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edenfenixblogs · 3 months

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Hey, I came from your post about Night. I’ve been wanting to read it for a while now, but I’ve heard that the English version is very watered down and stripped of the original emotions that are in the Yiddish version. Do you know if there are any more accurate English translations, or if the Hebrew one is more like the original? Sorry if you’re not the right person to ask about this, you just seem quite knowledgeable

(also coming from my vent account so I don’t get any hate on main for being a Jew lol)

No worries at all, @nonbinary-vents:

I want to be clear about something: My post was aimed at goyim.

You are a Jewish person, and reading this book (especially if you haven't read any other accounts of experiences in concentration camps) may be an important thing for you to do. And I'd cautiously encourage you to do so if you feel emotionally stable. But you do not need to worry about the experience of this book feeling watered down.

If you are Jewish and not in a very stable emotional state, do not read this book. Do not cause yourself harm.

(If you are goyiscshe, you should challenge yourself and force yourself to read this book. Obviously if you are in an actual emotional/psychological crisis or dealing with the death or illness of a loved one, then you are the only goyim who has an excuse not to read this book. No matter who you are, do not read this book if it will cause you actual mental harm or drive you to somehow cause yourself physical harm. But if it will make you upset, depressed, panicked at your own failings, or other extremely unpleasant but ultimately human discomfort, then you should read this book. Jews don't get a choice about knowing this shit, because knowing this shit is how we survive. And you NOT knowing this shit is what makes it so easy for you to dismiss and target us over and over and over again. You should be uncomfortable. You should feel guilty. Because unless you're actively learning how to disentangle yourself from the antisemitism that led to The Holocaust, then you are actively participating in thee fomentation of another. And that should horrify you.)

Sure, I bet this book is even more haunting and visceral in the original Yiddish. I've spoken recently about how hard Jewish language is to translate to English.

But there is no world in which this book will feel watered down to you.

@nonbinary-vents This book will haunt you. This book will change you. This book will challenge your faith and your ability to trust people.

Remember going in that Judaism asks us not to separate ourselves from our community--not just our Jewish community, but any community in which we find ourselves. Resist the urge this book may stir within you to become insular and fearful of goyim. That is not our way. We are a part of the communities and cultures and nations in which we find ourselves. And we must do good for those communities, because that is what we are called to do. The lesson of this book for Jews is different than the lesson of this book for goyim.

The lesson of this book for Jews -- in fact, the lesson of "Never Again" for Jews -- is that we cannot ever allow this to happen to ourselves again. No, of course, I am not blaming Jews for the Holocaust and if anyone thinks that's what I'm arguing here, then they can fuck off.

The lesson of this book for Jews is that we must never again let fear hold us back from fighting for ourselves. If he world calls upon us to die, we must refuse. Refuse to put ourselves on a list. Refuse to follow our oppressors' directions to the ghetto. Refusal to get on the train or to enter the gas chamber. And we must refuse to be silent for other people's comfort. While it is a Jewish imperative to believe that every human being is capable of kindness and has inherent goodness within them, we can never again trust that the kindness and goodness they possess will ever be directed at us. There was the very understandable thought back when this all started that if we just complied--if we were just willing to suffer a little bit by moving to the ghettos or registering on the lists of Jews the Nazis demanded or carried our papers with us at all time and wore our stars just as they said --then they would eventually realize we were good citizens. They would eventually realize we were just people like them doing their best to live quiet lives and follow the rules. People believed that, if we just complied, they'd remember their humanity and our own. If we just complied and let ourselves suffer, hen maybe our friends and loved one would be safe.

But that was a lie we told ourselves.

No amount of compliance or agree-ability or self-sacrifice will ever make someone who sees Jews as evil and subhuman realize that Jews are actually just human beings like everyone else. Compliance will never ensure our safety; it will just make us easier to kill. Compliance won't make antisemites see us as human; it will only ever make them see us -- at best -- as agreeable livestock.

(although I doubt any farmer would treat their animals as cruelly as Nazis and their supporters treated us).

I am not advocating for violence. But I advocating for discomfort and defense. That is why I am on here every day writing the things I write. I will not shut up for the comfort of people who don't care about my life or my safety. And neither should you. Neither should any of us. I will not allow antisemites to co-opt our own tragedies to demonize us further while casting themselves as warriors for justice.

No, we should not take to the streets and start harming goyim. But if the day comes that they once again start to round us up, I for one will tear those Nazis a-fucking-part with my bare hands. And if they live to have children and grandchildren of their own, they will have to explain to their children and grandchildren that they got the scars on their face and the missing eyeball because the Jew they were trying to murder wouldn't submit quietly.

And if this seems like a hyperbolic and absurd hypothetical to anyone reading this? Well, yeah. It seemed like one back then, too.

(And if any goyim chose to read "Night" by Elie Wiesel because of my post, please tell me. Please engage. I cannot be emphatic enough about this. If you are willing to read night in the way I asked of you in my post, then please do reach out to me with your experience and thoughts. Because that's the whole point. Jews need you to listen and engage with us about our own suffering. We need you to consider your impact on us and to not run away from that guilt or from us. If any of you are willing to read this book in the way that I have asked of you, please please please don't keep your experience to yourself. A lot of Jews desperately need to see goysiche growth in understanding antisemitism and its affects. I don't think you can even imagine how scared and lonely we are right now)

#ask me stuff #nonbinary-vents #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #deconstruction #Shoah TW #Holocaust TW #Genocide TW #I don't care about my oppressors' discomfort #Or their opinions about my own morals #If you don't care about Jewish suffering then I don't value your opinion #I live in fear of your opinion #Your opinion makes me actively endangered #your apathy makes me actively endangered #But your opinion's value is worth rat's diarrhea to me #it is nothing

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applesauce42069 · 5 months

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Is it insensitive to wish my Jewish friends both online and in person happy Hanukkah while supporting Palestine? I saw your post saying "If you want to wish Jews a happy Hanukkah but you don’t believe that Jews have a right to exist in their historical, ethnic, and religious ancestral homeland, then don’t. " And wondered immediately how to interact in general with the Jewish community at this time as I'm pro Palestine but also genuinely want Jewish ppl to have a good holiday. Can I say happy Hanukkah in a post and reblog menorahs I find pretty while also reblogging about Palestine being under genocide and supporting freedom? I'm neither Jewish or Palestinian so I'd rly like your opinion on this since your post struck me! X

Supporting Palestine does not contradict supporting Jews. Many Jews, like myself, are supporters of a Free Palestine.

However, antisemitism does in fact contradict supporting Jews (for obvious reasons) so my questions to you are: do you take active steps to avoid antisemitism in your activism? are you aware of common antisemitic tropes and do you steer clear of them? do you excuse violence against Jews? have you taken steps to understand the jewish people and their history/culture, so that you do not participate in their distortion? do you make sure not to spread misinformation that endangers jews in diaspora and in israel? do you deny jewish people self-determination? do you deny jewish people rights and freedoms that you support for others?

In short, Jews do not want empty allyship. We feel like we have been largely abandoned by gentiles and we deal with antisemitism everyday. Having people wish us a Happy Hanukkah while contributing to said antisemitism is just a punch in the face. So, if you can't materially support Jews while we face rising antisemitism, demonization, distortion of our history, calls for our genocide, etc. then we just don't want to hear it.

#jumblr #hanukkah #chanukah #antisemitism

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gold-snek-hoe · 2 months

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Hello and welcome to Opinions from an Internet Nobody. Today's essay:

"Ger therapy" is the new "You need Jesus": One Weirdo's Navigation through Cultural Shame

This is a supposedly well-meaning sentiment that is often weaponized against people who are behaving outside of perceived cultural norms. It's a favorite of homophobes who see queerness/transness as a mental illness, but I've been seeing it used to demonize kink (which historically is often linked to queerness), and more generally any "weird" behavior that makes people uncomfortable.

For example, otherkin, systems (especially those with fictives), and people who take fictional characters as partners. Y'know, "weirdos" who "can't separate reality from fiction." And, sure, sometimes there can be a problem with that distinction, but I know as well as you that most internet strangers saying "get therapy" don't actually give a shit about the mental health of those they target. It's code for "your behavior makes me uncomfortable, stop it."

Same sentiment as "you need Jesus."

This has actually taken me a long time to figure out. I've been in therapy for my entire adult life, working through various traumas, severe depression, anxiety, all that. Those were the biggest problems as they negatively impacted, and often endangered, my life. It was only after my hospitalization in 2020, where I was finally put on much needed medication, that I could start to grow into myself.

I changed my name. I top surgery. I came out as polyamorous. I finally got my official autism diagnosis. Now I'm fuckin' married! But... there are still things I'm working through in therapy. Mainly, shame over my "weirder" behaviors. My current therapist has been a huge blessing in helping me accept the things I was too ashamed to admit.

Now, I feel comfortable enough to share.

I'm otherkin. Always have been. My connection to my humanity is tenuous, and I'm sure that's connected to my autism. When mad, I feel phantom horns sprouting from my forehead. I have a tail that swishes back and forth at the base of my spine. In my soul, I am monstrous, and years of therapy has not erased that.

I feel like I'm only half in the physical world most of the time. This doesn't hinder my real-world success (I graduated college Summa Cum Laude, have an IMDB page, and am on my third book), but informs the way I look at the world. There's a whole other universe in my head that hums along with me in my day-to-day. That's part of why I'm so skilled as a writer. To ask me to divorce from that is to tell me to stop existing. Sorry, it's how I've always operated.

Lastly, and this is the one I'm really anxious about, I have a fictional husband. Now, looking at my blog, you might say "yeah, no shit," but I don't just ship myself with him. I mean I practice pop-culture Witchcraft, and the Goblin King is my patron. I mean I have a Labyrinth-themed tarot deck that I talk to him with. I mean I held a ritual to spiritually marry him. Basically, I Snape-wived myself.

And guess what? My therapist isn't concerned. It's not hurting my ability to live my life. I have other interests, hobbies, and goals outside of him, which he actively encourages in all our tarot sessions! I wouldn't be doing this if he didn't support me. My IRL spouse is usually there for whatever magical shit I'm doing, and supports me! Some of my closest friends know, and the only complaint I've gotten is "this guy seems important to you, I wish you told me sooner." Hell, my MOTHER knows and supports me, which is huge, because our relationship was pretty damaged after I came out as trans.

If you have a problem with the way I live my life, when literally nobody else does, take a good long look at why. You don't give a fuck about my mental health. You just don't like that I'm weird.

Tl;dr: My mental health is better than it's ever been since embracing the weird, so leave me and my imaginary husband Marak Sixfinger alone.

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cryptotheism · 2 years

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hi! whats your stance on cultural appropriation? on the usage of palo santo / white sage if youre not from the culture / practice that its traditionally used in? on closed practices and people not from that practice using their rituals/beliefs/systems?

i got into a bit of a debate with an atheist friend of mine (he is my bff and actually respectable and curious about theism and witchcraft) and he thinks that the idea of cultural appropriation is cultural separation and by default a form of racism

i am white and have been raised in a white household, so i dont feel like i have the right experiences to truly speak on the matter, and my perspective is definitely lacking

i dont know your ethnicity obviously but you seem more knowledgable than me so its better than nothing, right?

and if you have any poc witches (loose term here) or people from closed practices that youd like to direct me (and my friend) to, then i will happily accept :]

thank you!

Personally, I think "cultural appropriation" as a term has become almost entirely desaturated to the point of uselessness, and often to the point of flattening the complex nature of exchange between cultures.

That said, in the specific instance of white sage, it's an incredibly endangered plant that's been integral to several cultures religious practices. Nothing wrong with burning sage, but in my opinion if you're gonna buy sage for incense, you should buy native! Everyone wins.

There's some additional nuance around the idea of "smudging" which is a fairly specific indigenous practice. If you want more information on that, you'll have to ask someone who is actually native.

Basically every culture on earth burns plants for religious reasons, but the cultural and spiritual reasons why are pretty different. From my understanding, saying I'm "smudging with sage" is like saying I'm "going on The Hajj to San Francisco." It's misapplication of a term, a description of a fundamentally different activity. Does this make sense?

(If I'm mischaracterizing this, please feel free to comment)

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pooks · 7 months

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in my expanded Hogwarts Mystery fics, there is one theme that i particularly love to write about and it's the fond relationship between Cassidy and Percy

by the time Percy comes to Hogwarts, he keeps hearing great stories about Cassidy Mercury who protects the school from the dangerous Cursed Vaults. also she's one of the best students in her age, good friends with his two older brothers and later, she becomes a prefect.

so naturally he looks up to her.

but Cassidy wins his loyalty on one thing and that is because she saved him from Rakepick in Year 5 and 6. you read that right, Cassidy saved his life twice.

at this point, she has become like a big sister figure for him. she doesn't brush him off because he's younger, but she sits down and listens to him. she pays attention to him. she respects his opinions and doesn't make fun of him.

for example, when they first met in Year 5;

Percy: We haven't been properly introduced...I'm Percy Weasley, future Gryffindor Prefect, Head Boy and eventual Minister of Magic. Cassidy: Sounds like you have your entire life planned out. :)

we know that the Weasley siblings would poke fun at Percy for saying that, but Cassidy doesn't and respects his ambitions. she has treated him like an equal since day 1 and that's why she won Percy from the beginning.

in-game, they have gone even on adventures with Percy. like when the twins disappeared in Year 6 and we're looking for them with Percy who is, understandably really worried (caused there is a dangerous Cursed Vault at the works!) and even ventures into the Forbidden Forest with Cassidy.

and in the sidequest where there is a party in the Borrow while the parents are away on business, Percy choses to lie (it's a white lie to spare Charlie and the others from trouble) when their mum asks them if there were any trouble.

Percy: It's true! I even organized your sock drawer! (when Molly asked if it was true everyone did chores and did not do anything suspicious)

also when finding out that dark artefacts were moved to the Ministry, Cassidy goes to find Percy (and Tulip, but she isn't really fond of talking about the Ministry). the minute Cassidy asked for Percy's expertise, this is the first time we see him so openly happy and excited.

Cassidy Mercury (the MC): Tulip, Percy. I need you to tell me everything you know about the Ministry of Magic headquarters. Percy (excitedly): Merlin's bread, where do I begin?!

clearly, Cassidy trusts his judgement and knowledge more than well enough to ask him about his input and Percy becomes to happy about being important enough to be asked for his expertise. that is really heartwarming.

not to mention in that same scene, Percy agrees to help Cassidy break into the fucking Ministry because she helped him finding Fred and George.

and in my stories, Rakepick actively manipulates and endanger Percy because of his Seer abilities (yes, Percy has strong Seer powers in my fanfics, but he's not strong enough for a full prophecy). he has a bigger role in my HM stories since Rakepick is more villainous and she ends up using Percy as a leverage to get to Bill, Charlie and Cassidy.

the section below is spoilers for year 6 in my HPHM fanfiction

[in one of my fanfic stories (during Year 6), Rakepick takes him as hostage to the Forbidden Forest. Percy had, by this point, become used as a tool to "predict" the future of Rakepick and the Cursed Vaults. his Seer power (which Percy has named as "foresight") isn't strong enough for a full prophecy and Rakepick decides to use him as a bait for the Cursed Vaults.

back at the castle when the gang is preparing to infiltrate the meeting Rakepick is having with 'R' in the forest, they find out from Oliver Wood that Percy has gone missing and his "rat" is acting weird as in full panic. Cassidy then realizes that there is a connection between Percy's terrified behavior for the past months and quickly deductes that Rakepick has him.]

Cassidy saved Percy's life twice and she has promised him that no matter what happens to her or in the future, she will always return to save him. so his feelings about Cassidy is nothing but pure love and loyalty, like how a younger brother sees his big sister. with Cassidy in the picture, Percy is no longer the odd one out in his family (where everyone are paired with someone except him).

in my Wizard Archivist series, the theme of their friendship is especially in focus because Cassidy is, since before the HP book events starts, locked in a hellscape world beyond the real Cursed Vault and Percy struggles to re-open that vault to bring her home with risk for his own life. '

conclusion? Percy genuinely loves Cassidy, as if it was his big sister and she has always been there for him, wheather it's saving his life or just listening to him rambling. it's an innocent and pure love. Cassidy, who is the younger sister to Jacob and has no younger siblings, adores him in the same way.

in a way, Cassidy became a substitiute when Bill and Charlie were too busy with their lives and a source of unconditional love for Percy.

and the kicker is when Cassidy came to save him the first time, she had just smiled and told him that everything would be alright because she was there now.

thanks for coming to my TED talk about Percy and his inofficial "big sis" role model Cassidy Mercury

#percy weasley #hphm #hogwarts mystery #hogwarts mystery spoilers #jacob's sibling #hphm oc #hphm fanfiction #brother-sister relationships #hphm cassidy mercury #the wizard archivist #pooks rambles

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haikyuupaladin · 2 years

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TLDR; Beyoncé’s “Break my Soul” lyrics video was dangerous to photosensitive viewers and this is a scary step in what seems to be a trend of less and less accessibility for photosensitivity.

This has been bothering me for a few days since I first saw warnings for Beyoncé’s “Break my Soul” lyric video. Apparently there is a warning on the video itself now, but this is due to charities such as Epilepsy Action reaching out and asking for the video to be taken down due to the dangers it posed. There was not a warning when the video was first posted.

We are running out of media that photosensitive people can assume are safe or are at the very least only mildly dangerous, and this is part of a trend of increasingly dangerous strobe usage in media. I first noticed this trend with Incredibles 2, and a few months later with Spiderverse. Cartoons used to be something I could count on to be relatively, if not completely, safe, as a lot of lighting effects can be demonstrated differently and in less dangerous ways in cartoons vs live action. Then I started trying to watch Netflix shows like Stranger Things and The Umbrella Academy, which granted, I expected to be a little more dangerous due to their genres, but still wasn’t necessarily prepared for just how intense most of the effects would be. Then came Cyberpunk 2077, which again, I expected to be dangerous because of the genre, but I don’t think anyone could have expected that they would actively choose to simulate the strobes used during an EEG for the “brain dance” sequence (and if the fact that they called it “brain dance” doesn’t clue you in to the fact that they knew exactly what they were doing, I don’t know what will). The Weeknd was proud of his videos being pulled from before screenings of Suicide Squad for being so egregiously dangerous to photosensitive viewers (which I’ve never seen happen before. Incredibles 2 got barely a slap on the wrist and a warning was issued after opening weekend, and Spiderverse to my knowledge still has no warning from Sony to this day, for comparison). And now Beyoncé makes a lyrics video, the one genre of visual media I still felt I could trust, as they’re mostly just plain text on a plain background, and she not only used strobes, but she used red strobes, which are particularly dangerous. Most of the other examples had “artistic vision” to hide behind, which is still not an excuse or acceptable, but it was at least something where I could vaguely understand why the shitty decisions were made. In a lyrics video, there is no such excuse to hide behind, and I have to wonder, have these previous examples shown people it’s ok to endanger the lives of photosensitive people to the point where they feel comfortable putting in dangerous effects for literally no reason at all? What else will become more dangerous?

And while some of these pieces of media I’ve mentioned above have had warnings, usually after release, I think it’s important to note that they made conscious decisions that led to the media needing a warning and that the warnings really shouldn’t have been necessary in the first place, at the very least not to the degree they were.

Please remember to include photosensitivity in your opinions of the quality and inclusivity of media. Because right now, media is becoming less and less accessible to photosensitive viewers and without people outside the photosensitivity and epilepsy communities taking these things into consideration, I can only see things getting worse in that respect, and the “Break my Soul” lyric video is already a scarily low point in that.

#beyonce #break my soul #photosensitivity #epilepsy #disability #actually epileptic

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salt-cedar · 5 months

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I haven't finished BES yet and it's really good but one thing that has royally pissed me off is madame Kaji. Like, nothing about her and what she does in her episode makes sense.

First of all, the way this show depicts prostitution is either childishly naive or very disingenious. There is this whole monologue about desires and about how knowing one's desires is the key to knowing your soul and purpose... set in a brothel? Like, the message is cool and deep and all but not when it is about paying people to endure your fucking self-reflection journey. Prostitutes are not consensual participants of the sex. The money exchanged are not a gift or a token of appreciation, they are to buy consent - which by definition makes it not consent anymore. Sex with prostitutes is not a mutual connection where they both open up and explore themselves and each other. While madame Kaji is monologuing we are shown different scenes from this supposedly kinky brothel. We see a prostitute writing on one man's body; another client being slapped and then having a threesome with a woman and a man; then we see shibari performed on a man by a woman. Conviniently all three activities are being done to a male client by a prostitute, not vice versa. Do you honestly think that the majority of income of brothels is generated by men paying to be subjected to things? Not by paying for subjecting mostly women to all sorts of actions, most of them humiliating and violent? And in a brothel famous for their special services, don't you think that this would be much more disturbing? But then it wouldn't fit the pretty narrative I guess.

But back to madame Kaji. After all, this monologue is performed by her for a supposed client, it can very well be not representative of her true opinion (although too bad that she seems to trick the series' audience as well). Her story about meeting Kinuyo is nonsence. I'm so sick of a trope of wise and protective madame on TV, istg. A madame is a pimp!!! They are the same! This show for some reason condemns pimps as "flesh traders" while completely leaving madames out of it and it's insane. A madame is a slave owner. The pay that prostitutes historically recieved in a brothel is symbolic. A madame is not here to care for them and protect them, she is there to manage them and often could be more harsh and unforgiving than a pimp because she either has a background in prostitution or is constantly at risk to fall back into it. She is a class traitor who's survival depends on how well she grooms and primps other women for abuse. But a girl sold to madame Kaji's establishment tells her she doesn't want to deal with men, and madam Kaji is like, ok girlie, no probs? WHAT? Does this imply that all the other girls... want to deal with the men 100% of the time? Or do they take vacations and breaks depending on the mood? Didn't seem like it by the interactions that we've seen.

And that is not to mention that also a lot of things Kaji does are plainly stupid. Let's say, she felt sentimental about Kinuyo, ok. She then leaves the young, pretty and fragile girl by her side, knowing very well what town they are in and what business they are in. She "spares" Kinuyo but actually leaves her very vulnerable in a very dangerous place. What happened next was really a question of time.

The worst offender is, of course, the order that she gives to Mizu. It's played off as something touching and dramatic, when in reality it's stupid and cruel. First of all, by ordering to kill Kinuyo instead of the mob boss, Kaji endangered everyone, including Kinuyo and herself. The dude was a mob boss, if he suddenly got killed, I'm sure there are too many parties interested in that to really lead back to Kaji's brothel. But by ordering to kill Kinuyo she might as well leave him a note with her name and legal address. Again, there was no way for this to end any differently than it did. Then, the reason for the order is to "free Kinuyo from her suffering" because Kaji feels that she failed her. Assuming for some reason that Kinuyo would want to be set free this way (which she didn't, as we know). I can give the showrunners at least this: I find it very plausible that a madame would pay her debts at the expense other woman. Therefore I don't find it touching, I am disgusted.

So that's one time Kaji has endangered her establishment and all the girls that she supposedly cares for. But she actually does it three times in one episode. After placing a hella obvious order on Kinuyo's life she immediately proceeds to tell Mizu the secret entrance to the Fowler's palace, which she knows because she and her prostitutes use it when he summons them. She, among many characters, is sure that Mizu will find her death there, but even if she did, wouldn't an attempt prompt an investigation of where exactly this blue eyed vigilante learned about the secret gate? And isn't there only one source to learn this, again, making Kaji's role in this really obvious? (Plus, Mizu was seen in her brothel and with her by many people). That's Kaji endangering herself and everyone around her second time per episode.

And then, the third time she did when she accepted Akumi, knowing very well on sight that she is nobility. That is mind-numbingly stupid, like, I'm starting to think Kaji is braindead at this point. She investigates nothing about Akumi, specifically about her family and whether they are alive and stuff. Because a) if they are alive and searching for her, and find her "ruined" by Kaji, that might as well be the end of her brothel. Maybe a bit less violent than from the hand of Fowler or that mob boss, or maybe more. She doesn't know and doesn't care to find out. And b) the show once again forgets that a madame is not your friendly auntie who may be a bit lewd but overall has a heart of gold. The profit that she could make selling Akemi is not comparable to the reward for getting her back to her parent(s) and swearing silence to them! Kaji would've been the first person to sell her out, both for her own safety and profit!!!

She is easily the worst written character in the show, and overall so bad that it made me somewhat reconsider watching till the end.

#blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai spoilers #blue eye samurai critique

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passthroughtime · 2 months

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coming to your ask box to tell you that what you said about kuwana being protective of yagami is real and true actually. if kuwana weren't so busy trying to keep himself safe, he'd be doing more to try and keep yagami out of this (though he also desperately wants to be with him more). kuwana knows that yagami can handle a few scratches (and an explosion apparently, lmao) but he would take it very personally if anything ever happened to yagami ....i think. perhaps we're having shared delusions

thank you jichan, you're still the only one ever

yeah. though, he knew if he just went and disappeared without letting yagami know where he's going, it would kinda slow his process of getting into shit and endangering himself, even if for a bit. if kuwana actively and purposely involved him into everything, yagami would be in much more trouble i think. killing him was always an afterthought for RK, but if he'd be involved with kuwana more, well... it just paints a target on his back. and yagami wouldn't try to hide. he has ties to other people, he has something to lose.

so pushing yagami away and out of this all was a bit "two birds with one stone" kind of situation

though he also desperately wants to be with him more

yeah lol, i just realized that when kuwana gives him the pendant so he'd help ehara, he says that yagami is the only one he can trust with it, and like, really? you have lots of accomplices whose actions you can literally control, jeez, man xD

and of course kuwana suspected (or anticipated) that yagami would use this against ehara, so there's that also. but. his motivations are a mess, so we can be a little delusional about this as well i think

and an explosion apparently, lmao

explosion is nothing compared to all injuries yagami suffered in the end of JE, kuwana figured, he can survive a little explosion <3 it'd be good for him <3

but he would take it very personally if anything ever happened to yagami

no no, you're right. i mean, he does beat himself up over sawa, as well as mitsuru. he couldn't not feel responsible if this case would lead to yagami's demise as well. if anything, i can't say that kuwana doesn't care about other people. he even cares about his students even knowing that they despise him (i can't stop thinking about the fact that he agreed to meet with yagami so they'd release mamiya... it's not like he was afraid she'd spill everything, i mean, he tells yagami about a lot of things himself)

or maybe i really want to think that kuwana is a better person than he actually is. idk.

tbh i doubt my characterization of them a lot, hence all these disclaimers lol. and i really want to know other's opinions and why i can be wrong in how i view them? i mean, we are a small community. i can see people disagreeing with me, though in silence. but i want to discuss this, because i strive to see all sides of things, and i think it's fun to take their relationship apart again and again

i re-watch quite, uh. let's say, often the cutscenes featuring the two of them, and sometimes the moments where there's only mentions of them. i've started to write an "analysis" of each scene and their (presumed) reactions to their interactions, because it really does make things clearer in my head. i'm replaying the game rn, trying to see anything beyond my insanity lmao, but it's still just one view on things, you know? i really want to have a discussion and see where i can be wrong. and just... it'd be fun to listen other people talking about my favourite characters.

(is this approach insane? of course! but i'm having fun at the very least, and if i can have fun two years after i've finished LJ for the first time, well, i'll take it.)

when i say that i think about them a lot, i really mean it lol. (that's not my first rodeo, so business as usual for me.) but even if i strive to open-minded, and even if i re-visit canon again and again, it's hard to not be biased about lots of things.

and, yeah, i'm really glad to hear that you agree with me on this hc. but even if you, or anyone else, didn't, i'd want to hear all about it

#kuwagami #lost judgment spoilers #judge eyes

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authorchia · 4 months

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R: 1999 RAMBLES (⁠✯⁠ᴗ⁠✯⁠)

I consider myself as a newbie and casual player of the R: 1999 fandom so my knowledge of the game may be limited and I'm not confident of my vocabularies since English is not my first languange, just letting yall know :V

I'm gonna be as nuanced as possible as I ramble through my opinions, so if you find this interesting, I'd like to see yall's opinions too! (Remember to be respectful!)

Alright so the thing that I wanna get it off my chest is that, is it just me or there has been no discourse/drama about R: 1999 till today? I know the game was released hardly a year ago, but really the fandom is pretty chill and I'm very grateful for that, even though I'm not an active participant.

I had a thought it's because the twitter cops/"puritans" can't see any visible advantage to make ANYTHING a useless drama. I was both in the GI and HSR fandom as a spectator, seeing news about them bitching and policing people about the same topics over and over again (truly saddening). But I might dare say R: 1999 is not an easy target for them because it has:

- Diverse characters, both ethnicity and species wise iykyk

- Diverse VAs for characters that are not Americans (ex. Zima, Shamane, Sonetto, Matilda, etc.)

- Stunning and unique artstyle (for me at least, because it's not really your generic anime style if you really squint)

- Killer character designs that speaks where they from and their personality

- Compelling storytelling both for the characters' backstory, story events and main story

- MOST if not ALL characters have their age explicitly stated in their bio

- GENEROUS amount of Drops and moderately easy to get

- Farming resources are generous and easy to get with if your characters' level are enough to beat the critters

- Gameplay/Battle system is engaging in its own way

- No questionable clothings on minor characters

The only things that they would try to make drama/discourse are:

- How boring the gameplay is (which is almost an insult) <- have seen an example on Tiktok

- Ship discourses because it's the only thing any fandom fans and non-fans have a war about, which is utterly stupid and brainrotting

- Any genuine problematic things like problematic creators seeping into the crack. It can be done by a block button or callout doc if they're endangering the fandom's space

-Any immature, chronically online behaviors that you see on the internet (both minors and adults)

TLDR: I'm not saying Reverse: 1999 is the pinnacle of what games should be, but it's really hard not to notice its uniqueness that other game lacks. Let's just hope people won't be behaving out of place, and if they do, we could either educate them patiently or ignore them completely. NOT immediately ostracizing and being aggressive towards them as it will light up the fire and potentially burn the whole forest.

That's all I have go say. If you made it this far, WOW! Thanks for stopping by and read this unhinged ramble! Have a milk and cookies for compensation, friend 🥛🍪🍪🍪

I hope in the future, the game and its fandom will flourish with passionate creators and gamers. Maybe they could make Indonesian-based events! I would love that actually... But for now, I will wait for Shamane's banner teehee :3c

#author's blurt #reverse: 1999 #reverse 1999 #r1999

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A teasing look at a fic I'll be publishing on AO3 when it's done. Everyone loves Steve in glasses and for good reason. But I give you... Eddie in glasses.

Edit: Finished fic

“Oh please,” Eddie said on a particularly hot July day. “You cannot read that sign from here.” He rolled his eyes and stretched up before leaning back against his trailer. “You don’t have to pretend to show off or whatever.”

The look Dustin gave him was downright indescribable. “You’re messing with me, right?”

And that’s how Eddie learned he couldn’t fucking see.

Dustin was quick to turn him into a test subject and use signs and distances around the trailer park to test Eddie. He’d never realized how much writing surrounded him, but Dustin had a knack for finding it. Only because they were focusing on things he’d never paid attention to before did Eddie believe Dustin that he could, in fact, see that far away.

Wayne was beside himself when he found out that evening. “I should have gotten you tested years ago! All that time you struggled with notes in school—I had no idea it was because you couldn’t see the board.”

“I thought that was normal!” Eddie said, more to defend Wayne than anything else. Maybe he himself should have noticed things getting fuzzier, but Wayne had never hesitated to get him medical attention when it was actively needed. “Besides, we didn’t have the insurance, and I didn’t realize I needed to. You can’t blame yourself.”

If it had been purely up to him, Eddie still wouldn’t have gone to the eye doctor. Glasses didn’t seem particularly metal, and he’d never noticed a significant enough impact to notice that he needed them; clearly that meant he didn’t. He’d probably break them right away or maybe lose them. It was a ridiculous amount of money to spend just to make things a little sharper. Surely it wouldn’t make a big difference one way or another.

It was Steve who pitched a fit.

“You deserve to be able to see well, Eddie.” His hands were on his hips. Eddie was fucked. Hands on the hips was never a good sign; it usually meant Steve was just getting started. “Besides, if you can’t see things like the board at the front of a classroom, you are missing all kinds of things while you’re driving. Like no wonder you’re kind of a shit driver. Bad habits, sure, but your reflexes don’t stand a chance. What if something happens when you have the kids in the car?”

Eddie wished he could have had a better comeback, but the idea of endangering the children that they pseudo-parented together kind of pushed out anything else. He couldn’t even defend his own driving here.

It was another month before he actually could actually get an appointment, but Eddie didn’t have to go alone. Steve waited in the lobby area while he went back and answered whether one or two was clearer a million times, sometimes not even sure if he was answering correctly. Eventually, though, he and his new eye doctor figured it out. He had a prescription. Now he needed the glasses.

As he walked out into the waiting area, he found Steve already inspected the various pairs up on the wall display.

“Don’t bother.” Eddie shrugged to himself and shoved his hands in his pockets. “I’m going to get literally the cheapest pair they have. No sense spending extra just for the looks.”

Steve glared at him and held up a little piece of plastic. “My parents haven’t cut me off yet, so it’s at my discretion to use this however I want to. We’re finding you glasses that make you look hot.”

Maybe it was the wording that threw Eddie so much. He could have handled “that look nice,” “fit current trends,” or even “suit your face.” But look hot? He didn’t stand a chance. Instead he let Steve shove pair after pair in his hands. He’d put them on, look in the mirror, and if he liked them, turn around to show Steve and the woman helping them. Eddie felt bad that he didn’t know what she was. A technician? A receptionist? A nurse? Regardless she had only pleasant opinions from herself but nodded along to every scathing response Steve had. They were damned and determiend to make sure Eddie ended up with the perfect pair.

“Try these ones,” the woman suggested, handing the pair not to Eddie but to Steve.

Steve considered them for a moment and nodded. “They’re shaped like those other ones that looked good on you, and the color’s better. Try ‘em.”

Eddie obediently put them on his face and promptly tried to ignore the gut-punched look on Steve’s face.

“That bad?” he joked before turning to look in the mirror. Despite himself, Eddie let out a low whistle. “I think we found them, Stevie boy. I look hot.”

“They certainly fit your face well,” the woman said, and Eddie was pretty sure that was the closest she could get to agreeing with him on the job.

He glanced back at Steve. “Like them?” He flushed slightly but hoped niether would notice. Doubtful when both were looking at his face.

Steve swallowed audibly and nodded. “They’ll do.”

Eddie felt a pleased stirring low in his stomach, but he ignored it. Now was definitely not the time to consider such things.

“It’ll be about two weeks before they come in,” the woman said. “We’ll give you a call when they do.”

“Thanks,” Steve said as she swiped his card.

Eddie still don’t know how to feel about Steve spending this kind of money on him. He leaned over, letting their shoulders bump together. “Thanks again,” he mumbled, voice low.

Steve smiled, like there was a secret Eddie didn’t know. “I’m glad I could help. You know it’s not about the money?”

Eddie snorted and pointed out, “You know you have to have money to think it’s not about that?”

“I know.” He paused. “But you know what I mean?”

Eddie sighed. “Yes, Stevie, I know what you mean.”

When he got the call about his glasses two weeks later, Eddie went to get them.

He wasn’t dealing anymore. (Hopper wouldn’t let him.) He had picked up spare hours here and there at a local mechanics, but they didn’t need full time help right now. Eddie was home more than he wasn’t. He tried not to let it bother him, but it was dificult not having a job when it was his fault Wayne had to patch their lives back together. They’d barely been able to keep anything from the trailer, and while government hush money had gotten them a new place, it didn’t replace all the little touches that made up their lives. Wayne hadn’t saved up much, but he was spending it all trying to piece things together.

But until Eddie could convince someone to hire him full time, he was home most of the day. At least that made picking up his glasses easy.

Once he had them on, the same woman as before leaned forward, arms folded on the counter. “How do they feel?”

“Pretty good,” Eddie said as he blinked a couple times. He looked across the store, mouth almost falling open at the level of detail he could see. Holy shit, had he been blind? Maybe he just had super vision now.

“If you have any problems like headaches and eyestrain or think your vision still isn’t where it should be, let us know. We’ll do a followup with you in the future, but you’ll know something’s up long before we will.”

Eddie nodded his understanding and headed outside. He stopped short in the sunlight, scanning the road around him. He could read store signs and—fuck, Steve had been right about his dangers as a driver—even road signs that Eddie had never been able to make out from this far away before.

After a moment of marveling, he got in the van. Eddie contemplated just driving around for a while, but he wanted someone to react to his new look honestly. He considered heading to see one of the kids, but none of them would let him hear the end of it if he “chose” someone else to show first.

Right. Decision made then. He was going to see Steve.

And Robin, Eddie reminded himself as he pulled out of the parkingly. She could marvel seeing his new look for the first time. Of course, Steve got to see the full effect with lenses and everything, so that was a bonus. He also didn’t know Eddie’s glasses had arrived today. It seemed like a nice little test to surprise him and see how Steve genuinely reacted seeing them again.

Eddie parked down the block like he usually did since his van was bad for business.

He had a bit of bounce in his step as he approached the door.

He pushed it open.

Steve made eye contact from behind the counter.

He’d been half-leaning with his head propped up against one arm. When he saw Eddie, Steve’s arm slipped.

Eddie winced as he heard as well as saw Steve’s chin hit the counter.

“Dingus!” Robin called from somewhere among the movie shelves. “What did you just do?”

Steve stood back up straight, rubbing at his jaw. “Eddie’s here.”

“What did Eddie do?” Robin asked, her voice floating as she moved closer to the counter. When she emerged, Robin stopped short. She gawked at him for a moment before letting out a bark of laughter.

“That bad?” Eddie asked. He tried to make it sound teasing, but he still grabbed his haid and pulled it in front of his face. He could see it against his glasses. That was weird.

“Not bad,” Robin promised, and Eddie peeked out from behind his hair. “You look really good actually. I’m laughing at this one.” She jerked her head toward Steve.

“Hey!” Steve protested. “Why do we have to laugh at me?”

Robin sent him a look that Eddie couldn’t read, and Steve sent one back. Apparently that was the end of that conversation because Robin hopped up onto the counter instead of going around it. “So… Lifechanging yet?”

“I can see.” Eddie personally felt that answered the question.

“They look pretty good,” Robin said, and her eyes flicked toward Steve. “Don’t they, Steve?”

He cleared his throat. “I should think so. I helped pick them out.”

Robin rolled her eyes. “Your fashion sense is not a promise of anything around here.”

She and Eddie grinned at each other as Steve protested.

Robin continued on as though she hadn’t heard him. “So are you going to wear them all the time?”

Eddie shrugged. “Originally the plan was just for driving and when I really need them, but I might wear them a lot more. Obviously no concerts or anything. They’ll never survive a pit, and I’m afraid they aren’t going to be great for my cred on stage.”

“I don’t think you’re giving people enough credit,” Steve managed, but he wasn’t looking at Eddie again. Curious.

“We’ll see.”

Eddie couldn’t help his smile, and Robin grinned right back. They’d discussed some possibilities that she refused to violate best friend privileges to confirm or deny. This, though, was confirmation. Steve liked the way Eddie looked, and he especially seemed to like the way Eddie looked in the glasses.

Time for some fun.

#steddie #eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie fanfic #stranger things fanfic #my writing #my fanfic

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//Okay, seeing some stuff I’m not kosher with on my dash and I have 2 things to say, but I’ll put them under the cut bc I’m too tired to deal with this rn.

Tl;Dr: 1. tag your politics. 2. Disagreement does not equal enemy/inhumane person. Respect people’s right of objection and dissent.

//1. Disagreeing/being uncomfortable with someone’s point of view/religious/political beliefs does not make the person you disagree with inherently dangerous or evil and demonizing them as such is wrong.

//Every person has the right to have religious or non religious objections to, opinions of, and stances on controversial topics. This again does not make them inherently dangerous.

//What makes someone dangerous is how they directly treat other people, namely if they are harassing someone, doxxing someone, threatening harm to someone including themselves, abusing someone irl or through cyber bullying, or other types of unethical mistreatment.

//if you find someone whose stance disagrees with yours and they are not doing any of these, take a breath and ask yourself if that person is actually being abusive to people or if your disagreement with them is what makes you feel uncomfortable.

//Because there is a distinct difference between being uncomfortable (“I don’t like that stance and thus don’t want to be around you”) and being unsafe (“I think you’re going to actively, purposely hurt me physically, emotionally, or socially”).

//2. Tag your politics and callout posts. Because I have seen enough people driven out of fandoms, off tumblr, and even to suicide over this kind of cancel-culture mob-mentality. You may disagree with someone but it is not your job to tell anyone “don’t follow this person who hasn’t done anything but express a bad opinion/opinion I don’t like. If you do, you’re bad by association. Fuck you.”

//I’ve already been put into that position in the Destiny community early last year and I’m still not healed from it. If you don’t like someone’s stance don’t like, don’t read. Unfollow & block. But unless they’re actively harming/harassing/endangering someone, that’s as far you should go. Period.

#¢::passin'gossip::¢#ooc #¢::outofspooks::¢#//I’m sorry. i just can’t abide callout posts like this

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Hello, dear, I would like to know your opinion on how Sehzade Mustafa was treated so preferably in comparison to Hürrem’s children from the dynasty members themselves. That Mahidevran would do that is no question. She is Mustafa’s mother after all but Ayse Hafsa Sultana does that as well??? Or even Süleyman’s sisters which is… idk… considering that then they lie to Mihrimah’s face about how much she and her brothers are loved from their aunts (I am writing this with Sah Sultan’s scene with Mihrimah in the third season in my mind). They (the aunts) try to give them (Hürrem’s children) such a ridiculous sense of security, it’s, as far as I am concerned, disgusting because their behaviour just says the opposite. In the third season, there is a scene where Hürrem believed that Ibrahim might have hurt her son Mehmed just for Ibrahim to say that he would never do that WHILE Ibrahim is completely on Mustafa’s side AND making Hürrem go through this trauma is just???

So, yeah… with all of this in my mind, I would love to know what you think about this topic. Whatever your answer might be, I am thankful for the time you spend on this question. ☺️✨

It comes to make more sense in Ayşe Hafsa's case in that she doesn't see Hürrem as a member of the family and she actively wants her dead. So her proclaiming her love for her grandchildren while also favouring one of them (probably not realising what she's doing) does make some sense to me. Especially later on. That said, in her defence I think she does care about them enough to take measures when there is an active and present danger to their lives. After all it's her decision to take Hürrem's children to Hatice's palace in episode 55. This seems consistent to me with the type of abusive person that Ayşe Hafsa is.

The idea that Ibrahim at any point cares about Hürrem's children is laughable and the scene where he told Hürrem that he would never kill an innocent is straight up him gaslighting her. He HAS killed innocents. One of whom (Leo) was a formative trauma for Hürrem. Not to mention that in that scene he gloated to her about the idea that she and her children would all die. So I cannot take Ibrahim seriously when he claims that he wouldn"t do it. He absolutely would.

In Hatice's defence she is fairly impartial in the first two seasons. We see her take care of Hürrem's kids and shelter them from danger. That said, things change in season 3 and as @redxluna has pointed out she is willing along with Ibrahim to plan for an outcome that will bring about her nephews' deaths (planning for Mustafa's ascension when Süleyman is sick). This can be attributed partly to her now seeing Hürrem as just a cartoon villain and Magnificent Century's lack of concern with Hürrem's sons' fates.

Şah actively puts Hürrem's sons in danger and I don't think she genuinely cares about them all that much. She is there to defeat their mother and that is all. And I think she very much sees them as an extension of Hürrem.

Fatma was sent by Mustafa to scheme against Hürrem. So she is there to bring about outcomes that would endanger her and her kids. And yet the show expects us to believe that she cares about them and is just calling out Hürrem for being a toxic mother? I can't buy it. And her using Cihangir's death to 'hashtag own' Hürrem and say that she was to blame shows that either Fatma only cared about Mustafa, or the writers, or (most likely) both. Season 4 had a frustrating habit of blaming Hürrem for her sons' deaths though.

#magnificent century #answered #yaggy031910

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I find it sort of funny that a bunch of white antizionists are constantly like "Magneto is right" even though he was modelled by Chris Claremont off of Menachem Begin, the, you know, founder of Likud

Anon, let's be clear. Magneto isn't based on ANYONE.

Not Malcolm X, Not Menachem Begin, Not Meir Kahane and Not even Valerie Solanas

With that out of the way I want to see your point of analysis which can get interesting. See this* fascinating essay by Ami Eden for the Forward comparing Irving Goldberg and Meir Kahane to Charles Xavier and Magneto, respectively. The best part is the response** by IRVING GOLDBERG HIMSELF who responds with "Sadly I can kinda see the parallels" (a paraphrase and NOT a direct quote)

White Western Antizionist goyim (or Pro-pals as I derivisely call them) have the worst most basic and bloodthirsty analysis of media. They are the Lily Orchards and James Somerton of media analysis (See what I did there?). They don't actually care about MENA or Global South politics they just want a scapegoat for their ills and they've rediscovered "blame the Jews"

There's thing "my blorbo would agree with my moral views" brainrot which is especially egregious when your blorbo is a war criminal who constantly endangers civilians. I find the whole discourse of "consuming pure media and not stanning villains" incredibly reductive. "you can't like Magneto he'd be pro-israel" is the dumbest argument I've even heard NO MATTER where you stand politically. "you can't like a character because of how he'd hypothetically react to modern politics?" Come on! It makes no sense. It's three layers of supposition and "have you stopped drinking konyak on sundays".

Another thing I'll point out is "anti sjw" creators who stan Magneto not realizing he's everything they hate. These people are also firmly on the "Magneto is white because I said so". Cool, half the people in his backstory would disagree but YOU white comic fan MUST be right.

Lastly "Magneto was Right" was started by Grant Morrison who famously hated the character and was coined by a Morrison's character Quentin Quire. Quire, who Colin, host of the Cerebro podcast memorably described as "a gay alt-right grifter" and a "magneto tankie".

"Magneto is/was Right" is the Che Guevara t-shirt of activism (see what I did there?) so Pro-Pals (or even clueless Jews) using it as a rallying cry is a case of "congrats you recreated the torment nexus" and "1984 wasn't an instruction manual, you fool!"

Personally, I don't think he cares much for human politics post the events of the flashback in UXM 161 (which does begin in a Israeli hospital for Holocaust survivors with severe mental illness) and have a whole essay on that. However, other jumblr users disagree with me because we're a) Jews b) don't actually live in an echo chamber

So if you come to my inbox (on anon no less) telling me 'Magneto is the X of Y', I want to see your reasoning. Like when I say 'James Somerton; you immediately think of bad faith media criticism bigotry and plagiarism or when I say "Che T-shirt" and you immediately think of capitalist preformative activism that disguises itself as 'socialist action'.

I have a whole essay about why Moon Knight and Magneto are the same archetype. I have a whole list of similarities but then I go in at how they're different.

Please send me the similarities anon. I want arguments. Maybe even a chart or a venn diagram. I can't agree or disagree if I am given nothing to agree or disagree with. The argument on its face? I don't see the correlation.

read the Forward comparing Magneto to Kahane not once but TWICE here:

*https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/8878/orthodo-x-men-1/

**https://forward.com/opinion/7470/orthodo-x-men-on-screen-and-off/

#magneto #social commentary #media analysis #media analysis with cecil #my essays #magneto meta #asks #answering asks

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So I think I figured out what bugs me so much about Nelson v Murdock and it's the conflation of Matt's abilities and actions in regards to what Foggy is entitled to know about. Because I do agree that the moment Matt started Daredevilling, Foggy had a right to know about it because that's a choice that Matt is making that actively endangers Foggy's life, loved ones, and career. Foggy has every right to be upset at Matt for not telling him about that and the narrative is justified in framing Matt as being in the wrong about it. But what I don't think Foggy or the narrative are justified in condemning Matt for is not telling Foggy about his senses, because they're nobody's business but Matt's.

Like yes, listening to people's heartbeats is an invasion of privacy, but in this context, no moreso than eavesdropping on a stranger's conversation. Yes, the proper thing to do is to try to tune it out, but you can't turn your ears off. It's unreasonable in my opinion to expect Matt to disclose what he can and can't hear to everyone, especially given that doing so would mark him as other when we know that there is discrimination against powered people in the Marvel universe. My opinions on the efficacy of superpowers as a metaphor for minority groups aside, that is the fact of how their world works. And I don't think Matt has anymore duty to report his status as a metaphorical minority than any real minority does. Especially given he is also a real minority and he as a disabled man is under no obligation to explain to abled people how his senses, body, and blindness work.

#daredevil

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thepro-lifemovement · 2 years

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ok this is just in relation to the post you mentioned me in (while i strongly disagree with your message, i believe that civil debate is the best option.)

I think that the main difference between abortion and outright murder is that fetuses aren't conscious.

Pre-mature babies have shown little signs of brain activity, and most babies don't show signs of consciousness until about five months after birth.

especially early on in pregnancy, the fetus can't feel pain and isn't conscious, and especially in scenarios where the women's life is endangered, what is the problem with it? (this is fundamentally talking about it within the early weeks of pregnancy)

Hello, friend! I appreciate civil debates. I don't know what sources you are finding that say babies aren't conscious until five months after birth when unborn children learn things within the womb. "Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks of gestational age, and the new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy and at birth can demonstrate what they’ve heard." If you read about fetal development, they even start becoming pretty active at 11 weeks, "They're kicking, stretching, and even hiccupping as their diaphragm develops, although you can't feel any activity yet." Here's a video of a little 8 week old unborn baby moving around in an ectopic pregnancy.

The problem with your argument on consciousness is that whether a person is conscious or not should not matter. When you sleep, you are unconscious. Is it then not considered murder to kill someone in their sleep? We believe coma patients are unconscious, although we have no way of knowing for certain. "A coma is similar to a dream-like state because the individual is alive but not conscious. A coma occurs when there is little to no brain activity. The patient is unable to respond to touch, sound, and other stimuli." I wouldn't say it is okay to outright murder coma patients. A harmful act done on an unconscious human being does not make that act any less harmful. You cannot sexually assault someone while they're unconscious, even if they'll never know it happened. As that study about fetal pain says, "consciousness is mediated by subcortical structures, such as the thalamus and brainstem, which begin to develop during the first trimester; the neurochemicals in utero do not cause fetal unconsciousness...."

I gave my opinion on abortion in cases where the woman's life is in danger here.

Just because a human being lacks brain activity, consciousness, or the ability to feel pain should not allow us the right to harm or even kill that human being. What should matter in the end is if someone is a living human being. An unborn child, from fertilization, is a living human being.

-Sarah

#thanks for the ask #ask #asks #abortion #fetal consciousness #fetal pain #fetal devlopment #anti abortion #pro-life #pro life #let me know if you would like to discuss this further

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Now that you've gotten to Paige I can finally ask which one do you find most annoying 😈 I also wanted your opinion on the sisters' dynamic and chemistry. There are MANY videos on YT that say that this is the strong point of the show and talk about how it changes with Pru's death and And the arrival of Paige but I feel that Piper had to grow up and take on the role of older sister but Phoebe is and always will be the little and immature sister.

So, like, the thing with Paige is I stand by what I said pre-rewatch, which is that she's obnoxious af and lacks common sense and that annoys me. Like, telling Glen that he can stay at the house because it's "her house too" even though they are consistently attacked by demons and warlocks is obnoxious and STUPID not just because of their secret but because it endangers him. Reading from the Book of Shadows and bringing a knight to the present and then walking away as if she didn't cause the mess is infuriating. Taking the book out of the house and trying to photocopy it was also infuriating, she's in her 20s, she's not 12. Complaining about living in Prue's shadow when that doesn't even make sense because Prue was the oldest and the strongest and she's the youngest and the weakest and after actively seeking them out at a FUNERAL for their sister, like Paige just gets under my skin.

I'm still working out though if I find Paige's obnoxiousness worse than Phoebe's hypocrisy.

And I still can't get over that she doesn't have a job. She offers to find one and Piper says no because she would rather her work on the witch stuff and finding out all she can about the Source but we don't even see Phoebe do that. One workout with Cole doesn't indicate that she's dedicating all of her time to demon hunting and the Source. Phoebe doesn't contribute anything but headaches.

And she's supposed to be older and wiser and the buffer between Paige and Piper but like you, I don't think we see much of that. It just looks like Piper has two younger sisters to take care of and that's kind of it. The chemistry has also shifted, which doesn't bother me right now because they're still getting to know Paige so there being awkwardness and not being as close works.

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