#fields of resistance

[aueua]

love these guys. the musical chairs

#[art #.png] #[2023.zip] #deltarune #dr sweet cap'n cakes #have been meaning to do something with my verse of guys. this is close enough and now.. i am . uh. free #gif #oh. you're reading this? well. #DON'T TELL ME YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF THE SWEET CAP'N CAKES. SWEET CAP'N CAKES CYBER FIELDS' BEST MUSICAL TRIO AND THE LAST RESISTANCE AGAINST #THE BIG BAD QUEEN AND ALL HER CREW AND THAT STARTS WITH RESISTING YOU NUH UH UH C #WHAT WANNA SEE WHAT WE GOT YO YO CAN YOU HANDLE THIS hold ONTO your ANTENNAS !! how was THAT did you get ROCKED

[protosymphonette]

imagine, if you will, half life as a metaphor for the political and social climate in america vis a vis homosexuality during and in the wake of the aids crisis

#as a symbol of gay *liberation* specifically interesting regarding its use as a symbol of the resistance in half life 2 #and breen is reagan. by the way #something something suppression fields #half life

[hagenwo43]

Just Oscar casually moving towards Lando during the Belgium national anthem 🫠

#how have I never noticed this before #this is big news #for me especially #not sure about you lot #you can see he feels secure around Lando 🫠 #the aurora of security around that man #must be a gravitational field which Oscar cannot resist 😊 #he’s so utterly in love #I’d take the opportunity if I had it #but unfortunately I never will ☹️☹️ #rambles #but this was an emergency ☎️ #oscar piastri #lando norris #lando and oscar #mctwinks #twinklaren #belgium gp 2023 #formula one

[derangedrhythms]

Caitlin Bailey, Solve for Desire; The Field That Resists Naming

#caitlin bailey #solve for desire #the field that resists naming #poetry #o

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

'There's nothing innocent about Miles Kane,' Turner warns, in case anyone was planning to accuse him of luring his fresh-faced co-conspirator into a decadent world of rock star self-indulgence. 'He is the antithesis of innocence.' 'Ooh,' Kane retorts, archly, 'you scampi fry.'

The Guardian 

#YOU SCAMPI FRY #i love them #the greatest rock supergroup of all time #miles 'antithesis of innocence' kane and alex 'scampi fry' turner #also #interesting how sure you are of miles's lack of innocence there alex #almost like you have some kind of direct personal experience in that field #hmmmm #anyway yeah #i stumbled across this little gem of a quote while compiling stuff for another post and i couldn't resist sharing it #milex #alex turner #miles kane #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #milex quotes #lulu posts

[avelera]

I can’t believe Gale was literally my THIRD CHOICE, like a DISTANT THIRD, in my first BG3 run through for romance. I ONLY picked him because I was still figuring out Long Rests and accidentally locked myself out of Act 1 Astarion and Karlach and he was the only vaguely interesting romance who was interested in me at the Tiefling party.

And now this NERDY MOTHERFUCKER has snuck into my STUPID HEART and on playthroughs I SPECIFICALLY designed to romance the other two I keep giggling and twirling my hair every time the dumbass bomb wizard with a cat and a rare book obsession makes some snarky comment and I HATE IT.

Please, Gale, I’m trying to get Karlach to hold me in her beautiful strong arms, stop reminding me that deep down inside IRL I would always choose the history nerd over the jock, ok, this is supposed to be a FANTASY RPG!

#bg3 #gale of waterdeep #I will resist his vanilla magic loving ass #but I hate it when I imprint on an RPG romance before I’ve seen the field lol

[iirulancorrino]

Long before Roe was overturned, providers’ desire to avoid risk—from professional ostracization to picketing to shootings—shadowed abortion care. This is why medical schools often refrained from offering training in terminating pregnancies, and why abortion procedures were not regularly performed in the vast majority of public hospitals. Since Dobbs, some medical institutions have gone further, hesitating to provide care to women such as Christina Zielke, who was rushed to a hospital in Painesville, Ohio, last September after experiencing heavy bleeding from a miscarriage. Instead of performing a dilation-and-curettage procedure to remove the pregnancy tissue from her uterus, the hospital staff discharged Zielke, apparently in response to a six-week abortion ban that had been passed by the Ohio state legislature. Zielke was soon lying in a bathtub in a pool of blood, wondering if she would die. After she lost consciousness, her family called 911, and paramedics eventually took her back to the hospital, where a doctor performed the procedure.

Such horror stories are a predictable consequence of the fear that criminalizing abortion has spread through the medical community. For fifty years, Roe protected providers from legal risks like the ones taken on by the Jane Collective, an underground network of women in Chicago. Collective members arranged more than eleven thousand illegal abortions in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, until a team of detectives raided their makeshift clinic and charged them with multiple counts of “conspiracy to commit abortion.” (Just before their cases went to trial, the Supreme Court legalized abortion.) Arguably, providers face greater legal dangers now than they did before Roe. Carole Joffe, a sociologist who has written about the history of abortion, told me that doctors who performed illegal procedures in the past “typically received sentences of a few years,” whereas physicians today face “an aggressive anti-abortion movement that, in some states, is calling for life imprisonment.” Abortion opponents have also targeted organizations such as Planned Parenthood with spurious lawsuits and violent attacks, in an effort to shut them down.

Planned Parenthood’s motto is “Care. No matter what.” These words suggest an uncompromising commitment to serving patients. Yet some pro-choice advocates feel that the group, along with other large organizations that have shaped the modern abortion-rights movement, has lately seemed more focussed on self-preservation than on taking bold risks. Tracy Weitz, a reproductive-rights scholar who directs the Center on Health, Risk, and Society, at American University, told me she is worried that these groups are being guided too strongly by attorneys whose priority is to shield them from lawsuits. The mission of Planned Parenthood is not “institutional survival,” Weitz said. “Their entire goal, their mission, is to serve patients.” If caution supersedes this goal, she warns, not only will patients suffer but the pro-choice movement will fall into a familiar trap. “One of the critiques of the abortion-rights movement is that we put too much faith in the law, believing that it would protect the right to abortion,” she said. “I think it’s ironic that all of a sudden we have turned over this movement to a whole new group of lawyers—not constitutional lawyers but risk managers.”

In the fall of 2021, a preview of how these dynamics could play out in a post-Roe era unfolded in Texas, after Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas “heartbeat” bill. Better known as S.B. 8, the law banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, and it offered a ten-thousand-dollar bounty to any private citizen who successfully sued someone involved in such a procedure. In the view of some analysts, S.B. 8 was plainly unconstitutional—Roe v. Wade was then still federal law—and designed to intimidate both patients and providers. (Indeed, Planned Parenthood joined the A.C.L.U. and other groups in a lawsuit to block S.B. 8.) One might imagine that Planned Parenthood and other large pro-choice organizations, including the National Abortion Federation, which funds and supports many independent clinics, would have responded to this threat by urging providers to continue offering care and by pledging to defend anyone named in a lawsuit. Vicki Saporta, who served as the N.A.F.’s president until 2018, believes that such a strategy would have been both feasible and effective. “There could have been a legal-defense fund set up to pay out various ten-thousand-dollar suits while S.B. 8 was being challenged, and, in the meantime, care could have continued to be provided,” she said. Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, whose net assets exceed two billion dollars, have “the wherewithal to raise the legal-defense money,” she added.

Instead, Planned Parenthood’s South Texas affiliate instructed its providers to stop performing all abortions, even before six weeks. The affiliate’s apparent anxiety about lawsuits was shared by Planned Parenthood’s leaders and by its attorneys in Washington, who warned that Republicans in Texas could weaponize S.B. 8 to try to bankrupt the organization. Meanwhile, the N.A.F. announced that it would stop funding any providers and patients who didn’t comply with S.B. 8—and even pressed clinics to perform a second ultrasound after patients had endured Texas’s mandatory twenty-four-hour waiting period, in case a heartbeat could be detected then. Many Texas doctors refused to adhere to the N.A.F. directive. In fact, some physicians had the impulse to publicly flout S.B. 8. Shortly after the law took effect, Alan Braid, a provider in San Antonio, published an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he acknowledged having performed an abortion after the six-week limit. He explained that in the early seventies, while completing his ob-gyn residency, he had seen several women die from illegal abortions. “I understand that by providing an abortion beyond the new legal limit, I am taking a personal risk, but it’s something I believe in strongly,” he wrote. Braid told me recently that, at the time, he’d talked to several physicians who shared his feelings and who, like him, were willing to defy S.B. 8. If doctors were willing to fight, he wondered, why were institutions designed to protect women’s rights capitulating?

#what I'm reading #abortion #planned parenthood #reproductive justice #this was an absolutely maddening article but reified a lot of things I have been frustrated about over the past year/years #and intersects a lot with some stuff I've been thinking about wrt how disastrous the ngo-ification of feminism has been for women #and how the medical field (for many reasons understandably) and large organizations writ large and inherently risk averse #which means they are terribly positions to fight back against the anti abortion movement in this political climate #it's super frustrating...the way pp markets itself (and raises millions of $$) as the vanguard of the resistence vs what they actually do #feels super disingenuous and gross #*are inherently

[bokatan]

Mercy 🔮

[ future scene ask ] @fuzzydreamin

I keep playing around with this post-game idea for Mercy where she stays in the Commonwealth, rather than wandering off like she normally does after a few months, & having her set up some sort of clinic for specialized services. She'd obviously offer standard medical care(albeit more ghoul-centric than other Commonwealth medical providers), medical supplies, chems, and she'd get into medical implants and probably some induced mutations as well.

I also think it'd be fun to let her play around with syringers at some point, and letting her make new experimental darts and maybe even offering those for sale when she decides they're consistent enough. She'd drag Reed, and potentially a few others, into doing field trials for those since her vision and long distance aim aren't the greatest.

I'm including a few screenshots here since I've been exploring potential locations where she could set up shop like this, and of course she's going to have all kinds of herbs and whatnot growing in the surrounding area/greenhouse/etc so she has a reliable source of supplies. These are from the Coastal Cottage build where I made this sick ass fungi cave under the house

#me? answering asks 800000 years after getting them? unheard of #god. this is so much not a scene it's SO incredibly vague and ???? #can you tell this is a VERY rough idea that i'm still working out? lmao #i just really want to let her play around with syringers and also meet her goal of using FEV in a legitimately beneficial manner #she goes out with Reed to do field trials and gives him some unlabeled darts all >:3 and he's like. well fuck. #mercy tag #fo4 screenshots #my screenshots #for context she wants to shift the whole FEV thing back towards medical cures and not super mutants/centaurs/etc #the induced mutations i had in mind are like. rad resistance. improved night vision. enhanced stats. etc etc #you get what i mean. like small changes to add perk abilities. nothing wild or extreme #i'm like 95% sure she just fuckin adopts Curie post-game. Curie's still a robot since Reed doesn't do the synth thing #fun fact about this cave build: everything there is harvestable. there's a mr handy clipping through a rock in one screenshot #because i didn't even see him down there until after i took screenshots. he's stuck down there idk how to get him out lmao

[shuttershocky]

My favorite part of DV-EX-8 is letting every melee Power Armor unit activate and attempt to get pass the wall of Croissant

#Her resistance field also happens to protect Goldenglow which is why I use her here over Hoshiguma

[halflife-2]

Something about looking at all the people you encounter throughout HL2 and its episodes and realizing that for almost the last 20 years the human population has only been in decline due to the suppression field and those people are the last generation of humans on Earth...

#Hearing the echoes of the children screaming and playing in Gordon's mind when he reaches the playground after previously hearing the #broadcast about the suppresison field and the prevention of human reproduction. The children that once played there are gone and there have #been none to replace them. None to occupy the empty swings and to go down the slide. None whose laughter and screams will fill the world #That playground has probably been deserted since Gordon left and it will never be full again and those who were children during the invasio #of the Empire have grown and now they're some of the rebels who aid Gordon in his journey and who help the resistance and who put their #lives at risk and sacrifice themselves for others. Who chat and tell jokes and console each other during the horrific circumstances that #they've been living in. Who had to carry the weight of these years and events on their shoulder from a young age. But all these people both #old and young who have had their lives abruptly taken from them and who have fought for so long to live. Whose stories and efforts will #never get to be told or passed down to the next generation because it won’t exist. #I don’t know.. #mine

[calenhads]

thinking about my bg/3 romances. oh yeah.

#meaghan talks #meaghan plays bg3 #obviously jubilee with shadowheart that's already canon though i have to do that run a second time with more jubi lore #like a last name for them might be nice 😭 and a guardian with actual significance to their life #also i want to romance halsin with jubilee i regretted not committing to that i think they have two hands for a reason #but i'm romancing astarion with my durge rhys au and resisting the urge #then i made my knowledge cleric yulia in bg3 to romance gale. though i'm scared to play a game where i don't take my wife shart with me #then of course i have cassandra who was intended to romance karlach but then lae'zel came out of left field with a steel chair #and i'm going to make a sabina bg3 au where she romances wyll because i think they both deserve that

[davnittbraes]

*in a very tiny self-deprecating voice*

Hi

I’m so sorry but the next chapter of TWILE isn’t ready because my anxiety the characters won’t let me end it and I’ve found it really really hard to focus on it this week for that reason I’m sorry ilu all and I’ll post it as soon as I can

*scurries back into den*

#it does have to end at some point #and I know this is a good place for it #lessons learned from supernatural #but it’s been almost two years since I started this fic #it’s become a major part of my life #please be kind as I work up the courage to set my bbys free #but it’s been abandoned in a cow field for 30 years – will it start? #that tag isn’t relative to this post at all but Tumblr prompted it and I couldn’t resist using it

[insomnia-productions]

putting together my list of doctoral programs to apply to and one of them is in New Jersey and every day i am sitting at my computer going do not make major life decisions based on trivia about raven cycle minor antagonist joseph kavinsky. do not make major life decisions based on trivia about raven cycle minor antagonist joseph kavinsky. DO NOT M

#in my defense . the program im looking at there is supposed to be one of the best ones for my field #the entire process is just me resisting the urge to put my head through a wall im gonna be real #my brain is fried and this is the only thing giving me dopamine #help #trc #the raven cycle #joseph kavinsky

[hussyknee]

People thinking they can poke holes in the quality of the media I hyperfixate on puzzle me. Dude, I know it's trash. I know it's mediocre-to-actively bad. I know it has the nutritional value of Fruit Loops. That's why I hyperfixate on it. If it was actually good it wouldn't produce the kind of under-the-skin irritation only scratchable by 738274 fics, fanedits and meta. I'm not gonna apologize for it.

Of course people who hyperfixate on this trash thinking it's good is a whole other class of animal. That probably belongs in a zoo.

#insert CW show here #I wonder what it would be like to be in a fandom whose source material is actually good #like LotR or Alexis Hall or Discworld or Leverage #although I've blocked some of those tags because their fandom's avoidance of discussing their problems at all #the blind worship of their creators and general superiority about the ''goodness'' of their source material #is a lot more insidiously toxic than having to share space with J2 truthers #fandoms of trash media are a lot more open to criticism of our source material and creators #exception being RWRB fandom #but that's down to it being somehow annexed entirely by Swifties #they're the class of animal I'm talking about #supernatural #DCU #harry potter #DCtv #flarrowverse #BtVS #DC comics #should put Bones in here but the show was testing my cringe resistance even before I quit by S6 #imbibing copaganda is one thing but completely disgracing the field of anthropology is where I draw the line #same with Queer as Folk #like enjoyable for its time but I can't sit through it at all now #sometimes I do want to apologize for my hyperfixations #knee of huss

[sparatus]

"let's ask tumblr user sparatus about xenopolitics," you may think. "surely we'll get a short and concise answer that makes sense," you may think.

#councilor's notes #this thing abt the batarian resistance is going to be so long. i am so sorry. #xenopolitics is a fictional field that i made up. it is my passion.

[boinin]

*screaming*

HIOOOORIIIIIIII 😫😭😆😁🥳🔥⚽

*confused, normal volume*

Sendooooou? 🤨🤔🤷‍♀️🥳🍣

*quietly*

Kiyora 😔

#it's a breather chapter #but ISAGI y'all #look at him bossing Noa around #and risking being benched #for his VISION #and hiori 🩵 #I'm so hyped to see our blue sheep tear up the field #but like #did they have to do Kiyora (+ kiyora fans) like that #called Sendou coming back in (lesss go bbygrl do something) #*logs in* #*yells about new chp leak* #*vanishes again* #/s france is treating me well #almost got heatstroke today lol #which is lame cos it's much cooler than it has been but whatevs #i've resisted checking tumblr until now! but staying off grid a while longer #back to my usual BS from Monday on ^^ #blue lock #blue lock spoilers #blue lock manga spoilers #bllk spoilers #bllk manga spoilers #blue lock manga #shitpost #tag rant #bllk chp 230