#supremacy class

[swtechspecs]

Sith Empire Mark VI Supremacy-Class Starfighter

Source: The Old Republic Encyclopedia (Dorling Kindersley, 2012)

[pendulouspuppyudders]

i think we'd do a lot better in collectively understanding privilege if we stopped thinking about it as some evil aura people have and start thinking about it as a resource that those of a privileged class or those who are accepted by that privileged class can gain access to by performing acts that reinforce the strength of that privilege i.e. bigotry

[tossawary]

With the disclaimer that I have read interesting Soulmate AUs that actively engaged with the non-consensual elements of the setup (ex: choosing to be alone or with someone who isn't your soulmate), the wide variety of totally normal exceptions that might exist to a "One True Love" story (ex: polyamory, platonic soulmates, no soulmates, second loves), and the tragedies that are an inescapable part of life (ex: abusive partners, mental health breaks, widows and widowers)...

Some of these Soulmate AUs have shallow worldbuilds that are so obliviously, oppressively, traumatically amatonormative, monogamous, and hideously non-consensual that - if they don't have easy access to divorce, then - I have to believe that the domestic abuse and murder rates in this society are insaaaaane. Like, uh, bud, am I supposed to be getting "cornered wild animal about to start chewing its own limbs off to escape certain death" vibes from your love story here? The disrespect for autonomy in these societies is horrifying and depressing.

"Oh, these people just need to be forced into couples therapy to work out their forced relationship!" No??? What these people need is simply to not be a fucking relationship with each other before someone dies, actually.

[izuisabloodyalien]

I made an Erik playlist for everyone's listening pleasure, I'll be adding and rearranging songs in the playlist in the near future.

The cover art is a commission drawn by my friend peachy.

Doodles of Charles and Erik, he made them while making the commission.

[caramelc0rgi]

WHEN IS IT MY TURN

[hoomanbeaning]

"... afraid she was no longer there, and eager to see her, the lover turned his eyes. in an instant she dropped back, and he, unhappy man, stretching out his arms to hold her and be held, clutched at nothing but the receding air. dying a second time, now, there was no complaint to her husband (what, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?) ..."

ovid's metamorphoses / orpheus and eurydice

[tenderlytouchingjesters]

I tried out this trend!

You can choose a head, clothing, accessory and shoe! (2 is pregnant btw) have fun!

[padawan-historian]

Artificial Intelligence in relation to art spaces is an extension of settler-colonialism as its primary function is to mine, extract, and manipulate the intellectual property of working class illustrators, graphic designers, animators, and writers for one’s own profit and clout.

support human artists and creatives like marina speer @nightmerss

[manhwamuneca]

❤️ - 💙💜 Volleyball Time!! 🩷

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[cayennesugar]

Guys I swear I’ll get back to requests this is (not) the last Heatshadow hyperfixation doodle for now 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏

(I HAGE DRAWING MEN RARAGHRHAGHRHHA)

The people waiting for their requests:

[univemma]

X-Men movies hyperfixation is doing the rounds in my brain again, as it does every few years and im having a great time. In particular, I'm focused on First Class, more SPECIFICALLY,

I have so many thoughts,,,about movie Alex Summers. Like holy shit, as per every hyperfixation i went digging through any kind of character video, interview, and deleted scene i could find and oh my god there was so much more to him than what made the final cut. And of course that goes for pretty much any movie character, especially adaptations, but oh my god i cannot stop thinking about it and I haven't found ANYONE talking abt ANY OF IT it in my past week scouring the internet of any and ALL Movie!Alex fan content, so I'm losing my mind.

Planning a post about it as we speak because i need to share it with the world. The world does not care about a character from a 2011 xmen movie but I DONT CARE HE MEANS MUCH TO ME.

[divorceblogger]

hope it isn’t weird to barge into yr dms re: the mythology metaphors, but yr post sparked a thought in me! idk too much about Marius’ timeline, but I believe he would have been a contemporary of Ovid (exiled in 8 AD). the pursuit of Daphne, Leda, and Ganymede are all in Ovid’s Metamorphoses — a LOT going on in the poem re: sexual violence’s transformative effects (and this feels possibly significant in the context of vampiric “turning” as a metamorphosis?). the marble statues make me think of Pygmalion & Galatea which is also another passage in Metamorphoses that has weird implications abt consent. i am going to try to flip thru the footnotes of my copy later bc i haven’t refreshed my memory on ovid in a hot minute

not at all, I love talking to people on here - and I never considered that angle but it seems so obvious in hindsight! marius is very much a product of and clings to the prevalent ideas of his time in a way that’s not very subtle at all, transferring his belief systems to various fledgling vampires and using controlled imposition of literacy & culture as a tool of subjugation (which is a pattern of behaviour louis also emulates with claudia in the books), and it reminded me of a specific passage from an article on pederastic relations that I found relevant to the larger conversation:

I haven’t read the metamorphoses yet myself so it’s interesting that you should bring up pygmalion and galatea because they’re mentioned in the vampire armand too (perhaps indicating a conscious intent to reference ovid?), but it wasn’t in a context that made sense to include in the other post. The transformative role that seems to be such a common theme associated with sexual violence is very much in line with what the books do otherwise too, I’d say - they label all human victims ‘brides’ which has certain implications for marital relations as a large for vampires who seem to develop very dysfunctional companionships; louis himself also describes the turning of a human by a vampire as a sexual act, and a mutual and I also recently discussed how claudia’s own turning seemed to draw on a lot of language used to describe assault.

this is also slightly less relevant, but in the continued context of violence imposed through a controlled parcelling out of literacy, I enjoyed drawing comparisons between lolita and the vampire armand, specifically looking into language as a tool of violence even if I don’t necessarily think anne wrote that with conscious intent.

[nando161mando]

"Cat Lovers Against White Supremacy" (EN: English)

[number1yisuchongfan]

Madcap is so pookie bear, he def would’ve loved Sex Pistols and the Clash if he was real

Here’s his emblem I designed because no one can agree on what it should be