#collonialism

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

‘Unscathed’

The Badminton brothers possess characteristics associated with hegemonic masculinity,* the dominant form of masculinity within the gender hierarchy of most Western societies. They present as heterosexual, white, non-femme, physical, ambitious, upholding of patriarchy, and of a dominant class. They expect to be life’s winners.

Stede is in a binary opposition as subordinate masculine*, aligned with feminine identities and behaviours, and viewed as inferior to the dominant form of masculinity.

For Chauncey, if Stede has to exist at all, he needs to do so in a way that reinforces the dominance of Chauncey’s hegemonic masculinity. Stede should be an example of what not to be; and a key part is he must be seen to fail.

That Stede appears ‘unscathed’ is Chauncey’s pressing issue.

Stede’s antinormative gender presentation others him as ‘not a human’, and therefore not worthy of a fulfilling life. He must be destroyed if he keeps succeeding rather than suffering, and being a destroyer of ‘beautiful things’.

Stede can be allowed to exist, but only as subordinate to, or to die at the hands of someone such as Nigel, who upholds white patriarchal hegemony. For Nigel to die at the hands of Stede subverts the natural gender order underpinning colonialism and empire.

Stede’s failure as the male head of a family reinforced by the Christian institution underpinning Western civilisation, must see him cast out to ruin by social rejection and sanction; not run away through his own agency to build a new community as a subversive pirate captain on a ship full of gender nonconforming queer folk.

And Stede should die at the hands of Blackbeard, or learn correct masculine behaviours through instruction; he shouldn’t befriend and infect Blackbeard with his gender monstrosity.

Stede challenges and destroys beautiful things, the grand narratives colonialism is built upon - white patriarchal empire, heteronormative families, hegemonic masculinity - three images which flash before Stede’s eyes as Chauncey berates him. According to Chauncey, Stede is unscathed by his anti-normative behaviours which destroy ‘beauty’ or ‘correct living’, subverting everything Chauncey believes about a superior masculine identity, and the culture that places him upon that pedestal. And that terrifies Chauncey.

Stede, of course, isn’t unscathed. He is utterly broken by not being able to live up to the masculine ideals of Western culture. To his mind, he failed at being Badminton-adjacent like other boys at school, and was therefore unfit to be part of the white ruling classes as an adult, having just ‘lucked it’. He failed as a husband within a heteronormative marriage. And he failed by ‘infecting’ Blackbeard with the plague of his femmeness.

Stede it could be argued is the one damaged by the things Chauncey calls beautiful**, but it’s Stede’s masculine identity which wins through. And it is actually much more fluid than simply aligning with the subordinate. It’s ascribing to fixed binary stereotypes of masculinity as greater or lesser which is damaging. Stede’s masculinity is many nuanced things on any given day.

Stede offers an alternative for both himself and Ed, which is safe, emotionally rewarding, and allows space to explore gender expression. Though neither is unscathed by their experiences with hegemonic masculinity, Stede and Ed can recover, and their story makes it hopeful others can too.

*Reference to Connell’s gender order theory, one framework within gender discourse, and certainly not definitive

**Stede’s family and Ed are ‘beautiful’, but not for the reasons Chauncey believes. Nigel not so much

[cryptidclaw]

You kno what would be a fun clangen challenge? A matrilineal challenge!

In the real world cat colonies are made up of groups of females-mostly descendants of eachother! They raise kittens communally and form strong familial bonds, but they kick out males once they reach maturity (like the sisters in canon).

It would be fun to do a play thru a clan where u start with only females and continue it with only females, kicking out any males once they become adults...

Would be fun to see how things play out in a clan like that!

[darklight-owl]

Whenever people online go "Woah Christmas in the summer I can't imagine what that's like" I just show them this song:

[knightofdeer]

I am not in the mood to explain this, but all talks about "western democracy vs eastern despotism" are total bullshit on the account that civilizations of Western Asia (that was the East in the question this time) literally followed absolutely the same route Greek and Roman and Continental European civilizations did but thousands of years earlier.

And there is nothing inherently democratic or liberal in the West. Ignoring the fact that the freedom they talk about is the freedom to pillage and enslave and freedom of the merchants, even this is no more of a Western trait than that of absolutely anyone else.

[doomdoomofdoom]

So like. Anyone in academia gonna write that paper or do I have to

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[humongsstuff-binbin0111]

Example sayings in the seed of the soul (English creole languages)

[internetskiff]

The panels are definitely sentient but I believe it's less in a "each panel has a seperate consciousness" manner and more in a "this is a collonial organism with the Cental Core acting as the central intelligence" manner. Y'know? It's also a funny look at the mental state of whoever is occupying the Central Core, I think. After her awakening, GLaDOS makes them sweep up messes, shove rubble away into crevices where it won't be seen, she's using them as brooms n whatnot.

But what's a little interesting to me is that sometimes they seem to just be hitting things for no reason. Just violently slamming into the walls, their indicators having turned red. While it could 100% just be a malfunction, I do wonder if this could be GLaDOS trying to vent her frustration by hitting the walls instead of, y'know, just letting it out by violently crushing Chell?

Does this count as hitting yourself if you've become the building? I don't know. What's interesting is a similar red coloration comes through when Wheatley takes charge, and these panels don't show any sign of malfunctioning - which makes it seem as though the red indicators aren't a distress signal, they're a sign of rage. Maybe at one point they DID signify that something's wrong - but now it's just a way of telling that you've angered the entire structure.

The way the panels in the Central AI Chamber behave is extremely fascinating too. They lock up and get caught on eachother as GLaDOS' head is ripped from her body, they bob up and down to match Wheatley's laughter, and during his breakdown they flare up and stare right at Chell like dozens upon dozens of eyes - he's staring her down from every possible angle to try and make her feel as small as he can. He even sticks them onto the chassis which, while yes, do serve as shields, they're also almost certainly also his attempt of making himself look even larger.

It's pretty funny how from that perspective the panels become sort of a window into the mental state of whoever is currently in the chassis. Eyes are the window to the soul, and luckily, Aperture's walls are lined with thousands of them! :D

[totallynotcensorship]

tags update: israel is now 5th. egypt is 8th, with lebanon, human rights, and middle east trending under it. collonialism and US politics are trending as well

context on why egypt is trending:

on this day(april 8th) in 1970, at 9:20 AM as a part of operation priha, israeli air forces bombed a primary school in a village named bahr el baqar(in el hesenia center. in the east of sharqia governate).

the attack resulted in 30 children killed. 50 children and 11 staff members injured. and the school building becoming rubble

after the attack, at the time israelli minister of defense moshe dayan stated "maybe the egyptians put elementary students in a military base" despite no military activity existing in the area, the "human shields" lie is THAT old. bahr al baqar was just the perfect combination of "damages from bombing it would push the egyptians into a ceasefire" and "not known enough for people to fact check our bullshit"

operation priha(tl;dr)

operation priha was a series of sorties by the israelli air force against mainland egyptian targets to stop egypt from fighting during the war of attrition. bahr al baqar was NOT the only one, on february 13th they bombed an industrial plant in abu za'abal(qalyubia), killing 80 workers. in addition to a long list of egyptian military and navel bases.

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT INJUSTICE

[sylvanas-girlkisser]

Tilda van der Meer was a pretty good villain, could have been great if given more screentime i mean:

"Erik and Gerard's fatal flaws is that they both think they're the smartest person in the room and deserve to remake the world in their image - unlike me, who is the smartest person in the room and deserve to remake the world in my image, while my ex apologizes for breaking up with me."

"When faced with the apocalypse, I made it my mission to preserve art for future generations - And by art, I mean exclusively the kind created by white christian men during the height of the Dutch collonial empire."

"Making a clone of my ex and raising her in torture VR while presenting myself as her only source of affection and human intimacy; did not produce an exact copy of the woman I fell in love with who always called me on my shit; instead it gave her turbo anxiety, suicidal ideation, and PTSD :( Fortunately I found this other clone of her in the wild who hates my guts, so I'm gonna kidnap her, force eternal youth upon her, then lock her in a box until she realizes she's in love with me!"

Like you go queen! Continue exhibiting zero self insight and confirming all our prejudice about trust fund babies!

[bestanimal]

Round 1 - Phylum Cnidaria

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Cnidaria is a phylum of aquatic animals which includes the Anthozoans (sea anemones, corals, sea pens), the Scyphozoans ( true jellies), the Cubozoans (box jellies), the Hydrozoans (a diverse group ranging from Hydras to the colonial Portuguese Man O’ War), the Staurozoans (eight-tentacled cnidarians that cling to seaweeds and rocks), and the parasitic Myxozoans and Polypodiozoans.

Cnidarians are identified by a decentralized nervous system distributed throughout a gelatinous body, and specialized explosive stinging cells, called cnidocytes, on ejectable flagella (“tentacles”) which are used to envenomate prey ranging from plankton to animals several times larger than themselves. Their bodies consist of a jelly-like substance called mesoglea sandwiched between two thin cell layers. Cnidarians are some of the only animals that can reproduce both sexually and asexually.

Many species of Cnidarian are actually groups of polyps, called zooids, clustered together to form one collonial organism. Corals, the Man O’ War, and Siphonophores are examples of this.

Propaganda below the cut:

Corals support 25% of all ocean life

Reefs are formed when coral polyps group together and produce a skeleton of calcium carbonate at their bases. They do this to form a platform that allows them to better stick together.

In a relationship that dates back to the Triassic, the symbiotic algae that live within corals gives them their colors, as well as creates nutrients for both organisms

Corals are facing a mass extinction due to climate change

While anemones are mainly sessile, usually staying in one place for weeks to months at a time, they can creep along on their bases at a speed too slow to be seen with the naked eye. However, some species can move or “swim” quickly in a pinch. Gonactinia can crawl like an inchworm, Paranthus rapiformis can curl into a ball and roll around, and Stomphia coccinea can swim by flexing its column. They just look really silly doing so.

Anemones are predators, stinging prey and pulling it into their mouth with their tentacles. They can eat animals as large as crabs, mollusks, and even small fish. However, some fish and invertebrates have a symbiotic relationship with anemones. Immune to the anemone’s venom, these animals utilize it as shelter while keeping it clean and providing it with nutrients from their feces. Some hermit crabs even carry anemones on their shells, providing the anemone with quick transport to new areas in return for protection.

Box Jellies have simple eyes, are capable of pursuing and reacting to prey behavior, and some species are some of the most deadly animals in the world.

The Lion’s Mane Jelly (Cyanea capillata) is one of the largest jellyfish, with the largest recorded specimen having a bell width of 210 cm (7 ft) and tentacles around 36.6 m (120 ft) long.

The Lion’s Mane Jelly is also the favorite food of Leatherback Sea Turtles.

A rise in jellyfish population can signify ecosystem collapse

The Giant Siphonophore (Praya dubia) is a collonial Hydrozoan that can get up to 50 m (160 ft) long, rivaling the Blue Whale in length.

Some Cnidarians can “hear” via vibrations, and some can even produce sounds to communicate

Many Cnidarians are bioluminescent

[thetinyvampire]

I don't have a wasps' nest in my attic, but I do have an ant collony in my pantry, and it's making me feel just as likely to murder people.

[yayasvalveplay]

The Magnus before Ultra was a mech named Powered Convoy (P.C. Magnus) he would’ve been the one to establish the colony and peace in cybertronian earth au

Oh yes. P.C Magnus helped astablish a collony on Earth, near Detroit.

Thank you for your help anon.

[nthspecialll]

It's more of a time period ask rather than a rdr one, so sorry to bother you. How are people with vitiligo are treated back in the 1800's? And was there a large different in treatment if they are born with it instead of the ones who spontaneous got it? Again, sorry to bother with something that was nothing to do with rdr(if you don't consider the time period)

Oh don't worry, I might not have had any prior knowledge about this but I got to learn! I will admit though there wasn't a lot that I could find.

In this reddit thread I found a really good answer about albino and vitiligo slaves, they talk about the phenomenon of "leopard girls/boys".

I also found a Quora thread that asked a similar question as you and a historian replied that due to the lack of medical knowledge, some with vitiligo were just considered to be suffering with leprosy and treated as such. That meant being put in a collony to prevent spreading and basically living there until... Well death.

There is also this gal who posts about nothing but vitiligo, but I can't search on her profile specifically for 1800 bc I don't have a Quora profile.

[fuck-i-like-too-much-stuff]

Ive seen multiple Indians already talk about this and it makes me so beyond angry and sad that Cartier could allow fucking Emma Chamberlain to wear the Patiala Necklace (a bejeweled necklace that belonged to Maharaja Bhupendra Singh, stolen during British colonization and then reconstructed by Cartier) and then Diljit Doshanj- someone who belongs to the culture and people to whom this necklace actually belongs- was denied. Not only because of the blatant racism of the white supremacist but also because the colonial narrative is so controlled to make the South Asian culture feel like an artefact.

These powers that advertise luxury and wealth, as it belongs to the White race, claim that brown culture is not something to live in the present as it could not be of their level in the present. In their collonial mindset, the superiority is so heavily ingrained that they forget that South Asian prime is of its own people and not of the colonies that looted it; in their heads it is impossible for the culture to be alive as they are not the ones living it.

The inability of their small minds to admit and accept their lack of control and equality (and even inferiority) in status, as well as the absolute whitewashing of Western media shows that not only do they exist in a bubble where they allow for the colonial narrative to exist and thrive but also allow the degradation of the colonized public to mere spectators of their own culture, all while it contributes to the how deep a White Man's pockets can go.

[girlblogger360]

Arabs will be anti-collonialism while having an Indonesian slave aka "maid" in their compound that isn't allowed to call their family

[humongsstuff-binbin0111]

Example sayings in the seed of the soul (Indo-European (Germanic) languages)