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Mastercard and visa have reported to a couple news outlets that they are currently being swamped with calls and complaints. Keep up the pressure and try to (politely) insist that you leave a complaint via phone instead of letting the rep direct you to emails. It's way easier to be overwhelmed by a much smaller number of calls so each one counts for a bit more!

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someone: prohibition in the united states was largely ineffective, cost millions, tried to force a religious belief on the entire country, only ever resulted in the increase in consumption of alcohol, as well as the increase in police violence, and ultimately failed

people: okay yeah that’s true

someone: the war on drugs is the exact same thing except this time because of the militarization of the police and private prison interests, is much, much more deadly and specifically exists to justify and widely reinstate slavery within the united states

people: what? but drugs are #bad, and we can’t let people use them. obviously this is the only way to deal with this situation

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daaaaaamn true why would anyone have different expectations of a nurse administering their medication as they're writhing in pain than of a drive thru employee. we might never know

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Twisting Thicket [50x60]

As you make your way through the wood, between the tall trees on either side, you soon find a small clearing filled with the trill of birdsong. Corridors wind their way through the dense brush, and the babble of a stream nearby promises a refreshing drink, and perhaps more secrets tucked away in the wood should adventurers seek to explore it more fully.

This month's big battlemap, the Twisting Thicket, a woodland style "dungeon" winding between the greenery and nature, with a few little oddities that I wanted to include for an encounter with a strange fey or magical beast that's taken up residence in this forest.

This is the Public Release version of the map. Hi res, gridless, unwatermarked version available to patrons here.

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Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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Big fan of Sony Animation's plan for success involving producing love letters to various art forms

Spider-verse: comic books and superheroes, graffiti, rap, hip-hop, punk, watercolors, Saturday morning cartoons and monster of the week shows, film noir, Looney Tunes, all the cultures, ballet, anime

Kpop Demon Hunters: K-pop and fan culture, magical girl shows (particularly from the 2000s), K-dramas, ALSO Saturday morning cartoons and monster of the week shows, Korean mythology, anime

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“Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.”

— P. T. Barnum

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was watching steven universe episodes with my brother and sometimes in scenes between steven and pearl the show really captures the feeling of being 10 and realizing your mom is insane

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doomed by the narrative and haunted by the narrative and a secret third thing (narrating the narrative)

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on the subject of it often being out of character for characters to be having carefully negotiated bdsm sex in smut fics: 90% of metal gear ships are insane toxic yaoi and would definitely be having sex that is neither safe nor sane and only borderline consensual HOWEVER otacon and snavid would be thoroughly negotiating kinks before during and after sex like theyre doing mission briefings on a codec call

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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.