#conditional structures

[chernozemm]

I need Aziraphale learning very quickly that being kind and considerate gets him nowhere in Heaven, so he tucks away his goofy, big-hearted nature and just turns into a maliciously compliant Bitch™.

This is a man who canonically has "discouraged" multiple mobster groups threatening to burn his bookshop, who has successfully scared hundreds of customers away by being just unpleasant enough and who dropped down three octaves to correct Furfur when he messed up his name.

He swallows his pride, puts on a power suit and starts executing a Corporate Nightmare upon upper management in Heaven.

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #season 3 #myart #he digs his heels and says oh youre gonna sabotage my vision? #i will read the entire terms and conditions of the ineffable plan and create so much paperwork for the second coming that you will wish #you were dead #oh you think i am a soft bitch who will flop belly up and be a puppet? let me disabuse you of this notion #it will be heartbreaking to see him lose his idealistic vision of Heaven and struggle to implement his own ideas because of the structural #issues #but i am also hoping we get to see this steel core he has mature #also sidenote-this change of looks isnt intended as a “glowup”. I love that he chooses to be happy and goofy and pudgy and radiant #its more like temporary armour

[seventh-fantasy]

君终如日光之芒 ... 却无法再伴君同行。 // 君武勇之处世所罕见 ... 然终有负君之所望。

me for months: i will forever be bugged by the oddly intimate manner of speech in lxy's farewell letter - particularly in the way llh somehow ended up addressing dfs as 君 jun

revisiting the letter qwm wrote to lxy in which she addresses him as 君 jun: OKAY...

#anybody else up still dying over the romanticism of 君??? #what's up?? shrugs. my brain is not in the right condition to process anything beyond 'wow dihua romance'. i'm sorry. #i know the farewell letter was largely lifted from the novel. but it doesn't necessarily explain the logic in drama canon #other than connotations of intimacy it wants to make about their relationship (which also may not be BUT.) ughhHHhh (delusional) #then seeing qwm's letter to lxy used jun in indisputably romantic terms. is just. WELL. there we go. (delusional) #and the way the structure of the letter are worded so similarly mmm (it's the brainrot speaking) #lxy/llh: yes i'm gonna copy and learn that and pass it on #莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #lhl #dihua #my posts

[greensaplinggrace]

highly specific pet peeve of mine when it comes to sab is that none of the characters act with any kind of wariness when they should. like the grisha would not be celebrating in the king’s court with genuine displays of emotion (and obvious shows of rivalry that can be exploited) for all of the otkazat’sya nobles to see. aleksander shouldn’t be showing so much genuine emotion in front of the king or any otkazat’sya (noble or not, they’re all threats to him after all). everyone should be tenser when they’re in court or around authority figures, and the ways they disregard authority are bizarre. that would have you flogged in any monarchy during that time period.

it feels like the writers don’t really grasp the setting or what it means to the characters. these people are soldiers, and even worse, they’re soldiers that are apart of a persecuted class. they should not be so comfortable in areas or around people where they would be thinking about their every little move and how it could be taken advantage of if it was shown. vulnerability should not be tossed around so carelessly by people who should be startlingly aware of life’s atrocities.

honestly, genya is the only character that even acts remotely like she should, in that she is always tense and wary and holding herself like someone who knows they can be hurt at any moment. and even then she’s loose in the king’s court (the king) when she would be at the height of her wariness and paranoia.

#this follows the same vein as criticisms about the realism #in the way the military works in sab #and the ways mal and alina disregard authority as soldiers when there would be serious repercussions #like nobody raised in these conditions would act this way #genya safin #zoya nazyalensky #alina starkov #shadow and bone #sab #grishaverse #sab critical #i mean a bit #its kind of just a weirdly specific pet peeve lol #i don't actually mind it because lets be real most fantasy is anachronistic in this regard #there's so many characters in modern media that speak to their superiors like they don't fear any consequences when they absolutely should #but its so obvious that lb doesn't know how politics or the military works #(and also how the power allotment within it would actually work) #or any kind of government structure and the way people would operate in it #and doesn't give serious thought to how people in these situations would realistically be thinking #and the writers of the show clearly followed in those footsteps #but its like come on #its kind of obvious #you wrote a story centering around trauma there should maybe be a bit more of that shown #but i guess that's also the whole tell don't show problem sab has #myramblings

[rubiatinctorum]

I get where people are coming from when they say Diaspro in Winx lost the plot for the sake of being turned into a minor villain and that's all once Valtor enabled her to do what she did in S3, but I feel like that was a reasonable narrative choice. It's only a love potion at that point (while I could go on all day about the ethics of love potions, of course, a later season has her straight up trying to do direct murder). She's a noble, guards will do her dirty work, and I understand that she would feel like getting revenge on Bloom while getting back together with Sky. She was promised a position — romantic AND political — she nearly had and then it was taken from under her by a random fairy who wasn't even "supposed" to be in the running. I don't think what she did was nice, but it makes sense for the story and for her character for her to want to reclaim her position in the way she did. Sky's love was an accessory, in part, to her political ascension, and thus he is again rendered accessory and accomplice by the love spell. And, sending guards after threats seems to be the thing to do in the magical universe if you're a disgruntled noble, so it's probably not unfamiliar for Diaspro to have seen occur before or want to do. It's not a uniquely rotten response any more than Radius' behaviour towards the monster (who, he didn't know it, was Stella). If we fault her for this action rather than only the intention behind it, we need to examine how the worlds in Winx Club deal with threats to their monarchs in general, which sounds interesting but I frankly don't have time for tonight. Diaspro did wrong, but she didn't do uniquely wrong there, and Eraklyon has the punitive security structures in place to have enabled that.

Diaspro's later appearances seem to flatten her motives and the symbolism behind why her relationship with Sky was important and what she does about it (who cares what Diaspro's political aims are and how her status might reflect how she deals with problems, the audience needs to see Bloom thrown into fire I guess), but I feel like seasons 4-8 weren't really that good anyway, so I can't even claim this as a fault of the writers doing Diaspro specifically wrong instead of them just doing the whole show wrong at that point. It might be related, and it might be a coincidence, but a lot of the writing choices seemed to become more flat to me right around when the art shifted to that lifeless godawful Flash simulacrum of S1-3's art.

Also like... idk but if some long-haired hottie wizard in a sick coat and contemplative eyeshadow told me he could help me get my promised chance at both romantic and political success back, I'd at least hear him out, yknow, see what he had to say (<- don't trust me I simp for Valtor)

#rubia speaks #winx club #winx #diaspro #winx diaspro #not supporting women's wrongs but parsing them in context #actually you know what. love u bloom but i have a diaspro apologism streak in me #love potion BAD AWFUL ROTTEN but the guards? we need to interrogate the king about that one i think #and make ur guards pass a basic test on the obvious visual difference between a fairy and a witch idk :/ #is diaspro entitled to sky's love and the political position of being his wife? no. does it narratively make sense for her to be mad? yeah #is her position of having been given the expectation of a certain status and result and having it 'undermined' a compelling one? yeah! #i think there's a lot to say about expectation vs reality and the burden of unfulfilled unsealed commitments in Diaspro's situation #and the societal structures in Eraklyon that allow her to act outside of due process because she's big mad as long as the king is cool w he #how the nobles protect their own class and interests even when Sky is acting unusual from VALTOR'S FUCKING MAGIC DAMN #now if she could just drop the magical coercion and the classism and the witch slander.......... #interesting how that arc makes Bloom almost an underdog when... babe.... ur a Princess. #Sky's not out here marrying a commoner he's courting a princess of another world #.... sociopolitical views of Domino by other worlds? Bloom acting vs not acting the part of how a princess acts on Eraklyon? #Bloom as a Lesser Princess because of the condition of Domino? #Association with the Winx and Alfea in general making of her a symbolic commoner? #much to consider about Bloom's 'underdog' role compared to Diaspro in the Eraklyon Engagement Era

[theborzoiarebackintown]

We’re only over a week late but my ribbons had to be flattened okay!! At the Indy cluster weekend before last miss thang was once again in the select club all weekend. She earned one three pt major and two four pt majors! She’s about halfway to her GCH after two shows 🥺😌 She thinks it’s all boring though, clearly.

#dogblr #petblr #dog #sighthound #borzoi #margo #tbh GCHs are so much easier to get than CHs #but this is her last year out and she’s at the peak of her structure and condition #so giving her a fair shot at earning it #she’ll be spayed and tacked at the end of the year regardless #unless we need like 1 pt but haha

[enden-k]

rlly had an exhausting day at work (physical pain/discomfort almost had me lose my mind ngl) but its all forgotten upon seeing haithams cute lil feathers sticking out when i come online

everything is fine <3 i wanna draw. i wanna play. i wanna sleep

#haitham and rain irl it rlly doesnt take too much to comfort me LMAO #also #got a bit of free time for a few days and then again for some more so #ill def get back to drawing again #altho might focus on other blog first bc of a wonderful anon giving me motivation LMAO #and also bc patreon drafts #rlly need to find a way to handle everything n structure + my stupid ass condition n hearing aids appointments ughh i just wanna laze aroun #tbd #genshin tag

[aisling-saoirse]

Lenape Ceremonial Stone Landscape - November 1st 2023

#aboriginal structures #this is possibly a recreation however this is exactly like others ive documented and in the proper stone plinth position #this forest was also not cut for 200 years and never farmed so stones were rarely removed #people do maintain it thats why its in decent condition #photographers on tumblr #nature #forest #njlocal #new jersey #autumn

[gideonisms]

I think I tend to read htn as muir playing with tropes commonly used in tragedies to examine what we think is a tragedy/what tragedy even looks like when death isn't the end. That's the most shakespearian thing about her writing imo. I know I am constantly on about how htn is basically a shakespeare play but it IS and that's because she is doing a similar thing with her stories within the story. She is throwing out potential endings left and right and then subverting all of them. That's why I don't think everyone's encouragement to harrow to give up on keeping gideon safe really can be taken at face value. It's like. To use one example (but you literally could insert 5 different plays here) it's like when Isabella thinks her brother is dead. It's forcing the audience to think about the consequences for that but the terrible part is more that there was someone in power who could easily order a death or stop it on a whim. The point is not that harrow needs to learn to let gideon go for moral or self-actualization reasons imo. The point is that the death is a site of potential for harrow to either be manipulated into upholding john's goals or for her to reject the whole premise behind them by deciding gideon's life is more important

#when i finally write my harrow measure for measure henry viii manifesto. then you will see!! #i think where i disagree with many htn readings is that #i don't think it's a story about learning to let go of people/let things die #or at least 'stopping' as cytherea put it is not equivalent to accepting other people's deaths that's not the same thing #letting go of power over someone is not the same thing as letting them die. that's a very simplistic way to put it and it's not exactly the #main point i am getting at here. but it approaches that point #the aus are doing something too. it's like. story within a story within a story #is this how it happens? but for gideon's death #the people in harrow's life are trying to get her to accept her loss but i don't think that's what the narrative itself is doing #because the narrative is very interested in examining the conditions surrounding gideon's death #and whether it would have been possible to do things differently #with cristabel alfred & loveday it's like. this is how the story usually goes #but i don't think that's the only way it ever goes bc she is poking around at different ways to subvert that tragedy #tlt isn't a tragedy at least not a classic one. that's just not the structure #that is the structure of its 15 fakeout endings but they're there for flavor. once again thank u shakespeare

[databent]

why the fuck is it that some people cant seem to acknowledge that people can just... be disabled. not through any fault of their own, not because something "happened" to them, just because, you know, sometimes people have disabilities. like, come on

#.pdf #rd #kd #just a warning these tags are long. like. really incredibly long. i had thoughts. #sorry for the vague ass post i'm just upset about some stupid shit my dad said yesterday. #namely: outright telling me that he doesn't believe i have non-24 (circadian rhythm disorder). #and that even if i do he doesn't believe it's possible for it to actually be a lifelong and disabling condition. #*also: this post isn't meant to imply that disabilities that did have some inciting incident are more accepted or anything. #it's just that i'm frustrated with the “you're disabled? why? what happened?” sentiment a lot of people seem to have. #nothing happened to cause my disability. i'm just like this. no i can't change it. what the fuck do you want me to tell you? #i'd guess it probably has to do with society's focus on work and productivity and career-mindedness above all else. #and when someone comes along that doesn't fit in with the way things are structured it just doesn't compute. #because the idea of people who can't dedicate their entire lives to working is so fundamentally contradictory to their view of... i don't- #-know. meaning in life? fulfillment? that they feel a need to reject the possibility altogether. #this is mainly when dealing with invisible disabilities from what i've seen. because i think there's a tendency to view visibly disabled- #-people as belonging to a different category altogether. which of course is its own issue but i'm not visibly disabled so i don't feel- #-like it's necessarily my place to speak on that. #anyway. i just want my struggles to be acknowledged as real. because they are. and i need people to understand that I Have A Disability. #albeit one many people don't even believe could be real because there's a sort of belief that circadian rhythms are purely a product of- #-external forces like sunlight so “you can't possibly have yours be different and have you tried just going outside more?” sigh. #sorry i also just remembered my dad telling me he doesn't believe i can have something so rare because the chances of having it are too low. #which is some ridiculous logic to me. rare doesn't mean it's impossible. some amount of people have to wind up with it regardless. #i just lucked out i guess. #n24 tag

[secondwhisper]

"Transmasculine people who claim to be adversely affected by sexism are bioessentialists cloaked in progressive language, discrimination on the basis of ""biological sex"" isn't real!"

Oh right, sorry. I forgot that sexism in medical research means that endometriosis, ME/CFS, migraines, post-concussive syndrome, Raynaud's phenomenon, and so many other conditions are only understudied in women. Of course endometriosis For Men™, ME/CFS For Men™, migraines For Men™, post-concussive syndrome For Men™, Raynaud's phenomenon For Men™, etc., are all well-funded fields of research and totally understood. Medical research cares only about the gender of an individual patient, not the association of a condition with people of a certain gender. Patriarchal devaluation of women's health, women's illnesses being treated as fundamentally hysteric, and (peri)cissexist reductions of any individual to the reproductive system(s) they were born with clearly only affect people whose gender is woman, nobody else.

Wilfully ignorant motherfuckers.

#HOW can you rightfully argue that sexism is systemic #and ALSO claim that it only affects people according to their self-identified rather than socially-assigned gender. #i do not know how to explain to you that structural oppression has both personal and impersonal modalities #my own post wow #sorry for the heavy sarcasm this is just so fucking deeply frustrating #anyone who is sufficiently proximal to woman-ness gets caught up in this is it truly not difficult to understand #was my [conditions] being brushed aside medical sexism when i ID'ed as a girl but now that i ID as nonbinary the same dismissal is not #the same dismissal is not related to the fact that doctors still see me as basically-a-woman #a personal in a ''female body'' #with Women's Health problems #obviously this is still fucking sexism! #and also obviously trans women experience a shitton of medical sexism! #they are not immune to ME/CFS or migraines or whatever just bc doctors see them as ''male bodied''!!! #they are gonna face the same ''i think this is all in your head'' sexist hysteric-woman bullshit! #but like. claiming that transmascs who arent women cant possibly face sexism just means you will not look at how sexism actually functions #fuck. cis men with migraines are still fucked by the sexist lack of research into a condition that so disproportionally disables women #this is not new. nothing I'm saying is new.

[susansontag]

watching the chomsky/foucault debate between working and foucault is such a weird man. so bizarrely resistant to answering any questions about himself

#F thinks conditions that lead to human creativity could exist totally independent of the mind. I believe. like maybe in social relations #or organisation. which like fair ok #but chomsky believes in order to interpret those things to begin with we must have internal structures in our mind #that makes such knowledge acquisition/capacity for creativity possible #at least if I'm following along #but im not so interested in the debate #so much as how they both articulate themselves and how this differs #chomsky is very clear #foucault. well... you can guess #moth.txt

[rustchild]

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#It’s kind of wild to see how people talk about mizrahim and the beta israel on here. Like. #people are Just Now discovering that people(s) who are colonial subjects #which they are #as much as anyone else from the mena region #can also perpetuate and have conditional gain within colonial systems #and there’s like… no awareness of how that works over and over again in colonial and immediately post-colonial societies #When in fact one of the most basic structures of colonial power #is pitting colonized peoples against each other through the construction of elaborate unstable racialized hierarchies #like #I think the thing it drives home for me #is how many people in the west a. Operate off of a purely binary moral framework #in which oppressed is good and oppressor is evil and no one is both #And b. Don’t know enough about the histories or current realities of the colonized world to draw meaningful conclusions about anything #And also c. Don’t know shit about Jews #of course #but especially non-ashkenazi Jews #it’s easier to view Israel as the embodiment of the sin of western colonialism #than to genuinely unpack and understand the structures that comprise it #and the ways in which they truly aren’t unique #and the sheer horror of that reality! #Y’all absorbed one (1) idea from fanon and really just stopped there huh #Anyway. The closest parallel to Israel in the world isn’t Algeria #that’s just the only one y’all know about because fanon wrote about it. #the closest parallel is maybe Liberia and that’s sure something to think about

[iggysmice]

I have the annoyingly verbose form of autism, evidenced by the fact I use words like "verbose."

My partner has ADHD and struggles with blocks of text, whether it be processing the words, parsing the text, or even just having the attention span to finish reading the block. Apparently reading is notoriously hard for people with ADHD for a variety of reasons. I'm a hyperlexic autistic who loves reading scientific journals for fun so I don't know what thats like and it sounds unfortunate.

To combat this for my poor Aly, I leave TLDRs at the end of my text blocks in our discord DM, so that if her brain isn't cooperating with my excessive use of the English language she can read a couple sentences that sum up what I said instead!

I think it probably also helps me learn how to be brief when summarizing events to someone.

Either way, making things accessible doesn't have to be a huge grand project. You can just start using TLDRs when you write a big paragraph.

TLDR adhd makes reading hard so to help your adhd having homies you can put a little summary at the bottom of your paragraphs so they can get the idea of the conversation even with a bad attention span!

#iggy rambles nonsense #nd tumblr #adhd #my brother also has adhd but hes more likely to tune anything else out until he has properly read the paragraph #so its not as needed for him for that purpose. aly tends to be a lil more of a scatterbrain type adhd and my brother is more a Wall Of Focus #its actually interesting to behold bc its the same disorder treated by the same chemicals but it displays very differently per person #thats one of the reasons nd conditions are hard to diagnose- theres no way to see the structural differences in the brain #and every person with autism displays the symptoms of that structural difference differently in their behavior #psychology can be a lot of putting ur hand on the head like its a crystal ball and asking if it has depression #and sometimes it doesnt answer or tells you its actually bipolar or adhd

[fitzrove]

I think I'm struggling creatively because as time goes on I find less and less motivation to write (and read, tbh!) stuff that's

good wholesome queer representation

escapist everything-gets-better fantasy ("because life is hard enough why would you write about miserable things")

palatable to people who disagree with me

And obviously I'm nowhere near finishing even a single original thing yet ahdfhajf but I've been looking at publishing videos that people who have experience in the industry have made and. Man no wonder that so much milquetoast stuff gets put out nowadays

#not to be a hater and controversial but #the fact that its often straight people judging whether queer representation has problematic elements (and similar situations) #and lots of queer media seems to be made with straight people in mind (at least as a considerable portion of the audience) #and ugh in general/unrelated like. i just want to write litfic about the human condition XDD and structural inequality #but if i do it with fanfic nobody will read it because my most popular fics will always be ones where white men kiss each other for 3k word #obviously i'm grateful that anyone reads anything i write aggdhfh it's very nice to be heard #but fr my most popular fics are NOT my best ones #and yeah like if i write original fiction it's unlikely to do well in publishing because there's no hot sexy straight romance or wholesome #soft high school good representation queer people:3 #maybe i can put in a red herring twink guy idk #also i'm just so bitter about linguistic inequality still XDD like. in a video abt fantasy tropes the person making the video hates they #said that they hate 'overly long fantasy names' that they can't pronounce #which just made me go 'silence anglo' mentally because omfg super often those names are just BASED ON CULTURES YOU'RE NOT PART OF #(disclaimer i know not all english speakers are ignorant hahfjsdhjfj) #but yeah its funny when old english inspired names are too hard for modern english speakers like welcome to being anyone else lol #its somehow considered a minimum requirement of knowledge to be able to pronounce names like george and matthew correctly #but then for other languages it's a special courtesy if people say names right #afujishgfis and this is just one example #rant #writing #literature

[katyspersonal]

Saw another one of those posts compiling stupid commentaries of some men complaining about a videogame character looking realistic but also not all too conventionally attractive.. What always sticks out the most is stuff like "if I wanted realism - I'd go outside".

I just really can't comprehend what's in the mind of people who thinks that real women (and sometimes not only women) are ugly, repulsive, and something to "get away into a save haven from once in a while". I remember I once heard a similar criticism towards how I draw humans, too - that "uwu art is supposed to be a challenge to world's imperfections and ugliness, it should be a guiding light and dream of ideal to comfort us sick humans, and you defeat the purpose by bringing all the real world's flaws with you in your art uwu". *smh*

Like, I genuinely can't understand how these loosers even live if normal human faces and bodies are something to dread for them. I know I am constantly raving about how this wretched world is a factory of suffering and no person with basic sanity is glad to have been born at the first place, but even I am surprised when of all things to resent about the world some choose just faces of other idiots living in it??

#/vent #i hate this attitude so much #there are things to resent! #cruelty dirt lack of colors economical collapse soulless cities trashed nature #ruined buildings and works of art that people won't fix because they're lazy #but like of all things you wanna escape it is some normal shit like- #-someone's skin condition or extra weight or 'strange' face structure or cleft lip #etc etc etc #???? #I'd think everyone with an IQ above 80 understands that the only *truly* ugly things are manmade #in this blog we love 'ugly' characters and art styles

[veresiine]

I just want to work 20 hours a week and spend the rest of my time and energy making food for the people I love, writing, playing video games, and crafting.

#If only that were economically feasible #veresiine irl #I am so very tired #and yes I am sure that I *do* want to work #I need that external structure and physical activity #it's just that I don't want to work in these conditions at this pay for this many hours