do you ever read a ‘callout post’ where the summary on top is like ‘they EAT BABIES and RUN A COFFEE SHOP FOR MURDERERS and they HATE GAY PEOPLE’ and then you scroll down and actually read the post and it’s like, they posted about lamb chops once, they work at starbucks and one time someone who killed someone had a coffee at that starbucks, and they made a ‘fruit (derogatory)’ joke once
some of the time it’s this, some of the time it’s shit like “six in-depth paragraphs about problematic opinions on Steven Universe followed by an offhand mention of the time they faked their own illness and death in order to pose as their own fictional partner and crowdfund medical and funeral expenses”
Shitven universe is full of problematic writing though. It is a problematic show. Large perceptage of post calling it out are not problematic.
No offense, but if someone is committing real world crimes, I could not give one molecule of a shit about their opinions on a children’s show about rocks that sing and punch each other. Do not bury receipts of actual crimes or dangerous behaviors under punchy rock discourse. Too many times I have seen callout posts about genuinely reprehensible things “padded” heavily with trivial greviances about liking the wrong cartoons. If I have to scroll through your essay about [spins wheel] rock boobies to get to the sexual assault receipts then your callout fucking sucks and you should be ashamed.
@glumshoe So you are perfectly willing to excuse the fact that shitven universe made genocidal fascist space nazis. And because they were arbitrarily “family”, decided that they should be reformed with no punishments for their crimes.
And then the sequel series depicted mental illness as something that makes you physically and violently destructive to everything and everyone in your surroundings. That mental illness can be insta fixed with having a hug and saying you are there and feel better.
Btw I usually block people who try to divert the conversation away from shitven universe being a bad show. Because it show’s they encourage writing like that. And don’t think critically about problematic themes finding their ways into shows meant for kids.
People really don’t like hearing this. But serious problematic issues in the real world can often find their way into fiction, and it’s not a good idea to put those into kids shows as minor things that are forgivable. When discourse surrounding stuff like that says it is excusable or not worth dying over. The responses show just how people think and care about issues like that. A piece of media having the audacity to show completely heinous actions or horribly handled representation as forgivable.
[shakes you vigorously by the lapels]
I don’t know how to tell you this in a way you will understand but committing crimes is worse than watching cartoons.
Maybe my priorities need to be reassessed but I am pretty confident that someone who enjoys South Park and doesn’t sexually abuse people is a better person than someone who exclusively enjoys media that’s beyond reproach and is a rapist.
Like, Jesus Christ, it literally doesn’t matter whether or not Ted Bundy listened to John Lennon. He killed people!!! He literally killed people!!! Hurting people and committing crimes is worse than having bad taste! My god!!!!
It’s just fiction is not an excuse for bad writing. It’s not an excuse for tell children abusive family should be forgiven, that genocidal nazis should be forgiven, or that mental illness is harmful to everyone around them. Contrary to what people on the internet tell you. Fiction reflects reality and vice versa. The excuse that they are completely exclusive is ignorant at best. What you enjoy and produce content about says a lot about you and what you believe, and is worth self reflection when callled out that what you like is reflective of you.
IF YOU STAB SOMEONE TO DEATH IN AN IKEA YOUR OPINIONS ON PINK DIAMOND COULD LITERALLY NOT BE LESS RELEVANT
This is 100% why Tumblr is the greatest social media platform
Astrophotographer, in Idaho, captures falling meteor fireball.
i beg your FUCKING pardon
I drew Bert from Sesame Street everyday for a month
(and became ambidextrous in the process)
This started as a joke but then I decided to actually do it
however I unexpectedly hurt my arm by day 2 so 90% of these were done left-handed (with a few exceptions where I used both alternatively)
we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:
to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:
and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether
i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason
And the next step…
Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now
Oh my god
Anyway, I just emailed
tips@disneyantipiracy.com
to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.
I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.
Holy fucking shit
I’m DYING.
😂😂😂
More accurately
Can’t wait for Thanksgiving when Twilight fans will reblog Wednesday’s Pocahontas speech and talk about how “iconic” it is but then continue to support Stephenie Meyer and her racism
Stephenie Meyer: writes a series of novels where white colonizers are portrayed as literally blood sucking serial killers who have lost their humanity, while portraying Quileute people as literally genetically and morally superior super-heroes who transform into their spirit animal and defeat the white invaders every time.
White Americans still living on the land their ancestors stole from Native-Americans and that they, the descendants, have never given back and never will give back to the Indigenous populations: how about that stephanie meyers, huh, what a racist
You really going to have the audacity to reblog this from a native person, give this absolutely shit ass take, and then BLOCK that said native?
NATIVE people are telling you that Stephanie Meyer, a devout Mormon who believes all the Nonsense that the church believes about native people, is a fucking racist.
NATIVE people are telling you that the portrayal of native men as abusive and savage and animal like is fucking racist.
The QUILEUTE TRIBE has stated MULTIPLE times that the books are racist and a bad portrayal of their stories and people.
Stop talking over native people and actually learn something from us for fucking once in your life.
Only a white woman - one who never reads a book - would pass herself off as an Indigenous person by talking about them as if they were all one, instead of different nations with different people. They only look the same to you.
This is what actual Quileute people have to say about Stephenie Meyer.
How ‘Twilight’ Stardom Helped the Quileute Tribe Regain Land
“It’s brought us a lot of national attention and…
You know, there’s still people that are just so amazed when they come out here to visit us, ‘Wow, they’re really here!’, you know, 'There are really Quileute people!’
It’s opened the way for our tribe economically, and then the media… because a lot of people, when they did come here and visit - you know, you got all these Facebook pages, and then of course you’ve got the media coming out and doing coverage of us and they got to see that little glimpse of our reservation…
It helped us, it helped us a lot! To push Congress and, you know, the House and when that bill was signed it wasn’t…
You know, our Ancestors and our past council members have been fighting for over fifty years for our Northern boundary dispute; and to actually have that day and have president Obama sign a document saying that 'This land is yours’ it was like… Wow!”
If Meyer supported native americans, she wouldn’t have appropriated a tribe, make up myths they don’t have, spread misinformation and profit off them. Quileute people literally have a website where you can donate to them to help spread CORRECT information because of all the damage the twilight series caused.
Also, blocking native people who call you out, misgenderig native people and claiming they’re not native when their tribe is literally in their bio is very colonizer of you
Cultural Practices: Medicine in ATLA
I thought I’d do a quick overview of the medicines and treatments that we see employed in ATLA. This post will be a little different from the usual, as it’ll include a few personal anecdotes from yours truly and a content warning since some medical practices can be a bit gruesome to describe.
Chi Pathways
Also known as the meridian system or jīngluò (經絡), these are the metaphysical “veins” through which chi flows. Although modern science rejects the existence of the meridian system, belief in chi pathways forms the basis for many treatments within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Cinobufagin
Also known as Huachansu (华蟾素) or “Chinese Toad Essence”, it refers to the practice of using secretions from the skin of Asiatic toads for medicinal purposes. The chemical, cinobufagin, found in these secretions has been known to have many beneficial effects in humans:
- Pain Relief
- Strengthened Immunity
- Cancer Cell Suppression & Reduction
In TCM, cinobufagin is extracted by drying toad skin and steeping it in hot water, essentially using it to brew a medicinal ”tea”. However, thanks to modern science, cinobufagin can now also be taken via pill or injection.
For obvious reasons, Aang couldn’t exactly be shown drying and skinning pond critters to make hot froggy juice. Can’t say how sucking on frozen frogs is for curing the cold, but I’m sure someone out there has tried it. I will say, I never related harder to Aang then when the herbalist tells him to go gather frogs for medicine and he just looks bewildered. My grandparents were strong believers in the health benefits of toad skin and used to have me hunt for them during fishing trips.
Fire Cupping
When Zuko takes Iroh to a local Earth Kingdom clinic to cure his uncle’s poisoning, fire cupping or báguàn (拔罐) is briefly shown as another treatment available there. Here is a quick description of the process from the Wikipedia page:
Fire cupping involves soaking a cotton ball in almost pure alcohol. The cotton is clamped by a pair of forceps and lit via match or lighter, and, in one motion, placed into the cup and quickly removed, while the cup is placed on the skin. The fire uses up all the oxygen in the cup which creates a negative pressure inside the cup. The cup is then quickly placed onto the body and the negative pressure “sucks” the skin up.
According to TCM, the purpose of cupping is to dislodge stagnant blood and encourage circulation, thereby improving chi flow to cure common ailments. My headcanon is that this treatment is a specialty of the Fire Nation cause, you know, fire cupping. It also ties into the importance of body heat in firebending and would be a pretty decent treatment for a chi-blocked body; I also headcanon chi-blocking as having roots in firebending.
I have second hand experience with fire cupping. My mother once tried fire cupping on my dad but I think she might have overheated the cups because he ended up getting pretty big blisters on his back. You can imagine what happened when he accidentally rolled over on to his back while sleeping…
Moral of the Story: Please leave all medical treatments, both traditional and modern, to trained professionals.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is probably the most well-known type of TCM in the English-speaking world. It is the practice of inserting very thin metal needles into the skin along the meridian system to improve chi flow. As far as I know, porcupine needles have never been used. ;-) Acupuncture is typically used to treat various types of body pain and stiffness.
Surprisingly, I actually don’t have any real life experience with acupuncture. As far as headcanon goes, I imagine this might be a specialty of the Earth Kingdom once metalbending becomes more commonplace.
In the near future, I’ll probably make a post detailing other traditional Asian and Indigenous medicines that would work well in the Avatar world.
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