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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophieās background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps theyāre all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.
#leverageposting#leverage#sophie devereaux#particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school#or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think#sheās dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks#sheās dead too. like. astrid wasnāt the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself#as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund#her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one#or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. thatās#bc of a single vague sentence on john rogersā blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random#hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that sheās trans which iāve seen a few times#in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. heās never asked.#she is here now and thatās all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer#enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth#name bc itās not Her anymoreā¦ she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. sheās so much more than whatever happened.#lvg
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Belated Vere birthday artā¦but it's drawn by my Hound OC, Alon.
Alon: Vere did a real bang up job with those birthday portraits, I reckon he deserves some nice art for himself, too. So for our favourite foxy's birthday, I drew him this! Ta-da! *presents to the others* Leander: Oh! :D ...Who is that? Alon: It's Vere! :D Leander: Oh. Ais: ... Ais: Why is his ass on fire? Alon: WhāThatās his TAIL! D:< Mhin: Is he...strangling a fish? Alon: No! He's enjoying a nice glassā Mhin: Of fish? Alon: A nice glass of fish-free fruit tea! Kuras: I can't deny the demon horns suit his character, but I doubt he would appreciate that specific exercise in artistic liberty. Alon: Those are his ears! D: Kuras: ...Ah. Mhin: Then why does he have three of them? Alon: And that's a party hatāY'know what? None of you appreciate art!
*later, presenting it to Vere*
Vere: Why is my ass on fire? Alon: That'sā! *defeated sigh* 'Cause you've got a smoking hot ass.
The birthday drawing:
#touchstarved#touchstarved game#touchstarved vere#touchstarved leander#touchstarved ais#touchstarved mhin#touchstarved kuras#touchstarved oc#my oc#myoc#alon the hound#and I feel like that would be another death to add to alon's list of hypothetical non-canonical deaths by vere#one of the inspirations for this was the scene of sokka drawing appa. another was that one clip of a news anchor with the police sketch.#I think kuras is quietly delighted by the drawing#honestly maybe vere as well. maybe. he appreciates handmade gifts right?#mhin offered to take the drawing if vere didn't want it.#alon: āyou'd actually want one o' my drawings?ā :D#mhin: āsure. I need something for target practice.ā#alon: >:O#it's actually harder than I thought it would be to draw in an art style you'd imagine a character to have#maybe one day I'll redraw all of this as a comic but for now#happy birthday vere! <3
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imagine you were mauled by a bear.
you were mauled and it was awful. it left scars on you that may never fully and completely heal. maybe it nearly killed you. bears are now a trigger for you. full on panic at the sight of a bear.
now imagine some people in your town enjoy dressing up as bears. they put on homemade costumes for fun and occasionally meet up. most people are just there to play dress-up with other folks who enjoy wearing bear costumes, but maybe a few of them also play pretend with each other. nobody gets hurt-- they aren't real bears, and they wouldn't want to be! it's just fun to play pretend.
but you were mauled by a bear, and one day you're out walking, and you see some of these people on the other side of the road, and you freak out. most of the costumes aren't even very realistic, but you start screaming at them anyway, throwing rocks, grabbing other people and pointing, trying to get them to throw rocks too, because what the fuck? what the hell? what kind of sick freak pretends to be a bear? don't they know bears are dangerous? and what if there's a real bear in one of those costumes! or what if they're dressing up as bears because they want to maul people! throw rocks! harass! throwing rocks at people in bear costumes is good and righteous! you were mauled by an actual real bear and this is all definitely a reaction to an actual real threat and not at all a trauma response!
meanwhile, the people who enjoy dressing up as bears are trying to explain it's just for fun. they just enjoy playing dress-up. even those who do enjoy pretending, are only pretending. it's just acting. and look-- Ted over there was mauled, too! he likes dressing up as a bear because it gives him a situation he controls. but nobody is trying to actually be bears. that would be fucking deranged.
but it doesn't matter. you were mauled by a bear, and people in bear costumes feel the same to you as bears. it doesn't matter why they dress up, they OBVIOUSLY deserve to be attacked like bears. and anyone who disagrees with you must also be a bear, because omg don't they understand bears are dangerous and people in bear costumes are basically the same as bears!!!
if you react to works of fiction the same way you react to harm done to a real live human being, you are failing to recognize that human beings are separate from works of fiction. whether you're experiencing a trauma response and can't make the distinction, or you were told this was the best way to support people who are traumatized, i don't know, but the result is the same. you need to understand that people are not the stories they enjoy. stop throwing rocks at people in costumes.
#''but what if they really are a bear'' what if the moon is made of delicious cheese!!!!!#'what if' is not good enough!! 'what if' does not cut it!!! 'what if' is not a reason to send death threats and suicide bait!!!!#you are out here deliberately attacking real live people because MAYBE they're bad???? holy shit!! get help!!!! that is not normal!!!#you are attacking random people because all that matters is you're fighting the boogeyman you made up in your head#and it ~feels~ real and you ~feel good~ about it#and that is FUCKING DEHUMANIZING! congrats on not recognizing people as people! congrats on deciding they're the story you made up!#stop attacking people in costumes because you can't attack real bears and this feels like it's probably just as good#you are crying wolf for nothing#''but what if the costume makes some kid think bears are cuddly'' then the kid was too young to go looking at costumes#random strangers are not babysitters of hypothetical bad-faith children sneaking around where they don't belong#''but what if a bear dresses up in a costume and mauls someone'' that. is. the bear's. fault.#the costume is just a costume.#you're doing ''what was she wearing'' in reverse.#keep. the blame. on. the bears.#(and don't @ me like ''bears don't deserve to be attacked uwu'' it's an oversimplified metaphor for the sake of illustration.)#(don't be exhausting.)
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We NEED a time travel esque kirby game
#kirby#my art#meta knight#galacta knight#bandana waddle dee#nightmare#morpho knight#i like the idea of morpho knight having once been like a caterpillar#maybe they were like the opposite of a grim reaper like an agent of life instead of death#nightmare was once an ancient like hyness but he studied dark magic and was evil etc etc#maybe he sealed away galacta knight#bc he was too powerful? or was he actually getting in the way of nightmares evil plans šš#baby meta knight ofc#created by nightmare or just corrupted? idk#primal waddle dees were something that i was half expecting in forgotten land so now im putting them here#i like the idea that waddle dees have been around forever but their own progression as a society has been overlooked#the plot of the hypothetical time travel game? idk
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I saw someone saying that they'd like to see Steve die in season 5 and my first reaction was to be upset about it, then I remembered I've been ignoring a character's death for 8 months and I've been doing just fine so, I think I can take the hit.
#still I'd be kinda pissed#depending on the hypothetical death#I'd still act like nothing happened tho#also IF that happened I can already see this fandom making after life/reincarnation steddie fics#because this ship won't die even if they're both death#thank you for coming to my ted talk#steddie
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thinking about the possibility of belos ending up in the inbetween realm after being stomped and finally getting what he deserves...Ā
[ ID: A digitally illustrated comic mainly featuring Philip Wittebane from The Owl House. The first panel on the first page is a birds eye view of the inbetween realm, with cubes floating everywhere and a slight disturbance in the water below. The second panel is a close up of that disturbance, which looks to be a whirlpool of some sorts. The third panel follows that, and Philipās hand is shown forming on the water, with a āāsplatā beside it. The fourth panel is a behind view of Philip kneeled over, head to the ground and face obscured. He is in his human form, like how he is seen in Elsewhere and Elsewhen, and is breathing heavily. The fifth panel is still of Philip kneeling, except he has popped up his head and is looking around. He asks, āWhat is thisā but is then promptly cut off by the next panel, which shows a grimwalker hand rising out from the water with a splash. He looks at this with a confused look.
The first panel on the second page is a close up of Philipās face, a concerned and fearful expression on his face. He blurts out the word āNoā. The second panel is spliced into three pieces, and each shows more dead grimwalkers rising from the water. The first shows another hand, the second a fully formed grimwalker with a broken mask crawling towards and reaching out to Philip, and the third yet another hand. The third panel is of Philip trying to back away by crawling while more grimwalker hands shoot up around him. He shouts at them, āG-Get Away!ā The fourth panel is a view of Philip crawling back from behind, and a head of a grimwalker can be seen behind him. He yells again, saying, āI said-ā but is cut off by the fifth panel where the grimwalker behind him suddenly grabs his arm. The sixth panel is of him looking over his shoulder, surprised. The seventh panel is an above shot of Philip sitting on the water, grinwalkers surrounding him and grabbing each of his limbs. The water swirls below him in a whirlpool motion. He shouts, āGet off me!! Go!!ā The eighth panel is a closeup shot of an arm grabbing his shoe and pulling him down, the ninth panel showing the fear in his eyes.
The first panel on the third page is a wide shot of Philip being dragged down under the water, his arm straight up desperately trying to grab something. The water cascades around him, pushing him down even more. The second panel is a closeup of Calebās eyes, which are glaring with anger. The third panel is a below view of Philip being dragged down, with Calebās hand still tightly grasped around his foot. The fourth panel is a closeup of Philipās eyes, which are staring in fear. The fifth panel is from Philipās POV, where Caleb is seen still pulling him down by his ankle, glaring at him. Other grimwalkers are beside him, hands reaching up towards Philip to also help drag him down.
The first panel on the fourth and last page is of Philip being dragged down, a fearful and almost angry expression on his face. He screams, āCaleb! Let-ā but does not finish his sentence. The second panel is of Caleb still glaring at him, not saying a word. The third panel is Philip looking at his brother with an unreadable expression on his face, as though he just realized something. The fourth panel is an above shot of Philip finally being dragged down into the depths Dr. Falcilier style, arm out stretched and he sinks. Broken masks of grimwalkers can be seen below him, pulling him down too. The last panel shows the surface of the water in the inbetweens realm, the surface still and finally tranquil. The word āFinā is written at the bottom of the page. End ID. ]
#the owl house#toh#toh belos#belos toh#toh philip#philip toh#philip wittebane#wittebros#toh caleb#caleb toh#toh grimwalker#grimwalker toh#AA!! watching and dreaming was SO GOOD but i am a little dissapointed with the ending of philips and calebs story#like i get they ran out of time but i wish they did one last thing with caleb š they built it up so much and then it just kinda went out>#> with a fizzle sobs. same with belosā death like i love that he died pathetically but i wish he realized what he had actually done before>#>he died u know??#like he died thinking he was right and we never got to see that facade of lies crumble and aughhh. aghh!#anyways drew this because if it is true that ppl who die in the bl end up in the inbetween realm they could hypothetically meet there#and that fact has me brainrotting SO HARD#owl house#my art#fanart#this is now canon <3 /j
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so you mean to tell me that after the destruction of the death star, tynnra pamlo was tasked by mon mothma to create and distribute rebel propaganda to capitalize on the rebel alliance's victory... so she drew up a recruitment poster... and used jyn erso's silhouette
#jyn erso#mon mothma#tynnra pamlo#the rebel files#star wars#that line in 'on the front lines' that said jyn's death was a tragedy because the galaxy will never know how she might've shaped#the rebellion in the years that followed#BUT SHE CONTINUED TO SHAPE THE REBELLION AFTER HER DEATH#she inspired various rebels#like not even hypothetically she canonically inspired various rebels#in alphabet squadron and that one comic where luke talks to a rebel who wanted to join the fight alongside jyn but was confined to sick bay#and the journalist from facpov: esb
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Donāt think Iāll ever clean this up/expand upon it, but hereās a little scribble of Vat and (technically) Bane
#vat would not at all like bane snsnsnjsjssj#not that they really interact beyond Gortashās death (or in vague hypothetical scenarios)#but for the five minutes they do talk he very quickly decides he does not like him dndndnnsnsns#doesnāt help that their egos clash a lot- vat trying to make demands. bane promptly making fun of him for demanding a god to listen to him.#stuff like that sjsjsjjsjs#bg3 spoilers#technically#doodle#sketch#bg3#oc#vatāil#enver Gortash#bane#durge
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regarding the difference in jason's actions towards two-face when he learns of willis's murder vs. his desire for bruce to have avenged his own death: rather than a change in morals or caring more abt bruce than willis this case shows jason's own hypocrisy. jason forgives and pities harvey bc hes a deeply empathetic person. i personally think that contrary to what he may say if bruce had died in jason's place, jason would've reacted very similarly to how he did in willis's case. after his resurrection jason latches on to the specifics of joker's continued existence, but inwardly what he's really feeling is a deep sense of his own worthlessness. he sees that bruce has moved on as though nothing happened, as though he never mattered; this triggers a deep sense of insecurity in him because he cannot so easily move on. he's stuck in the moment of his death, 15, waiting for someone to prove to him that they love him as much as he loves them. this discrepancy he feels between himself and bruce leaves him unbearably vulnerable. to assuage his own humiliation and feelings of inferiority he fixes on a problem which rapidly becomes black and white before his eyes: heres what bruce should have done if he actually loved me. id have done the same had it been him. however, as with almost anything jason says or thinks after his resurrection you have to ask yourself is he really being truthful to himself, consciously or unconsciously? when jason encounters earth-51's batman in countdown who did kill joker in response to jay's death, he seems instinctively to find this version of bruce lesser. he says to him 'we're both dead "batman." any fool could see you've been dead inside for years.' jason can't reconcile the caring person he had known with someone who would have become what that bruce did.
i think the reality of the situation is that jason would likely have reacted badly even (or perhaps especially) if bruce had killed the joker because the situation is just so fucked. bruce can't react in any way that jason isn't able to twist inwards into self-loathing. jason is simply unable to admit to himself that what he really wants is not for bruce to have killed the joker, but for his life, his death, his tenure as robin, to have been meaningful; for bruce to have unconditionally loved him as jason loved him in turn; for bruce to continue to love him, in fact to continue to need jason; more than anything though--he wishes he hadn't died, because ultimately he wishes desperately for things to be as they were -- but neither of them can ever go back to being those people.
... the tldr jason thought process is essentially -> bruce doesnt love me bruce never cared about me at all or not in any way that mattered i loved him wholly i would have done anything for him i would have died for him i would have killed for him. but LOL he would not have done that!
I love that you brought up earth 51 Batman because i think about him a lot and I think Iāve said it before how theyāre both just hanging out with shuffling corpses BUT āļø I would attribute Jason calling this Bruce dead more to how he keeps calling Jason āJasonā and ignoring and not addressing Jasonās attempts to distinguish himself from dead-Jason. I think itās very palpable to Jason the uncanny valley and horror of the situation because when Jason talks about dead-Jason bruce says āyouā for both of them. And yet in the end bruce dives in to help when that Bruce is in trouble even tho heās sooooo doomed. (Funny as hell for Donna and Kyle to just give Jason space to do that like in context itās a sad moment but āweāll just be over hereā. )
I do think Jason has hypocrisy ngl but I will also but you here- I think itās what youāre saying about the desire for proof of love but also with a combo of a change in morals. The difference could lie quality of the bad guy. I mean we get that out of Jasonās mouth, āIām not taking about X Y and Zā but youāre right that you know, we canāt always take Jasonās word for it. But the other half of that line ādoing it because he took me away from youā I think Jason thinks killing people is okay. Itās how the world works to him.
Tbh preface that I donāt think modern Jason feels this way about Bruce anymore, but the joker thing specifically was UtH Jason feeling Bruce was living in naĆÆvetĆ© and that Jasonās death would be the thing that took him by the shoulders and forced him to confront that itās okay to kill people sometimes. It wasnāt, because I donāt think anything is, although I see people saying he would if it were a different character and I get a little :(
Thanks for the ask, sorry I only talked about where I disagreed with you
#Iām trying to find fanfic where Bruce and Jason have a good relationship#long post#edit to say say 51 Batman was dead inside because he was killing lots of people and thatās why he was dead (inside)#and living in the past and having a fucked up fantasy and probably seeing dead Jason everywhere if we take bats track record#of how often they see dead people into account#but āļø#and a Bruce understander can crucify me for it#I think he could forgive himself for one death. heās done it for other people. would it tear him up? yes. but also heād get over it#this Batman is not. like itās crude to say heās killing other people for self harm but I LIKE this Batman in a way that I donāt grim knight#or god forbid robin king. BECAUSE he very clearly to me doesnāt like killing people#so. heās self harming by killing people and heās dead inside and I have to be very humble when I say this okay. is it because#he didnāt have a tim#1 thing people get wrong for reasons I canāt understand is the post aditf Sman guest appearance#but like if youāve read that. whatās the difference. joker shows up a year later but until that moment Bruce couldāve killed joker#and he wasnāt FINE fine but he was starting to be. so like hypothetically if joker never came back. Bruce chose to let him die.#world keeps turning heās still Batman
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I don't care about Moash, just Stormlight's writing, which by proxy means I must care about Moash.
#a stormlight that discards moash like wet tissue paper is a stormlight for cowards#believe it or not redemption isnt just for people who a) deserve it or b) want it right this second. thats not how this works#cosmere#cfsbf#stormlight archive#stormlight#''they reject it'' is not enough grounds to kill someone. there is a continuum of uncountably infinite moments that that can change#here's the criteria where killing someone is an acceptable form of retribution:#1) they are an active threat to the lives and safety of others#2) you cannot phyiscally restrain them; disarm them; or prevent said harm by any other means#the only virtue of death is convenience. severity is not the point. if it was you can justify *many* heinous acts#there is a third a reason to kill someone but that is exclusive to fiction:#other resolutions for their fate would detract from the narrative which might not have the time; means; or trajectory to do so#this is the only one that matters in fiction actually because these are fake people whose every action is at the every whim of the writer#so even if you can hypothetically create a situation that falls under 1 and 2 if the narrative reason to do so is fucking dog shit#write a different scene#see my thoughts on killing amaram who i explicitly DONT think should be redeemed.#but still shouldnt have been killed
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Oh my gad i saw the cheating rq and link and thought u actually went ahead and wrote that smau and felt so betrayed bc u said u wouldnt last time but alas it was just a link to the post from last time lmaooooo š my heart dropped and i felt ILL. You are legally not allowed to write them cheating on us bc u write them so in character that its actually gonna hurt so bad like hsjajksk
if this isn't the highest compliment ever ajhdhxhd im flattered honoured and every synonym that's close to it.
i just can't imagine them cheating on us. well okay maybe i can BUT I DON'T WANT TO. they will not cheat end of discussion
#why am i getting so many cheating reqs tho#not just them cheating on us#but US cheating on THEM#like what is this death sentence youre imposing on yourselves guys#would you cheat on them be honest with me#BE HONEST#bc me personally#im at that point where even HYPOTHETICALLY#i wouldn't dare to ask for just one chance with them bc if i happened to fumble ANY of the jjk men...#i would simply kms#like no.#gojo is so much better than me#saying this with my whole chest too š#šš”ššššš«š¬
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a few times i've watched a show and when the main ship kisses it completely baffles me. not because of the characters, but the actors. i'm realizing it might be because some actors playing love interests are literally best friends in real life and not just coworkers who have a nice time together on media tours yk? this specifically happened with david & michael and taika & rhys like it just blew my mind that those real living people have kissed before!!!
#even if the ship is already established it still wrecks me like what's happening#i don't have a best friend but as an actor i can't imagine kissing my hypothetical friend for a role and not falling deeply in love#obviously all four of these men are married with children#but like come ON#good omens#our flag means death#rhys darby#taika waititi#david tennant#michael sheen#ineffable husbands#blackbonnet
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Cjizzy for me is like. You know how you come home after a night out completely pissed and all of a sudden you're craving the greasiest, nastiest shit you can get your hands on? And then you find a slice of two day old pizza in your fridge. And it's exactly what you needed. In that moment, nothing else would do. Nothing has ever felt more right. You shove that thing in your mouth like it's your very last meal on this earth and enjoy a few moments of pure, unadulterated bliss before promptly passing out in bed.
The next morning, the very thought of that two day old pizza almost makes you puke. But there's no shame. No regrets. You know it's going to happen again. And you're totally fine with it. Because everything has its time and place, and even when most of the time it might be the last thing on your mind, every once in a while it's the best thing ever.
#btw this example is purely hypothetical#I have never had pizza last more than 24 hours in my fridge#or any other fried food for that matter#but this is 100% what cjizzy feels like for me#except my Cjizzy cravings happen quite a bit more frequently than me going out these days#but still#cjizzy#ofmd calico jack#izzy hands#ofmd#our flag means death
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I know the dudebros who pitched the theory of Zoro scarring (possibly removing) his very own eye in order to draw out his Observation Haki did so because they thought it was cool and badass. But personally. Iād be fucking devastated man. Thinking of the context and specially considering Zoroās mental state in Kuraigana Island after being left in pieces by Kuma and discovering heād failed to be there for Luffy at Marineford- listen. Heās always been portrayed as having very self-punishing tendencies since at least Alabasta, so if this was truly what happened, I donāt think itād be portrayed as an empowering moment of manliness at all. I certainly wouldnāt want it to be.
#do you understand what Iām getting at like hurting yourself so permanently at a vague attempt to become powerful just a little bit faster is#NOT GOOD. like listen to the hypothetical theyre posing about why Zoro would do that to himself#Its far more akin to Sanji allowing himself to be beaten almost to death by a woman due to his principles (frowned upon by the narrative)#Than Zoro allowing himself to be struck down by Mihawk in order to fall honorably (praised by the narrative!)#(because one is a meaningless sacrifice for arbitrary reasons and the other is a sacrifice meant to honor a dream and an oponent)#Since we know that eyeball removal isnt the only way to get observation haki then the gesture would be meaningless#just the result of a warped mentality regarding his own strength and role as a crewmate#if Oda wanted to take Zoroās story down that path at any point in the story (not entirely unlikely?)#I doubt it would play out the way some of these dudes on twitter and reddit theorize. The tone they use when discussing this eye theory-#-just seems out of place to me.#roronoa zoro#one piece#my post
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āCrusader,ā Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #1.
Writer: Benjamin Percy; Artist: Rod Reis; Letterer: Cory Petit
#Marvel#Marvel comics#Marvel 616#Phases of the Moon Knight#Moon Knight comics#latest release#Moon Knight#Cassian#Khonshu#Apocalypse#En Sabah Nur#Iām sure there are some X-Men aficionados who are scoffing at this hypothetical#however#Iām out here feeling like#you know the end of Midsummer Nightās Dream where Puck comes out and instead of saying some moral#like would typically happen at the end of one of Shakespeareās plays#he just kind of says Ā«yeah wasnāt that wild? anyway take it easyĀ»#the way Khonshu only seems to take his previously averse devotees when theyāre on deathās door#how Cassianās tying himself to service in a temple that is like a tomb like how he might as well be dead in his service to Khonshu#the fact that heās traded one unfeeling master for another and worse now he may be one as well#all set upon the background of how Cassian resented the upperclass for their greed and callousness and how they abused their power#but now here he is a European in North Africa having carved his way to where he is by the sword#having people bow before him#oh that sure is wild and I donāt think Iāll be able to take it easy for a little while yet
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'it's genocidal to call for an end of Israel where do you want us to go' stay where you are or don't, who gives a shit. you just can't be the only group represented in political authority. you just don't have the right to perform genocide or land capture. you just can't be the boot stamping on everyone else's necks. š¤·āāļø
the state is not the people. if you don't want to leave Palestine live in Palestine. but Israel does not have a right to exist and you do not have a right to stand above others by the circumstances of your birth. you do not have a right to continue to profit from an ongoing genocide. you do not have a right to supremacy. you do not have a right to gain your comfort at the direct cost of thousands of lives next door. you do not have a right to be colonial overlords. you do not have a right to an ethnostate or a theocracy. you do not have the right to continue to sell on and pass on and profit from land and resources legally gatekept from everyone outside your specific group. you do not have a right to use immigration law to prevent people from returning to their homes while continuing to artificially cultivate a Jewish majority. you do not have a right to displace people to get what you want. you do not have a right to ownership. you have a right to live in safety but you don't have a right to pay in other people's lives for that. and you don't have a right to rule. and Israel does not have a right to exist.
Jews were in Palestine before 1914 and Jews will be in Palestine after Palestine is freed. but as equal citizens not as colonial overlords.
#red said#is it simple to examine stuff like the reappropriation of land and wealth given that we're 75 years out from the nakba?#no it's very not simple#is it simple to identify a difference between 'these people should not be the only group represented in government and law'#and 'these people should die or be driven into the wilderness'? YEAH IT IS DUDE. YOU ARE NOT THE STATE OF ISRAEL.#you are not your unearned power over others#fuck you for putting a hypothetical genocide of the people YOU think matter over a CURRENTLY HAPPENING genocide of CURRENTLY DYING people#trauma is trauma but how much imaginary devastation is worth a single actually real life let alone tens of thousands#how many Palestinian lives is it worth to you to allay your fears of harm potentially coming to your people?#30 000? 300 000? 3 000 000? for a hypothetical Israeli to avoid hypothetical retributive violence or hypothetical displacement?#you're a morally bankrupt piece of shit putting imaginary future harm up against the actual murders of the equivalent pop of whole cities#and you can wish for the end of Israel without wishing for the deaths or displacements of Jews.#thinking they're the same thing is at best confusing life with power
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