#game plan? stab stab stab. got it? good.

THE LAST OF US 2.01

The tattoo and Dina's bracelet...

Even without words, we communicate through our eyes.

And some highlights from the notes:

They’re huge??????????

That’s……a fucking WOMBAT?!?!

i thought wombats were small. That looks photoshopped!

That’s Patrick! A wombat raised since he was a joey on a wildlife park in Victoria, Aussie, he’s known as both the oldest and biggest wombat we know of!

Most wombats average around 30 to 40 inches, so fat Pat is definitely an outlier. For comparison here’s a more ‘regular’ wombat. 

dynamaxed

So JKR is anti asexual now to

The funniest thing about this is she seems to think these international days are always about oppression, when in reality they're usually about awareness and celebration. They're a way for people who belong to these groups to meet up, talk, support each other, etc. She's offended over literally nothing.

Looking back on arcane season 2, yeah...

Season 2 was pretty underwhelming for me so i've only been focused on the shit I liked. the animation, the music, jinx, ekko, the sisterhood of vi and jinx, mel, viktor and the conflict of zaun and piltover...

but to be frank, it did almost every character a disservice. The story feels significantly dumbed down. This complicated conflict is gone and traded for the heroes to band together. for zaun and piltover to put aside their stuff...

Everything just felt rushed. I also HATED what they did with Cait. I'm sorry, but the writer's making her gas Zaun feels out of place for her. Going after Jinx is one thing (get yo lick back, no complaints), but it feels like they went overboard. especially with seeing how that scene with Isha protecting Jinx from Vi went. Cait is aiming for the gun instead of jinx or isha. We don't even get a convo of Cait and her dad or a real convo with her and Vi. i also fucking hated that dumb fuck moment of cait hitting vi. It was so overdone for the sake of drama...

It might be a parallel to Vi punching powder, but it made zero sense. It's so rushed over for the sake of having Viktor being the big bad at the end and forgetting about the central conflict of season one...

Vi's character is really hoed, too. Not to mention Ekkos disappearance in the season halfway through. The whole season feels exhausted and stretched out. almost like they wanted to set up spin-offs and not end the story in a cohesive way...

I still have a lot of love for this show, but man. it was kind of a whimper. imo

Sometimes you see a certain take about Vi and Jinx and you can immediately tell that this person has never had a sibling.

Edit: turns out the twitter above gets flagged as a pro-terf account, so instead of linking to that, here's a link to a different source for the same interview.

Ok gotta talk about it.

As a Jewish historian, I fucking hate Israel in ways most probably will never be able to comprehend. I'm going to try and explain it anyways. The central creation myth of Israel is that it is Jewish, and then consequently, that Israel is a part of Jewishness. Its easy to simply state this is false, but fully comprehending this and putting it into practice in thought and deed seems rare to me.

The evil at the heart of this violence predates the recent acceleration of genocide. Israel is a colony, and more than that, an antisemitic fraud itself. After WW2, when Israel was being founded, the Jews of Europe generally did not wave goodbye to their neighbors and head to the promised land. Many were expelled from their homes. Zionism itself, as an action, was a false choice at the time. A mere excuse to place an ally in the middle east, and an excuse to complete the expulsion and destruction of the European Jew. The Zionist Jew is more than complicit in this, they actively seek the destruction and assimilation of all other Jews.

Many fail to realize, and largely because of Israel, that Jews are not inherently white, Ashkenazi, European-descended people. Our faith and culture has an immense variety that is spread all across the globe. Jewishness, in population and volume of culture, exists more so outside of Israel than within it. Israel is for a very specific kind of Jew. The kind that lets Yiddish die, that attaches themselves to European things, that makes themselves and their practices as white as possible.

And they have the nerve, the fucking belligerent GALL, to frame themselves as the necessary saviors of our people. To the Zionist, questioning Israel is to question Jewishness itself. They bake adoration for the colonial machine into their very prayers, and push them on us even as children. To *not* oppress, to *not* kill, to *not* genocide, is to invite death. This is the core of fascistic thought, of course. "Kill them before they kill us." And they KNOW this too, they really do. The truth of that irony does not matter, because as is true for all fascists, the truth itself does not matter to them. They wanted this, they wanted this even before the British saw it in their best interest to give them the land. Any excuse to RETVRN, as the neo-nazis say of Rome, or the German Empire, or whatever the fuck stupid country they want to poorly animate the corpse of. Some select Zionists even *sided with the fucking Nazis* in agreement they should abandon Europe to colonize Palestine. (Haavara Agreement)

My people have proved time and time and time again you don't need a nation state to have an enduring culture. We have protected ourselves for thousands of years without the help of these spiteful, doom-saying maniacs. I was going to post something like this on Passover, but that would be hypocritical. The state of Israel doesn't actually have shit to do with Jewishness. Hear Israel (the state and supporters, Israel the icon) I should outlive it long enough to bury it. (old yiddish curse)

Free Palestine. Donate what you can, they need it right now.