#fighting against

[radiosummons]

With the absolute and most genuine of sincerity, I do believe that if Padme had survived Anakin force choking her into an early labor, she would have spent the rest of her life on the run from him.

[hislittleraincloud]

*sighs*

Jenna fucking Ortega.

My thoughts just keep piling up and the more I think about it, the more it irritates me. I have too many thoughts rn re: her, the election, Latine identity and the bullshit she slings about it as if she's the first Latina to break into the world of acting, etc. The things she says she cares about but then does fuckall to try to influence others to effect tangible change, when she didn't used to be this way.

She didn't used to be so vapid. Something changed between the fiery truth teller of 2017/2018, the publishing of her book, and now. I mean, she has 40 million more followers than she had on Facebook, so she's got the bigger platform but just uses it for this

Contrast that with the older Latina Millennial whose work the little gremlin dismisses when she slings the I never saw anyone who looked like me on TV bullshit, someone everyone knows from Barbie, Superstore, and Ugly Betty

More on this Ferrera-Ortega distinction in a future post, but just wanted to point out the differences between what one Latina celebrity did this past summer during the most important election of their lives vs. the other one who's all talk and no action (except for the 🏳️‍🌈-baiting stunt she pulled with her little friend playing high school rivalry games with Camila Cabello).

I get it, we all get it, Ortega is ✨busy✨ filming Wednesday 2 right now, and in the summer she had to drag herself around for the Beetlejuice 2 promotion. But now, while she's going to freaking soccer games in Ireland and continuing to look pretty, the rest of us regular people are out of our minds about what happened and why these Z fuckers with tons of followers weren't using their platforms to get out the vote. Why we have Zs like Chappell Roan saying shit like this

(and then we wonder why Zs weren't enthused to vote, and some voted for fucking Trump).

Anyone who played the "both sides suck" and went anywhere near the rhetoric that puffed up third parties in our two party system is not serious about protecting the things they say they love (like before this here, when she said she was NOT voting for Trump but in the same breath, didn't want to say she was voting for Harris until she got all of the pressure to tell her fans what she was doing, hence the blow-up above). Stein's running mate was a transphobe, FFS. The Deerborn Michigan Muslims who voted for her voted for that, not that trans lives matter to any of these religiously steeped sectors.

I don't need No one needs some privileged white girl telling them how "the Democratic party" has failed us or the Palestinians, but it sure looks like all of these kids with the fucking watermelons and flags in their user name tags everywhere are somehow stunned that their cynicism and inaction will be leading to the destruction of their core concerns.

And blaming the Democrats is so fucking easy when you do not pay any goddamn attention, and when you're so myopic about your single issue that you blind yourself to your own blame. Y'all children made Gaza the issue when there was so much more at stake than "ISRAEL IS GENOCIDAL, GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE!" (fuckers, its BEEN genocidal for fucking decades !), because we got fucking people posting shit like this (and yes, I've lost some respect for Joy Sunday because of this imbecilic crap):

These are the same shitty arguments third party fucks made against Hillary back in 2016 when y'all were still in grade and middle school. As Gen X who watched this bullshit happen, I can say that single issuers never fucking change and will always blame the Democrats in our two party structure, never lifting a finger to change it to truly bring forth change, not just tell Democrats how to effect change.

The two parties are not the same. Joe is not the same as Trump. Kamala isn't the same as Trump. All anyone has to do to understand this is look at what Trump did "for" the environment in his first term vs. what Obama did when he was in office (better save that .pdf file, and all of Obama's digital public records before Trump decides he wants to erase it all) and what Joe had to do to try to clean up Trump's mess:

A second Trump Administration will screw up all of that, so good job digging in your heels, kids.

But as usual, I digress since Ortega hasn't given any indication that she gives a real shit about the environment or climate change. Her issues used to include AIDS awareness and "eradication", which is now funny-not-funny since the rate of STIs in Gen Z is surging and safer/protected sex practices [in order to prevent more STIs and STDs] aren't really promoted, but she didn't even bother to mention the work she held so close to her heart (since it was all about her grandfather) last year to Elle:

She named no organization, and doesn't seem to get that the unrest at the corrupt government in Iran's been happening for years now. It's the same with the Gaza issue. The kids are suddenly aware that said injustices are happening outside of their sphere of existence and their sympathy & empathy kicks into overdrive, making them forget that we have our own culture wars at home with freedoms being taken away by right wingers.

Freedoms like the recognition of 🏳️‍🌈 marriage. Hunter Doohan's marriage is in jeopardy now (or would be, under direct Trumpian/Project 2025 rules). All of that cute bouncing around at Chappell Roan with him isn't going to protect his of Jewett's marriage or benefits, and at least Doohan lives in California where Daddy Gavin will protect him (and me, since I'm here too), but as for the rest of the country? The most vulnerable 🏳️‍🌈 and 🏳️‍⚧️ people out there? Stumping for Harris might've helped on that front, because even if y'all don't understand a goddamn thing about anything except "GENOCIDE!", you should understand that once again: The two parties' behaviors are not the same.

I mean, what can we really expect from a ✨starlet ✨who can't be bothered:

The Watsons, Georgie Farmer, and Percy were the only cast members to Like Doohan's wedding set/photos. And at the time, we know that Ortega was still hanging around Percy a lot. 🕵🏽‍♂️🔍

I had predicted that whatever Ortega did would be too little too late, and it was. The information she posted the day of the election, too little too late. Using/borrowing Robert Reich's words instead of using her own damn voice after the election was also weak as shit, since we saw Gideon Adlon speak her mind (you know, just like fkn Ortega said she wished we could do).

Oh, there's an election? But lookit me, I'm too cute in my glasses and old man jacket. The fuck was she doing besides living her best life of superficiality and being the sex symbol to millions? Too busy baring her tits in public for the umpteenth time to care about any of the issues that affect her and her family/sisters because she's got enough of her own celebrity privilege — money, fame, adoration — now that she could easily leave/stay out of the U.S. if she wanted.

One last thing (and this is probably the first of at least two posts abt the issue) for the "WAAAAAH, LEAVE HER ALONE, SHE'S JUST TRYING TO LIVE HER LIFE!"

How about no. The culture of celebrity worship has changed with social media. The culture of being a celebrity has changed slightly, in that these celebrities have the capability of being right there in your face. They have the ability to influence directly now, one-on-one at times (something we didn't have before). It's like how everyone was given access to all sorts of education and culture online but then refused to use it for good.

Yeah, I get that all the information in the world is overwhelming and sometimes tough to weed through for falsehoods and propaganda. But the methods of discernment have been there. Some y'all not grasping the ideas that have so far kept us all alive long enough to see this orange fuckface usurp American politics again, and yeah, I'll blame those who voted third party AND those damn kids (and others) who didn't show the fuck up/or voted for him AND the Leopards Will Eat My Face contingent: white women, Latines (mostly the men, but the women too!), Asians/other non-white pickmes who voted for him, AND those who cheated otherwise (many, many missing votes and ballots right now). Blame exists in several sectors, but in the context of celebrity culture, there was nothing done by the young (even Swift's endorsement came a bit late) to get the 40+ million new potential voters excited to vote for the first time and out there to protect their rights and the rights of others here at home. Hope that warm blanket of righteous indignation lasts for ya, because it didn't fucking last for most of the people who pulled this shit in 2016

Y'all were born blue but acted towards your own extinction. Yours and your fellows in grave peril.

Good job, babies. Here's that recognition you wanted for being a great, empathetic person. 🥰💯🏆,✨

I'm tired of humans.

[semkaroba]

Fighti For and Fighting Against: A Deeper Dive

The phrases “fighting for” and “fighting against” are commonly used to describe actions that involve conflict or struggle. While they might seem similar at first glance, they convey distinct meanings and implications. Fighting For * Focus on a positive outcome: When someone is “fighting for” something, they are actively working towards a desired goal or positive change. * Motivated by hope and…

[hinamie]

10 years later

[mckinlily]

Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[chaiaurchaandni]

does throwing a stone at a tank

make a child a terrorist?

is terrorism about resisting oppression? is terrorism about demanding your birthright to live safely and peacefully in your homeland? is terrorism about hating the killers of your family, your friends and your people?

accusations of terrorism are often weaponized against those fighting for liberation and sovereignty and dignity. the french settlers called the algerians terrorists. the indian government calls the kashmiris terrorists. the pakistani army calls pashtun activists terrorists. the turkish government calls the kurds terrorists. apartheid south africa called nelson mandela a terrorist. americans called the vietcong and the black panthers terrorists. the israelis call the palestinians terrorists. all oppressive regimes are connected. all oppressed people are connected. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

[room-temperature-orange-juice]

So, you know all the different interpretations in how people draw (epic) Odysseus ?

Examples:

(Gigi, duvetbox, aniflamma, Ximena Natzel, and Wolfythewitch respectively)

What version of Odysseus (including but not limited to these examples) would win against the others in a fight?

Comment / reblog with the Odysseus drawings you want to see, and who you think would win. Polls start soon

[bberry005]

absolutely losing it at the polar opposite perspective we get on darth vader during rebels. kanan and ezra encounter him and there's a dramatic lead up to the cameo and they're like "who the FUCK is that???". they fight him and lose terribly. at least until they drop several tons of heavy machinery on him. but then he survives! and then they're like "if that won't kill him what can?!" "not us. let's go!". there's no drama, no extremely emotional dialogue, no agony over the man he used to be and the monster he became. just "hey what is that? a SITH LORD? that sounds like 1-800-NOT OUR PROBLEM!!!" and then they go back to doing whatever they normally do

[ciearcab]

for what comes next

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

the first snow in harbin, northeastern china

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Me, a fool: It would be cool if TOTK brought back old Zelda enemies!

Me, later: I take it back I take it back I take it back

Something about the hand shaped enemies in Zelda games give me the absolute heebie-jeebies. I hate them so much. They freak me out man, it’s legit bad for my heart!

So here’s an artistic interpretation of the first time I came across those damnable gloom floormasters in game. It was like every creepy hand enemy merged into one nightmarish abomination come to haunt me. Link almost met the goddesses that day…

See if you can spot all the references!

[movedtodykedvonte]

*Spidey and the Sinister Six having their usual fight*

Doc Ock, landing a hit: You’re getting slow Spider-Man! Age finally catching up to you?

Spider-Man: You wish! I haven’t even hit my 30s! From those costumes I can already tell I failed to save you guys from those midlife crises! Sorry by the way.

Vulture: Watch it wallcr- wait… Did you just say your not in your thirties yet?

Spider-Man: Surprised that this spiders so young and spry? Well-

Electro: Dude I’ve been fighting you for at least 5 fucking years! How old even are you?

Shocker, joking cause he’s the only one who picked up no grown adult acts likes Spidey: Don’t swear in-front of the boy you don’t want him to pick it up.

Rhino: Christ! You’re tellin me I almost crushed some 12-year-olds skull all those years ago?

Spider-Man, regretting his quipping: I was not that young! Like just starting freshman year but-

Sandman, horrified as he’s the only one with a kid and dad instincts(as of my iteration): I could’ve killed a kid…

Shocker, genuinely curious: Are you even old enough to drink? Cruel to kill a man who ain’t had his first drink yet.

Electro: Please tell us you’re at least over 25 as of this fight. Hell, I’ll take over 21!

Spider-Man:….

Sandman, realizing just how young he really is: Oh my god.

Spider-Man: My birthday’s coming up soon so I guess it counts?

Doc Ock, exacerbated: It. Does. Not!

Vulture: What would your mother think if she knew her son was out here risking his life telling poorly constructed jokes?

Spider-Man, offended cause it quips slap: 1. My jokes are great 2. She and my dad are dead so-

Sandman, hysterical cause holy shit he almost killed a kid orphan: OH MY GOD!

[wtfforged]

i wonder... how the others are doing... i hope no ones been killed. i wish i knew what happened.

[son1c]

NEED to inherit 10,000,000 dollars from a mysterious estranged relative i've never met before. like right now