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Our Happy Ending analysis!!!

Let’s go!!!

#Our happy ending #pjsk #Emu otori #This took ages I am tagging it.#Wonderlands x showtime #wxs #project sekai #Event analysis

Javier - an Observation #02

I'm not sure what I'm hoping to achieve with these observations. I just want to talk about them, feel free to discuss it further or correct me if I missed something!

This observation contains: Chapter 5 spoilers, Injury analysis, Blood

Everything is below the cut~!

#Javier Escuella #Javier Observation #Daily-Escuella #Guarma #Screenshots #character analysis #Event analysis #chapter 5 spoilers #unnecessary deep(ish) dive #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #escuella #cw blood #cw injury

> just a little spiel about how much i love dsmp lore

every day i think about the disc war finale and bawl my eyes out. GOD it was so good. we were all expecting c!tommy or c!tubbo to die or be locked in prison but no. no, the manipulative c!dream got locked away and then vilbur came back just briefly to say he was PROUD of tommy. LIKE. DUDE. he was PROUD of him. after everything that happened with l’manberg, manberg, and pogtopia, he finally expressed positive outward emotion towards tommy.

ALSO there’s such banger lines holy-

of course the ICONIC “what am i without you?” “yourself.”

but also dream’s “you’re just a pawn”, tommy’s “i’m your sidekick”, and tubbo’s entire chess analogy “this is checkmate. i suggest you resign.” gahhhhhh.

as a viewer, i felt actual fear when they were all up on that mountain. dream’s “put your items in the hole, tommy” gave me goosebumps.

and the idea of attachment being brought into everything was wonderful. that vault with all of the item frames for everyone’s most cherished and valuable possessions ohhhhh my gosh. it demonstrates super well c!dream’s desire for power above all else and just how much he distanced himself from everything he ever loved or cared about (i.e. spirit, george, sapnap, etc.). it showed how little humanity he really has left and how it supports his willingness to hurt others for personal gain.

broooo and the retribution tommy served was SO satisfying to watch. seeing him take not one but two of dream’s canon lives was freeing after going through exile and trauma after trauma. (not to mention the way he made dream put his items in a pit)

but the part that really gets me is that the thing that kept tommy from taking that last final life was the slimmest possibility of bringing wilbur back to life. of course, it’s sad thinking about it now that this small salvation- keeping dream alive but in prison- inadvertently brought about tommy’s own death, but it also means so much more than that. it means tommy still had hope. after EVERYTHING. it means he wanted wilbur back, despite all odds. the reason for it is a little unclear. perhaps it was simply missing wilbur’s presence. perhaps it was because tommy was unsure of himself and wanted a familiar guide. or perhaps it was because wilbur’s death truly was that final divide between Before and After on the server and that maybe- just maybe reviving him would let tommy feel free. like he could have a childhood full of camarvans and pranks instead of war and abandonment. to have him back, just once more. another chance.

“i’m proud of you tommy. i’m proud of you.”

#dream #tommy #tubbo #wilbur soot #character analysis #event analysis #dream smp #dream smp lore #i wrote this all at once and i'm not gonna reread it #sorry for any typos haha

// spoilers for recent ranboo stream!!

// mentions of torture

ok, theory here for ranboo’s mix between the :] and :) faces for the endscreen. we already know that the :] is connected to the inbetween, but it also is a common way of depicting quackity throughout lore. i think that maybe ranboo’s end screen shifted more to a purple :] to show the effects that quackity’s torture has had on dream, which in turn shifts the effects to ranboo. also, almost all of quackity’s promotional art for his lore streams have had purple symbolism in them, which could explain the color change from white to purple in the smile.

just my thoughts, though! who knows, it could very well be about the inbetween as well!

#tw spoilers #mcyt #mcyt theory #dsmp #dsmp theory #dsmp lore #ranboo #dream #quackity #event analysis #tw torture

Event Analysis

Titanic Event Analysis project

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Analysis of the July 2016 Attempt of Coup D’état in Turkey

Merriam-Webster defines coup’détat as a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics, typically the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group. On July 15th, 2016 the Republic of Turkey saw an attempted coup’détat by a section of the Turkish military. Had they been successful, this would have been the fourth coup’détat of the Turkish state since the inception of the nation. It has been alleged that had the attack been led by more senior ranking officials, as opposed to mid-level officials, the attack may have had a higher chance of success. This coordinated attack was launched in several of Turkey’s major cities in attempt to collapse the government and throw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan out of power. At the time of the attempted coup, President Erdogan was on vacation; the military used this to their advantage, taking control of many media outlets, the airport in Istanbul, as well as some strategic bridges. However, the military was unable to take control of all media outlets, allowing Erdogan to use social media as a means of sending a message to this supporters; Erdogan encouraged his supporters to take to the streets and fight back against these armed, fighting forces. As we saw in Donald Trump, American Populism and Affective Media, Erdogan was able to use affective media to rally his supporters to fight for the sake and well-being of the state; he was also able to use affective media after the fact as well as a means of showing the unity of the people through photographs captured throughout the course of the coup.

To put things into perspective, upon the foundation of the Republic of Turkey on October 29th, 1923, an Ottoman military leader by the name of Mustafa Kemal (later Mustafa Kemal Ataturk) was elected as the first president of the new nation. Ataturk was president for 15 years until his death in 1938, bringing with him a wide range of reforms in the political, social, legal, economic, and cultural spheres. Ataturk created a new political and legal system based on principles of parliamentary democracy, with one of his main stressor points being secularizing the nation. Under Ataturk’s leadership, religion and state affairs were separated, with a secular education system being established and both the Sultanate and Caliphate positions being abolished. A secularized state was very new to the Republic of Turkey, and those who held the Ottoman Empire near and dear to their hearts had a difficult time adapting. Rural areas were far less accepting of a secular state than those in urban areas.

The Turkish military was entrusted with upholding and protecting the principles of Kemalism, in large part the notion of the Turkish secular state, and was given the ability to intervene in the government if these principles became at risk. Since the rise of Islamist political parties in the Turkish state, beginning in the late 1960s through to the early 1970s, the military has had to do just that and step in several times. In 2008, the Turkish military went before the Constitutional Court stating that the AKP had an anti-secular agenda, and while funding was cut for the party, they were allowed to survive. Following this, Erdogan upped his game and made constitutional changes that reduced the country’s military influence.

The attempted coup’détat in the summer of 2016 was not the first the state saw of political unrest; in the summer of 2013 the government was faced with many protests by its citizens who felt frustrated with the AKP’s disregard for environmental issues, mistreatment of ethnic and sexual minorities, and the government’s continued moves towards authoritarian leadership. The government did not legitimize their concerns and used police brutality to fight back against the people. However, on the night of the coup’détat, many regular citizens took to the streets fighting side by side with loyalists soldiers and the police force, some of these citizens armed with no more than kitchen utensils, helping to defeat the attempted coup in a matter of hours (aljazeera). While victory was had by the Turkish government, many were injured and lives were lost, with 241 losing their lives and over 2,000 being injured.

In the years following the coup several theories of who’s to blame have floated around. Erdogan and his government place the blame on Fetullah Gulen, a Turkish preacher and businessman. Gulen has lived in the United States, and still does, in exile, and though Erdogan has requested that Gulen be extradited, the United States has refused saying evidence against him is not sufficient. While Gulen had once been a close ally of Erdogan and the AKP party, the relationship dissolved following incidents in the late 2000s into the early 2010s, such as a corruption investigation that saw AKP businessmen arrested by Gulenist police officers; from this point forward the AKP worked to eradicate Gulen and his followers. The Turkish government stands by the claim that the coup was launched due to the Gulenists allegedly being concerned that a government investigation into their illegal actions would lead to their arrest, however, Gulen denies him and his followers had any part in the attempted coup. Gulen claims that Erdogan orchestrated the coup himself as a means of building up a dictatorship with himself as leader...claims he has continually denied. In the days following the coup, a national state of emergency was put into effect, carrying on throughout the remainder of the year. Al Jazeera news states “As of today, more than 100,000 people have been sacked or suspended and 50,000 arrested in an unprecedented crackdown. The government has deemed the crackdown necessary to ‘root out all coup supporters from the state apparatus,’”. Erdogan demonstrates how media can be an abrasive force that has the ability to threaten and alter the political sphere through the censorship that he enforces; Erdogan and the AKP give their opposition as well as topics they are not fond of very little air time, and those in opposition are frequently persecuted for their beliefs.

The attempted coup’détat by the military was a turning point for the Republic of Turkey, giving President Erdogan the justification he was looking for to further enhance his influence and power over the Turkish state. While Erdogan and the AKP party won their way into office democratically, as their years in power began to drag on, a shift towards authoritarianism began to become overwhelmingly apparent. Erdogan’s ability to rally the people using social media to come to the aid of the Turkish state perfectly exemplifies the populist grasp he and his party have on the nation; while support for Erdogan has begun to sway more severely in recent months, support for him and the AKP was all that was needed to bring the attempted coup crumbling to the ground. Erdogan used the coup and the support he received during it to push for a more authoritarian state; the backing he was able to gather through democratic elections and prior populist actions allowed him to have enough control and influence over the state allowed for this.

#event analysis #turkey #CMN 772 #politics #coup d'etat #july 2016 #populism

yes yes yes, there is a home for this! Earth and Activism and Spirit orbit with Starhawk and the Earth Activist Training Permaculture-Palooza

there is a home for this! yay yay yay! those words kept landing with a thud in my stomach throughout the 2 weeks of Earth Activist Training. They landed like comfort, like warm tea on a cold day. Mmmmm, relax, spread out, there's a home for this and you're inside it. I've had a funny hunch that permaculture is an important lens for me. I've worktraded on permaculture sites, tried (unsuccessfully... so far) to get permaculture classes started, written articles about queer permaculture (more on that some other time). But honestly it was all a hunch - my own experience was my greatest proof that permaculture and real liberatory social justice are one in the same. we can talk about composting our poop into fertile soil one moment and then discuss effective methods of direct action the next? we can talk about dealing with police brutality in the same breath as rainwater harvesting? oh wow oh wow yes! Starhawk's E.A.T. course, which she taught with Charles Williams, is freaking amazing. As she went over the syllabus each item lodged itself in another nook of my brain, found a fold yearning for exactly that flavor to chew on. There was already space for this knowledge, all i needed was the content to fill in the corners and expand the edges of this now-huge space. this approach to permaculture constantly examines the human relationships that go down alongside the earth sustainability work. we spent 2 nights talking about non-hierarchical organizing and methods to make a meeting functional fun and effective. we talked about magical activism. baby we even devised some magical activism. On the activism front, this shit is potent. After so much analysis, heartache and headbreak over Occupy, I came to quite a few conclusions about what makes organizing work. It all aligns with permaculture principles. Observe first. Value the marginal, the edges, those with less power. Form coalitions that can thrive autonomously, not with constant leadership from outside. I could go on. Permaculture extends these ideas into physical realities. It explains through a lens of natural systems that makes these abstract concepts so much more tenable. Diversity isn't just a cute thing people think theyre supposed to want. it is the core essential necessity of a healthy reality. Blam. If you look at something as if it's a problem, it will stay a problem. if you look at something as if it's information, than it's a solution. Blam. Also, the intergenerationality of the group was as important as the course content. I have been hungering for relationship with my elders. Here i found many generations interwoven and conscious of how important this fabric is for any future progress. We talked about the struggle to expand the narrowing confines of gender binaries, how to talk about a goddess who is not only a goddess, what earlier feminist movements have to teach youth today and what healing needs to take place. Many new questions, and damn it felt good to sit with people who aren't within 15 years of my age. Permaculture is as ancient as humanity. This word encapsulates a whole history of people living together with the earth. These past 2 weeks I felt for the first time that I was honoring the ancestors and indigenous peoples of this land in a way that was authentic and active, not guilt-ridden and defeated. this is the beginning of something. Spirit and magic can be manifested and harnessed to increase human capacity for love and creativity. this is no joke, no subtle thing. This is the power ritual holds for the transformation of life. I'm telling ya. I've held such a distance between myself and spirituality for so long, the vestiges of scientific conditioning clinging to me and hissing "that doesn't make sense!". But here i found that the things that inspire me about science can be the wellspring from which my spirituality gushes - i can marvel at cells and water and star dust and pound the earth in ecstatic frothing. Woopee!

#feminism #earth justice #permaculture #event analysis #community #education #paganism #cultural appropriation #intergeneration

O.U.R.Ecovillage: Kids Camp!

I got a call Saturday night, 9pm, 2 weeks ago. Brandy said "the person who was supposed to be running kids camp on monday cant anymore. If you still want to do work-trade for the E.A.T. course, can you come out? tomorrow?"

GUH. I ran home, hyperventilating and sweating. I had applied months earlier to do work trade at OUR Ecovillage for the EAT Course. EAT = Earth Activist Training, and it is the Permaculture Design Certificate course that Starhawk started and teachers. Why was i so rabid for this course? instead of re-capturing how i had been feeling, heres the blurb i sent my new permaculture friend Nicole in the UK describing my desires (sent months ago) : "I am hungry for all permaculture skills (I have a lot of experience with natural building, composting toilets, and rainwater catchment systems, less experience with gardening), but what I'm looking for specifically is a permaculture practice that places social justice at the center of the work. I am very interested in permaculture as a lens on liberation. I am a queer, feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist individual, and all of these things are very tied in to permaculture for me. I believe that permaculture has the ability to transform how people organize, how we create self-sufficient alternatives to dominant structures, how we achieve liberation of oppressed people, and how we shift activism from an "anti-domination" stance to a "pro-liberation" stance. To me the domination of women, of queers, of people of color, and of the earth are all part of the same nasty mindset. I am most interested in projects that have strong racial, gender, and economic diversity. I'm super excited about learning from women and transfolk." So basically i was searching for permaculture that had social justice at its core. i searched and searched, but was having a surprisingly hard time actually finding groups that were doing this work. lots of people sprinkle it on top, but really focusing on social permaculture? it was often an afterthought. Starhawk is one of the founders of Eco-Feminism and modern Paganism; she is a huge social justice activist and one of the most important nonviolence advocates, particularly during the anti-nuclear movement of the 90s.nAnd I didn't know this at the time, but she's also super involved with, basically, organizational theory. How groups of people work. What sort of organizing is empowering, inspires action. What meetings make us sing and what meetings make us glaze over. How to achieve non-hierarchy, easier said than done. And ths is basically all of the stuff i think about all the damn time (thus, this blog.) Social Permaculture. give it to me. ok ok ok ok ok okok okokokokokokokokok, there needs to be more conversation about this class, which actually started a week ago. Spirituality, building, solutions, direction, acceptance, expansiveness, ritual, forgiveness, coalescence, magic, challenge, etc etc all come to mind. seriously folks, this shit is poppin off and we gotta chat. but for now, let's get back to that phone call. Basically, it was ridiculous and meant taking a plane, but i couldn't turn away from this. i had been holding this in my heart for months. i found out a had a bunch of miles that would expire unless i used them, and on monday morning i was on a 6am plan bound for Victoria, BC, Canada. Tuesday morning, Kids Camp! began!

and it was great. no one involved knew they would be earlier than the thursday before it started (thats 4 days). there were 16 kids, ages 5-10. 3 counselors. Us counselors joked often about how crazy it all was - all thrown into it, no schedule, everything and i mean just about everything off the cuff. but the kids were so creative and amazing, kind and ready to learn. and this place, this place. this place is an endless well of fun stuff to do, cause guess what, that's what happens when communities come together and decide to do stuff. this ecovillage is full of projects, from farm work and animal care to building with mud and clay and making your own butter and wandering in the woods. we actually pulled it off because the community held space for the kids, because us counselors were badass at checking in about each others needs and boundaries, and because this sort of place is ripe with spaces to learn. oh, and mostly cause the kids were amazing. if anything our realization that it was actually chaotic was the most negative part of kids camp, cause the actual days went very well. it's a funny thing. Brandy, the director of OUR Ecovillage, kind of irresponsibly dumped a huge load on 3 unknowing people, assuming theyd figure it out. And we grumbled that it was irresponsible, but you know what? She was right. We figured it out. And it was great. Learning can be funny.

#permaculture #event analysis #community #intergeneration