#general lefty stuff

[subdee]

June 28th!!!

[glitchlight]

It's not too late to add on to the 2025 list so let's throw on no more using the They or the Them in ambiguous grievance posting. Name and shame or think about what you're saying. Yall should know better than to repeat the explicitly fash memes of "what they took from us", but people repeat it anyways, so say it with your whole chest! Are they shamelessly greedy tech companies, healthcare executives who profit on human suffering, the spineless corrupt narcissists that compose our ruling class or are They the jews and the gays. Because if you're not sure, then maybe you should stop saying it!

[letters-to-rosie]

The Silco Essay

Long post ahead, TDLR included.

Let's do a little thought experiment. We're trying to institute socialism, worker control and ownership of the means of production. This is currently far from our reality, so we have a lot of work to do. We get together and talk and strategize, but it's difficult with all the surveillance we're under as we work. Not only would seizing the means of production be met with a harsh backlash but even unionization, which doesn't automatically lead to worker control or ownership, is suppressed even though that suppression is illegal in certain countries like the US.

How does that suppression happen? There are a lot more workers than owners. If we worked together, we could take them, right? Well, the owners have the law and access to call upon the state to enact violence on us. We can't exactly own the means of production if we get killed. Even if we overcome other hierarchies keeping us from solidarity, such as miners in West Virginia did by organizing across racial divisions, we can still be beaten. Those miner had bombs dropped on them.

Okay, thought experiment over. What does this have to do with Silco? It's taken me ages to think about how to explain it, but my beef with him is that he has what are essentially perfect conditions for creating a mass movement and does not use them. He is uniquely in a position to protect any burgeoning mass revolt until it would be too late for Piltover to stop it. This is why his comments to Sevika that they can buy another police chief ring hollow. They both know how good they had it.

This is not to say that I think Silco is poorly written or a "bad character." Silco being the way he is all comes down to the entire conceit of the show: two cities against each other, with a sister on each side. However, this does lead me to want to critique some things about the show's premise that lead to my critiques about Silco.

For the cities to be meaningfully opposed, Zaun can't just be oppressed. It has to be "bad" to counter Piltover's bad. This, I think, causes the majority of things that make me sad about the show overall. While I still enjoy it, much of what I enjoyed was a fantasy setting that dealt with real-world issues in its own way. However, for all the realism in the setting, there are some distinctly "not real" parts that seem to blunt discussions of the depth of the oppression Zaunites are suffering. There's only fleeting mentions of labor oppression, even though it must have been key to organizing their society. The way Piltovans like Heimerdinger and great house members like the Kirammans must've had an active hand in organizing and benefiting from this oppression is mostly skipped over. Much of Piltover's evil is shown to us in the form of police brutality, but under any system of police brutality is one of hierarchy that is actively maintained and serves more of a purpose than just violence for its own sake. Even so, the police brutality we're shown is more than enough to have us sympathize with Zaunite characters if they were to have a massive rebellion and change the shape of Piltover forever. But Piltover's shape can only change so much. That's the conceit of the show. We can't completely root for Zaun and have them be entirely sympathetic because it would break the world. This is why I think Silco has to be the face of Zaun instead of Ekko and the Firelights, why Ekko has to befriend Heimerdinger to soften that antagonism, and why the Firelights never gain enough power to challenge Piltover at a systemic level. Even when Ekko wants to, he's thwarted and unable to cross the bridge.

We have a lot more fantasy imagination than political imagination. Silco is very realistic. Authoritarians do tend to rise up and stop movements that are closer in practice to socialism. If there were a mass movement in Zaun, as there seems to be potential for around episode 3, Silco would want to redirect that energy so he can control it, and I wouldn't be surprised if that is, in some form or fashion, what he did while consolidating power in the wake of Vander's death. While I appreciate the realism, it does make me sad that many times we put so much more energy into imagining magic systems and mystical creatures than we do imagining ways people could live freely with each other. It's like we have to keep capitalist realism alive even if we have hoverboards (also, if it wasn't already clear, I think the greatest potential for socialism/other lefty schools of thought is seen in the Firelights; so we could totally have political imagination AND hoverboards if Riot weren't cowards).

Silco's strong individualism works well for his relationship with Jinx and allows him to serve and Vi's primary antagonist. Even as Vi goes on a path that leads her to become more and more morally questionable as the plot goes on (like her sister lol), the sheer horror of what Silco inflicted on her makes Vi's story easy to digest. For Silco and Jinx, Silco's individualist outlook allows him to see her separated from the conditions that he is exacerbating outside. There are probably at least a hundred kids who could be as smart if given the right conditions (which makes Jinx and Ekko foils, for instance), but Silco doesn't care because he doesn't have a personal connection with them. He sees Jinx not as a child among many but as the child. I think this is part of why it's so hard for him to even think of giving her up and why he really never would have. However, I think it would be wrong to suggest that we'd have to sacrifice a great storyline for Silco to be more class conscious. It's possible to hold the tension between seeing greatness in individuals you love and knowing there is similar greatness in every individual that is being stomped on by the various oppressions we face, including the ones we share.

Because of these factors (Piltover being written to be the oppressor but Zaun needing to be equally bad so the show can "both sides" the conflict; a general lack of political imagination, which is also hemmed in by the source material and keeps us from fun fictional socialism except in small doses; and the general individualism baked into Silco's character that leads him to not even consider that a mass movement is the best way to achieve his aim of independence), I find Silco's politics very boring, lol. If we're to think about what his revolution might bring about, I'd find it much easier to compare to a bourgeois revolution (such as the US one) than to a socialist revolution that devolved into state capitalism (such as the USSR). One thing that characterized the US revolution was its unwillingness to include all the potential actors who might've fought in the war, particularly enslaved people. More enslaved people actually fought on the British side, as they were promised independence (even though Britain had not abolished slavery, so this was probably a scam). By desiring to maintain the system of chattel slavery and the hierarchies it created, the US revolutionaries missed out on the possibility to create a mass movement and jeopardized the success of their movement in the process.

This all reminds me of the distinction Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael) draws between the Black Revolutionary and the Black Militant:

Now, there are a number of groups functioning in the black liberation movement in this country. I will not give the philosophy of those groups. I will not speak for them because I wouldn’t want their representatives to speak for us. There are, of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress for Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Black Panther Party. Most of these groups have basically been fighting for a share of the American pie, at least until recently. That is to say, they were kept out of the American dream, and many of them thought that if they were to adopt the manners, the mode, the culture of the oppressor, they would be accepted and they too could enjoy the fruits of American imperialism. But today, among the young generation of blacks in this country, an ideology is developing that says we cannot, in fact, accept the system. This differentiates the black militant from the black revolutionary. The black militant is one who yells and screams about the evils of the American system, himself trying to become a part of that system. The black revolutionary’s cry is not that he is excluded, but that he wants to destroy, overturn, and completely demolish the American system and start with a new one that allows humanity to flow. I stand, then, on the side of the black revolutionary and not on the side of the black militant. (From Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism)

Silco's demands to Jayce, along with his exclusion of most of the people from Zaun in the process of transforming society and his exploitation of them via shimmer, place him firmly on the side of the militant in this equation. Silco wants access to the fruits of Piltover's progress while only upsetting the structure where it negatively affects him. Again, while there's a lot I can enjoy in his character, I get frustrated with his insistence at being counter-revolutionary at every turn. I have a long reading list for him, and since he's in the afterlife now, he'll have time to get to it.

TLDR: Silco says he doesn't have to beat Piltover, just scare them. You know what's really scary, Silco? The masses of the people standing up and demanding that their oppression end, for fuck's sake.

[spider-artdump]

[drdemonprince]

Read the cop post you reblogged. Apologies if I’m being too literal. I’ve had ppl break into my house before. What am I supposed to do in that situation? Shoot the person? Let them shoot me? Genuinely asking for an alternative bc I don’t want to call the cops ever. It just feels like it’s often ppl who don’t live in areas with higher crime who post stuff like that and it feels out of touch with the reality some are living in. Most ppl in my neighborhood don’t want to abolish the police. It’s white liberals, leftists, anarchists who get to live that out more. Idk if this makes sense, but would love to hear others thoughts.

I have also had people break into my home, I've heard drills run on my block multiple times in just the past year, I've witnessed multiple shootings, violent domestic assault outside my home, etc. I also live in a racially diverse area and speak regularly with my neighbors and yeah, a 70-year-old Black grandmother in Chicago is far more likely to be a pro-cop Trump supporter than she is to be a radical anarchist. Your average person of any identity group is unlikely to be an abolitionist or anarchist... because those are still extremely fringe political positions in this world. Now it is also experience that the majority of actually committed abolitionists are Black & brown people, but that doesn't mean a majority of people from those identity groups in general are abolitionists at all. The white leftie abolitionists...mostly aren't actually abolitionists in practice from all that I've seen. Give them a roommate who doesn't pay the bills and has a mental health episode and they'll wield the tools of the state just as readily as anybody.

And that kinda brings me to one of my questions. Has calling the cops worked for you when you have had to deal with a home invasion, robbery, attack, etc? I just mentioned this in another post, but in my case *threatening* to call the cops has helped sometimes. The existence of the police state as a threat did help keep my stalker from going further when he broke into my apartment. But when a person (especially a person in a non-wealthy, majority-nonwhite area) calls the cops, how often do they show up soon enough to be helpful? How often do they confuse the attacker and the victim? How often do they blame the victim and refuse to file a report? How often do they attack or kill the wrong person? How often does their presence escalate things and cause people to panic, causing more violence?

I'm not trying to be a little shit here, I know that the answer is not "100% of the time". Sometimes, in the present world, a person is overpowered and in danger and they have no support network around them and they call the cops and the sirens or the sight of big dudes with guns scares their attacker away. I have, once or twice, witnessed some version of that too. It didn't do anything to get the victim away from their abuser or prevent harm from happening in the long term, but it did cause people to scatter.

Of course the long term abolitionist answer is that we need community networks of support to keep one another safe, to prevent crimes motivated by need, to deescalate conflict, and maybe even to secure justice and safety by scaring abusers and rapists etc off. In the absence of those things formally existing, I think we should all do what we can to build those networks of support in our communities, and thinking about how we can address problems without using the police. I wrote about some examples of that I witnessed and lived through here:

I don't think there are many great options right now if a person is attacked. I know that I minimize my involvement with the police as much as I humanly can. Again, only you can decide for yourself what you believe, what you can do, what you need, what you think is right.

[raspberry-parfait]

Mouthwasing political leaning right to left

Swansea: not hardcore right, but tends to agree with most things. Mostly for economy stuff. Only watches the news, doesn't care deeper than that. Generally old fashioned and stuck in his ways.

Curly: center-right on most things. A little stuck, but you could absolutely move him on some topics. Does not talk politics because it only leads to arguments

Anya: liberal. Firmly in the left, but doesnt agree with a lot of the more 'extreme' ideas out there. Probably has a 'love is love' sign/sticker somewhere. Very much into the idea of reaching across the aisle

Daisuke: lefty tiktok brained shitposter. Watches Hasan probably. Tries to get swansea to say some out of pocket shit

Jimmy: as apolitical as someone can get. Genuinely does not care. Hasn't voted since he turned 18. Will say that all companies are corrupt and billionaires should die in the same breath as women belong in the kitchen. "It's not like your vote actually matters."

[ersatz-introspective]

i'm annoyed at how much the left values empathy specifically. you can do good things without having empathy, empathy is not an inherently good quality, and lacking it isn't inherently bad. i hate seeing lefties dunk on someone for "having no empathy," which may or may not be true, but considering how many people preach empathy as an inherent trait of the left & "goodness" is irksome. just dunk on someone for the bad actions they have done, it's not hard.

i know it's a good look to be empathetic, but it really does feel like the end-all-be-all here.

i can still have good politics and want better for people & the world without necessary having empathy for these things. i can still be passionate about certain issues just from a factual standpoint, i can still listen to people affected by them, without necessarily feeling empathy for those most affected by them.

it's just like that one tumblr posts where a user pointed out "yes, even free healthcare to annoying ppl like those who went blind at the nft convention" ;;

i doubt many people are empathetic towards them, but we still acknowledge they should benefit. generally speaking we're trying to benefit even those opposed to us with stuff like free housing & healthcare. those are our politics & beliefs, and they don't suddenly "turn off" when you seee someone you don't like. or, they shouldn't. i can hate someone & still believe they deserve the same rights as me. i could not care if someone died, & yet still believe they should at least be able to keep themselves alive with a minimum wage job

frankly, to suddenly change your beliefs on some specific cases bcs you don't like them specifically is fickle, just like how the left is all restorative justice, until it comes to a specific person or crime that is too far, then it's "maybe we should give the state the right to execute people !"

so it does baffle me why so many people here value empathy like it's an inherent trait in the left, or that those opposed to the left are incapable of empathy & therefore evil & demonic.

empathy can ignite action in most people who have the ability to experience it. but that doesn't mean only those people are or do good, and the language the left uses is real isolating for that.

[thedreadvampy]

I do not understand subcultural politics discourse and at this point I don't know how much is differences in the national scenes and how much is that we just have very different ideas of what these scenes are.

cause like. Punk I get. Punk is not always left wing (there has always been a Nazi punk problem) but punk IS always inherently and actively political as a definitional factor. Punk is foundationally anarchist, counter-hierarchical, and centred on anger and community cohesion. If you approach punk as apolitical or centrist you are Doing It Wrong. Nazis and right libertarians have always made up a small but vocal chunk of the community, and that's a problem punk has to address in its own ways (ideally with steel toecaps). Punk is definitionally political and has a couple of extremely foundational sets of political beliefs.

Or like, hip-hop. More complicated case cause there's even more corporate cooption involved in shaping the modern genre but hip-hop has a foundational political position. Hip-hop is focused on Black pride and power, and on addressing African-American trauma and injustice, and so it's historically working-class, anti-racist and anti-cop. It means something politically as a genre.

But some stuff people say just Does Not Jam with my experience of subculture. Like people KEEP saying 'you can't be a right-wing goth, goth is radically left wing' and all I'm saying is a) we have spoken to some VERY different elder goths bc as much as I was lucky enough to grow up in the scene, going to the goth weekends, etc, my god did some of those 60 year olds vote Tory or BNP with their whole chest. and b) as far as I'm aware the main thing that goth stands for politically is countercultural provocation and a kind of nihilistic disengagement. like Siouxie Sioux habitually used swastikas and Nazi paraphernalia to demonstrate distance from her parent's generation. a lot of the foundational Goth musicians are either right-wing or prefer to keep their politics private because they consider them separate.

like most of the goths I know are left-leaning, because there are foundational philosophical beliefs attached to goth culture and a lot of those, like fluidity of expression, resistance to established power, and celebrating marginalisation, appeal to a lot of lefties. But frankly I've known a lot of goths who are reactionary right-wingers or full on Nazis because, well, other precepts of goth culture can include stuff like nihilistic individualism and glorification of death. Plus the Nazi iconography thing, plus the widespread racism in the community. and those weren't like 'i found goth on TikTok' goths, these are like 'committed to the lifestyle since 1979' goths.

Like goth is not particularly a RIGHT-WING movement, but I have never experienced it as an explicitly political musical/subcultural movement at all? Certainly not the way that punk or reggae or outlaw country or something is.

(and speaking of reggae. I was watching Anthony Fantano and FD Signifier talking about this whole idea and FD said something as a 'isn't this a silly example' about a white nationalist looking for white nationalist reggae. and they were both laughing about what a silly idea that was

and I'm sitting there like...But that's literally exactly what happened with ska in the UK? like ska is obviously an afrocaribbean genre made by and for Black communities and uhhhh by the late 60s in Britain ska was the white nationalist sound. like skinheads love ska and in particular there are a bunch of neonazi/white nationalist ska acts. not all skinheads are far right but if skinheads have a dominant political identity it is probably more far right than far left.

and that did raise the question of differences in national scenes. like I know that behind the Iron Curtain a lot of punks were using UK and American flags the way Western punks were using Soviet iconography, and Caribbean music has a very different cultural association in the UK than in the US, and British rap has a different political outlook than American rap.

and so maybe American goth is a lot more political than British goth? but I kind of think of goth as a European subculture tbh like I think goth I think England and Germany, and the European goth music and goth scenes I've been in are......not explicitly political?)

[cloverwulfs]

boyfriend to death headcanons :pp

just for fun! mostly projections lol. I only did The Unholy Trinity™ (law, strade and ren) but I'm open for requests haha!!

I know some of these contradict canon.... I know ...

starting off with lawrence! (more under the cut)

this was the first one I made, I really had fun with this! mostly projections lmaoao!!

redesign:

I added acne, because I do think due to his, well, not very good diet(?) it would develop acne. I added greyer skin because I think because of the way it's rotting it would make sense she would look more zombie like. also made his hair longer and more visible and messier as well! also other small changes (added scars, changed its hoodie, err and more stuff)

ren:

more projecting!!! I really like the whole weeb ren idea, so I went to the fullest with it. he's so cute...... ahhhh

redesign:

I really had fun editing this! I like to think they'd be more into alternative japanese fashion, especially jirai, visual kei and decora! I want to make a full jirai ren edit one day... one day.......

I added head accessories, gyaru-ish-styled eye makeup, lace, pins, those little star patches, a belt and a star pant chain!! I wanted to follow along with his dark, gray-black colour palette, so they look more visual kei rather than decora!

strade:

metalhead strade!!! I had a dream about this, so I kind of went wild with this one! I kinda see him as a jerk type, the type that would make offensive jokes at the dinner table and be the only one laughing, sort of jerk. I love assholes!!!

redesign:

I loved making this ... added a whole bunch of stuff.

eyeliner + eyeshadow, piercings, tattoo, heterochromia, tooth gap, and also, hand scars!!!!

from his victim's struggling, and his general carelessness, I'd think he'd have scars on his hands, especially on the left one! (he's a leftie!!!!! canonically!)

I also made edits of certain leaks with this headcanons, might make a seperate post for them!

I think thats it!!! feel free to suggest characters !!!!!!!! (including ep characters, tinr etc.)

not tpof though because I still didn't play the game (⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠˙̫̮⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠)

[emtmercy]

I do wish a certain kind of lefty who just doesn’t believe in govt would just say that instead of trying to make it about every individual politician they hate being uniquely bad

Like clearly the stuff you hate is systemic and it would be easier and more honest to say that the system as it exists could not produce a candidate for president that stands up fully to a truly leftist ethical framework

Like president is a pretty evil position in general which I thought we knew

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

(Anon who sent the Matt Walsh ask last week)

Yeah, it's really hard not being a leftie in fandom. My friends (whom I met through fandom) have all been wigging out about everything Trump does (despite none of them being American or even living in America and despite coming from generally conservative-leaning countries), while I'm just sitting there quietly biting my figurative tongue and occasionally trying to gently knock some sense into them by saying it's really not as bad as the media is making out (yeah, I know, I shouldn't even bother). It makes my blood pressure go up when I have to read their ice cold takes, and worst of all is that they're not bad people at heart.

But I also feel like finding conservative people in fandom is hard not only because they (we) camouflage and don't talk about our politics, but because some of them are a bit... weird, for lack of better word?

One conservative reblogged a fandom post of mine and his blog was full of stuff about how kinks are morally bad because private behavior affects public behavior, and shipping two male characters is "degenerate", and I just noped right out of there. Maybe that guy was just an outlier, but I haven't had luck with finding others. Maybe I have to keep looking. I really don't think shipping is degenerate, bro, let's save that word for, I don't know, muslim child rapists? Or zoophiles? Can people just have fun?

(I'm in a small fandom so I don't want to say too much and give my identity away, haha.)

There is an annoying trend lately for conservatives in entertainment spaces to jump on the moral puritan train, and it sucks.

Like, yes, I get it. It's probably very annoying being a straight man in a fandom that's predominantly filled with fijoshis shipping all the guys. But that's fandom, dude. Not everyone wants to write tradwife AUs. If you like certain things, write your own stuff. That's the best way to connect with people like you. Fiction is not reality. Most adults can separate the two just fine.

[dukeofankh]

Sooooo after wallowing in ennui for several years about the fact that the sort of nonprofit job that my dad worked in the 90s and could raise a family of five on and also buy a house now does not even give me enough financial stability to obtain even one child or house without massive family help, I have given up on trying to make my job better through unionization and am now studying to take the LSAT. A buddy of mine recently went to law school and it made me realize that that was something normal lefty people could do sooo I have been looking into the possibility of doing that myself.

I am trying to get into UBC, which is the Law School which would be by far the most convenient for me to attend. Timing wise, I kinda picked a dumb time to decide to go to law school, because they don't accept applications until like, September or November or something, and then I won't be able to go until the fall of 2026, and as an ADHD motherfucker, having to wait over a year to begin doing a thing I am currently hyperfocused on is ass and balls. That's not even mentioning that then it's a three year program, plus articling, plus the bar, which means that by the time I'm done I will be becoming a lawyer juuuust shy of turning 40. It's hilarious that our parents' generation were already successful so their midlife crises involved being rebellious and quitting well-paying jobs but for me I don't actually have the stability in the first place so I'm starting a big career instead.

I am gonna brag now. Bragging below the cut. It will be self-satisfied with a timbre only someone who has been dealing with deep and consistent problems with money and self esteem for a decade can achieve. This will be both shamelessly smug and cacklingly gleeful. You have been warned.

Hahahahaa dude dude dude, for real, fuck, hell yeah. For reference, the median LSAT score for people accepted by UBC is like, 166, a score at which around 90 percent of people will score lower than that. Buuuut my grades in my undergrad weren't stellar. They're at the low end of the grades accepted by UBC. I therefore need a pretty great score on the LSAT The LSAT is funny, because it's not really a knowledge test? It's basically a bunch of logic puzzles and reading comprehension questions. As a result, step one for most people is a "diagnostic test", meaning you just go in and see how you do on it without studying at all and see whether you have just incidentally cultivated those skills or if you're going to need to do a lot of extra work to obtain them. I have read sooo many accounts of people getting diagnostic tests in the 150s, the test being one scored between 120 and 180, 180 being the highest possible.

My diagnostic test was a 171.

And then I started studying, because there is no high like something you're naturally good at. I've been doing drill questions erratically at work when I've got free time, and doing a full practice test every Saturday morning. I've been doing that for about a month.

The first week I got a 172. Second week was a 176. Third week was today. 179. I am now officially as good at the LSAT as Elle Woods. And that score is better than 99.8 of people who take this test.

So yeah. I have gone from "gah, my job skills are so meh, even if I go back to school, I don't know if I could score an office job that pays better than what I make now..." to "Oh, I'm a fuckin' logic genius who is great at Legal stuff apparently, and I can do a few years of school and come out the other end making literally twice what I make now." I also live in Canada, where the cost of schooling is like, a quarter what it is in the States.

Like...I really needed a W, especially these days, so I'm just soaking it in. Feels so fuckin good.

[north-noire]

Hello. It's me again. I hope you're doing well. I am starting to enjoy your 2d drawings, by the way. Keep it up! I have some questions for you.

1.) What do you think of Henry (you can also talk about his appearance too) from the FNAF Encyclopedia Book?

2.) Do you have a favorite game in FNAF :)?

3.) To your perspective, who do you think suffered and went through tragedy the most in the FNAF game?

4.) Are Charlie and Cassidy friends in your FNAF au?

5.) Does Henry and Charlie have a hobby or what do they like to do in their own time in your FNAF au?

Hello! Thanks for enjoying my art I really appreciate it :) 1. Henry's design in that book is... I feel mixed about it? Doesn't help that it was drawn by a shitty person. Even separating that aspect, the design is just kind of all over the place, like the hairstyle doesn't really suit him personally. The only thing I like about it is that it establishes a flannel pattern which is highly associated with him (though iirc its also described in the TSE novels) But overall his writing is pretty solid in the games, though I wish things were less vague (and a lot of things he does in FFPS is odd, it's unclear if the LEFTY animatronic shocked Charlie/tazed Charlie, or it was meant for different purposes)

2. I really like FNAF 2 and FNAF 4! Sister Location is also cool aesthetic wise. FNAF 2 because the mini-games were really interesting and the animatronics just keep you on edge. FNAF 4 tries a bit too hard imo to look too scary but I really like that it's our first look into a more personal story with Crying Child and all. Sister Location is really unique, especially design-wise :)

3. I'm not sure, I think almost everyone around suffered in FNAF, but I'd like to think Henry, Michael and Charlie suffered the most, for sure. Charlie because she was murdered by a family friend (and had to take care of the mess he made with the MCI), Michael having to deal with what his father had done to so many people, to his siblings, the guilt of feeling like he was the very reason everything had started, and Henry, who not only lost his daughter, but gets betrayed by his best friend/colleague while using what HE made, what HE helped him create for nefarious things. It's... a lot, and I don't wanna undermine what the MCI went through either because they didn't deserve it. I think all of them suffered, one way or the other.

4. Not really! Charlie is a little miffed by Cassidy, and I don't think she's friends with her, especially with the context that she was one of the minor bullies who used to pick on Evan.

5. They both do! Henry, if not making animatronics/building them/tinkering with stuff, likes LEGOs and building them. He finds them fun. If not that, he likes to draw, he's always been an artist at heart. He also loves toymaking, even if that career is long behind him. Charlie is an artist like her father, loves photography and journalism but also generally likes art and crafts and collecting little trinkets.

Hope this answers all your questions :)

[notaplaceofhonour]

my tumblr notifs are wild bc it’ll be like a bunch of Jews liking, reblogging, or commenting generally positive or at least constructive stuff, 20 lefties calling me a babykiller & other repackaged blood libel & protocols shit, a dozen nazis saying og blood libel & protocols shit, a small smattering of anti-Communists agreeing with a post criticizing leftist antisemitism just a little too hard, and then 1 person on a poorly thought out shitpost that has like 0 other notes saying “hm this is kinda problematic :/”

[noinoi10101010]

about mono fallen in Sams x dangronpa au an angel final stand and the final act

so mono fallen was made by the creator for extra fire power in case something happens to mono angel but because they were a lot more stronger and better at running a killing game then she was the creator constantly praised them and gave them all the attention. They don't take a lot of mono angel bullshit and knows very quickly that she is jealous of them and don't care and think she is just overreacting. They just fallow what they are programmed to do and unlike mono devil who eventually grew to hate to be what he was programmed to do and mono angel who eventually became conflicted they love what they are able to do and accept that happily. But then in the final act there calm unpredictable personality cracks under pressure. They and the mimic have been all trying to find ways to stop and kill each of the future foundation and stop any all attempts to stop the endless killing game all of with failing but they tried so many times to the point they made security to protect themselves. When they host their own killing game the future foundation has become so good and more knowledgeable about how to stop the killing games and what type of portals and tech can be made to stop them leads to them installing stuff like hidden cameras that are unbreakable with their both physical strength and magic leads to them becoming more stressed and paranoid. And they quickly realized that the other participants of the killing game can break the cameras but not all. Ballora nebula gemni ( without their powers) francis Jake Andrew and eclipse are all not strong enough killer sun lefty clipsy roxas and especially President are all smart enough to find a way to communicate to the others about mono fallen controlling them even if they used their magic. And eaps monty is always with ballora and she will eventually get suspicious over her girlfriend constantly leave to destroy the cameras. All that leaves is rusted who is more then strong enough to destroy the cameras and even has a virus in his system that they can easily control with their magic. And they are not stupid but they are desperate to find a lost lover they are desperate to find that mono fallen can easily use to their advantage so they make a deal with rusted that if they do what they asked they can get ruin back Rusted agrees. Mono fallen can't actually bring ruin back from the dead the only ones they can are people who have died in killing games while they were in. Ruin was executed before they were made so they can't bring ruin back even if they wanted too. But they lie to a very still grieving rusted to get him to stop the future foundation from stopping this killing game. And so that they were puppetering rusted around just by the chance of rusted getting to see ruin again safe in his arms. He used his magic to make it so any time rusted would try to explain that he was being controlled by them it would glitch out so he "doesn't get any ideas" making it so that he is trapped all for and cause of ruin. In chapter 4 before nebula got killed a softer side to mono fallen shows as they seeing how exhausted from both the motive and the emotional repression president has her doing warn her about president. Saying that to "not trust everyone especially in situation like this you don't know what there true intent is it's everyone for themselves." It's not known why they did It but it implied that generally felt bad for nebula after seeing what President was putting her through. In chapter 5 the motive was the ones that were killed in this game and the last were brought back as ghosts. It's then were rusted asked were ruin is and they said that will and to just be patient but he get suspicious and kept pestering them about it only for them to drop the bomb they have been lieing to him that he can't bring him back and tells him everything about what happened to ruin. Him being forced to be a servant by his creator solely to protect him and all his friends from his dimension, how his creator forced him to be a mastermind, and how each and every one of his actions was made to protect him.

[zionistgirlie]

Wow that person went so hard on you for no reason. I’m American and I can tell you it would be incredibly difficult to ban gay marriage here. The “taking away my rights” shit is total garbage. I’m also bi and had to break up with my girlfriend because of homophobia so I am obviously sensitive to the topic

That all being said, I LOVE Ben Shapiro. What he has done for Jews since October 7 is amazing. I’ve seen no indication he actually hates gay people or would have a problem with Emily Damari lighting the torch. I think he was actually announced after her so if he really hated her, he wouldn’t have agreed to light the torch

I won't talk about specific people, even moree so behind their back, but generally, I noticed that lefties have such a hard time giving conservatives any silver of grace. Like if you're right wing, you cannot have any decency or good deeds or stuff you and the lefties agree with about (for example: kidnapping people is bad and the hostages have to come home).

Like, I don't know about all right wingers, right, but I, for one, am totally capable of disagreeing with a lefty and still credit them for good deeds they do. An exemple from American politics: I hate the democratic party with all my heart. Yet I'm able to credit them (minus three) for throwing Rashida's proposal to make Israel an American enemy off the straits. I don't fool myself to think all of them, minus three, love us to pieces. And yet. I appreciate it.

There's just seems to be a very black and white, dichotomic way to view the world. There's one way of thinking, and if you disagree or hold other views, you're public enemy number one. You're 100% terrible person, and you will be slandered. I left that mindset and my life became so much better and more positive. Not going around constantly feeling like I'm a victim? Radical. And trust me, I have a lot of victim points, if I wanted to use them, but why would I?

People are so quick to throw labels like "homophobe", "transphobe", "racist", "fascist" without knowing what those words mean and without being able to back their claims. It just cheaps down those words and blocks any chance to discuss and debate. Charlie Kirk says a lot that "Civil wars happen when people don't discuss", and I 100% agree.

(insert angry anon questions being shocked a right wing conservative listens to right wing conservative commentators in her free time)