wouldn’t let anyone kill you unelss it was myself- I meant it.#I’ve taken a knife and a bullet for you now. can you REALLY not see through the act yet? am I REALLY that unpredictable when you think about#it?’#that was a longer explanation than i intended but. it was difficult to put into words#I basically feel like it could be read as him implying kiryu shouldn’t backstab the people who put themselves on the line to help him#and/or pointing out that he’s never actually done kiryu dirty and has stuck to his word protecting him in the ways he can#trying to say yeah all this is a crazy act and all but when it comes down to it you Can trust me#it really makes sense when you think about it that he’d have to help kiryu/show affection towards kiryu in unpredictable convoluted ways#at that point in time because. I mean. there’s a reason he was the only person who showed up to welcome kiryu when he got out of prison#and that’s because A) he sticks to his word and his loyalty to people he cares about and B) no one else had the balls or the batshit insane#mask to wear to ward off anyone asking real questions like majima did. because ANYONE associating themselves with the supposed#patriarch-killer was a HUGE NO-NO at the time. someone important showing up for kiryu and welcoming him back outright could’ve caused#all-out warfare probably. except majima. because majima was dedicated and smart enough to use his widely-feared wildcard persona#(that everyone tended to view as incapable of having any Real agenda to worry about) to his And kiryu’s advantage#does that make sense??? I feel like it makes a lot of sense if you get it to click in your head#kazumaji#majima#kiryu#yakuza#kiwami 1#yk1#rambling
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lady-tortilla-chip · 3 months
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It’s so wild to me that in ATSV everything surrounding The Spot is considered a canon event EXCEPT Miles. It’s interesting because Miles’s universe isn’t hindered or destroyed by Miles becoming Spider-man, there is no black hole or people being swallowed into it. And yet Miles is considered the problem and as a result not even considered a true Spider-man. Which, what a fascinating parallel to The Spot that is? Someone who through half the movie was not only underestimated but considered not worth that much effort or time. Just like Miles who is treated as unworthy of his title and his placement in the multi-verse.
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further-than-forever · 5 months
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this is something that is forever on my mind and i am gonna do my best to articulate it here.
so i grew up in a small old mining town in yorkshire and when we did shakespeare at school it was seen as this very old very posh thing to study. most of the kids gave up before we even started looking at the actual text and most of the teachers had given up trying to engage the class in it anyway. but not a lesson went by where someone didn’t pipe up saying ‘why is it written like this nobody talks like this!!!’ which BAFFLED ME because LAD !!! YOU TALK LIKE THAT !!
yorkshire as a dialect is FULL of shit that fell out of standard english use DOWN SOUTH due to a rising middle class population. up here where there has always just been mostly common folk doing mostly common work a lot of it stuck around. when we speak we still use stressed syllables that we don’t write down as accented words anymore (blessèd / blastèd etc). we still use thou (tha) and thy (thi) as informal ‘you’ and ‘your’. and don’t get me started on contractions, it’s so common to shorten “over” to “o’er” we hardly ever say “the” if we can help it.
like obviously there’s so much more to it than this but from my experience the things that were constantly tripping the class up was attempting to read lines aloud in a RP / news reader voice because they thought “it’s posh so i need to do my posh voice”. it’s not going to work like that! you need the rhythm of natural speech to fully get what is being said. and the english accents with the best hope of getting that right are typically northern accents, particularly a yorkshire accent.
it’s just so interesting to me that because shakespeare’s work has been played thousands and thousands of times and developed this air around it of being pompous that you got kids in the north of fuckin england saying that it’s just flat out incomprehensible now when really we’re the ones speaking it day in day out.
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thisgingerhasnosoul · 3 months
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I hate that I have to say this, but you should care about kids more than you care about winning an argument. You should care about kids more than you care about what you think is owed to you. It doesn’t matter what “side” you’re on, who you believe has a better claim to whatever you’re fighting over. You should care more about kids than about your pride.
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laniidae-passerine · 1 year
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Amazed with how many people say they like Birdie or they find her, not Kate Hudson but her, genuinely attractive. Did you completely miss the point? As an attractive white woman, Birdie Jay can get away with saying “Jewy” as an insult, can get away with comparing herself to Harriet Tubman and implicitly can get away with doing blackface. People forgave her, because she’s just a little stupid, she didn’t mean it, it wasn’t her fault! All she needs to do, as Peg outright states, is give a half apology and lay low and then the world will get over it. But the things she did are still horrific. Her racism is still racism, regardless of whether it comes from hate or ignorance. Birdie Jay is not a good person and you’re not meant to think she is.
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moghedien · 2 months
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Yes, misinformation for a good cause is still bad, especially if it’s a polarizing issue.
The handful of people you might win over from misinformation does not negate fact that people opposing the cause will use the fact that there is misinformation to discredit the entire movement as lies
The handful of people that you might win over with misinformation and who will still be fine with having been lied to once they find out doesn’t compare to the number of people who will see that there are a handful of lies and assume that’s what the entire movement is built on and dismiss it
Stop making up fucking lies to “help” the causes you care about, it doesn’t help it is actively harmful
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kweenkatsuki-fics · 2 months
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Also everyone needs to be re-educated on what racism is and what it means cuz yall be throwing that shit around like it’s a fucking football at the Super Bowl.
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latine-showdown · 11 months
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The fucking audacity of putting a dni on a post that isn’t yours. Like. I literally do not care if gringos vote omg
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arsene-fixates · 19 days
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Though all the layers, it’s still me
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captainkaltar · 5 months
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Mutuals DM me for my Substack~
It’s all about the ancient Mediterranean in modern pop culture and also neat stuff I discover while researching my thesis
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Ok it’s been more than 5 years since xenoblade 2 came out and we’ve had our fair share of discourses
But are we ready to talk about that scene where Zeke, Pandoria, and Nia are all randomly dismissive and agro towards refugees, and then the party has a lukewarm political debate for a minute before moving on and never mentioning it again like what was that
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ezraphobicsoup · 4 months
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can i please request a fun fact about anything ever
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