#shallow people

[sadghostgirl14]

“Wow. You’re so beautiful now”

Bitch I was always beautiful! 😂

You just weren’t looking on the inside

#beautiful #beautiful soul #shallow #shallow people #sadgirl #heartache #heartbreak #relateable #bitches #healing #poetry #sad poem #used to love it

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be'.

#the world we live in #social media is fake #don’t follow the crowd #social conditioning #be different #brainwashing agenda #be true to yourself #life quotes #life reminders #life advice #shallow people #spiritual quotes #life decisions #good vs evil #fake world #inspirational messages #motivational quotes #quotes to live by #real world #reminders #words of the wise #how to live #lifecoach #don’t lose yourself #strength quotes #spiritual warfare #spiritual awareness #spiritualteacher #fighting the good fight #modesty

[pinkieloveheartpastel]

“Fat people and average-looking people just don’t fit as fae creatures. Only people with small features and skinny bodies do. That’s just how fantasy works.”

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SKILL ISSUE!!!! WEAK!!!!! PATHETIC!!! COWARD!!!!

Not to mention fae creatures, and mythical creatures in general, can look like anyone and anything. If you think that fantasy has rules and is exclusionary in any way, you don’t know what fantasy is, and you’re not welcomed to the club! Also you’re fatphobic and pathetic!

All bodies and features are welcomed!!!!

#fatphobia #shallow people #shallowness #bigotry #fantasy #fantasy has no rules #fantasy can be anything #it’s literally make believe #everyone is welcomed when it comes to fantasy #fuck your exclusionary bullshit

[realhankmccoy]

Nordic Chad is a great example of how mini Trump crept his way across the internet in many forms and established himself within the skull.

the first quote is from Carl Sagan, who you could learn a great deal about science from, and who framed the universe as greater than thou for many reasons you will never understand, being a shallow person who complies with the stick figure caricatures of ‘weaklings’ and ‘losers’ that rightists with no drawing skills draw up.

the second is just the fast route for shallow people to be more racist and confident and less scientific — turning scientific exploration into navel-gazing narcissism… science gets turned into I, Me, Me, I…

most people are shallow, tho, so this meme easily cucks them into conservatives who will never know 1/100th of what Sagan knew about the cosmos. Nor will they ever know even a fraction of as much technical information as those currently interested in science do // in other words, they are stunted and childlike, unable to mature. Their fondness for kiddie memes is evidence of that:

#Nordic chad #Trump #stupid people #stupid kiddie memes #Memes for kiddies #Memes for the brainwashed #Memes for cucks #Shallow people

[thirddoctor]

when people say they can't get obsessed with female characters because there aren't enough good ones, I simply don't believe them because there are literally hundreds of fics about the guy in The Force Awakens whose only role is to cringe while Kylo Ren trashes a terminal with his lightsaber. at that point you're basically making up a whole guy.

#which means people could absolutely do the same for an underdeveloped female character if they cared #at least own up to the fact that you're just not interested instead of passing the blame entirely on to the writers #and again I must stress there ARE good female characters out there plus many that are no shallower than the fandom darling male characters #Ranger shut up

[centaurianthropology]

One thing that I think a lot of Disco Elysium meta misses (likely because a lot of it is very clearly written by young Americans writing from an intensely American-centric cultural perspective without even really realizing it) is that one of the singular and central themes of the game is massive-scale generational trauma in a home that is economically collapsing as its resources and people are being drained by an occupation.  People have noted that no one tries to help Harry, despite the fact his mental illness is incredibly obvious to everyone around him.  He tells Kim that he completely lost his memory, and Kim politely asks him to focus on the work.  He tells Gottlieb that he had a heart attack, and Gottlieb tells him that if he’s still alive it couldn’t have been that bad.  That he’ll drop dead sooner or later, but then so does everyone.

And that’s the most important thing: so does everyone.  Look at Martinaise.  Look at the world in which Harry lives.  It is not our own, but it is adjacent to ours.  More specifically, it is clearly adjacent to the states of the Eastern Bloc: overtaken and occupied by a faraway government that clearly doesn’t care about Revachol or its people.  And that is obvious in every tired face, every defeated citizen, everyone trying to eke out a little happiness or meaning in spite of the overwhelming trauma and damage around them.  The buildings are still half-destroyed.  The bullet holes are still in the walls.  The revolution was decades before, but it still feels to the people there like a fresh wound.  The number of men of Harry’s generation who are not alcoholic or otherwise deeply fucked up are very few.  Some, like Kim, hide it better, but the deeper you dig into his history, the more you realize how damaged Kim is.  He’s more than a little trigger happy, and hates that about himself, but he is a product of his environment: Kim’s entire life is seeing people he cared about shot and killed, so his instinct now is to shoot first himself, to protect those few people left who still matter to him.

Harry is not unique in his trauma.  He is a distillation of an entire culture of people who tried to rise up and make something beautiful, and were instead routed and occupied.  He is trapped between the occupation and the people on the ground, along with all the rest of the RCM.  Their authority comes from the occupying government, but it is implied that they were formed out of the remnants of the citizens militia which sprung up from Revachol itself as a way to try to mitigate some of the horrors being committed on its streets.  The Moralintern sure as hell wasn’t going to get their hands dirty, so they happily conscripted (and therefore could better control) this group, who are only recognized in certain places, and whose authority mostly amounts to giving out fines.  The RCM is corrupt, but it is corrupt in the same way its culture is.  Bribes are considered standard with them, not a moral failing, but a necessity, so long as those bribes are correctly logged as ‘donations’.  It’s how the RCM stays afloat, and the rest of Revachol completely understands that.  Everyone would take a bribe if it meant they kept eating.  Everyone would take a little under-the-table money if it meant keeping a roof over their heads.  The officersof the RCM certainly don’t make enough to see a doctor.  They have an in-house lazarus, and if he can’t fix them they just die.  Mental health care?  What mental health care?  Harry doesn’t get it for the same reason no one else does: it doesn’t really seem to exist.  There are no counselors, no psychologists, no psychiatrists.  How would they even start?  If the world is what is broken, if everyone is suffering a similar catastrophic amount, it makes sense that Harry’s trauma would simply get rolled up with all the rest.  Kim asks him to get on with the job because Harry’s suffering is not remarkable in Revachol.  He is one of an entire generation who have an astronomical number of orphans from the revolution, and so many younger people are left more or less orphans as their parents drink themselves into oblivion like Cuno’s father.  So Harry’s truly unique attribute is embodying all that trauma, having it all inside of him, filling him to bursting.

To really engage with the themes of the game, engaging first and foremost with the reality of Revachol is imperative.  Imposing our own reality onto Revachol, particularly if coming from an American perspective (which tend to have the habit of both viewing the world through an American lens and not realizing they’re doing it because they’ve never experienced a different lens), will always feel shallow to me because of this.

All that is to say, I would love to hear some more explicitly European meta about this game, and especially Eastern European meta.  If anyone can point me to some good, juicy essays from that perspective, I would be grateful!

#Disco Elysium #is such a good game #but I found a lot of the meta around it frustratingly shallow #and very VERY American #which is also frustrating #given how clearly Eastern European the roots of this game are #I have no problem with people using a game or other work of fiction to inform their own lives and experiences #but I find it strange when people engage with the game #as though it was coming from an American perspective #asking why certain things happen or didn't #based on how they would play out or have played out in America #anyway this a rambly way to request some meta from other cultural perspectives #I am very interested in reading it! #Disco Elysium meta

[secretmellowblog]

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

#les mis #barricade day #people really act like Les mis is a tale of two cities #which does have the shallow xec

[bruciemilf]

Somebody tell me if this is a bad take, or if my love for Bruce is causing my objective brain to glitch, but-- something about advertising Batman, a hero who's very popular for being good with children, for being NURTURING with children, a bad father kinda defeats the whole purpose of what he's supposed to represent.

Batman is a protector; He protects people the world (and especially law enforcement) does not care about. That's literally the point of him.

Something about marketing " you can be incredibly violent to people you care about! And Its fine, because you care about them even if you abuse them, and that's what matters!" towards people, but especially men and young boys, is REALLY fucked up to me.

#it's not really 'wahhh think of the children' because the media you consume isn't a vessel of your character #but. gotham war is so incredibly shallow to me for pulling the 'no no its another personality bruce would never!' like. thats worse. #you get thats worse right? #because 1) dc loves demoninsing DID for some reason but it doesn’t add any substantial weight because bruce will be associated with #the actions of his 'alter' anyway. and dc knew that. 2) if you truly cannot write an interesting comic book where bruce is not abusive #and the batkids aren't being abused. you failed. #this isn't a reprouch or an attack to people who prefer that format. but the creator isn't doing it as genuine exploration of dark tropes #if that's the case -- dont cop out with the personality thing. let him be a bad dad. but its kinda fucked how dc STILL try to paint him #as a good person while doing so. its the collen hoover effect. 'we know the guy is an abuser. thats not the problem. the problem #is that the author wants us to pretend thats a good thing.' #bruce wayne #dc comics #dc #batman #text post #dc critical

[palin-tropos]

za/um weirdly baiting kimharry sucks because through reverse psychology it makes people think kimharry is this noncanon shallow fanservice element of the game and it’s really not

it’s not “shipping” it’s the main relationship of the game through which you explore the world of elysium. they are a duet, a dialectic. they’re explicitly queer and obviously are into each other

there is nothing wrong with admitting the story (which is about much more than “gay shipping”. it’s also sometimes about other queer people and queer-coded people, ta-dah! and sometimes it’s about the trauma of failed heterosexual masculinity) is told through the interactions between two men who have obvious crushes on each other. that’s not some kind of indulgence, I played the fucking game, it’s about queer people

you know that little spiel the smoker gives about the homo-sexual underground, he upfront discusses the politicization of queerness. disco elysium is political and queerness is political and queerness is in the game

so yeah “forbidden fruity kisses” fucking sucks because it’s trivializing themes that actually do matter and framing queer content as a silly fandom thing

EDIT: well this got a lot of notes so basically I wanna remind people that the scandal primarily isn't about the gayness or not gayness of any update content or how it's handled it's about people's art being stolen from them!

this vent post happened because I was mad that fans were overcorrecting and almost acting like the art theft is somehow gay shipping fandom's fault or that rejecting the queer romantic analysis of the story is returning it to its purer, unsullied form

but you should probably actually be focusing your mad on the fact that the art, the entire game, was stolen

#disco elysium #kimharry #sorry just had to get this off my chest #the game is ‘about more than gay shipping’ but kim and harry having a homoromantic bond is also about more than ‘gay shipping’ #just because fannish content can get goofy doesn’t mean all stories about queer people are shallow you know??

[uncanny-tranny]

Shoutout to all the other adults who have acne or any other condition of the skin that you are expected to outgrow or "just deal with."

Adulthood isn't this magical time where everything just disappears, and the reality is that these skin conditions are largely genetic. It isn't your fault (nor your skin's fault) that you are an adult with different skin than other people. In fact, it's neutral (and even, dare I say, good!).

#positivity #body positivity #acne positivity #i have skin redness and acne still and it actually is a neutral thing at worst :3 #in fact it makes me feel better because it gives me the (false) notion that i am genetically more like him than anybody else :) #he has the same unique features i do :) #and it's helped me appreciate body moles and non-ski slope noses and boney features #as much as people like to pretend that body image is shallow (it can be) it's still not a moral failure to be insecure #we live in a society after all and it's inevitable that society's messaging can become like a malevolent growth in your brain #it's okay if you have a hard time with the reality that your features are neutral at WORST. it's hard to swallow that pill sometimes #but no matter what just know that you are lovable and you are loved. as you are too #do what you want forever dear reader #oh hey the 'him' that the tags didn't include is my dad! not some Mystery Guy lmaooo

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hng. them <3

bonus!

#SORRY THE QUALITY IS A LITTLE STRANGE! #i took pics of my tablet screen w my phone #since otherwise these would be Fuzzy As Shit and the quality would be Low instead of Strange #i need to draw people more i need to draw people more i need to dra #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #ive been trying out some new tactics - not on the third image #which is why its under the cut #i dislike it but not enough Not to share... #but the top two! im trying things! #anyway i love the idea of human julie wearing Funky Headbands #headband with horns! headband with flowers! cat ears! glow in the dark shapes! who knows! #also i think ive found the groove with how i wanna draw hair.. #or the start of it anyway! #the groove is Shallow but babey im pacing!

[utilitycaster]

Travis: Chetney is a shallower character who should probably be dead by now, which is obviously why I wrote a massive timeline lore document mid-campaign; here is the list of significant character creation questions I have been continuously pondering

#critical role #chetney pock o'pea #he's like. genuinely only shallow compared to like fjord/cerrit/nathaniel aka the most fucking intense people alive #travis your idea of shallow is regular ocean floor levels bc your idea of deep is the marianas trench

[kenovir]

some of leon's canon lines are insane bc i feel like i over analyze him a lot and then i see this shit and no longer feel insane

#pokemon #champion leon #people who think he's a shallow boring champion could not be more wrong #they made him so mentally ill

[punkeropercyjackson]

It's canon that Jason Todd can only be attracted to people who're willing to stand up to him and hates the idea of sex without love and i feel someone needs to tell the DC fandom that

#not a diss at softer people who simp for jason i'm one of them or ones who smut him up respectfully i do too even if not in the same way! #i'm looking at people who act like jason likes being mean to his partner but gets pissed at reciprocation(he loves bickering as flirting) #or is a h*rndog exclusively into fucking and shallow taste(he's canonically a v!rgin and his gfs are a butch a wasian woman and a black one #you guys' standards in men are so LOOOOOOW stop dragging him DOOOOOOOOON he's literally as high up there as percy jackson #jason todd #pro jason todd #black jason todd #latino jason todd #afrolatino jason supremacy #trans jason todd #autistic jason todd #jayeddie #eddie bloomberg #jayrose #rose wilson #jaytemis #artemis grace #jaykyle #kyle rayner #jaydana #dana harlowe #anti batcest #anti slade wilson #anti black mask #antijayroy #roy harper #antijaykory #koriand'r #x black!reader #summerposting

[fictionadventurer]

Yes, President Snow tried to make the people of Panem focus on Katniss and Peeta's love story to keep them from focusing on the rebellion. But that doesn't mean the love story doesn't matter. The irony at the heart of the Hunger Games trilogy is that the Capitol thought the love story was pointless, but it was actually the entire point all along.

President Snow tried to frame Katniss and Peeta's act of love--trying to die for each other--as something irrational. No sensible person would do anything so stupid and rebellious! They only did it because love puts you out of your right mind! Emotions make you irrational and unpredictable, a danger to yourself and others! Falling in love turns you into a fool--only following the rational ideas of the Capitol will keep you and your families safe from the irrational effects of love.

Unfortunately for him, the audience begins to see that the foolishness of love is wiser than the Capitol's wisdom. A society where emotions can flourish, where people can act selflessly, where children are cared for, enemies are honored (or at least treated as people), and other people are worth dying for, might require more trust, might require you to risk yourself, but it makes for a much more beautiful world than the rational oppression of life under the Capitol's rule.

Snow thought that a love story would prove to the people how important their society was. He thought it could distract from revolution, because he couldn't see the deeper truth.

In a society built upon the principle of kill-or-be-killed, love is the revolution.

#the hunger games #suzanne collins #another post making a slightly different variation of the same point that's been made a thousand times #but i've just seen a few dozen too many takes like #'the capitol tried to distract people with the love story' #'and now people focus on thg's love story instead of the revolution part so we're just like the capitol!' #i get that they're criticizing shallow surface reads of the story #that care about the aesthetic and emotions above any deeper message #it doesn't mean that their phrasing isn't annoying and wrong

[boyquiet]

i think that we need to get over the narrative that you can’t have gay villains because that’s a harmful stereotype because there’s a huge difference between “this character is gay and a bad person” and “this character was written specifically to equate being gay and being evil/depraved/degenerate”. it’s just such a narrow minded view of fiction that leads to people afraid to write queer characters as anything less than morally perfect and then to a bunch of palatable but bland and boring queer characters that are arguably worse representation than a gay villain because they are not allowed to do anything wrong. while it is important to write all types of gay characters a work isn’t instantly “problematic” because the villain is queer and the hero isn’t. I think this is also related to the idea of subtext vs text in gay media and how I see a lot of people get mad bc the homoerotic subtext isn’t made canon without considering the context of it at all—sometimes creators make artistic decisions for reasons other than that they didn’t want the gay people to kiss because they’re homophobic. well written queer subtext can be better than a canon gay couple with no personality or relevance and a queer villain can be a better queer character than a gay hero because the characters in-universe morality isn’t inherently tied to how much care they are written with and the quality of “queer representation” isn’t determined by the amount of times they kiss on screen.

#mainly this is brought on by mgs discourse surrounding vamp and volgin and ocelot #I was telling a friend who isn’t into mgs about how ocelot is gay and a sadist and they asked if there were any good gay characters in mgs #and I was like um well no one is really a good character in this series. but yeah I guess #and they said ‘then the game is redeemed’ #that was pretty disappointing to me im not making a callout for my friend or anything but like. you cant judge a work on its rep #by weighing the number of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ queer characters mathematically #it’s shallow and reductive both to queer rep and the concept of gray morality #never mind that ocelot is one of the most important well written and beloved characters in the franchise. hes gay and evil so that must #make him a derogatory stereotype and ‘bad representation’ #anyway I think ocelot should torture and kill more people for fun #queer #lgbtq