#Lost Cause myth

[tommy-288]

One of the biggest things I hate about the Lost Cause Myth (the whitewashing is horrible) but also the name?? Like if it was such a Lost Cause why did you continue fighting? Or even attack Fort Sumter? Like….

“Men, we’re going to lose this war, and the south will suffer for years. It will be horrible, violent, and the casualties will be incomprehensible. But let’s go on ahead and declare war anyways…”

#american civil war #acw #lost cause myth #fuck the confederacy

[belle-keys]

I saw your post about the Confederacy in vampire media, and thought of TVD. For instance, they had Tyler wear a Confederacy uniform at the end of season 1 with Bonnie witnessing it and not saying anything. Also you mentioned that Damon was a Confederate soldier, although it was addressed in season 1 and season 7 that he didn't want to because he disagreed with what they stood for but was a part of it until he had the courage to stand up to his dad. Also Stefan describing being in the Confederacy as inspiring made me uncomfortable. I don't think he was as supportive of it as his father considering he defended Damon's decision to leave and his behavior later in the show, but I didn't like how it wasn't directly addressed later. Overall if the show was going to write about this time period it should've been written with much more sensitivity, especially since these are all major characters affiliated with this topic.

I mean, I don't really care that Damon didn't want to be a Confederate. In my post, I was focused on the fact that the show was founded on Confederate propaganda. Doesn't really matter if Damon "hated" being a Confederate. He was one, and he was depicted in uniform to boot. The show did not condemn or critically engage with the Confederacy through its narrative. It therefore adds to the Lost Cause mythology by making their male lead an "unwilling cavalier".

Sensitivity was missing, sure, but also critical engagement. And you can tell that was intentional, given the whole "Gone With the Wind" bit at the end of season 2.

#lost cause #lost cause myth #confederacy #ask #tvd

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Tucked away in an amendment to the FY2023 U.S. defense authorization bill is a rare instance of congressional bipartisanship and a tribute to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

If approved, the measure would posthumously promote Grant to the rank of General of the Armies of the U.S., making him only the third person – along with John J. Pershing and George Washington – to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor.

As Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, I believe that the promotion would be much more than a symbolic nod to a great military general. Rather, it would highlight the overlooked legacy of a man who fought to end the last vestiges of slavery.

OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR

During the Civil War, Grant rose to fame as a decisive leader who was willing to doggedly pursue Confederate armies and avoid retreat at all costs. He first gained his reputation for tenacity with Union victories at Shiloh, the Battles for Chattanooga and the Siege of Vicksburg.

Like most white Northerners, Grant signed up to fight for the Union – not for emancipation.

But by 1862, the freedom of enslaved African Americans had become vital to the Union war strategy, if not yet its cause.

A year before President Abraham Lincoln signed in 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation that freed enslaved people in the Confederate states, Grant oversaw the establishment of refugee, or contraband camps, throughout the Mississippi Valley. Those camps provided basic housing, food and work for Black men and women who had fled from slavery.

Grant also administered the enlistment of African American men into United States Colored Troops units during the Vicksburg campaign.

In March 1864, Lincoln appointed Grant to the rank of lieutenant general and ordered him to take on the Confederate Army in Virginia, a task at which numerous other Union leaders had failed.

At this point during the war, Grant assumed the role of chief strategist for the entire Union war effort. It took the next 13 months of fighting during the Overland campaign before Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

In this illustration, Gen. Ulysses S, Grant, left, accepts the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee. (Getty Images)

After the Federal victory, many Americans hailed Grant as the man who saved the Union.

But Grant was magnanimous in victory.

Multiple times during the war he honored the dignity of his defeated adversaries, most famously at Appomattox, where he did not require Lee to hand over his sword, as usually required. Grant also allowed Confederate officers to keep their sidearms and horses.

Lee appreciated Grant’s actions, remarking: “This will have the best possible effect upon the men … it will be very gratifying, and will do much toward conciliating our people.”

IMPACT OF THE ‘LOST CAUSE’

But after the war, the conciliatory feelings vanished.

Southern partisans constructed the narrative of the “Lost Cause.” It held that the root of the Civil War was not slavery, but the rights of states to control their own destinies. It further held that the Union victory had nothing to do with Confederate character or leadership, but rather the Union’s sheer numbers and superior resources.

In this Lost Cause narrative, Grant was seen as a bumbling butcher devoid of any meaningful strategic vision, who succeeded only by mercilessly throwing more soldiers at his enemy. It also revived the old rumors of his excessive drinking.

In this storyline, Grant’s foil was always the courtly gentleman, Robert E. Lee. The hagiography of Lee demanded Grant’s inferiority.

By the early 20th century, the Lost Cause was no longer isolated in the South and had spread across America. Crowds flocked to see the racist anti-Reconstruction “Birth of a Nation” in movie theaters, and during the World War I rush to build military bases, the Army named 10 of them after Confederate generals.

PRESIDENT GRANT’S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY

Grant served as President from 1869 to 1877 during a time when white Southerners proved hostile toward federal Reconstruction measures that sought equal rights for recently freed enslaved people.

Grant saw his role of enforcing these policies as an extension of his wartime duty and necessary to protect the gains of the Union victory, especially the newly established rights for African Americans.

He used the resources of the federal government to crush the Ku Klux Klan, established the Department of Justice to investigate civil rights abuses and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

GRANT’S LATEST CAUSE

In recent years, the American public has questioned the Lost Cause and taken steps to mitigate its pervasiveness throughout the U.S.

Southerners themselves have chosen to remove Confederate leaders from town squares and state flags. The U.S. Army has established a Naming Commission to rebrand Confederate-named bases.

It is telling, too, that Grant’s Presidential Library is now located in Mississippi, a Deep South state he once conquered.

It remains to be seen whether the request made to elevate Grant’s rank by U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Democrat, and Roy Blunt of Missouri, a Republican – along with GOP U.S Rep. Ann Wagner – will be finally approved by Congress as part of the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

Either way, in my view, a thoughtful reconsideration of Grant’s wartime and post-war contributions is long overdue.

#us politics #us history #Anne Marshall #news #Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library #national defense authorization act #General of the Armies of the U.S. #John J. Pershing #George Washington #american civil war #american slavery #president ulysses s. grant #Emancipation Proclamation #president abraham lincoln #United States Colored Troops #confederate surrender #Lost Cause myth #reconstruction #birth of a nation #ku klux klan #Civil Rights Act of 1875 #department of justice #Grant’s Presidential Library #Sen. sherrod brown #sen. roy blunt #Rep. Ann Wagner #2022 #the conversation

[trutown-the-bard]

New reaction image just dropped:

#John brown #lost cause myth #neo-confederates dni

[lorebird]

Continuing my “Cynthia is Volo after chilling out and transitioning” propaganda: Consequences Edition

#pokemon #Cynthia #Volo #elesa #emmet #subway boss emmet #my art #I’ve seen a lot of ‘immortal volo meets emmet and offers to help him find ingo’ #but he’s always real evil about it which! fair enough! #mans is an unhinged villain! #I just wanna explore that concept w my own hc of cynthia learning to make a new life after she’s lost everything in Hisui #starting over fresh with ‘volo’ being a relic of the past #until uh oh! consequences! #this is the first time she’s met emmet. it’s been like 200 yrs since she saw Ingo #so she hasn’t thought much abt the man she dragged through the rift on accident #she and a lot of the unova ladies r besties bc I think it’s cute and there’s the whole villa thing :] #she’s come to really enjoy her new life and everyone in it and is terrified she’s going to lose that bc of what she did in hisui #so she’s like. hi yeah I know a lot about Mysteries and Myths maybe I can help find him! don’t worry!! #shenanigans ensue as she tries to pretend she’s solving a mystery that she caused and also trynna figure out how to get Ingo back

[socialjusticeinamerica]

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#Neo-confederates #republican klansmen #republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #myth of the lost cause #war of northern aggression misnomer #republican racists #nimarata randhawa #crooked donald #republican assholes #daughters of the confederacy #republican propaganda #great replacement theory lies

[duxfemina]

I feel about Pompeius Magnus the exact same way I feel about Hector of Troy and I feel like if you know you know

#hector #hector of Troy #troy #trojan war #greek heroes #greek mythology #the iliad #greek myth #Pompeius Magnus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #roman republic #roman empire #roman history #how often do you think about the roman empire #my roman empire #my Roman empire is the Roman empire #they're just good guys fighting for lost causes who love their families #Pompeius didn't really want to fight Caesar and you can't convince me otherwise #Civil wars #roman Civil war #civil war #Julius Caesar

[thesungod]

I always wonder what Apollo's definition of "lovers" is because he keeps including Daphne in that and I have never seen a version of the story where she's even remotely interested in him. Aside from RR's assertion that Eros' arrows are based on the potential for real love or something. In fact- the most common version of her myth I've seen by FAR states that Daphne had already taken a vow of chastity to Artemis before Eros and Apollo even encountered her. Like Eros specifically picked her to send Apollo after because she had sworn to remain a virgin and then gave her a lead arrow just to rub salt in the wound. Does that count as a lover

“I have never seen a version of the story where she's even remotely interested in him”

You cooked him💀

But seriously: that’s a good question.

I suppose we could make the educated guess that when Apollo says “lover”, he means “person I’ve been in love with” and not “person I’ve had a relationship with”.

Which is kinda sweet if you think about it, lmao

edit: anyone who’s rightfully put off by Rick’s version of Apollo and Daphne may be interested in this follow up ask!

#also props to rick riordan for making an already sad myth heartbreaking #apollo’s actions throughout his entire life makes so much sense if you look at them through the lense that he thinks he’s lost his soulmate #because of his own actions!! #he’s considered himself a lost cause for his entire existence basically #ask

[just-blahh]

Finally got around to playing the games Hades and I swear if Orpheus and Eurydice keep not saying each other’s name to Zagareus I’m going to scream and throw up

#I just want them to be happy #Zagreus is so dense too #Orpheus is like “I’m sad cause I lost my muse and zag is like #://// I’m sorry get well soon buddy #hades game #video games #orpheus and eurydice #Greek myths

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #Plagiarism #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQIA #youtube #Solidarity #gay erasure #Make them un-erased

[lowkeyremi]

JJK MEN AS DADS

How they are with their kiddos/babies ! ft. gojo, geto, choso, toji, and nanami

content: no curse!au fluff, established relationship (marriage), children, families.

Gojo Satoru

"Look at my little boy, he looks just like me, what a heart stopper you'll be when you get older!" He praises his two year old, Kenji Gojo.

"'Toru stop trying to manifest our son into a hoe." Satoru turns to you with a loud gasp, eyes wide, and it causes your little boy to giggle.

"How could you say such words, in front of him? Don't listen to Mommy. Daddy was never a player. Never ever!" Kenji has no clue what's happening he just laughs at his father's dramatics.

"Oh brother, I hope he doesn't turn into a drama queen like you. And yes you were a player before I got with you. Remember when you kissed my friend then like ten minutes later tried to kiss me?" Satoru was a menace in college. Every time you bring up that specific college memory he always says-

"Ugh, blame Suguru! He was the one who made me take shots when I didn't like to drink." There it is. That was excuse for two-timing you and your best friend back then.

"Save it for someone who believes you. Kenji, don't be like Daddy when you grow up, okay?" Your husband knows you're joking but he can't help but whine and feel like you're being against him.

"Otay Mommy! Daddy is hoeeee. Hoe hoe hoe. Merry Christmas!" Your poor little boy thinks he's saying the noise Santa makes instead of a derogatory term and it's hilarious.

Of course you encourage him, "Daddy's a what?"

"Hoe!" Kenji screams out with a smile on his face. Satoru frowns loosing his playfulness.

"I-i guess my family just hates me... no one loves me." He sighs loudly to sell it to you guys but you don't buy it. He sits in the corner pretending to cry. "Boo hoo..." Kenji waddles his way over to his father patting his head.

"No cry Daddy, you not a hoe. You Daddy." Satoru fakes a loud gasp when he hears his son comfort him, thinking Satoru is actually crying.

"Really?!" He asks the little boy standing next to him.

"Yeah, Daddy is cool!!" Satoru chuckles, picks up is little boy and tosses him into the air. The small white haired child screams in delight as his father catches him, and you can't deny that all the trouble you and Satoru had in your relationship was worth seeing this.

Geto Suguru

"And then, the monster ate the twin girls who didn't go to sleep at their bed time-"

"Ooooookay. I think that's enough bed time stories from Papa." You say ushering your girls to bed, Hana looks scared out of her mind but Kana's eyes are sparkling with curiosity.

"Awww, Mommy, it was just getting good!" Kana whines, you know she wants to hear whatever else Suguru makes up on spot but he scared Hana who looks like she wants to cry.

"I know sweetie, but I don't think Hana really liked that story." The girls are six and full of energy at any given time.

"Come on baby, let me tell Kana the rest." Suguru matches his daughter's tone, knowing you'll give in.

"Alright, fine, but you need to apologize to Hana, look at her." Your husband looks at his younger twin daughter and he does feel kind of bad for scaring her like that. Suguru likes telling scary stories and myths to his girls just like his father had done to him. He always thought they were super cool.

"Oh, Hana, sweet girl. Papa's sorry. I didn't mean to scare you like that. How about I tell you and your sister a different story?" Hana looks a little doubtful as do you, but Suguru grants you a smile. He knows you trust him so you give him a stern look before kissing his forehead.

"Don't take too long, I need my cuddles." He smirks, kissing your hand, "Of course my dear."

The twins coo in unison at their parents romantic gestures, they think it's the coolest thing ever. "You girls have your stuffed animals?" He asks them and they nod together waiting for his story.

He tells the two about a princess who needed saving. Her long lost sister came to save her from a scary dragon and they lived happily together.

"That sounds like me and Hana!! I fought the scary dragon and Hana was the princess!!!" Kana says with excitement. Sometimes Suguru sees two little girls he used to foster in his own girls. He wonders how they're doing these days. They're probably grown up by now or at least in their late teens.

"I really wish Mommy had let me name you guys Nanako and Mimiko." He whispers with a soft smile. Kana looks at him in confusion rubbing her tired eyes, Hana's already asleep.

"Huh?" Kana asks.

"Nothing my dear, good night, little one." He tucks her into bed and gives her a tend kiss on the forehead.

"Night night, Papa." She says with a yawn and Suguru makes his way downstairs to join you.

Kamo Choso

Choso bites his lip looking down at his son, the boy looks a lot like you he thinks. Ryuji is his name, you let him name him. "I didn't mean to break it." He whines to his father. Choso has a soft spot for his boy. He reminds him a lot of his little brother Yuji.

"I know bud, but what will we tell Mom when she gets home?" Ryuji had accidentally broken your favorite ceramic mug. Choso was not sure what he signed up for when he got you pregnant but it sure wasn't this.

He and his son were always getting scolded by you. Every time Ryuji gets into some kind of trouble it also happens to be Choso's fault for not watching him closely as you always say. The truth is, Ryuji seems to get into trouble even with his father watching him closely.

"Um... we can tell her it was at the edge of the counter and i walked past it and it fell down. Then it will be her fault for leaving it by the edge." Choso smiles at his devious ten year old. He knows lying is bad but if you heard what really happened you'd scold both of them.

What actually happened as that Ryuji was playing in the kitchen, even though you've warned him against it many times and he knocked your mug down onto the ground.

"Good idea, kid. I don't want to hear Mom yelling again. I might get couch treatment again." Choso shivers at the idea of sleeping on the cramped couch rather than in his warm bed with you.

"You remind me a lot of your Uncle Yuji." Choso says ruffling his son's hair. "You and Mom keep saying that and I don't know if that's good or bad."

"It depends. Yuji can be both." Choso chuckles. His son gives him a crushing hug.

"I love you dad, you're doing great." And Choso didn't know how much he needed to hear those words but they were getting to him.

Fushiguro Toji

"Quit kicking your Ma, ya little brat." He threatens your swelling belly. He gives you a questioning look when you glare at him. Those emerald eyes challenge yours in a staring contest.

"What is with you and threatening our unborn children?" Your question is followed by a giggle.

"Gotta let the brats know who's in charge." He blows out a breath and puffs his chest, you find the whole ordeal ridiculous. The man is a girl dad for crying out loud. Even his oldest, your step-son thinks his father is a clown. And before Tsumiki died there were three daughters in his life.

He thinks your third one is bound to be a boy, but you're secretly hoping for a girl just to further sink Toji's idea of having a little boy to boss around. Megumi comes around maybe twice a month to see his little half-sisters, which means Toji is surrounded by girls all the time.

You like to joke around with him and say, "What do you know? Girls seem to follow you wherever you go." He always grumbles about it being stupid and unfair.

"As I was saying-"

"DAD!!!!! MY HAIR OH NOOOOOOO." Toji's up off the couch in seconds answering at his daughter's beck and call.

He walks into her room to see her braid was messed up. "What happened, Doll?" He asks her, undoing the braid so he can redo it.

"Yui undid my braid!! She took my hair tie and ran to her room!!!" She squeals, in horror at her little sister's thieving.

"Oh did she now? I'll go have a talk with her once I braid this back up." He's gentle with his tender-headed daughter. He quickly braids her hair back up, the pattern memorized. 100% self indulgent bc im tender headed.

"I have this green hair tie, is that okay, sweet girl?" She sighs quietly. "Where are the blue ones?" Toji clicks his tongue. "I can go get one real quick if you hold the end of this braid." He tells her and she's quick to do it. Her favorite color is blue after all.

She cheers when her father returns with a blue hair tie. He ties it up quickly, "Okay let me go talk to Yui." Nami nods brushing out her baby doll's hair.

Toji makes an appearance in front of his four year old's door, she's making her dolls scream at each other. "What was da reason?!!!!" She screams pretending to be one of the dolls, "I had a reason." She makes the other say.

Toji rolls his eyes, his daughter has been watching too much TV with you. "Excuse me miss Cardi B, why did you steal your sister's hair tie?" His hands are on his hips and his eyes are squinted to add to his authority.

"Whattttt, Dad, you know dat?" She asks as if her dad lives under a rock.

"Tch I'm not old, I know what memes are. Now answer the question." She rolls her eyes. You tell Toji she gets her attitude from him.

"If you haf to know I needed it, so I could give Sprinkles a ponytail." Sprinkles is the dog Toji said he was NOT going to get for his girls but caved in and got anyway.

"Ya coulda asked me or your Ma for one rather than stealing it right from your sister's hair." She shakes her head in disagreement. Toji wonders what's going on in her head right now.

"Dad you don't get it! It had to be that one!"

"Why that specific hair tie?" She goes silent turning away from her father and mumbling something Toji can barely hear.

"Speak up, princess." She scoffs and sighs and folds her arms. Wow the sass is unreal.

"Sprinkle thinks Nami is super cool so she wants what Nami has." Toji isn't stupid he knows his daughter is using the dog as a place holder for how she admires her older sister. Yui doesn't like to admit it though.

"Are you sure it's Sprinkle who thinks Nami is super cool?" He gives her the chance to be open with him and she sighs taking the bait.

"I guess. I think Nami is super cool." She murmurs and Toji smirks.

"It's alright to think your sis is cool, Dad didn't get to grow up with any cool siblings. Just annoying cousins."

"Mai and Maki are cooler than you, Dad, not annoying!" The man in question raises his brow his smirk never leaving, "Okay since I'm not cool. I guess I won't take you out for treats anymore when Ma says no."

Little Yui gasps, bursting upward like a rocket and running toward her dad. She hugs his leg, her little head looking up at him, "I was kidding Dad. You're super cool. Please don't stop taking me for treats!!"

Toji smiles, picks up his little girl and tickles her. She screams out for him to stop, "Huh? I can't hear what you're saying."

"Nami help!!!!"

In seconds Nami's attacking her father in a playful manner, "Let go of my sister!!"

"Okay then." Toji holds his daughter upside down by her feet, as she screams some more. "MA!!! HELPPP!!!!"

"Toji put her down." You say in a half-hearted manner.

"She is down. Upside down."

Nanami Kento

"See, you're getting the hang of it, Hiro." Kento softly encourages his son who's struggling with his math homework. You had tried to help him but he screamed that what you were saying didn't make sense. So of course you yelled back, letting your emotions get the better of you.

Kento had stepped in to keep you two from ripping each other's heads off. Plus all that screaming had woken up the baby. You could hear her crying.

That was about an hour ago. You quietly walked into the dining room with your seven month old baby girl cuddled up to your chest as you held her tight.

The sight of your husband helping your son warmed your heart, but you also felt guilt hot in your stomach for yelling at him, he's only twelve.

"Hey, Hiro. Can I talk to you, hon?" You ask softly. Both your son and Kento turn their heads upon hearing your voice. He nods at you and you inhale deeply, "I'm sorry for yelling at you, bud, I didn't mean it."

His eyes soften as do Kento's.

"I'm sorry too, Mom. I started it. You were just trying to help me." Kento's smile encourages you to walk closer to the table which you do.

"We should have had Dad come help in the first place, huh? I'm not good at explaining." Hiro shares a laugh with you, and Kento cups your cheek.

"Explanations might not be your strong suit but you're still a good mother, baby." Hiro gags at his father calling you "baby" he hate when you two get sappy.

You move your head a little so you can kiss his palm. As expected Hiro covers his eyes and making more throwing up noises.

"Oh hush, one day you'll find someone for you, and you'll be just like me and your mother." Kento says rolling his eyes and you giggle. Even though you guys have your differences you guys always forgive each other at the end of the day.

Your little girl coos quietly and Kento holds out his arms gesturing for his little girl.

"She's just had dinner, so she might fall asleep on you." Your warning doesn't bother him at all, if anything, you'll probably have more pictures to add to your baby gallery on your phone if she falls asleep in his arms.

She's already a dad's girl and she's only seven months old. You thought maybe Hiro would be a mama's boy but he's definitely his daddy's son.

You don't mind though, well, sometimes you're a little jealous that you have to share your man with your kids. Kento's a very lovable man though, so you can't blame them.

#jjk #jjk fluff #jujutsu kaisen #jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jjk as dads #jjk!dads #jujutsu kaisen as dads #dad!au #gojo x reader #gojo satoru x reader #geto x reader #geto suguru x reader #choso x reader #choso kamo x reader #toji x reader #toji fushiguro x reader #nanami x reader #nanami kento x reader

[tommy-288]

How to successfully deal with a person who subscribes to the Lost Cause Myth.

1. Show them the facts, debunk them on why the myth is a myth. But make sure you site your sources and put it into simple terms.

2. If they're still in denial, tell them to stop being in denial.

3. If they're still in denial, pull out your Springfield model 1861 and shoot them.

4. Hide the body.

5. Move to a different country and change your identity.

6. If you go to prison that's a you problem.

I hope these steps helped.

#american civil war #acw #lost cause myth #american history #history

[dearyallfrommatt]

Why do some modern poor Southerners feel any pride in rich elitist slave owners?

This is the answer I wrote to the above question on Reddit. I thought it was worth holding onto, if just for my own future reference.

As a Southerner and the descendant of a Confederate soldier, I really don't know. There's always been a lot of talk about "honoring the Confederacy and the men that fought for it," but even putting aside that just what those men fought for is indefensible now and was so at the time, the Confederacy itself was a poorly structured, badly run, completely soulless wreck. Of the four years it existed, did the Confederate States produce any art or political theory or science or engineering advances or anything?

One of the bigger parts of the "Lost Cause" myth is the idea that the South was a solid block behind the Confederate government and secession in general. That just isn't true. Apart from actual breakaway states like West Virginia, large swaths of just about every state were uncontrollable by the Confederate government, and dissertation - particularly after 1863 or so - was almost as big a disaster as the Confederate Army's almost complete inability to properly equip their soldiers.

Cajuns faded back into the Louisiana swamps and hillbillies disappeared back into the Ozarks. Farmers from Arkansas to North Carolina got tired of seeing their families starve because the Confederate Army kept taking more and more and more. All the while, the government is passing laws that put more of the onus of actually fighting the war on the backs of the poor, letting the rich slip away with things like the Twenty Slave Law.

I use Capt. Newton Knight as my avatar for a reason. A lot of those soldiers today's racist dingbats claim to honor took a look at what and who they were fighting for and told Ashley and Miss Scarlett to fuck off. As a Southern, the grandson of a Confederate soldier's grandson, and as a Mississippian, it actually pisses me off that I'm supposed to honor and revere the government and society that propped up those leeches and left Great-great-grandfather Thompson's family to starve.

#From reddit #the Lost Cause Myth #Driving' Ol' Dixie Down #Newton Knight #The Free State of Jones County

[quills-and-fantasy]

something deeply annoying about people trying to be like "x isn't true, what happened is y" and y is just as bad

"those weren't mass graves those were graveyards"

at a children's boarding school??? it's still bad

#I'm talking about residential schools #and the myth of the lost cause #and tangentially people who try to shift definitions so they think they don't seem racist #quill scratchings

[heritageposts]

During the recent “March for Israel” in Washington, DC, Al Jazeera interviewed a confident young man from Connecticut about the war in Gaza. Draped in an Israeli flag, Charlie appeared ready to answer any question. He made it clear from the outset that the ongoing war is not “Hamas vs Israel”, but “Hamas vs the whole world”. He said he regrets children’s deaths and prays for innocent lives lost. But he had no doubt about who is responsible for the death of civilians in Gaza. While Israel does everything to avoid civilian casualties, he said, Iran-backed Palestinian terrorists bomb their own hospitals, use civilians as human shields, and even place kids next to rocket launchers. Iran and its proxies are the source of all evil in Palestine and the region, he added. Charlie has clearly done his homework. He has studied the Israel Project’s “Global Language Dictionary [PDF]”, memorised its lines, and repeated them verbatim, not missing a beat. The playbook was created in 2009 after Israel’s first war on the besieged Gaza Strip, to guide Israel’s supporters on how best to speak to the media about the conflict. Inspired by Israel’s leading spin doctors, such as Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu, it is directed at young activists, as well as politicians, pundits, journalists and more. It tells its readers what to say, and what not to say, alerting them to words that should be used and others that mustn’t. One of my favourite tidbits in the playbook, as I wrote back in 2014, goes like this: “Avoid talking about borders in terms of pre- or post-1967, because it only serves to remind Americans of Israel’s military history. Particularly on the left, this does you harm.” And when civilian casualties mount during wartime in Gaza, the playbook recommends talking empathetically along these lines of “All human life is precious”, but emphasising that “it is a tragedy that Iran-backed Hamas shoots rockets at our civilians while hiding in their own” and that this “causes tragic deaths on both sides”. Sounds familiar?

. . . continues on Al Jazeera (20 Nov 2023)

PDF of the Israel Project’s "Global Language Dictionary"

#palestine #israel #gaza #i've been skimming through the global language dictionary and it's very eye opening #it's the same taking point you see repeated by zionists everywhere #of course only a handful of them will have read the actual dictionary but they've had these arguments spoon-fed to them by politicians #media personalities etc.

[sakurarisen]

@annjiru​ asked:

2, 11, 12

Hard Mode HCs! Because I wanted to do these too and decided earlier I’d do both this and the mun one for the same ask <3 XD

2. What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?

There really isn’t one there. As a child, Sera had what she hesitates to call a relationship with her mother; she was the lesser of two evils when it came to her parents, but her mother pretty regularly sided with her father on things, and protected him over her own children. She did, however, try her best to instruct them to avoid making things worse on them - She would step in and deal with issues before word got back to her father, or try to tend to things regarding the kids before he got fed up and did it himself. Her mother attempted to protect her, but with how easily she was won over by her own husband and sided with his greed over their kids, it never really was much of a ‘relationship’.

Since then, Sera’s cut her out of her life just as much as she has her elder brother and father, and considers her just as guilty as them for not putting a stop to things when she had every chance to. To her, she’s just as bad as the rest of them, even if she understands some of why her mother did what she did, but that’s not enough, in her eyes. If she never sees her again, she’ll be just fine.

11. In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?

There’s been a fair number of these situations throughout her life, but one of them was the day she was kicked out of her ‘childhood home’ for ‘being wasteful’. She was 11, nearing 12, and had no idea what to do - It wasn’t like she really had any idea of how to function on her own outside of the house, let alone how to essentially be an adult capable of living on her own, and there were no family members she knew of she could find and ask to stay with. Her father had been incredibly good (and crafty) about covering up what he’d been doing, and even so young, she knew this ‘upstanding community member’ would never actually face repercussions for what he’d done to not only her, but her siblings, as well, which meant telling others in town would only get her in more trouble and hurt even more. She’d already started gaining her dream of changing the world and helping others, but for an actual child... This was more a defense at the time than it was a solidified dream she figured she could attain.

She was free from hell and alive, but in exchange, she needed to grow up and make it on her own and she was terrified. Nowhere to go, no idea how to do anything or survive.. All she could do was take her few possessions and walk.

12. In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?

There’s been fewer of these than fear, but one of them is definitely when she tripped across a small group of campers in her travels one night. She’d missed her daily ‘meal’, if you can even call it that, hadn’t really slept the night before, but was trying to force herself to get to the next town sooner than she was physically able to keep up with - a decision the campers weren’t having any of when she found them. Even though she’d literally stumbled into their campsite, they were all all too happy to take her in for the night, giving her food and water, a blanket, and a place to stay with them for some much needed rest, not taking no for an answer. They couldn’t just let her stumble away when they could hear her stomach growling, they’d argued, and the night was cold; she needed their campfire, and in a rare bout of being unable to disagree, Sera stayed.

It turned out they were a kindly group who were incredibly into telling stories by the campfire, turning to that when questioning her on why she was out and about at night alone got them nowhere. They taught her about the stars, the myths and legends and stories surrounding them from their respective hometowns, how to pick out and follow the north star... They sparked in her a desire to learn about the stars and are the cause for some of her first questions on arriving to a new town being about the night sky, wanting to find a common thread in her dream to unite the world through stories. Through the myths and legends shared throughout the world and the different ways these stories are told - a thread weaving smiles from the very stars themselves. <3

#Questioning A Flower [Asks] #Out Of Poms [OOC] #Colors Of Sakura [Headcanons] #Annjiru #TW: Famlial Abuse #<3 Still decided to do both memes like I said but wow this took me a while to get up #The storms going insane outside and it's got me super nervous #So this was a good distraction? <3 #I've also never had a chance to really talk about the people Sera met during her travels and I love doing that- #She's had a horrid life but she's met and learned from and stayed with some really amazing people #There's a few of those stories but I went with this one first just 'cause it explains why she loves stars so much <3 #On top of just being able to admire them and be awestruck by them from living outside for so long <3 #The stories surrounding them always have different names and twists but they all have some of the same threads in them #And Sera LOVES hearing about all the different takes and versions and the like every country and town has on them <3 #She was brought up with stories and fairy tales from her (now lost) elder sister? Sories and myths and legends and even fairy tales #Have a VERY special role in Sera's life and helped her cope with having to grow up fast <3 #But the 'fairy tale lens' she sees things through is another HC entirely <3 #Also yeaaaaah nah Sera would like to inform she no longer has a birth family #Her mother wasn't AS bad but bad enough and since it was the first question on the list I didn't #Want to readmore with more detail on that #Again - Another HC entirely. <3