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cryptotheism

prala asked:

It seems so limiting to think of our current understanding of the nature of all things magical as superlative when the only constant has ever seemed to be change itself, all the theories in the world seem to only open more doors at any rate.

Some say that we’re all connected to the cosmos somehow, we all seem to be connected at least on Earth, i guess what im really asking is,

What has made you so sure that celestial bodies do not have a direct energetic influence on individual life-forms on this planet?

cryptotheism answered:

The fact that astrology isnt regulated by the SEC

rain-rome

to respond to the asker genuinely, that’s not how facts work. the important part is not that astrology has not been disproven, but that there is no evidence for it. to make a claim like that evidence needs to be presented. until then there’s no reason to believe it.

rain-rome

i think alot abt that post abt how transgender was supposed to be an umbrella term but now just means transsexual again. it made me understand a lot of stuff, like i was always super confused abt how nonbinary people sometimes thought they couldnt be trans? or even the assertion that all intersex people or gnc people were not in some way trans, even if they were not like, trans-trans. it made it all makes sense and honestly it sux we need a new word. genderqueer makes a lot of sense but thats already a thing

rain-rome

honestly idk what to think of all this. i need a framework to be able to understand this but i dont have it. who is trans? what is trans? idek

rain-rome

maybe its time to be post trans, where the important part is the deconstruction of gender and sex

edensillypants

rain-rome

im not really sure why people assert so confidently that people will definitely want to edit their sexual characteristics in a post-gender society. like it seems to me that we have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not thats true right now, in the during-gender society. regardless i dont think it actually really matters wrt whether or not gender abolition is desirable (it is).

edensillypants

i think i remember julia serano asserted that most dysphoria centered around bodily sex characteristics rather than cultural gender stuff. and this fits with my experiences, like early in puberty i felt a lot of discomfort about getting more muscular and getting wide shoulders and stuff without even really linking it to gender. (tho to be clear i definitely still have a fair amount of like cultural gender-based dysphoria, like i feel weird about being a nerd and i never want to seem like im dominating or leading something)

rain-rome

sex characteristics are cultural gender characteristics. like, theyre the most important and tightly enforced ones. i dont really understand the distinction being made here.

one thing about a buzzcut thats important to consider is that its an extremely convenient sensory toy

you know i really dont like it when translations of japanese media dont include honorifics. theyre not that hard to explain and carry important connotational information

txttletale

plaidos

whenever trans women make a post criticising trans men's tendency & ability to be misogynistic & benefit from male privilege above transfems, one of the most common response i see is "don't we have bigger fish to fry" "aren't there more important issues". it's almost as if these men don't consider women's issues to be important to the trans community. weird how the women of every group are consistently treated as less important. weird how trans girls are expected to just be ok with misogyny lmfao.

lakesbian

my meanest and least nice worm opinion is that i think people who call boys will be bugs by cavetown a taylor song should be drug into the street and shot

lakesbian

“oooh i’m a big boy now and i’m vewy scawy :(” she cuts a man’s eyes out. She cuts a man’s eyes out and gets confused when Sundancer is horrified by it. She cut a fucking man’s eyes out. And that’s not even the worst thing she’s done to someone’s eyeballs. Listen to better music.

rain-rome

i still dont get why she didnt kill him. i asked and was told id get answers later but i didnt! the only reason i can find is that he’s plot relevant later.

lakesbian

it’s been a few months since i was actually at that part in worm, so i’m not gonna have any textual citations for you, but: she didn’t kill him because she didn’t have a reason to kill him.

cutting his eyes out was objectively an incredibly extreme and fucked up act of violence. but the thing is that extreme violence is inherently necessary to do any meaningful damage to a regenerating brute like lung. the fact that she was capable of casually doing it was an indicator that she was an in incredibly unhealthy spot and was absolutely about to slide a lot farther, but it doesn’t mean that she would have any reason to violate the unspoken rules and attempt to murder him. cape fights involve a lot of violence that would ruin or end a regular person’s life, but there is a societal line drawn where it’s considered unacceptable to go into most fights with active intent to kill, and taylor just didn’t have any reason to cross that line with lung.

it’s also worth noting that taylor is, flat out, not a fan of murder! she repeatedly thinks & talks about how she “killed a man” in reference to her murder of coil as a sort of self-demeaning indicator of how far her morals have slipped, and she does this despite the fact that it was a pretty ethically justifiable decision. there’s no reason she would cross the line to murder lung at a point in the story when she views murder as pretty flat out morally unacceptable. the fact that she was mentally capable of casually ripping his eyes out despite not being okay with murder was an indicator of how fucked up her mental state was, not an inconsistency.

rain-rome

ah okay makes sense, thank you for explaining. although, i wouldnt call her doing it casual. like her murder of coil, she brings it up multiple times later as an example of her monstrousness. I kinda missed those unspoken rules? i guess theyre implied by events in the narrative. in retrospect it does make sense that taylor did what she did, based on context and her character, even if its not what i would have done.

lakesbian

i mean she does bring it up later yeah, but she is. Very much casual about it in the moment. she just briefly calls tattletale to check that his eyes will grow back, and then pries them out, and then she…

yeah, she’s Weirdly normal about it. [under my breath] more points for my ‘alec is a foil to her and she’s so mad about it’ agenda.

there’s also this whole bit, which is one of my favorite one-liners in worm:

‘oh. my hands were bloody.’ she doesn’t really properly process it in the moment, and when she references it later, she’s less talking about how fucked up it was that she cut his eyes out, and more talking about how fucked up it was that she cut his eyes out and didn’t feel bad. whenever she’s talking down on her own morals, she tends to specifically refer to her capability for disaffected violence. it’s not that she later starts really caring about having done it, it’s that she knows she didn’t really feel bad, and she’s aware that’s fucked up. (woah! just like ale-[i am ran over by a bus])

the unspoken rules aren’t implied, they’re outright stated. there’s a scene where tattletale explains the cops & robbers game theory of cape battles to taylor while they’re in a van–don’t remember which chapter–and there’s pretty consistent talk throughout of truces, line-crossing or lack thereof, etc. all of the characters are aware of them, and a lot of conflict is derived from people interacting w/ them in ways that others find unacceptable.

rain-rome

oh yeah i guess i misremembered the scene lol. ur so right abt the alec thing btw thats like, recurring. i know abt the truce thing i just didnt assume no killing was part of it? like to me the most important part was no going after families or unmasking.