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iberiancadre · 2 days

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first the holocaust was turned into the project of a sole madman who had an entire country under a spell, which suddenly vanished at the stroke of a pen when peace was signed, rather than being a continuation of centuries of scapegoating and antisemitism, enabled by western capital, direct funding to the Nazi party in some cases like the British aristocracy's, with the purpose of creating a massive slave workforce and to boost the German economy via looting, expropiation and a reduction in the worker population, an economy that had been reeling since WWI and propped up by directing all jobless people to work in the arms industry.

then, the (incomplete) victory over european fascism (don't look at Spain and Portugal and Greece) was methodically distanced from the true victors, the soviet people. They suffered an invasion and destruction of the majority of their industrial base, save for the industry relocated to the east, more than 20 million dead soviet workers who pushed the fascists from Moscow to Berlin, ending in an artillery barrage the magnitudes of which had never been seen, the symbolic raising of the red banner over the Reichstag and an enveloping of the city that forced many nazi officials to commit suicide. It was also forgotten how the Yugoslavs liberated themselves, managing to keep fascist forces constantly tied up during the war, how the Italian partisans captured Mussolini and hung him in public, the many uprisings throughout Europe and the concentration camps before the frontline reached them, the exiled brigadiers and republicans who first fought fascism in Spain and was later forced to fight fascism again, unable to return to their homes and under threat of being imprisoned. The indigenous resistance against colonialism in east and north Africa and southwest Asia, and the tens of millions Chinese, Vietnamese, Lao, Cambodian, Malaysians, Indonesians, Papuans, Thais, Bengalese, Indians, Filipinos, etc, who suffered both Japanese and western occupation. All of these struggles forgotten and erased, reduced to the USamerican, British, and sometimes French armies. Armies who advanced to witness a fraction of the suffering enabled and financed by their own states barely a decade prior. Even minor members of the western allies, such as Brazil, are often forgotten.

After the Holocaust was reduced to an unexpected and unprecedented event with no connection to reality, and after the struggle against fascism was reduced to the involvement of two or three countries, barely any fascists were punished. Anyone who wasn't a top official could claim to be simply following orders, even someone as important like Speer used this defence, he was allowed to live free and publish an autobiography in which he paints himself as the good Nazi, the mere architect caught up in a madman's rise. As if he ignored the plans for a future Berlin would be built by slave labor from the concentration camps, as if the minister of armaments from 1942 to the end did not know about the reliance companies like Krupp or Volkswagen had on slave labor. As if he didn't listen to Goebbels' speeches about total war and extermination and did not understand his armaments would be used. Some fascists were even integrated into the scientific and military spheres of the western allies, others given citizenship and a cushy home in places like Canada. Japanese fascists who had experimented on and tortured countless Chinese and Korean civilians and POWs to research chemical warfare were offered amnesty in exchange for the knowledge they gained doing these experiments. After German reunification, more eastern queer people were imprisoned than fascists were incarcerated or executed at the Nürnberg trials.

After fascists were exonerated and shamelessly integrated into the western states, and after some time passed, the war was turned into a cultural product. Countless war movies were produced, almost always showing usamerican soldiers in the European or Pacific front fighting a mindless horde with hakenkrauzs on their armbands all lead by a single man, or group of men, ontologically evil. It was too complex to examine the actual reasons for the war. Hitler was simply a charismatic devil who had duped Germany into following him (crucially, he was only charismatic for germans. No true American patriot fell for his tricks). Gradually, the figure of Hitler was transformed into a devil in human form who had appeared in München in 1932 to cause evil and fight freedom.

As a result, German fascism and the Holocaust are nothing more but a historical fact you look at with morbid curiosity, to feel disgust, maybe anger, and sigh in relief that it would never happen again. There is no reflection on how it was allowed to happen, how antisemitism was used, like it had commonly been used throughout history, to blame for economic downturn and how the expropriation of jewish property, the enslavement of other minorities alongside them (Slavs, non-jewish poles, homosexuals, roma, communists...) and the rapid stimulation of a military industry was used to save an recessing economy. No examination of how the Nazi party appealed to the German petit-bourgeoisie and monopolies like the aforementioned Krupp, Volkswagen, or IG Farben, by attacking communists and trade unionists, who were beginning to organize at a bigger scale and actually threaten german capitalists. Instead, some even try to paint the nazis as communists or as similar to them, through terms like totalitarianism, which was popularized by Hannah Arendt, a fascist sympathiser who also saw fit to label decolonial struggles as totalitarian.

Even more insidious than this is how Hitler has been mutated into a shorthand for evil, an entity beyond a single man who personifies the collective hatred of minorities by Europeans, a condensation of centuries of hatred and exploitation into an angry man between 1932 and 1945. By doing this we can rest easy knowing there will never be another Hitler because we are so civil now. It was Hitler's speeches that guided every SS member's hand to execute tens of thousands. It was Goebbels' propaganda that clouded the judgment of the millions of Wehrmacht soldiers who looted and massacred their way through Europe. It was Himmler's threat that coerced countless germans to spy and tattle on their neighbors. It was Göring who convinced the Luftwaffe pilots to bomb and terrorize civilians. It was Dönitz who made the Kriegsmarine target civilian ships and ruthlessly pursue trade convoys. And it was ultimately Hitler who controlled these men, and no German had free will or political conviction between 1932 and 1945.

The peak of this attitude I see most in the internet: Do you want to learn about Hitler's Bunker? Hitler's enormous artillery pieces? Hitler's train? Hitler's plans? Hitler's wife? Hitler's army? Hitler's rise through the party? Hitler's veganism? Hitler's dog? Hitler's car? Hitler's Germania? Hitler's camps? Hitler's possible escape? Hitler's military career? Hitler's architecture? Hitler's political maneuvering in the interwar? Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. Nobody wants to deal with the fact that Hitler was not omnipotent or omnipresent. He and his party was supported by German and western capital to oppose worker organization and to give an outlet to social tension around the inflating currency and failing economy. Just like in Italy and just like in Spain. Hitler is a cultural product sold to liberals so they can be reassured that they would never become evil. No liberal democracy has ever put an entire minority into concentration camps, no liberal democracy has ever used Zyklon B on dispossessed people, no liberal democracy has ever looted a conquered nation, no liberal democracy has ever killed workers for unionizing, no liberal democracy has ever used nationalism and supremacism to rally popular support, and a long etcetera.

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soulsanitarium · 1 year

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Thailand 🇹🇭 & 🇰🇭 Cambodia. 🎥Art of the Devil 2 (Thai: ลองของ or Long khong)

is a 2005 Thai horror film directed by multiple persons.

The story begins with the marriage crisis, mother has a relationship with a male teacher. The boy of the family, along with his friends, decides to humiliate these teachers. The male teacher catches them and exploits them. Students ask for help from a monk or shaman to help them use the curse, that is called a Cambodian curse (expression is used in politics too).

Malay, Mon, and Khmer civilizations flourished in the region prior to the arrival of the ethnic Thai. So this is very old lore.

🛕Cambodian shamans are called Kru Khmers. It is widely believed in Cambodia, that the black magician can cause razor blades, needles and hooks to enter the body of an enemy. 🪝

🎥In the film the monk warns students that they will feel the consequences of their request all their lives. The Cambodian curse is used on the male teacher. The rest of the film is about a woman, Aajaan Panor (portrayed by Napakpapha Nakprasitte), teacher who was also humiliated by students. She turns to black magic to exact revenge & save herself.

🎥This Horror film was quite ok. I have only seen the second part of this movie series. However I was more interested about this ”Cambodian curse” that was depicted in the beginning of the film. In the scene, the person suffers in severe pain and it turns out that in the curse his whole body is full of metal hooks. However Very sadistic film (“Audition” imitation perhaps?). Below Trailer for the Art of the Devil 2. Warning: The content is not suitable for minors or sensitive adults

🙏The Khmer believes are a mixture of animism and different religions, as in all over the East Asia & South East Asia. Buddhist Monks have also superpowers, and like in this movie Gods of Hinduism are involved. Outbreaks of disease, unsolved deaths or bad luck are still often blamed by villagers on witchcraft, and sometimes there are violent consequences. Below some excerpts from the news..

🔥Some presidents have experienced witch hunts on social media, but in Cambodia this is indeed the case. Large numbers of people have, on their own, spread the word in social media & executed people in recent years, accusing them of black magic.

I recommend warmly to check out Ryun Pattersons multimedia e-book (free sample) The Vanishing Act. There is no black magic here, it is about healing. I have included here few photos from the book. You can find it from many e-book sellers.

Lersi Phu Jao Saming Prai, or sometimes known as 'Tan Taw Himawat', and 'Lersi Galasit', is a Tiger Faced Lersi Hermit Deva, whose magical Power is Legendary in the Realm of the Lersi. His powers include a strong wall against Black Magic (people use amulets) That is impenetrable to most spirits and ghosts, and can douse out Evil Curses that may have been imposed.

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punkeropercyjackson · 3 months

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Why afrolatino Jason Todd works,an analysis by an irl afrolatina and thee Jason expert

His personality is EXTREMELY realistic for a black or latino and especially both man.He's cocky asf,a (multiple time!) mama's boy but mouths off to his dad with no hesitant and for fun even,respects women by seeing the female characters as either equals or above him,roughouses with his brothers,a big ass nerd since childhood and acts tough and invulnerable for the sake of looking cool but his heart's as big as his tits and a lot of his lines are so sappy in a poetic way i feel the need to avert my eyes when i see them to give him privacy

His pre-reboot Robin self reminds me of SEVERAL canon young black boy characters(Miles Morales,Oscar Pine,Zak Saturday and possibly more)

Duke is his favorite brother despite knowing him YEARS less than the other Batboys.Do i even need to say anything on this one

Every single woman he's been attracted to have been woc,those being Rose(half cambodian),Artemis(egyptian)and Dana(black).He dosen't like white girls <3

Further proof?He had KORIAND'R HERSELF throwing herself at him but showed active disenterest.For context:We're talking about post taking away her black-coding

Him growing up poor can be explained by being a second/third gen inmigrant making finding jobs hard for his family and to this day i remember when my history teacher called us 'a poor country' because of how much damage colonizers did here.Let me have this

The Joker killing him at 15 and him getting victim blamed and a bad rep despite what a good kid he was gains a new light if it's because he was a black child and so does him becoming Red Hood because of it.Also.Red HOOD.C'mon

The artist for Red Hood:Outlaws said he headcanons him as latino because he is and an iconic event a few years back was John Boyega clowning a racist on twitter by saying he wants to play Jason.Here's how the stars can align

African-American parents commonly give their kids greek names and the original Jason was a greek mythos hero!!

Let's be deeply serious,Jason would not have even HALF the gross fans he does if he was black.You think fanon onlys would be riding that hard for an afrolatino man seeking vengeance for himself with gray morality?They'd act like he's worse than Slade and the Joker combined and call him ugly nonstop💀Comics readers would have him all to ourselves with no weirdos getting their hands on him

Canonically almost entierly uniterested in casual relathionships,smoking or drinking so there's some stereotypes off the table

Selina,Babs and Kory have green eyes.They're all black in one way or another.Jason has green eyes.You understand

He's a classical literature nerd and latino lit is some of the best there is

Bombshells him is a spaniard and that's exactly the kind of move DC would pull with an actual latino character(the run released post the hc for him becoming popular)

Legoverse and webtoons made him a gamer.Hashtag cringefail black gamer dude realness

Something something the soft uwu black boy Robin is actually kid him and not Duke

Giving him a fridge ass build and a buzzcut in Gotham Knights was DC stereotyping(/BIG JOKE,PLEASE THERE'S ACTUAL REASONS IT'S SHIT)

Five words:Dominican horror folklore based tactics

Talia and his' mother-son relathionship is made all the more heartwarming and sad

Stephanie and i are the same person so she's black like me by extension and she's the only Batfam girl he really gets along with and imo this would also include Nell and Tiffany if the writers weren't fuckasses and went through with their actual good stories

Look up Aubrey Joseph vids.There's no better fancast for him out there not in looks but in personality

Trivia finale:His birthday is the same date as Dominican Restoration Day,red represents blood on our country's flag,at our schools we sell mini packets of neapolitan cream with mini spoons to eat them and his Lego movie is called 'Family Matters'

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romanceyourdemons · 26 days

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a very sincere salute emoji to all the vietnamese and cambodian people uploading full length versions of mid 90s hong kong movies that i very much want to watch to youtube with lovingly crafted vietnamese and khmer subs, but alas to me it is simply the fruit of tantalus, showing me a mere glimpse of that which forever evades me

#i need to be completely fluent in cantonese right this minute or else i will die #tony leung as a time traveling wei xiaobao would save me i just know it #ryddles

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thxnks4themrms · 8 months

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I just realized I never properly made an intro for myself so under the cut is where you can find it :)

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Hi! Since I can't come up with a nickname for myself right now you can kinda just call me Vampy because I can't really think of anything else rn. Anyways, to make things easier I'll just write most of the basic stuff in bullet points :)

I’m Cambodian (Asian)

I use she/her and they/them pronouns

My favorite colors are pink and black

I’m an INFJ

I’m a Sagittarius

I love music - metal and rock to be specific

I like reading

I love horror movies

I enjoy things like taxidermy and bones

I’m bi

I’m Buddhist

I’m 13 which makes me a silly minor 😋😋

I literally have the best lover ever <33

I love you Mikey Way

Bands / Artist I listen To The Most <3

My Chemical Romance - and their side projects

Fall Out Boy

Paramore

Pre-split Panic! At The Disco

Arctic Monkeys

The Last Shadow Puppets

Mitski

Lana Del Rey

Melanie Martinez

Korn

Slipknot

Limp Bizkit

Blink - 182

Dazey And The Scouts

Weezer

Pierce The Veil

Radiohead

The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smiths

The Cure

Këkht Aräkh

The Neighborhood

TV Girl

Waterparks

Mötley Crüe

Queen

Nirvana

The Offsprings

6arelyhuman

Okay so now that I’ve said a little about myself I plan on doing more stuff to this blog but that’ll be coming in 2024 :p but other than that here’s my dni list and when more stuff comes it’ll be here :D

Thin Ice <\3 (PLEASE DONT BE MAD IM SORRY)

Swifties

Harry Styles fans

Billie Eilish fans

Wet leg fans

DNI <\3

Homophobes

Racist

Transphobes

Ppl who fetishize homosexuality

Ppl who fetishize Asians

Rcta

Rude ppl in general

Ppl who force their religion on others

Ppl who have stuff to say about politics (this is mainly a music blog :’) plz don’t bring heavy/sensitive topics into this)

Animal haters

MANIA AND DANGER DAYS HATERS

2019 GERARD HATERS

LANA AFTER HER CHANGES HATERS

RAY TORO HATERS

People who listen / support nsbm

WAYCEST/PROSHIPPERS GET THE FUCK OUT YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED

People of any age can’t interact with me I don’t mind at all :))

WARNINGS

This blog will contain things that some people may find disturbing or uncomfortable. Things under this could include:

Blood/gore

Images of cemeteries/graveyards

Eerie/dark images in general

I do post a lot of shit sometimes that mention things about sex, substances, and a lot of other things I DONT recommend / encourage minors use - when I say stuff that mentions stuff like that im joking pls don’t take it seriously 😭😭😭

If you don’t like these things please don’t get upset! I’ll try my best to add tw for the things listed above. If you spot anything on my blog that you think might need a tw then feel free to dm me or put it in my inbox :)

Just so you know

This blog isn’t my main blog this is actually my side blog - my main is @tousyposay so don’t be kinda weirded out by that :p

My additional side blogs include:

@blxxdbxgs - a place where i simp over nurse Gerard

@urmyfavexplosion - my blog where i choose one album and post that for an entire month or some shit like that

Man I can’t think of any other of my blogs ☠️☠️☠️ I’ll add them when I remember

Sorry if I upset any of you guys I really hope I didn’t mean to :(

Anyways that’s all I have to say for rn but thanks so much! I’ll be adding more to this as the days go on but for now thanks :)

Have a good day/night I love you guys so much! <3

-Vampy

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theywhoshantbenamed · 9 months

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To fuel your Starkins, Los Angeles is the Donut Capital of America and the reason donut boxes are usually pink is because it was used to save money by Cambodian refugees who opened donut shops in SoCal.

Alfjksd awww that makes a lot of sense honestly and it kinda tracks cause like if you've never been to Randy's Donuts, it's one of the most popular shops, most notably recognizable from the second Iron Man movie, where Tony stark is eating donuts on top of a giant donut!! And there were several other movies where film took place there.

But rn in my mind I'm thinking starkins coffee and donut dates those chilly December days in LA where they get their respective coffees and sit in a park with a mini box of donuts and just like chill skdjdkdk very soft very fluffy just the kind of thing I love

Also I have this doodle for it since you brought it up :D

#asks for ash!!#ash answers!!#wttt #welcome to the table #ben brainard #wttt california #wttt massachusetts #starkins #wttt starkins

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ellieswr1d · 7 months

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The Blatant Misogyny that is Daredevils Elektra

(This isn’t very good and probably isn’t any new opinions, I just wanted to share my thoughts. Please enjoy.)

Elektras's character has been around since January of 1981, first appearing in Daredevil no. 168 in Frank Miller's run. Elektra has appeared in many comics since then and has appeared in a few movies and shows. However, we will disregard the 2003 Daredevil and the 2005 Elektra movie. Today we will be focusing on Netflix's Daredevil, which ran from 2015-2018, and the 2017 Defenders show.

Elektra first appears in Daredevil season 2, episode 5: Kimbaku. She is a prominent character for most of the second season until she dies in the season 2 finale. Then she appears again in The Defenders, where she is an antagonist until her death, again. Most criticisms are about her character, claiming that she is a manipulator and sociopath. While these claims are valid, there is more to her character than meets the eye.

Elektra is portrayed as a badass independent woman, and skilled in martial arts. She knows what she wants, and will do what she must to get it. She lives for danger and excitement, as Matt says to her when they first meet, "The one thing daddy’s money can't buy, ... the unexpected." She finds exhilaration in violence and is calculated in her actions. All of this points to her being unempathetic and leads most to believe she is a sociopath.

Part of this is due to her role as a woman, and a woman of color in this show. While Elektra is Greek in the comics, she is played by Elodie Yung who is French-Cambodian. She plays a strong character in this show, and her character has a lot of depth. In the second season, where she appears, the main focus of the show is the Punisher and the Ninjas. The ninjas themselves seem like a play with stereotypes, the other gangs Daredevil goes up against are all centered around money or weapons, but the Japanese and Chinese are involved in an ancient group worshiping a mythical substance to grant immortality. And surprise, surprise, Elektra is revealed to be the person they've been searching for. As Ardo Omar wrote in his article, ‘The Misrepresentation of Daredevil's Elektra’, "She becomes part of a long line of Asian bad guys in the series." He puts it perfectly, illustrating how her character was minimized to a tool in the Hands games.

Throughout the show, we are introduced to many different characters who do not operate by the same morals Matt lives by, Elektra included. This does not inherently make them bad people, but it is important to note that each person has gone through something different than Matt, which Matt continuously disregards. Elektra however, went through something similar to him. Both she and Matt were trained as children by Stick to fight the Chaste’s war. Both Elektra and Matt were then abandoned by him. While Matt did not see Stick for more than twenty years after Stick left, Elektra ended up working for him once again. He sent Elektra to meet Matt in college to try and recruit him for the Chaste, however, Matt didn't know this until many years later.

Elektra's childhood is shown in episode 12, “The Dark at the End of the Tunnel,” where we see her as a child sparring with boys much older than her. One of the boys blows a kiss at her before they start, throwing Elektra off. We see Stick as her mentor, and another man watching her. Elektra, probably upset by the previous harassment, loses control and almost beats the boy who’d blown the kiss at her to death. Stick had to drag her off of him to stop her from actually killing him. Stick then whispers in her ear something along the lines of, "Nice job." Later, the boy approaches Elektra while she is training and she attempts to apologize; in return, he tries to kill her, pulling out a knife. Elektra beats him and slits his throat, just as the man who was watching her earlier enters the room. Elektra had been taught her whole life that killing was okay, and after this, Stick tells her that it is as long as it isn't someone on their side. That kind of thinking was put in her head at such a young age, and it is the same thinking that Matt continuously criticizes. Elektra is punished, and the man we saw earlier expresses thinking that they should kill her, calling her out of control. Instead, Stick kills the man and sends Elektra to love with a Greek couple. He tells her to watch them, and learn how to fit in. We are shown the type of environment Elektra grew up in, and Stick's abandonment of her. At such a young age, she was taught to fight and kill and told it was okay. She was not shown remorse, or empathy, and is consistently judged because of it.

We learn what she was training for later in the season. We had heard many times from Stick about a war, the same one he was training Matt for. He speaks of fighting for "The Chaste," and once again tries to recruit Matt. He says they are battling, "The Hand," and tells the story of how the war began. Matt of course doesn’t believe him.

After Elektra's close call with the ninjas when her and Matt were investigating Midland Circle, Elektra kicks Stick out. She tells him that she wants to change and Matt believes she can. Elektra killing has always been a problem in their relationship, and her decision to kick Stick out is a big step towards bettering their relationship. When Matt returns, a ninja is waiting for him and Elektra kills him, despite him being young. Afterward, she says, "This is who I am, do you still want me?" She was afraid that what she was and who she was would be what drove Matt away from her, leaving her truly alone. She truthfully wanted to change, (this is evident by the end of the season), but it is hard to undo what Stick taught her. Matt constantly tells her that she has a choice, a choice to stop killing and change for the better, but he judges her again and again, even when she is trying to help.

Elektra wasn't framed as a sympathetic character, she went through a lot throughout her life, like most characters in the show, but she doesn't get the same amount of fan love as other characters. Hell, Loki and Frank got themselves their own spin-off shows despite them killing dozens sometimes for the sheer fun of it. Bucky, Loki, and Frank are all common fan favorites, their actions justified by traumatic events they went through. Both Bucky and Elektra were brainwashed and forced to join an organization they would not consciously join, but why doesn't Elektra receive the same sympathy as Bucky?

Quite simply, misogyny is the answer. Everyone makes mistakes, Elektra included, but we expect Elektra to redeem herself. We expect her to become some big hero like Matt who atones for her sins by protecting people and stops killing. She eventually finds her atonement in her death, as Ardo Omar says, "In death, she is redeemed where redemption wasn’t necessary." In other words, she had to die before she was deemed good. In her final moments, she says to Mathew, "I know...I know now, ... what it feels.... to be good."

After her funeral, (a pitiful excuse for one,) we are shown that the Hand dug up her body and placed it in the stone coffin we saw with Nobu when Matt was rescuing the children. There they add a reserection elixer of sorts. And with that, she is brought back to life, once again, to fight a war that wasn’t hers. Alexandra Reid, the leader of The Hand at this point, begins training Elektra to be The Black Sky. She is sent to retrieve Danny Rand, or Iron Fist, to open the passageway to the skeleton of a dragon. From which they can extract more resurrection elixir, to grant immortality to The Hand once more. She has multiple run-ins with The Defenders, and Daredevil specifically.

The more she sees Matt, the more she becomes doubtful about her role as the Black Sky. She goes to Matt's apartment and sleeps in his bed, where she has a dream about being with Matt. This causes her to begin remembering more. She finds the card from her funeral and visits her grave, where Alexandra meets her and reassures her that she isn't Elektra, but the Black Sky. And that Matt allowed her to die, so he shouldn't be trusted. She ends up killing Alexandra and gains control of The Hand. "His name is Mathew. And I, and Elektra Natchios. You work for me now."

At the end of the season finale, The Defenders, the Hand, and Elektra are under Midland Circle. The Defenders have placed TNT on the support poles, and the building is set to collapse. The Defenders return to the surface, leaving Elektra and Matt underneath. They fight until the building collapses. Their final conversation being:

Matt: "This is what we get, isn't it?

For ever thinking we could make it work."

Elektra: "Who says we didn't?

We're together.

Something I've wanted since I first laid eyes on you.

We can have it forever."

And before the building collapses:

Elektra: "I'm sorry Mathew.

For all the pain I've caused you along the way."

Matt: "You know, we're going to die here."

Elektra: "No.

This is what living feels like."

People often blame her for Matt being under the building when it collapsed, but it was entirely his choice to stay under with Elektra and try to get through to her. Jessica and Danny tried to get him to leave but he chose to stay. People condemn her for every one of Matt's choices as if she had made them herself.

The MCU and its characters undermined her storyline and life, writing her off as the bad influence and the classic "femme fatelle" as they do with most female characters. They placed her second to a man who acted like a child for the majority of the show by lashing out at her because he thought she deserved it. They erased her storyline and backstory, opting instead to kill her off, once again like most female characters. (Wanda, Natasha, Gamora, etc.)

Elektra Natchios is a person with a past and future. She has feelings, thoughts, and dreams. She was written for her life to revolve around Matt, but she deserves more than to circle a man who sees her as something to be fixed. She was raised to be a weapon and when she wants to change she is used again and again. Elektra deserved more than what the MCU gave her.

That’s all:)

#elodie yung #elodieyung #daredevil #elektra #elektra natchios #matt murdock #élodie yung #elodie #french actress #cambodian #marvels daredevil #marvel #marvel's defenders #netflix daredevil #daredevil netflix #netflix #misogyny #feminism

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synergysilhouette · 1 year

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An alternate take on "Raya and the Last Dragon" (2021)

I think the movie was good in concept, but the execution had me wanting more.

Take inspiration from different SEA countries for the 5 parts of Kumandra, but if you want to include more SEA inspiration, perhaps have certain cities between the countries that have a lot of cultural diversity, with Raya's home in Heart being one of those cities. Maybe Heart is Vietnam, Fang is Indonesia (with Malaysian and Bruneian influences), Spine is Myanmar, Talon is Thailand (with Cambodian and Laotian influences), and Tail is the Philippines. I'd probably also incorporate Fang's orange color into their fashion rather than the creme color--or just make red their color instead. And maybe make Spine's color blue and Heart's color an emerald green in order to differentiate them from each other more; I thought of making Heart the one with blue colors as an indication of Raya and Sisu's bond, but I felt like it was too much Main Character Syndrome, so I wanted to let other lands be special too. It's also noted that each land used their gem piece differently; Fang's cleverness allowed them to become culturally advanced (which includes their modern fashion/hairstyles after the time skip), Spine used it to gain strength to protect themselves and eventually conquer the other lands, Talon used it to boost their economy, becoming the source for many materials and products hard to come by in Kumandra; and Tail has developed immunity to harsh conditions, evolving their mercenary skills. Heart is the only one who's stayed more or less the same since they haven't really used the gem, fueling animosity towards them.

2. Focus on one large city. I may be alone, but I'm not big on "travel stories" because you're only in each land for 10-15 minutes and you don't get to fully explore it. Having the film take place in a major city with all the leaders (and their gem pieces) together would allow you to flesh out the world and cultures a bit more without losing focus or rashly characterizing each land. It'd also allow us to know more about the chief leaders.

3. Show Namaari's dedication to Fang being out of love rather than seemingly out of selfishness. At the beginning of the film, very few people can sympathize with Namaari for her betrayal, and giving her more development would be great.

4. Make Raya more stoic and contemplative. If I recall correctly, they gave her swagger later on in development, and I feel like it undermines the trauma and distrust she has, especially since it feels like she doesn't express full anger with Namaari until after Sisu's death.

5. Villain/Curropted Namaari. I like the idea that Namaari serves as an Azula-type villain who's much sneakier and manipulative. It's only when her mother is turned to stone halfway through the movie that she realizes she isn't ready to lead and questions the decisions made around her, particularly because the last dragon is following Raya. She doesn't immediately become a BFF to Raya; she now becomes a neutral figure, protecting Fang but not necessarily harming other lands, observing and following Raya to see if her cause is just and if she has a solution that will not ruin Namaari's empire in order to restore peace (I love her concept art--except for the bionic arm; too sci-fi/western vibes).

6. Keep it serious and dark, with minimal comedy. The original film doesn't really feel as serious as it should be because Sisu and other characters are too humorous. Along with this, make Sisu more wise and sage-like, even if she's the youngest of her siblings.

7. Make it a musical; either the characters themselves would sing, or SEA singers could sing to represent the characters' thought process, kind of like if you used "The Gift" soundtrack for "The Lion King." (Edit: I made a fanmade song list for this!)

8. Give Sisu a more mystical design. Her concept art had the right idea--more of a naga-like appearance as most SEA countries have been Indianized rather than Sinicized like Vietnam (which I've heard was the inspiration behind Sisu's finished design). I'd also make her more of a mother figure to Raya given that her own mother isn't alive--or maybe she is; maybe she's from another tribe and left Benja when she realized he wasn't from the same land as her, abandoning Raya and seeing her as a mistake.

9. Raya's aids--Since Raya isn't leaving Heart and the entire village isn't turned to stone, I like the idea that she builds camaraderie with two members who serve her. There's Cadeo, an intellectual who's much more even-tempered than Tong and Buon, and Hoa, a young woman who's optimistic and hopeful, a stark contrast to the sobered perspectives of Namaari and Raya. Given the story relies on Raya's cooperation with people of other Kumandran lands, Cadeo and Hoa are moreso supporting characters, but are still frequently present in the story to give Raya support.

Referring to #1, I wanted to provide a visual aid for the inspiration for the characters (since I can't draw):

I've seen GORGEOUS art of the timeline of Vietnamese fashion by lilsuika on deviantart. I'm unsure if I'd want to take from post or pre-Sinicized Vietnam, though. Post-Sinicized Vietnam feels like it'd be the most familiar for the audience and kinda imply that self-righteous image the other tribes have for Heart (given how they're dressed like they run an empire), but Pre-S Vietnam flows better with the tribal culture of Kumandra.

For Namaari, I was inspired by Shinonon's Heavenly Smile's art on Instagram of a Central Javanese woman, as well as modern Indonesian fashion I saw on Pinterest. Just add Namaari's haircut and make the fashion orange.

For Tong, I like the idea that his design is an ode to Shan Yu, as well as being a bit more proportionate (his upper body is bigger than his lower body and feels almost cartoon-y; no offense to people built like that IRL). I also see John Gyi on ArtStation's art of a Burmese warrior as inspriation (albeit red instead of blue).

For Boun, I took inspiration from the Mandaya tribe of the Philippines from Jme Faronda's art (albeit I'd make it yellow). IDK if Tail--or any of the other Kumandran lands--would represent one IRL tribe or ethnic group within their respective countries, though.

IDK if kids Noi's age dressed like this in medieval Thailand, but I took inspo from traditional Thai clothing. Take your pick (and make it purple).

Bonus: Some people have criticized East Asian actors playing SEA roles. I personally don't fully understand, but as an alternate, I suggest Michelle Yeoh (Virana), Brenda Song (Namaari), Ali Wong (Sisu), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Benja) and Francois Chau or Dave Bautista (Tong). These are just a few examples, since I don't know many SEA actors off the top of my head.

#raya #raya and the last dragon #disney #disney animation #sisu #namaari

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Theres a movie on netflix called "first they killrd my father" and its abt this family during thr cambodian genocide who gets uprooted and only five children from the family survived. I then read kissinger was involved with the conflicts on cambodia which made me think of this. That is fricking awful what he did

Awful

But he’s burning in terrible place now

#asks

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I really liked one of the central storyline/ideas/themes, that sometimes trauma makes people put up these huge mountains and take on a lot of responsibility to be ‘miracles’ and put it on their kids, because all they can see is everyone who didn’t make it. That’s an experience not uncommon to Jewish communities, Cambodian communities, etc, in America. I thought it was a really humanizing element of abuela being kind of objectively a bitch. Loved it.

I liked the momentary nod to the idea that the power of community is stronger and better than any one individual gift.

I like Mirabel’s character design a lot! She’s very cute.

The intro song is either one of the better songs, or it just reminds me so much of how Midgie likes to dance to it that it becomes good in my mind, hard to say which. Also loved Dos Oruguitas, great bit.

My greatest criticism would be that the movie is holy shit too busy. There are like, 6 different storylines and ideas happening at once, and while I love that for something that is longer, and allowed to have more complex plotting,* it does not work here. And you might say “dooooocccc you’re comparing this to aduuuult stuff” no I’m not! Nor am I comparing it to the Disney movies of my youth. I’m comparing it to like, Frozen and Moana, both of which I thought moved the ball nicely for the direction of children’s film while still being very palatable and easy, and didn’t take on too much. Encanto takes on a little bit too much, and so we have a lot of really lovely and emotionally complex ideas that are never really given any time for even a young audience to really engage in that particular storyline. It was too busy. And for me, distractingly so. Again, I am NOT asking it to be an adult film. I am comparing it to its peers.

This isn’t a criticism, REALLY, but the whole time I was sitting there I was like, ‘Okay so please explain to me how this gift helps the community, I am dying to know’ ahaha. I mean Julieta’s is obvious, and so is Luisa’s, but if we buy into what the movie is selling about Isabela’s power, that she can make flowers bloom and her tragedy is she hasn’t been allowed to do anything else** how does that help the town? I assume crops are off the menu? Camilo and the power to shapeshift? They have him, in a song, rocking a baby for a moment for a tired mother, but I mean....really? It’s like saying “Isabela decorates for all the weddings” and that’s her great contribution. I am WELL AWARE I am thinking too much about this and that’s why I’m like “this is not a real criticism”

In all, it was fine! I would have liked it a lot better if it were either a really well produced series OR the storyline was streamlined. As it was, it was the poor juggling of really good balls.

*I am well aware this is a kid’s movie! I’m not asking it to have more complex plotting. I’m saying that it should have stuck to a single idea.

**I LOVED her 30 seconds of side story, but this is what I’m talking about with the business. Isabela being kind of a cunt was a note, then understood and fixed in moments. Isabela’s song about being fixed was longer than any of her other dialogue ahah.

#Surface Pressure and Whatever the name of Isabela's song is felt off to me #music wise #for the rest of the movie #I can't explain why because I don't know music well #so take it with a grain of salt #I know moonlight knows a lot about music and might be able to pinpoint #I was already biased not to LIKE surface pressure because when the movie first came out #there were SO many sadgirls my age who were posting that fucking #'at my core I feel like I'm worthless if I can't be of service'#and I was like 'honey I have known you for years'#I have not seen you so much as pick up a PHONE for your larger community #all I hear you talk about is how much you hate having to go to your moms for thanksgiving #and how you hate your exhusband #SERVICE #so I knew that it could be the best song IN THE WORLD #and I wasn't going to like it #not its fault #but what I DIDN'T expefct was to find it so jarringly...unfitting?#I really can enjoy kids' things! also #like here!#It's just being allowed to enjoy them in themselves instead of adults telling me #its the narrative that spoke to them THE MOST #where I'm like...what?

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Top 10 Must-Visit Islands in Thailand: Paradise Uncovered

Thailand, with its azure waters, palm-fringed beaches, and vibrant culture, is home to some of the world's most stunning islands. If you're dreaming of an island-hopping adventure, here's a curated list of the top 10 must-visit islands in Thailand that promise a slice of paradise.

Phuket:

Known as the "Pearl of the Andaman," Phuket is Thailand's largest island and a prime destination for beach lovers and party enthusiasts alike. From the bustling Patong Beach to the serene Mai Khao Beach, Phuket offers diverse experiences.

Koh Phi Phi:

Made famous by the movie "The Beach," Koh Phi Phi is an archipelago featuring pristine beaches, crystal-clear waters, and vibrant coral reefs. Phi Phi Don and Phi Phi Leh are the main islands, offering breathtaking landscapes and lively nightlife.

Koh Samui:

A tropical haven in the Gulf of Thailand, Koh Samui combines palm-fringed beaches with lush rainforests. Relax on the powdery sands of Chaweng Beach, explore the iconic Big Buddha, and experience the island's vibrant nightlife.

Koh Tao:

Divers and snorkelers flock to Koh Tao, renowned for its vibrant coral reefs and diverse marine life. This island, also known as Turtle Island, provides a laid-back atmosphere, making it perfect for those seeking a tranquil escape.

Koh Chang:

Nestled near the Cambodian border, Koh Chang is Thailand's second-largest island. With dense jungles, waterfalls, and secluded beaches, it's a haven for nature lovers. White Sand Beach and Lonely Beach are popular spots to unwind.

Koh Lanta:

For a more relaxed and authentic Thai experience, head to Koh Lanta. This island, consisting of several smaller islands, offers a perfect blend of serene beaches, traditional fishing villages, and lush jungles.

Koh Phangan:

Known for its famous Full Moon Party, Koh Phangan also boasts pristine beaches, dense jungles, and vibrant coral reefs. Beyond the party scene, explore the island's natural beauty, including Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach and the Phaeng Waterfall.

Similan Islands:

A diver's paradise, the Similan Islands are a group of nine islands in the Andaman Sea. Renowned for their crystal-clear waters and diverse marine life, these islands offer some of the best diving and snorkeling experiences in Thailand.

Koh Kood:

Escape the crowds and discover the unspoiled beauty of Koh Kood. This island, located near the Cambodian border, is known for its secluded beaches, lush landscapes, and cascading waterfalls like Klong Chao.

Koh Samed:

Close to Bangkok, Koh Samed is a popular weekend getaway. With powdery white sands and turquoise waters, it offers a tranquil escape from the bustling city life. Explore the picturesque beaches of Sai Kaew and Ao Phai.

In the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand's islands beckon with their natural beauty and cultural richness. Whether you seek vibrant nightlife, water adventures, or peaceful retreats, these top 10 must-visit islands in Thailand promise a paradise waiting to be uncovered.

We are Gol Travels dealing with Maldives, Lakshadweep, Bali, Malaysia and Thailand

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The Court on Trial

It’s hard to know where even to begin writing about the truly outrageous law suit brought by South Africa against Israel in the International Court of Law, the United Nations tribunal located in the Netherlands, in the Hague. The charge itself—the charge of genocide allegedly being inflicted on the Palestinian nation by Israel—should make clear to all what kind of nonsense this all is. (The term “genocide,” coined only in 1944 by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin to characterize the behavior of the Nazis towards the people it intended to exterminate, derives from the Greek genos, meaning “people,” “tribe,” or “state” and the familiar “-cide” suffix, from the Latin, denoting killing, as in suicide, homicide, fratricide, etc.) To be guilty of genocide, therefore, a nation would have to undertake wholly to annihilate another people or nation. The Nazis didn’t invent the concept, but there have not been that many serious efforts of one nation embarking on the effort, not merely to decimate, but actually to eradicate another: even the almost unbelievably barbaric massacre of civilian Cambodians undertaken by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978, in the context of which a full quarter of the national population was murdered, even that was not really an effort to rid the world of all Cambodians: for one thing, the murderers themselves were Cambodian. The Rwandan nightmare of 1994 comes closer: the Hutu militias did their best to massacre the entire Tutsi tribe and managed actually to murder as many as 800,000 before they were finally stopped by Tutsi militia groups that invaded from neighboring lands and gained control of the country. Had they succeeded, there would today be no Tutsis at all. That is what the term “genocide” denotes.

But the term has its limits—and those limits have to do with intent, not with numbers. To lament in humility and shame the fact that, by the time American independence was achieved, the population of native Americans had dropped by about 90% from what it had been before Columbia “discovered” America is the fully correct response. But to characterize that decline as the result of genocide would require arguing that the Europeans who came here undertook a conscious effort to exterminate the native population, that they brought along smallpox and other deadly diseases not by accident and not unawares, but fully intending to let disease do what they lacked the physical ability to manage on their own. Of course, there is no such proof at all that that was their intent. And that is true even if it is also true that the colonials in Central, South, and North American were cultural imperialists who had neither respect nor interest in interacting in any meaningful, mutually respectful way with the aboriginal population, and most of whom would not have minded at all if the decline had been 100% instead of just 90%.

And that brings us to Gaza. For a Jew considering the charge of genocide, the matter is straightforward. No one needs to lecture the Jewish people on genocide or on its most effective techniques. Nor does anyone need to explain the process: we are more than familiar with the slow (or not slow) progression from petty microaggression to disabling discrimination, and from there to the dissolution of civil rights (including the right to be a citizen of one’s own country, to live in one’s home, and to work in one’s own business) and finally to the withdrawal of the right to live itself, which new reality the state then helpfully accommodates by undertaking to murder the disenfranchised individuals and making them not alive at all and therefore no longer in contravention of the law. There isn’t a Jew in the world—or at least not one with even the least sense of intellectual or emotional engagement with his or her Jewishness—there isn’t a solitary Jewish soul out there who doesn’t know all of this. We’ve seen this movie We’ve swum in this stream. We’ve been there, all of us.

So that actually makes us just the kind of expert witnesses the International Court of Justice should be seeking as it gathers evidence.

Mind you, the Court has its own problems. Its justices come from any number of different countries in which human rights are not respected: Somalia, China, Uganda, Russia, etc. So that’s not too encouraging for a tribunal devoted to the cause of justice between nations. Nor is the Court’s record too impressive: although it has existed for more than three-quarters of a century, it has managed not to take note of the plight of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians murdered by the Assad regime, the fate of the million-plus Uighurs forced by the Chinese into a gulag all their own, or the fate of the millions of North Koreans who live with neither civil rights nor any hope of escape. The Court has not censured any of this, nor has it taken note of it. It certainly hasn’t put Syria on trial for genocide, let alone China. Instead, it is now training its steely gaze on Israel to determine if Israel, of all nations, is committing genocide in Gaza.

I’d like to offer my perspective to the court. (It’s unlikely they’ll be interested in rationality or reasonableness—this is an organ of the United Nations, after all—but nonetheless I’d like to say my piece.) Yes, there have been many civilian deaths in the course of these last 100 days, while Israel has combed Gaza for its own citizens being held hostage by Hamas and, at the same time, for the perpetrators of the October pogrom in the course of which more than a thousand civilians were murdered, the dead were mutilated, and women were savagely and repeatedly raped. That is regrettable. Civilian deaths are always regrettable! No one could hate Nazism more than I myself do. But even I, whose loathing for the German government that murdered more than a million and a half Jewish children could not be more unambiguously felt, even I regret—and regret profoundly—the deaths of innocents, including children, during the carpet bombing of Germany, including Hamburg and Dresden especially, that paved the way for the successful invasion of Germany from the West by the Allies under General Eisenhower and from the east by the Red Army.

This is not an especially courageous position I’m staking out for myself here. What kind of monster can take delight in the death of a child? There were babies in Dresden too, just as there were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. How can there not have been? But the International Court didn’t get off to a good start in 1945 by putting the United Kingdom or the U.S. on trial for genocide. And it didn’t do that because those deaths took place as part of a wartime initiative to defeat an enemy that was evil itself. And when fighting a war against evil, the only truly immoral act is to lose.

But back to Gaza. Where exactly are the gas chambers? Where are the boxcars shuttling hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians to the killing sites? For that matter, where are the killing sites? If the goal was to eradicate the Palestinian nation, then why drop leaflets encouraging civilians to flee areas in the northern part of Gaza that were targeted for bombing? Why let any humanitarian aide in at all if the goal is to turn Gaza into a beach-front version of Treblinka? Most trenchant of all questions to ask: why would Israel risk the lives of any IDF soldiers at all if the “real” goal of the operation was to empty Gaza of Palestinians? Before the IDF incursion, there were, after all, no Israelis at all in Gaza, so the field could have been relatively clear. If the only goal was killing civilians with the specific intention of emptying Gaza of Gazans, the entire operation could have been safely—and totally effectively—conducted from the air with the chances of Israeli casualties minimized, if not totally eradicated.

Much has been made in some quarters of a throw-away remark of Bibi Netanyahu’s equating Hamas with the ancient nation of Amalek and I’d like to address myself to that as well.

Amalek occupies a strange place in our history. They attacked the Israelites on their way out of Egypt from the rear, picking off the elderly, the infirm, the part of the people the least likely successfully to be able to defend themselves. Israel went to war and was victorious. The Torah makes a big deal of this, but then ends up on a note of ambivalence. On the one hand, the name of Amalek has to be wiped out entirely. On the other, the Israelites are commanded to labor to remember all the despicable, dastardly deeds that Amalek committed when they were attacking. So how does that work: if they’re completely forgotten, their very name erased from the world’s memory banks, then how can the Israelites guarantee that they will always be remembered? They have either to be remembered or forgotten, don’t they? You can’t have it both ways!

And yet that’s the Torah’s command. And when the Torah appears to self-contradict, it’s always pointing to a deeper lesson just beneath the surface. Amalek is not one of the Canaanite nations. It’s fate is not sealed. They represent pure hatred for Israel, what we would call fanatic anti-Semitism. The Nazis were Amalek. Stalin was Amalek. And Hamas is Amalek too. The Torah is saying that these people must be fought back against vigorously, just as the IDF is doing. But it’s also saying they will always be there: there will always be people out there who hate Jews. Labeling Hamas as Amalek simply means that they are not “merely” hostile folks, but part of a cosmic battle between good and evil. Bibi probably should have kept Amalek out of this, but, in the end, Amalek is a theological concept, not a battle plan. By bringing Amalek into the discussion, Bibi was speaking in the natural idiom of Jewishness, not recommending genocide.

In the end, it’s not Israel on trial at the International Court of Justice. It’s the Court itself that is on trial. Its future reputation rests on getting this right. Its actual future itself may rest on that as well. In the end, the verdict will tell us clearly if the International Court is a force for good in the world to be respected and supported…or just another failed, biased, and bigoted wing of the United Nations.

#Israel #The Hague #International Court of Justice

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dying-suffering-french-stalkers · 1 year

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Tag 9 people you want to get to know better no <3 but please feel free to steal this and tag me in it!

Thank you @avisalix for the tag!

Three ships: I saw them come sailing in on Christmas Day in the morning Hmmm, let's see, what have I been vibing with recently? 3zun (Jin Guangyao/Lan Xichen/Nie Mingjue) from MDZS continues to fascinate me. On some level I am always rotating Lupin/Jigen (Lupin III) in my mind. Melia/Fiora (Xenoblade Chronicles 1) also delights me and tbh I can't truly imagine a postgame where they aren't together.

First ever ship: Ichigo Momomiya/Kish from Tokyo Mew Mew (the latter's name is also rendered Kisshu or—most accurately—Quiche, depending on which translation you read, but unfortunately for me ye olde Tokyopop dies hard). I shipped them bc Ichigo's token love interest was boring as hell in the original manga and also I was #not like the other girls and loved contrarianism (diagnosis: ace and annoying). I wanted to see the catgirl hero and the horrible little gremlin antihero KISS, goddammit (Yes I DID love Catra/Adora in the She-Ra reboot thanks for asking), and I remember losing my tiny shipper mind at Kish's big death scene in the final volume. I just realized that I never finished s1 of TMMN, I should do that.

Last song: “Soarele și Luna” by Pasha Parfeni. Another highlight from this morning's commute: The Cambodian Space Project's cover of Pan Ron's “I'm Unsatisfied.” My housemates have also been playing The Album by the Jonas Brothers nonstop and it's very pleasant.

Last movie: Not counting my Dark Crystal rewatch, it was Day of Anger (1967) on @girlfriendsofthegalaxy's ever-impeccable recommendation.

Currently reading: I'm half-reading (abandoning) a truly wild number of books right now, so let's talk fic instead. I just finished “Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge” (Star Wars by way of, you guessed it, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) by @yellowocaballero and it blew my socks clean off, so I'm now neck-deep in their queer Artemis Fowl redux “The Great Gender Heist” and having the time of my life. I'm also still working on several Lupin III fics by @dandunn! You know that photo of a girl being handed bites of, like, pancakes or something on about 12 different forks? That's me with good fic rn.

Currently watching: The Tatami Galaxy with @venhediss, to kick off a larger (casual) watch of Masaaki Yuasa's creative output.

Currently consuming playing: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, though that might still count as consumption considering how voraciously I am digging into it. I love this game so much and I've barely even touched the plot so far.

Currently craving: The end of the workday (so I can go play more TotK). Some kind of soup or stew. Maybe a hug. A(nother) rare CD that will cost me an arm and a leg in international shipping. An English-subbed blu-ray release of Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju.

#personal #boy i hope this posts

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