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queenofthecats · 5 months

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Shit posting, but I swear y’all are worst then Reddit and Twitter. Y’all just really are making random crap up.

Y’all use anti-fem and anti-queer talking points to back up random crap, and then claim y’all are inclusive feminist and pro-queer. Please stop. The oppressor cannot be the oppressed.

People can’t be oppressed for these reasons alone:

White people can’t be oppressed. Billionaires can’t be oppressed. Men cannot be oppressed. Cis people cannot be oppressed. Heterosexual people cannot be oppressed. Able-bodied people cannot be oppressed. Neurotypical people can’t be oppressed.

They can be oppressed for other reasons if they fall into another category, but are not oppressed by any of the categories above. I’m so tired of this.

REMINDER THAT FELLOW GROUPS DONT HAVE POWER OVER THEIR EXACT COUNTERPARTS: non-men, poor/middle class, people of color, transgender people, queer people, disabled, or neurodivergent people

I might as well go into one of those subreddits that think every minority is at fault at this point.

#queer feminism #disabled #poc safe #women #Misandry doesn’t exist #heterophobia doesn’t exist #cis people do not face oppression #reverse racism doesn’t exist #able bodied people are not oppressed #poor/middle class literally has no power #neurotypical people too #how is this even a debate at this point #not to mention tik tok #go outside #chronically online

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perfectsunlight · 7 months

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𝐲𝐞𝐣𝐢 — 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬

𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫!𝐲𝐞𝐣𝐢 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

✰ yeji is the star of the football team and EVERYONE knows that. this girl is hands down the cornerstone of the team

✰ but everyone also knows you're dating THE hwang yeji as well ;)

✰ before you met her, you alr knew of her reputation. yeji was js like the rest of the football team; a major asshole

✰ she wasn't as bad as her teammates, but she was def the one with the loudest mouth tbh

✰ hell she even argued with her COACHES at some points. this girl js does not like it when things don't go her way

✰ the first time you met was bc she parked in your spot by accident. she wasn't gonna move her car until she saw you walking up to confront her abt it tho...

✰ you pointed a finger in her face, an angry pout on your lips as you explained to her how you were late to your classes bc of her

✰ however...she wasn't listening to a thing you were saying tbh LOL

✰ you were just so goddamn pretty, even when you were yelling at her in the middle of the school parking lot

✰ needless to say she went from asshole yeji to lovesick yeji

✰ immediately apologized and moved right that second, but not before leaving her number on ur windshield ;)

✰ "i'm sorry again. let me make it up to you this weekend at dinner? xxx-xxx-xxxx :)"

when you're at school:

✰ yk how there's those yearbook superlatives with "best dressed", "best eyes", "best laugh", etc? you two take the cake for best couple

✰ you two don't show massive pda during school hours. the most you two do is hold hands or you holding onto yeji's bicep

✰ whenever you're getting out of class, she's waiting for you to walk you to your next one

✰ she's just a big sweetheart who doesn't care if she's late to her own class for walking you across campus to yours LMAO

✰ you and yeji sit in your separate groups of friends during lunch, but you two alw sneak glances at each other from across the courtyard

✰ getting a text immediately after yeji catches you staring that says "meet me in the bathroom" ;)

✰ she alw insists on a quick makeout session just before the bell rings so she can have you all to herself, even js for 5 mins

✰ oh and good luck if you have a class with her 💀 she's gonna be passing you notes from across the aisle, throwing things at you, winking at you, etc.

✰ she's the best distraction tho so you can't complain too much, esp since she's just so pretty

✰ sometimes yeji is in a bad mood bc of a bad game or practice, and she really js needs some space

✰ but she will never and i mean NEVER turn down an offer to hang out with you instead of sulking in her bedroom

✰ your go-to is alw a nice walk in the park. yeji likes being in nature, and being with you just adds more comfort to the mix

✰ she gets REALLY clingy whenever she's all sulky its literally so cute :c

✰ like im talking hugging you from behind, whining and swinging your hands together when you walk, and ALWAYS kissing your cheek

✰ she js needs you as physically close to her as possible!! you're her baby after all

✰ and if it's YOU who has had a bad day or smth? be prepared for the biggest pampering

✰ flowers, driving you around at night in her porsche, taking you out shopping

✰ hell she'll spoil you ROTTEN. she js hates seeing you so sad and down so she will do everything in her power to turn ur frown upside down

if you're also an athlete:

✰ you two are alw supporting each other at games. yeji is def sporting your jersey/number

✰ you're each other's good luck charms <3 and best believe yeji cannot go out on the field without a good luck kiss from you !

✰ now if you couldn't make it to her game because you had one of your own, then she'd def call you before she leaves the locker room. talking to you is a MUST, esp bc the poor girl gets rlly nervous before big games :(

✰ this girl LOVES to compete with you. it's alw a competition whenever the two of you train together, esp bc neither of you like to lose

✰ she could make a competition out of racing from the field to her porsche smh

✰ don't be mistaken tho, she LOVES training with you. it gives her an excuse to work harder so she won't embarrass herself lmao

if you're not an athlete:

✰ oh you're never not wearing this girl's letterman jacket. she refuses to see you around school without it 💀

✰ now this is a BIG move bc before you, yeji NEVER and i mean NEVER took that thing off. it was her pride and joy, and she loved sporting it around like the walking trophy she was

✰ but then she started dating you, and that changed instantly. at first she let you wear it one night bc she didn't want you to be cold after meeting up with her after a late night practice

✰ you were abt to give it back to her after you were done hanging out, but she js smiled and shook her head, telling you she wanted you to keep it :)

✰ you like going to the top floors of the library bc they overlook the football field, and when yeji is practicing you can work on hw while watching ur gf tehe

#yeji #hwang yeji #itzy #yeji x reader #itzy x reader #itzy headcanons #yeji headcanons #kpop #kpop headcanons #au #perfectsunlight

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punkeropercyjackson · 2 months

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Hot take but Percy Jackson actually isn't anything like Harry Potter and the reason they're popularly compared is due to the mass mischaracterization and misenterpretation that leads to sanatization of Percy to turn him into a more standard protagonist despite the whole point his character being that he's NOT normal while Harry's is that he IS and that made him into a very bland and lowkey passive aggressive bigot that's an awful example for kids while Percy is the perfect role model.Like let's look them over.Percy:

Was born poor and never becomes rich

Is a child abuse victim with consistent trauma responses and unhealthy coping mechanisms all the way starting at The Lightning Thief

Beat up bullies as a kid,was targeted by them to begin with because he's neurodivergent and his teachers picked on him too

Has nothing but love and respect for his fellow minorities,women especially thanks to being a mama's boy with no positive older male figures in his life except Beckendorf

Is pessimistic,sardonic,anger issued,bad at socializing and gets embarrased to be overly open with his emotions but none of this turns him into a bad person but instead makes him realistic and relatable

And he's also kind,gentle,nurturing to the point of basically adopting younger demigods as his found siblings and pseudo-kids if they don't have positive adult figures in their lives already,encouraging,loyal to a literal fatal fault and has a distinctive and iconic sense of humor that never dosen't land

Didn't like Annabeth or Rachel for shallow reasons and instead for their personalities and only wasn't into Reyna because he was taken at the time and treats all three of them very nicely

Is an instigator who's driving point as our hero is taking down corrupted figures but also does activism for the lesser treated people in his world by helping out every time he gets a chance to,has one of his core trait's being that he's COMPLETELY devoid in power hunger and pretty arguably counts as an anarchist because of this

Relating to the sense of humor thing again,his whole PERSONALITY is distinctive-He's not just some fantasy protagonist,he's PERCY JACKSON.The name alone gives everybody who's read the books flashbacks to all his crazy ass shit(affectionate)and that's how you know you've got a well-written protagonist

And Percy is legitimately transfem-coded,because i've met so many trans women in the Pjo fandom and every single one of them without exception have said that she's a femme trans woman egg.This also applies to black/afrolatino folks and autistics in the fandom like me to a less near universal extent

While Harry:

Grew up middle class and then got riches out the ass when the series started

Is a very poor attempt at positive abuse survivor rep because he uses his mental health as an excuse to a huge dick with no consequences given to him afterward

Had no tormenters other than the Dursleys

A 'dosen't know better and refuses to learn' typa bigot with tons of passive aggressive remarks about girls and ableism and fatphobia thrown in too,not to mention racist moments like hating Dean for dating Ginny

Is the quintessential young male fantasy protagonist and this is exactly his problem because it makes him boring asf and we're dealing with so much fucking damage in the kids fantasy genre thanks to his musty ass

All his crushes were shallow(Only liked Cho for a pretty girljock and only noticed Ginny when she became one too and prioritizes looks and society's idea of 'coolness' on the other girls his age too like damn i wonder why he only ever saw Hermione as a sister,surely it can't be connected /s)

Never does actual justice fighting unless he's required to and don't tell me he shouldn't have needed to because this wasn't real life,it was a magics series so he should've fought evil on purpose like Percy did and so did Katniss Everdeen and the Pevensie Siblings and all the other actual good kids books protags.This genre is supposed to be a power fantasy for kids that they can be heroes too and Harry failed big time at his job just like he did at everything else

Again,he is VERY mediocre as a character but mediocrity sells and now we have a million clones of him instead of real mcs

Is part of exactly zero minorities,neither intentionally or accidentally,and that made him grow up to be a cop.Douchebag ass white straight boy Harry vs Autistic afrolatina transfemme slay Percy.No competition,Percy's punk so she'd kill Harry to earn her blue laces

And before Maraturds and Luke/gods stans get bold,you're literally him irl but worse besties♡

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qweerhet · 7 months

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uncomfy with a post i am seeing by a nonamerican passed around uncritically by nonamericans that is criticizing us military apologism in the usamerican left (a fair and righteous critique)... by denying a form of child abuse exists???

so uh. just so everyone who has not attended an american public school (or has only been to public schools lucky enough to not have JROTC programs) knows. yes the ROTC grooms and abuses children, on a systemic and national level. the JROTC is usually present at elementary, middle, and high schools under an average income level, rural and urban both. yes the pipeline starts in elementary school.

ROTC officers target poor children and generally any children who are bullied or otherwise appear to be outsiders. they identify those children and follow them around school, even sometimes pulling them out of class for conversations, and intentionally try to form trusting individual relationships with the kids by buying them meals, giving them rides, buying them gifts like toys and clothes, etc. they'll act like school counselors to a large degree, encouraging kids to come to them with their emotional problems, and generally hyping up how if the kids just listen to them and join their program, all their problems will be solved and they'll find somewhere they belong. obviously this is all with the intention of getting them to join the JROTC, but they continue to have those relationships with program members ongoing.

ROTC officers that lead JROTC are known, socially at least, to be child abusers in the same way priests and boy scout leaders are--everyone has some idea of the power this infrastructurally-supported conservative-approved private relationship with vulnerable kids gives to the adults involved, and everyone knows there's a kind of conservative who goes into that field intentionally. if there's actual sex abuse scandals, the structure does a lot to cover them up (handshake with the vatican!), so i can't point to a lot of well-reported cases, but. It's there. Unspoken.

i am unclear on the status of whether or not they physically discipline children as a standard practice nationally, but i know it's happened in individual cases locally and been treated as normal. i wouldn't be surprised if that one was just dependent on whether or not "hitting kids" is popular among military conservatives in your locale or not.

anyway, obviously military training is abusive to put children through regardless of if you're hitting them or molesting them or not, so the baseline is still emotionally and physically abusing 8 year olds as an afterschool program. the JROTC also gives you a free ride to college if you go to one with an ROTC program so you really can get swept up in Literal Intentional Grooming for like a decade. i respect anyone who wants to explode every us soldier with bombs, as is their right as someone harmed by us imperialism, and i will not add this onto their post for that reason, but separately i would appreciate it if tumblr leftists did not assist the american military in normalizing and covering up massive systemic child abuse.

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flowersandbigteeth · 1 year

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OOOOH NOOOO I'M OBSESSED WITH HEATH... FUUUUCK!!! This was so well written and fun! I love this character so much, he's so hot and likable, even though he's so dominant and possessive. Actually he might be hot because of that. Oops lol

I've never had a thing for gargoyles before but I have a crush on this guy. the bookstore scenario is so cute, and the way he's so casual and rough around the edges, then suddenly breaks his composure and fucks the life out of the reader is just perfect. I've been daydreaming about this all day. What's Heath's apartment like, if you can tell me? :D is he the owner of the bookstore? LMAO loved the shading of the reader's sad human boyfriend. I'm guessing Heath has a nicer place and more money than the reader, too. I love that aspect, it adds to the dynamic of him being more powerful and taking care of his cute new little human, while also putting his claim on them by taking them into his 'territory'.

His loyalty is so cute. Bet it'll be so fun for him to get to wake up with the reader, spend the whole morning together and go to work together. Poor thing can never fake being sick to get out of work again, though XD how much patience do you think heath would have for the reader if she struggled with depression and couldn't necessarily be very productive? Reading this I was just thinking about how different I am at home then at work because I only have enough energy to be productive for so long before I crash and become useless lol

I hope you don't mind the wall of text! I got so inspired by your piece I couldn't help it. Thank you for writing things for us, your blog is amazing :)

Haha I’m glad you like him! I don’t know why but I’m obsessed with sort of average everyday leads, though Heath does own the bookstore. He’s not like a psycho CEO or anything, though. He’s a pretty laid back guy who literally hired you because he thought you were cute. This was really fun to answer, because I adore Heath!

Here are the answers:

As for his apartment:

He lives on the 22nd floor of a building overlooking the city, but it’s not crazy expensive or anything. He’s pretty much upper middle class, but has a good savings and retirement plan. It’s got two bedrooms, a bedroom and a study for his bookshelves, with a large wide balcony.

He has a cat named Aero and a fishtank with freshwater fish. He likes dogs, but he’s not a dog person, preferring quiet snuggling with his kitty.

He also likes to be surrounded by living things and keeps easy to care for potted plants. His balcony is packed with plants in terra cotta pots he’s raised from cutlets that he’s collected from various little old ladies that come into the bookstore. I just imagine him having a whole fan club of grandmas who found out he’s into balcony gardening and wont stop gifting him cuttings from their plants at home.

Heath likes to read so he’s got a ton of old special edition books he saved for himself from running the bookstore and comfortable chairs.

He’s not a slob but he was definitely a bachelor before you. Most things in his house are practical except the books. His house looks very casual with oversized comfy, but quality furniture in cool neutral shades. He does have a nice wooden bedframe on his very large bed, for his very large body. He even has matching sheet sets and pillowcases.

He doesn’t know much about decorating so he’s excited to decorate with you. Before you moved in he just had fan posters he got from the bookstore and framed, which he wasn’t particularly attached to. His walls were painted gray before you and he’s excited to pick paint colors with you.

He usually uses his balcony as his front door and flies up to his apartment. He will give you a ride.

He’s a big cuddle bug and a huge introvert. When he’s at home he’s a ton more cuddly and touchy than he is at work. At work he puts on a bit more of a tough, boss facade, but at home he just wants to curl up on the couch and read books as much as possible.

His house is noticeably quiet. He doesn’t watch loud movies. He doesn’t listen to loud music. When he does play video games, he wears headphones. He likes a peaceful atmosphere at home.

If the reader struggled with depression:

He would be very sympathetic and want to get you help from a doctor because he’s very data driven. He likes to learn everything possible about a subject before he takes action. He’d probably want to go to some of your doctor’s appointments with you just to make sure you’re getting the help you need and that he is doing everything right to help you

He would be really gung-ho about treatment and help you organize your medications, buying you cute little pill containers to put them in

He would definitely let you stay home on days you just weren’t feeling up to it because really he’s more worried about you than how you behave as an employee. He will always want to cuddle with you when you just want to stay pressed in the couch and sometimes read you books while you take your depression naps

However, he would be really strict about doctor mandated schedules, which might cause friction sometimes. He will drag you out of bed and make you do some exercise! He will chase you around with a water bottle and remind you to drink it! He will make you go to bed on time! He will insist on buying healthy food for meals! He will carefully watch your drinking and give you glasses of juice and say they are alcoholic when you are overdoing it. He’s not above tricking you when you are being silly or stubborn, but most of the time he’ll just fuck the sense into you.

#monster headcanons #yandere headcanon #headcannon #headcanon #monster x girl #monster oc #monster fucker #monster fic #my fic

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aristotels · 1 month

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sometimes i start thinking about the differences between brits and usamericans, and my mind immediately goes to humour; because british humour was so incredibly popular here during yugoslavia, that i thought "only fools and horses" (mućke) was actually a croatian show. monty pythons, blackadder, fawlty towers, these were all things going on the tv when i was younger, and people religiously watched them.

anyway, these shows all had working class humour, they were poking fun at rich, the stupid lords, from python sketches mocking the queen, the pope, to blackadder mocking the concept of war and british army, and so on. it kinda just made me realize that... the usa never had this kind of poverty humour in the shows?

ive heard "malcolm in the middle" was supposed to be lower-class-humour, though to me it absolutely never felt such way; i do remember enjoying the show when i was a kid, though i'd have to rewatch it now to see what form the humour was in. because british shows always had this crass and loud irony and sarcasm, which were lacking in the usa shows.

and it reminds me of "alan ford" - an italian comic, also which took place in the usa (and mocked it relentlessly), revolving around a spy group living in absolute poverty, making fun of the power hungry and rich (esp rich; i always laugh thinking of page where they had "beach for the rich" and "beach for the poor") and it only received fame in - yugoslavia! they tried to translate the comic to a few more languages, and it only got about 5 issues tops, but in yugoslavia it literally has a legendary, cult status.

anyway this isnt some thought-out thinkpiece, this is just me thinking out loud; this is a topic that would need good research - why britain obviously had the strong working class, and why the usa did not. hmmm

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kitty-pelosi · 11 days

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it has been validating to see folks broadly wake up to the fact that the Democratic Party doesn’t really do anything, and that the middle class is generally only on the side of black and poor people when Republicans are in power.

America is a festering corpse, with a gas bubble about to blow its rib cage out and launch whale viscera across the beach. the concept of “harm reduction” and putting Democrats in power is a fallacious idea that’s been identified for what it actually is - feminist imperialism seeking to preserve and maintain the privilege of the empire over its subsidiaries. This is done often through the cooptation of queer and black folk - who are literally not being helped but are being used as props to accrue tokens of diversity, equity, and inclusion which the upper middle class identifies as Ultimate Justice

and at the same time I couldn’t be more disgusted with my people who throw their heart into the Democratic Party in hope - out of naïveté or stupidity or callousness. what these people don’t know is that they won’t ever be loved by the system that they want to love them, and by doing so they have lost the love of the only people who would have given it to them

#death to america #socialism #politics #leftist

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glasswingowl · 1 year

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EP 4 PREMIERE LETS GOO (SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT)

Uzi's wing backpack is really cute! hope it's not foreshadowing anything :)

YES KHAN BE EMOTIONALLY VULNERABLE AND TRUST YOUR DAUGHTER WITH HER OWN FUTURE! I KNOW I KEPT SHIT TALKING YOU BUT I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT ONE DAY YOU WOULDN'T ROYALLY SCREW UP EVERYTHING

also was Nori the one initially obsessed with doors? and doll's dad. he was in the photo too, but then again, so was khan. Was he infected or not? if he has an id card, i didn't see it

does. does no one know who uzi is?? she literally exploded a gun in the middle of class that isn't something you'd easily forget. i mean i guess no one would really "know" her considering her complete and utter lack of friends up until now

N AND V AS CAMP COUNSELORS HAHAHAHA OH THIS IS GOING TO GO GREAT I CAN ALREADY TELL

all the other drones immediately fawning over N and V lmao.

ooh uzi's got a much better grasp of her powers now. someone's been practicing

LMAO THEY EXPLICITLY SAID "THERE WERE NO DOGS ON COPPER 9 WHEN EVERYTHING WENT TO SHIT ALSO DOGS ARE IMMORTAL NOW"

oh N and V playing nice with the workers is really cute (also lizzy gets to sit with V!)

(also was i not paying attention or did thad just straight up disappear halfway through the episode)

V's being weird and cryptic again... also girl you know you're bluffing stop pretending you can just get rid of Uzi without consequences.

is uzi... resentful? is she upset that two literal murderers are able to make friends easier than her? poor girl.

oh hey doll. we thought you were dead (and you might still be idk what your fucking deal is anymore)

the killing/not killing the bug symbolism carries over to this episode too.

this bug can communicate! and we know for sure that it's connected to the solvers now!

it called her 002. it thinks she's nori. Were the inital test subjects registered, but not their children? would doll scan as yeva's number? (can't remember it off the top of my head)

oh she just turned that arrow into flesh. oh dear god it's alive. i never thought i say this, but i'm with uzi's classmates on this one what the fuck was that

"i live in the woods now!" ah yes that'll solve everything great job

oh uzi :( so this is why doll had such a large supply of oil on hand. good thing she had the stomach to drink it

(ok yeah thad's not with the group anymore where did he fuck off to)

YES N STAND UP TO V. DEMAND ANSWERS.

"she's a kid, like us V!" ... ok how old are they actually i want to know. "like us" implies similar age range at least and they kind of hinted at Uzi being 18-20 with the prom posters but i wish they'd just TELL us in canon or word of god it on twitter or something

LIZZY-

I thought rebecca's bf was Brad? did they break up? quick rebound time damn

oh doesn't matter they're gonna fucking die

JCjenson made a tape about "zombie drones". what did they know.

Flashback images: Tessa (looking VERY drone like), a severed hand hanging from a chandelier, and an explosion (that looks VERY solver-esque.)

oh shit's going downhill very quickly.

OH DEAR GOD. REBECCA. sorry Rebecca enjoyers that's an L for you guys.

OH. OH NO UZI. SHE'S GOT MURDER DRONE POWERS AND SOLVER POWERS YOU GUYS ARE FUCKED.

"Killing her, not saving you." it can be both V it's ok

did. did V just call her CYN? DID V JUST CALL HER CYN????

V GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF

oh her tail's got teeth. no nanites though...

ngl N's pretty much the best person who could've possibly shown up at that moment

her wing joints are human arm skeletons. nope. don't like that.

ohh N is just the sweetest. very emotionally aware too

V what are you smiling at. V is there something you want to tell us

i know we were all joking about V x Lizzy but i'm not sure it's a joke anymore

i'm not going to ask how riding the bus like a stagecoach works

V taking blame for the murders? aww you do care <3

is n scared of his connection to uzi? worried that he might be dangerous to her? or is he secretly scared of her but not willing to leave his first real friend?

( i know i've mentioned this three times now but thad's not on the bus. where did he go. did he just decide fuck this i'm not dying here and walk home?)

#murder drones #there's at least one good thing about being sick and not sleeping properly #up in time to catch the premiere!#tldr: V better start coughing up some answers soon before things get REALLY out of hand.#and n is a great friend :D #glasswingtalks

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qqueenofhades · 1 year

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Ok I seriously hope you don’t take this as bad faith but I’d like to genuinely understand this, and I’m not even sure if I’m articulating this thought well, but I don’t understand why it’s not also considered inhumane to allow a ton more people into a system so broken that it can’t even support the poorest that are in that nation…? I understand it’s important to hella reform immigration and that’s in the works, and that these people are fleeing far worse conditions, but I also feel like the rich are just looking to make yet another slave class out of these desperate people. Is it yet again a case of multiple broken systems in a trench coat? If so, I’d like to know the most prominent areas so I can try to start fighting it (the rights abuses, not the immigration)

Okay, but I'm not entirely sure what your point here is. It sounds like "we shouldn't allow immigrants into America until we can help every American first," which is probably not what you mean, but still. Yes, America as a culture, society, and economy has many, MANY problems. Nobody is denying or disputing that. But it is also literally a nation built on immigrants, and why is it "inhumane" to let them come here when they are so desperate to reach it that they will risk their lives in any number of ways...? Is it just that you're afraid you aren't being Socially Aware Enough on any particular economic or social issue, and need to find something else to worry about?

People come to America, or want to come to America, for many reasons. They are being persecuted, or their country is politically unstable, or they have few job opportunities, or they have family here, or whatever. They are not coming here because they're being passively manipulated "by the rich to make another slave class." The way we treat them can often be disgraceful (see: Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott), but there are also many, many communities and resources for welcome and support. Immigrants can often get jobs and save money. They can build new lives. This is something we should welcome, and because the right wing in America, with all its racism and xenophobia, has so long dominated the immigration debate as "scary brown people," this is long, LONG overdue.

Any strategy that wants to reduce "illegal immigration" must offer valid and safe pathways for legal immigration. That's why the UK is in the middle of such a clusterfuck: the hardline Tories who want nobody to move to Britain ever are trying to stop the small boat crossings across the Channel by being even more cartoonishly evil and deliberately unhelpful to the poor souls who do make it. They feel that if they can make a "hostile environment" (their own words) for refugees and asylum-seekers, eventually none of those irritating brown people will ever bother to try again, problem solved. Which of course, hasn't worked, not least since Britain refuses to allow any pathways for safe and legal immigration/resettlement from unsettled and/or third world countries. Even highly skilled workers have lots of trouble getting a UK settlement visa these days, so your average refugee/economic migrant? Forget it.

Because Biden is allowing generous quotas of legal migrants, that cuts down on the chaos and brutality of people-traffickers and other criminal enterprises who make their money by extorting desperate people who have no other option. Also, lest we forget, we are less than four years removed from the Trump policy of tearing children away from their families and putting them in literal cages, under the same "make it so bad for them that they'll stop coming!" fetish for institutional cruelty that drives the Tories.

There is also an additional moral responsibility for former empires to be open to immigration, given that they built their political systems' wealth and power by moving to OTHER people's countries and invading, exploiting, and enslaving them. Now when the descendants of those people want to come to your country in turn, the racist white conservative pearl-clutching is both depressing and predictable. But yes, let's not read people making the choice to come to America, for one reason or another, as either an attempt to siphon overstretched resources from Real Americans, or as helpless dupes manipulated by the capitalist class to just live more lives of drudgery and misery. They are real people making real choices, and the fact that they're still so eager to come to America, even with all its problems, is something that should be supported, in a sustainable way, as much as possible.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts

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Okay so my first post is going to be about the link between capitalism and existential angst, which is the most on brand thing possible for me, so if you like this there’ll be much more of it and if not… sorry. 😅

I’ve always had a proclivity for angsty existentialism. Multiple times a housemate has found me sprawled on a sofa moping about the meaning of life which sounds really pretentious but idk I feel like on some level that’s just being a student. And it’s that material side of it that’s got me curious recently like - were these anxieties just a result of the kind of individualistic, listless existence a student inhabits? There’s probably a reason the stereotypes of angst are people with enough wealth to avoid work but not enough respect or expectations to have a solid idea about what they should be doing: Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Søren Kierkegaard, etc.

In the first volume of his Critique of Everyday Life, Henri Lefebvre calls out Kierkegaard specifically as a prime example of bourgeoise alienation, the result of which was literally creating existentialist philosophy - the idea that we have to create meaning for ourselves by force of will and taking a leap of faith. Lefebvre claims that existential angst is always a result of some sort of alienation. When Marx formulated alienation as the psychological suffering we experience when we are separation from ourselves, each other, the products of our labour, and nature, he was thinking about the way the working class are made to suffer under capitalism, but Lefebvre expands the theory beyond this. He describes how alienation is always relative and present in all types of society for all people within it. Alienation is not just a result of individualism and exploitation - it also presents itself when we feel too far from someone we love, and when we are mystified by the natural world. Crucially, we are alienated when we become detached from the fact that we are dependent on others for our survival, something common to all the bourgeoisie.

Acknowledging this dependency would make us aware of the injustice of how these responsibilities are distributed (according to class, gender, race, etc.), and getting past the separation would require a radical change in lifestyle involving the rejection of the serving of the individual self so integral to bourgeoise morality. It’s hard! But with the lines between proletariat and bourgeoisie becoming more and more blurred with the expansion of the middle class, recognising this particularly bourgeoise suffering is important, I think, if we want to articulate a reason more people can get behind to resist capitalism.

People suffer when they’re separated from people, when their material existence feels so isolated and insignificant that they have to rely on spirituality to give them any sense of grounding, but are unable to be confident in their beliefs so can only ever relate to religion through anxiety (both my best friends speak of religion in this way, and before I read Lefebvre I was tempted to join them because it sounded better than the nihilism I was struggling with). Seriously, read any Kierkegaard and you will know he was not a happy guy. He wrote book called The Concept of Anxiety, and Fear and Trembling for God’s sake. He’s not okay! 🥺 But poor Søren might have been okay if he’d been a bit less self obsessed, acknowledged the value of *inter*subjectivity rather than pure responsibility, and actually married his fianceé rather than worrying about his independent morality, which was really just arrogance. I sound mean but I love him really. He’s very entertaining and *painfully* relatable.

But this is why I find Simone de Beauvoir to be the absolute best of the existentialist canon, because she recognises the need for recognition and connection, even for the powerful. In The Ethics of Ambiguity, she writes about how even tyrants suffer in hierarchical societies because they can never know authentic respect, since people always see their power and the threat implicit in it rather than their whole humanity. This doesn’t mean that we should never violently resist tyranny, because individualism is hard to overcome, even when it’s self-sabotaging, but awareness of this could get more people on the side of equality. This idea is apparently supported empirically in The Spirit Level, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, but I haven’t read that one yet. I like to put it in Spinozist terms: the satisfaction of one desire can be excessive when it blinds us to our other needs and presents us from feeling other forms of joy.

On how it can be overcome though, I think Judith Butler offers an interesting frame for thinking about it. Though they’re best known for their work on the social construction of gender, my favourite book of theirs is Giving An Account of Oneself, where they write about how our mental life is a product of all our previous experiences, especially with other people. This seems obvious on some level, but it really undermines individualism. In particular, it deconstructs the distinction between attacking parts of yourself and attacking other people. If our internal and external lives are so interlinked, is it really surprising if attacking ourselves isolates us? Recognising that other people are in some sense present within us is conducive to greater intimacy, and though this can be uncomfortable if we dislike part of them, that doesn’t make it less true, and recognising this can make us more compassionate with everything within us. Self-hatred and hatred of others are intimately connected, and they reinforce each other.

I like to think of the relationship between different parts of myself in terms of Deleuze and Guattari’s machinic unconscious, where our minds are made up of interlocking parts from the larger social context. I think differ though in wanting to negotiate and find equilibrium between them rather than experimenting by letting certain parts go to extremes to make change though. I like the way Jacques Derrida writes about it in The Politics of Friendship, where to recognise the other in oneself, and so recognise the misalignment within ourselves, requires us to be a friend to oneself, which makes friendship so central that it undercuts any potential narcissism because by loving oneself as an other we learn to love others better (as well ourselves).

This doesn’t address the concrete politics of the situation though. The aspect missing is that we have to think of ourselves as inextricably linked to our social and political systems, part of a historical process, and our feelings about those systems are a very real part of that process, and if we want to be true to ourselves we have to act on those feelings rather than repress them. I’m still working out what that means for myself, and as Lefebvre notes it’s this final hurdle that most people fail at, but we can all try.

That kind of went all over the place, but hopefully it’s understandable and valuable, and if not it was helpful for me to articulate all these ideas that have been swirling around in my head for the past year or so. 😅

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A Brief Rundown of Politics in Soul Society

to give you the very tl;dr:

your average non-noble Shinigami knows jack about shit about what's really going on politically and probably thinks the Gotei 13 is apolitical (Kidō Corps might feel the same, but probably not the Onmitsukidō as they are basically originally a Shihōin PMC) and doesn't understand the differences between Nobles and Great Nobles and just labels them all "nobles" or "aristocrats" without understanding the two groups hate each other and the conflict between them defines literally everything about society

the Great Nobles started all this by binding the Soul King and have been in charge for like tens of millennia at this point and have likewise been exceedingly powerful for most of that entire time span, barring random freaks like Yamamoto, Kenpachi, and Aizen which appear to have been increasing in number lately because the holistic system of humanity is evolving. they hate the Nobles because the Nobles have always been scheming to overstep their authority, get out from under their control, and are a bunch of uncouth, petty, and spiteful nouveau riche assholes

the Nobles have gathered influence along the way due to the "random" distribution of power (which may or may not actually be random) occasionally resulting in someone poor being strong and thus gaining influence and power, especially through the Gotei 13 as of the last two millennia. they will do anything and everything to get an advantage over the Great Nobles and have really been behind promoting most technological research to close the power gap with those old money power jerks, especially things like Hollowfication, under the guise of improving the Gotei 13

Central 46 is basically made of "professionals" and has heretofore been the plaything of the Great Nobles and Nobles alike until after the events of the manga, but increasingly wants to be a kind of white collar middle class independent of those two, like Burghers or other general bourgeoisie in history

the Rukongai Souls have never had any political power whatsoever because they're peasants and are basically used and abused by all of the above

within canon: Aizen was just some guy who thought all this was fine but he ought to be King because he felt he was just that awesome; Azashiro was a Noble who drank way too much Gotei 13 Kool-Aid due to childhood trauma from other nobles; Yhwach didn't care about politics and wanted to literally eat the entirety of metahumanity because he's basically a reembodiment of the First Hollow; Tokinada was a Great Noble who said Make Soul Society Great Again but actually just wanted to torment everyone with anguish and uncertainty

post-canon: Shunsui hates Nobles and Great Nobles and is working with Nayura to basically break their vise grip on the Seireitei; Kisuke and Mayuri are sorta orchestrating an ideological collapse of the USSR using Earth culture to introduce radical ideas into Shinigami minds like "voting"

super tl;dr: Adam Smith-type stuff before the American War of Independence except Shady Hat Man [Kisuke] is selling ideological time machines to a post-post-post-French Revolution world where all this stuff already happened

#Out Of Character #Bleach #Meta

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Saltburn (2023), Parasite (2019), and the Rich.

'When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.' — Rousseau

I'm writing this post becuase I feel most people misinterpret these movies, and how I don't consider either of them to be an 'Eat the rich' movie.

I'm starting with this quote because I often feel like people remove it from its original context, and I feel like putting it back there may make it regain some of its meaning.

Spoiler warning for: Saltburn (2023), Parasite (2019), Glass Onion (2022), The People Under The Stairs (1991).

The rich may get metaphorically or literally eaten in both Saltburn and Parasite, as someone from a 'lower' class gets rid of them and takes their place in the hierarchy, but I feel like when people celebrate these movies they are essentially forgetting that the systems that made these people 'lower class' or 'middle class' do begin with are still in place. [re: Coco's Feel-Good Oppression]

I believe 'The Rich' are inherently something bad, because the Rich can only exist with exploitation, I don't believe every single rich person realizes this is what's happening, and it's almost impossible to become Rich with just honest work, that's why I believe meritocracy is a lie.

In both of these movies, people go up the social ladder. And now what? They have become the rich. (Although in Parasite the protagonists go back down the social ladder. Put a pin on that*) Essentially nothing has changed, the rich just have new names and new faces now. These aren't stories to celebrate. Such as, for example, Glass Onion was, in a way.

In Glass Onion you feel like justice is being served and that an actual change in the system might happen, although capitalism still exists in-universe, Helen Brand finally got compensated financially for the work of her sister, Andi, who got massively screwed over. While in Parasite and Saltburn you just see average people become the oppressors, in a grotesque way. This doesn't necessarily make them Bad Movies and it's really interesting to see how the rich aren't necessarily intrinsically bad people with bad intentions, anyone could be the Rich, they are people, privileged people, people in a position of power, but people, and anyone could become like them under specific circumstances.

Pin*: In Parasite I think it's also very interesting how the protagonists go back down the social ladder way easily than they went up. But I'm not sure how to expand on that. But, I feel like Middle Class people often think of themselves as between rich and poor when they are actually much closer to Poor and Homelessness than they realize.

I feel like in both Parasite and Saltburn we see people commiting acts of violence to become rich but in a way they are also being class traitors, seen in Saltburn as Oliver backstabs Farleigh and in Parasite when the Kim Family literally tries to murder a maid. As for a contrast in Glass Onion we do not see Helen screw over any fellow middle-class people. I feel like part of the horror both in Parasite and Saltburn come from said greed from the protagonists, they don't just want to go up in life, they are slowly becoming perpetrators of the violence that was enacted on them.

In a way, that is to say, in both Parasite and Saltburn the people have nothing to eat, so the rich have not been effectively eaten.

That begs the question of "What would characterize an Eat The Rich movie?"

The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 movie, directed by Wes Craven, the same director as Nightmare on Elm Street, and it's a movie that's not as popular as the other three on the list but bear with me here.

In the movie we follow a black protagonist, nicknamed Fool, his family is being evicted, he lives in the ghetto, so he and a man named Leroy plan to commit crimes to be able to afford cancer treatment for Fool's mother.

In that, they discover in one of the houses, a bunch of people in a basement. (This was actually based on a true story.) The owners of the house being very obviously rich, so the movie continues with Fool befriending the owners' daughter, Alice, although being born in a rich family, she is heavily abused by them and is a kind-hearted person.

At the end of the movie, when our antagonists, Mommy and Daddy, are defeated, we actually see their wealth be redistributed to the community. Oh, did I mention Mommy and Daddy were also the landlords that were evicting Fool's family?

At the end of the movie, the entire community of the Ghetto is together to get the justice they deserve for being mistreated by the landlords for so many years, and I think ultimately that's what makes an 'Eat The Rich' movie for me, the poor people of this Ghetto were getting this justice, not an individual family or just some guy named Oliver Quick, but everyone who was mistreated by the landlords, in this particular instance.

I wish I could compare this in a meaningful way to Glass Onion in which one individual, once again, is getting all the justice, but still feels more 'Eat The Rich' than Saltburn or Parasite, and I think it's because ultimately we don't see Helen as a person corrupted by greed.

That's not to say Saltburn or Parasite are bad movies, once again, but they are not feel-good movies, hell, both of them are horror, and I love both of them and how they explore class dynamics, but I think they fall short in being an 'Eat The Rich' movie.

This is, of course, just some of my ramblings that got way longer than I expected. So I don't have much of a neat conclusion aside from "People often misinterpret media" or "People often try to market ideologies in a way that waters them down" but hopefully you already know that. And thank you for reading :]

#saltburn 2023 #parasite 2019 #the people under the stairs 1991 #glass onion 2022 #media analysis

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i just looked up your new url and am fascinated. please spill your thoughts!

There's a few different things I'm really enamored with re: Ermine:

She's one of the few lower-class women in history to leave something behind for us. The majority of women across time have been poor, which very often meant illiterate, and leaving virtually nothing behind in the historical record; we might have some little things in the material record, i.e. objects that they owned, but we very rarely get direct experiences of their thoughts or voices. Ermine is, unfortunately, mediated for us through Jean le Graveur, her confessor, who had political and personal goals of his own, but despite that she comes across as having a distinct character, concerns, and interests and gives us a sense of what a woman of her time and class might have known and understood about the world. For example, she apparently knew enough about the Schism of 1378 to have an interest in Jean de Varennes, a controversial and charismatic hermit of her time who preached to large crowds about the divided papacy. One sequence that Jean le Graveur records is evidently him using a veneer of demonic visitation and intervention to cover up the fact that Ermine, of her own free will, went to hear Jean de Varennes preach.

The character of her demonic visitations is so interesting and shows a really deep concern with sexuality and the body. Ermine wasn't a lifelong virgin or celibate, unlike many holy women; she was a widow who had been married for years before the death of her husband. She has visitations from demons who have sex in front of her, who lie in bed with her and either try to have sex with her or sometimes just sleep naked next to her (as, one imagines, her husband used to do), male and female demons both try to entice her into sex etc. Her ascetic practices also point to a preoccupation with her body as a focus of self-loathing/disgust/sin. She tied a rope around her middle and cinched it tightly so it would hurt, and wore it for so long that it went past the point of just rubbing her skin raw: her skin actually started to grow over it. Wack! She had to tie the end of the rope to a door and yank herself away to get it out, partially flaying herself. This one really freaked out Jean le Graveur.

I have kind of a working theory on something I'm calling the "hysterical dyad." I started talking (to myself) about it after I read The Haunting of Alma Fielding, which is a nonfiction book about parapsychologist Nandor Fodor, who got sucked in by a hoax medium named (what else) Alma Fielding in 1930s England. I'm really interested in and curious about the pattern, throughout time and in different cultures, of the "hysterical" (or holy, or demon-visited, or ghost-struck, etc.) woman and her male interpreter (confessor, doctor, psychologist). I think it speaks to the very old divide in, I guess you'd call it Euro-western culture (and I talked a bit about this in the ask I answered a while back about Angela Carter) which separates woman onto the side of emotional, material, body, feeling, and man onto the side of rational, logical, culture, brain, such that it's been the male role, when it comes to unique, astonishing, or unusual women, to interpret them into intelligibility. This is also related to the male power of naming. It's an interesting, I suppose I would call it, literalization of the patriarchal male role throughout culture, which is to reorganize and subordinate the world, i.e. nature, i.e. woman through naming, articulation, analysis, and definition.

Thank you for asking!

#body horror /#ermine de reims

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mermaidsirennikita · 4 months

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Could you rec the classic one of them is from a different class?

Yes, we love interclass romances!

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins has an upper class rake from a rich Creole family in New Orleans fall for a freedwoman after she ends up caring for him following his injury as he works as a part of The Underground Railroad.

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins has a cook fall in love with the rich guy in town who she thinks is white (he's not--he's passing and he's super in love with her).

Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin has an emperor's daughter fall in love with a mercenary she meets after her entourage is attacked when she's on the way to marry a warlord.

Between the Devil and Desire by Lorraine Heath--Of course, Jack Dodger is a street rat grown up, and Olivia is a refined duchess. Maybe the ultimate version of this, for me. Like, the opening pages are literally her describing how hot he makes her as she looks at him in a chair and then thinking "..... I MEAN GROSS".

Surrender to the Devil by Lorraine Heath--The next book in the series, she's the former street urchin, he's a duke. Super emotional and romantic and I find that the narrative really challenges the hero to be a better person.

Of course, this is also like... the entire conceit of Lorraine's Sins for All Seasons series, as the Trewloves are illegitimate and they fall for people in the upper classes. Would especially rec:

Beyond Scandal and Desire--Mick is a powerful man of business who decides to ruin his legitimate half-brother's fiancee as a part of Revenge, only to be like "gosh she's pretty" all the time.

When a Duke Loves a Woman--Gillie Trewlove owns as a tavern and doesn't take any shit; she then finds a glasses-wearing hot man duke on the street after he's mugged and nurses him back to health. But he's meant to marry another, oh no!

The Scoundrel in Her Bed--Lavinia, a fine lady, was in love with Finn Trewlove when they were younger, only for fate (and other things) to tear them apart. Years later, he finds her hiding out on the streets and trying to help illegitimate babies who've been abandoned by their parents. Incredibly angsty and emotional second chance romance stuff ensues, and reader, I did cry for real.

Beauty Tempts the Beast--Beast, The Biggest Trewlove, meets a former aristocrat who's fallen on hard time and asks her to teach his employees (sex workers, because Beast accidentally came to own a brothel but wants to help the women get out of the trade what with it being Victorian London) refinement. She says yes, but only if he teaches her seduction so that she can become a rich man's mistress, as she thinks that's all she can do.

Rules for a Proper Governess by Jennifer Ashley--The hero is an upper class attorney, the heroine is a streetwise con artist who becomes obsessed with him (because he's a DADDY) and ends up becoming the governess for his two kids. This hero has an oral fixation and there's a scene where he sucks on her finger and it's great.

S.M. LaViolette's The Seducers series (Melissa and The Vicar, Joss and The Countess, and Hugo and The Maiden) are all about sex workers or former sex workers falling for people from the middle or upper classes. Super hot.

KJ Charles's The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen and The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel are both m/m interclass romances involving the Doomsday crime family falling in love with lords~.

Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman has a rich heiress fall for a poor synagogue employee while she's looking for a husband. So rare to find a historical that focuses on the Jewish upper class in England.

The Duke Gets Desperate by Diana Quincy has a duke who's cash poor find out that the castle he thought he owned has been inherited by an Arab-American woman who ends up being his arch rival. Also, he wants to hold her and kiss her and deck her out in gold and fuck the shit out of her.

After Dark with the Duke by Julie Anne Long has a war hero, stuffy duke fall in love with a much younger (17 year age gap) scandalous opera singer. How to Tame a Wild Rogue is a bottle romance by her, in which a fine lady who's become a spinster falls for a roguish privateer. They end up sharing a room at a boarding house during a storm and... dot dot dot.

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian is a m/m book in which an upper class lord asks a former highwayman to teach him how to crime so that he can steal an important book from his shitty dad. The next book, The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes, has the lord guy's stepmother fall in love with a con artist dude. Unmasked by the Marquess is another queer historical by Cat (m/nb) in which a marquess falls in love with a his new best friend, who is not who they seem to be...

Grace Callaway writes a lot of interclass. Would recommend Pippa and The Prince of Secrets (upper class widow falls in love with crime guy who gave her her first kiss), Glory and The Master of Shadows (duke's daughter falls for a Chinese vigilante guy who's seeking revenge against the people that killed his family; it's very student/teacher), and Her Protector's Pleasure (upper class widow meets detective guy as he helps her look for her missing daughter).

Duchess By Day, Mistress By Night by Stacy Reid has a widowed duchess hire a lower class guy who's risen to be a known fixer to help her find her son's governess when the governess goes missing. He doesn't wanna be paid in money...

A Scoundrel of Her Own by Stacy Reid has a poor upper class woman fall in love with the guy she knew as a kid, who's lower class but now wealthy. He's always wanted her and wants to take advantage of her falling on hard times--but, you know, feelings.

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas--Annabelle is upper class but poor, Simon is rich but comes from the lower classes. He asks her to be his mistress when her family falls on hard times.

Joanna Shupe's entire Uptown Girls series has the daughters of an upper class New York guy fall for lower class self-made guys (a lawyer/fixer, a casino owner, and a gangster).

Elizabeth Hoyt has plenty: The Raven Prince (earl/his widowed secretary), The Leopard Prince (heiress/her steward), The Serpent Prince (titled lord and a poor girl), Thief of Shadows (widowed lady/middle class schoolmaster), Duke of Midnight (duke/lady's companion to a woman he's courting, though her family used to be fine), Dearest Rogue (duke's sister/her bodyguard), Duke of Pleasure (duke/street urchin), Duke of Sin (duke/his housekeeper).

#romance novel blogging #book recs #romance novels #these aren't all of them but it's a start

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Ive got more, although this is more focused on the cultural side of Cybertron. So not counting the combiner teams or the mega sized bots I made a size chart.

Reading from left to right, the characters are as follows. Rewind, Knockout, Arcee, Soundwave, standard Vehicon, Bulkhead, Optimus, Bulkhead, Ultra Magnus, Shockwave, Megatron, Predaking.

Breakdown and Ultra Magnus are practically the average height of most bots, although the upper class consider Bulkhead & Optimus the best heights.

there are many different casts, with most of them being middle to low class. Each cast has unique physical qualities that help with their work. example: orian pax as an archivists would have multiple pairs of arms and a higher processor power, Megatronus as a miner would have heavy armor and longer rang comms.

bots are born without any special paint color, they may have colored metal but only the upper class have specialty finish (unless your job requires it then you may get it). The less bare metal you have showing the more rich you seem, the more plain metal you have to more people look down on you. Along with that, the more armor over the spark chamber the more secure you are supposed to be. Bots like Breakdown & Shockwave are the peak of this concept, with Soundwave being the literally opposite.

OOH OKAY!! Find it really interesting that a Convoy like Optimus’ height is considered the best, I would’ve expected sleeker, smaller frames since large frames are typically used for working, but height as a show of status is a really cool concept!! Love how tiny Rewind is, poor guy just like me fr! Average being breakdowns size is understandable, though I wonder what the ratio of mechs in castes is (what’s the biggest caste, how does this impact the average?) PREDAKING IS MASSIVE, GOOD FOR HIM KING. Though I guess it makes sense on the evolutionary scale you last sent!! Soundwave being on the shorter side is just mwah, he packs quite the punch. THE SPECIALIZED FRAMES FOR THEIR JOBS!! (Would love to se Orion with multiple arms) and it makes a lot of sense especially for medics (I’m surprised that lower castes like miners get anything 😭) This especially makes me wonder about all the special abilities and quirks that some of the characters have, like did they have blasters integrated BEFORE the war? THE COLORS!! Okay okay this is so so cool to me and I feel it makes sense. Idk if Prime Megs was naturally grey but I feel he is and I like how that’s reflective of the coloring idea, makes me think a lot about how much “skin” they’re showing. Are the rescue bots included in this also? (Pre-Earth they were all solid metallic colors, makes me wonder about being a rescue bot)

#I am being absolutely FED #thank you #asks #[Deep bellowing chanting] LORE LORE LORE #Transformers

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yourtoradorasextendedwarranty · 5 months

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Honestly I kind of adore this quote.

“When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”

This is, for the most part, actual leftist logic. And before I get sh*t on and people lose their mind let me make something very clear. When I say leftist, I don't mean, "Person on the left". What I am referring to is, "A person on the left whom also worships and makes being on the left their entire identity."

So if I every complain about Leftists, that's what I mean. And often it's people that are also Communists or Socialists. And 85% of the time they are also Authoritarians.

But no really, that quote IS how Leftists think. And the rise of these types is a relatively recent occurrence. Because used to, people on the left used to be religious, and value not just the US but also have values more or less aligned with the right, though there were still differences. Now 98% of the people on the left are non religious, most are Atheist. And most have lost their spine and now bow to the Communist sect of the left.

Weirdly though, they are not even real communists most of the time. They are just jealous that they are not rich and powerful themselves, so they align themselves with groups that want to liquidate everyone else that's better off. Most often they are just petty and sad. And that's the honest truth about MOST people that claim to be Commies and Socialists. They are just entitled, jealous little sh*ts who are upset they can't get more stuff for free by exploiting the labor of others for their own gain, MEANWHILE not wanting to work at all themselves.

In short, they DO partly agree with Communism and Socialism. They just think if realized that THEY would be the ruling class. And everyone else would be the peasant and labor class beneath them having to work for their benefit. It's literally. GIMME GIMME GIMME.

Fact is a number on the people on the left fell prey to these peoples line of thinking because they think, that in fact, they "actually care" where as they make you believe that the "Right" (People on the moderate left, people in the middle, and people actually on the right, even the libertarians right) are uncaring monsters that hate the poor, hate the minorities, and are the biggest bigots in the world. And so the people ON the left listen to them and swallow it wholesale.

When in reality, the left are guilty of some of the worst atrocities known to man. The Democratic Left created the KKK. The Democratic Left supported segregation. The Democratic Left supported Slavery. The Democratic Left opposed Abolition. The Communist Left committed the Holodomor. The Communist Left starved millions in China. The Communist Left Massacred it's own people that stood against it.

And then I will hear people go "WELL THE RIGHT ARE CURRENTLY THE ONE~" Kindly STFU. The Left has been on a LONG journey to make the Right out to be the enemy of mankind. When in fact it's Marxist Ideology that has propagated that. And the institutions in the US have been captured by said ideology. And they often skew Left and Right for the sake of "hate crime" stats. But on a GLOBAL scale, the Left has done Far more damage, and to this day excuse it time after time.

And every single time you will hear, "Oh well it wasn't REAL Communism. It wasn't REAL Socialism." Yes it was. You were just to stupid to understand it worked like intended. And all the people that wanted it that GOT it, were lied to. Just like you all are being lied to. It's always real Communism and Socialism. It's just that YOU weren't the one on top. That's why it wasn't "Real". Because the only way you will call it real is when YOU are at the top. You are forcing laborers to work for nothing. YOU are forcing people that descent into Gulags. YOU are the one killing everyone that doesn't agree with you as well as their families.

It's always real. And as a person on the Left, I refuse to lie to people to allow you that kind of power. Because I will not work for a tyrant. I will not submit my friends to tyrants. Again. There are decent people and even good people on the Left just like there are on the Right. But if recent trends are anything to go by, I can promise you that the most modern leftists would have been on the side of the Nazis. Which in retrospect isn't a shock. Because the Nazis WERE Socialists (Though they like to claim otherwise because it makes their ideology look bad), because the "Roma (Gypsies) " were a drain on their system, and some of them were wealthy and owned land. IE: Landlords and Landowners. So the stereotype is that Jewish people are rich, landlords and control everything.

Which is the same stereotypes the the modern Left hold today and judge those same people on. And here's the wild thing people don't realize. The Nazi's were not "Far Right". If anything they were not that far off from Stalin. But unfortunately a lot of cover has been run by Marxists to make it seem like Hitler was the most Right that Right can be. He wasn't. He was a borderline Leftists that barely qualified as Right and was almost at the top of the Authoritarian scale. But if you bring that up the Left HAS to object. Because they can't live with the fact the possibility that the person they they have used as a bludgeon for years could be associated with any of them or their ideals.

Make no mistake. Leftists believe in slavery. They believe in segregation. They believe in anti LGBT ideals, etc. And the only reason that want you to believe otherwise is because they need a weapon against the other side. Right up until they subjugate the other side. Then all of the people they CLAIM to be allies with, will be useless. And will be lined up against the wall, or forced to labor. Or both. People need to stop letting them pull the wool over their eyes. They are not allies. They do not care. They are extremist collectivists They do not care about you. The want to rule the collective. That's ALL they want.

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