#privilege card

[reality-detective]

[annarexcouture]

[hypewinter]

Sam, Ellie and Danny are all attending a Wayne Gala. Sam is there with her parents and Ellie is there with a semi redeemed Vlad. Danny is accompanying Ellie just to make sure the fruitloop is true to his word.

Ellie decides that night is a brilliant night to be a little shit and Sam joins her as a big middle finger to her parents. Ordinarily, Danny would also join in on the fun, but he is currently trying to avoid someone who's name rhymes with Roose Rain. Apparently he has a habit of adopting black haired blue eyed kids.

This leads to Danny becoming the one thing he never wanted to be. Responsible. Now he has to run around, corralling his friend and little sister before they draw too much attention.

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Drew out that one scene when Stan(Alex) gives us some crazy lore in The Land Before Swine commentary

[ashchoo]

errrmmm who posted that 🤨?? @clownsuu part 2 of the girlbosses 💪💪

anyways some angst :) tw! For blood, death, and grief

[crystallizsch]

GOOD MORNING HELP ME

I AM STILL NOT OVER IDIA’S CHIBI JAMIL

HE LOOKS SO HAPPY I WANT TO SHAKE HIM

[harringroveera]

From the moment Jim & Joyce adopt Billy, he’s always gonna use the mom card

[curi0uscreature]

* Besides his “seems weird and suspicious but is literally just like that” and “he’s just like me” factor I swear this was also another reason I loved Otto so much. She has the cool grandma swag

[goodluckdetective]

Okay a quick note:

Probably not Moral OCD: guilt or distress about suffering in the world when you aren’t facing that suffering yourself

Potentially Moral OCD: deciding that if you don’t spend almost every second reading the news that you do nothing but refresh the news. Taking a second to eat or drink water is unacceptable and every time you do, you rake yourself over the coals for daring to do such a thing. You must eat less next time in penance.

Probably Not Moral OCD: guilt or distress about your consumption habits and their impact on the environment

Potentially Moral OCD: such guilt or distress about your consumption habits that you refuse to throw anything out and begin hoarding items and or refusing to leave your apartment less you hurt the environment more.

Probably Not moral OCD: occasionally feeling bad or guilty about something you did wrong in the past

Potentially Moral OCD: obsessing about something you did wrong or bad in the past and spending hours and hours thinking about all the things like it you did wrong that you neglect basic tasks and functions.

It’s not just guilt. It’s perfectly normal (and mostly a good sign) to feel bad about bad things in the world. It’s feelings of guilt that lead to compulsive actions that do nothing to actually solve the issue you’re guilty about.

[coffeeebomb]

It seriously started from a comment and it never left my head till it was sketched out. That is, until I wanted to colour it and had to figure out how to translate the WIP to the final product.

There's a lot of handwaving and blind mixing of her original armour design and supposedly traditional Malaysian/Indonesian clothing, but it was fun and I hide behind the "artistic licensing" excuse. But it was fun to translate Bloodthirst into a keris, especially considering the blade itself was curved to begin with.

This honestly took way too long in between personal and work related situations, but it was fun to come up with, even if 80% of the extra work I agonised over was self-inflicted lmao.

Again, hats off to the genius idea/concept from @si-lantro.

[aellivi]

They're silly

[lord-squiggletits]

Pharma's place in a Functionist society (headcanon)

So I've talked in some previous posts about all the reasons that Pharma isn't a functionist because canon never showed him espousing functionist ideals + he's actually in a place to be a victim of functionism. And I've been working on a Pharma-centric oneshot that made me put into words the best metaphor I can think of for Pharma's relationship with Functionism:

He doesn't support Functionism, but is simultaneously a beneficiary of it and also marginalized by it, because his position of being forged both a doctor and a jet basically turns him into a "token minority" of sorts.

I know that sounds kind of silly or maybe like a clumsy political allegory, but hear me out. There are a couple facts about Pharma and the circumstances of his forging that put him at the crossroads between privilege and marginalization within Functionism:

Tyrest says that Pharma was "famous for being forged." Not famous for being a forged medic-- otherwise surely Ratchet would be just as noteworthy-- but famous for being FORGED. But also, note that this is an opinion that SOCIETY had about Pharma, not something that Pharma espouses about himself. (For the sake of an example, Pharma isn't Starscream, who has an explicit, deep-seated need for others' love and approval. Pharma himself doesn't express any opinions on his own popularity or convey that fame/adoration is something he wants.)

Functionism on Cybertron held that if someone was born with a certain alt-mode, they can/should only have certain jobs. For people born with flight alt-modes, those people were almost always regulated to military or transportation/courier jobs

SIMULTANEOUSLY, Pharma was forged with medic hands, which under a Functionist society were viewed as the peak of medical care and all the best doctors were forged or at least had a "special something" that non-forged hands lacked (according to Ratchet).

So taken in combination, this means that from the moment of Pharma's birth, he straddled a line of Functionism between two different "predestined" paths for him, where he was simultaneously forged to be a doctor and also forged to fly, fitting into BOTH of these categories despite norms of Functionism which say you're one or the other. And I speculate that the reason Pharma is "famous for being forged" is precisely because of those lines he straddles: his very existence is a contradiction, but he was also FORGED that way. The same creed that dictated the two different functions of "hands" and "alt-mode" also says that Pharma should be what he was born to be. What he was born to be was a forged medic jet.

In my opinion, I think that being "famous for being forged" is sort of like a token-minority situation for Pharma, where perhaps Pharma was seen as a curiosity or even something exotic, not just as a person. Maybe because he was a jet and people assumed jets were only soldiers/transportation, a lot of his achievements were put in the light of "Oh, he's a really amazing doctor, for a jet" or "It's crazy that he's a doctor AND a jet at the same time". The attention Pharma received for the unique circumstances of his birth WAS positive, but it would've likely been framed in a bit of a condescending way, as if Pharma is noteworthy and famous not for being a good doctor, but for being a good doctor despite being born a jet.

So I would say that as far as Pharma's personal experience with Functionism, he simultaneously experienced privilege and marginalization. He enjoyed the privileges of being a medic while avoiding the restrictions of being a flight frame. However, a lot of the idolization and attention he received would have also come from a place of tokenizing Pharma: he's "famous for being forged," because in this society he's defying expectations merely for existing as himself. That is to say, Pharma in a Functionist society wasn't treated as remarkable because of who he is as a person and how hard he worked to be a good doctor; he was treated as remarkable for the circumstances of his forging, something he had no control over and can't change, and apparently Pharma being a forged medic jet is such a noteworthy origin that he's "famous" for it.

The above paragraph is purely headcanon, of course, but I like to imagine that part of Pharma's reason for having a big ego isn't out of simple vanity or insecurity, but because of a sort of "gifted student" syndrome, in a sense. From the moment he was forged he was treated as a rarity and an incredible phenomenon, and he would have had to work incredibly hard to be seen as "an incredible doctor" in his own right rather than just "that forged medic jet." Maybe, as a jet, he also had something to prove; he had to show to a Functionist society that being a jet doesn't make him an inferior doctor and that his alt-mode has nothing to do with his skills at his profession.

That is to say, I don't think Pharma would have been openly anti-Functionist, or had many opinions about it at all. I actually lean towards the interpretation that Pharma basically saw himself as getting lucky with the way he was forged and being content with the fact that he'd managed to carve out a reputation for himself as being incredibly skilled. However, Pharma not getting involved politically in Functionism doesn't change the fact that he WOULD have had a very complicated relationship with Functionism, in that alt-mode discrimination would have had an effect on him even though he was in the scientific/medical class and supposedly privileged.

[nikkiissleepy]

cn announced a temporary event shop where you can exchange STAMINA for gems, privilege cards, fantasy tickets and even dyes for hair and clothes, INCLUDING URs... what the fuck this is insane

[thebloodredraven]

The "why are people criticizing romance tarot readers, I don't want to do shadow work readings" shit I saw on here a few months ago did a lot to my psyche, mostly make me realize I should not be consuming that content as much as I have been over the past few years.

I also learned that anyone who has a problem with doing shadow work or self reflection readings but obsesses over romance are probably suffering with limerence like me and that snapped me tf awake

Edit: also what the FUCK do you mean "if this pile just sounds like it's describing yourself, that just means your person is mirroring you!!" NO???? THAT MEANS YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON YOURSELF BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE WHY ARE WE SAYING THIS TO IMPRESSIONABLE PEOPLE

[proudzionist]

Absurdity reaches new heights at #FIU #campus

They're crybaby fake victims just like the people they protest for .

Victim cards have been revoked Thank You very much !

[kaymarie-bell]

TWST JP September Schedule

Early:

Lost in the Book with Stitch event (cont.)

Main Story, Book 7 Chapter 5 release

Mid:

Jamil's Birthday Campaign

NRC Masterchef (Leona & Epel)

Late:

Ace's Birthday Campaign

Glorious Masquerade event rerun [New SSR: Rollo]