School is just torture made specifically for autistics by the government im convinced
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Idea: Sebastian is trans, Sam and Sebastian are dating and have been since before seb came out, which happened while kent was deployed. So when kent left for war he knew his teenage son had a “girlfriend,” and when he comes back, his young adult son now has a boyfriend, and he doesn’t realize it’s the same person, so he’s like, “why did Sam never write to me about breaking up with that girl or coming out as queer and starting to date this guy,” and doesn’t understand why Sam’s new boyfriend that he’s never met is acting somewhat familiar with him
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redraw of the scene that lives in my head because why did he stab his boob
bonus:
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Tears of the Kingdom isn’t the first time we’ve heard the phrase The Imprisoning War in Zelda lore
It’s also the term used in the Downfall Timeline as a precursor to LttP when Ganon was unleashed from the Sacred Realm and the King and the Sages rushed to fight the Demon King and re-seal the Sacred Realm, with no mention of a hero
Could TotK Imprisoning War and the LttP Imprisoning War be one and the same, with specific details being lost to time by the beginning of the game?
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the day lovelace returns to in change of mind, the reminder that “you can be more [than what you were made to be]”, and how eris was designed by goddard to serve a very similar purpose to the dear listeners’ duplicates... that she exists to infiltrate and assess and return information to her creators; that there are a theoretically infinite number of more or less identical versions of her, but any one iteration is considered incidental, with no regard for her personhood or desires, so much so that she’s encouraged not to think of her death as a death. the complete removal of the individual from the concept of self. that this ‘big picture’ conception of a person as something replicable and disposable is what lovelace is rejecting, just as much as the version of herself she’s deciding not to be, shaped by goddard’s manipulation and the trauma she’s endured.
i think maybe there’s something to the fact that we only know this captain lovelace and this eris, theoretically one of a potential many but, in our understanding, continuous and singular. even with what jacobi’s encounter puts forward, the show makes a choice re: what questions of identity it wants to explore - and the question of what happens when there are two of a person who are both equally that person? ... is not really one of them. i don’t want to say that the show’s approach is metaphorical, exactly, but i do think it means something that its questions of identity are almost always directly analogous to things experienced by real people. that because there is only one lovelace, her experience can be read literally, but it can also be seen as a representation of feelings of being split before/after a traumatic event, depersonalization as a response to trauma. that despite the sci-fi framing, it isn’t speculative, and the way wolf 359 explores topics of identity always remains in the realm of the emotionally real.
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Bleach Anime Celebration
Day 5 - The Anime is Back!
- Features at least two characters, one of which must be your fave
- Takes place during the Thousand Year Blood War arc
- Features the colors blue and red
- Features either what you're most looking forward to seeing or a missing scene
As far as #1 goes, I can never decide whether Renji or Rukia is my favorite character, so I just drew them both, as usual.
I am generously categorizing this as a missing scene, even if it's more like "wishful thinking on my part," but I went through the entire TYBW arc once, trying to figure out where Rukia even got that scarf, and the most plausible charming explanation I could come up with was that it was part of her Royal Realm gear, which she dropped when she was rescuing Rose and Kensei. Renji found it after his fight with Mask, picked it up, carried it around for a while, and then gave it back to her when they met up again. It's more plausible than it sounds!!!
I thought about skirting by on a technicality that Renji's hair is red and maybe I could just do a blue background, but I thought it would be fun to try to replicate the dramatic red and blue lighting from the first teaser trailer and it actually came out better than I expected and was a lot of fun, to boot!
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If I can have one of my Leola theories (I have at least three, maybe) come true, I want it to be that Leola is the unicorn that Claudia got the horn from.
And bonus would be that Leola gave her the horn willingly because, due to the Star arcanum, she knew it would set in motion the events needed to free Aaravos.
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Regarding Volo at the moment, but also in general with any hardcore villainized characters, I certainly get the sentiment behind wanting to not woobify antagonistic characters too much, but also like. I think for me, when the primary fandom take away is that a character is HARDCORE IRREDEEMABLE, NO GOOD QUALITIES IN THIS ONE!!! it’s almost like… an act of balancing out. Yes, I get Bad Man did Bad Things, I’m a person with a brain, but when it seems like EVERYONE is talking about how the Bad Man did Bad Things and needs to be, generally, physically harmed for the Bad He Did, it just feels like an act of balance to say,
“Okay but why don’t we explore this line where he said he’s experienced trauma before? And how he instantly backs away from talking about it under the explanation he gave himself that everyone must experience trauma to that degree?”
Or, “Hey, the guy has three friendship evolution Pokémon, two of which notably will leave their trainers if they don’t like them. Why do people extrapolate from that that he must be an abusive trainer?”
Or, gods fucking forbid, “Hey. Why is this character, who’s notably got indigenous roots to the setting, constantly being made the villain in angsty stories for the two white twins?”
Idk man, again I get not wanting to woobify too much, not wanting to strip a complex character of their complexity and the like, but if your takeaway is that any sympathetic or nuanced takes on a heavily villainized character is “woobifying,” like… idk, touch grass as the kids say. Who’s going to stop me, the Anti-Wooby Police?
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"What are you wearing tonight?" Keith Richards asks Charlie, who is standing in front of a rack hung with the Stones' stage clothes.
"All white with a black T-shirt, enhanced...”
"Endless conference with wardrobe about this, no doubt," Keith interjects.
Charlie grins. "Enhanced," he continues, in a mock, ultra-sophisticated tone, “by white pumps."
"You're not going for any glitter-a rhinestone here or there?" Keith teases, and then turns to me and says, "Here's a man who will take a bow with everybody on stage going berserk, the cops screaming 'Move it! Move it!' and he'll go back to his drums and move his drumsticks one millimeter to the left, because what he left behind visually displeases him. So how can you talk about a person like this?" he laughs.
“Everybody says what a charming guy Charlie is, but you never see him, he never comes to say hello. You've got to go and find him. He's moulting away in some hotel room, or hanging out in wardrobe, checking out materials.…Jesus, look at those trousers," he says, turning to Charlie, who has just stepped into a pair of immaculately tailored white pants.
"What's the matter with them?" Charlie asks.
"Nothing," Keith answers, "but who's going to see 'em? You might as well…”
"Tell him that's not the point," Charlie instructs me, as he adjusts the belt on the back of his matching white vest.
"That's not the point," I say.
But Keith has had a sudden revelation.
"Oh, now I understand the transparent bass drum head!"
Charlie gives a sheepish grin.
"I never thought of that," he says.
"Right," Keith says, roaring with laughter.
“It's so they can see your footwear and the Savile Row tailoring on your turn-ups. You never thought of it! Did you see the way he was almost convincing when he said that?" Keith asks me.
“You should have an Oscar," he laughs, addressing Charlie again. "You should have had one years ago."
Keith gets up and heads for the door.
"You've learned more about Charlie Watts in the last five minutes than you'd ever learn from asking questions," he tells me.
"I've just learned something about the right bastard myself," he adds, giving Charlie a hug.
(Interview with Modern Drummer, Feb. 1990)
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I've been reading a lot of conspiracy theories lately for fun and it's wild, sure, a glimpse into the mind of an insane person, but honestly it does kinda get boring after a while once you recognize all of the tropes
It's a real thing that happens and it was a fear for me at first but now? I genuinely don't get how "conspiracy reading for fun" could act as a pipeline to being a conspiracy theorist, like are you stupid?? Were you already susceptible to this brand of thought??? Literally all of these are either odd interpretations of economics, wishful thinking, reboots of antisemitism, or just plain regular bullshit, and like it's really easy to see that, like all of this is dumb, people who believe this are dumb, it's absurd
Fantastic fiction though, these could be good books or games or movies, and like that's what they are and that's their primary audience, people who want to pretend they're the protagonist of a movie, of a grand plot, every bad thing doesn't just happen or are perpetrated some random disturbed people! It's an organized movement at the top of everything responsible for every bad thing ever to keep us in line! It can be a kind of anti-religion in that sense, malevolent gods are better than none
There HAS to be gods at the top of it all, who put ridiculous references to themselves in everything and monolithically control the entire world, because if no one is in control, then that'd be terrifying
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exene talking about the state of the world. the good stuff starts at eight minutes. or you can just read the transcript complete with the usual errors that accompany robot transcribed speech (the irony of which is not lost on me). maybe it's not about transhumanism and living forever (or maybe it is who knows), but there's definitely an agenda of surveillance and control at work which is designed to keep the powerful in power. cash rules everything around me and you will own nothing etc. the future is worse.
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Watched a YouTube clip from QI where they're just having a chat about how nonsensical 'moon landing was faked' conspiracy theories are
then made the mistake of reading some of the comments. Truly the comments section is the home of some of the biggest idiots in the entire universe.
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officially i think i dont like analogue horror anymore. nothing coming out recently is in any way interesting or fun to watch, aside from recap videos to listen to absentmindedly
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not me crying because my fathers an asshole lmfao like whats new weve all known that
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. @sugarplum-failure
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Okay my "soon carrots will be all dye and filler" scare monger thing came up today: tomatoes being coated with "food grade petroleum wax" literally eating microplastics. but what are you going to do, first you give up tomatoes (already tomatoes suck for having the slave reputation: that tomato pickers in a state get paid like ten cents and/or are humsn trafficking victims and/or live 10 to a lodging. But I buy tomatoes, putting it on my burger feels healthy.) next carrots, which seem more orange than when I was a baby, then your only eating, well, if you're lucky cherry tomatoes from a bush you have and ear-wax tasting backyard carrots, bug ridden kale which is easier than spinach, and your neighbors zucchini. My spinach, it didn't grow, but spinach is nice, not as nice as beet greens but easier to get at work.
Now baby carrots! may "be more orange" or "dye" because, and I've heard this twice, bb carrots are normal carrots that look ugly, carved into three or four carrots, so it should be just as weird as grated carrots because it has no skin! So it's, like, juicy, and less gray. I think sometimes, in society, you need non-ugly vegetables, because first baby carrots have middles, so the original carrot must have been skinny: when a recipe calls for 2 carrots, do you use 3 skinnies or 4? Recipes make us conservative, but I like variety and I agree that "2 cups of onions? Onions don't come in cups they come in onions?" They can't really sell you smaller onions or carrots every year, because most produce is sold by the pound! So you would notice.
I mean obviously baby carrots aren't died, that's my exaggerated nightmare endgame. Obviously the ingredient of carrot is carrot. And maybe everyone knew tomatoes get waxed, dont apple also? But I figured it was like bee or soy. Not frickin gasoline. Carrots is like saying "what if they replaced potato starch with rice (how...?) and charge you the same price?" guys what if spinach is died? I'm scared of juice, juice is for fruit only vegetables have some kind of slime... But that's the point is I don't really do much gardening so how can I know what's "real"
Why does it matter if a carrot is just government vitamins and filler? What if it's only vitamin C, when natural things have lots of trace vitamins. What if carrots already have less vitamins due to overfarming the land? What if the filler was... petroleum! What if they came out with boiling carrots and raw ones and the raw ones don't boil right and our grandkids forget that's screwed up? What if one packaging company puts more sugar in to get more sales? Carrots should only have a normal amount of sugar.
What if the impossible burger is just filler? "It's fast food after all!" What of beef is more than just protein and iron? Like what you say? I don't feel like looking it up...
I've heard "enriched flour" is actually deriched flour but I forgot the news story.
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