☀️ Warrior Nun S2E6 🌙
PSA: i didn't survive this ep lakdsj;gjaskjda
haha my whiplash from Confusion to OH OH YOUNG SUZANNE
AND SHANNON
(wow i missed her and i barely knew her T^T)
so either shannon's older than i expected or superion is younger than i expected???
but more importantly
superion's halo is SO POWERFUL?????
she's got that a) touch of death palm technique Lite Version AND b) nifty overwatch lookin shield scuse me ava when will you
once again OST SLAPS
SHE IS SO BADASS!!,!,!,’cbnncbdbdbfj also cocky hahaha i love her
this fight's fave move: double neck skewer!
firstly, halo rejecting looks GNARLY
secondly, w h y (grief? fully drained? it somehow knew she failed to protect someone due to her own ego? severity of her own moral failing? i want. answers)
The PRIDE in bea’s look as ava talks 🤩 i am hanging on to every single avatrice interaction for my liFE
cam trying to summon the boogeyman is the horror trope i didn't know i needed ahahaha
MICHAEL'S GOT A NUKE tony stark lookin ass
"we are not both dying over some interdimensional power grab" u tell em!!!!1 (such a frustrating and common trope, why must the hero always be the sacrificial lamb for some lofty goal?)
yo that is one DIRTY look bea gave him tho lmfao
on today's episode of bullying william: "foster" what a dumb name L u delusional little shit
cut to vincent el bastardo
"and we shall contact god by text" the ABSURDITY PFFF
*what's in the box voice* what did adriel sayyyyyy????
obligatory fuck off adriel
picking out tmrws outfit slay boyo 🤡💁♀️is it me or does he look like Hugh Jackman with that new beard
back to the blessed blorbos!
team super cam aw <3
OH NO U DONT TOUCH HER GIRL LIKE THAT
protective!bea i'm swooningg
journalist!yasmine is so cuteeee
CAMILLA UR CHASTITY HAHAHAHAHHAA
clutching my pearls but also yes girliE GET SOMEEEEEEEE
is that the fuckin,, lalisa sonf? v hype but ngl doesn't fuuully fit the scene But i'll let it slide :)
“well then warrior nun, see you on the other side” 😍😍
you tell me that won't be one of her affectionate nicknames once they settle down and have their happily ever after i DARE you-
“do you know how i know that adriel isn't god, vincent? because he chose to speak to you” OUCHHHHHHHHHH
ok i'm calling it now that pointy cross is hanging Very Ominously over the stage,.,,
adriel choosing to mimic the medici’s bastardised image of Jesus the irony is not lost on me :)
so uhhhhhh why does the halo only sputter out at plot relevant moments? *shakes writers in frustration*
LILITHS TEETH VAGINA COSTUME
i'm so sorry but lilith girl they did u so fucking dirty wtf is this shitty look costumes dept u were doing so wellllll TAT
oh dear ava 🥺
yall there’s nothing that hurts me more than a well laid plan going wrong
lilith hurtling off the roof - HAHAHAHAHA YEET BITCH
where tf was ava hiding her helmet???? up her-?
kristian: “let it go” ah ofc they planned for this
insert it’s a trap !!!!!!!! meme
i can’t watch thissssssddsddd
oh boy the cross tip hanging ever lower like the sword of Damocles
I CALLED IT
nooooo rest in pieces duretti shdhdhajahgdhd
jesus that's brutal,, gnarly counter: 2
michael: "god isn’t real" maybe the true message all along was atheism :)
CAMILLA AND HER GUNNNNNN BIG BRAINNNNNN
AVA DESCENDING LIKE THE REAL ANGEL SHE IS
vincent seeing her-
lilith ex machina swooping in-
OK MICHAEL GOT A STAB IN gnarly counter: 3 (once again loving the gore this season !)
BOTH ava and michael choosing to sacrifice themselves in that moment PLS NO
ooh love the millisecond yellow sheen on adriels eyes
sister ARMS- sorry- i meant sister dora HELLO THERE
“come on pretty boy” ahahshdhdksjagahaha bea ily
back at base
ok fess up who's the goddamn snitch
(small eyeroll at the 'oops i destroyed the macguffin detonator' trope)
SUPERION NO
NO
NO
(did she die ????)
never has a cross been so hateful as the one drawn in blood fuck you william u little dipshit
SUPERION NO 😭😭😭😭
did lilith just save ava by teleporting her
jahdkclcpsjsxnxoxmxnsiskncc
this episode took my heart and shredded it in a meat grinder
superion has shot up my favourites list this season and for her to end like that-
and duretti!
but mostly superion TAT i'm suing for her And mary >:(((
ANYWAY
not keeping calm and carrying on-
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Recently Youtube's algorithm really wants me to watch Schindler's List and I never had so the other night I sat down and actually watched it.
Having a lot of thoughts about it but a major one I keep coming back to is how even an immensely and deeply flawed human being can go against "just following orders" and instead put in the work to actually help.
It may never be fully enough. It may never save as many as you'd hoped. But when you have a choice to either follow orders or save your fellow humans in front of you, I hope you choose the latter.
Schindler died in poverty. He was not a renown war hero nor was he at all famous or widely beloved. But he saw that he could help, even in some small way, and so he helped.
He was a Nazi who saw what the Nazis were doing to Jews and said no more. Enough. If I can even spare those under my charge, maybe a few extras, then at least I will have tried to do something about this.
I think a lot of people do not fancy this type of activism. It is messy, dangerous, and often completely thankless. Schindler survived as long as he did after the war due to those he saved helping him with donations. He was not popular in his hometown due to his association with Nazis, he was not popular in Germany, he was not popular in Argentina. His businesses all failed. His wife left him. A movie about his deeds was released several years after his death, where he would receive none of the benefits. He went to prison multiple times for simply refusing to hate Jews.
I think a lot of people like to think they're activists, but are sorely unprepared for doing this type of work, and then in truth become activists in name only. This is hard work. But without him, another thousand or so people would be on that death toll.
He took his position of extreme power- a Nazi owning a factory almost entirely operated by Jews, making oodles of money off that cheap slave labor- and said you know what? No. I'm not doing that. I can't save everyone, but as long as they are within my factory, you will not kill my workers. As long as I'm here you aren't harming one hair on the head of any Jew under my care. You're not sending or keeping them in Auschwitz. You're not randomly executing them for entertainment. They're people. You're not murdering them.
"Just following orders" they say. But they didn't have to. They could have helped. They could have did what he did, look around and say "what the fuck am I doing here", and stop. He did. They could have. They didn't.
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one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.
in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.
disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.
desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.
in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?
we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.
except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?
and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.
to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."
this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.
in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.
the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.
and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.
some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.
the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.
we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?
"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.
there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.
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