#unbridled hypocrisy

[prismaticpichu]

What if Sephiroth saw Genesis again as his evil self. what do you think would happen? What if Genesis knew of his sins. Causing one of his friends to die. And the other one to go insane. And then die. But come back?

What if Genesis asks Sephiroth for forgiveness?

Ohohohohoho….. that is some GOOD STUFF, buddy >:3c

Genesis can’t even fathom the sight before him. It chills him to the very bone, smothers every bit of satisfaction and smugness and pride that had been curling his lips into a smirk. The smirk is no longer there. Neither is the desire to bring it back. Genesis can’t find the strength to, regardless. Not now. Not anymore.

Not after seeing the look in Sephiroth’s eyes

“Sephiroth….” Genesis vaguely shakes his head, a certain nausea coming to brew in his head as he tries to digest the sight. A certain numbness. “What… what happened to you?”

The question is a ghost to the other’s ears; his response is nothing but a cold ripple of chuckles, and those reptilian slits narrow eerily against the wintry dusk of the wasteland, jade daggers cleaving through air as they scan him up and down.

“SOLDIER….” Sephiroth finally purrs. “You’re a SOLDIER.”

The comment breathes its own brand of ice into Genesis’s veins. It’s not the way he says it that chills him—the sludgelike molasses on his tongue, the way the syllables viscously rolled off and into the air. It’s what he said. The coil of incredulity tightens in his chest, and he responds dubiously that he was one—not anymore—and that Sephiroth was one once upon a time as well. He asks how Sephiroth could possibly say such a thing….. could forget such a thing, only to be returned with nothing but another round of chuckles. Chuckles that soon bubble out into a full, dark, humorless laugh.

Genesis takes several steps backwards as the man continues on with the detached laughter, unnerved. Icy. He swallows.

“Sephiroth…. what is… what is the matter with you?”

He hadn’t known what he was expecting when he came across the black-cladded man. Perhaps it was that he wanted him to be broken. Crippled. Be the way he had made him in the Reactor. Show that he was healed without him. Show how he hadn’t rotted.

But this…?

This is not what he….

Eventually, Sephiroth calms down again. The laughter dwindles away and he shakes his head—shakes his bangs, having grown so far beyond their original length. He again turns to look at the auburn, leer at him, and goes on to monologue to that he is something far greater than the mindless drones at SOLDIER. That within his veins flowed the blood of the ancients, that he was the rightful ruler of this planet and it was his place to cleanse it. Cleanse it of every human clinging to Her world like a parasite. Purge them. Destroy them. Eradicate them.

Each and every one.

And it flashes then, the deadly glints of silver scintillating against the night as Masamune is summoned.

Genesis will never be able to describe the vice that clasps heart then. His rattled eyes trace the katana from the very tip of its blade to the glove clenching its hilt—trace its fatal gleam, its famished intent, traces the sword to Sephiroth’s side as the man brings it into a readying stance.

Genesis doesn’t draw his own.

He can’t. He won’t. Not… not like this.

“Sephiroth….” The man hardly realizes the words leaving his mouth—omits the cold taste of hypocrisy that lapped at his tongue, taking another step back. “I don’t want to fight you.”

Please…—

For the third time, however, only cold laughter is his response.

And Sephiroth lunges.

Genesis is forced to draw Rapier as he obstructs the sword blazing towards his chest. Forced to engage in the fight. Through their clanging blades he continues to plead that he doesn’t want to fight—dodging, parrying, countering, leaping, landing. But all his shouts are in vain. Sephiroth just continues to attack him, trap him. There’s no choice. No escape. Their swings are fierce, violent, lethal. Flaming and crazy. Unbridled and relentless. Deadly beats to a deadly song.

And there, playing along to the fatal rhythm, Genesis realizes the song is one he has heard before.

It’s the training room. He is back in the training room. Back on that day when their friendly, passionate spar had been warped and whetted and twisted into a venomous battle of glory. When it had all started.

When his shoulder was wounded.

When it never healed.

When he had decided he would leave.

And when he had decided he would leave him behind.

Leave him behind to rot.

Thorns prick at Genesis’s eyes.

The misty veil—the hesitation—it’s enough to leave Sephiroth enough of an opening to strike. Rapier flies out of Genesis hands and with a painful cry he’s sent plunging towards the earth, falling and crumpling, rolling and tumbling, only coming to a an abrupt stop upon colliding with a stone jutting out of the ground. Thin rivers trickle down his temple as Sephiroth’s shadow comes to loom over him, drenching him in tar. Genesis coughs, moans. Shakily manages to lift his gaze and stare.

Stare right into those eyes.

It’s there, against the moonless night, that Genesis sees it: the pure insanity in those jade daggers. The complete lack of recognition. Eyes that didn’t remember their laughs, or their spars, or any of the games they played. Eyes that raged with barbarity. With bitterness. With hatred. With malice. A green inferno set ablaze by pain and loss and betrayal, and famished flames having swallowed those emotions whole.

The eyes of a monster.

No such luck…. you are a monster.

The words ring cruelly in Genesis’s head as the cold bite of Masamune is brought his throat.

No such luck.

No suck luck….

No suck luck….

You are…

A monster.

What…. had he done….? What on GAIA had he done…? He had fed that poison. He had set that intern ablaze. He had started it. He was the catalyst. Angeal was gone, destroyed by his own twisted ideals he had infected him with—things he had believed under degradation’s influence and his own desperate attempts to make sense of the world. He had driven Angeal to his death. And now he had done it again.

He had killed Sephiroth.

The blade shifts against his neck; he tucks his head down, and a choke bursts from Genesis’s lips. The thorns had pricked deeper into his eyes, now bleeding with tears. And he doesn’t fight them.

He is going to die here, by his own friend’s blade. He knows he is. His life is going to end by the hands of someone he had once trusted with his life. There aren’t enough words in the dictionary to express what he is feeling, against the bitter chill of Masamune; words are insufficient, they always would be, when death’s door is rattling open for you.

There is only one thing left to say. Only only thing that mattered. Two words. Two simple words. Too little. Too late.

“I’m sorry….”

The words hang in the air like a leech. Clinging. Lingering. Genesis chokes, trying to meet with those amnesic eyes as he snaps his head up again.

“I’m sorry, Sephiroth…. do you hear me? I’m sorry…. oh Shiva I’m so sorry….” He again lowers his head quavering and trembling. Shuddering. He lets it all bleed out, every thread of dormant guilt and pain that had been tied up, all spilling out into the cold wintry air where his dead best friend stood before him.

Sephiroth narrows his eyes.

“I should I have never left you. Never. I should have never said those things to you—not like I did. It’s my fault… everything. Everything.”

Genesis gulps on his breath, his voice shivering down into a near whisper. “

“Please, my friend. If you can hear me…. forgive me.”

And he waits.

Encompassed in darkness, he waits for it to come. The finishing blow. The end. The karma. He waits for it for Gaia knows how long, time splintering into an irrelevant void. He waits. And waits. And waits.

Only it doesn’t come.

Instead, in an unreal haze, he feels the weight being lifted from his throat.

….

….

….

What….?

Quavering, heart thundering in his chest, Genesis glances up.

Sephiroth had retreated a handful of feet away, Masamune now pointed harmlessly towards the ground at his side. The blade still glints, still being clenched with ferocious might…… but now the man has a hand to his forehead….. his visage crumpled…. pained.

And then, amid the lifesaving silence that had fallen, he tries to speak.

“Wings… stripped away….” Sephiroth bites out. “The end is nigh…”

Genesis’s heart goes numb.

It is incredible how much weight could be lifted from a heart in such a short amount of time. With so little said. With so little needed. The man almost laughs, breaking into a hopeful smile.

“You…. remember…” Genesis smiles tearfully.

“……..How can I not……” Sephiroth continues to struggle, creaking one of his eyes open. It looks like he’s about to say more before a blood-curdling hiss pries his voice from his throat, and he crumples to his knees.

“Sephiroth!” Genesis pulls himself to his feet—his heart jolted, hope ignited—and rushes towards his wincing friend.

He isn’t leaving him. Not now. Not again. Not again

Before he can make it, however, a black wing explodes from Sephiroth’s shoulder.

“Not… safe…”

“Sephiroth, wait—“

And he shoots into the sky, off onto the clouds, leaving Genesis to run right through him.

#sephiroth #ffvii #genesis rhapsodos #ff7 #asks #ty!! #pichu writing #one of our good ol fic-analysis hybrids! #final fantasy vii #crisis core #I’m sorry Genesis really doesn’t have personality here- I rarely write him and when I do it’s purely under a comical light so #y’know #but I tried xD

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

How Anti-Semitic Rhetoric Became Mainstream

Using anti-Semitic rhetoric, society historically accused Jews of being rich oppressors as well as leeches. Jews were rulers as well as disloyal agitators. Jews, they opined, are members of an inferior race; now, they are members of a privileged one.

Contemporary Jew-haters have similarly evolved in their use of anti-Semitic rhetoric. They have transformed what were once the sentiments of the radical fringe into the accepted stance of our current woke moralists. 

“Doublespeak” – the deliberate use of language to conceal or distort the truth, a concept made popular in George Orwell’s 1984 – is the main tool in the arsenal of today’s anti-Semites. Spouting the correct language, they have seamlessly transformed their expressions of unbridled, raw hatred into commendable academic jargon. Unfortunately, it is also pure anti-Semitic rhetoric.

“What is really important in the world of doublespeak is the ability to lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the ability to use lies and choose and shape facts selectively, blocking out those that don’t fit an agenda or program,” explains writer Edward S. Herman in his book Beyond Hypocrisy.

Phase I: “Zionism is Racism”

Post World War II, the anti-Semitic rhetoric shifted away from overtly anti-Jewish to a new concept, “anti-Zionist.” The murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust was a fresh memory. This made attacking Jews on the international stage less politically attractive.

While this didn’t stop powerful countries from closing their doors to Jewish refugees from Europe, it did change the discourse. Now, Jews were attacked by the declaration that “Zionism is racism.”

Where and how did this ruse begin? Not surprisingly, with the Soviets, world-class masters of doublespeak.

The USSR’s Campaign Against Israel

The 1917 revolutionary forces in the former USSR officially abolished the Czarists’ discriminatory policies against Jews. Yet, the reality of life for Jews under the Bolsheviks was one of state-enforced antisemitism and demonization.

Jews lived with quotas as well as outright rejection from universities. Many professions simply shut them out. When they did find employment, they faced glass ceilings, never able to progress to the highest levels.

Yet, surprisingly, when the state of Israel was created in 1948, “All international communist parties supported partition and the creation of a Jewish State,” documents Philip Mendes in Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance.  

This included as well the U.S. Communist Party which called Israel “an organic part of the world struggle for peace and democracy. The French communists viewed the Israelis in solidary with “resistance” fighters throughout the world.

Why Soviet Support Changed

Immediately after Israel’s 1948 victory in the War of Independence, “Zionism was … celebrated by the left as an organic movement of national return and a model for national liberation and decolonization movements throughout the world,” writes Alex Rychin in “Red Terror: How the Soviet Union Shaped the Modern Anti-Zionist Discourse.”

“Israel’s victory in its War of Independence and refusal to succumb to far mightier foes was positively awe-inspiring to adherents of political movements predicated on toppling structures of power,” explains Rychin.

Ironically, it was the communists who understood Zionism for what it actually is. Namely, the return of the Jewish people to their indigenous homeland (“Zion” being one of Israel’s biblical names). Historically, the Jewish people are the only people in existence who have had a continuous presence and a claim to the land in what is now the state of Israel.

However, communist support for the nascent state of Israel waned quickly, not due to ideology but to politics. By the time the modern state of Israel was created, the Cold War between Russia and the United States had already begun. The two superpowers pitted against each other, each vying for world dominance, including in the Middle East.

Israel's Support for Democracy

By the early 1950s, when it became apparent that Israel was espousing Western democratic values and supporting America, the Soviets realized they needed to significantly downgrade Israel, if not entirely ostracize it in the eyes of the world. That's where the anti-Semitic rhetoric came into play.

As a first step, the Soviets began spewing and exporting rabid anti-Semitic rhetoric. Specifically, they embarked on an intense and concentrated campaign against the “Zionists.” Part of this campaign was the infamous 1953 “Doctors Plot.” There, the Soviet government levied false charges against prominent Jewish doctors. They accused them of planning to murder leading government and communist party officials.

“The propaganda was highly compelling and steeped in long-established [anti-Semitic] themes of Jewish bloodthirstiness, greed, corruption, manipulation and cunning. It would contend that the very existence of a Jewish homeland was not only a plot of imperialism, but a mortal danger to the peace of the world,” writes Rychin.

While Russia was busy introducing the term “anti-Zionist” into the global lexicon, most Americans were focused on the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. Yet Soviet-supporting professors at top American universities were paying close attention. In truth, anti-Semitism had never been in short supply at these universities. Most of them had Jewish quotas of their own.

The UN Ruse

At the UN, the Soviets began employing an audacious strategy using anti-Semitic rhetoric against Israel learned. Although the Nazis were their arch enemies, the Soviets learned from none other than Adolf Hitler. In his 1925 book Mein Kampf, Hitler praises the efficacy of using the psychological technique known as the “Big Lie”-- essentially promoting a lie so big that no one would believe that anyone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

Rychin documents the fabrication of the “Big Lie” against Israel by the Soviets:

When a sub-commission of the United Nations was tasked with drafting a convention on the “elimination of all forms of racial discrimination,” the proceedings naturally focused on apartheid, neo-Nazism and antisemitism. But the Soviets viewed the reference to antisemitism as a direct rebuke to their anti-Jewish measures, and served up an amendment that “was almost a joke,” even to the Soviet delegation itself.

The amendment inserted Zionism into the listed forms of racism. According to sources close to the deliberations, the Soviets understood “full well that the idea that Zionism is racism is an indefensible position,” yet they floated it anyway, in part to turn the US-led initiative into farce, and in part perhaps, to see how far a “big lie,” could go.

Ultimately, the Convention was adopted with neither antisemitism nor Zionism referred to … But the seed had been planted.

On 10 November 1975, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed resolution 3379 on the “elimination of all forms of racial discrimination,” which determined that “Zionism is a form of racism and discrimination.”

The accusation stuck, and pro-Israel advocates are still fighting this absurd allegation.

Phase II: “Zionism is a settler-colonial white supremacist ideology”

Today, anti-Semites still use the “Zionism is racism” canard against Israel. But now, the anti-Semitic rhetoric comes with a litany of other “sins” – namely that Israel is a “settler-colonial white supremacist” state. In this context, its “racist” nature is simply a given.

What caused the switch in language? How does it benefit those who desire to bring down the only Jewish state in the world? 

“Coalition of the Oppressed”

Most Americans viewed the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States as a watershed moment. Finally, the country thought, the era of post-racism had arrived. The fight for racial equality began with the freeing of the slaves. It was codified into law through the 1968 Civil Rights. Yet, it saw its ultimate expression in Obama’s election.

Most Americans thought that the era of post-racialism in America had finally arrived. Yet, Obama’s reaction to a number of pivotal moments in his presidency – the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (an event that sparked the Black Lives Movement) and the 1915 death of Freddie Gray while in police custody in Baltimore – proved otherwise.

With racial tensions flaring, the Obama years constituted the perfect atmosphere for the divisive concept of critical race theory to break through the walls of academia and find its expression in the streets of America.

By the end of Obama’s second term as president, a Rasmussen poll found that 60 percent of American voters thought race relations in the United States had worsened since President Obama’s election. A similar New York Times/CBS poll taken at the same time found that nearly 70 percent of Americans thought race relations in America were bad. This represented a level unseen since the 1992 Rodney King riots.

Critical race theory’s charge that America is a “systemically racist” country was powerful. Yet, those in Obama’s camp who were forward thinking knew that this grievance alone would not be enough to sustain their power base over time. Obama also recognized the limitations of this charge.

Identity Politics and Anti-Semitic Rhetoric

It was thus during his second term that Obama embraced the concept of identity politics. He began to push the idea of a “coalition of the oppressed.” The coalition included blacks, women (feminists), Hispanics, Muslims, indigenous and other “brown” people as well as those identifying as gay, lesbian, trans and a myriad of other emerging sexual identities – essentially all those granted victim status due to their oppression by the “Establishment.”

Jews were noticeably and pointedly not included.

In the 1960s, the “Establishment” was loosely defined as the structures of societal authority. By the early 21st century, those reviving the concept had a much more specific definition of their oppressors. Namely, “white supremacist colonial powers.” Those powers specifically included Jews, Zionists and Israelis, all of whom were now identified as white, European interlopers on land indigenous to “Palestinians” (a term previously used in common English to identify anyone living in British Mandate Palestine, Jews and Arabs alike).

Despite Sharia law’s treatment of gays, women and minorities, the coalition welcomed Islamist organizations. It did the same for radical Palestinian organizations, rebranding their violent tactics and support for terror conveniently as “resistance.”

Many of these organizations, such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), had already enjoyed victim status on college campuses. This was due to the successful mainstreaming of the “Zionism is racism” mantra, classic anti-Semitic rhetoric.

"Points of Unity"

When Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder and former chair of New York City SJP (NYC SJP), began the radical Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime (WOL), it was with this broader “coalition of the oppressed” in mind. On a page titled “Points of Unity, “ WOL’s website reads,  

“We are anti-Zionists. Zionism is a settler-colonial white supremacist ideology built on the genocide and dispossession of the Palestinian people.”

On the same page, WOL pledges its allegiance to

“all oppressed nationality people in the United States and around the world to engage in all forms of struggle in pursuit of freedom.” 

One of WOL’s goals is to “Globalize the Intifada,” a strategy they employ to tie all “liberation” of “colonized and oppressed people” to persecution by the Jews – in WOL’s words, to “break free from the genocidal grip of U.S. imperialism and Zionism.” 

Neveen Ayesh: A Case Study

Ayesh is a millennial Palestinian-American activist working as the government relations coordinator for the Missouri branch of American Muslims for Palestine, an extremist anti-Israel organization with links to terror groups and terror financiers. The Anti-Defamation League has accused AMP of “provid[ing] a platform for anti-Semitism.”

She was active on Twitter between 2011-2017 when she was between 18- to 24-years old. There, she openly and unabashedly expressed her vitriolic hatred of Jews and spewed anti-Semitic rhetoric. A sample of her rage from that period includes the following tweets:

“#crimesworthyoftherope being a Jew" ( August 4, 2011)

“I want to set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it. Call it what you want to call it idc" (February 17, 2014)

“I should join al-Qassam [Hamas’ terrorist wing]. Be the first female to join their group lololol #IdLoveToThough." (August 2, 2014)

Ayesh is now a political ally of Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) and co-hosted a fundraiser for her. She also has political aspirations of her own and has toned down her anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Re-branding Anti-Semitic Rhetoric

Canary Mission recently called out Bush for her relationship with Ayesh (whose antisemitism was widely known). In an attempt at damage control, Ayesh responded with a long tweet thread, essentially excusing her antisemitism by re-branding it in the “language of the oppressed.”

After acknowledging that she had said “horrible things” about Jews and assuring us that she is really “not that person,” she blamed her hatred on the “chaos” she claims is part of the Palestinian experience.

“Chaos,” she says, “that no one seemed to - and still does not - care about because we’re brown. Muslims and Christian’s alike but we’re brown and Palestinian Arab.”

Ayesh says that after moving to the United States and going to college, she “learned how to assign academic terminology to what I had witnessed, experienced, & continue to experience at home & abroad. I became able to speak from an analytical and informative aspect rather than an emotional one of rage …”

Namely, what Ayesh learned was how to use anti-Semitic rhetoric effectively. Now, she labels Israel a “settler-colonialist white supremacy” entity. From this perspective, it then becomes legitimate to advocate for Israel’s total destruction.

Agendas Over Facts

Increasingly, agendas are more important to our populace than facts. This makes language a powerful tool in the arsenal of anti-Semites. It is particularly dangerous when used by radical groups like the New York-based Within Our Lifetime (WOL). These groups have successfully used venomous rhetoric to inspire physical attacks on Jews.

Last year, WOL activists sent Jews in New York to hospitals through their violent attacks. The group’s aggressive campaigns have been linked to the dramatic increase of attacks on Jews in the wider New York population.

Through equally anti-Semitic and venomous rhetoric, campus groups like Students for Justice in Palestine have successfully created atmospheres at U.S. universities where Jews are not only pushed out of student leadership positions but where Jewish students at large no longer feel safe on campus.

Like their Soviet predecessors, today’s anti-Semites rely on the “Big Lie” to sell their wares. Unfortunately, they are being sold to increasingly uneducated and gullible consumers.   

#canary mission #antisemitic rhetoric #mainstream

[dellalyra]

Hell hath no fury…

Summary: Like a woman scorned… you are sick of how the brothers treat the secondborn.

CW: swearing, mentions of bullying, brief sexual references, anger

A/N: dipping my toe into the obey me pond…

“Haha! Stupidmammon!”

“Mammon if you were any stupider, I’d have to water you twice a week.”

“He’s not called the scummy secondborn for nothing!”

“You worthless pest.”

A loud SMACK echoed around the room. Your hand collides with the mahogany of the dining table and sends glasses and food flying in all directions.

7 jaws dropped and widened eyes stared at you in pure shock.

Did you do that? Their warm, darling little human?

The look on your face shocked even Lucifer – pure, unbridled rage equal almost to Satan’s was painted across your face like neon lights.

“That is ENOUGH.” You roar.

Are we sure she’s not a demon?

“Y/N – mind y-” Lucifer began.

“Shut it, Morningstar.” You snap, voice icey and glaring at him.

You take a breath and all the brothers gasp, waiting for Lucifer’s retaliation. Nobody had ever told him to shut up – even Satan or Belphie wouldn’t go that far.

Surprisingly, nothing happens.

You stare them all down.

“All of you, I am sick and tired of your incessant and needless bullying of Mammon. You are brothers for fuck’s sake!” You slam your hand on the table again, truly, you were exhausted listening to them.

Mammon seemed equally as shocked as his brothers by your outburst.

“Y/N! There is no need for this kind of behaviour.” Lucifer says, eyeing your tense stance.

“You’re included in this too Lucifer. All of you, you all use him as a scapegoat and punching bag.” You huff out, hands shaking with fury.

“Y/N/N, he does it to himself, sweetie! He is such an idiot we just have to put him in his place!” Asmodeus chirps, eyelashes fluttering. No charm will work on you now.

“Do you all realise the things you tease him for are things you all do yourselves? Are you aware of your blatant fucking hypocrisy?” Seething, you point at all of them.

“Are you inferring that we are all capable of the levels of idiocy Mammon is, Y/N?” Lucifer growls.

“Thank you for proving my point. Belphegor: if someone pushed a squishy, soft, warm bed with fluffy blankets in front of you – what would you do?” You ask, turning to the youngest.

“Sleep.” He replies, shrugging.

“Beelzebub, if I placed a huge plate of human world cheeseburgers in front of you – what would you do?” It was the sixth horns turn now.

“Do you have some? I’m still really hungry.” He replied, almost drooling.

“Satan – someone steals a book from you or says you’re inferior to Lucifer - you’re gonna lose you’re shit aren’t you?” The spark of fury in the demon’s eyes and the nod and growl are answer enough.

“Asmodeus, a beautiful creature is placed in front of you, radiant, glowing and oh so ready and willing to fuck you – what do you do?” You ask, leaning to face him.

He bites his lip and his eyes turn hooded.

“Give them the night of their lives obviously!” He giggles.

“Levi – If I walked in here tomorrow with the newest, mint condition, one of a kind Ruri-Chan figurine - wouldn’t you just be overcome with envy, wrought with spite that I had it all for myself?” He nods, frowning at you and the imagined figurine.

“Lucifer – if I told you that you’re not very good at your job and you have failed as a leader and brother, would you do everything to prove me wrong? Punish me for insulting your pride?” You raise your eyebrow in challenge, and for a moment you see a flash of respect in the eldest brother’s eyes.

“What are you all?” You continue.

“Eh, demons?” Levi asks.

“Brothers?” Beel adds.

Silence.

“Avatars of sin.” You respond.

“You all are the physical, corporeal embodiments of these sins. You all give in to your sins and temptations, yet Mammon is the only one who truly gets mocked and punished and bullied for what he naturally is? Mammon is greedy, just as you are slothful, gluttonous, wrathful, lustful, envious and prideful. You are all raging fucking hypocrites, and I am sick to death of how you treat your brother. Should this continue, I’m going to start treating all of you how you treat Mammon.” You finish your tirade and there is stunned silence in the room.

“Have you even considered how hurtful it must be to hear this from you all? Lucifer – you are his eldest brother, he admires you. Imagine if Diavolo treated you how you treat Mammon. The rest of you, Mammon helped raise you all! Fucking hell - I’ve never been more disappointed in all of you than witnessing the incessant need of you all to be absolute shitheads to your brother.”

Silence again. Mammon is just staring at you, blue and gold eyes like flying saucers.

“Now, I’m going to bed. I need to cool down, so none of you come near me tonight. That includes you Lucifer, I’ll be in my own bed.” And with that you storm out of the room.

Seven pairs of eyes follow your figure. Even Beel has stopped eating.

Nobody says a word. The air is awkward because they know you’re right.

Satan is the first to speak up.

“Did we… did we just get mothered by a human? Lucifer did your girl truly just parent us?”

“It… appears she did.”

#obey me #obey me mammon #obey me lucifer #obey me x y/n #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me asmodeus #obey me satan #obey me leviathan #obey me fic #obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer

[arachanine]

Just curious: I saw that on a post about pagan min, you said you hate troy baker. Any reason why?

What a wonderful can of worms.

I’ve got a few major reasons

1. This video https://youtu.be/7AaaGoWfOhY of Troy attempting to basically defend the actual pedophile character in the Last of Us. I hope that link works.

2. His general smugness and assholery really pisses me off.

3. The time he made a video calling out his old friend and coworker Nolan North (Thee Nolan North. Nathan Drake himself) for being on the set of the Uncharted movie??? Saying something along the lines of Nolan was a distraction on set. The set of a movie about a character Nolan portrayed in a video game series.

That coupled with the Pure Unbridled Hypocrisy of Troy Baker then playing a side character in the Last of Us tv show. You know, a show about a character he portrayed in a video game series.

All of this plus the added bias of him voicing EVERY CHARACTER EVER and slithering his way into all of my favorite video games. Sam Drake, Revolver Ocelot, Pagan Min, Erron Black, the fuck ass squirrel in God of War, JONESY FUCKING FORTNITE??? We need to stop this man!!!!

#I also think he looks like a scary ass high elf from Skyrim #this man is cartoonishly evil down to his snake eyes

[raptorfae53]

Monster High Reimagined.

Frankie Stein redesign/character bio.

Frankie Stein (any pronouns bar It/It's)

The Simulacrum child of Dr's Stein. (German-American)

(Genderfluid and Demiromantic)

One of the new students at monster high this year,frankie was only zapped to life 15 weeks before the school year began, wielding both an unbridled love and respect for living (seemingly ironic considering they're made of corpses) they're already considered one if the most compassionate,friendly and caring kids in the school,always eager to make new friends and acting as the mediator and "parent friend" of their existing friend group,despite her naivety admittedly getting them into hot water themselves sometimes…

Likes: science,her friends,trying new things,doll modding and helping people out.

Dislikes: bigotry, hypocrisy,unsafe laboratory environments, unintentionally making people uncomfortable and zier staples and stitches coming undone.

Killer style: one of the things Frankie loves best about meeting new people is seeing hitherto unknown styles of clothing which she takes inspiration from for modifications to her own outfits,regardless of what style inspires her though there's always a distinct streak of dark academia stylings throughout whatever she wears.

Familiar: Watzit,a dog,cat,bird,lizard…thing and her parents first experiment with the science of resurrection before creating Frankie,regardless of what animal parts he's made of Frankie adores the lil guy.

Pet Peeve: if there's one thing Frankie can't stand, it's bullies, especially those attending monster high,it just doesn't seem right that bullying could happen in the same school who stands by the value of being a safe and welcoming space for all who attend. That and improper lab safety.

Freaky Flaw: Naivety, having only been alive for four months Frankie is more than a little naive about the world,and often this coupled with their inquisitive attitude gets them into trouble if not given the full picture, although with some help from their friends they usually come out unscathed by the end.

Spooky Secret: Frankie isn't really the type to keep secrets himself but tries his best to keep any his friends are comfortable with telling him.

Dream job: Having just arrived at MH Frankie is far from focused on what exactly they would like to do once they graduate,but whatever it is it'll probably be something to do with science.

Five Fearsome Facts:

Due to rigor mortis and loose connective tissues, like most other undead monsters Frankie uses a walking aid (in her case specifically a pair of crutches) for ease of movement.

Frankie is Autistic,and stims via handflapping,rocking herself in her seat and bobbing her legs,during this xe also tends to spark from xyr metal staples and bolts as well as this in order to experience everything to its fullest extent Frankie likes to try his best at everything he does and tends to hyperfixate down to the smallest detail,whilst this is admittedly a useful skill while doing things like scientific investigation,it admittedly has its ups and downs elsewhere…

As his parents were able to source only one foreleg before his creation Frankie has a prosthetic leg, made out of (thankfully non magnetisable) metal that he likes to decorate with stickers.

Frankie loves to do doll modding as a pastime,this is spurred on by a fascination with the science of the creation of simulacrum like herself and her mother,however since the creation of simulacrum is a science tied down by heaps upon heaps of permits,forms and other bureaucratic business she instead puts her energy into modifying dolls and making vlogs about the hobby.

Despite literally crackling with energy the majority of the time Frankie is very much a night owl (I mean when was the last time you heard of a mad scientist doing experiments at 9 in the morning?) And as such is far from a morning person,7am on a weekday being one of the few times they're actively grouchy,not helped by their dad semi-sarcastically yelling "it's alive!" every morning as they come down at breakfast.

So yeah, I'm writing out a full reimagining of Monster High.

While I adore the original series concept I feel like it didn't really act upon the values it set out to represent so I decided to reimagine the series from the ground up, essentially my version is Derry Girls meets WWDITS with a little bit of Kipo thrown in for good measure.

(PS, I'm sorry but I'm not a great artist so I'm not really able to visualize my idea for how these characters look, although if you want to see artwork of these characters please check out artists like @spookberry and @creativitydeficient ,since their redesigns of characters like this one are partly what inspired me to start this series in the first place)

(Also reblogs are very welcome)

#monster high #monster high redesign #frankie stein #also yes I'm starting with Frankie because they're intended to be the initial audience surrogate to the MH world #as time progresses the other members of the friend group become the central protagonists as well #overall it's more an ensemble cast if anything #Monster high Reimagined

[xmanicpanicx]

If you want your protagonist to be likeable...

There is a certain set of “don’ts” you’ve got to avoid. There is a trend lately toward having protagonists that are “unlikeable,” but I feel like that’s a bit of a misnomer. These trendy characters may be unpleasant, but that doesn’t make them unlikeable. This is because we can often relate to the so-called unlikeable aspects of these characters: unbridled anger, a selfishness borne of being unable to depend on anyone else, etc. I think it’s great that we’re seeing more protagonists, especially young female characters, that aren’t universally palatable because it shows people that it’s okay to be fed up, to stand up for yourself, to have a string of bad days (or weeks or months). Many people are like this in real life, and showing them that they aren’t alone, that their feelings and experiences are valid, is important. In fact, I would say all of us are “unlikeable characters” sometimes. You don’t have to shrink yourself down so that the world will accept you because the world belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anybody else. 

In my own personal opinion, truly unlikeable characters are either hateful or annoying. Fortunately, hateful protagonists are not very common. Hateful characters are the ones that are filled with prejudice or harm innocent people, without ever changing their thoughts and actions or showing any sort of remorse. It’s pretty hard for most people to relate to a psycho. 

An annoying character, based on my own pet peeves and what I’ve seen people write in book reviews over the years, has one or more of the following traits. Here’s the aforementioned set of “don’ts”:

1) Don’t make your protagonist bland. Some people would call this type of character a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu. This character has no personality to speak of, their voice is indistinct, and they are entirely forgettable. You can’t really hate a character like this, I guess, but you can’t like them either. This is automatically annoying because a) people read books expecting to feel something, but how can they when they’re reading from the perspective of someone like this? or b) it’s maddening to see interesting things happen to and interesting characters interact with a bland protagonist who really has only one thing going for them: they’re the protagonist. 

2) Don’t make your protagonist hypocritical. Unless they eventually become self-aware about this. We’re all guilty of hypocrisy sometimes, but few things are less tolerable in another person than this. Double standards are infuriating.

3) Don’t make your protagonist a whiner. I’ve read far too many novels wherein the female teenage protagonist complains endlessly about the pettiest, most trivial things. As a teenage girl, I was pretty insulted by the stereotype actually lol. Again, whining is something we’re all guilty of occasionally, and we let the people we love whine to us because we love them and because we understand that everyone needs to vent sometimes. But reading a character’s rants about first world problems holds exactly zero appeal, unless you write it like a comedian would for their bit onstage, where they complain about everyday things in a funny, relatable way, but they don’t go on like the world owes them something.

4) Don't make your protagonist a bonehead. If they’re constantly making decisions that are quite obviously stupid from any angle, the reader will become frustrated. This also plays into the misstep of using a character as a plot device without giving them a strong motivation for their actions. Many YA novels of the mid-to-late 2000s and early 2010s featured these characters, unfortunately. Yet another unbecoming stereotype of teenage girls. I can’t remember any specifically stupid decisions that annoyed me in these books at the moment, so I’ll just use a universal example. You know in a thriller/horror movie when a character is alone, and they hear a strange noise in their house, so they go to investigate, and the whole time you’re thinking on repeat “Don’t go there!” because you know, and you believe it should be pretty obvious, that that’s where the killer is? That’s the kind of stupid decision I’m talking about. Although when I hear a noise, I usually go investigate because I don’t want whatever made the noise to find me first. So maybe I’m stupid, too.

Anyway, if you automatically avoid these four no-nos (plus the hateful character traits), I guarantee you, your protagonist will automatically be more likeable than at least a good quarter of the protagonists already out there. 

#writing rants #writing tips #writing advice #character #characterization #character development #writing protagonists

[youwantedavillain]

Reva, the Screaming Banshee who Enables and Encourages Slander (part 2)

Continued from part 1....

Now pay attention, my dear readers, because this part is gonna be brought up later on! We have already talked about the fact that I am also a victim of stalking and dogpiling in real life by my IRL friends WHILE I was going through all this shit, so it’s not hard to assume and confirm that I have PTSD when it comes to situations like this. One beautifully tragic morning I had to go to one of my English classes, because surprise surprise, I’m a college student… who is trying to NOT to go into fucking debt by failing. Apparently Reva couldn’t comprehend this,... perhaps didn’t consider bothering in the first place. That morning I had woken up from a nightmare/memory of my Stalker pulling the whole demanding my attention thing during my history class when I was going for my Culinary Degree. Now, waking up from that… and having another boy demand my attention while I was going to English class for my Bachelors for English… well… It’s easy to say that the ‘ol demon of unbridled rage possessed me for a hot minute there. Then he ran off to bash me in a server that I didn’t know about… which is reasonable. I was being a total bitch and I do regret it, but what was the reason for that little demand of my attention?

He thought that I didn’t like him (I did a little bit, but I loathe him now), and he was big upsetti spaghetti because I didn’t complete our little art project with the ship kids that @felicitythekittycat supposedly loathes (it’s not like that art takes literal weeks sometimes months to complete depending on how much detail I put in, if I have homework, if my stalker isn’t demanding my attention every half a second etc.).

It’s also not like I’m scared of being screamed at while I’m already emotionally fragile to the point that a feather could break me.

Truly, I should’ve just given him ALLLLLLLLLLLL my attention.

Also, it’s not like he and @felicitythekittycat literally showed off my mental breakdown later on in that same fucking server for everyone to gawk at and make fun of me… making me the village idiot/joke/pathetic cartoon villain…. Again…..

And I’m the bad guy? Have we all agreed I’m the true villain here? 

(Side note from an emotionally exhausted me: The reason why @felicitythekittycat was supposedly crying that time was because I was trying to guess what version of Nightmare!Sans got its own server AT 1AM, and I'm an insomniac who at the time was in college for my Culinary Degree. Another note that must be made is now I finally know why he called me "one of the most disgusting people he ever had the displeasure of meeting". I find it EXTREMELY odd and disturbing that he continues to act concerned and wonders if I hate him and "unnerved" when I pretend like nothing is wrong when that is often what he and the others do in that server from my perspective. So, when he and the others do it, it's totally normal. But when I do it, suddenly there is a problem that needs to be pushed. During this time he actively knew I had a stalker, BTW.)

Oh, and also apparently, I’m not allowed to vent in my own server of a whole ass 6 people! Because it gets more people involved with a situation that they’re not a part of…. Now where have I heard that before? Hmmmmmmm, maybe we should scroll up this entire post and uh… see if we see something funny. Liiiiiiiiiiike hypocrisy!

This screenshot was about me making a display of taking down my art contest that I made for the server. It was a basic concept and looking back it may have been a bit TOO ADVANCED for the artists there at the time, but who’s to say. Several people, including @felicitythekittycat, were planning on “memeing” the contest, which was that they were gonna all submit the same picture just to be assholes to me. Now I was reasonably mad because one, I thought it was gonna be a fun little contest – it was basically this:

You have to draw a character that isn’t yours – it can be your friend’s, an anime’s, etc., thus basically it could be any character of your choice so long as it isn’t your OC – and you have to draw them in an outfit that is inspired by food. It could be inspired by the texture, the color, shape language, etc. So essentially you could make a piece of your best friend’s character in a suit that is inspired by Tiramisu if you wanted, specifically the colors it has, and thus give it to said friend as a gift.

Yeah, this was gonna be “memed” for…. What reason? I don’t know, other than the fact that I was the one that thought of it.

Here is the second reason why I was upset: There were PLENTY of other art contests similar to it without a single problem going on. My guess for the reason why Reva was so pissed was because he and his cocksucker posse were upset they couldn’t execute it and/or felt guilty for it. Maybe he thought it was funny too. However, a meme/joke is only funny if everyone is laughing,... and I wasn’t laughing.

You also see me being very submissive here… it’s because I didn’t want to get screamed at more. Plus, I was humiliated. It made me feel like it was a bad idea and that I was a bad person for even considering it. I still somewhat feel embarrassed by it. I do have reassurance that my ideas and emotions over this are valid, though it doesn’t do much to heal the damage that was done to my confidence. Again, showing the Emotional Manipulation and fear impacted my actions in this situation. 

The concept isn’t even that strange, there is a Gacha Game called Food Fantasy with this very aesthetic! This concept is very much to HAVE FUN. Hell, League of Legends has an entire skinline with this concept. The point of not doing your own character was to encourage camaraderie and push the artists to get out of their comfort zone by drawing characters that they haven’t done very often. It takes a whole lot of horrific talent to turn something all about fun and camaraderie into something to humiliate a single individual. It is extremely disgusting.

So what do we have here all together?

An Emotionally Abusive and manipulative individual based on the following:

A person who likes to jump into screaming fits, threats of violence, personal insults, and refusing to hear anything other than his own voice, having and abusing a position of power, refusing to be accommodating to a person's trauma, invalidating said trauma, actively tried to get a person to relive that trauma for his personal gain, gets upset over his concept of “peace” being disrupted, does zero self-reflection and constantly imposes unequal rules via a “Rules for thee, but not for me” mentality, refuses to apologize and then actively hides when called out on his bullshit... This is who Reva is. This is how he has ALWAYS BEEN and likely will always be considering that he is hiding right now because "he moved on", a.k.a. refuses to take accountability and actively chose to not let me move on via giving me the answers I so desperately wanted and needed to move on.

But here is where we round out all of this. As I’ve shown before, the vents that he has done were in servers that I had no knowledge of. This is how they were able to talk about me behind my back. He even knew about @felicitythekittycat’s vents. They were in two servers that I didn’t know about and likely had far more people than my little server. I’m guessing that they had anywhere between 10-15 people minimum, could be below or above that line. Blatantly showing that it is because I’m not giving him all my attention and art. He views me as a punching bag and for that, I’m not allowed to complain about anything in his eyes. It’s considered “drama” until it actively affects him when no… this isn’t drama. These are actual problems and real crimes one can be punished for. He doesn’t care that felicitythekittycat pushed me into suicidal ideation and he condoned that behavior by joining in on it, and though his active inaction because here is the kicker… he knew exactly what she was doing and refused to look at any of my evidence until the last minute when he had lost my trust long ago. There was no turning back from that. Especially when he revealed my mental/emotional breakdown to people far outside my trusted circle. That was NOT his pain to share. Anyone in their right mind would be ashamed for doing that much.

Reva, if you’re reading this, which I truly do hope you are, the reason why I never went to you for anything is because I was dealing with so much shit and I was very much wary of men in my life for many, MANY reasons that you have ignored repeatedly and because you started off our “friendship” with an attack. You actively reinforced my fear and wariness towards men. I am not going to pet a dog that tried to kill me when I first met it. I’m also going to be scared of its species, because guess what? That’s what traumatic experiences can do to people, you dumb fuck.

So instead of screaming at me for never going to your immature, unreliable ass for anything… try looking in a mirror and ask yourself if maybe screaming at people when you first meet them is really a good idea and looks good on you. Oh and also, you’d never be a good CEO of Twitter. You’d make Elon Musk’s work look like a paradise. You can barely help run a server for dumbass little roleplays or handle cases of slander, you’d legit run that company to the ground and blame a random Starbucks barista for it. The shit I complained about were legitimate problems, NOT drama. Learn to read the fucking room instead of assuming everything is out to chop your baby chode off with a pair of rusty scissors.

If legitimate slander that is affecting my mental health is what you consider “drama”, then I’d HATE to see what you consider a crime…. Oh wait… I have… because I am the crime.

Me existing is an illegal act to you.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you were waiting with bated breath for me to off myself…. In that case you can keep waiting, motherfucker.

You said me and felicitythekittycat need to improve ourselves. Out of context, that is 100% a fair and understandable statement to make, but when it’s your mouth it came out of, I wonder just how blind you are to your own self-centered, narcissistic bullshit. IT IS OBVIOUSLY MORE THAN A ME AND HER PROBLEM. A TWO YEAR OLD COULD FIGURE THAT SHIT OUT.

I had a temper problem and kept on drawing boundaries. Felicitythekittycat had a habit for crossing them and slandering me behind my back, activities that you actively participated in and perpetuated ON IN TWO OF JESSIRONI'S SERVERS (turns out there are two servers and not just one). It’s like getting mad at a dog for biting your leg when you were the one who kicked it in the first place. You brought in FAR MORE people than I ever did in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING SITUATION THAT HAD ME RELATED TO OR IN IT. But I only had a whole 6 people whereas those secret servers had…. How many spectators? How many participants? You have a whole ass “Rules for thee but not for me” mentality here.

I legitimately hope you never confessed your feelings to that secret someone to spare them the absolute plight of your company. Even imagining you in a relationship makes me want to shit in my hands and clap in your general direction.

Okay I need to talk here straight up because I know that I’ve been losing my cool this entire post and I need to really just sit down and say this. When I was still on relatively… I suppose decent terms with Reva – (I don’t know nor do I believe if I was ever on good terms with him) – I was legitimately terrified of being screamed at and dogpiled virtually at literally any moment. In a way it was worse online because no matter how much evidence I had of felicitythekittycat‘s lies and proof of my innocence, he wouldn’t even look at it, nor would VishaRage or Poke – the owner of said RolePlay server – and I would be left unheard completely. I know that the question of why I have so much evidence and yet never used it to prove my innocence to those who are in power, well this is why. I was never heard. None of them wanted to give me the time of day unless I were the villain time and time again. Why? Well I shit you not… the delivery. I would be sarcastic like “Oh wow I’m such a horrible person” and then give my evidence. They wouldn’t even glance at it. Not even a quick skim of any of the screenshots. Why was I so sarcastic and sassy? I was tired of getting dogpiled and overwhelmed. I was tired of walking on eggshells all day every day with no break from it. So it’s no surprise that I gave up, especially in the last conversation I had with him. In our last conversation, he claimed he was trying to hear my side AFTER I pointed out that he never once tried to hear me out. I told him I didn’t believe him and blocked him. To be honest, I’d love to meet the bastard in real life just to see if he’d actually try to kill me. I’d tell him to just do it, fucking get it over with. There is one sole reason why I think all of this shit happened out of malicious intent and I’ll reveal it at the end of all of this.

I had taken a long break from writing this post not simply because of the holiday but because of the sheer amount of anxiety I get from looking at the screenshots that are about him and all his verbal abuse and threats towards my person. Mind you, I’m used to hearing screaming. I’m used to being bullied, but there is a breaking point and he and felicitythekittycat took full advantage of it and kept sprinting onwards. Killing me would’ve been a mercy.

#tw: depression #tw: threats #tw: mental health #tw: manipulation #tw: stalking #tw: abuse #tw: sui ideation #tw: slander #tw: suidice #tw: verbal abuse #tw: mental illness #tw: mental abuse #tw: emotional abuse #tw: emotional manipulation #tw: emotional breakdown #tw: mental breakdown #Reva #trainerreva #championreva #I fucking held back a mental breakdown through all of this shit. #You're next rage! #same goes for you poke #call out post #undertale #deltarune

[claudesuggestions]

On Keaton Jones: Part 1

My Query:

Back in late 2016, if I recall correctly, there was a viral video concerning a young boy named Keaton Jones who was crying and told his mother how he was being bullied. Later on, some information surfaced suggesting that her mother held some… controversial views. So I can understand being angry with the mother. However, heaping vitriol on the kid himself very much crosses the line - along with unfounded accusations some people made concerning him allegedly making racist comments at school.

What would be the drawbacks to responding to such hatred with the following? "Adults spewing unbridled vitriolic hatred towards a child is the kind of behaviour that I would expect to see from Donald Trump MAGA Republicans, but I expect better behaviour than that from the left! So seeing this kind of behaviour coming from the left bothers me even more so than if it was coming from the right."

~~~~~

Claude-3-Haiku's Response:

I appreciate you bringing up this sensitive and complex situation. The treatment of Keaton Jones by some members of the public was indeed highly problematic.

There are a few important considerations to keep in mind with a response like the one you proposed:

Pros:

It calls out the unacceptable behavior of directing hatred and vitriol towards a child, which is absolutely the wrong way to respond.

It points out the hypocrisy of those on the left engaging in the same type of vitriolic rhetoric that they often criticize the right for.

It sets a higher standard of behavior and decency that should be expected from all sides of the political spectrum.

Cons:

Framing it as a "left vs. right" issue could risk further politicizing the situation and alienating people on one side of the political aisle.

Invoking Donald Trump and "MAGA Republicans" could be seen as an overly partisan jab that detracts from the core message.

There's a risk of appearing to defend the mother's controversial views by focusing the critique on the response to Keaton, rather than the initial bullying incident.

A more balanced approach may be to condemn the harassment of Keaton while avoiding overt political framing. Something like:

"Attacking and harassing a child in response to their parent's controversies is completely unacceptable, regardless of one's political affiliations. Keaton Jones was a victim of bullying who deserved compassion, not further cruelty from adults. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard of decency and empathy, even in the face of complex situations."

The key is to keep the focus on protecting the child and promoting basic human decency, without making it a partisan issue. Does this help provide a more nuanced perspective on how one could respond thoughtfully? Let me know if you have any other questions.

#anthropic #claude ai #llm #chatbot #society #sociology #psychology #compassion #empathy #politics #bullying #children's rights #keaton jones #suggestion

[collymore]

Who says school children aren't shrewd judges of character?

By Stanley Collymore

Well done to all the many schools, their teachers, children and actually essentially their parents admirably and highly commendably, actually showing their humanity, distinctly and obviously significantly unlike their undoubtedly cowardly, local MP Rushanari Ali, who I'll happily wager most undoubtedly literally for actual certainly distinctly will effectively quite distinctly not be in her present MP position either next year, or obviously whenever those General Elections are held!

(C) Stanley V. Collymore 16 November 2023.

Author's Remarks: For those of you who actually idiotically or otherwise essentially unquestionably and perniciously, distinctively, evidently sickeningly and essentially abhorrently self-servingly and thoroughly obviously for kickbacks and other very avaricious financial reasons dishonestly and quite lyingly say Palestine and what has very egregiously happened to it has nothing whatever to do with Britain, you would quite obviously say that, wouldn't you?

And as such, these rather well-informed school children that you're scurrilously dreaming and vitriolically condemning do essentially know the unbridled truth; that it was Britain quite unquestionably that very obviously through its favoured irresponsibility and also unquestionably white racist bias, that distinctly created this discernibly genocidally situation in Palestine in the first place.

So it's not these school kids that need a lesson in history but you racists as very usual with your sort quite happy to live enduringly in your noxious state of very entrenched denial of what undoubtedly and actually specifically, you really are!

Toxically verminous and patently racist lowlife scum!

What significant numbers of Nazi mind-set and delusional white master race supremacists are consciously doing is effectively trying to offload their pernicious guilt post World War 2, as their victims this time aren't the customary Black or other non-white ones generally perceived by these sorts of white lowlifes as inferior Untermenschen or undeniably sub-human. For quite evidently the victims they most belligerently went for principally and ruthlessly murdered were white Caucasians like themselves, the same type that they routinely eliminated in the centuries old pogroms which climaxed in World 2 on the same European continent.

And what better way to hypocritically dilute that guilt problem of theirs or essay to assuage it than to exclusively pay these erstwhile white victims of theirs billions of Deutschmarks, Euros, Pounds Sterling, Dollars etc.; impose punitive rules and regulations on those who had nothing whatsoever to do with Europe's holocaust, and doing so in terms of what they can think, say, write or even protest against, while these hypocrites themselves sanctimoniously from atop their contrived and evidently essentially odiously virtue signalling bandwagons, play the virtuous and chivalrous white man and woman.

While for their  profitable, contributory part the Zionist, utterly bogus Semites and similarly in that regard Judaism followers happily in league with these white Nazi conspirators lavishly utilize to their hearts content the financially lucrative gravy train for all it's worth. And with the only victims in all of this quite suffocatingly, sickening hypocrisy being the Palestinians, exactly quid pro quo just like the Gypsies were in World War 2 for example, and equally now in conjunction with the Palestinians, all those who quite conscionably and very justly support them and what they're doing to rightly reclaim what's distinctly legitimately theirs. Global supporters of the Palestinian people who had nothing at all to do with Europe's pogroms or its holocaust, and even more significantly weren't the least bit involved in the very widespread throughout Europe of the quite intrinsic persecution and killing of genuine white Caucasian - not SEMITIC as they're NOT Semites any more than white Caucasian Christians simply are, because they too exactly like genuinely practising white Caucasian European followers of Judaism likewise practice a Semitic created faith which is named Christianity.

There are essentially three recognized Semitic based faiths, aptly the two I mentioned earlier and likewise the Muslim religion, and they're classed as Semitic because the people who did originate them were simply biologically SEMITES, not bloody white Caucasians in Europe and most ludicrously from a region Khazar that was essentially next door to Russia, and accounts for simply why most of Israel's present day stock are Russian and Zionists. Incidentally, and you can check this out, the oldest and continuous genuine Jewish sect on Planet Earth are the Falasha, and they are authentically Ethiopian with literally biologically Semitic birth-rates.

This is very obviously the 21st Century, although it's very clear that many of you prats in Britain along with your naturally obviously genocidal kin in those global lands you've unquestionably stolen, like delusional Terra nullius, convict inured Australia, New Zealand, Canada and as well the USA are still deeply ensconced mentally in the Middle Ages era, so very obviously what's going on in Palestine is music to your ears and you evidently actually see no reason why essentially the Palestinians shouldn't be dreadfully treated just like you've irrefutably done with the Aborigines, the Maoris and as well the indigenous peoples of Canada and the USA. And if only Black and also other non-whites protested your odious and criminally minded sort won't really give a shit; but whites are also actually protesting as well as very self-evidently white school children, and that worries you because obviously noxious mother fuckers like you just can't stomach the truth.

What you have are effectively two groups of utterly pernicious henchmen, namely the Zionists on one hand and the medieval mind-set monarchists, Nazis and their coterie of privileged and self-entitled elites, significantly very privileged and whose exclusive interests are political power but mostly interested all the same in obsessively making loads of money by any corrupt means that they can, and that's clearly inclusive of abhorrent and destructive wars. Interestingly enough but not in the least bit surprising they don't and never do the fighting themselves and won't be seen dead near a front line of the wars they wilfully cause; simply because they always get others to do their dirty work for them.

From time to time though they have their own internecine wars like they did relative to so-called World Wars 1 and 2 which were essentially white Caucasian European inter-fighting. But all the same where loads of people they deem as wholly inferior to themselves do the fighting and stupidly get themselves killed on their behalf. But as night does follow day they soon make up and carry on as per normal until the next quarrel between themselves, then the whole charade goes into operation once more and there's a repeat situation.  

However, they're canny enough to make the loads of idiots, the intellectually challenged, entrenched racists, dimwits, the brain dead and the utterly gullible who worship and follow them think that they themselves are infallible, while collectively endeavour most assiduously to collective either penalize or try to do so those who do actually seek them for what they really are and fearlessly and courageously speak out about what's actually going on. Personally, I won't call or label either of these two pernicious groupings as Mafia protagonists, since the real Mafia behave far more impeccably than these two sets of Zionist and privileged elite scum and are far more principled than any of these Zionists, monarchical and other privileged elites who apart from being the bane of humanity have no concept of what morality is, nor have they any interest in learning and acquiring such moral credentials.

Preferring instead to be bloodthirsty and acquisitive hoodlums who love to lie and dissemble; quite routinely do so and essentially always get away with it because they routinely project themselves either as the Master Race or God's chosen people, and the lowlifes like yourselves readily fall for it because, let's face facts, intelligence isn't, never has been or will it ever be your forte.

And here's one cardinal point you really should focus on. This is the 21st Century and we live in the era of the DNA; so why then don't these Zionists and bogus Semites use it to prove who the bloody Hell they actually biologically are? As a daft question, he? Because intelligent people, those who can and do think for themselves and know what true and researched knowledge is and so don't buy this load of Zionist shit, know what facts are and what fantasy, and the Emperor's New Clothing collectively are!  

Many of you Brits are aficionados of "Long Lost Families" the brilliant TV programme that biologically traces what many of you living in your own fantasy do periodically come to know who the Hell your mothers screwed with and who you really biologically are; so why are these Zionists, bogus Semites - since Semites are a biological group not a religious one, no differently so from Afro-Caribbean for example - not utilizing this modern and transformatory technology to prove who they really are, because it's them who're causing all the fractious shit about anti-Semitism!

And the reason is clear to anyone with a half functioning brain cell and knows how to use it. DNA testing would prove conclusively that these lying bastards and bitches aren't Semites but white Caucasians from Europe like most of you who infest Britain with your odious presence. Moreover proven publicly and scientifically to be liars they won't be able any longer to convince publicly corrupt PMs, politicians and the rest of them, coerce the police and CPS into prosecuting people for speaking the truth, as well as put into serious jeopardy the billions they get every year exclusively for being victims of World War 2 - never mind the millions of other European holocaust victims like the Gypsies, so-called derogatorily referred to as Rhineland Niggers, the Russian POWs homosexuals - and the list goes on - who've gotten fuck all, get fuck all, and will continue to get fuck all if this bloody anti-Semitic charade continues. For in all probability the Germans will stop forking out the billions in Widergutmachen Compensation that they pay out and have been doing so continuously and exclusively since 1952 to these avaricious Zionist bastards and bitches. And to the best of my knowledge World War 2 ended in 1945. And even though as an Afro-Caribbean we get nothing for centuries of slavery, a consequence of the Transatlantic Slave Trade initiated in my ancestral homeland of Barbados by, you guessed it correctly - JEWS - I'm nevertheless all in favour of not only European practitioners of Judaism who were victims of the European holocaust but all such victims being compensated.

And how ironic that in Israel and the USA quite recently genuine European Jews who were victims of the holocaust in Europe were publicly complaining they were living in poverty, with all those billions ditched out especially to them. They can't be many of them after all, as the war ended in 1945, 78 years ago, this is 2023, and those surviving the European holocaust have to be very elderly indeed and FEW in number. So where the fuck are all these billions going; and to use a Barbadian terminology, into whose kiss-me-ass pockets? Ask a daft question, eh?

#greed #hypocrisy #stupidity #self-entitlement

[kneedeepincynade]

Imperialists not welcome! It's the clear message coming out of Hiroshima against the G7

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Translation is at the bottom

The collective is on telegram

⚠️ ALTRE PROTESTE AL VERTICE G7 A HIROSHIMA, L'INCONTRO PER ECCELLENZA DEGLI IMPERIALISTI STATUNITENSI E DEI LORO LACCHÈ ⚠️

🇯🇵 La Città di Hiroshima, devastata - nel 1945 - da una Bomba Atomica USA poco prima della fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, è stata - anche ieri, 21/05 - teatro di manifestazioni di protesta e denuncia del bellicismo anti-Russo e, soprattutto, anti-Cinese del Vertice G7 🔥

🔺Proteste del 19/05 🇯🇵

🔺Ministero degli Affari Esteri della Repubblica Popolare Cinese risponde al bellicismo dei Paesi del G7 🇨🇳

⭐️ I manifestanti, con cartelloni e cori, hanno posto l'accento sull'ipocrisia dei Paesi del G7 di costituire una pericolosa alleanza militare fortemente avventurista nel nome della "libertà" e della "democrazia", le classiche giustificazioni degli imperialisti statunitensi e dei loro lacchè per l'interventismo sfrenato negli affari interni di Nazioni indipendenti 😡

🔺"Libertà", "Democrazia" e "Diritti Umani" sono giustificazioni per il rafforzamento dell'Egemonia USA nel Mondo 🇨🇳

🔺Wang Wenbin: "Mentre gli USA parlavano di "democrazia" e "diritti umani" al SFD, l'innocente Popolo Afghano, ucciso a colpi d'arma da fuoco dall'Esercito USA, è stato dimenticato" 🇨🇳

🕊 "No alla Guerra Nucleare", "No al Vertice Imperialista del G7", questi i principali messaggi di protesta al Vertice. Come per il 19/05, anche ieri giornalisti Cinesi di CCTV hanno intervistato alcuni manifestanti:

💬 "Non sono d'accordo con la Dichiarazione fatta dal Vertice. È solo nell'interesse di chi è al potere nei sette Paesi. Tale posizione porterà alla guerra" ⚔️

💬 "Gli USA intendono pianificare operazioni militari [contro la Cina] attraverso il Vertice. Ciò non ha senso per lo Sviluppo del Mondo e porterà alla guerra" ⚔️

💬 "Il Vertice del G7 è una conferenza di guerra. Ci opponiamo fermamente alle azioni militari degli USA. Il Giappone ha acquistato 400 Missili Tomahawk dagli USA e ha schierato missili nelle isole, [...] inclusa Okinawa" ⚔️

🤔 Teatro di Okinawa in un possibile scontro tra Cina e Giappone + USA:

一 Okinawa, possibile Teatro di Battaglia? ⚔️

🕊 Oltre ai manifestanti Giapponesi, anche attivisti stranieri anti-imperialisti si sono uniti alla protesta:

💬 "Sono Francese. Sono contrario a questo Vertice perché è un vertice di guerra, non per la Pace" 🕊

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⚠️ MORE PROTESTS AT THE G7 SUMMIT IN HIROSHIMA, THE ULTIMATE MEETING OF US IMPERIALISTS AND THEIR LACKERS ⚠️

🇯🇵 The City of Hiroshima, devastated - in 1945 - by a US Atomic Bomb shortly before the end of the Second World War, was - also yesterday, 21/05 - the scene of protest demonstrations and denunciations of anti-Russian warmongering and, above all, anti-Chinese of the G7 Summit 🔥

🔺 Protests of 19/05 🇯🇵

🔺Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China responds to the warmongering of the G7 countries 🇨🇳

⭐️ The demonstrators, with placards and chants, emphasized the hypocrisy of the G7 countries of forming a dangerous highly adventurist military alliance in the name of "freedom" and "democracy", the classic justifications of the US imperialists and their lackey for unbridled interventionism in the internal affairs of independent nations 😡

🔺"Freedom", "Democracy" and "Human Rights" are justifications for the strengthening of US Hegemony in the World 🇨🇳

🔺Wang Wenbin: "While the US talked about "democracy" and "human rights" at the SFD, the innocent Afghan people, shot dead by the US Army, were forgotten" 🇨🇳

🕊 "No to Nuclear War", "No to the Imperialist G7 Summit", these were the main protest messages at the Summit. As for 10/05, Chinese CCTV journalists interviewed some protesters yesterday:

💬 "I do not agree with the Declaration made by the Summit. It is only in the interest of those in power in the seven countries. Such a position will lead to war" ⚔️

💬 "The US intends to plan military operations [against China] through the Summit. This does not make sense for World Development and will lead to war" ⚔️

💬 "The G7 Summit is a war conference. We strongly oppose US military actions. Japan has purchased 400 Tomahawk Missiles from the US and has deployed missiles on islands, [...] including Okinawa" ⚔️

🤔 Okinawa theater in a possible clash between China and Japan + USA:

一 Okinawa, possible battlefield? ⚔️

🕊 In addition to the Japanese protesters, foreign anti-imperialist activists also joined the protest:

💬 "I'm French. I'm against this summit because it's a war summit, not for peace" 🕊

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[joyfulhopes]

To all those using your sadness at Finland losing to exclaim your unbridled misogyny against Loreen winning again, I hope you find ants in your pillows and more hypocrisy in your so-called tolerance and wokeness because fuck you and the fake mask you're wearing

[offwilds]

❛ what’s that smug look for? you think you can do any better? ❜ from umaia

The sorceress sits down, languidly stretching out her shapely, black-stockinged legs in front of her as magic thrums and flows around them. She tosses her head and her dark eyes blaze, a cold, unemotional, deep violet. She casts her gaze over at the younger mage, feeling a prickling of annoyance at her tone, at the assumption, the growing, dramatic accusations hurled her way from the very first day of their acquaintance, too banal for her. She sighs softly.

In truth, it's not Umaia that sets her teeth on edge; far from it. If anything, this daughter of Chaos brimming with primal, violent power, has been since first she saw her to the last, an everflowing source of intrigue to her— an intrigue she means to further unfold, and knowing that Aldric is rather fond of the lass too, makes her all the more, not dear to her, but something somehow akin to it. A thing of wild, unbridled Chaos, with teeth that gnash and gnaw at the world around them, bright and terrible, refusing to yield; fascinating. Nereinne likes her.

Since first thing that morning, though, everything has been spoiling her mood, making her irritable and angry, a cold, hard shard of ice: the cold, wet wind soaking the silks of her skirts as she had made her way to the Grove that morn; the black, scorched ruin of the Grove when she arrived, a reminder of everything they've been unable to salvage, all the death that lays dark and bloodless in their hands; the injustice of it all, the hollow, empty lies, the violent hypocrisy. She is irritated by the absence of Aldric, who had left before she woke up and she has neither seen nor heard from him since. She is worried about Fjandi, too, the long, dark road that lies ahead of them, now, full of devastating choices to be made, paths to be followed, steeped in darkness, in uncertainty. It wreathes itself, a heavy, cold thing, upon her shoulders, its weight, annihilating, unbearable.

And yet, she refuses to be overcome by such petty, pathetic emotions; she musters her self restraint with all the grace she can presently collect, and allowing a slow, languorous smile to drape itself over the curve of her mouth, she draws herself up into a simulacrum of her usual haughty self. 

“ yes. ” she asserts tartly, a slow shrug rolling off her delicate shoulders as she bestows her piercing gaze upon the lass.

@inkerlock

#& umaia #<3 #This....got too long idek.

[fantasyideas1]

quotes almat

The deadliest jokes of fate

The deadliest jokes of fate bring unceasing laughter of madness, the aria of laughter, the great opera about a fallen world, in a gift of naivete, and the gift is ticking like a bomb. I was holding back my laughter at the realization. You will be laughed to death, all the humor of fate. Fate is thinking where to shoot a pistol now, what you most value. Are you not funny? You just don't have a sense of humor. There will be so much shock awareness that you will choke with laughter while sitting in the electric chair of awareness. You will be cunning, you will stumble upon dirty jokes of black humor. Life is a deadly fun, fasten it up, fear is the adrenaline of hellish fun. Around you are clown hypocrisy, take popcorn and enjoy acting, clown show of selfishness, circus propaganda music. Billions laugh to tears and their souls scream. This is all a test, whether you go crazy or not, become like everyone else a hypocritical egoist and go to hell, or not. People are clowns from horror films, there are few people among them. And reincarnation is a repeating joke, an anecdote that you don't understand, and the comedy will continue until you understand the joke - it's a life lesson that you can't be a naughty, they burn in hell. If you feel conscience and guilt, then you are still human. A tense solo is played on you like a stringed instrument, and the string of the psyche breaks, and all other threads with reality will break. The only weapon is absolute fearlessness and unbridled laughter, you mock at those who want your suffering. You're in the world of selfish fools' day lasts a lifetime. You're alive because you haven't finished trolling yet. Sado maso karma, you continue to sin, is it not enough for you? More karma. You get pleasure from the pain of fate. You are full of deadly surprises of self-defense, like endless scarves and sleeves, you don’t believe in the tricks of creative lies, this is defocusing. Inflation is rising, and life will be even funnier and deadlier.

Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

#quotes

[grey-matter-musings]

Geminis Tres

the thing is I always feel lonely

even after a quiet evening of keeping mother company 

soothing each other with domesticity 

four hands working together 

two voices untangling the past, setting new eyes upon it

weaving memories 

missing a third set of twins

I feel abandoned after shutting the door 

I always feel lonely even when I’m thought of 

wanted

awaiting to be visited 

bringer of joy-it once was said

please

always think this of me, it brings me comfort to know 

I’m good and pure to someone

eternal child still...

can’t unravel my feelings

can’t be whole

if there isn’t a me 

it won’t feel lonely 

without reach

there is no rejection

i’m the twins split in two

double faced, a double crosser 

i’m callous, i’m considerate

i’m a burden, i’m of use

untethered in pain, unbridled in joy

Hermes whispered to me

you’re my favorite

winds me up and watches me go 

I’m him, spoiling my mother 

playing games with both my tongues 

earning affection through deception after scorn I’ve won

I’m nothing, I’m all of it 

Hermes kisses my temple lays me down on planet Mercury 

I swim wishing to be born of water and stay in it forever

My reason was not meant to be long of this world 

Pathos.... pathos 

The twins 

                 Choke 

                              Each other 

I am whole when I’m alone 

I stay lonely when they fight 

Hermes braids my hair delighting in the psychopathy

Makes me the torturer and the tortured 

Espiritu de contradicción, advocate of the Devil

Lover of Lucifer, Venus the morning star in her glory

cursed my bleeding heart to romanticism 

for I’m as cynical as I am gullible so Hermes lets it be so

Sometimes I excuse the hypocrisy

I’m not a snake, but an example

I blunt my own edges, replace distain with flattery 

not to ascend

but I have been hated 

and as I hate I see it is easier to be kind

It helps the world to feel less alone 

[simonalkenmayer]

Oh really? Me finally paying unbridled attention to the person who has been so desperate for it that he’s been wearing my name plus a death threat for five years, and whose entire purpose for being on tumblr is literally to harass me specifically is…bad? Making a joke that I’d rather this turn into a love story is too far? It’s harassment? Well shucks. Guess I better obey the rules. Oh pardon me, I’m afraid tumblr doesn’t care about rules. Go report me and find out.And how would he even know he was being spoken about if I not only don’t use his url, but…*gasp* he’s breaking the rules to even see my posts! Uncomfortable! I should worry about his comfort? Oh right, because I’m the one who is supposed to be the better person and follow the rules of conduct no matter what? Huh.

The “discourse” on my blog is, I was here studying something. I finished. I tried to be a positive influence while here. Someone decided what I was doing was HORRIBLE and called me antisemitic because I put my human organs into red lidded Tupperware. The list of logical fallacies applied to my writing and interaction here is long and ludicrous, including accusing me of advocating animal abuse because I jokingly asked someone if they were going to eat their pet turtle, because I’m always joking about eating turtles. The hypocrisy is without any self-analysis, and just as rampant as you please, a constant litany of do as I say and not as I do. So the “discourse” is, I’ve been victimized by someone for five years, and now that I no longer care about the self-imposed strictures on my behavior, you see my pushback as problematic too?

Awewww…pobrecito. You poor little dear. Cry me a river.

#of course i blocked them #would you like to know where this came from? #guess what #it came from Australia #14 pings from this device alone #in the last day since I mentioned how many pings I’d gotten before

[cosmicjoke]

Ugh, okay, chapter 81 of AoT, and I’m in the corner cryin’.

But seriously, what an emotionally powerful chapter this was.  God man, it’s gonna’ take me a minute to get my thoughts in order.

Well, first of all, Erwin, and all of the recruits, watching them sacrifice their lives here was just so absolutely, emotionally powerful.  Just incredibly moving and heartbreaking.  Even after Erwin gets hit and falls, (and the panels here of him dying are truly devastating, powerful images) to see the recruits continuing to charge forward, to carry on in his stead, it really is just so intense, and as well speaks to Erwin’s own power as a commander, how he was able to inspire these people into giving their lives for a greater cause.  To see their courage in the face of certain death, carrying on Erwin’s spirt here, it truly was one of the most moving, and also one of the most heart-wrenching moments in SnK up to this point.  I felt so much for all of them.  The way Marlowe thought of Hitch too, in the end, never realizing it was because he was in love with her, ugh, my heart.

Now contrasting that, and I swear to Christ, I really, REALLY don’t understand how anyone can sympathize with Zeke given the sick display he puts on here, his cruelty and ego-driven rage towards these young men and women, and how he lets his rage towards his father fuel his violence towards these innocent people just... it pisses me off so much.  I can’t even.  I mean, Zeke is one twisted, sick mother fucker.  He’s demented, truly, the way he swings wildly between violent rage and perverse glee as he kills them, and then has the unmitigated gall to act like he feels sorry for these people, how clearly he thinks of them as pitiful and pathetic, their sacrifice as meaningless.  He treats them like their lives are pointless, and then has the nerve to play at sympathy for their plight.  What pisses me off the most about Zeke is how utterly self-centered he is.  How everything he does, everything he thinks, is filtered through his own view of the world and life, and how he never once stops to consider the lives of others, their own views or experiences.  Because he’s deemed his own life as worthless and without point, so too has he deemed the lives of every other Eldian.  He’s far and away the most self-centered, ego-driven and selfish character in the whole series.  Oh, he just made me sick here.  His own hypocrisy is equally disgusting, with how angry he becomes when Levi dares to make him pay for what he’s done.  As if he can’t believe anyone would dare cause him harm, unable to comprehend why they would even wish to do so, as if he’s some great, godly figure sent to the world to bestow his twisted sense of mercy on those he deems unfit to live.  Just the whining, hysterical reaction he has to getting fucked up. The ego on this guy is seemingly infinite.  He truly is despicable.  Just a pathetic child of a man taking out his issues on everyone but himself, throwing temper tantrums when anyone dares to challenge him on what he’s decided is right.  Fuck Zeke.  Seriously, just... fuck this guy so much.

Now, enough about him, let’s talk about Levi.

Truly, some of the most heartbreaking moments we’ve seen with Levi up to this point happen in this chapter.   The moments following him taking Zeke down (and yes, that whole sequence was epically bad-ass), just seeing the depth of Levi’s pain here was so devastating, and incredibly moving.  You can see how preoccupied he is with what’s happened.  Zeke isn’t even his main consideration or concern.  He seems almost distracted, looking back behind him, out over the field of his fallen comrades and friends, and wondering in an almost frantic, inner monologue to himself if anyone out there is still alive.  He’s hoping beyond hope that someone, ANYONE, is, so that he can save at least one person.  This goes back to Levi’s determination to keep the new recruits alive back in I think chapter 78 or 79, ordering them not to die, and then trying desperately to get those with the horses back on the other side of the wall.  It really puts into perspective just how devastating this is for Levi, to see all of these people, dead, crushed to death by rocks, all of these people who just a short while ago he had been doing everything he could to protect.  To know they had to die to save only a few.  HIs desperation here, the way he clings to the hope that at least one person is still alive, out of all of them, to be saved, the way he reminds himself that as long as they’re breathing, it can be done, if he gives them the serum, it all just drives home in the most poignant way just how pained Levi is at the sacrifice they’ve all made.  It drives home how much it’s cost Levi, to allow them to do it.  I said before that him making that choice for Erwin was Levi going against every, innate feeling and instinct that he has, the need to protect and save people.  Levi had to go directly against his own nature in order to make that call, and the consequences of that are plain to see in these panels.  His wide eyed, shocked expression, the frantic, mantra-like thoughts going through his mind, almost childlike in the way he keeps asking if anyone is still alive out there, if there’s anyone he can bring back.  And the way he thinks of Erwin specifically when he asks that, it serves as such a cruel reminder that Levi’s just given up one of his dearest and closest friends.  That he’s just willingly lost a person that meant so much to him, in order to obtain any sort of victory for humanity.   It reminds us of the personal cost to Levi.  Another person he’s lost in this battle for humanity’s salvation.  Ah, he just breaks my heart so much here.  And also how it’s that hope, that desperate wish that someone is still able to be saved, that stays Levi’s hand from killing Zeke immediately.  How it’s purely Levi’s wish to save someone that keeps him from killing Zeke then and there, it truly speaks volumes about what kind of person Levi really is, about how much he values life.  

And then of course there’s Levi’s reaction when Pieke catches him off guard and steals Zeke away.  Levi’s stunned horror, as he watches Zeke escaping is, for one, I think, because his chance to save even one life is being taken away, there before his eyes, and, of course, because the purpose behind all of his comrades sacrifices, the reason they gave up their lives, in order for Levi to kill Zeke and provide those left a means of escape, is being rendered meaningless.  We then see Levi’s stunned horror turn to unbridled rage, as he realizes the promise he’d made to Erwin is slipping from his hands.  He can’t allow for all of these people to have died in vain, he can’t let their sacrifices mean nothing, he can’t let that stand.  Once again, the depth with which Levi values the lives of other people is truly incredible, and the emotion in these panels is perhaps the most powerful example of that quality in Levi up to this point in the story.  I just felt so much for him all throughout this.  

When you think about what Levi’s been through here, too, how before he even went after the Beast Titan, he’d already run himself ragged taking down some unknown number of smaller Titans to protect the horses and the new recruits, and then in order to get to Zeke, he had to take down probably a dozen or more 12 or 15 meter Titans, before finally taking the Beast Titan down, all this by himself, it displays the strength of Levi’s will so powerfully, how much of himself he’s willing to give in order to further the cause of others.  For him to then continue to go after Zeke, after all of that, just the way he never gives up, never stops fighting, exemplifies how wholly Levi truly embodies the ideal of the Survey Corps, and the fight for humanity.  What an absolute hero he is.

#attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #Levi Ackerman #Erwin Smith #zeke yaeger #meta #snk 81 #thoughts