#Purity of arms

[probablyasocialecologist]

In November, the Palestinian singer Hamada Nasrallah was shocked to discover a TikTok of a soldier playing the guitar that his father had bought him 15 years earlier. Other videos uploaded to social media in recent months show Israeli soldiers boasting about finding wristwatches; unboxing someone’s collection of soccer shirts; and stealing rugs, groceries, and jewelry. In a Facebook group for Israeli women comprising nearly 100,000 users, someone wondered what to do with the “gifts from Gaza” that her partner, a soldier, had brought back for her. Sharing a photo of cosmetic products, she wrote: “Everything is sealed except for one product. Would you use these? And does someone know the products or are they only in Gaza?” Indeed, since the start of Israel’s ground invasion in late October, soldiers have been taking whatever they can get their hands on from the homes of Palestinians who have been forced to flee. More than an open secret, the phenomenon has been widely — and uncritically — reported in the Israeli media, while rabbis from the Religious Zionist movement have been answering soldiers’ questions about what is permissible to loot according to Jewish law. Soldiers who returned from fighting in Gaza confirmed to +972 Magazine and Local Call that the phenomenon is ubiquitous, and that for the most part their commanders are allowing it to happen. “People took things — mugs, books, each one the souvenir that does it for him,” said one soldier, who admitted that he himself took a “souvenir” from one of the medical centers that the army occupied.

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier ACT ON THIS June 27, 2024

[purity-town]

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Dryads are interpreters of Terraria's will, and as such are uniquely in tune with the world. Alalia was summoned to this region once Chris proved himself by defeating the Eye -- that doesn't mean she was given a full run down on the intricacies of the whole "Lunatic Cult" thing.

[cursedvibes]

I've said this before, but it always makes me really uncomfortable when Sukuna fans and jjk fans in general talk about what "human" Sukuna would look like. Because the form we currently see couldn't possibly be how he originally looked. Clearly this is his curse appearance because it's so deformed and inhuman and a reflection what an evil person he is. No normal human could possibly look like this. Basically they are parroting the exact talking points that led to Sukuna being called an "unwanted child" 忌み子. Someone who looks like that can only be evil.

Nothing about his appearance is all that inhuman. The belly mouth is physically impossible, but the rest of his body is easily explained with him just being a conjoined twin/polymelia. And the mask-like growth on his face seems to have changed during his life, so it might just be a tumour or very extreme eczema. Point is, while there is surely some jujutsu stuff involved with it, the appearance of his body is natural and given what we know so far, I think it is likely that he always looked like this and only optimized some aspects of it as he got older and more focused on fighting and cursed energy. So saying the way he looks is evidence of him being a curse or having become a curse (like a punishment for becoming a bad person) instead of his actions speaking for itself regardless of his appearance and literally everyone who knows him personally saying he's human, is extremely ignorant.

[doriandrifting]

People getting shamed for saying that they’re voting for Kamala Harris but still have criticisms of her is not it. What more do you want us to do? Eat her fucking box?

[thevalicemultiverse]

Unicorns are funny if you think about it. You put a horn on a horse and suddenly that makes it a symbol of purity and goodness.

Forgotten Vows

Victor: That -- is a bit bizarre, isn't it? Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the mythology of unicorns to know why that's the case...Alice, you know a unicorn in Wonderland, don't you?

Alice: Yes, but it's more of a symbol of what you'd expect from sticking a horn on a horse -- namely, unbridled violence.

[mildflower-writes]

i just think it would be funny if @ariibees and i’s guides and arms dealers met each other

[manchasama]

I am...baffled and disappointed.

I was watching a fansub of the first few Onepiece episodes, and was completely thrown off by them translating nakama as "friend". Like, no? That is not right. Just leave it as nakama please it's so much less offputting than Arlong going "Nami is my friend". That absolutely does not work.

Then on a whim I decided to google what fansubbers would still be using nakama, only to find at some point the fandom became absolutely poisonous about not only the term nakama, but leaving japanese in at all.

"It's a deliberate troll of old fansubbers!" "They just didnt' know how to translate it so they left it in." "It means friend/comrade/crew and they should just have used the REAL word!" "They thought leaving Japanese in made them edgy and cool"

Like...y'all realize YOU sound like the assholes here? Then of course there's the people who are like "You should never leave the japanese in the translation!" purists who I just don't understand. Misconception of words aside, because that is their OTHER argument, if you want it purely english, watch the dub maybe.

There ARE untranslatable concepts, and what I remember is fansubbers used to put their heart and soul into trying to convey the concept instead of literal translations. And sometimes, leaving the original term with a translation of subtleties works better. If you are mad at the fandom for assigning it further meaning beyond that (which I never really...picked up on? Nakama has different meaning for everyone, it's not a one-stop "closer than family" term?? Literally never heard anyone say that except for the people complaining that people say that), then I don't think you like fandom at all.

[millimononym]

I think we SHOULD normalize calling out people in "cringe" fandoms who come onto other peoples posts/art about that same fandom and act all ashamed about liking that thing or interacting with it in any way because that shit is not ok and way too common

You move into OUR neighborhood, break into OUR house, and demean OUR SHARED INTEREST, FEELINGS and EFFORT because you can't keep your shame complex to yourself?? i am going to lock you in the basement and leave you to starve

[ariibees]

Posted another Purity Town one-shot to AO3! Malik’s perspective from when Andrew first comes into town, and how they’ve known each other since before Chris came into the picture.

[burnitalldowndarling]

ajskal tumblr has a (weirdly functional) blacklist for a reason. if someone doesn't tag something you (general) think they should... use the secondary blacklist.

you can put in words that show up in the body of tags. like plantcest. or if you don't want to see them at all? put their url and it'll catch it!

Yep, I've used xkit's blacklist myself for years (not sure if you're saying this for me or for the last anon). There was one word in the fic description that should've been caught by any blacklist of the word "plantcest," but clearly that anon would rather send hate than take responsibility for their own fannish experience.

So I said what I said. If somebody can't handle using a blacklist, then they should block me, because my blog is not a safe place for them. Folks who don't know better than to put their hands on a visibly hot stove need to stay out of the kitchen.

[purity-town]

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And that's it for chapter 7! The Dryad is in town and she's getting along with the current folk living there, more or less.

[targentis]

the hate that the schrodinger's gender poll got is actually so astounding to me and really kind of shines a light on how there's still a lot of people out there who just. cannot handle nuance. the fact that there are still people (who are trans themselves!!) that think that the state of being transfem, transmasc, or nonbinary is all mutually exclusive....girl we're all transgender. the people with multiple genders won't hurt you. we can all see different representation in the same fictional characters and that doesn't "erase" their identity, or yours, for that matter, because let's be honest that's all this is about.

this is why it took so long for me to identify as transfem, because i knew people (mostly online) would be so affronted by it for no reason...it literally doesn't matter. how people identify does not invalidate your own identity, and how people choose to see representation in characters is not, for fuck's sake, worth sending death threats over??? like, go outside and talk to a trans person in real life, no one gives a shit except on our online echo chambers ✌

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

You are like the one blog I follow that doesn't whine about age gaps between Thai BL actors or characters, and bless you for it. So sick of the discourse.

Yeah, age gaps don't bother me one bit.

One of the family cousins married her own father's lifelong best friend, 35 year age gap, and they're perfectly happy.

As long as everyone is an adult, I really don't care.

[solitarelee]

East Asian fanartists are starting to migrate back to Tumblr because Twitter is insane, toxic, and dying, and what we're NOT going to do is let the fucking exclusionists get them, do you hear me? We are not going to let a bunch of feral idiots try to apply the most myopic version of puritanism to foreign artists we're not we're not we're not. Form an armed brigade if you have to, do you hear me. We're not going to bully the artists who may or may not even speak English because we have our precious standards of moral purity. If we see art that makes us uncomfy we're going to block the artist and tumblr savior their name so we don't have to see them again AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE FUCK ON.