#conflict reporting

[ivygorgon]

Even ChatGPT is in on it. Sickening

You just know the NYT has a “style guide” for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone there should get fed up and leak it.

[alwaysbewoke]

honestly, FUCK ISRAEL!!

[shanastoryteller]

*gestures helplessly* i. don't even know

i hope you like it?

TAKE A LONG LINE

Summary:

Steve knows that Tony Stark is going to be a problem from the first line in his file.

Designation: Alpha

[lunar-wandering]

its pride month so im thinking about like headcanoning LMK characters with specific sexualities and genders and stuff and like.

with me im bi so i'm biased to assigning other characters as bi just automatically if i relate to them an all that. most of the time though i do like. fairly deep thought on it. does this actually seem to fit the character and all that.

and the thing. about Sun Wukong. is that. i cannot get a read on him. nothing fits. and you know what?? honestly??? i think not being able to get a read on him fits way better than slapping any kind of label on him

i shouldn't be able to get a read on what his deal is. he's a centuries old being with powers beyond imagination. in some ways he's borderline eldritch. it makes complete and utter sense that i don't understand what the fuck is going on here

he just has his entire own thing going on. i love this for him.

[rolandkaros]

ROGER FEDERER [SUI] & RAFAEL NADAL [ESP] || WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL || 07 06 2006, 07 08 2007, 07 06 2008

[@rgrfederer]

[fdelopera]

if you are a dumb gentile (i'm especially looking at you, dumb, white American gentiles) and your first response to the I/P conflict is to harass Neil Gaiman, Taika Waititi, and other well-known Jews online

you are not in any way helping Palestinians

all you are doing is exposing yourself as a lazy, Jew-hating antisemite

you are putting Jews around the world (especially Jews in Europe and the US) in danger of white supremacist attacks

if you actually cared about the Palestinian people, you would put your money where your mouth is and donate to organizations and charities that help the Palestinian people

Anera

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Doctors Without Borders

now shut your fucking mouths, stop posting hateful antisemitic shit on social media, and go donate, you motherfuckers.

[asurei-nisshoku]

"at least, be human" and "don't be" are two interesting titles that encapsulate very well asuka's psychological conflict in episode 22.

first, we have the demand to act like a person. how a person acts? the answer may present itself through oppositions. during the episode, asuka negates others and shows behavior associated with what the attachment theory calls evasive attachment. as soon as she opens up with the one on her home that represents more "the other" for her (both in character and thematically), shinji, she snaps at him and runs to her room. she constantly says she hates everyone, especially herself.

later on the episode, we have arael psychological attack. the angel searches on asuka's heart, which it's a violation to her because she doesn't want anyone to look there, and drag to the surface long gone repressed memories and trauma that explains asuka's every day actions. the climax of the attack occurs after arael, in a child asuka form avatar, tells her she is a "big liar" after she declares that she can live on her own. then, a series of flashing images with different words describing asuka's inner feelings go through the screen. between some of them, there's the "don't be".

so, maybe that's it. being human it's be vulnerable. asuka tells herself to stop being dependent, to stop being fragile, to stop relying on others (which it's actually part of the general human experience), to stop wanting company. humans can't help being alone, but they can't always be alone. asuka repudiates this and insists on her absolute independence. she denies herself her human needs. she demands herself to stop being human.

edit: I wonder if the "al least" on the first title is related to asuka not being able to perform well on combat and then only having left her own humanity (which she insists in reject).

[discordiansamba]

thinking about zuko's first transformation in the traditional werewolf au because like. okay. it's this big dramatic moment. iroh has been dreading its approach for days, knowing what he knows about the exact curse that his nephew has found himself with. he's genuinely afraid that he will lose him, so the least he can do is minimize the damage zuko can do.

he has the helmsman take their ship out to deep waters, and has the crew board their steamship and put considerable distance between them. zuko enters the brig, the sturdiest place on the ship and is locked in. iroh watches as the full moon rises over the horizon and braces himself for the worst. he hears the howl of a wolf tear through the air-

-and then... it's quiet?

iroh frowns. he presses his ear against the brig door. he can sort of hear zuko moving around in there. he peeks through the hole in the door, and can just barely make out his nephew, his body twisted into wolf-shape. he's just... investigating the brig? his ears twitch and he looks up in iroh's direction.

...is he wagging his tail?

cautiously, iroh opens the door and finds that zuko... seems fine, actually. maybe a little cranky. iroh is very confused. the legends speak of a violent anger that comes upon the werewolf in their first transformation, driving them to madness. but all zuko is doing is investigating the ship with his new senses.

the night passes, and his nephew becomes human again. he's tired and hungry, with a bit of a headache. but he seems... completely fine. iroh asks him about it and zuko frowns. yeah. he guesses he felt a little angrier than usual, but...

iroh pinches the bridge of his nose. of course. his nephew is always angry. he has been angry since the agni kai. anger is his new constant. iroh has been troubled by this very turn in his nephew, but of all things, for that anger to wind up protecting him?

...well. he's just glad zuko is alright.

[tuverras]

what does grantaire shout before he dies in the us national tour??

[biscuityskies]

spontaneity

“Oh! An urge!” Maiara exclaims, sitting upright abruptly and throwing Cody’s balance off for a step. Core strength is wasted on the young, he thinks. “An urge, exactly,” Cody agrees. “Mostly a sudden urge. Like the sudden urge to climb up a pillar. That’s spontaneous.” “I have the spontaneous to do it again,” Maiara tells him very gravely.

my submission for day 4 of @codywanweek, for raising kids/kidfic

[rhisardthewizard]

Deaths that result from resistance against settler-colonial violence is ALWAYS the fault of the colonizers. Not the colonized.

Don't want a war? Don't spend 80 years doing an apartheid against the indigenous.

[eretzyisrael]

[alwaysbewoke]

[shellem15]

Anyways--do you think Asmodeus picks his champions based on how much they remind him of his siblings?

Cause like, obviously Zerxus The Redemption Paladin has Everlight parallels. But also Asmo quite explicitly compared him to the Dawnfather with the whole arrogance thing, not to mention the whole paternal projection/condescension thing he's got going on.

And also, Teven Klask kinda fits this model too in a weird way??? Like, his stern demeanor and big ego is also kinda Dawnfather??? From a very outsider perspective that is, like if all you knew about him was the temple at Hearthdell. (Obviously Teven is nothing like the Dawnfather in actuality). He fits the model very loosely, but I don't get the vibes that he's one of Asmo's favorites anyways so maybe there's more leeway.

Also, both Zexus and Teven are big strong paladins, and I'm just gonna say, Dawnfather in his most classical depictions (not talking baby boi Ayden, here) matches that description pretty well.

Asmo, buddy, I think your obsession is showing.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

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[gingerswagfreckles]

Insane how people can't understand that terrorism and civilian deaths are bad even when this terrorism is a predictable result of decades of oppression...Hamas is not an organization that works for the freedom of the Palestinians. They are a reactionary religious extremist group that has no problem provoking even further violence and taking down thousands of Palestinian civilians with them.

This is not going to end well for the Palestinians and anyone who thinks it is is fucking delusional. A lot of you people are about two bad days from joining a terrorist organization yourselves judging by your lack of critical thinking skills. Get a grip and see this as the tragedy it already is.