#single deals work

[wild-neko]

disabled people: we are still dying, can you please just wear a mask to the grocery store and doctor’s offices so we can live

conservatives: no, die or stay inside all day, no one cares

leftists: no 🏳️‍🌈✨💖

#wear a mask #covid #sars cov 2 #disability rights #eugenics #disability pride month #lgbt #it really is like this :') #queer #pandemic #ableism #disabled queer #auspol #me not ever being able to share the same air with anyone ever really does something to your mental health #trying not to die in the ongoing pandemic #wear a fucking mask #we would actually like to access third spaces too #we just lost 100 years of disease prevention bc govt propaganda worked a little too well and gave every single medical person brain rot #they went from 'do no harm' to 'actually i think you should quit complaining and allow me to kill you with airborn aids' #which is happening EVERYWHERE BTW and it made it to the media that an aust hospital COVERED IT UP like this is what we're dealing with #this is what modern day eugenics looks like and no one gives a shit #Ableism #HAPPY NEW YEAR #pride #LGBTQIA #activism #acab

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #ketheric thorm #and I also have a lot of thoughts of how Aylin foils him #I fully believe that he was in the right in the capacity that he switched around his gods when he was literally ignored despite his life's #work. despite all that he has given. I think it's reasonable to expect in the world of gods who actively meddle in mortal affairs on their #whims and make shit worse that in just one single case they would. idk. NOT expect one of their devotees to remain blindly loyal to them #after their prayers go unanswered. like yes; go and try your luck elsewhere because this devotion of yours is clearly being taken for #granted. you get NOTHING out of your worship. you can't even sleep well because your loved ones are dead and you are expected to just what? #deal with it on your own? and remain loyal? why? #some sense of 'honour'? #I really like this depiction of faith actually. I really like when clerics and paladins are given agency and critical thought that hey! #this is actually giving me nothing despite me dedicating my entire life to it! and I have only one of it so why not take it somewhere where #it's actually valued. you know. as a treat. #I *personally* much more prefer this depiction of a crisis of faith than what we got with Shadowheart or Lae'zel; their stories are very #interesting on their own but I think throwing yourself from one end to the other not because you actually have a goal that it could serve #but because you are desperate for a purpose #is a slightly less potent character narrative than having an actual goal yourself. not by much but by a little. #again #PERSONALLY

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hi, I hope you don't mind this message, and idk if anyone else has told you, but there's this troll going around on Tumblr named @/freethepuppet. They claim to be “fighting for justice in the puppet industry”, but really they're just sending hateful and threatening messages to Welcome Home and My Friendly Neighborhood artists/fans.

I myself have receive multiple death threats from this person, and they have sent threats to many of my friends over the matter, some of which are minors.

Because of this issue, I have decided to keep myself and my friends anonymous, especially considering the fact that @/freethepuppet intends to send threats to PartyCoffin himself, along with the creator behind My Friendly Neighborhood.

I just wanted to warn you about this person, so that you can block and report them, as well has tell others in the community about the troll. If you decide to ignore this, then that's fair and I respect your decision.

In any case, I hope you and your friends stay safe. Best of luck!!

blocked! thanks for letting me know! to add on to this, a little advice for everyone:

Don't Engage With This Person At All!

Don't Look At Their Stuff, Don't Respond To Messages, Don't @ Them Or Give Them The Time Of Day. Just Go Block Them And Let Them Exhaust Their Own Hate

#block and move on - thats the best way to deal with this sort of thing #dont give them a single millimeter to work with #they'll get tired of their own vitriol eventually #its like the best way to deal with assholes who say horrible things just to start shit: just ignore them completely #an 'ok. anyway-' will take the wind out of their sails better than any counterargument #they WANT you to engage. they WANT you to argue. they WANT you to waste your time on them #so. Don't! #block and ignore and move on with your day knowing that you're free from that bullshit <3 #rambles from the bog #and you know? i hope that person gets better #no one goes out of their way to be so hateful unless they've got their own shit going on so. #even though i have them blocked! a message to that guy! #things Will get better. i hope that one day you look back on your hate blog with embarrassment and maybe some guilt #because you're in a happier - or at least more peaceful - state of mind #good luck man. ik its rough out there. you'll get through it

[fedoraspooky]

I truly hope the rumors of tumblr selling its user's artwork and other images to midjourney aren't real, because I am extremely tired of having to uproot and move around on the internet and still haven't fully recovered from the old dA-to-tumblr exodus... But juuuust in case a deal like that does go through, I'mma just leave this linktree post here. Just, y'know, for reasons.

The worst part is, you can't even delete or go back and edit your posts to opt out if this happens, because reblogs are unaffected. If anyone has ever reblogged your work there will be no way to opt out of this unless we can get a class action suit for tumblr going, or I guess report our own artwork and hope they nuke it themselves.

Just... Really didn't fuckin need this. Tumblr has been my internet home since 2011. I may not have a lot of followers, but I've made a lot of friends here over the years, and i don't wanna start all over from scratch AGAIN because some pissbaby CEO decided to have a transphobic breakdown and sell out all of the site's artists to theft machine robber barons for a shiny nickel.

I'm hesitant to post on insta too because zuck's vacuuming up everything for his AI too. Same with musk. Like, where the hell can we even go now?

All I can think of rn is just... Bluesky, cohost, sheezyart (which is as of this post still in closed beta), and newgrounds. There's furaffinity and stuff too but idk if I draw enough furries to be on a furry site, y'know? Idk, maybe my werecreature and nonhuman character stuff counts but just ughhh if we gotta move, can we all just agree on a place and move together and not scatter to the winds again? That would be great.

#seriously i am so tired of every single place i've worked hard to get anywhere on pulling heinous shit like this #sheezyart cant open back up fast enough #i also need to post more on bluesky now that that's open too #like i know the internet's already been scraped but you just know #ai corpos are making these deals so they can skirt the lawsuits and say they 'legally licensed' our works fair and square

[frazzledazzlin]

i love dst i love rhm and reginald so it was only meant to be

#2 goals this decade #get da hell out of here and make these 2 working mods .... #they will have cute dialogues about each other trust #thsc #the henry stickmin collection #dst #scriboozles #reginald gets lured with the deal of the clan to keep thriving when he's no longer leader #and boy does he have a strange disappearance . i think i should make his single hat form his default one and the 2 hats one the alt outfit #lore is fun lore is great #no idea what rhm's deal would be here other than loyalty to keep reg safe even after reg loses leadership #he can be the minor lore guys and reg would be a major deal lol

[you-makestedehappy]

Line deliveries that play on repeat in my brain.

Season 1, episode 5 - The Best Revenge Is Dressing Well

🐈‍⬛❤️‍🩹🍆💦🏴‍☠️ [ep 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

Bonus :

#and the series continues #i'll have to admit these didn't come as easy as the previous sets ! bit of a hard time here #i could put in every single one of stede's lines but trying to refrain myself #i'm obsessed with his half-whispered “i'll deal with it” like hngggg #and also his little “why would you” #and his “stand down now” #so yeah #our flag means death #my gifs #ofmd #alright off to sleep i gotta be at work in 6 hours

[misspoetree]

+ Bonus:

[Main post: KinnPorsche + Text Posts: Work Sucks Edition ]

#ngl: I saw that worm tweet and it made me laugh so hard #and it reminded me of Big somehow 😂❤ #btw the shit Chan didn't sign up for: having to deal with Porsche every single day 😂❤ #god I really feel better now after making all these work-related text post memes #the healing power of fandom shenanigans 😌 #kinnporsche #kinnporche the series #thai bl #kinnporsche + text post #text post meme #kinnporsche meme #work suuuuucks #because the kinnporsche brain rot is still real

[scuderia-hamilton]

the discourse over Ricciardo vs Tsunoda is so funny to me, cause like my boy, Yuki is about to have scoliosis from carrying that whole team on his back, while DR is there mostly because he’s marketable and for pr purposes and lately he’s been shit at that too 💀 this isn’t a debate, you’re arguing with a wall

#anti ricciardo #yuki tsunoda #Yuki dragged every single one of his teammates that the media said would outperform him #and some of you still have the audacity to say pr3 is better than him?? #put some respect on his name #the excuses some of you come up with are wild #just admit this isn’t working for him anymore and done deal

[mamawasatesttube]

if bart and kon had slightly more normal childhoods (i.e. childhoods at all, i guess) bart would absolutely insult kon by telling him he has the personality of a high school band trumpet section leader. tragically, bart doesn’t know enough about high school bands to make this claim, and kon doesn’t know enough about high school bands to grasp just how bad a burn it is.

#rimi talks #like ig they could conceivably learn of band jokes via classmates #but its not the same and theres no way either of them is ever gonna be in band #they have too much superhero bullshit to deal with to worry about band camp #part of me wants an orchestra au bc i live for indulgence. the rest of me is just like yeah no tim and cassie could swing it but konbart? no #the ONLY strings au i could see w kon and bart working. is if kon is the most fucking obnoxious first chair violinist on the planet #and bart is the double bassist who wants to stab him to death with his own bow every single day #kon #bart

[luminarai]

Gotta love the particular niche of influencers who claim that they turned their hooded eyes non-hooded or significantly changed some other part of their face by doing daily facial massages for years and years (and you can too by buying their 500$ 30 minute course!) when they’ve obviously had cosmetic surgery. Like cmon.

#I deal with a lot of sinus and stress related headaches so I do some face massage techniques on myself #which is why I guess these grifters have started popping up on my social media feeds #and the comments are full of people who believe them! but of course they always claim that their results are from YEARS worth of daily work #fully banking on you naturally not being able to do it every single day for seven years or whatever #so when your face doesn’t magically rearrange itself it’s not their fault #anyway facial massages are beneficial and can help with pain and some types of puffiness #they can’t lift your brow bone or significantly alter your jawline #grifters gonna grift

[robinsnest2111]

sorry for disappearing. I promised I wouldn't do that again but it's always the thing I fall back on in desperate times. idk how to stop doing that

I'm just so tired and in pain, I wanna lay down and cry and never get back up again

#wish i could cry. as it is the tears are pressing on my eyes but cannot come out. it hurts. i wish it wouldn't hurt #all i can do is sleep as much as i can whenever i can. no other way to escape it all #trying to plan my mental illness breakdown around my work hours so my coworkers don't have to worry #i actually like being at work and putting on a smile and acting bright and bubbly comes to me so easily #but i feel the tiredness creeping in. making work a bit more difficult and i don't like that #my brain is starting to merge dreams and reality in a way that hard to tell apart #it's also whispering evil things into my ear. like: you're not mentally ill there's no official diagnosis so better be sane and normal #or: you're making it all up. stop with that. just be normal. <- about literally every single thing #<- like me dealing with depression and anxiety and probably no small amount of trauma and gender dysphoria? NOT REAL according to my brain #which is. idk i KNOW i struggle with all of these things and there have been suspicion diagnoses #but no actual 100% confirmed diagnoses and that fact is fueling my brain in whispering these mean things to me #and i'm just so very very tired of it all... i don't want to fight anymore but i'm also too scared to take any kind of final action #sorry... #delete later

[myreygn]

modern au dad askeladd except he's not an actual dad but this random kid shows up to his house every day and tries to have beef over the closed food store askeladd bought and turned into an antiquarian store. turns out the food store used to be run by the kid's father until he passed away which is very sad of course but also askeladd is not gonna cooperate with some brat that borderline harasses him day by day. only that he can't call the cops because he kinda has a turbulent past and if they find out he's filling his store with stolen goods it's gonna become a huge problem. and note to destiny, the stupid kid finding out is not that great either because now he has to hear it out if he doesn't wanna go to prison and also he should probably learn the demon child's name while he's at it. shenanigans ensue.

#askeladd agrees to honor the memory of thorfinn's dad and in return thorfinn won't call the cops on him #then they fight about how the honoring should be done #askeladd doesn't want to change his entire store's image only to make sure people don't forget about the former owner #and thorfinn isn't satisfied with just a sign with his dad's name on it which is as far as askeladd is willing to go #things change when some rich jackass wants to buy every building on the street and turn the whole area into a luxury resort #now thorfinn and askeladd have to work together because thorfinn doesn't want his dad's store to vanish #and askeladd doesn’t want HIS STORE to be torn down because smuggling the stolen stuff out of town would be a pain #(also affordable houses with basements big enough to keep the meth laboratory running are rare these days) #(also also thorfinn learns some kind of martial art in the dojo across the street which is whatever but the coach is really nice) #(like. REALLY nice.) #(with a nice voice and a nice face and nice muscles and as if that wasn't enough he makes a kickass apple pie) #“bjorn is single btw” - “shut up thorfinn” - “i'm trying to help” - “go bother your twink why dontcha” #yeah thorfinn actually manages to make friends with the son of that asshole that tries to get their houses #great for the brat of course but now askeladd has to deal with a snobbish teen criticizing his cooking #not to mention the nosey nanny slash accountant the rich idiot hired to keep his twink son entertained who's very curious about the basement #he also knows a lot about modern art which. not great. well great for him but not for askeladd. #anyway tldr #askeladd has to save a street while trying to raise two boys that aren't his not falling in love and keeping ragnar out of the meth basement #thorkell is the construction worker hanging around and refusing to do his job until sven pays him quadruple the original agreement #vinland saga #bjornskeladd #thornute #ragnar and thorkell are also there #and sven but no one wants him to

[scarletfasinera]

This was said by someone who confidently declared that a hand-painted sci-fi art piece from the 70s made by a human artist was AI art and therefore bad, and then was proven wrong about it being AI-generated. I wonder what this says about your views of artists and art in general as a subject actually.

#txt #In case it isn't clear I think OP is stupid #Don't pretend to care about artists if you're just going to insult them #and don't pretend to care about artists if you're just going to try to “gotcha” every single artist you see #especially if it's just on the basis of “I don't like this art so it MUST be AI generated” which seems to be most people's basis #from what I've seen #and is just...such a stupid and cynical way to engage with art. #but also like there's NO REASON to get so mad about random peers on the internet using AI as the tool that it is meant to be #Like get over it #You're not actually great at recognizing “real human soul” or whatever because souls don't exist #So. Deal with that I guess. #“No war but class war” and all that you know? #You will soon realise that the problem is Capitalism and not your working class peers. If you take my hand you will see #⌨️ #EDIT (Feb 2024): “Stupid” isn't a good thing to call someone who disagrees with me. I think OP is *silly.*

[honey-dont]

steve and cesare def both consider their respective crews to be ‘their’ humans but in a kind of “oops i accidentally got attached” way

#david.txt #bigtop burger #thinking many thoughts. i love parallels #they were both ostracized from their respective societies for reasons outside of their control (lbr it was the neurodivergency) #and then forcefully removed from it via murder/banishment so they’re both very lonely individuals #cesare deals with the alienation by being Loud and Angry bc it’s easier to convince himself he doesn’t need anyone that way #bc who would WANT to be around him #whereas steve i think actively seeks out companionship but still tries to distance himself (which is why he always uses the wrong names) #pov you’re an ancient being who gets shown kindness for the first time in who knows how long and you don’t know how to deal with it #at work with a single .jpg of a burger floating above my head like in the sims

[ladykissingfish]

*reading the Help Wanted ads in the paper*

Hidan: Oi, here’s one for a Clown to perform at kid’s birthday parties. Holy shit; clowns can make up to $100,000 a year?!

Kakuzu: And just think, you’ve been acting like one all these years for free.

#kakuhida #kakuzu x hidan #kakuzu #hidan #🤎🤍 #for some reason this reminds me of an AU I started to write #where Hidan owes a ton of money to Kakuzu but can’t pay #so Kakuzu decides to pimp him out #but every single time he gets a client lined up something will come up and the deal falls through #Hidan just thinks it’s bad luck #but in reality Kakuzu is sabotaging these potential “dates” because he’s caught the feels for Hidan #eventually he works out a deal with Hidan where Hidan agrees to be there for him and share meals and spend time together #Hidan: Like … like marriage? Kakuzu (blushing) Yes like marriage

[plumbogs]

i believe the whole "beau broke is constantly being told to not end up like his brother despite the fact that dustin basically did over half the parenting" thing is probably not good for his mental health.

#brandi isn't QUITE the worst to me but the years after skip died she was an alcoholic/very in her grief #she also gets better over time but for the important part she was Gone. i love sibling tragedies #even if brandi was single mom who worked two jobs deal dustin is a good older brother to me so either way #the youngest broke sibling also got to be mostly raised by brandi after she got better. none of these kids were raised by the same parents #but dustin is still like. a criminal/general deliquent/dropout to me. so society wise he's a Bad Person tm