#i want to be able to have an opinion again. just exist with my organic creative thoughts
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Computer how to go back to being an anonymous nonentity. Please I want to be an enigma again. Show how to stop existing in a way tangible to others.
#this sounds dramatic but i'm just tired of being present in large fandom space#i want to be able to have an opinion again. just exist with my organic creative thoughts#and not feel like i'm on eggshells. about to be smothered at any given moment for saying a wrong thing#idk if this is unique to me i believe this is just a universal Online thing#at some point you are no longer a person#you're...a machine. you must have satisfactory answers and always be ready to dispense them#i want to be a nameless ghost again#i will not be missed. i will be forgotten in time. but i can't erase myself. i can't really disappear like i want to
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I'm the anon 🙋🏻♀️https://www.tumblr.com/yuri-is-online/746778432131694592/so-you-just-threw-this-beautiful-idea-of?source=share
The lore is very interesting! Angst my beloved. Thanks for the explanation 🐢♥️ Should've asked you much earlier.
One of the reasons why I like this AU is because it reminds me of my parents a little bit. I used to talk to my dad about anything and everything, he explained a lot of things about the world. I also love yapping to my mom when she comes back from work. She calls me a radio🥰
Just imagine it with Yutu! His most favourite person is right here! Sure, he has to watch what he says sometimes, but other than that now he gets to finally spend some time with the younger version of his parent 🥺 just sitting on some surface, talking about something, having the cleaning supplies shoved in the face, being forced to help with cleaning 🥺
Man, I have SO many questions. I'll ask them bit by bit to slowly make you brainrot as much as I do MUAHAHA😈
Oh your mother calling you radio is so cute (ㅠ﹏ㅠ) I also used to talk to my dad a lot about things, he had a very interesting life and I enjoy learning about different people. When those people are your parents it's especially interesting.
And head up high annon, your ask got a lot of people talking about Fyuuture kid AU, so even if you trickle in your asks I guarantee my brainrot is about to get so much worse (●´ω｀●)ゞ
Yutu was always curious about what Yuu's life was like when they were younger, but he never really expected to actually see it. It's hard sometimes, he has a whole set of shared memories that you don't have, if he wants to get technical they aren't even with you, he remembers a version of you and a life he is actively trying to prevent from existing.
But that doesn't change the familiarity, your habits and organization aren't much different than he remembers, you still make some of the same jokes. And when he accidentally cracks an old inside one of yours you still laugh, like some small part of you has an instinct that this is something that belongs to you too. What I think Yutu treasures most is just the ability to talk to you and get your advice on things again. He's always wanted to know what your opinion on Crewel's teaching was, what was your favorite class? Did it take you time to get used to cooking here, or did you just take all the new brands and prices in stride? Do you understand the rules of magishift? He never really got a handle on them, were you a part of any clubs? He wants the joy of being able to tell you about his day again and listen to you tell him he did a good job. And when he gets told to clean things he can't even bring himself to be mad. You forget all the little things you miss about a person when they're gone, not that Yutu missed chores or getting bossed around, but getting to see you look relived when he doesn't complain like Grim. Getting to hear you say "thank you" for his help, it means the whole world to him.
When he's forced to tell you who he is, when he sees you reach out and hold him, tell him you are proud of him and sorry he's suffered so much. He's going to break down, I don't think it really hits him how much he need to hear you say "I won't let anything happen to you ever again" until he does. It took time but you're together again, you can protect each other now ♡
also take a yutu coded song heheh
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A lot of people like to say radical feminists are white women and therefore white supremac*sts and whatnot. Have you not noticed that a lot of radical feminists aren't even white?
We're Mexican. We're Latin American. We're from India, from the Middle East, from Asia. We're from places where it is life and death to be a woman. Where we're targeted as criminals for protesting the injustice we live every day, where one late night might mean we won't return home, where our sex means a difference in how we're treated all our life in every aspect of it. Jobs, socializing, studies. Everything.
Take a look at Iran. At Mexico. At Korea. Do some research before you throw around words like white supremac*st and n*zi around like they mean nothing when you're talking about radical feminists, the women fighting and putting their lives on the line to stop all of this horrible, terrifying violence against us. Literally, google any of these countries next to the word "femicide" and open your eyes a little to the harsh truth (and I must warn you, if you do this, the results will be upsetting).
You guys like to tag radical feminism as this horrible trend that oppresses other movements when in reality, it's a handful of new, "progressive", "liberal" movements that are trying to demerit and oppress feminism and feminists, whether they're aware of it or not.
If your movement has to take away women's rights, you need to revise what it is you're fighting for and how you're doing it.
I am a radical feminist because I am tired of living in fear. I am tired of hearing in the news of another woman whose life was brutally ended simply because she was a woman.
We're not dying out here, we're being murdered. We're being discriminated, we're being denied safety and body autonomy and the right to choose over what happens to our bodies, we're unable to earn the same as a man for doing the same job, we're unable to express a strong character without being called manipulative or hysterical. We have so. much. bullshit to deal with simply because we are women.
And you still think our sole purpose is to target some random movement and some set of pronouns? No, honey, feminists, real feminists, have our priorities very clear.
What we don't like is that now, we have to be reduced to our organs and that we can't even freely call ourselves women because some people will be offended even by that. I cannot fathom how some people still don't realize the slap in the face that is calling women "uterus-havers" just to coddle other people. Use what pronouns you want, but don't take away women's right to call ourselves women - how absurd is that?! I can't call myself a women to not offend certain people!
Are you really telling me that, on top of having to deal with all of the risks that being a woman implies in my life, I have to not call myself a woman and instead use some odd, progressive term just so I don't offend you?
No. Enough is enough.
Women do not deserve to be silenced, on the verge of the year 2023, because other people with very specific needs and wants, want to be coddled by us. Fight for your rights, by all means, but don't try to take away ours just so you can feel better.
Get a grip on what feminism is, what it stands for, and understand that radical feminism only exists because movement after movement tries to crush everything we've fought for and everything we've achieved.
And, if you're a woman and claim to be libfem, or claim to hate feminism, or claim that feminism doesn't represent you, think again. You're only able to have access to a computer or a mobile platform to express your opinion, wear pants, and have access to basic education, among countless other privileges you take for granted, because of feminism.
I mean, come on. A woman wishing for another woman (e.g. "terfs") to be hurt and die? How awful do you have to be to wish that upon another woman? Who's the bad feminist in this scenario?
Women should support and help women before all else, because we're all each other has. You can coddle and favor men all you want, but heaven forbid, if you ever have to deal with sexual harassment, gender violence, anything related, those men you defend won't help you. They will blame you. The men who love women who hate feminism are the men who are most prone to causing harm to a woman for any reason, and you're coddling them by saying "Oh, feminism isn't about me! I believe in not all men! Death to radfems!!"
Think about that if you consider yourself "libfem" - it's a lie. It's a goddamn lie fabricated to coddle and submit to people who feel entitled to our social struggle, people who are so privileged already that they have to find problems and social causes and make up endless terms and pronouns and bullshit to justify it.
Nothing justifies you trying to silence feminism when, all over the world, no matter what country you look into, women are hunted and hurt simply because we are women.
Get that in your heads.
#radical feminism#feminism#radfem#libfems just dni ok#think about your own privilege#radblr#radfems are right#radfems please interact#radfem safe#libfems dni#social commentary
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A few comments on a recent post about RWBY I made got me thinking about something. Basically, I think that Rooster Teeth – and possibly by extension its parent companies – have artificially inflated RWBY as a media project and franchise rather than letting it grow organically. Therefore, it became a bubble that was bound to burst at some point. RWBY might never have been a profitable IP, which might be very relevant for its future.
This is not a problem that arose after Monty Oum‘s passing, I feel like this was already coming before that. Shane Newville‘s open letter (which absolutely comes from an emotional, mentally unwell state of mind, but has had many of its contents confirmed over the years, even beyond being one of the first descriptions of the toxic work environment at Rooster Teeth) makes a few points that support this impression. Whether you agree with the letter or not, you cannot deny that the first two volumes of RWBY, while they also had merch accompanying them and stuff, were not produced following industry standards – starting with the 3D software used, Poser Pro (Monty Oum‘s preferred tool for animation). This led to some really creative animation work that, while not always high-quality by industry-standards, was certainly pushing boundaries. It was creative and it worked for what RWBY was: a passion project created by someone who saw animation as his strongest suit – as his preferred medium to tell a story. I‘ve seen a lot of people claim that Monty Oum wasn‘t a writer, and while that‘s true, I feel like the implication of that statement is always that he couldn‘t tell stories on his own. I don‘t think that‘s true. I think Monty Oum was a great storyteller when it came to expressing certain things through animated action scenes. It‘s just that he wanted to tell a story that included more than just that and a few lines of dialogue – which is where Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross come in, two at the time very inexperienced writers (who possibly had a fallout with Monty Oum over creative differences later), as well as some talented folks – people like Shane Newville. They were chosen to work on this because Monty Oum acknowledged their potential and liked to work with them, and I feel like that created an environment where they were really allowed to flourish. Volumes 1 and 2 are certainly not flawless, but I feel like I can tell the people making it had fun.
To Rooster Teeth however? I think RWBY (and by extension, Monty Oum as a creator) might have been little more than assets to them. RWBY was first created around a time when RT first tried to be more like, well, an actual company. At least from 2014 onward, but possibly even earlier than that, this included an effort to conform to industry standards more, mostly in order to be able to hire more people – very visibly so in RWBY in the form of the switch to Maya (my opinion about that is, the way they did it didn’t do RWBY any favors at all). I think they saw RWBY and Monty Oum as an opportunity to appear… More important, bigger, than they ever really were.
So what did they do? Again, I kind of have the feeling that they “upscaled” RWBY to a size where it appears like this big thing, but it became far too much to handle. Essentially, they created a mock giant, or a metaphorical quasi-star: something that can appear big from afar, but is actually very small / unstable (and if we go with the quasi-star metaphor, disturbs all of its surroundings). This is what I mean when I say that RWBY was a bubble bound to burst, because no star lives forever – and quasi-stars can only exist under very specific, very unstable conditions (I linked a Kurzgesagt-video in case you’re interested what exactly a quasi-star / black hole star is / was, cosmology is so fascinating IMO). Once these conditions exist no longer, they both fall apart and collapse into the black hole that is their core at the same time.
My main argument for this is that RWBY was essentially a huge money sink for RT (Source: Barbara Dunkelman’s unprofessionalism). They pumped so much money into this… Perhaps even more than they ever made from it. While this isn’t 100% confirmed, it is very much possible (and IMO not exactly unlikely) that RWBY was never profitable — which it might have been if RT hadn’t been so hellbent on creating the illusion of a multi-million-dollar franchise.
This is purely speculative, but this might also be why Volume 10 was never greenlit. We know that Volume 9 was to a significant part funded by Crunchyroll and in fact would not have been possible without them (probably because RT was already out of money at this point). They might have bought into this mock giant, then realized they had pretty much been scammed once Volume 9 aired. This might have led to Crunchyroll’s unwillingness to fund another season for something they knew now was effectively a money sink. Since RT at this point lacked the funds to produce Volume 10 alone and therefore was dependent on investors like Crunchyroll and Warner Brothers… Volume 10 was never greenlit, no matter how hard they attempted to get their fans’ hopes up and start a hashtag campaign on social media (as far as I remember, that was started by Rooster Teeth, not the fans. I don’t have my Twitter account anymore though, so I can’t check). Again though, this is speculation.
The worst part? This refusal of RT to just… Downscale RWBY again, this determination that it had to be this huge franchise… Was all put on the backs of the creatives working on it. We know at this point, from multiple sources, that RWBY and other RT productions have had an incredible amount of crunchtime, working overtime, employee abuse, … going on behind the scenes, which seems to only have gotten worse after Monty Oum’s passing. At the end of the day, all RT does and has ever done is blame others for their incompetence. Like, no shit, I’ve seen fans claim that it’s the FNDM’s job to “keep the show alive” (particularly in the light of #GreenlightVolume10), which… No, that’s not the fans’ job. It’s the job of the company who has been entrusted with this beloved IP, and said company has proven to be utterly incompetent on multiple occasions, which is unfortunate, but a sad reality for all those who love RWBY. And while Rooster Teeth has never directly said such a thing, they have certainly implied it and taken advantage of the existing sentiment within their fanbase, as well as their parasocial relationship with it (again, see #GreenlightVolume10 for reference).
To clarify, I’m not saying none of this would have happened if RT didn’t insist on making RWBY this big franchise (and biting off far more than they could chew in the process) – again, RT was far too notoriously incompetent at everything a company should manage – but I do think it might have played a role. It also isn’t an excuse for all the employee abuse. Again, what they should have done is downsizing the project, not inflating it further and further.
If I’m not somehow completely in the wrong (because IMO this just makes way too much sense to not be at least partially true – but let’s face it, a lot of this is just me connecting dots, and there is always a chance I’m connecting them wrong, even though I don‘t think so), then it kinda blows my mind that there are still people who believe in this scam. Though I will say, emotional attachment can do that to anyone. If anything, I’m honestly sorry that those folks lose something that means so much to them, and that false promises were made to them.
At the end of the day, the story of RWBY (the “franchise”) is twofold. It’s a story about an incredibly talented creator who passed away far too early, who was given the incredible opportunity to make his dream come true. It’s a story of people he trusted taking up his torch, and maybe getting lost in the dark along the way. It’s an inspiring story regardless, and I hope to see it continued at a downsized scale so it can grow organically, preferably in the hands of an indie animation studio like Dillon Goo (🤞)
But it is also a cautionary tale to both creatives and companies who employ them, a tale about false promises, abuse of both employees and fans, as well as how to not run a project. Don’t blow your thing out of proportion too early, don’t create a mock giant / metaphorical quasi-star. Let your ideas and projects grow and flourish organically and sincerely.
#RWBY#Rooster Teeth#RT Shutdown#Rooster Teeth Shutdown#Corporate Meddling#Theorizing#Speculation#Behind the Scenes#Rooster Teeth‘s corporate incompetence#Rooster Teeth toxicity#Monty Oum#Shane Newville#Shane‘s Letter#Open Letter to All who Treasured Monty Oum#RWBY Volume 10#RWBY Volume 9#RWBY V9#RWBY V10#Greenlight Volume 10 Meta#RWBY Discourse#RT Discourse#RT Critical#Does this count as RWDE?#Anyway#RWDE#Currantlee here
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A randomly updated list of plot elements and theories that run wild in my head
The following is a list of BNHA plot elements, in no specific order, that are still unresolved at current chapter (or, at least, that I consider unresolved).
This post is totally open to suggestion :D
I plan to update it whenever I feel ;)
Enjoy!
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PS - I finally found a title for this little product of mine, yay :)
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Current last chapter:
413
HIGH PRIORITY:
1. How did Shigaraki solve to put Star and Stripe's quirk "New Order" under control? > Solved in vol. 34: New Order dissolved on itself but it caused Tenko to regain some level of consciousness > And in chapter 413 S&S's embers in AFO were able to reach both All Might itself and Yagi's vestige to let them know about the only weakness existing in Shigaraki, and I LOVE this turn of events.
2. Why did AFO do all of this? What are his reasons and origin? > We got his reasons in chapters 407-408 but I'm not totally convinced that he chose an apprentice just for the sake of having a new body
3. Will Deku be able to reach Tenko?
4. Who is going to survive? At the moment I think these are the name at risk right now:
. Bakugo > confirmed alive in 403
. All Might > still alive in 404, confirmed alive in 405
. Toga
. Dabi
. Hawks
. Endevour
. Edgeshot > still alive in 405
. Fat Gum
6. What is Ojiro's, Sato's and Sero's whereabout?
7. What is Eraserhead, Present Mic and Kurogiri's whereabout?
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OPTIONAL STUFF
1. How was it possible for Yoichi to pass OFA to the second user? (i.e. how did he realize that he could pass his quirk?) > I'm not crossing this one out for we still don't have an explanation from Yoichi's perspective; however in chapter 408 is suggested that it happened the day Yoichi died and Kudoh has felt off ever since. I want to add that we don't know of any organic exchange from Yoichi to Kudoh, my opinion about it below.
2. Is Deku's father ever going to make an appearance? I know, I know that, aat this late point in the story, he can only be either AFO himself or noone interesting, but still, why did Horikoshi mentioned that Izuku's father would appear at some point in the story? Did he change his mind?
3. Is this picture ever going to make sense?
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For further explanation, this seems to be a partial picture that was present at a BNHA exposition in Japan but, to my knowledge, does not have an explanation. > The full art, however, showed Aoyama, so it might be a hint about Aoyama's role? I'm not convinced and therefore I'm keeping this point active.
4. Why AFO needed Shigaraki's hatred? (Rif. chapter 311. For further explenation see section "Open theories", n. 3) > In chapter 410 it seems that Shigaraki is now able to steal, if not the whole OFA, at least singular quirks in it but it stays unexplained how or why.
5. Are we going to see Deku and Bakugo face each other one last time?
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OPEN THEORIES (that I enjoy or consider interesting for some reason)
1. Dad for one (alias All for one is actually Deku's father) > With the flashback we had in chapter 407-408, it seems to me that, even though it is possible that AFO had intercourse with women, I just can't see him actually marry someone, and Inko mentioned her "husband" while discussing Izuku's lack of quirk; however, it is still possible that she called him that way just for the sake of appearences or that they actually married for some reason. I don't know, I really don't like this theory but I understand the appeal of it.
2. Decay is not Shimura Tenko's original quirk > Again, AFO's death in 410 might cross this one out but I'm still suspicious about the man in 235 that brought Tenko back home.
3. Shigaraki can actually take One for All quirk without Deku's will > confirmed in chapter 410, even though we still don't know how or why.
4. Deku is suppressing his emotions > Pikahlua wrote an amazing perfect explanation about this theory and I'm convinced they're right.
5. Two for one (alias One for all is passed on both Izuku & Katsuki) (404) > I think we can call this one discarded.
6. AFO is (related to) the Luminescent baby (405) > Confirmed in 407 and even though I said I was not a fan of this one, AFO stealing his quirk out of crave makes much more sense than and I love it.
7. Izuku will replace OFA with:
7a. His own personal quirk that, similarly to Yoichi's one, was so unformed to be practically useless but grew up thanks to OFA.
7a-i. If we believe the DFA theory, his quirk might be either an evolution of AFO
7b. New Order (412) and it has to do with Star & Stripe arm > New Order is confirmed destroyed in chapter 413
7c. Nothing, he'll go quirkless again. (This is the only one I actually like)
7c-i. But his use of OFA has already created a vestige in OFA and Kudoh is planning to let Shigaraki steal OFA in order to gain access to Tenko's memory and finally start to connect with is soul and therefore to save him. > partly confirmed in 413, the only difference being that Kudoh actually plans to smash Shigaraki with OFA.
7c-ii. But, following the empty glass/full glass theory, Shigaraki won't be able to keep it for too long, without facing problem (like the 4th dying of old age at 40).
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8.OFA only transfer out of will, while hair or any other organic material just served to picture the passage in one's mind.
I decided to delete the whole reasoning behind this idea but you can still read it in my chapter 412 update.
8a. As an alternative possible explanation, since OFA started stocking extrapower and multiple quirks, even though at the beginning a physical transfer was not required, it eventually became mandatory. (Like, email can only have attachment up to N Mb, in order to transfer bigger file you need a physical drive).
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So now that twitchcon paris is over I can rent about it lol
We had many problems because of the weird american-style organization and it was very stressfull.
First issue was that they asked us to subscribe to an insurance that... just doesn’t exist in france at all ???
Many of us tried to have this insurance and contacted tons of insurance companies but everyone said the same thing : it’s impossible for a french person to have it unless we subscribed to like a 300€ contract in the US.
They finally gave up about this insurance after the deadline passed and accepted our “liability insurance” that just everyone already had.
Then we didn’t have any table at our booth lmao. It’s the artist alley, we’re supposed to have tables to display our products.
So we had to rent tables at ~160€ each (or 30€ if you were lucky enough to be in the first ones to rent tables which was impossible for me) or bring our own. To bring your own you have to have a car. In Paris lol.
They also added a ton of stupid rules like “no back and forth between the car and the booth” or “trolley prohibited” during the booth installation.
If you had an issue and were not able to attend the convention or set up your booth, you were charged a 2500€ fine. I have no opinion on this rule but it’s important to specify I think.
During the con itself, it was not crazy in terms of visitors and sales. It was easily predictable because of the entry price which was something like 80€ a day and 130€ for 2 days I think (and no discount for twitch partners) ???
It’s the most expensive con I ever saw in france, french people are used to pay 25€ for a day at the biggest anime convention (and complain that it’s too much). When I saw the entry price I immediatly wanted to give up but the person I shared the booth with didn’t want. I don’t like how twitch is basically scamming streamer fans that are willing to pay that much just to see their favorite streamer.
A lot of people were’n even aware that there was an artist alley.
Ultimatly, I wanna say that my opinion is kinda biased by the fact I had many personal issues with the person I shared the booth with. That ruined the whole experience from the start.
I heard that some people were really happy with the convention and managed to sell well. I also met a person who attended last year twitchcon in Amsterdam and said that it was much better than the one in Paris. So idk.
I’m happy it’s over and that I will never do it again. At least the staff was really nice and I met good people!
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10 Reasons why I will defend Joel’s choice. Cause I’m bored so why not?
SPOILERS AHEAD!!! IF YOU DIDN’T PLAY THE GAMES BEWARE
1. The vaccine wouldn’t “work” in any sense of the word. I don’t care that Druckmann said it would, which if you ask me is just a convenient plot hole cover. One thing I appreciate about the show, is how they dive into the history of the cordyceps infection/outbreak and just how unique it is. The doctor we see at the beginning whose immediate advice is to bomb the city, shows just how grave the outbreak is period. Especially since no cure or vaccine had been made before. Mind you, this woman had to have at least 25-30 years experience in the field and her opinion obviously held weight.
For something this grave, you would need advanced technology and advanced expertise to even begin to create a “vaccine” for it. The fireflies med team was literally made up of a bunch of amateurs. We come to find out Abby’s father had at best two years of experience that I believe were in undergrad and definitely not a residency. It also needs to be pointed out that general doctors and surgeons do not account for every field in medicine. Specializations exist for a reason. I don’t think there was a single virologist or even neurologist in that room, yet they were attempting brain surgery? The other subjects died most likely because they were being operated on by the equivalent of “Grey’s Anatomy doctors”. Not because they HAD to die.
2. Even if we entertain the thought that they would somehow be able to pull a vaccine from Ellie. How would they “save the world” or “save millions”? I get that in fiction anything is possible. But with the world they created in the tlou 1, it’s just hard to imagine in this context. There’s a matter of manufacturing what would need to be hundreds of thousands of vaccines just to start. Which need significant resources. Then there would be distribution. How will you spread these vaccines around? What about language barriers? Do the fireflies have translators that can travel? Mind you, the fireflies are a terrorist organization. Do we really think they would not try to get a political leg up from this? People try to make them out to have a noble cause, but do they really? Or do they just want to save what’s left in an attempt to have power over what’s left?
3. Ellie’s immunity is pure luck. A mutation that prevented the cordyceps from taking over her. Much in the same way some people are allergic to seafood or nuts but a good chunk of us aren’t. Hell the mutation doesn’t even prevent her from being attacked by the other infected. The only thing it ensures is that she doesn’t become a “zombie” in affect. Which brings me to my next point.
4. What’s the rush? Ellie herself said she had plenty of questions for them. Which we know why they didn’t let the poor girl even get the chance to ask them. But Ellie’s immunity is something that seems more logical to study and get an understanding of before immediately jumping into surgery. What is it about her blood or body chemistry that prevented the infection from overtaking her? Soon as she got there, she was on the table without even the chance to say goodbye. Which once again, reaffirms the fireflies were taking desperate shots in the dark.
5. Informed consent went out the window. People keep saying what Ellie “would” have done or chosen for herself. Even Abby. The thing is we’ll never know. Because they took that choice from her. Marlene shouldn’t have even bothered to tell Joel what would happen. But she was a selfish dirtbag who wanted him to validate her. She knew what they were doing was wrong and I honestly think she knew nothing would come of it. Her pathetic attempt at trying to “reason” with Joel was her way of soothing her own conscience. Also they took Joel’s supplies and walked him out without it and the reward they promised him. They were never going to make good on their word.
6. You have cannibals, child rapists, slavers, and all the likes running around doing whatever they want with no care in the world. Not much world left to save when humans will always manage to be the biggest threat to other humans and forms of life. Regardless of a shared enemy or objective.
7. Abby’s father was a coward and a hypocrite. When posed the question of whether he would do what they did to Abby, he was silent. Now unlike those who don’t value consent, we know that anything other than a definite yes is a no. Abby’s father would have likely took the same course of action as Joel ( albeit not as a good lol) if Abby had been immune. And this is even with Abby giving her hypothetical consent to go ahead with the surgery. That should tell you everything you need to know. If “saving millions” was not so important for the surgeon to sacrifice his own daughter, than it was ridiculous to hold anybody else to the same standard. Also I like how Abby had her opinion on what SHE would do as if that mattered. Funny how taking someone else’s life and loved one was fine until it was her dad. But I try to give Abby credit for her redeeming qualities.
8. The “world” is owed nothing. A lot people don’t like to admit it but it’s the truth. Since the beginning of time earth has moved in cycles. Species come in and go out all the time. Humans are no different though a lot of us have tricked ourselves into believing so. For all we know the cordyceps was just the next step towards a new phase. Notice how in the show they are connected through channels and more receptive of one another. The remaining uninfected humans are most likely just fighting against inevitable change.
9. Joel was not the only person killing to survive. Both in the game and in the show it is bought up almost as if Joel was doing it for thrills or something when that was not the case. Especially in the show. The last episode tried very hard to infantilize Tommy in comparison to Joel. “Tommy was just following Joel.”
I’m sorry, but Tommy “ex war veteran who can’t accept he’s now a communist” Miller is not some little boy who was forced along by his big brother. He was a fully grown man who was fine with killing even before the outbreak and was in his element after. The fact that Maria even tried to pull that out her ass made me disgusted with her a bit. Especially since she too was no stranger to killing. “Those people tried us.” No I think the cute indigenous couple was right. Their group had just threatened what as far as they knew, was just a man and his little girl traveling with being shot to death or mauled by dogs.
10. When it was all said and done, Joel became an even older man and tried to change and become better. He tried to leave the mess of the past behind him and tried to mend things with Ellie. Despite how she treated him, he never stopped loving her and never regretted his decision to save her. Even as he was dying, I’m sure he only thought about his other babygirl being safe. He got an unfair lot and did the best he could it with it. Lord knows other people in that universe fell into deeper, unnecessary forms of depravity that Joel for the most part steered clear of.
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Any idea why Crowley lives in his car now? I must have missed the reason behind this development !
I don't think it was ever directly addressed, lovely! The only thing that was really mentioned in the show was the line in episode 6, when Gabriel and Beelzebub run away to the stars, and Crowley says, "if you're going back to hell, can I get my flat back?" Meaning, like a mean landlord, hell evicted Crowley when he became "the traitor". Hell, they may have even just removed it from existence, why else would Crowley be asking them unless it was fully removed from him?
It's not Canon, but there's a lot of threads going around discussing why Crowley isn't living with Aziraphale if he's living in his car. Whether its that Aziraphale never asked him to live with him, or if Crowley wanted to stay in the car.
My personal take is it's something they're both fully aware of, but neither one of them wants to ask the other. It's almost like that's the final step to them (if it could ever happen in an organic way) being an "us" and sharing everything. And while it's something they both desperately want, one has internalised... uh... shall we call it, "demon-phobia" 😂 (internalised homophobia and religious trauma but you know, in this context, he clearly still isnt 100% over his opinion of demons in general) and one is so very thoroughly afraid of rejection, of being cast away or losing something he cares dearly for (again), that he runs away at every opportunity.
They've quietly ignored Crowley's living situation and not addressed it, despite how much they started to enjoy sharing each others spaces (Aziraphale in the Bentley and Crowley wandering around constantly with his glasses off in the bookshop) because it would disrupt the status quo. They're both not in the right mental space to be able to make that next step fully right now. They both need some personal growth. But man, they were so damn close...
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Hi Jen,
As a queer person in my 20’s I had been feeling like LGBT+ acceptance was growing through my lifetime, and that things would continue to get better, but the way hateful/violent homophobic and transphobic rhetoric have become so politically mainstream again in such a short time is extremely frightening. I’m sure it concerns you too so if you need to ignore this ask for peace of mind, I understand. But if you can talk about it, do you think there’s hope? How does it look from your perspective as someone who lived through harder times? I feel like LGBT+ support is so much more broad now, and we’re more visible in popular culture and even some public offices that it can all only be rolled back so far, but I’m truly scared. Thanks, and be well.
I again apologize for the delay and this answer comes at a weird time since the Club Q shooting is less than a week ago.
I honestly am not sure my generation experienced harder times in some ways. Just different ways. We didn't have much legal protection such as the right to same sex marriage or civil rights to housing or employment. Many states had laws making homosexuality illegal although the laws punished "acts" more than the actual same sex attraction which was just a sneaky way to keep us in line.
The laws are not in as much danger as the right and left want us to think. But when we are panicked they make more money. Not that there aren't reasons to be concerned and we certainly don't want to sit back on our laurels and think there is no threat. From experience the far edges of the political extremes are working very hard to convince us all that no one can possibly come together on anything and the divide is so great there is nothing in the middle. MOST of us fall in the middle because we are just trying to keep our family safe and fed and pay our bills without the governement in our bedroom.
Now it is not so much about fighting laws on the books but about keeping shitty laws from being added. Similar shit, different times.
This next part is from my experience and STRICTLY my opinion since I am not a political analyst nor a professional activist A little of my background: I was very active in the AIDs ACT Up movement, in producing Prides and other events locally AND In organizing trips of local LGBT people to attend larger events like Stonewall 25 and the early 1990's March on Washington. I also have consistently created small lesbian gatherings and enouraged lesbians to form intergenerational friend and mentor groups either privately or at existing festvials and venues. I was in Stonewall Democrats (a delegate for Obama) and the Affirmitive Action Chair for my County Dems for many years. I have been around the activism and political block a few times.
I can’t see the future but I can assure you we have see rough times as a community and will continue to see them but we always seem to get our shit together enough to focus energy and effort on making change. Life and politics are a cycle and history shows that. Nothing is ever a guarantee for all times. All of us live in a world where rights are always subject to threat. That is just reality. My best advice is do what you can with where you are and what you are able. We can’t all lead big protests and we can’t even all vote (age, previous felonies, mobility etc) but we all can do something.
What brings me the most joy, fulfillment and happiness is strengthening connections with lesbians and gathering to share stores, experience and knowledge, whether that means life skills or how we over came obstacles. It feels right to have those conversations and to understand younger generations and their concerns AND to be able to share what worked. I have been exposed to a very particular legacy of lesbian communicaiton and organizing. And what I was taught has helped me in so many ways.
Find what you are most passionate about and put your focus and energy into that. We can’t all change the world but we can ceate small pockets in our lives and those of others where we feel happy and welcomed and understood. And sometimes those groups end up working on change together which can be a very powerful force.
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Thankful: A Bad Romance One Shot
Series: Bad Romance Continues
Original Series: Bad Romance
Fandom: The Royal Romance/The Royal Heir
Pairings for series: Riley x Liam x Max, Riley x Drake, Riley x Rashad
Pairing for this chapter: All of the above
Rating: G
Warnings for this chapter: Maybe one curse word
Word Count: 1,403
A/N: This is for week 1 of the @choicesholidays prompts! Prompt/Theme: so much to be thankful for
My other stuff: Master List.
“So glad everyone was able to make it to Riley’s annual Thanksgiving celebration!” Liam beamed at the people gathered around the table.
“Riley’s thanksgiving? You know she didn’t invent that, it’s not really her holiday, right?” Savannah rolled her eyes.
“Well, it may as well be. It’s a strictly American holiday, so in Cordonia, it’s just hers.” Liam said.
“It’s actually a very problematic holiday if we’re being honest,” Max muttered.
Riley looked up from her seat, “What was that, Max?”
“I said I love you, Riley!”
Riley sighed, “Are you talking about Christopher Columbus again?”
“I’m just saying that he was a conqueror, not an explorer! The land he ‘found’ already had people living on it and they were enslaved, murdered-“
“I know, Max!” Riley thumped her fist on the table, “But I told you, we aren’t celebrating Christopher Columbus! We’re celebrating friends and family!”
“You know,” Rashad interjected, “Thanksgiving is a harvest festival, and harvest festivals have been held by many cultures in many places and most of them predate America and Christopher Columbus completely.”
“Thank you, ya helo,” Riley smiled at him.
“Modern holidays are completely divorced from their origins anyway,” Drake spoke up.
“What do you mean?” Max asked.
“I mean, I celebrate Christmas even though I don’t believe in Jesus,” Drake answered.
“What?” Bertrand sputtered, “Are you saying you don’t believe in God?”
“Eh.” Drake shrugged, “Not really.”
“As loathe as I am to admit to having anything in common with Drake, I agree with him.” Olivia said, “What about you, Liam? Do you believe in God?”
“Of course. While organized religion can be problematic because of man’s hand in it, the divine still exists.” Liam said.
“Yeah, Drake,” Leo said with a mouthful of mashed potatoes, “What do you think happens when you die?”
“Nothing. Dead is dead. You just cease to exist.” Drake replied.
“Wow, that’s…bleak.” Max shook his head.
“What do you believe, Max?” Olivia asked him.
“I believe in emanation theory,” Max said, “The idea that we are all individual pieces of God. So the theory goes that-“
“I believe in reincarnation!” Riley interrupted him before he could spend the next thirty minutes expounding on the topic.
Savannah turned to Rashad, “What about you?”
Rashad blinked as he scanned the faces around the table, all waiting for his answer.
“Well, I’m an agnostic.”
“So you don’t believe in God either?” Leo asked.
“No, that’s an atheist. Agnostic means it’s impossible to know either way if God exists or not.” Rashad responded.
“This is why we don’t discuss religion,” Bertrand took a long drink of his tea and then muttered under his breath, “Savages.”
“Let’s get back to what we’re thankful for!” Riley demanded.
Rashad raised his glass, “I’ll start! I’m so very thankful for all of you.” His glance swung in Drake’s direction, “Well, for most of you anyway.”
Drake paused in his chewing. He was about to ask what the hell he’d done now, but then decided he didn’t care. He shoveled some more turkey into his mouth instead. Rashad was never going to like him and there wasn’t much he could do about it.
Fucking Rashad.
Drake’s eyes tracked to Riley and his entire demeanor shifted. His body relaxed, and his expression softened. She was the only one whose opinion mattered.
Well, not the only one. His gaze shifted to his son then to Liam. Even Max had somehow made it onto the list of people Drake gave a fuck about. How had that happened?
Drake Walker was thankful for all the things in his life that he had never wanted nor asked for in the first place.
Everyone took turns saying what they were thankful for as Liam surveyed the people around the table with satisfaction.
His wife and his lover, his best friend, his brother and nephew, his children, and his closest friends and confidants. The people gathered around his table made up his family, whether they were related to him by blood or not.
Liam Rys, against all odds, was happy.
He leaned over and gave Max a quick peck on the cheek. Max turned toward him in surprise.
“What was that for?” Max asked.
Liam shrugged as he gave him a smile, “Just because.”
Butterflies erupted in Max’s stomach. Still, after all their years together, Liam affected him that way. Riley too.
Maxwell Beaumont was still astonished to be living his best life. He had never, in his wildest dreams, thought that his life would turn out as it had. He’d found both the woman and the man of his dreams, and they’d had a houseful of children together.
Max reached for Liam’s hand and gave him a sappy grin.
On the other side of the table, Rashad asked for the salt and Riley handed it to him, her fingers brushing his as she did so.
She smiled at him and his breath caught in his throat. She still took his breath away and it wasn’t even about her physical beauty.
The emotional connection they shared had been wholly unexpected and completely unreplicated in his dating life.
She was the one woman he might have broken his rules for, but she had neither asked nor wanted him to. She had a husband and two other nesting partners, she didn’t need him to settle down and raise a family. She had children. She had his child.
A thing he had never wanted but now delighted in.
And somehow, despite being out of pocket for weeks at a time, despite being a raging workaholic, despite his frequent trips out of the country, somehow he was still counted as family and included in events like this.
And not just by Riley.
“I mean it, Liam,” he reiterated, “You’ve invited me into your home and your family time and time again. I can’t begin to tell you what that means to me.”
“Stop it, Rashad,” Liam answered, “You are family!”
Rashad Faheem was not just happy, but content. Something that at one time had been a foreign concept to him.
There was a thunk, then yips and yelps as a dog tore through the room with a turkey leg in its mouth, a second dog nipping at its heels.
There were shrieks and giggles as a line of kids stormed after the dogs.
Loud cursing and yelling could be heard from the kitchen.
Rashad understood why Riley told him that the time they spent together was her oasis. A calm spot in the midst of mayhem. Her normal, day-to-day life was barely controlled chaos.
But she seemed to thrive on it, he reflected as he watched her face light up and her head tip back as her laughter chimed through the room.
Riley Rys, née Brooks, was happy. And she was thankful.
She was thankful she had taken a chance on Liam all those years ago. She was thankful Max had never given up on her even when he should have. She was thankful Drake had finally let his walls down and given their whole situation a real try.
She was thankful for the set of circumstances that had led her to seduce a really good lawyer for his legal expertise. She was thankful she’d been able to recognize how much more there was to him than his skills in the courtroom.
She was thankful for her children, for her friends, and for her partners.
Even with all their differences in beliefs and opinions, even with all the chaos and ruckus, even with the frequent bickering and disagreements, she was thankful.
She was thankful for the life they had built together.
For all of Liam’s possessiveness and bossiness, no one loved with such single-minded devotion or held so steadfastly to their belief in her.
For all of Drake’s grumpiness and jealousy, no one loved more intensely or was more determined to make her happy.
For all of Max’s seeming naivete and annoying amounts of energy, no one loved more unconditionally or could cheer her up as quickly as he could.
For all of Rashad’s commitment issues and frequent absences, no one loved with such surrender or challenged her intellectually the way he did.
They argued, sometimes vehemently. They could get loud, ear-splittingly so. They were all opinionated and convinced of the superiority of their own opinions. They were stubborn and sarcastic and snarky.
And she was beyond thankful for all of it.
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Questions for House MD fanfic authors, other House MD lore enthusiasts, and anyone familiar with Princeton, New Jersey geography:
Have you found or created any good references or headcanons for the locations that exist in the show, but not in real life?
If you live(d) in this part of New Jersey, do you have any opinions on where it would make sense to place things?
I ask because the House MD time travel / isekai author self-insert fanfic I'm writing is going to delve pretty deeply into the logistical, legal, and financial challenges of building a new life from literally nothing, 20 years in the past. Unlike @acrownforaking 's protagonist in "Intervention," my OC is not a teenage girl who can be passed off as House's long-lost daughter (which is for the best, given how much my middle-aged self-insert wants to fuck that age-appropriate man), and she is going to get off on the wrong foot with the characters who might have normally been the most able/inclined to help her.
So, getting around the Princeton area in 2004 as a broke semi-homeless person is a problem to be solved as part of the story, and thus I need to nail down the precise location of key settings in the Houseverse so I can figure out what they're within walking distance of, transit options, etc.
The Hospital
Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital doesn't exist IRL, and it's not simply a fictionalization of Princeton Hospital because that IRL hospital also exists in the Houseverse and is referenced a few times in the show.
I used to assume that the fictional PPTH was somewhere on the IRL Princeton Plainsboro Road, located here:
But the wiki reminded me that in "After Hours," it says Prospect Street on Chase's GPS. The nearest Prospect Street is in the town of South Brunswick Township and appears to be a residential neighborhood from "driving" down it in Google Street View, but there's a Prospect Avenue in Princeton that terminates on Princeton's campus:
Meanwhile, the building in the aerial exterior shots of PPTH on the show is actually the Frist Campus Center of Princeton University IRL:
And Frist Campus Center is located near the western end of Prospect Avenue, where it terminates at Washington Rd:
Meanwhile, while the show never explicitly identifies which medical school their teaching hospital is affiliated with, I'm comfortable headcanoning that Princeton University has a medical school in the Houseverse (it doesn't have one IRL). We can deduce from "Three Stories" and the early season 4 episodes that the hospital and medical school must be adjacent or perhaps even share some buildings because the characters seem to go back and forth between the classrooms and the hospital without putting on their coats or getting in their cars.
So I'm thinking of headcanoning that Princeton University has a much larger campus in the Houseverse than in IRL, with the medical school buildings and hospital complex clustered around the corner of Washington Road & Prospect Avenue (which is Prospect Street in the Houseverse). I'll keep the exterior of the buildings pretty close to IRL, but what's inside them will be different.
However, there's a couple of problems with this location:
1) Why would a hospital in that location be named Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital? Where does the "Plainsboro" part come in if it's not in that town or on that road?
The IRL Princeton Hospital is on Plainsboro Road, but again, PPTH isn't just a fictionalized version of the IRL Princeton Hospital because the latter exists in the Houseverse and is occasionally referenced on the show. We can also infer from some of Cuddy's remarks about Princeton Hospital that it is a completely separate organization with different management, specialties, accepted health insurance plans, etc.
And here is the location of the IRL Princeton Hospital in relation to Frist Campus Center (the building depicted at PPTH on the show):
Unless someone has a better explanation or idea, I think I'm just going to headcanon that there is/was a second hospital in the same area as the IRL Princeton Hospital that is/was named Princeton Plainsboro Hospital and that the PPTH from the show was originally a satellite campus of that hospital but is now independent. The "Plainsboro" part of the name is simply a legacy from when it was a satellite campus, and Cuddy is too financially sensible to waste a ton of money on a rebranding campaign.
I live at the bottom of "Pill Hill" in Seattle (First Hill) and can attest that having a bunch of different hospitals all clustered together is definitely a thing that happens IRL despite how counter-intuitive it is to have multiple emergency rooms within a few blocks of each other instead of spread throughout the city.
2) Where should I put all the university departments and functions that are displaced by turning Frist Campus Center and the surrounding buildings into a hospital complex and medical school?
This problem is an easier solve, because what's this I spy in satellite view:
Fuck that golf course.
So unless anyone has a better idea, I'm going to expand Princeton University's campus to the southwest, replacing the golf course that's there IRL. Maybe include a nice arboretum so that we still have some green space, but make it a park that anyone can use instead of a private golf club with a $6,000 (!!!) initiation fee.
House's Apartment:
Per his driver's license, House lives at 221B Baker Street (just like every other Sherlock).
His apartment (technically condo, since he owns it) is "a few miles" from the hospital per the episode "Whatever It Takes" and it's an 8-mile run via an unknown route (likely not a straight line) per the episode "Meaning."
His mother indicates that he specifically lives in the city of Princeton, not a neighboring city or suburb, because she's been following the Princeton police blotter ever since House moved there, per the episode "Love is Blind."
Unfortunately, neither of the local Baker Streets are even in Princeton:
So it seems that I need to just pick an existing street in Princeton and rename it as Baker Street in the Houseverse.
Ideas for some Princeton streets that are an appropriate distance from the hospital where a building that looks like this and the street name "Baker" would fit in?
I can't find anything about there being an IRL location that corresponds to the exterior of House's apartment building, so I suspect it's a fake building on a sound stage. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts & help!
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Hot take/bingo for Philip and Sally? I wish to know the takes. Give them!!!
Shipping Hottake Meme || OPEN AND ACCEPTING
ASDASDASD PIGEON YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR. Mentally? I need you to know I'm doing the disappointed teacher coming back from a sick day pose. Sitting in the turned around chair, fingers steepled, head down. I have OPINIONS.
Sally/Philip, we meet again... I can understand the ship, not to say I ship it, but from an outside stance, I can get it. Sally and Philip fill a lot of the same archetypes in Dead By Daylight in a way that's complimentary.
Sally is often associated with angel imagery or death, all black or white, flowing sort of dresses and Phil is the opposite, he has a deathly look, covered in black and soot, coming with a sound and disappearing again. They're both 'banshee's at least in the sense the Devs intended for them to fill the niche. They both have stories that follow long periods of exploitation and, ultimately, good people who are made accessories to crime until killing seemed like the only escape or means for redemption. They're both TRAGEDIES, I get it.
BUT THIS IS WHERE IS LOSES ME. They are united in the tragedy of their stories, but like, what else is there? Seriously, the Devs clearly ship it, but what is the substance? I don't think Sally/Phil is a ship that's doomed out of the gate. You just have to work for it and the devs aren't willing to do that, and a lot of the time, the fandom it seems doesn't do that either. Not just for Phil, who I've found often is subject to fandom racial caricaturing in the worst sort of way, but Sally too.
Sally, often, from my experience in ships with Phil is treated almost like a pet and given very little humanity or even development and it's not fair to her, her character or her personality. I won't go on a grand standing rant, but like, it's upsetting. It's really upsetting. Sally is a very important character to me, her grief and her rage ARE important and she deserves the respect of being given humanity more than the tiny dancer to Phil.
IT'S LIKE, THE POTENTIAL FOR INTEREST *IS* THERE, it could be GREAT! I would kill to see someone approach Sally and Philip in a way that touches on the night and day perspectives that shape each of them.
Phil is a character that doesn't see the world or humanity as this inherent evil, the evil however comes in the fact that no matter what he does, tragedy drags him back into the circle and cycle of war and suffering. Phil isn't ready to write the world off as 'evil', he needs to attach it to people, he needs to embody it. Sally meanwhile, she really has come to view civilization, at least to the parts that she's experienced (Sally is first to admit she hasn't seen the full world, only her part of the world) as evil. She doesn't see the people themselves as evil exactly, but it's the hivemind, it's the culture, its the way things are structured. To torture her patients, to leave women like her in the position of being exploited, to leave people unable to climb higher. Sally sees it, and she hates it. She thinks humans are capable of good, she sees innocence and love in the eyes of people, but, put too many people together, the love and innocence fades, it stops being individualistic, it becomes 'the greater good' and just !!!!! she hates it, she's not against organization, she's against capitalism, she's against the dissolution of the individual for a uniform, soulless idea of an ideal existence and an ideal humanity.
LIKE COMING TO A HEAD, TO MEET EACH OTHER, FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO DISAGREE AND COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OR HATRED OR W/E. THATS WHAT I WANT!!!! THE DEPTH!!!
But people aren't ready to give Sally and Phil that depth, the devs certainly aren't even ready to give Sally the respect of a respectful treatment of her story, let alone any identity beyond the small petite lady for big tall phil to swing around. And for that, Sally and Phil, I don't see it, it's not a notp, but you'll have to work hard for it and to redeem it from the treatment I've seen it get, both in the fandom, official material and like, in my heart!
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There is a difference between supporting a terrorist organization and a country defending itself after a brutal act of war. Yes, things were tense, but hamas has clearly made it his purpose to take Israel and kill all Jews. If you keep supporting hamas at this point, you are antisemitic, no questionability.
CBC has decided to not keep what little journalistic integrity they still have and won't call the act of terrorism what it is without quotes now. It's "poltical" now to call a terrorist attack what it is. This TERROIST ATTACK, killed 2000 people after a major holiday, in the middle of the night men, women, children, babies, newborns... Citizens jumping out of their beds, turning back into soldier, dying to save their neighbours. Yet, a conflict that happened in India was called a "...horrible act of terroism..." without any quotes. Here's some proof of how little journalism is actual unbiased. Source. . Source TV fails us all. https://torontosun-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/cbcs-arguments-for-not-calling-hamas-a-terror-group-are-weak/wcm/afde9ee1-3ac6-4243-b104-9f949a9bf181/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16981252683198&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Ftorontosun.com%2Fopinion%2Fcolumnists%2Fcbcs-arguments-for-not-calling-hamas-a-terror-group-are-weak
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-cbc-english-tv-has-lost-its-relevance-its-time-to-talk-about-that/
Israel did NOT blow up the hospital in Gaza. It has been confirmed by BOTH SIDES. There was a ton of footage maintained from the general that shows Israeli soldiers trying to save what lives they could, as they also died in the explosion. It was again, hamas the TERROIST! TO HIS OWN PEOPLE WHAT A SUPRISE?!
Here is an article on that: https://www.wired.com/story/al-ahli-baptist-hospital-explosion-disinformation-osint/
Many times my people and Israel have been tried to be wiped out. We survived almost the entire Roman Empire, and were a thorn in Rome's side. After many failed attempts, Israel was taken by Titus who went out of his way to make all forces hit Israel. Then Titus gave it the name philistines (which means weak/weakness, while Israel means Lion).
Israel was an established country for 40 years before, without their consent, and to give up land the same people we gave asylm to in the 1920's, and now want to actively destroy you? Did deeper than the first fucking google article dumbasses, or past TV which has been an unreliable source more and more for decades.
There is no history of a palistine before it became a state in 1988. Before that they lived in Syria, Jordan and Egypt. You want some history, okay, just for proof here it if FROM THE UNITED NATIONS (UN):
Israel has belonged to Jewish people since Torah. A book that predates both religions that seem to side to destroy Jews. Both have an active agenda. To get rid of us and our land.
Israeli Soldiers are taught to try to preserve all life, but protect innocent no matter the side.
Hamas does not care about his citizens, they are starving, thirsty, and sick. If he thought about them why did he not make sure he would be able to have infrastructure to make sure his people could eat, drink, have power, medical supplies, fossil fuels? He didn't think about them, he never does, and never has. His goal is to destroy Israel and kill every single Jew.
We are people too, us Jews, Israelis. Why are we always evil for wanting to exist and wanting what should belong to us?
People tell me I "don't know the history of the area". I do. I know a lot more than 99% of people who asked. I could talk for hours about both sides history (most of it Israeli because it was our G-d given, ancestral birthright).
Do you not think we want and deserve a place to go that isn't dominated by the three top biggest religions in the world, ours not even being close to those. (Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism)
I know way more than this but I'm tired of your antisemitism USA especially. And shame on you for not seeing this clearly.
Britian, it's illegal to protest for hamas in the streets, as it should be everywhere.
It's funny it went from Islamaphobia from 2001 to Oct. 2023 to antisemitism and wanted genocide real quick. You do realize this is the ONLY PLACE FOR JEWISH PEOPLE! We want what is rightfully ours!
With all that said I do not like war, I despise innocent people dying for just where they live. I want peace in the land, and everyone that lives there.
Am Yisrael Chai!
May Hashem bring peace to the land and ALL who dwell there. Strengthen the hands.of our Holy defenders and May the crown of victory be place upon them.
-(paraphrased) Avianu Shebashamim
#vent#Israel#history#Am Yisrael Chai#may the terroism end and there be peace in the land#may we all turn our weapons to ploughshares to till the land not kill#let peace happen#perserve innoncent lives#i do not want death but war is death#Israel conflict#antisemtism#people are clearly wanting a geneocide of Jews
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Look, I'm a big proponent of analyzing works of literature through the lens of feminism. I think it is extremely valuable, it adds a great deal of meaning and layers of interpretation to not only the work itself, but the many works that have been influenced or in conversation with it since. I think there is immense value in engaging fully with a text and critiquing its ideological content and messaging. I will always defend this. I also think criticism of the author's life and politics is relevant to the criticism of their work.
But at the same time, my biggest fucking pet peeve is when people go "this classic is X and I refuse to engage with it" or "this author is X so I refuse to read anything by him". And I don't mean in real, day to day life. Read whatever you want for pleasure, I'm not here to tell you that you have a moral obligation to read books that you don't enjoy. But when we're in an academic setting, or in professional literary critique, or even serious intellectual conversation, that doesn't cut it. Because you are meant to use your critical thinking and interpretations skills. You have to go deeper.
Arguing that classic books should not be studied or analyzed anymore because they have sexist content is counterproductive. Because, although the classic canon is reflective of real world marginalizations and I agree it should be updated to include voices that have been historically pushed aside... The fact stands that those that are considered classics have a great deal of influence in posterior works and the development in a whole culture's literature. When you argue for taking an influential work of literature out, you are arguing for all of us who study literature history, or simply want to be educated in it, to lose an important piece of the puzzle. I find hundreds of books I studied to be severely flawed, sometimes even disgusting, but they gave me tools to interpret many posterior works better. They gave me a clear view of society, even if that view is bitter.
To illustrate my point. Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet, one of the most influential poets of Hispanic Post-Modernism and Nobel prize winner, was, by his own admission, a rapist. A few years ago, some of my university classmates organized a, let's say, campaign to pressure the deanery into taking his work entirely out of the syllabus. They argued, since this was a progressive institution, it was shameful to force students to read his works.
The thing is, I don't want to be shielded from the truth to the point where my higher education is incomplete. Where I cannot understand fully how a literary movement developed because my teachers have taken out authors that were key in its evolution. I want him to be reviled and the understanding of his work to be coloured by his extreme misogyny and selfishness. I want his accolades to be taken away and for him to be remembered as a disgusting rapist. While also being able to have a full picture when I inevitably encounter works influenced by his. I want to be able to know, and create my own opinion, instead of having a censor choose which works are apt to be read. If I am to practise feminist literary critique, I need to know. I need to have a full education, comparable to those of my peers, to those who come from a different university or school of criticism.
This is how critical thinking develops. You need the full picture. The good and the bad. Feminism cannot exist without critical thinking. It cannot exist without analyzing reality for what it is, and confronting it. Feminist literary critique is a difficult endeavour, oftentimes thankless and exhausting. It is looking again and again into the hatred and contempt men hold for women and have for centuries. It is engaging with it, confronting it. But it is worth it, and I believe that people who just throw the whole book away without reading it first because it's problematic are actively working against feminist literary criticism and erudition itself.
#literature#feminist literary criticism#the funny thing about all of this is that my university's literature department is full of feminist critics#and the people who spearheaded this campaign were unaware#because we are becoming so simple as a society that we only care about surface level easy to reach protests#instead of truly developing awareness and conscience#so this angry mob was actually attacking feminist teachers#which was just so fucking exhausting
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Lovecraft's Organism
HP Lovecraft was a racist, and I think this is important to bring up because his racism is really fundamental to how he conceived of horror; a large number of his fears are things that we actually live with every day and get by with just fine. Turns out that a lot of people are at least partially aware that they have a forebear who is a bastard or a total freak. While it’s easy to point to other writers of the time and talk about their problems —
Like Arthuer Machen? Probably had problem with women
— they aren’t nearly as directly related to the type of horror that author made. But Lovecraft’s horror, across almost all his stories are about encounters with an other, with inscrutable motivations that do not align with his. They are not about monsters that are cruel on purpose but about things that behave in a way so utterly indifferent to you that they regard nothing about you as having meaning but your potential digestion.
I have opinions on what traits a work has that make it Lovecraftian. It doesn’t need ornate or elaborate prose, it doesn’t need tentacles, it doesn’t need space or bugs or even the infinite scope of the cosmic. Lots of his stories weren’t and didn’t. What drives the heart of all Lovecraftian narratives was indifference.
Cthulhu does not hate you, Chthulu does not care about you. What hate exists in him is for the reality itself that works the way it does, frustration at his political position as high priest of a mad god that again, does not know or care about you. It is the scope of the antipathy that forms the foundation of Lovecraftian horror.
How do you explain colonialism?
I mean I know how I explain colonialism. I do so from the position of a person inside colonialism, beneficiary of colonialism, able to dispassionately describe the movements of ships and the political exchanges between countries. I can — and by default do! — think of colonialism as a thing that England did to the world. I know it’s not just England – almost all of the nations in Europe were colonial powers, and pretty much just Germany sat that one out because they didn’t exist during most of the era of colonialism. But it still is something where I can look at Australia, around me, and think of it in terms of ‘England put this here,’ and even if there are a series of injustices that put us here, it is still ultimately, the work of empires.
I am not in a position of power in the Empire. I am not a dominant power, but I am privileged, and part of how is that the world that colonialism shaped shaped itself, generally for the benefit of people who share my signifiers. In this regard, it is easy for me – easiest! – to treat colonialism as a thing that happened and it was this organisation of systems and it’s inhuman and terrible but I can just refer to it that way. You know, it’s a thing.
It was a thing.
I mean it’s kinda still a thing…
… but the way it’s described, as if the bulk of what it involved is a movement of blocks of a system. It is an anodyne and impersonal system, even though it is immensely cruel.
I don’t have a Colonised Person perspective. I mean I literally do – I exist in this place as I do because of sequential waves of colonised people being pushed around by the colonising system, but the people in my situation are the ones who were being exported from the heart of the empire. But I don’t live on a reservation. I don’t live in a housing comission. I don’t live in a space where the lineage of my history is a way of life that I have never known was destroyed and taken away from my forebears who would have given it to me, who would have raised me. I am pretty much exactly where Industrial England would have wanted me to be – I’m not quite as good a worker as they want, I’m not as Christian as they want, but I’m pretty much where that system wanted me to be.
Sadly, the thing I think of as the best example I can give of this mindset, of pivoting from this place where I’m sitting, is the movie Pocahontas. It was a conversation I had with Fox, on a podcast, about how the arrival of the colonists in New England was.
They were there to unravel themselves upon the land. They were there to convert what they saw into what they knew. They didn’t care about how things were here, they weren’t interested in that. They wanted to dig up the ground, strip the trees, push the people out, and turn what they found into what they left.
Their people would make claims about the way the world works, but not explain them. They would proffer things to you in exchange for things, and then those exchanges resulted in more of this unfurling, this transformation. Some – I mean functionally all – of the people were needlessly violent. They would say nice things, they would make deals, they would promise concessions and then they would ignore those deals and more, more, more of this cloud of what they were rolls out across reality.
In Shagghai, a story in the Lovecraft mythos by Lin Carter, the story describes the people of a world that Lovecraft called Chag-Hai. They were called the Shan, and they summoned a creature, a dreadful worm, for a reason that doesn’t matter – it was a giant worm, and when they couldn’t control it, and banish it, they just erected a pyramid over it, decorated with runes, a massive monument that they hoped would be enough for it. But down, down, down the worm went, and it started to eat the world, from the inside out.
Where they couldn’t see.
And didn’t have to look.
Lovecraft didn’t know what the colonialism of his life was doing. He didn’t realise it, because of course, he couldn’t. He was too close, he couldn’t see the shape of earth because he was standing on it, so small and insignificant. His work, his racism, his opinions, were all contrbutors to it – he was literally encouraging the rightness, the normacy of violent and terrible ongoing operations of colonialism. Lovecraft was afraid of a vast, indifferent engine that consumed people thoughtlessly in the name of an ongoing inscrutable benefit that no human mind could ever accept beyond a cultish worship.
The Doom of Shagghai eats, and nobody is okay with that, unless they have convinced themselves that its eating is an inherent good. The wealth bestowed by the ongoing action of colonialism, the harm of colonialism, was beyond anyone’s need. You can tell, because the people doing the impoverishing and maximally benefitting from it keep doing it and have gotten to the point of just stockpiling giant piles of money that don’t do anything, just in case they get a good idea.
The eating is the point.
The eating is good, actually.
The engine of colonialism, in which Lovecraft was a processing, straining, sanitising, exulting agent, was not a dispassionate sliding block or flowing dotted line of transferring information.
It was a digestion.
It is a digestion.
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“catch-22″ by joseph heller
finished: june 30, 2023
I DID IT, AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS IN MY ADOLESCENCE AND MAYBE 1-2 OTHER TIMES DURING MY TWENTIES, I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO READ THIS BOOK. ooooof, we’ve a lot to unpack here!
idk what it was about starting this book and not being able to keep going. i think my ability to not get through this book was probably one of the biggest indicators that traditional reading, while preferred, was not my most efficient way of capturing books and stories. i’m fine with that now, but it took me a long time and some significant ego death to get here. basically, i loved this book, it’s everything i always wanted from a war novel, it’s satire and whimsy and absurd and unchronological and the characters are not reliable narrators and the novel is relentlessly indirectly addressing so much about america, war, soldiers, and the human condition. all rolled into one book. supremely masterful.
my only criticism about the book is that i think it was too long. i do, however, love the way we were able to get so in depth with all the characters, all the angles that came with their decisions, and it wasn’t just solely focused on “yossarian good guy, we want to bring him home!” but there was so much more to it than that. i think the parts i didn’t particularly care for were the action scenes, but also some of the funniest moments were in there, too. idk, i might have a different opinion on this upon a second read, and this is a novel i’ve had a hardcopy of for years, so i will certainly be reading it again.
i also have to point out the irony of me reading this book right now, just before the 4th of july holiday. other war holidays (memorial day, labor day, veteran’s day {damn we have so many holidays about war and military huh lol}) maybe take a back seat to 4th of july this year, if for no other reason than the fourth falling on a tuesday this year, and therefore providing me a four day weekend instead of the usual three day weekend. as a child, i was a good lil american and would be excited to go see fireworks, we would have pie or whatever, my mom always bought us the newest line of old navy shirts with the american flag plastered all over them. as i grew into my own person and learned what america was really all about, specifically our military operations, i drifted away from this holiday and all its traditions. i don’t fight about it with my parents but it’s sort of like how my husband stopped going to church and his parents had a hard time accepting it at first, but eventually understood that was who he was; i don’t need this holiday and i don’t need to jerk off america. don’t get me wrong, love to all the soldiers and everything, but the principal of the matter is i don’t think anyone should die in war, ever, the fact that war even exists at all is so bizarre and insane to me. humans adapted over millions of years, learned to use tools and the resources available to us, built fires and homes and cities and made social structures and communities... all just to have it blasted away because of greed and racism, basically. tell me any war or “conflict” is about anything else, i dare you. it’s not. it’s always those two, sometimes both.
anyways, i grew up around my parents and my parents’ parents watching M*A*S*H and the like. my grandpa served in the army as well as other family friends and extended family members. near the end of my grandpa’s life, when i had enough curiosity and inquisition to ask about his military life is when he dwindled away to barely even being able to acknowledge it at all... so i never really got anything negative about war or the military, if anything it’s been super glorified throughout my life. queue soldiers coming to high school campuses to recruit, 9/11, and more friends and family joining different branches of the government and it’s been quite a different story. all that is to say that i’ve never felt comfortable with the idea of war, or even organized military, and these days i “celebrate” my long fourth of july weekends with my husband and cats, not seeking out fireworks and not wearing any flags. i think the last time i wore an american flag was when i was 16, i’m ashamed to admit that but it’s true.
catch-22 and joseph heller provides exactly the counterpoints to military operations that we need to hear. unfortunately, like most well-intentioned novels, the people who need to hear these ideas most are the least likely to be exposed or actually think critically about it. they are the next major major majors and will eventually become major major major majors in their obedience and loyalty, unless they get unalived in combat first. i deeply love how some parts of this novel were so whimsy and absurd, but that ending with snowden is gut-wrenching. also the alley scene in italy... with the SA. if you’ve read the book, you know the one. joseph heller is a remarkable author and i would be interested in other works of his but this is definitely an immediate favorite of mine.
the audiobook i borrowed on libby also had an extra 40 minutes of joseph heller reading selections from the novel and maaaaaaaan i wish i could buy this section alone and/or see him perform it with my own eyes. heck, it inspires me to recreate some of his prose and monologues. the back and forth between some of the characters becomes so painstaking that you can’t help but laugh. great book, immediate favorite, can’t wait to read it again and if you are like me and somehow got by 3 decades in life without finishing this book... HERE’S YOUR SIGN.
now i’m gonna reblog a bunch of things that resonated with me, but i know my favorite parts aren’t rebloggable. just read it, guys! for the love of humanity.
rating: 10/10 this deeply resonated with me, i will re-read it again numerous times and recommend it to anyone i know, the story and characters will stick with me forever; crave discussing it all the time and bring it up unprovoked
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