#But at the cost of everyone’s humanity

[agnerd-bot]

Weird idea but hear me out.

Lostbelt King Florence Nightingale that’s been pushed even further into madness than her Berserker incarnation. She has made a world where death as a concept no longer exists.

This is not a good thing.

#fate #fate grand order #fgo #florence nightingale #imagine a Lostbelt that’s a horrific hybrid of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and Bioshock #A land where humanity has reached a ‘perfected’ state where no one can die #But at the cost of everyone’s humanity #As an inverse to Berserker Nightingale sacrificing her own humanity for the sake of her dream #Lostbelt King Nightingale sacrificed everyone else’s #Coming with the side effect that #Like Qin Shi Huang’s Lostbelt #The concept of heroes is completely foreign to this faceless and broken humanity #Even thinking for oneself is seen as alien and incomprehensible #Thanks to all the changes Lostbelt Nightingale has done #This may or not be heavily inspired by 300IQPrower’s own Lostbelt concepts #Which you should totally check out

[pa-pa-plasma]

THE RULES that I have been going off of, for everyone voting as if this were a fight to the death:

this is a regular episode of Danny Phantom

the cats are loose in Amity Park, this is not an arena or anything.

there are a lot of cats but they aren't trying to kill Danny in particular or are unrealistically aggressive, they are just cats, a good chunk of them being kittens or unable to fight, probably confused as to where they've been transported to

they act like normal feral cats do (there is a difference between ferals & strays). they are not smarter (they think cars are animals) or trained any more than in canon, which does not include fighting humans with technology that can trap cats (it is canon that they cannot fight this & do not train to fight this)

the cats do not have special superpowers that can oneshot Danny, because this is not canon in Warriors. they are literally just animal ghosts. i think they have prophetic visions about the clans, but I don't see how this helps them escape Danny's C&R program as it didn't help the last time

Danny has all of his canon powers

Danny has all of his "training" & practice from canon

Danny has all of the canon Fenton tech, maybe even ghost proof live traps because let's be real, Maddie & Jack would immediately make a bunch if there was a ghost cat problem

Danny has the benefit of looking up "how to catch feral cats"

Danny has help from whoever he is allied with in canon

we're all stupid because this is not the question we should be focusing on

we should be focusing on how the hell Starclan suddenly disappearing would affect the clans

my answer under the cut

Danny would win, but it would take him months to catch all of them & he would suffer the whole time

he's a dog person too so he wouldn't know how to handle them. Sam would be able to handle them but as soon as any of them start to warm up to Danny (probably like Pinestar or another warrior-turned-kittypet) Cujo would show up & they'd all scatter

except for Swiftpaw, he'd probably fight Cujo, traumatizing him & making it impossible for him to get along with cats in the future, obviously making the situation worse

#Danny Phantom #Warrior Cats #for science #everyone is paying so much attention to the random number i put down #that they're forgetting these are CATS who are FERAL & avoid humans AT ALL COSTS #a very small percentage would actually try to fight Danny & another percentage would be like ''well it's free food & stuff'' #because they were socialized at some point in their life & aren't actually feral (like Cloudtail or Pinestar or any of the kittypets) #because they can't exactly procreate i think Danny could whittle away at their numbers until they're all put back where they should be #it would take a long ass time but he could do it. i stick by this answer 100%

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[mxtxfanatic]

Out of all of mxtx’s current protagonists, Xie Lian is definitely the scariest. He’s the only one to have his sense of morality and self successfully broken but then was able to come back from it, but also, at their lowest, Wei Wuxian attacked his would-be murderers and Shen Qingqiu sacrificed himself at every turn. Xie Lian? Tried to do a genocide run before changing his mind at the 11th (and a half) hour 😬

#tgcf #mdzs #svsss #been thinking about this for a minute #but xie lian is challenged in a way the other two aren’t #(which tbf all the protags fair slightly different personal challenges) #but to be dragged to your absolute lowest of ‘would-be genocider’ #only to eventually commit to being a wandering hermit doing good for any and everyone no matter the cost #(even when it was so often torture and ‘death’)? #that’s both an wildly admirable and terrifying switch-up #human metas mxtx

[juni-ravenhall]

if ur loudly anti ai bc u support artists, but then u think artists should do commissions for less than $100 a piece.... which is including hourly wage, the cost of their skill level (years of training), the tools (tablet etc if not trad materials), and even giving you rights to use the art..... then do you actually support artists right to earn a living wage or not?

#nonhorsgaem #just really fucking annoyed at ppl who think artists should work for pennies but then go omg ai is whats ruining jobs for artists #sweetie for that 15 dollars u wanted to pay the artist would need to generate 95% of the pic in ai to make it worthwhile #if they actually need to pay for food and living expenses and healthcare and you know things humans need to live #teenage artists who do it to earn extra money for unnecessary expenses should not normalise low costs and bring down - #the perceived value of artists work for everyone but thats exactly what happened during the history of digital art on the internet #and now even ppl who are actually trying to pay their bills and eat food are pushed to sell for nothing while you say “i hate ai” #but youre not equally loud about fair commission pricing and the actual value of artists work outside of the ai context

[iregretdoing]

"You belong to me."

"Those who die on the battlefield are not royalty, nobility, or commoners. They are the defeated, who die."

"I feel no responsibility to comrades who've lost lives under my command. Because they chose to fight in each battle.. Just as I chose this. But if there is something that... I can do for them. Something I can do for the dead... Then it is to win. I must keep winning to attain my dream. To realize my dream, I will perch on top of their corpses.. It is a blood-smeared dream, after all. I don't regret or feel guilty about it."

"Do I need to give you a reason each time I risk my life for your sake?"

"While many can pursue their dreams in solitude, other dreams are like great storms blowing hundreds, even thousands of dreams apart in their wake. Dreams breathe life into men and can cage them in suffering. Men live and die by their dreams. But long after they have been abandoned they still smolder deep in men's hearts. Some see nothing more than life and death. They are dead, for they have no dreams."

"In this world, some people born are like keys that move the world and exist having no connection to the social hierarchy established by man."

"It is my perception, that a true friend never relies on another's dream. A person with the potential to be my true friend, must be able to find his reason for life without my help. And, he would have to put his heart and soul into protecting his dream. He would never hesitate to fight for his dream, even against me. For me, a true friend is one who stands equal on those terms."

Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget everything that I wanted.

"I'd dream, that on nights of the full moon, I'd become a small child and find myself embraced with a nostalgic warmth... But... When I wake from the dream... All that remains is a vague sense of longing...

And that, too, soon fades away - along with a single tear, like morning dew."

#griffith #berserk 1997 #berserk #kentaro miura #guts berserk #guts #there's such poetry to Griffith #he lived for nothing but his dream - taking actions that made him disgusted and hate himself #watching the corpses pile up he let it happen because they dedicated themselves to his dream just as he did #since his dream already cost their lives he knew he couldn’t let it go #and then... he met the one person that made him forget everything he had dedicated his life for #and they LEFT him without even saying why #the loss consumed him so much that he ruined all chance of ever achieving his goals #and then was like totured for two years straight because of it... #and then when hes finally saved from it.. its by the very person who betrayed him. #doesnt even have a tounge to speak with or a way to kill himself at that point #and its then hes offered a sacrifice. #damn everyone you ever loved to hell #let go of every last remnant of your humanity. and we'll make your a dream a reality #no humanity left - his dream was achieved. he loves nothing now - and when he sees his friend again... all he can feel is an echo #an echo of forgotten longing.

[frasermints]

tired of good only coming from irreparable harm. tired of "well, duh" rules coming from horrific tragedy. tired of living through historical events. tired of being told that my empathy needs to be turned on and used like a weapon, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. tired of my trauma being used to hold me hostage. tired of being told i'd be the perfect person to fix everyone else around me BECAUSE of that empathy and trauma. i am so tired. i am so tried. i am so tired.

#current events #<- applicable for the last 30 years #''my'' applies to everyone in medicine and mental health and greater stem right now #there's a reason mental health practitioners are quitting in droves #LIIWMI has a line in it ''thank you kanye very cool'' and it makes me angry every time i hear it #social media is a disease #''well but it's done so much good'' at what cost #so has modern agriculture #at what cost #how many lives #so has the modern textile industry #at what cost! #so has industrialization in general #i ask again: at what cost! #hank green was like modern solutions to old problems have only ever created modern problems that require solutions we don't have yet #and it makes me angry #and it makes me tired #and it makes me upset that we don't have a way to Fix the human condition yet #my mom used to make fun of me when i was little for having a big heart #i think it'll kill me one day #my post

[swordtit]

aw man i wanna play dai now 😭

#speaking #but then... id have to play the game #can you IMAGINE the cost #the hinterlands AGAIN #oasis AGAIN #the western approach AGAIN #the emerald graves AG- [he then proceeded to name every map in the game] #also............ the frostbite engine ...... im going to kill that game engine with a human gun #idk who i'd even go in to romance ive done everyone i give a shit about already #you could not with a gun to my head make me even look in egg boy or ramen hairs direction #i suppose ive never romanced josephine............. #im not gonna play it tho #im doing elden ring rn

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

People on this site or any other site are incapable of having a mature, balanced discussion on men's issues without somebody saying "Yeah, but women still have it worse :///". Can people just stop trying to create a competition between the sexes about which suffers more??!? I'm getting very sick of it. It's disgusting on so many levels.

#text #they also have no legitimate proof to back up that claim not everyone throughout all history #i'm trying my best to stay optimistic about humanity #but you people just make it so difficult #feminists will always find a way to make women the victims. feminism is just sexism taken to the next level #somebody said it best #sexism comes at the cost of women's agency for their safety and men's safety for their agency #even** #**of

[isfjmel-phleg]

I've snagged all the panels for the eventual YJ girls' rooms post and have been reminded how annoying the Drawn By A Man Syndrome that pervades comics is :/

#comicsposting again #as comics go YJ 1998 itself usually isn't TOO bad in how it portrays the girls #but there's one artist for Impulse (the guy who penciled Mercury Falling which is otherwise fantastic) #who apparently can't draw any female human without sexualizing her #EVERYONE - from a fifteen-year-old girl to a literal grandmother #come on it costs zero dollars to let poor Cissie go to her school dance dressed in something a girl her age would actually wear

[starberry-skies]

the inherent horror of immortality is getting to meeeeee

#vampire voice^ #hey. hey. how long do plants live just wondering #i would look it up but i don't wanna get spoiled lmao #reading some fantastic vangst instead of sleeping bc i just got my period so both my sleep schedule and emotions are Fucked #but god. god. vash outliving his friends. everyone he cares about. and he has to do it over and over again #and he keeps smiling throughout it all #he keeps making jokes #he keeps saving lives at the cost of his own health #he keeps eating donuts #you guys don't GET IT #he loves and gives and loves and gives and for what? to make up for his brother? #to make up for himself? #to try and ease the guilt he feels? #he never asked to be like this. all he ever wanted was for humanity to accept him #but they don't. so he throws himself in the line of fire for then in hopes of their forgiveness #and then the people who do love him and accept him #they just die!! #AAAAAAAAAAAAAUGHHHHHH #god he's jusr. evrrything.

[songofwizardry]

not to be a one-note person or one of those "man this reminds me of a book I read" people but so many times recently I have thought, "I need you to read the word for world is forest by ursula k le guin and then we can have this conversation again"

#2023 is an experience #text post #my post #i highly highly recommend it btw #yes i know i am one of those this reminds me of a book people but like #it is very good at displaying both the mindset and series of justifications of colonialism and imperialism #and the violence often necessary in the decolonial process (of course caused by the violence of the colonial project) #and the way a whole people is changed and shaped by both experiencing and participating in violence #this makes it sounds like it's a both-sides book it is emphatically not #it's very much a decolonial book yknow #but it's also about the violence of the process and how it fucks everyone up #idk #it's a good book #and as someone who thinks often about what the process of independence looked like in the 60s and what decolonisation and anti-imperialism #looks like today #and about the human cost always associated #and the human cost inherently associated with colonisation and imperialism (that sometimes doesn't get noticed bc it's less... obvious?... #... more acceptable? regarded as 'less human' bc of all the work that's been put into dehumanisation and desensitisation?) #it meant a lot to me #i've been talking lots about kids and to kids about conflict recently as well which makes me think #there was a post going round on here that i didn't reblog (maybe i should've) #from someone pointing out that you have to acknowledge that a lot of the western jewish diaspora is having a reaction of grief to the #7th oct attacks and how it feels personal etc #and they did talk about the politicisation of grief and how *that* grief is being used by western powers and legitimised over say #palestinian grief or grief over a second nakba etc etc #but like yeah i don't think we get anywhere if we don't acknowledge that #people ARE having emotional reactions #it makes sense right #we gotta. acknowledge that and deal with it and ALSO realise in that that some (people's) emotions are being given more weight than others #i guess what i'm saying is read the book

[fishingmaster69]

kindof losing my mind bc uhhhh. how am i supposed to like. afford to live.

#i am going to whisper in the tags bc i feel odd about YELLING my bs into the void #i do not have a job yet largely due to physical and mental disabilities #but when i DO start searching for one its like. 90% of online job listings out there are ghost listings #basically none of them hire disabled people and i have disabilities that REQUIRE accommodations #my job search is significantly narrower bc of my disabilities theres a ton of shit i just straight up cannot do #and they all pay about 1 ball of lint & two quarters. #i live in california which thankfully is (relatively) safe for me to transition #but its also. California. which is. Expensive. to live in. #and i have medications i NEED to be a functioning person monthly #on top of taking T at some point #so like ummmmm. chat am i fucked!!!!!!!!! #i could leave california but where do i even go thatd be safe for me AND affordable #its just so hard to get motivated to be independent right now when like. im 18 years old and i can barely walk anymore #im grieving my physical ability at 18 years old #i should be doing that at 70 #and everything costs So Much theres no fucking shot i find anywhere in california i could afford IF i can even FIND a fucking JOB I CAN DO #unless i wanna live with my mom forever (who is constantly wearing on my mental health and i DESPERATELY need some distance from) #or live in a literal closet for $2000 a month #what if i have to sacrifice my meds to pay rent i literally am not a functioning human without them so i 100% could not work while off them #idk shit looks so fucking bleak for everyone right now but being disabled makes it a hell of a lot worse #i used to be excited about being independent now i just kindof dread it. or it seems more like a pipe dream #i dont wanna live with my mom til im 25 yall #and transitioning is expensive. and my mom is not going to cover my medical bills lmfaoooo #and idk whats going on with my physical ability so im probably going to have to pay for more doctors appointments #and tests and TESTS AND TESTS #for possibly years #til they figure out what the fuck's wrong #just not excited to live in poverty bc i am a young person in america and basically every young person in america is living in poverty atm #and also not excited to live in a world where i walk with a cane at 18 #zep.txt

[s1renidae]

grrrr i hate having so many cool Ideas and lacking the technical skills to bring them to life i wanna draw my cool ocs in their cool horror-fantasy world

#do i make a post rambling about these 2 ocs im making in my brain rn #i might just use these tags actually fuck it #so post-apo fantaasy world where the entire ecosystem was burned down to a point where it could no longer support any plant life #so instead of lichens and shrubs and trees coming in to establish themselves in the aftermath the primary successors are parasitic fungi #that release their spores into the air and rapidly take over any living thing they can touch #so then all the pplant life that grew in were things that could adapt a symbiotic relationship with it #im thinking like. all these giant trees that host the fungus in order to respirate vis a vis coral + coral polyps #do you feel me do you see what im going for aesthetically here #so nayway in the immediate aftermath of the big apocalypse event the surface was completely inhospitable #if you somehow survived the extreme temperatures and unfiltered radiation you would die from coming into contact with the spores #so the royals and nobles used all the magic they had at their disposal to take their kingdoms out of the earth and suspend them in the sky #yes i have zelda brainrot rn tthanks for noticing. anyway #magic in this world isnt Tameable its treated as a wild living force/elemtent and always has a cost of some kind #we're operating on fae rules ok humans learned magic from the trickster nature spirits that exist in complete harmony with it #but because theyre trickster nature spirits interacting with them was outlawed #those who had learned were sworn to their kings and magic became strictly reserved for those rich enough to afford tutelage from them #if you were caught using ''untamed'' magic you either swore yourself to the king or you were imprisoned or killed depending on age/status #anyway all the royals and nobles are in their little sky kingdoms with magic barriers to block the radiation #and everyone else who didnt die burrowed underground and created massive underground cities that eventually built back out #so fast forward like a century or so #the ecosystem has adapted and the atmosphere was somewhat repaired by the efforts of the royal magic users #(the kingdoms use this as a way to claim authority/ownership over the entire surface) #so now the surface is somewhat more hospitable with the right precautions #so ok the ocs. an artificer/healer who payed the price to make it to the surface and learn from the fae #he learned magic to combine it with the mechanical knowledge he got from his inventor parents and use it to help people adapt #at the cost of never being truly known or loved by another person #so no one including his parents can really remember him beyond passive recognition #except for this secret society of other people who paid the same price for magic. AND for his childhood best friend #check notes if for somereason u wanna know more tumblr is a bitch and wont let me add all my tags

[fumblingmusings]

matthew, be a dear and give evelyn some grandkids

I cannot find it and it's driving me potty so if anyone knows what comic it happened in please shoot it my way but there's a request page where someone send France a question saying "I'm pregnant and you're the father!" and Francis goes "Oh shit. Jenny? No..." then rattle off like three other women's names from assorted one night stands he's had which implies that nations can either knock up or get knocked up and I think about it constantly.

Like if anyone knew the answer it would be Francis right? Can nations have biological children??? What would that even... Tell me Himaruya. Tell me.

#Matthew spawn is either gonna be the wettest most miserable creature or literally the cutest most cherubic thing ever produced #and everyone's hen broody instincts regardless of any sort of relation to Canada shoot through the roof #like cuba china turkey let alone england all of them all over the cradle like OH SHIT A BABY #at the same time we know that humans being around nations slows down their own ageing but at the cost of their sanity so #WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE #also eva would be nana because granny at barely 30 is just too much she cannae handle it #she does a lot of park visits... kids be on swings and she be pushing #fanfic ask #q&a