#i am SEATED at this table

[posletsvet]

What drives Maki's entire character arc is her desire to destroy. The Zen'in household, the very air of it dripping with the elders' rigid mentality of out-dated tradition, gave her no room to breathe, tried to smother her, and her flame burns ever so brighter 'in the open air' when she leaves. Next time Maki crosses the threshold of her family house, desolation follows in her footsteps. She rages against the confines forced upon her, and she destroys in a gesture of ultimate liberation.

It is undeniably tragic and yet poetic that Mai wields the opposite power, her cursed technique, labeled 'Construction', allowing her to create. And there's surely something to be said about the symbolism of Mai's ability to create something from nothing. The clan's strict hierarchy and narrow-minded superstition left the twins without as much as scraps, bare minimum to make one's existance bearable. And even so Mai managed to find something to hold on to, something, someone to call happiness -- her sister. But just like Mai's technique is not enough create anything big or complicated, whatever happiness she constructed for herself back then was never enough for Maki.

Mai's self-sacrifice serves as her final creation, though this time she creates through destruction and for the sake of destruction. She gives up on herself, gives herself up, and her last wish is for her creation to be used to destroy, to destroy everything. And Maki does as Mai wishes, burns everythig to the ground, but her sister's sacrifice turns her destruction to creation. Because what will some day, somehow come in the wake of the bloodshed and tragedy and loss is hope -- for the better future born out of ash.

There's that beautiful interplay between Maki and Mai's characters, between destruction and creation: 'You are me, and I am you'.

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk analysis #jjk meta #maki zenin #mai zenin #what am i if not thinking about tragic twins #both maki and mai are fascinating characters #i love them dearly your honour #when you're denied a seat at the table you either live off scraps or flip the table #and i think this is something that describes the twins' differences in a nutshell #jjk manga spoilers #i guess?

[charmac]

#this is funny yes #but let me be annoying real quick #and by annoying i mean personal and parasocial here #i hate. touching and physical affection and what not #very much relate to charlie that way #my knee jerk reaction is to not touch people and not let people touch me #and i am not aware of how avoidant i am most of the time #and like. its worse the more i know someone #or like. the more i care for them and think about them #when i met charlie and glenn i didnt really. actively think about it cos they were seated at a table #and i was on the other side and walked around and what not #and i did not initiate touch with either of them #but charlie kept touching my shoulder RAHH. #like we are one in the same in this aspect and yet. he initiated contact with me when i was keeping distance #and he did it again the next week when he saw me at radio city #and its so fucking insanely comforting like. #just hand on shoulder grounding me #connecting. but not having to TOUCH #he like. doesnt want to be touched and i dont want to be touched and that. the shoulder thing. its good. #charlie day i deeply love you i fear #also when i met glenn again he tried to hug me and i actively backed away (which i didnt realise until i saw video of) so #i hope and think he understands... its a thing and nothing against him LMFAO

[6-2-aestheticsofhate]

Why is it whenever I go to this one specific cafe some old guy sits down in the same table as me without asking and usually right across from me or on the same side

#literally unprompted sits like 1 seat away from me without asking #one time an old guy sat on the opposite side of a 2 seat table from me w/o asking it was. fucking weird #am i being an asshole or is that rude/creepy #personal

[postillfastill]

Not supporting a two state solution to the palestinian genocide is not somehow fucking hateful. Wanting the israel state to not exist is not hateful no more than it is for an indigenous person to wish any other colonial state not exist. I don't want america or canada to exist because their existence was founded on the mass slaughter displacement and hundreds of years of subjugation of the othered population, and would not be ABLE to exist without that subjugation, not because it made white people move here. Wishing the state body that enabled the slaughter of ones people didn't exist isn't hateful to the settler population, it's a fucking pipe dream coping mechanism of indigenous peoples all over the world. I wish my people in mexico weren't wholebody erased! I wish my people in the states weren't forced from their homes into pathetic reservations! Hell, I wish my people in ireland weren't fucked by britain at every turn!

I wish the united states didnt exist! I wish new zealand didn't exist, i wish australia and south africa and rhodesia and brazil and any other state thats formation relied on the murder and subjugation of an othered population didn't exist! Because 'state' is not synonymous with 'people' you FUCKING moron! When people clutch at their pearls because palestinians and other indigenous activists wish israel et al didn't exist, they are seeing it from their skewed, racist perspective. To them, a state not existing means the physical land and the people plants and animals on it be razed to the ground, because that's what they're used to doing to others to maintain this 'state'. To indigenous populations who have lived on land for thousands of years without this 'state', we know what a state actually is; a government body of legislation and control that didnt just come from nowhere. That is what we mean by Land Back, what we mean by calling for a nation to not exist. Dismantle the states, return land taken to surviving peoples displaced from it, relinquish legislative control over the othered people. It doesn't mean fucking settler genocide, you sound like fucking rhodesians or those racist afrikaaners trying to convince ppl theyre getting white genocided bc apartheid ended.

You assume an end to your state means an end to your life because you're projecting as a racist, fascist nationalist. Sorreee.

#wypeepoo listen to indigenous ppl for once in your life #we dont care about what you think ending a state means #bc youre wrong. and we arent gonna coddle ur feelings or prioritize them over dealin w the actual violence perpetuated #by ur precious state #i hate america i hate america i hate america #i am native to this fucking continent america is sat on and i wish america didnt exist #that doesnt mean i wish the continent sank into the ocean you MORON #learn theory!!! fucking idiot!!! if you cant define a state for what it is you dont get a seat at the table talking about how to handle its #fucking war crimes

[kiwikipedia]

I think that it is important to return to that understanding and divide between Canon and Fanon again.

Yes, Canon has problems and plot holes and issues, but that is fundamentally the starting point and base for fanworks. It’s not mouldable and it’s not going to change unless the creator of said Canon— or new owner, in the wild cases of Disney and Star Wars and Amazon and LOTR (I guess?)— changes what they originally have written.

I think that it’s fine to jokingly say “oh I accept this as canon now” or “this is canon” to a Fan interpretation, but emphasis on the joke. People have to understand that Fanon Canon is not Canon.

Fanon literally comes from Fandom and Canon. It is not Canon. It should never be treated like Canon save for extenuating circumstances where Canon can no longer uphold itself to its prior standards. And even then that Fanon needs to be taken with the biggest fucking heaping of salt possible.

By treating Fanon as Canon, it restricts any creativity and further building onto the Canon base-frame and is ultimately harmful to new creators and even old ones who don’t want to adhere to some new fanon idea that suddenly barges in. You are not the first to be a fan of something, you are not the last fan of something and ultimately you are not the creator of a series that you are a fan of. You cannot change Canon and you cannot force others to accept your Fanon as Canon.

Every single interpretation of Canon is its own Fanon and that is just how it is.

Pointing at someone else’s work and saying “that’s not right!” just because that isn’t how you interpret a character, pairing, situation, location, foundation, organization, motive, narrative, or anything else is both a dick move and wrong.

You are allowed to create worlds upon worlds based on your own Fanon, but you cannot force that onto someone else. Furthermore, you cannot force a Fanon take onto someone else because, again, Fanon is not Canon and it is not your job nor even remotely OK for you to force someone to accept a Fanon take they don’t want to.

Likewise, you cannot force someone to make use of a “Fanon” Character because all that is at the very core is an over glorified OC with a cult following. That character is not Canon. 

Forcing Fanon onto someone ultimately is what drives people away from the fandom, and when you complain that there’s no more good work being put out by fans, take a moment to ask yourself why that is.

#I will gladly make room at the fandom table for other interpretation #but i will not give up my seat because you throw a tantrum #no nuance november but its not november and im just petty and mad #i can think of maybe three extenuating circumstances where Fanon triumphs over Canon and thats only because the Canon is so shitty. and even #then its widely accepted that the Fanon of that situation is not canon but simply refered back to often #i am hangry and going to yell #fandom discourse #psa #im also not sure whats going on with JRRT's work and Amazon but from what i know TROP is like. bad lol #not sure if they have full control like disney does so thats why the (??) is there #kiwiki says fuck #Kiwiki Speaks

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Just applied for a summer childcare position (like for a camp type thing) that pays 20–28 dollars an hour based on qualifications (I should be towards the end of that scale because I work in a school; and the only requirement the job lists is to be 16 and have experience with children). So hopefully they’ll consider me. That would be wonderful.

#I hate applying for jobs so much. Everyone uses a different website that makes you sign up for newsletters that clog your email #that you have to manually unsubscribe to #But yeah that’s way more than I get paid as a para lol #which is kind of sad because being a para or teacher is a lot more strenuous and complex than supervising kids during structured play #Because usually the kids enjoy stuff like rock climbing and swimming #so you don’t have to guide them through ten different layers of mental gymnastics to complete their work #or sometimes physically keep them from leaving the learning area after every problem they complete #(of course I do the last thing very gently; and I don’t like having to carry kids from under tables back to their seats #but they’re not going to learn anything if they stay underneath tables all day long… that kind of defeats the purpose of being in school. #I give a lot of verbal warnings before too. Some kids just refuse to learn all the time regardless of their mood because it’s funny to them #Anyway: Kids should not be playing video games past bedtime on a fucking Oculus Rift #Like seriously the tech withdrawal in some of these babies is palpable #Horrifying #Anyway this summer job will be a breeze if I get it #Hopefully no one will be begging me for chromebooks during rock climbing #(I know it sounds like I’m irritated with the kids; and I am. But it’s more irritation with their parents letting them become addicted #to iPads for the sake of convenience; and also frustration directed at capitalism that makes the parents so tired #that they let the iPad babysit their kids so they can rest. It’s the whole system man. It’s fucked.)

[soldez]

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#i have to say this somewhere or im gonna go crazy #so at a preschool. you HAVE to have one adult sitting at every table when kids are eating. and you also need a person in the hall #for kids getting their lunchboxes and going to the bathroom and shit ok. are you with me here. this makes sense #so today. my 2 coworkers had already taken the chairs bc i got caught up in the hall but i was so fucking hungry that i just ate standing u #which was fine. like i could just put my lunch down if someone needed my help and i Did that ok it was fine. no one was left alone #but later at SNACKTIME. it took me forever to get these 2 kids in the room and seated ready to eat & by the time i got in some kids were #already finished and ready to go to the playroom. so i was like ok i guess I'm not eating for the latter half of the day because they cant #be left alone. and my 2 coworkers at this point were sitting with the snackers and they looked fine so i looked after the Players #intermittently glancing to the snack tables to make sure everyone was fine mind you #So what happened here was. #There was a 20 second interval between the time i glanced up to see 2 adults at the snack table. And the time i glanced up to see #a completely unsupervised snack table. one kid STANDING UP ON THE TABLE blowing raspberries and pointing at the other kids #could not have been more than 20 or 30 seconds that i wasn't looking and NO ONE TOLD ME they were leaving the room #if i had been WARNED that they were leaving i would have prioritized the snackers and sat with them so no one choked and no one fucking #stood on the table #but they both just left for whatever reason without saying anything #and when i brought it up after school they were just like. well marty you were eating too much during lunch #next time you should eat before coming in to work so you can give the kids your full attention #??????? i already skipped a meal today for that exact reason?? how is it my fault that i don't want to starve? #am i actually in the wrong here because it's driving me FUCKING nuts. that was NOT a safe situation and it obviously can NOT happen again #but the issue was a lapse in communication not me wanting to eat food so i don't actually die #and those were two different times of day so they're not even relevant #obviously there are bigger issues in the world than this but i feel like throwing up over it. this was not my fault #I'm sorry that you guys can survive off of like 1 spoonful of granola and a single acai berry for the entire day but im not built like that

[amandaleveille]

it's about how the locker room used to be so divided and the vibes were just very strange and they were required to wear gray polo shirts at all times and the media sort of hated them and . and how now they all go on vacation together and live in each other's pockets and have dinner parties during the season and garden parties in the off-season and it's literally because of jared spurgeon's captaincy he was the catalyst he did this and

#I HAVE. SOME FEELINGS THIS WEEKEDN OKAY #CAN I GO TO CABO AND GET DRUNK ON A BOAT WITH THE LOVES OF MY LIFE (PLURAL; 25 OF THEM) TOO PLEASE PLEASE PLEAS #okay. it's also because of Dani. i am so sure #they bought their house and she was like we need a table that seats 30 people. trust me in 10 years it'll make sense

[idk-my-aesthetic]

Respectfully if you are on a train and take up a table seat and don’t even use it I am eating your phone

#there’s only so many table seats on the commuter railAUGH #4-6 per car it’s a shared table #I get it if the train is full or if it’s super empty and you want a place for your elbows #but if I’m going 45 minutes all the way to the end of the line and you’re only 15 minutes from your stop #and you deprive me of my ability to use my laptop to get some work done before my aderall gives out and I pass the fuxk out #i am eating your phone #biteing it straight from your hand #I will grind the glass into dust with the strength of my jaw #also fuck you to whoever lied on the schedule claiming that it’s very empty #this is not very empty it’s one degree below max capacity #and who the hell keeps deciding to close off whole ass cars #is there something wrong with the car?? do you not have someone to monitor it??? #I can see the damn thing is empty let me IN!!!!!! #what’s the point of taxes when the trains still suck #we pay police so damn much why don’t they run the fucking trains #yada yada defund the police acab and all that #I’m so tired ur honor

[coeurvrai]

INTRODUCING NADESHIKO KOZUKI

I heard the stories. My grandfather would say what happened was proof that everything in the world finds peace. Eventually. That man can recover from anything. Maybe you, too.

PSD by @jacobseed

#john wick #john wick oc #johnwickedit #ocappreciation #ochub #mine #jacobseed #userorion #vanillabeanmachine #ch: nadeshiko kozuki #Throwing this out in the wild cause IDK whatever man #This isn't even the OC I've been discussing with Alexx the most which is the funniest thing #I still have to watch John Wick Chapter 4 but I am very excited to watch it #Also this is driven by the fact that I see like nobody out here fleshing out the High Table seats and the other High Table families sooooooo #Be the change you want to see in the world as they say!

[darthvaderofmiddle-earth]

Really feeling the height dysphoria tonight y'all... :))))))

#seriously there is only one grown adult man in the world alive who i know is shorter than me #most children are taller than me an adult dude of 24 fuckin years old #i can only buy children's shoes and often online because they dont really sell those in stores #i am swimming if i get an adult medium shirt and pants are always far too long for me because 30in is way too much #working anywhere is so hard because all equipment abd surfaces are far too high up for me #and then the job refuses to buy a stool or ladder tall enough to accommodate me #my father renovated the kitchen around 2 years ago and raised everything in height #the counters are now up to my neck and the cabinets are entirely unreachable but for all other folks theyre fine #even with a stool i cant reach beyond the front of the second shelf for anything #i cant even sit down in chairs unless they are table chairs and not restaurant or bar stool height #if they are i just straight up fall over trying to sit in them or the chair falls down or both #if im going to a seated event i have to research the venue first to be sure they have tiered seating and its tiered enough #otherwise i wont see anything because the person in front of me regardless of age is always far taller #the entire world already is run by folks who are against trans people like me and who dont accommodate me #doctors dont accommodate my chrochic conditions and pain at all and never have so i just suffer #and the entirety of every place house and establishment is specifically built for people above my height by tons #so i basically live in a world that wasnt made for someone like me and i just already feel like i dont belong here #and this lack of accommodation just makes it worse

[rotisseries]

so um. how was the raven king. and your thoughts on andrew all of them now please

UNFORTUNATELY I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH. AND ALSO NOT AT ALL BUT I READ IT WITHIN A 24 HR PERIOD. SO. AND ANDREW I AM SO CRAZY FUCKING INSANE ABOUT HIM I FEEL THE NEED TO WHACK EVERY CHARACTER IN AFTG THAT IMPLIES HE'S JUST HEARTLESS AND CRUEL WHAT THE FUCKKK

#also immediately after sending you those asks with my commentary highlights i read the entirety of the king's men #and this ask is being answered fresh off that #anyway i mock you for andrew shaping your blorbo type but what does it say about me that i didn't even have to read aftg at a critical age #to get attached to him. like my blorbo type was already molded to allow him a seat at the table lmao #anyway. to make the speed with which i read these books mildly less embarassing #i'm gonna say that it IS because i had nothing better to do #my dad doesn't want me on any tech while we're here in the mountain murder shack #and if you see me posting i am NOT SUPPOSED TO BE!! and am hiding my tumblr mutual addiction and withdrawal symptoms #so. what's a bitch to do but read aftg #i WILL be fighting for my life to get you my tkm notes btw #i am just on my laptop rn and can't take pictures like i've been doing #ANSWER ALL MY ASKS BTW. TFC CHAPTERS 3-4 COMMENTARY IS STILL HAUNTING ME. I HAD FUNNY JOKES!!! #ask #hella1975 #hi hella!🔪

[thebirdandhersong]

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#very few things are more depressing than listening to your friends #talk about money material pursuits wanting to live a ''rich'' life #and how wealthy/upper class they'd like their future husbands to be #i am still mentally sitting at that table shrinking in my seat thinking: #what is wrong with a simple and humble life?? does it matter what kind of car you own? #ok maybe it's depressing to me because the world seems so small and sad suddenly #when earlier in the day (while i was looking at the sea #and reading the part in the inklings biography where cs lewis starts doing #those bbc broadcasts on faith and morality #and eating ice cream and talking about thomas hardy and george eliot with another friend #and seeing the january stars come out in the sky #and listening to joy clarkson talk about romanticism on her podcast #and writing bits of prose and poetry down) the world seemed so beautiful and expansive #is it not enough to live a simple life and think and write about beautiful truthful good things? #does it MATTER so much if your boyfriend cant tell his soup spoon from his dessert spoon?? #will delete later i am just........dazed and strangely sad

[cloudless-petrichor]

I lost my voice recently due to being sick, so when it was recovering; I sounded like a 40 year old smoker.

This lead to me walking up to my partner while we're at work going "Mahito! Mahito! Your mother, Mahito, I know where she is"

I've spoken to 700+ people today at work as I was the hostess; between just talking, getting over being sick, having to project my voice over music and crowd noise, I have essentially lost my voice again.

And now as we lay in bed, to try and get some sleep, I just smooshed my face up again his cheek and said "Mahito! Mahito!"

#mine #shitpost #meme #me #the boy and the heron #boy and the heron #studio ghibli #Mahito! #my voice hurts so much #idk why I - a moderately autistic person with a very volatile social battery - decided that being hostess on one of our busiest weekends #was a good idea - I dont know why i have decided to do this two days in a row #i seated and spoke to over 350 people #and that's not including the ones i turned away because i had no available tables #i am very tired

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

christ alive it takes longer to walk to the physics lecture hall than i thought it did

#i gave myself ten minutes and i am a fast walker but i got into the hall a minute or so late #and i couldn’t sit in my usual seat bc id be crossing the demonstration table #i don’t like to do that while a professor is talking #and my shins hurt so badly #i am giving myself twenty minutes next time i swear to god

[reigningmax]

https://www.verstappen.com/clothing/sweaters/performance-max-fitness-hoodie-blue

^ I don't know if this is already a commonly addressed thing but is this Victoria?? Am I simply too hermitted, am I late for the More Sibling Content(ish)!! train??

yes it is!!!

#asks #chit chat #Anonymous #i am 95% convinced she has a stake in verstappen.com and a seat at the table