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Hey gang, can we recenter Lasan as an atrocity that happened to ZEB instead of a regret that KAALLUS gets to feel bad about??
There is obviously room for nuanced conversation about how each of them interact with the Massacre of Lasan post Kallus' defection / post Lira San move, but it is-- quite frankly-- not only tired but deeply disheartening and downright IRRITATING to read posts that forego ALL of that nuance in order to use Lasan as leverage to give Kallus an excuse to wallow in his own pity. I find it very unsettling to read or see things that imply that Zeb is "over Lasan," or "fully healed," because that is such an unfortunate mirror to how actual minorities in the real world are expected to CONSTANTLY be the bigger person and just "get over" their historical and continued oppression.
I dont want to make it sound like Im trying to be The Kalluzeb Police, but I think that conversations revolving around Lasan should be far more centered on the person who's life was stripped away, as opposed to the person who had to atone for it, just as I think those conversations should be centered in real life. I find it deeply tonedeaf to imply that Lasan was an atrocity that Zeb, a character coded to be anything BUT white, would be able to "get over," ESPECIALLY when there are global conflicts taking place-- currently, right now, in the modern day-- that ARE destroying peoples homes, livlihoods, and lives. With that, I double dislike when that "Zeb is over it" rhetoric is used to create a scenario where Kallus' feelings about Lasan are ALSO boiled down, and are made into something akin to white guilt that he ends up coddled by Zeb for having.
AGAIN, I dont want to sound like I am trying to be like Holier Than Thou, cause I'm really not trying to be, like I want all of us to be able to have fun playing with our dolls. With that, i want to make it clearly obvious that I understand that Zeb and Kallus are not real people who we can like genuinely offend, but I want to point out that they exist as allorgories for real people, and real atrocities. Again, play with your dolls, have fun, that's what fandom is for! Its just that sometimes when your dolls are addressing atrocities that happen in the real world to indiginous communities and people of color, its important to remember that nothing exists in a vaccuum, and the ways in which we talk about these characters and their experiences with war, trauma, and loss are going to be a reflection of how we are perceiving the world around us.
Im sorry, but the idea that Zeb is "over" Lasan, an event that ripped his entire life away from him, while Kallus is not? I dont think that's a fair assessment to apply to either of their characters, and I think its equally-- if not moreso-- unfair to any people of color who interact with this community to be put in a space where Zeb is being written to "get over it" for a white mans sake.
I just think it's point blank WEIRD to be centering a man who participated in a genocide rather than the man who survived it.
Hello my friend,
My name is Mahmoud. I live in Gaza with my family, and we are going through a very difficult financial situation. I tried to create a donation link for my family, but I couldn't find someone to help organize and manage the campaign 🥺💔So my friend Ahmed decided to support me by sharing his own family’s donation link, and we agreed to split the donations between our two families.
Right now, we have almost no food, and the cost of living has become unbearable due to the siege, soaring prices, and the closure of all crossings.Everything has doubled in price in an unimaginable way 🥲🥺
We might be forced to flee to southern Gaza after the announcement of a full invasion of Gaza City 💔
The bombing and destruction never stop — not for a single moment. There is no longer any real life in Gaza. We are just struggling to survive, trying to secure the bare minimum: water and food.
Winter is coming, and we have no winter clothing after our home was destroyed and we were displaced multiple times 😭🥲Please, we urgently need financial help to buy food and store some in case the situation worsens.
This is our donation link.
Please remember: donations are shared between two families. So, for the sake of God, help us, my friend. Save our children, my younger siblings, my parents, and even my older siblings — we are all homeless and hungry 🥺🥲💔
My Story: From the Hell of War to the Search for Safety My name is Ahmed, a 20-year-old young man from Gaza. Since the war began, my life ha
This piece is so old I can literally hear it crunch under the weight of its age
But I never posted it anywhere and figured ‘what the hell, might as well’
all women should be more hairy and sweaty and eat more food and laugh more loudly. my stance as a feminist and also my stance as a lesbian pervert
#1 daughter #1 dad
"Jaybin was the angry robin who constantly questioned batman" "jaybin was the happy robin" jaybin was a kid with emotions likely trying to cope with unprocessed trauma. Jason only really lost his shit/ questioned batmans morals on cases involving SA. That was a very common thread in jaybin stories written by starlin, who was trying to make jaybin seem reckless and irrationally angry by *checks notes* making him be upset over sexual assault. Death of the author applies so much here because I genuinely cant see how you can read these stories now and not side with jason
Btw the beaten up pimp was threatening to cut this woman up just after the Dumpster Slasher’s acquittal.
Either he heard about the acquittal and felt emboldened by it, or he was familiar with how long the Dumpster Slasher had been active and took inspiration to terrify her. If I were Jason standing right there, yeah I’d want to pummel him too.
One for baby Jay
Introducing new fans to Star Wars: Rebels
Editing my son to make him strawberry-blonde for my satisfaction alone
Dnd beyond has seriously got to make it that owning the physical copy of a book means you can access the content online too, this shits ridiculous
Eeyyyy, its his birthday!!! :p
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Roughly where I imagine the districts to be
Improved version
Roughly where I imagine the districts to be
Improved version here
Mr. Bennet: Sure, I haven't taken care of my daughters' financial security, but have I at least taken care of their education? No. But have I taken care of their emotional needs? Also no. But have I been a good protector and supervisor? I'm afraid not. However, have I been a good example for my children of being a kind and respectful spouse, parent, and all around human being? No again. But through it all, have I nailed being funny? Yes. And isn't that the most important role of a father after all?
one of the most painful things about reading jaybin-era comics is how every like three issues includes a moment where bruce says something like "my worst fear is jason dying. yep, out of everything in this world i'm afraid of--which is a lot!--my greatest fear is losing my beloved son, jason. i sure hope that nothing ever happens to jason peter todd, my son who i love so much."
thinking about the moment in the "jason gets taken by CPS arc" where jason (who's been sneaking out of his foster home to crimefight with bruce at night) says "at least we can be together as batman and robin" and bruce replies "it's not enough, son." thinking about the issue where jason gets shot by mad hatter and bruce has to rush him to leslie for treatment, and as soon as jason wakes up bruce rushes over and kneels next to him and strokes his hair and tells jason that he never has to go out as robin again. thinking about the issue where jason wakes up screaming from a nightmare and bruce (and alfred!) immediately rush in to comfort him in a way that suggests they've done this before. thinking about the issue in the aforementioned CPS arc where bruce summons his entire legal team and tells them that he will pay literally any amount of money to get jason back, that every material item he owns is worthless to him compared to having jason returned to his custody. thinking about how in that same issue when jason first got taken away bruce, by how own admission, spent a solid hour crying. thinking about THIS