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[shivology]

RE my last repost ... the reason why white liberals tend to romanticize islam and judaism comes down to two things methinks

a. STILL not seeing muslim and jewish communities as human beings. making sweeping assumptions about a group of people is always stupid even if these sweeping assumptions are "positive". like, we are human beings lol. sometimes we are shitty! respecting someone's inherent personhood doesn't mean they're always good people. and it's still dehumanizing, it's just dehumanizingly making you feel like you're doing something lol. it also allows shitty muslims and shitty jewish people to get away with shitty things. overcorrecting because you don't want to seem like a bigot is fucking... stupid, lmao. motherfuckers will say shit like "omg u guys we can't ask muslims to not hate gay people, its disrespectful to them :/" like, what, are we so stupid and barbaric that we cannot possibly be asked to adhere to your Regular People moral code? do you think you have to hold my hand into not hatecriming a dude? boo fucking hooooo. also no offense (full offense) if someone believes their religion allows them to oppress other people, like, if THIS is what they take away from their holy text, then maybe... they are simply just a shitty person? they are a shitty person who also shouldn't live in fear of some fucking white supremacist cunt yanking their hijab off their head like???

b. inherent misunderstanding of power dynamics and how they function in society. muslims and jewish people in europe and the us/canada are a religious minority and often though not always are racialized -> ie they're an oppressed group. people have used religion to oppress minorities since like ever since they created the concept of religion lol. this is neither new nor special. but as it so happens, antisemitism and islamophobia is deeply rooted in western society in a way that affects the lives of jewish ppl and muslims every day. However! in muslim majority countries, for example, muslims are the oppressor. in ways identical to how christians are the oppressor in the west lol. like, in egypt, for example, like 15% of the population is christian. every one else is Presumed to be muslim. (egyptian jews are SO badly persecuted that they have to say they're muslim or christian on their ID because they might actually get fucking hatecrimed OR KILLED for being jewish !! and if you say you're atheist you may literally get fucking killed lol 🤩) and you'll find this shit in nearly every muslim majority country just as you find it in fuckass islamphobic racist america! does this mean ALL muslims are antisemitic bigoted pieces of shit? No but SOME sure fucking are! it just so happens, that in this specific region, the people who are in power, the people who have the resources and social power to oppress others, are muslim. it is so insanely eurocentric to think that muslims are always uwu victims uwu. and you know what's fucking funny? christian minorities in the SWANA region are nothing like, i don't know, catholics in france. diaspora muslims are nothing like the fucking taliban. you don't tend to see verses about christian supremacy in SWANA christians, just as you don't tend to see bigoted verses repeated by diaspora muslims. religion tends to manifest in peaceful "wholesome" ways when you're disenfranchised as a survival tactic because you gotta be on your best behavior baby you can't oppress people here! you cannot afford to alienate (looks at scrambled writing on hand) women or gay people. people have and will use religion as a tool and weapon to be relevant and stay in power but context is fucking keyyyyyy

[p7agu3]

i feel that having coffee fills a sort of energy meter for me, the middle of which is labeled "normal energy level" and the top and bottom "i feel INSANE". and it does so by about 30% per cup of caffeinated coffee thus unless i am sleep deprived already it tends to push me past "more productive" into "the only thing i am capable of right now is read fanfics and play roblox". which is also what happens at low energy but i also end up with mysterious other symptoms such as Headache and Nausea. the school coffee lowkey tastes awful tho so i am not tempted to put myself through the upper end often. i managed to plan out part of my presentation instead of scrolling tumblr earlier so drinking more shitty iced lattes (with no sugar because the amount i need to add to make it taste good is upsetting) may be a worthwhile investment. it is also free (yay)

[skykittywhatchamahcallit]

“Fallout is not about politics” is a surprisingly ice cold take, actually.

[josephtrohman]

joe kicking one of the bubbles into patrick’s face (x)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

HAVE U SEEN THAT ONE CHERIK DEVIL AND ANGEL COSTUME HALLOWEEN ART THAT ONE COMIC BOOK ARTIST DID ON TWT

NO CAUUUUUSSE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW FAST I MADE THE WHOLE THING MY HOMESCREEN: THE ARTIST IS JOSH CASSARA AND I OWE HIM EVERYTHING

the fuckin sillies chat i cant STAND them……

[happywitchesofnewdi]

Rizz master Sora Harukawa: Senpai version (Shisho version coming soon to a theater near you)

[epiphainie]

sorry but i think yall projecting your feelings about the show on lou rn is a bit weird babes

[nostalgia-tblr]

wait if asgard's so against men doing magic does that mean mjolnir's just really heavy

[kata4a]

"I'm interested in the treatment by many of 'meaning' as something significant" was going to be the first sentence of this post, but indeed "significance," almost synonymous with "meaning," has exactly the same features and problems I want to talk about

coming at it from the other direction then: the simplest kind of meaning is that of words, symbols, gestures and other signs, whose meaning is just an arbitrary association between the sign and what it signifies

and there are other, less arbitrary kinds of meaning: inference, where a puddle in the road means it must have rained recently; consequence, where eating my cake means no longer having it;

when I say that a certain picture is meaningful to me, I mean to say that I associate it with memories or events that are personally important to me. and meaningful gesture is one that communicates more than what it seems to

the throughline here is one of association, and especially directional association: when you have extracted the meaning of a sentence you can dispense with the sentence itself

and for that reason there's I think something avoidant about a preoccupation with meaning as a (or, god forbid, the) telos of art. asking what a painting means takes you away from the reality of the painting itself—and I might even be inclined to argue that the deeper the meaning, the greater its significance, the further you travel from the thing you started with

[moxijunk]

Me when. Me when m1g. When m1g. When them1g. When 621. Me when 621. M1gs even. Me when m1gs.

[elspeth-catton]

so many people on here saying they wish they were venetia because of the vampire scene, well i'm the opposite! babygirl if i was oliver i would not be ditching you the next night!!!! the most insane thing oliver did was not the bathtub scene, or the grave scene, or even the murder, it was standing up a babe like venetia!!!!!

[cliveguy]

This tweet could be the basis of several psychological studies. And not in a good way.

[bubzterr]

she has raditz’s atrocious hairline but she combs it forward in desperation

[chronostutter]

durge drawing their slayer form orin going THATS CRINGE and durge going YOURE CRINGE and orin running off sobbing as she decides her sibling needs to die a slow and horrific death

[bidokja]

polyamorous yoojin who is with both hyunje and myeongwoo and everyone is wondering how the fuck that even works. not cause of the polyamory thing but because it's these two, specifically, so how have they not killed each other yet.

like, you'd think hyunje would hate every second of it and pull some "you're only for me" stunt and make them break up, but he's actually like. fine with it. he's not bothered at all. ...this is for the insane reason that he refuses to view yoojin and myeongwoo's relationship as anything other than myeongwoo being an item factory for yoojin (and him....and those other guys i guess).

and at first yoojin is worried myeongwoo is gonna be upset about hyunje treating him like this, and tries to get hyunje to grow the fuck up (which like...come on yoojin be realistic here). but then myeongwoo is like. not pressed about it whatsoever. ...this is for the insane reason that he fully does Not Care what anyone else thinks except for yoojin, as long as hyunje doesn't take actions against him it's whatever.

thus the world's most individually obsessive and possessive polycule can function through the sheer force of how little hyunje and myeongwoo think of the other and his opinions.

[eissaphir]

Okay, so apparently the original meaning of lucifer is "the morning star", "the planet Venus", or "light-bringing".

And Lucifer's name was changed from Lucifer Magne to Lucifer Morningstar...

I think we've got a new Moon Moon, guys <3