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So it isn't normal to laugh hysterically every time the eye doctor puffs your eye
#my mum went next and it didn't even phase her#the examiner was able to get it done in half the time#i feel bad but also HOW do you keep your composure for that?#also apparantly my presctription hasn't changed in 5 years which he said is unheard of#ig i am becoming ubermensch eat my dust </3
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✍️ ASTRO NOTES: loyalty edition ✍️
Preface: Sexual matters have more than just sex in it. Humans are not like animals that mate simply because it is mating season and they are in heat. Humans have greater consciousness and ego attitude. Humans have mental life that can form thoughts, judgments, ideas. Humans have emotional life that can feel happiness, bittnerness, shame. Humans have spiritual life where they see fantasies, archetypal images, do magical thinking (like astro, tarot, divination are magical/irrational thinking). Therefore, we should look at a combination of things when it comes to people.
I have had mixed experience with fire placements. Two people I know both had sun and mercury in 1st house. One native was a self-proclaimed ubermensch, selfish, promiscuous uncomitting, had double standards (i can do whatever i want). The other one is assertive, forceful, faithful to their partner and had double standards (I can do whatever I want). They don't even consider the wants of other people. They are like "Okay, I am done doing what I wanted, party over everyone. Now bye".
Aries and Scorpio are both ruled by Mars, both can be aggressive and bad tempered but the Aries anger is like candle flame (1) quickly lit and quickly blown out but the Scorpio anger is like charcoal (2) takes time to lit - stays hot for longer periods of time - hard to cool down. You can find a Scorpio still angry over something that happened years ago or even happened in their imagination.
Aries v/s Scorpio anger
If you want a faithful partner, their sun or moon should be in a water sign. This is especially for male partners because faithfulness is a personal value. I remember reading how people were shocked that Jay Z could cheat on Beyonce because she is so beautiful, rich, talented!! I think that most people don't understand what it means to be in a relationship. It is about personal value which comes from feelings. Personal value is not taught in school or it is not something you can memorize. Feelings and emotions are two different things. Feeling is how you relate to others. For example, if you feel empathetic for someone going through a tough time, you are using your feeling function. It is the difference between men who say "men are hunters, we are primitives, we want to spread our seeds for better survival of our offspring, we need many women, we are built like that, we think with our dicks" and then there are men who say "My wife is enough for me because I have a deep attachment to her, I cannot betray my feelings for her, I cannot separate my feelings from sex and I only want sex with someone whom I feel love and attachment for".
I would recommend doing tarot pull for each zodiac sign to understand the archetypes better. Zodiac sign = personality; tarot card = subpersonalities within each zodiac sign. It makes reading personalities so much rich experience because each sign has many sub-dimensions and tarot can tell what dimension you are experiencing at a given time.
Fire placements can stay faithful but it is out of convention not feelings for their partner. For example, in their society it is frowned upon to cheat so they resist cheating to keep social image. Sometimes I think that fire placements do a lot of behaviour for social image/performance even if there are no feelings involved. For example, sending 100 roses to their partner as a gift, not because they actually value their partner that much but because it is textbook definition of love and socially admired, it will make them look like a great lover in public.
Look at the relationship with mom, moon sign and house to figure out how a man perceives women, if he is capable of being in relationship and if he is willing to work on marriage or just wants a wedding for formality, household work, children etc.
I like to divide people in different lives, it helps understanding people better. A person has physical life, emotional life, spiritual life, material life, mental life, sexual life, for instance, a man can be sitting on date with you but emotionally he is connected to some other woman. He is physically there but emotionally not. A man can have a great job and bank balance but he is addicted to alcohol. This man is materially fulfilled but spiritually unfulfilled. A man regularly has good sex and that too with many women (or regularly has good sex with wife) and yet gives them all cold shoulder and does not respect/prioritize them. This man has an active sexual life but he is emotionally hollow. Two lives can or cannot align together.
In addition to above, people have a social and private life too. Socially what appears to be such a loving and friendly couple can be totally cold and detached in private life. How shocking! A lot of people do live a perfect enviable life socially, they can recite quotes and wisdom like no ones else but if you get closer to their private life you see how they are opposite of their social image. And if we are not careful, we ourselves can be in delusion and think that we have great life when actually we do not. For example, girls stay in abusive relationship for years because emotionally they think that there is great love and passion even if physically the partner is abusive to them. Then they move on and say 'I always had a gut feeling that something was wrong' it was their spiritual life warning them of what they were not mentally aware. So, it is sometimes recommended to do some serious self reflection if our physical, emotional, mental lives are aligned or we are only living in fantasies.
There are no rule books for life. This is why earlier when I was not much into astro, I used to watch motivational videos/how to content/generic advice for everyone and felt like it would not work for me. But with astro, it helps me be specific to figure out what things will work for me and what will not, based on my personality traits, strengths and weaknesses.
In order to figure out a person's sexuality, we look at their venus and mars planets. We also look at their mother and father complex because the relation with the parent is (taboo trigger) quite incestual on emotional level. When we are born, we are emotionally enmeshed with our parents especially mom. When we grow up, it is now time to break up the enmeshment, this is why in psychology we say that to individuate means to take responsibility for your life and have minimal emotional connection with parents. This sounds like cruelty but it is not.
What I am yet to understand is that if father is sun and mother is moon then why do we only look at mars and venus for sexuality? Sun and moon are just as important factors to determine sexuality. I am not sure if this will offend someone but it is often studied how people who are asexual/LGBTQ or even transgender have some kind of negative mother/father complex (even if it doesn't appear in physical life, it can be emotionally, mentally, spiritually).
Thanks for reading and to be continued.
#aries#taurus#gemini#cancer#pisces#leo#aquarius#sagittarius#scorpio#astro tumblr#astro notes#astrology#astrology blog#astro community#astro observations#astro placements#astroblr#astrology observations
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Going in circles
There has been a lot of talk about how Gen V is about social media and stage parents but the underlying theme of this season is the cycle of violence that leads to abuse and revenge cycles. It's a positive feedback loop that makes .
Since Gen V is inspired by The Boys comic arc that was a parody of X-Men this is something that was, of course, always staple of X-Men comics/movies/shows. But X-Men stories in their core tend to be optimistic/aspirational. The Boys universe is much more cynical than that. In the end bad guys win or they at least spin their loses their way so they can hold on to power.
Marie, Jordan, Andre and Emma really believed in the ideas sold to them by the marketing team. But the humans they were trying to save were exactly the ones who never treated them to people. Ones who perpetuated the cycles f abuse - from the moment they were given Compound V to all the stages of deciding who is and isn't valuable. They aren't the ones who lead Vought when it all started but they do the same thing again and again because it's profitable. And when it comes to bite them they try to weasel their way out of any responsibility by appealing to the better nature of those who they abused. And so, so many real life abuses seem to use this to escape culpability. Using the "be better than those who wrong you" as the most cynical way to save their own asses.
It doesn't mean that the rest of the non-powered humans don't have a reason to blame supes. Both the Boys and Shetty are not wrong in the assessment that supes always will a leave a trail of blood behind them - both intentional and accidental. From powers manifesting in the disastrous way, through accidents while using them to abuses of power to avoid consequences and finally malice. Supes are human and do exactly the same things but their impact is so much greater and so is their body count. It's gets horrifying because she's not blaming Vought who created this whole problem. Instead she's uses Vought's own torture factory to try her hand at genocide. It's hard to really feel bad about Cardosa and Shetty's death when we just saw them killing some kids in even more horrible way.
Cate was betrayed by every human she trusted. And the worst was that even though Shetty loved her she still drugged her to dampen her powers (those blue pills reference even more clear after latest Matrix movie) and then used her to help with genocide of her own kind. So she gathers all other abused supes and they all go on a rampage because how you can ever trust any one of them if they even corrupt love like that. Being one of "the good ones" didn't really work out. And because this is the time where the ultimate power of Vought propaganda machine lies with a supe it's all swept under the rug by Homelander.
He's done appealing to mudnon-powered people . The one place X-Men doesn't really go in stories like that is the people who go against their own interests because the ideology allows them to feel superior to another group. And they think they'd be spared. It's the voting for Leopards Eating People's Faces Party all over again. Homelander knows now that there are humans who still will follow him (steeped in American exceptionalism and dreams of ubermensch as he is - BTW I don't think it's a coincidence that both Cate and Sam are the kind of Guardians of Godolkin Stormfront would approve of unlike original versions). He just needs supes who think the same as him instead of believing things like non-powered humans are human too. Someone who is not going to bulk at thing he wants to do.
And the boys would do anything to stop him. I'm pretty sure the virus is not out of the picture yet. Between Neumann container and Butcher finding the infected bodies there still might be attempt to use it. After all it's still in pre fully genocidal form. And Marie surviving Homelander's blast may have taught Neumann she might have enough time to pop Homelander's head - especially if he's a bit sick.
In this cycle people who try to stop it are also part of the problem. It too often leads to letting those in power stay in power so the injustices can carry on. Marie uses the system that was designed against her to stop the massacre and it hurts her too. Andre risks brain damage saving helicopter coming to rescue Vought Board. Jordan almost gets overwhelmed and mind controlled protecting them. And Vought will continue doing what they did to babies and any supe they deem faulty product. Believing the heroes will come and save them gets them locked in a doorless room.
We see how appealing to their opponents better nature doesn't work. Maverick cannot break mind control. Sam chose it over conscience. All Emma gets for trying is being made to feel small.
In the end all trying to be heroic got them is being labelled as traitor and scapegoated. And I don't think it's an accident that of this group only Emma is white (although it's nice that the only couple that survived this in neither includes white people nor is straight).
And so the cycle goes. Non-powered humans abuse supes and supes abuse those humans and each sides has a list of atrocities perpetrated on them they use to justify to atrocities they commit. While the people who caused and profit from it this stay in power.
This is even made even more relevant by real life events reminding us about the real, horrible human toll of such cycles hatred. The real excuses that are used to justify violence against innocents by feeding populations a revenge fantasy dressed as justice aren't all that different. And so isn't using it to keep power and gather more assets. But in stories we can hope good guys will eventually win. History teaches us that, in real life, it always ends with those having power behind them getting all the spoils. Everyone can count themselves lucky if they get a half-assed apology too late to count for anything.
#gen v#gen v spoilers#the boys#the boys universe#godolkin university#marie moreau#andre anderson#jordan li#emma meyer#cate dunlap#sam riordan#homelander#vought#gen v season 1#god u
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alright yeah if we're gonna go into it - that post fails on its own merits, too because... you're not actually 'giving the power away'!
the whole, entire conceit of superhero media is that you cannot share this power. you are strong and everyone else is helpless and weak. using your power to defend them does not change the fact that you are separate from and above them - the helpless public are not somehow being given the power to defend themselves and act on their own, they still have to wait for the special body of a strong-armed man to come and save them. it's a charity mindset - there are people who need to be helped, and people who can help. what it is not is empowerment of any sort. if spiderman goes away, it's not like the passengers of a runaway subway-train will somehow have developed the skills to stop the train on their own. they don't have webs and super-strength - he still has all the power!
and like, furthermore, that's not fucking 'leftism'! it's 'sheep and sheepdogs' ideology, which is one of the most common, shared reactionary framings of violence! the public at large being weak and witless, preyed upon by dangerous people separate from the public, and needing to be defended by the brave few - that is exactly the view that both your garden-variety concealed-carrier as well as any given neonazi would hold! by this metric, the home-invasion scene in American History X would qualify as some sort of radical anarchist hope-punk masterpiece! 'but the ubermensch do Good things' is a silly, watsonian angle that presupposes that 'thinking the stuff you're doing is Good and not Bad' is some quality unique to 'leftism' - and ignores entirely the ideas communicated by the existence of ubermensch within a story someone's telling
the underlying gist of the whole argument - that reactionary concepts in culture comes from Above, packaged into media at some unseen point, and that the engagement by the audience is somehow free from that reaction - is silly and defensive. the way The People engage with the power fantasy is not going to magically be pure and 'leftist', they still Live In A Society as much as the writers do
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Am I the only person who doesn’t like Wonder Woman and thinks she is, in fact, a Mary Sue? I haven’t read or watched much with her in it so maybe I’m just basing my opinions on one Wonder Woman book I read where I thought she was written poorly.
But I don’t know. She’s literally everything a modern woman is supposed to be (sexy, strong, righteous, soft, etc.) and she never struggles. She’s always right, she never makes mistakes, and she’s very boring to me as a result. I haven’t seen the recent film, but I dislike the fact that they made her love babies. A lot of pressure is put on women to love babies/children and/or want one of their own, and if a woman doesn’t like or want them then she’s seen as a cold, callous bitch. So to me, that part seems like the writers put it in thinking ‘see she’s not an evil man hating feminist you guys, she loves babies!’
Idk. I know she’s seen as THE role model for women and girls but I just can’t understand her appeal. What exactly do you like about her?
Hello there!
As someone who grew up with a lot of Wonder Woman content, I have to personally disagree!
Like any major superhero, Wonder Woman gets a lot of good content and plenty of bad content, too.
Yes, she's idealized - but almost all superheroes are idealized. Superman is literally a mirror of the philosophical concept of the "Ubermensch," a term coined by Nietzsche meaning "superman" and describing an ideal human being. By this standard, he could also be described as a Mary Sue!
But just being beautiful, powerful, and good does not a Mary Sue make. These idyllic superheroes work well when they're put in circumstances that challenge them. It's fascinating to see characters that seemingly embody the highest reaches of human potential pushed to their limits, when we see that they too have flaws and weaknesses that they can overcome through perseverance.
You say that she "never struggles," but a good Wonder Woman writer knows that she NEEDS to struggle to be interesting. In shows like the animated Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, she and all the other major heroes are put in situations that challenge them on every level - physical (like fighting literal gods) and emotional (being banished from her home for bringing men to the island).
And also funny scenarios that put them at disadvantages, like being turned into children or a pig that then must be chased through the city by Batman (yes, both real episodes) that humanize them and show that they're not invulnerable.
For the more recent, live action movies, I liked the first Wonder Woman but not the second. I personally liked the fact that she was excited to see a baby, especially in the context that there were no babies on her island, because women are often expected to reject feminine characteristics to be strong.
I see your point, but I also have a different view regarding children: I think a lot of the oppression experienced by women is also experienced by children, and children are frequently dehumanized.
Not everyone who says they don't like kids is a bad person - I know plenty of great people who say they don't like kids - but I'm not really comfortable with the concept of disliking an entire group of human beings. Children have such varied personalities, just like any other group.
Granted, most people who say they don't like kids don't mean they dislike ALL kids, but it's still a sentiment I don't really like from a cultural standpoint.
As for women who don't WANT kids, I agree - it's deeply messed up that many people don't see women as complete or fulfilled unless they have kids. But (though it's been a while since I've seen it) I don't recall Wonder Woman in the 2017 movies planning to have children of her own. Plenty of women like children without intending to have them, myself included.
Again, though, I do see your point that the writers may have been trying to soften Wonder Woman in the eyes of the audience by having her love babies.
I still prefer that over the original Joss Whedon script, where a little girl at one point asks her to get a cat down from a tree (I think. Perhaps it was a lost toy) and Wonder Woman callously tells her to get it herself. To me, that plays into a sexist stereotype that women must reject all feminine attributes in order to be strong.
The sequel film, on the other hand, really embodies how NOT to write Wonder Woman in every way: largely exempt from moral criticism, inherently better than those around her, and with few meaningful challenges that aren't solved through plot convenience. She isn't "always right," however, because another flaw in that film's plot is the fact that she's learning a vague and contrived lesson of not cheating to get what she wants, though that's never explored in any way that feels human or applicable.
To conclude, I'll reiterate -- and this is just my opinion -- Wonder Woman is done GREAT when written by someone who understands the appeal of the character. Her idyllic characteristics apply to most superheroes, and can work great if the person writing her knows how to challenge her. I don't mind when she has feminine characteristics, and I love when all superheroes love kids, male and female. And last but not least, Justice League and Justice League unlimited reign supreme in terms of superhero content.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to ramble and spill my potentially controversial opinions!
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What do you think of Sora Siruha character?
Before this chapter, i thought Ishida seems wants us to think of her character as a tragic hero and a character that is fallen after leaving yamato mori, but then he drop a chapter where she committed genocide when she was still in yamato mori, so i wonder what do you think of her character?
Sora Siruha is an interesting character because Nietzsche would have hated her. Yet she's still seen as morally ambiguous by both characters in her own story and members of the audience. Not that you're wrong to see her that way but Nietzsche sure did hate it was religion. So, perhaps the literal nun, with angel wings, with cross tattoos, and a black halo that doubles as a crown or thorns might be a bad guy in the Nietzsche manga.
That's not to say that she's irredeemably evil, it's just ironic the Choujin X of her generation named after the "ubermensch" represents the antithesis of a lot of Nietzsche's ideas.
Nietzsche famously called Religion the opium of the masses. in Nietzsche's view suffering was not only good but necessary to life, because it aspired people to grow and anything that promised avoidance of suffering alcohol and religion for instance stagnated growth instead of promoting it.
Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
So, it's not coincidence in the Nietzsche manga that Sora who has so many religious associations tied to her is also, an opium addict who cannot survive without it's pain numbing effects.
If by Nietzschian philosophy pain is a part of the human experience, then by losing her pain, Sora Siruha also lost her humanity which is heavily implied to be part of the cause of her mental spiral.
One other thing associated with Sora is that she uses what are primarily utilitarian views to justify her atrocities - something else that Nietzsche hated as a philosophy.
So Sora believing that her future visions will come to pass goes on to committ atrocities in order to avoid even greater atrocities. Let's say that her visions are in fact one hundred percent correct. That Sora killing 200,000 people would avert the deaths of 2,000,000 or more.
Sora's reasoning in this case is purely utilitarian.
Utilitarianism actions are morally permissible if: They produce at least as much or more net happiness as any other available action. Everything should strive for a balance of happiness over suffering.
By Utilitarian reasoning her actions are morally permissible. Sora herself does not want to kill Anitise, she takes no joy in it, but she believes like any utilitarian she's responsible for bringing the most happiness over suffering to the world.
However, even if Sora's vision was 100% correct and by pulling the lever on the trolley problem and killing 200,000 she saved 2,000,000 Nietzsche would still have a bone to pick with her moral reasoning.
Nietzsche famously hated Utilitarianism. because it ignore the value of suffering, which strengthens the man. He saw that doing every and all actions for the sake of the "greater good" was something that denied the individual and discouraged individual development.
Nietzsche's criticism is that value is not something that can be quantified or proven. You can't mathematically measure in an objective sense, the suffering caused by your actions, the benefits caused by your actions. There's no universally agreed upon value for human life.
What is the "unit" of one human life?
Why are the 2,000,000 people that Sora saved more worthy of life than the 200,000 that she killed. What justification can Sora have other than "that's a smaller number." A person among the 200,000 killed could have grown up to cure cancer. Of course, even if the 200,000 weren't especially talented people, even if they were all going to grow up to work at mcdonalds why are there lives inherently worth less than the 2,000,000 that sora decided to save?
Sora is not a nihilist, she is a pure-hearted utilitarian who's actions are taken to give pleasure to as many people as possible but one more obvious criticism of her moral reasoning in choosing to sacrifice the few to save the many is that she is not an unbiased judge of values.
For example, if Anitise really did become a mad king then who would his victims have been? If he invaded Yamato Mori and killed 2,000,000 then why are the 2,000,000 lives of the Yamato Mori citizens he killed worth more than the 200,000 people that Sora killed preventing his invasion? It would be because being a citizen of and responsible for Yamato Mori Sora is unconsciously biased to put her own nation above Anitise's kingdom. In that sense, she's not really acting for the greater good, but rather the national interests of her country but she's still posing herself as a savior figure.
Sora goes on to commit these atrocities, while also continuing to see herself as a savior and believing she's operating from a higher moral viewpoint than everyone else. Yet, you can easily point out where her biases are as I just did.
In addition to the fact that we have no way of knowing if Sora's visions of the future actually are true. The fact that there are two people with future seeing powers (three if you count Tokio's dreams) who can see different things then points to the fact that Sora's visions aren't 100% true. However, even if you give her the benefit of the doubt that her prophecies were going to come true if she didn't do something, you can still make moral arguments against her actions as I just did above this section.
Sora is also extremely biased in other ways. In her origin story, she saw a vision of Queem coming to burn her convent, and was unable to stop it from happening. This clearly has affected her for all of her life, as even when presented with direct evidence that her prophetic dreams might not be true (such as another seer who disagrees with her) Sora doesn't even consider that possibility or hesitate to commit atrocities, because she's still guided by her guilt over being unable to stop her convent from being burnt.
In Tokyo Ghoul, Yoshimura once theorizes that Ghouls and Humans are psychologically the same, but because Ghouls live violent lives they eventually lose their empathy and stop seeing any value in human life as a coping mechanism.
I think Sora's slow corruption makes sense through this lens, not because of her future visions but rather because of the amount of power she had.
Choujin e aren't any different from human psychologically, they experience human emotions, but convince themselves they are different because one they're prone to get in more violent situations, and two the power they wield leads to them developing superiority complexes.
Sora plunged herself into war and had to walk on too many corpses in order to get stronger and gain the strength to fight Queem, but it's clear she didn't stop there after Queem was defeated. After Queem died Sora became the war-monger, and why? Her visions provide us one reason, but like, Sora didn't consider alternative means like diplomacy or warning anitise of what she saw? She just jumped straight to launching a modern day crusade against a foreign country, why?
Was it just easier for her to consider a military invasion because after having been through the hell of war, 200,000 became just another statistic to her?
What other reason than she had the power to do so, and Sora's superiority complex told her she had the right to wield that power however she chose to do so.
Sora and her savior complex, provides an uncanny mirror to Queem and his choujin and his choujin supremacy doctrine. Sora may have believed herself invading Antoland in order to prevent a future disaster, but when has a foreign country invading a soveriegn territory "for their own good' ever historically been a good thing. Sora may not have preached choujin supremacy but her actions don't make her too much different from Queem in the end.
Then, there's the possibility that Sora's prophecies might not even be nearly as true or certain to happen as they think they are. One of the birds basically spells it out to Tokio, that humans wanting to know the future is just wishful thinking.
Which puts Sora's absolute certainty in a new light. Is Sora's beliefs in her prophecies just a longing for control, the kind of absolute control over the future that nobody in the world but god is supposed to possess. Sora wanting to take God's place in knowing the future and being able to control her destiny goes all kinds of wrong.
I'm reminded of Attack on Titan where Eren coming into contact with the paths and being able to see the past, present and future at the same time doesn't give him godlike power, but reduces him to a helpless child. Eren's ability to see the future ends up bringing into existence similiarly to Sora, a future where he's the one comitting the atrocities.
There's also Paul Atreides from Dune who is given the power to see the future, and despite knowing and feeling guilt for a long time that some of his actions might lead to him releasing a holy war against the galaxy and killing billion, goes on to follow the future timeline he saw where he caused those atrocities anyway.
The absolute godlike power to know the future for all three of these characters Sora, Eren and Paul actually leads to them committing atrocities, not averting them as they'd hoped.
Yet, there's the tragic element of the fact she was just sixteen when this destiny was thrust upon her.
In Tokyo Ghoul Eto once referred togod as a child with extraordinary power to justify the world being as messed up as it is. Doesn't this fit Sora Shihouin as well? A child given way too much power and suddenly thrust into a leadership position?
In that way Sora reminds me tragically of X-Men characters like Jean Grey, if someone is given the power to see the future, or the insane powers of the phoenix that Jean Grey was given would they really have the moral fiber not to abuse that power? Can anyone wield that much power and not be corrupted by it?
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Thoughts on jkr literally engaging in holocaust denial?
oh my god this shit is so fucking stupid lol she did not deny that the holocaust happened! the argument started in response to a bunch of lies from trans activists trying to pretend trans people were one of the primary groups that the holocaust was based on when not a single person was recorded to have been killed solely for their trans identity. of the four trans identified people who were killed in the entirety of the holocaust, two were jews and two were gay men targeted for their sexuality and gender nonconformity. this does not make trans people /primary/ targets of a genocide that killed millions.
book burnings happened of course & they did destroy a lot of research in the field of sexuality and gender identity (along with feminist texts, communist texts, anything the state disagreed with basically). the nazis obviously didn't tolerate lifestyles that they considered "deviant" aka anything contrary to their nuclear family ubermensch propaganda, but transgenderism specifically was a novel concept back then and seen by absolutely everyone as an extension of homosexuality and defiance of state approved gender roles.
in any case if she's denying that those book burnings happened then she is wrong, but even so it's incredibly intellectually dishonest to call that "holocaust denial" rather than just "misinformed about what books were targeted for burning and why". I'm speaking as someone who is a descendant of holocaust survivors on my dad's side & feels very deeply affected by the topic on a personal level-if you think anything she said is remotely comparable to neonazis saying "holohoax" & that jews just made it up to play the victim & tattooed numbers on their own arms (something my great grandparents literally were accused of to their faces) then you are out of your fucking mind. It's actually demented how many people are constantly spreading lies about what she believes based on their bad faith interpretations.
#this hysteria over jkr is so ridiculous when there are plenty of actual violent bigots in the world to dirsct your anger at#asks
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thoughts on the ironhide storyline?
Knights of the Golden Circle: the Atomic Robo arc so peak that it's singled out in the site preview blurb.
Well, I'm assuming you mean that, and there isn't an Ironhide RSA I missed. (I'd read it! I prefer the spinoff genre characters to the real-person teams, which may defeat the purpose of the title Real Science Adventures, but whatever.)
"Thoughts." That's vague. Well, I love the bonkers set-up. There are other arcs that can absolutely only be done once (Ghost of Station X, Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, Vengeful Dead), but only this one has the quality of Brian + Scott leaning in like "Okay. We know. We swore that causality is sacred and there will be NO time shenanigans, and that's STILL true. But just this once we're going to bend our own rule slightly, because we really, really, really want our robot to get to be a cowboy. Thanks for understanding."
The art's fantastic. I'm glad this one made it under the wire for the era of pencil-lined Robo volumes because the subtle textures really complete the grungy dusty look. The colors, too. Robo's electric blue and vril's crystalline pink stand out like alien intrusions in the sepia-toned world. Mwah.
My first time reading, I felt like it was a cop-out on the stable time loop to make Ironhide real in his own right. But since then my opinion has reversed! It cultivates a real air of Old West legend for Robo to be preceded by whispers of a reputation so shrouded in mystery that he doesn't even know it. I now actually think it should've taken Robo until maybe his dozenth public superhuman feat to realize I May Be Contributing To The Legend Somewhat.
Robo's initial interest in Ironhide strikes me as a riff on kids latching onto representation in comics. Especially when characters "like you" are stereotyped or absent, so you imprint on someone who isn't supposed to be like you, but represents your personal experience way more. But I'm probably projecting there.
Paradoxically to my RSA opinions, I like historical cameos in Robo proper. Holliday + Reeves + Robo are a really fun trio. Helsie is a fine "final boss", but I'm glad more time was spent on Caldwell's gang to get our fill of saloon shootouts and train chases first.
As an aside—pulps have a tendency to pick a villain from an "anti-American" political group with little thought put toward their underlying ideologies. (Which is how you get "our blonde superhuman can out-punch the Nazi ubermensch, so there" and incoherent Soviet/Nazi team-ups.) I point this out to say that the writing in Robo is generally better than that. It may tiptoe around historical politics a little (Helsingard is a Nazi collaborator, the Knights used to be Confederates), but the pulpy cyborg plot keeps at least one throughline: these were people in the human trafficking business for power and profit. And of the legends of the old west, Bass Reeves would have some very strong convictions about that.
Honestly a weakness here is that the story gives you a lot of hints in place of explanations and just trusts you'll work it out. Like the FIFTEEN YEAR timeskip. I only NOW, writing this, realized that the dates on the wall (which make no sense as "where am I in history?" guesses) are probably reactor lifespan calculations.
It's a better problem to have than agonizing infodumps or actual plot holes, but in some cases I liked my initial assumptions better than the real answers! Like, I first thought he was using his own heart to power his gadgets, and that's what was killing him so fast. Would've been metal if true. (I guess he did rebuild himself to make that possible later.)
Well, even minus that. It's a tasty cowboy trope for the protagonist to know they're already dying (or I've just listened to Streets of Laredo too many times) and a great time travel trope for the ending to be a foregone conclusion and our protagonist to still fight like hell to the bitter end. Yesssss.
In a way, this is already how readers experience the historical stories, trying to piece together the cost for this preordained victory with scraps of historical knowledge and faith that it will all make sense eventually. But this time Robo's in on it, too.
#atomic robo#But enough about me anon. What do YOU think#no really. I have like 1.5 friends who know this comic. Every time I reread it I'm mostly just grinning maniacally to myself
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Quellon really rolled 4 gutter balls with his kids. Balon is a petty traditionalist, Euron is a psychopathic narcissist, Victorian is dumb as a stump, and Aeron is former Drunkard turned religious fanatic. Where did the great reformer go wrong?
If I really knew the answer to that question, I'd have written a final, conclusive book on the nature-nurture debate and either I'd go to sleep on a pile of money given to me by psychologists and parents, or we'd all live in a Minority Report-esque hellscape where bad behavior is predicted via algorithm. He's hardly the only person in Westerosi history to have a terribly disappointing son - just look at Viserys II with his own son.
Balon really seemed to like the idea that he can simply take what he wants. As a young man, he grew greatly in wealth and acclaim by raiding, so it's unsurprising that he gravitates to that as a lifestyle; the fact that the Old Way also tells him he's a superior class of being that deserves to plunder the rest of the world for sex and coin further rationalizes that belief. If Quellon wanted to stop him, he'd have had to keep him busy to raid, but even then, there's always going to be people willing to do anything to make it big, that's why get-rich-quick schemes always find buyers.
Aeron is a drunkard, so if Quellon wanted to stop him, he'd have to straighten him up, disciplining him and instilling a healthy respect for drink. Plenty of people experience religious awakenings in times of great stress to include life-threatening circumstances, such as what happened to Aeron, so I doubt that even if Quellon was alive to handle that, he'd be able. Surviving a life-threatening experience is deeply personal, and people rationalize it and come away from that entirely differently.
Victarion appears to have gravitated to the Old Way out of admiration for Balon and enjoying the venal rewards, so Quellon would have needed to be the dog that puppy Victarion imprinted on, I guess.
Euron though, is a straight-up psychopath. Whether he's Bloodraven's bad seed or just a magically-induced psycho with ubermensch streaks, I don't think there's anything Quellon could have done with that.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
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Bottom of the barrel isekai review #2
Today's title: I was reborn as his highness the prince’s little evil dragon.
The understanding of cringe is an abstraction of the same feelings of those in Salem dragging literate women to a lovely communal barbeque where they will be served. Is that an exaggeration? Yes, am I making a ham-fisted reference to a sci-fi short story? Also yes, very clever you are, go get yourself a cookie. I will wait.
Anyways that is to segway to the idea that sometimes our ability to consider a story bad is based on the ideas it presents. Sometimes these ideas are weird, that weirdness becomes correlated with the cultural idea of cringe.
Anyways that is a segway from a segway to talk about omegaverse. That is a concept that exists, where did it start? Im staring down a deep and scary rabbit hole that i'm simply not prepared to delve down into. So let's skip that and get into the basics. ABO or Alpha Beta Omega is a setting in which the genders are changed as thus: alphas are sexually and socially dominant, male and female may share the same genitalia for the concept of sex. Betas are either normal humans or hyper submissive socially and sexually, male and females usually share the same genitalia in this instance as well. In some fictions the omega may take the spot of the beta and the beta will become the average human within the setting. Beta and omegas emit a pheromone that can set people into estrus and attract alphas, alphas can bite the base of a beta or omegas neck to mark them as theirs.
That's the bare bones basics and also a segway of a segway from a segway into the story we are talking about today.
The titular title is a manhwa, if you are a rock dweller that's a korean manhwa. Don't let the country jump fool you, we are still dealing with the normal rules of an isekai so let's keep moving.
We start by examining the main character, shown to us to be the ubermensch of gamers. The true pinnacle of mankind, tall, strong, powerful, athletic, mewing like his god damn life depends on it to ensure that his jawline is capable of splitting atoms, causing mass destruction to the immediate area.
He gets shanked at a gaming event by im assuming a rival gamer who went insane and thought that he was irl stream sniping.
He bites the dust and awakens as the shell of an egg breaks around him, staring up into the soft eyes of the main romantic interest, the crown prince. Oh, he's a little dragon now and also still a 18-19 year old man stuck in the body of a lil baby dragon. The two cavort around jovially, well one acts in a jovial manner, the other is trying to figure out what the fuck is happening and why hes stuck on a leash instead of cranking sick 90s in fortnite.
They then remember what game they are in. The game is apparently a visual novel/rpg in which the crown prince raises a dragon that turns evil and he must slay it with the power of friendship and the god nuke spear he found in a cave. Cool, he decides to not be an evil dragon that gets hit with the god nuke spear. A wise choice.
We get some more exposition before the world decides to run a fucking truck into my head by haveing a possible pre-pubescent child introduce the idea that this is infact omega verse. The wicked step brother pops in shouting “omegas lives are easy”.
Which hit me with an absurd level of whiplash but ok, let's try to keep moving.
The story meanders around a bit more, we are introduced to the wicked step mother who is an alpha which yeah feminism, the queen pegs the king.
She does the wicked stepmother bit and leaves and we are treated to a few too many shots of this toddler-esque character cuddling up to this baby dragon which if I must drill into the soft gray matter hidden away within your domed ivories is a full grown man who plays video games for a living.
I am unfortunately well acquainted with the trope of Middle aged japanese business man in the body of a baby because god damn if freud did not hit a societal nerve, and I would never dream of being so crass as to say that this is equally creepy but I hope you can forgive me if I inch this close to the same rung.
Gamer god decides to start speed running the game, assuming that if he gets to a certain event within the game in which the main character helps a goddess and gets a wish, deciding to yoink that wish for himself and get back to begging markiplier to do a nude calendar with him, bro just a quick twelve picks, its for charity bro, come on, tasteful buns out for charity bro.
Anyways more meandering, quick break to have one more bed scene where gamer god in baby dragon form sniffs again this kids pheromones because hell is real and the only torture is the one we inflict upon the world with our thoughts and ideas.
They get the fuck out of the castle and go to the spooky woods where they meet the princes arranged fiancee, an alpha who is drawn as a full grown man.
Anyways he is utterly nothing to the story and serves to explain why they are able to beat the random cabal of cultists in the middle of the spooky woods who have the goddess trapped.
They free her, she hands out some random shit and then fucks off. The paladin, prince and dragon then decided to go on magical adventures for a bit where we learn that the dragon's gift turns him back into a facsimile of his human form which carries around the prince again. Cue badly drawn fight scene with with trolls, cue yet another mention of the princes pheromones because the author has decided that I need to be shot a few more times and let's be honest, im asking for it, tying myself up on the shooting range like i am, drawing an assortment of red dots on myself, beckoning any wayward bullet to find purchase in all the soft supple flesh they can burrow in.
More magical adventures and they find the magic sage, oops it's actually not the magic sage its the evil sage who after tricking our party tries to use mind control to seduce gamer god which leads me to believe that the author has some straight guy x gay guy fics in the same hard drive i believe should be turned into the police.
Prince goes ape shit and despite showing little magical affinity suddenly has the skills to summon the god damn grim reaper who saves the dragon. Gamer god passes out and in the meantime the real sage pops up and promises to teach the prince white magic and to train the dragon by chasing and fighting his familiar, a transforming rabbit.
This is how the dragon meets mushroom fujoshi who does a lore dump and scares everyone in my discord because we were not familiar with Korean and Chinese internet slang and how it gets translated, please see below.
It's not what it looks like, it means “Couple Pairings' '. Which yes, i know, holy shit why would they translate it like that???
Who the fuck knows. They explain how shits happens. They were the true creators of the world. After playing the game in its entirety, they decided the ending lacked luster so they decided to create an omegaverse fiction in which the prince and dragon Bone Expeditiously.
Now this either means that god themselves in all of their infinite wisdom and power was placed in their own schrodingers box. Either so enraptured with the true beauty of this fiction or infact so repulsed by its contents that they decided to trap multiple innocent souls along with the stories creator to force it to play out to its logical possibly bloody end.
She also states that the prince must kill the dragon if they wish to escape, but also how the fuck do you know that? Anyways she fucks off.
We now reach the time skip, where thank the fucking gods everyone is now drawn like a fucking adult and its not only slightly werid when they sniff at each other.
And nothing happens for ten chapters as these two twinks run around each other playing grab ass until the last three chapters where they introduce the concept of a marriage party, as the paladin broke up.
Two affronts to decent racial design and orientalism pop up to create a bit more plot, they send the dragon off to be able to be human without a trinket and that's the end of it.
Is the story anything to write home about? Not entirely. It's very standard BL fair with twinkish men cavorting about and an absurd amount of flowers being drawn around them. The story is very much interested in the slow burn yet sporadically intense budding romance between gamer god and the prince. It seems scared to interact with its own premise of omega verse, only gently playing into the themes or using the fantasy sexism of alphas vs omegas to create shoehorned drama between certain characters or to create societal roadblocks for the character that teach about an inch high. If I must surmise my criticism, it's not cringe enough for me.
What about art? Its standard, most manhwa you will read will be expertly to competently drawn. The art is serviceable to the story itself, though i will note that the author is fucking deathly allergic to anything that resembles the color brown or drawing anything aside from eurocentric pretty boys that look like they belong onto a old german propaganda poster.
"Is the underlying story, barring any other concept, good?"
It is decent, it's fine. It's a standard romance fair, if you are diving into this for something hot, spicy, something you would be loath to be caught reading then my apologies, this is not it.
"on a sliding scale of min to max, how much is the author using this to explore fetish"
Low. The author clearly has some fetishes but they only somewhat clash into the main story. Mostly through gamer god pretending he's straight to the author can have the multitude of gay men attempt to coerce him into something “taboo”.
"How many story crutches does the author use to explore the story"
I think the story avoids the vast majority of major crutches, though it does rely heavily on the video game trope which allows the dragon to suddenly push the game into a random direction due to knowing how to skip a part of the level or knowing where certain in-game items relevant to the plot are hidden.
"Is the author attempting to use the story as a way to explain why he is not weird."
The author is not saying anything, but interestingly I believe they are attempting to pass themselves as being weirder than they actually are. Do with that as you will.
Do I recommend this? Read on your own time, dont feel bad if you dont wanna read it.
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How would the Cullen’s personalities change if they had each other’s experiences / path to turning? Rosalie losing a baby like esme did, Alice getting mauled by a bear, emmett dying of an illness etc. would edward be less… edward if he woke up the way Alice did with no human memories? Would Esme be attached to the planet if she’d been turned for a vampire war?
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That's a lot of combinations, anon.
I'll just go with the ones you throw out there.
Rosalie Loses Her Baby
... Nope, I'm not sure I can do this one.
All signs point to this baby being Royce's, and we all know how things with Royce went.
I imagine this Rosalie would be even more traumatized than the current Rosalie is and acknowledges that her human life was a hell hole of misery for which she'd had such expectations and none of them panned out.
Alice Gets Mauled by a Bear
Alice would be a fundamentally different person.
She wouldn't have her memory loss, her father wouldn't have put her in an asylum and probably didn't murder her mother, she just gets an unhappy accident.
It's hard to even know this Alice, Mary Alice Brandon, because she will be a completely different person. Yes, she still has her gift, but she's not the blank slate that Alice from canon is where she has nothing but the Cullens.
Mary Alice had a sister, she had her own life, I just can't see her clinging to Edward shouting "brother!" The way Alice did. We're looking at an entirely different person.
Emmett Dies of Illness
I imagine he'd be very similar save that he's not as strong as he would otherwise be, having wasted away before being turned. That irks him a bit but he still wrestles Jasper and is still a very laid back guy.
Edward Has No Memories
Given his gift, Edward never finds the Cullens the way Alice does. He wanders alone having no idea who or what he is and concludes he's a demon. However, seeing nothing else for it, he embraces his man devouring monster but without memories doesn't know how to select 'good' humans from 'bad' humans.
He picks the ones who smell good and whose thoughts annoy him (which is pretty much all of us).
I imagine he also concludes he's the Ubermensch.
Esme is Turned in a Vampire War
That poor woman.
I mean, she'd live a wretched life and would likely be murdered by Maria should she fail to perform (as almost all Maria's turned vampirs were save Jasper and Peter).
I wouldn't say she's unattached to the planet, but she's in a wretched hellscape that builds on the delightful life she was living with her abusive husband.
I imagine, should Esme survive and get out, you get a very jittery, nervous, and jaded woman who probably does not join up with the Cullens because she can't trust anybody.
#twilight#twilight meta#twilight headcanon#twilight renaissance#the cullens#alice cullen#edward cullen#emmett cullen#esme cullen#rosalie hale#meta#headcanon#opinion
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So higuruma managed to remember his ideals and to get them back. At the beginning of this fight he was clearly doubting his own ways, facing a system that was so openly against him had made him lose the meaning of what he was doing. All of his values had lost meaning because he found himself staring into the abyss, the realization that nothing has meaning and that everything is useless in the grand scheme of things (understandable when all of your hard work never pays off and you discover that the supernatural exists). He also, like geto, begins to question if it's worth fighting for the weaks, even if they're bad, pathetic and ugly. But facing yuuji, someone who was in the same situation of higuruma's usual clients, but who was ready to take the blame for something that he didn't do (and who is a victim of the system since the beginning of the story even if higuruma doesn't know), reminded him why he was fighting the system in the first place. He got back that respect for the weaks and for who is not able to fight for themselves. He look into the abyss for too long and the abyss looked back so he killed two people, but after that e managed to find his moral again and to maintain it, even if he knows what's in the abyss. He's on the path to become an ubermesch, because for nietzsche the ubermensch is not the one who discards his morality when they faces the abyss but the one who keeps it even after they looked into it
#i should stop here before going on an whole rant about nietszche's philosophy and why people don't get it#i hope this make sense but i'm incredibly bad at articulating whats going on inside my head#this was one of the best part of jjk btw and i love higuruma so much if it wasn't clear#iris reads jjk#jujutsu kaisen#jjk manga spoilers#higuruma hiromi
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My reactions to Evangelion episode: She said, "Don't make me suffer for your personal hatred"
I stan a long ass title.
Whoa, Misato was right there at ground zero for the second impact!
I'm watching this part again. It looks like her dad's skin is either melting off or it's got icicles coming down off his fingers.
He saved his baby.
That's a gnarly scar she's got. What a babe.
Lol Asuka thinking the boys are there for her and not Misato.
Poor Shinji being naturally talented at something he hates. Or is he naturally talented? Maybe he was bred for this.
Who does Rei live with?
Toji and Kensuke planned Misato a party lol
Shinji is so curious.
Kaji is such a whore.
"A pristine world, untainted by original sin." Dude, you are not trying to purge the world of sin, are you? Is Gendo making superhumans without "sin" to populate the earth? ARE THE ANGELS HIS FAILED UBERMENSCH BABIES? The curiousity is killing me.
No, there's no way a person made that thing. It's huge. Unless the original Angels made more Angels? No. Yes? I don't know.
Does Misato do anything that is not a long shot?
"I'm going to gamble with your lives but I'll buy you steak if you survive" is really something.
I'm laughing at Asuka making fun of Misato's generation. Typical kid.
Rei doesn't like eating meat, huh? What horrors has she seen? Did everyone she loves get burned to a crisp?
Aw, she made this plan because she was sure they would be able to survive it.
Is Gendo the same as Misato's father, then? Is this revelation about him meant to give us an insight into Gendo? Is Gendo going to sacrifice his life to save Shinji, who he's neglected all this time?
She joined NERV to destroy the Angels and by doing so to get revenge on her father. Shinji's reason for piloting is also his father. I wonder if the motivation is not to impress him but also some kind of revenge? I'm not sure how that works, but the things we do as humans don't always make sense, so I wouldn't be surprised if Shinji doesn't know himself.
I hope this doesn't lead to third impact.
Damn, that's a big explosion.
Looks like the kids are getting their steak.
Is that the first time his father told him "Good job"?
Aw, they went to ramen so they wouldn't break the bank.
Oh, he does do it because he wants his dad to love/ compliment him. He is such a sweet fucking kid.
In Conclusion
I'm still kind of hanging in there waiting for more reveals. I do think Rei's vegetarianism is very interesting and definitely indicative that something very bad probably happened to her in the past.
I really enjoy getting to see more of everyone's dynamics and how their relationships evolve. I like that Asuka, even though she has fashioned Rei into something of a rival for herself, still chose a restaurant to eat at that Rei would go to. And, that wouldn't be too expensive for Misato. I get the impression she's all bark and no bite. Actually, she's pretty much the polar opposite of Rei, in fact.
Okay, I feel like I'm getting pretty mentally saturated here, so I think I'm going to watch one more episode, then work on some fic writing or maybe play some Hearthstone for a bit. Then I might watch some more this evening, but we'll see! Doing these live reactions is fun and it helps me kind of organize my impressions, but it's also a real mental workout since I'm not watching passively! I feel like I'm getting a lot more out of the show doing it this way, though.
On to the next (after I check my messages)!
#neon genesis evangelion#evangelion#first watch#thoughts#reactions#shinji ikari#misato katsuragi#asuka langley soryu#kensuke aida#toji suzuhara#rei ayanami#gendo ikari
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every once in a while something shitty happens that triggers the adults affected into (rightfully) complaining about the way they were treated by some institution above or a person in power. Each time the main complaint boils down to "I was treated like an immature child that doesn't have to be asked for their thoughts or be explained things to anything at all" and usually don't actually condemn that kind of treatment as much as the fact that a Special Deciding Ubermensch of the Adult Race was the one subjected to it.
I know some people just don't mention these things out of habit or because they're too angry to pay attention to details like that, but it's always so frustrating to see people assume that the way children is treated is completely okay despite the sheer magnitude of the negative difference it makes whenever an adult ends up in that kind of position.
The fact they're expected to suddenly gain everything they were denied by the adults ordering them around is apparently perfectly logical, because having a big number of years magically bestows knowledge, skill and maturity upon you obviously. And not explaining anything to them and never asking them for opinion or just asking them at all is totally not abusive, because mature and good mommy would never do a bad thing, she loves you so much her actions can't be abusive now can they. As some particularly aggressive survivors say, abuse is when someone has the evil kind of difference and therefore isn't normal enough to not cough abuse out as if infected with it like it was some sort of a mental influenza, so I guess if the standard behavior is what normal people do then it has to be morally okay under this funky logic
And just to make sure I get to point you out for not being able to read my rant, I'm not saying here that it's okay to treat adults exactly like 2 year olds or that there should be no difference in how we act around and interact with people based on things like age or maturity in general regardless of body numbers.
What bothers me here is that the reflection "wait a minute, doesn't this imply the way we treat kids is horrible ?" practically never comes. I know most people are neurotypical in a capitalist society that makes all their tendencies towards automatic, effort and consciousness-less existence even worse, but it honestly looks like a lot of you would rather completely turn into a mechanical executor of the life algorithm bestowed upon you by your parents and teachers than actually live like a human being with personhood and awareness and ability to think and act deliberately rather than instinctively. This can't keep going on forever if we want to survive on this burning pile of violence and abuse we call Earth
/Oneesama
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John Walker's coronation as "Your New Captain America" still makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Meet the new blond-haired blue-eyed ubermensch. Because of course that was what was going to happen.
Walker is sort of like S.W.O.R.D. Director Hayward in that it always surprises me how many people thought this was a well-meaning guy being introduced in good faith. Like, I fucked up the racist banker litmus test but even I understood that this guy was, by design, supposed to be the worst.
An All-American good ol' boy from the Deep South who truly embodies the values and virtues of a, uh, very particular subset of Americans. The dude is literally a walking dogwhistle designed in bad faith to keep the symbol of Captain America from becoming, let's say, colored by falling under the control of non-white people.
And just like that, the show has effectively reframed that moment of Steve giving the shield over to Sam. Walker is a person who is demographically more like Steve than Sam is. But we can say in full honesty that him becoming Captain America, especially for the reasons he became Captain America, isn't what Steve would want.
We know what Steve would want. He already cast his vote.
And it's a hop, skip, and a jump from there to the show's truest question: "But what Steve wants doesn't really matter anymore; What does Sam want?"
#marvel#marvel cinematic universe#the falcon and the winter soldier#john walker#i am not calling him captain america
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Anyway, this is me in my sorceress lair contemplating the very good wine I spilled in fury over thoschei takes, courtesy of John William Waterhouse. Except my hair is sort of deep medium brown and I'm wearing a black tanktop.
It just... depresses me so bloody much when their relationship is boiled down to romance specifically the Master being bad at courtship. Of course there's romance there, of course they're bloody married and have been so for ages. What they have isn't Romeo and Juliet, it's whatever the Macbeths and Anthony and Cleopatra have. It's a love so mature it's long past ardent crushes, it's a bond that lasts PRECISELY WHILE YOU ARE PERFECTLY INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER ON THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL. It's not "I can fix them", it's "no, I can't fix them, but I made my choice not as an idealistic teenager only someone who knew exactly what they're getting into and won't have my choices questioned on account of surely just needing to grow out of this, and will not shirk the responsibility for them I accepted".
It's also about the nietzschean ubermensch - that is, someone who believes themself the only judge of right or wrong that matters because Gessellschaft elevated as Gott ist tot - being the ugly underbelly and logical conclusion of prometheanism - that is, belief in one's ability to make things the way they should be. And the latter all too often only shirking away from collapsing into the former because that path has already been taken and it's consequences are on display. And the power imbalance of seeing and choosing not to act.
It's also about perceiving the world purely as matter that is up to strong enough will to shape and experiencing its deeper, more resonant, emotional, and yes, made up aspects (except no, "hearing the music" really isn't a very good metaphor, not at all).
It's also about hypocrisy as a price to pay for avoiding pilatism in a thought experiment about specifically not gods knowing all possible futures.
Like. I really don't like to gatekeep other people's interpretations, which is why I always put my rants under cuts. But damn, this is just depressing for me sometimes.
#ranting so maybe i'll sleep#tw: negativity#hiding my philosophical rants under pretty arts#and yes of course it is also about history and bad flirting but making it all about that#is like saying that since you need sugar and water to make a pizza then water with sugar is what pizzas are all about
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