a total solar eclipse occurred on august 21st, 1914

Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe that most people did not give a shit about before February of 2022: *gets invaded by Russia*

American teenagers on social media who have never stepped foot outside of their state: "Oh shit, I am gonna die in WWIII, I am so scared, this is awful"

Poland after getting accidentally hit with Russian missiles and having two citizens die from it: *calls to invoke article 4 (NOT 5!!!)*

American teenagers, again: "Is this the start of WWIII?! I don't want to be drafted into war, I am gonna die, we are all gonna die!"

Like.

For fucks sake.

I know, I know, a truly radical idea, but maybe, JUST maybe, look critically at this situation and realize that this is not about you! You are not in any danger, sitting in your home in Bumsfuckville, state of New Noonegivesashitaboutit, on the other side of the fucking planet.

Po prostu, zamknijcie mordy.

EDIT: This post got a bit of attention, so I wanna remind people that yeah, complaining about Americans and making fun of them is fine and pretty much the sole purpose of this post, but inciting violence against them is NOT fine. *Yes, I am looking at some people in the tags.* 

@lamnaythesecond's Alora: Bounty hunter, Farmhand, Recent Obsession of the Rancher's Daughter. Thank you for commissioning another Lekku Badass, I hope I did her justice <3

if you're wondering why I kind of abandoned this blog, there's several reasons (fandom just doesn't feel fun anymore, I'm trying to cut back on screen time, I've been feeling like my faith is in contradiction to what I see/read/interact with on here is for years and years now) but the final straw has been what I see on my dash every day about Israel/Palestine.

I keep seeing people I used to interact with and used to like now peddling conspiracy theories, debunked claims, inflammatory headlines, and even bloodthirsty rhetoric with tens of thousands of notes (when corrections of those posts get ~500 notes at best), and reacting to nuanced conversations like they're calls for hatred, all while turning a blind eye to the very literal vicious hatred or sheer ignorance in many of those big posts. The level of black-and-white thinking is so strong that we are wayyyy past 'us-vs-them,' we're in the kind of discourse where even 'know thy enemy' (being interested in understanding the opposing arguments even just so you can dismantle them) is considered hatred - people can't be bothered to know what they're arguing for or against, nothing short of plugging your ears and screaming for the death of the Bad People is enough. This is a wave of just about the most hypocritical, callous and uninformed 'activism' this website has ever been guilty of and it's too much. I'm done with this.

And yes, this is about antisemitism. You can all shout 'not antisemitic, just anti-zionist' all day long but you have done jack shit to prove you don't hate Jews beside chanting 'punch a nazi' in the same breath you use KKK slurs and cheer for groups that have 'curse the Jews' in their slogan. I trust none of you anymore.

I just want biden to know that him being a ‘trump alternative’ is not a sufficient enough reason for him to be re-elected and he can stop making that shit his only personality trait.

okay but you can’t tell me that at least one of the cantinas/saloons on tatooine didn’t have some kind of star wars equivalent of a mechanical bull (mechanical krayt dragon maybe??) and that my hickboy beloved luke skywalker wasn’t down there every weekend getting sloshed and absolutely rodeoing the shit outta that thing- like there is a plaque out there with his name on it for being the krayt dragon riding champion of mos eisley (you also can’t tell me that at some point he didn’t try to brag that fact up to din and din just laughed and was like ‘i kinda wrangled a real one once’ and that lukes head almost exploded from how hot that is)

hey! ik you have a big following, and you’ve mentioned visiting israel and palestine on school trips— i really think your voice would be valuable in speaking out on the injustices happening in that region. you always speak so eloquently on race/gender issues on your blog and i’m really interested in hearing your take! plus i think your platform is large enough to really make a good stand!

i appreciate that you sent this ask, and i appreciate that you thought of me. i agree with everything you’re saying, and i wanted to respond to this immediately because of that, even if i don’t have much of an answer to share.

i’ve studied the conflict for years and, like you said, was in israel and palestine (as in the territories named as such) six months ago; i was at the gaza border in may. i actually disqualified myself from birthright because i wanted to be able to go on academic dispensation specifically (i couldn’t go to the west bank otherwise). i study sociology and jewish studies in my degree program. i’m jewish, i’m south asian, i come from a family of refugees, i come from a family of jains, i come from a family of, like, californians, i come from a family with just as many intersections as any other. suffice to say, i have a lot, a lot of emotions tied up in the levant.

the thing is, because i’ve studied it for so long, and because i study sociology specifically, i also know that saying something before i’ve processed it well enough is irresponsible. this conflict is wrapped up in linguistics; the wording you use is everything. i’m really aware of that, i’m also really aware that i’m not in a place where i feel comfortable enough to articulate myself properly. for my own safety, for responsibility’s sake, and because i’m aware of how nuanced and linguistically fucked discussing this conflict is, i don’t want to make a large statement on it while i’m not in a place to do so.

what i will say for now is that if you’re viewing this conflict as a soccer game between two teams, you are not viewing this conflict in a humanist way. normal civillians, palestinian, druze, samaritan, jewish, israeli arab, armenian, any normal person who lives in the land, should be the only “team” you’re on the side of. listen to people who are from the land, read sources in arabic, read sources in hebrew, read multiple perspectives in multiple languages for every event you want to understand better. understanding how important history, generational trauma, and narrative are in this conflict is essential to understanding why any of this is happening, and if anyone says there’s a simpler way to do it, there’s not. no one tribe in the land can leave, and no one tribe in the land deserves anything less than peace and self determination. personally, my first thought about war is how much i care about people, not which state i feel like backing.

i may post more on tumblr, i may post more on other platforms, i may choose keep my activism in-person rather than purely online. navigating all of this while also being pretty devastated and horrified is complex, and i ask for understanding.

Diaboromon, Digimon the Movie

Cody makes Obi-Wan slow dance with him in the kitchen to old country songs.

Their official dancing song is Silver Stallion, The Highwaymen. Cody absolutely nails the vocals.

white western europeans are so funny. they really think they're better than the big mean american crackers )': I am so serious you people are worse than canadians with your unearned superiority complex. the ones who aren't just blatantly & openly racist completely downplay the prevalence of the ones who are. sit down gretal 93% of the ethnostate town you grew up in was polled saying romani deserve a second holocaust

Since you need to concentrate to use the Force in Star Wars, a startlingly effective Force suppressant would just be weed

Edelgard’s lack of interest in looking into the history of Fodlan beyond what her (dubiously reliable) father and (fantasy Nazi torture squad) TWSITD tell her is such a clear and glaring character flaw that so many of her “did nothing wrong” fans defend as Good, Actually. Like I can’t wrap my head around it, we know that there’s so much about the history of the continent that El either doesn’t or refuses to learn and while it’s understandable in some ways why she can’t it’s still like. Bad. It’s so clear that if her actual goal was liberation then she would’ve done more research, gone to the church and told them that hey, the Slitherers™️ are at it again and we need to do something. But she doesn’t, because that’s not actually her goal… it’s conquest of the other two nations and an overturning of the current system to favor her (mostly already privileged) friends, plain and simple. But people who either didn’t play any routes but CF or just didn’t pay attention/have poor media analysis skills love to say otherwise. Bluh.

I still can't get over how she was tortured and lost all her siblings to TWSITD and decided that the CHURCH was the biggest threat.

Edelgard 100% believes she is in the right and is the ONLY person who is right and thus is the ONLY person who can bring about change. And with "change" I mean "unify Fodlan and bring it under the control of the Adrestian Empire like it was in the past".

At no point does she consider that Wilhelm's history could've been tampered with, or simply been misunderstood after a whole millenia has passed. And why not? Because it's the only thing that drives her hatred for the church, and if it was disproven then she has no leg to stand on? Probably!

i watch people react to the lotr movies on youtube sometimes - just for my personal relaxation - and this one guy just said "maybe this is presumptuous but why can't they just make a new, even stronger ring that controls all the other ones plus the one ring?" and, holy shit. why don't they just keep making even stronger rings. apart from all the lore and storytelling reasons for why that's not possible under those specific circumstances, i wanna send a complete stranger the wikipedia article for "arms race" so so so fucking badly 😂

Quite an insensitive meme you decided to reblog for all your followers to see. I don't know what was the reason behind poking fun at people who died for their country, but hey, I sure hope that if or when some other country decides to eradicate your entire nation simply because they believe every citizen of your motherland doesn't deserve to live, none would "die for your country".

Have some fucking world events awareness man.

When people talk about theirs beliefs with confidence , they look cool . When people talk about beliefs in a rational way but you can hear / feel emotions in their words , they sound reliable

im beast warsing ouuuuut