#relevant as always
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It has been said a number of times in the communist movement that the revolution is not a problem of forms of organisation. For capitalist society, on the contrary, everything is an organisational question. At the beginning of its development, this appears as the search for good institutions; at the end as the search for the best structures to enclose men in the prisons of capital : fascism. At both extremes, democracy is at the heart of this search : first political democracy, then social democracy.
Jacques Camatte - “The Democratic Mystification” (1969)
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ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.
#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead?#'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had#but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value#while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour#supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events#meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism#(especially misogyny and homophobia)#especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance#in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness#for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing'#the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism
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CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS
there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head
I don't know why I decided to draw it this way
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#(these will be relevant in a moment)#this isn't going to happen. but WHAT IF.#anyway i didn't get him (damnit birdman come home) so i had to look up his story#and let me tell you friends my findings were SHOCKING#crowley canonically likes vegetables which means that the crowley is revaan theory = BUSTED#crowley is sailor venus = CONFIRMED#(i know 'whip of love' is a saying but that's where my mind always goes)#DISCLAIMER: this is (mostly) a joke please continue to hold whatever theories and headcanons you want#but look. c'mon. look over here at this whiteboard i've covered in red yarn.#revaan being a picky eater has come up multiple times and there is an entire whole bit about how much he hated jerky and refused to eat it#and now they've made a point of talking about how crowley will eat almost anything and loOoOoves wild game meat especially#it's SO stupid but i can't help but read way too much into it#(this is tumblr if you don't want to see incredibly stupid overanalysis of anime guys then why are you HERE)#and i gotta hold on to something because otherwise whenever malleus and crowley are onscreen together i just keep going 'same hair color...#unless this is like. some kind of deep cover thing.#lilia doesn't recognize him because he saw him eat a green bean once and revaan would NEVER#crowley's secret is safe for another day#(serious hat on: i do think they're probably connected in some way)#(but there's something deeper going on that we're just not clued into yet that will hopefully explain things)#man forget revaan what if crowley whips off his mask and it turns out he was meleanor this whole time#wait hold on meleanor loves jerky. IT ALL FITS...
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Sometimes I think about how Adrien, throughout the series, constantly grapples with his fear of abandonment. Gabriel conditioned him to believe that any love he receives is purely transactional, and that to earn affection he has to prove his utility. Adrien is constantly trying to prove his worth to his father for scraps of affection, and Chat Noir infamously crumbles on-screen any time he feels as though he is replaceable to Ladybug. It's a constant insecurity of his, like everyone will just dump him like a sack of potatoes the moment they find out how useless he is.
Meanwhile, all Marinette wants to is ensure that Adrien is happy. Because she loves him. She doesn't give two shits about how """useful""" he is. She holds him and tells him that she will never abandon him (both as Ladynoir and as Adrienette), and her fantasies are about saving him, not about him being "useful" to her. Throughout their relationship, Adrien is forced to disappoint Marinette constantly for reasons outside of his control (amok commands), and yet Marinette is still there for him.
At Adrien's lowest point, when he is forcibly torn away from everyone who had ever showed him genuine care, locked away in an all-white room and at his most "useless", right after disappointing Marinette and unable to even join the final battle or contribute in any way, she still saves him. She still loves him. Because he doesn't have to prove anything to her. Because he is loved and cherished for who he is, not for what he does, and that love is not conditional. Adrien's "happy ending" at the end of the first arc wasn't about him finally proving how useful he can be, because he never actually cared about being useful — he just saw it as the only means to feel loved and needed. Instead, in the end, he found out that he was loved and needed no matter what.
#ml s5 spoilers#ml s5 finale spoilers#idk im musing dont mind me#(as always this post isnt an invitation to tell me why You dont like the show. if that's the case then you can make your own post)#i think the ''what does this say about adrien's agency'' reading of the show is fair and an interesting perspective#but personally i find the ''what does this say about adrien's inherent worth as a person / how does this play into his fear of abandonment'#to also be a super valid way to read the series that is just as relevant to his character arc and i don't see people talking about enough
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— chuck palahniuk, haunted
#cqledit#The Untamed#Wei Wuxian#Wen Ruohan#mdzs#myedit#you know while I'm in the giffing mood then let's go#I should tag jgy here but idk if I wanna clutter the tag without him actually here#but yeah this is very much relevant to him as well#just yeah calling out the cultivation world for just jumping from target to target like it's nothing#obv some deserved and some not but that there will always be The Public Enemy Number One#and you never know if you might not be the next one#and wwx knows this all too well hah
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Did someone say COMPLETE DATA ANALYSIS OF ALL THE DEATHS IN THE LIFE SERIES? No? Well. I did it. Here are some neat graphs for you guys to look at so that you don’t have to deal with the gigantic spreadsheet I did!
Let’s start off with the big bad question: what gets people killed in this game, anyway?
Note that a CAUSE OF DEATH is not the same as a KILL. Cause of death is what pops up in the chat when someone dies (ex. PearlescentMoon was slain by Smallishbeans, BdoubleO100 fell from a high place). The cause of death does not always account for player responsibility (ex. TNT traps). Generally, a player is only considered to be someone’s cause of death if the death occurs through direct PvP combat. HOWEVER, responsibility for an indirect kill such as a trap still goes toward a player’s total kill count—for example, Joel has 14 kills overall, 10 of which are direct enough for him to be considered the actual cause of death. After all, axes don’t kill people without being swung by someone.
A few other whacky things about kill counts:
Self-inflicted deaths do not count toward a player’s kill count (ex. Grian doesn’t get a kill for jumping off Monopoly Mountain at the end of 3rd Life, Scott doesn’t get a kill for blowing himself up at the end of Double Life).
When it comes to Double Life, soulmates are considered to share their three lives. No distinction is made between Soulmate A's life and Soulmate B's life, and each death only counts as one kill (ex. Joel gets one kill for killing Scott with fireworks, even though that also killed Pearl (however, Pearl’s cause of death is still Joel, as her life is considered the same as Scott’s)).
Using the /kill command does not count toward your kill count. Grian.
With that cleared up, let’s look at kill counts.
By the skin of his teeth, Grian leads the pack in total kills. The top three you see on that graph are the only players who have a KDR (kill-to-death ratio) of more than 1—for you folks who are unfamiliar with those, a KDR of more than 1 means you kill other people more often than you die. Less than 1 means you die more often than you kill other people. Here are the highest and lowest KDRs in the series:
“What’s this?” I hear you say. “Jimmy Wet-Paper-Bag-of-a-Man Solidarity DOESN’T have the lowest KDR in the series?”
No. No, he does not, and it’s actually really funny you should ask.
Because of Last Life’s mechanic of life transferring, even players that have been in all three installments of the Life Series don’t have the same death count. Eight players died more than three times in Last Life. Another eight died exactly three times. And one player only died twice.
By virtue of starting on yellow and never receiving any extra lives in Last Life, Jimmy holds the record for fewest deaths in an installment of the Life Series with just two deaths in Last Life. He is the only player to ever die less than three times in a game. This means that although he has just one kill, he has fewer total deaths than BigB (who has died a very standard nine times), the only other player with one kill, so his KDR is higher. Congrats, Jimmy, you’re not last in everything. But you are still the only player without a PvP kill.
Speaking of PvP, it’s time to look at how people do that! Here’s a graph of the top five weapons that tend to land PvP kills the most in the series:
And now here’s weapon preferences by game:
[Double Life not depicted due to lack of PvP deaths—only 4 occurred, using a diamond axe, a diamond sword, fireworks, and an iron axe respectively.]
Despite 19 more deaths occurring in Last Life than 3rd Life, the two actually have the exact same amount of PvP kills (28). It’s interesting to note the strong preference for bows in 3rd Life, which was a much more warlike game and had several fairly formal battles where people fought from a distance. Last Life required an overall sneakier strategy, resulting in a higher use of traps. In combat, non-ranged weapons like swords and axes were generally preferred due to fights often starting in close proximity and without warning, courtesy of the Boogeyman curse. Comparatively, Double Life saw remarkably few PvP kills, likely due to each person being twice as accident-prone by virtue of being linked to another player—in fact, with a total of 12, accidents accounted for three times as many deaths as PvP in Double Life and overall for more than half (57%) of the deaths in the game.
As for individual player stats sheets, here’s an example of one of those:
If you want to see one of those for ALL 17 PLAYERS, you can go to this slideshow! More details about the stats can be found in the presentation notes of each slide. And, if you have a really specific question and want to get into the nitty gritty, feel free to send me an ask! Hope you guys enjoyed the data!
#moral of the story: stay away from high places#and Joel and Ren#and always assume Grian is up to something#life series#3rd life#last life#double life#overrainylyzed#I don't think I've ever analyzed something harder before in my life honestly#relevant rainy things
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And I'm the monster? — Nimona
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don’t get me wrong I really liked tbosas movie but I do love the irony of the games in the book being essentially failures because no one wants to watch them. they don’t work well for tv because they’re very slow paced, they last a long time, because the tributes really don’t have any motivation to kill each other.
but in the movie they’re made much more fast paced, with fight scenes that never existed in the book. all of the sudden there’s a sort of bloodbath, a group of tributes that try to hunt everyone else down. it’s obviously just trying to be entertaining. no one wants to watch a movies where nothing happens
but I just find it ironic that the games in the movie were MADE to be more entertaining and compatible for a movie/tv format, just like the capitol tries to do.
#if there’s one thing about the hunger games#it’s that it always remains relevant!#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#the hunger games#hunger games#coriolanus snow#lucy gray baird#my posts
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whatever you do, don’t imagine eddie doing a running jump at steve’s back while he’s trying to talk to someone, and steve catching him in a piggyback without even breaking away from the conversation. then eddie starts to attack his neck with little nibbles while going “BITING you BITING you BITING you BITING you” over and over again until steve turns his head just enough to catch his lips with his own so eddie gets stopped mid sentence like “BITING you BIT—oh! kissing you! :D”
#they’re already in a relationship in my mind but you can make this pre-steddie too and it literally works the same#cause they’re both little freaks like that#steddie#steddie fluff#stranger things#stranger things s4#steve harrington#eddie munson#genderqueer steve harrington#appalachian eddie munson#<- those tags not directly related but always relevant and applicable on my posts
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there was an opportunity
#idc if this meme is dead into the spider-verse will always be relevant#it’s just that good of a movie#ethan winters#rosemary winters#shadows of rose#resident evil#re8 dlc#resident evil 8#re village#screenshot redraw
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i loved you so much it was making me sick
#red vs blue#rvb#rvb fanart#rvb tex#agent texas#rvb church#leonard church#freshly minted#me fighting for my life trying to figure out what tags people use. ok.#anyway the relevance of going to scotland to this moment or this art is questionable at best but u just need to trust in my beautiful mind#what i was mostly thinking about is what tex would look like. and then what epsilon tex specifically would look like. and coming to the#conclusion that i dont think i will ever come up with a face for her. always just a hint of something blurred through the glass.#i love you deadalive nothing girl who isn't.
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Star Trek, "The Mark of Gideon."
Airdate: January 17, 1969.
Sigh.
#star trek#star trek tos#jim kirk#the mark of gideon#hodin#captain kirk#image source: trekcore#transcript source: chakoteya#i can't believe the us is going fucking backwards on this#i'm okay in canada but as a us citizen it's killing me#star trek has always been political#between the episode about antimaskers and this one the third season should not be this goddamn painfully relevant#anyone who wants to clown on this post: just don't#you will be instantly blocked
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Kingdom Hearts - Dive to the Heart
#kingdom hearts#kh1#dive to the heart#station of awakening#scenery#my gif#time to gif the worlds of this game :]#starting with this place of course#ahh what a way to start a game#i'll always be intrigued by how sora does not have a voice until he wakes up on the beach#he doesn't make any verbal sound when fighting; taking damage; or when he silently screams after encountering the darkside#''a place where your voice can't reach'' is something all too relevant in the latest title#not to mention how he questions reality with ''is any of this for real or not?''#it all comes full circle
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Queen instrumentals playing in Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death
(instrumentals arranged by Eos Counsell)
(insp. / template / BoRhap breakdown)
#good omens#good omens 2#goodomensedit#nina good omens#maggie good omens#metatron#maggie x nina#nina x maggie#v watches good omens#v posts things#this delights me#we spent so much less time with Crowley in the Bentley this season but they still found a spot for Queen#ngl i did not recognize them all on my own so if the xray feature thing is wrong. well#BoRhap is the only one i know/could hear well enough to recognize the specific part of the song#so the rest i just chose applicable lyrics#metatron one despite everything might be my fave as both wizard of oz and omelas reference#also radio ga ga supporting Nina#there are some shorter scenes where you can hear it playing but it seemed less relevant#it's always the same song for the whole episode (day?) except ep 1#also just discovered you can accidentally drag an image into the tags. this sure is a webbed site heh
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That moment, when ***I*** am in a "Gender & Media" course, and we are nearing the end class and the instructor says.
"Okay, I'm gonna try and go fast, I know we're all tired, we've only got one thing left for today:
Fandom"
LMAO soz y'all. There is a ZERO PERCENT CHANCE of us leaving early.
LET ME TALK ABOUT FANDOM PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY OF FANDOM AND FANDOM CULTURE
in class.
#Taupe has a Life#LMAO#(I do want to clarify that I am very aware class is shared time. I always absolutely do my best to keep my points relevant and succinct.)#(I am by no means trying to take over or like. Forcing people to listen to me give a lecture.)#(This was entirely a situation where like. I know the vibe of the class.)#(I knew there would be several points where would I knew additional information that could be helpful and relevant to the class discussion.)#I WAS ALSO WATCHING THE TIME.#But#That was fun.#Fandom Life
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me hearing my friends lament that they can't play older games on newer consoles because they're not remade or rereleased yet and may never be brought back:
#I've been making this joke repeatedly but i can't help it this screenshot is too good#genshin impact#spark's genshin adventures#spark talks about nothing of relevance#now that's what i call shitposting#emulation#emulating games#i studied games preservation in my last year of uni so i can make this joke :)#it's always morally correct to preserve works that are being restricted for capitalism
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