#colonizer lol

[megafaunatic]

the night watch and friends

[arktic-rage]

honestly I absolutely love the Avvar in Jaws of Hakkon. How they worship the gods, how they view the world around them, how accepting they are and just how interesting they are too. I absolutely despise how the Inquisitor and Companions make commentary as if they're stupid or wrong in their beliefs, or that they're "just crazy people who worship spirits".

The dialogue you don't choose or even the ones you do are on the line of condescending, and it's frankly insulting, especially that all options on the dialogue wheel fall on that line.

the Avvar are so fucking cool, I hate we only get a DLC with them. (I also miss the Chasind - I wish they weren't forgotten or left in the dirt by BioWare :( )

[apricior]

actually, i'm tired of being nice about this.

for the past week, a terrible cold front has been affecting different parts of spain, especially valencia, where +200 people have died and +2000 are still missing.

for the past week, people have been trying to find ways to help those affected, either by going to the affected areas to help or by donating food, clothes and other resources, even though it keeps raining.

for the past couple of days, i've received daily emergency alarms on my phone telling me to stay at home because of the risk of flood, and today schools and universities have closed to avoid unnecessary risks

people are losing power, their cars, their homes, their loved ones, streets are flooded and filled with mud. this morning the storm was so strong here that the power went out in my entire building and in a lot of areas of the city. trains aren't working, some subway stations are flooded, i have been hearing sirens all day and thinking that i'm lucky for getting to stay in the safety of my home

and then i go online, especially on tumblr, and… nothing. nobody is talking about it, nobody is sharing fundraisers. i only see spaniards talking about it, and even then, most posts don't reach 400 notes.

this is one of the clearest signs of climate change we've seen recently, why is nobody talking about it? it seems like tragedies are only tragedies when they happen in a small handful of countries, and we are, unfortunately, not one of them. but we're more than a vacation destination, we're more than a place with good weather and cheap alcohol. we people deserve protection and safety. we deserve more than global silence

news articles you can read about this:

bbc, 3cat 1 and 2 (if you catalan or want to see pictures/videos of the effects), rtve (if you speak spanish or want to see more pictures/videos of the effects)

[ender-goo]

Alright chat who's more evil:

A genocidal colonizer, a necromancer with no morals whatsoever, a scientist with even less morals somehow AND the God of death, darkness and evil itself

Or

A dude with a knife

[makingyourfavindti]

rook hunt from twisted wonderland?

(love ur blog btw!!)

i made rook hunt from twisted wonderland in dress to impress

thanks for the request!

[givemearmstopraywith]

i don't know how to explain this without it getting taken in bad faith but people need to apply the same energy and fervour for decolonization they have for israel to canada, the us, and australia

[didi-on-the-side]

sometimes goofy, sometimes serious.

always cute

✨🤗✨

(NSFW @didi-champleve BTW, minors stay away from there and for the love of God read pinned and interaction tag on that blog BEFORE YOU DM ME about... things 👀)

[slutpoppers]

Kabuterimon evolves into Atlurkabuterimon!!

Digimon Adventure (1999)

[ariascoquette]

All the Americans moving to Rednote is so funny to me cause that app is basically getting colonized

The history book on the shelf does always repeat itself I guess

[mossadspypigeon]

also i just want to know why anti israel idiots demand we say good things about palestinians and palestine but don’t make any such demands of palestinians and other arabs to say good things about jews and israel.

and on that note, idiots, when was the last time you said something good about israel or jews (that wasnt you tokenizing us for the sake of your argument)?

hmm. that’s what i thought.

[bucephaly]

"Here's a cute video of a cherokee baby speaking cherokee, yay language!"

Randos on tumblr: "sucks that my ancestors killed so many of yall and nearly wiped out the language :/" "I want to see more celebration instead of colonization and murder, which is why I'm currently bringing up colonization and murder on a celebration post" "hate to see that the language is dying and is continuing to die and is being killed :/"

Like yall it's a cute baby. You can be happy and celebrate without going settler guilt in my activity

[raelyn-dreams]

In light of fine's event announcement, I would like to formally welcome Eichi to the "Event 5-Stars Going Through The Horrors™️ (2024)" squad.

[cookie-lore-keeper]

Sea-Faring Cookies

Sea-Faring cookies are the native cookies that were there before the Créme Republic came and colonized the area. They lived on the main island, but can also be found on the smaller islands surrounding the republic. Much of the ingredients in their dough is from the seafood and surrounding ingredients from the ocean. Because of this, their dough also tends to have more salt than Vanillian Dough.

While their culture is still present in the Créme Republic, many of the Sea-Faring cookies reside on the lower city, Choco Mudtown, due to discrimination and red lining.

List of native Sea-Faring Cookies

-Oyster Cookie

-Captain Caviar Cookie

-Seaweed Cookie

-Rookie Cookie

-Lord Oyster

-Abalone Cookie

-Candy Diver Cookie (ik they're a ghost but before they crumbled, they were a Sea-Faring cookie)

-Star Coral Cookie

-White Coral Cookie

-Peppermint Cookie

-Captain Ice Cookie (also some ancestry from the colder parts of Crispia. Probably mountains like Icing Ridge)

-Mint Wafer Cookie (biracial)

-Strawberry Stick Cookie (biracial)

-Madeleine Cookie (Biracial)

-Grand Madeleine Cookie (Biracial)

[thegothicchangeling]

I ship Ambessa Medarda with the consequences of her actions

[ecto-mochi]

Ectober Day 1 - Past/Present/Future

It hurt. That’s all he knew at that moment, that’s all he remembered minutes later- waking up on that cold steel laboratory floor, echoes of pain lacing through his veins with the lack of a heartbeat pounding in his ears. It hurt, and it was his fault. If he was just a bit more careful. If he had just not listened to Sam. It wasn’t just the physical pain either. His friends were crying. It was his fault. Was it relief? Was it stress? He couldn’t make out what they were saying. They were so glad he was alive? Were they? Were they really? If that was truly the case, then why were they so upset? 

It hurts. He knows they’re hurting, flames licking their legs, ropes digging into every inch of their torso. He’s hurting too - after all, it’s his fault. It always is. It was back then, and it is now. As they scream, as the damned Nasty Burger comes down around them, he can’t help but think to himself- why didn’t he just listen to them? They’re crying. Their lives are ending, heartbeats pounding in their ears, pain dancing throughout. Life was so delicate, wasn’t it? Was it worth it, he wondered. Was he really worth all those tears?

It will hurt. Daniel will not heal from this, Clockwork knows. At least, this Daniel won’t. He’ll become his own downfall, relying on someone who he should never trust. He’ll become something that even Clockwork fears, someone capable of rending timelines apart. And through it all, the hurt will never stop. It will become something more, yes. It will transmogrify into rage, rage at himself, rage at his friends. But through it all, Clockwork knows the truth. He’ll be crying, when it ends. When a bright, hopeful child, the one who listened, the one who believed, the one who knew he did wrong comes about, the Daniel of the future will be frozen in time. And he will never stop crying.

[genericpuff]

And with that, 2000 years of history and 10+ years of an animated adaption later, Attack on Titan is over.

I wasn't planning on making an essay post about this but like all of my essay posts, it got crazy out of hand, so here we are. I have a lot to say on it and the more I wrote, the more I realized exactly what the Attack on Titan finale was about. It's cathartic. It's also kind of a big shitpost but not for the reasons you might think.

Spoilers for the Attack on Titan finale ahead! CW: DISCUSSION OF WAR AND GENOCIDE AHEAD!

Now for anyone who knows what I'm about to talk about (and anyone who follows my stuff here), I'm sure you're wondering , what side do I fall on in regards to Attack on Titan's ending? Am I about to talk shit about it? It's very divisive and somewhat inconclusive. It followed the exact ending in the manga which, while expected, was still disappointing to many who had hoped the anime would take some other path.

But I have to ask, could there have been any other way?

Eren committed mass genocide, bordering on extinction of the entire human race. There was no way that he was gonna come out of it redeemed or as a hero, and he knew it. He went straight up Walter White core here and like Walter White, he is not a hero.

The fact that the Marlayans have been constantly going to war with other countries using Eldians as their personal soldiers goes to show that for countries that seek out conquest, there's no target too small or insignificant that can't be marked as an "enemy", and we see that reflected in Eren as well, in his pursuing of "freedom", an ever-moving goalpost that can never truly be satisfied.

The Jaegerists were hellbent on creating a new empire on the bloodshed of Marley - 'an eye for an eye', so to speak.

Nothing was ever going to truly satisfy either 'side' in the conflict of humanity vs. Eldians because such conflicts' origins have been obfuscated in hundreds of years of history, propaganda, and generational trauma that has repeated itself for so long that many don't even know what they're fighting for anymore, aside from one thing - that they don't want to suffer, that they shouldn't have to suffer for the actions of their ancestors, that they want peace and happiness but don't know where to start with taking the first step.

I think people are disappointed in this ending because, let's face it, it's anime, and it's an anime adaption that took years to finish. We always want to see some kind of vindication from stories like these, but I think in having vindication, it ultimately removes the point altogether of what's being said.

As much as we may try to fight it, try to deny it, the course of human history travels in a circle. Conflict will always arise. History is written by the victors, and those victors will be seen as heroes by whichever side they're fighting for regardless of what heinous acts they may have committed to justify their salvation. And after all of that conflict, regardless of the result - time goes on, and new conflicts arise.

But I don't think that means we have to succumb to grief and suffering and that's a point that I'm seeing missed in a lot of the discussion around the finale. There's a very powerful scene between Armin and Zeke, in which Armin talks about how he was born to run up the hill with Mikasa and Eren. He recognizes fully that if his life isn't meant to be long, he can still cherish those small moments that he thinks back on fondly, the moments that defined his life with the people he cared about.

And that's really all life is. Small moments and experiences that stick with us until the end. The very act of being born in and of itself is a cosmic miracle that gives us the chance to experience things that bring us joy and stay with us forever - however short or long that 'forever' may be. We take these small moments for granted when we're comfortable, but we look for them the most when we're suffering.

If I can relate all this to another piece of media that says the same thing - albeit with a much brighter ending - FF XIV: Endwalker also asks a similar question to Attack on Titan - is the only meaning in life to suffer and die? Of course, by its end, we learn that while death and suffering is an inevitable part of life - not something that should be avoided - it shouldn't persuade us to give in to fear and despair as a constant state of being. And I think Attack on Titan goes for a very similar approach, albeit slightly more as a cautionary tale - a nihilistic reminder that ultimately, the losses and victories we find in our current point of history are still just that, a single point, a blip that will be forgotten until it's ultimately repeated, and there's no escaping that.

It cautions us that freedom cannot exist without constant vigilance for war and conflict. It cautions us that our values and core beliefs for attaining freedom, love and happiness can be twisted into a weapon to cause harm, vindication gained at the cost of another. It cautions us that when left in the wrong hands, power can and will be abused by the ignorant while propagandizing itself as "the greater good".

So why not just find the joy that we can? The friendships, the little moments, the things that bring us happiness even if only temporary. Conflict is inevitable, suffering is inevitable, but that doesn't mean life isn't worth living. "Happiness" is not a tangible end point - it's the side effect of living a meaningful life that's true to yourself.

Attack on Titan is over. Some will argue the ending was the only way, others will argue that there could have been another way and that the anime adaption had the chance to change it but still didn't for reasons beyond their comprehension.

But isn't that the whole point? We'll argue. We'll bargain. Many of the arguments made will reinforce our own beliefs further rather than sway us. Many of us will insist there had to be another way, just as Armin insisted that this couldn't have been the only way, that humanity must have had another option. Meanwhile, many of us will acknowledge that at the end of the day, this is the story Isayama wanted to tell, and regardless of whether or not it makes him an idiot toying with his audience and admitting defeat by lampshading it in the penultimate scene of Eren admitting to his own idiocy, this was the power given to him and he used it in the best way he knew how.

Much like in any conflict, there's one thing that unites both sides - the human need for joy, connection, and freedom.

We might not agree on how Attack on Titan ended, but we can agree that it was a hell of a ride, and I hope we can all agree that it was worth riding, even if it wasn't satisfying for everyone in the end. It brought many people together regardless of their backgrounds, experiences, and differences, and connected them through something they all loved for over ten years. And despite how big a part of our lives it was, life will still go on, and we'll move on to other things to watch, enjoy, and argue over. Isayama will move on to whatever awaits him next, knowing fully well that his choice was his own, that he created the series he wanted to create regardless of how people feel about it. We'll all look for our own forms of joy and happiness as life moves on around us, as conflicts come and go.

Isn't that really what freedom is at the end of the day?