#this is so dystopian oh my god

[chaiaurchaandni]

heavy suffocating clouds of gunpowder and possibly white phosphorous in gaza

[desire-mona]

FUCKING CHRIST

[lord-squiggletits]

"Rodimus is a better Prime because it didn't hurt for him to bond with the Matrix while for Optimus it did" headcanon/theory my beloathed.

One day I'm literally gonna snap and make a whole post addressing why what's wrong bc I'm tired of the inaccuracy and tired of ppl not understanding the Point TM of IDW and its version of the Matrix/Primacy and even more tired of people putting down Optimus in favor of Rodimus by essentially arguing that being unworthy means you deserve to be punished/put in pain bc you just weren't good enough to hold the Symbol of Ultimate Authority

[peanutseagle]

just finished reading the hunger games trilogy and when i tell you it changed me

[k-ru-h]

the 2023 AI craze is giving me such a significant brain aneurysm its seriously making me reconsider going into ai as like. the field i want to dedicate my studies to

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

I've only ever seen 'you get to kill one person as a baby' alternative history polls, but I think there's a more interesting version so let's play 'change one event in history'! (Go for what you think would do the most good or what would be the most chaotic choice. It's a thought experiment we're not the morals police!)

Very brief (and grossly oversimplified!) explanations under the cut.

unfortunately my education has been very eurocentric and I'm pretty hopeless at the nuances of history pre-19th century; this is as diverse as i could make it (which is not very diverse at all). Please feel free to add in the tags!

1) This assassination set WW1 in motion (triggered/enabled the first declaration of war)

2) Emmanuel de Grouchy was a general in Napoléon's army. Before the Battle of Waterloo he'd been given the order to cut off the Prussian General Blücher, but Blücher had already got to the battlefield so de Grouchy went off on a pointless search with his 40-50k soldiers instead of joining the battle, which many consider a significant reason for Napoléon's defeat.

3) i.e., make trouble after Columbus leaves for America but before he arrives there.

4) Georg Elser attempted to set off a bomb during a Hitler speech at a beer hall. (There were other attempts on Hitler's life both before and after this, I just picked this one). The explosion failed to kill Hitler as he had moved his speech up half an hour and was gone by the time the bomb went off. It killed seven Nazis and a waitress. Elser was arrested, sent to a concentration camp and murdered days before its liberation at the end of the war. This has nothing to do with the question, I just hate that everyone only knows about the Stauffenberg one.

5) This position allowed Stalin to pick functionaries for key positions in the Soviet Union and thus pave his way to becoming Lenin's successor.

6) likely preventing the USA from creating a functional atomic bomb before the end of the war.

7) Günter Schabowski held the famous press conference which communicated the GDR's intention to allow East German citizens to cross into West Germany again without having to apply for government permission. Asked when this would come into effect, Schabowski replied, visibly uncertain, "to my knowledge, that is immediately. Right away". This led to crowds overwhelming the Berlin border crossings. The officers stationed there had received orders to mark the passports of all those crossing with a stamp that would barr them from re-entry into the GDR, but did not uphold this and instead simply opened the barrier as they feared violence would break out. This became the night the Berlin Wall fell.

8) The battle was a huge deal for German propaganda both at the time and later on and made especially Hindenburg a war hero, but I mostly picked it because I figure it'd be easiest to get them both at once during a battle. Both men were central to the decisions the German Empire made in WW1 (to such a degree that people have argued they effectively led the country) and both played a role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Ludendorff lent his credibility and fame to Hitler's Munich Beer Hall putsch in 1922, and Hindenburg went on to become the last president of Weimar Germany and appointed Hitler chancellor in 1933.

[village-for-rambles]

[Like a mantra] people still lived happy fufilling lives during the fall of the Roman Empire. People still lived happy fufilling lives during the fall of the Roman Empire. People still lived happy fufilling lives during the fall of the Roman Empire. Peop

[dragoncarrion]

Thinking about the time we had a literature assignment to write a dystopian short story and i literally made it about some guy being miserable bc he was in a capitalist society and then he kills himself in the end just because i was feeling le sad at the moment and also it was 11 pm

[esrah-rah-rasputin]

Me when my brain gives me a trilogy of loosely related nightmares despite waking up for a while in between them, all because I wore the wrong shirt to bed and got too warm: 🫠

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

I'm in class studying the hunger games for my degree, slay, literally

[saphoditesblog]

Hello, my name is Annika Stein. I'm a writer, aspiring, that is. I haven't published anything yet. But I really want to. I've been in a deep depression for years now and only wrote scraps and bits. My flame for writing has been reignited with a simple idea for a new trilogy series. It has given me a new deep burning passion for writing and also just life in general. I'm excited to share it with the world one day and first with anyone who finds this blog. I'll probably make an entire side blog for the series. It's called The Avarice Trilogy. I'm kind of workshopping the name but the Avarice really seems to stick. It's a series about how greed causes humanity's downfall.

[vanltys]

my favorite thing about the desc rpc is that when new ppl join they go through the phase of being like “wait ………… hear me out……. the REAL villain is BEAST” to “omg ………hot take……. auradon is a DYSTOPIAN!!!!!!!!!!” to “……..yall so many people would have gotten injured and died during the d2 battle……….” to “the core four actually kind of suck???”

[gaythingliker69]

if i see one more person use tiktok tagging bullshit on ao3 i’m gonna lose my fucking shit. the entire point is to tag your shit properly so people can mute and search for what they like. there is no algorithm. you doing this is actively harmful. fucking stop it, idk how many times this needs to be said

[walterdecourceys]

i know every young creative says this but if my future job involves working in any kind of office setting i will literally just remain unemployed

[glassamphibians]

everyone read this

[harryforguccy]

no way they made a reality competition show based off Squid Game?!?! did we not learn????????