Russian Black Musings

The schools:

‘…the de facto authorities…’

SAY HAMAS YOU COWARD.

Jabalia is currently under HAMAS control.

HAMAS is robbing the humanitarian efforts and stealing the food. They’ve been doing this all the damn time, and the Gazans themselves have been vocal about it the whole time.

The Qur’ān:

This post is a response to @thegoodduckfan’s question.

It was all in all decent. Here’s a rough breakdown:

It started with explaining why people thought it was and where it does have suspicious similarities, such as certain similarities between charactrs in design and personality (notably the evil wizard vizier, the easily manipulated monarch in white, and the resourceful princess in a skimpy outfit).

On the opposite side, she also went into talking about how there are certain misconceptions that make it look like it’s the case, such as serious reaches made by other YouTubers covering the topic finding very rough similarities, and the fact that the evil vizier is actually a stock character in the 1,001 Nights, so it makes more sense that both videos draw on a common source. She also mentions this one book about the history of Disney (the only source she could find for a particular damning claim) that she used to recommend a few years ago, which implies that there was indeed theft involved, but disavows it, talking about its glaring inaccuracies which are left intact even in its third edition.

She has a long section in the middle talking about what ‘orientalism’ is and how both films were ‘doing a problematic’, addressing the ethnic stereotypes (such as the threat to chop off Jasmine’s hand for theft in Aladdin) and some of the objectification (specifically in TTatC), but it’s still her problematic fave and all that. I suppose it had to be remarked upon, considering her audience. And yes, of course she mentions Edward Said and simps for him.

She actually does address the core issue after that, explaining that while Disney execs did get to see the work made on TTatC, they didn’t just decide to steal the ideas and beat its creator Richard Williams to the punch by releasing their version first, but rather saw that it was going to be hell to finish (because Williams was an unrelenting perfectionist who kept scrapping loads of work for decades) and passed. The actual idea to make Aladdin came from Howard Ashman, who had very obvious different sources of inspiration and had probably never heard of TTatC (she goes on a long tangent about Ashman’s final years and even cries a little).

At the end she says that TTatC was not hampered by Disney, but rather by Williams’ own doing, but he still got a happy ending as a world-class animation professor who wrote the book on the topic and released some top-notch lectures for would-be animators who would otherwise have to pay enormous amounts of money to learn the stale style of CalArts.

All in all, decent video. Made a good case for why the common accusation is wrong, and her tangents were engaging enough.

I still don’t like her.

…and then get shocked at Jews going up the Temple Mount, because that’s where Al-Aqṣā is.

Wired: Semen is stored between your ribs and your spine

(Surah 86:6–7)

Justice for Hind Rajab.

Aw shucks

Yeah we fucking wish like come on Lebanon get your shit together and get rid of those shitty insurgents instead of limp-wristedly letting us do your dirty work for you, our reservists are exhausted and so are their spouses and children

Checkmate losers