so this is what this triple header brought us :
— Austin
Charles pulling out a miracle pole lap
Qualifying P2 during the shootout and finishing P3 during the sprint
Going from pole to P6 due to a shitty strategy to a DSQ for the main race
Having tooth aches and having to take painkillers for it
— Mexico
Charles pulling out a miracle pole lap
Being rammed into by Checo in turn 1 of the first lap and having to drive with a broken car
Being booed and insulted by the crowd
Still suffering and taking meds for his tooth
— Sao Paulo
Charles miraculously qualifying P2 before all hell broke loose
Suffering with scrubbed tyres during the sprint to keep fresh tyres for the main race, having to lift and coast the whole sprint but still managing to go from P7 to P5 with some sexy overtakes
Allegedly getting sick before the race
Going from P2 to a DNS after losing power in the formation lap
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For a show that's supposedly about female empowerment, it's odd how every major female character is heavily influenced by men
Women whose fighting styles are based on men: Ruby (Qrow), Yang (Tai), Cinder (Rhodes)
Women whose ideologies are based on men: Weiss (opposition to Jacques), Blake (same as Ghira)
Women whose stories are almost completely intertwined with men: Nora (personal arc was figuring out who she was without Ren), Pyrrha (almost every scene with her prior to V3 was with Jaune), Emerald (almost every scene prior to v8 was shared with Mercury), Salem (motivated by Ozma's death, cursed by idiot brothers)
If the writing cast reflected the character cast, we probably wouldn't have this problem
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did you hear the rumor that nettles might not be played by a black woman? rumor is its rhianne barreto, shes white and a quarter indian
Unfortunately yes🤦🏽♀️ All I can say is that it’s mostly “fans” cheering this on and actively wanting her to be Nettles because for some reason tan equals brown, Black people are never brown-skinned or can be described as such, therefore Nettles definitely isn’t Black even though she looks like this in canon:
The casting speculation is based on social media follows which haven’t always been the most accurate. I mean people said that Jessica Brown Findlay was going to play Alys based on the fact that she started following some of the cast(and I believe some of the crew). We saw how that turned out🤷🏽♀️
There are actually two Black women that I know of who are following some of the cast. Corinna Brown(left) and Karla-Simone Spence(right).
Either would be awesome if they were/are Nettles, but for some odd reason hardly anyone has pointed this out and no one is making(sh!t stirring) Reddit threads or tweeting up a storm and saying that they are Nettles🙃
In the event that Rhianne, a tan woman, who in addition to not being black, up until like two years ago only ever identified as white🙃 is Nettles, well it’s bye-bye HOTD and this racist fandom for me✌🏽Yeah I definitely won’t be watching or supporting the show after all the anti-Black and especially anti-Black women stunts they have pulled.
I for one haven’t forgotten how they lit Laena on fire and tried to make it seem like it was the “feminist” thing to do(thanks Sara Hess and whoever else approved that mess😊) along with turning her into an unloved wife which wasn’t in the book(s) when she was a white woman🙃 Decisions which mind you a lot of the fandom went along with and feverishly approved of for reasons that we won’t get into☺️
Anyway, it’s all just speculation from (primarily) rabidly anti-Black fans. Until we actually get a confirmed casting nothing is certain🤷🏽♀️
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Good Lord. Okay. Listen. We all agree that pre-timeskip Houses Dedue is not doing so great in the mental health department. We all agree on that. My guy needs therapy about his survivor's guilt and his PTSD and we're all agreed his self deprecation is Intense but like.
Listen. You can't…address that without also acknowledging he's like that because people have been Fucking Racist To Him Constantly for the Last Four Years of his Goddamn Life. And not like, just ‘microaggressions at the workplace’ racist, though also that too. Like, ‘somebody might fucking murder him’ kind of racist. He's not just insecure or whatever. This man is trying not to get hate-crimed.
It's rational, actually, for Dedue to assume that Any Given Faerghan is gonna be racist to him, because before going to Garreg Mach every given Faerghan except Dimitri HAS BEEN super mega turbo racist to him everywhere he goddamn goes. There's no reason for him to believe his classmates are gonna be different. Like, he doesn't know Mercedes is from the Empire! He has no reason to believe Chivalrous Knight Fanboy Ashe doesn't hate Duscur and everyone from there for regicide. Annette is the only one with a pass and only because Dedue respected Gustave until he went out for cigarettes and never came back, abandoning not only Dimitri but also Dedue in the process. The safest thing is to assume people are gonna come at him hot and preemptively deescalate the situation.
Like, he suffers from the “you can get C and B supports after the time skip” weirdness for sure, but even in his C supports, even if you get them before the skip, he is fully willing to tell Felix where to stick his fucking grapes, and he's willing to tell Ingrid she can be as big of a bitch about it as she wants but he's still going to do his job on the battlefield even if that means keeping her alive. He's consistently assertive of his boundaries with Dimitri in all their supports, including when Dimitri wishes that he did not have a particular boundary (using Dimitri's name and calling each other friends, things it's actually physically not safe for pre timeskip Dedue to do).
Because he is confident Dimitri isn't gonna fucking lose his mind at Dedue about it. He's also confident Felix, Ingrid, and Sylvain won't do a hate crime at him if he's acting in capacity of Dimitri's Vassal because of their fundamental loyalty to Dimitri, so he can safely tell them to shove it also. He tells Gustave he's a disappointment to Gustave’s face in their support!! Dedue isn't just a shrinking violet or whatever, he's just judicious about what shit he's gonna start, and how likely it is that talking shit is gonna get him hit.
(Also, yes he's a quiet guy... But also he's interacting with all these people in his second language, which he has no formal training in and which he learned from Dimitri. He really has to think about what he's going to say before he says anything because there is very little margin for error for him to misspeak without consequences and he knows it.)
Honestly unpopular opinion because like while I'm under no illusions that they did clearly fake out killing him for reasons other than his personal growth, I actually think it was in Dedue's personal best interest that he spent the timeskip in Duscur. This man hates Faerghus, he says that to Dimitri in their supports, but he's been stuck with them and having to just put up with it because he had nowhere else to go (even aside from the fact that Dimitri is literally the only living person in the world who loves him and he's terrified of losing that).
He's very clearly much more self-actualized when he returns, and in a much more relaxed and self-assured emotional place after the timeskip. Probably because he wasn't the one and only Highly Visible Do A Racism Here target and instead was with his own community, where he could actually unpack all that shit safely. Dedue needed that time outside the Racist Aggression Bubble of Faerghus to deal with his survivor's guilt properly.
You really can't address Dedue's self-image issues without also digging into the way dealing with constant racism reinforces those issues. You super cannot. Race and racism and how he deals with it is critical to the character. Is it always handled gracefully by the narrative?? No, absolutely it's not, but it is in fact in the narrative and you HAVE to engage with it if you're going to engage with Why Dedue is Like That.
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medical disparities for black people exist regardless of class not because racism exceeds class but because medicine as an institution was inherently constructed to validate class hierarchies in society, including and perhaps most importantly race. race really began to take shape and become what we understand it today at the same time that medicine became what we understand it today, and medicine was called upon to give legitimacy to race. the project was a medicalization of the social. and so these disparities, while i’m sure personal bias has its role, are largely about the inherent character of the medical institution. the problem is endemic. and in my opinion, it detracts from this discussion and other discussions on disparities to pretend as though class is a non-factor between black people because medicine is one of the original architects of the race myth.
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An award to ryoko kui for exploring the concept of eating to such a fucked up degree. Like it's not only in this world is to eat or to be eaten, The Promised Neverland already did that but it was so anticlimactically boring to me tbh so I didn't finish it. Oh but dungeon meshi is totally something else and it's so we'll explored . Eating as a driving force to live, immortal people who don't need to eat and lost their taste and will to live, the innate curiosity that comes with the desire to eat ( Laios wasn't fully conscious in his beast form so I fully believe that's why he was driven to eat the desire, it was mostly an instinct), and then so many symbolical things I can't articulate fully like eating oneself
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Can any race become a Were-x? Like Vixets, Bluple, etc? Does it just depend on if they have transformation immunity (like Brook)?
Nearly any race can, yes. It is dependant on contaminating blood. Plant-based races, which have something a little different than what most races consider blood, cannot be turned, but otherwise it can affect anyone else.
A majority of the time, an immunity to transformation of any kind (were-xism, vampirism, etc.) is implicative of a pre-existing affliction. As in, a vampire is afflicted with vampirism, and as such cannot be afflicted with were-xism. But there are rare cases of people having natural immunity to supernatural afflictions, much like some people having natural immunity to certain illnesses, genetically.
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