#better things are possible

[askinnyblackman]

i saw some new york rose emoji quote tweeting an article about eric adams doing some literal fascist police state shit and they said something like “ugh november 2025 can’t come soon enough” like you dumb motherfucker he’s doing a fascism NOW and they’re like “aw fiddlesticks. i guess we just gotta follow the rules and wait while he does a fascism and vote when we’re allowed to. just you wait, mr adams. feel free to do some more fascism in the meantime”

[marxalittle]

I want RENT CONTROL. Because without it, Universal Basic Income doesn't matter. Without rent control, the minute UBI goes into effect, the cheapest rent in every city, town, and hamlet-- every cold water pad with no doors and black mold everywhere-- is suddenly UBI+100$.

Abolish landlords and their feudal goddamned parasitism. Abolish the commodification of basic human needs. As a step toward that: motherfucking rent control.

[mai-komagata]

What a disappointing speech, I know liberals will be hyped up but I guess I’ve been burned too many times by the neoliberal machine. That was textbook.

Doesn’t mean I don’t want her to win bc I know there are people who take it that way. It’s just different vibes from a week or two before when there seemed to be moving in a more progressive direction. This is beyond the Palestine issue. This was a whole day 4 issue.

[opashoo]

I'm absolutely losing my mind seeing "We need to not treat men and masculinity as inherently evil and worthy of hatred, and not fall back into biological and gender essentialism because that hurts everyone, including trans women" being misinterpreted as "Women need to stop oppressing men", "I think trans women are actually men" or "You specifically who have trauma around men need to get over it because men are the real victims". It's so willfully disingenuous. It makes me sick how willing people are to read in bad faith, especially how willing other trans women are to suddenly start harassing and dogpiling another trans woman.

I am a trans woman too, I understand what it's like to feel unsafe, but it helps no one this cynical attitude that crops up every time someone suggests being kind to men in our lives. "You could save a man you know from falling down the alt-right pipeline" is not the same as "It's your fault that men murder you". "There are people who could be on our side if we don't meet them with immediate hostility" is not the same as "You need to shut up and stop criticizing power structures for the sake of your oppressors' feelings" (I promise there are a lot of people who can be taught about their complicity in oppression without immediately shutting down but you need to work with them). This kind of attitude isn't somehow more informed or correct. It's just lashing out to avoid considering one's own agency.

Making a better, safer world for ourselves requires all kinds of work, but it's always work. It's hard to try to reach out to people who could very realistically harm us, it's work that not all of us can afford to or are able to do and that's fine because we're all just trying to survive. But some of you would rather condescend, tear each other down, and make more enemies before even considering it a possibility.

[dammit-tazmuir]

Hold on. Harrow never actually learned about Gideon's origins, right? She'd checked out by the time Gideon learned and like... there was a lot going on when she finally woke up. There might be more that happened after Alecto also woke up that we just haven't seen yet, but as far as we know she's just now finding out about it or hasn't quite yet. But I just noticed—

Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 49

Nona the Ninth, 24

Gideon has Wake's jaw (among other features) and John's eyes (I assume shape too) and brows. Harrow subconsciously fucking clocked the resemblance. (Edit to clarify: Like, she saw Wake's face, and by then she'd remembered Gideon, but subconsciously clocked "this is almost Gideon's face, this part is spot on, but these parts are Wrong." But given one of the AUs...)

Anatomist Mercymorn, who knows the human body beyond mortal comprehension and who has been close to John for 10,000 years, who had actively worried the new Ninth baby might have been John's kid, saw a young woman she knew to be the Ninth's cavalier who looked strikingly like Wake and suspiciously wasn't decomposing, and still didn't recognize John's features or think to check her eye color. She was so absolutely convinced Blood of Eden must just be incompetent and wrong that she barely looked.

Yet Harrowhark, who had specifically forced herself to forget Gideon existed, still recognized enough that when she started to remember her brain supplied the Divine Highness suitor AU. Truly one of the most down bad characters of all fucking time.

[pickled-flowers]

Sex positivity is also about not calling Ace people prude and using virgin as an insult 👍 hope that helps

[tanadrin]

I am not a particularly techno-optimistic person or a futurist or singularity believer or anything like that, but I think it kinda sucks that a lot of people in reacting to the nebulous threat of “the tech bros” have let themselves be negatively polarized against pretty straightforwardly correct ideas like “bodily autonomy and assistive technology is cool” (that is, fundamentally, the spirit that motivates transhumanism) and “death is scary and tragic.” One of the oldest extant works of human literature is largely about how awful mortality is and how hard it is to come to terms with death; it is in fact an incredibly common sentiment throughout history, and just because some people you know who really suck are also scared of dying doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

[ravenpureforever]

On one hand, Young Justice is kind of neglected by the actual superheroes that should be looking out for them in a lot of crucial ways and very much failed by the adults around them

But on the other hand Red Tornado straight up hosts a parent-teacher conference where their respective legal guardians all show up, barring Batman who’s in traffic so Nightwing fills in instead because Robin’s dad does not know he’s a vigilante which is objectively hilarious

[tehamelie]

Prisons in the US be like "we need more slaves to stay in business (under the 13th Constitutional amendment), here's your new quotas for convictions Mr Judge please and thank you."

Prisons in Sweden be like "We forgot to lock the murderers in their cells for the night, and they took their chance to bake a cake and make a pillow fort. The responsible staff have been docked five days' pay."

Or today, "The country's most infamous prison will take any comers in a cook-off. Everyone loves our warden's French fish soup."

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Maybe we never had a chance.

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[benevolenterrancy]

Ning Yingying: still in her airhead era Ming Fan: a young master who has never been expected to cook before Luo Binghe: really wishes he had been given this task to complete on his own...

[repulsivethoughts]

ALL OF THEM!

added the few more cards I wanted and slightly modified the first ones so they could match better :3

[arcanegifs]

Here are some Season 2 Arcane GIF comparisons before and after I color and sharpen them! | Season 1 Comparison GIFs

[hermitshell]

At some point, you have to learn to let go

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

Danny Fenton, aka Phantom, has been given a new task!

In short, literally no one in the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms wants their mostly peaceful afterlife to be rocked by a certain Gotham rogue named Joker. Which, when he dies, is almost sure to happen because of whatever the hell was in that vat he dropped in included ectoplasm. So, yay, he’s also a little ghostly too, meaning he *is* pretty hard to kill. Unfortunately, there’s also a certain vigilante that is quite keen to murder him in recent years.

So now Danny has to keep the mass murderer trauma clown alive for as long as he possibly can while attempting to keep the Joker from. Well. Being the Joker.

Oh, and naturally, Danny got this assignment AFTER Joker got out of Arkham. Again. And entirely blew up the asylum. Time to join the Goonion, he is NOT doing this without getting PAID, thank you.

[thatweirdtranny]

sometimes things are not that deep