#also french educational system is shit

[imashadowalker]

Fuck. Fuck.

Again. AGAIN.

On Friday October 16th, 2020, history and geography teacher Samuel Party, who taught in the suburbs of Paris, was assassinated by a radical islamist.

Today, on Friday October 13th, 2023, a professor was killed in the northern city of Arras in France. His name was Dominique Bernard, he was a French teacher. The profile of his killer is oddly similar to Samuel Paty's murderer. The main difference is that this French teacher was not specifically targeted. However, it seems the attacker actually was looking for a history and geography teacher (according to an interview on BFMTV related in an article of The Guardian).

Even without the similarities that are probably not completely coincidental, the timing of the attack is just... God. 3 years, nearly to the day. Some say it might also be linked to the current situation in Israel-Palestine, and while I have a hard time seeing a direct link, I can't deny it may have been a spark. (Some part of me can't help but wonder if there is also a linked with Friday November 13th, 2015.)

I just... Fuck. Samuel Paty's assassination affected me in the way that the previous islamist terrorist attacks in France (including those of 2015) just didn't. Part of it was probably because I was older and I actually let myself be affected instead of protecting myself by being emotionally distant. But the main reason is that I couldn't help thinking of the history teacher that I had when the 2015 attacks happened. I was thinking of all of my teachers, especially those I had admired and respected, and this one man in particular. I remembered the way he had talked about those attacks with us, the way he was always careful to be as neutral as possible while making us think, even debate. I remembered him teaching us, both years. I remembered feeling at 12 y.o. that I was finally learning and understanding the way the world around me worked. I remembered that he had been serious and yet fun, an authority figure yet someone that was friendly instead of distant. I remembered that he wanted us to learn, not just facts (though it is important to always have context) but also to think critically, to analyse, those skills that are so essentials for future citizens who will one day be called to cast their ballots.

And upon learning of the attack on Saturday 17th, I thought that instead of Samuel Paty, it could very well have been him.

God, there's a lot of problems with the education system in France. And the worst thing about that, is that teachers are not responsible for most of these problems, yet they're always the scapegoats for everyone's anger, and the ones expected to fix every single problem even though they really can't. Not every teacher is perfect or even good, far from it : but I have had good teachers. Every single year I had good teachers. Some were more memorable than others, more passionate or eccentric, more inspiring; but as a rule they were good, and I really respected them as people. In the end, I remember those good teachers much more than those who were not really fit to teach.

I respect them for being teachers, when they got so much shit from the students, the parents, and even their hierarchy. Today, anyone becoming a teacher in France is not in it for the lousy pay or the difficult work conditions : they become teachers because they actually want to teach. And as someone who chose not to go down that road because I never thought I was strong enough to deal with all that, I really admire all my classmates who do want to become teachers.

So I hate this. I hate that teachers are being targeted for doing their fucking job and teaching.

I'm French, damnit. And because my teachers were good, because the history teacher I had in 2015 was good, I trust the values I've been taught are ours. "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité". Freedom of opinion, expression, press, association, consciousness, religion. Justice, tolerance. Democracy. The values and ideas of the Enlightenment which inspired the French Revolution. The light of knowledge and reason driving away the darkness of ignorance, prejudice and superstition.

Those are the ideas I trust, and school is not only any institution passing down those values, it also embodies many of them. As such, teachers, in particular history and geography teachers who are the ones tasked to teach about our history and values, are, in a way, a symbol; a living representation of those values.

So it's just horrifying that teachers have been targeted, when they're, in general, just good people doing a job disregarded by so many people, when they get so much shit from everyone and so little rewards.

I hate this.

#France #terrorist attack #Arras #Dominique Bernard #Terrorist attack france #Samuel Paty

[kingofthescene]

Burr: Part 02.

Meanwhile, with Burr, things appear to be incredibly different. Especially because he had no family to fight for him and bring light to his achievements rather than his bad reputation. Slander and rumors that had been spread about him for God knows how long. His parents died, his sister died, his wife died, his children all died, nephew died, and his grandchildren had all died. He had outlived everyone and had no one to advocate for him, which is something he desperately needed. I feel like it would have made a significant difference. Another thing that stood out to me (how could it not?) was the whole "Burr is un-opinionated"/"Burr stands for nothing" shit they constantly repeated and pushed the entire musical. It's insane. And a lie because Burr was known to be one of the most opinionated people, he was way ahead of his time with a lot of his beliefs. And here's why! The reasons why Burr "standing for nothing" is BULLSHIT: He was an proto-feminist/fierce women's rights advocate. Burr was a huge admirer of Mary Wollstonecraft. (he even kept a portrait of her with him). He was devoted to his daughter (Theodosia Burr Alston), whom he had educated according to the principles promulgated in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft. For those unfamiliar with Mary Wollstonecraft and her work, her book on women's rights is described as "a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most important treatise advocating equality for women." She argued that the educational system deliberately trained women to be frivolous and incapable and that if girls were allowed the same advantages as boys, then women would not only be exceptional wives and mothers, but also capable workers in many professions. Burr wholeheartedly agreed with Wollstonecraft, and this, as well as his devotion as a father - he wanted the absolute best for his daughter - plays a huge part in why Theodosia Jr. was known to be one of the best educated women of her time. - Theodosia Jr. had learned to read and write by age three. - By her tenth birthday she had finished all six volumes of Edward Gibbons’ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. - Theodosia had been given an equal opportunity education, she was able to study subjects that had traditionally been reserved for boys (such as Greek, Latin, Arithmetic, and so on)...she was fluent in French as well. Theodosia practiced piano, took lessons in dancing, and learned to skate. She was a prodigy and was widely acknowledged for her intelligence and sophistication. Not only that, but Aaron Burr set up a school, with Madame de Senat, for young ladies in New York City in 1793. Hell, he even used his position/ time in the Senate and attempted to submit legislation to allow women the right to vote (but it was unfortunately denied. He did the same thing and called for the immediate abolishment of slavery but it was denied as well.)

#aaron burr #theodosia burr alston #mary wollstonecraft #amrev #amrev history #hamilton is not historically accurate #tumblr forced me to break my post into multiple parts

[max1461]

Forgot to add the question bit to the last ask but basically how plausible do you think something like that is to be a significant thing? Either in the sapir whorfy way of language means people conceptualise failure differently, or the reverse where because that culture conceptualises failure differently for other reasons that's why the language doesn't have a word for it?

In reference to this.

I don't really know, because the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has basically not been tested (strong Sapir-Whorf is probably unfalsifiable, but weak Sapir-Whorf might be something you could investigate empirically), but my intuition is "there's no effect". I really doubt that what loanwords a language borrows is determined with anything like this semantic granularity.

So, ok, Bengali speakers have borrowed the English word "fail" to describe failing a test. I strongly suspect this is related to like, the education system, or media or something—basically exposure to the English word in that context. And English is a prestige language, so people want to borrow English words for all kinds of shit. In Japanese, the native word for test is shiken, but you can also use the English loanword tesuto. Why? I don't think any particular reason, really. It just caught on somehow. Why did English borrow the word amateur from French? Because French culture has more hobbyists? I somewhat doubt it.

Moreover, I doubt that Bengali speakers generally know English well enough to pick up on the subtleties in the semantics of English "fail", and judge that those semantic subtleties are better suited to "failing a test" than whatever the native Bengali word it. That seems... unlikely to me.

Like, OK, I want to clarify: I'm not saying your sister's research is bunk. For any given loanword (or really, even linguistic feature), if you're lucky, you might have enough data to track its spread like a virus. You know, "when did it enter the language, with which groups did it first get popular, etc. etc.". And I'm sure there are interesting sociological observations to be made here, on the micro level. Like this is a bunch of humans interacting, so of course the spread is going to be affected by human social processes, if you're looking at it with that much granularity. I don't doubt that at all. The thing that I doubt is that usage of loanwords can tell you something deep and abiding about how people from different cultures think about things, rather than just being related to a bunch of basically incidental and contingent facts of history.

#linguistics #navel gazing

[onlyplatonicirl]

henlo it is i the headcANON, here to go ramble about everyone's favourite little guy, casey. its insane to me just how much you've endeared me and many other tcoti fans to this silly fella

i can see casey going to a religious school (the only difference from a non religious school is you learn re but literally no one cares lol), most parents will try and send their kids there cause they are known for being better schools (they get more funding for extra lessons), and casey couldnt give less of a shit about it

i also think he wouldve went to an all boys school, he just sorts acts like he did lol

whilst in school my man would try and break every single dress code policy known to man, half of the time hed just show up in his pe clothes, the other time hed show up with no tie, no jacket, a coat and whatever else he could fet his hands on that he wasnt supposed to have (english schools have really strict dress codes, idk why its dumb)

he knows a small amount of spanish, in most british schools you are forced to do mfl (modern foreign languages) and its usually either french or spanish (you rarely have a choice to pick which you want to do), some will let you pick up german and even mandarin but thats usually at gcse level or as an extracurricular activity (which most kids are also forced to do). he isnt fluent in spanish, not by a long shot, but he definitely knows how to have a conversation, albeit very scripted and short. however, one thing he does understand is how to swear in spanish, and what it sounds like. i imagine him and his friends just looking it up on the laptops during class time, definitely to annoy their teacher.

so i have this image in my head that gray doesnt like swearing all that much (maybe fresh got to him lol), so he tends to swear in spanish or french because the british boy wont understand - alas he does

casey could not be arsed with most lessons because he didnt really care about getting a good education since he couldnt see all that bright of a future for himself, if one at all, but he was actually quite good at maths and history, even when he tried not to be

he has been shown on more than one occasion, undernovella, and whilst he was put off it due to it 1. being in spanish, and 2. the cast being played 99% by monsters, he actually really ended up enjoying it by the end

hes also been getting into anime and manga ("dude its like a comic book but even more brutal"), mostly shonen like one punch man and dragon ball, but he also really enjoyed sailor moon and doesnt want to admit to it, he liked the romance and friendship aspect of it, also pretty girls

he has always been into comic books, his favourite super heroes are deadpool and spiderman

before he met gray (properly), he mostly played shooter games (ones that were free or cheap), fortnite, valorant, and a pirated copy of fifa, because thats what guys play. if his past self saw his year 4 stardew valley save file, hed spontaneously combust

i think he also plays splatoon now, he mains the dualies because theyre cool, hed definitely be an inkling as well but thats an au for another day

zelda too

despite everything thats happened, he really did grow to love his last foster mum, she was a single lady and she treated him like her own son. hes had bad experiences with the foster care system in the past (breaking news: fork found in kitchen), parents only taking him in for the money, some wanting to complete their family and forcing him to live by their ideals, all that bad stuff, which is why he often ran away from them. he had run away from his last foster mum, two times before, but it was very early into their relationship before they got to understand each other better.

his last foster mum asked him what his hobbies were his first night at her house, he didnt know, so she suggested he pick up an instrument - he decided the guitar, because it looked cool. he almost cried when she offered to buy him lessons, he didnt take her up on the offer, determined to learn it by himself, and he did

he has a really nice singing voice he'll never let anyone see - hes a lyric baritone

also whilst in canon hes a brummie, i like to imagine he was born a bit further north (hes a mackem to me), and moved to birmingham to be with his most recent and last foster parent, and that he lived there for so long thats hes picked up the accent

he felt really bad leaving her but managed to convincr himself that she would be better off without someone like him in her life

casey is a very traumatised child, he has a lot of triggers and boundaries he doesnt fully understand himself, plus a boat load of unhealthy coping mechanisms (mainly smoking and socially isolating himself)

he tries to keep his bad habits a secret from gray, because he doesnt know how he would feel about it - he knows, he doesnt like it but he isnt exaclty the greatest at having healthy coping mechanisms himself, at the very least he tries to get him to swap one for another, instead of smoking play stardew valley with me for 37 hours straight :) ?

he often struggles with the idea that hes a burden, so he doesnt let people spend money on him, or give him gifts

he also struggles to express his emotions (hes british unfortunately), and has a hard time saying 'i love you' to anyone, the only person he never strugfled saying that to was his mum

bit of a trigger warning, im going to be talking about casey's injuries and all that jazz, so if you dont wanna read, head to the next bullet point! casey shouldnt be alive, the injuries he suffered were severe, the paramedics were convicned he was a lost cause (still they have to do everything they can), so it was a shock to all when he pulled through. this was, however, not without a bit of a battle, and it left permanent effects on his health. casey's lungs are horribly scarred (smoke inhalation will do that to you), and it doesnt help that he smoked before and after. his nerves on the left side of his body where the support beam collapsed on him, are quite literally fried. where it hit directly, he cannot feel anything there, the areas that were dames by the fire however are unbelievably sensitive and painful to the touch. even after the scar healed it stills remains sensitive, so he bandages up those areas. the beam also broke and bruised a lot of his bones, mostly his ribs and the bones in his arms. his left ear is also burnt, and a portion of it, mostly the tips of it, are straight up missing. after recovering from the initial injury, he had a skin graft taken from his right thigh to supplement the damage done to the left side of his face. for a while after he had to take a lot of pain meds, and undergo a ton of therapy both mental and physical - even still hes not fully healed

casey loves animals, particularly dogs. his last foster mother had a german shepherd, and he used to let it sleep on his bed. it made him feel safe and loved. dogs and cats also just like to come up to him on the street, bros a disney princess for real

beefed with paperjam for a while, both had a lack of trust in each other, but they got to be on equal ground after a while, that didnt last long, not since after chapter 31..

hes fighting demons (bisexuality)

ever since he met gray and by extension his wack ass family, hes grown more and more accustomed to monster culture, particularly their disregard for gender norms and compulsive heterosexuality, and hes been experimenting with his gender expression, he never thought hed actually enjoy dressing in pink or taking care of his hair. he tried painting his nails, but did not have the patience to let them dry, he still sometimes wears it, albeit chipped and blotchy, but he thinks it suits him

he has always been fine with being labelled a man, but sometimes he doesnt feel as though it fits him, not entirely, hes not sure what his gender is because sometimes male really does fit him, but other times he just wants to throw the whole concept of gender away, hes stuck with unlabelled for a while and feels as though it somewhat fits him

he once buzzed his hair cause all the guys in his school did for whatever reason, he cried for several hours afterwards and got nicknamed sampson for a week, biggest mistake of his life - bro experienced dysphoria for the first time in his life

celebrates gyftmas because its way cooler than christmas (I NEED A GRACEY GYFTMAS ONESHOT ASAP), he celebrates the majority of monster holidays since everyone (1 to 2 people at max lmao) in the house he currently lives in does too. is confused as to what monster halloween is supposed to be

likes going out with gray (which is once in a blue moon), his favourite spot is waterfall, but he also really likes snowden and hotland

- headcANON

Holy shit HEADCANON I AM EATING SO WELL

Also I hope you don’t mind me tagging @ottererpop because they’re a Casey enthusiast as well and they must see all of this solid gold.

I Must respond to some of these AAA

- I talked with multiple people about how Casey is ABSOLUTELY breaking every dress code he possibly can. Like he would come to school in the bare minimum to not get expelled but his “uniform” would just be wrinkled to hell and his tie would just hang around his neck completely untied

- Casey is genuinely intelligent and if he actually tried in school he would do really well. However he’s a massive shithead and doesn’t care because of how depressed he is

- I do have a very specific speech pattern and tone of voice for him in my head but I’m not sure exactly how to write it. Also about him being from Birmingham - he’s not really from the main city itself but more generally around that area, so he very well could lived farther north and end up closer to the main city has he went to live with foster parents. Im purposefully avoiding getting too detailed with exact places and cities because then it just becomes hyper-specific.

- he absolutely would love undernovella - he love sitcoms so he would adore those over-dramatic plot twists

- He and his current foster mom (before he left ofc) have a tolerable relationship. She was often gone from the house and left him to his own devices, so he would mostly just skip school and play games on his computer all day, which did annoy her significantly.

- his smoking is partially a coping mechanism, partially a peer pressure “cool guy” thing that he picked up, and partially something that could very subtlety equate to self-harm. I could get into a whole thing about his smoking habits. He doesn’t smoke that often, but it is definitely something he tries to hide from Gray. Or at least not make it obvious. Like I said recently PJ has caught him smoking cigs over the kitchen sink while Gray’s been asleep.

- you are correct in your assumption that he doesn’t feel anything on the part of his torso that was severely burnt.

- I’m sure he has shaved all his hair off at some point. In the past he for-sure had one of those haircuts that’s short and buzzed all on the sides but long on the top, or at least buzzed in the back.

- gray’s family and the entire omega timeline being extremely unlabeled when it comes to gender and sexuality, like it’s not a big deal in the slightest, is definitely a massive change for Casey and he struggles to understand it. He’s grown up in an environment where he’s constantly felt like he has to prove how tough and unfeeling he is in order to get ahead. That’s why he’s so embarrassed of his severe sweet tooth, because he’s scared it comes across as “girly”. He’s by no means sexist but he definitely is over-anxious about not being perceived as “weak”.

- I’m sure he would absolutely adore waterfall :)

#ask lorel #anon #tcoti #casey #headcanon will you marry me slash jay

[beardedmrbean]

“Another may have to do with the volumes of information we have and have had for a long time about the various countries and regions in Europe where as Africa was mostly split up between the desert and not the desert, learned some German history in High School but did you learn about Chad or Kenya. That's a thing that's getting better too. “

Yeah that the thing (thanks social Darwinism) for decades we had bare minimum information about Africa in the Americas which cause a identity crisis among

Now for claiming Africa, well for centuries black Americans were told that Africa was only a shithole by white supremacists and the only “African” empire that was known was Egypt

Though an extremely fetishized as AC Origins discovery tour pointed it Egyptmongy was very different to what it is now.

Actually tangent, Dave from here posted a video of black teens selling cornstarch on tik tok. I pointed it out that that been happening in my family for generations

Then he found an article saying a lot of central Africas eat mud.

…Also did my research and learn black Americans especially in the north eat corn starch because we couldn’t make the same conditions for eating mud.

Well at least I know it genetic!

Now after women king came out, I think you posted a screenshot where dna ancestry can show us what tribes black Americans with slave ancestry came from….tbh I should have realize that because Assassins Creed is based off pseudo science inspired by dna ancestry

But I notice in general that black Americans are taught a 60’s pan Africa style of African history (almost like our education system is shit) which is why a lot of native Africans complain about the look of Wakanda and why Americans think their living in 600 bc

Because…that how we were taught in public school systems. Only vauge references to African kingdoms beyond Egypt

Do you really think we would have lionized the Dahomey if the fact they are reasons my people were slaves much like Jews know about their dispora cause by Hadrian?

Are there any African tribes that worked with the French to stop the Dahomey? I got a idea

Now for claiming Africa, well for centuries black Americans were told that Africa was only a shithole by white supremacists and the only “African” empire that was known was Egypt.

Ethiopia gets a mention here and there too, been around a long time but they're just a stones throw away of the Arabian peninsula they didn't get too far south cuz malaria and such though, even Egypt didn't go too far south.

We don't get a lot about the history of SubSaharan Africa because nobody knows what it is.

MENA, most of Asia, and Europe we have written records for, stuff we can cross check with other written records if people want to start in on 'oral history' stuff which there's no concrete way to prove.

That dirt thing was new to me, if it works though why not.

But I notice in general that black Americans are taught a 60’s pan Africa style of African history (almost like our education system is shit) which is why a lot of native Africans complain about the look of Wakanda and why Americans think their living in 600 bc

I know we covered the Zulu's when I was in school, but again they're easy since not only are they kind of recent, as kingdoms go, they also were interacting with the European powers, and getting their asses handed to them at Rorkes Drift, one reason the whole we'd have had wakanda if not for colonialism dies really fast, one of the main things Europeans traded to Africans was guns and other bits of technology that they didn't have.

The Americas were still basically in the stone age portion of the global technology tree, not a lot of metalworking going on.

Iron swords and armor were a superweapon at the crossover point of the bronze and iron ages and we showed up on the continents with steel.

On the information front it would be interesting to get the oral histories collected, not that it could be taken as factual information, Bible is fairly accurate but has its issues as well, mostly embellishing the size of armies and such, but getting stories from there would be nice I think get that tossed into the world history courses.

Do you really think we would have lionized the Dahomey if the fact they are reasons my people were slaves much like Jews know about their dispora cause by Hadrian?

might have had a tougher time selling it, but remember it was a white woman that put that film together so it may well have still happened.

If they want something good with a group that actually fought for freedom against those who were enslaving them, you have to step out of Africa and into Mexico but the Yaqui Indians, the federal government of Mexico was scoping them up and selling them for $1 or less to sugar plantations that would literally work them to death.

This is after kicking France out mind you, and they were doing this up into the 20th century, because the Yaqui refused to submit to Mexican rule at least that's one reason they were sold to farmers. ___________________

That's another thing they don't teach in school for you.

Many Yaqui were sold at 60 pesos a head to the owners of sugar cane plantations in Oaxaca and the tobacco planters of the Valle Nacional, while thousands more were sold to the henequen plantation owners of the Yucatán.

By 1908, at least 5,000 Yaqui had been sold into slavery. At Valle Nacional, the enslaved Yaquis were worked until they died. While there were occasional escapes, the escapees were far from home and, without support or assistance, most died of hunger while begging for food on the road out of the valley toward Córdoba.

At Guaymas, thousands more Yaquis were put on boats and shipped to San Blas, where they were forced to walk more than 200 miles to San Marcos and its train station. Many women and children could not withstand the three-week journey over the mountains, and their bodies were left by the side of the road.The Mexican government established large concentration camps at San Marcos, where the remaining Yaqui families were broken up and segregated. Individuals were then sold into slavery inside the station and packed into train cars which took them to Veracruz, where they were embarked yet again for the port town of Progreso in the Yucatán. There they were transported to their final destination, the nearby henequen plantations. ____________________

There's more of them in the US than Mexico, in a twist of irony they came to the US to escape slavery and ethnic cleansing.

Are there any African tribes that worked with the French to stop the Dahomey? I got a idea

Ya whichever ones the Dahomey were using for slaves likely linked up with the French on that one, much like with Mexico it was Cortez and 300 Spaniards as well as 30,000 pissed off locals who were tired of having their children hauled off to be human sacrifices.

Enemy of my enemy

#zoomer huey anon

[dove-da-birb]

Bonjour, hello! :)

I'm going to snag the question you asked Sofia and send it back your way: Which languages do you speak? Do you have any you are learning or want to learn?

or, alternatively - if you would like to instead answer something else - do you have a favourite piece of your writing? (One you are most proud of or had a lot of fun creating?)

I'll actually answer both!

Language

Currently, I am only fluent in English, as it was the language I was only immersed in growing up. Je parle un petit peu francais; but the education system is awful at really doing anything to cement it in if you didn't attend a French immersion school. I need to work on getting it back, but that's going to be a long work in progress. Just happy my accent is good (aka not a baguette accent).

As for languages I want to learn;

Spanish will be after French since both are based in Latin.

Ojibwe, as Indigenous languages are dying; there used to be over 3,000 distinct Indigenous languages in Canada and the handful that are left are dying too.

American Sign Language, since it is super useful; currently I just know a few signs. Another reason is that places rarely have someone who can sign and translate signs.

Dutch for family reasons.

Eventually I would like to know a bit of Mandarin, but that is far into the future.

Favourite Piece of My Writing

Right now it would have to be Ruggie's Soul Match story; first off it made me cry in the first 800 words and then I cried again later. I rarely cry while reading books, so I was very surprised that it happened twice.

Jade's Soul Match story is my second favourite and was only demoted off the throne once I finished writing Ruggie's; he got to be a lil shit in his story. Also, it was a great chance to get in his head.

I quite like how all of the Soul Matches came out, and it was my first time in years writing more long-ish form fics; each story is 5K. Had really bad art/writing block for years.

I really need to re-read some of my works; I don't really read them once I 'publish'.... Also in total, there are 69 pages so far for the Soul Match AU, and for the first round, there are 10 characters, 6 of which are now completed.

*Don't be like Dove and write 31K in 34 days. Don't do it. I just have a lot of free time rn

#krenenbaker! #dove lore #how the hell did i write that much? #that doesn't include the matchups either; which are all 350-ish words long #... so it would be like 35K together #also the education system in canada sucks ass for french if you aren't in quebec or a french immersion school #language recs #reading recs #<- ig; all on the writing blog

[mushroomsandmandalas]

Yuri's Love of Drama as Trauma-Coping Mechanism

On Yuri’s “Dramatic” tendencies and separating himself from his past

We know Yuri loves drama and theatrics. You could say he enjoys them because that’s his personality. I mean, the man writes with a feather quill and probs does exquisite calligraphy. His long hair is tied back in a bow, a la 18th century nobleman, except for the loose pieces framing his face, and specifically wears black barrettes for that style. Black against white. That's just his personal, aristocratic style.

Take his office—it totally looks like everything he put there is there because it’s expected to be there in his position as a judge. Nothing seems cheap or is a fond, well-worn memento.

Compare that to at-home Yuri. Guy wears a flowy, Renaissance-style toggle shirt (you know he sewed it) with the front freaking hanging open, at home, with his dementia-riddled mother. That’s his idea of comfortable. Raise your hand if you think toggles are comfy lounge wear.

Compare that to vigilante-lair Yuri. The Rococo bas-relief domed interior with a light shining down centered on his desk, the backlit windows that no doubt are purely for decoration, the green lantern MOOD lighting that slays me ten ways to hell. Add it all together: nobleman’s hairstyle, fancy “comfy” clothes, writing with a quill, opulence, the verbal and visual theatrics, and you wouldn’t be blamed for saying, dramatic boys gonna dramatic.

The first thought that came into my head upon really thinking about his connection to all the above, Yuri’s “hatred” of the capitalistic system, executing folks, etc., is, this guy wants to be Robespierre. He was the elitist lawyer dude who took advantage of the French revolution to implement his bullshit, violent agenda of law and order, and eventually lost his own head in the process. I hope I’m wrong!

I would also say that Yuri indulges in all these trappings to set himself apart for his past, particularly his father. Mr. Legend was superficially, at least towards the end, embodying the stereotypical lowbrow working man* who smokes and keeps his cigs in his front pocket, has a beer belly, drinks excessively, beats his wife, and comes off as simple and uneducated, especially his black and white idea of justice being to “punish evil”. No nuance or societal justice whatsoever.

I imagine anything Yuri connected with his upbringing would bring him pain and shame. Many childhood abuse survivors grow up to eschew everything their parents were, so as to avoid becoming them, to become “better” than they ever could be. It often comes at the price of abandoning any authentic parts of themselves connected to their traumatic past. He might like swag carpet and avocado-hued appliances for all we know, but trauma-Yuri is like, nope, gimme that fancy shit and respectability. Gimme classism as an aesthetic.

The fact that he STAYS in his dark, trauma-haunted, depressing af, wood-paneled home for the sake of secrecy and his mother must bring him daily suffering. I don’t doubt his vigilante lair is in the basement, a haven he can run to to remind himself, see, I’M educated. I’m better. I’m not like THAT rabble. Look at all my books! I’d never be so lowbrow, so unrespectable, so, so...common. He wears his freaking work suit(s) there—not even comfy clothes. That place is his validation zone.

Not only does his elitism set him apart from his father and past, it sets him above all others, making it easier to run around killing folks as Lunatic. I’m BETTER than you. I know best. Only I can deliver true justice. That smacks of self-protection run sociopathic. A mechanism of injecting self-worth and righteousness into himself using literal lives as props. It also justifies killing, rightfully so, his abusive POS father.

And yet, AND yet, he still upholds his father’s black and white sense of justice: an eye for an eye. Like, my dude, where do extenuating circumstances come in? How can you just go around inflicting your trauma on everyone and call that justice and yet someone who does something similar to survive, or that’s all they’ve known or have access to is a criminal?

I think Yuri is caught in some loop that makes it impossible to see this reality. He needs to be better, he MUST punish evil to be better. But he never figured out for himself what evil is, simply accepted his abusive father's version. It's more cognitive dissonance hissing away in his life, distorting reality.

Killing his father never needed justification, but he’s continually searching for validation through reenacting that act of self-defense as murder then calling it justice, and validation is a helluva drug. Whether he's getting validation through the act of murder or his perceived respectability by class elitism, it's all a coping mechanism that elevates him above his trauma.

He will never admit these truths to himself with where he’s at now in his healing journey, because there’s still an empathetic kindness that’s intrinsic to who Yuri is. To admit his Lunatic doings are just a means of validating to himself he isn’t a useless, unlovable nobody? I imagine that if he were forced to accept that now his psyche could shatter instead of being barely held together by spit and will power.

If Yuri actually is the kind, empathetic person we see glimpses of in the manga and anime who wants to “rid the world of evil”, he’s gonna need to realize good and evil are constructs. Which Keith alludes to in the manga.

There’s being beneficial to society as a whole and being harmful, not “good” or “evil”. Yuri’ll HAVE to realize justice is most importantly a beginning and not just an end. He’ll have to realize that his persona, or at least the inauthentic parts he cultivates to exude class and respectability, are a huge part of the problems he wants to change and faces daily in and out of court.

This cognitive dissonance cannot escape him and must take a heavy toll. Everyone needs to deal with their emotions, hopefully healthily, and Lunatic is another of his better-than-you coping mechanisms that lets him go ham using the emotions he doesn’t allow himself to acknowledge, articulate, process, or share with anyone. That's peak privilege using others as your trauma-cope and calling it justice.

I don’t think the Lunatic persona is necessarily NOT part of Yuri, but actually one he can’t afford to face head on, examine, and integrate at the mo’. I don't even think Lunatic is his "dark side" as much as his internal protector run amuck, high on that sweet righteousness.

Everything Yuri, and his protector, does is to enforce he’s not like his father or his upbringing. He’s a sensitive man who was a sensitive boy, which from what we saw, his father was not. Child abuse and witnessing abuse as a child is always horrific, and when that child is sensitive, the abuse is magnified and internalized in ways that are very difficult to shake. In extreme forms we call it PTSD. The hallucinations, flashbacks, etc.? The repeating of habits and patterns from your abuser? Classic PTSD. It does NOT get better on it's own nor even with the help of loving friends or coworkers.

We see it in his people pleasing, despite having power, or maybe because of it. We see it in when he engages with the heroes, and when he shrugs off thanks. It’s there in the manga where he says he won’t escape his punishment or even try to. We see it in season 2, cour 1, when Kotetsu confronts him about doing something about Mugan and Fugan and Yuri looks helpless and comes across as sullen and angry. I reckon it’s at himself for not knowing the best course of action. Being helpless feels awful to him.

We can agree the man is soft in the best ways, and if he can ever figure out what’s him, what’s trauma, what are healthy coping mechanisms (being an elitist, murdering prick in order to feel validated is not on that list), and how to integrate it all, he’ll be a strong, kind, man who has access to all of himself. He’ll be horrified by what he’s done, be able to forgive himself, and try to make amends.

He might even become a vigilante that goes after corrupt politicians, slimy marketers, lobbyists, and corporate heads, not killing them, but ruining them socially so they can do no further harm. He could even start advocating for restorative justice as Judge Petrov. He could start having one-on-ones with the heroes as Director Petrov and slowly get them to become more socially-minded as a whole instead of being cogs making money for people they’ll never meet. That’s an integration of his whole, authentic self I can get behind. I'd watch that spinoff series, #Sunrise!

I do think upholding justice is a part of Yuri, a justice that starts in local policy, community, and is a thread throughout everything he does. That’s what good, kind, empathetic people do. They create social justice. To do so, he’ll need to grapple with his privilege—both what he was born into and what he’s cultivated, and to realize the societal problems he despises stem from an inequity he possesses the power to change. That change starts with accepting the inequity perpetuated upon him and by him. And therapy, soooo much therapy.

*This is bullshit as “upper” class folks can also be abusive alcoholics and working folks can most certainly be educated, loving, and sober. Fuck classist stereotypes.

#tiger and bunny #yuri petrov #taibani #lunatic #Yuri could be a literal social justice warrior #You can change the system Yuri and prevent crime once you stop mainlining coping mechanisms #Therapy for Yuri #Yuri is part of the system he hates and can't admit it yet #I love you taibani scholars #Yuri enjoyers and your theories get me outta bed in the morning

[violettierre]

Gosh it's exams week again and today the kids are taking mine, i don't wanna go but i am required to just in case a question was unclear or unrevised blah blah blah, that shit never happens in my exams i make them as easy as possible, if it was up to me i'd give them a fun beautiful english poem and the question will be if they enjoyed it, but that's unrealistic the education system want a complicated 4 page grammar and vocabulary correction questions and some torture fucking system. Yeah fuck all that. Fuck spelling checks. Fuck tenses. Fuck punctuation. Fuck irregular verbs. I hate them all, i mean i learned it because that's my major it comes with English and it's my choice, but making the kids focus on those is stupid, that's why i hate the system, in my classes i want to share the beauty of the language with remarkable pieces of english literature, poems, exciting stories about the origins of words, the deep side of expressions, the different takes on an object within multiple english speaking countries, all those wonderful things that led me to love this language and study it, not some simple past present perfect fuckery no wonder most french students hate it, and my job here isn't to make them to love it, that's a very depressing thing many english teachers say, my job is to share my knowledge as simple as that. Education "you should learn everything to be considered smart" system is a fucking liar, it's a choice presented to the kids and if they selected it THEN they can dive deeper like i did. Grammer and language bullshit is a terrible start, not even i like it and like i said it's my major, it's all about the idea translating, more elaborately, if you get used to a word used in certain sentences it's automatically understood when and when not it is correct, just like native speakers in any language growing up with it most commonly unaware of the grammatical format, it's not magic, it's our daily lives, it's about the brain registering what they got used to, so they can produce a coherent sentence of their idea. Okay this got complicated, what i mean is the grammar eventually will correct itself when getting exposed to the language frequently, and it doesn't even have to, just sharing an idea the counterpart understands is enough, slangs are far from correct but are certainly more understood today than the professional/original language. End of.

I'm just glad to get that off my chest, i love my job but i also hate it.

#story time

[khaleesiofalicante]

So tomorrow I have to complete two analysis of two different history documentaries for extra credit that I will definitely need and I have to study the whole weekend so much because next week I start exams (we have three on one day, of two hours each)

Not to mention I have to present a play of frickin Hamlet on Monday that I got into for some class I enter only for extra credit that I also needed and I ended up leading it somehow😭 I managed to make a whole script in a day and that makes me feel so badass😎

And I have two complete like two projects more, besides another project for my french classes... AND I have cramps holy shit jdhdudid

I would like to say I will be taking a break from being here and that I will come back next week, but I would be lying. Do feel free to tell at me if you see me here bc I definitely shouldn't!

Anyway, these next 7 days will probably be hell, but I've decided to reward myself by making myself crepes for breakfast on Monday and I'm looking forward to it!!! It's my first time making them so and I love trying out new recipes!!!

How are you doing?? Anything new lately? hope you are doing ok💙

I will be sending you my progress as a chef!! I mean, lot to brag but I do cook and bake pretty well...

First of all, how much extra credit are you doing djncsk

ALSO IS IT NECESSARY FOR YOU TO DO ALL THIS WORK? CAN'T THEY JUST GIVE YOU THE GRADE BASED ON YOUR VIBES? THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS DEEPLY FLAWED I SAY.

it's going to be an intense week indeed. make a list. that shit helps during crunch time. tick off things easy you can and be mindful of things you keep pushing back. and remember to take rest. there is no point in studying so so so much if you don't give your brain time to store all that information.

SENDING YOU LOTS OF LUCK FOR NEXT WEEK BABY.

ps - the only thing new in my life is a migraine lmao.

#noah boo thang

[septimaseverina]

꧁Introduction꧂

Greeting everyone who accidentally discover this random blog.

♛ this is the very personal blog. It contains both serious and shit posts. Also; I reblog whatever I love, I like, I wanna and I need to. Sometimes, I ramble, whine, do carthasis-ing.

🌈 I go with the 'SeptimaSeverina' alias, because I like number 7 and I want to acquire Latin.

✅ You can call me Sept, Jo (derived from my Cantonese name that my father had given me) and Sreesaptaa or Ravindaa (रविन्दा - my sanskrit names)

🌐 South East Asian. I was born and live here for my entire life. My country is not entirely looking good as you see in multimedia, but somes are real - like faking-Democracy etc.

🏛 Skeptic + Epicurean + Stoic (trying) + Yogic

📝 Still learning Sanskrit, Spanish, Italian, French, Ancient Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Irish

💯 My family members and my closest friends define me as 'nerdy', 'artsy', 'indie', 'Tsunami-like', 'goth', 'emo', 'kinda-complicated' and so many.

🤓 Love to learn and study almost everything, but too lazy to get another degrees. Because I'm tired and so done with educational system. Being self-learner has more freedom and don't have to convince some old-fashioned and arrogant lecturers to open their minds for the new hypothesises - moreover, it's better to debate with free thinkers.

🌌 I ran the Arno Dorian Imagine. But I've found out, nope. My love for fandom is not only one fandom.

So, my main fandoms are

✺ Star Wars

✺ Assassin's Creed

✺ Dishonored

✺ Period Dramas

✺ Doctor Who

✺ TV Series

✺ Films (Worldwide!)

☆ Loves of my life -> Diego Luna/Cassian Andor, Ewan McGregor/Obi-Wan Kenobi and Dev Patel

🌺 And, another obsession favourite topics are;

✴ Language (Including Linguistic, Etymology, Philology etc. AKA Everything about language)

✴ History (worldwide history, art history, fashion history and etc.)

✴ Arts (painting, sculpture, architecture and etc.)

✴ Archaeology

✴ Astrology

✴ Universal Lore and Mythology

✴ Comparative Religion

✴ Astronomy

✴ Aesthetic

✴ Cultures

✴ Anthropology

🌹 I have planned to draw and painting again, after 8 years of torment. I'm gonna post my arts on new blog and opening commission in future.

🌻 Also, fan fiction writing, I write reader inserts in English for female readers and Canon Male Characters x OFCs here.

🍀Thank you for reading and understanding.🍀

📍Note : my blog is full of spoilers.

🔪 Note 2 : Every scam. Try me or you will be mortified. I AM GONNA DO THAT FROM YOUR MOTHERS'FAVOURITE CHAIRS.

🪓 Note 3 : If you try to flirt with me and hitting on me, you are gonna be blocked too.

[lary-the-lizard]

Living free of most social media, blocking the health industries, unsubscribing to gender norms and binaries, and continuously educating myself on anti-racism, decolonization, mental health, and history has been fucking with me in unpredictable ways. On one hand I’m so chill and understanding and attentive. On the other I have no idea what you’re talking about and honestly this internet story sounds stupid as shit and I think you should take a break from the internet until your nervous system is in homeostasis. On one hand I love people so much put also here is the whole of French revolution and how the invention of the family structure is so harmful.

#I’m out of tune with society #but in sync with my inner gremlin #I have more information than you #on the most random topics #but actually it’s so much better than that bogus discourse you’re agonizing about #capitalism is the worst

[justtogetthrough]

The weird part of this weekend was trying to explain why I lack certain foundational knowledge that most people in our culture have and I realized that the large swathes of memory gaps i have in my life due to near-death/brain damage situations is actually adding up.

I guess I should be gentler on myself for how much I struggle, given the number of brain injuries. My friends were shocked I didn't have basic knowledge of WW2 and asked for clarification about something that was bewildering to them, but I was like no I'm being serious because a) grade 10 History was in French for me so learning the info on top of the language adds a layer and i have vague memories of my teacher pantomiming vocabulary bc he refused to speak a word of English to us first of all, but also b) that semester I was having a psychotic and dissociative episode, and c) at the end of the semester I nearly died and was put on life support and basically wiped my memory for many months before and after. So, the history lessons didn't exactly stick ya know?

That brain injury took me years to recover from and I forgot how much work it took to rehab my memory and other basic functions. And then basically 10 years later I had another significant brain injury and I'm agonizing about the memory loss and my inability to learn new things and I might actually seek OT for it now. I'd forgotten how much I had to rehabilitate my brain the first time. I've done fuck all treatment wise for the second and the refusal to interrupt my schooling and my fairly quick resuming of substance abuse following the injury definitely prevented the healing and recovery I wish I had but if brains are so plastic, maybe 5 years later isn't too late and I can regain some functioning again.

It's weird because all I have to talk about with people is the wildness of my 20s and my life is super unrelatable to most people. But I forgot my adolescence was just as fucked but for different reasons and it's been a long time since I've had to tell people I dropped out of high school 3 times, it took me 7 years to graduate, and I switched schools/systems so much that I legit missed whole ass parts of high school that everyone else seemed to experience. Moving between semestered schools, non semestered, public, catholic, independent learning, home instruction, alternative school, missing weeks and months at a time, frequent hospitalizations, 2 suicide attempts, and leaving completely 3 different times.... on top of 2 serious brain injuries, a couple more less serious ones, a dissociative disorder since I was a child, and rampant mental illness... it was a miracle I graduated from public education at all and I certainly had a ~unique~ and very patchy curriculum lol.

It's really annoying how fucked up my life has been honestly.

And I hate that the only people I've ever met who've been able to relate to what I've been through are the crowd I met in my party phase, people who are in a perpetual party phase, and share none of my goals or ambition and so are really not the scene I want to be a part of. But the scene I want to be a part of? My whole life is the kind of whack shit they've only ever read about and it's weird because all I have to contribute in conversations is weird shit that usually makes people awkward or uncomfortable or just... like a thousand miles away. Open minded and still embracing me, but like we just come from 2 very different places and the more detail I share the more people are like ??????

Idk.

I'll be going to a whole new city at the end of this year and I'm really self conscious that I have no PG or non-alienating stories to tell about my life. Everything makes people feel bad for me or makes them just go "what the fuck".

I always feel like I'm a million miles away from people. I think this is why I want to work in child welfare so badly, even though it is massively triggering and retraumatizing in so many ways. It's the only way to feel like my experience isn't out of place.

#sleeping med thought dumps #personal

[sauruschrono]

D-9 before back to school

for some reasons four month ago i thought choosing math as a specialty subject was a good idea- what is wrong with me lmao

#i not ready for back to school #help lol #studyblr #studying #maths #urban academia #kinda struggling #i hate math #also french educational system is shit

[batsidian]

lmao someone asked me if they could practice German with me, I explained I speak Dutch, not Deutch, which they thought was "pretty much the same thing"

#yes German us one of our languages besides French and Dutch but- #maybe do ur research and ask what my language is #but like can't blame them bc the world knows jack shit about Belgium #and i honestly don't care gjhjhjjkj #also misinterpreted by popular media looking at you big time rush lmao hgjgjgjgjgjgjh #but if people think Dutch and Deutch are maybe fix that ol education system huh? #don't mind my ramblings

[soldier-poet-king]

i have no idea what im doing with my life i feel too stupid for a phd (and prospects in humanities fields are never great, even if i could decide on a research interest) im still not convinced a MLIS is for me (though it would be a sturdy fall-back plan, i dont think i could bear to be in toronto for it), but i like teaching and im good with languages so maybe im just gonna fuck off to some foreign country and teach english and figure my shit out, immigrate if i can find employment/visa sponsors

im just...realizing there’s nothing holding me here, it’s both freeing and terrifying...

there’s so much out there and i am afraid and in awe of it all at the same time

i know i want my quiet cottage and garden one day, i dont have my heart set on any particular place for it, but that’s a long way off, im poor and 23, but im smart and friendly and maybe i can explore a bit because there really is nothing here for me

#yeah the academic job market in canada is uhhhh...bad #we're not academically that great at the uni level #and even teaching at the elementary/high school level...it's near impossible unless you're teaching french #and fuck that #the french education system is SHIT and i dont wanna be stuck being my father #i dont mind canada in terms of like being a place to live #it is familiar after all #but south ontario can kiss my ass im TIRED of it #however #i am also very poor #this whole downward spiral started bc i was looking at my student loan debt (a mistake i know) #like it could certainly be worse and ive received not insignificant funding throughout my BA and MA #but given that my parents financial support was nearly nothing #ive been paying my own bills AND tuition for years

[st-just]

Hey, Cuba-anon again with a slightly different question. Less about Cuba, more about foreign policy and ethics in general. I am interested to know what you think about Nationalism and it’s place in the modern world. How should one view their relationship to their country versus their relationship to the global community?

To give my point of view, I think I am a pragmatic nationalist? I am not gung-ho about America because “it is the best nation ever and the president is never wrong, uwu”, but rather because I live here, my parents and grandparents live here, and if something in the world negatively impacts America it will by extension negatively impact me. I don’t think other countries are beneath me or anything, but I also know that the feeling is not always reciprocal. So, to me, putting the well being of Americans first and everything else second is similar to putting on your air mask first before helping others in the event of a plane crash.

Either way, would love to hear your point of view and see how others tackle the question.

(sorry for the delay in response, got halfway through writing this then saved it to drafts and completely blanked on it)

But okay, interesting question, and worth breaking down.

So, you know how through the '90s and early 2000's there was this just utterly overpowering narrative where the last chapter of every history textbook ended with a chapter about how national borders were less and less important and how through the magic of The Internet young people were more connected and cosmopolitan than ever, with the strong implication that the weight of history was pulling us inevitably towards a post-national utopia of frictionless exchange and understanding. Call it the Star Trek ideal.

Hasn't exactly worked out, of course. And to a large degree was bullshit even at the time (or the optimism of academics expecting all of humanity to think like they do, being charitable). But in my heart of hearts, that's still how I think things should work.

But okay, to get a bit less abstract, a bunch of barely connected thoughts-

- Nation-states (and states generally) are, at best, convenient administrative divisions of humanity. They have no value outside the services they provide to their residents, and certainly no rights or moral worth outside that. America doesn't deserve your loyalty or life anymore than the state of Ohio or city of Baltimore do (replace with wherever you live.)

-If you accept the basic idea of humans having equal moral worth (or anywhere close to it), then the entire idea that someone's entire life should be defined by what side of an imaginary line on a map they were born on seems obviously absurd as soon as you start thinking about it?

-Nations - in terms of borders, whose included, what characteristics are 'national', etc - are also both contingent and a great extent artificial, defined by state and cultural elites via a standardized language, a mythologized national history, patriotic holidays, nationalizing and creating traditions and rituals, national education and entertainment, etc, etc. There's nothing primordial or inherent there.

-Unfortunately, people really, really like having teams to identify with, and like excluding people from those teams and/or treating them like shit for not belonging to them even more. (People talk a lot about x or y horrible thing being fundamental to human nature, but I really think this is one of the places where human nature really lets us down.)

-Nationalism is an extremely easy and powerful way of dividing the world between us and them, and across the world there has been massive success using it as a locus for identity formation and to organize populations around basically every sort of project imaginable, from funding public education and welfare to genocide.

-Nationalism is, as mentioned, inherently exclusive - and no matter what it's proponents say, in practice there's always someone within the borders of the nation who doesn't quite fit (in the European context, Romani and Jewish people are the most obvious examples). Cases where the nationalist imagination doesn't perfectly overlap with state borders, or with the identity of some subset of the 'national' population also tends to go, uh, badly.

-However, within the national population, appeals to national solidarity or theoretically shared ideals can often be (to a limited degree) useful in transcending or working to ameliorate regional, ethnic, class, etc divides.

-While it's true that large chunks of the American (Canadian, British, French, Japanese, etc) populace benefit quite a bit from their position in the current international system, it's almost universally the case that what foreign policy elites consider 'the national interest' extends far, far, far beyond anything that provides concrete benefits to the average citizen - I'll just gesture vaguely towards Afghanistan, here. Or World War 1 - and quite a lot of death and misery is inflicted for the sake of a narrow slice of the elite's material interests and entirely meaningless concerns around national glory and prestige.

-To be frank, in specifically America's case, putting the interests of co-nationals first and everyone else second is less putting your own air mask on first and more launching a life boat at half capacity to make sure you have leg room.

-But, again, the fruits of pursuing the national interest really, really aren't evenly spread. Does the US government's tireless and vicious championing of stringent IP laws, regardless of how many needless deaths result from the constraints on the drug supply they create, really do much for the average American?

-Which, to go back to the air mask analogy, brings up the awkward point that very often it's not so much putting your own mask on first as tearing the masks off people around you so you have extras, just in case. How much less is the life of someone on the wrong side of the border worth? Half as much? A tenth? A thousandth? The pursuit of America's national security and national interests has a death toll well into the millions.

-Honestly, even if you don't care at all about foreigners, in terms of domestic policy it's just a useful heuristic to instinctively distrust anyone who relies too much on nationalist rhetoric to justify themselves. I mean, the music's almost always bad and anyone who actually gets invested in the symbolism of their flag is reliably a complete killjoy, but even beyond that - they're just very reliably the worst people. This is admittedly unkind and not always true. But, well, see that quote about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel, which applies wonderfully to both people and organizations. If someone's trying to sell something by wrapping it in the flag, that usually means they don't want you looking too closely.

-Viewing the world through a nationalist framework and caring about zero-sum issues of national prestige also make it incredibly hard to coordinate around issues that don't care about national borders, or are going to disproportionately hurt people without rich and powerful nation-states defending their interests. Like, I don't know, global pandemics. Or climate change.

-Anyway, in conclusion, borders bad, nationalism bad, and also any officially codified 'Patriotic' culture is instantly cringe. Hopefully some of this makes sense.

#reply #anon #in this essay i will #this is theoretically a writing blog #nationalism #political theory