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[marzipanandminutiae]

Two questions.

1.) Vampires are weak to many things, such as Christian Iconography, Garlic and sunlight.

2.) Being Lesbian means that you are ending your family line for no good reason aside from your own personal lusts.

You're so right, Brother Bertram. I shall adjourn to the chapel now to seek forgiveness for my sins via the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. to whom I make devotions five times a day, in a totally normal way. Also, have you perchance seen my beloved illustration of Christ's side wound? I need to gaze at it and experience ecstatic visions of gently caressing it- you know, Normal Devotional things.

[giyrut-girlie]

In the wake of non stop whataboutisms in the last week about the Bibas family, I feel like I need to verbalise why I don’t consider their deaths as the same as other children who have died during the war. This is honestly just for myself but I’m bringing y’all along in my thought process.

The Bibas boys (of blessed memory) were stolen from their home during a terrorist attack that broke the previous ceasefire. As far as we can tell, they were traded like pawns between terrorist groups for money and clout, and ultimately murdered in a brutal fashion for no reason other than psychological warfare and a PR opportunity for their captors.

The deaths of G/azan children throughout the war have been awful. I will not stand here and say that their lives were meaningless or that their deaths were positive. BUT, they were casualties in a war that was not targeting them. Their deaths were absolutely preventable, Hamas did not have to invade Israel and take hostages, did not have to build their armouries and bases into civilian infrastructure, did not have to put them in harms way for their own gain. Let’s be clear: if Hamas had not committed such vile acts of terror, most of these children would be alive.

I do also want to get across that, in my mind, the cause of death is important. The children who have been killed throughout the war have not died of targeted attacks. Again, they were casualties of urban war. The ratio of civilians to combatants who have died (at best guess) is an astounding feat of harm minimisation. Most urban warfare has a much higher civilian causality rate. Air strikes, building collapses, famine etc are horrible, and again, the deaths of children in this capacity are awful. But these children were not manually strangled and mutilated post mortem. That kind of brutality is next level evil. A civilian being killed in an air strike targeting hostile military forces is a different ball game to murdering a baby with your hands.

I think that sums up my thoughts on the whole thing and I hope it makes sense, but I’ve been ruminating on this for a few days and needed to get it off my chest. Again, I need to stress that I don’t think that G/azan children deserved to die, deserve the ongoing effects of this war, or anything that antisemites would probably accuse me of. Their deaths are also tragic, and much like the Bibas children, their deaths are HAMAS’ FAULT

Bring them ALL home, may this ceasefire deal bring lasting peace.

[major-fukkup]

Why don't we start a new trend where we STOP 👏 CENSORING 👏 TRIGGER 👏 WARNING 👏 TAGS

[drawingeveryutau]

Kane Tomo! Voiced by Kaneda Tomoko, Managed by 晋遊舎

Originally released October 13th, 2011; Tomo's a unique case among Windows 100% banks, being that she has 4 of them! Initially released with 3, she received a new one for her first anniversary~

Her voice provider's a voice actress who's appeared mainly in anime; the most notable roles (to me) are Culu/mon from Digi/mon Tam/ers, Japa/nese Cres/ted Ib/is from Kem/ono Friends, and La/vi from Sgt. Fr/og.

[z13lovebot]

some pav/levi sketches

[radioroxx]

“ik its cringe but i like ___ [indie artist / creator]” shut upppppppp shut up shut up it not cringe who even care grr

[autismstage]

just like this, just like this; let me stay just like this

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Okay now that Anissa is in the show, I have to talk about THAT storyline. There's not much particularly new I can say that hasn't already been discussed but I need to gather my thoughts on what the show has to do to be successful in this regard. With that being said,

Spoilers for things the show has not covered yet

And massive Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual assault and post-assault trauma.

So first things out of the way, I do not believe they should cut it. The changes the show has made are ultimately pretty minor. A character change, order of events swapped. With them sticking as close as they are to the comic, I think it would be a massive problem to skip over it from a story telling standpoint.

From a real world standpoint, it's even more important. Male sexual assault is something that rarely gets depicted properly. It's usually a joke or a moment of triumph and that very much has had an effect on the way we look at it in the real world. And since Invincible is now a show pretty much everybody has their eyes on, choosing not to talk about it would be missing an opportunity to have a very real, very important conversation that very well could educate men on how to navigate and survive what they are going through.

I'm also worried that they'll be too afraid to actually say the word "rape". Lots of modern adaptations delete important discussions like Sokka's sexism or the gender discussions from Cowboy Bebop in order to avoid properly handling them and usually replace them with something worse in a sort of "all bark and no bite" liberalism. Directly saying it as it is is incredibly important to showing that talking about it is not only NOT shameful, but also necessary in getting the help you need and the healing that is necessary to survive.

And from a storytelling standpoint, saying it is important too. The moment where Mark tells Eve what happened is not only great in showing that telling someone is important but is also the moment where Mark is forced to admit the truth to himself. "She raped me." Those three words are a massive turning point for the whole story. Character dynamics change, this becomes a focus for most of Mark's loved ones, and it fundamentally changes his life.

Markus. This is a piece of the puzzle I don't see many talk about. While the rest is a showcase of what to do, Markus as a character is a showcase of what not to. It is so, so rare that a child conceived of a rape is properly depicted, nevermind discussed. From Mark's POV, he holds no ill will towards his son. He simply wants him to live a life on Earth with his family like he did and just can't be with him because he is needed in space. But to Markus, his dad hates him. He thinks his father keeps him on Earth so that he doesn't have to think about him. And this idea of his father's disgust contorts his image of himself. He begins to feel self-hatred, hatred towards his mother for making him this way, and hatred towards his father for abandoning him and leaving him to despise what he sees in the mirror. "You made Terra with love. I was made with hate."

Whether Mark meant it or not, his neglect of Markus ruined his early life. No matter how many friends he made, what groups he joined, they could never fill that hole. He idolized his father. I mean, how could he not? His father was, IS a great hero. A man who was out at that very moment leading the movement for universal peace. But because Mark barely visited him, he only had an idea of what his father was like. A man who sacrificed so much to help the world, who fought in space and yet still managed to save the Earth dozens of times. A man who had the time to help everyone and yet couldn't make time for him.

(Important edit: in no way do I mean to say Mark is obligated to be a part of his son's life, I meant that Mark chooses to be there but ultimately fails to do so and that causes issues)

And don't get me wrong, this story has some pretty glaring flaws. For example I think they tried a little too hard to teach Mark that the person who hurt him is human too and has positively affected the lives of many. Like absolutely there is a conversation to be had there but because they had to move on with the plot they kinda just went "HEY MARK DON'T BE SAD SHE'S COOL NOW AND ALSO SHE'S DEAD SO THERE'S NO POINT IN LINGERING OKAY BYYEEEEE". But I think instead of these flaws scaring the show away they should invite the show forward. It's an opportunity to improve on the story and discussions rather than shy away from it.

Oh and also harking back to my previous point in paragraph 2, there's another aspect that makes it stand out in an important discussion. If I'm remembering correctly, the comic makes it pretty clear that Mark could have overpowered Anissa but didn't for a couple of reasons, namely not wanting to hurt her. And that is SO important and SO rare. A discussion surrounding an assault victim who could have fought back but didn't where the victim is NOT portrayed as in the wrong and in fact just as worthy to be traumatized as any other victim is SO DAMN IMPORTANT and could legit change a lot in the way we look at these topics.

So yeah, I think the series should adapt it. Also I think it would be great if they brought on actual victims and experts and whatnot so their depiction could be just that much more focused around what needs to be said. Sorry if all this read as klunky, I have a lot of thoughts bouncing around up here that I kinda just spewed onto the page with no particular order. I'm also obviously not the most educated on the topic. My personal experiences with this were relatively minor and not something I've ever felt comfortable addressing. And yeah I know it's important no matter how "small" or "minor" it seems and I'm not trying to downplay any of that but I just don't really have the words to phrase that differently. Which is exactly why I think we NEED education and discussions about this stuff so that we DO know the words to navigate the topic.

[handinlovablehand]

hes NOT cute guys. hes NOT CUTE AT ALL and he doesnt like it when you say that EVEN A LITTLE BIT

[marzipanandminutiae]

when I was little, my absolute favorite doll was Princess of Ireland Barbie (I called her "Joan Kathleen-" don't judge; it was like 2002 and this actually wasn't consciously after JKR. is Joan an Irish name? I have no idea)

I was. ENCHANTED. the contrast of her lip color with her skin (the only white Barbies I'd ever seen had that "artificially tanned blonde" look), her deep red hair, her intelligent closed-mouth smile. she was everything

I used to play that she was made of ivory, with eyes of emerald and lips of ruby. was that wildly impractical for a doll? yes, but I had a picture book where a little princess owned a rocking-horse of ebony with "sapphire eyes and twinkling golden tassels" so I was obsessed with the idea of Impractical Fairytale Luxury Toys. I imagined her a dress that felt less stiff, with embroidered instead of printed designs (but her velvet cape scored BIG points).

there's no real ending to this; she's still at my parents' house in a place of pride. I was just wildly obsessed with this doll- and look at her. she's amazing. I was objectively correct

[jubilant-glcry]

FURTHERMORE

i feel like someone should also point out that it's a bit odd to be so militant over adherance to the canon of a series so heavily based in mythology and folk tales

please free yourselves from the shackles of copyright and ip bc I promise art will be so much more fun and interesting if you do

[bird-wells214]

you people who are so upset about taskmaster in thunderb0lts are joking right. like there's absolutely no way this many people think taskmaster dying ruined the MCU, right

[betelbabes]

hello do not send me hate because I'm cross tagging; I'm trying to be helpful. if you want beetlebabes to stop interacting with you and finding your blogs then please stop tagging all of your original posts as "beetlebabes dni" and tag it as "b33tlebabes dni" or smth instead.

by not censoring the word, it's.. gonna end up in our tags? we're gonna be forced to see it. I don't think that's what y'all are exactly aiming for.

[galedekarios]

the way some ppl go out of their way to actively seek out appropriately tagged content to get upset about to the point of making several posts in a row abt it... it's like that guy on bike meme tbh

[sainteclectic]

got a comment on a petre post that says "none of these words are in the bible." can people PLEASE be normal about pet regression for 5 seconds

[bugbuoyx]

"terfs love trans men!!1!1!1!" collection of screenshots from various sources proving otherwise. these were all posted in gender crit/ic/al & ra/df/em tags.