#it's a win for me regardless

[famouscyclenerd]

"Stay out of it. She's not ready, and neither is he, no matter how many presents he brings." - ACOFAS

(Their book was not next)

"Let's focus on helping one sister before we start on the other."

"Shall I tend to my little garden forever?"

"He'd never once in the two years he'd known her found Elain to be plain, but wearing black, no matter how much she claimed to be part of this court (the Night Court) ... it sucked the life from her."

"But Elain ... The Spring Court had been made for someone like her."

"With a new war possible and Briallyn up to her bullshit with Koschei, we need a strong ally. We need the Spring Court's forces."

"We need to tell him the news, and permanently station him (Lucien) at the Spring Court to contain any damage and to be our eyes and ears."

"Lucien can't be entirely trusted anymore."

"He should have asked someone before coming here how much time remained before Vassa would be forced to return to the continent - to the sorcerer-lord at a remote lake who held her leash, and had allowed her to leave only temporarily, as part of a bargain Feyre's father had struck."

"Lucien stared out the window - as if he could see the lake across a sea and a continent. As if he were setting his target."

"Find me when you wish to begin."

-- *contains minor HOFAS spoilers*--

There are so many more quotes I could include, but yeah. I just feel like elucien's book has been set up so perfectly in SF. And from what I've read, I just cannot comprehend how their book won't be next.

Vassa's time is extremely limited and the matters with Koschei seems rather urgent. Especially Tamlin and the Spring Court! We have Lucien back in Spring, who we appearently cannot entirely trust, and then we have Elain and how the Spring Court was made for someone like her. Who doesn't fit in the Night Court. Who finally wishes to spring into action.

Yes, Azriel had his own bc. But Elain was in that very bc as well as being mentioned in feysand's bc. She and Lucien were mentioned actually. Azriel was not.

Elain was also absent in HOFAS even though (as of SF) she no longer wishes to remain a passive character. It takes place months after the events of SF and (from what we've gathered) it doesn't seem like Azriel has it all figured out yet. Gwyn also returned to to library which, to me, seems like their story is put on hold... for now. Especially with Elain (finally) wanting to take action.

So my guess is that elucien's book is next and takes place before/during HOFAS, which would explain Elain's absence due to her not residing in the Night Court while Bryce was there.

While gwynriel's book happens during/after the events of HOFAS.

Having Azriel's book last is also a smart move from a marketing perspective since he is by far the most popular character. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#i really don't mind having az' book first #it's a win for me regardless #this is just my opinion #elucien #gwynriel #pro elucien #lucien vanserra #elain archeron #pro elain archeron #pro elain #acotar

[marinecorvid]

are you actually serious did yuzu really get nuked bc the ppl managing it did the ONE FUCKING THING YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN MESSING AROUND WITH THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF MEGACORPORATIONS????????????

#come ON man this is (not-)piracy 101. you don't charge people or hide stuff behind a paywall #like dont get me wrong nintendo's a bitch about emulation and hacking and modding and might've gone after them regardless #but maybe it wouldn't have been such a cut n dry deal. maybe yuzu would've been able to win the case like other emulators have done #but no. no. fucking patreon #yuzu #citra #nintendo

[naivety]

So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.

[...]

Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.

Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective

#indigenous action #2024 elections #voting #on one hand i think if one opponent is a mask off fascist white people have an obligation to vote against them As The Least We Can Do #but if that's all we're doing? that and bullying other people who see a futility in participating in a colonial institution of 'democracy'? #sorry but um. shut the fuck up #if we spent half as much energy on direct action to support each other in ways that help people REGARDLESS of who wins what election #as we did on yelling at Other Leftists about voting i think we would get a hell of a lot more actual shit done #and sure as hell help more actual real life people who we claim to be helping by yelling at other people to vote #i'm talking to me here like #our current blue harm reduction candidate actively supporting a genocide should make you feel like maybe this shit doesn't fucking work #because it doesn't <3 #harm reduction as the least we can do needs to be a call to action via vote AND actual action or it's not a call to anything at all #the least we can do needs to be motivating AND convicting #it's the least we can do so fucking do it. it's the least we can do so if that's All you do sit the hell down or stand the fuck up #for people who the status quo serves it needs to be the ballot AND the bullet or our ballot means fuck all for real liberation

[mishapen-dear]

tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

#qsmp neg #qsmp crit #discourse #<- for blacklists #im not grumping or anything im just musing on like. the mechanics of why everyone is so upset about the latest fight #and how it can be avoided while still keeping these fights genuinely difficult and intense #its hard because there's so many players and they all have wildly different strengths and weaknesses #so someone who could take on the code easy needs that enemy scaled differently than someone who isn't a big fighter #but it's hard to do that in a world where they interact w the same enemy #and you only have so much man-power to cater to a big server like this one #and then you bring in the big powerful items that the players can and can't access but which the admins have ultimate power over #and the fact that some of the admins themselves have lag issues or aren't super great at pvp so they accommodate that with better gear #and it starts getting messy #but for the fights themselves yeah regardless of what armour or gear or killing-methods they use there should Always be a win condition #and idk maybe there was one and we just didn't get to see it #but if that win condition is 'parents sit in the safe room with their babies while the others are overrun' #then i think there are ways to build better win conditions #anyway i love game design and player/dm interactions qsmp hire me now i want to know your behind the scenes #jk im too busy to apply #but man. i wanna nerd out so bad that sometimes i think about it

[gayanimebitches]

YURI HAS WON. YURI WILL ALWAYS WIN

#THE LINE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE SCALES OF LOVE AND GOD ACKNOWLEDGE ME I STILL LOVE YOU IS SO METAL #YURI WILL ALWAYS WIN #wataoshi #i'm in love with the villainess #screencaps #wataoshi spoilers #RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #YURI HAS WON YURI HAS WON YURI HAS WON YURI HAS WON

[parkercore-69]

i was a victim of the gravity falls to transgenderism/buzzfeed unsolved (+watcher) pipeline and i made a visual representation for it.

#i watched gravity falls when i was nine and came out two years later #LMFAO #i kinned dipper pines too hard guys #to explain it goes: #gravity falls #dipper pines #transgender #ftm #and then it also goes #gravity falls to #buzzfeed unsolved #to a massive special interest in #cryptozoology #and then #ghosts #and #paranormal #dyu see how smart that was guys.. i tagged all the involved topics via explaining the post #cheeky sneaky that was #man i shoulda realised i was trans i cosplayed as dipper pines (tucked my long hair into the hat as well) when i was 10 for world book day #fucks sake #also a special thanks to tree fu tom. danny phantom and horrid henry #for turning me male #is this a coming out post i dont think ive mentioned im trans before #i’m trans! #diversity win! the guy yu see making trobed fanart sometimes is transgender! #im also autistic fun fact #ignore my spider-man bedding #i still pull bitches regardless of it

[andaniellight]

The Cursed Holy Homoeroticism (of Zoro and Saga) (2004)

#it's always a whiplash to me whenever i remember and compare Zoro's backstory to everyone elses' #Zoro 'my life is yours' and Saga 'i promise i'll find you' you'll always be so famous to me #tho ZoLu still wins regardless (because these movies aren't exactly canon for some reason) #One Piece #The Cursed Holy Sword #Roronoa Zoro #Monkey D. Luffy #Tohma One Piece #Straw Hat Pirates #oh to be loved like a dog... #also of course it's Scott Street 😉

[skunkes]

#actually getting worried about political stuff bc i live in texas like if i cant transition or get sterilized I may kms. #im already feeling pain over not being able to transition in early 20s. i rly want to do so before 30.... #genuinely feeling discouraged about doing things to make my future better bc what future is there if i cant have these 2 things #(not saying theres anything firmly in place to scare me abt this atm but idk. i feel In Danger regardless. i Live In Texas.) #talkys #(and Biden is NOT going to win the election.) #like i only want to move out so i can transition bc i refuse to date if i still look like this #so if i cant transition or get sterilized ill just rot here forever. 0 point of living if no potential for finding love

[benetnvsch]

guy who meows and second guy who has impossibly high standards for meows

#Don't know what im talking about?? look up Kunikida close call (trust- he meows in that it's great) #ALSO FUN FACT - Dazai reacts with the exact same phrase after each meow (マジか) regardless of quality which is so funny to me #kunikida is out here putting his entire soul into that last meow and Dazai reacts no differently than his first <//3 #it's basically a phrase meant to be like “for real?”/“for serious?” way and can have both pos and neg connotations but given Dazai says it #the EXACT same way all three times I think it's funniest to imagine he still wasn't satisfied with Kunikida's last meow #he's a lil shit and I love him for that #kunikida doppo #Dazai osamu #kite draws #though this is more like a doodle #hhh #kite watches bsd #bsd #my caption for this on twitter was significantly funnier I think- #it was uhhh very similar but better #it was guy who meows vs guy who only reacts with マジか #who will win? #FKJHF

[cathodic-clairvoyant]

Oh hi there transfem discussing her experience in the trans community i just had a quick question about your post

What does tme mean?

Oh okay i see i understand, thank you.

What does transmisogyny mean?

Ah I see, I get it.

What's a trans woman?

Oof scary. One last question.

What's a woman?

Thank you for being my own personal google (not like you had anything better to do right?) and derailing the point of your post for my own personal education. I will now add nothing of value to this post in return. Bye bye!

#channel 3 #ignore me i'm bitching #it's just like. somehow the word tme/tma magnetizes people who refuse to do a second of thinking EVERY SINGLE TIME #like on one hand i almost feel bad for bitching #because generally if someone is unaware enough to ask theyre probably not aware of the precedent of multiple tme people asking on every post #what tme/tma means #BUT ALSO it happens so often it straight up feels like it's intentional #and like even if you don't want to look it up i feel like it's easy to guess by context clues #but like regardless of that #could you imagine going to literally any other discussion like that and asking them to define basic terms #'hi thank you for sharing your math thesis with us. just one question what does that t shaped symbol mean? this one: +' #'hi thank you for your in depth analysis of whether the cubs win this year. just one question. what's baseball' #'hi thank you for this in depth character analysis. just one question. what's a book?' #like in all of these cases we can agree that either a. they're a bad actor or b. they're not doing the bare minimum to engage with the post #why is it that people think it's still okay to do that on posts by transfeminists? (<- knows the answer) #(also i'm sure this also happens to cisfeminists but i think more people know better than that now) #like. if you do this i don't think you're evil or like transmisogyny incarnate or whatever but like. in the nicest way #i want you to think through what you expected to happen with. like sincerely and ask yourself was this productive to anyone #did this add anything of use to the post or to anyone else #explaining tme/tma doesn't add use to the post because transfems have explained it billions of times elsewhere #and knowing what it means is generally the bare minimum for interacting with a post discussing transmisogyny #so who does it help to ask? further who does it hurt to ask? in what context might my question be taken? #whagever who give a shit

[thatgirlonstage]

Holds Natsuki Subaru in my hands

#re:zero #tal reads #I have. my current super loose overarching theory is #that in some grander Fate’s Design sense this boy is SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD #I don’t know WHY but I think he’s not supposed to survive #and that whatever Satella did with the return by death thing was basically a like #glitch in the universe that forces it to keep retrying until it finds the one (1) reality where he survives #you know your dr strange ‘in how many realities do we win’ ‘just one’ type thing #my WILDLY speculative theory about this is that there was another whole timeline that Subaru has forgotten #and that the entire story is a time travel/resurrection spell to save him gone wonky as hell #where the universe knows he isn’t supposed to be alive so IT KEEPS TRYING TO KILL HIM #but every time it succeeds it has to reset and let him try again #I HAVE VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE FOR THIS. TO BE CLEAR. #like I have a LITTLE but it is 92% just me Making Shit Up that sounds vaguely possible #but. regardless. my theory is that it’s not Like This just bc subaru sucks #it’s like this bc the game is rigged both for and against him simultaneously #so he’s gonna survive but it’s gonna suck the WHOLE time

[stonecoldsilly]

it’s not even out yet but I have absolute faith in the pack of pixies fixing me and all my little problems in an hour and fifteen minutes cos if anyone can do it they can!!!

💕In Aabria We Trust Babey💕

#therapy speedrun #did aabria deserve eighteen episodes? YES #is she gonna absolutely kill it regardless? YES #never let me down before I know they won’t I know it #acofaf s2 here we fucken go #ruehob girlies stay winning #a court of fey and flowers #acofaf #dimension20 #dimension 20 spoilers

[goldiipond]

Skye how r u feeling about reaching 10k 🎤

great job go team !!!!!!

#skye's doodles #<- (technically .) #HFGHFG unfortunately i am a neurotic prey animal who canot handle that wretched blue box and have only been occasionally checking the notes #but i didnt know we hit 10k YAAAY pretty sure i only have 1 other post that has made it that far? well regardless. skye always wins #absolutely wild this post is very close to pushing me into a 4 digit follower count. one thousand people to talk to about don t/pn.... #sepiamestus #shrimps squad

[solarisgod]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS THE PLACE WE DID OUR PLACEMENT LAST SEMESTER SENT US AN EMAIL SAYING WE CAN APPLY TO POTENTIALLY WIN AN AWARD + $750 VALUED SCHOLARSHIPS BECAUSE THEY NOTICED OUR DEDICATED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PLACE SO WE'RE AN EXCELLENT CANDIDATE FOR THIS AWARD

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ OOC . › #[ OH MY GOOOSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ] #[ YOU GUYS THIS IS EVERYTHING TO US AND ESP. ME !!!! ] #[ WE REALLY DID WORK OUR ASS SO HARD DESPITE OUR AUDHD OFTEN GETTING THE BEST OF MY PERFORMANCE ] #[ gonna have to write them an 800 word essay by the end of March ] #[ before we'll see if we'll be one of the three to win this award AAAAAA BUT REGARDLESS ] #[ THE FACT THAT WE GOT CONSIDERED FOR THIS???? WE'RE ALL SO HAPPY AND ESP. ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]

[echthr0s]

god damn. I couldn't care less if """the average tumblr user""" (whatever that means) listens to rap or not, everyone making posts about this nonissue sounds incredibly fucking annoying about it

#''i think people have forgotten -- or never knew -- that music is an ~art~'' good fucking lord. #once again (and forevermore): i love how tumblr users play with superiority complexes like dolls #did you win. did you win the internets. #... oop i guess that moon/mars square just hit me a little late in the day. forgive me. or not; i meant what i fucking said regardless

[hella1975]

we may have lost another one to the bisexual hotgirl and straight loserboy agenda but trust i am fighting it comrades 🫡

#IM TRYINGGGGG. the fuck of it all is that we've been going on dates on and off for WEEKS now #and i said to him at the start im not looking for anything serious and there's a chance he might be mugging himself off #bc i am just NOT emotionally available and low and behold we were at the pub the other night and wound up having a pretty #serious talk about how ive really liked getting closer to him and i genuinely enjoy our time together but i just cant see anything #serious coming of it NOT BC OF HIM BC GENUINELY I FEEL LIKE IVE MET MY MATCH WITH THIS BOY #NO ONE IRL CAN BANTER WITH ME LIKE HE CAN AND THAT IS SUCHHH A CRUCIAL BOX TO TICK WITH ME #but i just dont think im mentally or emotionally in the place for a relationship and i dont like him ENOUGH to fight for it #like it's been v illuminating v much that 'you never realise just how mentally ill you are until you try persuing a romantic relationship' #bc DAMN. i feel insane like why cant i just be normal about things and enjoy nice things and people in my life #BUT despite me saying all this to him and TRYING NOT TO BE THE ASSHOLE he has fully admitted that he likes me SO MUCH #that he'd like to keep going on dates and stuff regardless of the end result. like he genuinely just likes my company #and will take it in any capacity he can get he literally SAID that he's whipped for me 😭 #and im like HOW DO I WIN HERE. IF I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT IM AN ASSHOLE BUT CUTTING HIM OFF ISNT FAIR EITHER #AND I LIKE OUR LITTLE DATES AND BEING SPOILED AND HAVING SOMEONE BE A LITTLE OBSESSED WITH ME #SORRY IF THAT MAKES ME A BAD GUY. GOD FORBID WOMEN DO ANYTHING #ughhhhhhh. so yeah we're going on another date tonight. shoot me i dont care!!!! #hella goes to uni