When people tell me Jiang Cheng turned out abusive like Madam Yu, I laugh.

Because Jiang Cheng was terrified of her.

If you think Jin Ling is not yelling at Jiang Cheng about three times a week over stupid stuff, then you are wrong.

If you think Jiang Cheng would have been able to stay strong through Jin Ling on his knees, begging and crying for Jiang Cheng to stop someone's punishment, then you are wrong.

And if you think Jiang Cheng felt even a little bit as comfortable crying in front of Madam Yu as Jin Ling feels comfortable crying in front of Jiang Cheng-

You. Are. Wrong.

What's really interesting about Batman and Superman as contrasts is that one is supposed to be closed off and the other generally open and trusting. So you got Batman "I work alone" and Superman "we make a good team," right?

Except Bruce has the biggest (bat)family. He is adopting any child he feels he has empathy with and feels he can take care of. Of course, there's two things that make this possible, from an authorial perspective. The Batman's set of abilities are not due to a superpower, but due to training, so anyone can work as a Batman sidekick with the right training. Batman is, also, rich, so he's got the resources to realistically take care of several wardens. It's easy to give him kid after kid after kid.

Superman doesn't offer the same ease as a character. He is so ridiculously overpowered that sidekicks can only come from a single place that has been established to have experienced a catastrophic extinction event, or from experiments. Both these circumstances lead to Superman put in a position where he has a sort of obligation to acknowledge these characters into his life, or making him experience an understandable shock that leads to denial.

The effect this has upon the narrative, though, is that Batman somehow feels like the person who seeks connection the most, despite having difficulty with it. Superman, for his part, feels like a person who has generally more ease and is better adjusted, and so, doesn't seem to latch into connection quite so strongly.

Batman seeks to change his status quo while Superman seeks to maintain it. Superman already has stable open emotional connections in his adoptive family and his civilian friends, while Batman has a figure of intimidation and a façade of a secret identity.

And it's just- it's interesting.

LITERALLY some of you don’t fucking know what “disposable income is” like i cannot stress ENOUGH that someone who was able to get animal crossing on day 1 of launch or a ps5 preorder that is still only working minimum wage job and/or cannot pay their rent on a monthly basis is NOT your enemy bruv they are NOT “the rich” like PLEASE cement that in your head. 

had to share @rykhafirehand ’s tags:

thank you for boiling off capitalist propaganda to get down to the essence of economics

i’d like to add: you are SUPPOSED TO HAVE DISPOSABLE INCOME.

you are supposed to have enough money for toys and games and vacations. that is what the citizens of a normal and healthy society should be buying without stressing out about if they’re gonna be able to afford to live the next day. you’re not just supposed to have ‘a little bit’ or ‘if you save up’ or ‘sometimes you can treat yourself’, you are supposed to have disposable income, and plenty of it.

Batman (1940) #624

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imagine being reed richards and the king of atlantis is always trying to fuck your wife.

Imagine being Susan Richards and the King of some obscure Eastern European country is always trynna fuck your husband :/

leftist antisemites are really everywhere on this hellsite making & reblogging their posts like “the Jews have too much power and privilege and actually their very recent genocide was not that bad compared to what my group experiences and antisemitism doesn’t even exist in my country and especially not in liberal spaces”

Goyim should reblog posts like this one instead of always only acknowledging antisemitism when it is about jk rowling’s goblins or easy shit like that.

Challenge the antisemitism that is coming from inside the house. Be a little brave. Because you will lose followers for reblogging a post like this, because there are antisemites following you that think this way, and assume you do too.

JK Rowling seriously never knows when to stop. She is persistent in her ignorance and it is horrible to witness. She built a world - a universe, where people found themselves, sometimes in their darkest moments, and now, has been blinded by her own lack of education.

We can’t escape the fact, that she wrote Harry Potter. We all know that, and we understand that.

However, I’ve seen people on Tiktok, Twitter, saying that now, we should all turn ours back on that universe, like it never existed. I wish it were that easy, I do, but it isn’t. Harry Potter is loved, across the globe. Either from those who’ve only read the books, or watched the movies, or both. 

The love that surrounds it, is strong. 

The story of Harry Potter, saved me, since I was little, and it’s a story I revisit, when I’m down. I struggled reading, growing up, thanks to developmental difficulties and sight issues, so I did rely on the movies, more than the books, for a long while. I read them after the movie series ended, so much later on than the majority of the fandom. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter, how you consume them, either way, it does feel tainted, given everything JK Rowling has said and done.

I don’t think, people who love this universe, and need it, should be shunned for it. It’s been around for over twenty years, and it’s got a mind of its own. The fandom outgrew the creation, that is clear. From fanfiction, to cosplay, there are millions of way to enjoy this universe, without endorsing her. You can purchase unlicensed merch, from sites like Etsy etc

I do believe it would be impossible, for everybody, who have committed their love to this universe, should be blamed, when they can’t let go of it. JK doesn’t own our experiences, the joy we feel, for this story.

It might never feel the same again, but please, take care of yourself, you are valid, and she cannot take away your experience.

Life of Crocodile

via https://imgur.com/gallery/mG5O6pR

the freaking strugle

I’m sorry to distract from the crocodiles struggles but uh

if you’re irish and you complain about britain “erasing culture” but can’t even speak the language/ don’t know shit about ireland before 1910 then just shut your cakehole nobody cares

Them being Irish and not being able to speak the language/not knowing shit about Ireland before 1910 is a direct result of Britain erasing culture, you goddamn Vitamin D-deficient circus clown

People keep searching for ways to argue that JK Rowling has always been a horrible person deep down as a way of explaining her recent behaviour.

But here’s the thing: that’s probably not true at all.

Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.

It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we’ve seen it happen to one of the most famous children’s authors of our age.

Nobody is immune.

So you’re saying that The Clown wasn’t always… outright evil?

No one is born evil

Well…

Good point, but prejudice is best installed at a young age. Why is why I assumed the said Clown was just evil since some early part of their life.

What I’m saying is that JKR, like so many average people, very likely started off in a place of well-meaning ignorance. Then she started exploring new and different ideas being shared online. Some ideas resonated deeply with her experiences as an abuse survivor, so she began exploring them deeper. Then, wham, public backlash. Her trauma is triggered - but so is her curiosity. After all, if something she did or said set people off, maybe she’s onto something. So she starts exploring more. Starts asking more questions. And when she does this in public, there is always backlash. Meanwhile, however, in private, her new friends are telling her “See? This is proof we’re right. This is proof that the world wants us silenced, because they’re scared of the truth, and they really hate women that much.” And what do you know, what they’re telling her starts sounding more and more reasonable, especially since the outside world is becoming more and more hostile.

And round and round it goes, until you have a radical.

This is absolutely how radicalization works. I started out “I could never be a feminist, they hate kinksters” (yes, this was a massive oversimplification) and within, oh, i think two years? i was saying “well, i don’t like the overtones of ‘radical feminist’ but what’s so wrong with saying you’re a radical AND a feminist? we need to make sure there’s space for traumatized women who really do legitimately hate and fear men.” When you become an extremist, you become UNRECOGNIZABLE even to YOURSELF.

#also JKR is just the most famous and most heinous case#there are MANY MANY young people being indoctrinated with the same ideals within the circles they found safety and community in#i do not care that JKR has been radicalised; i am far more worried about people not recognising the radicalising process#and how it invades queer and women’s communties to deliberately and actively create harmful environments#as disappointing and gross as JKR is; it’s#it’s important to recognise that radical ideologies (be they alt-right racism or TERFdom) are spread (via @wondersmith-and-sons​)

There is also this….revisionist tendency to say that JKR has always been a closet bigot and conservative and right-wing since she got famous, but that’s not even entirely true. One of her first major political stirrups was criticising Tory austerity measures and David Cameron, (she also once said “people who send their children to boarding schools seem to feel that I’m on their side. I’m not.”), donating to Labour and being openly supportive of the British welfare state. She has, in at least one interview (from 2000) self-proclaimed to be left-wing. As early as 2003, she claimed that one of her biggest writing influences was a Jessica Mitford, who Rowling described as a “self-taught socialist”. 

This isn’t to apologise for her behaviour or rehabilitate her into some former activist who is still worthy of saving; it’s to contextualise her recent descent into TERFdom compared to her previous political stances she’s openly held. She was probably never going to be a staunch ally for equality and diversity, and yes, a lot of the HP series were very problematic in retrospect, but she could very easily have gone the other way and at the very least turned out to be less of a bigoted shitbag she is now. The fact that her politics in late 2000′s/early 2010′s were similar to so many people who are now activists and organisers for queer, BIPOC and vulnerable communities should tell us to be all the more careful about radfem ideology and transphobia in progressive spaces. 

It’s comforting to say “we should have known in hindsight that she was always going to become a TERF, the early signs were all there!” but that’s also not true. We have to recognise that the toxic ideology, the active harm she chooses to participate in, was a deliberate choice; this was a path she chose to go down, not one that was pre-determined for her. It’s also an easy way to separate ourselves from being critical of radfem influence; “JKR was always a right-wing bigot and that’s why she became indoctrinated with radfem bullshit. I’m not a right-wing bigot, therefore unlike her, I will never fall for radfem bullshit.” 

People who become radicalised, including those to become radfems, were not always irredeemable right-winger proto-Conservatives doomed for extremism and hatred, and that’s the point. The revisionist idea that she was always beyond salvaging erases how TERFs recruit people (especially vulnerable, impressionable people) in queer, progressive and liberal circles and how easily their dogwhistles can go undetected. The idea that JKR was already a closet right-winger from the get-go and therefore could never have been a good person is ultimately unhelpful because all it does it separate from the reality of how radfem doctrine spreads. TERFs sell their own toxic, harmful views packaged as progressive ideas as part of their strategy and that’s why their ideology is dangerous and requires constant vigilance to drive out. 

finally she finishes those titan’s curse storyboards, am i right?

i cleaned these up a bit more than the previous sea of monsters ones since y’all seemed to enjoy them 💕

looked through some of my old tweets and found a cursed exchange

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

angsty bonus:

after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition