First Semester Is Off To A Rough Start, Puhuhuhu.... Best Be Pre-beared ;)

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A Dramatic Retelling

In my bedroom late last night, next to my phone's very lifeline, I discovered a mouse who lay half dead, adjacent to its perpetrator, my menace of a cat, Michigan. Its breaths were shallow, movement sparse, one of its legs crumpled helplessly beneath the poor creature. I carted it in a dust pan outside to lay it to a slow, painful rest on the forest floor, among its natural habitat. When I returned to my humble abode, I found Michigan staring at me soulessly, outraged that I had betrayed him in taking away his playmate. This afternoon, in virtually the same spot on my floor, next to my bed, I stumbled upon a gruesome scene. No blood, no viscera, just the top half of a mouse carcass, cleanly severed from its hindquarters with a near practiced precision. I, having locked him away with his food and litter for the day whilst out running errands with my dear mother, feared this to be a threat and still do as I pen this down. A search of the room has been conducted, and I can not locate this rodents rump. As a connoisseur of the feline mammal, I am to understand prey such as this is hunted for survival, and yet my own fur-coated son has never displayed such hunger for the living. I worry he has consumed part of this mouse, and, if not, an even more important concern would be pinpointing the bottom half, sealed off from sight, potentially staining the very carpet upon which I trot bare-footed. A concern of mine is that this once feral individual has returned to his primal status and may never again quench his thirst for violence.. for flesh... for a meal that may very soon be.. me.....

Does anyone remember a few years ago when people started identifying as 'super straight'? That shit was wild.

You can have preferences amongst the people you're attracted to, but that doesn't constitute a new sexuality. That's like preferring people with full heads of hair as opposed to those who are bald and calling it 'strandsexual'. I don't want to start discourse about other sexualities since that wasn't the point of the 'movement' in the first place. I know the original post was half-joking, and a bunch of random conservative cishets took it as an opportunity to be transphobic while shielding it as 'queerphobic' if you criticized them. Still, that time was wild as hell, especially with how quickly it died out.

RE: Mouthwashing, Curly

I wanna talk a bit abt Curly's so-called "punishment" because I like the symbolism an immense amount and I think his character is really complex.

Before the crash, when Anya tells Curly that she's pregnant, he feels like he's powerless to bring her justice because of the circumstances. Jimmy was his best friend, who he believed to be a good person despite his past mistakes, and who he was able to get a decent job by having his employers look past the criminal records. The team is stuck on the same ship without locks in the sleeping quarters for months, and he wants to do everything in his power to keep the peace so that everyone would make it out of the less-than-ideal situation mostly unharmed. As the captain, he's protective over his crew, and he's already failed one of its members directly by inviting a dangerous man to live amongst them without room for the potentially severe repercussions he would face in society (i.e. "take responsibility"). When he does confront Jimmy, he sees his true colors, having expected him to take responsibility for his actions instead of covering things up. Curly is kind to a fault - sees the good in people - and for this, he takes the brunt of the ship's crashing due to his own selflessness in trying to save as much of it as possible.

Now he's physically powerless; he can't be there to protect his crew mates, to act as a mediator between them via verbal communication as opposed to violence. He can't assist Anya in her deteriorating mental status due to the trauma she endured, and she's ultimately consumed by it - all while he watches on helplessly, wishing he had noticed her struggles sooner. He can't stop the fight between Jimmy and Swansea once Anya reveals to the latter what was done to her, and consequentially, the deaths that followed. The plight of his character is to witness the downfall of those he was supposed to lead and be the only one to survive in the end, continually tormented with the knowledge that Pony Express would likely sweep these horrid events under the rug the same way they did Jimmy's criminal history. If he is successfully rescued, Jimmy's framing guarantees he will be blamed for everything, without any real way to defend himself. In the end, he had no decision in whether he would live or die as the others did, his personal liberties taken from him. Curly is left alone and vulnerable, in parallel to Anya, the cycle of endless pain starting over once again. In the end, Jimmy would never truly take accountability for the pain he caused, and in one, final, selfish move, he sentenced his only real friend to live with it under the pretense of "fixing things."

Polyamory vs. Cheating

I want to preface this by saying that I’ve never been in a polyamorous relationship, nor am I polyamorous myself, and I’m fully open to constructive criticism, feedback, and discussion underneath this post with others who agree or disagree with what my opinion on this matter is. I’m always willing to listen and learn from people who may be more educated than me in regards to the topic at hand, and I’d love to hear an inside perspective on polyamory itself. Cheating, however, I will not tolerate. It’s also not something I’ve personally experienced, but I don’t have to have endured it in the past in order to know that it’s a horrible thing to do to someone.

I was recently watching an analysis on Loren and Faith’s relationship from 90 Day Fiance, and I got reminded of something that’s been a point of contention in the polyamorous community for as long as it’s been around, and even more so now that it’s a less stigmatized practice. (Of course, I’m not saying there’s no stigma at all, because that’s what I’m here to talk about, I’m just saying it’s a more open topic than it would have been, say, fifty years ago.) In their relationship, Loren was consistently cheating on Faith the entire time without explicitly telling her so or discussing it with her beforehand, then attempted to claim that he did tell her, she just didn’t understand him. Him “telling her” consisted of him messaging her that he was “staying” at someone else’s place by the way, his words not mine. In no way did he allude to a sexual relationship beyond implying that sleeping over is always indicative of sex. So, very obviously, this is cheating, yet Loren treats it as if it’s not a big deal because he, quote, “doesn’t believe in monogamy”. First of all, that’s a wild thing to say lacking context - second off, even if you don’t believe in it, you have to acknowledge that it’s something a lot of people do adhere to regardless of what you think of it. He should have discussed this with Faith on a deeper level, yet he didn’t even mention it to her in the duration of their six month relationship, in which he was literally sleeping with and talking to other people with the intention of sleeping with them. And the ENTIRE time he stays with her in the Philippines, he acts like she’s blowing it out of proportion, going so far as to mentioning in the talking head interview that she was probably gonna tell her family about it - which is a completely reasonable thing to do - and he has the absolute audacity to say it doesn’t paint him in a good light. He was worrying about his image and her family’s approval of him being in a relationship with her instead of the fact that he legitimately cheated on her and hurt her. 

This brings me to my main point, which is that there is a subgroup of people who identify as polyamorous, yet don’t tell the person they’re dating that fact, or that they’re seeing other people at the same time. Their partner is completely oblivious to this, which, on principle, is cheating, whether or not they know that person is polyamorous to begin with. Because even if that person is polyamorous, a conversation needs to be had where boundaries and expectations in the relationship are discussed before becoming romantically involved. Maybe the partner, in this situation, is aware of the person’s interest or connection with polyamory, but doesn’t know that they’re already in other ongoing relationships before and during the length of time in which they’re dating. Not letting them know that is not being honest and clear with them from the start, which is something they have the right to be upset about. Even in polyamorous relationships, boundaries and communication are important, as cheating can still happen within that space. Imagine, for instance, three people are all dating, and the third person starts dating someone outside of their throuple. They tell the second person about this, but not the first; that is cheating if it’s been discussed beforehand that they must tell each other before seeking out and/or establishing a new relationship. Even if it’s not discussed, it can still lead to harm and a loss of trust between those three people. There are so many nuances to polyamory, seeing as how much attention it’s getting nowadays beyond culture and religion - yet, common decency is still the same across the board. Some, not all, seem to like victim blaming when it comes to cheating in polyamorous relationships because they believe that it should be predicted and less of a big deal than it is in monogamy. I understand some people are uncomfortable of the idea of being in that kind of relationship themselves and how it may seem hard to them considering things like jealousy and possessiveness, but what I don’t see is why that should make those people so hostile and judgmental for those who can make it work in a healthy manner. I’m aware that a portion of people who are outright cheaters try to use polyamory as a scapegoat or an excuse for their actions, but those individuals shouldn’t come to represent the community as a whole, since it’s like every other community in which there are differences all around. Monogamists have divides within their community as well, and there are just as many toxic monogamist relationships as there are polyamorous, so the only reason polyamorists catch more flak is because it’s been historically treated as a terrible practice as a whole. I’m not saying that there weren’t unfair polygamous relationships forced onto people instead of chosen willingly - hell, they still exist today and they need to be recognized as such - but we’ve also been gradually learning and growing as a society. Good things can come out of the bad, and that doesn’t make the bad any less bad, it just makes the good more impressive when it does happen. 

I just felt like ranting today, I don’t know. I also don’t know how to end this… like and subscribe ig.. I say as NO ONE’S gonna see this

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Cody Ko and Noel Miller

I have some thoughts on this response, as well as the public's reception of this response as a whole since it seems sort of hypocritical to me. (I want to preface this by saying I have no ill intentions towards either Noel Miller or Sensitive Society.)

Don't get me wrong, I think Noel Miller's response is great, and I wish the best for him and his company now that Cody Ko is no longer involved. But in this video, his only comment on the allegations is that he thinks his input on the matter is not necessary. He says, and I quote; "Understandably, a lot of you want to know what I have to say about everything that's happened, and the reality there is that I'm not in a position to speak about the situation. And, at this point, really the thing I have to focus on is how to move forward." Now, while I completely agree with this, the same people that concur with this sentiment were the people harassing other commentary creators to speak up on it. This is an insane double standard to be held to, as people who have collaborated with him once or twice in the past are being pressured to talk about the whole situation, and yet Noel Miller, arguably one of his closest Youtube friends and associates, can get away with not saying anything at all. Sensitive Society makes the claim that this situation is between Cody Ko and Tana Mongeau, and that Noel isn't obligated to share his thoughts on it, but I'm of the opinion that, if anyone is to acknowledge it, it should be Noel Miller.

Again, I want to reiterate that I'm in full support of Noel's future endeavors and hope he can succeed in making the podcast his own, I just wanted to point out the public's switch-up regarding his opinion on the issue at hand.

Hazbin Hotel Character Design (Part 1?)

The specific design motifs in Hazbin Hotel ALWAYS frustrate me to no end. So I'm gonna talk my shit about it. (Do not come for me HH and Vivziepop stans, these are merely OPINIONS from someone who has no backing in animation or anything relating to character design. I am simply a writer.)

Let me start with Angel Dust and Valentino first, because holy shit they make no sense to me design wise. Angel being a spider is such a cool concept, but there's no real reason behind it besides being involved in "a web of crimes", referring to his mafia ties (which are NEVER expanded on if I'm not mistaken). Same with Valentino being a moth. It makes SO much sense for Vaggie, since moths symbolize death, transformation, and rebirth - all things she went through - but Valentino? He would be SO much better as a spider and I feel like it's not spoken about enough. I got this idea from a video on Hazbin I watched where the creator mentions how Angel and Valentino's species motifs should be swapped and I was like; "Woah. I never thought of that." Spiders are well known predators that LITERALLY capture their prey in a web woven of their own incentive. Valentino being a spider would make perfect sense, and it would also be kind of ironic since spiders symbolize patience and persistence, yet Val is super prone to temper tantrums when things don't go his way. Angel Dust being a moth also makes sense, since the goal of the show is redemption, which is a form of transformation, and seeing Angel slowly become a better person reflected by something like the pattern on his wings changing - during the show, he could even be designed after a caterpillar, and when he gets to heaven (I know that doesn't happen in season one of the show but it should have since he was the og hotel resident) he could become a full fledged moth, or butterfly even, emerging from a chrysalis or cocoon as this beautiful creature. It would be a really cool parallel to Vaggie since she became a sinner and Angel a saint. CATERPILLARS CAN ALSO BE POISONOUS!!! REPRESENTING HIS SELF SABOTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS UGH Viv I know I can't draw but let me on the design team I can COOK. (I might continue this since I have many more gripes. Don't hold me to that though.)