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if yall ever want like serious advice from me about how to solve burnout as a creative it's like...
literally ignore it. stop pushing. go do something else, enjoy your life, fill it with other things, do what brings you joy in the moment if you can.
go to the gym, take a walk to touch grass and look at dogs and smell flowers, cook dinner, watch tv with your friends, talk about your feelings as needed with ppl you trust, take a drive and blast your music, do the chores you need to do, the job hunting slog you need to do, read books that aren't for research, stop cordoning off your brain for The Craft or The Draft or whatever the fuck
forget about the project, stop thinking about it for as long as it takes to be excited again.
fuckin rest, basically
#thoughts#writing stuff#personal#wish there was better advice than Stop Pushing and Rest and Ignore It#but sure haven't found any#and the time in between sucks a lot#jay prescribes a nice beverage four orgasms and a good movie with friends for your burnout#hope that helps#jay philosophies
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volume cw (i tried lowering it but jic. also loud swearing)
#ninjago#lego ninjago#jaya#ninjago jaya#jaya ninjago#nya ninjago#nya jiang#nya smith#ninjago nya#jay walker#aphid’s ninjashits#aphid philosophy#procrastinating studying for my wr…#ive made like 4 posts in a row about jaya like idgaf…#why so jaya? - the jayar#you watched skybound and then you had nowhere to ship#i couldve started going on ao3…#no if jayatar’s friends didnt ship you you wouldve gotten seabound syndrome#i know my own jaya streak uncle…#is it your own jayastreak or is it a jayastreak someone else tried to pose on you#<- is this comprehensible to anyone else please tell me someone understands this reference#if not i look genuinely just like brainrotted really#sorry….#the jayamaxxer#these are like the worst tags sorry again
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He doesn’t know how they got here, but Jason’s thankful for it. It’s not often that he speaks to Cass, when Jason’s passions are words and righteous murder and Cass’s passions are distinctly not that, but when they do speak, they manage to get along. Somehow.
“So, why don’t you kill?” Jason leans back on the couch, his favorite mug filled with Alfred’s hot chocolate.
Cass is curled against the arm of the sofa. She looks at him, head tilted. Jason knows she’s reading him, but he’s not sure what she’s finding. It’s humbling, and intimidating, to know she sees more than what he allows to show.
“I can see,” she says. “That one time… I killed. I saw. Pain. Fear. Desp- des- not wanting to die.”
“Desperation?”
Cass nods. One of her fingers fiddle with the material of the couch. Jason knows she’s allowing him to see the motion. He knows it’s her silent way of showing him trust.
“There is more. To dying. Like… like they see their lives-They think- remembers. Loves. Their life- regret, love, everything. It goes through-” Cass taps her temple.
“Their lives are flashing through their heads?”
“Yes. Good. Bad. Everything. I see.” Quieter, Cass adds “I know. I know them, then. I killed a life that I know. They love. Everyone, have something they love. I kill, I kill that love.”
“That must suck.”
Cass leans back. She nods, neck releasing their tension and eyes less hunted, more accepting.
“Yes. I don’t want to- I don’t want to be the end.” Cass swivels her shoulders towards him, now. “Why… why do you?”
“Me?” Jason… hasn’t thought about it for a while, nor too deeply. But this is Cass. And her honesty deserves an honest reply. “I kill because some people shouldn’t be left alive to hurt and kill others”
“Not about… Bruce?”
Jason took a sip of his hot chocolate. Cass settled more into the couch, her eyes clear and watchful.
“It used to be,” he admitted. “About him, I mean. It used to be about vengeance. But then I came back to Crime Alley, and then I saw the kids getting hurt instead of being protected. They’re innocent. And then, it wasn’t about Bruce anymore. Killing is just the means to an end now, for me.”
“Do you- not regret?” She makes a gesture at his leg, where on a normal day, his holsters would be.
“I try to make sure I don’t kill people I’d regret, no. Like, you know how sometimes you guys arrest muggers?”
Cass nodded.
“Sometimes,” Jason said, remembering the days of digging through trash for food and the lingering hunger that rumbled through his younger self’s stomach. “They mug people because they’re desperate. I don’t kill those guys. But people deal to kids? Who hurt sex workers? Rapists? They’re doing irreparable harm, with full knowledge of their actions. For profit, mostly. If they’re willing to ruin lives, then they should be ready for their own to be ruined. It’s justice, for people like me.”
Cass studied him. “Justice…?”
“The only kind us Alley kids could ever appreciate. Arresting an abuser, a threat, and having that stick is for the privileged. Having that threat removed completely is relieving.”
“Can’t trust the world to be fair. But death, is fair.”
“Yeah. I think if I saw as much as you do, it’d be harder to do. But I think I’d still kill, because one person’s suffering after a life of being evil is worth the safety of so many others. To know… well, I guess I’m glad I don’t know what that’s like.”
“I see.”
“I know you do,” Jason grins at her. “But not killing is an act of courage too. Even if B makes it seem like it should come instinctually.”
“Yes. He does not connect, with Damian. Does not understand, fully, how hard. To unlearn.”
“Yeah.”
They sit in silence for a while after that, listening to the sounds of their family clambering around in other rooms.
“Hey, Cass?”
Cass turned back to him.
“I would kill David Cain for you.”
He would. It makes the Pit seethe when he thinks about how much David Cain and Lady Shiva hurt Cass for her to get this insanely good at reading people. He hopes she sees the pure honesty and sincerity he feels at that declaration
Cass puts a hand on his shoulder and squeezed once. Twice.
“Okay. Thank you.”
“No objections?”
“… would not feel too bad.”
Jason snorted.
“Yeah. You and me both.”
He doesn’t know how they got here, but he’s thankful for it anyways, because he understands his sister just that much more now.
#cassandra cain#black bat#Jason Todd#red hood#they have different philosophies#but theyre family your honor#cass would stop jay from murdering people if she sees him#he’d let her bc he’s not gonna win that fight#he’d also go back and kill whoever later#David Cain#being a horrible parent I hate this guy#dc#Cassandra Cain seeing someone’s emotions as they die#she doesn’t want to be a weapon#Batman
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i’ve been thinking a lot about what is so unique and appealing about 80s robin jay’s moral standing that got completely lost in plot later on. and i think a huge part of it is that in a genre so focused on crime-fighting, his motivations and approach don’t focus on the category of crime at all. in fact, he doesn’t seem to believe in any moral dogma; and it’s not motivated by nihilism, but rather his open-heartedness and relational ethical outlook.
we first meet (post-crisis) jay when he is stealing. when confronted about his actions by bruce he’s confident that he didn’t do anything wrong – he’s not apologetic, he doesn’t seem to think that he has morally failed on any account. later on, when confronted by batman again, jay says that he’s no “crook.” at this point, the reader might assume that jay has no concept of wrong-doing, or that stealing is just not one of the deeds that he considers wrong-doing. yet, later on we see jay so intent on stopping ma gunn and her students, refusing to be implicit in their actions. there are, of course, lots of reasons for which we can assume he was against stealing in this specific instance (an authority figure being involved, the target, the motivations, the school itself being an abusive environment etc.), but what we gather is that jay has an extremely strong sense of justice and is committed to moral duty. that's all typical for characters in superhero comics, isn't it? however, what remains distinctive is that this moral duty is not dictated by any dogma – he trusts his moral instincts. this attitude – his distrust toward power structures, confidence in his moral compass, and situational approach, is something that is maintained throughout his robin run. it is also evident in how he evaluates other people – we never see him condemning his parents, for example, and that includes willis, who was a petty criminal. i think from there arises the potential for a rift between bruce and jay that could be, have jay lived, far more utilised in batman comics than it was within his short robin run.
after all, while bruce’s approach is often called a ‘philosophy of love and care,’ he doesn’t ascribe to the ethics of care [eoc] (as defined in modern scholarship btw) in the same way that jay does. ethics of care ‘deny that morality consists in obedience to a universal law’ and focus on the ideals of caring for other people and non-institutionalized justice. bruce, while obviously caring, is still bound by his belief in the legal system and deontological norms. he is benevolent, but he is also ultimately morally committed to the idea of a legal system and thus frames criminals as failing to meet these moral (legal-adjacent) standards (even when he recognizes it is a result of their circumstances). in other words, he might think that a criminal is a good person despite leading a life of crime. meanwhile, for jay there is no despite; jay doesn't think that engaging in crime says anything about a person's moral personality at all. morality, for him, is more of an emotional practice, grounded in empathy and the question of what he can do for people ‘here and now.’ he doesn’t ascribe to maxims nor utilitarian calculations. for jay, in morality, there’s no place for impartiality that bruce believes in; moral decisions are embedded within a net of interpersonal relationships and social structures that cannot be generalised like the law or even a “moral code” does it. it’s all about responsiveness.
to sum up, jay's moral compass is relative and passionate in a way that doesn't fit batman's philosophy. this is mostly because bruce wants to avoid the sort of arbitrariness that seems to guide eoc. also, both for vigilantism, and jay, eoc poses a challenge in the sense that it doesn't create a certain 'intellectualised' distance from both the victims and the perpetrators; there's no proximity in the judgment; it's emotional.
all of this is of course hardly relevant post-2004. there might be minimal space for accommodating some of it within the canon progression (for example, the fact that eoc typically emphasises the responsibility that comes with pre-existing familial relationships and allows for prioritizing them, as well as the flexibility regarding moral deliberations), but the utilitarian framework and the question of stopping the crime vs controlling the underworld is not something that can be easily reconciled with jay’s previous lack of interest in labeling crime.
#fyi i'm ignoring a single panel in which jay says 'evil wins. he chose the life of crime' because i think there's much more nuance to that#as in: choosing a life of crime to deliberately cause harm is a whole another matter#also: inb4 this post is not bruce slander. please do not read it as such#as i said eoc is highly criticised for being arbitrary which is something that bruce seeks to avoid#also ethics of care are highly controversial esp that their early iterations are gender essentialist and ascribe this attitude to women#wow look at me accidentally girl-coding jay#but also on the topic of post-res jay.#it's typically assumed that ethics of care take a family model and extend it into morality as a whole#'the ethics of care considers the family as the primary sphere in which to understand ethical behavior'#so#an over-simplification: you are allowed to care for your family over everything else#re: jay's lack of understanding of bruce's conflict in duty as batman vs father#for jay there's no dilemma. how you conduct yourself in the familial context determines who you are as a person#also if you are interested in eoc feel free to ask because googling will only confuse you...#as a term it's used in many weird ways. but i'm thinking about a general line of thought that evolves into slote's philosophy#look at me giving in and bringing philosophy into comics. sorry. i tried to simplify it as much as possible#i didn't even say anything on criminology and the label and the strain theories.#i'm so brave for not info-dumping#i said even though i just info-dumped#jay.zip#jay.txt#dc#fatal flaw#core texts#robin days
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major headcanon of mine that Jay was a foster kid. in college, Alex would invite Jay over for holidays with his family and they’d be so welcoming. i think Alex would do this consistently every year so Jay, for once, had a sense of consistency and people that treated him like family
that probably all changed when Marble Hornets was coming up. the closer it got the holidays and Alex hadn’t said anything about holiday plans, so Jay asked about it. Alex said that they’re not going to his family’s place but they’re going to stay around campus to work on Marble Hornets. they don’t need a break, he said
probably hurt a lot for Jay. he felt like he was losing his friend and losing people he considered to be almost family, even if he didn’t see them often
i think, even after Alex moved away, he still wondered if Alex’s family would’ve wanted him back
#this was part of an idea for a fic but i have been so busy#marble hornets#mh#mh jay#mh alex#alex kralie#jay merrick#philosophi finki
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Hi! I know you're very fond of blood bender Nya. So, that makes me wonder if that will be included in Lightning Pin. I'm curious because I think it will be a good opportunity for Nya to bond with Kaida since Kaida can control souls, and if Nya's a blood bender, she technically can control people (?) Idk, that's how I see it jrndksk.
OOO THANKS FOR THIS ASK! Believe me, I've been thinking about this very concept since they can control people and what it means for each of them to use a technique like that.
I'm also going to take the opportunity to talk a little about bloodbending and how I think Nya would feel with that technique (spoilers for Skybound AU I guess)
In particular, I think that Nya would use bloodbending in a situation where she is really desperate, an extreme scenario where she has no other option and it's her best alternative in combat to quickly finish off an enemy. Nya has a strong sense of responsibility for the difficulty involved in managing an element as versatile as water. Even if she may be frustrated at first with this very thing, she is aware of the scope of such an element and the importance of controlling it. She would clearly understand the consequences of simply depriving someone of control of their body, the moral question of when it is necessary to use such a technique when she may accidentally end up killing a petty criminal.
So, I don't think Nya would be afraid of the technique but she wouldn't feel comfortable using it in combat knowing what it entails and much less she would use it unless she was pushed to her limits. Of course, if she was in a situation where she had no choice she would be really ruthless with bloodbending.
Now Kaida on the other hand...
I've mentioned it before, but this girl sees violence as something normal and pragmatic. Thanks to Jay, she understands that she has to control her powers better so as not to accidentally hurt someone she cares about, but it's not like she thinks or even considers that there are any other ways to handle a situation other than "kill or be killed." For example, in Lightning Pin, she attacks Cole without even thinking once she realizes he is an elemental master. So her sense of awareness of what it means to use her powers completely ignores the moral question of what it means to steal someone's soul. It also doesn't help that Jay's moral flexibility means he was never really able to teach her exactly the opposite in a place like the Administration.
Which I definitely want to touch on in the fic with her and Nya, since while Kaida's first instinct is to fight (like a soldier) Nya's first instinct is to protect (like a samurai). And I want them to bond based on the differences and what they consider necessary about how to fight with their elements.
#I'm re-watching ATLA so I could rant for hours about the elemental powers and philosophies of each one#kaida walker#ninjago#ninjago oc#ninjago fanfic#Ninjago Nya#Nya ninjago#dad jay au#nya jiang#ninjago au
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Rb for a broader net
#tumblr polls#polls#jay's sage#questions#philosophy#rb to boost!#science#tumblr science#science side of tumblr
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You're finally home!
#library of ruina#judgement bird#big bird#punishing bird#lobotomy corporation#i was so happy they were in ruina :')#jay#sona#jay's the final librarian of floor of philosophy so she thankfully doesn't have to fight them too#she just has to beat up [REDACTED] which she does enjoy
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So I reblogged a post earlier about how your friends don't secretly hate you or think you are annoying and the way you know that is they're still hanging around after you go on an absolute deranged rant in the group chat and that nobody has the time or energy to put into a con trying to fool me into thinking they actually like me or whatever
And that I know my friends are busy and if they didn't actually like me they would spend more time watching TV than listening to me ramble etc and all of those are very good points!
However something that I think is also important to internalize is that--
Yes your friends and loved ones do you think you're annoying sometimes. It's not the end of the world! Because everybody's fucking annoying sometimes and *you* think they're annoying sometimes too. Even people who really really enjoy your company and like you are not going to like you 100% of the time. That is perfectly fine and normal.
The problem arises when people snip and snap at each other because they're annoyed and don't apologize or acknowledge it, right. There are many times that I am annoyed with my loved ones and so what I do is if it's not some actual big problem that needs to be unpicked I just take a deep breath and go take a walk or disengage and do something else.
You have all made a pact with each other that we like each other enough to move past any of the annoying moments. Again as long as it doesn't become toxic and it's not an actual issue.
Like sometimes I get in a mood and I talk and don't make sense or I'm grumpy or I honestly just talk too much or I talk in circles
I imagine at certain points that can be annoying
Anyway just a revelation that I had that it's fine if you're annoying, it's fine if you're a burden, we're all burdens on each other, that's called being alive and having relationships. Deciding to stick with a relationship and to keep working on it is the commitment we all make and choose to continue carrying that burden. Hopefully it is reciprocal but it will go in phases and cycles it's not going to always be 50/50.
All of that to say, you're allowed to annoy your friends and they're allowed to not always be 100% happy with you and vice versa. It doesn't mean they don't care about you, it means that human beings rub each other the wrong way sometimes and then we all as, hopefully, mature adults deal with it and grow and continue on.
#thoughts#personal#jay philosophies#I was just thinking a couple of thoughts earlier#It's about growth!!#communication and growing together#figuring out when there's a problem and if it's just subjective and you can all move past it#figuring out if you actually need to apologize and figuring out if you just need to step away for a little while#constant work in progress for all relationships of all types
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i miss jay I MISS JAYYYYY when will my wife return from war……
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ocs are just a way for me to make up some asian americans and have them act out strange conversations i cooked up in my brain
#ange.png#ocs#scratches head they arent updated yet but they will be on artfight. @ohcitron btw.#im having fun with my new screentone brushes .#long hair is jay and short hair is ricky and they are college suitemates#ive been sitting with this joke for so long idk if its funny anymore or just off putting#my oc philosophy is making up some asian americans for me to play barbie with
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I can't sleep. A few thoughts on fictional characters. (long personal post)
Yeah, I should be in bed. I told my friends I was logging off. But I tried to sleep, and got caught up in memories of the past. It happens a lot when you're me.
So I didn't leave my parents place until I was 20, right? I've lived an approximate fourth of a human's lifespan in a bad home. And there are a lot of real people I could credit for helping me hang on long enough to get out. They more than deserve the credit that I could give. They all deserve their own happy endings and the best that life has to offer, there's no question of that.
But for a majority of my life, fictional characters also helped share the burden. My list of comfort characters is long. The first comfort character I had was when I was four years old. There was this movie that almost no one's heard of, called Doogal, also known as The Magic Roundabout. This was a bad kids movie, but when you're four, you're not exactly in a position to notice quality or do an analysis.
I've been through a lot of stuff that I don't talk about, partially for privacy reasons, partially for safety, and partially because I don't like to discuss all my trauma on a blog where anyone can read it. What I can say comfortably is that fictional characters have always acted as an anchor for me. They've kept me tethered, despite everything.
There were many times I came close to making a permanent mistake because life was too hard. I have a few... attempts under my belt. Nothing stuck, obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be typing this. But I've been caught in this loop tonight about the power fictional characters have over our lives.
I pay attention. I lurk a lot over a broad variety of tags. TSP isn't my only fandom, though it is my main one right now. And I keep seeing these connections. I'm not the only one who's used characters to stay alive when things have been at their worst. Far from it. There are thousands of us, who have either been stuck in abusive situations or currently are, and we grip tight to these characters in order to have something, or someone who... Cares. Loves. Pays attention. There are so many ways to fill that blank, more than I have the ability to describe.
The thing is, I can't work out why. I mean, I can understand the need for the things our families can't provide, better than most. But why- or how, do they have this power? What is it about fictional characters that makes them have this ability? What does it mean to scream for help, and for a fictional character to lend a hand? I've been thinking about this for a while, and I can't come to any solid conclusions.
Do we use fictional characters to cope because a part of our brain knows that someone needs to be kind to us, despite all the things we've been told?
Do we use them to cope because our traits are recognizable in them?
Is it more metaphysical and spiritual than that? Can they see into our world at all? How many of us have discovered the media we needed at exactly the right time? How many of us have found something life saving in the most unlikely of fandoms? Is this fate? Is it chance? Do these characters in some universe watch us struggle and think, "I can lend a hand."?
Again, thousands of us have had these experiences. Undertale saved my life. Good Omens saved my life. Welcome to Nightvale helped me keep my sanity during the pandemic. Don't get me started on how many times Star Trek has given me something to live for. Redwall and Chronicles of Narnia too. I've been in a lot of different spaces. The perfect piece of media to distract and consume and daydream about, to get us through a few months. Again, and again.
I didn't know peace until I left home. But these worlds provided some small version of it. How did they do that?
I don't have any answers. Maybe the answers aren't important, but they feel important.
And I'm not ashamed that I use characters when tensions and stress or high. They've stuck with me since I was four years old, and I don't think they're going anywhere. Believe me, I've tried to rely on them less, and push them away in extreme circumstances. They won't leave me behind, even if I asked them to. I did. They refused point blank.
How is it that they've got a better grip on the inside of my head than I do?
Now chances are, relying on them is just what my brain learned to do to cope. But there's always a romantic part of me that wants to believe it's more than that.
I still can't get over it. How do fictional characters hold this much sway over us? I mean- I consume headcanons almost as much as I write for them. I've saved hundreds of them to my desktop to read when things are hard. And while I can't claim that those posts were lifesaving as much as the media was, they helped. They brought comfort. They brought relief.
Why? Why do these characters matter so much to us?
I have dozens of stories I could tell. Picturing Aziraphale with his wings stretched out, protecting me until I fell asleep. The narrator giving me comfort after dealing with my abusers. Julian Bashir and Garak helping me during recovery. Papyrus being proud of me for accomplishing things. Cecil Palmer helping me calm down from a panic attack. Fantasizing about living at Redwall Abbey, while stuck in a dangerous home. All of them helping me get back to my feet after being knocked to the ground again and again. All of them, and many others holding the line while I battled with my own brain to stay alive.
How were they able to convince me to stay, when I had no desire to do so? How did reading them saying kind things and writing them being kind to others help me believe I was deserving of kindness? How did loving them so deeply transfer to wanting to love myself?
None of it makes sense, but even if I wasn't invested in keeping myself here, they were.
#personal#not tsp related#okay i got that out of my system#im going to try and go back to bed#hopefully it will work this time#ugh#if it weren't for the fact that i'm about to stop posting#i'd try and come up with a tag for these types of posts#something like: soup's rambles#or: jay's philosophy hour#tw abuse#tw suicide
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i haaaaate that judith jarvis thomson violinist essay that advocates for abortion. it's terrible philosophizing. like, shit, we came to the same conclusion about the necessity of abortion rights, but the way you got here was questionable.
#i tore into this essay when i was still mandated distribution requirements#and my philosophy professor told me to chill when i'd gone on a rant of how dumb i figured it was#his words verbatim: 'jay. relax.'
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Kpop idols as...
Ancient Greek and Latin words
Jay - φύσις (physis)
The Nature. It's the supreme order of Kosmos, according to some philosophers
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#enhypen#enha#jay enhypen#enhypen jay#jay park#jay park enhypen#kpop moodboard#moodboard#kpop idols as...#greek#latin#ancient greek#philosophy#soft aesthetic
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