#lockdown live news

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc prompt #34

Everyone always says that having a good reaction time is a great thing in a town where ghosts attack daily. Nobody ever warned him that sometimes it’s a bad thing to punch first and ask questions later.

Danny gets startled by Bane while wandering around Gotham, and punts him four blocks into a brick wall. Danny scrambles to get gone before anyone notices, but unfortunately for him, Gotham has eyes everywhere. And one Red Robin cannot believe that a twink of a guy just sent one of their physically strongest rogues flying like it was nothing.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dc x dp #crossover #dc universe #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #writing prompt #writing #batpham #tim drake #he cannot believe his eyes #he never expected death by twink to be what took bane out for an indefinite period of time #he broke at the very least most of his bones #there’s a new meta in the city and he’s got superman level strength #panic mode #batman’s about to go full lockdown #danny’s just trying to live his best half life #unfortunately for him #:) #that’s not going to happen #superman wants to know if this is another kryptonian or what #he’s definitely heard some concerning things from batman #the lost child senses are tingling #danny’s getting snatched lmao

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

#i've felt this for a while but like. fundamentally? C3 is just...uniquely not set up for terribly satisfying shipping #even the ships I do like and that get small moments are relatively background #like 80% of quote unquote ship content is like. fanon goggles overlaying either parallel play or standard battle mechanics #which is fine! I think it's a different vibe and approach than the past 2 campaigns #i think especially in character creation; self-insert or easy for new players (c1) #followed by Morally Gray Campaign; Prove We Can Replicate This Success; Serious Characters (C2); followed by Let's Get Silly With It (C3) #which is less conducive to that profound connection of c1 or c2. which is not a bad thing! #but god. if you complain about the D&D show having too much d&d plot and not enough romance...yeah pal it's d&d not a dating sim #like I enjoy when there is romance in my fantasy but it's not a requirement. there is a genre full of romance. it is called romance. #i'm also thinking about this bc I need to watch wot s2 but i've been told that the fandom has gotten weird #like wow so moiraine/siuan is not the A plot? in a high fantasy Good vs. Evil series? WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT. #getting back to this...i'm also thinking about my own life and like. i moved to where i live not long pre-lockdown #and so i'm finding myself a resident of this area for 4+ years but with weaker connections than i'd have otherwise. and that's fine! #but psychologically i feel so weird about just starting to find my place bc it's been so long even though there's a good reason #and i wonder if the cast/Hells feels the same way ie why are we only just bonding now 70 eps in and so they're hesitant #that I Waited Too Long And Now It's Awkward feeling; that I Should Be Past This By Now fallacy #which. again. i think things early on could have been done differently but that time is past you need to live in the present now. #cr tag

[dogpantry]

#yeah. #healthcare is. #i wish i could explain how i love my career #but hate the system it lives in #i’m so tired. all the time #i can’t explain this kind of tired? #every day is something new. something sad. something awful #there have been two active threats against the hospital that required a lockdown #in just a few months. and i can’t even come home and talk about it all #because i can’t dump the daily trauma on my spouse or friends #i’m exhausted haha

[petrovna-zamo]

The Holy Trinity of Courtney & Katya podcasts:

Bonus:

#my recommendation list #perfect pod episodes #and one of the best workout lives from lockdown #two very attractive people in & out of drag #we all know the shitting in the bed story (because k was on antibiotics I feel like that very important fact keeps getting left out) #and the Gennifer with a G story of course #but the fact that all that happened and they remained close? #that’s real friendship baby! #I love listening to Courtney & Katya’s dynamic #a perfect mix of humor and intellect #I always learn something new from their conversations #Courtney is the real deal too like she’s putting in the work being a spokesperson #advocating for queer rights

[e77y]

Seriously need to make more friends or go outside more (both things are easier said than done) bc I am a little bit tired of relying on content creation for attention and connection :(

#idk I think I just miss how accessible attention from friends was in high school and even last year in college #but now I’m an online student and I live in the middle of nowhere so it’s a lot harder to hang out with people irl #and idk I just finished all of my schoolwork for the day and thought ‘I’m really bored and want to talk to somebody etc’ #and my first thought was ‘I should work on a new fic so people will comment on it’ 😭 #which! I do love comments! but also I need to talk to people outside of AO3 comments yk? lmao 😭 #I sort of miss the year-ish long era of COVID lockdown bc I was constantly on calls with like ten different friend groups #maybe it’s my self isolation or maybe adulthood is just like this? idk #I’m moving in with friends next semester so I think that will be good for me #I just wanna make online friends man :( but idk how to DO that except by making fandom content #and hoping somebody likes it enough to slowly incorporate me into their life LMAO #I wish calls/voice memos were the norm in online spaces I’m so much better at those #anyway this is very pathetic to post but whatever. I’m trying to get used to being vulnerable on this blog #not that I owe it to people online to be vulnerable. if anything I should NOT be vulnerable on the internet #it’s just that. I am not very vulnerable period. so it’s better for me to air it out into the online void than to bottle it up forever #ellyposting #vent #ish? just to be safe

[caruliaa]

can tsonts come out again sorry but that was like. my nov 5th execpt fully positive insane emotions of it i was on insane cloud nine i was experiencing insane levels of joy the fandom exploded carulia practically went canon everyone was saying think about the implications of carmen imagining julia watching her dance or knowing where her apartment is or julia saying i do hope these articfacts mysteriously appear at my doorstep ;) and the implications where gay and glorious and also kept thinking abt tgwdlm promise me youll think about the implications but more importnatly CARMEN GAVE JULIA RED ROSES AND SHE BLUSHED IM STILL NOT OVER THAT AND I NEVER WILL BE !!

#AGHH since then iv lived thru a lockdown drifted apart from most of my friends i had then made new friends including the #closeset friend iv ever had graduated sixth form gained new interests lost ones inclduing those same new interests #lost that closest friendship goteen back into old interests. and here i still am. stil lnot fucking over the red roses #flappy rambles #cs #carulia

[iiced-ventii]

AMERICAAAA 🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

(vent in tags)

#tw: school shooting #tw: guns #so our school had a code red lockdown today where there was essentially an active shooter #there were gunshots heard by the school #we had to be evacuated and my class being one of the last evacuated waited for >30 minutes in the class #after we got evacuated we had to stay on the football field for over an hour #I'm a whole hour late getting home #a bunch of kids were crying #and the best part? some motherfuckers in my class would not shut up #even after it had been confirmed that it was a code. red. and not a drill. #we were all scared for our lives #there were so many police officers #they all had huge AR guns and bulletproof vests #I'd be surprised if this doesn't get on the news somehow

[pepprs]

#to translate this post: someone liked this post i made (on the upper left) on AUGUST 28 having a moment of self awareness that i was running #away from my whole life and not moving or learni ng to drive or anything. it is now march 8. it has been almost 7 months. and i have made #basically zero progress. and there is nothing stopping me but me. i could read the drivers manual and whatever whenever i want. but i am not #doing anything. and i don’t know how to get myself to start. #purrs #i know it’s a cop out excuse but i truly do think it’s covid. i think being in lockdown for a year and a half made me just let go of any #sense of progress. made me scared to take steps forward. and i mean i did bc i lived on campus for a while after that but it’s like.. EVERY #part of my life is stagnant rn it seems. and it’s not just me it’s my siblings too. we’re all getting older but none of us is trying to move #out or gain our independence in any way and my brother isn’t even looking for jobs even though he needs one. we’re all just getting older #but we’ve lost (or maybe had knocked out of us by covid and our mom being so strict) any sense of moving ipward and spreading our wings. #forgotten we have wings at all. and ive done important things like going on a house tour or traveling with my besties (<3). but i have only #made it to page 8 of the drivers manual and i truly do not want to read the rest of it. i have only been on one house tour and im longing to #move out but how much am i really because i can’t bring myself to schedule another tour and start searching for a new home in earnest. #i just come home every day UTTERLY exhausted and spend all my free time trying to process or rest. and im not making room for myself to use #my wings. and it’s truly terrible. why are we all okay with living like this. my younger self would be HORRIFIED if she saw how much i had a #atrophied since graduating and moving back home. my brighton self would be HORRIFIED. i told myself i wouldn’t and then it’s exactly what i #did. and ik im being harsh and ive spread my wings in some important ways during this time but… these are so obvious. such low hanging #fruit in some ways. bc any 16 year old can take this test and pass it so why can’t i at 24? why won’t i let myself? dont i want a nice cozy #home i make my own where i can eat what i want and sleep when i want and have control over sounds? then why am i not running for it? #delete later #i am wasting my youth i am wasting my youth i am wasting my youth 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 my one precious life 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 #also LMFAOOOOO the next tag on that aug 28 post was that i need to get a new campus id card… guess who hasn’t done that either ♥️

[sarioh]

watched the video like a dozen times by now and still dont really know what to say except just. gg technoblade

#i dont talk about him much here. but i still am and will always be a huge technoblade fan #he was the first mcyter i got really into after mindcrack #i spent a good 2 years between 2019 and 2020 as a loyal techno main. trying to watch every stream live despite my abysmal timezone #i remember being there the first time he played with schlatt and phil during mcm. and when the antarctic empire claimed the entire world #my focus shifted over 2 hermitcraft but i still made sure to always catch a new technoblade upload #gonna miss him a lot. literally just an awesome dude all around. thanks 4 making lockdown actually bearable as well #gonna go rewatch the potato war and mcm streams now then hopefully later catch double life when it drops but ill prolly be offline. bye <3 #tw death #technoblade #rio posts

[ragnarachael]

Good morning, friend. Technically, it's afternoon, but I just woke up, so good morning. 💛 How's your day going? I'm gonna drink some tea and listen to music to start my day. Any music recommendations? ~🥰

hi, honey! good evening! my day was eh. it was another day i've gotten through, really. i relaxed, talked with more family about everything. tomorrow i've got an appointment for my license!

and for music recs, i'm shoving my entire spotify account at you. because i think my playlists are bangers.

BUT, for some songs: always there by greta van fleet, alpha dog by fall out boy, beijing honey by scoundrels, heaven iowa by fall out boy, and the weight of dreams by greta van fleet <3

#rachael's void speaks back #🥰 anon #yeah no i've been on gvf lockdown since their concert earlier in march. also hozier's new ep??? bitch on repeat baby #BUT my playlists are fun so if you wanna poke around feel free fr #i live on spotify so this is equivalent to me inviting u to my house #also ragnarachael fun fact: a bitch don't drive. but she may finally starting tomorrow

[what-does-the-moose-say]

The first thing Jimmy says to Howard as he and Kim are introduced is: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Hamlin, and I won't have it! This is in the same conference room where they would later do their best to destroy his life.

#better call saul #feeling normal #kinda feel like so much about the shows are about that #jimmy kim walt nacho mike jesse even gus all get so much more than they bargein for they meddled with the not with primal forces of nature #but with the forces of crimminal underworld and they all got fucked for it #also when he lives he says YOU WILL ATONE #and well jimmy and kim will in the end atone #insane tellevison to me #anyway it is only 62 episodes now that i have seen the first again so lets goooo #bcs rewatch starts now like fuck elementary or yellowjackets or any new thing i have started to watch #anya tried to put on a tvshow not set in new mexico and i shot her ass down. we are ln 247 jimmy mcgill lockdown

[pierog]

having my sexy early 20s meddled by covid SUCKS but i feel soooo much worse for any kids or any high school teens out there... my heart goes out 2 u

#and i live in new zealand so it was barely disrupted anyway #minus a couple lockdowns #but ngl they were so fun i got to hang out with my best friends ALL THE TIME #im most sad about how it coincided with my natural history masters cos it meant i couldnt go out and do wildlife filmmaking with big cams #but fuck me it must suck for the teens #my hs experience suuuuuuucked but at least it existed #i wonder what the world is going to be like as a result of this #we are all so jaded #hope ur okay teens #personal

[devertigozation]

Got 2nd booster shot yesterday (4th overall), and damn, not since the first shot did i feel those side effects that intense.

Literally like making a choice between laying in bed all day (which makes all my blood turn to jelly and causes headache) or walking around at least even though my bones and muscles ache so...

#but still. the pandemic is pandemic and im actually really happy that my country allowed those fourth shots #we've got some numbers rising (our fourth wave is building) so. the mandatory masks are back. plus - the new boosters were bought #tbh can i show off a bit bc last day when i got the vacc i just got reminded what a great response my country has had to the pandemic #like - lockdowns for two months with everyone (over18) being paid two and a half months minimal pay #all the vaccinations being free. even the expensive ones like Pfizer #i mean hell - in 2020 when they realized the danger of anti-vaxers they countered with a lottery in which all who'd get two shots would ent #er. the prizes being - an apartment. and two cars (yeah we stole the idea from russia it was still cool) #(like you could only enter the lottery if you were from one of cities with over a million citizens so i couldnt. but how cool is that) #and im sure so many more things. two covid hospitals were built (my grandma stayed in one of them and said they were amazing. so modern) #all while a fucking regime change was happening and the scumpiest politicians were leaving the country with all its money #and they and their assets were hunted down (we still are waiting for the history-defining lawsuits against them) #its just. its so fucking good that western chokehold upon us is over. their puppets if not gone then rendered impotent #theyve always made us feel afraid we wouldnt survive without their investments #but like man - despite despite despite we're thriving #i wish to all the countries - the western empire is crumbling. let it die soon for us all to live in the world without it)

[tweetingukpolitics]

#the citizens #political twitter #femi oluwole #boris johnson #uk news #uk politics #conservative party #partygate #lockdown rules #pandemic #energy crisis #cost of living #asset stripping

[secattention]

#Arcane Pathways #on BitChute #awareness #endless propaganda & fake news for 24hours a day 7 days a week for 2 years on ALL Forms of Media #Thousands of Business closed forever #Hundreds of Thousands of People out of Work #Thousands of Suicides --- that were NEVER Talked about #The ONLY thing that the parasitic government could have possibly done to DISRUPT People's Lives more would be to put an 'official employee' #to watch every person closely to make sure that each individual is following the ''NEW IMPORTANT TEMPORARY LAWS'' for their own safety... #perhaps cameras in everyone's home to keep an eye on them #perhaps track them everywhere they go... #OH WAIT.....That's Right!......the governments ADMITTED they SPIED on it's Citizens through their Cell Phones...which have cameras & mic's #I think it is time to be MORE STRINGENT with the pretend dr. do-little fauci......perhaps we could go shopping together for some fine rope #I got your ''more stringent lockdown restrictions'' right here...

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday