So the footage of Owen training the tiny raptors in the new Jurassic World kind of (inadvertently, I think) confirmed something that always bugged me about the social dynamics mentioned in the first film.
Owen’s using the term ‘alpha’ wrong.
Of course, the concept of pack alphas is rooted in a lot of erroneous studies anyway. But if we take his actual assertions about it and Blue’s behaviour at face value, then Owen is wrong. He’s not the alpha. Blue is the alpha. The pack follows her cues, that’s why they go with her when she decides to follow the Indominous, and it’s also why they listen to Owen - because Blue does. If Blue stops, so do the other raptors. They’d don’t just wait it out to see who’ll win, they immediately follow Blue’s lead.
Blue’s the leader.
Owen is, actually, the mediator.
He is the one who stops disputes between the raptors and defuses tense situations. He is permitted this status precisely because he’s physically weak (compared to raptors) but socially important. His social importance was created by rearing the raptors and forming emotional bonds with them. But they know full well that he’s squishy and beatable (though they probably don’t realize just how lethal some behaviours might be for him, comparatively). Blue knows she can kill Owen and that Owen is not strong or very useful at leadership decisions for a velociraptor pack. She accepts his input because he’s dad.
So since Owen actually isn’t even in the running for pack leader, and challenging him would be pointless because then you’d just hurt him and cost the pack a socially important member, and also probably get beaten up by Blue, he is the ideal mediator of disputes. His intervention de-escalates situations by reducing the amount of violence that’s permissible.
But because he was using so much containment and physical force (even if it was through equipment, obviously) to keep the raptors in check, I think Owen misjudged his placement in the raptor social group. Especially since he actually was tougher than them when they were babies. He thought they listened to him because they believed he was stronger than them, and that this was an illusion he had to maintain.
That was never actually the case, though. Blue knew Owen was way weaker than her the whole time. She just valued him anyway.
There’s probably a metaphor about toxic masculinity in there somewhere.
Arbitrarily and at the last minute deciding I want to draw my GIRLS for GIRLWEEK
well, he did take him out.
What is with the constant fetishisation of rape and SA on this app and in fan fiction?? I get people have their kinks n shit but rape??? Really???
Not only that but the amount of pedophilia and incest is insane😟
I try not to be judgemental but I don’t get why you would want to read about yourself or someone else being SA how does that not make you uncomfortable and normalising shit like that is so not okay. It is not romance. It is not dark romance. It’s abuse and it’s gross.
I get that people are into different things and that you can’t control what you like most of the time but the normalisation of this stuff is crazy and so damaging especially to minors and victims.
I get CNC like atleast there’s consent in that but straight up violent rape fiction is weird and scary.
Anyway thanks for reading my lil rant!! love you all, stay happy and safe MWAH 💋
Edit: I have a reblog answering a few questions 🫶
Proshippers seem to think that being grossed out over adults shipping children with adults in a sexual way is the same as threats. I find it kind of amusing how proshippers can only make good arguments against a small percentage of antis but antis can make good arguments about the while group.
100% of proshippers either support fetishizing pedophilia and abuse in fiction or aren't truly a proshipper. Like if somebody only supported LGB but not trans people they wouldn't be considered an ally. Antishipping is not pro-harrasment, it's anti fetishizing pedophilia, incest, and abuse in fiction.
And idk man, i don't think that "these people are bad because they don't like shipping kids with adults" is that compelling.
Also, nobody is encouraging anybody to watch CSEM?? You can't make a reasonable argument for pro or anti shipping to encourage either of those, proshippers are fine with fiction only and antis hate pedophilia.
You can care about problems in fiction without ignoring the problems in real life. This is like saying that people can't care about the education of children in our country because there are children in other countries who are starving.
I just need you to know that when I was reading the list of AO3’s top ships this year, I came across Bakudeku and wrinkled my nose on reflex. Then I was like, hold on, I have never seen or read MHA in my life and I have no fucking clue what it’s even about, why did I just do that…and then I realized I’ve absorbed all your anti Bakugou content via osmosis. Anyway I hope you know that your influence spreads FAR AND WIDE. Who’s Bakugou? Idk but I don’t care for him
OMG ECO PLS😭
This is the funniest thing I've ever read. The involuntary reaction to BakuDeku is sending me. This is the correct response to seeing it in the wild, especially on AO3. So good to know that me and my, what, 230 followers are making a positive difference in the world😌
هام: غزة – لأصحاب الحملات الموثقة والموجودين في قائمة انتظار التوثيق
هذا المنشور يتناول النقاط التالية:
1. طلبات التوثيق الجديدة: الآلية المتبعة للتوثيق السريع.
لضمان السرعة والسهولة في إضافة الحملات إلى قوائمنا، مع الحفاظ على المصداقية في التحقق، سنعتمد أسلوبًا جديدًا في التوثيق، كالآتي:
كيفية تقديم الطلب:
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✓ رابط الحملة
✓ جديد: صورة حديثة تجمع الأشخاص المذكورين في تفاصيل الحملة (لا يشترط ظهور جميع الأفراد، لكن يُفضل أن تكون الصورة تمثل نصف الأشخاص المذكورين في الحملة على الأقل). يجب أن تكون الصورة في مكان معلوم مثل خيمتك، منزلك، أو أي مكان له علاقة بتفاصيل الحملة. كما يُشترط وجود ورقة مكتوب عليها gazavetters وتاريخ اليوم.
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ملاحظة مهمة:
يُرجى إرسال جميع البيانات المذكورة أعلاه متتالية في رسالة واحدة. سنعمل بسرعة كبيرة على توثيق الحملات المرسلة إلينا والموجودة في قوائم الانتظار.
2. القواعد والقوانين وضوابط الاستخدام السليم للتطبيق: لتجنب الإضرار بالآخرين أو الإساءة لأي شخص، وما يترتب على المخالفين من عقوبات. (على الأقل للقائمة الخاصة بنا، وسنسعى لتطبيقها أيضًا على القوائم الموثوقة الأخرى بالتنسيق مع أصدقائنا المسؤولين عنها).
وذلك لحماية الحملات وضمان احترام الآخرين وعدم الإضرار بالمجتمع الداعم، نُؤكد على الالتزام بالقواعد التالية:
1. عدم التعليق بطلب المساعدة في منشورات الآخرين:
لا يجوز استخدام منشورات الآخرين، سواء المتعلقة بفلسطين أو بموضوعات أخرى، لنشر تعليقات استغاثة أو طلب مساعدة. هذا السلوك يضر بالجميع، وقد يؤدي إلى حظر أصحاب الحملات أو إغلاق التعليقات على المنشورات، مما يسيء إلى صورة الحملات الفلسطينية عامة.
2. عدم ابتزاز المدونات الداعمة وغير الداعمة:
تلقينا شكاوى من مدونات أجنبية حول محاولات ابتزاز وشتم. أي شخص يثبت قيامه بذلك سيُعاقب بتدابير صارمة لضمان عدم تكرار هذه السلوكيات.
3. الامتناع عن الإشارة (منشن) إلى المدونات المُغلقة للتواصل:
عند الحاجة، يُمكنك ذكر المدونات في منشوراتك فقط وبطريقة محترمة، دون إحراج أو تهديد.
4. عدم نشر منشورات تهديد أو اتهام للمدونات:
لا يحق لك اتهام أو تهديد أي مدونة لم تستجب لطلبك.
عقوبات المخالفين:
في حال مخالفة القواعد، سيتم وضع ملاحظات بجانب اسم الحملة في القوائم، مثل:
"احذر التعامل مع هذه الحملة بسبب سوابق ابتزاز الناشرين".
"احذر التعامل مع هذه الحملة بسبب سوابق إزعاج الناشرين المتكرر".
"احذر التعامل مع هذه الحملة بسبب سوابق نشر استغاثته على منشورات الآخرين".
"احذر التعامل مع هذه الحملة بسبب سوابق تهديد الأشخاص".
ستُكتب هذه الملاحظات باللون الأحمر وبوضوح.
الالتزام بهذه القواعد يُساهم في تقديم صورة محترمة ومشرّفة عن فلسطين وغزة. كن داعمًا بطريقة تليق بحاجتك للمساعدة دون الإضرار بسمعتك أو سمعة بلدك.
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Do you think UA is really the so called best school for heroes or they just surf on the fame of their big name former students like am and endy (and others)?
UA is a school written by an author who didn't have much interest in the academia of MHA. MHA is a story about escalation and it puts the story beats of where the author is headed above organic storytelling. Example: UA doesn't like Izuku's habit of hurting himself. Aizawa has seen this multiple times now. -The entrance exam. -The quirk aptitude test. -The battle trials. -The USJ where he saved All Might's life. All of these resulted in the guy breaking something and needing to see Recovery Girl. Organic Storytelling: The teachers don't like this, so they address the problem head on: If Izuku breaks bones in the sports festival he really wants to do well in, he's out. So, he won't break his bones. But, this would go against the author's goal to show Izuku competing and hurting himself. So despite the fact that these people have his education and career in their hands and can dictate any command to him and he has to follow if he wants to remain a student there, they just complain after he does something.
As far as UA being the best school? Let's say...yes. The others aren't relevant. They do nothing. Shiketsu is allegedly as good as UA is and is its rival, but Shiketsu is only a handful of names characters. Where was Shiketsu and it's army of graduates when hero society fell? We saw what UA was doing: saving the country/the world. Shiketsu? They sent some guys to help during the final war arc. So by default, since the rest of the schools are non entities or do nothing, UA is the best. Is UA good? No. UA is a comical failure as an educational institution. It's a school where despite having the alleged best educators around and experts in their fields, the student's growth and development is entirely attributed to themselves. Aizawa repeatedly deflects any credit for his student's growth. He's a hands off teacher. He provides them exercises and training methods and the burden of doing the work and improving is on the students themselves. While this makes the class look more bad ass in the eyes of the audience, it asks the question: what are they here for? I think the principals behind UA's methods are very interesting. WHY do they do this? The answers are fun. So, you know how we get Aizawa and Shinso saying how unfair the entrance exam is and how it favors a certain type of quirk? My take is that this is 100% intentional and this mentality informs most of UA's methodology. They only teach students how to hit harder. Technical quirks or abilities that require effort to master can't easily translate into MORE POWER, so they prioritize people who will be top level heroes. Anyone who has a quirk like Endeavor's could be a top hero. The goal is to find as many people like him as possible, teach them to become stronger and hit harder. And teach them restraint and non lethal capture via sparring matches with their classmates. The constant fighting with their peers shows them how to hold back so they only use the exact amount of force needed in the field. As a factory to produce a very specific kind of hero, UA does a very good job. The school is just calibrated to creating a hero who succeeds in All Might's era of hero society. A self reliant hero who is used to doing things by themselves mirroring the solo and highly competitive nature of heroics. By definition, this strategy will exclude a lot of good eggs. So, we have the back paths: -Rescue points, enabling people who can't beat robots to score enough points to get in. Since the teachers are the ones who score this and they assign the points, Nezu could ensure anyone he finds interesting passes the entrance exam. -The Sports Festival, where those who do well and impress the teachers have a chance to move up to the hero course. This is designed to market those powerful hero students and get their names known even before their debuts. It doesn't matter for powerful heroes if people know their weaknesses and how they fight, because they're so strong that they simply obliterate all obstacles and opposition. Is this the intended reading of UA? That Nezu designed the entire curriculum to cater to people like Bakugo and Shoto and ensure they succeed because people like them are the most reliable and viable heroes you can create? Probably not. The author likely was just focused on escalation and making cool scenes. But when you look at it, this all makes sense. I wouldn't call this "good" but it's crafty and it speaks to the world it exists in. It's a fascinating system that's immensely cynical. A microcosm of the MHA world itself.
Ooh so that's why they made her prettier in the anime... and progressively toned it down in S3
Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....
Sinners (2025)
Not Shinsou repeatedly calling Ojirou 'monkey' due to his mutation.
Hi @nutzgunray-lvt 👋,
I think that Shinsou is canonically quirkist - with an HUGE ego and a victim complex.
'Gee, Shinsou maybe others don't like you because you're quirkist, rude, arrogant and act trigger happy with Brainwash...hmm?'
I find it amusing to see the popular fanon trope of fanfic!Shinsou having everyone be quirkest to him when, other than Bakugou, he's shown to be one of the most canonically quirkest characters in the series.
Maybe if Hori wanted to sell us Shinsou as a character unjustly labelled as a villain for his quirk
he should have showed that in his backstory by him being bullied instead of praised.
Not showed Shinsou as quirkist to others calling Ojiro "monkey" as a key example. Surely if he's a 'villianous' quirk holder (as Hori / most fans want to claim) he should be against that sort of discrimination and not using it himself? So if this is the case - he's a hypocrite.
Not showed Shinsou eagerly brainwashing others without their consent.
Not had him actually acting villianous in Brainwashing Gigantomachia to fight against AFO against his consent.
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