Badges I made over the last few weeks

the realization that the eggs have been gone since before etoiles started showing corruption from the code. what do you mean pomme was worried because of the code cracks over his eye?what do you mean it hasn’t been there this whole time? what do you mean time had passed without them, and they cannot just pretend like there weren’t changes to both parent and child in their absence?

it’s still funny to me that some people are So opposed to the idea of multiple timelines in ST/they think it’s So farfetched as if this isn’t literally the Timeline Weirdness Show where they talk about the idea of multiple timelines and time travel every 5 seconds. Like. Saying that you don’t believe that there’s another timeline in ST is like saying that you don’t believe that there’s hobbits in LOTR

afternoon ponderings

Don't be a pendant and a hypocrite. On the one hand you always accuse Israelis of being Europeans (European Jews who lost two thirds of their population) and now you are pretending Israelis (almost 75% Jewish) were affected by holocaust is a lie. And if you are going to deflect by pointing out that Israel has unequal wealth distribution (like literally every other country in the world) to criticize Israel, meanwhile Hamas has a revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars and their leaders are billionaires yet Gazans rot in poverty. And there's a difference between Israel attacking Hamas targets hiding among civilians too take them out vs Hamas attacking Israeli civilians because they want to genocide the Jewish population. You don't understand the difference between war and genocide and everytime someone points out the double standards you tokenize a few Jews to keep doing the hypocrisy.

i wrote a whole thing but tumblr glitched out and honestly someone as dishonest as u doesnt deserve my time so let me summarise

true: israel was formed by european jewish people, and zionism is a european ideology.

false: israel was formed by holocaust survivours

also false: zionism was formed by holocaust survivours

also false: zionism was an ideology that came as a result of the holocaust

true: there are holocaust survivours & their descendants who live in israel today

false: the holocaust was an attack on israelis, a group of people who didnt even exist when the holocaust was ongoing

true: a huge percentage of the european jewish community was killed in a genocide (the holocaust)

false: a huge percentage of the israeli population, who again didnt exist as an entity during the holocaust, were killed in a genocide.

to anyone with two brain cells to rub together, theres an obvious distinction between claiming israel lost 2/3rds of its population to the holocaust and claiming european jewish people, many of whom are not israeli, lost 2/3rds of their population to the holocaust. the former is intentionally misrepresenting history to justify an ongoing genocide, the latter is the reality of the situation.

when you can only justify israel by pointing at hamas, then you’ve already lost. i already oppose hamas, so your counterargument doesnt work. if the bar is so low that you can only justify yourself by pointing to an extremist islamist group then perhaps you already know how morally decrepit you & your genocidal movement are. dismissing the same holocaust survivours you pretend to care for by saying its mere “income inequality” that 1/3rd of holocaust survivours in israel are impoverished shows exactly how much you care about holocaust survivours. its beyond sick using survivours of a genocide to justify another genocide, while proving that you actually dont care for those survivours to begin with.

hamas didnt exist when israel raped and massacred and expelled palestinians in 1948. it doesnt exist in the west bank, where thousands of palestinians were kidnapped & 100s killed & thousands displaced due to settler violence that is backed by the IDF. israel choosing to attack UN buildings, schools, residential buildings, hospitals, and the same “safe routes” they tell palestinians to do to with no attempts to minimise civilian casualties isnt somehow justifiable when you pretend its all done to get hamas. israel killing palestinians and injuring many more in 2018 when palestinians protested peacefully cant be justified by hamas. starving all of gaza and withholding water & fuel & electricity cant be justified by hamas. several israeli politicians outright calling for the genocide of palestinians in gaza isnt somehow justified bc of hamas.

“few jews” please keep pretending like jewish people are all pro-genocide and occupation while pretending like im the unreasonable one here.

people like you who justify genocide in the face of this much evidence are monsters, plain & simple. you are disgusting.

Predictably bringing things round to Star Wars but. Overall I enjoyed Andor a lot, right? Specifically relevant to this conversation, it was more politically interesting and incisive than I generally expect from Star Wars and certainly from Disney.

And they came so close to doing it right. Poor Bix saying You're not going to believe me anyway, are you? Dedra acknowledging that no, she isn't going to trust any information that hasn't been obtained via torture. Which tells you everything you need to know about ISB and/or Imperial ideology. Which is chilling and realistic.

And then they immediately RUIN it, with improbably-high-tech sci-fi torture that is not only infallible in the minds of the ISB (ideology is a hell of a drug), but genuinely successful at eliciting information in-narrative.

Compare this to the OT's treatment of torture with Leia lying through her teeth to Tarkin and Vader, or Han mumbling They never even asked me any questions.

Idk I just. Think a lot about the difference 40-odd years makes.

He's looking at me like i did something wrong and I don't like that...

Cryptid Spotted 👆

when Luke introduced Ash tonight and said “oh! Some drummer fans in the house!” after the crowd cheered it’s bc he knew I was there

🤔 Whereas beasts are often scared by fire, some of them can even use it: like Beast-Possessed Soul, Loran Silverbeast and Watchdogs of the Old Lords (yeah they're listed as beasts too)! The latter one is especially interesting since they have 'lava blood' just like beast Laurence! Loran Clerics are also not beasts per say but are already transforming into them. I think if Pthumerians learned and internalised pyromancy then so could someone else, especially considering Laurence's proximity with Eldrich stuff as well. And.. well, being a cleric too, I guess...

On the other hand, it could be linked to some genetics that consuming the holy blood helped to 'reveal'. Maria, like other Vilebloods, descends from Pthumeru Ihyll, so human+pthumerian is a thing anyways!

At the same time, there is some 'logic' in how Nightmare Realm punishes people. Maria was returned back into her dreaded Hunter state after having forsaken the hunt in reality and is next to relevant items on her table - Pthumeru Chalice and a picture from Old Hunters Workshop. If Laurence's biggest remorse was commanding burning Old Yharnam it could've manifested this way! Or it could come from the victims cursing him for this act the most.

I stumbled across a Fatebreakers Arilio render in my images folder that I prepared last April, couldn't actually share for its intended purpose/with the other Fatebreakers until July because that was when we actually got to the story moment it depicts, and promptly never actually posted here as far as I can discern because that was around the time that I moved blogs

..would anyone here like to see it

There are so many reasons that Barba defending Wheatley was a dumb ass choice for the show.

But. One that really, really bugs me is his doing it to protect Olivia. And while it's so paternalistic and annoying it's not what really gets my goat.

No. It's the fact that we're supposed to believe that Rafael Barba did not prepare and plan for the eventuality that a defense attorney would question her credibility waaay back in 2014 when her confession press conference first aired.

Or at least once she was not indicted and was back on the job.

There is NO WAY he did not run thru this possibility with Liv at the time. No way he did not come up with strategies. No way he didn't fucking grill her on handling these questions, getting comfortable with some verbal tap dancing to avoid committing further perjury but not actual admit to the perjury committed at the Lewis trial.

NO WAY he just crossed his fingers that it would never come up during a trial.

Also, we're expected to believe that no defense attorney went after her about this on cross? For what, 8 fucking years? That the first time any of the various defense attorneys brought it up was because...Richard Wheatley was the defendant?

Not any of the high powered or connected defendants that have been tried in the past 8 years? Just an attorney for Wheatley would play that card.

Yeah fucking right. Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.

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do you guys ever think about how different the content creator space be if people talked things out between themselves before going onto social media platforms with huge followings of people who’ll defend them to the ends of the earth and labeled someone else something that will forever change every single creator involved and the community’s perception of them over something that just might possibly be a uncomfortable misunderstanding

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love the amount of dynamics in yellowjackets that are Not ships but just grief. lottielee isn't a ship to me it's lottie's guilt and grief and first loss that haunts her decades into the future. shaunajackie similarly is That. and that's just the two i care most about

i know everything about Jonathan Crane (/lh) and Im here to tell you he doesnt typically steal books, but he does steal thousands of dollars to buy books. (what book are you looking for maybe i can help)

That works for me. Sign me up, Captain.

Also, thanks for the offer of assistance. I was just looking at prices for new science textbooks and felt a little evil.

If I were to become a supervillain, it would be so that I could hoard textbooks.