#Bloodfeud

[simpsoniiriesenii]

"Damn this common gutter blood in my veins!"

-Waylon Smithers Jr.

I also rewatched Blood Feud, and OH MY GOD this is a movie!!🥹 It had been such a long time since I first watched this, and I did not remember how lively, beautiful and full of heart and emotion the first few seasons were! (Bonus points for the characters' voices, so full of emotion and life🥺❤) This episode had such a well written, touching story and it was impossible not to tear up looking at the heavy-hearted Smithers throughout the whole episode, the way he really cares for Burns and finds him important shows so much, and it's endearing and at the same time heartbreaking to watch🥺❤ Nearing the end of the episode, it must have been an awful dilemma to have to decide whether to stay devoted to Burns' wishes and get the man who saved Burns's life, the love and most important person of Smithers' life, painfully beaten and possibly killed or to spare the man's life like he did to Burns' own one?

At the end, Smithers was the sober yin to Burns' raging yang*, and everyone got to stay alive happily :) The Simpsons family even got a frabulous, grabulous, zip-zoop-zabulous present as a thank you for the heroic act of saving Burns, a massive Olmec head of Xtapolapocetl!🗿✨

It's impossible not to have this as one of my fav episodes ever now, it's just such a masterpiece!💞

*I will talk about this sentence and the interesting paraller(s) with Smithers & Burns, and Marge & Homer as duos in a later post!

[bloodfeudofficial]

www.secretsquirrelgames.com

[sweetzombieduck]

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[carlyraejepsans]

what is this intrafandom horrible taste you speak of. please, i must know the gossip

a certain videoludic transformative work of chromatic inclinations really gets on my nerves.

[prommytheus]

i think that barok is likely gay himself, and klint raised him to not be homophobic despite the standards of the time, but he would still become homophobic purely because he found out kazuma was gay and he fucking hates kazuma

[thatvampireenthusiast]

oh this is a boss battle i'm supposed to lose. hate that.

[kinnoth]

I'm just saying where's the fun in shipping royal god-alien brotherfuckers if there isn't first 1500 years of trauma, guilt, self-recrimination and shame?

[dnickels]

Natural beekeeping has arisen alongside a broadening sense of bee intelligence. People have always known that the creatures are remarkable. “The discovery of a sign of true intellect outside ourselves procures us something of the emotion Robinson Crusoe felt when he saw the imprint of a human foot on the sandy beach of his island,” Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian playwright and bee scholar, wrote of bees in 1901. “We seem less solitary than we had believed.” The Mayans worshipped Ah-Muzen-Cab, the god of bees and honey. In Lithuanian, a verb meaning “to die” is reserved for humans and bees. Like us, bees practice architecture and their own, presumably less debased, form of democracy. In 1927, Karl von Frisch, an Austrian zoologist, explained the waggle dance, for which he later won the Nobel Prize. “The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water,” he wrote. And the water has only kept rising. In 2018, researchers showed that bees understood the concept of zero—an ability previously thought to be limited to parrots, dolphins, primates, and recent humans. (Fibonacci introduced zero to Western mathematics around the year 1200.) When I spoke to Seeley, he was running an experiment on the importance of bee sleep at a research station in the Adirondacks. “It’s not just an energy-saving process,” he explained. “It really improves their cognitive abilities.” A bee’s brain is the size of a sesame seed.

[thevikingwoman]

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[shepherds-of-haven]

What do they commonly misinterpret because of their own upbringing / environment / biases? How do they respond when realizing the misunderstanding? For Blade please?

We see a little bit of this between him and Chase in Chapter 7, but the Ket take insubordination/disobedience against authority/dereliction of duties extremely seriously and personally: it's not just a, "oh he's just a rebel in general, that's just how he is and don't take it too personally," it's a "that was a direct challenge to you personally and the affront must be shut down with immediate and brutal force with extreme prejudice so it will never happen again" or absolute chaos will ensue. Basically any direct disobedience is perceived as "do not stand for it or you could lose everything" alarm, because that's what Khehi Ket are taught; if you have a society of super-powered warriors who are all military-trained, insanely strong, and used to using casual violence and bloodshed as ways of solving problems, you need (or think you need) extremely iron-clad and rigid rules to hold it all together and keep order, or literal civil wars could and do break out. Ket history is riddled with examples of this: bypassing a superior's orders to not instigate bloodfeud with a rival family who slandered yours, for example (putting your own feelings/family reputation over service to the state), led to incredibly bloody social conflicts and sometimes all-out massacres, extinguishing of prominent clans, etc. So unquestioning obedience to authority is considered paramount, and failure to demonstrate this is met with immediate and unflinching action to nip that shit in the bud real quick. Blade is trying to untangle this hardwired instinctive response, but he still does believe that leaders shouldn't be too 'close' with their subordinates to maintain this kind of authority for this reason, which is why he tends to remain aloof and keep his distance from the lower ranks. But that's also why he's trying to compensate with having other leaders supplement his perceived intimidating status with the recruits and the laypeople, and also why he sometimes questions if he should be more like Trouble (who 'gets along' with the recruits and is considered much more approachable, although he still maintains authority over them) as a leader, or if he's trying to make a square peg (his style of leadership, personality, and what he was taught) fit into a round hole (a military order that is not rooted in Ket ideology, customs, and culture)!

Hope that all makes sense!

[bloodfeudofficial]

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[nitpickrider]

And these are the spots Conan's philosophy (probably rightly) loses me. His enemy looked around, saw dozens of their men dead on both sides by an inhuman enemy and had a moment of realization that maybe this is all pointless after all. That man's not a coward, he's a hero. Quashing a bloodfeud for something like this is bravery itself. Conan the Barbarian 232

[discworldwitches]

they kept talking about "christianity" not catholicism when i said catholicism and orthodoxy were very syncretic and it's like... if it's pre-protestant reformation what christianty are you talking about that's not catholicism and orthodoxy? are you pre-schism??? what are you doing??

people arguing with me that paganism is a real thing when i am trying to say it's an umbrella term that's quite racist and sloppy and the "ancient beliefs" got integrated into other religions... so tired of white neo pagans.

[bishopofblack]

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The Bishop of Black is a queer dark fantasy set in a haunted realm encased by a mysterious, sorcerous barrier. When a tragedy rekindles an ancient bloodfeud, Femi, the court medic, must search for answers, treading the knife-edge of wartime politics, and her fraught relationship with Irastenys, the Bishop of Black.

[worldwithinworld]

Do you think darrow would have liked the bellona family if he ever got to meet them?

If Darrow met the Bellonas when they weren't beating him up and peeing on him, I think Darrow would like many, if not most of them. He liked Julian and Cassius, despite not wanting to like them. Tiberius sounds a bit like Diomedes or Lorn, so I think Darrow would respect him. At the end of Red Rising, when Nero is trying to recruit Darrow, Darrow thinks angrily about how these families are all fake. They are just teams with no love! And while he's thinking that, he's seeing Cassius and his dad hugging and crying about Julian, and I'm like, Darrow, I know you're understandably emotional right now, but I'm getting the impression that the Augustuses and the Bellonas do not deserve to be described in the same way.

Even with the bloodfeud against him, Darrow had some moments in Golden Son when he felt bad about what he was doing to the Bellona family. He knew they weren't all Julias and Karnuses. It would have been really interesting for him to be a Bellona lancer, because he might have grown attached to the family. Perhaps he would have considered reform over revolution? Probably not, or at least not very seriously. At least working for horrible Nero helped him keep his goals very clearly in mind.

[thatvampireenthusiast]

okay so the background music for the bloodfeud quest fucking slaps, i'd listen to this for hours