#glibnesses

[dabeth-is-dead]

I'm reading Persuasion again, and I am just tickled by the complete takedown of Sir Walter Elliot that is his introduction.

Jane Austen said, "Meet Sir Walter Elliot. He's very pretty and he has a baronetcy and he sucks so bad. He's just so self-absorbed and all he cares about is how pretty he is and the fact that he has a baronetcy. The only reason that he should actually be proud of these things is because they probably scored him his very awesome (and tragically dead) wife, whose only major flaw was that she married him."

I don't think I'll ever understand people who claim that persuasion isn't as funny as her other novels.

[cassierobinsons]

s4 cas: a man from a conservative religious sect has a crisis of faith after he develops intense feelings for another man

s4 sam: guy has reverse cowgirl period sex with his plug

someone with a ginger snaps icon: well sam is CLEARLY the most queercoded unlike some angels i could mention 🙄

[seventytwo-waterellens]

Obsessed with flow (2024) because it’s really like

Scared of the world and the creatures in it? Get loved idiot

So ready to let people in that it’s destructive? Get loved idiot

Only value yourself by your Objects? Get loved idiot

Sleepy & smell bad? Get loved idiot

Take care of people who need it, even if it hurts you? ASCEND.

[soft-pine]

people will be like looking for subtle evidence for queer dean like oh he's in bisexual lighting here, he's referencing this niche queer media there.

meanwhile dean is just like "he was my gay thing" no further elaboration.

[pendwelling]

[childhood friends AU] Lily's first love~ 🍓🌕

(alternatively— "why won't the Imperial cousins leave the Jung Barony's second son alone!?")

[hazware]

folly factory @glibble-glonker

[moonofmercury]

Moze is initially apprehensive about your and Jiaoqiu's relationship. Not because you're not good for him. You are. You make him smile, you make him laugh, you bring him fresh groceries when he has a hard time leaving the house, you make sure he doesn't just rot in bed all day (although you happily join him for this too). But as Moze comes to acknowledge his past, as he understands more about what it means to have people to care about and who truly care about you, he realizes how hard it is to live without people who mean so much. And if something happens to one of you, will the other survive?

It leaves Moze feeling confused. Is this jealousy? That losing one of you might mean losing you both, without care for what happens to the rest of them.

On some level, you all live dangerous lives, even if Jiaoqiu doesn't work for anyone but Feixiao anymore and diviners are fairly well guarded when they are near the battlefield. Moze knows it won't happen yet, that you are not yet so tied together, but he worries for Jiaoqiu and his fragile heart.

Moze remains his reticent self when Jiaoqiu talks about you, or when you talk about Jiaoqiu. You are undeniably good for him, and Moze can, with fond begrudging, admit Jiaoqiu is good for you too. And slowly, Moze's apprehension transforms into a more worn, tired worry touched with curiosity.

For so many years, stronger feelings have felt burned out of him. With no one to respond to his cries, they had died before they could lay half-formed in his chest. And although it is a gentle thing, the love between you and Jiaoqiu is strong enough to make Moze unsure. All he can do is keep you alive when he can. For Jiaoqiu's sake. He's not willing to let a thing like love keep you all from sharing the life you have been given.

[sashketter]

Mon Mothma pounding down drinks and white girl dancing to space EDM has to be one of the realest moments in a Star War because yes, there’s the serious politics of juxtaposing the lavish wedding ceremony and secret deal-making on Chandrila with the struggling farms and abuses of power on Mina-Rau, wealth and privilege vs. working class struggles, but also sometimes it be Like That, sometimes you gotta dissociate for awhile and lose yourself to mindless music or you’d lose your mind from the weight of Everything.

[tanadrin]

So like, given that the judiciary is useless and the legislature is useless, what do you recommend Americans do? What mechanism do you think protest will be able to activate, other than starting a violent rebellion?

"constitutional government is in the process of breaking down" does not mean "there is nothing the legislature and judiciary can do."

look, all rule of law is kayfabe to some extent, right? the reason it works is that the systems that operate according to its rules have legitimacy, some degree of abstract popular support that means that people broadly obey the decisions of institutions, and where there's strong disagreement about those decisions, the body of people empowered de jure or de facto to settle those disagreements (which includes, but is not limited to, the people with actual social sanction to use violence) care about upholding the system.

but politics did not begin in 1788 with the invention of modern constitutional government, it is not confined to republican systems of power, and it does not occur solely within the realms of electoral politics, judicial process, and legislative sessions. all these things proceed from politics, and did not create it. coalition-building, popular discontent, divisions among factions of elites, and all these other fuzzy things which are hard to pin down in hard data like approval poll numbers matter--they matter to the extent that they have overthrown kings and dictators throughout history, and are in fact responsible for the republican government under which you live.

the actions of the legislature and the judiciary still matter a lot, because they still have different degrees of legitimacy to different groups within the country. it sucks that decades of the convergence of various factors have hollowed out mass political organizing in the united states, so it's hard to mobilize people for substantive action (protests of the sort where you can actually demand things, instead of just vibe on the National Mall), but even though this shit is harder to do effectively, i think even protests still matter! calling your congresscritters to yell at them still matters--especially if they are a Republican member of the House.

and now i'm gonna get a little bit mean, and i apologize for this in advance, but here's the thing: i have been getting a lot of asks lately about "what should people do." and i am just some asshole on tumblr. this is not even an advice blog. at a certain point in life you have to acquire an orientation to the world which is "i may not know the answer to this question, but i i know i can find it out, or i know i can try to find it out, and if that doesn't work i can keep trying." lotta people online right now seem to have this attitude of helplessness. they are waiting for someone with authority to give them a definitive answer about what to do and how to fix things. these answers do not exist. all there is in this life is varying degrees of individuals deciding that they will try something, and hopefully in the process link up with other individuals who are also trying something and maybe have some advice to share.

this isn't just about politics, by the way; this is an attitude that i think it is necessary for all adults to acquire at some point, if they want to avoid feeling helpless and eventually resentful. the world is not a thing happening to you; it is a thing you are inside and can affect. i have my own opinions on what i'd like to see people doing right now, sure--and some of those things are things only, say, members of the house of representatives can do--but i'm not VI fuckin' Lenin here posting from Switzerland in anticipation of leading the revolution when i return. i don't know where you live or what your situation is or who you know. you must, at a certain point, feel a sense of responsibility and duty toward your own community and to your society, and act commensurately.

[scarlettaagni]

ok one last Unite Warriors joke I swear

[taylortruther]

i'm so bored i dream of cracking locks, throwing my life to the wolves, killing myself, fucking matty healy

[vimflam]

[petewentzisblack1312]

HAAANK!!! THE DRAFT IS ALSO A VIOLATION OF BODILY AUTONOMY!!!! WE ALSO SHOULDNT MANDATE PEOPLE FIGHT IN WARS!!! HAAANK!!

[allamaiqbaloo]

wwx saying lwj’s title during his qiongqi dao monologue. not his bosom birth name, lan zhan, or the more formal and distant "lan-er-gongzi" that’s grown more familiar on his mouth during these many months. but the noble and dignified and righteous hanguang-jun. "if am doomed to death, may it be by hanguang-jun’s hand. that would be worth it."

wwx using a name lwj got during the throes of war as he fought and murdered hundreds of wen ruohan’s soldiers and turning it on its head to say, "if you are as good and moral as they all say you are, don’t doom these wens to the same fate." and that’s the thing, wwx does deem lwj as good and moral, more so than all the other gentries he’s met. as his self assigned zhiji, he sees lwj for who he is at the fundamental basis of his being, and indeed that is the bearer of light. wwx, with so many words, is saying, "you are worthy of your title, more than the whole of the jianghu is aware." and for that reason hinges his life and those of some few dozen refugees on his steadfast and unfailing belief of the other’s morality. with a single word, he assigns lwj the role of his judge, jury, and need be, the bringer of his demise. "if you really feel that my defense of the wen remnants is wrong, that i am wrong, draw your sword on me, hanguang-jun. go on, i’ll allow it, i’ll gladly agree to it—if it’s you, for no reason other than it’s your hand that i would meet my end by."

and the weight of that with it being one of only two times that he refers to lwj by his title during his first life. the first that he did so was during a bitter reunion, and laden with animosity. "hanguang-jun" said not with awe and admiration but to deride his standing as if the mere idea of the other as a genuine moral authority is a foolish one. but the moment lwj also begins to doubt his role as a marshal of the law—as someone who is able to differentiate between right and wrong���there is a man who is willing to bet his life on his worthiness of fulfilling it.

(don’t mind me i’m fleshing out musings from my burial mounds au)

[annabelle--cane]

how could anyone hate her

[tallsiriusblack]

When headcanoning Remus as a person of colour next to a white Sirius, be mindful that:

• Remus is not tall

• Sirius is not short

• Remus is not aloof or dominant

• Remus is not rude

• Sirius is not dainty. He was only skeletal during his time in Azkaban. He was emaciated, not a twink. He is not physically weak even when severely malnourished. He’s also a head taller than Peter, and utilises his tall stature to intimidate Snape. Harry mentions that he is tall multiple times in the series. Remus’ height is never mentioned, while James is stated to be tall, and Peter short. Use deductive reasoning to come to a conclusion.

• Remus isn’t overbearing physically in comparison to Sirius. There’s utterly no evidence for that whatsoever and changing that to make Sirius white, short and fem and Remus darker skinned, dominant, taller, buffer, is very, very weird.