my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we’re frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort
the thing about discomfort is that it’s an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that’s far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn’t mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.
there’s not a single example I could give that’s better than this
it’s like. really weird how. if you like spiders and tell people you get really sad when they die they act like they’re legally obligated to tell you that they just cannot help but kill spiders. like imagine if people who are scared of dogs (especially bc, arguably, as much as i love dogs, they are more likely and able to harm you than the average house spider) were just like god i’m so sorry but i do need to kill every dog that runs towards me.
actually post cancelled that’s just cops, cops do say that. trying to invent a uniquely comically bad guy to prove a point and it’s just an average cop.
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I like to think that whenever a Rimmer leaves to be Ace, the universe provides Lister with another one (à la NanoRimmer) in whatever ridiculous way it can. And Rimmer just travels the multiverse meeting more and more implausible versions of himself and getting increasingly frustrated
Title: Another Challenge Fandom: The Fantastic Journey Author: badly_knitted Characters: Scott, Fred, Willaway, Varian, Liana. Rating: PG Setting: After the series. Summary: Entering a new zone, the travellers find there’s now a huge mountain in their path. What are they going to do? Word Count: 1604 Content Notes: Nada. Written For: Challenge 512: Obstacle. Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
Title: Perfect Author: lucy_roman Rating: Teen and up Summary: George and John are on their way to a crime scene. Some sheep get in the way. Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus Word Count: 326
(Took me a while to gather the courage to draw these. Took me a while to draw them too. The effort I put into them is only matched by the love that drove me.)
The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.
The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.
Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.
After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus’ life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.
But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.
He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.
It’s only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.
I don’t remember where I’ve seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn’t have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he’ll ascend to Elysium.
And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.
One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he’ll cheat the gods next.
idk what other disabled person needs to hear this but if you need someone to do something for you that would be very difficult for you to do but very easy for them to do, that is a small favor. you dont have to feel gratitude and guilt at scale based on how hard it would be for you to do it disabledly
also a more general point: you dont have to feel guilty when people do things for you. if someone is offering, or if you ask and they say yes, that means they want to do it. if for some reason they are pretending to be okay with it, that is not your fault, it is theirs. this goes for things you are incapable of doing, things that would be difficult for you to do, and even things that you could do without difficulty. even if youre not disabled. if someone cares about you they should be willing to help you out in the ways that they are able to.
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