#also i really want to emphasize

[bread--quest]

i feel like one major flaw in the "if you can't name [x amount] of [something] then you [ARE BAD]" (to give an example: "if you can't name FIVE WOMEN you're a BAD FEMINIST") logic is that it is in my eyes a universally understood truth that people's brains do bizarre things when asked to name items of any category. one time i was trying to name as many european countries as possible and i, a geography and history nerd since the age of 3, forgot spain existed and kept trying to put in czechoslovakia

#wow look something original!! #please dont take this post too seriously. if bad takes appear in my notes im blowing this whole thing up #also i really want to emphasize #one of my classes the previous year had had a whole unit on how czechoslovakia didnt legally exist anymore and what countries are there now #i had had this information relayed directly to me. not that long ago. And Yet

[rassebers]

So, who's paying?

#mp100 #my rart #shigeo kageyama #reigen arataka #mob psycho 100 #i love tumblr tags now I can talk abt this a lil bit #i rlly really wanted to try a back and forth panelling parallel thing to emphasize their body language #and I imagine mob is more comfortable with his emotions and expressing himself as he gets older #so as reigen & mob become closer friends I think they tease eachother more #hence. mob starts purposefully copying reigen #also small optional detail #i Imagine when mob says you're moving apartments right it's bc serizawa n reigen found. an apartment together #because every night I look up at the sky and it's full of stars and the world is beautiful #no matter how old mob gets #reigen will always insist that hes the one with the paycheck #so obviously *he* should be the one paying! #Reigen never gets out of the habit of calling mob kiddo either #thanks for listening #mob pays in the end btw

[unfortunatelyilikebnha]

Thinking about the KaeyaJeanDiluc friendship where they grew up together and they were CLOSE & sure maybe Jean felt like Diluc & Kaeya were closer since they were brothers & sure maybe Kaeya felt like he had to keep secrets from the two of them bc they would never understand but they were like. A trio! A team!

& then Diluc’s 18th birthday comes around and everything goes to shit and Diluc LEAVES so they’re no longer KaeyaJeanDiluc but just Kaeya & Jean & in some ways Kaeya and Jean get closer because of it but there’s also a pronounced DISTANCE where Jean doesn’t know how to reach Kaeya anymore & Kaeya is even more determined not to tell Jean anything & they both lose themselves in their duties to Mondstadt while also missing Diluc and ALSO, despite everything, offering each other unconditional support

& then Diluc comes BACK & in addition to Kaeya & Jean there’s the shaky reestablishment of Jean & Diluc and Diluc & Kaeya but it’s not THE SAME. they’re no longer KaeyaJeanDiluc; Jean & Kaeya are knights and Diluc will never be a knight again & they all changed while Diluc was away & none of them know how to talk to each other anymore AND YET there’s still an undercurrent of trust!! Not fully, especially between Kaeya & Diluc, but Diluc still calls on Jean during the archon quest, trusting that she will keep their secrets even though as the acting grandmaster she should probably not. Jean says in her about Diluc voiceline that she understands why Diluc hates the knights & is working hard to make them an organization he can trust again. Kaeya covers for Diluc’s darknight hero escapades & fondly reminisces about their childhood in front of him. Diluc invited Kaeya to dinner at the winery & (afaik) never told anyone about Kaeya’s origins. Kaeya tells the traveler that they need to give Jean their full support and planned a birthday party for her. Jean left Kaeya in charge of Mondstadt when she went to the golden apple archipelago! On some level they recognize that their goals still align!! There’s still trust and love there but there’s also this gap between them that none of them know how to cross and I just!!!

#kaeya #kaeya alberich #diluc #diluc ragnvindr #jean #jean gunnhildr #genshin impact #YOU CAN TRY TO REASSEMBLE THE PIECES BUT THEY WILL NEVER FIT THE SAME WAY. AND MAYBE THEY SHOULDNT. #I DONT KNOW IF THIS MAKES SENSE AT ALL I’M JUST GOING INSANE THINKING ABOUT THEM #GRIPPING THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE. HEY DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT KAEYA JEAN AND DILUC BC I SURE DO. #also not blaming diluc for the leaving btw I feel like it was necessary for him #it’s just emphasized bc of how it contributed to the change in their dynamic #I can’t always put it into words right but I have a lot of thoughts about these three. #my brain is going GSVDKDBCJHDEJDHSBDVDHWBDNHSJSBSJDGSHSBSHSB rn #also also in the ‘duties to Mond’ bit I’m also not downplaying kaeyas indecision abt choosing mondstadt/Khaenri’ah #I don’t think he’s chosen & I think he has genuine love for but also feels indebted to both places #I fully reject the ‘oh kaeyas chosen Mond fuck Khaenri’ah’ takes i hate them it’s so much more complicated than that!! #he can care about both places!!! #anyways just wanted to clear that up since I didn’t really elaborate & don’t want it to be taken like that

[varilien]

given that i've ran this blog for as many years now i think i should get much credit for this being what, only the third dick joke i've ever made here hdfkhkj

anyways. there's this point in the story where vash and wolfwood have to go their separate ways for a while, but neither of them are dealing with it particularly well

(image id below the cut since it's a longer one)

[image ID: a rough, doodley 5 panel digital comic of vash and meryl from trigun, but from my leaden skies au where they've both been lightly redesigned to fit into the setting of monster hunter. vash is a wyverian with long pointed ears, wearing a red coat with gold trim and buttons. meryl is a human wearing a beret as seen on other guild girls, but her all-white outfit is a practical two-piece blouse and shorts set. the whole comic is comprised of warm colors, orange and yellow and dark purple

panel 1: vash sitting in the foreground at a brown desk covered in candles and books, with a book opened in front of him that he flips through with a bored expression and his cheek resting against his hand. he appears to be in a library, lit by candles on dark grey chandeliers hung from the ceiling. meryl is in the background stretching up to reach a book high on a shelf, and beside her is a table which is also covered in candles and several tall stacks of books

panel 2: a closeup of vash's face as his eyes widen and his ears prick up. something in the book has apparently caught his attention

panel 3: a closeup of the page vash was looking at, an illustrated info sheet about the flying wyvern, khezu. a candle in the table brightly illuminates the colored page

panel 4: meryl has come around by vash's shoulders with a stack of books held in her arms. she quirks a brow as she looks over vash's shoulder at the book. vash has a neutral, hard to read look on his face, but his ears are still up and his eyes are still shiny and wide as he seems to consider the page for a while

panel 5: a yellow word bubble comes from vash, who huffs a long sigh and says, "maybe i should call him...". his head has tipped to the side as he rubs his neck and frowns, blushing a little with his ears drooping. meryl physically recoils from him and her face scrunches up in disgust, saying, "eww" and, "there's something wrong with you"

end ID.]

#trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #vash #vash the stampede #meryl stryfe #vashwood #leaden skies au #monster hunter #monster hunter fanart #monster hunter crossover #crossover #on a serious note i REALLY love putting vash in a role that emphasizes how he's a smart dude with a frankly astonishing depth of knowledge #of his specific specialties. like that aspect of him gets its moments to shine in canon but like #he is Literally just a little scientist man in leaden skies and it's very fun to work with :3 #anyways i've been wanting to do this forever and lately i've been badly needing to practice new things again so it was a fun excuse lol #ALSO: for girlies in the know here. is ANYONE ELSE burdened with the knowledge of khezu's concept art #like goddd girl they really said okay we want this thing to look phallic as fuck but this is a little Too Much. tone it down 10 percent dhf #but only 10 percent. mostly they just took away the. head shape. ffsdfdssdfs

[beanmochiii]

third life ending so poetic man

#ive seen a lot of art thats very dynamic of the ending which always looks sick and i love it #but after watching it i really wanted to capture the feeling of two minecraft guys punching eachother while saying sorry #the minecraft aspect is actually so important 😭 i think because it takes attention away from body language and really emphasizes dialogue #but i didnt wanna just redraw the minecraft screenshot blocky and all lmao so i tried to convey the feeling. i hope it comes across #zoomed in second picture is because im proud of the hands but also its very good imagery of scar making grian win i thinks #my art #third life spoilers #third life #third life fanart #desert duo #desert duo fanart #/r or /p idc #life series #life series fanart #trafficblr #blood #bare chest #grian fanart #grian #goodtimeswithscar fanart #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #gtws fanart

[jaevy]

Star

with tumblr’s compression, the text will be hard to read, so here’s the art split in two (reduces compression), and here’s the text that was cut off:

You know I'd always been alone

'till you taught me

to live for somebody…

That love is like a star

It's gone, we just see it shining

'cause it's traveled very far

Keep a leftover light, burning

so you can keep looking up

I am yours

No matter

That love's gone

We just see it shining

we've traveled very far

I'll keep a leftover light burning

So you can keep looking up…

…Isn't that worth holding on?

#my art #furry art #anthro #furry #fursona #mitski #i wanted to mix things up a little (yet again) #and this time i decided to use ‘star’ by mitski #to me i feel like this song is about a past love #maybe that love’s gone #but the memories with that person remain #and they’re still a dear friend #and that’s what matters more maybe #also i avoided the procreate gouache brush i tend to use all the time #and i think it turned out quite well #in terms of colors i wanted to really emphasize warmth #i think this is one of mitski’s happier songs #although it is bittersweet #jaevyart

[azaracyy]

ultimate joy digimon survive week day 5: relationships

#digimon #digimon survive #digimon survive week #survive week #digimon survive spoilers #cherubimon #cherubimon virtue #shuuji kayama #i really went extra for this haha oops #this is the art i have vivid image of when i was playing survive like 'i want to draw this in the future!!!' #i love shuuji and lopmon that much apparently #this is also like... a thank-you and revenge piece for putting up with my day 1 submission i guess?? #for a moment i was gonna do tamer-tamer relationships but i changed my mind because tamer-digimon relationship is very deep #imo it's not only between the tamer and their monster companion but also between them and themself if you get what i mean #so in survive it is even more emphasized that reaching ultimate/mega is like the peak of self-acceptance and a remarkable milestone #png

[n1ghtwr1ter]

Words cannot express how fucking excited I am for Gideon/“Dulcinea”/Harrowhark cosplay with @lyrifaun and wifey this weekend. We’re gonna be so fucking awesome in our Locked Tomb vestments, painted like living skulls, looking like douchebags. Except for the wife, who will look like a Venusian goddess of the dawn.

I got so excited I wanted to share Lyri’s excellent work on my far less than excellent face. All I bring to the table is the canonically appropriate crop of zits, which are…aggressive.

#gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #dulcinea septimus #cytherea loveday #cytherea the first #the locked tomb #tlt cosplay #I’m literally hopping with excitement btw #I’m very large so it’s really embarrassing #also I seriously want to emphasize that Lyrifaun is the creative genius behind all of this

[intotheelliwoods]

Oh no- I have been sucked into the hole of looking at buying bulk keychains and buttons and sticker sheets-

Would include a sticker sheet, 2 pinback buttons, and a dangling little Poptart keychain!!

At least that would be the main attraction, I am still so going to throw in some other little goodies, etsy style! Maybe some handwritten stuff from me! Maybe some candy!

Might I add,

Buttons would be 1.5 inches, and each one would be different

Keychain would be 3 inches and double sided with different artwork on the front and back

Sticker sheet would be 5x7 inches with just an assortment of all the leos of all sizes! I like tiny stickers :)

Price would be somewhere in the $25-35 range, shipping not included, might only be for the USA.

This may not happen but I can dream- ponder- at least get an interest check for curiosity

#ive just realized how cheap things can be in bulk oh my gosh. #I really want to emphasize I would not do this for a profit #I want to make this as affordable as I can if this happens haha #because I think it would be adorable if everyone just got like. #little guys. #just everywhere #this would probably be a very limited thing might I add... #in my head I might just only make 30 packages #and once those 30 are gone they would be gone forever unless theres demand for a round 2 or something #since it also takes about a month for custom keychains especially to ship in #it might take till the start of december till I can start shipping things out #im putting #way to much thought into this. #my only worry would be how the hell do I ship things to people PFFT #I might.. host this.. off etsy so it can do the shipping work for me #at least fee wise #augh #whatever #throws this out here im. curious. #and I want an excuse to own a dangling poptart keychain for myself #oh also #should this be a preorder thing...? #defo going to sell leftovers separately #the place im going to for sticker sheets and keychains you can have like a set number #but the buttons its intervals going 10 25 50 ect so theres going to be a shit load of spare buttons #god im getting so ahead of myself......... #what am I doing #hwhuh #dear brain do you understand how much work this is going to be #how much your anxiety will flair dear brain

[lyricalive]

[Touhou Ship Week, Day 5]: TRUST + PERFORMANCE 🥁🎹

As music bares the soul, a duet is a performance of trust! You have to be on the same wavelength to match your partner's rhythm. 🎵

#touhou #thshipweek #railyri #raiko horikawa #lyrica prismriver #gotta upload by the deadline!!! #i wanted to make an older railyri compilation post first but aaaaaa!!! #soon!!! #fanart #this pose emphasizes mutual “trust” #because raiko is holding lyrica #and lyrica is also holding raiko('s drumstick) #i appreciated this double prompt so much #because i love talking about music as a soul-connecting activity #and there's a sort of inherent “consent factor” in musician/instrument ships that i value #it's really meaningful to me while also being lightheartedly free and bold and fun!!! #i hope you can feel the good vibes!~

[amelikos]

We got an interview from the artists of the second opening recently on the official PR account for the anime (translation by Dephender can be found on this link!), and I found this bit really interesting:

Q2: Which parts of the lyrics are especially meaningful? yama: One of the first parts of the lyrics I wrote has a bit that talks about "the truth of the world". I think everyone has something they pursue, and the Pokémon anime likewise has both kids that have a goal or a dream they embrace, as well as kids that haven't found a dream yet. That's why I wanted to include words like "found" or that talk about pursuing something together.

The italicized bits in the quote above being the part in the video interview during which Amethio is shown! Friede is pictured in the first part of the sentence, and then Amethio is immediately shown when yama-san is talking about how "there are kids that haven't found a dream yet."

So yeah, it was already quite clear before but Amethio doesn't have a dream and what he's been doing from the beginning isn't something he is doing for himself. While his current "objective" is similar to Roy's dream (they both want to reach Rayquaza as of now), the stark difference here is that Roy's dream is his own, it's something he wants for himself, while Amethio is acting for someone else's sake and isn't chasing his own wish.

I also like the juxtaposition of Friede and Amethio shown one after another, too. I feel like this says so much about their rivalry, they stand more or less as equals on the battlefield (which raises its own set of questions but that's for another day) but their dynamics highlights Amethio's emotional immaturity in some ways. Friede is older and has something he pursues and a goal for himself, and Amethio is younger and doesn't have something like that. Friede went through a time he felt stuck and aimless but he managed to turn his life around, so I wonder if that's something Amethio will learn too (through Friede or other circumstances).

Anyway, given how it's stated that some characters don't have a dream yet, I wonder if they will depict Amethio eventually finding one. The series is about "finding" something important through adventure, after all.

#amethio #pokemon horizons #the rest of the interview is also really good!! i like how they emphasized liko and roy's bond #i like how this interview is after ep 34 too given how amethio reaffirmed wanting to chase rayquaza there #so it's like they really wanna emphasize that amethio isn't in it for himself huh #i didn't expect the pr account to point it out so openly #it's upsetting but also they are acknowledging that amethio doing all of this is not good and also a problem #it's interesting bc amethio seemingly started off as being “ahead” of liko and roy given how efficient he's at battles and faces friede etc #but he is actually not at the starting line yet (given how the series is about “finding” something) #and he is considered as a character who hasn't found a dream yet and it's intentional #also random but i noticed that the two openings so far have been collabs between two artists #i wonder if it's to reflect the fact that hz is a dual protagonist story so maybe we'll get more openings like that #character notes #hz interview

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

What markers do you use and what kind paper? The textures are so Delicious

Very basic paper, actually! I find I overthink when using expensive stuff and it makes my sketches worse.

As for markers, I use Copics! Not that this is an endorsement (my first set were a very nice gift), but I have really liked using alcohol based markers over water based ones; lovely texture, good blending, and less streaking. However, the price can be *brutal*, and you can very easily get by with other markers + pencil crayons.

#ask #art faqs #fancy supplies are nice but the dont really help THAT much for art skills. Consistancy and persistance does. #I balked the first time I needed to go in to buy a few new ones to fill out my roster. #if you are going to invest; my strategy was to make those fancy new supplies a reward for drawing X amount of days in a row #that way one doesnt buy a bunch of stuff for a soon to be abandoned hobby #Art is a relatively cheap hobby at its basics. You do not need the fanciest and most expensive things. #I think watercolour is the only exception for me; that paper better be high grade. The paint mix also matters #but I digress. Buy what you need and not what you want. Save your money. #Guilt will make you stop drawing. Hoarding supplies and never using them is wasteful #when I drop money on new colours I'm going in with a list of what I want #and looking through the swatchpad for hours until i get the right colour. #cant emphasize enough how fortunate I am to have been gifted my copics. I never would have bought them on my own.

[larrythefloridaman]

WOAH, HE'S BIGENDER? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

#hey. hey. im just saying. he LITERALLY 'transed his gender' in a diagetic bit in orange. and if that wasnt enough. #in blue he disguised himself as squid jenny specifically with larry's powers (the only thing hes done with them on screen) #got caught by his god-assigned roles-obsessed caretaker. and was given the label of being something intrinsically unescapably deceitful. #while 'pretending' to be trans girl. #like. if i wasnt pretty sure it was all an accident i might even call the allegory here slightly heavy-handed. #with the nccts emphasizing a theme of 'youre not just what people say you are #you can be more than one thing at the same time' with crim #i think crimson can have boygirl swag. some bigender pizzazz. i think he deserves it. #is it REALLY a cpu kerfuffle arc without a subversive narratively relevant gender-transing. #am i supposed to believe the spirit of deviance himself is cis? get fucking real. grow up. /silly #also a lil crimtoinette in there. just for flavor. because i cant help myself. #also sidenote the nccts have given him this cute lil tendency #to tip his hat down to hide his face when hes trying to be Genuine or Thoughtful or Poignant. and i enjoy that little touch #i maybe like this guy a little too much. hes most of what ive drawn for months. #but what do you want from me. i read him as a queercoded villain deconstructed at the metanarrative level. #am i just supposed to be normal about that. #me and zia talked about this in dms and discovered. we came to a lot of the same conclusions. completely independently. lmao

[seth-burroughs]

I think we as a fandom don't talk enough about how Seth:

Took bribes from the Nail Man, a serial killer in exchange for allowing him to keep murdering people -- said killer ended up killing 3 people (while they were 4 victims, one of them belonged to the copycat) in the span of 6 months(?). But I'm able to excuse everything the Priest has done, free my man, however...

It was rather strongly implied he (and the other peacekeepers affiliated) had a hand in the whole "Jiei being called to the Clocktower for a quote unquote emergency" trap, picking an innocent man to frame as the Nail Man and either put him on death row or in prison for life, so they could sweep the case under the rug and be done with it.

EXCEPT. After his arrest, he says this: "To speed this case along, we need to quickly deal with that Nail Man we arrested. We should even consider... a public execution."

WHAT are saying

In what time are we living. Is this the medieval ages. Is this the 1400s. This has to be one of the most barbaric sentences I heard a peacekeeper say in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code by Spike Chunsoft. Can he even do that? Would Yomi allow this

He just picked a random man, and didn't even want to lethal injection him privately, he was preparing the damn scaffold so that he could subject the whole district to his legendary beef with that guy in particular, because fuck him I guess. Was that personal? Did Jiei drive his mother of a cliff before the story and this is his carefully planned revenge after decades of suffering in silence

There was LITERALLY NO REASON for him to do this. It was not securing his Evil Plan, not anymore convenient than a private execution, or anything. It was simply Seth's whimsical urge of getting to fulfill his Monokuma fantasy after all these years of severe disrespect

Conclusion: that guy was OUT for BLOOD the sheer MALICE evident in his gay little eyes easily matches Yomi Hellsmile and they should fight to the death for the title of Kanai Ward's Top Cunt

#Free my man he did all that #Every discussion I see about Seth is how *he* got fucked over and. Well he kinda was but also I don't really care tbh #it's called karma <3 and Yomi can do what he wants have you considered that. you're stifling his creativity. god forbid tmen have hobbies #i think we should acknowledge Seth's cartoon villain qualities more. #Fun fact: Seth and Yomi are the only charas in rc whose debut was emphasized by a literal dramatic lightning strike in the background. #Though Seth's came a bit later than Yomi's (around when he said he's gonna make Jiei's tragic natural passing a spectacle) #mine #rain code #seth burroughs #Why was this so difficult to articulate. this sat in my drafts for like a few days #and yet. and fucking YET: #the i did not proofread this tag

[wonder-worker]

I heard that Edward IV and Elizabeth Widvile were known to be very beautiful. Were there any reports on their appearance at the time?

anon 😂

But yes, contemporaries and post contemporaries in the 16th century were pretty much unanimous in praising their appearance. I'll list some of the ones I could find:

Elizabeth:

'The most beautiful woman in England' ('la plus belle fille d'Engleterre') - Jean de Waurin

'Her very great beauty' ('sa tres grande beaute') - Jean de Waurin

"Her beauty of person and charm of manner" - Dominic Mancini

"None of such constant womanhood, wisdom and beauty" - Hearne's Fragment; its author was one of Edward IV's servants

"A daughter of prodigious beauty' - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"Both faire, of a good favor, moderate of stature, well made and very wise" - Thomas More

Edward IV:

"The beauty of your personage it hath pleased Almighty God to send you" - James Strangways, Speaker of the Commons in Parliament

"The king is a handsome upstanding man" - Gabriel Tretzel, travels of Leo of Rozmital

"A handsome prince and had style" - Oliver De La Marche

"In the flower of his age, tall of stature, elegant of person" - Croyland Chronicle

"One of the handsomest knights of his kingdom" - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"A handsome and worthy prince" - Pietro Alipranto

‘...Tall and strapping as the king’ - John Paston, Paston Letters

"He was young and more handsome than any man then alive" - Philippe de Commynes

"A man so vigorous and handsome that he might have been made for the pleasures of the flesh" - Philippe de Commynes

"The handsomest prince my eyes ever beheld" and "I don't remember ever having seen a man more handsome than he was" - Philippe de Commynes

"A very handsome prince" - Louis XI, from the Memoirs of Commynes

"He being a person of most elegant appearance, and remarkable beyond all others for the attractions of his person" - the Croyland Chronicle, referencing Edward a few months before he died

"He seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature more protractedly and more evidently to onlookers" - Dominic Mancini, writing shortly after his death

"He was a goodly personage and very princely to behold...of visage lovely, of body mighty, strong and cleanly made; howbeit in his latter days, with an over liberal diet, somewhat corpulent, but nevertheless noy uncomely" - Thomas More

Etc.

I'm tagging @edwardslovelyelizabeth because I think you got a similar ask?

I hope this answers your question, anon! I don't generally pay a lot of attention to the physical appearance of historical figures (I find it pretty irrelevant), but in this case, it ultimately does play a role in both Edward IV and Elizabeth's historiographies for better and for worse, and seems to have actually been a personal prop of Edward's kingship, so I don't mind discussing it :)

#either anon is making rounds or someone else saw the ask and asked me something similar 🤷🏻‍♀️ #edward iv #elizabeth woodville #ask #also (I wanted to make a separate post about this but fuck it I'll just rant in the tags): #Something I find very interesting (read: fucked-up) is how we have multiple independent accounts praising Edward IV as extremely #attractive at the end of his life #Yet for some reason (aka fatphobia) most historians simply assume that he lost his looks over the years because he put on weight #even though his actual contemporaries (sans Commynes who in any case didn't even see him after 1475) certainly didn't seem to think so #as we can see: Croyland Mancini and More all noted the fact that he had put on weight AND emphasized his attractiveness #because the two are not mutually exclusive in the slightest and assuming that they are is not only incorrect it's also deeply problematic #it's similar to how so many historians assume his health was failing towards the end of his life when we KNOW - we are literally TOLD - #that his illness was both unexpected and baffling to contemporaries #(there is a contemporary reference to his supposedly deteriorating health but as Horrox says this is actually an editorial interpolation) #and the thing that's *always* referenced almost synonymously with this alleged non-existent ill-health is his weight #and the thing is - even if both of these were true they still ultimately wouldn't (and SHOULDN'T) matter. But we KNOW they weren't #and so it's incredibly indicative that historians and general histories STILL automatically assume them - and this assumption #is almost always on conjecture with his weight. (I don't think I've framed this coherently but oh well) #I'm still not over Katherine Lewis's deranged and frankly extremely ignorant epilogue in 'Kingship and Masculinity' #she literally framed her entire perspective on him around his weight with some really ridiculous (read: fatphobic) speculations/assumptions #she's even worse than Thomas Penn who is also revolting (and AJ Pollard isn't much better) #though of course they're not the only ones - almost every historian and general history does this

[tibli]

Although I understand why so many western posts about the genocide in Palestine mention the number of women and children who are injured/ killed, it always upsets me that the adult men of Palestine aren't really given as much focus. They don't deserve to be hurt or killed, either! I don't know how universal this is, but in the US there's this sort of implicit, insidious idea that men are somehow like. less innocent by default, and it's not as big of a deal if they die.

I know it's probably just splitting hairs, but I can't help but be put off by it, since the men of Palestine are just as victimized by Israeli occupation as anyone else.

#palestine #genocide #gaza #i am merely an american citizen so please take my comments on the issue w a grain of salt #but it just upsets me bc this happens pretty much any time a particular group of people are brutalized #women and children are always used to shock and horrify because of course they are innocent #but the same empathy isnt really extended to the men who have also done nothing to warrant what is happening to them #i want to clarify that i am NOT criticizing palestinians emphasizing the deaths of women and children bc that is NOT my place to do so #im mainly talking about how westerners have a tendency to talk about tragedies like this #bc the bottom line is it comes off very dehumanizing to me