#it’s either north

[mainenorth]

in a kinshift. do i know who? no

#jacks thoughts from the moon #kinshift #fictionkin #it’s either north #krok or fulcrum #cybertronian kin #rvb kin #transformer kin

[fleapit]

hi. why is nobody talking about the porn ban in north carolina? the PAVE act is a bill that was passed back in september 2023 (came into law january 1st 2024) that effectively bans users from viewing websites hosting adult content without age verification. (link to the bill)

"-the act legally requires commercial ventures to verify users’ ages if a company “knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material.”

In order to do so, North Carolina requires these sites to either use “a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification,” or utilize “another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification.” Companies are not allowed to hold records on any personally identifying information used to confirm users’ ages.

Additionally, North Carolina offers residents the right to a lawsuit if a site is found to record user identifying information, or if a minor’s parent or guardian finds that a website allowed their child to access a site purposefully hosting material “harmful to minors.”" obviously we don't want these websites having our IDs, but sites like e621 and pornhub just straight up aren't asking for them either- blocking their service to the state in it's entirety instead. even beyond the restriction of adult websites, obviously as the 'queerest place on the net' we can see how "material that is harmful to minors" is not just intentional vague wording, but a massive red flag. even if you dont care about the porn- which you should, this is a massive rights violation. how long until 'harmful material' is expanded to include transgender people? same-sex relationships? anything lgbtq? this is a serious fucking problem and it opens the door to hundreds of potentially worse bills that extrapolate on the same concept.

i have no idea what to do to fight it, but if someone smarter than me could add links to representatives or something, that would be awesome.

i'm also going to tag a few people to get this post out: @polyamorouspunk @safety-pin-punk @doggirlbreasts (i have no idea who else to tag, if any of you can think of someone who can help this post get out there, please tag them!)

#no idea what to tag this with either but uhh #poltiics #north carolina #pave act #PAVE #e621

[rigbykinnie]

he's so babygirl and silly i can't do this.. i think I have couvid;;..fd.kasjd

#videosgame talk #undertale #undertale yellow #i love star #or is it north star? #either way i love him #ut yellow is sooooo good #worth the wait

[tazma-art]

AU where Clover's friends convince them to stay a little longer. Flowey is not a complete ass and lets Clover be, (sort of) until Frisk falls.

Every time Clover thinks about giving up their soul again, it seems more and more unfair to do that to their friends. Instead, they focus on making life in the Underground more barrable to as many monsters as possible.

Until another human falls.

#undertale frisk #undertale yellow #undertale fanart #undertale yellow fanart #clover undertale yellow #clover #frisk #undertale yellow starlo #north star uty #uty fanart #clover uty #starlo uty #uty #undertale yellow au #uty au #i just want them to have a familiy #remember when i said Flowey is not a complete ass here? #hes still an ass #but he got curious #and he could just reset it all either way no? #haha #Frisk has entered the chat #also he thought that maybe Clover would get stronger with age and be able to defeat Asgore #they do get stronger #: ) #allowed to live au #my art

[kineticallyanywhere]

you ever read a fic so good it carves out a solid and permanent chunk of your brain. you ever read a fic so good you get the physical jitters whenever you know something is about to happen and you can’t hecking wait to see it happen youre just so excited

anyway if you haven’t yet please read A Tale of Spirits by @unorthodoxx-page, they way it uses the premise to expand on the cultures in Avatar and how they interact with spirits and they way every single Rise-to-Avatar character match up is chefs kiss hot DIGGITY dang gosh me to HECK

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #avatar #the last airbender #atla #tla #fanart #crossovers #aus #avatar aus #rise leo #rise raph #rise mikey #rise donnie #hecking neon green leon at the north pole #imagine sprinting through a city looking for your bros and when you cant find them youre like #okay next city #but then you find out your options are either tundra or ocean #imagine dropping into another world and a dude sitting behind a wall of fire talks down to you #also you know you could literally pull a gattling gun out of your ass 'im the fire lord' 'yeah thats nice' #ozai like 'we have contained the spirit in the castle' meanwhile donnie with a jetpack 'oh sweet a balcony' #toph meanwhile 'i can't let him stop me' raph like 'i would like to enable you' ':O' #meanwhile meanwhile mikey been given his toughest patient yet #then again if anyone needs dr delicate touch its zuko #anyway i love this fic highlight of my week i hope author is treated with love by the universe #kineticallyart #may i be a vehicle by which the universe cares #author please take my love in the form of this offering #not yet ary #(that's a tag for a friend ignore that one)

[fictionadventurer]

Have I mentioned lately that creating AUs is the most fun thing ever? You get to take a story you love and then mash it against another type of story you love and fit all their pieces together like they're a jigsaw puzzle. You get to find all the unexpected points of similarity where the stories fit together really well, and see the places where their differences change and make commentary on the original stories/genres in really interesting ways.

And then once you fit the pieces together, you get to look at the new world you've made and see how these characters in this specific world have different conflicts and explore new themes, and you get to play with another level of puzzles as you figure out what this means for this story.

It's the most fun ever. It's my favorite game.

#random thought of the day #adventures in writing #this goes for both fairy tale retellings and for aus of specific shows/novels #this last week was a week for aus #between the north and south sci fi au coming up again #making up a northanger abbey fantasy au #coming up with a new angle for retelling maid maleen #and having tons of new insight in how to rework a story that's a retelling of cinderella and three different austen novels #plus looking back on the powers and prejudice au #this is just such a great game #the moment when the pieces click into place in a way that makes both elements make sense #there's nothing quite as satisfying #to some extent this applies to plotting original fiction #but it's a different feeling when you're making an au of something #because you don't just get to work with malleable clay #you have specific pre-formed pieces #so you get the challenge of figuring out how to fit them together without damaging either one too much #and when you find the way they fit together it makes you appreciate both stories in a new way #plus it makes you feel clever for making the connection #astounding superb wondrous past time

[profounddefendorcrusade-blog]

I feel bad for Starlo. (pt. 7)

Staroba is... not my cup of tea.

Still can't get over the fact Ceroba showed so little empathy for Star. It becomes even worse when you remember she started lecturing him ALL while wanting to take Clover's soul herself and lied to his face just so she could later betray the kid. At least Star tried to fix things. She started digging deeper and deeper into her plan and in the end got forgiven really easily.

I keep thinking Ceroba sees Starlo as a childish little bro or smth and even mentions how the reason she chose Chujin was because he was "mature." Yeah he WAS more serious in terms of personality but everyone's different. Chujin wasn't morally perfect anyway

'Back when I was a naive kid, kinda like you' and 'hey, it's science. your brain is still developing' rub me the wrong way. Basically what I got from this is how she thinks only someone childish and emotionally underdeveloped would consider a relationship with Starlo

Ceroba seems to view Star as a "poor naive manchild" who needs babysitting. She feels so bad for him that she'd sometimes tag along with his antics but won't hide the annoyance most of the time.

She'll also spare him from his feelings getting hurt, which is nice but it's not her honest opinion:

She seems to show little appreciation for what he tried to do for her even though they're supposedly best pals. She says how she's been burying her sorrows in the saloon but not how spending time there even slightly cheered her up.

She envies Star's optimism but imo it sounded more like an adult envying a kid's naivety than one adult admiring the other.

And APPARENTLY the time she spent with Clover in Steamworks cheered her up a little but not what Star's been doing for her for months.

heck she didn't even notice he had been doing it for her. too stuck in her sorrows, probably

I think the reason for this is because the Steamworks reminded her of Chujin and Kanako and the life they used to have. Btw, she loved Chujin waaaay too much (and even though he's gone now she still doesn't think she'll ever be with anyone else except Chujin, she's proud of Chujin for a useless award, she still calls Chujin 'her love,' she keeps talking about Chujin's legacy and how Asgore and everyone else never believed in him), to the point she stubbornly supported him without question, only (maybe) seeing him more realistically at the end of pacifist. I just feel like Ceroba doesn't take Starlo seriously. It's not that she doesn't care about him at all, but… she definitely doesn't get him.

For these reasons, I'm not a fan of staroba.

#uty #undertale yellow #starlo uty #uty starlo #north star uty #uty ceroba #ceroba uty #ceroba ketsukane #anti staroba #I won't pretend I like this ship #I honestly don't see the chemistry #their friendship is ok though #but imo star puts more effort into it #maybe she's hiding her true feelings for starlo #maybe not #idk #either way I won't overthink it #i know a lot of fans love staroba and that's fine #i just don't #star was a sweetheart to let her go #and let her have happiness somewhere else without him #i want starlo to either end up alone raising clover as a single dad #or with someone who will appreciate him and find him inspiring #this might sound funny #but that someone could be el bailador #both are energetic and passionate and 'too much' for the people around them #they wouldn't find each other 'too much' #corn yaoi is something I want to discuss separately

[willowycreature]

me: stripping sansa of her kindness that is a part of her to make her cynical and think that everything she loved as a child is stupid was a terrible decision

someone: exactly she would've been best friends with-

me: this is where i leave

#why would she be best friends with someone trying to steal the north away again #her brother and mother died for the north #she bled for the north #she is the northern girl winterfell's daughter! #she won't be best friends but she won't be hostile either because courtesy is a lady's armor #sansa stark #asoiaf

[communistkenobi]

does anyone have reading recommendations that clarify the difference between liberalism and fascism? I’m having trouble distinguishing what is just like normal levels of imperial/colonial violence conducted by a liberal state and what pushes it over the edge into a fascist state. Is fascism simply mature liberalism? Is it liberalism in crisis? Can we only make historical, reactive judgements about what is fascist, which is to say, can we only know if fascism occurred after it has come and gone? I take the general point that calling all liberal states fascist can let them off the hook for types of violence considered normal or “just doing business,” invisibilising the daily violences they conduct as part of the regular maintenance of a liberal capitalist state. People are calling the US fascist for its direct participation in and funding of the genocide in Palestine - a diagnosis I don't disagree with, but if that’s the case, where do you draw the distinction between the US being merely a liberal state with aggressive global imperial ambitions and the US being a fully fascist state? Perhaps more bluntly, what’s the difference between a liberal drone strike and a fascist one? I’m struggling to understand the value of the fascist label, because everything it describes (ultranationalism, a theory of racial and cultural degeneracy/decline, paranoia about an imminent external threat expressed as violence against internal populations deemed to have insufficient loyalty to the country, a turn towards a mythologised tradition of the past, imperial expansion, genocidal projects against minority populations, etc etc) just seems to me like a description of United States in general lol

#if we call all liberal states fascist we risk exceptionalising liberalism <- point I am sympathetic to #but if that’s the case then like what does the fascist label get us? What does it ‘do’ as analytical tool? How does it help us understand #the world today and the history of the world? #was the iraq war fascist? If so are we meant to understand that the US stopped being fascist for a couple years #and is now fascist again? Despite the continued occupation & violence & sanctions in Iraq Libya Yemen Afghanistan etc during that time ? #are all the coups it did in Latin America fascist or just normal liberal behaviour? Was the Korean War fascist? The Vietnam war? #what about the Cold War? What about the genocide of indigenous people in North America? What about chattel slavery? #I guess I’m just at like a point in my knowledge of history that none of the governments or movements or actuons called fascist #seem even remotely different from just like regular imperial and colonial violence #and so like my current inclination is that either all of this is liberal or all of this is fascist #and that doesn’t feel satisfactory lol

[phospolipid-bilayer]

RIP Voice of the Opportunist you would've had a very successful career or a continuous series of god awful experiences leading to life completely in ruined using the internet. Maybe both.

#slay the princess #Guy would either scam people or get scammed himself #North star microceleb parasocial situationship ❤️ #That's a lot of buzzwords in one sentence

[blues-valentine]

Ryan Gosling didn’t deserve that Oscar nom but neither did Margot Robbie. The level of performances this year were insane and the real snub was Greta Lee’s performance in Past Lives. Also, Lily Gladstone just became the first Native American (US) woman to be nominated at the Oscar for Best Leading Actress. The white feminism off people be having is insane.

#and i really like margot but with the level of performances offered by so many actresses this year is crazy to think she had a real chance #ryan didn’t deserve that nomination and he won’t win it either #greta gerwig deserved the best direction nomination and that’s the only snub #let’s be serious #i was corrected because yalitza aparicio was also nominated and she’s an indigenous women from mexico which is also north america #the oscars #the academy awards #barbie #lily gladstone

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Listen, I just need to say this as someone who is familiar with the medical system and the personalities of trauma surgeons, and I appreciate and love all the depictions of human Knock Out. But he is not wearing suits when he's doctor mode. He wouldn't dare to bring his Armani anywhere near a medical settings. Human Knock Out is running around in obnoxiously bright red custom fitted scrubs, a tailored white coat, and high end expensive ergonomic waterproof sneakers. He still meticulously does his hair and gets huffy over his appearance, including getting mad that he got something on scrubs, but he would never bring his bespoke suits anywhere near a bleeding patient.

#i know so many doctors like this #like this is how they dress #and if it ain't the white coat it's a fleece vest #either north face or columbia brand #tfp #transformers prime #knock out

[allgremlinart]

haiiiiii tell me some of your jetko headcanons

hm. Both of them would get kidney stones. this is a very realistic and reasonable assumption to me I dont think either of them hydrate nearly enough. I think it would explain a lot about them and how they act also. If someone told me Zuko had a kidney stone the entire show I would believe them. I hope this gives you new insight as to who they are as characters.

#Zuko would REFUSE to tell ANYONE about the kidney stone and probably would die from it whereas #Jet would tell literally everyone on the street and also would ask people for advice about it #to purposefully make them uncomfortable. and hm. you COULD probably.. waterbend .. ? it out.. or bloodbend.. #pissbend... either way Katara would come in clutch for him (reluctantly) so he'd survive his kidney stone experience. #jetko #atla #allgremlinasks #north tag

[tvckerwash]

I hc wash and south (and by proxy, north) as all being ODSTs prior to pfl and one thing I really like about hcing them as such is that it adds another layer of depth to why they were all chosen to be a part of the recovery force.

ODSTs are a special forces unit within the marines, and they're generally used as force amplifiers and in high risk or sensitive operations. two such scenarios include the recovery or recapture of personal and high level assets behind enemy lines, as well as deep reconnaissance and intelligence gathering. ODSTs are also used in politically sensitive operations, which pfl was following the crash of the moi.

so basically, who better to be on the recovery force than former ODSTs who already have a background doing the kind of work that would need to be done?

this also adds to some of the tension between north and south as well imo, as while they're a great team who are capable of working together they clearly have two very different skillsets—south is not portrayed as someone who has the patience necessary for long reconnaissance missions, and part of the reason why team b failed so spectacularly is because two snipers and an intelligence operative are not a good choice for a smash and grab mission. had north been replaced with south things would've probably went way better for them, because south is actually fairly similar to wash in her "get in, get it done, get out" mentality, though where wash comes off as more methodical and is willing to take that "wait and see" approach, south throws caution to the wind and has a "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" approach.

this is probably why wash and south were (on paper at least) going to get eta and iota—south would've benefited greatly from having an ai that was afraid and anxious as it would force her to slow down and think things through more, and wash getting an ai that was happy and cheerful would force him to loosen up a bit and be less high-strung and serious.

#rvb #red vs blue #agent washington #agent south dakota #agent north dakota #related but not related but i think the reason wash and epsilon ended up in the situation they did is bc they were hyper compatible #like most of the ai are paired w a freelancer to either balance something out or to amplify a specific trait #for example north was given theta so he'd get off south's back or sigma could've helped lina be driven by more than just competition #so giving an ai that is memory to someone who already has a great memory in theory seems like it would be good. but if the memory is just a #glowing ball of trauma then. well. it would impact them a lot more than someone who doesn't have a great memory #like tbh i think delta could've gone to maine and epsilon to york bc the guy is kind of scattered and his adhd vibes could benefit from a #better memory while maine who has a habit of letting his anger and frustration get the best of him would've done well w calm logical delta

[sijopolang]

#I think in that final moment Satoru made his decision to either go north or south #he hugged Suguru so hard and thanked him #regardless of the decision he made #they’re soulmates and it hurts so much knowing what they could have been #anime #anime fanart #anime art #my art #fanart #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen fanart #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #stsg #stsg fanart #gego #gege akutami #gege when i catch you gege #art #manga art #man I’ve missed using tags like this #it’s fun

[spinnysocks]

my favourite thing about the madagascar movies is that no one's a sane fucking person

#or animal i guess #EXCEPT FOR the north wind #which is why they “flopped” as characters #PERSONALLY i love them BUT i can see why they're so underrated lol #but YEAH. EVERYONE'S CLINICALLY INSANE IN THAT FRANCHISE #and they can't be helped #no one is sane. not even gloria or maurice or gia or vitaly or ANYONE #this also stretches to the pom series but i haven't watched enough of it 🙏 #can guarantee no one there is sane either #...i kinda retract my former tags about the nw #they're. kinda sane. they're just a stubborn kind of silly #the sanest you could get in the mada world lmfao #madagascar #madagascar movie #madagascar 2 #madagascar 3 #penguins of madagascar #the penguins of madagascar #madagascar escape 2 africa #madagascar europe's most wanted #the north wind #north wind #this is coming from someone who hyperfixated on it for like 2 years #but you only need to vaguely pay attention to know that they're all insane #S tier franchise