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[madigoround]

I had a big fight with my aunt today and I went back in and apologized for my part in it (she didn’t and kind of made me feel like she didn’t care) and I made sure we were alright before I left but I’m having a hard time moving on from it, she kind of confirmed that if I wasn’t family she wouldn’t want to spend time with me and when we fixed it she said I shouldn’t worry so much because I would always have family but it’s like ? I don’t want that to be the only reason someone cares about me or talks to me, I want to be cared about for who I am not who I may be blood related to and it makes me think no one is ever going to care about me for who I am

[cr0ws-cha0t1c-c0llect10n]

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Magnet Monday Week 88: Explode

send this to the bros you'd most want to explode with. if you get one back, you're a bro blaster for life!!!!

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[Ko-Fi] [Magnet Monday]

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Explode

bro, it's time to explode!!!

today is the day we blaze together

I know talking is crap

but let's dream big

a commitment to dazzle away

I choose to burn with

a crazy dude

I just want to die cool

and there's nobody better

to blow up with

bro... are you blushing?

[adore-laur]

Dadrry idea: since Harry left his position of head chef and there’s a second baby now, maybe they’re struggling a tiny bit with money. Not too much but things are a little stressful and they have to cancel a holiday maybe? Or one of the girls just doesn’t get a toy she wants or something? And they have to explain it to the child just while Harry picks up a few more shifts

——

Harry handled the finances and was highly aware of each transaction made in the family. With two kids, you both had to be quite frugal, especially since Harry was working fewer hours at the restaurant and you were a stay-at-home mom. While there was never an issue of not having enough money to pay the bills and provide your children with life’s necessities, the prospect of running out still haunted your mind. It was possible that an unforeseeable emergency could snatch a hefty chunk of money away. Additionally, there were other boring adult charges like mortgages, taxes, and monthly subscriptions that all left a bigger deduction with each year that passed.

Then there was the summer trip to Italy happening in two months. The plane tickets had already been bought and gifted for Christmas, and the villa was booked in advance. It was expensive, but the other option of staying in a cramped hotel room for a week was undesirable in all regards. The space and privacy were crucial for your sanity.

Italy was not a cheap travel destination per se. There would be money spent every day on transportation, dining, tourist traps, and whatever else sucked you in with its magnificent European beauty. Indulging in extravagance would be tempting, but if you planned and budgeted ahead of time, maybe the financial repercussions of the trip wouldn't be so deplorable. Your wishful thinking was blatantly deceptive.

After putting the kids to bed, you sat at the kitchen table under the dim chandelier and waited for Harry to finish unloading the dishwasher. His silent presence was comfortable as you pondered the logistics of the upcoming trip. Well, pondered was putting it lightly—you were brooding.

"I can hear you thinking," Harry said, setting the last bowl in the cupboard to his left. He washed and dried his hands, then walked over to you with his cotton pajama pants slung low on his hips. His bare torso was at your eye level, and you fought the urge to bury your face in the warm, chiseled skin there.

"My head is going to explode," you muttered, feeling an imminent migraine pulsing near your temples.

He fell into the chair beside you, exhausted from an eventful Saturday filled with dad duties, and scooted it closer to you. "Why, baby?" he asked, his palms scrubbing down his face as he yawned.

"I'm overthinking everything."

Placing his elbow on the table, he cradled his cheek in his palm and gave you his full focus. "Break it down for me."

"There's mainly one thing." You huffed, deciding to broach the topic before it got swept under the rug. "The Italy trip. Prices are going up, and I'm worried we won't be able to afford going anymore."

Harry's expression was the epitome of flummoxed. "Wait, what? Where is this coming from?"

"You're not working full-time," you explained, "and I'm not raking in any income. I mean, will we be able to financially recover from the trip? What if—"

"Hold on, hold on," he said softly, his eyes pinching shut. "Can I interrupt, please?"

You half-heartedly waved your hand in his general direction, in desperate need of his sensible guidance. "Be my guest."

"Let's backtrack for a second. Honey, why do you think we won't be able to afford it? The biggest costs are already out of the way."

"I just told you why. Think about it, Harry." You tapped the table to emphasize each point. "A meal for four people will probably cost over a hundred dollars. That includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner, so if we multiply that by the seven days we're there, it's going to be well over a thousand dollars."

"Okay," he said. He didn't seem to have anything to add after that, so you continued.

"Then there's transportation." You groaned, staring up at the ceiling. "We still have to decide if we're renting a car. If not, we'll have to pay for a bus, or a train, or a taxi. That's going to add up very quickly."

"Mm-hmm." Harry had a dopey look on his face, a hint of a smile tugging the corners of his lips up. Whatever. You were being realistic, and he was in a dreamland where money grew on trees.

You carried on, getting tangled in the vines of your brain's dense jungle. "And then what about all the sightseeing and activities? That's the most expensive aspect." You shrugged helplessly. "I was recently searching for free things to do in Tuscany. I guess there are a lot of buildings we can look at, but I don't know if the kids would enjoy it."

Harry nodded along. When he realized you were done with your long-winded explanation, he lifted his eyebrows and said, "It's a good thing we can spoil them with the raise I got yesterday."

"And also—what?" You stopped abruptly, catching your breath. Did he just...?

Harry stood and bent down to kiss your forehead in that sweet way of his—gentle and imploring, like he wanted to caress your brain and will it to calm down. "I got a raise yesterday," he repeated nonchalantly, nuzzling his nose into your hair.

"Why didn't you tell me?" you demanded, lightly smacking his shoulder.

"I'm telling you right now. I wanted to wait until we had a moment to ourselves." He crouched in front of you, holding your knees just like he'd done when you told him you were pregnant for the second time. The memory was so vivid that it almost left you stunned with emotion. "Five percent pay raise. We're going to be just fine." His simple smile was remedial. "We are not canceling this trip."

You exhaled, releasing all of your worries into the air, the pounding in your temples dissipating. "Why didn't you stop me from rambling on?"

"Because it's healthy to speak those types of thoughts aloud instead of letting them simmer," Harry replied like the perfect husband he was.

You cupped his cheeks and kissed him deeply, pouring all of your love and gratitude into it. "I'm so proud of you," you whispered against his mouth. He savored your words by humming and sliding his tongue across yours for a brief second. "I appreciate the hard work you put into making our little family happy. And thank you for making this vacation possible."

"Wanted to spoil my girls," Harry murmured, craning his neck to kiss you more. His wet lips pulled at yours, greedy for their pliancy.

"Are you going to pick up more hours at the restaurant?" you asked in between the sounds of lip-smacking and heavy breathing. Something about him at night, in the dimly lit kitchen, with you as his sole focus, was igniting that secret fuse only he could play with.

"Shhh..." His fingers dug into your waist as he lifted you off the chair. Your legs and arms wrapped around him, warmth flooding right under your skin like wildfire. "No more work talk. I want some alone time with my wife before a hungry baby wakes us up."

You giggled and bit his bottom lip in excitement before he carried you to the bedroom.

Miraculously, your six-month-old gave the both of you forty minutes of uninterrupted time to roll around in the sheets.

When you went to sleep later that night, visions of Tuscany's hillside vineyards and swimming in the vast sea erased your concerns. As did the unequivocal vision of the man beside you making precious memories with his babies.

With Harry, there was no need to sweat the small stuff. His eyes were set on the most important thing—family.

——

[ganondoodle]

not me watching an arlo video im not sure of the topic of and its about nintendo games pricing and how totk cost 70 bucks and then looking briefly at the top comments and its largely people defending the pricing and also arguing that totk is jsut so beefy and offers more than even botw WITH expansion and i feel myself mentally exploding again

what is it with people defending anything nintendo ever does

(and also defending totk for that matter which is barely worth 30 bucks to me ... truthfully i wouldnt buy it for a single potatochip but as much as i hate that game i am aware thats a personal deep disdain certainly few share with me)

[capitalism-and-analytics]

I recently saw a post (not from you, just out in the wild) talking about how 'trickle down economics is a failure'. I'm fairly ambivalent about the concept for a few reasons, but in this case the person was criticizing it because 'the rich got richer' and 'wealth disparities, etc.'

Now I'm by no means an expert, but wealth (if not 'money') has certainly exploded in the last 50 years in the US - the fact that the vast majority of the population own a smartphone AND a computer alone should lead one to conclude this (it's near tautological). I'm also somewhat critical of demand-side economists when they complain that things aren't affordable, because that's literally what their economic model declares is the ideal situation. They seem to believe that a highly complex system can be fine-tuned so that everyone gets exactly what they need without fail, and don't consider such an idyllic outcome is nigh impossible: you either have too much, or not enough, never exactly what you need (at least, for a large population over a long period of time). I think I'm going to start referring to these people as 'Goldilocks Economists' because they seem to think they just need to keep trying things until they get it juuuust right, and underestimate just how many variable would require accounting.

Since you seem more informed on this topic, what are your thoughts?

Without seeing the post, I can't really speak in regards to it too confidently of specifics, but given your examples, it has to do with the fact that there is a disagreement in intended outcomes. Economic systems do not have intended outcomes or goals, they are dictated by society. The real metric of the 'effectiveness' of a system is in regards to how much it fulfills the represented society's goal(s). In relation to the author of the post, they aren't 'wrong' in their criticisms as it pertains to their own goals, but they are failing to realize that the rest of society does not agree with their goals in behavior. The reality is that the things people say and the things people do often contradict themselves. e.g. businesses often utilize cheap labor because consumers care more about price leadership than the usage of fair labor, despite claiming they would pay more for products produced with more fair labor.

Some of the other misconceptions that you brought up:

We don't live in a zero sum system and it is constantly growing as it is not measured through finite tangible resources, but the perception of both implicit and explicit value, which is effectively infinite.

The issue isn't that a system can't theoretically be fine-tuned, but instead the issue is that we can't unanimously define what is perfection to even attempt to fine-tune towards.

The misunderstanding that growth is only additive opposed to when in reality it can be multiplicative or exponential, which perpetuates the disparities. e.g. if everyone does 10% better, then those already doing better will proportional gain more relative growth, despite everyone being better off.

The misconception of 'needs' v. 'wants'. This goes back to my earlier point, but there is this fallacy that everyone will pursue the needs of others over their own wants, yet in reality, most of society will only pursue the needs of others when it aligns with their own perception of value.

[kathbunny]

More of the of the poly au, the b-team collecting evidence (or just witnessing things that confuse them)

Ione felt a bit out of place in the Sprite Spring, like it was someplace she just wasn't built for. Although, most food establishments felt like that to her, either requiring manners she didn't have or being too loud or too quiet, or any number of other things. She could handle it though, and she could even enjoy being here for a little while, since she was with Kyana, who seemed to be able to stare through Ione and did her best to make things feel right as she kept attention on herself instead of Ione.

Ione also had a mission this time though. Not just drinks with a friend and stories. "Kyana," Ione began, the question she had in mind feeling heavier suddenly, "I was wondering something?" She stalled.

"What's up?" Kyana asked, bright as ever. "Something wrong?"

"No, no, nothing's wrong." Ione said quickly, waving her hand like that would dismiss the idea that there was anything about her that needed worrying about. "I was curious if you were dating somebody?" Or multiple somebodies.

Kyana took a moment to process the question, her expression changing rather quickly from second to second, before just shrugging. Shrugging. Ione wanted to explode a little bit. Kyana didn't even verbally respond.

"...as in you don't know, or-" Ione cut herself off as their plates were set on the table, Finbar's sudden appearance putting an immediate end to the topic.

-

Davion looked up from his crew's shopping list as he heard a familiar voice when looking around one of the many markets in Sigil. Dani was across the street, rather loudly talking down the price of fruit that looked like something he'd have to be paid to take, VR-LA standing vigilant at her side. He distinctly heard the phrases "saved the world" and "goddamn fucking Magister" amongst the jumble. It didn't seem to be going well.

Dani grabbed onto VR-LA's scarf, casually yanking on it to pull VR-LA down to the level of her and the rather short merchant, which VR-LA seemed to take in stride, kneeling slightly rather than awkwardly bend over. The dirty street was definitely ruining his robe.

VR-LA took Dani's hand, and her volume lowered. His head moved as though he was speaking, tilting to the side when he finished. Dani looked frustrated, but finally handed money over to the merchant, getting her fruit. Davion wasn't quite sure what to think of that.

-

Athos sat at the bar of the Sprite Spring, beer in paw as he watched Finbar clean some glasses. Their previous topic had run out, leading to Athos remembering a recent interaction with his own crew. "Finbar," he began, gruffly, "Cressida was curious about something."

"Hm?" Finbar hummed, barely looking up from the glass.

"Is the crew of the Per Aspera dating?"

Finbar paused and sighed, looking up. "I'll be honest," he started, "I don't know."

"Are you not their friend?"

"They don't really share things, they just vaguely reference and then you have to ask yourself."

"Does asking work?"

"Occasionally." Finbar set aside the glass. "I'd tell you if I could, but Cressida'll just have to ask on her own."

"I shall make the suggestion."

-

Cressida had spaced out a while ago. Not that it mattered, she wasn't quite sober and Vhas obviously wasn't either with how long he had been rambling. They had made meeting up to talk about whatever competition they decided upon a regular thing, but that had already been gotten out of the way, just leaving nonsense.

"...VR-LA's a shit kisser, y'know? Comes with being a robot, no lips to kiss back with." Vhas said, presumably related to whatever else he had said, making Cressida snap back in.

"What?"

"I tried kissing him while drunk once!" Vhas declared, ignoring the question. "Just kinda slammed my head against his. He told me it was probably just time for me to quit." Cressida thought mechanites kissed by bumping foreheads?

"Is kissing him a regular thing?"

"No, I wouldn't subject myself to that." Vhas said. "He's shit at it. Absolute shit. No lips." Vhas made exaggerated hand movements to emphasize his point.

"Are you, like, dating him or-"

"NOT A RECOMMENDED EXPERIENCE." Vhas interrupted, leaning over the bar as he swayed slightly. Cressida definitely wasn't getting her answer tonight.

[munv]

𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗜 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘?

this being book 2 is literally my safe haven goodness

The darkness covers your figure. In this sheet of black, they are unable to see the light you possess, but that also means they cannot see the impurities that those beneath you carry. They cry under your feet in anguish, anguish that should be joy.

They should be grateful that they can be in a ten-step radius from you. You are the embodiment of glory, reborn with one cause; to save the people. Those are the words she has told you. Once you rid these people of the reeking feculence they carry, then you can bring Amanai back. A world without the sins of those who are careless and foolish enough to pour that wretched curse energy into the place you once called home. 

A home that now holds the title of hell. This is the philosophy you have adopted, loops and even more loops of dying slowly. Only she and the ones that lay low inside the shadows of this hell know the truth, thanks to them you are now aware of what you have been missing. 

"Please! Riko-sama..! It was an accid-" A swift kick to the abdomen silenced the fiend. 

"you have some nerve." you sneered, "You dare touch someone of my blood? She is worth much more than what you filthy fiends could afford." A dark shadow overcame your face. Earlier you had received a report that the new caretakers would be taking care of Amanai's body. Despite the years, you managed to preserve her body with a bit of cursed energy. With this, she wouldn't be just bones like she's supposed to be. It was a small price to pay to keep her intact until the day her soul returned.

Others watched in fear with the knowledge that every fleeting second is precious, now sensible that any can be marked as their last if they ever so dare to breathe wrong. They've served this place long enough to acknowledge that anything related to their Lord's sister was a sensitive topic to be carried out with the utmost caution. Like a ticking time bomb, you'd explode on them without a second thought. 

Especially her

"my lord!" one hastily interveined, what was her name again? "we'll take care of this one, we shall see to it that it's taken care of"

Ah, right. She was one of the older servants. Head maid perhaps?

With a small sigh, you turned around, your tailcoat fluttering along with you. "I'll trust you to it..see to it that fiend is given the proper punishment."

"yes my lord".

The last thing they saw was your shadow before the door closed upon them. 

Before knowing it, you found yourself sitting on the balcony with a piece of strawberry shortcake. A young woman stared at you from the inside of your room, swinging her feet on the edge of the bed with a bored expression. "gah! [nameee]!" 

she called out.

Vamiri was always a bit needy. The pinkette whined a bit more before her back finally hit the soft sheets.

"[name] [name] [nameeee]!" 

"stop making such a fuss, Vamiri" another one said. "[name]-san is busy." he flipped another page of his book while replying nonchalantly. Crossing one leg over the other in the armchair he sat in. 

"busy doing what Rei? eating the shortcake I gave her?" she gave a mischievous grin

"busy ignoring you". He narrowed his eyes at her with irritation. 

"you know, you were so timid back then, wouldn't it serve you right to keep it shut? or is it..you're jealous she's eating the cake I gave her?!" she shrieked. As if on beat, the book closed with force. "I've heard ENOUGH." the white-haired male stalked over to the bed with apparent rage.

"WAHAAHH [NAME] HE'S GONNA KILL ME!! FUHIETGIFKE GAHHHH"

Were these really the same people who broke your seal? You hummed a bit in wonder at the thought before taking another bite of your cake. 

"hm."

"[NAME] HE HIT ME-!"

"Quit your BLABBERING VAMIRI"

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[priceyprice]

Prof!Price

Prof! Price as a literature professor. He's giving an online class to his students talking about how romance is involved in books. Until one of his students through the computer interrupts him.

"Professor, do you believe in love?"

He won't lie. That question threw him by surprise, halting his words. He stares at the computer for a few seconds, trying to analyze what's the answer. Just then, he raised his eyes to something in front of him.

Or someone.

Does he believe in love?

Well, if love is described as one of his students entering his class on the first day and struck Price the instant she stepped food into his classroom, making him almost unable to greet all the people, then yes. If Love is described as how he found her days later in his favorite coffee shop trying to do her homework, him feeling confused (and strangely happy) because he's seeing her in one of his favorite places, took the courage to stepped closer to her and talk to her for a few minutes as she showed him her precious smile, then yes. If love is how the talk went for hours and hours until the coffee shop had to close, neither the two of them checked the time, just immersed in the conversation and realizing they have so much in common then, yes. If Love is how they got closer when months passed and Price was feeling kinda anxious because he was falling hard for her and she was his student, he was her professor and he is older than her, but one day she walked iinto his office —she had been visiting him— and he couldn't take it anymore, he stepped closer and kissed her lips so softly, as if her lips were some kind of fine porcelain. His emotions exploded then and there, and when they separated, he realized what he had done. He kissed one of his students, he could get in trouble, she could get in trouble or worse... he didn't know if she felt the same as him as she was frozen on the spot. But when he felt her hands go to his face cupping him and bringing him closer to her lips once again, all his worries vanished within a second, as if her kiss had some kind of anesthesia. If love means all of that, then yes.

If love means the two of them in his room filled with gasps, kisses, and whispered words as he thrusts her in a slow, intimate way, demonstrated how much he loves her, then yes.

If love is the woman now sitting in front of him on his other desk, her eyebrows together as she concentrates on doing her homework, oblivious to the topic her lover is teaching. She has one of his t-shirts, her neck showing a few love bites he gave her forty minutes before class started, then yes.

He believes in love.

His lips curve into a small smile. Without taking his eyes off her, he says; "Yes."

Once he says that, she looks up at him, grabbing attention to what he just said. He smiles, and she looks at him with a confused smile.

"I do believe in love."

Her smile dropped a little as she stared at him with surprise, then she smiled again, a warm feeling spreading over her chest. She mouthed an 'I love you too' while blowing him a kiss and looking at him with those eyes he loves.

Fuck, how could he not love her eyes? It was like Van Gogh painted them, and Michael Angelo sculpted them. They are so beautiful.

He doesn't care about the consequences of being with a student, he only cares about her.

And she cares about him too.

Until then, she loves him, and he loves her.

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I apologize for any mistakes or misspelling. Any suggestions are appreciated.🫶

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October 15, 2024 

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

OCT 16

After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen. The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck. 

Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast. Micklethwait asked real questions about Trump’s approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.

When Micklethwait corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: “It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you're totally wrong.” Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal—hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out—Trump replied: “What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way….. You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.”

The economy is supposed to be Trump’s strong suit.

The former president seemed unable to stay on any topic, jumping from one idea to another randomly, or to answer anything, instead making statements that play well at his rallies—referring to people with insulting names, for example—or by rehashing old grievances and threatening to end traditional U.S. freedoms. He made it clear he intends to "straighten out our press,” for example. “Because,” he said, “we have a corrupt press."

As Micklethwait tried to keep him on task, Trump asserted stories that were more and more outlandish. He claimed that children could do the work of U.S. autoworkers in South Carolina, for example, and that he would be a better chair of the Federal Reserve than Jerome Powell. 

Micklethwait did not fight with Trump, but he didn’t indulge him either. When Trump explained that “you don’t put old in” the federal judiciary because “they’re there for two years, or three years,” Micklethwait replied: “You’re a 78-year-old man running for president.” 

And therein lies the rub. 

Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called the appearance “bonkers.” Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: “The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign...and in Trump. He went from being periodically adrift and sporadically demented to being 24/7 unfit and in need of permanent medical attention. He's one cloudless night away from baying at the moon.” 

Likely reflecting this shift, trading in shares of Trump media, the parent company of Trump’s Truth Social social media site, was stopped briefly today as the price plummeted in unusually heavy trading. Trump took to social media to hawk tokens for his new crypto project, although the nature of the project is still unclear and investing simply offers voting rights in the new platform. The website crashed repeatedly during the day. 

Trump’s issues make it likely that a second Trump presidency would really mean a J.D. Vance presidency, even if Trump nominally remains in office. 

Currently an Ohio senator, J.D. Vance is just 39, and if voters put Trump into the White House, Vance will be one of the most inexperienced vice presidents in our history. He has held an elected office for just 18 months, winning the office thanks to the backing of entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who first employed Vance, then invested in his venture capital firm, and then contributed an unprecedented $15 million to his Senate campaign. 

Vance and Thiel make common cause with others who are open about their determination to dismantle the federal government. Although different groups came to that mission from different places, they are sometimes collectively called a “New Right” (although at least one scholar has questioned just how new it really is). Some of the thinkers both Vance and Thiel follow, notably dystopian blogger Curtis Yarvin, argue that America’s democratic institutions have created a society that is, as James Pogue put it in a 2022 Vanity Fairarticle, “at once tyrannical, chaotic, and devoid of the systems of value and morality that give human life richness and meaning.” Such a system must be pulled to pieces.

Thiel has expressed the belief that the modern government stifles innovation by enforcing social values like equality and anti-monopoly. Those limits have caused society to stagnate, a situation he warns could lead to an apocalypse. “We are in a deadly race between politics and technology,” Thiel wrote in 2009. To move society forward, he calls for freedom for technological leaders to plan a utopian future without government interference. 

It is at least partly the promise of dismantling the administrative state and its regulation of technology that has brought other technology elites, most notably Elon Musk, to support the Trump-Vance campaign. These technology entrepreneurs envision themselves, rather than a government, planning and then creating the future. New campaign records filed today show that in just over two months, from July to the beginning of September, Musk invested almost $75 million in his pro-Trump America PAC to get Trump and Vance elected.  

Like Thiel, Vance has spoken extensively about the need to destroy the U.S. government, but while Thiel emphasizes the potential of a technological future unencumbered by democratic baggage, Vance emphasizes what he sees as the decadence of today’s America and the need to address that decadence by purging the government of secular leaders. A 2019 convert to right-wing Catholicism, Vance said he was attracted to the religion in part because he wanted to see the Republican Party use the government to work for what he considers the common good by imposing laws that would enforce his version of morality. 

Their worldview requires a few strong leaders to impose their will on the majority, and both Thiel and Vance have rejected secular democracy. “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” Thiel wrote in 2009. 

In 2021, Vance called American universities “the enemy” and said on a podcast that people like him needed to “seize the institutions of the left, and turn them against the left.” In a different interview, he clarified: American “conservatives…have lost every major powerful institution in the country, except for maybe churches and religious institutions, which of course are weaker now than they’ve ever been. We’ve lost big business. We’ve lost finance. We’ve lost the culture. We’ve lost the academy. And if we’re going to actually really effect real change in the country, it will require us completely replacing the existing ruling class with another ruling class…. I don’t think there’s sort of a compromise that we’re going to come with the people who currently actually control the country. Unless we overthrow them in some way, we’re going to keep losing.” “We really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power,” he said. 

Vance told an interviewer he would urge Trump to “[f]ire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” This plan is central to Project 2025, whose main author, Kevin Roberts, has a book covering those ideas coming out soon—it was supposed to come out this month but was postponed when Project 2025 became a lightning rod for the election—for which Vance wrote the foreword. “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay [sic] ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Vance wrote. 

Like Roberts, Vance wants to dismantle the secular state. He wants to replace that state with a Christian nationalism that enforces what he considers traditional values: an end to immigration—hence the lies about the legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio—and an end to LGBTQ+ rights. He supports abortion bans and the establishment of a patriarchy in which women function as wives and mothers even if it means staying in abusive marriages. Vance insists this social structure will be more fulfilling for women than becoming “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.“

That desire to get rid of the current “ruling class” and replace it with people like him has prompted Vance to say that if he had been vice president on January 6, 2021, he would have done what former vice president Mike Pence would not: he would have refused to count the certified electoral ballots for President Joe Biden. 

“Let’s be clear,” former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) said. “This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice President has no constitutional authority to tell states to submit alternative slates of electors because his candidate lost. That is tyranny.”

Early voting began today in Georgia, where more than 328,000 voters smashed the previous record of 136,000 set in 2020, during the worst of the pandemic. One of those voters was former president Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on October 1 and said over the summer he was trying to stay alive to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

At a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, tonight, a slurring, low-energy Donald Trump told the audience: “If you don’t win, win, win, we’ve all had a good time, but it’s not gonna matter, right? Sadly. Because what we’ve done is amazing. Three nominations in a row…. If we don’t win it’s like, ah, it was all, it was all for not very much. We can’t, uh, we can’t let that happen.”

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[pissylittlebirdboy]

stuff I forgot I wrote about Ulysses

A superiority complex, at the beginning of his arc. He knows that he’s amazing and better than most everyone around him. However, subconsciously, he thinks he’s one mistake away from showing his true colors: worthless. He simply thinks he’s amazing however, though.

He thinks he needs to prove himself to get anything. He sees everything as transactional - everything has a price because nothing happens just because. If he can’t serve some purpose or be helpful, there’s no reason to even exist.

He lashes out with anger to scare people away. If they get scared off, then he doesn’t have to deal with something exploding in his face. If they don’t get scared off and try something else, he runs or gets out some other way. He is terrified of having to deal with his actions, of things crumbling.

He doesn’t get attached so, if they find out how horrid he is or don’t like him, he doesn’t get his heart broken. He sets the bar lower so there’s nothing to lose.

(Off topic) Ulysses sees himself as worthless, which he used to see imps as. Imps are subservient to higher class demons, lowest of the low, and are sometimes used as stress toys, accessories, and often just expected to just pick themselves up from the pain.

He offers his body or his service due to an idea that he is not enough. His body and physical services are objective and plain - one of millions. Nothing special about them. There’s no reason to get rejected if the things he’s offering aren’t tied to him.

He tries to remain with a crystal clear image. He can’t be seen as anything he sees as failure (disabled, poor, needing assistance, etc), even if he actively is, because then his fears are finally confirmed that’s he’s really, truly worthless.

He’s extremely good at lying. Even if the truth is in his face, he can fool himself into thinking everything’s fine or he simply blurs the pain away. This comes with being raised in a royal family and hiding his feelings from his family.

He thinks that his debt to his father is normal - it’s how he was raised. His cage, however gilded it was, was still a cage. Although he was rich and never wanted for anything material, his life was never satisfactory due to the constant pressure to live up to his legacy.

[doekimakura]

CRASHES HERE AND EXPLODES

Anyway! Here are the results of the stream from earlier! The topic was basically 'my friends entertained my whining and gifted me stuff' chibi gifts, so!

Thank you to...

Chibi of Youko (the character) for my friend Youko who gifted me Signalis. GREAT GAME. 10/10 🦎 GREAT HOLES ARE SECRETLY DIGGED WHERE EARTH'S PORES OUGHT TO SUFFI

To ChessyBorders (Bsky), whose commission I overcharge because I forgot my own price range and this chibi is to cover the rest of that overcharge (gomenasai) 🙏of their character, Katza!

To Takane, who's getting me a 1 month sub for FF14 because I HAVE YET TO FINISH SHADOWBRINGERS AND I PROBABLY HAVE TO SO I CAN MAKE STUPID ASS WOL HCS AGAIN. He wanted his OC, Takane, as Leon S. Kennedy from RE4, and her girlfriend, Sayuri, as Ashley.

And finally for Cat, who bought me Amnesia: The Bunker after me begging for it in a server like a petulant child (I REALLY can't wait to break down shitting and crying on stream playing it tbh,) who graced me with drawing her character Olivia as the infamous PADORU PADORU

Thank you to all these people! I love you crazy fuckos and merry fucking early christmas to you all. ✨

[calfrxca]

[JUDGEMENT]

no way, cal returns from his art hiatus to post gay people and returns from hiatus for good :00 ??? no- im. im still on hiatus, my escapades to vatican city and specifically st peter's basillica last month just caused some brainworms LMFAO, i have. way too much to say about this specific piece and how my reading of the illiad and the war that killed achilles made it so much stronger

also before you ask, yes this is based on michelangelo's pietà in the vatican, dont even TRY to @ me

my yappings aside

ordo (the guy with the fuckass pipe in his chest) belongs to @gemsbokk !!!

meanings and yappings regarding this piece below the cut as usual, i dont expect anyone to read this, i just need to get this out or i'll actually EXPLODE

(upright) improvement, forgiveness, change of perspectives, absolution and rebirth

(reversed) oppression, lack of self awareness, failure, repeated mistakes, and self loathing

generally, in roman mythos as a whole, there's this whole idea that cannibalism, incest, murder, whatever, doesnt apply to the olympians because of their status as "The Divine" and any mortal who tries to do the same will be met with divine punishment from said olympians [many times, a mortal's fatal flaw is hubris, see achilles who believed he was immortal and a god because of how successful he was on the battlefield; icarus who flew too close to the sun and died, a literal modern day saying in the west for man's own hubris, etc] and if i remember correctly, some renditions of the illiad depict the myceaneans as cannibals. the war that killed achilles specifically writes:

"In the apocryphal Acts of Andres (dating to the 3rd century A.D.), there is 'a city of the cannibals,' which is identified as Myrmidon; it is possible that this account taps into some more ancient, and savage, lost tradition."

and my recent escapades to the roman colosseum revealed that the romans regularly consumed blood because they believed it had health benefits to it and they thought it cured epilepsy [paper written by the NBCI on this topic]; is there any historical basis proving that the consumption of blood actually had health benefits? no clue, nor do i really feel like checking these exact logistics at the moment (but if anyone does, feel free to @ me about it, i love weird historical shit like this), the actual effects behind it are moot, what's relevant here is the idea

the idea of consumption and cannibalism turning one into a god have the same effects as how, in greek mythos, the gods were often depicted engaging in acts such as incest, cannibalism, whatever, acts that we as mortals define as "immoral" and "unjust," not only just to seperate them from humans but also show that morals are a very fickle, human thing

anyways, my point here is there's something so raw about tacet losing it to the point he's not even just eating mechanical parts, but he's also eating organic parts, see: organic hearts, guts, kidneys, the like

"No matter how many men you eat boy, you will not be a god."

i mean tacet himself masks his desperation for touch and sensuality with literal blood and guts, which then creates a feedback loop of violence and death, which is a reoccurring theme in greek tragedies; specifically observed and mentioned in emily wilson's translation of the illiad:

"When a man is slain in times of peace, families can gain partial compensation for their loss by exacting a blood-price from the killer. Killers may also be forced to leave the community and take refuge elsewhere, as Patroclus did as a boy after he accidentally killed another boy in an argument over a game; he was adopted by his cousin Peleus and raised beside Achilles, like an older brother. In such cases, the killer's loss of his original home comforts the family in their need for vengeance. But in war, killers recognize no binding obligation to compensate the families of their victims. The only way the bereaved can recoup their losses is to kill the killer—whose comrades will demand vengeance in their turn. Killing begets killing, death begets death, and every loss of life generates further loss of life."

another instance is observed in the emily wilson translation here:

"When it is too late to save a warrior's life, friends and kinsmen may be able at least to save his weapons and his armor. If those have been stripped, the companions of the dead man may at least save his body."

there's a certain trope found in media, especially queer media where cannibalism and consumption are a common metaphor for love (see hannibal and interview with a vampire), and considering their dynamic was written in the midst of a hannibal brainrot im not exactly surprised there's a lot of similarities here

namely, tacet was a cannibalism from the start, starting drinking energon just as a more cost and time efficient way to staying fueled, but it turned into an addiction and eventually was lauded as something holy (there's something to be said here about the christian idea of wine and crackers being symbols of christ's blood and body; communion, the eucharist, whatever); i cant remember if this was canon or not so don't quote me on this

but at some point, tacet convinced ordo to try cannibalism as well, just to "see what would happen," went well enough until ordo got the fuckass pipe in his chest; something something play on the idea of cannibalism is only reserved for the divine; ordo died and tacet lost ordo

queer tragedy is very much a phenomenon found in greek and roman mythos, and well. this feels like it fits

alright im done yapping for now, my head hurts now, thanks for listening to my ted talk

here's some pics from rome and venice as a thanks LMFAO

i'll add image IDs to these once my headache goes away I PROMISE

[snow--berry]

Teacher AU Headcanons #1

Characters: John Price, Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John "Soap" MacTavish, Simon "Ghost" Riley, Gary "Roach" Sanderson

John Price

•He teaches English and History

•Also something like vice headmaster

•Everyone's (optional) father figure

•He always brings his tea in a mug from the teachers lounge and then forgets it in the last class he was in

•Usually pretty nice and caring but strict when he has to be

•His classes are actually interesting

•Tries his best to be accommodating towards disabled students

•You might have to explain somethings if you're mentally disabled or for some physical disabilities, but he'll listen patiently :)

•Don't be loud please he's an old man

Kyle "Gaz" Garrick

•Understands like 95% percent of slang and trends Gen Z has

•You gotta be careful with your words

•He's pretty chill

•You can joke with him

•Brought cookies (more like biscuits) and cupcakes for his class a couple of time

•Teaches English also and Cooking classes

•Watches movies with his class

•Or videos that actually explain the topic they're on, both on a regular basis

•Plays board and card games in the breaks with his students

John "Soap" MacTavish

•Teaches Art and Chemistry

•He teaches proper art, not these stupid classes were you just do your own version of an dead artist's work

•Like, he teaches anatomy, shading, etc.

•He also takes students' requests

•Also very chill

•Jokes around a lot

•Forgetfull

•His desk is a mess

•He misplaces his papers all the time

•He knows his chemicals and he makes his class as fun as possible while also properly explaining everything

•Yes he has exploded things

•Yes Ghost saved his ass from getting in trouble

•Very understanding with everyone

•Especially towards neurodivergent kids, he promises he's a safe space <3

Simon "Ghost" Riley

•Teaches English and PE

•Not strict per se, but no one dares to piss him off

•Also does his best to help disabled kids, even if he struggles a bit because he's cold and kinda distant

•Much more organized

•If he watched a movie with his class and they didn't get finish it, at some point it'll bother him so much he'll just cancel a regular lesson so they can finish the movie

•If there's some sort of project week or club/after-school activity type of thing he'd teach self-defense

•#1 person to do something about bullying when he hears or sees

Gary "Roach" Sanderson

•Not a teacher, he's a school counselor and visits classes to check up on them

•He's still mute, so he usually communicates by writing things down

•He's happy to use sign language with anyone who knows it and might teach children who want to learn it

•Very sweet and patient with the children

•He listens and actively helps them

•He hangs a lot around Ghost's classes, but makes sure to visit most of them

•Probably the most patient with disabled children out of all of them