#let’s get liberated

[lichen-thr0pe]

#let’s get liberated #general strike #electric cars are not the answer

[hella1975]

it's been pointed out on here before that a lot of terf arguments are actually rooted in sexist idealology that feminists fought and died to unnormalise decades ago and that's its own kettle of fish but one thing i also find very frustrating about this so called 'radical' feminism is that it's so... defeatist? like the moment you categorically label an entire section of society as Bad and Inherently Evil then there's also the implication that nothing can be done about it, and it completely takes all accountability away. saying all men are evil is just another way of saying boys will be boys. he raped her because he's a man. he hit her because he's a man. he didn't listen because he's a man - it's almost offensively oversimplified. there's no point trying to fix this issue in society because men are just Like That, okay! so now what? it's not like they're going anywhere, so you just accept that 50% of the population are evil and will forever treat you terribly and there's nothing to be done about it bc they're biologically predisposed to it? like is that fr the argument here? you're soooo radical for that

#this is coming from someone who used to very genuinely be a misandrist #ironically it was only when i started actually analysing my own feminism that i got MORE confrontational with men #and started respecting my boundaries a lot better BECAUSE i started holding them accountable again #like when men treat me like shit nowadays i dont just write it off as 'what did you expect? he's a man' i get MAD about it #because i EXPECT BETTER FROM THEM even if it's just tiny shit women have to deal with daily #i hold them to just as high a standard as im held to and i make them take accountability when they dont meet that #and whether you realise it or not even on a subconscious level the MOMENT you black-and-white blanket statement all men as bad #you stop holding them accountable. #like it is literally just boys will be boys. do terfs seriously not realise they're sending feminism BACKWARDS #like if a girl came to me with her trauma and people - other girls no less - tried to comfort her with 'yeah all men are evil' #id be fucking furious. like no he did that because he was a piece of shit that had it normalised to him that women arent to be respected #dont you dare let him off the hook with something as simple and uncritical as 'he's a man' #i promise you men like that will MUCH prefer a blanket statement such as 'all men are as bad as each other' #than actually being point blank told they're an abuser or a rapist. because being lumped together is comfortable and even empowering #wheras isolating their behaviour with words that are Bad and Ugly (LIKE 'rapist') is not comfortable at all and has heavy connotations #idk i dont think radical feminism is always bad on its own it can be v liberating. just terfs and misandrists that i have a problem with #dropping this post in a piranha tank and closing tumblr knowing im gonna have some thirty year old karen yelling at me within 5 mins #i probably wont respond to any terf comments bc they literally mentally exhaust me with their stupidity #but that also depends on my mood and ability to keep my mouth shut LMFAO we shall see

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

#ofmd meta #Our Flag walks the line like a fucking tight rope acrobat and I'm not gonna let fake fans sleep on that #like they depict things aesthetically without actually depicting them sometimes #ill talk about the aesthetics of episode 9 all fucking day #in universe what happens is Ed signs a paper with an x either because hes illiterate or because he doesnt want to sign it #and is resting on the assumption that hes illiterate to get away with not signing it either as longform fuckery or to soften the blow #and he signs it to save his white boyfriend from getting fucking shot #and then he goes to a privateering academy where he does enjoy folding socks and he's liberated from his black beard and hes cool with that #everything is more or less his choice which makes it palatable and doesnt completely take the tone somewhere dark and harrowing #BUT ALSO what were seeing is the British Military forcing an indigenous man to sign a document and he does so with an x #and then taking him to a secondary fucking school ass school away from his community where hes forced to change his appearance #but also they let him keep his hair so that they dont step on that particular trauma #im vibrating what the fuck is this show #how do they do it? #Like seriously this has been a comedy show????? #And don't tell me I'm reading into it too much episode 2 primes us to think about colonialism

[phlurrii]

I cannot sleep and I am curious about your take on this random conundrum I am faced with that I was wondering your take on because I love how you are able to depict dynamic movement and action in your art and animations.

So, I absolutely LOVE it when the typically cutesy being that is Mew is depicted as a feral godly beast and I am so utterly in love with Meau’s truly powerful design. An absolute apex predator. However, my brain is hung up on a frustrating detail. If they weren’t floating everywhere all the time how would they like… prowl? Or chase down something. They’ve got these nubby little arms and these looooong legs.

Like. I’m trying SO hard to imagine something that could anatomically work because as eery as floating can be there’s something satisfying about feeling in the weight of a creature through its gait. But all I can picture with their body shape is…hopping. Just a murderous psychic kangaroo cat god bounding towards something but like…It’s kind of silly? I’m sure irl that would probably be absolutely terrifying to see a kangaroo bouncing at you with malicious intent but… it’s hard to picture it as an intimidating movement.

The slow predatory prowl or the fast thumps of heavy clawed paws of something huge and large sharp teeth that quadrupeds have is so a satisfying in a heart racing way. I WANT a Mew or Mew-ish creature to be able to have that vibe while connected to the earth that but then I look at those LONG footers and nub paws and I…I’m left feeling like it’s not possible.

Even for Meau like…their arm to leg ratio…I don’t think it’s possible to run on all 4s. Naruto-run sure. Absolutely. All the mews and twos can Naruto run and kangaroo-hop with them leggies…but none of them move with the “tiger on the hunt in the forest” vibes. I want to make something close to that but I keep making something too permanently quadrupedal in anatomy.

Sorry for the tired brain rambling I just my brain won’t let me sleep because of it’s “How would Meau run down their prey on foot” thoughts sending me in a spiral.

You see- you see, I have the same. Exact, brain worms. Constantly.

When I made the Ancient mew, I wanted something feral, a physical threat. That happens to be psychically able to obliterate you as a side treat. In my earliest comics, I tried so hard to demonstrate she was a power house, so much so her mega evolution is entirely just… that. A massive, wall of steel. Meau tore those scientists limb from limb, literally, with her jaw. Even in mew form, she bitch slapped a nidoking with her tail and kangaroo kicked a persian. She could’ve just shadowballed them, sure, but I want that weight. That feral energy, that sense of an unstoppable force, meeting an immovable object, except it’s just one cat and they are about to flatten you.

As her design has clearly evolved, I’ve tried to make alterations that fit this feeling, that vibe of apex predator no matter the size. She’s larger then average because she’s a threat, she’s more muscular because she’s a threat, her tail is thicker, packed with said muscle because she’s a threat, her front paws are meaty and girthy because She’s. A. Threat. Her entire mega evolution is just amping up that primal energy of raw, unadulterated strength. That’s why I made it, it was my first freaking thought after I designed her XD

I was actually caught between animating a younger Meau acting like a mew or an current Meau acting like a threat. I went with younger Meau cuz we don’t see a lot of her and she’s about to come up with Noe’s arc. So if you sent me this lovely and viciously relatable brain dump 3 days ago, I probably would’ve swayed to animate feral meau XD

But, to answer your question, yes. She can absolutely hunt you down on all fours and disembowel you with her jaw, she is that untamed, wild concentration that kills with a sleek efficiency fellow gods fear. And! At the end of our current arc we’ll finally get that secondary typing reveal I’ve had planned since April XD

#ask #it felt #so #good to get an ask that brain dumps as hard as I do about this concept #you have no idea how liberating this was #I dropped everything and willed a doodle page into existence #tired of these thoughts just living in my head #let her be unhinged #puzzled zebra #meau #ancient mew #mew #pokemon #mew pokemon #the ancient mew #pokémon mew

[uncanny-tranny]

Can we all collectively start to view parents who post online about the "fuck-ups" their child did as what it is - abusive? I genuinely do not care about the "reason" somebody has for posting their child on the internet, if it can be "solved" in the public court of shame and humiliation, it can be solved in a home that should love them.

Public humiliation is not an appropriate response to a child being a child. If your first line of defense is airing out your dirty laundry to millions of strangers, you are at best not mature enough to be a parent, and at worst, you are completely abusive and should not be a parent, and both options are pretty grim.

#abuse #abuse tw #youth liberation #saw somebody say that the most evil people they know are parents and... yeah. no fucking wonder that person said that #i'm sorry i get that being a parent is hard. i think it is an amazing feat in fact. #but i have so much scorn for parents who decide to leave the parenting to bullies and directly put their children in harm's way #NOWHERE in parenting does it require you to stop parenting and instead go 'well let's have billy bob bully you into submission' #NOWHERE in parenting does it say it's appropriate to gain clout off your kid making kid-level fuck-ups #start treating your children like human beings or i'm going to start biting #if you ever want to know what it's like to be a parent and have your kid block your number and never talk to you - come speak with me #i was the kid who blocked my abusive parent's number completely. i never speak to them. i do not have a nice thing to say to them. #if you would like that to be your future then you are not in the headspace to be a parent #kid's fuck-ups are typically significantly less of a fuck-up than what some of y'all adults do as a fuck-up #so it's like... gain some perspective about what the cost is and what the 'reward' is

[boxbots-au-hell]

Raymond being nice to Darrell in “You’re in Control” leading to the death of everyone in the entire plaza in the series finale is my favorite unintentional butterfly effect in the show

He praises Darrell which ends up motivating Darrell to kick Boxman out of Boxmore (in a roundabout way)

Boxman has nowhere else to go so he stays with Venomous which ends with Venomous buying back Boxmore and joining the family

Then Ven is in close enough proximity with KO that Shadowy can finally establish a real connection with TKO and everyone Dies

Raymond being nice to Darrell is the only act that’s unmotivated by any prior interaction. He kickstarted the entire chain of events. He’s responsible for the deaths of millions

#you can argue that shadowy would’ve found a way to get to tko eventually anyways but you can’t take this from me #granted this is all me being very liberal with the canon plot for my own amusement anyway #ok ko #ok ko raymond #ok ko let's be heroes #ok ko darrell

[meteormemoirs]

Look, when I say Biden is a bitchass punk I am by no means discouraging you from voting. I’ll vote for him, but I won’t like it. Please stop saying every bit of grumbling is a psyop and let me hate every US president who ever lived, even William Henry Harrison.

#uspol #every fucking election liberals clutch their pearls when a key part of democracy is complaining loudly until things get done #I mean it do not let any politician rest #remind them lobbyists can give them money but the people can give them far more grief

[waystarresourceco]

Brian Cox on young Logan as a hopeful liberal who became a disillusioned romantic.

#the way Brian talks about Logan gets me #the thing is though I can kind of see it? #like I don't know if Logan was ever a capital L liberal but we are coming into the story when he's 80 #and I can't help but think about Ewan's eulogy and about how once Logan used to try and then he stopped (at least in Ewan's view) #for Logan though I'm not so sure it's that he stopped trying so much as it is the world kept letting him down #not sure if that made sense - still thinking through it all #logan roy #hbo succession #succession #cast interviews #brian cox

[icarusxxrising]

Leftists aren't asking you to burn down walmarts or whatever shadow you're boxing we literally just want you to help us organize community support and mutual aid the other 364 days of the year you aren't fucking voting

#im so tired of asking liberals to do something and hearing the burning down walmart violence shit #its a strawman #help us help people NOW #You wanna be katniss then pick up the soup pot and lets go give people some food #you wanna be percy well grab that box of narcan we're going to hand them oit #stop fighting so hard to not do ANYTHING except what the system wants from you #Im not asking you to do anything violent and any leftist who says you HAVE to be violent to help people is a dangerous person to be around #We cannot create radical change from thin air nor violence we need help getting people things they need #you want a better world? stop complaining about the scary leftists and pick up the fuckin sharps box #leftist #leftism #anarchism #anarchy #anarchist #socialism #communist #communism #socialist #activism #praxis #fnb #food not bombs #food #mutual #community #community support #networking #liberal #vote #voteblue

[fisheito]

[heavy breathing] rei in his thigh high boots

#Dangm1!!! he really IS liberal with his moans!! #his voice is also deeper than i thought!! #he's more of a drawler. like kuya's kind of drawling. voices that go brrrrrrrrrmmmm instead of !.!.!.!!!! #idk it's my first time actually tryna pay attention to voices #SWEET CHEEBIES I JUUST WANT TO *grips rei's face* LET ME TAKE CARE OF YOU #like you're absolutely stacked for a twink . you're a nuca brand twink. which means ur biceps are bulging and your abs are boulders #u could crush me in one hand but i want to just (claw grip starts vibrating) #EIDEN!!! GET OVER HERE AND LOVE THIS IDIOT PLEAS #LOVE HIM IN HIS SPECIAL ARO WAY OR WHATEVER HE JUST NEEDS TO BE TREASURED #i'm 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #rei #i need u to be happy eventually ok. even mildly content is acceptable. just... AT PEACE?

[gothyanki]

thinking about her (Gith the Liberator)

Thinking about how much I wish she were the deliciously messy, morally complex, and believably motivated protagonist of a Space Lesbians vs. Empire trilogy instead of a flat villain/historical footnote in the Fiend Folio. Unfortunately, DnD.

#mother gith apologia #but SERIOUSLY #they really created this leader of a successful uprising that freed a people who'd been enslaved so long their original name had been lost #and made her a one-dimensional villain with no real personality/motivation #not only does she not get to be the centre of her own story #she barely even has a story #it's all just grist for the “eeeevil-aligned species” mill #we don't really know why she decided conquering the planes would be a great idea #or why vlaakith i betrayed her #because the big assumption underpinning those plot points is “this is what happens when oppressed peoples become Too Liberated” #where's my chonky book series about her + vlaakith i + zerthimon fomenting rebellion together and developing irreconcilable differences? #in the right author's hands it could be so good #let Gith be an actual character 2k23 #githcourse #slavery cw #oh dnd lore #as with all their historically “evil” species: there's a lot to unpack here #and I completely understand why some people would rather throw away the whole backpack #sorry about the giant tag essay rant. it will happen again. #I started essaying in someone else's tags and then realised it would be more polite to just make my own post #githyanki

[warthogreporter]

Thinking more about Pyre and some aspects of Aztec religion.

Main thing that gets overlooked with Aztec religion is that people have a reciprocal relationship with the gods. The gods sacrificed to create the world we live in, so humans sacrifice for them. Meanwhile the eight scribes gave their freedom so that we may yet have ours.

In Pyre the clothes for the ritual were made by the eight scribes themselves, who also made each copy of the Book of Rites it seems. There's an intentional parallel drawn between the current Nightwings and the eight scribes, and each character's trial has them unlock an item that either belonged to or was part of their associated scribe.

Aztec sacred bundles would include the clothing or even bones of the associated god, Huitzilopochtli's loincloth and Tezcatlipoca's femur being the ones that come to mind for me. There were also ixiptla, people who would embody a deity before being sacrificed to that same deity.

The raiments/sacred bundles connection is a lot thinner than others, but with the actual similarities that exist plus my fixation on Tezcatlipoca I can't help but see it.

#oc #pyre #Still playing through the game and the liberation rite guilt trips are brutal #I'm sorry Pamitha but I couldn't let Tamitha win just yet when I still needed to get Rukey and Hedwyn out

[hexenjagd]

Major arcana of the tarot asks || Accepting

― @izar-tarazed @necrophcge @yellowfingcr @miserycorde inquired: Just saw the headcanon question and I'm most curious about this one: ― 20.  judgement:  is your muse forgiving of themselves ? how about of others who wrong them?

In many ways, it is less about forgiving and more accepting things for what they are in terms of her own mistakes, not in some form of submission or surrender-- what's done is done, more like. What she did, knowing why she did it and why she won't take it back. It's done; nothing will change it-- not mourning it, not in hating it, nor in hating herself, even if she may have wanted things to be different at one point. That was at one point. So in that, there is a measure of a sort of self-forgiveness, a state of bitter sweet peace in recognizing it and moving away from it. At this current state, she has no interest in 'walking upon her knees' or 'self-flagellation' to achieve some inner acceptance and sanctum of peace. As such, she will carry it for what it is. So in a way? Somewhat, it's a nuanced thing that touches upon various self-perceptions she has. Given what she is, what does it mean to absolve others, what does it mean to truly forgive oneself in turn for something like her? It comes in the form of a sense of self-release and realization of a self-sustaining and self-destructive cycle that she had had enough. Now she lives in a peculiar state of release, a kind of uninhibitedness after having chipped away the last of some of her shackles imagined or otherwise. There is solace and wisdom gained from these experiences, learning from where she may have went wrong and how she was blinded by a mindset or set of choices she made. She knows her hands are dirty and won't pretend they aren't, besides the fact that her very nature is a designated 'sin', so what more does the sinner have than to accept and absolve those who have harmed far less than she? No matter how high she rises she knows where she stands -or stood- in the eyes of those who look upon her with disdain in a world that has already decided that she by extent is wrong. An aberration, an incorrect existence. For some already, she was written off as 'wrong' and 'undeserving' before she ever came to do anything beyond her expected station. She found her way to reclaim and revel-- a way to live beyond that grasp, a way to break what she was caged in long ago.

With that, a sense of liberation is achieved that offers her far more... so why hang herself up chasing some ideal or station she was never meant to be part of regardless? She is a crook in the grand design and she embraces that. She will carry on. She will learn, she will get better. So, let her be filthy-- and if they still know her let them hunt her, say what they will, let them come after her, let them chase her to the far ends if they even know her name and she will welcome them with open arms. They will come, perhaps they will always come, and she will not beg them for they will see her as nothing more. Come what may, she will persist-- but she will do so differently this time. She will redefine and take what she can hold and she will bring what she can to ruin so that she may build upon it anew.

As for others who have wronged her? Really depends on the nature of what was done and how. In many ways she is a much more vengeful presence in this version, but she isn't so gone as to be blinded totally in the way she once was, not like she was at the height of the Witch Knight era. That does not mean it's entirely gone from her, though. I'll break it down like this ―

What remains a sort of constant for her is that Helena has always had the ability to at least listen and consider the words of her enemy, even if it should end as it always does, in violence and 'death'. Maybe she'll even collect them once the act is said and done and take them all the same, but if they do take their chances to reach out, to speak to her then she will offer the grace of audience in return. If anything at all. For figures of her past? Some she will never forgive, and certain others she realizes -more than ever- that they are a product of circumstances, even if she can't always find it in herself to fully forgive let alone forget them. It may not even fully stop her from hunting some of them down in turn.

The shape of the world and the nature of it has made monsters of even once well-intentioned people. Some of these people are very much a product of this cycle of struggle and violence that ultimately had nowhere else to turn to, or they were so blinded by their own intents that they failed to see beyond it. She -in this way- isn't all that different at least in that regard to a certain extent. Although if one were to ask, she will tell you it was much more of a choice for her in the end.

For others that present a current threat that long to wrong her, harm her or harm those in her stead? It really is simple... She will remove them, it will be a death sentence, a hunt. Forgiveness is seldom.

#Confession || answer tag; #In which I ramble #time and act can make a difference-- but circumstances... #I do find these kinds of questions tricky because alot of it can be circumstantial and vary and what vs. what at different points and all #Part of this liberation stems from post death and return #Initially she did have a hard time settling into her strange state and even had a loose grasp of who she was #Let alone had no idea where to begin again #Alot of this she had to come around to on her own and with it; a further established sense of realization; release #and the sense of freedom that comes from that #You know on top of the fact that; she was dirty before she was ever dirty #take of that what you will #It is still interesting to me how this version of Helena is still somehow more 'free' and one of the happier versions of her #Which is something cause this role and what she is uh.. weighty #Some she will absolutely hunt down and GET and is much more inclined to this verse #locked and loaded-- drag'em by the antlers with her own #Part of it can even be strategic-- two birds one stone. #in some ways she has learned-- in others... well.. habits are hard to break #Anyway sorry if I'm a little all over the place and for the short wait #Passed out again last night and I am just now getting back to these #Thank you for sending one in! #The balance is a little more off kilter and on one hand she weighs these things has shifted #I am all over with this.. probably the sleep brain...

[r0semultiverse]

WAIT- is this one of the alternate timelines created from the space-time sword ("Shintō Amenogozen")!? 👀

I'm an anime-only bsd enjoyer & ever since that damn sword popped up after Atsushi & Akutagawa killed him on the boat but he was able to erase/undo(?) that timeline, I've been thinking that technically means there's multiple timelines. This would be the one where Fukuchi won that conflict we just saw or something else entirely is going on given the way he's dressed (if that even is him)! 👀👀👀

#plz no spoilers I want to watch it without knowing whats going on yet; I think it absolutely has to do with multiple timelines though since #Fukuchi got absolutely folded from our POV. Also his legs in the future looked robotic??? maybe just lighting & art style; but something #isnt quite right about that guy; he's also FLYING??? like HUH??? what is going on??? absolutely wild... looks like an angel too 👀 #I just hope this hiatus won't be multiple years long & force me to rewatch the whole series all over again just to understand whats going o #mind you; I don't exactly have a twitter to keep watch on series & anime announcements & things so I guess just tag me when we get a season #announcement and release date I guess?? just let me know. Adhd & series going on hiatus is not a good combo LOL #genuinely had to rewatch for this season because I only found out that it was going on through someone I follow reblogging a gifset & not #even tagging it. LOL like I could have just not known or gone the whole season without knowing since it's a more niche anime #okay I think I've rambled enough in the tags to get this post to show up in the search engine PLZ NO SPOILING the series for me btw #I will block liberally 👀 #mine #op #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd spoilers #bsd anime #bungou stray dogs anime #bungo stray dogs spoilers #live blogging

[tomatoluvr69]

It’s actually a cultural travesty how few black filmmakers there are. Obviously this is a failing of the ways resources are allotted, not a shortcoming of the would-be filmmakers but…it’s so sick how impenetrable and insular the establishment is. We’re missing out on so much by letting a dynastic and infinitesimal group of Southern Californians control an entire medium. Makes me so sick if I think about it for more than 6 seconds

#re: that moonlight post. re: another cronenberg nepo baby making films. re: actually let’s just nuke Hollywood #I’m soooooooo sick of everyone who gets to make art being the son of someone else. actors directors everyone!!!!!!!! HATE IT #and having so much of stories about any marginalized group be somber shit to appeal to liberals…need more than that. need the weird and the #mundane

[kenobihater]

i now have a 122 mm astarion figure to paint!!!!!! ibuprofen for scale :^)

#len speaks #bg3 #astarion #i also have a much smaller lambert fig who is also still naked due to my fear of messing up but i'm planning on remedying that soon 👍🏼 #i've never painted minis from scratch due to fear of fucking up - i've only used some citadel paints to add detail to action figures years #back and my paints have likely gone bad by now but i'm not going to let my fears get in the way of me painting my blorbos anymore!! #i bought this from etsy b4 learning of their stance wrt palestine BUT the link above is for the exact same figure from an independent #canadian seller who ISN'T profiting from pro-genocide merch while simultaneously banning pro-liberation merch for 'inciting violence' #so for the love of god use the above link if interested instead of giving etsy your support