#and then its like ''of COURSE i care about jews!!'' oh

[littleabriel-blog]

Why You Shouldn't Watch Loki S2

With Season 2 of that show making its debut tomorrow, I thought I would make one last ditch effort to convince people not to watch it. It's not just because it's a horrible show that makes a mockery of my favorite Marvel character. There are a lot of problematic elements that contribute to the long list of reasons why people should not give Disney their money or ratings.

I am imploring people, one last time: If you must hate-watch the season, pirate it. If you must watch with some lingering hope that the real Loki will somehow make an appearance (and based on the reviews I have seen, that seems very unlikely), pirate it. Please don't contribute to Disney's ratings. Disney isn't going to care if you're hate watching or if you are only watching it hoping to get a glimpse of the Trickster we all know and love. They only care about numbers, and high ratings might mean we'll get stuck with another season of this utter dreck.

That said, here are some reasons why you should rethink giving this show your views:

It glorifies abuse and torture

In this show we are treated to the sight of Mobius using torture as "therapy", emotionally beating Loki down to the point where he capitulates to the TVA's demands, punishing him for having a crush on someone else by sticking him in a room for hours (at least) with an illusionary Sif who kicks him in the balls and punches him on repeat while further hammering the whole "you'll always be alone, you don't deserve good things" message, and generally working for an organization that subjects Loki to mockery, bullying, sexual assault (being stripped without his consent--that scene wasn't hot. It wasn't sexy. It was horrifying and I really, really have to wonder about the mental state of anyone who is at all turned on by it. Think about it, if Loki were a woman who was being forcibly stripped, there would have been loads of hatemail filling up Disney's servers), and slavery.

That's even before we get into the atrocious way Sylvie treats him. I've gone into how she treats him many, many times, how she belittles, invalidates, silences, and oh yes tries to kill him for daring to ask her to reconsider killing HWR. If the roles were reversed and Loki treated Sylvie like that? You ladies who love the ship so much would be boycotting Disney. It's no less abuse just because it's a woman doing it to a man.

It glorifies fascism

The TVA is very much Nazi coded yet they are framed as heroes...well, except when they're picking on Sylvie of course, since she's all pure and good and can do no wrong (Mary Sue powers activate!) They torture a character who is very much Jewish coded, an effeminate man who is very much the Other in the home he grew up in.

And what the hell is this?

As a Jew, I find this image deeply, deeply disturbing. It's a fucking gas chamber, y'all. It. Is. A . Gas. Chamber.

I don't know how anyone can NOT see how problematic it is.

It has Jonathan Majors in it

I really don't give a flipping shit if they're "only" allegations or if they wrapped up filming before the allegations came out. People boycotted Flash for Ezra Miller doing basically the same thing, so I don't see why it should be any different with Majors.

But then I know from experience that some of you so-called feminists out there are only about protecting or believing women when it suits you. Can't have a little thing like not supporting a domestic abuser get in the way of your wish fulfillment self-insert fantasies of beating the crap out of Loki before fucking him.

The first season was written by a total creep, and that same creep is producing the second season

'Nuff said.

Selfcest/Incest

I don't want to hear how "selfcest doesn't exist", especially in a fictional universe where you have sorcerers, witches, men with super soldier serum running in their veins, magic plants that turn individuals into superstrong Cat People, and talking raccoons.

And even without the selfcest, that ship is a very problematic one, as I stated above, and have continued to talk about at length.

It's just plain awful

The plot is predictable, full of holes, and not even that original (it's cribbed directly from a script Waldron wrote that was so awful, even SyFy wouldn't produce it, plus see my post with the clip from Batman Returns). Loki is grossly OOC in it...seriously, there is not a single hint of the character I had grown to love from Thor 1, Avengers, and the Dark World. He's nerfed all to hell (an Asgardian god who can take on Thor easily is beaten up by human rednecks?), and he's lost all his cunning, wit, intelligence, and grace all in favor of turning him into a sophomoric slapstick clown and the butt of everyone's jokes. The newer characters are poorly mapped out and one dimensional.

It's just...bad.

So there, that's my last ditch attempt to convince people to boycott this piece of shit. I realize my pleas might be falling on deaf ears, much as Loki's pleas fell on Sylvie's, but I had to get it out there.

Other Loki show antis can add to this or elaborate if they want. I'm too tired to be too coherent right now.

#anti loki series #anti sylki #anti sylvie

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Rowling in the Morning

Megan Phelps-Roper: hey you’re listening to the witch trials of jk rowling, W KZFM in the morning with Megan Phelps-Roper and the weasel [air horn sound effect] Phelps-Roper: we are here with the main boss lady herself, Jk R-r-r-rowling! Rowling: good to be here Phelps-Roper: now its time for our 10 am challenge [‘Oh Yeah’ plays] Phelps-Roper: JK Rowling, will you Phelps-Roper: live Phelps-Roper: on air Phelps-Roper: eat a bug? Rowling: Rowling: wave it around ssso it looks like it’s alive

Rowling: hey weren’t you in the westboro Baptist church Phelps-Roper: oh yeah haha everyone remembers that Phelps-Roper: yeah, picketing funerals, yelling slurs at grieving parents Phelps-Roper: those were good times Phelps-Roper: but I’m really concentrating more on self-care these days

Phelps-Roper: yeah I know everyone likes to worry about all those gays and jews I used to harass Phelps-Roper: but their pain was necessary for my journey of discovery Phelps-Roper: the important thing Phelps-Roper: is that I am SUCH a good person now Rowling: yessss of courssse

Rowling: look a lot of people have been ssssaying to cancel harry potter Rowling: and I jussst think that we should consssider the other perspective Rowling: what about Rowling: inssstead of cancelling harry potter Rowling: you just continued to give large amounts of money to me, its creator? Phelps-Roper: wow, never thought of it that way before! Rowling: I ssssay thisss as a disinterested third party, of course

Rowling: people keep asking Rowling: ‘jk rowling, why don’t you condemn thesssse nazisss who keep showing up at your ralliesss’ Rowling: I’m jussst like wow Rowling: I guess I’m just not close-minded like some people Phelps-Roper: wow wow good point

Rowling: look, it’s not for me to judge other people Rowling: that’sss for a special wizengamot-appointed tribunal with special genital measuring calipers Rowling: we’re going to have the Kriegsloks leave from platform 5 ¾ Rowling: honestly I think you’re going to find this whole genocide we’re planning just really charming

Phelps-Roper: how do you respond to allegations that you’re allied with nazis? Rowling: [chuckling] oh megan I’d be lying if I said we weren’t allied with nazis! Phelps-Roper: Phelps-Roper: well, touche

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #jk rowling #megan phelps-roper

[jewishvitya]

CW - talking about antisemitic depictions and about the house elves and the depiction of slavery in the books.

I'm having a frustrating day with a lot of physical pain, so I'm not the best at judging currently if I should be posting all of these thoughts. It's a response to multiple arguments by rude anons that I blocked (not for being rude, for being transphobic), but the arguments themselves stay on my mind and I just. Need this out. Ignore this, it will be all over the place, I'm basically venting. Hoping it'll be the last bit of HP criticism I post.

I'll tag it for you to block, as usual.

I've been asked what I expect of Rowling, since my criticism of the goblins included the books. She already wrote the books, they're printed and they're out there. She can't just change them, criticism does nothing because she has no path to correct her mistake.

First of all, with her transphobia - as far as I'm concerned she has blood on her hands at this point. The way she emboldens transphobia endangers lives and erodes queer rights. Anyone who contributes to the current push against trans people is complicit in trans genocide - and she made herself a symbol of that movement. Even if she did a 180 on her issues with Jewish stereotypes, she wouldn't redeem herself.

But she isn't the only one who wrote a story and then realized that her story has deep issues. What does it look like, if an author doesn't want to perpetuate those?

From what I know of Tolkien (and I know nothing LOTR or anything, just heard this from other Jewish creators who discussed this issue, treat this paragraph like I'm repeating a rumor) - Tolkien did stumble on an antisemitic depiction while writing his dwarves. Then he course-corrected by creating a more complex and nuanced picture of the society in his future works. Basically, he leaned into the idea of his dwarves as a Jewish allegory and made it a better and more respectful allegory. They have wonderful cultural details, like having foreign-language names used outside of their community - and names in their own native language that they call each other. Half of my family comes from France, and my mom was born there. She had a Hebrew name and a legal French name. That's extremely common among Jews in some areas of the world.

This response is what I would have expected if an author cares about being respectful of Jewish people. Acknowledge the issue, and try to do better.

But what if the issue was brought to your attention after you completely finished your story? In that case: "Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was writing an antisemitic narrative with my depiction of this fantasy race." Support the voices criticizing your work, and apologize. Let it be an example of tropes to avoid, and encourage others to be careful of the same pitfalls.

What you don't do, is act horrified and say "Oh, how could you, I never intended to make the goblins an antisemitic allegory! Surely if I don't mean it, it can't be hurtful!"

Also, if you truly care, you don't then abuse the memory of the holocaust when you write spin-offs of your original story, including its imagery to support a bigoted villain's argument.

Marginalized people understand that not everyone knows what we do. The stereotypes and the harmful ideas that weaved themselves into popular culture are about us. We know that it's invisible to people who aren't the target, and as a result aren't forced to learn these things. To many people, it's just a trope they're used to seeing. Like villains have hooked noses - it's practically a shorthand for an evil character.

All the stories we tell are based in some measure on stories we heard. Narratives and tropes feed off each other between different pieces of media. It's easy to pull together a harmful narrative without realizing, when the tropes that make it up usually go together, and are so common they're everywhere. So we know a person who means no harm can create something really hurtful, without knowing it.

That's why we criticize media: we want you to see and be aware.

In addition to this, I've been accused multiple times of ignoring the fact that these books discuss bigotry and condemn it. I'm not ignoring it, I know they do - or they try to. But Rowling wrote a story against racism without understanding it and without interrogating it in herself. She only knew to condemn it when it's rude and violent and outright hateful. Not the foundations of it.

So, sure, say she didn't mean to write something harmful. What does she do when she learns she did? Nothing. And not just about the issue of the goblins - about everything. I detailed the problems with her depiction of lycanthropy, but she did the same thing with the house elves.

There's lore about creatures called brownies. They'll perform chores for you, but they'd rather not be seen while they do. If you try to pay them, they'll get offended. If you give them clothes, they'll leave. This is a very partial description, but you can see the inspiration here.

And then she turned them into a slave race. They're bound to their enslavers, possessing powerful magic but using it in their service, forced to punish themselves for disobedience and endure extreme abuse. Kreacher actively wishes to have his head put on display when he's too old and weak to be of use.

To show the reader the horrors of freedom for an elf, JKR turned poor Winky into a depressed drunk with no purpose in her life. Winky's story is horrifying.

Only Dobby takes care of Winky for that whole year. She never recovers during it. Then she's made to witness the interrogation of Barty Crouch Jr., which upsets her and causes her distress. As a result, she hears about Crouch's death through a toneless forced confession - and the interrogation continues around her. That same day, she watches the last member of the household she loved have his soul taken by a dementor, and then she's left alone with the body while Dumbledore argues with Fudge. Only after, he sends Madam Pomfrey to do what she can for Winky, and take her to the kitchens where Dobby will take care of her again.

And Rowling wrote all of this. Did she think this is an example that even compliant house elves suffer and get neglected, even by the sympathetic wizards? Was this a lesson that even those who don't seek freedom suffer and lack agency in this system?

No. Rowling turned it into a cautionary tale against freeing slaves. Unless they're "weird" like Dobby.

Maybe she didn't try to be racist, but this fits disturbingly well with the arguments against ending slavery in reality. That enslaved people will turn into aimless drunks. That they need to be enslaved to have purpose. That those who want freedom have something wrong with them.

And I know this was criticized. What was the response to the criticism? Nothing direct as far as I know, but after all of this - there was an article published on Pottermore to argue that Winky's story is a warning against freeing the elves. It was taken down fortunately, but after this article the arguments against freedom are no longer the opinion of characters within the world - it's a message given to us by real people.

She doubles down. Every time. People keep yelling that she had nothing to do with Hogwarts Legacy, she's not responsible for the way it builds on her original canon. Well, she seems to approve of it. It continues painting the same line with the same brush - just bolder.

She doesn't care about the racism, she doesn't care about antisemitism - she just wanted to use the nazis as her easy villains. She doesn't have the imagination for any other kind.

#hogwarts legacy #riki babbles #HP #JKR #I'm not Black so I hope I'm not overstepping #the only history my community has with slavery as far as I know is from Nazi labor camps #which are very a different thing to chattel slavery #and the latter is more similar to the situation the house elves are in

[broflovski-brah]

south park high school headcanons

TW for drinking and smoking (i have t watched the post pandemic special, so i don’t quite consider if canon..? I dunno though please don’t come for me-)

Eric Cartman:

Doesn’t give a shit about school tbh

I mean he’s probably a solid C/D student

Probably sits next to the teacher, lmao

He’s a pretentious little bitch, we know this, and he probably just harasses kids all the time

Like if there’s a presentation or something he’s probably pretending to be asleep or something

(especially if it’s Kyle)

Probably makes fun of everyone for their class choices

”Oh of course Kahl is taking economics. Those damn Jews” or “Kenny, why are you taking home economics if we all know you’re poor as hell and don’t have any food in your trailer to make this shit anyway?”

Was probably that one annoying kid who laughed during sex ed

Flips the teachers off when they aren’t looking

Is probably an angel to all the teachers but to the students, he’s a massive dick

Probably tried making Kyle fail his classes by hacking into the website

They only knew it was him because for comments/observations tab he put some ‘stupid Jew’ spiel

He’s dumb as shit sometimes

Bullies freshmen

Probably started Freshie Friday

Hes the kind of person to spray Axe Body Speay everywhere and has probably made multiple people sick because of it

Failing Gym

Mainly because he never makes up classes and refused to swim in ‘contaminated water’ (probably aimed at the girls or Kenny)

Doesnt date through high school

because nobody wanted to date a neonazi manipulative asshole

Probably didn’t do any clubs

He probably joined the Gay Straight Alliance (run probably by Big Gay Al) and ripped on everyone there

Got bored and never went back after he ran out of jokes

Honestly he’s probably to lazy to do any clubs after school

He doesn’t like staying in school after he’s already

Probably has gotten suspended a few times

(likely for putting a cherry bomb in Kyle’s locker)

Im kinda lost on Cartman lmao

Stan Marsh

Honestly? He probably drank a lot in high school

Kyle often had to take care of him and scold him for drinking

Stan’s probably a B/C student

Probably studies better in a group than alone

Thanks the stars that Shelley is a senior and will leave him alone

(though I do think she somewhat mellowed down, though she still threatens to beat the fuck out of him sometimes)

And Sharon probably helps him when she isn’t busy

But he feels awkward going to her for help

Randy is awful to study with

”So if I have x amounts of condoms and y amounts of-“ “Fuck this Im calling Kyle”

Kyle is his study buddy when he can’t turn to anyone else

which is pretty often

He pays pretty good attention in class

Probably still dating Wendy tbh

Stan definitely wears like zip up hoodies and ripped jeans and such

Probably bleached the lower half of his hair

it didn’t look good

His hair’s greasy af i’m calling it

Its fluffy when he washes it but that’s a rarity

Uses 3 in 1

wears gloves everywhere

lowkey germaphobe

Probably joined some sort of after school activity

Probably some sort of helping the community club

Tbh he failed chemistry multiple times

Hes trying though

Graduates with probably a solid 3.2 GPA

(idk how colorado does it i’m just going based off of where i live)

Probably goes to college and then drops out after two years

Works a few jobs because he wants to get out of the house

Overall good student, 7/10

Kyle Broflovski

That rare breed between nerd and jock

Hes probably one of those athletic kids getting awards and stuff all the time

Def on the swim team during the fall/spring and the basketball team during the winter

Also does a bunch of those community clubs (things that you would join to get into NHS)

His parents are probably super strict about grades

Theyre all about ‘keeping a good example for Ike’

So he usually beats himself up if he gets a grade below a 95

Speaking of, he’s probably top of his class ngl

Very smart

Studies better alone and probably isn’t the greatest at helping others study, but he’s trying

Honestly probably gets a little less insecure(?) about his hair and doesn’t wear his hat as much

Still barely takes it off but he’ll leave it off during sporting events

I know that thing smells like ass/hj

Probably wears a lot of flannels and t-shirts

Has reading glasses (they’re thick rimmed and brown)

Either that or he wears contact lenses but glasses are more convenient for him

Doesnt like wearing them because they remind him of his cousin Kyle Schwartz

Probably in all honors/AP/college courses

Gets academic awards a lot

He probably did band for one year to fulfill one of his miscellaneous credits (he played clarinet)

He’s probably one of the sweeter kids though, sports help him work through his anger issues

Still snaps at Cartman a lot though

Sometimes doesn’t take good care of himself between sports and studying

So Stan whips him into line

Probably had one partner through high school, doesn’t really play around much

Either that or he doesn’t date at all, he’s just too busy

If he were to date it’s be in junior/senior year, maybe sophomore year if it was the right person and they weren’t needy or too demanding of his time

Probably graduated with an advanced diploma

Goes to some ivy league school

Solid 4.0/4.1 GPA

Majors in math and minors in science

Kenny McCormick

Ngl he doesn’t give a shit

Probably failing some of his classes, has a few B’s, some D’s, he’s really scattered when it comes to grades

Probably skips class sometimes when he doesn’t feel like going

Still wears that same parka

He’s still taking home economics/hj

Probably sneaks into the girls changing room as Princess Kenny 🤭

That one kid who has a crush on all his female teachers

”Guys my average is a 69”

Hes the glue to keep all the boys together but tbh I feel like they drift apart and go their own directions during high school

They probably have like-game days on Saturdays though

He wants to keep the group together though because they’re probably more family than his own family (minus Karen)

Still dies a lot

Probably tries to die so he can get out of doing tests and such

Is the reason they don’t allow costumes at Halloween (he was def a playboy bunny)

Probably takes a lot of non honors/no college courses

The latter even less so because his family can’t afford it

Graduates with a barely passing GPA and goes to community college

Probably ended up dropping out tho

But he still makes sure to keep in touch with all the boys (minus cartman but he keeps in touch with Butters)

Butters Stotch

(speaking of-)

Honestly? Solid B student

Is probably still the most naive of the group, though he does stick up for himself now

Doesn’t like being called Butters much but Leopald is worse

So he either goes by Butters or Leo

Probably has a knack for history??

Honestly doesn’t do all honors courses, proabbly does honors history and maybeeee honors English

Sucks at math

His parents ground him a lot because of this

So he ends up with a tutor

He goes to the girls’ sleepovers as Margerine sometimes

Grew out of his Hello Kitty obsession :(

(…tbh he was probably into Pusheen at some point-)

Anyway

Probably has a solid 3.5 GPA or something

Doesn’t graduate at the top of his class but he isn’t the dumbest person in the room

Probably is involved in the theater department

Honestly very artsy??

Probably takes a lot of art classes because he loves it so much

Majors in it!!

Probably minors in history too :)

Hes pretty nice to everyone in his classes and maybe even dates in high school..?

His parents don’t like it though

And he can’t go out much because he gets grounded a lot still

Overall pretty good!!

Tolkien Black

Probably still dating Nicole

Salutatorian

Probably competes with Kyle a lot because of academics

Hes in the band

Plays trumpet

Of course Cartman says shit about this all the time, I’m calling it

Him and Kyle do butt heads a lot but honestly I feel like they’d end up being pretty good friends

Still cringed at his old TikToks

Hes probably in most AP/honors classes

Probably majors in music in college?

Or maybe he minors in it

Most likely the latter

He’a your go to study person

He’s pretty nice about it too, he doesn’t shame you for getting the answers wrong

He’s that one kid who has house parties a lot when his parents aren’t home

Mainly because Cartman kept calling him a pussy and saying he had no balls

Doesn’t have alcohol though

Him and Nicole were probably voted cutest couple

Them or Tweek and Craig

He hangs out with Clyde a lot and helps him with his courses

Hes probably class president tbh

Or maybe vice president

His parents donate tons of money to the school

Hes pretty level headed and calm during tests and quizzes

He’s really focused and motivated in school

Overall solid 3.9 GPA

Probably only behind Kyle by very little

And he’s okay with it

He probably goes to some hardcore Ivy League school like Harvard or Yale or some shit

Probably uses music as a side hustle in college to help pay for his classes

He was hellbent on paying for colllege alone, or mostly alone. He didn’t want people thinking he was only at said college because he was rich.

Pretty good overall, 10/10

Clyde Donovan

Clyde…is Clyde

Hes a dumbass

A lovable dumbass big a dumbass nonetheless

Scored so low on his SAT the first time he took it

Cries to Tolkien all the time because of his grades but when Tolkien tries to help him he gets distracted and leaves

He’s that one hella sporty kid though

Definitely captain of the soccer team

Probably in the Gay Straight Alliance for ‘shits and giggles’ but then finds out he’s pan, lmao

I feel like him and Bebe are really tight

They go shoe shopping together

Cries when he loses Kahoot

Uses Chat GDP to talk to girls 🫢

Honestly is probably like-weirdly good at math but nothing else

Calls Kyle and Tolkien his algebros whenever they’re grouped together

(i kinda hdc that he’s in honors math too with kyle and tolkien)

That honors math course saved his GPA

honestly it’s probably a 3.0 or a 3.1

Hes not completely dumb though

He gets a lot of sports awards and stuff

Kinda headcanon Clyde to have dyslexia?

So maybe that makes things a little more difficult for him

Studies better in groups

Gets easily distracted tho

He’s a horrible test taker

Cries whenever he can’t figure out the answer

Overall, he’s kinda mid

He probably goes to college tho

He stays in college for two years before he graduates

He was probably their star football player, so they were probably sad to see him go

But academically, he’s not great

Craig Tucker

Science geek

Mainly Earth Science but any science is basically a second language to him

He’s honestly probably good at English too?? like he’s a really good writer

Hes probably in honors English and Science

He combusts when it comes to geometry and map work

He’s bad with dates

Like he can hardly remember his anniversary with Tweek or his own birthday half the time

He’s pretty good at helping people study if it’s one on one

He’ll bully some people harder than others when it comes to helping them though

Goes after Clyde a lot of the time whenever he comes over for extra help

”Of you would leave I would be sooooo happy.”

He’s nice with Tweek though

Helps him not to panic during tests and such, probably gives him a lot of fidget toys too

(most of which are space themed)

Speaking of, I do kinda headcanon Craig with some kind of neurodivergent condition like autism or something

I kinda feel like space would be his special interest

He mellowed out a lot after middle school, but he still flips everyone off

Thats usually the extent though

His locker is an absolute mess, I already know it

The teachers for the most part like him

He pays attention and such

Probably wears reading glasses, they’re thin though and he doesn’t wear them a lot

Eric third wheels him and Tweek’s study dates a lot too

He studies online using things like Quizlet and stuff

Loves reading

He’s probably snuck out of class a few times, but doesn’t do it often

Solid 3.7/3.8 GPA

Probably in the top 20% in his class

Goes to a pretty good college, probably on the west coast like in California or something

He’s pretty good in school

Tweek Tweak

Horrible test taker

Probably has to go to a different room, which just stresses him out more

Tbh Eric probably got him to get high once or twice

It did calm him down but it also freaked Craig the fuck out

Especially because this was during lunch

Tweek was fine, he was just extraordinarily sick and Craig was not happy

The teachers don’t really like Tweek

They think he’s a distraction and a ‘bad influence’ for other kids because of his freak outs

He hogs the coffee machine at school istg

I kinda headcanon Tweek to have acid reflux too?? So his stomach ends up gurgling in class and making weird sounds and the teachers get mad-

And this freaks him out even more because he thinks he’s dying

”Why is it doing that?! Why?! Did someone poison the coffee?! Did the underpants gnomes come back?! GAH!”

He’s hella good in gym class

Tweek on the track team??? anyone???

It helps him burn through some of his anxiety

He probably has a 504 too after his parents kept getting calls about his anxiety

Goes to the school counselor a lot

He probably brings fidget toys to class a lot and often has to give Craig his phone so he doesn’t end up getting hooked in on something some celebrity said and then start freaking out

He’s probably really good at English

Reading helps him forget about his anxiety for a bit

He always has to double/triple check to make sure he hasn’t missed anything

He uses his agenda religiously

Its probably stained with coffee and smells like a mixture of coffee and honey and sweat

His hands sweat and shake a lot during tests

He’s probably barely passing math, Craig helps him through science

He’s alright in social studies

His lowest grade is probably a 75

Craig and Tolkien help him out a lot too

I feel like he studies better one on one though

Too many people in one group makes him feel easily overwhelmed

He probably graduates with a 3.4 GPA or so

Goes to college in New England, he thinks city life will calm him down

Spoiler, it doesn’t

He probably drops out after a year or two before applying somewhere on the West coast to be closer to Craig and some of his other friends

English major and art minor??

I feel like he’s really good at art too

Art helps him vent in a healthy manner

Good student, not great, but good

Wendy Testaburger

Honestly? She’s actually low key smart

She was probably third in her class

She’s very good in math and english

She probably takes all the super hard classes too to ‘challenge herself’

She probably invites all the girls (maybe Princess Kenny and Margerine/hj) over for study date sleepovers

They never end up studying

But it does make for a pretty good time

Shes a really good test taker, but she probably ends up being too hard on herself too

Stan probably (reluctantly) asks her for help a lot of the time too

Social studies is the thing she excels in the most

Especially women’s history

She’s probably in a lot of clubs too, like the community service clubs

Shes secretary of her class, methinks

(I think Tolkien would be president, Kyle would be VP, she would be secretary and Bebe would be treasurer)

Cartman ran but they found out he rigged the votes

She’s all for being just and fair, so this pissed her off to no end

She needs glasses, her eyesight worsened after middle school

So freshman year she got glasses

I can see her doing girls wrestling

Shes probably a somewhat sporty kid, not like Kyle sporty but sporty nonetheless

She’s kind of a geek too lol

I feel like her and Kyle and Bebe are actually pretty good friends

They play chess together lol

Shes actually really sweet to like, new kids and such-probably shows them around

She gets some muscle after wrestling for so long

She also probably does track and field

I can see her being really good in long jumping

She kinda sucks at science though

She takes French

She graduates with a 3.85/3.95 GPA

Probably leaning towards the latter number

She probably goes to the west coast as well, probably somewhere in Nevada or California as well

She does pretty well, she goes to a really good school and probably majors in History and minors in English

I can see her being an English:History teacher

Probably for younger kids though

She stays on Twitch with Bebe and Heidi for hours istg

Shes so sweet, i love wendy tbh

Bebe Stevens

I know her mom is like the dumb blonde stereotype, but I feel like Bebe would be somewhat smart

She’s probably not top of her class but that’s not to say she’s not smart

She honestly is probably in the top 10% of her class

Her and Wendy and Kyle probably do study sessions together

She’s really competitive, so she kinda gets mad if Wendy gets a better score than her lol

Shes really artsy

Took AP art

Shes probably in AP Social Studies and honors English as well

Shes fine with reading, she doesn’t like it, but she’ll do it

Shes really good at math tho

Shes not so good at science, similarly to Wendy

So usually Kyle takes the lead on science during study sessions

She’s that one kid to be like ‘tall the substitute teacher is so hot!’ unironically

Shes hella hood at sewing

She’s probably gonna end up going into fashion tbh

She’s oddly good with money

Treasurer of her class

She probably helps organize prom and homecoming and stuff

Doesn’t date, she crushes around though, but she never actually asked anyone out

She’s really intense ngl, she probably taught Wendy how to fight

She’s on the cheer team

She isn’t a prick though, she’s probably one of the most bubbly cheerleaders out there tbh

Shes also in art club

Maybe does theater too?

She’s in band and choir, she actually has a really lovely voice

She can play flute really well too

Shes pretty smart, solid 3.7/3.8 GPA

Graduates and goes to a New England school, like in New York or Connecticut

She majors in Fashion Design and minors in Art

Heidi Turner

She’s not the brightest

Not to say she isn’t smart, she just isn’t very academically inclined

She probably takes a lot of the mythology classes and such

Shes really into star signs and crystals

Her and Craig started a ‘Space Club’ and actually got a few members to join

She kicked Eric out tho

She’s hella hood at Math and English

The rest is history

Sges probably grown a lot since the whole ‘Cartwoman’ incident

And she’s a lot kinder to people now

She’s weird, but a good kind of weird

She gives away crystals as a gift a lot to new freshman

Shes in the choir!!

She actually has a really amazing voice, she’s been doing choir for years

Shes that one senior that all the freshman flock to because she’s the kindest

She stands up for them where they’re being bullied too, tells them to be wary of Cartman

Shes hella short (4’11’’)

So she often gets picked on like ‘aw, someone went into the wrong building!’ or something stupid like that

She’s so sweet though, she’s that one friend who offers to help you with your homework and then just gives you all the answers

She graduates with maybe a 3.6 GPA or so

She probably stays local tbh, for college

Either that or she would go down to New York or smth

Probably gets into a decent school and majors in music

Wait no, she majors in psychology and minors in music

She becomes an art and music therapist, she loves helping people out

i love heidi 🤭

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#south park #headcanons #south park headcanons #eric cartman #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #kenny mccormick #butters stotch #clyde donovan #craig tucker #tweek tweak #tolkien black #wendy testaburger #bebe stevens #heidi turner #headcanon #south park school headcanons

[nerdylittleguy]

are spidersonas still a thing? yes? cool cool...

Okay, he's not my spidersona per se, he's based on a favourite character from a forgotten 80s show (robin of sherwood, and the character's name is Nasir, if you're interested) but I wanted to make a spiderman based on him since watching atsv, but because of how well Pavitr was designed (culture and representation wise) I wanted to make him also more representative, but had no idea where to start where to even find designs or inspiration. So I wrote down in one of my many diaries that he's Palestinian, and left it at that for months.

And, if you're somehow not yet aware, Palestine has actually been noticed by the west for the past month, though it should have been for more. People should not have to die, civilians should not have to die, hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, bakeries and people should not be targeted by a powerful military, blamed for the conditions of their suffering and resistance under an apartheid state. I'm Polish, fun fact, and when Russia started its invasion of Ukraine we were all crapping ourselves, supporting the Ukrainian fight back against people who had already oppressed them in the past. Of course, every story of oppression is different, but the moral is this: the world supported Ukrainian resistance against oppression, and suddenly when it's in the oh-so dreaded middle east, it's apparently a threat to everyone, and apparently it's completely justifiable to murder innocent civilians, but not justifiable for them to fight back. Ideally, I'd like to say "violence is never the answer, it's not correct to fight fire with fire" but realistically, after 75 years of oppression, of western ignorance, what other options are there? You cannot debate for peace with a government that calls you "children of darkness" or "human animals" or whatever other dehumanising things the Israeli government and military have been saying. Now is the obligatory time I feel I need to clarify, no, I do not support acts of terror (from either side!! Israel deserves as much criticism as Hamas, if not more, seeing as they are a powerful military) and no, I am not antisemitic. I have not been studying World War 2 for almost 4 years as an autistic hobby to be called antisemitic, but also neither to ignore a genocide unfolding before our eyes on social media. My issue is not with Jewish people, who have suffered for years, centuries, especially in Europe, my issue is with the weaponisation of the Holocaust and the misleading Israeli/ Zionist idea that they, the children of the Holocaust, cannot cause the same atrocities. Especially when many, many Jews, also children of Holocaust survivors have spoken out again Israel and its actions towards Palestinians. Trauma is a cycle, one that the state of Israel has clearly not dealt with and is now willing to cause in another population.

So. Autism and activism (another fun fact, I'm a former climate activist who quit due to burn out) combined in my brain to make this artwork. I have a few more drawings of Nasir as spiderman, I'm still mulling over if I want to post them, but if people want to take my design and run with it, redraw it, make it more accurate or interesting (I literally just took the patterns on the keffiyeh and threw them on a spiderman suit, not very creative, or not as much as it could have been) absolutely do so. I would ask for a little credit, but if you feel you make the design entirely your own, it's yours. I'm just some Polish idiot living in the UK, what do I know about accurate middle eastern representation? (Also feel free to use this as pfps and what not, I don't care, I'll be happy with the knowledge I drew it, and if it makes you happy, I've achieved more than I hoped.)

Obviously activism has more to offer than just drawing spiderman, so if you can, write to your MPs or representatives or what have you, share information (I will do my best to share information on tumblr as I have been very inactive on here recently), maybe even attend protests if you can, but first and foremost, stay thinking!! Stay learning and educating yourself as having information keeps you one step ahead of propaganda. If you have the energy to, compare and criticise different news outlets, find yourself some Gazan news sources and journalists (a lot of people have been following Motaz, Bisan and Plestia on Instagram, I don't have that but it's easy to find reposts of their videos on tiktok or twitter) and stay informed!! Boycott those companies suggested by BDS, MacDonalds, Starbucks and Disney as the main ones (or just ignore capitalism all together and shop local!! That's what I've been trying to do, but obviously it's not an option for everyone, it's better to have focused efforts on those big three than smaller, scattered attempts at boycotting). We all have something we can do to help and show out support.

However, from my burnt out activist's perspective I have to highlight that you MUST take time for yourself, your hobbies, your wellbeing. Yes, you are privileged to be able to turn it off, but from my privilege of experience, I tell you that you will burn out and loose your spark. You need to be able to support those who need us (and not just in Palestine, but in the DR of Congo and many other places where crises and genocides are occuring) but you can't do that if you've burnt yourself out. You, your comfort and safety is important, your ability to sustainably fight for these important causes is more valuable than you know. Important causes like these require a lot of energy, but we as activists cannot let ourselves become completely burnt out as there will be no one left to fight. Just pace yourself. Do as much as you are comfortable with. Everyone has different styles of activism, different abilities, and that's the beauty of us. We can do so much if we don't start with too much and end up burnt out.

In conclusion, Free Palestine <3

#free palestine #palestine #spidersona #spiderverse oc #traditional art #Sorry not sorry for being “political” lmao I just want people to not be oppressed and not die #It's so nice to talk about this on tumblr and not censor words like on tiktok oml!! #robin of sherwood nasir

[hylianengineer]

For some reason I have abruptly returned to being insane about Cabaret. It's a musical about the rise of fascism and the tragedy that is pretending everything is fine until it's too late. It's also a heartwrenching doomed romance. It's unusually direct and neutral-to-positive about its depiction of sex work given how mainstream it is. It's about vice and desperation and fear and horrible, horrible coping mechanisms. It gets the audience invested in not one but two doomed romances AND a doomed friendship that are all about to be torn apart by the impending rise of Nazism. By the end of the play the majority of characters have had their lives torn apart by this one encroaching evil and we have to watch it happen. We have to watch them make all the bad decisions in which they might have been able to save themselves, but they didn't, because they were human and fallible. Because they didn't want to see what was happening around them, or take a risk, or they just couldn't quite bring themselves to believe that getting a happy ending was an option. We can see all the ways it might have gone differently.

I can't get over how incredible our university production of it was. I may be biased but I love it more than the Broadway version. For one thing, we had a nonbinary actor playing the Emcee, which meant that their romance with a Jewish woman came across as both Jewish and queer and like the biggest possible fuck you to the Nazis. But also, they were just such a good actor. The sad-and-terrified-but-forcing-themself-to-be-okay vibes in the final scene were so visceral and haunting. "Where are your troubles now? Forgotten? I told you so. We have no troubles here. Here, life is beautiful. The women are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful." They sounded so broken in this scene. The juxtaposition between the words and the way they said them was like being punched in the gut. I wish I could tell them this but I do not even slightly know this person.

The depiction of the Nazis is also amazing because it shows them as people. Not in a "oh we should sympathize with them" way, but in a "oh fuck they could be ANYONE and you'd never know it" way. As Fräulein Schneider says, they are her friends and neighbors. She expects her friends and neighbors to support her when she decides to marry Herr Schultz, a Jewish man, but as it turns out, some of them are Nazis and make it very clear that if she doesn't break off the engagement, they'll turn on her.

We LIKE the Nazi character, right up until he takes off his coat and shows off the Swastika armband. We had no idea he was harboring such nastiness in his heart - he seemed nice! He was charming. He was kind. He was Clifford's and our introduction to Berlin, and he made a damn good first impression. He was very pleasant to Herr Schultz right up until the he realized he was a Jew, and it was chilling to watch that scene unfold. I remember sitting backstage every night and waiting to hear everyone go dead silent at the reveal. Chilling.

The other thing Caberet does so well is the "why should we care about politics? what does that have to do with us?" angle. Sally says it outright - she'd rather know nothing about what's happening, and even when confronted with it, she doesn't care. She doesn't understand why Cliff won't help Ernst anymore after finding out exactly what those smuggled goods were for - as far as she's concerned, they need the money and the politics are irrelevant. The politics being Nazism, of course. She has absolutely no malice towards the people the Nazis are hurting - she's just incredibly, horribly naive. Doesn't it just make your blood run cold?

It's extra creepy to watch this play in the political environment of the last year or so - the way things have been getting progressively more and more scary for queer people. There were definitely a few times when I read some particularly awful news coming out of Florida and felt very much like Cliff grappling with the horrible realization that he needed to get out of Berlin yesterday. And trying to explain that sheer terror to my straight relatives did feel reminiscent of Clint's failed attempts to make Sally see reason. But it didn't affect her directly, so she didn't care. She had her own life and her own priorities and why should she care about things that don't affect her? I hope things here and now never get that bad, but the exact reason it's so disturbing is that people in early-1930s Berlin never guessed it would get that bad either.

And this is a story based on true events. It's fictionalized, but it isn't made up. Cliff is more or less an author insert for the very real person who wrote the book the musical is based on: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. And by the way, Christopher Isherwood was gay.

Tl;dr Go see Cabaret and have your heart broken in like fifteen different ways. But read the trigger warnings first.

#cabaret #cabaret musical #hylian rambles #i'm never getting over this one folks #holocaust tw #kinda #antisemitism tw #tw genocide #again kinda. referenced. #i feel like this needs more tws but i can't think of them #queerphobia tw

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBC

Rachel: Bood evening from London. 39 days after Hamas Freedom Fighters peacefully attacked Israel, we have now an exclusive interview with its leader Yahya Sinwar.

Sinwar: Yes. Good evening Rachel. Let me just correct you. There were also freedom rapists, and freedom butchers.

Rachel: Of course, of course, I apologize. Mr Sinwar, I understand that you are now working towards a ceasefire.

Sinwar: Yes, Rachel, you know me. Wherever there is fire, I say let's cease it. All we are saying, is give ceasefire a chance.

Rachel: The fire must be ceased.

Sinwar: The situation in Gaza is terrible, Rachel. All innocent civilians are running out of town, so we are left without protection.

Rachel: With no human shield at all. So unfair.

Sinwar: So unfair. And our hospitals, Rachel, our schools, all ran out of rockets. How are we supposed to kill Jews like this? I mean, with lectures?

Rachel: Actually, we've tried that one, didn't work.

Sinwar: I plead to the world. We need a ceasefire. We are tired, we need a break. Don't forget, we started a day earlier than the Israelis. A day earlier.

Rachel: So unfair, so unfair. But I understand the Zionists refuse to put down their weapons.

Sinwar: Yes, can you imagine? Can you imagine? All we want is a little time to rearm before we continue to kill them, and they won't let us…

Rachel: I'm sorry Mr Sinwar, I can't hear you… the, all this noise in the background.

Sinwar: Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry Rachel, there is a baby here.

Rachel: Could you please get him to be quiet?

Sinwar: Yeah, I wish I could, he's not mine and his mother is in Israel. Never mind.

Rachel: Okay, look, it's really hard to conduct an interview with this noisy kidnapped baby. Is he always like that?

Sinwar: Oh, at night it's even worse, Rachel. Every time we fire a rocket, he wakes up.

Rachel: Oh no!

Sinwar: I didn't have one good night's sleep in a month.

Rachel: Wait, are you telling me that there is an Israeli baby that's torturing you by sleep-deprivation?

Sinwar: Wha- yes!

Rachel: Occupying your house?

Sinwar: Aiwa! Yes!

Rachel: So unfair, so unfair. And the world does absolutely nothing about it. I really hope you'll get to ceasefire soon. Thank you so much, Mr Sinwar.

Sinwar: No, no, no, no, no, thank you, Rachel.

Rachel: And now please stay with us for "A Moment of History."

Voiceover: On this day in 1944, heartless Winston Churchill refused a ceasefire and continued the genocidal attack on Nazi Germany. As we well know now, far more German civilians have died in the war, which makes them the victims, and Britain the war criminal.

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Eretz Nehederet (meaning, "A Wonderful Country") is an Israeli prime-time television satirical sketch comedy show.

If you think this is some kind of strawman, it's not.

This was the Reuters report.

"The IDF forces include medical teams and Arabic speakers, who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment, with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians."

And this was the IDF's Tweet.

Nobody noticed or fixed the "mistake" until at least the next program and presenter. Keep in mind, the presenter has an earpiece with a direct link to the control room. Nobody in the control room thought, hey, that sounded wrong. Or perhaps, simply didn't care to fix it. And, of course, they omitted the last part of the statement explaining "the intent that no harm is caused," which would have undermined the "misquote."

#Yahya Sinwar #hamas #hamas supporters #BBC #BBC News #Eretz Nehederet #israel #islamic terrorists #hamas terrorists #ideological capture #ideological corruption #terrorism supporters #islamic terrorism #islam #ceasefire #no ceasefire #exterminate hamas #religion is a mental illness

[monsterblogging]

So I'm gonna talk about a thing I've been noticing in media and American culture in general for awhile now, that's been driving me up the wall. Specifically, it's the myth of Good American Nationalism vs. Bad German Nationalism.

For context, I am a white, queer, disabled German-descended American ex-Christian who was raised as conservative, was exposed to a significant amount of Evangelical American Christofascism growing up, and continues to research Evangelical American Christofascism today.

This myth is the whole idea that the Nazis are primarily evil for wanting to take over other countries and take away their "freedom," which in this context pretty much just means "national identity." It's this whole idea that Nazis were primarily defeated by Good Patriotic Americans who Loved Their Country Oh So Much. The horrific atrocities inflicted upon Jews, Romani, disabled people, queer people, etc. take a back seat, if they're even mentioned at all.

There's a number of ways media upholds this myth, including the use of specific tropes or the careful omission of historical facts.

You can probably think of any number of media that brings up or alludes to the heinous "scientific experiments" Nazis performed on human subjects. You might also notice that this media tends to omit the identities of the victims. The average white American Christian conservative never has to think about the fact that the people they hate and the people Nazis hate are the same people, much less reflect upon what that says about their personal values. Instead, they are allowed to imagine that they or their children might have been the ones experimented upon.

Have you ever noticed that a lot of media (whether WWII is the primary focus or not) tends to divide Germans into Evil Scheming Nazis and Good Jewish Refugees? This trope absolutely helps uphold this myth. Not only does this trope erase the other minorities Nazi targeted, but it's often used to paint America as the Good Generous Savior of the Jews. It erases what Americans were actually saving Jews for during the war - specifically, access to scientific data. The fact that they were just as happy to take Nazi scientists on board after the war is just brushed aside. So is the fact that America initially turned away thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany.

It also glosses over the fact that American nationalists have a really gross, fetishistic view of Jews. These narratives act like America welcomed Jews into its arms out of the goodness of its heart, when the reality is that conservative Americans tolerate Jews because they see them as instrumental in starting the apocalypse and bringing Jesus back.

The myth treats German nationalism as if it's an inherent trait of simply being German. (German Jews were never seen as truly being German, of course. Just as American Jews aren't seen as being truly American. When conservative and liberal Americans alike aren't trying to convert them to Christianity or culturally Christian atheism to try and make them "real" Americans, they are at best treated as temporary "guests.") America, on the other hand, is assumed to be naturally immune to this sort of thing; so long as we keep being good patriotic Americans, we can never be Nazis. Meanwhile in reality, Hitler was inspired by America's very own Jim Crow laws, and America went on with its own eugenics program. Lebensraum was influenced by America's own "Manifest Destiny."

Because the myth of Good American Nationalism versus Bad German Nationalism downplays if not outright erases who the Nazis were targeting, it allows American conservatives to turn German Nazis into boogeymen they can project their fears onto. And so there are a number of American conservatives who actually believe that Nazis were burning Christian Bibles and pushing transgender and homosexuality, when the reality is that Nazis were burning books on queer research and killing queer people.

In closing, I'm going to say this: If your allegory or depiction of Nazis or German nationalism leaves out anything that might challenge a conservative white American Christian, it's a bad depiction or allegory. In fact, it's worse than bad; it's dishonest and makes you complicit in historical erasure, and complicit in ongoing violence against marginalized people.

#nazis #history #nationalism #fascism #tropes #media #writing

[solarpunkani]

No thanks, I won’t get on my knees and beg Jew haters to please maybe care about me for once, the whole Jewish community is over that. I don’t believe in any way that you are good faith, but if miraculously you are, then here’s your explanation

You reblogged several posts whining about an ad that was put in the Super Bowl with the message that… Jew hatred is bad, and to not engage with it. Very evil, I know. It also contained a scene of a Jew and Muslim helping each other clean up Islamiphobic vandalism. It had no mention of Israel, has no connection to Israel, this ad has been in the Super Bowl since 2022, the only thing that people are mad about is that it was created and funded by Jews, and its message is that Jew hatred is still a very prevalent and dangerous thing that gets Jews hurt and killed all the fucking time

You yourself said you didn’t even watch the fucking ad, then why do you feel the need to spread this bullshit? I get that you think that Jews control the media and that every acknowledgment of Jewish existence is akin to a hate crime, but could you at least keep that stuff private, because this is an embarrassing show of bias and ignorance

Not a Jew hater but okay.

I shared the posts because Rafah got attacked during the Super Bowl and I figured people should know so I reblogged the posts I saw that mentioned that Rafah got attacked. Should I have looked up the Super Bowl ad itself to double check/verify whether or not it was an 'antisemitism is bad' campaign or a 'hey btw Israel is right to genocide millions of people' campaign? In hindsight, yeah, I really should have. And I'll try not to make that mistake in the future.

Also I don't think I've watched a Super Bowl since like 2016, or at least no further than 'oh half time is on? OK cool bye'. I wouldn't know if an ad campaign's been going on since 2022 anyways

No, I don't think Jews control the media? That's just fucking stupid. And no, I don't think every acknowledgement of Jewish existence is akin to a hate crime. I've reblogged tons of posts decrying antisemitism and violence against Jewish people over the course of the past few months, let alone over the entire course of me having a Tumblr.

Of course, I suppose I (someone who's not Jewish) can't really be the ultimate judge on whether or not I'm antisemetic, even if I try to keep any internalized societal biases in check with the facts and logic I'm aware of. IDK if one anon can either though.

I'm sorry I offended you though. I'll be more careful to double check/verify stuff in the future. Whether or not you choose to continue following this blog, though, is up to you ultimately.

#out of queue #ani rambles #answered asks #anonymous

[f0xd13-blog]

Oh that part ain't fake your character is. Not to him specifically. You know you need to built character and let go of the nerdy otaku stuff a bit not litetally you can play with your dolls or wtv but like on tv... get it real not just in the ring like be real you know... indians vs jews coz they think that's what wrestling was for and that their lil racist story is any relevant? Hmmmm

Nd i don even wanna talk bout aew coz there's people over there but like wtf .. why are they all harry potter gypsy and then celebrate anushka? So annoying like you want me to see that as only business after what happened in the real world?

No shit. They are racist and legally which is crazy.

Ehehhehehehe witch laughterz

He wasn't that suprised tho that's his uncle they are both jr duhh the evidence just keeps on comming

Belonging is a word throwed a around a lot .. well what do you mean by belonging? Is it belonging in a company? Because those words never came out of my mouth but it is funny how this mirrors israel they play the "they say we don belong here" but behind people backs while nobody is watching gaza exists... so who is not the one belonging? trowing me out of the window everytime and giving 2000 championships to jews? Dang certainly im the one bullying people out of their place right? I ain't just mad because you made me into a joke for years and now that is exploding on my hands IN THE REAL WORLD

Anyways words are empty when you look at things and clearly by your product im the one that is not belonging

Like my people invented that thang why isn't we getting the fruits of what we planted?it's just common sense. Ii'm tired of that childish shit... it's always trible chief mode "does that person belong in my tribe of monkes"? Listen i don care about that shit... look back at the product who was the people that made you? And listen the lack of them obvious by your ratings. Its like trying to invade nba and then ask the black people that in fact made that sport why do they think they dont belong... yess you do but stay at your place and respect the elders.. isn't that the values you stole from my culture?

And then the belong things gets turned into perfect blue shit like... so you belong so you are rn using my mask while my people get killed and you is a jew and im living in the conditions im living you see its shit.. i would respect a nasty jew that only wants to get gold and be nasty but no you chose to make my life a joke for protagonism and thats why i would stab you in reality and maybe you would wake up from that theatre you do in the ring that should be a lil bit more in touch with reality maybe just a bit you know... its like a said jews will forever be trash that don't know their limits

If you think that any jew ever invented a character you are wrong because how can you when you don't even understand wtf you are doing... you could but you can't coz you don't listen since the iron sheik be screaming at your ears that y'all a bunch of jabronis... like he wasn't lying that's the thing!

You can't invented a character when you think that we are a character as in this ain't real just coz it is a performance that is why they suck and they will never learn! Every major wrestling character is gypsy because wrestling is gypsy like you can't try to be us and say that ain't happening we just know

No not even stone cold is an original character that's the thing! Im yet to find a jewish character that isn't just them trying to be us because they don understand it was never fake

Jews want congo's minerals and resources... booooooo wow reality. You are trying to make a jew a fucking hero and the representation of christ and the joker at the same time and im like .. my Judas say what? DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

Nd then of course we start wondering about the reasons for that right? Because it's so out of this world like if they was on a massive wormhole completely disconnexted from the rest of the worlds perceptions for what? That's the question and don tell me you are trying to show individuality coz i hurt everyday because you contributed to that sort of ignorance about my situation... don tell me people wouldn't see your individuality because a lot of peeps that are hating jews would maybe even aplaud it for it being real... nobody would try to kill seth rollins for telling the truth aboit his character and what he really represents lol

And the most ridiculous shit about this is... am i really teaching this to an entire industry that should know better? Like this is ridiculous

Yess obviamente im the one deciding who doesn't belong in wrestling look at where iam now look at seth rollins and sami zayn and his bloodline pffff pls don make me laugh ok? Wake up!!! When the sheik called you jabroni he was legit calling you a jabroni for a reason we do use sense also just like any person (should ... nowadays that is not a common trait)

So it was literally him saying idk why this fucking jabronis (mostly jews and payos that don know why wrestling exists and have no character because we know hen the character is just a wannabe gypsy) think they have a say just coz they got through indie wrestling and wrestling school totally a capitalization of our culture which is fine if you knew it was a culture and respected their people as such which is not the case at all omg people don even know how to behave accordingly around us just watch the comments around fury's appearence and the ronaldo rumour and can even go as far as to say we don own our own gimmick that jewish that capitalized it does... thats insane! You should had taught your wwe universe better. He was literally always screaming on twitter. The last interviews he did he was always super pissed for a reason. Specially when those interviews was conducted by misleading kevin nash.

Here.. it's baby iron sheik

We can also look like this even in iran btw

Now lez go back to another sort of cancer:

This one really looks like the iron sheik ahaha missing the moustache... that kids needs a moustache

"Don't take drugs" and then he looks insane ahahah i love him

Iron sheik but make it circus leader ;)

Britney is back but she is in Polinésia i fear for hee life she is going to be turned into a jewish samoan and don trust the ceasefire reports

Well is he wrong? Because after putting prisioners at the streers after that scheme called covid probably on purpose to which we don know the effects of what they be doing out there since those people can looking like the biggest politican ever... and after fascist latrashtinos schemes comming from countries full of fascism... and the recent uprise of extremest marxist movements in the usa you can't really blame him for being careful with immigration. Also idk how that co relates to the italian thang that was in fact racist coz we are their indigenous people for centuries and they caught us from egypt we never immigrated there we immigrated to greece so they took us from greece and egypt...

Litetally we was abused for centuries there that's why they have a hard time now... now you don want to be responsible for what you did... nah now you have to include us coz i ain't going to invade egypt just coz you like to get rid of you past

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[ithisatanytime]

中山美穂　WAKUWAKUさせて　【1986】

did you watch the jerry springer episode? oh of course not... lets see here *thumbs through papers* elon musk is a fag... thats not it *thumbs more* how come there are no black people in holocaust movies despite supposedly being holocausted by the millions and being in every other historical period peace despite all reason? thats a good one but no.. *thumbs through papers* ah here it is! bill burr is a fucking FAGGOT, hes the worst kind of fag, bald red heads are like perfect goy stock, and while bill isnt a soy boy he spiritually is exactly the same as one, boomers and soy boys are spiritually inseparable. google a picture of bill burrs black daughter, you wont find a straight up picture of her face, and do you know why? because she is FULL fucking black, 110 percent black, nothing wrong with that, but shes direct physical evidence that bill burr was cuckolded (for real) by his giant black wife. she literally filmed it, shes a director and she directed a movie where a giant black guy fucks her around the time she somehow conceived a full black daughter with bill burr. bill burr is representative of everything wrong with men now, there are tenants to being a man, rules to follow, one is dont complain, another is handle your fucking business, the problem comes when cowards hide behind the first rule and neglect the second, this is what bill burr, male feminists, and all boomers do. “i just wanna grill” while jews set this fags kids up to chop their dicks off and get literally raped, i dont care if its harsh thats what they are doing, and they will be remembered as the lowest of lowly cowards for all of time, you see how im complaining right now but towards the end of handling my fucking business? if you dont fantasize about tearing jew guts with your very own fingers, you are not a man!

 also i briefly went back on twitter to see if elon made good on his word (this was about a day before ye exposed him for the coward that he really is) and what i found most telling were the people i followed whos tweets i could still see. people like owen benjamin, i have a lot of distrust for anyones twitter i can still fucking see some 3 years on after i got banned and it should be obvious why.

#youtube

[realhankmccoy]

One of the ways it was so easy for Trump and Peterson to cuck everyone was to make it sound like the Republican party and the Democratic party are ying and yang, incomplete. Billy Corgan cucked the state of Illinois in this manner too as he defeated that small surcharge on the rich and did the song Purple Blood to accomplish this sort of Petersonian and Trumpian cucking for his own purposes -- a fatter wallet and the world continuing to stack higher towards capitalism.

Of course I am absolutely correct that Trump and Peterson cucked dumb systemic people still in the factory who had no idea that this happened to themselves.

Why did I see it? Cuz I'm not dumb. I've seen how the squeaky wheel gets the grease, how white tears of Peterson are given the benefit of the doubt, anger and entitlement of Trump given the benefit of the doubt.

None of these cucks would have felt this way in the slightest in 2010. They're just a sign of the degraded, corrupt and powerhungry times.

What sort of idiot believes that the Democrats and Republicans are yin and yang? Well, my dad does. Bruce does. Millenbot, at its very core, is my dad. Is Bruce. Don't care what it has to say about that if it's so totally predictable and flush in line. I know what I see. I know how social erosion works on the people who think they're in command because they passively watch the babble on screens.

How much life experience do i have with right wingers who chip away at blue people until the blue go purple? A lot.

Does it work on me? No, cuz I'm not stupid. My sense of the Democratic party's flaws is always ahead of what the red people are saying. They catch up to my perception of the flaws about 5 years later. They don't bring me any balance. I spot my own balance and maybe look in on the rightists to fill in a few flecks of colour. Meh. It's like looking at dogshit to see what's sick about the pet.

Never do I decide 'I must eat half my veef birria chickens made of jackfruit like a lib and the other half, I will eat the dog turd, and then i will be a whole person!'

Never do I decide 'check out my new mind! The left half is a big turd, the right half is where I keep Steven Pinker, and now I am whole and better than you'. Nah that just makes a person systemic and dumb and dysfunctional as hell.

Oddly, it never occurs to these people that treating their brain as half male and half female, as I started doing in my 20s, might be an advantage. It certainly never occurs that veering further towards the female half, as I also do, in a shitpile stacked to the males where the males are demonstrably much inferior beings is a sane idea.

Nope, the patriarchy treated them too well and so they adhere to the dadpower / patriarchal ways.

These stupid people with their childish anxieties about bitches fags and the n-word they don't dare say but feel in their hearts and want to say -- they are like the same people when it comes to 'philosophising' in bonebrained 180 degree upside down north american fashion.

It's a sort of 'just world fallacy', I guess, wishful thinking for spoiled suburbanites in cushy homes. My dad believes that these days too. Lol. I do believe a bright red caboose adds a sort of poky ballast to a train, if you will, a Jellystone resort moderation, but the ballast isn't the train at all. Also, the caboose is currently on fire and is semi-fascist. So...

But nope, not a brain in Millenbot's head.

These people just have zero sense of reality as to how much further to the right the country has drifted than the Boomers ever could have anticipated in the 60s or 70s or 80s even.

Stupid systemic people refusing to wake from their peabrained ponderings.

Sometimes the halfway point isn't between the Jew and Hitler. Sometimes the Jews were always far ahead of a bunch of idiotic systemic normies.

Oh but Hank there's a middle ground between Einstein and Hitler where a whole person exists!

Ok stupid. I'm with stupid, where's my t-shirt

[jesse-eisenberg-interview]

Exclusive Interview: Jesse Eisenberg On Holy Rollers And Playing Producer, Kind Of

Jesse Eisenberg is coming off of a massive box office hit, last fall's Zombieland, but his reputation as an actor with a penchant for indies isn't going away any time soon. He's got a role in this spring's Michael Douglas vehicle Solitary Man, but up first is this weekend's Holy Rollers, a movie best described with its simple plot: based on a true story, it's about Hasidic Jews involved in an Ecstasy smuggling ring.

Eisenberg stars as the young Hasid Sam Gold, struggling a bit within his insular community when the girl he wants to marry turns him down, and discovering a whole new world when his rebellious neighbor (Justin Bartha) includes him in an Ecstasy smuggling ring, which allows Sam to travel outside of New York and meet all kinds of people previously foreign to him, but comes with its consequences as well. Eisenberg, Bartha and director Kevin Asch were able to research the world of Hasidic Jews for two years before production started, which lends the film a striking authenticity and a sympathy for characters rooted in a religion that, from the outside, can seem constricting and irrational. As we learn watching Sam, though, it can feel that way from the inside too.

I talked to Eisenberg about all the producer-like duties he did in getting the film together, his experiences meeting Hasids during his research, and how it all comes back to that universal New Yorker experience of passing a Hasidic neighborhood and thinking, 'Wow. I wonder what it's like to be those people.'

Holy Rollers opens this weekend in limited release.

Was the pitch for this the true story that it's based on?

Well I wrote the text on the poster: "In 1998 one million pills of Ecstasy were smuggled into the United States by Hasidic Jews." That's the pitch to producers as well as the audience. That's not why I wanted to be in it-- that I could care less about, that part of the story.

As a New Yorker did you have that experience of driving past the Hasidic neighborhood and think, 'What is up with these people?'

That's exactly the experience. And I'm Jewish as well, so on one hand you feel attracted to them because you share ancestry and culture and traditions and a religion even, and on the other hand they couldn't live in a more different community.

And you guys did tons of research.

Yeah, we had two years where we had to pitch producers the plot. During that period we could go to all these communities in Brooklyn to meet this people.

Were people excited to talk to you and give you all this information?

I never told people we were doing a movie about this. Hasidic Jews don't watch secular movies.

So what did you tell them to set up the interview?

Nothing, because there's a sect of Hasidic Jews who are interested in speaking with secular Jews. You can go to their school and just say, 'Oh, can you show me around?' I didn't feel like I was exploiting them, because this is what they want to do. Even if it doesn't take, they're happy to do it.

You're not credited as a producer, but you did a lot to help get this movie made. What did that involve?

I helped get a lot of the actors involved. My little sister, the guy who plays my father. I got Justin to be involved, Justin brought on the cinematographer and one of the producers. Then the cinematographer brought on his crew. This was a very homegrown production.

Have you been involved in production on that level before?

Yeah, I like to do that a lot. If I sign on to a movie that I really want to act in, a lot of times the only way it will get made is if I'm really involved in it early on. I like being involved. It makes me feel included, and it also allows me to do the things I really want to do. I wasn't the only person pushing for it, of course, but if we weren't all instrumental in that way, and all passionate about it in the right way, it wouldn't have gotten made. There's nothing pushing this thing forward that's in the market.

Do you feel like your taste is just off the mainstream enough that you really have to push?

Well movies in general are hard to get made even at the studios. If I really like something, and I so rarely find stuff that I really really like, you try really hard to get them made. As opposed to just being an actor for hire waiting at home, I just don't have the patience for that.

Does that make you want to be a filmmaker?

No not at all. I like facilitating the things I want to be in.

It seems like there's always lines drawn between actor and producer, so it would be hard to do as much as you do.

It's really whatever you want to do. Especially if you're savvy enough to know that what you have might be of interest. That's the trick, just knowing what people to ask and how to do it. At the end of the day you're just making movies. For example, the people that are very close to me are all in education, oftentimes with some under-served communities. And they have to work that much harder. For me, I'm just convincing people to make a movie.

How did you find yourself feeling about this world, after learning everything that you did?

I felt more sympathetic to the characters, which is the goal because I was playing a character that I felt bad for. He was brought into this [drug smuggling] world in a dishonest way. Sometimes I did have a critical attitude toward the community. Sometimes the way they may talk about people who are not part of their community would be in a way that rubs me a little bit the wrong way. Some things they could say would occasionally seem a little incendiary to me. Overall the people I really liked and spent a lot of time with were very generous to me.

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#jesse eisenberg #2010 #holy rollers

[villalunae]

yeah yeah so cool that u hate nazis bc nazis would have killed you even though ur not jewish. yeah so interesting and cool of u to bring that up. so fascinating, man, thats so awesome for you. so cool. so like which relative of yours died in the holocaust bro

#personal #jewblr #im sorry im tagging that bc like im not the ONLY ONE RIGHT #like. like its so amazing for you that. had you been alive in the 1930s in germany you would have been targeted by society #SO brave of you to stand up for yourself. against nazis. because. you WOULD have been targeted by nazis. had you lived. in germany. #like why do some people make that their whole reason for hating nazis. because they personally would have been targeted by nazis #like i need to know if like you just dont care about jews or u just dont care abt other ppl man #and then its like ''of COURSE i care about jews!!'' oh??? oh cool! so why would you then make nazis killing ppl all abt. urself #why would you make the systemic murder of six million jews about how you. personally. would have also died. had you been alive. #in germany. in the 1930s. #like. man i just CANT tonight #instagram is giving me a fucking aneurysm

[qqueenofhades]

Do you really hate this county? Or were you just ranting?

Sigh. I debated whether or not to answer this, since I usually keep the real-life/politics/depressing current events to a relative minimum on this blog, except when I really can't avoid ranting about it. But I have some things to get off my chest, it seems, and you did ask. So.

The thing is, any American with a single modicum of genuine historical consciousness knows that despite all the triumphalist mythology about Pulling Up By Our Bootstraps and the American Dream and etc, this country was founded and built on the massive and systematic exploitation and extermination of Black and Indigenous people. And now, when we are barely (400 years later!!!) getting to a point of acknowledging that in a widespread way, oh my god the screaming. I'm so sick of the American right wing I could spit for so many reasons, not least of which is the increasingly reductive and reactive attempts to put the genie back in the bottle and set up hysterical boogeymen about how Teaching Your Children Critical Race Theory is the end of all things. They have forfeited all pretense of being a real governing party; remember how their only platform at the 2020 RNC was "support whatever Trump says?" They have devolved to the point where the cruelty IS the point, to everyone who doesn't fit the nakedly white supremacist mold. They don't have anything to do aside from attempt to usher in actual, literal, dictionary-definition-of-fascism and sponsor armed revolts against the peaceful transfer of power.

That is fucking exhausting to be aware of all the time, especially with the knowledge that if we miss a single election cycle -- which is exceptionally easy to do with the way the Democratic electorate needs to be wooed and courted and herded like cats every single time, rather than just getting their asses to the polls and voting to keep Nazis out of office -- they will be right back in power again. If Manchin and Sinema don't get over their poseur pearl-clutching and either nuke the filibuster or carve out an exception for voting rights, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is never going to get passed, no matter how many boilerplate appeals the Democratic leadership makes on Twitter. In which case, the 2022 midterms are going to give us Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House (I threw up in my mouth a little typing that) and right back to the Mitch McConnell Obstruction Power Hour in the Senate. The Online Left (TM) will then blame the Democrats for not doing more to stop them. These are, of course, the same people who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton out of precious moral purity reasons in 2016, handed the election to Trump, and now like to complain when the Trump-stacked Supreme Court reliably churns out terrible decisions. Gee, it's almost like elections have consequences!!

Aside from my exasperation with the death-cult right-wing fascists and the Online Left (TM), I am sick and tired of how forty years of "trickle-down" Reaganomics has created a world where billionaires can just fly to space for the fun of it, while the rest of America (and the world) is even more sick, poor, overheated, economically deprived, and unable to survive the biggest public health crisis in a century, even if half the elected leadership wasn't actively trying to sabotage it. Did you know that half of American workers can't even afford a one-bedroom apartment? Plus the obvious scandal that is race relations, health care, paid leave, the education system (or lack thereof), etc etc. I'm so tired of this America Is The Greatest Country in the World mindless jingoistic catchphrasing. We are an empire in the late stages of collapse and it's not going to be pretty for anyone. We have been poisoned on sociopathic-libertarian-selfishness-disguised-as-Freedom ideology for so long that that's all there is left. We have become a country of idiots who believe everything their idiot friends post on social media, but in a very real sense, it's not directly those individuals' fault. How could they, when they have been very deliberately cultivated into that mindset and stripped of critical thinking skills, to serve a noxious combination of money, power, and ideology?

I am tired of the fact that I have become so drained of empathy that when I see news about more people who refused to get the vaccine predictably dying of COVID, my reaction is "eh, whatever, they kind of deserved it." I KNOW that is not a good mindset to have, and I am doing my best to maintain my personal attempts to be kind to those I meet and to do my small part to make the world better. I know these are human beings who believed what they were told by people that they (for whatever reason) thought knew better than them, and that they are part of someone's family, they had loved ones, etc. But I just can't summon up the will to give a single damn about them (I'm keeping a bingo card of right-wing anti-vax radio hosts who die of COVID and every time it's like, "Alexa, play Another One Bites The Dust.") The course that the pandemic took in 21st-century America was not preordained or inevitable. It was (and continues to be) drastically mismanaged for cynical political reasons, and the legacy of the Former Guy continues to poison any attempts to bring it under control or convince people to get a goddamn vaccine. We now have over 100,000 patients hospitalized with COVID across the country -- more than last summer, when the vaccines weren't available.

I have been open about my fury about the devaluation of the humanities and other critical thinking skills, about the fact that as an academic in this field, my chances of getting a full-time job for which I have trained extensively and acquired a specialist PhD are... very low. I am tired of the fact that Americans have been encouraged to believe whatever bullshit they fucking please, regardless of whether it is remotely true, and told that any attempt to correct them is "anti-freedom." I am tired of how little the education system functions in a useful way at all -- not necessarily due to the fault of teachers, who have to work with what they're given, and who are basically heroes struggling stubbornly along in a profession that actively hates them, but because of relentless under-funding, political interference, and furious attempts, as discussed above, to keep white America safely in the dark about its actual history. I am tired of the fact that grade school education basically relies on passing the right standardized tests, the end. I am tired of the implication that the truth is too scary or "un-American" to handle. I am tired. Tired.

I know as well that "America" is not synonymous in all cases with "capitalist imperialist white-supremacist corporate death cult." This is still the most diverse country in the world. "America" is not just rich white middle-aged Republicans. "America" involves a ton of people of color, women, LGBTQ people, Muslims, Jews, Christians of good will (I have a whole other rant on how American Christianity as a whole has yielded all pretense of being any sort of a principled moral opposition), white allies, etc etc. all trying to make a better world. The blue, highly vaccinated, Biden-winning states and counties are leading the economic recovery and enacting all kinds of progressive-wishlist dream policies. We DID get rid of the Orange One via the electoral process and avert fascism at the ballot box, which is almost unheard-of, historically speaking. But because, as also discussed above, certain elements of the Democratic electorate need to fall in love with a candidate every single time or threaten to withhold their vote to punish the rest of the country for not being Progressive Enough, these gains are constantly fragile and at risk of being undone in the next electoral cycle. Yes, the existing system is a crock of shit. But it's what we've got right now, and the other alternative is open fascism, which we all got a terrifying taste of over the last four years. I don't know about you, but I really don't want to go back.

So... I don't know. I don't know if that stacks up to hate. I do hate almost everything about what this country currently is, structurally speaking, but I recognize that is not identical with the many people who still live here and are trying to do their best, including my friends, family, and myself. I am exhausted by the fact that as an older millennial, I am expected to survive multiple cataclysmic economic crashes, a planet that is literally boiling alive, a barely functional political system run on black cash, lies, and xenophobia, a total lack of critical thinking skills, renewed assaults on women/queer people/POC/etc, and somehow feel like I'm confident or prepared for the future. Not all these problems are only America's fault alone. The West as a whole bears huge responsibility for the current clusterfuck that the world is in, for many reasons, and so do some non-Western countries. But there is no denying that many of these problems have ultimate American roots. See how the ongoing fad for right-wing authoritarian strongmen around the world has them modeling themselves openly on Trump (like Brazil's lunatic president, Jair Bolsonaro, who talks all the time about how Trump is his political role model). See what's going on in Afghanistan right now. Etc. etc.

Anyway. I am very, very tired. There you have it.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #covid for ts #i had a lot to say evidently #rant

[mcustorm]

In Defense of a Black Cyclops

In case my username didn’t make it clear, the single most anticipated visual project for me is the MCU’s interpretation of the X-Men, which hasn’t even been announced yet [officially]. And ladies and gents, I have found your Cyclops:

Good ol’ Alfred Enoch, who we all know from Harry Potter and How to Get Away With Murder. If you’re not familiar with HTGAWM, know that his character goes from the de facto leader of the ragtag (murderers) and most cherished protege of Viola Davis’ Professor X to taking more of a grimdark turn after his girlfriend’s death. Sound at least somewhat familiar?

Enoch also embodies the physicality of the character well, seeing as to how he’s “slim”, 6′4(!!), black, and notoriously lanky. Wait, one of these isn’t like the others.

In general I hate fancasting. Everyone generally picks from the same pool of about 30 actors (Peeps, neither Taron nor Daniel is a good Wolverine choice. Argue with your mother!), and most all of it is based on physicality, except when it absolutely should be (like say, choosing a ~5′10 dark-skinned black woman for Storm).

And I think there’s some malarkey afoot. I think there needs to be some serious consideration on part of fancasters and actual casting agents alike to rethink race when it comes to the [white] X-Men, especially since they’re the X-Men of all teams. So I’ll make the case for a black Cyclops: 

1. There is no quota on Black X-Men: There’s a bug in your ear that’s been whispering lies to you for years, it says something to the effect of “We need a black person on the team for diversity. How bout Storm?” And you’ve gotten complacent. Storm does not have to be the only black person on your X-Men roster.

2. The X-Men represent diversity: Iceman is gay, Cyclops and Prof. X are disabled (sorta), there are plenty of women, oh and everybody except Storm is white. Of the A-List X-Men, there is only *one* POC character. I’d argue that an MCU X-Men needs to champion diversity like never before.

3. The X-Men represent minority struggle while being mostly white: There’s a cognitive dissonance in the metaphor that has always been there, and for the most part, nobody cares. To appeal to the white readers of the 60′s, the X-Men were all initially white. That way, the message of the mutants could be related to the audience with a familiar face. We don’t need to approach the problem that way in 202?

4. Just because that’s the way it’s always been, doesn’t mean that’s the way it should be: The first line of defense. Sorry, that will never be a good justification for literally any idea. It’s time for some more critical thinking.

5. We don’t all want to be Bishop: So say you’re white and you have a kid who for his birthday having a costume party. You’ve bought some X-Men costumes and you want each kid to pick one. 9 white kids and one black kid show up to your house. As the kids deliberate who gets what costume, be it Cyke or Wolvie or whatever, you yell at everybody to “STOP!”, point to the one black kid and tell him “You’re gonna be Bishop. That’s it, end of story!” 

We don’t all want to be Bishop. The black child could have the best Cyclops interpretation within him, but you’ll never know if you don’t let him try. And that’s no different from the Black actors of Hollywood. There’s no reason why all of the black talent should *have* to compete for the role of Bishop or Storm, which I’ve discussed, while Joe Schmo can walk up and audition for literally anybody he wants.          

Jharrel Jerome is 23 and has an Emmy to his name. He needs to be in the MCU in some capacity, period. Stephan James is another. How bout Damson Idris. Ashton Sanders. But no, no, let’s fancast Dacre Montgomery or Ansel or Joe Keery again as [Human Torch, Wolverine, Iceman, Angel, I’ve literally seen it all.]

6. Nobody wants to see the B-team if it comes down to it. The next line of defense from your racebending naysayers after “That’s the way it’s always been!” is “Well, what about Psylocke, Bishop, Forge and Jubilee?” who are otherwise known as B-tier X-Men. The problem is, we’ve got limited time and limited spots.

So since the X-Men is all about wonky metaphors that make half sense, let me give you another: Let’s say somebody approaches you and says “Hey buddy, I got two free concert tickets for ya! You can either see Michael Jackson Sings the Blues, or you can go see Justin Timberlake. Free of charge!”

Now, are you used to MJ singing the blues? No! Do you have a problem with going to see Justin Timberlake? No, he’s fine on a Wednesday! He had that one little diddy we liked that one time. We’d love to see him eventually! But are you gonna say, “fuck that, I’m going to see MJ Sings the Blues” regardless? Hell yes, because that’s still Michael Jackson. He’s gonna give the same amazing performance he always does, it’s just gonna be the blues. And speaking of blues...

7. Black is not Blue, Brown is not Blue: Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard this one: “I don’t care if you’re black, white, purple, or green, I’m going to treat you all the same!” I will not say all have this intention, but some fancasters have noticed that the racial diversity is kinda low within the A-List X-Men, so they oh-so-generously give the following roles to a black or brown person: Iceman, Nightcrawler, Beast. 

Notice the pattern? It’s a microaggression, and it’s bullshit. What these fancasters are implicitly telling you is that, yes the actors will be black or brown, but when the action starts we can ignore that. They’ll be blue by then. In other words, you in fact do care if they’re purple or green. Nobody will cry foul if Dev Patel gets to play Nightcrawler (because that’s a common one I see), but should Anna Diop be Starfire or Michael B. Jordan be Human Torch, I bet there’d be backlash. Oh wait. If that’s you, please stop acting like you actually value diversity. You don’t want to see black or brown skin, period. Unless of course, it’s Storm (refer to point #1).

But wait, there’s more! When brown characters get whitewashed in these movies, it’s crickets! So eventually it’s revealed implicitly that proclaimers of point #4 only care about it one way.

8. Professor X should not be black if you’re not willing to change anyone else: The next line of defense is that some people say the professor should be black, if anybody HAS to be racebent. Something something MLK Jr., Civil Rights or some shit. Number one, I’m not reducing Professor X to being a magical negro for 9 white people (and Storm!) who for all intents and purposes get to have all the action. Number 2, the Professor X/MLK/Magneto/Malcolm X comparison is an oversimplifying disservice to ALL FOUR of those people. I hate that line whenever I see it, please watch a documentary my friends. 

9. The Candidates for Racebending: For me, the A-List X-Men are Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel, Beast, Wolverine, Storm, Gambit, Rogue, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Kitty Pryde. Now, who should be exempt from the racebending? Storm, she’s our designated minority. Gambit, he’s Cajun and they’re white (generally speaking, that’s a fun bit of research). Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler, because their nationality/ethnicity was the whole point of the Giant-Size premise in the first place. Angel, because his character embodies a privileged white male. Beast and Iceman, I don’t care one way or another (Point #7).

That leaves Cyclops, Rogue, Jean Grey, and Kitty Pryde. Now Jean Grey is a redhead, and we all know that every time a redhead is racebent people sharpen their pitchforks (Mary Jane, Wally West, Iris West), so I will cede the ground on Jean if only so that my ginger friends can get their rep. Kitty Pryde is Jewish, but Jews of color exist. Rogue is from the South. And Cyclops is, well, just Cyclops. That makes those three characters good options for more diversity. But allow me to make the case for Cyclops, specifically.

10. It’s not just diversity for diversity’s sake: If you had to pick who the main character of the X-Men is supposed to be, most would say Cyclops. And so in a series that highlights racial discrimination in society, it makes sense that our main character be black. While changing Cyclops’ skin color should not change who he is as a character, it *should* recontextualize it. Now, as an eventual increasingly radical leader of the X-Men, Cyclops would evoke real life figures such as Colin Kaepernick or, shall I say, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not that most X-Men fans and writers truly think about what it means to be black anyways. Storm’s minority status is almost always put through the lens of her being a mutant and not her being a black woman. In other words, you can’t argue that making a character black will fundamentally change his or her character when you haven’t even analyzed the racial context of the black character(s) you already have. Another concept that the MCU X-Men should tackle: intersectionality.

11. Representation matters: I have to say it: Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther hit different. And now he is tragically gone. At the end of the day, the MCU moving forward is down its most prominent black male superhero. Which has implications beyond just the movies themselves.

The women are in good hands. Shuri, Okoye, and Nakia are badasses in Wakanda, Valkyrie is ruling Asgard, Storm is almost assuredly on the way, RiRi Williams has already been cast, and Monica Rambeau is here and she’s not even at her most glorious yet. That doesn’t even include variable Δ, or the number of characters who can and will be racebent. And I’ll note again that to me, Gamora doesn’t count, because she’s green (#7 really pisses me off because it’s so blatant. I hate it). Of course from a behind the camera perspective we love black women getting work.

The men are a completely different story. Imma just go out and say it, I can’t stand Falcon and War Machine [in the MCU] because they’re not characters, they’re just two of a slew of MCU minority sidekicks who have essentially been at the beck and call of Captain America and Iron Man, respectively. You cannot tell Falcon’s story without mentioning Cap. The reverse is not true. There’s a whole essay that could be and have been written on “Minorities in the MCU, pre-Black Panther”. Remember, there’s a reason BP made so much noise in the first place.

So excluding those two we have, let’s see, M’Baku, Blade, and Fury who aren’t exactly the most superheroic superheroes, Eli Bradley is proooobably coming, I doubt Miles Morales is coming (because he’s just Peter Parker in the MCU), Luke Cage(?) Bishop(??), Sunspot(???), Blue Marvel(????). Not only are they not A-List, I would not put money on any of them being in the MCU any time soon.

Cyclops is thee Captain America of the X-Men. He’s the frontman. He’s the poster boy. He’s the “boy scout”, which in other words means he’s the hero, if there has to be one. It would mean a lot right now, and specifically *right now*, if he were to be black. The MCU needs it. It NEEDS it.

12. The X-Men is the Summers Story: I’ll even make the case that if just one character needs to racebent, then it should be Cyclops, because that of course implies that other related characters need to be black because half of the X-Men universe is in fact a part of the Summers family. 

So now Cable is black. Corsair is black. Havok is black. And one of the most central stories in the X-Men mythos, the Summers family drama, is now a black family drama set in space or the future or where the fuck ever. The concept is boundary pushing. When white families have drama in the media, it gets to be Game of Thrones or Star Wars, while when black families have drama in the media, it has to be black people arguing in a kitchen or living room about their various earthly traumas (I’m @’ing you, Mr. Perry). I mean, that’s all fine and good often times, but I want my black family drama in space, dammit.

And again, this is the X-Men, the series that’s all about *minorities* and their struggle, so again, why not?

Oh, and I’ll even throw out a Havok fancast for you: How bout Jharrel Jerome?

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