#*takes notes*

[nyaa]

this is such a great de-aggro

[5leggedlamb]

Imagine Valdemar doing this shit :

the maize maze would've been smth else entirely

[helianthus21]

"Daniel who liked to let the hunger build" Oh he loves edging huh

[yume-fanfare]

tori liking kabedon in the scout is rly validating the three hundred kabedon doodles ive had around since 2022

[microwavepopcorn]

[ruinenekami]

Imagine the second scene followed up right after he said that...

[fuckyeahorangecassidy]

Further evidence that OC is a lil freak 😏

[fraudulent-cheese]

Unsure if youve done this but would you mind going in depth about Courtzzy’s dynamic? I love them personally and am curious what other people think

Well, i've made and reblogged a couple posts before talking about or vaguely around their dynamic before, but the thing i especially like about the courtzzy dynamic is that, well, it can go alot of different ways!

Mostly because Izzy is a very flexible character in general, Courtney is written pretty differently throughout the seasons and they have like 3 total interactions in the series (dramarama excluded) and none are them directly speaking to eachother, one of them is from TDDDDI and the rest are in episode 2 of World Tour. The most we get is Courtney asking Izzy to lead the camel for the Amazons and Izzy about to actually do it before Noah interrupts her, since they switched teams and all. So really, you can interpret them however you want to.

My own take on it really differs from context to context, and i am pretty aware of how far from canon i can get in my interpretations sometimes, but i generally stick with the whole 'opposites attract' schtic while highlighting their few common traits; to me, Courtney is Order, the rule following, opinionated and consistent structured around a core of chaos and passion and emotion, while Izzy is the Chaos, the radical, march to her own drum and fluid covering a logic that's only truly known by her and her closest friends. Those traits contrast in really interesting ways and i find them both just... Interesting to see interact in general? Especially since it's less that Izzy doesn't respect any rules and more that she sort of ignores them. She doesn't go out of her way to break them, she just probably will end up breaking a couple to have fun.

They seem like they'd come to a similar conclusion about a problem but came to that conclusion by completely opposite ways of thinking. They're both adrenaline junkies and only one is in denial about it. They are both sooo neurodivergent it's crazy (like seriously that's such an important part of their dynamic to me?? Neither of them are really normal and should be free to be themselves and from the way i see it they're both trying to mask with Courtney trying to fit in and Izzy exaggerating her 'craziness' to truly unhinged levels so people leave her alone. They deserve to unmask together and be genuine with eachother <3)

[setsailtomorrow]

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[nyaa]

[atiny-piratequeen]

Yeah I popped back up again to be a whore. I gotta be in the cave getting tagged teamed by Mingi and San and just let Jongho feed cause I’m nice

You're such a charitable baby i love that about you wow.

Team work *and* feeding our lovely boy? Absolutely phenomenal

[dumbfkingcow]

@ladyteaxx

As a reminder if you're wondering why Gundam has so many weird names for people and things, this is why.

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[salvadorbonaparte]

"tiktok has massive problems that even if you don't agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms" and "the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things" and "there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok" and "people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media" and "most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides" and "some people being on the same social media site isn't going to solve everything " and "I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope" are opinions that can coexist

[drjackabbots]

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking "wow brendan fraser's character is so cool" or "man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic" when the fact of the matter is that these two

are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they're lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy's resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they're racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky