#what a shift tho

[cactustreesmotel]

i had the worst period symptoms of my life sitting at the front desk of my library during the busiest day we've had all year :)

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's become extremely obvious over the past 15 months that the only reason much of the Western world ever basically agreed that the Holocaust was bad and was willing to teach about it is because for a brief period of time, Jews and gentiles in most of Europe + America had a common enemy in the Nazis. But this acknowledgement of Nazi antisemitism was only ever the same kind of acknowledgement of antisemitism that we get right now, where people are only willing to acknowledge the antisemitism of the people they already had a completely separate reason to dislike or fear. Antisemitism in this worldview is just a tool, a secondary accusation one can lodge at someone who is already for different reasons an enemy. It is never acknowledged as a form of bigotry in and of itself, that exists on its own and not as a follow up to another "more serious" form of oppression or bigotry against gentiles.

Obviously any Holocaust education we do get in Europe and the US has very much been the result efforts by Jews and our allies in a practical sense, but it is undeniable that there was a brief 70 or so year period where the white Western consciousness found it valuable (or at least politically convenient) to recognize antisemitism as wrong and the Holocaust as horrific. As true, original-brand Nazism fades, though, we see opposition to antisemitism and the Holocaust becoming less and less valuable to the white Western identity, as actual threat of Nazi occupation fades to historical memory. Newer, rebranded neo-Nazis and leftist Hamas supporters pose little to no threat to white Western gentiles. And thus, we see now not only a growing acceptance of antisemitism, but also a growing hostility towards the idea that we should study or condemn the Holocaust as anything particularly terrible. The Holocaust no longer represents a way for gentiles to additionally condemn an ideology that also threatened them, that also killed their families, that also resulted in their own countries and communities being occupied or destroyed by foreign fascist governments. It no longer represents to them an ideology that is in any way a threat to their own safety or way of life.

This is why we see such a massive rise in Holocaust denial among Gen Z, and, even more broadly than overt Holocaust denial, the rejection of the idea that the Holocaust should be particularly studied or condemned. More and more, we see people "questioning" the "propaganda" of The Jews Crying Victim All The Time, we see young people wondering why they are so cruelly forced to acknowledge on very rare occasion the suffering that the Jewish people went through in their own homes and towns. Often this is framed not only as intellectual bravery but moral bravery, as if this new generation rejecting Holocaust education is somehow fighting back against the unfair valuing of Jewish tragedy above gentile tragedy. What they don't understand, of course, and what many Jews up until now didn't understand either, is that no one ever valued the Holocaust because it WAS a uniquely horrific event in history, because it WAS the first and only industrialized genocide that gassed millions to death on a scale we can only pray the world will never see again, because it WAS only 70 years ago and is still a living part of the history of many Western countries. No. The Holocaust was only ever given the acknowledgement it was because it represented, at one time, an ideological threat that also included gentiles, though less overtly than it targeted Jews.

That ideological threat against Jews has not gone anywhere, and is in fact is seeing a new glory day dawning with the rise of fascism worldwide and the normalization/glorification of antisemitism on the left. But this new form of antisemitic hatred, be it neo-Nazism or support for Hamas, does not represent a threat to white Western gentiles, their way of life, or the integrity of their governments. And so we as we see the decoupling of the Holocaust from something that also incidentally threatens gentiles, we see standing against the Holocaust and antisemitism as a symbol of white Western identity disappearing as fast as it came.

[divineandmajesticinone]

LET FREE THE CURSE OF TAEKWONDO I EP. 04

[shantechni]

12 Shredder: puts Karai in a situation that gets her mutated

12 Shredder: Why would Splinter do this?

LEGIT:

Even Tiger Claw was like, "Ayo, u sure about this?" But Shredder really thought initiating a fight in the same room where someone is hanging from a rope for dear life wouldn't have any unintended consequences😭

[usertoxicyaoi]

"We were apart for just a short time. People can be so greedy."

TAKARA NO VIDRO (2024). SPINOFF EPISODE.

[albatris]

“So what time should I start counting the till?”

Nat, chewing on the end of his pen, looked up from his checklist and over to Seo-yoon. “It’s supposed to be around 6,” he said. “But honestly, you can just do it whenever there’s a break in customers.”

“Right,” she said, and returned her focus to sweeping the floor.

Nat added this to his list. Count till at 6. Or whenever you want. Caleb wouldn’t approve, but what Caleb didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him. He frowned down at his page of scribbles, meant to be a guide, and resigned himself to redoing it later. He kept thinking of new things and everything was out of order.

The new girl was tiny and wiry, Korean, looked a bit like a coat-hanger someone had twisted into the shape of a human person. She was young, too, younger than Nat had anticipated. She couldn’t have been more than nineteen.

“What do I do if there is no break in customers?” Seo-yoon asked.

“There’s always a break,” Nat said. “It’s the night shift. Sometimes there’s hours between customers.”

“But if there isn’t a break?”

Nat narrowed his eyes. “Okay, so, really, you can just flip over the CLOSED sign whenever you want,” he said. “You want a break? Just take one. An hour. Two hours. No one's gonna know.”

Another scribble. Take break whenever you feel like it for however long you like but don’t tell Caleb.

idk what it is abt me and writing scenes of protagonists training people at shitty jobs but there's one in ATDAO too. only where tris earnestly does his best nat just makes stuff the fuck up

anyway call this a belated snippet sunday

snippet smonday

[celestie0]

need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au need to write a hospital au

[nguyenfinity]

Bringing you double trouble for July's first double feature is Valkyrie!

Frameless below the cut!!

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[callie-shifts-apparently]

Fields Of Mistria DR self save me...

save me fields of mistria DR self...

[bandanabiel]

shh!

just started reading young justice and i cant believe ive never heard of secret before?? shes very cute i think she deserves bangs

[sirmanmister]

Witness

Hello I’m doing fallout new vegas stuff again. This game is very fun actually and I like it

[bugsbucket]

it’s been a year of resistance and a year of genocide. Priorities shift and we recommit ourselves to joint struggle in the fight for liberation, the fight for Palestinian liberation. And with the expansion of a regional war it is our duty to continue to resist alongside our siblings in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Congo, Haiti…every single corner of the globe that is fighting back against u.s imperialism.

& Being in the u.s its our responsibility to organize to mobilize against this imperialist beast. Israel cannot carry out this genocide w/out u.s funding w/out u.s weapons and bombs. We demand an arms embargo.

The march for liberation is long, it’s painful, it’s bloody but we march forward knowing that Palestine will be free. We will win, you can never kill resistance.

Resistance is glorious. We will be victorious.

Glory to our Martyrs.

[stvrl0st]

"you mean you have a mlpXhelluva boss dr?"

why wouldn't I

I've like never said anything abt this dr because idk

[justicecaballer]

just learned that one of the boba shops i frequent literally keeps one specific flavor in stock solely because of me. im the only person that ever orders it. #seen

[creatively-cosmic]

i completely forgot to ever put anything abt him up here please enjoy the dragon master (as seen in missing numbers). weve been struggling to work out his design so bad but we did the last two sketches tonight so ig that's the most up to date for his hair and scars. the first one is the current colors tho

[nellasbookplanet]

Do I actually think Imogen is going to turn on the party? No. I don't think it’s any more likely to happen than I did Fjord releasing Uk’otoa, or Caleb returning to Trent and the Vollstruckers.

Given the nature of the game, any character turning fully dark is unlikely, seeing as it would take them away from the party for a time or potentially even turn them into an npc, replaced by a new pc. So far the only time we've gotten close to seeing something like it happen was Yasha siding with Obann, which could only happen specifically because Ashley was gone from the table for a long time (it was also the product of mind control, not an active choice to turn dark, and as such still doesn’t really count as a pc turning on the party in my eyes).

But the possibility is there. The seeds planted. Travis has talked about how, after he threw the falchion away, he briefly considered having Fjord leave the party and retun to the coast and Uk’otoa. Liam has mentioned that, early on, Caleb returning to work for Trent was a very real possibilty. It can happen, if the players and narrative are open to it.

And now, canonically, Imogen is desperately and understandably searching for a reason not to have to fight her own mother. She is, however briefly, questioning whether the Ruby Vanguard might have a just cause. Much as she hates it, she also feels the allure of the power Ruidus gives her. Her closest ally is someone who has repeatedly assured she will stand by her no matter what she chooses, even after she voiced the possibility of letting Predathos get out. None of these parts of Imogen are evil, and all of them are understandable and deeply rooted in pain and ostracization, but they could very easily be turned into justification, were she pushed enough.

The seeds are planted. Again, I don’t think it will happen (she seems firmly against the evil plan when reminded of how evil it is), but there’s certainly nothing strange or hateful about engaging with and being interested in the darker possibilities as presented in canon. It isn't character hate to acknowledge that Imogen has the potential to go dark, much as Fjord and Caleb and Yasha. To me, it’s what makes her character interesting. I want to see her clash with the party, whether because she’s desperate to save her own mother or because she’s high off the power of Ruidus and lured in. I want to see Laudna have to choose between the world and her promise to stand by Imogen no matter what. I want to see the fallout, the slow healing and redemption and coming to terms with bad choices. I eat that shit up, and if it doesn’t happen in canon I'll probably go read some fic about it to get my fix.