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nozirohhex · 6 months

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Machine Gun Kelly - title track

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emotranscripple · 18 days

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downfalldestiny · 9 months

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Tumpak Sewu, also known as the

"Thousand Waterfalls,"

is a maiestic natural wonder nestled in the enchanting region of East Java, Indonesia. Located near the slopes of Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the island of Java, Tumpak Sewu is a breathtaking cascade of waterfalls that captivates visitors with its sheer beauty and grandeur 🌲🌊 !.

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grapefruit185 · 1 year

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gman leave the poor man ALONE!!!!!!!!

#half life #hl1 #gordon freeman #gman #barney calhoun #hello please take this comic i made that has the oldest boomer-est joke anyones ever made #i have been keeping this in my drafts since uhhhhh... january lol #might as well post it now seeing as it's sort of a halloweeny song #never posted in the first place cause i didn't like how it turned out but whatever here it is anyways #i need to replay half life!!!!!!! i miss her.....

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moncoeurestatoimonamour · 23 days

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whetstonefires · 9 months

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Hey you said something about the my hero academia creator being unhinged about sexism, do you mind explaining?

I tried to write like, a thorough explanation of this and it just got longer and longer and longer and I have not touched this series in actual years and yet I've still got all these receipts a;lkjk;lfasd.

So rather than trying to build the whole massive case, here's a pared-down version. It's normal to have sexism in media, and shounen manga especially. Everyone does it. The level and mode and intentionality and so forth all vary, but of course it's there.

What's not normal is to have lots of varied and interesting female characters with discernible inner lives, and on-page discussion of how sexism is systemic and unjust and holds them back in specific ways, and then also deliberately make consistent sexist writing decisions even where they don't arise naturally from the flow of the narrative.

Horikoshi is actively interested in gender and sexism, he's aware of them in a way you rarely see outside of the context of, you know, fighting sexism. He is hung up on the thorny issue of what women are worth and deserve and how power and respect ties into it. He genuinely wants, I think, to have Good Female Characters, and not be (seen as) A Sexist Guy!

But. He doesn't actually want to fight sexism. He displays a lot of woman-oriented anxieties, and one of the many churning paddlewheels in his head seems to be that he knows intellectually that morally sexism is bad, but emotionally he really feels like it ought to probably be at least partly correct.

There are so many things I could cite, and maybe I'll get into some of them later, but the crowning item that highlights how the pattern is 1) at least partly conscious and deliberate and 2) about Horikoshi's own weird hangups rather than simply cynical market play, is Mineta Minoru.

The writer has stated Mineta is his favorite character. Mineta is also designed to be hated--that is, he is a particularly elaborate instantiation of a character archetype normally deployed to soak up audience contempt and (by being gross and shameless and unattractive and 'unthreatening') make it possible to include a range of sexual gratification elements into the narrative that would compromise the main characters' reputations as heroic and deserving, if they were the actors.

Good Guys don't grope girls' tits and run away snickering in triumph, after all. Non-losers don't focus intense effort around successfully stealing someone's panties. Nice Girls don't let themselves be seen half-dressed. And so forth. You need an underwear gremlin for that. So, in anime and manga, longstanding though declining tradition of including such a gremlin, for authorial deniability.

Horikoshi definitely uses him straight for this purpose, looping in Kaminari as needed to make a bit work. And yet he has Feelings about the archetype itself.

The passages dedicated to the vindication of Mineta, then, and the author's statements about him, let us understand that Horikoshi identifies with the figure of the underwear gremlin. He understands the underwear gremlin as a defining exemplar of male sexuality, at least if you are not hot, and finds the attached contempt and hostility to be a dehumanizing attack on all uh.

Incels, basically.

It's not fair to write Mineta off just because he's unattractive and horny (and commits sexual harassment). Doesn't he have a mind? Doesn't he have dreams? Doesn't he have human potential?

So what's going on with Horikoshi and gender, as far as I can figure out, is that he knows damn well that women are people and are treated unjustly by sexist society, but however.

He also understands the institutions of sexism as something protecting him and people like him from life being nebulously yet definitively Worse, and therefore wants to see them upheld.

So you get this really bizarre handling of gender where obviously women's rights good and women cool, women can be Strong, and the compulsory sexualization imposed by the industry isn't them or the author, and so forth.

But also it's very important that in the world he controls, women never win anything important or Count too much, and that jokes at their expense that disrupt the internal logic of their characters are always fair game, that women asked about sexism on TV will promptly get into catfights amongst themselves, and they are understood always in terms of their sexual and romantic interests and value, and sexual assertiveness and failures to perform femininity well enough are used to code them as dangerous and irrational, and that the sexy costumes are requisite and will never be subverted or rebelled against--at most they might be circumnavigated via leaning into cute appeal.

And that Yaoyorozu Momo, who converts her body fat into physical objects, is being frivolous when she wants to use money to buy things instead (rather than as sensibly moderating her Quirk use) and is never encouraged to eat as much as possible at every opportunity to put on weight and even shown being embarrassed by hunger (even though Quirk overuse gives symptoms that suggest she's been stripping the lipids out of her cell walls or nervous system to keep fighting) and always, no matter how many Things she has made, has huge big round boobies.

#ask #hoc est meum #beastenraged #bnha #sexism #i think i got the main points here #just getting lost in the weeds of subsidiary arguments and supporting evidence was destroying me #i don't need to do those this is fandom on the internet #and not even a serious level of that #meta #mineta minoru #yaoyorozu momo #honestly psychologically pretty interesting #it's like he keeps saying 'look i know sexism bad but I Need It'#someone tell him that the patriarchy is exploiting him too and we can all achieve liberation together #this is the same mechanism that upholds white supremacy among the poor #'my life is so bad already the idea of liberating those below me and having to share the crumbs with them is horrific'#ESPECIALLY if i know they're worthy and lots of them are better than me #injustice is the only thing keeping my head above water!#he's also fishing for vindication ofc #but it's wild to see how he'll put in the groundwork that would let him do something gender-egalitarian with his themes #and then opt not to #despite having done the hard part already #idk how much that's making a statement and how much it's just 'this Feels Right'#but as a pattern it murdered me

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freemangordon · 2 months

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YIPEE Freehoun!!!

When te cachan en la chamba :)

#freehoun #este blog a veces tendra contenido mas sfw a veces #half life #Quiero ser Barneynocierto

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yasbeych · 1 year

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little evil criminal still deserves a big nice boyfriend who will listen to him complain

#transformers #maccadam #starscream #skyfire #skystar #g1 #I want them to be together soooo bad #I just want this little idiot to come home to his big boyfriend outside of est context #who knows he’s a total jerk #I just think that’s beautiful #my art #*war context I can’t type for my LIFE

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canisalbus · 2 months

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Random guess that you of course don’t have to answer, is his name Valentino?

Good guess, but no.

#I don't think it's guessable without further hints #it's a real and fairly average name but it's not in the current top 100 most popular Italian masculine names #answered #champion-masquerade #Valentino would've been a comedy gold choice for the crinkled tissue man since it derives from the Latin word 'valens'#which means strong and healthy #maybe he could've been named that in hopes that it would improve his chances in life #'nomen est omen' style

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moonkhao · 12 hours

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EST SUPHA as PO and WILLIAM JAKRAPATR as THAME in Thame - Po ・HEART THAT SKIPS A BEAT (2024ISH)

#heart that skips a beat #thamepo #thamepo heart that skips a beat #gmmtv 2024 #estwilliam #william jakrapatr #est supha #Y'ALL THEY GOT ME GOOD WITH THIS TRAILER #IT WAS MY SECOND FAVORITE AFTER THE HEART KILLERS ONE #I WAS EXPECTING AN ESTWILLIAM SHOW BC YK THE HINTS AND EVERYTHING #BUT FOR SOME REASON I'VE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT A SHOW POSSIBLY INCLUDING LYKN AND THEIR IDOL LIFE LOL #BUT DANG I'M INTRIGUED NOW #PLUS I AM VERY MUCH LIKING THEIR CHEMISTRY SO FAR #(ALSO WHAT'S THE ACTUAL INTERNATIONAL TITLE OF THE SHOW ??????)#my edits #gmmtv2024 #gmmtv 2024 part 2 #htsabedit #thame po

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annabelle--cane · 6 months

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it's not MY fault that the transdimensional reality portal the web made was described out loud on podcast as a leaking, shuddering, gaping, aching hole >:(

#in the /lh-est way possible #tma #marina marvels at life #so funny that on the post where I pointed all That out I got several responses like 'I thought we all silently agreed not to talk abt this'#you may have silently agreed on that. I did no such thing.

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nozirohhex · 25 days

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mgk - dont let me go 🎹🖤

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olivia-anderson-fanfic · 3 months

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*opening yet another WIP document* I... MUST... make Tim Drake... interesting...

#tim drake #batman #robin #red robin #dc #youd think my life depends on it with how much i try #i will give that white boy depth if it kills me god damn it #he's a salvageable character i promise #he just needs a lil... spice (trauma)#listen he's my special-est lil guy. the first robin i knew. my darling #i can and will fix him #dc comics #detective comics #detective comics comics lmaoooooo

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someonetooksendnoodles · 11 months

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just finished my willow rewatch and the way erin’s accent gets so much thicker in the heat of battle is so personal to me

#just finished my willow rewatch #forever thinking about “try HARRRDAARR #there are a few british people i would put my life on the line for and she is one of them <3 #side note…i’m finishing this rewatch at 4 am EST so yk disneys systems are uber slow or (i hope) they were bluffing 😗#willow disney+#willow #willow 2022 #jade claymore #tanthamore #willow series #kit tanthalos #erin kellyman #thraxus boorman #graydon hastur #elora danan

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moncoeurestatoimonamour · 22 days

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#nature #france #naturecore #nature photographer #nature photography #photographers on tumblr #l'amour et les forêts #trees and forests #love geraldine #love my life #la vie est belle #original phography #original photography on tumblr #original photographers #original photography blog #photo on tumblr #love photography #nature lovers

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whetstonefires · 9 months

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Underrated element of where Jiang Cheng is re: wwx after everything is that they always had a sort of dual relationship. Two different relationship premises, superimposed on one another.

There's the one where they grew up together, as close as brothers, beating each other up and complaining and being one another's closest companions, sharing a bedroom as kids and eating at the same family dinner table, actively encouraged by Jiang Fengmian to interact as equals.

And then there's the one where Wei Wuxian was in service to Jiang Cheng's family. Not as a servant--Jiang Fengmian absolutely refused to do that, even if he couldn't adopt him. But as a disciple of Jiang Cheng's father and recipient of his charity, as Jiang Cheng's future right hand and most trusted subordinate.

It's a vertical relationship, intimate in its own way but with very strict expectations about what obligations flow in what directions; they are not identical and reciprocal as between friends and equals.

(It's my opinion that Jiang Fengmian's core deal was a deep-seated discontent with the hierarchies he was at the top of, without access to any way to actually deconstruct them or even coherently articulate his opposition. Wei Changze was his dear friend, and no one thinks that's a good enough reason for him to treat Wei Changze's son like his own, because Wei Changze was also his servant, and you can't make that circle square. That's not a way you're allowed to love.)

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian were like brothers; Wei Wuxian served Jiang Cheng.

The personal relationship was always the most important one. To them, in their hearts. But it was the other one that was real, that had weight in the world.

And it's important to understand that neither can be held up as more factual than the other, even though they conflict. Both relationships existed, and had power.

So then when Jiang Cheng chose to hate Wei Wuxian and articulate his grudge against him, he chose to do it in the language of fealty. Because as far as he knew, his case there was secure, watertight, and it wouldn't expose him emotionally or politically.

And those are the terms in which he's been condemning him all this time: for abandoning the Sect, for ingratitude, for lack of loyalty.

For fuckups, too, and poor judgment, but some of that now turns out to have been justified and some of it was mostly the fault of enemies behaving badly, or even Jiang Cheng himself allowing himself to be pushed into making unworthy choices.

And it was all for his sake.

The thing, the thing in my opinion, about what Wei Wuxian did, about the core transfer and his silent self-destruction around keeping it secret, is that that is a hideous thing to have done between two people who love each other, as an act of love. Beautiful, but awful. As the man who was like a brother to him, Jiang Cheng has a great deal of standing to object to it.

But as an act of vassalage, it's basically perfect.

If Wei Wuxian were only what he formally was to Jiang Cheng, if he is interpreted through a lens of fealty and obligation, he did exactly what he should have done, and went beyond what duty actually required. And went to his death silently, allowing himself to be judged, taking all the burden on himself rather than let harm come to his lord.

Like, obviously Jiang Cheng was harmed by the part where Jin Zixuan got manslaughtered and Jiang Yanli walked into the line of fire in situations where Wei Wuxian was resorting to violence and probably shouldn't have, but those are one step removed from the core issue. In terms of Wei Wuxian's intentional choices around Jiang Cheng himself, at the times he was feeling betrayed and abandoned Wei Wuxian was in fact being impossibly, poetically loyal, an absolute cliche about it.

But only in terms of the hierarchical form of their relationship.

Which means that even though Jiang Cheng has a lot of reasons to still be mad at Wei Wuxian, his actual complaints that he's centered for thirteen years are basically wiped out by the revelation of Wei Wuxian's sacrifice.

Wei Wuxian was in fact doing the tragic hero loyal vassal thing, which very much includes being misunderstood and slandered by the world. (Chenqing as a name choice absolutely references this expectation, and the idea that Jiang Cheng specifically will never understand that Wei Wuxian was trying to help him first and foremost all along; he is not subtle.)

The debts Jiang Cheng has been spitefully calling in and considering defaulted were already long paid.

So if at this point Jiang Cheng keeps pursuing that same line of rhetorical attack, now that he knows, he'll be putting himself morally in the wrong, and he knows it. But if he pivots to something else, he'll both be signalling the shape of that secret to the entire world and looking like a prize idiot.

Which is already how he feels.

To actually address the remaining grievances between them, which are considerable, would require releasing those safe, open grudges to Wei Wuxian's face and then reclaiming him as a loved one. Which is, one could fairly say, more than anyone could expect.

Which is why Wei Wuxian told him he didn't have to.

Which leaves Jiang Cheng at something of an impasse.

#hoc est meum #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #mdzs #meta #their vertical relationship was always the secure one #the one they could put into words #the one Jiang Cheng could COUNT on #and it's gone and it's what destroyed everything between them #the other relationship could be salvaged in some form #but jiang cheng would have to WANT to #and ofc he does but does he want it enough to choose to?#when wei wuxian isn't choosing him?#and ofc wwx doesn't feel jiang cheng is his to choose #the timing of the revelation is so ironic because imo #wwx spends a lot of the book processing his grief for himself #and the life he had before #and his relationship with jiang cheng #and he let it go and accepted he could never have it back after the debacle at Lotus Pier #only for jiang cheng to be forced to reexamine everything basically immediately lmao #but like wwx is not in a place where he can meet you halfway anymore jiang wanyin #he JUST got closure #it's too soon to go cutting open scars on a man who never lets himself grieve if he can help it #because if you grieve you stop and when you stop you die

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