#LEAVING NOW. BYE

[liesmyth]

Why does everyone worships BOE? I mean sure the houses are bad.. but how does it makes BOE good? Have I missed something? Also I would argue that the Houses are not the colonial forces, after all they’ve all left Earth and colonized the space, and the houses at least are still operating within the solar system. Like we still don’t know shit about BOE - only that they are fanatics who speak strictly in hate speech and propaganda. Which is never a good sign. Like NEVER. They have culty names!!!!!!! Hello????

I think BoE are morally fucked and that’s very hot of them! I do think they’re slightly less morally fucked than the other side, ideologically. I think what the Houses are doing is very much imperialism, even though we don’t know enough to have the full details on the scope of it. We have John talking about ‘protectorates’, we have economic exploitation (but in a completely batshit way!) and forced relocation of refugees. BoE are also doing armed occupation of some New Rho segments but they don’t have a whole imperial infrastructure behind them.

I agree that we’re missing a lot of details re: House foreign policy & BoE - some more thoughts under the cut

We don’t know if the occupation is driven by a need for resources, or by pure militarism (revenge + perpetual war keeps the Houses under control) or by some other reason. We don’t know how many inhabited planets are out there and how many are occupied by the Houses and to which extent — the Houses can’t really expand beyond their home system because necromancy, so why are they occupying planets they don’t live in? Also, they ‘flip’ planets, making them inhabitable to native lifeforms, but also that seems to be on a much longer time scale than the human lifetime; can those be repurposed for habitation later on? We don’t know! It’s SO juicy and so much is missing.

We will probably get some information in Alecto. I don’t think we will get all information, mostly because I really don’t think the political background is THAT important to the story Tazmuir is trying to tell. She’s primarily telling a story about emotions, I think, not politics. But I think we’ll see more of where they came from.

Most of what we know so far points to BoE being an irredentist liberation group, but they also 100% do commit terrorist acts, like, on the page. They have the vague ultimate goal of getting rid of the Houses, but their day-to-day goal seems to be only to kill as many necromancers as possible, and they’re absolutely committed to getting there by doing shit like, burning people alive and shooting up public places without much care for civilians getting caught in the middle. Yea, Ianthe’s reasoning for calling BoE terrorism is coming from a place of moral fuckery, but MY reason for saying so is that they are committing crimines to foster a state of fear among the civilian population in the pursuit of political goals. They do that by burning people alive.

BoE also do have a cult-like attitude regarding everything Earth, but I’m not sure yet how we’re supposed to interpret it. There’s absolutely a benign angle to it (connection to a long lost homeland) but also I find it VERY juicy that after allegedly ten thousand years their culture is still mostly rooted on Earth. It doesn’t seem to have moved beyond the myth of their lost ancestral home; why are you still naming your kids after Shakespeare? Who has written the great tragedies in the last millenia? Their lack of cultural advancement (and technological!) is the main reason why I think there could be some time travel theories going on.

You’re right that we don’t know what their ultimate goal is, it could be more malicious than most of the fandom tends to assume, or it could be more benign. I’m very excited to find out but without ascribing any moral intention to who’s stanning who. I’m an equal side war criminal enjoyer, ALL women blowing shit up are hot to me <3

[hasnomoxxie]

I FORGOT TUMBLR EXISTED

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ILL GET ON MY PEPPIBLAST SHIT SOON-

...UMM

JESUS CHRIST HOLDING BLUEY

Yeah that'll do it

[hotdogmchiggin]

I guess DARE wasn’t a thing in Goron City

[jung-koook]

jungkook's heart shaped glasses ♡ (cr. 3cmgoogie)

[todayisafridaynight]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

chat if i may speak

[fer3112]

The difference in the way people are responding to watcher vs the try guys announcing streaming services should be studied

[habken]

it’s really ending now I’m gonna be sickkkkk

[tautozhone]

never will there be a better genre of media than “you can only get anything close to a fresh impression of this once when you first encounter it because knowing what happens next gives you entirely new understanding of what happened before”

like anything that you need an actual mind wipe to enjoy the same way as you did the first time. for it to be just as emotionally devastating. for every twist and turn to make you feel the same.

[solargeist]

Grian trying to drop off Xelqua to another Hermit to babysit so he can go to the Nether, but Xelqua clings around his neck and Grian wonders if this used to be easier or not

[causeimanartist]

Behold, the last lunch break drawing in my sketchbook

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

people practice w Them <3

[khaotunq]

My Love Mix-Up! (2024) Episode 9 Gemini Norawit as Kongthap and Fourth Nattawat as Atom

[elviraaxen]

It's actively hilarious being at the other end of figuring out my autism like I thought I was such a lost cause due to my "random nervous breakdowns and self harming behavior" and the cure all this time was chicken nuggets and spinning in circles for a bit

[seagull9111]

i like the idea of nico trying to convince himself he has a crush on annabeth

so much so that he acts like it around her.

he tries to convince himself but in the process starts to convince everyone around him, even annabeth

till it hits him one day, hard like a brick. that he does not like annabeth, he thinks shes cool. he wants to know her as a person

but he doesnt like annabeth, not like that. but he did like percy, like that