i think what really fucks me up about fitzjames' death in the terror specifically is that even if they got rescued and he did survive and heal physically, his experiences would completely undermine the (rather literal) closure that a scar is supposed to provide. he'd be unable to take his survival for granted ever again because any sense of stability would be stripped from him entirely. he'd be haunted by a wound he has to carry for the rest of his life that has already made him intimately aware of the potential for betrayal from within his own body, by his own flesh. how do you even begin to psychologically cope with that.
did you know that in ancient greece tattoos were typically used as marks of punishment and shame, typically inflicted on criminals and prisoners of war that were allowed to live?
did you know that kratos had deimos' birthmark tattooed onto his own body, when deimos' kidnapping by the gods is something he very clearly feels severe guilt over?
"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]
okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.
The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?
Yeah, fucking absolutely.
But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.
You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.
Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]
Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]
There are options.
There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.
me out loud: god i love dorothy arknights she’s so crazyyy
me internally: ok but like im not using the word crazy like the way the worst kinds of men use it to put down powerful women IM NOT SAYING IT THAT LIKE THAT IN FACT DOROTHY Is SO horrifyingly rational and her actions make sense from a certain perspective it’s just that that perspective is so wildly misaligned with greater society when it comes to, say, respecting other people’s autonomy. which dorothy is definitely NOT doing when she's introduced however her actions are ultimately rooted in this perverse kindness stemming from her past pain that she has clearly not processed properly and argh. argh that’s so good ok. the way she’s just so extreme she gains this dangerous dangerous tunnel vision THE DISSONANCE MAKES FOR GOOD HORROR AND it’s good character depth is what it is and crazy is just a shorthand word i’m using for all of that, all these contradictory qualities crammed together in an unassuming jerboa package, because my thoughts on this are so messy and
me out loud again: haha yea i love dorothy !
why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?
I'm still losing my mind over the way the jedi council treated everything with Obi Wan and Maul, like everytime Maul would go and be a terrorist the whole council would just look at Obi Wan and be like uhm sir this sounds like a you problem, bro not a single soul on the council was willing to help him with that
last thought for tonight. maybe i should start drawing fed worker past qjaiden and her committing war crimes swag to balance out The Bad Takes in this cruel world. that would be so fun i think ^_^
as much as I love wei wuxian and slander against him is banned from this house I Do sometimes think that people forget he's like. supposed to be a morally complex person who did things that were bad. like the whole point of him and his story is that he was a good man who was pushed to do terrible things, and when we fail to examine those terrible things/completely ignore them, we're sort of doing wei wuxian and the points being made by his arc a disservice