#and continue to deny it exists

[kitocrystal]

I'm tired.

[aingeal98]

The conflict between Nat and the girls was inevitable. The fact that the wilderness “chose her” is just another part of a continuing theme: It doesn’t matter if the mystical is real or not. The girls make it real in order to process their horrific reality.

Everyone’s already gone into how Jackie symbolized the old, normal world and how she died because of that. She had to die because she could not adapt to the level of hardship and violence required while stranded in the wild. The others have adapted by turning to rituals and the occult. They’re traumatized, starving teenagers who have never had to navigate anything like this sort of violence and stress before.

Except for Nat.

Obviously she wasn’t a cannibal before all this. But she had lived with violence, survived under harsh conditions, and seen death up close. For the others to be mentally able to survive this they need to separate their current selves from their old lives. That’s the appeal of Lottie’s rituals and faith. Of the cult. They lose their personhood because the trauma is simply too great. They’re still the same people, but none of the girls as they currently stand would be able to recognize themselves pre-crash.

Except for Nat. She’s a subtle uncomfortable reminder to the girls that they do, in fact, still have agency and morals. Even under the current stress. She feels responsible, and it reminds them of their own personal responsibility. Which isn’t compatible with their current mentality of survival, the new form of civilization they’re trying to create.

It’s not just that Javi died instead of Nat. It’s that Nat had to let Javi die, even though she tried to reach him at first. It’s the worst guilt she’s felt so far, and morally it brings her one step closer down to the others (In their eyes, at least. I’m not trying to morally condemn any of them but I do think they see Nat as Different from the rest and it subconsciously unsettles them.). It’s enough to break her, and enough to satisfy them.

For now at least.

[jan-fiona-li-pona]

insane how trans women are one among the least visible groups internally in the queer community and yet are seen as the face of the pure evils of those damn queers externally. i wonder why this doesnt really happen to other groups. hmm.

[worstloki]

People who think Palestinians wanting equal rights to live on their own land equates to wanting to genocide Jewish people are actually telling on themselves

[alpacasandravens]

my sheer and unwavering belief that there are no new fans of pjo and that we all read the books first vs the fact that the man I am marrying, the man I live with, never read the books and thinks the show’s pretty good

[brittlebutch]

actually first ep of Voyager where Janeway talks to Tuvok about how his family misses him is that when she says they Worry about him Tuvok contradicts her and claims that Vulcans don't do that but when she corrects and says they Miss him he accepts this and admits he misses them too; implying perhaps a pedantic difference between 'Vulcans do not Feel Emotions' (false) and 'Vulcans do not Act Out of Emotion' (accurate) -> 'Miss/Longing' is an emotion, but 'Worry' is an action one does out of emotion -> one Vulcans do; one Vulcans do not.

[mister13eyond]

the fun thing about making a comic where i've vaguely appropriated the aesthetics of christianity but entirely eschewing the actual religion is that i get to come up with headcanons for my universe like "hell isn't eternal punishment at all, it's literally just a big meat grinder where people's souls are sent to get converted to demon food. which isn't really all that different than the default option, where a soul is simply released back into the universe and becomes part of the big ocean of mana out there"

[chronicsheepdrawing]

KOSA Bill. In three days, the bill will either pass or be disgarded. Please reblog and sign petitions. to help stop the bill by going to the stop kosa tag so we can not let the bill pass!

The definition of not safe for work content that would be censored under KOSA is vague and would of course target the LGBT community.

[blood-starved-beast]

~~~~DO NOT REBLOG~~~~

Not to be that person but I've been reading some critiques of totk and how it handles imperialism (and perpetuates pro-imperialist sentiment), and it makes me feel like I'm standing on the sidelines tapping my foot anxiously cause while I agree with the general argument cause yes it does in fact have pro-imperialist sentiment it fails to point out that it comes from Japan. Japan with its own history of imperialism and imperialism apologism specifically. So it's very close to but slightly off mark and makes me frustrated. Especially since this is not the only time Nintendo has inserted pro-imperialist sentiment (looking at you Po/kemon legends:arce/us) and How You Are Not Immune to Propaganda (@ Nintendo devs).

But I refuse to speak of it in detail as I am not Japanese, I am not Asian, and I'm too unqualified (both temporally with relation to my studies and also not in-depth enough) to speak on the subject.

So I'll just sit here. Leg stimming anxiously like I have restless leg syndrome cause yeah I completely agree but I would normally go about explaining why in a slightly different direction but alas I should not and will not.

The only, only thing I will say though, if to make this post relevant to anyone reading this, is that people need to understand that one has to approach Hyrule through the lens that it is created by a Japanese company. The Hyrule religion is based on the Japanese state religion and specifically inspired by the kind that emerged after the Meiji Revolution. This is pertinent to understanding the Hylia lore and Zelda and why the monarchy is Like That, and why it keeps popping up again and again and why they refuse to move away from that model. And this directly ties into the Japanese pro-imperialist sentiment we see in these games.

[moodboardsbysarah]

viewing the world in a "female centric" way

does not mean

"viewing the world only from a radical feminist female seperatist point of view"

you have to view the world from the perspective of ALL WOMEN in order to claim you have a "female centric worldview". this includes women who trigger you and women who love men and want men in their lives and women who love makeup and dresses and long hair and flowers and women who believe a wife should submit to her husband and women who are soft and don't like to stand up for themselves and all of those other women who come across as ignorant and stupid and weak to you.

why are you the only type of female worth centering?

[fourfuckinghorsemen]

The next person that tries to invalidate my entire existence will cease to exist themselves. This is a warning.

[davidjohnlemahieu]

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[guidingsbolt]

motw....... epic wins tonight gang......

[parentsbesluts]

i cant go to bed i keep thinking about orange and patton

[subconsciousmysteries]

no words can describe how sick 3s make me

[heritageposts]

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret. The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.

. . . continues at the guardian (24th of may, 2010)

here's also a research paper published in 2004, which, looking at declassified south african documents, lays out apartheid south africa's rational for acquiring nuclear weapons (bombing, or 'deterring,' black liberation groups):