#He's so round and polite

[wokeuplaughing]

love that big boss had a hard on for che guevara

his ass does not understand his politics outside of guerrilla warfare

#kaz is like did you read that book by him I lent you and bb is like No #I find what kaz says in the tape on hiroshima to be interesting #america bombed the country twice then turned around to 'aid' them in order to prevent the spread of communism #and he says that che's visit to the hospitals reminds him of his mom and goddd #using the country you bombed to further political reasons #of course imperialist japan was a Bad thing that needed to be stopped but of course that wasn't the US' intentions in bombing them #he says this and witnessed anti-vietnam protests during his college years #but still went onto join the JSDF and later became a drill sergeant for the US #in the tape where he talks about leaving the JSDF he says it's because he never felt like he could rub shoulders with his father in it #his politics are so interesting to me they are almost centralized to how much he loves war despite him hating the effects to it #he's this nationalist without a nation because he doesn't see himself as belonging to anything #oh damn I have been talkin in these tags lmao #I just love kaz he's fucking interesting love that dude the most round character in mgs

[why-even-ask]

I headcanon J. S. Steinman as a Cypriot. And it works.

Aphrodite's birthplace is in Cyprus and we all know how much Steinman loves Aphrodite. You know, make him a Jewish Cypriot. His family might as well come to Cyprus during the Ottoman period (late 16th century onwards) or even the late 19th century.

It very much works. Look at him. He looks like some Nicosian you'd see in your uncle's kebab shop or something. Just some guy you'd drink zivania and KEO with.

Wanna read more? Click on.

I say he has a mixed family of Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots, and of course his Jewish roots. I mean, Cypriots are kind of chill with religion; for example, the Linobambakis would have both Christian and Muslim traditions and celebrations. Nothing conflicts with anything, you just have a personal relationship with religion over there.

So, here's our favorite Jewish (and Greek and Turkish) Cypriot who worships Aphrodite.

[Using the "There's Something in the Sea" data to build a 'canon' background here.] So, he vanishes from the US around the late 1940s, right? Apparently, he had a friendship with someone for 32 years. Let's say that their friendship started around 1918. Steinman was known for his face reconstruction work at a young age, and it makes sense because it would line up with the First World War. If we say that Steinman took only a few years of education to get to that degree with extraordinary success, it would mean that he was in the US at least by 1914.

It means that, in the game (Bioshock 1 - 1960), Steinman is at least 65 years old.

And, well, building a headcanon here: Let's say that his family left Cyprus because of the British occupation getting stricter with taxes and even hinting at conscription if/when the war broke out.

Now, imagine him.

He still misses home during his studies. He complains about not being able to find zivania (Cypriot drink) to drink. His family sometimes visits Cyprus and sends him some halloumi cheese over. He even visits Cyprus at some point and brings some cattle bones from the empty fields over Nicosia, say, Kythrea. He has them in his student dorm on his shelf.

I mean, don't think of a city when I say Kythrea or something. Think of a village, a very small one. Imagine him growing up there. He steals from the melon fields of the neighbors. He knows which wild weeds to pick to eat. Hell, he even experiments with which herbs are good for healing purposes, as his grandmother is a village elder who people go to for that kind of stuff. He learns that the branch of pharmaceutics exists just for that. Then, though, his focus shifts to medicine. Most importantly, surgeries --face reconstruction and all that. He's around 15 or something, they leave Cyprus.

Now, it's around the 1930s. Steinman is well over 30 at the time. His family had gone back to Cyprus at some point because they couldn't handle the US. His father picks the field up, and his uncle and his mother are running the barns & farm. Sometimes when Steinman visits, his uncle asks him to check the health of the cattle. "I'm not a vet!" doesn't work for Cypriots, you gotta do what you gotta do, lol. He stays there for half a year as a break and thinks about staying and working there as a vet because he really misses home... but the Second World War breaks out. The Brits are trying to draft up people for the Cyprus Regiment to fight in Europe or Northern Africa, especially those who know English being very much preferred... and Steinman has to flee once again. He tries to take his family to come with him as well, but they refuse. They cannot part from Cyprus once again.

Hell, the Brits manage to "convince" his father and uncle to join the Regiment. His mother goes to the US to stay with Steinman because it's hard being so lonely there. Steinman is making good money but you know, his father and uncle are deep in the war already and were as stubborn as mules about not coming to the US.

By the end of the war, his father gets injured, and they get a residency permit for the UK as a "gift" or something. His father decides to live there because he cannot work in the field easily anymore. His mother follows suit. Only his uncle remains in Cyprus. Steinman is alone in the US again.

He also read about Cypriot mythology, by the way. He learnt that Cyprus was Aphrodite's birthplace and now he believes that it's all fate that he is the best face reconstruction surgeon. He believes that he should work with "beauty" as well, and starts worshipping Aphrodite in the private and takes up aesthetic surgery.

He briefly visits Cyprus every once in a while. It's not horrible, but it feels lonely as hell. At least he has his uncle still running the farm, so they hang out and all that. When his uncle dies in the late 40s, though, he permanently goes back to the US.

He's now over 40. He expects to have a feeling of home, right?

The US doesn't feel right, though. There's business, yes, but he wants a home. He wants a place he can belong in. He feels like he needs to erase his name and face off the earth to ever belong somewhere, which feels impossible.

Until... Rapture happens.

Does he miss Cyprus? A bit, of course. But he knows he couldn't have lived there. It's a memory, but quite a strong one. At some point, he manages to convince Fontaine to smuggle him some zivania. For Fontaine's surgery (the Atlas thing, you know), Fontaine brings him soil from the fields, some molohiya (a cookable weed also called Jew's Mallow), and crates full of zivania and a new brand: KEO. When Steinman asks what it is, he tells him that it's the new fad around Cyprus, established in 1949. It's good beer, truly.

And, well, Fontaine had brought him so much zivania and KEO that he doesn't run out of them until his death.

#here speaks my Cypriot blood #he's Jewish as told by the creators I think #and I thought; okay; we got Jewish Cypriots over Cyprus as well #and he pretty much seems like just some guy I'd encounter 'round Nicosia hehe #he would fit PERFECTLY in. #give us some Cypriot representation damn man we're chill I swear lol #EEEEEEYYY NAPAN VRE GUMBAREEEE #EISAI GALA RE MLK;;; ÖLMEDİN MİYDİ BEA? #[ in mixed greek and turkish dialects of cyprus; switching randomly: eey whatcha doing pal? are you okay ya wanker? haven't you died eh?] #my Cypriot (specifically Nicosian lol) father would very much adore it if i wrote this as a story #but how could i explain to him that this is just some fucked-up character headcanons for a game about uuuuuuuh #'So dad; theres this game you kill people with a wrench BUT IT'S ACTUALLY SO DEEP IN POLITICS AND IS A MASTERPIECE- #Dad are you listening??' #ahajalkdgjsfsdf #tw alcohol #alcohol #okay there it was #i had SO MUCH FUN #bioshock 1 #bioshock #j s steinman #j. s. steinman #steinman bioshock #dr steinman

[the-lady-general]

I finished my fascist run of Disco Elysium. Kim's assessment at the end:

"As you all know, Lieutenant Du Bois is a raging communst."

me: ⁉️

"...and also, somehow, a racist, woman-hating fascist. How he manages both at the same time I have no idea."

I love that Kim is just verbally face palming at my Harry, who I gave every kind of brainrot at the same time. Like that one time when we played Suzerainty.

#the lady general rambles #somehow i got into every single political quest EXCEPT moralism this time round #evrart called me a fucking idiot and everything :3 #i love those moments when the game just ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ and let's you have it #also WOWIE ZOWIE I GET WHY PEOPLE ARE FREAKING OUT OVER KIM THE ENDING IS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN HE'S AROUND #disco elysium spoilers

[kyuala]

oh my god i could probably talk abt this forever and i literally wont shut up about it until the world cup rolls around but do u guys wanna know abt the covert coup they tried to stage 2day

#ok so basically bols*naro n his allies were already fearing his loss right. bc they know lula is a popular leftist leader here #little bit of background lula rose to high ranking political office through populism. that means his main focus when in power r the masses #lower classes and socially oppressed groups like black ppl women the Gays™ etc #he was the first ever president to rly look at our country's northeast region and do something for them #historically the northeast is the poorest most discriminated against region. poverty is a great concern there #they annually suffer bc of droughts and they're the part of the country nearly the whole rest is xenophobic towards #i'd say rlly only the north region isnt so xenophobic towards them bc theyre almostttt there but #the south and southeast are the worst. im talking most whitened populations who descend from europeans n think they're better #just bc they're the richer regions too. the midwest comes close too in terms of xenophobia but literally who cares abt them. anyways #bc of this history the northeast region has a history of preferring left-wing leaders esp from pt - lula's party #in the 1st round of elections earlier this month lula won the majority of votes in that region - as expected. bols*naro spectacularly lost #after that he went on to publicly state during a live stream - yes that is how our now soon-to-be FORMER president communicated with us - #that the only reason lula won there is bc the illiteracy rates were higher. basically implying they didnt vote for him bc theyre uneducated #which is v obviously a lie. 7 out of 10 perfect scores in enem - our national highschool exams - came from that region so. yea theyre NOT #uneducated they just never bought into bols*naro's bullshit like the rest of the country did. and he knew that #so fast forward to today. free public transportation on election days is a right to every brazilian citizen #a lot of northeastern people depend on buses to get to the polling places. theyre most notably the region where this happens the most #the chief of the federal highway police is a known public supporter of blsnr. the frp announced they'd be having several traffic blitzes #during election day - that's illegal. keeping ppl from voting or making their journey 2 polling places more difficult is an electoral crime #the supreme electoral court ruled against this. the frp chief then released a statement basically saying yea idc i'll still do this #and 2day they did. several traffic blitzes were set up across the country but guess who took the bigger hit? northeastern voters #roughly HALF of the operations were set up in that region alone - the other half was p evenly distributed between the remaining 4 REGIONS #the northeast suffered roughly 5x more than other regions in voter suppression bc of this. n we already know why #yall know whats the funniest part of this? he still lost 💀 #so yea thats basically how blsnr n his lackeys tried 2 overthrow a democratic decision b4 it was even made so they wouldnt lose their power #n when i say that was an illegal move i mean that department of the federal police literally never cared abt that before #n blsnr had already tried to suspend free fare across the country - to keep poor people from voting - during the 1st AND 2nd rounds #he failed so his frp supporters tried to step in. they were legally and directly prohibited from doing so and still went ahead w it #also several northeastern voters posted videos online of federal agents keeping the buses from circulating #and innumerous accounts of them trying to coerce and constrain voters into revealing their voting intentions - another crime

[lupismaris]

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#i didn't expect to spend an otherwise pleasant but exhausting week watching another round of who can be the biggest American Fascist #but did i leave work early today from the building anxiety attack over the situations in Nashville and Florida? yes i did #im grateful to have found news sources that arent just covering the clown's eventual trial but im very bad at self regulation #and TN is having the expulsion vote today amongst 29 bills that need to be voted on so its a lot to follow #the Florida 'using cops to abduct the child of a political opponent' is a different level of horror im not even beginning to process #tbd im just not coping well with the state of affairs for every moment of good news theres days of bad #and then theres the abuse case report being released here in Baltimore which is a whole other can of worms 👀 #this feels like one of those hitchhikers guide Thursdays jfc #and then theres the extra dirt on clarence thomas like hes shit we knew that but now its even more proven hes taken bribes for 20 yrs #i want to day drink for the next 24 hours and turn my brain off and simultaneously rage #but im at minimum eight hours away and disabled

[six-of-ravens]

okay whew they're refunding me.....now I will re-buy the same order and hope for a different delivery guy.

#the chat person was like. have you checked around the area #and i was like. lady i need you to understand there are over 200 apartments here #but luckily she backed down and just gave me the scripted refund response #i was like. im trying so hard to be polite...but.... just bc he called the buzzer does not mean he delivered things correctly karen #her name is literally karen im not making that up #anyway. time for celebratory pho round 2

[mezimraky]

'europeans are more accepting of ukrainian refugees because they are white' WRONG the same people spouting vitriol against brown people are spouting it now.

#under the sun with kai #i feel sick reading fb comment abt any refugee topic in czech because our local paper is just full of hateful little people #the kind that throw around the phrase 'why do they get to go to the zoo for free if i cant' a whole lot #at least our government is not following that rhetoric. at least they are standing their ground in terms of solidarity. #then again it is a centrist-right government so the people already feel like the government does not care about them #so in a way some of that anger is justified but completely wrongly aimed at people fleeing their homes because of war. #its exhausting. the way this is a tangled up sort of cycle. #the elites dont talk to the poorer people because they are deemed stupid and hateful. creating more of a divide. making them angrier and #not teaching them anything. not having discussions that could help bring people together. #the poorer people in turn take it out on whoever is even below them on the social hierarchy at the moment. #the government sees that it is the right thing to do to help refugees. the government ignores the housing and energy crisis encroaching. #the bittersweet feelings from after the last elections are back. #yes. woo. democratic parties won. but also. there is literally zero leftists in the government. zero. #the opposition is filled with populists and extremists. who play at being socially oriented when it benefits them. #there is no liberal left to speak of in our politics at all actually. the pirate party vaguely touched on it and they got fucked last time. #im sorry for this rant im sorting my thoughts. what i know. and its looking more and more dire. #also there are newspapers coming up with statistics that babiš is more likely to win first round of presidential elections. #and i do not know whether to trust them because i can NOT for the life of me keep track of all the media he owns :) #everything is fucked and we will all die here (by words of a podcaster on my fave leftist liberal news site :)) )

[croutoncat]

my neighbour’s so attractive wtf

#who knew tru love is right around the corner <3 #jk but also.. #he has those nice round glasses all parisians wear #and he always so polite and vocal like #BONsoir :) #je t'EN prie #bONne soirée #lovely

[gallusrostromegalus]

I was raised agnostic and tend to remain ambiguous on theological matters.

-but my house has a porch on the second story that affords me a terrific view of my neighborhood and the Colorado Front Range and I was partaking of some peace before the 4th Of July Finger-Loss Festivities begin, and I have had a

~*Spiritual Experience*~

I just watched my neighbor try to unload an actual wooden pallet that had to have been forklifted into the back of his insecurity pickup worth of fireworks.

Except that he does not have a forklift in his garage.

He does have so much sports memorabilia and cardboard boxes of unsold MLM Merchandise and patriotically themed camping gear and posters of women in bikinis and flags of suspect political organizations in his garage that there is only BARELY enough space for the fireworks and certainly none for his truck.

So he had to unload the individual boxes of recreational explosives from the back of his truck and stack them in the minimal space he had cleared by hand. This is a tedious and time-consuming process as this neighbor has purchased a wide variety of recreational and locally illegal explosives instead of many of just a few types, so the individual boxes are rather small.

He begins, and this is crucial to what happens next, by cutting apart the industrial-grade saran wrap his explosives dealer had so carefully wrapped his merchandise in, and discarded it unsecured on his lawn.

Where Outdoor Conditions sometimes happen.

His process for unloading the fireworks is to 1. Climb up through the gate into the bed of his pickup truck (a feat made unusually difficult due to the slope of his driveway, and this man's fascinating decision to wear the world's Siffest and least Flexible Denim Overalls. 2. Once in the pickup bed, he selects ONE (1) box from the pile He is apparently from a niche religious institution that doesn't believe in stacking things. 3. Carries it awkwardly around the palette that barely fits in the truck bed 4. His wife yells "Be careful!" when he nearly falls out of the pickup. 5. He Yells "SHADDUP!" back at her. 6. The Large German Shepherd barks from inside the house. 7. He yells "SHADDUP!" back at her too. 8. He sets the (1) box down on the gate 9. Slowly and awkwardly climbs out of the pickup bed 10. picks the box back up, and carries it into the garage.

Question: Aren't you going to help this poor man? Answer: Absolutely Not.

There's four military veterans, MANY dogs, and several people with dementia in this neighborhood, all of whom are terrified by this chicanery every year and many neighbors have repeatedly asked him to maybe do the fireworks somewhere else. (This is the Eighth Year Running he's held a major demolition event in his driveway, and for those of you who can do math, you may be able to guess the precipitating incident to this little ritual) Additionally, I live in Colorado, a state marginally less prone to spontaneous and catastrophic conflagrations than a rotting grain silo, but only marginally. Our recreational explosives laws are written accordingly.

I am in fact calling the Non Emergency line to report Fireworks violations, and reading off the brand labels to someone named Dorothy, who is gleefully totaling up a SPECTACULAR fine for my oblivious neighbor.

However, while I'm on the phone with Dorothy, I notice the wind begin to pick up. and by "Notice" I mean "The Industrial Saran Wrap he left on his Lawn earlier is suddenly swept up about 100 feet into the air by an updraft intense enough to make my ears pop" And by "Pick Up" I mean "I look up to see the sky has turned a fun and exciting shade of glass green, and the bottoms of the clouds are bumpy and rounded, and the overall effect is not unlike looking up through the bottom of the cup at God's Matcha Boba Tea."

For those of you who do not live in places with Inclement Weather, these conditions mean "You have about 30 seconds before a Major Meteorological Event Occurs."

I move under the eaves. "Hang on Dorothy." I say, nose filling with Petrichor. "The show is about to be cancelled." "Oh, that doesn't matter!" Dorothy cheerfully informs me. "It's illegal for him just to possess those, no matter if he actually gets to set them off or not." "Terrific, because he's gotten maybe five boxes out of a hundred inside."

Sometimes, the weather gods are Merciful and give you a verbal warning, typically in the kind of thunderclap that makes your ears ring.

The Gods were not merciful today.

It's not often that I am in the time, place, correct angle or in a properly observational frame of mind to see this, But I got to see it today. Huh. I thought. I've never seen a cloud just DIVE for the ground before. Oh. I realized as it got closer. That's RAIN.

Sometimes, a thunderstorm will form in such a way that the rain that would normally be distributed over an area of say, five to tent square miles, is instead concentrated into an area of say, my neighborhood exactly.

So today, I was granted the rare privilege of being able to actually see the literal wall of water descend from On High and DIRECTLY onto my porch, my street, and my neighbor's truck, and his pile of unwrapped fireworks.

The sheer impact force of the downpour immediately scatters the teetering pile of fireworks boxes in the back of the truck, like the wrath of God striking down the tower of Babel. Boxes tumble, then are washed out of the bed of the truck by the deluge. Smaller Boxes are carried down the road in a little line by the stream forming in the gutter, like little impotent explosive ducklings.

My neighbor was definitely yelling something, but I could not hear what over the DEAFENING noise several million gallons of water makes upon high-speed contact with the earth's surface, but there was a lot of arm-waving and faces turning red as he went looking for the saran wrap that had probably blown to Nebraska by now, while his wife started disassembling the complex three-dimensional puzzle of interlocking material goods in search of a tarp. They do not have a tarp. They have one of those wretched Thin Blue Line flags though, and my neighbor jogs out in a futile effort to cover what's left in the truck.

Which is when the hail begins.

"HELLO?" Yelled Dorothy. "HI!" I shouted. "WE'RE HAVING SOME WEATHER!" "OH GOOD!" she shouts back. "WE NEED THE MOISTURE!"

I watch for a minute longer, but the loss was immediate and catastrophic- the hail is the size of marbles and dense and cares not for your pitiful cardboard and cellophane, ripping the boxes asunder and punching holes in the few things covered in plastic. The colors on the Thin Blue Line Flag are seeping all over the remains of that it was supposed to protect in a particularly apt visual metaphor. Not even the few boxes that made it into the garage are spared, as the German Shepherd escapes from indoors, and in an attempt to assist her humans, jumps directly into the small stack of not-yet-ruined boxes, scattering them into the driveway and deluge. She even picks one up so her humans will chase her around the yard, before dropping it in the gutter to be swept away.

So. I was raised Agnostic -but even I can recognize when God slaps someone upside the head and shouts "NO!" at them.

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[aquaticsoul]

@musesofthesun is here:

surprise dog! she trots over and sniffs at him, but doesn't get too close...

"... Hm?"

This is certainly an odd little creature. He's not certain he's seen one before, but... he's heard of them, he thinks.

"Koira?"

He kneels, extending a pale hand for the koira to sniff.

#sing a round of love ; answered. #[[ koira means 'dog' ]] #[[ he is so confused. but hes trying to be polite!! ]]

[kisshim]

watching the republican presidential debate with tears in my eyes looking at the candidates that want to be the literal president

#me and my dad looking at each other with crazy looks #both of them went to yapperton university and received a professional degree in yapping #i mean all politicians truly but that desantis guy really … oh .. he’s just the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever seen #my favorite part about debates is always this is what trump DIDNT DO and i will do it #girl call me when you figure out how to because i wanna see too #do u know what this country really doesn’t need #desantis. lol really we don’t trust me #every since his disney stunt he is literally brainless to me stupid as fuck #also the traditional conservative views of limited governance in businesses #desantis does NAWT believe in that honestly is he really conservative?? because he said oh no disney has too much freedom in choice #is that not what your party…stands for…😨 #a full round of who put that system in place!! #anyway tw i’m sorry about the political talk #it’s just so ridiculous to watch my country punch themselves in the gut and ask for it to function

[candycryptids]

Would you give her treats y/n

#she is so little and round and polite her nme is Midna she’s the clumsiest girl alive and she knows it so she thinks extra long and he’s #she hears a treat bag crinkle and comes trotting over to sing you her treats song #she loves killing carrot but she leaves carrots from her wet food so Farley (our dog) can eat them bcbrhs #she’s so careful not to use any claws on us because she’s so loving and gentle ;_; #Midna dragonslayer

[permanentreverie]

i love how song kang is supposed to be the main character yet he doesn’t show up for one whole episode!

#and when he is in an episode he is in it for 5 minutes! AND TELL ME WHY THOSE 5 MINUTES ARE NAKED! #i enjoy an apocalyptic show as much as the next person #but we’ve got wayyyyy too many side characters that i don’t care about #and i miss the heart of season 1 #season 1 was camp! it had shitty cgi and a weird obsession with warriors by imagine dragons! #but we CARED about the monsters we mourned when people turned! because we knew their desire we knew THEM!! #i miss the twisted complicated relationship of eunhyeok and eunhye #i miss hyunsu’s messy pathetic gasp as he tries to regain his life #i miss eunhyes bitchiness i miss the character foil of hyunsu and eunhyeok! #literally i think if you round everyone up there’s like 25 characters in this season we’ve covered 😵‍💫 #10 of them are soldiers who are all the same to me #i don’t CARE about political military intrigue!! #i care about a rag tag group of apartment dwellers who are messy and kind of annoying! #heavy sigh. #that all being said go minsi is my queen and so far i’m finishing this season for her #dramas just weren’t meant for second seasons yall #lindsay posts

[saturnsorbits]

Thinking about sleeping with Gojo because it’s the only way either of you can be close to Geto anymore…

#You can almost see it sometimes… #In the way Gojo smiles… Something casual and laid back; a cry so far from who he is that there’s no question who he learned it from. #Or the way he says your name: soft; with rounded consonants that make you squeeze shut your eyes and think of another. #You know he does it too… #See’s the subtlety of Geto’s politeness’ in your tone and tries to remember- #clinging onto the tiny pieces of the man who abandoned you both. #He’s still there - you see… #Scattered between you in the way you are… #So ingrained in who you’ve become that sometimes it’s hard to distinguish… #Hard to tell he’s gone at all. #But he is… #Gone. #And all you have left is the bruises of his love and the subtle flickers of a person you no longer know - #reflected in someone who isn’t him. #You don’t love each other - Gojo and you… #But what choice do either of you have