Is it impossible for a Dragon a Ball character to be an atheist, given that they all know for a fact that God exists and his name is Dende and he’s green? Or is it impossible for a Dragon Ball character to be anything OTHER than an atheist, because they know these things about God, and also know that most of them could beat him up, and that he has social anxiety and is pretending to be busy so he doesn’t have to talk to Goku?
Like: imagine that you know for a fact that sometimes God can’t hear your prayers, because he’s in his room, stressing out over something he said last month that he thinks might have hurt “Mr. Satan”’s feelings. Does the possession of this harrowing knowledge make you an atheist?
Are Dragon Ball characters atheists if they don’t “believe in” Dende in the sense that they don’t respect him as a person? Like, Dende decides to do something hard, and Gohan says “you can do it, I believe in you!” and Vegeta says “ehhh.” Does this attitude make Vegeta an atheist? Does Dende’s social anxiety make Dende an atheist
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis
“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created?”
if ur not into warrior cats its okay but if u ask someone who has the potential to be ur significant other what their fave warrior cat is and they say ashfur u gotta run. like i dont care if u dont know what wc is. it doesnt matter if u dont know what an ash or fur is. run, get tf outta there. u will thank me later.
ive gotten asks / messages / and notes on this post asking “wait whose ashfur what did he do” and lemme just explain to u why you, a person who does not know about warrior cats, should fuckin run out of a relationship or friendship if someone says “ashfur is my favorite wc character!”:
ok so ashfur is a character in warrior cats who, at first, was pretty okay? didnt get much attention, wanted to avenge his mothers death, all that jazz. but then he got a,,, weird amount of screen time in the second series, like he got toooo much attention. and when another character, squirrelflight, breaks up w/ her bf at the time, ashfur and her become friends! ashfur is nice to her! but he’s also a little too protective, he seems to not really believe in her strength on her own, etc. and reading, it becomes,,, increasingly clear that while squirrelflight views ashfur as a friend, he views her as a little more.
so squirrelflight and her bf try things out again, and squirrelflight lets ashfur down gently, telling him that no she doesnt feel the same and she doesnt want to be in a relaitonship w/ him.
and then the third series happens.
ashfur gets squirrellfight’s son to be a mentor towards, and ashfur literally beats up a kid, her kid. he beats up the kid of the girl he liked because she didnt want to be with him. and it gets so, so much worse. so ashfur decides to try and murder all three of squirrelflight’s children by trying to burn them alive. there’s a fire in camp, ashfur doesnt let squirrelflight or her kids cross, and only lets them go when squirrelflight tells him that her kids are adopted and having to lie about caring about them so ashfur would let them go because he literally would not do it any other way.
oh and also? ashfur tried murdering her dad too. like he was in cahoots w/ this other dude and they planned to have squirrelflights dad killed so squirrelflight could “feel ashfur’s pain”.
so yeah. if someone tells u “omg i love ashfur!!” fucking run. dont even hesitate. get the fuck out of there.
what’s really annoying about doing things is that there’s almost nothing you get to do just once and be done. die, i guess? everything else you gotta do it, and then in a couple hours you gotta do it again, and you gotta do it AGAIN. there’s never gonna be a time in my life i don’t have to somehow obtain food and eat it!!! fucked up. i already did that like 5000 times.
So, today, Marvel published issues of comics revealing that in fact the Nazis were always supposed to win World War 2, and the Allies invented the Cosmic Cube to rewrite history to prevent that from happening.
That was released today. April 19th.
The anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest Jewish revolt during World War 2, the first urban uprising in Nazi-occupied Europe, begun when the Nazis decided to completely wipe out the Warsaw Jews on Passover eve. Instead, the Jews held out for nearly a month, with whatever they could fight with. They’re honored to this day.
And Marvel published their Nazi-stanning dumpster fire of a retcon today.
so how many people on Marvel’s editorial board are white supremacists?
Fucking ridiculous
But no, the reason we all bailed was too much “diversity.”
There’s something more insidious going on here than just “the Nazis were supposed to win” and I think it needs examination.
And by that I mean let’s talk about Steve Rogers, Straight White Cis Man.
A lot of the early superheroes were very explicitly invested in social justice – Wonder Woman fights sexist dictators and empowers women, Superman goes undercover to bust the KKK and advocates for the working class. And of course it’s not that surprising that Superman, the explicitly Jewish-coded immigrant, or Wonder Woman, the female superhero in a world of men, strike out against the power structures that oppress the groups they represent; they stand to gain greatly, after all, from the freedom and elevation of their peers.
But Cap is a little different. Cap, actually, is a lot different, because Steve Rogers is a white man with blue eyes and blonde hair. Steve Rogers is not just physically fit and able-bodied, but an outright ubermensch who can tough out gunshot wounds and knock around cars. Steve Rogers would be treated like a goddamn king in Hitler’s Germany, he is literally everything they claim to love and want and honor. Steve does not stand to gain greatly by fighting Nazis. Steve stands to gain greatly by joining them. The only thing he, personally, can achieve by his battle is personal loss; at best, of institutional privilege over basically everyone he’ll ever meet, at worst, of his very life.
If you think it is an accident that two Jewish guys made this character the dedicated, justice-loving ultimate enemy of the Nazi state, I do not know what to tell you other than that you are hilariously, incomprehensibly, obviously wrong.
This is a guy who could have the bad guys eating out of his hand, but opposes them instead because it’s the right thing to do, full stop. No matter the cost, no matter what anyone else says he in particular should care about due to his own station, he’s going to help people instead of hurting them. Steve Rogers is not just a guy who punches Nazis, he is a promise to Jewish kids that Gentiles, too, can and will punch Nazis, and a reminder to Gentiles that just because they’re not Jewish is no excuse not to. More than that, even. He is a promise to every marginalized fan that yes, there really are allies who will fight for you all the way to the end. He is an example to every privileged fan that real heroism means being that ally for others, that it is not only possible but important and even imperative to defend the less privileged. If Diana teaches us that we can fight for ourselves, Steve teaches us that we can fight for others. And that is a kind of hope and inspiration that most superheroes never even get to pretend to.
And so think about what Spencer is saying, when he says that that isn’t real.
In Spencer’s new Cap universe, it is natural, inevitable, that a smart, strong, authoritative white dude would ally himself with Nazis. In Spencer’s universe, if you want a person with privilege on your side, if you want that person to actually put themselves at risk fighting on your behalf, you have to literally rewrite reality. Are you a person with privilege? Great, don’t worry about it, you have no obligation to give a shit, because no sketchy minority rabble-rouser has brainwashed you with a cosmic cube. Are you a minority rabble-rouser? You’re on your own, good fucking luck. Straight white cis dudes are your natural enemy, and since you live in the real world without cosmic cubes, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Spencer has taken a character created by two Jewish guys to explicitly say “you don’t have to be Jewish to care about Jewish people” and turned him into a character that instead very aggressively says “actually you do have to be Jewish to care about Jewish people. Race war is the Real World and that Steve is a fantasy.”
So, you know. Fuck him.
Nick Spencer is a real life agent of Hydra and you’ll never convince me otherwise.
fortunately, superhero mythos is FULL of evil duplicates, and we know how to spot them.
spencer’s cap is a fake. the real cap would never, ever be like that.
just moving along like everyone else 