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Life has been a bitch lately but goth family always got my back

#one piece

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blithe-bee

thinking about them

#one piece

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birdofmay

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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cristalplanetheart

carrotcouple

In the time that I've been gone from Tumblr. Like what's it been? Five years? More than that? I've become a full fledged One Piece fan (I always was but now there is so much Luffy shaped merch I own I think at some point he'll take over my room and kick me and my roommate out). And I've started playing genshin impact. And it's like I know I know, Sunny is playing Genshin Impact oh my God another of the good ones bites the dust.

Regardless of anyone's opinion on Genshin I've been having fun. And I want to talk about One Piece more (but I'm actually writing a full blown in depth essay about how One Piece quite literally saved my life - I know sounds cheesy but I promise it's important). Anyways not the point. Right now I'm going on a rant about Wanderer/Scaramouche from Genshin Impact.

Why? Because it's 1 am and I'm insane at this time of the night. And also because it's been a long fucking while since I've not only related to a character this hard but have felt physically in pain when I think about what a fictional character has gone through. (This post is totally not sparked by my wife sending me art of Scara dangling from Shouki no Kami).

The absolutely gut wrenching amounts of emotions when I think about him, man. I've been thinking a lot about his likely gender dysphoria, his body dysphoria in general, the way he views himself, the way he views others, his concept of self worth.

I've been thinking about the evil so many people say he's committed but they will write off the evil of others because THEY'RE NOT HUMAN THEY CAN'T BE JUDGED BY HUMAN STANDARDS. Well neither can he. Not to say he hasn't committed atrocities. But the double standard y'all.

The way losing people important to him nearly destroyed him and forced him to recreate himself.

The way he strived to become something of worth, to live up to expectations that people long believed he had failed. And yet he tried. And yet he still failed.

Because he was always perfect as he was. He didn't need to live up to a standard that someone else set for him and then decided he was unworthy of it without even staying to watch.

It's like looking into a mirror. It's awful. I hate it. I love him.

This post has already become incredibly personal but! It's 1:30 am and I am not going to tag anything fandom related. If you've seen what I'm trying to say, good for you. If you haven't. Well I'm not gonna explain it.

Eventually the One Piece essay will get here and I'll have dumped out my whole heart and stomach and liver and intestines into that essay for the whole world to see.

Until then, this is it for crazy and uncomfortably personal 1:30 am rambling.

#sunny rambles #personal #ofc I'm not saying I'm identical to him #but like he's me but the intensity of his experiences #got magnified by like #100%

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sajou-rihito

crimethinc

“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”

Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.

determinate-negation

since the white house put out a ridiculous statement condemning the protests i want to reiterate again that many of the students involved are jewish, there has always been a large jewish presence at these protests in nyc and in campus organizing for palestine

carrotcouple

He feels like a stranger in his own skin.

A funny thing to say when he doesn't have real skin. Puppet parts locked together to appear human.

But maybe that's the point. He isn't human and that's why his entire being is unnatural.

Fingers trace against his back, slipping into cracked holes that were sockets for something that should have turned him into something that felt right.

It failed. He was never meant to feel safe.

He was always meant to feel like he was disconnected from his shell, like a specimen on the doctor's table to be taken apart and put back together as the doctor wished.

He was always meant to fail to be what we was created for, called useless by his mother and have his dreams stolen by others.

He was always meant to feel like he doesn't fall in line. Deciding to be a person that he was not meant to be. And no matter how hard he tries he will never quite feel like that person.

He dips his fingers into the cracks of his arm and face, knowing that no matter what he'll do, he'll always be...

Not himself.

#sunny writes #genshin impact #wanderer #scaramouche #I think a lot about Scara's gender and body dysphoria in general #it must be so weird for him sometimes #it might not have bothered him at first #but along with his absolute confusion about death #because he's a puppet #and therefore considering it a betrayal #i figured it most be so weird for him sometimes #to not have someone to relate to #about how he's just very obviously not human #probably not traditionally a man either #if you think about it #unless ei was specifically creating a male proxy for herself #Scara as a puppet should have. created as a more feminine model #or a genderless one #in which case he decided to be male presenting #and then aside from all that #how do you come to terms with #yeah my arm fell off but it's fine #it hurts like i actually lost a limb but I'll have #the creepy doctor who tortures me and experiments on me #put it back on #what do you mean you can't do the same #like how strange it must be for him as a puppet #to just kinda live and not fit into his own skin #because he wants to be a man #because he wants to be human

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dammitangel

taviamoth

🚨 Students at Harvard University launched an encampment in support of Gaza in Harvard Yard moments ago, calling for an end to Harvard's moral and material complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

Harvard has invested over $200 million of its over $51 billion endowment in companies with ties to zionist settlements in the West Bank, while most of its investments to the zionist entity are kept secret.

The students are demanding financial transparency regarding investments related to the zionist entity, as well as genocide and occupation in Palestine; divestment from these investments and reinvestment in Palestine; and dropping all charges against student activists.

The University has suppressed student voices in support of Palestine time and time again, suspending the Palestine Solidarity Committee just this week on baseless grounds. They have also enabled attacks on pro-Palestinian students from the media and politicians. Today, the students say enough is enough, and that they will no longer tolerate their institution's support for genocide.

This brings the number of ongoing encampments to 19, with more to come.