#and the man you conquered

[ikarus-angel]

HAVE YOU HEARD-

Reich when Poland breaks into his house (!!!!he's homophobic!!!!)

Reich is also homophobic, he just keeps going "Please, it's not homosexual to [graphically describes violently making out with Soviet]!"

Guys, calm down, it's all about power! Not MEN!

[littlelightfish]

HOLM NATION HOW ARE WE FEELING

[royaltea000]

I’ve never felt so conflicted about a franchise in my life but at least this dude was hot

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s that no one ever believed him that gets to me the most. this is a society of telepaths. and yet when the doctor finds out that the drums are real, he’s surprised. the master is surprised, elated, by the confirmation that he’s hearing something that’s really there, that this thing that’s been following him and hurting him for so long is real.

after a certain point, given that the master is Really Fucking Good at mind control and such, you have to imagine that no one could just pick up on the noise in his head with a little general telepathy. he had to choose to let the doctor in to share it. and. and okay. we need to put aside him striving to be The Best At Controlling People’s Minds in the context of him having his mind violated as a child because if i think about these two things in relation to each other i’ll throw up.

but there has to have been a point before he was so accomplished that he couldn’t have defended his own mind as easily. that he couldn’t keep someone, anyone, from delving into his head and hearing the drums. which means i must conclude, because we find out who put them in his head at all and it’s the most powerful guy on gallifrey, that when he was younger, the people around him did know. they could hear the drums. they could figure out what was done to him. but they did nothing, they said nothing, they told him he was hearing things. because if the lord president wanted to use a child for his own ends, who was going to stand up and stop him? easier to sweep it under the rug. and the master lived with that for so long that finally having just one other person hear the drums was a shock to him.

[radley-writes]

genuinely worries me that some of you think the biggest threat to feminism in 2024 is trans men having words to talk about their lived experience

[enjoltrwolfstar]

EDDIE SAYING "you know when you meet someone and you just click?" RIGHT IN FRONT OF BUCK OHHHH I JUST KNOW THIS IS PAYBACK FOR WHEN BUCK SAID "I feel like she really sees me" LAST SEASON LMAO

[bottombaron]

there is no way that Guillermo’s pussy wouldn’t drive Nandor absolutely mad with power

[sidsinning]

ALSO I didn't think Felix's character in the end would be wrapped up in romantic love with a gf personally; I'd prefer if he stayed in his anti-hero arc until he has some sort of catharsis that focuses on his relationship with Adrien

Like F*ligami would work way better as a platonic friendship imo

Bc suddenly this bratty menace (and I mean that in a way where I love his characterization as an antagonistic force) to Mari who has harassed her in every way is Kagami's perfect utterly devoted cuddly boyfriend? just needed the right woman to steer him in the right direction (no, kagami didn't fix him but he did a 180 bc they made him suddenly like a girl)?? so thats what we're going for lol ok

(And as usual the show is allergic to people apologizing to Mari 90% of the time)

Kagami telling Felix Mari's identity bc he's her boyfriend without even telling Mari first- idk that was a blow for me (ESPECIALLY bc Felix has been such a huge villain to Mari all this time)

Sidenote also thought the way she found out was weak af too bc look at how well identites have been hidden and how sacred they've been up until now

The way they're making out so much right after the ep where he learns kidnapping isn't rizz 😭

Also what you guys have known each other for like a week Kagami this Shakespearean dialogue ain't the type of thing you say with your whole chest for that amount of time

AND HE HAS THE SAME FACE AS THE GUY SHE SAID SHE CAN'T GET OVER WHO HAS A GF

KIND OF AN IMPORTANT THING THEY GLOSSED OVER

idk everything about this ship feels like they mischaracterized both Felix and Kagami

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok & Janeway both strike me as people who insist they aren't rich* but then they bring up a summer house or something in casual conversation *note: I'm aware that Star Trek humans live in a post-scarcity world with no money but still. I can't help but see the truth and the truth is that Janeway's fridge had an ice dispenser.

[hermesmoly]

Oenone deserved her happy ending, God I hate that she committed suicide for Paris and they blame her for abandoning him when he abandoned her

You get it! T-T

Oenone should've been kissing girls like Medea and lived the rest of her days in peace, like why commit to her being the "bitter first wife" who refused the man who abandoned her (AND THEIR KID BTW) medical care then retract it and say she regrets it? And lose her life for it? Like no! Let her be mean! Anyone who blames her gets my fists!

(Alternatively, I do view Oenone refusing to treat Paris as a sort of karma for killing Corythus, their forgotten son. Either way her dying is so stupid and I wish authors back then knew what to do with her character.)

[maegalkarven]

I love this image of Gortash from the Emperor's story.

Look at him.

Look at his smug ass. He came to ruin both the Empreror and Stelmane's lives and is so proud of that.

[septembersung]

My stress dreams almost always involve zombies but last night was a new and horrifying twist. Awake, I see connections to the Reavers from Firefly, but in-dream it was a dreadful and brand new reveal.

[flagellant]

perhaps this is in bad faith, but don't you think it's plausible that ms appleton was just a government food scientist who was sent to japan as sort of U.S. ambassador and given a generic, americanized name? we know that resources were scarce during the war and that many changes had to be made, or simply were made to cut costs, in the production of lots of things at the time. it just makes sense when you break it down that traditional shoyu is time and labour intensive to make but improves the taste of even outright bad dishes. at a time when people were forced to eat whatever food was available to them demand was likely very high to the point of unreasonably outweighing supply. either officials at kikkoman reached out to american food scientists for a solution or they offered one up themselves, given the fact that food science was undergoing a huge international renaissance led by the americans during the 30s, 40s and 50s. americans have a tendency to synthesize food. they also tend to feel strongly about imposing their culture on other countries. it seems more to me like this is a story about the american government taking extra steps to obfuscate the story of how they semi-successfully tried to be the final nail in the coffin of widespread, traditional shoyu production. less like some kind of yakuza conspiracy somehow centred on one woman. just the perspective of someone who's felt compelled to do their own research. it's my opinion that the way you're presenting your findings leaves massive gaps as well as leaps to get over them. i can't speak for the things you haven't shared publicly, obviously, but it feels a lot like you're dancing around the point. good luck to you in your research, regardless of my own feelings.

I think I agree that you're either arguing in bad faith or simply aren't really paying attention to a wider picture here. It's common knowledge that postwar economics in Japan were heavily influenced and remain to this day connected to organized crime and the Yakuza as an old tool of the imperial/noble order. We also know for a fact that the CIA worked with the yakuza during American occupation in order to manipulate political culture and economic structures.

It's also a common conspiracy in Japanese circles (or at least so it appears, and I want to be clear I am not voicing this as more than preexisting theory/belief, so I will not directly source to give complete credibility; consider this as context for why I might be interested in investigating further, just in case) that Empress Michiko and the Seifun Milling Company had close under-the-table connections with America, which would further influence the traditional shoyu brewing culture.

Like, I feel as though if you seem to be aware enough that America's treatment of Japan was one of extreme hostility and cruelty with little-to-no care about the nation or its people, solely using it as a means to enforce American/Western ideals and principles onto an unwilling populace and using violence and illegal organized crime syndicates to fulfill those goals...then why are you acting as though it's sus of me to look at a single woman in 1947 having this much power/control over Japanese-American relations when you have said yourself that shoyu is the single most important ingredient for Japanese food of all time, and only moreso during war rations/scarcity times?

[transsexula]

Theres a very weird movement going on here, where if you mention issues related to men, you are automatically labeled an MRA.

In all honesty, it makes sense with what feminist theory has been clipped off after t*rfs got their hands on the "feminist" title and ran it through the mud. Because to them- men are evil. Masculinity is evil. Specifically trans men are evil gender traitors who want nothing more than a slice of the patriarchy pie.

Where is the space now in progressive/feminist circles for men? Especially queer men? Men who have BEEN feminists, who have been active politically, in their communities and homes- where is the space for them? What happened to stronger together? When did the mass begin adopting t*rf talking points? When did feminism as a whole become centered on those talking points?

Like. I AM allowed to talk about the issues I face in a heteronormative cis-centric society plagued with patriarchal views. That shit affects me deeply! I talk about it on my blog. In my own space. I also uplift the voices of others- especially women, and fem-aligned people. It's important to have connections with all sorts of people- it makes me feel more whole, both in the personal connections, and the connections made through works of art, books, etc.

It is frightening to watch the community splinter apart as the looming threat of a Trump term is happening. It feels like being in a crowd, helping everyone into a safe zone and reaching for a hand up- only to be left behind and closed out as the zombie hoard closes in.

Under pressure, things begin to break down. But we really need to do our best to mend the splintering, to fill the cracks and seems and divides. Because otherwise, their next step is "Conquer" and I don't want to see that for us.

[dappy-dappernette]

I'm listening to a STP let's play VOD and like- Obviously its for a joke but the way these ppl are mischaracterizing my boy Smitten so badly hurts so much like it's honestly more cringe than how over the top he is.

[usertoxicyaoi]

“It means ... ‘Please, be my boyfriend’.” WHY YOU ... Y ME? (2022) - Episode 10.