#international problems

[polysprachig]

person: *lecturing me about how Greece is an island*

me: right, except for the mainland though, κατάλαβες ;

#op has even been to greece #international problems #*screams in geography* #5 guesses where op is from

[n0thingiscool]

Enjoy the pseudo nationalist fascism while it lasts. It's about to get way way worse.

Of course the right wing hate is using deep fakes to encouraging left wing voters to not vote. And the fucking legislation some states are working on might as well just be pro deep fake usage in elections.

People are obviously too innately gullible and generally ignorant to handle social media as it already is. We love to laugh at boomers and how stupid they are with recognizing lies and bullshit but my Gen Y friends can't tell bullshit from real off of conspiracy tiktok.

We're in trouble.

#deep fakes #deep fakes in 2024 elections #evil #international problems #right wing populism #we are in trouble #new hampshire #todays news #news #international news #2024 elections #us news

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

#so confused about people saying the season finale feels like the end because to me it didn't at all #there's like 5-10 issues immediately set up for another season #they're in a happy place at this point because they've both realized their love is bigger than anything else #and makes it worth working on their problems together #the problems are still very much there #both of them have deep self esteem/self loathing issues that haven't been resolved in the week since ed woke up #ed doesn't know about stede's trauma #they haven't talked through anything #and they'll be shit at starting/running an inn lmao it's not gonna go well #and those are just some of the internal issues #then there's prince ricky and all the authorities that would very much like to get their hands on both blackbeard and stede bonnet #because stede just full-on kept using his government name after faking his death. nice one #the crew are not “gone” they're more like off to college for a bit but will probably run into trouble immediately #again because while they escaped to the ship they didn't eliminate the threat (the british empire) #it's not a forever goodbye #ok this got super long already anyway i have a whole fic marinading in my brain until i've finished these 4 wips i'm in the middle of ✌️ #hope we get a renewal soon because i want to see the rest of their story!! #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

#red rambles #viva palestina #antizionism #i haven't actually seen a lot of antisemitism personally. not recently anyway. but that's more a feature of me not following antisemites #i DO however see a lot of people talking about the people they're seeing throw their support behind antisemites using palestine #as an excuse to conflate all jews with israel #and i cannot stress enough that that is literally what israel and zionist forces abroad WANT. #i am jewish. my entire family is jewish. i want to see palestine free. and i have SEEN how the jewish community gets conflated with israel #both from the inside and out #and i am dead serious when i say that every time someone is antisemitic it strengthens the conviction from people abroad #that it's a terrible sad situation but there's 'no other choice' #if you're being antisemitic you are doing the enemy's work for them. Stop it. #like... look. i am putting this in the tags bc im talking in the tags but i mean this. I do not give a single flying fuck if you personally #are a giant raging antisemite at the moment. Your personal beliefs are your problem and not mine. I do not fucking care. But if you are #being openly and loudly antisemitic *in your support of palestine* you are absolutely not fucking helping. I am so dead serious right now #if you want to raise awareness and you're being antisemitic because of deep held beliefs or whatever i want you to look around and read the #fucking room. Do you understand how much of Israel's international support comes from the idea that they are the only country where jews ar #safe from antisemitism? do you see how every time palestine comes up people point at incidences of antisemitism in anti-genocide actions to #discredit the entire movement? do you not understand how your actions are cutting the movement down at the knees? #i'm jewish and proud of it. i don't like antisemitism. but there's a genocide on and i'd rather work against it than quibble over who i #work alongside. i dont fucking care. you can be as antisemitic as you like in private. stop fucking the movement up. #there are bigger things to worry about here. if i can put aside my own concerns as to who i'm talking to you can hold your tongue #and fight the good fight instead of handing weapons to the people who are trying to fucking flatten gaza.

[offkilterkeys]

The world isn’t ready for my alpha kid readings.

#jane crocker #jake english #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #homestuck #alpha kids #Jane is the struggler don’t you EVER contest that #many might argue it’s Jake but he doesn’t struggle inherently #usually he just vibes until he’s forced into situations wherein he struggles #Jane struggles from the beginning #her entire arc is a struggle #also had to change it from “the fujoshi” mostly cause I don’t like that and also cause it’s not as versatile as the other labels #I don’t actually think Dirk is boring btw i just think that when put up against his friends he has a lot less complexity going on #like his arc is fairly simple as opposed to Jane and Jake’s #and even Roxy’s #His problems seem inherently a lot more straight forward to me simply because he’s articulate enough to realize he has problems #Jane and Jake are almost there #problems are like on the tip of their tongues #and Roxy is kinda like the John of the team where she isn’t even gonna acknowledge the possibility of problems #girl is like “problems? haha not me #I’m the put together one in this group :)” #and just ignores all her internalized misogyny and heteronormativity #she is a mirror to Vriska in that they both put a lot of emphasis on preforming romanticism as a means of affirming their gender #anyway my alpha kid readings are way too boring so I feel like nobody would really be interested in them Sighhhh

[sunlit-mess]

it's not even half the percentage

#if i wasnt so held back- id have more than what i do rn and more unhinged at that #but hHHRGHH i have to be-- limited somehow (screaming internally bc its like being locked in a cage like LEMME OOOOOUT) #i am normal about things ( i am not ) #me and my hoarding problem against the world #messyr #doodle #artists on tumblr #neurodiverse stuff #neurodivergent

[txttletale]

it really sucks that one of the most popular trans women on this website goes on a tear every few months of posting like 'ugh its so difficult for me to be a trans woman whose Normal unlike all those other Freaks. wont anyone ever think of the social isolation i face, for simply being One Of The Normal Ones'

#tattletxt #girl i'm sorry you have internalized transmisogyny but stop making it all of our problems please

[melandrops]

hollywood could never top the casual but meaningful representation that horror fiction podcasts have

#EVERYONE IS GAY #AND ITS CANON TOO #they take the time to address the issues and the internal dialogue #of queer experience #but at the same time #it just is #it's casual #it understands how to present queer people as People #with problems that are both unique and non unique to their identity #and!!!! #there's so much intersectionality #muslim queer people #disabled queer people #you name it they have it #it just means so much to me #the magnus archives #the silt verses

[trans-cuchulainn]

one day people will write about doctors telling people to exercise more for literally any and all condition and regardless of the safety or efficacy of this advice the same way we write about arbitrary bloodletting in the early modern period

#thinking about the gastroenterologist who told me to exercise more #a) without first asking me how much exercise i did (i cycled 5 miles to the appointment) #b) without asking whether exercise ever affected my symptoms (i used to be a competitive irish dancer and no difference) #and c) despite the fact i was under the care of the physio team for an injured knee #and had been explicitly advised against weight bearing exercise #in particular impact exercise like jogging #and he recommended jogging. to cure my stomach problems #guess what. turned out my internal organs are in the WRONG FUCKING PLACE #would exercise fix this. a clue: no.

[sleepyorchidmonster]

There are plenty of scholars who would love to study the Traveler, and the number only grows after the Archon Quests.

Most of them just want to know about their opinions and views of the world, or ask about locations like Enkanomiya. However, there are those that act a bit like Dottore and it's freaky.

Luckily, the Traveler has friends.

Collei tries to distract the Traveler by pointing at random directions while chucking Cuilein-Anbar at the scholars.

Kaveh makes a dendro wall to block paths.

Layla and other students guide the Traveler to safer locations, preferably with loads of matra, claiming that they need a new environment to learn.

Tighnari helps Collei with the distractions, but shoots the guys in the knees (he uses blunt arrowheads).

These scholars are banned from the Grand Bazaar.

Nahida always tries to warn the Traveler about their presence.

Dori's network always deals with the researchers.

And so on.

Dehya, Candace, Wanderer, Cyno and Alhaitham are kept in the dark because there would probably be a murder if they found out.

It all comes to a head when Alhaitham finds out abou this. The next day he takes the position of Grand Sage, decrees that the Traveler is a human being and NOT a test subject and resigns (AGAIN) in a matter of hours.

Chaos ensues, Wanderer almost goes on another rampage.

#genshin impact #considering the Akademiya's general interest in research it's a miracle traveler didn't become a target for Dottore #they didn't want to deal with the international crisis that messing with the traveler would cause #just diluc alone is enough of a problem #imagine the rest #shenhe casually storming the akademiya with xiao because traveler was kidnapped by a mad scientist #this has been in my drafts since 3.2

[my-magnus-rabbithole]

You ever listen to so much TMA your thoughts start sounding like Jonathan Sims?

#jonathan sims #jon sims #the magnus archives #tma #at this point #it’s a problem #my internal screams just sound like jon #anyway #exam season is hitting me hard

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

yeah so i'm falling for @weevmo's Guys... they're so neat! i dig their vibes and can't wait to see what Corduroy Stew is all about <3

#fuckkkkk theyre so SHAPED!!! #i can feel myself getting So attached #if anything happens to them... i will simultaneously wail and cheer #nimrod is so cute. nimmy. the nimster. id love to toss birdseed on the ground for him to peck at. pigeon coded tiny man #lulu being a sock puppet trainer THATS SUCH A NEAT IDEA ARE YOU KIDDING IM OBSESSED #now im curious as to if sock puppets are like Animals or if they're as sapient as the others... #but yes im already looking directly at lulu she seems Fun as fuck #oughhhhh and wb. listen. Listen. im a sucker for handsome Head Empty characters and he seems like one of those #i also like characters with many hidden internal problems and wb seems like one of those too <3 #i hear that the three of them are siblings and that is Such catnip to me... #scribble garnish #dont know what else to tag this as! huh! #BUT YEAH THIS ALL SEEMS NEAT THEYRE COOL i Will be following this project to see where it goes #so far it has great characters a sprinkling of Intrigue bomb art (which. ofc it does its weevmo cmon guys) #and a neat song that i sweAR TO FUCK REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING. THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME FOR DAYS #the jingle is just vaguely familiar enough to make me Writhe in the agony of Unknown Knowns #but yes! i hope you all go check out weevmo's blog if you havent already! Good Stuff All Around!!

[purple-afternoon]

ok jude ok we understand

#the problem is #i cant wait #for the international break anymore #trent alexander arnold #jude bellingham #england nt

[whetstonefires]

Hey here's an angle on the Jiang family dynamic and its impact on Wei Wuxian that I haven't seen discussed:

Wei Wuxian grew up seeing Jiang Yanli routinely having her agency cut off and denied in both large (betrothal) and small ways. That were largely tied up in her gender, sure, but this was also a family containing Yu Ziyuan. A daughter in this household had every chance of having her gender treated as of secondary importance.

She just had to earn it.

The way Jiang Yanli was hemmed in and her potential as an independent actor dismissed was at least as strongly correlated with her failure to be a powerful sword cultivator.

So Wei Wuxian's total refusal to let anyone know that he'd lost access to his cultivation and his violent reactivity against being diminished or condescended to during his Sunshot-to-death period, when before he was pretty immune to being looked down on, could have a lot to do with having been presented with this clearly labeled diagram of how your personhood gets stripped away when you are, by the standards of your society, disabled.

#hoc est meum #like jiang cheng's desire to die about it also has this #but he had some specific shame issues #and the realistic assessment that rebuilding his sect and getting revenge was now impractical #and his problem was never really feeling like his place in the world was actually going to be taken #just like he failed to deserve it #whereas wwx had his secrets to keep but even after he'd lived up to most of his obligations #during this period #and i think it's what he's so mad at himself about looking back #during the Empathy flashback #that he valued his pride and clinging to his status when it turned out #it did jack-all to help and he got everyone killed #(Present-Day wwx is not an objective source on himself lmao) #and this in turn is why in the present-time of the novel he's so willing to lean into the indignity of mo xuanyu #he now has nothing to lose and it's liberating #but during his march-toward-death era having any more of his self-respect and conceptual status stripped away was agony #because it felt like an unpersoning #and some of the disability angles around this come up in fandom sometimes but #the fact that he internalized the idea that not having this specific type of power means you lose your personal freedom looking at jyl #doesn't really #and i think she Very Much informed his relationship to #power gender disability and #marriage #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang yanli

[bluastro-yellow]

if you paint "FUCK THE POLICE" on the wall Kim is dismayed but you don't lose good cop points. is that an oversight or

#it's definitely intentional in a game like this #but like kim. are you ok kim. do you need a couple of hours to internalize this #now that I've seen the passive rhetoric check: it's def intentional lol #kim my man you're so close to doing 2+2 #disco elysium #disco elysium spoilers #pointless microblogging #it's not an individual bad cop problem kim it's its whole structure and cop culture that fucked it up!!! #it may have started as a citizen militia and as a successor of the ICM but it corrupt now #you were supposed to help and protect people but that's not your purpose! #(I'm including ''being the moralintern's dogs'' in the structure problems)

[oldshrewsburyian]

For better or for worse, my literary tastes were shaped by spending most of my adolescence reading swashbucklers (and Sherlock Holmes.) I am blaming this for the fact that my jaw actually dropped when Jaime Lannister, asked about his relationship to Brienne of Tarth -- Qyburn is clearly professionally and personally primed to appreciate relevant emotional history/Hot Goss -- chooses to define her as his protector. Sir. Literally anything else would have been more normal. Anything else. He's not wrong! But also. My god.

#goodbye i am off to mentally write an essay about gender and the tropes of chivalric literature #a medievalist does got #i have to assume that brienne's internal reaction to this man's entire deal is 90% just ????? at all times #he's arrogant he's annoying he's filthy and feverish and telling her to think about waterfalls #telling her that she's psychologically stronger than anything their captors choose to dish out #asked if he can walk on his own: 'sure! hey brienne give me your arm' #and she does! presumably with the ????? at full strength #i continue to love brienne the MOST #jaime has nothing even remotely resembling a moral compass (this is a problem for him) but he sure is increasingly interesting #jaime x brienne #apparently