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genocidehim · 1 year

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Lalo and Nacho both becoming obsessed with you after you serve them at a restaurant and stealing you away to be a part of their throuple

notes: gender neutral, throuple, unhealthy obsession, smut, superficial description of sex scenes, unhealthy non-canonical behaviour. words: 719

Normally, Nacho didn't usually coincide much with Lalo, both had completely different personalities and very opposing ideas, but in that way they fit together quite well as a rather... complicated couple.

But if there was one thing they both immediately agreed on, it was the attraction they felt for you when you attended to them that night at the restaurant where you worked.

What had you done to get both of their attention at once? Nacho wondered, and Lalo preferred to keep his deductions to himself. It could have been your kindness in serving them, perhaps the way you looked, because of course, physical attraction was a very powerful factor in this attraction, but there was something else, and Nacho wasn't sure.

Over time, that small liking turned into an obsession. Lalo wasted no time investigating you while Nacho refused to participate in the silent stalking. However, he was always the first to ask Lalo about the things he had discovered about you; name, family, economic status, and even your romantic relationships.

Lalo seemed fascinated with you, as if his idealized version of you was slowly filling the void that had changed between him and Nacho like the missing piece.

Lalo was convincing, he managed to sweeten his ideas to Nacho so that he began to fantasize about the idea of both possessing you, having you under their control, using you for their pleasure. Nacho didn't seem very convinced with the idea if it involved your lack of consent, but Lalo assured him that it wouldn't be like that, that you would fall for them if they played their cards right.

It was a two-against-one hunt, and unfortunately, you were not prepared for what was to come.

Their lunches and dinners at the restaurant where you worked became more and more common. Then unexpected encounters at parties you attended started happening until that pair became a recurring part of your life, not just regular customers. When you waited on them, they always followed the same dynamic; Lalo was bold in flirting with you and very explicit, while Nacho played the role of the quiet guy who gave you sweet looks and small smiles.

You noticed how both of them seemed to be able to coexist happily while trying to get your attention at the same time, without any jealousy or annoyed looks from either of them, as if they were playing on a team. And that was exciting, having two very attractive men joining forces to capture your attention.

At some point where they knew your work schedule and had enough time to offer to take you home, the topic was approached and it came up naturally.

Against all odds, Nacho was the first to take the step when they were alone. An unexpected kiss at the entrance of your house that ended in some passionate and sweet sex. Then came Lalo, who approached you in his own car while taking you home. He couldn't hold back his desires and had to park in the middle of a lonely road to fuck you against the back seat until you were dizzy and speechless.

Then came the mutual flirting, then the shared caresses. Lalo loved to approach your mouth and take care of your lips while Nacho used his skilled hands to caress and masturbate your pussy until it was dripping and squirting.

Although those encounters were infrequent, they intensified when both agreed that you should be part of their strange non-formal relationship. Now their sexual encounters were more common and needy, ending with one of them fucking you while the other was masturbated to exhaustion by you. But when obsession became the main theme of that dynamic, everything got worse for you.

Now you practically lived at Lalo's house, and he started making excuses for you not to go to work. Then came your resignation and ruined friendships due to Lalo's possessiveness, under the harsh gaze of Nacho, who didn't seem to agree with ruining your life just to keep you close to them. However, he was a very hypocritical asshole because deep down, Nacho loved the idea of knowing that you would be available for some casual sex twenty-four hours a day.

Both of them were obsessively possessive of you, but one hid it better than the other.

#better call saul x reader #breaking bad x reader #bcs x reader #nacho varga #nacho varga x reader #nacho bcs #ignacio varga #one short #request #lalo salamanca x reader #lalo salamanca #lalo salamanca imagine #smut

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snarky-art · 8 months

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The Winx’s main family trees with general info about genetic traits on the planets their family hails from included!

This was done at the request of @charmixpower and I did it because I love er.

Please note that the hair colors present on the grandparents of the Winx aren’t necessarily accurate to what it would be at the age I’ve drawn them as. Many would be less saturated in color, graying, white, streaks, ya know,, older age stuff. I just did it for the sake of showcasing the phenotypes and where the parents and the Winx get some of their physical traits from.

General notes and trivia of what’s written down down here below the cut because cursive is hard to read for some people and also general ID stuff! + some additional info, relationship info for couples and the extended family I just didn’t write down on the pics and some real world cultural influence updates for certain worlds and groups in my rewrite!

Stella’s Family Tree

-Luna’s given name is Margaret, and Luna is a name taken on by whomever is chosen to be the head Priest of The Temple of The Moons. She was also known as Raza while she was apart of the group of priests working for the previous Luna, titles for other lower priests being given variations for moons and light

-The name Luna is the Solarian version of the name for the Priest whose head of The Temple of The Moons. The title to Lunarians is Delia.

-Luna actually has a lot of siblings, 14 to be exact, and they’re all girls

-Darcy’s mom is named Hestria, and her Father is named Leander

-There are two groups of Lunarians in terms of phenotypic traits: A group who’s ancestors traveled outside of the inside of the moons vast inner workings of caves and caverns later on, and those who’s ancestors stayed primarily inside, only gaining access to outside light and moonbeams through holes and entryways to the surface. These spots where moon beams shine down were highly revered in the past and still hold a cultural significance to both groups of Lunarians, but hold a stronger significance for those that stick more closely to the way of life involving staying in the cave systems within the moon more. Travel and life on the surface is very common in the modern day and the general attitude towards staying underground is more neutral now, but there are still small groups with more extreme views on it and see outside travel as something more foolish and disrespectful to The Moons, and small groups who inversely see those who hold those views as “backwards” and “stuck in the past.”

-the pupils of both Lunarians and Solarians are different, with the colors matching to the variance of shades that the magic of the respective cores of the Suns and the Moons have, showcasing their connection to this magic as apart of their own Magical Core. The same goes for the variety in colors for their pupils, the color influenced by the colors of the Moons and Suns energy in general though as opposed to their cores.

-On average, Lunarian hair color is less intense and less saturated than Solarian hair color. Stella gets her blond from her mother, but the intensity of its color is bolstered by the traits from her dad’s side.

-Lunarian cultural dress and cultural aspects in general is based primarily of of Romani people, with some general Slavic influence as well and some Greco Roman stuff intermingled with it as a result of Solarian culture

-Solarian cultural dress and cultural aspects are based predominantly on Greco Roman and Aztec elements

-Radius is a title for that which is to act as the main ruling figure of Solaria, which is a term that includes both the planet of Solaria itself as well as Lunaria, which is under its dominion to an extent still as a result of an Imperialist past. They are set more as equals in the current day with Lunaria being free to follow their own traditions and cultural practices now as they wish and set their own rules of governance, but there are still issues with the planet Solaria seeing itself as being able to overrule certain things in terms of governance if they deem it right to do so. There’s still sociocultural clashes too and more reparations needed to properly make up for the Imperialism the planet of Solaria is responsible for in its past and to an extent current day, and it’s a common point of contention talked about in political courts and meetings.

-Radius’s given name is Ciro

-Radius does have a brother named Helios, and despite Helios being older, he didn’t take his studies and duties as seriously and chose to pass off his title as next in line to inherit the title of Radius to Ciro. It is important to note that while the title for next in line isn’t inherently tied to birth order, it is the most common way it is done.

Flora’s Family Tree

-Alyssa has 4 siblings, 2 sisters, 1 brother, and 1 sibling. Them, Alyssa, Rhodos, Flora, and Mielle all live in the same large tree in their settlement, which is in a more rural area of Linphea on the outskirts of a bigger city type settlement (still very nature based in its architecture and set up, just with a lot more commerce and a big population, you know,, city stuff lol)

-Rhodos has 1 sibling, a sister who didn’t get along very well with their parents (they tried to enforce a rigid “follow in our footsteps as farmers and continue the family line the same way we did” since she was the oldest, and that was just about as far as possible from what she wanted, which was to travel and research and study. They gave Rhodos much more freedom as the younger sibling, and this really upset his sister for obvious reasons. Rhodos agreed and would listen to her vent and support her wants, but wasn't able to say much to their parents because they were so stubborn. Their parents pushed too hard, and eventually instead of pushing back anymore, she just left) and now lives on the planet furthest from the Sun the Moons of Marigold revolve around where it’s coldest. He and his sister still stay in semi regular contact and despite her relationship with their parents being rocky, they still get along very well and she visits Linphea at least once a year.

Notes from the picture:

*leaves and greens for ears are typically dominant over flowers/petals and other colored things

Sclera: varying shades of green from chlorophyll like blood

Iris: tend to match part of the plants on the ears, although can match colors of other plants their parents had

Pupils: similar to sclera, but darker as like our eyes, they're connected to the brain

Tecna's Family Tree

-The people of The Binary Conduit, which Zenith is apart of, are based off of a mix of different Glacial Peoples and Far North groups, including for specific influences on the designs I've chosen here belonging to the Tadar, Teleuts, Nenets, Inuit, and Yupik people specifically.

-The Binary Conduit is a place with a wide variety of cultural groups, but a very similar shared setup for how technology is integrated into their surroundings and environment, the primary goal being for it to co exist alongside the nature of the many planets.

-Somewhat similar to Linphea, there are many smaller settlements and a few big city hub areas on each of the planets. However, while on Linphea the smaller settlements and towns are stationary, there are some groups that choose to move to different spaces throughout the year for different reasons such as climate, food, resources, etc. or as a way to continue the tradition of it regardless. This is less common now than it was in the past due to newer technology, but its still considered an important tradition of the way many of them lived in generations long past, and it isn't uncommon for it to still be done by some groups as a way to honor and appreciate that.

-Tecna has no siblings, but does have many cousins, aunts, and uncles on her dad's side.

-Magnethia has a much smaller family than Electronio, with 2 sisters. Her older sister is married and has 2 children and the other, her younger sister, is happily single with no interest in ever marrying and has a child she adopted. Both of her sisters are also in the research field, Magnethia's emphasis being Cultural Anthropology, her older sister's in Geology, and her younger sister's being Art History with an emphasis in Northern Zenethian Cultures.

-As mentioned in some previous posts, Electronio is part Melodian. A key difference to note as a result of this is his metabolism. Zenethians and those of The Binary Conduit in general tend to have a slower metabolism and also consume less food. Due to the genetics from his dad, he has a faster metabolism and does consume more food, and this is something that was passed down to Tecna as well, granted it isn’t as intense as their dad’s.

Notes from the picture:

-Their magical core color shines in the catchlight of their eyes as their magic flows closer to the surface of the skin. This is to help keep the skin warmer to deal with the cold present on the planet and is a trait shared by most within The Binary Conduit

-not included in the picture, but fun fact: this means it’s not uncommon for babies or those who have lighter skin to glow in certain parts of their body or all over from the way the magic is shown flowing under the skin in vein like patterns.

-There are 2 hair color variation sets: one that is more vibrant and saturated and one that is much darker in color.

Musa’s Family Tree

-The variation in skin tones found in Melody are not uncommonly separated by different provinces and sectors of the planetary group.

-Ho-Boe’s family comes from a more southern area of Melody and his parents are both merchants who run a stand in the market area of their town with them specializing in herbs and flowers. His mom had a beautiful singing voice and could play the magical realm’s equivalent of the Erhu and his father was able to play the magical realm’s equivalent of the Guzheng, Diza, and Pipa. They would both regularly play at different restaurants, bars,and local festivals and concerts and their music was really well loved within their community. Ho-Boe grew up with music as a result, and learned to play all the instruments his parents played (minus the Diza, he had too much trouble with his breath control and didn’t like it enough to want to get better at it) and then some.

-Matlin and her parents are from a northeastern part of Melody and was born into a family of high ranking performers who all worked or would go on to work in Opera’s seen by nobility and high ranking members of their society. Matlin liked it a lot, but after seeing Ho-Boe perform after he saw HER perform and he invited her to one of his gigs (like his parents he too enjoyed performing regularly at different random events and eateries), she gained a love for the style of performance and music he partook in, a less rigid and in her eyes compared to what she grew up around and doing, rawer version of it. She was never really allowed to see this kind of performance because of the strict rules her family adhered to as a way to maintain and uphold their status, and she really fell in love with it, and eventually Ho-Boe after sneaking out and performing together and going to different shows together in secret. She always felt a little stifled by her parents and the restrictions of the life she lived, but it never bothered her enough to say or do anything about it. After learning and seeing how Ho-Boe lived, she finally understood what she really wanted, and her parents and most of her sisters didn’t accept that. Like in the show, she chose to leave it all behind and start a new like with Ho-Boe, and they eventually had Musa.

-She eventually did reconcile with her family to an extent, her father being much more supportive in the end than her mother, but they still loved her in their own way, and she accepted and loved them in her own way too, her being much closer to her dad though. She also had 2 sisters that adamantly supported her and her wants from the start, and she stayed in regular contact with them even during her time of estrangement. Her other sisters came to accept her choices with varying degrees of said acceptance, with the 3rd oldest sister never really accepting it at all and being cold to her for the rest of her life.

-Ho-Boe’s parents adored Matlin from the start and welcomed her with open arms. She was invited to every family dinner, festival, reunion, get together, etc before she and Ho-Boe even started dating, and everyone did tease Ho-Boe about her because they knew he liked her from the start (yes they teased him in front of her some too. She thought it was very funny and endearing how hard Ho-Boe would blush and how flustered he got)

Notes from the picture:

About Matlin: has many sisters, all performers.

-bonus not written down: she has 10, with her being the 6th born. She was closest with her sister born right after her, the 1st born, and the 3rd born. The 3rd born was the one who never truly forgave her for choosing to leave them and their family for Ho-Boe and his way of life and the music he performed, and this hurt her incredibly badly. She grieved the loss of their relationship the most when she left and until the day she died there was still a sting from the way she was shunned even after reconciling with her family.

Aisha’s Family Tree

-Land Androsians are in terms of appearance based mainly off of the Zulu, Ndebele, and a few other general inland areas of Africa along with some Indian influence (this is very broad I know but it just depends on the region they’re from on Andros for specifics here)

-The Sea Androsians in regards to their appearance are based off of the areas of The Middle East with an emphasis on Morocco, Iran, the Amazigh peoples, and areas of Polynesia (similar to the Land Androsians, specifics depend on what region they’re from)

-Generally, Land Androsians have darker skin and hair with less color variety for hair when compared to the Sea Androsians

-Teredor’s mother was the Ruler for The Royal House of Androsia (the name the Land and Sea Androsians use to refer to their place of inhabitance and rule which is separate from the Merpeople and their deep sea kingdom). She took on the role as The Land Androsian for the diplomatic marriage and married someone of Sea Androsian identity who acted as their representative in the rulership. As is customary, Teredor was then assigned as a Sea Androsian for the line of rulership, and married Niobe, someone who was considered a Land Androsian. This means as is customary, Aisha is formally considered a Land Androsian in regards to her role in leadership.

Notes from the picture (and general expansion on what is in the picture):

Labeled General Trivia:

-eyes of Sea Androsians commonly have an iris color that matches their fins, with a more saturated ring of this color around the pupil, and then a darker version of this color for the pupil. This is the result of different lenses that allow for better underwater sight

-this is also why the sclera isn’t white, it’s part of an effect of eye protection for underwater use

-intermingling of Land and Sea Androsian populations and genetics is what results in typically more extreme ear fin size variation and eye color, function, and lens variability. This is whye on of Teredor’s parents (the one with pink hair) has white sclera instead of a blue or green tinted one.

-sometimes iris color varies away from fin color for Sea Androsians and can take on colors of their parents eyes. It’s more common for Androsians with both Land and Sea Androsian genetics to have this happen.

-gills on neck are common for Sea Androsians and typically match the colors of the fins on their ears, but sometimes match a color or color variation of one or both of their parents. This can sometimes happen to the ear fins too.

-land Androsians don’t have them (gills) and the intermingling of genetics from those from the Land of Androsia and those of The Sea part of Androsia result in not every Sea Androsian having them, and some of those who would be classified or identify as Land Androsians do have them

-status as Land or Sea Androsians within the “common” inhabitants (ie not rich nobility or royalty) if they are born into a family that has a combination of traits and family from spaces traditionally associated with one status or the other is fairly fluid for most now with variability on what the individual identifies with, where they live, how they’re raised, etc. Some choose to identify as both, and a term of Beach Androsian is sometimes used and becoming more common in the modern day. It’s a term from the last few hundred years as intermingling has become more common and less of a “reserved for royals” status thing within the attitudes of the general public. It’s a term that was coined by those who wanted to acknowledge both parts of their heritage, but wanted a more succinct concrete term to use for themselves.

-Bonus info: The more casual breakdown of a rigid Land Androsian and Sea Androsian dichotomy is something of an area of contention for those in the higher ranking echelons of society. Teredor cares less than most nobles about it, fairly indifferent to those outside of high ranking society doing it, but a little more reserved about it all together for those who are royalty. Niobe cares more about it and has a lot of grievances and is on par with most nobles in terms of her issues with it. Part of her and Teredor’s arc with becoming more open and accepting of Aisha’s wants and needs is unlearning this concern and being more receptive to it.

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witchthewriter · 2 years

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𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐚'𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞

⤷ female, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!

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🌿INTJ 🍁Gryffindor 📜Lawful Neutral 🔮Capricorn Sun, Scorpio Moon, Leo Rising

SFW🌿

⭑ You were in opposing clans - yours did not follow Lexa’s rule. Your family had thought their representative should have been Commander.

⭑ You both met and fell in love in the forest.

⭑ She had taken time out of her day to decompress in the leafy cover, while you spent most of your time out there.

⭑ Like Aurora (Briar Rose) and Prince Philip in Sleeping Beauty -

⭑ She watched as you spoke to the birds, making sure not to step on snails or bugs. No matter your exterior, your heart was and always will be, gentle.

⭑ Your romance was slow - building and building with each interaction.

⭑You weren’t 100% sure if the woman you had met in the forest was the Commander. She didn’t say she was - but there was something about her demeanor that you found familiar.

⭑ You’re basically the princess of your clan, with your parents in charge. But you don’t hold onto a monarch’s reign, the people just see you as a princess. It’s your nickname.

⭑ You’re definitely a chaotic good

⭑ And Lexa wishes she could have freedom like yours

⭑ So she watches you while you can make your own decisions, without the world on your shoulders

⭑ It isn’t jealousy, because Lexa knows that people have difficulties no matter how privileged they are or appear to be.

⭑ You just choose to follow your heart

⭑ After getting to know Lexa, you realise how truly amazing she really is

⭑ Lexa always puts you at ease. She’s grounding. Truthful. Honest. While also being passionate. (Big Earth and Fire signs).

⭑ You both kept the relationship a secret - only meeting each other alone, in the forest. It became your sanctuary, a place where you could go and feel safe.

⭑ Her proposal struck you with great surprise.

⭑ Lexa is highly protective of you and will do her best to keep you out of dangerous situations. But even as an important figure in the community, you want to do your duty and fight for your people.

⭑ Your parents were completely against the marriage, not because you were both women, but because they hated the infrastructure that Lexa represented

⭑ So you married anyway

⭑ But you didn’t know that Lexa had extended an olive branch and during your reception, all your family was there

⭑ This created a huge change in the future. And this was written in the history books.

⭑ Lexa lets you put on her battle makeup and she does the same for you

⭑ And when the 100 arrives, and the world you know now is shaken to its core - you and Lexa still held strong

⭑ The grounders appear even more collected, as your clan is rather large

⭑ And you’re one of the people to sway Lexa into letting the 100 live

⭑ Relationship Tropes:

✧ Enemies to Lovers

✧ Forbidden Love

✧ Marriage Creates Allies

NSFW🔞minors dni!

⭑ Lexa is surprisingly very gentle during sex. She doesn’t like to be dominant and prefers to be slow and sensual.

⭑ Her fingers grip your thighs as she smells your sex. Leaving little bites on the sensitive and exposed area.

⭑ Pulling her hair and kissing her fiercely

⭑ Grinding on each other and whining until someone gives in and rips the others’ clothes off

⭑ She has amazing fingers and can do wonderous things with them

⭑ Lexa likes fucking you on the throne

⭑ But her favourite place is on the floor, with you on your back.

⭑ Sex isn’t too serious, and light-heartedness surrounds the both of you while you pleasure each other

⭑ Isn’t into risky sex, and likes the safety of her chambers

⭑ Having baths together are a must, and it’s there when she truly worships your body

⭑ She likes humming while cleaning your body and nipping at your tender nipples

⭑ Yeah, she would totally eat ass

⭑ And period sex would be a common occurrence.

#commander lexa #commander lexa x reader #commander lexa headcanons #lexa x reader #the 100 #the 100 headcanons #the 100 x reader #the 100 headcanon #grounders #queer #lesbian #bisexual #pansexual #LGBT #LGBTQIA

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guess-that-ship · 2 months

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S10 Round 1

Not the sharpest bisexuals in the shed

Red's job is to kill people. He has a very annoying second best friend who seems like a tagalong, but is actually terrifyingly competent. Second Best Friend (2BF) has no other friends, possibly due to his spectacular failure to act normal around anyone, ever, and is some twisted type of lawful neutral with a carveout for whatever Red needs, while Red's only other friend is an animal and his sense of morality is a caricature of jingoism—until now, when he's starting to regret his past. They're very violent, and they're both really, really dumb.

2BF is obsessed with Red, way more than Red is with him. However, 2BF is fiercely loyal to him and only him, making him the most reliable backup Red will ever have, and giving 2BF a reason to be more careful about who he kills. When Red chokes, 2BF has his back. Where others are inclined to use Red's dad as leverage, 2BF is very protective of Red and understands the dad as an abuser, as opposed to Red being his legacy. 2BF is also the one who can get through to Red when Red is making bad choices. In spite of 2BF's inability to process emotions in a typical way, he manages to get Red to talk about his own feelings, albeit through the dumbest conversations possible.

While they build good relationships with other coworkers, no one quite gets them like they do each other. They have fun together. They have threesomes (still gay if it's a three way). They blow up shit for giggles and accidentally injure each other and laugh about it. 2BF would die for Red if he had to—but he'd rather kill for him. Red, for his part, appreciates the deepening of their relationship from surface level antics to serious emotional sharing.

The Saviour and The Tainted

cw: attempted murder, burying someone alive

The island is all she ever knew, and by birthright it was rightfully hers to inherit. But soon as the legal proceedings finished, a mysterious Oracle knocked at her door to point an accusing finger at the Tainted one, declaring her unfit for the role. Only she, the Oracle, could be the rightful leader of this island. Within the blink of an eye, the Tainted lost all she ever had and became a prisoner in her own home. One night, however, a man snuck into her house, with promises to bring justice to her and end the Oracle’s corrupt reign. She agreed and played along, though she easily saw through the facade---this “man” was actually a woman in disguise. Whatever reason the Savior had to hide her identity, the Tainted one remained weary.

The Savior kept visiting her at night for months to come to bring news of the outside world, but with every late night spent together sharing secrets, the air between them shifted. An alliance to defeat a common enemy turned into something more affectionate, and nightly debriefs turned into shared moments until the early hours of the morning. But old habits die hard, so the Tainted one decided to ruin what they had before the Savior could break her heart or betray her. Just as the Savior finally bared her heart to her, the Tainted held the Saviour close to her and snuck the incriminating flower in her hair, and watched as the other woman, who fell into her trap, grew dizzy and confused as she writhed in pain. The Tainted could do no more as her beloved collapsed, and was carried off to be buried alive.

Against all odds, the Savior survived and crawled her way out, for she made a promise she had to fulfill. With a little help she brought down the Oracle and her accomplice, revealing the truth behind the island’s mysterious ruler. Her mission accomplished, the Savior left the island and took the freed woman's heart with her. The woman had her home and freedom restored, yet what her heart truly desired will never be within her reach again.

#s10 #tournament poll #s10 round 1

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deeply-unserious-fellow · 2 months

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In the mood to give my weird, probably biased WOY hot take rn so here it goes: Wander and Hater would not last in a romantic relationship.

Like, I do GET the appeal of them as a pairing? It's enemies to lovers! Everybody loves a good enemies to lovers. Plus, WOY really LOVES doing that thing where they throw a LOT of romance coding into non-romantic relationships(Deathglare gets a lot of this too lmao), and Wander is just like. Weirdly flirty? With Hater especially but also just in general. Like I get the impression that that man fucks. He and Jeff have probably had a one-night stand. But I don't think their personalities are compatible for a long-term romantic relationship.

First of all: they're both really impulsive and flighty. Which I guess could work in a relationship if both partners were completely insync with eachother, but Wander and Hater. Aren't. They are not. Plus, putting two people with short attention spans together with nobody to keep them in check is a RECIPE for disaster. There's also Hater's temper, which I don't think any amount of character development would be able to take out completely, and Wander's penchant for frustrating. Everybody. He is a very frustrating person to be around. And while I don't think a long-term romantic SkeletonDance would turn ABUSIVE, like that is ABSOLUTELY taking it too far, I do think it would be VERY unstable. They have the EXACT wrong traits in common, and the traits they DON'T have in common just straight up don't mesh well. I could see them getting together impulsively, because there is some chemistry there, but eventually the relationship would deteriorate from a combination of opposing values and goals, mutual short attention spans, and Wander getting on Hater's nerves. They'd break up, and depending on the circumstances it could end up VERY MESSY. They work better, in the long term, as friends then as romantic partners.

SO, now to address my biases, because there are a few, and I think it's important to acknowledge any potential flaws in your perspective while making an argument. First one being: I just prefer other Hater ships? Like yall know me, I'm a Deathglare girlie til the end lmfao. They're LITERALLY my OTP, you can see the influence the pairing has had on me in pretty much every other ship I've obsessed over since. But like... I'm also a multishipper, and Deathglare isn't exempt from that. I don't have any alternate pairings for Peepers(because he doesn't really interact w/ anybody outside of the main 4 and Dom for some reason and I don't like him w/ any of them except Hater), but I DO have a pretty big one for Hater, and that's Skullhunter(Hater x Ripov). Idk I just think they're kinda cute! And uh. Also a rarepair. Like there's NO content for them omfg- probably because Ripov only had one episode and there are already much more popular Hater pairings... bUT I'm getting off topic, what does this have to do with my potential anti-Skeletondance bias? Well, both of my Hater ships are VASTLY overshadowed by Skeletondance. Like I think Skeletondance is the MAIN pairing in the WOY fandom, and both of my prefered Hater ships kinda get left in the dust, at least in terms of content volume. I believe that at least part of what leads people to hate on popular things in a desire to have what THEY like be mainstream so it's easier to find a community, and I am not exempt from that. I generally like to believe I'm neutral on Skeletondance overall, but there might be some subconcious jelousy directed towards people who prefer Skeletondance that makes me think the pairing just wouldn't work. Also, I headcannon Wander as aromantic, which definitely influences my interpretation of their relationship akrngosmfmekkfoemfke

So uh, yeah. That's why I don't think Skeletondance would work long term, plus a little dissection of things that might've skewed my perspective a bit! Idk why I made this tbh, I might be going insane-

#wander over yonder #wander #woy wander #wander woy #lord hater #not gonna tag this as ship cuzzzzzzz yeah #gal overanalyzes random shit

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hihi was just wondering what your thoughts on daniel's performance? i promise this is NOT hate i love this smiling man so much😭😭 but do you think he has a real shot at an rb seat? he seems really low on the standings and his car stopped for a sec in jeddah i believe? (correct me if i'm wrong tho)

So what are you thinking? I think this season a lot of it depends on how much he can improve and whether or not Christian stays because I believe he has a lot of influence on Danny switching to rb but i'd like better/ more accurate insight :)

sorry it took me so long to answer, I was at work!

there're two different things here, Daniel's performance and the redbull seat.

let's start with the performance:

I promise you, it's not as bad as it looks. the 2 race weekends are easily explainable. Bahrain quali was his fault, he made a mistake and also the car didn't have enough front end for Daniel's preference, they only fixed that IN the race. Saudi qualifying, he made a mistake in one corner and dropped 4 tenths (his gap to Yuki is around 1 tenths all things considered), this time there was too much front, basically they haven't found the sweet spot of the car balance that Daniel would be most comfortable in. Daniel matched Yuki in all the places except one corner. compare that to his mcl days where he was lacking everywhere compared to Lando as shown below:

His race pace is by all accounts either matching Yuki or faster:

(fyi there was something wrong with his car in Saudi too not to mention the pitstop, the assumption rn is the sensors, we don't know how much that affected his race, see here)

He just needs to fix his qualifying and find the right car balance.

now the redbull seat, there's a lot of external circumstances that dictate whether he gets the seat or not, it's not just on his performance, it on Checo's, it's on who is in control of redbull racing and whether they think Daniel will be better for the team (not just on performance) or not. we need a bit more time to pass before it becomes clearer where it's going. I believe he has a great shot. As far as I know , both the Austrian side and the Thai side like him. He's almost neutral when it comes to that. Probably the only common ground atm lol. Max would NOT oppose to have him and he gets on well with Jonathan Wheatley (and Horner like you said). Checo will struggle as we go to tracks that don't suit him, if Daniel starts performing by then, he'll be back in the conversation. F1 is a pendulum that keeps swinging all the time and it swings fast!

I hope it answers your questions 😅

#daniel ricciardo #redbull racing #vcarb

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ARE YOU A TERF? ARE YOU HERE TO BOTHER ME ABOUT THE ABORTION POST FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME? WELL DON'T YOU HURT YOU FRAGILE LITTLE FEMININE HANDS BANGING ON THAT KEYBOARD BECAUSE HERE COMES THE 1-IN-ALL COMPREHENSIVE EXPLANATION YOU'VE BEEN ASKING FOR!

NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!

TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism. It is radical feminism, meaning it places opression of women at the root of all forms of oppression, and it is trans exclusionary, meaning it excludes trans people from belonging in their own gender.

TERFism opposes the blurring of the sexes, and is in favor of strict segregation in many parts of life, including sports, bathrooms, shelters, and doctor offices. A recurring TERF talking point is opposition to the use of gender-neutral language in medicine, particularly when it comes to reproductive care.

The purpose of gender neutral language is to include trans people. The emphasis is sometimes put on "making trans people feel included", and while that's part of the picture, there is also a legal component to this. That is to say, the gender neutral language is there to ensure that trans people will not be denied care for their identity. If a procedure is listed as female only, a trans man who needs it can be turned away, or have insurance coverage denied.

A common counter-argument is that this cannot happen. Doctors can always tell what genitals you have at a glance and will provide you with appropriate care regardless of what your papers say. This is a silly concept that betrays an overabundance of faith in the medical establishment. Cases like this have already happened, and have been happening since Robert Eads died of ovarian cancer that doctors refused to treat.

Another counter-argument is that the trans men who find themselves in this predicament had it coming. They put themselves in this situation by transitioning, and only have themselves to blame for being unable to receive medical care. This argument is ghoulish, and betrays a willingness to use access to healthcare as a bargaining chip to force trans men into detransition or desistance.

A third is that this is unfortunate, but TERFism offers the solution: forcibly detransitioning all trans men into their proper sex . This is genocidal. I am not willing to debate this point, same as i am not willing to debate whether homophobia could be solved by conversion therapy.

"no abortions for trans men" is not an official TERF stance. It is, however, a byproduct of their rhetoric and their activism. Collateral damage, if you will. The only on-topic responses i have received so far fell under one of the three counterarguments discussed.

EDIT: NEW COUNTER-ARGUMENT EVERYBODY! "that's not what radical feminists believe at all, read what we actually say". That's just the No True Scotsman fallacy, combined with a pretty obvious recruitment attempt. Maybe you have constructed a version of radical feminism that's compatible with abortion rights, but that's not the version with actual political power. That version is the version of JK Rowling and Posie Parker, the version that gladly allies with anti-abortion orgs and neonazis. And you're helping defend it with this rhetorical switcheroo, by derailing criticism of it with "uhhh but what about my version where it's good and cool" well you're more mad at people pointing out the nazi infiltration of your movement that at the nazis, and more mad about trans people existing than either of those, so it already doesn't bode well for you. Not interested in reading your transphobic screeds, bye

#i feel like I've made this fucking post ten times #also who am i kidding they're not gonna see it #but i can link it to them next time they decide to dig up the same goddamn post #added link to the definition of genocide since terfs dont seem to know what that means

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Short version: racists, stop co-opting religious symbols, because now I can't tell who's just religious and who's using those symbol to declare their racism.

Long version (under the cut):

Something happened to me in the late 2000s where I stopped seeing crosses as a source of comfort. Like, I have one in my bedroom, but I mean seeing crosses on other people, like on necklaces and things. As a kid, seeing them made me feel safe, to a degree, because I automatically "knew" that I had something in common with the people wearing them.

And then I started listening to the kinds of things that most of those people said, and all of the comfort bled away.

I'm still Christian, but I never see a cross anymore and think, "Oh, that person believes the same things I do!" More often, they believe the exact opposite. I generally hate to be an idealism purist, same as claiming to know everything and have all of the answers, but I DO know that Christianity has rarely been what Jesus wanted, and never when it was the predominant religion of the ruling class. Even though what these people practice clearly ISN'T Christianity, though, the religion itself and its symbols mostly make me feel uncomfortable now.

Well, I'm starting to feel the same way with Stars of David. And I DETEST that. Because, just like with my religion, I KNOW that Judaism is NOT what Zionists and evangelical hate groups are trying to make it into. I know that more Jewish people than not oppose the genocide in Palestine because they've been victims of countless genocides themselves and know that "never again" means for everyone, not just Jews. I know that Judaism is not a religion or ethnicity built on hate. But, just like I know the same about Christianity while evangelicals and fundamentalists clearly don't, I know this about Judaism while Zionists don't. I can't even say there's a significant difference between the two, because, at least in America, nationalism has tainted both to the degree that most public figures of both Christianity and Judaism are the loudest supporters of Israel. And now I'm wary every time I see a Star of David in someone's profile picture, because I don't know if it's from a Jewish person who's rightfully proud of their heritage and/or religion, a Jewish person loudly reaffirming their faith by asserting that their beliefs don't condone genocide, or a Zionist who co-opted the symbol for their hate crimes or support of them.

I hate it.

I mean, what next? Am I going to start feeling uncomfortable when I see the aum? The crescent? The yin yang symbol? Which group is going to take a religion -- an inherently neutral thing -- next and turn it into something vile that makes me question the morals of everyone associated with it?

I don't hate religions. I love the ways that people have faith and express it. I love the different ways that so many human beings see God or the divine. Religion is not the enemy because, to paraphrase David Mitchell, people have killed each other in the name of anything, whether it was politics or religion or something else, since the dawn of time. Removing religion just removes the comfort and sense of identity that a lot of people cling to in their darkest moments. But the more that wicked people appropriate symbols of faith, the harder it is trust that any religious person believes what they say instead of using their beliefs as a justification for cruelty. Especially since the people who are loudest about belonging to a specific religion are usually the ones doing the most harm.

And in case it wasn't clear (and because reading comprehension on this site is notoriously poor), this is NOT a place for antisemitism. Get out of here with that bullshit. Jewish people are just as much people as everyone else and have just as much of a right to their faith and ethnicity. Zionists, however, are scum who typically hide behind either Judaism or fundamentalist Christianity as an excuse to kill innocent people and colonize land that doesn't belong to them.

#anti zionism #free palestine #anti evangelism

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acti-veg · 7 months

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I don’t the etiquette of starting a discussion on like neutral ground I haven’t ever had the chance to in the online spaces usually.

So I’m just gonna start if that’s okay? I should preface I am the same anon that sent the “just watched dominion” ask might be important idk.

So I am going to start.

Capitalism, fishing and the need for speed

Unlike my previous ask I was going to send but tumblr got weird and deleted it, I will try to bring up articles and stuff not really to prove a point but to get the discussion rolling if that’s okay!

Fishing trawlers

For the people who don’t know are fishing vessels who employ the fishing technique of trawling, which is where the fishing vessel drags a HUGE net and catches the fish by dragging it along the sea floor. Or here’s a quote by the Australian fishing authority who explains it better.

“Trawling is one of the most common methods of fishing. Trawl nets are designed to be towed by a boat through the water column (midwater trawl) or along the sea floor (bottom trawl). Trawl nets are shaped like a cone or funnel with a wide opening to catch fish or crustaceans and a narrow, closed 'cod-end'.” -Australian fishing and management authority.

While other types of fishing like rodding and using pots may less common, they still do not have the same destructive effects and impacts as trawling. (And dredging) Though you being a vegan may oppose all forms of fishing, I would like to argue that the most common method is the most destructive to both the environment, the consumer, and the fishing industry.

I’d actually love to be disproven that the main offenders of bycatch are on par with other fishing techniques. (As said before, rodding or pots. Or other techniques I don’t know about!)

End of this part, because I wanna hear your side!

I will come back with more later probably, but I'd love to hear your ideas and thoughts of reducing bycatch and banning fishing trawlers.

this is fun, and I will be back with more stuff later.

I will happily expand or elaborate more, but be conscious that I am HORRIBLE at writing essays and just in general I got all the problems, so I am sorry if it is less then ideal or makes ZERO sense.

I am dyslexic, and you would think that wouldn't affect things much but it does. so if I misread anything int the future I am sorry in advance.

Hey anon, thanks for taking the time to write!

There isn't much debate about long-linng vs trawling; you won't find anyone who thinks that trawling is not more harmful than rod catching. Long-lining is definitely better for bycatch and for sustainability more generally than trawling is, but that is a relative term and doesn't make it sustainable. Almost 90 percent of global marine fish stocks are now fully exploited or overfished, and there isn't enough information about the other 10% to say for sure that they aren't on the brink of collapse too, according to the Global Fishing Index.

In this context, the only rational conclusion is that no commercial fishing is sustainable, considering the crisis status that our oceans have reached. Fishing stocks are plummeting across the world, this type of fishing is less destructive, but frankly, we need protected marine spaces now rather than any kind of fishing at all. The only people who need to be fishing are subsistence fishing communities who rely on it to meet their nutritional needs.

Non-target species are still caught by line, and injuries from the hook or the shock of being caught and released often end in death regardless. In terms of waste, lines are better than nets, but much of it still ends up in the ocean as discarded plastic waste - much of the pacific garbage patch is made up of refuse from the fishing industry, both lines and trawling nets.

The checks in place for the fishing industry are just an absolute joke at this stage, there isn't even really any pretence that current levels of fish extraction can be sustained. It's a gold rush until there are no more fish to catch, then we all suffer for it. How we fish is sort of besides the point if we're intent on feeding this huge demand for fish, whether we catch them by trawling net or by line, those fish are still dead, and those fishing stocks still go down.

Even putting aside the fact that I think that we just should not be killing sentient beings when we absolutely do not need to, even solely in ecological terms, we just need to stop extracting fish from the ocean fullstop. The oceans need time to recover with widespread marine sanctuaries that are actually properly enforced, which can have a dramatic impact. We need radical action at this stage, and switching to a line instead of trawling nets is not nearly enough. Nothing at all wrong with your etiquette and I appreciate the thoughtful ask, but I'm afraid that anonymous asks are just not a format that works for an extended debate or discussion. It's too disjointed and just not very interesting for my followers, since they will be viewing each response often days apart and totally out of context. If you'd like to continue to discuss, you're welcome to send me a message.

#ask #fishing #fish #vegan #trawling

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Krogan Headcanons? About his people? It’s more likely than you think.

Gonna @useless-moss for this since you enjoy these

Krogan’s full name is Kro’gæntan Aeros Astæral, of which his true first name, Aeros, is only to be used by close friends, family, and significant others. Kro’gæntan, the first name, would typically only used by his parents. Astæral, is his last name, his clan name, or pack name, considering how he is from a long line of Night Fury LycanWings, and he himself has scales on his back, arms, and legs of a night fury. He has roughly 76% blood content of lycanwing in him, his parents were both mostly lycanwings.

Krogan’s Mother, is known as *Nay’ata* or “mother” in his mother tongue, and his father is *Tas’u* “Father.” I’m still kind of going through and developing important words in his mother tongue, but that is what I have so far.

Krogan’s people’s names can have multiple meanings, for example, Kro’gæntan means, roughly, “He Who Bathes in Gold”, however going off of his entire name, Kro’gæntan Aeros Astæral, his name means “Star Who Bathes in Golden Rays”.

Krogan’s people are known as the An’dusu’ani, or The Peoples of the Golden River Basin, named after where they had settled, and their language is a very complex, diverse language that can be both very hard to learn and difficult to replicate and understand due to its complete isolation from the surrounding region’s people. Though in his culture, his people are naturally skilled artisans, in physical paintings, sculptures, and textiles, and are very skilled at learning languages other than their own due to a very large amount of the population being lycanwings or lycanwing descendants.

His people are also known for their skills in medicine, and are, in a lot of cases, a very peaceful and neutral race. In fact, unless they themselves are threatened, there is a high likelihood that they will never join a war unless their allies or they themselves are provoked. In which case, their rules for peace are completely stripped for the offending party. At the end of the battle after it is over, they will tend to the opposing sides foot soldiers due to the fact that in most cases the foot soldiers are there not by choice.

Due to their brutal fighting skills, despite being peaceful for the most part, a common slur used against Krogan himself is “mud skinned savage”, or “Bloodclaw,” these two things was and are flung at him commonly, especially by Drago after he had failed the man.

Krogan himself goes by Krogan, due to the fact that Drago decided the shortening of his name is far more threatening than that of his true name.

As of current, Krogan thinks he is the last of his kind. Of his people. Of his race. He is alone in the world, and as of race to the edge season 6 it has been roughly twenty years since he has ever seen any of his people, let alone his own kin as he was stolen as a boy and his family was slaughtered with the rest of his village.

For the time being, he is alone. His father is still alive, in his forties now, as well as a few refugees of his home village, however his Father has been trying to track him down. Most attempts have been unsuccessful.

Krogan is also a Tsa’lin, or a heir to his tribe, the Maya’etei or, The Tribe of Golden Ridge, His mother and father were the leaders, and while his siblings are all dead, and one is missing, his older sister, who was sold at auction for… other purposes than what Krogan was to be used for, Krogan would now technically be the heir to the seat of Chief, or La’nek, however Krogan, due to his severely poor mental health, would most likely never be able to lead very well, and is inexperienced in the business of doing so, let alone terrified of the idea of becoming like Drago due to the hunter for wealth and power.

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The thing about countries like Germany admitting russian refugees is that they think that the people leaving russia are automatically anti-war and need to be protected, but doing that is harder then ever now, so the people who ARE able to leave could EASILY leave before. They definitely had the money. Which begs the question: why didn't they leave earlier? Protest earlier? They knew what was going on, don't give me this "they were clueless victims" bullshit, I've seen enough russian social media posts. Even a bunch of russian liberals (who I don't actually support but I think it's a start. Like a lot of them have some imperialistic bullshit in their subconsciousness but at least they have the common sense to be against Putin and the invasion of Ukraine) left Russia around this spring/in February. What I'm trying to say is, the refugees will end up predominantly being people who chose to stay there because they didn't care. Now they care because it finally affects THEM personally and they don't want to go to war. Not because they are ideologically opposed to it, but because they are scared for themselves. Anyone who didn't want to be in this country before has even less of a chance of escaping then before.

Which means Germany will accept a group of refugees, a lot of whom might still hold a pro russian & anti Ukrainian position. Instead of going to protests against Putin in their home country they might go to protests supporting Russia or protests "against hating russians" as some ALREADY DO in Germany(one of them happend last week in Frankfurt I thiink).There will be "neutral ones" but they also helped Putin with their silence and indifference(and by paying taxes in Russia if you want to be really nitpicky), and are likely to still attend the "against hating russians" type protests to gain more rights. These people may not be actively supporting Putin but they are still extremely selfish.

The former category of more active supporters(who there will be quite a lot of)of russia will also pose a danger to Ukrainian refugees. Think of all the rape and humans rights violations russian soldiers committed in Ukraine, now think about how these people were also pretty close to being russian soldiers. We ran away from russians only for the country that protected us to let them in. I haven't had the experiences the first person in the next post I'm going to reblog had, but I live in a pretty lucky part of germany and barely interact with "russian-germans".

Admitting russian refugees will not only destabilise the country doing so, but also not help that many people who are actually against russia, since they either left it before or CANNOT leave. So it is, in a way, better to let the selfish russians stay in their own country and protest instead of fleeing, because that's one of the most effective ways to stop russia from the inside. A lot of people are pissed right now, most of the time for selfish reasons*, but the point is they are finally protesting! And that is very, very good. Protests will make it harder and harder for Putin to keep control of not only the military front (where he has been losing recently, hence the reason for the mobilization. The army's getting desperate) but Russia itself. Only through actions can the russians regain some of their control and better things for both themselves and Ukraine! Hiding inside won't help and when all of them understand that maybe, just maybe they'll be able to change something and end this awful war!

I understand why the west wants to let in the russians who are really against the war but they will be a minority and saving the other ones will cause more harm then good.

*(Media shouldn't represent it like woke anti-war protests, that isn't the reason most people are there, but oh well I didn't expect much more from the western media. At least they're showing interviews where the people at the protests say they are there so that they don't have to lose their husbands/sons and not because of Ukraine. That's an understandable motivation but I just can't hear it being called anti-war when some people refuse to call giving weapons to Ukraine for us to defend ourselves anti-war. It's annoying)

Oh and another point, saving russian refugees from being mobilised isn't actually helping Ukraine in a meaningful way. These people will primarily be used as "canon meat" if they go to war right now because they have no skills and can't use technology to defend themselves yet. It will take them ages to learn how to use it, and Ukraine will have even more time to prepare (I think officials have said we're already ready?). In the 21st century, wars are won with technology and not a ton of people who don't want to be there and are terrified of dying.

#this was originally supposed to be a reblog but it got out of hand #ukraine #russia #anti russia #putin huilo #vladimir putin #stand with ukraine #support ukraine #russian mobilization #I'm open to replies but if you straight up start spitting propaganda/misinformation I am blocking you.#politics

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The sad thing about the current results was the fact that I don't even care about the leader that won. Who is he even? He can be replaced easily via impeachment with the evidences against him. People like the vp more, pretty sure that's easy with whatever the heck kind of game they're doing in the executive office. Like, okay gets ko, pinaglalaruan nyo lang kami. I get it. I get it. I'm not intimidated by that elected president.

The thing I was really upset about was the eye-opening fact that Filipinos have been manipulated to be aggressive and naive. Just a little scroll on FB and my empathy acted up—making me understand why Filipinos would believe such lies. It's perspective setting, and personality setting even. If you are weak of mind, you can easily be dragged with the flow because of passion and fear.

Passion, because the upbeat support will attract you. Fear, because if you openly support pink, the reds will attack you and spew negativity across your FB wall. If you support Red, the pinks will probably do nothing for being respectful. Being red is the safest for most.

This is a perfect example why toxicity wins against decadence, why idiotic loudness wins against intellectual silence.

Let's forget about the economy, because it's going down internationally anyway.

Let's forget about the pandemic, because it's rising up anyway.

Let's forget about the investors, because they're just looking for the slightest reasons to leave us by now.

Let's discuss about the psychology of the Filipino people.

Once I thought, "Oh, the Filipinos are not that stupid. I'm pretty sure common sense will prevail."

And that's why I was upset.

Upset, but not entirely blaming them on this.

Majority of the people who voted for the current leader are active users of facebook, where propaganda is as sneaky as a drop of colorless poison in a giant water tank. Being in a narrow field of vision can easily bury someone in heaps of cognitive biases.

After being convinced of the propaganda, such as 'this person must be cool for not attending the debates', 'military stuff is cool!', 'their passionate support is so attractive!', one will fall in the next stage, which is nesting in that propaganda. They will incorporate it to their personality. They will be vocal about it. It becomes a part of their ego.

Now, an adult with ego can be a dangerous being for himself and for his community. Questioning an adult about their beliefs will make them defensive. They will lash out, actively attack people with opposing views, mock them, and attack their intelligence because they see themselves as the intelligent ones.

In an online environment, this behavior, this mental state, spreads like rapid fire in a matter of seconds.

It is currently breaking families, neighborhoods, and supposedly sophisticated institutions like Universities and Academic groups.

I don't hate Marcos for what he is. I hate him for what he has done to Filipinos. I hate him for changing how family members treat each other now. I hate him for the hostile environment within classrooms. I hate him for doing all this for a gain that is not too important to him.

All the elections I've lived with weren't as bad as this one.

The toxicity now is different.

And you know what's ever worse? It's that these people will never regain their neutral mental states ever. They will never see themselves wrong. Ego is a human's greatest enemy and climbing up the wall of ego requires months of reflection, a drastic change of lifestyle, and psychiatric appointments.

I'm sad for my countrymen.

I hope we get them back.

For now, my kababayans, no matter who your president is, let's do a week long digital detox.

#philippines #im sad #fb is like a different country #people there are different #filipino #psychology

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Hi! Firstly, I want to say hats off to the team for this game! It Lives Within is one of my favorites this year (: the horror, branching storylines, art, writing, coding: it's all magnificent!

Secondly, I just wanted to voice my concern about Lincoln's heritage? I know he's only "part Filipino", and that's great, I've seen Filipinos who look like him and that's already great! Filipino representation is important, and given that Choices had Filipino characters (Mirasol Bautista, Ace Dela Cruz, even ROE mc and her family are mixed Filipino), I was excited about Lincoln!

I've heard about the prenium scene where he talks about having a tattoo in tagalog, and given how tattoos can culturally important (see: pintados), that's great!

This is in no way an attack, I just wish there were more indicators of his Filipino heritage outside of the enthinicty part of his profile and the tattoo. My friend played the game without knowing he was Filipino at all until I pointed it out ):

In the game, you get a good sense of abel's heritage with the myths and food. In asks, joceleyn's and amalia's heritages are explored through food, name and appropriate voice claims.

So it was a bit hurtful that I couldn't see any of that with Lincoln ): If his story was meant to be about not being able to connect with his filipino-Ness as much because he lost his filipino mother (yes filipino is gender neutral) at a young age, then that's fine! I know a lot of diaspora filipino-americans can relate to that story.

Again, I love the game and the characters. And I'm not saying you should make Lincoln's filipino-ness everything about his character, but i am hoping that it's okay to ask for lines like "lincoln missed his mom's adobo/sinigang/dinuguan" or Lincoln cussed in Tagalog, or Lincoln studied his moms inspiration of Filipino amorsolo paintings. Even if just through the asks, it'd just be healing to see, especially in these rough times :)

Thanks for taking the time to send this in! I appreciate your thoughts and concerns ❤️

So Lincoln is much less connected to his Filipino heritage than Amalia and Abel are to their Dominican and Mexican heritages, respectively. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, his father is not Filipino and so he didn't really contribute to including Filipino customs and traditions in their family. It’s not because he was opposed to it, but he wasn't that familiar with it, and also he was busy, had other focuses, and it simply wasn’t a priority.

As such, Lincoln’s mom was basically his only connection to his Filipino roots. Lincoln’s mom taught him Tagalog the best she could but as is pretty common with second gen Americans, he didn’t learn it that well and he’s not fluent enough to reply eloquently, just enough to mostly understand. She often made Filipino dishes for him growing up, and his favorite dish that she’d make is pork adobo. Aside from visiting his family over Christmas, he never really stopped to give his heritage much thought until recently, and it’s even harder to connect now because his mom is dead.

That being said, there will definitely be more instances of Lincoln discussing and connecting with his Filipino heritage future scenes, because even if it isn’t as big a part of him as say Abel’s Mexican heritage, it is definitely part of who he is (also don’t take the voice claim thing too hard or anything, it’s bc I literally suck at those soooo bad so I just didn’t come up with anything :’)) for now though, here are some tidbits!

He still keeps in touch with his lolo and lola and misses them a lot. He considers them more his family than his father. His mom’s sister helps his grandparents video call him on WhatsApp every few few months, and his lolo always does little pop quizzes on his Tagalog to make sure he still understands and tells him to keep getting better at speaking. His lola always tells him to come visit when he can and to make sure he’s eating enough.

His mother had a lot of paintings around the house. A lot of them were by filipino artists. Lincoln’s favorite was always Jose Joya, because he was always more into abstract designs and the way colors work together than painting identifiable things like people and environments.

Christmas used to be his favorite time of year because his family went all out in the Philippines. But since he hasn’t gone back since his mother’s death, Christmas is his least favorite time of year. After knowing how it feels to truly celebrate with his family, it feels empty to be alone. But even though he’s not with them, he has his own little noche buena by himself or with friends. He makes a pretty good pancit and will call his his extended family to wish them a merry Christmas.

Also when he was in elementary school he always cussed in Tagalog at school, because no one knew what he was saying and he wouldn’t get in trouble. When his mom heard him swear once she asked where he learned that and he said “I learned it from you!” She told him she didn’t know why he couldn’t learn other words as easily as the swear words.

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Aggretsuko (Ep #1.1, 1.5, 1.7, 2.2, 2.5)

Aggretsuko is a pretty tame and charming slice of life anime. You’ve most likely heard of this show because it's kinda like The Office of anime, in the sense that just a bunch of non-avid anime watchers have seen it and self proclaimed themselves as quirky and different. If you take away the “basic” association with this show, you'll actually find something that brings up a couple of laughs. The show follows Retsuko, a 25 year old woman working at an accounting office job. She is a mostly reserved and quiet person who is trying to get by, make money, get married, and retire. The usual, tired employee trope. Living up to the trope, the boss is this very angry, unfair, and otherwise bad person who overworks and harasses employees. Retsuko is made fun of for being a woman, called incompetent, and overworked heavily, resulting in her usually tired personality that just wishes to get married to end the vicious cycle.

A prominent theme shown in the show is the idea of the woman in the workplace. Women are often critiqued, called out for “not being as good as men” in the show, and expected to be perfect in order to simply avoid harassment. This is evident through Ton and Retsuko’s relationship. His verbal comments on everything she does is purely due to the fact that she is a woman. The rest of the male workers seem to get treated pretty neutrally, but since Retusko is a timid lady, she is targeted unjustifiably (if there ever is any justification for this) for harassment. This shows the struggle women have gone through in a world that used to idealize the separation between workplace culture and women. The breaking of these boundaries may seem like common sense now, but there are often those opposed to this idea and who see a difference in power solely due to sexuality and gender identity.

Another issue addressed is the idea of what it means to be a woman. Retsuko loves death metal karaoke because it's a way for her to express her frustrations with the world. It's who she is and it is a form of expression she likes. There is no shame in having an interest in any form of media (given it’s legal of course) but there have been many barriers put up by society imposing gender norms. As a result, Retusko feels as if she cannot show that side of herself to anyone because it's not lady-like. This is a massive issue that I have always struggled with as well. There are many people, often of the older generation, saying how certain acts, interets, gestures, and even words are exclusively for a gender binary. This is not the case anymore as our society, people, and means of differentiating between people have changed and evolved. We no longer should see people as either fitting one mold or another, but instead allow anyone to like anything, free of ridicule. If a girl likes death metal music, that's perfectly fine, just as it would be okay if a boy loved watching My Little Pony (this is an entire rabbit hole btw). Nevertheless, Retsuko shouldn't feel ashamed.

A final quick topic I want to bring up is Japanese work culture. I’ve talked about it several times but the office setting really makes the idea of Japan having a rigorous work culture evident. Workers like Retusko get to their jobs early in the morning and grind all day, at times until like 9pm, showing how all encompassing a job there can really be. You have long hours, high volumes of work, and no time for recreation nor the participation in any daytime activities like sports, hobbies, or anything of the sort. Japan has a salaryman mentality where constant work is considered the norm and the devotion of one’s entire life to their jobs is expected. I find this demeaning for people as it prevents them from not only enjoying the pleasantries of life, but also makes people more depressed and less eager to learn and work, wasting the primes of their lives under constant stress (after already experiencing even more stress during school and college which is no walk in the park).

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