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Please don’t fuck this up, America 🔹🙏😬🔹

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AGATHA ALL ALONG | 1.04 + TUMBLR REACTIONS

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One small detail I really liked from The Marvels is that they changed Monica's eyes from glowing blue to purple.

I don't really know how to properly put this into words, but I'll try. I remember feeling a little bit disappointed that Monica's eyes turned blue in wandavision. Something about how blue eyes are so coveted and I know so many people (even myself at one point) who put on colored contacts to have blue eyes. It's seen as "prettier" than dark brown/black eyes.

But then in The Marvels, they changed it to a more unnatural eye color, purple. It's not trying to fit a feature that usually belongs to a group of people (white people) to someone who's... not. I just watched an interview with Teyonah Parris about how she always wants to show her natural hair (aka not straightening her hair) in her roles and this feels like it fits that ideology.

I just thought it was a nice little touch.

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Teyonah trying her suit on for the first time

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I think the fact that The Marvels is still trending on Tumblr even after all those articles about how it's "the worst opening weekend for Marvel ever" means that it is a good, nay, GREAT movie! The people here don't (usually) make something trending because it's awful, they do because they love it!

Go watch the movie, it's a fun one, I promise. Unless you hate women or whatever then I can't help you.

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When I was watching the movie, I kept saying Kamala is just as I was! (Maybe even still a little bit even though I'm in my 30s shh). This is just how teenage girls act. It's pretty dang accurate and I'm so not sorry Mark didn't get that.

Wait, the teenage girl character whose core part of her character is being a Captain Marvel fangirl to the point her superhero name is literally a nod to Captain Marvel…acts like a teenage fangirl around Carol Danvers? Oh the horror!

If you didn’t watch Ms Marvel, Mark, it’s okay to admit it 🤷🏻

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when a film has more cats than white men, you know it's a good one

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This is my experience as well growing up in Indonesia.

Here's an anecdote. I love musicals and when I was in the States, I watched The Prince of Egypt and loved the song When You Believe. (That movie never aired in Indonesia for antisemitic reasons.) When I came back, I was singing it and got to the chorus where the children sang in Hebrew. My friends didn't know what language I was singing in, and when I told them it was the language of the Yahudi (Jews) they were flabbergasted, almost angry. I was so confused. I told them it's just a language, just like Arabic is the language we use in Islam. You don't even know what it means and you're immediately so negative about it just because of the language?

In my naivety, (I was 14 maybe at the time) I had completely forgotten just how much Indonesian Muslims think of the Jews as the enemy. Some people use Yahudi as an insult. And it made me sad because I had a close Jewish friend in middle school. She invited me to her bat mitzvah even though I didn't end up going for some reason that I can't remember. And she can't be evil the way my teacher in school tells me they are.

It's one of the many reasons I started to reject organized religion in any way, shape, or form. I can't get behind any group of people that would generalize others like that. Yes, some of them are very very bad people. But to say that all Jews are as evil as the worst of them? How is that any different than the Islamophobia we've experienced?

Guess what, we can help and fight for Palestine without having to resort to the same things that have been done to Muslims after 9/11.

Antisemitism and Islamophobia are very similar (if not the same), actually

So I was scrolling down the #palestine tag for any updates and important information, and I came across this:

And I think we need to sit down and talk about this.

I am a Muslim. I live in Indonesia, a country that is predominantly Muslim and a lot of Muslims here also support the Palestinian cause. Hell, even our government supports it by not only allowing Palestinian goods enter the country without fee, but also taking in Palestinian refugees and even acknowledging the status of Palestine as a state while not having any political ties with Israel. The topic of the Palestinian tragedy has been spoon-fed to us at schools, sermons, media, etc., so your average Indonesian Muslim would at the very least be aware of the conflict while non-Muslims would hear about it from their Muslim friends or through media.

However, there is a glaring problem. One that I keep seeing way too often for my liking.

A lot of them are antisemitic as hell. The sermons I would hear sometimes demonize Jewish people. Antisemitic statements are openly said out loud on social media. Some are even Nazi supporters who would literally go to anime cons and COSPLAY as members of the Nazi party. This is not just an Indonesian Muslim problem, no, but this is a glaring issue within the global Islamic community as a whole. Today, this sense of antisemitism is usually rooted in general hatred towards the Israeli government and its actions against the people of Palestine, but antisemitism amongst Muslims are also rooted in certain interpretations of verses from the Qur'an and Hadith mentioning Jewish people and Judaism (particularly the Bani Israil), but in a way that is more ridiculing instead of life-threatening when compared to how antisemitism looks like in the Western world.

As someone who prefers to become a "bridge" between two sides in most cases, I find this situation to be concerning, to say the least. While, yes, it is important for us Muslims to support Palestine and fight against injustice, we must not forget that not every Jewish people support the Israeli government. A lot of them are even anti-Zionists who actively condemn Israel and even disagree with the existence of Israel as a state as it goes against their teachings. A lot of them are also Holocaust survivors or their descendants, so it is harmful to think for one second that Hitler's actions and policies were justified. It's just like saying that Netanyahu is right for his decision to destroy Palestine and commit war crime after war crime towards the Palestinians.

As Muslims, we also need to remember that Jewish people (the Yahudi) are considered ahli kitab, i.e. People Of The Book along with Christians (the Nasrani). The Islam I have come to know and love has no mentions of Allah allowing us to persecute them or anyone collectively for the actions of a few. While, yes, there are disagreements with our respective teachings I do not see that as an excuse to even use antisemitic slurs against Jewish people during a pro-Palestine rally, let alone support a man who was known for his acts of cruelty toward the Jewish community in WW2. They are still our siblings/cousins in faith, after all. Unless they have done active harm like stealing homes from civilians or celebrating the destruction of Palestine or supporting the Israeli government and the IOF or are members of the IOF, no Jewish people (and Christians, for that matter) must be harmed in our fight against Zionism.

Contemporary antisemitism is similar to (if not straight up being the exact same thing as) contemporary Islamophobia, if you think about it; due to the actions of a select few that has caused severe harm towards innocent people, an entire community has been a target of hate. Even when you have tried to call out the ones supporting such cruelties, you are still getting bombarded by hate speech. It's doubly worse if you're also simultaneously part of a marginalized group like BIPOC, LGBTQ+, etc. as you also get attacked on multiple sides. This is where we all need to self-reflect, practice empathy, and unlearn all of the antisemitism and unjustified hatred that we were exposed to.

So, do call out Zionism and Nazism when you see it. Call out the US government for funding this atrocity and others before it that had ALSO triggered the rise of Islamophobia. Call your reps. Go to the streets. Punch a fascist if you feel so inclined. Support your local businesses instead of pro-Israel companies.

But not at the cost of our Jewish siblings. Not at the cost of innocent Jewish people who may also be your allies. If you do that, you are no different from a MAGA cap-wearing, gun-tooting, slur-yelling Islamophobe.

That is all for now, may your watermelons taste fresh and sweet.

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Salam Semangka, Penco

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Lawful evil but more like memorizing roughly where I was (a third of the way, halfway through, etc) then flipping and scanning until I get to exactly where I left off.

True neutral crew. 🔖

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Every time aabria dms in the dome she always brings something new and inspires every dm after her. What a legend.

brennan entering the dome: yeah we’ll change the lighting depending on if we’re roleplaying or in combat, maybe get up to a little projection action as time goes on

aabria entering the dome: so we’re gonna need a hyperrealistic bear carcass,

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Because the “shrodinger’s queerbait” nonsense will never go away, indulge me an analogy (and a long post).

wlw ships are the “made from scratch” cake in a world where we only ever expect cake mix from the box.

Say you have a show where, in the first interaction between a male and female character, there is a red box. It could be a Betty Crocker box of cake mix. Because all it takes is just one smile — one wink — one raised eyebrow— and the fans don’t question it. We’re clearly making a cake here. The box is red.

Meanwhile, you have two female characters building their own relationship that have elements that could build to romance. There are eggs in the fridge. A few more episodes, there’s flour in the pantry. Sugar. Baking powder. Queer fans start whispering…we could be making a cake here. Other fans scoff “you will read into anything. They’re just eggs! Everyone has eggs in their fridge!” Maybe so, maybe not. They are written off as discrete ingredients, nothing to see here.

That red box is still sitting in the pantry. Obviously we’re going with that one, and it’s definitely cake mix. That guy and girl stood next to each other again.

The wlw relationship is now full-on batter. It was a cake recipe all along, but it’s not baked yet. The crowd that wrote off every ingredient is now saying the writers are just going to “squander” that box that could be ready-made cake mix or that they’re being “forced” to bake a cake with the very ingredients the writers deliberately bought and put in their pantry.

Now it’s in the oven, the cake is baking. That crowd will still insist it’s forced, or maybe its actually something else, or it’s rushed, or it’s pandering. Whether the writers painstakingly built a pantry to make the cake they truly wanted or they were cultivating good ingredients and realized they had the fixings for a more decadent cake and went there, it doesn’t matter. It’s still a recipe. One that fans who always have to piece together ingredients had hoped for or saw from the get-go, despite being scoffed at and disparaged. Just because that crowd didn’t see (or refused to see) those ingredients as part of a whole, doesn’t make it any less of a recipe.

And wlw fans shouldn’t have to keep writing essays to demonstrate that the wlw “cake” has all the ingredients every cake mix does, or keep pointing out that fans were ready to believe a cake was being baked when they saw a nondescript box, but that they’ll do anything to discredit or doubt the cake from scratch that’s now cooling off on the counter.

It is partly a function of heteronormativity from the audience in immediately seeing romance in any whisper of interaction between m/f characters and passing off all charged interactions between female characters are sisterly or platonic. And it also comes from writers, who are either being cautious so as not to spook corporate overlords or audiences, or who are preserving plausible deniability.

To take the analogy further, box cake mix is fine! It works! It is, practically speaking, what a lot of folks know by default. I thought I was a Duncan Hines girl once myself. Vanilla cake mix has the ingredients measured out, it’s a safe bet, it tastes like cake.

But it doesn’t mean every red box is cake mix. And it doesn’t make the cake that had to be pieced together from scratch due to censorship, caution, time, narrative build-up, what-have-you, any less of a cake.

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Lou and Erika where y'all at with air and heart??

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one of the most unexpected things acofaf has given me is an incredible awareness of the concept of a room going so quiet you could hear a pin drop, which is a phrase i fully comprehended the implications of, but never truly believed a genuine occurrence until this very season.

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"HOLY SHIT, 9/11 WAS 20 YEARS AGO??" SAYS MAN WHO WITNESSED THE EVENTS FIRSTHAND

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Coming January 2024…