#no you cannot stop me

[cometblaster2070]

ty lee and azula being THE doomed toxic yuri couple resonates with me on a level nobody understands

#atla #avatar the last airbender #azula #princess azula #atla azula #ty lee #atla ty lee #tyzula #ty lee x azula #YES i will be elaborating heavily on this later #no you cannot stop me #platonic or romantic like #their dyanmic??? #it absolutely kills me EVERY time #especially when you contrast it with mai and azula's dynamic #im probably going to make a post highlighting JUST how they're the toxic doomed yuri ship #and then another one highlighting the differences on mai and ty lee and all #FUN FUN

[kitkatabasis]

#The difference is that Albedo and Wanderer have parent issues #And Neuvillette IS a parent #Neuvillette #albedo #wanderer #genshin impact #d's notes #Also have to put my obligatory wanderer transmasc #Yes i will do this Every Time I mention him #No you Cannot stop me #They would make the world’s WORST support group #In fact it would be the opposite of a support group #Mostly would be wanderer’s fault though

[ruthlesslistener]

If you're alright with answering what is the difference between a conquerer and a coloniser? Or is your issue more based in the fact that people call PK a coloniser to remove guilt from the radiance rather than the term itself? Not trying to be smarmy here, I genuinely don't get the difference between the terms, is it just a difference of settlers?

Yep, there's a lot of difference! A conquerer is someone who takes over a territory that wasn't originally theirs, whereas a colonizer is a foreign power that sends groups of people to settle in a foreign territory to establish control over it. They're both terrible, but the means of control is very different; when a foreign power conquers another state, the populace largely remains the same, but the style of life/rule may change, or conquered peoples may have to pay a tax to the state that conquered them. Historically, it could vary between the conquered peoples having no change in life at all to them being placed under a tyrant regime that they despised, which makes it vary in how horrid it is (but it's still bad. Cannot stress enough how bad it is!!). The Pale King falls under this title because both him and his wife ruled over the beetles, which were native to Hallownest, but they did not displace any native species; there was merely a change in religion and (presumably) a way of life.

Additionally, we canonically know that the Moth Tribe allying themselves with the Pale Gods was what allowed him to displace the Radiance, though I hesitate to place any blame on them at all because the Pale King has a notorious trend of speaking half-truths to get bugs to stay under his thrall, which means that they very likely did not understand what they were getting into at the time. However, the main point remains clear: the arrival of the Pale King did not displace any of the native tribes from their homes, even though it caused a vast variety of other problems. We also do not have any canonical proof that the Pale King had any hand in the actual downfall of their numbers, either, which makes sense because getting rid of them = getting rid of a significant chunk of the worshiping resources that he needs as a god. He likely still fucked them up terribly, but that's another post to be made entirely. The point is, he is a conquerer.

Colonization, on the other hand, directly involves the displacement of native peoples or species in order for the invading forces to exploit their resources. This is where the concept of settlers comes in, and it is always verified to be a brutal, awful business, because the end goal of it is to wipe out all the native peoples and species and to remake the earth into either Kingdom 2.0, or a mining spot for resources to enrich the empire back home. To colonize an area requires either the genocide of the previous inhabitants or the forced assimilation into the culture of the settling group, as well as the destruction of native habitat and any other landmarks that are important or sacred to the native peoples of that region. The land is destroyed and remade to the settler's desires, or it is drained dry of resources to be sent back to the motherland. The whole point of colonies is to brute-force their way into new territories in order to bolster the strength of the ancestral land, which does not come in the form of the natives sending tithes and taxes, but comes from direct seizure of the land. Both the people in power and the individuals of the original nation are involved in the colonization effort, with the settlers often being brainwashed by propaganda into believing what they are doing is 'righteous' and that either enslaving or murdering the natives is 'doing god's work'. There's typically a religious or eugenics perspective applied to this as well: the native tribes are seen as 'less civilized' than the settlers, and so it is the settler's god-given duty to subdue and 'civilize' them, usually by either enslaving them or by forcefully assimilating them into settler families and culture. It's evil. It's fucking evil.

As for my issues with the Pale King being called a colonizer: I primarily hate it because it both removes guilt from the Radiance and places blame on the beetle tribe, but a not-so-insignificant portion of it is because I fucking love history, and seeing it used as a buzzword for problematic characters makes me want to scream. There is almost no greater evil in the world than colonization (well, apart from capitalism), both from the social and the ecological perspective. Because it is evil. There is no nuance to it. And there are still people to this day who suffer from the effects of it, and still get abused by the nations responsible for it, so not only is this something that should NOT be used flippantly and VERY MUCH SHOULD NOT be used as a buzzword just because you hate a fictional character, writing a story where a colonizing force is being challenged should always view the native group as the ones in the right. Because they are. They're being shoved out of their homes and killed and having their culture destroyed because some greedy fuck and their braindead populace with a superiority streak saw them as less than human. There is no fucking way that you can take any sort of rebellion against that evil and claim it was wrong without allying yourself with the colonizing force. I'm normally all for nuance, but here, there is none.

So when you claim that either the Pale King or the Radiance is a colonizer*- which they canonically aren't- you are inherently setting the other up as the victim. And because you're doing that, you're automatically setting them up as the group whose actions are justified, because if you condemn it, you fall into very, very dangerous territory. And given how fucking horrifying the Radiance's actions were? How she's the main antagonist of the story, how she's shown to be directly responsible for mass indoctrination and genocide, how she forced herself into the minds of the other native tribes that were separate from her conflict with the Pale King and made them preach about giving in to her light and then killing them afterwards because they were only tools to her? There's no fucking way. There's no fucking way that you can make that comparison. Equating the horrors that she did in her selfish rampage for power and revenge to the actions of people desperate to get their homes back is fucking horrifying. She killed millions of people and tortured many more so that she could have complete dominion over a kingdom that wasn't her own, and forced her control on unrelated parties to boot. There's no fucking way that you can place any of her actions in good faith outside of maybe 'her infecting everyone was her scrambling to come back from the brink of death', but even that doesn't account for the infection of the Mosskin, the forced preaching from the Moss Prophet (someone who belongs to Unn!!), the ruin she made of Deepnest, and the pacts she made with the mantises. She's just as bad as PK, and she's just as much of a selfish, power-hungry control freak as he is. The only difference is that she's more openly violent while he was outstandingly neglectful, and that's not even getting into the whole possibility that she was the one who caused the downfall of the original Void Civilization that founded Hallownest.

(Also Bardoon's dialogue on the infection seems to imply that she mind-controlled the bugs in the kingdom in the past which is a whole other can of worms. But since I don't think that the Pale King's 'free mind' shtick was any better for various other reasons, I'm not going to go there)

And NOT ONLY THAT, because colonziation requires the effort of the populace, you're also laying the blame on the tribes correlated to both of those gods- tribes that both suffered immensely from their strife and had nothing to do with any of the crimes that they committed. The Seer may bitterly remark on the foolishness of her ancestors, but there's no way that they would have been able to understand the full consequences of their actions. That's something that the foresight-having God of Mind would have known, and is a guilt that she or her people have absolutely no reason to carry. The Beetle Tribe certainly existed pre-Hallownest and likely lived in the caverns that made the Forgotten Crossroads and the City of Tears before the Pale King arrived; there's fossilized remains of them everywhere, and Lemm has dialogue on the bugs of Hallownest worshipping the Void even before the Old Light came along. Not only that, but they were not a militaristic race, and all of the evidence of their architecture in the territories of the other tribes seem to be there for trade or transport, as the bulk of their territory is composed of the Forgotten Crossroads (very literally a trading hub), and the City of Tears (where they actually lived). Additionally, they canonically had very little contact with their ruler because he was a fucking recluse, so they weren't exactly following his orders to take over areas that weren't theirs. Hell, they didn't even know the truth of the Infection because their coward-king wouldn't tell them the cause of it; both the beetles and the moths were innocent, as well as all of the other tribes that got swept into the conflict and destroyed, and that is the core tragedy of the game's main story. These were not settlers. These were innocents. And them helping the Knight on their journey- who was a victim of both the Pale King and the Radiance-is significant because of that very reason. They all were innocent.

So long story short, yes there's a difference, yes people misusing or pretending otherwise seriously bothers me, and yes I have a very good reason to be extremely concerned about those misinterpretations and the spread of them outside of technical accuracy, thank you very much.

(*I can argue that the Radiance was not a colonizer despite most likely having a claw in the Void Civilization's downfall because her territory appears to have been in the Crystal Peaks/Resting Grounds, as evidenced by her strong affinity with the refractive crystals, the pink and gold hues, the iron gates wrought in her image in the Resting Grounds, and the fact that the Grounds themselves have a purple hue to them, a midtone between the pinks of Crystal Peak and the blues of the underground caverns. So even if she destroyed the original civilization-likely because void magics pose a direct lethal threat to her- she did not settle in their territory. The White Lady is hard to tell, but given that her roots are massive around Kingdom's Edge/the place where the White Palace was built, it's very likely that she sprouted and grew in Hallownest. And the Pale King is for sure not a colonizer, because we know with 100% certainty that he came from over the Wastelands, shed his form, and became ruler of the Beetle Tribe with the help of the Moths; he had no worshipers from where he previously was. Likewise, he married the White Lady and shared territory with her, so no actual displacing of native tribes or gods occurred, it's just that he and Radi had an absolute shitfit over who got to be in control over those two populations.)

#Hollow Knight #the Radiance #the pale king #the white lady #hollow knight lore #hollow knight meta #pale king #white lady #anon #reply #YES i am tagging all this shit #NO you cannot stop me #its fucking important okay i cannot overstate this enough #this whole thing is a shitfit and pretending otherwise has VERY FUCKING CONCERNING AND DEEPLY RACIST IMPLICATIONS

[sam-jessie]

Brennan is giving aabria in this trailer!! Everyone looks so good I'm deaddd

#dimension 20 #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #dungeons and drag queens #yes i will be talking about the trailer until 28 #yes i will be talking about the trailer for an indefinite amount of time #no you cannot stop me

[theanoninyourinbox]

Might I request one of my fave SkyClan ships for hypokits? It's Dragonfly/Nettlesplash/Mintfur. In an AU where Dragonfly doesn't leave and ends up joining SkyClan please

Cute idea! So in this AU, Dragonfly (giant woman) stays, and when Darktail shows up again, she and Nettlesplash lure Darktail into a beehive laden fallen tree, where he is stung to death. When Hawkwing and the patrol show up, Dragonfly is pregnant, and the world is a brighter place.

#my art #warrior cats #hypokits #warrior cats au #warrior cats designs #warrior cats design #warriors #ask answered #Dragonfly #mintfur #nettlesplash #Yes that one is named after the fallout 4 bug #No you cannot stop me

[adaineabernantsfrog]

Post-Cannon Maidens

They still go on adventures, but of course, they have their story to tell. They do a lot of interviews, and a lot of bringing awareness to causes that maybe not everyone else is so privy to, like how loosing your virginity doesn't make you less of a person, etc, etc.

Idk i think adventures are cool and all but I also think i like the idea of the group getting together and doing really glamorous interviews and movie premiers etc etc.

Famous Influencers/Activists/Adventures, you get the picture.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #dimension 20 the seven #The 7 Project #penny luckstone #sam nightingale #zelda donovan #ostentatia wallace #katja cleaver #danielle barkstock #antiope jones #the seven maidens #yes im rewatching it #no you cannot stop me

[urban-swan]

Did I give my Utterson a man-bun? Yes. Does he look good in it? Yes he does. Was it a bad idea? Probably. Does he still look old and tired and miserable and moody as always? Obviously. Do I love him? Absolutely.

So here is Utterson! I wanted to keep the long hair I had originally with Utterson. Obviously he still has his ridiculously bushy sideburns and greying hair, but I suppose that's what makes him Utterson for me. He stands at just shy of 6'1, he and Jekyll being the same height more or less; apart from Jekyll being a sneaky two inches taller hehe. He has a very pale complexion all over, excluding the red nose (that he's had since he was young) which earns him the nickname "Rudolph" among friends and family. Ouch...

Both he and his Father studied law, and his younger cousin Enfield, is also expected to do the same; kind of like a family tradition almost. However, his heart has always been placed on Opera and Musical theatre, seeing as his Mother during her prime before retirement was a well-loved and incredibly talented Opera singer, usually performing in Italy; resulting in Utterson here to be able to speak near to fluent Italian. As well as that, his Mother passed on her talents to him since he was at the age of 5, now being able to sing like an Angel. Bit ironic as well since his name is Gabriel lol. Only if his Mother passed her confidence down to him, the poor fellow here can't even go up on stage sometimes without going red. Bless his heart.

Gabriel here is also the youngest of 3 siblings, and is obviously a Mama's boy. (Who can blame him?) We'll get to his family another time, but for now, the stage is Utterson's.

He prefers to dress rather simply and wear plain dark and dry colours that match his personality.

*Ahem*

Anyways, here he is! Lovely and cuddly, kinda...

And Jekyll's re-design is coming up also very soon, just gimme 1-2 business days to get to it. I'm revamping and producing designs for all the characters in the novella (I can try ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lmao)

And yall I swear once I've done the designs, I'm gonna be making so much Henriel like I already planned you wouldn't believe it 😩🖐

Bare with me, I have high hopes for this.

#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #art #jekyll and hyde #my art #gabriel john utterson #gabriel utterson #digital art #character design #I finally finished yay #god I love writing about headcanons sm #drabbles #i think i’m very funny #in fact I’m hilarious #everyone laugh at my jokes please #headcanons #character description #fictional characters #fictional #yes I am making headcanons from a book that is 200+ years old #no you cannot stop me #I’m even rambling on in tags oop- #YOU GUYS WAIT UNTIL I GET TO OCS #I made too many puns in this #call me Utterson now I dare you

[upongolgotha]

Outfit of the Day

#golgotha #me #ootd #Yes I drew on my jeans #No you cannot stop me

[idyllphile]

I like to think that in "The Return of the Jam!" when Virgil was trying to do skateboard tricks that Janus was off to the side watching through a pair of opera glasses (a much-classier parallel to nerd Roman and his binoculars) and Remus was down in the pit painting obscene graffiti or possibly eating the concrete

#Sanders Sides #Virgil Sanders #Janus Sanders #Remus Sanders #yes I will insert Janus and Remus into episodes where they did not appear #no you cannot stop me #sparksposts

[akhuna]

If they EVER do another RL film of the Witcher (based on Witcher 3) and they DON’T cast James McAvoy as Gaetan I’m gonna lose my fucking mind.

#Gaetan #the Witcher #that's your faceclaim right there #it's on the house #James McAvoy #Akhuna is fangirling #also Javier Bardem is Eskel #no you cannot stop me

[spectrobes-princess]

Chapter 45 of Cursed is now posted!

#dc #teen titans #fanfiction #jinx #flinx #kid flash #linda park #wally west #cheshire #jade nguyen #gizmo #melvin #timmy #teether #yes i had teethers real name be the same as matter eater lad's because i'm trying to imply he grows up to be matter eater lad #no you cannot stop me #it is the best headcanon to ever headcanon #my writing #earth 24

[asherenjoysart]

(TW: Knife, a little bit of cartoon blood.)

What aesthetic would this be considered. I just think whatever I made is very amane-core!

#yes I’m still making these #no you cannot stop me #unless Picsart gets like. deleted from the world. that might be able to stop me. #but that’s unlikely #really unlikely

[werecreature-addicted]

big jock werewolf who bullies you. he teases you for being so wet while they fuck you with his fat fingers and pulls your shirt up to snap pictures of your chest. he pushes you up against lockers and sticks his tongue down your throat too.

Big jock werewolf who eats you out in the locker room, he tells you you better cum quick because he isn't stopping until you do, even if the other team members walk in. he hopes they do, so he can tease you for being such a slut and getting off while other people watch.

Big jock werewolf who is not your boyfriend and will laugh if anyone brings it up, but it anyone so much as looks at you he'll beat them to a bloody pulp.

Big jock werewolf who asks for you to send him notes one day, then as soon as he has your number all he does is send you videos of him jerking off, moaning the whole time about how badly he wants to knot you until he cums and the video ends. He texts you asking if you liked it, if the video made you horny, and where's his video, he's been so nice the least you could do is send him a video of you playing with yourself.

#you cannot stop me from thinking about jock werewolves #werewolf smut #werewolf #werewolf x reader #monster boyfriend #monster #teratophillia #werewolves #monster fucker #werewolf boyfriend #monster imagine #jock bully werewolf

[pureseasalt]

iñaki godoy studied luffyology at the esteemed monkey d'university. he graduated top of his class. latin honors. he's on his way to get a phd. oops wait he's already got it. my god. the talent on this young man. he's got that natural troublemaker face. the class clown at the back of the class kind of energy. a kid who's hiding something in his hand. u take one glance at this guy and u know he's not up to no good. but would u follow him anyway? are u kidding me. look at him. of course u would.

#one piece #one piece live action #opla #Iñaki Godoy #episode 1 #still on episode 1 but i cannot stop smiling #like. none of this would work without luffy #for u to believe in this world and its wacky kooky crazy laws and realities u have to first believe in luffy #and by god did iñaki make me believe #hes so. earnest. like. yeah. luffy. you are gonna be the king of the pirates.

[dailyeohkakyoin]

the crusaders do have a healer.

they don't like to talk about it.

#jjba #kakyoin noriaki #kujo jotaro #joseph joestar #muhammad avdol #daily #((bet you thought i abandoned this blog. well jokes on YOU. i havent stopped thinking about it ONCE since i started it.)) #((the guilt is killing me. but not really. anyway this is 100% canon to my blog's continuity and you may quote me on that.)) #((i cannot guarantee regular updates going forward but i am at the very least trying to get back on track!)) #((regardless! hope you enjoy this silly joke. i spent a long time on it and i definitely had more to say about it but i forgot.)) #((peace and love💚))

[valdevia]

Help! My dog keeps hunting these little animals in my yard. I don't know if this is an endangered species. Anyone has tips on how to stop dogs from doing this?

#unreality #photoshop #whoops i just killed another fantasy creature #you cannot stop me i will do it again #gnome #Original dog pic by Andrew Ratto on flickr