#human merkava

[smellpelt]

finally drew him :3

[believingyourwords]

Merkava hardly ever goes out of their way to consume anything that’s not EXS (nothing else sates their hunger) but when it comes to enjoying normal food as a leisure, they have a huge sweet tooth, unknown as to wether it’s a preference of their current body or something that carried over from their human mind. Their favorite is strawberry shortcake.

[probablyasocialecologist]

If Plan Dalet was a settler-colonial script for the destruction of Palestine from 1948 onwards, it was preceded by – and had its conditions of existence in – the imperialist vision of an entity imposed on the land of Palestine for the protection of the interests of the core: access to raw materials and markets, prevention of subversive projects, buffer zones and counterweights against more distant rivals. In 1840, it was cotton, Muhammed Ali and Tsarist Russia. 127 years later, when the occupation was completed, it was petroleum, third world liberation and the Soviet Union. We are dealing here with an exceedingly deep structure, not an event or two; a ratcheting up and escalation across two centuries, a worsening and intensification of patterns first developed in the early nineteenth – also, not coincidentally, the temporal form of global warming itself. I have pointed very quickly and superficially to three further pivotal moments of articulation. In 1917 and after, the British occupation of Palestine was part of the transformation of the Middle East into a foundation for fossil capital, by dint of its oil resources. In 1947 and after, Western support for the new Zionist state was informed by the consummation of that order; in 1967 and after, by its defence. The steps along the way to the destruction of Palestine were simultaneously steps along the way to that of the Earth.

[...]

The destruction of Gaza is executed by tanks and fighter jets pouring out their projectiles over the land: the Merkavas and the F-16s sending their hellfire over the Palestinians, the rockets and bombs that turn everything into rubble – but only after the explosive force of fossil fuel combustion has put them on the right trajectory. All these military vehicles run on petroleum. So do the supply flights from the US, the Boeings that ferry the missiles over the permanent airbridge. An early, provisional, conservative analysis found that emissions caused during the first 60 days of the war equalled annual emissions of between 20 and 33 low-emitting countries: a sudden spike, a plume of CO2 rising over the debris of Gaza. If I repeat the point here, it is because the cycle is self-repeating, only growing in scale and size: Western forces pulverise the living quarters of Palestine by mobilising the boundless capacity for destruction only fossil fuels can give.

[opencommunion]

"What is this force, these human beings, referred to in this word – resistance? 

First, literally, we refer to the achievement of the poorest and most strategically disadvantaged people on the planet. Within the encircled and immiserated Gaza Strip, many of the Al-Qassam fighters are orphans. Amidst closure and de-development, the popular resistance has been able to consolidate an arsenal and bring 1.5% of its population into a guerrilla force of 30,000-40,000 men that can – man for man – outmatch nearly any in the world. 

The resistance, secondly, has alloyed ideological commitment, willingness to sacrifice for their people, and technological ingenuity into armed capacity capable of going head-to-head with a nuclear power from underground tunnels, the ‘rear base’ and physical strategic depth needed for guerilla insurgency. The concrete is their mountains. From there they have imperiled an enemy with orders of magnitude higher GDP per capita – Israeli GDP is at $52,000 a year, with arsenals worth billions.

Third, the resistance, in launching its October 7 operation, is an example to the world that post-Soviet asphyxiation and extermination procedures, sanctions and terror lists and aid-based countermeasures, could not prevent the rise of a disciplined and new national movement from raising its head to the sky. 

Fourth, the popular cradle brings the word resistance beyond armed men to doctors going to their deaths in lieu of abandoning their patients and women and men in the Gaza Strip’s North – facing white phosphorus rather than abandoning their homes. It is precisely the strength of the civilian commitment to the national project that provokes US-Israeli extermination: ‘the 'civilian' officials, including hospital administrators and school administrators, and also the entire Gaza population’ are, as a result, the targets – not out of cruelty but to break Hamas by breaking its cradle. 

Fifth, through these achievements, the Palestinian resistance has been able to present an acute threat to the settler-capitalist property structures called Israel, to militarized accumulation, to the world’s workshop for counterinsurgency technology, and to the entire architecture of regional repression with its associated petrodollar flows, treasury and security purchases, and arms merchandising. For capitalism is not just the smooth clockwork of accumulation through generalized commodity exchange and labor exploitation, it is the machinery of violence – its technology – which ensures the smooth running of the clock, the thingification of its human elements, the political decisions to maintain and rework the machinery of monopoly accumulation, and the waste of human lives which is increasingly the core Arab input into global capitalism. 

More worryingly from the perspective of monopoly power, the Palestinian resistance is not alone. It is part of a regional populist resistance enfolding the poorest people on Earth. ... It is unimaginable that the neocolonial authoritarian states nor their US benefactor would remotely tolerate massive working-class militia which speak a language of justice and republicanism and raise arms against those states’ sponsors. In turn, it is as natural as the sun rising in the East that the US, the UK, Germany, France, and their Gulf and Arab satraps would converge on support for Israel as the spear’s tip of the assault on the surrounding Arab popular militia. 

And because Israel is the keystone of the regional imperialist order – maintained not by hegemonic consensus but the brutality of Apaches and Merkavas – it is as natural as water falling from clouds that what has developed in the Gaza Strip, as soon as it mobilized politically and militarily, would incite the Western reaction to wipe it from the face of the Earth and impose unimaginable horror to terrify the Palestinian, Arab, and Third World people to never again raise their heads.

The October 7 operation has perhaps overcome the central role of the Israeli state in accumulation on a world scale: ingraining a state of defeat amongst the Arab working classes, as part-and-parcel of the post-Soviet ideological defeat imposed by capital upon labor globally. Deterrence is the form that defeat takes when pushed to the military plane, and Israel openly admits that its deterrence has been shattered.

Seen from this perspective, the risks run by the western capitalist states – their imposition of fascist regulation against freedoms of speech and assembly, their backing for genocide, their desperation to see the Palestinian armed militia wiped from the face of the Earth – is logical, reasonable, and rational in its sociopathy. It is the logic of monopoly attempting to defend itself and the consciousness which bodyguards it with fire from the sky. It is a logic which fills graveyards, and a logic which makes orphans, and it is a logic which might yet meet its end in that crossroads of continents – that salient, and city and their camps and their people."

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Footage published by the Quds News Network showing the Israeli occupation army using humanitarian aid trucks as cover for a surprise military operation in the Al-Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip. The human rights organization Euro-Med Monitor slammed the use of humanitarian cover for the Israeli military operation, declaring it a "war crime". The operation also coincided with an intense barrage of missile and airstrikes responsible for killing 274 Palestinian civilians and wounding nearly 700 others. ]

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247 DAYS OF "ISRAEL'S" GENOCIDE IN GAZA: DEATH TOLL IN NUSEIRAT MASSACRE RISES TO 274, HUNDREDS MORE WOUNDED, ISRAELI OCCUPATION CONTINUES CLOSING RAFAH CROSSING TO HUMANITARIAN AID, US INTELLIGENCE USED TO RECOVER HOSTAGES, EURO-MED MONITOR ACCUSES US OF USING HUMANITARIAN PIER TO ASSIST IN ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATION

On 247th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 8 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 283 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 814 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands, of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or who's bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

The United States provided intelligence and hostage recovery support for the Israeli occupation's operation in Al-Nuseirat that is now being referred to as the "Nuseirat Massacre", responsible for killing 274 Palestinians and wounding nearly 700 others on Saturday, June 8th.

According to an article published by the New York Times, US hostage recovery officials "stationed in Israel" provided intelligence and other logistical support to the Israeli occupation army during the Nuseirat hostage recovery operation.

The operation recovered four hostages being held by the Palestinian resistance, which saw the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) invade, in a surprise assault, the Al-Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, coinciding with Zionist warplanes which bombed and fired missiles into civilian neighborhoods, while Israeli occupation Merkava tanks fired shells at anything that moved near the camp.

The operation was responsible for the deaths of 274 Palestinians, and wounded another 698 others. Video published following the assault showed Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah flooded with the dead and wounded, with injuries ranging from scrapes and cuts, to amputations, broken bones and severe burns.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation continues its closure of the Rafah and Karm Abu Salem border crossings, south of Gaza, preventing access for humanitarian aid trucks badly needed as local hospitals run out of supplies to treat the sick and wounded, who's numbers multiply with each Israeli operation.

In a statement issued on Sunday, June 9th, the human rights organization Euro-Med Monitor, based in Geneva, Switzerland, condemned the Nuseirat Massacre, and further raised concerns that the American floating-dock may have been used "for military purposes" during the operation.

"Over two hundred Palestinians were killed today and hundreds more injured, most of them women and children. This is a preliminary figure that could rise as recovery efforts proceed. The attacks occurred in intense, two-hour-long Israeli army air, land, and sea raids on the Central Market area, where thousands of people from the Nuseirat camp and its environs congregate daily. Most of the central Gaza Strip was also subject to the attacks," Euro-Med writes in its statement.

"According to a US official cited by the US website Axios, a US "hostage cell" backed the Israeli attempts to free the four prisoners who were being held in the Gaza Strip," Euro-Med continues, adding that the "Israeli media reported that an Israeli truck carrying Israeli special forces conducting the operation to retrieve the four detainees departed from the vicinity of the US pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, under the pretense of carrying humanitarian supplies."

"Other sources indicated that the vehicle transporting Israeli forces was a civilian truck disguised to look like it was meant for transporting humanitarian aid, while others indicated that the truck appeared to be carrying civilian displaced persons and their belongings to the area."

Euro-Med cites Israeli Army Radio as saying "the US hostage cell played a decisive role in freeing the hostages," using “high-precision American technology that had not been used before in the process of freeing the hostages."

Euro-Med warns that International humanitarian law dictates that it is "illegal to gain the trust of an adversary through actions that lead them to believe they are entitled to protection or must provide it, with the intent to betray that confidence, resulting in their death or injury."

"This includes simulation of civilian status, using civilian transportation or vehicles designated for humanitarian aid, or wearing civilian attire or attire of humanitarian relief workers as cover. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court classifies treacherously killing or wounding as a war crime," the human rights organization added.

Euro-Med points to Washington's declaration on May 17th that the floating-dock was ready to bring humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, before announcing just a few days later that the dock had been rendered inoperable.

"An investigation should immediately be opened into whether the US pier was used for military purposes and contributed to the killing of Palestinian civilians," Euro-Med determined.

Further, Euro-Med Monitor also said it "rejects the Israeli army's continued use of a variety of weapons and ammunition, as well as its indiscriminate use of destructive force, against Palestinian civilians and their property. Since the Israeli army began its military assaults on the Gaza Strip last October, massacres have been carried out on a daily basis without cause or explanation."

The human rights organization concludes that "for its military, logistical, operational, and financial support of Israel during its attack on the Gaza Strip, the US must be held accountable as a major collaborator in committing crimes against the Palestinian people in the Strip, including the crime of genocide," adding that "this includes holding accountable all US officials who took part in making decisions that could have criminal consequences."

Meanwhile, the slaughter of Palestinian civilians continued on Saturday, and resumed again at dawn on Sunday, with several new bombings that killed dozens more civilians.

Zionist warplanes at dawn bombed a residential home belonging to the Al-Sharif family in the Bureij Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in a number of casualties.

At the same time, another occupation airstrike targeted a residential house belonging to the Abu Al-Kass family in the Bureij Camp, killing three Palestinians and wounding several others.

Similarly, occupation fighter jets bombed an uninhabited house belonging to the al-Bashiti family in the Al-Maghazi Camp, also in central Gaza, while another bombing targeted the house of Yousef Al-Louh on Al-Dawa Street, east of Al-Nuseirat.

In another violent assault, occupation aircraft bombarded a residential home belonging to the Abu Daqqa family, east of Deir al-Balah, resulting in several casualties.

South of Gaza, Zionist Merkava tanks were seen advancing into the Khirbet al-Adas neighborhood, as well as the Arbaba and Al-Hashash areas of Rafah City, coinciding with intense artillery bombardments, while occupation air forces bombed the Shaboura Camp in the city.

Zionist warplanes also bombed civilian areas in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two citizens.

North of Gaza, occupation warplanes bombed a residential apartment in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, killing four civilians and wounding several others, including children.

Israeli aircraft also bombarded the Tal al-Hawa, Al-Sabra and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods of Gaza City, along with intense artillery shelling and gunfire in the neighborhoods, coming from Zionist Merkava tanks and armored vehicles south of the city, along the Netzarim Corridor.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the endlessly rising death toll now exceeds 37'084 Palestinians killed, including over 15'000 children and upwards of 10'000 women, while another 84'494 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

June 9th, 2024.

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[outpost51]

Talus and Fira, 11! (please I just want them to be happy 😭)

Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss

uhhhhhhhhhhh i. tried? i think i fit the prompt

11. …in joy.

★・・・・・・★

high five for low lives

Let’s pretend tomorrow night never happened.

T+ || 614 words

Talus was ready to take a six-year nap, and they hadn’t even fully docked the Merkava. Fira's voice had gone hoarse yelling at Janus and Atria to quit fighting on the ship. They’d been in an on-and-off verbal sparring match since they offloaded their cargo on Korlus, and Janus was currently trying to shake the little human’s grip on his crest. Alion was glued to his Omnitool, occasionally lifting his feet to avoid his younger brother’s flailing legs. Nico was blaring some scream-rock band to drown them out; Talus could almost make out the lyrics through his eldest son's headphones.

He pinched the bridge of his nose to suppress the rapidly growing pressure behind his eyes. Shoulda wrapped it, he thought.

“You knock it off, too,” Fira chided. Had he said that out loud? “The VI’s yelling at you to do the thing with the airlock.”

He shook off the impeding migraine and finished the docking cycle. “Ready?”

Fira stepped over Atria's legs, the only part of her visible beneath Janus, who’d resorted to sitting cross-legged on his little sister to prevent any further attacks. She assumed her position at the airlock door, ready to punch the button and release four pent-up fledglings on the spaceport. She nodded to her husband.

Talus whistled.

All motion stopped on the ship as their kids’ heads snapped to attention.

The airlock doors creaked halfway, stuck, and then slammed open.

Her hoodie rustled in the slipstream left by her children.

Talus approved the pre-portioned allowance transfer to each of his kids’ chits, knocking off ten credits each from Atria and Janus. Fira collapsed against the doorway with a long sigh.

“We need a bigger ship. Or longer vacations.” Her voice sounded as tired as he felt, and as he crossed the short distance to his wife, he could see the droop in her mandibles.

“We could always drop ‘em off on Illium and run away to some beach,” he suggested, his subvocals light. Fira smirked, pinching his waist playfully. Her don’t-even-think-about-it look didn’t have its normal impact; her bright amethyst eyes had dulled significantly since they left the drop point. “Think about it,” he rumbled, leaning closer and cupping her delicate silver mandibles in his hands. “No screamin’, no shitty music, not havin’ to read a dictionary every time Ali talks.” Her giggle was accompanied by a soft cuff under his crest. “Ass in the sand, feet in the water, bottle a’ rum between us.”

She hummed. “That does sound nice, but you’d miss them the minute we left port.” Her manicured talon booped his nasal plates. “Big softie.”

Their browplates connected, and Talus let his eyes drift shut, taking in her scent. The hint of incense and vanilla drew him closer. He wanted to drown in it. In the silence of the ship, his mind wandered to white, sun-warmed sand sifting through his fingers and waves sloshing over his bare legs. The sweet cola on her tongue made a cocktail with the ghost of whiskey on his breath.

A shrill “Dad!” shattered their moment of peace. They sighed against each other’s mouthplates and disentangled their legs. Talus shoved himself back, turning to stomp his way off the ship. A sharp slap to his rear stopped him in his tracks.

“This isn’t over, Talus Cassi.” Fira sauntered by him with a wink, knocking her hip against his thigh.

One hand shot out to catch her by the waist while the other connected with the airlock control. The door slammed shut again. “They’ll be fine for a few hours,” he growled, already pulling his giggling wife back towards their bunk. “Maybe the next one’ll have your manners ‘steada mine.”

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[rimeiii]

Matching WHB kings, nobles, angels, and humans to songs in my playlist

All of them are like. Video game music, unfortunately. And mostly based on vibes. So...

(More below the cut because it's a lot)

(And it would mean the world to me if you checked out these songs because they're all bangers tbf-)

Gehenna

Satan: Operation Basepoint by Life Awaits, from the Arknights OST (Contingency Contract #12, menu theme)

Sitri: Tea Break by the Atlus Sound Team, from the Persona Q Shadows of the Labyrinth OST (cutscene theme)

Leraye: The "Bad Guy" is Here! by Adam Gubman, from the Arknights OST (Ceobe's Fungimist, Dreadful Foe theme)

Zagan: Operation Spectrum Battle Theme by Cybermiso, DOT96, and Tigerlily, from the Arknights OST (Contingency Contract #5 permanent map theme)

Paimon: Light the Fire Up in the Night 'MAYONAKA' by Lotus Juice and Shihoko Hirata, from the Persona Q Shadows of the Labyrinth OST (Persona 4 side regular battle theme)

Belial: Heaven by Shihoko Hirata, from the Persona 4 OST (Heaven dungeon theme)

Astaroth: Rhythm in Literature by Adam Gubman, from the Arknights OST (Integrated Strategies 2: Phantom and the Crimson Solitaire, The Playwright's boss theme)

Tartaros

Mammon: Operation Blade by Obadiah Brown-Beach and Xueran Chen, from the Arknights OST (Contingency Contract #2, menu theme)

Bimet: Princess Amagi by the Atlus Sound Team, from the Persona 4 Arena OST (Yukiko Amagi's theme)

Eligos: Active Angel by Daisuke Ishiwatari, from the BlazBlue OST (Platinum the Trinity's theme)

Valefor: Wecgas fore tham Cynge, Searu fore tham Ethle by LJGH, from the Arknights OST (Episode 11, Steam Knight's boss theme)

Hades

Leviathan: Абсо��ю́тный нуль температу́ры by Bao.Uner, from the Arknights OST (Episode 6, FrostNova's boss theme in H6-4)

Foras: Keter Battle 1-3 by Project Moon, from the Library of Ruina OST (Keter floor battle themes)

Glasyalabolas: Unseen Entities by Raito, from the Under Night In Birth OST (Merkava's theme)

Barbatos: Ready? by D.D.D., from the Arknights OST (one of the menu themes of Heart of Surging Flame)

Avisos

Beelzebub: The Mushroom...Moves? by Adam Gubman, from the Arknights OST (Ceobe's Fungimist, menu and regular navigation theme)

Bael: Bullet Dance by Daisuke Ishiwatari, from the BlazBlue OST (Noel Vermillion's theme)

Stolas: Operation Pyrite by Jason Walsh and Alan Day, from the Arknights OST (Contingency Contract #1 menu theme)

Amon: Splash by PMP Music, from the Arknights OST (one of Ideal City's battle themes)

Naberius: Signore dei Lupi/wlfmstr by Adam Gubman and Shawn W. Smith, from the Arknights OST (IL Siracusano, Zaaro's boss theme)

Paradise Lost

Lucifer: Mortal Eye by Adam Gubman, BONZIE, and Christine Hals, from the Arknights OST (Typhon's character song)

Marbas: Conciliation by Kikuo, from the BlazBlue OST (Es's theme)

Morax: The Cure by Obadiah Brown-Beach and Denney, from the Arknights OST (Silence the Paradigmatic's character song)

Buer: Canto IV Boss Theme 1 by Studio EIM, from the Limbus Company OST (Effloresced E.G.O. Dongbaek boss theme)

Abaddon

Phenix: Lust SIN by Daisuke Ishiwatari, from the BlazBlue OST (Jin Kisaragi's theme)

Dantalian: Tumult - Raise Thy Sword in Pride by Yuzo Koshiro, from the Etrian Odyssey III The Drowned City OST (labyrinth boss theme)

Ronove: Torture + A Gifted Tormentor by Hironao Nagayama, from the Dragalia Lost OST (Legend Agito boss theme)

Niflheim

Andrealphus: Gazing from Great Heights by Obadiah Brown-Beach, from the Arknights OST (Children of Ursus menu theme)

Gusion: Aleph-0 by LeaF (featured in Phigros and Chunithm)

Bathin: Ad astra by Steven Grove, from the Arknights OST (Lone Trail menu theme)

Angels

Gabriel: Fear of God by Shoji Meguro, from the Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey OST (regular encounter theme)

Michael: Judgment Day by Hironao Nagayama, from the Dragalia Lost OST (Rise of the Sinister Dominion boss theme)

Raphael: The Fifth Primarch by Tsutomu Narita, from the Granblue Fantasy OST (What Makes the Sky Blue, Sandalphon's boss theme)

Humans

Minhyeok: Morning Dew by Adam Gubman and Nini Guerry, from the Arknights OST (Muelsyse character theme)

Solomon: case i by Lucrezia, from the Dragalia Lost OST (Chapter 14 insert song)

MC: Battleplan Pyrolysis by Monster Siren Records, from the Arknights OST (Contingency Contract #1 Battleplan Pyrolysis menu theme, event literally came out today kekw)

[bloghrexach]

🤔 … something to think about, right? The irony of life!! — all I’m gonna say about the ‘attempt’!!

By: LaillaB, founder ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn…

“The stark contrast between the near-miss experienced by convicted former US President Trump in Pennsylvania and the tragic fate of Hind Rajab in Gaza serves as an abhorrent illustration of the deep-rooted inequalities and injustices that plague our society.

On one hand, we see a powerful and privileged individual who narrowly escapes harm, highlighting the value and protection afforded to those in positions of authority.

The mere graze of a bullet on the ear of a world leader sparks international attention and concern, demonstrating the significance placed on the lives of the elite and influential.

On the other hand, we witness the brutal and senseless killing of 6 year old Hind Rajab, a victim of systemic violence perpetuated by the Israeli occupation.

The investigation found that the car in which Rajab was killed had been hit with 355 bullets, conducted by Forensic Architecture, Al Jazeera's Fault Lines and the NGO Earshot.

Forensic Architecture said that the gun used for this attack was "firing at a range of 750–900 rounds p/min", and that this range exceeds that of the AK-type assault rifle that is commonly attributed to Hamas.

"This range of rounds per minute is consistent with Israeli army-issued weaponry such as the M4 assault rifle or the FN MAG machine gun on a Merkava tank," the investigation said.

Her life, like so many Palestinians in the Gaza concentration camp, was tragically cut short, with little to no outcry or accountability for her untimely death.

The swift identification of the suspect in the shooting incident within hours, as Thomas Matthew Crooks also demonstrates the disparities in how justice is served and accountability is upheld, compared to that of a child, Rajab.

The juxtaposition of these two events serves as a cruel reminder of the disparities in power, privilege, and the value placed on human life.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un 🕊

#reclaimthenarrative — 🍉🕊️ — #FreePalestine … @hrexach

[gaienenkidou]

uni2 spoilers

now that the uni2 honeymoon period is setting in some... ive been thinking about specifically merkava's good ending a whole lot for the past 2 days out of everyone... (excluding enkidu because. yknoww teehee. hehe. haha.) ive been thinking about how genuinely adorable his reaction to being a human is. seeing merkava suffer for well over a decade across games and getting to be genuinely vindicated for trying to keep that human part of him still there. i think no part shows that at its best but at the beginning of the end of his kuon fight (sorry thats a mouthful) where when hes eating him up, in the bad ending human merk's narration is taken over by the merk we know, completely frenzied, but in the good ending human merk's narration continues...until he realizes this isn't him internally monologuing anymore he's just a guy now! i also just think him having two endings makes his arcade route the most impactful out of everyone especially since merkava is already like one of the coolest and most interesting fg characters like...ever. it really highlights the stakes of his wellbeing and how an overwhelming night like that effects it. i feel like underwhelming endings like byakuya's or the re-birth'd endings of hilda and carmine could've benefitted from a bad/good ending path structure too... take mega advantage of how arcade modes in fgs function for your final game dammit!!!!

i like seeing him thrilled at all the small things he can feel now as a human. when he fully processes the fact that he is a Real guy now the first thing he just thinks is what he wants to do...and how just living a normal ass life, even the struggle parts, is all he wanted (even if brought up upon a gag scene) its good to see merkava...happy after so long as someone thats followed this game since like, uniel? while questions remain unanswered abt him (like his ties with orie) his salvation is the most rewarding out of everyone because of the nature of his character. its cute to imagine him just doing normal things while his speech is still oddly formal and probably still a behemoth height wise and also his hair just being like that. moe if you will. with that said wheres my fucking 12 episode slice of life human merkava anime i want to see that grown ass man live a satisfying life. please for the love of god i just want to see it. this is why we need that chronicle mode patch. i wanna see other characters react to him suddenly being a hot man. why did they have to lowkey rush uni2 out the door

the merk = hollow god theory going around is also pretty interesting because while i can see that conclusion for obvious reasons (HE LITERALLY SAYS THE TITLE BY NAME LOL,) i also feel like he would've had a power trip moment like hilda and carmine did when they converted if he really REALLY did inherit stuff from the hollow god? but merkava is just...normal. he's just overwhelmed with the joy of getting to indulge himself. so either thats a testament to how humble the hollow god was or like merk's deep humanity just overrid any of that nonsense. i prefer just human merkava being human merkava because that implies he truly is just a regular weird good guy and possibly was just that in his past too.

i wish i had been thinking abt merk's ending this deep when i made that initial answer to @/starocide's ask because the implications of both his endings for him as a character AND LIKE GENERAL UNI WORLDBUILDING are insanely fucking valuable when you think about it. its up there with chaos's arcade route with how much it forwards it. is there hope for all voids in general with what the good ending implies? im so curious now....

Also because i have to say it: verdict is in. human merkava is pretty hot actually. Meow meow meow

[antimnemonic]

generally whenever there's a "beast" character who longs to be human again and they inevitably turn normal again im unhappy about it however I've seen this Type continously suffer for years so in merkava's case I'll excuse it

[smellpelt]

Is Merkava still a hot bitch, considering his good UNI2 ending

That just means all of the hot bitches have human forms now

[annon-guy2]

BlazBlue Cross Tag Heroes: Marta Lualdi Astral Heat Reply Quotes (Under Night In-Birth Cast)

Marta defeats her opponent with Radiant Roar and lands near her ally who has been healed and stands with her as they do a victory pose together.

Marta: "Are you okay?"

Replies;

Hyde: “Hey, uh, thanks for that, but don’t tell Linne about this, okay? She’ll never let me live this down…”

Linne: “Such sympathy will get you killed one day, but I appreciate you not letting this vessel meet it’s untimely end…”

Waldstein: "As I suspected! You have a hidden power within you! You should rely on that more in addition to training your body!"

Carmine: "What are you trying to pull? If you think healing me makes us buddies, THINK AGAIN GIRLY!"

Orie: "To be blessed by the God of Healing through a Knight of Ratatosk... I'm both thankful for this honor and to you for saving my life."

Gordeau: "Guess I underestimated the opponent, but thanks for the save. Live and learn, right?"

Merkava: "You would heal this hungry beast? Despite that mistaken faith, the human heart within me is grateful for your compassion."

Vatista: "I suppose the term, 'The Kindness of Strangers', applies to this scenario. You have my gratitude."

Seth: "You must be naive to heal an assassin. Don't blame me if you regret this later..."

Yuzuriha: "Thanks, that was real sweet of you! Now to take a relaxing nap somewhere..."

Hilda: "I'll take this as a sign that you wish to join Amnesia later on? No? Well, you should consider it."

Chaos: "That was a bold and risky strategy... but I commend you for the end result."

Nanase: "Thank you for the rescue! We pretty girls need to stick together after all!"

Byakuya: "Thanks for the rescue... I guess I'll let you off if Sis is cool with it."

Phonon: "I would have been whipped good myself if it weren't for you... s-so, thank you..."

Mika: "Thank you so much for healing! We cuties will triumph over evil any day!"

Enkidu: "To heal your comrade and defeat your foe at the same time...? To think you hold great compassion and strength..."

Wagner: "I would have burned the enemy to ashes myself, but I do owe you for rescuing me at least, Knight of Ratatosk..."

Londrekia: "Thank you madam for healing me. It would appear that our opponents are now exhausted and ready to be apprehended."

Kaguya: "A "Ranged DPS" like myself always needs a good "White Mage" on her side. Thank you for the healing."

[titoist]

[H] — Today at 9:41 AM it feels like all palestine discourse is ignoring the eventuality in reality that palestine WILL lose like. hamas is not going to pull through on the encirclements. jerusalem will not be taken instead of sieged is this realized. does it matter. does it, in fact, inflame discourse even more its like the feet-on-ground, ordnance-in-apartment-buildings war has been filtered down into the REAL current war for the sake of humanity: the culture war, and soldiers and death are really only a subject to be recorded and documented for this cause [H] — Today at 9:52 AM idk. theres too many words. too much talking kole — Today at 10:49 AM the real overarching project of the subaltern political movements of the current epoch is attempting to turn the culture war into a real war - it was attempted in hong kong, it happened in ukraine, it's happening in israel, & i suspect it will inevitably happen with Taiwan, the only sovereign nation in world-history with a long-term foreign policy plan consisting simply of "hope that Redditors post good things about us" - consigning itself to the same artificiality that pervades upvotes & downvotes but on a macro scale. & in ukraine, well, the discourse on both sides has ultimately relied either on pre-packaged, viral tropes, 'transgender cultural fascists of the decadent VVest' vs. 'voldemort's army from Harry Potter', panickedly attempting to graph the unreal onto the real to prove that it's still the only thing that guarantees happening. how many russian teen soldiers play HOI4 & have epic TNO patches. the casual broadcasting of war through memetic jokes, live refraction, no delay between an event occurring & it becoming the retelling of itself. but the real war will not be posted, ever. ever, ever. everyone knows that hamas is not going to "win", not militarily anyway, not the shooting war - there won't be an epic paradox encirclement where they deplete Israel's manpower & occupy a few VPs & bring their war score up. i would say that the current conflict is given meaning precisely by them being unable to really strictly "win." - but the newly-unemployed culture warriors, lost & adrift as a result of exactly what they had wanted happening, only see a real war that has no need for them anymore. what follows is recuperation through the only means available to them, joining telegrams where people post videos of soldiers burning alive in merkavas & reply with fire, laughing-crying, & skull emoji reacts, making 'wojak' memes of palestinians being displaced by settlers where the palestinian family are 'soy' & unshaven & slackjawed & the settlers (ashkenazi, of course) are drawn as inconspicuously aryan-looking.

[cr-s01]

12 16 18 21 with Londrekia?

12 - sexuality headcanon gay gay homosexual gay are you kidding. have you seen this guy

16 - childhood headcanon honestly good question. he gives me "way too serious about the piano lessons his guardians signed him up for" vibes. that's all i can say really

18 - how do you think they were as a kid? see above, probably Very high-strung and stressed about everything. like the human incarnation of the idea of an inferiority complex but tries to seem composed whether it's just of his own volition or because of ritter schild placing huge expectations on him, assuming they're following the licht kreis's trend of their executors probably being way too young for any of this. londrekia was probably already pretty timid behind all that though

21 - when do you think they were at their happiest? again with the whole burden of whatever the fuck ritter schild has going on for him on his shoulders. i feel like the routine task of putting down a particularly dangerous void went...kinda awry for him in the best way possible. besides just the whole novelty of merkava's existence and near-immediate friendship with londrekia, merk fucking off with his belongings and londrekia learning the licht kreis doesn't seem to hate his guts as a result of that is probably huge news considering that whole organization rivalry stuff has probably been brewing in his mind for ages. anyways considering how little we know about londrekia, i think right now, as of CLR, before french bread possibly beats him over the head with Tragic Plotline, this is gonna be the happiest we see him

[opencommunion]

"Everywhere around the world, the broad masses of the people, from the heart of the Global South to the center of the imperial core, are expressing a clear and thorough rejection of the ongoing genocide that has quickly accelerated to a firm revulsion to the Zionist ideology and Zionist project as a whole and to solidarity with and inspiration by the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance in all forms, particularly the armed resistance. The 'red triangle' over targets featured in the resistance videos of Al-Qassam Brigades, Saraya al-Quds and other resistance forces has become an online shorthand for the triumph of the people, their determination, their love for their land and their community over the automated, technologized forces of death and destruction represented by the Merkava tanks and military bases of the US/Israeli war machine.

The 'Dahiyeh doctrine' of mass destruction of civilian lives and infrastructure failed in Lebanon in 2006 because the people were a popular cradle, a source of nourishment, growth and sustenance, of the resistance, because the resistance was of, by and for the masses; today, it is failing once again in its full genocidal furor in Gaza for the same reason. This Resistance emerges from the very camps of refugees, denied their right to return home for the past 75 years, that the Zionists seek to destroy and drive into a new displacement today. Globalizing the intifada today means developing the international popular cradle of the resistance – the growing recognition that the Resistance of the Palestinian people, joined by their comrades, brothers and sisters in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and beyond, today represent the hope of humanity on our collective front lines.

Like the great popular Intifada of 1987, today’s Palestinian, Arab and international globalized intifada is an anti-imperialist cause. It is a movement against colonialism, imperialism, racism and oppression everywhere. The Palestinian flag is not only a symbol of Palestinian national liberation, but of a commitment to anti-colonial principles, to Indigenous sovereignty, to the fight against exploitation, to the fight to end the extraction of wealth, labour and resources by the United States and its imperialist cohort in Europe.

The anti-imperialist nature of the Palestinian cause has perhaps never been more clear than in the present day, where every imperialist power has clearly aligned itself with the Zionist regime with unparalleled fervor, sending billions of dollars in weaponry for genocidal aerial bombing of the Palestinian people in Gaza; banning demonstrations and Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizations, including Samidoun in Germany; arresting and prosecuting demonstrators and organizers in France, the United States, Canada and elsewhere; setting up new parliamentary and congressional bodies meant to silence and suppress the growing movement and releasing a torrent of deceptive propaganda; and unleashing a wave of social terror in the academy. It is clear that the imperialist powers are doing this because they see the events of October 7 and the rising regional and global resistance as a threat to their continued domination and extraction of wealth from the region and view the Zionist regime as their mechanism to hold on to such power through genocidal violence.

The imperialist powers, led by the United States, have always viewed Zionism as a mechanism to extract wealth from the people of the region while denying the Arab nation sovereignty over its land, wealth and resources. From the Zionist colonization of Palestine, directed by Britain, through the Nakba, the 1967 occupation, the Intifada to the Zionist genocide today, the imperialist powers have always been the central enemy of the Palestinian people, and every rock, every bullet and every strike that confronts 'Israel' also confronts imperialism.

Today’s international popular cradle of the resistance, this globalized intifada, stretches from Gaza, Sanaa, Beirut, Baghdad and Damascus to the streets of Havana, Caracas, Sao Paulo and Johannesburg to the heart of the imperial core, raising a collective voice and developing an international struggle against imperialism and its murderous wars, sanctions and siege, with Palestine at the center.

Also like the great Intifada of 1987, we are in a clear era of unity of the Palestinian cause despite the lingering near-afterlife of the collaborationist Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. The Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora are united to bring an end to the genocide, unified behind the Resistance, forming a global resistance front that also embraces popular mobilization, arts, culture, political engagement and grassroots organizing as central to the liberation struggle. On this 36th anniversary, we recall that the siege of the camps in Lebanon was finally broken by the eruption of the Intifada inside occupied Palestine in 1987. Today, we look forward to breaking the siege on Gaza, not only through the strength and resilience of the Palestinian people in Gaza, but through the uprising elsewhere and everywhere.

... From members of U.S. Congress, to university officials, to German security services, to British police, to the French interior ministry, imperialist forces are attempting to criminalize, suppress and silence clear speech for Palestine. They seek to turn reality inside out, whereby 'intifada' – the term reflecting resistance to genocide and oppression – is redefined as itself 'genocidal.' These propaganda campaigns aim to empty the term 'genocide' of meaning and legal weight and to attempt to reclaim control over the discussion of the Palestinian cause, a control that has been swept away by decades of struggle, and has been rendered unrecoverable after October 7. They also seek to target the growing role and organization of Palestinians in exile and diaspora, reclaiming their role in their national liberation movement stripped from them through the years of the Oslo liquidation process.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Long live the Intifada. Victory to the Palestinian Resistance. Stand with the Palestinian armed struggle. Zionism is racism. Imperialism will be defeated. These slogans are ringing out everywhere around the world, and now is the time to declare them, more loudly and clearly than ever. There are no slogans or statements that will satisfy Zionism and imperialism – on the contrary, they wish to strip our movement of our most effective advocacy and our most unifying vision, the vision and promise that enables people to continue to fight, to resist, and to move toward victory in the most extreme conditions of genocide and deprivation."

Samidoun Network, Globalize the Intifada: Regional resistance, international struggle and Palestinian liberation on the 36th anniversary of the great Intifada

[gear-project]

Annon-Guy: Mortal Kombat - This might be a WEIRD question (which says a lot considering my questions here), but say IF Arc System Works allowed a Guilty Gear or BlazBlue guest character to be playable in MK, would the following be an appropriate fit? (1. Robo-Ky) (2. Happy Chaos) (3. Arakune) (4. Yuuki Terumi) (5. Susano'o) (6. Ripper)

It's a bit of a tricky topic, since Mortal Kombat is actually a very strict game when it comes to character design and animation.

Even when it used Predators and Xenomorph characters, a lot of elements to their fighting styles were "pretty human" in animation and behavior. (So a character like Merkava or Arakune or even Shuma Gorath might not make the cut to Mortal Kombat's standards, despite how crazy their animations are… the same could even apply to a character like Zappa or Bedman in Guilty Gear.)

Still, it's not like they aren't incapable of making monster-like characters… Goro, Motaro, Kintaro, Sheeva, there's a lot of elements to them that DO work, but in the case of Motaro, it's difficult to animate such a character to have all the same "states" as any other fighting game character when they get hit… I can hardly imagine Motaro's reaction animation for getting Potemkin Buster'd, for example.

You could probably get away with it with characters like Robo-Ky (Robo Cop was still relatively humanoid after all).

Oh but, don't get me wrong… I would LOVE to see Bedman in a Mortal Kombat setting… hooh boy that would be a bloody mess!

Just that, the technical execution of such would be a LOT of work!