#I will not be stating any reasoning.

[fandomkicks]

tanner and layla from teen beach are a lesbian and a gay man in a queer-platonic relationship.

#teen beach movie #teen beach 2 #disney #dcoms #teen beach tanner #teen beach layla #I will not be stating any reasoning.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Even CNN is reporting the truth more now. But if you are held without being charged, you aren’t a prisoner, you’ve been kidnapped and are a HOSTAGE. And human rights organizations have said that the other 50%, who were charged, were mainly charged with throwing rocks, and that even most of that was made up.

For all the pro israel who came to my posts of Palestinian children celebrating their freedom, calling them terrorists and criminals. Israel is an occupation state, they don't need a reason to arrest you as long as you're Palestinian.

#so done with israelis calling Palestinian children terrorists when they've been arrested since they were younger than 13 & tortured & beaten #for no reason no charge or for throwing a rock at a military tank #not to mention the kids charged for stabbing when there's literally no proof which is why they're not allowed lawyers or trials #israeli soldiers would go as much as planting a knife in the scene which #i think is absolutely unnecessary since they can arrest people without any charge #palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #free palestine #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #israel apartheid #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #cnn #world news

[communistkenobi]

It’s so funny when liberals lecture communists about not knowing how anything works, that we need to grow up and face the real world etc, while publicly demonstrating that their political imagination is so deeply impoverished that they genuinely believe the only thing the leader of the most powerful country on the planet in all of human history can do is block a slightly more fascist guy from taking his place every four years

#one of the reasons I am a communist is because I believe in the wondrous power of a state in the hands of the working class! like it is #legitimately moving to learn about the transformative ways socialists use a proletarian state to direct a socialist society #what boer calls god-building and newton calls demiurgical. the state has a universe-building potential to it #and even setting aside socialist history the idea that the president of the US is unable to affect any local or state policy within his own #borders or foreign policy without is so baldly laughable it shouldn’t even be worth considering #except for the fact that so many people profess to genuinely believe that #whether they actually do is another story but christ alive man.

[hellenhighwater]

Wazzer is underweight and it's so stressful. I'm giving him extra feedings but I'm finding that he eats most when I literally heat his fancy salmon pate in the microwave and feed it to him on my fingertips, one tiny bit at a time. Tomorrow I'm going to try using an actual silver sugar spoon to feed him, because it's one of the smallest spoons I own.

I didn't have stress before I had kittens but they're just too cute.

#I'm loving fostering but it is by far the most stressful thing i could have chosen to do #literally nothing makes me anxious the way that caring for an animal in a delicate state of health makes me anxious #like. I'm very very not anxious as a person #except in this one specific way #there's a reason that i never even considered any type of animal cage career #i an so very not cut out for this

[featherymainffins]

I hate to say it but I might have to admit that Redditors can be pretty based sometimes

#dead by daylight #dbd #dbd unknown #dbd the unknown #pls pls pls you can trust me to be normal about that i am completely normal about that i am so normal about these themes #and their direct opposite i am normal and can be trusted with anything that's either like Th//e La//st Uni//corn or its direct opposite #like no. no i have to remember that bhvr have no idea what they're doing. i must not get sucked in. i must remember better games... unless #like no you have no idea what id give for this to be intended like aaaaugh i am unimaginably insane about the inhuman desperately #trying to be human in any way it can and the world continually rejecting those efforts #just like i am incredibly abnormal about humanity as a horror for the inhuman and the active rejection of humanity by something #that is; despite its best efforts and thw verdict of its biology; human. haha humanity as a horror you are forced to be and #perhaps always were but never had the chance to realise it. anyway. i digressed. #also the actual reason why Oh Gross (aka The Unknown) looks like that is because the lore states that some people thought #it was just a typical serial killer and gross is just a cumulation of everything everyone has ever thought about it #(god thats depressing) #so yeah. sorry no themes of humanity here i think. though id kill for them.

[fictionadventurer]

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

#a christmas carol #charles dickens #once again i've ponderously worked my way to the explicitly stated moral of the story #but i had to work my way there because stave 4 left me unsettled #had i been scrooge that trip probably would have squashed any desire i had to reform #the ghost *doesn't say* whether or not the future can be changed #what if this is just proof he's doomed no matter what so why bother changing? #fortunately scrooge was much better than i was about logic #namely: no reason to show him this future if it *can't* be changed #the point of these ghosts is to save him from marley's fate #plus we did have the ghost of christmas present's implications that future shadows can be changed #it's kind of interesting when you step back from familiar stories that just go this way because it's how they're supposed to go #and really dig into 'wait a minute. why did it go like this?' #it usually winds up with me figuring out that the writer knew what they were doing #but it's also nice to see the scaffolding that got us to the story

[hymnsofheresy]

Do you pray for the hostages too?

Yes. I pray for the 110 or so israeli and immgrant hostages assumed to still be alive. And I also pray for the hundreds of Palestianian hostages arrested without charge in Israeli prisons assumed to be alive.

I pray for a ceasefire so that the Israeli hostages are released. I also pray for the end of Israeli apartheid government, so that Palestianians are liberated.

#i recommend reading some articles on the israeli hostages that were released #they each have individual perspectives but i notice online that people are refusing to hear many of their critiques of the israeli state #oftentimes dismissing the hostages of being ''irrationally traumatized'' or ''coerced'' into saying things #now i don't agree with all of them. especially since a lot are reformers. but i think it is important to hear their perspectives #also in general #the sheer number of palestians suffering compared to the israeli hostages is the reason why i think this ''whataboutism'' is ridiculous #you have 2 million people suffering and i am supposed to direct my primary attention to what like 100 of them specifically? #especially considering that there is one side that can end this whole thing: israel #hamas has already offered to release the hostages #in exchange for a ceasefire #and any attempt that the israeli military tried to ''liberate'' the hostages ended up in their deaths #what so far at least 3 israeli hostages were killed by israel (and there was probably more unconfirmed)

[qwerzet]

resident evil 7: low-end job edition

partner in crime @cheesecakeapologist

#resident evil 7 #resident evil ethan #ethan winters #Rosemary Winters #mia winters #chris redfield #the reason ethan was hurrying to find mia was because his boss gave him a 2 hour leave to drive across the states to find his missing wife #boss oc i guess? #his boss forces ethan to do spreadsheets in the saferooms #has to facetime him the whole time for proof #its not that ethan cant find a better job its just that he doesnt want to #also i reckon his boss would make him go on zoom everyday when he moved to romania just to see if ethan's working #his only family time is on lunch #in re8 he gets a 5 hour unpaid vacation to retrieve rose #destroy a bloodline speedrun any % world record #that rose doodle is totally unrelated to this madness #the bestie's just vibing

[uncanny-tranny]

I totally get gendered petnames like dude, sis, bro, and whatever else, and I get why some people might be confused as to why some trans people might take issue with a petname you might think is neutral. However, I do want people to remember that trans people often have different relationships with those petnames because they're gendered, and they might be uncomfortable with those connotations. A trans woman who doesn't want you to call her "dude" is probably not doing it to anger or accuse you of anything, but she might just have a negative relationship with that word.

I get that it can be hard to change habits, but it is worth it to include trans people. If a trans person in your life asks you not to use certain words, I promise they aren't trying to fuck you over or make you feel like you're under attack. They are just expressing a boundary - one that cis people also express.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #the example i gave is again just one instance of what i'm talking about #i can get why it's hard like... i use 'bro' and shit like it's a filler word and it's a habit of mine #however it isn't anybody's fault that i'm like that and i'm more than willing to stop using it for somebody #because it's like... that word is just a word to me and that means i can abandon its use at any time #and if not using it means that somebody feels included then fuck yeah i'm going to not use it #i just hear people weirdly antagonizing trans people for setting these boundaries and it's like... #...have you MET a cis person because they do the same things as trans people (it's just seen as more acceptable ig) #it IS annoying that people want to have the same conversations again and again and again #because ngl i only made this post because of the antagonism these trans people face for... no reason??? #they're literally going 'please don't call me [x]' and yet that is still too polarizing????????? HUH?????? #you'd think that that trans person like... ran a car through a bank with how they're treated but no... they're just stating a preference #and it's crazy to me because it's EASY to not do... because it's a non-action. and if you fuck up all you have to do is apologize #the hardest thing to do would be to watch what you're saying a little more but that's like... not a big deal???????

[bread--quest]

to this day one of the strangest situations i've ever been in is, in the year of our lord 2023, having a debate with a middle-aged woman from texas who was trying to write a graduate thesis over whether or not it was utilizing girl power for american colonist women in the 1770s to remain loyal to the british empire. i think about it a lot.

#wow look something original!! #also the reason i was interacting with her at all is that she had come to our museum to ask us if we knew of any loyalist women in our town #and we said. No. and she said are you sure. #and we said ma'am there were 18 families here at the time of the revolution and they were all scottish or irish. we're sure. #and then she stayed in our museum for another hour arguing with us about our OWN STATE #shes so lucky that my boss was there or i mightve been angry enough to try and fight a grown woman

[arctic-hands]

I've had more than one anarchist I associate with be surprised to learn I'm actually not an anarchist. But like. I'm a huge proponent of the Welfare State, and you kind of need a state for that

#welfare #welfare state #food stamps #Medicaid #medicare for all #universal healthcare #ubi #ssi #if a government isn't going to take care of its people then the government has no use to the people at all #so like I'm down for dismantling a system that only exists to rule and oppress and watch us die #and i don't mean 'fascists are okay if they make the trains run on time' type shit bc I'm staunchly antifascist #but like i do think a government can take care of even the most vulnerable of its populace if it really wants to. it just doesn't want to #undesirables who can't turn the cogs of capitalism are to be disposed of in most governments. esp the United States via #passive eugenics #anyway #revolution or not if the medical infrastructure goes down for any reason then me and a fuckton of other undesirables are dead #also this next statement is less towards anarchists specifically and more for like utopic commune people but anyway #if your utopia is based on 'work to live/earn your place' you are not a leftist you are a capitalist with a woke vocabulary #and i hate you

[synthshenanigans]

Jashtober Day 27 & 28- Potion & Bass

Designs by @/cinnamonsly!!!

Bonus Bass doodle:

#combined these since both are the novel album #definitely the reason #not because im behind #main band stuff is done tho!! my sis did great :} #for other band people. it was semi finales & state yesterday so i was VERY busy & VERY tired #an I already graduated too so I didn't even march. i just pushed props around an a big ass speaker. #still was gr8 tho. they got 4th overall in their state an class which is real cool #okay sorry enough ranting lol #besides its like. 11:52 rn i don't want this any later than it already is #chonny jash #cj jekyll #cj adam #cjgw #cj gothic lit #jashtober #jashtober day 27 #jashtober day 28 #-atlas art-

[generalsmemories]

ya'll please i haven't even finished the 1k requests and we're already nearing 2k.

#narus' corner #life update in the tags that no one asked for because if ya'll know me i say stuff here more than on the actual post for some reason. #im burned out from life - and it's directly affecting the speed i can churn out stuff even with my eepy jing yuan being there in front of m #T__T at least he's being eepy at E4 #work environment has very much to say to that i've been overworked already LMFAOOO #anyway it gonna be a bit to bounce back but with that said #ion think imma do any event for 2k even though IM HUGELY GRATEFUL TO YA'LL #WE'VE ALMOST GATHERED 2K JING YUAN BELIEVERS. IM SORRY THIS SILLY PERSON CAN'T DO MUCH MORE FOR U IN HER CURRENT STATE #but i shall prosper and get over this bump in life like i actually do. #after i get myself diagnosed by a professional- #so yeah. if i update within the next few months please be surprised cause i would be very surprised myself.

[forevercloudnine]

The more things change.... (The Brave and the Bold #183 vs. Detective Comics #822)

#riddlebat #riddler #edward nygma #bruce wayne #i was leafing through the brave and the bold issue and was immediately reminded of this scene #now THERE is a comic issue i will never need to look up to remember #having written 60k+ words of a fanfic based on it #anyway i've been meaning to start a folder of batman villains complimenting to batmobile since forever #and now i finally have #although i don't know if i want it to be JUST batman villains #like for some reason j'onn saying 'nice car' in the 2004 show falls in the same category for me #but open request to anyone still reading these tags: #if you or a loved one has a panel or screenshot of literally any dc character being into the batmobile #(that isn't either of these or kings of fear or fear state omega because i already have those) #PLEASE send them in my direction

[starflungwaddledee]

I love love love the way you draw a swallow tail on Galacta <3

May I ask, would others be allowed to also draw the swallow tail or something similar on Galacta? Your comment of him needing additional help steering has got me thinking 👀

YES!!!! please draw him with the swallow tail!!!!!! PLEASE please please feed me birdlike-birdtailed galacta knight!!!!!! you can mention that my headcanons inspired it if you like but what you should reaaally do is ping me so that i can see it if you draw swallow tail galacta knight

swalltwail galtaca kinght. i'm normal about swallow taild galacta kngiht. swallow tailed galacta knight supremacy!!!

#swallow tailed galacta kngiht #swallwo tlaied glaacta gnktih #if i could gift one thing to the kirby fandom at large it would be this headcanon. #i just think he deserves a feathered tail. and swallow tails are the... can i say this... the sexiest bird tail? just objectively #among birders. pretty sure this is just like... universal birder opinion. haven't spoken to a birder who didn't think this #sorry magolor who i also gave a bird tail but peacocks and their tails are silly. you are just a silly little guy. #asks #galacta knight #edit: i see you said 'or something similar' and so yes you can draw any bird tail. any bird tail is better than none but for the reasons #i have stated above i do recommend.... swalow tail gltaatkcngigrht