I Could Keep Going - Tumblr Posts

I’m not a hateful person, I don’t think. There’s nobody I can claim to hate, it’s just such a hard emotion for me to uphold. There’s only one person that I actually come close to truly hating, really. Maybe one day I’ll stop hating this person, but I doubt it; they really are that terrible, and I know them well enough to see it. Unfortunately, I am going to have to deal with this person everyday for the rest of my life, no matter what and with no escape. Luckily, I don’t have to look at them all that often, just put up with their idiocy. They constantly make stupid decisions, act without thought, don’t get their work done, lie around complaining, pig out on unhealthy snacks, waste money, are a horrible friend, and pretty much just make life Not Fun or pleasant. At least they normally shut up whenever I’m reading something, or when I’m entirely drawn into an amazing game. They’re hard to satisfy though, and it’s hard to keep them quiet. There are times when this person is okay, when they do something worthwhile, but it’s these occurrences are so rare they may as well not happen at all. They have few mediocre skills, which they altogether fail to utilize. I just… maybe hate is too active, but I really do hate this person. To bad I’m stuck with them. Maybe one day they’ll change and be a better person - and maybe by some mircale, they’ll even become a good person. Maybe I’ll grow out of this hatred, disliking them so much. But I doubt it.

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now pour one out for the songs and artists that never made it into your wrapped because you fixated on them too late into the year

there’s like 80+ years worth of dc and marvel comics which makes it hard to fact check certain things, so it’s easy to see how ppl who only follow fanon fall for misinformation. but it’s so funny to think about it happening in other fandoms. imagine you’re looking through some star wars tags on here and you see a post that’s like “i heard padme and yoda fucked raw and that’s where luke and leia came from. i am now going to base all my arguments around this fact. no i will not be investigating further.”

Low key I'm kinda bored of and annoyed by the preponderance of works that have Boring If Not Outright Malevolent Angels on one side and Nuanced, Charismatic, And Honestly Not Evil Demons because it just seems like a perpetuation of the idea that good is fundamentally flat or banal or not even good at all, that Goodness is something performed to achieve something else, usually power or control. In fact, I don't object to nuanced demons so much as the imbalance (only the "evil" side is allowed to be anything approching, well, approachable.)

But then I'm like "well identification with monsters is something that marginalized groups often feel because it forces us to question what is monstrous, so the idea of finding compassion and humanity in those deemed inherently unforgivable is actually very powerful and subversive"

But then I'm like "but is it subversive or is it laziness? It's hardly revolutionary at this point, it's like people making children's toys scary. It's supposed to have a tension between what something should be (childlike, innocent) and making it wicked. But now it's so common that dolls are often considered inherently creepy. So where's the subversion in a creepy doll? There's none. Where's the subversion in mean Angels or angels who have no interest in or love for humanity?"

But then I'm like "well but aren't angels traditionally destroying cities and saying Be Not Afraid?"

And I'm like, again just to myself as I pace my kitchen, "I mean YEAH but they're also like flaming wheels or whatever, I'm not sure how much these works are genuinely interested in angel mythology"

Then as I make coffee for myself, I think, "angels represent the traditional hierarchy, the traditional Christian dogma, and therefore are stand ins for the authority that we must question"

But then, as I realize we are out of sugar and my coffee is therefore ruined and am thus more susceptible to thinking there are demonic forces at work in this world, I go, "but demons in these stories aren't systemically kind. They're just cool. They're individuals and help individuals if they feel like it. In these stories, there's no mass concern for all of humanity really."

And then I conclude, "maybe angels are written cruelly because the world seems cruel and therefore there cannot be a Divine force involved in our daily activities looking out for us. Demons are by their nature doomed to fail which makes stories where they try to do Good have a more natural conflict and also explains why things in the world aren't better. For if there were angels, a legion of angels, always at work, shouldn't things be better? But we don't know how the world could otherwise be. But it seems hard to argue that this is in fact the best of all possible worlds. So demons make an easier to identify with protagonist while also being powerful and having cosmic impact. I believe many stories doing their own take on angels and demons would benefit from truly trying to imagine angels and beings of love, rather than the cold and distant figures I often see in fiction, but I understand the framework behind that conception."

Then I add to myself, "of course since I'm mostly talking about like urban fantasy, it might also be that people just wanna fuck demons more."