i don’t know how to tell people that deriving pleasure - sexual pleasure included! - from art* is good actually, and that creating specific kind of art “just” because you find it hot or whatever is just as good a reason as any, and you don’t actually need some “deep and meaningful” reason to create art about things. pleasure - sexual pleasure included - is not the devil, it is not Bad and shameful, and it’s not any less valid of a reason to create something than because you want to, idk, explore the depths of the human consciousness or something
without putting too fine a point on it, i think that being obscenely rich does something to like…your brain’s capability of assessing risk. cuz for your whole life, the only risk has ever been “how much money will i lose out on” and if you’re obscenely rich, it doesn’t even matter how much money that would be. even if there’s a risk of bodily harm, you can still pay your way through multiple surgeries to not only resume your quality of life but extend it several times over a la david rockefeller.
you never really think about “risk of death” when you can pay to reserve a whole hospital to cater exclusively to you and shut out the poor. so now to read about this submersible full of billionaires, not only signed a death waiver, but were fully okay with getting on this tight space with no GPS capabilities, piloted by a fucking video game controller of all things, to go deeper into the ocean than normal ppl would ever really dare to go, just to view a sunken ship through a tiny window like…to them, being this wealthy is a borderline superpower. they think “well nothing can ever happen to me, The Top 0.00001 Percent of the World”. its main character syndrome on cocaine.
and like, they essentially paid to die. it was 250k to get in on that experience, which is a paltry sum to the likes of those ppl. i could not imagine having 250k to my name much less blowing it on a 8 day voyage to view the wreckage of another rich person’s demise over 100 years ago…
but these rich ppl, are like “sure, thats nothing”.
the fact that the submersible was named The Titan is…i mean, the word irony isn’t strong enough for that kind of description.
okay actually this post is now about whatever the fuck this new update is, what tf is this supposed to be?????
seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
straight trans people arent “a waste” actually. straight trans women arent “cursed” with attraction to men. straight trans men arent “predators” who transition to male privilege. yall have GOT to be normal about straight trans people
“accessibility ONLY refers to wheelchair accessibility” thats wrong and stupid. sorry. the world can and should be better for everyone.
putting this here just for posterity. i don’t even wanna argue with the post, their anger about inaccessibility is real, it’s seriously life affecting and the world is largely apathetic towards it. i just wanna say that if you are hurt by how they expressed it, you’re not wrong for feeling that way. I see you. it’s not right, it’s disrespectful, and it’s ableist. this is not how disability activism has to be. We can make the world a better place for everyone, that is not a mutually exclusive goal.
ngl i fucking hate the way a lot of ppl in the disability community seem to imply that people with mental disabilities can just like. ignore that disability just bc they can physically access the space. like it very very often comes off as “just get over it it’s all in your head” and it’s fucking gross.
At least you could stand and walk around in the Iron Lung and visit a truly exotic site like a blood ocean filled with weird quantum anomalies and an unknown species
I do find it ironic people paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to experience what, in the Iron Lung universe, is a method to kill war criminals though.
Everyone spam posting this when they find the remains of the submarine
