#is she conservative?

[chirpsythismorning]

Reading some articles on Smalltown Boy (1984) and noticed they always mention Margaret Thatcher. Which reminds me of in s2 when Karen mentions Margaret Thatcher like moments after/before we get a shot of a Reagan sign on the Wheeler’s front lawn…

Can someone explain to me what Karen’s comment meant?

I’m just wondering what we’re expected to assume based on what’s being alluded to here??.

[thedisablednaturalist]

Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

[ydteus]

The Third House | Book One

Coronabeth Tridentarius | Ianthe Tridentarius

[plague-of-frog]

This is the only person I would accept the words "I'm just built different" from.

[tashthefirst]

Hilarious! I'd much rather trust David Tennant than a Tory.

[sharkface]

If there are supposedly hordes of trans women sniffing out shy moody androgynous goth boys and turning them into extroverted freaky raver puppygirls explain why hasn't it happened to me yet. Am I not pretty enough

[jyndor]

olivia cook + ALICENT HIGHTOWER

[zephyrine-gale]

day 4 of one dan heng a day until he comes out plagued by the past

day 3 renheng i think i hauve mara

[galactic-rhea]

It's ranting hours sunday for me: Y' know, I think when people complain soooo much about Padmé getting with Anakin, they're failing to see a lot of things. BUT ESPECIALLY...That it was her choice, and if speaks a lot of her character and personality.

She was already done dirty by the movies by getting so many deleted scenes, but then if you try to take away the agency she had on marrying a human disaster or her choices, like her forgiveness/understanding, it's actually undermining and flattening her character.

The fact is that she's actually very similar to Anakin, she's stubborn, deeply traumatized, compromises a lot for the sake of others and loves beyond reasoning. We, the audience, know that Anakin will become Darth Vader and one of the most iconic villains of history; so everything he does can be seem as a red flag that really isn't there.

From Padmé's POV, Anakin has done terrible things, but it's capable of incredible acts of love and compassion. They're in circumstances that aren't normal at all, she was queen at 14, and he was born a slave and joined the space wizard monks and his normal is kill or be killed. Our modern and omniscient POV can't be applied onto them because there's no point of comparison in this sci-fi-shakespearen tragedy-soap-opera-fantasy.

Besides...she was actually right in the end, and I don't believe is "feminist" or progressive to take away a big part of her core personality, that actually had repercussions in the whole story, and make her out to be either unaware and naive of marrying a monster, or (the worst one, imo) being jedi-mind-tricked-brainwashed-abused by her husband.

The "right, correct, girlboss and queen" actitude does more damage than help, leave Padmé to be a person. A person who wanted to have a fairytale romance with some guy who would fight for her and makes her laugh.

Also, the hell why you wanna blame her for something Anakin does, come on. That's a whole other can of worms, though. My point is, that trying to avoid or re-work-or re-contextualize the fact that she chose Anakin despite him literally telling her about murdering a whole village, is actually changing a big chunk of her personality traits.

She was a child queen, then a politician at the edge of an inminent war, manipulated by the same guy that groomed Anakin into a massive murderer, saw her people being taken into camps, had assasination attempts weekly and had to rip off of her individualism by becoming a public figure, giving up her sense of being a person by having several almost identical decoys, she had to stop being just Padmé to be Queen and then Senator Amidala and she did all of that showing little to no emotion.

Then Anakin does all what she herself had to rip off of her in order to be a politician: Honest, passionate, and able to show emotions; like love or anger.

She has morals and she represents democracy and justice, in a way. But I fully believe that inside her she had the same passionate anger and love capable of burning the galaxy that we know Anakin had, which makes them different sides of the same coin, and I think she realized that. Anakin perhaps didn't , as he never stopped of seeing himself as a slave and therefore inferior, whereas he held Padmé very highly, but I think Padmé saw them both as equals. She didn't have a "I can fix him" mentality, she had a "We're the same, we're both lonely, confused, hurting and scared of losing everything. And if he's like me, then I know he can do the right thing for love."

In other words: She was as insane as her husband, she only seems normal because she wasn't put into the monk warrior order and groomed by the devil for over a decade. (And I don't mean insane as, 'she's crazy for loving a murderer' harley quinn style, I just meant it on a daring, hopeless romantic and tenacious way)

[daegu-based-terrorist]

yeonmi park voice: in north korea shirts that are 3/4s lengths are banned since they represent the american pop culture in the 80s and kim jong ils unlucky number was 8... so we could never wear them... LAWDD PEOPLE WILL SAY ANYTHINGGG

She will say absolute bullshit like your lovely creative example (seriously how do you keep coming up with these I want to study your brain) and tumblrinas will come on here and be like:

Like no ma’am she isn’t “harmful but not malicious” she is active part of the imperial media apparatus which seeks to manufacture consent for a wide scale invasion into and the forceful collapse of the DPRK. Which inherently would include the mass murder of my people and the people that she has forsaken.

I hope she kills herself genuinely I hope the guilt eats her up so bad that one day she just takes all the pills in her house.

Also anytime you hear going on about how bad life was remember she grew up here:

She did not live in the trenches or on a small collective farm she lived in a minor city not much different to the one of my childhood.

[dunmeshistash]

the elf queen had also implied she had eaten monster meat a long time ago (around chapter 95 or 96 i think?) so that's intriguing. must have been during her adventuring days

Chapter 96, truly a queen

[perereiii]

canons your heads. gravity falls edition

Ford:

PTSD from the whole bill thing

Arthritis (hands and knees affect him the most)

His right eye is completely blind from the whole bill thing

His right ear is partially deaf from both the whole bill thing and dimensional stuff

Frequent headaches and migraines due to the metal plate in his head. his surgery was done in a cave by someone he just met. guys.

He developed dyspnea (air hunger) while traveling through dimensions

Autistic

SzPD (schizoid personality disorder)

OCPD (obsessive compulsive personality disorder) (NOT ocd)

Dipper:

PoTS

Wears compression socks constantly (he probably should get a cane too but that’s for later dipper to deal with)

AuDHD

PTSD from the whole bill thing (number 2) + C-PTSD from childhood. I smell generational trauma here

Unexplained back pain after the whole bill thing (number 2)

Nearsighted but doesn’t want to admit it

Had a stutter. It comes out when his emotions run high

GAD (generalized anxiety)

Mabel:

AuDHD

hEDS

Farsighted and is waiting to get back home to buy some cool new glasses (This was discovered over the summer)

Echolalia

Dyslexia + dyscalculia

Auditory processing disorder

Stan:

C-PTSD from childhood and PTSD from adulthood

Dyslexia + dyscalculia + dysgraphia

ADHD

Arthritis (worse than Ford’s) (get this man a functional cane please)

Cateracts in both eyes

Partially deaf in his right ear, fully deaf in his left

[tauforged]

posting every single one of the hex emojis/stickers that i've made thus far all in one place!!!!! had wayyyyy too much fun with these... and took the opportunity to flesh out some headcanons while i was at it :P some alternate crops/textless versions under the cut alsoo if anyone else wants to use them for evil in their discord servers

[hello-eeveev]

hey. hey.

future sending stone messages to Caleb might include Essek updates 👀

[mold-girl]

does op think that male authors who rape women dont use their money and further influence to abuse more women? does op know that the "problematic work" in question is usually portrayals of how its ok to abuse women, which takes away womens (a disadvantaged groups) social rights and is worse than wizard books?

[anghraine]

I just read another good Atlantic article, "Kamala Harris and the Rise of Neobitherism," by Adam Serwer. I got it via a gift link on Bluesky, so the paywall hell described by the last Atlantic article I linked would be in effect for any direct link, but you should be able to find it.

Anyway, an excerpt [CW for various racisms, slavery, rape]: