#so let me get this straight

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Where is the International protection the Palestinian people is entitled to when the occupying power violates international law and harms those it is obliged to protect. Aren't Palestinians lives worth saving?

-Riyad Mansour (Palestinian representative to the UN)

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My Nesscas headcanon is that Lucas thinks that Ness is really cool and intimedating but Ness is actually a huge loser

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applauding the women in motherland for making the world’s worst romantic decisions

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oh god no wait they’re in Cal’s room

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Y’all ever had that thing happen where you make a joke/ are laughing at someone else’s joke and apparently laugh too loud or too much or for too long and someone gives you That Look tm and says “it’s not that funny.😐”? So then you just kinda stop laughing like 😀 and immediately stop talking for a while?

Like I was doing good and having a good time and assumed that people were enjoying my company but like now I don’t know what to do?

I was under the impression that we were all having a good time but I have now apparently been enjoying myself too much and apparently that was wrong now? Wtf??

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HOORAY HOMESTUCK! Happy birthday to the webcomic that changed my life 😁🫶

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scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

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Officer Cop-Cake 5x03 / 6x06

[i-am-not-a-who-i-am-a-what]

so about the header that proceeded today's statement:

Viability as agent: Low

Viability as subject: None

Viability as catalyst: Medium

i didn't know what to think of this part of the entry at first, but the longer the statement went on... was the institute in this universe trying to manufacture avatars?

the dice can't do anything without someone to use them, they can't be an "agent" by themselves, but might be capable of manipulation, so in that aspect their viability is "low."

the dice could be a "subject" in the sense that they could use further studying, but the statement itself was a very thorough investigation of their workings, so in that aspect their viability is "none."

the dice seem to influence their holder to roll them, or at least find more victims to roll them, and could therefore be described as a "catalyst" for someone's becoming. but, as seen in the statement, their owner can give the dice to someone else (albeit not without consequences), so in that aspect their viability is only "medium."

so what about the line following all this, what does "Recommend referral to Catalytics for Enrichment applicability assessment" mean? if we go by this interpretation, i'd say it could mean the institute wanted to find a way to make the dice even more potent as an artifact, maybe even remove that pesky ability for their owner to reject them.

imho all of this this brings a whole new level of context to the events of episode seven, of unknown violent agents going after an influx of objects that seemed straight out of artifact storage. was that the nature of the titular "magnus protocol" first mentioned in episode four, the one that involved the starkwall group? containing or destroying potential artifacts before the institute could get their hands on them?

it also makes their "gifted kids program," and sam's link to it as one of the kids being studied, all the more horrifying to think about. was it not just avatars in general they were after, but child avatars specifically? no wonder gertrude got so defensive over the possibility of sam and celia dragging gerry back into the institute's business last episode, we all picked up on her clearly knowing more than she's letting on but now we might know the shape of that information a bit better.

and one final bit of food for thought... this statement had a lot of familiar themes, didn't it? free will or the illusion of it, gambling and not-so-random chance, the statement giver being done in by one final hit from what feels like a bit of an addition... all hallmarks of a certain mother of puppets. doesn't it seem fitting that "chester" would use this kind of statement to warn sam about what harm pursuing the magnus institute could bring to him, considering the one his voice might draw from? and doesn't it seem so painfully ironic that his warning seems to have only driven sam further into that web?

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THAT right there, ladies and gentlemen, is a LOVE CONFESSION

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