#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.

[fantasybooksandtealeaves]

do you ever think about how the same hands that held Megumi's as he walked to school, comforted him when he cried because he thought he would be abandoned over and over again, stroked his hair as he slept, saved him from a life of poverty and fear, packed his lunches, bought him birthday and christmas gifts, hoisted him up on strong shoulders when he was too tired or stubborn to walk, carried him to bed when he dozed off on the couch and provided the only sense of stability, security and love from an adult he ever had were the same hands he saw his own body rip apart.

because I think about it a lot.

[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.

[false-anomaly]

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.

[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.

[izzibeeb]

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is insane because if you read it without context you could reasonably interpret it as a well-written, thoughtful and cutting critique of patriarchal society and toxic masculinity. You could easily see it as satirizing the way women are objectified and dehumanized, and have their suffering swept under the rug when it’s not convenient to address.

I mean, it isn’t subtle. The second scene has Julia outright say that when women say no they mean yes. Proteus claims Sylvia is the sun and therefore shines bigger and brighter than Julia who is merely a star, even though we now know that the sun is just a medium-sized star. The only way for Julia to safely travel is to pretend to be a man. If Julia from Verona is traveling as a man, who are the “Two Gentlemen of Verona?” What does it mean to be a “gentleman?” Valentine tries to perform masculinity by lying that he’s killed a man (and “slew him manfully”). Proteus asks for a picture of Sylvia, which he sees as a valid replacement for Sylvia herself. Sylvia is the only person to show Julia true compassion. Sylvia & Julia are clearly set up to be romantic rivals, but Sylvia has such a strong distaste for Proteus that there’s no chance of that. “Her eyes are gray as glass, and so are mine.” Valentine is introduced essentially as “one of the good ones” but once it becomes convenient he tries to GIFT SYLVIA TO PROTEUS. Sylvia has NO LINES for all of the ending while the men around her argue over who gets to marry her. SHE IS LITERALLY SILENCED.

But no. William Shakespeare honest-to-god wrote that play as a regular comedy with a happy ending. Presumably did not think about the implications of any of that one bit. He just thought all of that was normal.

[seeyouonsaturn]

So far all I've talked on this blog about Skyline is her and D-16 being a sweet little couple lmao I don't think I've at all made it clear just how utterly fucked up her lore is. Out of all my transformers OCs she suffers by FAR the most which is really saying something ngl

[legitimatesatanspawn]

I know its not but I got a better look at the way this couple hold their hands and all I can think of is Communion during the Eucharist. Except its giving away something instead of receiving. And a lot of other things going on that are very much not the same.

... yes I'm raised Roman Catholic and yes this implies Helena and Esteban are both left-handed. And yes it raises questions especially since the people of Rosas are doing shit like...

that.

Talk about raising someone up as an idol... If this is the 1400s as I suspect, Rosas having what looks like a wide open immigration policy is absolutely insane. The only reason why they probably weren't all burned as heretics was because it's the Disney Universe's Disney Park Expy minus all the Hidden Mickeys. (Plus Magnifico's actual magic skills. As long as he's just vibing in Rosas and keeping FAR AWAY from everyone else... with zero interest in the rest of the world...)

Its clearly a more recent image since his hair and beard are done all in white (zero idea how long Magnifico's been graying or how old he is or how long Rosas has stood for, I have my own suspicions but nothing that's canonical fact). Like yeah its super obvious someone in Rosas did that but we have no idea if Magnifico paid them and directly said to make that (possible!) or simply went "yeah sure you can put an art over there, go nuts" and did NOT expect it to be a giant image of himself I have no idea (ALSO possible!). How often does he go to the town? Did he even see it himself or get told about it second-hand?

... also whoever did that mural did NOT do a good job on his face. Relatable. It's always either faces, muscles, or hands/feet.

Also that little detail on the arm looks familiar. ... probably a coincidence though.

[muirneach]

espn

[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 🫥