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Jean-Luc Picard
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As a good person, you respond well to being treated kindly. You thus assume being kind to your abuser will earn you kindness in return, but that's not the case. It teaches abusers that their actions are reasonable and tolerated. You're allowed to fight back instead. Fire at will.
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#star trek#star trek the next generation#star trek memes#star trek tng#support#jean luc picard#captain picard#picard#affirmations#spacedad#kindness#what would picard do#boundaries#self defense#this is permission not an order
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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happy birthday to the worst girl in the universe (23 november 1986 - 2016 (eventually))
#clara oswald#doctor who#no i did not use a single screen cap from s7 ❤️#also happy birthday to dr piss or whatever the show that also has a birthday today is called idk i didn't watch it i'm too pretty#also also we don't have any concrete evidence to when face the raven is set but whatever it was around that time#alsox3 they're in chronological order bc i'm unwell. thanks#tumblr user pronouncingitwang wrote the image ids btw i just copied them into the alt text (w their permission)#text post meme
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For the last week I have been working on one fairly large-scale project, which is spontaneous, a little grateful and generally full of bright feelings.
And so! I'm proud to present to you a little comic based on @nhasablogg's fanfiction that I really enjoyed. So in the end I decided to transfer these feelings into creativity
You better read this fanfic, because it is very sweet and sensual, and my scribbles only convey half of what is written there
#Here I feel a little anxious#because I remember that I forgot to ask permission…#although in fact#this is positioned as something like a gift for the positive emotions given by fanfic?#in order to make gifts you don’t need to ask permission right???#talk#art#dean winchester#castiel#destiel#spn#supernatural#and indirectly it is still considered as#tickle art
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and you may say to yourself: "my god! what have i done?"
and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful wife!"
and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful house!"
and you may ask yourself: "well, how did i get here?"
time isn't holding up, time isn't after us, time is a pony ride!
(images described in alt text)
#gravity falls#fiddleford mcgucket#LETTING THE [FIDDLEFORD FRI]DAYS GO BY#“sir it's tuesday” i know. my computer has been busted for two weeks so i couldn't post them when i wanted to. just let me have this#again still new to alt text. i like being a little bit silly but let me know if it gets in the way of accessibility#artwork of the damned#uhhhh yeah this is actually something ive kind of wanted to draw for years now#favorite guy + favorite band = prime high-effort meme material#also. for the record. yes i have a mcgucket playlist. yes it has three talking heads songs on it. no none of them are “once in a lifetime”#also also i know that the lyrics in the description are in the wrong order. it's on purpose. i put them backwards for dramatic effect#also also also i'm pretty sure the “time is a pony ride” line is not actually sung on the album version of the track#but if you listen to/watch the live version from “stop making sense” you will hear it!#as well as hear a much more satisfying ending to the song imo. rather than it just fading out it has some really nice vocals#basically the moral of this story is you should watch “stop making sense”#if you made it to the end of the tags: congrats! you win a prize! the prize is permission to reblog this post
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idw Ratchet is someone who follows orders and respects authority. He might follow his conscience in spur-of-the-moment decisions that allows him the leeway/initiative to act on his own (e.g. setting up clinic on Dead End, breaking cover to save Verity and Hunter, going to look for Drift, voting against Rodimus in mtmte) but he's never openly defied the orders of an acting leader. Regardless if he doesn't agree with said order and thinks it's stupid. Or wrong.
Even when Ratchet thinks Rodimus' treatment of Drift is unfair, he never speaks up against Rodimus during the actual issue of the exile verdict. He only offers Drift silent support by helping him up on the way out, because Rodimus is the captain and you don't argue with the captain. Yes he thinks Rodimus is a crap captain and acts condesending towards him all the time but when it comes to rank and orders there's no ambiguity.
Voting against Rodimus in the crisis act is a legitimate expression of disapproval, made anonymously in private. He doesn't care about Rodimus knowing his vote, but in public it stays anonymous. He does tell Rodimus off about what he did to Drift, but again, he makes sure it's a private one-on-one appointment. He also doesn't make Rodimus formally revoke Drift's exile or sanction his search, he resigns his position as CMO and quietly leaves to look for Drift himself as a personal commitment.
Common stereotype of what Ratchet is not:
Medic ethics and commitment to patients comes first, factions be damned. I don't care if he's a Decepticon, he's my patient.
No he's not actually like that? When Megatron's in custody he's all lets dissect him awwwww why can't we dissect him why does mass murderers still get rights that's so stupid can't I just torture him a little?
Like he spent the whole war patching up Decepticon-inflicted wounds and witnessing Decepticon-inflicted deaths. He's not a saint. He has as much good reason to hate Megatron and his faction as any other Autobot.
In fact he was pretty eager to ask Optimus about what he's going to decide as Megatron's punishment after he heard about Optimus frying Megatron on the voltage harness.
Optimus has his heart on clemency. Ratchet's the one hoping for execution or something equally nasty. Even though their opinions doesn't line up, Ratchet's still 100% supportive of Optimus' decision.
He repairs Megatron only because of Bumblebee's orders, and makes his unwillingness known.
Later in mtmte Ratchet does save Megatron's life of his own volition and repairs him again, but that's after he's lived with Megatron on the same ship for six months (again something that he considers to be a colossally bad idea but is forced to live with because of orders) and got to know him as a person. Not because of bleeding heart syndrome.
Also Ratchet's not just a grouch all the time. He can be blunt but also knows when to be respectful as appropriate to the occasion. He reprimands Wheeljack for being disrespectful to Bumblebee because leaders should be treated like leaders.
The guy's been CMO since Nominus Prime, essentially the highest-ranking of his profession on the planet; you can't get to that type of position and hold it through consecutive leaders for millions of years without considerable interpersonal skills and knowledge of social protocol.
Prowl does have Ratchet on his little blacklist but the stuff on there really just refers to Ratchet saving Verity and Hunter back in Infilitration. I read it as more of a testament to Prowl's pettiness than Ratchet actually being a problem.
#Ratchet also doesn't stop Rodimus when he orders Chromedome to inject. even if Chromedome protests#Things ratchet might do if unhappy with someone's leadership:#arrange a private meeting to talk about his concerns like a normal adult#do what he can within what leeway he has without being openly rebellious#act first ask permission later#snark about it#grouch about it#complain about it#then go with it#Things Ratchet will NOT do:#scream at the person in charge in public confrontation#undermine the person in charge by participating in said public confrontation#make a scene#he doesn't do morality lectures either#what is up with that anyway#transformers#maccadam#idw transformers#mtmte#Ratchet#I'm pretty sure other ratchets are like this too? tfp. bayverse. cyberverse#don't know about tfa cant remember most of the stuff in that#wfc trilogy has a different background for his character so. but it's the only Ratchet with a 'I don't care about factions' attitude#idk where all the other stereotypes come from is everyone basing their interpretations on the synth-energon episode in tfp?#yeah he was yelling at Optimus a lot there but it was all about how Optimus should have used MORE violence#and also with the throwing wrentches. why does he throw wrenches?
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🧪 “Just another bystander that got sucked in.” 🧪
#ARGH you can hardly see my watermark#but it’s there#anywho who up siding their order rn#digital art#art#digital artwork#do not repost without credit#do not repost without permission#splatoon#splatoon 3#side order#splatoon fanart#dedf1sh#dedfish#dedf1sh splatoon#side order splatoon#splatoon side order
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i think near the entirety of the elven world missed the "laws dictate what is legal, not what is right" day of class.
#kotlc#thinking about that scene where fintan tells oralie she doesn't have permission to take a reading#and she's like actually I don't need permission ^_^#girl. legally maybe not but that doesn't mean shit!#that's arbitrary and decided by the people in power in order to maintain their power and comfort!#that is not a good basis for morality and correctness!
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my favourite thing jeeves does is when he quotes something at bertie but ever so slightly changes the text to directly address bertie.
what a nerd. i like him so much
#if i had a nickel for every time someone thought it would be a great idea if bertie broke in somewhere#and then got caught by a guy to make said guy look good in order to gain permission to marry said guy i would have two nickels#which isnt a lot but its funny that it happened twice
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Episode 5
The Worst of Evil (최악의 악)
#the worst of evil#twoe#jung gicheol#park junmo#ji chang wook#wi ha joon#the eng subs saying 'sir' instead of 'hyung' really water down the significance of this scene#i'd love to know the cultural implications of ordering people to call someone hyung as opposed to the usual request/permission format#i always think junmo looks scared here bc of the responsibility he's just been handed#over people who don't necessarily WANT to call him hyung#but too bad because he is gicheul's most special favorite boy now :)))#and gicheul has also just given himself permission to call him hyung in private 😏
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Watching my the father’s internal struggle between “happy his child is taking an interest in gardening” and “appalled and displeased they are growing fucking weeds” has been such a phenomenon. Today when I was setting up my new planter (to plant buffalo bur) he was giving me genuine advice on how best to use this particular planter and the right soil type and whatnot and then he’d like come to his senses or something and be like “man why are you planting weeds in this”. Which considering the planter is a fancy guy designed for efficient vegetable gardening, kind of fair! The question I have to pose in response though is would you prefer I plant my beautiful native “””noxious weed””” plants in the ground where they actually belong
#I bought my own bc I didnt want to be at the mercy of his permissions to use the fancy planters he’s not using for the season#if I have MY OWN he cannot deny me my whims#there really isn’t a planter in the shops in my area that come close to the qualities I am looking for though wow. I was#hoping not to have to order online. but here we are#Con stop yapping#every plant can do this fundamental process
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For all y’all pointing out that Loki took the being Mobius’ pet thing a little too seriously
I hope you realize and know the overlap between kink and queer coded.
Those bitches are queer coded.
#I have so much evidence it’s not even funny#but yeah#the avengers 2012 they said Loki’s mind was just a bunch of cats#s1 ep1 loki we are shown a cat and a cat on the mug of the guy working at the desk who is talking about Loki’s life#(the cat imagery is not there for sylvie’s flashbacks)#s1 forgot what ep B-15 calls Loki Mobius’ variant pet#s1 ep2 mobius whistles to call loki over (and it works)#loki having to wear a collar a lot in s1#s2 ep1 mobius saying easy put it down#s2 ep2 Brad calling Loki Mobius‘s pet#s2 ep3 mobius saying gently and go ahead in order to give Loki permission#s2 ep3 loki hating riding a bike but doing it anyway for mobius#(similar to how cats hate cat rides)#lokius#loki#loki series#mobius m mobius#loki laufeyson
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Ghostbusters(1984) Pony Cosplays
#in order:#peter venkman#ray stantz#egon spengler#winston zeddemore#louis tully#dana barrett#janine melnitz#ponytown#mlp#ghostbusters 1984#ghostbusters#pixel cosplay#crossover ponies#gifset#movie ponies#pizza's ponies#please don't repost without credit/permission
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New York Bound - Trystan x Gabriel by @somewillwin
Thank you for yet another gorgeous art piece, Gabi!!
If y’all get a chance, go get a beautiful commission of your own!
#choices crimes of passion#choices cop#trystan thorne#trystan x gabriel#my commission#gabriel makes trystan order pizza for them before taking off in marguerite’s plane#once trystan finally comes to his senses and leaves the royal heir shit behind them#please don’t tag as your mc / oc#do not repost#do not claim as your own#ask artists permission before downloading and/or using
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So I've only watched 2.1, 2.2., and 2.3 once each so far, but I can already tell the music choices are going to wreck me this season. I figure lots of people will have things to say about the use of Kate Bush in 2.3, so I want to focus on the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony #7 in 2.2, "Red Flags."
First, this movement has been a banger since it existed: at its first performance, the audience demanded that the second movement be repeated after the symphony concluded. It's a funeral march, and per the notes accompanying the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen's gorgeous recording, it was likely heard as responding to collective grief:
The premiere performance of Beethoven's Seventh was at a benefit concert in Vienna in December 1813 for wounded soldiers and their families. It came only two months after the Battle of Nations near Leipzig. The German name is "Völkerschlacht" (Slaughter of the Peoples), one of the most catastrophic wartime events in human history. It also marked the liberation from Napoleon's forces. The sad, beautiful quality of this piece makes it very different from the other three movements of Beethoven's Seventh. Endlessly mournful – but also uplifting, it is still played at funerals today.
For those of us who were in music school at a certain point in history, it is also the soundtrack for characters experiencing suicidal ideation, courtesy of the 1994 film Immortal Beloved.
Its use underpinning the conversation between Ed and Izzy is self-explanatory: Ed's way of expressing self-loathing is to goad the people around him to hurt him. He feels a kind of ambivalence toward his own life that we saw last in OFMD's pilot, where Stede cannot firmly answer Oluwande's question, "Do you want to live?!"
But we hear the first notes of Beethoven before that scene ever begins.
That the music begins here, rather than when Ed enters the hold to press Izzy into killing him, highlights as much as anything we've seen so far how traumatized Lucius is: not just by being pushed overboard, but by all the trafficking and abuse he experienced before encountering his former crewmates, which he barely starts to detail in this episode. "If I start, I don't know what's going to come out." The stories Lucius shares may have an over-the-top quality, but they're scored like tragedy.
#tw suicidality#i have a lot to say about izzy taunting ed for being too afraid to kill himself#in order to obscure the fact that he is also too afraid to kill ed#and that it's not a matter of principle#and that yes ed is bloody well scared and miserable#and that part of what he needed was permission to feel those emotions#and maybe also that in some way he feels like his life ended when he tried to commit to being blackbeard instead of ed#but there might be other times for that#edward teach#izzy hands#lucius spriggs#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd s2 spoilers#beethoven
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Commission for @royaljoltik
#far cry 5#joseph seed#commission#it was drawn back in March#but I like this work and would like to show it to you#with the permission of the orderer of course#my art
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