Btw Israel Let Palestinians Celebrate Not One (1) Holiday In Peace. They Didn’t Grant Christian Palestinians

I Love This Fucking Ambulance So Much I’m Gonna Die: a photoset

the story of John Walker is not that he is an irredeemable villain who can’t be saved

(quote inspired by Avatar the Last Airbender)

TFATWS ending

I haven't been able to go onto any Bucky posts because they're usually accompanied by John Walker antis, so I don't know if anyone's actually discussed this. But it doesn't sit right with me that we watch Bucky go through the entire season atoning for his past as the Winter Soldier, only for it to end with him still going by The Winter Soldier. This show really stopped caring about Bucky at the end, and we couldn't even stay for the apology to Mr. Nakajima they've been building up since the first episode. I'm already not too pleased that Falcon is no longer going to be a character, it would have been interesting to explore more into "Captain Falcon" or even retire the shield entirely instead of giving up his original name to an already existing character. Even John Walker gets to be his own character (US Agent). Quick rant: I don't know how people can look at the new Cap and call it representation, we had representation in Falcon. The show wanted to discuss race by having Sam represent a country that supposedly doesn't represent him, and in doing so, ironically rid us of an original black character in favor of a yet another white character (This is an observation on blackwashing, not an anti-white post). And before you say: "Cap is a black character", just remember, under every John Walker hate post, you'll find people quoting "There will never be another Steve Rogers". If you immediately saw John Walker as trying to replace Steve whenever he held that shield, it would be a double standard not to feel the same when Sam holds it. Both wanted to do something good with it, but only one got the chance to be taken seriously

the favoritism of the creators can be traced very clearly, especially when it comes to the consequences of the actions of the characters. John executed a terrorist in a state of passion and was deprived of everything for this without proper procedures. Bucky and Sam were walking freely around the city with a particularly dangerous terrorist, who was deliberately dragged out of prison by Bucky, forcibly seized a shield from a government agent and staged a brawl in madripoor (and the fandom shouted that Bucky would definitely be punished to the fullest extent!! yeah, of course…), but they got absolutely nothing for it, as if it never happened.

I’m not saying that John shouldn’t have faced the consequences. I say that everyone faces them, except the main characters (sharon, john, karli and etc). you either make sure that everyone is responsible for their actions, or that no one is. seriously, it was just funny (and sad) to watch.

Equating fascism to communism/socialism. Tell us you are a centrist without telling you are a centrist.

I know you might have trouble with this, but socialism is not Marxist in nature. Marxism is socialist in nature.

This means that other political ideologies, like fascism, can arise from socialist ideology.

And it did. Much like how Stalin’s USSR was socialist in nature.

Learn to accept it, you’ll be better off and more honest for it.

"Elderly Palestinian couple looking at their former home, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn. 🇵🇸" [@/RamAbdu on X. April 4th, 2024.]

today anti-LGBT legislative package passed in Georgia (Sakartvelo)

Civil Georgia

Anti-LGBT Legislation Passed in First Reading - Civil Georgia

On June 27, the parliamentary majority passed in first reading an anti-LGBT legislative package cons

can we talk about that for a moment?

i'm living in tbilisi now. i'm not sure i'm gonna stay here after THAT, unfortunately. sakartvelo is a great country. i'm so fucking grateful it welcomed me and my family here.

please speak about georgia. speak about sakartvelo. this is NOT OKAY. the "georgian dream" party wants to create russia 2.0 out of georgia. this is the exact same legislation package that made me and millions of other queers leave russia.

i don't see any posts about this because oh well it's soccer european championship going on or something but GUYS THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

Daily Kos

A 'Christian' family moved to Russia to escape 'LGBTQ, trans,' but now they're 'ready' to 'get out'

The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of 11 had had just about enough of gay people in his country. “We didn't feel safe for our chi

Ahahaha this is great. Far-right fundie Christian assholes move from Canada to Russia because they don’t like that Canada is ok with gay people, and learn the hard way why you don’t want to live under a dictatorship.

I’m going to post separately because I don’t want to keep hijacking the interview quote that someone who clearly loved the show posted.

When TFATWS first ended I was disappointed, but not resentful. Sam and Bucky got where they needed and Anthony and Sebastian looked like they genuinely enjoyed the time making it. There was healing, albeit a bit awkwardly rushed in episode 5, but it got both the characters to a better place than at the start.

Then I watched interviews about the creative process and I haven’t stopped fuming since. Skogland freely admits that she had no idea about the characters or the story before she came in to pitch her idea, which was simply “this is the most important story of the century”. Which of course it is, but her wording gives a sense of how she approached the telling - she is using the characters to tell a particular story, rather than telling a story about the characters while addressing those same issues they want to convey.

Now there’s nothing wrong with writing a story around the portrayal of a social issue, particularly one as topical as TFATWS did. But crafting a story around an idea, then using established characters takes a level of finesse that neither Skogland nor Spellman had - as well as a level of love and respect for the characters’ histories that neither of them cared about.

The level of pain on Sam’s face when he heard about Isaiah being imprisoned and experimented on for 30 years is completely undermined by his lack of empathy for Bucky - who was imprisoned and experimented on for 70 years. We can meta the heck out of those scenes (and I have - check my AO3/shameless plug) but it doesn’t change the sense that the intention of the creators was to make us horrified at the the prolonged victimisation of a black man, while at the same time minimising a very similar victimisation of a white man. Throughout the series, Sam empathises immensely with Isaiah and Karli, but barely sympathises with Bucky and John Walker - while pre-TFATWS Sam definitely would because managing vets with PTSD was his line of work.

As someone who enjoys writing stories, I know how hard it is to use the "connect the dots" method of story writing, because it's always hard to connect dramatic scenes in a logical way that works within the world and for the characters. Civil War did it with some success, but here the creators were barely trying. I also know that as a writer you need to be very cautious about your biases, because it's so tempting to always keep your favourite character in the best possible light which inevitably means another character will have to do all the problematic things to push the plot along or create conflicts. This is the sense I'm getting with TFATWS and that's what irks me the most. It just reeks of lazy, biased writing, because half the time it completely broke Bucky's character and didn't make sense for his motivations. Keeping Sam "in the best possible light" also meant he avoided conflicts at all costs which ironically made him come across like a pushover who sympathised more with his enemy than his friends and allies.

I might come across sounding like I hate Sam but I don't - otherwise I wouldn't have just written 16k words from his POV. I hate what they've turned both him and Bucky into for TFATWS, by using him to sell a particular story without making the story about him, as it really should have been. And let's face it, Sam-Bucky only worked because of Stackie's amazing chemistry, because as much as Anthony waxes lyrical about the "tenderness" and "bro code" between Sam and Bucky, I definitely couldn't see it on screen for the first 4.5 episodes until they suddenly became a married couple in episode 5.