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katcurio · 1 year ago
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A tiny activism zine. Free digital download available on my ko-fi!
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foe-paw · 1 year ago
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YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU COULD OUTSMART THE VERY THING THAT RUNS THE BLOOD OF YOUR KIND?
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dollopole · 13 days ago
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I was just thinking about the fact that in so many Merlin fics, Merlin keeps being an healer/doctor/medic, which makes sense, since that’s how he started his life, by helping people however he could, but now consider this:
Merlin, who has lived so long and more than probably witnessed the deaths of thousands, even of those he loved, cherished and respected. So what if a millennia of life completely flipped his view on what it means to heal and study medicine. What if after all Merlin saw, everything that happened had the opposite effect on him, which means that he stopped trying and left the job to someone else.
Merlin still helps, surely, in the end, it’s in his nature as human, but we can already see how he changed, even only after ten years of being in Camelot and witnessing death after death.
What if he despaired because disease spread and not even his magic could help it, what if his magic decided that humans had to live with their own course of actions and so his magic simply refused to help them, which got Merlin just angry at the prospect of doing this for so many years.
But now take into consideration when Arthur returns:
I believe Arthur would be the healer/doctor/medic this time around.
He would be eager to help everyone he can, because that’s also in his nature, but since he can’t do it anymore in the way he once did, he has to find another path for him, a path that would make him heal too, heal from all the times he killed, instead of helping someone in danger.
Arthur lived a life of death even before Merlin could start to think about killing someone.
Arthur had his hands smeared with blood since he was a child. Being Uther’s son was automatically, in both magical people and peasants’ perspective, who lived under Uther’s tyranny, a sin and a guilt, even before Arthur could pick up a sword.
He did not just kill sorcerers, but he was raised with a mind of a killer of justice. To defend his kingdom, his father, his counsellors, his court and his people no matter what he felt regarding it, was and had always been his main duty.
He was trapped in a murderous cycle, literally, where he couldn’t do anything but raise himself to believe that the only way to help people was to kill them.
On one side, we have a man who spent his life helping people and who got tired of death, and on the other side, we got another man who spent it killing people and still got tired of death.
But to Arthur and Merlin it happened in different ways.
Where Merlin left the responsibility to someone else, Arthur decided to take that responsibility himself, in the hope that maybe, one day, he could bring back to life all those he had condemned for the simple act of living as themselves.
#this is just to say that to read an au with arthur as a doctor would be very great#he’s usually a ceo or someone with a certain amount of power which absolutely makes sense#especially if the fics are not canon compliant#but it would be great to navigate the idea of arthur still being himself of course#but trying to be better#and all of this by merlin’s side#me thinks it would be very neat#merthur#bbc merlin#merlin#arthur pendragon#merlin bbc#merlin x arthur#merlin fanfic#also because sometimes it happened to me to read of arthur coming back and becoming a cop#because that’s apparently the most similar job#which if we are watching merlin under a cop propaganda show#also makes sense#but if we are reading fics also under a reality perspective#it would mean that arthur is still part of that failed system that brings death upon people instead of life#so it would make more sense for him to be in the medicine field instead of a cop who is part of a system that cannot be changed#if not dismantled from its root and defunded#which now that I think about it would also make sense for arthur#usually in fics merlin is the activist or the one who goes against authority#true very true#but what if arthur slowly changes his mind and decides to take part in that too#in a life full of real justice instead of a pretend one#where he can actually truly help people like he wishes to do#and this is also just my way of saying ‘how cool it would be to have a merthur fic with arthur either as a paediatrician or a veterinarian’#ao3
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gingerswagfreckles · 2 months ago
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Not really loving how my post about the left's love affair with eugenics and blood and soil ideology framed as "decolonization" got coopted into another "wait it's all Christianity??" "It always has been" post." Y'all are sticking your heads in the sand if you think this is a problem with "cultural Christianity." This is the exact same pattern we saw play out in the 1979 Iranian revolution and much of this ideology was coopted from the Nazis by the Soviets and reframed as progressive. This is not an issue with Western "cultural Christianity" and it would be great if Jumblr could stop engaging in the same "there's actually one secret root cause of every problem in the world and if we get rid of it we will have utopia" thing that antisemites have been using against Jews for 2000 years.
#i stg some people really dont understand that the problem with that ideology is not ~we are blaming the wrong religion/people~#there are recognizable patterns of oppression and social issues that have to do with Christianity but not every problem in the world is#rooted in cultural Christianity and the only reason you see so many issues with cultural Christianity is because you live in a majority#Christian country where Christians are in charge#i promise the samd ideology that we see antisemitic ~activists~ in Lebanon using are not caused by their extremely oppressed tiny Christian#community. i promise that the Iranian revolution that found roots in much of the same ideology and thought was not caused by their tiny#oppressed Christian community either#the similar arguments about who is indigenous to the contested areas of Pakistan and India and therefor who can kill which civilains and be#justified has 0 to do with Christianity#and im sorry but the concerted effort by Hamas to insist that Jews are not indigenous to Israel and that therefore it is acceptable to kill#Jews is not rooted in Christianity it is rooted in the co opting of Soviet antisemitism to justify their very much not Christian religious#extremism in a way that appealed to the communist bloc and now appeals to the Western Leftists that have adopted this ideology as well#jumblr#antisemitism#leftist antisemitism#soviet antisemitism#im sorry but the only reason you dont feel the need to be sensitive when talking about Christianity is because you do not live in a country#where Christians are a oppressed or scapegoated minority but i promise that does not mean those countries do not exist or those communities#do not exist and scapegoating Christians or cultural Christianity for problems that have very little if anything to do with Christianity is#the extact same shit people have been doing to jews for 2000 years#this eugenics shit has become a very common argument for the murder of jews and other communities living in the Wrong Place#all over the world and it is not at all contained to ex Christian leftists#this exact anti imperialist rhetoric was used to justify the expulsion of the jews from egypt in the 1950s#and from Iran in the 1979 when jews were charged with being imperialist spies for Iran and America#do you think those countries were Christian? lol#this eugenics shit framed as anti imperialism is not rooted in Christianity or ~cultural Christianity~ and has basically nothing to do with#Christianity at all#christianity#jewblr
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fourgottencoast · 3 months ago
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I’ve been having issues with this ‘it’s never too late to mask again’ rhetoric people have started using to try to get people to take covid precautions again because it’s a phrase that demands no accountability, no self reflection, no growth. Because unfortunately IT IS too late for MILLIONS of people who’ve been killed/disabled by covid and conditions triggered as a direct result of covid, and i think it’s disrespectful to those lives to allow people to just jump right back into pretending they care without acknowledging this enormous tragedy they actively participated in! Sorry but you don’t get to ignore a pandemic for 4 years and then wash your hands of the blood you helped spill through willful ignorance while claiming to care about social justice!
And it’s also aggravating because it’s SO OBVIOUS most of these people are only doing it because they’re afraid of how covid/bird flu/a trump health admin will personally affect THEM, not because they’ve evolved politically or actually care about their community. There’s no genuine solidarity with the disabled community, no self-reflection on their participation in eugenics and normalization of mass death/disability, no connecting the dots between disease mitigation (or lack thereof) and capitalism/imperialism/racism, etc. its just more individualism that ultimately does not help lead to collective liberation and will not prevent this from happening again.
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tswift · 8 months ago
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I never doubted for one second that the reason she doesn’t speak up on all the world’s issues is due to safety. She isn’t perfect, she’s not some great political activist, but she has a heart and she has good intentions. It was baffling to see how easily people attacked her character (fans too, not just her typical haters) because she wasn’t speaking on things they expected or wanted her to. We may not know Taylor personally, but she’s shared so much with us over the years. Some of us grew up with her. The one thing that is clear as day is how genuine she is. Yes, she falls short. But some of these expectations placed on her are just simply unrealistic. And also, given the current state of the world, dangerous. I’m sure she will have plenty to say once the tour wraps.
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deancasforcutie · 9 months ago
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still chasing the high of that halcyon age where Supernatural was my healthy safe escape from the horrors of US politics, and then
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arttsuka · 7 months ago
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in the monster falls au mermando is a human and just named "mando"
multibear is also a human with 8 pet chow chows he takes everywhere with him
You're not fooling me into designing human multibear AND 8 chow chows.
You can have Mando
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oscar-fastri · 1 year ago
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i feel like we don't talk about max and seb's respective arcs from grid terror to chill dude who smiles a lot and cracks jokes and is extremely passionate about the sport enough
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kestrel-of-herran · 5 days ago
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helena defending mark s in front of mark scout bc no one belittles HER gooner
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buttercup-bi · 1 year ago
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Seen a couple people not knowing this so as a Jew I thought I’d clarify:
While it is also the name of the country, Israel is a word used to describe the Jewish people. It was Jacob’s name and the Jews are known as the people of Israel. The country didn’t exist before 1948 and any mention of Israel in the Torah or in prayers is not about it.
Am Yisrael Chai especially doesn’t mean the country it means the people of Israel live, meaning the Jewish People will survive its not in support of genocide and if it’s being used as such it’s a misunderstanding of the phrase.
On top of this before it was on the flag, the Star of David has always been a Jewish symbol. Before it was a national language, Hebrew was the language of the Torah. Please don’t confuse Jewish symbols with symbols of the nation of Israel.
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ominousvibez · 10 months ago
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i know a lot of people tend to define dani/ellie's "obsession" as the ocean to go with danny's space obsession but tbh i feel like as dani gets older she's going to do a lot to separate herself from her identity as danny's "clone" and become her own person
like, that's why i love that the fandom has adopted the "ellie" nickname so much for her. i so wish the show went on for longer with more competent writers or the comic could expand on this maybe but i think finding her own identity and voice would be such a powerful narrative. you're made for one thing but you don't wanna do that, so now what do you do?
(tbh that kind of identity exploration is probably too anit-christian for b*tch h*rtman so i'm glad he didn't get to touch it)
it's canon that dani goes off and travels the world, so why not have her obsession be traveling? she's got a huge case of wanderlust. she likes the outdoors, she likes hiking and camping and is a huge granola girl. like, i think that kinda just fits her a bit more, in my opinion. traveling/exploration.
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fantasticgothicpeachsludge · 3 months ago
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In a perfect dc x marvel crossover au Scott Summers would have been adopted by Bruce Wayne
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angelsaxis · 1 year ago
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"...[W]e must continue to challenge the societal arrangements that leads to preventable pain and suffering. Marriage can be quite beautiful and sacred, for example. Marriage can also privatize dependence: it encourages people to enter relationships for resources and benefits, like health care, savings, and tax deductions. I was nineteen years old when I got married, mostly informed by my faith tradition. I was also in love, but very poor, and marriage offered me a stability that I never had as a child. I was so lucky that the person I married was kind, thoughtful, and also very much trying to figure out his relationship to Christianity and his evolving manhood.
When we divorced nine years later and became friends and co-parents, I realized how the marital benefits I once aspire dot have did not make sense. I could remove him from my health insurance to account for the divorce, but I couldn't add any of my uninsured siblings, whom I would be related to forever. And our children had two options for insurance because they had parents who went to college and worked jobs that offered it, but independent contractors in my family did not have an option that wasn't a financial sacrifice.
If we focused on meeting the healthcare, employment, educational, and housing needs of people in society, then those who want to marry could more freely enter those relationships in their terms, and people who needed to escape because of violence could more easily leave without worrying what will happen if they get sick and need to see a doctor.
We should heed to calls for investment in the programs, opportunities, and laws that make everyone free and safe. Here too, universal basic income can help, allowing people to meet their basic needs and not rely on potentially sexually exploitative intimate relationships for income. Removing benefits from marriage accomplishes this, too. With universal health care, and other programs like free and quality childhood education, people vulnerable to violence have more free range to move, live, and practice healthy lifestyles."
-- Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell
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tirfpikachu · 3 months ago
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sometimes you have nothing left to lose and everything to gain so without even choosing to do so you end up being more authentic and shameless than ever before. and when you do things it feels like an actual human being, an actual being completing tasks, and those tasks feel like ghibli movies, they feel like domesticity, and even if you live alone it's like you live with a roommate who is always there for you (yourself, your truest self) and before you know it you're thinking of that being living within you, that being you repressed, as your self, as your body, and you forget the fake mask you thought was yourself for years and years because others liked you better that way.
suddenly, when you care about other people's opinions, you start having standards about which people's opinions you hold onto, and you still find yourself placing your ideas as #1 on your list of priorities, because who else knows you better? who else has lived in your shoes, in your mind? only you have. others are simply making assumptions about what's going on in your mind and in your life. even your beloved spouse or bestest of friends would still not know what you are truly like deep down unless you tell her. only you are there for yourself 24/7, and only you know your entire journey from within!
choose yourself!!! choose yourself above everything else!
choose to put out there who you truly are, warts and all. because there is not a single flaw or trait or quirk in yourself that you would never find endearing and lovable and harmless in someone else. the greatest shame is being a hypocrite and inauthentic to the weird, scrungly, beloved creature you truly are. you are so human. you are so strange yet so normal. you are a breathing, living being. there is nothing wrong with you that you are incapable of welcoming with warm, open arms; chances are, you have already done so with others. you are your own cheerleader, trusted advisor, and closest friend. it's time to have that frenemies to soulmates arc with yourself. see it as a 2025 challenge. stop being the mask, begin simply existing.
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rozecrest · 4 months ago
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office is so quiet today… barely seen a coworker… don’t have anything urgent to do…. perfect fic writing setting gonna lock in
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