#this isn't an offense or anything

[robbiedaymonds]

sorry i haven’t been around much!

i’m in grad school right now, in my last semester, where i’m taking three classes, i have one internship (soon two for a few weeks) and i work full time so needless to say i don’t have a lot of extra time. i come on here mostly to post a gifset if i have a second to make one and to reblog a few things. my queue is low so i’m trying to go through mutuals’ edit tags and find new stuff.

i want to keep supporting artists and creatives here, and i really hope y’all don’t forget about me or think i’m not supporting you all. i promise i am, i just have a life outside of the internet heh

[infiniteglitterfall]

I guess this might be why the UK seemed to go so antisemitic so quickly

I'm researching the 1947 pogroms in the UK. (Actually, I'm researching all the pogroms and massacres of Jews in the past 200 years. Which today led me to discover that there were pogroms in the UK in 1947.)

From an article on "The Postwar Revival of British Fascism," all emphasis mine:

Given the rising antisemitism and widespread ignorance about Zionism [in the UK in 1947], fascists were easily able to conflate Zionist paramilitary attacks with Judaism in their speeches, meaning British Jews came to be seen as complicit in violence in Palestine.

Bertrand Duke Pile, a key member of Hamm’s League, informed a cheering crowd that “the Jews have no right to Palestine and the Jews have no right to the power which they hold in this country of ours.” Denouncing Zionism as a way to introduce a wider domestic antisemitic stance was common to many speakers at fascist events and rallies. Fascists hid their ideology and ideological antisemitism behind the rhetorical facade of preaching against paramilitary violence in Palestine.

One of the league’s speakers called for retribution against “the Jews” for the death of British soldiers in Palestine. This was, he told his audience, hardly an antisemitic expression. “Is it antisemitism to denounce the murderers of your own flesh and blood in Palestine?” he asked his audience. Many audience members, fascist or not, may well have felt the speaker had a point. ...[The photo of two British sergeants hanged by the Irgun in retaliation for the Brits hanging three of their members] promptly made numerous appearances at fascist meetings, often attached to the speaker’s platform. In at least one meeting, several British soldiers on leave from serving in Palestine attended Hamm’s speech, giving further legitimacy to his remarks. And with soldiers and policemen in Palestine showing increasing signs of overt antisemitism as a result of their experiences, the director of public prosecutions warned that the fascists might receive a steady stream of new recruits.

MI5, the U.K. domestic security service, noted with some alarm that “as a general rule, the crowd is now sympathetic and even spontaneously enthusiastic.” Opposition, it was noted in the same Home Office Bulletin of 1947, “is only met when there is an organized group of Jews or Communists in the audience.”

The major opposition came from the 43 Group, formed by the British-Jewish ex-paratrooper Gerry Flamberg and his friends in September 1946 to fight the fascists using the only language they felt fascists understood — violence. The group disrupted fascist meetings for two purposes: to get them shut down by the police for disorder, and to discourage attendance in the future by doling out beatings with fists and blunt instruments. By the summer of 1947, the group had around 500 active members who took part in such activities. Among these was a young hairdresser by the name of Vidal Sassoon, who would often turn up armed with his hairdressing scissors.

The 43 Group had considerable success with these actions, but public anger was spreading faster than they could counter the hate that accompanied it. The deaths of Martin and Paice had touched a nerve with the populace. On Aug. 1, 1947, the beginning of the bank holiday weekend and two days after the deaths of the sergeants, anti-Jewish rioting began in Liverpool. The violence lasted for five days. Across the country, the scene was repeated: London, Manchester, Hull, Brighton and Glasgow all saw widespread violence. Isolated instances were also recorded in Plymouth, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea, Newcastle and Davenport. Elsewhere, antisemitic graffiti and threatening phone calls to Jewish places of worship stood in for physical violence. Jewish-owned shops had their windows smashed, Jewish homes were targeted, an attempt was made to burn down Liverpool Crown Street Synagogue while a wooden synagogue in Glasgow was set alight. In a handful of cases, individuals were personally intimidated or assaulted. A Jewish man was threatened with a pistol in Northampton and an empty mine was placed in a Jewish-owned tailor shop in Davenport.

And an important addendum:

I've read a whole bunch of articles about the pogroms in Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Eccles, Glasgow, etc.

Not one of them has mentioned that the Irgun, though clearly a terrorist group, was formed in response to 18 years of openly antisemitic terrorism, including multiple incredibly violent massacres. Or that it consistently acted in response to the murders of Jewish civilians, not on the offensive. Or that at this point, militant Arab Nationalist groups with volunteers and arms from the Arab League countries had been attacking Jewish and mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhoods for months.

I just think the "Jewish militants had been attacking the British occupiers" angle is incredibly Anglocentric.

Yeah, they were attacking the British occupiers. But also, that's barely the tip of the iceberg.

Everyone involved hated the Brits at this point. If only al-Husseini and his ilk had hated the Brits more than they hated the Jews, Britain could at least have united them by giving them a common enemy.

[c00kietin]

a meme for these trying times?

do not repost please! thank you <3

og meme below (traced the words of course lol)

[imnotabotdontblockmeplz]

although I do not like to post complaints today my dad said "believing the future won't be a dystopia is a first-world perspective" and I have to say that might be one of the worst takes I've ever heard in my life

[shift-shaping]

hello assorted sluts, marauders, and various other entities of ill-repute

i want to let you all know that i will be doing field work for the next two weeks-ish starting tomorrow. while i will have internet access, i'm not bringing my laptop. as such, i'm probably not going to post any new fics during that time. i have them, and will be writing more of them, but i hate editing on my phone very much, so they will not be ready for your eyes.

i'll still be around, though less than usual because i need to go sit in a quarry and poke at a wall with a dental pick all day so i can find more body parts from these things and their many horrible (affectionate) neighbors

(art by scott reid)

[swagyna]

it's critiquing femininity.

the visceral reaction comes from knowing the nails are unhealthy and unclean. not even to mention that women typically spend hundreds on getting these nails done, and waste hours doing so too.

speaking of time consumption, women with these nails will also have to spend hours learning to function in day to day life. hell, even then i still see so many videos of women struggling to perform basic tasks. it can also put women into compromising situations where they may need to rely on a stranger (potentially a man) for help.

don't get me wrong, i do think some of the nail styles actually look cool or cute. but the lack of functionality that comes with them is what's a turn off. and is why feminists are critical of them.

[walker-lister]

I just have to remind myself sometimes that no matter what anyone else says, the way a piece of media makes me feel and the positive impact it has had on my queer identity is valid, and that tearing myself apart thinking I have to defend it or questioning my own place within queer communities is not at all important when compared to the almost tangible sense of 'rightness' that piece of media helped me to feel about myself.

[elaryssue]

Opinion and Headcanon on Rei's SO.

Although I see why people interpret Rei as Asexual, he as a forcefully closeted gay can bring more juice to the plot.

Many people pointed that Rei's conversation with his father seemed like an homophobic Father lecturing his son about how he has been living with another man for around 3 years so far, where he doesn't seems to be believe his son's lies about not making emotional bonds and who is obsessed with the heritage of his blood and family name.

It would make sense that Shigeki (being the manipulative sh*t he is) would have suspected Rei's orientation a long time ago, though being something he will never accept, the brain-washing training Rei was receiving should have been enough to erase any "unnecessary or wrong" aspect from the robotically obedient assasin he was creating.

In ep 3 we saw a bit of the abuse Rei went through, and based on how much this guy fears his father, it wasn't the only ot last time it happened.

In ep 9 it's easier to see that Rei's voice is lighter than the quite and lower tone he usually use, he may be making his voice sound more "masculine" and intimidating on purpose. During this ep we also witnessed his development to a more expressive and compromised person (beautiful indeed), though at a turtle's pase Rei is becoming more comfortable showing emotions, and having more presence?. All of them contrasting the stoic and cold mask he wears in his ON mode.

It would make sense that Rei hasn't shown any sexual or romantic desires to both genders until now. His father might have made sure those desires were well repressed (a killing machine doesn't need them), and I'm pretty sure he would have forced Rei with a "qualified partner" just to assure the Suwa bloodline continues. Though I doubt he would allow them to develop any kind of attachment to each other.

However, the development on his relationship with Kazuki is very visible, he cares about him, enjoys his and Miri's company, and I think ep 8 was a realizing point for him to understand more about his real feelings for him, as I'm pretty sure he related himself to his mentor's situation deeply). Though he may not understand his own feelings completely, he is commited to spend the rest of his life as Kazuki's partner and the father of their daughter.

[dykephan]

some of you guys are giving me secondhand embarrassment can we please be serious

[listenupcupcakes]

soldier what is your opinion on mayonnaise

MAYONAISE IS JUST EGGS AND OIL

I CAN MIX EGGS AND OIL MYSELF

IT IS ONLY GOOD WHEN MIXED WITH OTHER CONDIMENTS. LIKE KETCHUP.

[fanglesshound666]

sorry if this is terribly offensive but I dont get why the "men are bad" jokes (as long as they ARE jokes) are inherently bad

[c00kietin]

school drained me more than usual today anyways here's some doodles :D

[clowndensation]

the crow quests do make me feel like i'm losing my mind btw. the culmination of it is really like. "after all your hard work, this child has officially become a contract killer who hopes to take in orphans and teach them the trade" and this is framed as 100% an amazing heartwarming thing. hello. zevran arainai are you out there. something really fucked up just happened.

[constantvariations]

Absolutely love that folks who hate Adam come up with the same arguments damn near word for word

1. He's a cringe edgelord (subjective and not inheritely a bad thing??)

2. He's violent (in a combat heavy cartoon)

3. He's a reverse racist (when he literally is branded with his oppressor's company initials)

4. He's a domestic abuser (when he's written by a company who think it's funny to stalk random women on the street from their cars)

[these-detestable-hands]

The great ace attorney is testing my patience in ways I didn't even think were possible

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Ah fuck it whatever

There's something I love about the new Consequences AU and how it compares to the AUs and music it's come from.

Where things like Roxy's old kingdom being destroyed and her being almost drowned as a baby are metaphorical, there's a lot of things that strangely aren't. Roxy specifically denying the gods and the powers that be is something she does in most of my interpretations of her. The gods in most situations, isn't a spooky green rabbit, it's the people in the Fazbear boardroom making the world's worst decisions ever. To the animatronics, they are the gods. There's no higher authority than them, and they can have them destroyed without ever having met them, at just a moment's notice, for seemingly no reason.

Bonnie once believing in the gods and turning against them works like it does for most of the animatronics too. Even just questioning Fazbear isn't something many of them have been able to do, but all of them will eventually learn to. The more they learn through Roxy, despite what they might have known before, the more they realise what kind of company they've been forced to be a part of.

And Roxy's attitude towards these gods is always the same. She won't pretend to be nice to people she knows don't care about her. She won't put any extra effort into maintaining social etiquette if there's no point, if there's nothing for her to gain from it. Fazbear CEOs and board members have hurt her so much already, she doesn't give a flying shit about them, she's not wasting her time on them unless she absolutely has to. In this universe, the same can be said about the gods. She doesn't care for them and they don't care about her, so why bother? They've told like six people to assassinate her already, why would she choose to listen to them?

Roxy's relationship with the Minis and DJ? That's the same as it is across the board with most of the AUs I have. The attempt on Roxy's life when she's barely been born is shown differently in the new AU, but is still the same concept. Some things have been shifted around, such as the specific motivations, but not by a lot. I suppose Bonnie's dad in this fills the roll of Vanessa if Vanessa was also actually Mimic? He doesn't have an exact match here in terms of scale, but the comparisons are there.

The whole kingdom being destroyed, Roxy finding out that that's where she originally came from, that she was the newborn prince with a wholeass family she's never known, all lines up so well with everything else too. The pizzeria, scrapped storage, the old attractions there before her racetrack, it's all gone and she knew nothing about it. She's once again found out the truth in possibly the worst way imagineable, and she doesn't know what to do with this information, but honestly, who would?

The biggest difference there is that in this new AU, Roxy has the choice of what to do. In what's basically canon to the game, Roxy doesn't have that choice and likely never will. Where she's had to sacrifice her Raceway and Salon, sacrifice the vast majority of her life and her purpose for the safety of everyone around her, in this universe, she can choose not to. She sacrifices certainty this time, something she can regain as time goes on but in any other universe, there is never any certainty to get back. There will always be a Mimic threat and she can't get any of her old life back until it's dead and gone. She has to pay a price to keep Mimic contained, and while the Afton/Glitchtrap gods scramble to convince her otherwise, the Roxy in this new AU does have the choice whether she pays it or not.

But she will always still have to deal with the consequences of those with power. Every single time. And every single time so far, her entire existence is the consequence for them. Her life overall has not been the result of her own choices, but rather, the choices of people that never cared about her to begin with...

At least in this new universe she has a good childhood to fall back on and a cool ass horsie. And can actually do something about this shit. She can't normally do that :(