i love the ambiguity of zelda and link’s relationship. they are in love. they’re just good friends. they’re married. link just follows zelda around like a puppy and she got attached to him. they’re t4t. they’re work buddies. zelda is in love with link and hes just doing his job. link is in love with zelda and shes just doing her job. they’re soulmates. they’re bound together by their duty to hyrule. they’re bearding for each other
“everyone experiences [symptom]” how many times does it have to be explained that it’s often about the frequency of the symptom, not the symptom itself
“nearly everyone has had a headache before” i agree. “most people get headaches regularly” you’re starting to lose me. “it’s normal to have a headache all the time” go to a doctor.
“everyone gets anxious sometimes” true! “people get anxious pretty often” um. “it’s normal to be anxious all the time” go to a doctor. etc
every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said “oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point”. and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?
she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn’t know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.
it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.
the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon
chatgpt
let me guess, you’re pissed off that they’re paying people in Kenya to work for 50% more than the average hourly wage over there?
it is our responsibility as workers and consumers to support each other and continue to push back whenever any of us is threatened. fuck chatgpt, fuck meta, fuck midjourney
“Meghan Markle came into the royal family as a ready made celebrity, someone who was comfortable and familiar with what it meant to be under public scrutiny. She ended up being pushed to the point where she went to the US, and for the Royal Family to not be able to keep the first royal of color inside the tent really does fly in the face of what a lot of Gen Z and Millennials value, which is diversity, inclusion, and a degree of social equality.”
“But when it comes to this generation in particular, young people are interested in the values of fairness, and in the values of representation. Whatever way you slice it, the monarchy is neither a fair nor a representative institution.”
Realistically I could never get rid of tumblr because it gives me the illusion of a community of strange young women all around my same age, all slowly figuring out how to live too
the class war is not some hypothetical future event. class war is being waged right now, by the ruling class, against you, every single day of your life. the question is what you’re going to do to fight back.
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play’s dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It’s one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn’t catch you.
one of my favorite things about one piece live action: it doesn’t try to “fix” the outfits or the gimmicks or anything to make them “cooler”. the weird cat dude is still wearing that weird cat outfit!!! they fucking hiss!! buggy is somehow more buggy than he is in the original!!! they didn’t look at one piece and decide that it would be better without the camp, they instead went all in on the goofy, silly, cartoonishness and it works so so well i love it
The ears on Nezumi. The hat on garp. Cabaji on a unicycle. Mohji’s hair. The snails.The everything.
