#anti-materialism

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CARDINAL WOULD FLOG RICH MEN WHO IGNORE APPEALS OF THE POOR," Toronto Star. December 14, 1931. Page 1. --- Primate of Catholic America Castigates "Safe-Deposit Worshippers" --- SEES SLAVERY AHEAD ---- Says Moneyed Interests Seek to Control Governments of World ---- Boston. Dec. 14. Those who worship the safe deposit box are to blame for the woes of the world to-day, according to William. Cardinal O'Connell, archbishop of Boston and dean of the Catholic hierarchy in America. "Great numbers of rich men should be flogged; it is the only suitable. punishment for them; they are insensible to all appeals," the cardinal told members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society Sunday. At the same time he lauded as "noble. souls" those rich men, Catholics and non- Catholics, who give to every good cause. Continuance of the "throes of material, mechanistic control" even of governments, by certain selfish financial interests, the cardinal declared, means "complete domination of money over life, getting every last penny, exploiting banking for every last dime." A solemn warning was issued by his eminence to the moneyed interests of the world against repetition of the inflation which preceded the stock crash of 1929. He said these interests were out for control of the governments of the world and that if they were successful it would mean "slavery for the masses". He scored the materialistic philosophy which developed the "Get rich quick" idea among children. Tribute was paid by the cardinal to the late. Henry Higginson and James J. Storrow. non-Catholics, who shared their enormous wealth with the less fortunate. Others named for their generosity among wealthy Catholics were Nicholas and James Brady, their sister. Mrs. James C. Farrell of Albany, N.Y., and the late Humphrey O'Sullivan, rubber heel magnate of Lowell.

#boston #archbishop of boston #roman catholic church #roman catholicism in america #anti-materialism #christian charity #charitable philanthropy #the great depression #pressures of the great depression #united states politics #united states history

[ariminiria]

remember to do your part by giving Amazon's Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

#hey there Blaze victim! check the notes for extra context #tl;dr: egregious disrespect for the source material and -more importantly- workers rights abuses #also theres a chance that we could kill amazon streaming if this flops so #happy morbing! #rings of power #its morbin time #every single 'ooh new first look' fille me with unbridled rage #anti rings of power #lord of the rings #tolkien #lotr #it's morbin time

[personishfive]

in which dialogue is exchanged

#p5 spoilers #goro akechi #joker p5 #akira kurusu #persona 5 #my art #comics #this one marks a change. that change is i have switched to clip studio paint because it was on sale #glad i could keep this blog's aesthetic lol. every art program should let u disable anti aliasing methinks #this ones based on an old old sketchbook comic. well like half of my comics are based on sketchbook comics. i still have material to work w #from those. lol #long time no comic in my defense i am as overwhelmed with life as ever. but you already know that. love u guys<3

[mikakuna]

why do anti-jason fans always have an opinion on his characterization and how we write him in fanfic as if they've read anything beyond comics where his character is completely assassinated and written by individuals who despise him?

"you're not actually a jason fan if you remove everything that he's done in canon"

answer me truthfully: would you accept a comic as canon if it was written by someone who hates your favourite character? i'm not a tim fan so i'd mess up his entire storyline if i wrote a comic for him. would you read that and happily accept it as canon? because i assure you that i'd purposely mess his entire character up just because i dislike him. it would be full of bias because i don't understand his character as well as an actual tim fan does. would you still accept this comic as canon?

literally the majority of jason comics are written by people who don't like him and don't even know his source material. why shouldn't we nitpick what we wanna accept as canon??

#this post was brought upon by anti jason bs in the tag #we are tired people!!!!!! #please let jason fans enjoy things #antis are genuinely infuriating like please calm down and interact with other material #nobody is forcing you to read jason fics #i assure you that your fav batfam character has amazing fics where your fav isn't ruined to make everyone else look good #why do you have such a strong stance on something when you don't even fully understand it #let's practice peace of mind and interact with things we like so we don't lose it #jason todd #red hood #anti tim drake #just because i don't want tim fans to stumble upon tim hate by accident

[doverstar]

I want to sit down and talk about how Grant Gustin, on the Flash, in the course of 9 seasons and almost 10 years, displayed the ability to perfectly act out *deep inhale* Barry Allen, an evil version of Barry Allen, a nerdy wimp version of Barry Allen, three of the Big Bads, Harry Wells inside Barry's body, H.R. Wells inside Barry's body, Sherloque Wells inside Barry's body, basically every Wells inside Barry's body, Barry Allen as the lead in a spontaneous superpowered musical, Barry pretending to be a hacker, Barry pretending to be a crime lord, Barry being infected/possessed by a Big Bad, and Barry Allen as a really dorky drunk guy (more than once)-

#the man has acting chops for DAYS DAYS DAYS #he did it all 100% and worked really hard #and that STUPID show with that STUPID writing team wasted 9 years of his life/potential giving him crappy material #and he STILL rocked it and threw all his excellence into it #ezra miller who? #the flash #the flash cw #cw the flash #cw #barry allen #bart allen #bartholomew allen #barry allen-2 #savitar #ramsey #bloodwork #harry wells #harrison wells #grant gustin #anti ezra miller #dc #arrowverse #text post #opinion piece

[fromtheseventhhell]

it's wild to see people say stuff like "sansa is a politician, arya is a warrior" while not being able to point out a single political act sansa has achieved, and not being able point out any of arya's "warrior skills" that isn't the handful of fencing lessons with syrio she received for like five months max lol

Politician!Sansa and Warrior!Arya are two fascinating ends of a fanon ouroboros; Neither concept exists outside of the other and neither concepts are based on the books. This fandom is just so attached to the idea of Sansa being this incredible politician, with intelligence above every other character, that her having nothing in her own chapters to support that idea doesn't stop them. That's why Arya's intelligence, skills, and entire character arc get reduced to her being nothing but a walking, talking weapon. Like you said, her "warrior" capabilities are essentially the handful of lessons she had with Syrio where her most important + relevant lesson was how to observe her surroundings. Her only "combat" training with the FM was her defending herself with a staff when she lost her eyesight. There's nothing to suggest that she's going to be a warrior, in fact we get the exact opposite. We get constant reminders of Arya's small stature and lack of strength that prevent her from fighting/defending herself in certain situations. All her kills rely on sneak attacks/stealth and she's never been in an outright swordfight with anyone. George even refrains from calling her a warrior like Robb and Jon. Brienne and Asha are examples of female characters who are actual fighters and if you compare their chapters, you can see the difference.

But then Arya's entire existence is antithetical to fanon!Sansa's. Her Harrenhal arc is what people pretend Sansa was doing in KL, her relevance to the North gets transferred to Sansa, and her intelligence and political activeness are erased so that Sansa can shine. They'll write essays on how Sansa is the most intelligent, politically savvy character and how Dany/Jon/Tyrion's arcs only exist to highlight her own ruling arc but the second someone asks them for evidence from the books, it's crickets. I don't understand why their enjoyment of her character hinges on her being the most important/intelligent one. No Arya stan is under the illusion that she's going to be the political character or outclass Dany, Jon, or Tyrion. It's just part of her story so we acknowledge it. Arya is going to have her political arc in Braavos and Sansa is going to have her political arc in the Vale, they aren't mutually exclusive. The only issue is that some people want Sansa to be the only one with a political arc and that's not the story that George is telling.

#ask #anon #arya stark #asoiaf #anti sansa stans #boring yawning sloppy! #so many /political Sansa/ takes are just Stansas going /Sansa is soooooo much more intelligent and composed then Arya/ #without ever using evidence from the books and if we don't accept their /analysis/ without issue then we're projecting 🥴 #people refuse to treat them like separate characters and judged them as a unit and that's why we get such shitty takes about them #Arya getting reduced to being a prop and a sidekick when she's one of the best written characters is so exhausting #this wouldn't be an issue if people actually read the books but I guess that's too much to ask 💀 #why would you need to read the source material to analyze it???

[cuddlytogas]

maybe it's just the Radical Rediker talking, but there's something pointed in the way that, say, popular pirate media like Pirates of the Caribbean dilutes the pirate's freedom to "bring me that horizon" as opposed to, say, "plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power" (Bartholomew Roberts).

broadly speaking, most pirates chose the life in order to escape and revenge the hard labour, corporal punishment, overworking, and unequal pay of merchant/navy/privateer ships; or the privations of their sudden unemployment once a war was over, ignored as soon as their ability to die for the state was unneeded. yes, many were thugs, but, consciously political or not, they were responding to a particular, material reality.

the pirate's desired freedom was from the effects of exploitative modes of statehood and capital production. but popular media usually shifts this into a general desire for freedom: freedom to roam, freedom to love (usually merely a cross-class white, heterosexual union), or freedom from the personal pressures of social norms. it's a vague, ahistorical, post-Enlightenment, libertarian ideal rather than a response to a real social and economic situation.

to be clear, this only really applies to specifically the late golden age of piracy, in the first quarter of the 18th century. earlier generations of pirates/buccaneers often displayed nationalist/religious motives, and were lauded, tolerated, or even encouraged by the French and English states for aiding their fights against the Spanish and Portuguese. only the last gasp of age of sail pirates had a truly anti-national energy, and both figured themselves, and were figured by the imperial powers, as the enemies of all nations.

but if we are to valourise the late golden age pirate, at his best, his ideals were for true democracy, and the abolition of nation, hierarchy, and labour exploitation; not "the horizon". he was striking out in response to specific political, social, and economic oppressions, rather than a general individual restlessness, and that reality - and its similarities to our own - are important.

I dunno, I just... have a lot of thoughts about the defanging of piracy in modern media. obviously there were a lot of things bad about them, too, and the level of egalitarianism varied between individual people and ships. but again, if we're going to be valourising them anyway... there were idealists. and they weren't subtle about they wanted.

"I shan't own myself guilty of any murder", said William Fly in 1726. "Our captain and his mate used us barbarously. We poor men can't have justice done us. There is nothing said to our commanders, let them never so much abuse us, and use us like dogs. But the poor sailors --"

#pirates #history #pirate history #Togas does meta #Rediker is Marcus Rediker and I've only just started finally reading some of his work properly but god it's good #also if you've watched Black Sails I'd love to know how much of this energy is in there #it's a bit too ~gritty for my tastes but I get the impression it's also a bit vague about freedom over material historical politics #but i could be wrong! #obviously PotC has an ingrained anti-EIC vibe but even then it's more about ''they're enclosing the sea against us wild rovers'' than #''company captains beat us half to death just for the wealth we facilitate to be funnelled to the top while us sailors are left to rot'' #and christ knows it's not interested in historical realities XD

[acourtofquietdreamers]

Can you imagine fighting in the trenches to claim a second hand necklace and a second hand phrase for your fav character? A necklace that was hand picked and given to someone else first and then (indirectly) given to your fav as an after thought only because the first woman was hurt and gave it back? A phrase that was first used to describe that necklace (matching the woman it was meant for) during a romantic scene of another ship? That’s what you want to claim as “belonging” to your ship?

Couldn’t be me.

#pro elriel #elriel #I mean I guess they have limited material so they have to cling on to what they can #anti gw*nriel #anti rambles

[genericpuff]

hot take, but if you can't enjoy even casual H x P inspired romance stories made for fun without justifying or defending your enjoyment of it with "well ACTUALLY these stories are MORE accurate because Persephone WANTED to go down there, she LIKED it in the Underworld!" then you sound like an out-of-touch adult intentionally omitting/changing facts to scrub the story down for a 5 year old who you know won't question you

and that's not okay ~

#and yes this is mostly about lore olympus but it can apply to other modern 'retellings' as well #it's okay if you like the fun H x P stories that are purely fluff or cutesy stories! #just don't get so swept up in the fun of it that you think it's fact or claim that what you like about it aligns with the source material #there is literally no 'older scripture' that depicts persephone going down to the underworld willingly #she was kidnapped #and if that makes you feel gross inside #GOOD #it fucking SHOULD #that's the POINT #“fanfiction” is not a dirty word #enjoy the stories that play with the source material all you want! #just please don't use that fanfiction or inspired content as source material #respect where these stories come from and what they mean to the cultures they're written from #lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lore olympus

[expensivemistake]

The thing about Chip Zdarsky's daredevil run is that it takes inspiration from the Netflix show and forces that into the comic continuity, but it doesn't even lean into the elements I personally love about Netflix Matt?

He's not perfect, but NMCU Matt at his best is shown to be deeply compassionate and has such a rather warm demeanour to him. When he's happy (especially in college-aged flashbacks) he's really expressive. Women like him because he comes across as thoughtful, rather than being a womaniser. And there's no question as to whether he loves Elektra or not, considering he spends most of the Defenders trying to get through to her.

Not to mention that his Catholicism is deeply personal and certainly not devout. He's a person who grew up around religion and is uniquely attuned to the suffering around him, trying to work out his place in being a man of the people.

None of these traits are inherently better than 616 comic Matt, or even drastically different (although I do think they're fundamentally different characters who I like for different reasons).

But I guess my point is that... it feels like Zdarsky's Matt is based mostly off the "he's an emo Catholic who dresses like a devil to let out his anger and also sleeps with loads of women" jokes based on people's perceptions of Netflix Matt, without adapting a lot of the likeability and nuance that made me like him in the first place.

#daredevil #daredevil comics #anti chip zdarsky #matt murdock #I don't think I've ever really 616 ranted on here mostly because I'm more of a murderdock blog LOL #but like... idk I felt like throwing out my take??? #because I genuinely do love Daredevil comics AND the Daredevil Netflix show #which is absolutely flawed and isn't a 1:1 adaptation #but I don't necessarily need an adaptation to be 1:1 when it's good #BUT what bugs me more is the misconceptions that an adaptation can bring #especially when those misconceptions seep their way into the source material #so people are right when they say zdarsky's run is made with the netflix show in mind (particularly his awful treatment of elektra) #but the irony is that zdarsky's matt is just... not netflix matt #so no it doesn't appeal to me #in fact it makes me madder #personally I much prefer when 616 matt is drastically different to his netflix counterpart #I'm done now but byeeee I love you if you read this

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

The thing that Targaryen antis either don’t or can’t understand is that in spite of all the discussions, discourse and arguments (& moral conjecture): I simply love dragons and mentally ill women with great hair sorry if you can’t relate

#house targaryen #antis do not interact #house of the dragon #asiof #hotd #daenerys targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #haelena targaryen #some of you take this shit wayyyyyyyy too seriously and way too personal #like if you wanna act like your mommy daddy grandma and grandpa were enslaved and murdered by the Targs #I am happy to report that has happened 0 times #is it really so controversial in a fantasy series to be fascinated by magic using dragon riders? #tbh wish there was more material on dragon riders and their bonds #and if your response to this post is more than 8 words know it’s NOT that serious #people are allowed to like things you don’t without it being that deep 😊

[greyelfsworld]

#Source material is strong #I can give that #anti endgame #anti marvel #anti steggy #steve rogers #stucky #bucky barnes #chris evans #james buchanan barnes #sebastian stan #stevebucky #white wolf #winter soldier

[drakaripykiros130ac]

In response to the Nettles-obsessed fans who somehow found their way in my inbox with a very colorful language:

“A skinny brown girl on a skinny brown dragon.”

“[…] her teeth were crooked, her nose scarred where it had once been slit for thieving. Hardly a likely paramour for a prince, one would think.”

- Fire & Blood

I definitely agree with that last sentence.

As if the Valyrian beauty-obsessed Daemon Targaryen would ever consider this girl someone fit to share his bed. Those who actually believe that need to take some personal time to read the book and understand the Rogue Prince and his preferences.

The only fit woman for this Dragon Prince is a Dragon Queen named Rhaenyra Targaryen.

I am super done with this constant obsession over a common girl named Nettles for the sole reason that she is the only canon black character of the story. These people are acting as if her being black somehow entitles her to the charming, handsome, roguish white prince who should totally leave his wife for her (even though it goes against his character). The filth called “White women are evil and their white husbands should cheat on them with black women because they are clearly better” is one of the things very wrong with society these days.

Take a spoonful of common sense and leave the political agendas out of my inbox!

#These people are really making me despise Nettles #Nettles is plain and boring as far as I am concerned. She is not the only Dragonseed who claimed a dragon. She is nothing special. #So go cry about it. Daemon is taken. #And Daemon is definitely not plain and boring material. He likes the classic looks: beautiful Valyrian girl with silver hair purple eyes #and pale white skin. Not to mention he likes women of power in either titles or gold. #team black #pro team black #canon daemon targaryen #canon rhaenyra targaryen #daemyra #canon asoiaf #fire and blood #anti nettles #queen rhaenyra #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #the dragon queen

[the-badger-mole]

No offense but why do you “hate” a fictional CHILD lmao?

Because he's a poorly written, aggravating Gary Stu, and my favorite character was nerfed so he could get his happy ending without actually working for it. Also, his stans are the most annoying people in my ask box. Them showing up less wouldn't make me hate him less, but I still wanted to let that be known.

Also, the wrong word is emphasized. He's a FICTIONAL child.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang #aang is the worst main character #if you want more details #check out my archive #i have plenty of anti aang material

[buddydolly]

I am dead fucking serious when I say I wish I saw more fat women in public. I want to see fat models. I want to see fat women in department stores getting absolutely HYPE when they find racks and racks of clothing in their size and sizes up, so they too can get the "oversized, baggy fit" like women who fit into smalls and mediums. I want to see fat women wearing crop tops proudly and rocking mad midriff. I want to see fat women trying on clothing for their friends and family and saying "look! it compliments my body shape! it's like it was made for me!" I want to see fat women with "cankles" wearing pretty jingling anklets skipping and jumping just to show them off. I want to see fat women on TV, in magazines, on billboards, in all manner of ads, and in online shop images because I want to see my fucking self and all the women I know who don't see enough of themselves. I want to see fat women living, loving, and being visibly proud of who they are because they are beautiful, WE are beautiful. I want to see fat women because fat women need to see other fat women.

#buddydolly #fat women #btw this includes transwomen #anti fatphobia #fuck diet culture #not to mention it's my size and everywhere I go the racks are mysteriously barren of 2x clothing #this blog is and always will be pro-trans #ditto for fat men but make your own post I don't ID as a man #side note: I'm going fucking insane because there aren't as many stores that specialize in plus sizing where I live anymore #average american woman isn't ''5'10 and wearing a medium'' #average american woman is about 5'4 wearing a 2x #you know how I know? #because I looked up the stats and that's the size stores run out of most quickly #but there's never a shord of smalls mediums and even EXTRA SMALLS #fucking ridiculous #and this shit isn't getting bought so it goes on clearance for dirt cheap #because it's all in sizes most women could never even HOPE to fit into #it's a fucking waste of material #y'all will bitch and moan and complain ALL FUCKING DAY about how fast fashion is the scrouge of the earth #but you don't bat an eye when big fashion houses don't make their clothing accessible for people of all sizes and shapes #being skinny isn't couture you just have different body type #and honestly you're a fucking lazy ass designer if you can't design for fat bodies #tag commentary #mobile post so the tags are fucked and out of order slightly sorry #anyway respect fat women #✌️ bye

[puellamagifashion]

Gamer Homura from Mitakihara Anti Materials

#moemura #mitakihara anti materials #casual