#and other civillizations for the matter

[annachum]

#egypt for egyptians #this arab local has spoken #stop the whitewashing and afrocentrist narratives of egyptians!!!!! #and other civillizations for the matter #fuck you netflix cleo trash #if one wanna see great egyptian rep just go see mcu moon knight prince of egypt and asterix

[rmbunnie]

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

#edit: i am so so open to discussion and disagreement on this but please try to have something substantial to say. god bless! #like ofc jason kills but to me it was less “everyone I've ever killed deserves death objectively” #and more “when people are dead they stop doing things like heinous atrocities and trying to kill me" #i don't even think he wanted the joker dead (only) because he thinks he objectively morally deserves death #although the joker is one of the most extreme cases possible and he if does think that he's VERY justified #i really do think it was just about bruce #and wanting bruce to avenge him to show he loved him and he mattered and wanting his dad to give him security #all the killing was about the clown and everything with the clown was about bruce #i've NEVER forgotten the bit in lost days where he has the joker tied up at gunpoint and doesn't kill him #i think if it was only about a moral greater good situation he would have taken him out then and there #if you disagree i'd love to hear why provided you can be civil and not an jerk #also if you disagree PLEASE PLEASE put screenshots and comic issues if possible #i'd love to check them out and form my own stance on them #just know that if you say like. battle for the cowl. or the Tom King batman annual or something i probably won't care too much #comic characterization is ever-changing and inconsistent i truly believe that the best thing to do is just read the important stuff #and try to form your own stances from there #because there's never gonna be 100% of comics involving a character that align with each other perfectly and that's just a given #jason todd #red hood #dc comics

[downloadablecreature]

I am of the (apparently controversial) opinion that a human is a human, and deserves to be treated as such.

#the only way you’d be no longer human is by dying #because then you’re a corpse #trans rights #gay rights #black lives matter #prison reform #immigration #tolerance #if anyone sees this #add more relevant tags #if you have an argument please explain it to me in a calm manner #so that we might have a civil conversation about it #instead of screaming at each other like idiots

[spidey-bie]

Me Whenever I See A HC that goes against my Aroace Hobie HC:

#if yall send in asks about other Hobie hcs i will be civil #but know i will most likely be saying sex repulsed no matter what you tell me 😔 #hobie brown #hobie hcs #hobie headcanons #atsv memes #jay and the spiders

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok-Chakotay dynamic should have gone from two people who are always poking at one another to two people who are always joking with one another - in both cases this is an unspoken thing. They’re playing a game of chicken that gets steadily less hostile. From “I’m not trying to be difficult here.” (lie) to “I’m not trying to be funny here.” (lie)

#let Tuvok have relationships outside of being a mentor to others #let him be so annoying and accidentally have fun #also I believe in this platonically like the show could have really done this canonically if they cared to #but also lets step into my smooth and brilliant mind for a second and consider them kissing about this #A trait of Tuvok's that I like is that he likes teasing people and giving them a hard time...being difficult for the sake of it #(when it doesn't matter of course) and I think if Chakotay discovered that he'd love it bc he is also shown to like that sort of thing #Tuvok and Chakotay having a conversation that they're pretending is serious but is 90% joking around ... yeah -nodnodnod- #The two of them just trying to be barely civil to one another ... Chakotay especially bc that's the woman he likes' bff ... but then #becoming actual friends (or more - both options please me equally) with one another outside of Janeway.... yeah!! -nodnodnod- #[VERY OFF TOPIC] Wouldn't it be funny if Chakotay finally kissed Tuvok and when he opened his eyes slightly to see what Tuvok looked like #Tuvok was just staring at him with his eyes fully open and Chakotay first was startled but then just couldn't stop laughing.... #w HY are your eyes open.....(Why did you close yours?) #Tuvok and T'Pel stare at one another while kissing he doesn't know why humans close their eyes when doing their spitty gross version #<- that isn't part of this post I just didn't want to make a whole other post about it (embarrassed) #st voyager #Tuvok #Chakotay

[tmncthingtosee]

It’s so painful funny seeing the different fandoms you’re in be nothing but spiteful to each other. Like I’m genuinely sobbing laughing at how I ended up being a Max and Esteban fan while fully adoring 4433 at the same time.

#no seriously #take me out #with a 💥 #might as well chuck Daniel in there as well #the Checo and Daniel fans are nothing but VICIOUS to each other #blood was drawn #lives were lost #how many civil wars do I have to be a part of? #I’m sat in the middle while one of my favs gets dragged no matter the result #/// #alpine #esteban ocon #formula 1 #max verstappen #f1 #red bull racing #checo perez #4433

[deathlessathanasia]

"Detienne, taking as his key the well-known myth that Adonis' pregnant mother Myrrha or Smyrna (both Greek words for myrrh) was metamorphosed into a myrrh tree, from whose trunk the newborn in due time emerged, sees Adonis as essentially the fruit of an aromatic shrub, a perfume, an anti-agricultural product. His method is to find a counter-phenomenon in Attic society, in response to which the Adonia can take their significance: surely the Thesmophoria, the autumn festival in honor of Demeter at which the women of Athens celebrated the growth of food crops. Detienne finds a further, sociological opposition here: the Thesmophoria were celebrated only by the wives of Athenian citizens; the Adonia were notoriously celebrated by prostitutes. He positions Adonis and the data of his cult within various oppositional codes discernible in Greek culture-each illustrated by a diagram-that parallel one another quite precisely, replicating the same meaning in different terms: aromatically, Adonis stands for heady perfume; botanically, for profitless agriculture; socially, for seduction and extramarital pleasure. The Adonia, Detienne declares, were a celebration of infertility and fruitless sex, a spectacular illustration of the dangers of untrammeled female sexuality, serving to balance and emphasize the autumn celebration of fruitfulness and legitimate connubiality in the service of the polis.

But much evidence slips through Detienne's grid. In several versions of the birth of Adonis myrrh has no place: in our earliest his mother is one Alphesiboea ([Hes.], fr. 139 M-W); in another she is one Metharme ([Apollod.], Bibl. 3.14.3). Philostephanus of Cyrene made him the son of Zeus alone (ap. [Probus] on Verg., Ecl. 10.18).22 As for the carnival of whores, the Adoniac festivities in brothels in Diphilus, fr. 42.38-41 PCG and Alciphron 4.14.8 (based on fourth-century comedy), are to be supplemented by Aristophanes, Lys. 391-96, and Menander, Sam. 35-50, in which wives and daughters of citizens celebrate the Adonia. Most surprisingly, Detienne's theory takes only passing account of the ritual lamentation, which ancient sources make the most conspicuous feature of the festival, and in general ignores what the celebrants themselves thought of what they were doing-unless we are to imagine that the women of Athens climbed onto their roofs once a year deliberately to celebrate their own failings to the community. There was probably another reason, one which feminist studies of the cult have begun to seek.

Another assumption, however, more fundamentally flaws Detienne's interpretation. While proposing to tease an inherent meaning from Athenian cult practice by identifying the inherent correspondences and oppositions within it, Detienne fails to define a perspective more specific than a homogeneous Greco-Roman society. Adonis, for example, must have meant many things to many people at many times (even different things to the same people at different times), but Detienne's formula assumes that he meant essentially the same thing to everybody, no matter how many borders of nation, culture, language, gender, or time he may have crossed-as if any detail of the myth of Adonis tapped into one immanent meaning and could be adduced for the significance of the Athenian cult. Rhetorical motives are undifferentiated: a line of Sappho is treated equally with a line of Philodemus; the testimony of Aristophanes is put on a par with the testimony of St. Cyril. This method is programmatic and derives from Levi-Strauss, who articulates the principle thus vis-A-vis his interpretation of Oedipus: "[W]e define the myth as consisting of all its versions; or to put it otherwise, a myth remains the same as long as it is felt as such." Combining details from diverse myths of Adonis, regardless of date or provenance, Detienne treats the resulting conglomeration as a single sacred tale holding a precious key to the meaning of the ritual. But for whom does it hold meaning? For Detienne alone. Purportedly context-based, his method actually isolates phenomena from their diverse cultural uses and recontextualizes them into an artificial code that transcends the messy inconsistencies of Greek thought."

- The Sexuality of Adonis by Joseph D. Reed

#adonis #adonia #festivals #ancient greece #greek mythology #structuralism #excerpts #article #and this is why I have such a bad time reading the writings of Detienne and other structuralist classicists #not that they don't write a lot of interesting and insightful stuff #but the homogenizing of all versions of a myth (no matter the date or author or language) into one coherent account #and the extrapolation of meaning from that one ahistorical version that the author has just created #is just not something I care about #and I also feel that the interpretation of the gods from a structuralist perspective can be reductive #and necessitates the ignoring or dismissal of sources that don't fit so neatly into the proposed binary #ex: Poseidon=brute force of nature so he engenders the horse; Athena=civilization and technology so she creates the bridle to tame it #just ignore that in some sources it is Poseidon himself who invents the bridle #I mean yeah the idea does have merit #but ancient Greek mythology and religion are complex and messy and diverse and even contradictory

[starberrysap]

i’ve suddenly been struck by the strong need for a benoit blanc batfamily crossover fic

#listen. LISTEN. #blanc gets hired by someone doesn’t really matter who maybe it’s bernard maybe it’s steph as a joke #to investigate the waynes during a week long public event or smth #or maybe he’s been invited over by alfred idk #wait blanc as bernard’s gay uncle who thinks he’s a little crazy but has good ideas sometimes #they have tea sometimes to talk oh it’s coming together #it just matters that he’s there and he’s immediately suspicious of the family #like there are just some strange things about these people and he just knows it #and his experience with fabulously wealthy people leads him to believe there are some exerts #maybe at one point he sees one of the kids go into a secret passageway or overhears a conversation #so he’s onto them #but of course worlds best detective meets worlds best detective and they’re butting heads #they’re both perfectly civil but keep trying to trip the other up into revealing their snooping/suspicious behavior #anyways i think it would be silly and funny and camp #if i ever finish my stuff for school i will write this #batfam #batman #benoit blanc #bruce wayne #crossover #dc comics

[ben-the-hyena]

I have not thought about @dracocheesecake's and mine common TDC AU, the Natives AU in which both Skeksis and Mystics are actually normal species from Thra with their own societoes and not linked there is no Dark Crystal no Darkening and no draining, and the main conflict is mostly SkekSo being an imperalist who knows he will die from a Skeksis disease with Darkening-like symptoms soon so he goes "fuck it Imma conquest the others and expand my lands and make our species the grandest on Thra to leave in a blast and be remembered as a hero for future Skeksis generations and thus immortal", in a while ! Better remedy because I recently got FRESH IDEAS AGAIN @ohfugecannada you will be happy !

And like all of us fans wyo make AUs we can't help but imagine what the canon characters would think meeting their different yet similar selves from alternate universes, I sure do when I make AUs, imagining canon and AU versions chatting casually and being shocked at the differences

And then it hit me yesterday or the day before yesterday

If the 2 universes, the canon Thra and AU Thra converged one way or another

The Skeksis and Mystics in that AU being from Thra as much as the others

They would have essence in them

So I DOUBT the canon Skeksis would just chat with their selves

They would capture them and figure that if they drink from themselves it should be the ultimate immortality potion, plus taller species more essence

And I have the vivid picture in mind I may draw one day of canon So watching with a smirk Natives!So being drained and weakly begging for mercy as a vial is being filled

And even I shudder at such a thought

#and as Draco said it would cause a civil war within the canon Skeksis too #some totally agreeing with SkekSo's theory. others being horrified to do that to other skeksis let alone 'themselves' #some even seeing again skeksis they liked who died in canon and not wanting to have them die again. Ok for Lach Zok for Var #SkekZok wanting to be Emperor already anyway I think it would push him and motivate him to do a coup no matter how SkekSo is alive #aus #oh fu- #thra #essence #the dark crystal #skeksis #urru #skekso #the emperor #draining #dracocheesecake #moi #ohfugecannada #also canon skeksil seeing natives!skekvar and having a mini heart attack thinking he is living a hamlet moment

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

So an LP channel I love presented a theory that the mage circle in DA is essentially built to fail, things like templar incompetence and brutality and poor training of mages are allowed to spread specifically so that there are enough incidents to keep the widespread fear of mages fresh, and I LOVE that. Given how Bioware writes I sincerely doubt its intended, but its a take that I really love particularly when you look at all the cultures with mages outside of the chantry that do just fine (mainly thinking if the dalish here but like...there's enough casually mentioned apostates out there just vibing to suggest that circle training against demons isn't all that effective)

Downside is it makes Vivienne all the more infuriating to deal with. I already struggled talking to her because she's like...she's literally fighting for her own oppression, it drives me insane

#and before anyone says sure i see the arguments that mages are inherently dangerous #its the same story you see in X-men or telepaths in B5 etc etc #that doesnt make it any less a narrative about oppression lol #its the same reason i have such strong opinions on marvel civil war for example #(the comic not the movie the movie was shit) #like...it doesnt matter how theoretically dangerous a person is. theyre still a fucking person. #let individual groups manage their own people yknow #shocking take my gay autistic trans ass is agressively pro mage lol but like...god #bioware has such an interesting and direct parable on their hands and routinely wipes their collective ass with it #and its especially frustrating bc Vivienne is an interesting character! id love to get to know her more #but every fucking conversation is a criticism that im giving mages basic personal freedoms or how wonderful the chantry is #it makes her downright unpleasant to talk to #at least sera and bull feel like they can at least see the other side of things sometimes

[iron-sides]

me when doctor who presents a species (daleks) at its worst (season one episode six the dalek) and asks the audience to sympathize Anyway. me when doctor who posits the idea that, yeah, this thing is the embodiment of evil it is in a forever war against the doctor personally and even HE. the DOCTKR. wants the entire species wiped from existence. it is going to kill Everyone because it honestly believes they should die. it is a person. it is scared. it is in pain. it is dying. the doctor wants to kill it: the last dalek and the last time lord locked in eternal battle, except its not eternal, is it? this is the only time we ever see the doctor with an honest to god advantage over any dalek and i dont remember how the episode ends but ive seen him torture it im watching him debate ethics with it- whats the point? whats it good for? and then revert under stress to: i think you should kill yourself. why dont you just die? he would make a good dalek.

#we see the doctor and the daleks both at their worst ans we are asked to see the best of both #and its so important that this is the episode that introduces us to the time war and it introduces us to it as meaningless violence between #two beings who have nothing left to lose and nothing left to live for trying to take each other down before they go #i cant die unless you do first. i cant live any longer but i cant die knowing you live #AUGHHHHH #my thots #bee liveblogs! #dw s1 #like its soooo fucking important to me that the time war is introduced not as the time lords' righteous defeat over the daleks #or for that matter the time lord's beautiful sacrifice taking themselves out along with the daleks #we learn first abt people displaced by the war torn from theor homes by senseless violence and then we learn about two mighty civilization #s refusing to stop ever until they took each other out #a dalek trying to change and the doctor trying to kill it. fuck #sorry guys i am always Like This aboit anti ear messaging that insists on seeing everyone involved as people #the daleks are people. the time lords are people. god fuck :( #me when nuance 😭

[dykesbites]

and not to make this about race but like literally HOW can you be person of color in america, especially being a black man, and not sympathize with the plight of palestinians like brother we are fighting the same fight!!! ohhh b-but but we need to talk about hamas rockets wahh :( OKAY WELL FIND SOURCES AND PUT IT IN THERE YOURSELF AND STOP BITCHING ABOUT HOW THE REST OF US ARE SYMPATHIZING WITH VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE

#brother straight up went 'i know palestinians are suffering heavier losses and israeli soldiers are dancing on their bodies. but can we #-talk about loss of life on both sides' #AND THEN I WAS LIKE yeah israelis have been killed by the idf actually theyve killed their own civilians it sucks and he was like #'well if you want to talk about the israeli government thats a whole other conversation' EXCUSE MEEGHUEH?????????????? #I THOUGHT YOU CARED ABOUT LOSS OF LIFE. DOES THAT SUDDENLY NOT MATTER IF IT MAKES ISRAEL LOOK BAD? #ALSO NO ITS NOT A WHOLE OTHER CONVERSATION ITS LITERALLY FRONT AND CENTER OF EVERY CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS TOPIC YOU HEUIRGFYUEHDVSLJFGIYUH #if i could strangle this man through the zoom meeting i might have. god grant me the strength to be civil about this

[biblionerd07]

do you maybe have a steve rogers angst fic rec list? you have good taste man I trust when you say somethin is good

Ahh thank you! Honestly I am too lazy to make an actual rec list (sorry lol)/haven't read fic in a while but this link will take you to my bookmarks with Steve that are also tagged angst. Can't promise all the angst is Steve's but it may be a start! Three off the top of my head that no one will be surprised to hear me suggest are Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail (honestly required reading for anyone in the fandom or dare I say anyone on Earth), Ain't No Grave (honestly ditto, everyone read it), and Sparked Up Like a Book of Matches (ft. an adorable robot named Shitcan and a Mickey Mouse sippy cup). The first two are I'd say more Bucky-centric but Steve's angst features heavily in both and the third one is very very much about Steve's angst.

#steve rogers #fic rec #i reread these three probably yearly #no matter what other fandoms i've moved to #btw they're not compliant with civil war onward bc they were written before it came out #also who wants that shit lol

[danswank]

i firmly believe you can critique your favorite bands. i don’t believe that you should act like you’re morally superior to everyone else while purposefully hiding the fact that you’re still going to their shows.

#copying my tweet and posting it here lol #i WANT us to be able to have civil discussions about atl and the allegations #i think talking it out is good that’s how we all think more critically #that’s the environment i’ve tried to build on this blog #but it’s gross to brag about your moral superiority and pretend like you’re not still supporting the band when you are #if you have to do it in secret what are you doing #atl #paige talks #this truly doesn’t matter and in general i think fans care far too much about other fans #but i’m also a person who gets annoyed lol

[dmclemblems]

“our fine leaders” look i love me a good dimitri and lorenz friendship and hearing him call dimitri a fine leader is a high honor from lorenz i am blessed by this

#Three Hopes #Three Hopes Spoilers #Lorenz #Dimitri #one of my big azure moon headcanons is that when the war ends dimitri appoints lorenz as being in charge of #all the old alliance lands bc dimitri can't be everywhere at once so he needs other people to take care of those places #he wants to help with change but he can only make a big difference more immediately in his own area #so the areas surrounding fhirdiad would get the best results fastest but nowhere else would see quick change #but if he has leaders in leicester and adrestia who know the place and people very well he can stay in contact with them #and make sure what he wants to do for the people and nobility will reach those areas just as quickly #so he has lorenz in charge of the former leicester territories and ferdinand in charge of the former adrestia territories #bc all three of them prioritize the wellbeing of the people over everything and i think he'd trust them the most to keep things in line #lorenz and ferdinand have very particular ideals for the nobility but they're more or less the same things dimitri feels #they all want the best for their people first and foremost and have solid goals to keep their people safe and happy #like for lorenz it's not a matter of just ''you're a commoner so we're above you'' #it's that he thinks yeah they deserve respect for what they do since they do all the heavy lifting for governing #and that's the stuff that's supposed to help with laws that keeps everything civilized #but he also would stop at NOTHING to keep the people of his lands alive and healthy #to him it's his duty to ensure those things for his people and he believes it's a noble's purpose basically to provide for commoners #dimitri thinks of it in a less nobility versus commoners specific way but he wants the same things and i think #he would trust lorenz more than probably anyone else when it came to the safety of the common folk #like he would trust yuri with that but he also understands yuri can sometimes be involved in shady things #but lorenz doesn't have a shady bone in his body and any distrust he feels for anyone he's up front about #and when he's wrong abt something he'll admit it and apologize and not many of the nobility behave like that #im super sad that they didn't get supports in either game bc they would have an amazing friendship imo #and between the two of them would be able to really bring about a new era for fodlan that really made it a great place #not to say I think ferdinand would help less just that this post is more abt lorenz and dimi specifically #they're my golden leaders trio and im so heartbroken that ferdinand can't join dimi in this game bc they're all #such good leaders and rulers and i want them to be close friends who always contact each other for politics and change

[i-choose-the-danger]

Hi! Someone shared one of your Newt and Theseus fics and I had to read EVERYTHING. Your fics are all so good!

I apologize if this topic is taboo and understand if you say no, but since you're obviously a Fantastic Beasts fan, are you also a main Potter fan? I ask because I was curious if you know about Hogwarts Legacy or play it and would ever consider writing fics based on some of the game characters. Like I said, I understand if it's not something you want to touch. THank u so much!

Thank you for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed my writing. :D

I am indeed a Potter fan, since the beginning after the first book came out. I do not own the HL game, but I have watched a full playthrough (mostly because I wanted to see what the *actual* storyline was) and I really do love quite a few of the characters. I might consider fics based on them in the future, but right now I see too many people being attacked for their fics and fan art... which to me is just beyond insane and stupid because fics and fan art don't put money in JKR's pocket and it's just FREE ART... but it is what it is and for now I'd rather not have that kind of negativity thrown my way. There are definitely a few fic ideas sitting on the back burner for it though. Thank you for your understanding on this topic. <3

#anon #asks #i'm not even tagging the subject matter #please be civil to each other