a blade of kindness

i know i said i did not want to talk about the nolan odyssey but i do have one more nodyssey post in me. i actually think the idea of odysseus understanding his story as existing both in and out of a historic timeframe is a fun way to handle the liminality caused by the story being part of an extensive oral tradition. however having him say "our age of bronze is collapsing" is perhaps not the way i would have done that

people always picture themselves as having been a sperm cell but never an egg cell. you are forgetting the other half

marcille is NOT an animal crossing cozy gamer girl she is a fucking spreadsheet warrior. maybe she plays stardew valley but she runs that farm like the navy

SAD! fandom treats man-hating lesbian who canonically encourages the men around her to transition into women as a TERF instead of writing a shit ton of forcefem porn

certainly there are more of them now than there have ever been but it's crazy how "annoying dude who thinks he's just like the romans" has been an unfortunately common Type of Guy for well over a millennium

well personally I think that the USA's actions towards japan during and after WW2 was genocidal too and it brings home the point that the Western colonial powers also saw asians as subhumans and acted as such even as they fought against Japanese imperialism but apparently seeing the racism in how white ppl acted towards even the Evil Asians (tm) is neonazism

after dropping both of the worst weapons that causes literal generational harm in all of human history upon a people that's never been used in war again: if you talk about this in catastrophic terms that it deserves to be talked about you're one of the worst reactionaries on this planet.

ramen, as we understand the food form, was created because the USA enaged a starvation campaign via control of food supply upon a populace that had already unconditionally surrendered due to the aforementioned weapon but sure there was no state-led policy of killing off the people who had no intention of fighting back.

the only reason you'd defend the USA occupational force's treatment of the Japanese people is if you believe in collective punishment (in it of itself a genocide tactic) but, well, as someone who's not a frothing at their mouth racist, I just do not believe in genocidal justifications for a genocide tactic!

I do feel the need to point out, the US dropped nukes on a country that was already ready to surrender because Japan knew at the time that they couldnt actually fight off both a USSR and US invasion and wanted to surrender to the US becuase they felt it preferable to surrendering to the soviets. And that the target of the US nukes were on purely civilian targets.