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the funniest bit in any marvel content is still and forever will be six minutes into the pilot of agents of shield when agent coulson hides in a dark corner waiting for ward to say he knows he's dead because he's level six just to step out in the light with "welcome to level seven". king of dramatic entrances
#and it comes right after the second funniest bit ever which is ward being asked what#strategic homeland intervention enforcement statistics division#means and answering that#it means somebody really wanted the initials to spell out 'shield' lmao#agents of shield#forever the best#marvel series#marvel#phil coulson#agent coulson#shield
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Somewhat more controversially - beyond just well-written characters, I think a lot of people find themselves repeatedly drawn to particular Types of characters. And I think the frequency with which those types appear, and the particular flavor of those types, is often (unnecessarily!) gendered. (Sticking with the espionage theme: it’s pretty difficult to find clever, calculating, socially astute female spy characters whose tradecraft doesn’t hinge primarily or at least very heavily on their sex appeal). TL;DR even very well-written female characters are often (unnecessarily!!!) confined to a much more limited set of narrative roles and archetypes.
And while I’m definitely not saying this is something we should all just accept completely uncritically, I do think it’s a pretty undeniable factor in why a lot of people’s lists of favorite blorbos might be kinda dude-heavy.
#as an aside one of the things I’m enjoying about bg3 is that there’s a lot of genderswapped archetype stuff going on w the companions#reading tag#also#fandom#my posts#like to be clear i think that as writers we should be the change we wish to see in the world#add depth and dimension to characters that canon did wrong by! genderswap some archetypes!#ask yourself if there is any particular reason the character you created needs to be the gender you initially assigned them!#but also i think it’s at least *slightly* more complex than people not engaging with characters just because they’re women#personally i have a weak spot for emotionally reserved/guarded characters who struggle with vulnerability and self-revelation#there is nothing inherently gendered about this and I can certainly name female characters that fit the mold!#but also surprise surprise: Socially Enforced Masculinity Norms And The Crushing Weight Thereof are a thing#and this is reflected in fiction. and in fictional dudes.
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that one post that was like "if people had to say what they actually meant by 'queer spaces' we would find out a lot of you are just talking about discord servers" was onto something. even in cases where the joke doesn't apply im thankful for having seen it because i have now built up the reflex of asking "wait, what does 'spaces' mean in this conversation", and it turns out a lot of people are using this vague language to lend themselves undeserved legitimacy because their argument starts to look extremely flimsy if you ask literally any follow up questions.
(a secondary consequence of this language being popularized is also a lot of people's arguments actually would benefit from specificity, and they choose not to use it in favour of the more popular and [presumably] more understood and widely applicable "spaces". the problem with this is, of course, that there actually isn't a consensus on what "spaces" refers to, hence the original point about discord servers being relevant. but everyone keeps using it and so we cement its use even further.)
#good idea generator#the initial post was abt queer spaces but i find this reflex most useful in discussions about 'womens spaces'#a LOT of transmisgynistic fearmongering instantly falls apart if you ask what a womans space is#because like. do you mean a support group? a womens shelter? a gynecologist? a public bathroom?#kind of think these things are different and the implications and enforcement of them being gendered will be different
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2024 reads / storygraph
Màgòdiz
post-apocalyptic dystopia set in a dying future world where people are subjugated and controlled by a spiritual power
a group of 6 Indigenous two spirit & queer people traveling across the land to save one of their own who’s been kidnapped & attempting to free their people from subjugation
the last storyteller who keeps stories on her skin on the run with her lover, a healer and their firekeeper partner, a rebel who takes care of orphan children in the city and the brainwashed enforcer xe captures & eventually deprograms
navigating relationships and family & cultural history
#Màgòdiz#magodiz#gabe calderon#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#this is pretty good! some really interesting ideas#it’s a dystopia that focuses on Indigenous people that very much reflects the past and present violences faced#It definitely focuses on the characters & their relationships and the general brutality and oppression of the world.#the plot is just kinda..there. the ending was quite sudden - I almost wanted it to be more ambiguous#It took me a little while to figure out all the characters - it flips between 6 of them pretty fast#and I also didn’t understand the genders (specifically the way they were numbered) initially but there’s more discussion of that later#I did want more detail in some areas. For example A'tugwewinu is a storyteller who touches the marks on her skin to recite them perfectly#and she does this a number of times in the book but it’s always “she touches the mark and tells the story. [scene change]"#like I wanted to hear the stories? not all of them but at least one or two.#I feel like the flip between the enforcer being deprogrammed & their friend now happened pretty fast too#There’s lots of disabled characters and and everyone’s queer/trans which is also intertwined with culture & history#the aroace character was born without feet and made some wheel prosthetics which is very cyberpunk. xe’s cool#also a bit that made me laugh: I have a guy. what's a guy? this [grenade thing] is a guy (yeets it)
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"The feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist being appointed as the day upon which the coronation of the king [Edward V] would take place without fail, all both hoped for and expected a season of prosperity for the kingdom."
-Excerpt from the Croyland Continuator / David Horspool, Richard III: A Ruler and Reputation
Even though Edward IV’s death was unexpected, after twelve years of peace there need not have been too much of a sense of foreboding about the succession. The great dynastic wound from which the Wars of the Roses had grown had not so much been healed as cauterized by the extinction of the House of Lancaster. There was no rush for London, as had happened in earlier, disputed successions. The royal party didn’t set out from Ludlow for ten days after hearing the news of Edward IV’s death, while Richard took his time, too. And the new king had [his mother the dowager queen and] two uncles to support him: his mother’s brother, the sophisticated, cultured, highly experienced Earl Rivers; and his father’s, the loyal and reliable Duke of Gloucester, to whom Edward IV had entrusted unprecedented power and vital military command.
... [Richard of Gloucester] had achieved his goal by a mixture of luck and ruthlessness, and if he made it appear, or even believed himself, that destiny played a part, this only made him a man in step with his times. Modern historians have no time for destiny, but sometimes the more ‘structuralist’ interpretations of the events surrounding the usurpation can come close to it. When we read that ‘the chances of preserving an unchallenged succession were . . . weakened by the estrangement of many of the rank-and-file nobility from . . . high politics, which was partly a consequence of the Wars of the Roses and partly of Edward IV’s own policies’, it is hard not to conclude that an unforeseeable turn of events is being recast as a predictable one. But without one overriding factor – the actions of Richard, Duke of Gloucester after he took the decision to make himself King Richard III – none of this could have happened. That is, when the same author concedes ‘Nor can we discount Richard’s own forceful character’, he is pitching it rather low*.
Edward IV had not left behind a factional fault line waiting to be shaken apart. Richard of Gloucester’s decision to usurp was a political earthquake that could not have been forecast on 9 April, when Edward died. After all, Simon Stallworth did not even anticipate it on 21 June, the day before Richard went public. We should be wary of allowing hindsight to give us more clairvoyance than the well-informed contemporary who had no idea ‘what schall happyne’. This is not to argue that Richard’s will alone allowed him to take the Crown. Clearly, the circumstances of a minority, the existence of powerful magnates with access to private forces, and the reasonably recent examples of resorts to violence and deposition of kings, made Richard’s path a more conceivable one. But Richard’s own tactics, his arrest of Rivers, Vaughan and Grey, the rounding up of Hastings and the bishops, relied on surprise. If men as close as these to the workings of high politics at a delicate juncture had no inkling of what might happen, the least historians can do is to reflect that uncertainty [...].
(*The author who Horspool is referencing and disagreeing with is Charles Ross)
#wars of the roses#edward v#richard iii#edward iv#my post#I'm writing a post on this topic but I have no idea when I'll finish it so I figured I should post Horspool's epic analysis#or should I say epic takedown? <3#friendly reminder that Richard's usurpation happened primarily and decidedly because of Richard's own decisions and actions#we need to stop downplaying his singular agency and accountability by casting the blame on others#most of all Elizabeth Woodville and her family but also the bizarre interpretation of historians like Ross and Pollard (et al)#who somehow hold Edward more responsible (through a 'structuralist' view as Horspool says) even though that literally makes no sense#also friendly reminder that actual contemporaries did not view Edward V's minority as a sign of worry and potential discontent#quite the opposite - they expected him to have a prosperous reign. which made sense since Edward IV left his son a far more stable#country than any former minor king (and most other adult kings tbh). The irony is that it was his son's usurper who benefitted from it.#also I added Elizabeth Woodville to the list because Edward V himself specifically said that he trusted the governance of the country#'to the peers of the realm and the queen' as quoted by Mancini (likely relayed to him by John Argentine)#and this is supported by evidence. After Edward's death the Croyland Continuator substitutes Elizabeth's role in the council#for that of the King: 'the counsellors of the king now deceased were present with the queen'#we know Elizabeth presided over all the council's decisions and initiated proposals (the size of her son's military escort) on her own#She was clearly the one with the most authority in the council (who were described as being present with *her* not anyone else)#Hastings made demands but he couldn't enforce them at all (and was in fact worried). It was clearly Elizabeth who had that power.#She was likely going to play a very prominent role during her son's minority and imo it's problematic to assume otherwise#(Lynda Pidgeon assumes otherwise but she's based her assumption on objectively false information so I don't think we should take her#seriously)(see: she claims that EW lacked influence compared to her male relatives in royal councils when EW HERSELF WAS IN ROYAL COUNCILS)#That's not to go too far the other direction and claim EW tried to dominate and tactlessly exclude others - we know she didn't#The impression we get by this first council and by Richard's own actions indicates that she Richard and Anthony would likely#work *together* when it came to governing the realm#I do find it frustrating when people disregard the fact that based on the impression we have she would've had a very visible#and powerful role
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no context no details "these days ppl can't Work Through Conflicts or they don't Try hard enough & this is why Communities are broken :(" how is it meaningfully different from "look at the divorce rates Today vs in the '50s :( everyone just throws marriages away. Women aren't having Kids everyone just throws Families away"
"oh these days people can think about their experiences as Trauma or Abuse simply if they Want to :( you can't even talk to anyone anymore, if you make them uncomfortable (through no fault of your own. they're too sensitive & i'm simply always Being Normal) they'll be crying victim :(" how is this meaningfully different from "ugh how can a man talk to a coworker woman anymore or even look at her. how can men try to flirt with and date women anymore :( everythinnng's misogyny ohh harassment assault oppression because you breathed in her direction :("
#i don't even value the No Context ''community'' as necessarily worthier than these Marriages & Nuclear Families#if preserving any group as a community means like ''this person doesn't want any contact w/this other person?#what Disposability Politics they're engaging in :( foregone conclusion they must 'forgive' to maintain community :)''#then what tf is this community trying to be. if it can be destroyed by the truth...if it must be maintained by kindly facilitating abuse...#even setting [abuse] aside like so do you think anyone Can't insist someone else can't have interpersonal access to them for any/no reason#if you think it's for No Good Reason then like. what Connection do you think you might succeed in reclaiming there?#z for zachariah book ending. no scenario where Anything should be ''preserved'' via authoritative enforcement (much of any other kind?)#now thinking of aplatonic people. the ''friendships'' i had where Someone decides we're friends now & i'm Mean for being like tf?#other Stock ''Friendly'' Activities that if someone initiates it's Mean to refuse. presumptions it's Unfriendly to not live up to or w/e tf#then multiple Friendships where someone's abusive. won't take No for a [i don't want to give you a shoulder massage] Will be demeaning#not meaningfully different from [ways romantic relationships are supposed to work] or [family] or [coworkers] or [classmates] orrrr#again like ''social skills'' is to neurodivergence as ''financial literacy'' is to impoverishment#''Just be normal'' like which people / what experiences / whose voices must be Excluded for a ''Just Being Normal :)'' situation#community MUST be good like uh must family? marriage? romance? love? friendship? What community. what family. etc#''ugh Everyone can call Everything trauma/abuse'' that's right. we can consider context always. ohh Everything's sexist now smhhh....#ohhh i can't even uncritically say words i always say with 0 sense of malice or harm w/o some rword crying Ableism#no not Literal rword haha. Gay As In So Stupice lol. you don't call rworded ppl rwords it's bad taste etc theoffice.png
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Me: Hm. Idk, I'm probably not gonna watch season 2 of Arcane, or at least not any time soon. It's been years since I watched season 1, I can barely remember how it ended, and I have enough stuff going on anyway
@katkastrofa: *reblogs gifset of Caitvi very, VERY close to fucking*
Me: .... Well now I HAVE TO WATCH IT, DON'T I??
#the universe is not at all subtle with its signs#I was gonna catch up on it eventually. but what is this but a direct instruction?#not today though. I'm tired and likely won't be able to process it properly#but you know.... I did once say that Kuviren were Caitvi on steroids. and I stand by that statement#except. it was Caitlyn who initially broke Vi out of prison. so it's like role reversal Kuviren#but not really since Vi is the one who'd kill and die for her little sister and Cait's the snobby rich kid enforcer#(/lighthearted)#but the Vibes and Parallels are there. I said what I said#maybe it's time to redraw my old Suiren and Midori posed as the Arcane opening piece...
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i'm so glad i don't feel the urge to have to political post on the blog anymore.
#like. if you know me then you know what i believe in#which is. the value of every life.#the importance of providing every person on the planet what they need to live with safety and dignity.#and the necessity of mitigating opposition to that goal and limiting harm to The World#as much as is possible as one person living under the conditions of our current reality#with hope and effort toward making our future reality one where we are increasingly able to care for one another#instead of engaging in an endless competition of profit and imagined division that causes immeasurable suffering and death.#like. from that philosophy i think you can determine my stance on anything that matters.#The Game Of Politics is only important insofar as it impacts actual lives.#and we should all be thinking bigger than that. like. yknow. abolishing borders altogether. dismantling capitalism worldwide.#creating a global society that benefits as many individual human people as possible.#so like. yeah. i'm going to vote. i'm not gonna be happy about it because there is no one on the ballot that actually represents my values.#because fundamentally all politicians are going to enforce and uphold a system that is inherently oppressive and authoritarian#but. there are some politicians who will cause more harm than others.#and their policies will make a difference in many lives.#and i feel personally obligated to try to Lessen The Harm. since there is nothing i can presently do to Eliminate The Harm.#like. idk. we're not gonna vote our way out of the root of the issues. but we can vote our way out of Some Degree of Some issues. like. idk#abortion. deregulation. environmental initiatives. etc. that stuff makes Some Difference to A Lot Of People.#(none of this passes judgment on those who are abstaining from voting for president because of the continuing genocide in palestine.#i do sincerely understand not being able to stomach it. and if the dems lose then it's only their own fault for being spineless fucks)#but like. if i can vote for somebody who IS LESS LIKELY to directly jeopardize the lives of certain groups of marginalized people#then. i'm gonna... do that. while continuing to work toward & believe in a better fairer freer future for everyone.#ANYWAY. that's my ONE political post for the year. steps off my soapbox.#izzy.txt
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remember that discourse a while back when people were saying you should never call the cops for any reason and if you do you're a "bootlicker"
#iso.txt#tw gun mention#tw police brutality#and that it's 'classist' to shoot someone for breaking into your house at night. which like.#i don't think people should have guns in their house lol but that is a reasonable reaction. it is reasonable to assume they may mean harm#ok i don't like cops. MY OWN FAMILY MEMBERS have been TORTURED by them. and i'm a socialist so enforcing capitalism is Bad#but to make a statement THAT BROAD is stupid. i know ppl who would have died if they weren't rescued by cops/feds#from a kidnapping by an organized crime group. are you serious.#i just think about this whole tumblr discourse every once in a while and get so mad for no reason#i was initially going to argue with the post about burglars but then i thought who give a shit they can post what they want
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yugioh duel monsters chain of harm themes save me… save me yugioh chain of harm themes…
#A war hurts aknemkanon who hurts bakura who hurts atem who hurts kaiba who hurts everyone…#and bakura also hurts Ryou who traps himself in a cycle of self-enforced helplessness#and joeys dad hurts joey who hurts yugi who ends up trapping atem inside of him so he never gets hurt again…#rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggaaaaaaaahhhrrrr#Yugioh#ygo#ygo dm#yugioh dm#yu gi oh#That’s not even GETTING into the whole tombkeeper initiation ritual. No wonder that whole family is fucked up.
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I just love how all the horror scenarios of this book are actually just the reality of modern-day America, and has been for quite a few decades if you are a part of certain ethnic groups 🙃
#human reads time limited hunt#'what if technology was used to surveil you and keep track of your movements and thoughts through every second of the day???'#'what if machines imitated real people to initiate convos with targets for nefarious purposes???'#'what if machines predicted criminal activities to arrest certain people before crimes are committed???'#'what if machines instigated regular people into committing crimes solely for the purpose of arresting them for said crimes???'#welcome to being black in america#welcome to being muslim in america#welcome to america the moment you run afoul of a law enforcement officer or a rich person or a white person#the only difference between this story and reality#is that the story has the machines doing this autonomously#while in reality people are the ones programming machines to do this#as this has been the practice of criminal law since the inception of this nation#welcome to america!
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tommy's faith and trust in arthur's ability to take charge/take responsibility/be The Man is so astounding and bitter sweet, both in terms of how much the war broke arthur but also tommy's own sentimentality when it comes to him. and it's not a belief based on nothing at all either! it's knowledge and experience, and it's sort of the core problem when it comes to the frustration and resentment they feel towards each other; the constant back and forth and never seeing eye-to-eye despite craving that very thing and wanting something from the other that is impossible to give, because they are both so damaged in such irreparable ways
#fandom doesn't really consider that arthur was nominally the head of the family in s1 ie tommy didn't challenge it in those ten or so years#after their father left (minus the years lost to the war of course)#and that initially arthur still tries to enforce that authority with tommy during their first scene#but he and tommy aren't the same men anymore#tommy telling arthur this in the cellar scene and it visibly *hurts* arthur because he thinks he's just not able to be that person anymore#in any way#and tommy doesn't say these things out of cruelty but because he wants his brother back#they did set up a kind of reversal between them in s6; i don't know how far the film would go but it's something that could be interesting#so much happened between s1 and s6; 15 years later they aren't the same guys they were in 1919 either#*also the way polly and arthur sr and arthur himself react to tommy in s1 is pretty telling#he never was a timid person i'm sure but certainly less assertive and interested in being a leading figure in his family#though still bound by duty and love#given that everyone sort of seems to come to him with Their Issues even when not yet head of the family#it's an odd thing that people tend to miss about them idk. it's sort of obvious#i think the show is conscious of the fact that arthur IS the older brother#not such a set in stone hierarchy given that he's only three years older but it's not unimportant for either of them but esp#tommy
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why is it so common for aita submitters to give ppl in their asshole scenarios Letters. can you just make up a fake name. please god?
#toy txt post#griping about harmless nonproblems lol#'aita for how i punched my friend in the face? okay so i have 3 friends#we'll call them A(23F) B(25NB) and C(20M) and-'#let me stop you right there. yta for attempting to make me read your many paragraphs referring multiple ppl by singular letters#(JOKE!)#but fr i see the letters and am immediately like i aint reading all that. congrats or sorry that happened#i similarly struggle with the untamed fandom posts for this reason i think? yall are KILLING me with the initials and for them i#often try to struggle through cos like. im invested in the characters but man. its a Struggle. killing me. u writin all that meta posting#and u cant spell out their names for me?#again. griping about harmless non-problems. old man shaking fist at cloud etc#funnier than that tho are the ppl who clearly feel similarly annoyed by some aita submissions but instead of scrolling they take the time#out of their day to try to? start shit in the replies or askbox about it? fascinating. you have this much spare energy? just scroll bud#go gripe in the group chat or make ur own post and yell excessively in the tags like me lol#why are you demanding the mod enforce hard rules about it. just scroll bud
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okay note to self: it takes approximately 2.5 hours (fed and hydrated properly) for the ibuprofen to kick in enough to give me the ability to move *some*. It does still hurt but oh god is it less than it was.
#chronic pain#i'm *very* bad at taking my meds#i know it helps i enforce med taking on others when they need it#but i will put off taking it for myself because i'm ''supposed to power through'' or some bullshit#and i'm working on not doing that and just taking meds when it hurts#but goddamn if that isn't about half as annoying as the pain in the first place#like yes it helps but like remembering to take the medicine then keeping up with how long it is until i can take more#and making sure i've got proper nutrition and hydration to help it work the best and not tear up my digestive track#and then waiting for it to fade out before i'm allowed to take more meds#and having to sit in pain just long enough that i forget the medicine worked initially so i don't take more when i'm supposed to#because well it didn't do anything anyway (except it did a little tho)#and then...anyway yeah i'm just like...#you know on top of the physical reasons i was blamed for my body hurting i was told it was due to my depression#and that as soon as my depression got worked out and i felt better it would stop hurting#except that didn't happen and actually it hurts more now that i don't have as bad of depression#because i'm not feeling it through the fog/using it as a punishment on myself for being sad#i hate this shit
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get your updated covid booster while you still can.
sad they give tissue boxes plastic labia folds but no clitoris
#plague world#if biden had fucking released the patent on the ones that were developed with public funds#or if the WHO didn't just roll over on the imperial core making side deals with manufacturers instead of enforcing the COVAX initiative#if if if#there are a lot of pigeons coming home to roost#can't see the sky for birds
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From Emerging Tech to Responsible AI - The Present and Future of Law Enforcement and Counter-terrorism.
The objective of this event is to officially launch and promote the second phases of two EU-funded pivotal projects in the field of emerging technologies: The AI and Law Enforcement Programme implemented by UNICRI and INTERPOL and CT TECH + implemented by UNOCT and INTERPOL. The event aims to highlight the significance and transformative potential of these independent yet related initiatives to strengthen both public safety and global security.
Watch From Emerging Tech to Responsible AI: The Present and Future of Law Enforcement and Counter-terrorism!
#counter terrorism#CT TECH +#unoct#UNICRI#global security#public safety#law enforcement#future of law#responsible AI#artificial intelligence#funded projects#initiatives#terrorism#panel discussion
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