#life beside the tracks

[kcvulpinestudios]

Big shout out to all the cool trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️

#furry art #furry #digital art #digital illustration #kcvulpinestudios #life beside the tracks #anthro #anthro art #llama #llama anthro #anthropomorphic #anthro artwork #anthro illustration #furry illustration #furry sfw #sfw furry art #sfw anthro #trans flag #trans lives matter #artwork #procreate #tayasuisketches #iPad art

[mrs-n-uzumaki]

Erik stares with incredible wonder, who is this boy?

#dadneto #erik lehnsherr #peter maximoff #pietro maximoff #dadnetoedit #xcuedit #dofp #x-men: days of future past #my edit #I will never get over this small but significant moment #where erik shows genuine interest because this kid impressed him so much #this kid who saved his life twice in just moments #if he had followed through with his army plan you bet your ass peter would be the first person he would track down #and then shows up at his door only to be answered by his ex who he hadn't seen in over a decade #OR he manages to track peter down and follow him but before he would approach peter's mum steps beside him #can you imagineee #the confusion on his face #why is peter associated with his past love #someone please write this I'm going mad from withdrawals

[violentdick]

-source: Batman (1940) #10-

Weapon of Choice: Dick, I see that pun mixed in with your hatred of Bruce's socialite activities.

#dick grayson #robin #robin dc #nightwing #batman #bruce wayne #or I can read into this as Dick not wanting to be alone #or it could just be his hatred of Bruce's love life which besides the dissertation of his ace coding in this area #is entirely valid given Bruce's track record even at this point of time

[ningtual]

oh i'm gonna be so annoying about this album..... i even took notes while listening to this just now...

#first of all supernova i'm gonna be so annoying abt that song i can feel it in my bones the instrumental is crazy the vocal layering is #making me ascend to the sky fr i LOOOOVEEE this sound for them and i can't wait to hear it in full!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #next set the tone actually a great sound for an aespa beside structurally it reminds me of the savage bsides like i'll make you cry or even #iconic but yeah she's soooo aespa to me and i love it too #then mine instantly put it as one of my favorites already bc LISTENNNNNNN darkspa i love you so much i love this salty&sweet darker prettie #and sluttier sister and s&s was already all of that omfg #next licorice the BASSSSS are we hearing her??????? INSANE and again aespa and their heavenly vocal layering i just can't i'm foaming at th #mouth as i'm typing this i'm so serious #okay to the fun songs bahama is gonna be my feel good summer beach vibe jam i already know it and if better thing wouldve gotten an album #she wouldve been on there. perfect summer sound #long chat too she sounds really cute maybe not as memorable to be as bahama or even live my life but DAMN i love a good upbeat track #prologue feels like a little interlude to me and the BABY IM A WEIRDO :D I KNOW ! was so silly sdjfksjfdf plsssss but a cute sound overall #live my life TURN THAT SHIT UPPPPPPPPPP the most cheery track and i'm strapped in to listen to it until i die. also an eri track to me #melody ahhh my reve daughters ik they would be proud of this song it's sounds very beautiful already #much more up my alley than their previous ballads ngl #in conclusion i'm gonna be the most annoying person on the dash once all these songs are revealed to the public and #i am already sosososososososo in love with this album what the FACK #000

[cherrymoonvol6]

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#been thinking about the placement of the showdown between belos and the hexsquad happening in ep 1 instead of anywhere else #mainly for lunter reasons if that is ever not obvious #(aka for a lunter endgame it makes more sense to have the ending of TTT happen in the last episode because Stakes) #(hunter actually dies and flapjack's sacrifice is the conclusion of the evelyn/caleb backstory) #(and it's pretty hard to work hunter or anyone from the hexsquad into the final showdown otherwise) #this is where the show shoots itself in the foot by having luz and hunter's relationship be on like tier C of importance #because it IS emotionally charged to see belos exerting that kind of power into the kid he groomed one last time #it IS emotionally charged to see luz wrestle with her determination to defeat belos and her love for hunter #it IS emotionally charged to know that someone will die here and it may be one of the kids #whereas the battle at the end of WAD is barely a battle and just meant to be the bow on top of luz's development #if luz and hunter's relationship had been more central to the show then hunter facing belos is a given AND a good narrative choice #who else gets to kill belos but the person created in the likeness of the one that made belos reach such lows to begin with? #or at the very least have the other people close to luz have some history with belos or something #eda couldn't care less about belos. same for king. and don't even get me started on amity............... #this is just a hexsquad problem btw like what is willow's bearing in this. the track system works wonders for her #in theory her life with belos as emperor is as good as it will ever be #same thing with gus #it's just hunter! that's the important piece there! #this show is just. broken. it truly refuses to bring up any of the actually interesting characters #sorry this rambling doesn't have a point besides 'toh is dumb sometimes' which is a thing i often say anyways #but man...... besides luz's resolution there's nothing to the ending. nothing.

[seventh-fantasy]

落得满头雪，也算是白首了。

lu anran & mu ze [3/?] | 覆流年 lost track of time

#覆流年 #lost track of time #cdrama #cdramanet #asiandramanet #asiandramasource #cdramagifs #cdramaedit #xing fei #jing chao #flngifs #my posts #jielin's edits #newsflash! local toxic love/hate couple was tooth-rottingly sweet! #like obviously i know even in the first life there has always been an undercurrent of discomfort beneath their sweet moments #no guy without ulterior motives will deceive u abt their identity and into a marriage u literally cannot reject without incurring- #-repercussions at the same time #fishy af mu ze!! #but oof i still love those moments knowing there's smth heartbreaking that's about to happen #and besides. they look good! i adooore their height difference #the way he looks at her in the last gif ahh... #is it fake is it real? idk #why must a ship be healthy. can't they just be pretty and be on a verge of betrayals and heartbreaks and an ensuing life-long feud #and what anran said... they'll never have That. all the more it makes this scene feel much heavier #i loved this scene so #also i literally hate the watermark so much!!!! see. i've tried. and given up

[sophies-junkyard]

STEM is just some shit they made up to break women’s spirits.

#TERFS DONT INTERACT THIS POST IS FOR EVERYONE #last midterm done and it only took 15 years off my life #can someone tell me why BIOL 4133 is almost exclusively calculus #it’s evolution. I thought we would be on that vertebrate morph grind #but nah I gotta graph the allelic frequency of a standard phenotype #I have taken 116 hours of this god forsaken track and I want to turn into a snail #this is my life #I already got an A in genetics!!! and YES I obviously forgot everything but that’s besides the point

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Hi all!

Touched some grass, maybe touched too much grass, and got wiped out by a headache. The weekly weekday grind is about to begin so I’m going to temper my contributions to the ongoing conversations around and about the dinluke fandom.

That said, I’ve had quite a bit of catching up to do and want to say the following-

While the discourse quickly centered around dark!dinluke and dark!dinluke creators, I agree with Withercrown’s latest and other later posts from others that this group is not solely to blame for what’s been happening to this fandom. The dark!dinluke corner may be the most highly visible one and have contributed much to the toxic stereotypes, tropes, and trends that have dominated much of the fanworks we see nowadays, but they are not the only ones and cannot be solely blamed for every ill that seems to plague and diminish the ship’s fandom. There are many other fanworks that don’t share the same themes and (infamous? improper? nonexistent?) tags as the dark!dinluke corner but feature many of the same problems - racism, racialized xenophobia, homophobia, heterosexism, gendered stereotypes. 

I did my part in centering the debate around them and also on the racism and xenophobia surrounding Din Djarin and Pedro Pascal with my responses to asks, my reblogs, my tags. While I know these conversations needed to be had (and they keep needing to be had, why do we keep needing to have these conversations???), I should’ve done more to highlight the other major problems with the fandom. I also didn’t speak up when discussions and headcanons fetishized and applied heterosexist ideas and tropes onto gay/MLM relationships and characters, and that’s something I need to work on. I’ve complained in private spaces many times my frustrations with characterizations of Luke in particular but never took them public. Seems like it’s time to end that.

It also bears reminding that all of these major problems with the dinluke ship and fandom that had been driving people away and reducing participation in these spaces are not separate. They are not isolated, they are not single issues to be addressed one by one. These are inter-connected and intersectional. Any effort to do better and to make a better community needs to take into account how we should approach Din and Luke as individuals and in a relationship. I do what I can while keeping in mind how Din is perceived because of his actor and I do the same for Luke (and for every other character in Star Wars, really, they all deserve this). 

I’m just a human, I will fuck up (I have fucked up), but I’m always striving to correct myself, learn, and do better - for me, for the people in fandom, and for a ship I very much love.

I have a few asks in my inbox but I want to spend the rest of the night being productive with other things so I’ll address them later in the week. I’m also keeping anon asks off in the meantime for the same reasons. When will anon asks get turned back on? That’s for me to know and for you to find out.

Take care of yourselves. Do what you must for your sake. I’ll see y’all on the flip side.

#dinluke #skydalorian #tbh when I made that post I didn't expect it to blow up or kickstart another weekend of discoursing #I'm glad for it though I think we strayed too far from all the major issues Withercrown had brought up in his original post #but here's the thing - Withercrown was simply the straw that broke my camel's back #my poor camel had to bear the weight of all of my frustrations and anger toward not just dark!dinluke but other dinluke fans #I'm the poor fool who sat on that back with my silence and my fears about fandom and then that straw came down on my head #on a personal note - I hated gendered stereotypes and tropes all my life and my discomfort has led to me questioning myself #(one could argue that vico ortiz and OFMD's jim jimenez led me to seriously asking myself if I wasn't as cis as I thought I was) #that discomfort has also made me hyperaware of characters being assigned these traits and roles based on racialized and heterosexist ideas #it was never just the racism or xenophobia but also how the racism and xenophobia played into characterizing din and luke a certain way #the thing about intersectionality (besides it being really about frameworks of power and legal systems in the US) is that it is hard #it is hard work because it asks you to take into account so many facets of identity and inequality and you can lose track or focus #and it is ongoing. it never ends. so long as these systems and structures are in place we have to live and breathe it #it doesn't just go away after a weekend of volleying back and forth about statistics and identity #for me the hurt really began in 2016 with the finnpoe discourse which only worsened with The Last Jedi the next year #these hurts never left and will never leave because fandom doesn't learn doesn't do better #but I'm truly tired of being quiet and of wallowing silently in despair and of losing hope #so if I have to lob fireballs into the dinluke tag and show myself then so be it

[radio-4-is-static]

One Year Anniversary of FOREVER DAZE by RADWIMPS

#forever daze #radwimps #music #音楽 #gif #my gifs #quick note: this is my first time using the beta editor so 🤞 the images load #but besides that! #ahhhh forever daze my most beloved & anticipated album of 2021 <3 #all the singles prior to the album release had me absolutely euphoric #especially that period later in the year where it was back to back to back #every day i woke up invigorated ready to fight life with my bare hands #and when they announced the track list !! #with snippets of all the songs #and i realized the version of grand escape was the very same as the one teased during shinsekai 😤 #ohhhhh what a time to be alive !!!!!! #yojiro talks about this in one of his interviews (with awich i believe) but this album also has such an interesting mix of genres #radwimps has always kinda pushed the boundaries in terms of genre but it feels much more apparent in this body of work #you've got orchestration & hip hop & edm & rock & so much more yet it flows very naturally #best of all tho it leaves me feeling inspired & hopeful after each listen #i find it admirable that at the height of covid during times of such darkness #they tended towards the light

[bloominstorm]

I hope y’all know this chapter is confirmation tht Hanma is indeed the 2nd time leaper..

#some ppl took sanzus statement as it confirming HES the other time leaper when it literally doesn’t make sense #sanzu is just now being pushed into the front of the story after so many arcs of him being irrelevant and nonexistent to the plot #still not a fan of wakui weirdly including him as a childhood friend of Mikey and Baji when it literally doesn’t track #Baji and Mikey made it seem it was only ever them before they found the other members of the OG Toman #and again if they were all so close and it was always them whytf wouldn’t he be included in the og toman #it doesn’t matter if he was going through his reckless rebellious phase #Mikey still would’ve made him join and from what we’ve seen it’s clear Mikey maiming him didn’t make him hate him #so there’s no reason why he wouldn’t join the og gang besides the fact tht this was bad writing and added to give more importance to him #anyway it’s clearly hanma and I’m thinking hanma also had a hand in possibly egging sanzu on or manipulating him #into trying to kill everyone with the train #the fact tht wakui had his cover be him sitting on the train tracks and tht he literally refers to himself as the reaper says a lot #just makes me curious as to why he’s doing all of this tho #when we got his POV in chp 205 he seemed to just want some excitement in his life and tht appears to be why he hung around Kisaki #but then he alluded to the fact tht it wasn’t only bc he was interesting by stating he’d tell him the real reason when Kisaki is dying #and even in June 2008 as he’s on the run he went to kisakis grave and literally reiterated tht he’d tell him his motivations #but it makes me confused as to what caused him to leap back in time #what near death experience did he have and what is trying to go back in time and change? #i doubt it was kisakis death since while he was sad about his death he seemed happy tht he got to go out in a “’glorious way’ #i also wanna know who he’s trigger #like whose hand is he shaking to leap or is it different for him #another interesting thing I noticed was when Takemichi dodged sanzus attack he automatically thought he was the other leaper #when ..tht wouldn’t make sense bc how would him being able to time leap correlate with him being able to predict his moves? #makes me wonder if hanma also has the future visions like takemichi #also I’m curious as to how Hanma convinced Kisaki and sanzu he could leap time if he is the leaper and told them #like what is the event tht made them believe him #see tr got my interest again now I wanna see how this goes #also shoutout to kaku he was the MVP of this chapter first by bashing sanzus skull and secondly by throwing him outta speeding train 😋 #hope tht fucked him up bc I am SO tired of sanzu #if we aren’t getting his backstory and an explanation for his creepy obsession with Mikey then I don’t wanna see him #Tokyo revengers 256

[kelpiemomma]

thinking i need to redraw my tragedy wolves again

#kelp tracks #the ogs #my one and only tragedy #(besides my life lmao)

[kcvulpinestudios]

A message from Michael.

#furry art #furry #digital art #digital illustration #kcvulpinestudios #life beside the tracks #anthro #anthro art #art #illustration #drawing #artwork #artist #original art #artists on tumblr #motivational post #motivation #inspiring words #inspiring #procreate #digital drawing #digital artist #digital painting #digital sketch #coyote #canine #canid #my art #life #my post

[sonego]

hi hello

#ngl i feel. conflicted #more like i kinda feel sick #i loved p*cco but i can't see him the same way anymore #and it's not even just about him #it makes me feel sick every time i remember most men in this sport can just... do whatever off track and no one will punish them #and i mean motorsports in generally bc it's overwhelmingly rich white men #and rich white men can get away with everything and the thing that #really holds me back from forgiving him beside how genuinely i hate drunk drivers #it's that since he knows this mistake won't be with that many consequences for him #does he really feel sorry? does he really care and knows what he did was wrong and he should behave better? #that's the thing. these men... we don't know if any of them are really not total assholes #we just kinda have to trust and sometimes close our eyes to some things #but there's a limit to that at least for me and it's different for everyone ig but i just #i waited to see how i'd feel when i saw him on track i waited bc i was conflicted #but the truth is i wasn't happy to see him race i'm not happy he won i'm just uncomfortable thinking of how he could've ended someones life #idk maybe i just see things too black and white maybe i am overdramatic i really just. that's how i feel #it's all fucked up and i just sometimes feel so frustrated by environments where cishet white men are allowed to do anything with impunity #idk if that's the right word whatever man i just don't like any of these feelings #bye

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[rskbunny]

kinda depressin I'm actually yearnin to do school work again just to have some meanin to my day... I get an entire week off to do whatever I want but I'm so lost with myself that I just looked to what past me procrastinated for years to finish.... but they were all pretty small tasks.... it should feel good to not have all those back ups, but I just feel empty... maybe I wouldn't feel empty if school didn't drain me into a school drillin machine......

#text #mine #might delete later #it feels futile to try to start smth up rn when I know I'm not gonna have time for it again.... #all my hobbies drain out into nothin when I have school. don't do much besides just rest in between work #I'm also just thinkin abt why do I feel like such shit all the time complainin abt how awful everything is and feelin like it's gettin worse #when I know objectively my life has been better than it ever has. and how hard I fought to get here. and how much it's changed #I have so much. I have an amount of fun money to spend on whatever I want. I'm at a place where I'm not pressured to do anythin #I have my cat indoors. I have my hubby who I was dyin to find for years.... even if it's not physically together atm... #I have a wardrobe filled with clothes I love. I have various technology and games #I think it's me that wrong with it all. I want and I want and I want and I want and it's never enough #or it's only enough temporarily. the goal post is always movin. #I guess I want to do schoolwork bc it feels like I'm actually movin forward. for whatever reason I'm not happy with my life #so I have to keep movin forward to get there.... which is not a bad thing I suppose #just wish I wasnt miserable all the time. I need to get a grip.... #you know I say all the time but I'm so overdramatic with no emotional permanency #I know damn well there have been moments where I'm on top of the world. I am a borderline bitch what do u want from me #I think I'm just goin insane re: extrovert vent post #also need to get checked out for bipolar lmaoooo #I just cannot be assed to track my emotions that's soooo much work. I've tried so many times and I'm just not abt it

[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