#babel x

[decolonize-the-left]

....hey is there anything stopping from police from buying our data, adding that to the data pool for the Babel X dragnet & recreating us as AI (the specific use of Babel X is AI identifying/storing info on us from online), placing AI-us in their BattleVR training systems, then combined with a physical map of our cities and homes in Cop City to recreate even personal, individual interactions and run scenarios to figure out the best, most efficient way to pillage entire cities?

Asking for a friend living in a fascist police state

[arcanistsanctum]

Udimos Photo Album from Official Bilibili CN

[starfallkaz]

Babel Spoilers!!!

Been thinking a lot about Letty Price and her inability to comprehend how the act of Robin, Victoire and Ramy standing up and joining a resistance against Babel was so integral to their identities and experiences as POC and scholars in Britain.

How could they hate and do this to a nation that gave them so much? That gave them literature and translation, education and funding and the ability to expand their minds. How could they turn their backs on that?

She could not conceive that they had been given these opportunities, but at every turn they were disrespected and mistreated for who they were. Given rewards and treats and opportunities with the consolation that yes “you are lesser than” but don’t worry we can beat the ethnic out of you. And to hang that over you, it is only natural to form a twisted sense of self-worth contingent on the whily and abusive whims of their oppressor. The constant need to prove that they were worthy of acknowledgment, of this position. The anger and twisted gratuity for the opportunity, but injustice in being used for their minds and their abilities by an empire refusing to acknowledge them as humans, let alone equals. Stolen bodies and stolen lands.

And Letty, her only framework of suffering was the coddling of a girl in an upperclass white family and the restrictions of conservative social constructs. That while hindering and discouraging, were not a question of life and death or of humanity, but of simple opportunity and intelligence. And looking through these eyes, how could she comprehend such a thing?

[blackbatofel]

I just finished my reread of JLA: Tower of Babel and frankly, I'm surprised by the lack of Superbat fics about this plotline. I mean, it's the perfect setting for all the Superbat angst you could dream of.

How everyone keeps pointing out that Supes is the one closest to Batman, Clark emphatically referring to what happened as "your betrayal", how Bruce's files are cold and professional about everyone EXCEPT Clark (his fear of seeing him in pain), his guilt, how everyone else is loud and angry but Clark is silent and hurt, the fact Clark gave him the kryptonite in the first place. Clark having the final say and voting Bruce out of the League. Bruce KNOWING that he would do that and leaving because he didn't want to hear it.

The confrontation on Divided We Fall with all the accusations and the obvious hurt on both sides... then the agreement to reveal their identities together.

Tell me this wouldn't be an excellent break up/getting back together fic? The hurt/comfort of all times. If someone doesn't write this soon, I might have to.

[koiwynn]

robin: i want my oven to heat up

ramy: get inside you’ll toast it real warm

ramy: wow i tried to be smooth and i failed

robin: did you just tell me to kill myself?

[soracities]

“The Yamana, whose filth and poverty persuaded Darwin, passing in his Beagle, that they were monkey men unworthy of study, had fifteen names for clouds and more than fifty for the different kinds of kin. Among their variation of the verb ‘to bite’ was a word that meant ‘to come surprisingly on a hard substance when eating something soft e.g. a pearl in a mussel’.”

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

[cokiri]

This is a fanart of Ophélie in The mirror visitor (La passe miroir in french) in book 3. What a cutie pie.

I drew her (almost) every year in 5 years, you can see them in my Instagram if you want on my fyp🤷‍♀️

I rarely do a background so enjoy

[cowboylikewren]

it HAS to be gay, come on

why else would she write this line???

[divno]

I did a thing

check out this blog post!

[daryj]

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[vynne-reads]

Archibald is a tumblr sexyman, while Thorn is baby girl.

[lightsinthemist]

It really took three books and more than three years of marriage for Ophelia and Thorn to start talking to each other in an informal way.

Tell me about slow burn

[starfallkaz]

You think you can hurt me???

RF Kuang is my favourite author

[carigradmergen]

Mythical creature brothers hugging

[koiwynn]

the things homoerotic, codependent situationships do to a person…

[soracities]

The uttering of the word reveals how each of us relentlessly creates. Everyone is an artist. Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible.

John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World