#it's about the principle of the matter

[ace-in-a-shopping-cart]

Freelancer calls Huxley 'squirt'. No, they don't care that they literally come up to his tits, they call him 'small fry', 'runt', 'tiny', 'short stack', etc. Any short joke, they make it. Yes, he is a foot taller than them, they don't care.

#ace chats #redacted audio #redacted huxley #redacted freelancer #redacted headcanon #this is directly based on me calling my younger but taller brother many of these #it's about the principle of the matter #he loves it and always sure that if there's a situation where they can be taller than him #(standing on a bench. on a rock. on a half-wall. etc.) #they're up there and typically have a hand on his shoulder

[lucky-clover-gazette]

yona is obviously a lesbian and she and sidon are each other’s beards. you know how the zora are, she’s also royalty from a different domain. it’s better than marrying people they’d actually have to be into.

i choose to believe that link yona and sidon get brunch every other weekend, and yona takes many diplomatic field trips to gerudo town for no particular reason. or, alternatively, they’re bi4bi.

kind of a dick move nintendo, you could have just left sidon a bachelor, but this is what we have to work with i guess

#sidon #sidlink #totk spoilers #i didn’t even ship sidlink it’s a matter of principle for me #i was mad about it and i think it was a calculated and slightly cruel decision #that and not including the gerudo drag outfit make me thing nintendo got in trouble for botw and had to pull it back #which is a shame

[lemonhemlock]

look. not to be too mean on main. the rightful heir thing. if you don't care about the intricacies of property law or legal writs and just want to focus on characterization and other aspects of storytelling, fine.

but it truly does look very goofy when you start "debating" this while lacking historical context and methodological tools. sometimes a constitutional crisis (that was already resolved in the 12th century and whose results you can always look up) can't just be settled by appealing to one's anachronistic opinion and accusing those who disagree of misogyny.

there's a difference between suggesting how things should be (i.e. prescriptive, i.e. women should never inherit the throne) and analysing how things were for a myriad of socio-political reasons.

also, trust me, the Dance being fictional is not the gotcha people think it is. it's plenty obvious. i'm sorry to say but the premise is so flimsy it would never have happened like that irl.

final idea: likewise, perhaps being condescending about people who do take the time to criticise the premise is veering a little bit towards anti-intellectualism. 'idc about succession laws ergo i'm more enlightened bc i've unlocked an edgelord-y way to enjoy fiction'. a medievalesque fantasy setting is going to attract commentators who are interested in medieval history or at least aspects of it. they may find copy-paste scenarios from real history and think it interesting to compare and contrast. it's not immediately equivalent to treating aegon and rhaenyra like your ballot choices next election, and, equally, they're not discussions without merit.

comparative analysis is a transferable skill! if someone doesn't want to partake, fine, but i think this attitude of turning one's nose at it is a tad coarse. there are many fans who take the time to write informative posts and contextualise this fictionalised universe and it's a shame to automatically write-off what is ultimately a rich tradition in internet asoiaf spaces

#*people with history degrees facepalming their way through the fandom* #everyone has a pet peeve and this is mine #my other controversial opinion is that it's also silly to say it doesn't matter from a storytelling perspective as well #if your intrigue is shaky then it brings the quality of the overall story down #one principle of writing is that your world needs to have consistent internal rules no? #if these rules flip-flop from one situation to the next then that would be a flaw in the worldbuilding #and one thing about grrm's dance is that the intrigue is one of the weak points #succession for the iron throne

[insteading]

So I've only watched 2.1, 2.2., and 2.3 once each so far, but I can already tell the music choices are going to wreck me this season. I figure lots of people will have things to say about the use of Kate Bush in 2.3, so I want to focus on the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony #7 in 2.2, "Red Flags."

First, this movement has been a banger since it existed: at its first performance, the audience demanded that the second movement be repeated after the symphony concluded. It's a funeral march, and per the notes accompanying the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen's gorgeous recording, it was likely heard as responding to collective grief:

The premiere performance of Beethoven's Seventh was at a benefit concert in Vienna in December 1813 for wounded soldiers and their families. It came only two months after the Battle of Nations near Leipzig. The German name is "Völkerschlacht" (Slaughter of the Peoples), one of the most catastrophic wartime events in human history. It also marked the liberation from Napoleon's forces. The sad, beautiful quality of this piece makes it very different from the other three movements of Beethoven's Seventh. Endlessly mournful – but also uplifting, it is still played at funerals today.

For those of us who were in music school at a certain point in history, it is also the soundtrack for characters experiencing suicidal ideation, courtesy of the 1994 film Immortal Beloved.

Its use underpinning the conversation between Ed and Izzy is self-explanatory: Ed's way of expressing self-loathing is to goad the people around him to hurt him. He feels a kind of ambivalence toward his own life that we saw last in OFMD's pilot, where Stede cannot firmly answer Oluwande's question, "Do you want to live?!"

But we hear the first notes of Beethoven before that scene ever begins.

That the music begins here, rather than when Ed enters the hold to press Izzy into killing him, highlights as much as anything we've seen so far how traumatized Lucius is: not just by being pushed overboard, but by all the trafficking and abuse he experienced before encountering his former crewmates, which he barely starts to detail in this episode. "If I start, I don't know what's going to come out." The stories Lucius shares may have an over-the-top quality, but they're scored like tragedy.

#tw suicidality #i have a lot to say about izzy taunting ed for being too afraid to kill himself #in order to obscure the fact that he is also too afraid to kill ed #and that it's not a matter of principle #and that yes ed is bloody well scared and miserable #and that part of what he needed was permission to feel those emotions #and maybe also that in some way he feels like his life ended when he tried to commit to being blackbeard instead of ed #but there might be other times for that #edward teach #izzy hands #lucius spriggs #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #beethoven

[xekstrin]

1) Lappland, knowing Texas better than anyone else, brought her least favorite flavor of chocolate on purpose to taunt her through the bars of her jail cell

2) Lappland didn’t know it was her least favorite. Lappland thinks she knows everything, but this is a small sign that she doesn’t know Texas as well as she used to— if she ever truly knew her. Maybe Texas only recently learned her own tastes well enough to say which is her favorite and least favorite. And Texas didn’t bring it up because any piece of her new self that doesn’t belong to Lappland is something that she’s going to guard especially hard. And why indulge in the indignity of whining when she’s already at a disadvantage, locked up while Lappland is free?

3) Lappland did/didn’t know it wasn’t her favorite but more importantly Texas is such a sugar fiend she didn’t give a fuck and gobbled it anyway

#Arknights #not that it was very difficult to get out of the jail cell of course #but it’s about the principle of the thing #no matter what you believe the craziest part is still that Texas just. ATE IT??????? #WHY DID SHE EAT IT

[papermonkeyism]

Update on the septum thing.

For new people: couple years back, when I first decided the nose would someday get ringed, I made a deal with my parents I'd shave the beard off once I did.

I've now been home for several days, and nobody has yet mentioned it.

I'm seeing how long it takes them to remember, or if I get to smuggle the facial hair through the visit intact.

Feeling like an undercover agent here.

#shut up paper #I was kinda hoping my dad would give me a shaver as a cheeky gift about it #Because I do want to keep it symmetric so I have an actual use for it #But at this point it's a matter of principle that I won't buy one myself #The plot thickens

[oathtorn]

// sometimes I think about how many times in bg3 you get conflicts that don't have an objectively "best" outcome. I think about freeing the 7000 vampires, for example. Freeing them is the ethical thing to do, because they are all innocent victims, but it remains true that leaving thousands of vampires loose, even in the underdark, is a bad bad idea. Not only are they traumatized people, but they're predators who have only their instincts to help them survive in an unfamiliar land that isn't exactly bountiful in terms of wildlife. If they don't do well, they'll die or be slaughtered, and if they do they'll ruin entire communities or ecosystems, depending on whether they feed on people or animals.

#i was thinking again of that line minthara says about how the patriars should have the refugees work for them and have them defend the city #and tav is like 'um that's slavery you're describing?' #and she's like 'call it what you want but would you rather have them die of starvation stuck outside the city walls?' #and i mean the player doesn't have much to say in that matter but there is still a complex situation being presented with no easy solution #because bg has been the destination for refugees for a long time already #like it was already in a state of crisis after the descent when many people who could not return to their homes #massively started to arrive to the gate #right when their duke was gone and left the city without a ruler and the military without a leader #now the government is even WORSE and so is the refugee situation since they're now coming from everywhere #it is painfully true that the guild is still the only truly functioning organism in the city #and they're also having trouble with the absolute #like bg objectively doesnt have the space or the means to sustain the refugees #the patriars may #but in the end gold cant feed a family either #but eating the rich does sound like the most sensible option still- #ooc #the only objectively good ending i think is if you could leave the githyanki egg with lae'zel #also i think of the quest zevlor gives for killing kagha #which sounds like a sensible option when he says it but it prompts the grove massacre #but you can explain it to halsin and he understands that they forgot their principles and attacked defenseless refugees #and you merely defended yourself and them #then again if you look in the right places you can see dialogues suggesting that the refugees are indeed damaging the grove #like chopping trees without the druid's consent #so. #yeah i just have a deep appreciation for some aspects of the game's writing #that show there often isn't an objectively best choice #and you are just doing your best with the information you have and what your morals dictate

[partypuppynastja]

OK, are you AFAB or AMAB? I'm guessing you're AMAB if you're trans and a woman but there's no need to be evasive I don't mean any offense

No, I'm not AFAB or AMAB. I'm in my 30s.

#Ask #Anon what do you think the ''AB'' part stands for? #Do you think I am ''AB''? #I get what you're trying to ask but this is a pet hate of mine #You're very focused on my birth‚ what are you‚ the registrar? #I'm pretty much an open book and you find out plenty about me from my blog but as a matter of principle #But you're asking the wrong questions because your perspective is wrong #About me #Transgender

[the-music-maniac]

random rant incoming

Y'know, while I think the ship of Kazurei is absolutely adorable, I'm also perfectly happy with Kazuki and Rei being purely friends, cause tbh I love the idea of platonic love and unconventional families and two het men not being absolutely terrified of being conceived as gay with that no homo shit because they don't see it as an issue, and just raising a child together with a friend - we need more media representation of platonic love and unconventional families and they're so adorable and I love how the show depicts them already -

H O W E V E R

The homophobic people I've been seeing online going "oh thank god they're not gay, NOW I can watch it" or just refusing to watch it because they STILL think two totally platonic guy best friends raising a kid together is too "gay"????  It's pissing me off. Enough that I want to ship them even harder out of spite - draw a shit ton of Kazurei fanart and make their eyes bleed. I already liked this ship, it's fucking adorable, but my shipping was also 100% casual. Not ride or die. I would be perfectly happy with them as platonic best friends raising an adorable 4 year old. But damn is that petty side of me taking over now.

I understand if people are tired of media putting too much importance on romantic relationships and not enough on platonic, it's an exasperation I totally understand and definitely feel as well. And of course you don't need to watch media that you aren't interested in, and I 100% understand if people just straight up don't like Kazuki and Rei together as anything but platonic because they don't think it fits! All of that is so valid. But I think it's the entitlement in these specific comments that piss me off. The implication of there being too much lgbtq+ rep nowadays, of all of it being too loud, oh no I can't get away from it, oh no, must you turn every single character gay??? You can't see a single straight person on tv! We aren't able to ignore your existence anymore, oh the humanity!  

I hate to break it to these dumbasses, but the internet has been shipping canonically platonic characters together since the beginning of the internet. The only difference is that they don't have any complaints about it if it's a platonic guy and girl friendship that’s being shipped romantically. It's just interesting how they only start finding an issue with romantic relationships overshadowing platonic ones when it's two people of the same gender. And the nature of these types of complaints piss me off because despite how much better lgbtq+ rep has gotten over the years, we are still so far from having enough rep in media. So many people have grown up with heteronormativity shoved so far down their throats (me included) that they didn't even realize what their sexuality was until adulthood! I can't even watch an insta reel of a guy and girl being best friends without the entire comments section talking about how they're secretly in love with each other! People look at me and their automatic reaction is always that I must only like the opposite gender, and if I happen to want to go on a date with a girl in public instead of a guy there will always that part of me that screams unsafe unsafe unsafe. And people can't even handle the existence of a cute little anime about two PLATONIC guy best friends raising a kid, or the existence of a fucking ship that isn't hurting anyone???? Give me a goddamned break

#damn i didn't mean to trauma dump on a kazurei post #i'm just kinda angry rn #and I've decided that i will do what i always do when i see homophobes on the internet getting angry at gay ships #i will ship it harder #and i will point at them and laugh #i hope they're hopping mad #i hope they're absolutely foaming at the mouth #i hope they're screaming at the sky at the injustice of our existence #i hope how loud we are keeps them awake at night #okay perhaps i'm more than just a little pissed #perhaps i shouldn't be over such a small thing #especially not over a cute fluffy ship i'm not even that serious about #but it's just the principle of the matter #how many times have i read this bullshit on the internet over and over and over #it's just about a ship #but is it really? #buddy daddies #kazurei #kazuki #rei #reikazu #miri buddy daddies #kazuki buddy daddies #rei buddy daddies #kazuki x rei #shipping rant #and also lgbtq+ media rep rant

[saintbanglesthegazelle]

I promise you if you give people the benefit of the doubt, if you assume ignorance or misunderstanding instead of malice, if you make the effort to give and recieve clarity, if you listen to people's thoughts and explanations, you will see the world as so much less cruel than you had before. So much more loving. It's not easy, but it's so so important to do, for yourself and others

#bangles' post #this is about my dad #who last week had invalidated my chosen name as a not-real name and sought my permission to use my deadname when talking to the older gen #and today sat down with me to talk about my chosen name and what it means to me. he really sought to understand why i chose it #and he then not only apologised for misunderstanding the value of my name and for invalidating it #but also explicitly reassured me that im allowed to tell him if hes wrong #which is huge for him. hes never invited correction on something lile this before - something that he feels is a matter of principle #ie chosing a name with importance and meaning and serious intent #hes not perfect. he still holds dated beliefs that he hasnt truly examined or even allowed himself to question. #hes never been particularly emotional available or even very present in my daily life #but he is trying. and he does want to be better #and if both of us had given eachother the benefit of the doubt we could have had a much better conversation about my name #but still. talking about now its clear that he does genuiningly want whats best for me. he just needs to know that #im taling myself seriously enough that the ways he tries to help will actually be helpful #im rambling. anyway #give people the benefit of the doubt. i promise its worth it

[catoscloves]

you know in my ap us history/ap government classes something that comes up in the videos they have us watch as homework assignments is how governments & especially fascist regimes will use children's education as a tool to mass-brainwash the impressionable youth into believing in their ideology while cutting off their access to outside information & resources that would contradict and completely disintegrate that line of thinking, and being the thg girlie that i am i immediately thought "hey that sounds familiar, pretty much what happened to the career tributes" and after that i was like "oh. that's literally suzanne's entire point!! right."

#even the US did this during wwi and literally took away their beloved constitutional freedom of speech when it didn't benefit the war effort #the constitution: yeah people should be say what they wish (within reason) because that is literally the founding principle of liberty #the US during a war when people disagreed with the draft: yeah how about no #i wouldn't goso far as to call it fascist that is not the correct word (i don't think I'd be able to publish this post online if the US was #but like ??? 'freedom of speech but not when it's inconvenient for us' 💀💀💀 #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the career tributes #listen no matter how you feel about them as characters (even katniss saw them as jerks which they kind of were) #if you were raised from literal infancy/toddlerhood to think that murder was super cool and great #and had no reliable resources or education telling you otherwise #I mean. anybody in that situation would have turned out just as bad as cato was according to katniss #they weren't going to grow a moral conscience they deadass had no frame of reference to be like 'wait maybe the ideas we grew up believing #in our whole life are actually?? wrong and oppressive????? #cato hadley #clove kentwell #district 1 #district 2 #anna speaks

[yesloulou]

Ill be honest. Idk if I am making sense here but I find Daniel’s attitude and overall lack of comprehension toward the intended - subtle or not - misogyny that he’s around a MAJOR ICK!

I’m thinking of the European 🐱comment, this book etc. Daniel doesn’t come out with anything but a laugh and stunned silence instead of “hey look, let’s not objectify women” or “ah it’s a bit of fun isn’t it? For me, it’s weird, but let’s not shame the person who has written it”. In private he can laugh at as many 🐱 jokes as he wants too, he can talk all day long about how f*cking weird fanfics about him are BUT when it’s in the public eye and he has hundreds of thousands of female fans, it’s pretty gross and feels like he doesn’t care about female fans at all. (Idk if this makes sense in the way I’ve written it)

We all know he doesn’t keep up with the news (he’s said so himself) but he comes across as tone deaf sometimes. You can get away with that at 22,23 but he’s in his 30s with a girlfriend. Come on! It’s not exactly giving “I have a girlfriend and a sister and would hate for my girlfriend and sister to be spoken about like that so let’s chill with the sexist, double standard comments.”

Don’t get me wrong, he’s not the only one (Pierre is a major eyeroll) but he’s not 25, he’s old enough to know better. If this Dax book thing isn’t cut and the drug addict continues to push Daniel to talk about it then shame on Daniel for not saying no - from both his side in it being weird and for ripping apart a female who was just doing something she enjoyed

Just my take. I’ll probably get shit for this

this ask is from a week ago.. sorry about the late response 😳 also the podcast incident has been discussed many many times in the past so i really hope me answering this ask won't reopen the discourse.

pretty sure this was related to the other ask about daniel's non-confrontational personality so im just gonna go from there. if daniel were a confrontational person and he chooses to not address the host's misogynistic remarks, then i think it'd be worth discussing whether he lacks the comprehension. but he's not. in fact he resolves conflicts in the most non-confrontational way possible. and im not saying this just to make a point. when i say 'the most' i really mean non-confrontational in like an almost pathological way.

example:

this was after z*k brown fired him in the most public and disrespectful way possible, including assuring him he still has a seat when they'd already given his seat to oscar. mysterious italian man said to him 'told you not to trust zak' and he just. smiled like this.

another example:

here max can be seen getting more and more annoyed for daniel by the second. meanwhile daniel smiled bigger and bigger. and when max interrupted to defend him daniel was NOT SURPRISED AT ALL even though he had appeared totally ok with Crofty’s question up until that point

idk why he is the way he is, but to me it's very obvious he's not a confrontational person. he's like the opposite of confrontational (would literally smile bigger when he's uncomfortable/offended) idek if they have a word for that. "hey look let's not" is just not something he would say.

i do find it disappointing that he didn't call out the host for the p*ssy comment. imo a moment like that is where he (anybody) should've spoken up regardless. but i'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and trust that he didn't react simply for the same reason he doesn't react to offensiveness/hostility in general. to me it doesn't necessarily mean he lacks the sensitivity or comprehension.

(the book thing was a whole different story tho. that book was literally erotica written about him. for him it's personal. imo he doesn't need to worry about how the writer feels at all)

#still ty for sending! #asks #* #I do hate what he said about news with a passion #lol #but I like him too much to care as long as it’s not a matter of principle 🫡 #txt

[fleetways]

just need to mention i spent like a solid few minutes talking with some friends about how u write shadow and his shadowisms so well (i want to punch him so bad hes so. bitch) and i was feeling it so deep in my soul with the latest chapter after he started getting uppity about how he doesnt want sonic to treat him like hes fragile like POINTING THATS THE CONCEPT I ENJOY!!!!!!!!!! also gay gay homosexual gay

unironically me looking at this ask^

if it wasn’t already incredibly obvious shadow is my fave character to write for so this makes me so happy to see. also shadowisms is a great term for them because that’s really what they are!

#i have many thoughts about my specific portrayal of shadow that i may save for another time #because while i don’t think my shadow behaves as say canon current-day shadow would #he’s also NOT that #shadow’s character has so many little nuances and possibilities and its fun to explore what would be different and what would be the same #if events of his life had gone differently #for example i think a shadow who had not lost his memory after the events of sonic adventure 2 would be very different than say #the shadow the hedgehog we see in shth and sonic 06 #same principle with mdlhea shadow. in this au his life went quite differently but i still want to maintain those core personality traits #and then we have mdlhea sonic whose life and upbringing was even more drastically different from his canon self than shadow #I’ve been ​trying to strike a balance between the differing circumstances of their upbringings while keeping their characters recognizable #and i think im doing okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or at least im having fun with it and tbh thats all that really matters in the end #whoops remember how i said id save my thoughts for another time #shadow #asks #mdlhea #jii-prime #text

[c0rpseductor]

turning off reblogs on that lore olympus post NOW and not however many notes down the road when someone with a url like hermes-in-the-tardis starts trying to hex my ovaries

#not that I care about my ovaries but as a matter of principle

[cafephan]

over halfway through gamingmas…. bittersweet

ANYWAY LET’S GO DAY 13 WOO

#sometimes i forget i do daily posts for gamingmas #nobody cares about them but it’s a matter of principle for me

[ginkovskij]

by the way i managed to subscribe as a student to [streaming service] in order to watch that one movie, but the site lied to me and the movie isn't actually available i couldn't find subtitles anywhere so i just have to learn mandarin overnight and it should be fine

#screaming #i did actually find the movie for stream but not the subtitles so i feel like my super spy skills are useless #any kind of subtitles would do at this point but zero luck yet #i read mild reviews about the movie anyway this is more a matter of principle now #notes of a countryside dandy