Worldbuilding tip for aspiring fantasy authors! Give that swordsman a bigger ass

That is the exact reason I made this post, hell yeah

Lmfao

These carne asada tacos from Germany....

SHE'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

Also, a lot of the so called harmless examples used for peaceful protests were specifically supposed to be disruptive as all hell. Like, take sit-ins, for example. What you were probably told is that black people just refused to leave white only establishments to make a point.

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.

Even what was framed as "quiet peaceful protest" was actually very disruptive both socially and economically.

Does this look quiet, peaceful, nondisruptive?

And the struggle didn't stop after formal integration, once the Civil Rights act had passed. Because even when they are legally required to serve you, they can make you really fucking uncomfortable and threaten you and the cops probably will take their side.

For one example, there was a cafe that would serve Black people, but would then publicly break the dishes so that no white customer would ever have to eat off a dish a Black person had eaten off of. This was done publicly, right as the Black diner was done eating. The waitress takes the plate and smashes it. This is a signal both to the white diners "see, we hate them just as much as you do, you're safe here" and also a threat of violence to the Black diners. "If you're not careful we'll smash you just like we did this plate."

But at the same time, if Black people go there and eat every day ... how long before the cafe can't afford to do that? How long before they have broken so many dishes that it's eating into their profits? How long before the white diners start getting used to eating alongside Black people and simply don't care as much any longer, or start getting annoyed at the noise and fuss and mess?

Black people eating in white establishments was loud, inconvenient, and disruptive. Because that's the nature of challenging the status quo.

I’m gonna go back to OP’s line about “quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism.”

Jesus rather famously physically attacked people in a temple

That “turn the other cheek” bit was a “hit me again you coward, or else you acknowledge us as equals” in its cultural context

Like a lot of his activism was passive aggressive at minimum

I don’t think the guy was holy. He didn’t need to be to start a movement. But it’s kinda interesting to me that this kind of in-your-face disruptive activism has been erased to something softer and “christ-like” even when it’s literally stories about christ

I wonder who benefits from reinforcing the idea that the best way to change things is to politely ask the people in power and stop when they get annoyed

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I am architecture

OUR COUSIN MADE IT TO THE NFL

This your cousin? What team is he in?

Our cousin

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love House MD because House is the MAIN CHARACTER at that hospital and there's no attempt to hide this. as the viewer you are fully aware that those nurses in the elevator are just extras. the boss's entire schedule consists of yelling at him. the head of oncology would rather prescribe him controlled meds and flirt than practice oncology. his team's only desires are to fuck him and strangle him, often at the same time. every other doctor at the hospital might as well be a cardboard cutout.

the walls are glass, the better to see him through. he limps around, commits malpractice, and serves cunt.

long live mid-2000s TV.

show of all times

k2 is so funny i hope she's here forever

I love this little extra comic.

Because at first you're like:

"Awwwww, even Senshi offered to help with the cookies, that's so nice of hi..."

And then it dawns on you: Senshi is there.

It's post-canon. Where's Kabru in this scenario? He's literally stuck to Laios' side at all times as his advisor? He's not participating in "Let's make sure Laios isn't fumbling White Day" party? Essentially a group-bonding exersize?

Unless he's the only person on earth that literally cannot remind Laios. Since, you know, Kabru gave Laios those valentines chocolates and it would be extemely inappropriate for him specifically to be reminding Laios about the white day.

Mystery solved. Everything makes sence now. Good comic.

i think about this scene a lot and every time it’s so fucking funny

me, just now: what's the opposite of fomo? like you're glad it's happening but ultimately you're glad you went home? happiness of missing out? homo???

Definitely homo

mooom they’re putting curses on me on the internet again

Disco Elysium cityscape painting

we really went from "women and girls can do anything" to im just a girl i only do girl math im a passenger princess i dont drive i dont eat i just do haha girl dinner im so sillyyyy i wear makeup bc i want to i also try and define all women into categories that are marketable omg what if we were just girls and we were so useless and helpless

also if anyone wants to do some reading about this, it's a genuine phenomenon that occurs within most counter cultures. the main hegemony (capitalism) absorbs any part of the movement, and makes it something that can't cause harm to the existing power.

so yes, these quips start off as jokes, but if jokes weren't impactful then we wouldn't have spent so much time criminializing comedians, historically.

louis althusser came up with the idea of ideological state apparatuses, and there's an explanation of it here. it shows how we are systematically programmed through multiple facets of our everyday life.

these are my own notes about hegemonies

theres also this amazing excerpt from this pdf about counter culture being absorbed back into the dominant culture, which is capitalism

I'd also like to point out that interpellation is why all of those debates about who is "punk" or not are so futile. Because "punk" has long since become just another market segment.