The crime that will not be forgiven.

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[sweetslittlefactory-moved]

My People Are Dying. Here’s Some Ways To Help.

Some backround info for those unfamiliar with what is happening in Rojava:

[For those not in the know, Erdogan, leader of the Turkish regime, has been planning on invading Rojava for years.

On 9 October 2019, after Trump announced his decision to have the USA withdraw from Syria, he launched “Operation Peace Spring”, a deceptively pretty name for a horrific invasion that is anything but peaceful. His target is stated by him to be ‘securing’ Syria and providing homes for Syrian refugees in Turkey by defeating the Syrian Democratic Forces.

His intent, however, is fueled by fear of the Kurdish people. He claims that the Syrian Democratic Forces - one of, if not THE, biggest forces against ISIS - are a terrorist group and a threat to Turkish unity. The reason why? The majority of them are Kurdish, and the army has loose ties with the PKK, a previously (see: no longer a) separationist group. His attack is not simply on the SDF, however: The entire region is being invaded - a region that, while a majority Kurdish, is home to many other ethnic groups. My Arab, Assyrian, Turkemen, Armenian, and many others cousins who call Rojava home will also be impacted, and civilian casualties are on the rise. 

Let it be known that this is an act of ethnic cleansing, and my people fear for genocide. Innocent lives are being lost at this very moment, and the very terrorists we fought so hard alongside America are being trained and sent by Erdogan to kill us while Trump sits back and watches. And if that wasn’t enough, we were the ones keeping ISIS prisoners - and now that we are being invaded, we can no longer make guarding them a priority. Turkey has directly helped ISIS and America is now complacent in it.

We are incredibly lucky to reside in Canada, but the pain and guilt of sitting safely while my people and their allies shed blood is indescribable. It is my hope that this message gets as far as possible, and that those residing in the west, Kurds and allies alike, can help those in Rojava.]

So, how can you help? Here’s three ways - and which are by no means the only ways.

1. SPREAD THE WORD.

I don’t just mean reblogging and retweeting stuff about the invasion of Rojava, though you should absolutely do that too. I mean actually talking to people face to face. Let your family, your friends, your neighbors,  anyone who is willing to listen, know what is happening. Read about the situation, listen to those who are victims of Erdogan’s regime, boost the voices of those unheard. If you will not listen to Kurds, listen to those who fought alongside us against ISIS.

I highly recommend watching Civ Div’s videos documenting the situation day by day. As a international YPG veteran, I am grateful for his and every other ally’s service, and I am grateful for his decision to cover the events and spread awareness. He also does a great job at trying to neutrally go over the situation.

2. JOIN PROTESTS.

People all around the world, especially Kurds, are holding protests in light of Turkey’s actions as well as the USA’s abandonment of Rojava. I highly recommend also looking into @antifainternational​‘s Rojava tag - it is not all conclusive by any stretch of the word, but it does cover various locations in which protests are being held and on what days, as well as other actions of solidarity.

If you can’t find anything near you on the blog, do not think that means nothing is being done - there’s a pretty high chance that protests are happening in or near your area that you are unaware of - I’m a Kurd and even I wasn’t aware until two days ago that there was a protest in a nearby city.  Look online for local Kurdish communities or for protests in solidarity with Rojava. Let people know that you do not condone Erdogan or Trump’s actions. Pressure the USA to stand by its allies, and let Erdogan know that we will not tolerate what is being done.

3. DONATE.

Heyva Sor is a Kurdish, humanitarian, charity organization that provides emergency aid and medical care to those in warzones, working with civilians and combatants alike, along with general aid to repairing Rojava after the Afrin attacks. They are also the primary force in many hospitals in Rojava, and work extensively with refugees and orphans. If you want to help us, donating to them is one of the BEST things you can do.

We don’t want your tears. We want your help. Even if you cannot do anything listed here, just hitting the reblog button is worth something - the more people see this, the better.

If we have friends besides the mountains, if we have friends in you, now is the time to prove it. 

[charlesoberonn]

Hercules is the most visually creative of the Disney Reneissance films. If not any Disney film ever.

The three Fates sharing an eye.

Hades’ flaming hair. 

The various designs of the mythological monsters and titans.

The diverse faces and body types of all the minor characters.

It’s a very visually engaging movie.

[charlesoberonn]

How could I forget the Underworld

And the opening sequence

[analmazing]

Y’all need to get off Walter Disney’s cock

[charlesoberonn]

Jeez, I just said the movie looks nice. No need to get antsy.

[fantastique-bastard]

Also like, pretty sure WD didn’t make that movie. It was the effort of various animators who sometimes get overlooked because we don’t see them WORKING on it for so many days, just the two hour long result.

[charlesoberonn]

Pretty sure that Walt Disney didn’t work on Hercules since it came out decades after he died.

[brennen-french-arts]

Fun fact! The reason Hercules has such a unique style is because Musker and Clements brought illustrater Gerald Scarfe (famous for his work on Pink Floyd’s The Wall) to be the conceptual character artist. His original character designs are wild

[drtanner]

Hey kids, did you know that you can be critical of a company and acknowledge how shitty it is in its business practices, and appreciate that it produces a lot of good art, much of which is created by artists and animators who have nothing whatsoever to do with the aforementioned shitty business practices?

Fucking wild that you can do that.

[falling--for--30--minutes]

This one sparks joy: The movies produced by the teams working at Disney.

This one does not spark joy: Disney as a company.

[scumisdead-deactivated20181126]

wine expert voice: Hmm… definite woke aftertones… and is that a hint of fam I’m tasting? Overall this selection is bae.

[420moshdad]

[falling--for--30--minutes]

The wine changed colour. 

[robloxhellzonepremium]

found minecraft in roblox and steve is lookin a bit strange…

[trans--ender-deactivated2021061]

he looks like this

[falling--for--30--minutes]

Me and the boys going to play Minecraft in Roblox.

[flowersfromouterspace]

They should cast Tom Holland in an mcu movie about a guy who suddenly appears in the avengers team with no connections whatsoever to spiderman. He can move through the city like Tarzan in the jungle. He is not spiderman why do you think that? Peter parker died after mysterio revealed who he was. This is pete porker why do you think they have a connection?

[taliasburns]

No one.

[falling--for--30--minutes]

I like to interpret that scene - the sacrifice of Gamora - as Thanos loving the concept of Gamora. He doesn’t love her as a person, rather he loves the concept of having a very dangerous person on his side. That way, it doesn’t contradict what Gamora is saying in this scene, nor does it contradict the canon of Thanos successfully getting the Soul Stone. 

[solarmorrigan]

So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

[loveharuokumura]

Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across

[hookedonafeeeling]

That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads

[stevetomjohn]

Never forget that Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in response to an earlier book called The Coral Island in which a bunch of English schoolboys have a delightfully imperial time bringing civilization to a savage land, and Golding basically said “nah, those privileged shits would wreck the place”

[tomloki]

I often think that in saying “us,” Loki was referring to the Asgardians. “Us” isn’t Thor and Loki … This is a collective “us.” He’s embraced his status as “The Prince of Asgard” … “I assure you, brother… The sun will shine on [our people] again.” He gave up the tesseract so that Thanos wouldn’t mass murder what was left of the Asgardian race. It broke my heart to see a “New Asgard” exist without him in it. But he died assured his people would survive.

[falling--for--30--minutes]

Grandmaster: I’ve invited you to my private arena... because I crave your attendance in the deadliest game.

Loki, nodding: Knife Twister.

Grandmaster: ...I was actually gonna make you fight for for survival, but now I’m really interested in whatever Knife Twister is.

[lokilesbian]

just because loki has “genius level intellect” according to marvel does not mean he is smart. he is a dumbass. he is smart in a dumbass way. he radiates big dumbass energy

intelligence does not equal not being a dumbass, take it from me

[falling--for--30--minutes]

[worstloki]

It’s canon that Loki carries an assortment of useless and essential stuff in his pocket dimension so whenever anyone asks for a random object there is an 82% chance he can produce it without a second thought

[worstloki]

Thor: well unless I can create an energy source or some sort of generated from these scraps we’re going to die

Loki, taking out a nuclear generator: will this do?

Thor: WHY WOULD YOU- never mind, do you perhaps have a fork? Or something I can eat with?

Loki: who do you think I am to be carrying something as utterly random as that

—-

Thor holding out his hand: give me a skeleton

Loki, holding up two: real or fake?

—-

Loki: [pulls out a helicopter]

Thor: you still have that thing?

[roguecampingrainstorm]

Could he put a living person in that pocket dimension? Seems like it’d be a nice chill spot

[worstloki]

Loki, checking in on his pocket dimension, to see Tony Stark (and his family) chilling at a beach with drinks: h-hEY I was saving that smoothie for later! 

[emeraldspiral]

I like the idea that the pocket dimension is a physical location he can actually enter and bring others to as well. He keeps all his weapons and outfits there and even has a bed and some snacks so he can just stay there as long as he needs to if he’s gotta lie low for a while.

[noodlegodorwhateverthefuck]

When he faked his death on Svartalfheim his soul was just chilling in his pocket dimension

[falling--for--30--minutes]

Everybody who died in the Infinity Saga (not including blip ofc or soul stone sacrifices because that’d create a plot hole unfortunately - trust me i want the back too) isn’t actually dead - they’re just chilling in Loki’s pocket dimension. 

[positively--speculative]

I’ve talked a lot about why I despise interacting with Loki’s “army” with how they have belittled other Loki fans and vilified Taika Waititi (going through such great lengths to do so, I might add), but I don’t think I talk much in length as to why I appreciate and love Ragnarok and its handling of Loki.

I see so much of both who I am and used to be in his character: toxic parents, self-hatred, “scapegoat,” etc. And we see how these things contribute to the bad decisions he makes in Thor and in Avengers. In the past, I’ve said things that hurt other people and I did things that hurt myself. I thought I was in the right. You couldn’t tell me I was wrong. Sound familiar? Even when Thor tried to reason with him in Avengers, he refused to see eye to eye. He was stubborn and self-centered. He continued on with his destructive behavior.

Just to give you all an idea of what I went through before I started to grow, I’ve mentioned before that I’m biracial (Black), and the family I grew up with was mostly white. I was adopted by one Black and one white parent, and the Black side of my family had little influence on me since they lived on the other side of the country. My white parent is very toxic and very anti-Black. I held self-hatred for my “Black side” and grew up listening to microaggressions inflicted on me by white members of my family. I wanted as little to do with my Black side as possible, and when people throw this kind of hatred your way, you start to believe it. Even though I would have never labeled myself as anti-Black back then, I now know that I was. I’m now at a place where I’m learning to love my Blackness and I’m recognizing anti-Blackness and calling it out when I see it, even if it makes the toxic people in my life uncomfortable.

And the thing is, I think a lot of people who hold self-hate for themselves go through a self-destructive stage before they begin to learn the errors in their ways. If you’re like me, it takes someone you have a lot of respect for to call out some behaviors you’re exhibiting, and suddenly, you start reexamining your beliefs and the people in your life. Unfortunately, for Loki, it took the death of his mother in TDW for him to start reexamining his actions (it was he who told his mother’s murderer the best route after all).

What I see in Loki in Ragnarok is a person who is just starting to see the error in his ways and doesn’t quite know where he stands. He’s more awkward and he’s still making questionable decisions, but throughout the movie, I get the impression that he’s at least questioning those questionable decisions. And for the first time, he’s starting not to see his brother (who was just as much a victim of his father’s toxicity as he was) as an enemy anymore. I think what a lot of people in the Loki fandom don’t get is that once you start to get out of a dark place, there is awkwardness. You know you’ve done wrong, and because of this, you know people are right not to completely trust you. Loki has done some pretty unforgivable things, and he knows this. He knows he doesn’t quite fit in with the likes of Thor and company. Loki of 2012 would never dream of teaming up with his brother, but he knows it’s the right thing to do if he wants to save the people of Asgard. So he does it, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes him.

And I think one of the things that makes me so uncomfortable with the fandom’s mischaracterization of him is the fact that they treat anything good he does as a way to erase what he’s done in the past, and as someone who will always be working to become a better person, I know that even though it was the self-hate and privilege talking, the things I’ve said in the past cannot be unsaid. The choices I made to hurt myself cannot be taken back. Those things will always be a part of me. The same could be said for Loki: The words, the betrayal, the harm he has inflicted on other people, and the lies cannot be taken back. Part of becoming a better person, I think, is owning those things, and so many people in his fandom refuse to let him do that. It’s a real shame.

[kitcat-italica]

This is such an incredible insight to the character, about the awkwardness of owning your past mistakes no matter the circumstances you made them in. Loki’s been hiding behind those circumstances for a while now (“I was merely giving truth to the lie I was fed my entire life”, etc.). It’s to the point that he’s started leaning into the victim role to get his way (“I guess I’ll just go it alone…like I’ve always done…”). Even if it’s not a happy role, it can still become comfortable over time. But by Thor refusing to feed into that, it shows Loki that his choices are entirely up to him. We’re all in our own circumstances, and regardless of how shitty they’ve been, as adults we can choose how we respond to them. Loki returning to Asgard in the end is him choosing to define who he is, rather than his past defining it for him.

I think sometimes people just want the original version of the character they first fell in love with. I get that. But there is incredible value in the character through a story arc that shows them evolving and growing, especially in a way that mirrors the awkward development real people sometimes go through to grow past their previous mistakes. To reiterate one of my previous posts, I think sometimes people just pick things to hate rather than letting things be what they are. Ragnarok does some profoundly moving things with Loki (in a comedic film, no less!), but either because the film has more jokes or because a movie called Thor finally gives some more interesting moments to Thor, some people decide to see it as “being disrespectful to Loki” or whatever. Whereas I think it’s quite the opposite.

[street-diaper]

Thor 4 opening scene

thor is washing his fake eyeball in the sink and he drops it and it goes down the drain and he’s just like, “aww shit oh fuckk damn it shit shit shit” and then he just doesn’t have an eye for the rest of the movie

[worstloki]

reblog if you are a shapeshifting snake in disguise, asexual, or want to break free from the immortal prison that is the prophecy that foretells you will end the world

[why-i-love-comics]

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #46 (2019)

written by Ryan North art by Derek Charm & Rico Renzi

[thecarolinitiative]

Another hot take™️

[hxasinthus]

i wish it was 1600 so i cood spelle words howe everr my harte desyred

[holisticfansstuff]

Tags via @aziraphalesbian

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Fpellynge ist opchionayle

[incorrectdeltarunequotes]

Rouxls Kaard

[falling--for--30--minutes]

flyehhth