#even if it isn't

[beardedmrbean]

#I suppose if we consider #futurama #an anime this works #even if it isn't #for the purpose of the joke it is

[sixofravens-reads]

Next read!

Since I'm going to my local comic expo next week, and am of course bringing a book, I decided to read a smaller mass-market paperback that's easy to carry around. I might finish this before the expo, which means choosing another small book, but that's all right because I have quite a stockpile of them on my TBR.

#winter rose #patricia a. mckillip #currently reading #i have a problem: that i love buying mass market books (especially older ones with wonderful painted covers) but i find the intimidating #partly bc the font is often so small i have to squint a little to read it and partly bc my brain says 'ooooh this is a Serious Fantasy!' #even if it isn't #anyway. this is a good chance to make myself conquer a few of the many mass market paperbacks on my tbr lol

[mercuryrisinginvirgo]

You can't force people to love you.

You can't force people to engage with you.

You can't force people to feel anything for you.

All you can really control are your own thoughts and reactions.

Perhaps everything will start to fall into place when we stop giving a shit about what other people think and finally start taking care of ouselves first.

#personal #thoughts #trying to heal #trying not to give up on life #trying not to let other people's actions bother me #trying to deal with my own shit #trying to live #trying to convince myself that everything will be okay #even if it isn't

[gummify]

hey.

#fit check for the tool show #my face #even if it isn't

[gehayi]

So, you know the Dragon Age 2 quest “Act of Mercy,” where you are trying to prevent a bunch of escaped mages  from being slaughtered out on the Wounded Coast? Yesterday, I found a follow-up that I’d never seen before.**

My rogue Hawke (Eleanor) let the mages go out of sympathy (she has a mage sister), and her BFF Varric lied to the templars, convincing them that all the mages were dead except for the leader, Decimus (who Hawke, Varric, Anders, and Merrill had already killed). Fine, right? The templars head in one direction, the mages head in another, and voila, freedom!

...except that in the next act, Hawke had to go to the Gallows (former slave prison, now essentially mage prison) to talk to a templar who was investigating a serial killer, and who should she see there but one of the escaped mages, Grace.  So I clicked on her, and she started chewing Hawke out.

“Yes, they recaptured us! What did you think was going to happen? No food, no supplies, only a moment’s head start...”

Meanwhile, Hawke was thinking, “Lady, I gave you exactly what you begged for. I let you and your people escape, and I distracted the templars, sending them to exactly where you weren’t. What did you expect me to do, become a dragon and fly you to Orlais?”

Not very charitable of Hawke, I suppose. But Grace annoyed her.

**The scene’s in the Dragon Age Wiki. I just wasn’t aware of it.

#dragon age ii #da2 #act of mercy (quest) #the gallows #grace (npc) #everything is hawke's fault #even if it isn't

[heyitsbumblebee]

wip of puss fanart

the movie trip has been postponed and I am trying to stay busy so I don't explode :((

#im using my nostalgia to become more comfortable posting models again #i hope it's not too weird #maybe coming back with the thing that inspired me to become a 3D modeler could be poetic in a way i guess #even if it isn't #i miss being feral on main about modeling

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

#thinking about the person i saw saying that if you're at a protest #and other protesters try to stop you from becoming violent you should just kill them bc 'peace police are still police' #even taken as hyperbole that's simply dumb as shit on every conceivable level #it's also pretty blatantly hypocritical coming from people who are usually self-avowed prison/death penalty abolitionists #like i'm sorry but you don't get to be a death penalty abolitionist and also call for the death of your political enemies online #this isn't a major issue or anything i'm just bored and annoyed

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[diabloku]

king of rizz™ 🥂

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer #alastor #vivziepop #vivziepopfanart #radioapple #appleradio #rizz #Luci bagged BOTH Lilith and Eve?! #I'm sure that short king has some game lol #even tho it's a bit lame lmao #but Alastor isn't used to that #That's what he gets for being too nosy lol

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#original post #text post #500 #1k #2k #btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here #it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact #and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more! #wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there #love you mwah #5k #10k #15k #20k

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I must not respond to the bad take. Responding to the bad take is the mind-killer. Responding to the bad take is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the bad take has gone there will be nothing. Only I (and my good takes) will remain.

#my nonsense #surely someone has made this exact post already #I want to clarify that this isn't even really about anything I just thought of the joke and thus was compelled to make it

[beardedmrbean]

A pair of protesters shouted down Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday during a town hall.

Ocasio-Cortez participated in a Q&A session in the Bronx, New York, on Wednesday. During the town hall, she fielded questions about illegal immigration, the opioid crisis and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ocasio-Cortez was interrupted by two political activists. One heckler identified himself as Jose Vega, while the other remains unnamed. 

"Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there's a nuclear war which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine," one of the protesters shouted. "Tulsi Gabbard, she's left the Democratic Party because they're war hawks." "You originally voted — you ran as an outsider. Yet you've been voting to start this war in Ukraine. You're voting to start a third world war with Russia and China," the man continued.

AOC: ABORTION IS AN ECONOMIC ISSUE BECAUSE GIVING BIRTH 'CONSCRIPTS' PARENTS TO WORK 'AGAINST THEIR WILL'

The duo later took to social media to explain themselves and their motivation for disrupting the congresswoman's town hall.

"My friend @Noggatone and I confronted Congresswoman [Ocasio-Cortez] on her support for Nuclear War and Ukrainian Nazis," Vega wrote on Twitter. 

He added, "I call her out for being a coward in the face of the party that will push us all into Nuclear war right now. Will she stand up like [Tulsi Gabbard] and fight for peace?"

#nunyas news #should have left tulsi out of it #looks like a setup now #even if it isn't

[january-summers]

"AO3 doesn't need a "dislike" button"

Um, actually, it already has one. Depending on your specs, it might look a little different but over all it looks kinda like this:

You can find it at the corner of your screen, which corner is dependent on your layout.

Anyway, if you dislike a fic, you can hit this Dislike Button until the fic goes away. It really is pretty amazing actually.

#just blog stuff #ao3 #this is a joke except it isn't #nothing prompted this everything is fine don't even worry about it

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

#instant conversation enders for my multiple youth pastor cousins #don’t say it (I’m gonna say it) #The Child is The Price #but i mean come on #as someone who isn't actually even christian the real-life historical version of this is still cursed as fuck #i mean we know that jesus was a person who existed. whatever circumstances he was born in #its terrifyingly ominous to imagine being so unaware of the affect your child will have on the future of humanity #time itself will one day be counted around your birth of him #and all because he will suffer an excruciatingly painful death that you will not be able to prevent #not only that. but regardless of his or your intentions #regardless of whether there is a god #for millenea unfathomable millions will have blood spilled and will spill blood in his name #atrocities will be committed that you cannot even conceive of #and all on his and your behalf #you love your child. its beautiful. but there's horror in what you've done. because everyone else will love him too #and what's more dangerous than that?

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

Hey so remember how grocery prices suddenly jackknifed during lockdown and never went back down?

Well turns out the companies would have done that shit either way and had been steadily price-fixing for the last decade!

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson just announced more than $40 million in court-ordained Fuck You money from massive swaths of food production companies are to be paid out to households earning at or below 175% of the federal poverty level ($25.5k for 1 person, $34.5k for 2 people households) before Dec 31st of this year. Happy Holidays.

"The bottom line here is that my legal team took on two large corporate price-fixing conspiracies that increased the cost for groceries for Washington families. We've prevailed, and as a result, we are sending checks to over 400,000 Washington households."

Cannot stress enough the extent of the conspiracies he's talking about here. 15 out of the total 19 chicken producers got nailed in this lawsuit. Not the total number of conspirators, mind, just the ones who left enough evidence for the AG to kick their ass in so expedient a manner. Make no mistake, all 19 were in on it. The court case against the rest of them has been delayed until October of next year, though. None of them are making it out unscathed.

Tuna didn't escape antitrust horseshit either, because the CEOs of Starkist, Chicken of the Sea, and Bumblebee Tuna had a fucking group chat where they complained that the price of tuna was "too low" and they agreed to artificially inflate the price.

“What’s so maddening about the conduct of these companies is the reason that they engaged in this price-fixing conspiracy was greed. They wanted to make money."

So anyway the AG who nailed their asses to the wall and continues to do so is running for governor. If you live in Washington, could be worth your vote when primary season rolls around.

#news #uspol #monopolies #so hey i guess the world isn't complete bullshit even if the settlement money really shoulda been higher #cause deep down you know they only settled because they knew the money was barely going to be a slap on the wrist #Youtube

[possessable]

Hello i'm a normal person here's some stuff i drew to illustrate different traits different "person getting controlled" tropes can have

edit: obligatory possession shorthand code link because people seem to be using this like the possession code but just. without the code part

edit: DO NOT BE HORNY ON MY POST 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

#if you see tumblr flagging this its literally not mature i dont know why it got flagged #i like how you can see the artstyle in this change because i drew the first couple a year ago and then picked it up again intermittently #this aws just an excuse to draw a bunch of tiny possessed guys. ''what am i supposed to do with a possession hyperfixation its not like you #can draw possession fanart'' Yes You Can If you really Believe In yourslef #This isn't even all the traits i can think of there's four more but they seem kind of boring to draw and are mostly self explanatory #Less Unique my Ass #ThePossessionHyperfixationIsNeverEnding