#but abstaining

[ryllen]

Macbeth poster

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[chowadoe]

posted it on twitter so tumblr gets it too. lo-res sonadow BLAST ✋💥‼️💥‼️💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

He gets it.

[muffinlance]

From NPR this morning:

President Biden called for term limits and an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices yesterday. The White House said that the proposal would appoint a justice every two years to spend 18 years in active service to the Supreme Court. He also called on Congress to pass binding, enforceable conduct and ethics rules that require high court justices to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and remove themselves from cases if they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest. The president also called for a constitutional amendment that would limit the broad immunity presidents now enjoy due to a recent Supreme Court decision.

...Yes please.

Le source: Up First briefing: Trump shooter update; Crypto and the 2024 election

[mayasaura]

Spin the wheel of Locked Tomb characters and answer for who you get:

[mikkeneko]

While writing that Dragon Age 2 post the other day, I made a narrative connection I had never made before.

I was writing about the Templar route, and about how the game makes no bones about how the Templar route is the evil route, it's clearly narratively marked as such. Because the structure of the game sets itself up from the start to make Hawke have some sympathy for the mages: they are the child of a mage and the sibling of a mage. This is an issue that Hawke cannot exempt themselves from having opinions on.

But that said, yes, you can choose the Templar route. You can decide that the tragedy of your family being ripped apart by the mage plight has hardened Hawke's heart against them. You can join forces with the Order that has hunted your family members their whole lives. You can choose to tighten the iron fist, instead of choosing to break it. You can become the ruler of Kirkwall. You can kill your sister.

And then I realized: That's Meredith's story.

Meredith, whose sister was a mage, the sister who died from it and ripped her family apart in the process. Meredith, who hardened her heart against people like her sister and dedicated the rest of her life to punishing others like her. Meredith, who joined causes with the Templar order who made that happen. Meredith, who took over the city.

You can choose to become Meredith. The game lets you do that. But you have to know -- as you climb over her corpse to ascend her bloodied throne -- that it's not a 'good' choice.

[akindplace]

I think when you grow up lacking material things, lacking affection or any form of stability, you end up saving everything for later in a constant fear of running out or you end up being so ashamed of asking people for help, for a job, for any kindness and then ending up being denied, that you don’t dare asking, even if you have financial stability and good relationships in the present as an adult. You end up self-sabotaging in fear of what it might mean to desire something and not have it. The more you want, the more you abstain and the bigger that sort of empty craving gets. Don’t feel guilty for the seemingly enormity of your own needs, because the more you abstain from them, the bigger they get. Don’t let your soul starve. Don’t let yourself run on empty. Don’t let the emptiness grow into a pit. Don’t save happiness for later or for when you “become” a worthy person - you don’t need to earn every little thing, you don’t have to hurt yourself to be worthy of some soothing or any help.

[leonardalphachurch]

i think sometimes when ppl talk about caboose infantilization (or really any problematic depictions of characters in fandom works) they get bogged down by the details of what is and isn’t “allowed” instead of tackling the actual issue with the infantilized depictions.

someone will say “caboose is a grown man he drinks alcohol saying otherwise is infantilizing him” and someone will reply “um actually i have a very good reason for him not drinking and how dare you say not drinking is childish” and the conversation turns into an argument about whether or not caboose drinks when like. the point isn’t about whether or not he drinks alcohol, it’s about whether or not you’re treating him like he’s an adult who can make his own decisions about alcohol consumption.

what do you think the reason is that giving him a juicebox in fanart where everyone else is drinking is such a trend? that depicting him with stickers and crayons is? that writing him as asexual— not only asexual, but as a grown man completely unaware of what sex is— is? there is a reason that these trends exist, and the point isn’t to litigate whether or not any individual instance of these things really counts as infantilization. it’s to notice that these patterns exist, to understand why caboose is often treated as childish, to interrogate how you’re depicting him in your own work so that even if you do decide to have him be sober or abstinent or anything along those lines you are doing so with respect and without infantilizing him

[ohsalome]

This is about labour camps btw

[annacaffeina]

well congratulations America Worst assholes. You did it. You made America as evil and cruel as you always believed it was. Your cynical apathetic refusal to participate made all your hopeless dreams come true.

[starryeyedstray]

"i'm so sad the dbh fandom is basically dead"

every time i see someone say some version of this on my dash i just want to scream. it feels like engagement bait at this point. we're a SMALL fandom not a DEAD fandom. there's a difference!! dbh fans are still pumping out content y'all are just not looking ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

if you're reading this and you've said this in the past i am not specifically calling you out. it's just the general sentiment drives me mad.

[sunset-synthetica]

I'm certain you're just going to abstain from the vote this election and whatever happens next will be entirely on you and your pals

I'm Czech

[essektheylyss]

It really is so fun that Essek started mentioning "my partner" like every three lines because he probably doesn't actually get the chance to talk about it that often.

I think there can often be an impulse when you really care about someone to want to shout from the rooftops all the great things you feel and notice about them, and Essek isn't really in a position to do that. The people who he can talk freely to already know him and Caleb, and the people who don't know them likely aren't safe to tell real personal details to. It's one thing to fabricate a parental relationship knowing that there isn't someone to trace that to, but it's an entirely different thing to tell someone honestly about the people you love when any small detail might put them in danger if it fell into the wrong hands.

The Hells are safe to say that kind of thing to—perhaps mostly on a meta level, in that the DM is aware that they are the protagonists—and they also characteristically tend to offer a listening ear to anyone they meet, and I think it's delightful that Essek actually recognized and responded to that.

[ducktracy]

my friends took me out to dinner last night to the Tam O’Shanter, which is one of the oldest restaurants in LA and was also a very frequent hangout spot of Walt Disney’s! it’s served as animation inspiration for Snow White, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, and, perhaps more relevant to here, Deduce You Say which you can absolutely see comparing screenshots and images. you can feel the history and it was just insanely insanely cool!!

[humanityscompaniondaily]

day 160: pop the champagne!

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Synopsis

Chasing a metallic object through the Time Vortex, the Ninth Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler, arrive in London during the Blitz. While Rose meets "Captain Jack Harkness", the dashing Time Agent responsible for bringing the object, the Doctor finds a group of homeless children terrorised by Jamie, an "empty" child wearing a gas mask.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted  

Midnight

Synopsis

The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble go to the leisure planet of Midnight for a simple, relaxing holiday. However, life with the Doctor can never be that simple, and things go horribly wrong for the Doctor when he decides to go off on a bus trip to see the Sapphire Waterfall, starting with the bus shutting down. When a mysterious entity infiltrates the shuttle bus, no one is to be trusted. Not even the Doctor himself...

Propaganda

Midnight is amazing. So thrilling. The monster was human fear and it cost the life of two innocent women. (plus two men on accident, well, more or less) And we never know what the midnight entity was. Perfect. My absolute favourite episode. The best thing is that it tricks you into liking the passengers before it slowly, slowly turns that into horror of what they're capable of. Chills every time. (Plus it's totally what inspired among us if you ask me) (anonymous)