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cantsayidont · 6 months

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June 1988. 1988 was an extremely ugly year at DC, marked by gratuitous brutality on nearly every front. Not content with his vile take on Krypton in the WORLD OF KRYPTON miniseries (which could be summarized as "sci-fi blood libel"), John Byrne took the time to explain unequivocally that the ugly nativist implications of MAN OF STEEL were no accident.

In this issue, illustrated by Mike Mignola and Karl Kesel, Superman returns to Krypton with the help of Hawkman and Hawkwoman, and finds that it's now a planet-shaped mass of highly radioactive Kryptonite debris. Determined to search for "some trace, some artifact remaining of the race that bred me," Superman borrows a Thanagarian battlesuit and ventures out into the debris field, where the overwhelming radiation causes him to hallucinate an alternate reality where Jor-El found a way for the people of Krypton to survive their world's destruction and emigrate to Earth. This fantasy is narrated in the first person by Jor-El (in the form of excerpts from an imaginary journal), presenting a horrifying, frankly fascistic vision of malevolent immigrants, evil mothers, and populist genocide.

If you've read MAN OF STEEL, much less WORLD OF KRYPTON, it will not surprise you to learn that Superman's fantasy of Kryptonian survival and emigration very quickly turns ugly. As Jor-El's imaginary journal narrates:

In pop culture, the alien invasion story typically represents the fear of the violence of settler colonialism coming home to roost in the imperial core, and you could hardly ask for a more textbook example than this: The refugees from Krypton begin (re)building their own civilization over inhabited human cities, while relegating humans to reservations or concentration camps. Such a fantasy also fuels the delusion of self-indigenization, where settlers appropriatively define themselves as indigenous to the lands they or their ancestors have stolen. This is of course primarily a white fantasy; while the post-reboot Superman books did introduce a few Black and Latino characters, note that there's not a single person of color visible among the humans being interned. Note also that Byrne takes the opportunity to restate the fascistic thesis presented in MAN OF STEEL — that Kryptonian culture is corrupt because Kryptonians have "lived all their lives in isolation, denying their physical beings" in favor of technology and modernity.

That's not all, though. For one, you'll notice that Jor-El also describes as suspect the decision of some of his fellow immigrants "to live apart … to keep themselves aloof from the citizenry of our adopted world"; he acknowledges that the settler colonialism is worse, but he regards cultural self-isolation as inherently bad in its own right. Also, note that the Kryptonians rename Metropolis "New Kandor." As Byrne was most certainly aware, in pre-Crisis Superman lore, Kandor was the former capital of Krypton, stolen and shrunk by Brainiac and later recovered by Superman, who kept the bottled city in his Fortress of Solitude until he was able to find a way to permanently enlarge it. Kandor was, fairly explicitly, a Kryptonian ghetto: a closed Kryptonian community with rigidly defined borders, delimited both physically and by a set of complicated rules about who could enter or leave (and how), within which Kryptonian culture continued more or less as it had for centuries. What Byrne is saying here is that such (literally) ghettoized communities are intrinsically suspicious — that the inability or unwillingness to assimilate is categorically indicative of malign intent. The only virtuous decision for an immigrant or refugee, then, is to choose total and unconditional assimilation, as Superman does at the end of MAN OF STEEL and Jor-El subsequently does here:

Moreover, it's not enough for Jor-El to simply choose to become an Earthman (and implicitly an American); he must also "stand against [his] own race." As the fantasy continues, Jor-El creates synthetic Kryptonite and kills thousands of Kryptonians, forcing many of the survivors to flee into space. Since all of this is a hallucination in Superman's head, the version of Jor-El here represents Superman essentially imagining himself in his father's place, but in case that wasn't clear enough:

Jor-El does not, so far as we're shown, actually don the Superman costume, but he has expressly taken on that role, which in this case means becoming an explicitly genocidal populist champion. This is not hyperbole: Jor-El "rallies the people" against the evil Kryptonian elite as he carries out "the slaughter of a race."

The final conversation between Jor-El and Lara in the first issue of MAN OF STEEL had painted Lara in a rather negative light; while Jor-El is valorized for his rejection of Kryptonian values, Lara recoils from a vision of the "savage" people of Earth and hopes that their son will show them "proper Kryptonian ways." The unsavory connotations of that conversation (to which Superman could not possibly have been privy) play out even more explicitly in the climax of this fantasy:

In short, Lara becomes the ultimate embodiment of almost everything bad about Byrne's reimagined Krypton. This plays almost like a throwback to the pop psychology of the 1950s and early 1960s (when Byrne was a child), which held that the maternal role had to be carefully regulated, since over-mothering could be just as psychologically damaging as maternal neglect. Perhaps the ultimate satirical exponent of that philosophy in pop culture terms is THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, but it was a common piece of conventional wisdom, expressed here without irony. Lara's final act of villainy is the corruption of Kal-El himself, since in this fantasy, Jor-El has not been able to "save" their son from Kryptonian degeneracy. (Note also that Byrne restates once again his revisionist contention that Kal-El was conceived on Krypton, but actually born on Earth.)

While Jor-El is not wearing a Superman costume in these pages, he is wearing a costume of sorts, an outfit that evokes both Doc Savage and Hugo Danner, the hero of Philip Wylie's influential 1930 novel GLADIATOR, two pre-Superman supermen of the 1930s. Around the same time this issue was published, Roy Thomas was integrating GLADIATOR (which had entered the public domain) into DC continuity in YOUNG ALL-STARS, whose central character Arn "Iron" Munro was Hugo Danner's son. (Munro's usual outfit was a black T-shirt over white trousers, the inverse of what Jor-El wears here.)

Jor-El's scream of anguish marks Superman's return to consciousness, so the fantasy ends at this point, and the Hawks help Superman return to their ship. Superman then provides the following summation of what we've just seen:

Since Superman's fantasy was a hallucination induced by radiation poisoning, one could potentially shrug off its ugliness as just a bad dream, but Superman rejects that, saying, "I'm afraid my vision was accurate," at least in its moral and political implications.

Of course, the principal authorial intent here is to reject and dismiss the Superman continuity Byrne had recently erased, in particular the previous Kryptonian diaspora, but the thesis of this story is perfectly consistent with mainstream American, Canadian, and European attitudes on immigration: Any immigrants or refugees must assimilate, promptly and completely, and those who don't, for whatever reason, represent a dire threat to the polity that must be met with expulsion or annihilation. If the number and/or nature of the immigrants does not allow for prompt assimilation, lethal violence — up to and including genocide — is not only appropriate, but a moral imperative for the survival of the imperial state and/or the "white race" [sic]. There are many people in the real world who expressly believe that, so it's not necessarily surprising to see it expressed so bluntly in a Superman comic, but it is very ugly.

This story was unfortunately not the end of it, so far as Byrne and Superman were concerned. While the fantasy sequence here amounts to Superman picturing himself as his father, the heroically genocidal champion of an imagined reality, it is still just a fantasy, even within the context of the superhero comic narrative. It therefore leaves unanswered (at least for Byrne) the question of whether Superman would actually be willing to commit murder and/or genocide to protect the Earth from others of his kind.

Since Byrne had taken pains to ensure that there were no other living Kryptonians — the only other was the Superboy of the Pocket Universe created to reconcile MAN OF STEEL with the Legion of Super-Heroes, who was already dead — he was obliged to invent some for the purpose. About three months after this issue appeared, Byrne's final storyline (in SUPERMAN #21, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #444, and SUPERMAN #22) introduced three facsimiles of pre-Crisis Phantom Zone villains in the Pocket Universe, whom Superman finally executes after they have completely depopulated the Pocket Universe's Earth (also conveniently ensuring that that world couldn't be used to provide any kind of end runs around post-Crisis continuity, and giving Byrne the opportunity to grind his heel on the earlier Superman mythos one more time).

With that story, the reactionary throughline Byrne had begun in MAN OF STEEL was complete, establishing not only that Superman was now a true-blue, American-born native hero, but also that he was willing to kill other Kryptonian survivors to defend his adoptive white Gentile American culture. "Yikes" doesn't begin to cover it, I'm afraid.

#comics #superman #john byrne #mike mignola #karl kesel #krypton #kryptonite #jor el #kryptonian diaspora #this is one of the most unpleasant superman stories ever #its politics are utterly rancid #i'm still inclined to think world of krypton is worse #but it's a different part of the same horrifying thesis #genocide cw #antisemitism cw #xenophobia cw

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dumblemonchickenwing · 3 months

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rant, political topic mention

I have faced xenophobia quite a lot of times throughout my life and my life included a lot of dancing around the danger of being cast aside . Since childhood I had to dress top notch and achieve more than average in order to just be treated as an equal, at least that's what my mother always told me. That means having to spend more on more expensive and uncomfortable clothing (that even physically harms your skin) than an average person in order to be seen on the same level as said average person. And being trained to get maximum score to be accepted by peers as "their person" instead of being made fun of . The reason I'm still okayish and havent gotten all the bad stuff yet that being ..of a certain [haver of physical features that belong to a certain group] entails, is because I am still sheltered by my parents who do most of the outside stuff themselves.

To name a few things, I had been pressed against the wall for my [ethnic look], I had been questioned by police when I strolled few meters outside my home bc of my [ethnic look] just because I dressed casually that time, I had been indirectly told that my kind is like a mob

And ironically, I d be okay with keeping this all to myself and minding my own business, but I had faced some political people who'd hop to me with assumptions about what I am and tried to lecture me on "how hard poc people have it", so I feel bitter. I also feel bitter that I had to disclose some parts of myself that i'd rather keep secret, but for some people I guess you don't deserve decency unless you reveal personal information to them. I realize I often feel the need to draw my oc specifically to look [a certain way] bc im afraid people are going to assume things about me again.

Overall my bitter experience and some people ive heard of caused me to not believe overzealous political people on here, because they often attack the ones they claim to "support" and say a lot of stuff that is very unfair to those they deem "oppressive"

#.#rant #political cw #racism mention cw #xenophobia cw #police mention cw #vent #personal

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fictionkinfessions · 3 days

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I don't want to watch my source but do at the same time. I've watched one of the movies because I was thinking about trying to work up to watching the TV series about me, thus I figured I ought to see the movies leading up to it, but then I realized "oh wait, I'm painted as the villain after I effectively had a mental breakdown because of potentially 2,000+ years of being lied to and set up to fail when the lie finally was revealed because there was no conceivable way for it to stay a secret forever, I have to relive the worst half of the splinter timeline I remember, and it all leads up to watching a TV show where they put a collar on me like I'm a fucking animal". Not to mention the fact that someone I remember being effectively irredeemably asshattish is a "hero" (to be fair, he is still portrayed as not a great person but it eats me up inside that he gets to be redeemed seemingly with minimal effort for effectively playing with his toys meanwhile I get no sympathy for being treated like shit by the man I called Father for so long; I think the fan side of it has a lot to do with how this world views its counterpart of me and that's a whole religious discussion in and of itself but in my canon, the weirdness was literally just because of xenophobia, even humans were influenced by ideas of what a jotun is so much that even in the part of the splinter timeline where I did nothing wrong, they acted like I was a ticking time-bomb) and I know that people would probably see him as still easily redeemed if they saw the timeline where I didn't do anything wrong. By the way, Tony, if you (specifically the one I knew in the second part of my splinter timeline) are reading this, I hope you've grown a lot since then because I did not deserve your hostility.

-Loki (MCU)

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #lokikin #mcukin #fandom issue #prevabuse #child abuse cw #xenophobia cw #chara hate #mod party cat

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ellrond · 2 years

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I know others have said it, but there is something so lazy about the accents in Rings of Power.

Harfoots and Irish accents: they're wild travelers, they don't have infrastructure, they are widely uneducated, they're insular and vulnerable, they're visibly dirty, they're primitive. These are all harmful stereotypes that were prevalent in Great Britain in the 19-20th centurties about the Irish. Anti-Irish Traveller sentiment is still widespread and almost completely accepted openly in British society.

Men in the Southlands and northern English accents: dirty, hostile, primitive, descendants of those who allied with evil, and they have strained relations with the elves who are self-appointed 'watchers of peace' and act as a military presence. For hundreds of years in England, there has been tensions and unrest between the north and central government and the ruling class. Propaganda against these tensions has always been in favour of the ruling class (or Westminster, or the south, or London, or the government, whatever you want to say) and is seen as recently as August 2022 with the RMT strikes. While this propaganda is not exclusive to the north, as this is a nationwide issue, you just need to look back at the Miners' Strikes in the 1980s to see how effective this was. The north is disproportionately affected by government cuts, and remains the most economically deprived region in England, hence a more prominent working class. This is why northern accents are more commonly associated with the working class. Popular media, classic media, history, politics, will all attempt to write the working classes as dirty and hostile and primitive in England. There have always been hostilities between them and the 'benevolent' police or army or lords of the land who are only there for the working classes' 'own good'. Do you see the problem?

White Eldar: the Eldar (high elves) are all white and all have 'posh' English accents. This is an incredibly lazy trope that is weaponized to ensure the middle and upper classes in England are seen as responsible and benevolent and righteous and more intelligent and Good. They're also all white. They are the only race without diversity in skin-tone. Silvan elves, dwarves, humans, Harfoots, all have diversity in skin tone. It does not seem accidental that the 'wisest and fairest' are exclusively white.

PoC Silvan elf: the only PoC elf is a Silvan elf, a 'lowly' race of elves who never saw the light of Valinor, who are 'more wild, less wise'. This fits into the racist narrative that people of colour are more instinct-driven, less rational, less educated, and lowlier than whites.

Dwarves with Scottish accents: dwarves are shown to be impolite, hostile to outsiders, inelegant, and insular. These are stereotypes perpetuated by the English to dehumanise Scottish people and culture. There is an enormous amount of propaganda that aims to 'prove' Scotland is incapable of self-governance in order to undermine the push for independence, and the aforementioned is often what can be found by reading between the lines.

It's great that Amazon has hired a diverse cast, but it has slipped into lazy and harmful tropes in its writing. It's great that they are defending their cast against racist attacks, but they are only perpetuating classist and racist and xenophobic stereotypes in the show itself.

Antisemitism and dwarves is a whole other issue that has been much more clearly articulated by those more informed than I.

#rings of power #the rings of power #racism cw #classism cw #xenophobia cw #anti irish sentiment cw #i am enjoying the show but

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flownintothesun · 6 months

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⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── "𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞." 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐦𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 👀 @𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐯𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞

⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── & 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝... ( @imprvdente )

𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐔𝐏𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 to the woman in front of him as though he’s just taken a thumb to a lighter to create a spark where before there was nothing. There’s a reason why he’s here — and more specifically, why it’s him instead of his boss. Claudio would come in, guns blazing, ready for a fight — there’s nothing about that man that settles right on the nerve, and that’s what makes him the boss. He’s formidable. He rules by fear — and garners enough of it to call it loyalty. She speaks to him of dangerous games — she doesn’t realize that he’s been playing one since he was seven years old — has learned to stay five moves ahead of his opponent at any given time. If you’re ahead of the game, it doesn’t matter if your opponent is bigger or faster — you still have a head start, a fighting chance.

The other problem with Mariano’s boss is that he speaks, rather than listen. Everyone knows that back at home in Positano, the don handles the dirty work — but that Mariano handles the strategy, the paperwork. A glorified secretary, or an underboss with too much unrecognized authority and respect. Claudio wouldn’t give a woman the time of day — but Mariano knows better than to underestimate anyone. Mariano is the opposite of his boss — he listens, rather than speak — watches and learns before rushing into action. It makes sense that when he has to kill, they almost never see him coming unless he wants to be seen. He has a feeling that there’s more to this girl than meets the eye.

“I was unaware that there was anything dangerous about paying visit to another country,” he rumbles. His accent is steeped in Italy and his English isn’t as good as it should be. He’d learned it in school, but Claudio’s pride and nationalism has given him no reason to speak anything but Italian in most circumstances. Not that it would be her first language, either. “Perhaps you’d care to enlighten me of what the source of this danger is from.”

#imprvdente #➤ 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚟𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 ┊ fish & mariano ➷ (𝟎𝟎𝟏.)#➤ 𝚇𝚇. 𝙹𝚄𝙳𝙶𝙴𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 ┊ mariano verratti.#crime cw #xenophobia cw #misogyny cw #gun mention cw

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jynjackets · 8 months

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every time I think about m@arva's existence I get so, so angry. we were robbed of getting a new major latina character, who could have been a living star wars mom since we didn't and still don't know anything about cassian's biological mother. still, adoption is a good narrative at least.........except she didn't adopt him. she took him! in universe clem says it's a bad idea! in our world there is a history of native americans being ripped from their homes and families by white "adoptive" parents, resulting in generations of trauma and alcoholism. which sounds familiar since cassian is struggling with trauma and alcohol! though the show doesn't explicitly connect the dots, even though they easily could have giving him a speech if m@arva gets one after death. but no, she just treats him like he's useless. everyone on ferrix does! because of her!

as if he isn't still an older brother whose little sister, his only biological family, could be anywhere in the galaxy! he's looking for her, years later, in a brothel! imagine what that would do to you? m@arva doesn't care, obviously. and we don't have to imagine if we look at the world around us. nobody involved with the show including fans have thought about the implications of having a native character look for his long lost sister in a brothel. and never addressing it again. it. is. sickening.

m@arva has no rights to say anything about his behavior because the only reason he is like that is her, as far as we've seen see. she should've died ashamed of what she did to him. she should've apologized to him. instead she dies a hero in the show and apparently people here on earth who have seen the show think the same thing. I wish she didn't exist. I wish this sickeningly racist show didn't exist. cassian deserved better. native americans deserve better.

-bio latina mom would've gone so hard I would kill to see Cassian take after his non-hypocritical mother

-the sister in the brothel made me want to kword myself

-wouldn't be surprised about alcoholism since the show is trying so hard to make him out to be such a ~ooh bad boy~

-I can't get over the kidnapping part, it's so ignorant. They didn't even try to soften it, she showed zero remorse, no guilt or apology she owed him. This Andor guy who's name is also Cassian really had been homeless all his life

-having a white guy get kidnapped in an indigenous-coded backdrop you really can't get any worse. The only "layers" that exist in this story is xenophobia, racism, and stupidity.

-There has not been a single justified argument to defend maarva. No, there is no nuance to a story literally made to "explain an accent". Being old af doesn't suddenly make someone a beacon of disability representation 💀. She drugged and kidnapped a child and told him to forget about his roots as if that was the best thing for him. That is colonizer ideology in a nutshell and the show literally celebrates that.

I really don't give a fuck about anyone's anti-fascism if it's not anti-racist or anti-xenophobic. Just champagne socialism that cost disney near half a billion dollars.

#anon asks #andor talks #xenophobia cw #anti maarva andor

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seventeendeer · 2 years

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I'm gonna come out and say it. it hasn't been nearly as fun reading dracula ever since johnnyboy realized how dire his situation was. without the retroactive comedy caused by reading it in a day and age where you know Exactly What's Coming, all that's really left is this poor little victorian orphan of a man crapping his little christian pants every time he's in a room with a cool monster or a marginalized identity or just like. anything that doesn't look similar enough to big ben or a british monarch

yea yea it's a classic for a reason and I'm sure it gets more interesting again later, or it's more interesting when read in the correct order, but even so there's only so much British Anxiety At The Unknown one person can take

#i feel like a fake classics fan but this is how i feel ;_;#to be fair!! ive really liked the other classics from that era that ive read!!! ig its ok to have a preference #now some of you might point out that i do enjoy a lot of aspects of lovecraft despite his stuff being even more Like That.#but you see the reason for that is simply that cthulhu is way fucking cooler than dracula lmao #xenophobia cw

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angorwhosebabyisthis · 1 year

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i think probably the core issue of lorien legacies, beyond anything to do with individual characters, is the mixed metaphors.

more specifically, about politics.

[longpost after the cut; a lot of talk about racism, xenophobia, fascism--including ecofascism--genocide, and all of the above being poorly handled. also some deeply upsetting anti-indigenous awfulness wrt the w-word.]

the writers try to make the series Heavy-Hitting and Deep and Socially Conscious by addressing real-world political issues like racism, fascism, religious fundamentalism, dictatorship, colonialism, genocide, and so on... and instead of trying to build it into a coherent dynamic with any kind of real statement about any of it, they just blindly grab at every political issue they can find and slap it together into a jumbled mess.

they don't actually understand any of the things they're talking about. and the most disturbing part is that they don't even limit themselves to drawing on bad neoliberal takes, and/or captain-obvious shit like 'genocide bad.' they ALSO draw on the politics of fascists and racists--sometimes unironically, sometimes putting it in the mouths of random protagonists without reason after establishing that it's supposed to be a bad thing, sometimes doing shit that strawmans itself into confirming the Bad Guy Fascism and what have you--and often they mix those metaphors in ways that are anywhere from bizarre to horrific.

('ya so the great replacement theory was completely right actually! the people you're genociding a hundred percent have dedicated their entire life, purpose, and remaining culture to exterminating yours. it doesn't matter if their survivors are down to the single digits, if you fail to kill even a single one of them they WILL successfully wipe you out. they will literally have your last few survivors rounded up and put into prison camps. three cheers for them!' jesus fucking christ.)

(don't get me started on shit like tossing blatant racist caricatures of north korea and its political issues into the mogadorians at some point, because why the fuck not, and then piling on the anti-japanese racism with a dump truck at the end of the first series and throughout the second. internment camps.)

(jesus fucking christ.)

and like. people don't react to this shit the way they realistically would. you cannot tell me that not a single one of the majority-POC cast in the second series would not rip a black hole into nine's irl-racist and scifi-MAGA, white-man-in-a-position-of-authority ass, or the shit that john's white-man-in-a-position-of-authority ass brings about himself under the guise of ~kindness and peace.~

and there's no logic to the kind of shit people will say and do about this stuff, especially in the sequel series. sometimes they'll express, like, basic antifascist/anti-racist/humanitarian/decent-in-general beliefs, and other times the most absolutely wild shit will come out of their mouths which either directly contradicts things they've said before--and might say after--or pulls from other blatant parts of that same horrific ideology. there is no rhyme or reason to most of it. it's just a clown car of racist/fascist/xenophobic nonsequiturs. what the hell.

and when i say nine is irl-racist in reborn i mean he casually calls a native american child the w-word as a '''lighthearted''' punny joke about his legacy. the kid is not even from any tribe whose culture they originate from; they never specify, because of course they couldn't be bothered lol, but miki is from alaska. on top of that, they had the dick ass and balls to have him randomly throw in a Very Special Episode scene where he talks about how his family are the direct-action variety of activists who he got separated from when they blew up an oil pipeline.

and he does not fucking blink at this. he doesn't say anything about it, he doesn't uncomfortably not say anything about it, he just goes on with the friendly conversation about his legacies which nine just called him a w-word for without missing a single beat.

and the ecofascism. good unholy fucking god the ecofascism. probably the most fundamental driving force of the entire first series is that if you don't ~take care of your environment~ your entire race/ethnicity/culture deserve to suffer and die slowly in the results. yes, all of them. it doesn't matter who was responsible. every last one. including the masses we see protesting on mogadore in flashbacks/visions.

also did i mention the Great Fascist Cult Leader who is responsible for the loric's genocide is a race traitor who took charge of wiping out his own? because that is a thing. it's a thing.

like. man i could go on. i could go on. and in other posts i probably will, because WOW is there a lot to unpack here. but it really does all come down to the fact that the writers wanted to sound meaningful and important and socially conscious, because that's what seems to be hip with the youth nowadays, and they don't have anything to say.

it's just gibberish. gibberish that arranges in some very telling ways as to the beliefs of their own that they are putting into the books. but gibberish.

and it pisses me off in a different way to have realized this, but god damn does it make it less tear-my-hair-out distressing than racking my brain trying to figure out what in the goddamn fuck am i looking at here.

(capitalism. capitalism is what i'm looking at here. and also racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and just plain being fuckin stupid.)

lord.

#lorien legacies #the crit files #LL tag #LL crit tag #stares at the ceiling this series is so much #all of this is not even scraping the surface #the literal climax of the entire series is a japanese girl protagonist sacrificing herself by absorbing a nuclear bomb #with extremely graphic radiation victim imagery #takes two ibuprofen and holds a glass of ice water to my temple #racism cw #genocide cw #fascism cw #xenophobia cw #w-word cw #i am doubtless forgetting tags and will try to add them later if so #this shit is exhausting; both emotionally and because Writing Longposts #it says something here that the character analysis would be a welcome break #that does remind me i need to draft up and post some headcanons i came up with to move away from the gross NK shit with the mogs #and draw on the weird sxual/romantic overtones wrt god and jesus in evangelical christianity lmao #i am invested in writing about stuff to do with five; the mogs; and setrákus ra #and the thought of unironically using the term 'beloved leader' in my writing makes me taste copper in my mouth lmao

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inmydrcams · 1 year

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People saying remake is better than reunion cause remake is more westernized truly have some nerve.....

#ch; a. gainsborough #( ;; we don't vibe with fanon )#racism cw #xenophobia cw #to me the problem with the newer games is being too westernized #16 looks like a mess and 15 was already iffy #anyway maybe I just keep playing the games up until 10 and their remasters

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percentstardust · 1 year

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alessatia: fuck ulfric storm.cloak ALL MY HOMIES HATE ULFRIC STORM.CLOAK

#& what the hap is fuckening ( ooc )#the stormcloaks are lead by a xenophobic racist THAT’S YALL’S KING?????#NOT ON ALESSATIA’S WATCH!#the whine about losing religious freedom but YET THEY LIVE IN STOLEN LAND AND THEY ARE XENOPHOBIC RACISTS #SJDJSJJSJSJSKSKSKSJSJSM #alessatia gonna take him out first he and his followers are annoying as hell #alduin and his dragons are gonna have to wait #racism cw #xenophobia cw

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lorecatchup · 9 months

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Cody please

Well, he didn't lose his title

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1. That look Cody gives Santino when he first walked up is so Nightmare Cody I can't believe it

2. The way he just said "I don't want your Christmas present"??? If Nightmare Cody ever brought out that voice it would be over for everyone

I'm not enjoying this Booker feud, he's just being like RUDE rude, not fun rude lol

Booker and Cody were out in the ring talking and now Dustin's coming out

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We made it to 2012 😌

Soon Seth

I guess Dustin and Cody still haven't made up (good for Dustin, Cody's such a dick lol)

I know he's supposed to be an asshole but this segment was ROUGH, he's in Laredo, TX talking about "legal" citizens and stuff 😬😬 Cody no

#lore catch up: year five #xenophobia cw #racism cw #bigotry cw #covering the bases just in case #Youtube

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hepbaestus · 27 days

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What Quackity talked about during his 10/04/24 livestream:

QSMP is not closing.

From this point on, he is no longer a part of the administration or the face of the project because he's being doxxed; the fact that the tweets garnered a lot of likes and he's been receiving death threats and due to that he doesn't feel physically safe because of it.

He explains a bit more about himself; how he's a very private person and that he's made sure to have a separation between work and home life.

He's learned a lot about his mistakes (gives an example of delegating a lot of management onto one person)

He talked about the xenophobia that the Brasilians faced and how it wasn't a specific announcement (he apologised for it)

These matters are being dealt with by the proper authorities.

He cannot talk about it because of this ^^^

He ends with a speech about how he loves the project.

He asks people to stop making theories about how he's creating tension with other creators on the project.

Moving forward, Quackity says that we'll see the changes soon, actions have been taken, and he reiterates him leaving the administration of the project.

#quackity announcement #qsmp announcement #quackity #qsmp #tw: xenophobia #cw: xenophobia

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fictionkinfessions · 14 days

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Caleb, if you're out there,

I am sorry. I've written this over and over and over again, yet can never seem to find the right words. Maybe there are none. There is no excuse for what I've done (nor do I wish to excuse it) and I know I cannot take any of it back. I know I had taken everything too far. I hadn't wanted to believe you'd just left me, in any capacity, and especially not for a witch. I was far too ingrained in the idea of being a witch hunter, and had been looking for you for so long after you'd left, worrying that you would be hurt or much worse, which only made the confrontation all the more awful to me. After believing witches were bad for some time, having it deeply rooted after we'd tried so hard to fit in with the people of gravesfield— I couldn't bring myself to accept that you'd fallen in love with one and wanted to stay there, so I convinced myself that you were bewitched instead, and that I had been doing you a favor. That I was saving you. I hadn't. I lost what remaining humanity I had and from then on things felt very different. The grimwalkers I made in your image were because a part of me still wanted to still hold onto you in some way, but it developed into something horrible, and it was wrong of me to make them in the first place. I feel ill every time I think about what I did, and it is overwhelming— although I suppose that is what I deserve.

I couldn't admit I was wrong, which lead me to do many, many horrific things in pursuit of delusion and ignorance. I was selfish, and extremely hypocritical, especially as time went on.

I think of you often, and miss you terribly. I wish to mend things, but I'm not even sure you'd ever want to speak to me again. I wouldn't blame you for it. I'm sorry, and if you've found Evelyn, I hope the both of you are well.

- Philip Wittebane

(The Owl House).

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #owlhousekin #philipwittebanekin #apology #classism cw #shipping issue #prevabuse #seekin #xenophobia cw #?#mod party cat

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brown-spider · 10 months

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＼(^o^)／

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flownintothesun · 6 months

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⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── ∗ 𝟐𝟔﹕ 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 - 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨

⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬. ( @astremourante )

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘, 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄, whether she’s aware of it or not. The mafia doesn’t deal in petty revenge unless it’s their own, and they dabble even less in personal slights unless it’s relevant to the boss. To do anything else would allow outside influence to make them some powerful enemies. His boss, Claudio Renaldi, can be ruthless to the point of recklessness — and single-minded in all of the wrong ways. The boss’s empire is ruled with fear and an iron fist, crushing everyone beneath his boot (which is pretty goddamned easy to do when the man stands at over seven feet tall).

This woman isn’t among the first who want such a man as an ally — but she ticks all of the wrong boxes. On a good day, Claudio would laugh at her — and on a bad —

For one, she isn’t Italian — for another, she is a woman. If there are two things Claudio has no respect or mercy for, it’s women and foreigners, though the list gets rather extensive. Luckily for this woman, Claudio also doesn’t have the patience to deal with paperwork or first meetings for tentative alliances. He’s off-putting and crass, and anyway — that’s what an underboss is for. Mariano is all of the things that Claudio is not, and that’s worked well for the empire.

Smoke burns his lungs as he inhales. Nestled here in the city, you’d never think it was the mafia’s playground — all brightly colored homes and turquoise sea and people smiling and laughing. That’s how the underworld works, though — it’s a world of its own, blending in to the other that normal people inhabit. The only time Mariano’s among them is when he’s blowing off some steam — otherwise, he’s just the angel of death or mercy. He’d never asked for it, but he didn’t have to — this was always going to be his life.

The English is a barrier — Mariano had learned it in school, but it’s rusty and he feels a bit like a goddamned idiot when he’s speaking it — his accent still pronounced and apparent, “Revenge is....a messy business.” It’s Claudio’s obsession with hunting down his own family that gets them all into trouble more often than not. Family is supposed to mean something here, but often it means the wrong thing. “Little by little — it tears apart at —” he taps his chest, “What makes you human to begin with. My boss — he have no soul left. He is a dangerous man.”

#astremourante #➤ 𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎 ┊ amelia & mariano ➷ (𝟎𝟎𝟏.)#➤ 𝚇𝚇. 𝙹𝚄𝙳𝙶𝙴𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 ┊ mariano verratti.#smoking cw #crime cw #misogyny cw #xenophobia cw #(not really but just in case)#⋆ ⚓︎ ⋆ ── 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 ┊ 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑢𝑝 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔?#I hope this works but let me know if not and I'll rewrite!

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