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scarebats · 1 year

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WIP Master List

read finished fics here!

EVERYTHING IS CURRENTLY ON HOLD.

feel free to ask me questions about any of these!!<;3

if you ask nicely, i will post a sneak preview of whichever fic had been requested on any day (including wip wednesdays).❤️

Pierce My Heart

slicemav because there isnt enough

flower & tattoo shop au cuz all the other ones aren’t finished

love at first sight kinda thing but slider and ice make it like a competition yk

probably gonna have a generous amount of smut

mav and goose are ex-navy (they discharged together after top gun)

will probably turn into a multi-chapter fic

Holding Close

ice invites (read: forces) mav to come with him for christmas

ft. ice’s little sister having a puppy crush on mav

love confessions and fluff!

Bitter With a Hint of Sugar

coffee shop au!

employee!mav and customer!ice but its very possible that ill switch the roles around

ft. slider, goose, & carole over their shit (slooserole)

mav being a cutie and ice having a crush (mav too)

will most likely somehow end up with smut somewhere in the mix

So Much Time

touch starved ice

maverick to the rescue

ice’s love language is touch and mav is there to provide it

tooth rotting fluff with a pinch of angst

Not Quite Over the Edge

sea sick maverick

protective and worried ice

goose lives au!!

sickfic (obviously) with angst

No More Bandages

mav has a burn on his leg from his motorcycle

he doesnt tell anyone cuz yeah

eventually ppl find out and they mad and worried

angst then it turns to fluff

Another Hand To Hold

ice gets married to sarah

mav rlly upset

slider helps physically and emotionally

lots of feelings and angst

icemav pre-fic then slimav during-fic

Catch Me If You Can

‼️NOT THE MOVIE‼️

mav is an instructor at tg and ice is a student (mav would be like early 30s and ice same age as he is in the og movie)

slider being a good friend but at the same time teasing ice

mav definitely knows smth is up but otherwise is oblivious and thinks ice is just being nice

will probably turn into a multi-chapter fic

takes place in the early 90s

goose lives!! (but is no longer in the navy)

In The Car? (I Just Can’t Wait)

dagger!ice w daddy issues

22!mav that ice finds endlessly attractive

he does in fact have a daddy kink for mav

smut featuring top!mav & bottom!ice

will probably turn into a multi-chapter fic

ice is like 34 in this and is a top gun graduate from when he was 28

age difference, which is 34 & 58, don’t read if you’re not comfortable

ft. slider still as his rio

takes place during tg:m, but will most likely end before the mission events

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dahliaduvide · 3 months

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I've been digging into the life of Jeremy Wade Delle, beyond just the day of his death that is immortalized in the Pearl Jam song we all know so well.

One thing Jeremy Delle and I have in common is that we both spent time in a psych hospital in our teenage years. We both ended up in adolescent wards of large chain hospitals. My experience wasn't completely negative, but I don't think it helped anyone but my mother.

Jeremy Delle was hospitalized in April of 1990 after what is believed to have been his first suicide attempt.

His parents put him in Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital where he started seeing a doctor that continued to treat him until his death by suicide on January 8, 1991. He actually had completed a session with his doctor the afternoon before he died.

The redacted police report gives only a small amount of information about the doctor that Jeremy Delle was seeing. His name is given as Dr. Bob H####, and as Dr. Robert H#### on a card that the police found in Mr. Delle's wallet. This card lists two phone numbers for the doctor. The first if the general number for the Timberlawn facility, but the other number is likely a direct line to the doctor's office.

The information given in the July 1990 list of hospitals printed in D Magazine, a local Dallas publication, about Timberlawn is "4600 Samuell Blvd, Dallas. 381-7181. Psychiatric hospital; 232 beds; offers chemical dependency treatment, occupational therapy, and psychiatric unit". That's the same as the first phone number listed on the card on Jeremy Delle's wallet card. The second is 381-6327.

Without a last name, I couldn't search for any other mentions of the doctor in public records (and I didn't find anything relevant using the phone number), but there were certainly a few articles about Timberlawn. More than a few, I had to winnow them down to the ones that seemed most relevant to what Jeremy Delle might have experienced during his stay there.

This article from June 1990 explains the sudden growth in the industry in Texas. The financial motivations behind it have very distinct consequences that the article outlines: patients rarely stay longer than their insurance foots the bill.

When the money runs out everyone- adult, teenager, addict, seems to be miraculously cured.

There are several claims of misconduct by care providers throughout the time surrounding Jeremy Delle's stay at Timberlawn.

May 1988: A Dallas woman is admitted to the substance abuse program at Timberlawn. In February 1996, when she is in her early 30s, she alleges misconduct by her doctor during her stay at Timberlawn.

May 1991: In March 1993, a patient alleges he was pursued by his doctor after seeking treatment at Timberlawn for depression after the end of his marriage. He also alleges that she initiated an inappropriate romantic and sexual relationship which lasted from November 1991 to February 1992.

Obviously, Mr. Delle would have been, or at least should have been, housed in separate adolescent areas from any adult patients, but he might have seen the same doctors. Particularly because he was treated for substance abuse. I have some doubts about whether he was actually using any drugs or not, but I'll put that together in another post with some supporting documents.

I also found these court documents from 2009 relating to a patient that was hospitalized in the Timberlawn facility as a minor. She claims to have been raped by an older male patient due to inadequate supervision of the patients by staff and a lack of private space available to patients. No dates or ages are given, however, so it's impossible to know if this happened within the early 90s. However, if Jeremy Delle had survived until 2009 he would have been in his mid-20s, which is when childhood traumas begin to be understood by a maturing mind.

I'm not a lawyer and couldn't even pretend to be one on the internet, so I won't claim to understand anything about what is happening, but I can read through it and capture other facts about who, where, when, etc. If anybody with a better understanding of USA or Texas state law wants to shed some light on this that would be helpful.

I wasn't able to find any further information about the progress or outcomes of these cases, so I've chosen not to include the names of the staff accused, but they are included in the media coverage if anyone would like to search through news databases that aren't freely available online. I can only research the documents I can find, and unfortunately I don't have access to any academic databases at the moment, either.

My personal opinion is that whatever started Jeremy Delle down a troubled path started before he got to Timberlawn and the care of Dr. H.

I do think this line of research is important for understanding whether or not Mr. Delle received effective or adequate care as his mental illness spiraled out of control.

It strikes me that these stories about Timberlawn confirm and debunk some of the conceptions we have about this particular young man's life from the song written about him in 1991 by Eddie Vedder and Jason Ament. Jeremy Wade Delle was failed by everyone in his life with the power to help him as he started to sink under the waves of his illness. But his parents didn't ignore it completely, they tried to get him help. Maybe not when his illness first manifested, but as soon as his first 'cry for help' came in the form of a suicide attempt, they put him in a hospital that was known to be the best in their area. One with a developing, supposedly cutting edge, program for adolescents and those suffering from substance abuse. They most likely brought him home when the hospital said he was better. Sadly that might have had more to do with how long the hospital knew that insurance would foot the bill and not Mr. Delle's actual mental health.

The story is no less tragic than the story Pearl Jam spins in their song, but it's far more nuanced.

And it's still a great song.

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#motivation & inspiration #jeremy delle #gun violence #murder ballads #suicide #depression #medical abuse #psychiatric exploitation #texas #jeremy wade delle #timberlawn #timberlawn psychiatric hospital #original post

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identifying-guns-in-posts · 8 months

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Submission from @onegami:

I don’t know if this is in your arsenal (*wink wonk*), but I would so appreciate if you could identify these little guys

These are a bit blurry (and obviously aren’t real guns) and many of them are in that Generic AR15 Category, so I can’t give definitive answers here, but I will try my best. It’s also hard to squeeze in factoids for ten weapons in one post, so I will probably be pretty brief.

Up top we have some form of DMR conversion kit for an AR15, not entirely sure which or what kind due to image quality and camera angle. Could be a LWRC REPR (chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO). Has a really wonky looking muzzle device at the end; size-wise it makes me think it’s a suppressor, but it has holes in it, so apparently it’s supposed to be an obscenely large muzzle break??

The proportions of the second one and the appearance of the magazine lead me to believe the second one is the Heckler & Koch HK53A3 (chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO), which is just a super-compact form factor version of the HK33, their MP5-esque assault rifle series.

Our third rifle looks to be the Enfield L85A1 (part of SA80 series, chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO), except it’s bizarrely mirrored, with the covered cheek rest side facing the camera, when we should be seeing the ejection port and charging handle in the back. Still, it’s also mounted with a standard issue SUSAT scope.

The fourth is tricky, possibly unintentionally so. The boxy foregrip, wire stock, and barrel and gas tube positioning all seem to suggest it’s an IMI Galil ARM (chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO), however the receiver is very different, almost AR-15 like. On a hunch, I looked up Counter-Strike listings on IMFDB and I think I have an answer: the receiver might be leaning towards the IWI Galil ACE 22 (5.56x45mm) design, like in CS:GO. I’m still not entirely sure, though...

The fifth is, I think, an M4A1 Block II (chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO) judging by the elongated foregrip with full rail systems on all four sides. It’s specifically fitted with an ACOG sight here. Could also be one of those Daniel Defense / Knight’s Armament clones but I’m not too sure and can’t be bothered to parse it down.

This next one, though, is a mystery. Like, the very first thing that totally screws with me is the bizarre thumbhole stock. It looks almost like an M16? Like, you can clearly recognize the carrying handle in there, but... I dunno. I’m passing on this one, it’s driving me insane.

Seventh is a very clear-cut Colt M1921A Thompson (part of the Thompson series, chambered in .45 ACP) with an extended box magazine. Good ol’ classic rattler.

I swear these guns are going to drive me insane. Eighth one immediately had the Benelli M4 Super 90 (part of the M series, chambered in 12-gauge) come to mind because of the pistol grip and stock construction, as well as the design clearly being that of a semi-auto shotgun, but the barrel being longer than the shell tube, and the foregrip seeming to recede into the receiver, are both tripping me up. And of course, yet again, we have no ejection port or charging handle on the right side where it should be...

Finally, we got two easy ones. Penultimate one is an AKM (Avtomat Kalashnikova series, 7.62x39mm) judging by the stock style and what I’m assuming is a stamped receiver... hard to tell given the lack of details and OH MY GODDESS THE RECEIVER IS MIRRORED AGAIN.

Last one is the FN SCAR-L (SCAR series, 5.56x45mm NATO), likely the CQB variant. Easy to tell from the distinctively shaped folding stock. The iron sights are folded down to make way for what appears to be a reflex sight and flip-down magnifier optic.

I’m not sure what the (*wink wonk*) is supposed to suggest. If you’re asking if I’d pick these keychains up... let me know if they do any actual sniper rifles or PDWs.

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felassan · 11 months

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A few more snippets of interest and insight from Mark Darrah, from an older Mark Darrah on Games YouTube video where he was livestreaming playing Dragon Age: Origins some months ago -

Chat said "I am fine with any and all cameos, but I am not holding my breath for Sera and Vivienne to have anything more than a passing mention." Mark said, "I don't think they'll worry, if they want to put Vivienne and Sera in DA:D they'll do it. I don't think either of them have any quantum endings do they? Oh that's true, Vivienne can be Divine."

"The Darkspawn Chronicles DLC is canon-ish but definitely yeah, the team reserves the right to ignore it and has."

"I don't know why they've steered away from the tree ents [sylvans]. They could come back. They're nobody's favorite, so they just kinda fall down the priority list. If there was a good reason for them they could easily come back. You could have made a sylvan off the Behemoth rig from DA:I, but that would be weird and not really match the sylvans from DA:O. I think the way you would do it actually would probably be to build something off the giant rig, but again it would be different, so you'd really wanna make a custom rig."

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He also talked more generally about DA:O and the franchise and things in general. These bits are collected under a cut due to length -

"Is it just me or are the conversation trees in Awakening much longer than they are in DA:O?"

"Yeah, Oghren is pretty problematic"

"The junk mechanic in DAII in inventory was a nice quality of life feature. Well, it's not 'junk', it's more mark-to-sell"

"Games take a lot longer to make now because the number of assets and the fidelity of them is so much higher. In the late 90s you literally couldn't do that much, it had to fit on a CD or a few CDs. Now you've got blu-rays which have fifty times as much space"

"I think classes are a good thing in general just from a usability perspective, and also if you're gonna have a party-based game you need class roles otherwise you just end up with a big mushy miss. But obviously it can take things off the table that you might want to do." Chat commented "Do you think having a set type of role limits how they can evolve?" Mark replied, "It does limit them to some degree, that's sort've somewhat the problem. You could always violate those limitations if you want. You can make the hand-to-hand mage specialization"

"You can definitely see that DAII and Awakening are like, very close to each other on different sides of the line"

"It is weird that you suddenly have stamina potions in Awakening"

Chat said "I personally disliked that only rogues can open chests. It's alright from the RP perspective, but was limiting the gameplay imho." Mark replied, "It's annoying, I mean, that I don't, the out of combat stuff was even moreso in DA:I. But I think tying the out of combat stuff to the in-combat stuff puts you in a position of weird choices based upon how you want to play and I don't know that that's great. 'You basically have to bring one of everything' was the point, was the idea in DA:I, but I don't know that it was a good one"

"Awakening is a really plot-heavy expansion, with an insane amount of side quest material"

"The problem in DAII isn't that, it's not asset reuse, it's actually level reuse. That's I think what pushes it over the edge. And calling them different levels. Also that cave is too identifiable, it's got very specific bits of architecture"

"The problem with the DA:O darkspawn is that they don't really fit together, especially the ogre, they kinda look like a totally different evolutionary path. DAII is definitely trying to get them into a consistent art style"

Chat said "Should DA have beast peoples like cat people, dog people, lizard people? Qunari is bull people right?" Mark replied, "Qunari are more like dragon people. No, I don't think DA has cat people and dog people. There's snake people referenced in lore. Yeah, it is implied that qunari are descended from dragons. Yeah, they have horns, that's their main thing for why they look like dragons, is they have horns like DA dragons"

"I'll probably watch Dragon Age: Absolution"

"The problem with the Fade in DA:O I thin is you can end up easily in this weird inception level of quests because you're doing Redcliffe, which leads you to the Mage Tower, which leads you to the Fade, so you're like so detached from your goal that it really undercuts it. It's not supposed to be filler but it definitely feels like it. You finish it and then you had to finish it again. It's weird pacing"

Chat asked "Is there a reason why we never went to Gwaren in DA:O?" Mark replied "We had enough areas to visit in DA:O already. And you don't really have a reason to go there. Loghain isn't there, and there's nothing that can help you there"

"I'm pretty sure that, one of the reasons this exists [recruiting Velanna in the Wending Wood segmet] is because sylvans weren't used very much, it's a good thing to use the creature model for in your expansion pack"

"Varric is carrying a lot more weight in DA:I than in DAII"

"Stun-locking the player character is not good game design typically. Crowd control used by the player character is fine, but when it's used on the PC, you know, standing around is not very fun"

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(pls note that in places there is a bit of paraphrasing of the info, the best source is always the primary source with full quotes in their original context)

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #video games #long post #longpost #dragon age: absolution

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timdrakesbussy · 4 months

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Goblin Destroyer: How the Internet Revived an Obscure Local Band

This is something that suddenly appear in my mind when I was waiting for a public transport near my campus but like ... Stardew Valley's aesthetic looks like they're in the 90s in rural Northern America/Western Europe (though still cmiiw since I don't live in neither of those regions).

So then I thought about Sam's band and the real life band called "Panchiko" where the internet basically rebirth this band. (If you want to know about the band, here's a video)

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And I randomly think about some kids somewhere in the SDV-verse came across Sam's band's LP (I'm gonna go with Goblin Destroyer) and asked online forums about it but none got anything so far. Doesn't help the fact that the LP was credited only with their first names which are very very common names. The names in the back of the LP only says Abigail, Sam, and Sebastian with their roles which are drummer, guitarist/vocalist, and keyboardist/synth in that order.

OP then gave more information, like how the label seemed to be from either the late 90s or early 00s and it was obvious that they were from the Republic of Ferngill. Small problem though, Ferngill Republic is not a small place. Sure, it's not a big country, but it's still going to be hard to find the people who contributed to this record, especially since it was decades long. Regardless, this was a step forward.

I personally think they would not take too long (like Panchiko irl) because of my personal headcanon of Sebastian being chronically online even to his fourties.

The forum was very popular with many tried to remaster their songs or figure out just who they were. So then Sebastian rolled around and was like, "Holy fuck, I can't believe you found a copy of this. Thought they threw them all away in Zuzu City back in '98."

AND PEOPLE WERE SHOCKED AND ASKED IF THIS USER HAS A CLEANER COPY BUT THEN HE WAS LIKE, "lmao I'm the Sebastian credited in the back of the LP. Sadly, no. I do not have the cleaner copy, but I think my husband do keep some in his previous house when we still lived in the Valley."

Obviously, people were skeptical because the internet lies a lot. But they still gave him the benefit of the doubt because this was more information than they previously tried to dig. It was true that Goblin Destroyers were from Ferngill, specifically Zuzu City, and it was correct that they were from the late 90s.

Few months went by without a follow-up so most people just brush him off as hoax because that's what they usually did to lost media, claimed to know and kept it somewhere but unattainable for some reason.

That is, until another user joined the forum and introduced himself as Sebastian's husband who has the cleaner copy back in his old home. The husband was apparently, a very important piece in the band because he was none other than Sam -- another name crossed off the list.

Sam apologized and claimed that it took him longer to find than he expected and to compensate, he and Sebastian did a digital remaster for the LP and will put it to streaming services alongside their previously unreleased tracks.

With the band finally found, some questions arrived. Most of the questions were about Abigail, the drummer of the band, and also about them in general. The only things they knew so far were that Goblin Destroyer was a prog metal band from the late 90s, Ferngill, and that two out of the three members are married to each other.

The two claimed that they had no idea where Abigail was; the last time they saw her was when they still lived in their hometown. Sebastian then mentioned that she joined something called "The Adventurer's Guild", and one of the last things they did together was go to the forest and watch Abigail's improved swordsmanship. That was almost twenty years ago. They just hope that wherever she is, she's alive and well because she was their best friend.

They then ended the forum with pictures of them when they were young and some band photoshoots, needless to say that social media will be filled with their pics for a few months or so because of how attractive they were. The couple also added a recent pic and well, they're still handsome as hell.

It took them a while to finally return as a band; they were not the young adults in a small town who were bored and annoyed with how their parents coddled them anymore. They are middle-aged with a family and jobs, so yeah, it took a while for them to perform again. Eventually, though, they were back as a band. At least a duo for a few months, releasing a new single after twenty years.

Goblin Destroyer did not tour or participate in any music festivals until they were hit by a surprise, Abigail finally returned to the band. She revealed that she's been busy with the guild for over twenty years and is a mentor, so she was so out of touch with the news. She also revealed that she figured out that they went viral through her mentee, who told her about it.

Finally, the band was back in business. This was the dream that Sam had thrown away, and to actually have it tenfold decades later was exhilarating, to say the least.

#stardew valley #sdv #sdv sebastian #sdv sam #sdv abigail #goblin destroyer #sambastian #stardew valley headcanons #sdv headcanons

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jedi-valjean · 1 year

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Now the Jedi are all but extinct— or are they really?

There's been some doubt as to the accuracy of Ben Kenobi's lament that the Jedi are all but extinct. But the Jedi are a culture as well as a people, and the cultural genocide against the Jedi has driven the religion completely underground. So the number of Jedi is necessarily different from and almost certainly less than the number of Order 66 survivors.

List all the Order 66 survivors we know of at the time Obi-Wan says this.

Add Jedi who started their training after the Purge, like Ezra.

Do not include people like Luke, because Luke hasn't started training yet.

Do include Ben and Yoda because even though they die before the end of the Imperial reign, they're still alive at the time of Ben's assertion.

Subtract the number of non-practicing Jedi like Ahsoka and Cere. (And, obviously, all fallen Jedi like Vader and the Inquisitors.)

Subtract all Order 66 survivors who have died by this point (like Kanan and Nari.)

So basically, all living, practicing Jedi at this specific time.

The list is already short by virtue of the audience only becoming aware of surviving Jedi as we're introduced to them. Also, the rate of introduction limits the current number. Any time a group of Order 66 survivors are introduced in a group larger than two, most of them usually die. Obviously, the list is much larger than just the survivors the audience is made aware of, but even if most of that list constitutes surviving, practicing Jedi at the time of A New Hope, I don't think we'll reach a point any time soon where the number of individuals on that list strains the credibility of Obi-Wan's assertion.

What would that number be? Well, most cultures on the verge of extinction have populations under 1,000. I doubt we'll ever get to a point where the canonical list of practicing Jedi survivors alive at the time of the Battle of Yavin enters the quadruple digits. It's not just about how many are left either, it's how fast they're disappearing. I think we can assume the Empire is tracking down and wiping out the remaining Jedi fairly quickly. But if guesstimates aren't enough, we can use the extinction criteria for animals to find a more concrete upper limit of surviving Jedi. From Wikipedia:

To be defined as Critically Endangered in the Red List, a species must meet any of the following criteria (A–E) ("3G/10Y" signifies three generations or ten years—whichever is longer—over a maximum of 100 years; "MI" signifies Mature Individuals):

A: Population Size Reduction

The rate of reduction is measured either over a 10 year span or across three different generations within that species. The cause for this decline must also be known. If the reasons for population reduction no longer occur and can be reversed, the population needs to have been reduced by at least 90% If not, then the population needs to have been reduced by at least 80%

B: Reduction Across a Geographic Range

This reduction must occur over less than 100 km² OR the area of occupancy is less than 10 km². Severe habitat fragmentation or existing at just one location Decline in extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, area/extent/quality of habitat, number of locations/subpopulations, or amount of MI. Extreme fluctuations in extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, number of locations/subpopulations, or amount of MI.

C: Population Decline

The population must decline to less than 250 MI and either: A decline of 25% over 3G/10Y Extreme fluctuations, or over 90% of MI in a single subpopulation, or no more than 50 MI in any one subpopulation.

D: Population Size Reduction

The population size must be reduced to numbers of less than 50 MI.

E: Probability of Extinction

There must be at least a 50% probability of going extinct in the wild within over 3G/10Y

A. The rate of reduction is measured over 10 years or 3 generations, which ever is longer. Well, by the time Order 66 survivors could have had a mature grandchild, the Jedi are definitely still endangered— especially because Luke's Jedi Order was wiped out and Rey's is only just beginning. But we're limiting the timeline to Ben's statement, so we only have less than 20 years to go on. Either way, drastic reduction.

If the reason for the population reduction no longer occurs and can be reversed, the population needs to have been reduced to 90%. Well, Order 66 was a one-time thing, but the Empire is still hunting down and killing Jedi, actively seeking to prevent their regrowth, so I'd say the reason does still occur and reversing it is almost impossible (though the Jedi try.) In that case, only an 80% reduction is needed to qualify. The Legends estimate, less than 100 survivors out of 10,000, is less than 1%. Canon has not given an estimate, but if we carry over the number of pre-Purge Jedi to be 10,000, then an 80% reduction leaves 2000— 20 times the Legends survivorship estimate. So the number could be anywhere between 100 and 2000— before you factor in non-practicing Jedi, Jedi who began training after the Purge, etc.

B. The reduction must occur over less than 100 km² OR the area of occupancy is less than 10 km². It's a big galaxy, I don't think this applies.

C. The population must decline to less than 250 mature individuals, and either 1) undergo a decline of 25% over three generations/ten years, or 2) undergo extreme fluctuations, or have over a 90% reduction in mature individuals in a single subpopulation, or have no more than 50 mature individuals in any one subpopulation.

Let's break that down, using 10,000 as our number of Jedi. Obviously, some Jedi are minors, so this isn't a perfect estimate by any means. We could also argue that Jedi only become full Jedi once they are knighted, so only Jedi above Padawan rank count as mature individuals. Or we could say that because we're dealing with a culture and not a species, this doesn't necessarily apply. Because we don't know the amount of immature individuals, let's assume all 10,000 individuals are mature. In order for this criteria to be considered, there must be 250 mature individuals left. Thus:

After being reduced to 250 individuals or less, 62.5 (rounded to 63) Jedi are killed within ten years or three generations. (Again, our timeline is much shorter than three generations.)

As stated previously, most Jedi refugee groups the audience are introduced to comprise of one or two people, or else have most of their members killed off. If this is how we define a subpopulation of Jedi, I think it's safe to say there are no Jedi subpopulations that consist of more than 50 individuals, factoring in "maturity" or not.

D. The population must be reduced to less than fifty mature individuals. This could be the case. We do not know of fifty Order 66 survivors, and we certainly do not know of any Order 66 survivors who are still living, practicing Jedi. This would square with the Legends estimate of less than 100 individuals surviving, although 50 is significantly less than 100. However, there could also be more than 50 Jedi left.

E. There must be at least a 50% probability of extinction within over three generations or ten years. I think this one's a no-brainer. We've seen time and time again how difficult it would be to rebuild the Order anew. Unless every single survivor, practicing or no, took an apprentice and trained them to completion without said apprentice dying or falling away, the Jedi religion definitely had at least a 50% probability of dying out entirely.

Remember, only one of the five given criteria have to be met to qualify for near extinction, which the Jedi definitely do. We're also operating on Obi-Wan's limited knowledge here. Both he and Yoda have been in exile and have had not had much contact with other survivors, and in the case of Ezra, neither have any reason to believe one way or the other that he's still alive since they last interacted with him. So Obi-Wan could still be wrong and it wouldn't be a plothole (although some argue that the story is made cheaper somehow by Obi-Wan's statement being untrue, as if the plot of the original trilogy doesn't hinge on Obi-Wan being an unreliable expositor of literal truth.)

The list, by the way, as far as I could compile it, is comprised of the following individuals, assuming all individuals are alive and practicing unless established otherwise:

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Yoda

Cal Kestis

Ezra Bridger

Quinlan Vos

Oppo Rancisis

Coleman Kcaj

Ka-Moon Kholi

Selrahc Elous

Gungi

Djinn Altis

Roganda Ismaren

Valin Halcyon

Tiberius Anderlock

Qu Rahn

Rahm Kota

Uvell

Seventeen individuals. Out of, at the absolute lowest estimate, fifty surviving individuals. And this is assuming all of these individuals are living practitioners at the time, which some of the must almost certainly not be— only the first four are confirmed to qualify. All others listed could have either been killed since escaping Order 66, or no longer identify with or practice the Jedi way. (We know that some individuals on the Empire's list of survivors, like Ahsoka, had already left the Order before Order 66 was given, and many of these individuals left the Jedi path at some point in Legends.)

"All but extinct" has a degree of subjectivity to it, but personally, I think it could be much higher than fifty without becoming an inaccurate assessment. We're less than 40% of the way from reaching 50 named surviving Jedi in canon, and less than 10% of the way from reaching 250. I think we can comfortably place the number of known and unknown survivors around 250 without having to worry about exceeding that estimate for decades' worth of Star Wars stories. And as long as the survivors or next-generation apprentices are killed off or leave the Jedi before A New Hope, or else don't become Jedi until after A New Hope, they won't count towards that number, so suffice it to say I don't see this line of dialogue being invalidated any time soon.

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Nimona found-family (including Blitzmeyer) camping headcanons

Dr. Blitzmeyer: I'm starting with her because I think she would have the most experience camping. She obviously has camped a lot; her house is covered in things from her travels, and she says that she went over the mountains before. She would have all the fancy gear that's expensive but it's a good investment for her because she gets a lot of use out of it. Is not overly prepared but has definitely made a list of everything she needs and has made sure it's all there. She would be the one supplying materials the others forget because she anticipated to bring extra. She's also the unofficial leader because she's the only one who knows what she's doing. Instructing them how to pitch the tents, how to start a fire, how to cook different meals over a fire that are actually really good, all that stuff. She knows the answer to everything both camping and wildlife related. The only weird part is she makes them take a bunch of precautions (read: rituals) against wood elves or other magical creatures that Ballister and Ambrosius are 90% sure don't work.

Nimona: She loves camping. She only started living indoors relatively recently in her life so being out in the wilderness is nothing new to her. The only reason why she doesn't have the most camping experience is because she wasn't really camping; there was no tent, no fire, no bug spray, etc. She's the only one who's repeatedly enthusiastic about Blitzmeyers twelve-mile dawn hikes and other planned activities lol She'll disappear for a few hours every afternoon and wander around the woods. She also shapeshifts a lot more than in the city; it just feels more natural to have an animal form in the woods. That being said, she will show up to dinner and be like "I already ate. I had a deer" and they're like "??????????" She's generally a lot happier and more relaxed

Ballister: He strikes me as the one that's way overprepared. His bag weighs forty pounds and he can't find the stuff he actually needs in all the other useless crap. Eventually, he usually gives up and asks Blitzmeyer for it. He has never been camping before and doesn't really see the appeal in it. Why would you voluntarily live in a tent when you have a perfectly good house? It's not fun or relaxing, it's stressful; you're exposed to the elements, you might run out of food, you're more vulnerable if someone attacks/robs you, etc. It's very much left over from his days on the streets. He appreciates the nature and has a good time during the day but once the sun sets, he's like "Ok, let's go home." The first day or two would be ok but after that he would be stressed out of his mind and begging to go home.

Ambrosius: He has also never been camping. Because why would you voluntarily live in a tent when you have a perfectly good house (read: mansion)? He would probably have asked to go a few times when he was a kid but was told no and now is super excited it's finally happening. He would want to help with everything but has no idea what he's doing (much to Blitzmeyer's frusteration). If Bal's the one who overpacks, he's the one who underpacks. They set everything up and he just stares at his stuff like "...I forgot a pillow. It didn't occur to me that there wouldn't be pillows here." Then he either has to borrow one from Blitzmeyer or drive a couple hours to the nearest store lol He forgets soap, food, a flashlight, bug spray, and basically everything else that isn’t a sleeping bag and clothes. He has a really great time for a few days but starts to get grumpy the longer it goes on. Once they do get back, he instantly gets in his bed and isolates himself for a day, scrolling on his phone. He enjoys camping but he enjoys his house more lol

#blitzmeyer and nimona are the type of ppl to relax while camping #bal and ambs are the type of ppl to say ‘we’re going to the store and if we don’t come back that means we decided to live in there instead’#guess which one my family is lol #we’re ambrosius #we always forget everything and have to borrow it #and we spent three hours sitting in Walmart even tho we only needed one thing bc they had AC no mosquitoes and wifi #we are not camping ppl AT ALL lol #nimona #nimona headcanon #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #meredith blitzmeyer #dr blitzmeyer

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i did my post about merch and this is a general price guide to go along with that, but because it's so subject to change, i have reblogs turned off and will probably delete this after a bit when it's no longer relevant/correct. these prices are not based on original price but rather what you can expect to pay for it now if you actually want to get your hands on it.

this is a lot more informal and just based off what I've seen over the last 2-3 months of digging. lower-end average (not the best, but generally good enough) prices are listed in USD (since all of this was originally sold in the US, its pretty hard to get a hold of elsewhere).

note: the biggest tip i can give you is to look on Mercari. there's a lot fewer professional collectors/speculators ("investors" 🙄) over there, but also fewer listings in general. that said, definitely check other places before buying something, and Mercari doesn't have search alert emails like eBay. also, take a peek at Facebook Marketplace! I have seen one or two things there if you look "outside your area" with shipping.

original posters: (in mint condition) close to 10$ but sometimes pushing 20$. reproductions fall in this range too tbh.

pins vary based on what the pin is and if it still has its backing. most pins are still available direct too so i haven't paid much attention to their prices. I think like 10$ (give or take a few dollars) for the buttons (4-pack) is around what I've found. side note: double check any pins being sold against han cholo's catalogue and my con promos post, because if it's not in there it's a fan's design, which 1) you really should buy direct from them, 2) might be CHEAPER from them. i saw someone selling pins for 30$ when brand new from the fan artist they're 24$. same thing for the jewelry. there's a reseller who is my nemesis for marking up items and trying to make them seem rarer by calling them con exclusive when theyre for sale online right now. i cannot stress enough how much you should cross-check this stuff.

her universe clothes: this varies based on what it is, but in general you should be looking to get it for less than original list price. even if it's barely used, it is still used, and you will find it lower than original eventually, so use that as your general guide. for the jackets, you can get as good as 40$ off sometimes (I’ve seen the adora bomber that retailed at 70$ listed between 25-75$). the bomber is definitely the most common item i've seen, usually around 25$, but i haven't checked the situation over on poshmark/thredup so there might be more variety there. (also, i have the links to all the original clothing listings in my merch post, which includes the original sizing chart!)

action figures: they list for 800+, but listed doesn't equal sold at all. i havent seen any movement on the listings i've found (which span up into four figures, btw). i think i saw them sold for 450$ once. sometimes people list just the BOX for 150$ so good fucking luck if you want this one and make sure to read the listing carefully. also, if you want to look around for these, add "-keshi" (on sites that support it) to remove the super7 keshis from the search, which are these weird 7$ rubber things for the OG show that remind me of the straw buddies.

can you tell the difference between the items that collectors have targeted and the regular merch? lmao. speaking of collecting: NIB = new in box. basically, it's in the same condition as if you bought it directly from the store. sometimes you might see NIP for "new in package" (think the buttons, which obviously don't have a box).

dolls: okay, listen. i've seen adora sell for 90$ and i've also seen her sit around and wait to be sold for 40$. every single one of these can go for three figures at times, but i would say an average list price (they're super over-priced, so you can make lower offers after a while of no movement, i've seen 100$ come off listings as time went on) is around 70-100$ (NIB) and a good one is closer to 40-50$. she-ra (regular) tends to be cheapest and easiest to get below this price point. the lowest ive seen NIB for them individually is 30$ each for glimbow, 39$ for adora, 25$ for she-ra, 45$ for she-ra+swift wind, and 57$ for catra (note: catra is the most expensive and rare to find below three figures. she sometimes goes for over 200$). i've also seen the entire BFS go as a 50$ lot NIB and the BFS + catra go as a lot for 30$ out of box so factor that how you will. these prices range a Lot. if you wait and are patient, you can get a more reasonable price eventually. (there's currently a lot of she-ra/glimmer/bow listed as 300$ despite she-ra being way more common and regularly going for $50. people are stupid) OH RIGHT i forgot the sdcc exclusive. yeah 100$ list is average on that. best price ive seen (initially listed) recently is 80$ NIB. that said, i've seen them sell as low as 31$ when the packaging was damaged. because prices are so variable, i've seen damaged out-of-boxes go for more than NIBs (see: 115$ damaged catra vs 57$ NIB) because the seller/buyer were pricing based off of a higher listing. if someone is trying to sell something damaged or with a slightly off screening (imperfect paint/print job), you can lean on that to get the price lower (there's a glimmer with a Hilariously skewed screening - and missing accessories + messy hair - listed for 1$ on ebay right now).

the Lootcrate and Sonic stuff varies based on what it is (and if it's in a lot) but they tend to span 5-20$. usually they aren't sold individually so it's hard to price.

the stickers/tattoo/coloring sheets usually go in lots but range 2-15$

the target toy sword/shield and target costume should be something like 30-45$ for a good NIB price (i've seen them go up to 75$ as a list price tho). i've seen the costume go for as low as 10$ if it's used.

i havent seen enough listings (or any in some cases) to get a vibe on the prices for anything else.

these prices are just based on what's going down right now. they'll go up around the holidays and then lower again, and it's possible in a year they're all way higher or way lower than currently. collectors have targeted some of these things and its so obvious when the con exclusive pin sets can sell for 12$ and the (originally 15$!) dolls from target can go for 160$. it's super annoying and i hope all of them choke <3 but maybe their stupid speculating will taper off and it will get easier to get stuff reasonably. we can only hope

this has been sitting in my drafts for ages but im posting it now, not even in the hopes it will help someone, but so i can infodump about this extremely specific knowledge i've developed over the summer lmao

#words and things #if you have a piece of merch you want. i can probably point you to the lowest one listed rn easily lmao #idk if anyone else cares about this stuff but my inbox is open to questions XD #send em off anon and i'll answer them privately #let! me! infodump!#ok im normal again

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8 Brief Thoughts About Van Helsing (2016)

It's now been a good chunk of time since Van Helsing (Syfy) final season came out on Netflix, and I would like to take a look back at some things from the early seasons that had such great potential and were ultimately squandered. Maybe one day someone can take some of these good ideas and have another go at it.

As a preface, in general I think that if this show had taken itself a little less seriously, been a little less unironically 90s-comicbook-style edgy, and just had more campy fun, they might've been able to keep the plot from flying off the rails at the end of season 3 and maybe would've been able to keep the MC likeable enough that they didn't have to stuff her in a closet for over an entire season.

And now, 8 things that could have been good:

1. the idea of a reverse vampire (someone who can bite vampires to turn them back into humans). I love the idea of being able to walk up to a classic, arrogant Gothic style vampire who remembers the Crusades and thinks humans are basically cattle, and just absolutely wreck them thematically and literally with just a little ~nibble~

2. Combining the classic "zombie apocalypse with fast zombies" setting (with half-starved feral vampires as the fast zombies), with having actual, intelligent villiand (well, varyingly intelligent) who can have the usual villian hierarchies and dynamics. Like if the various bad guy factions of The Walking Dead were lightly fantasy flavored and also not meant to just further bash into your head that all humans are horrible terrible monsters.

3. On a similar note, just having a show in an apocalypse setting that says "Humans aren't the worst, actually, because the vampires definitely are, and you have to magically and horrifically strip a person of their connection to emotion and humanity to get that". And if that's the opposite of the writers intentions and I've read it completely wrong, then I think they might've chosen being edgy and nihilist over being interesting.

4. Diversity. Not just in the representation of bi women, lesbians, BIPOC actors and characters (I cannot stress enough how big a deal having a confirmed-in-season-one bi female protag was for 2016), but in the in-world diversity of vampire clans/subspecies.

4.5. The Sisterhood. Obviously.

5. Putting a SHOCKINGLY gripping murder mystery in the middle of the first season of your post-apocalypse fantasy show.

5.5. Making Christopher Heyerdahl the murderer. The man never misses when it comes to playing compellingly unhinged characters. If you want a show with a script and plot that doesn't do him dirty like season 4 did, watch the first season of Hell on Wheels.

6. Having your mid-level BBEGs Tragic Backstory be "I was into BDSM in the 1700s and I had HORRIBLE taste in choosing a new dom and now here we are". I'm sorry but that is glorious and I still can't fathom why they waited until we no longer cared about the character to reveal it. They could've played it for comedy, they could've played it for developing the character (trust/control issues etc), and instead we got to wave at it as it passed us by on its way out the window.

7. Lady Dracula instead of good old Vlady, and the Three Spouses of Dracula instead of three wives. Liked the idea, felt the execution was lacking (but, to be fair, it was equally as lacking as everything else plot related in the later seasons). Please, someone just give me a modern Carmilla in vampire fiction.

8. A short list of themes they could have developed or developed better with this setting and these characters, and chose not to:

Human capacity for empathy and connection, and how that relates to ones definition of humanity.

In what ways does the fact that "humanity" can be given or restored in this setting conflict with the characters' assumed definitions of humanity. Further, address the fact that almost every single vampire killed in this series was originally a person who didn't want to be a vampire, and who could have been a human again. What are the personal and moral implications of actively killing a vampire when you could have just as easily turned back? Is there any real difference than just killing a human at that point?

The line between love and obsession/possession and the toxicity therein. After they mentioned that most vamps have a very limited emotional range, I would have loved to see this theme played out more in the vampires who still have close familial or romantic relationships (or, uh, I guess both), especially when you have Phil to contrast it with.

Found family and redemption arcs. Oldies but goodies. The amount of these themes/tropes they did have within the side characters' stories was most of what made the later seasons watchable for me, but I sometimes think we all might've got over the fact that Julius used to eat babies just a little too quickly.

#van helsing spoilers #van helsing (2016)#van helsing syfy #vanessa van helsing #van helsing #van helsing series finale

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Character ask: Goofy (Disney)

Favorite thing about them: How funny he is, obviously, but also how sweet, friendly, and earnest he is, which makes him truly likable and more than just a one-note bumbling idiot.

Least favorite thing about them: Probably his well-meaning yet questionable parenting choices in A Goofy Movie that make Max miserable. Though of course the moody teenage Max is at fault too, and once they finally have a heart-to-heart talk, they come to a beautiful resolution.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I'm friendly most of the time.

*I can be clumsy.

*I'm at least a little eccentric.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I'm not tall or skinny

*I'm not nearly as accident prone as he is.

*I'm not an anthropomorphic male dog.

Favorite line:

From one episode of Goof Troop:

"If there's one thing I don't like about falling off a roof, it's the pain involved."

As Marley's Ghost in Mickey's Christmas Carol:

"And so as punishment, I'm forced to carry these heavy chains for eternity!... Maybe even longer!"

From A Goofy Movie, his response to Max insisting that he's grown up and has his own life now:

"I know that! I just wanted to be part of it! You're my son, Max. No matter how big you get, you'll always be my son."

From Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas:

"Of course there's a Santy. Otherwise, we'd have a lot of jobless elves running around."

And from Lonesome Ghosts, a line that either inspired Ray Parker Jr. when he wrote the theme for Ghostbusters, or else is a hilarious coincidence:

"I ain't a-scared of no ghosts!"

brOTP: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and his son Max.

OTP: Max's mother, whoever she might have been, and sometimes Clarabelle Cow. (Yes, I also know about Sylvia from An Extremely Goofy Movie, but I've never actually seen that movie, so it doesn't feel quite right to list her too.)

nOTP: Max.

Random headcanon: His two favorite foods are pancakes (since he sings about them at one point in Mickey and the Beanstalk and eats them in the breakfast scene in A Goofy Movie) and homegrown tomatoes (since he sang a cute song about them on the '90s kids album Funny Food Songs). Sometimes he combines them: for example, he makes BLT sandwiches with pancakes instead of bread, or griddled tomatoes with butter and maple syrup.

Unpopular opinion: I'd like to see an explanation of what happened to Max's mother that didn't kill her off. I know it's generally accepted fanon that she died, but in the first place, there are too many dead mothers in media, and secondly, the idea that a character as happy and silly as Goofy should be a widower feels so sad and wrong. But then, the alternative of a divorce that ends with Max's mother no longer in his life might be worse. The only explanation that wouldn't be incredibly sad for Goofy would be if Max was adopted and Goofy was always a single parent. But that doesn't seem likely: all evidence points to Max being Goofy's biological son, since he has his buck teeth and his laugh. Maybe it's just as well that Max's mother has never been mentioned at all.

Song I associate with them:

"The World Owes Me a Living" (although it was first sung by the Grasshopper in The Grashopper and the Ants, who just happened to be voiced by Pinto Colvig using his Goofy voice, it later became a signature song for Goofy himself)

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"On the Open Road"

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"Nobody Else But You"

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Favorite picture of them:

#character ask #goofy #disney #ask game #fictional characters #fictional character ask #goofy (disney)#cartoon characters

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 years

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Why have you been posting stuff from Matt Walsh lately? Isn't he one of those conservative idiots mad at the world for having gays and Trans people in it or whatever, or am I misinformed? I assume you just agree with those few specific things he said, but what's your opinion on him overall?

To be honest, I never really knew who he was. I'd heard his name around, but wasn't sure who he was or what he does.

I have no affinity with nor allegiance to him, and I suspect we would disagree on very many topics. However, in the current climate of terror and vacuum of honesty on the topic, it seems it's up to the conservatives to make this sort of film. And I appreciate him for doing that and for making it such an easily accessible argument.

Having watched it, I saw very little of his politics in it. He came informed, but he asked sincere questions. When the person responded, he asked for them to clarify or elaborate, and that usually was enough to reveal the problem. Basically, the Socratic method. Which anyone can use. Most of the ideologues in it had clearly never been probed or really questioned about the meaning of what they were saying, and either got tangled up or offended that anyone would question them. Obviously it was edited down from longer form interviews into a 90-ish minute film, but that's going to be true for any such production.

I haven't dug into Matt's specific views on many topics. Partly because he's a shit-stirrer, which itself I kind of appreciate, but it makes it harder to glean from his Twitter feed what he thinks vs what he's saying to make a point.

For what it's worth, I've found that most conservatives, other than the really fundie Xian types, don't give a shit about whether you're gay or trans (I mean, actually trans, with GID, not the "girls who don't like pink are boys or something else" kind). For example:

https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/6/09/homosexuality-voted-be-struck-pennsylvanias-criminal-code

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives unanimously voted Wednesday to strike the word “homosexuality” from the state’s criminal code, where it had been listed in the definition of prohibited sex acts. Supporters say said the word doesn’t belong since being gay isn’t a crime, according to the Associated Press. “This bill provides a long-overdue update to our crimes code to ensure nobody is prosecuted because of who they love,” said state Rep. Todd Stephens, a Republican who also introduced the bill. “Eliminating this archaic language will also help promote a culture of acceptance and inclusion for our LGBTQ community across Pennsylvania.” Stephens had first introduced the bill last year, according to Patch. Pennsylvania’s law against sex work defines sexual activity so that it references “homosexual and other deviate sexual relations.” The new definition that has been sent to the state’s Senate now reads “includes sexual intercourse and deviate sexual intercourse ... and any touching on the sexual or other intimate parts of an individual for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either person,” according to the AP. “Homosexuality” was also struck from the definition of sexual conduct, the news wire reports, in a section covering “obscene and other sexual materials and performances.” “In this General Assembly, sadly, it’s a huge lift to merely agree that being gay shouldn’t be illegal,” Democratic Rep. Dan Frankel said.

Frankel urged lawmakers to go further and pass antidiscrimination legislation protecting LGBTQ+ people.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-poll/most-republicans-support-same-sex-marriage-for-first-time-gallup-idUSKCN2DL294

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A majority of Republicans in the United States support same-sex marriage for the first time, a Gallup poll found on Wednesday, with a record 70% of all respondents backing gay weddings. The research shows a significant increase in approval of same-sex marriage since 2015, when it was legalised nationwide following a Supreme Court ruling and 60% of Americans told Gallup they were in favour of gay marriage.

The idea that conservatives are, by default, anti-LGBT people isn't any more true than that progressives are all pro-Choice.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/18/three-in-ten-or-more-democrats-and-republicans-dont-agree-with-their-party-on-abortion/

Overall, roughly one-third of Americans who identify as Republican or as Republican-leaning independents do not agree with their party on abortion (35%), including 12% who say they agree with the Democratic Party on abortion and 23% who say they do not agree with either party. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, three-in-ten do not agree with their party on abortion, including 7% who say they agree with the GOP and 22% who say they don’t agree with either party.

We also need to note how some of the most vicious homophobia is currently coming from supposedly "progressive" people, in what's being dubbed "Homophobia 2.0" - an intolerance for homosexual people to be attracted to people of the same ("homo") sex. And erasure even by the LGBT groups that pretend to serve them. Which isn't to say that conservatives are better than progressives, but that it isn't that black and white.

I've said before that driving a car requires using both pedals. If you keep your foot on the brake, you never go anywhere. If you floor it, you're going to go careening off a cliff. In a functional liberal society, all ideas get a chance, but not all ideas survive. The US and other countries need sane, liberal progressive and conservative wings to provide those healthy, competing forces. Which right now they seem to be lacking.

I have no allegiance to either, so I can agree with Matt, or find value in what he's saying on a topic without pain or discomfort, and disagree with him on other things, particularly his Catholicism, or, say, if he opposes LGBT adoption, for example.

Similarly, many Xians and I can both agree that Islam is a threat; some of them have a secular view, others object to Islam because it threatens their desire to Xianize everything. But it means that David Wood of Acts17Apologetics can have a point about what the quran and hadith say that makes Islam false. And I can roll my eyes and have trouble taking him seriously that he doesn't spot the same problems in his own superstitions.

The rejection of a valid argument or point based on who it originates from is itself a fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic

genetic You judged something as either good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it came. This fallacy avoids the argument by shifting focus onto something's or someone's origins. It's similar to an ad hominem fallacy in that it leverages existing negative perceptions to make someone's argument look bad, without actually presenting a case for why the argument itself lacks merit.

As I say, I don't know much about him, so don't have a strong opinion of him. I don't know that we would agree on much, and I don't know that we could even be "friends." But I don't hate the fact he exists - when progressives are being idiots, there should be people to mock and validly show them up, just as there should be the same for when conservatives are being idiots.

The most important thing is whether or not the point is justified.

#ask #Matt Walsh #What is a Woman #conservative #progressive #religion is a mental illness

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Watching Through My Collection: Day 3/36

Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)

Day 2 / Day 4

An inevitability of getting through this backlog of movies via random wheel is that any franchises in the list are gonna get shuffled out of order. So, here's the first one we got!

Luckily, I've already seen the first two Hellraiser movies so I know most of the lore already attached to Pinhead and the Cenobites, and any references to the third movie weren't blatant enough for me to notice, so this was still a pretty good watch.

CW: Bodyhorror

There's so much to say about this movie...

Adam Scott's there! He plays a non-insubstantial part and gets to skin a woman and have really funny hair. I kinda wanted him to hang out for longer but he did eventually die, cause if you're willing to skin a person alive then you may get killed before the movie ends.

He also got to live 200 years without aging, so he was probably bored anyway.

The fact that this movie decided to cover 3 different generations of a family line was pretty neat, and having the same actor play his own descendants is one of my favorite tropes, so I was willing to forgive some of the lamer moments in the middle.

Obviously, since the movie opens in the future setting of 2127, and the first flashback goes to 1796 to when the Lament Configuration was first created, by the time the story gets to 1996 you know the stakes can only get so high.

Pinhead doesn't show up until the 1996 setting, really. Technically, he appeared in the beginning set in the future, but this is when you really get see him! When he does finally get to interact, he brings the elegance we all know and love him for. Even while being a catty bitch to the other Cenobite, Angelique, that's been the main antagonist up until then.

He even pets a dove and feeds it to his dog, he's amazing.

There is the most random character establishing conversation I have seen for some monster fodder in a movie to this day, though.

A pair of identical twin himbo night-security guards checking around the empty building the Cenobites are in talk about whether they'd fuck a transwoman.

While, yeah, this was 1996, we've all seen a 90's film where guys talk about whether they'd fuck a transwoman, I certainly did not expect it to get slipped into my Hellraiser movie.

Good news is; they would 👍

Honestly, the only things that really stuck out from the 1996 storyline was that conversation, Pinhead's dog, and a bit of plot explained about the final box to destroy the Cenobites involving lazers. The rest of the human conflict just can't suck you in when you know that the Cenobites don't take over the world (no one believes the Lament Configuration is dangerous in the future) and the kid survives because the bloodline needs to carry on in order for the future to even happen.

(The flat acting also doesn't help sell the arc. Best actor in there was the kid playing with his K'NEX. So relatable.)

Thankfully, once the movie gets back to the future it's all about that climax and hot Cenobite body horror goodness!!

Everyone looks amazing and Pinhead flexes his stuff a lot more, them all getting a turn to kill someone in a fun way. Angelique decapitates a guy via mirror magic, the dog gets a guy while he's hiding, the Taffy Twins separate and then fucking absorb a dude in between them, and while Pinhead doesn't get any kills at the end, he does get to chew the scenery and get blown the fuck up by the giant box space station they finally built right to kill the Cenobites.

Of the weird trend of sending horror icons to space around the turn of the millennia, this is my favorite by far. I cannot wait to be sad and disappointed at all the other movies that'll barely have anything to do with the Hellraiser story beyond Pinhead showing up.

#nick is a dangerous man #collection reviews #hellraiser #hellraiser 4 #hellraiser bloodlines #hellraiser bloodlines 1996 #waiting to see what movie I hit first when I run out of gifs on tumblr

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years

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oooh 1 and 11 for the horror fic with Lup and Taako ! :3

Ooh!! I never get to talk about this one :3 I worked really hard on it too, and not a lot of people saw it so I'm just gonna sliiiiide a link right here <3

Also, anyone can send in a question about a fic from these questions here or just other questions in general! I like talking about my fics and never know how to shut up lol

What inspired you to write the fic this way?

So this was back when I first started getting back into writing and had virtually no following of anyone who consistently read my stuff or sent me prompts. Actually, I think at the time of writing it, I may have not even reblogged a prompt list yet. It's hard to say because this was obviously before I got an ao3 account, and when I tried to upload all of the fics I had written by the time I did get an account, somehow the publish date on some of them got mixed up and was set for the day after I actually published them?? And I didn't know how to fix it, so I no longer know the order in which I wrote everything. That's neither here nor there though. Point is, I used a prompt from a pdf of a prompt book I got in an online writing bundle called Roll-A-Prompt Writing Journal Box Set, box set meaning that it had prompts for horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. I used that book a lot in the beginning because it's a really fun book to use the few times I used it. Basically you pick a set of prompts from any of the three genres, and the prompts are ordered in three different aspects of the prompt (in this case, it was character, mood, and word, but there are other options depending on the prompt set you choose), and each aspect has a list of six options. Then you roll a d6 for each aspect, and you generate a prompt by combining the three different options you rolled. Like the monster factory from Wonderland! lol Only, I took it up a level and rolled a d4 to determine what genre I was going to do (usually I use it as a d2 to pick between sci-fi and fantasy), and then I roll a d100 to pick what prompt set I use because there's thirty prompt sets in each genre. I just used this roll as leaving it as is if it landed on 1-30, then if it was 31-60, I would just subtract 30, and if it was 61-90, I would subtract 60, and if it was 91-100, I would just reroll. Then I count that many numbers down starting from the top of the chapter until I got to the right prompt set.

If anyone is interested, I could share it! It is a pdf though, so I think I'd have to send it through email because I don't think that's something I can just share elsewhere.

Anyway, I felt like throwing in a little extra, why not? that day when I decided to roll up another prompt and added horror as an option to my d4 roll, and I ended up getting that, so that's what I went with lol I am definitely not a horror person though and know very little about the genre, and I'm unwilling to do anything too gory or gross. The most I can handle with horror is creepy and abstract concepts of other horrific events, and the top thing that came to mind that day that I thought I could pull off was someone torturing students to bring back an old dead god. So I looked up wheel torture methods because I couldn't remember exactly what the torture device I had in mind was called or did, it was the wheel thing that like, you get tied to on the side and it's supposed to stretch your body apart? Idk, it's the torture method that always stuck out most to me besides quartering, and there was no way in hell I was writing that. I get uncomfortable even rolling that idea in my head and have to try really hard to not picture it every time I remember it exists. Anyway, so I looked up wheel torture methods, and the only thing I could find was the wheel that is called a female name that starts with a c then wheel? Cathie's wheel? Cassandra's wheel? idk I don't want to look it up. Last time I looked it up (to write this fic), I literally gave myself nightmares, and I already watched a fucked up movie today. It's past 11pm and I have to be somewhere at 1pm tomorrow, so I have to go to bed soon, but the grossest part of the movie I watched is still playing in my head and aaaahhhhh

So yeah, that's why I went with a hopefully more creepy vibe for most of it (also to build up tension), and I used physical descriptors of the dead bodies in the wheels very sparingly. Probably not the most immersive experience, but hey, I'm not a horror writer usually lol

Anyway, so I needed characters to be in this scenario, and I thought doing a sibling bonding moment would be cool, and it definitely seemed like the kind of weird shit that would happen in Taako and Lup's lives pre-stolen century. Also, it gave me an excuse to end the story with Taako saying he'd always find Lup >:3

I was really proud of how it turned out when I wrote it, and I suppose I'm still proud of it because it's something I wouldn't normally do, and I do feel like it's okay. But I can definitely tell I grew in my writing capabilities since then, and honestly, the twin interactions after Lup gets kidnapped is so cringey lol 🤦🏽‍♂️ I was so worried about trying to make sure that I didn't portray either of them as weak or like a damsel in distress, especially Lup, that I didn't just let her need to be saved. I wanted to show that I still think of her as a badass who can take care of herself, especially because I was really worried about the weak woman trope or whatever, that I didn't let her just need help. I honestly thought about switching the roles, but Lup just seemed like the one to pick up on something being wrong first while Taako got distracted by how hot the professor was than it being the other way around, and of course the person who picks up on it first has to get kidnapped lol

Anyway, I've rambled on about that long enough sldgkhsldaghd

11. What do you like best about this fic?

Honestly, the part where Taako gets hit with Phantasmal Killer. It was interesting figuring out what exactly would be his number one nightmare that Keth could conjure up, and between having an inconsistent childhood where either the twins left places for their own safety or people left them and them only having each other, having Lup being the one to yell at him, blame him for fucking up a great opportunity, and then leaving him would probably be something major psychic damage worthy lol I also really like how I wrote that confrontation in his mind in general, though I feel like I could do it way better now

It's just a perfect way to spin the situation on its head you see, and fuck the both of them up just a little bit <3

#Thank you for sending this in; Reese!! :D #Also; sometimes I think about like #what exactly did they do after that? they're enrolled in school now; so this isn't a scenario where they can just like; walk away #Like; they would have to report the body and everything he did and all of the students and stuff #but what would you say to someone; especially like; a school administrator; like #btw; you should vet your professors better or keep track of them better or even just walk into the abandoned building once in a blue moon #just to make sure weirdos don't try to summon old gods by torturing students and making a place for themselves in the building you don't #use #btw; we did kill him for you and promise we did not do this; no; don't look at our background; yes; he tried to murder my sister #please let us stay in your school and also fuck why does weird shit like this have to happen to us EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT #ON THE ROAD ANYMORE #lmao #Gab gabs #ask game #sorry I rambled so much; I'm running on very little sleep and just got back from seeing my friends after a while of not seeing them #and I'm feeling particularly chatty I guess #Oh! Also; getting in a weird mood again and idk if this is gonna happen because I'm still working on the Julia AU #but maaayyyybbbbeeee I'll do another prompt from the roll-a-prompt pdf and maaaaayyyyybbbbbeeeee it'll be horror again :3 #NO PROMISES but there's a slight chance <3

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Ho boi! Hi hello.

Can we just call all my 7 once a week post things I’m not mentally prepared for. I complied a list 104 words and phrases that I’ll be posting for every week of summer. Which is divided into 15 weeks. (It’s actually 105 but the last one is a bonus)

Here is the said list divided into their respective lists. If you notice that I put something in parentheses? No you didn’t. It’s a figment if your imagination, not a way for me to use multiple words again…. Anyway here’s the list

Summer Windows prompts

105 words or phrases that make me and others think of summer.

1: Ice cream

2: Flip flop

3: Ramune (Japan specific)

4: Shorts

5: Float

6: Wind

7: Refreshing

8: Sun dress

9: Ball

10: Festival (America specific)

11: “Sea to shining, really? You’re going to buy the ice cream alone.”

12: Lizards

13: Resort

14: Sunflowers

15: Rain (Japan specific)

16: Olympics

17: Lemonade

18: Crickets

19: Hiking

20: Siesta

21: Protect your skin damnit!

22: Sightseeing

23: It is what it is

24: Swimsuit

25: Pool

26: Rainbow

27: Muggy

28: I’m your biggest fan (pun intended)

29: Surfing

30: Shaved ice

31: Swimming

32: You’re not allowed

33: Volley ball

34: Cool for the summer

35: Camping

36: Break

37: “Ice ice” “Wait no Sho that’ll break if you freeze it!”

38: Ways to cool off

39: Hydrangea (Japan specific)

40: Cheese burger

41: Heatwave

42: Lightning storms

43: Sweet tea

44: Hot springs

45: Flip flops

46: Strawberries

47: Sunshine lollipops and rainbows…

48: Picnic

49: Snacks

50: Sunglasses

51: Water park

52: Shochu mimai (Japan specific)

53: Lazy day

54: Shopping day

55: Summer job

56: Training

57: Snorkeling

58: Family reunion

59: “I can too swim” “not very well obviously”

60: Night market

61: Seashells

62: Watermelon

63: Bug bites

64: Travel

65: Somen

66: Team building

67: Popsicle

68: Featival (Japan specific)

69: Garden

70: Lake house

71: Convention (anime specific)

72: Mosquitos

73: “if you talk about how hot it is it gets hotter”

74: Cicada

75: Skinny dipping

76: Boating

77: Hammock

78: Stop breathing on me

79: Fireflies

80: Biking

81: “I never said I could swim, I said I could save my life”

82: Cloud gazing

83: Fruit salad

84: You’re too close

85: Stargazing

86: Bucket hat

87: Sun

88: Grass

89: Stop taking your clothes off

90: Fishing

91: Sand castle

92: Movie marathon

93: Life guard

94: Strawberry picking

95: Lost in paradise “you said you would leave me alone!”

96: Fireworks (America specific)

97: Play

98: Road trip

99: Running

100: Waves

101: Cookout

102: Tan lines

103: Amusement park

104: Beach

Bonus: “i love you, but if you lay on me I’m kicking you off the bed. You generate more heat than I do!”

The same schedule as usual. Seven prompts for the weep posted on Saturday about 6pm est. if I’m feeling a little creative I might post longer ones on Wednesday.

#bnha x reader #prompts #writing prompts #genshin impact x reader #haikyuu x reader #jjk x reader #inuyasha x reader #summer prompts #there’s 104 days of summer vacation… that’s how this started #100+ prompts #yes I hate me too #batman x reader #i’ll probably add more later

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destinyimage · 1 year

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Spontaneous Revival: The Prophetic Invitation of the Asbury Revival

When you see evidence of a Holy Spirit outpouring, it’s an indicator light.

It’s a supernatural invitation summoning you to do something so that you can experience that same measure of Holy visitation.

Asbury is an Invitation

Presently, we are witnessing the Spirit of God moving powerfully across the Earth—most notably at Asbury University (although, I am convinced we have been experiencing the rumble of Great Awakening for many years now, most notably in 2020 with the CA Beach Revivals hosted by Saturate, the North GA Revival in Dawsonville, the eight-year plus Fresh Start Revival in Peoria Arizona, the culture of revival at the Ramp in Hamilton, AL, and so on).

Bottom line: The “wells” of revival are reopening, as Asbury had at least two notable revivals in the past, most popularly and widely recognized, the 1970 Asbury Revival. God’s movement yesterday should provoke us to expect a fulfillment, or completion of that move today. He finishes what He starts, and Jesus is returning for a church that is compatible with His Second Coming—a glorious bride so in sync and in step with the Holy Spirit that the church and the Spirit are speaking the same language, saying the same thing concerning King Jesus: Maranatha… Come!

God is Not Repeating the Greatest Hits of the 1990’s

Immediately, our tendency is to want to go where God is moving. That’s important for sure. But then I sensed the Holy Spirit spoke to me with sobriety saying, “I don’t want a repeat of the 1990’s.” The 90’s was a historic time of revival, from the 1993’s Rodney Howard-Browne camp meetings at Carpenter’s Home Church in Lakeland, to the 1994 Toronto Blessing (truly, one of the landmark moves of God in history that impacted the world), to the 1995 Brownsville Revival (which saw over two million people visit an Assembly of God Church in Pensacola, FL and thousands of people either give their lives to Christ, or re-dedicate their lives to Him), and then the Smithton Outpouring in the cornfields of Missouri, where God descended in power reminiscent of the great frontier revivals of Cane Ridge and the Red River Meeting House.

These are all glorious moves of God that must be honored as memorials of Holy Spirit visitation… but a memorial is never meant to produce stagnancy. A memorial should not create a culture of reminiscence; it should provoke us to pray, “Lord, do it again,” and then, become a people willing to “do again,” what they did to experience revival.

It’s time to ASK for the Rain… because it’s raining!

Asbury University is a summons right now. Should you go and visit? Absolutely, yes. But if you cannot make it to Asbury University, I have good news for you: You too can experience the outpouring of Holy Spirit right where you are. No one is safe.

How can you experience this blessing of revival? Zechariah 10:1 tells us exactly what to do when God is pouring out His Spirit: you ask for rain in the time of rain. Obviously, it’s the time of revival and outpouring, so you need to ask for it for yourself.

Generally, we refer to this “asking” as prayer. But there is a kind of prayer that is compatible with revival. Humdrum prayer won’t suffice. Kumbaya prayers won’t break open the heavens. We cannot be half-hearted in our prayers. Back in Christian School (before I was redeemed, of course), I remember we loved “prayer request time” at the beginning of class. Why? Not because we were Intercessors-in-the-making, but the longer we focused on “prayer requests,” the less we needed to do in terms of class work. We trivialized prayer. We prayed for Aunty Sally, and my neighbor’s book, and then of course, there would be the kid with “Ten Unspoken” prayer requests. Let’s do an honest assessment of our adult prayer lives: sometimes, does it seem like we are just going through the motions and prayer is a drag? I suggest prayer is a drag because it’s robotically going through lists, it’s sanctified complaining, and it’s “righteous gossip.”

Where are the voices that will shatter darkness and tear open the Heavens over a territory because they contend, travail and intercede until a breakthrough takes place?

Are your prayers compatible with revival?

I’m not suggesting Father God is seated in Heaven with His hands clenched around revival, waiting for the loudest, most intense prayers. Rather, I do believe Heaven is looking and listening at the tone of your prayers—how hungry are you? How thirsty are you? Are you satisfied with where you are in your walk with God—or are you divinely unsettled? Do you read the Bible and wonder, “Why aren’t we seeing or experiencing what is clearly available through the power of the Holy Spirit?” It’s legal to be hungry and thirsty for more than theological knowledge. There is nothing wrong with you if your heart burns to see the words on the page become demonstration in and through your life. These qualities have historically marked revivalists.

There’s no question about the faithfulness of God or integrity of His Word; we know Scripture is true. So, if the Word is true, and we are not seeing the Word come to pass, it’s a provocation for us to cry out in prayer until everything He promised comes to pass—and I am referring to the great and glorious last-days promise of a Holy Spirit outpouring that impacts all flesh.

When you see and hear about God moving, smile, celebrate, praise the Lord, and then ask for the same rain of Holy Spirit outpouring to saturate your life, your family, your school, your church, your city and your nation. It’s raining… so ask for the rain. It’s time!

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