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every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

wutheringheightsfilm

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

nourishedbytime

katzell

Thinking about the violence behind the cottagecore sweetness of Witch Hat Atelier’s aesthetic. Cottagecore’s dreamy visions of a depoliticized past exist outside of time and labor and celebrates slow living. It offers a nostalgic alternative to the temporal-spacial collapse of modernity. Of course that appeal often serves deeply conservative movements: Trad wives, nationalist fantasies of some imagined simplistic past, conservative morals fashioned as "family values" and protecting childhood innocence.

And WHT knows that. Its purposeful. This is a story about the literal erasure of cultural memory. A society that hides knowledge and keeps most of its citizens ignorant in order to preserve an idealized vision of society. Everyone with magic speaks earnestly about how committed they are to a life of community service. They talk about the hideous abuses of power in the past that are being avoided by denying access to, in essence, technologies that can change lives. They have locked their society into a specific historic moment rather than letting it live and breathe and meet the needs of the moment. It's not a democratic society. It's a very rigid system with a super powered military with broad judicial authority.

And that is violence. The society built on these conservative principles punishes nonconformity. We see repeatedly how its ablest. We are starting to see how it preserves a highly classed feudal society. It prevents mobility and alternative futures for individuals and the world by hoarding information.

Thematically that gets carried through into various subplots that seem. sweet and benign on the surface but are actually ongoing traumas. The two men who raise the girls cannot be lovers because they are trapped in a horrific world where queer happiness means death and the only solution is the loss of memory. The girls in boarding school are currently being cared for. But systematically we see there is widespread abuse in separating children from their parents and having them apprentice far away from home.

Of course there are more complicated narrative explanations for these plot points. But I love how these themes subvert the artistic style and trouble fantasy.

Which is all to say I think the story is headed into a more fraught engagement with repeated time. It started in the last arc where you could turn back events by one day. But that suggests that more time can, and likely has been turned back before.

Speculation...There is a whole group of people who see Coco as a savior. Maybe she's tried to save them before and each time the clock gets wound back and everyone forgets. The Brimhats are trying to speed time up through their tests. They are trying to kickstart something. It's a fantasy world so maybe we are dealing with a chosen one, child of prophecy arc. But I'm getting Diana Wynne Jones Archer's Goon vibes from this.

#witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers

thelioninmybed

I used to be kind of down on Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen - unlike the main series, it's all fluff no crunch, and the conceit that Qifrey is teaching the kids as well as doing all the housekeeping, growing a good portion of their own food, cooking three very elabourate meals every day AND looking pretty and waifish while doing it felt about as plausible as a tradwife's tiktok.

Like, realistically, trying to live like that would be abject, unrelenting misery. You'd be constantly exhausted. You'd never be able to relax. It would be a hell of his own making.

So happy to learn this is not a bug but a feature 🥰

#witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers

daveedmee

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

interestingmistakes

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

thehmn

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

crabs-and-bedbugs

It was a global problem

houndmother

once you start learning about indigenous history. you cant help but want to abolish the nation of canada.

houndmother

NOT that the usa is any better. im just specifically reading abt the Métis, Inuit, and first nations peoples rn

rockytheeridian

(insp.)

weirdbeesart

Don't let me do this.

#witch hat atelier spoilers #witch hat atelier

thelioninmybed

Witch Hat Atelier, but instead of being about a cute little witch who lives in the mountains, it's about a middle-aged alcoholic tormented by a relationship he can't remembe-

FUCK post cancelled

#harry dubois and olruggio spiderman pointing meme #witch hat atelier #disco elysium #witch hat atelier spoilers

innerchildabortionclinic

PARENT: I got "rubber duck" for my child's "bath" and she loves it.

AUTISM RESPONSE: Rubber ducks and other rubber bath toys can accumulate mold on the inside because of small holes underneath where moisture becomes trapped. The mold often goes unnoticed because it's not visible from the outside.

CORRECT RESPONSE(?): That's nice, I am unaware of how mold could impact this situation.

innerchildabortionclinic

Customer: Forgot to put my orange juice on the conveyer belt.

PENDING RESPONSE: That particular brand is currently being sued for sanitation issues in its factory the next town over

IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION⚠️: A grocery store cashier is supposed to successfully sell items to "customer"

#disco elysium vibes

mxjackparker

Sometimes homeless people will be off-putting and rude and demand more of your attention than you're comfortable giving. I promise you, if you had to deal with a fraction of what they do on a daily basis, you'd become off-putting too. Sit with your discomfort and direct your anger at the systems which made them homeless, not at the person in front of you who is struggling.