#it's like they want minorities to say “it's our turn to opress others” no you can't fight fire with fire

[radaverse]

This is my personal opinion btw

I also dislike this trope tbh, not when it's for comfort (it's understandable) but more specifically when people do to "fix" a character or because "it's better that way".

I think it's a "representation gone wrong" issue because many people are demasculinizing cis men for inclusion. The issue is that it's changing an already established character's personality, and drastically.

The strong fem woman "needing" to be trans is kinda enforcing stereotypes me thinks ("Trans girl is always feminine", "trans girl always has man-associated traits", "cis girl can't have these traits", "strong cis girl has to be a tomboy", etc)

Also the race swapping "fixing"... Skin colors don't define someone's personality, morality, and not their nationality in most cases. (I am a white hispanic woman) White people don't have to be portrayed as evil opressors, most aren't. People of any colors can be rude af

The main issue in all for me is the urge to change an already made char. Many characters are white, or straight, or cis, or act gender conforming just like many people do.

Yes we need representation a lot, but I think the best way to do it is making more original characters. Making more shows with more diverse characters, not demanding changes in old ones. Many shows are already making great representation, so it's going well

Hey, if you or you support the demasculanization of men; making them all stereotypically feminine (damaging women in the process) or making them twinks for any purpose not just fetishism. Get the fuck off my blog. You are not welcome here or anywhere near my shit.

Masculine men exist, sometimes there's just a white guy named Tom who looks like a man, does masculine things and is proud of it. And he's allowed to be that way without being either seen as a villainous white man, or be turned into a stereotypical sexualized feminine twink. It disgusts me. Woman are allowed to be who they want be but we can't do the same for man? Fuck you. And this is coming from an indigenous woman.

People, everyone deserves to be who they are, even drawn. And if you purposely twink men, or make them sexualized female stereotypical "feminine mem". Get the flying fuck out.

I support men.

[a-simply-simping-simp]

bout to get myself cancelled...but please read to the end or you won't understand...

Hey, hi! Ok so, this post may be considered offensive to a lot of people, and to be honest, I don't even want to say it at all. I'm scared and worried and I'd rather shut up, sit back, and watch but I can't. I can't because I was called to say this by my God and as much as I want to not say it, I kinda have no right to deny him.

Ok so first of all, I want to make a full disclosure that I mean no ill will at all. I can understand the feelings of those who read this because I too have dabbled in the exact same thing before. Please read the whole thing before you say anything, because I promise it isn't the arguement you think it'll be.

I will not be judging nor slandering any individual nor group and will simply be explaining the mindset of christianity to society. I feel that there is a big misunderstanding in the world right now and at first I was going to simply let it be as it did not involve me. However, God keeps calling me to speak about it and I'd rather be cancelled online than cancelled by a literal divine being.

So, ONCE AGAIN, I AM ONLY EXPLAINING THE REASONINGS, MENTALITY, AND ALSO A MESSAGE TO CHRISTIANS AND NON BELIEVERS. I AM NOT BASHING NOR JUDGING ANYBODY. READ THE FULL THING OR YOU WON'T GET THE FULL PICTURE AND I PROMISE IF YOU DON'T, IT WILL LOOK LIKE A HORRIBLE AND UGLY ONE.

You have been warned.

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For a long time, those of the LGBTQ minority have been opressed and wrongly treated by not just non believers but by many other religouns as well. In their place, I sincerly apologize. They had and still have no right to opress anyone and judge them in such a horrible way. Everybody is equal. We all have our differences, but with it we are equal. That garbage man? Equal. The leader of a country? Equal. That murderer? Equal. I know, why the murderer right? Well, they were created and molded by the lord himself and in their lungs he breathed the breath of life. They are God's children, therfore, they are equal.

As equals, nobody has the right to claim themselves worthy to judge someone else. For every "wrong" thing with the person you judge, there is one for you as well. Only someone who is perfect can judge and that would be someone who never sins. Someone who doesn't make mistakes. Someone who is just and holy. Someone like God. Too many people have tried to claim this title without even realizing it. Because of that, people of all kinds have been opressed and shunned. For that, I apologize for them.

In those God wannabe groups, christians are very involved. We constantly judge others in the name of our God but we have no right to do so. This has caused many misunderstandings on BOTH sides of this coin. So God has called me, this coward and excuse of a christian to tell you his word. Both have misuderstood, and so both need to hear this. Christians, atheists, and every other religoun. Even if you do not want to turn to God, though it would be awsome if you did, that is not really what this post is about. It is simply and honestly here to clear misunderstanding.

Like I said before, the LGBTQ community have been horribly treated and still are, though in less severity, being treated in such ways by others today. The people who due to religoun are opposed to their ways obviously being the worst of them all. Chritstians vs. LGBTQ...why? Why does it have to be like that? God never intended this bickering and fighting nor did he intend this sitting back on the bleachers and watching people tear eachother apart cuz your too scared to get involved. Intention matters. For someone who is perfect, it matters.

So as christians constantly bash and scorn those who are LGBTQ, those who are LQBTQ mock those who believe in God, and those who are lukewarm and don't know how to respond in the face of either group, I have sat back and watched. It's ugly. It's really really REALLY ugly. I was too scared to say a thing.

I understood what the LGBTQ community felt. I've seen girls before and all I could think was "Wow. I could imagine her as my girlfriend so bad rn." I've prefered woman to men before, though it was subconciously, I knew. If I did not believe in my Lord God, I would be a bisexual, she/they, demisexual queen. But I also had the obligations to uphold my father's wishes as a Christian like everyone else. In the middle, what do I do? Many people have been in this situation. Many haven't. Those who have, are stuck in the middle. Lukewarm. Those who haven't, are cold or hot.

The reasons that christains don't agree with LGBTQ is because the Lord has forbidden it. Many christians and non christians use the excuse, "If all people were gay, there would be no more children in the world!" This is false. You could have a sperm donor. You could donate your body for pregnancy. You could impregnate someone and then raise the child with your significant other. Adopt. It's solvable. However, this creates problems. What if the woman wants to keep her child? What if the husband resents the child for not being his? What if the woman does not properly love the child because she knows it is not hers? Those issues could arise. But that is not the true reason God says no to LGBTQ.

I mean, yes they are reasons, but the real one is because it was not as he intended. It does not hurt anybody, so how can it be wrong? I get it. I've been there.

You have a rock collection. Each one is special and in it's own way, beautiful. You painted each and every one of these rocks. That one is pink. That one is blue. That one is brown. That one is green. They are all perfectly created. They are as they should be. You place them in an order. The pink ones go next to the green ones. The blue ones go with the yellow. It makes a beautiful color order. But then someone takes your collection and repaints the rocks. The blue one turned purple. The pink one turned green. The yellow is orange AND red. It was not as you wanted. It was not as you left it. But that wasn't all. They changed the order too. The one that used to be yellow is with the greens now. The pink with pink and the brown with brown, Colors you never created are with eachother now too. But nobody got hurt. Everyone is ok. The rocks are unharmed. But they are no longer how you intended. You spent 5 hours painting that rock blue. The perfect shade for that specific rock. Now it is pink. But nobody is hurt. You placed that yellow one next to the blue one. But now the beautiful contrast is gone. It is now paired with the green. Nobody is hurt. But it is not how you intended. The person responsible looks at you and says they like it better this way. They say you made a mistake making that one green and that it should be pink instead. That the yellow should be with the pinks and not the blues. Nobody is hurt. But it is no longer how you intended. Nobody is hurt. But it is no longer perfect. Nobody is hurt. But you made a "mistake". Nobody was hurt. But you wasted 5 hours painting. Nobody is hurt. But you, someone who knows color theory and has been making these rocks for years was just told by a person who knows nothing about it and has never made these rocks before that you did it....wrong. But nobody is hurt so it is good.

With this analogy, can you imagine the feelings of the Lord? Imagine making every single rock with care and perfection. Now imagine them changing it. Now imagine them saying you made a mistake. Now imagine them saying those delicate strokes, each brush stroke perfectly angled to make a different and beautiful pattern each time were wrong. Now imagine that with us. God COULD just force us to be the gender he intended. God COULD just force us to love who he wants us to love. God COULD force us to follow him. God COULD force us to do anything. But he doesn't. He gifted us with the gift of choice and free will. We would be robots otherwise. We would feel what he wants us to feel. We would do what he wants us to do. Not because of love but because we have to. And he wants love. Obedience because we love him.

God doesn't want us to change the way he intended it to go. God does not make mistakes. He does not make bad decisions. This is the true reason he does not favor LGBTQ. Not the people, he favors them for they are his children, but the sin. Not only did he not intend it to be this way, he said so in the bible. With that being said, it would also count as dieobedience and purposefully turning from him.

Now before I get cancelled and stoned online, I have yet to finish this loooong text. I have explained to those who do not obey the lord. Now I must adress those who think they do...

Do you know everything? Are you all seeing and all knowing? Do you have everything put together? Are you perfect? Are you God? No. You are his child. Do not discriminate and scorn your siblings but do not sit back and watch them unkowingly walk into a lions den. Warn them of the dangers. Warn them of the reasons. But in a respectful way. Let them know what they could be getting into but in a kind way. Let your reasonings not be of judgment and self proclaiming, but of love and truth. Do not force the Lord upon them. But do not withhold him from them either.

Too many christians I have seen that look in disgust of those who are LQBTQ and too many I have seen that are scared to even call themselves a christian in front of a queer person. We are all sinners. We have no room to judge. We make a bad name for ourselves and wonder why we are judged in return. Why should anyone walk in fear? Gay, trans, queer, crossdressers, allies, asexuals, christians, musslums, jews, atheists, any other religoun or beliefs. We are all children of God even if not all of us realize it. As someone who has been blessed the wisdom of the Lord, christians, stop being rude and discriminatory. Do not make them walk in fear. Atheists, stop mocking those of the christian belief as well as any other belief. LGBTQ, understand that not all christians are out to bite you. Everyone, please just be kind to eachother. Love and respect eachother.

All we can do is agree to disagree. If our warnings fall on deaf ears, do not jam a hearing aid into their face and start screaming at them. It just makes them turn farther from God. If you do not agree with us, please do not mock us like we are idiots. If we do not agree, then we can do nothing. It is not our jobs. It is not your jobs. It is our jobs to love and to follow the way of the lord the way he wants. With humility, humblness, and love. Not hate, judgment, and pride.

So for those who decide to cancel me today, I rest my case. I pleade guilty. I am guilty. I have done what needs to be done and said what needed to be said. I hope both sides understand now and no longer have to be at eachother's doorstep with a buttload of disrespect and hate. Once again, there is no judgment nor ill will in this message. I understand both sides. I have been on both sides. I was lukewarm but with my christian awakening, I have chosen to be hot. You can be hot without burning everything you touch. I will not apologize for my beliefs. I will not pretend to not have one. I'm sorry if this is considered rude to anybody, but not for what I said. So, yeah. Thank you for those who read. Love you ALL. Bye 🫰 :)

[kayura-sanada]

Something I noticed when discussing the Divine election; certain people get really pissy if you pick hardened Leliana and not softened. And while she's not a perfect choice I think she does enact the most change and both her and Cass seem to care a lot more about helping the downtrodden and opressed so they're both better choices than Vivienne at least. Its funny how recruiting her turns out to be a grave mistake, but I wanted to at least give her a chance at first but oh boy..

A lot of people want to jump others' shit for choices made, whether they were made knowingly or not. Even though it's a game.

My brother and I actually agreed on something for once, and it was that we preferred a softened Leliana. My brother was upset because he'd failed to soften her (since we played the game as soon as it came out and we didn't know how our dialogue choices might affect people at the time). Then again, he and I likely prefer a softened Leliana because of our wariness of religious extremism and history of genocide.

That said, just as I stand with Anders' decision as a necessity, I stand with Leliana's, as well.

If kindness doesn't work, cruelty will.

And considering the number of minorities killed by the Chantry, a little of their own blood lost has already proved to be necessary for change, and we shouldn't complain about the moral purity of our response to their prejudice when there's blood painted on the Chantry's walls. I dislike it, but if the laws won't change, revolution will make them.

The way Cassandra speaks of her goals sounds nice, but she still wants to return to the status quo of Circles remaining, templars remaining, and nothing of worth changing (except perhaps people no longer being made Tranquil, eventually). I respect Cassandra a lot, but I don't agree with much of what she believes.

Vivienne literally only cares about gathering more power for herself, and is even willing to use the Chantry and her position to set herself up as leader of a new sort of Tevinter. Let me make it clear: I hate the Chantry, but I hate the magisterium, too. No, it is not a step up to have the mages stepping on the non-mages simply because they'd been stepped on for too long. It's not equality. It's merely a new form of despotism.

Now, since it's a game, I'm not going to judge you fully on your in-game choices; maybe you just want to live a revenge fantasy through the DA games, and that's perfectly fine and valid. And of course there are people who choose to try every ending just to see what it's like. And maybe you and I agree on 99% of real-world issues, but you back Cassandra when I don't. It's all valid! It's a game!!!

But maybe you choose Cassandra or Vivienne because of real-world issues I can't agree with. Maybe that's a common theme to those who choose their Divines. Hence why I might say things like 'if you like Vivienne, you and I will never be friends.' Which is also fine! No one gets along with everyone else; that's not a sign of moral degeneracy. Though it may mean you have political opinions that make me disturbed that you might be able to vote. Hence why I'll block you on social media and pretend you don't exist.

And yeah... while I won't judge anyone for having a hardened Leliana, I will definitely block you if you think Vivienne as Divine is anything other than a catastrophe.

(And I actually recruited Vivienne four times before I lost patience with her. I really really wish I could have publicly kicked her out. That would have been golden.)

[moran-with-a-g]

They like to invent a simple narrative. Right and wrong, good and evil, black and white. They're looking for an excuse to hate, and making stuff up to make their stances seem morally superior.

They're hiding their hate behind compassion. The poor opressed minority being colonized by the big bad white people, but also they don't belong in our group of white people. That big bad group of white colonizers are trying to use the fact that actually most of them aren't even originally from Europe and plenty of them don't even look white to trick us into thinking they're a minority.

They don't care about the truth. They don't care about what's actually happening. They know the truth is bad enough to advocate for Palestinians, that's not what they want to do - they're trying to advocate against Jews.

They don't care that Israelis fight for Palestinian rights over here. They don't care about the actual effort that actually makes a change that's being done in Israel. No, they want an excuse to try to kill us, once again, like every time people tried that before during history. Only this time it's coming from the group who likes to pretend they give a crap about other people, the "morally just" and "compassionate" group, so they make up everything they can to justify it to themselves and others.

And this moral high ground they're on? They're walking down from there, some are actively running down. The more time passes the more people who take of their masks. Start mixing the word zionist with Jewish. Start admitting what they actually think about us. Some never bothered to hide in the first place, but were still welcome, because all it took was for them to say they "care about palestine".

But sure, they all hate Nazis.

You know, for once I would like to ask, why do you hate Nazis? What did the Nazis do that makes you hate them so much? Not because it's wrong to hate Nazis, I definitely hate Nazis, but I want to know if they know why they should hate Nazis. Because I don't think they know. I think they repeat whatever is being fed to them with a spoon to keep their precious social status and their feeling of moral superiority.

They're turning their hatred of us into a movement of "peace", because that's the current trend. These same people would have supported Hitler if they were living in Nazi Germany.

People who say Palestine existed before Israel and Israel is a ‘new country that’s colonizing’ sound like flat earthers. Every piece of logic and evidence proves that is wrong, yet they deny, deny, deny and say that the government is lying. 

[doorsclosingslowly]

Your death is a number but I cannot count that high (6/?)

In which Asajj is subjected to yet another unpleasant conversation.

Zombie Savage AU | 2.1k | canon divergent after Son of Dathomir | also on AO3

Death Watch must be utterly indifferent by now to their leader’s antics, or resigned to them a least. Maul’s breakdown is effortlessly ignored. Everybody must have overheard the conversation. They must have witnessed their apparent commander choke a visitor and then huddle on the floor, mindless and gibbering and terrified of a Sith Lord who isn’t here, but it looks like the Mandos are adept at pretending they haven’t, and the helmets definitely help. There are no accident gawkers, or at least none to be noticed. Instead, quickly, the busy pace inside the cargo hold picks up again.

The Mandos return to their tasks, ignoring Asajj’s presence and occasionally veering off their straight paths to keep a wide circle around Maul clear and empty. At least most of them do: there’s a protective honor guard next to him, still.

The purple-armored soldier is one of them, of course. The other—as short as Maul, but easily twice as wide—wears beskar painted yellow and adorned with spikes.

“Update all rescue teams. Comm Gar. You heard Lord Maul: our brother is not dead. He is in the hands of the enemy. Command meeting, sixteen hours sharp,” the purple Mando shouts, and immediately, the hold empties.

Then, the helmet’s visor turns in Asajj’s direction, and back to Maul. Squatting down next to him, though far enough that his arms can’t reach—that won’t help at all when he loses it again, Asajj thinks—the purple Mando says something in a language Asajj doesn’t understand, and Maul replies in kind, incredibly slowly, stumbling over a syllable or two and with a pronunciation completely unlike the practiced tones of his counterpart, but obviously determined. Asajj’s name comes up, once or twice.

Maul never before seemed the type to openly, intentionally display his shortcomings, not to enemies and especially not to his allies. The breakdown was unavoidable, perhaps—Asajj would rage at the deaths of her family too, if she had a little less self-control—but he’s regained use of his faculties now. This is a deliberate choice.

Only one reason why he’d be speaking, or trying to speak, Mando’a now: this is something they don’t want me to know. It puts up Asajj’s hackles, a kind of vulnerability in ignorance that might well be another motivation, if, after meeting him today, she still was to credit him with the intelligence needed to play these kinds of mind-games. Maybe this is a shade of what he used to be like. It’s easy to forget, seeing him, but he was raised a Sith. He is like her; not like Savage Opress plucked from the fields and magicked, but trained, like Asajj herself and like her former Master Darth Tyranus. She should not keep underestimating this nightbrother.

Regardless: they’ve reached a truce. An alliance, if not in so many words. Maul hasn’t even questioned her properly yet, but at least he knows he knows nothing. He cannot get what he wants without her aid. Whatever these machinations… for the moment, she is as safe as anyone could be, in his company.

Maul heaves himself up onto his knees. His feet, just as unsteadily. He doesn’t favor her with another glance when he leaves, and then Asajj is alone with his guard.

“Follow me, Asajj Ventress,” the purple Mando says. “To your room.”

“You have me at a disadvantage. Your name?”

A beat. Then, the soldier removes her helmet and joggles her chin-length dark hair, not completely unlike a wet finkwolf. “Rook Kast. This is Jagrub.” Pointing over her shoulder with her thumb, Rook Kast, life-long fanatic criminal and the Face of the Terror of Mandalore according to at least five people Asajj has met, indicates the massive gamorrean sow behind her. Jagrub’s also taken off her spiked helmet.

“You brought your bodyguard?” Asajj smirks, which then occurs to her was a tad unwise, perhaps, even if it makes her feel better, but: truce. Maul needs her. A guard detail is as befitting the woman’s obvious status anyway, really. Terror of Mandalore indeed, and in the short time since her arrival, Asajj has seen Kast’s closeness to Maul. Second in command, maybe, or even more. Caretaker. The power behind the throne. It’s not like a feral nightbrother has much experience in leading an army.

Still. A bodyguard. It would be flattering, if it wasn’t so insulting. Another forceblind won’t make even the ghost of a difference to her chances of survival, should Asajj choose to leave.

Kast’s face is effortlessly still. “She’s not here to protect me.”

Whatever.

Politeness is a scarce resource on Mandalore, evidently: Kast and Jagrub take off without another word, straight through a crowd of Mandos that respectfully divides at their approach, expecting Asajj to follow them. It’s left to the guest to attempt small talk. “I wouldn’t have expected anyone to order you to show a visitor around, Rook Kast.” Forward, again, but it’s not like she even attempts to hide her authority, and Asajj is curious. “It’s usually less of a general’s duty. I’m sure you have a busy schedule.”

“I volunteered,” Kast says, and then she smiles at Asajj so widely the light glints off her teeth. It does not reach her eyes.

It shuts off conversation until they reach Asajj’s designated quarters, visually indistinguishable from any of the other rooms she’s glanced at through oddly luxurious stained-glass windows or open doors. A quartet of bunk-beds, and a table. Asajj inspects the door-handle—there is a code-lock, too, but neither of her companions offer to set it and Asajj doesn’t ask—and then she strides in. Kast and Jagrub follow. The door slides shut.

“What did you want to talk to me about in private?” Asajj asks eventually, after a few seconds, when she has tired of being stared at. No response. Apparently, Maul’s found the one cache of people in the galaxy who share his awful habits.

Time for a gambit. Testing the fault line. The limits of Maul’s authority. Surreptitiously, Asajj touches her ‘sabers. It’s not like there is any real risk here—Asajj might piss off Kast, but general or not, the woman’s still only a forceblind soldier. If Asajj is wrong about Kast’s purposes, then this conversation will definitely find its way to Maul’s ears, but even that is only a minor concern. Maul hates her, anyway. He’s tried to wring her neck for long enough to prove it. He won’t breach their truce, though, not if he wants to see his brother again. The brother who is in Sidious’ hands now, apparently. He’ll need all the help he can get, and he’ll prioritize Savage’s recovery. Here goes nothing.

“Something you don’t want Maul to hear, perhaps?”

“Of a sort.”

“It is fairly obvious that he’s not particularly stable—”

“I am curious,” Kast interrupts. “I am Mandalorian, Asajj Ventress. My old enemies, too, are Mandalorian, and they possess honor. I have never before met someone who so utterly devalues family.”

Asajj snarls. She doesn’t care what this this smug soldier thinks of her, this Death Watch terrorist fighting for the restoration of barbaric total and constant war—many of Asajj’s sources in the attempt to track Opress were recent refugees from Sundari’s old regime—and moreover: Kast allied herself with Maul. With the man who drew Mother Talzin into his conflict with Sidious. With the man that got her killed. The man who destroyed the entirety of her clan and the only people Asajj hadn’t yet lost. The man who took her Sisters.

And now she dares lecture Asajj about family?

“Fuck off. You know nothing about me. You know nothing of what I have lost.”

“Interesting.” Kast’s face blanks, and then, obviously deliberately, she grins. By the second, it’s more obvious why she didn’t hesitate for a second to take off her helmet: with her studied off-kilter body language, it’s like she’s wearing another mask below. “True, perhaps. I don’t particularly care either way.”

“Then what—”

“However—I do know of you, Asajj Ventress. As soon as I heard your name, I remembered you.” Kast shrugs, settling her shoulders, and then without warning she changes tack: “Has anybody ever… begged you to kill them?”

Asajj shifts, moving her back surreptitiously closer to the wall and her arms akimbo: her hands, once more, above her lightsabers. She won’t be caught unawares again. For all the tone of that question is closer to idle conversation than Kast’s previous terse statements, for all her face is still wearing a smile, for all the turn in conversation that’s brought them here is opaque, since anyone this readily turning a simple objection into a standoff should not survive to become a general… this is a death threat.

The bodyguard takes in Asajj’s readiness for battle, even if Kast doesn’t. Takes in their meagre chances of survival against a trained force user, too. She puts a placatory hand on her superior’s shoulder.

Kast doesn’t shrug it off. She leans into the touch eagerly, fingering Jagrub’s massive shoulder-spikes with a trembling hand and intense concentration, and then she adds, “It’s an interesting experience. Not particularly pleasant. I have killed scores of enemies, and yet… I would not even have made the Duchess or her pacifists beg, I think. Now that I know, anyway. Didn’t really know what I was getting into. I don’t know what I expected, when I decided to find out what kind of person my new Mand’alor was after we retook Sundari.”

“Maul wouldn’t beg for death.” He’s miserable, and Asajj has watched him howl vengeance at Kenobi deep in the throes of madness, but he wouldn’t ask to die. That’s not like him. She doesn’t know him that well—and does not particularly want to learn more—but this, she knows.

“Lord Maul wouldn’t,” Kast readily agrees. “But then he’s the last person I’d pick for plying with alcohol until he’s too drunk to stay tight-lipped, too. A lost cause from the start. No chance of getting anything out of the poor paranoid bastard. He doesn’t even drink. He says he likes water.”

The worms inside Asajj’s ribcage writhe again. She kind of knows where this is going.

“Fortunately, he had a brother. As you know. Has, and we’ll find him. Much more approachable, and so I invited him along to our victory party. Well, Gar and Kaat did. He was terrified of me. Very flattering, until I figured out why anyway. Nothing like the rest of you arrogant force-users, so I was already predisposed to liking him, and when he asked us for a favor, I foolishly said yes.”

So: Savage Opress wants to die. That’s not even news. He’s been shouting it in her mind for weeks now, and if the sleepwalking cuts on her arm are anything to go by, he’s got in a respectable try already.

His conversation with Kast must have been weeks before he was abducted by Sidious, though. It must be about more than the torture, then.

It…

“I’d have said yes anyway, even with hindsight. He was easy to pity. He wouldn’t stop crying after a few beers, when he told me—you already know what he told me, Asajj Ventress. You forced him, after all.”

“I—” Asajj starts, but whatever she might have replied is simply steamrollered. This is not a conversation, after all. This is a death threat.

“He gave me options. Weaknesses in his fighting style he’d noticed or learned from Maul. General weaknesses of force-users, too. He gave me a long list of body parts to blast and tried to give me his lightsaber, too, so I would have an easy time of killing him, if—when, he said, when he was used again to hurt his little brother.”

Jagrub runs a claw through Kast’s hair in a slow swirl, messily sticking it up, and she calms again.

“I know what you did, Nightsister. I promised Savage I would protect Maul, and I will. I gave my word. Mandalore gave hers, too, when she embraced her new-found sons, and we keep our promises. You said you’d let Feral live and you betrayed him, but when you break your next oath—” Kast cocks her fingers as a blaster and aims. Fires. She blows smoke off it— “when you touch him again or anyone at all, I swear on my home: one single twitch, and it will be my pleasure to deal the consequences.”

“We all look forward to the dissolution of this alliance,” Jagrub rumbles. “For now, you are useful. Do not attempt to escape.”

They leave the door open.

[goldenharryvol6]

This is something I wrote last night. I have been posting it on all my social media platforms and thought I should post it here too.

BLACK LIVES MATTER. They always have and they always will. The way black communities and other minorities have been and are still being treated is sickening. As a child I grew up listening to stories of racism from my dad who saw the social effects first-hand. My dad grew up as a white South African during apartheid; he would tell me horror stories of seeing black men lynched from trees and all non-white communities being forced into slums and shanty towns. He saw black women being raped and used because they were ‘easy targets’, military and police beating and murdering innocent black people in the streets. He saw black communities turning to gang crime and drugs because they had no other way of life; killing each other and leaving children orphaned. He told me of the racism and oppression and just how truly vile it was and still is. The last time he visited South Africa was in 2012, he came home and said he didn’t want to have to go back again. He talked about how things had changed but still felt the same; there were still shanty towns, there were still dead bodies in the street, there was still a massive disregard for black lives. These facts are still true to this day, 30 years on from apartheid. It is utterly heart wrenching to me that this still rings true in our modern society still.

What is currently going on in America is harrowing and has been going on for years. I am aware that the exact same issues are happening in the UK too, however given the recent murder of George Floyd and the protests that are currently taking place I want to talk about America. Systematic racism and oppression at the hands of the law enforcement in America is taking innocent lives. The American government is continuing to reinforce the narrative that black lives are less important than white lives every time they fail to persecute and punish officers of the law who wrongfully murder and abuse people of colour. They reinforce this narrative every time a person of colour gets a longer prison sentence than the white person who committed the same crime or, every time the police respond to peaceful unarmed black protests with mace, tear gas and violence, yet when white supremacists arm themselves with guns and protest violently in the street they do not take the same action. Its reinforced by the fact that black Americans are 30% more likely to be pulled over by police, that 40% of the prison populations are black. That black students are 3x as likely to be suspended and black graduates are 2x as likely to be unemployed. There are so many examples of how America are reinforcing this narrative and failing their own people. Racism is a prevalent issue in our society, anyone who argues otherwise is part of the problem. Many people brush past racial inequalities and injustices by saying ‘we have made so much progress’ and ‘we have come so far from where we were’ and while this may be true, it is clear that we have not come far enough and that prejudice is still deeply rooted in the bases of our society. A blatant disregard for black lives.

Education is the key to everything, no one can ever be ‘too educated’. I feel that we have all been let down by our education systems when it comes to the topic of racism. Trevor Noah wrote in his book ‘Born a Crime’ that the history of racism and apartheid in South Africa was taught to him the way that America teach the history of their own racism and slavery. He said it is taught without judgment or shame, no moral or emotional dimension. He says he was taught ‘Apartheid was bad. Nelson Mandela was freed. Let’s move on.’ the same way that Americans teach ‘There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr and now it’s done’. The sole purpose of teaching history this way is best described as saying ‘whatever you do, don’t make the kids angry’. I can truly say that in my 15 years of education I have never been taught about the history of racism or slavery. Black history is pushed to one side, it is confined and whitewashed into ‘black history month’. The notion of ‘black history month’ is crude and disappointing and further goes to show the systematic racism and oppression in our society. Black history month is incredibly important, it is the only time we are actively taught about black history. However it’s not enough, black history should be part of the curriculum all year round, it should be taught with the same if not higher importance than white history so that we are able to understand how deeply racism and oppression is rooted in the foundations of society so that we can work towards dismantling the maltreatment of POC and work towards a truly equal future, free of bias and prejudice.

The time to be angry is now and if you are not angry about what you are seeing, you need to ask yourself why. If your response to the black lives matter movement is ‘well actually all lives matter’ you are missing the whole point. Black lives matter doesn’t exist to say that all other lives don’t matter, it exists to bring light to the fact that black communities are being grossly discriminated against in our society. We don’t need a movement to say ‘all lives matter’ because white lives are not discriminated against. We are not attacked and murdered simply because of our skin colour; we are not oppressed for being who we are. A good analogy I saw is that if you had five children and five plasters, one for each child; should they get hurt. One child falls and cuts their knee so you give them a plaster to help them heal, you wouldn’t then give the other four children a plaster because it isn’t needed, they are not hurt. Anybody who does not understand the difference between black lives matter and all lives matter is wilfully ignorant.

I am unbelievably privileged in my life for a long list of reasons. The simple fact that I am white is the very reason that sits in the number one spot of why I am so unbelievably privileged. This privilege certainly does not mean that I have not experienced hardships in my life but instead means that the colour of my skin is not the dependent variable of the hardships I have endured, nor will it ever be. I see so many people feigning ignorance about their white privilege brushing it off by choosing to ‘remain impartial’ or simply stating ‘racism isn’t something that affects me’. This is simply not true. The truth of the matter is, being white means that you directly benefit from the oppression of people of colour. We are the majority; we are dominantly represented in media, we are dominantly represented in the workplace, we are dominantly represented in education and we are dominantly represented in positions of power. We have inherited wealth and power and with that, we have forced ourselves into cultures and whitewashed them to ‘fit in’ with our own. We have forced these minorities to conform to how we want them to look and behave all while stealing the aspects of their cultures that we think are ‘trendy’ or ‘cool’. White privilege is the fact that we are not questioned about our citizenship, we are not harassed or attacked for existing in public spaces, we are catered to and accommodated wherever we choose to be and most importantly; WE ARE NOT OPRESSED AND VILLIANISED BY OUR GOVERNMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. We are thought of first, we are protected first and we are last to be held accountable for our actions. If you cannot see this then you need to open your eyes and look around. Consciously look at the media you consume. Look at the TV shows you watch. How many POC do you see? And how many of those POC are included just for diversity points? This is just one area where it is blatantly apparent that black lives and POC are branded as undesirable and less than in western society. IT. NEEDS. TO. CHANGE.

White privilege is having the option to turn a blind eye and be blissfully ignorant to what is going on without consequence. It is watching from the side-lines and not having to suffer ourselves. It is knowing that at any moment we can log off social media and act as if nothing is happening. Black communities and POC do not have this luxury, they do not have the option to turn a blind eye, they have no choice but to suffer the oppression being forced upon them.

Those of us with privilege need to do better. We need to use our privilege to enact a change and support minorities. Simply being not racist is not enough. If you do not speak out, you are part of the problem. If you do not educate yourself, you are part of the problem. If you are not actively anti-racist, you are part of the problem. Stand up to casual racism, even if its from your family members. Constantly educate yourself on what is happening. Sign and share petitions, donate if you can and protest if you are able to. Speak out about racism even when it is not all over the media. I will hold my hands up and say I have not been the best ally I could be, I have been ignorant in the past, I have and still am uneducated on a lot of the issues that minorities are facing, I did not actively look for petitions to sign and share, I remained quiet on social media about these topics and would often turn a blind eye feeling as though there was nothing I could do to help; which is not true. However, I am continuing to educate myself on these issues and starting to speak up about them. I am actively looking for petitions and organisations everyday and will continue to do so. I’m not going to be quiet about racism any longer.

There is so much more that I want to say and that is needed to be said, but for now, I wanted to open-up this discussion so that I can address these topics often without the need for introduction. With that I want to make one last point that; it is not the job of the oppressed to teach you of their oppression, go and read a book, watch a documentary, watch the news and pay attention to the media, educate yourselves, google is free so use it.

#blacklivesmatter #BLM #justiceforGeorgeFloyd

[its-cunt-dracula]

I saw a post about babies and wanted to talk about babies. The fact that people derailed the post is not my fault and I'm not obligated to write an essay about everything on this post, it's pretty long.

The keep babies locked till they turn 18 was an exaggeration, sorry for having a sense of humour.

I don't agree that people who don't like babies deserve the guillotine or that not wanting to be around babies is like not wanting to be around racial minorities. Babies are not an opressed group.

But women are and they're like 90% of babies' caretakers and they shouldn't be ostracised from society for having a child. My addition was about the general hatred of babies in the public sphere not just the flight thing. I saw people say babies and little kids shouldn't be in restaurant, there's a trend of child free weddings, now this plane debacle. On a smaller scale everytime there's a baby in a public space, somebody's gotta complain. What are parents who can't afford nannies supposed to do? Not have a social life? Not go out? It's kinda fucked up to have women with children on a special separed plane. This also ties in with the breastfeeding issue and how that's also inevitable. I geniunely want to say more cause I got a lot of thoughts on this problem and maybe I should just write my own post. It's just hard to put my thoughts in order in a language that's not my own.

The idea is babies have to be part of the social scene to learn to socialise. I learnt traditional Romanian dances by going to wedding parties, mothers breastfeeding in public is necessary cause it theaches other women what breastfeeding looks like. My mom didn't know how to breastfeed cause she didn't see it growing up in communist Romania and she had to be thought by the doctor. Generally seeing mothers interact with their children in public theaches others how to do just that. How to hold them. How to soothe them.

And putting women with children in separate planes from the rest of adults will make them feel like second class citizens. And create even more adults who don't know how to behave around a baby/child. It will also increase the chances of multiple babies being in one plane which is a recipe for disaster. You barely made your baby sleep and the other one starts crying, it woke up your baby... now they're both crying.

Also the baby free plane being more expensive means that only people who can afford it can have a child free experience.

I understand being sick of kids as women. We have motherhood pushed on us our whole life. I don't want a baby myself. But this whole debate about babies and public space is going to affect women and as feminist we should support them. They're raising the next generation and shouldn't be punished for it.

(Sorry for any typos, some words don't look right but honestly it's early in the morning and I can't write any better)

I fuckin hate the people who just wanna be mad about people not wanting to be around kids.

This lady said she would pay more for an adult only flight and people are mad at her saying "it's a baby, how are you mad about a baby crying" "people don't even understand the embarrassment parents feel"

She didn't say babies shouldn't be allowed on flights period, she didn't say the baby should shut up. She said she would pay more to not have to deal with that. How do you twist that?

[thecameldances-blog]

Why Katlyn Nicole Davis "Suicide" with forced variables Is the saddest moment in U.S. History? This country has came a long way from when it was founded from its 13 colonies to its great 50 states and in only 2 centuries and a half to not only become a superpower but the number one superpower compared to other superpowers being older than a millennium. As I look back the reason why is George Washington's vision for America was the greatest thing to happen to human civilization since the Renaissance because now people were open to express themselves and share ideas and issues human had together George washington said why the hell now that man is civilized do we have to listen to this King who just takes our daily breads and sends his Dukes who basically can pillage or rape any woman they chose so after 250 years of being here and every human on earth dreams of everyday where rights are not granted but are guranteed and the little voicet is always heard whether it be a minority group or a single human being there voice is heard and this is the reason U.S. has became what it is today. Ok over this time this country hasnt been perfect us as human beings always make mistakes whether siding with the wrong country or abusing power over their own citizens due to economic panic and stress. This country went to war 20 years after it was founded due to not renewing a bank contract but came out with minor damages but still stride on.U.S. learned that although the Bank plays a major role in the economy they must be kept an eye on due to some of the bankers will choose greed of dignity  Then there was the Mexican American war where General Zachary Taylor freed Mexicans from tyranny people oppose this today but they didnt know that the Mexicans living in California through Utah were begging U.S. to aide then for decades on end to help them from unjust treatment and General Zachary Taylor decided it was finally time becsuse he couldnt bear another cry for help from them. U.s. learned from this that people living under tyranny are in need of aide just as much as the american citizen. Civil war where hundreds of thousands were killed but still this country survived also realizing all races deserve George Washington's vision for america. See man just became civilized 15000 years ago and its a learning process but if man isnt expose to the issues then he wont even bother thinking their issues to begin with. Then there was world war 1 which u.s. fought someone elses war and lost hundreds of thousands lives but u.s. realized that me and my brother will fight the opressing forces but if our cousins are being opressed is just as bad as if we are.  Then came the great depression when business took greed over self dignity and caused havoc on the economy u.s. learned we were just transcending from Colonials days 100 years prior and it wasnt about going out in the wild to hunt or gather wood it was the start of the modern world then world war 2 and korean and vietnam and Iraq wars which U.S. has fought and one I always admired about U.S. Wartime Generals they always proved that they actually took Self dignity over greed especially my favorite General in history General Mcarthur because his love for this country the way he went about the war and the fact he had a chance to ransack Japan for Billions if he wanted when they surrendered but he took Dignity of Self greed and honored the true American tradition and what it meant to him if that wasnt the case thrn General Mcarthur grandson wouldve still been the Emperor of Japan. All these wars hundreds of thousands of lives were lost as General Swharkopf put it 1 life loss is 1 to many and not to mention each life loss strikes tragedy in their families and burdens on their communities.  Then came 9/11 which effect every American but aftwerwards the United States reformed its U.S. Policy and reminded us that we are not invincible although we are strong willed. So why is it that Katlyn Nicole Davis tops all these as the saddest moment in U.S. History. The first is the story itself a 12 year old American girl commits suicide that alone will strike at any mans heart.:( Then everyone wants to know why Katlyn why did she do it. The media states she did it because her moma was a child abuser thats why she did it:(:(  before any real investigation could be inducted the news and media were coming out with stories on how the family had problems at home amd her being abused at home was a key factor to her suicide and she wasnt healthy. Katlyn for a 12 year appeared alright to me Her mom. Fed her clothed her and held her in her stomach for 9 months to my judgement katlyns mon took care if her dsughter better than most out there. Then bloggers all over the internet added insult to injury stating she did it because her moma was a child abuser and a whore.:(:(:(  The fact no one really takes bloggers as credible source but it wasnt just one it was a lot of them pointing at her mom saying it was because she was a whore. then add in the fact it was all recorded with her applogizing to god for her selfishness and even worst when she said i just dont deserve this I dont deserve to live immediately whrn i heard her say This i said aloud then none of us do Katlyn and after she commited suicide 10 minutes in you hear her moma in panic stricken voice yelling for her daughter to come home calling all her friends all in the background sound  and also the one that felt like my heart just was hit when Katlyns 5 year old brother AJ was heard  yelling for Ms. Katlyn to come home while her lifeless body was hanging from that tree. All you here is a little boys voice yelling KAaaTTLYYYYN See Katlyn was a victim of internet stalking and voice 2 skull which caused her to commit suicide it wasnt her moma. In between her saying Im sorry Everyone Im sorry everyone. You can hear a ssssss sound now in slow motion you can hear the elf noise of a older woman saying Soorrrey what i think happened is the fact you need 2 things for v2k to work elf wave sound and white noise. The elf wave is 1 to 40 and the white noise is the background noise which is important for the elf wave to catch onto the the white noise can be anything from car engine to fan or thunder or wind.but if the wave doesnt catch onto the white noise properly the wave sound will be louder than the white noise and thats what happened with the sorrrrey part in her video. She was a 10th generation 12 year old American girl needless to say she shouldve been on the U.S. top priority for defense. Again she was a 10th generation 12 year old american girl wouldn't you think that is what every u.s. citizen considers must be top of the defense list and with 52% of the u.s. budget spent on defense every year it should be a gurantee Katlyn would live her entire life forced suicide or not forced with 52% spent on defense their is plenty of money to protect her civil rights yet no one says a word on this and they ruled a 12 year old girl commited suicide due to negligence at home. Now put yourself in her moma shoes now I mean Katlyn looked healthy to me her moma took care of her but your daughter just commited suicide and everyone in the nation calling you a whore and a child abuser.This is the turning point of the United States downfall I gurantee it this is the moment I can really say after 250 years standing strong this country is going to shits. Katlyn Nicole Davis 10th generation 12 year old american girl your definition of Innocent and your definition of American pie taken advantage of by people with to much control and technology and no one seems to care.I shall mourn you until I die Katlyn you become my Virgin Mary of Phycological Warfare I will never forget you I promise in due time I will go to your hometown 20 miles west of Atlanta (Cedartown) find your moma and say my condolences for your daughter you were a good mom you took care of her may i put these flowers under her tree in the backyard and if she lets me i will go back their look up at that tree and say this Katlyn Nicole Davis O' Great blessed Virgin Mother of God protect me from my demons forgive those who have sinned Attract health abundance love and prosperity O' great blessed Virgin Amen put the flowers under your tree and leave Now I aint no christian or anything but thats what Katlyn believed in and I respect that all in thanks to George Washingtons vision for America. Maybe it started out in the Colonial days fueds between the Protestants and the Quakers but the his concept is the most beautiful concept now this is a fact every man for himself its a dog eat dog world out there and this country has a tendency to turn the other cheeck but i said to my self if you get played for your money or your honey then like Thomas Edison said quote "Its American Humor" needless to say some people go to far but on the end the its mostly the fools fault but that one piece paper brought man to common sense is George Washingtons Vision for America which is the Checks and balance that has been bestowed in the hearts of Men since 1776. Ok he just lost his house and his wife but in respect to the constitution let him attain his self pride and whatever self esteem he has left not in his namesake I aint worried about him but the in giving props to George Washington. See Colin Kapernick is a idiot not standing for pledge of allegiance no one cares Kapernick your a atheist a Quaker its not for that purpose in the nation of freedom of religion you can pray to anything you want but the pledge of allegiance is not about giving respect to god although god in my eyes is most important but pledge of allegiance is about giving props to George Washington for the greatest idea since the renaissance.To mankind: Katlyn Nicole Davis (Itzdolly) I never met you and oddly enough were exact opposite in the demographic scale of every demographic scale living on opposites  sides of the united states but I mourn your death everyday I miss you everyday and I love you I truly believe George Washington hung himself with Katlyn Nicole Davis This poor girls rights were completely violated and after it all no justice was served and injustice was added to the victims family:(:(:(:(:(  RIP Itzdolly Ms. Katlyn Nicole Davis the saddest moment in American history its not just her stalkers fault but its also my fault and and all 350 000 0000 Americans in this country Katlyns blood is on all our hands and we will all be punished from our greater power for this. It is if like everything Benjamin Franklin George Washington Andrew Jackson worked so hard for and stride on for 250 year of trial and error went down the drain sfter what had happen to Katlyn Nicole Davis, Why my dad struggled so hard in Fall of 1969 to get over with only $10 in his pocket. He had that immigrant hope of a better future for him and his family only deemed possible in the United States. My father who worked for Union Pacific for 23 years fathered 6 children and will add to the American roots. My name is Mohamed Saleh and I am a 2nd generation Arab American from California. I know the world is not perfect and Man struggles to survive everyday but the fact Katlyn had double coverage and yet she was taken advantage of the fact she was protected by the Constitution and the Unwritten rule in the hearts of men should've guaranteed her to live her life. I have 2 sons now and I hope 10 generations down the road I have a grand daughter here in United States that will have the free spirit and love that Katlyn Nicole Davis had. Katlyn Nicole Davis was a 10th generation 12 year old American girl your definition of innocent your definition of American pie. R.I.P. Itzdolly Feb. 20th 2006-Dec.30th 2016 Mohamed Asker Saleh

[dead-gonzo-journalist-blog]

Things to say before the nuke destroys everyone

Respect, pose, dignity, unity, these traits all have one thing in common, they would help make a politician a trust worthy individual. Yet these are all traits the president of the United states, Donald Trump, does not have. Everyday something new comes up-- everyday since the election anyways--- about Donald making movements to make our country, the peoples country, into the presidents country. Where women, People of color, lgbtq folk, and just about everyone who isn't a white cis man cannot feel safe. This man gives nazis freedom of speech yet tried to make being gay a fireable offence. Now tell me how he's doing 'great things' for us when hes oppressing people who faught long and hard to be treated as equals, as Humans. And giving freedom of speech to a group we, the USA faught long and had against to abolish the ideals. One could compare him to Adolf hitler-- ya know the man who cause a mass genocide of people, because he was butt hurt and then went out like a coward? But this time we have something even worse than Nazi Germany; Nukes, a president who has lost more money than forests have lost wood, who has lost his shit over women saying no, women and p.o.c. in positions of power, and trans people wanting to fight for our country. We have to fight not only hatred, but pure unadulterated Ignorance. As i wait for the next election-- hoping we make it that far-- I know already what my vote will be. This will be the turning point for our country and it will be my first time voting. Before YOU vote the next time, go oit and talk to the minority, the poor, the others in society. Those who are opressed and killed for how they look, who they love, what they believe are the most importnat voices to listen too. And if you happen to be one of those voice do not let the hate silence you-- bamd together, make change, scream it from the tops of mountains and for gods sake protect eachother. Let your voice be heard.