I really love these panels visually bc I feel like they really illustrate Thistle's relationship with the royal family
There's a visual separation between Thistle, at the other end of the sofa, and the family, accentuated even more by the fur in between them. Despite that, you get the sense that he's closer to them than you'd expect a normal jester to be, as he is present at such a delicate family moment, and he does get to sit leisurely at the sofa arm. And yet, he's still executing his role as a jester during it, still playing the lute, the difference in standing between them and the others clear
and then, the moment when he puts the lute down and is fully integrated into the scene, is only when he comes closer to see the baby Delgal
which I feel is symbolic of the way Thistle would've been "part of the family" but not really family, not until Delgal came along... which aside from Thistle having more trouble to connect to humans due to different lifespans as he grow older, the trauma of seeing the king being murdered, the amount of years he spent with Delgal in general... is an important reason why he's so attached to Delgal specifically
Listen, im just a pilot. I know nothing about politics, i know nothing about anything but how to identify a critical engine using P.A.S.T. and how to read a fucking airspeed indicator.
But lets talk a little bit hypothetical for a second. Okay. Cool. Biden sucks as bad as trump. Lets say that. Lets say they equal the exact same amount of badness as each other
What in the FUCK is your plan? Whats your plan???? Vote Kennedy? The guy who hates vaccines? Vote some third party candidates that nobody’s heard of? Blow up the senate? I know damn well youre not doing that, because people would have already, and violence isn’t a god damn solution and you fuckers know it.
So what now? Whats your wonderful beautiful plan to keep everyone safe? I Really want to know so i can help, because last i checked, voting fucking matters no matter what, and despite joe being literally genocidal, if democrats win one more time the gop will lose their shit and Hopefully!! Explode, allowing maybe actually decent fucking candidates into office in a later date
Maybe joe biden will die! Maybe we wont have Supreme Court members resign, leaving a republican supreme court for a really long time! Maybe things will get slightly fucking better and not significantly worse!!!!
love that we have all apparently been walking around with an entire offline copy of tumblr in our browser caches for weeks, and the collective mood was just 'hmm site is barely functioning. well, that's normal'
still fascinated by the number of posts i see outlining "fix-its" for ofmd season 2 that amount to simply proposing that ofmd ought to just be a completely fundamentally different story that it never at any point showed any interest in being. you gotta learn to tell the difference between a story failing at what it's trying to do and a story that was always doing something you didn't want
"why didn't we get a full flashback episode showing the depth of ed and izzy's intense sexually charged relationship and how good and healthy it used to be before deteriorating and showing how izzy in his devotion always thought he was acting in ed's best interests" well, because then viewers might have thought izzy was always motivated by sincere concern for what he truly believed were ed's best interests, which would lead them into error
The reason why politicians don't institute UBI or free housing is not *only* based on conservative values. It's not because they don't know it would be better for the economy. It's because the threat of homelessness and starvation are a cudgel they can use to beat the working class into submission.
They *know* that it would be better for everyone, and they don't want that. They want the power to oppress and control others.