#supremacy class

[swtechspecs]

Sith Empire Mark VI Supremacy-Class Starfighter

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

[fridgrave2-0]

my take on post-canon ud!!

[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

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm actually so done with people (including "allies") using trans* men in order to attack trans* women. There is no trans liberation without all of us.

"Oh, you don't see trans men doing [x], but you see trans women doing it!" Actually, that just tells me that you intentionally leave trans* men out of this specific bias against trans people. It tells me everything about your attitude about trans* men and trans* women.

[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:

[petrichoremojis]

IDs in alt!

A bunch of variants for a symbol depicting 'white supremacy'. We've got a couple of symbols like this planned since it's important for AAC users to be able to talk about things like race and racism

[hussyknee]

Whenever Brits are like "tea is our national drink, our culture, our personality, our mental health" I think of our hill country blanketed in a patchwork quilt of human suffering and ongoing violent colonialism and want to smash all their tea cups. Your genocidal leaf juice is nothing to be proud of. The present day tea pluckers are the descendants of the Indians you enslaved and they still live in unthinkable poverty in the line houses you built to house them like cattle. The families whose farmlands you robbed have been starving for generations. Every sip of your leaf juice is soaked in blood and you drink it like vampires.

Tea will never belong to you. It's our legacy of grief, and your shame.

Drink your tea and shut the fuck up.

[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.

[nando161mando]

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

[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.

[vividdreamer]

let me offer up some wisdom to yall as someone who grew up surrounded by bigots in my family, college, work, etc. there were maybe 2 or 3 others who already believed in basic shit like marriage equality and medical privacy when i met them. as for the rest, i helped many of them gradually change their views.

here's what ive learned: their views on anything can be shaped through emotional manipulation. the clever cunts at the top know this. but as for us, we are too dependent on intellectual arguments. they are not working efficiently enough to challenge bigoted beliefs, because most of the time you are not talking to emotionally-regulated people. its fear-mongering that shapes their worldview. a fear response is a natural thing; it exists to keep you alive. most people cant process any information without checking to see if it scares them. they're supposed to learn how to regulate this to avoid reaching extreme conclusions. think first, react later. but we're absolutely shit at raising people with healthy mental development. some do find a way. but your problem is you need to learn how to address those who don't, or at least haven't yet.

if any information presented to them was crafted with a misleading and fearful narrative i.e. a sensational story that uses reactive language, irrelevant details, causal fallacies, etc, while excluding any fact or context that would have functioned as a barrier to these triggers....they are going to accept that narrative as truth if it scares them. trying to change their minds through facts and logic rarely makes a difference. infact, they're not going to trust the information you've offered up because they think THAT'S actually trying to manipulate them.

i fear we don't have time to teach millions of people how to think first, then react. healing has to come with intention anyway. but do you want people to switch to progressive politics or not? then you need to reach them at a place where they can still listen: their emotion. If you dont start talking to them through an angle that addresses their fears, we will be fucked. the ultra wealthy run the media, and they aren't playing fair. you cant keep praying people will open a history book, go to therapy (expensive and inaccessible for too many anyway) or develop their critical thinking skills. it may feel unethical (i personally dont think it is if you're not the one lying) but you need to utilize this because its not going away soon, and the right and centrists are going to keep using it to get what they want.

[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

[atopvisenyashill]

my hot take of the day is that clearly the people who swallow the in universe targ & valyrian exceptionalism are being completely taken in by the exact system that george is trying to critique but also i think the people who over correct into this idea that not a single targaryen is worthy of like, our empathy or sorrow or are rightfully chafing against the structures put in place by valyrians, first men, and andals alike are also being incredibly 2d in their analysis. i feel like this happens most often when people try to make the case that andals are somehow oppressed in westerosi society on a cultural level simply bc valyrian supremacy trumps andal culture. i think this is incredibly silly to say or posit as the truth in universe because there is in fact some oppression of culture in westeros but it’s not the andals lol!!! it’s the first men, the dornish, the rhoynar/greenblood orphans, and the ironborn. there Is some level of,,,, idk bigotry/xenophobia towards valyrians but only valyrians who don’t worship the faith - people like larra rogare, who still follow valyrian gods, do face this bigotry because they’re Too Foreign, the same way someone like thoros, melisandre, taena, etc who are essosi but not from a still heavy valyrian-based society like volantis and lys, and that’s definitely important to the conversation, because it shows the Dominant Culture is in fact the Andal culture when it comes to westeros and that’s like,,, fine, and even more interesting to me to see how andals, who have been the dominant force on westeros for thousands of years, interact with valyrians, who clearly want to keep ideas of valyrian supremacy alive somehow and essentially try to get the other dominant force in westeros to buy in (which they do!). like, are these two at odds sometimes? yes! but i don’t think it’s correct to say that the andals face ~prejudice for being andals or followers of the faith either!

[xkittzkornerx]

every day i mourn the country we could have been. the country they’d spin tales of when we were children.