#massacre of the innocents

[mamwieleimionstarwars]

So I started watching Avatar the Last Airbender live action series and I was watching the start of the war.

As I watched I realised how similar the Airbenders situation was to that of the Jedi. And how they both were massacred.

The scenes of both massacres were so similar in their shared tragedy I had to pause the movie and write about it.

Because let's see:

Jedi were killed at the end of a war. The Airbenders massacred to start one.

They both were made of mostly people who are supposed to be pacifists.

And they both were brutally killed in their own home, leaving almost no survivors.

From old to masters to babies in their cribs.

Killed because of the greed of an old man.

Killed because of fear and greed and anger and violence.

[pepleosupremacy]

And then King Herod asked the babies, before signaling his soldiers to raise their swords

"Do you condemn Khamas?"

[thewaspandthefig]

Massacre of the Innocents, Hans Pleydenwurff (1420–1472)

[nsfwbible]

The nightmare after Christmas

In the Gospel of Matthew, Herod, the Roman-appointed king of the Jews, orders the killing of all the children in Bethlehem age two or younger — his attempt to eliminate a prophesied newborn Christ. Warned by an angel, the father of the infant Jesus escapes with his family to Egypt. The account in Matthew makes no attempt to explain why God’s angel saves Jesus at the expense of so many innocent children. Just as puzzling, the other gospels make no mention of the infanticide.

Renaissance artists portrayed the Massacre of the Innocents hundreds of times, typically as a panoramic scene of mass slaughter viewed from some distance. Nicolas Poussin’s painting, from around 1625, brings the viewer uncomfortably close to the brutal slaying of a single child. The image here is a public domain scan of the painting in the Condé Museum in France.

[bakastandotsukai]

I was originally thinking about watching The Nativity Story (2006), the Bible movie about the birth of Jesus Christ spanning from Nazareth to Bethlehem (and starring a young Oscar Isaac as Papa Joseph), this Christmas

but then... I remembered the very first scene of that movie... (the massacre of the innocents)

and knowing what's happening in that same place right now, it just feels like history repeating itself.

[rossodimarte]

Giacinto Diana, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1780

[beautiful-belgium]

Willem Vrelant - The Massacre of the Innocents (1460s)

[everdeenxmellark]

scène du massacre des innocents (1824)

by léon cogniet

why do you tear from me my darling son,

the fruit of my womb?

it was i who bore him,

my breast he drank.

my womb carried him about,

my vitals he sucked,

my heart he filled.

he was my life,

‘tis death to have him taken from me.

my strength has ebbed,

my speech is silenced,

my eyes are blinded.

- the mothers lament at the slaughter of the innocents

[0rph3u5]

it's almost that season again

he got a bad rap, most Herod biographers do not believe that this event occurred

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

The Massacre of the Innocents by German artist Peter Paul Rubens 1609/11.

[the-other-art-blog]

Léon Cogniet, Scene of the Massacre of the Innocents, 1824, oil on canvas, 261.3 x 228.3 cm, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, Rennes, France.

Today is Holy Innocents' Day, recalling the massacre ordered by Herod. So, I wanted to share this painting, cause it's such a unique take on the famous art history theme "The Massacre of the Innocents."

The paintings that I was used to seeing depicted the actual massacre. There are babies being murdered, and mothers screaming and begging, like the ones by Rubens (left) and Reni (right).

But this one offers another pov. Here is a mother hiding from the chaos as she covers her son's mouth so that they don't hear them. But she's looking at us terrified as if she fears that we are going to tell the soldiers about them.

It's terrifying.

[twobrothersatwork]

“For the avenger of bloodshed remembers, does not forget the cry of the afflicted.”

Psalm 9:13 NABRE

Artwork: Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem (Dutch, 1562 - 1638), The Massacre of the Innocents (1591).

[scripture-pictures]

[jichanxo]

Help me, Lord, from these fantasies in my head / They ain't ever been safe ones

[worrygutz]

Texas chainsaw au where they advertise running a “haunted house” experience for tourists.

Orchestrated by Drayton Sawyer who wants to squeeze some money out of ‘regular folk’; impress grandpa and partially get off on ppls scared faces after being terrorised by the twins and bubba.

[strawglicks]

hi i think its rlly nice that, despite what Misty's been through, she keeps a mostly positive mindset and keeps trying to make friends. and i think its underdiscussed when it comes to them

misty is known as being tragic and sad and lonely, and while this is true, they also try to stay optimistic. despite their past with Barnacle Bessie and other suits, they continue trying to reach out and make friends.

When the toons first approach her in her battle, she invites them to learn Ip Dip with her. And at the end of her battle, she says she "hopes to share that pain with someone like you". She remains hopeful for friendship and connection despite what she's endured.

But i think this persistence can also be very harmful when she's desperate for that connection, shown through her relationship with William. They haven't left him alone, to the point he's claiming to have been harassed and stalked by them. Misty's desperation for friendship and connection has caused them to hurt other people, and I dont think that should be ignored either.

Misty deserves friendship like any other, but the way she goes about it can be harmful to both herself and the people around her. But her desperation also makes sense when you see how often she is turned down and rejected, for reasons she doesn't seem to understand (hence lines like, "I've done nothing wrong" and "I want to be friends with you toons. I don't see why it can't happen". They don't seem to fathom why toons and suits cannot be friends, despite the obvious war going on. They're very focused on themselves and the pain they've endured that they fail to pay attention to OTHERS' pain. Others like the toons and William.)