#but what a bunch of dumbasses

[mawumi]

Something I cannot understand is how they decided that ending Mary-Anne's life is a no-no. Like? I can understand it from Erika, she is a spoiled child, naive, innocent, pure, for her hurting is in the wrong no matter the circumstances. It's her character to be in the 'right' side.

But what about the others? Miiko? The guys? Leiftan? It's not like they haven't killed anyone, probably the've done it, they've seen it. Miiko, their leader, must have seen others to die and kill for 'a greater good' (as they've done) and probably she was okay with that. And now it's wrong to kill Mary-Anne? The infanticide? The one who needs to kill because her body is not for Eldarya cause she is human? She nedeed all those experiments, you know. And you're telling me that she is not dangerous?

(Let's put aside the fact that Bemoov forgot that fact, okay?)

Okay, let's say killing is in the wrong, no matter the circumstances, but what will they do to her? Keep her in the cells until she roots and call that 'good'? Because she won't have free time, nor good meals, Eldarya is medieval. Her muscles will ache and lose tone. What about hygiene, infections? Keep her alive until she loses (more) her mind? Losing your life in a medieval cell is not mercy. You cannot call that 'good'.

So what are they gonna do? Send her to earth and say their problem now? What about justice? And let's say forgiveness is the motto of the guard, but what about those who may be in danger in the future? Because you're not sure she won't hurt anyone after repenting or serve her sentence (whatever are the guard requirements to set you free -if they do, lol-). The thing is: they don't have mental rehabilitation services nor control over this cases.

And probably nothing of this makes sense because the right question is not all that I've said but: what is the guard ideal? Because not knowing it, at least for me, makes confusing to comprehend how they take their decisions.

#eldarya #beemoov #eldarya the origins #it's probably the writing #don't want to say it #but what a bunch of dumbasses

[chirp-featherfowl]

am i makinnng. any FUCKING sense.

elaboration in tags maybe if it's comprehensible. no promises

#trafficsmp #life series #ouh god the ship names #smallidarity #flower husbands #rancher duo #is that the ship name or the duo thing #what's the difference #i don't think grian and jimmy have one #oh ueah elaboration #im not commenting on any others but i WAS considering some other options #scarian auspistice with the 'get em a marriage counselor' comment #majorwood or treebark moiraillegence #but i think one of the things ppl can't reconcile when thinking abt troll romance is that a good chunk of shit just won't be romantic #it's probably a solid amount! #a point could wven be made there if you really wanted #about what's the difference. carries the same weight and everything. it's just got a different labelslapped on it because we've #unceremoniously fuckin plopped troll societal norms from a dumbass webcomic hussie was working on and in 2011 or something he decided to #change the internet forever #didnt even finish the sentence. plopped troll societal norms on a bunch of minecrsft youtubers #what was i saying #i dont know Okay goodnight. god im so fuckin tired #ask me about joel and jimmy

[volitioncheck]

i think i wouldn’t hate disco elysium’s collage mode nearly as much if it weren’t for 1) the way that it was marketed in such a tasteless, soulless manner, let alone the fact that it was a last ditch distraction from a dead on its feet studio piloted by dumbass thieving execs and released on the day of the court declaration, and 2) those dumbass fucking stickers

like if it had been included with the base game from the start and had been titled something a bit more tasteful and in-line with how i would have liked the feature to be marketed as— something like “exploration mode”, something that perhaps could only be unlocked after completing the game for the first time, AND didn’t have those stupid as hell visually and tonally incongruent with the artstyle stickers, i would have applauded it as a nice little bonus for being able to study and appreciate the 3d models and environments for reference.

#it is just so bleak man. #i have no words left to say for the latest development at zaum studios so instead i will just remember how fucked up this was lol #those stickers are the same energy as that dumbass fucking christmas card they put on steam. #cutesy fanart is awesome and all but don’t muddy the tone of the actual source with it. why is that necessary. #for gods sake what happened to boundaries #again i probably would take a different tone to even the stickers if #it had been done under the original creators (which i don’t think it would have‚ which is my point‚ but say hypothetically it happened) #but with the circumstances the way they are it is impossible to not view it all as tainted with a veneer of absolute tastelessness #and a disrespect to the source material and a sorry attempt to appeal to the shallowest parts of ‘fandom’ #like you can add cartoony emoji faces and a sticker with harry and kim as cats. or their hands with the caption ‘best friends!!!’ (wtf lol) #and a frame with a bunch of pride flags being waved around (hard to articulate why i feel doubly annoyed of this one. #your corporate pride parade aesthetic is showing again. also it feels… lazy) #but you can never‚ ever erase the fact that you are parading around a stolen IP that you are entirely out of touch with #and one that you clearly have *no idea what to do with* #(something that we’ve all known for months with these hints but today has finally been basically confirmed as the sequel seems to be #officially cancelled with the last of the original writers’ crew being laid off) #how could you have known what to do with Elysium? how could you ever have? #hope you have fun with your stickers. rot #disco elysium #me talking

[bijoumikhawal]

hello! i hope it's alright to ask you this but i was wondering if you have any recommendations for books to read or media in general about the history of judaism and jewish communities in egypt, particularly in ottoman and modern egypt?

have a nice day!

it's fine to ask me this! Unfortunately I have to preface this with a disclaimer that a lot of books on Egyptian Jewish history have a Zionist bias. There are antizionist Egyptian Jews, and at the very least ones who have enough national pride that AFAIK they do not publicly hold Zionist beliefs, like those who spoke in the documentary the Jews of Egypt (avaliable on YouTube for free with English subtitles). Others have an anti Egyptian bias- there is a geopolitical tension with Egypt from Antiquity that unfortunately some Jewish people have carried through history even when it was completely irrelevant, so in trying to research interactions between "ancient" Egyptian Jews and Native Egyptians (from the Ptolemaic era into the proto-Coptic and fully Coptic eras) I've unfortunately come across stuff that for me, as an Egyptian, reads like anti miscegenationist ideology, and it is difficult to tell whether this is a view of history being pushed on the past or not. The phrase "Erev Rav" (meaning mixed multitude), which in part refers to Egyptians who left Egypt with Moses and converted to Judaism, is even used as an insult by some.

Since I mentioned that documentary, I'll start by going over more modern sources. Mapping Jewish San Francisco has a playlist of videos of interviews with Egyptian Jews, including both Karaites and Rabbinic Jews iirc (I reblogged some of these awhile ago in my "actually Egyptian tag" tag). This book, the Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, is avaliable for free online, it promises to be a more indepth look at Egyptian Jews in the lead up to modern explusion. I have only read a few sections of it, so I cannot give a full judgment on it. There's this video I watched about preserving Karaite historical sites in Egypt that I remember being interesting. "On the Mediterranian and the Nile edited by Harvey E. Goldman and Matthis Lehmann" is a collection of memiors iirc, as is "the Man in the Sharkskin Suit" (which I've started but not completed), both moreso from a Rabbinic perspective. Karaites also have a few websites discussing themselves in their terms, such as this one.

For the pre-modern but post-Islamic era, the Cairo Geniza is a great resource but in my opinion as a hobby researcher, hard to navigate. It is a large cache of documents from a Cairo synagogue mostly from around the Fatimid era. A significant portion of it is digitized and they occasionally crowd source translation help on their Twitter, and a lot of books and papers use it as a primary source. "The Jews in Medieval Egypt, edited by: Miriam Frenkel" is one in my to read pile. "Benjamin H. Hary - Multiglossia in Judeio-Arabic. With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll" is a paper I've read discussing the Jewish record of the events commemorated by the Cairo Purim, I got it off either Anna's Archive or libgen. "Mamluks of Jewish Origin in the Mamluk Sultanate by Koby Yosef" is a paper in my to read pile. "Jewish pietism of the Sufi type A particular trend of mysticisme in Medieval Egypt by Mireille Loubet" and "Paul B Fenton- Judaism and Sufism" both discuss the medieval Egyptian Jewish pietist movement.

For "ancient" Egyptian Jews, I find the first chapter of "The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD” by Simon Schama, which covers Elephantine, very interesting (it also flies in the face of claims that Jews did not marry Native Egyptians, though it is from centuries before the era researchers often cover). If you'd like to read don't click this link to a Google doc, that would be VERY naughty. There's very little on the Therapeutae, but for the paper theorizing they may have been influenced by Buddhism (possibly making them an example of Judeo-Buddhist syncretism) look here (their Wikipedia page also has some sources that could be interesting but are not specifically about them). "Taylor, Joan E. - Jewish women philosophers of first-century Alexandria: Philo’s Therapeutae reconsidered" is also a to read.

I haven't found much on the temple of Onias/Tell el Yahudia/Leontopolis in depth, but I have the paper "Meron M. Piotrkowski - Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period" in my to be read pile (which I got off Anna's Archive). I also have some supplemental info from a lecture I attended that I'm willing to privately share.

I also have a document compiling links about the Exodus of Jews from Egypt in the modern era, but I'm cautious about sharing it now because I made it in high school and I've realized it needs better fact checking, because it had some misinfo in it from Zionist publications (specifically about the names of Nazis who fled to Egypt- that did happen, but a bunch of names I saw reported had no evidence of that being the case, and one name was the name of a murdered resistance fighter???)

#cipher talk #I find Leontopolis fascinating because after the first time a bunch of Egyptian Jews built a temple in Egypt a second guy did it #And allegedly had a not terrible scriptural justification! And the temple lasted for THREE EXTRA YEARS after Jerusalem was sacked! #Never let anyone tell you there was only one temple #There's also other stuff but this is what I immediately had #Some books I have I'm pretty sure just aren't good to start with lmao they're about very specific stuff #Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity politics and culture is interesting and includes Egyptian Jews #But it's definitely got a zionist bias. It's mostly essays #I'd definitely recommend reading up on Joseph Cattaui and Murād Farag because they were simply so influential #Even though Farag was a dumbass that wrote the first Arabic defense of Zionism #Ya‘qub Sannu‘ is also fascinating- he spent a lot of his time defending Muslims to European audiences so some people assumed he reverted #He didn't he just took a hard stance on it. Also he got exiled for criticizing the Khedivate #All 3 are in MMEJT iirc

[sandwyrm]

three types of people

#what a bunch of absolute dumbasses #10 outta 10 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #shitpost

[heyitsmemel]

hi hello gals and gays. Here is a rare wav from me struggling with the flu. The virus has mainly been in my chest but my entire body is so wrecked I was able to induce super easily. No talking bc I’m literally unable to 😭 Do not listen if you can't stand harsh coughing because it gets a bit rough. If it sounds a bit weird the first half of the recording is from yesterday and the second half is from today, bc the coughing is so much worse in the second half lmao. Ok that's it thankkk you for feeding me so good lately tumblr love u all <3

also personal rant about ableism and intentional contagion in the comments :///

#ok like I haven't been this sick in literal years and cuz im disabled i'm super mindful of spreading germs to others. #and i've had some family staying with me so I was like great leave me here to rot in my cave guys #my partner has been rlly attentive and is like i don't care about germs tehe so yesterday he comes into my room #and gives me a bunch of kisses on my head then swoops in and kisses me ON THE MOUTH #like im sorry i've been lying in a pool of feverish sweat for days and can hardly breathe what part of that makes someone go ooo gimme? #like ya hes just trying to love me but i put so much effort into being clean and now i will feel really guilty when he gets sick #sorry not sorry intentional contagion is not cute or sexy at all its just irresponsible #like i would love to live the life where my body works so well that I don't give a second thought to KISSING someone with the flu #i just feel like able bodied people never think about what its like living with a disability or a chronic illness #or have the slightest inclination of how privileged they are #my partner isn't even a fetishit he is just a dumbass #but ya i just wish he and the general population would think more :/ #snzblr #snz #illness kink #snzfucker #snz wav #snzzzzz #snz blog #anyway thats all do what u want with my horn post

[cyberphuck]

I kind of headcanon Meliadoul as a Battle Nun (tm), because she's the only official Lady Templar and her sprite portrait makes her hood look like a habit (though Loffrey has his hood styled the same way. I choose to believe this is because he is also a nun). Thirty minutes ago, it was still her birthday! Happy belated birthday, Melly. Sorry about your dad being a Lucavi.

Meliadoul is a better waifu than Agrias and no, I don't care what you think.

#art tag #final fantasy tactics #meliadoul tengille #I forget what they call her in the psx translation #I would love to post this to the fft subreddit #but I really don't feel like arguing with a bunch of dumbasses over how Meliadoul sucks compared to Orlandeau or whatever

[havockingboo]

Silly question time

In order, your ocs from MOST smoochable to would prefer to punch me in the face or any other no thank you equivalent

#what a bunch of dumbasses #<3 I lvoe them #MW oc asks #my ocs #monkey wrench ocs #juno (juniper) #oc: sylvia #captain octogon #zahari #aiden #vivek leboye #answered asks #doodles

[mooncrvmbs]

can we, as women stop pushing the agenda that women are too dumb to understand math and hence make regretful financial decisions by this whole 'girl math' trend?

#girl math #as a math major is this physically hurting me #what the fuck is a girl math bro just say you can't do math don't drag us into this #making women look like a bunch of dumbasses who can't understand complex mathematics #studyblr #mathblr #mathematics #math major #it's the internalized misogyny for me

[lesbiansanemi]

I should be getting paid to deal with this bullshit

#fandom lesbophobia and misogyny tied in with the PETTIEST discord drama blown so far out of proportion. dawg… #‘pls explain idk how we were lesbophobic uwu’ #idk you attacked a bunch of sapphics and said they were transphobic and biphobic which then spiraled into spreading rumors about them being #abusive and alcoholics and calling them slurs #because they made ‘I hate men’ jokes and didn’t like your dumbass m/f ships and headcanoned a character a lesbian lmfao #also because one of them was supposedly transphobic on a VC but the apparent victim doesn’t even remember it like LMFAO????? #which is crazy considering most of them are not cis and are also bi themselves lmfao #which I EXPLAINED #but it’s still ‘idk how we were lesbophobic a day misogynistic pls explain’ #I’m killing myself this is so stupid #like do you think I’m dumb. do you think I’m stupid #this is batshit #this is why I don’t do fandom discord servers yall are insaaaaaane #idk what’s worse #if this was done knowingly and we’re just playing dumb #or if we actually ARE this dumb and don’t think any of this was rooted in lesbophobia #which had been perpetuated SO hard in the more standard fandom lesbophobia and misogyny ways #not to mention the transmisogyny but I won’t get into that…. lmao #anyways #every day I wake up to more DMs and I want to SCREAM #I just wanna peacefully go into work and live my life man it is NOT my job to coddle you #because you got caught being shitty lmfao #fuck off #kaz rambles

[generic-sonic-fan]

The first June after joining Team Dark, Omega didn't go to Pride because he thought an event celebrating meatbag sexuality was stupid.

But the second time Pride rolls around, after seeing how much fun Rouge and Sonic had last year, he spray paints "THIS MACHINE KILLS HOMOPHOBES + TRANSPHOBES" on his chassis, loads his cannons up with confetti, and has the time of his fucking life.

#e-123 omega #e123 omega #sth #he spends the majority of his time scaring off the dumbass counter-protestors #he gets to turn his voice volume up to foghorn levels and have a bunch of people cheer for him when he threatens to murder bigots #what more could the ultimate robot ask for??

[rosykims]

bioware has an endless laundry list of heinous shit they need to address/retcon but specifically im going to need the most embarrassing snot-nosed weepy youtube apology video from whoever tf did the cultural dialogue for dao's dalish clan

#tay plays dao #playing cousland in the camp is so fucked. #''you dont actually BELIEVE in ur gods do you'' to ghenya like HELLO??? IN WHAT UNIVERSE WOULD U SAY THAT #itd maybe be more acceptable if there were a bunch of positive/neutral options to balance it out but thats literally 1 of 2 responses #and then sitting down to hear the story of the dales and being asked what happened irt the war.... #and there are No sympathic options if u play human #literally just 'your people started it dumbass' or pleading ignorant? the kindest thing u can say is 'something happened u think is unfair' #maybe im too caught up in current events but jesus fucking christ. dao writers were on smth different back in the day lol

[magnoliamyrrh]

turkey when helping the continued ethnic clensing and genocide of armenians: crickets

turkey when still not acknowledging armenian genocide: crickets

turkey when palestine: now hold up -

#not even just turkey we are So Many levels deep in international hypocricy when it comes to shit its absolutely insane #left and right weve got genocidal states denouncing other genocides and ppl whove been genocides supoorting genocides #what the f is happening dear GOD were a bunch of dumbass fucking tribalistic hypocritical apes with nukes

[darkartistyt]

rewatching pandora's box cutscene 18 i am re-realizing why that was the thing that made me realise hershel was bi...

#my dumbass ramblings #professor layton #hershel layton #anton herzen #anton/hershel #what even is their ship name??? #i asked some friends and we came up with a bunch but i cannot find ANYTHING about them on tumblr #not to say it doesnt exist but i just couldnt find it #so im gonna stick to this ig #oh btw if you find any (sfw) ship art or smth pls send it my way pls and thank you

[mistarover]

i am a 17 year old kid taking business studies and economics in high school. i could be literally using no sources to help me but my textbooks and i could STILL run twitter better than elon musk.

#the more i see news on this the more i realize this man is STUPID #like his head is empty there is nothing there! #like wtf was firing half the staff and having people pay to be verified do. what would it accomplish? #and those dumbass subscriptions like who tf was gonna buy them. twitter is a site that thrives on the fact that you can use it for FREE #also the pay for verification just caused a bunch of impersonators to pop up #elon musk #twitter takeover #twitter

[possumkingluca]

still thinking about the time i did one of those hunger game simulation things with the characters being all the strixhaven student npcs, my strixhaven campaign's party members, and extus narr + one just labeled 'the rest of the oriq' it was actually so goofy because tell me how the oriq immediately set off a bomb killing 4 people INCLUDING THEIR LEADER??? tell me how all the party members died almost immediately except for my character who got tragically betrayed by one of his friends??? tell me how the last two people alive were the biggest fucking nerds in the entire school?? fucking URZMAKTOK and DRAZHOMIR??? tell me how the SOPPING WET CAT of a minotaur that is drazhomir won????? also quentillius died of dysentery on day 1 which is the death he deserves.

#it was so funny #i should do another one #also in the hombrew second half we're doing we have these “”“four”“” high ranking oriq members to deal with #and they would 100% accidentally blow up extus and probably themselves #a bunch of dumbasses #and yet they've managed to avoid us murdering them in cold blood #(it's because our DM has yet to get us to actually fight them) #we kinda could've fought “”“”“”“one”“”“”“”“ of them but uhh he expected a lot of us #severely overestimated our ability to catch on to things #to be fair to us he's had a year to catch on to the fact we are not very bright and still expected us to catch on to his plot twist #sooo ermmm I say we are not at fault here #also of course my character isn't going to immediately murder someone without a real good reason to #what did you expect #like 2 sessions prior I spared a bunch of sahuagin and we almost died because of it 😭 bro #strixhaven #strixhaven a curriculum of chaos #dnd strixhaven #strixhaven dnd #strixhaven npcs #possum rambles