#From structural violence
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The thing about writing a post apocalyptic sw au (station eleven and TLOU) is that it helps anúnciate the reality that the sequel trilogy is a post apocalyptic narrative. Like, the sequel trilogy is really, really bad, and one of the places it’s so bad it becomes fascinating is in the gap between the Light Action Adventure corporatized media Pew Pew Pew series it Thinks it is with all its product tie ins and Lego sets and the knock em out balls to the walls Hopeless post apocalyptic narrative it actually is. Never is it convinced that anything in the galaxy improved or rebuilt after the return of the Jedi. Because it is not a Series Smart enough to come up with it’s own plot lines it simply regurgitates the original trilogy plot lines without the intelligence to make a nuanced commentary about intergenerational trauma or way survivors of fascism must continue to fight new forms. The sequel trilogy is a hamster wheel. The war never ended. Everything is the same. The Death Star is the same. The rebellion is now the resistance, a far more splintered, shatter shell that can fit into and out the back of a single hangars. The weapon that killed a planet now destroys a planetary system. And what gets me is the individual stories. These are the children of an apocalypse. Finn was taken from his family as a child to become the next round of stormtrooper canon fodder. Rey scrabbled for survival by physically tearing sustenance from the carcasses of a war. Poe was born during the last war and lives to see his adult live suited up into the same conflict his parents fought. Rose is a refugee of a planet destroyed like alderaan and kenari. Every one of them is born on this hamster wheel without a way off. It’s why I have a hard time reconciling rogue one and andor as existing in the same universe as the sequel trilogy, because I think RO and Andor are both so much more cuttingly brutal and so much more hopeful that what the ST provides. Finn and Rey and Rose and Poe are way some substantiation of Andor’s worst nightmares. They’re literally each living the lives Cassian and so many others died to prevent from happening.
#Looking at mmfr and children of men slides like the ST is in THAT level of hopeless post apocalyptic without REALISINg it it. It’s so wild#I think rogue one and andor are so interesting in terms of the theme of non biological descent too like#You had ancestors who loved you who you never knew. But they did what they did because they loved you#And how interesting and sharp that is in line with one of sw most gripping other themes: the failure of parents to protect their children#From structural violence#There’s so many things to say about rogue one but it’s about people who loved their descendants they didn’t know who’s never know their nam#S. So that what was happening wouldn’t keep happening
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reblog for a bigger sample size of former angry, creative, and/or highly dramatic children
#len asks#strangling tw#choking tw#drowning tw#<- ik followers and moots need those tagged but lmk if there's any more you want me to add#polls#personally i mostly hung my toys up. not in like a morbid way but i thought it was fun to swing them from trees#DEF threw them off structures in a morbid way. and melted their faces off in a morbid way. and gave them swirlies in a morbid way#i usually only did that to free mcdonalds toys and i don't think i ever did any of this to my expensive toys but i did like a bit of#violence here and there. it was an interesting outlet for sure. i basically always did it with a friend as well. bonding <3#OH and we put out sparklers on an action figure once before tying blackcats to him and throwing him off a bridge. fun times!#oh and the freezer. i think that's it tho and i honestly only did most of these things once bc the novelty wore off#gonna periodically rb this for a bigger sample size. i will be HIGHLY disappointed in y'all if 'none' sweeps
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we get a lot of really great stuff in system collapse about murderbot's relationships with ART and ratthi, which makes sense, because it spends almost the entire book with them. but i also love how even though mensah isn't there for most of the story, other people keep reminding mb of her:
chapter 2, page 25: “From ART’s personnel file, she [Karime] was older than Mensah and she didn’t look like an intrepid space explorer, either, even in the protective environmental suit.”
2, 27: “It took Karime three seconds to process the abrupt statement. (She was almost as good at not looking annoyed as Mensah was.) She kept her expression neutral and patient.”
2, 28: “In the underground colony room, Karime lifted her brows. ‘Another occupied site?’ I thought she was being careful not to show too much reaction. It was the way Mensah would have played it.”
4, 70: “Iris looked at me and I saw her hesitate, because her hesitation looked a lot like Dr. Mensah’s hesitation. And I realized I really didn’t want to go down there.”
5, 104: "Iris has that same thing as Dr. Mensah, the thing where she’s able to look and sound calm under circumstances where shit is possibly about to go down.”
it's spent so much time with her and it knows her so well and respects her so much that she's the model against which it compares all other humans. it thinks about her when they're not together. it's protective of her. it has such total faith in her competence. it (non-romantically) loves her and doesn't want to not see her again. idk man, it just gets to me! and they were teammates (oh my god they were teammates!!)
bonus:
I said, aloud, "You have to be kidding me." (ch. 2, p. 28)
seven pages later, in reaction to the same thing:
Mensah had had time to review the feed video. She muttered, "Oh, you have to be kidding me." Yeah.
twinsies 🥰
#something about their relationship is just sooo potent because of the structural power that mensah has over mb#and how mb has always been trying to navigate how much it cares about her and respects her with how afraid it is#of being a thing that she owns#because even if she doesn't exercise that power over it the fact remains that the context in which they live makes that possible#like! socially constructed ideas of personhood creating inherent violence in the human-construct relation!#even if she means well. even if it's necessary for mb to have a legal owner so that some corporate doesn't claim it as property.#it's not that mensah is an unsafe person it's that the power imbalance is intrinsically baked in because of#the broader social context of constructs as nonpersons. as property and equipment#all of that is true! AND it respects her and loves her. AND they're teammates! they are both trying so hard#to create sth just and beautiful out of sth really messed up. and trusting each other to collaborate in that way!#it was SO necessary for mb to leave at the end of ASR and SO necessary for it to get proof at the end of ES#that she would not try to stop it from leaving. that it was free. that it was autonomous#idk idk i'm rambling i just. i care them#the murderbot diaries#mb teammates#mb sc#system collapse spoilers#system collapse#my posts#murderbot
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The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice // Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
#text#birthings#iwtv#armand#mdr#the locked tomb#good night. I’ve been thinking about this for the past two months.#plus the passage where gideon says my father has made my bones denser than titanium. etc.#but there’s a certain enacting of colonial violence on armand and alecto’s bodies (and the erasure of the evidence of that violence) that#doesn’t quite fit in with what we see being explored with gideon. but nonetheless that still has flavours of uncomfortably intimate accesse#that a parent has to a child’s body even if they haven’t been around to be a Parent.#the violence is institutionalised in gideon’s case but armand and alecto sort of experience it outside of the bounds of society#(depending on whether you choose to read marius as somebody who exists outside of social rules / as somebody who specifically profits from#existing exploitative social structures when they suit him)#tva
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alright. i have held my tongue long enough but i can do it no longer.
i'm gonna something that the whippersnappers aren't going to understand & the veterans will probably take psychic damage from reading. but. consider, if you will:
Husk♦️Angel
...that's it, that's the post x'3c
#angelhusk#huskerdust#hazbin hotel#meowrails............. TWO!!! [.meme]#hi my toxic fandom trait is compulsively applying alternian quadrant rhetoric to Every Single Other Fandom I Get My Grubby Little Hands On—#♦️Huskerdust is literally *SO* real it sends me to the FLOOR every single time (for their S1 interactions at least)#never have i EVER seen a more textbook example of a moirallegience in a non-hs setting hshdhsjdhs#ALTHOUGH this version of Hell is probably one of the closest analogues what with all the violence & craziness constantly raging down there#they could probably use some fun little extra structure to all their batshit they've got going on lmao think about it#non-intimate ♠️Cherrisnake that Pen vacillated to ♥️ by the end bc he's a sappy soft boi like that~ <3#one-sided Vox♠️@Alastor bc Al's such a narcissist that the only person he deigns worthy of his true rivalry is the literal King of Hell—#—so. ♠️Radioapple obvi x'D (almost assuredly non-intimate in-canon but hey lol)#♥️Chaggie of course but also with a sizeable amount of ♦️volatility♠️ from Vaggie that intrigues me *deeply* actually#tho it wouldn't surprise me for them to smear a bit x'D Charlie in particular seems like the type to blend feelings like that#which i think is also part of why it's so interesting to me that Vaggie is the one seemingly doing most of it lol#bc also Charlie♦️@ all of Hell. probably ♣️@ all of Hell too x'D that's LiterallyTM the entire premise of the show pffffft~#tbh she's basically Al's ♣️Stem constantly trying to keep him from killing every second person he comes into contact with tho x'D good lord#♣️Vees but they pass around Stem duty like a hot potato bc they're all fucking disaster messes— x'3c#also Angel♣️Niffty & knives/trouble-in-general xD i love that one~#AAANYWAYS~ thanks for coming to my mentally compromised ted talk lmaoooo TwT#my art
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It reminds me of why the stop the steal people lost their legal challenges to Biden’s election. It’s not that it’s impossible for right wing people to use legal architecture to halt democratic processes (cf Bush v Gore), it’s that they did it in an openly stupid and nonsensical way. In terms of American fascism I think the lessons they’re learning re: interacting with institutional power is that they can’t use twitter posting tactics in the courtroom
#I don’t know how salient this analysis is because like also america is a well developed fascist state in many ways#like in terms of large scale fascistic processes those things are already finely honed#but there’s a particularly unstable element being expressed domestically#eg qanon stop the steal unite the right etc etc#that seems to be losing legal battles not because fascism is structurally excluded from those processes#but that they aren’t being sophisticated with their legal challenges#I mean I guess also another conclusion to be made is that this is just the logical output of a well developed fascist state#you are going to get these fantastical spasms of reactionary violence and legal resistance at home#as stupid and ineffectual as it appears to be#like these are also in a sense the ‘new normal’ of an openly fascist state#anyway these are messy thoughts not fully formed. the more I learn about this topic the less I feel like I actually know
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In contrast to my last two Rain World OC posts, these guys aren't one offs and are part of my current core OC group. More info about them under the cut since it's lengthy.
First starting with The Serpent —
The Serpent is one of AV's many bio-engineered slugcats - if you can even call him a slugcat at this point - as part of a simple passion of experimenting with flexible slugcat biology
They share several traits in common with red lizards, those being constant hyper-aggression, tremendous strength, projectile spit and size
As for similarities with slugcats, well, a general elongated shape? Oh, mobility, unlike red lizards, the Serpent is very adept with vertical movement
AV didn't really have a clear goal in mind with the Serpent unlike the rest of their tube babies, they just sort of... happened.
The spontaneity of their creation though has been very interesting as despite initially being created with the solitary lifestyle of a red lizard, the Serpent still keeps his slugcat instinct of adopting random children they find
Though the Serpent seems at first, displeased with this development but rest assured that if you ever LOOK at his pup wrong they will kill everyone in the room and then himself
Though not pictured in his reference since he was my first Rain World OC, created with very little knowledge of the lore and started as a one-off, he has a citizen ID drone which AV uses to keep track of him
He was also simply created out of my desire to have a long slugcat and my obsession with red lizards combined so there's that, too
Speaking of AV, moving on to Administrative Violence —
Named after the song of the same name by Lauren Bousfield, you'd expect them to be - well - violent. They're not, at least not with those they commonly interact with
They are actually quite sweet with Blown Blooms, their partner, and Peach the slugcat
Weather conditions, all things considered, are pretty mild where they are but far, far off into the distance their partner Blown Blooms isn't so fortunate and natural erosion as well as other random unfortunate events unrelated to weather, has taken quite the toll on them
As a result and fearing for Blooms in every way possible but especially for their communication's inevitable severing and also Blooms being lonely all on their own, AV created a slugcat who resembles a strawberry lizard - a species of lizard Blooms is especially fond of
Peach was designed for protection and companionship first and foremost and an emergency messenger/relay secondly.
Outside of worrying for Blooms' condition and yearning & longing for close physical proximity to them the way creatures who aren't supermassive structures have the luxury of, AV spends most of their time studying their bio-engineered slugcats.
Each and every one of them is given a citizen ID drone for ease of tracking as well as general classifications
They couldn't give a shit about whatever problem the other iterators are working on - just these funny little slugcats
They take the occasional interest in other animals too but it's mainly slugcats
And finally, Blown Blooms and Peach —
Blooms, like AV, is named after a song of the same name by Lauren Bousfield. Peach is just named after her colors.
Blooms, like their partner AV, has a complete disinterest in the great problem and a very big interest in bio-engineering
This time with plants rather than animals though they have a soft spot for small critters but they're usually never the subject of any experiments - just study and admiration
However, due to a deteriorating state, Blooms isn't quite able to use their equipment to manipulate genetic information like they used to - which is upsetting
So instead, they help AV with their current studies as well as keeping tabs on their own prior experiments
They have Peach now, though, which brings a much appreciated break from constant studying and nice close companionship
Peach will often catch prey outside and come back to eat it with Blooms and occasionally Blooms will play around with Peach and levitate the prey around for Peach to chase in anti-grav
The event that pushed AV to create Peach was when a creature entered Blooms' chamber and attacked them, partially damaging their puppet before being killed and then expelled from the chamber
Blooms is absolutely still capable of themselves and ultimately damaging the puppet a bit is nothing when taking account the sheer scale of an iterator - but AV will be AV
Plus, Blooms isn't complaining about getting a cute little companion from AV
And general trivia/info —
Everyone here is aroace. All of them. AV & Blooms' relationship is non-romantic in a sapphic way
The Serpent's pup's name is Pipsqueak
I know rudder tails shouldn't curve like that but I decided that after I finished drawing the Serpent and I wasn't about to redraw anything at that point
The other Iterators in AV and Bloom's local group are Illuminated Crown of Fire, Projections of Watchful Eyes, and an unnamed lunar-eclipse inspired iterator.
I have little information on them right now, but they are each based off of solar eclipses, stars and lunar eclipses respectively
In all, this local group is just a bunch of experiment freaks to varying degrees except for ICoF whose presence is often forgotten because of how little they speak but is also ever looming
And that's all! Thank you for reading this far in <3
#my art#my ocs#fanart#rain world#oc tag: the serpent#oc tag: administrative violence#oc tag: blown blooms#oc tag: peach#THE READ MORE IS VERY LONG i have Thoughts about my little weirdos#i have a whole iterator log between AV & blooms written out that i really want to draw something for but idk if i'll get to that#sure iterators off their string is cool but im obsessed w the fact that they're supermassive structures that cannot move from where they ar#yet feel so deeply and can create deep meaningful relationships with one another#i can only dream of articulating and capturing The Longing AV feels to be close to Blooms physically#it's there just trust me it's just stuck in my brain and i'll never be able to translate it out of my brain but just trust me on this one o#av looks at slugcat colonies and wishes that they could live with their local group in close proximity like that#blooms longs and yearns too but not as much as AV their mind is more preoccupied with their inevitable collapse and ruin
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Been finding it helpful to make little cheat-sheets for all my pov characters with, among other things, a list of a few topics they're interested in/knowledgeable about so I can think about what details they'll notice in a scene and what sorts of metaphors they're likely to use. It's a good hack for differentiating narration between characters. Also the lists are very funny.
#his crush; art; and gang violence#esp. for minor characters#with more prominent ones you usually have a broader spreads of interests/expertise to pull from#but eg. Onigawara's list is just#this is one of those things i used to just do in my head#but with the curse it helps to externalize & structure things as much as possible#so i don't think too hard and make myself crash again
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a character's self-deprication being what keeps them from being in a relationship can be really good but mostly when the self deprication is 1. justified and 2. only no longer an issue because their significant other is Into whatever they're angsting about
#random thoughts#writing ref#like 'i can't be with them because i've committed horrible atrocities and know only violence' and the SO is like 👀👀👀 please murder me#or like. one i really like is a dude who's like a hardcore submissive. can't get off any other way.#and he's just kind of assuming he'll be alone forever because yknow gender roles and whatnot#figures at best he'll have a sexless marriage#and then he meets the world's bitchiest woman <3#this is what i imagine clark kent and lois lane are like btw#idk. something about a big fat man. brick shithouse of a fella. being dominated by a very angry pixie woman#plus typically with that kind of setup the big reveal would be the woman *letting her guard down* and *submitting*#but i really like the idea of her letting her emotional walls down enough to let this man submit for her. to have someone reliant on her#like she's a business woman who's all work because she's been constantly disappointed in her dating life#because people try to ~get to know her~ and get her to ~let her guard down~ but like sorry she's just like this#she's the kind of woman who plays stardew valley with spreadsheets. runs that farm like the navy#she likes being in charge!!!#god the more i think about these two they're just becoming more and more autistic#they both like structure because the guy likes not making decisions and the gal doesn't like surprises#like the guy doesn't like making decisions on the spot and likes being guided through stuff#and he likes knowing that if he DOES do something wrong then there's a guarunteed result (safeword) which tells him to stop and change#and the gal likes being in control and hates surprises because it means she has to think up what to do on the fly with no data#she likes planning things and scenes make it so everything can go smoothly#she makes like. worldbuilding for her roleplay scenes. has a lore bible#both of them have to communicate effectively!!! NO ROOM FOR MISCOMMUNICATION#kink negotiation scene where they're both dressed in office casual. sitting at a table. they shake hands afterwards shksjakaka#i think they're like. i don't think they're dating. at least not yet#they're living together and having sex on a regular basis and would probably get married but i don't think they're dating#they don't kiss. i don't think she likes kissing on the mouth#they're like. best friends who fuck. queerplatonic. can people in queerplatonic relationships fuck?#god this got away from me
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you’re thinking about how easily massive numbers of the wildly antisemitic tankies would have been pulled into the actual political tenets of (esp early to mid 20th century) armed Zionism and you’re laughing?????
#This folks is why analysis of ideology and the structures of an ideology is important#Rather than just random ass ethnic signposting#A lot of people see Zionism as something suspicious and jewy that had to do with Jews - I don’t like them#But the reality of Zionism as an initially distinctly leftist branch of political ideology that sought to liberate an oppressed people#With that tiny niggly wiggly issue of the fact people might#Already have lived on that land???? Ohhhh boy#All these cottage core back to the land the world would be better if I could reject modernity and return to the ancient ways of Farming#Society is broken it cannot be fixed the only option is to found a New Tough society that will fix all our previous problems#And we’ll get round to it in heavily armed leftist commune farming settlements#Which we will defend with violence because any violence in the name of an oppressed people is justified and our legitimacy comes from the#Rifle!!!#The only reason you see this ideology as inherently removed and bizarre is antisemitism and the only reason you see yourself removed from i#Also antisemitism!!!#You would have done numbers in ahdut ha-avoda you would have called Ben gurion abbaleh/#Remember: a bunch of the people who got sucked into this of ideology weren’t the *rich Republican aipac Jews*!*’ your head#They were broke often very secular Jewish leftists working dead end gig economy jobs in farms and sweatshops for whom the idea of a Brave#New World with a. Brave new culture was very appealing and liberating#It offered something new to the broken.#It’s important to talk about this stuff to talk about how it can be undone#But also. The world is not divided into the Oppressed and the Unoppressed#Your political ideology does not stop you from hurting others#No political ideology even anti capitalism or leftism is innately pure- all can harm others#No ethnic and cultural identity no matter how oppressed is free from the potential to subjugate others#No identity or ideology is greater than the right of other people to live freely#Cycles of oppression and the pyramid structure of many empires result in oppressed people harming other oppressed people#Many many goyim think that they’re removed from the logic of Zionism because they aren’t Jews because it’s something wierd and jewy#But I see a lot of the most destructive logics parroted by leftists every day
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hands too cold to draw but i after that wip i am imagining Tesoro dying in a glue trap or prehaps being beaten to death. Hate him so much [lying i love him as a character]
#HMMM i wonder where Celia got her inability to look for solutions outside the social structures they already exist inside#I love Tesoro but his one major flaw is that while he sees through the mind games & systems to know how to manipulate and rig them in his#favor. he also doesnt see outside of it and only knows how to work that system and so ends up dragging people further in#bc unlike him who was fully trapped from a very young age other ppl could have broken free#or could have gotten even more hurt and killed#he chose to protect them mostly without their input and so they didnt get a choice#the only language he knows is posturing and threats and violence and he tries to feel better by using his skill with that language#to protect those he cares about but that's still using all that bullshit!!#hes also a teenager and terrified of loosing his friends to the violence that surrounds him!#hes. complicated.#and im cold and tired so forgive me if i worded any of this badly
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oop. crazy how many people i have unfollowed/blocked today for the cyclical and asinine sentiment along the lines of "well leftists are you HAPPY now????"
girl we've done this 3 elections in a row. definition of insanity to still be blaming this on us especially when the numbers do not support your accusations. like we voted for the fucking war criminals and you STILL lost.
#we will never improve/revolutionize this system because people cannot get their heads out of their asses enough to realize:#a. we have much bigger problems than these candidates#b. the structure of our government is not immutable nor is the US itself guaranteed any sort of longevity#c. the way we see ourselves and understand our politics and international influence is so wildly different from int'l perspective/ Reality#babes this country is a joke. international law has been made into a joke. that should be much scarier to everyone than it is.#but because they can't imagine the violence regularly outsourced to brown people as possibly happening to us in the states#americans are completely satisfied with continuing to outsource that violence if it means we get normalcy#also the number of privileged ass white liberals posting shit along the lines of 'well you made your bed lay in it'#ah i see the mask comes off and the hood comes out!#i thought we were against victim blaming???? i thought we wanted to empower marginalized communities??#but not when those communities express concerns and principles outside the realm of democrat complacency#like babe what was the platform? what did you vote for?#the platform shrinks every year and i fear by next election it will simply be nonexistent#i wish i was optimistic about a leftist movement stepping in to fill the vacuum but........ 🫠#i just think things are going to get much worse before they get better (IF they get better)
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"This show is SO good, you should watch it!!"
I gotta be honest. If I look at a character list on Wikipedia and get five characters down without seeing a single woman, it's probably not for me.
#I have no patience for 'there is exactly one woman in the main/supporting cast' anymore#unless the writing is INCREDIBLE and the themes are explored with a type of depth and nuance I can't get anywhere else (like shiki)#(daily media plug for shiki)#then I just. probably will not vibe with it. if there are no women. (also shiki DOES have interesting female characters in it)#and this isn't to say that like. things involving men or talking about men or that have a male protagonist are Not Worth#My Time that is NOT what I'm saying at all. I just want like. several women. who show up and affect the story. like LITERALLY that is all I#am asking for. I feel like that's just. the bare minimum. but alas.#mel screams about fictional ladies again#there are plenty of things that are male-character-focused that I enjoy and even genuinely think are good! but I do want people to#ask themselves why they aren't willing to go to bat for media that DOES have more women in the cast than men.#(I mean. the answer is misogyny. but I want people to be. aware of that. and evaluate accordingly)#(evaluate meaning 'acknowledge I have some biases I need to continue deconstructing' not 'drop interest in everything tumblr#user musical-chick-13 personally doesn't like')#I feel like so many times we get trapped in this space between overcorrection via 'don't like ANYTHING that's pRoBLeMaTiC in ANY way'#and people taking the 'it's fiction it's not that deep' to the conclusion of 'because I cannot actually hurt fictional characters because#they're not real that means I am incapable of hurting irl people when they talk about those characters'#like there is. nuance here. there is a middle ground. and most people have NO interest in finding it lmao#and like...if you carry your biases from irl (which EVERYONE HAS. INCLUDING ME. COURTESY OF LIVING IN A PREJUDICED SOCIETY.) into a#direct and one-to-one evaluation of stories or characters that allow you to exercise those biased ideas. then that reinforces those biases#like. no hating...for example every anime lady isn't the same as structural misogyny like the pay gap or anti-women violence#but if you automatically associate the idea of 'female character' with 'lesser-than' it strengthens the already-present societal idea that#women are not as important or dynamic or worthy of support and attention as their male peers. if you are willing to see every (white)#fictional man as having interiority and depth but struggle to see that in any fictional woman then it adds to the things society is already#telling us about women. it creates an association of 'women' with 'inferiority' and uh. that's what misogyny is.#it is not the same as misogynistic crimes against irl women but it IS a reflection of the rhetoric and societal impulses that lead to them#and even if it's a reflection and not the actual thing. it's still important to break down and examine and reevaluate because#if we don't examine our OWN biases. then even if we tear down the greater oppressive structure we'll just end up building it back up again#no your thousands of words of m/m fanfiction or liking late 2000s shonen anime isn't responsible for misogyny nor are these things#inherently misogynistic. I just want like. some acknowledgement that something being 'for fun' doesn't automatically mean that bias/#prejudice is nowhere to be found
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part of the reason so many people are able to morally justify being in the military is specifically because we only critique when military directly kills people instead of focusing on making more systemic critiques of the military widespread. the people who join the military to shoot people know what theyre doing and dont care but the military is trying to rebrand. people mistakenly think "oh well im not holding a gun or piloting a drone or setting up explosives" = "i'm not doing anything harmful" like the military has been figuring out how to get past the criticism of "i dont want to kill people" for a while. to do any truly effective anti-enlistment propaganda we need more people to be aware of the negative impacts of the us military beyond the obvious direct violence
#like i think people are removed from how the military recruits people#in a lot of cases they specifically position the military as NOT being combat focused#they purposefully minimize the violence of it#they dont just minimize the structural violence and things like enviromental destruction#they even minimize the violence in 'combat'#theyre doing something more sophisticated than 'kill the enemies of our homeland'#in some places of course they still do that. but they're aware that recruitment doesnt work#its not just people have convinced themselves to go kill people... its that theyre convinced thats NOT what theyre doing.
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regret to inform you Witcher s3 is so good it makes the near-slog of seasons 1-2 worth it
#it has everything. tender yearning romance. found family. lots of lesbians. non linear episode set at a ball#where we see the story from several perspectives with new info revealed every time.#ciri finally kicking ass. a siege episode with so much cool fantasy magic violence. sexy war crimes#I could go on!!!!#like I enjoyed many parts of 1-2 but they were NOT well structured or paced and the characters and tone were everywhere#but like. maybe if you haven’t seen any of it just read the wiki for 1-2 and go straight to 3#you wouldn’t be missing a ton
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trying to find diplomatic but firm ways to articulate 'hey man this is really fucked up, please reconsider' about wan/derhome--or whether to make a post about it at all--because its creators seem like the types to approach it in good faith, but i have no idea how it would go over or if they'd even see it at all. but i finally decided to take a look at it after getting it in a charity bundle last year, and as a disabled mentally ill trauma survivor god that was incredibly hurtful and upsetting, holy shit. days later i'm still not super okay over it, let alone that it won awards and is considered a masterpiece in the medium
#the crit files#there are literally content warnings for disabled people to make it easy to censor them out of your game ~to keep it lighthearted~#in an entire section of the book so aggressively segregated that it is structurally excluded from random rolls during character creation#they literally made six other categories of traits so that the '''traumatized traits''' (yes that is the official label used in the game)#won't fit on a d6#that does not even begin to scratch the surface of how much fucked up shit there was in the <half i managed to read before i had to tap out#i just. christ dude. what the hell#ugly laws are not ~cozy and safe~ they are violence.#cutesy ghibli-but-redwall aesthetic and performative gestures toward inclusiveness#do not make something less hateful and hostile toward disabled people; and mentally ill people; and trauma survivors.#they just make the poison go down easier.#also the section about safety tools and consent includes the phrase 'no one can make you do anything without your consent'#which i hate with my entire fucking soul and never ever ever want to see again#ableism cw#anti-survivor cw#ttrpg tag
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