#not tagging bc it's mostly a vent post

[redjaybathood]

It's killing me how pervasive russian propaganda is. Propals love to claim that the West is hypocrites bc they support Ukraine but not a variety of countries and people they, themselves being from the West more often than not, did not give a shit about before. They would rather blame anyone else: the government they voted for, the media they are reading, - than look into themselves.

This paradigm also ignores:

Massive anti-Ukrainian russian propaganda campaign that is running for ten years now. Chances are, all they heard about Ukraine before the full-scale invasion is Azov, Bandera, Nazis, and that's what they're running with it (especially leftists/tankies who think Greyzone is a reliable source of information). Despite chances are, there are more far-right in power in their country than there are far-right politicians in Ukraine. Despite the massive reform Azov underwent. Despite the voices of our Jewish citizens and academics, despite Muslim soldiers in Azov;

Massive support russia, russians, russian imperialism still gets. For one example (and there are numerous) Australian ABC TV station recently made a documentary based on the point of view of russian invading forces, and it treated everything they have heard from them or seen as a legitimate point of view. Bucha massacre denial, for example. This is not humanization, this is straight-up genocide denial. And I know that UK TV also showed this documentary, it's side by side on their website with the documentary about Ukrainian abducted children. The children - those of them who survived the deportation anyway - are being indoctrinated against Ukraine, right now, trained as soldiers. If you even care;

The obvious reality that after people realized that there's not going to be a WW3 or a nuclear war anytime soon, they stopped caring all that much, if they ever did. Look at tumblr: any Palestine or even Israel-related post gets 20+k notes easily. That's not something that we see nowadays with Ukraine, if ever. And there is more negativity about Ukraine here, or on other social media, than for Gazans. And this is even counting that Gaza is the base for legit terrorist organization that committed a massive terrorist attack against the civilian population and is currently holding hostages. Which is the justification Israel puts down for their attack, and for their massive infliction of civilian casualties - but it's also what happened. Whereas in Ukraine, what happened was a Revolution of Dignity, where the victims, the dead, were the people who protested against the corrupt government and won. They didn't attack civilians, they didn't kill russians, they didn't even ban a russian language. They just didn't want to live in a corrupt country, in a police state, where children can be beaten up by police forces and be sent to a hospital. That's how Euromaidan started, if you even care. And Euromaidan is exactly the justification russia put up for the invasion back in 2014. You get me? HAMAS terrorist attack spiked huge support for Gaza and the Palestinian cause even before there were 30K Palestinians murdered by Israel. Even before one such death. Ukraine's fight to protect its freedom was met with indifference if not hostility.

Nothing of the above means you should not care about Gaza and Palestine. But somehow, it means that people treat it as a morally superior position not to care about Ukraine, to blame their government, to blame their media, to blame schools and parents and corporations - and, of course, zionists. Which is their dog whistle for Jews.

It deserves another post, how quickly misinformation and antisemitism spreads on tumblr. Holy shit. You guys are fucked up.

[queenlucythevaliant]

Just to clarify my thoughts (since I've had a number of people ask me about it) re: Job and cursing God. There's a big difference between cursing God as used in Scripture and how we generally would think of cursing at God today.

Cursing someone, in the Bible, has a lot of depth to it. It's not just saying "screw you " in anger, it's got a sense of forsakenness to it. It's the opposite of a blessing, a removal of blessing. If the blessing is presence, your face shining on the person you're blessing, then a curse is absence. In some translations, Job's wife tells him to "renounce God and die," which I honestly think makes a lot more sense to modern ears.

Job says a lot of unpleasant things to and about God in his anger and grief. So do the Psalmists. A number of the Prophets. So can we. God can take it if we come to him with honest expressions of our emotion, including those not-so-nice ones directed at him. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting mad at God and saying, "How dare you, you bastard" when you suffer unjustly. You can say much worse, I think, without sinning, though I don't feel particularly inclined to give examples. But as long as it's an honest expression of your heart, I think you're doing exactly what prayer is for. You're presenting him your heart with an open hand. He can use that. Opposite of love is not hate but indifference, etc.

Job doesn't renounce God. Neither should we. But I think when you're truly suffering, you're gonna have those feelings toward God either way. He'd rather you address them with him directly than try to avoid them. Cursing at God in the modern sense is actually a great way to keep the relationship strong and not end up cursing/renouncing him in the Biblical sense.

[chuuya-apologist]

Can someone please k-word me (the word is up to you)

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[irritablepoe]

ok i wrote a little over 1k words today, somebody tell me they're proud of me :')

[lavenoon]

A little heads-up because I know I've been quiet on original content for a couple days now, and I don't know when I'll post something again. I currently hate everything I draw and it's taking a lot out of me to not delete everything I've posted, and trying to get out of that slump is taking too much energy for me to write. The Foxy introduction chapter for AU is my current main project, but it's slow going because I'm Bad At Pirate(tm) so I won't make any promises of when that'll be out. But I'm chugging along and fighting the brain, so thank you for your patience <3

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

ok temporarily closing my inbox again 😭

[daz4i]

the fact this government keeps insisting we're more ~progressive~ than all countries around us, while people are literally getting arrested for just expressing their opinions (not even ones that support terrorism. which is what they're supposedly getting arrested for, on paper. just for supporting the people caught in the crossfire and saying you wish they didn't). hell country hell country hell country

[justablah56]

that moment when you think about a friend you haven't seen in 2 years and you realize wow the attachment issues are strong with this one

[edith-is-a-cat]

Fuck.

I wish I could help.

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

haha i'm so sad

[openedmaw]

there is something to be said about the privilege of accessing mental health support early on. there's also something to be said about how things can still be completely overlooked in that.

ive had psychiatrists since i was four years old. ive been in and out of therapy since the age of five. i was abused as a kid and a teen. no one picked up on the cptsd developing, or the borderline personality disorder, or the dissociation. i was indirectly blamed for some of the abuse i suffered by therapists because my abuse response was to fight. despite a comprehensive mental health team from an early age i still developed DID and schizophrenia. i wasnt diagnosed with autism until i was seventeen. i grew up knowing i had adhd and severe anxiety but still felt out of place and cried wondering what was so inherently wrong with me that no one wanted to be around me.

there's definitely a privilege in being diagnosed and medicated for things from an early age but sometimes i see people talk about it like it means you'll get help for everything ever and nothing will be missed when thats not even close to the truth.

[captainkappa]

mostly vent, partially Mando e3 ep 1 spoilers

i hoped that watching the ep would help get over the rut ive been in ever since feb last year, but nope, i barely felt fucking anything for that first ep. i feel like i can argue its the weakest of all mando eps. most mando eps i feel like are very singularly driven and this had 5 different things introduced. i guess it could work out in the end but compared to other season openers, it was weak. i did like grogu spinning around the chair, grogu adn the space whales, and especially din showing grogu how to pilot the ship. but all the plot stuff? i could take or leave

Like... BOBF ep 5 was a way better opener for this season (there's been a year of 'that was mando s3 ep 1' jokes but they were all completely founded!) I think i was just hoping that there was a reason to BoBF jumping the gun on mando's storyline like that. like, i wanted to be able to tell that the story was gonna be really good so they needed to bring grogu back right away, but im not really getting that impression????

and i have no idea if i feel like this because of the episode itself or im still in this dumb fucking star wars rut from the shit show that was BoBF (which, if you cant tell, my opinion of has gone down the farther we get from it).

i just wanted to be able to watch mando s3 in real time with the gay people in my phone! but at this rate, im gonna have to wait till after mando s3 to be in the right fucking mood

[lyriumsings]

wait how do you know rowan is black? did the author say it in an ask? genuinely curious bc i haven't seen anything altho i could have missed it lol

On the authors personal blog, yes! I can’t remember if it’s listed on the official blog but yeah he’s def black

[waywardsalt]

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[proto-caustic-moon]

uhh