we don't do anything with dignity

Julien Occtis and Thimble wearing matching shirts that say “I went to the backrooms under Obrimus Manor and all I got was this stupid t-shirt”

actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now

"but they support [dictator] and [violent action]!" okay is it possible that a combination of propaganda, election rigging, and authoritarian crackdowns on dissent could lead a population to look like it supports something most people would find distasteful under more reasonable circumstances

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as I queer Native also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

Loving this philosophical concept between Alphonse and Caguama. Caguama wants to cure/heal the Umbra and bring back the light and life seen in the old world, and approached fighting the Tatcha as means to bring back some of that light by healing the creature. Alphonse though, sees the result of the old world falling after the gods abandoned it and doesn't see anything worth trying to salvage, since it was the choices of the old world that led to that. He sees the corrupted beings of the Umbra as lost forever and thusly in need of being destroyed to protect those still left. They both want to do best by the Enduring living in the Halcyon Domain, but fundamentally disagree on what the best way to do that is