#Western Force

[akaretu]

#Western Force #rugby union

[snickerdoodlles]

its so weird seeing posts that mock uncle jim for worrying about li ming's queerness as though his dead boyfriend's parents (legally) stealing his entire life savings and leaving him to manage a restaurant business specifically because gay couples aren't legally recognized as couples wasn't what put him in a cycle of crushing debt and endless poverty in the first place

#yeah hi CONTEXT MATTERS #can western fandom pls stop ignoring this shows biting social commentary on queer people not being legally recognized #also heart is the darling of all time BUT his careless lie literally forced li ming to work off a debt that was never his #and wouldve seriously impacted jim's business and financial state had wen not offered to work free #which was a boon but having to live on someone elses generosity like that is still a stress #because people (understandably!!!!) can and do get tired of giving away a lot of time and energy for nothing #wen is uncommonly generous and luckily its not too long before other circumstances help lift jim to safer footing #but none of that was SECURE getting to that point #jim is right to worry! it comes out badly and li ming's queerness is not the actual issue but jims reasoning is EXTREMELY UNDERSTANDABLE #sighs #moonlight chicken

[butchfeygela]

okay you’re disabled and you don’t work. i assume you still need to eat. where does the food come from? is it all a community garden? is there a supply-line? what if those people don’t want to work? Are you just supposed to just keel over and starve?

Or…and allow me to guess here…you’ve literally never thought about any of the answers to these questions short of “I’ll go to the store”. because you’re American. your entire life exists because of exploited labor from the global south. where’s your toaster come from? microwave? cobalt in your phone? clothes? food? it’s all exploited labor (and they’re get exploited a lot harder than any American with a damn office job).

so sure, you can’t work. but somebody has to, or you’ll die. and contrary to the warblings of many weepy anarchists on twitter and tumblr, i do not, in fact, want you to die. but sometimes i think western anarchists would rather keep the world’s injustice as long as it benefits them personally, and i sure haven’t seen otherwise here

(also if you’re not American and live in a different cracker-ass European-ass country everything i’ve said applies just as much. i haven’t checked. don’t be a pedant)

i actually do work bc our system wants disabled people to work until they die and makes it incredibly difficult if not almost impossible to get any support. this is largely the case everywhere there is a system for deciding who is disabled enough to be allowed not to work. youre a few months late to this whole discourse but in summation i think people want to preform labor and tasks so much more than capitalism assumes. especially if their needs are met thru tht work. if no one wants to do a specfic type of labor at all then we need to figure out how to either go without the product of that labor or figure out other ways to get it.

its interesting to me you bring up the immense forced labor the western empires are built off of and yet you think there should be a board of people who's job it is to force disabled people who have not met their lofty criteria to work until they die. why should that principal be upheld anywhere?

i swear disabled anarchists cant win either we're getting yelled at for not supporting the forced labor of our siblings, viewed as bougie parasites for daring not to work our bodies to destruction or we get called ableist for calling for the destruction of our society that runs on forced labor

#seriously decide if u want to yell at me for saying people shouldnt be forced to work or for benefiting from the global hegemony that #forces people to work #i think its honestly the western authcoms that want to keep society largely unchanged w their disability boards and peoples police #and extractive practices and lack of Land Back and autonomy for native peoples

[zvaigzdelasas]

I just don't believe anyone reposting those lists about "here's 15+ different places with Problems going on (just like palestine!!)" knows or cares enough to be able to explain what's happening in more than 1/4 of them in anything approaching the depth appropriate to doing the topic justice

#also very easy to group together w western propaganda #lost count how many times ive seen like cuban crackdown on free speech or uyghur genocide on those lists #or viet nam #youre not spreading solidarity by forcing dozens of qualitatively different situations into the same mold #not to mention that zionist apologists have literally been weaponizing those lists since day 1 #'oh you claim to care about palestinians but i havent seen you talk about....' #like this could be seen coming from miles away #forms of comparisons that dont abstract to the point of uselessness tend to come in pairs #moreover. the way those are often grouped under the label 'free x' or 'save y' #or vague calls to boycott when theres no labor organizations within that region even calling for that #who is doing the freeing who is doing the saving how do your means match your ends

[azural83]

My god, the way some people actually managed to make iran's problems about themselves is outstanding.

I'm sorry that women in the west face harassment for hijab. But this has nothing to do with iran, our issues are actually going viral and they just..discuss a different topic? Many women were beaten,killed,jailed for not wanting to wear something that was forced on them 40 years ago and so many people including children were murdered for fighting against it and you just bring up women's struggles in first world countries?! I'm not saying that we shouldn't talk about them,every single issue deserves to be acknowledged; but we should NOT compare these two things at all,they're completely different

#westerns sure do love to make everything about themselves huh #iran #iran protests #iranian #iranian women #mahsa amini #police brutality #police murder #police beating #feminism #feminist #women's rights #forced hijab

[littlefeatherr]

Captain Rex and Sergeant Hunter, Western a/u style by kaijurave

Also check out their carrd: https://kaijurave.carrd.co

#captain rex #sergeant hunter #ct 7567 #hunter #the bad batch #hunter tbb #the clone wars #clone force 99 #sw tcw #star wars the clone wars #tcw art #tbb western au

[crazywolfsthings]

I feel like people who say that Mizu wants to be a man and enjoys being one are forgetting the fact that Mizu did not choose to dress or act the way they do and was forced to do so as a child because people were looking for a girl, so their maid mom had her behave like a boy for her own safety. This was not his own choice.

And the reason why she gets upset when others insinuate that he's a woman is because women aren't allowed to do pretty much anything in their day and age, as we see when a woman is denied entrance into a town to sell goods to feed herself and her child because a man was not accompanying them.

Being a man provides them with so much more freedom and power to accomplish her goals, and if others discover he's a woman, she'll lose that freedom.

If you view him as trans, then that's fine, but you don't have the authority to say that's canon, and shouldn't get mad when others think about her as a woman or use she/her and they/them pronouns for them. If your argument is that everyone in the show uses he/him pronouns, then know that the creators of the show use she/her. All pronouns and headcanons are valid for Mizu.

#Blue Eye Samurai #crazywolfsthings #I love Mizu and enjoy all headcanons #Cis/trans/GNC/nonbinary/fluid/etc. #Hate the ones that are trying to gatekeep #Did I use all pronouns when referring to Mizu #Yes #Don't get a chance to do that often #Don't like it #Then that's a skill issue #Go watch Blue Eye Samurai people #I need more fanfics and fan art #You can watch the first episode on YouTube #The rest is on Netflix #Please #I need more of this show #Also #Don't force modern Western views on characters from 1600 Japan #If I accidentally do that #Let me know

[uncanny-tranny]

Socialization theory with regards to trans people might have been an interesting conversation if people hadn't ever used it to mean, "you will always be [gender] no matter what, and my assumptions about how you were socialized mean more and are more true than whatever you say you went through as a child. Your account of your life is untrustworthy because it doesn't align with what I say is [male/female] socialization."

I'm not sure this theory wouldn't have been picked up by transphobes, but it's infuriating how you can't even discuss your thoughts about your own transness or growing up trans without being called a liar.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #like people use socialization to mean ONE thing depending on what is the topic... #...like the idea that 'female socialization' only looks like one way (which is usually straight/white/gender-conforming/western ect ect)... #...people don't like nuance because it usually takes more effort... #...what is noticed are patterns but patterns do not a defining characteristic make #honestly i don't even fully believe that socialization theory would even be adequate even if transphobes didn't jump all over it #but it would have been an interesting discussion nonetheless... #...like the discussion doesn't have to be ~divine~ and 100000% true so long as it isn't forced onto people

[the-celestial-bitch]

i think what most people fail to understand is that theres no fucking way that israel intelligence community wouldnt know about the attack that happened. they have spies literally everywhere and theyre frighteningly good at their job, just look at some cases of them stealing data from other countries and you will see. so the most likely scenario in my head is that israeli government decided to let the attack happen, let the people die, bc of the greater good of forcing more oppression onto palestinians and deeming any of the activists as terrorists. now they can say "look its not our fault!!! we're doing this for the security of the country, not just israelis, and our laws and legislations are only to control the terrorism" which is a big fat lie.

people need to understand that when oppression gets too suffocating radical groups are born. this is why there are alt right muslim extremists in europe, bc theyre being actively oppressed. but what they do benefits the government (as in, they can now point at the extremists and claim all muslims/middle easterns are like this). so in the end, theres a high chance that the recent hamas attack will benefit the genocide of the palestinian—a truly ironic tragedy, the acts of which we (the middle easterns) already know from memory.

my heart goes out to all of my palestinian siblings. i hope the nightmarish genocidal machine of israel finally dies, and that you can experience peace in the end 🇵🇸

#Palestine #also i need the western leftists to check their sources before quoting any palestine advocate bc some of them are the iranian government #which i do not need to get into to explain why thats not correct and u shouldn't listen to them. hopefully #god im just. head in hands #when will the horrors end #people can never understand the experience of living in middle east #its truly hellish #and everything is out of our control #and bc we are brown our lives just. don't fucking matter #they way everyone treats us like trash like we deserve whats happening #like we deserve the war the west is forcing on us #im so so so tired. the pain never goes away #it just piles up.

[western-magical-girl-confessions]

“Trans Marco would've been cool tbh”

#marco diaz #trans marco #princess marco #svtfoe #star vs the forces of evil #svtfoe confessions #western magical girl confessions #confession 2202

[tmglineaday]

We are, for some reason, all the time bleeding

#weekend in western illinois #full force galesburg #the mountain goats #tmg

[rotzaprachim]

one of the most bitter ironies from a certain flavour of western (usually American, British, French) leftist who’se decided to comment on the Jews Writ large and just suggest that Israelis ought to have just gone back to where they come from if they didn’t want to be murdered is that the US, UK, and France been hugely culpable in forcing massive numbers of Jews, along with other middle eastern refugees, from their homelands through colonialism and interventionist and destabilizing policies in Iran, Afghanistan , Algeria, Lebanon, Yemen, and so forth. It’s downright ghoulish to refuse to wrestle with the history behind why the vast majority of the worlds’ middle eastern Jews live in the state of Israel when YOU, as the major colonial powers of the region, are culpable for it

#No I don’t want to hear from Yankees about Jews dying as a form of solidarity from their own actions actually #Everyone should be an anti Zionist #An essential and I mean ESSENTIAL part of that work is mentally reckoning with WHY Jews live in the state of Israel to begin with #Because otherwise? Kinda feels like the worst forms of gaslighting #Sorry we destabilized your homelands to the extent you were forced to leave as refugees AND refused to reckon with creating a global world #In which you could be safe! #Here’s someone else’s land. As a treat #All you refugees can be unceremoniously dumped here now have fun guys!!!!! #As an Ashkenazi but also tagalog Jew: there isn’t nearly enough intersectionality on Jews themselves as post colonial victims or how the #State ideology was founded in the first place #It’s extra bitter to hear simplistic takes from western leftists about how the Jews can just go home like #A) where? Where too? #And b. I don’t want to throw them this bone #But the vast vast majority of Jews who don’t live in isreal live in other settler colonial states #Because we were. Moved there #But for some funny reason those tend to be the states they live in and they don’t consider their own passports sufficient cause of dea #death. Or something

[bragganhyl]

oh what I would give for some crumbs about the relationship between Eothas and Magran pre-Saint's War 😔

#hablaty #like they are the light-themed gods #Magran was the OG rebel god given that her followers were burning Woedica's inqusitors while the inquisition was still happening #Eothas once had an ''i'll light the way but I won't force anyone to walk it'' mindset if the great western stag book is to be believed #which is similar to Magran's insistence to leave kith alone to sort themselves out without guidance bc she believes in their potential #they have a lot of similarities but Magran ultimately works to maintain the status quo and only makes sure that the other gods won't attemp #A power grab #Meanwhile Eothas has grown to realize that the system the gods maintain will always lead to the end of civilations bc the system is broken #So he wants to shatter it completely then remake it which puts him at odds with Magran #like you can't convince me that those two didn't once have a positive sibling bond only for it to break bc Magran would not go the distance #Eothas feels forced to go #pillars of eternity

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

more historical fiction needs to be set in ww1. bonus points if you fag it up

#every time i check historical fiction books its like the year: 1943 and like OK geez #either ww2 era or like the 60s or 20s or some shit #can i PLEASE get a story set in the goddamn trenches of verdun thats mean and nasty about killing characters #sorry theres no easy “bad side” in that war ?? make the bad side the governments cuz thats what it was #my god. can i read about our protag watching some guy die horrifically from a gas attack #and then fuck one of the other soldiers to find any form of intimacy+comfort #read one book set in ww1 but it focused mainly on the russian revolution. still a good one i love u martha hall kelly #but they made this one random dude enlist in the air force and i was SURE he was dead walking corpse u know #but he SURVIVED i was mad. kill this bitch #pilots at a certain point in the war i wanna say 15-16 had such short life expectancies KILL HIM !!!!! #anyway if u have recommendations of queer ass ww1 books i will take them please and thank u #dont even have to be queer just want some all quiet on the western front type shit

[decolonize-the-left]

AND ANOTHER THING

God didn't destroy hell or the devil or turn him to dust. He gave us a choice. He let his fav literally choose to exist as the leader of Hell.

I find this interesting as a queer person who's been persecuted by God's fandom (in the USA at least)

Also can someone tell me which version of the bible I should read? the one with the sections about all the monsters and prophecies seems fun 👀

#i have so much religious trauma despite not actually ever believing in the west's God but im working thru it #and maybe me and God could be alright #his followers tho..... #religion #god #and anyway this entire topic is fascinating to me and im even enjoying it now that im learning on my own w/o someone Forcing it on me #im even wanting to branch out from western religion entirely..... #(not that i dont have my own. i have my Creator. but god? god seems cool- as a concept im learning to play with at least) #decolstw

[siilvan]

i am once again disappointed but not surprised at the COD fandom only caring about “sensitivity” when it’s convenient for them

#telling people it’s morally wrong to simp for makarov #whilst simping for graves or valeria #or ANY character in this damn series #just shows that you only give a shit about ‘sensitivity’ when it doesn’t inconvenience you #‘but he’s bad :(’ my brother in christ. let’s talk about western militaries #price nikolai and gaz literally kidnapped and tortured an innocent woman and child #the UK and US militaries have DEVASTATED vulnerable countries #y’all wanna talk about sensitivity?? then acknowledge how even the ‘good’ characters like the 141 are shitty! #none of these characters are good people! #i cannot stress this enough. eliminating characters because they’re ‘problematic’ eliminates the entire cast. every single one of them. #MAYBE farah would be safe?? i’m not knowledgeable enough to say for certain. but everyone else— 141. los vaqueros. laswell. alex. nikolai. + #valeria. graves. every last warzone operator. EVERY single character is ‘off-limits’ with that logic. #COD fandom is also horribly racist despite pretending it’s not. notice how people only talk about this when it’s white folks being impacted #no one gave a shit when a middle eastern woman and child were kidnapped and tortured. or when fans were romanticizing cartel violence. #or how the SAS CIA and Delta Force have histories of terrorizing vulnerable people; especially in the middle east and asia #i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again before anyone accuses me of smth false: #sensitivity is important. it can co-exist with letting people enjoy problematic things. the source itself is problematic — #ergo. everything that comes from it (even the ‘good’ things) is as well. #you can’t cherry pick which characters people are allowed to be critical of. you can have your faves and have the ones you dislike #but don’t act like you’re doing something noble when your sensitivity is biased. #sylph.talks