#What is White-Label

[enemywasp]

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A CHARACTER FLAW.

Last year everyone and their mother was complaining about all the Mary Sue ocs! Pick a lane!!

[allmightyscroll-swag]

CRK fandom you've heard of Poly Ancients get ready for my personal (crack) poly headcanon:

THE BATALLION

[reasonsforhope]

This is now a Kamala Harris for President blog btw

Obviously I'll keep posting good news as usual! And I'm going to pull up as much good news and reasons for hope about Kamala Harris's campaign as I can.

[ink-the-artist]

hello! could you please share the process of making those snails? I'm a beginner in making clay sculptures and these snails have broken my brain. how are they translucent? is the shell real shell? those incredible details/texturing on their body...???? I'm so puzzled yet fascinated!

Thank u ! The seashell is real, and the translucent parts of the body were made with translucent sculpey clay.

It’s not perfectly transparent, I layer it over regular colored clay in a thin layer for the body and the eyestalks are made by rolling a suuuuper thin line of black clay within the transparent clay. The texturing is all done with these silicon and metal sculpture tools for clay.

It’s also covered with resin to make it look slimy, I made these a while ago but iirc I used this quick curing resin usually meant to be used as glue

[nicoscheer]

Yup it is produced by Dan Auerbach

Also TURTLE IN A TURTLENECK 🫠🥺🥺

[seagreenstardust]

Anyone still calling late game Katsuki an abuser in 2024 is just not paying attention. Full stop.

[kanerallels]

Ok, since you opened it up to AU requests from other fandoms, and since you've been TGE-posting the last two days . . . I would LOVE to see a snippet of Maia and co. (any "and co" will do, but my first choice is Csethiro or Beshelar and Cala) in a SW AU. (Also do not feel pressured to do this. I recognize it is kind of borderline on the list of what prompts you're looking for. I'm just. I think it sounds fun.)

OH MY GOSH friend. I was literally JUST thinking about this idea. Like yesterday. This is more a set up for the au than anything else but enjoy it all the same, there is a good chance I snap and write an addition later on:

When Emperor Palpatine died suddenly (from what, it was still unknown. A failure of the heart in his sleep, poison, assassination from enemies both close at hand or mysterious were all explored and summarily rejected), the Senate went into an uproar trying to determine his heir. The Empire had only been a true Empire for fifteen years—the succession rules were unclear, to say the least. There were those who campaigned for a political replacement, for a new election.

But those closest to Emperor Palpatine claimed to know his will. That his rule would be passed on to his closest kin, his half nephew. There was much murmuring over who this half nephew was. They knew of the half brother—a proud man who, unlike his fellow Nabooans, put no stock in the beauty of art and craftsmanship, but seemed to relish the art of war and profit.

However, Varenechibel (for so he was called) had died in a ship crash earlier that year, along with his three eldest sons. The fourth remained—a half human boy of eighteen, who had been raised by a distant cousin on an Outer Rim planet, safely out of the way.

He was out of the way no longer, and rumors flew thick and fast about this Maia Drazhar—whether he would be a ruler like his uncle, if the stories of his mother were true, calling the boy himself an inbred fool who would run their Empire into the ground. Very few had any faith in him, and most hoped that Mas Amedda, the Emperor’s Grand Vizier, would steer him in the right direction.

Some, like Senator Organa or Senator Berenar, seemed to hold out hope. Though when the boy himself finally appeared—tall and awkward and dark-skinned, accompanied by his scowling guardian and an elegant looking Twi’lek man who was as pale as the new Emperor was dark—hope did seem to flicker out. It would seem, it was remarked, that Mas Amedda had his puppet after all.

This all changed a month into the new Emperor’s—who, in Naboo fashion, had chosen a ruling name of Edrehasivar—rule, during which he hired two bodyguards of decidedly non-human descent, politely ignored Mas Amedda’s every suggestion, and began quietly ruling in a way that would have made Palpatine’s heart, should he have possessed one, quail with rage and horror.

The general Senate was up in arms, Bail Organa found himself positively delighted, and a young Umbaran woman, whose family was currently in negotiations of a personal sort with the Emperor, was revising her opinions rather rapidly. Csethiro Ceredin hadn’t expected much of Emperor Edrehasivar. What she had expected had been disproved, and she found she would be very interested to see what came of the Emperor’s rule.

She was far from the only one.

[ilikemicrowaves]

This " mature sensitive content " thing is getting fucking ridiculous . The posts that it's labeling mature are just posts with any pride , poc and disabilities , or even FUNDRAISERS . specifically fundraisers for any lgbtqia + or poc . It's fucking disgusting .

[neverfittedin]

This automatic post labeling is the stupidest thing. I post around 5-10 things and minimum one of them gets labeled as "potentially mature" even though it isn't mature AT ALL...like??? Stop this 😑

[alexkablob]

not to wade into discourse about shows online which I swore to stop doing but I think some of you need to recognize that not every piece of media is about you, and that focusing only on the themes that you personally identify with while erasing the ones you don't is Not Great

[apostle-therock-peter]

"welcome to america" by lecrae is the closest a mainstream christian musician can get to anarchist christian/socialist christian/communist christian without people noticing because they're just grooving to lecrae's masterful flows and the epic beats and "this couldn't happen to me" etc etc etc

[shallowseeker]

Zachariah torturing Dean:

5x03

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Zachariah torturing Jack:

13x14

(Script 13x14 via @spnscripthunt-inactive)

[stormy-talks]

I'm so tired of non-normative identities being seen as a "white people thing" because that erases all of the people of color who experience these identities. Yes, white people dominate a lot of queer spaces and discussions, and that's a huge problem. But things like nonbinary or aspec are not just identities for white people who are "trying to be special." The experiences of queer people of color are the cornerstone of this community's history and that's something we really need to remember.

[lazzarella]

So over people being like 'omg this couple is soooooo toxic' (either positively or negatively) and I go into the show/movie/whatever all 'o-ho-ho' rubbing my grubby little hands together expecting belladonna and then I get a potato >:(

[sabellart]

oh my god the lesbian and bisexual discourse on tiktok was driving me round the bend, one of the reasons why I deleted it

THANK YOU I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING CRAZY

i’ve always hated the amount of lesbian/bisexual discourse, but what drove me over the edge was the new obsession people apparently have with whether or not certain trans people can be lesbians. ignoring the fact that people’s lives and identities are far more complex than a simple word (most of the time), why the fuck is it any of your business???? it’s incredibly naive to me to think that someone’s identity should revolve around whether or not it “contradicts” or fits into the neat little boxes that make sense to cishet people (god forbid someone makes us look bad 🥺🥺🥺🥺)

there are infinitely more important things as a community we should be focused on, like actual harm being done to queer but specifically trans people politically, and yet this is what people focus on

[willyhoos]

thanks to an anon ask, i started spiraling thinking about this interesting portion in one of the past timeloops (the "japan fell asleep" timeloop):

ENGLAND: We failed again! What do we do!? We've got the key. Now we can... GERMANY: When we've lost so many? I can't. RUSSIA: Yeah, there's no point. ENGLAND: Yeah, I agree. Let's leave this key to our next selves.

germany wanting to reset the timeloop not because they've lost someone, but because they've lost "so many." nice polite way of putting the cards on the table that there's some unspoken amount of OR combination of deaths he could theoretically live with. (not that i trust germany would be able to actually follow up on this, he'd be eaten alive by the guilt.)

germany and russia IMMEDIATELY ganging up on england when he even BEGINS to suggest leaving. england clearly isn't happy with what they've lost, but he is the one to broach the topic of "well, we do have the key..." (once again, i hesitate to think he would really leave all the others for dead, but of everyone there he is the only one who brought it up as a possibility.)

keep in mind, some of these nations trapped together canonically hate and/or have tried to kill each other. so what's surprising isn't stuff like "prussia is unwilling to leave germany behind on the basis of emotional attachment and love," it's "russia is unwilling to leave america behind on the basis of that being his fellow nation."

it's one of the neat things about hetaoni - just how much is maddeningly implied. the surprising maturity and moral depth of these characters, both good and bad. that each and every one of them, both Good Boys™ like germany and Rowdy Boys™ like england, have thought to themselves "it'd be much easier if i let them die." when italy confesses he doesn't think this way, america is shocked. he's a truly good person, and that makes him different from the rest of the nations.

it makes the second timeloop all the more impactful. england of all people is the one who goes back in time even though speaking frankly he has no emotional attachment nor responsibility to italy and has infinitely more to lose than gain.

we see that england is not, all things considered, too worked up about italy's death. he's told to leave, and he does so without complaint, opting to make himself busy tending to the wounded... and he is visibly surprised at japan's upset reaction.

despite how well italy knows him (yknow, because of the timeloops), england doesn't really know italy at all. his motives from here on aren't from affection or a desire to protect italy: it's a matter of respect and gratitude to him. a surprisingly human development for england, appearing as early as the second loop.

tldr: the brotherly and familial love that is displayed in hetaoni is heartwarming (and heartbreaking). but the sense of military-like camaraderie displayed, and how it elevates the concept of these morally ambiguous immortal soldiers who have *for once* placed in a REAL life or death situation - that is really fascinating.