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damianbugs · 27 days ago

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Hello✨👋. What's your favorite era of Batman? What's your favorite costume? I love reading your thoughts on everything. What do you think caused the writers to decide to make Batman darker even though at the time he had stories that touched on interesting themes. If you were a writer what characters would you develop and in what direction? Are there any underrated characters you love?

HI !!! this is so sweet, thank you for asking so many things! i would love to answer :]

my favourite batman era was the 90s !! i think it's more honest to say there's not been a single era i didn't like entirely (even the infamous new 52 had its good stories) — but when i add up all my favourites, a large majority of those comics are found in the 90s! it was a time for those darker stories to thrive without relying on ridiculous plot-twists and unnecessary violence for a shock factor.

just to name a vew of my all time favourites from this era: Batman Venom (1991), Tales of the Demon (1991), Batman Night Cries (1992), Batman The Ultimate Evil (1995), Batman Prodigal (1997), Batman War on Crime (1999), Batman & Dracula Trilogy (1991-1999) OKAY ILL STOP HERE BUT BASICALLY IT WAS ALL FANTASTIC

on that note, i think the turning point for a Darker Batman was in the 80s, and there's many reasons for it! one of the main ones i think is that for comics as a whole, the 80s was a chance to START exploring explicit adult themes in comics — due to indie titles! despite popular belief, back then the big 2 of comics weren't churning out nearly as many comics as it seems like on paper, with much more maturer and 'gritty' independent titles gaining popularity. i think batman writers noticed and were keeping up with that was becoming interesting in the meta. then of course the 90s was all dark and gritty and everyone wanted a chance to revitalise the accepted picture of batman. after all, everyone remembers a sad story.

then of course, probably the biggest turning point was... jason todd's death. i truly do think it was this event that changed batman as a character, an idea and a story forever. the comics that followed ADiTF were written with this young ghost perpetually in the background, bruce's grief heavy in the pages whether or not jason was explicitly mentioned — so the stories had to be, in turn, dark and mournful.

my favourite costume is blue and grey with yellow symbol batman suit, especially by the artists neal adams and norm breyfogle :) bruce looks so good in this style and the blue reminds me of such wonderful stories. it might seem like a weird detail, but the other than the satisfying cape dynamics, i love the way they draw his legs and boots for this costume!!

if i was a writer i would sink my claws into stephanie brown and never let go. EVER. the role she could have in gotham as a vigilante closely tied with a community would be literally fantastic for her character and backstory. if i could, i think i would write her leaning towards the Huntress route compared to the Batman route, but still keeping her ties to cass, tim and babs (and bruce, i say tentatively). i would also bring back her adorable relationship with damian IMMEDIATELY!!!

and last but not least, the most underrated character of all time ever, JACE FOX. my batman. i love him. i have literally fantasised someone with a darker and less 'deserving' backstory, growing as a person, reforming and learning from their mistakes to become batman AND HE DID. HE DID THAT. no matter what people say, i think jace fox is a character who encompasses everything you need to be batman, including all the flaws that come with that mantle. one day i hope we get to see cass and jace bond and grow, reforming a duo ready to succeed bruce.

THANK YOU FOR ASKING THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN TO SHARE !!!!

#saki comic talks

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tangledbea · 4 months ago

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As heartwarming as the epilogue is, It does encapsulate a problem I have with the show: it’s that it has these big payoffs that are usually satisfactory in the moment, but had very little build up

Rapunzel becoming a good queen?: On paper that is extremely fitting. But here’s the thing: other than other characters mentioning that she was gonna become queen, we never actually got to see Rapunzel realizing just how big of a responsibility that is, and the process of her learning what it means to be a good ruler. There’s bits and pieces of it (Great Tree, the painting episode, etc) but it never really sticks

Eugene becoming captain of the guards?: Where did that even come from?! Honestly, it felt like the writers didn’t really know what to do with him. The closest we got to an arc for him was the Dark Kingdom, but that gets kinda forgotten about, and doesn’t affect his character all that much.

Cassandra going off to find a path that’ll make her truly happy?: Again, conceptually fitting, but it wasn’t properly fleshed out or set up because for 99% of the season Cass whined about Gothel and like 5 other things that barely related

Varian reconciling with and feeling validated his dad?: Well Qurin wrote this letter back in “Queen for a Day”, shortly before getting trapped in the amber, and it was stated to have been something very important. But come season 3 it turns out the letter just says “I proud of U :)” , and all the baggage is instantly resolved, Varian is a okay now, yipeeeeee-. Like nice sentiment but we were promised more.

To be fair, I'm not at all positive that Rapunzel is supposed to be the queen at the end of the series. Her accepting the crown means she's officially ready to officially have the responsibility she's been carrying out for the entire season.

But when you look at the finale scene, Frederic and Arianna are still wearing their crowns.

But when you see them being casual (not "on the clock" as it were) they don't wear them. So, I don't think Rapunzel is meant to be queen in the epilogue, just officially ready to take on all responsibilities of Crown Princess.

I was never too fond of Eugene becoming Captain. It's sort of... the "natural" conclusion of "Fitzherbert P.I.," where he's shown not being a fit for the guard. Over the course of the series, he becomes more responsible, more reliable, and moreover, he's Rapunzel's #1 defender. I still don't like him as Captain, though, and I personally headcanon that he only keeps it up for a couple years, tops, before turning the guard over to Maximus. After all, the movie's epilogue implies that Max is the one who keeps the kingdom crime-free, and that Eugene has nothing to do with it.

Cassandra actually spent most of the series dissatisfied with her lot in life, and "Beginnings" even shows that she's not happy in Corona and would rather be somewhere else. Besides, I headcanon that she was soft-banished for taking Corona over. That's why she wasn't expected to help clean up the mess she made; because Rapunzel very lovingly told her she had to go and wasn't welcome there anymore.

As for Varian, his plot resolved at the beginning of S2. I know a lot of people really would have liked to see more with him and Quirin, but that wasn't a loose end for me. What little we saw of them showed that they were getting along better and making an effort to be a part of each other's lives. But while Varian achieved main character status, in actually, he's physically in 15 of 60 episodes (including the pilot), and two of those episodes ("Not In the Mood" and "King and Queen of Hearts") he's barely in them, so it's more like 13 episodes, which is less than 22% (21.66666666 etc%) of the series. Then he has his imaginary cameo in "Happiness Is..." So as much as people love him, he's not actually a major part of the overall series plot, in general, and his presence in S3 is more about how he now gets along with the gang than his dad. That's not really a flaw of the series, IMO.

#Tangled #Tangled the Series #Rapunzel #Eugene Fitzherbert #Varian #Cassandra #TTS #Answered

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extasiswings · 2 years ago

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Hi! If buddie does go canon, I was wondering how you think the show will address buck's journey with his sexuality? I feel like a lot of the time, the fandom focuses on eddie's journey and his repression/coming out, and buck doesn't really get those same discussions. A lot of people just act like buck is already out or has dated men (especially in fic), but the show has never indicated that. Maybe he has been with men and the show could explore past biphobia or maybe buck has never considered it before and that leads to some kind of crisis.

Frankly, I don’t think the show is addressing either Buck or Eddie’s sexualities (at least not in an expected way) and I not only don’t think it’s necessary, I wouldn’t want them to. Because it’s something that is so sensitive and complex and so easy to do badly, especially in the context of an ensemble show in a visual medium. I recognize that a lot of people seem to think Eddie’s arc is some sort of “coming out” arc (in a very traditional sense), but I have a very different read on it—that while they are absolutely queercoding the shit out of this narrative, the point is not about the specifics of his sexuality but rather a journey about reimagining what is possible/stepping out of the narrow box of heteronormative assumptions recognizing that life, family, and especially love are allowed to look very different from what you were taught they had to be. And while Buck’s arc is less loud about it, those ideas are still there—for both of them, this journey is about missing the obvious options that are right under your nose because your own biases and assumptions about what the world has to look like have prevented you from seeing them.

There’s a reason why Eddie’s arc, in my opinion, has been less about the gender of the person he’s dating (because honestly I think he would have the same issues with dating if he were dating men) but about the fact that there is someone specific that he’s in love with already (Buck). And Buck’s is the same. Both of them are on paths of reckoning with their past relationships and the mistakes they made in those relationships and the ways they were hurt by them—Eddie has a lot of work to do letting go of Shannon in particular, who the show has always been explicit was his first love, and whose loss massively fucked him up—and once they can do that then they’ll be in a position where they’re ready to be together. But I don’t expect the show to label either of them or to address their sexualities at all beyond the fact that they’re in love with each other and have built a life together because the story they’re crafting is much more nuanced than that. And on an overarching narrative meta level, one of the things the show seems to be doing within these broader themes of questioning assumptions and reimagining what the world can look like, is challenging the audience to do the same, to think bigger, to imagine more, to look at where our blind spots are and why we’re limiting the scope of what we’re willing to see as possible. It’s one of the reasons I don’t buy the argument that Buddie canon can’t happen yet because neither of them have “come out” on screen—queer narratives in real life are not nearly so limiting and when we’re in territory like this, something that has never happened on television, the idea that they are required to follow some sort of heavy-handed and constrained script to cater to the lowest common denominator of straight members of the general audience instead of just letting this be a love story that they can tell like any other love story strikes me as a flawed assumption based in the limitations of our own imaginations.

Anyway, all that to say, there is a place for coming out narratives and stories about characters struggling with their sexualities or having some form of sexuality crisis and stories about queer characters facing oppression. But in 2023, I think we should accept that those are not the only stories that can be told and, in fact, that we as queer people should be allowed to expect and demand more from our stories. And while I could be wrong, I think the love story they are telling right now with this show gets that.

[Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying that sexuality isn’t important or that Buck and Eddie’s sexualities aren’t separate and individual things—Eddie is not “Bucksexual” (ew), he is queer��but that a mainstream network procedural may not necessarily have the bandwidth to address the full complex realities of sexual fluidity and how sexualities can change over time etc and I think it makes sense to explore those things in fic rather than expecting the show to try and do something the medium isn’t necessarily conducive to]

#chapel talks #anonymous #ask

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sepublic · 2 years ago

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FOR THE FUTURE!!!

Luz just wanted to be understood… SHE WANTED TO BE UNDERSTOOD!!!!!!! That’s all she wanted and it’s so SIMPLE, it’s not about a specific life goal or agenda, just something you genuinely want! Everything she did, the antics, her weirdness, was just an attempt to show herself so people could see and UNDERSTAND!

And Camila! The way she told Luz that life is about mess-ups. A-And she told Luz that she’s also messed up, and messed up when she didn’t stand up for Luz… And LUZ REALIZED!!! I CAN’T THIS WRITING AND ARC IS TOO DAMN GOOD!!!

Willow my babey girl this was lowkey YOUR episode too, I’d honestly tag her as the deuteragonist of For the Future! The way she tries and carries so much, has an enormous burden on what she can do, about showing weakness, about denial! THE CALLBACKS TO BOSCHA! THE PARALLELS! The way they ended off! Willow’s biggest threat being herself, this was a WILLOW episode! And how she’s allowed to show weakness because yes, her dream of wanting to protect others, and needing to be flawed, are not mutually exclusive!

And like damn. This episode was about, for Luz and Willow, coming to terms with their flaws. Their mistakes. Their imperfections. And ultimately idealizing and accepting those parts of themselves!

And Hunter can now teleport… Does he have all magic or just his teleportation? Or does he have other magic and only uses teleportation lol? The way he’s so deadset on trying to get back at Belos…

IT WAS CONFIRMED THE CLAWTHORNE ARCHWAY AND GRAVESFIELD ONE ARE CONNECTED!!! And Belos… BELOS…

He’s SO twisted, literally melting and falling apart and OH GOD NOT RAINE WHYYYY!!!! The fact that the crew actually played around with Belos trying to possess a grimwalker, only for it to not be ready… Dear god, that poor kid that could’ve been! Could’ve been a twin brother for Hunter to bond with… AND CALEB AND THE GRIMWALKER GHOSTS!!! The one Golden Guard with BIG poofy hair!

AND KING!!! AND EDA AND LILITH!!! He saved them, he managed to make it work, he’s so clever! And his character development, the recognition that he and the Collector are the same. The Collector afraid of being judged for what his people did, but King doesn’t! But…

WHO WAS THE WINGED PERSON IN THE VOID?!?! The Collector’s dad?! The voice we heard when Luz last visited?

And Belos… GOD, it’s twisted seeing Belos still managing to manipulate, KNOW this kid, recoup and turn his thoughts against himself! I was afraid it’d happen and it did! Say what you will but this man may fail but he TRIES and he’s competent, terrifyingly so! Also dammit was imagining he’d possess Odalia… Imagine Amity just nuking two enemies in one blow! Willow and Amity’s friendship too…

AND BOSCHA BOSCHA BOSCHA!!! BOSCHA ARC!!! It’s everything I’ve read and wanted, her being so desperate to be back with Amity again, needing people, so obsessed with not showing weakness and being at the top and having control! And in the end, Amity confronts that past version of herself, and also the joke about her wanting a student council but being ‘obsessed’! I loved seeing all these kids and it’s neat that Mary’s name was mentioned in the subtitles! The way they acknowledged the Eyeball girl’s past with Gus too, MWAH! And how he knew about Hunter being a Grimwalker, but wanted to give him space!

And Hunter AND Luz recognizing the nerdery of Camila, and geeking out over it! Luz realizing her mom DOES understand…

EDA PLAYING WITH RAINE BECAUSE SHE LIKES TO SEE THEM! God she’s so cheeky, Raine leaves her hanging at the Coven Day Parade but that doesn’t stop Eda from pestering them over Penstagram. She’s so great y’all.

And the Collector, god I saw it coming. The fact that they’d misunderstand and realize King DID lie to them, and wants to go against them! King realizing they don’t deserve it, the fact they were so CERTAIN and trusting! And they keep being lied to and manipulated, this poor kid… God, and the setup for Belos to possess him! To take his power in a vulnerable moment and kill all witches with it!

Belos also canonically is haunted by visions of the past… That knife had BLOOD, y’all!

Willow worrying about her parents, and Odalia… That was surprisingly brief, but I feel that’s gonna come back to play next episode! And Kikimora and ‘Roka’, which is what I’ll call it now lol. So desperate for power she’s lording over literal children and able to hide herself as one, that’s hilarious. And the Mat Tholomule twist… But also ambiguity. And also Matt is canonically into robots.

AND THE TWINS REUNITING!!! Edric in a full-body cast was hilarious. Also I saw Amelia and Cat and that was very deliberate as part of Boscha’s arc, I’m so happy!!!

This was… what an AMAZING episode, it felt LONG but right! I love the focus on resolving and bringing back characters! Love Kikimora was remembered and the end credits of Boscha being lonely… She’s so messed up I love her!!! What happened to Kikimora’s dragon Princess, anyhow? At this point I’m genuinely starting to think Terra killed her as punishment for attempted defection. And RIP Terra… lol.

STILL NO EDA KING LUZ REUNION!!! But we’re getting there, we are!!! Soon…

Damn. Only one episode left. The LAST episode. I’m… I’m gonna miss this guys. But it’s been one hell of a ride and I don’t regret a second of it! Thanks, and see you for the finale…! Peace out!

#the owl house #luz noceda #the owl house stringbean #willow park #the owl house boscha #the owl house mattholomule #the owl house kikimora #the owl house collector #emperor belos #philip wittebane

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fowltempered · 8 months ago

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Okay so I just woke up and have yet to have breakfast but I wanted to touch on the post I saw from @orangerosebush (sorry for the @ I just thought you might want to see this) regarding the thinly veiled tension between Angeline and Butler because boy do I have thoughts on that particular relationship in the series.

I think it’s worth noting that neither of these characters are wholly bad or wholly good. They’re both flawed people and that nuance is what makes them interesting.

For all of the protection and place to confide that Butler offers Artemis he is probably the boy’s number one enabler. He lets Artemis galivant across the world in search of creatures he’s not even sure exist, repeatedly put himself and others in danger -even going so far as to getting people killed because Butler does not feel like he is allowed to step in and put his foot down.

Even when he does put his foot down on something or offer up his opinion (something he rarely does) it’s framed in this weird sort of pleading manner: “Yes, Artemis. All is forgiven. Just one thing…” “Yes?” “Never again. Fairies are too…human.” Artemis Fowl, pg. 390

The fact of the matter is that no matter how he may feel about his charge, Artemis is his employer and that weird sort of dissonance is probably the only thing keeping Butler from plucking Artemis up like a kitten and placing him in a little box where he’d be easier to keep an eye on and protect. I think that he lets Artemis do these things partially because he wants Artemis to process his grief, but also because he just? Doesn’t feel like he can stop the boy despite being the adult in the situation. He’s been trained to protect in any situation, not to intervene when things get out of hand.

And then on the other side of this little coin you have Angeline. Sweet, ferocious mama bear Angline who has been more or less absent from Artemis’ life since the disappearance of his father. Arguably you could say she was absent from his life before then but we don’t really get a lot of exposition on Angeline as a mother before the absence of Fowl Sr. (Something I would kill for, Eoin, give me more Angeline content.) as I personally can’t imagine her to be particularly involved in Artemis’ life before she recovered from her…illness. She strikes me as one of those mothers who simply does not know how to handle a child like Artemis.

She is so ready to believe him when he lies to her because she wants to believe that her son is an upstanding young man who is not following in his father’s old footsteps as seen in TOD. Is she suspicious of him? Yes but she doesn’t do anything about it until TTP where the truth is fully revealed to her and she has no choice but to accept it. Then after that, she decides to take up more responsibility as his mother and try to put her foot down. Artemis listens, kind of, because he’s a mama’s boy wracked with the guilt of lying to her for so long but there’s still a weird sort of distance there.

It’s almost as if Artemis doesn’t really see her as his mother because of how little she’s been involved in his life. She doesn’t know him, she hasn’t seen him grow up. She just sort of vaguely knows what’s happened to him over the course of the last four-ish (seven-ish? I have a hard time with the limbo bit) years thanks to Opal. (This isn’t to say he doesn’t love her, he obviously does, I just don’t think he sees her as the involved mother she wants to be seen as)

But Butler has been there. He’s been watching Artemis grow and develop into a much more selfless, honorable young man, and Angeline knows that Butler has been there and I think it’s safe to say that she…resents him? For that. This man, this employee has played a stronger role in her son’s development than she has and I think she feels guilty for that. I think she wants to step in and reclaim what she thinks is hers, and I think Butler is resistant to that because…well, I think he may feel she doesn’t have the right due to her absence. He more or less raised Artemis, despite that not being in his job description, He died for Artemis on multiple occasions, and still Artemis defers to his mother rather than to the man that’s been present. (Artemis does defer to Butler as well, just…not as immediately as he does to Angeline.)

And Angeline still only views him as an employee. In TAC we see how she refers to Artemis as Her boy, and that “Family is everything” without explicitly including Butler in that sentiment despite everything that he’s done for Artemis because Artemis is the closest thing he has to family outside of Juliet. Artemis is very much his impudent little brother that he’s been shoehorned into the position of caring for.

I think that the tension between them is very warranted and I wish we’d gotten a little more of it during the series because I think at the very least Butler deserves a chance to sit down and go “Hey, I’m part of this family whether you like it or not.” I think Artemis should step in and remind his mother that Butler is part of the family now -and sort of always has been.

I don’t really know how to end this or if my thoughts on it are even complete, there may be an addition to this later.

TL;DR: Butler and Angeline are the Eldest Child “Parent” / Actual Parent dynamic and it keeps me up at night.

#artemis fowl #angeline fowl #butler #like I said I may add more to this later as I wake up and let my thoughts collect #I saw your post while I was scrolling through tumblr like the morning paper and had to put my 2 cents out there #sorry for the rambling lmao

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cosmichighpriestess · 11 months ago

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As I feel my emotions and move through them to become more aware of the pain in my physical vessel I in turn help heal my world and I am able to give more by giving myself the self forgiveness and self love that I needed. We help benefit everyone we are worried about by changing ourselves first because we are one, we are everything, we are the entire Universe and we affect the entire multiverse by changing ourselves. We could all use some good news right now don't you feel that way?

Don't you feel like something is coming? Well I have good news. The apocalypse is not coming. But all your dreams are. You can relax. Breathe. You get to choose whatever timeline feels the best for you. There is not one future, there is not just one Earth, and there is not just one human collective. You shift by changing your vibration. You shift to another planet when you change yourself. The end of the world and doom and gloom predictions will not play out for you. You are too far on the ascending timelines to ever have to worry about being on those dark worlds where they have forgotten their humanity. We want to give you the keys to the kingdom. 🗝️

Because even if you're not ready, you will be soon and you will ascend to the fifth dimension and beyond. That is a guarantee. Here is the curriculum you've given yourself. You must face this challenge to be love in the face of evil, the wicked ones, the evil-doers, the bad guys, the ones who trigger you in real life and behind a screen playing their roles in the dark. Because what are they doing? They are there to trigger you. Once you say, " oh thank you demon, thank you fear, thank you trauma, thank you person pretending to be something they are not which is Source which is love. Thank you for triggering what needed to be triggered within me to heal this trigger. Thank you for reminding me to come back to Source /God. Thank you for reminding me to be forgiving of others who do evil, our oppressors who do unjust things, and to forgive myself for reacting negatively out of character before and giving myself these opportunities to grow."

Now, what I just said may have triggered you. You may be thinking, "Be love to my abusers? Be love to the darkness? HOW? Are you crazy? After what they did? Don't you know what they did to me? To those innocent children and people all over the world hurting people? HOW?" Believe me, I know. It's ridiculous how many people betrayed me. It's ridiculous how abused I was. The state of these evil people is so insane. It's ridiculous how much we saw innocents go through. I know. But, the pain serves a higher divine purpose. What did this pain teach you? It taught you a lot. This is a game. Remember it's a simulation. If you want to move to the next level of the game you must do this: Our oppressors give us the opportunity to be love everyday they do something to oppress us.

We are creating our realities, this is your Earth, your kingdom, you are everything, we are one. That person spewing hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny and anything else that separates us and causes more division, that person or group will not go away just because you pointed out their ignorance and flaws. Instead of focusing on teaching them a lesson, you actually create more of them in your reality. And they become more popular. It doesn't make them go away. It creates more of them. The more we fight, the more your reality responds to that vibration and your oppressors will rise up to be fought. Put your swords down. You don't need them anymore at this level. They used to serve you to protect yourself but now you're ascending to the 5th dimension. There's no war in the fifth dimensional level of consciousness.

The more you love, forgive, and have compassion for them, the more of them will change. The more we judge them and call them negative the more they stay the same. When you accept them completely as they are and you offer forgiveness and compassion to them, that is the only way they will ever change. They will change to reflect the change in you when you lay down your sword and you offer yourself up as a being of unconditional love. And you may be saying "okay, I can do that but what happens to the innocent children and people then if we don't defend and fight for them?" Remember this always. You are always helping yourself whenever you offer love to someone else, someone who is in great need of that love. When you change yourself, you change everything, EVERYTHING, you shift to another parallel Earth version including the number of people being oppressed in your reality. YOU must change, reprogram yourself, forgive yourself first, then you can forgive others if you want to free those innocents who are enslaved, you must change your inner world to see it reflected outwardly.

Why? Because it will give you the opportunity to evolve and not stay stuck in a reality you don't prefer. But you must accept everything and everything in your reality as it is now, and don't judge it negatively, just be neutral to it from there you can create positive change within yourself. Some of you want to impact and help as many people as possible in your lifetime, then all you have to do is be love, that's how you do it because you already are unconditional love you just have to remember that you are Source. The only way to get to a place of self-forgiveness and self-love is by being honest with yourself. So start there and work your way up to having compassion, forgiveness and love for yourself and for others. You are affecting the totality of the entire human collective by forgiving everyone.

That is how you level up, that is how you demonstrate your superpower of forgiveness to the higher dimensions and earn the respect from the entire Universe and change the entire world by changing yourself first. The next step of your Ascension will be so much easier and you will feel so much more peace, ease, love and joy. Do it by being the love you want to see first. Level yourself up and you will be living in the fifth dimension before you know it.

#ascending to the 5th dimension #level up to the next level #forgiveness #rose messages

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itsalinh · 2 years ago

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I saw many posts saying they hate this ep and the show now, but here I’m like…. I love every bit of this ep??

I want to squeeze everything in this one post, but that’ll be a lot, a lot a lot. So this one first, I’m gonna showering my love to the locker room discussion scene and the Jamie Keeley scene.

Locker room discussion

This! This is the exact reaction we can get from a bunch of men when they found out about women’s videos being leaked. Some will have dirty thoughts with it (Colin - I know he’ll never do it, but in generally speaking, yes, men does that); some will feel once those photos/videos been sent to them, meaning that they belong to them so they don’t have to delete at all; some lay blame on women for recording/taking those content; others feel completely fine with it, the ones to condemn are those leaking; some just let their exes delete those themselves. We are not colours, we are not white or grey or black, we are just flawed human. And flawed human makes mistakes. No one is completetly “white” nor “black”, and this show has demonstrated it quite clearly and has not tried to conceal it from the beginning. We have shitty thoughts, we do shitty stuffs all the time. So I don’t think any characters got ooc-ed in this scene.

I know it is not morally right for anyone to use others’ private stuffs for entertainment without their permission, whether it’s for a joke or not. Colin said shitty thing. He straightforwardly stated that he did not want to delete it, though he has a point saying others leaking are to blame. But in the end, it’s scary to think someone still has your private stuffs in their possesion. Colin did shitty thing too.

But you know. People can change for the better, and that’s why we’re watching Ted Lasso. Isaac, Jamie, Sam they all have a right reaction to this kind of situation, so they were helping their friends think right and do right too. Everybody, sad or not (Richard baby I’m proud of you), willingly deleted their exes stuffs off their phones. In the end of the day, that’s what important. Even Colin, the one who openly opposed to that idea, also found a small place for himself to deal with it.

Some said Isaac honoured people’s privacy, only seconds later he snapped Colin’s phone himself. Isaac was pretty clear with Colin’s reactions, Colin even didn’t stay with the whole team for the mass deletion, he just walked away without specifying any reasons. Also, he said fuck off to him with pretty serious expression, why so agressive man, Isaac might think. Isaac had to do what he thought was right at the moment: took away Colin’s phone and deleted everything himself.

I’m gonna detour a little bit right here. The whole scene got on my nerves. I screamed out loud, and my head could not stop spinning for the next 10 minutes. Omfg would you look at Colin’s face right there. First it was horrified, then it was distressed, later was worried, anxious and finally was defeated. Colin would never want Isaac to find out this way. He tried his fucking life to conceal and played it cool under this supreme toxic football environment, he was not ready for this kind of confrontation, especially from his bestest friend. Isaac used to have homophobic comments, what if he felt the same towards Colin? That fierceful side-eye, that shocked impression, killed pretty much Colin from the inside. But luckily, Isaac’s face neutrolised, he nodded in empathy, he knew what was Colin going through just now. Still, this new information was too much to handle at the moment. He did need some time for himself, for Colin as well. For the next episode, I still think Isaac would going through his acceptance phase, he thought he knew Colin but it turns out he knew nothing. By the end of Ep 9, he would realise how much Colin had to suffer all these years, and he would fucking murder anyone who dares to disrespect Colin and he would cherish his friend even more. I’m not that worried about the situation between Colin and Isaac, what terrifies me is “Roy is asked to so a press conference”. What…? Would it be about Colin??? If it would, I’m going die and and cry endlessly from my grave.

OK back from my detour. I literally finished the whole episode first, after that I replayed this locker room scene, and it makes me love Phil’s acting even more. Jamie first reaction towards the leaking thing was pretty unbothered. Don’t get me wrong, he was still awared of how bad the situation was, it’s just it was not his fault so he did not feel guilty. When Sam mentioned Keeley also got involved, Jamie froze right at the moment. He startled as fuck and was spaced out for a bit. He kept rubbing his bum bag and reconnecting all those dots in his head. Was the source from him? Was he the reason Keeley got all the criticsm? He did not know for sure, but he did not feel good about this either.

And that led to…

The Jamie and Keeley hug

This damn hug sums up very well their relationship. The last time we saw Jamie and Keeley interacted (I think) was at Rebecca’s dad funeral. He pretty fucked up at that point, tho actually I understand his motive, he just wanted to let things out without holding in anymore. He didn’t have a chance to really talk about his feelings for Keeley with Keeley. OK I love you, but I respect your relationship with your current boyfriend, and now I have the gut to say it, I’m happy to move on. He coming to Keeley’s to say sorry is the most Jamie thing ever. He’s now accountable, responsible and care so much for others. Maybe nobody will ever know, and nobody will ever blame Jamie, but he himself will. Him saying It’s my fault broke me into pieces, like TWICE in a span of one episode. He needs Keeley to know he worried about her and he felt guilty, he should have done better so none of these would have happened. Idk guys… I love him sm I might cry.

After a rough evening with Jack - the girlfriend who should have understood better, Keeley was tired. Everybody said sorry, but they disappointed her more after that. Jamie came with another sorry, and she might have predicted what was going to happen next. But she would never anticipated a sincere apology from him. A little bit clumsy, a little bit bum bum from her ex, her friend. She went on for a hug and my heart melted. Might be my favourite part of the episode with so much understanding, so much loving and heartwarming affection from both of them.

We might never see them together as a couple anymore (otherwise I would hate their ending very much), but more of a understanding and trusting friendship. Keeley already moved on, and Jamie also moved on would be the best for them ig.

And that, folks, is the end of my first wheezing part. The second part about Rebecca/Keeley, Rebecca/Ted, Ted/Michelle/Dr. Jacob, Ted/Henry/Beard, Nate/Rupert, Roy/Keeley and Jack/Keeley will be posted later cuz I need more time lol. I love this show sm (and I will keep repeating this on and on), they deserve everything.

Buh-bye!

#ted lasso #colin hughes #isaac mcadoo #jamie tartt #keeley jones #spoilers for ted lasso 3x08 #linhstfu

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cosmicroseflower · 8 days ago

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We help benefit everyone we are worried about by changing ourselves first because we are one, we are everything, we are the entire Universe and we affect the entire multiverse by changing ourselves.

The good news is this 2025, the apocalypse is not coming. (Ah shoot for my pessimists) But all your dreams are. You can relax. Breathe. You get to choose whatever timeline feels the best for you. There is not one future, there is not just one Earth, and there is not just one human collective. You shift by changing your vibration. You shift to another planet when you change yourself. The end of the world and doom and gloom predictions will not play out for you. You are too far on the ascending timelines to ever have to worry about being on those dark worlds where they have forgotten their humanity. Here are the keys to the kingdom 🗝️:

Once you say, "Oh, thank you demon, thank you fear, thank you traumas, thank you darkness, thank you "sickness", thank you person pretending to be something they are not which is Source which is love. Thank you for triggering what needed to be triggered within me to heal this trigger. Thank you for releasing all this darkness out of me to be released for good. Thank you for reminding me to come back to Source /God. Thank you for reminding me to be forgiving of others who do evil, our oppressors who do unjust things, and to forgive myself for reacting negatively out of character before and giving myself these opportunities to grow."

That is how you level up, ascend to where you are going, that is how you demonstrate your superpower of forgiveness to the higher dimensions and earn the respect from the entire Universe and change the entire world by changing yourself first. The next step of your Ascension will be so much easier and you will feel so much more peace, ease, love and joy. Do it by being the love you want to see first. Your life will never be the same again. Level yourself up and you will be living in the fifth dimension before you know it.

#starseeds #spiritual awakening #Ascension #2025 #the future #Oneness

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duhragonball · 2 years ago

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All right, let me put this under a cut, because this doesn’t come up often, but I think I’d like a single post I can refer people to when this topic gets brought up.

Short version: I read all seven books and hated them, and now the author is an unapologetic transphobe, which is something I have no patience for. In recent years, critics have begun to connect the author’s neoliberal politics with a lot of the flaws in the writing, and this video by Shaun is a pretty good exploration of what was so frustrating about the books and the characters.

Long version: I “liveblogged” all seven Harry Potter novels between 2005 and 2012. I use the quote marks because back in those days I’m not sure “liveblog” was a term, but I certainly hadn’t heard of it. I called it a “review”, but I basically would read each chapter and recap the whole thing with my smartass commentary. In hindsight, this was probably more like me trying to do Nostalgia Critic’s bit in prose format, but I wasn’t very familiar with him at the time either.

Soon afterward, I moved my online presence to tumblr, which was sort of a fresh start for me. It sounds like I’m implying there was some sort of bad experience that came out of the whole thing, but there wasn’t. I was proud of the work I did at the time, and while I’m not sure if it holds up in the 2020′s, I got a lot of satisfaction out of finishing a multiyear project like that. But by the end, I was ready to move on, and so I have moved on, which is why I don’t speak of it much in this space.

The point I’m making here is that I read all the books and I examined them pretty thoroughly, and my conclusion was that they all sucked. Yes, even your favorite one. No, it didn’t start out good and jump the shark later on. They all sucked. That’s what I had against Harry Potter.

I say “had”, because even though I’ve moved on to other pursuits, J.K. Rowling continues to maintain a public presence, selling her video games and spin-off movies and so on. She’s also gone full-on TERF, spouting transphobic rhetoric and using her platform as a billionaire best-seller to bully people who are much less fortunate than herself.

I’ll embed that video I linked to up top.

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I think Shaun does a really excellent job explaining just what bugged me so much about the Harry Potter books. I found the main characters extremely unlikeable, and I could never quite put my finger on the reason. And the villains were pretty weak too, despite all their terrible crimes and talk of conquest. Superficially, the whole thing feels like a classic good vs. evil struggle, with good wizards fighting bad wizards, kind of like how the Transformers are about good alien robots fighting a war against bad alien robots. But it never seemed to work in the Harry Potter books.

Shaun explains why: Despite the “good versus evil” premise, a lot of the good guys just act like thoughtless, selfish pricks sometimes, and it’s justified because they’re on the good guy team. Sometimes a character will do something terrible to another character, and it’s deemed acceptable because they’re nominally a “good guy”, and the person they’re being a jerk to is a “bad guy”, so they’re fair game. It’s less about “good vs. evil” and more about “us vs. them”.

Shaun doesn’t spent a lot of time getting into Rowling’s transphobia, but he does talk about a lot of the other problematic stuff in the books, like the lack of thought she put into Cho Chang’s name. He also points out the hypocrisy in having all the other characters act irritated with Hermione’s anti-slavery campaign. The whole thing with the house elves was half-baked from the start, and Rowling kept stumbling through each book trying to correct course, ultimately settling on having one character stand up for the Right Thing, only to have all the other characters ignore or dismiss her concerns. Harry himself seems to have no particular opinion on house-elf slavery, which sums up the character very succinctly. He’s the protagonist and the viewpoint character, but he doesn’t stand for anything in particular.

Now that I think about it, I suppose this was why I kept working anime characters and Transformers and professional wrestlers into my liveblog of the books. At the time, I would have told you I was just doing it to keep myself entertained as I trudged through the series, but in hindsight, I think I was just starved for characters who actually believed in something bigger than themselves. Harry can barely be arsed to do his own homework, meanwhile, I’ve known what passions fuel Omega Supreme since I was nine years old.

“Diction: Straighforward. Personality: Complex. (*snif*)”

I don’t know what sort of person you are, @endmylife69 . You strike me as a reply guy, contrarian for its own sake. I see feminist and antifeminist posts in your likes, and one of the three posts on your blog is about how much you hate Chi-Chi, so I don’t know why you even show up to my blog, where I think Chi-Chi is awesome. The point is if your agenda here is to sea-lion me into “proving” that Rowling is a TERF and that TERFs are bad, I’m not interested in playing that game. There’s plenty of critics out there who will walk you through that discussion step by step. You asked what my problem is with her, and I’m telling you.

There are fans of hers who have to struggle with the moral implications of liking her work while distancing themselves from her hateful beliefs. I respect the fans who have to figure that out. I don’t respect the fans who just pretend like the dilemma doesn’t exist, because they care more about playing that new Hogwarts vidya game than anything else.

For my own part, I can’t relate to the fans’ dilemma, because I always thought Rowling’s book series sucked shit. What’s frustrating for me is that I spent about seven years roasting her books on the internet, and the whole time I was going “Ha ha these books suck shit!”, and it all just feels so dated now, because she’s going to go down in history as this rich, hateful bigot. Her lousy writing is going to be a footnote to her career. It’s like writing an “epic takedown” of Mel Gibson movies without ever getting into all the antisemitic stuff he’s done. In retrospect, I feel kind of disgusted for engaging with her work at all, even to insult it.

I’m sick of talking about Harry Potter, so let me make this about Chi-Chi, since that seems to be the only thing I know you have strong opinions about. Part of the reason I like Chi-Chi so much is because she’s basically right. She objects to a lot of the things that happen in Dragon Ball, which makes her seem like a killjoy, but her motives are sensible and important. She grounds the other characters, keeping them with one foot in the real world.

This is because Chi-Chi understands that there’s more to life than fighting gonzo anime battles. Yes, she lives in a world where laser karate is real and quite prevalent. Yes, her sons are insanely powerful warriors who are sometimes the only thing standing in the way of world annihilation. But at the same time? Gohan and Goten really do need to study and get good jobs. Protecting the world is important, but so is family, and home life, and the work you do. Also, maybe it’s important to stop breaking the furniture all the time. Its expensive, dammit.

These are messages that a lot of DB fans don’t care for, because they tuned in for gonzo anime battles, and this loud woman is scolding everyone for wanting that. But the point of the character is that there’s a bigger world in the lore. There’s places to live and people to meet and things to do besides fighting Frieza all the time, and she wants her loved ones to thrive in that world, which is why she keeps reminding them of it.

And that’s a metaphor for our own world, where there’s more to our own lives than the shows we watch and the books we read, and the internet arguments we get into. We each have to ask ourselves what we stand for, what we’re trying to be on this planet. My problem with the Harry Potter franchise is that it doesn’t seem to stand for much of anything. The characters only seem to care about stopping big league threats, but have no interest in reforming their broken society. The protagonist spends much of his time just passively experiencing the story like he’s sitting in a theme park ride. The author only seems to feel strongly about punching down, attacking trans people and surrounding herself with anyone willing to congratulate her for this despicable attitude. Her supporters only seem to care about being on her side, no matter how morally bankrupt it is.

Like, okay, that video game came out a few months ago, and I saw people on Twitter trying to angrily justify their decision to buy it, even though a lot of people have pointed out that it directly supports a woman who uses her wealth to justify her bigotry platform. They’d go “It’s just a game!” and someone made a really snotty TikTok about it or something, and I’m like “Who are you trying to convince, me or yourself?” If it was just a game, then they’d just play it and not say anything. But they know it’s not just about the game, and that’s why they’re so defensive about it. They want to be on both sides of this thing, and that doesn’t surprise me much, since their favorite book series taught them that they can be a real selfish dickbag and still be a good guy as long as you oppose the main villain.

Chi-Chi would see right through that. It’s not enough to just oppose the final boss. It’s the life you live before and after those kinds of battles that defines you as a person.

Anyway, Harry Potter sucks rotten eggs, and the author is a giant toolshed. Also, that funeral they did for the giant spider was a fucking ordeal to read. 0/10 would not recommend.

#ask duhragonball #index

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reverieparacosm · 2 years ago

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What do you think would capture Bondrewd's attention in someone enough for him to desire them as a lover? Would he still consider someone eligible if they aren't smart and intelligent as him?

What kind of person would Bondrewd's ideal lover be?

Bondrewd (Made in Abyss) x GN!Reader

Warnings: none

Note: love the question! And thanks for the question. I wanted to write something about Bondrewd again, but I couldn't really think of anything and that's why the question helps me. I have to admit that I had to think a bit about what kind of person Bondrewd would find "alluring." In the following text I will answer your questions individually about what kind of person I think Bondrewd's ideal lover could be and how important intelligence could be for him. :)

I think to get Bondrewd's attention you should do activities like creating new innovations and finding new information about the Abyss

As a scientist he would value other scientists very much

Making it to the 5th layer on your own can also lead to impressing Bondrewd. Not many make it to the 5th layer alive

Bondrewd's attraction for someone is likely to be influenced by their intelligence, strength, wit, and ambition

Someone who is able to challenge him and keep up with his own high standards, while also possessing a sense of adventure and a willingness to explore the unknown, is likely to draw his attention and interest

Bondrewd would be best suited for someone who is strong-willed, determined, and independent - someone who is comfortable with taking risks and isn't afraid of exploring the unknown

They should also be passionate and dedicated; someone who can share Bondrewd's enthusiasm for scientific exploration and is willing to stand by him no matter the odds

Be sure to express your admiration of his accomplishments. Appreciate his hard work and dedication. Bondrewd will be drawn to those who recognize the hard work he has put into his endeavors

You should take the time to get to know Bondrewd on a personal level. Learn his interests, goals, and values. Understand his motivations and work to understand his unique way of thinking

He would appreciate a partner who shares his love for adventure and is ready to help him with his complex and often dangerous endeavors

It is important that Bondrewd's romantic partner is accepting of the fact that his work comes first and that they understand that he needs time and space to focus on his goals

Additionally, they should be someone who is open-minded, charismatic, and understanding; someone who is able to look past his flaws and still accept him unconditionally

He looks for someone that can be his inspiration

Bondrewd is a brilliant scientist and thinker, so it is unlikely that he would be with someone not as intelligent as he is

Bondrewd is all about progress and expanding his knowledge and intellect, which he would not be able to do if he was with someone who could not keep up

However, it's possible that Bondrewd could appreciate someone with a different set of skills, such as a creative, emotionally intelligent partner

He could also appreciate someone who is loyal, brave and who has a strong desire for knowledge

It's also possible that Bondrewd could find value in someone who complements him and supports him emotionally, even if this person is not as intellectually advanced as he is

He appreciates those who can think outside the box, who can come up with creative solutions to difficult problems, and who are determined to complete tasks no matter the cost

In conclusion, I think the ideal lover of Bondrewd does not necessarily have to be extremely intelligent. The person can balance intelligence through other character traits. But I believe that the person should have an intelligence that is above average. Bondrewd might not have the patience to explain many things twice

#bondrewd x reader #made in abyss bondrewd #made in abyss #bondrewd #bondrewd headcanons #メイドインアビス

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episodeoftv · 1 year ago

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Round 1 of 8, Group 5 of 8

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

Kamen Rider W: 1.31 The Beast Must Be Persued / 1.32 Now, in the Radiance

A mob friend of Sokichi asks Shotaro to help him settle an old score and get what he came back to Futo for. / While under pressure of being abandoned by Philip as his Double partner for not keeping up, Shotaro tries to decipher the truth behind Bito's framing.

the show revolves around the idea of two person working together to become a one superhero entity (Kamen Rider W/Double), and this entire arc is about the hardest challenge in every relationship; what if one of us is changing and it's affecting our relationship? what would you do if that happen? would you go, would you stay? in this episode, there happens to be physical change between one half of the duo (Philip), leaving the other half (Shotaro) become incompatible to form as Kamen Rider W anymore. a mysterious entity suggested a thing to Philip; partnering with the more compatible guy, who happens to be their friend and a fellow Kamen Rider Accel, Ryu. would they reform W? or is this the end of W? Well, the answer is no, LOL. Philip considered that idea only to be shoved off immediately by Ryu. Shotaro, who was devastated with their previous battle (which they got lost terribly due to their incompatibility) decided to solve the current case all by himself, which didn't end well. He then were found by Philip who started to gave a speech who basically is just "fuck incompatibility. I want to be your partner. If that means we can't form W again, that's alright. when I choose you as a partner, that means I'm accepting not only your strength, but your flaw as well. why? because nobody's perfect*" *"nobody's perfect" was a message from Shotaro's mentor. it's actually meant for their client who took the blame of all of his friends' crimes and got sent to jail for several years. (the client asked the mentor, got sentenced, freed, returned to the detective agency cause the mentor told him he has something for him).the mentor's message is like a closure for all of things he had done for the sake of his friends. because nobody is perfect. Somehow, that message also fits the entire incompatibility narrative of the episode, and it's beautiful. so they return to fight the monster. are they still incompatible? of course. but they were so stubborn and keep fighting it, they could surpass it. thus, the main form was born, as they became more synchronized than before, and saved the day. so, for the question on the above, what is the answer for both Shotaro and Philip? they choose to stay and find a way to make it work. all of that shown on parallel with their current case's narrative, and if that's not the episode of all time, then idk what it is. idk if this could explain the episode enough, it's pretty complicated LMAO

Young Justice: 1.16 Failsafe

When the Justice League is defeated during an alien invasion, the Team has to step up and fill their mentors' shoes.

This episode genuinely rewired my brain when I watched it back in 2011. Like? It became clear by halfway through the episode that what is going isn't "real" because of course all those characters wouldn't have died, the whole plot wouldn't change like that, so it leaves the audience in a state of suspense of what's really going on. It's like an insidious feeling. Through this end of the world scenario we really see things in these characters that we wouldn't otherwise, things that disturb us. That Superboy would be willing to sacrifice his own life for others so easily without a second thought. That Robin would be so ready to let his friends & himself die. That Kidflash isn't even mad when he dies with Robin though he knows Robin planned it all along. And the gut punch at the end of the episode when you realize not only was it not real (which we predicted) but that the hallucination was because of MISS MARTIAN. The mental toll that this takes on her because she didn't mean to and the mental toll it takes on the other characters having to deal with this knowledge of themselves and their friends it just... ugh. There's great follow-up in the next episode, too, but in general I wish the show on a whole actually followed up on it better. Anyway great episode.

#kamen rider w #young justice #kamen rider #poll #polls #round1 #r1g5

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cosmosrebellion · 1 year ago

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You know what the SUPER striking thing about the last two episodes makes clear?

That this show isn't afraid to point out that Clark is an insecure, neurotic mess in his own right, who's surprisingly loathe to open himself up to others.

Like, you can absolutely make an argument that maybe Clark didn't know Lois long enough to trust her with his secret. I can see a *fair,* if not personally agreeable, argument for that.

But Jimmy? Clark's known him for years, at least four, judging by the freshman remark. And Clark seemed like he was no closer to telling him his secret either. I get why he's slow to let people in, but it's one of those "Clark, buddy..." moments that I appreciate out of him as a character.

Clark is someone who holds himself to a high-moral standard once he decides to be Superman.

Clark is also a deeply insecure mess who desperately wishes to be loved and accepted and is terrified of losing the love and acceptance he already has. And that leads to him hiding things from the people who love him, even when he really shouldn't it.

And even with what you said about Lois in mind, he was fully ready to start a relationship with her if that's the road she took with him. And seeing how he was with Jimmy, would clearly keep that secret from her for as long as he could. That's always been the status quo with Superman with several different eras, and I'm glad they threw it out the way, while still doing excellent character work with it.

There's this thing with some Supermam fans who always want Clark to be portrayed as the most perfectest man ever, who never does anything wrong, and if criticized, his critic is always in the wrong. And that's the most boring thing you can do with him.

There's so much you can explore with Clark's flaws and insecurities and I'm so happy the show is doing that.

#my adventures with superman #my adventures with superman spoilers #my rambles on superman

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orangedodge · 1 year ago

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"Jedi are meant to put aside their attachments and sacrifice for the greater good--"

Wrong.

I've seen this sentiment constantly these past five weeks, and so far as I can determine it stems from a misunderstanding of the Empire Strikes Back, when Yoda urges Luke to put his feelings aside and complete his training rather than rush off to Cloud City. But this was not an argument against the compassionate desire to save life in service to a utilitarian plea for the greater good: Yoda just thought Luke wasn't ready to face Vader yet, and was going to fail to save his friends regardless. He wasn't opposed to Luke facing Vader if Luke was ready to face him.

While the life of a Jedi is to be one of sacrifice, it's specifically supposed to be self-sacrifice, and not the sacrifice of others. And furthermore, the overall narrative of Star Wars takes the position that the greatest good is always unknowable to the individual, and may only ever become apparent retrospectively on the most grand of cosmic scales.

Therefore their duty is always to serve the will of the Force by acting to preserve life where they may, trusting that the aggregated will of the universe knows best where they are needed, and will direct them to where they must go so long as they trust their feelings. Hence, the Jedi maxim "trust in the Force," and not "trust in the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Judicial Affairs."

We see this in action during Episode I, when despite the urgency of the situation, Qui-Gon always stops for whomsoever is in need of his aid, instead of ignoring Anakin and Jar-Jar for seeming unimportant to his task--and he is treated as the ideal Jedi by the prequel trilogy in that he alone reaches enlightenment through his own actions.

Where attachments--defined in universe as selfish, jealous, controlling, and possessive behaviors that disregard the autonomy of others--become problematic is when they cause one to allow their personal feelings to override their duty to the Force and its will. That's not was Sabine was doing when she chose to save Ezra. Ezra was still alive to rescue, and both desired rescue, and had an expectation that his comrades would not write off his life.

It is left open to audience interpretation whether Sabine was unknowingly listening to the Force and doing what she was meant to do, or if failing that was just making the best choice she could ("save one person" over "save no one"), but regardless her choice is treated as at minimum an acceptable one by the narrative via the contrast between the heroes and antagonist.

It is Grand Admiral Thrawn, and not our protagonists, who best typifies the practice of reaching a state of detachment from his emotions, and maintaining a willingness to sacrifice those few insignificant lives to service a greater good. Thrawn has absolutely no idea why anyone would think the intergalactic rescue of Ezra Bridger was worthwhile, and seethes that he cannot understand.

When Thrawn dispatches TIE fighters and Stormtroopers to delay Ahsoka, he's doing so with the expectation that those men are already dead. He takes no pleasure in it, as Palpatine or Grievous would, and should they survive he would welcome them back, but nor does he make any provision to save them if things go wrong. Their lives are a resource to leverage, currency to spend, without inherent worth. It was his very capacity for this mode of thinking that, in the first place, made him vulnerable to getting corrupted from his purpose by a fascist dictatorship, and set him up for his role as the ultimate villain of the post-Empire era.

This is his primary character flaw, and audiences are not meant to see great wisdom in it, less wish that the protagonists should be more like him. His inability to make the leap of faith is why he is ultimately a tragic villain, doomed by the narrative. The moral thesis of the setting is that weighing lives against one another is a trap. It holds that not knowing what is best for the galaxy, the correct position is therefore to always to treat people with compassion and kindness, and those who refuse to render aid to someone in need of it, in favor of servicing an abstract higher good are always treated as in the wrong.

#star wars #star wars ahsoka #ahsoka #grand admiral thrawn #sabine wren

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I watched Maja Ma today and I do this as some form of self inflicted hurt/comfort cause I love me some desi queer people but also AHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGAHHSJSJS

I originally thought the son was gonna be supportive of the mum cause he was from America and maybe more exposed to queer people and accepting attitudes?? Boy was I wrong! I was also surprised that they revealed it so early in the movie and then I realised it was gonna be a forced outing trope and I was SO STRESSED.

I would kill for Pallavi she's wonderful spectacular amazing so sweet and she's such a compelling character!! The trope of queer people planning to run away from their not accepting community but then one staying is definitely a problematic one but also one that I am an absolute sucker for. THE ANGST!!! THE DRAMA!! THE DESPERATION!!! THE HOPE!!! THE FACT THAT YOU WANT TO HATE PALLAVI FOR BREAKING JANAKA'S HEART BUT YOU UNDERSTAND WHY SHE DID IT!!! THE DESPERATE WANT TO FIT IN AND BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!! Also she's Madhuri Dixit!!! She literally played her so well she CARRIED the whole movie!!

Every other person in the movie annoyed the fuck out of me. I understand that they were supposed to be flawed but jesus Christ I wanted to punch them through the screen. (Apart from maybe the husband he was so funny I loved pallavis reactions to him trying to be romantic she really was like ??????? and also obviously liked Janaka and the fiancée was an absolutely wonderful person she deserves the world and can do way better than fucking bitchass dickface Tejas.) I genuinely started screaming at the son for trying to fucking convert his mum???! Violently as well?????! Your own mother????? I was ready to DICK PUNCH through the screen let me tell you. I hated the daughter so much. Obviously I get that we're supposed to get annoyed at her but god damn bitch was insane!! Loved it when that one queer person was like yeah her and her straight privilege and borrowed outrage can go fuck right off trying to fucking force her mum out of the closet in an extremely traditional society I was like GO OFF KING. TELL IT LIKE IT IS.

And obviously it's asking a bit much from a Bollywood movie to adhere to western views and language used about queer people and I'm taking what I can get really but god damn I hated the way she went about things and I hated that she was portrayed as an angry feminist gender studies person who's making trouble, like Jesus Christ we've had enough of that we don't want the one accepting person to be portrayed like their insane for accepting them??? I don't know what the purpose of her character was supposed to be?? I guess that line about her being more of a social worker than a daughter sums it up

Honestly girl ate with those speeches!!! I loved the bit where she was like yeah I failed the lie detector test cause they were asking the wrong questions. If they'd asked if she ever had fallen in love with a girl, then she'd gladly fail I was literally kicking my feet giggling at this!!

Yeah the way they resolved the conflict was a little bit childish but I got my comfort and I'm glad it wasn't queer sadness!! It was super interesting seeing this type of story from the mother's point of view, cause usually it's the kid coming out and facing these things and I think it added a really nice level of depth and angst about womanhood and being queer in a traditional Indian society. I loved how it had the quintessential Bollywood dance and song scenes I thought they were lovely!! I especially loved the last shot of pallavi and Janaka dancing together in the middle of the circle with the pulsing lights I thought that was so beautiful!!

Honestly overall this movie was messy and did make me want to scream more times than I thought was intended but the cute parts were really cute and pallavi's depth and character and Madhuri Dixit made it a whole lot better!! 6.8/10

#maja ma #madhuri dixit #desi queer #movie review #spoilers #obviously #queer movies #lgbtq #its my little everyones out of the house guilty pleasure #i need to watch badhaai ho as well

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quran2002 · 2 months ago

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After reading the Quran, it’s time to conclude this blog with its summary. In my previous post, I briefly stated that Islam is a flawed, primitive, and exploitative religion. Now I will elaborate on my perspective.

After this brief introduction, let’s begin with the fundamental reason why Islam must be rejected by every Christian.

A Cynical Denial of Christ’s Sacrifice

Islam, as a form of monotheism centered on a single-person deity, does not recognize the concept of the One God in three persons as in Christianity. It denies that Jesus was the Son of God. In Islamic belief, Jesus was conceived by the Virgin Mary and was a great prophet who taught mercy. One might think that Islam acknowledges Jesus but not the Trinity. This isn't unheard of, as there are branches and heresies within Christianity that hold similar views. For example, Adoptionists believe that Jesus was born as a regular human and was only recognized by God as His Son upon His baptism. To a layperson, this discrepancy might seem inconsequential. While this issue is important in comparing how Christians and Muslims perceive the character of God, Islam also denies something with clear, far-reaching consequences.

According to the Quran, Jesus did not die on the cross. Verse 4:157 states that it only appeared to people as if Jesus had been crucified. As explained by Dr. Mustafa Khattab in his translation, Muslims believe that Allah caused someone who conspired against Jesus (likely Judas) to appear like Him and be crucified in His place, while Jesus was safely taken to Heaven.

In short, according to Islam, Jesus never died for our sins. And we were never saved. It is hard to conceive of a greater denial of a core aspect of Christian faith. On my main blog, I’ve already discussed that Salvation—the forgiveness of sins through genuine remorse and faith in Jesus—is a unique aspect of Christianity, absent in any other religion. When I wrote that post, I was studying the Quran, which is why I didn’t then address how this concept is approached in Islam. Now, however, I can explain that Muhammad cruelly and cynically transformed the idea of Salvation to suit his own military ends.

Salvation Through Obedience to War Orders

According to the Quran, Allah forgives sins if one is faithful, obedient, and avoids the gravest sins. At first glance, it might seem that Islam isn’t fundamentally different from Christianity in this regard. As in Christianity, sins are forgiven without requiring good deeds or specific acts to cleanse one’s bad karma. As the Quran states in 24:21, Muhammad agrees with the Bible that it is difficult for a person to completely cleanse themselves of all sins and that they need Grace to do so. Therefore, in Christianity, if you believe in Jesus and sincerely regret of your sins, they are immediately forgiven, and you will not be condemned if you die before living out that regret. Similarly, in Islam, if you believe in Allah, accept Muhammad as the prophet, and are obedient to them, your sins are forgiven even if you have not had the chance to live out your sincere obedience. The essential issue lies in how the Quran defines obedience.

In exchange for forgiveness of sins, Allah explicitly expects readiness to go and die in his wars (4:74, 61:10-12). The only true believers are those who sacrifice their wealth and lives in the fight for Allah (8:74, 49:15). Meanwhile, believers who refuse to fight are scorned (47:20-28, 33:18). Only the disabled and those incapable of fighting are exempt from this duty.

And here lies what could be considered the gravest evil of Islam. The Gospel, literally the good news, is negated. Jesus was not the spotless Lamb; he did not sacrifice himself for our sins; forgiveness of sins is not available through faith and sincere repentance. To experience absolution, you must be willing to go to a religious war and die in it. Like a dog.

I would also point out that the Biblical narrative is explicitly opposed to the idea of a religious state and entrusting humans with enforcing Divine Law. The entire Old Testament chronicles how the Chosen People fail in their attempts to establish a Holy Nation according to God’s instructions. The New Testament, in turn, tells of how God sends his Son, who is secularist in nature and aims to establish a religion based on voluntarism. Yet, the priestly caste of the Chosen People decides to kill him and knowingly lies, claiming he is Satan’s servant, when they see him healing the possessed.

In contrast, Islam not only claims that Jews rebelled and Christians are misguided, but also returns to the failed idea of a Holy Nation and further makes unconditional participation in religious wars a requirement for the forgiveness of sins.

The Religion of Fascist Peace

Continuing the topic of religious war, I dare to dispute the notion that Islam is a religion of peace—unless, of course, it's a form of peace akin to that which fascists might guarantee.

Starting with its support of an endless military-industrial complex (8:60), prioritizing the massacre of opponents over taking prisoners of war (8:67), and even promising spoils of war (48:20), Islam is an ultra-militaristic religion, reminiscent of the barbaric Nordic religions, where a better fate in the afterlife also depended on one’s readiness to die on the battlefield.

Furthermore, Islam criticizes Jews and Christians for establishing peace with pagans (5:80), refers to non-believers as the worst of all creatures (8:55), and commands believers to feel no sympathy for non-believers, even if they are family members (9:113, 58:22). Tribalism in Islam is radical. In contrast, Jesus commanded his followers to love their enemies, and the parable of the Good Samaritan was a critique of tribalism, emphasizing the importance of personal bonds. According to Jesus, a repentant sinner is cause for greater joy than 99 righteous people (L 15:7).

Islam, however, commands believers never to take non-believers as defenders/allies/friends, preferring instead the faithful, unless necessity requires deceit (3:28, 3:118, 5:51). Non-believers within one's own family are even called enemies (64:14). Although this same verse permits showing leniency to one's family, it also encourages believers to demonstrate their loyalty to Allah by treating non-believing family members as prescribed enemies.

It’s no accident that Jesus urged combatting evil with good rather than with more evil. As I previously mentioned, the Bible tells the story that humans should not be entrusted with enforcing Divine Law. Christ sought to move away from the concept of state religion and tribalism, only to be crucified by those who wanted to maintain state religion as a means of controlling their own people.

Islam is everything Jesus would reject in religion. It is ultra-militaristic, extremely tribalistic, and encourages persecution of one’s own family members as enemies if they do not believe. Islam is incompatible with the Democratic World, as its clearly defined foundations are those of a repressive state. If Islam is to be considered a "religion of peace," it is only if we equate peace with tyranny.

The three points above constitute my main critique of the Qur’an. They illustrate the fundamental religious and social differences between Islam and Christianity: the negation of the belief that Christ died for our sins, the morally questionable way this is exploited (making forgiveness of sins contingent upon willingness to participate in religious wars), and the path it openly leads toward (a repressive religious state). Even if similar accusations could be leveled at Christians through the pages of history, they cannot be made against the teachings of Christ, which transcended their time. This is why Christianity is not only compatible with the Free World, but indeed made its emergence possible, regardless of how influential people may have distorted it. Whether Jesus Christ was the Son of God is a matter of faith. But that he outlined a religion capable of moving beyond the age-old pathologies of all religions is a fact.

My further critique of Islam will address more secondary issues. Some of these are critiques of elements to be rejected for social reasons. Others are critiques of elements that should be rejected on religious grounds (although they also have social implications).

Allah is a tyrannical egomaniac

Christianity claims that God became human, washed His disciples' feet, and died for our sins. The Quran, however, speaks of everything being created to serve Allah, who even wants to destroy the world because people claim He has a Son (19:89-93).

Unlike the father in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Allah is willing to abandon those who turn away from him and replace them with others (47:38). This expectation is not surprising in a deity who demands followers to go and die in his wars (despite being powerful enough to destroy all unbelievers Himself), yet he fails to inspire the same comfort as the Christian God.

It's no wonder Islam refrains from calling Allah a father.

Muhammad prefers privileges over leading by example

When Jesus washed His disciples' feet, He demonstrated the Christian ideal that leaders are the servants of all. Muhammad, however, favored privilege over self-abasement, allowing himself things he denied other believers. Specifically, he permitted himself to marry the daughters of his uncles and aunts (33:50). Furthermore, he forbade his former wives from marrying any other man (33:53).

Among other things, no one may raise their voice against Muhammad (49:1-5), and he is not required to listen to others (49:7). Naturally, he is also entitled to the first share of the spoils in the Religion of Peace™ (59:7). In short, he claimed royal rights.

It was pagan religions that exalted kings, while the Bible criticized and distanced itself from this concept. Pharaoh abused his power to the point of ordering the killing of Hebrew sons. God punished him according to what Egyptian law permitted the strongest and holiest to do, killing his firstborn. Israel, against God’s warnings, established kings who quickly led to Israel’s collapse as a state. Religious privileges lead to pathology, which is why Jesus set an example by radically moving in the opposite direction.

Muhammad, however, chose to go against all these examples and made himself a de facto king, thus allowing all the pathologies associated with allowing a man to fulfill Divine Law as described in the Bible.

Denying the virgins is pure lie

The Quran explicitly promises that in the Muslim paradise there will be virgins as well as eternal boys. The fact that they are to be virgins is stated clearly in 56:34-38. Additionally, they will apparently be completely devoted to their men, looking only at them (37:48-49). Male servants, meanwhile, are promised in 52:24 and 56:17-18. They all are likely going to be created for the benefit of the inhabitants of Muslim paradise.

In most religions, depictions of paradise served as an idealized model for how the world was meant to be ordered. In pagan religions like the Egyptian or Greek, pantheons of gods represented royal families because royalty was seen as rulers of the world. In Viking religion, Valhalla was filled with warriors, as warriors were paramount in Viking society. In this way, religions offered a “top-down” example of their values.

Muslim paradise, in contrast, presents an afterlife of sexual and boy slaves. This ideal of subjugating others becomes a standard to which followers of this religion are supposed to aspire.

Final thoughts

As a Christian, I am biased. But I also understand why I support the teachings of Christ, which offer salvation and forgiveness to everyone, always. These teachings also outline a religion devoid of the known pathologies found in others.

Even if Roman Catholicism was more focused on reconstructing Old Testament Judaism and its Laws, despite St. Paul’s writings on how we were freed from the Law. Also, Old Testament Judaism itself represented a departure from numerous issues found in pagan religions.

Islam, however, is a regressive religion. Despite claiming to derive from Christ's teachings, it contradicts the secularism they promote. While agreeing with Christianity on the necessity of grace, in Islam, grace is conditioned on a willingness to participate in Islamic wars. This makes Islam an exploitative and evil religion.

The defense of Islam could be seen as pragmatic: Muslims successfully defended themselves against the Mongols due to their fervor for battle. But let’s consider that before facing the Mongols, Muslims had been fighting Christians. Had Muslims not aggressively expanded their empire, depleting Christian forces, perhaps both religions could have resisted the Mongol horde more effectively.

In any case, this argument was nullified with the advent of the modern era, where technological advantage has a greater influence on victory in war than sheer numbers. And technological advancement arose in Western states, whose development was based on values aligned with Christ’s teachings.

Moreover, Islam supports polygamy, which favors strong and wealthy men. While this may enable rapid population growth, in the long term, it contributes to a decline in genetic quality. It’s no coincidence that genetic diseases are common among Arab populations. How can Allah be a true God who cares about successful warfare if he allows for the degradation of his faithful population?

Ultimately, Islam as a religion lacks positive values for the world, except for those it has borrowed from Christianity and Judaism. Yet, it has added its own negative elements, making it not only an unnecessary religion but also a harmful one.

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