#Two wrongs don't make a right

[dramoor]

#Orthodox Christian #St. Joseph the Hesychast #correct with love not anger #two wrongs don't make a right

[creationsabyss]

My thoughts on the Aventurine drama

I've been inactive for a while, I was (still am) busy in real life but coming back online to post and seeing discourse about a newly crowned favorite character is disheartening. Even more so, that people are harassing other writers over a drama I feel is overblown.

I have thoughts regarding it but I'm unsure if my opinion would be appreciated. But if you'd like to peacefully talk it out with me, I'd be happy to lend an ear. I'd like to hear both sides, as meager as my opinion may be.

Oh boy, here we go.

Aventurine is a character, a fictional being born to entertain the players. He is not real. He can not be offended by what you create of him. There is no point getting upset on the behalf of a character and prioritizing fiction over a person who does actually exist.

If we do want to condemn slavery fics, why not also cancel slave reader fics? Or ones that include things such as dead dove (including yanderes in general) fics because those topics are equally terrible to condone and write about from that point of view. Or how about other characters that have similar topics in their lore. Should those also be canceled too?

*There are also folks who make problematic pieces to help cope with their own trauma. Does that mean they should be canceled too? (On that note: making a piece that holds problematic content does not always mean the person condones it in real life. Fiction is fiction for a reason.)

In the end, I think everyone can have their own opinions, but I would like to say that your opinions do not justify terrible actions. Just because you disagree with something does not justify you bullying someone into deleting one of their works, whether it is art or writing or anything else, I do not think that is justifiable. Harassing someone or calling people to harass them is not right either.

*If you did disagree with it, why not message the author about it instead of making accusatory posts? Even when done with good intentions, all it does is cause harm when it's practically inviting people to go harass someone over a fanfiction. A very mild fanfiction at that.

If you disagree with a piece, cool. That's your opinion. Just don't interact with it then. Block that creator or that tag or whatever it is that led you there. Or if you're curious, ask that creator.

Also, to reiterate, in my opinion, fiction is still just fiction. Especially when it's a fanfiction about a fictional character. Yes, his canon lore exists, but people can use that basis in fanfiction, something that will inherently warp canon because we are not the original writers and can not capture him in the exact way he was created. In case that doesn't make sense: Fanfiction does not have to comply with the original lore. Also since some of you seem to be forgetting: fiction does not mirror real life.

If you are truly that concerned over sensitive topics like that, directing that energy towards projects that involve such topics in real life would be much better than attacking people on the internet.

#Ink stained letters #I'll probably delete this #If I remember #Sometimes I forget I post stuff #aventurine x reader #The slavery fiction drama #That I have #Let's say thoughts on #Will maybe start posting stuff again #Harassing people is not it though #Isn't that a saying #Two wrongs don't make a right #What an unfortunate time to return to #Killed my will to post things #I'll still post something today or tomorrow to make up for being gone #And for this post #Also people getting mad for a character is really strange #In my opinion #The characters aren't real? #They can't get offended? #Why are we hurting real people over a character that isn't real #This is my take on the drama #Can everyone stop harassing other people over fiction #I don't find any sense in it #This is my opinion #hsr aventurine #Also from my experience #Call out posts are generally just harmful #Especially when you don't make it a secret of who you're talking about #Let people write what they want

[sapphicczaroftorture]

Being a jewish anti militarism and colonialism living in occupied Palestine, i really feel like i have no place.

Even the tiniest empathy for PEOPLE, HUMAN BEINGS, CIVILIANS who are Palestinian is considered as "supporting terrorism". I feel i have no place here, and im ashsamed being part of the occupying side.

I really feel This [anon online spaces] is the only place i can say that w/o concequence;

Occupation is occupation. Don't you understand every single person attacking NEVER HAD A FREE DAY IN THEIR LIVES? Evey soldier was born to insane propoganda and active justification of the occupation? They were born into the occupation, none want to die to it.

Terrorism is awful. But not ONLY muslims do terrorism. The way the military and settlers controls the Palestinians is terrorism. The massacre in Reim was terrorism. Terrorism does not justify terrorism.

Also, criticizing either is not antisemitism and is not islamophobic. I also do not blame individuals, the people being drafted are not to blame, i criticise the Governments who give no shits about human lives, they only care about political power.

Hammas and Bibi need each other to stay in power.

#free palestine #palestine #anti colonialism #anti military #israel #occupation #occupied palestine #murder is never justified #two wrongs don't make a right #help palestine #save gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #free hebron

[jayjuno]

Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip right now.

Just sayin'

#jayjuno #jay juno #america #israel #israeli government #government #war #genocide #free palestine #palestine #palestinian #palestinians #terrorism #terror #two wrongs don't make a right #revenge #gaza #gaza strip #west bank #murder #racism #islamophobia #muslim #middle east #middleeast #war on terror #iraq war #history repeats itself #thoughts #hamas

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

Me watching Muslim men debate how this *inserts x Muslim country* has less rape cases than this other *inserts y non Muslim country* for the nth time thinking they have made a very great point :

#bro you know what??? #this is not some win moment you think it is #you know what would be the no. of rape cases in my ideal country? ZERO #less rape cases is still NOT safe #less rape cases doesn’t mean you get to dismiss those cases #ALSO sometimes it is only that the REPORTED cases are less coz women don't trust the law system #we are so tired #yeah India has femicide and rape cases #that doesn't mean we get to dismiss Iran's case as ok and the news as islamophobic news by the media smh #two wrongs don't make a right #stop using women's pain for your so called gotcha arguments #some men are so dumb and insensitive and have never been told to shut up once on their lives and it freaking shows #stop labelling the reporting of a woman's death (murder) under morality police's custody as islamophobic #misogyny #Iran #islam #muslims #women's rights #imagine using the name of our beautiful religion to pretend muslim women don't suffer under oppressive regimes with extremist laws that are #NOT part of islam just coz you can't accept that misogyny does unfortunately exist in Muslim countries too #*once in their lives #waiting for the day they stop turning women's pain into some sick competition of some stats between 2 countries #rape victims aren't just numbers #they are humans

[doctortwhohiddles]

#israel #palestine #two wrongs don't make a right

[dragonbleps]

That makes you a fucking asshole hypocrite btw <3. People died

#missy rambles #two wrongs don't make a right #these tags weren't @ me i was just going through the notes

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔖𝔲𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔩 𝔗𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔰 - 𝔗𝔴𝔬 𝔚𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤𝔰 𝔇𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔐𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔞 ℜ𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱

#Suicidal Tendencies #Join the Army #Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right #Release date: April 1987 #Full-length #Genre: Thrash Metal/Crossover Hardcore Punk #Lyrical themes: Life Politics Society Angst Comedy Humour Street life Struggles #USA

[blusical]

While we're still on the subject of the Booktok mess. This should go without saying, but please don't harass any booktok creators, especially if they had nothing to do with this situation. What's happening is disgusting, but two wrongs don't make a right. Just stick with calling out the harassing users or better yet maybe even blocking them.

#booktok #hockey fandom #alex wennberg #i removed a piece of the edit i made on the main post because ngl the more i looked at it the more uncomfortable i got #so i removed that bit #i stand with alex and felicia wennberg #two wrongs don't make a right

[djevilninja]

Mary Wells - Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

#black music month #mary wells #music #soul #RnB #60s #classic #motown #two wrongs don't make a right

[b0bthebuilder35]

💯

#two wrongs don't make a right #two wrongs make a right #make a point #the point is #the point still stands #not right #reality #fact #facts #big fact #big facts #petty #petty level #pettiness #life #lessons #life lesson #lesson #life lessons #lessons in life #lesson in life #real shit #true shit #no bullshit #no bull #no bs #seriously though #seriously #nah but fr #nah but seriously

[kforourke]

Charlie Foxtrot

The last few news cycles have been packed, so it's understandable if you missed the Biden administration's recent decision to send cluster munitions—also known as cluster bombs—to Ukraine.

I'm not alone in disagreeing with this decision; The New York Times editorial board noted that cluster munitions are not "a weapon that a nation with the power and influence of the United States should be spreading."

What, then, are these things? And why are some people (myself included!) so opposed to the use of cluster munitions?

Briefly, cluster munitions are "any of a number of weapons systems which ... deliver clusters of smaller explosive submunitions onto a target," according to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. They have a "propensity to leave behind large numbers of unexploded remnants which exact an even greater indiscriminate toll amongst civilians."

The weapons we're sending to Ukraine contain 88 "bomblets" in each round, and each "bomblet has a lethal range of about 10 square meters, so a single canister can cover an area up to 30,000 square meters (about 7.5 acres), depending upon the height it releases the bomblets."

This is obviously bound to cause harm after the war is over. How much harm is the question—tracking mine and cluster-munition injuries is difficult, and the data are poor.

The Global Burden of Disease doesn't include separate causes for mine or munition-related injuries/deaths (they're lumped under "conflict and terrorism"), and the ICD-10 doesn't even include a code relating specifically to cluster munitions; Y36.81, "explosion of mine placed during war operations but exploding after cessation of hostilities," comes closest.

Nonetheless, even if the data are poorly classified and/or underreported, land mines, cluster munitions, and other "explosive remnants of war" (ERW) clearly constitute an ongoing threat.

Stats: during the Vietnam War, the US military dropped more than 250 million cluster munitions, of which 9 to 27 million unexploded submunitions remain. And according to the Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor, "since global tracking began in 1999 the Monitor has recorded more than 122,000" casualties due to land mines and/or ERW.

Here, from the same organization, is a map showing current (2018) cluster munition "contamination" around the world. Red and dark red = bad.

To put the harm cluster munitions cause in more human terms, here's a picture of farmers from Vietnam who were injured by leftover bomblets.

Of course, not everyone agrees that the US shouldn't send Ukraine cluster munitions.

Turkiye began sending Ukraine cluster munitions earlier this year, and Russia has been using them against Ukraine for some time, as the Washington Post's Max Boot points out:

Boot's use of the term moral equivalence—even if he's denying that there is one in this case—brings to mind Noam Chomsky's characteristically forceful take on the phrase:

"Moral equivalence is a term of propaganda that was invented to try to prevent us from looking at what the acts for which we are responsible ... I reject that reasoning."

Perhaps a simpler way to look at this whole clusterfuck is: two wrongs don't make a right. Take it away, Barrett Strong.

...

Header image via Wikimedia Commons.

Cluster bomb victims' hands also via Wikimedia Commons.

Etymology bonus: the term "clusterfuck," in the sense of "bungled or confused undertaking" or "fuckup," arose as military slang during the Vietnam War.

When referring to a clusterfuck over the radio, or in the presence of parties they'd rather not curse in front of, members of the military would instead refer to something as a "Charlie Foxtrot," hence the title of this piece.

#cluster munitions #ukraine #moral equivalency #two wrongs don't make a right

[azuresins]

The Phantomhive Ring Nonofficial merchandise, fanmade, custom. ·3D modeled in SolidWorks by @noirserviteur ·3D printed using resin, then cast in sterling silver ·Fitted with blue sapphire (+ diamond chips, soon)

#Kuroshitsuji #Black butler #ciel phantomhive #Our!Ciel #Ring #I would be very remiss not to make a post about this #I did not believe that this would turn out as beautifully as it did #I also did not believe it could be modeled in the first place this well and even if it could be done #That it would not turn out once it came time to be printed and then cast #But I was wrong multiple times #I also hope someone takes a look at the amount of files and can comprehend the amount of time and effort that went into this #When it got here I just stared at it with my mouth open in disbelief for like 2 hours... #edit because tumblr messed up my post #The little diamond chips will see this to completion but I couldn't wait also I don't even think they're super necessary #They're on the way but international shipping is slow as molasses right now #and unpredictable #anyway- #edit 2 added two more pictures so ppl can see the custom knots and adjustment I asked for #💙

[bonefall]

do you ever worry your own writing might come off as misogynistic though? it seems deceptively easy

When you have anxiety, PTSD, OCD, or multiple of these things, every move you make is something you will self-doubt. It can become endless if you let it, and you can be frozen by absolute indescision.

Embrace the void and reach enlightenment with me; There are many ways to read a story, and no writer can pre-empt every possible interpretation. Not even myself.

If they think my work comes across as misogynistic? Let them. Salty amoebas are often wrong on the internet, but the block button and xkit are beautiful transwomen who are also my friends.

#Honestly tho the existence of terfs is enough to make you realize #That theres some dumb assholes out there who will cynically leverage powerful phrases to try and intimidate you into silence #I think you would need to have some salty coconuts or do an ooo biiiigggg stretch to think BB is misogynistic #This is the melting down about women blog #This is the blog where I regularly take canon books and make them about women instead #I saw a vaguepost about me just wanting one dimensional softgirls #While I was in the middle of showing Fern how to get away with murder by burying two bodies in one grave #And writing her obsessive and unhinged justifications as she digs her claws into her little brother's shoulders desperate to make her- #-senseless violence. The WASTING of her sister's sacrifice. Into something with meaning #If it's wrong to write girliemurder then I don't want to be right <3 #Bone babble

[technovillain]

Sometimes I think about the fact that Lucy was married and has never once spoken about it. I wonder about Gelsin Mux every single day actually.... Imagining Lucrecia as young and in love in Grulovia before she got tied up in any sort of crazy Psychic 7 nonsense is so bittersweet to me. I like to imagine her ties to Gelsin as being like her ties to her old life. Gelsin and Marona and Lazarus after a certain point of interacting with the psychics in America become almost like characters in someone else's life to her. I'm really fascinated with this idea of Lucy really losing touch with her old life. It's obvious that she had a lot of love for Grulovia and for her family but what she was doing with the rest of the Psy7 was extremely important to her. I like the idea that maybe she just felt a little suffocated and isolated for a while in Grulovia as a powerful psychic and couldn't find anyone to relate to (I hc that neither Marona nor Lazlo were psychics) so the Gulch became a place of acceptance and self expression that she had never been used to having. But the way that the Gulch made her grow as a person meant that she could never really go back to "the old Grulovia" that she grew up in, especially considering that the country was war-torn upon her return.

Also realizing that this image here means that it is highly likely that she left Gelsin in Grulovia with it very questionable if she would return. Since it is canon that Gelsin died in the Grulovian war, and not the Deluge.... and Ford met Lucrecia as Lucrecia Mux. I like to think that they fell in love when they were young and back when things were really simple for Lucy, but after she was able to identify how vital being psychic was to her as a person, they lost the ability to relate to one another like they used to could. I don't think she ever really fell out of love with him, they just grew apart in a sad way...

#realizing all this really makes me reframe the way i view ford and lucy's relationship #correct me if i'm wrong on this but i'm pretty sure these are the implications. #and no i don't view ford and lucy as 'scandalous cheating' just more like a.... idk #lucy was sort of moving on in a way while married. and she would be far away from gelsin for a long time. #and the two still loved each other a whole lot. but they could both sort of feel that they had changed a lot. and gelsin sort of expected #something like that to happen. maybe to both of them. who knows. #but there was always a lot of love there and he knew that at the end of the day he would always be there for her and vice versa #special relationship that i am headcanoning right now......very sad and effective hc pieces are falling into place for me #canon oc #gelsin mux #lucrecia mux #hcs #.txt

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso S02E05 Rainbow || Ted Lasso S03E01 Smells Like Mean Spirit

What does that mean?

#Ted Lasso #Theodore Lasso #Jason Sudeikis #Coach Beard #Brendan Hunt #*mine: gif #Ted Lasso spoilers #music #I really enjoyed Ted cleaning up his flat *chef's kiss* #I have two more ideas that feel original but I have a feeling one of these ideas will be posted #the TL giffing feels a bit saturated which is great but I have seen this one scene giffed quite a few times #don't get me wrong it is a great scene but I start feeling personally as a gifmaker that I don't want to add to that #so I'm less likely to make gifs of scenes I've seen already giffed. I don't want to feel like I'm copying anyone.... #I need to get on the reblogging of all the new season gifsets for sure #there's no way I can be quick with the making of gifsets #I still want to do my JS series but I don't have time to go over the whole episode this weekend #I'll have to do a back to back E01 and E02 since my quarter ends on Tuesday #also is that last gif too dark or just right...I want back and forth and just keep my old style with it