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lately i've been a feminist killjoy.

2. i pirate all my media, and therefore am not familiar with most tv commercials. i went to a superbowl party. around me were appetizers and bean dip and wine and the rolling movement of people talking - and meanwhile i was sitting there, stonefaced and bonechilled. the extraordinary, willful, in-your-face sexism and racism of advertising. what an odd whiplash: the warm and smiling hosts handing me nachos - in the background, some casual repetition of conservative gender roles. more than once i had to turn to my girlfriend - are you seeing this?

3. often i think of how rainbow capitalism is a canary in a coal mine. i think of what one google employee said when they took down their "don't be evil sign" - he mentioned that while it hadn't really done anything, the removal of it was... eerie. it isn't that i needed pride-themed fast fashion items from target. it's that the pushback to said items has now resulted in the company's looming silence. it's that the pushback worked. target is now among the list of companies aiming to "roll back" DEI initiatives. a false friend, i guess - but a bellwether nonetheless.

4. i remember five, ten years ago rolling my eyes at the faux-feminist faux-activist stuff advertisements would put out. i mean, who can forget that pepsi ad, oh my god. i remember girlboss anthems and lukewarm representation. but it did seem like someone was, you know, trying to be thoughtful. but if we follow the money, i think it's fair to say it used to be a good idea to at least appear "politically correct." now though - who cares? look at the man we chose for politics.

5. i am working my girlfriend through her first watch of FMA: Brotherhood. it should be a sweet deal, and instead, i oscillate from peaceful to pacing. the ads drive me insane. i've been counting - at least three involve a man silencing a woman in some way. two involve a white man silencing a woman of color. in my least favorite, she's sitting at her desk, trying to say the same thing he's saying. but he keeps fucking interrupting her. ha ha. don't even ask me what the ad is even for. i don't understand the plot of the thing. i think the whole idea is just "man talks over a woman. buy our product" but with like, somehow worse pacing.

6. on national tv, in front of millions of viewers, kanye posts an ad for his website that is selling a single white T shirt, a product titled HH. a swastika is emblazoned on it. people can't even talk about how fucking terrible that is - their videos get flagged as soon as they actually say what's happening. i am sitting at home staring at my stupid phone, just quietly stunned. we can make a rapist president, but we cannot say the word rape on most social media platforms. elon can nazi salute on television without consequence, but you can't use the word "female" in your research grant request without being flagged. the enormity of it all is impossible to grasp.

7. there's a company called "his", which sells things for erectile dysfunction. the ads are trucks and masculinity and very gender affirming. the same company has a "hers" line, which is a barely-tested weight-loss injection developed and sold by recently-rebranded absolutely evil company Eli Lilly. in the ad, women who are "overweight" grapple with their barely-visible stomach and smile, beautifully at peace while delivering their own "treatment."

8. i read a lot, though. i spend a lot of time online. someone recently said i write almost exclusively from a place of panic, which they didn't like. it made me laugh though - can any artist say differently right now? still. still! i sat on that couch and watched how casually bigotry is repeated, with no real audience reaction. am i just radicalized and unfortunately very easily annoyed? am i the problem here? can't i just like, relax and let it happen?

9. we stand in line at the movie theatre. i make some snide remark about how the poster we're looking at is basically "sexy trophy smiles knowingly at our hero, nerdy boy". from behind me, some guy snorts down his nose. feminist killjoy.

10. the thing is. i don't want to be like this. it's just like. in my fucking home.

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ancestor & descendant

uncannily similar appearance despite 680 year gap

uncannily similar appearance

no real explanation for that in love nikki

new theory: nikki in shining nikki knocked up ancient mrs. bai & caused bai jinjin 600+ years later

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It’s why we’re a good duo, because I like stabbing—and she likes being stabbed.

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ummmm I saw the clip of gem saying that and had to get this out of my system between working on comms….. I love you toxic yuri

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Miss Piggy Artwork Parody of The Swing Painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard

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love breakfasts from the current arknights event. they're little doggos. teeny little edible nuggets

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revelations has the best soundtrack tho no contest.

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I think one of the things that makes Unity so much fun compared to Most Video Games I've Played is that currency holds its value really well. It's balanced really fairly where it's genuinely a process of saving up for the gear and equipment that you want and it requires you to invest substantial time into side content if you want to upgrade. The runaway doesn't happen until really late game, once all the areas have been unlocked and you aren't trying to push into higher difficulty areas ("difficulty" being subjective since the assassins creed series is in the particularly eloquent words of a friend about as difficult as pissing on the ground). It's something that as an enthusiast of video game economy I really enjoy. It's similar to Brotherhood in that regard, although the problem with Brotherhood's economy system is that it's only really a challenge if you're trying to renovate all of the monuments and such, the process of basic gearing is very simple. Though to this day the society upgrade system from Brotherhood is my favorite...maybe I need to play the new games to experience the newgen systems....

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Alchemists shouldn’t have wasted their time trying to transmute lead into gold instead they should have been trying to harness the transformative power that turns a bunch of adults in their thirties being silly for a couple hours into the poetic cinematic Greek tragedy that tumblr believes the life series to be

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Very quick doodle but I’m so excited for their dynamic this season

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canadian on canadian violence

i.e. etho in his prime lol

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I had a vision

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Welcome back crafting dead scar

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A quick past life pearl drawing

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Cleaned up version of the artwork that I started on stream!

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AC UNITY TASTE SO GOOD WHEN U AINT GOT A REDDIT IN YA EAR TELLING YOU ITS MID!!!!!!!!

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Did François de la Serre knew who killed Charles Dorian?

No, he didn't know*.

I think he knew about the American Rite because he knew who Haytham Kenway was, and probably knew also about Connor.

Shay Patric Cormac worked independently, since he could have asked the French Templars instead of Franklin to help him get into Versailles.

François didn't know he was there, and also the French Brotherhood wasn't aware of his presence. I think that Shay decided to stay anonymous, and operate on his own, because making his presence known would damage the common ground between the French Rite and Brotherhood.

If the French Brotherhood knew about Shay's presence in France, they would have done everything to protect Charles and the box. This would have led to war.

Pierre Bellec would have done everything to protect his friend. This led me to think that probably only a few people knew that the precursor's box was in Charles' hands.

François de la Serre was a good man. He took in Arno and chose not to convert him out of respect for Charles Dorian (and because his late wife, and daughter, begged him to let the child have a normal life). Let's not forget that Charles Dorian and de la Serre were on good terms.

François and Mirabeau tried to keep the peace between the two orders, but they failed.

*It may be possible that Shay was aware of Germain's plot to take down de la Serre leadership. But this is another story