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I've seen the same post a hundred times now. Sometimes it's a few days old, sometimes it's from years ago, but it's always the same. Some anti posts about how they don't understand how anyone can like Snape because he was so awful, and then there's a long reply that goes something like, "imagine this happens to you, and then this, and then this" to describe Snape's experience. Sometimes there's some James Potter hate thrown in.

Look. You can go through describing a character's entire experience but you don't really need to. Here's the thing that antis don't understand:

For all her faults (and they're big, bigoted ones) Rowling understood a really integral part of the human experience and conveyed it through Snape. Everyone needs love and to feel accepted. It's that simple. Snape became a Death Eater to seek acceptance (Rowling has confirmed this, though I can't remember the source - whoever wants to add it please do), because it was the only way he could find any.

Snape's understanding of morality, like everyone's, is subjective. Some readers understand this and some don't. When faced against a morality that says there is good and bad in the world, everyone makes choices based on their personal experience. Context is everything. Someone who experiences pain and suffering will not see the person inflicting it on them as moral. That's it. 'How can this person be good when they caused me so much suffering?' = human psychology. Most of the people who think 'I'm a bad person and deserve this' have been gaslit and abused into thinking so, because it's not a natural reaction - it's one that has to often be socialized into someone at a young age, exactly because it's not natural. Everyone is the hero of their own story; no one sees themselves as a villain, because they see the valid aspects of their own perspective.

You can write essays on how vulnerable people needing acceptance is what cults and fascists exploit to recruit vulnerable people, or on how the standard anti's un-nuanced reading of Snape both ignores canon and displays a disturbing lack of empathy or compassion, but at its core it just boils down to context. From Snape's perspective he experienced cruelty, therefore the people inflicting it must be cruel. Again, it's that simple. He was a person, like any other, except he was fictional so he wasn't even real. On the flip side is James Potter, who, for all his faults, didn't get to live long enough to get a chance to change and grow unlike Snape, and I think the Snapedom also needs to acknowledge that.

They're fictional characters representing things an author wants to say, not sports teams, not martyrs, and not all good or all bad emblems that define your identity depending on how you feel about them. It's depressing how much time is wasted arguing with bullies and trolls whether from the Marauders fandom or just random antis. I literally can't find more than three blogs to follow without this argument coming across my feed daily. I know the Snapedom is Not OK™ and that's kind why we're all here, and I know that my take is super unpopular but like Snape, I don't care what others think: this fandom has been having the exact same argument for years and nothing has changed. There's fanart and meta and fic and so much content out there appreciating this character, you're not going to change an anti's mind who's deliberately trolling in the tags, so why are you trying? What are you getting out of it? What does it give you? It's exhausting just scrolling past it.

casualtare!! hittin the town!!!!!

"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not be a fool, which, if I may judge by the exhibitions around me, is a matter of no small difficulty."

-- James A. Garfield, future President and then a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, in a letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale, one of Garfield's former students at Ohio's Hiram College, January 1, 1867

suddenly remembering how badly carrot was mistreated at the end of wano

i like when people are like ‘well my hot take about *insert piece of media* is that *something that is not a hot take or even a take at all and is in fact literally just what the piece of media is about*’

last things for tonite i gotta go eep 

uhm its been a while since i doodled. Fashion things ^_^ i am dressing them up with png’s like dolls <3

when ur movie is specifically abt subverting the trope of villains in media by having ur main characters be identified by the public as the villains and having them fit into character design & personality tropes that are typically reserved only for villains, but treating them as sympathetic 3 dimensional characters who are forced into their role as villains by society. who eventually work together to publicly oust a character who the public saw as a "good guy" as being a person who was using the supposed "bad guys" as a scapegoat to place blame on for their own bad actions and to redirect public outcry towards so as to draw attention away from themselves. and uses this as a baseline to tell a moral abt discrimination, prejudice, and the importance of police/prison reform....... and then some idiot on the internet discraces ur complex message abt morality with a fucking "good to evil" listicle

Went from loving these guys:

To loving these guys:

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

it’s so funny when people say that tomura had an actual plan how to tear down hero society after mva because THE PLAN WAS LITERALLY RE-DESTRO’S. tomura, my sweet child, bless him, didn’t have anything except for ‘oh cool, an army. let’s do whatever we want and destroy shit’ and almost immediately fucked off to be marinated in the nomufication juice for the next 4 months.

A commanding officer of Oardivia’s Law Enforcement, Phymakros was elected into his current position by the Council in part due to his brutal efficiency and quick thinking. He’s intimidating and tough, able to keep lower rank officers in line and subdue some of the most rebellious mechs with his imposing stature alone.

Despite being so intimidating to the point even Royal Blue (who does his best to get along with everyone) feels uncomfortable in his presence, Phymakros is arguably very good at his job.

Beware, for he is always watching.

My current analysis of deep space nine is that the six degrees of separation rule is applicable to everyone on the station, but instead of just knowing someone (which is easy when living in a space port with people going on and off) it is that that everyone has slept with someone who has slept with someone else etcetera, so all residents on the station are six one night stands (or less) away from each other.

Why are the Anemoi Iterators considered so much more powerful than the rest?

they are like an added commanding level of the hierarchy of the Eo group

the Anemoi level didn't become a thing until Euros came around- it was a way for the Ancients to ensure he'd be respected n listened to by the older ones too. so it kind of goes around the pre-existing "listen to the older Iterator" thing. it is especially helpful to Notos and Haboob though

the Anemoi's job is to be there as like the first people others can come to when in need- so for example, if Step has an issue with something, he will always be able to have Three people without an issue there: the Senior (this falls from Zeph to Boreas n Boreas throws all that at Orion), his chosen Mentor and Euros, Notos or Haboob will Be There they also are guaranteed to have the best equipment available as soon as the blueprints are up for buying (except Zeph ofc) so, again, they are going to be reliable to offer help to others they can also sorta do the Senior thing of forcing communications but it's not as strong and undeniable as the Senior's n if one is clever enough they can block it

the Absolutely main reason for their lift above the other Iterators though is connected to the Ancients. the Anemoi have their own specialized groupchat and are meant to share absolutely everything they experience with other Anemoi there. that + their memories are accessable to the Aeolus Council. so if Anything goes Slightly in a way the Council doesn't like, they can take action (whether that is finding out a certain Iterator has been having issues with that n that hardware n they send help Or if an Iterator figures out/acts out certain way so they can be put in line again n not start shit)

so: normal Iterator -> Notos -> Anemoi groupchat/its memory -> the Aeolus Council will now know about it in Euros' case it can be: normal Iterator -> Phone Operator member -> Euros (as the POG chief) -> Anemoi groupchat/his memory -> the Council now knows about it

the Anemoi status means jackshit to the other groups. Haboob is just some mid-time Gen 3 and she will listen to anyone older than her from outside whether she wants to or not

whats cooking?

(wip) (yes the same piece as the cl i posted a bit ago)

punting the unit leaders to twisted wonderland as an experiment to see what's stronger: a bunch of mentally unstable teenage boys (and one young adult [leona]) who are five seconds away from having a mental breakdown or a group that consists of four teen girls and one teen boy who have hatsune miku as a therapist.