#complexities

[anteomnia]

just endlessly thinking about blue eye samurai.

thinking about how akemi, taigen, and mizu are if a coin had three sides or maybe just the two and mizu is the bridge of metal between them.

akemi being the ideal image for women, for the life they endure. she was simultaneously a princess, a prostitute, and a prisoner. her entire life was men making decisions for her, even the ones that had good intentions, and she believed her deepest desire was freedom. it still is, but she has been revealed to this heinous predicament of her gender, and she’s realized that to reach true freedom as a woman is to be the bird in the cage, to play nice and to earn the love of a man until he buys her a bigger cage and a bigger cage until he trusts her not to fly away. and it'll never be true freedom, but it will come with power. it'll come with the freedom of only one master rather than many.

taigen being the ideal image of a man. not all powerful, but not weak. he had a taste of what it'd be to succeed, and when it was taken from him, that easy success, he mistook it for his honor. he hunted mizu down to kill him, and instead he saved him. he saved him and saved him and he came closer to killing mizu when they were on the cliff's edge, and just when he gets to the point where he may actually fight mizu, he's tortured for information on him. he is tortured. Literally tortured within an inch of his life, enduring such a heinous violence, and he refuses to break. this man was a fight, was the torturer, and the victim of his torturing could've been his salvation from pain but he refused. mizu gave back taigen's honor but not by fighting him.

akemi wanted freedom and learned she would need power to have it.

taigen wanted power and learned that the violence that came with it was infinite and dishonorable.

and then there's mizu. mizu who wants revenge, wants acceptance. arguably the same things as them both. mizu wants acceptance, the freedom of living and the freedom to love and be loved. mizu wants revenge, which follows after violence and power, to get said acceptance. she thinks she must do both, have both, to live peacefully, and she's blatant about how she will not live without either.

she's given acceptance with the blacksmith, her "mother," her husband, but she sees the flecks of avoidance in it.

the blacksmith will not hear of her true gender. her "mother" will not acknowledge the crime of her birth. her husband can't find tolerance for the violence within her, the man of her.

and so she has to balance the woman and man of her, the ronin and the bride. taigen and akemi. and it's meeting mizu that they start to unravel their own identities.

mizu, who is both, and akemi and taigen who thought themselves one but turned out to be neither.

god.

#complexities #and comparisons #i think they are so much more than what i’ve said but just #the cinematography #and the metaphors #the underlying theme of birds #blue eye samurai #the poetry that you are #it feels like every scene was specifically crafted #like they did not make one undeliberate mark #like it all has meaning #i’m insane #mizu #taigen #akemi #mizu x akemi x taigen #the ronin and the bride

[litmichs-blog]

Why Some Women Choose to Be in Relationships with Married Men

A ring on the hand of a man they like does not deter all girls from a relationship. On the contrary, some women cling to married men like bees to honey. However, relationships with a committed partner rarely end happily.

1. Learned about his obligations too late Imagine you meet a really nice guy and start dating him. You really like him and hope to have a future together. But after a few dates, you find out that he’s actually married. You’re already attached to him, and he tells you that his marriage is in a bad place. What would you do? Many women would probably end the relationship, but sometimes it’s already…

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#complexities #married men #motivations #reasons #relationships #women

[mymidwestheart]

Fight, flight, freeze or fawn (pleasing the captor)—we all do it in times of distress. Only, our level of trauma experiences influence our autonomic tendencies. Fighters believe that their reactions can change their circumstances. Fighters have fought for change in the past and been successful. Never assume that just because someone defaults to running away, freezing, or seeking to please and not leaving when they should, they don’t still want the beautiful things in life as well. Unfortunately somewhere along the way, they couldn’t fight, they couldn’t run, and they had to survive. Does that mean that they can stay in that place of trauma and have healthy relationships? Often, no. They need to put in the work to unpack their stuff and work on some healing. But some of that healing occurs in healthier relationships too.

Let’s stop the stereotypical “they’d stay and fight for you” concepts. Would they if their autonomic system hadn’t been trained to run or freeze? Possibly. But as humans we are so much more complex than the all or nothing statements we try to make love into.

Communicate with your partners. Be safe enough to unpack your relationship histories and traumas. Far too many of us carry around overflowing backpacks of shame filled memories.

#trauma #relationships #complexities #human #love #friendships

[bakedbeanchan]

random fire nation diplomat #492 will never understand the complex and fucked up relationship between the water siblings like I do 🙄

#and they were forced to raise each other... #baked bean originals #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #sokka #sorry hakoda i don't think you count #couldn't have you just left one dude back home instead of giving your 13 yr old kid a martyr complex #cmon man #i don't think he's a bad dad but that was not the best decision

[mo-mode]

“But what does Grover bring to the table? He’s just the comedy relief character.” Grover is juggling the role of babysitter, mediator, and emotional manipulator and he cracks jokes too? Give him a BREAK

#grover underwood #he’s my favorite #I LOVE how much attention he’s getting now that he’s got more complexity in the show #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[sleevebuscemii]

songs used to have a bridge and a third chorus

#kill the 2min song industrial complex!!!!! #bring that beat back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #m

[sayruq]

[SOURCE]

So when you hear about Biden slowing down arms shipment

It's not because he cares about Palestinians (cutting UNRWA funds, because of confessions obtained through torture, should tell you otherwise), it's because he doesn't have a large stockpile of weapons to send.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #genocide #gaza genocide #fuck the idf #military industrial complex #joe biden

[ahaura]

many people have said it but bears repeating again:

Palestinian liberation calls for a 1 state solution under which all people are equal under both under the law and in practice.

In order to have peace the genocide, apartheid, and occupation must end. Settler colonialism must end. Second class citizenry must end. All Palestinians imprisoned must be released. Reparations must be made to Palestinians who have been affected by both current events and historical, from the Nakba in 1948 to today. Everyone who participated in the facilitation of the apartheid, and the violence of the apartheid and occupation required to maintain the oppressive regime, must be held accountable. Palestinians must be granted the right to return to their homes.

The idea that Palestinian liberation = carrying out a genocide on Israelis is nothing more than baseless, racist, orientalist fearmongering (and, to an extent, pure projection) that serves to justify the current genocidal regime and the apartheid having been maintained for decades. One people's freedom does not threaten another people. People are fearmongering over a hypothetical scenario (the same fearmongering used in South Africa; both during the reconstruction era following the abolition of slavery & also against abolitionists while slavery was still legal in the United States; in regards to the North American indigenous population; and so on) while an actual genocide is going on.

the only way to real actual peace, safety, and security is through the complete liberation of the Palestinian people, not the continued maintenance of the current regime or the apartheid that led to this current moment in time. apartheid is inherently violent; oppression is inherently violent. colonialism is inherently violent. if YOUR 'safety' is dependent on the oppression, displacement, and murder of OTHER PEOPLE then your conditions are not and will never be safe.

#palestine #geopol #seeing people on twitter being like 'this is so complex' and 'but what will happen' like PEOPLE HAVE SAID WHAT! #📁.zip

[justinempire]

(Justin Empire) Complexities 

#SoundCloud #music #Justin Empire #Complexities

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Sorry, but having Zuko actually fight back against Ozai during their Agni Kai is just wrong. He was a child, only 13 at the time, afraid to fight his own father and was mutilated as punishment, because Ozai saw Zuko's begging and unwillingness to fight as unforgiveable weakness.

The Angi Kai isn't meant to be a showcase of Zuko's fighting potential (that's what the Zhao fight is for), but to show the utter cruelty of Ozai.

#avatar #atla #avatar the last airbender #netflix avatar #zuko #fire lord ozai #i just do not get so many of the changes this show makes #a lot of them just feel like changes for changes sake #so they can say this is what makes their version different #others feel like a clumsy attempt to make their version more adult and complex #but really just do the opposite

[dreamchasernina]

Netflix, I don’t know how to tell you this but a woman doesn’t have to be self taught to be a strong female character. It’s ok to let her know her limitation and ask for help. It’s ok to let her get angry, it’s ok to let her be jealous, it’s ok to let your female character have flaws and WORK on them. Your female character doesn’t have to become a master on her own to be memorable, it just makes her accomplishment feel unearned.

#katara was so determined and strong willed #she took no shit from anyone #she was freaking amazing #but she had to train to become the best waterbender in the world #the moves didn’t just come to her in her sleep #and she was co complex #she got angry and jealous but she was still caring and gentle #this katara just felt so one dimensional #atla #avatar: the last airbender #avatar #avatar the last airbender #natla #Netflix #Netflix atla #atla Netflix

[livechristcentered]

Finding Strength in Adversity: Reflection on Psalm 3

1 Lord, how many are my foes!How many rise up against me!2 Many are saying of me,“God will not deliver him.”3 But you, Lord, are a shield around me,my glory, the One who lifts my head high.4 I call out to the Lord,and he answers me from his holy mountain.5 I lie down and sleep;I wake again because the Lord sustains me.6 I will not fear though tens of thousandsassail me on every side.7 Arise,…

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#ancient wisdom #arise Lord #assurance of deliverance #Comfort #complexities #confronting adversity #confronting challenges #contemporary lives #courage in adversity #cries for help #darkest moments #deep peace #Deliverance #deliverance prayer #Divine intervention #facing fears #facing foes #fervent plea #finding strength #Guidance #hope in adversity #inner defense #insurmountable pressures #journey of faith #modern reflection #modern reflection on Psalm 3 #modern struggles #modern world #navigating challenges #personal challenges

[caintooth]

seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

#diary #memory loss #memory disorder #dementia #alzheimers #dissociative disorder #dissociative amnesia #dissociation #dissociative identity disorder #trauma #brain injury #memory #amnesia #actually dissociative #complex dissociative disorder #osddid #osdd system #dissociative system #other specified dissociative disorder #did system

[jodielandons]

Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.

Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”

Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.

#the blind side #Michael oher #Leigh Anne tuohy #sean tuohy #news #conservatorship #adoption #guardianship #white savior complex #black tumblr #black news #black stories #black men

[bullard90kendall]

In the quiet hum of a city morning, there's a woman, a wisp of a figure wrapped in layers of warmth that look as though they've absorbed countless stories, each thread a silent witness to moments both tender and tempestuous. Her coat, long and battered by the winds of fate, hangs with the kind of dignity that only aged garments possess, their longevity a testament to their unseen resilience. Tucked beneath it, the soft folds of a scarf, patterned and patient, bearing the brunt of the crisp air as it nestles around her slender neck like a loving safeguard.

She stands there, a solitary symphony in a landscape of steel and smog. There's something almost spectral about her presence; her gaze, distant and filled with a pensive gravity as if she holds conversations with phantoms of the past, or maybe with the promise of the future. Her hair, dark with the midnight memories of forgotten dreams, falls around her porcelain face—the kind artists spend lifetimes trying to capture, with the whispered secrets of every brush and chisel stroke.

The city sprawls behind her, indifferent, yet she imparts a gentle stillness amidst the rush. Brown laced boots, sturdy and unyielding, anchor her to the earth, to the present, the here and now. She might wander, yes, but always in her wandering, there seems a purpose, a path that she follows—a trail laced with the echoes of her own rhythm.

And though she's just one heart, one solitary heart among millions, you get the sense that in her quietude, there lies an ocean vast with hope and complexities, enough to flood the alleys and boulevards and make them flower. In this moment, the world whirls invisibly around her still form, waiting, perhaps, for the poetry carried in her soul to spill over and baptize the mundane with meaning once again.

#woman #city morning #layers #warmth #stories #coat #dignity #scarf #patterned #solitary #steel #smog #spectral #porcelain face #brown boots #hope #complexities #poetry #soul

[uncanny-tranny]

Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them

#disability #ableism #ableism tw #fatphobia #fatphobia tw #also if it's an issue solved by weight loss why would you want them to suffer until the weight loss helps wouldn't that DISCOURAGE them? #because if i were suffering the entire time i sure as fuck wouldn't want to keep going for the ~idea~ of it's gonna pay off!!! #also even if they 'made themself disabled' by being fat or anything else that doesn't matter. they're still disabled. #there is no 'good' disabled and 'bad' disabled and you cannot sort people into those categories #for every 'bad' fat disabled person there are multiple 'good' fat disabled people but you can't tell them apart often actually! #because you would have to know the intimate details of their medical history and familial lineage and tbh if you're... #...being a piece of shit to a disabled person because you assume they're guilty until proven innocent i don't blame others for being... #...weary of you and not wanting to be around you. because you've already proven you can't handle the IDEA of complex disabled experience