#marytr

[houseofpurplestars]

"Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of israeli occupation. "Never let them know they hurt you" was their creed.

But the heart must grieve. Sometimes pain emerged as joy. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell the difference. Death came to resemble life and life, death."

- from Mornings In Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

[inutaffy]

everyone n they mother in insta is saying how political violence againdt either party shouldnt be justified...... SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[themosthatedbeingg]

You told us how you weren't afraid to die

Well, so long

Don't cry here

Or feel too down

Not all martyrs see divinity

But at least vou tried

Standing above the crowd

[madsthebat]

oh i’m sorry for opening up, i forgot i was too much to handle.

don’t worry, i’ll be back to normal soon

[gemsandowlsandstuff]

transphobes on twitter are so unserious

[milksockets]

christian marytrs from roman catacombs: 'the skeletons were decorated by nuns who were skilled in textile + beadwork, or lay brothers who had trained as gold- and silversmiths. the bones would be articulated + covered over with jewels, or placed in finely wrought suits of armor with cutouts strategically placed to reveal their skeletal nature' in memento mori: the dead among us - paul koudounaris (2015)

[caramelcoconutswirl]

Aaaaand here it is

[punkeropercyjackson]

Brooooooooo i hate it sm when i see a post or a fic tagged as 'Percy Jackson Deserves Better' but then it's literally Percy being close to the gods or even BECOMING a god.It's a whole nonstop hammered into our heads thing the gods are the reason Percy has trauma both indirectly(how they run their societal system)and directly(turning her into their marytr ever since she was 12)and that Percy hates them for it.You don't think Percy deserves better,you think your faves deserve Percy

Hey,here's an idea:How about for a super queer Percy fixit,Percy is a trans woman and the story is her transitioning?Maybe that's why she hates men so much and dosen't want to fit into the mold of a traditional man,not because she's 'stupid' and 'in denial' over wanting her male abusers who're also her much older relatives.Maybe her attraction to female characters is actually gender envy and maybe her girlhood is why her Titan's Curse Quest succeeded and maybe the reason Nico confused her for an ideallic man before getting to know her and realizing she's not is she's an uncracked egg.Maybe instead of getting shackled to The Olympians against her will to 'earn' a bunch of weird ass powers and titles and overhauling her design to fetishize her,Percy goes on ancient greek magic estrogen and dyes her hair blue and is gifted a collection worth of blahajs and plays a wide variety of video games and she's a Pegasister since she's canonically a horse girl and her favorite is Rainbow Dash and she loves Flutterdash and she cosplays Gwen Stacy and she's the team mom textually rather than just implied and Nico and her are t4t autistic4autistic found siblings soulmates and she's fat-buff and knows how to diy things that don't even exist and eats all kinds of blue burgers with sides of all kinds of blue energy drinks and listens to afropunk/transfem punk musicians and ends up looking like a super hot afrolatina mermaid.How about Percy gets to be happy by getting to be a woman like she wants and not packaged into weird ass transmisogynistic and ableist tropes so you can get off even further to her being even more abused by men,hm?

[melmedarda]

tell us more ur thoughts on marcus arcane? i can send more specific qs if that helps

thank you :)

hello anon! feel free to send any questions, because at this point, marcus arcane is my chew toy, and i mull over him likely the most after mel. i simply cannot be normal about him.

so i just reblogged the character motivation sheet for jayce, and i really believe that marcus is parallel to jayce. how so, gentle, you may wonder. i'm so glad you asked. what marcus wants most seems to be the ability to keep piltover safe, and to fill the shoes that grayson left behind. we see this in act one, where he follows her religiously, acts in ways for HER best interest because that is how much he loves and respects grayson. AND LET ME PAUSE HERE BECAUSE!!!! WHEN EVERYTHING GOES DOWN AND GRAYSON DIES IN FRONT OF HIM AND SILCO THROWS HIM THE MONEY... and he says this wasn't the deal. JUDAS ISCARIOT!!! iykyk (and if you don't know i will soon be making a set so you see. so you understand). also... the fact that he kept the coin that was encrusted with grayson's blood. as a reminder. marcus,,,,,, baby boy... anyways. let me continue.

I think it's also important to realize that this is likely when he becomes sheriff, seeing as he was grayson's protege. AND THIS IS ANOTHER THING. he and caitlyn were both proteges of grayson. and i believe part of him hates caitlyn, because he realized, in the end that he was a fool, just as grayson had said. that caitlyn was somehow bringing more change/peace than he could. and here's where i strongly believe that if grayson had been around longer, died later, marcus would have been completely passed over as sheriff and the job would have gone to caitlyn, if it had been up to grayson.

ANYWAYS. so then, timeline's a little fuzzy, but i think the year grayson died was the year marcus became a father. after the time skip, i estimate ren to be about 6-7 years old, which means that marcus' main motivation had switched from continuing grayson's legacy to keeping his daughter safe. again, how can we tell? during the funeral for the enforcers, where he's talking of the enforcers protecting mothers, fathers, sons. the camera zooms in to focus on marcus as he mentions daughters.

AND THEN. when he meets with silco, sees the bomb and envisions himself pulling the trigger, and killing both himself and silco. yeah, that scene lives in my head rent free. marcus has always been ready to be the marytr, and i believe, already he considers himself one. the only reason he does not, i think, because then his daughter, ren, would have no one else. i think silco sees he is losing marcus that day, and that is why he turns up to marcus' house, ren's room. and marcus' face when he sees her with him.... people died. (it's me, i am people). it breaks him because the only reason he has remained under silco's thumb, is his desire to protect this daughter, despite the fact that doing so corrupted him.

and then when he holds the gun at caitlyn, he cannot bring himself to pull the trigger. why? WHY can't he pull the trigger? perhaps because of grayson's memory? or perhaps does he think of his daughter in that moment. does he remember that she is someone's daughter too. like, marcus isn't a killer. it's not what he does. he had the opportunity to kill vi, but didn't. he could have killed cait, but again, he didn't. in any case, she does not end up dying, and it is marcus who dies instead.

WHAT ARE HIS LAST WORDS?????????? "Tell my daughter..." I love her. we never get to hear him say it, but we know. we know because after all, everything marcus has done is protect his daughter. to give her safety, and a home. she was his reason for living, and she becomes his undoing, too. he's just a man who was doomed by the narrative before he'd even begun. and in the end, he failed to protect his daughter. i really hope that next season, we get to see marcus' daughter, that caitlyn tells ren that her father loved her.

anyways. if you read this far, kudos to you. if you have any further questions about him feel free to drop them on me.

[deansxharley]

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[newbornwhumperfly]

whumpmas in july day 5: media that gives you whumperflies

a little bit of a throwback, but a childhood favorite of mine was the prince and the pauper. i found it incredibly whumpy, especially the scenes that talked about poverty and public punishment. sure, it often got pretty dark, but i was incredibly intrigued boy medieval horrors at that age! there's an incredible scene where prince edward is going to be publicly whipped and miles, his bodyguard and friend, takes the punishment for him...utterly delightful and formative of some of my favorite tropes 😍🥺😭

of course, captain america: the winter soldier, is a longtime and eternal favorite 😈😈😈 boy oh boy, this film truly has everything, huh? a human weapon whumpee who is so brutally dehumanized, he wears a goddamn muzzle?? and he's the long-lost boyfriend of the Defiant Whumpee protagonist, who goes through heaven and earth to save him??? AND HE IS SAVED THROUGH THE POWER OF LOVE??? 😩😩😩💖💖💖😭😭😭 creepy whumpers ABOUND (politician robert redford ofc but uhhhhhh brock rumlow and the hydra trash party kinkmeme might've been my first foray into noncon whump and he's the base formula for a lot of my worst whumpers 😈😈😈). people getting nearly beaten to death. brainwashing to kill your beloveds. fitey little do-gooder against the cynical forces of the world. institutional corruption and the rise of fascism thought defeated. epic car chases. just...thee film of all time.

daredevil as a show still slaps prodigiously and matt "marytr" murdock is so pretty when he's in pain (plus, i always love a good "misunderstanding/confrontation scene between besties" and mattfoggy will make me weep every goddamn time). 🥺

the bourne trilogy was also very formative for me in a lot of my favorite tropes 😍 dehumanized weapon of a person rediscovering his humanity and burning down the institutions that birthed him? YES. stoic and grim and quiet and deadly and haunted and longing to be tender? YES. epic car crashes that leave their victims broken, staggering, and bloodied? YES. 🙌

the adventures of robin hood was a childhood favorite as well for its glorious whump, particularly scenes of a defiant errol flynn tied up in prison or severely beaten and ready for execution. what a delight. 😈

these are just a few of the ones that give me whumperflies but i wanted to include ones across the range of my life! 💖💖💖 have a very merry @whumpmasinjuly 🥰

@whumpmasinjuly-archive

[sw33t-oubliette]

shoutout to burn the ballroom for making so many andercard coded songs . two times marytred save me

[loveafallenstar]

Im sorry that you resent me. I'm sorry I can't stop the judgment in your eyes. I can feel something crack inside me when you call me cold and insensitive, but I can't bring myself to accept someone that dares to make you cry.

I wish I could make you understand that all his sweet words are laced with poision.

Your afraid of what will happen if you dont answer, afraid he'll drown if you dont extend your hand.

But I see every tattered expression he leaves on your face, I see all the pieces you pick up after hes left you behind.

I wish I could drag you away kicking and screaming, I wish I could show you that kindness isn't about being a marytr. and your happiness is too high a price.

I won't call you an idiot for sticking around, but please stop looking at me like Im the enemy just because I cant stand anyone hurting the apple of my eye.

Im not made of stone, and you have no idea how bone chilling it is to watch you fight a losing battle,one I myself once struggled to survive.

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-loveafallenstar

[valerieblogsalot]

WW LORE

apparently their school thing is marytrs

[furinaisthequeen]

Ang GomBurZa ay ang mga paring marytr sa panahon ng pananakop ng mga Espanyol. Ngunit alam niyo ba na mayroong isa pang pinatay noong February 17.1872. Siya ay ang nagbintang sa GomBurZa sa pagplano ng Cavite Mutiny noong 1872. Siya ay nangangalan na Francisco Zaldua at siya rin ay nabitay noong February 17, 1872 gamit ang garrote. Ang mga paring martir na ito ay nagsilbing inspirasyon para sa ating mga bayani na magkaroon ng liberal na kaispan at lumaban para sa bayan. Naging inspirasyon ni Jose Rizal ang GomBurZa sa kanyang aklat na El Filibusterismo at naging inspirasyon rin ito ng Katipunan.

Natutunan:

Lahat ng tao ay may iba-ibang paraan upang lumaban para sa kalayaan. Tulad ni Jose Rizal o Andres Bonifacio. Lahat tayo ay may karapatan lumaban para sa sarilling bayan.