#at least that's SUPPOSED to be the source | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

germiyahu · 2 days

Text

Thinking about this sentiment now that I see tweet after tweet, source after source, refer to "Nakba survivors."

I mean, no matter how you slice it, hundreds of thousands of Arabs at minimum were violently chased out of their homes, which is condemnable. I have no issues with people seeing the Nakba as a tragedy, a crime against humanity, what have you.

But clearly "Nakba survivor" is an attempt at taking some of the punchiness of "Holocaust survivor," or deliberately trying to compare these two events.

And it's a little corny to me, because well, if you were a Nakba survivor you weren't exactly beating the odds. It varies from source to source, but as few as 800 or so Arab civilians were killed, but let's go with the high estimate of about 15,000. Out of 750,000 Palestinian Arabs (and that's a widely agreed upon estimate though there are estimates that put that number even higher) who for whatever reason fled Palestine, that amounts to 2% of the Palestinian Arab population. Actually closer to 1% because only about half of Arabs actually fled the country to begin with.

Let's compare that to a Holocaust survivor. Much longer odds there! 67% of Jews in Europe were wiped out. And not just from militia violence, they were murdered on an industrial scale with industrial means. The number of Jews who outright avoided the violence (c.f. the Palestinian Arabs who did not flee/were not forced to flee) was orders of magnitude smaller.

It's not just a matter of numbers, 15,000 at most compared to 6,000,000, but of percentages (~1% vs ~67%) and it may seem callous to say "well those numbers are so much smaller so they don't matter," because they do matter. But come on! The deliberate and desperate attempt to hitch the Palestinian National Struggle to the wagon of Jewish suffering and genocide is offensive. It's pathetic.

In the grand scheme of things, it's incredibly likely that someone who lived during the Nakba survived it! Most of them quickly found temporary or even permanent homes, even citizenship, in neighboring countries. The Jews of the 1930s had none of that. They were even officially barred from fleeing to Palestine! The survivors were chased out of Europe en masse when they weren't still held in internment camps because no one knew what to do with them (because surrounding countries didn't want them to come back). Oh and don't forget that point about militia violence. The Arabs not only had their own militias who were fighting, but sovereign Arab armies from surrounding friendly states. Jordan even had British officers advising its armies!

So what exactly do you gain from calling those who fled/were expelled from Palestine "survivors" other than the inevitable Holocaust comparisons? I suppose it's part of a canard wherein no matter how inefficiently and unenthusiastically Jews carry out this "75 year slow genocide," it's still a genocide. It was always genocidal in intention.

Yeah, hundreds of thousands fled of their own accord, or because of the general panic and societal collapse among Arab communities, but trust us if the Irgun had tried a little harder they surely would've slaughtered these Arabs at a similar scale to the Jews of Europe! And I mean for the hundreds of thousands who were forcibly evicted at gunpoint... well they Jewish troops would've um... well see Mercury was in retrograde at the time… but seriously they would've massacred them all! You can't trust the Zionist propaganda!

And there are similar connotations with phrases like "Nakba denial" because various sources throughout history having different interpretations of different accounts of a very chaotic time and place is not really going to have the same effect as literal white supremacist bigots insisting that Jewish genocide is greatly overplayed, or straight up a lie, but it should've happened. Even ardent Zionist historians agree that the Nakba at least happened.

The reason I linked that previous post I made is because the sentiment is crystal clear. There are people who very much want the Palestinian National Struggle to have its own Shoah. They want Palestine to be a survivor like Am Yisrael. Whether that's to demonize Jews as hypocrites who became the very monsters who tried to annihilate them, or because the shine of being a Victim is capital in Leftist spaces, who knows.

But I sense an inherent numbness to Jewish oppression and suffering. Six million is a statistic, but a few hundred or thousand is such a sickening tragedy that it justifies violently harassing Jews in America, Australia, Canada, and Europe.

The Jews of Europe being herded like cattle to their systematic slaughter is something you (maybe) learn about in history, but the Arabs of Palestine and their allied neighbors fighting on much more even terms but losing is an injustice that justified chasing an even greater number of West Asian and North African Jews out of their countries.

The Holocaust was bad, sure, but the Nakba was so inhumane that the only recourse is to destroy Israel utterly, and who gives a damn what happens to 7 million Jews (almost all refugees and their descendants). They deserve it for what they did to Palestinians! The Shoah was "so long ago," but the Nakba is "ongoing," even though the former ended only 3 years before the latter.

Arab, Palestinian, Muslim life is intrinsically fragile and precious to the antizionist. Jewish life is cheap, and a nuisance. Begging them to learn about it and cherish it is propaganda and both sidesing the issue. And it's a convenient weapon for them. Those of us who do care about Palestinian lives can be accused of not caring at all because we dare to put the conflict in context, or insist that Jewish lives not be cast aside.

#shoah #nakba #holocaust #israel #jumblr

35 notes · View notes

nonbinary-octopus · 19 hours

Text

Our apartment staircase is missing a handrail. It's sort of got one, but only on the lower half and it's the kind that's more "don't fall off" than "don't fall down". There ought to be one on the other side against the wall, and going all the way up, for actual support.

In our discussions before moving in, we were told it should be installed by the time we moved in

it was not. the reasoning was that apparently our desire for it to be a proper length (as the ones in our previous apartment had not been, ending too soon on both the upward and downward sides) combined with the stairs not being split into two smaller sets of stairs, meant that sourcing a long enough handrail was proving difficult.

They had it on order at Lowes! we were told. It just isn't here yet!

For three and a half months, we were told this. Today I went to enquire again, and was told that, alas, their vendor has an order at Lowes for this and other stuff, and Lowes isn't gonna deliver it until the whole order is ready, and it was supposed to be ready a few weeks ago but hasn't been yet...

I mentioned that one of my roommates fell the other day, at the top of the stairs because there isn't even the partial support railing there. Fortunately, my roommate is uninjured, but we'd really like to avoid that happening again.

And I asked for a date when we could expect a railing.

The manager hemmed and hawed a little, really can't predict when Lowes will deliver, but! She'll call the head maintenance guy and see if he can get one from one of the apartments that's currently empty ("as a stopgap?" I asked. "until the full size one gets here?")

Half an hour later, he’d arrived to badly install it

first thing he said to me was "how'd you manage to fall?" which is a great start, heavy sarcasm

He was going to put the railing at about shoulder height, until I pointed out that it was way higher than the other rail, at which point he looked at me and said in a you're full of shit and I hate you voice "you want it that low?"

yes, I said, because that side was at a reasonable height

so he lowered it to just above that, no checking beyond eyeballing it and asking me in a very impatient tone if it was about right

he would've attached the middle support at a height that would've put the top at about ankle height if I hadn't pointed out it was nowhere near parallel. At this point I was thinking "If I were doing this, I'd measure, and also check where the studs were," but he was very clearly in a bad mood and wouldn't take that suggestion well (he's never taken feedback well, even when it's very helpful such as "you're caught on that thing." He'd rather struggle on his own I guess. or in this case do an extremely negligent lackluster job)

so I resigned myself to fixing it later and watched him finish putting it up poorly

It's still not parallel, by the way. I measured after he left, and the bottom is four or five inches higher (relative to the steps) than the top. It's also still higher than the other rail.

and it doesn't reach the top of the stairs either. In the last apartment, at least the railing ended at the end of the steps (for proper support it should extend beyond the top stair a bit). This time, it ended two or three steps down.

also the screws holding bottom support piece to the wall weren’t fully in, and a gentle tug on the railing was enough to pull them out entirely.

and I didn't take a picture of this, but one of the screws in the top support was just placed in a hole, not doing anything whatsoever. I watched him realize this and leave it there.

So, after he left, I took some pics to document how shittily he'd slapped the railing onto the wall, and then took it down to reattach properly later today. Honestly the way it was attached was more of a hazard than not having one at all, so it’s not staying like that even temporarily

#original #he also did not do anything about the holes he put in the wall at shoulder height

19 notes · View notes

misspoetree · 2 years

Text

#this is a Federico García Lorca quote #from Summer Madrigal; Collected Poems (ed. by Christopher Mauer)#at least that's SUPPOSED to be the source #but I'm actually not that sure #because all the internet sources just point at each other and the ACTUAL poem is nowhere to be found #but that quote just fits so so well with that scene #so let's ignore the unreliable source for now #kinnporsche #kinnporche the series #thai bl #vegaspete #vegas theerapanyakul #pete phongsakorn #kinnporsche ep14 #in the queue you go

84 notes · View notes

14dayswithyou · 3 months

Note

That is all thank you

ANSWERED: Art credit for da first Ren meme goes to @meo-eiru!!

BUT HELPPPPP THESE ARE SO FUNNY JDSGJH T_T The Moth meme + Uno meme had me CACKLING lmaoooooooo

#This has been happening a lot recently (and is by no means directed to OP) but!! Just a reminder to credit artists if you use their art!!#And it's always better to ask for permission beforehand; some artists don't like havin their art shared / reposted / reuploaded / etc.#They put in effort to create content for you to consume; so it's only fair to give them da proper credit and exposure in return!!#''Credits to the original creator'' and ''I found the image on google / pinterest / etc.'' isn't a good enough excuse >.<#If you can't find the creator; don't share it. And at the very least try to reverse image search to locate the source #But!!!! With all that being said:#Everyone is welcome to use the official 14DWY sprites/game assets without asking for my permission or giving credit!#I personally think it's ok because game assets can be found /within/ the game itself; it's not like folks have to go on a search hunt--#--to find a specific artist. They can find the art/asset within the game without having to do the extra steps.#If that makes any sense??#Like the 14DWY style is fairly recognisable if you're familiar with the game; folks don't need to reverse image search for anything.#Anyways I'm done ranting in da tags #I might make this an actual post in the future because; again; this has been happening a lot recently in the 14dwy tag/my askbox #and all these talented artists don't deserve this ;n;#Plus it shouldn't be my job to be the one giving credit..... T_T /lh /nm #OKOK I'm done for realsies now #Thank you OP for making these memes!! And sorry for ranting on what's supposed to be a lighthearted post dghjdgjhsg ^^;#💜 — 14dwy memes.#💌 — answered.#💖 — 14 days with queue.

197 notes · View notes

alien-slushie · 6 months

Text

Grian: I just ended a 10 year relationship.

Mumbo: Oh my, are you okay?

Grian: Yeah, it wasn't my relationship.

#source: idk i saw it in one of those x animes as random memes videos #incorrect secret life quotes #incorrect mcyt quotes #incorrect life series quotes #secret life grian #secret life mumbo #secret life smp #joel x lizzie #jizzie #implied #at least its supposed to be #iykyk

96 notes · View notes

stick-by-me · 2 months

Text

Shake things up!

+ a really sketchy video of me shaking them xD

[Video ID: a very zoomed in version of the above sticker sheet, out of the packaging, being shaken. The contents of each lava lamp jiggle around rapidly. The audio consists mainly of a high pitched maraca-like sound, but there's also crickets in the background, and some kind of rhythmic thumping. End ID.]

#AAAH this wasn't supposed to post 😭#Rip my queue ig.#Woe surprise sticker be upon ye #stickers #sticker collection #Shaker stickers #Paper source brand #Fun #Miscellaneous #bunny's favorites #Stim #<- attempted stim at least #I have so much more respect for people who make stim gifs now #How on earth do you make shaking these things look SMOOTH #Also idk how to make a video id if I need to change something lmk

52 notes · View notes

mu-mumie · 1 year

Text

[ID: A sketch made with an orange marker. Harrier Du Bois from the game Disco Elysium is standing in a bathtub behind a shower courtain. Even though only his head and an arm are peeking from above the courtain, the sexy pose he's striking is clearly apparent from the shadow he casts. End ID]

I could not resist the temptation and had to draw Harry from this wonderfully hilarious fic by @brainrotdotorg. No, he isn't a professional stripper, he just suffered a shot wound and the 24 assholes in his head won't let him rest :'3

(Yes, it's orange because it's Kim's POV.)

#disco elysium #harry du bois #de fanart #kimharry #kreativničení #traditional art #mwahaha this was FUN #I man Of Course I first made the tub and the curtain and then all the tiles and then more tiles and then I #added cracks to the tiles #and missing tiles #and showerhead and everything #and THEN I finally got over the “wtf how am I supposed to fit him in there?? GHHHGDFS DRAWING FIGURES ÁÁÁ” mood #and I looked up the references and just did it.#....and then I added the floor tiles because perspective is important <33 #I forgot the light source tho #just imagine there is a very badly placed window just where harry's chest is #the Whirring's yard is getting a peek as well :'33 I hope Cuno will at least be kind about it and keep mum #I might make another one post-hip-popping where all the skills are telling him how stupid he is #but for now I'm gonna let him enjoy his sex god moment :'3

209 notes · View notes

sharlmbracta · 7 months

Text

watching atla in my "first" language really hit different to me.

fiction and storytelling, even for ones that were originally made here, especially for ones that weren't originally made here, all of them were always more natural for me in english.

for atla, when i watched and rewatched, read and reread the series, the comic, the fanfictions all in english, the characters felt like characters more than the representations that they hold. when i turned on the series in korean, out of curiosity, the entire dynamic felt shifted in this intricate way that are both personal yet distant yet i felt like i was yanked up by this unfamiliarity i was supposed to be familiar with. if that makes any sense.

like. the characters were more the representatives and statuses such as the wordings and cultural tones but the parts where the translators failed to catch the tone of the characters themselves but rather they have compartmentlized and integrated into the labels of the statuses, those that we were more familiar with what we were relayed on the history classes. especially the words that dealt with royals. the words that referred to "father", the words that referred to "king". the words that referred to "high priests", "physicians", and "my lord". when in english (at least to me) it felt like the statuses were first and foremost used as tools to add up flavor to the character, in korean (at least to me) it felt like the statuses were first and foremost used to establish the solid grounds and frames what they would play out into in terms of the fictional politicary, and the characters added second to just slightly differentiate the framework between the royals.

(high chance that i may be rather heavily biased in this since i did only watch (made to watch) most movies and animations in english since i was at a very young age, and that habit turned into a purposeful one as i grew older, so i have a very limited range of feel of how "scripts in korean" could vary in terms of The Feel. when i watch a fiction in korean that i have already digested through thoroughly in english, the foremost automatic reflex is "wait that's not right" and more than often my brain tunes the rest out as if it was a fight or flight situation. i always thought the translations were poor, a lot of them may actually are, but even when they might be decent.)

in korean i suddenly felt the weight shifting onto the race of the characters, as if they had suddenly turned "asian" in terms that i felt (or thought i felt) more "familiar" with, in a way that reasonated way too personally- not on the "me" level but on the "national" level. especially the ones- the titles of the statuses- around the imperialism words.

(to be blunt, it felt weird and uncanny in this very specific way that the real life history drilled into you(me) to memorize (and failed to) was suddenly yanking you by the collar and making itself known the fabricated imperialism and the actual imperialism that had happened in the personal-not personal-national way at the same time shoved in your face and the titles of not only said imperialism but also the status pyramid in general which you now barely acknowledged reeked out of the mere words that the characters used.

for example, resulting in the brain functioning from

"this person is azula"

"this person is an imperialist(political) princess(raw) loyal(in patriarchy) to the(her) fatherlord(as in the actual term used by the children of the high king, who was referred and (made) reverred as the "father" of the nation via confucianism (patriarchy + family, organizations == family at its core == therefore any organization especially enforced by the nation == loyalty to the king(lord) == loyalty to your father >>> individuality))"

and suddenly you(i) feel the characters like formatted boxes and yes the characters are still there but the tone is just not there anymore, and this may be just me after only watching the last 3 episodes in this language, but i felt like aang became(as in framed into a mere box of) a {kid}, sokka became a {kid}, toph became a {sister}, katara and suki became {companions}, zuko became a {guy}, azula became an {enemy the crazy}, and ozai became an {enemy the fatherlord}. and nothing else. no lingering spices of the characters. the weight of all the statuses and namesakes clouding over (all) the flavor.)

(though the added weight is kind of interesting when considering the characters derived from the feel of both languages i guess)

below is a rambling thought of how i think this would've turned out if atla was published in here, perhaps, in the form of kdrama which seems to be the most popular medium on broadcast tv lately, especially if it was pushed for nationwide publishment.

this may be biased since this post is coming from me only, so you may ignore the rest of this post if you don't want to read a wall of condemnation of what i personally (therefore not an exact official fact) think of kdramas (regarding sexism) + how the characters would've turned out if atla was one. i won't fight you if you decide to fight me or engage in Formatted Discourse because i'm a cowardly little shit who throws up a wall of rant when braindump is required and runs away irresponsibly

i'm not someone who had watched that many kdramas, but kdramas are the thing that turns up everywhere whenever the tv on the house is on (on the few times it is actually on) and this is from my viewpoint from all the glimpses i got from the kdramas. kdramas, which seem to love so much the gender roles and how the plot "tears them apart" when ironically, the established grounds themselves are made to very heavily, both blatantly and subtly rotate around the gender stereotypes and the set of the power positions- man on high position, woman on the hardworking helping side at best. and there's always some type of "romance" going on. the arrogant male tries to get the girl, but the girl eventually makes him learn his place.

oh and let's not forget the age gaps. i am not saying that age gap relationships are inherently bad but the notion of the "age gap where the man is much older than the woman" in itself seems to be a very popular trope in kdrama in the majority. especially especially those of which the background is set in the past like the chosun dynasty where the patriarchy was domineering its highest, when the man was always older and of higher-status than the "court receiving" woman with no exceptions, where the man always protect the woman in the end when it came down to drama-typically life-threatening on either side. i get that the "man status" is one of the things that the drama made as "that's just how history is" but (for me) it always felt like the setting deliberately focuses on the gender split and runs with it while having the effect of romanticizing and glossing over the entirety of it. man always "helping out" the woman via his status that the woman is inherently made impossible to reach, the label never quite really being approached in contrast to the advances that men always had.

so back to the subject. if atla was to be created first in here, similar to a kdrama, therefore having more parts to be glossed over by the media producer, the executives, the broadcast approvers, and their enforcements for "mass media taste" on top of the traces of patriarchy seeped everywhere that never really went away.

azula would have more limitations of what she could do, such as not really having full control of her ship or her army, somehow being distanced in some way she knows but cannot grasp, having a second in command that does all the actual command-in-power- even if the show lets her do all the fighting- due to the inhibitions as a female that she never had in the series. most importantly, scenes of her would no longer have that iconic "fear aura" she always had and controlled, entirely by herself, while still wearing the label of evil. her preciseness and manipulation closely nurtured and delicately yet forcefully groomed by her father, the entirety of her complex character, would be watered down to an overbearing snotty control freak who can't really do anything. and when she duels zuko, she would be fighting for the power she never was really given. zuko's win would be cloaked a heavy shade of patriarchal win.

katara would be framed as a righteous lecturing damsel in distress. she would show skill, she would be taking down dozens, but her selfless passion and enthusiasm would be made thwarted to "catch" the attention of stereotypical prying males. she would be pinned down by a manhandle and there would be a dramatic, perhaps romanticized, male rescue. she would be fighting more stereotypical men targetting her than doing her actual part of saving the goddamn world. in the series, the one "blatantly patriarchal" society she had to face in the northern water tribe overturned in quick succession due to a usage of a plot ticket of acknowledgement of personal loss of a high master due to the patriarchal norm as well as an acknowledgement of katara's skill and resilence. i can't even start to imagine how it would've turned out if atla were to be produced in here.

toph would be framed a "loudmouthed little brat", as a guy who captured her in a metal box had said it. she would be strong, she would be vigilant, but she would be ignored, she would be babied more, and she would be made to either simply shrug them off, or be condescended as if she was nothing but a child when she does show her anger. her rightful anger would be treated as nothing but a simple child's fit. either that or her gender would have been replaced entirely, as she was made in the ember island play scene, but with more region-typical stereotypes laced along the way.

all of them would be made to wear some lipstick and makeup.

all of them would be made to wear tightly fitted clothing on their higher torso, in some way.

all of them would be regularly commented of their appearances in some way.

all of them would abruptly find themselves in the face of blatant sexism as if it was an obvious topic in a conversation.

i would continue to scrutinize over how suki, aang, sokka, hakoda, and ozai would have been, but i'm not sure i honestly could, at least in terms of accuracy, with my current state of experience and knowledge on kdramas and korean media culture as well as the limited time i have. (and i really don't want to compartmentalize my time further watching tv dramas for "culture studying" sake)

so uh. thanks for reading? i guess. if you did. through the entire wall of ramble text. which i doubt. congratulations. i wouldn't read it too

#LONG POST #rant #atla #character #character study or something but not really i guess #language #status #mostly that i guess #kdramas?#i was infuriated with that one line that translated sokka's “have i ever mentioned how sweet it is that you invented metalbending”#to “i don't know how pretty you are for inventing metalbending”#and i was like. what the fucking hell. is that supposed to mean.#and so came the final push to rant down the lower half of this post #even if that was a mistranslation of “how sweet it is” i am still mad #every bit of the dialogue/transcription is at least slightly off which is why i don't use translated material if the source language is eng #the entire fucking tone and context is DEAD on translation #which i deem as the most important thing for solidifying the delivery of the expected character establishment for the audience.#i don't know about the rest of the folks here but. to hell with it. i would do a BETTER job thank you very much #ramble #brain dump #period typical misogyny #but is it only under “period typical” if it's regarding kdrama?

27 notes · View notes

randomnameless · 5 months

Note

The impression I got from his Byleth support was that Claude was angry at Fodlan for not living up to his expectations. He came to Fodlan seeking to learn something he could use to change Almyra's mindset, believing Fodlan would be more accepting of "outsiders" and when he found Fodlan had a negative view of Almyra he got upset and blamed the Church. Part of his story in Wind is him realizing he jumped to conclusions and blamed the Church without getting to know what they really stood for, being confronted with his own prejudice.

Part of his story in Wind is him realizing he jumped to conclusions and blamed the Church without getting to know what they really stood for, being confronted with his own prejudice.

Imo, he still doesn't totally get over those conclusions and prejudice especially in the Billy S-support :

And I...I want a ruler who can lay down a new set of values for the people. Values that don't exclude anyone for being different.

But yes, in this support, he also mentions having to go to Almyra to change his homeland for the better.

I see which support you're talking about, iirc it's the A support, right?

He confesses he came to Fodlan wanting to prove Almyra that Fodlan people weren't cowards, but ultimately found out people in Fodlan were as biased and prejudiced as the Almyrans are.

So his plan is to bring a "new set of values" to Fodlan and expand them to the rest of the world - so first start to bring his "new set of values" in Fodlan, and then bring them to Almyra to... destroy prejudice existing in Almyra.

Sure, why not, but bar the inherent "sus-ness" of bringing new "set of values" to a place - never once in those supports Claude reveals that the equivalent of Almyran calling Fodlaneses "cowards" is Fodlanese people calling Almyrans "brutes/barbarians" - sure, when he was a kid younger in Almyra, he used his mom as an example of why everyone in Fodlan wasn't a coward - but obviously we don't have in VW any situation where he'd try to tell Hilda and whoever in the Alliance that Almyrans aren't "savages/brutes/barbarians" to fight against their own prejudiced views...

The only sort of situation I can see this happening is apparently, off-screen, when Judith reveals that Holst and Nader got drunk together and became BFFs.

All Almyrans aren't brutes and barbarians - and yet, when we see some acting like the racist stereotypes the Gonerils depict them as, Claude doesn't pop up to say a thing. The best we can have is, iirc, him saying something like "we can let past grudges influence our decisions now" when Lorenz and Hilda are kind of arguing with the intensity of a wet paper against the inclusion of Almyrans in the army - completely oblivious to the fact (or maybe it was an oversight from the devs?) that Hilda's paralogue could be unlocked/played 3 minutes earlier, so we're not talking about past events and a long history of raids that have stopped, but about very present events : those raids exist.

In a nutshell, I agree with anon about the WTF of Claude's plan and general arc in VW - even if he shows progress and lets go, as much as the game allows anyone to do so - his hatred of the CoS - he's basically asking Fodlan, the victim, to stop being so prejudiced against people raiding for funsies and open their borders to the same people raiding them for funsies, and only after this, he will ask the people raiding for funsies to stop raiding for funsies because the people the raiders call "cowards" don't fucking want to die in what is generally seen as a dick measuring context.

Even post VW, Claude is still prejudiced, not as much as he was in the pre TS and ultimately Nopes lol, against Fodlan, expecting to change and have a new set of values "first" before bringing the values of not excluding people because they are different to Almyra.

And IMO, this is even more bonkers when you realise this S-support happens after Rhea's infodump, aka after the infodump where she reveals that the people opposing the war mongering ones with nukes were genocided - you don't ask the randoms/victims to play nice with their abusers, and expect said abusers to play nice too because you ask them.

Maybe it's a bad faith reading, but the ending illustration has Claude try to mediate or sign a treaty between, on one side, people with spears, and on the other side, people with armors (who look resigned, but maybe it's just the artstyle) and no weapons that are heavily implied to be from Fodlan.

And fun fact, now that i'm looking at them - we see Billy - aka the Church - in AM and SS, but we don't see them in CF and VW... We only see Alliance Lords - but no King/Queen Billy of Fodlan in sight.

Did he really change his POV about the Church, or not?

#fantasyinvader #at least compared to Nopes Claude he tries to reconsider #even if it doesn't amount to a lot #bcs in the end he still thinks Billy can bring the don't be racist values to Fodlan #suggesting 'be racist" values existed even if he is supposed to have realised the contrary #and the lack of the CoS in the end is striking like wtf #seriously #still i can get his story is part him realising he was wrong and yet FE16 can't really let go the Rhea BaD Church BaD red herring #so claude realising the CoS wasn't the reason why people hated foreigners while still sort of thinking they are is fitting enough #of course a sensible story would be to try to understand why fodlan doesn't like foreigners #and that means tackling the constant raids #but we can't have that #Claude can make roundabout claims about the doctrine of the church and racism and what not #but cannot face Almyrans raiding for fun #so his entire arc and resolution feels very empty and imo artificial #where's the growth if you close your eyes to one of the sources of the issue you're trying to solve?#FE16

16 notes · View notes