#this is fucked up!!! he's fucked up!!!

[everykillerbee]

extended thoughts on this confrontation!

thank you to @super-kame-love and @full-frontal-lotus for not only asking abt my thoughts on this, but for also supporting the blog <3

for context, this is the scene where ay and tsunade stop bee and naruto on their way onto the battlegrounds. bee is making his case that him and naruto are needed and capable, but ay is fighting back Hard.

this is the part where we get bee's backstory as well, which is super important to keep in mind with the way ay fights back. because the third raikage could not have another child to be raised as a b (to be a battle partner for ay), the third raikage and ay went to what seems to be an orphanage to adopt a compatible child. ay is in his 20s, but he seems to lower his strength so it's possible one of the children could meet the goal.

bee is adopted not so he'd have a family, but so he could be formed into a perfect battle partner for ay. throughout the flashback, you can see how bee overachieved to meet this expectation. another detail that i think is important to look at here is how ay since he was little had instilled fear in bee.

quick aside, i'm not trying to paint ay as a bad person; i imagine given the way shinobi stuff is, he was similarly raised. the narrative enforces that despite him meaning well, there absolutely are things he needs to work on and unlearn, and this is one of them (because if you remember with the end of the first kisame fight, ay still grabs him by the face like this). "i'll win when we play", considering the context and what is happening in the present in this scene, means that he'll one day be allowed to assert himself without the threat of... punishment and death.

that may seem extreme with the past three caps, but in the present confrontation ay is directly saying that if bee does not back down, he's ready to kill him and start from scratch (find a new gyuuki host, assign a new b). the only reason he hesitates is because he's a "greater military asset". later in this confrontation, even after bee almost seems to get through to him, ay continues to disregard bee as a person, instead pushing him aside as an obstacle (to test naruto, the one he does for sure have less of a connection to but yknow. gotta pass as "a savior" and whatever).

we should also consider that blue b, the previous gyuuki jinchuuriki, died from having gyuuki removed/sealed away after its last rampage. it is not clear whether the rampage occurred before or after there was decision made to replace blue b with bee as the gyuuki's host, as blue b had suspicions there were plans to (orochimaru being the reason is anime-only, and so is blue b being edo tensei'd).

sorry for cap spoilers up ahead, but they're important for this discussion too. at the third raikage's funeral, ay decides to retire bee as an active shinobi and instead assigns him as border control.

the implication is that ay wants to make this change to protect bee. this is what ay believes is best for his little brother, because his little brother was assigned to him not as a brother, but as a battle partner. meanwhile, bee has just been told that all he'd been expected to do since he was five, and exceeded nonetheless, means nothing now. in reality, his status has been downgraded from battle partner to weapon. his thoughts were never considered. he never got to make decisions, he only had the choice of how he carried himself as he was forced - to become a piece of a battle plan, a jinchuuriki, a weapon.

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

The worst trauma comes from those who you love

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the thing about Professor Utonium is he didn't accidentally create 3 daughters, he purposely created 3 daughters who accidentally have superpowers. the sugar, spice, and everything nice was intentional, only Chemical X was an accident

this guy became a girl dad on purpose and I am so proud of him for achieving his dream!

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

[krispytm]

You can only reblog this today or until the next Monday, June 19th, 2028.

[xiaq]

So my bike was stolen from our garage last night. My beloved, custom, carbon fiber, most-expensive-thing-I-own-aside-from-my-car bike. I just found it listed on FB marketplace. Shit is about to go down.

[haroldhighballjordan]

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.

[maeamian]

If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.

[chiljax]

obligatory i wonder what i taste like meme old man yaoi edition

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[everwalldigan]

Bruce: *waking up in a hospital that he drove himself to after having a heart attack and telling absolutely nobody* hey…

The entirety of the batclan looking over him with Dick in the centre, an absolute terrifying grin on his face:

Dick: hello Bruce, nice evening isn’t it? Got something to share with us?

Edit: the fic is now out on ao3! https://archiveofourown.org/works/57780508

[payasita]

being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly: -"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES" -"there must be like… infinite sentences" -"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD

[lotus-pear]

SIGHHHH BSD REREAD…................I MISS THEM SO MUCH :(((

[ramburger]

Yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child 🌼