#introspection on that

[kavaleyre]

• The Hanged Man •

“Compared to what Falin went through? This is nothing.”

#my art #laios touden #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi laios #hanged man #falin touden #dungeon meshi spoilers #cw blood #walk it off kid walk it off #I really thought hanged man was a good choice for this moment #hanged man is all about sacrifice and introspection and intuition #and a moment of trials that lead to clarity #also when he was falling??? with the blood out of the dragons mouth??? #stunning #i love him so much #the line art for this was so fast and then I colored and revolted the flats for like. 20 hours #like how it turned out in the end tho #kavaleyre

[wolfythewitch]

Stop adapting the iliad and the Odyssey into movies. You'll never succeed. Adapt them into shounen anime, as is their god given right

#look at the amount of introspection in the Odyssey and tell me it doesnt call for an animated sequence of the character turning #to the screen with an exasperated and simplified scribble face #the Odyssey #the iliad #odysseus literally rips of his clothes before fighting people #nestor constantly complains about his age #hector literally tells paris to die #aphrodite tries to pick up aeneas and drops him after getting shot #and then apollo catches him #ares gets stabbed and goes whining to zeus who calls him a disappointment

[eelhound]

"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.

#kurt schiller #ursula k. le guin #quote #quotations #the ones who walk away from omelas #trolley problem #activism #introspection #discomfort #reform #revolution #suffering #ethics #morality

[otaku553]

Thoughts on being aroace

#I like doing these little introspective thought comics they’re pretty fun #I didn’t get to include this in the comic but I do feel like loneliness is maybe not quite the right word #it’s not quite jealousy or envy either #more like #the sad knowledge that you are lower on someone else’s list of priorities than they are on your priorities #something like that I guess #if this seems like a sad comic don’t worry! I am ok :) I have my best friend and we’re both very clear on how much we care for each other #so I’m never really left needing or wanting more love or anything #love is so weirdly defined anyways

[voltaical-art]

im in agony. a little self indulgent but I think wyll deserves to be told he's loved and have a small breakdown about it

#bg3 #wyll ravengard #tav #wyll x tav #baldur's gate 3 #voltaical ocs #bishop #finally downloaded one (1) font bc i had too much dialog for this #i dont even hate ulder taht much i just thing wyll should talk about ANY complicated feelings he has about him. #also the way wyll always seems to be quoting him like pls what are YOUR THOUGHTS not some cryptic thing your father told you 10 years ago #and rlly if you take the way wyll describes the situation as hard truth #ALL the justification Ulder had for banishing his son #are conclusions WYLL has come to on his OWN since ulder only said ‘one word to him’ #LIKE his relationship with his father could have been SO interesting but wyll isn’t allowed to have ANY introspection at all #so he just apologizes and wyll continues to try and please him

[sangled]

ship dynamic i eat up every time

#sang art #sketches #ship dynamics #meme #specifically it's 'coping with feelings through complex pained introspection' x 'coping with feelings through no thought whatsoever' #also hi sorry for the radio silence #trying to post and draw again #1kn

[jaggedjawjosh]

You asked for my trust, then marred it with betrayal, wondering why the faith was lost.

#poets corner #poets on tumblr #quoteoftheday #quotes #poetry #life #feelings #quote of the day #life quotes #poetry quotes #wisdom #words #writers on tumblr #writing #thoughts #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #heartfelt #emotions #poetic #dreams #love quotes #creative writing #philosophy #musings #introspection #introspective #soulful #prose #daily inspiration

[cametotheshowinsd]

Midnights Era || how it started / how it ended

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #tswiftgif #midnghts #a beautiful era #farewell our introspective but bejeweled sister #it's been the most fun ever

[sharpibees]

weird night, strange men🏜️

#the cowboy brainrot has been so real that I saw this guy in my dream #gave me introspective words while we watched a wierd movie on a small vcr tv. im not normal!!!! #cowboy #drawing #inks

[histrionicscribbler]

my fav parts of the epilogue:

knives in sex bob-omb! the keyboard really adds something to that track!

ACTUAL STUNT DOUBLE RAMONA

todd and roxie!! mlm wlw solidarity

barista lucas. flashy ass. /pos

wallace and his bf w the SPARKS!!!

ramona's blonde and teal hair

HEY GORDON WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY "THE REAL GAME"? IS THAT A HINT AT A POSSIBLE S2?

#EDIT: NOOO STOP REBLOGGING THIS WITH THE TYPOOOO #overall I LOVED IT I LOVED IT I LOVED IT #it's not at all what i thought it was gonna be. it took a risk and it SERIOUSLY PAID OFF #i like to think scott goes thru all his necessary self reflection and introspection between the end and the epilogue #oh my goddd #scott pilgrim anime #scott pilgrim takes off #scott pilgrim #spto spoilers #spto liveblogging #spto #peeb post #1k

[sporesgalaxy]

he's so normal and I'm so normal about it

#toh spoilers #toh #the owl house #spacecreate #colorful stuff #wish i had the technology to do a proper rei introspection shot reference *has the technology & refuses to use it* #hunter whittebane

[traaansfem]

Just remembered the time the lesbian throuple in theater class back in high school asked me when I was going to go on HRT, and how one of them offered to help me get on it. Those lasses weren't just pre-ordering, they were trying their best to fund the damn kickstarter.

#trans #transgender #transfem #queer #lgbtqia+ #trans pride #mtf trans #intersex #every day I look back in introspection and go “WOW. Uh. That was obvious! particularly with the benefit of hindsight.”

[leo--len]

I just had a revelation about humans ingesting caffeine. We don't really think of caffeine as posion, but it is, and i've just experienced it first hand. This morning, I was in class when I decided to chug my bottle of now cold coffee. Like, 16 ounces of light coffee. And I think that because my stomach was completely empty, it absorbed into my body almost immediately.

Suddenly, I began to shake, my mouth began to water, and I almost threw up in the middle of my teacher's lecture.

I left and went to the restroom to THEN dry heave for the next several minutes, half an hour later i'm still super shaky and wired.

I just find it so odd that people hundreds and hundreds of years ago probably had a reaction similar to this, and instead of just avoiding the seemly poisonous plant, they decided to cultivate it to make the effect stronger and integrate it to their culture.

Kinda just shows how unbelievable humans are that our first instinct when encountering a new plant or berry is to stick in our mouths and see how it tastes.

#humans are space orcs #caffeine #caffeine overdose #introspective #humans are weird

[jewreallythinkthat]

I'm sad.

Not like "I've watched a sad TV show" but rather a bone deep sadness every time I think about the state of the world.

The obsession of goyim with Israel and the performative politics of abusing random Jews is vile and the refusal to engage with any other global issues is frankly, revealing of the fact that this isn't an Israel issue, it's an antisemitism one.

Israel's being run by a sociopathic gas-lighting warmongerer who has decided that the only way to stay out of prison for his own crimes is by killing more and more Palestinians, all the while the majority of people just want peace and safety. I hope he gets everything he deserves (and you can bet I will be cheering it as it happens).

COVID has highlighted the fractures in society and instead of trying to fix them, the world is swinging to the right, electing nationalist leaders because they want to blame The Other for their issues. Sometimes life is shit and it's no one's fault but once again, the Other, and more often than not, the Jew is being blamed. We know where this leads. It's an old song.

Everything is shit and people are more interested in blaming others for the issues than trying to fix them.

I'm sad, but in the face of overwhelming sadness it is our duty, it is a מצוה, to find joy and happiness and Good where we can. So that is what I will do. Despite the bone deep, soul achingly oppressive sadness, I am making sure to enjoy the things I like, to do what I can to create beauty and happiness and joy even if on a small scale because if we do not keep the light of joy shining as the darkness of fear attempts to set in, it will overwhelm everything. We may not be able to change the minds of those who have decided their view on The Truth™️and exclude and opress Jews to make themselves feel better about their own issues, but we can still make sure to love ourselves and our Jewish joy more than they could ever hate us.

#jumblr #antisemitism #its been an evening of introspection

[stil-lindigo]

it’s 10pm. do you know who you are?

#this piece is a twist on those old PSAs that used to play on American TV reminding parents to check up on their children #it’s 10pm #do you know where your children are? #I’m co-opting that phrase for this piece and also as a general title for a new comic project #it’s tonally gonna be really different from soliloquy down to three #which was my previous comic project centered around dark sapphic stories #10pm is gonna be really introspective which is kind of cathartic but also has the capacity to send me spiraling again if I’m being honest #so let’s see how this goes #digital art #stillindigo art #its 10pm #stillindigo comics

[whitesunlars]

when I said “hey it’s antisemitic to ask a Jew their opinion on I/P before supporting them” they said “well what about checking if people support the KKK” and I will bet good money this person does not walk up to every single white person and ask if they’re in the klan, but they’re certainly okay interrogating Jews.

#Jewish #antisemitism #jumblr #I try to stay off social media on Shabbos #but I do check notifications in order to delete any antisemitism #and needed to share this insanity #they then went on a rant on how they aren’t antisemitic #and hey maybe if a Jew calls you antisemitic #and your reaction isn’t introspection but rather anger #you ARE antisemitic