#civilized people

[gayvampyr]

asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[afriblaq]

“I’m tired of marching for something that should be mine at birth.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

He not preaching he's venting 😢

[chamoemileclown]

attacking you with a brewing stand jump so you're forced to feel better

[arttsuka]

People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.

[aniisol]

guys listen. i haven't watched PVP civilisation but every time i open this god-abandoned site i see "jump for the beef" actively becoming the new Loss. i keep thinking i see cool new Martyn Inthelittlewood fanart and it's just jump for the beef man. tumblr keeps trying to recommend me to a community called "parkour yaoi." i've had real life people trying to tell me something about something called an evbo 360. someone actually tried to explain to me why parkour yaoi convinced them we should overthrow the government and that the upper class should be annihilated. don't try and explain to me i'm scared enough already

[alleyesony0u]

literally cannot stop thinking about how intentional it is in pvp civilization that people refer to evbo as "kid" or tell him he is "just a kid". it isn't just a headcanon that he is probably a teenager he IS a teenager. he's impulsive like a teenager, he's naive like a teenager, he doesn't understand romance like a teenager, he's materialistic and looking for anything that will give him comfort or happiness like a teenager because he IS A TEENAGER. he's a kid. he's a kid cursed with immortality, and what do people do with that? abuse it. evbo is a kid in a horrible, violent society, and he knows nothing else, but he still believes, naively, like a kid, that there are people who are better than this society. he tells zam that he and the iron swords don't need to farm him, that it will do them no good. what about his life? what about tabi's? and he forgets where he is. what he is.

in this society, evbo is not a child. in this society, evbo is not the "chosen one". he is a tool. he is an object. what do you do with tools and objects? you use them.

and yet evbo still stands there, a kid. and the adults of this society exploit that. he is just a kid, he doesn't get it. he is just a kid, he doesn't realize how many lives he's saving. he is just a stupid, naive, vulnerable kid with too much love and too much hope in his heart. we can use that.

he is a calf standing on wobbly knees born knowing it is destined for the slaughterhouse.

[merelygifted]

Māori rights protests in New Zealand draw tens of thousands : NPR

[crackersandjuice]

pvpciv is like "wow silly metahumor haha" and then it hits you with "everyone wants to farm evbo so that they can live forever"

like,,,LIKE,,,the visceral gut feeling i got when the guy was like "after a few deaths you won't even notice it happening anymore" or whatever was Intense. what the fuck. it's giving communion but infinitely worse.

i could write something about this. the dehumanization of a person viewed as a god. the fact that people were so quick to go for a violent option because violence is all they've known. my brain is Turning and Churning i am gnawing at this series like a rabid dog.

[theinternetarchive]

'forever young gifted and black,' nina simone cd packaging, printed 2006.

[dukeofthomas]

I find the fact that the confrontation at the end of UTRH is often summarized as Jason asking Bruce to kill the Joker for him fascinating.

Because that's not what happened.

Jason holds a gun up to Joker's head, gives Bruce another, and tells him that if Bruce doesn't do something (shoot Jason), he will kill Joker.

Jason doesn't give the gun to Bruce so that he would shoot Joker. He isn't expecting Bruce to pull the trigger on the clown. He's asking Bruce to do nothing. To be inactive. Because that will still be a choice, and despite having done nothing, everybody clearly agrees that Bruce would still, at least in part, be responsible for Joker's death.

...And to me, this moment is a kind of- microcosm, of the rest of Jason's point. Because after being captured and carted off to Arkham, the villain will escape again, and will kill more people. The only way to truly prevent that from happening would be to kill them; Bruce refuses to do so, and I respect his right to choose such a thing for himself, but it is still a choice, and if we agree that Bruce's inaction during the confrontation would leave him at least partly responsible for the Joker's death, then we must also agree that his inaction in permanently preventing the Rogues from killing more people means he is also, partly, responsible for all of those deaths.

[valleyofvoid]

Combining evil evbo monologue with the song 'a human's touch' for my sanity <3

[afriblaq]

"That dream that I had that day, has in many points, turned into a nightmare."

[whoopsie-collective]

[zeroends]

I think Seawatt in parkour civilization is really interesting. I mean immediately with the fabricated memories that already says something about his character. I understand fabricating a memory for the sake of not leaving a gap, but why that specific one? Why make some mass delirium that they all were friends with him? It makes me wonder just how lonely he was. How hard it must have been to be the only to remember how the world had betrayed who he was. Maybe the idea that people cared about him, even if it was all fabricated, felt like a comfort to him.

I also don't think he ever agreed with the parkour villain or the evil champion. He just wanted someone who shared the disdain he had for the people who took away his home. But those people never cared to listen to him. Or take him seriously. He was a tool to them, a disposable one. Evbo on the other hand, despite their differences, listened to Seawatt. Not only this, he watched Evbo choose friendship over everything. Because of how critically different Evbo was to the other people in Seawatt's life, how could he not enjoy the time they had?

tldr: Seawatt is lonely and used too often like a tool due to the vulnerability of losing his home and being the only one to remember in parkour civilization. This lead him to enjoy the change of pace working with Evbo gave him.