#source: came to me in a dream

[azeofspades]

Sass, exhausted, probably to Flower and Thor: My fucking God, get a room

Patience spawning in from the dirt: GOD DOES NOT FUCK

[agardenandlibrary]

based on my exhaustive research, I now believe that tumblr is marking any excessively beige picture as "mature content"

[lecfoscism]

lamine momonga cubarsi chiikawa

[tremendously-crazy]

if sherlock holmes and john watson were in the modern era watson would have holmes saved on his phone as "sherlock <3" or some shi meanwhile holmes would have watson saved on his phone as "Dr. John H. Watson"

[sodaneko]

LALECHINGO!! ; a birthday event

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ it’s bingo! and also a raffle.

let’s party!! one thing about me is that is love a little event and since it’s my birthday month i felt like hosting one :3c

so: raffle time! but you gotta play some bingo first before you can participate. lemme give you a rundown on how it works.

what's the prize?

✰ a total of three 1k (or longer) fics from me! i don’t take requests so this is a rare chance to see something specific written by me ✰ the 3 winners will receive a wishlist form from me in which they can go wild ✰ haikyuu x reader only! gender of reader is for the winners to decide, i’ll write for all of them. ✰ not limited to sfw only (that being said: mdni)

details & rules (it looks like a lot, but i promise it's easy)

✰ to participate in the raffle, you gotta fill out the bingo cards! there’s ten of them in total at the end of this post. some are writing prompts, some are for reading, some to spread some kindness. you can grab and combine any that catch your interest.

✰ 1 bingo equals 1 point. if you manage to fill out an entire card, you’ll get 10 points, so 10x your name in the draw pot for the raffle. this means you can get up to 100 points in total if you fill out all ten cards completely.

✰ it’s not first come, first serve! you got two weeks to have fun with your bingo cards.

✰ this event is mostly about making fandom a little better for everyone, whether you’re a writer or a reader, no matter how you participate in it. this means you don’t have to show me proofs how you got these bingos. putting my trust in you that you won’t cheat <3

✰ since the prizes are gonna be fics by me, i would feel better knowing you actually like my works enough to follow me. however, it’s not a must to be a follower to participate. again, it’s more about fandom than me.

✰ writers picking up the writing prompts: it up to you how you use them! can be drabbles or headcanons, small fics, big fics, moodboards, not limited to haikyuu only. really whatever sparks your inspiration. you don’t even have to publish it or tag me in it (though i’d love to see ofc hehe), this is for YOU and your inspiration.

✰ do NOT bring any ai into this. i'll rip you to shreds

✰ once you’re finished, either reblog this post with your bingo cards or send me an ask with them (i won’t publish them, just for me to keep track)

✰ i’ll draw & announce the three winners on Jan 27th and will contact them through dms for their wishlist :3

card 1-6 ; for the writers

card 7 & 8 ; for the readers

card 9 & 10 ; for the kindness

that's all! have fun ♡ - Lale

[thepringlesofblood]

ok so like. murderbot is famously anti-food right? but consider. we know secunits have a sense of smell. it mentions liking/not liking plenty of smells across the series (the 'dirty sock' human smell, ART's showers smelling good.)

where i'm going with this is that good food smells good. and i don't think mb has ever been around any good food. like think. academic surveys, mining installations, close-quarters space travel, these are not places or occasions known for their cuisine. its experience of food in an olfactory sense is probably limited to ration packs & corporate cafeteria lunch settings. until relatively recently, it had never even been through the 'human' parts of stations before, where it may have smelled some sort of actual food in passing. it's probably seen plenty of other types of food on media, but never smelled any of it.

so imagine. come with me on a mind journey. mb stopping in on Mensah's actual house for some reason during the day, and one of her spouses or something is baking gingerbread (very much the kind of cookie that fills up the whole house with good smells). like. would it even recognize it as being food necessarily? gingerbread is very much one of those smells that everyone tries to recreate and no one quite can. I imagine it's not thrilled with the concept of ovens in general (humans please stop putting your hands in/near hot things), but imagine it frantically trying to place the smell and mensah being like hey you good? and it being like theres. a smell. something must be wrong somewhere. and mensah being like oh no that's just gingerbread, tano's baking cookies. and it's like that's FOOD???

[incorrecthatchetfield]

[bitchboybabadook]

I just know in my heart of hearts that Torbek wears one of those fucky little gay 2000's scarves that don't do shit (i also highly suspect he uses it to wipe his tears and snot </3)

...y'know? one of t h o s e

[sophies-earbuds]

sophie: wait, wait, wait, what's your plan?

keefe: i just told you, rescue everyone and make it home safely

sophie: okay. that's not a plan, that's a wishlist

[thebouldersconflictedfeelings]

The mutation must survive...

Jayce will understand.

And he did.

[tomlinfonda]

HELLY WILL GO GET THE MAP BECAUSE SHE IS A GOOD PERSON AND SHE HAS THE GUTS AND SHE WANTS TO HELP MS. CASEY AND SHE’LL FIND THE HALLWAY AND SHE’LL GET ON THE ELEVATOR AND THEN SHE’LL REACH THE TRAINING FLOOR AND SHE’LL BE HELENA!!!!! AND EVERYTHING WILL BE LOST!!! IN TRYING TO BE HER SAVIOUR, SHE'LL PUT THE ONLY MAP TO HER IN THE HANDS OF HER CAPTOR!!!

[oynonrings]

has anybody done this yet

[closetnerd62]

Soda: would you rather kill Steve-

Ponyboy: yes, kill him

Soda: I didn’t say the other-

Pony: I don’t need to hear it.

[shamelesstragedyenjoyer]

"Stop white washing comics characters!" I whisper as I shamelessly POC wash them 👩🏾‍💻

[red-ruth]

Pecco: You know, I know this season wasn’t the best, but we’ll grow and learn from it. In 2025 I’ll come back stronger, and better, and we will take the fight all the way to the end 🙏💪

Gigi Dalligna and Davide Tardozzi with the Marc Marquez 2025 pre-engraved plaque and the 9 time world championship freshly printed tshirts up their asses: go get em baby 😘

[mandatory-blog-stop-asking]

fuck it, a post about how brazilian politics are dead and we can't resurrect them easily

edit: olá amigos e amigas e amigues e tal, eu só quero deixar bem claro que sou brasileiro, aparentemente isso não estava claro e falar inglês na internet pelo jeito é coisa de gringo. fique calmo e relaxe, saiba que escrevi tudo isso com uma tapioca com carne de sol numa mão e uma caipirinha na outra, num sol de matar com um cachorro caramelo latindo do lado de fora da casa.

So as hypothetical polls start coming out and people start talking about who they're gonna vote for, I'm reminiscing about a thousand years ago last week when I said I had a lot of thoughts about the death of Brazilian democracy and how it's turbo fucked to the point where there is really no good way out of either a collapse or a slow death by a thousand needles, either way leading to a complete overall; probably for the worse. I'm adding the break here just in case this isn't interesting to you, just know that I'm mad and this is a big rant.

Also, why am I not writing this for a Brazilian audience? Because I'm fucking tired of talking about this to Brazilians only to get a "yeah well it is what it is" response, and also because I'll be real most people I talk to here can't roll their Rs.

Look at this dude, his name is Lula. His name is Luiz, but people kept calling him Lula (Portuguese for squid, it sounds better than it translates as I swear) so he just added it legally to his name:

This dude has been the president of Brazil for two and a half mandates by now, albeit not all in a row. This shouldn't be legally possible, but there's some reasons why it's happening.

We had a pretty brutal dictatorship back in the 20th century, but it was a pretty unique dictatorship: we actually had political parties and elections, the brutal military regime just kept winning them (since they were all scams, as a dictatorship will ensure), and electing different military personnel to be the "president" every once in a while.

This meant that contrary to a lot of Latin America that unified around one single family or one single guy, we had a plethora of dictators all of which had unique approaches to appeasing the army and the population. Some were worse than others but overall it meant Brazilian politics in the 60s-80s were a rather unique, vibrant mixture of horrible, depressing abuses of human life and thriving counter-culture movements that aimed at destroying the oppressors.

From Soviet-sponsored yet frustrated communist coups to protest songs that are still sung to this day, we have a lot of big political personalities in our history. After the mid-80s when the dictatorship officially ended and democratic processes became the norm, we had several would-be politicians trying to grasp control over a very young, very fragile democracy.

Enter Lula. A radical, a socialist, a loud man who spoke about the plight of the proletariat, the rise of the working class and the dominant class, the oppression of the rich toward the poor, etc etc you know the drill. He never won an election like this. We instead kept electing demagogues and idiots-- we had our first impeachment almost right away against a loser and a thief who elected himself by appearing in political ads dressed like James Bond in jetskis, shooting guns at signs saying "INFLATION", it's.. it's a colorful democracy, is what I'm trying to establish.

(i unfortunately do not have any visuals of Collor in a stupid James Bond suit because those have apparently been scrapped off Youtube, just, please believe me, shit was wild)

So, Lula spends some time away from the limelight after his second or third defeat in a row, goes abroad a bit, learns some real politik tech from the French, and comes back a changed man. A calmer man, a nicer man, a man who speaks slowlier and who seems less concerned with aggressively dragging the country into a socialist utopia and more concerned with putting food into poor people's tables. This is a good objective to have and would bring Brazil into a level of unprecedented wealth and social comfort.

I'm talking lower and middle class going to Disneyland for vacations, I'm talking a complete overall of the concept of social class as we move from a 3-tiered pyramid system to using the entire alphabet to denote someone's social class-- with sociologists quickly realizing how fucking useless it is to say someone is in Class H as opposed to Class F. We're talking success the likes of which economists dream of. One real was nearly equivalent to a dollar at some point. Not exactly only because of him, but he definitely maintained it.

But then the systems began to become complacent, people in power started wanting more money than their salaries warranted them, and old habits came back into vogue. Mid-late aughts Brazilian politics were famously corrupt and Lula absolutely had a hand in maintaining it-- if not being an active accountant of dirty money, at the very least not stopping it when he definitely knew it was happening, and definitely knew who was behind it.

I'm not covering that for the purposes of this dumb little big rant, you can look up books about OPERATION CAR WASH for a police-sponsored, government-approved account of the biggest political trial in the history of the continent, as our judges and federal investigators managed to accrue enough evidence to persecute dozens if not hundreds of politicians for money laundering, stealing, thieving, extortion and overall being bad guys. And Lula was among them, which meant he went to jail for several years.

Enter dumbass number two. Here's this guy, he's called Bolsonaro.

If he looks like he's in pain in this picture, don't worry; it's because he's in the process of being stabbed in the intestines. Anyway, this enormous piece of shit fascist racist son of a bitch -- allegedly, of course -- has been a pain in the ass in the military for decades. He has at least one court martial against him because of one time he tried to bomb his superiors. The military judge ended up having to drop the charges due to lack of evidence, but not before making sure to add to the record: "Bolsonaro shouldn't even be in charge of a kitchen, much less any part of the military".

So this guy becomes president, right? He becomes president and he ruins everything that wasn't already ruined. I'm talking "Trump of the Tropics" type ruining everything; I'm talking tanking the real to the point where it never recovered, I'm talking buying 20 houses for himself with government cash and never having to give back a single one of them, I'm talking over half a million dead from COVID because he kept insisting people take fucking horse pills--

It is a genuine worst case scenario for a relatively young democracy. He was not running against Lula, who is, again, in jail by now, but he came after both Lula's impeached protégé and the guy who tanked the economy after we took her out of office (probably on fraudulent charges too, but, oh well). There is a definite feeling that the history of new millennium Brazilian democracy begins with Lula and ends with Bolsonaro, because we really, really didn't resolve this problem. We didn't come up with a way to make sure our democracy was free from clear bad faith actors who were in cahoots with foreign powers to undermine our processes. We didn't figure out shit.

What we did was we took Lula out of jail and made him president again. And like, was that the best thing we could do? No. Was that the best idea for the sake of the constitution? No. Did that irreparably destroy our democratic processes and set us back to an era of dangerous precedent that had previously been used to justify horrible abuses in similar democracies? Absolutely.

But, look, I gotta make sure you understand, Bolsonaro really sucks, and we were in a real bind. We have since made sure he can't legally run for election for a few years and we are in the process of persecuting him (post-failed impeachment, too, which mean it's already a kinda humiliating runback) so he dies in prison. But that doesn't matter as much as the fact that now Lula is halfway through an experimental, unprecedented, legally hitherto thought impossible third mandate as president.

And I woke up to Datafolha, one of our best polling and data publications, telling me that if he runs for a fourth, this should be the result.

And like, again, look.

Is this the worst case scenario? No.

Is this the worst chart I've ever seen? No.

Do I want Tarcísio, a previously unmentioned dumbass -- allegedly --, a feckless Bolsonaro minion who's complicit in genocide -- allegedly -- and doesn't seem to have a single thought that isn't related to the military and conservative values in his empty little head, to be president? Holy shit no.

But, so, like, okay, a fourth Lula term. Maybe one that he gets to with 50.2% of votes, again, like he did for the third time.

What the fuck, man?

These are much more accurate than your regular voting numbers. While in North America and several European countries only about 25% of the population vote, voting is mandatory in Brazil-- you have to at the very least legally justify why you didn't vote in any of our elections in order to stay in good standing with the law. That kind of is a good measure of the country's will, and god damn it shit fuck, a marginal error is no way to elect federal office.

We are in the nightmare that the United States like to pretend they are, in which while they pretend that there is a whole half of the country that adores Trump and fascism and oligarchy, we actually have tangible, reliable measures that this might be the case. That the actions of bad faith actors have degraded our education, maintenance and government apparatus to such an extent that it's not just a few 20% of the country who actually show up to vote that are making the world a worse place, it's, oh god, it's literally half, it's half on like a mathematical ideal of what half is.

And the more I think about it the more I realize that there is no way out of this situation. Lula is the single politician in the business who anyone cares about that isn't also a blatant nostalgia grab for the dictatorship era, and he's ailing and aging and weak. His third mandate has been marked by economical mistakes and a lack of will of seeing things halfway, because then they wouldn't be perfect. He's not the same guy he used to be back in the 80s, he's not even the same guy he used to be back in the 2000s, but he's the only one people give a shit about. Democracy has decided he wins the popularity contest.

And like, how could he not? The options are the son, wife, or any other protégé of a loser -- allegedly-- who wants to suck Trump's cock-- erotically-- and is deathly afraid of rotting in jail, giving interviews about how it isn't fair that the consequences of his actions landed him in the same place he used to mock Lula for being in. And I don't even need to add an "allegedly" to that one, because that's all matter of public record! He has begged for amnesty from the same dude he said he would bring back the death penalty so he could pull the trigger himself on! Begged!

This is not what democracy should be. We should not be immediately back to these populist false choices just because they're comfortable. Every aspect of political life has devolved into a Lula-core or Bolsonaro-core choice; every mayor, every governor, every god damn deputy aligns themselves with either of them. The Centrists align themselves with them. The neutrals align themselves with them. The fucking clowns and cosplayers, who are legally allowed to run as their characters (I'm talking literally Batman here) have aligned themselves with them.

In less than half a century we are stun-locked into a political tug of war between a man who can only stay in power if we completely ignore the Constitution and what it stands for, and a man who wants to rip the Constitution in several pieces so he can use them as napkins for a few weeks before relinquishing control to foreign powers. The population is utterly bored of politics and basically doesn't care. The walks and protests for and against either of these sides are marred by uninterested parties within and without, and both fake news media and conservative covers that make them all sound the same.

There's genuinely no way out of this through the tools we have been given. There is no third option, no attempt at getting at one, and no grassroots movement that is worth any salt acting anywhere. They have successfully made a 200-million-people strong country, one of the biggest in the world, utterly indifferent to what happens to it in the next five years.

And, yes, I understand what the US is going through is somewhat similar-- trust me, you people imported a lot of this situation to my place while I used to live there, I know it's similar-- but what you don't understand is that contrary to the US, we have suffered through a dictatorship. We know how bad it gets when people lose all faith in a government and leave it open to attack by organized bad faith actors. Fucking hell, you all have seen I'm Still Here! You celebrated those fucking Oscars with us! You've seen what our artists think of that time!

There is no real end to this rant. I just got thrown into the spiral when watching those numbers. We're gonna have a mediocre Lula presidency until he dies from a fall in his bathroom and then the military are taking over. It's so fucking busted and there's really nothing anyone can do about it because the government is so corrupt.

please feel free to share this post as something to laugh at and point to every source as to why the brazilian democracy is actually stronger than ever and not at all at the end of the process of destroying itself, i would adore to be convinced otherwise.