#special privileges

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Equal rights for all. Special privileges for none." Thomas Jefferson.

[eddiegettingshot]

IM KIDDING but idk why this gif came to mind lmaooo<3

you can tell me how much u hate tommy if you want 💓

[seeing-double0909]

i hate mikoto kayano /lh /j

-krowe 📍 [he/she]

[chappellrroan]

"celebraties aren't activists" so close. actually speaking against an ongoing genocide doesn't make you an activist it makes you a human with basic sense of empathy and awareness

[ambrosiagourmet]

Not sure how widely recognized this is but it’s fucking wild to me that miss kui just quietly snuck in the fact that most (if not all) of the differences between races only exist because of wishes they made to the Winged Lion.

Dwarves being strong? Lion wish. Elves being good at magic? Lion wish. All lifespan differences???? Lion wish, babey!

Not that the elves superiority shtick isn’t already BS, but it’s even funnier with the context that the only difference between them and humans is that, thousands of years ago, their leaders made a greedier wish to the demon that wanted to eat them.

[nearestend]

clearly xeno does not understand this — well, he doesn't understand several things here — the appeal of a freely nomadic lifestyle and the fact that ellie bird simply cannot ally herself with dogs.

"i don't remember saying that, actually." to be fair, she doesn't remember most things unless they pertain to her immediate interests. "but if that is true, i am now currently at my limit. which means that there is no room for jack the dog. he's only here as a companion to you. a plus one, i suppose." although, xeno — please forgive the pun, ellie doesn't normally like puns — is on thin ice.

"i do think he's nicer than other jacks. other jacks are mean sometimes and they talk to much."

"enemies? how can you be enemies?" with wide puppy eyes of his own, xeno really is not getting it. they're at an impasse; nature boy and ellie bird, friend and enemy of dogs. nothing in life has prepared him for this. "i—i don't have anywhere to go, and it's not nice—"

but wait, there it is! a foot in the door, the twinkling of hope. (maybe not—definitely not—but xeno will cling to his own naivety.) "hey, hear that, buddy? you're allowed to stay!" he beams, cuddling jack the dog against his chest. to ellie, he raises an eyebrow, a grin propping up half of his mouth. "remember when you said we couldn't be friends, 'cause you were already over your limit? and look at us now, huh."

[maulfucker]

racism in star wars will have wikis saying shit like "this species that is inspired on a real life non-white people is just too stupid to use the Force"

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x06

[hopefulonion]

When you just wanna lean completely in each other’s space✨

[simplydnp]

guys im still so overwhelmed by how lovely that show was 😭😭😭

[frozencometx]

I will just drop this here and run

Also some related(unrelated) ramblings under read more

That whole Bowser and Zokket sitiuation is so funny, like Bowser is so ignorant towards the fact the Zokket plot is already resolved. I like to think he was a little upset he had to leave Concordia without getting to punch the guy, because Bowser is petty like that. Imagine Bowser learning about the second Uni Tree and thinking that this will be his chance to get payback, so he "secretly" tries caring for it. Mario and co. quickly learn of this and try to stop him, because they think he might destroy or steal it (he did consider stealing it but Jr. and Kamek managed to convice him otherwise), but realize what he is trying to do and leave him be. At this point everyone has given up trying to explain him the truth and if he somehow succeeds (nearly) everyone wins. Also Jr. is helping him, because he obviously wants to see Buddy again.

[hunterintheice]

I don't know if we'll ever get to see more of it, but the early SaintShin dynamic re Saint's gang is so interesting to me.

Obviously, Saint is poor, isn't doing well academically, has an alcoholic father, and doesn't have a lot of control over his life and his future. Was the gang (built on the only thing he was good at - fighting) the only place where he could feel in control? Was this why this place, where Saint could be the best and the most important, meant so much to him?

But then again, we see that he is willing to let Shin be the "Boss", order him around, playfully insult him, and poke him. So obviously Shin had a very special place in the hierarchy, especially considering that he has to be personally cajoled by Saint into going to the internet cafe for some fight.

So it's all the more interesting (read totally fucking me up) that when Shin tried to leave it was the gang and its rules that Saint tried to use to make him stay, where previously Shin was more or less exempt from them. Was it because Saint felt like his control was slipping? Because he thought that putting Shin back into this hierarchy would give Saint power to make him stay? Because even right before the whole beatdown starts Saint still asks Shin if he's sure he wants to do this (with a kind of desperate hope that this is the point where Shin will finally reconsider). It is also interesting that Saint is the only one beating Shin, with all other boys just kinda...standing there, since usually a punishment like that would entail a sort-of group-beatdown? And god, what a stupid rule, truly deserving of a group of 15-16 year old boys.

Still, it's like even at his angriest Saint can't alow anyone else to hurt Shin.

It's also curious how in the present one of the first things Saint does is express his willingness to be Shin's gofer, again trying to put them both in this sort of rigid hierarchy, just with their roles reversed. Is it out of desire to have a familiar pattern to fall into in a very unfamiliar situation? An attempt to forge at least some sort of relationship between them?

Something-something patriarchy and society making boys believe they can only express anger and not sadness, something-something Shin saying no one will ever make him cry again, and still shedding tears whenever he is face to face with Saint.

[rebellum]

The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"

And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"

[omegalerc]

thinking extra hard tonight about that one ao3 tag calling charles the f1 helen of troy. cuz wow… nailed it

[luckcycler]

happy to say I got Kiwa's basic sprites done so here's a couple of them for show!