it’s insane how quickly your life can just. suddenly improve. i used to be so miserable but now i own 5 swords

All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

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New discourse: it's actually predatory to date someone with a different star sign than you, because the differences in your personalities means you'll never be able to have exactly the same life experiences, thus leaving a knowledge and power gap between the two of you which will inevitably lead to an abusive relationship!

also if you're a Sag and you're dating a Taurus, that means you're secretly seeking a May-December relationship, which is age gap coded!

i drew my funniest core memory

we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

Then there's a third stance that, only tangentially related to the minor god, the academy's attempt to update the philisophical language was poorly thought-out to begin with, and not nearly as objective as it was touted as being. That they chose to sacrifice this minor god to preserve a limited pantheon, by defining godhood itself on arbitrary and irrelevant measures, rather than entertain the idea of a much broader pantheon than first thought. Their effort was not a dismissal of myth, but a misguided attempt to set it in stone, even though mythology is as ever-evolving as our philisophical understanding is.

And regardless of which side of the fence you're on, this decision undermined public understanding of the whole affair. Those in favor of the academy's decision stand behind their poor measures of definition, and thereby implicitly supporting the underlying notion behind that update; that the mythology should not change any more, and the philisophical language must bend to preserve that, rather than accepting the incompleteness of even their understanding.

Meanwhile on the other side, the majority of the detractors of the decision do so for the wrong reasons, themselves with the underlying assumption that the mythology should not change or the philisophical language be updated, and so objecting on that ground. Yet ironically, this has led to a radical breaking of trust in the academy and the mythology alike, leading to the construction or adoption of completely different mythologies based on poorly-considered superstition rather than any sort of coherent philisophical language, and making poor decisions based on that. It is of course a cultural paradigm that was happening outside of the scope of merely this updates's impact, but that did likely bolster it significantly.

Fortunately, another group of philosophers within the academy have given consideration to the matter, and have another possible update to the philisophical language ready. They would re-redefine those definitions in a far, far more sensible and relevant manner, with the restoration of that minor god as an incidental benefit to the main purpose of having a generally more useful measure in the philisophical language with which to discuss the pantheon and any potential additions thereof.

Unfortunately, it is uncertain to unlikely that the rest of the academy would be willing to make this revision now that they have committed so hard to the original update. And even if they did and philosophical understanding was allowed to progress again, this would be extremely unlikely to undo the social consequences of the original decision, now that so many have rejected the core philosophy and mythology altogether.

we have an academy charged with creating the ideal philosophical language. sometimes the philosophical language is obv not english but other times it is. which creates problems. because english is the language of a culture, its words have their own definitions, etc. there are even mythological creatures that rely on the words. why wouldn't there be? people learn some words of the philosophical language in school.

sometimes the academy pushes an update to the philosophical language and deletes a mythological creature by accident. mythology is entirely outside their magisterium - they're philosophers, not priests or poets - but it's also downstream of it. so some inscrutable thing rolls over somewhere and deletes a minor god. of course people get mad about it! he was a minor god, but aren't all our gods worth protecting? our children won't grow up with our lore...

then other people get mad at the first people for not respecting the supremacy of natural philosophers, for thinking something as silly as myth could ever matter. for being so paranoid that maybe they don't like this business of a linguistic academy at all. words mean what their speakers say they mean, not what some academy somewhere wants it to mean. why should a hierarchy of people you've never met tell you what your words mean? why should we have an academy at all? what is this, the continent?

it's entirely inconsequential, of course, unless you have an opinion on myth, or on the supremacy of the philosophers, or on the relative merits of democracy and oligarchy.

The cars engine sounds like it’s in good condition

before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

Why are so many people tagging bocchi the rock posts with hitori bocchi no marumaru seikatsu

Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

why not

Did u see that some freak copied ur poll idea but did it to attack palestinian bloggers because one of them said something bad about ofmd. They even put a guy whos going thru the genocide in gaza on the poll and tagged him in it.

oh jesus fucking christ. nows the time to note there was an influx of about 20 submissions of "hamas fandom" and "free palestine" fandom which were all deleted (obviously) so I'd guess it's the same people

should go without saying but I'll say it anyway. fuck zionists. fuck israel. all love and support to palestinians and their inevitable freedom, israel cannot keep a hold over your people forever and I believe palestine will see freedom. and the people running that blog are cunts.