I think it would be best to be careful about how we read into the show's symbolism, because saying "The soulless creatures that are drawn to negativity and have no will of their own except to destroy society are clearly meant to be a stand-in for minorities" is an EXTREMELY loaded statement that carries implications I don't think you've thought through.
it sure is a loaded statement ! good thing it's not what i said.
grimm--specifically the cultural perception thereof, i.e. that they are evil soulless monsters with no purpose other than to destroy (<- which is itself strongly implied to not be true)--are used quite explicitly as a metaphor for the persecution of faunus by humans.
because a core pillar of anti-faunus bigotry--this is stated explicitly in the text in multiple contexts by multiple characters--is that humans treat faunus like monsters. it is strongly implied that this vector of anti-faunus bigotry specifically takes the form of a cultural perception that faunus are sort of "in between" humans and grimm, or in some other sense "adjacent" to grimm.
if we take into account "the judgment of faunus" this cultural perception becomes exceptionally clear: the faunus in the story are blamed by the humans for "leading" the grimm to attack the human settlement, even though what actually happened is the grimm attacked the faunus and the faunus fled to seek the relative safety of the settlement.
the symbolic role of the grimm in this configuration is twofold: they represent 1. the dehumanization of the faunus and 2. the violent persecution suffered by faunus because of that dehumanization. humans blame faunus for the violence of the grimm and faunus are therefore cast out to fend for themselves against the predation of grimm; the grimm aren't stand-ins for minorities, they are bigotry manifest.
and that's the Whole Point of the white fang wearing grimm masks: "humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters." humans treat faunus like grimm-lite, faunus reclaim that as a weapon against their oppressors. it's why the blake faunus reveal starts with blake screaming "there's no such thing as pure evil!" and ends with her staring at, identifying herself with, the grimm in the statue instead of the huntsmen while she reveals her non-human features.
like this isn't even symbolism really it's worldbuilding--this is, overtly, a stereotype that exists in-universe, that faunus are grimm-adjacent, and the symbolic role of the grimm-as-violent-persecution follows from that naturally as the faunus characters grapple with it (most overtly in 2-3, but it's an undercurrent in adam and sienna's disagreement in 5 as well.)
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Another mini-arc of Fault is being released. Fault is an SCP SBI AU that deals with themes of dealing with the trauma and guilt of surviving, The SCP Foundation’s system of oppression, and naturally found family. The first arc is Tommy and Tubbo-centric, focusing on the sacrifices needed to survive, and then broadens to fully introduce the rest of the Sleepy Bois, alternative morality systems, and new terrible mental health strategies. While the story does get dark, it makes the moments of love shine all the brighter. Even if humanity hates them, these monsters have each other’s backs.
Mind the tags, and enjoy.
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some of y'all are in for quite the ride from S2 and onwards
leave your morals at home, peeps. This is fucked up horror through and through and the clear divide between good and evil that this fandom keeps looking for..... ain't never... gonna..... c o m e
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hmm. had an actual conversation with nightmare coworker today that seemed mutually productive. she apologized for saying some bullshit that hurt my feelings and i clarified that my intentions are to help not to undermine her, and we both agreed that there's no competition against each other and that it's the lack of growth in our role that's the problem. it was...productive.
and further cementing for me that it is time to begin making my Exit. i will be sending out my resume to a few places this weekend.
i'm still processing the conversation, and am struggling to place myself in where i am responsible to better my behavior. because i genuinely don't want to be an ass, even though i really don't like this lady and will jump for joy the day i never have to see her again. she stated that she knows my intentions aren't to hurt her, and that she thinks i'm very kind. i apologized for if my behavior came off as undermining her, and said that my intentions are only to better my own growth—and that i know she's trying to succeed too. i validated her feelings, and complemented the effort she is putting in.
where i'm struggling with is: am i in the wrong/causing harm and needing to change if the issue is that her feelings are incongruent with what she knows of my intentions? her feelings are her responsibility (WOW i almost typed "her feelings are my responsibility". i feel like that's a freudian slip) and she states that she knows i don't mean to hurt her. i'm going to try to be more clear in wording my intentions with her (she feels like me trying to take work off her plate is to undermine her. when really, i'm caught up and see her getting overwhelmed, and i want to help and also have something to do since i'm bored).
but i'm really struggling to look at my role in this and pass judgement on myself. i can and want to do better, and i don't think i did anything wrong, but i'm always so hesitant to say it's not my fault or i didn't do something bad. like i can't trust my judgement on that. my intentions were good, her bad feelings are ones caused by her insecurities, which she more or less has expressed to be aware that they are not true—the hurtful thing she said to me, she acknowledged was said out of hurt and not what she actually thinks. so, is it fair to say i'm not the bad guy? i'm not in the wrong? i know good intentions that still result in harm don't absolve anyone, but when the things that are clashing are insufficient communication and reactive insecurities... i'm not a monster, am i?
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Wait sammyverse is wincest? (- girl who has been putting off reading sammyverse because it's gen)
is sammyverse a wincest fic or a gen fic? the greatest thread in the history of forums locked by a moderator after thousands of pages of heated debate
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boomers n X'ers are mad that millennials Gen Z have woken up to all the child abusive norms in our society and we no longer give our parents respect just because they're our parents and teh bibble says so.
We also woke up to the fact that their politically passive and materialistic youth, where they took out a bunch of cheap usury loans and did nothing to stand up against central banking, has destroyed the economy for future generations. they have the audacity to call us lazy conspiracy theorists and essentially gaslight us for noticing such things.
A friend once told me she thinks that boomers and gen X are competing with their kids in this weird gross game to prove they're more successful and better, and I have to agree. They show no empathy for their own children's suffering, it's a generation full of casual and normalized narcissistic personality. I think this is a direct consequence of their culture which didn't encourage them to question their parents and see the humiliation and abuse they faced as children for what it is, unlike our culture today does. They actually believed that parents had kids out of virtue and selflessness and that the kids were obligated to repay the parents, not the other way around.
I notice a lack of individuation from the parents in most of Boomer and Gen X individuals. a "children must obey their parents" mentality. or... replace "obey" with "please" or "impress". Anyone with this mentality is primed for the narcissism demon. They will feel the constant need to prove themselves to the parents, to prove that they're successful and more worthy of praise, because in their eyes the parents can do no wrong and it is always their fault if the parent is abusing them or neglecting them. Then they project this gross mentality onto their children.
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godd,,, i still love in gaba 7 when green's got this huge ass fucking fire dragon behind him and he's just "🥺💕💕💕✨💕😭💖aww my sweet baby girl"
and charlie is just setting fire to everything in the immediate area
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