#all because of 1 vote

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

#i think i already said this and frankly idc #uspol #📁.zip #to me personally it's abhorrent and vile to tell palestinians 'biden is facilitating the murder of your people culture and history but you #still have to vote for him!!1' like how is that not unbelievably callous and ghoulish #frankly speaking. a lot of this 'you should be concerned about trump' is going to turn into #blaming palestinians and arabs and muslims and anyone remotely with a conscience for biden's loss #instead of doing something productive like pushing for people in power to do something they'll nitpick and belittle #and tell palestinians + arabs and muslims + everyone who understands that genocide is bad that they SHOULD #settle for a decrepit genocidal monstrous freak who is CURRENTLY facilitating genocide because #it makes THEM feel better and they aren't personally threatened (yet) by the guy currently in power #any and all 'you're not taking trump seriously' comments should be met with extreme skepticism #because i promise i PROMISE that the vast majority of people unhappy with biden are not going to turn around and vote for trump #and if they do? well guess what THAT'S BIDEN'S FAULT! nevermind the vote uncommitted campaign that was very successful and #will be replicated in the near future. but liberals only care about asthetics and superficial and not #about real material change which is why they'll dress up their callousness and racism in a 'you hate gay people if you dont vote for biden' #like this country is already going to shit we are rapidly descending into fascism and i dont see biden doing anything to even remotely #challenge it do you???? once agian. NOT an endorsement of the republican party but my GOD when the 'lesser evil' #is DOING the evil or normalizing the evil then you cannot settle for 'the lesser'! end of story.

[crispycreambacon]

S-oar Wounds

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Warning: The fic above contains brief depictions of violence, gore and death. Moreover, the themes of this fic heavily involve trauma, specifically PTSD. If any of the following distresses you, please read with caution or refrain from clicking the fic.

The Professor finally reunites the Sword and the Oar after years of being apart. But can they even be together again after everything that happened to them?

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Fun fact! The Oar's piece is based on "Gifu Road Station: Godo, Nagara River Cormorant Fishing Boat" by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige. Another fun fact! The Oar's palette lowkey looks like the gay mlm flag while the Sword's palette looks like the lesbian flag. How fun! How gay even :3

Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!! I hope y'all are doing swell whether you're spending today with your partner, your friends, your family, or you're simply vibing. As for me, I cooked up another fic featuring your favourite gay couple! Don't let the oar pun in the title fool ya, this is uhm. I think you can tell from the warning :D

The fic has it all! We got:

An exploration of the Sword and the Oar, particularly how they grapple with their trauma and how it affects their relationship with each other

Honest depictions of, well, life which can get ugly, and sometimes, they don't know how to handle it, but it's okay! It's part of the process

A really cute friendship between the Professor and the Oars! (Albeit the Professor and the Sword uh. Not exactly wholesome especially at the start-)

Hand-holding! And hugs. And general physical affection to even out the amount of drama radiating from this fic

A happy ending! Because they deserve it god DAMN IT

If all of that sounds like up your alley, you can click here to read the fic, click the title or search "S-oar Wounds" by crispycreambacon on AO3. This was a very interesting and cathartic piece to write, and I hope you get even a fraction of that catharsis while reading it too.

Thank you for showing interest in the fic, and even if you don't end up reading it, I hope you enjoy the art. Have a lovely day, everyone!

#I really hope the 8 people who voted for this fic will see it #(silly thought but I hope noa-nightingale in particular sees this I think they would like it) #Please please PLEASE send feedback especially in regards to my portrayal of trauma. I did my best but I definitely can use improvement #This was a challenge but it's one I'm grateful to have undertaken #Gay Oars fans come get your FOOD!!! #the gay oars #the professor #shane madej #<- mayhaps tagging him for more views. but also because 1) he's literally all of them 2) he does appear in the fic. you'll see :3 #puppet history #watcher #watcher entertainment #we are watcher #art #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writers on ao3 #fanart #fanfiction #chris p fried art #chris p fried writings

[danielnelsen]

You can interpret these however you like, and I’d love to read your ideas for other origins or extending these ones in the tags (etc)!

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #dragon age ii #da #da2 #dragon age poll #i had a few other ideas but none that i thought were concrete enough to add here #but then i remembered i can only add 12 options on desktop and i’m on my phone rn so it doesn’t matter anyway lmao #idk whether to do one of these polls for dai because the origins are barely integrated #oh and i feel like this goes without saying but ‘human refugee’ doesn’t count #even if it’s what you’d choose given all these options #i don’t even know what i’m gonna vote here yet. they’d all be pretty interesting #i feel like all of these could be reasonably integrated into the story in a similar way to hawke #except circle mage; that’d be tricky to work into the act 1 plot hmmmmmm

[spacedlexi]

the way the ericson group were at the outbreak just a bunch of troubled kids who made various mistakes or committed crimes and were judged by a system that punished and abandoned them instead of giving them the support and love they needed, are then nearly a decade later put into a situation where now they must judge a troubled child for the mistakes and crimes hes committed against them. and 5 to 3 vote them out 😭

#twdg #i love the way s4 connects back to lees whole 'murderer' thing back in s1 😭 guilt...atonement.....systems of punishment #i love thinking about s1>s4 themes and crying #anyway this is partially why i hate when i see the ericson cast reduced down to 'just some teens' its so much more than that #them being abandoned in a boarding school for troubled kids is SO IMPORTANT its not 'just some school' #anyway its also probably why theyre my favorite cast #theyre literally one of if not the most mature group of the series even while being a bunch of kids who make choices i dont agree with #because they actually love and care about each other. even when theyre mad. because theyre all they have left #i do think the vote was a fair way to handle it even tho i still ultimately find it cruel. they couldve talked it out #but this is still a story that needs conflict to resolve so is what it is #they would rather they leave than have to face their confused feelings. the most immature thing they do. but understandable #they did such a good job crafting that cast for clem GOD an entire ensemble built around her and aj....delicious #zombie/post apoc media about love and community my beloved 😭 #sorry but get tf out of here with that 'humans are evil and everyone dies' lame ass bullshit we are nothing without community #the amount of love pouring out of s4 is like getting my ass kicked but then they give me a big hug and kiss after and send me on my way #s4 my absolute beloved i really love it more and more every time. so much to appreciate even with it the way it is #the themes bro the themes........ the connections between seasons 1 and 4 you are everything to me #it speaks

[andoutofharm]

the thing about the fob healing tour is that it has filled me with so much vindication that now whenever i see Bad Fall Out Boy Opinions (of which so many people are so unnecessarily loud about) it’s literally just like lol okay so you missed the point so bad it makes you look stupid and we are all laughing at you. get laughed at loser we do not have time to entertain your silliness we are busy healing and partying together forever.

#this isnt about anyone specific it’s about a lot of people on various platforms just so blatantly missing the point #1) if you arent a fob fan why does fob and their fans having a good time piss you off. #why does it make you feel the need to make some snarky comment about how Your Band Is Better like. bro you missed the point of BOTH bands #this is so sad for you #2) mania/post hiatus haters who claim to be fans lmao do you realize how idiotic you sound. get a clueeeeeeeee #3) i have chosen not to emotionally engage in polls here because all they do is bring out the worst in people #but also. be for real lmao. you can vote for what you personally prefer and just say that #there is absolutely no need to start cutting one of them down or mocking the lyrics #4) people commenting on joe and pete’s expressions and movements are either so uninformed it’s laughable #or are ​ableist or racist or both #ANYWAY. we have two shows left and i’m so excited for them and that is where i am investing my time and energy #and not engaging with people looking to stir shit up #or just generally bring down the mood #we are better than that.

[sn0wbat]

when you're all vampires already, dressing up as eachother is always an option for halloween. right?

based off a previous doodle i did an earlier year. lmao

it just kinda inspired me???

#low stakes 🦇 #my art #god i'm late - it's 1 am #but it's still halloween somewhere #also yeah bat's clothes are mostly a bit too small for rune #that's because bat is very small #he's in fact swimming in einarr's clothes #anyway. einarr voted most likely to chop his hair off for a costume #you have seen him with short hair. this is nothing to him. it grows back at will so he just doesn't care. it's all fine #so of course he'll copy mort's cut just for the sillies

[last-hourglass]

Rasputin cowboy dance Leonardo says vote for LH!Leon in the @rottmntpeepawpolls opening bracket or he will smite thee with the power of bathrobes and crippling survivors guilt

#rottmnt #rottmnt art #last hourglass #peepaw showdown #yes I started doing the cowboy dance art already what about it #I’m gonna tease you all with it #vote my boy #please #he deserves to have 1 good thing happen to him #his literal soul is eroding because his ninpo took a vacation to the prison dimension PLEASE #his little brother is in a COMA he NEEDS THIS

[latine-showdown]

The fucking audacity of putting a dni on a post that isn’t yours. Like. I literally do not care if gringos vote omg

#it’s because of that one person that said gringos were voting for who would win in a fight #which first of all is stupid because like. maybe 2 people did that #but also if most people really were doing that goku would be sweeping be real #luffy is winning because he’s canonically brazilian #and brazilians have been my number 1 supporters on this blog #but for some reason you’re all making up these gringo luffy fans to get mad over nothing

[littlemourningstarr]

I have a few ideas for some spicy Sekh/Astarion fics, and I might end up working on one before I finish the next longer fic.

#timmy talks #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #sekstarion #astarion x tav #tavstarion #astarion/tav #they're all post game #if i get even one vote i will be ecstatic lol #leaving it at 1 day because in a week I'll prbably have the next bigger fic done lol

[khaotunq]

it is 2am

i have finished all 6 gifsets i was prattling on about

i'm now agonising over what order to post them in over the next week or so

pick for me i'm going to bed pls

no Li Ming because he'd be a repeat of one of the above because it's a theme and i might do him at the end just so i have a complete set but it would literally be me ripping the entire template from gaipa's, lmao

#i'm being unnecessarily cryptic about this it will all become immediately obvious what the theme is soon as i post the first one #i'm still mad i don't have a li ming one #but like i say if the People Want It then i will make it and post it after the first 6 are done #1 day poll because first set will be 7pm saturday if i remember to schedule it #so it is decreed #if this gets more than like 2 votes i may post them in the order they're voted for #absolve myself of all responsibility entirely #i like that a lot

[cloudburst-ink]

#barcode tinnasit #art #fanart #barcode tinnasit isarapongporn #KinnPorsche World Tour #it has been done #you all voted for him so you get him first #i must say i am very pleased with this piece #look at him glow #energizer bunny barcode #IT'S 1:30 IN THE MOOOOOOORNIIIIIINGGGGGGG!!! #wait actually that's so funny because i'm drawing this because i can't sleep #and his sweater says... i cant sleep #he actually wore that sweater though i didn't create that #cue spooky music #IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE #ANYWAY LOOK AT ALL THOSE COLORS #I SURE USED A LOT OF THEM #✨👽🎆🌟🍃🚬 #goodnight

[vethbrenatto]

look. I have not been campaigning for veth in the wizard polls because i do not consider her the most wizard and in principle i take the title and objective of these polls seriously. (though I will admit the post citing her big naturals as a point was compelling.) but if y’all let allura lose the wizard off to essek because you don’t grasp the source material of campaign 1 I will-

#(gets forcibly tackled and held down) #HOW many polls must I watch fandom vote for brutal injustices because you all have not seen campaign 1 outside of TLOVM. how many. #(joke joke joke)

[asleepinawell]

justice for puppets bunker 💀

#mp #I mean yes the fact it has zero means that I didn't vote for it either #that second poll was painful for me #but puppets bunker is so so good and I'm sad #I will hear the soundtrack from the final boss and be compelled to go heal it immediately #the orb hall is the only part I don't like because I find it tedious #I voted for dun scaith in the first one which is my all time fave #and ridorana in the second because math boss and yiazmat #oh wait it just got one (1) vote #ty kind stranger

[omgkalyppso]

Of these, I guess. Tell me if a different line stood out for you!

#my polls #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem #lorenz hellman gloucester #long post #fe3h #these are mostly from his A supports but you know #i also like him telling hilda 'Before we consider our own future we must first end this war. We must secure a peaceful world.' #for three reasons! 1. highlights how his priorities have changed wrt finding a spouse #2. is blatant about a proposal being hilda's idea / initiative #3. can imply a love for other characters and he wants to see how things turn out with them first #(to ME that was fae/byleth. but pick your poison) #i'm going to vote for the matters of status quote #because i felt like all that characterization wrt leonie and byleth was forgotten for hopes and i hated it #his growth is very important to me

[gravi0la]

Not to be on negativity on main, as I'm simply not that kinda person (I'd rather focus on the good fun stuff) but there's one detail worrying me about these elections.

I've already seen people say they'll vote certain candidates even though they DON'T LOG IN AT ALL, just to get the chance of seeing one of their favorite ccs on here.

If these elections were simply to add a person, I wouldn't have cared at all. But the fact that being president involves a bunch of other stuff here, it feels really unfair to vote on someone who barely knows anyone on the server, does not log in, does not know the lore, etc.

Yes this is about Wilbur although the same can be said about some other ccs. Read the tags.

#Wilburs my biggest worry because he has a massive fucken fanbase #and if they all decide to vote en masse then nothing can be done abt it. kinda fucked up #YES i know theres lore reasons as to why it would be funny but can we leave the past behind please. Its not fair to the ccs of other 1/2 #countries. just because you want english-speaking protagonism 😐 #No this isnt hate on him i do want to see him on the server #qsmp #qsmp elections

[andromedasummer]

this shit sucks. tomorrow is a stay in bed and set up a writing blog day. mend my clothes day. move some boxes day.

#looks like racist grandpa is weaseling into parliament with right wing and Extra Right Wing #so all three of these parties is gonna be a clusterfuck of a govt because they fucking HATE each othet #nats have only got themselves to blame got not scrounging up enough votes to make a majority without the fucking gutter scum #to bolster their numbers #i dont want to even begin to think about how bad the housing market is about to become now foreign buyers are gonna be able #to come in and buy holiday homes again while most people cant even afford to buy their first house #and no cause evictions are gonna come back #our new pms hero is david cameron and he raised his family in fundementalist christian organization in the us #before coming back here. taking over our biggest airline #and proceeded to either 1. actively make the decision to underhandedly sell plane parts yo the saudis #2. was so incompetent he didnt notice that his company was underhandedly selling plane parts to the saudis #and national went ''yeah this guy who runs away mid-interview when he doesnt like the questions and who is a doormat in debates will do'' #we have a wet fucking mop of a bigot for our pm now and we're stuck with him for the next 3 years and THATS THE GOOD PART COMPARED #TO EITHER ONE OF THE RACISTS WHO ARE GONNA BECOME DEPUTY OM #*PM #hhhhfUCK