#colonial drive

[palesoftangel]

i just hate when people hear about genocide and go "ah sorry i don't like to talk about politics" POLITICS? what's political about innocent people dying?? what's so political about trying to stop it????

#ughhh it just drives me mas #or when i try to talk about anything and people go “you know people might have different opinions” #WHAT OPINION??????? #ugh it's fucking disgusting #free palestine #palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack #save gaza #anti israel #anti zionisim #free gaza #israel #pro palestine #anti colonialism #colonialism #read about what's happening in the world #try to fucking stop it #congo #free congo #sudan #free sudan #sudan genocide #congo genocide

[hollownest-whore]

Speaking of Tiso I love how his foundfamily would be so fundamentally diffrent then to anyone else. Hed go from a lone (assuming ant Tiso hc) ant surviving and looking for a place to belong, letting his independent instincts and senses carry him with the constant anxiety of being lost. To being within a "colony" that can support and communicate with him naturally, that functions as a whole with comforting roles that he can provide for and determine his effort working on.

Ants love doing stuff for the colony, if Hornet made Tiso sort geo by colour as busywork he would have 8 piles in less then 2 hrs

#not saying tiso wouldn't like independence #just the idea that #because hes a social bugs #n irl ants kinda just kill themselves or smth if alone #his drive to the Colosseum also has to do with his instinctual drive to be part of a colony and provide something #validation starved

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ask and you shall receive (a sneak peak of what's to come)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs au #homestuck #I genuinely do have troll designs for the major characters of mdzs adn thoughts pertaining to their hemospectrum #I honestly thought ppl would start throwing holy salt at me at the mention of homestuck but the enthusiasm is super motivating! #With that said; Thank you all so much for the support with the hollow knight crossover #Even people who have never heard of hollow knight have been so kind (go buy and play hollow knight; the aesthetic and story are amazing) #More bug doodles and comic are ahead! I'll try and space them out between comic updates. #More thoughts will come later but for now...allow me to leave you with this: #Non-homestucks may see the blue and red and go 'aw blue-red ship how cute' while those who know might realize exactly what im putting down #namely that this version of wwx is *very* interested and persistent about getting lwj to spend time with him. #Lwj lives in a very insular indigo colony and isn't fully aware of the differences in life span between hemocasts (yet). #But wwx is. So he's driven to live life to the fullest! This would also drive him to be way more self-sacrificing. #Since his life is so small compared to everyone else he loves anyways. That purple isn't just aesthetic either.

[communistkenobi]

people fawning over the environmentalist themes in tolkien’s work has always made me deeply uneasy but I could never articulate why, and reading orientalism is clarifying a lot of that for me lol

#Said lays it out very clearly like #‘negative’ representations of the orient. as in representing them as deficient or lacking in some way #rests on ‘positive’ representations of the occident. as in the west is always ‘doing’ is always the thing driving human momentum #so idyllic representations of a pastoral post-labour society surrounded by fields and old world forests #populated by guys who have ample free time and fuck around all day #(& who are all white. at least in the films) #that’s not an uncomplicatedly good way to present the world #and is a perspective that is deeply informed by being beneficiaries of continued colonial extraction domination and exploitation #i meam the fictional world is literally called the centre of the earth lol #anyway not ‘cancelling’ tolkien or whatever I’m just glad to be able to understand why exactly #I think it’s bad to just uncritically praise his love of the environment as this like pure ideal #that is somehow uncorrupted by the historical and political context he came from #*post-scarcity I should say not necessarily post-labour #but like the labour processes that make that life idyllic in the first place are invisible

[sayabenz]

Theft of Land, Music (their national anthem is an old Palestinian lullaby), Food, Traditions, Traditional Clothes, Dances, Skins and now Organs.

#palestine #free palestine #colonialism #organ theft #is that even a tag to say? #and this is a glimpse of my daily feed #this is what drives you to not sleep #especially that now people are hearing more about it and it's notnjust burried in the back of our minds

[ace-and-ranty]

What I never understood though, was. Okay. So the First Ones were the "original settlers of Etheria". But.

Etheria had to have had native people before. Right? Because if it didn't. Then how the fuck did She Ra come about. The First Ones used the sword to bind She Ra to their will, but clearly She Ra is a native identity to Etheria. Didn't Perfurma mention legends about her? There must have been She Ras before Mara.

SO WHERE ARE THEY. Where was the She Ra before Mara when the First Ones showed up?? Where is the lore from BEFORE they invaded?? Where is all the pre-First Ones' architecture. Where! Are all! The native! Etherians!!!

#SPOP #She Ra #STEVENSON EXPLAIN THIS TO ME. #I know the answer most likely is that the team didn't think too much about it #but honestly it drives me insane #in a story with so many colonialism tones you really should give a thought to your native planet population.

[lars-canyon]

GGXrd – 12-25-23 – Twenty-Seven (Millia) vs Fennel [I-No]

Dirty Drive on the Colony

#ggxrd #guilty gear #guilty gear xrd #rev 2 #millia rage #i-no #dirty drive #colony #match footage #Youtube

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Star Seeder-class colony ships were large vessels designed to carry and sustain close to 200 settlers. Their cargo capacity allowed for the transport of a complete colony to its destination. Armed with tractor beams and turbolasers, the colony ships also carried an internal shuttle and speeders.

Source - The Unknown Regions (2010)

First Appearance - Galaxy Guide 8: Scouts (1993)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

#star seeder-class colony ship #starship #kuat drive yards #star wars roleplaying game #star wars #expanded universe #star wars legends

[randomfoggytiger]

#txf #xf polls #polls #x-files #the x files #xfiles #scripts #Moment Do You Wish Was Kept or Explored in Canon? #Jerry Lamana #Ghost in the Machine #Elegy #Gethsemane #Drive #Colony #Chinga #Alone #Biogenesis #Firewalker

[clove-pinks]

After a lot of driving back and forth on Anthony Wayne Trail—named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne himself, Revolutionary War hero and apparently a Founding Father—we made it to the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and monument.

Our first stop (by accident) was the actual battlefield site, which has a plaque, a few nature trails, and a visitor's center that wasn't open.

I know this is the battlefield site, because it's right next to a mall called "The Shops at Fallen Timbers." Yeah, they built a shopping center adjacent to/basically on top of one of the most important sites commemorating the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795), which saw the United States defeating a confederacy of Indigenous peoples and their British allies, opening a huge territory to US settlers.

It prefigures the War of 1812, which involved the same Chippewa, Lenape, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Shawnee, Wyandot, United States, and British belligerents. The 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which followed Fallen Timbers, set aside large tracts of northwest Ohio for Indigenous use.

It was edifying to read the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which names the Indigenous nations I've included from a list on a monument at the site as well as "Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias." (Make of the spelling what you will, because the Treaty even spells European names wrong e.g. Fort Lawrence instead of Fort Laurens). The Treaty carves out a number of exceptions for land in the territory ceded to U.S. forts, and a guarantee of free passage between the forts.

Obviously this is very significant in the War of 1812, which mostly took place in a region of Ohio that was granted to Indigenous people not even a generation earlier. William Henry Harrison, military leader and politician, was known for his manipulative and deceptive agreements that kept putting lands into U.S. hands without honoring past treaties. It's a lot of interconnected conflicts between opponents who are already familiar with each other (Harrison, Tecumseh, and Procter come to mind, but it goes even deeper).

I feel a lot of sympathy for the settlers and even the U.S. military personnel engaged in these conflicts; but this park is a rather one-sided presentation of a complicated history. There is an attempt at including more of the Indigenous perspectives, which is something that I think needs a lot more attention in Western War of 1812 history. They wouldn't make a monument like the 1929 Anthony Wayne memorial again.

Fallen Timbers Battlefield is confusing to locate because the historic site with the 1929 monument is also in the wrong place. Only in 1995 did researchers uncover the real location of the battle (near the present-day shopping center).

The GPS took me on some unnecessary adventures, but as you can see, people have been getting this wrong for over 200 years.

We didn't go walking on the trails (at either park), although it was a warm sunny day. I would like to do that in the future. I think you can still see some of the actual fallen timbers (trees knocked over by a tornado) on the real battlefield 230 years later!

#us history #ohio #military history #northwest indian war #settler colonialism #indigenous #war of 1812 #anthony wayne #battle of fallen timbers #treaty of greenville #it was also a wild day to be driving in maumee #i did get to go on a cool bridge over the river #old northwest #1790s #shaun talks #i love living in this history-rich area altho it can be a little dark #described

[hussyknee]

The funny thing about the anons in my asks accusing me of blood libel for talking about Gaza is that I was born Buddhist, raised in a Buddhist culture, in a country that doesn't have a Jewish population and have no connection to any Abrahamic religion or Christian culture. I don't have the background to absorb or internalise a notion that Jews ritually kill Christian children. It's like one of those "COVID vaccines have microchips that let the government track you" conspiracy theories to me. It took years of my early adulthood to even understand why white people were scared of another white ethnicity.

Not saying I can't be antisemitic, I'm saying I can't be antisemitic this way because these tropes are cultural and therefore incomprehensible to me. In my country, the people who're said to control the economy and media, secretly sterilize people via candy and are hell-bent on world domination are Muslims, because the British were discomfited at the absence of Jews to hate on and chose to project it all onto Muslim Moors instead.

The only way Zionists can charge me with "antisemitism" is the fact that I hate all white people no matter their religion because they're all racist and can't do anything without weaponizing it against BIPOC. Judaism isn't white, white Jews are white and oppress Black and brown Jews along with the rest of us. Insisting that being ethnically and religiously marginalized negates your race privilege over us is colonial denialism and makes you no different from the racist white working class, white queers, white disabled people and white women.

#literally no difference in the racial trauma inflicted on us by white Jewish people and white Christians #it's the fact that you categorically deny it and call us antisemitic when we point it out #that drives me nuts #anti Zionism #free Palestine #israel is a genocidal white settler colony #cope harder #knee of huss

[trinity9139]

I love seeing every single liberal who has a 'coexist' and 'peace' bumper sticker IMMEDIATELY jump to the defense of the fascist ethnostate, really hammering home everything communists have said regarding liberals for the last 150 years. It took hours before I saw the endless wave of neoliberal with Ukraine flags in their bios, and 'slava ukraine' to call for mass genocide and the extermination of the inhabitants of Palestine. I want every single Zionist settler, every IOF warcriminal, every man, woman, and child in occupied Palestine, to fear, fear for their lives, for their future, for everything they have, because it is but a fraction of the terror inflicted upon Palestinians in the 75 years of occupation. Drive these settler fascists out of Palestine, hang netanyahu from the highest tower for all to see

From the River to the Sea 🇵🇸

#palestine #IOF #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #al-aqsa flood #settler colonialism #fascism #liberation #Palestinian liberation #death to israel #drive the dogs to the sea

[baekuras]

Anyhow regarding the whole genocide deal

I still can not believe that "oh we definitely won't do nazi times again, it was a great tragedy that has to be renounced and never repeated again"-germany is STILL supporting the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people just because they belong to a specific "group"

i do not give a shit if a christian, a jew, a buddhist, an aesthetist or whatever believing that the moon is made of cheese would be as a religion is the one throwing bombs at civilians-I'll still renounce the whole throwing-bombs deal...not that difficult really

#txts #just saw a reminder of that whole bit on twitter and tbh #it breaks me #our WHOLE lives we have been taught about the holocaust #and to never let that happen again #and that its OUT responsibility #specifically as germans which tbh i always found weird bc i wouldnt like idk the french to do that either but ok #don't murder ppl is generally a good thing #and now...that just flies out the window #bc i guess helping jewish ppl(aka israel) murder people is fine #bc then we aren't antisemetic #bc we support jews kill other jews #i am just tired about this being about religion #it isn't #it's colonialism really from what i can tell #driving ppl out and painting their land red with their blood #to take it over #palestine #rant #i rly just had to let this bit out somewhere #bc god knows we have idiots at work i can't share this around with #i also recently learned israel has recovered -3 hostages #the -3 are the ones they themselves killed bc they just like doing that so badly apparently #truly amazing

[rustchild]

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#It’s kind of wild to see how people talk about mizrahim and the beta israel on here. Like. #people are Just Now discovering that people(s) who are colonial subjects #which they are #as much as anyone else from the mena region #can also perpetuate and have conditional gain within colonial systems #and there’s like… no awareness of how that works over and over again in colonial and immediately post-colonial societies #When in fact one of the most basic structures of colonial power #is pitting colonized peoples against each other through the construction of elaborate unstable racialized hierarchies #like #I think the thing it drives home for me #is how many people in the west a. Operate off of a purely binary moral framework #in which oppressed is good and oppressor is evil and no one is both #And b. Don’t know enough about the histories or current realities of the colonized world to draw meaningful conclusions about anything #And also c. Don’t know shit about Jews #of course #but especially non-ashkenazi Jews #it’s easier to view Israel as the embodiment of the sin of western colonialism #than to genuinely unpack and understand the structures that comprise it #and the ways in which they truly aren’t unique #and the sheer horror of that reality! #Y’all absorbed one (1) idea from fanon and really just stopped there huh #Anyway. The closest parallel to Israel in the world isn’t Algeria #that’s just the only one y’all know about because fanon wrote about it. #the closest parallel is maybe Liberia and that’s sure something to think about

[iminlovewithpercyjackson]

tagged by @bcyoureallthatmakessense ty meliiii <3

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people 🎶

1. go by cody fry

2. you know it by colony house

3. pda by scott helman

4. learning to fly by hills x hills

5. wildside from adventures in babysitting

6. anyone else by joshua bassett

7. keep on keeping on by colony house

8. something that i want by grace potter

9. landlocked surf rock by colony house

10. blank space by taylor swift

tagging @realshawnhunter @booitsbam @bookishjules @chasing-the-persea @olderthanthegods @allineedisabook-18

#tag game #meli <3 #*clearly* i listen to a lot of colony house lol #my actual on repeat playlists are taylor's entire discography and the one that's all of colony house but that would be boring #so we're doing my driving one instead

[ameliafuckinjones]

If I said half the things I wanted to say about Canada and Americas relationship as siblings and neighbors, how they're ACTUALLY viewed by the world when it comes to international matters that are actually important (NATO, AUKUS, global economy, AI and tech companies, hegemony etc) and how it would be more interesting to explore aspects of their relationship as well as their relationship with the world that correlates with reality rather than this made up version that dominates the fandom... commie tumbler would hunt me down and kill me

#“canada is the competent one that yurop and allies rely on for xyz” have you paid attention to geopolitics ever in your life? 😭 #america has its issues that no one denies but come on we ALL know who the world looks to when sh*t hits the fan #even in beneath the lens of criticism and hatred Amerca's greatest detractors look toward America for a solution #America must step in to fix xyz in a country on the other side of the world who has full autonomy bc 'America has the power to so it should #'America must step in to fund xyz because their sovereignty and livelihood relies on it!' #'Americas navy must take a harder stance on terrorist group 123 in x shipping lane to protect freedom of trade or else we'll all starve!' #sorry but no one is saying this about Canada and how very lucky they must be for that bc its exhausting #hetalia #and everyone knows that when it comes to former colonial outpost favorites it's Australia #this is overall a hot take on the internet but reality for those who arent terminally online & dont get their geopolitical news from tiktok #and whove opened up a book that wasnt porno and fiction within the last decade #the only thing worse than actual communist (le stalin) is tumblr communist who in real life are to afraid to order a milkshake at a drive i