#Wave Control

[valkugo]

“Be safe, fellas. And you look after your brother, you hear?” “Oh, I will.”

Saxon & Lochlan in The White Lotus, 3.04

[wolfythewitch]

Do you think Odysseus is vast coded?

I personally think he's stranger coded and slaughter/web/buried marked if that makes sense?

[n64retro]

[smiggles]

I believe some people need to truly realize that they aren't making the internet a better safer place.

They are bullies.

[awesomecooperlove]

WEATHER MODIFICATIONS “CONSPIRACY” NO MORE

[plutonious]

elesa and emmet accidently get cilan absolutely wasted a few days after his 21st. he's in the torture chamber(bar bathroom and elesa's apartment)

[theweeklydiscourse]

Recent twitter discourse on choice feminism/liberal feminism has made me realize that choice feminism is popular because it asks nothing of you. It doesn’t ask that you question anything, instead, it gives people a convenient escape hatch they can turn to whenever they feel uncomfortable. Choice feminism is a comfort that lets you push the harsh realities of patriarchal conditioning out of your mind. It doesn’t challenge you, or hurt your feelings, or force you to think deeply about the world around you. It just lets you feel content in your own ignorance.

[quinloki]

Me blubbering to you unintelligibly for an hour, ugly crying and going through so many tissues, and gods the absolute travesty of how loud it is when I blow my nose, but I don’t care cause all I can keep doing is SOBBING

SOMEONE SAID THEY HOPE I’M PROUD OF MY WRITING CAUSE I SHOULD BE.

And now I’m just gonna cry for forever 😭😭😭

[worstloki]

What Loki says: If we don't follow these basic specifications our lives will be in needless danger on this quest.

What Thor hears: ...blah, blah, blah. 💕 Proper name. Place name. 💞♡💞 Little brother stuff... 💓💝

[n64retro]

[dogboymutual]

hi everyone. letting you all know that i find the clicker game about the guy who likes clicking. the one called clickolding. that one. it's. hhot

[marragurl]

Get bored

Check back in on wuwa

Get invested in the current story

Remember about the like 4 characters you REALLY liked and enjoyed

Finish the current story

Crave more story and dynamic exploration

Open up ao3

The main tags are only Rover x *insert character here*

You remember you don’t really click with Rover as a self insert and wish to see legit ANY OTHER DYNAMIC

You close ao3

You move on to other things 

Time passes

Get bored

Check back in on wuwa

Repeat

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The contested legitimacy of law threatened the political stability of the two parties. That Republicans took over at the moment of Prohibition’s constitutional codification complicated the emerging identity of conservative politics. Republicans notoriously provided little funding and federal oversight, and reformers thus had a convenient scapegoat for social dysfunction for which their own forbearers were largely responsible.

Prohibition’s unpopularity also flummoxed Democrats. Prohibition was both the grand culmination of bourgeois progressivism and anathema to the Democratic base, which had championed the right to drink since its clashes with antebellum Whigs. The Democrats identified the problems of legitimacy and lawlessness in the early 1920s but vowed to make Prohibition work. In the 1920 presidential election both Democrat James Cox and Republican Warren Harding were reluctant to divulge their enforcement plans, frustrating the Anti-Saloon League. Ultimately Cox signaled moderate support for the Eighteenth Amendment, a question “as dead as the issue of slavery,” and pledged full commitment to enforcement. Cox and his running mate Franklin D. Roosevelt lost to Warren Harding. In 1924, Democrat John Davis ran against Harding’s and Coolidge’s reputation of cronyism. Davis related law and order to his identification as “a progressive . . . [who] cannot see a wrong persist without an effort to redress it.” He lamented an impotent executive branch and a vigilante atmosphere, in which “administration of the law” had become a matter “little different from those of private vengeance.” The answer resided in steadfast “enforcement of the law, and all the law,” whether against “wealth that endeavors to restrain trade and create monopoly" or against liquor. Officials failing to enforce Prohibition should be held in contempt. Davis denounced the lawless social conflict undercutting political legitimacy. The “solidarity of the great war” had yielded to “a chaos of blocs and sections and classes and interests, each striving for its own advantage, careless of the welfare of the whole.”

Talk of national unity and the rule of law could not conceal the widespread violence and lawlessness, the corruption from top to bottom. Enforcement was conspicuously uneven, targeting the poor and people of color. In the legal black hole of upside-down federalism, enforcement sometimes fell to vigilantes, a haunting echo of World War I. Lawlessness abounded in both the flouting and the enforcement of the law. In September 1924, New York judge Alfred J. Talley was quoted condemning America’s high murder rate in an article titled “The Most Lawless Nation in the World.” In 1926, in testimony before a Senate committee, he attributed a doubling of homicide rates, and rampant corruption and crime, to the impossibility of enforcing Prohibition.

Americans agreed that Prohibition’s shortcomings could not be ignored, but sharply disagreed on the remedy. Some rethought their positions and others became more vigilant. Irving Fisher had opposed Prohibition but told Congress in 1926 that he had “radically changed” his “attitude,” and advocated “increasing the legal machinery” and only “fuller enforcement” would bring “real personal liberty.” In 1929 the Bureau of Prohibition moved from the Treasury to the Justice Department. That same year Assistant Attorney General Mabel Willebrandt conceded that her policy unleashed lawlessness. She condemned the “wholly unwarranted . . . killing by prohibition agents,” decried the hypocrites drinking while they enforced Prohibition. But she proposed strengthened enforcement, better coordination between Justice and the Treasury, more controls on industrial alcohol, tightening the border with Canada, and abolishing patronage.

Willebrandt, “First Lady of the Law,” embodied this difficult time for both progressivism and the Republicans. Her presence in ways brightly captured the reform spirit as she had championed the hodgepodge of early-century progressive causes. She opposed Prohibition personally but supported strict enforcement for the sake of legal integrity. At any rate, Prohibition soon became her albatross. It had promised a middle ground of order between extremes and between different class interests. But instead of producing a middle ground between anarchy and despotism, it produced a mixture of both—the sort of fusion of lawlessness and mobilization that could be organized in a coherent, politically viable manner during warfare, but not during peacetime. America was in a state of pacifist militarism, drained from war but lackadaisically mobilized, and it needed rationalization under new structural and ideological patterns. Many progressive reformers, seeking more humane conditions for prisons or police reform, had staked their lot with Prohibition and lost credibility."

- Anthony Gregory, New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univervisity Press, 2024), 60-63.

[hotchipsauce]

psst pspspsps u should totally talk about grebbymints more ... i am enabling u......

AAAAAA bro….. my dude…. the thing is i always feel crazy talking about them together bc i think like they’ve only publicly interacted like 3 times? LOL (i have watched and documented every interview minty and grebby has appeared in for the leafs/marlies. it’s so bad. me being sick has actually helped me not be as weird about it since i had less screen time in general)

but even then me and @tufzy just constructed this whole separate reality in our heads for months about how like they prob got closer after getting called up and minty is the only familiar guy for grebby there due to being on the marlies together + no russian player on the leafs to fall back on for help so grebby is just sticking to minty’s side the whole time, and minty even tho he’s a lil popular with the leaf boys he still is looking out for his linemate. even when they get sent down they’re still drawn to each other out of habit. but i’m always like second guessing like wow this is pure delusion like maybe they don’t even fuck with each other like that it’s just coworker friendliness this rpf shit is truly a disease fr fr 🙏

and then the videos started dropping. they’re goofing off and pushing each other around during sewer ball. and then i see a single frame of minty next to grebs during the one rare tiktok that he shows up in. and the delusion starts anew

[nenoname]

it's all coincidental (because the crew definitely didn't think about it back in carpet diem) but i've been thinking about how ford made a mind control device, a mind swap device and a mind reader, with the first (and possibly the second as well) being built before he even met bill...

and meanwhile stan has a noticeable amount of control over his mindscape despite likely not even being consciously aware of the concept before getting j2/j3 or defeating bill

both stan twins having weird mind affinity but ford's being an external control while stan's is internal (if that makes sense?)

[blightbright]

my emmrich volkarin writing process!

i'm reading free preview snippets of this book at this very moment while working on my upcoming emmrook fanfic lmao

R E S E A R C H

i also just saw a quote from his writer's 'ask me anything' session a while back, where she said some rules about emmrich are 1) he never swears, 2) always says "amongst" instead of "among," and 3) has compassion, tenderness, and "a kind of expansiveness and generosity of spirit"

that's the kind of stuff i love to hear about and grab onto

though i will absolutely push emmrich to his breaking point in my fic to get him to say "fuck" once because rules are made to be broken and politely composed characters are made to be whumped lmao