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This is the peak of "I know he's no good but he's good to me" energy
The king of the desert is so charming. ｡*ﾟ+
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Please follow, share, and interact with Madleen @palestinianmother's videos on tiktok to help bring more awareness to her campaign. Here is the link to her tiktok page:
Please also share her gfm link and donate if you can:
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The original tweet was from a teenager making a joke and doesn't thoroughly bring into focus the context the "Krav Maga" comment takes place in, so I'd like to give a bit more detail since the original post on Twitter is now deleted.
I don't want this situation to be misinterpreted as saying that any reference to Jewish heritage automatically translates to Zionism. You should not conflate the two. I see that this post is being reblogged often without mentioning the FBI agent component.
This conversation involving the mother is taking place over Shabbat dinner (the episode title) with her children, one who is a police officer and the other a FBI agent who constantly wears that outfit and reminds you she's part of the FBI.
(screenshots are from a pirate site)
So that reference to Krav Maga is when the mother is frustrated with her children's bickering and she says "so help me God do not make me use "Krav Maga in my own house."
It's harder to see it as her knowing Krav Maga as an innocuous way of conveying this as a badass, tough mother when this conversation is also taking place with a bunch of cops.
It's not the reference to Jewish traditions that's the problem, nor is it saying that Knuckles is "basically Jewish," but the fact that they intermingle that with the inclusion of a FBI agent and a cop, make reference to Krav Maga and follow it up with Knuckles seeing it as nice and relatable that this woman also trains warriors that's the issue.
It's not explicitly stated in what context she was an instructor, but it's not one people are likely to give a charitable reading to considering the narrative makes the sister's entire character her constantly and loudly referencing her FBI position.
While Jewish Knuckles or Knuckles teaming up with a kickass Jewish mom in a fight would be awesome in a vacuum, it's hard to feel like it's not very directed when there's this constant intermingling of Jewish faith and tradition with imperial powers with the police and FBI.
The Sonic movies were already copaganda in how they rely on the assumption that police as an institution exists to help people and not enforce white supremacist violence.
The cop in the first movie wanted to move to San Francisco to try at being a "real street cop."
There's also the casting choice to include Jim Carrey, who has held the belief that vaccines cause autism.
The fight scene at the end of the episode has the mother ask Knuckles to protect the candles with an orbiting camera shot of the candles while she and Knuckles fight off the intruders as Hava Nagila is playing.
The juxtaposition of Jewish faith and culture with the police, FBI, and a Krav Maga instructor has the effect of using Jewish faith to soften, conflate, and humanize imperialist bodies as if the two are interchangeable. That's the big part being left out of the tweets.
Adam Pally, the actor who portrays the main character Wade also left a heart tweet in support of Bernie Sanders, who has a whole history that goes beyond the scope of this post but communicates Pally's views here too.
The image shown in the now deleted tweet this post is referencing is a tweet made by paramount in October of 2023. I think based on some of the reblogs that some people might have thought this was in the credits of the actual episode, but it's from this tweet.
I'm not Jewish, so I'll leave it to more experienced people to dissect this segment, but I wanted to give attention that it's not just that they called Knuckles Jewish, it's the fact he's having this conversation with a family of feds and the narrative intermingles the two.
There's also a later segment of Native racism. For those that aren't aware, Knuckles and the echidna tribe as a whole historically has been inspired very heavily by Indigenous people. Several members of the Sonic team even traveled to get reference material for research in producing the first Sonic adventure.
Pair that with other design choices and the narrative surrounding Knuckles and the genocide of his people and the constant theft of his land and resources, it leads to a lot of Sonic fans reading Knuckles as Native, usually Afro-Native coded.
In other words, Knuckles' racial coding goes beyond just an aesthetic and ties into his whole characterization.
Him being portrayed as an alien savage warrior already runs into issues, but not the focus of this post.
Knuckles also reinforces the extinct Native trope, which could be an entirely separate post, but there's another segment in episode 4 in which Wade meets up with the ghost of Knuckles father Pachacamac with a joke around Wade mispronouncing his name because it's too hard and them just settling on "Mac."
"Pachacamac" and "Tikal" aren't made up Sonic universe words, they're direct references to the cultures the Echidna were designed after.
And as many people with "foreign" names will tell you, it's really not great to have a segment where someone finds their name too hard and it being played as a joke that it's normal to just not try and get it right, instead just renaming them entirely.
In short:
ACAB
Don't support Paramount media
Don't conflate Jewishness with zionism
Native people aren't extinct nor is their language and culture a silly set of words too hard to say
I wasn't planning on posting anything related to this because I don't want to give Paramount any advertising, but I wanted to give proper context to these issues so that people more experienced than me can comment on them more in depth and to bring attention to the issue the initial tweets being circulated aren't fully contextualizing.
oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show
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Plss i wanna see your favorite fan art you've made
I finally finished this one today. And it’s funny cuz you were the one who motivated me to pick it back up from a wip and now I’m really pleased with it!!
Thinking about how these two would intuitively understand the feeling of having your agency taken away because of fate— leading to an entire transformation of self. Leading to the death of your old life and a sacrifice of personhood.
#zelink#the legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#wolf link#twilight princess#dragon zelda#light dragon#procreate#tloz#the legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom#the legend of Zelda twilight princess#Link#Zelda#princess zelda
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How you choose to act in the face of violence and genocide now is how you would have acted back then. There is no "product of its times" or "modern" values. There has always been a choice to act against genocide as long as the status quo has supported it.
I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience
Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt
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Granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?
You do what you can.
The Boondocks // S02E14: The Hunger Strike
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Yours truly has a birthday coming up in five days! I have a Throne wishlist of things I want and/or need, so consider sending me a gift.
I have a Ko-fi as well, if you have cash to spare: https://ko-fi.com/lunafirebird/goal?g=36.
Please and thank you!
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Real talk...
I appreciate each and every post I see on this funky little website that reminds me that people like me (poor and/or disabled) deserve nice things. Maybe it's the former gifted kid in me, but I always feel tremendous guilt asking for help, even when I need it to keep my lights on, a roof over my and Archie's heads, and food on the table, let alone asking for nice things (even with my birthday coming up on Monday). It's a guilt I wish could shake off completely, because the position I'm in isn't my fault; I'm doing the best I can and deserve to be happy. So it's nice to be reminded of that, even unintentionally.
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Zelda art community people: is there a tag for art that has this energy but with Ganon?
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I have a new upload coming soon about the Good Times reboot, and I'm hoping to take a different angle with it than what I'm seeing come out about it. I don't think anyone is shocked to hear it was bad, that it was a bunch of racist and ableist stereotypes, and that it should be forgotten. But I think it also showcases how people kind of treat Black creatives in Hollywood when they take part in this kind of thing.
I love this article and keep coming back to it, so enjoy:
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Imagine calling Palestinians documenting their own genocide on their iPhones powered by a MacGyvered car battery "misinformation" because it hasn't been backed up and approved of by 40 peer-reviewed data analysts from the West that you personally approve of. I can't imagine being that ghoulish and heartless
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The police and the higher ups aren’t arresting protesters because they are afraid that their minds will be changed. They chose money over people and that’s set in stone. No, they are afraid that these protesters will change YOUR mind.
free palestine
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that sure is a lotta sass coming out of someone whos armrest height
#miles tails prower#sonic the hedgehog#wholesome sonic and tails wednesday#the brothers ever#unbreakable bond
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I keep forgetting to share this!!!!
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The fact that people reacted so strongly to the DS remake lightening everything up also speaks to a clever design choice that they did.
N64 games have that really foggy look and a lot of games have draw distance challenges that hurt a lot of the game's quality.
OoT instead designed several environments that would benefit from the darkened foggy look. When you first fight Gohma and look up, you see the glowing eye but the darker, foggier environment works well in the context of fighting a giant monster. You can't as easily make out the little intricacies in the model.
Trailing through the haunted wasteland comes to mind too. It makes sense why you'd have trouble with visibility and the environment with a sandy desert.
OoT would very frequently take advantage of its own technical limitations on top of the many ways it innovated mechanics. Obviously those graphics don't hold up to current era visuals, but I feel we don't talk about game mechanics in terms of how they utilize what they have access to at the time.
The DS remake's visuals are better and work far better with more advanced hardware to support the game, yet so many people felt the loss in atmosphere from lightening up the rooms in both Majora and OoT 3D.
People so badly want to convince others that those that think that OoT is a good game are looking at it through nostalgia-tinted glasses. To be honest this is so untrue; I replayed the game recently and it is legitimately a good game. People still play it today for the first time and enjoy their playthrough. Even those that want to weakly argue that it has “dated elements” well, what does that mean? It’s a game from 1998 so of course it won’t look or feel like a modern game but is it so difficult to handle that you feel its “age”?
OoT is over 25 years old and still not only remains playable but also enjoyable. It revolutionized the game industry. You don’t have to be that much of a hater; just accept that it is an excellent game that is standing the test of time.
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