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[Sažetak] Executive Power - David J. Lieberman

Razočaran. Možda zato što sam pročitao Never Be Lied to Again pa mi se ova knjiga čini kao višak jer se dobar dio ponavlja u ovoj knjizi. Također, sve skupa mi se činilo kao niz nabacanih natuknica u velik broj nepovezanih poglavlja. Bez ikakvog logičnog niza i toka kroz knjigu. Savjeti i taktike iz knjige bi vam trebali pomoći u stvaranju "izvršne moći". Ima dobrih savjeta ali nikako ne vidim da knjiga nudi to što promovira naslovom. Savjete sam stavio u sažetak i ne vjerujem da ću ikada ponoviti čitanje ove knjige.

Introduction

"Executive Power arms you with effective, fast-working techniques that shows you, step by step, specific, carefully formulated tactics that can be applied to any situation"

The Psychological Strategy to Gain Ironclad Loyalty

"To turn outsider into an insider, you need to do two things. The first is to give him information that few people have, so he feels elite and special. The second is to give him some degree of power and authority within your organization or team" "You can develop an ardent sense of loyalty by being known as someone who does what is right, even when an easier course of action is apparent and readily available" "When we take that initial small step in one direction, we are motivated to maintain a sense of consistency to greater request and additional investments along the same line" "If you want your employees to be loyal to you, you must be loyal to them"

Super Spin Control

"Act quickly and decisively. If you know your company is about to get unwanted attention, go public with the story first" "If your company made a mistake, admit it up front - with as little legalese as possible" "Conversely, if you make all of the news yourself, quickly and upfront, there is nothing left for anyone to add, and the story fizzles out"

Spin Control When It's Personal

"These studies and many more like them demonstrate that the best tactic to stop gossip is to go directly to the person who started the rumor and inform her that you are aware of what she is doing" "The psychological solution, then, is instead of denying or minimalizing the rumor, embrace it, embellish it, and make it even more outrageous than it is"

Turbo-Boost Morale

"People are hungry for opportunities to grow into their jobs. They crave advancement, both in position and stature, and in responsibility and opportunity" "People want to contribute to a cause they believe in that recognizes the value of their participation" "When you foster an environment that empowers employees - letting them set their own duties, deadlines, goals, and the like - they take ownership of their own corporate destiny and become more inspired" "Encourage interaction between employees and find ways to promote camaraderie and a collaborative community" "Employees want and need managers who care about their lives beyond the workplace" "Conversely, employees whose job is more creative and complex will be happier and more productive when given freedom to choose their assignments and with salary not directly tied into performance"

Collect Money Owed

"Inserting one degree of distance between your collection efforts and your personal relationship with the debtor helps preserve a pliable, amicable relationship, which sets the table for successful negotiation and ultimately successful resolution" "Load your language with words designed to trigger and emotional response" "Never express contempt. If you express disrespect, you've just quashed any hope of reasonable negotiation"

Turn a Saboteur Into Your Greatest Ally

"Here's the general rule: If a person dislikes you without good reason, it's not that he doesn't like you. It's that he doesn't like himself very much" "This is called reciprocal affection, which simply means that we're inclined to like, admire, and respect someone once we find out that they like, admire and respect us" "If you learn that your saboteur has made a mistake, reassure her that such mistakes can happen to anyone, and tell her se shouldn't be so hard on herself" "Giving you undivided attention to someone is a sign of respect" "When you speak with him, mentally focus on his positive traits, and he will sense that you like him - and, in turn, he will like you"

How to Painlessly Criticize The Highly Sensitive Employee

"When you deal with others, keep in mind that the ego is the pivotal criterion; it is the only part of us that really gets injured" "Without making a big deal about it, let him know you are saying this because you care - you care about him and you relationship" "Always criticize in private" "First, emphasize her many good qualities and remarkable potential, which paves the way for a critical message to be well received" "Criticize the act not the person" "Don't assure or insinuate that his behavior is something that he's doing knowingly, consciously, or deliberately" "Offer the solution. If there is no answer, that you should have never brough it up in the first place, because it serves no purpose" "Speaking softly and kindly will help you message be digested in the manner you intend"

How to Spot a Blu a Mile Away

"If a person reacts too quicky and seemingly confidently, he may be trying too hard to prove that he's confident, which almost inevitably means he really isn't" "If you know what to look for, confidence (and the lack thereof) is easy to detect. Simply observe whether the person is focused on himself and what his hands and body are doing"

Master the Art of Charisma

"When you or those around you think a job is beneath you, do it anyway. This shows the people around you that you are a person of the people who is willing to make sacrifices for the greater good" "Nothing brings out awe like someone admitting he was wrong. If you have made a mistake, publicly acknowledge it and give credit to the person who was right" "This one also falls into the don't pretend you know everything category. If you don't know the answer to a question, don't make up an answer" "Treat everyone with respect, and that means even people you don't need anything from or can't do anything for you" "When you make a mistake, smile ar yourself. Don't try to ignore it or pretend it didn't happen" "If people are gossiping, walk away. Taking in gossip just makes you look, well, cheap"

Instantly Resolve any Personal Conflict

"You can make peace very easily and effectively by telling each person how much the other person really respects the way he does or did something" "For garden-variety issues, a supervisor can bring both individuals into her office and speak to them to find out the source of conflict and how to resolve it in a fair and timely fashion"

The Effortless Way To Make Difficult Changes

"When we choose to do something, we are unconsciously drive to like it more" "To capitalize on this function of human behavior, investigate ways to get employees to sign up for the new position or opportunity" "Davise a quantifiable way to measure progress, so that his focus is directed toward producing a positive outcome rather than on the situation itself"

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min-play · 1 year

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OVER MY DEAD BODY

#min draw #minbitt #executive function never kicked in faster #i'd die before i let anyone see my doodles in between my notebook margins #harnessing the power of a thousand suns

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kagoutiss · 1 month

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din’s champion

#tloz #ocarina of time #oot #ganondorf #din #um #ganondin #…..does anyone here ship them ha. hahaha #i mean their whole thing is funny actually because she didnt even choose him but he managed to steal her triforce and #so then hes her ‘chosen’ by technicality. but with her virtue being power it’s maybe kinda one and the same #and anyway beyond that point i feel like she loves shaking him around like a mortal dog toy #but like in some way she also must have believed in him enough to give him Power in a different lifetime. so he’d survive his own execution #i;m just saying there is so much you can interpret about their relationship. despite her being #literally an unseen 4th dimensional being who is the embodiment of power and fire and change amd earth itself etc #like what do they think of each other. what does she think of this tiny mortal who somehow stole a piece of her and now theyre bound by it #take my hand walk w me thru mortal x god hyperdimensional traumatic power imbalance situationship. and youre both girls

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keets-writing-corner · 2 months

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Love how Lucifer just manhandles Adam during their 'fight' despite everyone else getting their asses kicked. Plus him effortlessly destroying him when Charlie's in danger is really sweet.

gawd me too anon me too

that was everything me to me. like everything. It was built up so well too

we spent the whole season building up alastor as this massive powerhouse, eldritch, nobody messes with him. Only one who tried picking a fight with him (Vox) got utterly humiliated and everyone else was clearly outclassed. Except for Lucifer where Alastor merely just went with annoying instead of power challenging. Like we got vibes okay yeah makes sense that the King of Hell isn't intimidated by anyone, even if it's alastor, but Alastor got TWO wtf moments in Dad Beat Dad one with Husk and one with defending the hotel

other than that, it was pretty much, nobody messes with him cuz he will mess you up

and he fights Adam evenly sorta for a bit before Adam pulls out the "I'm an angel which is stronger than any demon" card and alastor gets his ass handed to him.

Like what a way to set up how strong ADAM is, having him beat Alastor. And then no one else in the hotel is as strong as Alastor was, so everyone's struggling. Charlie at least gets one good hit in but her inexperience kicks her in the ass and then Lucifer just shows up and

like hot DAMN that was just one hit! He broke Adam's mask, the force was enough to send him FLYING across the roof top, and bounce so hard against the billboard he BROKE THE SKYLIGHT

That was just a "HANDS OFF MY BABY" warning too, like LOOK at that face, that's not a "fight me" face it's a "if you touch my baby again, I will screw you so bad your bones will need therapy and you never recover"

Lucifer not even .2 seconds later, just upon seeing Charlie

and then yeah, Lucifer was NOT taking the fight with Adam serious at all, like the dude was taunting him, mocking him, dodging all of his attacks, just shapeshifting like Adam was a joke LIKE LOOK AT THIS

Lucifer isn't even scared, he's just "oh there's a wall there"

His FACE IM DYING he's legit like "wowwww you just tried shoving me into a wall? really? didn't have any other ideas? Soooooo original of you. I will mock you now"

HIS HANDS ARE BEHIND HIS BACK HE FOR REAL SAID HE COULD TAKE ADAM WITH BOTH HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK

rewatching rn for the screenshots, he's legit just shapeshifting for the fun of it. 70% of the time nothing has happened, he's just dodging adam and shapeshifting while doing it, like he doesn't need to be doing that this is 100% mockery.

And then the iconic

like omgggg this is soooo satisfying and amazing to watch. Like the set up of Adam being powerful was great, and then we just get this absolute trolling from Lucifer cuz he really doesn't care about Adam

And listen the trolling is great and all, but when Adam makes the mistake of not heeding Lucifer's warning of messing with his baby, and then does it a second time

RIP Adam just getting one shot-ed like that but hnnnnnggggg we got to see Lucifer fully pissed and it was GREAT

And somehow my favorite part wasn't even watching Lucifer go absolute ham on Adam, it was that even at his absolute most rage fueled moment, snarling like a beast where he was going to and fully intended on making good on his threat about messing with his baby

just one shoulder touch from Charlie and he's immediately chill. Like it's instantaneous, like how much do you love someone to be able to be absolutely livid, about to incinerate someone levels of rage only to immediately be "o oki! No more violence!" the second that person touches you???

Ugh I love them so much! Like everything about that fight, but especially how Lucifer can just go from absolutely the most dangerous person in one second and then OWO SOFT the next just by looking at Charlie

oops this post got long... IMSORRYYYYY other than "More than Anything" and the phonecall with charlie this is one of the scenes I replay the most, I love them so much

Characters going absolutely feral over loved ones is just aasdfadffalklkmafdjalsg 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

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mxmollusca · 2 years

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Vico, please, take pity on us

From Vico's IG

#executive director of the Vico Ortiz Step on my Throat Coalition #vico ortiz #nonbinary #lgbtqia+#so powerful #ofmd #our flag means death

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notmoreflippingelves · 13 days

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Actually going insane over the implications of Jason asking Dick to be the Robin to his Batman in Battle for the Cowl.

Like I initially took it at the purely surface-level of Jason wanting a partner in the general sense. Which made sense, it's a huge responsibility and a lonely one so an assistant/sidekick/partner seems a no-brainer if you can get one.

But then I really thought about it, because Jason is not asking Dick to be his partner in the general sense; he's not even asking Dick to be his Nightwing. He's asking Dick to be his Robin.

And they both know exactly what Jason means: "Be the light to my darkness. Be the smile to my scowl. Be the hope to my fear. "

He's saying "Be 'Robin'; be the embodiment of Love and Justice and Goodness. Be the exceptional person that you have always been. Be the slightly-less exceptional person that I was when I wore your colors. Be the person that I was in the process of becoming and might have been (or might still be), if only Joker hadn't clipped my wings."

He's saying "I am prepared to become vengeance, become the Night. And I will go further than Bruce ever dared to, because it is what is needed. I will be the necessary evil. But you don't have to be. If Batman is Gotham's curse, Robin has always been its blessing. I will be the brutal punishment to our world, and I am asking you to be its incandescent gift."

He's saying, "Be for me, what we were for Him. Be my anchor, my comfort, my hope. Remind me what it's all for, why it's all worth it. And remind yourself as well."

He's saying "Be 'Robin' again--for both of our sakes."

#dick grayson #jason todd #battle for the cowl #jaydick #dickjay #kinda but also not kinda #batman #dcu #otp: be my robin #'we can rule together as just it always should've been with you as my guiding light and conscience'#is that not in essence; a sort of marriage proposal ?#well no but it's not NOT one either if you catch my drift #i should note that i haven't actually read bftc yet and i know it's considered controversial/bad #and considered ooc for pretty much everyone #so i am not even sure if I will like it #but i am still planning on reading it for the jaydick crumbs #and b/c i am using it and knightfall as the primary inspo for my krisnix au #apparently jason does ask tim to be his robin first and that's interesting as well #but honestly a little less powerful/interesting to me at least since jaytim just doesn't interest me as much as jaydick #and honestly i've looked at the panels and it seems a little more genuine when jason asks dick idk #more like 'last chance; i'll let you live if you join me' for tim vs. 'join me because this feels right' for dick #and honestly even with clumsy execution; just the narrative and emotional richness of this scene is still making me absolutely feral #this arc could be complete trash in any and every other way but if it gives me THEMES; i will forgive anything #it's the former english major occupational hazard #*apollo justice voice *: I'M FINE #(narrator voice: she was not in fact fine)

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sableeira · 8 months

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hiii long time no art and I’m late but I’m not immune to skk 109 angst

#I do believe in skk’s power to execute a completely absurd plan tho #so I am a no skk angst for 110 believer #I just love the thought of tormented chuuya 🥰 that tiny body can fit so much angst #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #chuuya nakahara #bsd chuuya #osamu dazai #bsd dazai #bsd #bsd fanart #bsd 109 #there was supposed to be a panel between these two but I couldn’t get it to look right oh well #this look is veryyyyyyy out of my comfort zone #a few years ago everything had to be completely smooth and totally rendered out and I’m trying to fight against that perfectionism #another art style test?!? on this blog?!? who would have thought?!?#my art

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raspberryjellybrains · 1 year

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I love morpheus because sometimes he looks like an ethereal deity, alien in his perfection, and sometimes he looks like a middle aged man with a punk band that never got off the ground in the 90's, sitting at the bar drinking margaritas at 3pm on a Wednesday and the only thing that seems to guide his choice in the matter seems to be vibes.

#so real of him honestly #like if i could do that you KNOW i would but im generally a terrible barometer for how to responsibly use magical powers so...#i know that there is a very deep and sad reason and i know what it is and i could make Such a post about it but im not going to rn <3 #also that he executes both with the same level of pansexual swag is delightful #dream of the endless #the sandman

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thefigmented · 4 months

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THE CROWD LOVES AN UPSET!!

(THD Jash (Devil) design by MidnightJuno on pinterest <3)

#art #my art #chonny jash #the that handsome devil power hour #THD Jash #jashverse #kinda threw this one together real quick but i had an idea and had to execute

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molagboop · 8 months

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Noise game.

#winging it #raven beak #samus aran #samus #metroid dread #metroid #chozo #metroid comic #Chozo have a habit of just making noise. it's fun!#Samus does it too (picked it up during childhood) though her smaller human throat doesn't allow her quite as much range.#make no mistake: her mimicry is very impressive. she just can't flawlessly imitate an oncoming 16-wheeler.#She can do other Things though. As Raven Beak displays his mastery over the ringtone. so too does she have this power.#she has the upper hand in some places: lips and teeth allow her more tools with which to execute the finer points of complex noises #but her elders have tricks of their own.#Raven Beak can imitate human kissy noises in his throat using the very back of his tongue #making noises at each other is honestly one of their best bonding activities so far.#though they're usually sitting across the room from each other when they come out with the ear blast-tier moves #they don't need to talk to each other. don't even need to look at each other. they can just sit in the living room and go back and forth #with noises. they get competitive sometimes. that's typically when the loud stuff comes into play.#sometimes they have these wordless competitions of who can make the most intricate noises or the loudest noises or the weirdest noises #or they try to see who can make the most outlandish sound that flesh can feasibly make. like heavy machinery. stuff that you wouldn't expec #someone to be able to make on their own without the help of equipment.

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sri-rachaa · 1 year

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Man of the year || Milo Greer

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #redacted milo #redacted shaw pack #redacted fanart #MILO SWEEP MILO SWEEP MILO SWEEP 🥳🥳#THE POWER COUPLE WONNNNNN #Had a lot of fun finally figuring out how to put how I see him on a page !!#drawing milo really intimidated me when it comes to his design #but!! I think I executed my vision fairly well #the one thing I’m very passionate about: Milos a gold jewelry man #CMON #necklaces rings watches like they’re all gold #i cannot be told otherwise !!#rae draws thingz

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imminent-danger-came · 9 months

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So, this parallel, right.

That parallel and the 4x11 shadowpeach fight as a whole:

Macaque: "No that's YOU! You're the one always running off! Looking for more power, more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while were were ahead! Not the great sage, he's got to drag EVERYONE else into his mess!" Sun Wukong: "You're not in this mess, you're still free! Everything I did was for us!" Macaque: "You did it for yourself! You've become like this, obsessive demon! I told you going against the Jade Emperor was a bad idea, but no, Wukong doesn't listen to anyone! He just does whatever he wants! You put yourself here, not me."

(4x11 A Lifetime of Mistakes)

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A large part of Wukong's motivation to keep getting more power was the freedom of it—the more power you have the easier it is to do whatever you want. It's easier to ignore everyone else and focus solely on yourself. It's also easier to ensure yourself and your loved one's are protected and have the ability to do what they want.

So, a punishment where the great Monkey King is imprisoned and trapped for hundreds of years? It's effective and tragic and fitting. Wukong wanted to have the freedom to protect the people he cared about, and in trying to reach for the power to do that, he completely had his freedom removed. He went from the mountain, to then the circlet, and then all of a sudden he had morals and was bound to those.

And then I think about his end of s3 choice to go face the Lady Bone Demon alone. Once again Wukong was trying to protect his loved ones (not to mention the whole reason he went after the Samadhi fire to begin with was to have the power, the freedom to stop LBD (which in itself is another case of SWK believing he needed to be stronger for such freedom)), but he also wanted to make sure MK and himself both had agency. He didn't want MK to have to fight LBD, and he didn't want LBD to end the world.

This is exactly the sentiment he tells Macaque in the 4x11 flashback:

Sun Wukong: "It's so we don't have to worry about anything or anyone ever again! Just living a lazy life, sitting in the sun, eatin' fruit, and doing whatever we want!"

But where does it all lead him?

To possession, imprisonment. Once again Wukong no longer had the freedom to do what he wanted (which is to protect the people he cares about). Once again in his attempts to help his loved one's, he only hurt them.

This can be applied to his relationship with Macaque, to MK in s2, hell, even Wukong trying to get the map in the first place left him powerless, which then led to him and the gang being imprisoned in 3x02. It's a familiar pattern, one we see with antagonist and protagonist alike.

MK in s2 trained to become more powerful, which in the end only strengthened LBD and forced him and his friends on the run. Mei in 3x12 protects MK by letting herself get captured and placed into LBD's crystal. Mei in 4x05 goes to protect MK, breaking her sword and leaving her vulnerable to being captured by Kui Mulang ("How am I supposed to protect everyone without my sword?"). DBK reached for more power and then became possessed by LBD, hurting his wife and son. Azure reached for the Jade Emperor's power and bound himself to that role, jeopardizing Peng and Yellowtusk in the process.

It's a cycle of reaching for power, endangering others, and then being imprisoned.

So anyways, here's why MK is going to lose control (his agency) next season and hurt his friends with his own- *get's shot*

#*cough cough* shut up this isn't similar to Callum and Viren from tdp at all.#Ignore everything I said about the reach for power to have freedom and that leading to consequences. Shhhhhhh #anyways GOSH HMMM THE CHARACTER ARCS YAY #I LOVE WHEN THEMATICALLY RELEVANT THINGS HAPPEN TO CHARACTERS #Like. It's not just ''Wukong got possessed'' it's how Wukong getting possessed plays into his character and the show as a whole #Which is why lmk is so good #A league above the rest #Ignore that this is also the exact same thing that happens to Callum with possession. Shhhhh.#But y'all get my point #So anyways in reaching for power and having the agency to protect those you care about #And continuing Mei and SWK parallels #I think it would be neat if Mei accepted the Samadhi fire again to protect her friends for whatever reason #It'd also be neat if she did it specifically to fight MK/get him back #Like teehee that would be so cool #Am I saying MK next season might very well parallel possessed Wukong? yes that's exactly what I'm saying.#lmk SWK #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk analysis #you know what executive decision tag #hero mei warrior mk

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reality-detective · 15 days

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The Patriot Act is a carbon copy of the Nazi Constitution of the 1940's.

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Is history repeating itself? 🤔

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bidokja · 11 months

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I was joking a while back that the actor they have playing KDJ for the orv movie was too handsome for him and a friend who's read orv was like "KDJ is actually secretly attractive!!" And I just felt my soul leave my body right then

SIGHS...

Okay. Buckle in. I'm gonna finally actually address and explain and theorize about this whole...thing.

I'm not gonna cite any exact chapters cause it's like 11:30 and I've got an 8 hour drive in the morning but I'll at least make an approximate reference to where certain things are mentioned. Also, this post is just my personal interpretation for a good bit of it, but it's an interpretation I feel very solid about, so do with that what you will. Moving on to the meat of things:

There is one (1) instance in the web novel that I know of which describes specific features of Kim Dokja (especially ones other people notice). This takes place when members of KimCom are trying to make Kim Dokja presentable to give his speech at the Industrial Complex (after it's been plopped down on Earth). This is when they start really paying attention and focusing on Kim Dokja's appearance since they're putting makeup on him; I still don't think they can interpret his whole face, but they can accurately pick out and retain more features than usual. If I remember correctly they reference him having long eyelashes, smooth skin, and soft hair. These features can be viewed as (stereotypically) attractive.

Certain parts of the fandom have taken this scene and run with it at a very surface level, without realizing (or without acknowledging at the very least) that this scene is not about how Kim Dokja looks. This is, in part, due to not realizing or acknowledging why Kim Dokja's face is "censored" in the first place, and what that censoring actually means. I think it's also possible that some people are assuming the censorship works like a physical phenomena rather than an altered perception.

I'll address that last point first. The censorship of Kim Dokja's features is not something as simple as a physical phenomena. It's not a bar or scribble or mosaic over his face. If that were true it'd be very obvious to anyone looking at him that his face is hidden. But his face is not hidden to people. They can look at him and see a face. If they concentrate on his eyes, they can see where he's looking. They know when he's frowning or grinning. They see a face loud and clear. But what face are they seeing? Because it's not really his, whatever they're seeing.

No one quite agrees on what he really looks like. And if they try and think about what he looks like, they can't recall. Or if they do, it's vague, or different each time. We notice these little details throughout the series. Basically, Kim Dokja's face is cognitively obscured. Something - likely the Fourth Wall, though I can't recall if this is ever stated outright - is interfering with everyone's ability to perceive him properly. This culminated in him feeling off to others; and since they don't even realize this is happening, they surmise that he is "ugly."

Moving on to the other point about what the censorship means: To be blunt, the censorship of his face is an allegory for his disconnect from the "story" (aka: real life, and the real people at his side). The lifting - however slight - of this censorship represents him becoming more and more a part of the "story" (aka: less disconnected from the life he is living and the people at his side). The censorship's existence and lifting can represent other things - like dissociation or depersonalization or, if you want to get really meta, the fact that he is all of our faces at once - but that's how I'd sum up the main premise of it. (The Fourth Wall is a larger part of the dissociation allegory, but that's for another post).

So you see, them noticing his individual features isn't about the features. It's not about the features! It doesn't matter at all which features got listed. Because they could describe any features whatsoever and it would not change the entire point of the scene. Because the point isn't what he looks like. The point is that they can truly and clearly see these features. For the first time. They are seeing parts of him for the first time. Re-read that sentence multiple times, literally and metaphorically. What does it mean to see someone as they are?

This is an extremely significant turning point dressed up as a dress-up scene.

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P.S. / Additionally, I'm of the opinion that Kim Dokja is not handsome, and he is not ugly. He is not pretty, and he is not ghastly. Not attractive, nor unattractive. Kim Dokja isn't any of these things. More importantly, Kim Dokja can't be any of these things. The entire point of Kim Dokja is that you cannot pick him out of a crowd; he is the crowd. He's a reader. He's the reader. Why does he need to be handsome? Why must he be pretty? Why is him being attractive necessary or relevant? He doesn't, he doesn't, it's not. He is someone deeply deeply loved and irreplaceable to those around him, and someone who cannot even begin to recognize or accept that unless it's through a love letter masquerading as a story he can read. He is the crowd, a reader, the reader. He's you, he's me. He's every single one of us.

#orv #orv analysis #orv meta #orv spoilers #mine #ask #there's also the meta that he is described with these (stereotypically) pretty features as they are about to try and 'sell' him to a crowd #which feels to me like a very pointed way to convey how 'beauty' is commodified. how audiences like 'attractive' characters more #note: made some edits to add in a couple of sentences my brain forgot in the moment so make sure u reblogged those if u do #tag edits for further commentary that isnt strictly relevant to the point i was making:#do i think that this face censorship was executed as well as it could have been? nah.#not that it was like. done Badly. it's followed through to a certain point. its established enough for me to make this post at least.#but i do think it is the one thing in the web novel that SS didn't capitalize on.#like. they still stuck the landing but it was not as picture perfect of an execution as the rest of the metaphorical stuff in orv #also. this (not the face censorship specifically but the 'hes just some guy' point of it all) is one of the big reasons i think that-#-visual adaptions of orv can never quite work. they can do the best that they can with that medium but a lot of nuance is lost-#-simply by virtue of it being a visual medium #i personally think the only way a visual medium could work would be one where they commit to the power move of not showing kdj's face #(until a certain point (of view) that is)#his face is always facing away or out of frame or hidden by someone or something else in the way #commit to the fucking allegory or simply perish

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whataboutthreateninganass · 9 months

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arthur: “my father didn’t strut.”

babes your father was not only PLAYED BY ANTHONY HEAD, but was also seen, on multiple occasions, gaming on his hot pink nintendo ds in the middle of tournament fights, ANDDD dramatically swishing his cloak every time he exited a conversation

this man STRUTTED through the castle corridors like he owned the place 🤨

#strutting and sashaying otw to an execution 🥰#he strutted so arthur could stumble #emotional and physical stumbling #i should clarify that while is was a powerful pussy pop strut #it was also a tyrannical strut #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merlin bbc #fuck uther #uther pendragon #my father didn’t strut #james potter

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taz-writes · 9 months

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here's a hot take for today

the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical

no i will not explain

#taz talks #writing #actually i WILL explain but i'll do it in the tags #these each serve the same function within their respective appropriate genres #each one is a kind of revelation #they heighten the connection between 2+ characters and highlight relationships and feelings and needs #they are out of place in genres where they do not belong and/or as curveballs when the narrative did not provoke them from the start #but they have the same sort of emotional/dramatic build-up #talk -> sing -> dance (talk -> yell -> stab) ((talk -> flirt -> You Know))#and they are all expressions of intense physicality and intimacy through physical gesture and interaction #they are fundamentally empty and boring if there is not a deeper purpose or drive behind them #although they can still occasionally be entertaining on their own if your audience is specifically seeking that experience out #people who do not like them will be very unhappy to encounter one where it isn't supposed to be #it is very easy to ruin the mood with poor word choice #many people have an inherent sense for terrible ones but it's often difficult or complicated to explain precisely why a bad one fails #when executed properly they are a very raw and intimate expression of a character's most fundamental needs and desires #the fluff is stripped away and there is nothing left but a series of needs. conflicting or cooperating.#and even when you're lying during one it's still a form of truth #none of these things are remotely necessary to tell a powerful or compelling story but if you're going to use them you need to do it right #also all 3 of these things are difficult if not impossible to write if you are not both interested in them and personally invested #this post brought to you by me trying to write smut about my dnd characters and failing because i generally hate /reading/ smut #so i have none of the vocabulary or instinct for it that i do for. say. graphic violence (or lyrical poetry)

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