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in fanfiction we must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that

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One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

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this is one of those things that feels insane to say but i cannot vibe with white people who are too excited making jokes coming up with “slurs” to call robots

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new andromaquynh bts just dropped hhhhhhhhh thank you captain ngo thanh van ma’am (and the captions 🥺)

“Chill for a sec… just waiting for the light to change 🫣🤪”

“200% focus for this scene…”

“You’re already tall… and now you’re even standing up high… 😫”

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That one Road to El Dorado line but make it DinEzra.

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every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

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i just figured out what some of the mural poses remind me of

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kidnapping my mutuals and putting us all on Bestie Boulevard

(though if it were up to me these houses would not be so... ugly)

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Getting snacks for the team!

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The True Allegory of the Faunus Plot

Or: the Faunus Plotline is actually great, y’all are just Amero-centric.

I’ve always enjoyed the Faunus Plotline in RWBY, and I’ve never really understood the criticisms. But recently, I saw someone talking about how “Adam doesn’t fit the Malcolm X role” and I had a realization why.

For natural reasons, the African-American Civil Rights Movement and subsequent movements are the most prominent touchstone to Americans on the subject of racism and civil rights. It’s the thing that you guys automatically compare stories with racism allegories to. And while the Faunus Plotline does have parallels, it fails to follow that sort of narrative, and as a result it’s kinda throwing people off.

But I don’t think that’s a failure of writing. I think the fandom, as a whole, is looking at the wrong racism.

Now, let me be clear: no matter what race you are, if you feel that the Faunus Plotline represents you, that is completely valid. I’m not here to take that away from you. All oppressed peoples face similar struggles.

But I believe that the intent of the writers is not to create an allegory for African-American discrimination, but instead to create an allegory for Anti-Irish discrimination.

Or, TL;DR: The Faunus are Irish, Atlas is Britain, Vacuo is America, and our heroes are partaking in Gulliver’s Travels.

Confused? I’ll explain under the cut.

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"Many forms of political identification consist in whole or in large part as lists of things that one opposes. One is anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, or anti-racist. Racism, capitalism, and mass incarceration are worth opposing, but the long view of human history confirms that even successful opposition to these would not guarantee a just future.

"Not one of these phenomena, at least in their modern forms, is even a millennium old. Especially in recent history, more often than not, one form of oppression has been replaced with another, different form that is similar to or even more unjust than the one that preceded it.

"But maybe we want more than to play Whack-a-Mole with injustice. If we want to do more than alter the color of our children's chains, we will have to successfully oppose more than isolated instances of oppression."

Olúf��́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

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last rb lots of people seem to view inspirations as a template your copying rather than a ingredient in your new evil stew. if you tell me your new shonen manga is inspired by dragon ball i’ll think youre a dipshit but if you tell me your cartoon network lesbians are inspired by dbz i’ll be neurotic about them within the first season

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Legit a real dream I had recently, and it was so funny I had to draw it out.

A bit of necessary backstory you probably weren't taught in western history class: During the 1800s, western Europe along with Russia, USA, and Japan were trying their hardest to colonize (and terrorize) China (which culminated in what was called the "Eight Nation Alliance"). The most symbolic tragedy of that era, that every Chinese kid knows about, was the burning of the Summer Palace, or "Yuanmingyuan". French and British soldiers set fire to everything and looted as much as they could, and around 300 maids and eunuchs perished in that event.

I dreamed that a maid and a eunuch were holding each other in that fire, with the maid tearfully promising the eunuch that she would find him again. I don't know what their relationship was - platonic or romantic - but they felt deeply for each other. And then my dream skips a thousand years where they're reborn. The ex-eunuch (lol) realizes that the scary, big man that always hangs around him is the cute little maid that he had an ambiguous relationship with in that previous life.

I was so shocked and amused by this plot twist in my own dream that I woke up. It's such a good concept that I am drawing more parts, and part 2 is on my Patreon @ januarysun!