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Hello! I know I don't really have an audience since I haven't really posted, and I haven't been reblogging or liking for a while due to anxiety stuff I'm dealing with, but this felt important enough to me to post. If you are attacking Jewish people over the war against Hamas you should block me and continue on your way. If you are Jewish you are welcome on my blog, you are welcome to message me and educate me on the conflict, your culture, your current fixation, WHATEVER. Admittedly, I probably won't be able to message back or do much interaction with other blogs again for a while yet, but I DO plan on trying to post some fandom content on here since I like to write and want to work on my anxiety issues and I would like to hear from people while I do so even if I can't reply right now. So there you go, treaty inbox like the void and shout about whatever at me. That said, antisemites and others being intentionally bigoted will be blocked and reported.
So, I don't know if this has been said or not but here goes I guess. Do any other indigenous people start getting real nervous when they see a bunch of white people flocking towards particular causes? Because even as someone who can pass as white, I start getting a bit twitchy about it. In particular, I'm talking about how many white people on both the left AND right have rallied behind blatantly antisemitic ideals as a result of the conflict in Gaza and have, as a result, either heavily implied or outright stated that these ideals line up with an idea they have that indigenous identities have a time limit for how long you can say your people come from somewhere while not living there REGARDLESS of whether or not it was outside forces displacing them rather then it being of their own accord. REAL fucking convenient there, I'd say, ESPECIALLY when it was colonization done by white nations that resulted in the death and displacement of MILLIONS of indigenous peoples across the planet, not JUST in the US. I think native peoples across the globe should start getting cautious REAL quick if they haven't already about that. I've been trying not to say too much about all of this since I'm not Jewish OR Palestinian and I don't want to detract from them and their voices and suffering OR spread misinformation, but I feel like this needs to be openly acknowledged in some way so maybe a few of us will be at least marginally prepared when they turn these tactics on us, because if we're being honest, the Jewish people are the global guinea pigs to see how easily governments can sell these ideas to the people about other groups that they find annoying and distasteful in some capacity(read refuses to trust in people and entities that have already abused them). Please keep this in mind as all this continues and try not to fall down the antisemitic rabbit holes on either side of you can. Support both your Palestinian AND Jewish neighbors during this time so they know they are safe with you, and know peace for BOTH peoples SHOULD be the end goal. So far @prismatic-bell has been my main resource to educate myself when I'm on here, so please check them out if you're interested, and stay safe everyone!
TW: mentions of death(we all know who), analysis and acknowledgement of familial dysfunction in the TMNT 2012 narrative
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TL;DR: The 2012 turtles grew up in a dysfunctional family system created by Splinter and the poor writing accidentally gave a really good inside look to what real dysfunctional families are like. Also I still like this version, so I analysed it.
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Thought I'd share a thought I've had about the 2012 TMNT series for a WHILE. This is based on a mix of my own, admittedly somewhat limited, engagement with the series as well as what I've heard others say about it's writing quality and the particular issues it creates in the series.
TMNT 2012 unintentionally became a REALLY good look at what a dysfunctional family is like from the INSIDE. I say this as someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family system, though my parents were not physically abusive like Splinter was shown to occasionally be mostly to Leo but sometimes he dragged the whole family along for the ride. Regardless, let me give a couple examples.
People often complain how Mikey's character growth is just plain ignored by the writers repeatedly throughout the series(really anyone who isn't Leo or Raph, but Mikey's the focus for now). While this IS bad writing on their part, it's also something that ACTUALLY HAPPENS in dysfunctional systems like this. Mikey's role in the family is clearly the jokey, happy little brother. In families like this, you are not allowed to grow outside your role. No one will outright SAY it, but the family's reactions to such things will usually be enough for most people to shove themselves right back in their box. That said, some find spaces and people outside the family to explore these parts of themselves, and from what little I've seen Mikey seems to have done this with the likes of the Mutanimals, then, once he's back with family, everything deemed outside his role gets neatly tucked away until next time.
There's also their friends who, even those who've been accepted as family, don't get to see the full extent of the dysfunction. Everyone knows Raph and Leo fight, they'll yell at each other in the main room after all, but no one gets to see things like what I've watched of Splinter's and Leo's talks in the dojo, and most of Splinter's talks with Raph about his anger. Actually, a lot of Splinter's not-so-great actions are hidden, not just from their friends, but from a good chunk of his sons too. Then, once someone like April shows up, he's the loving, if some what strict, father that pretty much everyone in this community the turtles have built respects greatly. This respect isn't entirely without merit, I'll admit, but the point still stands that he acts better when people from outside their immediate family are around then he does when their not. I also wouldn't say he's the greatest towards any of his kids, but he's better to some then others with Raph and Leo getting the brunt of it, though even Raph seems to experience more warmth from him in the show then Leo does. He also seems to treat Raph and Leo better if Donnie and/or Mikey are around, though not as much as when friends stop by.
I know I've just spent an entire paragraph essentially sh*tting on Splinter, but I would like to point out that IS clear he loves his sons dearly. It's also clear he's a deeply flawed and traumatized character who I plan on exploring more. Regardless, it doesn't excuse his behavior and the toxic system he's created as a result of it. I think even more of an explanation could have been found if we knew more about his upbringing and the Hamato Clan outside of Tang Shen and Oroku Saki, but he actually doesn't seem to talk much about them which is FASCINATING to me considering how much pride he holds in his culture and in BEING Hamato. Quite frankly, I'd bet money he's recreated something very similar to what he grew up in, hence why he sees no problem raising the turtles the same but now I'm just speculating and making head cannons đ . Either way, as much as he loves them, he was NOT the best dad.
Back to the main point, while the writing, again CLEARLY unintentionally, creates a really good narrative look at the inner workings of a dysfunctional family, there IS hope for them at the end from what I've seen. An interesting detail I've noticed is that the boys all seem to start getting along better and finding better ways to cope and work together whenever Splinter is out of the immediate picture for a significant chunk of time, like when their in space or at the farmhouse. It takes time, sure, but it's there. They also seem to do better and get closer as they get older, which is something my sister and I found in our own relationship. While Splinter's death is certainly hard on them, I imagine they'll stay close and things will only get better between them as time goes on. Maybe they'll realize how Splinter handled certain things wasn't great or maybe they won't, but either way I see room for them to be happier and more real, present, and honest with each other post series. Please feel free to respectfully give your opinion and your own observations, I'd love to see some other takes if possible! Also please keep in mind that I haven't watched the full series, mostly just clips with some episodes sprinkled in through the years so please feel free to tell and send me stuff so I can watch and learn more about these guys because I love them even if they're not my favorite iteration!
He submitted the proposal to the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and the plan was rejected because the proposed four-foot-high railings (fence) and simple cast iron gate (which was chosen purely privacy and security for the front of the home) were considered âtoo domesticâ looking for the former industrial area. The council gave Sheeran a list of options for privacy ârailingsâ, and after changing the proposal Sheeran was given permission that was more in line with the neighbourhood, which is in a conservation area. A direct quote from Sheeran states: âDear Natalie Edwards from The Sun newspaper. Your story is bollocks, I have done lots of work in the past for Crisis and Shelter and would never build railings outside my home for that reason.The reason was to keep the paps that you employ from being on my doorstep. Have a good day.â this comment has been substantiated by the local police and security companies that Sheeran and his neighbours have had to contact previously when paparazzi have been taking photographs not only of Sheeranâs house but inside his windows, and constantly knocking on his door and yelling outside his house.Â
Think about this for a moment, a guy bought a house and fixed it up, he was trying to gain some privacy by asking for a simple fence and gate to indicate the property line and gain some distance from the paps, - which the police and council said was fine - and the newspapers who can no longer use these ill-gotten photos and are probably pissed have managed to spin this story to make it seem that this guy (whether you like his music or not), is an asshole and is anti-homeless. And youâre all eating this shit up and believing the newspapers, even though the Sun and Telegraph are well known across the UK for making shit up and lying. smh.Â
Information professional here: if you read through this post and are thinking, âWell fuck, how do I avoid this in the future?â Hereâs a tool box for information literacy.
First, slow the fuck down (cursing for emphasis). Todayâs media landscape relies on you reading a headline and reacting, regardless of whether or not the headline is true. The headline, ideally, makes you want to read the piece however, because of how social media works, most people donât read the article. Slow down; read the article.
Check the date: this is from 2018. Why is it showing up now? Things on tumblr rarely have dates attached to them - is this an old post? Or is someone trying to get a reaction from you?
Consider the source. Does it have a reputation for skewing the truth? This will take some work on your part - if youâre reading the article and there are links, click on them. Do they link exclusively to other articles on the same site? Head to a search engine and search for the basics of the article - in this case âEd Sheeran+anti-homeless fenceâ - and see what comes up. Read articles with different claims. Consider those sources. In the case of this article, almost every outlet claiming Ed Sheeran is installing anti-homeless railings is a gossip rag. Huffington Post, a news outlet, has the story about Sheeran refuting the claims.
'I would never build railings outside my home for that reason.'
Let that information simmer. Iâm serious - think about what you read for a bit. Donât post. Talk about it offline with some friends. Is this story even worth sharing in the end? If it is, and youâre on tumblr, help folks out - provide a date, share several sources. Show your work.
This is my job and I still react to things based solely on headlines - they make me angry and I share blindly. Itâs not something Iâm proud of, but itâs important to remember that things are designed to encourage sharing without reading. Take a breath, slow down, read thoroughly, and donât post.
This is why I love the âCovid is fakedâ conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism
You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?
The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?
The one that had so many close calls to theyâre working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?
The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?
Weâre talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?
And that was still just one government using the fullest extent of their power to try and keep just one secret in a time before cellular phone cameras or the internet. Imagine thinking multiple, rival governments agreed to fake a virus to fool just some of their citizens into staying home from work, while also agreeing to pay billions of dollars to compensate them for it.
So apparently there are people now saying âyou shouldnât be antisemitic, it doesnât help the Palestinian causeâ and I would like to suggest that
ACTUALLY, YOU PERFORMATIVE DIPSHIT ASSHOLES,
You shouldnât be antisemitic because being horrible to people for immutable characteristics like race and culture of origin MAKES YOU A FUCKING BIGOT, and, news flash,
BECAUSE JEWS ARE PEOPLE!!!!
Get the fuck out of here. You donât actually care about Palestinians and it shows.
THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING TO GET YOUR MEDS BEFORE THE PHARMACIES CLOSE
they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.
if you donât have enough meds to last the next THREE WEEKS, put in for your repeats and refills tomorrow! thatâs Wednesday! do it! donât go to hospital at New Year because you ran out of stuff!
Hey this looks really awesome but there are 5 days left and it still needs quite a bit of funding to hit the goal. Spread the word, signal boost, I want my books! There are tiers specifically for libraries and retailers as well, so especially share with any librarians or bookshop owners you know!
Me: "I think all people should have agency over their own bodies. This includes teens and people with trauma. Also, I don't care if people have kinks."
nooooo fucking way i just saw someone on my dash saying that the phrase âshema yisraelâ (an important Jewish prayer thing) is a ZIONIST CHANT wtf are yâall on holy shit
For my fellow gentiles that don't know what the Shema is, it's a jewish prayer, the first line commonly regarded as the core statement of faith in judaism.
Here's a translation of that first line (not the only one, but it's a valid one): "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One"
The meaning is as straight foward as it gets, stating the uncompromisingly monotheistic nature of judaism. They have one god, period. End of sentence, turn the page. No caveats, no technicalities. One indivisible deity.
The way in how labeling it as zionist is antissemitic is even clearer. It is politicizing and demonizing an entire religion based on a completely nonsensical interpretation of a millenarian prayer. All because it has "Israel" in there.
i mean i feel like if you're ignorant about history and the bible... yeah probably? it seems fair to make that assumption? like instead of wanting to jump on the whole "HOLY SHIT THIS IS PROOF THEY HATE JEWISH PEOPLE" you could take 5 minutes to educate someone. people are jumping to assumptions like this because they care so much about a genocide that is happening. not because they 'hate jews so much'. so idk. relax and use some compassion.
i have lots of jewish friends who are pro palestine, and i myself am extremely ignorant of religion and history of the holy lands. but im seeing children get crushed under rubble. im gonna have a few things to say and some of them are gonna be because of ignorance. it's okay to correct people.
It's actually not fair to make assumptions about almost anything! That is like, a core tenet of being a good human on both the small and large scale!
We have been trying, exhaustively, to educate people who make these kinds of assumptions. They react with increasingly vicious antisemitism almost as a rule. Let's see if you do after I send this!
"Relax and use some compassion" How about people making these assumptions relax and take a step back before they shoot their mouth off about shit they KNOW they know less than nothing about? How about you stop tone policing the people being affected by the misinformation you willingly swallow and for which you ignore fact checking?
Your inability to manage your emotions is not our problem! We are literally correcting you *in this post* and you are taking issue with how we are doing it. Absolutely, 100% check yourself in the goddamned mirror.
@youthincare You are 29 years old and have built your whole blog around activism. You should absolutely know better than to shoot your mouth off about stuff you know you don't know. Especially at a time when violent antisemitism directed at Jewish schools, senior centers, and synagogues is at an all time high, it is so so important to make sure you're not contributing to antisemitism. This tarnishes your activism and just proves that Jews cannot rely on gentiles to be safe people to be around when even the so-called progressives are uncritically buying into this Jew-hating shit as "progressivism." Deriding a prayer that is so old it literally appears in its first form in the Torah is not progressive.
When I first read this whiny ass response I assumed you were like, 14. Then I checked your blog. Do better.
@youthincare hereâs a better idea, dumbass, donât shoot your mouth and then gaily say you donât know anything about the situation. Thatâs antisemitic as fuck.
There are so many reasonable and accurate criticisms that can be leveled against Israel. Violation of the Geneva Convention IV, Article 33. Holding Palestinians accused of violent crime under administrative detention instead of giving them fair trials. Netanyahu smuggling millions of dollars in suitcases to a terrorist organization in order to perpetuate the cycle of violence and death.
So why is it that all I ever see are people posting blatant misinformation about Israeli society and Jewish history. Iâve seen people say âDNA tests are illegal in Israel because they donât want you to know theyâre all secretly Khazarsâ about three dozen times in the last two months. Finding an actual fucking news report about the actual fucking suffering caused by the Israeli governmentâs actions isnât hard, so why default to lies and debunked conspiracy theories?
Thereâs no fucking reason to believe what you see on tiktok or twitter over that you see on the BBC or Reuters or the AP. The incompetence is so great that I think it has to be weaponized at this point.
It's honestly frustrating that I've seen non-Russian queer people almost bragging about how they would be illegal in Russia, labeled an extremist or terrorist. Russian queers are in danger, their government has made it clear where it stands, and it's made this effort for the better part of a decade (even longer, perhaps). This will kill people, don't mistake this for a quirky little proclamation from a government, akin to somebody saying the sky is pink. Russian queer people were already expressing their fear, and the least we can do now is express our love for them, and advocate with them.
Russian queer people, I love you. I love you all so much. I am so sorry, I cannot begin to express the grief that I feel, and I hope that you are safe. Words cannot encapsulate how I feel as a non-Russian, and I cannot hope to comprehend how it feels to actually be in this situation.
Again, you can support Palestine and Palestinian liberation without ignoring TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE AND CONSTANT EXPULSIONS AND MASSACRES OF JEWISH PEOPLES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
This is not something "in the past" (btw, those posts about how the Holocaust was "sooooo long ago" are fucking disgusting!), antisemitic violence is a global ongoing reality. Synagogues are being threatened and attacked, Jewish people are being harassed and murdered, Jewish-owned businesses are being threatened and vandalized, there are people in the streets calling for a Jewish genocide, and there are ongoing pogroms and expulsions of Jewish communities.
Jewish people did not leave their respective home countries for funsies, they left because those countries made it extremely and violently clear that they were not welcome. Many Israelis can't "go back home" because those "homes" chased them out at gunpoint or worse.
Again, this is not about having to support Israel or the actions of the Israeli government. It's literally just about not spreading antisemitic rhetoric and revisionist history that tries to blame Jewish people for antisemitism (and yes, I've seen those "Zionism makes Jews think they can't belong anywhere else" posts, as if the constant hate and violence isn't at all part of that).
I'm so beyond disgusted by the behavior I've seen from people who I previously respected. I've seen so many Jewish people I follow saying that they no longer feel safe in any leftist community and I don't blame them for that. I'm not even Jewish and I have lost so much trust and faith in Western leftists over just the last month.
Yâall need to stop with this believing-anything-as-long-as-it-makes-Israel-look-bad bullshit.
Yes, Jiyeh was bombed. BECAUSE HEZBOLLAH, A LEBANESE TERRORIST PARTY, BOMBED ISRAEL. Over half a million trees in Israel were torched and multiple buildings from which asbestos had not yet been removed collapsed under the bombing. Lebanon has never taken responsibility for this.
YOU CANâT JUST âDROP WHITE PHOSPHOROUS ON THE BEACH.â IT WILL BURST INTO FLAMES. Show me the fucking photos. Not a picture of an empty beach with some fucking limestone, I want the evidence of this white phosphorus.
Hezbollah is a paramilitary party. When they crossed the border into Israel the Lebanese government denied affiliation with, knowledge of, and did not condone the raid that started the 2006 conflict. It is unlikely they will ever take responsibility for actions that they asserted at the time, and continue to say, were not their own. The amount of oil is estimated to be between 15000-30000 tonnes, and the military blockade put in place by the IDF at the time delayed the response, potentially worsening the situation.
While âbeachâ is not the right word, use of white phosphorus over the Gaza City Port has been confirmed.
Israelâs use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human
It is true that Israel has probably* used white phosphorus. It is true this is a war crime and should not have happened. It is not true that âIsrael is poisoning the sea on purpose.â WHITE PHOSPHORUS DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Also like. Lebanon is known to be deeply hostile toward Israel. Show me the proof Lebanon didnât know. And while weâre at it, please explain why Israel was supposed to allow people back into an area they were trying to clear of Hezbollah terrorists (call them what they are, âparamilitaryâ is a weak and stupid word designed to sugarcoat), and why itâs acceptable to present the bombing out of context as âoh yeah, one day Israel just decided to bomb an oil plantâ instead of âIsrael was fighting AGAINST A TERRORIST ATTACK.â
*itâs slightly unclear if this was an official action, or a few people in the IDF taking matters into their own hands. Iâd consider the two to be slightly different (in the same way that the soldiers who committed the My Lai massacre did not represent all US soldiers). There is no question white phosphorus was used against Gaza, however.
