#constructing the reals

[akajustmerry]

"... While most of these films don’t bring up Israel’s occupation of Palestine directly, many of them normalise and even lionise Israel’s existence and Israeli identity. Others, like Dune Part Two and September 5 perpetuate anti-Arab racism and “terrorist” stereotyping. All of this lays an ideological groundwork in the mind of the viewer that justifies Israel’s so-called “right to exist”, and that Palestinian and Arab resistance to genocidal Israeli expansionism is, if not evil, then futile.

...On the same day that the Academy celebrated its big night, the Israeli Occupation Forces cut off aid to Gaza after the Zionist Israeli government refused to honour its end of the ceasefire agreement. As the media justice advocacy group Slow Factory pointed out on Instagram, Israel has a long history of timing escalated attacks with major US cultural events — like the Oscars — to limit media coverage of their actions. The Oscars don’t just normalise and lionise Zionism, but provide cultural cover for its violence.

It is not about when, how, or why these films were made or even who they were made by, but what these films say about Zionism, and how that benefits the West’s support of Israel. Even if zero of these films had won an Oscar, it doesn’t matter. Many still saw them, internalised them, and enjoyed them. The damage is done, and the brunt of it will be bared, as it always is, by Palestinians."

And The Oscar Goes To... Zionism! // by Merryana Salem via The Offcut.

[medusaesque]

The radicalization of Kim Kitsuragi

[perpetuallyscreamingbird]

Going feral over "this is a love story" because it so is.

How could the Narrator tear a god in two and expect them not to love each other? Not to love the first thing they knew that wasn't them, not to love that lost part of themself? Maybe it's because hating yourself is such a human thing, it's impossible to imagine a being torn in two loving its lost parts. Even when they're not perfect. Especially when they're not perfect.

Even when you get the worst outcome on a route, or one of the vessels with so many reasons to be angry, The Shifting Mound still loves The Long Quiet because they're gods, and death is to them what a paper cut is to us and this too shall pass and she loves him through all of it.

They are everything. They can be as good as they can be bad. They can love each other and hurt each other and those things are rarely mutually exclusive. They can meet afterwards and talk with kindness. There isn't a single part of them that doesn't have the potential to be something better. There isn't a single part of them that doesn't have the potential to be something worse. They're the same entity. Theyre the only different being the other has ever known. This is a love story.

[thegroundhogdidit]

why is assad so masterful at acting that you can literally pinpoint exactly when armand's mask goes back up. how does he do that

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

To be clear, Jinx didn’t magically go from being schizophrenic and severely mentally unstable to “just a little quirky and chaotic” from season 1 to season 2. She’s just not living with and dependent on someone who is actively trying to make her mental health worse for his personal gain anymore.

Also, adopting a kid and receiving unconditional love again for the first time in almost 10 years probably helped a lot. As did reconnecting with her sister whom she was manipulated into believing was the cause of her problems and pain.

[muzsmocsing]

Contrary to popular belief, Mobei-jun is actually a pretty chill guy. Not much of a talker but pleasant company nonetheless. It's just the second he steps a foot outside his territory he is constantly overheating to the point of nausea. He can mask the discomfort but the sensation of being boiled alive makes him a tad more stab-happy than he is by default.

[benevolenterrancy]

...I got a little lost in the weeds thinking about the time between Ming Yi's ascension and his death, and decided that this is my favourite possible scenario (think Lord Vetinari and Leonard de Quirm).

Is Ming Yi a prisoner? technically yes. Does he have any interest in leaving? not in the slightest, he is fed, gets given any of the tools or materials he wants, and gets work on his own projects without any interruptions except for the occasional conversation with He Xuan! it's like the ideal possible retirement after living a VERY busy mortal life!

[bearforceone3]

guy gardner with a basket of cheese fries

[agnesandhilda]

watched conclave last night and then read the wikipedia entry for the book and now I'm wondering about the category ten shitstorm that a publicly intersex pope would cause

[trixxedheart]

It is amazing how the "people that love and uplift transwomen" website will instantly fucking maul a transwoman if she even remotely insinuate that using radfem rhetoric harms trans people

[aquapolis]

do you guys see my vision

[longlostlorian]

and they were partners

(fanart for tactical breach wizards, one of my very fav games this year)

[as-if-and-only-if]

Consider now the Cainian functor C : Grp → Grp given by G ↦ [G, G], which annihilates all abelian groups,

[anodymalion]

The hero's sword arc of Frieren is only a single chapter but it's probably the chapter I think about the most... You have the classic sword in the stone that can only be pulled by the hero who is destined to save the world. So of course Himmel, the legendary hero, is the one who freed it.

Except: he didn't. He failed. He couldn't pull the sword from the stone. He wasn't the prophesied hero who would save the world.

And he went, okay, well, people really need a hero right now. So I'll just pretend to be one anyway. It doesn't really matter if I'm a fake or not if either way we're helping people.

And he did. He was a pretend hero. And they saved the world.

And now eighty years later there is no one left to remember that he never pulled the sword from the stone at all. It's easier to believe that he did, because he saved the world, so he must have been the destined hero. But he wasn't. The sword saw him and rejected him, and he simply went on anyway, because he wanted to help people, and that's what it takes in the end to be a hero, really. The four of them saved the world, and the true hero's sword sits quietly in a cave somewhere, rusting away, forever, unneeded.

[asexualbookbird]

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