#I’ve never heard of most of these

[communistkenobi]

I’m reflecting on cesaire’s work again and one of the little flourishes he does in discourse on colonialism is that he says the west will have to answer for its crimes against the human community. and I especially love this line because he’s using the same bourgeois universalising language that the imperial core so often does (“human rights” “freedom and justice for all” “spreading democracy across the globe”) but as a cudgel against the west, to reframe the human community as all those who lay outside of it. anyway I think everyone should read discourse on colonialism

#I need to brush up on my post colonial reading I’m not as well read as I’d like to be #once I finish my coursework I’ll have more time for reading shit I actually want to read lol #like I’m reading so much stupid bullshit that does not matter for class #genuinely useless theory that I will never pick up again #I want to finish orientalism in particular. one of the most didactic books I’ve ever read #like said’s writing is like every sentence restates his central argument. It’s an unrelenting book in a really compelling way #Interspersed with him talking fine grain shit about a bunch of European intellectuals I’ve never heard of lol #book club

[little-pondhead]

I love being socially inept and somewhat oblivious to drama around me because at some point, people let their guard down and tell me all the juicy gossip about their lives and I get to listen to it straight from the source <3

#pondhead rambles #it’s because I’m a fresh ear and they want someone to ramble to #I’m a nice person to vent to and most of the time I’ve never heard the story before

[codgod]

can we go back to when people would make little intro posts for new qsmp members i see people getting excited about the people in purgatory 2 and i’m just. man i don’t even know who many english speaking content creators are [in general, not purgatory specifically]

#.txt #i also don’t know most mainstream celebrities #was watching a video the other day about some weird celebrity twitter drama because it’s fun background noise #and the person making the video was like ‘a few months ago we were ALL over generic celebrity 1 and 2’s relationship’ #like miss ma’am speak for your damn self i’ve never heard of these people before in my life #sorry this is genuinely just entirely unrelated

[sciderman]

How did you feel about young Cable during the Krakoa age?

you guys think I read comics? (i don’t)

#there are so many young cables out there. I read some of them. not all of them. #I know the word krakoa and im sure I’ve read things about it but any time i hear it my brain tells me i don’t know anything. #sci speaks #people have told me about krakoa. And i forgot about it almost immediately. #my brain is useless. #i feel so bad when you guys ask me about comics and my response is “comics? what’s that never heard of her #what kind of comics hater slash fan am i #fact is I’ve read very little x-stuff #it’s Spider-Man or Deadpool and that’s mostly it. I’ve tucked into a lot of cable but BARELY.. barely. #lots of his solo stuff. barely any of his team stuff (which is like. Most of his stuff.) #it’s too much.. it’s too much…

[cubikzoa]

The two ends of the absolute bullshit at deductions spectrum

#Fandoms #hannibal #fandom jokes #…..it’s true though #Sherlock #bbc sherlock #nbc hannibal #the unfinished era fandoms #I’ve never watched Sherlock. But I’ve heard A Lot about it #And most likely. Do not want to hear more lol #Alignment chart #fandom alignment chart #Text #jokes #writing #tv shows #Fandom stuff

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Shirayuki: some spineless bitch doubted my moral conviction and tried to use my lack of title to manipulate you so I immediately threw myself off the building to prove a point

Obi: I jumped off after her no context no questions asked

Zen: I have to kiss someone on the mouth about this immediately

#obizenyuki #is this not what happened #obi #Shirayuki #zen wisteria #zen wistalia #akagami no shirayukihime #Shirayuki really said ‘you have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair’ and immediately hurled herself out the window #no hesitation #she just fucking Went #Obi saw her trip down and immediately went after her didn’t even know what was going on #zen immediately blacked out and ruined his three month hyper planned fantasy about how he would first ask to kiss her because that was the #most attractive thing he has ever heard #ot3 #they should be together forever giving Mitsuhide heart palpitations #Mitsuhide sobbing in the distance: I’m so happy zens found love with people who love him for him #mitsuhide simultaneously popping heartburn medication: I’ve never been more stressed in my LIFE #look as a polycule they have it all #they’re all dramatic and beautiful and genuinely respect one another #they’re all fucking insane #they all have an inexplicable aversion to using the fucking stairs #they are all me playing botw #‘I Will Use The Most Direct Path’ and scale a fucking wall when the stairs are like two feet to the left

[roscolate]

*inhales slowly and deeply*

SOOO MARIO FAM HOW WE FEELIN’

#DANG WE GOT FED A FREAKIN’ BUFFET THIS NINTENDO DIRECT #all that hype had my heart pounding #I’ve never played SMRPG before since I haven’t been able to #but I’ve heard that it’s one of if not the best Mario RPG game #so the fact that I’ll be able to play it has me very excited #AND THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I’VE SAID ‘STOP HE’S SO CUTE’ TOWARDS MARIO #HE’S SO TINY #and I was NOT expecting to have a SMB game #AND THE STYLE IS SO DELIGHTFUL AND CUTE #a power-up that changes the stage in some way is pretty cool and interesting #though it does feel like a drug trip 😂 #AND THEY USE OVER-SIZED HATS TO GLIDE #AND THEY CAN TURN INTO YOSHIS TOO #AND A FREAKIN’ ELEPHANT POWER-UP #this is going to be the most fun I’ve had playing a 2D Mario game in a long time #so those two are the games I’m looking forward to the most #I might end up getting the Princess Peach game and the LMDM remaster #mario #super mario #super mario bros #super mario rpg #super mario bros wonder

[starmagnets]

i am once again asking y’all what the fuck happens in warrior cats i am more afraid every time i hear new information about it.

#my ramblings #i never picked it up as a kid bc i thought it would just be like. cats frolicking in the woods or whatever. #only to find out years later that it’s full of horrific deaths and the most batshit insane plot lines i’ve ever heard in my life.

[voidscreamns]

./

#i dont think i’ve talked my nonverbal!Diluc hc on here yet #but i keep seeing posts abt disability/chronjcally ill/neurodivergent hcs for genshin characters so here’s one from me #idk i feel like after That Night™️ and being on the run from the Fatui/working with a secret organization #diluc not just learns the ‘value’ of keeping secrets and staying quiet but also internalizes his guilt and trauma of saying smth that could #hurt people #it started with him telling Kaeya that he’s not a Ragnvindr anymore and then is exacerbated by his 3-4 Year Fatui Murder Rampage thru Teyvat #and with all ghat trauma and self-deprecation and paranoia he just. stops talking. #he picks up sign language in Fontaine and still writes but at some point he just stops talking and never speaks again #when he comes back to Mondstadt it was hard to adjust to for both him and the people around him #Kaeya initially assumes that Diluc just refuses to talk to him until he later hears gossip abt how no one has ever heard him speak since he #came back. he goes to Adelinde and/or Elzer abt it and they tell him that they neve even hear Diluc so much as hum or grunt #afterwards everyone changes up real fast— Kaeya and Venti drinking at the bar and seemingly just talking at Diluc but they’re always #observing his reactions and body language even when they’re drunk #Jean tries her best to be patient but she has a hard time reading him bc he’s changed so much in the time he’s been gone #Adelinde & Elzer and the winery staff are the most communicative he’s with— Diluc is far more likely to write with them to communicate #at some point Diluc has a business meeting with some rich dude from Fontaine or smth #Kaeya walks in bc he has an actual important mission thinf to discuss and he sees Diluc and this Fontaine dude and the dude’s wife #moving their hands so fast and with all kinds of gestured and stuff #and it’s the first time Kaeya sees Diluc look so EXPRESSIVE— he’s frowning and raising his eyebrows and mouthing words and all this #and Kaeya just goes ‘what’ #turns out the Fontainian dude is deaf and both him and his hearing wife know sign; she helps interpret this to kaeya for the dude and Diluc #and Kaeya is like ‘oh okay’ and goes to the kitchen like ‘i’ll just wait here till yall are finished’ #and he sees Adelinde and Elzer there with stoic faces and they just. stand there in quiet for so long. #Kaeya finally says ‘…..so. sign language huh’ and Adelinde and Elzer have the most pained looks on their faces #later that week Diluc finds like everyone around suddenly doing basic signs with him #he later learns that the winery has ordered a shitton of signing books from Fontaine and are trying to learn #+ Kaeya and Jean too with help from Lisa bc like dont you know learning several languages is a requirement for graduation from the Akademiya #soon the use of sign starts spreading in Mondstadt— there might be some small communities where they have their own native sign but it’s not #as standardized nor widely known as it is in Fontaine #this is getting really long so I’ll stop here but yeah. nonverbal Diluc who signs fjskdjs

[frayedcircus]

BUG GIRL!!

she eats trash<3

#idrk what the idea was here. #i’ve been obsessed with those silly like- mascot style anime girls with the most stupidly basic designs #extra fun when they do something weird like turn into a pile of centipedes or have never heard of ranch #just weird little anime girls who sometimes barely look human going about life doing and being strange things #this was done on whiteboardfox<3 #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #doodle #whiteboard #whiteboard fox #my art

[nico-the-overlord]

#I saw it called speed table today and I’ve never heard of it #got most of these from quick google search #poll #polls #tumblr polls #speed bumps

[eddiethehunted]

in case anyone wants to know how fucked the legal system is here in canada, 3 teenagers came into my work today and beat the absolute shit out of a random guy because he “looked at them wrong” like literally had him on the floor and were kicking him in the ribs and head REPEATEDLY. cops were called (as much as i dislike cops, it was necessary bc wtf are we supposed to do as random minimum wage retail employees lmao???) and these teens were charged with NOTHING, after leaving this guy bloody and unconscious and his face was so swollen it was hardly even a face anymore. they punched one of my coworkers who tried to stop them too and a bunch of products were damaged as well from them throwing the guy into shelves. and they were smirking and laughing to each other as they walked out with no fucking charges because they were underage. like i’m sorry and i DO TRULY HATE cops and i hate the prison system and but HOW can you just let this happen?? no consequences?? at all??? NONE???????? they COULD HAVE KILLED HIM and literally nothing is being done because they were under 18. like. they’re just gonna do it again. and some girls that were shopping were like “they go to our school, they beat people up like that all the time and no one ever does anything” like what the FUCK!!!! where are your PARENTS😭 why is nothing being done about this!!!! i don’t understand!!! like wtf are we supposed to do, just let teenagers literally assault people?? i guess so! 😭😭😭😭😭

it was so bad that multiple customers were CRYING???? or so scared we had to literally HIDE THEM AWAY from the teenagers

#and it genuinely was random. like the guy was just picking up a prescription #and these teenagers flipped the fuck out out of nowhere #it was fucking insane i’ve never seen anything like it #and i got really scared but stupid and i was shouting at them to get the fuck out #and then security said they had to walk me to my car ‘just in case’ HUH??????? #WHY ARE THEY JUST BEING ALLOWED TO WALK FREE #LIKE WHAT #insane shit happens at my work all the time cuz i live in like one of the most dangerous cities in canada lmao #but i have never seen anything like this. just literal senseless violence #like i HEARD the guy pleading them to stop and then he just suddenly. was not pleading anymore bc he WAS NOT CONSCIOUS ANYMORE. #there was BLOOD. ON. THE. FLOOR. #watching the camera footage w the cops made me sick #bc like they were fucking beating the absolute shit out of him #like yall remember how bad steve looked after billy got him ? well obviously that was makeup #but i need yall to imagine something like that and then multiply it by 10.

[akkivee]

KR!!!!!!!!!!!!! NELKE!!!!!!!!!!! WHOMST TF EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET ME IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET ME IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#this is vee speaking #hypstage might be fighting a fr uphill battle lol #i’ve seen a few more opinions now that day two has rolled around and i personally am seeing a divide between hypstage stans and casuals #like the stans while feeling the difference in casts keenly lol see the point in revisiting the get together stories #like it def helps break the new cast in and can potentially set stage for new original stories #but on the other hand i’m seeing the opinion that bc new encounter did the og stories and made them feel more cohesive #we actually might get a more canon complaint stage #one opinion of that sentiment i read was from a mtc stan and she HATED fp vs mtc stage for example #so while she enjoyed the stage some of her gripes about the stage was its originality #and how it felt a lot of people watched the stage less for hypmic but more for the actors and the different universe #which makes me a bit conflicted bc i also hated some aspects of the stage’s different takes but for the most part loved them lmao #we never got to see adaptations of the og stories so it’s cool that we are now but a lot of hypstage’s power came from that originality #i don’t want to see that go lol hypstage overall has better writing than canon 😭😭😭😭😭 #maybe we can get a mix of arb and the stage’s propensity for drama as a production lmao #*coughs* but anyway #LET ME INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN #I HEARD NAKANISHI SAN IS REALLY GETTING INTO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! HES ALREADY FINDING THAT STRIDE DESPITE NOT HAVING A BIG PART #I HEARD JYUSHI AND HITOYAS PARTS WERE FUN LMAO LET ME INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[shrikeseams]

Welp, @nailsinmywall and @skyeventide were chatting on twitter and woobiefied!Celegorm came up. And I’ve realized that I have two semi-elaborate Celegorm headcanon/interpretations spawned from attempts to make Celegorm less fucking tedious to me. I don’t think they quite make the cut for woobiefication, but they ARE marching in that direction. I think this at least qualified for meow-meowification.

Like all good headcanons, one revolves around Orome and one around Aredhel LOL. Honestly it’s all about motivation. Because bitches love to coddle a blorbo who does shitty things for “good” reasons.

Hokay, so. Celegorm and Orome. I realize that this is an unpopular opinion, but Celegorm/Orome is Not For Me, and I prefer to skew the relationship to focus on what Orome’s job represents to Celegorm, rather than a romantic relationship.

Because Orome’s role isn’t just hunting for funsies. His calling is to guard. “He is a hunter of monsters and fell beasts[.]” It’s not the same thing as hunting for food or trophies. It’s about being a first line of defense. It’s a very sincere and solemn duty, and one that would have been obviously important to someone who a) spent stretches of time in the more dangerous parts of Araman and b) intended to leave the safety of Aman with the rest of his family, like Celegorm. Depending on when you think Feanor started talking about leaving Aman, it’s very reasonable for Celegorm to pursue an apprenticeship etc in Orome’s hunt specifically to support the end goal of leaving Aman.  

So Celegorm has accepted this intense, important duty and obligation to Orome and the community at large, in a time and place where there is relatively little need for it. And then suddenly, Morgoth tips his hand and reveals himself to be unreformed! There is more need for Orome than ever!!! And Orome…

Stays home.

Celegorm arrives in Beleriand and fights orcs and wolves and ect etc and sees that Orome’s dedication to everything he taught Celegorm is conditional. Celegorm is in Beleriand, doing the work, whether for selfish or altruistic reasons, and Orome just… isn’t.

Now, there are different ways to interpret the emotional fallout here. But I’m included to say that Celegorm was… if no longer devoted to Orome once the family withdraws to Formenos, then at least still sympathetic and drawn to Orome’s ethos. If nothing else, Huan’s ongoing presence suggests that Celegorm still shares Orome’s calling, even if he’s no longer a member of Orome’s cult.

But I think once he arrived in Beleriand and seen the effects of Orome’s abandonment… he becomes increasingly bitter about his former god. Bitter in a way that I think is unique among the Feanorians, because Orome specifically has abandoned his professed calling in favor of obedience to Manwe. It’s not just the Exiles who have been abandoned, it’s everyone East of the Sea! It doesn’t matter if they aren’t Doomed and never thought of kinslaying, because they have been summarily judged and punished for actions they’re literally separated from by multiple generations and thousands of years. Celegorm has made this protective/defensive role his life’s calling, under Orome’s tutelage, and Orome has made it clear through his actions that the work he made central to Celegorm’s life was something Orome could just walk away from.

But throughout this all Celegorm is still doing the work. Orome walked away, but Celegorm didn’t, and I can’t imagine he’d be anything but bitterly proud about that. I don’t think it took long for him to be doing the work in spite of Orome, rather than in Orome’s honor or even far-distant partnership.

It's a bitter disillusionment and stripping of faith that I tend to think of as a hallmark of the religious lives of the Exiles. But Celegorm’s explicit textual relationship with Orome, and Huan, and (presumed) defensive work in Himlad makes it a good case study. The Valar’s collective failure to live up to their own PR would have made the Eastern forces at least feel justified in their actions.

 So now I have hopefully established that Celegorm’s (bloody, dangerous, violent) work on the front lines of Eastern Beleriand is part of the borderline religious cultural role that Celegorm has chosen for himself. He is perhaps glad to be applying his chosen craft, but scornful that he’s doing it with no greater help from Orome than Huan. He is very probably angry that Thingol doesn’t give two shits about these defensive obligations. Hypocritical, since Celegorm’s mostly there because of the Oath, but it’s mostly a constant low-grate irritation. Nothing too serious.

And then everything falls out with Aredhel!

Because the thing is: years before Celegorm ever laid eyes on Luthien, one of Elu Thingol’s kinsmen seduced and eloped with the daughter of the high king of the Noldor, AT BEST. The most charitable version of that relationship is an illicit seduction, an elopement without so much as notifying Aredhel’s father, and then pursuing her like an animal when she decided she was done with the relationship. And even if that’s the reality and not just the most charitable explanation, I cannot buy that Celegorm felt remotely charitable about the situation.

So from Celegorm’s perspective, what happened is that one of the people he was pouring blood, sweat, and tears into defending had abducted, seduced, definitely abused, and very possibly sexually assaulted one of his favorite cousins. And then they both disappeared into the ether with no justice done that Celegorm would have heard of, and certainly no apology from Eol, let alone Thingol.

Who wouldn’t be in a blind rage at Doriath, in his shoes?

And then the Silmaril quest is Thingol very literally adding insult to injury. The silmaril quest is a very neat and tidy insult to both Beren (who Thingol obviously wants dead) and the Feanorian East. After all, the Feanorian East was just recently devastated in the Bragollach, and Himlad not the least. The silmaril quest is Thingol’s way of saying “You’re not a player on the field anymore. I’m top dog again, and I’ll treat you however I want.” Which is, even with the kinslaying, a pretty shitty move! And it’s one that, quite frankly, the Feanorians have to answer in some way, or they’re basically acknowledging that Thingol is correct. Letting it pass wouldn’t just make it more difficult for them to claim one silmaril, it would make it harder to get people to help them deal with Morgoth and the last two silmarils! It’s kinda dumb, but that’s politics bay-bee.

So when Luthien wanders on by… Hey! A hostage! Luthien offers a great opportunity to pay Thingol back tit-for-tat for both Eol’s treatment of Aredhel and Thingol’s deliberate insult to his former allies. His attraction to her is just gravy.

Essentially, I’ve decided to interpret Celegorm as someone who chose to devote himself, body, heart, and soul, to a god/personal calling to defend his family/community/species, and then had to find a way forward in life when the very same god abandoned that calling, and then some of the people he was defending stabbed his family in the back. Like, damn. I don’t think I would react any better. If I had spent centuries of my life dedicated to the bloody, violent defense of a frontier (a defense that had been abandoned by the powers-that-be that I had been raised to expect to help), only to find out that someone from another cultural group that I was defending had trapped one of my best friends in an abusive relationship? And then like, a century later the leader of the same political group (who never apologized for what happened to my BFF!) very explicitly made a major political challenge to me and my family? And then I get the chance to reprise the crime that he never apologized for on his daughter? I would be fucking tempted. And the threat alone, without intent to follow through, would be enough to pry apologies out of Thingol and stabilize the Feanorian power base.

#Tolkien #I think I’ve said almost all of this before in other posts #but it doesn’t hurt to have the whole vision of how I’m tentatively approaching celegorm in one place #not really sure how the kinslaying plays into all of this #increasingly feeling like I’m writing an essay for class but I’ve gone off-topic oh well #when celegorm heard what turgon did to eol he thought it was the only worthwhile thing turgon did during his whole time in beleriand #as always: any research done was half-assed at most #this also hinges in my assumption that Aredhel’s marriage was kept very hush until she ran #and that gondolin never told anybody shit about shit #this got out of hand

[cyncerity]

me in my dorm room listening to this

#i asked my art teacher to add will wood to the playlist and he added this #he’d been just adding whatever the most popular songs from each artist requested was so i was expecting I/Me/Myself #but then this starts playing and i was like ‘ok i’ve never heard this but it sounds cool’ cause i wasn’t processing the words cause #so i listened to it when i got back to my dorm and #holy shit #oh my god my heart #also it’s kinda g/t coded #its easy to reimagine the pov from a mouse to a borrower #that will make it sadder tho #cyncerity #g/t #<-ig #what if i tag this with rats smp #is that even still going?? #idk i’m tagging it anyway #rats smp #ratssmp #>:) #it’s VERY rats smp coded #Spotify

[mentallyill-lemonade]

“all autists i know including myself don’t care about kyle/dj crazy times’ young sheldon bit” cool! good for you. some of us do. some of us see ourselves in those cruel videos meant to be funny, full of comments like ‘yeah everybody hates that kid XD’ or ‘i remember that kid from elementary/high school/middle school!’ i don’t care if you stop posting women are my favorite guy memes, but you at LEAST have to understand why the no fun kid videos are harmful. there’s one where the kid is screaming to a ‘friend’s’ mom that she needs to call his mom because he wants to go home. is that supposed to be funny? that a kid with autistic traits is having a meltdown and is trying to get out of the situation? you can just think it’s in bad taste or whatever but you cannot ignore it.

#he’s never apologized for it and from what i’ve heard his most recent one was from january this year #also hearsay but i’ve read he admitted to using autism traits for those videos