#I’ve assimilated

[green446004]

Hearth & Andiron

#mcga #hearthstone mcga #andiron mcga #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #magnus chase #fan art #my art #It’s not that deep this is just environment practice #Anyways I’ve been thinking about Mimir’s alternative offer recently #(In part) being deaf shaped his life and Mimir offered to just erase it #erase this aspect of him #offered to assimilate him into the society that abused him rather than make room for him the way he is #I wonder how it felt

[visenyaism]

“america has no culture” and yet when americans visit other states or regions of america they get culture shock. when I was in college, my group of friends loved to compare dialects, religions, and cultural practices because we were from very different places (New York City, Vermont, Texas)

well we’re easily startled but like. I hate many things about living in this country most of which have to do with our evil government and history of extreme violence and oppression that we continue to this day. but the amount of cultural diversity in terms of regional and immigrant cultures (and where those intersect!) is like. easily the best part of being here

#most people i’ve heard saying usa has no culture are only talking about white americans imo #which like. we can talk about whiteness as a construct erasing ethnicity and culture for evil assimilation reasons also #but why don’t you think nonwhite americans count as americans? so much of mainstream American culture comes from Black people

[sweetandglovelyart]

I didn’t have time to draw something for Halloween, so here’s this old drawing I did a while ago of Meta Knight as Captain Picard/Locutus of Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation that I feel somewhat fits the Halloween theme. I call him Locutus of Borb.

#Kirby #Kirby fanart #my art #Meta Knight #I don’t think this looks very good this was one of my first Kirby drawings and I was still figuring out how to draw everyone #I’ll probably redraw this eventually but still wanted to share this since I didn’t have time to draw anything for Halloween #aside from being a Kirby fan I’m also a big fan of Star Trek I’ve seen all the shows and movies #and I see a lot of parallels between Star Trek and Kirby #literally the whole plot of Planet Robobot is just the Borg storyline in Star Trek lol #for Kirby fans who don’t follow Star Trek the Borg are a collective of cyborgs that can essentially mechanize other species #they appear as recurring antagonists and attempt to assimilate other species into their collective against their will #and once they’ve assimilated a person they can influence that person to do their bidding #in The Next Generation they assimilate Captain Picard and turn him into Locutus of Borg so they can use him to try and assimilate Earth #it reminded me a lot of what Susie did to Meta Knight in Planet Robobot so that’s where the idea for this drawing came from #I’ll have to draw more Star Trek and Kirby crossover stuff there’s a lot I can work with for crossovers lol #like Star Trek straight up has a mirror universe full of evil versions of the characters that’s literally just Amazing Mirror #and the episode of the anime where Dedede gets the Scarfies as pets is basically just the Tribble episode from Star Trek #anyways happy Halloween please enjoy Locutus of Borb

[pre-cambrian]

Everytime I struggle with my locs I remember I’d Actually Die if I had to do a lace wig install again

#not to say wigs are like bad but I am extremely depressed whenever I’ve worn one #assimilated but at what cost

[fuck-em-up-your-grace]

I NEED Zelda lore with good historical allegories PLEASE hire me Nintendo I would make so many good metaphorsssss

#I’ve had this fic idea in my head for literally months #since like December #the sheikah and the yiga and demise and hylia have no relevance to anyyyyy history guys haha #I mean. two large powers that have been involved in a cycle of hatred using their power to induce a proxy war to further their power? #while simultaneously harming said group by ripping it apart and then. with so much time passing the idea of reunification fading further. #until the people of that group learn to hate the other and to rely upon the powers that put them there? #huh Nintendo wonder what that could be about. #but Nintendo is a Japanese company and if you talk about that war then you gotta get into imperialism and. well… #and this is not even getting into THE GERUDO #I LOVE what the Gerudo could be SO MUCH. OH MY GOD. THE POTENTIAL. #but no. if Nintendo actually showed off cool Arab culture and stopped oversexualizing brown women people might think they’re not racist 🙄 #and we can’t have that #god I fucking love the concept of the Gerudo it’s so so so sooooo good you have no idea #I don’t have the time or energy required to write this but maybe I’ll come back in like a decade when I’ve got shit figured out and write it #anyways. I’m so normal about the Shiekah and the Gerudo. ha ha ha ha ha so so so normal #guys someone give me like a month where time stops I could write so much about settler colonialism* and the Hylians #(*I think settler colonialism paired with neo-colonialism and imperialism would be more interesting than the usual narrative of extractive #coloniaism. but also take that with a sea of salt cause no narrative surrounding colonization is really. mainstream.) #barebones of this fic idea is half-sheikah Zelda & Gerudo Shadow as foils for each other #w/ Zelda having the experience of like. 2nd gen E Asian immigrant assimilation & loss of cultural heritage while being raised in a white #society— with scraps of her textbooks and life showcasing the retelling of the colonization of the Gerudo. meanwhile Shadow is V aware of #his culture & history because Ganon’s main goal is to take control of the Hylian empire to make them pay for their past crimes #which manifests in Ganondorf being an abusive father who torments his own son because he believes it will make him strong enough to fight #against the Hylians. however surprise surprise abuse actually drives Shadow further away and he seeks refuge in Zelda & brings her books #on sheikah culture as a way to connect to her— through their shared ties to the Yiga… #and I have more but I think I’m gonna hit the tag limit and I’m rambling but like. SO MANY IDEAS #it works better visually I think though. so there’s that too. plus as aforementioned I do not have any of the things I need to write this #and it’s really important to me that it’s written well. so. that too. if I was gonna do this it would take forever with extra research &shit

[shekeepsmeworms]

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess

#like both sides of my family are either Irish catholic. converted assimilation catholic. or part Jewish but raised catholic. #but my mom read the Boston glob report so I wasn’t baptized or anything and despite her born again phase I’ve never really been religious #so the thought of growing up in that environment is like I can’t imagine the pressure oh my god #like I’ve had Mormon friends and have some friends who were raised homeschool Christian married young and all and like #i don’t know it’s just wild how different our lives are like I’ve got a problems and def inherited the guilt complex thing for sure but like #I also never got told to submit to anyone or that god was watching #or to be modest or any of the purity stuff beyond normal patriarchy stuff #like I’m not saying my life is better but I didn’t do church after age 5 and only go to funeral masses so I like the comfort of like #doing sign of cross and saying Hail Mary and all bc it provides structure for grief but beyond that I can’t imagine living with all of that #these are very long tags with no real point beyond wow. that’s literally bananas to me. but did I mention I’m a little drunk #and even then my family isn’t like hardcore catholic. my grandma and her siblings skipped church to get donuts bc no farm work on Sunday #and my dad grew up like doing fasted mass and everything but heard the 2000s Harvey milk speech and realized gay ppl are okay #and then rest of extended dads side is like catholic but vote blue and think human rights are good and all #my mom has a student who’s like very traditional catholic like she was trying to teach him math and whatever #and the live coverage of waiting for pope confirmation was on tv the whole time #and he fights with her about evolution and learning about the existence of other religions and everything #so I guess even in my own family like. everyone’s down with basic science and civil liberties which is even weirder for me I guess #like not even among fundamentalists like just regular Catholics I’ve had a pretty liberal upbringing re faith. it’s just wild to me #to see the differences of worldview #and even non religion stuff was pretty liberal overall despite living in pretty red area. idk it’s just wild how different life can be

[exhaustedwerewolf]

losing my mind over pricey lip balm being in percy’s bag in the new tlovm thing. am I just starved for vm content or is this actually the funniest thing on the planet. vex handles his finances and she’s letting him buy the good stuff? beeswax? besotted. to be fair she probably enjoys watching him put it on. the mental image of someone trying to say something to him while he’s mid lip balm application and he just holds up a finger and won’t let them speak until he’s finished. this is the most self destructive man ever conceived. he once jumped into a pool with a kettle full of sodium just to win a canonball contest. in tlovm he canonically shot a hole through his palm. but god forbid his lips be dry.

#also when I was at the height of mental illness™️ I used to regularly wake up to a bloodied pillow having chewn at my lips in my sleep so I #will be assimilating that into he long list of things I’ve projected onto percy #critical role tlovm #critical role #tlovm

[legisaskerator]

town fair today and of course I have to be like this

#me #my face #selfie #makeup #blue hair #photo #punk I guess #do I get to call myself punk yet I’m trying to assimilate #I’ve got my leather jacket in the car and I am READY

[vernalloy]

Probably going to rename Emma for symbolism…

Ziggy Lovett remains the same. Ziggy is derived from the vulture from the jungle book that was repurposed in some game and made evil. Lovett was chosen for its meaning of “wolf cub”, its similarity to the word “love”, and the famous bearer from Sweeney Todd. Both still fit him exceedingly well!

#(wow vern talk) #ziggy lovett #I’m currently leaning toward making her first name merle? #it’s an English name influenced by a word for blackbird so the sky motif should carry me some way #might poke at her surname a bit. probably going to keep her half white though #I’ve got thoughts on the vast and how that dizzying fear of Giants can tie in nicely to #non literal Giants. systems you feel dizzy about dismantling not because they’re good but because they’re so Big #and assimilation & whiteness & how in many ways it is easier to ditch half your heritage #especially that that you barely know anything about because there was an attempt to erase it #merel ivanov #oc

[webgeekist]

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#I’ve read some Twitter commentary about how the under 25 assimilation is some kind of #social commentary about the younger generation being easy to influence #one I find that to be hilarious considering how easily my family was pied pipered into anti-vaxxing #but two I fundamentally disagree with the idea that this is a commentary about the younger generation #look the under 25s in Starfleet are fucking ensigns #they have no power and no say in the trajectory of the technology they’ll be stuck with for decades #fleet-wide inter connectivity was a decision made by captains and admirals #you know..the Wolf 359 survivors #the ones who should have known better than to touch Borg technology and decided they had to be smarter than the fucking Borg #so they did it anyway #also the ones who created the angry Changelings #by withholding a lifesaving sure and experimenting on a sentient species #this isn’t a commentary on wokeism or younger generations being fickle and collective-y at all #or ok maybe it is BUT #this is a commentary about how the older generations have continuously fucked with things they shouldn’t #created an existential crisis with unsustainable politics and ecosystems #and whether or not they die now or later have fucked the youngest generations into holding the bag

[jewishbarbies]

typically white people obsessed with saying “white people have no culture” every time they open their mouths and then in the next breath make sure to tell people “you’re not allowed to say you’re anything other than american because you weren’t born in another country.” are so fucking annoying. like. yeah. there is no collective “white culture”. there’s culture in the sub groups of american immigrants. if your ancestors aren’t english, you have a culture to connect with and learn about. most non-english immigrants came to america because they had to either to avoid death or for a better life in a rough time period of their home country’s history. mine came from germany to escape the holocaust and some didn’t make it. you’re allowed to learn about the culture you missed out on and connect with your family’s ancestry. as long as you’re being respectful, there’s literally nothing wrong with it.

(there might be closed practices you need to be invited/accepted into, but that falls under “being respectful” imo)

#g talks #like yeah we have no culture because the damn english christians forced us to fucking assimilate #I don’t have a culture connected to my race #I’m jewish #it doesn’t matter what my skin color is #I’m jewish and I’m HEAVILY german #I’ve called my grandmother ‘Oma’ since birth #like?? #gtfo #if you’re happy being White American with no sense of community #that’s fine #but leave the rest of us the fuck alone #we want OUT of this vanilla hellscape #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog

[mossboys]

being jewish this time of year is never great but the jewish-muslim solidarity is very appreciated

#text #i’ve been reading some articles/interviews abt jews talking abt how they feel about christmas #and i understand the viewpoint of never owning a christmas tree and only piggybacking off of someone else’s #i understand it also as a deep seated discomfort with assimilation no matter how sweet or non harm causing #i worked christmas eve today with one of the muslim pharmacists and it was a nice silent acknowledgement of why we were both there #and how christmas doesn’t really mean much to either of us but it does to the store directors and customers #it is nice to be wished merry christmas even though i wear my judaism on my name tag but still. very odd. slightly alienating as usual #every time it’s a major christian holiday and i am swept into the sea of whiteness i think what it would be like if christianity didn’t #rule this place or rather very merrily haunt it #and i wish the only jewish run government in the world wasn’t also a genocidal and colonial one #but hey.

[sweetandglovelyart]

Are there any other Kirby fans on here who are also fans of Star Trek? I know of a couple people already, but I’m trying to see if there’s anyone else. I personally see a lot of parallels between Kirby and Star Trek, and some of my Kirby fanart is Star Trek-inspired, so that’s why I’m asking.

#text post #Kirby #just asking because when I eventually get around to drawing my Susie redemption arc comic #it’s going to have a lot of Star Trek references in it and I want to make sure people understand them lmao #also I see a lot of parallels between Kirby and Star Trek in general #I think the biggest one is the parallel between what the Borg do to Captain Picard and what Susie does to Meta Knight #context for Kirby fans who do not watch Star Trek: the Borg are a collective of cybernetic organisms #they assimilate other organisms into their collective against their will to gain those organisms’ knowledge and abilities #in The Next Generation they assimilate Captain Picard and use him and his knowledge to attack Starfleet/the Federation #it’s basically what Susie does when she mechanizes Meta Knight and turns him against Kirby #the episode of the anime where Dedede gets the Scarfies as pets also reminds me of the Tribble episode from Star Trek: The Original Series #another big parallel between Star Trek and Kirby is that both franchises have a mirror universe with evil versions of the characters #also Magolor as a character reminds me a lot of Quark from Deep Space Nine not sure if anyone else sees it lmao #anyway if there are other Kirby fans out there who like Star Trek what’s your favorite show from the franchise? #my personal favorite is Voyager but I also really like Deep Space Nine too I’m rewatching it right now with a friend #I’ve seen all the shows and some are definitely better than others but they each bring something new and interesting to the franchise #I wouldn’t say that there are any shows in the franchise that I hate or think are awful #it’s kind of like Kirby too in that just as there are no bad Kirby games there are no bad Star Trek shows lmao at least in my opinion #there are some shows that are weaker than others or have some annoying features but I wouldn’t say they’re bad

[pinkfey]

trying to radicalize my father but he’s been white man pilled by his father since birth

#the assimilation of my grandmother and its consequences #he gets so SO close to Getting It and then he says some centrist bullshit and i remember everything he’s been taught #like. i’ve spoken about trying to understand why my father is the way he is and just #he was a mixed raced kid surrounded by a melting pot of diversity except his mother was totally cut off from her culture very young #and his father was white. and i just think that sort of.. explains it all. he had opportunities to Not Be This way and in many ways he #really does Get It. he’s witnessed so much. he understands so much. but at the end of the day he’s just his father. #and it’s so. yeah. it makes me sad. i wonder how different he’d be if he were raised in hawai’i instead of sf #if my grandmother never immigrated #anyways.txt

[theridgebeyond]

Most chaste heart of Joseph give me a clue

#I’ve accepted that I might never be a nun #but I sure as heck don’t see myself getting married anytime soon and in my protestant circles there’s zero in between #there is no ‘‘single’’ vocation (there aren’t vocations period but at least married or nun are understood roles) you’re just a non entity #I’m planning on moving into my own place and ​I’m high key tempted to get bumble to find a qpp or something #bc even tho I’m happy to accept living perpetually on my own forever if I have to doesn’t mean I necessarily want to #if I’m asexual for a reason can I at least do something with it? #at least Joe got a wife and kid out of the deal #I think a big portion of it is that I’m tired of going against the grain #I’m not the kind of queer person who wants to assimilate to traditional roles for the sake of assimilation #I’m just tired of having no role yknow? #at the moment I’m just educator and dog mom #I used to be very gung ho about foster care but idk if I can realistically help raise a kid on my own? #anyway that’s the vibe tofay #thoughts #rambles

[kingdiety]

Coming out of my lurk cave to confirm: they breached the fucking gate

#Sunny’s rambling #despite all of our best efforts Twitter made it #the hellions have returned to their first nest #God I hope they try to genuinely assimilate #I’m not strong enough for Tumblr to return to itself #although I’ve seen twitter users genuinely trying to learn and help eachother #it’s so sweet #I wish them the best and I want to help those that want to genuinely learn #hope the interface scares off even more undesirables tho it’s fucking hilarious #hope they give up before they learn how to navigate