yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED.
also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha
anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason
side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.
and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.
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Thinking about why spinner has his forearms covered (I am ignoring Stain's influence)
(drabble under the cut)
CW: description of scars
The league was on the run and being around each other all the time meant they saw each other outside of their villain personas. Toga wore large sweaters and kept her hair pulled back - in braids, hair ties, pigtails, pinned - it didn't matter so long as it stayed out of her face. It wasn't uncommon to see Twice with his mask off but it never lasted long. Mr. Compress kept his face covered still - in a face mask or bandana and a hat - whatever was convenient. Dabi flitted in and out, hardly staying in one place for long. When he did, it was usually with a smoke and sans jacket. Spinner still seemed on edge and standoffish, with a long sleeved shirt or jacket on - different from his sleeveless Stain inspired shirt. Shigaraki was the same as always. He had no need to don a villain persona and his hands were as close as always.
Tapping away on a hand held game console, a game over screen flashed. Huffing out a breath, movement caught Shigaraki's eye. Glancing up, he saw Spinner pushing up his sleeves. Looking back down at his game, Shigaraki paused. He knew what those were. Shigaraki looked up through his eyelashes. Scars littered Spinner's forearms, crossing over one another in sporadic multitudes. Raised bumps, pale skin, scales missing, divets and uneven gashes. Some of them looked old - pale and barely there - others looked healed, but still stretching skin unevenly and brighter, not quite settled in the skin. Raising his eyes to briefly look at Spinner's relaxed face, Shigaraki put his attention back on his console. He stared at the screen. He measured the time it blinked the game over - flash flash flash. He thought. Dabi's scars had an obvious cause, it wasn't hard to guess how and why they covered so much of his body. A single cause with irritation from improper care and overuse. He himself was intimately familiar with his own. Shigaraki furrowed his eyebrows. He knew what skin biopsies looked like, various weapons and wounds, burns and impalements, and how they healed from his time around Nomus. He knew what old scars looked like, what new ones did, and how they overlapped on the skin. He scratched his neck, the uneven surface causing his nails to catch awkwardly as he pulled across. He glanced back up. Spinner had scars that looked like biopsies, but with rough edges from unsure cuts and ripped chunks from scales that never grew back. Scars that ripped up edges of nearby scales without dislodging them. Patches of skin that Shigaraki supposed lied covered underneath all Spinner's scales. Various ages and depths telling a story, a story that Spinner kept hidden and quiet. Clicking the restart button, Shigaraki narrowed his eyes. One day, he'd get that story from him.
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heyyyyyyy about me making everyone forget creator
yeah that was a lie, well not really I'm just preparing you guys for a story I'm making about what if my other persona who kinda needs an actual name turns evil and just wants all the attention for themselves and traps Creator then you guys come along save her blah blah blah
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Going through my mail like "insurance: eat shit", "health care provider: die", "this one sounds like a scam that could only happen in america", "rent due: why does it cost so much"
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Dearest,
I would rather have millions of arrows shoot through my heart than see you upset with me. The fact I'm why you're upset makes my heart snap and twinge. I'd rather die a thousand deaths over and over again than to live with that fact. You are art and I love art oh so much, I would love to spend years just to paint you and you alone. May i use you as my canvas? May I have the honor of painting you with the color of my lipstick and the color of the little nibbles I snuck in our intimate moments? Would you bestow this honor upon me darling?
No context I just wanted to write some stupid shit down before i forgot my writing exercise for the day
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Hayyy y'all still no update on the painting sorry! But what I am doing is testing out some new paints I got for my birthday! To see if I like them or not And was wondering if y'all had any ideas because I don't really know what to paint! So if you have any ideas please share I'm not starting any time soon so no need to rush! And you don't have to if you don't wanna/can't think of anything!
Wishing all who are reading this is an amazing day!
( also depending on how this little trial run goes I should be starting it soon!!!!) Love y'all!! 😁
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Being a part of the Star Wars fandom is such an experience, because I've come to find out that I also have to prepare myself for the wave of revisionist history that's going to come out from a certain side of the fandom. Like poc and female fans of the universe have called out this toxic behavior especially following new releases such as The Acolyte, only to be met with "Oh, but we loved Billy Dee Williams, so it's obvious that racism isn't the problem and can't exist in the fandom for that reason." Ignoring how Williams was harassed by, largely white, fans while at airports and going to pick up his daughter and had grown ass men telling him that they wanted to put him in a freezer. I'm not even going to get into the topic of how poc characters are held to different standards in fandom, especially compared to their white counterparts, but it's so ironic how some will say that racism is not apparent in these spaces, yet will yell until they are sore in the throat that what John Boyega, an award winner with more acting chops to his name than these incels, experienced had nothing to do with race but that he wasn't "talented enough." Sure Jan.
Then they'll say "We don't hate this character because she's a woman, we liked Portman as Padme just fine." Again, ignoring how Portman faced such visceral waves of hate from this fandom that she nearly thought she wouldn't be able to act again. People now act like they've always loved her as a shield for their hate towards new female characters and actresses, but it's very apparent that they really don't care about Padme to this day either outside of that. And the treatment that Kelly Marie Tran and Moses Ingram faced, that was a horrific mixture of both racism and misogyny, that got so bad to the point where their costars were even calling out these specific people in the fandom, and yet they still fall on the excuse that just because they "love" these already existing characters now, the treatment they are exhibiting towards these new actors and characters doesn't fall into any form of bigotry. It's a bold face lie and I wonder when they'll realize that no one believes it.
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Someone accusing democrats for cops shooting black people as if cops are perfect little angels when republicans are in power.
Never blocked a fucking moron so fast cos that stupidity was so massive it looked contagious. (Does this shit actually work? 😂)
Also, I'm spite voting for Kamala cos your "don't vote" tactics are annoying and I like pissing people off.
Yes, spite is my motivation for voting. Your feelings are irrelevant. May your failed propaganda world crumble 😌.
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In addition to the new main ingredient of "this time a character worries how they're seen in their marriage but its Jons turn on the hot seat", we now add a cup and a half of "Jon starts to obsess about negatively comparing himself to Rhaegar when it comes to his feelings about the reader".
We also add 2 tablespoons of "Jon goes through a having 2 fathers identity crisis again, but this time make it less angry and more lustful, because Stark men absolutely use sex as a coping mechanism for their problems." (See the recipe for "why does ptsd riddled Ned Stark have 6 goddamn kids" for reference).
Our dessert recipe will include a secret ingredient called "a 1000 miles away Aegon is having the same identity crisis but theres no lust, only sadness and make it Martell themed."
The recipe name this time is called "Rhaegar is still such an asshole that his only living sons fucking hate him."
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