#pure ideology

[elbiotipo]

O sea que cada vez que escucho "Flaca" de Calamaro estoy escuchando como le metieron los cuernos con Slavoj Žižek??????

[lemon-curry]

Ok I actually have to write up this crazy fucking dream I just had, completely unprompted

So I had some legit fucking weird ass fever dream about going to a uni for coding and working on ancient computer stuff in a country where there's these propaganda/school material loot drops that are done and managed by the minister of propaganda, who in this case was slavoj zizek. They would drop out of the sky kinda like the drop pod things in lethal company and when they opened they'd just drop random textbooks and vague eastern-european looking propaganda on the ground, and you had to dress up as and pretend to be a Nazi to go over to them and pick stuff up, and he literally shows up in person and thanks you for doing it sometimes and makes sure your Nazi impersonation is up to spec before you open the pod thing.

So I did that and apparently did so well that my entire class got a promotion or something, and I decided to get drunk for the first time in my life, so I ordered two shots of jack and coke because that's like the only thing I know how to order and they just poured me a tall glass of it instead with like a lime on the top, and I ordered fries with it but apparently it wasn't lunch yet so they just made this weird fucking sandwich that was like an amalgamation of like 23 different things instead, and then gave me the glass they already finished pouring after making the sub/sandwich for like a full half hour in front of me.

Also for some reason slavoj zizek was also a visual artist or something and personally wrote and designed one of the textbooks for our classes and literally the entire uni regarded that specific textbook as the "coding bible" and talked about it like it was literally the best coding textbook ever written. It had like three weird esoteric lines of text on every page that vaguely referenced coding and then just a bunch of random designwork that I think kinda looked a bit like the designs on the old US C ration boxes but literally everyone regarded that specific textbook as the best coding textbook in the world. It was some shit like "he who codes, can code" or "arrays let you put stuff in arrays, amen" and then just a bunch of random fucking designs all over the page that had literally zero relation to coding whatsoever, and literally every single page was like that, and there was like a massive essay at the end with like pictures and stuff taking about slavoj zizek and the contributions he's made to the textbook and the nation, and I think my brain confused him with zladislaw beksinski at some point because apparently he also just went by that name for some reason.

I wasn't even thinking about zizek before I went to bed so I assume he must have broke into my house and walked up next to my bed and infiltrated my brain that way somehow.

[7hoenix]

The story behind this artwork so intense it keeps me on a loop

[queerbauten]

So, it’s been almost exactly six months since I made this post. I wasn’t expecting it to gain traction, but Neil insisted upon putting a target on the both of us.

Since then, I’ve had multiple people cry “nuance” at me. After all, Mr. Gaiman supports Israelis and Palestinians.

If that’s the case:

Why hasn’t he called for a ceasefire?

A ceasefire would save Palestinian and Israeli lives (both sides!!). It’s super easy to call for a ceasefire, too: “Ceasefire now!” Not even five seconds’ typing. It’s literally so simple. You barely have to do anything.

Hell, sometimes, you don’t even have to do that. Just find an open letter, sign your name to it, and there you go! You’ve called for a ceasefire! You have successfully done the bare minimum!

So, why can’t esteemed wordsmith Neil Gaiman do that?

Maybe it’s not really about “both sides”….

Neil Gaiman is a Zionist, btw.

[jan-dyntera]

Kill your idol

Jan Dyntera: lost i Face recognition

[glamurizacija]

It's my version of coffee without cream.

[crystalsandstones1]

White King Quartz can purify and help in the transmutation process of negative energies! The white color is a result of liquids and gases trapped during the crystal’s formation. It can strengthen and amplify any gemstones near it.

[nyancrimew]

i'm a us liberal and i think you're cool

i highly doubt you're a liberal then and just think liberal = leftist which it very much does not

[estradiolivia]

John Green's video about Johnson & Johnson is cool and necessary but the chronic liberalism of it it's kinda of off-putting.

Don't think appealing to good emotions might make changes but protests maybe will.

[obsessive-compulsive-destroyer]

You either die a philosopher or live long enough to see yourself eating from the trash bin of ideology.

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

[what-have-i-unleashed]

hmmmm somewhat a continuation of this

imagine one day killer is captured by the efforts of both the star sanses and epic sanses. but the thing now is that they don't know what to do with killer. like, he's almost impervious to all interrogation attempts, and none of them would stoop to torture to gain information of course.

while everyone is arguing over what to do with killer, color stands up and says he can deal with killer, with the condition that no one spy on him or killer while they're talking. everyone else looks at each other and agrees, since there's not much they can object for now.

so color enters the room where killer is held. and killer is very happy to see his fated enemy after entertaining so many boring side characters.

would be a bit fun/creepy if the interrogation room has a one-way mirror. and during a previous asking (maybe done by delta or swap), color was standing behind the glass watching the procedure, and killer immediately zeroed in on him despite color knowing that the glass is one-way so logically killer couldn't see him. but killer did, just intensely staring at where color was. color moved to another spot, and he swore killer turned his head to follow too. creepy killer yeehaw.

anyway, back to color and killer talking. killer is super ecstatic upon seeing color and starts dissing the other sanses for sucking at interrogation, proudly blathering on and on about he's gonna torture a hypothetical prisoner if he was in their shoes. color cuts him off being like "let's talk about something else" and asks about killer's injuries. killer is all "nah they're nothing compared to the worst ones", and color humors him "are any of them done by me?". killer blows a raspberry like "pfft, you think you're so terrible, o shining hero?"

and now they talk about their previous battles. which ones are the most deadly. which ones are the most fun. killer seems proud about the permanent marks he left on color, and also nostalgic about the ones color left on him. color keeps his opinions neutral throughout the whole conversation. it's best if this feels as if two friends having a chat after a long time not seeing each other. and aren't they friends now...?

and so color finally pops the proposal. he asks if killer wants to change side. he promises that killer doesn't have anything to fear if he joins color. and killer is silent for a moment before bursting into hysterical laughter. like suuuure thing, obviously people are gonna magically forgive him for terrorizing the multiverse. obviously nightmare is gonna leave them alone if he defects. he's been in too deep now, can't color see? there's no hope for him to rehabilitate.

and color is like "of course not! you're worth saving!". but killer wouldn't listen. it's cute that color thinks so. but the reality is that they're fated to be on opposite sides. that's their story decided by the players after all. and killer is content with it. content with having color in his life, even like this. it's best to have color than nothing at all.

{tagging @what-have-you-contained as revenge} {also @howlsofbloodhounds since i think you'd like it}

[rotzaprachim]

the problem in a nutshell is that both zionism and antizionism aren’t hypothetical ideologies that can be easily defined as a sentence so much as messy continuums of ideas that have, when implemented on a state level, lead to the suffering, oppression, and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and now diasporas in the millions. The problem is that neither exists as a morally pure ideology separate from what it has been shown, over the last couple decades, to be in the practical sense as an implemented ideology.

The problem is that when many Palestinians say Zionism is an inherently racist ideology that will lead to nothing but their displacement and national destruction they have good reason to believe exactly that, because that’s what Zionism, as an implemented ideology on the national level, has shown itself to do.

The problem is that when many Jews say Antizionism is an inherently antisemitic ideology that will lead to nothing but the censuring of ALL Jews, regardless of their ideology, as evil Zionists and their displacement and national destruction they have good reason to believe exactly that, because that’s what antizionism, we an implemented ideology on the national level, has shown itself to do.

i don’t think you can *two sides* the current state or situation, but you can ABSOLUTELY *two sides* these ideologies as contributing factors to Why We’re In this Situation especially as crackdowns in the name of both ideologies are leading to censure and ethnic tensions and outright violence globally. The thing is that I fundamentally do not believe that Jewish and Palestinian futures and liberations are incompatible. But I do think there is a global level of outright gaslighting millions of people as being “paranoid extremists” for believing that ideologies that have been enacted to hurt them for decades will continue to do so. If you want to fight extremism you have to be honest about what’s been done in the name of *your* ideology to begin with.

[astralleywright]

ok but straight up if the wildmother had said something to orym about the strong surviving and the weak being remade people would be like “omg based wildmom”

people literally have spent months defending the wildmother on the basis of "she's NATURE, obviously she's violent and reactive!! you can't judge her by mortal standards of sentience or morality!! nature's not fair get over it!!" and then the actual earth of exandria itself reveals itself to ashton, expresses exactly the mindset nature personified would have, and now people are using the fact that he was comforted by the enduring of life through apocalypse to say he's a burgeoning facist

[kitnita]

okay! good for you!! i truly and genuinely hope you get to continue to feel that way and never experience the kind and level of harassment from sports fans for being queer/a woman/a poc and from non-rpf fans that has made so many of us feel unsafe enough that we don't particularly want to be associated with them, as always you are never going to convince those people that they are like us even if they are, you are simply going to make sure they feel righteous telling us we don't belong, but you're right i no longer feel safe here with you either, so advice heeded :)

i am a queer mexican woman bud 😭 i just also believe that being a fan of sports means that i am associated with sports fans, on account of being a sports fan. it helps no one to not think of myself as being as much of a sports fan as anyone else!! i have a lot of involvement in my real life with men who are also sports fans and respect me as a sports fan; relatives like my cousins & my brother, friends i've had over the years, my brother's friends who come to me with hockey questions, my mom's ex-boss who regularly joins the bracket challenges i organize, etc. my mom & i have season tickets to our minor league baseball team and spent so much time talking about the mariners to our washington transplant ticket rep this summer that he and his gf are going to drop in on thanksgiving, where we will all flip between football & college basketball.

basically: it is truly possible to both engage with more fandom-y sports fandom and feel like you have a space in regular sports fandom. in both cases, as with all fandoms, it's about carving out a space that works best for you. my experience isn't universal but neither is yours!

though i'm sorry to hear that your experiences have been bad, i think not wanting to be seen as a sports fan, or like other sports fans, because of bad experiences with sports fans, is largely to the detriment of sports fans who aren't cishet white men.