#tw: real people faces

[transillusionisms]

holy SHIT i hate antis. guys did you know if you lie about a community you can make it look like you're the good guys

#pine speaks #it's like arguing with a brick wall bro #''pro c doesn't inherently mean pro abuse. there are people who r therians & dating zoos and they might consider that pro c for zoophilia'' #and then they respond like ''real life animals can't consent to sex and you are a horrible person for saying they can'' bitch that's #a whole new sentence!!! #or like. you can be romantic with a dog i don't fuckin care #BECAUSE IT'S NOT HARMING THE DOG. the dog does not CARE you are kissing her on her face the dog does not CARE you call her your gf #or like maps who date transage kids #that could be pro c too!!! #but that would require them to LISTEN when we talk and why would they do that #antirq tw

[rubiesintherough]

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#(( ooc. )) #venting tw #negativity tw #gonna try to do some writing today but motivation is real low. #i guess that's what happens when you get called stupid useless and lazy to your face by someone who then expects you #to bow and scrape and wait on them hand and foot #and also now im expected to pay the electric bill on top of doing all the housework. literally all of it. in a home of 3 #fucking adults. and bow im also the one having to handle a lot of maintenance work around the place on top of keeping #it spotless bc no one else 'feels like doing it' #and the whole time i get to be insulted and told that im fat. stupid. lazy. while im cleajing up their messes. and fixing stuff for them. #and doing a bunch of cooking bc they get pissy if i dont also feed them on top of doing literally all the housework. and maintenance work. #and also now being expected to pay half the electric bill. again house of 3 people. and im not even allowed to take a hot shower when i need #to in order to get the pain spikes under control from yknow. flaring up my fibro from overworking myself CLEANING AND TAKING CARE OF THE #DAMN HOUSE FOR THEM #bc it takes too much electricity. the electricity i mostly paid for last month #sorry i needed to get that out #suicide tw #abuse tw #not me debating offing myself bc theres no end in sight and no way out and i cant keep going from one abusive situation to another #and just trying to survive. almost 30 yrs old and ive never once felt safe or at home anywhere ive ever lived. not once. in almost 30 #years have i ever felt safe. or like im my own person. or that im valued. or wanted. or listened to. not once in almost 30 years #have i ever felt like im actually loved (wanted) beyond my usefullness. #shit sucks man. anyway sorry for the spam of negativity lately. im not trying to be a downer. #gonna go hang out in my inbox for a while and see if anything pops out that my muses wanna jump on 🤞

[midnightactual]

Physical Constraints in Bleach

I've said for a while that Bleach has exactly two known and quantified physical feats in 1. Gin's Bankai speed being given as Mach 500 (chapter 400), and 2. Rukia's Shikai and Bankai achieving absolute zero (chapter 567), but it turns out there is a third in chapter 582:

For the record, per Wikipedia:

6 gigajoule is about the chemical energy of combusting 1 barrel (159 L) of petroleum. 2 GJ is about the Planck energy unit. One megawatt-hour of electricity is 3.6 gigajoules.

and

The terajoule is about 0.278 GWh (which is often used in energy tables). About 63 TJ of energy was released by Little Boy.

So, if you do some simple math, 63 TJ is 63,000 GJ, meaning Candice is using 1/12,600th the power of Little Boy on a decently serious attack. Little Boy is best estimated to 15 KT of explosive yield, meaning Candice is using a little over 1 ton of TNT, and indeed a TNT equivalent is calibrated at 4.184 GJ.

Even if we're extremely generous and assume her later Electrocution fired at Ichigo in chapter 583 is 10,000 times stronger than the Galvano Javelin cited above (100 to 1,000 is probably more accurate), she's only getting to 10 KT of yield, which is a small tactical nuke. Even very strong Bleach characters are generally using attacks with absolute powers measured at the low-end of the tactical nuclear scale.

(I have had someone on Reddit argue with me that the Bambies are "mid-Espada level" based on their combat performance in CFYOW as compared with Grimmjow and Luppi, apparently wholly ignorant of the fact that Grimmjow and Luppi are much stronger by then than in HM Arc, as Kisuke explicitly states souls power up after near-death experiences [chapter 60] and Grimmjow has had at least 2 or 3 near-death experiences and Luppi actually died. They are likely much stronger than Starrk in HM Arc was by then, given Robert Accutrone in TYBW quite casually does much better against Shunsui than Starrk did. The Bambies are not weak. Also worth noting here that Bambietta is by Kubo's own admission stronger than Candice without Blut, unclear if Vene or Arterie. In short their attacks should be taken as quite high-end here, not low-end, especially as they just finished beating down a [substantially] weakened Kenpachi with all of 3 hits in chapter 580.)

As I've said before from just visual estimation, we can maybe say that Mugetsu Ichigo and Ultrafragor Aizen were in the 1 MT to 10 MT yield range and managed to get to the level of strategic nuclear weapons, but it's worth noting the largest bomb ever tested was Tsar Bomba at around 50 MT (209 PJ), or 5,000 times stronger than our extremely generous estimate of Candice's Electrocution, and it was a 100 MT design that had been partially disabled. (Nuclear weapons can be made arbitrarily large through staging.)

Anyone wanting to put Ichigo head-to-head with Goku, Saitama, or even Naruto, is on the basis of canon figures, an idiot. The series simply does not scale that high. Even Naruto does things that are on the order of gigaton or teraton nuclear weapons if not more.

Likewise, that neither Ichigo nor Aizen could dodge Gin's Bankai, and Gin's peers and contemporaries remained relevant into TYBW, means that Bleach's speed scaling likely never breaks Mach 1,000. For the record, the powerscalers want you to believe that Cero and Negación are lasers because a translated databook called them "light" and Bala are stated to be 20 times faster than Cero, and therefore even Lieutenants are moving at 20 times light speed... which would be Mach 17,480,600. Yet nobody can dodge Gin's Mach 500 attack. Sure, that makes perfect sense.

In other words, when powerscalers try to tell you that Bleach has continental or planetary or stellar or galactic or universal or dimensional feats, and is superluminal, they're full of shit. Bleach is an extremely small and constrained setting when it comes to both power and speed.

The Cold War nuclear forces of the USA or USSR could absolutely sweep Soul Society through sheer saturation, no diff. (And that includes Yamamoto, because his 15 million degrees Celsius Zanka no Tachi, Nishi: Zanjitsu Gokui is pretty weak compared to the 100 million degrees Celsius or higher fireballs of strategic nukes. This explains why Bazz-B could literally fight fire with fire against him. Maybe Mayuri could survive through trickery if he knows enough about ablation. And yes, those nuclear forces would eventually saturate speedy Shinigami with tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, they couldn't cut them all down, especially as they wouldn't perceive many of them coming from both the speed of reentry vehicles and the lack of reiatsu or reishi. And yes this does also mean that human nuclear weapons development should've concerned Shinigami greatly, even beyond the possibility of megadeath and gigadeath overwhelming the reincarnation cycle. And yes you can probably make the equivalent of a Naquadah-enhanced nuke from Stargate SG-1 using reishi or reiatsu to improve fission and fusion yields or just straight-up make the equivalent of an antimatter-catalyzed fusion bomb. Humans post-Trinity should be treated as being spooky if their governments learn about souls. Yes, this should have been considered the main reason to stop Yhwach and Tokinada's plans, as if the realms were merged, even the US of 2003/2004 would indisputably have military power over the Gotei 13.)

#Out Of Character #Bleach #Meta #Long Post #Real World TW #Politics Mention TW #[ it's not a bad thing that Bleach's constraints are low ] #[ it's a lot more reasonable ] #[ limits are good ] #[ working within limits is good for a story ] #[ Bleach being quite constrained should be celebrated ] #[ not bemoaned because it prevents characters from ] #[ being smashed together like action figures ] #[ fuck powerscalers and fuck the powerscaling community ] #[ answers right in front of their faces and they can't see them ] #[ don't get me started again on the sizes of ] #[ the Seireitei and Las Noches ] #[ and people actually thinking they're as big as ] #[ Alaska and France ] #[ and that Gremmy summoned ] #[ the Texas-sized asteroid from Armageddon (1998) ] #[ no this series is small and closed-in ] #[ take your imagined feats and shove'em ]

[fioletowyfacet]

The mental image of Profirio shaking hands with Jimmy Carter is hilarious because I imagine he looks at least a little feral.

//at least he's not a commie

#;ask #central hub of chaos #tw blood #//i hope jimmy carter looks okay i have never drawn jimmy carter 39th president of the united states before #//the last time i tried an even slightly stylized image of a real person #//was when my little sister needed a face for her marie curie puppet in elementary school (i had to be in middle school at the oldest) #//also i can draw realistic people but if you make me do that for a meme with porfy in it i think someone might get pneumonia

[carcinized]

some of yall have never had any expereinces with how scary gun violence can be and it shows. maybe instead of laughing at those of us with trauma and poking fun at those who've died you should be grateful your country has fucking laws protecting you

#gun violence tw #like yeah none of u would do it to someones face i know that. but its so exhausting seeing that all the time & having extremely traumatic #memories triggered. and then theres just this burning rage and grief because those are REAL PEOPLE who died. KIDS who died #and youre making their deaths and their communitys grief some cheap punchline. #its always fucking europeans like i love u guys but u are so lucky to be safe from firearms. #in many US states its literally legal to carry around a concealed firearm. pretty much anywhere. #yes you need a liscense to obtain it legally (unless its a ghost gun but thats a different story) but some kid can take parents gun & yk. #its . scarily easy to get your hands on a gun here even in states with the tightest laws like where i live. #its just like.... hey guys. maybe this isnt as funny as u think #tobin talks

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Family Methods

[ Suicide Squad: Get Joker! #3 ]

As much as I rag on this story for implying Jason’s trauma-induced spidey-senses activate when the joker walks into the room, there was some rare mockery of Bruce’s side of the ever-so-tiresome morality debate.

Like, ah yes,

the pinnacle of morality

#the batfamily way #anytime somebody says Bruce *just wants* to help the people he confronts and his heart bleeds for them #a silly little montage plays in my mind of Bruce just absolutely tenderizing his adversaries #if there’s anyone who hasn’t thought through his moral stance it’s Bruce with his polarizing behavior #he makes sure some dudes’ hands will ‘never work again’ in batman & robin 20 #he revels in watching deacon blackfire begging to make it stop while he beats him to a bloody pulp #smashes a dude’s skull against a brick wall #so many comics/media explicitly show that Bruce has no qualms about tormenting people to get what he needs #and he does it with a smile on his face #not trying to claim this makes him unlikable as a character #just that maybe he shouldn’t be held as the gold standard for moral goodness #dc’s scramble to make Batman simultaneously a saintly little angel and the toughest badassest vigilante who is unbeatable #call that the Real morality debate #my post #tw gore #tw blood

[chronicangelca]

Just a reminder of what this conflict actually, tangibly means for the Jews in your life while you get to sit at your desk untouched by this violence.

#Antisemitism #Current Events #Israeli-Palestinian Conflict #TW: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict #And of course Muslim people are also facing increased rates of violence too #I'm not ignoring that #I'm saying that maybe if you aren't personally affected by this conflict (such as being at increased risk of violence) #It's time to shut the fuck up #What do you actually think you're doing by tweeting and reblogging and sharing on Facebook? #You are doing nothing to concretely support the civilians who are suffering #Or the global victims of antisemitic and Islamophobic violence #Next time you think about hitting reblog on a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a white goy #Donate a dollar to UNICEF or Save the Children or the URNWA #If you do this every time you think about sharing a post that cannot possibly affect you in any way #You will probably have donated hundreds of dollars while refusing to spread information that palpably leads to violence #If you find that you cannot afford to donate to those organizations every time you think about this #Then perhaps you cannot afford to have so many opinions #Because you are not helping anyone and you are concretely making things worse for real people

[shynerdwantscuddles]

News flash sexism and misogyny still exist even if tumblr.com says they don't, and you don’t necessarily have to even be a woman to be a target of it. Some of you need to stop coddling cis men even when they’re clearly in the wrong and hold them to the same standards you do for trans people and cis women; otherwise, you're participating in the above.

#I see so many people fight tooth and nail #on this site to defend cis men #even when they’re clearly in the wrong #or they give them the benefit of the doubt on every single thing they do #and allow them to be completely exempt from recognizing any of their own privileges #while they hold everyone else to ten times that standard #and will find any bs reason under the sun to go after anyone else #news flash cis men have to actually recognize their own privileges too or will never get any where #stop coddling them #and hold them to the same standards as the rest of us #some of us are still being held under the thumb of shitty cis men who use their privilege against us #and it’s a real slap in the face to see people do everything in their power to baby them #and make sure they never have to take responsibility for anything #while your freedom is being taken away by the cis men around you every day of your life #my post #posts that will be seen as controversial but shouldn’t be #tw sexism #tw transphobia #tw misogyny

[lesbiradshaw]

love characters with scars and birthmarks because it’s like they have a motif built into their body without me even having to make stuff up

#girls when they see evan buckley compare his birthmark to a stain or imperfection he’ll never be able to get rid of in a fic -> 😧 #also girl when they see steve rogers arm scar/nose bump related to the serum not being able to ‘fix’ every imperfection #&girls when they see bradley bradshaws facial scars related to sumn ab him having healed from old hurts but still having trouble hiding them #blah blah something something about it being the more literal verion of wearing ur heart on ur sleeve #or having a chip on ur shoulder #percabeth was my first taste of the ships w matching scars trope and i never got over it #buck and eddies scars lining up when theyre face to face kinda makes me feel crazy like they literally have a line connecting their hearts.. #dont think tw werewolves really scar but ? liam getting shot in the leg and theo in the shoulder in the finale kinda makes me feel crazy too #bc it corresponds even if it doesn’t directly match . and its only that way bc theo tried to shield him #lord. #another day of feeling crazy over gay people that arent even real #carolcore

[doctorwhoisadhd]

oh my GOD. cries

#THE SCENE WHERE JACK DANCES WITH JACK IM FUCKING JDKSHFJSJFJSAAAAAAim going insane. #its so sad and so sweet #AUGHHHHH #and the symbolism #THE SYMBOLISM #THE WAY OUR JACKS FACE IS IN THE LIGHT AND THE REAL JACKS FACE ISNT FUCKKKKKK #IM INSANE NOW. GAY PEOPLE #ari opinion hour #tw #captain jack harkness #not bonff

[mechahero]

//Okay but the skin on Lambda's face being stretched thin enough to fit over a metal coated skull to the point where if you look hard enough you can see the lines where the parts connect.

#//but also it looks enough like his normal face at the same time #//idk i'm just thinking about how weird he looks to people again and how he could look even weirder #//the chance to hammer in the horror is always there even if it kind of sounds edgy #//and it probably is let's be real here #//slaps him like the roof of a car #//THERE'S ALWAYS WAYS TO PHYSICALLY DEMONSTRATE HOW HE'S BEEN FORCIBLY RIPPED AWAY FROM HIS HUMANITY #backup log {ooc} #tw body horror #//tagging as that bc i think it counts

[ickypuppi3]

they really assassinated two characters for one dumb side plot. like. i’ll never be able to take Karen seriously again. i was rooting for her before that mess.

LITERALLY

like she was a pretty alright mum from what i remember? she was there for mike and nancy and i felt bad for her with the whole ‘ted being a crappy husband’ thing

but as soon as the character in their mid/late 30’s tries to get in a 17 year olds pants? fuck that

i genuinely can’t watch any scenes of her anymore without thinking about it

and what purpose did it actually serve like-

billy died

she never had to take accountability

and it was never mentioned again

just fucked up all around

#billy hargrove #tw karen wheeler #stranger things #asks #a real fucking slap in the face to people who relate to that situation too #man i HATE THE DUFFERS #what the actual fuck #they’re working their way through the child abuse list #trying to tick each one off #for what #shock value #a shitty reference #?? #i say it again #fuck. the. duffers.

[wowbright]

Redemptive (?) Violence in Two Scorsese Films: Goncharov (1973) and Silence (2016)

Tons has been written about the parallels between Goncharov and Scorsese's other mafia movies. But thematically, i wonder if we're not collectively missing something by considering its similarities to Scorsese's definitively non-mafia masterpiece, Silence (2016).

On the surface, these two movies don't seem to have a lot in common. Goncharov is--well, you know the plot. Silence (2016), on the other hand, is a historical drama about a persecuted Christian community in feudal Japan. And man, is it brutal. More brutal then all of Scorsese's mafia films combined. (I'm not joking here. After the initial scenes, I could not continue watching this film in increments longer than 5 minutes. It's a good film--a great film--but I absolutely do not recommend watching it to anyone.)

Silence, for those who aren't familiar, follows a pair of Portuguese Jesuit priests trying to shepherd their Japanese parish through government persecution. It's hard to watch because it's just one brutal martyrdom after martyrdom in this small community.

But unlike with cinematic narratives of Joan of Arc or even of the crucifixion of Christ himself, nothing good seems to come out of this sacrificial violence. We see people being burned alive, being crucified, being humiliated and tortured and killed in a myriad of ways--and there is no redemption in it. The martyrs don't express unalloyed joy in the face of their suffering. The musical score never wells up to ensure us that, yes, this pain and death was worth it.

It's just grim and awful and meaningless.

It's so bad that the Portuguese Jesuit missionary who serves as a priest in the community starts begging the believers to deny Christ publicly. They can believe it in their hearts, in the safety of their homes and village, but if anyone asks, they are not Christian. He assures them God will forgive them, because he cannot imagine this meaningless slaughter is what God wants.

Ultimately, Christians in the audience are prompted to wonder if even the crucifixion of Christ was worth it, if it was truly redemptive, or if it was just as grim and bleak and purposeless as every death portrayed in the film.

When I rewatch Goncharov, I see a young Scorsese struggling with the same themes. Sure, the characters in the film are terrible people, nothing like the good-hearted Japanese peasants portrayed in Silence. But Scorsese plays with the same ideas around redemptive violence. In Christianity, the death of martyrs is supposed to be redemptive by instructing and giving hope to other Christians. In Goncharov, we expect the deaths of Ice Pick Joe and Bruno and all those other horrible people to be redemptive in the sense that they are getting their just desserts, and by sacrificing them on the altar of death, we *should* be saving countless lives (because they can no longer kill).

But in Goncharov, these deaths are just as meaningless as the ones in Silence. Nothing good comes out of these people dying; the slaughter continues unabated. If anything, the pace increases, and the characters we thought could be redeemed fall further and further into hopelessness and despair.

The problem with Goncharov, and Scorsese's other mafia movies, is that the thrill of living underground, of having an alternate society, of pursuing riches and power at the expense of good--all those things seduce the viewer into romanticizing the struggles the characters go through. Scorsese's point might be that the violence is pointless and better avoided, but the audience is hesitant to adopt the same view.

So in a very real sense, Silence is a continuation of what Scorsese was trying to do with Goncharov. 40-plus years on in his career, though, Scorsese has learned to strip away every vestige of romanticism to ensure he gets his point across. No one is rich, no one is sexy. No one is engaged in a decades-long quest for revenge. No one is trying to set things right, to correct things, to make things even.

In Silence, violence is stripped down to its true essentials. It is cruel. It is unjust. It offers no hope.

These are also the things that Goncharov communicates. But they are communicated in a more palatable form, in a film you don't have to pause every 5 minutes just to get through, in a narrative where you can distract yourself with glamor and romance and what-ifs.

Look, I'm not condemning Goncharov fans for enjoying those things about the movie. Scorsese wanted you to enjoy them. He put them in there so you could actually get through the movie and receive its message at the end.

There's a risk that you won't get the message. But there's also a risk that you won't get the message in Silence, because chances are you're going to stop watching it before it's even finished.

And carrying out that narrative in both ways--in one version that is glamorized and easy to swallow, in another that is sparse and almost impossible to bear-- that's its own kind of genius.

#goncharov #silence 2016 #martin scorsese #goncharov meta #unreality #goncharov is unreality #silence however is a very real film and I will always regret watching it #but also not regret watching it #and I think everything I said about it is probably fairly accurate but let's face it I could not watch it more than once so #there might be some slight inaccuracies but they aren't intentional #also why can't I find the community tags in my options right here in my editing area on my Android app #cuz I'm pretty sure I need to tag this for violence #long post #also thank you Wil Wheaton for Bruno #seriously why haven't people up and run with that yet? #or have they and I just haven't seen it #tw violence #cw violence

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

there's a "tulpa" blog called @/protectingtuplas posting in the cpunk and cfs tags so I recommend blocking them if disability faking/transabled shit is a trigger for you.

#transabled tw #disability faking tw #ableism tw #for those of you unaware tulpamancy is a religious practice where someone conjures a separate person to occupy their mind alongside them #it's a real religious aspect that shouldn't be mocked or discriminated against but finding an actual practicing tulpamancer is rare #tulpas here on tumblr mainly believe that being a system is a choice and erase the suffering that many systems face #they're the same as most disability fakers and transabled in that they want all the positives of having a condition and none of the negativ #and when people call them out on that they claim to be oppressed