#don't hold yours either

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Wha... Wait... "A"??!?

A. One. Left out of the headline - because that would take a whole letter to specify! - and elucidated in the article. Yoink! Good news, a pause on a single shipment, but don't think we've lost our minds and intend to stop. And, giving me more Duck Soup flashbacks, the stated reason is that the BIG bombs kill too many people too fast.

"Good!" says the Rufus T. Firefly that lives in my brain. "Freedonia can't be concerned with putting these miserable people out of their misery! Let 'em suffer! Why, if it's precision you're after, we'll round 'em up and stab 'em to death with our knitting needles!"

Is that actually the reason? No. Pretty darn sure it's the protests and the election.

And Sanders is right there, in that political sweet spot he's allowed to occupy because he's a progressive who'll fall in line when the chips are down, saying this shit needs to stop but willing to call a genocide a "horrific war" for the optics. He's playing to stay in the room and keep doing the "harm reduction," but you'll forgive me for finding the strategy sickening under the circumstances.

"We're losing votes!" says Rufus T. Firefly. "Deploy the decoys and blow the Progressive Call!"

Harpo blows a kazoo that somehow goes, "UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE! SOCIAL JUSTICE! PEACE ON EARTH! NO NUKES!"

"Hey, boss, that sounds pretty good," says Chicolini. "Are we gonna do any of that?"

"What? Pfft! No!" Firefly brandishes a blunderbuss. "Just look busy and wait for a few leftists to land. We'll blow 'em away!"

Chicolini rubs his paws together. "Oh, boss, we're gonna eat like kings!"

"Shut your mouth! Filthy monarchist! We're gonna eat like Liberal Democrats with no accountability!" Aside, "Hand me my crown!"

All postmodern absurdity aside, it's the protests and the election. If you're visible (and if you're allowed, because some campuses are clearing out "outside agitators" who don't like genocides but lack a student ID) PLEASE STAY VISIBLE. MAKE NOISE. And I thank you from the bottom of my distant, sick, invisible heart.

[ndostairlyrium]

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[carmineskiesandspidereyes]

A Softer Trigun, part 22/?

pt. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

and an Alt, bc I just can’t decide these days :’)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Worry not for the Nameless Red Disciple, they just went down to the river to chill with the river turtles!

[coyoteclan]

The next moon for coyoteclan is gonna be a long one as I'm also doing part 2 of the prologue, so in the meantime bc it might take me a few days to work on it, have my favorite canon cat, Yellowfang :)

might also consider doodling a couple of other cats from other clangen blogs for whenever I get tired of drawing the same cats over and over so... feel free to suggest some of your faves and I might throw em in a queue so I can draw them later on :)

Here's a couple more versions of this piece under the cut bc I love them all

I love her so so much none of these cats made me cry harder <33 if it isn't obvious I stole her colors from the official cover art bc it's my favorite image of her

she's not meant to be sad in this art btw she just looks like that. resting sad face

[intimate-mirror]

Why I, unlike communists, think landlords would exist in a good-but-not-optimal society:

okay so there's a family, they live in a house raising a child, then the child leaves

how can a society, without any of 1. something like a state invasively going through everyone's house checking for secret rooms whose use could be reappropriated 2. people not being allowed to lock the doors to their homes 3. the concept of renting,

cause it to be the case that someone is peacably living in the vacated room?

[idliketobeatree]

yeah yeah 1941 crowley's outfit dapper and beautiful but why does no one talk about how red his lips are. "shut uppp" he says, while smacking some serious cherry lip tint on after the church bombing. you sure there's nothing aziraphale can do for you in return?

[icewindandboringhorror]

I got these shoes from someone recently but thought they were way too plain looking, so I set out on a quest to customize them with some sharpies and charms and miscellaneous ribbon I had in my craft drawers. Mostly sky themed (clouds, rainbows, rain, stars, etc.) because that's my favorite aesthetic, but I had to include some cat imagery as well, of course lol.

[leconcombrerit]

Oh holy one, cast thy purifying light upon these corrupt souls.

I hadn't drawn my sweet daughter in so long. I also hadn't yelled to the world how much I love Symphonia's glittery wings in a long time. I was obsessed with them as a kid and still am as an adult.

Old version of this below, as usual !

[flufflecat]

I met a lovely bumblebee a few days ago (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

ruffling Ajax’s hair and cuddling him and Foul Legacy forces his way out cause he wants cuddles too. The two of them so desperately touch starved they basically fight for your affection.

thats it, thats the brain rot, my two clingy babies love tnem so much, let me hold them hoyoverse

[📺]

that is why we have two hands... to pet Foul Legacy and Ajax at the same time

it definitely becomes a competition for them- they both want to snuggle, nap with, and get pet by you all at the same time; it's honestly adorable. you get used to holding both hands out for them to plonk their chins into, gently squishing Ajax's cheeks and scritching behind Foul Legacy's horns, and when you all cuddle together you MUST be in the middle, no questions asked. they don't want to hold each other!! they want to hold you!! they compromise for Ajax holding your waist while Foul Legacy snuggles his face into the crook of your neck

the only time these two put aside their differences is when you're returning from a long trip- the moment they hear the door open they both perk up and run over to you, very nearly knocking you down if not for Foul Legacy supporting your back and Ajax's arm strength. you're quickly swept into Ajax's arms as he squeezes you, Legacy happily purring and kneading his claws on your shoulder as he bumps his face against yours like an overenthusiastic cat. the night you return is spent in peaceful serenity, one head in your lap and the other on your shoulder as you tell them about your trip in riveting detail

[rolandkaros]

i've been ruminating a lot on it because i think i'm bad at putting my thoughts into words but i need y'all to understand that while there are absolutely a lot of Not Good Things about the finals being held in saudi arabia for three years...the way people seem to treat is as morally black and white is shortsighted and unhelpful.

realistically the players traveling there will be protected. it may be uncomfortable, it's certainly not ideal, but they will travel there for a few weeks, play their tennis, then leave. there are a lot of women, a lot of queer people who actually live in saudi arabia who cannot just leave, who are actually subjected to laws and social climates...and to me it just seems very disrespectful to that actual lived experience, for everybody to sort of turn their noses up and get on their high horses. of course, if the players wish to opt out, that is their choice, but that is their choice to make. that's their judgement. not ours.

and then, what about a tournament like miami? florida is literally experiencing one of the worst active regressions that i've seen in the us (granted i'm young). things like critical race theory and lgbtq+ ed are being removed from curriculums, rights for trans youth, trans healthcare, etc. are going backwards. abortion rights? gun violence? and yes i know that the laws and climate in saudi arabia are different gravy, i understand that, but my point is, no one would ever DREAM of arguing against hosting a tournament in miami despite all of these issues. and we can extend this to a lot of other tournaments! i mean, all the outrage about fifa hosting a world cup in qatar, but we don't have any of these sentiments about doha? i've seen other people bring up that the finals were hosted in singapore when gay marriage was still illegal there. we've already talked about italy's fascist prime minister. and i could go on and on and on about the war crimes of countries like the us or the uk - is the us not participating actively in genocide right now? where is the standard? if you argue against hosting the finals in saudi arabia for the reason of human rights, to me it seems you have to uphold that standard for the location you do land on. and i can guarantee, you will not find a single country in the world with clean hands.

i want to be clear i am not arguing that hosting the finals in saudi arabia is a good thing, especially for three years, especially because it's definitely going there because of money, and not for any of the "good" reasons i think some people want us to believe about "improving the region" (which is very weirdly white savior-esque anyway). i don't really have an official "conclusion" to this discussion.

what i am arguing is that i think a lot of the protests against saudi arabiahosting the finals are more an example of implicit anti-arab bias and islamophobia, rather than genuine discussion. key word implicit: i don't think most people are purposefully trying to be anti-arab/islamophobic. or at least, i'd like to believe nobody is. but i also think, particularly in the west, there is already so much of this xenophobic sentiment ingrained. and this is why i think it's really really REALLY important to check ourselves when we talk about it instead of just jumping straight to the human rights conversation without a second thought.

i'll say it plainly: i don't think the finals should be held in saudi arabia. but for me, it has more to do with sportswashing, with the dangers of the way money is thrown around in sports, and because i think it's more evidence that the wta doesn't care about player welfare but rather about making a profit (what else is new). human rights are absolutely a concern of mine, but how is it fair to hold saudi arabia to a standard that we don't seem to care about for literally anybody else?

literally look at the us's ugly ugly history, past and present, and tell me why we deserve to host a tennis tournament.

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

I'm going to throw myself off a bridge

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)

[rinbylin]

阁下！不用理由就会相信、没有力量也要保护的人，阁下难道没有吗？ your excellency! someone you would believe regardless of reason and protect despite being powerless - does your excellency not have someone like that?

[cephalofrog]

noah caldwell-gervais is the only motherfucker to have ever been correct about dark souls and elden rings' difficulty. no one else understands