#and is being repackaged

[mzminola]

This is not a perfect analogy but I am making it anyway to try to convey what being online has been like for me lately.

Seeing people say "Oh, Jews are fine, I just hate zionists!" is like seeing "Oh, women are fine, I just hate feminists!"

Zionism and feminism are both very broad socio-political movements that have changed focus over time, that ostensibly have some very basic core tenets but you really need to ask the specific person you're talking to how they personally define it to be sure.

Both have been subject to legitimate criticism, and hostile reactionary bullshit. Had waves, sub-movements, splinters, people with damn near opposite views sharing the term and people with seemingly identical views rejecting it.

You can give working, broad definitions like these:

Feminism is the belief that all people should be treated equally regardless of gender, with a focus on women's rights due to systemic oppression.

Zionism is the belief that all peoples have the right to self determination and safety, with a focus on Jewish people finding it in Israel.

You can also give different definitions! Many people give different definitions! Many people also hold these beliefs but use different names for them for various reasons.

There are self-described zionists who are jingoistic, racist, etc, and who attribute those attitudes to their zionism. Just as there are feminists who are misandrist, bio-essentialist, transphobic, homophobic, and so on, who attribute those attitudes to their feminism.

There are also incredibly selfless, compassionate activists working for positive change in the world who consider themselves zionists and feminists.

It has been very jarring to see people, who I respect, uncritically reblogging posts or headlines that use "zionists" as a stand in for "bad people", just as jarring as it would be to see them sharing things that use "feminists" that way. Especially when those posts contain easily debunked conspiracy theories that I know you'd have seen right through if the OP said "Jews" but because they said "zionists" you swallowed it whole.

I am not asking anyone to stop sharing important information, petitions, news articles, resources, and so on. I am asking you to slow down and stop spreading inflammatory language that paints a broad socio-political movement for Jewish self-determination as inherently bad. The same way I would ask you not to spread inflammatory language that paints gender equality & women's liberation as inherently bad.

If the information is important, please look for other, more neutrally worded posts. Or verify the links yourself and make a fresh post! There is no situation online in which the only way to share information must be to spread such language.

#antisemitism #being critical of zionism is not automatically antisemitic #just as criticizing the feminist movement is not inherently misogynistic #but the way a LOT of people have been talking lately...it has been indistinguishable #please slow down #being Jewish in America #and online #I have so many filters and yet I cannot escape this even in fandom spaces #''Jews control the media'' repackaged as ''zionists'' or ''the Israeli government'' has been the one I've seen the most #but there's been some outright blood libel too #and of course the usual banking bullshit #when you accept a term like this as synonymous with ''bad people'' you swallow the lies more easily! you swallow the exaggerations! #you fact check less! you reblog from psyops and bigots who've found keywords! #and it doesn't have to be this way #please stop making it be this way #editing tags to add #zionism #I think I left it off originally to stay out of the tracked tags

[biblically-accurate-dca]

these are all kind of Bad but this was the best of the bunch so i am posting it :p

i've been trying to draw vanessa more... she is so important to me... sun is here too i guess

#my art #probably wont tag this until later i dont want this in the tags #im mainly posting this because i absolutely need to talk abt something its been bothering me for awhile #im gonna censor this stuff (i REALLY dont want this in the tags) so just bear with me #why doesnt the 🌞&🌜 fandom talk abt v/nessa more. why do we not do that #their entire character is meant to parallel her #there's like a million tiny parallels for them in the games. they were both teased in the hw1 dlc and are both associated with that #🐰 & 🌜's animations (and even their designs) have several similarities to each other #there's a lot of cutscenes and parts of sb where one shows up after the other does.. 🐰 going to the daycare after greggy leaves #🌜 dragging feddy away to parts and service and v/nessa immediately showing up there #the entire 6am ending sequence ??? #literally like the only reason v/nessa isnt more popular is bc like 90% of her character is hidden in unused content #and because 🌞&🌜 are the skinny handsome mysterious and tragic tumblr sexymen #and when they become so isolated from their source all of their parallels to her are used to instead repackage her character into a more #appealing design for everyone to fawn over and consume #.. im being dramatic but AuUGGHTHHF IT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH PLEAAAE3 pleaseee please i love her. #its so hard being in the 'i want to kiss this robot' fandom when you dont actually want to kiss the robot #i just think theyre an interesting character 😭 and also my adhd brain obsesses over them endlessly so im just stuck here HFJSJGJD #anyway these tags got way too long dont read these. im going to bed now

[empyrangel]

Furina is my cringefail girl and I’m defending her with a gun. Everyone loved her pre-Fontaine, and then they found out she wasn’t sexy, mean, and powerful like Raiden, or uwu innocent bean like Nahida and suddenly they just turn on her, calling her the worst archon and shit. Anyone denying the misogyny here has got to be completely oblivious. “Oh but she’s so dramatic and bratty!” Yes and I love her for it. God forbid characters have flaws or quirks. “But she’s so weak!” We hardly know anything about her besides she’s cursed, but even if that’s true literally why does it matter? A character doesn’t need to be tough or powerful to be good.

I love Neuvillette too, but his fanbase makes me want to hate him because of all the shit they give Furina for no reason. If a character is really everything you say they are, they should be able to stand on their own two feet and live up to the praise without you having to put down another character to make them look cooler.

#traveler from another world ✨ #hot take but the Furina hate is just the Venti hate repackaged #you guys cannot handle gods being humanized and it shows #yes this is based off some stuff I said in the tags of another post #I just really need people to see this #furina #genshin furina #genshin #focalors #genshin focalors #genshin impact #fontaine #genshin fontaine #genshin 4.1

[brother-emperors]

Do you think Cassius haunts Caesar's line ?

yeah, the escalating paranoia about conspiracies is really revealing (especially when you reach Caligula and the Cassius Incident) but I also think Cassius and his legacy haunts any tyrant. Caesar just happened to be the guy who climbed his way to the top in a place where Cassius could do something about it

Plutarch, Brutus (trans. Scott-Kilvert)

#brutus gets the title of idealized tyrant killer but that's because he was an indecisive wet cat about the whole thing #in addition to being a sellout and a nepotism hire. he's nice so that makes him easier to manipulate into a tolerable icon and paragon of #virtue. contrasted to cassius who had sharp teeth about the whole thing #people who hold power frequently do not like to think that their own violence will be met with resistance or retaliation #and will choose a better martyr and icon to trick people into thinking that emulating the virtue being sold to you will give you #whatever. imperialists and tyrants will repackage a martyr into a version they approve of and convince you that this is your guy #justice for cassius or whatever. these tags aren't even about cassius anymore. #ask tag #something something 'my name is not king but caesar' echo for how caesar will become synonymous with kings and emperors and tyrants #GOD these tags got off topic. i think the ides of march as a concept bothers a lot of people so cassius in turn haunts all of them too

[theboytatu]

can we also talk about how "full length albums" went from this

to this

SM is getting away with putting out 9 tracks and calling it a full album while charging the same for it and it's fucked up and they should stop

#the exo album being 9 tracks and the shinee one being 10 like #and we won't even get repackages of those anymore??? 😭

[skwtches]

thinking abt these scenes from Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999) so hard

#the way rabbit gets so happy over kessie’s letter and then talks abt her so fondly #like AUGH that’s his baby!!! he loves her sm!!!! :’’’) #also pooh media outside of new adventures/book of pooh talking abt kessie like Yes Please #rema.mov #wtp #winnie the pooh #rabbit (wtp) #kessie #kanga #roo #tigger #pooh #piglet #eeyore #owl (wtp) #also just noticed that gopher is Not here despite being in the repackaged content shown throughout the special like?? #vid

[kidfur]

i love yaoi jokes as much as the next guy theyre genuinely funny a lot of the time but yaoi isnt just a punchline dammit its a real and valuable form of queer art!!!! yaoi deserves to exist unironically fucka you. it doesnt exist just for haha funny and then stomp on ground like its Problematique. its just a word to describe a genre of stories abt gay men

#wishy speaks #general You here btw #it baffles me that people GENUINELY think yaoi is problematic #like it's literally just gay anime boys. it can be as genuine as any other art form and often Is #people really think being a fujo or fudanshi is a terrible thing? huh? #the older i get the more i realize its all repackaged queerphobia in one form or another #mixed with anti japanese rhetoric as a treat #gahhh sorry for srsposting ill go to bed in a sec lmao #i wanted to just make a joke but grrr thinking too hard and deep for joke #not that coherent bc sleepy but you get what i mean

[piplupod]

honestly i wish i didnt know as much as i do about occultism and spirituality because it is so fucking frustrating to see ppl talk about it and they very obviously do not have the knowledge that i have. like i am so open to being wrong, but i see things that ppl are saying and i'm fairly certain that they just ... do not have the depth of knowledge i do, so they say very ignorant things, or draw lines between things in an incredibly (potentially dangerously) overgeneralized way. and i am just sitting here like "oh you have no clue what you are saying right now, do you? you do not realize what you are saying is unfortunately pretty damn wrong." and i have to back away from the screen bc i do not discuss these things anymore due to the brain being constantly ready to dropkick me straight into a mental health crisis

but christ alive i think anyone who engages with spirituality needs to read up on like. essentially Everything they can get their hands on, even if they do not necessarily agree with the ideas being presented, because that way !! you learn !! and you grow to realize what things are borne out of racism and grossly mystifying other cultures and straight up white supremacy and nazi ideology and encouraging psychotic symptoms that lead to mental health crises !!!

#i hate new age spirituality so much. soooo much. 90% of it is just racism repackaged with a pretty bow on top #and nobody realizes bc they do not know what the fuck they are engaging with :))) what the roots of it all actually is !!! #and i do not necessarily blame them but i am so .... its tiring. and disconcerting. and scary. to see all of it being paraded around #esp when ppl accuse you of being ignorant or cruel for criticising smth that is so fucking dangerous or racist hsdgjkl ARGH ARGH ARGH #just bc they themselves do not realize !! it is dangerous and/or racist!! and they assume you must be wrong to criticise them!!! #sorry im just hgdsgjkl. this drives me crazy. i also hope i dont sound egotistical or high-n-mighty #but i do genuinely know i have more knowledge than the average bear (not difficult to though tbh! u just have to read a lot!!) #because i was so fucking fixated on it and went delving into so many books and pdfs and websites and did my own stuff on my own time #for several years #i was DEEP in this stuff (and boy howdy my mental health suffered for it lmfao me when i lose touch w reality almost entirely !!) #AND OBVIOUSLY. not everyone is going to have the same exps i did when they do spirituality stuff #but . it is very common esp these days. there is a whole label for it lol #ALRIGHT IM DONE RANTING NOW. im going to log off from everything for a good long while today to try to reset my nervous system lmfao #sorry for the public yelling and wailing fsdfjkl #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[the-owl-tree]

Okay I would like to ramble rq bc you are the best one for calling out the series. But the MISOGYNY is going crazy. Let's talk abt our favorite boy crowfeather.

He learns his lesson.. OMG GUYS HES NOT MESSING UP AND DOING BAD SHIT ANYMORE.. LEADER RIGHT HERE

It's giving brambleclaw (we don't give him respect of bramblestar) but like how is it that once a male character suddenly "learns" he's perfect as a character and leader? And everyone is okay with it? Leafpool had her lesson learned FOREVER and no one accepted it and kept shaming her except for like 2 ppl. And Lizardstripe? How dare she not want kits? Wow what a monster for not wanting to make being a queen her whole personality. Let's make her "ambitious" bc an ambitious woman is a bad one. Like.... ??????? It confuses me sm bc I thought it was good for ppl to be ambitious? The problem is they labeled tigerclaw as "ambitious" and "bloodthirsty"(he is) so everyone associates "ambitious" with bad. But tigerheart is ambitious and he's a good guy(sorta not rlly). But she wasnt ever ambitious again after her kits left the nursery so like? So idk???

And squilf... oh squilf.. only known as brambleclaws mate. Like that's all she's written for I swear, promoting brambleclaw, fueling the feud between brambleclaw and ashfur, omg firestars daughter, like she has a personality sure, but not one that's used.

And how about Brooke? From the mountain tribe? She was well written sure, but after the whole trip and her and stonefur went back for help she wasn't relevant.. like at all. She was then known as the cat who married a clancat and saved the tribe but she wasn't appreciated like firestar after saving the clans. Like ik there's kind of a difference there but I mean cmon she still worked hard and didn't get a lot of recognition! I love her character but she lost any and all personality after the one arc. And half moon.... she was.. interesting. Ppl can interpret her character so many different ways but I think she was literally a book device to add drama and pain to jayfeather. They needed him to have a reason to be connected to the tribe so they invented a shecat to be his mate or wtv. I mean she had a personality but no purpose other than to fuel jayfeather and his angst.

HOLY CRAP THIS IS LONG IM SO SORRY DEER I GOT PASSIONATE😰

YOU'RE GOOD! Crowfeather my detested. Proof that an abusive father can not only blame his mate for shit she didn't do (no she did not turn Breezepelt against Crowfeather, go read Outcast PLEASE) and have it be held as canon for years until it's retconned in......the super edition where the abusive father has to have his hand held by onestar, nightcloud, heathertail, feathertail, AND ashfoot in order to learn that Wanting Your Son Dead is Actually Bad. In a fascinating turn of events, this was then taken as a compelling story by fans instead of the most blatant double standard I've ever fucking seen.

Crowfeather gets a promotion for learning that abusing his son might be icky, but Leafpool get humiliated, berated, and threatened to be thrown in cat hell for doing everything right for the children that StarClan manipulated her into having. Fun.

For Lizardstripe, well. Ambition is okay as long as it's not a woman who doesn't want to feel confined by the strict expectation that she have babies and also accepts that the father has zero obligation to help her and will face zero repercussions for doing Fuck All. But it's a-okay, Yellowfang's Secret assured, because Lizardstripe would be happier if she just mindlessly accepted the duty of every she-cat is to have babies and those that don't want that are abusive monsters.

squilf deserves an essay on what she's been trhough good LORD poor girly. it's what makes her compelling in many ways, the trials and tribulations she's been through, and stripping it would just make her lose a lot of her spark......but man is it frustrating to watch the authors endlessly fawn over bramblestar.

Brook and Half Moon I have no strong thoughts on. I think the document covering the anti-Indigenous writing in the series breaks down her issues way better than I can, and Half Moon and the original lake cats are like. very nothing characters to me lol wasted potential!

#deer rambles #double standards are fine in writing. i do not mind inequality in writing #but when this inequality is not acknowledged when it is treated as nature that's when i take issue #the misogyny in warriors is not commentary. it is an authorial bias that should be ruthlessly ripped apart for what it is: #shitty messages and beliefs being repackaged into books for kids to absorb #you're probably not going to get a kid who walks away thinking lizardstripe is a good person #but you WILL get some kid who is going to associate not wanting children = abusive and monstrous #which IS a real life belief held by shitty people that needs to be addressed

[fadinglight123]

If I see any of you shitheads quoting Osama Bin Laden or getting anywhere near saying that a literal terrorist has a point it is on sight and I cannot fucking emphasize that enough

#shut up fading #I cannot fucking believe I have to say this #except I can bc goyim leftists #especially WHITE goyim leftists #continue to be the stupidest motherfuckers alive #to the level of mocking republicans for being the “I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face” party #while openly advocating for the most obvious leopards eating faces party shit imaginable but repackaged as leftist this time #anyway you’re all fucking stupid and vile and I hate the internet what else is new

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Tumblr is the queering the text website and queer interpretation of media is expected here (and honestly a nice reprieve from the hostile homophobia getting bolder in the mainstream). However, I've been seeing a common knee-jerk reaction circulating and wanted to offer a rebuttal:

The Crisis of Male Friendship

#cauthor #queering the text is not a unique literary activity #and these fears for male friendship come up time and again #unfortunately this fear has basis in homophobia as it gatekeeps queer expression and enables the censorship of queerness in storytelling #it is also never a interpretation that's ever realised #how many shipped male friends have canonically gotten together romantically? #how many canonical male friendships are just so from beginning to end #a few successfully being realised as romance is not going to break male friendship within stories #which are the majority of relationships in storytelling btw #that and male/female romance #telling queer individuals to stop shipping the homoerotic friendship for the sanctity of bros being bros is not in any way subversive #it is a regressive argument repackaged as progressive #a little like the no kink at pride arguments #wheel of time

[asteria-argo]

if I see one more post on ANY site calling a male character "female coded" I will be walking directly into the woods to become an eldritch monster that eats the curious and the wayward

#i fully support gender fuckery of characters mind you i don't mean those kinds of posts trans that mans fem all you like #I mean the posts that are like “ooh this male character has so many stereotypical female traits that makes them female coded” #and then the traits they're talking about is suffering mass trauma and/or being a parent #shut the fuck up #literally shut the fuck up it is sexism and gender roles repackaged #batman is not a female coded because he has children and has suffered #worst take of all fucking time I am frothing at the mouth with rage about it

[ihhfhonao3]

Live footage of me trying to remind myself that the anti I’m arguing with is a minor and they’ve been poisoned by TikTok and are a victim of low media literacy rates and I need to be kind and try and help them instead of losing my shit completely

#If I have to spoonfeed my morals to you because you cannot fathom me writing something problematic just for the fun of it then I genuinely #Think that you need to do your English homework and read 1984 #God forbid a writer write about things. my goodness #The obsession with being unproblematic and morally “pure” these days is honestly sickening #I promise you some middle aged woman writing incest fanfiction on ao3 CANNOT hurt you #And they’re advocating for literal censorship as if they aren’t repackaging conservative arguments with a nice little liberal bow #Anyways. #proshipper #profic #proshipping #proship #proshippers #profiction #pro fiction #anti anti #anti censorship #anti fanpol

[swashbucklery]

You’re Losing Me is, like All Too Well, difficult to enjoy on a level that doesn’t include the metatextual but also. On a non-metatextual level I want to listen to it 600 times because it scratches the itch of “breakup songs that make me think about the mirror of them and help me write fic.”

I want to crack the bridge of You’re Losing Me open like a walnut and then make a little house inside the scooped out shell of it like. Fuck OFF what a good mean beautiful achy disaster of a pop song.

#like metatextually is there a reason it is only for sale for 24hr #or are we just being precious about the breakup jam #metatextually how do you write the breakup song to your writing partner while you write with them #in text it is such a perfect foil to antihero #in text I love it so much that I want to write another vampire au about it #I wouldn’t marry me either #I’m the best thing at this party #as mirrors to champagne problems and bejeweled #it’s about the same emotion framed two ways #the way we are all kaleidoscopes #every story has two sides and each side has so many facets #the grouchy aunt j version of that cannibal show #but instead of ritual murders it’s just sadness repackaged #give itttttttt #midnight darling baylor slow #vampire princess baylor slow #do i have a music tag?

[cozymochi]

🌻 🌻

YEAH YEAH TWO TIMES TO TALK ABOUT NOTHING!!!

🌻- I STILL HAVE THE CHARACTER WARDROBE MEME ON THE BACKBURNER I’m going to do them!!! I just fell into a funk randomly (disclaimer: not random, was work + life related), then couldn’t think of wardrobe styles despite staring at miles of pinterest boards.

🌻- Ok so, this stint happened a while ago but at one point I fell into the rabbit hole of the Thomas the Tank Engine youtube circle. Like, I’m not even in that fandom, ffs I didn’t even know it HAD one for the longest time. I don’t even know how I ended up there in the first place, but now I just regularly listen to these various youtubers talk about trains and the Tolkien level worldbuilding for this dang made up island. If there’s nothing else to watch then I am going to listen to these train enthusiasts go ham in a soothing way. I find joy in their subdued enthusiasm.

I have been so informed on Thomas lore that I retroactively realized that the engine in THIS DANG VINE ISN’T EVEN THOMAS!!!!

IT’S EDWARD!!!

AND I JUST CALLED BRUH AN ENGINE 😭. Actually maybe I’m re-informed, cuz I knew the basics to start with. I watched that show as a kid and the long buried memories resurfaced hardcore. So I made it my side mission to occasionally harass my sisters who also have buried memories with random lore every now and then for no reason

#cozy ask #james is still the best one idc glad to know child me knew what was up #this gives me the same bile fascination something like winx does except im not bothering to watch the actual stuff #i find more joy just passively listening to info being repackaged hfgdfdf #BUT I ALSO RETROACTIVELY REALIZED THAT THIS TRAIN SHOW may have shaped my formative years. #noT AS MUCH AS sONIC #but enough to make me go ‘wait a minute’

[applesaucesupremacy]

stop reinventing the jews control the media conspiracy oh my g-d

#'the tiktok ban is an (((Israeli))) plot' #Actually it's par the course for an extremely sinophobic congress and their fear of the unknown on the internet #'it pushes (((Israeli))) propaganda' #Actually the algorithm generally works very well! I get pro palestinian tiktokers because I follow several #And jewish creators because I follow several. And sometimes it's the same person because these overlap #What I do notice is 'free palestine' comments on jewish creators videos simply about them being jewish. That part is not ok #But the only Israelis I've seen are the ones I actively follow #And maybe a couple in comment sections but that's how the internet works #So this whole 'they're banning tiktok because Israel told them to!' is just repackaged jews control the media #Hope this helps! #my post