I Think It Suits Them

please never stop talking passionately about the things you love

I'm in France but idgaf

People protesting for Palestinians by not voting are contributing to the Genocide of Palestinians

This has been said time and time again that not voting is a vote for Trump and yet people seem to care more about moral purity than actual chosing the one candidate between the two that proposed a fucking CEASEFIRE.

Yes she's fucking awful regarding Palestinian issues, she's a zionist, she's being a fucking centrist about it but you know what she isn't doing ?? Telling Israel to "get it over with"

You don't get to fucking chose your options in a life or death situation, you FUCKING PICK THE BEST OPTION FOR YOUR SURVIVAL.

THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT POLITICAL CLIMATE TO BE PULLING THIS SHIT

The fact people have the fucking priviledge to smugly declare themselves morally better for not voting someone who is pro-genocide while they let someone who is a MILLION TIMES WORSE take over and not only ruin the lives of palestinians even more and also countless other minorities.

The worse fact is how these people also throw countless minorities under the bus for the sake of their activism.

Countless of queer people, POC and women who literally have to vote to not fucking lose their rights and you somehow have the gall to turn your nose away from people who are TERRIFIED of being fucking hate crimed and losing their rights.

I'm not gonna pull any of this "i know harris is awful but you still have to vote !" wishy washy bullshit

If you don't vote Harris out of activism you are a priviledged smarmy piece of shit that is putting the lives of minorities in danger for the sake of your moral purity.

The French Left didn't fucking win by turning up their nose and refusing to vote for the centrist party. We got SHIT DONE and that literally GOT THE LEFT THE WIN.

The reason I give a shit despite being in France is that puttin Trump in charge will literally poison the well for everybody. You are literally pushing everybody down to the abyss if you don't fucking vote

Bully the SHIT out of Harris's ass when she's president, right now is NOT the fuckinv time

The pencils breaking into smaller pencils

And why they treating word pencil like a slur. Reblog to scare ai losers away 🤭

sorry for not posting i've been busy slonkin my shit silly style day in day out

take a kung lao as a little treat for being so brave

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Being an MCU fan lately...

Li Mei's Kit: A Meta Analysis

I haven't been able to play the beta, but I find Li Mei's very VERY Chinese traits interesting. They leaned hard into them, and I wanted to take a moment to go all meta-geek about her fu lions and her fireworks.

Sometimes called "foo dogs", they're stylized lions and are used as guardian symbols all over China. MK has used them with great abandon throughout; they're pretty stereotypical. Traditionally, guardian lions are paired: one has a paw holding a ball, the other has a paw holding a lion cub. The one with the ball is male, the ball representing the world and the material; the one with the cub is female, representing nurturing/care and the spiritual. The female lion protects those inside, while the male protects the structure itself, and you can keep going down into layers here. Turtles on turtles, or lions on lions, as it were.

What's interesting to me is the guardian-protector angle of them and the choice of that for Li Mei. As an Umgadi, she would have been dedicated to protecting the royal family; the idea of being able to summon a spiritual guardian lion to protect her charges is a great note. When she fails in her service and leaves and becomes Constable of Sun Do, she absolutely does not leave behind her protectiveness, but in fact extends it to the capital at large. She's not just protecting Sindel and Kitana and Mileena now, it's everybody.

(and the best screencap I could find was a fu lion against Kitana, which amuses me on some level). The firecrackers are another spirit protection aspect, and I hadn't known about this moving to China. The folklore is that there was a monster who lived in the mountains that would come down to a village, terrorize it, and then leave. One year an old man shows up and spends a few days protecting the village; eventually he says "I can't do this anymore, I have places to go and things to do, but I'll help you protect yourselves". He teaches the community what to do: namely, Nian hates the color red, as well as loud noises like drums and music and… you guessed it, fireworks. Not only do they make for some pretty sweet particle effects, but they lean into that idea of protection again, a little subtle reinforcement that this is part of who Li Mei is. She's a guardian, and with her bright lights and loud noises, she's going to keep the bad things away. The last "big" element in Li Mei's kit that's new is her Sky Lantern. From a gaming POV it's a great anti-air move, and it actually leans into the historical side of things: they were used in China initially for military purposes, and then took on a non-military angle. Li Mei's kit leans into the military side of things, so these aren't unexpected.

But the sky lanterns do have a significance today that is less about the military, and more about family and reunions. Much like the fu dogs also have nuture/care and family tied into them, so do the lanterns - which means Li Mei has a whole boatload of "I will protect and care for everyone as my family". Especially since she was taken from hers and became a warrior-priestess. Despite - or in spite of - everything that's happened, Li Mei is going to continue to protect her family... which at this point is all of Sun Do. And just maybe all of Outworld, but only time will tell.

Ik I’m spamming atp, but somebody tripping balls

And he’s RIGHT. Fuck everyone who is throwing a fit over Mackie speaking the truth. He and Chris Evans know this role better than anyone. Captain America is a figure of American propaganda both in the real world and in the MCU, despite how the characters Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson and actors Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie feel. If you just see the red, white and blue, the propaganda, and not what these characters have stood for, that’s on you. And if you think that America represents honor and dignity for everyone, wake the fuck up. Honestly, just look out the window.

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