#I may have to hunt someone specific for sport

[fox-bright]

Rage Cheesecake with Oreo Crust, Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting, and Home-Grown Tart Cherry Topping

I took recipe-bits from all over and changed them into something that sounded more like what I wanted, so here's what I did today instead of committing a felony!

RECIPE BEHIND CUT

Oreo crust part:

* 25 Oreos

* 5 tablespoons of melted butter

* Pan--pie pan or springform, depending on how deep a cheesecake you want. This makes a nice, not-too-deep cheesecake in a nine-inch springform; it would be Too Much Filling in a pie pan, which would mean you have extra, and that's always fun too. An eight-inch springform is probably perfect.

1. Preheat oven to 350.

2. You may eat TWO OREOS. Crush the remainder. I have the best time with this when I use a food processor, but if you are *particularly* spirited today, this is a good place to take out some aggression. Just pulverize the things, filling and all, until they are all reduced to the consistency of sand.

3. Add melted butter and mix until it's like *wet* sand.

4. Put buttery chocolate sand into your chosen cooking dish. I use a little jar and push push push pat pat pat until it's all nice and level from the center of the dish to the edge and has no holes.

5. Bake for eight to twelve minutes. You want it to still look a little moist. Do not overcook!

6. Remove from oven and let cool. Don't move the pan around too much before it's cool or you risk fracturing the crust.

Cheesecake part:

* Two packages of cream cheese, room temperature unless you like cream cheese chunks in your cheesecake. No judgment, some people are into that.

* 2/3C white sugar

* 3 eggs

* 3 cups of sour cream (this is a very moist cheesecake!)

* Vanilla to taste

1. Preheat oven to 325F, that's 25 degrees LOWER than for the crust.

2. Cream sugar and cream cheese until smooth.

3. Add eggs, one at a time, mix until just blended.

4. Add all sour cream and vanilla, mix until just homogenous. Don't overmix or you get weird dry pillowy stuff instead of nice dense cheesecake.

5. Cook in prepared crust for approximately 50 minutes, until it's set at the edges but a little jiggly yet in the middle.

Note: Properly you'd do this in a bain marie, but I don't have one, so I wrap the bottom of my springform pan in aluminum foil and set the whole kit and kaboodle into a sturdy cookie sheet, put all that into the preheated oven, and pour water into the cookie sheet once it's safely on the oven rack. If the cheesecake starts to overcook on the top before the center is set, cover it with aluminum foil.

6. Remove from oven; let rest in bain marie/rigged pan for ten minutes before removing springform pan to clean towel. Let rest *there* until it's cool enough to put in the fridge. Cover and chill for two to four hours.

Cherry topping part:

* Sour cherries that have been frozen since last year, or a bag of cherries, or fresh cherries, whichever, approximately 4.5 cups which is too many for just this cheesecake but it's nice to have around anyway

* Granulated sugar to taste

* Corn starch

Or just pick up a can or two of cherry pie filling, in which case you can skip this whole step.

1. Defrost cherries. If you don't do this in a pot, there's a good chance that they will leak precious juice all over your clean counter. Don't be me; thaw that stuff in the pot you'll heat it in.

2. Once they're not a singular ice block but instead a bunch of big ice chunks, turn the temperature on low, maybe around a 2.

3. Once the cherries are separate from each other, add sugar to taste. This changes a lot depending on your cherries' tartness; I eventually used nearly two cups of sugar for around 4.5 cups of cherries. Usually I'd use a good bit less, but they're very tart this time.

4. Cook and cook and cook until the liquid is reduced by about a third.

5. Add corn starch. For those measurements I added about a tablespoon and a half. Remember to make it a slurry before pouring it into the pot; you can either do this with a little water, or you can spoon out some of the cherry syrup (don't burn yourself!), mix that into a little bowl along with the corn starch, and then pour it all into the pot. Bring back to a good bubble for four or five minutes, then remove from heat and allow to come to room temperature.

Whipped chocolate ganache part:

* 1 part heavy cream to 1 part chocolate (I just use Toll House. Everyone says not to do that. It's been fine).

1. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl.

2. Warm the cream on the stove until it's juuuust about to start bubbling. Stir frequently so it doesn't get a skin.

3. Remove from heat, pour into heatproof bowl over the chocolate.

4. WALK AWAY. I'm serious. Don't touch it. Don't poke at it. Do not, do NOT, attempt to stir it. Walk away.

5. After five minutes, come back and stir, stir, until it's all one thing. It should be like a very good, very thick chocolate syrup. You *can* just eat this, with a spoon. You can pour it over a cake, or dip strawberries in it. Chilled right as it is, it is a dessert on its own.

6. Let it cool to room temperature.

7. Come back and use your hand mixer or stand mixer to whip it up. This should get to a pipeable consistency; if it doesn't, you may need to incorporate powdered sugar. If you add butter and powdered sugar, you'll get a very stable buttercream.

Finishing part:

1. Remove springform edge from nice cold cheesecake.

2. Pipe or dollop whipped ganache in ring atop the cheesecake.

3. Fill the ring with cooled cherry filling.

4. Garnish further if you'd like. I used decorative Sixlets and some more crushed Oreo.

5. Finished!

#baking #fox bakes #dessert #cheesecake #so so angry still #this was not a sufficient amount of cooking #I may have to hunt someone specific for sport

[autumnmobile12]

So we know that when Quirks first appeared, villains started making grabs for power, vigilantes appeared to stop them and restore the normal order, and some people went about forming their own dynasties with people who had similar powers.

Personally, I really want to hear more about the environmentalist vigilantes who ignored the immediate chaos and just took off to undo the harm humanity caused to nature.

People with ice Quirks who formed a coalition and rebuilt the arctic and antarctic circles.

A random person with a Quirk that allowed them to breathe in carbon gases and exhale oxygen, so they just took a couple hours out of their day peacefully reading books near a factory complex while advocating for cleaner emissions in the meantime.

The ones with plant-based Quirks stimulating plant growth in deforested areas.

Someone with an accumulation-type Quirk who could consume plastic and convert it to energy.

Other Quirk-users specifically targeting poachers

Electricity Quirk-users forming power companies of their own and stamping out the more harmful competition.

People who can talk to animals teaching animals hunted for sport (or harvested for medicinal remedies that don't work) how to avoid hunters and traps.

In the eyes of large corporations, some of these people were probably relegated to the status of villains and may have been targeted by the proto-Heroes as such, only to be met with the controversy of environmental advocates against environmentally destructive companies.

Fictional nations like Otheon and Klayd have sprung up in the My Hero world, so it stands to reason there are other new nations as well. Like if these early advocates carved out territories of their own and now areas like the Amazon or pockets of the savannah and taiga and other threatened ecosystems are currently independent oases thriving in the world.

All things considered, I feel like for all their societal problems, the My Hero world is a world that at least has its environmental stuff sorted out.

#my hero academia #quirks #environment #boku no hero academia #headcanons #bnha #mha

[destructive-path]

idk in some imagination of mine i see ellie to just be sooo sweet and sooo loving to you but den destroys you and fucks you like an animals in heat fr

this is definitely farm ellie core……

18+ MDNI

farm ellie is definitely a physical labor partner she’s doing the hunting, farm work ect. ++ ELLIE ON A TRACTORRRR 😩 someone get her a cowboy hat

farm ellie loves it when you cook for her and likes to watch you cleannn shes manspread on the couch watching you scrub the floors with a smirk on her face and pink on her cheeks from seeing u bent overrrrr

farm ellie LOVES THE DOMESTIC ATMOSPHEREEE shes hugging you from behind, TONS of neck kisses and gives massages whenever you want oh my god she basically begs you to let her ease any tension you may (or may not) have

i think she would be so southern lipped. ‘ing’ words now sport a n’ sound at the end. “shootin’ , huntin’, workin’” BYE shes calling you “darlin” and “honey” just adorably wrapped up in the farm fantasy it sort of becomes her

but YEA she would definitely be a FREAK in the sheets tho. im talking REAL POSSESSIVE TYPEE TYPEE

farm ellie makes you touch yourself before fucking you and you HAVE to keep your eyes on her or she will deny you pls

personally i think she would be really into tying you up and just having her way with you. something about being domestic makes ellie OBSESSED with everything about you. ur basically her world. shes taking her timeeee, kissing you on all her favorite spots (and she would have SPECIFIC favorites because she knows your body like the back of her hand) if you squirmed too much shed tut at you and smack you lightly somewhere sensitive then bully you when the wet spot under your cunt would grow larger:(((

trust her hands are never leaving your neck babyyy she’s strapping you with a brown leather harness she made herself and is constantly slurring her words while she pounds into you whew…specifically in missionary tho bc she loves to see how wet you get for her and only her “my pussy.” she would say over and overrrr things like “you belong to me.” “no one can fuck you like me” , “i know this pussy the best because its. mine.” all whilst choking you to the point of seeing starsss 😌

farm ellie after care hits DIFFERENTTT i just know she gets pussy drunk like mf just starts praising you to the point where you get horny again and the cycle just repeats it selfffjskksks. “gonna mary you.” “how many kids do you want?ill give you em all” “so pretty…” “so soft~”

is it crazy to say farm ellie has wayyy to much time on her hands and would probably fuck you like crazy then like get inspired by all your beauty and write a poem or a song about it like IMMEDIATELY after you fuck……shes writing at the speed of light next to you butt ass naked. “baby…ellie…can you untie me first?……” LOL

#ellie the last of us #ellie williams #tlou2 #the last of us #tlou #ellie x reader #ellie x you #lesbian #this post is about lesbians #wlw

[onelinemanytimes]

So, Underverse 0.7 Huh?

As you may or may not have heard, Underverse 0.7 Part One released on youtube and it was BEAUTIFUL, absolutely incredible stuff as always. I, however, am a freak, and while all of the episode was wonderful and a delightful next part to the Underverse story, there is only one thing I plan to talk about.

If you know anything about me you know what we’re here for.

Let’s talk about Fresh and his most recent appearance in Underverse.

For this post specifically, let’s talk specifically about him in combat- Magic especially. 

First off I’m making these for two reasons!! Reason one is because I’m incapable of being normal about Fresh and seeing him delights my heart immensely. Reason two is because I’ve seen a lot of people surprised or confused about things that I was so intimately familiar with that it baffled me people DIDN’T know!

And then y’know I remembered that most people didn’t spend weeks at a time hunting down every scrap of information about fresh from any source that was connected to the source material whatsoever (be it LoverOfPiggies herself, friends that interacted closely with her, or creators that had reached out to ask for information themselves). 

SO now I’m here to share what I know with everyone else!! With the fair warning that I am deep in it and also have very strong opinions and an ego the size of the sun, and also the warning that this is also my interpretation of what happened based on what I know and an analysis of Fresh’s portrayal in Underverse compared to the information on Fresh available. 

Let’s start with one of the most shockingly unknown facts I’ve seen people be surprised about;

“Fresh’s Furbies blew up!?? They were BOMBS?”

Yep!!!! This has been a part of his arsenal for a LONG time, along with the baseball bat- and this information was in fact straight from CQ, answered and public for the past 6 years

Fresh has essentially always been able to do this!! Or, more accurately, HAS been doing this? Same thing I think, you get the gist. Furbies rigged to blow and a bat (wiffle in the answer, but I’d say baseball bat is a fair substitute) to smack someone around with has been a weapon he uses for a long time.

This is also the best place to bring up how physically capable Fresh is. Fresh is FIT, and SKILLED, he knows how to move and how to use a weapon- or at least how to hit someone real hard with something. As seen in the first pictures he is using that bat beautifully against Error- but he does this twice actually!!

Fresh seems, at the very least, familiar with blunt weapons like bats, using them twice in the span of a single episode, wowie- and there are a lot of reasons I could see this being the case! All of his weapons are things he can easily explain away- the furby bombs? Little friends! Baseball bat? That’s just a sport objects, y’know, something for games! Stick of markers connected end to end? Honestly who hasn’t snapped those things together and pretended to have a very long marker or an epic stick when given the opportunity. 

This would be MUCH harder to do with something more traditionally recognized as a weapon. You think he can walk around with some kind of KNIFE?? Absolutely not! That’s dangerous! Someone could get hurt! Or suspect him of being a threat! He would never want to do that- and any physical weapons otherwise fall under similar issues. Sure he probably COULD get ahold of swords, hammers, tridents, or any other kind of weapon- but those are decidedly weapons and he is decidedly harmless.

There’s also the matter of his spacial awareness and body control

Look at the pose he has here. This is a pose he holds for multiple seconds, up until he’s counter attacked and physically pulled out of it. That’s INCREDIBLE balance, and potentially a testament to how strong or how lightweight ink is- but also, LOOK at that pose! That’s not just any pose to me. That looks similar to a handplant- a skateboarding trick that involves pausing upside down on one hand while you hold the board and other hand above you. Obviously, there are differences, including but not limited to a distinct lack of board…

But that’s also not what I’m getting at. I’m getting at the fact that physically, he’s OBVIOUSLY skilled. He TRAINS himself- and he likely pulls from the knowledge and skills around his “interests” in order to do some of the movements he has! We absolutely saw him doing little skateboard tricks when running from ink, this is very much so in line with that and completely in the realm of possibility for him. Don’t even get me started on how he manages to heely backwards at high speeds without absolutely wiping out.

This DOES bring up an interesting question though!! What about other magic?

The answered ask by CQ is a bit vague, honestly- and there are PLENTY of examples of Fresh using magic drawn by CQ herself that eludes to a higher capability than just physical objects set up for violence (Coloured bone magic attacks and the “FRESH POOF!” come to mind immediately for me, in art with Pacifrisk and comics respectively), so what CAN Fresh do?

It’s… hard to answer that solidly, honestly. There’s a lot of interpretations for this answer, from a variety of sources that were (at the time) in close proximity to CQ and Fresh especially- The most typical interpretation is that Fresh is able to at minimum use the same magic as his current Host, and this DOES seem to be the interpretation Underverse runs with!! You can tell based on the second (third?) fight scene, more on that when I get there in another post.

I will say! It does seem like Fresh has some abilities not explained wholly by his host, unless what he’s capable of is partially because his host isn’t sans, it’s some other kind of skeleton who may just be able to do those things.

Fresh has shown to be able to definitely use: Teleportation (Both with Fresh Poof and without if he chooses to). I think it’s also fair to assume he has access to other kinds of magic- Dimensional Magic being an option here given the retrieval/stashing of various objects throughout the episode (putting the furbies in place, suddenly having Ink’s sash visible, and suddenly having a skateboard being prime examples).

I would argue that the ability to censor people’s swears also falls under magic, as do his visual effects (like the question marks) and the word changes on his shades, but THAT is also dependent on whether or not you see “fourth wall shenaniganery” as a magic or not. There’s also a point where he jumps up and flips upside down in order to avoid getting blasted by ink that I could easily relate to the gravity-esque magic Sans has- y’know, that thing where he makes your soul fall in a certain direction? Like that! Food for thought.

There’s also the possibility that Fresh has the magic of being funny. And that’s only mildly a joke- magically being able to do things that would be funny or amusing in a given situation IS very in line with the kind of character he is and could explain a lot of the nonsense he has access to- of COURSE he can just summon stuff at will, it’s hilarious when he does that and it makes him a delight to watch. Again, Fourth Wall Shenaniganery Magic in that case though.

By the way. Fresh is very, VERY aware of the fourth wall. This I’m going to be making its own post about.

ANYWAYS I think that’s all I have to say about the magic use on his part in underverse- I have NOT gotten into the possession here because that is it’s OWN thing but do be aware that possessing people is also obviously something he can do and you love to see that. Enjoy and look forward to my further upcoming posts about Fresh!

#underverse #fresh #freshtale #fresh sans #fresh lucidia #fresh underverse #truefreshinfo #fresh!ink #error #loverofpiggies #cross sans #underverse 0.7 #the first of many is already so long #good luck everyone #this is just the functional mechanics thing #the mechanics of ONE PART. goodness #Yeah I'm going to be insufferable about this one #no I will not apologize #I am going to have a blast writing these #and I hope people have a blast reading them #or learn something!! #I hope people learn something reading these

[genderkoolaid]

also in the same vein as "talking about wanting all men dead is going to be disturbing for marginalized men/people who were amab"... i have no qualms w anyone complaining abt christians. ESPECIALLY western christians. but as someone who has a personal relationship w the 1918 armenian/assyrian genocides, seeing people talk about hunting christians for sport is never not going to upset me on some level. like dont get me wrong, western christians are NOT oppressed, and my pain is not for them. its for the marginalized christians right now who are being actively oppressed and kept from their indigenous lands and murdered and deprived of their human rights. there are people who very much want to continue those genocides right now. so like. idk just keep in mind that there are people at this moment who's families/ancestors actually face/d horrific violence in relation to being christian + they may be justifiably unnerved by people talking about hunting christians for sport! esp when azerbaijan literally had a museum depicting dead wax armenian soldiers specifically designed to be "ugly" ethnic stereotypes. also please pay attention to artsakh and donate if you can, it's being blockaded & there are food & medical shortages

#again im not saying ''dont talk shit abt christians'' #just keep in mind that like. ppl whos families survived these genocides exist #people have lost loved ones in the modern day bc of this! armenophobia is alive and well! #assyrians were promised a country of their own by the british & were never given one & are being driven out of their indigenous lands! #non-western christianity is very complex esp when it comes to indigenous christian groups #& in countries where christians are not the ones with the most power #m. #genocide tw #armenophobia

[artbyblastweave]

Gideon the Ninth Liveread, Chapter 12

Longest of these yet. In which we meet the sixth house, get even more of a sense of the shape of Gideon’s Harrow obsession, and analyse the incongruity of Canaan House as it relates to a certain suite of YA tropes.

We open with Teacher, the fucking comedian. The Tridentarius assessment was wrong; probing the priests produces zilch, The specifics of the trials, whatever they may be, remain unclear. Teacher, for reasons unknown but well-in-fitting with his would-be trickster archetype, fraternizes with the isolated weirdo.

Gideon’s rundown of the necros and cavs conspicuously leaves the sixth unaccounted for, bar their general absence; this feels important. Potentially they’ve gone the route Harrow did of sequestering themselves. Her commentary on the eighth provides some clarity; they’re second-to-last house before the Ninth, their aesthetic inverse, and apparently aggressively pious; there’s a religious schism at play. Very likely the eighth wants to assume the duties of the ninth, and given the ninth’s sorry state would have very good grounds to do so if it got out how badly things are going. Other points of note: The second house dyad seems to not want to be there. Earlier I speculated that at least one house was going to turn out to have sent someone primarily to keep up with the joneses; I suspected that it was Dulcinea, given how she seems like she’s about to keel over, but given that the second appears to lean more heavily into the conventional military side of things, it might be them.

Something of note is that Gideon isn’t disdaining the idea of breaking down barriers and making friends; when she alludes to the tried-and-true pillar of the John-Hughes industrial complex, it’s in the context of feeling unhappy that it hasn’t happened yet. Once again she’s offloading her failure to fit in onto Harrow’s “Ambience;” without really taking into account the whole, “never talking or expressing yourself” thing that she’s stuck to like glue thus far. You can argue that that’s also downstream of Harrow but Harrow, again, isn’t around to enforce anything she told Gideon to do, and hasn’t been for several chapters; I get the impression there’s a form of learned helplessness going on. 

Interesting progression of Gideon’s relationship with Dulcinea. Hard to gauge the degree to which Gideon MINDS Dulcinea’s (expressly) master-servant interpretation of their (friend?)ship. Does Gideon mind less when the desire for service is explicit? When the requests are clear and specific? How much of the dysfunction with Harrow is that Harrow has no carrot behind the stick, never actually asked for anything and just impeded Gideon?

So Gideon wanted to do war crimes in exchange for a Big Ti- I’m not typing the rest of that out. But I think I called the flower wars thing! They kill people for thanergy.

This highlights something I’ve found extremely interesting about Gideon’s character; she’s essentially a protagonized Legate Lanius. Her goal and aspiration was to become one of the frontline hapless shitsacks that I hunt for sport whenever I boot up Fallout: New Vegas out of nostalgia. Everything we’ve seen of her childhood in the Ninth, and the myriad of ways that this fucked her up- this would be information thrown in near the bottom of an optional dialogue tree, a brief concession to the material causes that create evil people, before the player goes right back to coming up with the most over-the-top possible method of killing this faceless, unnegotiable final boss. And the fact that it’s Gideon- funny, likeable Gideon- being the one to narrate this, with no attempts to justify or rationalize it, no pause indicating that she feels a need to, is a fantastic signifier that a moral lens is absolutely the wrong frame with which to judge this story and these characters. Everyone in Canaan house is some flavor of bastard, maniac or dupe; that that’s price of admission. All that’s left is to watch them bounce off each other, to follow the horrible inexorable logic driving their characters. You are not invited here to Pass Judgement on their horrific ideals or moral behaviors; you are here to Bear Witness and hope they muddle through the Situation (capital intended) that they are about to be in. I like this.

Oh yeah. Immediate follow-up section of the fantasy. Gideon wants what she’s doing to MATTER to Harrow. Hers is not a fantasy in which Harrow is dead or deposed. Hers is a fantasy in which Harrow is comfortably in charge of things and receiving letters about Gideon’s exemplary success.

Interesting exposition on how only a select amount of Canaan House is accessible by default. A very specific section. This is a challenge.

And now Harrow is missing. Here we ought to note that Gideon only notices this because of how heavily she’s scrutinizing Harrow’s comings and goings, that she can notice no minute changes in Harrow’s bedsheets.

If “Harrow were the type (to run away) Gideon’s childhood would have been a hell of a lot smoother.” Okay. This is Interesting. Did Gideon think about cutting Harrow in on an escape plan at one point? If she tried 86 times, she must have thought to try this once. The incentives are there, for someone in Harrow’s position. I wonder if she got as far as voicing this idea to Harrow. I sense an AU point of divergence.

Big fan of the “their subsequent marriage” gag. I don’t remember if I’ve harped on this yet, but Gideon is a silent protagonist from the perspective of everyone in the story bar her own. To the extent that it is Gideon narrating, all of the commentary is for her own benefit. it’s just how she thinks. (I’m not sure if this is third person limited or not, there’s been a few spots where it felt like someone commenting on Gideon rather than Gideon’s internal monologue.) 

A brief detail in the prose search montage (which is very easy to visualize as a filmed sequence); the skeletons are cleaning the pool- the pool specifically, out of the entire massive complex- and neither Magnus or Jeanmary seem to understand why. But the space has been getting progressively less shitty over the last few chapters. How long is that door Gideon found going to go unremarked upon?

Once again, this focus on Gideon’s frustration at Harrow not THANKING Gideon. The written version of an old chestnut visual gag, wherein she  “gives up” and then immediately resumes the search in the next paragraph. The default behavior is to search.

So Gideon finds her way into a lobby space, accessible through an extremely unintuitive path. Even when this space was in use, this would have been a very roundabout way to get to what’s being framed as a very officious space, in comparison to the very residential space of the main living space. I’m a little unclear of the topography here, but I think Gideon is out of bounds.

Here we meet the Sixth House duo.  Ignore what I said above about everyone at Canaan house being dupes, maniacs or bastards; Palamedes and Camilla are the protagonists of a very different kind of YA story than Gideon. We’re looking at Holmes and Watson. Artemis and Butler. One of the meaner Doctors and more militant companions. Encyclopedia Brown and the girl he kept on hand to beat up his enemies (Am I remembering that detail right, that he had some muscle on hand at all times? Anyway. These are the kind of protagonists who start out within the system but then reason their way out from under their conditioning due to their Commitment To Higher Principles Like Truth, thus bringing the entire system crashing down. Inside the first few lines- “there’s a wrong thing here.” “Anything can lie.”

And, to scrutinize what he’s saying a little more- Canaan house is weird. The lack of rhyme and reason in the architecture is reflected in the age of the building- not even room by room, but down to the individual materials within one room. The oldest successful psychometric reading is 9000 years old; but if I recall correctly, this is after people supposedly stopped using Canaan house for anything. Both of Palamedes’s theories ring true; it’s possible that the building was fished out the garbage heap, or that it is lying on a molecular level. I’ve got a theory about what’s going on here, which I’ll get into at the end of this.

Camilla is the first woman Gideon gets the opportunity to fight. She’s attracted to Dulcinea- oh my god, the Dulcinea effect, Don Quixote, how did I not notice this earlier. She’s attracted to Coronabeth because Coronabeth is incredibly hot. Camilla, she seems to be attracted to on the basis of their mutual kickassery. The Canaan house dating sim has revealed its fourth candidate.

This is the second time we see a Necromancer in combat, after Harrow at the drill shaft. Palamedes’s stunt with the fuck-you-and-the-meat-you-walked-in-on kill field tells us three things. It gives us context for what a top-tier necromancer from another house looks like in a fight. It gives us context for how powerful Harrow is in comparison to everyone else- Palamedes is only sweating a little blood. And it gives us a sense of why Cavaliers are necessary; Palamedes couldn’t have executed this without Camilla keeping Gideon pinned down. As he says in a few lines- if he’d tried this solo, he’d probably be dead, and he couldn’t keep doing this in a protracted fight.

“Policy Wonks on the Sixth,“ huh. I’ve been wondering what the governance looks like in the rest of the Empire.

Because necromancers lived bad lives, he added: “To clarify. Her intravenous blood. Her intravenous blood.” I love this book. I feel inspired to draw this scene specifically.

Gideon hears that Harrow may have maybe lost some blood and into mom-lifting-a-minivan overdrive she goes. In this sequence we learn that Palamedes is a man with an extremely strong understanding of Necromancy and that Harrow is panicked enough that she works right past everything he’s saying. This is an example of a situation where the narration diverges from what Gideon is actually aware of; We the audience get some juicy tidbits about the ins and outs of necromancy, and we get a description of how much of it Gideon retained, but this is implicitly being reported by a third party.

This is the first time Gideon has spoken in like 6 chapters; she speaks to a pair of individuals utterly unconcerned with addressing the discrepancy, instead focusing on the task at hand. I like the looks of these guys.

Everyone was issued a key ring and told not to open any locked doors. Well. It’s not a locked door if you unlock it first, and then open it.

It’s never a good sign when a lab is soundproofed.

So Harrow is in a Bone Cocoon. Gideon says she can take it from here; Palamedes pointedly (and rightly!) ignores her and runs a medical test on Harrow to make sure she isn’t about to die. Here we get an interesting split between “Curative Science” and Necromancy; presumably, there’s some stuff in this setting that necromancy can’t obviate the way it did robotics, and it makes sense that “making people healthy” is one of those things. (as opposed to “keeping them alive-” Hi, Dulcinea!)

Her fantasies where she.... dumps Harrow off the landing pad. Yes, Gideon. This is what you want to internalize the sensation of lifting Harrow up for.

Probably worth noting that the exact manner in which the bone cocoon collapsed was of interest to Palamedes; Gideon derides him for whipping out a ruler, but Palamedes has been pretty firmly established as a guy who Knows His Shit (tm). Anything of minute interest to him is probably worth remembering.

The last line- “I thought that would wake her up-” really cements my read on Palamedes as a little shit but also a fundamentally good person, which Camilla shores up with the “He did this for free” line; her loyalty to him seems earned. These seem like people who help people; they belong in another, happier series, where they walk the earth as private investigators, righting wrongs. It also shows that he’s self-aware enough in his little-shittery to simultaneously work over all of the egos at play, while still indulging his little-shit instincts.

So anyway. Here’s a thought I had, have, and will continue to have, which started around chapter 8 but, with the tomfoolery of chapter 12, is now basically cemented; I think that Canaan House is heavily, heavily in conversation with, and providing criticism of, the worldbuilding of Harry Potter. You’ve got the Houses, politicking and jockeying- except there’s an in-built artificiality, religiosity and militarism to it that makes it parse as rancid immediately rather than on reflection as an adult. You’ve got the kooky, wise-but-elderly mentor who clearly knows more than he’s letting on, who pays special attention to the outcast- except, as I brought up in chapter 8, he’s doing this from such a clear position of incredible institutional power that the Dumbledore routine is impossible to take seriously, because he’s a face of whimsy plastered over something bad. You have the massive, nonsensical academy, simultaneously labyrinthine and homey- except that Gideon the Ninth is holding the premise of a space like Hogwarts to the fire. It feels too big for the student body because it is, there’s only about 20 people on the whole planet, and upkeep is obviously prohibitive, and people are offput and unnerved by the space, they ask the questions akin to asking about why Hogwarts was built with so many moving staircases and hazardous flora. Out of universe, Hogwarts, and the whole wizarding world, is a thinly-conceived nonsensical playground, painted with a veneer of deep history but really meant as a vehicle for the core cast to get up to whacky, unsanctioned misadventures, all of which are, within the universe, not supposed to be happening. I think the exact same thing is happening in Canaan House, but it’s diegetic. I think that the whole space was engineered from the ground up, relatively recently, by people who’ve read YA, for the express purpose of providing a sandbox in which stuff like Gideon’s excursion with the sixies can happen as the candidates grope towards Lyctorhood. This has the energy of an unsanctioned sortie but it’s clearly along the lines of what they were eventually intended to do, given the keys. There is so much artifice, to all of this- and we have enough context about this society to know that it’s a sinister artifice. The light at the end of this carefully constructed tunnel is almost certainly an oncoming train. 

#gideon the ninth liveread #gideon the ninth #gideon the 9th #gtn #the locked tomb #the locked tomb liveread #tlt #blastweave livereads #gideon nav #harrowhawk nonagesimus #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #thoughts #meta #analysis

[ashmaenas]

Ash's guide to getting shit done (aka how I survive. Kinda).

Disclaimer: This is just stuff that (mostly) works for me. I can't make any promises that your type of brain worms are the same as my brain worms. They may be a totally different species.

Music. I find that I am very music motivated, and I can kind of hack my brain into doing certain things by listening to a Specific type of music every time I do them. For example, every time I want to clean I listen to 50s music and my brain goes 'Ah yes, you should be mopping the floor around about now.' It's very effective when I actually remember to do it.

Clothes. In much the same vein as music, wearing outside clothes tells my brain it's time to be Alert. Again, it only works when I remember to do it.

Starting step. This one is a bit dubious because the beginning is the hard bit, but with some activities (like showering) I'll do an easy action (getting naked in the bathroom) and my brain will kick into the correct mode for that activity. This works maybe... 40% of the time, but that's still better than nothing.

Doing something else. Occasionally, I simply Can't Do The Activity but I'll have enough spoons to at least do something. In that case, I'll just trick my brain into being productive by incentivising it with organising stuff. So I may not be able to study but I will be able to compile resources for every topic I need to research based on the syllabus. It's not what I needed to do, but it will make my life easier later on.

Half ass it. The perfectionist in me hates doing this, but doing something badly is still better than not doing it at all. I've reframed this as 'doing the bare minimum is still doing it' and this method helps me with things like basic hygiene, cleaning, studying, eating ect... When I have next to zero spoons. An example would be that a sink bath isn't as effective as a shower, but at least I'll feel a bit cleaner.

Have someone watch me Do The Thing. This doesn't work if they tell me to do the thing because then my brain goes "Well, now I'm not doing it," and everything is difficult, but if I voluntarily have someone in the room then it makes it easier for me to do tasks. Sometimes. Unless I was already in the zone. Then my brain says no again. It's kind of a hit or miss but it may work for you.

Turn on the Big Light. I actually don't recommend this one, because I don't recommend that other people voluntarily cause themselves distress in order to get things done, but it is a last resort for me. Turning on the big light makes me feel a bit like a rabbit being hunted for sport. Namely, stressed and alert. This helps me get tasks done because the quicker I do them, the quicker I can turn the light off. On one hand, it is effective. On the other hand, it's horrible. 10/10, would not recommend.

Disguise it as something fun and automatic. Confession: at this point the only exercise I get is late night bedroom dancing and skipping (to music) with a skipping rope I made out of an old bathroom robe sash and a shoelace. I'll listen to danceable music and the urge will be there, so I fulfil it and get some Movement™ in at the same time. It works because it's something I'd do anyway, but it's also beneficial.

If you're the type of person who can just do things easily without having to have a hundred different strategies to wrangle your brain into submission then you're probably a bit confused right now. To that I say, don't worry about it!!

Go get a snack with the convenient cues your body sends you when you need to eat, and get started on that minor task that you won't spend all week in a state of procrastination paralysis and terror about.

If you're like me and everything is difficult (except sometimes the things that everyone else finds difficult—either that or except some super niche skill that is not regarded as useful by society) then I'm proud of you for making it this long and I hope you found at least one of these useful. Feel free to reblog with your own strategies for Doing Tasks and surviving life (seriously. Anything helps).

#autism things #life hacks #neuro divergent #autism #adhd #actually autistic #autism resources #nd things #a thinly veiled cry for help #tism posting

[tshortik]

Henlo, some of you may already know that I am modding a little semi-professional art server! We're looking for some new folks again, so send me a DM here on tumblr or twitter, if you're serious about art and interested in the space! :>

Below some important info about the server 👇

It's a space for adults, who are either hobbyists serious about their craft or professionals! It's for people who wanna get better, make connections and share resources. rn we have a good mix of hobbyists and professionals going and the atmosphere is very chill 😊

It's a 18+ server, but it's still sfw! People have different boundaries, and very explicit stuff can create some very awkward situations among strangers. We'd like to keep that to a minimum if possible. Tasteful nudity is totally fine tho, and if unsure there's always spoilers.

We don't want specific individuals to hog the spotlight (spam in channels, glossing over people, ...) and neither do we want anyone to idolise any artist to a creepy degree. Pity-parties are also not allowed. This is moderated accordingly!

It is supposed to be an interactive, informative and collaborative space. It is NOT a place to be solely used for promoting yourself without engaging with others. If we notice someone only promoting their shop for example, they're out. That really isn't the place for it.

The server will not "teach" you how to draw! Please only apply if art is already a thing you do seriously. I will not give out invites to people that draw stick figures, you should already have a basic amount of knowledge with this skill. This is important because I want everybody to be able to hold conversations on the same wavelength, without feeling awkward about their experience or lack thereof. The server is not equipped to teach someone like a mentor would, and it is also not within anybody's power to motivate someone for this either.

We regularly prune the server! There are lurkers, so you have the chance to react if you wanna stay and just soak in the info, but it is important for me that the space doesn't become too large and inflated, so that people stay comfy talking. Hence why the invites aren't public and why it's a closed server! Right now we have roughly below 100 members, but we are in the process of pruning again.

Just to re-iterate: The server is for mature conversations and mainly focuses on on-topic art stuff. While we do have off-topic channels, it is still primarily a space for people to seriously engage with each other about art of all kinds.

If there are a lot of interests, I might put you on a queue list as to not overwhelm the server with too many new folks, but I will let you know if that's the case. DM me for any questions!

PS: Crypto and AI shit will be hunted for sport 💋

#discord #server #art server #art

[mamahersh]

Here's like a part one to the TMA AU I was talking about a few days to a week ago.

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While Martin might have assured Tim and Sasha that getting them in to see Jon would be a simple matter of letting the guards know ahead of time, he neglected to confess the additional paperwork that the judge and prison was fond of for any changes in scheduling. Martin knew he was exempt from the usual form and hoops that were generally required every time someone wanted to spend time with Jon, but despite his trustworthiness he knew that getting Sasha and Tim into Jon's prison would be like pulling teeth. So without giving the two of them a specific date, just that he would give them a heads up 2 weeks in advance, Martin set about calling his contacts in the prison.

After 3 gruelling weeks of phone conversations, email correspondence, and filling out forms that were constantly delayed; Martin was finally able to give Tim and Sasha a date for them to take off of work to see Jon with him. In the interim, Martin had made sure to keep visiting Jon as normal, and did his best to hide how taxing the process had been from both him and the dynamic duo. Unfortunately, he knew that Tim and Sasha had their theories about the process, but they were at least polite enough to not ask questions. They just seemed happy to hear that the waiting was almost over, and Martin had to admit it had been a joy beyond words that he had been able to reconnect with them and begin the healing process. He still was on mediocre terms with Tim, but Sasha made for a good buffer and they both were trying their best to forgive and heal.

At last, 2 weeks later, the three of them made their way to the prison. The solid brickwork and menacing bars always reminded Martin of the Hunt domain fashioned after a prison that he and Jon had gone through on their journey to the Panopticon. The oppressive atmosphere and stink of human misery never quite got any easier to ignore, and tended to remind him that Jon probably was suffering on the days he didn't visit. Admittedly it was easy to forget when he wasn't at the prison as even most visits he made Jon was in good spirits and looked about as good as he had right before the Unknowing. But every few visits Jon would be sporting a cast, or would be holding himself gingerly in the chair, or he would look like he hadn't slept in a week and would have that hair trigger panicked response to everything that moved, and Martin would once again be starkly reminded that Jon wasn't just sitting in a prison cell day after day waiting for his time in prison to be up.

Martin shook his head, clearing the depressing thoughts and focusing on the present moment as they were brought through the checkpoints leading to Jon's visitation room. It wouldn't do for him to be sad when he was about to have (hopefully) one of the happiest afternoons on record. They cleared the final checkpoint and Martin glanced at them to try and grab their attention before he began to speak. "So, just a reminder, Jon doesn't know yet that you're both…"

"Alive?" Asked Tim, after Martin had paused for just a moment too long trying to think of something more tactful.

Martin nodded, grateful he wasn't the one to say it. "I also don't know how he's doing today, so as long as you don't say anything I should be able to ease him into the idea without startling him too much."

Tim rolled his eyes, but nodded his assent while Sasha just looked vaguely bemused and nodded as well. Martin, may have also neglected to mention his suspicions about Jon's treatment here, but he hopes that perhaps he could address that after the others had had some time to reconnect with their old coworker. With a deep breath, Martin opened the door they had finally arrived at.

As always, the guards had sat Jon down on a chair facing the door. The first thing Martin noticed was that Jon was looking good that day. There was a still healing bruise peeking out of the edge of the collar of Jon's shirt, which was only noticeable if you were looking for it; and the fringe of white bandages at the edge of his shirt sleeve on his right side were quite subtle. Martin assured himself that despite these, Jon must have been doing well as he seemed to be holding himself very relaxed in his chair. With a fortifying breath, Martin walked into the room and was happy to note that Tim and Sasha stayed by the door.

#tma #the magnus archives #tma au #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #mamahersh throwing ideas at a wall again #imprisonment #implied offscreen torture #very implied lol #blind character

[nualaofthefaerie]

I'm now very curious about Bast x Johanna

Well the people definitely spoke on the content they want so I guess we are doing this. I will do a second part with Wanda/Death because I also got asks about that.

OKAY! Let's do this I guess.

Spoilers for the Sandman, although I do not think it's that connected to the comics.

So, I actually didn't base this ship on mine of anything too specific to the plotline. It's a vibe ship.

The Johanna Constantine of the series, is a woman that is very messy for lack of better words. She is centered around her work, around her money and has little purpose outside of it. She tries, but still, it is hard for her to maintain normal relationships because of her own self-destructive beliefs about herself and the amount of guilt she bears on her shoulders.

And yet I was always compelled by Johanna having a partner somewhere in the Sandman universe. It seemed like unlike Morpheus where loving him is a Hurcelean task and a half and it's basically a suicide mission, loving Johanna was not all that impossible. So I had to kind of find someone who

Johanna couldn't hurt at any capacity. That would eliviate the burden off her shoulders to be scared for her partner all the time

Someone who will understand her daily life and the things she goes through as an exorcist and all that jazz

Someone kind, who will not pressure her into opening up too fast and also exudes warmth

Has to have some cute phyisical couple dynamic.

And not so randomly, I have to admit, I stopped myself on Bast. I like Bast so much, I can't explain it really. She is babygirl the way Nuala is babygirl. And she will check all of the boxes necessary in my head for Johanna to have an actually succesful relationship.

AND they are the cutest, like Bast is taller and I think when she merges into her human form (I assume she can make herself into a human if she wishes) she'd be taller than Johanna and bubblier than her. So they will be very nice tall/ angry smoll dynamic and idk...

My brain sometimes just thinks of these things...AND if she was a human, she'd be May Calamawy! Like...ugh, so girlfriend/girlfriend.

Like please, look at these two pookies. They hunt demons together for sport and love to cuddle!

I encourage eveyone to add to this dynamic if they like it! I don't have much (I mean, I do. They are part of the big Sandflower project, but I can't talk about that until next February so please, bear with me) to say as of right now, but they are truly my favourite WLW in the Sandman. In my head as well.

I love them. My asks are always open!

Love,

Li 🪷

#li answers #Bast the sandman #bast #goddess #sapphic #wlw sandman #femslash sandman #sandman comics #the sandman comics #johanna #johanna constantine #the sandman #the sandman netflix

[astarab1aze]

Some Assortment of Headcanons (i don't wanna make separate posts)

on the subject of artyr myrdin, kingmaker: he is literally merlin. the knights of the round table, king arthur, camelot, and some threads of magic all exist and are important parts of history, especially in the telling of merlin's ascendency. though he wasn't specifically searching for a means to achieve godhood, the means found him anyway, through his actions and advisory in camelot - he was not given a choice in the matter, fate-touched by both the sightless eye and starstitcher, naturally chosen to ascend by sunjatta itself in evolutionary design. yes, his ascendency led to the birth of mages as a whole, humans with magic in their veins to become something more than mere possessors. what makes witches, warlocks, wizards, and sorcerers different from any other human? they can wield their magic with great acuity, humans evolved specifically to temper the breath of the universe.

creation magic is the oldest form of magic, the root of all. it exists within all things, but is not a resource so easily tapped into. in times past, all nightfolk and supernatural creatures were born capable of wielding it, however, after several bloody wars and numerous calamities, the outer gods saw fit to strip most of the creation root, damaging their link to magic but not outright severing it as a whole - a generous punishment for wanton devastation and the wholesale slaughtering of humans. that being said, though rare, there are some nightfolk born capable of tapping into the root, bolstering their inherent magical prowess - effective prodigies. these mages are fate-touched with legends waiting to be written about them and their escapades, historical figures at birth whether the world knows it or not. even the most powerful of them all may not know the breadth of their capabilities, or even that they possess the root ( loux and furie are prime examples of this, as neither of them know they can broaden and amplify their magical skillset to encompass most if not all schools ). the benefits are difficult to quantify, but the creation root grants the possessor with unlimited potential and access to vast stores of magical energy, as well as innate power buffs and a little something unique per individual. really, the list goes on.

i don't think i've mentioned it, but nightfolk do enjoy sports and competitions. they have all kinds and their names are altogether straightforward: broom racing (nascar on a stick), broom derby (roller derby on a stick), iron alchemist competitions (literally magic iron chef), werewolf football, dueling championships, hunting, talent competitions, basically whatever human passtime you can think of has a nightfolk equivalent - and they're vicious about their teams, especially when it comes to the bloodsport division. every sport has a family-friendly version and someone-gets-killed-every-time version. nightfolk as a whole are more accepting of their natures than humans are, and so have relatively few moral complaints when all the paperwork is filed and the people involved are made aware of the risks. competitions are less dramatic, but no less intense - some competitors can't take the L and end up committing murder. shrug. oh, sports are mandatory in all magic schools ( ex. loux was an expert duelist by the time he was 16 - kind of the only thing that kept him from getting expelled ).

the merauda barnum in merauda barnum's school for gifted and troubled boys is an ancestor to the very same 'barnum' of the barnum & bailey circus - both are shadows of what they used to be. merauda barnum was the ringmaster of a freakshow and circus who, through some strange twist of fate, ended up saving some impoverished kid's life. blackwyrm attraction gone awry, that sort of deal. the kid went on to become a teacher and moved his way up the ranks, invested his money into the right projects, and wound up building and funding a school with permissions from the department of regulatory sorceries - to pay it forward and do for others what merauda did for him, in her name. it was a big help for impoverished students who weren't invited to belegerande's or any of the other schools. however, predictably, with involvement from the department, it was cheapened and fell to the bottom in education and quality. it's effectively a...well, a circus, now.

#☿ || Headcanons.

[colderdrafts]

Is there something (or someone) that can piss of morgan? we know that they may get upset with the reader if they were unwilling with them but they wouldn’t get angry at them, so is there a scenario that will pisses morgan of?

my guess is someone doubting their ability to protect the reader, but Morgan has shown that they're not the type to really care about other people opinions about them so I could be wrong

I mean, you can push Morgan's buttons if you really want to go out of your way to do so. Some thoughts on this below the cut <3

One certain adding fuel to their fire would be if you actively tried to look for another custodian. Or purposely try and destroy your relation, specifically to go to someone else. That won't fly with Morgan, and they'll put an end to it the second they catch wind of it. It's one of the things that could separate you besides death, after all. Sure, you're in doubt, but you'll change your mind. If you keep doing it, they'll just twist the situation to their favor. Maybe sabotaging the opponent somehow. Show you just how rough the world can get. You think they're so terrible? Anyone can be just as 'bad' as they can be when pushed far enough - or, they'll just straight up kill the opponent, if it's a fight they can win.

If you told them to their face you think they can't do their job properly? Straight up not valuing a core ability of theirs? They won't take well to it. Might hurt their feelings, just a lil bit. They won't know how to deal with that, but they'll tug at your connection and up the ante to remind you just how efficient they can be.

If someone else suggested they couldn't do their job? Well. Morgan will mostly just find it amusing a common-folk is even speaking to them, possibly be a little annoyed. It's true Morgan doesn't give two cents about other people's opinions, they won't take anything to heart. But if they dare speak something like that to their face, they have zero tolerance. The offender would simply be dead where they stand. It's just an efficient way to prove them wrong, isn't it?

"I can't defend them, hm? Well, thank you for volunteering as an example. I'd like to see you point your nasty fingers again with your arms torn off."

Some other points for how to piss off your local arachnid:

Common-folk being in their vicinity without very, very good reason

Second-guessing their abilities (sentry will be proven wrong, common-folk will be proven wrong violently)

Being a snatcher (They're a little like cockroaches to them. Annoying pests. Better stomp them out before they become a problem.)

Being a hunter. Morgan will want to end you on sight.

Scaring/threatening/being rude to their sentry. Morgan will hunt you for sport and enjoy tearing you apart when they catch you.

#colderwriting #UV #About Morgan

[scarsmood]

idk how else to word this to make it sounds less accusatory or aggressive so please excuse how my wording/tone may come across

how come recreating sexually traumatizing scenes in a sexually gratifying way can be healthy/helpful but thats not a thing for any other sort of trauma?

‘Not a thing for any other sort of trauma’

Your just not looking my guy, vets for instance will play tactical airsoft that involves using helicopters and being stranded on an island in a fight for survival.

People use boxing or martial arts as a way to learn to defend themsleves in ways they never could as children

Emotional and mental abuse can be replayed by playing dnd, role switching game, or just roleplay/ story telling

BDSM is one of many outlets out desensitize yourself from trauma. So heres a few more:

Art, sports, hiking, hunting, fishing, puzzles, animal keeping, gardening, video games, roleplay, story telling, Journalling, spiritual practices. The list goes on.

This comes off as ignorance to the process of trauma processing. It isn’t a linear process. Often tied to your basic means of survival (espically with CPTSD) these things are more like unwinding string than going through steps.

Id recommend the book the body keeps score. It has a great overview of trauma and its effects on the body.

My blog literally is dedicated to venting my experience as a stockholm syndrome suffree. I have 400+ poems at this point. Id recommend take a look around. If anything has made a profound impact on my trauma journey its that. I have a seperate blog dedicated to it called hatismood. You can get the idea of the scale of trauma processing. It isnt one action often many. Slowly reprogramming your brain that what your doing is safe.

BDSM is flashy. Most people cope with trauma in several different ways at once. Its never polite to ask someone if they’re doing something to work through trauma. So your never going to know unless they tell you. You have probably met more than a fair share of people on their healing journey doing something that helps them desensitize themselves.

Part 2 of that.

The phrase “recreating sexually traumatizing scenes in a sexually gratifying way” does not sit right with me. Your missing context. None of what I experienced was sexually traumatizing. I think more importantly I am not doing BDSM just to recreate trauma in a sexually gratifying way. That is an aspect but I love BDSM as a hobby. I consider it a legitimate craft and it takes time and dedication to preform. Dumbing it down to “free trauma recovery” does feel a bit insulting and lacks the appropriate depth BDSM deserves.

Trigger warning:

I’ll get dark with you here. When someone molests me unprompted that is sexually traumatizing.

When I am tied down to a chair by my boyfriend cracking jokes to him while hes cutting me. I have an adrenaline high but I am not scared. He is not scared. No one is scared or out of control in that situation. When I am being asked constantly if I am okay that is far from trauamtizing.

What im doing is exposure therapy. Familiar traumatizing stimulus is being exposed to me in a safe and contained manner. This dampens and slowly erases the connotations of trauma with these stimulus. Its a great way to cope with trauma and a basis for EMDR which focuses on rewriting and reframing traumatic memories.

I just want it to be super clear not recreating trauma. That’s not the only reason I’m doing it either. I feel like if you did BDSM for the sole purpose of healing a specific trauma you would have to clearly communicate that to your partner. Cause most people want to get dinner with you after or before. Learn about you first, have a relationship with you. You get the idea.

Personally I do it for many reasons. I think my top 3 are Trust, intimacy and connection. The trauma healing is something i never count on. Cause often with play i never get that but I do get a happy play partner and thats what im here for.

#trauma #erokin #afterdark

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Republican Senate Whip John Thune has become the target of mockery online after he suggested that assault rifles are needed to shoot prairie dogs.

Capitol Hill reporters probed several Republican senators in the halls of Congress this week about why assault rifles, specifically AR-15s, are still needed amid discussions of a ban following a string of mass shootings.

When Mr. Thune was asked about the need for AR-15s, the South Dakota senator said: “The challenge you have on that is there’s 20 million of them in the country already. They are a sporting rifle. And it’s something that a lot of people for purposes of going out target shooting.”

“In my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints. And so I think that there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them,” he added. “So I just think that the issues that they should be focused on is how do you keep those types of weapons out of the hands of these young, in this case, male, very deranged, young men.”

Twitter users quickly seized on Mr. Thune’s comments.

“So the GOP thinks of children as ‘varmints’ now!” Twitter user Eddie James wrote. “No one needs [an] AR-15 to shoot varmints, you can accomplish it with a pistol or .22 rifle that holds a limited amount of ammunition. Anything more is to murder people in mass quantities. Guess why [the GOP] wants these guns available?”

“Do you really tell the parents of a murdered child that there’s nothing you can do about access to AR-15s because you know people who want to shoot ‘varmints?’” Greg Kesich added.

“WTF?! Do you think these guys are counting on most of us to not know what a prairie dog is? Like maybe we’ll think it’s a wolf? Has Thune ever seen a prairie dog??” another account holder said.

“Can someone confirm that people actually do this? Growing up we did basically everything possible to avoid having to clean up the mess this kind of varmint mitigation would make,” one Twitter user chimed in.

“Why can’t we just admit that the main reason people *want* (not need) AR-15s is because they are fun? It’s not necessary from a hunting perspective. They provide an adrenaline rush and people don’t like to be told they can’t have fun. Fun should not be prioritized over safety,” Ben Thoma wrote.

“Senator John Thune just said that AR-15s are used to ‘shoot Prairie dogs’ in his state of South Dakota. If you need a weapon of war to shoot a two pound rodent, you are an idiot and an a**hole,” another Twitter user said.

Citizens for Ethics Research director Robert Maguire tweeted: “Apologies to everyone who has lost a child or a spouse or a parent or a friend to someone wielding an AR-15 style rifle. Your world being torn apart is just the price we pay for John Thune’s constituents to be able to obliterate prairie dogs, instead of just using a .22.”

“It is utterly mindblowing that one party in this country is saying people have to die needlessly so that farmers can shoot small animals with military-grade weapons, and these people still get to call themselves the pro-life party,” he added.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley also faced the question from CNN’s Manu Raju, to which he replied: “That’s used for sporting events, for sporting activities all the time,” he answered.

“People misuse them obviously,” Mr. Raju pushed back.

“People misuse handguns all the time. I think this [Uvalde] kid had a handgun as well,” Mr. Hawley responded, referring to the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on 24 May.

#us politics #news #2022 #the independent #gun violence #gun rights #gun control #mass shooters #mass shootings #uvalde shooting #sen. john thune #ar-15 #south dakota #tweet #twitter #the recount #sen. josh hawley #manu raju #cnn

[clocksallzeros]

The biggest problem by far that I see in dog people Facebook discussion (aside from outright bad faith and trolling) is people who just…generalize worst than dogs.

Like someone will say “I’m looking for a pet dog. I want it to be long haired and fluffy, I don’t care if it barks and I want a dog that’s friendly to others” and the comments are just full of “well they don’t come in fluffy but I breed Jack russel terriers! My dogs are proven in many sports!” Like ? Did you read the question. Your dogs are perfect for you, but not for this person.

And no one seems to be able to consider that their way of doing things is not the only way. The amount of times I’ve seen people argue about the titles on breeding dogs and yet NO ONE asks them what they breed. Like yes that’s important for a agility dog. It’s much less important for pets and dogs where the title sports don’t reflect the real work. (Aka dogs who will critter but won’t play barnhunt)

It’s like if I come into a discussion as a co owner of a Vulpine Spitz, and just assume that every hypothetical dog situation is related to me. See a post of someone wanting a high intensity critter catcher? Here, have a medium prey drive fluffy dork.

Or like. You can’t talk in hypotheticals without them all assuming there’s an example and then bringing it to discuss it. Even if that DID spark your post, sometimes you want to talk about a concept, and not get into the individual dogs.

Like people just asking hypothetically about certain things that may wash a dog from breeding and why, and every asks “well what is the dog like? What merits does it have” and I get the sentiment but sometimes the dog doesn’t exist. And it’s just a person wondering if a certain condition is worth washing.

Anyway I think I’ve forgotten my original point and this is it coherent but like. Just use ur reading comprehension out there and also don’t assume every situation and question is specifically tailored to you. I mess it up as well but at least I don’t tell ppl Juice would be perfect for them when they want a 50+ lb hunting dog. And I don’t try to make someone discuss a post I we both saw instead of discussing their jumping off point.

#shit my meds hit halfway through this and I kinda zonked #muscle relaxers made my brain relax too #I’m usually asleep by now and don’t experience this #I’m not tagging this btw y’all can reply or whatever but behave #you also can’t reblog it HAHA #got u

[sangrcfria]

"IF I'M RIGHT ABOUT THIS, I COULD SAVE A MAN'S LIFE. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT WOULD DO TO MY BOOK SALES?"

⟨  –  ryan destiny, demi woman , she/they. ⟩ it seems like kennedy stuart  has been seen around town, good days by sza under their breath. apparently they are a 24 year old human. townsfolk whisper about them being ambitious and calculating, but also nosy and imperious. the investigative journalist has been in town for two years, and gives off the vibes of having high expectations for yourself, all-nighters spent putting together information, an insatiable curiosity paired with an unyielding resolve, 

THREADS | MUSINGS | MIRROR | PINTEREST | MEMES

b a s i c s

full name ➔ kennedy noelle stuart

nicknames ➔ ken, kenny

age ➔ 24

species ➔ human

birthday ➔ may 20

gender ➔ demiwoman ( she / they )

sexual orientation ➔ demisexual

occupation ➔ investigative journalist

fc ➔ ryan destiny

a b o u t

tw: mention of religion

"some people are born great while others are created."

that is the principle that has been passed down the stuart family for generations. it was early in kennedy's life that they their brother, tobias, was the former while they had to be the latter.

born and raised in machester, new york. their mother was a biology professor, their father was a divorce lawyer. they were both strict, and not the most affectionate, usually reserving their praise for whenever one of the stuart siblings excelled in something.

it was clear that kennedy's parents favored the older of the two and it was that very favoritism that wedged a gap between them.

competition is all that kennedy knows after being raised in in their brother's shadow. sports, music, academics. their brother beat them in all of it. if they got a silver medal, he got a gold.

the only thing that kennedy seemed to surpass their brother in was writing. specifically... journalism.

they studied it in college despite their parents protests.

their career really took off in their senior year of university when they exposed a local pastor for being an underground kingpin and embezzling money from their renowned church. their article gained nation wide traction and it only fueled kennedy's desire to expose more wrongdoers.

so why did they move to forks? simply put -- it was the farthest they could get away from their parents.

kennedy is currently on the hunt for their next big story and has recently gained a curiosity for the volturi.

c o n n e c t i o n s

supernatural bestie ➔ i have a wc for this in the main but basically someone who is trying to protect kennedy from digging their nose too deep into a situation where they could get themselves killed. particularly in their investigation on the volturi ( open to any species aside from human )

crush➔ simple enough right? whether it's her crushing on someone or them crushing on her! extra points if it's unrequited lmfao ( open to any species )

unpaid intern ➔ someone that helps kennedy with their investigations and somehow always get dragged in to help them research. ( open to any species)

i could become the meal➔ someone who is interested in kennedy for more sinister reasons. maybe they haven't killed them off yet because they find them amusing? maybe they are playing a game to see how long it takes kennedy to figure out the truth. ( open to children of the moon and vampires )

i have a couple more wcs on their pinterest

p e r s o n a l i t y

+clever+perceptive +curious -overanalyzer -inflexible -needy mbti ➔ ESFJ natal chart ➔  ↑ capricorn, ⊙ taurus, ☾ cancer inspired by ➔ gale weathers ( scream  ), sailor mars ( sailor moon ), nancy wheeler ( stranger things ), olenna tyrell ( game of thrones ), monica geller ( friends )

#intro // 𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔡𝔶 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔯𝔱 . #bitten.intro