#and that will produce more kindness

[followmetoyourdoom]

always be kind.

sometimes...

kindness is all we have.

sometimes...

kindness is enough.

#as much as i know the drama with flowerfell tainted it for so many people #this line always stays near and dear to my heart #i will always be kind if i can be #and that will produce more kindness #bc people are fundamentally kind #we're just all going through it and it's hard to be sometimes #so little gestures like waiting for someone instead of rushing them #or making a cup of tea #or being kind to yourself #that makes a difference #and this seems relevant right now to just keep that kindness going #and focus on that

[bitchthefuck1]

The thing that really kills me about Logan is that his kids are disappointing and ultimately unfit to be CEO, and it's not just that they're like that because he made them like that, but that they're like that because he wants them to be that way.

For all his talk about them being spoiled or coddled and his rant in the S3 finale that getting cut out of running Waystar is their chance to "be your own man" and build something themselves, he has spent the entire show actively undermining any attempt of theirs to do that. Shiv stays out and works in politics, but as soon as she joins a big campaign that could actually distinguish her from her family, he tells her he wants to make her CEO. He offers to buy Kendall out of his shares, but as soon as Kendall tries to take the offer and cut himself out, he refuses. He says he wants them out of the business and doing their own thing, and then as soon as they start actually doing that and buy Pierce, he tries to get Roman back.

The fact of the matter is that as much as he might claim to want a "real" heir, what he really wants is to never need one and for his children to stay children: incomplete, incapable, and under his thumb.

#something something the purpose of a system is what it does #i feel like the 'they are the way he made them' thing is pretty self evident and understood but it's important to distinguish that it's not #just a question of him being bad at raising kids or that he just can't produce the outcome that he wants: he is 100% producing the #outcome that he wants he's just lying about what that outcome is. he doesn't want them to be their own people or worthy of the position #because that would mean he wouldn't be able to control them and (more crucially for him) it would mean he'd have to give up control #of waystar. he doesn't want a legitimate successor because he doesn't want to be succeeded. he wants to deny his mortality and stay #in his spot forever. if his children grow up that means he has to grow old. if he can keep them trapped in childhood forever then he 'has #no choice' but to stay in power because he couldn't possibly leave it to them could he? they're not ready. it's a kindness to keep the #burden of the crown to himsef. #like imagine for a second if he did have a kid who was a perfect CEO candidate and exactly what he claimed to want. do you #really think he'd step aside and let them rule? #or would he see them as a threat and try to find some other way to cut them off at the knees and sabotage them the way he's been #doing with his other kids this whole time. #logan roy #kendall roy #connor roy #shiv roy #siobhan roy #roman roy #succession

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Blorbo's Eepiest Soldier

Thank you everyone for your kind words, I'm doing better and am back to it <3

#helloo! #thank you all for the well wishes #I have really appreciated every kind word #I'm doing better now and have gotten back to school work #i am so eepy though #eepiest soldier #im also being overworked on my capstone game team and the team lead even told me shes over working me so thats #fun #counting going to this capstone class and meetings and such im putting like 25+ hours in a week for it #and i do have 2 other classes #and a social life i enjoy having #haha #but im happy to do the work cause its good portfolio stuff #except when my producer comes up to me and says "yknow how ur in charge of all the 2d art and concepting and branding and ui and pr? yeah g #make a 3-4 page detailed comic for plot at the start of our game cause we dont wanna cut plot (even tho we dont have time for it) and we #dont wanna show plot through interactable objects and dialogue/text so more work for you even tho u legit dont have time for it #ngl tho i have genuinely been enjoying designing icons and doing model concepts #i made some fire designs recently #please hire me a game company tm #anyway enough of capstone talk #love you all!!! #im excited to graduate and finally be able to change my bio!! #hope you all have a very lovely rest of your day <33 #furry #fursona #digital art #art #eepy

[fleshwizard]

Gallbladder (buds and gallstones)

Examples of gallstones under the cut, based on observation :

Gallbladders are my favorite organs to dissect because you'll v-never know what you will find when you open it (and i've put the wrong color for the biggest gallstone oops)

#sci-fi #science fantasy #ok i had a scifi pitch in mind where humans have found a way to entirely rewrite the genome so instead of making bodies #human tissu organise itself into some kind of “plants” #each plant produces the same type of organs several time #and they are all compatible with everybody for graft so in this idea its a great advance for medecine #and i imagine the whole Organian Reef #maybe i'll talk more about it in Duduk Bazaar #gallbladder #gallstones #medecine #science #pathology #human body #beyond human

[morporkian-cryptid]

I went into the new Night Vale episode honestly thinking they were going to pull another "what do you mean the previous episode ended on a cliffhanger no no nothing happened" and we wouldn't hear of Kevin or the Boy in at least two years.

And then the episode was titled "He is still holding a knife" XD

#welcome to night vale #welcome to night vale spoilers #night vale #night vale spoilers #wtnv #wtnv spoilers #kevin r free #kevin from desert bluffs #I CALLED IT I CALLED IT #as soon as the boy said 'i need to put it inside a body' #i knew where this was going to go #that or outright killing the smiling god #which i still think is a reasonable outcome to expect out of this whole situation #honestly? good for him. #if killing his future self is the only way for him to be free then i support him 100%. i am sad bc i love kevin but i support him. #go ahead kevin stab that trauma. i love you. #feels aside the boy mysteriously producing more and more knives was pretty hilarious #he is living my dream life #also CAN WE TALK ABOUT CECIL BEING KIND TO THE BOY AND GIVING HIM SNACKS even though the boy is very clearly threatening him? #cecil and kevin both grew up in abusive families (not to mention the rest of the abuse kevin is still suffering) #cecil is being nice to kevin's child self as much as to his own child self #he's showing him the kindness neither of them received #also 'she is trying to get him to resolve his issues WITHOUT stabbing' sjdkljsklfjkls #also i stimmed so fucking hard when carlos showed up <3 love to see cecil being a dork about his husband

[kimmkitsuragi]

two white-haired bitches with a law degree

#agna if u see this: your post made me remember this was sitting in my drafts 💀 #anyway the new kind of white man they're producing in labs nowadays... be careful guys #... actually can i get five more of these white-haired bitches????? #dont even know what to tag this as #fave #rants #astarion #bg3 #swann arlaud

[hella1975]

idk how to feel about the atla live action show but I just saw that the guy who’s playing zuko mentioned zukka in an interview and I’m kinda foaming at the mouth, going feral at the moment

ENOUGHHHH. T-MINUS ONE DAY

#NOT MY ZUKKA ❌ #can you believe i was one of the naive optimists being like 'maybe this live action will be good' #and then they started making announcements.... #i have ZERO hope for it anonstie. i dont want them to even touch zukka #not that im delusional enough to think they will but even this kind of shit of saying it in interviews like. i just feel #like they're fucking w us. like that's the issue w these big corporate shows made only for extra profit and not for love of the source #is that they treat the audience like something to be mocked. like we're all part of one big moneymaking trick #and if we fall for it by getting excited about certain things ('the actors JOKINGLY mentioned my fav ship!') then we're stupid #and i just really hate that. i need to get into more freak shit made by some students and a dodgy camera #bc the corporations have truly taken all love from film-making and the concept of a producer-consumer relationship is lost #OR SOMETHING. ANYWAY. WHAT WAS THAT #ask #atla

[pcktknife]

urchins and sea slugs and crustaceans and fish and other non ink producing creatures dont know how easy they have it

#splatoonposting #kae.txt #sometimes ill think 'damn my splatsona (octo) i never really perceive as being a chill person but my other one (urchin) is really laid back #why is that?' and then i open up the game #when ppl are like inklings are inherently violent. i get that. if that was my life i would be too all the other non cephalopods get to chil #cause they dont produce ink. splatfest is just a fun lil poll for them #i wonder what kind of hobbies and activities they all have since turf is kind of an inkfish only deal #normal sports but maybe theres more for them too

[bonefall]

do the cats track the stars closely enough to see if they move? what do they think of the stars movement throughout the seasons?

They would and the only reason why I don't really have "celestial" entries in Clan culture expansions is just because my autism doesn't go there

I like trees and bugs and the ecological benefits of managing moorland through controlled burns vs herd grazing and this paper I found on the diet of fish in Llyn Tegid vs wider English ecosystems. But to be honest? My eyes kinda glaze over when space comes up lmao.

Too much math, not enough leeches. I'll be interested in space once they bring some leeches up there.

#And this is why Star Trek is the BEST space series #There are three kinds of leeches in Star Trek #Star Wars is okay but has less leeches. #Spore is a very good space series because you can make your own leech if you want #Though unfortunately there's no accurate leech mouth #But you can get pretty close and thats good enough for me #bone babble #All of my friends like astronomy more than I do #At some point Ill ask them about stars you can see in England and like. Make them hunt down a star chart with me #but tl;dr I will probably not produce very many astronomy-related entries #Simply because I don't find it very interesting sadly #I was the dinosaur kid in my kitten years

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 26

someday if i can figure out how the hell people get these things made i would like to do some little destiny & malice acrylic charms. i think those are so fun. and while i mostly want them for Myself i figure that if i DID figure out the process, i should maybe open up the option to anyone else that might want them, soooo...

informal poll: if i figure out how all that works, would any of y'all be into that, and approximately how many of you?

#day 26 #year 5 #my ocs #destiny chainsaw #malice winterfang #i know i've said i don't really like the idea of commissions and this isnt like a PROMISE or anything #i still have a lot of research to do before i commit to a shop of any kind #BUT. i think like a redbubble or something in that vein might be a manageable project #i mention stickers specifically because that seems like a very manageable thing to produce and ship even if i didnt go through like #a service to do so #particularly because i dont think id get a TON of orders for my niche OCs lol #but if i got some practice with something small like this it MIIIIGHT help me build up to making things for a larger market like... #say... well you know what i'm about over here lmao #we've basically all but gotten the official blessings of the powers that be to make homestuck merch without fear of reprisal at this point #ANYWAY that would be a ways off and be a much MUCH bigger project both artistically and in terms of like #me learning how Online Commerce works from the seller end. #BUT I HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING IT. and it seems to me that it would at least be relatively simple to sell like. prints of old art maybe #i dunno! like i said i'll see how the poll shakes out while i do a bit more research

[scarefox]

OFFICIAL PILOT | เพียงนาวา Lover Merman

#we finally have a trailer!! #lover merman #and I already love them so much for using actual high quality late.x fins #you don't understand how obsessed I was with these kind of fins a few years ago #which ironically even started with a MALE mernman performer and producer of these fins (eric ducharme) but ther are many more companies now #lover merman the series #bl drama #thai bl #merpeople #mermen #lgbtq

[ourstarscollided]

#julie and the phantoms #pls have this meme #woke up this morning and the news from the convention were REAL #and im still not okay about it 😭 #like WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE EERR SUPPOSED TO HAVE 5 SEsons. FIVE. THATS FOUR MORE SEASONS OF ORIGINAL MUSIC AND JUKE AND THE MOLINA FAMILY AND #SIGNS SISJJS #i literally found out the news last night while playing board games and drinking with my friends and straight up started crying because i wa #so emotional about it. i thought I WAS OKAY EITH NOT KNOWING HOW JATP ENDS BUT NOW IM EVEN MORE MAD THAT IT WAS CANCELLED AND KENNY WASNT #ABLE TO BUY THE RIGHTS TO IT AND I JUST. #but mainly im so happy we get this kind of closure and it must not have been easy for kenny and the producers to have had known this info #and idk. im just glad this is the closure we got. #also madi in the stand tsll jacket? ohmygod. #also hello from the dead aka my queue. #text post

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

#This is a problem which is magnified in Britain I think as we also have to deal with the Hangover from Protestantism #As seen even in some folk who were raised Catholic but still imbibed certain ideas about the Middle Ages from culturally Protestant schools #And it isn't helped when we're hit with all these popular history tv documentaries #If I have to see one more person whose speciality is writing sensational paperbacks about Henry VIII's court #Being asked to explain for the British public What The Pope Thought I shall scream #Which is not even getting into some of England's super special common law get out clauses #Though having recently listened to some stuff in French I'm beginning to think misconceptions are not limited to Great Britain #Anyway I did take some realy interesting classes at uni on things like marriage and religious orders and so on #But it was definitely patchy and I definitely do not have a good handle on how it all basically hung together #As evidenced by the fact that I've probably made a tonne of mistakes in this post #Books aren't entirely helpful though because you can't ask them questions and sometimes the author is just plain wrong #I mean I will take book recommendations but they are not entirely helpful; and we also haven't all read the same stuff #So one person's idea of what the basics of being baptised involved are going to radically differ from another's based on what they read #Which if you are primarily a political historian interested in the Hundred Years' War doesn't seem important eonugh to quibble over #But it would help if everyone was given some kind of similar introductory training and then they could probe further if needed/wanted #So that one historian's elementary mistake about baptism doesn't affect generations of specialists in the Hundred Years' War #Because they have enough basic knowledge to know that they can just discount that tiny irrelevant bit #This is why seminars are important folks you get to ASK QUESTIONS AND FIGURE OUT BITS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND #And as I say there is a bit of a habit in this country of producing books about say religion in mediaeval England #And then you're expected to work out for yourself which bits you can extrapolate and assume were true outwith England #Or France or Scotland or wherever it may be though the English and the French are particularly bad for assuming #that whatever was true for them was obviously true for everyone else so why should they specify that they're only talking about France #Alright rant over #Beginning to come to the conclusion that nobody knows how Christianity works but would like certain historians to stop pretending they do #Edit: I sort of made up the examples of the historical people who gave me my religious education above #But I'm now enamoured with the idea of who actually did give me my weird ideas about mediaeval Catholicism #Who were my historical godparents so to speak #Do I have an idea of mediaeval religion that was jointly shaped by some professor from the 1970s and a 6th century saint? #Does Cardinal Campeggio know he's responsible for some much later human being's catechism? #Fake examples again but I'm going to be thinking about that today

[katyapetrovnazamolodchikova]

I don't understand Ru's obsession with Mhi'ya, I'm sorry 😭 She's wild in a lip sync but if any other queen was that messy you KNOW they'd be packing their bags

#like im so confused #its like producers are really trying to push some kind of glow up narrative for her #which is fine but like #shes sending home queens that are so much more interesting and fun to watch #anyway bring back mirage #rpdr16 #rdpr 16 #rupaul's drag race #rupauls drag race

[rowanoftheunknown]

one of the worst parts about being a watcher fan rn is that in theory I think having paywalled series isn't that bad and people are being needlessly eat the rich about it, but on a personal level the two series I don't like and don't watch are ghost files and dish granted, and they're the most expensive shows to produce....... Like I'm seeing a potential solution here

#watcher #idk i feel like theyve DONE ghost hunting #i just want more of mystery files and too many spirits #which while I'm sure they're not cheap to produce they're basically just two guys hanging out in an area lol #i also want a lot more puppet history but it seems like shane is sort of done with that #i know a significant portion of their audience is into the ghost hunting and i love that for them but i always preferred their true crime #bc i usually hate how ghoulish and awful true crime hosts are #but ryan and shane never talk about current cases #and never do like particularly recent murders which is nice #all of this is beside the point but yeah as a fan of their sit down and chat shows this is kind of sad for me #i feel like something relevant to this convo too is that i don't believe in ghosts so i find watching that stuff kind of boring #where other people probably don't #and i get that this is probably an unpopular opinion

[blessphemy]

the thing about having long hair that they don't tell you about, is the dandruff.

when the hair's short the dandruff flakes just fall out, right. but when the hair's long. bruv.

ok so the flakes are caught around the hairs right. so i've got to freakin. thread the skin flakes through the hair, pull it all the way off. and Let Me Tell You when we are working with freakin, over 3 imperial feet of hair...

#cyborg lifeblogging #my dad gave me this bottle of selsun blue (a kind of anti dandrfuff shampoo) or w/e and let me tell you it's not doin it for me. #every day my scalp flexes and produces more layers of Skin #i gave the shampoo a good few months to prove itself but we are breaking up with selsun blue. #i am going back 2 head and shoulders. my friend who's got my back. #sorry for cheating on you head and shoulders.