#compassion in action

[theiconicmeghanmarkle]

'The Crown' star Olivia Williams addresses criticism of Meghan Markle: 'You can’t overlook the race issue'

“When you’re an actor, the studio looks after you and it’s in their interests to keep you safe, but that’s not how it works [in the royal family]. They’re looking after the Crown. They’re not looking after you.”

“My husband’s African-American — I can’t overlook the race issue. Somewhere in the souls of the people who despise Meghan, I’m afraid I think that’s an issue.”

Olivia Williams plays Camilla in this season of The Crown

#meghan markle #duchess of sussex #prince harry #prince harry duke of sussex #meghan duchess of sussex #duchess meghan #princess meghan #harry and meghan #anti blackness #meghan and harry #the duke and duchess of sussex #uk royal family #royal family uk #british royal family #the royal family #prince harry the duke of sussex #the sussexes #compassion in action #british royalty #the duchess of sussex #brf #british royals #olivia williams #the crown netflix #meghan markle racism #meghan the duchess of sussex

[the-empress-7]

https://twitter.com/benjaminbutter/status/1600912604364693504?s=46&t=or-W6QWprOvGVcKbKiC7_g

#compassion in action

[auressea]

New personal Growth challenge!

Learning to ASK: Is that Ableist?

and also: Is that Racist? Is that Sexist? Is that Hateful?

How to Learn and Grow and be Better.

#personal growth #get with the times #be kind #compassion in action #kindness is learned #kindness is a choice you make with every action #be better #ableism

[professor-doc-emeritus]

I love the dichotomy we get between jinshi and the emperor that shows off how the traits that make jinshi a great prince, boss, friend (husband 👀👀👀👀) are the very same traits that will make him a terrible emperor.

His hard working streak that lets him handle his weird assignments with grace and manage the clashing egos of the inner palace is what will get him killed by overwork as emperor since he has no real head for delegation. It took 11 volumes and the intervention of most of his immediate family just to get jinshi to hire a secretary. The emperor always being free to host parties, sleep with the consorts, and bust jinshis balls in-between it all is, much like lakan always being free to annoy maomao, actually a sign of him being god-like at delegation and organizational management.

His lack of ego and willingness to look the fool if it gets the job done is great for avoiding political snafus and getting to the truth of things. It's genuinely the thing that makes all his expeditions to the western capital so wildly successful: he really doesn't gaf about how he's seen by the public, so long as the job gets done and his friends aren't in immediate danger. It's also the exact opposite of what you need from a head of state who's legitimacy is not-insignificantly based on the public perceiving you as an instrument of the will of heaven. The emperor being willing to kill people and their families over slights jinshi (and most sane human beings) would be willing to let slide is cruel and inhuman, but it's also what keeps the populace at large from being able to organize against him and challenge the imperial power.

Jinshis compassionate streak, his urge to save as many people he can and find the best solution for everyone possible, makes him great to work for. He'll give you assignments that match your hyper fixation, work around your crippling social anxiety, give you a post that just-so-happens to involve you staying with the love of your life for a few months. More over, he isn't gonna risk his life and your position over petty ego or greed when he can find a peaceful solution instead. But the hesitation he feels at using people like tools, and his unwillingness to act if it means throwing people under the bus, is what will lead to death and destruction if he's the emperor. Especially in a time of war. The current emperor is willing to ruin lives and crush nations if it reaches a goal, advances an agenda.

Finally, jinshis loyalty, I'd say even more than his looks, is what draws people to him. He loves his toys, can't stand to give them up. It makes him a great romantic figure. But when you're the emperor, and you need to be willing and able to marry someone for political ends, produce as many heirs as possible regardless of who with, and set aside the feelings of those women for your own sake, that loyalty is poison.

Idk, so often in stories with these systems they sorta follow the logic of "if he's a good person he'll be a good leader." I think it's cool to have a series talk about how being a leader involves being EXTREMELY comfortable with being an asshole, for a myriad of reasons, and how someone being pleasant to work for wouldn't make them an effect monarch.

#its also important to note that despite all the shitty things the emperor is shown being/doing #he genuinely is portrayed as a well loved and effective leader #who does his best to reach his version of compassion #john mulaney has a good bit about working with celebrities for snl #and how in their world their version of polite/acceptable is very different and it can lead to tense situations #i think a lot of the emperor's actions are like that #like in a vacuum they're dick moves #but in the context of who he is and what his duties are you see why he does them #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #ka zuigetsu #spoilers

[arcadiandeath]

Mother, father, brother, little sister! 

When you read this letter, I will already be dead or close to death. I know what a severe blow my act will be to you, but don't be angry at me. Unfortunately, we are not alone in this world. I am not doing this because I would be tired by life, on the contrary, because I cherish it too much. Hopefully my act will make life better. I know the price of life and I know it is the most precious thing. But I want a lot for you, for everyone, so I have to pay a lot. Do not lose your heart after my sacrifice, tell Jacek to study harder and Marta too. You must never accept injustice, be it in any form, my death will bind you. I am sorry that I will never see you or that, which I loved so much. Please forgive me that I fought with you so much. Do not let them make me a madman. 

Say hi to the boys, the river and the forest.

Jan Zajíc's (3 July 1950-25 February 1969) letter to his parents. Jan self-immolated following Jan Palach in protest of the passivity and loss of hope of the Czechoslovakian nation under communist Soviet rule.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #free gaza #aaron bushnell #anti zionisim #it is striking that the cz government was memorialising and heralding jan's sacrifice as they continue to aid in israel's actions #the same day a man across the ocean does the very same act of protest as he did. #all the free palestine signage at my uni campus gets removed daily and it's such a disgrace #but also telling of how much power FREE PALESTINE has. even a sticker with those words is enough to spark anger or compassion

[p4nishers]

thinking about the relationship between mightily oats' "the worthwhile [words] don't burn" and constable dorfl's "the words in the heart cannot be taken"

#especially the journey both of them had to go through to get to the point of saying that. like the whole of carpe jugulum oats was so TORN #and before that too about what words could you believe and who could you really trust on their word about om and the prophets and he went #out of his way to look up records disproving what the book of om said bc he KNEW nothing they said could be believed and just all the pain #and all that doubt he went thru and the part where he questioned om's 'infinite compassion' as he prayed bc really what compassion? #how many people prayed at the stake just like he was doing in that moment? how many people had to live with the silence of their god just #like he did? but still when his book of om – that he clung to the whole book for reassurance – burned he said the worthily words don't burn #the worthily words are in the heart and in the mind and not feed into his mouth by old man who just #made things up to justify their actions. he had all the words he needded the whole time and holiness was always all around him. he just had #to look #and dorfl being created with words in his head that dictated his every move . words that chained him. then he and the other golems created #'king' for themselves in the hope he'd lead them to freedom but they put too many words in his head and he failed and carrot gave dorfl his #own freedom and his own words and that lead to dorfl destroying his well child basically and destroying himself in the process but the word #in his heart his OWN words remained and they were able to rebuilt him and vimes give him a voice and his words and belief remained in him b #they were always his #god. sorry for the ramble im severally unwell about them #mightily oats #constable dorfl #carpe jugulum #feet of clay #gnu terry pratchett #discworld

[raayllum]

having a moment (and this might be my autism speaking) of remembering that when characters (or even irl people) are analyzed / analyzing themselves, some people just look at the behavioural patterns and not where they stem from in the character's psyche and go "my job is done" when the job is half finished cause to me that shit has always been synonymous and i cannot imagine fathoming meta writing from any other standpoint

#characterization #tag ramble #to be clear you can. like yall know i love my structural shit #but if you're analyzing character like you absolutely have to get to the root cause of #like it's the Same root cause and just differing / circumstantial manifestations every time #the characters' behaviours both good and bad #one of callum's best traits is that he's observant and this leads to both his nurturing and nasty sides #rayla is action / independent oriented and this leads to her heroics but also #every time she fucks up an interpersonal relationship by lying or leaving #ezran is optimistic which leads to his compassion and second chances but also #how hard a time he has coping with Bad Shit longterm cause he wants to focus on the positive #/ his moments where it bleeds into naivety #insp by chats with kuno chan

[cinemagal]

I’m not a monster. DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (2022)

#elizabetholsenedit #marvelgifs #womenofmcu #marvelladiesdaily #filmgifs #horrorgifs #multiverse of madness #scarlet witch #wanda maximoff #sam raimi #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #2020s #mcu #marvel #superheroes #horror #action #sci fi #isn't she just phenomenal #she showed her compassion bc she saw her nightmares #and she knew the pain she was in

[bunnieswithknives]

Will we have Duck as a human ? Like, who he was before David turned him into a puppet

I made a few concept doodles. He used to work with Roy as an actor on his show before he washed up and became a teacher at David's school. Duck likes David, and David hates Duck because he never recovered from his parent's death like, even a little bit, and Duck loves talking about them and reminiscing whenever he can.

Eventually David mixes up someone making him feel bad and someone being a bad person and murders Duck to turn him into his first puppet, (an act which he justifies to himself obsessively)

#two of us AU #two of us!Duck #I'm changing my cannon because the old version was bad #I stole the name Robin Duckly from a fanfic #he might have dwarfism? idk but he is very small #shorter than David for sure #after he killed Duck he gave himself a stronger moral compass for murder(or tried to) because this one was so hard to justify to himself #and as ive said before he NEEDS to justify his actions to himself

[wizardnuke]

MATTHEW TELL ME LORE ABOUT THE LUXON BEACONS WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THOSE THANGS. WHAT DOES ESSEK KNOW

#if i am 100% sure about one thing it's that Essek Fucking Knows #essentially my theory about essek like. as a character boiled down to a singular trait is that he is #obsessively curious about the world around him to the point where it blinded him for a very long time #he didn't consider the fallout of his actions and i also am not sure if he ever made an escape plan. he was scrambling bad with the m9 #he is like 22int smart and im sure a very very good spymaster which is how he got as far as he did but #he latched onto the beacons as a fixed point of like. the reason for his isolation and lack of compassion or empathy for anyone or #anything past the absolute wretched burning need he has to Know. and in a way. doesn't that make him the most devoted to the luxons out #of everyone. do you ever think about it. #it wasn't a sunk cost fallacy until the m9 showed up with a beacon and then he started digging a grave

[the-stray-liger]

Im gonna cling to the One Piece live action for emotional support like I never did with the anime and hope it keeps me whole

#I love Sanji #I forgot how much I loved him and in the live action he's fantastic and is bringing all of it back #Sanji's passion and his compassion and his love

[findafight]

Me, lying face down on the carpet: I don't know how many times I have to explain that people love characters like Steve Harrington and Zuko, is that they have done things that are bad. They have said things that are bad. Possibly reprehensible. Possibly violent.

But then. And this is THE fundamental aspect of them that you must understand, they realized they were wrong. They realized that what they did and who they were were not things they were proud of. Were not things they liked doing or wanted to continue doing. Were things that hurt people. They realized that they didn't want to be that person anymore.

And then they changed. They went and tried to apologize to those they wronged. They worked to fix what they had done or helped do. They made strides to be different from what they once were.

Zuko stood up to his father, he apologized to the Gang, admitted to them he and his people were wrong, and taught Aang Fire bending. He changed and he helped and he apologized.

Steve helped clean up graffiti, he went to Jonathan's house to apologize for the terrible things he said and their fight(and got dragged into monster fighting and saved Jonathan and Nancy's lives), he replaced the camera he broke.

They owned up to their mistakes and apologized and did their best to remedy them. The apology and the changed behaviour make these characters likeable. They have flaws that have glared but they have accepted those things, tried to do better than them.

I need you to understand that there are characters out there that do the same things but never apologize. When you question why someone likes character a but not character b, when character a has also done bad things, I need you to think about whether or not that character has apologized and since changed that behaviour and thus been sincere in their apology. That is why. No excuse or justification. Did the character apologize and change? Did the other not? There you go.

Me, sitting up with the imprint of the carpet on my face: Woah haha where'd that come from?

#steve harrington #zuko #atla #stranger things #meta #redemption #finda's rambles #listen im not trying to actually compare them im just saying people always question why the love for them #and its like ?? they changed?? #frustrated when ppl act as though other charscters who also did bad but never changed are more deserving of love because #because canon gives them abuse but it never has them apologize for the abusing they do #like realizing you are perpetuating the cycle of abuse and ending it and trying apologize or mend things is powerful #but do not act like your blorbo did that when they never did. they were abused. that is sad. they did terrible things. that is bad. #they never tried to change away from foing horrible things. that is also bad #just because!! a charscter is abused!! does not mean they are not culpable for their shitty actions!!! #zuko was abused and he did shitty things!! the fact he was abused isnt the reason he was redeemed #he was redeemed because he worked for it. he broke out of the mindset that caused him to be violent and cruel #he apologized directly to those he hurt most directly. and he changed #azula didnt do that!! yes she was abused and deserves compassion but she was also murderous and would have killed her brother! #she had not decided to break the cycle!! #Billy was abused. and then he abused his sister. he was violent. #he would have attacked and potentially killed a thirteen year old black boy for being friends with his sister. #at no point does he realize those actions are unacceptable. at no point does he apologize. at no point does he change #just because he was abused and abandoned does not mean he was not responsible.

[uncanny-tranny]

You know, even if somebody was "turned queer" because of trauma, that is:

1. Not your business

2. Not something you should be interrogating them about, be you queer or otherwise (see point one)

Trauma is a deeply harrowing experience, and it's oftentimes something people don't want to share if they don't feel safe or comfortable. Creating environments where queer people have to both interrogate their queerness and defend themselves is simply hostile.

If somebody seemingly became queer after a traumatic event, what you do is support them. Likely the last thing that person needs is you barging in and demanding explanations and justifications before they're allowed to be queer and/or exist around you.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #trauma tw #and if they later decide they aren't queer or have a different queer identity they can do that when they are ready... #...which will likely not fit into the timeframe that you might expect... #...because healing is just as messy as trauma and queerness is as messy as cisheterosexuality #because being a person is messy and complicated and it takes time to figure out #again my problem is the entitlement and possession people have over *other peoples* identities and lives #maybe my tone is harsh but i just find this hard to show compassion because it's often deliberate... #...as in a deliberate action toward the person suspected of being 'queer after trauma' #and not going to lie a big component of queerness for many is rooted in trauma #because of the violence of homophobia of transphobia of queerphobia #because we often are closeted and hide who are and we hear and witness what people think about queerness #and that's just the tip of the iceberg. queerness is beautiful. queerness can also be painful. #it isn't always happy times to be queer and our trauma is important and we deserve to heal at our pace #we deserve compassion. we deserve to exist. we don't deserve to have to justify and explain and placate #we are also entitled to our individual stories. we deserve to tell them *if* we want to and to whom we want to tell them to #there are aspects of my own story i will never tell. because i want it to be *mine* and i think i deserve that control over *my* story

[problematicsubmarine]

Ok so I'm most of the way through the live action ATLA and no it's not perfect, some of the acting is a little oof but overall it's pretty good? The costumes, the sets all the older actors for the most part. Some of the cg needed a little more time and all of these streaming shows could benefit from a few more episodes, but the way they've combined storyline and episodes to try and fit things in in a coherent way, some of the changes they've made I like quite a bit.

Yall trying to act like it's the same level of bad as the movie are actively delusional and need to take of the nostalgia goggles.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last aribender live action #netflix atla #netflix avatar #im sorry people bitching about taking Sokkas sexism away as if the Sokkas Sexist arc disnt last a whole like 5 episodes #or bitching because Zuko fights back in the Agni Kai when its clear the intention is him showing compassion to Ozai and being punished #Katara is plenty full of righetous rage #and Im sorry but the OG cartoon NEVER recokened with Katara having to become her own mother #She just continues mothering even after TSR and then becomes Aangs MotherWife in the comics #im not upset about that change #or the general change in dynamics between the water syblings #or the live action showing Azulas impending mental break sooner #and is a good thing I think showing more explicitly how Ozai abuses and manipulates both his children #and people complaining the air nomads fought back like the cartoon #didnt ha e Gyatso ls skeleton surrounded by a pile of fire nation corpses #also #me being totally delusional now #Zuatra endgame #activly in delulu shipping land #am sad about the exclusion of “Ill save you from the pirates” and Zuko having her necklace for what was probably weeks

[torgawl]

i keep thinking about how “is this what justice means to you, answer me neuvillette”, despite having been used in a case all those hundred of years ago, was probably a question that haunted - and still haunts - neuvilette during the entire time he has been chief of justice. i keep thinking about how they highlighted his struggles through time with both carole and wriothesley's trials. how guilty and powerless neuvillette must have felt for not being able to support and save those he recognised as vulnerable and victims before a system that corrupted their fates but that he wasn't able to change despite his position. the theme of being a casualty of a system no matter if you're the victim or the perpetrator in its eyes. the way neuvillette took, in both cases, things into his own hands. even if it was too late to fix the hurting carole and those who cared for her went through, even if it was too late to save her life; even if it was impossible to change wriothesley's past, his verdict and subsequent imprisonment; neuvillette went above and beyond, making use of his influence, to allow both melusines and wriothesley the opportunity of a better future - to melusines by making sure they weren't discriminated, to wriothesley by supporting his attempt at a second chance in life. i think part of the reason he's so intriguing is our awareness that this internal conflict he's bound to have is so complex. you have a chief of justice, or a judge, that is supposed to be imparcial and follow the law stictly confronted with situations of social injustice, unable to protect those who rely on him. you have someone who understands better than anyone what it means to be an outcast, being able to relate to those who are ostracised and have their pain weaponise against them. you have, in vautrin's case, a friend who cannot even showcase his own pain and is still expected to fullfil his juridical duties despite being personally related with those involved in the case. someone who people constantly turn to but whom he feels like he has no right to turn to himself. it's about the conflict between his feelings and his duty, between what's expected of him and what he can actually do. i think that's why the end of his story quest is so emotional and why it's so heartwarming to have him realise he isn't an outcast anymore, that he has a community there for him too. because a system is a system and he will probably never be able to save everyone, because yes he isn't human, but it doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to belong or that an active demonstration of love towards individuals and people he can relate to rather than the theoretical concept of humanity isn't meaningful. in fact, i'd it's a lot about that, about finding ways to be kind and how community gives meaning to life; how personal relationships and targeted kindness can shape society, or at least i think so

#i don't know if this makes sense but i like how character's stories in fontaine are interconnected in the perfect way that they're used to #give depth to each other while also existing perfectly independently #i forgot to add navia's story to the post but that's also another scenario used to characterise neuvillette #the same way wriothesley's backstory exists independently but it's also used to give depth into neuvillette's character and his motivations #the same way navia and clorinde's probably will as well #i always headcanoned (is that a verb 😂) neuvillette and wrio's friendship stemming from neuvillette trying to atone to his silence during #wrio's trial. i think it makes sense. i think it probably meant a lot to wrio too to have someone be so trustworthy after everything he #went through the betrayal from his adoptive family and his only aid through his life being the melusines who aren't human #and neuvillette being that sort of comforting older figure especially probably feels familiar to wrio #i have no idea what i'm trying to say actually i have a big headache at the moment and i feel almost delirious but i just love the concept #of neuvillette as a character and i think a lot about his friendship with wriothesley how it began and the grief and guilt neuvillette #probably still carries #but also about how he also gets the chance to a brighter future and how he achieves it so naturally without even realising #how he never expected anything from his compassion even if he saw it as duty and didn't interpret his own kindness as anything other than #his own responsabilty towards others #like idk am i making sense??? #he's just so cool 😂 #like yeah there's a layer of there's no reason he would have any animotisity towards humans because they're not at fault for the primordial #one's actions but from that to actually actively being so empathetic and compassionate goes a bit of a long way?! #okay i'm over i'll shut up this is probably si confusing i apologise if anyone read this mess shsjhs #this is also influenced by my tbk brainrot because loving others actively is a big theme and i just think that's beautiful actually #genshin thoughts #genshin impact #my post

[edens-serigala]

i started off very neutral towards taz's sanji (the fact that without the curly brow he doesn't look like sanji to me doesn't help)

but just treating him as a completely different character definitely helped me warm up to him

i quite like the calmer, almost older brother-ly attitude sanji has. animanga sanji could never have that much patience, but it seems like live action sanji has been in the vicinity of a therapist's office in the past 10 years

i've seen one interpretation where of the original 5, sanji is ~sort of~ supposed to be the most mature of the group to fill in gaps and act as a balancing force more so. and that's harder to convey in live action so the next best thing is to write sanji as being more mature - the patience, the little nuggets of wisdom. the scene where sanji gets through to nojiko when the others struggle sticks out in my mind as an early example of sanji knowing how and when to prioritise emotional things because being in customer service gave him a good understanding of social situations

he's not the soppy, wet, angsty brat that would cry if left in the rain for more than ten minutes. he's a different character, a gentle flirt, a tease, but his heart is in the right place, that stabilising force manifesting differently

we hardly got a look at him in the first season so it's very much hard-pressed to say comparing him with animanga sanji is doing him a disservice, but i think there is something enjoyable here just as long as you're willing to entertain the fact that he is not the sanji we've been with for the past 20 years

#maybe for some people this will make him less interesting #maybe others will find him more interesting #personally he neatly fits into another type of character that i like #which is just handy for me #and if they rly did cut out the more extreme parts of his gag i won't overly compassion #though he'd need SOMETHING to keep from being stale and idk how far what we've seen so far can go #the scene where he's flirting with nami idk how many opportunities for scenes like that there would be #but also zoro's comedic side for axed so who knows #one piece live action #black leg sanji