#so this is as unbiased as it gets

[buggachat]

yes the peacock miraculous obviously needs to be felix's and is extremely significant to him and there's so much poetry about the fact that he is the holder of the very miraculous that created him and him being the holder of it is deeply entrenched into the plot. HOWEVER.

sometimes i miss the cat!adrien vs dog!felix dynamic. because it was really fucking funny

#also like. if you listed out the personalities of adrien and felix to an unbiased third party #and asked them to assign one as dog and the other as cat #it would absolutely be dog!adrien and cat!felix. right? like it would. #adrien is like a little golden retriever who follows you around. felix knocks shit off your counters just to get a reaction out of you. #but no. cat!adrien dog!felix. like what the fuck is up with that. bring it back it was so weird #ladybug: aw darn :/ i gave the dog miraculous to the cat-coded guy by accident! i meant to give it to adrien. HE'S the dog guy #chat noir: excuse me? #also the fact they were fucking pet-coded?????? AND THEYRE SENTIMONSTERS??? FUCKED UP TBH. BRING IT BACK

[coquelicoq]

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

#he also goes on for another six pages after this but by then he has remembered the existence of the full stop #the endnotes say that hugo 'se devait de faire [ce portrait] aussi favorable que possible à la personnalité de l'homme #qui avait favorisé sa carrière' (had to make this portrait as favorable as possible to the character of the man who had favored his career) #in fairness to hugo it's not like louis-philippe was alive to read this. so he wasn't just sucking up to get something out of it #he says at the end of the chapter that this description is 'entirely disinterested'. which like on the one hand i get #bc like i said louis-philippe was not in power and reading this. but otoh victor 'ancien pair de france' hugo u r not exactly unbiased. lol #les mis #lm 4.1.3 #i just looked up the english translation and gasp! hapgood turned it into four separate sentences!!!! #so i think y'all who are reading it via les mis letters (which uses hapgood i think?) are gonna miss out on the full experience :/ #my posts #linked to #syntax #idk if i got this across but the worst part is that the subject of the sentence - the beginning of the independent clause - #doesn't occur until the very end. so for the first 95% of the sentence you're just waiting for the bass to drop!!! #like reading it out loud you have to raise your pitch at the end of every dependent clause because you haven't gotten to the subject yet #AND THERE ARE SO MANY CLAUSES!! 49 SEMICOLONS PEOPLE!!! FORTY-NINE!!!! #victor hugo would be TERRIBLE as a hype man. he would take so long that the crowd would tear him to pieces with their fingernails #before louis-philippe could come out on stage. and then they'd be so mad at louis-philippe for inspiring him that they'd tear LP apart too #actually i think i'm using hype man wrong. i'm thinking of the guy that gets the crowd hyped up for the main guy before the main guy #makes an appearance. a hype man is the guy who makes interjections during a song. victor hugo would be bad at both of these #like just imagine the announcer at the beginning of a basketball game. and now...your starting lineup...at power forward... #and then he just says the 760-word louis-philippe sentence. #dead. murdered at the hands of the fans. microphone shoved down his trachea.

[chaosxcrushed]

There's a certain CCCC summary video that we really, really like. We think it is a great video for people if they want to grasp the story more clearly, if they're confused, or if they're listening to the album for the first time.

That video being Chonny Jash and the Weight of the Mind on Youtube by W3tBl@nk3t. We think they cover it really well.

However, I'm sharing this for a different reason; they say few certain things that really struck with us until now, that I'd like to share with the fandom. Sometimes, we see people really just.. Miss the point of CCCC entirely, and I'd like to shine a light on what was said here. If you'd like to hear this for yourself on video, the timestamp is 35:57-36:45.

“..I bet we all could relate to that, they are the prime example of the side of you that suffers and the side of you that hates yourself for suffering:

The side of you that just wants to slow down and feel everything even to the unhealthy extent of not being able to do anything else(1), but also the side of you that so desperately wants you to get over it(2).

Sure, laying in bed all day every day to rot isn't healthy, but neither is boiling things down and invalidating your own emotions. Both are paths to inevitable disaster, and that's what Chonny is doing here. Keep in mind that the idea behind this album is being whole, and that means neither of these sides are entirely in the right or the wrong; this album is about inner compromise and acceptance(3).”

1.) The side of you that suffers; Heart. He is representative of Whole's emotions, he holds them. Your emotions can go haywire, especially when one's mentally ill and has no way of their feelings being validated. An emotional person like Heart suffers under the weight of crushing, devastating feelings. He wants to feel things out, have time to just process everything, even if it takes them days or weeks to get over it. It's not healthy, but feeling is what he does, and he wants to help because he knows he has importance. Solely focusing on just your emotions isn't the best thing to do, however.

2.) The side of you that so desperately wants you to get over it; Mind. Many people have been there, have wanted themselves to stop wallowing in their own emotions and just do something else, even to the point where you think feeling things out is unnecessary. This is also unhealthy, but not intentionally. Like Heart, Mind just wants to help, everything he does is in best interest. This is what he thinks will get them to move on the quickest; to leave behind emotions and focus on anything BUT that. Also not the best thing to do.

3.) This album is about inner compromise and acceptance; About being whole. Neither of Heart and Mind are right nor wrong. They have their own ways of doing things, of what they think will help their whole self out the most, but both are unhealthy despite the good intentions. They fight over who's wrong or right, when they shouldn't even be doing so in the first place. It's your thoughts against your emotions, basically; your feelings contradict your thoughts, and it leads to an inner war of sorts. This won't make things better, which is why you can't have Mind over Heart or vice versa; you'll need both of them. In the album, they are only able to be whole when they get along. They harmonize, they 'combine', they see eye to eye with each other and work together instead of fighting over and over. Inner compromise is achieved with this, and acceptance can lead them away from any disaster that there's to come.

What we're trying to say is that mental health is a large thing tackled within CCCC, and yet we see a lot of people who overlook it; thus, end up missing the point of the whole album. We see a lot of people believe Mind's perspective a little too much and treat Heart quite harshly, or the other way where people demonize Mind and say that Heart is perfect, when it's not really that in the slightest.

This is not a hate post towards people's interpretations of CCCC or how they view characters, I'm just saying that people can tend to overlook what's in the very narrative, and we see a concerning amount of people do such.

Anyways. Stream CCCC and put your Hearts and Minds in the get along shirt. Have a nice day.

#chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium #cccc #cccc heart #cj heart #cccc mind #cj mind #mind chonny jash #heart chonny jash #I did not mention Soul once in this post. I am so sorry to all of the Soul enjoyers #whole was technically mentioned but this is not about him. so sorry to the Whole enjoyers as well #we rreally really really like this CCCC video #a lot #it does a great job at explaining things and is fairly good for an unbiased telling of the story #to reiterate though this is not a hate post #it's just a bit frustrating to see how many people say that mind is right or heart is right #but no.. that is not the point of cccc #and it's even in tse as well. the line 'neither is right yet neither is wrong' #personally we are big fans of heart and will defend him since he gets so mischaracterized #but we know and acknowledge that he isn't 100% correct and can be wrong for what he wants to do and has done #we love Heart but he did not have to pull that gun. #also. more justice for characters who make mistakes but aren't automatically super evil because they're just human. #we've seen how people lack that understanding in the fandom </3 #hmsw are so incredibly flawed in a relatable way with such good writing #we feel like people overlook that so much #this post was scary to make but #we're doing it #here goes #CxC rambling and yapping #we haven't posted purely text posts in a while please don't come for our heads c4 fandom

[vilsoo]

is it a safe space to say we should bring back assassinations cuz literally our us government is just incompetent asf

mass shootings happen every day, womens rights are being taken away, ppl are living off minimum wage, the housing costs are just dreadful, cop cities are being funded, a genocide is going on and thousands of palestinian kids are dead but yeah lets just ban tiktok!! that'll solve all our problems <33

#ofc they want to get rid of something they cant control #tiktok is actually a good source of raising awareness and spreading unbiased information #we cant afford to live and yet they’re gonna raise it even higher #sigh i love america so much 😍😍😍 #amerikkka* #also literally twitter is the fucking dark web atp why dont they just ban that as well along with fb? #since theyre so worried about our security being threatened 🙄 #not like the govt already has our fucking info already #especially TEMU??? how is this app even allowed when they steal and sell our info #pls make it make sense. #we’re literally letting a nursing home pass these laws and work the govt yall #i bet they can’t even paste a pdf file on their emails #should be in the graves already by next week

[i-hear-a-sound]

this may be a misworded take but: watching (white) conservatives cover the current israel/palestine conflict happening and act as though they’ve always cared about jewish people antisemitism yadda yadda is so fucking (un)funny like. no. no. no. you don’t care about any of that shit. you don’t give the slightest fuck about jewish people, you’re only pretending to care about them because right now the people in israel are currently bombing and genociding the one group of people you hate more

#free palestine #palestine #israel #yesterday I saw a clip of some fuckers on fox news the so called “unbiased news service” #say they wanted the people protesting for palestine’s freedom “in strait jackets” and “locked in a psyche ward” #hope every one of those ableist racist pieces of shit get hit by cars I’m not joking. fucking despicable #news #politics #israel hamas war #*calls ppl wanting palestine’s freedom antisemitic* #*will then proceed to regurgitate the “there is a secret group controlling the world the economy etc” conspiracy theory like its nothing* #again this may be misworded. but idk. just all this shit makes me soo mad #hamas #current events #genocide mention #gaza

[mazerunnersecretsanta]

IT’S TIME FOR TMR SECRET SANTA 2023!!

Welcome, participants old and new, to TMR Secret Santa 2023!

Last year, our 5th!!! tmrss, was as fabulous as ever (with the added fun of the video that @comebacknow kindly made to celebrate our 5th birthday 🥺), and we're looking forward to another year of new and wonderful tmr content!🥳

You may be familiar with Secret Santas and how they work but, just in case, here is what will be happening:

Sign up for the Secret Santa by filling out our sign-up form. The information you give us in your sign-up form will be the deciding factor in the gift you’re going to create and the gift you’re going to receive, so please make sure you read and fill it in carefully! Please note this event is 16+. (You can specify three wishes, favourite characters and ships etc. - or any that you don’t want to be featured in your gift, or that you don’t want to include in the gift you make.)

You will then be matched with a giftee, for whom you will create your gift, according to their own Secret Santa wishes :))

Once you have finished making your gift, you will submit it to us via email or, if necessary, via a file sharing platform. More detailed information about submissions will be provided later :) It is very important that you submit your gifts by the 8th December. Christmas is a busy time for us all, and the tmrss elves need enough time to set everything up for the Grand Gift Reveal 🎁🥳

We will post all the gifts on this blog during the week running between Christmas Day (25th Dec) and New Year’s Eve (31st Dec), for your recipient (and for the fandom) to enjoy. Have fun perusing all the beautiful new content and, if you like, making your guesses, but please maintain secrecy, that’s part of the fun!🕵️

The big Secret Santa reveal will take place on th Jan, when we will post a list of all the Santas involved and tell you who created which gift.

After that, you’re free to post the gift you created anywhere else (your own tumblr etc.).

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10th September - Signups are now open!

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8th December - Gifts due in

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So please sign up, share, reblog, tell your friends – however you can, please tell your friends and spread the word! Let’s show tmr some love!

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If you would like to put your name forward as a Beta Reader this year - something that we always greatly appreciate - please indicate this on your sign-up form, or email us at mazerunnersecretsanta@ outlook.com

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Feel free to contact us if you have any questions! 🧝‍♀️🎄

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#tmrss23 #tmrss #come sign up and you won't regret it! #tmrss sign ups #let's go lesbians #let's goooooooooo #the maze runner #maze runner secret santa 2023 #it's so much fun #our unbiased opinion is that you should: sign up ;) #get in touch if you have any questions :)

[imminent-danger-came]

Anyone else absolutely allured by how wrong everyone in lmk is all the time. Everyone is an unreliable narrator and no one knows what's going on or what they're doing. It makes it so fun for me

#like normally you have a gut feeling whose right and whose wrong but lmk literally throws that out the window #like in 3x06 it's like okay. So DBK is telling the truth right let's get it #AND HE LITERALLY ISN'T. THE UNBIASED ACCOUNT IN 3X10 IS DIFFERENT #you can't even trust the shit people show you in the scroll of memory. Azure lied #Like hello #We didn’t even get the full story with Macaque in 4x11. #like oh my GOD nobody tells the truth here it's invigorating #Like literally no one #they are living up to the ''no one has any idea what they're doing'' theme #I love it sm #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk rant #imp tag

[yallemagne]

Continuing from yesterday. Van Helsing's repeated insistence that they made The Right Choice! is entirely for the sake of stroking the men's egos.

"So far," he said, "our night has been eminently successful. No harm has come to us such as I feared might be and yet we have ascertained how many boxes are missing. More than all do I rejoice that this, our first—and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous—step has been accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds and smells of horror which she might never forget."

It's just so obviously for the men's sake over Mina's!! Now, you may say "hey bastard! he's expressing concern for Mina here! what do you mean?" I'll tell you what I mean. This first and perhaps most difficult and dangerous step had no need to be so difficult and dangerous. What keeps them from breaking into the house in the daytime? Nothing, you'll see that it's nothing. VH agreed to Quincey's insistence they act at night because this presents another opportunity to whack his sexist message into their skulls:

"See! You are all shaken and put off by the dilapidated building, but just think how poor weak feeble Madam Mina would suffer had we brought her along!"

Her alleged weakness is leveraged to make the men feel all the stronger for braving a fucking haunted house.

The trauma that VH claims Mina would suffer for the rest of her life if she so much as heard a peep of their manly work is the trauma that Jonathan already suffers. "But he's cured, right?" Not how PTSD works. He was relieved to finally understand that his experiences were real, but that was only the first step to recovery. Imagine how Jonathan feels being told that if he is honest with his wife, she will become like him but with possibly no chance of recovery! After all, she is a woman and he is a man.

"So I shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina. Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better so."

Mina is being kept here. To play fucking cheerleader for this old man. He is keeping her close so he can go to her for comfort, for reassurance that he isn't a thick-headed Dutchman like Renfield said. You are a thick-headed Dutchman, VH. It is not about her safety! She'd be sent home if that were the case! No, it's about tradition! It's about chivalry!

"I agree with you with all my heart," I answered earnestly, for I did not want him to weaken in this matter. "Mrs. Harker is better out of it. Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight places in our time; but it is no place for a woman, and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in time infallibly have wrecked her."

Jack, I will kill you. I'm going to "infallibly wreck" you, you bastard. VH and Jack's repeated insistence on defending this stupid decision is unlike Jonathan's attempts to convince himself that he agreed to the right thing because oh no, they are not uncertain at all. They are patting themselves on the backs. They are Mrs. Westenra gloating about throwing out the garlic flowers. "I did not want him to weaken in this matter." Please, Jack, I would like him to weaken in this matter. These two only make each other worse, someone please separate them indefinitely.

#dracula #dracula daily #abraham van helsing #re: dracula #jack seward #john seward #dracula rant #vent #october 1 #tagging as vent so dumbasses don't get pissy about me not being an unbiased college professor

[reel-fear]

Things about TFA Shockbee I think about constantly

Longarm defending Bee to Wasp even before he's tryna convince Bee Wasp is a spy

Shockwave got to witness Bee literally get his dreams ruined despite the fact he set it up So Bee would come alongside him to the elite guard.

Despite the fact he could've easily taken the credit, he lets Bee catch Wasp and dont tell me he didn't do it to not get caught he impulsively tries to intercept all communication between the guard and the earth bots he literally acts suspicious 24/7.

Bee in the allspark almanac 2 calls Shockwave Longarm at first and claims to not have been close friends with him, despite autobootcamp pointing to otherwise

Shockwave was one of the only bots to ever 1. Have Bee open up to him about his insecurities [theres literally an episode about Bulkhead and the others making fun of Bee over smth that clearly gets under his nerves so yea-] But specifically 2. Actually comforts Bee and is kind to him.

When calling The Earth Bots in the finalish scenes in autoboot camp, Bee congratulates Longarm on being in the guard and says its nice one of them got to live their dream. Shockwave once again despite no real reason to, tells Bee one day he could get in the guard despite it all.

Both have electricity powers and therefore could be immune to electricity,,, they can mutually shock each other <3

Mutual annoyance towards Blurr-

the entire locker scene, Shockwave carrying Bee like that. Yeah that's it-

Might be a stretch but Shockwave always sounded to sad to me during the moment he realized Arcee was a teacher, Bee cares an awful lot about Sari, so implied mutual soft spot for children?

Both have awful aim, Shockwave can never aim his shots right despite being a tank and Bee who was born with stingers can't use em to save his own life-

Shockwave thinking Bee was dead for 50+ years and telling the autobots to keep searching for him and the allspark and they didnt =[ also Longarm being at Bee's funeral

Shockwave was in the virtual Soundwave thingie despite Soundwave never meeting him or knowing of his existance. The world is clearly created by the minds of the autobots... Who had Shockwave on the mind?

Shockwave n Bee being packaged together as toys and those toys having a bio that describe Bee's personality being so annoying Shockwave breaks cover just to fight him. That's just really funny-

"Because of his job operating deep undercover in the autobot ranks Shockwave very rarely lets his emotions get the better of him. Theres something about Bumblebee though that just bugs him. The hyperactive young Autobot annoys him enough to let his cover slip, converts into his Decepticon cannon mode and attacks!" - The actual bio. Gay-

Shockwave being a big slow ass tank with slow ass reflexes and Bee being one of the fastest autobots.

Bee teamed up with the TransTech version of Shockwave in that one crossover. I just think thats neat-

constant need of validation from their higher ups tho its rarely given in good faith-

Bee is like the only bot established as any kind of friend for Longarm, even Blurr fucking hates the guys guts so maybe its not his super annoying personality that hits different for Shockwave-

Bee is an outsider to the autobots in pretty much every way, hes even somewhat of an outsider to the crew so in a way hes an outsider to the outsiders. While they both share extreme loyalty to their sides, Bee would have a lot of good motivation to leave the autobots... Even more so considering the only bot to be extremely kind and understanding of him was Longarm...

#tfa #transformers animated #shockbee #tfa bumblebee #tfa longarm #tfa shockwave #tfa bee #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #Im tired I know a lot of these r stretches and biased but- #Im not claiming to be unbiased this is my main blog #if u want unbiased stuff dont talk to me go talk to a robot or smth #I haven't posted Robots in a while bc I've been busy tryna get a job and make money so uhhh Here's a quick post! #ramblez

[mineonmain]

The Eighth Sense Ep 9 aka...

...this is basically what happened right

#the eighth sense #W restaurant ajhumma #she said 'i don't have the time to fix him' and then she did instantly #incredible #i am obsessed with how the two people who got jaewon to break out of his brain fog were his oldest and best friend and jihyun's mentor #one person who knows him the best and the longest and cares for him the most genuinely #and one person who knows nothing about him but is a good person (jihyun veto) and can give an unbiased opinion #for entirely opposite reasons jaewon believes them both #also neither of them said 'fix yourself first in order to be happy' outright #it was more so 'don't sabotage your chances at happiness while you try to fix yourself' #i know i'm memeing but this scene was so important to me #jaewon's found another person he doesn't need to wear his mark in front of #jaewon x jihyun #jihyun x jaewon #inu baek #werner du plessis #bl drama #korean bl #k bl #she really said 'take a step back. look around. it's not so bad. you'll get through it'

[sysig]

The most cherubic little golden-haired baby boy (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #Max Vyer #I am already so weak to Max why do I do this to myself #He's so cute!! Ah!! #Tiny child who deserves the world <3 <3 I love him #He Must have been the absolute cutest kid spoiling him is just - it's the Correct Choice! What other choice is there!! #If he's androgynous as an adult he definitely would've been mistaken for a girl as a kid tho lol #I feel like he'd look a lot like baby!Liquid Snake and I've always loved how soft and fluffy he looks in Les Enfants hehe <3 <3 #Perfectly downy towhead what a delicate child! And then he opens his mouth lol #Loud and brash and impulsive and opinionated ♪ #And definitely not me continuing to project I just look okay- #Maybe just a little lol #I have my own childhood hair-related experiences that if I happen to give them away it's fine lol #I love his vanity <3 #Stubbornly rooted in childhood indignation! I just think it's a charming idea haha #Unbiased of course ahem lol #Can you tell I like children of rich parents being talked down to and getting mad about it lol - this felt so Kaylie Ann while I was drawing #A bit younger and less manipulative but just as angry! Max a bit more honest hehe <3 #Maybe if he was dressed in more masculine kid's clothes lol that collar suits his adorability but ♪ #Baby Max in a tiny tux ;; The cutest party clothes! #Plus the idea of Max and Dex wearing matching suits <3 <3 More clothes! More cuteness! Get it all in under the line hehehe

[shinobicyrus]

It cannot be overstated just how earth-shattering Alito’s leaked Supreme Court opinion is - not simply for its dismantling of womens’ bodily autonomy (though that in itself is egregious enough) but also for how it goes about overturning the foundational precedent Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey are built on: the right to privacy and the due process clauses as outlined in the 14th Amendment.

Roe and Casey work on the precedent that the “privacy” of the 14th Amendment can be applied to a woman’s personal medical decisions. This is what’s called an “unenumerated right,” or a right that is implied to exist based off of what other laws say. For instance, the right to a public defender isn’t stated in the constitution at all, but was implied to exist because of a Supreme Court decision in 1963. Alito’s opinion however, asserts that a right must “must be deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition.”

The fuck does that mean?

Y’see, as an Originalist (like Amy Coney Barrett), Alito is concerned with the original public meaning of a law at the time it was written.

To an Originalist, since the 14th Amendment was drafted in 1868 - a time when most states criminalized abortion - to apply a “modern” interpretation of privacy to abortion like Roe did twists the 14th Amendment beyond what the drafters would have ever intended or even considered, which to Alito and other Originalists like him is Constitutional anathema.

So why is this legalese important?

Simple: while Alito insists that Roe v. Wade is a special case because abortion is a unique issue, that doesn’t change the fact that his Originalist interpretation of the 14 Amendment will topple that privacy precedent, setting a brand new legal precedent that can be applied to a huge number cases that were also decided on the 14th’s Privacy and Due Process clauses. Rights that may also lack the “history and tradition” that Alito so treasures.

What other unenumerated rights does this endanger? To name a few:

Interracial marriage (Loving v. Virginia)

The right to a public defender (Gideon v. Wainwright)

“Miranda Rights,” or a person’s legal rights being read to them by police during arrest (Miranda v. Arizona)

The right to buy and use contraceptives (Griswold v. Connecticut)

The illegality of sodomy laws (Lawrence v. Texas)   

Same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges)

Overruling Roe and Casey isn’t solely a horrible miscarriage of justice for women’s reproductive rights. If the legal logic of Alito’s draft carries into the Court’s final decision, then the legal precedence that toppled it will be legitimized and could theoretically be applied to...well. Pretty much all modern civil rights.

Now, Alito assures us that Roe is a special case and that other decisions such as interracial marriage (Loving) or contraception (Griswold) are in no danger of being overturned. They are decided law, so we have nothing to worry about.

Except...that’s exactly what a few recent Supreme Court nominees said about Roe, as well.

#alternative title: Samuel Alito is an Originalist Piece of Shit #Honestly the entire b.s. of Alito's ''history and tradition'' requirement for rights to be legally legitimate #is so enraging because it targets basically *all* unenumerated rights over the past half-century #not to mention Alito isn't a historian - he's a scholar of law #when he talks about history he is speaking as someone who has no credentials as a historian #so when he wields words like ''history'' and worse - ''tradition'' he is wielding them as ideological cudgels #because that's Originalism - it pretends to be unbiased but it chooses worship of the Law as a thing in and of itself #rather than a thing created by people trying to achieve fairness and justice #if this draft becomes precedent then it *WILL* be a domino #and will affect law and civil rights for generations #this is the culmination of a 50 year conservative project #this will be a generational fight Folks #so get ready #Supreme Court #Abortion #Originalism #Samuel Alito #Civil Rights #Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization #(also I am totally not a lawyer and I probably got a few details wrong - this is mostly broad strokes)

[snixx]

it's not that i don't believe in therapy it's that when i NEEDED it no one cared. so I figured it out myself. I know how to handle myself and my (increasingly infrequent) breakdowns and I understand myself and know I'll be okay no matter what and I self reflect and process my emotions and am very emotionally open and I'm so proud of the person I am every day. but I do have low days, and that's what pisses me off: I'm ALLOWED to be sad sometimes. it's a part of how my brain works, and the important thing is I know how to handle it effectively in a healthy way. and swooping in and forcing me to pay an insane amount to sit in an office when I DID ALL THAT WORK MYSELF is so aggravating. therapy has only ever made me feel worse. I'm a survivor, I've survived so much, and therapy is literally just a scapegoat for empathy for people these days. it relieves you of having to engage or care about other people. and LISTEN I'm not anti therapy by any means. as the Therapist Friend ™️ even when I'm mentally ill asf and when I was a literal kid myself I know that sometimes you can't do anything. professional help is necessary. it's the only way. but it doesn't!!! fucking!!! work for everyone!!! if someone isn't actively suicidal and trying to get better on their own and they don't WANT therapy because it doesn't WORK for them maybe don't be a condescending dick about it! therapy isn't a magical solution that makes everyone okay SOMETIMES people have external problems and are justified in feeling the way they do!!! therapy can be helpful yes but a lot of the time it is just a soulless void of practiced regulations for something that is not black or white because guess what everyone's different! and assuming the same thing works for everyone and that YOU know better than them (unless they're clearly obviously not doing well and are beyond helping themselves) is condescending as fuck!!!

#anti therapy #not really but i guess #anyway today my psychiat said i can quit therapy and that's finally someone my parents will listen to #good day #anyway therapy is really important and i think it's necessary to give it a sustained shot if you're in a position #where it either helps you or you don't have faith in yourself to get better #you need someone else an unbiased professional third party #you want a feedback loop and don't trust yourself #but it is NOT an all fit #i have friends who really didn't want to go to therapy and i kept pushing them even when it didn't work at first #and now they love it #but that's also because they NEEDED it #now it's just. oh you're sad i don't want you to be sad but i don't want to hear about your problems so go to a therapist #x am rambles #also therapy only works if you put in the work #you can't force people into it

[angry-total-drama-takes]

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I HATE DUNCAN SO FUCKING MUCH. EVEN BEFORE THE WHOLE TRIANGLE LOVE THING HE SUCKED

Anyways real talk though I just feel like his 'jokes' throughout island and world tour (I'd say all stars but didn't watch it yet sooooo) sucked balls like,, his whole character in island was 'oooh im such a bad boy!1! I do such bad things because I'm a bad boy!1!' I mean you can have preferences towards characters but honestly I just thought of him as bland. He felt like a nothing burger to me, like him and Courtney were... ehh I dint really like it. (He didn't deserve to be in the final 5 just saying......)

And him in action was just bullying Harold and cheating on Courtney. And the whole oo I'm bad boy stuff too ig. Like. Through out action it felt like the first few episodes was him hogging on harold. I mean it's alright but I did wish he did more through out that time. And in the middle was him cheating on Courtney with gwen... like the harold situation I felt like he should've done more than THAT... and in the end he just felt like he didn't really do much other than make fun of other people and basically cheated on Courtney. That's it.thats all he did. It sucked. (Also I'm glad Beth was in the finale she deserved it)

And in world tour he was at his worst in my opinion. It felt like he did the same thing in island and action but more annoying. I can't wait untill he got off my screen when I was watching some episodes. And the whole love triangle made me hate him even more. Like he treated cheating like a joke... and to me it felt like he treated like gwen and Courtney like toys in a way,,, (Courtney deserved to kick him in the balls even worse who knows......)

So what I'm trying to say is that he's a one dimensional character in a bad way,, like I like total drama characters like that but honestly he felt so boring to watch, and also just a shitty character aswell, like I'm just saying he's unlikable. Like yeah he had some moments where he was nice but it didn't feel like much. Hopefully I'm making sense. So basically he's a boring shitty unlikable character. Thank you for reading all of this if you did.

-coolguy anon

IT FILLS ME WITH RAGE THAT YOU THINK YOU'RE A "COOLGUY" WHEN YOU'RE IN THE TOTAL DRAMA FANDOM!!!! HAVE SOME SELF AWARENESS!!!!

#FUMING #ANGRY #OUTRAGED #duncan #ask #ooc: tbh i really dont think duncan cheated in action #like #the scene they showed in aftermath he was literally talking about courtney #but also he did cheat later so . #i guess it was like emotional cheating #but if the wt plotline never happened i wouldnt consider there to be anything wrong happening in action tbh #coming from someone who knows duncan sucks and doesnt care about ships lmao i am unbiased #i did read the whole thing tho and other than that ur soo right . get his ass! #shit fprgot to tag td lmao #total drama

[57sfinest]

You can't just tell us you have thoughts about the ending and then not say them!! Tell us!! (If you want to)

okay so big fuck-you to the gamer bros who bitched about the ending not being satisfying or bloody enough or whatever the hell. listen to me. the ending of disco elysium begins when you get on that damn boat, okay? it's not just the 2nd tribunal/meeting the posse/whatever you refer to it as. that's why it forces you to commit to finishing the game when you get on the boat. the ending comes in three stages, as follows:

the plot wrap-up with dros. here is where you get your "solving the case" payoff. yay, you did it! you followed the clues and here's the killer! it ties together all the stereo-investigations as well as several setting elements, like the specter of old communism, the fallout of the revolution, how martinaise came to be what it is. great, the detective has cracked the case, but it's unsatisfying alone; he's a dying old man. he will never see justice. also, what is justice? are you, as a cop in an occupied territory, capable of bringing anything even remotely like justice? this alone is not the ending.

the emotional payoff with the phasmid. assuming you get this scene, harry is rewarded with the culmination of his efforts to change or be more aware as a person. this is harry's big shift in perspective. you can ask the phasmid: "have i always thought like this?" and they reply "no. this is a revelation for you." this has the potential to be a true tipping point for harry's trajectory. this miracle, this gift, may really change harry's outlook; if anything was going to truly course-correct him, it's this. it's your reward as the player for making the "correct" choices to allow him this- you're given this beautiful scene where even *kim* is forced to confront his own perspectives. but this alone is not the ending.

the character wrap-up on harry during the crosswalk dream and the jeanfrontation (jean confrontation). the crosswalk gives you some insight into how harry still sees dora, who prior to this moment was given very little voice. it's a deeply biased representation, but it finally allows us some knowledge on what their relationship was like and how harry probably behaved to drive her away. then jean's input, in turn, gives us (biased!!) information on some of the facts about harry that we'd otherwise have no way of knowing. the whole game, you're building harry how you want him- then here, in the last scene, the game says here. here's some people who knew him *before*. you know how you made him, but here's how he *was*, and how he could be again. ultimately you get to find out whether or not he returns to work right away, but this alone is STILL NOT THE ENDING!

the ending is all of this taken together!! it is built up in stages, which are linearized in a way that almost nothing else in the game is! each of these parts serves a different purpose and they work together to give us a final sequence that adequately ties up the plot while still managing to give the most focus towards the themes of the game and the characters involved.

#sorry i have feelings about the people who shit talk the ending without really taking the time to understand it #the ending would not have been nearly as good without any one of those above mentioned parts #kiwipost #and the phasmid scene being the optional/partially missable one makes sense #because maybe your harry learned nothing. maybe he didn't improve at all. so why would there be any emotional fulfillment? #also of course the crosswalk is optional but you'll still get a lot of insight from the jeanfrontation alone #obvious disclaimer that no jean is not an unbiased presenter of Harry Biographical Information #but he's the best we've got #ironically he's the best harry had too. lol #ask #gen meta

[crystallos-sol]

Warning you now under the cut is me rambling about my perspective on multiple popular fandom ships and such. My perspective won’t be accepted widely and that’s cool no hate to anyone who does ship these characters. Y’all do you I’m just sharing my word vomit. (No I did not mention any ship by name so this should stay in the tag it belongs in!)

I’m saying that the entire relationship between Luz and Amity always read a little weird to me. I don’t tend to enjoy most canon or fandom favorite ships so I really did not think much of it but the way they wrote romantic relationships was so off putting and inherently worse than how they wrote the platonic relationships within the show.

And no it’s not just Luz and Amity’s relationship that’s off putting to me, even Gus and Matt and Hunter and Willow (although more implied with the ending of TOH). It just doesn’t read as if any of them are comfortable and able to just exist together. Amity can’t go two seconds without mentioning or thinking of Luz (which is a major annoyance and is largely why I hated it when she was around because she lost anything that made her interesting and her own character but that’s another can of worms).

Willow gets downgraded into being “ Hunters girl “ which is not fair in the slightest to her. I love her character! I really like that we got that intense moment of her putting her damn foot down more than once! But it’s really disappointing and disheartening to see her entire character go down the drain because someone decided Hunter needed a partner (which has much as it’s a cute idea I genuinely do not think if he had a partner that it should of been Willow but again another can of worms.).

And goodness has funny has it is to see Gus make fun of Matt it’s also really hard for me to see it has romantic? Or in a romantic context. To me it just reads as two best friends but again nothing against people who do like these pairings, I get it it’s fun to ship characters. I just personally do not see it.

It also just irks me when a character gets completely put down and ruined because someone wanted to shove them into a relationship. Like damn I was enjoying Willow and Amity but okay ruin my two favorite characters in the whole show.

Again every ship I’ve talked about I don’t have an issue with. I don’t want anyone to think I’m out here mad or something I am disappointed in the way they’ve handled Amity and Willow’s characters after they got partners. I however contrary to most people in the fandom would of loved AceAro Luz or even Willow hell even Hunter. I just think it would be neat to see and because as much as relationships can be cute and all it’s always nice to see Aro representation.

(Also because Luz is very friend oriented and made her own found family which is so so cute and Willow went around and befriended everyone she could and also Hunter grew up with a fucked up understanding of the world and has canonly said his friends mean the world to him and that’s so fucking cool and nice to see for once). I also think it would work for their characters and arcs. Idk would of loved to see their characters remain intact that woulda been neat.

#toh critical #toh criticism #toh discussion #WARNING: Ship criticism from a writing standpoint #again meant as 0 hate #half of this is my own opinion if you agree or not cool you do you #I think i've said it enough times #gee I wish it was easier to talk about ships from an unbiased writing standpoint because it's so fucking essential #but anyways have a good day guys drink water and get rest