#but also.

[ariapmdeol]

hey so tumblr just added this thing (community labels) and by default ALL these category filters are set to remove anything labelled with these from your feed entirely (not just blurred).

Please remember to go into your settings and adjust them to what you prefer! if you're under 18, you won't be able to adjust them as they are set to Hide until you turn 18

this is what it looks like in settings (i have everything set to Show, the default is Hidden)

#community labels #tumblr #aria rambles #tumblr update #i think its a good idea #and i LIKE that this is a functioning filter #but also. #i think the default should have been Blur and not Hide #twt has similar filtering tools #but it doesnt straight up remove things from ur feed.. #it just blurs it and adds a disclaimer

[sparring-spirals]

i loved the long silence after matt described "long smooth polished piece of wood". just a long, pointed moment of this cast all silently wanting to make a joke and everyone including matt half waiting and then finally sam goes "its a dildo" and matt immediately going "NO-"

#god i was also waiting adkafjshfjshgd #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e58 #cr liveblogging #cr cast #matthew mercer #sam riegel #matt im so sorry #this is beautiful art! #but also.

[apas-95]

like. okay yeah I have my own criticisms of bourgeois academia as an instrument of class rule, but some of this is a bit silly. a lot of people are acting as though academia refers solely to like, literature degrees.

like at a fundamental level, yes, the purpose of a degree is as a barrier to access - but that is not in and of itself always a negative thing! the proletariat also requires the ability to produce, assess, and verify intellectuals. all the 'why the fuck should I care if the student across from me cheated on their tests, never attended class, etc' talk falls apart when the question being answered by their possession of a degree is 'should this person be permitted to design and construct buildings'! fundamentally, yes, someone cheating on their exams devalues a degree, because the confidence in qualification granted by that degree is lessened - not to mention the inherent danger of a fraudulent qualification! (strangely, this argument hasn't been extended to driving license exams yet, though I'm sure the inevitable libertarian convergence isn't far away.)

in all the discussion of burning down the local polytechnical, i have seen vague mention to academia existing as a barrier to access, some scant reference to discrimination against poor and minority students, but zero mention of the actual role of bourgeois academia and the intelligentsia in upholding bourgeois rule! it's all simply coming from the point of view of the restrictiveness being bad because it prevents people from getting high-paying jobs or the like, and the vague notion of elitism. again, with all abolition discourse here, given the lack of any real class analysis, the question is - are we talking solely within the context of capitalism, of existing bourgeois institutions? if so, why? why limit our positions to capitalist realism, to an essentially liberal discourse? if not - then how have we not reconciled the real, practical value of these technologies (mass education, examination, qualification) with their specific characteristics under capitalism?

everything has both positive and negative aspects. bourgeois class rule itself, even, was once a truly progressive thing. we can acknowledge the negative side of bourgeois academia without ignoring its positive side - and still take it on the whole that it, along with all bourgeois institutions, should be torn down and replaced by proletarian ones. that, stripped of their capitalist character, these are useful barriers.

Fundamentally, the point is this: why is our focus on attacking the barriers keeping us from class mobility, from high-paying jobs, themselves; instead of on attacking the existence of the high-paying, middle-class jobs that themselves characterise a fundamentally useful, practical system like examination as an instrument of class rule?

#this is coming from a mentally ill student with good aptitude and passion for my subject but an intense difficulty with examinations #like yes on the one hand the structure of existing academia serves as a means of enforcing class distinction and is inflexible as such. #but also. #i should not be allowed to do work i cant prove im qualified for. no amount of change to the structure of the institution changes that

[daenerys-targaryen]

I cannnottt stop thinking about how like. this isn’t really what taylor signed up for. sure, she signed up to be an entertainer and a performer but like. she didn’t sign up for the rest of it. and sure one could say it comes with the territory but also, she started out around the same time portable internet and social media was being developed and taking off. being an entertainer and performer has drastically changed in the last 20 or some odd years due to social media. and it reminds me of the willow mv where she walks onto the stage with her ukulele and once the song is over, turns to walk off stage but finds it’s become essentially a glass cage. many thoughts many thoughts.

#ONCE AGAIN NOT TO BE LIKE OH POOR MILLIONARE #but also. #many thoughts are being thunk #swiftie posting #swiftie hits #leah rambles

[amorisastrum]

I wish I had the confidence and time to post on here more I'm gonna be honest

Anyways

I find it HILARIOUS that the amazing Charlie Dalton is shipped with every. Single. One. Of the poets! Actually, all of them but Pitts. I have genuinely seen him shipped with all of them but Pitts and it makes me wonder why not?? I don't have an issue with this obviously, I just find it funny how

1. Charlie is apparently in love with everyone

And

2. Why doesn't Pitts get that love?? :(

#dead poets society #dps #charlie dalton #gerard pitts #i dont know guys i may just not be seeing iy #but also. #he has been shipped with all the poets and it makes me laugh #brother is just better

[whumpacabra]

Accidentally startle a disoriented/feverish/panicking character and have them growl/hiss/make other inhuman sounds. That is all.

#whump #whump prompt #disorientation #fever #panic #sorry. this was a small detail in a story I was reading last night and it’s living in my head rent free. #but also. #hollowed tag #beans speaks

[mismess]

Some guys that are totally not all related in anyway

#William afton #Michael afton #Phone Dude #but also. #napkin #fnaf #lekko's art #doodles #I forgor about this drawing lol I meant to color it

[skinandscales-if]

??? fully conspiracy mode so sure MC is a threat meanwhile MC is just some creechure with big puppy eyes

LITERALLY like look at them could they ever hurt a fly

#asks #s&s: ??? #my art #I suppose I tag that here LOL #the transparency job is always gonna be scuffed apologies 👍 #I never want to narrow MC down to traits because it’s antethetical to the game #but also. #poor soggy fucking MC #dragging them through the mud at every opportunity #and it’s sm fun :) #memes

[multi-twentyone]

Mark Webber and Steve Jones of Channel 4 F1 interview Sebastian Vettel after Abu Dhabi Qualifying 2022

#mark webber #sebastian vettel #steve jones #even aside from the martian flailing this interview is so.... it;s so nice it made me tear up #seb talking about his kids #how he'll have to be quiet when he gets back to the hotel because they'll be sleeping #the fondness here.... #but also. #seb calling mark a pretty boy? mark calling seb fit? mark telling sebastian to go to bed and sleep well? good bye :) #as such i am tagging this #sebmark

[mishapen-dear]

okay but that clipboard left out with the password to the chest. and then all the books. including the "BadBoyHalo Is Innocent!" report. like it COULD just be worker incompetence that's let Bad gain access to that report- but we also know that the feds will gleefully manipulate residents (cellbit), and can't ignore that these books may have been planted here.

YEAH SEE. "He distrusts the federation despite working for him (...) ha. Can relate." bbh pointed out that that's WEIRD. who is this report FOR? why would you write that in a report to your boss, the federation? it's more like something you'd write to someone against the feds, who you know is going to read your reports, so you can make yourself seem more sympathetic to them and potentially trustworthy. bbh's "im so suspicious but wait im just a little guy" strategy Turned Against Him

#qsmp #what if they just want him to let his guard down.... #like if they are just incompetent then that's AWESOME i love different departments capable of different things #but also. #what if my little guy suffers more #s'il vous plait

[wizard-legs]

Hold on let me move my bang… is that… Actual fanart??? Of ME??? :3 hehe im shyyy… XD this is so awesome dude im totally honored!!

(Puppet creator here this is genuinely so awesome and I’ve had it sitting in my inbox since you sent it because I wanted to make a gif to reply and also it makes me so happy whenever I open my inbox and it’s sitting there at the top lol. THANK U FOR THIS I love it so much im glad you like my little guy!!!!)

#god seriously I cannot stress enough how much I love this I set it as my phone bg shfjjdjd #puppet #puppetry #scene kid #approach the wizard-legs #asks #fanart #puppet making #art #my art #but also. #not my art #lol #scenecore #scenemo #2000s scene #emo scene #2000s emo #idk sorry I don’t normally use tags on asks but I want everyone to see your art of him in genuinely geeking rn

[shrikeseams]

When you skim through the B&L silm chapter to check something and--

[Huan] brought [Luthien] to Celegorm, and Lúthien, learning that he was a prince of the Noldor and a foe of Morgoth, was glad; and she declared herself, casting aside her cloak. So great was her sudden beauty revealed beneath the sun that Celegorm became enamoured of her; but he spoke her fair, and promised that she would find help in her need, if she returned with him now to Nargothrond. By no sign did he reveal that he knew already of Beren and the quest, of which she told, nor that it was a matter which touched him near.

...Luthien really did not give two fucks about politics, huh? Anything anyone ever said about the Noldor in her presence just went in one ear and out the other. Like, she apparently couldn’t link the name of one of the major Noldor princes, who ruled some of the territory RIGHT NEXT DOOR to Doriath, to either his faction or the fact that HE IS A KINSLAYER. She doesn’t care about Iathrim-Noldor political tensions because she never notices that said tensions exist.

...You know what, maybe I WILL accept interpretations where Dior didn’t anticipate the second kinslaying, but ONLY because he inherited his mother’s political acumen.

#tolkien #This post is... only partially a joke #Like. I GET that politics outside the girdle had no practical impact on Luthien #But also. #She's had SO MUCH TIME to just casually pick things up #she SHARES COUSINS with celegorm #Yeah the names are confusing but SHE IS A PRINCESS and at that point she'd had #Like. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS to at least vaguely link names to political association! #Someone must have written a version of this where she's confused celegorm with one of his cousins or siblings right? #there's a fun drabble series: #Luthien very obviously confusing celegorm with each of his cousins and siblings in turn #while celegorm has to fight the impulse to correct her for the sake of The Scheme #San shoots the breeze

[qualityrain]

happy akechi goro having the worst shit of his life day

#my friends and i agree mala and indonesian food would kill him #the pt couldve just put chilli in his coffee or something #they coulve done that SPICE SPICE SPICE MAKE HIM REGRET #but for his coffee #this is a joke #but also. #its the takoyaki thing brw…. #i love…his slow walk……. #p5r #akechi goro #persona 5 #p5 #my art #doodle #doodles

[thejadecount]

I love how with each new installment of TMNT Donnie just becomes more unhinged. Like we’re gonna cut to the Mutant Mayhem movie and Donnie’s online human persona is going to be some cyber-terrorist who’s a known war criminal in at least 24 countries.

#he’s gonna have his own calling card and Wikipedia page and everything #Big ‘The Barking Glass’ energy if you get that reference #he does shit. #it would be hilarious #12-14 year old kid as acting eco-terrorist #he has a big phase where he’s like ‘save the turtles’ and proceeds to bomb 14 different plastic factories #this is a joke I should say that #but also. #like 2003 Donnie was a sweetheart #2012 Donnie had his infamous moments of sarcasm and slight bloodthirstiness #Rise Donnie. #nothing else just rise Donnie he’s insane #and now i’m have expecting the new MM Donnie to somehow one-up him in levels of insanity #be really funny if he had a high-pitched voice like tawog Darwin #rottmnt #rise tmnt #tmnt #tmnt mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem #2023 tmnt #2023 donnie #mutant mayhem donnie #so yeah im excited for the movie #mostly for donnie #but also Leo with braces #can’t wait #tmnt donnie #tmnt donatello

[sinnerenjoyer]

why is cam's photo lowkey giving thirst trap

#dream blunt rotation #but also. #nightmare blunt rotation #cameron norrie #taylor fritz #elina svitolina #hubi hurkacz #andrey rublev

[ghostmath]

i do think. that it is very funny and also very indicative of just how many outstanding characters there are in dungeon meshi. that in a story that contains chilchuck fucking tims, somehow my favourite character is still kabru

#chilchuck was grown in a fucking lab for me to like. #but also. #kabru