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Exercice d'alerte gaz dans un hôpital londonien – 1940
©Imperial War Museums - D 654
#WWII#home front#défense passive#passive defense#infirmière#nurses#hôpital#hospital#gaz#londres#london#1940#ww2
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bringing meself to tears writing wolfstar fighting i hate it here !!!


#sequel ch 2 vibes#these bitches will do everything but communicate clearly without being passive aggressive & defensive#like god damn just SPEAK#TALK#BE AN ADULT#unfortunately they r both so real for that tho !!!#sirius is soooo me i love him !!!#when ur bf says the words ✨br*ak *p✨ so u go mute & then cry rly hard on the floor#relatable#fic: more than enough
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Uhm. Uh. I loev the way you drew Dream and Nm. idk. HEHEHAJb
Dream: No bitches?
Ink: i have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days Dream: YOU'VE WHAT-
Dream: INK FOR THE LAST TIME I DON'T LIKE STATUES
Dream, injured: (in the sweetest, most innocent cute voice ever) Ink if you purposefully cause negative emotions while I'm fighting my brother again I'm going to rip your spine out <3
Blue: I'M TERRIBLY SORRY IF THIS IS TOO PERSONAL TO ASK, BUT… WHY DO YOU DISLIKE INK SO MUCH? Flashback Ink: well, actually… what happened to your universe was preventable. i kinda… let it happen? most multiverses need a Dream and Nightmare soitwaskindanecessarysorry Dream: . . .
BONUS
#dream sans#ink sans#swap sans#nightmare sans#eye strain#in Dreams defense if someone told me they could've prevented me from turning into a statue for 500 years#and also my brother's spiral into insanity#id be a lot meaner than petty and passive aggressive#but also in Inks defense hes trying to guard the balance of the entire infinite expanse of the multiverse#while dealing with severe memory issues and 0 empathy and an extremely limited range of emotion#being super short is just the cherry on top tbh#queue
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honestly re this post I think it's worth also drawing the connection that people who do this with characters also frequently act like criticizing the work overall is automatically bashing and in general wish they lived in a world where you could praise something without opening it up to criticism, and you cannot. There is nothing that can only be praised and not criticized. You can refute the criticism but you cannot claim the mere act of criticism itself is invalid without invalidating praise.
#honestly the fact that it's so bad people outside the fandom are noticing it is. yeah it do be like that#this also holds up btw in a lot of the political beliefs i've been pointing out. once you see it you can't stop seeing it#it is ngl funny to go into the main tag and there's literally more people making passive aggressive posts about how not everyone likes c3#than people making cogent defenses thereof. even though the bulk of the critique is at this point in the discourse tag or untagged#i remain unmoved in my belief they're just mad that literally anyone who can write meta worth a damn is like chief this ain't it#they're stuck with the people who write middle school emo poetry or word salad screeds or tantrums
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Oh also I don't know if y'all have seen Homestead but it's good. You should watch it
#intriguing story solid message#homestead#angel studios#also if you saw me edit my caption on the post before this i suddenly thought it seemed passive aggressive#in my defense i am sick and hormonal
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I don't get why people hate the timeline so much, its not like you can't pretty much completely ignore it when you play the games. The only time it even approaches mattering to the story is when there is an explicit sequel like botw and totk or zelda and zelda 2
Hey sorry your ask got lost in the sauce of my broken tumblr, but: yeah!
I mean, I get why in some sense. It's been a heated point of debate and I think some people understandably resent the space it has taken not only in fandom discourse, but in how people began to understand the game and its narrative aesthetic choices. There is such a thing as over-rationalizing everything to hard logic, and sometimes it's just not the fandom for that --especially when you begin to forget it's all just fan theory and start to forget what the games are supposed to be like and evoke beyond just strict facts displayed in a linear way.
What I think bugs me with TotK in particular is that it both evokes and relies on continuity and the idea of a timeline, of archeology, of history itself, while being so loose and vacant with it that it both is doing Timeline Shit while also completely failing to understand why some parts of the fandom were invested in Timeline Shit to begin with.
But that's just my two cents of course!
#asks#tloz#timeline#totk critical#thanks for the ask!#I do... feel two ways about that myself#I think pure evocation is genuinely one of zelda's greatest storytelling strengths#that mood is sufficient and enough in itself and doesn't always need justification#it is the way the games center story --and that's genuinely wonderful and a strong take on narrative in games#as something freeflowing and accompanying gameplay rather than the opposite#and to ignore that and focus on hard facts all of the time kind of misses the point of the games' stories to a degree#BUT#I also get quite annoyed at the weird condescencion towards fans that do decide to engage with the stories more factually#especially since this is either revelatory regarding some of nintendo's choices#(that the aesthetics of evil are so tied to The Desert TM while taking so many inspirations from european fairy tales for example)#(it's not neutral even if we ignore ingame “lore”)#or just a great fodder for creativity and narrative play#and it is a part of the IP too!! just as much as dungeons and items and musics and curiosity-driven exploration!!#I do have beef with people not resonating with that aspect thinking others that do so are just stupid or childish#and that you can only have an enlightened relationship with zelda if you like it “the right way”#(which is somehow always mechanics/logic-driven which is. interesting to me.)#(or in a completely passively aesthetic way as in “I like fairies they're pretty”)#but you know it's the weird Triforce Shirt Dude stigma thing#that notion that you can (and must!) Love Zelda Deeply and Defensively#but you cannot be *passionate* about Zelda#then it's weird and immature#I don't know I feel like there's a lot to analyze in that arbitrary dychotomy#anyway sorry for the mega novel in the tags!!
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Whenever the concept of bad driving comes up on here sooooo many people out themselves as terrible drivers who are a danger to themselves and others because they consider themselves to be Phenomenal drivers to the point they want to be cops about it.
Like believe it or not people cause accidents by deciding it's their divine mandate to regulate other driver's speeds for them. Not even just in situations where other drivers respond aggressively and are more directly at fault, though even then it's especially important Not to actively go out of your way to impede the progress of an aggressive driver just to like, stick it to them because you're the worlds goodest specialest little traffic cop. If you get into a fiery wreck because you're trying to enrage the jacked up 1000000 megawatt LED headlights pickup truck tailgating you, frankly you both deserve it.
#THERE'S A REASON THEY TEACH 'DEFENSIVE DRIVING'#You're not in a competition to see who is the best and most moral driver on the road you are driving a massive hunk of metal#that can kill you and other people. You mitigate this by not driving aggressively or passive-aggressively.#When a driver is behaving aggressively your response needs to be 'how do I regulate my own behavior to reduce the chance of getting#into a collision with this jackass'#Sometimes you can even do this by obeying basic rules of the road that you're probably neglecting if you're this demographic#such as 'not hovering in the passing lane if you aren't passing anyone and instead moving over at the first safe opportunity'
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"The division between the two families [the Woodvilles and the Nevilles] and their allies can be seen in the royal charters that they witnessed. Warwick, Rivers and Archbishop Neville of York, while serving as chancellor and afterwards, were fairly constant witnesses to royal charters and consequently often appeared together. This was not, however, the case for other family members and friends. From 1466 to 1469, if Scales or Woodville associates like Sir John Fogge, John Lord Audley or Humphrey Lord Stafford of Southwick witnessed royal charters, then members of the Neville group, such as John Neville, earl of Northumberland, or John Lord Wenlock would not, and vice versa. Discounting the ubiquitous Warwick, Rivers and Archbishop Neville, of the twenty-four charters issued between February 1466 and June 1469, twelve were witnessed by men associated with the Woodvilles, eight by men associated with the Nevilles and two were witnessed by no member of either group beyond the two earls at their heads and the archbishop; only two charters, both from 1466, featured associates of both families.
Such striking segregation of witnesses suggests that something more than simple convenience or availability was at play. [...] The evidence of these witness lists does show the extent of the split between the two groups from early in Edward's reign and of the need for political society to work with that cleavage in the heart of the Yorkist regime."
— Theron Westervelt, "Royal charter witness lists and the politics of the reign of Edward IV"
*This is specifically applicable for Edward IV's first reign; in contrast, the charters in his second reign displayed a great deal of aristocratic and domestic unity and cohesion.
#the woodvilles#edward iv#wars of the roses#richard neville 16th earl of warwick#my post#elizabeth woodville#Obviously I hate the idea of Elizabeth and her family being seen as a social-climbing invasive species who banished the old nobility and#drove Warwick/Richard into rebellion and dominated the government and controlled the king and were responsible for Everything Wrong Ever#but I also dislike the 'revisionist' idea that they were ACTUALLY just passive and powerless bystanders or pawns who kept to their#social “place” (whatever the fuck that means). Frankly speaking this is more of a diminishment than a realistic defense.#the 'Queen's kin' (as they were known at the time) were very visible at court and demonstrably influential and prominent in politics#and as this shows there DOES seem to have been a genuine division/conflict between them and the Nevilles during Edward's first reign#(which DID directly lead to the decline of Neville dominance in England though the maintained honored positions and influence of their own)#Especially since Edward's second reign was entirely void of any such divisions - instead the nobility were united and focused on the King#even Clarence and Gloucester's long and disruptive quarrel over the Warwick inheritance never visibly left its mark on charters#so the Woodville/Neville divide from the 1460s must have been very sharp and divisive indeed#And yes it's safe to say that Elizabeth Woodville was probably involved: whether in her own right or via support of her family - or both -#it's illogical to argue that she was uninvolved (even the supportive Croyland Chronicle writes that Edward was “too greatly influenced”#by her; she and her family worked together across the 1470s; she was the de-facto head in 1483; etc)#Enhanced by the fact that Elizabeth was the first Englishwoman to be crowned queen - meaning that the involvement of her#homeborn family marked the beginning of “a new and largely unprecedented factor in the English power structure” (Laynesmith)#This should be kept in mind when it comes to analyzing contemporary views of them and of Elizabeth's own anomalous position#HOWEVER understanding the complexity of the situation at hand doesn't mean accepting the traditionally vilified depiction of the Woodvilles#Warwick and the Nevilles remained empowered and (at least outwardly) respected by the regime#Whether he was driven by disagreements over foreign policy or jealousy or ambition - the decision to rebel was very much his own#Claiming that the Woodvilles were primarily responsible is ridiculous (and most of the nobility continued to support Edward regardless)#There's also the fact that Warwick took what was probably a basic factional divide and turned it into a misogynistic and classist narrative#of a transgressive “bad” woman who became queen through witchcraft and aggrandized a family of social-climbing “lessers” who replaced#the inherently more deserving old nobility and corrupted the realm - later revived and intensified by Richard III a decade later#ie: We can recognize their genuine division AND question the (false/unfair) problematic narrative around the Woodvilles. Nuance is the key.
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i really am gonna need all trans people to learn about gendered socialization as a sociology concept, then make actual effort into unlearning those social roles we were taught SINCE BIRTH because lots of us dont actually do that. we just transition to try and match those gender roles that especially subjugate women. its why we have such issues with transphobia and misogyny in our communities. unlearning gender socialization, realizing there's more ways to be a man or a woman and your gender doesnt mean you naturally prefer to be dominant or submissive or whatever, is what ever trans person should do when we come out. i get that it can cause dysphoria but the socialization we're put through actively harms afab people so we have to work on it instead of ignoring it.
#trans#transgender#trans men#ftm#mtf#i get its hard! that these ideas of entitlement and passivity have been baked into us since we were fetuses in some cases#but we have to do the work! and we have to accept socialization and not be defensive whenever its brought up#trans women#transmasc#transfem#btw that article i linked is like THE MOST BASIC understanding of gendered socialization#i would recommend reading up from like cordelia fine 'delusions of gender'
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Whoever's the Vampire Chronicles Pope these days can you help a guy out and tell everyone my ship's a canon ship? They share:
1) a love confession
2) a cuddle
3) a grief of absence
4) a reunion
5) a kiss
6) a maker-fledgling bond, arguably THE most enduring intimacy of the vampire's strange little emo lifecycle
Furthermore, is it REALLY in terrible taste to ship an intellectually invigorating 15thc Gay Dilf and a gregarious gorgeous 18thc Bi Babyboy who only did not jump each other willingly because one's a mortal trying out dating his childhood crush and the other's an immortal barely keeping himself going anymore from his secret crushing personal traumas???
Anyway, someone get over here and affirm that the vampire church supports my doctrine I am ready.
#in my defense your honor#are you a gay man and does this sound like it would appeal to you too#daddy kink but make it an exciting historic gap couple#the passive agressive vibes in the fandom keep me up at night could you not#merci!
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I think my relationship with Radiohead starting with In Rainbows makes me better than Radiohead fans who’ve stuck around for Creep. The fact that there’s like a 5 year gap between me first becoming a fan of them and properly listening to Creep makes me better. Song requests? Yo dude can you play 15 Step
#I base this on a rumor I heard years ago where Radiohead was sick of playing Creep all the time#also in my defense creep predates me by 3 years#and also I properly discovered them after watching the Twilight credits#(for which I’d passively been listening to them in the wild)#(but that was the first time I knew a song by them by name)#for legal reasons this is a joke#just a light jest#also I fucking love In Rainbows#all of my favorites of theirs are in that album#Radiohead
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deleted my previous post because i shouldn't make it the dash's problem that I woke up at 3 am and couldn't go back to sleep but: sometimes good aligned characters nonetheless dislike each other and that's fine and okay and good.
#is this post still kinda passive aggressive?#yeah i'm Tired of the flack that characters continue to catch for disagreeing with hot male favs#and as an elzar apologist i get the need to jump to his defense but nonetheless#sometimes ?#people just dislike each other#that's ok
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as a Japanese fan of bsd you’ve hit the nail on the head to why i hate this fandoms tendency to go with the “oh it’s so disrespectful to the authors” bc yea it’s my hatred of Japanese nationalism and its agenda to portray their cultural exports as untouchable…it also feels infantilizing in the sense where they can’t picture asagiri doing transformative critique of his country’s “classics” and they are adopting that very same idolatry of Japan
It's also such a flaccid, insincere interpretation of respect that is itself inherently dehumanizing. There is nothing untouchable, and substituting discernment for fawning is much worse than being superficially disrespectful, especially when the subject of your disrespect cannot possibly perceive it, and the only beneficiaries of your deference are states, institutions, and ideological concepts.
I've noticed people tend to strip agency and conscious commentary from Asagiri too. It is exceptionally infantilizing.
#idk i also just don't get deferring to anyone absent a reason#there is a baseline respect you should show to others' personhood perhaps. if I believe in baseline respect at all.#but this certainly isn't that.#once someone told me that you shouldn't look into the bsd authors because they were problematic and some were imperialists#and this may seem discreet from the respect point. but they also made the respect point in the same convo.#refusing to look too closely in either case lest you experience something resembling discomfort or contradiction or tonal dissonance#but by refusing to look where you think there may be something unpleasant#you are training yourself. to look away. when there is something unpleasant.#you are taking real people and real events and real violence and willfully teaching yourself not to recognize them or their patterns#ensuring they will happen again#i have “passivity is the crucible of subjugation” tattooed on the back of my thigh and i fucking mean it#also like more often than not you're being defensive for a wholly separate reason and you need to meet your own damn needs#before you start crusading for someone you can't even conceptualize as a person rather than a theme#i'm trying not to rant about how wildly unhelpful it is to refuse to engage with the nasty parts of fear and humanity and history#and how quickly abstractions become viciously harmful#but I have some more work to do before I can go to sleep#and i need to sleep. because i do not respect the only beneficiaries of my exhaustion.
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Just realized how evasive Mike was in his apology to Will in season 4 in one specific way.
He apologizes for ignoring Will since the fight but does not explain why he didn't keep in touch; we know that. But he also does this:
He addresses Will's core concerns. Will asks him "why didn't you keep in touch? Why do you ignore me when El is around?" He uses the classic strategy of replacing it with the easier questions "did you want to keep in touch? Do you still care about me as your best friend?"
He tells Will he does. And because this validates the core of Will's concerns, it seems interchangeable. But it isn't. He arguably used the same tactic with El, it just didn't work on her. "Why can't you tell me you love me" "I do care about you". He attempted it, but because it was a direct response and not two days later it was easier to see the inconsistency between the question and his answer.
But with Will, Will asked why Mike treats El differently and Mike answered "it isn't because I love her more than you". Had it been back to back like El's was, I think it would have been more visible that, however nice, that isn't what Will asked.
Mike is essentially pulling the "I can't tell you why, but trust me: it's true," and so many people including Will fell for it without even batting an eye, at the very least on the first watch - I know I sure did.
But all Mike is doing is raising more questions. Before we had "why do you treat Will and El differently?" Not too "queer" a question, is odd behavior but doesn't raise NEARLY as many eyebrows as "I can't tell you".
Mike doesn't want Will to feel bad or blame himself so he apologizes. He prioritizes Will over his pride and takes full responsibility. But to do that and still do it so surgically, feigning resolution to avoid further questioning, is to admit to the audience "the answer to this question is one that I will take to the grave". And whatever the question was could never be nearly as suspicious as that.
#stranger things#byler fight#mike wheeler#textual analysis#byler#i love analyzing not only their fights#but their apologies#because so much goes into both#trust that every time mike doesn't answer that poigniant question#whether it be in reactive defensiveness or calm apology#it is the same#and it is not passive#instinctive maybe#but not passive
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Me and my roommate had the biggest fight ever bc she’s one of those people who sneakily comment & taunt on you when they have a problem with something and after 2 weeks of it I finally exploded and now suddenly I’m the problem because how could you Ena
#I went Bakugou pro max#In my defense I have been giving her the benefit of doubt since ages#And today I’ve had enough#I hate people who can’t be open & honest and try to be passive aggressive#Like I’ll FUCKING show you AGGRESSIVE#Then she’s like oh by the end of the month I’ll leave. I said oh you better do cus I’ll kick you out if you don’t.#It’s just my mom’s here & she’s really niceys to the both of us#So she’s trying to ensue peace. But I’m DONE
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so it turns out. even if you're playing in peaceful mode. the deep dark is still very scary.
#in my defense i am constantly nervous like a chihuahua on a bad trip#and it wasn't technically peaceful it was a mod that makes all mobs passive#but like. close enough
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