#liber ; intro

[geten-iceman]

Lieutenant of the Paranormal Liberation Front’s Violet Regiment.

No NSFW, please! Follow the rules by @marbled-magician

Feel free to ask me stuff!

I’ll tag #geten himura for in character posts and #ooc for out of character ones. If reblogging from another character blog I’ll also tag their character’s name. #geten talks for conversations with others, and #ask iceman for asks. #ice diaries is for random things about Geten’s day/life/etc! Basically that tag is for original in character posts.

((My version of Geten is 19 and uses he/they pronouns. He doesn’t have a confirmed birthday, so I’ll say it’s November 20th, because that’s mine.))

MEET THE ADMIN UNDER THE CUT

((When speaking OOC, I use double brackets! You can call me Navy. My main MHA sideblog is @ace-touya, but I my main blog which I follow from is @navy-nyoom. I’m 17. I use they/them pronouns.

I have a lot of headcanons to flesh out Geten’s character since he’s pretty minor in MHA! I’m excited to share them on this blog.

I’m an anime only, so please try to refrain from spoiling anything! I do know some manga stuff, but I will try to keep this blog spoiler-free.))

[opalwatch]

Intro

Hello! I'm Opal and this is all about me! Pronouns: she/her and they/them 19 Yrs, Aquarius CisBi + in a closed relationship with my lovely girlfriend Eva 2nd Year Psychology Major Agnostic Satanist Diagnosed ADHD, Undiagnosed Autism (diagnosis in the works!) Socialist Liberal Living with my fat transgender cat Binky!

My other blogs: Reading/Literature/Book Reviews: Opal's Books TV/Movies/Anime/Manga Reviews: Opal's Entertainment

Interests: Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magia Record, Hunter x Hunter, Banana Fish, Devilman Crybaby, Deathnote, Kakegurui, Evangelion TV: Family Guy, The Office, Gravity Falls, Monster High, The Walten Files, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, The Hunger Games, Bojack Horseman Video Games: Minecraft, My Singing Monsters, FNAF, Terraria, The Sims 4, Cuphead, Roblox Other: Psychology, Cats, Reptiles, Dogs, Fashion, Sanrio, Coloring, Writing, Shopping, Wendigoon, Nexpo, Spiders

Special Interests: The Phantom Troupe (HxH), Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Pompompurin, Psychology, Fruit Bats

Music: AViVA, NateWantsToBattle, 8Graves, Twenty One Pilots, Glass Animals, Olivia Rodrigo, CG5, Poppy, Deco*27, Maretu, PinocchioP, Au/Ra, Sub Urban, AJR *While I do listen to Melanie Martinez' music, I do not endorse her actions or the way she treats her fans. I make every effort to listen to her music without putting any money in her pockets.

OTPs: HisoIllu MadoHomu KyoSaya AshEiji KilluGon UvoShal RikaRen

Kins: Homura Akemi Hinano Miyako Lucy Gray Baird Verosika Mayday Feitan Portor Pompompurin Nagisa Momoe Yellow Guy Crybaby Mr. Plant

DNI if: -you don't support queer rights -you don't support BLM -you don't support Palestine/aren't participating in boycotts -you're my ex bf or still associate with him (and while you're at it, maybe trip and explode?) -you're a Trump supporter (ew) -you support Melanie Martinez -you're a darkshipper -you're a bigot -your page is dedicated to Regular Show

[irhabiya]

i arrived late to a lecture about global health and inequity in healthcare and the only seats open were towards the men's side by Allah why are males so fucking stupid

[cage-dweller]

Read Me~

This is my secret little sideblog where i post about things my depraved little whore brain wants or needs or whatever. Sub leaning switch. kinks include: PETPLAY, monsterfucking, bondage/rope play , petplay, PRAISE, and so on.

asks relating to my kinks and stuff are fine. just be aware that i’ll get to it when i feel like it, and not a moment before. don’t ask for pictures or video/audio.

in a relationship!!! so pls be normal!!!

Some Boundaries

have your age in bio or pinned. I will block you on sight if you don’t.

Minors stay the FUCK away from here. This is not a space for you.

People above 40, DNI. No hate to you, just not comfy for me.

Don’t sext me. period. That shit makes me uncomfortable.

Terfs, homophobes, bigots, nazis, and other forms of actually disgusting degenerates, get the fuck out. fix yourself. you have no place here

Breaking any of these boundaries will result in an immediate block

[ace-with--a-mace]

LIN MANUEL MIRANDA IS A RECURRING CHARACTER ON HOUSE MD???

[cats-in-the-clouds]

i keep getting stuck being forced to take classes i despise and that have no relevance to me so i’m going to go all malicious compliance on every single assignment and subtly insult the class material and/or professor

[thebnha-auhoard]

There were two traitors in UA. One plain and simple, only hoarding information to the enemy of his fellow students. The other didn't seek that, they seeked to spread the "truth", their truth, of what the world is and how his fellow friends should join him in that view

UA high school has two traitors, and they are very clear to some, like the analytical mind that eats information away for his own security, or the one shunned and called a villain so much for what he is and looks he can now spot it like a second nature.

Or simply the childhood "friend" of one of the said traitors, being a "traitor" himself for abandoning the cursed city and family for Mustafu. But the only thing Mashirao could miss about that is the comfort of the training mat and the easy way he could talk to his uncle about anything, specially about being the failure, the weak, the runt of their family and community.

One thing he does wish that it could be the same as back then would be to not have to interact with the raven head anymore. Wish he could simply not tie the dots together on why such "admired" person be let go off the city and come attend a hero school.

Mashirao really wished the picture would be less clear in his head, really wish that the glares sent his way were just his imagination. Wish he weren't even in the same class as Fumikage, because maybe that would hurt less, would completely free him to forget they used to play together in the streets of the city, and then beat each other until they(Mashirao mostly) couldn't stand back up in the same streets. Deika city streets.

He can only hope that maybe, maybe this chance could help them both, in some way or another.

[redeyedryu]

As a casual FNAF fan, I gotta say I really enjoyed the movie. Going in without any expectations, no spoilers, and avoiding any reviews was definitely a good choice.

No it wasn't the greatest horror movie but for an adaptation of a video game, I think it did so many things right that a lot of adaptations fail at (I'm looking at and throwing shade at you, live action RE film franchise—even you, "Welcome to Raccoon City").

It felt like it knew who its audience was (I definitely got "baby's first horror movie" vibes and that's okay) and what they wanted, while still remaining quite true to source material; there were a lot of nice little hints, references, and cameos that fans will undoubtedly pick up on. The movie likely won't be as enjoyable an experience for someone unfamiliar with the FNAF franchise, but it was clear to me this movie was made for the fans with care, consideration, and respect.

Also the music was absolutely *chef's kiss*. Not me screaming at The Living Tombstone remix showing up in the credits.

Idk, I just really enjoyed it for what it was. Definitely recommend it if you're a fan of the franchise.

[sooouth]

sorry to like all of my followers who followed me for utmv content you’re going to be getting a lot of bnha content

[irlgorlockwetnasty]

===WELCOME TO THE SPLASH ZONE==

Hey im Gorlock Wetnasty. Resident bisexual lizard & pround wetnasty. Im 34, i love webkins, and you best believe my brisket is undefeatable.

DO NOT INTERACT (Will permafreeze your energy for this)

o Lesbian gorlock truthers. girl what?

0

o defenders of gorlock x jeffery

o people who think the dragon episode was real.

i keep my crystals charged bitches. dont raise your defense chakras and reach nirvana with me, ugly. ill eat you.

[seabnunny]

❛⠀⠀🪽﹔casey’s pinned post !!﹒

🪼﹒　﹫seabnunny (casey!)　 𓇼 (＞。☆) 　wanderer main ﾉ aroflux + aceflux ꕀ ᶻz　🦈 🪸﹒ ⁺ ﹒enfp-t . asd . silly .ᐟ　（꩜) . . . i do edits sometimes! wooo!! 𝅄 𐚁̸ ࣪ㅤ𓈒

[lunar-enigma]

about me!!

[ revised ver. ] - ➳ names: alain, moon, enigma, chris ➳ pronouns: she/her ➳ nationality: german-american ➳ age: fifteen ... september virgo ➳ other: catholic, straight but fruity

my hobbies + interests are... drawing, painting, stagecraft/theatre, marching band, trumpet/mellophone, listening to music, reading books, learning german, wings of fire, dragonvale, minecraft, cats, meteorology, alt fashion, my little pony, south park, animated media in general

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not." —Kurt Cobain

my favorite bands are... nirvana, alice in chains, soundgarden, veruca salt, green day, korn, limp bizkit, deftones, the smashing pumpkins, metallica, queen, my chemical romance

----- "Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old Self-appointed judges judge More than they have sold" -----

✰ DNI IF...

➳ you're 20 or older (with some acceptions) ➳ you post nsfw art or content ➳ you're solely a political account (i'd love to have a debate with you but i don't like my entire feed being people arguing) ➳ you are going to assume things about me based on my religion

✰ PLEASE FOLLOW IF...

➳ you love music, art, and/or dragons ➳ you want to see a whole bunch of silly reblogs ➳ you're an alternative adolescent like me who dresses like teen spirit is still the top deodorant brand ➳ you share cat/dog pictures, i want to see your little furballs

[queerpunktomatoes]

Hi! I'm Belly. I'm 20, based in the US, Appalachian. Sociology Scholar. Mine are tagged #mytomatoes.

QueerPunkTomatoes is a reference to guerilla gardening. All people should have food. (If you need food, please DM and I'll try my best to help.)

This blog is pro-marginalized liberation and anti-capitalism.

Take care of yourself 💚 (if for nothing else, because we need you for the revolution!✊🏼)

Personal stuff under the cut, if you're interested.

Omg hi you clicked the cut. More about me!

I started studying sociology because I needed an extra humanities course in community college, and the second I learned what it means to study society, everything clicked and I realized why I struggled with psychology so much. I hate the pathologizing nature we tend to take on when we look at the world's problems. Sociology was like finally getting to open my eyes.

I became anti-capitalist pretty much immediately. It didn't take much to radicalize me, because I'd always known things were screwed in the US, I just didn't realize how badly. Thankfully I realized before I was old enough to vote, because I absolutely would have voted for Trump. I absolutely love writing and learning and theory and community conversation, and this blog is my space to make sure I prioritize that :)

I was raised to be all the phobics---homophobic, transphobic, Islamaphobic, xenophobic. Realizing your own sexuality can do a lot to that worldview. I'm still unpacking my old beliefs, and I am proud of how much progress I've made. I believe there is always more room for growth. I also found out I'm intersex very recently, so that's been a challenge to sort through, but I'm trying to love this new knowledge about myself.

I use the block button liberally, and I encourage you to do the same! I don't argue with people on the internet as much as I can help it. I don't pick fights or owe anyone an argument. I present my thoughts as concisely as I can, and if someone is not willing to listen to me and starts a screaming match, I'm not willing to listen to them. I prioritize my own peace, and will gladly have hard conversations! but only if we're on the same page about respect. I strongly encourage you to do the same 💚

Being fat is a part of my identity (I'm an old fat [as in, not a new fat]) and something I take very seriously. I have chronic an0rex!@ and that dichotomy does inform the way I think about body neutrality and fat liberation.

Anyway, that's a lot of words. I hope you're having a good day :)

[sreegs]

You're interviewing as a software engineer and you sit down to begin a coding exercise via remote video chat. Your interviewer joins a minute late. You exchange light pleasantries, then intros. They ask you a few questions relevant to your experience and you answer them satisfactorily.

The interviewer says, "Right, lets move on to the coding exercise," and directs you to a collaborative coding website. You select your language of choice and they begin to describe your problem.

"You have an array of souls recently liberated from their mortal shell, represented by this array of signed floats called "theDead". You must design a function that determines which souls go to heaven and which souls go to hell,"

"Heaven and hell are empty. The cumulative value of all the souls in heaven and hell must both be nonzero, and exactly equal to each other. You may leave any number of souls in purgatory,"

"Your function must return a bool indicating whether the balance of heaven and hell can be met given the array of souls. The count of souls will be 0 < n < 1,000,000. Do you have any questions before you begin?"

[creature-wizard]

"How can I be a witch/pagan without falling for conspiracy theories/New Age cult stuff?" starter kit

Posts & Articles

Check your conspiracy theory. Does any of it sound like this?

Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble.

QAnon is an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, experts say

Some antisemitic dogwhistles to watch out for

Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

The New Age concept of ascension - what is it?

A quick intro to starseeds

Starseeds: Nazis in Space?

Reminder that the lizard alien conspiracy theory is antisemitism

The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis is Racist and Harmful

The Truth About Atlantis

Why the Nazis were obsessed with finding the lost city of Atlantis

The Nazis' love affair with the occult

Occultism in Nazism

Red flag names in cult survivor resources/groups (all of them are far right conspiracy theorists/grifters)

The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today

Why Satanic Panic never really ended

Dangerous Therapy: The Story of Patricia Burgus and Multiple Personality Disorder

Remember a Previous Life? Maybe You Have a Bad Memory

A Case of Reincarnation - Reexamined

Crash and Burn: James Leininger Story Debunked

Debunking Myths About Easter/Ostara

Just How Pagan is Christmas, Really?

The Origins of the Christmas Tree

No, Santa Claus Is Not Inspired By Odin

Why Did The Patriarchal Greeks And Romans Worship Such Powerful Goddesses?

No, Athena Didn't Turn Medusa Into A Monster To Protect Her

Who Was the First God?

Were Ancient Civilizations Conservative Or Liberal?

How Misogyny, Homophobia, and Antisemitism Influence Transphobia

Podcasts & Videos

BS-Free Witchcraft

Angela's Symposium

ESOTERICA

ReligionForBreakfast

Weird Reads With Emily Louise

It's Probably (not!) Aliens

Conspirituality

Miniminuteman

Behind The Bastards

[librarycards]

Hello! I am trying to read “the right to maim” by jasbir k puar and I am getting almost nothing out of it, bc of the depth + breadth of academic concepts :( I’m particularly frustrated by it bc it seems to talk about subjects I think about, talk about and do daily, like disability, transness, and (anti)colonialism. I’m most of the way through the intro and it’s gone almost entirely over my head except for a couple isolated paragraphs that are meaningful.

Do you have any advice for how I can get the most out of this book? My main limiter is time, bc I got it out from the library and it is highly requested so I can’t have it for very long

Hi anon! First of all, in terms of time, I recommend piracy. I recommend it in general. I'm not going to post links here in order to protect the places I use, but dm me if you want them.

If you're having difficulty with the concepts (which makes sense - right to maim is a challenging book!) I recommend going back to basics with some background reading. You can get some of Puar's rec'd background reading from the bibliography, and from the keywords she uses in the preface of the text. a few that I see (i'm looking at the PDF now) include debility, rhizome/rhizomatic, soverignty, biopolitics, homonationalism, impairment [in the disability studies sense], precarity, and neoliberalism. if i was teaching this preface, i'd have students break down each of these terms (and probably others, this is just from a skim) using outside readings. it's totally normal to feel overwhelmed when jumping into a scholarly text w/o any context, and most people who use and cite this book have past experience reading Puar's interlocutors and existing familiarity with this language.

you can get up-to-date while reading using resources in tandem with this text. For example, you can read Puar's discussion of debility at that link to get a sense of the context. You can read a decent summary of Foucault (the coiner of the term "biopower") and his thought at Brittanica. I recommend using Google Scholar for terms you're not familiar with, and taking quick notes so that you don't have to google them all over again each time. if you think you have enough context with a new word but aren't 100%, keep reading and use other clues. think about academic reading like learning a new language. the strategies are very similar! because it basically is.

I recommend using the annotation strategies i just mentioned in this post (and/or developing your own). i also recommend looking up Puar's talks on youtube - she's a well-known scholar who does a lot of events, and has spoken extensively about this book and its genealogy (especially in relation to praxis / Palestinian liberation). You can also read her talk with the hosts of Death Panel, my absolute favorite podcast.

Below, I'm going to give you an example of how I close-read, annotate, and analyze a paragraph from Right to Maim (and, by extension, other academic texts. This strategy may not work for you 100%, but hopefully it gives you some solid suggestions. Overall, remember that learning to read scholarly work takes time. A long ass time. Even when it's about things you've experienced yourself! Academia has its own conventions, verbiage, knowledge base, etc, and it's a learning curve for everyone. Don't expect yourself to read as fast or get as much as someone more familiar with the conventions of academic writing - anticipate reading all of these works many, many times, and getting more with each reading. Progress is more important than perfection, and improvement, even if slow, *will* happen, as long as you don't give up. <3

Below is a quote from the preface to Right to Maim, where Puar lays out her argument. I recommend everyone highlight/remember paragraphs like these (pretty much every ac text will have something like this in the beginning as a roadmap) to anchor their reading practice and help them get the most from a book (emphasis mine):

In The Right to Maim, I focus less on an impor­tant proj­ect of disability rights and disability studies, which is to refute disability as lack, as inherently undesirable, and as the sign, evidence, or fetish of injustice and victimhood. I am not sidestepping this issue. Rather, I centralize the quest for justice to situate what material conditions of possibility are necessary for such positive reenvisionings of disability to flourish, and what happens when those conditions are not available. My goal ­here is to examine how disability is produced, how certain bodies and populations come into biopoliti­cal being through having greater risk to become disabled than ­others. The difference between disability and debility that I schematize is not derived from expounding upon and contrasting phenomenological experiences of corporeality, but from evaluating the vio­lences of biopo­liti­cal risk and metrics of health, fertility, longevity, education, and geography.

In the bolded part, Puar outlines what she's not doing: she's not taking a mainstream (white, colonial) disability studies approach, which is, in her words, to refute disability as "lack." She's stating that her goal isn't simply to prove disabled people as equal to able-bodied people, or to claim that disability can be good and liberating (though it is/can be!). Her point is to look at the conditions in which people become disabled, and stay disabled. Often, these conditions are violent and unjust. Acknowledging this injustice kinda throws a wrench into western models of disability pride.

So, if she's not interested in just arguing that disability ≠ badness, what is she arguing? she's looking, in the latter half of the paragraph, to how people become disabled in multiple ways. One, using the verbiage in the book, she's interested in how people become debilitated - physically incapacitated in a way that may not line up with the social category of "disability"). She's also interested in how "disability" as a social identity is constructed - that is, why do disability rights groups look at Palestinians maimed by the IOF and see an injured civilian, but not a disabled comrade? words and context matter immensely. she's looking at why, and what are the implications.

that last sentence sums up the distinction she's making: "The difference between disability and debility that I schematize is not derived from expounding upon and contrasting phenomenological experiences of corporeality, but from evaluating the vio­lences of biopo­liti­cal risk and metrics of health, fertility, longevity, education, and geography."

the difference, she argues, between disability as western disability studies sees it and debility as experienced by people under colonial occupation isn't because we experience our bodyminds differently, or because Palestinians (for example) magically aren't as hurt by occupation as their white/western counterparts would be. rather, the reason she's using debility over disability is because the category of disability isn't objective: it's informed by biopolitical forces such as the ones she listed. her meta-argument is that what we call "disability" can't be divorced from its settler colonial context, not because colonized peoples are immune to disabling violence, but because the category of disability (and health, and violence) is itself affected by settler colonialism.

in "right to maim," Puar is offering a major shift in the way we collectively discuss disability, because the category is not applied equally across sociopolitical, geographical context. it means Palestinians and others living under occupation are either left out entirely, or unsuccessfully co-opted into western-/colonizer-centric disability discourse that doesn't acknowledge the different conditions under which they live. ultimately, "right to maim" means to make that difference, and its implications, visible.

Let me know if this makes sense! it's wordy and tedious, but lots of academic texts are. i hope that breakdown helps you make some more sense of Puar's main argument/the architecture of the text, and maybe serves as a model for future engagement. :)