#irrespective of their design

[commissionsdarian]

There were, of course, a lot of terms and requests he didn't agree to. Ones that should've been. But unfortunately I'm too pretentious to back down so that's just another issue

#rest assured #all that needs to happen #will happen #irrespective of their design

[sysig]

Haven’t seen you around these parts (Patreon)

#Doodles #Deltarune #Rouxls Kaard #Pink Addison #Blue Addison #I feel like it might be a bit out there to say that Rouxls Kaard and the Addisons are equivalents to their respective chapters but like #Hear me out for like half a second lol #Handsome masc salespeople with an interesting relationship to the Secret Boss - yes I fully admit to being No Suit trash lol #I know you can't buy from the Addisons in the same way - like they don't get the vendor close up but they're Super trying to sell you stuff #I'm just saying there are enough similarities to justify mushing my previous fave with my current - faves I guess lol #They're all very Design y'know how it is - I think I still love Rouxls more but he's more difficult to draw so it's getting harder to tell! #It's all Blue's fault anyway lol as soon as I started drawing Rouxls again I had to have them meet somehow - he's literally in Chapter 2! #Why not wandering around lost lol #Me? Projecting onto my current fixations?? Psh no - they think he's handsome totally irrespective of me definitely lol #He is handsome ♥ If they happen to notice well what's the harm in that lol #The pirate hat is very goofy but I forgot about the eye patch :( It's also quite a handsome accessory! #You'll never get any sales if you get flustered by handsome customers! Very unprofessional! #Pink recovers but poor Blue lol - gotta be aggressive in today's fast paced market! #I do love the idea of the Premium Travel Package just being a map lol - ''You can find your way there'' thanks Pink #I am very pleased with that last panel haha they all turned out so cute! Poses and legs and expressions ah! Fun! #Maybe once he turns them down they can talk shop lol - literally

[radfemverity]

Liberals will defend absolutely anything. And with the rise of trans and nonbinary identifying men developing more obscure, previously-unheard-of fetishes, we will see truly bizarre cases of abuse that go beyond what our legal framework is designed to tackle.

Nowhere can we see this more than with @nominal.Naomi on Twitter, a TIM who produced milk to feed his partner’s child. He also has posted many photos of said child.

Those of us with commonsense spot the red flags this immediately, but liberals say “Lol how is a parent feeding their child a form of child abuse?” Then we point out he has called his lactation abilities “cow achievement”. And that he has an OnlyFans where he cosplays as a cow. And that he has kinks for cows, milk, and breastfeeding. At the same time, he states that while he is currently feeding the baby through a bottle which he’s already put his milk in, he is hoping to be able to directly breastfeed, nipple to mouth, soon.

Liberals still say “lmao TERFs really believe that a mother breastfeeding her child is abusive.”

Two hypothetical questions for those with that line of thought (‘hypothetical’, because I already know the fucking answers):

1. What are the odds, in your opinion, of Naomi, a biological male with a fetish for cows, milk and breastfeeding, who also calls himself a mother, who already posts photos bottle-feeding and wants to directly breastfeed soon, including this child in his OnlyFans content when he is physically able to do so? Bearing in mind that the aforementioned fetishes he has are already topics of his OF. Would you still say that this is transphobes acting as morality police, trying to prevent a parent from innocuously feeding their child, if videos of said child being breastfed became Naomi’s content? Would you be okay with it so long as the child’s face was blurred and cropped out of the footage? Would you say that it is harmless?

2. Under the scenario that this does happen, is this child pornography? If not, why not? Irrespective of his sex or gender identity, this is what Naomi gets off to. He already makes porn with these themes. If it does constitute CP, how can you safeguard children with the existing legislation? You can’t make photos or videos of breastfeeding illegal. It is a biological function of mothers (actual mothers) – which then leaves the option of criminalising it solely on the grounds of men with fetishes partaking in it. But you thick-as-pigshit liberals have already made men with fetishes a protected characteristic in law. And they can sue you for anti-trans discrimination if you dare suggest that they are involving a child in their sexual fetishes.

I’m sure I will get zero answers of any kind, and liberals will do what they always do which is cycle through the four stages of unrelenting denial, before finally saying “how could we possibly have known that something like this would happen?” “how could this have even been prevented?” and act as if they are hatchlings who cracked out of their eggs into the world yesterday and have no idea how anything works.

Probably shouldn’t mention eggs though, don’t want to give ‘mommy Naomi’ any ideas. God, male sexuality is depraved. They really can make a fetish out of anything. And those of a centre-left political disposition will be right there behind them, cheering them on, ready to shut down any legitimate concerns with the classic line of “how does the way other people live their life have any affect on you? Why do you care?”

[sgiandubh]

Wait, do you mean that S's new constant interest (because it's a repeated profile) is blonde women living in his city with young children? It makes me hmmmmm Apparently all those toys are getting messed up all over the house 🤔🤔🤔

Dear New Constant Interest Anon,

Never underestimate the hollow virtues of Boredom + Parochialism + Middle Age.

I (and I know for a fact I am not alone in this) have always been surprised by the strong cultural flair of an obviously lab fabricated Narrative. To me, this was designed and specifically tailored to fit the US fandom's behavior patterns, social rituals and expectations: meeting someone -> 'dating' someone -> getting engaged to someone (or not) -> getting married to someone (or not), and so on.

The inordinate importance given to 'dating' as a very codified courtship ritual is, for a European, immediately bizarre. While we do date, things are way less formal and way less serious, if I may say so: it's more 'hanging out/having sex and we'll see', than FORMALLY having dinner, FORMALLY meeting the parents, etc. We go with the flow, in Europe. I remember reading about Flukenzie Floozy and immediately telling myself: oh, that woman is a beard, she's frantically checking all those 'dating' cases, this simply can't be as easy and mechanical as 1, 2, 3...

Oh, and we are considerably less fascinated by the betrothal stage, something we do rather equate with 'moving in together' (or not, LOL). Same goes for the mystique of a paper proving eternal love - many don't feel the need (I don't, but that's just me).

No matter how many times S professes his love for New York and irrespective of C's prior semi-American life, These Two are very much European. The Narrative fits them like a shoe half a size smaller, yet it proved effective for many in here, who 'saw the light'.

And hey, coming back to the Divorcee with Child pattern, the explanation is much more simple: you'd have to retcon somehow the Snowman Moment, wouldn't you?

By this point in time, they don't even have to show up. It's all about innuendo. They know the story will write itself.

#anon #fandom #shitshow

[sailor-rowling]

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

J.K. Rowling

#jk rowling #j.k. rowling #pro jkr #jkr #they basically made her write her essay from 2020 again and still will not read this

[cedricsnotdead]

so we all voted for mister w.i.t.c.h. 2023 and cedric got his long felt needed revenge, and now it seems strange not to have a MISS W.I.T.C.H. ELECTION as well, so let’s do it!

now this is NOT a shipping game and you should vote irrespective of the other poll, BUT since i have to sponsor someone and cedric won the other poll may i remind you that orube is among the nominees

i know i left out notable ladies like yua, halinor, kadma, cassidy, elyon’s mother, MS RUDOLPH… please use the bonus vote and express your preference in the tags!

no before you ask phobos is not eligible as miss w.i.t.c.h. because otherwise there would be no fair competition, he plays on a league of his own

aaaand please reblog for bigger sample size!

also just a little disclaimer for my own peace of mind which i forgot in the other poll - we all know that the w.i.t.c.h. girls are minors (just like some of the boys in the other poll were), but i could not leave them (or the boys) out of the vote. use common sense and vote for whoever you think is the aesthetically best designed female character, don’t be a creep!

#w.i.t.c.h. #orube #luba #will vandom #cornelia hale #irma lair #hay lin #taranee cook #susan vandom #w.i.t.c.h. nerissa #the miss w.i.t.c.h. poll #elyon escanor #polls

[random-xpressions]

Nothing matters - I'm having this etched into my chest because the truth and the only truth is that nothing matters at all. In the grand design of universe, nothing ever matters. A bubble within a bubble, layers and layers of illusion and delusion, a dream within a dream that even when you are woke, it still is just an upturned version of dream. Life/death, health/sickness, rich/broke, single/married - nothing ever matters. The show has to go on and will go on, irrespective of what happens and what doesn't happen...

Random Xpressions

#nothing matters

[stxrrynxghts]

What I loved about StarBharat

Yup, after relentlessly bashing my fav show, I have finally decided to show a part where I actually praise it. Yay~~~

The aesthetics. The palace and over all aesthetics were on fiyaahh. I may not be a fan of the costumes, but well, they have done pretty well for a TV show. TV shows cannot spend that much on costumes as compared to films.

Music. The BGMs were really good, as well as the Sanskrit shlokas for the characters. C'mon guys we were all jamming to the multiple Arjun themes for sure

The bond b/w the Pandavas. It was so sweet, and how they showed the Pandavas be a team, a family, together in everything, and well, being brotherly in general.

Yudhishthira. Canon Yudhishthira isn't exactly a saint, but the one in this show, is actually competent. He seems conflicted, done with this shit, wondering how much low can someone sink than this, and well, he also knows how to kick some ass, so yup. Approved!

The portions of stories really explained , like the twins getting screentime. They have individual talents, which separate them not only as the twin duo, but as Nakul and Sahadeva, two individuals.

Also Nakul fangirling over himself hehe

Krishna---he may be irritating at times, but SRJ has managed to capture the serious, tragic, godly, loving and naughty Krishna completely. And yeah, didn't Krishna just LOVEE to irritate half of the world- *cue Yada Yada*

Arjun. My boi is so sweet and gentle, and well, the way he speaks is so soft and pretty oMg

#ParAv till death folks

Bhimasena. No words.

The bromance triangle of Dury, Karna and Ashwa.

Karna is a git in canon, but StarB's Karna gives me meme vibes, LOL

MAMASHREE

All the Kuru bois having beautiful, shiny, lustrous hair, irrespective of their generation. YAAS, they inherited this from granddaddy.

the tilaks, crescent moon with personalized designs for the Kurus, fire for the Panchals, blue for the Matsyas, the Vaishnava tilak for Krishna and snake for Balarama.

oh Boi how much potential did these love stories have

BHIMAAAAA (again, yes.)

The attractive trash-talking done by Arjun and Bhima, as well as their sons

oh my gawd the Kauravas are such memes it is making me laugh

Balarama's irritated expression at everything Krishna does

RUKUUUUUUUUU

Abhimanyu being iconic~~~~~~~

Draupadi's eye makeup>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Tbh they tried to make us ship ArDi, but ik we all ended up liking Yudhishthira x Draupadi after seeing this show-

Subhadra's pretty hairstyles

Uttara my bby

Kunti and Gandhari and Madri

Brihannala *heart heart*

Sexy Pandavas while killing Mamashree

"DURYODHAANNAAAAAA!!!!!" *guess who?*

"Dhanush Uthao Arjun"

Arjun being confused

"BHIMAAAAAAA!!!!" in response to "DURYODHANAAAAA"

Arjun flying into a rage after Abhimanyu's death and kicking some ass

Duryodhan getting his ass kicked by Abhimanyu in the same way Arjun did 25-30 years ago #nogrowth

"Mitra Karna~~~" #nohomo

Subhadra being a dumb cutie uwu

Uttara, if only u had some screentime

GURU DRONA

Krishna again

Bhima eating his way through life makes me aspire to be like him

the Pandavas joking with each other <333333333333333

#mahabharat #mahabharata #hindu mythology #starbharat

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Andrew Doyle asks: Remember when the pride flag made sense?

Remember when the pride flag made sense?

It was designed by an American Artist called Gilbert Baker in 1978. It was originally an eight-stripe rainbow but was soon refined into the six-striped version that was the norm for many decades.

At a time when gay people couldn't hold hands with their partners on the street, this flag served a useful purpose. It meant that you could easily find gay pubs or other places where no one had to pretend to be something they weren't. The rainbow symbol was a simple and effective concept that conveyed positivity and unity.

And then some activists came along and said hang on a minute, why are there no black or brown stripes in the rainbow flag? See, for some reason they were under the impression that the gay flag was a literal representation of the range of skin colors that are acceptable in the community. And so we got this.

Okay then, I mean, well, there weren't any white stripes in the original one either. But most people understood that it was symbolic with that we were all included already, irrespective of our race.

But then after this, trans activists came along and said, why aren't we in there? So we got this one. And this was the chevron with the pink white and blue, which was based on the trans flag.

But surely this eyesore couldn't get any worse, could it? Well, it could, because activists were then concerned that it was excluding intersex people, so they added this symbol.

Okay, it's getting a bit out of control now. But then last year, some bright spark added a red umbrella to represent sex workers.

Now, if you thought this was getting out of hand, last year then we had Microsoft. They designed a new version to incorporate all the other multiple sexualities and genders that have been invented over the past few years. Let's have a look at that.

I mean, what the hell is it? It looks like a space ship going at warp speed through a Care Bear's bum hole.

Identity politics in its current form is an ever expanding beast. Pride used to be just one day. Then it was a month. And now Pride events have been scheduled all the way from March through to September. As one sign in a shoe shop pointed out Pride never stops. If only it would.

The initialism as well that's expanded too. First we had LGB, and then it became LGBT, then LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA. The Canadian government currently favors 2SLGBTQIA+, although even its prime minister finds that a bit of a mouthful.

Similarly, Pride started out as an important protest against injustice. When the original Pride March took place in London in 1972, homosexuality had only been legal for five years, and the prospect of gay marriage or even an equal age of consent, seemed impossible. Only 2000 people turned up to these protests.

But by contrast, the Pride parade in London in 2022 attracted over a million. And of course, most of those people aren't even gay. It's become a family day out, a huge party.

And what's so wrong with that, you might ask. And that's a fair question. If people are celebrating and having a good time, that's great. Except that's not necessarily what's going. Increasingly, gay people no longer feel welcome at Pride. I spoke to a representative from a lesbian group on this show last year who had been moved along by police when trying to protest at Pride. But isn't Pride meant to be a protest, not a party? What's going on?

The answer is that pride has been hijacked not once but twice.

First by avaricious multi-billion dollar corporations who are able to pose as virtuous by posting the pride flag. Only, they don't do it in the branches in countries where homosexuality is still illegal. After all, you wouldn't want to fly the flag anywhere which might actually make a difference.

I'm old enough to remember that corporations were certainly not celebrating Pride quite so openly before section 28 was repealed in 2003, or before the age of consent was equalized in 2001, or before the decriminalization of homosexuality in Scotland in 1980. So, these corporations' commitment to LGBT rights apparently only manifests itself when it's likely to make them a profit.

And then there's the second hijacking. See, whereas the original Pride was about agitating for equal rights for gay people, it's now been taken over by activists who are obsessed with group identity and who believe that gender is more important than sex.

That's why the British library, to celebrate the advent of pride month this week, posted a thread on Twitter about the sex life of fish, and how some species have been known to change from male to female.

I mean, what's that got to do with Pride? Why have Librarians seemingly forgotten that human beings aren't the same as fish? Now, they've since deleted those tweets, because well, you know they're bonkers. And although we might laugh at that kind of nonsense, the ideology it promotes is actually rather sinister, particularly for gay people.

See, in her book, "Time to Think" by Hannah Barnes, she found that between 80 and 90% of adolescents referred to the Tavistock pediatric gender clinic were same-sex attracted. Studies have long confirmed a correlation between gender non-conformity in youth, and homosexuality in later life. At the Tavistock, staff used to joke that "soon there would be no gay people left." Somehow the medicalization and sterilization of gay people has been reframed as progressive.

Even Stonewall, the UK's foremost LGBT charity has redefined the word "homosexual" on its website and promotional materials to mean "same gender attracted." Its CEO, Nancy Kelly, has claimed that women who exclude trans people from their dating pool are akin to sexual racists. There's been an intense resurgence of old homophobic tropes online from gender ideologues that believe that "genital preferences are transphobic" and that lesbians who don't include men in their dating pool must be suffering from trauma.

Gay rights were secured by recognizing that a minority of people are instinctively attracted to members of their own sex. And the new ideology of gender identity rejects this notion entirely, and actively shames gay people for their orientation.

So, when you see this flag, try to understand that many gay people consider it to be a symbol of opposition to gay rights, Women who are concerned about their rights consider it a symbol of misogyny, because it promotes an ideology that denies the reality of sex-based oppression, and yet most people, gay people included, haven't even noticed this transition from the pro-gay rainbow flag to this anti-gay imposter.

And that's because it all happened so quickly, and activists are playing on good intentions of a public who don't want to be seen to be on the wrong side of history. Well, I would suggest that upholding the rights of women and gay people and protecting gender non-conforming children and opposing the hypocrisy of corporations is the truly progressive approach.

Anyone who spends any time on social media would have seen that homophobia is clearly on the rise. It's coming from the reactionary elements of the right, who are now holding gay people responsible for sexualized drag shows for children, and the proliferation of sexually explicit books in school libraries. But of course, they've fallen for the trick. This isn't gay people. That's gender ideologues who've convinced everyone that the LGBTQIA+ movement is one big happy family, when it isn't.

And we know this because homophobia is also on the rise among gender ideologues themselves, who frequently go online to tell gay people to kill themselves. Some of them have said that they celebrate AIDS as a good thing. And this isn't just a few mad activists, there are thousands of examples of this if you've got the stomach to look them up.

So whether it's coming from those who consider themselves right wing or left-wing, anti-gay sentiments are back in fashion. And the best way to combat this is to remind everyone that that Progress Pride flag, and the corporate orgy that accompanies it, is not in the interests of gay people.

And if it's too late to reclaim the original Pride flag, we can at least ditch the new one.

#Andrew Doyle #Pride month #pride flag #rainbow flag #progress pride flag #ideological takeover #impostor #anti gay #homophobia 2.0 #woke homophobia #gender ideology #queer theory #same sex attraction #gay rights #religion is a mental illness

[acceptccnow]

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[topnotchquark]

No way your thesis is not now kitten daddy is a shell of his former self

Except it literally is lol.

I've expounded on it a bit earlier too. But life was. Not. Kind. To Vale post his final title.

See the nature of power is that it is a potent drug and even the ones most deft at handling it definitely take psychic damage. When you're someone like Vale who was given a free reign since young adulthood to do whatever you want, you get used to it. He basically got Jeremy Burgess as his mechanic on a whim, and even though Yamaha had their strict Japanese ethos he was able to drive design decisions (colors, gimmicks, cartoons, the works) as he wanted. He was allowed these things because he won.

When he came to Yamaha from Honda, he managed to turn a midfield team around to deliver instant wins. He was able to shut everyone up who thought his wins with Honda were due to the bike.

I guess that's what he wanted when he made the switch to Ducati. A continuation of the magic. Flip a backmarker around, deliver even more on top of the existing 9 championships. Solidify in the minds of the people that Valentino Rossi is the sport and he will win irrespective of circumstances and competition.

Anyway none of that happened. And listen, there are healthy ways to process something like this but whatever that healthy thing is, is not embedded in the mind of a man doing 300kmph on a death machine while also entertaining crowds. (Btw if we compare to similar motorsports champions, Schumi quit after losing in 2005 and 2006 because who wants to have that after basically conquering the world. Lewis' 2021 loss was something that clearly affected him and he's doing what he can to reclaim some of that lost pride and power)

So eventually what we're left with is a man who after 9 championships has to contend with the fact that new and aggressive opponents exist that he can't win out against as easily. And that he's older, and that the world's eyes are on him as usual and now he doesn't have the form and power to dictate how people see him.

Now imagine amidst all this shit show, comes the most gifted rider of generations. Who makes heart eyes at you while you have to contemplate your own mortality. I'd chew at the bars of my own enclosure too.

#what even is this #anyway enjoy #brevity is not my strong suit #I didn't mention Sic even though I cannot overlook his importance on Vale's life #because it feels immoral to speak of him and his death in relation to Vale #I do constantly think about it however #the machinations of grief #but there is a way to talk about it and I wouldn't ever want to he cavalier about that #anyway! #daddy is a shell of his former self! #I love any and all Vale anons! #thank you for sending this sorry for the delayed reply I was fighting demons this entire weekend #valentino rossi #vale #motogp

[sneezemonster15]

Okay, @harmonyjade, I accidentally deleted your ask because sometimes I am spacey like that. But I remember the ask, so here's the answer. 

The ask was about why Gaara doesn't get the same kind of hate Sasuke does when Gaara has also committed murders in cold blood. He also attempted to kill Naruto and other Konohabitants. Gaara also half suggested to Naruto to ‘do what's best for Sasuke’, and that he should know what Sasuke must be going through. 

Yeah, that's a valid query.

Problem is, irrespective of what Gaara did or didn't do to Naruto and others, certain stans would still hate Sasuke. And Gaara was a cold mother***ker, especially in chuunin exams arc. Which I loved btw, so metal.  

Most of these Anti Sasuke stans are basically Naruto stans who don’t have a very clear understanding of the story. They feel like whatever makes the littlest inconvenience to Naruto’s character, or whoever challenges or confronts Naruto, is a negative character. The nuances of these complex characters bounce over their heads. They are only in it for the hero and his love interest and maybe some comedy and fight scenes. Anything more layered doesn't register on their radar.

It's understandable that fans would sympathize with Naruto’s character, because he is positioned as the likeable and funny underdog in the manga. Logically, any character that appears as his rival or enemy or antagonist, would be disliked by fans. 

Gaara, like other antagonists, was always narratively positioned as a major character who would affect Naruto’s arc in a major way. BTW, on a side note, I always find it a little triggering that some fans ridicule Naruto as having some twisted version of savior/Jesus complex, but it's simply not true. Because every single confrontation that Naruto has with major antagonists brings a change in both Naruto and the antagonist and not just the antagonist. Naruto is an underdog, an empath. People call him selfish and what not, but it's really their misinterpretation or projection on Sasuke. Naruto never came off as an entitled asshole who did whatever he felt like irrespective of how others felt about it. He wasn't written to be that way. The plot is designed mindfully to evoke empathy in the reader for Naruto’s character, so the reader can potentially root for him. Some fans criticise him for this because they love Sasuke, but all of it is just projection. Naruto’s confrontation with Gaara brought about Gaara’s resolution and it made Naruto evolve emotionally as well. His understanding of good vs bad evolves and becomes much more inclusive. Naruto always learns from his opponents. He was never portrayed as some God type who will step on the stage, deliver a sermon like a boss and then swish away on a holy cloud having enlightened his herd. No. Naruto gets emotional, he invests in people, he learns from their lives, he applies it in his understanding of the world and himself, which contributes to his arc and the plot. It's a two way street. Whether it be Gaara, Neji, Nagato, Obito, or Zabuza, Naruto always came out having learned major lessons from his confrontation with them which would build his character further.    

Gaara was someone who was in a similar predicament as Naruto, but both went about it in different ways, informed by their own specific set of circumstances. Naruto had Iruka, Gaara had no one. But Naruto got Iruka’s support much later, he was already 12. And yet, Naruto grew to empathize with Gaara and absolutely raged at anyone who caused Gaara anguish. 

Gaara resonated with Sasuke first though, not with Naruto. Just like Sasuke, Gaara also had a traumatizing childhood which defined his life and goals. Difference is, Gaara got his resolution much sooner than Sasuke. Sasuke’s character is of the anti hero, only second to the hero priority-wise. His arc was always supposed to be for the long haul, which is why his resolution came all the way at the end. Gaara’s resolution came in part one after the chuunin arc itself. So any antipathy that the reader felt with Gaara’s character got resolved after Gaara gave in to Naruto’s efforts.

Fans who hate Sasuke feel that he takes focus away from the hero Naruto, someone who is written to be super likeable. Gaara never took focus away from Naruto, even though he is a major character in his own right. Instead, he only helped intensify the focus on Naruto’s journey and character development. In part two, Gaara has already become a full fledged Naruto supporter, so his positioning now appears as Naruto’s ally, just like Naruto’s other allies. And this mollifies the readers’ impression of Gaara. Additionally, his contribution to the war efforts reinforced his position as Naruto’s supporter and defender. He was the one who stressed on protecting Naruto AT ALL COSTS, and commandeered the entire army to do just that. So obviously Naruto stans love him. I do too. He also has the balls to confront Naruto and tell him off when he thinks Naruto is making a bad decision, so he doesn’t appear subservient as others do. He treats Naruto as an equal for all means and purposes even though he is devoted to Naruto wholeheartedly. However, his arc depends on Naruto’s character. But Sasuke’s arc is mostly his own (if not all), separated from the hero’s.

Naruto stans who hate Sasuke hate him for all the wrong reasons, dumb reasons, non reasons, as in their reasons are all in their heads. Some fans feel so comfortable dismissing or ignoring Sasuke’s circumstance because they look at him through hateful lenses and cannot be open minded enough to look at it objectively. How exactly do they want a victim of genocide and corruption to react? Be submissive? Complacent? Be a coward? Dumb? Laugh it off? Oh hahaha, what? A genocide happened? So many people were killed off brutally in their sleep? Sasuke was made to see all the graphic details of the genocide over and over again as an 8 year old by his own brother? Giggles, what fun! Every Saturday night should be like this! Lol. 

That was never his positioning, in part two, Sasuke was always supposed to be an agent of change, a revolutionary, his character and arc were designed that way. That was his path to self discovery, separate from Naruto. Some fans are just bitter because Sasuke gets a lot of footage and takes focus away from Naruto, others resent him for more personal reasons (but of course would never readily admit it) because he is cool, popular, self assured, and gets all the girls, something which they don’t and wish they could. Yeah, I know, shallow af. The fact that Sasuke is super skilled and almost as strong as Naruto the hero, bothers these fans who only watch the entire show projecting on Naruto. They also think Naruto is straight, so it bothers them to see Naruto obsessing over Sasuke, because they don’t think Sasuke deserves it. Needless to say, they have a poor understanding of both Naruto and Sasuke. They simply don’t like that Naruto gives so much importance to Sasuke, they think he should give it to someone who apparently cares for him and deserves it. Like Sakura or Hinata. Lol. Like i said, poor comprehension. 

Anyway, in conclusion, these fans would hate Sasuke regardless of how other characters treated Naruto. I mean, these fans would whine - Oh but Sasuke killed Manda waaaah, or Sasuke killed Iron country’s samurais waaaah. He tried to kill Naruto waaah but Naruto still saved him, he shouldn't have waaaah, it’s not patriotic waaah. My comprehension may be shit but idc, Sasuke is evil and he deserves to die waaaah.

Like just shut the fuck up dude. Hehehe. If it ain't grasping at straws..

#ask #naruto #sasuke #gaara #uzumaki naruto #uchiha sasuke

[theunsaidwordss]

Whenever I go to buy clothes for myself, I find it hard to find a comfortable outfit, irrespective of whether it is Indian or Western. At first, I used to think that it's just size or design-related issue. But it wasn't. Womens clothes are designed to make them look beautiful and sexy. Tight fitting and short clothes can restrict our body movements. If we analyse this objectively, men's clothes are more comfortable than women's clothes because they are made by keeping in mind his comfort, and not how "sexy" he would look. Long hair, heels, short clothes or clothes having a delicate design definitely look good. But that's it. They "look good". She won't be able to defend herself or run fast if someone attacks her. She won't be able to sit comfortably. So she has to "sit like a lady" with her tight or frilly outfits, heels, long hair, and makeup, hoping that no one attacks her or else she'll be doomed for life. The society which expects women to look beautiful is the same society which blames women for "attracting" men towards them.

#beauty culture #radical feminists do touch #radfem safe #radical feminist #radfems do interact #rad fem #beauty standards

[melancholia-ennui]

OGL Update

OK, now I think we can say "we've won" (this battle, if not the war): irrespective of any further WotC bullshittery, the CC-BY-4.0 license is irrevocable, so whatever happens now, at a bare minimum, the entire 5e SRD 5.1 is forever available to third party creators.

Beyond that... Well, it's good that WotC have said they will not deauthorize the OGL 1.0a for content produced in that framework, though it was always a kinda bad license and as far as I am aware such statements are in no way legally binding, so I would still recommend any third party creators to move to exclusively using the CC content where possible.

I hope Paizo continue with the development of the ORC license, as it would be good to have a proper system neutral alternative which was designed explicitly with the particular needs of the TTRPG hobby in mind. Once that license is released, it will at least provide developers with the option of whether they embrace standard CC licenses or follow the ORC if they want to give their content back to the community.

I also hope that people who were encouraged to try new games from this whole fiasco go ahead with that. The world of TTRPGs is rich and diverse, and while I think 5e does serve a particular niche exceptionally well (far better than some give it credit), there's a lot that can be gained by playing other games, both for the experience of the games themselves and as a learning point for how to improve your experience of your preferred system(s).

Lastly, I hope that folks remember this episode - and treat WotC/Hasbro with the suspicion they deserve going forward. They may have realised that they overstepped with this particularly blatant attempted power-grab, but that realisation will not change their fundamental goals and objectives: namely, the monopolisation of the mainstream TTRPG hobby and the increasing monetisation of the D&D brand in particular. As such, the lesson the executives are likely to learn from all this is not that they shouldn't mess with the fans, but that if they do, they need to find subtler ways of doing it.

So stay sharp, remember to take your turn on watch, and above all, remember this: they need us more than we need them.

There will always be other TTRPGs to play.

#dnd #dnd 5e #5e #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #wotc #hasbro #wizards of the coast #open gaming license #ogl #ogl 1.0a #ogl 1.1 #ogl 1.2 #opendnd #one dnd #onednd

[young-royals-confessions]

I absolutely disagree with the idea that the third and final season should be any longer than six episodes, or with episodes longer than an hour. The brevity of the show is a function of its compellingness, and the writing is tight and free from filler. People have gotten used to profit-lead American style show design that drags the plot out over 20 hour long seasons upon seasons, irrespective of whether it benefits the story or not. It makes me as greedy for more content without critically thinking about how adding more time would affect the overall feel of the story.

🎬

#young royals #yr s3

[exist-krti-hu]

SOCIAL MEDIA

Embracing the Digital Horizon: Advantages of Social Media for Teenagers and Future Prospects

In an era dominated by technology, social media has become an integral part of the daily lives of teenagers. While concerns about its impact often make headlines, it's crucial to recognize the numerous advantages that social media brings to this demographic. From fostering communication to offering educational opportunities, social media plays a pivotal role in shaping the future prospects of teenagers.

1. Social Connectivity and Communication:

Social media platforms are virtual meeting places, allowing teenagers to connect with friends and family irrespective of physical distances. This connectivity strengthens relationships, enhances communication skills, and fosters a sense of community. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat enable teenagers to share their experiences, milestones, and thoughts in real-time, contributing to the development of interpersonal skills crucial for future social and professional interactions.

2. Educational Resources and Learning Opportunities:

Social media serves as a vast repository of educational content and resources. Platforms like YouTube and TikTok offer tutorials, educational channels, and quick informational videos that cater to diverse learning styles. Teenagers can explore subjects beyond the confines of traditional education, nurturing a passion for lifelong learning. Social media acts as a supplement to formal education, providing a platform for self-directed learning and skill development.

3. Cultural Awareness and Global Perspectives:

Through social media, teenagers gain exposure to diverse cultures, lifestyles, and perspectives from around the world. Platforms like Twitter and Instagram serve as windows to global events, allowing teenagers to stay informed and cultivate a broader worldview. This cultural awareness contributes to empathy, tolerance, and a nuanced understanding of societal issues, preparing them for a future where cross-cultural communication is increasingly valuable.

4. Creative Expression and Skill Development:

Social media platforms provide teenagers with outlets for creative expression. Whether it's sharing artwork on Instagram, creating content on YouTube, or participating in challenges on TikTok, these platforms empower teenagers to showcase their talents. This not only boosts self-esteem but also nurtures creativity, digital literacy, and skills relevant to future careers in media, arts, and technology.

5. Networking and Professional Development:

LinkedIn, a platform designed for professional networking, is increasingly becoming a valuable resource for teenagers. It offers insights into various industries, connects them with mentors, and provides a platform to showcase achievements and ambitions. Early exposure to professional networking on social media can help teenagers make informed decisions about their future careers and educational pursuits.

6. Entrepreneurial Opportunities:

Social media has democratised entrepreneurship, allowing teenagers to explore and establish their own ventures. Platforms like Instagram and Etsy provide avenues for selling handmade crafts, art, or digital products. Teenagers can develop entrepreneurial skills, understand market dynamics, and gain practical experience in running a business – valuable lessons that can shape their future endeavours.

In conclusion, social media, when used responsibly, offers a myriad of advantages for teenagers, shaping not only their present but also their future prospects. From enhancing communication skills to providing educational resources and fostering creativity, social media acts as a catalyst for personal and professional growth. As teenagers navigate the digital landscape, it's essential to guide them towards leveraging these advantages to build a positive and constructive online presence that will benefit them in the years to come.