Essence of Laughter @essenceoflaughter - Tumblr Blog

just wanted to congratulate our dark academia community for getting a second place on top aesthetics of tumblr 2020!

now, i wanna say a few things about this.

dark academia is not just about a bunch of white people hanging out in libraries, speaking some foreign language for fun and plotting murder against each other. it’s about the common love and passion we share for learning, for art, music, science and literature. it’s about learning about various cultures, about the stories of their people, and the things they value the most.

it’s about academia and the academics.

the aesthetic also includes fashion. but it’s not about the size of our bodies, it’s about our clothes, no matter who wears them.

we also like to create.

some of us like learning new languages, some of us like to to draw, paint or just simply examine the beauty of certain art forms. and some of us like to read different kinds of literature, learn about myths (not just roman or greek mythology for god’s sake), and write stories, hell even bring those stories to life on a theatre stage or in a movie set, or just for fun at home. or some of us like to listen. to music (it doesn’t have to be only classical music, it’s your choice), or, again, create music. sing until their lungs are on fire, or play instruments till’ their fingers are tired of moving. maybe, some of us like building statues, or just like looking at them. admiring them. or you can like to study mathematics, chemistry, any kind of science, psychology, teaching, healing, anyhting you want.

what i mean is, learning doesn’t have any limits. it has no boundries, strict rules. you don’t have to be a college student to be a part of this community. you don’t have to be white, or skinny, or straight, or if you are all of them, that’s also okay, but just know that there’s diversity in this community. there must be. everyone should feel welcome.

so here’s to all of you who feels and makes others feel welcome.

i love you all, and wish you and your loved ones health and happiness.

spread peace, knowledge, love, and awareness. be kind♡

#dark academia #dark academic

sheisoverhere

Peeta Mellark is an integral member of the four D12 victors. He is literally the sunset on the reaping! How is this not clear? I’ve never wanted to report people for bad literary analysis more and I’m only half joking. It has forced me to commit a cardinal sin: analyze in anger!

1. Him being chosen by absolute accident is the point. Not only does he represent every single other tribute who simply gets chosen because they live in a messed up country but he represents how even with some odds being in your favor (older siblings, merchant family, being white, being popular, etc.) you are still very likely to be victimized by the oppressive structure of Panem.

2. When Haymitch says, “But she was smarter than me, or luckier” - the luck is all the people around Katniss who created the circumstances for her to lead a successful revolution (her father teaching her to hunt, the arena having woods, Rue healing her with leaves, Thresh not killing her, Haymitch consistently giving her support, her mother teaching her aspects of medicine, on and on and on) and Peeta is the number one, most important part of her luck in the first book. She has someone in the games actively putting her life before his… are you kidding? There is legitimately no better luck than that.

3. Even if we take Katniss out of it, Peeta is so impactful as a victor because most of his scenes would not be cut/doctored. What’s there to edit out? Instead, the viewers get a full view of him loving a girl so selflessly, using trickery and strategy instead of violence, keeping himself alive through art, joking on literal death’s door, and sharing so much of himself with the audience it becomes harder for them not to see him as a real human boy. How rare do you think that is for the games? Haymitch and LGB are caricatures of themselves in the games, playing roles that flatten them down. Even Katniss becomes one dimensional on screen without Peeta (and Rue, of course). It is also heavily implied that he does not kill anyone during the games (in a straightforward way) and even if you count Cato or the girl from 8 or even foxface, it’s never him hunting them or seeking out a kill - again how rare do you think that is to see on screen for Games viewers?

4. I didn’t think this needed to be said but: Katniss dies without Peeta in the first games. a) she goes for the bow and dies in the bloodbath; b) she is hunted and killed by Careers; c) she is killed by game makers because there’s no love story angle to keep them from just burning her entirely; d) she dies from tracker jacker stings or Cato because Peeta doesn’t defend her or tell her to run… I could go on…

5. But even if she does win and wins alone - the victory means as much (I would argue less than) any other rebellious victor winning, certainly less than Haymitch’s win. The biggest rebellion for their games is that two of them win! This is legit the only thing that distinguishes them from any other sympathetic, kind child who would have won the games. Like if Haymitch or Finnick or Wiress winning isn’t jarring enough for the Games to end… why do you think Katniss killing Peeta and winning solo would be? It would not.

6. And finally, I cannot stress this enough: There is no peaceful end to the rebellion or the trilogy without Peeta. “Peeta’s a whiz with fires” (HG) for a reason! Collins, over and over, shows us how fire can get out of control and destroy even those who are innocent and who you love (Gale, Beete, Peeta’s family, Haymitch’s family). If everyone really burns, there’s no one to clean the ashes. The reason not everyone burns is because of people like Peeta who can coax the flames in a way that is nurturing and consistent. I mean…. “Peeta fashioned some kind of incubator” is such an obvious detail. Those goslings don’t hatch without Peeta, life does not go on in peace and joy without Peeta.

It is no coincidence that when Maysilee says Lenore Dove got the “jump on us all” (in being a rebel), she is referring to LD using orange paint to make protest art!

We must stop pushing Peeta Mellark out of the narrative! He is literally the sunset on the reaping!

shakespearesdaughters

academic-vampire

ℑ𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔶,

𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔞𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔡 𝔞𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔱, 𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯

#academia #dark academia

forgotten-fossilised

oh thank god for The Prophecy! without it I would've thought Rhaenys (and later on other tb dragonriders) burning countless people was bad. but it's not just for the crown, it's actually for the good of the realm! why?? because hundred years ago the colonizer who had also burned and killed people had that dream, so now Rhaenyra has the divine right to do the same (but hmm why her and not any other Targ? oh right bc her daddy said so without any further explanation. makes sense.)

so, the moral of the story is: war is bad, except when its fought by a Targaryen motivated by some bs prophecy, got it. the other is - team green propaganda bad, team black propaganda good

#anti targ stans #hotd critical #anti targaryen #anti targ restoration

sayruq

Article

sayruq

Hezbollah has spent the past 2 months attacking Israeli settlements, military sites and installations, and soldiers. Israel has swung from threatening war to asking the West to intervene, in between bombing Lebanese villages and killing civilians and journalist. We now have entered a new chapter

As this thread goes on to explain, Hezbollah would never agree to disarm even it means Lebanon regains all its territories. In fact, Hezbollah criticised Hamas' 2017 charter because it was willing to accept the 1967 border and therefore the two state solution. Nothing less than neutralising the Israeli threat would do.

The thread goes on to explain that Israel is hoping to use domestic pressures to get Hezbollah to agree to this plan. One problem: Hezbollah operates regardless if whether or not it has national support. At any rate, the organisation will never accept the proposed plan.

Weeks ago, a minister in Israel's war cabinet threatened to leave unless a war with Hezbollah is considered. As you can see in this post and in this article, tens of thousands of Israelis evacuated from the Northern territory want war with Hezbollah so they can return to their settlements. For weeks, the mayors of those settlements have made statements saying Israelis can never return unless Hezbollah is removed from the border. The general idea is that once Hamas is defeated in Gaza, Israel will go to war with Hezbollah.

But Hamas isn't being defeated and Hezbollah is significantly stronger than all the Resistance factions in Gaza. Israel is losing in Gaza. It has the gotten to the point where it can't even resupply its troops from the ground. So many of its soldiers are wounded and left disabled that they're now sending them to civilian hospitals because they've run out of space in their de facto military hospitals (the speculated number is over 10,000 injured since Oct 26th).

What this proposal shows is that Israel has never been more weaker. Israel is terrified of Hezbollah and I can't blame them because if they're struggling this much against the Gazan militia groups, imagine how badly things will go if they ever decide to make the conflict at the border into a war. They lost against Hezbollah twice already, a new war will make it three loses.

Israel would never negotiate unless it was backed into the corner. That's what the temporary truce also showed. Hamas sent their terms for a ceasefire, Israel laughed them off, then weeks later, after taking a great deal of damage, Israel returned to the negotiating table to hear the same exact terms that they were given before.

After Israel refused to extend the truce, Hamas has changed its approach. No more temporary truces. Hostages will only be exchanged after a comprehensive ceasefire. Rumour has it (its practically confirmed in Arab media) that Israel has asked Qatar and Egypt to restart mediation after pulling away Mossad negotiators two weeks ago.

Now, that Israel has shown its belly vis-à-vis Hezbollah, I expect all the Resistance Axis to continue tightening the noose around Israel.

Palestine has never been closer to liberation than it is now and it will be closer still tomorrow.

sayruq

The IDF: Hamas is surrending! They're all surrendering

Hamas:

Tw: Gunfire, explosions, a soldier stands at a window seconds before getting blown up but you don't see anything except fire and dust/debris clouds

Things are so crazy that it's now the norm for the Resistance to release multiple videos a day. Tw: Gunfire, explosions, a man gets shot repeatedly by a sniper until he dies (you don't see his wounds or the impact of the bullets that kill him but you don't see him struggle to find cover until he stops moving)

The IDF took a huge hit when the Golani Brigades got ambushed and 10 officers died in one operation

Here are more signs that the IDF is taking a huge hit

Pretty much

Things have been heating up in Jenin, West Bank

Today's update

And finally

iriis2

75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… yet the denial of Palestinian human rights goes on. Humanity cannot be applied selectively.

bloglikeanegyptian

tbh a lot of discourse around israel feels like a desire to modernize what is, in effect, a very traditional colonial issue. i cant remember now but probably rashid khalidi also made the point that if israeli had only been established maybe a century earlier, in the heyday of colonialism, it might have succeeded. but unfortunately for zionism it came around during the peak of decolonization, when arab nationalism was on the rise, and every country in the region was declaring independence and choosing self-determination.

whenever i see people try to be like—ah, its a strategic problem. ah, its a matter of financial interests. there's oil. there's trade. there's tech. its falling for israeli propaganda as the only democracy in the middle east, as the victimized civilized nation amidst its medieval arab neighbours. but they're forgetting the core colonial aspect of israel that is currently driving its entire government. a lot of liberal zionists adopt what ilan pappe called the idea of a "fantasy israel" that is progressive, a lot of leftist zionists think of israel as a socialist, egalitarian project co-opted by evil netanyahu. but in truth netanyahu is the most honest aspect of israel, that was established in the most violent and colonial of means. after this establishment the leftists and the liberals wanted to walk this back and settle comfortably into a peaceful, democratic country—but how is that possible without acknowledging the fundamental injustice upon which it was built and upon which it remains functioning? it's not. a fascist israeli is an honest israeli.

and so we keep going around in circles, because nobody wants to admit that while it has grown under the shadow of the more modern, equal-opportunity imperialism of america, israel is a relic of 19th century colonial attitudes. old thoughts, older racism, new weapons. everyone wants palestinians to have modern, democratic solutions without acknowledging that they're dealing with a very old, traditionally fascist movement lent impunity by the modern structure of the united nations, and have been for 75 years. this is why the audacity of the liberal zionist enables the brutality of the right-wing zionist. as long as you avoid the true nature of the zionist project, you delay the solutions. they need to be dragged into the 21st century so we can have a civil conversation

#palestine