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finAllY lmao

#its been like almost a year i fiNALLY have her #inoko #liz plays brave frontier

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Not Your Mascot: Combating Indigenous Misappropriations

            Not Your Mascot is a non-profit organization co-founded by Jacqueline Keeler and Tara Houska dedicated to social media activism arguing against the use of Native Americans as mascots in sports. This activism is driven by the argument that indigenous mascots misappropriate indigenous peoples. Native American depictions being used in sports paints them as violent, battle-ready peoples, though this isn’t necessarily historically accurate; the Battle of Wounded Knee, a historical example of Native battle discussed by Takaki, was a complete blowout by Whites, with little chance at intervention by the Natives. Indigenous mascots only continue the tradition of Whites claiming jurisdiction over the Natives’ culture, just as was done after the closing of the frontier. Not Your Mascot’s Twitter page, with 11.8 thousand followers, outputs a collection of tweets both from itself and fellow Native American advocates that highlight modern examples of disgraceful indigenous mascotry and the steps that are or are not being taken towards its abolishment. The page altogether reveals the unfortunate widespread normalization of artificial Native American stereotypes through sports.

            At the professional level, indigenous mascots are intercepted by massive fanbases. Not My Mascot continuously chastises the remaining pro teams who continue on with indigenous names, including the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Blackhawks, often including the teams’ handles in their tweets. Teams with such names and mascots inherently perform what the Twitter page calls “commodified prejudice.” The organization argues that the indigenous theme coerces fans into playing the role of Indian at games through wearing headdresses and performing the “Tomahawk chop,” making a spectacle out of a living culture. This is like the Couple in the Cage performance, where an alternate culture was put on display and audience members payed money for the opportunity to interact with it, thus encouraging the activity. The sports fans both intercept and egg on their teams’ indigenous themes. In this way, both teams and their loyal fans may be charged with advancing negative Native American stereotypes on a massive scale, justifying the need for the team name changes desired by Not My Mascot.

            Many of the page’s tweets also focus on local schools’ indigenous mascots. The necessity of change at this level is made to be great, as it’s described how indigenous mascots are “teaching hands-on racism in 2000+ schools.” A legitimate concern, as instilling misappropriated images in children’s minds is the surest way to continue cultural misrepresentations long-term. However, much news of institutions across America reconsidering their mascots is shared by Not My Mascot, due in part to a greater density of new changes existing to share than with professional-level sports. Petitions, school board decisions, and government legislation are often reinforced; I even saw my home state Wisconsin’s governor Tony Evers recognized for budgeting to assist Wisconsin schools with race-based mascots in renaming themselves. Not Your Mascot points out not only the commonality of the indigenous mascot issue but also the commonality of positive change. Continuing this change will be vital in stimulating multicultural respect for Native Americans.

 References

Clarke, Liz. “‘End racism,’ the NFL implored. So what about the Chiefs’ name?.” Washington Post, 5 February 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/05/chiefs-name-tomahawk-chop-super-bowl-social-justice/.  

@NotYourMascot. Twitter, https://twitter.com/NotYourMascot.

@NotYourMascot. “.@GovEvers proposed budget includes $400,000 to help #Wisconsin school districts that still have race-based mascots transition to another nickname. #racism #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158396446348757&id=79146833756.” Twitter, 3 March 2021, 3:12 pm, https://twitter.com/NotYourMascot/status/1367221393998422017.

@NotYourMascot. “Race-based athletic identities in schools solidify racist ideas in children. Misrepresentation is a huge part of the foundation of the systemic racism. The whole infrastructure of teaching children hands-on #racism in 2000+ schools is disturbing. #RacismIsAPublicHealthCrisis.” Twitter, 25 August 2020, 12:03 pm, https://twitter.com/NotYourMascot/status/1298304902041673730.

@NotYourMascot. “This should be final season people of @KCMO tolerate the @Chiefs name. Kansas City, Missouri is a good city with good people. It doesn't deserve to be held back by commodified prejudice.” Twitter, 7 February 2021, 9:11 pm, https://twitter.com/NotYourMascot/status/1358614289809047554.

Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1993.

“The Couple in the Cage.” YouTube, uploaded by Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Daranou, 30 Sept 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv26tDDsuA8&t=3s. 

@zhaabowekwe. “Boom. Another one bites the dust. We’re people, #NotYourMascot.” Twitter, 13 December 2020, 8:47 pm, https://twitter.com/zhaabowekwe/status/1338314622030503943. 

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pst pst ep 6 liminal end give me hakuzo POV

#15mins to go #liz plays brave frontier

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Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! ✨💫

so i was going to send the suizen ramble page here but the new episode of gq:x7(?) happened and im sad

so disregard everything under the cut

suizen,stormlost echo rambles

suizen 🔹-headcanon 🔸-thinking stuff

(I associate raijin with suizen because shaly from bnc said suizen was based of raijin)

Suizen (吹禅) (“blowing Zen”) is a Zen practice consisting of playing the traditional Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute as a means of attaining self-realization.

-🔹Headcanon that suizen plays the flute

Leader Skill: Narukami

Raijin (雷神), also known as Yakusa-no-Ikadzuchi-no-Kami (八雷神), Kaminari-sama (雷様), Raiden-sama (雷電様), Narukami (鳴る神) and Raikou (雷公), is a god of lightning, thunder and storms in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion.

According to a user from Massachusetts, U.S., the name Narukami is of Japanese origin and means "Roaring God".

Extra Skill: Rakurai

落雷 ( rakurai)

らくらい - rakurai - lightning strike, thunderbolt, bolt of lightning.

Brave Burst: Avidyān Roar

Avidyān is like,,, Indian philosophy of like one who has no knowledge (of the ultimate) taken from the book A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English

-🔸The ultimate here might be the Darkness that Hakuzo talks about in the grand quest, since Hakuzo thought that he was the only one who knew what was coming(but it is revealed that Suizen knows too)

-🔸Apparently Hakuzo’s and Suizen’s world is gone, “fallen away” in Hakuzo’s words,(by s’eljah? or kranus?) and yet Suizen still remains.

-🔸Hakuzo says that Suizen knows that their world was a “lost cause”

-🔸idk its just an ironic (?) moment where Suizen seems to be unaware but he actually is?

Super BB: Dhammapada Seal

Dhammapada, (Pali: “Words of Doctrine” or “Way of Truth”) probably the best-known book in the Pali Buddhist canon.

Ultimate BB: Three Steps to Śūnyatā

Śūnyatā (Sanskrit: शून्यता, romanized: śūnyatā; Pali: suññatā) – pronounced in English as /ʃuːnˈjɑː.tɑː/ (shoon-ya-ta), translated most often as emptiness[1] and sometimes voidness[2] – is a Buddhist concept which has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.

"Śūnyatā" (Sanskrit) is usually translated as "devoidness," "emptiness," "hollow, hollowness," "voidness." It is the noun form of the adjective

In Mahayana, Sunyata refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature (svabhava),"

The concept of Sunyata as "emptiness"

hypaeas and suizens dbb name: Trilakṣaṇa

Three marks of existence

Description DescriptionIn Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics of all existence and beings, namely impermanence, unsatisfactoriness or suffering, and non-self.

According to Thich Nhat Hanh,[6] the three seals are impermanence, non-self and nirvana. He says in "The heart of the Buddha's Teaching" that "In several sutras the Buddha taught that nirvana, the joy of completely extinguishing our ideas and concepts, rather than suffering, is one of the Three Dharma Seals."

Part of Suizen’s summon quote: To be ephemeral, to be transient—that is life

-🔸There’s something here but I don’t know what. It just,,,connects?

~lore~

"Though its scent lingers, the flower's form has long since scattered. Such is the transience of life; such is ephemeral beauty."

-🔸Connect with the SBB and UBB and all that stuff above because I don’t know how to connect them even though I know there is a connection there

Sages and fools alike pondered the passage of time, each inevitably concluding that indeed, everything is temporary. A gentle, wistful melancholy pervaded their world and was rooted in their hearts

-🔸Connect again

The gods of their land, known as kami, were symbolic of such transient cycles. As forces of nature, they were simultaneously fleeting and omnipresent: like the flash of lightning or the swirl of incense smoke.

-🔸 Connect more dots

Given form, they were beings and took names; yet among them was a human of such extraordinary circumstance that he was counted among their ranks.

-🔸 Suizen being a human once? Is this what it implies??? I’m taking this as a headcanon now

-🔹Suizen used to be a human. I associate him with a ton of death because of the thunder god he’s based off(raijin i think). tldr: Backstory: major character death.

-🔹I headcanon his mother died while giving birth to him. (There, Izanagi found Izanami's corpse. On her body maggots gathered, and on her head arose Great Raijin (大雷神), on her chest Fire Raijin (火雷神), in her stomach Black Raijin (黒雷神), on her vagina Blossoming Raijin (咲雷神), in her left hand Young Raijin (若雷神), in her right hand Soil Raijin (土雷神), on her left leg Roaring Raijin (鳴雷神) and on her right leg Bending Raijin (伏雷神); collectively called Ho-no-Ikadzuchi-no-Kami (火雷大神).) (From wiki. A lot of these things are from wiki. Take it with a pinch of salt.)

-🔹🔸With this headcanon of Suizen being connected with death, maybe thats why Hypaea and Suizen are bonded?? Hypaea killed a man when she arrived in a meteor, Suizen’s based off a thunder god who brought death?? Connection?? With how their DBB name translates to three marks of existence, one of which can be interpreted as suffering, it kind of makes sense?

None can say who or what the ascended kami Suizen was in life, only that while his flesh was fragile, his spirit was not.

-🔸 Suizen isn’t alive? Or does it mean when he was a human? Why does “his flesh is fragile” vibe like angst? How do you know his flesh is fragile?? Gumi i need answers

Humans become kami after they die and are revered by their families as ancestral kami. (From Shinto - Japan Guide)

-🔸 The dots are th e r e

He etched his being not only in the roar of thunder, but in the echoing silence that followed.

-🔸Why does this sound like a character defining moment. Idk “etched his being”. Idk “etched” means engraved, so Suizen probably created his own identity for himself -\(:/)/-

-🔹For the creating his own identity thing I headcanon that the other kami gave Suizen his name? As an ascending “gift”??

-🔹Maybe that’s why Suizen asks Hakuzo about his name and how there was tension between them after Hakuzo says that his name is no big deal

Despite his fearsome symbolism, Suizen is polite and demure, and is said intervene in affairs far more than any other.

-🔸If Suizen was a human it would make sense why he is modest and polite, since he knows what it’s like to be human. (Though his meddling and the way he talks to Hakuzo, gives him this self righteous vibe as if he is above Hakuzo. I mean he is,,,but idk if its just for Hakuzo, because Hakuzo feels that way.)

Not long after, a trickster slipped among the faithful—a centuries-old fox, whose cruel wiles displaced an elderly priest and fooled the followers.

-🔸The way “tricker” and “cruel wiles” described Hakuzo. Idk just neat. Since Hakuzo is an ass in that situation, even if Hakuzo doesn’t see it that way.

-🔸Seems like the faithful Hakuzo tricked were Suizen’s, which might be said in the GQ but im forgetful.

#screw it im tagging #brave frontier #suizen #im in pain thank you #liz plays brave frontier

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what the fuck was that new gq episode

#liz plays brave frontier

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AW YEAH

TIME TO SCREW AROUND IN BRAVE FRONTIER ABSOLUTELY DESTROYING ENEMIES

#liz plays brave frontier #AOIFE IM COMING FOR YOU

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why does the ep 9 secret objective boss of liminal end hEAL SO MUCH SIDJKDJFJDJ

#liz plays brave frontier #STOP HEALING DAMMIT #imaginary heals like 30-20% each turn after hypaea dies more i cant keep up #esp since i dont have good fire synergies i only have czorag x zeis blaze #i dont have azius x avyn nova buffs 😔😔

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baelfyr getting a whole vortex dungeon event for his backstory is the same energy as president snow getting his own backstory book

#nobody asked buT HERE WE ARE #”fan favourite” smh KSNDKSJJDJS #liz plays brave frontier #gumi can i have saer mention 🤲

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i was doing so well in the unknown sector then bf crashed on me and i lost my progress Dx

#dammit please remind me to stOp doing that dbb cheese thing #hot damn #now i cant finish krampus DX #liz plays brave frontier

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Dont mind me if i just combust next thursday because 1.1 genshin update + liminal end final episode

#liz plays genshin impact #liz plays brave frontier

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IS THE NEW DARK VA UNIT A BEYBLADE

#GIVE ME THE UNIT ART NOW I NEED TO MAKE FANART #More like a hulaa hoop BUT STILL #liz plays brave frontier #aw yeah we got the beyblade trinity #kagiya the new dark va unit (kirke?) and vine from rwby #can gumi continue the trend of good dark units #Please gumi dark needs love

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vash x knives dbb in brave frontier is called lost july and that makes me 🥺🥺

#liz plays brave frontier #i would word vomit all about the bf x trigun collab but no one wants to see that #legato and knives dbb makes me feel stuff too 😔👌 #i look back at myself @ the trigun collab without knowing anything about Trigun #and now after when I’ve read the manga and watched the anime #im like wow I’m a dumbass

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heres to hoping suizen's death will mean something and not forgotten in the next episode of liminal end

#liz plays brave frontier #let summoner be more terrified of hypaea #and let hakuzo reflect on stuff idk #suizen stormlost echo #just let his death mean somethingb:((

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summoner calling suizen hakuzo's friend is the funniest shit in liminal end currently

#summoner pls #i can see hakuzo being offended #liz plays brave frontier

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imagine if the daily summer summon pool is as bad as triguns bounty summon rates 😂😂😂

#:bonk: hopefully not #honestly idc i rarely get good stuff out of daily summon anyway HAHAHA #just would not like to pull non units lol #I just like how trigun collabs just a meme in bf discord now #liz plays brave frontier

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I went ahead and connected suizen to death, and connected that suizen and hypaea have dbb because of death, but i didnt think it would mean hypaea would kill suizen and now hes dead

#guess ill be unproductive today #liz plays brave frontier