#The Nation on No Map

[nando161mando]

’I ultimately want to encourage others to take abolition and apply it to borders, nations, and states. I see the “nation on no map” as a group of people using skills others may struggle to recognize to develop new thinking, new language, and new societies.

I envision a nation that doesn’t need to be a nation and that doesn’t need to be on a map, because it knows borders, states, and boundaries cannot accommodate the complexity of our struggles.’

– William C Anderson, The Nation on No Map, Black Anarchism and Abolition

[zegalba]

Map of Palestine from the National Geographic Magazine (1947)

[littlelightfish]

Holm nation... I have a heartbreaking announcement to make.

We didn't get to see this panels animated.

(I wanted to see Laios helping him, this one isn't the one this post is all about)

I feel it's important to his character enough that Kui decided to dedicate three panels about how he aproaches and resurrects Kabru.

He is used to resurrecting people, his party sucks at keeping themselves alive. He walks up to Kabru's corpse with a worried look on his face. Then he kneels besides him and takes a second to process what he is seeing. He is seeing a young man, Kabru, dead. It makes him feel unseasy, a bit of shock that he can't take the luxury of process at the moment. He doesn't want to look, so he closes his eyes and focuses on his spell. He is realizing he is the only one alive from his party (he doesn't know where Mick is or how he is). He is the last one standing. The reality of it all slaps him in the face.

The panel of him just... looking at the mess Kabru's corpse is was just... It was important. It talked about him as a character. "I'm not doing this because I want to, but because I have to". He doesn't has time for emotions. He has a job to do.

It's just three panels. But they provide lots of context between the ones that came before and after.

He doesn't just rubs Kabru's head because he's being afective. He does it because he cares. He does it out of relief. "As long as I'm here, any of you'll be dying soon. And I'll always be here. Don't worry." He is far from being OK after all this. Marillier died, Daya died, Kuro died, Kabru died, Rin died, Mick probably died too (but he doesn't saw it). He... By the time he was the only one standing, the fight was over, and he could alredy resurrect them. He wants to feel sad. To worry, to be concerned, to mourn. But he can't. It isn't necessary.

He is a cleric. He for sure has a notion of dead way different than anyone and feels a certain way about resurrection. "Dying is dying, even if you resurrect." It's a bug at the corner of his mind, he doesn't pay it any attention. He gets resurrected multiple times, he is gratefull he is alive. But seeing all his friends dead? And the most of them mutilated? Covered in their own blood? He has this desire to mourn. To cry the loss. To panic. "They are all dead."

He knows they'll come back. He has to make them come back. So he does. And they are alive. But they weren't a few seconds ago. And he just plays it off, he puts his calm face on as soon as there is another party member alive that could ask him what happened that it disturbed him so much. He throws all those sad feelings under the rug and focuses at the task at hand.

They're going to be ok, he just has to do his job: bring them back from death. They shouldn't even be dead. But they are. And he's going to fix it. No point on feeling sad about them dying if they can be alive soon!

I think the concern that the anime puts here it's something that could come close to what he feels inside. Those seconds are the only ones we see him looking something akin to worried for his friends.

But then...

His worry vanishes in seconds. The moment Kabru revives, he does it in such a "Kabru" way, that he tells himself: "This is fine, they're going to be back soon, nothing to worry about, I just have to hurry". He wants them all back to live. We know for sure that in his priority list there wasn't any "reviving Toshiro's party members first". He was going to make sure all his party, all his friends, were alive before even thinking of resurrecting other people if he still had the magic.

Those three panels they didn't animate are something that was there for a reason. To give depth to Holm. This last episode is definitely the one in wich he shines the most. He isn't the main character at all this episode, but he does the most important stuff on the background. He revives them all. This all lack of something if you don't show what Kuy drew on those panels.

Here he just... goes to work. He says: "lemme handle it" and he does. No concern, no worry, no, nothing. He just does. No thoughts.

It makes me sad. Those panels were important. :(

[talonrook]

『🐲』 — taash's fortune's favour + details

[citrussmoke]

you fw Willsker?!?!? based as hell. please draw then napping in the lab (because i fear they'd do it regularly)??

ok i might've gotten a little carried away

[mikyapixie]

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲!!!🐦🐦🐦

𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢 𝙼𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚁𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛!!!🐦

[aimeekb]

Sunrise adventures in Yosemite

[paninicupcakke]

I mostly play payload so I’ve never played on the Galerria map before but holy crap is it gorgeous ; w ;

Maybe it’s just me but this blonde lady’s face shape reminds me of Spy…either she’s his hot cousin or one of his own female disguises

Screw Medic’s rag doll fr…it’s always difficult to pose him sitting

Pyro found treasure :3

I WANT TO EAT HERE SO BAD 😭 RAMEN IS MY FAVORITE FOOD & SOLDIER’S MY FAVORITE CLASS TO PLAY AS AHHHH I LOVE THIS RAMEN SHOPPP

Me flirting with the cashier so he tosses in a few extra spring rolls

Seeing these prices gagged me a bit…our boy Soldier is pretty much GIVIN THIS SHIT OUT FOR FREE 😭 it’s probably radioactive but idgaf I would order the whole damn menu and it would feed me for WEEKS

Bushmedicine & boots n bombs double date 🍿

[stone-cold-groove]

Map exhibiting points of interest along the air route of National Park Airways, the forerunner of Western Airlines - 1929.

[usnatarchives]

Our team at work, Morgan, Kim, Sara and Ewa are performing various tasks in the A1 conservation lab. Morgan and Kim are lining a large map of Puerto Rico. Ewa is mending an eight-feet long map of North Pacific Railroad. Sara is removing deteriorated silk lining from a document page.

Learn more about conservation at the National Archives:

[demi-pixellated]

a stray

[hendolish]

Q: Who do you sit next to on the coach? 👀

(aka incredibly important information thank you england admin🫶🏻)

[kaeyachi]

Had a horrible thought and now y'all get to hear it!

Remember the scene where we had Lumine rushing toward a cliff, only to step back in horror as they saw Khaenri'ah in ruins?

What if we get a cutscene similar to that with our chosen traveler, but the destroyed nation is Mondstadt?

[biscuitscheesebiscuits]

Reading physical copies of The Queen's Thief series for the first time and realizing that the maps in them are inconsistent???

[dontblamethewitches]

the land of poets 🎨 alef vernon.

[madsblabs]

When I was a kid, I thought that I really loved Bill Gates, but later found that I had confused the real life billionaire with the legendary, artifact-stealing Ben Gates