Danny Lai Lai (Chinese, based Beijing, China OR HangZhou, China) - 来巡视人间的猫猫神 (The cat god comes to inspect the human world), Paintings: Digital Art

There are 6 of these 8 foot Griffin statues down the road from where I live . They was originally on top of Lewis's department store in the city centre then in 1923 they was given to the boy scouts movement so they could flank the entry in to to the woods .then in the 1970s the woods was knocked down and a housing estate was build .the griffin's was left their and the houses was built around them . The first time I saw them was when I went to my sisters house who had moved in on the estate. And I wondered what the hell they was

I feel like tariffing the "entire world" is literally just functionally sanctioning yourself

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p4ypal + Kofi @/ninandrej

I am very sad and feel ashamed because I am still asking for help after the end of the war.. Although the war is over, the suffering will not end yet, as the Israeli occupation continues to make life difficult for us and besieges the Gaza Strip. We still struggle to obtain any of life's most basic necessities such as water, electricity, and healthy food. Please donate to my family here. Your donation helps us a lot, please don't stop helping.

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$10k of 20k goal so far

10 year old college humor sketch that i watched at 1am last night and have since watched five more times

We've reached the "on demand brownshirts" level of the gig economy.

We all knew this was coming, right?

different day!

A sweet interaction on the knitting Reddit

you... made accessibility gear for a cat. I LOVE this. 10/10. Improving the life of a family member via your skill!

"boy moms we need to do better" ok so the first step is no longer calling yourself a boy mom and not building your identity around having a son

Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

But Scar was eaten by the hyenas he tried to throw under the bus

And Clayton was technically hung by vines. The actual cliff isn't really the point of the trope?

The important mechanism here is that it's a situation where the protagonists doesn't have to dirty their hands with a murder, but the bad guy still died so #justice happens. Sometimes, like with Simba and Tarzan, they even try to HELP the bad guy, because that would be the morally good thing to do, but the bad guy still has to die for the narrative to have a "good" ending.

And yes, the hyenas are a little more direct than just...gravity. but it's not like Nala goes in for the kill. Timon and Pumba aren't forming the lynch mob. The good characters keep their hands/paws/hooves clean, but Scar still gets killed.

The question that I believe SU tries to answer is "if the protagonists killing the bad guy would be bad, then...the "bad guys" shouldn't die at the end, right?"

And like, I'm not saying that there's NEVER a situation where you have to Trolley Problem the life of one person who is causing immediate harm to others in order to save lives. But *narratively* then your story has to be ok with your character killing another person on purpose and with intent. Which the Disney films I listed clearly *aren't*, but also Scar and Clayton and Frollo and Gaston still die. Just through ~other~ means. (Kind of like how we have the Government putting people to death, you know? Society wants to there to be no killers, but wants the bad guys to be killed.)

In Avatar, to pivot examples, I think the show makes a strong case that it wouldn't actually be *wrong* for Ozai to be killed. But it would be such a violation of Aangs own principles and culture, that it would be wrong *for him* to kill someone that way, even if they "deserve" it. But Avatar follows through on that and doesn't just turn around and drop Ozai into a pit to be killed by *someone else* (someone bad) instead.

i think there’s actually nothing better than being randomly told “I love you” after doing something characteristically stupid. Like what do you mean I’m a lovable person and I just did something silly and you thought “of course you would do that. I love you.”. No better feeling

does anyone know if you can get in trouble for feeling weird

Depends. Are you catholic?

Finally warm enough to wear this silk set again; it’s definitely one of the more aggressively 80s things I own.

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