#tw: mentions of colonization

[spiderdungeons]

new educational show to combat PragerU Kids. featuring my pet spiders

[espers-n-espurrs]

did you know thievuls are thought of quite fondly in spikemuth, and that many spikemuthians have a nickit or thievul as a companion?

its because of how similar we are. how many view spikemuthians as nuisances or criminals, quick to make judgment calls on the people there when the people have done nothing but try to survive.

and it goes back further than when spikemuth became spikemuth, back before the homeless built this city and made it home. many spikemuthians are descendants of the equirexians and kingsmen, two groups of people who were seen as nuisances to the galarians with only one group, the equirexians, surviving to the modern era with their culture and having to be the ones to help the kingsmens culture come back.

but this post is more centered around the kingsmen. did you know, towards the end of the kingsmens time, as the kingsmens lycanroc were being exterminated, they began to bring in thievuls to fill in the gaps? thievuls and the early boltund (a species they bred into existence from lycanroc and manectric i may add) were some of their main partner pkmn towards the end.

that was until the galarians took the boltund and began to breed them into what we now know them as, a pkmn that when used for hunting is primarily used to hunt fox pkmn.

thievuls, a pkmn that once stood proudly by the side of the early boltund, were now thought of as nothing more than nuisances that the boltund were to hunt. they werent desirable, thats why they werent taken in mass and bred to fill some sort of role. no. their role was simply to get out of the way or be hunted.

much like the kingsmen when there was nothing else to take from them. much like the equirexians when there was nothing else to take from them.

much like spikemuthians, and while spikemuthians arent hunted, they werent really helped much either. nuisances.

spikemuthians have much the same history as thievuls. the same kinship. the same connection.

does a thievul look at a boltund and remember? does the boltund remember? or are they just now the hunted and the hunter? no longer companions side by side?

[waywardsunlight]

I watched most of the Owl House with my religious parents and it was funny how they didn't notice The Religion Theme until the episode where King has a crisis of faith and identity because King is a very obvious Jesus TM foil ahuwhwuh like the lil fluffy cubone is what made u guys catch up on the point of this show fiveish episodes to the end of the series when the main antagonist is literally dressed as a catholic bishop with a lil altar server guy in white (who has catholic guilt) and who the "Titan has plans for" and has a throne room with the same layout as a catholic church other than missing pews (i'm not fucking joking) and has stained glass windows of himself and deeply ingrained religious opinions/ calls a girl crazy for crying (the only moment of sexism in the show but honestly that scene hits bc Luz says that same line to Eda and it feels completely different in the way its targeted from Belos to Luz like. gen comes off as sexist there) and the main antagonist has an angelic coded ass ally who uses he/they but he only uses he/him for them and comes off as a televangelist for most of the show and is canonically christian??

[daybringersol]

Guys. Guys we can make Prime make sense. I swear. Guys.

If this can help any Prime Defenders authors out there, here's how I'm working out the problems with Prime being a different planet than Earth while still being so similar (including having french & italian-american people). Feel free to use if it's of any help and/or twist it around for your purposes; if I can save someone a headache, I'll be happy, I sure got a bunch trying to make any sense out of this.

// tw slavery mention, colonisation mention

Earth is a late-stage capitalism hellscape, and tries to colonize Prime to get away from their crumbling planet. Prime stops them, since with their superpowers, they are infinitely more powerful than humans. Earth panics and sends them workers (taken from colonized communities) as peace offerings (2073). Prime is shocked at being sent what are essentially slaves, just frees them and cuts contact with Earth. So now in every major city, there are diasporas of different human communities, who have, over multiple generations, proliferated, kept & adapted their traditions, and started getting powers. Actual artifacts from Earth are extremely rare and often passed down generations.

If we really want to work in the idea that France is its own planet, as mentioned by Bizly in one of the Rolleds (though I'm pretty sure it is a joke), we could say that french people managed to escape Earth and its climate crisis by finding an habitable planet big enough for a (relatively) small country like France, while too small for the rest of Earth.

The reason that primeans are so similar to humans is because the conditions in which the population lived to grow to this degree were similar to Earth, and thus they've evolved similarly. The reason some things have different names on Prime than on Earth, while some words stay the same (for exemple, brands) is because humans brought their knowledge of technology here, tried to remake what they remembered from Earth to make themselves at home, and some of those became popular even with primeans.

Gender as an idea is most prevalent in human communities, as most primeval languages are gender-neutral. Some primeans have decided to play with gender themselves, though they don’t always seem to really understand its rules. Story is written in english, which is one of Mark's native languages (in my fic, his dad is italian-american & his mom is quebecoise) and thus gendered language is used through the eye of Mark (works for my fic, I don't know about yours), who was raised with gender being associated to a person's perceived sex. How Mark interprets people's gender might not have anything to do with their actual genitalia or other hidden sex characteristics.

Lexicon :

Of Prime: Primeval (Adjective.)

Original prime resident (According to humans.): Prim (Noun. Plural: prims. Familiar, somewhat derogatory.)

Original prime resident (According to themselves.): Primean (Noun & adjective. Plural: primeans. Neutral. Means resident of Prime, which would include current human residents, but not used as such. Can also be used as an adjective for things related to Prime.)

Human: Human (Noun & adjective. Plural: humans. Neutral, though sometimes used derogatorily.)

[rottenappleinthebox]

Spain: Imagine going through the work of colonizing native cultures just for other countries to call your ex-colony a "second Italy"

Romano with a Best Dad mug: Sucks to suck

[vampirekissingbooth]

please correct me if i’m wrong or missing something, but a term I hear a lot about native communities is that european colonizers “stole their land,” which, I understand what they mean, but doesn’t seem like the right term?

my understanding is that (at least in the USAmerican regions) for many native peoples, land did not “belong” to anyone. the terms i would use would be “pushed out of their homes” and “genocide.” maybe “fenced in,” in some cases.

[needcake]

@hetaberia-week

Day 3: university

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1550,

Valladolid

He had sent him a letter with an invitation to attend the debates held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, but, as often happened with the letters he sent to Portugal, he had not expected him to respond, much less show up.

What was Spain’s surprise then, when he spotted his black-clad somber figure sitting on the last row of the audience chamber like a sinister crow, watching de las Casas argue for the fifth day straight.

“I didn’t think you’d come,” he told him honestly and excitedly, coming to find him outside of the audience chamber at the end of the day while the crowd dispersed and conversation about the day’s discussions sparked loudly all around him. Intellectuals and theologians debating amongst themselves the merits of Aristotle’s definition of the natural slave and if it could and should be applied to their American colonies. Spain felt that they had made incredible progress since the beginning of these talks, but there was still so much more that he hoped would be accomplished.

“You invited me,” Portugal said simply, his voice sounding a little too dry to Spain’s ears and he looked him over a little more carefully, squinting his eyes slightly at him, his excitement giving way to wariness.

“Did you enjoy today’s debate?” he asked guardedly, but Portugal shrugged, glancing back at the open door to the debate chamber. “Perhaps we could discuss it over dinner,” he offered, diplomatically, testing the waters. Portugal was spending more and more time overseas these days, he hardly saw him for most of the year unless it was for official business between their crowns.

“What exactly do you hope to achieve here?”

It was the way he said it, in retrospect, that made Spain angry, not the question itself. It was how it sneaked under Spain’s excitement and attacked his unguarded sensibilities, how it poked at his insecurities until they were raw and swollen and inflamed. It was the way Portugal looked at him when his eyes returned to his face after glancing at the now empty space where he had seen his best philosophers and theologians discuss the rights of their new subjects in the colonies for the better part of the last few days and speak of it as if it had no more consequence than a debate on the merits of building their churches with two or three bell towers. Suddenly he felt foolish, gaping at Portugal without response, which in turn only made him angrier.

“What do you mean?”

Portugal shrugged again, glancing at the chatting groups around them, Spain’s anger building and building the longer it took for him to make his point.

“You’re letting de las Casas argue for five straight days while his opponent only had a few hours to state his case, it seems like you’re favoring one more heavily than the other. Why have a debate at all if your King has already made up his mind? Why not just have him decree it as law?”

“Because it’s important,” Spain said, shoulders set and jaw tight, and he could see Portugal straightening his back in front of him in response to his evident rising anger. “It’s important that these are ideas are discussed and accepted, not just imposed.”

“But they’re not being discussed with the colonists, are they?” Portugal countered, leveling him a hard look that only fueled the fire growing inside Spain. “What’s to stop them for disregarding your orders?”

“Because we’ll have them arrested if they do!” he shouted, attracting the curious glanced of the nearby scholars, feeling his face heat up with his temper. “They’ll have to obey or they’ll be facing the consequences!”

"And what consequences will those be?"

He glared at him, but Portugal continued to look at him with that infuriating calm, that maddening calm that made him want to throw a punch at his serious circumspect expression, made him want to get under his skin and make him feel as exposed and hypocritical as Spain felt.

“I’ll ask again,” Portugal said, and Spain had to curl his hands into fists by his sides not to hurt him, his anger corrupting the pull he felt on the bottom of his stomach that insisted on gravitating towards Portugal, making him want to push him away instead of bringing them closer together. “What are you hoping to achieve here?”

He glared at him through tightly clenched teeth and Portugal huffed softly through his nose, glancing around.

“If you don’t have the stomach for an Empire, you probably shouldn’t have one.”

He commended himself for keeping his composure until Portugal's dark figure had turned on his heel and disappeared down the hall, only yelling out a long string of curses after he was well out of earshot.

-

The Valladolid debate (1550-51), sometimes called the Valladolid controversy, was one of the earlier examples of discussions centered around slavery and whether or not Europeans should enslave the natives of the Americas. Despite Bartolomeu de las Casas arguing against the use of indigenous labor and the enforced conversion of the natives, his position being supported by the Spanish crown, little was done to actually enforce it and one consequence of denying colonists the use of indigenous labor was the import of enslaved labor from Africa, which was being done by the Portuguese.

[cage-cat-yt]

Some random anon said I was a bad person because I was Christian :( no context, I think all I did was say on a random post

"lol I'm a queer neurodivergent Christian"

But like guys can we not say people are bad people that deserve to die strictly because of their religion? Like if you're gonna be mean to someone be mean to them about their character or actions lol

Anyway tea of the day I'm gonna go write fluffy fluff fanfic (shirtless men edition)

Also also if anyone knows songs similar to I can't decide by Scissor Sisters please recommend, I'm making a playlist for my oc Saro Margossian and his whole thing is happy melody and disturbing lyrics (one song I added was Choke by I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME)

[espers-n-espurrs]

kingsmen and equirex?

the. the indigenous groups of galar.

the kingsmen, the ones who worshiped the legendary wolves before they were colonized?? before they had their religion stamped out???

the equirexians, the ones who worshipped calyrex and its steeds and were chased down to the crowned tundra to avoid having their culture taken away from them?? and were successful to a degree that they managed to hold out religious texts of the kingsmen and are now helping the kingsmen of today reconnect with their culture after the darkest day???

do you people not have them in your universe?? or were they so thoroughly colonized that people of your time dont know about them???

[laylanatorseventeen]

Well I lived. Good news and bad news. Good news is I do not have cancer or anything like that. Bad news is that my colon apparently is totally normal so they don't know what the FUCK is wrong with me

[fairymint]

i found the rest of my roots just now, and it all just leads back to scottish royalty. like, half biblical/hun scottish, half pagan-celtic scottish.

aka with another origin myth of. well. Manu and Yemo.

Man twin brother sacrificially murders hermaphrodite twin brother, creates the genders, and the rest of creation, with a third, Trito, ensuring the continuity of the sacrifice.

[harianaswhore]

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NONE OF THESE ARE WRITTEN BY ME

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— ᶠᴸᵁᶠᶠ ⟡

freckles - @lvndosnorris

love you till the day that i die - @miusvault

y/n and the piastri sisters, the piastri sisters and y/n - @norrizzandpia

all his - @uglyducklingofthe2000s

between us (^)

invisible string theory (^)

wifey privileges (^)

what it feels like - @adrienneleclerc

nap time - @fallingforyouforeverr

obsessed with you - @fastandcarlos

his mom calls me love - @pastryfication

but that's just when you happened (^)

gymming - @no-144444

my girl (^)

new meetings (^)

the oscars (^)

knowing me, knowing you (^)

little donut - @p1astr81

hot girls study hard - @iamred-iamyellow

fever-ish - @purinfelix

ballet, betrayal, and a hose (this was so funny) - @oscinhaslandito

dating oscar piastri - @missydior

pretty in pink (^)

geekazoid - @mrspiastri

15 years of making - @lvrclerc

i don't want you like a best friend - @springintosummerxx

downbad for you (^)

was never a question - @81pastrys

facetime - @clara-a7

your place on the podium - @itsnesss

crossed by speed (^)

the softest thing - @f1girliefics

5 senses - @dreamauri

beach walk (^)

language of love - @camille-aurelie-deveraux

the history of love - @willowsnook

winners of all hearts - @norristrii

in the details - @norrisradio

— ᴬᴺᴳˢᵀ⟡

we're family, me and you (tw: verbally abusive family, fatshaming) - @thepitlanepress

break down (tw: ausgp mention) (^)

i fucked up - @revolutionsingingintherainnn

you're my ideal type - @cherryxbooo

pain, more pain (tw: appendicities, pain, etc.) - @pastryfication

what are we running from - @its-avalon-08

make you fall in love - @maxivstappen

family fights - @no-144444

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my valentine - @thatsdemko

call me your fool - @userlando

shaking for you - @pierregazly

mornings - @p1astr81

friction - @xoln04f1xo

moving in and messing around (suggestive) - @dying-inside-but-its-classy

girl, you really got a hold on me - @dannyriccsystem

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rookie love - @astonmartinii

forever and a day (^)

copycat (^)

confidence - @maplesyrupsainz

barbie - @isimpoveryou

birds of a feather - @lovekt

GUTS - @harrysfolklore

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i see your face in every crowd (^)

but mama, i love him - @pierregazly

make it known - @everythingne

unbothered (^)

from the start - @evercmores

good luck charm - @mclqren

colonizing at its finest! (kohli!reader this is everything to me) - @lateatnewyork

first win - @leclercwriting

bed chem - @hazelsmirrorball

glimpse - @norrisainz33

surprise (^)

strawberry shortcake - @iamred-iamyellow

dancing in the courthouse (^)

rapunzel - @eloriis

pr nightmare - @triplefrontierbabe

spinning into love - @piastrixpole

secretly yours - @paddockletters

mine all mine - @landoughnut

fresh out the slammer - @eicsferrari

oscar's girl - @chrisevansonly

book quotes - @f1version

but i love him - @5sospenguinqueen

gorgeous - @piastappies

— ˢᴱᴿᴵᴱˢ ⟡

maiden wins & secret meet-ups home cooked meals & crashed dinner dates - @katsu28

heaven won't be the same - @81folklore

come back...be here if this was a movie back to december - @ttpdstri

melbourne anymore no place like melbourne - @landorris

first kisses first dinners vampire! - @no-144444

[iwxsxlloverher]

the way this made me actually scream

Barty!! I thought it was his turn for the spotlight

[espers-n-espurrs]

did the lachristians colonize the tribes?

the fuck is a lachristian?? do you fucking mean lachrians???

also no, the tribes had a pretty peaceful relationship with the lachrians throughout history, theres even some kingsmen on vulgrado that mingle with plenty of lachrians.

the tribes were colonized by galarians who had (and still primarily have) a different faith to the lachrians.

[p0wderedmarbl3s]

TW: CSA/RAPE TALK

A (positive) mini rant about SA metaphors in TOH:

I hate how quick people are to dismiss any SA headcanon involving Belos as "too evil". It's so nasty and disrespectful to victims of any origin, as well as the victims of the people Belos is based off of and represents clear as day.

Rape is a form of control, of power because you are stripping the victim of their humanity in the most violating way you can.

Remind me again what Belos's entire deal is?

I feel like the possessions is such a crystal clear metaphor for rape in the most blatant way possible, from the way it's start varied between Hunter and Raine, the states they were in during it, to the scars it left on them afterwards.

It's so beyond important that it was presented the way it was too in a Childrens Show, through body horror. Because that's what it is. It's BODY HORROR. It's VIOLENCE. It completely destroys you on the inside and outside.

Especially the way it was presented in Hunter, a child, a person still developing in a body so fragile because of it. It's a perfect visual representation of what CSA to that degree can be like, beyond just being touched at. There are different levels to it, and it's so beyond important to depict these different types in a way that let's kids know they aren't alone, that these feelings afterwards that they can't put words to are in fact, REAL.

Remember, Belos literally ATE HIM from the inside out. He was inside him in the most literal way you can be.

He went in and out of "episodes" of paranoia because of him, because of his ongoing abuse since he was born. This is presented THROUGH the method of possession, it's slow, it's patient, but it's still so extremely violent and body AND mind altering, taking into account how violently his mentality and demeanor switched afterwards, to the point he barely said a thing in the following episodes.

Not to mention usually covering some part of his body with his arms, subconsciously or otherwise.

And Raine.. oh. They make me so sad. Raine is the other most explicit form of CSA victim in the show, starting with Terra when they were a kid. The fact that the scars left behind after being assaulted again so violently in adulthood, by the white man who colonized their people, were tear streaks, makes my heart ache.

Not to mention they were essentially "unconscious" (semi, at least) when Belos first possessed them. And then Belos kept aiming for their mouth over and over again. Even when they fight back, when they verbally scream at him to get out, to leave them alone. It doesn't physicially alter them in the same way it does Hunter, a child, but the end results do not lessen what happened.

Their body was simply done growing by that point. They were not a child when such a violent form of this type of assault happened.

But it happened.

The show is so violent and vile about the nature of it all, it doesn't hide a thing.

But it's all done so well.

It's the horror that it is.

And yet, these things are either demonized in the completely wrong way, or sexualized because the sexual violence towards brown people is so deeply fetishized in every white culture. You as a white victim, do not get to exploit our trauma because of your own in this case.

Because they do not stem from the same place.

It's not like the implications with Belos aren't a pattern either, even way back when he was Philip. It's not something I can put into words, but the way he talks at Luz.. when you've been around those men long enough, you can sense it.

It's not "attraction." It's exploitation.

It's power. It's control.

It's why I don't like drawing anything with him and Luz much.

Not to mention, this pattern is attempted again with the Collector in their sleep, before he resorts to mentally manipulating them instead. Even then, he is actively using another victim to do so.

It is never subtle.

It is never the same with any two characters.

And that's what I love about it.

It's so incredibly important to show these sorts of things in children's shows in the ways they can understand, in ways they can relate to and identify with.

These things are already so confusing and isolating on their own, and the way the writers handled it all is so beautifully well done and respectful. It all fits, it's all well constructed, it's all done with genuine care.

[sepublic]

TW for Cults and Mass Suicide

Dana confirmed during Pixelatl 2022 that Belos was based on people like Televangelists, serial killers, and cult leaders. I’ve already discussed the serial killer aspect to Belos, and the Televangelism is obvious for a Puritan offshoot who nevertheless indulges in gilded aesthetics and glory as he builds elaborate structures for his own gain.

We’ve all acknowledged the Emperor’s Coven is a cult and the show’s point that You are not immune to propaganda, so I want to make another connection regarding the cult leader aspect. IIRC Dana mentioned the American cult movements of the 70’s, or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what she’s alluding to. Because the Day of Unity is a mass cult suicide, so the allusion to incidents such as Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate are obvious.

Jonestown was a cult led by Jim Jones, a rich white ordained Christian minister. His cult was initially based in California but later moved to the South American country of Guyana, and 70% of Jones’ followers were black. When his cult was investigated for human rights abuses by the U.S. government, Jones got a politician looking into the case murdered. Realizing the government was going to retaliate for this, Jones had everyone commit mass suicide, talking a lot of hot shit about how they were sending a message. The followers were made to drink cyanide, those who didn’t want to were forced, and Jones chickened out of a slow and agonizing death via a gunshot wound to the head.

Heaven’s Gate was led by Marshall Applewhite, who was initially recruited himself before becoming its leader. He convinced followers that the angels of the Bible were actually space aliens, seizing upon the UFO trends of the time. He told his followers they would ascend their physical forms after committing suicide, and instructed them to do so when the comet Hale-Bopp passed by. His reasoning was that an alien UFO was hiding behind the comet, and when he and his followers ascended, their spirits would be taken in by the UFO and they would be taken to a new world.

So you can see the connecting threads in The Owl House; There’s possibly more incidents Dana was thinking of. But so far, we have a wealthy cult leader, preaching his own version of Christianity. He joined a cult but ultimately committed to the harm by liberating himself as the one in charge who knows what he’s doing to everyone else; After all, he claims to follow a doctrine but hypocritically can make exceptions for himself on convenience. It’s not as if he doesn’t/can’t know better (Just like how so many Americans will blame their education system for their ignorance, yet refuse to utilize their other resources).

He’s a white American who established his cult on colonized land, and is manipulating a minority group into committing suicide. He’s telling them that when a celestial object passes overhead, they will be led to a rapturous paradise on another planet. He himself knows exactly what fate he’s giving his followers and cowardly avoids it. Ultimately, he encourages everyone to kill themselves because he doesn’t want to face reality and it’ll make himself feel better about his situation, like a big hero.

Despite the Collector being a literal space alien who’s made complicit in this, there’s nevertheless no paradise, there’s no rapture, just death. American Evangelicalism was a breeding ground for cults like these, whose followers were dispossessed people.

The mention of space aliens also makes me think of Jacob Hopkins, who establishes Belos’ motive by being the first foreshadowing of it to begin with; Hopkins IS Belos, thematically speaking, so we have some white guy wanting to feel better about his miserable life by believing there’s some hidden, otherworldly truth to the world and he’s important for calling it out.

Ironically, Belos himself became the conspiracy, just as he became the evil strawman witch he spoke about; Going full CIA in trying to destabilize another nation by pulling the strings because its mere existence as something his white American Christian group can’t control HAS to be an inherent threat. Because of course, Hopkins and Belos wanted to murder these space aliens (which witches technically qualify as) because there’s the intersectionality of racism and the Alt-Right for them as well.

There’s something equal parts absurd and banal about it all. Sometimes there is some conspiracy or hidden truth out there, it’s just way more mundane than it’s said to be; Hence the difference between conspiracy-minded folk who need there to be a plot VS people making basic observations. Like yes the CIA did do that and publically admitted to it, even. Witches and demons exist and are hidden from society, they’re just… minding their own business. And that cult does have some secretive endgame, but it’s not a rapture event it’s just mass suicide to inflate the ego of the leader.

And I think that’s an important distinction to make; It’s the fantasy genre so it’s par for the course. But it’s nice to clarify, say in an episode where the protagonist returns to her own mundane world, that this conspiracy is likely BS with an undercurrent of bigotry to it. Some political figures need to be taken out but the real horror is how the average person isn’t a monster, but just as fooled as you, and means well when they excitedly march towards fascism. IRL witch hunters didn’t believe in otherworldly beings, they just hated women and minorities; And even in the world where one did confirm otherworldly beings, he’s just as insincere and bigoted about his approach as all the rest.