#opposite of nationalism

[respect-the-kitty]

#my melody #kuromi #sanrio #pink #pastel #national Opposite Day

[pinacoladamatata]

you are SO SLOWLY selling me on gale/minthara the duality is just. *chef kiss*

is this anything?

#galethara nation rise up!!!! #minthara baenre #gale dekarios #bg3 #LISTEN its about the *reluctance* #its about the *seeing someone struggle to leave their goddess but one deals with it via anger and the other via sadness* #the way gale immediately says ''minthara has a heart of gold under her tough exterior'' and she's like ''stay away'' #and she's afraid to get attached to anyone bc they die #she's like afraid to talk to him at first bc GOD forbid she get attached to the weird man that has a bomb in his chest #to her teasing him like 6 months later as though she doesnt know his name #meanwhile she's basically memorized everything about him the last 6 months and this man thinks she hates him!!! #i MAY be wildin about this but idk man smthn about their opposite attitudes #pina art

[magicicephoenix]

happy national opposite day :)

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #bendy #audrey drew #wilson arch #nathan arch #joey drew #henry stein #the ink demon #alice angel #malice angel #beast bendy #have i. not posted beast bendy before? huh. #doodle dump #batdr opposite au #it’s not really a swap? just some core backstory stuff changed that made everything else spiral in different directions #why yes national opposite day is a thing. i was as surprised as you are (probably) #anyway yeah. i made a whole au for this (positive) (it was very fun) #you may ask about it if you desire. i have an outline and everything

[july-19th-club]

house md wildest show on earth. a main character outright assassinates a known dictator, a moment that would be the very beginning or the mid-series crisis in any other show - an act which creates a power vacuum in a foreign nation already filled with child soldiers and genocide, and it's literally only brought up again throughout the season because that guy's wife divorces him over it. and occasionally to explore his relationship with who he is as a person and a catholic after having deliberately taken a life for what he calculates as the greater good, but mostly it's about his divorce

#i no longer think wilson is the most divorced guy ever #sure he's been divorced more TIMES than chase #but the things he's been divorced OVER are way more normal #it is so nuts like . chase. bobbie. rob. bobert. what happened next. in the country i mean #like the president is dead. does his regime crack down extra hard on the ethnic cleansing? #does the power vacuum give the opposition a chance to step in? #how much of what the president said about the people he's wiping out having been in a similar dictatorship in the past is true? #does the nation descend into civil war? is the president's death the excuse the us or england or whoever is waiting for to step in #and assume ad hoc governance thus destabilizing the region even more? #all because one guy in one hospital decided the math was in favor of his killing a guy if that guy was going to order more killings? #absolutely NEVER explored. yeah do no harm and the morals we share with our partners are important #but christ alive. the aftermath of the assassination could be a whole show in and of itself and im pretty sure it just never comes up #house is a show #house md #q

[biscuitscheesebiscuits]

Reading physical copies of The Queen's Thief series for the first time and realizing that the maps in them are inconsistent???

#the only map i'd really seen before was K's map to P in Thick as Thieves #but now looking at the map from the last story of Moira's Pen I'm like. wait. the empire is opposite in this one. #like according to K's map C and K generally move west in TaT but the other map has them moving east #it's not that big a deal to me bc i had to read the entire series twice to conceptualize where anything was #(bc i spent the whole of The Thief not realizing just how important every nation mentioned was. good move mwt you genuinely fooled me.) #but now that i thought i had it down i am once again thrown off #also the map that's referenced in Moira's Pen shows up in the physical copy of TaT? #the beauty of this series is that I NEVER would have guessed what was up in that story even had i seen the map beforehand #anyway all i wanted was to conceptualize where Roa was & now i'm like spiraling. like is K's map incorrect bc its from an imperial lens #which honestly? yeah absolutely (it makes the peninsula look so small) but also how would the mede empire have #conquered so much land with inaccurate resources even if it is for propaganda's sake #nothing in this series is accidental so i'm like *pepe silvia meme* #anyway this is just me trying to put my thoughts somewhere ignore me my tags are a mess #The Queen's Thief #The Queen's Thief spoilers #like not exactly but since everything is spoilers i'm tagging that just in case #Thick as Thieves #Moira's Pen

[introvertgoat]

no one:

absolutely no one:

vox: [frantically muttering and scribbling] day 1,185 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,186 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,887 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,188 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,189 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,190 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,191 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,192 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,193 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,194 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,195 since alastor’s disappearance—

#everyone saying he’s obsessed with alastor is so right bcs what do you mean he asked him to join the vees dresses like him has the opposite #schtick as alastor [ tv | radio] makes a whole damn dramatic song abt him being gone AND lost to him ?? #LOSER VOX NATION RISE #valentino and velvette looking concerning at vox from #the doorway of his office #velvette: he needs counseling #valentino: LOVE counseling #hazbin hotel #vox #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #the vees #alastor #the vees r antagonist losers except velvette and i can’t wait to see them try and take over the overlord power wheel next season <33

[snaililita]

🌼Halo of Flowers🌼

Lyney x Reader

Tooth-Rotting fluff!!

Reader's gender is unspecified!!

I've noticed a lot of Lyney angst fics... and a lot of Lyney fics haven't been radiating the same vibe that they were when Fontaine was first released.... So I wanted to make something happy and just... yknow... peaceful!! The twins and Freminet have been through a lot... I just wanna see them have a moment of tranquility:')

!!MILD SPOILERS: Snezhevichs' backstories and the ending of the Fontaine story! But it pretty much just goes "oh this isn't a threat anymore" doesn't really say how. But still, you have been warned.!!

You longed for moments like these. Peaceful, quiet moments where nothing but the wind singing harmonies from lands far away in your ears and the birds reciting poems about the sights they had seen on their travels from wherever they once were to where they are currently are present in the air. When it was just you and the people you love most enjoying life without worries of impending doom or where your next meal was to be had. These indeed were the best moments, the moments you lived for.

You, the magician twins, and their younger brother were all together in one place, safe and happy. Freminet was a little ways off in the distance, but not out of earshot, looking at sea shells. Lynette was off under a tree not too far off as well, preparing tea and a flip up table with snacks of hers. As for you? You sat out in the field with Lyney's head in your lap as you comb your fingers through his lovely blonde hair.

He looked so peaceful. There wasn't a single worry plaguing his mind right now. Everyone he loves is safe! And he hadn't any upcoming shows- Fontaine's flood crisis had been solved as well! You had to admit, the look of pure bliss is a wonderful fit for his handsome face. You couldn't help but smile as you felt your heart swell knowing just how truly happy he was right now. After everything he and his siblings have been through, he truly deserves this. They all do.

Intertwining your fingers with the blades of grass beneath your hand, you decide to look away from Lyney's hypnotic features for a moment. You're glad you did because you spotted a patch of sweet flowers and dandelions right within reach. Reaching out, you pick as many as one fist can hold before regretably retracting your other hand from your beloved's head for a moment.

This of course disturbs him, he opens his eyes briefly and catches the view of you weaving the stems of the flowers together as quickly as you can, clearly having not noticed him wake up. Working your nimble fingers dexterously, you quickly finished a flower crown. The yellow petals gave it the appearance of a halo, a halo befitting of the angel who's head you placed it upon.

You set the lovingly crafted crown on Lyney's head as gently as you could as to not disturb him, only for a cheeky grin to spread across his face and one of his stunning, violet eyes to peak at you from between his lashes. You had been caught! Lyney snickered at your appalled expression as he sat up, careful not to loose the crown in the process.

He looked so radiant and beautiful, truly like an angel that the stories from your childhood described. He had been through so much, burned and bruised, betrayed and scorned.... and yet... he still gave his heart to you. Willingly. And now he sits before you, smiling- laughing so joyously as if you were some sort of goddess that had descended upon him.

He seemed to notice your silence and staring, he asked what was wrong and you simply smiled and shook your head. You told him that you were captivated by his sparkle, and how he looked like an angel with that flower crown on. Your angel. He gently smiled and pulled you in for a hug, resting his head in your shoulder and sighed. It was not a sigh of exhaustion, rather a sigh of contentment.

You couldn't help but wrap your arms around him, accepting his embrace to the fullest. He leaned back before giving you another one of his cheshire like grins, then attacking you with an myriad of light pecks all over your face and neck. One after another, he was absolutely ruthless. You were giggling like a little baby due to your ticklish nature and Lyney's well placed smooches before a familiar voice called out.

"Well, I had made tea but by the looks of it, it appears you two's lips are already preoccupied so I suppose I'll have an extra few cups."

Lynette chided you and her brother. You two of course quickly pleaded with her as you scrambled to your feet, running off to her direction much to her amusement. Ah yes... peaceful moments like these truly are the best of them all. It's so wonderful knowing that these moments are to become much more frequent in the future.

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

#adelita writes #lyney x reader #genshin lyney #lyney #lyney comfort #lyney fluff #lyney and lynette #soft lyney #lynette too #i love them so much #Please everyone stop being so mean to the twins in your fics they did nothing wrong #They just wanted to be friends #We are pals with Tartaglia and he tried to flood a nation #These guys are doing the exact opposite #What they heck #Traveller is a hypocrite

[2goldensnitches]

I know there’s a tendency to complain about one’s living situation (no matter how bad you actually have it), but I honestly find gringos and euros tedious when it comes to this because of a disturbing trend for some to feel guilty over the circumstances of their births. Obviously not everyone who rages against the “imperial core” will pull a snowden and move, but honestly, why not? If being born an anglo american/European or simply living there makes you feel irreparably guilty because it means you’re “complicit” with your government’s actions and your country’s history, why not change that? It’s not all that difficult to process documents as long as you have the patience to stomach bureaucracy (and the pricing). And if you absolutely can’t wait for a legal procedure, you can stow away on a boat. Thousands of people escaping poverty and conflict have literally crossed oceans with nothing but the clothes on their backs, so, honestly? A lot of this just seems like, dare i say it, virtue signalling to me, personally: that the complainant is “one of the good ones” because instead of simply acknowledging history, they are showing how good at activism they are by declaring the us and europe as the centre of all evil and that they eagerly await the day they die a fiery death.

Who do these feelings help? How does constantly repeating calls for violence in internet echo chambers improve society? All this achieves is to create a soul-suckingly negative environment that radicalises and negatively polarises people into reactionaries. There’s no care for thought or nuance. Like it or not, countries today are absolutely neutral entities that transcend the concept of borders or languages because people live in them. I don’t like Kim jong un or ayatollah khamenei, but i don’t think nuking iran and North Korea would solve anything, actually, because mass death is bad, and, ultimately, activism ought to focus on people over ideology.

And as an aside, it’s plain stupidity (and privilege) to not acknowledge that, currently, for better or worse, the us and europe and Canada are among the best places to live for many. That’s why people emigrate there at all. There’s an attempt to foster cleanliness, order, community trust, functioning social services and societal problem solving that is simply not the case in many other countries. Why would you spit on all those benefits for stupid internet points? So many people risk their lives to secure a better living for themselves and their families—and freedom of movement is a human right. Are you saying they suffered over nothing? That they should have stayed home to face war and famine instead of committing the crime of living in New York? Would it be better if they went to a more “appropriate” country? Which one and why? If not, then what’s stopping you from hauling ass elsewhere to leave your guilt behind?

#radikewl politics are exhausting #The opposite of nationalism is misguided internalised self loathing but the horseshoe is still in effect

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

c//a stans: omg catra is like zuko and adora is like azula actually!

c//a stans: but they're totally not siblings LMAO how stupid would that be

#neither of those are true btw #apart from the golden child and scapegoat thing catra is nothing like zuko and adora is nothing like azula #if anything it's the opposite #zuko was brainwashed to believe the fire nation's propaganda just like adora was brainwashed by the horde #azula and catra were both abusive like their parents and took great joy in hurting others #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop #anti catra #anti catradora #anti c//a #anticatra #anticatradora

[yuenity]

As someone who was part of the 2020 zukka renaissance, it’s so bizarre to see atla get popular again and witness all the kataang vs zutara discourse i completely missed out on the first time around

#I got so deep into zukka so fast that I somehow just avoided all ship wars #like I knew there was discourse #I would hear my zukka folks mention the ship wars #but I never saw it with my own eyes #but now I’m seeing it all the time 😭😭 #and I’m also seeing ppl discover zukka for the first time and it’s just so funny #to hear people be like ‘yeah sokka is so straight’ 😭😭 #i dunno you ever just accept something as fact for so long that it’s weird to see people assume the complete opposite #if that makes sense #anyway #it’s good to be revisiting my roots #atla was the whole reason I joined tumblr in the first place #peep the yue in yuenity #atla #avatar the last airbender #zukka #zukka nation

[respect-the-kitty]

#hello kitty #mimmy #sanrio #national Opposite Day

[mask131]

Do I respect people who choose to use Ovid's retellings of the Greek myths rather than Ancient Greek sources? Absolutely.

Will I judge people who use Ovid's retellings of the Greek myths without using Roman names or without placing them in the context of Ancient Rome? Absolutely.

Will I hate the people who will for example take elements of Ovid and project them onto Homer's Iliad or Odyssey? Definitively.

#ovid #homer #greek mythology #roman mythology #ovid is literaly the polar opposite of homer #one from the distant past another from after the end #one preserving a primitive form of religion and pantheon that was else lost to us #the other completely reinventing the stories of another nation for purely aesthetic literary and political reasons

[yellowocaballero]

Fic's going well obviously why wouldn't it be going well can't you see it's going well etc.

#my writing #half of this fic is just claude observing white ppl in their natural habitat and shaking in fear #im actually really really enjoying writing claude. he's such the polar opposite of dimitri. #but also exactly the same. but also he would get really offended if you said that. #it's so clear that he walked into Garreg Mach fully 100% convinced that he was the smartest person there #like he is so dead-set convinced he's some trickster figure #but He's Just Some Guy. #he doesn't know that. he doesn't know He's Just Some Guy #it's been fun setting up the pure (very fueled by Almyran perceptions of superiority) disdain Claude has for these people #and then turning it around onto him and hitting him over the head with the reminder that #as royalty/royalty equivelant to TWO NATIONS #he is probably the single most privileged person in the room #and that he's honestly DEEPLY full of himself #he's so much fun!!! #he's there to take assholes down a peg but also let's take him down a peg #I thought playing GD after BL would make Dimitri sound less insane. and on some levels he seems less insane in GD. #but it's making his character a thousand times more insane through sheer comparison

[nobodysdaydreams]

Sometimes I think about how bittersweet it must have been for Zuko to see the reunion between Sokka, Katara, and their dad given what his own relationship with his father and younger sister is like.

#That’s it . That’s the post #The parallels between those two families are some of the biggest in the show #The moms both sacrifice themselves for their children #The daughters are both super powerful benders #The dads are both leaders of their tribe or nation #The sons are both (initially) trying to follow in their father’s footsteps or legacy (for better or worse) #They’re so similar and yet the opposite #atla #atla spoilers #avatar the last airbender #katara #sokka #chief hakoda #hakoda #atla hakoda #atla zuko #zuko #prince zuko #atla sokka #alta katara #ATLA boiling rock #the boiling rock #Not mbs #The last air bender

[bonefall]

naruto as a whole is a fucking mess and i say thisas somebody whos read the entireseries 3 times over. “naruto is going to change the system! haha teehee never mind hes not doing anytning about the child soldiers and slave castes and the genocides.” “sasuke can be upset at his brother for committing a genocide but actually genocide against an oppressed bloodline is good if theyre getting uppity and its sanctioned by the government and also have a genetic predisposition to be evil so he should just get over it and be okay with it” “sakura needs to stop obsessing over a guy whos not even interested and become strong for her own sake. actually shes a housewife now”

kishimoto im going to blow you up with my mind

YOU GET IT

For real though I think what they did with Sasuke's arc was one of the most baffling fucking things I've ever seen. "Actually. Your brother who carried out a genocide loved you :( he only put you in the Torment Nexus for several days because uhhh he wanted you to hate him and not find out about the government who ordered it. Everything he ever did was actually to protect you. And Uchihas are actually kinda rotten anyway so it's good an entire GROUP OF PEOPLE died. Don't think about any babies or children who were also slaughtered btw uhh nope all of them were bad."

Sasuke: "Yes I understand. I will now rule the world through fear. Actually nvm Naruto won our fight so, my philosophy is gone now."

Thank goodness that Evil Sasuke killed the three Bad Government Officials before that point, though. We had this whole theme going about toxic structures, cycles of abuse, and how oppressive regimes can propagate themselves even when a leader is well-meaning... but, like, Naruto REALLY wants to be Hokage, so actually if you just kill these Three Bad Governors it's gonna be fine.

There is no need for systemic change. Slave castes and child soldiers are fine. It's ok as long as the president is blonde :)

#It also bothers me unreasonably. And HAS bothered me since I was like 15. That in the final-- #--scene where sasuke finally lets Naruto Into His Heart he goes off about how they were both just Lonely Children Looking for Love #Like... no!! No actually! Sasuke's WHOLE THING was that EVERYONE was praising him as a prodigy #But that he was pushing away everyone around him because his brother put him in the fucjing torment nexus #It would have been more appropriate to talk about how THEYVE BOTH BEEN MADE INTO WEAPONS #For Naruto to realize (now that he is Useful to his war-obsessed society) that Sasuke was also undergoing a sort of dehumanization #It should be through THEIR GROWTH AS PEOPLE that they finally have a deeper understanding of each other #THEY DID NOT HAVE A COMMON ORIGIN #THATS THE POINT. THEY BECAME FRIENDS IN SPITE OF IT #iM FLIPPING TABLES #They had the opposite problem as each other but through self-imposed ostracization and proving one's 'worth' *NOW* THEY GET IT #But we cant do that bc you'd have to admit that Sasuke hada fucking point and wasnt just wrong the whole time #And that this system is ROTTEN and that Naruto shouldn't become Hokage but DESTROY THE POSITION #because dictators choosing dictators IS BAD. #They should have changed the government to democracy and then Sakura wins the first free election #Because she's actually deeply connected with the people of the fire nation especially outside of the capital city #For like her humanitarian work during the timeskip #And for being the disciple of Tsunade who was a respected leader #And then have a cute moment where Naruto and her banter about it. That she fulfilled HIS dream lmaoo #And also let the three of them be friends im beggign OTL #She gets over her crush on him and theyre just friends #Animeposting #I shouldn't have mentioned sakura now im yelling about naruto on the cat blog

[alwaysbewoke]

#haiti #foreign intervention #united nations security council #ariel henry #political crisis #us foreign policy #military training #assassination #venezuela #petrocaribe #cholera outbreak #human rights #kenyan forces #international military intervention #daniel foote #political opposition #haitian-american groups #joe biden