#opressive regime

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

"Heroic" achievements of Russian strategic aviation today: Russians destroy street in village in Voronezh Oblast with their own missile – photo village of Petropavlovka (Voronezh Oblast, Russia) today on January 2, 2024. Source: pravda.com.ua

P.S. And there are still idiots Russophiles in the West who want to do business with this criminal regime....!!!

As a proper terrorist army, the Russians are only able to succeed against unarmed civilians. As soon as the Russians begin to encounter armed resistance, they immediately begin to complain about their rights being violated...

#kremlin #Petropavlovka #street photography #daily life #opressive regime #russian war criminals #war #ukrainian independence war #russian losses #house #residential area #village

[cringefail-clown]

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #karkat vantas #kankri vantas #love it how their coping mechanism for being opressed was just “yeah actually the regime is right we SHOULD be culled” #someone make a earth c fic where they hash out how fucked up their lives were and bond over it #we NEED more sibling vibes vantases

[humusboii2thereturnoftheking]

Forty-five years of the illegal regime of the Islamic Republic in a single video

This is the face of Iran, the one puppeteering numerous Islamic terror organizations, among which are Hamas and Hezbollah.

The same crowd cheering as Iran and its proxies launched over 300 drones, ICBM missiles and Cruise missiles on Israel is the one calling for a ceasefire and condemning Israel for its actions. The hypocrisy is not lost on the rest of us.

Iranians deserve so much better than pasty westerners supporting the persecution they've endured & survived for decades.

Video by officialrezapahlavi.

#Iran #Hezbollah #Hamas #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #officialrezapahlavi #brainwashed #westerner #left #progressive #Islamic Republic #Islam #terror #conflict #war #opression #Islamization #illegal regime #hanging women #persecuting women #killing of innocent Bahá’ís #hanging of the 10 women of #Shiraz #Mahsa Amini #Roya Heshmati #hijab #ayatollah #Ruhollah Khomeini #Lebanon

[lordplavis]

The journey has been rough. The bureaucracy to get a visa, the customs agents and the constant checkpoints and ‘random’ searches. Now though you’ve finally reached the village you grew up in. Not much has changed even though you haven’t been here since before the War. Even the old Pub is the still mostly the same except for the soldiers of course. You sit down and drink your whine enjoying the sunset and watching people going about their lives outside. You see a young woman approaching the pub. Your eye is caught by her fiery red hair and almost scandalously boyish attire but you remind yourself that people dressing like this has become more common even here out on the countryside. You return your attention back to the inside greeting an old neighbor of yours. You were just about to ask how things have been for them since you left when your view is filled by the woman you have seen before. She is smaller than you thought wearing a half decent suit a camera and a leather bag hung around her neck. She smiles at you asking you where you are from a what you are doing in the village. You answer her, and she nods while rummaging through her bag and pulling out a piece of paper and putting it In front of you saying “you seam alright maybe this will interest you” before continuing on to another table with two other people. Still a bit confused you take a look at the first page of what appears to be a small cheaply printed newspaper…

#Revolutionary Observer #Kukatentha 2 #Jane Laureant #alternate history #pen and paper #ttrpg #basically I'm doing a retelling of one of my ttrpg games mostly through the propaganda newspaper of my caracter #I hope I'll have time to do the rest soon so you all can experience an awsome story #be prepared for a story of many themes #love #death #trauma #suffering #the fight against an opressive regime #and many more exciting. tragic. funny and most importantly memorable events #also beacause i know the people who follow me here... yes there are going to be lesbians #also the newspaper is translated from german to there might be some strange expressions or mistakes from that

[sowhatnotcreative]

In a way, the impact of the internet and the "americanization" of online culture and feminism is making it harder for those of us not in America to progress.

Everything seem to get swept away and is seemingly insignificant compared to how much coverage America gets, and how many regressions of womens rights they are having. I feel totally out of the loop on the progress or regress in my own continent - not to mention my own contry - yet even here you have people suddenly talking about abortion rights.

Are we perhaps not swept away, but rather swept along?

Are we in the developed world going to have to start worrying about our human rights again because America is the way it is?

Because you refuse again and again to revolt against a system where your vote doesn't even count? Because you have some sort of high council of racist misogynists making all your choices and ya'll just leave it like that year after year?

I am tired and I'm not much of an activist, I'm basically barely much of a human at all these days, but it would be good to at least stay somewhat informed on the rest of the world as easily as Americas horrible situation gets shoved in our face. Every other contries news or information shares very clearly, "In the UK.. . " or "In South Korea... ". From America it's more often only named as "Women".

I'm not black and don't really have the right to talk about racism and xenophobia but seemingly, it's the same there. They have demonstrations to support the BLM movement, but where is the European movement against our xenophobia? Against racism in the contries with different history? Are they making progress or are they forced to fight Americas issues before they can talk about their own?

I'd love some input from you radfems in other contries out there. Is it the same? Am I just out of the loop and "chronically online" as they say?

#Thoughts #radfem #radical feminism #Americanization #Internet culture #radfems please touch #Slight america rant but thats how it be #If you're an American who wants to add actually americans cant change the system because its hard #Please think #Other contries revolt all the time #You're not the only contry who has ever had an opressive regime #Also not the first one who pretended to be democratic and loved by the people

[magz]

Thread by ItsMaybeMadi on Twitter, on February 12, 2024 (source)

Quote:

Thread of information from Bisan's tiktok live on february 12th

more than 100 people were killed

dozens are still underground

the 100 that were confirmed dead are just those that were found

She is currently in Rafah

There's no other place to go

People are living in mosques

There is no internet connection

keep donating e-sims, she and a lot of others are using them

Boycott Israeli products

boycott brands supporting the Israeli regime

keep protesting

keep educating yourself

by doing this you are helping to change history

she's seen the people commenting her names on trending videos and she says it's very smart

"keep doing what you're doing"

keep pressuring your government to stop funding the genocide

the idf pretended to be nurses and women, and excavated three Palestinians looking for help

the bombing has not stopped

Donations Are Getting To The South, its not enough, but aid is getting there in very small amounts

he is not safe, no one in gaza is

she feels helpless and stuck in this "new reality"

"we are facing a genocide"

donate to UNRWA

she doesnt know if tiktok gifts are profitable for her, but she'll look into it

"the best thing you can give to an opressed group of people is to hear them, and to make them heard"

Her family is safe

She has faith, but she is very tired

Everyone is under tents

call your government and demand a ceasefire

there isn't enough food, so no matter how much money you have you can't eat

they have to wait to get canned food

She has launched a gofundme

(magz note: Even though the original goal was reached, it is way way below the actual need)

Her arm is better

"when everything is done, and everything is back to its glory, just visit gaza"

Q: "what are you doing to help your mental health?

A: "nothing, we can't"

She feels its important to stay where everything is happening to be the voice of the people

from week to week everything changes

(responding to someone asking what her name means) Bisan is the name of the most ancient city in the whole world and in Canaanite means "the home that is lived"

the situation has been complicated since 1948

1.5 million people are displaced

there isn't any bombing currently in Rafah, but there is in Khan Yunis

she wants to tour the world, and visit countries that supported palestine

Khan Yunis is still invaded

Keep educating yourself

end of thread (end quote)

unrwa.org

gazaesims.com

Bisan's TikTok account: tiktok.com/@wizard_bisan1

Extra: (different) Summary Instagram video about attack on Rafah by Bisan Odwa (wizard_bisan1) - posted february 13, 2024

#palestine #text post #o post #this was in drafts but #magz upload #on palestine

[byunsole]

gonna deactivate instagram for a while I cant stand those performative videos of "women power" and "support for iran" videos

#including iranians who do this #nobody cares about your fucking dance to baraye or you making an aesthetic video/picture #its a dictatorship the real persians are fighting against its a rotten regime that needs to go #it just feels like these people wanna make a good video of themselves for social media #they just wanna show themselves wearing tiktok/ig outfits #the prices became so high in iran and the money has no value #people are poor and losing their lives fuck you and your outfit #yes women over there want to wear what they want but they also want basic human rights respect and freedom #its not just about hanging out in fucking shorts #women are so opressed the gender apartheid is so ugly

[auspicioustidings]

Any chance of us finding out how Price got his wife in the ghost drabble? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 pretty please

Ok so in my head Price met his wife in his younger days. She was a rebel fighter against an opressive regime (it's why he has such a soft spot for Farah) but the rebellion was violent as all hell. Think suffragettes or IRA, most countries classified them terrorists because they were absolutely willing to fight dirty.

So Price is a newly promoted Lieutenant sent to subdue this terrorist cell after a bunch of civilian casualties from an attack. Through a series of increasingly unlikely events, him and his future wife wind up captured together. Him for obvious reasons, her because someone at the top of the rebellion wanted her out of the way and betrayed her, did not like a woman having that much influence.

She spent the whole time trying to kill Price with her bare hands, very much viewing him as the enemy. They sort of trauma bonded when they were getting treated worse and worse and in the end the only way to get out of it was to work together.

She found this begruding respect for him that turned quickly to violent homicidal tendancies when having finally escaped he slapped cuffs on her and hauled her ass in. He manipulated his way into becoming her handler, arguing that putting her in prison was optically a bad move.

Queue years of being attached at the hip with her coming up with new ways in which she thinks she can kill him and escape. Only when one day he comes home and he's injured, he's defenceless, he'd be so easy to kill, she just cannot do it. Nurses him back to health.

They take down the man who betrayed her together and while her home did see a regime change for the better, by that time she realised her home was now with Price.

He does bring her on base sometimes to give his boys some lessons on guerrilla warfare and tricksy ways to escape captivity, but she has never found herself in violent situations again and honestly? She finds she is totally at peace with that. She killed her first human at the age of 15 and was waging war right up until they met, so now she just gets to bake and knit and read strories to kids at the library she works at.

Like he absolutely held this woman captive for years, but they are currently very much in love and she comes and goes as she pleases.

#mhairidrabbles #I pretend I do not see the Stockholm Syndrome #he gushes about Farah to his wife all the damn time and she is desperate to meet her #but Price suspects they would get along far too well and somehow wind up blowing up a government building or the like #mhairidrabblescodkidnappers

[video-game-kids-tournament]

MEET YOUR CONTESTANTS! #1

Splatoon spoilers under the cut!

TW for child soldiers!

Name: "Agent 8"

Age: “Unsure”

Gender + Pronouns: “Varies based on player choice”

Video Game: Splatoon 2 + 3

Backstory: “Amnesiac octopus child trapped in an underground metro station full of tests (like aperture science) trying to reach the promised land on the surface”

• “They were a soldier for the octarian army who got into a fight with the squidbeak splatoon. Hearing soms sick music caused them to question their military loyalty but in the fight they fell into an underwater subway, losing their memory, and had to undergo trials given by a genocidal AI in order to escape and not get blended into zombie paste”

• “they are a soldier for the opressive octarian regime, but one day hear the calamari inkantation and decide to escape and find freedom on the surface. they are caught up in a fight with agent 3 and captain cuttlefish, memebers of the new squidbeak splatoon, and they crash down into the deepsea metro. they find agent 3 missing, and that they are now amneisiac, and form a truce with cuttlefish to escape the metro. along the way, they complete challenges and make new freinds.”

Why should they win the tournament?: “They have suffered the horrors and deserve something good”

• “They are very fresh, very customizable, and very smart (I don't know if I'm selling this well but it's about the vibes man)”

•“PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”

#video game kids tournament #contestant info #splatoon #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #agent 8

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

P.S. Tonight, Russian TV propagandists really amused me.  I wonder if these fools on the Moscow’s TV screen believe their own lies? I laughed for a really long time listening to this nonsense! How good that since the beginning of the early 2000s, I don't believe a single word of a Russian journalist or politician...

There is definitely enough electricity and fuel in Latvia! Everyone drives both ICE vehicles and electric cars as well.  I have lights on, room is warm, and besides, dinners after the Christmas are also quite rich! It would be a sin to complain.....

If the Russians have to lie so badly, then the collapse of their decaying empire is much closer than most Westerners think!

#russian defeat #Latvia #russian propaganda #fun #kremlin #Baltic States #collapse of russian empire #russian lies #russian losses #opressive regime

[longclawshilt]

The thing about Bran's intended importance (supposedly kingship of all no less) is it falls flat as far as this due to the lack of hinting of... what that even is supposed to "do" in the grand scheme of things? The show's version of some totalitarian regime with 24/7 surveillance from the magical King is fucked up, and it's hard to understand what else would make Bran special otherwise.

The only people interested in the idea (and only as surface level) are big Stark only Stans who just see it as "Starks get everything because" and that's as deep as it gets.

The idea of who would have leadership to rebuild the world is too much built on stanning as a whole. The only ones with an actual leg to stand on are fans of Daenerys simply because her entire arc is trying at different things to restructure an oppressive elite based governing only to at this point end up with the realisation that their class simply cannot exist in a society without seeking to opress so they have to go. That's also what we see in Westeros, so both monarchy AND lordship power must be evaporated. So there's that.

But Martin isn't even angling for that as far as it seems (which would mean even Targaryens and Daenerys relinquishing power by the end and all, even if it would be the system she is currently trying to develop to be applied), but angles for a 'King'. One whose power is magic, which makes one think it is what would make him King, hence angling for the show end which is frightening as a form of government. And in the 'political' sense he's a nice kid who means well for others, but that's it. It's just the whole having a nice lord now and then without guarantee for the next.

So while it might be little page time and some unfairness for Bran, outside of people just stanning "Stark supremacy" in vague terms, it's hard to think of why and in what direction people would 'root' for Bran in the specific intended importance of role he's apparently meant to have.

Whew, you sent a big one. So I’ll try to break it up and answer in parts.

The thing about Bran's intended importance (supposedly kingship of all no less) is it falls flat as far as this due to the lack of hinting of.

I disagree. I think GRRM has been hinting at Bran being a return to the past - more specifically, a greenseer king. And even before that, Bran’s royal status has been front and center the whole time. It’s just ignored.

We as a fandom get so caught up with the magic part of Bran’s storyline (though we can’t be blamed really!) but forget that Bran’s book chapters often place his magical arc right along his identity and status as a lost prince. I’m gonna make a bit of a generalization here and say that the majority of Bran’s chapters since Robb’s ascension mention his status as the current heir to the Northern crown. He is the Prince of Winterfell. But not only that, he is the prince of the woods and the hills and the greens (we see this language being used for Bran once he begins his greenseer training). This princehood is actually extended to Bran’s direwolf, Summer. Bran’s princehood extending to Summer is quite poignant too, since the direwolf is directly named to be an opposition to winter, and Bran’s mythological parallels rule as summer kings.

Bran’s magical arc doesn’t remove him from his royal heritage. It only reinforces it. Again, think of how he becomes a prince of the natural world in an almost literal sense. And also the motifs used for his royal status: e.g., when Jojen and Meera Reed swear fealty to him, as their royal prince, through ice and fire (in addition to other natural elements).

The show took the route of placing Bran squarely in the magical arc, forgetting that first and foremost, he is an exiled prince. After Robb died, Bran became an exiled king. The main point here is that Bran is royal! He always has been, always will be. Heck, his very name literally means “Prince”.

And there’s other things about Bran’s storyline that aren’t very clear with the show’s depiction; I’m mentioning it here since people’s aversion to king Bran is mainly the show’s fault. Bran is a retelling of various Arthurian myths. You might have seen various meta on his similarities with the Fisher King, for example. I’ve written before about how Bran is also very similar to T.H White’s Wart from The Sword in the Stone (sorry, can’t find the meta link). Because the show removed the royal elements from Bran’s story, viewers weren’t able to catch that he is intended to follow the King Arthur trajectory, albeit with various twists.

When I first joined the fandom, the consensus among Bran fans was that he would be King in the North (a big theory at that time was that Westeros would split back into its pre-Targaryen markups). The idea was that there are way too many hints about Bran’s princehood, especially in relation to the North, so the only endgame that made sense was for him to rule it. And Bran does have a mini ruling arc in Winterfell in ACOK, which was good ammo for this theory.

So Bran’s relation to kingship has always been there. For years in fact; I joined this fandom over a decade ago. It’s just that no one expected his kingship would extend to all of Westeros. And I think that will be GRRM’s task, tying in why Bran will take not just the North, but the south as well. However, I have the inkling that Bran the Builder’s legend ties into this (and we know that he had a legacy all over Westeros).

what that even is supposed to "do" in the grand scheme of things?

Blame the show runners for this. They do not at all understand Bran’s importance to the narrative. And I don’t think a majority of readers understand it either. I mentioned Bran the Builder above. Well, he’s a legend that crops up sometime around the Long Night. Now we have a new war with the Others coming up, and little Bran Stark is Bran the Builder come again. Plus Bran has parallels with the last hero, who is credited with ending the Long Night. We still have two books to see how things shake out but given that Bran is following the trajectory of perhaps two of the most important legends from the War for the Dawn - one who ended it and one who rebuilt Westeros after - it’s easy to tell why he is important “in the grand scheme of things”. But we still need TWOW and ADOS to see how it all plays out. Remember, we only have a published 5 books, and Act II is barely finished!

The show's version of some totalitarian regime with 24/7 surveillance from the magical King is fucked up, and it's hard to understand what else would make Bran special otherwise.

I 100% agree that Show Bran’s ascension comes with some very problematic undertones, in addition to being totally stupid. But again, blame the showrunners for not understanding greenseeing and Bran’s relation to it. Greenseeing is, as I understand it, nature magic. It’s not just that Bran gains the ability to see through ravens and trees, but he can speak to nature as well. He can even shape it (ref Hammer of the Waters). This is going to be really important when Westeros is decimated in the War for the Dawn, and needs to be rebuilt. That’s why Bran being the prince of the “woods and the hills” and being the reincarnation (so to speak) of Bran the Builder is so important. He can rebuild Westeros. This is a very unique skill set that literally no one else has because once Bloodraven croaks, Bran inherits the mantle of the Last Greenseer.

The only people interested in the idea (and only as surface level) are big Stark only Stans who just see it as "Starks get everything because" and that's as deep as it gets.

I’ll join you in being annoyed with that particular brand of Stark fan (we all know who they are). But I just want to remind you that so many of us Bran stans (in fact the vast majority of us) do not fall within that group. Bran stans who advocate for Bran’s kingship do so because we have noted his Arthurian parallels, in addition to noting his arc as a prince in hiding/exile. None of us book fans even remotely believe in him being an all seeing autocrat, nor do we want him to be. It’s a certain type of Stark fan (again, we know who they are), who likes the idea of King Bran because they also believe in an independent North. I think an independent North (with a separate six kingdoms) as endgame is a rather ridiculous idea, and I haven’t got around to detailing why in my blog. But as far as I’m concerned if Bran is to be king, he will be king of everything.

The idea of who would have leadership to rebuild the world is too much built on stanning as a whole.

Super agree! I think the POV structure exacerbates this issue. So a majority of “who will be king”, “who deserves to be king” is solely dependent on who the reader likes best (i.e., who has the biggest fandom) and not who is most narratively suited for the role. Ironically, Bran is hurt but this because he has a pretty small fandom; by far the smallest out of the Stark POVs. So he does not benefit much from solo stanning. Again, the typical Bran stan does not believe in Starkception. If readers chose to theorize the endgame king based on who is most narratively/thematically suited for the role, wouldn’t the boy whose animal familiar is named to be the opposite of winter and likened to a prince of nature be among the most popular options?

The only ones with an actual leg to stand on are fans of Daenerys simply because her entire arc is trying at different things to restructure an oppressive elite based governing only to at this point end up with the realisation that their class simply cannot exist in a society without seeking to opress so they have to go.

Agree with Dany, but I think you’re also forgetting about a young lord commander whose entire rulership arc was about being a revolutionary in a rotten and backward system…

P.S: Jon stans can be really annoying too (I would know, I am one), but they’re not wrong when they say that he actually is the one character with the most foreshadowing for “endgame king”; he is literally King Arthur through and through, so 🤷🏽‍♀️

That's also what we see in Westeros, so both monarchy AND lordship power must be evaporated. So there's that.

It’ll be interesting to see how Martin’s critiques on feudal structures plays into the endgame leaders. Especially when we begin to factor in the thematic relevance of stories like Brienne’s and Arya’s among the smallfolk, as well as the upcoming war with the Others and how the feudal structure might do more harm than good.

I tend to have a more optimistic outlook tbh. Winter means death, and I think that will also ring true for a lot of the problematic elements in Westeros’ political and social structure. And let’s not forget that we have a bunch of civil upheavals coming up with Aegon and Daenerys both invading Westeros. I think a lot of these petty lords will die either in battle or during the long winter that’s sure to follow, so what’s left when all is said and done is having our heroes (Bran and Dany and Jon etc.) pick up the pieces. I tend to believe that a massive shake up is in the works such that while it might have been impossible for a crippled boy to rise to kingship in the AGOT era, it just might be the one remedy in ADOS.

But Martin isn't even angling for that as far as it seems (which would mean even Targaryens and Daenerys relinquishing power by the end and all, even if it would be the system she is currently trying to develop to be applied), but angles for a 'King'. One whose power is magic, which makes one think it is what would make him King, hence angling for the show end which is frightening as a form of government. And in the 'political' sense he's a nice kid who means well for others, but that's it.

This is another thing that I blame the show for: people thinking Bran can only be an all seeing tyrant. I’ve already touched on this above but again, Bran’s greenseeing magic is so much more. It’s about nature…healing….Summer! I’ve been meaning to write at length about why the resetting of the seasons will fall to Bran, and why that means healing for Westeros as a whole, but I’ll abbreviate my thoughts for now.

Let’s once again consider Bran as a Fisher King, whose very life is tied to the healing of the land. Now, I think Martin is going for a rather “fairy tale” or fantastical resolution to ASOIAF; an ending closer to Tolkien and Arthurian myth. Bran’s magic, as healing magic, is then meant to be a positive. He sets the world back to rights, as a Fisher King would. He quite literally drives the darkness (winter) away, and GRRM has stated multiple times that the Others are the true threat.

In my write up about Bran’s similarities to Wart, I mentioned that Bran’s ascension could end up being similar to Aragorn’s in LOTR (and we know that Tolkien has heavily influenced Martin). Aragorn became king not because of his swordsmanship or his politics or even his royal claim, but because he had hands of healing. And people said that there was a king who returned to them because he healed them. Healing and kingship is really not a novel thing, and they’re tied to medieval understanding of rulership. So it’s not hard to see why Bran’s magical ability to bring back summer, so to speak, can be taken as a positive of him being a rightful king.

It's just the whole having a nice lord now and then without guarantee for the next.

I get what you mean, but tbh this would be a problem with Jon, Dany, etc. Monarchy and inheritance are unpredictable. We can only hope that the king/lord trains his heir well so that prosperity follows with the exchange of power.

So while it might be little page time and some unfairness for Bran, outside of people just stanning "Stark supremacy" in vague terms, it's hard to think of why and in what direction people would 'root' for Bran in the specific intended importance of role he's apparently meant to have.

Hopefully it’s been quite clear in my reply why Bran as king is so thematically rich. He’s connected to summer, has greenseeing magic which is connected to nature and potentially the healing of nature, and he is already royal. Him being a “nice kid” is just the cherry on top.

#bran stark #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #I’m a king bran truther until the end of my days #also I’m a stark fan - they’re my favorite house - and I believe that they will be the most powerful house at the end of the story #but I also don’t relate to THOSE stark fans #you know who I’m talking about yes? 👀 #but it’s really not hard to see that every stark pov is shaping up to be a very powerful individual #and grrm did call the kids the heart of asoiaf #not all stark fans are evil I promise!! #but anyway super duper sorry for answering this late skdjsksnskanssnsns

[el-yon]

[ personal sharing time ]

beyond all the character/narrative reasons for Ichigo to live a full life, I have a very personal/political/professional (cannot dissociate the three) appreciation for the fact that he does not join the Gotei - nor any organization, for that matter.

I know Kubo draws mainly from Buddhism, and I don’t think he’s worried about political organizations at all, since his message is about self-realization. However, as he takes us through Ichigo’s journey, he does take us through different political arrangements, meaning, organizations of violence: oligarchic and militaristic regimes, colonialism/imperialism, theocratic and totalitarian ideologies, you name it. For instance, I think Kubo said somewhere he chose the spanish/latin motif to Hueco Mundo and the Arrankar/Hollowfication stuff because he thought it sounded sensuous, which makes sense with the uh... subtext of it all, BUT, the predatory viciousness of Hueco Mundo is such a strong colonization subtext too!. Also, expropriating a population/territory (Karakura) to literally fabricate and access sovereignty (the Royal Key)... wow. Then you know, don’t even need to get into Ginjo literally stealing powers, or everything about the Wandenreich.

But the most important “organization of violence” here is not the one that imposes one’s will onto another, but the individual one that informs human agency and autonomy. Ichigo happens to have all the available types of power in his hands, he has a lot of means to inflict violence, but he gets to learn how to use them to be his own person.

No gods, no hierarchies, no masters but himself.

When we’re kids, we’re vulnerable. Things happen to us, and we are powerless. Then, as we grow up, we gain physicial strenght, we get the chance to walk on our own, to actually do things, to be active - we get access to power, including, to do things to others. When we start Bleach, Ichigo gets this immediate power boost in his life and we see him fighting the world: he chops off Sora’s hand, he chops off the serial killer hollow and he is angry, he’s brutal, he’s violent - as we see even more clearly in the whole hollowfication journey. A journey that, beautifully, comes to its closure when he finally learns the truth about himself, stops trying to supress it, and learns how to use it, how to regulate it, and once he relies on Orihime. Which brings me to the next part.

Growing up right beside him, we have the development of three other young people, each one relating to particular aspect of his own powers, dealing with violence too: Chad is a window to racial violence and learns how to fight back on his terms, Orihime is a window to gender violence and learns how to fight back on her terms, Uryu is a window to genocide and learns how to fight back on his terms. And they are also helping and being helped by Renji and Rukia, two people who have been hurt by class opression and nobility dynamics, who also found their own way to make it work - the “we gripped each other’s hand instead of the blade” is very important to lil old me.

In a world that is terrible, but also full of possibilities, Ichigo and Karakura are (to me, this is a personal take) an amazing ode to human agency that is informed by self-improvement, desire to help, to care and protect more than any disciplinary power out there, and I love that for them.

#bleach appreciation #ichigo kurosaki #six hearts beat as one #karakura gang #this is also my way of saying why i firmly believe karakura gang are a married poly #when they die then we'll see what happens (rukongai revolution or hell uprising? I'll be there for it)

[roselock22]

i find it so funny how every single character you draw has their makeup on fleek, or at least it looks like makeup? idk but it´s like

Percival*literally in the middle of an opressive regime*

also Percival *doing eyeliner* cant conspire against the empress if youre not pretty, hashtag slayyy 💅!!

(all /pos of course, love your art style sm!!!!)

ASFSDGDFH I will take this as a compliment! TY I love thinking that Percival is really into makeup

#roselockart #roselockasks

[okjuuzu]

Do not dare lecture palestenians on antisemtism. They have been massacred and kicked out of their homes in the name of judaism, their mosques and churches are dessicareted and vandalized in the name of judaism. Israel bombs them then places menorahs on their destroyed homes. They are treated less-than because they are muslims and christians. They are born into an apartheid supremacists regime where most of them have not met a single jew who did not think of them as animals or didn't want to hurt them. they don't owe the zionist jews anything when the zionist jews shamlessly associate their religous symbols with death, destruction and opression.

#israel #israelis #israel is a terrorist state #bomb their hospitals then draw stars of david on its walls then be suprised that these people hate the jews #palestine #pro palestine #fuck all of you honeslty #jewblr

[doehunt]

hannibal left lithuania not because of the opressive soviet regime but because its literally -18 C (-0.4 F) here rn

[mulherrviado]

You cant be "mutually toxic" when one is the worlds strongest soldier acting on behald of an opressive regime and the other is an imprisoned refugee terrified of war and desperately trying to save the life of a child said soldier is hellbent on killing they may both be victims of homeworld but jasper was the main agressor between her and lapis

You literally can!!!! Both of them were horrible and both of them deserves better!!!! Have a nice life!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

#happy 2016!!!!