Saw a post that said "y'all don't deserve trigger warnings for this one" in regards to the atrocities in Palestine right now and there is something that makes me so indescribably mad about that.
Most importantly it is so deeply, disgustingly dehumanizing to the people in front of the camera that you are claiming to care for. Using someone else's trauma. Someone else's suffering. Someone else's pain. To in turn traumatize others? To guilt them? To intentionally trigger them because "they don't deserve it"? That does nothing. That does absolutely nothing.
How does stripping someone of their personhood and turning them into shock value trauma porn for the sake of proving a point to other vulnerable people do anything constructive?
What good does that do for the person in pain besides turn their pain into a tool to inflict further damage?
How does that help anyone at all?
"But it's awareness!!"
No it's not. That's not advocacy. That's not "spreading awareness". That's intentionally going out of your way to degrade, demoralize, and guilt people by preying on their sense of morality and using the horrors of genocide as a fucking prop for it. And you are a sick bastard for that.
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given that Morgoth really hates the peredhel, Elrond and Elros are probably specifically targeted by all the various nasties in Beleriand. therefore, please join me in considering: when Eärendil becomes a star and there's no hope of ransoming the twins for the Silmaril anymore, Maedhros and Maglor decide that the twins are both too much at risk and too much of a risk to send to Gil-galad, but the Fëanorians are already a small force, they can't lose any more people to these raids…
so they fake the twins' deaths.
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I thought it was hilarious, at first, that everyone’s decided Doomguy is still the protagonist of MyHouse.wad. After all, it doesn’t really have much more to do with Doom than gmod has to do with Half-Life 2. But then I remembered, isn’t that a plot point of Doom II? Visiting the burnt out ruins of your hometown on your way to the portal to Hell? Why couldn’t Doomguy take a few minutes to have a nightmare of an emotional journey in a childhood friend’s home to come to terms with everyone and everything he ever loved being destroyed?
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Fic ideas who knows if I'll ever get around to writing or even drawing as a comic:
YEARS IN THE FUTURE post canon, the artifacts department discovers time traveling capabilities in a weapon used by a renegade. Conflict happens relating to Maggie, dunno quite what kind but probably the tragic kind.
And somehow someway Nova and Adrian decided to go back in time to prevent all of this. They go back to when both of them were roughly 12 years old. The moment they collect their bearings they see they are right in front of a children's home
They go inside and Nova asks for her sister, giving a brief explanation of their situation backed up by the most recognizable 12 year old right beside her Adrian.. The person she asks is still very bamboozled but clearly little voices heard. Scampering is heard from upstairs, little feet running down the stairs.
Door to the front bursts open and there stands Nova's five year old little sister.
Nova can't keep herself standing and Maggie can't stay put. She runs into her sister's arms the moment it clicks that her sister came back for her. She'd be so excited, she's VIBRATING and there are so many words coming out of her mouth all at once for Adrian nor Nova to discern. From cheers of being right to trust her gut that someone would come claim her, to her own tears, to a BUNCH of questions about Nova and herself, etc etc
Nova is frozen, and after a few minutes gets the strength to wrap her arms around the kid. Since it's Maggie, she checks to make sure her bracelet is still there. It. It is.. Adrian and her are both puzzles at the kid's actions but Nova is reeling more from the fact her little sister is here. Alive.
Maggie notices after calming down from her excitement that Nova's acting off. Adrian quick to reassure that Nova's just stunned she could find her again. Maggie stands up and pulls at Nova's hands to get her to stand up, she does. And Maggie decides, y'know what I have just the thing that will cheer up my sister.
Incorporating my hc that Maggie, when she still has hope someone would come for her, stole so that she'd have only the BEST gifts for her future family, she brings Nova to her hidden stash. Plenty of valuables that she willingly gives Nova, and a long with the valuables are crayon drawings of what Maggie imagined it might be like if when she found her sister
If Nova wasn't crying already that was the final straw.
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6x22 // The Man Who Knew Too Much
Sam. My name is Sam.
image description: a scene from "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
Sam, Dean, and Bobby stand across from Castiel in an alley, refusing to go along with his plan to stop Raphael. Castiel looks down, disappointed. He speaks to Dean, saying, "I wish it hadn't come to this. Well rest assured, when this is all over... I will save Sam." Dean looks confused as Cas continues, "But only if you stand down." Dean interjects, "Save Sam from what?" Castiel disappears and they all recoil slightly. Castiel is suddenly standing beside Sam; Dean and Bobby turn to watch as Castiel raises a hand to touch Sam's temple. Sam looks confused and then his eyes roll back as the screen flashes white. Then, Sam is crouched on a motel floor with the bartender from his memories. He is shaking like he's just received a vision, and she tries to get his attention, saying, "Hey. Hey! Are you okay?" He eventually looks up at her and says, "Sam. My name is Sam."
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you guys know that "landlords are leeches get a real job" is a haha funny bit you say to illustrate the hypocrisy of the rhetoric surrounding work and what qualifies as 'contributing' to capitalist society and not a coherent leftist belief right? you guys are saying that because it's funny to watch landlords sputter to come up with a response to the kind of attitude they have always subjected tenants and renters to and not because you genuinely believe your worth is determined by the money you earn under capitalism, right? you understand that once you believe it is possible for someone (even landlords) to be a 'leech' on society if they arent working (or aren't working enough, or aren't doing the right kind of work, etc), this will bleed into the way you think of everyone else too, right? you guys know that legitimate and meaningful critiques of landlords are not and can never be based on whether or not they are working because that is irrelevant to the fact that they own property for the express purpose of charging other people for access to shelter, which is a basic human need and shouldnt be controlled by the whims of Some Guy just because its his name on the deed... right???
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