#these two are complicit

[fanaticforlife]

Doctor & Donna | Handclap

Pure DoctorxDonna JOY + COMPLICITY!!!

"I can make your hands clap"

[transmascutena]

there's a lot (a lot) to be said about clothing in utena, but there's always been something so striking to me in these scenes about the contrast between anthy who isn't wearing any at all, and akio who is wearing all of his (even if his shirt is unbuttoned or whatever.) it's similar in a way to the framing of episode 33, where instead of seeing a clothed akio with his naked victim, we just don't see him at all. because he's behind the camera, he's the narrator in a more direct and literal sense than in the rest of the show, in that episode. but crucially he is always the narrator, he is always controlling the framing, and it's no coincidence that in these scenes neither his face or much of his body is visible. the abuser demands vulnerability from his victims but never has to be vulnerable himself. never has to truly show himself, never has to take any blame or accountability.

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

[daniclaytcn]

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[lvnarsapphic]

Ah yes, the "purity politics" the "left" demands of Harris: stop aiding and abetting a genocide.

[ozzieinspacetime]

Thinking about the INSANE moral grey area of the thg victors at the minute,, these scared, small children killed 23 (or 47) other equally scared, small children in order to make it out alive. Every year afterwards the wound that is the games gets ripped open and they have to go about closing it up all over again. They can never escape the blood of the other scared little kids on their hands. They are being punished by the Capitol, made to watch other kids do what they did, for something the Capitol made them do in the first place. If they want the kids to die because they don't want them suffering the way a victor does for the rest of their lives, then they're uncaring & complicit in the tributes death. If they get the kids out, they're signing the tribute up for a life of misery. No winning. No moral high ground. Just a train ride that never stops.

[incandescentflower]

I have seen so many people debate whether 4 minutes will be a happy ending or not and what's more interesting to me now is if the happy ending is Tyme getting his justice when Great and his entire family burns.

[bijoumikhawal]

a lot of the talk about Bushnell is reminding me of my "the "mentally ill" have their right to violence revoked" thing again

like. When you're deemed mentally ill, suddenly you must stress how you are more likely to be a victim of violence than a perpetrator to be deemed as human. Because any violence you commit, as a crazy person, is bad. It cannot carry rationale, because you are crazy. If I, as an autistic person, hit someone who was hurting me and got in legal trouble, I can be referred to as just "crazy" instead of as a victim responding to an aggressor. It's an underdiscussed area of dehumanization.

And that's before we talk about intersectionality, and before we talk about how this factors into the idea of ODD, and the "violent" responses patients have to doctors (including those who simply aren't white, and those forced on meds that hurt them, and those resisting sexual assault, and-).

But this is not just interpersonally political, it is political at scale. Black men were targeted by schizophrenia diagnoses during the Civil Rights era (and this is also around when schizophrenia became a "scary" illness). The crazy cannot have valid political criticisms, as a movement (remember that being "crazy" is a vector of oppression abd marginalization) or as individuals in other movements.

Ive seen both the sentiment of "oh Aaron is gonna be slandered as crazy" and exactly what the sentiment warns of- "we can't valorize suicide from the mentally ill". And the first isn't wrong, because society at large does view the "crazy" as lacking political agency, but it's lacking.

Bushnell had been trying very hard to get out of his military contract without being imprisoned at best, while witnessing genocide and knowing he was complicit. He may not have had clinical depression normally, but that would inspire a mental rational response of situational depression (and yes, mental health issues can be a rational response to horrible circumstances). Further, I know of instances of self immolation that WERE done by people who did have long standing mental health issues and were done to protest the treatment they'd experienced that caused them and that resulted from their existence. Mental illness and divergence from the norm is more complicated than just "these people are incapable of rationality, they are incapable of political thought, and they are incapable of agency".

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

six sentence wednesday

tyyy for the tag @kaleido-scope-lady ! Wow what a last 6 sentences, from a little brainworm about Tesoros time in juvie [ironically not for murder or even a violent crime given what he admits in this first paragraph], and a look at how he sees himself and his moral code [self hatred, so much self hatred. About 60% deserved]

tagging anyone who wants to do this!

He knows what killing someone feels like, sending them to their death or even taking a life with just his bare hands. That's not what scares him, but the idea of the bodies caused by his actions being the bodies of the very people he coated his hands with blood for.

Enough blood that all the perfume in arabia couldn't sweeteen the stink, and all the oceans of the world couldn't wash them clean.

He had thrown out something about coming back later and not intruding, but his walk back to the library was blurry in his mind, disgust at the attacker, and overwhelmingly at himself, overwriting the rest of his recollection.

That was one thing he was enjoying, reading, plenty of time for it, even between the half hearted lessons put on for them. Few people cared for them so the worn piles of book were his to peruse.

[very-lost-hobbit]

Seeing so many people I once respected and even adored/admired prove themselves mask off antisemites when given the chance and an "appropriate" enough reason is so incredibly heartbreaking. So many left leaning and supposedly empathetic people apparently do not hear themselves right now.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

NYT questions to 2020 Democrats: Israel's Record on Human Rights

NYT: Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights? KH: I think that Israel as a country is dedicated to being a democracy and is one of our closest friends in that region, and that we should understand the shared values and priorities that we have as democracy and conduct foreign policy in a way that is consistent with understanding the alignment between the American people and the people of Israel. NYT: Does Israel meet human rights standards to your personal satisfaction? KH: Well, talk in more detail - what specifically are you referring to? NYT: As a country overall in terms of how they… KH: Overall, yes.

[party-gilmore]

[not even through first page of dash on allotted brief lunch time tumblr break]

[absolutely fantastic post about Palestine and Palestinians persevering and living and don’t let your western media propaganda bias dehumanise them to you based on stereotypes about their people during this ongoing genocide perpetuated by the state of israel]

awesome awesome hell yeah cool yes reblo-

“so anyway yeah Death To Israel”

…it would’ve been so fucking easy.

to not immediately miss the entire subtext of your own damn post.

“Dissolve.” “Dismantle.” “Deconstruct.” “Topple.” “Overthrow.” or i don’t know, just fucking…

one of so many other words that explicitly and specifically describe a process of removing the authority and sovereign status of a nation/state and its radical, war criminal government and occupying military forces.

but no instead let’s go with Death just fucking kill them all wipe them out the same way they’re doing to Palestine because as we all know of course there’s no “citizens” in israel actively fighting and protesting and campaigning and being targeted by their own radical government for it. they’re all just exactly the same as the stereotype all the media making it out of israel shows - toxic, racist, inhuman, bullshit viral video/tiktok stars, who are all cheering and making jokes about it, and if you try to humanize israelis right now what are you a fucking zionist how DARE you not support Palestine?

and then these same folks will turn around and say “okay y’all STOP freaking out about retaliatory violence, NO ONE is saying freeing Palestine means theyre are gonna turn around and try to wipe israeli’s* out the same way, that’s making a LOT of incredibly harmful assumptions about them based on barbaric and fearmongering stereotypes ”

…in the same fucking breath they just said “death to israel.”

8 whole minutes in and that’s ALREADY enough social media for the day 🫥

[crystal-verse]

Day 23 - On Cloud Nine

[hi have some 5.4 fluff. brought to you by me remembering ishgard my beloved, and also that g'raha used to have a blue eye. i miss the blue eye. alas]

Cloud Nine is perhaps a bit of a misnomer should you ask the locals, but you certainly feel like you're on cloud nine, in this moment.

Breathlessly happy, flopped backwards onto the bed even in its -- lesser quality from some of the other inns you've been to, you pull Raha closer against you, your stuttering staccato purr rumbling all the while. "Is this the adventure in Ishgard you'd wanted, one day?" You ask, the purring drawing your r's out more than they already are.

Raha smirks at you. "Not quite, no." They lean forward, and press a kiss to your lips, your nose, your brow. "You'll have to take me around more of it than just the airship landing, Pheli."

You giggle, wrapping your tail around his back. "I will. It'll be a promise."

You lose energy to do much but melt further into the bed, but -- that's alright. You can melt, for this night. Raha is here, and he is alive (not encased in crystal, like he had been as the Exarch), and for the first time in many, many years you are able to simply. . . be, with him. In the Source, you mean. (It makes the -- strain, lesser. You are not simply the Warrior of Light, anymore -- no, Raha is there by your side to remind you that you're not only K'pheli the Warrior of Light but also Sae'pheli'ehva, that Miqo'te he had fallen in love with, that person who had slowly been coaxed into breathing again by Raha's own gentle hands and words. It's a nice feeling.)

"We should sleep." Raha suggests eventually, in a tone that suggests it's more meant for your benefit than theirs. You pout at them, but concede to the logic -- you'd arrived in Ishgard just before dark (thus the inn room), and tomorrow would likely be a busy day searching for wherever Estinien is -- if he is still in Ishgard at all. (He had better be.)

Still, you sigh dramatically. "Raha?"

"Mmh?"

"Sing to me?"

Raha smiles at you, a squinting sort of smile that takes up his whole face. The familiarity of it makes your chest ache for a moment -- when last you'd seen that boyish expression on them, Raha's other eye had been blue. (It has been quite some while since his eye was blue, but you still find yourself -- forgetting. Expecting to find red-and-blue, instead of red-and-red. Still. You will get used to it, the same as Raha has gotten used to you.) "If that is what you wish."

And so -- he sings. And so, you drift to sleep. (What a lovely way to sleep -- to be lulled by the soft, sweet song of a lover.)

[inamindfarfaraway]

Thinking about a DC/How to Train Your Dragon crossover AU where Harvey Dent and Two-Face have a Hideous Zippleback. They sit on its back and look between its necks. It could be bicolour, mostly purple on its one side and yellow on the other with small contrasting patches. Harvey is closer to the head that makes the gas, while Two-Face is to the one that causes explosions. What would they name the heads? A legal doublet would be fun. Aid and Abet? Cease and Desist? Null and Void?

@about-faces

[ddesertmoon]

Talking to liberals about how I’m not voting for Genocide Joe is infuriating.

He’s killing people. He’s bombing civilians.

“They all are. It’s about choosing the lesser evil.”

The lesser evil? You shouldn’t vote for ANY evil. If the system is corrupt, it’s your responsibility to change it.

“Vote blue no matter who” is a slogan meant to take advantage of your morals and get you to participate in a system that does not care about you.

It is your responsibility as a citizen to make it known that your rights matter more to you than the ongoing “stability” of a two party system. If your government is inherently unjust then it is YOUR responsibility to take part in reforming it from the outside.

Working within the system itself is impossible because that system does not allow you to dismantle it.

[netegf]

not that anyone really cares all that much anyways bc my blog is not super popular by any means, but i'm sorry i haven't really been checking my notifs or responding or being as active and outspoken as i want to be. i am very deeply devastated by everything that's going on right now and as an afghan muslim with palestinian family members, i can't even begin to explain my feelings nor the pain just that it's enduring and everywhere. i am working on a rafe fic to help myself cope more than anything else - but yeah, just know that this blog believes in a free palestine and no, that does not mean anti-semitism. in fact, it is largely the work of the many incredible and pioneering jewish scholars of anti-zionism whose words and solidarity are lending me strength at this time. i hope you will keep the people of gaza in your hearts and apply your morals evenly.