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bottombaron · 28 days
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you know, i can handle a little bit of fun "Nandor is dumb" talk, but i have a net-zero tolerance for any implication that Nandor is not educated.
Nandor would have been incredibly educated in his lifetime.
even (or especially) as a soldier in the Islamic World. being a soldier was more like getting sent to boarding school that's also a military camp. they weren't just concerned with creating loyal fodder for war. they were building the next government officials, generals, accountants, advisors, etc. it was important that young men knew how to read, write, speak multiple languages, learn philosophy...sometimes even studying art and music was mandatory.
if he was nobility (and its most likely he was), take all that shit and multiply it exponentially. Nandor would have been reading Plato at the same age most people are still potty training. he would have been specifically groomed in such a way to not be just a brilliant strategist and warrior, but also diplomate and ambassador of literally the center of scientific and cultural excellence of the age.
so like yeah, he can be a big dummy sometimes, sure. but that bitch is probably more educated than any of us will ever be.
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4ft10tvlandfangirl · 5 months
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Maybe it's because I work in healthcare and I remember vividly during the worst of covid when all medical facilities were under strain, when there were no more beds, no more oxygen & patients were dying while waiting to be seen or admitted that my heart is breaking imagining what its like in the hospitals of Gaza running out of resources.
Add the fact that they are working through constant bombardment and airstrikes, treating horrific amputations and burn injuries with little to no electricity now and no anesthesia. Add the fact that the medics & doctors are seeing their own families brought in terribly injured or dead. They're getting calls while on duty that their families were killed and its suspected they were specifically targeted.
You could tell me the doorway to hell was under these hospitals/schools/mosques/churches/refugee camps and I promise it wouldn't change how I feel about this. Attacking these places filled with innocent civilians is wrong. How can people see the images and footage I'm seeing and say well, if bombing the entire Gaza Strip gets rid of Hamas then the end justifies the means? It can't! The cost of human life is too high! And that's without even accounting for the propaganda and lies in the mix.
Like many above a certain age I watched the events of 9/11 unfold and a lot of us in the global south actually mourned with the American people. And like the American people we too were swayed by the media's lies so we just silently watched the invasion into Iraq and Afghanistan only for the lies to come out years later. 20 years bombing the hell out of those countries and slaughtering the people indiscriminately and it didn't get rid of the Taliban or other terrorist groups. But I bet it helped to radicalise more to their cause.
Israel is using the same playbook and none should be surprised if the result is the same, if any Palestinian children of today become the Hamas of tomorrow after what they've suffered. I don't support Hamas but I can understand why they would continue to exist and why they might get willing support. And even if Hamas is all that the media says they are, it still wouldn't justify the collective punishment being meted out to the Palestinian people. Killing 8 times the amount of people you lost isn't justice!
I genuinely can't understand how so many can't see that. That there are people celebrating this large loss of life.
I do feel some hope that there are so many rallying behind Palestine, that many are trying to learn more and speak out and that in seeking out information about this, many of us have also learned more about other injustices like in DR Congo & Sudan. But I'm also deeply troubled by the lack of empathy I'm seeing and the cruelty being exalted. I'm angry that the so-called leaders of the free world are letting this happen.
I'm gonna keep talking and sharing what I can and I hope those of you who feel similarly do as well. Keep calling for the protection of hospitals as they work to save lives. Keep calling for a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed and so aid may be let in unhindered. Don't stay silent in the face of genocide. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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devilbeez · 7 months
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Okay like— can we as a twst fandom come together and agree that
Azul dress like every male shoujo anime character ever. Like sweet babycake, my top 3 most beloved child, I will sell little of what I have left of my soul to you if you ask but I will not going to let the fact that you dress like someone from Ouran high school host club go
Jamil’s life would’ve been better if Kalim wasn’t in it in the first place. Don’t get me wrong the angst and fluff of those two are chef kiss but like….it really would’ve been better for Jamil’s mental health and actual development if Kalim never wanted to become his friends. It wouldn’t be as juicy of a story but Jamil would’ve been way less traumatized
Deuce’s mom is hot…….
Neige deserve more screen time. I don’t care if you love him, I don’t care if you hate him like me, he deserves more screen time so we can either hate or love him with an actual reason. I can guarantee you more than half of what you probably know of him is from fanon lore because Neige isn’t secretly evil canonically, Neige doesn’t have a big bad plot to over thrown Vil in canon, and imma call my self out here, Neige doesn’t think his cuteness is a cursed similar to Epel and want to break from the heroic roles but can’t because the industry is fucked and go on to keep feeling guilty because he isn’t appreciating the opportunities he have with every waking moment. Even if those are a much more interesting plot point. His wiki page and screen times are so short it make accurate fanfiction writers cry slightly inside.
Lastly, the ramshackle ghosts deserve recognition and there should be a petition for them to have names. They’re the uncles that stay when dad went to get milk and they deserve to be love as much as the nrc boys and staff
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shyjusticewarrior · 1 month
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Stop blaming Talia for Jason's actions, stop blaming Talia for Jason's actions, stop blaming Talia for Jason's actions, stop-
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satansfavoritedyke · 11 months
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Not to disability post on main or anything but I'm just about sick and fucking tired of so-called "medical professionals" who are supposedly "specialists" (i.e. rheumatologists, for example), thinking they can slap me with a myofascial pain syndrome/fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue/hypermobility diagnosis, tell me to stop eating gluten, and call that a done and dusted day on the job when those diagnoses don't even BEGIN to explain the majority of my symptoms.
What about the fact that I randomly run low-grade fevers with no evidence of other infections (flu/COVID/RSV), what about my positive ANA factor, what about my low igA levels, what about my chronic iron deficiency anemia, what about my MULTIPLE documented activated EBV infections that have damaged my spleen, what about the fact that I have no reflexes in my knees, I could literally keep fucking going.
I'm so fucking sorry that I'm a fat AFAB trans person with the kind of disabilities that land me in medical appointments multiple times a week, but a doctor who hasn't cracked a fucking textbook since 1997 does not know more about my condition than me, the person living with my symptoms 24/7. And quite frankly I'm not going to be jammed into a diagnosis like fibromyalgia which is the clinical equivalent of "fuck off and die" disorder and a classic excuse to just categorize and disregard patients with complex symptoms when doctors don't want to do their JOBS to figure out what's actually wrong. There is something wrong with my immune system and I need TREATMENT, not a convenient label to send me to my grave with. I refuse to be a docile "ideal patient" and I am not afraid to be a "doctor shopper" either, because what I think medical professionals forget is that Y'ALL work for ME and I CAN and WILL fire you if you're fucking useless.
DO. FUCKING. BETTER.
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ccarrot · 6 months
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okay this is a very personal hot take but i genuinely don't believe dazai is as self destructive as he may seem.
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breedemon · 21 days
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idk if yall have noticed how deeply ive gotten myself into this obsession but it’s eating me alive lmao. im 23 and work a 9-5 big girl job and the alastor craze is literally cramping my work ethic. the high functioning bpd ocd autistic struggle is real 😭 i haven’t had a hyperfixation this intense in a while and don’t see it going away. the only way i ease the mania is by finding something else to look forward to so i literally dropped a band on a few different concert tickets. fr though why am i like this
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y-vna · 3 months
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Ty for 400!
It may be 1:30am, but honestly, I just felt like I wanted to write this. Thank you for 400 followers!! That's crazy. I'm super thankful, and honestly, it means a lot to me! <3 super excited for more to come, I hope my moodboards rn are up to standards!
I'm not tagging anyone this time since I don't want to disturb everyone every time I write one of these. Just know all my mooties and idols r amazing, and I love them. You guys know who you are, ily 💕
Just a boring text post for this milestone post cuz I can't be bothered rn ahh
Teeny Itty bitty vent in tags since I can't get my life tghtr rn erm! Don't feel pressured to read it, idrc ig?? 😭😭
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aingeal98 · 3 months
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I have like. Two versions of Damian Wayne in my head. I think it's a consequence of getting to know and love him via Morrison's run on him and then wanting to know more, doing research into his mother's side, and being horrified by how racist the retcons made were. It didn't really change how much I enjoy Damian in any significant way, because I liked him for his dynamic with the batfamily and how entertaining he is as Robin. It's just that when it comes to anything deeper than that, about what motivates him, what he internalized growing up, the impact his childhood abuse had on him, anything to do with Ras or Talia really... A lot of writers fail so badly at making it compelling and instead just make me cringe and want them never to touch the al Ghuls again. And so we end up with two Damians:
Damian Wayne aka the Damian I love: Most easily described as an in-character, well written Damian with a solid backstory. Robin Son of Batman and his Robin run both pull this off pretty well. They don't downplay the horror of his childhood but they don't cross over into cartoonish territory either, and they allow Damian to have complicated thoughts and feelings about what he did and what was done to him. You can see how his abuse shaped him without it being shoved hamfistedly down your throat, and I don't come away thinking "I have to ignore all of this no matter how important it is to his character because logically Ras and/or Talia would not fucking do that". Also he's hilarious and makes me root for him whether he's insulting his enemies or electrocuting Jason or dying for the fifth/sixth time. Like that's my son and I can write a million words on his mentality and how it's changed and his opinions on his parental figures and his character development and how he'd interact with x or y character and-
And the second Damian, aka the Woobie Damian. The one you get where hack writers want to give him a sad backstory to justify how Edgy and Badass and Damaged he is and write the most cartoonishly over the top evil Ras and Talia possible. Most recent example I can think of is Tom King saying Ras locked Damian in a box with no water for a week because he didn't tie his shoelaces right. Or Morrison's Talia murdering her own son. Or how SuperSons wrote Talia. And look, it's not that I won't accept horribly, ridiculously evil villains. My favourite character's dad abused her in more extreme ways than even the worst al Ghul writer could come up with. It's that these are characters with already established personalities and traits. Unless they are being mind controlled they would not act like that and do these things. Just like how Bruce Wayne wouldn't lock Dick in a cave and feed him rats. There are ways you can show the impact of growing up in a cult and raised by an evil grandfather and being told repeatedly that you are destined to lead them all into a better world and trained in the art of killing a man. And these writers fail miserably at pulling any of that off. It's as shallow and boring as "You know why I'm mean to you all the time? Because my family taught me love is a weakness. I said mean things to you and stabbed you but my grandfather used to beat me for showing kindness to animals. Don't you feel sorry for me now?"
It sucks. I hate it. Anything with that Damian in it, I automatically filter out of my personal canon. The only way I can think of making it good is if it's like the "Slice the Baby Saturday" meme, where Damian is just bullshitting to see how much he can get away with and deliberately testing his family with stereotypes. But unfortunately those writers are dead serious about Ras making Damian climb up a whole mountain with no safety gear even if he falls and breaks his arm or dies. Because that is definitely something you would do with your one and only heir. They're literally two minutes away from saying Ras gave Damian a puppy and then told Talia to kill it in front of him.
So basically when I say that I love Damian and he's my favourite male Robin, know that woobie Damian is not a part of this conversation. Real Damian I would kill for. A writer puts woobie Damian in front of me and says his mom stabbed him I say let him bleed out so I won't have to endure comics about him anymore.
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silenthill2ps2 · 3 days
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this is so selfish of me but i sometimes get jealous of people who have positive relationships with their parents/parental figures like what do you mean you have someone who loves you unconditionally. i wish i was you but i also wish you were dead
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greenlaut · 1 month
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[assassin's creed] it's ridiculous how much comfort i found by being in jerusalem. i feel like i can remember the city by feeling at this point. i like opening the game to just stand in the bureau while getting scolded by malik. probably gonna draw a short comic about me altaïr just going to the bureau for comfort. malik scolding me as a reminder i'm still alive enough to worth being reprimanded.
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That slav thing when you want to say something but your native language doesn't have the sufficient vibe so you switch to another random slavic language
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ahollowgrave · 2 months
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thank you to everyone who left a nice comment or DM'd me or whatever yesterday I didn't reply because I get very embarrassed when people show me compassion when I very clearly need it. But I read each one and saved them for next time and I am blowing you kisses and avoiding eye contact, you understand. depression is a known liar and you can't trust her. she is very convincing, however, and so when it gets to you please know I am there holding your hand.
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so like, call me stupid, but i dont belive in the 'get rich and be able to pay all your adult bills' dream. like, me personally, happiness be the way to go. happiness to me is fitting 4 pringles in your mouth and almost choking on them but its okay because your bestie just smiled. Getting bear hugs from really amazing friends who are super strong but it doesnt hurt because fuck bones. Looking at the 'go home and eat seven corndogs' post because it inspired me to say something similar in a project and make it fun for me to present. because hell eat the stick too. Watching the 2023 wine stream hoping i become a content creator just as cool as quackity and wilbur and havinga bestie to get drunk with and break a plant. Being loud between classes and getting out of hand with friends. Acting like a dumbass everyday because thats my lifestyle despite whatever people think. life isnt just about surviving, its about happiness and what you make of it. so go be a dumbass and fuck up sometimes, because a little dopamine never killed anyone. (so we think)
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omi-papus · 4 months
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I need therapists to actively advertize themselves as fandom friendly and fandom literate because I dont know how to explain to a normal person that people like my ocasional alien shipping posts as a reason for why I havent jumped off a cliff. Like that is what the world looses if I go.
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satansfavoritedyke · 3 months
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How come it's acceptable for people to be egregiously ableist to me and not acceptable for me to grab their shoulders and shake some fucking sense into them. How come
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