#but bad

[xclowniex]

You're a zionist Arab Jew? Are you also a member of the Snow Leopards Eating My Face party? Are you white passing enough that zionists don't know you're Arab or do you just hate yourself? Are you unaware of the unabashed anti Arab racism that Israelis spout out every day on social media? Or do you think you're just "one of the good ones"?

Time for everyone's favorite game show!

"What deranged shit in Clownie's inbox today!"

To turn to a more serious note, Whilst I do not not live in Israel, my family does.

My family have only faced minimal racism for being arab, mainly stuff back in school years ago. I do not speak for all arab jews or even all Arabs in Israel, but that is mu family's experience. Just schoolyard racist teasing which is obviously not a good thing, but isn't a problem anymore than anywhere else in the world.

My family has full rights as other arab citizens do and other jews do.

Most jews I speak to have no problem with me being arab too. Do anti arab jews exist? Probably as no group is a monolith. I have just not encountered any yet, which is again, just my experience.

Zionism is also not an anti arab ideology inherently. Zionism literally just means wanting self determination in Southern Levant. That looks like a lot of different things, however most jews who are zionist believe in either a two state solution or a land for all solution which allows for jewish self determination and Palestinian self determination.

I think it's also important for me to say that I do not know which arab country my arabness comes from due to my family being told to "leave or die" a few generations back because they were also jewish. I really wish that history had not been forgotten in the past 4 generations but it has.

When it comes to my appearance, is white passing something you ask every other poc on this site? Or just arab jews.

For your information, I am not white passing, I look mixed. People can tell that I'm not white. I have faced anti arab sentiment and racism before too because of how I look. I've even had someone think I was the cousin of an arab acquaintance too if that gives you a better idea surrounding my appearance.

I would have a better time in Israel as an arab jew than I would in most arab countries as an arab jew. Also there is a decent community of arab jews in Israel as well.

Lastly I would like to leave you with this, if your world view is threatened by an arab jew being a two state solution zionist, then your world view is weak and not at all based in reality.

I an arab jew, am holding hands with all other arab jews, non Jewish arab and non arab jews. Fuck off with your arabs vs jews rhetoric

[aoxizu]

i have another 2.1 character dynamic post in the recesses of my brain but i need to get this out first

star rail's 2.1 update main plotline leans a lot more into existentialism and absurdism than i thought it would which is a really nice surprise

like i thought before 2.0 that at most it was just going to be some "oh no capitalism bad ipc bad cults also bad" thing but honestly what we got is so much more interesting. the spoilers start now

also massive disclaimer i am not a philosophist and actually i really don't like philosophy because it makes my brain hurt and i would much rather just look at logical nice things like math and plants so. if i get anything wrong please correct me

acheron's past and how she became an emanator of nihility reminds me somewhat of the absurdist theme of how people always look for meaning when there isn't any, until they finally realize that the universe is meaningless

and the entire path of nihility basically is a road towards that realization that people tread on, and the difference between the real world and star rail is that in the real world here we have people who will see that and then go write a book about a guy not crying at his mother's funeral, whereas in star rail it seems that just accepting that the universe is meaningless turns you into a pathstrider or even emanator of the nihility (not sure if i remember the details, correct me if i'm wrong)

and then aventurine's whole motivation is trying to understand why the universe is so cruel to him, and to find meaning when you have everything except freedom, both of which are absurdist themes

the leap of faith argument often attributed to søren kierkegaard claims that even though there is no rational logic for believing in god, you should do it anyway because the alternatives are madness, suicide, and ignorance. this was one solution to the problem of confronting the universe's meaninglessness: choosing to believe in a higher being regardless

later world wars i and ii both contributed heavily to the rise of absurdism as people returned from the war, having seen so many others die around them, and then just going back to a normal society with none of what they as individual soldiers had contributed seemingly doing anything. and then it happened again, but on a much greater scale with even more deaths. both wars and the destruction they brought led many people to start questioning why a supposedly moral god could allow this suffering, and this is where camus comes in and says that actually religion and nationalism both aren't good solutions, and instead we should just accept meaninglessness and keep living despite the absurdity

and i think dr ratio's scroll thing kind of relates to that

he tells aventurine to open it when he's about to die, or when he's completely out of answers for the question of how to confront absurdity

and dr ratio's answer for aventurine is to just tell him to keep living, good luck

which is. yeah

it's the argument that there are more answers to nihilism than just 1) going insane, 2) pretending like it doesn't exist, and 3) dying

it's the bold claim that despite everything, you can still choose to live

sure nothing makes sense but that does not detract from your life. it doesn't need to make sense at all

and with the understanding that things do not need to fit our human definition of meaning, we can continue on knowing our true place in the universe

and with that aventurine walks into the very big black hole like look at that thing you cannot tell me there is no symbolism there

let's go back to acheron.

in the part where you get a snippet of acheron's conversation with some guy just before this cutscene, the other party states that "[IX] leave[s] woven strands of fate for humans to walk, and together THEY weave a great shadow...And this shadow silently envelops them."

which to me sounds like a statement on how people across time and space have again and again come to the same question, what is the meaning of life?

and acheron's whole color thing seems to mean that she is one of the few who, after walking so far on the path of nihility, somehow have not died yet, be it from madness or something else

like it seems implied that many many more have seen the meaninglessness of the universe and have not reacted as well as acheron has

ok i have more to say about the elation and how it in turn relates to the nihility but that will have to come later but there is. a lot of interesting things there to explore

once again disclaimer: I Am Not A Philosophist And Do Not Know What The Correct Definitions Of These Words I'm Throwing Around Are. thank you for coming to my ted talk that was more of a longwinded ramble

[king-crawler]

YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY? PUTTING MY LIKENESS ON A SLAB OF PROCESSED FLESH?

[jacki3moon1e]

Dumping taijack shit bc I'm in lunch

[menaceoffandoms]

...I'm gonna say it

I don't like LMK season 5-

*gets shot*

[jeremygarak]

silly goobers ‼️

[the-golden-comet]

✨Magic System, But Bad Tag✨

Thank you for the tag, @honeybewrites ! ✨

Rules: Explain the magic system of your current WIP as poorly as possible. Bonus points if you use bullet points.

Poorly explained Magic System for YWIMC

Ali. It’s literally just him.

Ever been mind breached by a genie? Not even your thoughts are safe

Mind’s eye shenanigans. As long as Ali can picture it, he can create it.

Are you walking? Ooop, now you’re floating

Wanna go to the Alps? Just blink. Mind the travel magic sickness, though.

Oh shit, there was a witness? They don’t remember a thing. Amneeeeesia~

Are you trying to take a picture of the genie? Naaaaah he doesn’t show up on Polaroids or digital. What genie? Do you need to sit a moment? Have some water?

+open tag for whoever wants to join! ✨

[potoh]

Bad vibes yeah

[askbutbadbaldi]

I'm still here

Hi guys! I'm still here. I still exist. I haven't gotten any asks... so. Please ask me to do something! I'd love to do some stuff in msPaint!

[xclowniex]

You cannot be all “oh Gaza deserves better” and then in the next breath talk about how Israel has the “right to defend itself” for the one singular time Palestine fought back against their destruction, how come Palestine has had to sit back and take the shit from Israel for the past 76 years and then one time retaliate and then have Israel whining about how they’re the “victims” in all of this

1. It's not one singular time

2. Raping women is not fighting back

3. Israel has a right to exist. Get over yourself and then get off my blog.

4. You're just mad cause I'm not sucking up to hamas whilst still wanting Palestinian civilians to have a better situation

[lauryn-order]

Good gourd. These pacis are cute and all but the amount of rhinestones that are on my bed right now… I’m gonna be bedazzled when I wake up.

[hearth-and-veil]

Honestly, Eren's decisions make a lot more sense when we remember he's 19.

[anarch0possum]

creature of aluminum

[izvmimi]

Love your response!! I stan Tanjimimi and the minis 🙏

I have just one more question,

How do you think yan Tanjirou would influence or change the dynamics of the romantic/sexual relationship between the two of you? :)

i think in a yan situation tanjiro has a way of making you feel like you’ve been heard and you’ve peacefully come to a conclusion that works for the both of you until you’re in the thick of things and he’s doing whatever the fuck he wants

i also imagine it’s really hard to say no but he doesn’t really bother to do any convincing, just imposing his will in a very seemingly gentle but unavoidable way.

like imagine you’re like i hate peaches and he’s like hearing out your rant but the next morning you’re greeted with perfectly sliced peaches to be fed to you by mouth, that kind of vibe yk?

probably very suffocating to live with, being unable to refuse anything even tho it seems like you’re being understood when you talk. it’s like an indolent feeling of helplessness…