#The west is making a mistake

[relmint-draws]

More of my garbage pile AU

#tripitaka learns self defense AU #TLSD! AU #journey to the west #xiyouji #sha wujing #zhu bajie #sun wukong #tang xuanzang #tang seng #sha seng #ao lie #bai long ma #doodles #rel'sart #is this an AU an excuse to bully Tripitaka while also making him learn from his mistakes? Perhaps #also this AU is for the funnies <333 #jttw

[lavaflowe]

The book sure do be like that sometimes

#jttw #make no mistake #I love it very much #BUT SOMETIMES ITS ALITTLE TOO AHEAD OF ITS TIME FOR ME #sometimes I get to a part of the book and I need a break to recover from the psychic damage LMAO #journey to the west #meme #jttw memes #sun wukong #<- he lives rent free in my head so I can’t be too mad at the book #my art

[margoshansons]

Sometimes I think about the fact that Candice Patton’s casting as Iris West literally opened up so many doors for POC to play roles that were always seen as white in adaptations, and the amount of horrific racism she had to endure because she was simply a black woman who’d been hired to play a role that was traditionally played by white women.

But now we’re living in an era where MJ from Spiderman is black, Annabeth Chase is black, Selina Kyle is black, Ariel is Black, ANOTHER ONSCREEN VERSION OF IRIS WEST IS BLACK.

And more than that we’re getting South Asian women and black men as desirable love interests, as leading women and men in comedies and dramas.

All of these adaptations of books and graphic novels and comics which didn’t have POC to begin with are slowly starting to incorporate them into their casting decisions and we’re seeing a world where people of color—especially women of color—can now see themselves in media that has remained white for so long, I just—I get really emotional thinking about it.

#bridgerton #the flash #candice Patton #percy jackson #pjo #annabeth chase #iris west allen #Iris west #make no mistake other actors of color were playing white roles before her but she was the first one I remember being a main character #outside of like Bonnie Bennet #like Candice Patton changed the game

[rullikka]

They’re sharing

#jigoe #lupin the third #Lupin III #jigen daisuke #Goemon Ishikawa XIII #goeji #mlm #daisuke jigen #ishikawa goemon xiii #my art #lupin fanart #quickest doodle in the wild west before my hands completely give up on me #I FORGOT SO MANY DETAILS AND MISTAKES BECAUSE IM SLEEP DEPRIVED AND WANTED TO MAKE THIS PRESENTABLE QUICKLY PLZ BEAR WITH ME

[baejax-the-great]

Hello! It’s three days until a solar eclipse. Would Agua Caliente Pat and Achilles have plans?

The eclipse path of totality is nowhere near California, and I doubt they'd have much interest in traveling to Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, or western New York in early April (or ever). West Coast people can be so attached to their precious coast.

However, the national park service does show which parks will be in the path of totality, and I guess I could see Patroclus using this as an excuse to visit one he hasn't seen before. The the Ozark riverway would be a good one, except it's not open yet. And if they did visit, it would be all mud. And ugly. So... scratch that. Why would they ever leave California? Do they even have smoothies in Missouri?

I think the better plan would be to wait for the eclipse in Spain in August 2026.

#the thing about outdoorsy western US people #is that they cannot bear to leave the west #if they don't have a mountain to climb within view #they will perish #it is known #now San Diego isn't known for mountains so the guys aren't quite as badly afflicted #but make no mistake they suffer from this disease #Patroclus staring at the midwest like #there are no mountains and no oceans no mountainbiking no paddleboarding #what does anyone even do here #although I think he'd be enchanted by bogs #real bogs not the bullshit this website talks about #real bogs are incredibly dangerous and WILL eat you #like quite literally #anyway none of this has to do with the eclipse #afaik the bogs are also not in the path of totality #being much farther north #sorry nonny

[witchstone]

Re: ebooks and libraries, you can buy membership to libraries you're not a part of! I just moved and my current community is very poorly funded and remote, so I signed up for Fairfax county in VA and it's like $30 for a year or something and has so many more titles. I think I have like four different library accounts now and it's all cheaper than buying the books themselves lmao

thanks for the suggestion but the only province that has a wider range is the western cape system, but as far as i can tell you have to go in person to the library you want a membership with!

(tbh this was less of a "how do i, specifically, access a better variety of books" and more of a "it's fucked up that books are becoming less and less accessible here")

#letters #anon #i mean the gauteng system technically has a larger range but the number is marginal #did make the mistake of looking at north west's and the eastern cape and that's even worse. looks like limpopo and nc don't even have

[iris-west-alllen]

It will always be funny to me that when snowbarry shippers where trying to act like Caitlin was practically Iris they did this by painting Caitlin as someone who was a wallflower who just agreed with whatever Barry said or did and compared her to sliver age Iris.

Now I wouldn't describe any version of Iris as a wallflower who just went along with whatever Barry but using a version of Iris who was always chastising Barry and was ready to fight any one who looked at her wrong way is just so funny to me.

#make no mistake sliver age iris is my wife #but i can acknowledge my wife was mean as hell #it's why she's wife tbh #iris west #anti snowbarry

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

I never really realized how long everyone’s hair technically is... I wondered what they’d look like after they got caught in the rain.

#Bucchigire! #Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys #ブッチギレ! #I think Tsukito and Katsura would be in the same team as Sakuya #This only came up because I'm making Sougen's wig and was like 'what length would I have to get for his hair down?' #Also let me just rant for a moment on how much I hate Sougen's hair for a second #It's not half green and half black because if it was I wouldn't be complaining #It's some Death the Kid bullshit where it's green with 2 black stripes and black with 2 green stripes on both sides #And the middle is just the fucking Wild West like it's more green than black but that's just how he parts it #This was a mistake and no one stopped me until I stood in front of the mirror in a green kimono going 'oh fuck' #Insanity Draws #Insanity of Mojiru

[trapperskeeper]

So if Aaron Rodgers goes to the Jets, I wonder what all the NFL fanfic will be about now... 🤔

#something something him and Mahomes making a bet about who will get the AFC championship only for them to meet there in the playoffs #au where Mahomes was actually drafted to the giants so they can be in new york together #im spitballing here #gotta think of all the most obscure contrivances #hmm the Jets actually play the Chiefs this year now that I think about it... #im sure all the girlies will love that #its definitely still fuck the Jets tho #probably even more so now that Rodgers will be there #i just hope it'll end in an epic collapse and all the fanfic is about Mahomes telling Rodgers to get his shit together #like bro you're clearly having a midlife crisis #it'll be okay #and i get that Farve might have given you daddy issues or something but you don't have to make his same mistakes #like do you really want to go to a franchise who's most infamous moment has the words butt fumble in it? #and the afc east is not the cupcake division you're used to buddy #there's no lions and bears to beat up on #it's finna be a blood bath #and we play the afc west and nfc east this year #i don't think he knows what he's in for #it's giving Antonio Brown doing jumping jacks off the field #huh now that I think about it that did happen in MetLife stadium #nfl #aaron rodgers #new york jets

[lilnasxvevo]

I still can’t believe that the final showdown where everyone murders each other in cold blood happens in a temple devoted to Guanyin. You know, Guanyin, the bodhisattva of mercy??? That Guanyin?

That big-ass statue just sitting there watching it all go down like “Seriously? Right in front of my salad offerings?”

#i only know who Guanyin is and what she stands for because of Journey to the West #so please dont mistake me for someone who has any real knowledge about Buddhism #Guanyin is the one who advocates for letting Sun Wukong out of his punishment being trapped under a mountain and/or tortured #(depending on the version) #which was SUPPOSED to last literally for eternity but thanks to Guanyin it ‘only’ lasted 500 years #bc Guanyin was like ‘hey we need this monk to make a really dangerous long journey where countless demons are going to try to eat him #so I feel like. i FEEL like. it makes sense to bring back possibly the most powerful demon ever to serve as his bodyguard #and hey maybe in the process we can make that demon a good little Buddhist!!!’ #and they do!!!! they make that demon a VERY good little Buddhist

[sayruq]

I keep posting this because it's important people see the tricks the US Empire will pull in order to ensure the occupation of Palestine doesn't end.

When Netanyahu is removed and scapegoated for the crimes Israel has committed, his more moderate replacement will go on a media tour in order to repair Israel's image in the West and a diplomatic tour in order to restore diplomatic relations with the countries that have recalled their ambassadors or cut diplomatic ties entirely. The genocide we're witnessing will be treated like a mild mistake that will never happen again (that Palestinians have brought on themselves). More money will be allocated to Zionist groups in the West to ensure that the public doesn't turn on Israel again.

Meanwhile, Palestinians will continue to get imprisoned, tortured and killed, only now without the world paying attention (just like what happened after the 2021 war). It's our duty as people who are pro Palestine to ensure that this fails. We need to make sure they don't sweep the genocide under a rug. We need to make that Western politicians and journalists don't clean the blood off their hands in the same way we've spent 45 days countering Israeli propaganda

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza

[cyberr-v0id]

Hey girlie. Kind explaining ta me how ye messed up this time?

#cyberr speaks #me to myself #if you don’t read that in a Scottish accent or at least a west county one (it can go either way tbh though make no mistake they’re very #different accents) you are wrong #no I’m not here to explain accents #or how ta and ye are pronounced differently in Scottish and West Country accents #despite not being actual words #don’t question it #just accept #mess up #cyberr screwed up

[angrycheesegirl]

Genuinely, what is the point of setting the Fallout show on the west coast if it was just going to invalidate everything that happened in the West Coast Trilogy. Shady Sands has fallen, the NCR is a memory, New Vegas is a crater in the ground. The New California Republic, Caesar's Legion, The Enclave, Mr. House, all brushed to the side for a wasteland with no semblance of human society beyond shanty-towns; with no semblance of the legitimate cities of Fallouts 2 and New Vegas. All to what end? To allow the Brotherhood of Steel to make an undeserved comeback?

If anything, I think the series should be the final nail in the coffin that Bethesda fundamentally misunderstands Fallout. In a franchise whose very nature is defined by the Atom Bomb and how it was used as a means to an end by a corrupt Capitalist system; how humanity rose from the ashes of a broken world with the dream of building something better; how our only hope for the future is to learn from our past mistakes and create a world where they can never be made again; Bethesda seems determined to keep us stuck in the past. That we should never advance past the ideals of the nation that led us to this nuclear landscape in the first place, that we should never try to make something new atop the ashes of what came before. That we should just forever stay rats scurrying in the wastes, amongst the shattered visage of Ozymandias and the fruits of his labor, looking up to what he left behind as an example of the kind of existence we should strive to create. Very telling indeed.

#fallout #fallout 1 #fallout 2 #fallout new vegas #fallout series #fallout amazon #bethesda game studios #todd howard #I am fucking LIVID #I had so few expectations for the Fallout show but somehow they managed to be more destructive than I could've ever imagined #THEY FUCKING RETCONNED NEW VEGAS #If that doesn't tell you how Bethesda feels about Fallout as a franchise then I can't help you

[mercifullydeparted]

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[fairuzfan]

- Sephardi Jew here. Thank you for your posts concerning Palestinian Jews. Jewish people who are ethnically North African/West Asian are consistently left out of these conversations. Make no mistake - the word "Mizrahi" was invented by Israel to literally strip Palestinian Jews of their identities during the beginning of the occupation. The message was to either assimilate with the Ashkenazi, or die as a Palestinian. The entire reason people struggle to find resources about the history of Palestinian Jews is because it has been purposefully obscured by the occupation. While I am not Palestinian, (that I know of, the other funny thing, diaspora members of the Sephari community often have trouble pinning down our exact heritage, I'll let you guess why) my ethnic background is Moroccan, Libyan, Maltese. Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean Sea have always been here, will continue to be here. You don't have to answer this publicly or anything, btw, I just really try to reach out to people who elevate the voices of the Jewish people from this area of the world. It profoundly touches my heart.

of course, no need to thank me. an aspect of the occupation is a lot of palestinian jews have been erased from palestinian history which is pretty heartbreaking as someone who makes it their lifegoal to preserve palestinian cultural heritage and spread it to people.

it is really difficult finding resources on jewish history in SWANA before it was touched by the occupation despite it being a fundamental part of swana history.... and part of that is from european colonialism and the other part of it is collaboration with european colonialists and swana governments.

if anyone has sources on swana jewish history (i know of hadar cohen and avi shlaim rn), please do let me know so i can look into it!!