#the debate of the century

[chocoenvy]

Which theme of your blog has been your favourite so far? And which one was the hardest to create/maintain? Personally I liked seeing Chongyun smiling as your bg 😭💕

OH MY GOD I'M SO SURPRISED YOU REMEMBER THAT??????? THAT WAS SO LONG AGO DKDJRKDJR I'M GLAD YOU LIKED IT LOL

for a brief time i had a forest-y theme with venti as the bg, i thought it was very pretty and it was when i first found out about how to change my overall theme and such. I didn't have it for very long bc yae took over my life, but I really liked it and I wanna go back to that theme again.

But now that you mention it a chongyun theme would be nice dkjdkrjdr that theme i had back then was super chill and laid back cause i didn't know anything about themes (i still suck at them so-)

Now I wanna change my theme lol especially since it's a mess rn

oh- but the hardest to create/maintain was probably the yae one. I remember spending hours on it and messing around with each and every little setting on it. And there were/are some things that still look a bit wack with it that i had to fix since i messed with the formatting and such. I still like it! It's why I've kept it for so long, but a change in theme would be nice dkjdrkjdr

#choco.asks #chongyun theme or venti theme or yelan theme #the debate of the century #i already kinda did the yelan theme i just gotta finish it out #but.... pretty boys #BEING a pretty boy #call me stupid/shallow but i changed my pfp to kazoo bc i wanted to be perceived as a boy instead of yae dkdjrkjdr #and i also got him on that long ass kin quiz #it's the dysphoria hours bro it gets to you

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[saxuphomnb]

Guys I NEED to KNOW

#the debate of the century #biologists take notes #catgirls #I hope I'm not starting a war

[sonic-adventure-3]

the answer is a resounding yes from all parties (except tails, who doesn’t really appreciate being stolen from)

#debate of the century #PERPETUALLY OBSESSED WITH HOW BOTH SILVER AND SHADOW STOLE FROM TAILS #doodles #silver #tails #shadow #silver the hedgehog #miles tails prower #shadow the hedgehog #sth #my art #eh. i guess. #im so sorry i suck at ids but i figured i could at least attempt this and that something is better than nothing #described #id in alt text

[komashkathesilly]

in celebration of getting free from the shadowban curse :3🍔c

#project sekai #project sekai fanart #pjsk fa #emu otori #minori hanasato #hatsune miku #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #komashkart #unfortunately i havent yet read that event. the boorger themed #i just thought it was cute that their outfits matched the two miku figures. emu n minori w this one #n saki n mizuki w the blue on rollerskates one :3c #i wanted to draw tgem in pair n debated posting this one bc it may take a century till i figure out the right poses n stuff for mizusaki pic #but i explode if i dont post art right after finishing it lmao #also i dont like putting my name on pics this one just felt like itd look cute since its lined like that

[arctic-hands]

Protip: if you're using a cane or crutch or rollator and an abled starts giving you flak or making fun of you, you now have a weapon in your hands

#nothing happened to me just scrolling thru the cane tag #AND OH MY GOD HERE COMES THE SEMI-AMBULATORY PERSON WITH THE STEEL WHEELCHAIR #be careful if you have balance issues tho #I'd recommend luring your foe to follow you to a wall under the guise of Rational Debate #assholes love Rational Debates #anyway right as they're lulled into a false sense of security by talking to you like a seventeenth century naval officer #kneecap them #whack #mobility aides #cane #cane user #crutches #forearm crutches #rollators #ableism #remember to always put the punk in #cripplepunk #cpunk

[mango-sideburns]

My fav thing about TAZ is that any aspect out of context sounds fucking bonkers.

Like, in the balance finale there's a scene in which Garfield (who is very specifically never described visually bc most people imagine him as like. The Lasagna Cat. Who in this universe is the most powerful warlock in the realm and also has a hobby of cloning people, which is great for the one character that got forced into haunting a mannequin) is summoned by an alien spaceship that runs on the power of friendship so he could beat up some flashing balls. In D&D.

And that was just. Such a normal scene in the narrative. No one blinked an eye. I would like to bow down to Griffins clear unmatched talent for making me feel such big emotions over ridiculous shit like a goddamned umbrella or a regular ass pair of jeans or the idea of a taco recipe.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz #i have. so many drafts of this post decontexualizing so many different scenes. #merle killing a room of autism creature looking things by asking them to tell the truth which then summons god #also merle retiring from his retirement to run fantasy margaritaville under the title Earl Merle #magnus the mannequin telling taako and merle to find the baby voidfish bc the big voidfish sung at him real hard bc in the century he #just now remembered (bc hes a mannequin not a human boy) #he gifted an alien jellyfish with dozens of shitty wooden ducks. he forgot that century bc his friend fed the jellyfishs baby a book #the gnome version of Teddy Rucksbin turns out to be the universes most competent spaceship pilot. hes also a talented opera singer #a man named Barry Bluejeans is dead and uses his ghost haunting powers to gift the three heroes badges that they cant see #right before theyre shuttled off in a cannonball to save a space lab full of kitschy elevators thats snowing pink tourmaline #barry also uses his ghost powers to hold hands with magnus and make random shapes in midair like a dresser when theyre trapped in a #fantasy version of The Dating Game hosted by ghost Jesse and James Rocket who steal bodyparts if you lose their game. #or like in campaign how a dude who wiped out in the first three seconds of ninja warrior convinces a human wifi router #who owns a bible theme park to take the apparent King of America to the white house on their hovercraft to be trued for treason #after he announced his intent to take over the country in a televised debate with an inuit goddess who is sometimes trapped in the body #of an HR worker all Donald Blake/Thor style #anyways. this show is ridiculous and i love it So Much

[max-nolastname]

aang having a code against killing makes sense because as the last airbender he carries the weight of his entire peoples and culture on his wee shoulders, and that includes respecting and valuing all life. it is core to his being, and him finding a roundabout way to solve the issue of killing ozai makes sense both as an airbender and for the story. we find out later in the kyoshi series that murder literally inhibits your ability to airbend, hence kyoshi and her mother's use of fans! and dont bring your utilitarian "oh we can save more lives by killing one person" into this, because sure that can work for another show but not this one!! it is literally the core thesis of the show! have some media literacy my god

#aang #avatar aang #ill put respect to their name! #atla #avatar the last airbender #we can debate the morality of killing all you want we'll talk ourselves in circles and not add anything new to the conversation #people and silly little philosophers have been debating this stuff for centuries #“x was in the right y is in the wrong” #shut up! whether killing is justified in certain cases or not depends on the show and the message its trying to give #and what will be more thematically satisfying #and dont u dare bring the “batman should kill the joker” debate into this #or do idc ill fight you #batman cant kill the joker but the red hood and his other victims can that is my stance #and ive seen like no debates in the morality of killing in black sails discourse because everyone is on the same boat

[brother-emperors]

going from the late Roman Republic to 4th century CE Roman Empire but skipping several centuries in-between the two is really creating a lot of 'guy who's only heard of x: wow this sure is giving x!' situations. what do you mean this guy kept gratian's body and didn't even use his head as a prop. you're telling me gratian had a window of opportunity for sole power and didn't go full caligula. TRAGIC. theodosius there's a gap in your life that’s kind of giving cassius. I refuse to read anything covering the 2nd and 3rd centuries, so this will continue

#the 5th century does not exist to me either #anyway Ive come to a decision on where to post the later roman empire stuff. it will be here #with it's own tag. there was a moment when I thought it would go on my other blog bc of the Christian saints #but I kind of want to fight basil in a parking lot and I'm going to start wielding a baseball bat #like my God this doctinal debate is stupid as hell. I'm not exploring any of that erotically. hostility only #mostly I'm interested in what the roman emperor's are up to and this is my Rome blog

[alicentsultana]

When I used to be in uni, my psychology professor talked about identification, love and hate-

And I wonder, what does it mean to always be in the wrong team-

I always like the wrong and evil character, the anti-hero, always, like a plague, I don't care about the protagonist, they tend to be too much, naive, glorified, blind, coward - but not it's bad counterpart, no, this sad bad meow meow person is 10x better and complex, the good and bad, as every person is.

When we like them, it only means that we see and recognize the injustice they suffer, and more than that, we also know and accept their flaws, we accept and recognize their growth and loss of innocence.

I mean, Alicent? Little girl being hated because she is what women in her time are suppose to be? Obedient to her father's wishes, submissive, passive... but no, vilified as the friend who wanted (I'm cackling who would want to marry him, she wouldn't want to marry no dragon in fact, she clearly is terrified of them) to marry an old and sick man, the father of her best friend, forced to birth child after child as was expected of her because of course she wants to strip her once best friend from her title of heir, yes, it is written on her face. This girl wasn't having a day of peace ever - two children when she was seventeen*, four when she wasn't even near her thirties. A girl, sold, raped, judged and denied justice.

But her good counterpart? Oh, how glorious and modern of her to lie, throw tantrums and rage around, hide behind her weak father's judgements and run away from facing her problems and faults.

Don't even get me started on others... Like Hurrem.

A girl, enslaved, probably saw her family and people die before her eyes, sold from one palace to another, denied to practice her religious beliefs, denied her own language, letters, freedom. Condemn to serve.

But you see, look how pretty she became. Let's gift her to the sultan

Who knows the things they threatened her with, she was, before being a concubine, a slave, property of the sultan, not a woman, a thing.

The inferno she had to endure before having a son, before getting her freedom and a legal marriage.

But yes, she is evil, she wants to kill a child, the child of the woman she hates, a child that won't hesitate to kill her sons.

Because it is the fraticide law. Even her own children would kill each other the moment their father died.

Even to this day, Hurrem isn't remembered as a girl - who suffered and raise up to have the best life she could fight for - she is remembered as the evil mother, playing her children to be against their brother, the wolf among sheep.

Both of them, done dirty by the narrative. Two women called monsters, when they are but two humans, two women who suffered and had to reinvent themselves in order to survive and continue. I doubt it was completely for their own selves, but for those who depended on them.

I could go on and on about so many others, but I'll just talk about this two blorbos.

#don't @ me to debate if you disagree #i won't answer #I'm just expressing that in the end I too will always be on the bad side #god where can we rewrite this shitty portrayals #alicent #alicent hightower #hotd alicent #hotd #pro team green #hurrem sultan #muhteşem yüzyıl #magnificent century #hurrem #blorbo from my shows #english is not my first language #so bear it with me

[charliewrites99]

Hot take maybe idk but as queer fans we should really stop just being ok with underwhelming romances, just because they are queer (yes this is about people talking like bucktommy/buckxsome-other-random-man endgame would be just as good as buddie endgame)

#I am talking endgame #I think tommy is a great love interest for now #But like you CANNOT be ok with exchanging that for the slow burn of the century #Bi buck is great #It will always mean so much #But lets then also give the queer characters the love story that they deserve #This whole debate makes me irrationally angry #buddie #911 #911 fox #eddie diaz #evan buckley #911 abc

[thatscarletflycatcher]

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#saw that bible books tournament blog #had to remind myself that probably most protestants using the word apocrypha don't know what it means #because it's always kinda shocking to me #“I'm not of a denomination that reads THE FALSE ADULTERATED BOOKS” #darling a little more respect #they may not be canon to you #but they were widely read and respected in Christianity for over 15 centuries #as *later* canon of course which is a different place than early canon #they are not at the same level as like... the gnostic gospels #but it also encapsulates that attitude of #oh there's this gap of centuries between the very early Christians and the reformation #where I guess everyone was doing christianity stupidly and wrong in all ways #okay i got it out of my system moving on #Christianity #Catholicism #tagging for the people that blacklist those #not to make this a debate

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Oh, would you look at that. Another TG/Alicent Stan insisting that nobody won the war right in Team Black’s tag.

They just love the attention, don’t they?

I love that whenever I block someone, Tumblr tells me “[that user] is history”. Tumblr, you are so right.

#I forgot the part where this was a debate. There is a winner. Unfortunately GRRM didn’t believe that people from this century would be this #clueless and not understand that this truly is about bloodlines. Hightowers wanted their blood on the throne and failed. #Daemon wanted his bloodline on the Iron Throne and he succeeded #Rhaenyra fought for House Targaryen who ended up winning #The war was literally won by the Black armies who occupied the capital and crowned their contender King #I doubt GRRM has the patience to spell the whole thing out to these fools #he hated the greens and gave the Blacks everything while keeping the necessary amount of tragedy for both sides for the sake of storytelling #team black #rhaenyra targaryen #pro team black #anti team green #queen rhaenyra #anti alicent hightower #anti greens #anti team green stans #anti alicent stans

[copper-skulls]

i've given my grillby dragon an umbrella and wanted to draw him standing under one since then. Well, lesson learned: UMBREALLAS ARE HARD TO DRAW

#two deaths related drawings #IF YOU. SQUINT ENOUGH. that's a td grillby dragon and that's td grillby fhak #grillby #undertale #fanart #traditional art #rough #i could PROBABLY construct a decent umbrella if given enough sketching space but fhaskd. not in trads lmao #I've been debating wherever folding umbrellas are a thing right now in td #bcs I'll be dragging some fire elementals through waterfall next chapter (!!!!!!!!!) so it might come up #....i think not but it's a cute image. the modern umbrella construction is apparently from the NINETEENTH (!!) CENTURY #(even though umbrellas in general are much MUCH older) #i think in TD's case raincoats are still the more practical and then used solution. I can fudge stuff with anachronisms with magic #influence but i think avoiding modern folding umbrellas for a bit is a good call here #.....anyways that cane is perhaps a bit too short. ah.

[cjinxrun]

I'm like halfway thru this book and Chava is an aromantic queen 👑 truly

The book is the golem and the jinni by Helene Wecker

#asexual #aromantic #aroace #the golem and the jinni #but like literally ive had this debate internally in my own brain tho #is she gonna articulate that shes ace? def not its the turn of the 20th century #but im such a big fan of the nuanced rep here

[hunxi-after-hours]

I would very dearly like to know more about the invention of Chinese language typewriters if you care to tell!

oooooh okay so there's actually a GREAT book I read about this earlier this year: Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu (who is, y'know, a Yale professor. casual)

she tracks several key figures over the course of a century and a half and the various contributions they made to the journey of the Chinese language through industrialization and into the 21st century. like, the difficulty of learning a logographic language with tones is well-known, but have you ever given thought to what the absolute nightmare of trying to communicate via telegraph in Chinese was? have you contemplated the magnificent horror of typewriter logistics with logographic characters, and the ensuing debate over whether or not Chinese characters are indivisible units? because yes radicals are a thing but 火 and 灭 and 烧 and 热 all technically have the same flame radical but it's shaped/proportioned differently in each, so what does THAT mean if you're trying to carve a physical stamp to put in a typewriter to be compatible with other radicals to form a comprehensible and shapely character?

anyways, Zhou Houkun is a hero because I think I simply would have wept and given up

#and the journey continues into the 21st century!! there are debates about Unicode!! #I haven't read many nonfiction books this year but they've all been fire #hunxi book tag