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garrus is the answer
#i didn't expect so many votes AND for it to be so close omg#and believe me i meant to have more than 2 shots but things backfired on me so i went nuts with the editing#garrus vakarian#mass effect 2
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i have seen too many bad posts like in a row .
#what a terrible time to be incredibly pretentious#the nolan movie discourse is bringing out a lot of things I would rather not see#dragon age circles post thatās going around giving my heartburn and ulcers#meanwhile im reading like genuinely a life changing book and my rat kid wonāt stop climbing on me lol#and she received many gifts that are loud and ugly and she turns them all on at once and sets them on my lap while im trying to read#so fun i love it and she also coincidentally NEVER listens to me like not even by accident#not even once like literally in her entire life#i am tempted to just tell her the opposite of what i want her to do so she can just not do it#but i feel like that would backfire on me so i must endure#i just donāt sleep anymore because thatās the only time when i can do things lol#this will be fine and not have any long lasting effects on me whatsoever :)#sorry this turned into just complaining#maybe my period is coming who knows
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If I see any more homophobic nonsense in the Star Wars fandom then I'm drawing Tech on a romantic date with Garrus Vakarian.
ON THIS, A BLESSED TECH TUESDAY AND A BAD BATCH EVE.
YOU. HAVE. BEEN. WARNED.
#if this backfires i swear to christ#y'all#Y'ALL#BEHAVE#garrus#garrus vakarian#cloneforce99#clone force 99#tbb tech#tech clone force 99#the bad batch#mass effect#fandom being dumb#āDon't make my favorite character gay!ā#LOL FUCK YOU#We getting GAY up in here#They're all our toys#Making a canon character gay isn't a personal attack but hey I DON'T SPEAK HOMOPHOBE SO MAYBE YOU CAN CLARIFY THAT SHIT
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so the guy who hates china and TikTok and originally signed the TT ban is now working with TT to "bring it back"
weird it's almost like the massive international mutual outreach and respect over on XHS is a bigger threat than a foreign company doing to our data what our own companies do to the whole entire world
#almost like -- hear me out --#the tt threat had nothing to do with data and everything to do with squashing highly effective community organizing#except it backfired so hard they made it worse ;)#tiktok#tiktok ban#xiaohongshu#red note
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SOCIETY KEEPS KILLING ONE OF THEM BCS THEIR FRIENDSHIP WOULD BE INCAPABLE FOR GALAXIES TO HANDLE !!!!!
#theyre actually the same height but cliffjumper's pedes are made for climbing leaping causing pain to others#so he has spikes that sheath and unsheath from the soles and he keeps them out pretty much all the time which gives him height#fuzzy fat bumblebee and ANT#cliffjumper#i want cliffjumper sounds just like Miss SecondOpinionson but monotone & says everything like it's a fact#he keeps a permanent judgemental and suspicious expression and will tell you all of his surface level judgement of u#which js A Lot as he is Very observant and skeptical of Everything#mirage loves him bcs he doesnt play nice. he tells u how he sees it when he sees it#meanwhile bee is mewing from the amount of hatred secretly boiling inside him & is constantly changing himself for others#when they have time to reunite as old best friends .. the girlies have fun which means cliff is smiling for once & bee is not#everybody feels bad for bee when they see this bcs they think cliff is boring him or something & ruining his good mood#but actually bee is having the time of his life venting finally abt all his 'mean thoughts' which are just His thoughts but he cant say that#and cliff loves violence & is uncomfortable with social etiquette upkeep so of course hes indulging#i need the world to stop pitting my girlbosses against each other like just get creative with their designs lol#characters can have depth without merging personalities together into 1 and killing off the other half to cover up ur stealing lol#bee def has anger issues too but it's an after effect from his overthinking backfiring#while cliff has anger issues that flares b4 actions due to not wanting to think in favor of pure Doing#i think they are lovely foils which should be explored and can be done rlly interestingly if they were friends#who keep getting pit against each other by life but refuse to lose that friendship .. it's just a little cracked now.. & keeps cracking#bumblebee#transformers#maccadam
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āAre you okay?ā
He shouldnāt have stopped them. He knows he shouldnāt have. If anything, Yuji should have cheered them on, but-
Sukuna is only a child.
The boy cowers, teeth bared in a hiss and four eyes moon wide and glassy where they peek out of a crevice between two large slabs of stone. Four arms are slung tightly around his body in a heartbreaking attempt at self soothing, and sharp nails are digging crescents into the thin skin stretched over protruding ribs.
The kid is terrified. And hurt. And starving.
Yuji lowers himself into a crouch, hands splayed on his knees to assure heās holding neither chains nor weapons, and attempts a smile.
āTheyāre gone now, I promise. You can come out.ā
āGo away!ā Sukunaāthe childārasps, āOr- Iāll eat you!ā
ā sneak peek of āEverything Eats And Is Eatenā
#aka the time travel fic where Yuji stumbles across baby Sukuna and decides to try his hand at raising a mini king of curses#how does this majorly effect the time line? more on page 7#Yuji has one brain cell and itās on vacation#Sukuna is going to hyper fixate on Yuji and it will last for millennia#yuji; helping mini Sukuna absolutely isnāt going to backfire spectacularly#me: bet?#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#yuji itadori#sukuna#jjk itadori#ryomen sukuna#fanfiction#sneak peek#fic#fic preview
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it's me & my haymitch w/crohn's hc against the world....
#because i KNOW. i KNOW the effects of the disembowelment were severe! they were!#and it adds to my reasoning that he drinks partly because of how much physical pain he's in#(does backfire)#and it supports his canon food avoidance / only picking at or eating half#ā° chr. āæ h. abernathy
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In December 1964, Dusty Springfield toured to South Africa. She was horrified by apartheid, so her contract specified that she would only play to non-segregated audiences (the same tactic the Beatles had used in the American South earlier that year). It didnāt go well: South African officials came to her hotel pressuring her to sign a declaration that she would only play to segregated audiences, making veiled threats that it would be dangerous for her to go outside.
After several performances, she was deported. The South African government announced: āMiss Springfield was on two occasions warned, through her manager, to observe our South African way of life in regard to entertainment, and was informed that if she failed to do so she would have to leave the country. She chose to defy the Government and was accordingly allowed to remain in the country for a limited time only.ā
The Beatlesā Ringo Starr was one of many to rush to her defence, saying āGood for Dusty. I would have done the same thing. Itās stupid to have segregated audiences, especially as the music came from the Negroes in the first place.ā
āNegroā sounds dated now, but in 1964 it would be the most respectful term to use (it was Martin Luther Kingās preferred wording). Beatle biographers tend to leave Ringo out of political discussion, so itās interesting to see him weighing in - particularly the way he takes the opportunity to emphasise who created rockānāroll.
Sharon Davis, Dusty: An intimate portrait of Dusty Springfield, 2008
#dusty springfield#1964#ringo starr#thereās also ringo wearing a cnd badge in the cavern days#writers donāt expect him to be politically engaged so they donāt notice when it happens#or (in larry kaneās case) retell the story as something john did#itās sad to go from that to ringo playing celebrity tennis in south africa in 1975#donāt expect political consistency from your parasocial blorbos basically#itās easy to idealised the nice bits and sweep the rest under the carpet#both dusty and the beatles were well-meaning and naive#with allyship driven particularly by musical friendships and influences#more than a consistent political philosophy#perhaps that made it more effective in the moment: messy smaller in scope but heartfelt#the first link is to a bbc radio interview with dustyās bassist#who points out that sheād already played on the same bill as stevie wonder and martha and the vandellas#that her favourite artists and biggest influences were black#and she wouldnāt want to let them down#itās also a reminder that the beatlesā stance on segregated audiences could have backfired
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If the Doctor isn't a timelord then that means they potentially have different reactions to substances than they previously thought, ergo I just know that Thirteen, in all of her feral glory, runs around testing their reactions to things upon learning about their Timeless Child origins without her companions finding out
#dw posting#Thirteenth Doctor#Timeless Child#ginger has an intoxicating effect on timelords and aspirin is deadly to them but the doctor isnt a timelord so how does it affect them?#you really expect me to believe thirteen wasnt immediately shoving things in her mouth to test it out? the soil muncher?#she absolutely consumes a ton of ginger to see if shes been placeboing themself before risking the aspirin#cause that ones a little harder to hide from any conpanions if its backfires and she also digs up the chameleon arc manual from the library#to see if that might have affected anything maybe they ARE a timelord in the sense that john smith was 'human'#which leads to a separate research spiral that is ongoing alongside the substances experiment theyre concocting whilst people are sleeping#saw a post with ten3 correcting donna that theyre not actually a timelord and#i was hit with the realisation that the doctor must have a different fcked up unknown biology and we are not utilising that fact enough
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Alright but what if Guillermo's secret is revealed during the manor episode in a Clue-like mystery game style? And then he gets yoinked into a secret bookcase entrance or something and that's how he goes missing.
#that's my season 5 bingo prediction#that or the experiments backfire#wwdits#wwdits spoilers#and when i say game i mean a nervous domino effect of stuff happening bc they can't avoid each other anymore#i need the writers to do the narrative equivalent of putting them all in a ball and shaking it
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i do think cyberwizard drugs is a funny trait for victor. ostensibly this is for his magic and to maintain his connection to his cybernetics but its kind of like a guy who gets a medical card for back pain and then makes weed his primary personality trait.
#his concoctions.#š#the idea is essentially that all living things in big league are either considered magical or mundane#and while all living creatures naturally produce#and channel magical energy/mana; mundane beings dont have enough to meaningfully express it in any major way#while magical creatures naturally excrete enough of it to have effects ie: kaseys powers#this is a spectrum its not like a hard binary but humans are the most mundane of the sapient creatures#and as such for a human to do magic requires external mana sources and often something to channel it through ie a staff#because it would otherwise be too much for the body to handle and either your effect wouldnt work or in some cases it would backfire#victor is human (mostly) and uses his tech to augment his natural abilities (which are impressive for a human). but a lot of what he dabbles#in these days is pretty extreme and outside the realm of typical magic tools#ie: dimension splitting; summoning and dealing with demons; time travel; the light necromancy required to keep his body functioning#and all his personal cybernetics are magitech and built in such a way that they channel more mana without an external focus (so no wand)#so the idea is that hes made himself some sort of substance of high-mana shit (minerals and some animal products mostly) that helps him#handle the strain of the kind of work hes doing. with the upside-downside of occassionally tripping balls.
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Do either Audrey or Talia get Karolina's migraines?
i could see Talia getting them since it would just be another reason for her to hate Karolina
#they would for sure get her the most expensive and effective treatment plan on the planet#and shiv would make it clear she doesn't have to martyrize herself like her mother#the dynamic just sets off my synapses like crazy#karolina trying so hard to be the good mom the fair mom the disciplinary mom the caring mom#and it backfiring all the time bc she's severely overthinking the concept that talia might just want her to be mom (singular)#which shiv would be better at to me (bc detaching and avoiding and ignoring and not overcompensating for any of that)#it would lead them to see shiv in a different light and they would want her so much more that what little she does give is enough#ohhhh like father like daughter<33333#answered#twiniverse
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I think the reason Kirby is so dull is smth o do with the friend heart. It was broken by Ester. An why have no idea on how to fix it. - Lollipop anon
Kirby: "...I know why, poyo. But...can't say it."
Prince Fluff: "What do you mean you can't say it? Look, if you know why he broke it and turned you into...this...you need to tell us."
Kirby paused for a moment before taking a deep breath.
Kirby: "...Fine. Breaking the Friend Heart, poyo...turned me negative. I'm giving off negative energy...they're draining the energy...into the Jamba Heart, poyo. To make it...stronger. And...it makes me...feel numb. I...don't care, poyo. And they...plan to use that...against you."
Prince Fluff: "And you're just gonna let them?!"
Hearing that shocked Prince Fluff, causing him to raise his voice. Kirby paused again, blinking but otherwise not showing any signs of emotion before continuing.
Kirby: "...I heard Ester in my head, poyo. He said...'no use in trying to stop us'. A stronger Jamba Heart...means a stronger Void Termina, poyo. And...I don't have all the help that I did to beat him the first time, poyo. So...no matter what...we're not strong enough."
Prince Fluff: "...Kirby..."
He looked at Kirby with a genuinely concerned expression. The puffball was usually so cheery and kept an optimistic outlook on things, but this? This felt completely unnatural, seeing his friend in such a state.
#Event: Chapter 2 - Seeping Through the Cracks#story#ask#anonymous#lollipop anon#read the tags#kirby definitely knows more of what's going on#he's more vulnerable to ester's mind control and has been seeing & hearing things#he just doesn't react to it because he doesn't care at this point. but he has a rough idea of what their plans are#and lemme tell ya it's not looking good#tho telling his friends abt it could end up backfiring. let's just say ester knows what kirby's doing rn and isn't too happy#using his abilities to spy on kirby via his mind. kirby knows but isn't saying anything because he's been told not to#so he just mentioned it in past tense. nothing abt it currently happening. and it's legit just spying so not a big effect on kirby for now#anyway gonna tag ester cause he's mentioned lmao#kirby#kirby star allies#kirby au#kirby fanart#kirby series#kirby oc#negative kirby#prince fluff#ester#ask blog#ask-the-retired-cultist#retiredcultistredux#retired cultist redux
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Um
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But anyway while the Green Knight costume was a spectacular bit of practical effects work can we talk how the hard the makeup department tried to make Dev Patel look awful and dirty and disheveled and yet succeeded only in making him looking ever hotter?
I feel like how dumb Gawain ends up looking in screen adaptations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight depends entirely on how hard the costume designer goes on the titular Knight. Like, there's a definite point beyond which you've gotta be like, dude, look at him ā of course he's gonna get back up.
#i like to refer to this as the Tom Hardy effect#no matter how horrible you try to make him look it always backfires into making him more attractive
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Ze's approval / trust rating is at 63% and the majority has a positive impression of him.
This is getting better and better. šš¤


For anyone who wants to read it.
#trump causing the opposite effect of what he desired š#i so SO MANY Ukrainians coming out in support of ze in the last days#even a ton of otherwise very critical people#opponents#and people who hadnt voted for him#the general tone is āwe support our president and we stand with himā#some of them even said they would vote for ze if elections would happen purely out of spite#i love that energy and that trumps (and russias) pathetic little attempt backfired so massively and gloriously šš¤š¤š¤#if they continue with their narrative (and i have no doubt they will) there is a high chance zes ratings are back to February 22 š#and if elections are happening and hes running again he might even get more votes š
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Romanticizing your pain can be a double edged sword if you aren't careful and under the right circumstances you could be led to intectualizing your pain and suffering to the point you actually do not take any action at all.
#its pretty easy to get lost into that habit making your pain and suffering part of your identity#and not in a productive way as recognizing that your hardships have had an effect on you and dismissing can backfire into self shame instead#im talking about the kind of shit where you feel like you'd be an empty shell of yourself without your mental illness taking up#a significant portion of your life
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