#there is nothing to justify that.

[stil-lindigo]

when people reblog donation posts and say "donate what you can", I really feel like people aren't actually internalising it. not all of us can afford to donate $50, $100, more than that. but i know for a fact that there are thousands of us that can spare $2 or $5, and that all adds up.

it hurts so much to sit here and feel the limits of our own ability. we're not millionaires. we can't instantly fund these escape attempts. but these are bids for life, by people who never asked for the hellfire being rained upon them by sadistic colonialists, greedy for oil and land. they committed no crime other than being born in palestine. and of course it's unfair, to have to shoulder the weight of people's lives when we're all struggling to get by as it is. but our governments relentlessly fail us, they fail to scrape at the bottom of their cold dead hearts for their last dregs of humanity. it is so, so unfair, but it is up to the common man to save each other.

please. look at this spreadsheet. find a fund that resonates with you. and DONATE WHAT YOU CAN.

#i dont know what else to say anymore #i just want all of them to survive #theres truly nothing that could justify this ongoing genocide #and it kills me. that global pushback is so pathetic. gutless and meandering #free palestine #palestine #fuck zionism #fuck israel #we will see an end to zionism and israel within our lifetimes #i might be suicidal but im not dying before i see netanyahu get what he fucking deserves #donation post

[vroom-vrooms]

Max speaking on how he wouldn’t push his child to be a driver broke my heart a little bit

I know he loves racing, and I’m glad he does, but hearing him be so thoughtful of his future child’s choices and knowing how much Jos put him through makes it all so bittersweet

#Max proving once again he’s a wonderful human being and absolutely adorable #like you know he’s speaking from experience #saying that if you don’t have the motivation then it’s all for nothing #i think that’s how he justifies the things Jos did #just because max had the motivation then it was justifiable to put him through all that #max verstappen #formula 1 #formula one #f1

[cakemagemaeve]

Reading Tumblr today I get the feeling that a lot of these people praising Hamas' horrific attack on Israeli civilians aren't really pro-Palestine so much as they're just looking for another reason to justify their hatred of Jews. You can believe that the Israeli government has committed unforgivable atrocities against innocent Palestinians without wishing rape and murder on innocent Israeli civilians in turn.

Also, speaking as a white American? We have absolutely ZERO room to talk when it comes to corrupt governments, genocide, ethnic cleansings, land theft, war crimes and basically every other kind of human rights violation there is. If you're a white American who thinks Israeli civilians deserve to die for the actions of their government, then you should have no objection to being murdered for the sins of your own government.

#you can be pro-palestine without hating jews #and nothing justifies rape or murder #to everyone on jumblr i'm so sorry for the abuse you're getting hurled at you right now #it's sick and cruel and you don't deserve it

[stuckinapril]

used to daydream about fairytale reconciliations after pretty much every platonic or romantic fallout i ever had, but sometimes it’s healthier to just accept that someone will never own up bc they don’t think you’re worth the trouble. anyone who truly cares would move mountains just to make sure that they communicate w you if they truly want to rectify the situation. but sometimes it’s their ego getting in the way, sometimes they have a narrative of you in their head they’re determined not to break, and sometimes they just don’t care enough about you to even consider it. they don’t have respect for the friendship or relationship in its posthumous state bc it was nothing to them, or at the very least it doesn’t eclipse their pride or their desire to appear correct in a situation or just outright the need to be done w the situation rather than be a good person. still guilty of this but i’ve been getting better at just nipping the delusion in the bud and just being okay w accepting that someone truly does not care. until they prove they do that is the assumption i go w every time. and it is saving me a lot of heartache

#i held out on my ex for MONTHS after we broke up thinking he’d hit me up and be like yo sorry #u did not deserve the way that went down. i should’ve gone about it better #i should’ve taken ur feelings into consideration bc if nothing else the time spent together meant something #even if in the present moment it’s done and i don’t see us going back #i think i owe u that. at the very least in honor of what we had #but did he say any of those things #NO #i’m fine #i’ve had this happen w friendships too like people are just ruthless sometimes and they justify it or just don’t care enough to be better #trying to microdose on delusion less and accept things for what they are #these tags are a roller coaster but i’m keeping them in anyway bc i need something to look back at this weekend #p

[transrevolutions]

While overall I felt like the tbosas movie was well done, there's one part that really bothered me. When Sejanus gets involved with the rebels in the book, he's fully on board, stealing them ammo and weapons from the base, and planning to hold guards at gunpoint to free the prisoners. In the movie, however, he just wants to run away and then is surprised and upset by the fact that the rebels were planning an act of violence.

This doesn't seem like a major change, but from a political standpoint (as tbosas is a very political book), it's a big one and one I very much do not like.

In the text, Sejanus plays the role of the moral compass. Whereas both Coriolanus and Lucy Gray having complex and subjective motivations, Sejanus is always driven by wanting to do the right thing, even if it costs him. He acts as a baseline, keeping the readers from getting lost in endless loops of justification for atrocities just because Coriolanus's internal narration is rhetorically persuasive.

So when Sejanus (who up until this point has been relatively pacifist) joins up with the rebels in the book and agrees to participate in an act of revolutionary violence, the text is pointing out that that act of rebellion is morally permissible. That even violence against the oppressor class can be an altruistic action. Sejanus planning to fight the guards with the rebels is not a sign of his corruption, it's a sign of the fact that his society has become so corrupt that not doing it would be morally worse than doing it. After all, someone's going to die either way, so why not have it be the oppressors?

If movie!Sejanus is still occupying the role of the moral compass (which he seems to be), then his dismay at the possibility of the rebels using violence acts as a narrative condemnation of the violence, when the opposite is true in the book. The movie tries to make a distinction between the "good" dissenters (pacifist, nonviolent, morally superior) and the "bad" dissenters (violent radicals/terrorists). In the current political climate, this idea and narrative is extremely unsettling. And I'm disappointed they did this, but not surprised. Like the other Hunger Games movies, it was produced by a large media company, and they can't follow the satire of the book too closely lest people realize the fundamental irony of it. People in positions of power do not want to tell a story where violent activism is portrayed as moral--at least when it's against a society that obviously mirrors our own. (The brutalist architecture style is another complaint that I have, but that can be discussed in another post.)

Changing that seemingly small detail about Sejanus's involvement with the rebels doesn't do much to change the continuity of the storyline, but it does a lot to change the underlying message of his character and the story. This was almost certainly intentional, because the same sort of thing was done in the original trilogy movies as well. Companies are scared of subversive media because it makes them look like the 'bad guys' too, so they wrap rebellion in a lens of fantasy and moderatism.

#sejanus plinth #politics #tbosas #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #analysis #thg #pigeon.txt #I have a LOT of thoughts about this #but this post is already long as hell #anyways. violent revolution is morally justified. #we have nothing to lose but our chains

[theriverbeyond]

meeting Kiriona is just like: that's our girl but she's wrong but it IS her but also what the FUCK. what happened to her, what happened to her before the series even started, what new horrors has she endured?

meeting Kiriona is understanding that these sharp edges ARE our Gideon; she was always made of knives but before NtN we were holding her by the hilt and this is the first time we get the blade. all her rage and pain and trauma, amplified 10,000 times by the way her losses - loss of harrow, loss of the parents that existed only as a fantasy, loss of the idea that revenge could ever sate her, loss of any autonomy, loss of her own damn life - keep accumulating with no respite. no end in sight. it is uncomfortable and distressing and upsetting and that is the point. anyway. wrapping her in a blanket as we speak!!!

#kiriona gaia #nona the ninth #anyway she has done nothing wrong ever and if she DID well it was justified #tlt meta #the locked tomb #trb.txt #tlt thoughts #'loss' no longer looks like a word whoops

[fumifooms]

Chilchuck analysis speedrun: As a hardworking half-foot who grew up poor and discriminated against and had his gullibility taken advantage of multiple times in his early adventuring days, Chilchuck thinks optimism is a dangerous flaw. He’s stressed and strict all the time because his job is noticing details like traps that could get everyone killed before anyone knows it, he takes the lives of everyone to be on his shoulders, and with the way he speaks about it that probably partly reflects how he felt about taking it upon himself to provide for his family too. His life’s always been pretty centered around work and has become even moreso now that his wife left and everyone is independent, and due to past events he’s very iffy with bonding with coworkers. He thinks feelings and job are a disaster mix. Like with his wife or with parties hiring him as sacrifice, being open or having good faith is vulnerability which can get you hurt, so he processes and shows all his stress as anger instead of worry. Doing strict dieting probably isn’t helping the irritability what with hunger, and on top of being a hunger suppressant alcohol might be the main stress reliever he has.

His grey hairs are so earned

#Chilchuck tims #dungeon meshi #analysis #HAPPY CHILCHUCK DAY #You know what yeah understandable have a good day #Alcohol be a ticket straight to chilling out town I suppose #Spoilers #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #Thinking on if I should split my family masterpost into diff posts for max reach hmm #Anyways I’m def editing in the second page into that post that “I’ve got three people to think of here” sounds sooo much like that’s #How he’d think about it in a family setting as well. He works so hard for them 🥺 #I could have put 100 pics on this post to justify everything I mentioned but this is a speedrun for a reason. I’m planning so many #Compilations rn i need a break from rereading lol #He’s just here to do his work!! He just wanna do his work!!! #I’m always rotating him in my brain like rotisserie chicken :( Hopefully this doesn’t sound disjointed or insane to average readers #He’s always on his guard so he has a short fuse and his type of humor & liking for snarky remarks doesn’t help #Also bc he knows nothing lasts he has a very work hard play hard mentality where ‘dying doing something you love. Like drinking’ #Is nice in his opinion #This post makes it all sound so dry. Chilchuck is so messy thinking about him is thrilling I swear. This is concise but at what cost… #OH ALSO he has weird self-hate issues where he really values his skills but devalues himself on a personal level. #‘I am a coward. I only care about myself. I cheated on my wife (lying for no reason)’ etc etc #Can’t disappoint people and make them leave you if they already have no expectations and esteem of you 😏💡

[akajustmerry]

"Palestinians deserve to die because of Hamas" 1) most of what you know about hamas is propaganda and/or totally decontextualised from the ongoing struggle of Palestinian liberation from Israel. 2) even if what you think you know about Hamas is true (it's not), no person, no community's right to live in safety is conditional on others. if you believe Palestinians deserve to be killed because of what you think you know about Hamas then by that same logic (casting judgment on a whole ethnic group by the actions of a small group), all Australians should be carpet-bombed for the actions of the Murdoch family. All Americans should be genocided because of the Trump administration - you get the point! there is no action anyone anywhere can take that justifies the genocide of their entire identity, full stop.

#palestine #free palestine #hamas #i just dgaf about people trying to be like 'actually hamas is etc' because it shouldn't matter!!!!! there's nothing that justifies genocide #/

[my-little-girlboss]

People who are like "Oh, Ashley is evil and bad, I hope she dies" make me so, so frustrated.

As if it wasn't blindingly clear from the game that she's a mentally ill girl who was routinely rejected by her peers and parents.

Not to mention that she and Andrew have been screwed over by their parents and government/society, being treated as "undesirables" who need to be killed for spare parts (blood and organs).

While she is very unpleasant with how she treated Julia (fucking christ 🚬) and can treat Andrew too, a lot of that stems from unmanaged mental illness and dependency issues, with the behavior being enabled by Andrew (closest thing to an actual parental figure or peer she has...damn 🚬).

If she adapts surprisingly well to being a demon summoning cannibal murderer, it's nothing she hasn't been pushed into from social isolation, neglect, and violence from her society and parents.

#leyley #her own mom wanted nothing to do with her when she was a child a literal child #ashley graves #she's certainly no saint or moral person #but have some damn compassion and sympathy #andrew is not innocent in this #no siree mr siscon doesn't get a blank check to take advantage of her dependency on him to be such a two faced hypocrite #tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley #justice for my girl ashley #she did all that but was justified for like at least half of it tbh

[clonecaptains]

Raylan + jaw | S1 edition

#justifiededit #timothyolyphantedit #raylan givens #justified #timothy olyphant #*mine #raylan #i have nothing wholesome to say

[coffeehelly]

its really interesting to me how kaidou says he feels like saiki is protecting/looking out for all of them somehow. like do they all have some kind of innate sense that the Weird Things happening around them are saikis doing? or do you think saiki gives off a strong "if anything happens to my friends im going to become the joker" vibe that he doesnt even notice

#the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo no psi nan #saiki k #saiki kusou #hes so expressive sometimes i wouldnt doubt the latter #i can imagine him scaring would-be-bullies away from kaidou with a particularly menacing glare without even really registering it #or like. changing the topic away from teruhashis brother whenever he comes up and teruhashi is around #because he knows it makes her uncomfortable #but he justifies it to himself that its just because he personally doesnt like makoto #it has nothing to do with teruhashis feelings. Obviously #his friends notice hes constantly looking out for them but hes so deep in denial he cant see it himself #anyway i got off track here. ramble over

[imminent-danger-came]

WHAT WAS HE GOING TO SAY. WHAT WAS HE GOING TO SAY! WHAT WAS HE-

Sun Wukong: "Kid—new armor isn't going to cut it! We have to hit Azure with everything we've got! You can't just, ignore this whole part of your power because it scares you!"

MK: "I-"

-

LITERALLY WHAT. WHAT WAS IT. MK HONEY SWEETIE DARLING WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO TELL WUKONG HERE

#look at MK's FACE #HE IS SO DISTRAUGHT #Scenes I lay awake thinking about #Like we all know Wukong encouraging MK to use his monkey form is going to bite them in the ass #But HOW #Like SWK knows whatever the fuck MK is but MK knows something about his Monkey Form that we (including SWK) don't #''Well alright then.'' terrible. terrible. ''Oh—there's nothing mindless about me friend!'' TERRIBLE. #Hm guess I'm just having another breakdown about the special. #the light is no mystery #<- new Wukong an MK tag I wanna be emo #anyways #imp tag #lmk #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk MK #Hello I am re-remembering Wukong's absolute faith in MK and how this is both a virtue and a vice #(aka oops if MK loses control SWK will be completely blindsided by it) #I am also remembering how MK's undying loyalty to SWK is also both a virtue and a vice! #(Aka if MK learns SWK did anything he can't justify that will shatter him) #These two would basically do anything for each other—but in like the fucked up way! So: haha we are in danger

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

When I walk into a getting absolutely fucking battered deepdicked misery-jerked fistfucked from behind by entities and walking away whimpering like there's no tomorrow competition and I see Arthur Lester there

#masked #hey guys I'd like to formally apologize for this one #there's nothing I can say to justify this one #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #arthur malevolent #malevolent arthur #malevolent

[suspiciousmammal]

Ah, interesting. Foal auctions are in full swing again and look who became the sales-topper (sold for 52k) at the Oldenburger studbook's foal auction:

That's a little Esquin White colt. I didn't particularly expect that stallion to get popular but color seems to sell well at auctions lately.

#i wonder if the buyers intend on sending this one to get licensed in a few years #because there is absolutely nothing else that justifies that price for a foal. no matter the pedigree #horseblr

[jsheios]

Distance

#amphibia #my art #amphibia finale spoilers #amphibia fanart #comic #i ranted about this more on twitter but #basically I feel like Anne & Sasha didn’t drift apart naturally. they just both had a realization that their entire highschool friendship #had become based so much on their amphibia experience & nothing else #this was the only way I could justify the way they canonically drifted in highschool #also I am definitely projecting #sasha waybright #Marcy wu #hey my first time drawing sasharcy since the finale :D #it’s essentially a breakup comic :D #(implied) sashanne #kinda? #also I really don’t know if my explanation makes sense

[lemedy]

also you all don't know how this one pic of chibi Edelgard makes me lose it every time

there she is. literally the 'little girl smirks outside burning house' meme. she has done nothing wrong ever.

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #honestly i should make this my icon #your honour please understand she had done nothing wrong everything was justified