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COUNTDOWN TO GOOD LUCK BABE favorite song: hot to go!

#msc

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

#on the bright side if you piss them off enough they may hateread your blog and misrepresent your takes to their many followers!

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"I'm 25 years old, I've lived my whole life in Gaza Strip, and I've never felt hope like now."

"And for the first time in our lives as Palestinians, we hear a voice louder than [the occupation], louder than their bombs, and even stronger than their control in every aspect of our lives."

#from the river to the sea 🤎 #vid

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It bothers me how many people are morally incurious, and it bothers me even more how many people seem to think that interrogating morality is proof of immorality- because I'm pretty sure that the latter is at least partly driving the former. Asking why an action or institution is wrong does not necessarily mean that someone thinks that that action or institution is right. If you never ask yourself why something is wrong or right, then what is determining your morality? Because it's not you.

#many people are saying this #x

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

#ref

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I love it when there's a couple but then there's a third guy who's also there and he's part of it but not like romantically he's just a part of the couple but like....platonically

#this is literally imodna and ashton.

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hope essek gets crushed with a boulder 15 seconds after he's introduced in the show and then all other possible screen time that could have been dedicated to him is replaced with yasha doing cool skateboard tricks

#sorry to the essek lovers he's fine i simply have to respect this level of haterism #cr

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i've never been an imogen with glasses guy but laura saying its one of her favorite things in imogen fanart and then calling her a "fail" (millenial word that translates to "girlfailure") in the same breath after weird people on here have spent the last year insisting that both of these things were not only terrible and misogynist but also an insult to laura specifically is. incandescently funny

#regarding recent twitter likes: lol. lmao

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all this talk about liliana being iredeemable has got me thinking about how fandom instantly forgave essek for all he did

the way i got this ask right as i was talking to my friend about almost this exact topic (is that you, kea, or are we all just thinking it)

heres the thing, i get how someone at a superficial level could justify seperating essek from others like himself; hes had among the most screentime. but, and i say this as someone who adores essek, that's.... really the only true leg up he has on others manipulated by ludinus/others against the gods, and it's very easy to notice the discrepancy. i genuinely do not think his story is somehow more valid or compelling than any other in similar shoes; most of them have an extremely close connection to a main character or are one, and they all had or have a chance at hope, to me. i once saw a post that snarked at anyone who would dare to say essek was priveleged and that that's why folk liked him, but, in a way he is: he's a rich man who looks it and is defined in his first moments by his handsomeness. during campaign 2 people wanted astrid gone and assumed she was as villainous as trent when she was essek's exact mirror but on the empire side, just a woman, and "in the way" of shadowgast. when liliana (woman, technically disabled, implied lower class), bor'dor (extremely lower class, man of color), deanna (black woman), frida (played by a man of color, of an oppressed class), & even, i will assume in the future, devexian (ultimate representative of a lower worker class oppressed people), have extremely similar stories or frankly far more valid reasons to be cautious about a god than essek, they're seen as entirely villainous with no possible redeeming quality or point, and are treated with immense scorn. meanwhile when essek starts a war by ensuring his culture's religion cannot be whole, he can easily be accepted by the fanbase, who even lambast the dynasty for daring to have a religion; thus, by their own logic, they are fully agreeing with ludinus (i am well aware of the intricacies of how the dynasty fucks up but, put this into the broader context here compared to how vasselheim is treated).

which is another reason im excited for the aeor arc; it is easy to assume essek will be there, and it will be interesting to see how his extremely blunt, delightedly-smug distaste for godhood (especially the luxon, which, didnt kill aeor like the pantheon did and is innocent in that) is framed in c3's context, and how fans respond to that. will it be entirely glossed over as people seemed to gloss over keyleth's distaste for them? will it be excused because it's cute when a man they see as a twink does it?

#yeah to all of this. i was just thinking abt the class differences and marginilized status of liliana and bor'dor recently #(there are of course many lovely interpretations of essek as black and/or brown/coded but those live in ambiguity) #and also like. availability bias which i think plays a role in why ppl seem to struggle more with the hells etc morality in general #bor'dor attacked the party and downed prism. liliana was probably already in leadership at RV when will and derrig were killed #but the hundreds likely lost in the war essek was essential to starting are nameless to us. and also like #the acceptable indirect violence of the machinations of war vs the unacceptable direct violence of revolt #cr #long post

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it's so cool to see other earthsea fans out there, tombs of atuan in particular is one of my favorite books and i want to spout ursula k. le guin propoganda everywhere

yeah!! i've been an admirer of Ursula K. Le Guin's work for years now, just based off of the stories and quotes often passed around on tumblr, but before this year i had only ever read A Wizard of Earthsea. but I knew I wanted to get into it this year for real this time, and rereading the first and starting on Tombs of Atuan has been so rewarding. just. multiple moments that have left me emotional and breathless, at the love and understanding Le Guin has for the characters and the world, and her incredible intelligence and eye for the little details of life. i'm about halfway through Tombs, right when Tenar takes Ged to the treasure room, and I have already almost gotten on here several times in the last couples day to tell everyone to go read it now.

#asks #ludinusdaleth #where are my earthsea posters at... #also. all of le guin's extensive reflections on what fantasy is seen as and what it can be and how she exemplifies that in her own work #are very relevant to thee current cr hyperfixation and the discourse surrounding it lol. which is a nice bonus

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tombs of atuan book cover design ! :-) couldnt decide between a warm or cool palette Ha.

graphite on mylar + some digital!

#reading this rn :3 #a #earthsea

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The Earthsea Cycle By Cami | morchlav

#a #earthsea #long post

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#dropout #a

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#where are they going #vid #anm #sploon

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[ID: A digital illustration of Imogen Temult and Ashton Greymoore from Critical Role. They’re stood leaning on the railing of a sky ship at night, talking to each other. Ashton looks at Imogen and says “You’re scarier than me”, she laughs in response. End description.]

This moment was cute!

#oh first ashton imogen skyship conversation my beloved #a #cr #you're so special

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100 x FUCKMYLIFETOHELL

#a #the bear