#war crimes ff

[chaichai-draws]

Sometimes a family is a put out Earth Kingdom Captain and his three teenaged bullies

Go Team Steam! I’m running out of chapters in @lovelyelbowleech ‘s fic War Crimes…

[tacagen]

xenophobic fucker my beloved. who else would take a reasonable and even noble 'we must prepare to face any alien threat and prevent whatever happened to me from happening to others' takeaway from his traumatic life events and somewhere along the way straight up make it into 'I HAVE TO MAKE A SUPERIOR HUMAN RACE BASED ON MUTATED RAT GENES AND MY APPEARANCE, INFILTRATE THEM INTO THE HUMANKIND AND IF THEY KILL 57% OF IT WHILE SEARCHING FOR MUTANTS/ALIENS IN HIDE THEN SO BE IT, THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A HEALTHY OUTCOME FOR EARTH.'

[jonny-versace]

Just finished "Person of Interest". The way a show that started off as a run of the mill crime procedural with the premise of "what if Batman was split into Bruce Wayne and Batman?" who stopped crime based on a background mcguffin turned into the best, smartest sci-fi show I've ever seen, with the some of the best written character arcs I've ever seen, with some of the most nuanced "villains" I've ever seen, with the most powerful, flawed women I've ever seen (whose least defining traits are that they're "powerful flawed women"), set to the most incredible and fitting OST and soundtrack you could hope to hear, capped off by one of the best endings I've ever seen is nothing short of genius. I'll be watching this show on repeat forever

[randomnameless]

A Minor dispute.

Put it behind you. Deal with it.

No, this isn't related to devoted fans and their discourse lol (even if i had to take a jab at them with the title lol)

Ike: I have to ask, Sephiran. What are you after? What’s this all about? Sephiran: Why do you wish to know? You would achieve nothing by learning my reasons. You would help no one. I lost faith in lesser beings, and desire an end to them. That’s all. Ike: So why did you save me on that day? Sephiran: May I ask you a favor, Ike? Tell me how you feel about it now. Can you bear recalling those horrific memories? Ike: Yes… I’m fine, now. But I suppose at the time I wouldn’t have been able to take it. Sephiran: All beings endure tragedies for as long as they continue to live. It has always been the case that suffering is unavoidable. And this grim reality plays out over and over, in every country, under every ruler… As long as there are beings who feel, they will feel pain. Ike: So what? We should all just give in and die? Put it behind you. Deal with it. Sephiran: Do not make light of this… Ike: I’m not. Sephiran, I’m extremely grateful that you once helped me through a terrible time. But we have to accept that occasionally we all have to deal with hard times. I’ve had pain, I’ve had suffering, and I have gotten up and moved on. I don’t try to forget what happened that day. I just accept it… And neither that or anything else will ever stop me. Sephiran: You are a strong man, Ike, son of Gawain. But not everyone is as strong as you…

This scene is unlocked if you've seen Ike's FB.

Of course, Ike here doesn't know the fuck he is talking about, as he later expresses by wondering why Sephiran is suddenly called Lehran (maybe if the game left Miccy/Yune talk to him before the start of the map, instead of letting him do all the convo it would have been different?).

So, in a way, it isn't as callous as Ike telling Lehran to put the genocide of his people "behind him" or to "deal with it", because he doesn't know what Sephiran is talking about.

But in a way, I have the feeling if Claude or Petra told Dedue to "put the massacre of his family" behind him or to "deal with it", Claude or Petra would have received a certain amount of shit, even if, when they would have said those, they wouldn't have known what the fuck Dedue went through.

Anyways, Ike later learns what, or who, Sephiran is, and talks to him. Maybe he will apologise for his callous words, spoken when he didn't realise what he was talking about ?

Ike: Sephiran... I mean, Lehran... Lehran: I can't apologize enough. I was so terribly mistaken, and now there's nothing I can do to help. Ike: Don't worry. Lehran: What? Ike: Wanting to do something that matters is enough. Sometimes, how you feel is more important than how you act. Lehran: Ike I... there's no one that I think more highly of... Ike: No time for compliments. We still have work to do here. Lehran: Yes... yes we do.

Lehran apologises for having wanted to destroy the world (and drops Altina in a trashcan because Ike is now the person he thinks the most highly of!) - and in the general scale of things, yes, Sephiran has much to apologise for, so he better start pulling his weight and try to make up for having tried to kill everyone.

But the "your people were genocided? No biggie, deal with it!" is completely ignored - or it is, again, another example of Ike talking shit and the game convoluting himself to make sure he never faces any consequences, even if, in this situation, the consequence would just have been an apology, like the one he gave to, iirc, Mordecai and Lethe after calling him subhumans but not realising calling someone "subhuman" was insulting.

Sure, the line he gives after the fight against Sephiran still holds value :

Ike: If death is what you really want, then I’m not going to let it happen on my watch. I don’t care what you’ve gone through. I don’t care how much you’ve suffered. What you’ve done is unforgivable.

It's not because you suffered, or went through the worst humankind can offer, that you can inflict the same on people!

When Lords like Marth, Seliph, Leif, Roy, Eirika, even Elincia try to understand people and what led them to act as they did - without ever giving excuses or wondering if they could walk with their respective antagonists - Ike here refuses to understand, and only condemns.

Is it because Ike isn't a Lord, so he isn't concerned with some general "making sure this situation never happens again"?

But then, he is the one to say those :

“But, even the dumbest creatures will love their family, their friends and… even love others. They will all have things that they can’t afford to lose.” “We know that we’ve messed up. We’ll do our best to avoid more war and to make peace our highest priority. Ashera, just give us one more chance. All we ask is for one more chance.” “You were like a mother to all of life– Your children still require a mother like you. When you watch over us, we don’t always do things that make you happy and sometimes we even disappoint you. Still, I think we would like you to continue watching over us. How about it?” “We all need to work hard to accept each other. As long as we don’t try and run away from our mistakes, then I’m sure we’ll be able to see each other again one day.”

How can you do you "best" to avoid more wars, if you don't even understand why the current one started, or don't care about the reasons that led the fucker who started this current war to, well, start it?

How can we talk about acceptance if we don't "care" about what the others live through?

So, on top of writing a check his ass can't cash - since he will leave Tellius and not be there to "avoid wars" or make sure people "accept each other" after promising the goddesses "we" will exactly do that - Ike's words here are empty.

-> In a nutshell, Ike reveals with those battle quotes and conversations that he is not ruler/leader material - but we knew that since RD's start since we followed Miccy and Elincia - and more importantly isn't the kind of person asking "why" things happen, they just happen but somehow everything will work out when it will happen again - because the why, or the cause, wasn't identified - and I think it's a perfectly fitting answer for the Tellius Saga and the larger Branded "issue" : we will never know why it happens, it just happens.

(can we say the epilogue, with Ashunera returning, is an ultimate "fuck you" to Ike's empty promises at the end of this chapter, since it starts with another war happening in the background?)

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Back to that nonsense of a battle convo, I find it really interesting how Ike is basically thanking Sephiran for having wiped his memory when he was a child, to help him "deal" with the fact he witnessed his father stab his mother, because at that time (when he was a kid), he wouldn't have been able to deal with it.

But then, Ike tells Sephiran to "deal with" the tragedies he witnessed and lived through...

After thanking him for sparing him the "deal with it" step- he now asks Sephiran to take - when he was a child.

WTF?

Ike explains how he is thankful, but he ultimately had to "got up" and "move on" from the pain, and accept it. And that's precisely the point, Ike managed to take on that pain, "get up and move on" thanks to Sephiran's own meddling and help - else, by his own admission, he wouldn't have been able to "take it".

But now, he asks Sephiran to take his pain, without any magic amnesia to help, and deal with it?

And while I hate the idea of trauma olympics, grown-up Ike (even in POR) can now deal with the fact his dad killed his mother thanks to Lehran's magic amnesia - but he tells Lehran to deal with and get over - 1) the genocide of his tribe, 2) assassination of his great (etc) granddaughter because she had his blood, 3) the loss of his powers for a crap reason and the knowledge that laguz are bound to "die" if they mingle too much with beorcs as he personally witnessed it, 4) severe depression after realising he is not a laguz anymore but not even a beorc since beorcs will use pitchforks at him even if they regarded him 10 seconds before as sage, and the rest of Tellius' general fuckery? - without magic amnesia or plot hax?

Reyson was very close to pull something similar in FE9 when he tried to erase people in the Forest using "ancient magic", but abandoned the idea when Leanne was found - if PoR!Ike learnt that, would he have told Reyson to "get over" the heron genocide and Naesala's betrayal?

Of course not, because I'm pretty sure Ike knows, before meeting Reyson and even picking Leanne, what happened in Serenes.

And in RD, when he says those words, he doesn't know (but he later will!) that Sephiran is a heron.

Tl;Dr :

Supreme Leader's "minor dispute" is frowned upon by everyone, even if she might genuinely not know about what Nemesis did that made Rhea so enraged, in a doylist reading, Supreme Leader is a character who ignores a genocide to push her own specist agenda.

Doylist reading of that RD scene is, Ike telling Sephiran to man up and deal/get over the genocide of his people - but unlike Supreme Leader, when he comes to learn the truth of Sephiran's despair, he dgaf.

Thankfully, this scene is only triggered if Sephiran survives, so Ike can later explain his behaviour : he doesn't care what kind of suffering Sephiran endured, since nothing justifies what he was trying to do (kill everyone).

Even if the thing he should care, but doesn't want to, is, for part, a genocide.

[disorganizedkitten]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Delphi & Neville Longbottom, Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter, Gryffindor Students - relationship, Neville Longbottom & Gryffindor Students, Rodolphus Lestrange & Neville Longbottom Characters: Neville Longbottom, Delphi (Harry Potter), Harry Potter, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Voldemort (Harry Potter) Additional Tags: Yes Beta we live like Harry Potter, Ravenclaw George Weasley, Hufflepuff Fred Weasley, Hufflepuff Delphi (Harry Potter), Gryffindor Mandy Brocklehurst, DK's obligatory found family tag, Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter Friendship, Hogwarts Inter-House Friendships, Gryffindor students being friends, BAMF George Weasley, BAMF Delphi (Harry Potter), Long lost siblings, Mistaken Identity, Kidnapping, Found Family, War Crimes, Look I'm trying to tag properly without spoiling the entire fic its hard, Delphi raised by the Boneses, Neville Longbottom-centric, Harry Potter is a Horcrux, Neville Longbottom is a Lestrange, Alternate Universe - Delphi (Harry Potter) was born earlier, Augusta Longbottom sucks Series: Part 1 of War Crimes Verse, Part 3 of Adjacent • Having A Common Side Summary:

War Crime: • an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war. • a serious breach of international law committed against civilians or “enemy combatants” during an international or domestic armed conflict. • Superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering inflicted upon an enemy.

During the First Blood War, Alice and Frank Longbottom kidnapped fourteen children. This affects Neville Longbottom much more than he'd like.

[cattailtales]

h*ndsome j*ck stans have THE worst opinions known to man. my god what did I just read

[roseandsalt]

ngl daemon kinda slayed

[lucy-ghoul]

For the character bingo: Tyrion Lannister, and Annie Leonhart. :D

Oh, both are faves! Mmh, let's go.

Tyrion:

Annie:

No bingos here unfortunately :(( But this was fun ❤️

[odinsblog]

👉🏿 https://www.thenation.com/article/world/super-bowl-rafah-israel-gaza/

I am deeply saddened, but not surprised. Israel timed their massacre in Rafah to coincide with their bullshit Super Bowl commercial. Why? How does that help anyone, how does that keep safe any IOF soldier involved in the massacre? The answer is, it doesn’t. There was no military reason for coordinating this. It’s just more unnecessarily cruel, evil, inhumane, jingoistic bullshit.

Look, people keep saying, “But what about Hamas and the hostages?” and Oh My Fucking God, why do we have to keep explaining basic concepts like empathy, compassion, humanity and basic human decency?

FFS, this is such a basic ass concept that it’s a “bad guy” foreshadowing trope used in comic books and movies—even Padmé Amidala recognized that Anakin murdering an entire race (genocide!) in retaliation for killing his mother was wrong. Thor Odinson, notorious for his hatred of Frost Giants, refused to let Loki completely destroy the realm of Jotunheim, because Thor understood that genocide is wrong.

It sounds really silly using Star Wars and Marvel movies to explain why what Israel is doing is wrong, doesn’t it? But I’m Black, and I’ve seen how wayyy too many white people will be depressed and cry about the death of imaginary characters but then turn right around and not give a single fuck about actual living breathing, non-white people being systematically oppressed and methodically murdered.

Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide against Palestinians. They have already murdered nearly 30,000 noncombatant civilians, a full third of whom were small children.

(source)

When will Israel’s barbaric, uncontrollable desire to kill Palestinians end? When is it going to be enough?

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[olderthannetfic]

We're all aware of how American purist culture has pervaded online spaces, but I'd like to point out it's not just notions of sex and morality where the internet, and fandom spaces, are painfully American.

I'm not American, and I'm also in a large number of anime fandoms, and without fail, one thing I see consistently is an absolute failure by some (not all, but a not insignificant portion) of writers to just...research. It is painful how many will just transplant their stories onto a setting that is blatantly just America with 'Japan' hastily painted over the top.

I'm talking the people who think Japan uses dollars, or have to do jury duty, or say the school year starts in September, and think they have a president, or otherwise so clearly depict Japan like it's America but in Asia. Case in point, an A/N I saw on a fic that was set in Hiroshima, which felt the need to decry the atomic bombings in 1945. As if that is the only significance Hiroshima has is the past US war crimes there, as opposed to, you know, being a thriving modern city of over a million people.

I don't know, it's been a pet peeve of mine for ages. And I don't expect everybody to do a ton of research just to write a silly little fic. But when it's common knowledge stuff, or even more egregiously, stuff depicted/discussed/appearing in the actual source material? It makes me so mad.

Like, it's bad enough some people act like American puritanism must be applied to every fandom space on the planet no matter the fanbase or origin. Now you're telling me I need to pretend it's fine that some authors have Japanese characters going to Walmart and paying for their purchases with Japanese dollars? Hell no. Spend five minutes of your time googling. I'm sick of seeing America treated as a default setting. They're small details but they show you care when they're done right.

Japan uses the currency Yen. They don't have a jury system. Their school year starts in April. They don't have a president, they have a prime minister. None of those things takes more than 15 seconds to find out. Just put a little effort in, ffs.

--

[ohsalome]

"Khokhol (this is the slur russians use agains ukrainians) nazis can only play with their anuses. What is this going to be, fag festival with swastica? And who is founding this? Fans of nazi pigs with yellow-vomit rag?"

"Is this another attempt of begging for more money for laundering?"

"Fucking dogpigs"

"Khokhols are fags, stop khokhol, country 404 shouldn't exist, hillibilles don't know how to make games" (this particular message was spammed in many games, I will not showcase its every repetition)

(jfc imagine being this mad about a cozy bunny game)

"Khokhlovpiteks on the screen"

"Glory to russia"

September (ru): "You are spoiling the game indurstry with these feces only to gather money for your Mykolas and Tarases (in russian, this is supporsed to be a demeaning stereotypical general name for ukrainians, somewhat similair to how americans harrassing asian people would call them "ching changs"). You are incapable of creating anyting concrete. You all have pig lard in your heads ( ukrainians being obsessed about pig lard is yet another xenophobic anti-ukrainian stereotype used by russians)."

Remy Azphel (ukr): "Seems like you aren't as brave as you try to seem, not risking to become meat in trenches) God forbid a real drone gets you)

Neurofixer (ru): In the meantime, yet another Striker (fighting vehicle used by Ukr army) is burning from Lancets (russian UAV) XD

September (ru): and geraniums are blooming in Kyiv (Geran-2 is another drone used in russian attacks on Ukraine)

Neurofixer (ru): why don't you collect the stinky corpses of your soldiers?

Neurofixer (ru): this game is dumber than the khokhols ffs _____________________

In conculsion: I find it really exceptional how putin, while single-handedly fighting in every battle on Ukrainian frontier and personally commiting every single war crime, has managed to find time to create hundreds of bot accounts and personally spam ukrainian game streams with hate speech and slurs; because obviously it couldn't be "simple russians", after all, every single russian is a pure innocent soul which by nature is not capable of evil (actual quote by pope francis), and, as westerners who don't know a single word in russian never tire of condenscendingly tell me, they would never, ever, ever go out of their way to harrass ukrainian gamedevs and totally would not brag about their army's attacks on our civillian sites, nonono #notallrussians

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Today is the international holocaust Remembrance eve.

To those who say “I’m not antisemitic, I’m anti Zionist” .I wish that were true, but it’s not.

The denial of the events of October 7th and the terror Israelis have always faced , has reminded many of holocaust denial. Which by the way, is also on the rise right now.

Hell, holocaust survivors who survived October 7th as well have compared the two.

I can’t believe I have to say this - comparing Israel’s actions to the Nazis’ is incredibly vile and ignorant. It a lazy comparison and I cannot stress it enough how different these are. Educate yourself.

Moreover,I’ve said it before, today, antisemitism is rebranded as anti Zionism. since the October 7th attacks/ Israeli Hamas war has started the following things have happened:

According to a recent survey conducted by CNN,73% of Jewish Americans college students have “expressed or seen antisemitism since the start of the school year “. Jewish students are terrified and I don’t blame them at all, when people are chanting “globalise the intifadas “.

-Antisemitic rates and antisemitic based crimes rates have gone up by hundreds-thousands of precedents (depending on the country).

-Swatikas or stars of David are drawn on Jewish homes. “Hitler was right” was trending multiple times ffs . Suddenly it’s ok to say that (or at least ignored). Suddenly , antisemitic stereotypes and antisemitic Blood libels are popping up. This is not a coincidence, and You cant deny it.

Whether you support them or not is another matter, and idk like to believe you don’t. If you see them, don’t jump on the bandwagon. Think about the sources of what you’re reading or hearing.

Jewish and Israeli people are constantly harassed, myself included. This has got to a point that as an Israeli jewish woman the current travel ban / recommendation for me are literally the entire world.

We are all advised to not wear Jewish symbols or speak Hebrew loudly. We’ve always done this but this time it’s different.

I will not let that be my reality anymore. This is not what my great grandparents legacy should be. In a way, I’m glad they’re not here to see this.

——

There are so many other examples for this concerning phenomenon. I could go on about how this phenomenon is caused by antisemitism and ignorance. Honestly, I just don’t want to see anymore hate today. You can read them yourself.

The main takeaway should be that You can wish for a better future for the Palestinian people without harassing or hating jews . Without demonising Israelis.

עם ישראל חי🫶🇮🇱✡️

Ps- Every time I post something about antisemitism/ the difficulties of being Israeli or Jewish nowadays, I get called “deluded” , “whiny”, or “self victimising “. If you fail to see how this is not any of these- you’re gonna get blocked.

[markantonys]

for 2 seasons now mat has been barely able to do stuff and has gotten beaten, kidnapped, manipulated & coerced into doing a lot of stuff. i say that, as a reward, he should be allowed to commit some war crimes. especifically against the seanchan. maybe make up for that godawful book thing and change course for it. preferably if it's to make up to walk away from egwene back at the Tower too or smt. LET MY MAN DO SOMETHING, FFS. He's not ONLY some wet cat and I am tired that they don't let him be badass.

readers when the emond's fielders don't already have 14 books' worth of character development and combat skills under their belts after 1 and 7/8 seasons:

how quickly we forget that mat spent the entire first 2 books as a non-badass wet cat who was barely able to do stuff! he spent the whole hunt being dragged around like a sickly victorian child on his deathbed, contributing nothing but dramatic coughs! show!mat has already been given much more emotional depth, competence, and story relevance than his book counterpart had *at this stage of the story*, and they have been pulling him down to his lowest point specifically so that it will be all the sweeter when he has his big shining moment at falme in the finale. we will get ~badass~ mat in due time. relax.

[howlingday]

The Truth

Setting - It's the end of line. Salem is ambushed and cornered by Jaune, who has volunteered for a suicide mission. Strapped with an end-all-be-all magic bomb, Jaune will die a hero to save all of Remnant! But Salem has one last spell to perform.

Jaune: This ends now, Salem. Your lies and manipulations and murders end here!

Salem: Ohoho, yes... But what of my dear Ozma's crimes?

Jaune: What? W-What are you talking about?

Salem: Well, seeing as it is only us now, thanks to Ozma's decision to make you his martyr, I see no harm in showing you what you really want to know. (Casts magic)

Jaune: (Sets bomb on the floor)

Salem: (Chanting)

Mirror, mirror, crystal ball~,

Kingdom's rise and empire's fall~,

In children's war as heifer's raze~,

We cast our view to future's gaze~.

Salem: Ask your question, dear.

Jaune: Uh, what do I ask?

Salem: When did you fall into the Ever After?

Jaune: March 27th, six years ago.

Salem: Oh, really? Then ask what REALLY happened.

Jaune: Fine, I will!

Oscar: (Via comms) JAUNE, NO!.

Jaune: Wait, how do I know this will really prove anything?

Salem: (Looks to the pool) How did I, the Salem casting this spell, really break my hymen?

Pool: Ha ha! I kicked you in the balls, Ozma! Oh, don't act so mad! Here, you can kick me, too- OOOOOOH!

Oscar: Jaune, we don't have time for this! Stop screwing around and escape before the bomb goes off!.

Salem: Oh, of course, of course. Waste what little time you have left attempting to escape when you could, instead, learn about how you were roped into Ozma's little game?

Jaune: ...What happened to me, Jaune Arc, on March 27th, six years ago?

Pool: Clarification request! Are you Jaune Arc of the timeline FF-1083 or Jaune Arc of the timeline A03-2719?

Salem: He's from this timeline, you oversized plot device! Get on with it!

Pool: (Swirls)

Pool: (Jaune running for the gate, Bridge falling apart)

Jaune: (Gasps) That's me! ...God, I look so fat.

Pool: (Makes it to the gate exit, Ozpin standing right behind him)

Jaune: Huh? Ozpin? I thought he was dead- Wait! What is he doing?!

Pool: (Ozpin magically pulls Jaune, Jaune falls into the Ever After)

Jaune: I... (Steps away, Pulls out scroll) I don't understand. You made me fall down?

Bomb: Detonation in fifteen seconds.

Jaune: You... bastard! You made me fall down! I spent years, decades down there! You took away my life!

Oscar: Jaune, I can explain.

Jaune: No, you can't! Shut your adorable, stolen farm boy face!

Oscar: I had no choice. You were the only one who could become The Rusted Knight. What is one life weighed against all of Remnant?

Jaune: ...But it was my life. (Sniffles)

Bomb: Detonation in 3... 2... 1... Will the owner of a yellow, black, and orange motorcycl- Oh, nevermind. ZERO!

[homochadensistm]

October 7th doesn't justify what Israel is doing. A war crime is still a war crime. 3 year old Reem didn't cause October 7th, why did she have to die? And little baby Muhammed? All the newborns that never even got a name? ffs use some critical thinking skills. Your brain didn't get blown up by Israel, so fucking use it.

Or suffer our curse...

[cloudywriting05]

this blog is a pro-palestine space. 🇵🇸

if u feel strongly against this to the point you want to comment hate or dm me something nasty- fuck off !

this blog is usually ff and one shots but pls for one moment look into what’s happening in gaza and the (international crimes against humanity) war crimes the i*raeli (🇮🇱) government has been committing against the palestinians.

here’s a link to a trusted site for donations.

here’s some history so you can learn!

thank you.