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[awlwren]

[id: gifs of a cardinal speaking grimly. "Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.

"Even Christ was not certain at the end. My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? He cried out in his agony at the ninth hour on the cross.

"Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt.

"If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery and therefore no need for faith.

"Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts.

"And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on."]/end id.

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

[fawnspotholiday]

inspired by the antler velvet theory, wanted to see how it would look...

[bits-and-beasts]

finally put that "Megatron betrays the Terrans" au to paper,

Starscream isn't taking it well, and frankly neither is Dorothy.

(also! I accidentally called nova storm ion storm in the writeup and only noticed after I rasterized the text- please imagine that away lol)

[mrcarmenile]

so what i’m getting from this is that mizi could never again bear to see the look in sua’s eyes when she thought mizi was going to die.

and so instead the look she gets from sua in the end is this:

a smile.

part of the reason she couldn’t find it within herself to stop sua is because she could not bear to see sua so devastated again - she wants so deeply for her to be happy even when it’s in the most fucked up way.

in the end, it was what made sua smile, and mizi did not know how to deny her of that.

[collision-ant]

Deltarune has done irreparable damage to my brain and the way I see objects around my house

[filledtothebrimothy]

spam post of those mfs connected to the five sinners in some way cuz they’re my favs

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

!!!

GUYS CHECK OUT THE LETTER OPENER I FOUND AT THE ANTIQUE FAIR

[scribescrawls]

Tarn, who has almost zero sexual experience, to his team: I need your input on a subject matter of the intimate kind and want to garner a variety of expertise opinion. Hypothetically speaking, would it be wise to try out something new in the berth that your partner suggests that intrigues you, but the nature of it is unorthodox?

The other members of the DJD: Depends. What did they suggest?

Tarn, proceeds to describe the most wild and freaky interfacing acts/kinks that is even a bit much for the rest of the DJD: So what do you think?

The rest of the DJD: Yeah absolutely not. I wouldn’t even attempt that unless I had a medic on call or in the room

Tarn, whose interfacing partner is Pharma a genius skilled surgeon, taking that as a sign to go ahead with it: Oh okay! :D

[alberto-balsalm]

I used to have a coworker who said "eye-talian". Which is a pronunciation i associate more with 1920s Republicans who were racist against Southern and Eastern Europeans than a millennial. It's entirely possible he was bigoted against Italians in the decade 2010, he was a bigot about a lot of things.

if you pronounce iran and israel like "eye-ran" and "is-ree-al" i should not have to listen to any of your opinions concerning either country

[whumpologyy]

when The Characters are going through something terrible and one breaks down sobbing on the other’s shoulder, “Why is this happening to us??” and the other can only hold them close and stammer, “I-I don’t know.”

[finnlongman]

Extremely gratifying to get peer review comments where a) they were really nice about my article and b) almost everything they recommended I cite or discuss was something I had originally cited/discussed but had cut for length, or had in my notes but hadn't included (for length), including three things I have previously cited in other articles on related topics. (There was one recommendation that was new to me, though, and sounds very interesting.)

Very nice to know I was on the right track, but I did have to email the editor back and ask if it was okay if the article got a bit longer, because the thing about cutting things for length is that putting them back in means, well, increasing the length.

Anyway! Hopefully a step closer to you getting to read my shared grave / sworn brotherhood / 'it's not that friendship is marriage it's that marriage is friendship' article!

[archivewriter1ont]

Thoughts on Echo as a Senator

I’ve seen a ton of people saying the Fives would be the perfect representative of the clones in an AU where Order 66 was forestalled and the clones were able to obtain rights and a Senate seat, etc… but I actually think he’s the wrong Domino twin to assume this role. I think the perfect, most willing and capable person to represent the clones would be Echo.

Note: I’m still working my way through certain seasons of TCW, so bear with me on this… I might update this post later based on new observations. (I’m stopping the analysis at the end of the TCW Bad Batch arc because the only way I see Echo actually becoming a senator is if Order 66 was stopped by the clones and the Jedi.)

In the Clone Cadets episode when Echo and Fives go to Shaak Ti to ask for a transfer, Fives doesn’t say very much because Echo is the one taking the lead. Echo is the one advocating for himself and his brother. As much as he doesn’t want his squad to fail as a whole, he definitely doesn’t want Fives to get stuck on Kamino as a ‘defect’ and he doesn’t want to, either. He’s willing to go above their trainers’ heads and speak directly to the Jedi (who the clone may or may not be very fond of at the point depending on what they’ve been taught on Kamino, because there’s no way Shaak could have personally interacted with every single trooper) in charge, demonstrating a resolve and sense of justice that required him to do something regardless of how effective his request might be.

In Rookies, Echo isn’t the first to speak to Cody and Rex when they arrive after the attack, but he is the one who tried to share helpful information that would have kept his brothers safe and displayed sorrow for Cutup when they didn’t listen. (The sergeant also looked to Echo first for information after the attack and didn’t really have anything to say to him while chastising the others at the beginning, so that’s something, too.) He speaks up to answer Rex’s questions, and though he still shows concern later on when they retake the base because he doesn’t want to lose any more of his squad, he’s the first to present the liquid tibanna as a way to even the odds (a plan that while a bit crazy, was formulated quickly and logically and ultimately succeeded).

In On the Wings of Keeradaks, not only does Echo push himself to the brink as soon as he’s out of that stasis chamber in order to help his siblings, most of whom he has never met, escape the Techno Union, he turns the results of how his captors butchered his body into their escape plan by hacking the systems and plotting their way out. There are so many more things in this episode that I could include in this list, but the main one that comes to mind is how Echo reacts when Rex points at him and says look what they did to my brother. He doesn’t cower back, ashamed to let his scars and trauma be seen – he steps forward. At this point he has been starved and enslaved, saddled with eternal medical, physical, and spiritual trauma, and yet instead of sitting down to process his own pain this man walks forward on legs that are a representation of how he was mutilated and hurt, baring a chest that’s scarred and caving in from the torment he’s endured, to present himself as a warning of what will happen to others if action isn’t taken, as a prophet of what evil exists hidden beyond the sheen of compliance most people don’t want to peek past. 

Can I say anything about Unfinished Business that isn’t abundantly clear? Echo pushed himself to the limit again, trying to prove his loyalty but also doing his best to protect Rex and, unbeknownst to him, his newfound squad. He almost fries himself in Tambor’s ship and then leaves everything he’s ever known, the only close brother he has left, to help where he can (plus he gets four new brothers out of the deal but still, that’s a major sacrifice).

Basically, I love Echo to death and think HE is actually the one who would do best in representing the clones in the Senate, because he is...

Selfless

Loyal

Determine

A Leader.

This wasn’t supposed to be so long but oh well.

[bishkebab]

This feels like false advertising I'm definitely not this cute

Don't have the brainpower to tag so if you see this and want to hop in consider yourself tagged

ok starting a picrew thing bc its fun!!! make urself using this picrew ^__^

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[spacebubblehomebase]

"Shadow Of His Light."

🎪 I know some people still hold on to this story and despite the long hiatus, I'm grateful for those who kept tabs on me for all this time. I know it may not seem much, but Alastor's early motivation was something I wanted to acknowledge and Lucius' Dancing Devil's Circus is a big part of him. As for the next update, while not as big, it'll be all about how these two formally met! A lot lighter in tune, so it should be easier for me to draw. But the tone for this comic is just a taste of what I really have in mind for my AU, so I hope you'll remain patient with me as regardless of whether this gets received well or not, I will still continue my story as it is as much for me as it is for all of you. So get your tickets now and step right in. Welcome to the circus! Our master's den of SIN~! -Bubbly💙