#UNball

[specialagentartemis]

story about a heist team doing a heist of colonial museums and returning unethically stolen sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony to their original communities

but the story isn’t about them

the story is a legal thriller about the repatriation coordinator and the pro bono lawyer who get frantically called in by that community when an artifact goes missing from a museum and shows up unexpectedly at their doorstep and now they are in a shit ton of (potentially international) legal trouble because the heist team did not take the legal ramifications into account, and no one else believes them that they didn’t steal it, and The Law is saying they are legally obligated to return it to the museum and are also probably going to go to prison for this, and activists are protesting, and it’s rocking the repatriation world, and it’s turning into a huge Thing

[whilomm]

oh okay heres one:

"sleepaway camp"= you go there for at least a few days, a week, sometimes several weeks, and sleep there, as opposed to a """camp""" where you go for the day and your parents or whoever picks you up afterward (those arent really camps, but like. idk when i went to "space camp" it was a weeklong but not sleepaway). in the U.S. at least, the typical image of a sleepaway camp involves staying in cabins, dunno how common it is/what it looks like in other countries.

for the first few i just mean like. not necessarily a stealth church camp, just like. idk, a camp where theres also an Assumption Of Christianity and just general vibes without being actually church camp. So, there might not be daily services and jesusy dedicatwd activities, but maybe theres still a prayer said over meals and shit. Which i assume might exist...

(oh and @reblogforsamplesize if u wanna)

[inchidentally]

someone tell me how old he would've been here I'm already crying with laughter if he's any older than 8

[kayime]

Whoever falls in love first, Loses...

[xxairchanxx]

Anime: Idolish7

Game: Idolish7

Character: Minami Natsume

[crtter]

I hate it when people say certain animals are “useless”. “We would lose NOTHING of ecological significance if we lost pandas” say that in any of the classes I took in vet school and my teachers would have made you sit on the corner with a dunce cap on. First of all, that’s untrue on every single level. All living organisms play a part in their ecosystem. When they die out, it WILL become unbalanced, no matter how “little” they seem to be doing. “Oh but giant pandas don’t hunt much so it’s not like it’d be a killing all wolves and getting too many deer situation” OK but what about the parasites they harbor? What about the vegetation they trample? What about their predators (which yes, they do have)?

And I mean, sure, if an animal is so specialized they can no longer thrive in a changing environment, they tend to go extinct. But that’s not what happening to pandas! They’re endangered for the same reason most endangered species became so after the rise of civilization: because of human activity. More specifically, they’re endangered due to habitat loss. The bamboo forests they lived in were cut down significantly in the past in order to make room for expanding human settlements and agriculture. I really dislike how the average person’s idea of why pandas are endangered is “oh it’s because they only eat bamboo and don’t want to reproduce”. It’s like, is it an animal’s fault it became endangered because they’ve evolved to have hyperspecific diets? Is it their fault they’ve evolved to be solitary and it’s difficult to replicate the conditions in which it reproduces in captivity? Or does it have anything to do with the fact that we humans as a whole didn’t see the harm in encroaching more and more upon this animal’s habitat and didn’t notice the impact our activity had on wildlife until very recently? The first wildlife conservation multilateral treaty was only signed and started being enforced in 1975! You would have been able to listen to Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Suede on the radio for a full year before we started regarding certain species as endangered.

I mean, I get why people get miffed over the protection offered to pandas that’s not offered to other, “less charismatic” endangered species. It hurts my heart every time I remember people don’t pay attention to buffy-tufted marmosets over other kinds of endangered monkeys because they look “too mean” (as if their little grumpy faces weren’t their number one charm point):

But just because I wish people paid more attention to buffy-tufted marmosets it doesn’t mean I want them to stop paying attention to other endangered animals and let them go extinct? What sort of weird logic is that? You want an entire species to go extinct out of spite???

[fromperdition4]

The Undermining of Kinn Theerapanyakul

Or: how Porsche acting out both threatens and strengthens Kinn's leadership

In episode 2, we see Porsche antagonize a minor, who turns out to be the son of Gun Theerapanyakul. And that, of course, sets Gun off --

He whines to Korn about the main family lowering their standards for the bodyguards, then turns to Kinn - implying that it's all his fault. That Kinn is too incompetent as a leader to keep his bodyguards in line.

But Korn puts a stop to it...

... by immediately undermining Kinn.

Although Korn is at the head of the table here, Kinn is supposed to be in charge - as we see in episode 1, he's the acting head of the main family, taking over for his father because of Korn's 'poor' health, and he was trying to give a report on the main family's business when Macau and Porsche burst in.

Korn's statement here is intrusive, but... it also gives Kinn an out for dealing with Gun.

Kinn keeps a strong, blank face when Gun is accusing him, but if you look at his hands (hidden from view behind his tablet) you'll see that he's fidgeting here.

Gun's anger makes Kinn nervous.

If this had been where the scene ended, Korn would have both helped and hurt Kinn - it would have stopped any further argument and saved him potential embarrassment, but it would have also cut Kinn's leadership to only a performative role. Telling everyone that the bodyguards are Korn's responsibility, not Kinn's.

But then here comes Porsche --

--ruining Korn's attempt at calm (just look how aghast he is) and dialing the tension up to 11!

This is where things take a turn for Kinn - because Korn can't (or won't) step in again.

It's up to Kinn to rescue Porsche, which he does by taking back control - he takes on the blame for Porsche's behaviour, while correcting his father: the bodyguards are his people.

And it's his responsibility to discipline Porsche, which he does in the most showy (and least damaging) way that he can to appease Gun.

The scene ends with Kinn firmly in control. He stares Gun down, takes a cool sip of his tea, and gets back to business.

Kinn is more clearly in-charge here than he was at the start of the scene. And it's thanks to Porsche.

[unganseylike]

i think ronan lynch has a disproportionate level of carbon emissions and further more has an infinite capacity to stop climate change and has done nothing. how did blue tolerate this i would be at his throat.

[midnight-stormm]

Hating on sapnap when 29 other ppl in chat was also arguing and saying how unfair the game mode was, is insane.

Why jump on him because he got a bit upset?

[imsiriuslyreading]

the days when ur staring at ur laptop screen to write but it also looks like the darkest void of doom n gloom but it’s raining outside and that makes you happy but you also accidentally put your saddest playlist on and now you’re spiralling while trying to write about dead gay wizards but also going headfirst into The Bad Place™️hahahahahahahaha no just me? skdj

[marcyonacross]

a great @skywarpie post (thank you) got me thinking abt this SO:

[nerdycolorcupcake]

🎶 i can see the burning flame in your heart

Can't you see what's tearing you appart?

Maybe you'll finally recognize a beautiful thing called home 🎶

~welcome home, theseus by kanaya

I miss bedrock bros so much...

[prof-peach]

Have you had any encounters/experiences with Virizion? I've heard they've had bad experiences with humans in the past, but curious how they react to the lab or gardens, or if they keep their distance?

Other than the rare sighting of one Raikou on the island, and the passing of the occasional Zapdos if we're unlucky, no legends or myths make their way to the Island thankfully.

We do not focus our interests on them, and are more than happy not having them around. Such powerful and difficult individuals bring a lot of troube with them more often than not, which endangers our staff and the patients here.

Never met one, never plan to, rather steer clear of that category of pokemon completly. Even a tiny Shaymin can kill on reaction if wanted. Best thing for us to do is to give them a lot of space and stay away unless theres no other option at all.

[hidakka]

Ritsuko Kübel Kettenkrad Kujibiki Unbalance Genshiken fanart

[phoenixcatch7]

Why can't we have a batman is the spirit of Gotham au?

He already is, in meta, in character, in theming. Him and the joker. He is so very built upon what Gotham is made of, and Gotham builds from what he needs in turn, the setting of his story.

What if that is the reason he can take damage that would permanently ruin a physical career and come back? What if that's how he's managed to maintain his no-kill streak to such an extent? What if that's how he manages to maintain such high maintenance and all consuming identities?

For the heart and soul of a city containing all extremes, the richest nobility and the lowest of the poor, the cruellest villains and the most compassionate heroes, orphaned children and ancient lineages, a city rooted in fear and madness and grit-teeth determination and hard won kindness, what better choice could you find than Bruce Wayne?

But what if he wasn't alone in that? What if Gotham has sunk to such a low because its spirit is damaged and corrupted?

For the heart and soul of the cruellest city in the dc universe, the most unrelenting and uncaring, the one that practically laughs at your pain and suffering as you try to make it through another day, what better choice than the Joker?

[xxairchanxx]

Anime: Idolish7

Game: Idolish7

Character: Haruka Isumi