I think that HIC’s tendency to keep around “lower life forms” that she deems useful/grows attached to is just a twisted version of Meenah’s desire to keep being with her friends in the dream bubbles because despite being mean, she genuinely cares about them
I never see enough of that. Of people remembering that the ancestors and the dancestors are the same people in more than genetics. Sure they have different ways they act and think as a result of Alternia and scratch’s influence, but the way they think and act really boils down to the dancestor’s original personality and just. Who they are in general
Meenah expresses desire to be a sister/mentor figure to Feferi because she wants to “show her how to be awesome” which to me seems like a clear wish for companionship from someone whom Meenah thinks will understand her. And she openly acknowledges that she finds the biological urge to kill her annoying.
And then we see this same dynamic but in a messed up way, where Condy is dead set on Jane being her heiress. There’s assassination attempts, as is expected of the heiress and empress, but when she finally has Jane in her proximity she forces her to her side and promises her a planet. And when she dies, Condy gets super pissed and kills Aranea in a fit of rage. Considering Jade was also alive, this could have been rage at hard work being wasted. Or maybe the loss of an heiress who she wouldn’t feel the need to kill, which I think the idea of interested HIC the same way it interested Meenah
We don’t properly see the ancestors aside from condy, so anything else would really be speculative or headcanons, but there’s definitely a basis for what I’m saying here. The dancestors and the ancestors are the same people the way the alpha guardians and the beta kids are. There’s different bits due to their environments, and they may be twisted and their logic may be warped. But at the end of the day it’s still them
Dualscar definitely had an interest in music
And mindfang definitely spent hours telling stories to any person in her crew who would listen
92 notes
·
View notes
So I finally started playing the Great Ace Attorney game and I love it so far. Ryunosuke's adorable, KAZUMA is something else. (Those gazes!! Hot damn) I'm genuinely upset I haven't seen more fanart of him on my dash, because holy shit. I've seen so much fanart for the Sherlock Holmes guy-- sorry, Herlock Sholmes (?? I haven't run into him in-game yet. Still dueling Swan Lady Ms Brett), but I can't remember ever seeing any Kazuma art. Outrageous.
Anyway this is my one-minute warning before I attack and reblog everything in the tags.
Update: fineeeeee, I will attack the tags and reblog all the fanart after I finish the games 😭 darn you spoilers. 😔
29 notes
·
View notes
Reading about coptic identity in ayyubid Egypt and feeling like floating face down a stream
2 notes
·
View notes
I currently have a lot of Jewish mutuals/people I follow and over the course of the last few months, almost Every. Single. One has talked about their mental health declining, that they’re exhausted and terrified, that they’ve become more closed off and lost their trust in people from outside their communities, due to being gaslit and ignored constantly on a society wide scale. Almost all of them have experienced antisemitic abuse or violence personally or had bomb threats to their synagogues and community centres or had swastikas and slurs graffitied on their properties.
The worst thing about this outrage is that none of them are really surprised by it - frightened, sickened, yes - but not surprised. They and their ancestors have had to deal with this shit for thousands of years. And all of them expect - no they *know* - it’s going to get worse.
It’s beyond fucking shameful. We are failing these people on a massive, society wide scale. Again.
So, I NEVER want to see a single one of my fellow goyim say shit like “Jews are just playing the victim,” “the rise in antisemitism is overblown and not as bad as they say because I haven’t seen it,” “it’s just a few extremists,” because NO, IT ISN’T - it’s systemic. Those who aren’t directly perpetrating it are mostly ignoring it. If you won't believe or listen to Jewish voices (if not, why not?) then the cold statistics cannot be waved away.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-antisemitic-incidents-up-about-400-since-israel-hamas-war-began-report-says-2023-10-25/
https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-4-000-antisemitic-incidents-recorded-by-jewish-charity-in-uk-in-2023-with-explosion-in-hatred-blamed-on-hamas-attacks-13071580
https://www.reuters.com/world/how-surge-antisemitism-is-affecting-countries-around-world-2023-10-31/
3K notes
·
View notes