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that-stone-butch · 2 years

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im sorry do you actually believe misandry is a thing?

it is my opinion as an intersectional feminist that misandry does not exist in the form of a genuine axis of oppression under cisheteropatriarchal white supremacy, no. misandry does not exist in the same fashion that misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, or etc. exist.

however, 'misandry' does exist in the form of a network of behavior that mocks men in a manner that boils down the behavior of men in general to biological/sociological gender essentialism, and ultimately undermines intersectional feminism. misandry, by this definition, exists as a system of beliefs that drastically oversimplify men and those often perceived as men, and the issues they face.

many people are comfortable mistreating men under the guise of feminism, of mocking men and people they perceive as men in ways that completely contradict their body positivity or any other beliefs that are applied to the 'good' or 'more oppressed' genders.

for example, Betty the 'feminist' sees someone who's walking down the street who she thinks is a man. she sees that he has a patchy beard and is wearing unfashionable clothes, and is out of shape. betty laughs at how little men have to try in order to be accepted in society, she mocks his appearance to her friend. betty's friend points out that the stranger might not be a man based on their appearance, that that person may be closeted trans, or may be nonbinary, or any other non-man identities. betty, remembering the rules of feminism, considering the stranger might not be a man, walks back her remarks and says that the stranger can look however they want.

it is crucial to acknowledge first and foremost that this kind of mockery is bad because it can and often is displaced onto people who aren't men; people who are the victim of cisheteropatriarchal society. but it is, by the same token, not okay to treat a man like that either. men are still people, and basic mockery isn't helping anyone.

it's like pop-cultural feminism has decided that men, (or people wrongly seen as men, that's a whole other can of worms) are some sort of category of people that concepts like respect, body positivity, and other general feminist principles don't apply to. because men are the bad guys. i can't think of anything less intersectional than this behavior.

to say nothing of how the (mis)identification of men as a blanket oppressor class (and thus open season for ridicule and mistreatment) completely disregards any sort of class consciousness or understanding of the effect racism has on like, a fuckload of men.

it is important, if not one of the prime goals of intersectional feminism, to acknowledge the way cisheteropatriarchal systems favor men, and to hold men accountable for harmful behaviors that these systems support and encourages (rape culture, etc). but it is needlessly reductive to target men as the sole perpetrators of these wrongs, and pointless to think that bashing them in this way is going to help anyone ever.

#ask #anonymous

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sixpennydame · 11 months

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Make. Believe. ❖ Drabbles

The WIRED Interview

A/N: I wanted to explore some of the interviews and other promotions that Actor!Levi does for the final part of Attack on Titan, but that don't quite fit into the Make. Believe. storyline.

Big shoutout to @fictional-d-supremacy who gave me the idea for the WIRED interview. This is just pure fun between Levi and Zeke. Enjoy!

Make.Believe. Series

“Hi, I’m Zeke Yeager.”

“And I’m Levi Ackerman, and this is the WIRED autocomplete interview.”

WIRED has searched for the internet’s most burning questions about Zeke and Levi, to which they’ll take turns answering. Zeke loves these kinds of things. Levi…

…not so much. But he tolerates it, and always has a good time with Zeke, who seems to be his constant interview companion.

Levi picks up the board with the pre-chosen questions and peels off the first one. “Is Zeke Yeager like his character in Aot?” Levi looks at Zeke. “I mean, I have opinions on this.”

“And your opinions are that of course I am nothing like my character in Attack on Titan. I do not want to commit mass eugenics, for one thing.”

“True..” Levi pauses, “but you are a bit of an asshole.”

“What?!” Zeke shockingly yells out. “I’m the nicest!”

“Yes, you are.” Levi looks at the camera and mouths silently, “he’s not,” then smirks.

Levi pulls off the next question. “Does Zeke Yeager play baseball? He does..”

“Yeah, I do, actually. I played baseball in high school and went to university on a baseball scholarship. But then the acting bug bit and I put my lucrative baseball career behind. Who knew it’d become such a big part of my life again.”

“Ok, next one..” Levi reads, “What is Zeke Yeager’s haircut called?”

“Oh this is the 90’s boy band special haircut right here.” Both men laugh. “It’s all about that middle part, baby.”

“That beard isn’t 90’s boy band though,” Levi teases.

“Well, we can’t all have beautiful baby faces like yours, Levi.” Zeke reaches over and strokes Levi’s cheek. “As smooth as a baby’s butt.”

Levi shoos him away. “Alright, alright, not in front of the cameras.”

“Oh right…that’s for later..” Zeke winks.

Levi rolls his eyes. “This is the last one. Is Zeke Yeager monkey?”

They both look at each other, confused. “Is Zeke Yeager…monkey…” Zeke says slowly. “Is that a complete sentence?”

“Who writes these?” Levi laughs.

“The internet is a strange, strange place.” Zeke straightens up in his seat and looks straight into the camera. “No, dear internets, I am not ‘monkey’. I am just a man - a simple, good-looking, talented man,” he says with conviction.

Zeke lifts up the board beside him and pulls off the tape on the first question. “Your turn, buddy: Is Levi Ackerman short?”

“Define ‘short’.” Levi laughs. “I mean, yes, by most standards, I suppose I am. It used to bother me when I was younger but now…well, it doesn’t matter to me.”

“But don’t tease him about his height,” Zeke cuts in, “because he will punch you in the arm.”

“No, I just do that to you,” Levi retorts.

“Awww, I’m special..” Zeke pulls the next tape. “Does Levi Ackerman hate Zeke Yeager?” Zeke looks at Levi with puppy eyes, but Levi stays silent. “Well?”

“Define ‘hate’.” Zeke makes a motion as if he’s stabbing his own heart. “I’m kidding, I’m kidding. No, I don’t hate Zeke. Our characters loathe each other, yes, but off-camera, we’re actually good friends.”

“Dare I say…best friends?” Zeke puts a hand on Levi’s knee.

“Good friends,” Levi says as he raises an eyebrow.

“…that are practically best friends.” Before Levi can respond, Zeke reads the next question. “Is Levi Ackerman dating Hange Zoe? Oooooh…”

“I get this one a lot. No, Hange and I aren’t dating, but we do hang out a lot together, when we have time. They were one of my first friends I made on set and will always have a special place in my heart.”

“Just like I have a special place in your heart,” Zeke smiles before tearing off the tape on the board. “Did Levi Ackerman date Erwin Smith?”

Levi smirks. “As if I would be so honored.”

A pause. “That’s all you’re gonna say about that? You’re such a tease, Levi,” Zeke replies. “Last one here..” Zeke tears off the tape slowly, “Is Levi Ackerman single? Apparently, everyone is obsessed with your love life, Levi. Actually, he-“

“I am, at the moment, yes,” Levi breaks in. Zeke stares at him, but quickly hides the surprise on his face. “Well, you heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. The man is single.” Zeke smirks at the camera, “As am I.” He winks.

——

The filming ends and the bright lights dim as Levi and Zeke get up from their chairs. “Hey nice job, man. That was fun,” Zeke exclaims as he grabs his jacket from an assistant. “But that last question..”

“I don’t wanna talk about it.” Levi quickly blurts out. There’s an awkward moment of silence between the two men, then, “I mean, it wouldn’t have worked out, right? We both have so much going on right now and for all I know she’s already in Iceland and has completely forgotten about me.”

“Sounds like you haven’t forgotten about her, though. That’s your problem right there.” Zeke puts his arm around Levi’s shoulder. “I’m going out with a very lovely makeup artist tonight for some drinks and she has a very lovely friend. You should come with us.”

He should go; it would do him good to relax a bit with a friend and have a few drinks. But to meet another girl - to flirt and make small talk and feign interest..

..he’s not ready for that.

“Nah, I think I’ll pass this time. I just want to take it easy tonight.”

“Your loss. But I guess I’ll do my best to entertain two pretty ladies on my own.”

“I’m sure you’ll manage somehow.” Levi laughs. “See you at the Vanity Fair shoot?”

“Another chance to hang out with the world’s hottest shortie? I’m counting down the days!” Levi punches him hard in the arm. “Ow!”

#let me know if you have any other ideas for drabbles!#these are so fun!#sixpennydame make.believe.#sixpennydame drabbles #actor!levi #aot actor au fan fiction #aot actor au #aot drabbles #aot fanfiction #snk fanfiction #snk levi ackerman #levi ackerman #levi ackerman drabbles #zeke yeager #actor!zeke yeager #zeke jeager

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cocogum · 5 months

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💓💖I believe in bearded Yugo supremacy 💖💓

#no one talks about this oldie 😭😭😭😔😔#i never thought id fall this hard for an old yugo #LOOK AT THAT BEARD #ZAMMNN #old yugo supremacy #ive been staring at his face for more than 3 hours-#HES A GILF 😩😩😩#I NEED FANARTS OF HIM LIKE THIS #it’s literally a crime to not see bearded yugo in fanarts 💀#sry i dont make the rules #❤️‍🔥💓❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️❤️💓❤️❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️💝💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘#💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘#im in love with this man 😩😩😩#i wish he looked at me like that- 😳😳#i love how current yugo talks about past yugo (aka bearded yugo) as if he was a separate man #ankama #wakfu manga #wakfu anime #wakfu yugo #wakfu #krosmoz #wakfu game #yugo wakfu #yugo #wakfu adamai #wakfu older yugo #eliatrope #wakfu eliatrope #wakfu eliatropes

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arina-nov-talking · 1 year

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Sweden with a beard from @nordickies . With an unknown speed, he won my heart, thank God for him. From now on, I believe only in *Sweden with a beard* supremacy 🛐

He is my baby girl.

Oh And his son, he's amazing too

#aph sealand #aph sweden #hws sweden #hws sealand #aph #hetalia #hetalia nordics #hetalia Sealand #art #aph nordics #sweden #hetalia fanart

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cuddlytogas · 1 month

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an incomplete list of terrible but extremely popular Our Flag Means Death takes that I would like to never see again please

(and I do mean popular, as in, lots of people seem to think they're canon, to the point where I feel slightly insane and like I was watching a different show to everyone else)

1. Ed's mum was loving and nice and supportive, if hampered by her bad situation

this comes up more in fic than analysis, to be fair, but good god, what show were some of you watching? this isn't to vilify her, because yeah, she's clearly a product of colonialism, white christian supremacy, and domestic abuse, but like. that doesn't make how she raised Ed good. clearly she was trying to keep him safe, but "we don't deserve nice things", and especially "it's not up to us, it's up to god", speaks to me of someone who squashes down any ambition on her son's part, has fully bought into the lies of christian colonialism, and tries to pass them down to her son.

as does happen in colonised communities, particularly among older generations. I know us white people like to think that every indigenous person is a perfect left-wing anti-imperial activist, but that's simply not the case, and Ed's mum is so clearly an example of an older conservative christian indigenous parent who had to believe the lies told by their coloniser in order to survive, but is now passing on that trauma to their children. and I just...

if I read one more fic where Ed's mum is a perfect loving supportive angel who always believed in her kid and always supported and protected him, I'm gonna scream. yes, it's sweet, and it's fun to sometimes veer from canon and give your blorbo nice things, but it's still veering from canon. and yet, I see very few people acknowledge that, or actually talk about the nuances of Ed's mother, and how she definitely tried to protect him, but was far from sweet, doting, and unconditionally supportive.

2. Ed's loving look when Stede is picking food from his beard in 1x07

like most of these things, I enjoyed it as a joke or exaggeration at first, until I realised that people were actually being serious. but every time I watch that scene, I see Ed looking absently-mindedly over Stede's shoulder, because a) that's what you do when someone leans in to pick something off you, and b) surely the point of the scene is that they're so comfortable and easy together that they don't notice the intimacy of what they're doing, but Lucius, an outside observer, thinks it's obvious. right?? I can't be the only one seeing it???

[sigh]

anyway. finally, the really really big one:

3. Ed is a soft uwu babygirl princess femme bottom sub who loves her cat collar and is teaching Stede how to dom him in the "say you're the captain" scene

I mean, there's not much to say except to link to duke's absolutely phenomenal twitter thread about "how the 'babygirlfication' and infantilization of ofmd ed teach is an extension of racist perceptions of indigenous men being inherently violent and thus needing to be emasculated to be considered sympathetic"

but especially That One Fucking Scene, good lord. talk about taking shit out of context. everyone looked at a slowed-down gif of one shot in the trailer and cried "babygirl!! he's such a simp, he just wants to be dommed!!", when actually that scene is about how a) Stede is cringefail and terrible at being a typical harsh, commanding pirate, and b) Ed is lovingly embarrassed by this. he encourages Stede to assert himself (and give Ed something to do during his probation/help him make amends with the crew), but like. normally. he's acting perfectly normal in that scene, and mostly annoyed by the outfit and embarrassed by how badly Stede fails. but just because he's sitting down while Stede is standing, and he happens to take a breath in that one shot (because, you know, people breathe sometimes), everyone's doubled down on their "submissive babygirl" bullshit, and I can't get the fuck away from it.

which - listen, it's fun for me, too! it's fun to explore exaggerated aspects of a character, it's fun to read/write/draw that angle in smut, I get it! but I keep seeing people keep claim it's literally canon, and I cannot stress enough that that is Straight Up False. for the love of god, please just watch the show without your (potentially kinda racist) bias glasses on, and remember to treat the characters with respect instead of projecting onto their every interaction a shallow dom/sub binary just because you find it hot.

Our Flag is a show very specifically about masculinity, and what it means to be a man; how assumptions about that can harm and restrict men; and how men can grow beyond them. it's a nuanced and sympathetic examination of this. the whole point is that Ed is allowed to like nice fabrics and be tired of violent piracy and still be a man. the point is that two men fall in love - equal, honest, sincere love - and are still men, still exactly who they are.

(on that note, insisting that Ed is canonically trans or femme because of these things often ends up just leaning into gendered stereotypes: men are harsh and active and dominant, and women are soft and passive and submissive, and if Ed's not the former, he must be the latter, right? it also tends to hetero-ify the central relationship, casting Stede as "the boy" and Ed as "the girl", needing one to be masc and one femme. not always, and again, I understand and have enjoyed transformative works that take those elements and run with them, and explore what the story could be like if Ed were trans/nb/etc - but it's still a transformative interpretation. it's not canon.)

relatedly: those fucking wedding toppers! it seemed blatantly obvious to me that half the point of those scenes was that Ed is distraught and blaming himself for Stede leaving because he wasn't the ideal partner. it's his entire arc for the first half of season 2! Ed hates himself and believes there's something wrong about him that makes him unlovable. so he keeps and then discards the wedding toppers, painting himself onto one of them, because he's projecting himself onto an image of ideal/successful romantic love that he thinks Stede wants, and in which he doesn't fit. he's trying to mould himself into someone else to make himself lovable, not realising that Stede already loves him for himself.

like, it's important that the groom figure isn't actually like Stede, either. yes, it's blond and has a nice, peach-coloured suit, but a) Stede was very specifically unhappy in the posh, heterosexual, married state the figures represent, and b) Stede by this point looks nothing like that figurine. it's directly contrasted with the image of him in the rowboat, scruffy and plain and earnestly in love, rather than fancy, cold ceramic.

so it's important to the whole narrative that Ed's yearning for/projection onto the wedding toppers is false, and born from his insecurity. he gets drunk, and play-acts a stereotypical image of romantic happiness into which he doesn't fit, but real love looks nothing like that, because real love isn't found in stifling hegemonic cultural structures, but honest, emotional connections between people allowed to be their whole, vulnerable selves. Stede is not like the groom, and Ed is not like the bride, because they shouldn't have to be. Ed should not (and does not) have to warp himself into a demure bride in order to be worthy of love: he's already lovable and loved exactly as he is! that's the point!! of the scene!!!!!!

but no, I have to wade through swathes of art and fic and meta about how badly Ed wants to be a sweet little demure kitty princess, how he wants a wedding night and a ring to prove he's Stede's property, and acting as if this is somehow canon, because people on the internet have zero reading comprehension and are scared of brown men.

the whole point of Our Flag is that you don't need to compress yourself into prescribed social roles, and in fact, doing so will only make you miserable; and that racist, patriarchal, colonial institutions should be resisted and dismantled at every opportunity.

so tell me again why the ultimate message is that Ed and Stede should get married under an arch in front of an altar and their lined-up friends, with flowers and rice falling around them, all dressed in white, one in a suit and one in a dress, with rings and a kiss and a honeymoon after, before they move into a detached house with a yard and a fence and re-adopt the kids that Stede abandoned? and this isn't about promises, fidelity, or even monogamy - I'm specifically talking about everyone in this fandom who seems to think that the ultimate goal is the most stereotypical 20th century cisheteropatriarchal christian wedding, but with the name "matelotage" slapped on top, as if that takes away all of the underlying baggage.

just - I know we're all meant to hate men and masculinity and yadda yadda yadda, but actually, to be earnest for a second, men deserve respect too, because all people and all genders do. and two men are allowed to be in a relationship and still both be men - complex men, with their own, layered relationships to their gender - without having to fall into neatly-arranged dom/sub masc/femme roles, or seal the deal with a hegemonically-approved ceremony.

so please, stop reducing an indigenous lead character to a caricature of a femme uwu princess bottom just because he has long hair, wore a robe once, and you're too scared of brown men to imagine him with proper agency. and then please, for the love of god, stop claiming that that interpretation is canon.

#I can't tag this for my own blog organisation without putting it in the wider fandom tag so uuuhhhhhh #sorry to everyone who sees this but fair warning I'm being very critical of some popular fandom trends. dnr if you wanna avoid negativity.#Our Flag Means Death #gender stuff #Togas does meta #it's not an accident that all of these are about ed -_- i s2g some of y'all just CANNOT be normal about that man...#this was actually going to be a fairly concise post but then i decided fuck it i'm putting that whole last rant in writing #it's been building for a long time. and i've said lots of it irl before lol #it always feels sorta vaguely transmisogynistic but i s2g that's not the point #again i'm all here for trans reinterpretations and you can get off to whatever smut you like but they remain that: reinterpretations #they're not canon and stop saying that they are.

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justice-forever · 4 months

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Nighthawk By Green-Mamba

Real Name: Kyle Richmond

First Appearance: The Avengers #69 (October 1969)

Orphaned as a child by in a racially motivated drive-by shooting, Kyle Richmond vowed to dedicate his life to stamping out white supremacy. Undergoing rigorous physical training and using his inheritance to craft an array of weapons and vehicles, Richmond became the Nighthawk, the vengeance against all who would prey on the disenfranchised.

The most controversial recruit of Hyperion's Squadron Supreme, Richmond had at first been a proponent of the Utopia Project, as he believed it was the best way to bring about the systemic change the world needed.

But when it came to forcibly reprogramming people, Richmond saw the potential it had to be used as a tool of oppression, and he left the Squadron a fugitive.

Joining together a group of like minded individuals who sought to put an end to the Utopia Project, their fight became a perilous one as the natural disasters caused by the untethering of their world with their counter-Earth worsened.

On the day of the alignment, when it was believed the two Earths would cross each other's paths in space, Richmond's redeemers intended to use the cover of the worsening earthquakes to take back the Squadron Supreme's headquarters, but fate took a different turn.

Expecting to find the halls empty as the Squadron was busy dealing with the latest natural disasters, Richmond instead found a bearded wizard in a red cloak battling to contain a giant man with green skin.

Wary of potential collateral damage, Richmond tried to intervene in their conflict before the sorcerer's dimensional mirror spell was shattered by the green goliath.

When he came to, Richmond did not find himself in the Squadron's headquarters, instead in the sorcerer's sanctum--on the counter-Earth.

It seems the sorcerer, who called himself Doctor Strange, was attempting to help the green man, called Bruce Banner, contain his anger in a phase shifted dimension, but they had accidentally ended up in the respective counter-Earth in doing so due to the alignment.

Richmond explained himself and the dire situation of his counter-Earth.

But with the alignment now passed and the unusual circumstances of the transportation not known, Richmond was now stuck in a different world as his slowly died, trapped under the tyrannical heel of the Squadron Supreme.

As Strange tries to help Nighthawk figure out a way back to his counter-Earth, Nighthawk joins his nascent Defenders team alongside the Hulk after learning that the Avengers had been hunting the green giant down for deserting them, which makes Nighthawk see the Avengers as little better than the Squadron Supreme.

Yep, another Squadron Supreme member.

Obviously if you're going to do a second one after Hyperion it has to be Nighthawk, the Squadron Supreme's answer to Batman.

But Nighthawk is a funny one--there are like at least four Nighthawks, all named Kyle Richmond, who have all had a prominent role in the Marvel comics at some point.

There is the original Squadron Sinister one who later became a hero and joined the Defenders, there is the actual proper Squadron Supreme one who lead the redeemers against them (and later died, passing his mantle to his son), there is the Supreme Power one who was a black man fighting against racists, and then there is the modern one from Mephisto's Squadron Supreme.

I decided to merge the first three together, he's a black man who fights against racists who joins the Squadron Supreme but ends up fighting against them with the redeemers and then ends up joining Doctor Strange's Defenders.

But that meant there was a lot to get through in the bio! I hope I hit all the main points.

So Nighthawk is actually the first person from Counter-Earth to cross over to the mainline Earth (as the Squadron Supreme is from Counter-Earth in my universe).

And if you're keeping track, my Defenders roster is Doctor Strange, Valkyrie, Hellcat, Nighthawk, and Hulk. This is the entire starting roster, if you're wondering.

Maybe I'll draw them all together in the future. I dunno.

But yeah. I think the two most well known looks for Nighthawk are the original Defenders' era's Nighthawk and the Supreme Power's Nighthawk.

So I tried to combine the two looks while also trying to make him look as much like Batman in silhouette as I could.

So he's got the dark blue with the yellow bird emblem and the wing like red cape of the original (plus the extendable claws!), as well as the scale armor and scary goggles of the Supreme Power's Nighthawk.

The added little "ears" on the side of the goggles help give him more of a Batman like silhouette, and yeah, I know hawks don't have points like that on their head, it makes him look more like an owl.

But that's okay.

The bird emblem took the longest to design, I originally tried to get it to look closer to his classic emblem but it just wasn't working out, so I took inspiration from Nightwing's emblem, what with the whole Batman connection.

And like I said with Hyperion, the Squadron Supreme are designed to look inherently less grounded than my normal Marvel designs, to help sell them apart.

#nighthawk #comics #comic #comic books #comics books #marvel #marvel comics #marvel universe #squadron supreme #redesign

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armorabs · 11 months

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There's something I really want to say about your human version of Mr. Krabs...I believe in Bearded Human! Krabs supremacy.

#doodlekrabz #the armorabs human concept special (tm)

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paragonrobits · 9 months

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from a strictly narrative point of view, the reason Azula doesn't really get fleshed out that much besides a few small elements and characterization details is for the same reason Ozai doesn't either; in terms of what they bring to the story and contributing to the events of Avatar The Last Airbender, they are both designed from the ground up to be antagonists, and not much more than that.

In much the same way that Ozai is a beard-twirling ultra-villain who isn't much more than a spoiled brat and power-mad bully, Azula seems to not have been meant to be much more than that. Narratively, she's clearly built around the idea of being Zuko But Worse, more skilled and deadly than him, more willing to be ruthless and overtly cruel as opposed to Zuko being thoughtless and selfish; there's a reason she is introduced at the same time as Zuko being treated as an enemy of the Fire Nation alongside Iroh, as she supplants Zuko's initial role as a recurring antagonist and most immediate threat.

As a character, she's designed around this purpose; she serves the Fire Nation's interests without question or scruple, her views on the other nations are pretty condescending from what we hear of her (in that the best she can say is if someone acts LIKE a firebender and otherwise she dismisses others as peasants, which mirrors Zuko's insistence that royalty should get whatever they want).

Now, there's certainly room to mirror about the characterization at play. Ozai is personally a pretty emotionally shallow person, which does mirror the real life tyrants and many conquerors; that he's too emotionally sheltered to care about anything but his own wants and regards his children as tools is a fairly straightforward concept. I don't believe it's BAD that he's like this; there are plenty more faceted antagonists in this series, and I don't think there's much benefit in playing the genocidal conquering warmonger as having relatable issues or some kind of point to make. The Fire Nation is EXPLICITLY an antagonist committing unspeakable atrocities in the name of their dominance, self interest and delusions of supremacy. Nuance does not exactly help things besides give ammo to the sorts of people who think the Empire and First Order of Star Wars are the explicit heroes of the story.

An interesting thing in this regard is that the character Azula was originally based on has a pretty minimalistic role in the original draft for the series. There are more large scale changes (Zuko being more motivated by the plight of Fire Nation civilians in poverty from the war, Toph was a boy and part of a love triangle, Iroh was sabotaging Zuko's training) but strikingly Azula's original inspiration is barely present apart from being an antagonist and is barely mentioned elsewhere. Accordingly, its probably likely that Azula's hints of more complex characterization was a very late stage development. (I don't know if 'Katara and Azula are direct foils to one another' was the intended point at that stage but it's certainly the most compelling take.)

#atla #queued #there is certainly something to be said for fanon and the implications that show up throughout the series #but chiefly the FN royal family's function is antagonistic #all things considered i think that the complexity we DO get with Iroh's change of heart and the conflicts in the royal family #really did a lot to make the show a lot more distinctive #playing it strictly black and white morality would likely have made it a bit more forgettable #which in turn makes it ironic how much a good part of some corners WANT the show to be more black and white #but anyway the point is that characters like Azula and Ozai are Like That because that's their narrative role

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tamsong · 2 years

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Gradaline w/ bi flags

10/10 best couple in the entire series! ive never drawn these two before so it was a fun challenge :)

Also i believe in bearded grady supremacy

taglist under the cut

@impostertamsong @catboyruy @mylarivera @fanartofthelostcities @netnetnet135 @bianavacker-is-bi-as-hell @an-absolute-travesty @enbies-and-felonies @cadence-talle @make-kotlc-gayer @daydream-draws @constellations-of-elixirs @keefeinnit @cowboypossume @dragonwinnie @solreefs @imaramennoodle @thesandsofdawn @pencilwritesshiz47 @alesbiancat @steppingonshatteredglass @loumingju

#Sorry this one took SO LONG to answer anon #i hope u like it!#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc fanart #kotlc art #grady ruewen #edaline ruewen #gradaline #kotlc pride 2022

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gilmores-glorious-blog · 1 year

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rewatching season 1 of tlovm and fuck it i’m going to liveblog it, i don’t care that i’ll already be absolutely insufferable come friday:

- my brother and i watching this for the fourth time after finally having knowledge of dnd: “oh fince is just a drow….. not a really fucked up looking human……..”

- everything about the opening scene in the tavern makes it so obvious why i fell in love with vax,, the first thing he does is flirt with a hot man and then immediately attack him of course i love him

- they really said “we want to make it as clear as possible within the first five minutes of this show that these twins are bisexual” (and i thank them for it 😌)

- it’s so fun to spot all the matts throughout the show, i really hope they continue that bit in season 2

- it’s wild how recognizable all their voices are to me now… i used to have a hard time connecting the voices to the cast members, but now i’m just like. oh yeah hi it’s you.

- the legend of vox machina song is high-key what made me fall in love with the show

- :0 an airship! (i hadn’t watched much of c3 the last time i watched this show)

- forever and always soft about sam and liam’s kids voicing the little kids on the show

- crazy to hear a child ask liam o’brien “are you a wizard?” and for liam to answer no

- vax being so soft with the children makes me so emotional,, especially when you think about how he never got to have kids of his own/never got to meet any of his nieces and nephews 🙃

- this intro is The Most Intro.

- i am so fine and normal about the raven in the intro actually

- i get so excited about gilmore even before we see him (vex going “please, with the way that man dotes on you” and vax looking all flustered.. i love them)

- i believe in pike and vax sibling dynamic supremacy <3

- TUSK LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- my mom decided to walk in during vax and gilmore’s incredibly sexual flirting 😭😩 (she has never watched this show but she knows i’m obsessed with it)

- i love vax and gilmore so so so much i am prepared to be so unwell about them again in five days

- my mom is still here and scanlan is being scanlan :|

- wow i’m sure none of this dragon stuff is at all important later… definitely just a nice decorative rug…. 🙃

- vex i love you but you know so little about dragons all things considered,, i feel like she should at least know that they can turn human

- desmond is so viktor-arcane-core

- META PIGEON???? i never noticed that before omfg 😭😭😭

- gotta love the “titties work hard but emos work harder” scene

- i love the vax and grog prank war so much i hope they show more of it in s2 (the beard-shaving scene.. please…)

- never getting over how fucking pretty the twins look in their fancy getup

- absolutely haunted by the knowledge that matt and marisha voice the weird old couple that scanlan flirts with

- percy :( he makes me so sad :((

- simon!!!!!!! all i want is for there to be some reference to how vax got simon,, i want a thorn mention,,,,

- the scene with vax and the briarwoods you will always be famous <3

- i’m so conflicted because on one hand i feel bad for desmond but on the other hand…… no mercy percy hot.

#only watched the first three episodes tonight but knowing me i will continue to post as i watch the rest of the show #insane the amount of joy i get from this show…. it makes me so happy fr :’)#critical role #the legend of vox machina #eli.posts

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Implicit Theology and Pagan Reconstructionism

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ANCIENT RELIGIONS POSSESS LOGIC SYSTEMS WITHIN THEM. It is especially evident in Etruria, where religion was abundant—beyond my beloved aiser lies other logic systems in ancient religions too. Epithets are a keen example of this, for it is only logic to call upon Dionysos Eleutheros when seeking emotional catharsis. Him having this epithet suggests that not only does he have power over emotion, it also speaks to his ability for madness.

The theoi in artistic representations are shown to be physically present in art, telling us that the ancient Greeks believed the theoi can come to rituals and receive offerings. Stone texts do not directly state this, rather it is assumed—it is implicit beliefs and ideas surrounding the gods, therefore making it implicit theology.

Epithets are also a marker of implicit theology. Dionysus’ epithets are vast and complex, but one example I see is with Eleuthereos (“the Liberator”. As he is the god of madness, he can also avert it—therefore he is Eletutheros, the reliever of anxiety and god of the theatre’s katharsis. We know to invoke his side of him we must call upon him as Eleutheros. In the mind of an ancient Greek, we can invoke more epithets to match this to further invoke that side of Dionysus.

This tells us:

To ensure success in a certain area, you should call upon a deity in a particular function

The theoi appear in different aspects at different times

Naming them as certain descriptors invokes this side of them.

The gods respond to these names, making them effective in use

Furthermore, if we are talking about “negative” aspects of deities or “negative” theoi in general:

By invoking them, we can tell them to keep that negative thing away (such as praying to Limos to essentially stay away as long as possible).

Jumping into another region, thinking in the mind of an Etruscan helps I to interpret the brontoscopic calendar. This calendar works upon the presence of thunder and what is to come because of that omen. If it were to strike this year on November 12th of 2023, the omen states:

If it thunders, there will be signs revealing great things. Beware lest it pour rain upon the fire of joyful elation.

This message within itself is vague. However, the Etruscan would have naturally looked towards the region of the sky it came from—the 16 divisions of heaven—and understood which of the aiser sent that omen. If Tins were to send thunder, I would look more towards the areas of harmony as he is rather fond of harmony, or of crops as he is also a fertility-thunder god.

Assumed beliefs are also a key aspect to unraveling the thorny sides of paganism. We are modern people who live in a world with several systematic issues, i.e. as racism and white supremacy. One example I do conjure is within Heathenry and Valhalla.

Valhalla and by extension “vikings" have been horribly glorified in media. They are used as peaks of masculinity and the “Old Ways”, bearded and muscular men saying vague ramblings about Odin and such. Therefore it is commonly said that only warriors (who are also “coincidentally” purely white blue-eyed and blonde haired and strangely modern in their thought process) are accepted into Odin’s hall when they die. However, this is not the historical reality of Valhalla:

Odin established the same law in his land that had been in force in Asaland. Thus he established by law that all dead men should be burned, and their belongings laid with them upon the pile, and the ashes be cast into the sea or buried in the earth. Thus, said he, every one will come to Valhalla with the riches he had with him upon the pile; and he would also enjoy whatever he himself had buried in the earth. For men of consequence a mound should be raised to their memory, and for all other warriors who had been distinguished for manhood a standing stone; which custom remained long after Odin’s time.

- Ynglinga Saga, Chapter 8

It is also assumed that Valhalla only accepts men due to our ideas of masculinity, but this is also once again not historical whatsoever. We may also note that Freyja, a goddess, has her own hall for the dead—yet her hall is seldom known among popculture compared to Valhalla. Just as implicit theology is unheard and unsaid within us, so is implicit theology—sometimes, being the same creature. To identify this is to understand the dangerous thoughts that continue to threaten the safety of others.

Implicit theology I believe is a key part of reconstructionism and revivalism. Following this logic can allow us to live within the world as worshippers of the divine. Finding what is implicit and assumed can help us not only contextualise ancient religions, it may also assist in post-reconstructionism. We are not only here to reconstruct, we have to create something living and evolving. As more scholarship comes forward, we can refinish and polish ourselves. The end goal and the reason we do all of this is to create religions that we live within—reconstructionism is piecing a temple together from rubble and trying until one day you take a breath of divinity.

In truth I will have to do a longer post on this for Etruria, but this is a start.

References

Crawford, J. (2015). The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes. Hackett Publishing.

DIONYSUS - Greek God of Wine & Festivity. (n.d.). Theoi Greek Mythology. https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html

Larson, J. (2016). Understanding Greek Religion. In Routledge eBooks. Informa. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315647012

Stavrianopoulou. (2016). From the god who listened to the god who replied: Transformations in the concept of epekoos*. Dieux Des Grecs, Dieux Des Romains.

The Religion of the Etruscans. (2006). In University of Texas Press eBooks. University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/706873

Heimskringla. trans. Samuel Laing. (1844) The Ynglinga Saga Turfa, J. M. (2012). Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice.

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