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the moral of Transformers One should have been that no one should have the Divine Right of Kings and you shouldn't mindlessly grant someone authority because they've got "Prime" in their name, but no, we just have to uphold the fascist status quo and pretend it's progressive this time because um. the ~silly little guy~ voiced by Chris Hemsworth is declaring himself to have the Divine Right of Kings this time so that makes it okay now. You should only be upset about Sentinel Prime having that much power because he didn't /really/ have the Divine Right of Kings. So that's why it was bad for him to be the self-declared dictator of the whole planet. But it's totally fine for Optimus Prime to do that same exact thing. because reasons.
And there's people pissed off about people with actual understanding of propaganda and media analysis who are losing their shit at the mere thought of people pointing out that this movie is literally about upholding the status quo. They have enough critical thinking skills to recognize that fact, but don't want it to be criticized. Because they think the status quo is good.
Because the movie literally frames the one person who has a problem with the concept of the Divine Right of Kings as a bloodthirty maniac who's Gone Too Far. Because the movie is literally about upholding the status quo even if it means literally throwing yourself in front of a dictator to save them from getting shot by an escaped slave.
#Tfone#Macadamia#Transformers One#Rjalker watches Transformers One#Megatron#Optimus Prime#Orion Pax#D16#D-16#You are not immune to propaganda#Sentinel Prime#the divine right of kings#antifa
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desperately craving weird surrealist arthurania. Knights with no faces wandering through the mists. Seams between Christian and pre-Christian Britain gaping like open wounds. Beafts and visions. Maybe a monk. Maybe the monk is gay
#This post brought to you by remembering that The Green Knight exists#and longing to live in the alternate universe where it launched a whole genre of high quality queer indie arthurania retellings#craving themes of guilt honor repression wildness etc etc#bonus points if it includes critique of the whole divine right of kings English empire imaginary that can accompany Arthur retellings#I would write it myself but alas! I have no brain#Mine
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@puppetmaster13u You called Danny a space whale in the tags of one of this post.
Now what if that was literal?
Hear me out, Danny outlives his friends, parents, sister. Danny becomes a literal whale.
Well, not a literal one because he's a ghost, but he takes the shape one of at the very least. He's just a giant, glowing white whale that looks pretty divine not going to lie.
Danny leaves earth. It wasn't safe for him anymore, what with the GIW and all that as even the ghosts found it not even worth anymore to visit the mortal world.
Except for Desiree and Spectra, but that's besides the point.
But Danny doesn't retreat to the zone, he's always longed for space, but because of his new half humanness he doesn't get believe he could've ever gone because, well. Yea.
But Danny goes fuck it and goes anyway. His form shifts from human to that of a giant whale, and he swims out into the vastness of space.
Years pass, and Danny does start getting bigger as he aged. He explored the vastness of space, marveling at many things, the different planets, the stars, the formations of rock and other things.
Then he encounters someone he never though he would've.
Vlad.
Well, he knew Vlad was left behind in space by his father but he didn't think he would find him again and Vlad seemed... different, from what he remembered.
For one thing, he didn't even know where Vlad began and space ended. He got only see those red eyes that even hinted at it being the man. His body was void black and filled with stars upon stars, all glittering from his body and Vlad barely even seemed to notice him, or if he did, he didn't seem to care at all.
So, Danny took him.
He was both curious and felt a bit bad about what happened to Vlad, even if he didn't know exactly what happened, and he couldn't just leave him there either.
So on his back Vlad went, and his travels continued.
It seemed to be the correct decision, really, because slowly overtime Vlad seemed to be regaining his awareness. Then slowly, tentatively, started to speak with him through ghost speak.
Vlad only seemed to vaguely remember what he was before space. He remembered hating a man, loving a woman, wanting a son, loneliness and a boy with white hair and toxic green eyes.
Even though Vlad was his former enemy, his nemesis, and someone who took the world hostage.
He couldn't help but feel pity for him.
Then their travels continued.
Years pass unnoticed, when in space, with Danny slowly getting bigger and bigger as the two travel throughout. They've come into contact with various civilizations, some hostile, some peaceful, some neutral.
The hostile ones never lasted long, even if Danny never lifted a flipper to do anything most of the time, Vlad made sure of it.
They came at went as they pleased, and Danny believes that they've gained a bit of a reputations over their adventures, but neither he nor Vlad knew exactly what they said. It did prove useful in some cases, however.
A few more years, and Danny feels that this system is vaguely familiar. Which happens sometimes, considering he's been travelling for so long. He then finds out why it was so familiar.
He came across Earth and, oh. When was the Earth so small?
Well, not small really, but when was he just only a bit smaller than it?
Did it shrink when he was away? Or did he just grow?
That doesn't matter though. What does, is the fact that currently seemed to be an invasion going on, on his home planet thank you very much. He did not like the fact that there was a massive fleet parked right outside his home.
So he spoke to Vlad, expressed his displeasure, Vlad responded back knowingly and went off to make the source of his displeasure disappear. That doesn't Danny was idle either, the fleet was big and, well.
It's been a while since he's stretched himself in a fight.
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dpxdc#dp x dc crossover#dcxdp#dc x dp crossover#Space whale Danny#Void touched Vlad#Yes this does take place after Phantom Planet#Vlad was left in space how can you not expect me to use that?#Danny is BIIIG#Vlad vaguely remembers what he once was#Danny decided to take him along with him#Vlad can use the void itself because he's been touched by it for far too long#Unfortunately for him#Would Danny and Vlad be viewed as gods by the various civilizations they've encountered?#Danny certainly has the divine look because he glows white in the vastness of space#Vlad I think kinda has that because he's just unnatural to look at because of his void touchedness#I mean they don't have to be but its just a thought.#Right also he isn't the ghost king or prince#But he's a giant ass whale the size of a planet and slightly smaller than earth
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Love that the Fellowship has like. A prince. A king. Several nobles. Members of very wealthy and important hobbit families.
. . . . and Sam, who becomes possibly the only democratically elected official in all of Middle-Earth.
#Aragorn is out here manifesting the divine right of kings meanwhile Sam has to run an election campaign#i will not say the day is done nor bid the stars farewell
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SUN COMING UP ON A DREAM COME AROUND ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM THE EMPIRE NOW SUN COMING UP ON A WORLD THAT’S EASY NOW ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW
#empire now#hozier#hozier unheard#its sooo ursula k le guin ‘we live in capitalism. it’s power seems inescapable. so did the divine right of kings’#ace.txt
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got this reblog on one of my posts were i talked about being anxious about the future of the zelda series after totk and-
i even went back and unblocked them just to check my own post and check twice what they meant exactly- but i still dont know how they got to these conclusions
i never said i 'want a good uwu ganondorf' (bc that would mean hes aligned with hyrule bc thats how goodness works!!!!11!1!!!), i also dont think of any of the zeldas as 'whores' (seriously, where did that come from?? neither me nor the addition of someone agreeing with me said anything like that??? did they think bc the addition called tloz misogynistic means we think zelda is a whore????? huh???)
its also funny how they say they want zelda to stay a simple fairytale rather than have 'people like me' bc .. one point i talked about in the og post was how the evil arab thing VS good white people media likes to do so much is so normalized here that its simply seen as a simple harmless fairytale trope instead of a big underlying issue in general media and the writers might not even realize it (which is worse) bc the most 'generic' appeal is to people who dont think of it as a problem in the first place, because it is so normalized
(huh, i wonder about what kind of person that part was about .. hmmmm)
(ALSO funny they mention princess hilda as nuanced villain ... like ... wow they are so nuanced about purple haired people!!- like guess why we want a nuanced/less badly/less flat written ganondorf and what he, in particular, has not in common with other villains! its not his hair color! .... or was that point supposed to mean .. look we have one female character that is a villain, its not misogynistic! idk honestly)
(and the classic, "you just call it this/dont like it bc its not what you wanted !!!!!!!2!"1!112!!")
also funny how its 'never gonna be progressive enough' like asking for the franchise to maybe put a little more thought and nuance into their white divine right vs evil desert man simulator instead of making it worse is already asking too much
(i dont know what the last point has to do with anything??)
(also yes totk is racist, like most if not all of the franchise and a alot of other media as well, shocker- you can still like it though, i and plenty of other people are still fans of it, we just wish they did a little more with their stuff and maybe not make the racism problem WORSE)
(also yes the hyrule monarchy is also evil :))) )
(and also not so secretly so either :)) )
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#ganondoodles rants#ganondorf#wanted to search my blog for the post at first and tumblr showed me two posts and their reblogs#i have so many more posts in this tag#the fuck#.....im sorry to all the zelink shippers with a brain but i cant say im surprised that they were one#i could go through every point in their addition but tbh its not worth any more of my time really#needed to say something though bc .....#yeah no wonder nintendy dont have to put any work into their story if thats how some people react to mild criticism of it lol#who are you fighting for little man?#defending the big corporation from mild criticism from people that want the media they produce to be better??#....... in the end i kinda did go into every point#or what point i thought they were trying to make which ... was rather unclear to me#anyway#wild to come across people like that here#only had one other i can remember but they went straight to insults lol#(was there ever a divine prophecy that said only gan can be king??? how was urbosa or riju on the throne then??-#(wait was that meant as “see? the gerudo have the divine right thing too!! samey as hyrule so they not bad!!”#i am genuinely so confused
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“The job is the unquestioned goal for all free citizens of the world – the ultimate public good. It is the clearly stated exit goal of all education and the only sanctioned reason for acquiring knowledge. But if we think about it for a moment, jobs are not what we want. We want shelter, food, strong relationships, a livable habitat, stimulating learning activity, and time to perform valued tasks in which we excel. I don’t know of many jobs that will allow access to more than two or three of those things at a time, unless you have a particularly benevolent owner or employer.
I am often told that I should be grateful for the progress that Western civilization has brought to these shores. I am not. This life of work-or-die is not an improvement on preinvasion living, which involved only a few hours of work a day for shelter and sustenance, performing tasks that people do now for leisure activities on their yearly vacations: fishing, collecting plants, hunting, camping, and so forth. The rest of the day was for fun, strengthening relationships, ritual and ceremony, cultural expression, intellectual pursuits, and the expert crafting of exceptional objects. I know this is true because I have lived like this, even in this era where the land is only a pale shadow of the abundance that once was. We have been lied to about the “harsh survival” lifestyles of the past. There was nothing harsh about it. If it was so harsh – such a brutish, menial struggle for existence – then we would not have evolved to become the delicate, intelligent creatures that we are.”
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
#sand talk#tyson yunkaporta#sand talk: how indigenous thinking can save the world#capitalism#we live in capitalism: its power seems inescapable. so did the divine right of kings#history#sustainability#solarpunk#nature#indigenous authors#books#antiwork#anti capitalism#indigenous rights#colonialism
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They're calling "Purify the palace, the streets" But the temple remains unclean
#12. Holy War - RKS
doomed by his father's sins
#the divine right of kings (curse)#me at this drawing: i dont wanna play with you anymore#i give up she will remain forever unfinished#yugioh#ygo#atem#yami yugi#inktober#yugioh fanart#my art#inktober 2024
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i disappear inside myself / my friends don't know it can't be helped
[Pure You - Nothing But Thieves]
#my art#mysme#mystic messenger#v mystic messenger#jihyun kim#ummmm hi guys#^-^#fanart from me?? posted directly to this blog ??? or at all??? Well.#i was looping this song and i had the idea for this and then sat down for about four hours and here it is#im on like day 2 of v's route for the first time AND this song just came out like right as i got into his route yknow#and i was listening to those lyrics like.... huh.....#this soundssss. familiar.#anyway. politely i did NOT think that if i made fanart of this game after returning to it for the first time in like 6 years. it would be V#i adore this song though. and it compels me#i havent ever seen his route before so i still don't know how it ends idk how accurate this vibe even is#i would say try to avoid spoiling me in the tags but im gonna be real say whatever you want kings#i love u mysme fandom thats still around in 2024 you get me#anyway im drafting this at about 3 in the morning and i need to be awake earlyish tomorrow SO.#we'll see when i post this#its been so long since ive posted art i just do nawt make fanart until i get divinely inspired#iffff its blurry please click to see it its supposed to be crisp ^^;#been on this site how long i still pay no mind to their suggested image resolution#OH and by day 2 of V's route i mean like day 6 overall. you understand
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we jest we laugh but doesn't the thought that we aren't even free of nobility as a ruling class make your blood boil. Yes yes by the modes of the present the current ruling classes are the capitalists the hegemonies the monopolies but we can't even say we exchanged one for the other. They're literally still here. It's so inconcievable to me. What the hell
#[.txt]#and some people are in favour of them... how does that not. I feel like I'd have to break and reconstruct my brain to be in favour of it#i understand the mechanism behind why people would be in favour ot the hirerachy of capitalism#namely the illusion of being able to climb you way up#but MONARCHIES? NOBILITY? you as a NORMAL PERSON why would you be in FAVOUR of it...#you can't even delude yourself into thinking it's to your benefit or that you can achieve the goal. Why would you be in favour of it.#the DIVINE RIGHTS OF KINGS?????????#THE FUCKIGN. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT LOGIC?????#maybe i'm experiencing the autisms but there isn't a single way I could possibly wrap my brain around it
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How I thought about the MonsterVerse Mothra solo movie, but with the Mothra vs. Battra fighting scene?
I don't own this video (credit to @_s__o)
#ALSO#A happy energetic moth and a tired emo edgelord moth#Heisei Mothra convinces Heisei Battra to stop fighting each other and worked together to stop Heisei Godzilla#Mothra tries to wake Battra up#Is this how Divine Moths flirt?#Me vs My ADHD#BF tries to flirt at you but you just gave him a dull stupid expression#Me and my brain right now#My positive side vs my negative side#OH BOY WHY IS IT THERE ARE SO MANY CAPTIONS TO TAKE?!#ANYWAY#CAPTION THIS!!!#godzilla#mothra#battra#godzilla vs mothra#heisei era#heisei mothra#heisei movies#monsterverse#kaiju#godzilla king of the monsters#godzilla kotm#LEGENDARY GIVE US MOTHRA SOLO MOVIE I BEG YOU!!!
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I hate when a lecturer says something and I make a genius connection and then later on in the lecture they reference that exact thing I was going to comment on thus rendering my genius commentary on the topic I was going to make to my friends later obsolete
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Uh.. looks like someone broke the ketchup bottle... :/
(DW He didn't kill anyone, the blood is just symbolism)
#smg4#avatar peach au#au#mr puzzles#sorry if the quality is bad#it looks better in person#King Puzzles = Lady Macbeth??#ig???#I was originally going to do Macbeth#but then I realised that Lady Macbeth works better guilt wise#Honestly#A couple of themes in Macbeth kinda work related to this specific story/arc#Like Great Chain of Being#Guilt (of course)#Manipulation (does that count???)#Divine Right of Kings#and then theres the other plot where Peach learns to be a better person or at least better than before#one day I'll write some fics about this arc (not the full thing though) but for now#back to my quirky mentally ill parasocial shapeshifter!
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