#we're going through hell here

[lil-tumbles]

Make no mistake- this is voter suppression.

A couple years back, a new law was voted in: voters would have to show very specific ID in order to vote. This was to try and limit the number of people who could vote.

Two days ago, the UK had an election. An estimated 200,000 people who tried to vote couldn't because they didn't have this very specific form of ID. Greenpeace posted a few examples- including a veteran trying to show their vet ID, which I'm pretty sure was supposed to be one of the valid ones, and one of the very politicians who voted this into law. Also, Boris Johnson.

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It looks like the general election this year will be taking place after my birthday, so I should be eligible to vote. I'll be 18, a British citizen- I should be able to vote. That is a right I have and denying me that right is limiting democracy.

I am too disabled to get a driving license. Luckily, I have a passport, but that's the only valid form of ID I've got that they'll allow. I can't help but wonder how many people haven't got the money to update their passport that's now out of date, people with new legal names who haven't updated their passport yet, other people who can't drive and don't have a passport for some other reason...

This election, it was an estimated 200,000 people. How many will it be in the next, much more important general election?

[vaguely-concerned]

literally never am I getting over the unexpected and acknowledged throughline in this game that 'part of the reason lucanis is so good at what he does is, surprisingly, that he has a frankly remarkable capacity for empathy'. his instinct for it is so strong that it even kicks in looking at actual demons he's been culturally conditioned to think of as mindless monsters and lets him realize that they are just as innocent in the middle of this horror as every other prisoner, which is what helps him survive in there and reach an understanding (and even a warmth beneath it all!) with spite, when spite was at his most terrified and confused and needed him. it makes him an incredibly kind and devoted friend, and a terrifying enemy. shorn of most of the compassion that goes along with it in his private life, he uses it in his professional one as one more knife to kill with as easily as he does in SO gently and softly helping to untangle lace harding's people pleasing problems with her. so long as the three categories of people -- family, enemies, targets -- stay distinct and separate in his head, this seems to be working out swimmingly for him! (well. that's probably what he'd tell you at least lol it's certainly helped him survive and do his job I'll give him that.) the MOMENT the lines start to blur, he is fucked. this dude was compartmentalized to hell and back long before the ossuary.

(he shares the 'incredible insight into people and human nature -- as long as I don't have to interpersonally engage with and adapt to it on the spot. b/c then you'll see the biggest mess you could ever imagine' trait with merrill. which does make quite a bit of sense in that they're written by the same person and also in my estimation a not entirely dissimilar shade of autistic lol. also yet another tick on the 'lucanis - iron bull parallels' tally haha. 'ben-hassrath, kid. we can use anything.' what if your circumstances and upbringing forced you to turn some of the kindest fundamental instincts inside you into tools for violence and you only got to keep guarded scraps of it for yourself. what if you're so fucking scared it'll break bad inside you some day and turn you into a monster and you'll end up hurting the people you love. saddest freeze slash dissociative trauma response handshake meme duo To Me)

[cuubism]

thinking about the AI fic writing posts that are going around, and as much as I hate generative AI I am kind of like... sickeningly curious what I would get back if I were to put my own writing in it and ask it to compose the next chapter. what will it spill back to me if I give it my heart? how well will it learn to wear my skin? will I step past the shimmering veil and, like in Annihilation, find an oil slick mirroring entity that mimics my every movement until it becomes me?

I'm curious. I want to know how good it is at copying my soul.

[annastrxng]

DO NOT STEAL MY ICONS. I swear on all that is HOLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so fed up. This is also why I am marking some of my graphics un-reblogable.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

your origin story is so relatable i love it. as someone was too young to watch the original trilogy when it came out and didn't watch many cartoons or comics/superhero stuff growing up, by the time I got interested the MCU really seemed like the only worthwhile option around at first. and tbh I do commend marvel for making the avengers so fun to get into via the movies (even if the mcu doth get too much after a bit) because the more you learn about comics the more you realise that they're not the most compelling team (affectionate) in the first place so really good job. but anyway yeah had drifted into dc for a good few years and then I was shown the deadpool 3 credits (not the movie) and despite having no knowledge of the x-men, the backstage bloopers, the music and the beach divorce just really awakened something in me

i congratulate you on reading That Whole Mess i typed up thank you VJLEAKVJ BUT REAL... i actually remember catching my bro watching the first avengers movie with some friends and Vaguely getting interested then: even if i dont LOVE love the avengers now, i do thank it for being a gateway into comics as a whole :]

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Been feeling Real Nostalgic lately, so I reread an old unfinished fic from 2017 yesterday and left a long comment telling the author how much I still loved it.

Today I got a ping from Ao3 telling me it updated and is now marked as complete, and the first thing I see when I open the new chapter is the author saying they finally decided to give the fic closer / an ending because of my nice comment :')))

Please leave comments on fics you love, no matter how old they are. It means the world to us writers.

[petrichorvoices]

Venting in tags, free to ignore.

[spynorth]

tag drop to raise them from the dead before i go to work

[bantersnatch]

something you might find amusing... my feed recommended me vic michaelis's actual tumblr as a blog that is "like bantersnatch." so, congrats on that, I guess.

sometimes i think about blocking vic so they can never see the nonsense i post on here. this is one of those days.

[blackvahana]

Central basket star tree... Egg laying ground of [the species Kos is]... Ocean of... blood and viscera... birthplace of eyes... Hell. Proving ground. Wrings the sins out of souls... Eyes.... Each leaf an eye and three... Thoughts of the Mother...

Ties all of them together if they actually reach out. The Star Mother manifested, she finally... wakes and answers the call. All realms that touch and birth the dream are... eggs on that tree. this is that tree. holder of all things, benevolent-malevolent, predator mother. Love, Mother of Fear.

[dark-twist-fairytales]

"Don't trust your thoughts after 9pm!"

Yeah, how the fukc do I get a song I despise out of my fucking head-

[the-flowerpatch]

i just want you t' know that no matter what happens we'll always be here fer you and we'll always wait fer you n' that i lov you i lov you i lov you i lov you i lov you. if i could I'd solve all yer problems if i could I'd fix everything fer you if i could I'd make everything better I'd do anything in my power to make you feel safe.

[mantisgodsdomain]

Fun fact about us: we really, really like doing crossovers, whether between different Things or just between different AUs of the same Thing. We deeply enjoy throwing things into each other and seeing the relative "normal" interact, tinkering with different potential outcomes of the same general thing, fucking around with culture clash and alternate realities, and all of that fun stuff.

Unfortunately, we also get into flavors of media that isn't quite finished a lot, and we often really want to throw together AUs that we have to write ourself together with things, which means that we're nearly constantly running into the same handful of roadblocks: it's really hard to write about stuff when people have no idea what you're talking about, and it's also really hard to write about stuff when you don't know half of what's going on.

This means that a decent chunk of our writing that is finished tends to stay in drafts - fics based on information that needs to be revealed in stuff we haven't yet written, fics based on media where half of the things we need to know aren't yet revealed in canon, and similar situations easily make up our second most common category of "finished but unpublished" and "finished except for That One Thing" fic (our first most common category is "we need to come up with a decent opening and writing a good hook is hard")

This is, of course, a hell of our own creation. A problem of our own authorship, that we still consistently fail to escape because of our sense of pride and unwillingness to turn out anything that isn't at least half-decent. Similar to the way that we force ourself to reread any media that we write fic of for the sake of accuracy before we can publish it. It makes things take longer, but allows us to ensure quality - though it may hold us back from a certain degree of self-indulgence, mischaracterization is the thing that bothers us most, and if we release a misreading or mischaracterization, that'll haunt us more than any level of soul-baring ever count.

Anyways, all of this is to say that peak self-indulgence for us looks like an isekai Dungeon Meshi/Runaway to the Stars crossover where we stick a handful of characters into the dungeon and let them just kind of cope with that for the forseeable future and the only thing stopping us from doing this is a sense of pride and the fact that Runaway to the Stars doesn't actually have finished & published books right now.

[skrunksthatwunk]

household enemy to the yyh watchthrough number one is the olympics. it's taken us a week to get two episodes into the gamemaster fight

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Under suffocating depths... would it have been easier to just swim down?

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[c-infinity-83]

WELL JESUS FUCKING CHRIST