#it’s election day baby

[dogsofthepod]

🎶here we are again🎶

#politics #georgia runoff #bleorgia on my mind #it’s election day baby #steve kornacki

[macksartblock]

Projecting my own teen experiences onto the kiddads bc I’m out of the house rn and I think it’s funny

Terry: took a parenting class in 12th grade and on the first night of his culminative assignment he ended up crying, naked wrapped in a towel, on the bathroom floor after the robot baby interrupted him pre-shower.

Lark: left for school in the morning then walked around for two blocks before heading back home, after his parents went to work. Snuck in through his bedroom window on more than one occasion, when either parent stayed home. Did this for a week straight.

Sparrow: got clocked as aspec before he even realized while out at a cafe during lunch with Rebecca, but she told him she didn’t mind because she’s good with her hands and can just think about him??

Grant: while on a date w/ his high school boyfriend at the fair, his boyfriend’s mother tracked him down just to argue with him. Grant attempted to slip away to offer some privacy but his boyfriend kept an iron grip on his hand, so he spent the next several minutes awkwardly turned away from the argument.

Nick: during an orthodontist appointment, was recommended to install metal springs because he kept forgetting to wear his elastics. Without even discussing it, Jodie gave the okay for the springs but the smallest size available were too big - therefore not installed - and Nick refused to speak to Jodie for the rest of the day.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #kiddads #terry jr stampler #lark oak garcia #sparrow oak garcia #grant wilson #nick close #nicky swift #nicholas foster #I still can’t believe he has three names #also I know Jodie would’ve been in hell during Nick’s teen years but I think he would’ve stopped by up top #I’d recently had the memory of myself frantically caring for a robo baby and thought #Terry would’ve taken a family studies/parenting elective in high school #and he would’ve crushed it 100% he’s got that fake baby book in a box in the attic #and it’s full of silly photos of the kiddads with their ‘‘nephew’’ #welcome home baby - bring your kids to work day - it’s real to me

[mishapen-dear]

genuine question but is there any fandom where a character is well written by the majority. im thinking about fandom culture and the spread of frustration when people dont write characters well but. honestly in all the fandoms ive been in there's only like, a Select number of authors who i trust to write Well, let alone write Well AND In Character. character analysis and writing and getting inside characters' heads are all separate skills (all of which are trained by roleplaying fyi can CONFIRM playing pretend with your friends is good for you). there's been more than once where I've disagreed with an interpretation that others agreed with, and then I turned out wrong. or i turned out right. like it doesnt matter WHO is right it just matters that differences in character analysis exist, so even if you DO write well AND write in character, your in character is still going to be someone else's out of character

there's this sort of. vibe. that to play in the sandbox you Need to be able to make a castle, and if you can't make a castle then you shouldn't bother, and it completely dismisses the idea that youre in that sandbox to PLAY in the first place. there's this Weight of disappointing someone if you can't build something that they like, but that forgets that you aren't there to build them a castle. like, be KIND. if you disagree with someone then please make an effort to do so kindly. i dont give a shit about fandom discourse but there is a reason kids get removed from sandboxes if they keep throwing sand in people's eyes. but if they don't like your misshapen sand pile, then youre not obligated to change it. even if you yourself end up hating that same sand pile later- youre not building a legacy. youre playing. and sometimes the result of that play is out of character drivel. theres a reason there are so many authors and so few who i like to consistently read and thats because everyone is Fucking Around in their hobby space. hash tag brag or whatever but i can build castles. ive built several that im v proud of. ive also dug holes in the sand for fun and then tripped on them when trying to get up. I often dug a hole and then got up and fucking- whoops, its a castle now, and i didn't realize i'd made something to be proud of until after the fact. the whole time while creating shit i was Convinced it was bullshit that didn't make sense. and then other times i was Convinced it was bullshit and then i was Right and i can look back and go. huh. ew. but it doesn't matter what the end result was, because i had fun playing in the sandbox

this wasn't meant to turn into a ramble but i have Feelings about bad art and art that's badly perceived and how public perception can screw with your head and how making art youre proud of is fucking. it's so difficult!!! it's hard!! it's really fun, which is why i try to make it, but i promise you it is Okay to not tryhard creativity. even if you CAN, it's okay not to do it all the time. or ever, even. fuck around find out have fun etc

#NOT a discourse post i am musing out loud #there's discourse goign around the dash rn or i wouldnt mention it #but the past few weeks ive seen a lot of “DONT fucking mischaracterize my guy my fuckign god” #which is one of the most frustrating pet peeve there is #but i think a lot too about little baby me #fresh on her writing journey #and how discouraged i would be if someone pointed out the mistakes id made #i made a Lot of fuckups #and i also think about this one fic where one of the characters was INCREDIBLY out of character #me today would not be able to stomach reading it #but baby me was so ENCHANTED #and it introduced to me the concept that you dont always know the reason someone does something #and it made me read even more #and because of that i eventually found Expert Skill level fics #which introduced me to MANY little tricks and fidgets ive tried to implement #there were so so many reviews on that fic that called it shit or complained about the bad characterization #but a decade later i still think about it #there were several very corny mine/craft horror fics i read #which back in the day would be called cringe #and those were what inspired me to write my first horror fic and now im Enchanted by the whole genre #theres a lot of stuff i dont like to read but i like that other people are enjoying themselves #i dont know how to be succinct i hope my point is coming across well #this ties into my thing where fiction is for you first others later #here are my credentials: bb/h fan since before the elections (hi i was the guy who noticed his lack of armour post elections) #and a cross-fandom comment trend of people going 'woa i can see this happening in canon' #im not talking out my ass i genuinely think its more important to have fun than to write accurate characterization #which. is a more 'duh' and clarifying thing than everything else ive written #but ah well c'est la vie #also also just realized this could be interpreted like that- NOT an attack on people who complain about mischaracterization either lmao #i do that too w friends. this is to reassure people who put pressure on themselves to create things Well all the time

[tomwambsmilk]

Episode 8 title dropped

#its the election baby!!!! #also confirms that eps 6 and 7 are one day each #bc ep 4 is 3 days and since the election was 10 days away in episode 1 #then yeah. episode 8 as the election lines up #ALSO!!!! #this is the episode with the big plot twist. allegedly #succession

[eobard-thawne]

who did/would you choose as divine?

there is still time for me to decide on the new divine but i want to know what the tumblr fandom thinks. i recorded my inquisitor's interactions with all three candidates on the matter so that i wouldn't forget who thinks what skdjasks please feel free to reply under this or message me etc. i am actually obsessed with this game and want to interact more ppl from the fandom :3

Cassandra The Chantry should provide faith. Hope. Instead, it cannot veer from its course, even in the face of certain death. It needs to change. Perhaps I must be the one to change it. The circle of Magi has its place, but it needs reform. Let the mages govern themselves, with our help. Let the templars stand not as the jailors of mages, but as protectors of the innocent. We must be vigilant, but we must also be compassionate to all peoples of Thedas, human or no. That is what I would change.

Leliana I was pondering who might be Divine and it suddenly occured to me: is it so ridiculous for the grand clerics to support me? Why shouldn't they? Change things. Change everything. No more Circles, the mages would be free. The Chantry would accept them as Maker's children. In fact, it will accept everyone: elves, drawves, even Qunari. Why exclude them? The Chantry allowes our differences to tear us apart instead of teaching us how we are the same.

Vivienne To sit on the Sunburst Throne, a candidate should have grace, charm, and a will of solid steel. The most important thing, of course, is the restoration of the Circles and the Templar Order. The institutions that have protected Thedas for ages must be rebuilt and the malcontents utterly crushed. We cannot allow anarchists to threaten the lives of the innocent. After we restored sanity to the world, there will be time to address voices of dissent.

#dai #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #cassandra pentaghast #leliana #vivienne de fer #leliana dragon age #divine election #AND we can actually calculate who has more approval points based on our previous interactions (in general) #and learn who is more favored by the chantry #which is so freaking cool #the details in this game aaaa #i asked viv what she thinks abt leliana as divine and she disapproved it I'M SRY BABY I JUST WANTED TO KNOW

[shaneru-is-new-to-shifting]

Spells can backfire **IN THIS REALITY**

#reality shifting #shifting realities #shifting #shiftblr #shifting community #desired reality #shifting antis dni #reality shift #shifter #shifters #rare witch post #electic witch #witchblr #baby witch #witch community #222 #I should know #I literally just casted on myself an ungrounding spell and literally felt like I was high theoughout the entire day of school #I don't even do drugs😭

[crazybagelbitch]

I drank too much caffeine and can't fall asleep :/ once again I am thwarted by the consequences of my own actions!!

#at least I don't have work tomorrow #our school houses two voting precincts #and it's Election Day baby

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

why are we pretending like the economic system we live under that directly affects people’s lives because it is the system they live under is some sort of vague nebulous concept. it is a system, economic but also political, that determines the structure and priorities of a country. it determines the large scale and small scale operations within a country. it is not the hand of God. it is a man-made system. if feudalism can end, so can capitalism. but nobody who acknowledges structural factors of mental health is arguing you should suffer until capitalism is overthrown……..this is such a bizarre take like this person is so mad over a basic and objectively true statement………

#i get evicted because i cant pay my rent #i dont make enough money for childcare and have to take on another job #i can’t afford food and have to turn tricks #i don’t make enough money to leave my abusive boyfriend #i can’t finish my degree because i can’t afford the tuition #i cant afford an abortion/to travel out of state so i am stuck having a baby i don’t want #my car got repo’d and now i can’t get to work #i got arrested for shoplifting because i couldn’t afford to feed my children and now they’re in the foster care system and i’m in jail #because i can’t pay bail #my loved ones are being killed by drone strikes for the purposes of resource extraction #my brother was killed by the military junta installed after an imperialist power disposed our elected leader for wanting to nationalize #a major industry #i’m being forced to work as a 10 year old in a cobalt mine #i’m a garment worker in bangladesh making 10 cents per garment and working 18 hours a day #my house was bulldozed because i lived on uranium rich land #etc etc etc etc

[starkcontrasts]

something abt theseus scamander in the new fantastic beast movie showing up just to look good, visibly judge both dumbledore and dumbledore's taste in men, be the Super Official Liaison™ so they could get in to the election party without questions asked, get damseled then saved by his baby brother, prove he'd make a lovely dad and that he does in fact have at least a bit of newt's affinity for animals just. yeah. love that for king

#theseus scamander #fbawtft #emphasis on the look pretty and judge dumbledore part #newt was really telling him to trust albus and theseus was like?? probably not but i can fake well enough for you #the whole part where dumbledore was explaining his blood oath with gellert theseus was just like #i now know more information abt ur private life than i've ever wanted to know #why #also him getting knocked tf out bc he was the most identifiable and immediate threat at the election party LMAO #doing the hip swivel crab dance with his baby brother in order to not get killed by a huge scorpion creature? #then aparrate into a forest holding newt's hand like two brothers coming back home from an outing in the woods #i melted #two wittle babies #and him holding the qilin!! and the deleted scene of him bandaging newt's injury and singing to the qilin!! #SOFT FOR DAYS BABES #the secrets of dumbledore #fantastic beasts: the secrets of dumbledore #spoilers for secrets of dumbledore

[chikinan]

yall wouldnt believe how much of latin american desire to improve our life quality at all is weighed down by the constant fear that if we do too much the usa might coup us again

#mati barks #election day again baby

[dogsofthepod]

happy “people outside the US get suddenly invested in Maricopa County again” day to all my international besties who are celebrating

#if you know where loudon county is we have the same kind of brain rot <3 #love that for us #politics #it’s election day baby

[bettygemma]

*wakes up checks weather* wow what a beautiful day to vote out the government

#its election day baby! #let's kick this mob out #auspol

[saint-fanta]

Baby has complex feelings about voting

#election day #vote 2022 #i voted #fax is meowing #baby

[soon-palestine]

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

#palestine #gaza #free palestine

[txttletale]

i have no patience for people talking about violent rhetoric on the left really because every day i read the news and every politician in this country and in most others is saying 'we gotta kill more people'. they use different words to say it. obviously you're not supposed to just say 'we gotta kill more people'. but there's all kinds of polite and okay ways to say it.

'we need to control our borders' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta drown more refugees in boats, we gotta send more people back to warzones and governments that want them dead, we gotta make more camps and we gotta make the camps more fatal'.

'we need to be tougher on welfare fraud' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta make disabled people do more song and dance routines to convince some indifferent bureaucrat that they deserve to eat and we gotta make sure that the bureaucrats say 'no', we gotta starve those kids more, we gotta make sure families and kids and old people are freezing in the winter'.

'we need to tackle violent crime' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, specifically Black people, unless we said Terrorism instead of Crime, in which case it's specifically muslims, shoot them, imprison them, surveil them, disappear them, brutalize them, whatever.'

and of course none of this is Violent Speech. this is Sensible Political Discourse. these are Common-Sense Policy Goals. we gotta kill more people: that's an electable policy. you can always count on we gotta kill more people as a platform. we gotta kill more people is gonna sweep the nation baby. we gotta kill more people 2024 -- vote now on your phones. now slow down. hold your horses. did that guy just say we gotta kill more people? well that just wont do. thats why im running on a platform of we gotta kill more people for cheaper, to stop this wasteful madness. and the people just keep dying but seems like there's still some of them left so i guess we're just circling back around to our main thing which is: we gotta kill more people

#tattletxt

[selkiecoded]

these days, every link is just a few typos away from leading to catboy kyoya. so watch out.

[ID: A quote tweet by @/cursedwebsite that reads, "last night, one of our elected officials accidentally deleted a character on her tinyurl link and tweeted this out."

The quote tweeted tweet is by Jeanne Kohl-Welles @/kcckohlwelles. It reads, "🎶 Baby it's cold outside! 🎶 So cold that King County Metro Transit is temporarily closing some routes and activating its Emergency Snow Network (ESN) in anticipation of what could be a major ice storm tonight and tomorrow. Here is a list of impacted routes: tinyurl.com/ycxdjad."

The image that the tinyurl link leads to is an illustration of Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club as a shirtless catboy in a sultry pose. /end ID]

#im gonna cry. #ohshc #image id by kallistoi ^_^