#great thoughts

[distort-opia]

Always thought about TKJ whenever I picked up on the Joker's childhood implications across different comics. You know when Bruce said something like " Maybe ordinary people don't always crack… maybe it is just you". And man that STINGS in this context. Of course not excusing Joker's actions or blaming Bruce for his words there. As comics progress and new writers meta analyse previous adaptations of his character, we will surely get a deeper dive into his childhood and parallels with Bruce's upbringing. 'Tis the way comics tend to go. I don't think we will ever get a full picture and if we do it will soon be chucked back to the " Oh this? This is not canon, just a little thing on the side" pile.

Joker burning his home, killing his parents, never coming back, not having a support system, being abused. Bruce preserving his home, losing his parents, staying, having someone, being loved. And somehow both are as tragic. That's art right there.

Yes to all of this, basically.

Them being inversions and mirrors of each other is eternally fascinating to me. Bruce and Joker having opposite lives at every turn, but a very similar way of coping with powerful trauma -- the death of their family -- simply fits too well, and I prefer to read it like that no matter what new writers and new continuities bring. They've started from a similar event on the same axis, but their choices situated them at opposing extremes. In many ways they represent two broad roads any person can take when faced with the cruelty of the world, and the kind of trauma that shatters your trust in humanity; choosing to believe you can create meaning, vs. choosing to believe there's no meaning at all. 'I'll make sure this will not happen to anyone else' vs. 'I'll make sure everyone else goes through the same pain I did'. The conflict between Batman and Joker is, in the end, an essential human conflict (what do we do when nothing makes sense?), and that's why they've endured for so long and became such a staple of modern culture.

#it IS art #thank you for the ask anon #great thoughts #asks #batman #batman meta #bruce wayne #joker #joker meta #my meta

[stellarred]

#wisdom #sir anthony hopkins #q #life #great thoughts

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

#the myth of sisyphus #myth of sisyphus #sisyphus #sisyphos #sisyphean task #sisyphean #absurd #existential #albert camus #camus #all good things #all great deeds #all great thoughts #great deeds #great thoughts #ridiculous #beginning

[frownyalfred]

“You wanna fight someone, you fight me” seemed like a silly rule at first. but after there was more than one batkid living in the Manor at the same time, suddenly the prospect of having to spar with Bruce on the mats because you couldn’t stop yourself from throwing a punch at Tim earlier is terrifying.

#stolen from Yellowstone #I think this is a great way to discourage the batkids fighting among themselves #mostly #like it still happens #but damn if getting beaten into the mats at 4 am reminds you why punching Tim won’t help you in the long run #bruce wayne #batman #dc #batfamily #batfam #thoughts

[principiumindividuationis777]

#Friedrich Nietzsche #great thoughts #inspirational #inspiring #physical activity #exercise #walking #wisdom #philosophy #existentialism

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

[soulmvtes]

girls and the inherent loneliness they have felt all their lives

#doing great this thursday afternoon why do you ask #no i was not having a decent day n then it got ruined by this at all what #diary #tiyas thoughts

[1001mcdxlvii]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians premieres Dec. 20 on Disney+

#some excerpts i thought were great! #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson disney+ #pjo disney+ #annabeth chase #grover underwood #rick riordan

[sharkshenanigans2]

literally!!

#sharks #marine animals #marine biology #shark #atlantic ocean #pacific ocean #ocean #shark post #shark memes #lemon shark #epaulette shark #hammerhead shark #blacktip reef shark #great white shark #whale shark #chilling pic moments before 14ft great white shark mauled surfer shows haunting clue beast is about to pounce #shark thoughts

[lesbianshepard]

these are the questions about history that the people really need to ask

#m #the mods adding the 'great question!' flair is so funny #askhistorians is a HEAVILY moderated subreddit #they delete a LOT of replies unless your answer is well thought out and require citations #like it's a serious history subreddit

[aethersea]

honestly it was a red flag when bbc sherlock went “well obviously the word written in blood isn’t the german word for revenge, it’s clearly the beginning of the name ‘rachel’, what absolute idiot would fail to see that” when in the original novel it is, in fact, the german word for revenge, which sherlock points out gleefully to a roomful of policemen who all figure it’s the beginning of the name ‘rachel.’

and by red flag I mean it was a clear sign that the adaptation was trying to one-up the source material, instead of engaging with it with love.

#sherlock holmes #finx rambles #this kinda bugged me even when I first watched it and still thought it was a super cool show #and tbh it WAS super cool in a lot of ways #they had such dynamic and exciting editing #good pacing #cool character introductions #great snappy lines #but this was a small thing that rankled even then

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[fieriframes]

[Chillax all veg out. All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking on American classics.]

#s28e05 all kinds of comfort #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #great thoughts #american classics #chillax

[phantomrose96]

Im usually much too shy to send asks but you gotta be the change you want to see, and i agree that asks need to stay so: would you rather right 1 horse sized rat, or 100 rat sized horses?

ah yikes... so my knee jerk reaction is "the 100 rat-sized horses, certainly, as those can be picked off one at a time." however the risk of my conscience catching up to me by the 30th or 40th horse is too great. how much death could I inflict upon these rat-sized horses before I vow to see death no more? even if pure survival instinct drives me through all 100, what of the aftermath? surrounded by the carnage of 100 tiny horses with only my own wet breath among 100 still chests? inconceivable. war is hell.

#lordlochness #thanks 4 the ask very thought provoking great ice breaker #(considering you may have just seen my post at random and dont follow me: i promise im joking) #clearly id decimate all 100 rat sized horses without remorse #(also joking!!!) #(probably)

[ellefoxxx]

would you give me a hand?

#all natural #bewbage #big tiddy gf #breeding k1nk #cock tease #content creator #curvy body #dem bewbs #free the tiddy #fuck my body #great breasts #hot as hell #huge hooters #i sell noods #juicy body #mommy milkers #sexy breast #smooth skin #slutty thoughts #ellefoxxx

[linddzz]

Thinking about Weird Barbie and how she's the very obviously queer outsider of the Barbie world, she straddles the lines between Barbie and the Real World. She's the most aware of the performative nature of it all. She supports Barbie while also gently mocking her panic at losing the hyperfeminine perfection. Her weird house is also home to the discontinued reject weird Barbies, the outcasts (including very gay earring Ken) who never fell into either the original matriarchy or the Kentriarchy brainwashing.

The other more classically heteronormative and beautiful Barbies both pity and fear her, and at first the narrative pities her as well. She's the vessel of girls going weird and crazy and feral on their dolls and that's amazing. Weird Barbie is aware of who she is and how the world sees her and she loves it. She's Weird Barbie and She Owns It.

#i couldnt identify with a lot of the Barbies Feminine Crisis on as deep a level as other women i know #but holy shit did i see what they did with Weird Barbie aka Queer Barbie #GOD this movie did such a great job capturing the feeling of #gender is fake and but also its real #ive been having gender thoughts #mostly about how im so goddamn ambivalent about gender that i can't even identify #with the idea of thinking about What Is My Gender enough to say its nonbinary #my gender is Sure Okay #she/her yeah fine its whatever #barbie