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ii discord talking abt fanbow & hating on fantube & i think they were getting mad at me for being uncomfy with fanbow & having fantube as a huge comfort ship (i am fan & see bow as a sibling & love test tube /srs). 23 dead 17 injured
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eelhound · 8 months
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"The idea of reforming Omelas is a pleasant idea, to be sure, but it is one that Le Guin herself specifically tells us is not an option. No reform of Omelas is possible — at least, not without destroying Omelas itself:
If the child were brought up into the sunlight out of that vile place, if it were cleaned and fed and comforted, that would be a good thing, indeed; but if it were done, in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed. Those are the terms.
'Those are the terms', indeed. Le Guin’s original story is careful to cast the underlying evil of Omelas as un-addressable — not, as some have suggested, to 'cheat' or create a false dilemma, but as an intentionally insurmountable challenge to the reader. The premise of Omelas feels unfair because it is meant to be unfair. Instead of racing to find a clever solution ('Free the child! Replace it with a robot! Have everyone suffer a little bit instead of one person all at once!'), the reader is forced to consider how they might cope with moral injustice that is so foundational to their very way of life that it cannot be undone. Confronted with the choice to give up your entire way of life or allow someone else to suffer, what do you do? Do you stay and enjoy the fruits of their pain? Or do you reject this devil’s compromise at your own expense, even knowing that it may not even help? And through implication, we are then forced to consider whether we are — at this very moment! — already in exactly this situation. At what cost does our happiness come? And, even more significantly, at whose expense? And what, in fact, can be done? Can anything?
This is the essential and agonizing question that Le Guin poses, and we avoid it at our peril. It’s easy, but thoroughly besides the point, to say — as the narrator of 'The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away' does — that you would simply keep the nice things about Omelas, and work to address the bad. You might as well say that you would solve the trolley problem by putting rockets on the trolley and having it jump over the people tied to the tracks. Le Guin’s challenge is one that can only be resolved by introspection, because the challenge is one levied against the discomforting awareness of our own complicity; to 'reject the premise' is to reject this (all too real) discomfort in favor of empty wish fulfillment. A happy fairytale about the nobility of our imagined efforts against a hypothetical evil profits no one but ourselves (and I would argue that in the long run it robs us as well).
But in addition to being morally evasive, treating Omelas as a puzzle to be solved (or as a piece of straightforward didactic moralism) also flattens the depth of the original story. We are not really meant to understand Le Guin’s 'walking away' as a literal abandonment of a problem, nor as a self-satisfied 'Sounds bad, but I’m outta here', the way Vivier’s response piece or others of its ilk do; rather, it is framed as a rejection of complacency. This is why those who leave are shown not as triumphant heroes, but as harried and desperate fools; hopeless, troubled souls setting forth on a journey that may well be doomed from the start — because isn’t that the fate of most people who set out to fight the injustices they see, and that they cannot help but see once they have been made aware of it? The story is a metaphor, not a math problem, and 'walking away' might just as easily encompass any form of sincere and fully committed struggle against injustice: a lonely, often thankless journey, yet one which is no less essential for its difficulty."
- Kurt Schiller, from "Omelas, Je T'aime." Blood Knife, 8 July 2022.
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gulopets · 5 months
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When a dog bites with 'no warning.'
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sadhoc · 3 months
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you can say over and over that disabled people can have sex. but when you think it, make sure you are also thinking of those of us who are visibly disabled. people who cannot move the way bodies "should." people who struggle to speak can still request sex, with AAC, with body language, with what speech we have. people with medical devices implanted in their bodies, housebound and bed bound people. people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. "disabled people can have sex" does not just mean invisibly disabled people, or people who meet able bodied/neurotypical standards of independence
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bartlbye · 3 months
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also its soooooooo cute that izutsumi tries to comfort marcille even though izutsumi is clearly uncomfortable with marcille crying
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tigerdrop · 2 years
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there needs to be more kink and gay sex at pride b/c a lot of you need the lesson that something making you uncomfortable doesnt mean that its bad or that it should be hidden away. your discomfort is not the end of the fucking world and i promise you will survive the harrowing ordeal of seeing a man in leather
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luna-fortunaa · 26 days
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Little crumb of appreciation for one of the most !!!!!!! episodes of the show ✨️🌠
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weezeryuri · 3 months
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met the first trans person i’ve ever seen that goes by my deadname and got curious.. rb for sample size or whatever
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toastyglow · 4 months
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hi if u want to do yoga for mental health reasons u should try searching for trauma-based yoga practices. even if u don't consider urself as having Trauma with a capital T it just genuinely does what it says on the tin and loosens up ur emotions to get out
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fairycosmos · 1 year
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sometimes interactions with other people are just a little awkward. it doesn't inherently mean anyone has done anything wrong
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plushievash · 10 months
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There’s only so much time, we have to play with To waste it is a crime, we have so much to give
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Never let me go
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kreepykutieuwu · 5 months
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Gay ships from video games and other media that have fanbases full of dudebros and 16-year-old boys that would get pissy about said ships are my bread and butter
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zjofierose · 5 months
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reading the comments in that “is RPF ok” poll is so fucking distressing, istg. the majority of comments seem to fall into “sure, it’s fine as long as it’s just fluff/not shippy/what they would do IRL” or “no that makes me uncomfortable so clearly it’s bad” with a side of “well if they consent, it’s fine.” which… i suspect that last one is a big piece of how we get people confronting celebrities with fic, which is actually not okay.
fan fiction has become too mainstream. it’s not meant to be something you talk about on The Voice, and you shouldn’t be reading fics on tik tok and hashtagging them so that millions and millions of people see them. because when that sort of thing happens, we get this push to sanitize everything - the RPF, the kink, the dark fic. this is the same fight as “there shouldn’t be kink at pride because uwu makes me uncomfy”. rpf, like all other fan fiction, is FICTION, and thus there are no moral lines in it about “well, it’s ok, but don’t write about them killing anyone” or “well, it’s fine, but don’t ship anyone underage.” y’all are the same as the book banners going to libraries and weeding out “objectionable” books, you’re just too caught up in “but it makes me feel weird” to realize it.
yes! some things will make you uncomfortable! that does not make them morally wrong. also! some things will seem fine to you, and still be morally bad. please, for the love of all things holy, go learn that.
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goofy-little-guy · 2 years
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU????
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gothamundernightlight · 7 months
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Incorrect Batfam Quotes
Jason: How y’a doin’ short stack?
Tim: …*sigh
Tim: As you have continued to observe, you are taller. Since we have now established this, I’m now going to hit you with a chair. Because I’m not the bigger person.
Jason: Wait, what?
Jason: OW!
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scootkiddo · 1 year
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thinking about how joel was wringing his hands here. the amount of visible discomfort he felt when maria was offering hot showers, warm clothes, houses to stay in- something he was supposed to be able to offer to ellie
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he was dwelling in such denial over his fear of being an insufficient caretaker and guardian to the point of feeling physical stiffness in his body and over his face. to the point of claiming that they had been “doing just fine” because his mind couldn’t comprehend the antithesis of such. jackson was the physical embodiment of what he longed to give ellie- real comfort and security- and he struggled with this reality hammering into his head of just how self-sufficient this community was as opposed to him. he was responsible for ellie. he was meant to provide the best for her. and here was someone else who had procured and provided the necessities joel hadn’t come close to replicating
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