#yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

the difference between fantasy and sci-fi? well there’s a “quest” and then there’s a “mission”

#yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

god and how FUCKED is it that the succession ultimately hinged on shiv’s choice, but it was actually no choice at all. your brother (empty husk groomed for power his whole life) or your husband (empty husk who craved power his whole life). for five minutes she had the most power in the room, but it was actually nothing.

#this is not a criticism i love tragedy and i am pointing and screaming #shiv roy #succession #succession spoilers #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

hey so. i’ve seen many people reblogging some variation of “israel spent millions on a superbowl ad to distract everyone from the airstrikes on rafah” and decided to do some fact-checking. the ad was produced by the kraft foundation to stop jewish hate, founded by robert kraft, who owns the patriots. kraft also partnered with dr. clarence b. jones—who advised dr. martin king luther jr and helped him write the i have a dream speech—to create this ad. according to tara levine, the fcas president, this ad was made in response to rising antisemitism on social media platforms, which her team tracks.

here’s a link to the foundation’s about page on their website. their mission statement solely focuses on combatting antisemitism and does not mention i/p or the ongoing war. the ad itself does not mention i/p or the ongoing war. it’s pretty ironic, and yet not surprising, that an ad created to stop antisemitism is currently the eye of the antisemitic storm on social media. if you sincerely believe netanyahu secretly funded this ad campaign to “distract everyone” from the idf’s airstrike attack in rafa, then you have bought into two different antisemitic conspiracy theories: that jews control the media and that diasporic jews have dual loyalty to israel. while political zionists have used accusations of antisemitism to invalidate pro-palestinian efforts, that’s not what’s happening here. all this information is obtainable via google. please learn to fact check yourselves before posting. thanks!

(bonus: here’s a 20-minute video where kraft and dr. jones discuss the civil rights movement, anti-black racism, antisemitism, and the history of solidarity between black and jewish activists during the civil rights movement.)

EDIT 2/23/24:

after publishing this post, i researched robert kraft and fcas' funding source and pro-israel efforts more deeply, then analyzed my findings in a reblog, which you can read here. tl;dr version - in 2019, kraft was given the genesis prize, a $1 million dollar award. the awarding foundation has direct ties to the israeli government. kraft used part of these funds to finance fcas. this additional information does not negate my original post, however; i can't find any conclusive evidence that the israeli government directly funded kraft's superbowl ad. there is also no evidence that kraft is targeting anti-israel sentiment in the ad rather than antisemitism overall. assuming this connection is still evidence of antisemitic conspiratorial thought, as i detail above.

i'm including this information because i believe it's important to acknolwedge wider context. i don't share kraft's politics re: israel and believe his stance compromises his foundation's overall messaging. i also condemn any efforts to silence pro-palestinian efforts with accusations of antisemitism, but that is still not what's happening here. i also want to clarify that i'm only discussing responses i've seen to kraft's ad, not the ads produced by the israeli government. thanks again!

#i/p #antisemitism #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS ↳🐟🦖🦋🎨😴☕

#animal crossing #acnh #acnhedit #animalcrossingedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #steph gifs #yell.txt #the fish rooms bring me such peace....

[strangesmallbard]

aegon 2 and 3 are such. wildly tragic characters. your name is aegon you were never a person because your name is aegon and your father sacrificed everything for a son. not you, though. you were his duty. so your name is aegon. and your mother loves you, but you were also her duty. she resents you for it as much as she loves you. who cares what type of person you become? you’ll still become aegon and you’ll sit on that throne. you’re simply a reflection of every violent act such a throne requires. history will remember that you lost, and history will remember that you are aegon II targaryen; you were king and then you died. who are you?

and then! your name is aegon. your mother named you aegon because your uncle is aegon and your mom needed another aegon. your mom loves you desperately. she keeps you like a shadow. you watch your mother die in fire. you watch your brother die in the ocean. you watch your brother die in the air. men you don’t know put you on the throne that killed your mother and your father and your brothers because your name is aegon and you are king. you try to be a good king. you marry the daughter of the man who killed your family. she’s the only person who can possibly understand you. and she dies too. your name is aegon and the people know you as the dragonsbane, a destroyer of legacies, sullen and angry. you only smile once in recorded history: when your little brother unexpectedly comes home alive. but then he has a son. and he names that son aegon. and all the dragons die, but the fire that killed your mother spreads.

#aegon ii targaryen #aegon iii targaryen #hotd #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

they’re all aimed at the first guy btw

#the last of us #tlou #yell.txt #when you want tlou to be a generic tough man zombie game but it keeps being a genre subversion centered around a lesbian :(

[strangesmallbard]

there is not nearly enough media about the bar/bat mitzvah process. anyone remember watching a kid do their fun drash about jacob wrestling the angel and thinking How the fuck. am i going to write a speech about leprosy protocols

#i reread my drash semi-recently and you know what! it made some points #i ended up focusing on how some rules are good and helpful while others are not LMAO #jumblr #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

homophobes will watch the last of us wanting cool zombie fights not realizing it’s a show that is, fundamentally, about a dad wanting to protect his daughter even though his daughter died 20 years ago and two teenage lesbians playing mortal kombat II because one of them wanted to make the other happy before she left forever. sad!

#the last of us #tlou #tlou spoilers #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

listening to sansa i again and like. she and arya have the most normal sibling problems ever LMFAO. this series has fratricide and twincest and yet the most unhinged discourse exists about 11-year-old and 9-year-old sisters who are simply very different people and are (not so simply) contending with insane westerosi gender expectations. and cersei’s there! would YOU be normal to a sibling if cersei lannister were inflicted upon your developing personality? then killed your dog specifically to spite said sibling

#meanwhile your dad is too busy doing punnet squares to realize you’re both rapidly developing post traumatic stress disorders! #valyrianscrolls #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

i always forget that people are honest to god team black or team green and not team themes and motifs. team olivia cooke looking so sad and so hot. and such

#yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

maybe we should confiscate the prince of egypt from goyim this year

#a joke post. but barely #jumblr #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

And everything that that means. I know we can never have children. That is a great sadness. But everything else: to love and to cherish and to have and to hold, according to God's holy ordinance. GENTLEMAN JACK — 1x05: Let's Have Another Look at Your Past Perfect

#gentleman jack #gentlemanjackedit #anne lister #ann walker #perioddramaedit #suranne jones #sophie rundle #tvgifs #steph gifs #yell.txt #rewatching and this line delivery took me out again. devastating scene

[strangesmallbard]

any other jews realizing that spending time in mostly goyische leftist circles has done a number on you. like why did i believe all jews are white now so antisemitism is over, all the while struggling to unpack my own complex relationship to whiteness and the antisemitism i’ve seen/experienced in my life. why did i become ashamed of knowing hebrew? like this was all despite my best efforts, too. i was pretty openly jewish in my catholic schools. i was happy to share my culture and perspective to people who’ve never spent time with jews in their lives; i wanted them to know we were real and we were good, please believe we are good. i knew most people just didn’t know shit and i adopted their ill-informed stances anyway because i didn’t want to rock the boat. i made myself palatable instead of true. well *shakes the boat* HEY stop reblogging blatant dog whistles! start actually including jews in your activism!

#מה קורה??? #jumblr #antisemitism #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

girl dinner ↳ happy birthday @pastramis!

#gentleman jack #gentlemanjackdaily #gentlemanjackedit #ann walker #anne lister #sophie rundle #tvgifs #suranne jones #steph gifs #yell.txt

[strangesmallbard]

currently thinking about why some targaryen names are reused and not others. i think it’s mostly intentional, if not always. there are surface-level plot and characterization reasons why, but i also think these choices reinforce certain targ family narratives overall + reveal the patriarchy-laden marrow of the whole thing. none of these thoughts will be in logical order but bear with me LMAO.

i've already posted a bit about aegon, but also: the targaryens are trying to rebirth aegon i again and again and they always fail bc aegon i was always an ideal, not a real person who existed. aegon i was also an imperial conquerer; anyone who tries to live up to him will once again re-enact that violence on themselves, their family, and the people he subjugated. there’s “viserys” and never a living visenya; a warrior queen may have built this dynasty, but only her sons can take her place. the first rhaena targaryen, who had a similar political disposition to visenya, was denied the same power. (she was also named after rhaenys, known for being more gentle and kind-heated despite her own active participation in the conquest).

all three women/girls named rhaenys were, in different ways, overshadowed by male family members. rhaenys became a unwitting martyr to aegon (and visenya's) imperial cause, while rhaenys 2 was denied the throne in favor of viserys. rhaenys 3, meanwhile, is murdered during wartime; her younger brother was (maybe) saved to preserve rhaegar's bloodline. a bit like her first namesake, she becomes an unwitting symbol for oberyn's vengeance.

and there's more! king aenys was considered weak compared to aegon; no other children were named after him. maegor was considered too cruel, even by targaryen standards; no other children were named after him—except, of course, the royal quarters in the red keep are in a building called maegor's holdfast. his legacy follows every targ born since, even though they openly scorn his name. little prince jahaerys and princess jahaerya both die horribly because of a succession crisis that jaehaerys i helped cause. jaehaerys ii brought his namesake’s incest back, dooming his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren before they were ever born.

meanwhile, rhaella names dany because the last daenerys brought peace to westeros (according to the targaryen pov); all dany craves is that peace, even though she only knows how to express that desire through the violent vestiges of her ancestors. young griff inherited the Aegon Curse, despite his dubious origins. will it matter at all, in the end? as the banners are raised in his name? and there's the jon snow of it all, the secret targaryen named after his uncle's father figure. not his father's hoped-for visenya, nor another aegon. i hope he doesn't have a targaryen name at all, in the end. i think that would be much more powerful than anything else.

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #aegon targaryen #rhaenys targaryen #visenya targaryen #yell.txt #this has been in my drafts for a minute

[strangesmallbard]

TORLYNN AND KARLACH — can i kiss you? ❤️‍🔥

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3edit #karlach #tav bg3 #gamingedit #dailygaming #gamingnetwork #karlach cliffgate #bg3 tav #gamingladies #miyku #steph gifs #yell.txt #torlynn alderstar #remembered i had more edited footage. anyway the 10mb limit is my parasocial enemy