#hibiki//discourse

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reblog for a bigger sample size if you feel like it

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Fact Check Rating: Pants on Fire 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: [1] [2] [3] [4]

NPR: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

(MS)NBC: [1] [2] [3] [4]

USA Today: [1]

CBS: [1] [2]

Time Magazine: [1]

Bloomberg: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OANN: [1] [2] yes, these are as bad as you expect, but they did cover it

New York Post: [1] [2]

FOX News: [1] [2] [3] yes. also as bad as you expect

Business Insider: [1] [2] [3] [4]

The Washington Post: [1] [2] [3] [4]

ABC: [1] [2]

New York Times: [1] [2] [3] [4]

The Economist: [1] [2]

The Hill: [1] [2]

Los Angeles Times: [1] [2]

The Atlantic: [1] [2]

Politico: [1] [2]

DISCLAIMER: I disagree with many to most of these articles, their framing, and their conclusions. The presentation of these articles is not an endorsement, I am simply disproving the statement that these outlets "ignored" the case.

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jews deserve to live without fear of being bombed or kidnapped. palestineans deserve to live without fear of being bombed or kidnapped. these two statements coexist, and that conclusion should not be so controversial.

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thermonuclear levels of adultism. also, as much as i dislike "minors dni" in general, it is, legally speaking at least, absolving you of responsibility. ethically, you are not showing that content to that theoretical child. fuck outta here

[dinomintz]

ryoga doodles of various quality (ft. yoiko + akari)

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this is a genuinely good post, let's look at the notes!

Regular lack of media literacy...

Supreme lack of media literacy...

What. What the actual fuck?

oh... oh. OP too. great.

op's tags are... uh. yeah, hmm.

not sure if i like this post anymore.

can we stop doing this trope

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Whether or not you're capable of love (whether romantic, platonic, sexual, all of the above, etc.) says nothing about your morality. Lovelessness, like a lack of empathy, doesn't stop you from having a moral compass or from being compassionate.

Love is a morally neutral human experience. Some people experience it in some ways and don't experience it in others, and some don't experience it at all.

I say all of this as someone who can generously be described as a hopeless romantic, and less generously as a hyperromantic. It's not something that always leads you to something good, and most people who experience love know this. However, many others who experience love will forget this magically when someone says they're loveless.

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If anything, antis resemble conservatives more than proshippers do. After all, antis are the ones calling for censorship of sexuality, all in the name of “protecting the children”. Not us.

Yep.

[ultraericthered]

I remember a while back seeing some discourse on here about my girls (the Otonokoji twins) and there was the usual "SDRA2 Chapter 3 was terribly written and Kanade's a horrible character who relied on pure grimdark edginess and shock value that made no logical sense, offered nothing to the characters and contributed nothing to the plot" complaints in there, of course. But the main source of the gripes about the twins' arc and the hatred for Kanade and the way Linuj wrote her and that whole case was this sentiment of "It just wasn't fair! Hibiki deserved better, she should've gotten to live, dammit!"

I get being a fan of a character disappointed that their story didn't go the way you'd have preferred to see it go, and that the character wasn't around long enough to realize their potential for development and contributions to the plot and relationships with others and all that. That's understandable. But at a certain point you need to step back and realize that it wasn't your character and your story for which to make those decisions, it was someone else's. If you want to take those characters and write an AU fic where things diverge from that original telling, that is fine. It can be done. That's different from acting like "because this creator had something else in mind from what I'd like for this story and these characters, they Did It Wrong." Because here's the thing: Linuj never, not once at any point, intended for one of the Otonokoji twins to die while the other one lived on. They were designed as a package deal and implemented into the game as such (when you choose to hang out with them in free time events, you cannot choose which twin to hang with, it's always Hibiki AND Kanade that you're given the option to approach), because the entire core purpose behind their conception was the idea of a third chapter that reversed the usual Chapter 3 trend by for once having only one victim and two Blackened, thus a double execution for both of them. There was never any version of SDRA2 that Linuj was going to end up making that would not include Hibiki and Kanade both being put to death for the murder in Chapter 3. How it ended up written and executed could've been different, yes. But Hibiki wasn't making it out alive. Yes, it's unfair that the more innocent twin had to suffer and die so horribly along with the evil twin, who died happy and fulfilled with getting what she'd wanted. That's the whole point. That's the despair. Fanganronpa wasn't letting you have the easy, morally clean, happy outcome, and if you expected it to, what do you even think you were playing in the first place? Best to accept the SDRA2 you got for what it is and then have fun with your own AUs.

FTR, the writing for Kanade was mostly great in my eyes, and as I've made clear before, the "shock value and edginess" stuff only came in at the very end of her run: to me, Kanade's character would've been near perfection were it not for that "I killed a whole bunch of people and it traumatized my twin sister so bad it turned her into a vacant puppet I could control" nonsense. Linuj, unfortunately, could not help himself from crossing that line that did not need to be crossed. But regardless of what Linuj has said, I'm never gonna find Kanade's narrative the least big convincing - killing a dog, her parents, and a few other people I could get behind, but someone in her position with her body count stretches the suspension of disbelief even for DR. The worldbuilding was not to a point where I could buy that all the police and detectives around wherever the twins lived would be that fucking clueless and inept to never catch on. So I don't doubt for a second that Kanade's killed people but I just choose to believe she was bullshitting and her body count estimate is as phony as Kiyo's.

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[curejiraiya]

Another reason (one of many) that I like KouHiro is that before I latched onto this ship I was mildly into AkeShu from Persona 5, but I didn't like 1. The fucking ship discourse 2. how it ends with Akechi probably dying & 3. How Akechi is a murderer and you have to like mentally come to terms with that. KouHiro is like the same kind of tropes, they're really similar people with an enemies to lovers dynamic but 1. it resolves and they become friends 2. Hiro isn't that evil he just commits plagiarism that's way better than literal murder 3. Hiro doesn't die 4. The narrative woobifies Hiro for me it's not like Akechi where the woobifying is fanmade & 5. Secret childhood friends trope on top of everything

and like it's really the trope that I like, enemies to lovers + redeemed character. but I'm media illiterate and persona 5 was the first fandom with a big enemies to lovers ship that ive been in. so they're super comparable in my mind despite not actually being that similar.

yeah that's right, Joker sucks because he doesn't have a Kazuki.

Also KoP Persona 5 AU, OTRs phantom thief names are Genius, King, and Charisma. Minato's name is Harbor, Yuki's is Princess or Kabuki I can't decide, Kakeru's is Kakeru because his actual name is Kazuo, Taiga's is Tiger (wow), Shin's is Shine but no one knows why. like the name just came to the group in a premonition or something. Leo's is Lion or Lion Heart. I feel like together it works as a name but it doesn't exactly fit the naming convention, Yuu's is Zeus, Joji has to be Joker we'll just say Ren and co. don't exist in this AU. Alec is like Muscle, or Punchy, or something. And Louis is something that would make it obvious in retrospect who he is, like Messenger or Prism. I can't think of a name for Ace that isn't Ace but the other shuffle members would have their suit like Tsurugi is Club. Jin is Whip. Rei is Fire, Hijiri is like Husband or Blonde or something lmfao I feel like I don't actually know much about him. If I got my way Ryo's name would be bitey because he's always biting something, but it'd more likely be like Hibiki (for his idol Hibiki Wataru)

idk why I did that I usually hate AUs

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1) the original post is right but it made its point in the worst way possible (bigoted adultist nonsense)

2) yes people protest in front of mosques but that's also wrong and they also shouldn't do that?? Two wrongs do not make a right

3) I wonder why The Tumblr User Formerly Known as Brend*nicus likes protests in front of synagogues so much. There's a word here, it's at the end tip of my tongue, starts with anti and ends with ism not sure though.

4) the very notably "liberal" tendency of. being opposed to antisemitism. Riiiiiiiight.

5) the protests they're talking about were against just like, random synagogues who may or may not have had a rabbi who supports Israel. Even if they definitely did support Israel, it's still antisemitic. Come on.

[friendlyneighborhoodamara]

Ranma Discourse:

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+ Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want you to vote either because he wants Trump. So does Hamas. Vote if you can. Help other people vote if you can't.

Anti-voting rhetoric will be the death of the left. Literally.

Not a single fucking Republican voted to protect roe. It was fucking overturned in the first place bc trump got three Supreme Court appointments.

Every fucking thing wrong in this country is almost certainly the result of Republicans being in power. In 2020, Texas cut half of the polling places in black neighborhoods, and doubled them in white ones, regardless of population. It was Republicans bitching about mail in voting, and constantly, constantly fearmonger about voter fraud. Literally, their platform is about making civil rights harder to practice.

Would you like to know why? It’s because Republican politicians know better than anyone that higher voter participation means higher republican loss.

But what do I see from the online left, champions of the oppressed?

“Voting doesn���t do anything, the parties are the same, the system is rigged, etc, etc”

Don’t sit here and tell me you give a fuck about marginalized people if you aren’t ready to march your ass to the voting booth and vote out the party actively stripping their rights away.

Protest, donate, community build, unionize, and vote, vote, vote.

By the time direct action is the only option, it will be too fucking late.

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Haiku age discourse when it should be dve

Hibiki haiku endgame

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you are not making it out of the torment nexus.

(not censoring the first name cause that was the person who sent me a whole host of death threats and called me racist for telling her death threats are bad)