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ok so generally I relegate all of my political activism to my IRL life—shocking though it may be that I have one—because, whilst I appreciate the importance of online messaging and discourse, there's so much more I can do than scream into a tumblr echo chamber to an audience of like maaaaaaybe max 200 people on a fucking yugioh fanblog. so long as I can be out on the street under my real name and using my real voice, I will be

but holy shit I saw this post on my dash today and had to say something bc some people on here are straight up evil and I felt insane not saying anything

screenshotted down below w/ thoughts under the read more bc I don't want to do OP the service of reblogging this piece of shit garbage. also it literally does not matter, but disclaimer: I am Jewish lol.

[tw Zionism, genocide apologism, israel apologism, mentioned antisemitism]

like there's so much wrong with this that it's hard to decide where to begin, but paragraphs 4-5 are easily the most egregious. if you genuinely believe that a genocide can only qualify as such if an arbitrary number of its intended victims are dead—and, conversely, that we can counter accusations of genocide by suggesting that too many of them are alive for it to "count"—then you're a piece of shit, and straight up replicating the logic of Holocaust denial to boot. you could make—and trust me, PEOPLE HAVE MADE—the exact same fucking argument about the post-WWII Jewish population.

it is absolutely undeniable that the express intent of the Zionist state is to reclaim the entirety of "the promised land" at any cost, which necessarily means ridding that territory of Palestinians (and all other Arabs, let's be so fucking for real) to make room for ethnic Jews. to believe otherwise is to buy into the ahistorical mythology of Israel we were taught in Hebrew school, which—sorry—was a fucking lie designed to sell us on birthright and funnel our money and emotional labour into furthering the policy goals of motherfucking AIPAC. just look at Chabad for two goddamned seconds.

AND ITS LIKE. I wonder if we've encountered that logic anywhere! gee willikers, it seems kinda familiar, huh?

shut the fuck up about "emotional labour." like shut the fuck up. if you don't have the capacity to look beyond your own worldview and critically examine our history so you can get a sense of the historical context that produced the Holocaust, then you have no right to talk about performing any kind of labour. you're too lazy and emotionally stunted to grasp that 1) you DO NOT NEED your pet state in order for your safety to be guaranteed—which is made obvious enough by the fact that you don't live in the state of Israel LMAO???—and 2) a genocide doesn't stop being a genocide just because it makes you uncomfortable to acknowledge just by holding the beliefs you hold, you necessarily become complicit in the murder of Palestinian children.

OP isn't reacting so viscerally to that accusation because it's antisemitic—they simply cannot handle being confronted with the material implications of their lazy, selfish, and ultimately genocidal belief system. jew to jew, I hope to god you sleep soundly at night thanking your lucky stars that you have the freedom and audacity to say shit like this online.

fuck OP and people like them so fucking hard. CHRIST

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rest in peace forum thread deleted before its time

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akiham misc + akiham kissing/implied sexy time

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you cant see it but akihiko's making a painful face

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darkness keep me safe from gods light and all those who carry his sight

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Babygirl and his noodle friend <3

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you've been out of your soul room. haven't you this is that scene from Misery and iwas thinking about kathey bates to much lol

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on "yamis", "hikaris", and their respective nicknames.

not sure if it still happens or its been long phased out, but the early eng fandom used the term hikari 光 (literally, light as in "ray of light") when referring to yugi, ryou, and malik.

twas a no-brainer of course. the opposite of dark is literally light after all. thematically (esp in fanwork), its admittedly incredibly intimate to have the yami 闇 dark halves call their better halves "my dear/little hikari", etc, etc.

but for posterity, the actual and catch-all jp term for yugi, ryou, and malik is omote 表 (the front, public face, outside surface). within ygo context, "light" is an acceptable translation. I know, "my dear/little omote" sounds funny and doesnt hit as hard lmao just call them little meowmeows at that point 😂 hikari just sounds better.

clips of the maliks using the term.

MALIK: ご名答　表の獏良にはボクの意識を埋め込んでおいた

Y.MALIK: あのデッキには表のマリクも勝てなかったっけなぁ

as we all know, atem/bakura/y.malik have their own nicknames for yugi/ryou/malik.

① atem called yugi "the other me" (twice iirc) before settling on aibou 相棒, meaning "partner". the difference between his and yugis "other me" is pronouns, as atem uses the more masculine ore オレ while yugi uses boku ボク.

it wouldve been awkward eng, but a way to differentiate this in the first pic below wouldve been atem saying "the other I". in the eng manga, it wasnt clear who was speaking.

② y.malik only ever used shujinkaku sama 主人格サマ for malik if not referring to him by name. it literally means "primary", "main", or "master persona".

"master" suffices as a shorthand to make it flow seamlessly in eng.

now............

③ bakura calls ryou yadonushi sama 宿主様 aka "landlord" or "host" if not calling him directly by full name (most prominent during monster world, which comes off as very clinical to me tbh). we all know the implications: bakura is a parasite and "pays rent" to ryou.

bakura has also called ryou goshujin sama ご主人様. it can mean "master", "landlord", or "head of the house".

the millennium ring complete edition promo vid caused a bit of a stir on the jp side since bakura referred to ryou as shujinkaku sama 主人格様 rather than yadonushi 宿主.

lesser known fact: when ch280 first came out in shounen jump, it had a typo. instead of 宿主, bakura called ryou aibou 相棒 ("partner", what atem calls yugi).

it was corrected afterwards when the chapters were collected into volumes (tankos, bunkos, etc).

there you have it. the evolution, the lack thereof, and the mistakes made when it comes to nicknames, fandom and official alike!

side note: in jp, omote 表 by itself exclusively refers to yugi. 闇表 is the jp pairing for y.yugi/yugi.

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ghhh I'll get used to it but I'm not a fan of Adrien's redesign 😭 his hair is so flat and looks so weird ... and like, if were bad across the board that would be disappointing, but whatever, c'est la vie. but it's not ?? which is so much more frustrating ??

like wtf why didn't they didn't use Chat's new hair ??? it's loads better, and at least bears some resemblance to its pre-redesign counterpart. this shit makes no fucking sense. BLECH.

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executive dysfunction is legitimately physically uncomfortable. i’ll be trapped between two things, weirdly caught on how-much-time-it-might-take-me. i take hours worried im going to take hours doing things. i’ll sit on the floor for the entire day, caught up in the middle of not-doing the chores i actually do want to be doing.

& the amount of mental energy that goes into it. & the legitimate amount of anger and discomfort and self-hate. is not “being lazy”.  it’d be a lot less work if i didn’t have to fight myself to just get up and do it. 

i just need you to understand it’s not effortless. it’s never effortless. it’s not “okay let me just get up and finally start doing this.” it’s more like. i am slamming my foot on the pedal but the car is in neutral and nothing is moving. it’s more like shouting instructions into a dying telephone. it’s more like being trapped in a small electric box, and someone who hates me is administering shocks. 

im trying. im trying. please help me get up.

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"Take a bite"

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Ready to

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This needy Muppet Hole all night long and then suck my Hand Sweat from the felt like milk from a cookie. Bone Apple Teeth!

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