kneeling

catholicism

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this isn’t really a Wee Precious Flower Prince playthrough post or anything, it’s just a single observation, but I was watching some_stars https://tmblr.co/m0l4iDjxkB7VuWm6d1vXtOQ stream Witcher 3 on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/vivianw last night and Geralt, as he does, happened upon a Place of Power, as he does.

And of course, as he does, he went up to it and knelt at it, and I was like

that is the most Catholic thing I have ever seen

so I pointed out in the Twitch that it stood to reason that a bunch of game devs in an extremely Catholic nation would in fact prioritize their character having a flawless kneeling mechanism.

I’d sort of half-noticed it before in other playthroughs but just then given the context I was like ah holy shit, because I expected Geralt to cross himself and was inwardly startled when he didn’t.

I bet Geralt has a good genuflect movement coded in, too…

i still haven’t worked up my good thesis about how Catholic Geralt is as opposed to how Jewish 2nico https://tmblr.co/mVj1k9zJ5Qll-QRuvsWGp2g has theorized Lambert to be but there’s a preview of it.

Also now I have Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do stuck in my head.

genuflect! genuflect! genuflect!

this sort of thing is just kind of an occupational hazard of being me, though. (Your picture was not posted)

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lately, and when i call it out, people are like, and i'm like no that's, that's what I meant, oh my god

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no offense but how come none of y’all can just like or dislike something normally. it’s always gotta be “this is literally fucking flawless and pure” or “this is shit and you’re an immoral person for liking it” it’s so. Uncomfortable

years of “your fave is problematic” combined with a black-and-white mentality which results in people warping a message that should be “we should be critical of the media we consume and aware of the flaws in the things we love instead of putting things on a pedestal” into “if something/someone has flaws then it/they are irredeemably horrible forever and anyone who likes it is a bad person”.

which ended up resulting in the opposite of the intended message, since now people try to ignore or justify the flaws in the things they like in order to justify liking it and putting those things on even more delicate pedestals. like i remember the yfip blog saying that something being problematic does not mean everything about it is bad or that you have to stop liking it, you just need to be more critical of it and not try to justify those things. but people clearly didn’t listen.

not sure how we ended up with people purposefully looking for problematic elements in order to justify not liking things, but it’s probably the black-and-white mentality applied in the reverse. since the notion is usually “this thing has problematic elements, and thus is inherently bad, so we’re not allowed to like it anymore”, people who do this probably think “i don’t like this thing, so it must have problematic elements in it that make it inherently bad.”

tl;dr: black-and-white mentality applied to the concept of “everything has flaws and we should be aware of those flaws; the things you love aren’t really as perfect as you think” results in the concept of “something has to be absolutely flawless for you to be allowed to like it” (Your picture was not posted)