#complicated topic

[furox]

I finished ASC: Sky last night and uhmmm whoa mama those cats can warriors. What I’m trying to say is this was hands down the single most enjoyable book published since the original series. Like don’t get me wrong the actual writing sucks ass but the plot is actually engaging for once. It’s predictable but still refreshing for warriors.

#wc #asc #also I can’t believe I’m saying this but I don’t mind nightheart having feelings for sunbeam at all. BECAUSE! I think he’s just confused #not saying there won’t be a relationship #but I think he’s just putting all his hopes on her #but that’s like. very realistic young adult behavior and it is fun to read and watch unfold #and sunbeam also is just really realistic? her not being able to stand up to her mother and not knowing how she really feels about a #complicated topic #until she sees cats literally being wronged and punished for who they are #it’s good! it’s realistic! #moreover I gotta say. I can tell this was written/conceived of during a pandemic LMAOOOOO the green cough outbreak??? #warriors #nightheart #sunbeam #also poor frostpaw that bitch is traumatized #if I were here I would be a loner after this #also LOVE splashtail #and MOTHWING <3 #I get the Mothwing love now I really do #also nice to see the previous protagonists integrated in a much more natural way #also Omg squirrelflight and bramblestar messy as fuuyyyuuuuck I love it. #I’m predicting a new code that leaders and deputies can’t be mates #also she is totally gonna depose him <3 #I do feel bad for his ptsd tho #but two things can be true #he’s traumatized he’s had a difficult life AND he sucks as a leader and as a mate #retire :)

[jewreallythinkthat]

The most moderate, nuanced and productive people I have discussed the Israel-Hamas war with have been Jews, Israelis, and people with Palestinian family. Everyone directly affected by this just wants it to stop and to have peace and safety in the region in a way that minimises the casualty count.

The most extreme and performative and vile things I've been told are by people who have no connection to this and like to think they are experts because they have covered adjacent topics during learning, or read stuff online.

If all the randos in the west would just shut up for ten minutes and let those of us actually affected, with an understanding of the history of the land and the culture and the generational trauma experienced by Jews and Palestinians alike talk, we might actually have a chance to salvage this and stop it spiraling

#jumblr #antisemitism #i/p #nuance is something so easy to have and yet people choose not to #we are measured and non extreme because we dont have the privilege to be angry. #someone literally said that they wont ensge further with me because the topic makes me emotional #jews get called genocidal #palestinans get called Antisemitic #how about the rest of you shut the fuck up and let the adults talk #maybe youll learn how to problem solve and not be a bigot if you listen to those you so desperately want to hate #its pathetic #we all know hamas doesnt represent all Palestinians #we also know hamas teaches Antisemitism in schools in gaza and the west bank #these two things can and should co-exist in your head #that doesnt meam all palestinians are rabid jew hating murderers #it means the situation is complicated and not black and white and will take more than just screaming for a ceasefire to actually solve #we are not a football for your performative activism

[stealingpotatoes]

Just cuz there's Yoda slander happening; my biggest issue with him (and most of the Jedi council/masters) is how he expected traumatized Ani to just Get Over It™ once at the Jedi temple

#ITS CHRISTMAS EVE LETS NOT START DEBATING NUANCED AND COMPLICATED TOPICS #SAVE THAT FOR WHEN YOUR POLITICALLY INCORRECT UNCLE IS CHATTING GAS AT CHRISTMAS DINNER #thanks for the ask! #self potes-trait

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't know what order to start Dissecting, so i'll just start with:

it's absolutely fascinating how the dynamic Wally & Barnaby had - to my knowledge - before the update, and a dynamic i'd seen speculated elsewhere and generally accepted, has been completed turned on its head

see, given that Wally is the "main character" and Barnaby is classified as "his best friend", i got the feeling that Barnaby kind of... tags along on Wally's 'shenanigans'. that he's the sidekick, the best friend. especially since their dynamic has been previously & briefly described as "Barnaby is very polite to Wally." he's the Companion.

but the audios sorta paint a reverse picture. in the Interview, when Barnaby enters stage right, he completely bowls over Wally's introduction and dominates the interview. when the interviewer asks how the two of them are handling the fame, even outright asking Wally, Barnaby doesn't hesitate to answer the question himself, and only about himself. Wally doesn't get another word in edge-wise until the interviewer explicitly singles Wally out.

(now, an argument could be made that Barnaby knew that Wally was somewhat overwhelmed with all of the questions, and tried to take the reins to give him a reprieve. but, considering that the interview seems to be very early on the possible timeline - like, very soon after Welcome Home debuted - i don't think this is likely. i doubt Barnaby and Wally would've had the time to solidify their dynamic or really get to know each other that well yet)

and Barnaby continues to take point in pretty much all of their other conversations, too. like in the mystery Howdy/Barnaby/Wally audio, their interaction gives off the vibes that Wally is Barnaby's sidekick, his tag-along.

(on a related tangent, it's fascinating how the website described the episodes as "[beginning] with Wally introducing the focus or theme for the day before coming across other characters who would join him on his escapades until the end of the day." but from pretty much everything we've seen so far, it seems like He's the one who's just along for the ride, bouncing from neighbor shenanigan to neighbor shenanigan instead of having his own adventures.

of course, if the 14 audios are present time, which is honestly somewhat likely, this could be because the show isn't running. they aren't doing episodes - they're just existing, doing their things. no need for Wally to take point in any way shape or form. tangent over)

in the 14 audios with Barnaby, he doesn't even acknowledge Wally until the very end - which, of course, could be because that's how the scenes are set up. except that in some of them, the characters do directly acknowledge Wally's presence outside of the endings. Eddie in 5-14, Howdy and Poppy in 1-14, and Frank in 4-14 (technically, since he was infodumping to Wally at the very start before Barnaby interrupted). you'd think that a guy would try to include his best friend a little more!

maybe i'm reading into it too much. & given what we know about Wally as a character, it would make sense for Barnaby to be the go-getter Main Guy of the two. but it really seems like its Barnaby & Wally instead of Wally & Barnaby. he's just kinda... there. going along with whatever Barnaby is up to.

but also, on the other side of things - & it's occurring to me as i type this, it's interesting how in a lot of audios, Barnaby seems to seek Wally out. in "Just So", he shows up to fetch Wally. in 4-14, Barnaby interrupts Frank and Wally's gardening session, almost as if he's stopping by to check on his little buddy. in 7-14, Barnaby calls Julie's house (presumably) searching for Wally, or at least checking in once again. something to consider in all of this!

#and if the 14 audios are in the same day along a timeline - which they Are. im trying to puzzle it out rn but anyway - #its interesting how barnaby just kept. checkin. in. #they had three audios where they were already hanging out and then got two (technically three) more where barnaby checked in! #it feels like there's something there... #separation anxiety? a compulsion? love for his buddy? a secret fourth thing? #maybe he could tell something was Off with wally that day... #(which is a topic i will ramble about in a different post) #its a push & pull to be certain.... #but yeah that plus all the evidence of Barnaby kinda being the Lead and wally being brushed off to the side.... #what a complicated fuckin picture it paints!!! dont know what it means yet! #i have another post im working on centering on how the neighbors seem to treat each other - wally & eddie especially #but this post aint about that. itll be related though #homebogging #wh speculation #please let this have made sense! #when i make posts i just kinda throw myself at it bc i have No organizational skills! #my brain is a complete incoherent mess and i am so sorry if this post is messy <3

[feelingthedisaster]

if this gets more than 100 notes i will write that chapter

if this gets more than 200 notes i will write two chapters

if this gets more than 500 notes i will power through with who-knows-where-it-comes-from energy and write at least four more chapters (they're short chapters, but still)

if this gets more than 1000 i will post that other fic that has been in my drafts for five months

#should i add tags? #not bc i want to procrastinate #but the point of this post is not procrastine #hmmm complicate topic #i'll add them but not a lot of them #writer #writeblr #writing #writing is hard #ao3 #ao3 fic #ao3 writer #thats it #dont get notes i want to procrastinate

[lemonlimestar]

now personally, i think as far as compelling romantic dynamics go from yj98 i think i lean more towards cissie and cassie (ALSO anitas big ass crush on cissie lmao) + kon and bart (aka kon’s big ass crush on bart) but i will say i still enjoy tim and kon’s friendship in it.

they’re so funny because they so obviously like each other. they’re best friends! or at least kon considers tim his best friend! but they’re so so so bad at showing it. they would gag excessively if they knew about the “you’re my robin…” scene. wdym you’re saying you like that guy??? just tape his favorite show while he’s in space on an insane mission??? simply beat up (or attempt to beat up) a guy on his behalf multiple times???

i dunno i just feel like kon’s viewpoint on the importance of trust and tim not telling the team his real identity is really interesting to explore. especially paralleled with adventure comics #3. the way tim so easily pulls down his cowl v.s. how it felt like pulllng teeth for him every time kon brought up secret identity issues. and mind you! a lot of that was match, but it still obviously really hurt him! especially with the entirety of what happens in owaw! (my beloved <3)

i cannot for the life of me think of the issue number but during sins of youth when kon and clark are switched and they talk about clark not bringing up his secret identity. and despite his chill demeanor, kon seems pretty hurt by it. he likes to know he’s trusted. it’s kind of the same thing with the legion in early sb94. i think his lack of secret identity initially also plays into this. like, he can talk about everything in his personal life because, well, his personal life and professional life are essentially the same thing. now cut to tim complaining about having to lie to his dad. and his friends (including young justice and even bruce). and his girlfriend(s).

their dynamic is obviously heavily impacted by where they are in their lives at that point and it’s so compelling to me specifically.

+ the way kon latches onto being able to say tim’s real name soooo bad after wwyj. like. okay girl…!

#all this to say… i like when they r complicated :-) #kon el #tim drake #yj98 #meta tag #i guess? #i’m really just ranting about kon #as one does #can u tell i wrote an entire fic about this topic :3 #yj our worlds at war save me… save me yj our worlds at war… #dc #what’s bro yappin about #timkon #robin 93 tag #sb94 tag #long post

[mpreg-nouveau]

Since I'm in a Kurt Wagner mood...If y'all don't think Kurt Wagner's Catholicism isn't a huge crutch for being abandoned by both his mothers you are dead wrong.

Dude probably has a little figurine of Mary he talks to and prays to on occasion. Hell maybe has his own little collection of them. He fell into the "Mary is every Christian's mother" mindset hard. Probs refers to her as his mom sometimes reflexively. Dude has a rosery on him at all times and probably prays with it whenever he thinks too hard about his abandonment to comfort himself. Knows the Fatima prayer and hail holy queen. Has visited the various Mary centric holy sites and absolutely believes in the story of our lady of Guadalupe, Fatima, and the crying Mary statue.

You can talk shit about the Catholic church all you want to him. Talk shit about God and religion and he will nod along and listen respectfully. You say shit about Mary tho he will stab you.

#kurt wagner #nightcrawler #x men 97 #x men comics #x men the animated series #headcanon #tw: religious themes #off topic #i just needed to get this off my chest #fun fact you can tell how much a catholic man has complicated relationship with his mom/trauma relating to his mother #entirely on how strong his feelings about mary are.

[spicyicymeloncat]

I hate llorumi as much as everyone else, but like can we stop saying that Harumi has a canonical family dynamic with either Garmadon or Lloyd.

There’s no family dynamic there. Not in canon.

Llorumi is bad bc of the attempted murder. And the manipulation. And the kidnapping. And the resurrecting Garmadon, robbing him of his humanity and destroying the world.

I don’t even think Harumi and Garmadon have really a family dynamic. It’s definitely not a normal one.

I think I’m just tired of people saying that Harumi and Lloyd are ‘siblings :D’ after listing why they have a toxic relationship. Like all those dynamics are still toxic either way, them being siblings does not fix any of that. It’s still just as frightening and awful. And same goes for Harumi and Garmadon. Like Harumi can have other family who aren’t the people she obsessed over to the point of destroying the city.

#idk controversial topic but like Harumi and Lloyd were never raised as siblings or saw each other as such #yeah it’s a weird dynamic but it’s not the dynamic you’d think it is #it’s definitely toxic don’t get me wrong #idk #discourse #ninjago #Ninjago harumi #Ninjago Lloyd #ninjago garmadon #if Garmadon had kept all his memories and such #he would be so furious #she took away his personhood and everything he fought so hard to be #his ability to be a dad to who he loved #she took away his ability to love #that’s not a father daughter relationship that is the equivalent of taking advantage (even accidentally) of someone’s fragile mental state #in order to receive undue to care from them #not complaining she did that it’s very interesting and Ik she’s complicated #but fandom does not see it as it is

[formulatrash]

Lewis likes Lando BECAUSE he's an annoying bitch who can't shut up. Lewis was an annoying bitch who couldn't shut up when he was first in F1 (and tbf, will take an opportunity to do it even now) that's why he projects onto Lando. if Lando WASN'T being an annoying bitch who couldn't shut up he'd just be George.

#i could write several essays on this topic #no but seriously early lewis was so annoying (affectionate) and it's a core part of his personality to indulge that in Lando #who clearly massively respects and fanboys him #i also think lewis likes lando immensely because he is fundamentally kind and desperately tries to do the right thing #and he is mclaren's beloved flower but that's more complicated #because mclaren never loved lewis like that unfortunately #but MOSTLY it's because he's an annoying bitch who can't shut the fuck up and gets in trouble for breathing

[operator-report]

cw: ableism, Worm spoilers through Scourge 19.7

Thinking about Marissa Newland in the club tonight (Saturday afternoon). What a fast track for needing to go lie down.

Do you ever think about what it takes to be able to kill your best friend? What would your relationship with that friend need to be like? ("Sundancer spoke up, calling out, 'Remember the promise we made together.' Noelle didn’t reply.) How would you need to think of her? ("Hate these runs. People look at me funny when I bring a cart of meat and only meat.") How badly would you need to want to go back to your old life? ("How's life among the Travelers?" "Intense. Violent. Lonely.")

The Travelers entire team dynamic is a hideous torment nexus, but the collapse of Noelle and Marissa's friendship really gets to me. Going from Marissa always making sure Noelle ate to Marissa being ashamed of the food runs is agony. Marissa was Noelle's friend who cared for her, and cared about her, the most. Now, when Marissa talks to Noelle, she doesn't respond. Marissa can hold Dinah while she's sick in Noelle's cage, but can no longer reach out to Noelle. All care is completely cut off - Noelle is only a disease, who needs to be managed and grieved.

Marissa hates hurting people, but she can kill Noelle. Taylor just has to first tell Marissa that Noelle is no longer herself. (“She’s… she was my best friend.” “She’s not Noelle anymore.”)

Of course, it's so much more nightmarishly complicated than that. Marissa isn't a bad person, here - she's handling a horrible situation imperfectly. Marissa still loves Noelle. She insists to Taylor over and over again that Noelle is her friend, despite everything. But for one hideous moment, Marissa has to believe that Noelle isn't there, that the thing that Noelle has become isn't really her friend, isn't a person, before she can do the deed. And then Marissa goes right back to mourning.

It's awful. It's an incredibly well-executed tragedy. I don't really have much of a point beyond that, other than, damn. It really does suck that Noelle's friends - even her friend who best understood her struggles - no longer see Noelle as a person. Can't believe that's what killed her, in the end.

#much like there is an absolute gulf between 'treatment' and 'cure' #it's the difference between 'care' and 'management' for me #worm #parahumans #personhood with noelle is such a complicated topic that i really want to sink my teeth into #how much of noelle is her? how much is her shard? who benefits from the noelle-versus-shard divide? and so on #but i still need to finish worm lol #currently on arc 29 as of writing this post

[intermundia]

the kenobi show has given me so much Jedi content and I’m so glad, but also as someone who’s Jewish, it’s made me Incredibly Aware of exactly how many people in the fandom would fall for Nazi rhetoric - like when I see people saying “the Holocaust was bad” but then going “the Jedi deserved their fall” in the next breath, it doesn’t give me a lot of hope that people actually know why the Holocaust was bad, or that they’d be able to see through the propaganda if it occurred today

Absolutely, completely, and totally. The inability of many fans to correctly parse a narrative, to evaluate the credibility of information based on the person delivering it, and instead believing obvious, malicious propaganda because it satisfies their vicarious craving for power, listening and trusting the people wearing literal black cloaks and surrounded by stormtroopers, it is all depressing at best and deeply concerning at worst.

We share a fandom with people who argue with their whole chest that fascism is better than democracy, and that genocide was not only deserved, but also a net benefit for society at large, either ignoring or accepting without problem the blatant, shouted, real world antisemitic parallels. I don’t know if they are projecting their religious trauma from Christian institutions onto the Jedi, and so don’t see the antisemitism of reveling in their genocide, but that’s my most charitable explanation.

It’s so frustrating how they happily share and support Sidious’s version of reality, the view that was put into Anakin’s mouth on Mustafar to show how far he had fallen into evil, not to frame him as being right. They aren’t guided by compassion for innocent people, or maybe even aware of the history of very real atrocities, but it’s no excuse when it’s a sign of being incurious about the experience of others unlike yourself, and unconcerned with their suffering.

Watching Episode 5 and hearing Reva’s story about hiding among the bodies, my first thought when I was watching was about the 33,771 Jews killed at Babi Yar, and the survivor narratives, which included hiding among the dead. I think everyone needs to know about the very real, historical analogies to the things depicted on screen and understand why it is so important for us to agree about who are right and wrong about genocide, even in a fictional form.

I am not Jewish, but it matters to me a great deal to protect Jewish lives and to make sure it never happens again, both specifically to Jewish people and to other vulnerable minorities as well. Our stories should inspire us to be vigilant about the creep of fascism, not inspire us to argue in defense of fascists and enjoy their violence. Yes, it is just Star Wars, yet it is also much more than that. The stakes of all of this are actually indescribably high.

#this topic is complicated beyond one tumblr post #but #i am comfortable saying that people need to fucking look in the mirror and interrogate themselves #sw meta #antisemetism tw

[firebloodbirthdeath]

“That was the trouble with slow people. Give him a fool any day. Slow people took some time to catch up, but when they did they rolled right over you” - Terry Pratchett, small gods

In small gods this quote always stood out to me and I think I just realized this idea is so core to the book and the general arc of the book. Like this is one of Brutha’s core traits and also kind of the primary arc of the book. I think unlike most protagonists with an arc of the sort Brutha has, as well as in comparison to the other people fighting Vorbis, he takes a long time to really seemingly leave the harmful beliefs behind. However when he does he bowls everyone else over.

This quote, as well as Brutha’s characterization in general, also made me think about what exactly slowness is. I think, at least in this case and context, slowness is taking the time in your thought. Brutha really takes the time to come to conclusions he comes to. He thinks about what he is learning, and some of it is probably partially denial, but in comparison to other characters that deal with this kind of situation there is not a lot. Instead it is more like he comes to his conclusions slowly and with consideration.

#terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #small gods #brutha #idk I just really liked this take on ‘slowness’ #I think in some ways I can be like that too #I’ll learn a new piece of information in a discussion with someone #and then I may need a day or so or more to really sit with my opinions on the topic #idk brutha is just a really cool character to me #and man how does pterry write characters with such intricate personal selves #they’re all so complicated in just their way of thinking #and individual #it’s so cool

[grymmdark]

listen i know im a vashwood main but i also think that in stampede vashmeryl is a much stronger ship. like they're so much more to work with there and im surprised that stampede vashmeryl isnt significantly more popular.

i get that part of the reason stampede vashwood is so popular is because it's such a strong ship in the other trigun iterations as well as the stuff thats in stampede, but in terms of just stampede vashmeryl is stronger.

personally when it comes to stampede i think mashwood is best tho cus all 3 have very interesting dynamics, both in terms of in pairs and as a whole

#grymms spectacular fucking posts #trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #vashmeryl #vashwood #vash the stampede #meryl stryfe #i wanna make it clear that this is not me putting down vashwood at all but trying ro bring more attention to vashmeryl #im a multishipper and think that multiple dynamics can be interesting to explore #either in tandum or separately #and also im aware that fandoms tend to lean more towards m/m and that might also be part of it but thats also a complicated topic bc of #stuff like amount of male vs female characters in shows and also people looking for representation for queer relationships etc etc #anyways thats not the point. the point is i love meryl and her big weird boyfriend she found in the desert

[deansass]

low key embarrassed by the white feminists rising from the graves to defend Taylor Swift for whatever reaction she had at the GG while being dead silent about the literal murder of WOC around the world or the women who don’t have access to hygienic products or the ones being killed by airstrikes while pregnant or

#white feminism #is when your white idol frowns and it becomes. a trending topic #but woc dying is political and complicated #stfu #Taylor Swift #I loved her music but with her silence abt Palestine I’m disgusted #and the swifties are worse

[phoenixyfriend]

Latest in gender:

I want online strangers to call me They and for she/her to be for friends only?

You don't know me all enough to gender be etc etc

#what the fuck is wrong with me for gender to be this complicated. I'm 28. I've been thinking about nb topics for over a decade #and I still don't Know #gender #queer stuff #trans stuff #nonbinary stuff #personal

[hindahoney]

For all my Jewish followers, I have a pressing question.

Do you identify your race as Jewish?

I ask this because this is a comment that has come up over time in the communities I've been in, where people say they identify as Jewish above everything else, and do not identify with goys of their same race. I work at a university as a researcher of antisemitism, and this conversation has been coming up in academia as well.

We all know that race is a social construct, and various groups have had the perception of their racial status change over time (Ex. Irish people not being considered white, and more recently Hispanics/Latinos being considered white). It wouldn't be a new concept for the Jewish identity to be racialized, as we were classified as "yellow Eur-Asians" during the Jim Crow era, and non-Aryan during the Shoah (though there were thousands of years leading up to this of us not being considered whatever the dominant racial group was). Many groups still don't consider Ashkenazi Jews white (though these are most often far-right neo-Nazis that barely consider us humans).

North American Ashkenazi Jews who don't identify as white have said their reasoning is that the cultural and ethnic differences of Jews lead to a great divide between white-passing Jews and goys, and the inter-generational trauma of thousands of years of brutal oppression and slavery is something that white goys don't experience. They say that Jews originate from the middle east, so they can't be white even if their skin was paled during exile. They argue that as long as many people don't consider them white, they don't even really have a choice of what they identify as.

To Ashkenazi Jews who do identify as white, they've argued that by racializing your Jewish identity you're, in a way, giving in to what the oppressors want and accepting that you're different.

I just want to know what you think either way.

#this is a very complicated topic and I could talk about it for hours #no i dont have a stance i just want to hear what people have to say #maybe itll help me form my opinion #jews #jewish #jumblr #frumblr #jewblr #antisemitism #shoah #jewish stuff #jewish history #this is a touchy subject so before you attack in the comments please just believe when I say I have good intentions lol #i can never predict what someone will get mad at