#Anti-imperalism

[ottogatto]

I would like to submit two ideas because I think I'm poking something but not going in fully, so I would very much like your opinions and additions about it (of course, as long as they remain in good faith *side eyes possible antis viewing my post*).

Marauders and surface-level rebellion

I've finally put to words something that really bothered me with the Marauders, though I don't know the name for it.

It started when I read a reblog that said:

I remember Brennan saying “laws are just structured threats made by the ruling socioeconomic class” during an episode of D20 and we truly just had to stan immediately

This is something dear privileged white woman Rowling didn't realize/understand well, since she held a high socioeconomical status even during her """poverty""" stage. It's known that, despite seeming to be defending ideas of fighting against fascism and "pureblood" supremacy in favor of acceptance of the other, her books reek of colonialism/imperalism. The story of the Marauders, a gang of privileged boys like her, is an in-world replica of that problem where Rowling betrays yet again her actual mindset.

The Marauders adopt the "bad boys who break rules" to get style, while completely losing/staining the moral sense in it.

Let's take piracy.

Some people pirate stuff because they consider that the stuff they'd like to get comes from unethical companies that abuse their employees or use modern slavery, or people who spread harm against certain minorities (like Rowling against trans people and thus the LGBT+ community), so while they may want to access the content, they don't want to give them money and might even encourage pirating their stuff to make them lose money.

Some pirate stuff because otherwise it's lost due to unfortunate "terms of use" -- see video games companies like Ubisoft (deletes gaming account after a while), Nintendo (does not bring back old games), etc.

Others pirate stuff because they just don't have the money but they still want to try the stuff that might make them happy and forget that they're poor -- reasoning that the company isn't losing any money anyway, or not much, since they wouldn't have been able to pay for it in any case.

Others pirate stuff because they consider the price ridiculously high or they consider it shouldn't be something to pay for at all. (Like education stuff -- isn't education supposed to be free for all, so that it can actually uphold everyone's fundamental and unconditional ( = not conditioned by wealth...) right to have an education? Oh and before anyone asks: I've DEFINITELY bought the ~15 expensive books that's roughly worth 500€ in total and that my uni asked I buy to study and get my degree...)

Rowling's Marauders is a group that would pirate stuff just because they'd think it would give them an edge, because they'd think it would make them cool to be seen as "talented" hackers who "defy" companies. Companies... that their own friends and families would own, and as such, would find that kind of behavior funny and entertaining (while they would trash other people around for considering it).

Another example. In society, in history, it's been proven time and again that breaking rules -- going against the law -- is an eventuality that's important for everyone to consider, if they want to defend their rights. Anti-racism, feminism, LGBT Pride, etc, advanced because people broke rules. In USA states where abortion is currently being banned, women and minors (+ their close ones) must now consider breaking the rules to get an abortion. (Privileged people don't give a fuck about those people, and if they suddenly decide that (moral) rules don't apply to them and they will get an abortion, they will just take a plane ticket to a country where abortion is legal, fiddling with legal stuff if necessary thanks to the lawyers their fortunes can afford and the lobbies that they're instituting.)

Revolutions happened because people broke rules too. I particularly like the 1793 Constitution in France Because it asserts that the people have the right to break rules and riot if the power in place threatens their fundamental rights:

Article 35. - Quand le gouvernement viole les droits du peuple, l'insurrection est, pour le peuple et pour chaque portion du peuple, le plus sacré des droits et le plus indispensable des devoirs. Article 35. - When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most essential of duties.

(Of course the power in place would state and enforce and make use of propaganda to say that it's completely illegal and illegetimate and that those who riot for legitimate rights are terrorists!)

Breaking rules is at the core of anti-fascism, anti-dictatorship, anti-totalitarianism. Breaking rules is essential when those rules are abusive. Too often, those who put those rules in place really are only setting their rules of the game to establish their power over the others. Or as the reblog says: "laws are just structured threats made by the ruling socioeconomic class".

Rowling's Marauders break rules because they are the socioeconomical class in power. As such, no one can do anything about it, no one will really tell them down for it. They get excused and justified and romanticized by their peers, just like billionaires & politicians are excused by their peers and notably mainstream media (which is owned... by other billionaires). They break rules -- not because they think it's necessary and the morally right thing to do despite the dangers it puts them in -- but because it makes them feel powerful, important, invincible, which for them is very fun. As Snape says: James and his cronies broke rules because they thought themselves above them:

“Your father didn’t set much store by rules either,” Snape went on, pressing his advantage, his thin face full of malice. “Rules were for lesser mortals, not Quidditch Cup-winners. [...]”

They break rules because they're allowed to.

Which is why, in reality, the Marauders aren't really breaking rules or defying anything or opposing an actual big threat. They're a bunch of jocks who are having fun in the playground that's been attributed to them thanks to their status and family heritage (others wouldn't get the same indulgence because they don't get that privilege).

They break rules because they want to look cool, to be the "bad boys". The message has been compleyely botched. Especially with Lily actually finding this hot.

Because Rowling finds this hot:

[...] I shook hands with a woman who leaned forward and whispered conspiratorially, 'Sirius Black is sexy, right?' And yes, of course she was right, as the Immeritus club know. The best-looking, most rebellious, most dangerous of the four marauders... and to answer one burning question on the discussion boards, his eyes are grey.

(Anyone has an eyes washing station?)

Another quote:

"Sirius was too busy being a big rebel to get married."

(Nevermind the eyes washing, anyone's got some bleach instead?)

Stanning James Potter for being the leader of a gang that prides itself on breaking rules and always getting away with it -- it feels like stanning Elon Musk for being "innovative" and "a daring entrepreneur" despite being a manchild who exploits workers and modern-world slavery to play with his billions while always getting away with it.

They're not being "rebels" -- they're being bullies and flexing the fact they can get away with it thanks to abundance of privilege. Those are the tastes of a posh British white woman. She wanted the facade -- not the substance (that is, if she ever understood it).

You might say that they did oppose a big threat, the Death Eaters, but again, it's botched because:

they target a lonely, unpopular boy who's best friends with a Muggleborn Gryffindor, rather than baby Death Eaters like Mulciber, Lucius, Rosier, Avery, Regulus, etc.

The leader sexually harasses the Muggleborn Gryffindor because he's sexually jealous of the unpopular boy who dared not take the insult about his chosen House and shut up. Lily is treated as an object, they don't listen to her, and they barely speak about her later. (Lots to say to show that, which I won't do here because this is not the main subject.)

When the Marauders do join the Order, they do it... because they primarily want to adopt a rock-n-roll style and play the "bad boys" again. Or at least that's the message that's given to the reader:

They seemed to be in their late teens. The one who had been driving had long black hair; his insolent good looks reminded Fisher unpleasantly of his daughter's guitar-playing, layabout boyfriend. The second boy also had black hair, though his was short and stuck up in all directions; he wore glasses and a broad grin. Both were dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird; the emblem, no doubt, of some deafening, tuneless rock band.

(God, the Prequel is so cringy.)

They don't choose Dumbledore as the Secret Keeper, they don't tell him they changed to Pettigrew -- even though he literally was their war leader -- James uses the Cape to fuck around even though he was supposed to be hiding with Lily and then Harry (until Dumbledore takes the Cape from him)... and eventually, their group exploded, with James killed off, Sirius thrown to Azkaban, Peter (the traitor) hiding as a rat and Lupin going off to find jobs to survive.

Why did that happen? Because they thought of playing their part in the Order like going on a teenage adventure rather than engaging in a resistance organization. It was, first and foremost, about playing "the bad boys" and having fun.

(Harry half-inherits this. While he doesn't break rules just to look cool, and actually has several moments where he does break rules because it's the right thing to do -- like under Umbridge or, of course, when Voldemort takes power -- he does often get pampered when he breaks them in his earlier years. By Dumbledore, but also McGonagall, however much Rowling tries to sell her as a "strict but fair" teacher. Or by Slughorn, now that I think about it. That's something that enraged Snape, as it brought up memories of Harry's father -- Snape's own bully -- getting the same treatment.)

It's not a coincidence that Rowling not only failed to properly convey through the Marauders the true value of breaking rules, but also lusted over them for adopting that "bad boys" trope. It speaks to her own privilege -- she who never had to put herself in danger and go against the law in a risky attempt to protect herself or other less privileged people.

(Here's a useful read to expand on those worldbuilding issues.)

2. Dark Magic, obscurantism and conservatism

For context: Opinion: The Dark Magic/Light Magic Dichotomy is Nonsense (by pet_genius).

The idea of "Dark Magic" as something that's repeatedly told to be "evil" magic and where you cross the line of the forbidden, while hardly putting in question that notion that was (for some reason) enforced by wizard society, is another blatant example of Rowling betraying her mindset of privileged British white woman.

Rowling couldn't put herself in the minds of a society of "outcasts (witches & wizards) deeply enough to consider they would not see any magic as "Dark" at all (being a ""Muggle"" concept), or that Dark magic is only magic that requires something unvaluable to be traded off -- like one's soul or health or life or sanity. Instead, she has Dark Magic defined as "evil" magic, even though her own books show that you can do evil stuff with normal magic, and that you can do morally good stuff with Dark magic. This thing happened because Rowling could not think past her own little world and instead she poured a conservatist mentality (+ typical "Muggle", anti-witch prejudice) into the HP (wizard society) worldbuilding without considering that there could, in fact, be fundamental differences between the two worlds that include thinking of magic differently. (This has a lot to do with Rowling's wizard world being a pro-imperalism fest.)

"Dark Magic" feels like a lazy, badly-executed plot device to tell the reader who's a good guy and who is not. Because of course, that's how things work in real-life, huh… (Did she ever hear of "don't tell, show"?) It's used as an excuse to define who's evil (teen Severus) or not (James), who's worthy or not -- not how their magic was used. Which is a BIG problem:

“I’m just trying to show you they’re not as wonderful as everyone seems to think they are.” The intensity of his gaze made her blush. “They don’t use Dark Magic, though.” / “Scourgify!” Pink soap bubbles streamed from Snape’s mouth at once; the froth was covering his lips, making him gag, choking him —

Even worse, Rowling doesn't follow her own in-world moral framework. Dark magic is acceptable for some people (Rowling's partial self-inserts: Dumbledore, Harry, Hermione to Marietta...) but not for those that Rowling hates (Snape, who ironically represents the closest thing to rebelling by unapologetically obsessing over the Dark Arts). Again, this is at best unadressed in-world hypocrisy, at worst an expression of in-world and out-universe privilege (I get to do this and stay a good guy, but you don't).

There could have easily been rightful criticism of whatever could be defined as "Dark Magic". What if Dark magic was just something defined as "Dark" usually because the power in place doesn't want the people to touch it? Is abortion or contraception or a sex-altering or a goverment-threatening spell, Dark Magic? Is foreign or ethnicity-specific or female-centered or queer-centered magic, "Dark"? How about showing why (Muggle-raised but also neurodivergent) Severus thought Dark magic was so great, showing his point of view, while also establishing where the true limits are? If Lily can't be the one who sees past the "fear-mongering anti-intellectualism/propaganda", how about Harry being the one who does, thanks to him relating to Snape on a personal level? How about making Hermione go from someone who condems Dark Magic, to someone who entirely changes her point of view and understands that this is all bullshit -- effectively showing the dangers of only following what the books say, without putting them into question or thinking by yourself? How about a nuanced view of Dark magic as something that requires a significant sacrifice, which is conceivable for something they see as equally or even more important [Lily's life for Harry; Snape's soul integrity for Dumbledore]? How about making the Death Eaters, people who deviate that legitimate interest, rather than just evil guys who thrive in Dark magic for its supposed added evilness? How about showing that Dark magic was just a notion invented by Muggles to throw "witches" (real or not) to the burning stakes -- later taken by the witches and wizards in power to define, in the magical community, what was okay or definitely forbidden because it's the trademark of those who represent a threat to the magical community (understand: people who riot or strike or protest against the ruling socioeconomical class' politics)?

But there was none of that.

"Dark" magic in HP merely seems to be a weird concept that at best accidentally takes the form of an in-world obscurantism, at worst is just the trademark of someone who cannot imagine a "hunted, ostracized" community with a different culture and mindset than her own. Aggravating is the fact that she used "Dark magic" as a plot device to magically cast some people as good and others as never bad – again, probably reflecting her own questionable mentality.

The fact Rowlnig invented the notion of Dark Magic and had her world consider it seriously as an evil thing instead of being open-minded seems to be less telling of her wishes to show a wizard society that can be as prejudiced as the muggle one, and more of her own bizarre world where you must be evil if you are knowledgeable in or interested in certain "taboo" things (RIP neurodivergents).

Rowling glorifies the Trio and the Marauders for breaking rules. Yet when it comes to actually breaking expectations and norms, notably in the wizarding society -- like the use of another magical species as slaves, or the blatant anti-Muggle prejudice held by everyone including "good guys" (or anti-centaur while we're at it), or stupid anti-knowledge prejudice like "Dark magic is evil" -- there is none of that. At best, it's surface-level opposition that comes out as white savior syndrome. At worst, the protagonists make it their noble code to enforce those norms, and "sinful" characters (Snape, for one) are punished for not conforming. Too often, those sinful characters are punished by the "good guys" with the very thing that they apparently oppose so fervently.

Without ever adressing the fact that those characters were ("morally") allowed to do that because it was just, in the end, a matter of who gets the privilege to do that, and who does not.

There.

Do you have anything to say to develop on those ideas? I feel like I'm reaching my knowledge limit and I'd like to see if those ideas can be expanded.

#pro snape #severus snape #harry potter #dark magic #sectumsempra #anti marauders #anti jkr #fuck jkr #classism #imperalism #colonialism #hp #hp books #hp prequel #obscurantism #bad boys #piracy #virtue signaling

[coarsely]

Personality through quotes tag

Many thanks to @spideronthesun for tagging me!

The rules of this game seem to be to write in character quotes about a prompt given to you by the previous tagger!

My prompt was: A quote about hopes for the future

Your prompt is: A quote about non-romantic intimacy (friends, family, etc)

The Potentate Magnus: "My future is unending, unyielding. There is nothing the future could bring to me that I have not already done, that I have not already bared witness to, that I have not grasped and succeeded at. I hear them, whispered hushes, thinking me too senile to hear–that I am old, and my reign must reach its end soon. I am here to assure you–I am going nowhere. I am not only your past, and your present, I am your future too, and it is through me we shall enter the glory of the Empyre together, as the Prophet did so many eons ago."

Imperator III: "I am an Imperator. Ours is not the place to dream, to hope and to wonder. Ours is the place to swiftly carry out justice, to liberate the souls of the wicked, to spread the gospel of It's Purity, to cleanse this mortal world of sin. My only dream and hope is what the Priests of Eden dream and hope for, what the God-King dreams and hopes for."

Sylvester Praeceptor: "It's a strange thing. I fought every day to get a little closer to getting back to where we used to be, but now that we are here, I find myself at a loss. Such a driving force it was, that without it I am oddly lonesome. I suppose if we are in the same place every year, with wealth and social standing, I will be happy. All in the family, as they say."

Vítor Cadogan: "Oh, call me naïve or simple if you'd like, but I just want the world to be a slightly better place every morning when I wake up. I don't need any grand ovations, or proclamations of world peace, or a signed apology from every man and woman in Bronze Eden, I just reckon if we could all try a little harder to do good every day, it'll have an impact on the way we live, too. I suppose at the end of the day that's what I've always believed in... guess I'm just going about it slightly different now."

Saccade: "Not a lotta time to be dreamin' and thinkin' about the future out here. You gotta take it one day at a time, slowly. Wonderin' about what-ifs and getting too upset at the way your life has turned out is a sure-fire way to wind up dead, or worse. And shit, that's what some people want, but me? I've been kickin' around too long to give up now. My only wish is to go out fightin', rather than turning on my belly n' giving up."

Diana: "Oh, darling, I am the future. Don't let the cover fool your clever eyes–every bit of culture in this wonderful place we call Nod can be traced back to yours truly. What have I to hope for? I've already succeeded. Been there, done that! The only thing I could ever hope for is for our wonderful, brave, immortal freedom fighters to take a little better care of what I've designed for them! I might be a miracle worker, but stains out of lace? Even I have my limits."

Ucalegon: "I wish for what every Wanderer of Nod wishes for; justice from the tyranny of our neighbour. To liberate ourselves from their presence on our borders, their influence in our lives. To avenge our dead, the many innocents lost to the Baptism. No matter what it takes, I will see this dream realised, or I will die in the fight to make it real. Dreams are all we have left."

I tag @noblebs, @albatris, @revenantlore, @ink-flavored, @xenascribbles, @digital-chance, @chauceryfairytales and as always, anyone who is interested in doing one of these!

#tag games #potentate magnus #imperator iii #sylvester praeceptor #vítor cadogan #saccade #diana #ucalegon #anti-chronicles

[uncanny-tranny]

The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #trans meme #transphobia #transphobia tw #it is imperative that trans people and other margionalized peoples learn to id fascists #anti fascism #described images #image description in alt

[nb-amourous]

But Binarism is specifically for the western gender binary being forced onto culture with more than two genders. it's the intersection of racism and exorsexism. the whole AGAB or tma tme binary is not a good example of binarism specifically. It makes sense people would flock to the word binarism because it's intuitive, but we've asked people to say exorsexism when they mean exorsexism, i.e. when it's not specific to Enben of Color. it muddies the definition of binarism and makes us even less visible. you're right that binarism doesn't have much visibility because the nonbinary community is very white. but I'm not sure we're using the same meaning of binarism even. Since (apparently) white enben are also harmed by the AGAB binary or other binaries, it would just be exorsexism and not binarism specifically.

We've asked people? When did we ask about that? (thats a genuine question btw. I haven't seen any talk on or offline with my other EOC mates or on here or Reddit. I'm not active on Twitter.) I'm an enban of colour myself (Black Nigerian, second-gen English immigrant) and I've observed and experienced gender binarism and other forms of exorsexism. Even under the specifically not binary cultures definition, I am very against that too, naturally. So i still dont exactly see the issue of it being in my title as I am staunchly against colonialism, neo-colonialism, and the after effects of the gender binary on those who are white and who have genders not connected to our native cultures.

Ofc, us POC should be at the forefront of this conversation, and i feel like as a black enban myself, I am helping that. But you cannot deny the aftershock it had on underground non binary cultures at the time, and the effect is is having now. White enben are definitely affected by this stuff, as seen by the conversation on this site, but i definitely think it is very important and worthwhile to talk about the erasure of POC cultures due to the enforcement of the gender binary by the white west and how it affects EOC in the modern day. If you can send me any extra resources about that I would be glad to make a post about it. (Ive been dying to see if there are any Yoruba or Edo genders/cultural roles similar to genders, but i can't seem to find any. Maybe you could be the key!)

Idk id you are the same as the other anon but this tone is far more informative and I appreciate you telling me about our terminology as enben of colour.

#binarism #anti binarism #exorsexism #anti exorsexism #anti imperalism #anti colonisation #anti colonialism #black enban #black enby #nboc #eoc #nonbinary people of colour #definitions and terminology #asks #own post

[sweatandwoe]

I’m really hoping they don’t replace Copia. A new papa would be cool in some ways but it’d be like losing Terzo again

I really don't think Copia is dying, but getting anti-christ form with how much stuff has been hinting at it. Also because Tobias is a huge Omen fan and Copia has, almost all the same signs as the anti-christ kid in that movie (same symbol in his stage artwork, and riding around on a red/white tricycle are big ones)

Also still Nihil's kid in my mind, even as the anti-christ. Sort of more like 'we're already having a kid, please select them' but that's also because I've got way too many thoughts on this that don't go into any canon worldbuilding but shit I made up (but it's in the tags a lil)

#angels probably don't have genitals and Lucifer can probably have sex but he probably also doesn't have a dick #its Lucifer's unholy spirit or some shit cause God also didn't fuck Mary and Imperator isn't giving signs of like immaculate conception #it's pretty canon that she was rolling in the hay with Nihil #Lets Copia then be selected By Lucifer because angry at Nihil and wants to focus on taking him down #born then with the satan anti-christ mark #badabing badaboom #this is all in my like fanfic brain though and def not canon #sweaty asks #ghost band

[7crowsinadress]

thinking about nihil being so obsessed and in love with imperator that he loses focus on the mission of the church because she is more important to him than satans will

#gogoat is anti-old people propaganda they are in love #ghost posts #papa nihil #sister imperator

[carpathxanridge]

some of u guys r just going full mask off zionist huh

#to repost such a blatantly propagandistic video of an idf soldier who literally says ‘we didnt start this war #‘but we are going to finish it we are going to DESTROY hamas’ #yeah with innocent civilians and children as collateral #totally normal tone to take and not at all fervent warmongering #to say that people have to have a complete understanding of the history of the region in order to have an opinion is also just evil #silence is the same as support when it is OUR government providing military aid to israel #israel is the party benefitting from western ignorance and they want to keep it that way they are unhappy americans are waking up #and that they are now losing the propaganda campaign #and idf soldiers like the one in that video posting to social media and using goofy ass identity politics language are part #of their efforts to reverse the tide #so i will say it is imperative for people to take an absolute stance against war crimes and against genocide #even if they don’t have an understanding of the geopolitical issues this is a basic moral stance #and yall will just continue to both-sides the issue insist that anyone who is anti-zionist must be ignorant and/or antisemitic #regardless of how educated we are on the issue…. #so i’m done #and then the same zionist radfems will be like ‘everyone unfollowing and blocking me is proof that radblr is antisemitic’

[aximili]

everyone being shocked at all the poll results about partying/clubbing/having sex is so funny like what fucking website do you think you're asking these questions on

#and theres no moral imperative/binary btw #spent so long being anti clubbing/house parties and i do not do either regularly at all. but when theyre fun theyre rly fun! #but the impulse some people have on here to imitate their high school bullies is sad to see.

[macro-microcosm]

Your sanctimony helps victims of genocide equally as much as fandom posting.

#“your yaoi will still be here tomorrow so it is morally imperative that you supplant your entire feed with I/P updates” #“taking a break from the constant deluge of news about how global superpowers who oppress you are now backing a genocide of your siblings #makes you weak because people are dying. look at the videos of people dying you selfish bitch. you want to help people don't you? #this is your moral imperative.“ #and most recently: “if you give money to this nonprofit i don't like you're a bad person” #like even I think that donating to aooo at this point is a waste of money but c'mon. #let's not pretend that you only feel this way because you care so much about gazans #anyway people as individuals have very little power to affect anything #if we all do what we can then that collective will have more of a positive impact #than whatever negative impact is caused by you closing tumblr for the day #this is not to say that you should do nothing at all. this is NOT an anti-do things post. #but there isn't much more use to you burning yourself out with worry than there is to sanctimony or fandom posting #write to your senator. donate to the orgs in the pinned. take part in a protest if you're able. #but if you can't do these things rest assured that many many others are #lolwut.txt

[copiasass]

the frustrating thing about rosemarys baby is it ends at the best part i want to watch her love on her anti-christ baby i want more of that

#pretends the band ghost kinda tells that story in a way #i have this fanfic where sister imperator keeps and raises copia who is the anti christ #i like that story

[greensaplinggrace]

antis really be like: the enemies? in this lovers-to-enemies relationship? is full of the characters hurting each other while they’re enemies? 🤔 abuse

Can we really blame antis when in most cases it’s the writers and/or cast members who cannot tell the damn difference between animosity and abuse? That’s the reason why antis repeat the same rhetoric in every fandom where there is an enemies-to-lovers ship. If there was one piece of English-language media where someone in an official capacity understood and defended what enemies-to-lovers actually meant, we wouldn’t be in this predicament.

What a grand and intoxicating innocence! How could you be so naïve? There is no escape. No recall or intervention can work in this place. Come, lay down your weapons; it is not too late for my mercy.

#what a fool you are 😔 #myramblings #asks and answers #anon #also nonny is really out here like how can i say i've never read more than five books without saying ive never read more than five books? #tragic #also lets address the biggest issue here: the fact that antis are so fond of proselytizing #and think it's their moral imperative to intervene #the assumption that you actually know what these people are thinking and that you have any say in the matter anyways #crazy #'the reason why antis repeat the same rhetoric' #you phrase it like its a mission statement #stop treating media and literature like it's your duty to make it puritanical #fandomcourse #shadow and bone

[vithcy]

I watched the sea beast and I was not expecting to see a little girl call out the monarchy right to their faces but boy was that pleasing

#maisie is so gooood i adore her #9/10 would watch again #stfu vithcy #'they died YOUR great death' #'because of your greed' #GIRL. SAY THAT #i love anti imperealism in media so much

[kazoo-the-demjin]

Anti Honesty. What’s your favourite thing about aftg?

Oh my God. Ohhhhh my Gods what's this. I actually don't like aftg at all psst what a fucking loser whoever says it's an amazing series.

My favourite thing in the book anyway is how Andrew is tortured. And misunderstood. Like yeah bitch deserves it like fighting 4 grown ass homophobic men for attacking his gay cousin? pfft who does that.

Along with the plotholes. They bother me so much I pay them a lot of attention <3

#DO you KNOW #HOW MUCH #writing THAT #fucking HURT #PHYSICALLY #Lyra honestly though that was crazy damn oily #*ily #not oily #aftg #tay.aftg #anti honesty #tagging that is imperative now #asks #lyra chats

[coulsonlives]

I'm watching this video, and I just saw a really good observation that went:

'People go to (x radical community) to get upset. Every emotion is converted into anger.. because sadness, fear, and despair are paralyzing, but anger is motivating! Whatever someone's problems are, there's always someone they can scapegoat for them, a person feels less helpless when they're pissed off. And while that person is hopping up on reassuring nonsense, they're also topping up on stress. And since they're cut off from the people they used to associate with, which happened because of their radicalization, the only place they can go to release that stress is back to the place that gives this stress to him.

It's a feedback loop

#anti censorship #censorship #fandom #radicalization #psychology #why fanpol are so angry all the time and sniffing around for scapegoats basically #another good one is 'radical groups rely on someone to adapt their beliefs to fit a group that meets a need' #which explains how so many fanpols are lgbt because they already feel marginalized and want to get angry and need a scapegoat #and as soon as they see a group that looks like it'll accept them and feed their anger they'll slowly adopt those beliefs over time #and oml is the fanpol movement scary levels of accessible here #and then: 'from any other perspective (outside the cult) harassing someone is something you might feel ashamed of' #'the thing that keeps people in cults is staving off the guilt they would reckon with as soon as they stepped out' #'which creates a psychological imperative not to consider other perspectives' #'cult members know that the things they do to others (outside the cult) could easily be done to them as soon as they step out of it' #'they live under constant threat of being called out if they step out of line' #whole video is amazing tbh #innuendo studios #cults #cult cw

[gaylenin]

stuff like 'pinkwashing', and the laser focus on hamas and the narrative of palestinian resistance being regressive is very imperative to liberal zionism btw. we see this a lot in how western powers will portray foreign countries that they want to manufacture consent to seize/invade - that the indigenous population are despotic and far-right

it's an evolution of the white savior civilization narrative most seen with the british empire, but this one wins over more 'left-leaning' and liberal minds who want to support the 'progressive' cause. and its a tactic that makes anti-imperialism out to be something regressive. dont fall for it

#sorry here's another post where i use 300 words to say my thoughts abt smth that could be summed up in 10 #my post

[goyangii]

it's not real lol. i've never not been offered food in sweden. the internet has just decided that this is the new thing i think.

interesting, ty for weighing in! i had another anon say the same thing. i'm not even going to pretend i have any insight into swedish or nordic culture (the literal closest i have ever gotten is when i go to fkn ikea lmao). but yeah it does seem like the new "it" thing to meme about until whatever the next thing is U_U

#ask #also the irony of americans trying to dunk on sweden (esp for racism) is fucking hilarious #i know the 'cincher' of the thing is that sweden is known to be a really progressive place etc etc so it's like doubly hypocritical or w/e #but rn in america we're seeing shootings over a dozen per week. multiple deaths and injuries. police brutality on the reg #like.......ive been seeing ppl go 'omg sweden is so racist uwu' and it's like babe EVERYWHERE is #i truly don't think ppl realize how racist even places they may not assume to be are #like in jp there are literal propagandas against koreans #if u wanna know about anti-kr sentiment in jp just look at issues like dokdo. or jp imperalism and colonization of kr and other countries #but you'd NEVER see ppl on mainstream english twt/tumblr criticize jp for this #meanwhile some dude on reddit says swedes don't give food to guests and the internet goes insane trying to shit on sweden?? bruh? #if it's true it's fucked up. but i genuinely don't trust some dude on reddit to tell the truth #so ig i feel vindicated in taking that post w/ a massive chunk of salt #sry to rant omg T_T it's 3am and im angy bc havent eaten much yet. but yeah.