#just dump on a whole nations history like that

[maybe-its-just-cringetown-love]

Tone deaf, 'a state of death and destruction' bruh we know the administration is the one making these decisions, but now you want to villainise a whole state. You are not helping the situation

A reminder. It's a state of death and destruction.

[kriegertops]

This is a very long one:

I was going down a tumblr rabbit hole and came across and old Binoe page that had A LOT of Krashlyn content from 2019-late 2022. And I came away with a few observations:

1) Ali and Ash were deeply in love. The pics, videos, events, comments to each other, just their sheer history together is overwhelming, and they looked happy, affectionate and just in sync thruout. This idea that Ash was in an unhappy marriage is ridiculous. Bc nothing she ever posted indicated anything close to that.

2) The early Sloane months were adorable, and their captured family moments were so cute and loving. They absolutely doted on that child. She was the center of their world, and they documented so much of her cuteness, and it reminded me of how fun Ash was during this time, and I *briefly* remembered why I liked her back then.

3) I hadn’t realized that makeup artist Alex had been with them for so long- I thought she was new once they got to NY. But no- she was there on their wedding day and before. Also, forgot how close both A’s were to all the Gotham girls when they first got to the team, and how tight Midge was with the whole family.

4) I was reminded of how much soccer connected them, and how it dominated their lives.

I eventually had to stop scrolling bc I got sad seeing how they used to be.

So what in the heck happened?

1) I think Ash was not at all prepared for retirement. She didn’t really line anything up that would be sustainable employment, and not having that identity as an athlete was overwhelming. I’m guessing she had some mild/severe bouts of depression, and despite having an adorable family, she realized it wasn’t fulfilling her. That probably led her to be mean and resentful of Ali, which progressed into outright anger, and bc she’s at her core a narcissist, she blamed Ali for her own sorry situation.

2) there’s been so much talk of, how did Ali not know things were so bad? Well, after all those YEARS together, Ali probably assumed they would work it out. Even after ash moved out, she might have still had visions of repairing her family. Trust me, no mom willing concedes 50% of their time with their kids without a hard core fight. I think Ali was willing to do the work- she just couldn’t give it everything bc she was trying to f’ing retire.

3) those women had a TIGHT group of friends. For years, very formative years. Megan loved Ash. They were effusive abt their friendship. Reliving all their posts back and forth again signified how telling it is that almost NONE of their friend group publicly supported ash. National teammates, club teammates, outside soccer friends (makeup Alex), preschool families- they all gave her the heisman. They didn’t engage in SM, didn’t post pics, really just dumped her like a bad habit. Divorces happen in friend groups- it can be kinda awkward, but they’re grown adults who can make their own choices. And they all very clearly chose a side. And you wouldn’t do that as a friend unless what you saw was behavior so egregious and abhorrent that you couldn’t in good faith support it. And that’s exactly what happened. Ash recently posted something abt friends who chose her over optics, clearly indicating anger at those old friends. Her and Pinoe were at the same event this week, yet no public pics or any indication they interacted. I’m assuming they did, but in the past we’d see evidence of it. She goes on and on abt her new friend group, but it has to hurt a lot that she lost her old tribe. And people that know both her and Sophia- like a Glennon or Foudy, have given the couple no play at all.

4) While I have absolutely ZERO empathy for Ash, I do think she’s gotten herself into a situation that has lots of complications and might not end the way she expects. How do two self involved love bombers stay together once the newness wears off and they are in the mundane realities of everyday life? Ash has 17+ years left of raising kids. And once the kids are doing events and activities, she won’t be able to bail for a week at a time. And eventually she’s going to need to find work. Courts don’t like parents who don’t pull their weight. I think they got caught up in their infatuation, are bonded over their us vs them mentality right now, and once their feelings come back down to earth, it will be a different reality for them. I don’t really care- I don’t wish them any luck. I just think they have an uphill battle.

And my last musing after all this was about how much deep respect and awe I have for Ali. She was served a complete shit burger in the middle of her retirement season. When she should have been riding high, enjoying her last professional soccer games as a player, she was thrown into the worst chaos a person can be in. I will detest Ashlyn forever for putting her in this situation, and not having the maturity to wait it out with Sophia, and let her former wife have her moment. I think back to that Pinoe game where she and Sophia paraded around and my blood completely boils for Ali. I don’t know what happened between them, but the intentional cruelty and vindictiveness Ash showed is so disgusting, it defies logic. I am so thrilled that Ali has moved on, is thriving and has shed this dead weight from her being. I can’t imagine what she’s gone thru, but to see her unbothered and smiling now is just wonderful. I wish nothing but happy things for her!

Okay, I think that’s it! Thanks for reading my dissertation 🤣

Thank you for this anon!!! I appreciate the time you took to write this cause damn this is long😂🔥 I agree though with your thoughts on the situation and honestly the more we find out the more obvious it becomes that Ashlyn is nothing but a narcissistic cheater and Ali’s a warrior and queen who deserves happiness!

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

This originally was for PoR and Radiant Dawn. That Aquatic Laguz anon had my mind running a mile a minute for a solid few days. So one of the Dragon Laguz, specifically the Blue Tribe's leader, didn't appreciate Ashunera flooding the world she created. He dumped into the rising sea in a desperate attempt to save the Laguz and Beorc drowning. I came up with a description, that huh, might be counted as body horror?

"As the great dragon flew through the waters, he embraced each life that still drew breath. Wrapping his body around the survivors, he paid not to the screaming currents that cut his scales. He stood fast as falling debris shredded his wings, instead grateful the fragile mortals were kept safe under his shadow. Roiling waves turned crimson as the Goddess's Wrath fractured the world, drowning great nations and bearing down on the waters."

He lost his wings, and most of his scales, essentially turning into an eastern style dragon. The blood loss caused him to hibernate for a century, and ended up giving anything that was exposed to it the ability to survive in the ocean. When he woke up, he found a budded civilization and quickly realized he accidentally created a few new races. The Laguz had turned into more sea faring races: Whales, sharks, squids, basically all the larger aquatic species. They mostly lived in the deeper parts of the ocean, while the Beorc gained webbed hands and feet, gills, and some scales on their back. They lived in the shallower waters, where they could tell night from day. Neither really knew the other existed because of this. And were somewhat struggling because of their limited habitat.

So what does this extremely sympathetic and protective dragon do? Raise them of course! He establishes himself as ruler, and starts trying to integrate the two races. That proves difficult... Tensions are high, trade deals are taking forever, and he really wishes Ashunera was here to help. Very conveniently, the "Branded" starts being born around this time. Blue Dragon Dad realizes they can safely exist in both the dark trenches and the lighter corals. If his faith was wavering, it sure isn't now. Dragon Dad thinks this is Ashunera's apology, basically "Sorry I flooded the world, here's someone who can thrive in it." The Branded of the sea aren't called Branded, they're called something else, but I haven't come up with a name yet. Help.

So while the Beorc and Laguz of the surface are tearing each other apart, the ones in the sea are just chilling. Now, the whole "Laguz losing their powers" does cause some issues and tensions. Leading to some abandoning their kids despite Dragon Dad saying to welcome them. Thankfully, Whales are very intelligent and empathetic beings who will gladly adopt the tiny baby left in the open sea. The Hierarchy of the sea looks like this: Dragons, Whales, Beorc, Sharks, "Branded", and then everything else.

Dragon Dad moved his power to a pearl(aka Dragon Stone), so he can mingle with his followers kids better, and hand that power to his descendants if necessary. He can control the currents, which are important in connecting the various kingdoms. Grow coral reefs, restore old ruins, control most types of magic, and teach everyone about the (outdated) history of the world.

Whales are similar to Herons, only because they have power similar to Galdr. Whale Songs control the waves, restore coral, ward off harm, can communicate across nations, and can function similarly to Galdr, just deeper. Because of their duties, using their songs to help balance the ocean, escorting people between the lighter and darker waters, taking care of orphaned kids, regardless of race, and healing any damage that still lingers from Ashunera, they rank second. Despite the fact they strictly adhere to pacifist ways.(Unless you threaten their kids.)

"Branded" are basically mermaids. Their tails are completely random, regardless of which Laguz variant they descend from. Oh, and they can go on land if you combine Whale Songs with Dragon Dad's magic. But that doesn't happen very often. They connect the upper and lower parts of the seas, delivering different resources when needed, carrying messages, and just making sure everything runs smoothly. They're decently strong, but are relatively rare, and often need guidance on how to use any abilities inherited by their parents.

Aquatic Laguz anon, have fun with this.

These guys are also in the seas of our world because the DM really liked the idea. So thank you!

- 🔮

👀

[meowmeowmeowmeow4x]

Sleeping With the Fishies Chapter 1

This fic is brought to you by my extremely narrow skillset of only kinda being good at writing xDDDD Which is to say if I had the art or programming know-how to illustrate Tim's social media posts, I would have loved to U_U oh well

I posted this fic to ao3 back in may, but i've decided to start porting my fics to tumblr too, for anyone who wants to read my most fucked up fanfic :D

If you want to leave a comment or read the ao3 version, here it is :D

Instagram post: May 9th, 2024.

The image is of the Gotham skyline. Several tall buildings take over the background, lights on against the night sky. The caption reads ‘There’s something neat about taking a picture at just the right angle.’

Instagram post: May 14th 2024

The image is of a naked man with a tail for legs, and red scales over his entire body, and fins at the end of his tail, on his hips, back, arms and ears. The man is lying flat on his stomach on a rock, arms tense as if he is about to pounce. The shadow of a boat is cast over him.

The caption reads: omg I just caught this AMAZING pic of the Red Hood about to take on a smuggling organization. I’m so lucky?!?!

Instagram post: May 15th 2024

The image is of a disassembled camera, leaking water on a wooden table. The caption reads: the smugglers didn’t survive, and neither did my camera qwq its ok I can use my allowance to get another one

Instagram post: May 17th 2024

The image is of another naked man in the water. His skin is completely pitch black except for blue rings scattered across his body. It is day time, and the water is clear enough to see his bottom half, which is made up of eight thick tentacles. He is pulling himself onto the pier, offering sweets to a group of disheveled children. The oldest of them wears a tired, but kind smile.

The caption reads: Even tho the bats r a crime family and they’re terrorist and yada yada, i think its important to remember they can also be very kind too

Instagram post: May 20th 2024

A brand new camera sits on a wooden table. The caption reads: im so glad I was able to get a new camera yayyy! I’m gonna go hunting for some more pics! Watch this space <3

FROM CNN: BAT FAMILY DECLARES NORTH ATLANTIC OFFLIMITS, UNLESS TARRIF PAID BY GOVERNMENTS WISHING TO CROSS.

For the past few months, the mysterious Bat Family, a family of sirens named after their brutal patriarch, has been waging a war of expansion against Atlantis, ruled by Arthur Curry, king of Atlantis and member of the Justice League. This comes as the Bat Family consolidates its power over the Ring of Fire in the Pacific. With this new water, the nation of New Gotham is now the single largest nation in terms of territory in the history of the world.

Shipping vessels escorted by NATO Naval powers are now being attacked without mercy. Although there is no death toll, the damage to these ships is beginning to count to the billions, with no sign of stopping. The Bat Family have delivered their ultimatum to 100 different countries, including China, Russia, the USA and most of Europe. They remand the cessation of trash dumping into the ocean, as well as the immediate reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5% within this year, and further reductions in further years. If these demands are not met, then the Bat Family promise to sink every ship that crosses the North Atlantic or the Pacific originating from the offending countries.

Instagram post: May 21st 2024

The photo shows a burning, sinking ship at night. Empty cages float in the water, as well as other debris. The caption reads: was too slow to catch them in action, but man. Sometimes I wonder why people do stupid things like traffic other human beings and hold them agains ttheir will. That’s so evil TwT

Instagram post: May 22nd 2024

An aerial shot of the octopus man, known as Nightwing, sitting on a rock. In his lap sits a young boy, about 12-13 years old, with a fishtail and scales across his whole body. Robin’s scales are green and gold around his fins. His expression appears annoyed. His left arm is bleeding. Nightwing is in the middle of wrapping a bandage around the boy.

The caption reads: Nightwing’s teamwork is always incredible,,, i wish I had a big bro like nightwing. I wish my family was like the Bat family (not in the murdery way!! Just the way they treat each other and look at each ohter, you know?)

Instagram post: May 24th 2024

A collage of different pictures in the rain. The caption reads: parents said theyll be away for another couple months. took some rainy pics because its raining in my heart

Gotham Gazette: SIREN CRIME LORDS SPOILER AND BLACKTIP LEAVES BLOODY WRECK AT GOTHAM HARBOUR. 15 DEAD, 8 INJURED, 50 CHILDREN RESCUED.

Instagram post: May 25th 2024

The photo shows two female sirens, a fit purple woman with blond hair and many pointy spines and a shark woman, chatting while bodies float around them. The purple scaled-woman, Spoiler, holds the severed arm of a human in her hands. Her teeth are bloody.

The caption reads: I found Spoiler and Blacktip with my drone today! I never know if they’re big sisters to the Bat Family or just associates. What do you guys think?

Gotham Gazette: WAYNE FOUNDATION HOSTS CHARITY BALL RAISING AWARENESS FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MODERN SLAVERY

Instagram post: May 28th, 2024

The video opens with a young, skinny child in the foreground. “So, uhm, hello. My name’s T-tim. Tim Drake, and I’m the one who’s been taking all these pictures. Er, I hope you’ve all enjoyed them! So, uhm, the Bats, right! You know I take lots of pictures of them, and they’re known for dealing with human traffickers. So I just wanted to go over some tips I’ve found for recognizing human trafficking victims.”

The video continues…

Google search history:

How to fight sirens

How to fight the mafia

How to fight billionaires

how to defend house from invaders

How to build a bomb

How to make home alone traps

How to make acid

Is acid fatal?

how to run away and not get caught

how to fight super smell

how to escape from being kidnapped

Mom

Mom? I’m in a lot of trouble. Can you pick up the phone? I really need your help.

I know you and Dad are super busy, but this is really important. I promise I’ll make it up to you.

Mom somebody’s coming after me. I can’t say who, but they’re coming for me now.

Mom

please

i dont have much time

(unread)

Ring… Ring… Ring…

“Mom! I’m so glad you picked up, I-”

Ambient chatter filters through the connection. “Timothy, your father and I have already told you. We’re at an extremely, extremely important conference and we present do not have the time to hold your hand across a continent.”

“But mom-,”

“Don’t talk back to me young man! I don’t want to hear another word from you until this conference is finished. If you need any help, just ring the housekeeper, and call 911 for emergencies, got it?”

Google search history

          What happens if 911 ignores you?

          What to do when 911 doesn’t help you

          How to identify non-corrupt cops

          How to make cops listen to you

          Justice league help line

Ring… Ring… Ring…

“Hello, Green Lantern here. What’s your emergency?”

“Hello? M-my n-neighbours are in my yard and-,”

“Are you in immediate danger?”

“N-no, I d-don’t think at the moment, but-,”

“Sorry kid, but I think you’re better off calling your parents first, then the police, ok? This line is for emergencies only.”

“Wait! I,-“ The call gets cut off as another call is accepted.

Instagram post May 30th 2024

The video shows a young boy over a large white board with a presentation projected on to it. He begins, “Strategies for detecting signs of abuse or distress in child victims.”

Instagram post May 30th 2024

The picture shows a list of common Morse Code phrases.

The caption reads: And most important of all is knowing the Morse Code for SOS! If you’re ever in trouble SPAM IT. AND IF ANYONE IS TAPPING OR BLINKING IN A WEIRD WAY, THEY MIGHT BE CALLING FOR HELP

Gotham Gazette: DRAKE INDUSTRIES HEIR TIMOTHY DRAKE SPOTTED AT MARTHA WAYNE FOUNDATION SKATE PARK. GOES VIRAL WITH DAREDEVIL MOVES.

“I go here every Wednesday and Saturday, and Sunday if I’m free. If I’m not here on Wednesday after school then somebody call the police, hahah. If anyone wants to show me some new moves or learn from mine, I’ll be happy to talk! I’m here every Wednesday and Saturday!”

Google Search History:

          Self defense laws

          Self defense new jersey

          How not to get sued when using self defense

          How to make your parents seem like good people

          How to hide your parents parenting mistakes

          How to not get adopted

          How to look unappealing to kidnappers

Dad

Dad I’m in serious trouble. Please come home

i need u

i love u dad

im in danger

please, im begging

please

(unread)

You have (1) voicemail. Beeeeep.

Hyper ventilating. Childlike sobs. “Mom. Dad. Please. They’re closing in on me. I don’t know how long I can h-hold them off. Please I need you. I promise I’ll never, ever ask for anything every again.

From: timdrake@drake.industries

To: arthurcurry@watermail.ats

Dear Your Majesty the King of Atlantis, Arthur Curry

You might not know me, but my name is Tim Drake, and I’m 10 years old and I live in Gotham. Recently I’ve discovered one of the Bat Family’s greatest secrets, but they also know that I know and now they want to get me. I have exhausted every other avenue of escape or rescue. You are my only hope. If I could, I would tell you the secret now, but currently my blackmailing the Bat Family with its exposure is the only thing keeping me alive.

Please. Nobody else is helping me. They’ll destroy me and everything I love. I have no other options.

Attached are some photos and proof that they’re stalking me.

Yours sincerely, Tim Drake

From: arthurcurry@watermail.ats

To: timdrake@drake.industries

Dear Timothy,

You are very brave for reaching out. I am deeply sorry that you have been failed by so many of your institutions, including the Justice League. Please be assured I am sending my best men to rescue you as we speak. However, they will be forced to swim through siren territory. Please hold out for as long as you can. Help is on the way.

Yours sincerely, Arthur Curry, King of Atlantis

Instagram post: June 2nd 2024

The video shows a disheveled, dirty boy. His eyes are red and raw. His cheeks look sunken, as if he hasn’t eaten in a while. “Hello! My name is Tim Drake, and my parents are great! They gave me this huge mansion to live in, and they spend all this money buying nice things for me like this $10,000 camera and drone set, and they pay for the best private education in Gotham. Like, isn’t that so amazing of them? And I definitely do not want to get adopted by ANY other family. Nope. My parents are perfect and if you see me adopted by anyone else, THEN CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY.”

Gotham Gazette: TRAGEDY STRIKES AS DRAKE INDUSTRIES HEIR TIMOTHY DRAKE TURNS UP DEAD. POLICE RULE PARENTAL NEGLECT

It’s a dark day in Gotham’s history as social media darling Tim Drake, who has taken the city by storm with his charming photography and public PSAs, has been found dead. Late last night, Dick Grayson-Wayne, son of eccentric billionaire Bruce Wayne, dove into Gotham Harbour, claiming to have seen Tim Drake falling in. 40 minutes later, at 11.39pm, search parties discovered a gruesome sight. Tim Drake’s iconic red hoodie and ripped jeans were found in the water, shredded to pieces and covered in blood. Further search parties found pieces of bone, and strips of flesh later identified as intestines, lungs and teeth. Analysts have already confirmed a match to the young boy.

Security feeds show Tim Drake wandering around Gotham Harbour, a place he is known to frequent based on his many social media posts of siren photography. At about 10.57pm, the feeds show him slipping on an oily patch. Tim Drake falls into the water, before struggling for several minutes, eventually going under and not coming up. Minutes later, Dick Grayson-Wayne sprints and dives off the edge, only to emerge empty-handed. It is presumed Tim Drake’s body was claimed by sirens soon after.

Thousands are in morning for the young child, so full of potential, and beloved by so many. Bruce Wayne, long-time neighbor to the Drakes, had this to say.

[Embedded video shows Bruce Wayne, eyes red and choking back further tears. He blows his nose loudly. “W-well, i-i-it’s just so awful! Timothy was- was- was, he was such a bright young lad. And now his l-life is just-, he was right there! And tell you what, I know I have a reputation.”

He gestures to his gaggle of children, lined up stoically behind him. Bruce Wayne continues, “But I deeply care for the suffering of children. Honestly, I thought like everyone else that the Drakes took their kid abroad on their trips. Then I saw Timothy all alone and I asked him if his parents were home, and he got all evasive on me. Then I saw more signs, but I didn’t wanna overstep, you know? S-so I just kept trying to call his parents. And kept trying. And I just couldn’t reach them. I know I should’ve checked in on him, but no child wants a massive strange man showing up at their house when they’re a-alone, you know? But n-n-now I wish I did b-because-,”

The man breaks down into tears. A stately-looking butler escorts him and his children inside. “My deepest apologies, but Master Bruce has a soft heart, and will be unavailable for further questions.”

Police Commissioner Gordon has already opened an enquiry into Tim Drake’s parents. Why was Tim Drake alone in Gotham Harbour, a hub for organized crime and siren attacks? Where were they the night their son died? Where are they now?

Will Tim Drake, a child taken from us too soon, receive justice?

[doctorstrangereview]

0107.1: Avengers #117

Cover Date: November 1973 On-Sale Date: August 14, 1973

Doc is actually absent from this chapter of the Avengers/Defenders war but we're in the middle of the arc so I figured I'll go ahead and write it up anyway. (Doc does appear on the splash page and in a flashback panel, but isn't in the story proper.) The funky review number is to keep the number of Doc related reviews accurate.

We start off with Dormie fretting over the fact that the Avengers have become involved in his clever plan. Loki pleads ignorance as to the cause, but is sweating bullets inside.

Dormie can't directly do anything to tip the scales in the Defenders' favor or Doc might catch on. He hopes that because the Defenders are weird they may stand a chance against Earth's Mightiest Heroes. So far the Defenders are actually do well.

We turn to Bolivia where Valkyrie was heading after dumping Hawkeye in Mexico last issue. The Swordsman has just arrived and sees the a German castle has popped up in South America. Darn Nazis! While the Swordsman contemplates his life choices, Val makes her presence known.

Swordsman manages to land the plane safely and heads to the castle. He's greeted by one of the owners who explains the castle's history and the dude happens to be from the United States. The Swordsman hears a sound, runs upstairs and finds Val rooting through what looks like a treasure chest. Of course a battle ensues and the Swordsman's sword fighting ability is a match for Val. Val decides not to find out if she's mortal so she grabs some tapestries that look suspiciously like Doc's cloak of levitation. It's a cool little Easter egg.

During the battle, the castle owner dude locks a big door and Val has the bright idea that the eye fragment may be behind it. The battling duo get through the door and lo and behold, the little eye is lying in a treasure chest. Swordsman grabs it, but the owner dude isn't happy about it and shoots him. He wanted to make sure no one knows about all the treasure he's absconded with and stored here. Swordsman doesn't like this and stabs owner dude. Val takes the mini-eye and checks out the Swordsman to make sure the wound isn't fatal.

The place is raided by the local police who will take the wounded to get medical help while Val makes off with her prize. I believe it's Defenders 4, Avengers 0.

Now we travel to Japan where Captain America has just arrived and he immediately discovers that Namor has already recovered this part of the eye.

Namor and Cap bandy some words about who's stronger and then Namor invites Cap to through the first punch, to amusing results.

Namor traps Cap under a fallen sign and runs to the water to escape. Cap throws his shield spoiling Namor's dive.

The two are now fighting in the water like Krystal and Alexis in the lily pond. (Got to use that one twice!) They are laughed at by someone in the sky and as this is Japan, their national hero Sunfire makes his appearance.

Sunfire flies off with the eye. Subby flies after him. Cap grabs on to Subby and the two start punching each other mid-air. Cap reveals what he thinks is the Defenders plan to conquer the universe. Namor decides to set the record straight that they did not turn the Black Knight to stone and they only want the eye to fix him. Namor flies off again leaving Cap in the drink who's having some doubts about the whole affair. Namor and Sunfire are now engaged in battle.

Sunfire drops the eye which Cap manages to catch. Namor, in not the friendliest way, asks Cap for the eye. Cap realizes that he and his fellow Avengers might be engaged in these shenanigans under false pretense. He surrenders the eye to Namor. See what communicating does, kids?

Whew! Some progress at last. Namor and Cap, old war buddies or rivals depending on which way the wind was blowing on that day actually talked to each other and things may be moving along now.

We're Defenders 5, Avengers 0 but the score may be irrelevant if the teams manage to talk to each other. We'll see what happens next installment which isn't Doc-less.

[loominggaia]

Had any military leader in Gaia made bold, seemingly crazy ventures against their enemy that worked surprisingly well? Like for example Hannibal’s crossing of the alps, managing to drag a massive army and war elephants through massive icy mountains just to kick romes ass?

What a fun question!

Once when Zareen Empire and Mogdir Kingdom were at war, Zareen sent a giant bronze statue to Mogdir Capital as a peace offering. And when I say "giant", I really mean colossal! It would be the tallest, most impressive structure in Mogdir Kingdom.

Mogdir accepted it, but little did they know, this was a trick. Once it was brought to the capital city, the statue emitted a huge plume of toxic smog that covered the Arcadian Forest for weeks, enraging the local nymphs and prompting them to attack Mogdiri settlements.

In Mogdir's moment of weakness, Zareen was able to move in and do some real damage. The smog itself caused a lot of damage to soil, crops, and people for years to come. The mountain range separating the two kingdoms blocked the smog from drifting back into Zareenite territory, so they were largely shielded from the consequences.

But don't worry, Mogdir Kingdom got revenge centuries later when they agreed to release a thousand Zareenite prisoners of war. Zareen took the prisoners back into their homeland...only to find out that they had all been infected with lycanthropy. This began a wave of plague and chaos that took decades for Zareen to get under control.

There was also the time Etios Nation got so mad at Matuzu, they started a campaign to dump all the nation's sewage into the river that flows into Matuzu's Central Lake. This was incredibly expensive and inconvenient for Etios, and quite frankly...insane. But the nation's people were totally on board to #shitonmatuzu, and it didn't take long before Central Lake became a biohazard and Matuzu was forced to work out some kind of deal with Etios, granting them a big chunk of land that they still own to this day. Since then, local nymphs have prevented Etios from pulling this maneuver again, citing ecological damage. But for that brief moment in history, the Etiosi could tell Matuzu to "eat shit" and mean it!

Last but not least: the Seelie Court once had a territory dispute with the Unseelie Court (what else is new?) They were fighting over an island that sat right on the border. This island was abundant with resources, so it was valuable to them both. Queen Titania of the Seelie suggested that they break the island in half and divide the resources evenly, but Overlord Morgause was like, "FUCK U HO, EITHER I GET IT OR NO ONE DOES!" and just blew up the whole island. As in, fully wiped it off the map. Morgause didn't get any of its resources...but the important thing is, neither did Titania. B) Also thousands of innocent islanders died, but we don't talk about that...

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[emblemxeno]

I distinctly remember that guy saying he hangs around blogs like yours and teavee’s (even when directly asked to stop because he was harassing people) because he “even agrees with your takes about Fates!”

I mean, it’s no secret that he’ll say anything to cover himself, and the fact that he’s now trying to pick at liking Fates now is a bold-faced lie. Classic overcompensating. Nobody cares about his desperation for the Scarlet Soulsucker to be right, nor his obsession with Engage being bad, so he’s just going for the next thing. And I’m not really sure who he’s kidding, because at most it just proves that he’s a bit of a bully to kick an already disrespected group of people, and considering he already has an extensive harassment history… we already knew that he’s a bit of a bully.

I know that doesn’t mean it’s not frustrating for you, though. I respect the patience you’ve held so far. He must be very unfulfilled in his regular life to try to get attention this way, and that makes me feel a little sorry for him — but not more sorry than I feel for you for having to deal with his insecurities when you didn’t ask or want to. I sincerely hope he finds a better outlet for his emotions someday. As for you, I hope that you continue to take him with a grain of salt. Your ability to consider multiple angles and different opinions when observing a story makes you a strong critical thinker. Any attempt from him to say otherwise is just him trying to deflect his own issues onto you.

People love to flip the script when it's beneficial, because they have no solid stance on anything beyond feeling personally attacked for daring to dislike what he links his online identity with. It's sad as you say, and thanks for the kind words on my patience.

But man. Maaaaaan. Even when I'm playing other games that aren't Fates, I still get a fucking "Fates liker, he must smell and think stupidly" stigma attached to me. All cuz 3H is treated as a sacred cow among certain sects of its fandom and daring to criticize the game's extensive faults for its sloppy execution in its video game narrative-which lots of FE fans and casual gaming fans agree with-means apparently my own interests must be scrutinized as compensation.

3H is utterly surface level and filled with fluff and bloat with its storytelling, and fails to significantly connect its worldbuilding with the gameplay, beyond a few hidden skills. That's a common opinion, people just don't realize because it usually taks the form of "why doesn't Faerghus have snow in its maps," "why are so many maps repeated" "why does Garreg Mach not change with seasons" "why don't each nation have different outfits or classes to differ them," "why isn't there more unique music for each faction," etc. 3H thrives off dumping information relentlessly on the player, hence why Tomas tells you explicitly to go to the fucking library to read more lore. That's what I make fun of, cuz it's the devs being proud of sending the player to stand around and read history books for 10 goddamn minutes. And things like supports, where most of the signifcant character growth take place, take 4x as much work as they did in past games to obtain for roughly the same quality reward.

That's just how I feel, and getting attacked and laughed at by weirdos on a whole other site for an opinion I share on my own fucking blog? That proves that person has no damn life beyond posting "gotchas" against people who can't respond cuz they don't know he's posting about them, and having his internet buddies stroke his ego afterwards. He's the Ben Shapiro of Fire Emblem/3H discourse.

[ask-ozai]

Iroh once claimed that before Zuko, his father, grandfather and great-grandfather all searched for the Avatar.

I know about Sozin's search, but could you please tell us more about your own and Azulon's searches?

They're state secrets and no one has ever known too many details about the expeditions, but that's Zuko's problem now. And since he just caused an hyperinflation, probably he is too busy to even notice if people start talking about it.

Firelord Azulon was the same age as Zuko when he left to find the Avatar, fourteen, but he was very different from Zuko. At fourteen, my father had already fought and won four Agni Kais, and he never knelt and begged for mercy like a coward. He was the pride and future of the Fire Nation, trained and educated from his earliest age to be the perfect Firelord.

His quest to capture the Avatar led him to the most logical place to start, the Northern Water Tribe, where he was greeted with fear and apprehension given Sozin's recent history with the airbenders. But my father had the gift of persuasion and charisma, much needed in his role as Firelord and world conqueror. They reached a non-aggression agreement with the Chief, which lasted until the last day of my father's life and is the reason why the war barely affected the Northern Water Tribe in a hundred years. My father knew that they couldn't conquer his natural enemies until they conquered the Earth Kingdom first, so he gave them a false sense of security. Better to keep them out of the war for the moment.

He met my mother on that trip, Ilah.

Now, unfortunately, I never knew exactly the circumstances of how they met, nor much about my mother at all. The mere reminder of her existence (and absence) was enough to ignite my father's ire for whole days. No one was allowed to talk about my mother when I was a child. Neither the court, nor the servants, and much less me. The little I know is from Iroh, but he didn't talk much about her either. She was a complete taboo.

But yes, my father fell in love with my mother on that trip and returned home quickly to tell his father that he had found the perfect bride for himself. Sozin refused, for some unknown reason (other than that he simply didn't like women very much, I guess), so my father had no choice but to challenge him to an Agni Kai to fulfill his will to marry. Iroh says that Sozin was dead for two minutes when my father threw him a lightning and won the Agni Kai. Sozin must have been proud. When the healers managed to restart his heart, of course.

I don't have much more to say, because my father's trips were rather brief and sporadic. He and my mother married two years later, when he was sixteen, and remained married for fifty years until my mother's death when I was born.

Once my father organized another search, with Lo and Li in charge this time, who went to look for the Avatar in Omashu, hearing that King Bumi had once been friends with him. It is said that Lo had an affair with him and there is even talk of a secret bastard that they had to hide, but nothing was ever confirmed.

My search for the Avatar was a different matter. I was sixteen years old, and the time had come to show my father my value. Evil tongues will tell you that it was just an excuse to get rid of me, but they were Iroh supporters so their opinion don't count.

I took a ship, a small crew, and Zhao and Michi (the only companions I had even a modicum of confidence in) and we went to search for the Avatar. We traveled throughout the Earth Kingdom for two very long years. We had some adventures, naturally, but nothing worth mentioning until we infiltrated Ba Sing Se pretending to be circus performers. I can't give many details about what happened there, because Michi, Zhao and I swore an oath of silence. And as useless as Zuko is, he can still put Michi in a dungeon. Especially now that her daughter dumped him. And that wouldn't be convenient for anyone.

Let's just say the previous Earth King died under suspicious circumstances.

[yukinojou]

1989: thought dump

I've heard about 1989 the musical, but it's playing in theatres far from Warsaw and I've been frankly busy this past year with funerals and health crises. Now I've finally seen a live proshot (whee, guess who recorded it too) and this is nowhere near a review, these are absolutely random thoughts:

first impression: this is so very Hamilton

second impression: damn, this is in dialogue with Hamilton at the same time it's in dialogue with Mickiewicz, five gallons of national mythos and three layers of recent history and hello LMM you could have done so much more with women

(third part of this thought was seeing Aleksander Kwaśniewski's entrance and losing my shit laughing because of COURSE he nicks his entrance from a shiny American musical because that's exactly his style)

more musical should have spooky a capella folk songs

This is stuff from my childhood and just before; I was watching with my mother and she says all the period details were spot on, especially the song about how everyone has the same stuff in their home because it's all there is in the shops.

(my family had some different stuff, but I had the advantage of three grandparents allowed to travel including one actually allowed to go west and the fourth one was a doctor who got art from her patients)

so so much dialogue with our recent history too and the Women's Strike and the sheer tangible anger of women who won't be putting up with this shit anymore

I'm sure I'm missing like half the hiphop references but this is so much a crew musical, no clear leads but each person getting their due, and the lyrics are fantastic and rich and I need to watch three more times and someone needs to put them up on whatever the Polish equivalent of Genius is just so I can read all the annotations

honestly the hiphop thing works because it's Polish hiphop with its poetry and wild swings and melancholy and anger, and because the events of 1980 to 1989 created the deprivation and shock that gave birth to Polish hiphop

it especially works in the Nobel prize scene where it's so very meta on the way men put words in women's mouths

the actors are just *chef's kiss* and the proshot really picked up on all the emoting, the Teatr TV crew really know their stuff

gods, the whole thing with the black market meat that thaws and leaves bloodstains on the hands of the woman who is dying and the shirt of the man left behind, and I remember that from childhood, the way black market butchered meat would just bleed everywhere

In conclusion, I suspect I feel the way Black theatre kids felt watching Hamilton for the first time, and I need this one on DVD.

[whichwoods]

So I was thinking and my brain came up with something. In LSTS are there edits and fan fiction of members of the royal family? Like do Luke and Aemond have separate fan bases and then when they get married the fan bases have their fair share of union and war (we can never escape toxic fans)?

anon i am kissing you on the forehead for this ask. 💕 i did some research for this and on ao3 there's like just over 600 rpf fics for the british royal family so on the fanfic route i'll say...kind of? like they're out there but that's not a big cause for concern, most are about older members of the family or are just crossovers with like spy series or works of fiction where meetings would make sense

as for EDITS and all other things social media i have a whole slew of thoughts on this. it's an entire thesis paper's worth but i'll try to condense some below 🥲

getting this out of the way, i don't think lsts aemond OR luke are very active on social media. (perhaps i'm projecting)

i actually think aemond has zero non-private accounts, though people will sometimes see him comment on his family's posts and others here and there. it's usually just a couple nice words or emojis on one of helaena's posts of her kids or something like a video going around of a little kid claiming their first dragon (this is actually good for public opinion of him lol)

luke i could see him having a few public-facing accounts, though he mostly uses his private ones that only, like, the green and black siblings and maybe three of his friends have access to. on his public accounts he does the occasional cute family/friend photo dump (these are rare and people are always greedy for them), posts for family philanthropy stuff, videos of arrax, and he'll come out of left field sometimes with a video or long-ass caption explaining a very niche scientific concept in draconology or a high valyrian history lesson (cue the "wait i forgot he's smart" comments - from his family, not the people of westeros)

that being said the royal family of westeros - all noble houses at that - have several official accounts where they're all regularly posted and some office worker is writing up captions about the official going-ons in their lives, so they're still SEEN

they're also both dragged for interviews at least a few times a year by various outlets (a lot of material for edits and other fan content are scraped from these). luke i can picture being made to do something like one of vogue's "get ready with me" videos (which are usually a hit; despite how much he hates doing them luke is very charming and has a talent for picking stories to tell about the family that won't cause outcry but are also more human and engaging than most that westeros gets to hear).

i also think it'd be funny if luke and aemond, or any of the kids, did something kind of like "drunk histories" (except NOT that bc being drunk on television is a big no-no for royals, more like abridged or uncensored histories?) where they're actually allowed to make jokes, and most of the nation finds out aemond actually has a personality and can laugh from watching him discuss aegon the conqueror with luke 🥲 (maybe this also gets them a small pool of "truthers")

lucky for them their social media history sort of works in their favor when it's time for a shot-gun wedding. a lot of people assume they've been dating for years and just kept it quiet 😭

that being said, aemond is one of the most handsome, eligible bachelors in westeros and teenagers will be teenagers, so there is some mourning that takes place when the wedding is announced. luke is also considered gorgeous and some alpha-incels who're fixated on him probably have a couple things to say, too. for normal people, though, it's a lot of joke-y posts like "that should be ME!!!" while still ultimately wishing them well

(also there's like five of the aforementioned lucemond truthers frothing at the mouth posting "I TOLD YOU!!!1111!!!!11!!!")

i'm sorry this is messy truthfully i could talk so much more about this!! 😭 i'll end on the note that this definitely changes when they start their family :)

[likorys-shimenawa]

[This ain't discord, format your text properly.]

Are you done trying to trauma-dump on people to emotionaly manipulate them into siding with you?

Cause I can go on about how perfectly Israel is mirroring Nazi Germany and then I will tell you what will happen in real life when Israel looses (spoiler: 'Polish concentration camps' actually existed, though only after the war - you get 1 guess about who was put in them). Because Israel will loose, not matter how confident they are now, just like Nazis lost no matter how pretty their propaganda looked.

You know, the reality and not philosophical hemming and hawwing on tumblr dot com where you can make up whatever imaginary solutions you want and just tell people they should figure them out themselves?

Cause for someone telling me to 'answer' you sure don't seem to offer any actual solutions beside empty platitudes of 'let's all just get along uWu'.

So first let's set the context, which is that we should discuss actual people who fled to Israel and those born there- so not, let's say, American who went there to colonize themselves a vacation home - what was it, 200k of them now? I'm gonna go off on a limb and say they should fuck off right back to where they came from, because if you can afford to cross half the world you ain't [I'm generalizing, bcause I'm told to adress 8 million people and I ain't writing a master's thesis on why occupier does not have the same rights as victims of their occupation.]

I'm gonna quote something that's pretty much nor PC from my mom.

Never in my life did I hear about 'Jewish country' until WWI where UK and US threw Jewish people into middle east like you would kick out your child when they start questioning your confederate flad on the mantle.

It's gonna sound very shitty, but there is a reason new countries kinda stopped happening. Cause they involve war, coloniztion, mass-murder and opression.

You know my country, Poland? The one that was cut apart during WWI and WWII while the world watched

Go far back enough in history and we should own Ukraine. Whole ass country should be our land. Try to suggest it to UN and you would be called insane, yet here is Israel, advertising just how they're gonna colonize other countries and nobody gives a flying fuck because 'oooh oil so shiny gotta steal it all'.

[We owned Russian capital for hot second too, I would pay to see you try and tell Putin he should give it to us.]

In other words my solution is to STOP TRYING TO CREATE A NEW COUNTRY TROUGH VIOLENCE.

Especially if all your 'right' comes from the same book that says child-murder is correct consequene of calling some dude bald.

In perfect world, after WWII Jews would've came and simply moved into the land and LIVED WITH PEOPLE ALREADY THERE. You know, how actual people escaping war do? Assimilation, etc?

That's not what they were send there to do though. US and UK very intentionally send them to overtake their EXISTING COLONY so they can wash their hands of any slaughter that will happen there.

While also funding them so the shiny new military comples is on their beck and call and middle east is too busy with Israel to look at weakened Europe and have any weaird~ ideas~.

That's the reality. That Jewish people traumatized by WWII got the boot and were send to take over a british colony.

Add in some good old Nazism nationalism sorry, zionism and right now we have an extremist religious state which is carrying out a religious holy war genocide.

So now that we know reality of the situation, I can answer:

Israel should suffer massive sanctions and be demilitirized so they can no longer carry out a genocide.

People in power responsible for orders to bomb schools and hospitals, to leave infants to slow, agonizing deaths, who ordered tanks to fire at homes full of people, who ordered to target journalist, who spread propaganda, who threw children into ovens and who robbed graves and stole organs from corpses, who 'arrested' children for throwing stones and held them without trials for a decade - all should be put to Norynberg Trials 2 Why the fuck is there a second one. I also mean Paletinian people who killed innocents, even if they did do during resistance to occupation.

What little of Palestinian people survived should be given back their homes, their land and be paid restitutions for the genocide they are suffering. Not in last 100 days, but last 75 years. I also mean all Palestinians - Jewish, Muslim, Christian (or did Israel kill all of them by now?), atheist, every single one.

Memorials should be created to comemorate crimes of Israel the same way Auschwitz was turned into a museum.

THEN peopole already living in Israel can find places to live in the massive amount of land that no longer belongs to anyone because they died in the genocide. If they live in places that have rightful owner they can be funded a new home - take US blood money and I think you can build a few thousand houses for that.

ENTIRE region should become ONE country to minimalize conflicts and recieve support and oversight from competent organizations to help it gouvern itself. I have no clue what that country should be - what I do know is that trying to force a Nazi-land to exist next to Nazis-victims-land is gonna end horribly.

Institutions will be put in place to keep oversight and prevent discrimination and revenge.

Antisemitsm that's been festering alive and well since WWII should be adressed worldwide so Jews don't feel the need to have a massive military bunker to flee to.

Incompetent and horrified and emotionally drained and still lightyears away from the suffering actual victims of genocide are going trough and and haunted by history I see repear before my eyes, this is my answer.

Because I'm a civilian who has no clue about running a country. So this is my amatour basic as all fuck answer, since you're begging for it.

I also openly admit this is a shitty answer that asks a ton of people to show immense amount of good will and requires more justice to be served than will ever realistically happen. It gives some people way more than they deserve and some way less they are owed.

It's because it's a nightmre of a situation and there is no 'good' solution left on the table once a genocide starts. So all I have is this shitty answer that's probably also a pipe-dream, because there is no way to find a solution to 25 thousand people dead.

Now that you got me to write this all out, I'm gonna adress the actual thing you said:

I'm not gonna adress the way you imply there is no Palestinian Jews or the way you're claiming that every single Jew alive somehow has claim to random spot on Earth, no matter whe they spend their life. I'm not nearly knowledgable enough to make , though I will say solid fuck you for the former.

I am gonna say, again, that you don't get to pick and choose what point in history you want to go back to (and especially not 2k years). You don't get to wave a historic myth and say 'this means I can take your home'.

People actively living in occupied land will always have more claim to it that colonizer.

[If anyone sees something I should be corrected on, pls do it. I'm exhausted and there is only so much information you can take in when it's said between photos of mutilated children, robbed graves and bombed hospitals.]

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

[atombonniebaby]

The procrastinationary info dump you didn't ask for 🤣

I'm big into dark history, folklore and a good ghost story. So naturally one of my OCs occasionally rattles off a spooky story and loves to mess with Mac 😂

Try to weave my favorite topics in where I can and draw connections between Scotland (where my OCs are from) and the world of Fallout 4! (or just general Scotland/America parallels)

I used to do tours wearing my samulet (Supernatural fans will know 😉) and my Fallout 4 pocket watch 🤫

Plague was one of my favorite topics of choice to delve into (made someone faint once talking about that 🤭) I did my research. (I'm talking autistic hyperfocus level research 😂)

That is why I am 100% sure Duncan MacCready has a mutated strain of the Bubonic Plague (the blue flu and Dunc's disease are simply the bubonic and pneumonic/septicemic variants of the black death...)

The nightingales, brought in by Sim Settelments 2, has given me a whole story arc for MacBeth down the line ❤️

The other time I got too descriptive was talking about thumb-screws and Witchcraft trials... I had a bracelet that clacked and if I demonstrated the technique just right it added a good sound effect describing what happens when those things got tightened around yer digits (🤢)

I still find it hilarious that being a redhead was a signifier that someone might be a witch in Scotland and Ireland.

(being left handed, talking to yourself, having moles or birth marks are a few more...basically of you were different to the 'norm' you wanted to keep a low profile...superstition, rivalry and misunderstanding could often lead to someone being accused)

One thing I loved finding out, is the real Old State House has the Unicorn and Lion sitting on its exterior, proclamations being read from the balcony. It's a lot like the Mercat Cross I used to start my tours from. (Unicorn is Scotland's national animal FYI 🤫)

We've also got a statue of Abraham Lincoln in one of our graveyards to commemorate the Scots who fought in the American Civil War

And of course MacCready is very likely a Scottish name (Mac being 'son of')

[tenaciouspostfun]

the new group s Bernarda's Daughter

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"Bernarda's Daughters" at The Romulus Linney Theatre is based off of Lorca's "House of Bernarda". The stories premise is based on a family of girls living in a Flatbush apartment (somehow is owned by them). The five sisters are mourning the passing of their father (a big womanizer and deadbeat).

In the book it is more clearly stated about each of their lives; the personal loses of their youth, the dreams that each one had growing up. The book also brings out how the girls were expected to exceed their ancestors. From Haitian ancestry, the girls clearly should have had an easier chance at being more successful than the past generations. The father has left a property in Haiti, the Flatbush apartment and the seemed comfortable to grow as they saw fit.

In the play that I saw last night, however, it is completely different in its approach on many levels, all of which were both dreadful and confusing to the audience. For starters, the scenic design was the biggest head scratch-er of the evening. The entire set was meshed in like you would see at a child's gym-bore. And like the kids party centers the visuals were blurred for the audience members. It is unclear as to why Carlos J. Soto would set the stage the way he did, meshing in the actors and giving some of the audience fits trying to see what's going on during the performance (not that you were missing much).

In the writing of this modern rendition by Diane Exavier we get a mish mosh of some of the things that concern the girls... the gentrification of Flatbush, Brooklyn; the person that is mentally ill who was just shot by police; the father who sold the family assets to his "Jew lawyer"... but don't worry, one of the daughters is going to sleep with him, marry him for the property! The construction that goes on day after day- really bad for the girls because they never leave the air conditioned apartment because it's too dangerous to go out because of crime on the streets and in their minds, discrimination by the cops.

The direction here is as bad a the writing. Dominique Rider has the woman in a whirlwind of movements and actions; most of it is geared towards ghetto phrases and actions. Most of the time we cannot hear the actors saying their lines. A really big detriment here is the sudden outbursts in certain scenes that are not believable nor felt by the audience.

Nothing in this play is worth noting as possitive. The acting is fair at best, we never really feel anything for the woman, we're never moved by the performers. When the woman tee-off on the cops, "whitey" who is moving into the area (only the Jews are spared here in their rants against just about everyone, maybe because Elliott and Bernstein are Artistic and Executive directors) it is not from within but superficial. Confusing is how they go about a history lesson of how Jews were only allowed in finance because of antisemitism. I'm sure most people in poor areas know that tid bit! But then again, the whole play is confusing. What drives the girls? One is a revolutionary who has never been to a protest; one wants a family but is willing to dump the man she loves for a lawyer who can give back her apartment. Of all the sisters we walk away from the show knowing nothing about them

In today's equity, inclusion, many shows both on and off Broadway are being produced that shouldn't be," Bernarda's Daughters " is one of those plays!

Romulus Linney, The New Group, National Black Theatre, off Broadway, Tony Awards, www.swmnimbus.org, www.broadwayworld.com, Mann About Town, Hamilton, Sweeney Todd, Some Like it Hot, A Beautiful Noise, Life of Pi, Six, Lion King.

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[blackwoolncrown]

#ppl rly think revolutions happen when one qualifying awful event happens#which I suppose could be true to a certain extant there’s def historical precedent to support that but like…#if that were the case now it would’ve happened already#striking down roe v wade was a rly big one that effected a lot of ppl and still does#there were many many many riots#and like…almost nothing happened#America has a militarized police force and dumps all their money into finding new and impressive ways to kill large amounts of ppl#like sry babe but you’re actually gonna have to log off Twitter and organize your work place#attend one local DSA general meeting or IWW or CPUSA#whoever#h8 chronically online libs acting like they’re leftists for having a hot take or whatever#from a certain pov we could say the revolution is happening rn and it’s not going well#stop cop city protestors are putting up a pretty strong resistance and are getting steamrolled#at this point whenever I see someone talking like this I immediately assume they’re a middle class suburbanite#who will be mostly insulated from whatever the Supreme Court does

These tags are too good to hide but I also want to add that ppl couldn’t boycott Netflix either.

I have a couple acquaintances that have been doign that whole ‘when’s there gonna be a revolution?’ thing and at this point I quietly point out:

1. You’re asking. everyone asks. This is reason one why it’s not going to happen.

2. You think they’re just gonna spontaneously happen in response to some Perfect Trigger, where everyone knows to run into the streets and go flip cars in unison across the nation. That’s not gonna happen.

3. People tend to want permission to do it and are all waiting for a Perfect Moment to do some big act while they consistently let smaller moments (chic fil a, netflix) go by.

4. The nation and its people are not built for revolt. Y’all can’t even boycot optional products. It’s too early for my Proper Brain so I have to say it this way: the populace is largely totally complacent and trained and part of that is that they are actually completely content w the consumerist treats. The other part is that this is a full on fucking police state that has been at war with its own citizens for a while now. While many people may not think this, they instinctively feel it. You see POGM here starting huge resistances and we get picked off and while many of you sympathize, most just sit back. Because the larger understanding is that it will never work in the long run anyway.

5. Revolution doesn’t even work the way you think it does. Unless you happen to have lived through a revolution in one of the countries the US fucked with, you have no idea how it works aside from viewing it through a past tense digest in a history book. It’s remembered as “Trigger, Response, Result’ on a neat timeline but it doesn’t actually work that way. Even if there was a revolt things would get far messier before they got better. It would initiate a long bloody struggle. It’s rarely as easy as ‘go to the president’s house and kick them out. Win!’ and it definitely would be a bloodbath in the country where the cops have tanks and a bigger budget than entire countries.

Make other plans.

"supreme court and twitter rate limit means there will be a revolution" y'all cant even boycott chik fil a

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WICKED AWESOME HISTORY: The time Nicaragua Accidentally Invades Costa Rica Because of Google Maps. So what's the worst your GPS or Google Maps instructions has ever steered you wrong? Maybe you missed an exit, or wound up in the wrong side of town and got stabbed a bunch of times in East LA? Whatever it was, at least you didn't accidentally go to war with a neighboring country.

Because that happened in November of 2010, when a Nicaraguan Military commander, Eden Pastora, led his men across the border into Costa Rica. He claimed the whole thing was a mistake due to being led astray by Google Maps.

To be clear, it wasn't as though Pastora and his guys just stumbled across the border, set up some tents and then hurriedly cleared out in embarrassment once their error was discovered. They leveled a protected forest, dredged the San Juan river (the ownership of which is the sorest point of contention between the two nations), and dumped all the bullshit they scooped out of it into Costa Rican territory (that is, the portion of the land they decided to agree was Costa Rica's, since they were actually several miles inside the country's borders at this point).

It's not clear why he decided to consult an Internet atlas instead of official military charts (which clearly depict the borders that both countries recognize). It's also not clear why it took him so long to figure out where he was. At one point, they took down a Costa Rican flag and replaced it with a Nicaraguan one, presumably because the flag wasn't represented by Google Maps so they assumed it had been erected by mistake. That's like walking into someone's house, throwing out all of their family photos to put up pictures of you and your grandparents, and then trying to tell the police that Mapquest is to blame for giving you shitty directions back to your apartment.

In Pastora's defense, the Google Maps view of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica is off by about 3,000 meters (around a mile-and-a-half) in Nicaragua's favor. In Google's defense, their maps are meant to locate Burger Kings, not plan military patrol routes for rival South American nations.

CONCLUSION: strategery at its finest and when all else fails send lawyers, guns and money just like Ollie North did.

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Yasuzo Nojima, photography (1931)

“Faustus: ‘Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord?” Mephistopheles: ‘Enlarge his kingdom.'”

– Christopher Marlowe, Dr.Faustus

“In his book on poor cities of the South, Jeremy Seabrook chronicles the relentless calendar of disaster in Klong Toey, Bangkok’s port slum sandwiched between docks, chemical factories and expressways. In 1989 a chemical explosion poisoned hundreds of residents; two years later a chemical warehouse exploded and left 5,500 residents homeless – many of whom would later die from mysterious illnesses. Fire destroyed 63 homes in 1992, 460 homes in 1993 (also the year of another chemical explosion), and several hundred more in 1994. Thousands of other slums, including some in rich countries, have similar histories to Klong Toey. They suffer from the ‘garbage dump syndrome’: the concentration of toxic industrial activities like metal plating, dyeing, rendering, tanning, battery recycling, casting, vehicle repair, chemical manufacture, and so on, which middle classes would never tolerate in their own districts.

The world usually pays attention to such fatal admixtures of poverty and toxic industry only when they explode with mass casualties; 1984 was the annus horribilus. In February a gasoline pipeline exploded in Cubatao, Sao Paulo’s ‘Pollution Valley’, and burned more than 500 people to death in an adjacent favela. Eight months later a Pemex liquefied natural gas plant exploded like an atomic bomb in Mexico City’s San Juanico district, killing as many 2,000 poor residents (no accurate count of mortality was ever established).

Less than three weeks after the Mexico City holocaust, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, released its infamous cloud of deadly methyl isocynate; according to a 2004 study by Amnesty International, 7,000 to 10,000 people perished immediately and another 15,000 died in subsequent years from related illnesses and cancers.”  

– Mike Davis, 2005, Socialist Review

“Yes. As I often tell my students, the way in which you describe a problem, the language and aesthetics that you use to describe the politics of a particular problem, will absolutely effect the type of solution that resolves. { } Ontologically, they’re already guilty of being criminal whether or not they’ve actually engaged in any criminal behavior at all. I think the figure of innocence (our emphasis on and circulation of it) then obscures the fact that the counterpart to the innocent figure is the person who is guilty of a “status crime” for just being alive in Gaza, for instance.” 

– Mimi Thi Nguyen, in conversation with Leopold Lambert

“However, and this is an immense paradox, the great founding books of communities, the Old Testament, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Chansons de Geste, the Islandic Sagas, the Aeneid,or the African epics, were all books about exile and often about errantry.”

– Edouard Glissant

Exile in antiquity was an exile without deprivation, says Glissant. And this is because it was a voyage from a culture, rather than from a *nation*. The stigma of national identity is the child of Western imperialism, really.

“The conquered or visited peoples are thus forced into a long and painful quest after an identity whose first task will be opposition to the denaturing process introduced by the conqueror. A tragic variation of a search for identity. For more than two centuries whole populations have had to assert their identity in opposition to the processes of identification or annihilation triggered by these invaders.”

– Edouard Glissant

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