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My goat is genderfluid

Knowing that Romeo can be a female just makes me laugh

I just wonder if he likes it at all. Besides, he had to act like a woman in the guise of Jesse, it's funny

prison is fucked up regardless but the fact that you can do a prison sentence for copyright infringement is especially insane to me. you deserve to lose your autonomy because we might have potentially made money from that thing. i imagined you did a crime against me so now one day you'll have to hear your son ask his mother who you are.

Brazilian Jews for Palestine 🇧🇷🇵🇸

That Hermes scene in the Illiad where he refuses to fight Leto and told her to tell everyone that she beat his ass 🤣 It's so absolutely sweet

My jokes aside, I do love the scene a lot because it really says a lot about Hermes, even if it is brief. He does state he won't fight her because she is one of Zeus' lovers, either out of loyalty, fear of getting in trouble with Zeus, or both. Him telling her to tell the other gods she was stronger than him and beat him shows that he is willing to take the shame of losing a battle if it means not harming Leto, so it suggests he isn't very prideful.

Summer

poopoo on the left peepee on the right

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After thinking a while about seavbo, I finally found what I can enjoy about it. I translated my champwatt/seavbo text from Seawatts POV in English for y’all🙂‍↕️ I also tagged them by their respectful colors, just Incase and to make It more understandable. Please, enjoy!

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“I don't think Seawatt didn’t feel anything for the Champion at all. You (my friend) say that Seawatt doesn't love Champion, and I agree with you! I don't think he loved him, but he's like. I don't think he wouldn’t care? He enjoyed his company. He knows that he love him, that he take care of him, he thinks about him. I would even say Seawatt is the only one who is important to him in civilization.

But it's still not serious. Perhaps, Champion understands this too.

Seawatt has a goal, and before their relationship becomes more serious, if at all, he must be sure that Champion won’t tell him to fuck off with the idea of returning the fighter level. Or maybe, in the end, he won’t starve and kill them like the rest of civilization. That's what's important to Seawatt.

Champion is not a good person. Seawatt too. They're both terribly offended and piqued by everyone. It is difficult to build a healthy relationship in such conditions. Especially, when their affair is built on lies and mistrust. Champion doesn't love real Seawatt. He loves whoever he's allowed to see. He doesn't know the man. From the very beginning, Seawatt pretends to be someone Champion would like. He's not a victim of abuse, of course. I don't think he suffered with it. My words above are not about the poor guy wearing a mask!!1! I'm sure he did it with an absolute understanding of what he was doing, consent and confidence. And yet, with such "freedom of choice," Seawatt is not free with him, never will be.

But Evbo is completely different. He is honest and genuinely kind. He helps unconditionally, even to those who wronged him in the past, or keeps messing with him currently. And he helped Seawatt too. He is ready to fight for all people.

It's comfortable with Champion. Evbo won't let you relax, but because he wants the best for you. He brings... life to life!!

People like Evbo are really changing the world. And it's fascinating, you want to reach for something like this. Evbo wants you to work, learn, and make mistakes. He wants you to become stronger, better. It's a joy when you see progress in what you like. In your life. And when you can share this experience with others.

No amount of pleasure will give you complete happiness when you are alone. And Champion would bring the whole world to his feet, but why all this if his heart is not calm? And Evbo offers to live without fear. Seawatt would like to finally breathe a sigh of peace for himself and for all those who are dear to him. We don't know if he told Champion about his past, but he opened up to Evbo almost immediately. I like it so much that he trusted him despite everything. What is it, if not true freedom?

Perhaps, Seawatt thought Champion would be the same like Evbo is. Would be a better ruler than the old man. Perhaps, he saw in his rage a desire for change. Perhaps not. Perhaps, he already understood what kind of person he was, and wanted to drown the damned civilization completely, through his hands. Perhaps all at once. But in the end, in order to change the civilization for the better, Champion needs to fight with himself. With his complexes and fears, and his ego. Evbo always understood what he wanted. And in comparison, Champion looks like an insecure, little boy.”

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic.

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more. *Edit to add, the first part of this lyric is in reference to the Black Liberation Song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks to everyone who mentioned that.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do. *Edit to add: they also all piled out of a clown car. The US flag in a clown car? Brilliant.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.