#society is not ok

[earl-of-221b]

I can’t explain what blue eye samurai makes me feel…….its a typical revenge story, a man sets out on his hero’s journey to kill the four men who have wronged him. A lone ronin, wide brimmed hat and sword in hand, roaming Edo Japan on his vendetta. But he’s not a man. He’s a woman. And how has he been wronged? What’s she getting revenge on?

On the fact that she exists. She wants revenge on the four white men that could possibly have conceived her. Who got her Japanese mother pregnant with a blue-eyed child. And not just any blue-eyed child, but a girl child. How is she possibly supposed to live in the world like that? For the wrong of being conceived, for the wrong of being born, for the wrong of being birthed into a world that will never love or accept her, she will kill her father.

I don’t know what level of convoluted self hate that is. Is she a child of rape? Or a child of a whore? Halfway through I realise what she told herself at the start couldn’t possibly be true - it’s not really for her mother. Her mother wasn’t the root of her vendetta, she wasn’t really doing it for her. When she leaves that farm and leaves the chance to live a simple, legitimate life as a woman, she goes right back to hunting down the men. Those men personally wronged her.

And then there’s so much to be discussed surrounding the way she grew up, because as a boy child and a man she can afford so much more than life has dealt her. Her swordfather who took her in out of the love and care in his heart had no shame in teaching a mixed man his art. The face of a ‘demon’ is fine. But not the identity of a woman. Shh. Don’t say it. Don’t confess. He knows and doesn’t want to hear it.

And because she’s lived that way her entire life for safety and security, she’s so completely alienated from being a woman, perhaps she really is he. But not really by choice. Or is it? The thing she does best is the art of killing, the art of men. Gender is a prison and gender is a performance and she has to choose which to perform. The times cannot reconcile hatred and violence with a woman. So she lives as a man.

So she can get revenge on her father, for revenge on herself.

#blue eye samurai #everything about mizu is so deeply upsetting #like ok revenge!! #revenge of what - exactly?! #white men? #and/ or your white self? #born against your will? #and who and what shapes this will of yours except the society you were born in? #this is so deeply fucked in every way #but anyways #I love Mizu and I hope he kills his father dead. if only - if only that would satisfy her. #my posts

[muscosus]

#living in capitalist society is like #YOU CANT ESCAPE TIME!! #roro.txt #ok to rb #terfs fuck off

[simcardiac-arrested]

day 30 - videogame (undertale, fnaf, etc)

somebody get this man some chapstick

#(voice of a guy who’s desperately trying to not give in and watch the movie for the third time in a row) So how’s everyone doing #i haven’t drawn mike in like 5 months this is simply unacceptable. unsustainable #he could fix everything that’s wrong with the world #i have once again changed his design but it’s ok #but yeah as you can see i am very interested with the concept of mike adjusting to living in human society as a weird alive corpse thing #fuuuuckkk AUEJGHHHH i seriously do like movie mike so much i think he and game mike can live in peace and harmony #something so awful is happening to me and it’s past midnight i should NOT be allowed to think aboht my favorite characters #myart #cringetober 2023 #michael afton #mike schmidt #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #can anybody hear me. help. help. MICHAELLLL DONT LEAVE ME HERE UEHGH OUGH MICHAELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[squash1]

#I KNOW THIS ISNT TRC #i’m sorry #actually whatever #y’all will be ok #the good place #dps #dead poets society #the west wing #ted lasso #the bear #eleanor shellstrop #chidi anagonye #jed bartlet #leo mcgarry #josh lyman #neil perry #todd anderson #carmy berzatto #roy kent #jamie tartt #rebecca welton #mine

[hajihiko]

Picking people for his gang like rotten apples off the ground

#Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Peko pekoyama #ryoma hoshi #izuru kamukura #chihiro fujisaki #Ultimate Impostor #An art #They're not rotten apples they're just traumatized and a bit damaged but the caption was funnier #Anyway these are all characters that Fuyuhiko either invites to join him or offer protection to #Points again to my 'people on the fringe of society' ramble #If I had limitless time and patience and mobility I'd make a comic series about the funky antics of a really ragtag Yakuza group #I'm seeing it in my brain ok #Impostor is different they turned him down and are remarkably good at handling their own shit #But maybe they can be convinced to lend a hand on occasion..... #Chihiro was not offered a job just protection. Why? Fuyuhiko just picks favourites like that #Izuru and Ryoma both got the 'hey if you got nowhere else to go...' #Ok I'll stop

[batwynn]

Alt text:

It’s ok to be disabled and happy. Being disabled does not mean you have to constantly suffer.

#disability #disability positivity #disability rights #disability justice #it’s also ok to NOT be happy #like you don’t have to perform happiness for other people’s comfort #but if you’re disabled and feeling good about yourself? #that’s really ok #you deserve happiness and people expecting you to be unhappy because you’re disabled #are shitheads #you do not have to be miserable to be disabled #and you don’t have to be happy to exist in society #two things existing at once #♥️ #tw: animal #tw: bird

[upsidedownlurker]

omgggg that moment when melvin get married in the local village near the three waterfalls!!! so cute you guys im crying!!!!!! they look so happy!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

#localvillagegate #three waterfalls #byler #milkvan #anti milkvan #but like #its ok to be a milkvan #the joker says its society's fault #st5 leaks #st5 spoilers #will x contact sports guy

[mr-president]

jokes stolen from horsecomix

there is Absolutely Nothing Wrong with august :]

#fear and hunger #fear and hunger termina #fear and hunger august #samarie #pavel yudin #fear and hunger henryk #kida tanaka #moonless #i like the idea of august trying to be a Dad to the younger characters but being so out of touch w society that he just kinda fails #it’s ok tho no one notices bc they too are Not Normal

[bufomancer]

literally just some guy at the humane society right now

#he is banded but i have no idea if he was banded Before or if the humane society did it #if he was pre banded then ok makes sense #if NOT. did someone just grab a random ass pigeon.

[cuthalions]

Vengo de un avión que cayó en las montañas. Soy uruguayo. Hace diez días que estamos caminando. En el avión quedaron catorce personas heridas. Tenemos que salir rápido de aquí y no sabemos cómo. No tenemos comida. Estamos débiles. ¿Cuándo nos van a buscar arriba? Por favor, no podemos ni caminar. ¿Dónde estamos? I'm from a plane that crashed in the mountains. I'm Uruguayan. We've been walking for ten days. There are 14 injured people left in the plane. We need to get out of here quickly and we don't know how. We have no food. We are weak. When are they going to look for us up there? Please, we can't even walk. Where are we?

LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE / SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) Dir. J.A. Bayona.

#la sociedad de la nieve #society of the snow #filmedit #moviegifs #dailyworldcinema #filmgifs #cinemaspam #mgifs* #always thinking about nando's reaction when he sees them from the helicopter #AHÍ ESTÁN!! AHÍ ESTÁN!! ESTÁN TODOS!! ESTÁN TODOS!! EHHHH!! #ok suficientes gifs (por esta semana)

[andy-clutterbuck]

1x04 - What We | The Ones Who Live

#i am utterly feral #like i cannot be introduced into society or an indoor environment rn #Rick Grimes #towl spoilers #The Ones Who Live #* #rg #HOW DOES HE KEEP GETTING MORE HANDSOME STOP IT #F U Z Z I E S #CHEST FUZZIES DO YOU SEE THEM #NECK FUZZIES #SCARS #THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS #I AM WINNING #even his adams apple is nice #i hate myself #the slope of his shoulders 🗣 #if i could just rest my face on his chest for a few i think it could solve a lot of problems i have tbh #put me in traction #until i walk like i'm about to duel at the OK Corral #[redacted] inside me #hello welcome to the tour #on your left you will see A MAN™ #i have a very hectic week ahead i need to go to bed #would give a kidney to draw idle patterns in his chest hair #*rabid whale noises* #i don't think whales can get rabies but if they could that's what i sound like rn #that man would look like an ancient capri sun pouch when i was done #go to bed lacey

[midnights-dragon]

Crowley would be kind to trans kids in particular I think

#we all know he’s kind ok and that he’s kind with kids especialy #but him seeing these kids ostracized from society for being a little different?? #for asking about gender and being confused and unsure of what to do bc of how society treats us??? #he would be. so kind. #crowley #crowley good omens #good omens #gomens #trans

[grendelsmilf]

i still find it so interesting how jackie is (was?) largely defined by her niceness, her friendliness. she's not the strongest, or the smartest, but she can bring people together. so when she is mean to the other girls, you notice it. she's mean to taissa when she feels like her position as leader is undermined; she knows that taissa is just as much of their leader as she is and it scares her. she's mean to shauna when she finds out about jeff; understandable considering what a huge betrayal it is (at least on the surface). but the girl she is by far the meanest to is nat.

and there is no good reason why anyone should be mean to nat. she is kind of treated as a punching bag, and taissa especially resents her because she doesn't like the idea of nat threatening the team's performance with her day-drinking or whatever. but nat is by far the kindest, sweetest, most compassionate, genuine member of the team. even as an adult you can see that she might be jaded and grieving and ruthless, but she's still at her core a good person. young natalie especially though is someone with a very strong moral center and uses those guiding principles of kindness to define who she is.

she's more mature, capable, and sure of herself than the rest of the group, because before ever landing in that forest, she's had a much harder life than the rest of them. we see that van probably doesn't have the best home life, but the rest of them are living comfortably. even if they don't have great relationships with their parents, they still live in middle to upper class households. nat grew up in a trailer park with a father who horribly abused her and her mother (until the day she witnessed him accidentally shoot his own face off). these circumstances made nat more resilient, braver, and more empathetic than the other girls.

and i think jackie recognizes that, whether or not it's a conscious recognition. she knows that nat is everything she herself is not. nat is confident in herself whereas jackie is terribly insecure and relies on external validation to uphold her own identity. where nat comes from poverty, jackie grew up in a huge house. where nat is comfortable having sex with boys, jackie is too repressed to have sex with her longterm boyfriend because she's terrified of having to confront the fact that she won't actually like it. natalie expresses herself through alt/grunge fashion, music, and culture, whereas jackie is as preppy as it is physically possible to be. natalie is jackie's perfect opposite: a poor outcast who is nevertheless comfortable enough in her own (hetero)sexuality to present in a (gender) non-conforming way and not care what others think of her to jackie's rich popular prom queen soccer captain who is debilitatingly insecure and sexually repressed, conforming perfectly to society's expectations of her to the point that she'd rather die than explore the possibility that she might like girls.

jackie has negative interest in travis, but she breaks him and nat up and steals him from her anyway. and the thing is, nat doesn't even care. she forgives jackie. when lottie locks jackie in the closet (ha), nat is the one who comes to her rescue. when travis apologizes to nat for sleeping with jackie, she says it doesn't matter to her. jackie is horrible to nat, but nat is genuinely mature enough that it doesn't even bother her. jackie wears her insecurities on her sleeve, and nat sees right through her. she doesn't put up with jackie's bullshit, but she's also gracious enough to not gang up on jackie with the rest of the girls, even though she's the only one who actually has any right to be mad at her. nat is generally apart from the rest of the team, not only because she's an outcast, but because she's simply above their petty dramas.

jackie doesn't have a good reason to be mean to her. she's the kindest, sweetest girl on the team. but jackie is mean when she feels threatened, and nat's existence threatens her very identity.

#i know lottie and nat are foils #but jackie and nat are foils too!!! #the jackie lottie nat triangle #society vs mysticism vs self reliance #conformity spirituality skepticism #have i mentioned lately how much i love nat #like she's such a brilliant character #because her aesthetics are so deceiving #as misty says she looks she could stab you #but shes literally the nicest sweetest kindest person ever #maybe not adult nat but like. the only person she had left was murdered by a cult #if her grief isnt exactly pretty who are we to judge #o.tv #i know ive said smth along these exact lines before btw #but i think abt it a lot ok! #yellowjackets #100

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

normal people about their shows symbolism: the curtains aren't yellow, they're blue actually

2021 era black sails fans: there are no curtains and now there never will be, rope is out to get you, chairs and boats and clocks are haunted, mimetic crises are real & out to get you, you can never escape the narrative because this story's ending is already written but you can slip through the cracks of it if you're lucky & favored by the narrative enough

#it was a TIME ok #black sails #we used to be a society #myyyyy hot take is that if you aren't a prequel enjoyer you don't actually Get The Narrative probably

[gorelesbian]

actually i hope every man who describes irl women as “mid” dies in a tragic nail bomb accident

#i think we as a society need to rethink about how we talk about people online especially in womens comment sections #kim.txt #ok to rb

[demiesop]

A little continuation of this

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Sometimes just surviving is already your biggest achievement.

#demiart #I've revised this again and again and every time the words make less and less sense but I hope it's comprehensible #bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 astarion #tav:sorn #astarion/tav #astarion x tav #yes Sorn likes whatever is in Astarion's tent and will borrow them because it smells like him #i survived another day and im celebrating it #ok im going to slep #bc no one does honesty in the drow society let’s be honest