#and the complicated history that im into

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

#and then they're like ''ohhh they're mizrahi!'' [connotation nonwhite‚ virtuously indigenous] #and i have to be like. no. it's just that‚ as palestine was in fact ottoman-administered greater syria for most of the last 600 years‚ #you could get there from other parts of the ottoman empire. such as the part of now-ukraine your ashkenazi family is also from. #it wasn't actually a hermetically sealed arab-only ethnostate that evaporated immigrants on sight. it was a pretty decent place to live as #a jew by at least some accounts. or better than the front of the hapsburg-ottoman war anyway which is where they were coming from. #i'm not sure who you think it's serving exactly to believe that there were literally no ashkenazim in the middle east before the 1st aliyah #however there were some. and this information does not actually threaten a modern anti-state of israel position like at all. #but since apparently you've constructed your new Diaspora-Centric Identity around the idea that 'palestine' and 'diaspora' #are the two mutually exclusive nonoverlapping regions and the former is ontologically a no-european-jews-allowed zone #i guess i can give you a minute to try to figure it out. #ugh sorry this is nothing it isn't anything. for one thing it's fantastically unimportant #and for another thing i don't know how to like talk about it in a way that doesn't make me sound at least kind of like im trying to justify #myself as being somehow less complicit or something. i mean i think my complicity as an american dwarfs the rest of it honestly but. #i just feel really insanely alienated where the rhetoric of my theoretically most closely politically aligned group is not really built to #like. accommodate the facts of my family history. #sorry. i have honestly no idea why im so obsessed with articulating this concept ive just been chewing on it pointlessly for days #box opener

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the british do inches right?

#why do i have to look this up Every time #and why do i get 'heres a history of how it's complicated' every time #thats why i have to keep looking it up probably #im just never convinced by my choice. however i choose

[pinacoladamatata]

Hurts hurts hurts me how other companions will be like "yeah you must choose one of us. Choose me though, the obvious choice. I love you."

And Astarion will be genuinely confused and surprised by Tav choosing him every time 🥺 his whole reaction is like "you chose me? But...WHY?"

#i did this wyll and gale and laezel so far #and astarion acts like tav is coming over to break up with him and then acts shocked when they say no i like you #also there is something exceedingly hilarious and meta about Halsin being the only 3rd person Astarion is cool w? lol #like no i dont want to share you w the others. but halsin. halsin looks like i can trust him. done. #this man does *not* think he is worthy of any kind of love at all and its killing me #its killing me amelia tyler was right #i do need therapy after this romance. not bc oh ho he so evil. but bc it's dragging me for being the same way #me being shocked pikachu face like what do u mean you like me? even though im not offering sex rn bc i have complicated history w it?

[monofazz]

So i finished MDA: Rain Code yesterday-

#im insane someone talk to me #i was hesitant cause of my history with Danganronpa #as much as i enjoy the series it is. a stain on our memory and i hold HEAVY criticisms for it #it is a complicated feeling for the series for having a soft spot in my heart and yet me maturing enough to hold it accountable #for its unsavoury choices #so going into this game i was hesitant #and i will say it was an immense relief and improvement as a spiritual sucessor #albiet still retaining a few problems: its crimes are not evennclose to as agregious as Danganronpa #i love this game inlove this game makes me insane #baRK BARK #master detective archives: rain code #rain code #no context meme

[spitblaze]

I'm not a psychologist or a politician or anything approaching an expert about literally anything except a few specific video games but I feel like so many people wouldn't be agonizing over the moral implications of one (1) vote if we as the less-than-uppest-of-upper-crust had the ability to meaningfully affect change in ways other than 'spend money/do not spend money, vote for the red or blue tie'

#spitblaze says things #im aware its significantly more complicated. but i think this is whats driving a not insignificant amount of posting #biden has been doing a godawful job with foreign policy. i am under no illusion that trump will do better #you can still just THREATEN to withhold your vote. i get why some might not want to but its an option. #every presidential election since 2008 has been the most important election in american history. im tired. #idk man. i havent been super engrossed in politics since high school but ive never seen this much agonizing over whether or not #pwople should vote like. at all #personally im of the opinion that you should. its a good thing to do. but you should also exercise your power to put pressure on politician #and threatening to not vote for them is a pretty good way to do that #i gotta stop posting abour serious shit. but maybe id do it less if shit sucked less. so here we are #free palestine. if federal level politics is driving you insane then pay more attention to local level stuff. join a mutual aid org #and donate esims and food money to gaza. do things besides agonizing about november

[takami-takami]

@mystech-master The commission did very bad things to Hawks. :(

The context is the woman talking is Lady Nagant, who Keigo replaced. They have the same job. And in the flashback, she recounts being told to kill people over and over— sometimes needlessly— to uphold their vision for society. When she tried questioning them, they subtly threaten to kill her (so she kills the president eventually and defects).

Having to do this over and over broke Lady Nagant's spirit so badly she began to see her hands as covered in blood and flinches away from kids who approach her (a parallel to Keigo, by the way, when Tokoyami tells him "your hands aren't dirty, Hawks").

So she's surprised that Keigo isn't completely broken by his history, too. He answers that he wasn't alone, and that he's an optimist (Keigo is extremely resilient! To the point that it's scary!). But still. He looks so sad/contemplative when she asks him the question. Like he knows EXACTLY what she's talking about. She doesn't even have to say it, he just knows. All she has to say is "my soul couldn't take it anymore. How do you still have that look in your eye?"

There's also a parallel right before then when AFO hires Nagant and then tries to kill her when she fails her mission, and Keigo says "He used you, but don't let it end like that."

Don't die as someone used.

Keigo does not say this simply because of what AFO did. Lady Nagant has always been used. Keigo knows that better than anyone.

#this is my interpretation #i think that Keigo's history with the commission is extremely complicated #he sees them as shackles yet he also uses them as a platform for his goals #it's very interesting #im rereading the manga to get a better understanding of it. but every time i see this chapter/episode it sets off alarm bells in my brain #and i need the commission on a stick #on a skewer #truly #🐇 rambles #mha manga spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha spoilers

[biblicalhorror]

The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

#dont get me wrong there are lots of people on the pro palestine side who are very much aware of and vigilant against antisemitic rhetoric #but i genuinely worry about some of my non-jewish leftist friends and allies falling down some super shady pipelines because of all of this #i spend a lot of my time on my public facing social media sharing articles and graphics and whatnot about antisemitism #and how careful we need to be when calling out these atrocities and our government's complicity in them #but when one side is genuinely claiming with no evidence or argument that being against colonial occupation is just antisemitism #it makes it so hard to call out actual antisemitism within these spaces bc it delegitimizes antisemitism as a concern #i just want to scream #like. im not even jewish and i vividly remember when we had a special lesson in girl scouts about how wonderful Israel is #and they had us make little mini versions of the israel flag and they told us that israel stood for the safety of the jewish people #and i came home and i told my mom about how cool israel was #and she promptly pulled me out of girl scouts #which at the time felt unfair because she didnt explain why #but also how do you explain the horrors of colonialism and imperialism to your newly zionist 10 year old #anyway the point is that if i as a non-jewish girl scout was exposed to that kind of propaganda #i can only imagine how inescapable it must be for many american jews in the US #and i truly empathize with the amount of unlearning that needs to be done #and how hard it must be to let go of some of these ideas #but that doesnt make it any less frustrating to watch these dynamics play out on such a massive scale #and i hold so much respect for people in white jewish communities re-educating themselves and standing on the right side of history #as well as for all of the people of color and especially American Palestinians standing up and using their voices as much as they do #personal

[gentil-minou]

God that last post is so fucking frustrating because Asians experience so many microaggressions for names especially when you live in a non Asian country and it's the worst thing. Because names MEAN something and in Asian cultures the mean a whole lot they're about history and extend so far back. They have deep and complex meanings that vary from country to country. And people make fun of them or mispronounce them and continue to do so or ask "can I call you -whitename- instead" like it's a nickname that's cute no fuck off, or like how sometimes we have multiple names because we have to or we have to make up a name cause we think we need to or even consider changing our own name to something dumb like Betty because the incredible culturally significant and beautiful name we have ends up bringing us nothing but pain because it's just another way to ostracize and bully and exclude us. That we have to make ourselves palletable to white folks because "wow you're so pretty and foreign I wish I had your eyes/hair/skin" but "your name is hard to say can I call you this instead"

It's disgusting, and if you find you disagree then you need to stop fetishizing us and learn some Goddamn empathy and respect or go read your dumb white vampire book or your stupid hoover lady and leave our spaces alone

#bushy rants #god im so pissed the name thing has always bothered me and personally harmed me for literal years of my life and continues to today #people suck #also as an fyi im not chinese nor part of the diaspora im pakistani american but the way westerners treat asian names is the worst #its so easy to learn about the history and complicated identity that surrounds the chinese diaspora i really recommend people learn more

[wiltking]

the stone prince has everything i like in royalty-based fantasy: super rich and insanely detailed worldbuilding, vast and impressive and thoughtful descriptions of castles, gruesomely detailed battles full of blood and nausea and inner conflict, detailed and elaborate family feuds, fantasy religions with huge presence and involvement in societal structures, a devoted gay lover for whom our tortured and deeply angry heir will do anything to keep by his side, women in equal positions of power and battle and royal guard, politics politics politics, and sometimes, if we're lucky, dragons.

i only wish, for the sake of my sanity, that there was a character roster at the end with each character's title(s) and familial relations listed. just a thought

#its the type of book youll either love or really really hate #i enjoy this kind of dense political circus with a huge cast and history and complicated bloodshed #but even so. i am struggling 💀 #especially because seeeeveral characters have multiple titles and will be referred to differently depending on situations #and its cool! there was clearly so much thought put into this and im surprised by how fluidly it reads even when it gets really dense #but oh my god the amount of times ive had to frantically flip back and forth trying and failing to remember who so and so is #sometimes there are contextual reminders but. god i wish i hadnt taken a 5 month break :'| #book thoughts #stone prince

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

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#i try not to complain that much about podcasts on the first episode #but i cannot believe this one led with speaking about curating a world famous medical oddities museum like its a dead end job #like lady if you dont want that job then leave and let a historian of science or medicine who would love that collection do it #it doesnt help that im quite familiar with the museum theyre talking about #and its such a monumental part of the history of 19th century scienxe #it's actually an incredibly valuable collection that makes people uncomfortable because It's 19th century collections of bodies #which comes with a lot of complicated curitorial questions about consent and colonialism and race #but that doesnt make it a spooky sideshow #which seems to be what the writers think historical medical collections are

[mazzystar24]

Do ignorant assholes realise that freedom of speech protects you from government prosecution for what you say not from people calling you an asshole for what you say?

#a 60 year old ex politics teacher was agreeing with a bunch of incels about how because you can’t be racist or homophobic or sexist anymore #that that means there is no freedom of speech #like bro you are so stupid it hurts #you CAN say all those things but you just gotta deal with the consequences of people calling you out on your bigotry #THATS STILL FREEDOM OF SPEECH #this same 60 year old teacher says he’s neutral to Israel and palestine as he “isnt educated enough to oppose either opinion” #like 1. it’s not a matter of opinion or it being complicated ITS GENOCIDE HOW ARE YOU GONNA SIT THERE AND BE LIKE IM ‘NEUTRAL’ TO GENOCIDE #2. you’ve had over 60 years on this earth to GET educated that’s not an excuse #little kids rn are in protests and can fully explain the entire history of Palestine and Israel #you’re a grown as hell man it’s not that hard to educate yourself #3. this same teacher said that it’s very complicated because it’s in their holy book #like okay so you’re telling me if it turns out the Quran or the tora or #or the Tripitaka had said that the uk or the USA was actually their holy land and birthright you’d be fine with getting massacred?? #anyways fuck you alan ❤️ #*tipitaka

[charlotlie]

does iron widow have some cheesy ya fantasy girl-goes-crazy lines? yes.

will that stop me from loving it? no.

#iron widow #booklr #booktok #wu zetian #gao yizhi #li shimin #best of new ya #young adult #ya #ya fantasy #im enjoying this book so much #the characters are complicated and i can’t wait to figure out more about them #no spoilers #fantasy #scifi #and it’s inspired by chinese historical figures?? #history nerds unite #history #chinese history

[brother-emperors]

nikkicafeina said: There's just /something/ there when all our revolutionary leaders learned about justice and heroism and politics from Europe (sometimes IN Europe) and Europe learned it from Rome and in the end it just comes down to how we've never learned to say "freedom" in our own languages, and maybe we never can.

I actually have a much more optimistic opinion on this! even if our history has been brutalized four times over (spain, america, japan, and both marcos administrations), we did, as a people, learn to cry for freedom, and it did not come from a place of Roman imagery or European thought.

there were parts of the Philippines that managed to escape the full force of imperial violence due to the simple fact of geography, and they resisted tyranny as much as someone inspired by the writings of Rizal did, and there were parts of the Philippines that have always resisted the forceful reach of Manila to culturally assimilate and consume all other cultures and regions under an invented national one. these are calls for freedom, maybe without language, but it IS resistance born out of the filipino people, without the hand of europe to guide it.

even if much of our history was lost, rewritten, bastardized, the Filipino people have always resisted, even if the conclusion was tragic or forced into something else by someone's poetic but misguided bullshit, because at the end of the day, it is intolerable to be under the foot of someone else and it always has been, everywhere across the world.

the continuation of imperial visuals (whether it's the Western talking points of the government, the architecture, the Roman Empire) has a lot to do with structures of power. the government is distinctly European-Western. honestly, it's fucking American. it's driven by capitalism and imperialism, or a desire to ally with imperialist nations, to subjugate and maintain power to benefit a handful of officials who desire profit above all else. this is a tragedy, and we seem unable to shake it!

but. our students have always come forward to fight against injustice. we burned effigies, we protested, we call for justice even when our journalists are killed, our farmers are massacred in the streets, when our people are shot down by the military. many people from my province do not have a higher education, they would not know of the messy politics of imperial powers, but they do know that the elections were bullshit and the farmers are suffering and government doesn't fucking care, so they all turned out to march through the city to cry for justice, to be recognized.

today, we hold hands across seas with other oppressed people who are also desperate for freedom and peace. it would be nice to have our own words for it! but I'm not sure that we need it. it's enough to stand next to our countrymen and for others across the world and say, I got your back.

as the chant goes: from the classrooms to the streets, etc.

if our history had not been colonized, we might have had our own words and philosophies for it, instead of borrowed approximations, but the desire for freedom and justice is very much ours, and we have always called for it through action. the language now, I think, is one of solidarity. like, I think above all else, we MUST believe in a better future.

#also shout out to the universities who keep trying to make all their journals open access but are at the mercy of western publications! #you're the real MVPs! #i gotta post more about academic racism and how the philippines has been struggling against it for awhile now #SHSHD hi. sorry to make a whole speech about this. i think about it a lot!!! arguably this takes up. 60% of my thoughts on a daily #basis. i have a lot of complicated feelings about ph history but i always look to see who is calling for justice and freedom #and im like. yeah. YEAH. FROM THE CLASSROOMS TO THE STREETS! #and then I walk backwards to call for justice for the revolutionaries. andres bonifacio………….. #I want to. un mythologize our history. I think. which is why I’m focused on it’s tragedy. but I also try not to get Stuck in it

[helpimstuckinafandom]

I....... I finished bg3.......

#my og playthrough has been fully played through #i #uh #im #idk what #i dont #what do i do now #i mean i got my durge playthrough (hust reached act 3) #and karlach (somewhere in act 1) #but it's..... over #romanced astarion and chose to look for a way to have him walk in the sun again #though i imagine we also stop in at the underdark vampire homestead #(which just... works so well for my tav's backstory [drow with complicated history w/ underdark]) #but that's besides the point #you know. of all the companions in the epilogue seeing shadowheart so happy and free adventuring got me the most emotional #she just seemed to much.... lighter (no pun intended) #alao since her first stop in travelling was waterdeep i headcanon that she helped gale fish the crown from the sea #and they both made the journey to waterdeep together #(hence them having tea at his ans tara's tower) #bg3

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Yoshitsune no Minamoto and Benkei are both two of the best-known Japanese historical figures. Yoshitsune was born Ushiwakamaru (same 'Ushi' and 'Waka' as in Imaushi Wakasa) and was a samurai and military commander

He once encountered Benkei, a monk and a rogue warrior who had decided to collect 1,000 swords by fighting random people ; Yoshitsune was supposed to be the 1,000th. But Benkei loses. He was an enough good fighter for Yoshitsune not to kill him and instead made him his retainer. One of the reason Benkei is still admired today is because of his great loyalty. He was said to be very tall and physically strong (as well as being a troublemaker as a child) while Yoshitsune was agile.

Anyway, they both fought on the Gojo Bridge.

They named their gym Gojo

First it was Shinichiro with Black Dragon and Kurokyukai, now it's them two. I can't believe Black Dragon founding members are history nerds

(Btw, 'Kei' from Benkei and Keizo uses the same kanji. 'Benkei' in tr was written in katakana tho (it seems like))

#to be fair Yoshitsune and Benkei are too wellknown for me to seriously say theyre history nerd #but benkei wasnt nicknamed that way back then. he was Red Cliff. so like. did he decide to after actually meeting wakasa? #seeing how wakasas name was written? #Yoshitsune won agaisnt Benkei does that mean Wakui says Wakasa > Benkei ? #Korukyukai is a bit more complicated but im betting one of my kidney im right. #if im false im keeping both of my kidneys tho dont come for it #tokyo revengers #tokrev #tok rev #tr #tokyo revengers wakasa #tokyo revengers benkei #wakasa imaushi #benkei #keizo arashi #arashi keizou #black dragon #benwaka

[jesterguy]

I have so many posts in drafts about Palestine and I still just don't even know what to say or where to start

#how do i talk about my extremely zionist early education #how do i talk about my birthright trip at age 13 and the impact it had on me as a jew and as a human on this planet #how do i talk about my childhood rabbi reaching out the kids i grew up with offering support for those mourning the loss of history #and also those mourning the lives of colonizers (who ultimately are jews seeking a safe space after hardship at the great expense of others #my fucking guts have been clenched for days i feel like a shell #my mom is more worried about sending my transfem sister to college on her own in the inner city now not bc she's trans but bc she's jewish. #not to mention i always say im 'raised jewish' not actually jewish bc im not! im not jewish ive bever had a conversion. #what fucking right do i have #all i know is my upbringing and my ability as an adult to unpack it. #and how many things that i was taught are WRONG #i didnt get a christian brainwashing a got a zionist brainwashing #anyways all this to say theres always a lot of regard for Palestinian suffering on here as there should be in these situations #but young jews have a fucking weight on them right now like you just would not believe #not that its equal to or greater than the trauma of being palestinian. but just that its not mentioned right now #thats all ive got to say. idk yall are welcome to ask me more about this i just had to spew some of it #might delete #cam talks #if it isnt clear im fully pro palestine and my goal isnt to be any sort of devils advocate here. im just in a very complicated sort of pain #if i posted that email from my middle school rabbi here he would be doxxed and hate crimed. #and you know. i dont like the guy. but the fact that i know thats what would happen tells you a lot.