#i build a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class

[woagwaowandeverythinginbetween]

I rlly like making patches 4 bands that r not traditionally punk. I made this TMBG patch 4 a friend a few months ago

[transformers-coded-music]

if 'kiss me, son of god' was about building a physical empire instead of wealth it would be sooo megatron.

"i built a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class" !!!

literally line for line its HERRR.

"I destroyed the bond of friendship and respect between the only people left who'd even look me in the eye" GAHHHH

this could be taken as his and orion's breakup or just as him gradually treating his troops/command worse

Honest reaction to that omfg…

[they-might-be-elvis]

woah mama I build a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class

Woah Mama, regulations are written in the blood of the working class

[ofbatsandwhitenights]

The world building in “Seduce the Villain’s Father“ is TRASH and Erudian is an angel

I would like to start this post by apologizing to @vanillaamoursucrethings and @isekaithatplease for butting in on your conversation regarding the manhwa “Seduce the Villain’s Father”. You were having a very wholesome, healthy discussion and I chose to make a different post so I wouldn’t poison that with my angry rant. So feel free to ignore me. Btw, I haven’t read the novel, so I’m basing myself on the manhwa and on the spoilers on said post regarding the novel to write this.

This is the post: https://isekaithatplease.tumblr.com/post/631162614195634176/vanillaamoursucrethings-isekaithatplease

Anyone who knows me would be able to tell you that I’m a HUGE fan of fantasy and that I have been addicted to isekai stories with female protagonists for the last few months. But I also graduated in International Relations, and suspension of disbelief has it’s limits. And chapter 4 of “Seduce the Villain’s Father” blew up all of them.

 Like @vanillaamoursucrethings and @isekaithatplease​ pointed out in the other post, “Seduce the Villain’s Father” is a pretty good story, with well written characters, cute romance, pretty art... but only IF YOU IGNORE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS BEFORE YENNI GETS TO BELGOAT. I’m sorry, but had to go back and re-read that mess in order to write this, so forgive me if I sound a little angry. I haven’t gotten this pissed off about an awful political setting since “The Evil Lady Will Change”(ABSOLUTE GARBAGE).

So what is going on?

First of all, this is a map of the world of our story:

We got Azekien, Belgoat and this tiny thing in the middle is our MC’s kingdom, Lebovny. So Belgoat is supposed to be this all-powerfull empire who specializes in magic. But they didn’t have any mana stones in their territory, which they need in order to “protect the Yellow Sea and the border” (whatever that means). Azekien, another big kingdom, had A LOT of mana stones underneath their territory, so they agreed to mine them and sell to Belgoat. But since they didn’t have a common border, they made a deal with tiny, insignificant Lebovny in order to use the Glucaman Road to do it. In return for the usage of the road, Lebovny would get some of the mana stones. And they called this alliance “The Glucaman Tripartite Agreement”.

I don’t get why Lebovny would even want the mana stones, considering that they are shown to barely use magic, but back to the main point.

Everything was working fine until the king of Lebovny (Yenni’s father) got greedy and demanded 10% of the total of transactions being made between Azekien and Belgoat. And threatened to close off Glucaman Road if they refused - which of course they did.

So here is where my blood starts to boil. Not only Lebovny followed through the threat, but IT HAS BEEN 2 FUCKING YEARS! AND NOTHING HAPPENED!

NOTHING!

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

And what is the excuse?

“Oh, we signed a peace treaty! Belgoat wouldn’t dare to break it!”

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

You are telling me that this super powerful empire sat back and let this tiny little excuse of a kingdom get in between them and this super important resources FOR 2 ENTIRE FUCKING YEARS AND DID NOTHING?!

Oh! And it gets worse! After 2 years of standing still, Belgoat invades Lebovny, kidnaps a princess, and then WAITS ANOTHER 10 YEARS TO SOLVE THIS MESS!

If Erudian was half the ruthless ruler they say he is, he wouldn’t have just kidnapped a princess and waited for Lebovny’s king to get his shit together, oh no.

HE WOULD HAVE INVADED, KILLED EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF LEBOVNY’S ROYAL FAMILY AND ADDED LEBOVNY TO THE EMPIRE.

And no one would be able to blame him. Look! Now they have a border with Azekien! Yay! PROBLEM SOLVED.

Oh, that’s too bloody? You want another solution? Sure!

Azekien and Belgoat could have refused to trade in any shape or form with Lebovny until the stupid king got his shit together. And threatened to do the same with any other kingdom who continued to trade with Lebovny.

Let all the merchant companies know that if they sell or buy anything from Lebovny they would be banned from the Belgoat Empire, Azekien and any allied kingdom. Close off the boarders completely.

I wouldn’t give them 6 months. Even if the peasants could survive that, considering that they most likely produce all the food they consume, the nobles would NEVER accept it. Most luxury items, such as fancy fabrics and sugar are most likely imported. The nobility would trow a fit and pressure the king to back down.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

You might be wondering:

“But what is so terrible about the peace treaty excuse?”

I’ll explain! Ok, so according to Yenni:

Belgoat is supposed to be THE MOST POWERFUL estate in this half of the continent. What does that mean? It means that there is no entity that can stop them if they ever decide to break the status quo. And if they can’t receive any sort of punishment no matter what they do, what stops them from invading their neighbors or committing war crimes? Logistics and internal politics. That’s all.

THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND NOBODY WOULD BE ABLE TO STOP THEM.

Lets use a real life example, shall we?

Ok, so you know about the UN, right? It’s the most important international organization we have. In order to be a part of the United Nations, a country needs to agree to respect the United Nations Charter. And one of the main points of that Charter, is to uphold and defend human rights. Who is a member of the UN? Well, most of the recognized countries in the world. That includes, of course, China and USA, the 2 most powerful and influential countries. They are also members of the UN Security Council - the highest stance of the organization.

So one would assume that since they are such a vital part of the organization, they would be the ones to uphold their beliefs the most, right? Wrong:

Know their names: Black people killed by the police in the US

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Does this looks like upholding and defending human rights to you? And don’t even get me started on China!

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You got the idea. These are public knowledge. Is China and the US gonna be kicked out of the UN? No. Is the UN gonna end, now that one of their most vital principles was broken by it’s most important members? No. Are they gonna change the rules? No. Why? Because they are so powerful that they can do whatever they want and no country does a thing about because they fear the repercussions. The only one who can tell the US what to do is China and vice-versa. Does either of them care about human rights? No.

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES ARE FOR THE WEAK AND POOR. THE POWERFUL DO WHATEVER THEY WANT.

Do you get it now why it sounds so goddamn stupid to me when I read that Belgoat just sat back and accepted not having access to a resource they need because of a “small and weak” (Yenni’s worlds, not mine) kingdom? And waiting another 10 fucking years to finish it? That’s just pathetic.

Yenni was SO FUCKING LUCKY that not only her Kingdom got out of this mess with a slap on the hand, but that she was given her own palace AND allowed to roam free through the castle.

ERUDIAN IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE ANGEL OF MERCY.

And his officials probably think he is crazy. Who the fuck would let go of precious resources for 12 years?! Belgoat’s military must be very happy with their emperor for neglecting the security of their borders for so long.

Are we done? Nope.

Ok, so we all know that all these isekai stories don’t give a flying fuck to historical accuracy. The outfits, the tools, the food... God, the outfits! We KNOW it’s wrong, but we let it slide because of suspension of disbelief and all that. BUT THERE ARE LIMITS!

I present to you Lebovny’s architecture:

How the fuck do you expect me to believe that this is a palace in isekai-medieval-Europe?!

This is the kind of structure one would see in a mosque or in India. It’s BIZARRE to see people walking through this scenario wearing isekai-medieval outfits. Why not go all out instead? Make your MC look like the people who built these structures! But nooooooo. She must be white and completely obliterate any chance I’ve ever had of believing this crap.

@vanillaamoursucrethings​ please feel free to correct me. You said that Erudian is neither a good person nor a benevolent emperor. Is there something I’m missing? Because other than the kidnapping I can’t recall anything that could have earned him that reputation.

Anyway, thank you for reading this mess of a rant.

Oh, and if you ever read this, @vanillaamoursucrethings​ eu admiro muito a sua paciência de ainda jogar Amor Doce kkkkkkkkkk

[krizaland]

Enter the Zimvoid Chapter 21

First Chapter   Previous 

Warning: We have officially reached spoiler town! If you have not read Issue 49 yet and want to avoid spoilers then please come back once you have gotten a chance to read it. 

If you’ve already read issue 49, don’t care about spoilers, or just haven’t even read the Invader Zim comics at all, then feel free to read on!

“That’s right, Zims! All this time, your supreme leader…your ‘ultimate Zim’…. was actually the ULTIMATE DIB!” Number 1 cackled as he hopped out of his Zim-suit and plopped into his throne, “Surprised?”

“Of course not! I totally saw this coming!” Your Zim lied.

“Not as soon as I saw it coming!” 2k squeaked.

“Well, um I can’t say I was expecting this…” You spluttered as your mind struggled to process what was happening.

“Oh, Lookit! It’s some kinda Zib man!” GIR chirped as he pointed to Zib.

“No, no, stupid robot. I’m just a regular old Dib!” Zib chuckled as he shoved GIR aside.

“I…I don’t understand. What happened to you?” Dib gasped.

“Yeah, how did you end up like….that?” You asked as you gestured to Zib.

“Everything we ever wanted, Dib! Everything we ever dreamed! In my timeline, I defeated my Zim! I saved the Earth! But that was just a start!” Zib grinned as he turned around to reveal the PAK fused to his head.

You let out a horrified gasp when you saw the PAK digging into the back of Zib’s sickly green head. It practically throbbed like a parasite feeding off of its host.

You suppressed the urge to vomit as Zib continued.

“By reverse engineering the weapons in Zim’s lab, I mastered Irken tech…And learned how to create powerful electromagnetic pulse weapons that could disable and destroy it!” Zib explained as he gestured to his throbbing PAK.

“Impossible! No half-brained human meat monkey could ever figure out how to build something like that!” Your Zim snapped.

“Electromagnetic pulse weapons? You mean like that giant zapper thing that brought us all here?!” Dib’s eyes lit up as he spoke.

“Exactly! And with it, I was able to wipe out the entire Irken Empire, liberating millions from their tyranny! Now we’re revered across the galaxy, earning the love and respect of people everywhere!” Zig boasted as a few more flecks of drool his the ground.

“…Even Y/N?” Dib whimpered as a small blush spread across his face.

Zib’s face fell as a sigh escaped his throat.

“Well, I don’t know how to tell you this but…Y/N..they,” A few fake tears trickled down his cheeks as he spoke.

“They what?”

“They….died…” Zib choked out as more tears begun to fall.

“What?! Y/N is dead in your timeline?!” Dib yelped as he grabbed the sides of his head.

“It’s sadly true. My Y/N was everything to me. They actually listened to me and loved me. But my rotten Zim…He didn’t like seeing me so happy. So he brainwashed my Y/N and…He killed them in cold blood!” Zib lied as a storm of fake tears and real drool soaked the ground.

“Wait! That’s not what you told me-” You began but Zib cut you off.

“Y/N was the one thing missing from my otherwise perfect timeline for years! But now…Now I can finally have them back! Sure they’re not my Y/N but they’ll make a good replacement!” Zib giggled as he pinched your cheek.

“Wait! That’s why you want to marry my sweet Y/N?!” Your Zim snapped.

“Your Y/N? Oh no. This Y/N is mine now! In fact, I think I’ll marry every Y/N in the multiverse! Yes! Every Y/N in every timeline will belong to me! And there’ll be nothing any of you Zims could do about it!” Zib cackled as he threw his arms up into the air.

“You wish to marry my Y/N too?! I’ll never let that happen!” Palindrome seethed.

“Yeah! Don’t even think about going anywhere near my Y/N either!” 2k added.

“Wait! What about me?! This Y/N is from my timeline! Why I can’t I have them?!” Dib whined as he gestured to you.

“Oh, well…Don’t take this the wrong way but you’re a little too soft to handle any Y/N let alone one this beautiful!” Zib chuckled as he threw an arm around Dib.

“I’m not soft-”

“Anyway, once I discovered this Dimensional Nexus while exploring Pandora’s Quadrangle, I realized my work wasn’t done yet! My world was safe…. but there were still countless alternate timelines where the Irkens remained undefeated! So I began my master plan to save all Earths everywhere!” Zib interjected as he pointed to the ceiling.

“By doing what? By enslaving Zims and marrying every Y/N you meet?!” You snapped as you shot Zib a glare.

“Oh ho! No, no, no! That’s only part of my plan, my sweet!” Zib chuckled as he pulled you close.

“Get your moldy paws off of me, you creep!” You seethed as you pushed Zib off of you.

Zib blinked in surprise for a moment as your harsh words begun to echo within his deranged mind.

“You creep! You creep! You creep!” Was all Zib could hear.

Zib’s left eye twitched as a low growl escaped his throat.

“I. AM. NOT. A. CREEP!” Zib roared as he launched himself into his throne.

BEEP!

Zib slammed down on one of his throne’s many buttons.

FWOOSH! FWHIP! SWAP!

Several mechanical tentacles fired out from the back of the throne and engulfed all of the Zims and even Dib!

You let out a yelp as one last tentacle wrapped around your waist and forced you to face Zib.

“Why is nothing I do good enough for you, Y/N?! HUH?! I’ve made countless sacrifices! I’ve endured countless trials and for what?! Just for you to call me a…creep?!” Zib snarled, firing more drool in your direction.

All you could do was turn your face away from the drool droplets as Zib continued his rant.

“It’s always the same with you! ‘Dib stop trying to expose Zim!’ ‘Dib stop stealing my underwear!’ and ‘Dib stop going through my garbage cans!’  I’ll have you know that I got bitten by several raccoons just to get near your garbage cans!” Zib whined as he snapped a green finger in your face.

“You stole your Y/N’s underwear-” Dib began as the tentacles squeezed him tighter.

“I dedicated my whole life to pleasing you! Well that and protecting the Earth from the paranormal of course!” Zib continued as real tears streamed down his cheeks.

“If you truly wanted to please me then you wouldn’t have done any of this crazy stuff! Look at you! Do you have any idea what you’ve become?!” You grimaced as you continued to shield your face from the storm of drool firing out of Zib’s mouth.

“I know exactly what I’ve become! I’ve became the guardian of multiverse! I won’t rest until I’ve saved everyone from the evil of the Irken Empire! Especially you! I won’t let that alien monster trick you this time, Y/N!” Zib seethed as he turned your face to look at him.

Next

[cornsarts]

Inktober Day 5: Build

I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage Called the blood of the exploited working class

[bloodycalligraphy]

multi-purpose-tool-guy replied to your post:

im just gonna.... scoot in here and uh..... enable you..... scoot scoot....

OK hear me out. Here’s some TLJ-based Kylux mpreg thoughts.

I think Snoke always knew Kylo was the knock-off brand of what he really wants. That Kylo is broken by the fact that he FEELS SO MUCH and he lets his feelings drag him around even though he clearly wishes he wasn’t like this. He was probably always like this. 

And Hux? Hux is useful but Hux lacks the sort of power that Kylo has by birth and breeding. Also he’s an absolutely sucking void of a human being with bile where other people have blood. He’s easy enough to control, but mostly exactly as you would a dog — reward it when it’s good and make sure it knows you could beat it if it’s not. Watch the teeth. Don’t take your eyes off it.

They’ll be steps to power, but are they really going to be heirs to his vision? Or are they the tools he’ll use until he can get better, shinier, less buggy and broken ones?

I’d like to thank the Rlos who want Rey to “continue the Skywalker line” because that sure sounds like the exact sort of shit you could feed Kyle Ron to make him do some Fucking Weird Shit and well, General, just lie back and think about the Empire. Kyle has probably never seen junk that wasn’t his own and the one Knight that he kissed once got sent out by Snoke to some planet acid-spitting worms and came back with their lips melted shut by scar tissue. And frankly I’m not sure anyone has ever in his life taught Hux that sex is about anything other than Power and Pain.

Anyway, Kyle over here’s like literally twice as wide as Armie, so obviously he’s got the space in that refrigerator-size torso for whatever demonspawn comes out of this.

Throw in some Force garbage about how if Kylo doesn’t spend a certain amount of time around Hux regularly he feels like he’s gonna puke his kidneys out because this INCREDIBLY FORCE SENSITIVE fetus would like to vibe with whatever weird vibes Hux gives off. Actually they’re probably very chill. Since he’s only got one (1) emotion: Hatred. And he’s got a boss and a PAIN IN THE ASS who can read his mind, I’m sure the inside of his brain is WMD blueprints and elevator music most of the time.

So they chill. They don’t... like each other? But maybe they realize that they’ve made some misjudgments and now they’re actually even better prepared to murder each other.

Hux starts researching weapons that a lightsaber can’t block. Force-resistant materials. He starts packing a couple extra energy blades on his body at all times. He buys a slug-shooting rifle and starts carrying it damn near everywhere.

Kylo is still gonna be killing his dad and getting gut-shot by a wookie and finding the true power of hatred after THE ANGRIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD hands him his own ass on a platter, obviously. You could stuff a whole watermelon in that boy and it would not slow him down. But it’s fucking with his head. Are his priorities... right? What does it all mean? Existential crisis with a side of his body literally doesn’t belong to him and he didn’t choose this at any point and WHY IS HE DOING ANY OF THIS AT ALL

Things explode. Things still very, very much explode.

And that’s going to be rather important, really, because Hux knows he can rebuild a planet-sized weapon and he can buy a new warship and he can train a hundred thousand more child soldiers. Every life except his own is replaceable and it always, always has been.

And Kylo is thinking obsessively about family, about his parents, about his childhood, about his life and where it has lead him, about right and wrong, light and dark. 

But all things must come to an end? And the boy sith who would be supreme leader doesn’t have enough time to telepathically tell Rey NOT to swing by really not a good time right now. 

Kylo gets his guts excavated by unfeeling, uncaring medical robots because this is a hideous dystopia of reproductive rights or something. Hux is there because, well, he’s a little bit of a sadist everyone knows that. That’s the only possible reason he could be there, isn’t it?

Haha no. He’s gonna make eye contact with that blue-eyed, screaming creature and all the crazy in that heavily hair-gelled head is gonna skew in exactly the expected ways. Because, well, he can BUILD another weapon. He can BUILD another army. But he can’t BUILD a fucking baby. Or well, he could, but it wouldn’t be this exact baby, now would it? And honestly, honestly? Why would he build any other? This one is PERFECT. He made that and it’s his and he would rather drown in his own blood than let anyone hurt it. 

(See? He’s not his father after all. He cannot even understand his father in this moment. He has always known himself to be weak and sought to protect himself. Now here is the weakest imaginable version of himself and he feels that same urge. It’s his and he will protect it or he will die. That has always been the only two options.)

And Kylo wakes up with his internal organs rearranged and stapled back together to see a fucking armed sociopath holding HIS CHILD and nearly kills Hux right then and there except if he died then he would definitely drop the baby and if Kylo sits up too fast his spleen is gonna pop out probably. 

They don’t even have to talk about things or lie to each other because they have spent a stupid amount of time with one another and they know. The fear in Hux now is the same fear that is swallowing Kylo up like a howling cyclone.

So they go to Snoke and it seems very much like Hux will betray Kylo like the untrustworthy dog that he is and Kylo will stay the loyal and steady servant of the darkness, but Kylo is a nest of serpents held together by medical tape. And all of Hux’s research? Well, if you want to blow the most powerful Force user you’ve ever met’s head off his ugly shoulders? You might need a real firearm and some Force-resistant bullets.

Cue a very different fight against the Praetorian Guard. Rey shows up twenty minutes late with Starbucks to a room full of corpses and fire and Kylo “Ben Solo” Ren trying to hold his torso together while Armitage “General Hugs” Hux looks increasingly red-faced and distressed at a very small and screaming baby.

No lightsabers explode.

No one’s around to sign the paperwork on DJ’s deal so he fucks off on the first ship he can break into while Phasma’s calls keep going directly to Hux’s voicemail.

The Resistance makes it to Crait safely and Holdo does not explode anything and Rose does not have to contemplate kicking 500,000 stormtroopers to death with her own two feet. (I mean she doesn’t, but she still DOES.)

Phasma’s call goes through. 

“Hey I’ve got two big Resistance morons and a soccer ball.”

“Cool. We killed the Supreme Leader and also it’s a girl.”

“Congratulations, sir. Does she have a name?”

“Not yet, I was a little busy.”

Rey watches Kylo get increasingly pale. “Are you okay?”

“Not really,” he says.

Hux remembers that someone helped MAKE this baby and she’s probably fond of him or something. Maybe Hux is fond of him. He’s not sure yet exactly. But he would probably shoot the scavanger girl if she hurt him. Of course, he would probably shoot her anyway, y’know? Just because.

Chewbacca is sort of waiting for Rey to come back.

He does not expect her to come back in the company of the First Order’s three most powerful leaders and also Rose, Finn and a VERY ANGRY BB-8.

Also there’s a baby? It’s a very cute baby. She’s got Ben’s nose already.

“What’s her name?” he asks.

“Haven’t decided,” Kylo Ren says at the same time Rey says, “I don’t know.”

They glare at each other. Chewie does not smack Kylo upside the back of his head simple because it looks right now as though a stiff wind would knock him over just as well. Also, well, he wouldn’t have helped Rey with this COMPLETELY INSANE PLAN if he didn’t think Ben Solo could still come home.

He can’t. Really. This is not Ben Solo going to his mother. This is Kylo Ren going to General Organa with three and a half hostages and a burning desire to get some war criminals off the hook.

(Maybe DJ does a nice thing and leaves something explosive behind when he goes. Or he gives the whole First Order a computer virus or something. They’d deserve it.)

Anyway, Hux probably is still set on handing his daughter the whole known universe and does something incredibly stupid like pull a gun on Leia and gets every blaster in the room pointed at him while he’s holding the infant Skywalker scion. Kylo forcibly (haha) disarms everyone in the room and gently sets Hux on his damn fool ass and not so gently shuts his jaw so tight he can barely breathe. But he can still breathe.

This still unnamed baby is going to be a princess in a world where everyone won’t be trying to kill her all the time, isn’t that good enough for you? (It isn’t, actually, but Hux can make world domination a back-up plan for at least the next two hours.)

Phasma refuses to take off her helmet. Or talk to anyone.

Rey is going to loudly insist that they’re not that bad — and they have a baby! They can’t be bad? At least the baby is probably not bad! 

Leia is going to call Kylo “Ben” and so everyone else is going to follow suit as he bleeds internally and hates them all. He would still stab his uncle if he saw him.

(MAYBE HE DOES HAHA.)

Does Phasma particularly care if her life’s work is sacrificed on the altar of peace? Uh, as long as she still has her LIFE, not particularly. 

Empires, warships, armies can be rebuilt. The universe is always going to be there to conquer. Right? And "princess” doesn’t seem like such a bad title, really, when it’s his baby girl.

Kylo is still an angry, bitter sack of vipers. Hux now has two emotions and they’re both terrifying and involve firearms. Not saying they “fall in love,” but they do practice kissing and trade insults that are maybe affectionate? Hux kills more than one person who tries to get at Kylo with his bare hands and a energy blade. They try extremely hard to be good parents.

Phasma takes her immunity and fucking RETIRES to make LOTS OF MONEY doing what she’s GOOD AT which is fighting and not dying.

Anyway they name the baby Padme. She has a COMPLETELY HIDEOUS temper and blue eyes like her great-grandfather.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.