Confession: Even though I read and enjoyed Dragonslayer, I just can’t see myself ever fully getting back into Wings of Fire. I haven’t touched the third series since the first book, and don’t see that changing. No matter what, I can’t get past how Winter’s character was treated in the second arc. And I haven’t heard anything about him getting any sort of apology in the third arc, so yeah.
Like, he dared to get angry at Moon for wanting to keep being friends with the dragon who was committing actual genocide against his entire species, and had already killed his aunt. And HE was treated like a jerk for yelling at her! That scene when Kinkajou tells him that he can’t be trusted with the knowledge of what happened to Darkstalker and tells him to apologize to Moon for being awful and Winter says that it’s “his own fault” that Moon chose Qibli over him just ARGHHHHHH!!!!!! My blood still boils thinking about it.
Look. If I was in Winter’s place, and someone I had trusted as a friend learned that someone they were close to was committing murder against my family, and they were still all “Well, I want to keep being this person’s friend,” I would punch that person in the throat!
So, yeah. I needed to get that rant out. It’s a shame, because I really enjoyed WOF, and there is and was a lot of potential, but I don’t think I can trust Tui’s handling of characters after something so blatantly awful.
[image: screen cap of a Facebook post by Dan Olsen, which says:
“Many of you are just now becoming familiar with Milo Yiannopolous.
Many of my friends and I have been dealing with him in some capacity or another for years now.
He’s not a “provocateur”, he’s a neo-Nazi recruiter. His “speeches” are training rallies for teaching college assholes how to recognize and harass their vulnerable classmates. His recent sessions have focused on “how to spot a tranny” where he outs a trans student at the school, and “weeding out illegals” where he outs undocumented students and teaches douchbags how to report them to an increasingly hostile and violent immigration system.
His core supporters are radicalized white boys who spend their time on message boards building elaborate fantasies about violence. These collection of boards are the same ones that Dylann Roof (Charleston church shooter, 9 dead), Elliot Rodger (Isla Vist shooter, 6 dead), and Alexandre Bissonnette (Quebec mosque shooter, 6 dead) were active on. One shot a medic two weeks ago at a protest.
This isn’t about speech: he’s showing people how to hurt their peers by hurting one on stage. He promotes a platform of genocide. This isn’t about disagreement. He’s not proposing an acceptable alternative. He’s promoting, and training, for an ethnic cleansing.“]
This Sunday 5/29, far-right Zionists will rampage through occupied Jerusalem on a route designed to assert dominion over Palestinian space in the city. Backed by police and the state, they will hold Israeli flags, yell genocidal slogans, and commit violence and destruction against Palestinians. The “Flag March” happens annually on “Jerusalem Day” the anniversary of Israel’s 1967 military occupation of Jerusalem and the West Bank. It celebrates Jewish supremacy and control over Palestinians and their land. Marchers advocate for Palestinian genocide and attack Palestinian passersby.
This year, the far-right Zionist group Lehava is openly advocating for the destruction of Muslim holy sites. This is horrifying, but unsurprising. Swipe left for a scene from last year’s “Flag March” of marchers delighting in a fire set in the area. Some will try to write off the genocidal views and violent actions of far-right Zionists in the “Flag March” as “extreme”. They are “extreme” in their inhumanity and their audacity, but they aren’t fringe. They are actively protected by Israeli police and enabled by the state. In fact, Israel has already deployed over 3,000 police officers and preemptively arrested over 100 Palestinians, mostly youth. They have also increased restrictions on Palestinians’ movement, cancelling most permits - including for medical reasons - for West Bank residents.
This Israeli-state-backed “Flag March” also comes in the wake of a month of Israeli police violence at Muslim holy sites during Ramadan as well as at the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, where police clubbed mourners to remove Palestinian flags from their hands and Shireen’s casket.
This weekend, keep your eyes on Jerusalem and your hearts with the Palestinians there as they endure and resist this horrifying march.
They also literally said the second Nakba is coming. This flag march is going to be a major factor in what happens in the next few days. Last year’s war started after this march. This year and if you’ve been following the news, tensions are extremely high, and in case religious sites are harmed, people are talking about an explosion in the region, the Palestinian Resistance factions have said that: We hold the enemy government responsible for the responses that will accompany these attacks.
Keep an eye on Al Aqsa (use the hashtag #AlAqsaUnderAttack) follow these accounts, whatever happens, remember that Palestinians have every right to defend themselves against these aggressions, remember that they are the ones occupied and subjected to systematic violence every single day, with the world casually watching, just a couple hours ago 15 years old Zaid Ghniam was murdered by the IOF,the fifth kid in a month, remember the raids on occupied Jenin and in other cities in the West Bank, remember that the Palestinian struggle has been ongoing for 74+ years, and in case things don’t escalate on sunday, remember all that when they do, because according to everything going on right now, israel is writing it’s own end with everything it does every day, and liberation, sooner or later, is coming i’A.
History of Ireland: Before the famine of 1845 it was young men, sons of farmers or craftsmen who left Ireland. After 1845 the population concerned is family, feminized and poorer. The poorest migrate to Great Britain, while the others cross the Atlantic.
going thru the ‘bison’ stamp catagory on this late sunday afternoon and it’s uncomfortable and strange to see United States stamps ‘proudly’ depicting buffalo when the US govt is directly responsible for their near extinction in a genuine effort to commit genocide against the Indigenous tribes that relied on them.
idk maybe it would seem less… awful and unrepentant if the govt were using the funds from the stamps to directly fund Indigenous stewardship and buffalo conservation but they are not
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
the THIIIING with the Titan being home to witches of the Boiling Isles and a provider of magic, a deity-like being in a very sort of…. fascinating micro-pantheistic way, both the world and the conscience behind it… like a sort of tutelary spirit mayhaps…. actually i’ll direct you to @buttercup-bug ’s AMAZING thoughts on the matter that they are typing up at this very moment (will link in replies once they post!!)
anyway THE THING about this is! how specific and special and sad and beautiful it makes Eda’s relationship with King and her motherly role… just something so special about something so, so big and powerful, the very thing that gave her home and the life that she knows and the freedom to interact with the world in beautiful magical ways, taking on such a vulnerable form that now sheis the one protecting it, nurturing it back to strength, taking care of it like the Isles have taken care of her and everyone else like her
and with the titan genocide it’s like… whether the Titan’s relationship with the witches was ever meant to be protective and guiding on the Titan’s part, they were, either way, a creative force of the world, giving birth to continents and magic in their wake, letting life thrive off the remains of them, having their life continue through the witch- and monster-kind. so this world-shaping life form being hunted to near extinction is a damage done to an entire way of life, a relationship between people and the land they occupy, a form of connection with the world
and it’s just… so so heartachingly beautiful and heavy, how Eda and the entire Bad Girl Coven are fighting to keep this way of life alive. they are some of the few remaining wild witches; they are the inheritors of the glyph tradition, gifted by the Isles themselves. Eda now holds the palistrom seed, a key to reviving yet another way to engage with the world’s magic, with another form of soul. and for years now, she’s been raising King, who could possibly be the very last remaining titan
it’s just so interesting, how, if something that was meant to guide and protect and inspire gets attacked so viciously it becomes wounded and vulnerable, the people it was meant to guide and protect and inspire step in as its caretakers instead… not to gain anything self-serving from it, but to keep it alive
as someone who comes from a country that does not at all honour the diversity of regional and indigenous cultures, and has instead built a cult around dubious achievements and a culture of distrust and hatred towards countries chosen as our “enemy”, and basically only ever self-identifies through appealing to over-blown historical pride or the image of the “other” hostile to the “us”, i never, ever at all felt like my culture was there to teach me or guide me or help me, or connect me to my ancestors. i do have Jewish heritage alongside that, and identifying with That part of my ancestry always felt much more meaningful, because there is simply… more to it than just dangerous boisterous patriotism? there is a need to honour something that some would like dead and gone, because it is vulnerable and deserves to exist and persevere
and it just seems so so different for people who are tasked with keeping their cultures alive, in the face of a history of attempted cultural genocide, under threat of current discrimination and neglect. it just… reconnects the word “culture” with its true meaning, when you consider what it was originally meant to be: a whole language of engaging with others and the world; and how awful it is to see it attacked. and i just… think there is something extremely beautiful about people taking on the task of protecting something that, initially, was there to guide and raise them; choosing to nurture it and keep it safe, for the sake of the culture itself and the meaningfulness of their relationship with it
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