#that is the lesser of the two evils here

[foxx-queen]

i keep thinking about the datamined conversation between halsin and minthara and what gets me about it is that if you side with halsin and turn minthara away, thats objectively the bad choice.

like at this point, you've rescued minthara from moonrise. you know now that she was being controlled to act against her will. you've gone to the trouble of rescuing her from her tormentors, and you've experienced what it felt like as they tried to destroy her mind. you know what will happen to her if you turn her away. and if you do, you're willingly condemning her to that fate. you've essentially allowed her to experience freedom, to regain her sense of self, only to tear that away from her again.

whereas if you side with minthara, and halsin leaves, that's the only consequence he experiences. that he's not a companion anymore. at this point, we've saved the grove, we've saved him, and we've lifted the shadow curse. we've helped him achieve what hes been hoping to do for over a century. leaving your party won't see him lose his free will. he can return to the grove and live his life.

the choice is essentially either condemn someone to a fate worse than death, knowing exactly what that entails vs not letting someone travel with you anymore. its pretty clear cut to me.

its just interesting to me that they've switched the morality of it around given that minthara is considered the 'evil' companion by so many.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #minthara #minthara baenre #before anyone comes at me and says that halsin is allowed to have his prejudice and his trauma. im not saying hes not #not sure about someone being allowed to have prejudice but yes thats part of human nature i guess #my point isnt that hes not allowed to react like this #my point is that hes wrong. #sure he can be struggling with his trauma and his prejudice over minthara being a lolth sworn (even if shes not anymore) #BUT. at this point we as a character /know/ theres more to her. we know that hes making an unfair assessment of her #which is even more jarring if you're a drow/lolth sworn drow #and at this point. you've saved the grove youve saved him youve helped him break the curse. he tells you its a debt he cant repay #and that hes so thankful. but he wont trust you or your decision. he won't even attempt to #and u know what thats fine. he doesnt have to. but if you're siding with him you're condemning her. you're killing her #if you side against him. he can go back to his responsibilities as an arch druid rather than leaving it in someone elses hands (which was?) #that is the lesser of the two evils here #yes you can call minthara the 'evil' character because shes a lolth sworn but thats just buying into the prejudice halsin is showing #and its wrong #anyways. my point is good for him if he wants to demand you make a ridiculous choice #but turning her away is the bad choice and tbh i feel like the game wants u to know that #and sure if you want to boil it down to which character u like more than the other and u prefer halsin. ur obvs gonna side with him #but in that case u probably wouldn't even get this conversation #because why would u have bothered to spare / save minthara in the first place?

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Iran is bombing Israel apparently, FAFO moment truly.

Both Biden and Trump are vowing to defend Israel with harsh military force against Iran.

If they follow through with it and the US moves against Iran, this will actually become a war.

Do not stop pressuring politicians to support Palestine. Do not stop advocating for Palestine. Do not stop protesting Israel. Do not stop protesting genocide.

From the river to the sea.

#Why do I have to live in a country that’s always on the wrong side of history #Why are both candidates on the ballot this election war mongering freaks #can these old white men just both get a fatal stomach ulcer and go septic #surely there could be literally ANYONE ELSE #I would rather vote in a literal dog #but no I have to choose between a far right conservative and trump who wants to wage war with Mexico and China AND iran now #Great #anyway focus on the other seats on the ballot this year everyone #Biden and trump are legitimately identical on half of their stances I truly cannot tell who the worse one is because they agree on everythi #frankly at this point I’ll just vote Biden because the trump voters are actively dangerous when he’s in power #they are either way but he has a lot more power over them during his presidency #but since both Biden and trump love to abuse immigrants and support genocide #there isn’t even a lesser of two evils here #it’s solely a matter of keeping the trump cultists in line

[pdouwes]

Willemijn Verkaik als Elsa aus Disneys DIE EISKÖNIGIN | December, 2023

#channeling her inner elphie in the second gif #willemijn verkaik #disneyedit #frozenedit #frozen #frozen the musical #frozen musical #frozen hamburg #musicaledit #musicalgifs #musicaltheatreedit #elsa #mine #*g #these are way too slow but speeding them up would mean double saving and they look grainy enough as they are so #choosing the lesser of two evils here i think

[sunflowerrex]

tek it- cafuné

#eli vanto #thranto #thrawn #thrawn series #my art :) #star wars #thrawn books #spotify #thrawnposting #grand admiral thrawn #I’ve been hella angsty lately so here’s this #the last two weeks of the semester in between Thanksgiving and Christmas are not treating me well #rereading lesser evil and torturing myself #meaningless doodles #Spotify

[vulpinesaint]

listen i am geralt of rivia hater number one but one thing i actually CANNOT stand is when the fandom mischaracterizes him. took one look at this man who speaks very straight-forwardly and matter-of-fact and is a little recalcitrant with his words sometimes and went "haha he communicates in grunts! man who only says 'hm'!" and then won't even write him to speak in full fucking sentences. hello???? hello???????? yes the netflix show was a bad influence on everybody because they were trying too hard to depict geralt as a stoic manly badass but we CANNOT let that distract us from the REAL thing to make fun of geralt for. which are his Constant Unprovoked Monologues

#also the fact that he fakes his dumb stupid little rivian accent because the man was NOT raised in rivia. but i digress #'haha he only says hm!' where were you for every episode when he launched into a speech about the lesser evil. that's like. the whole thing #geralt of rivia will do nothing But talk once you let him. don't give that bitch a chance! he'll start up about honor again!!! #convinced that most of this is because netflix show insisted on showing us him around jaskier so much #and jaskier does not shut up. love him to death. but geralt genuinely does not have time to get a word in edgewise #i will admit that this is something that i had to learn by reading the books and paying more attention to it #but it's not like he DOESN'T do it in the show. if you ever sit with a witcher episode transcript for whatever reason #and really take a look at geralt's lines. man he talks a whole fucking lot. #again cannot emphasize enough that he Monologues. HE TALKS HIS WAY OUT OF SO MANY SITUATIONS. #me when i look filavandrel of the elves in the eyes and 'hm' at him and he lets me go. no bitch he monologued!!!! #terrible. terrible. let this man speak. if i see you fanfic bitches continue making him talk in sentence fragments again i'm gonna kill #as for my own fanfic. i will always prefer a geralt who talks too much to be believable over a geralt who barely speaks at all. #both because i believe in letting him speak his mind which he OBVIOUSLY likes to do. sideeyes him. #and because it's just fucking boring and a little annoying to read speech patterns that don't sound like how people talk. #cough cough lan wanji the untamed. man i'm not sitting here and reading this motherfucker's two word sentences #let him speak!!!!!! #anyway. #geralt of rivia #the witcher #fanfic

[skyward-floored]

Local elections are soooooo nice gosh

#instead of ‘well who’s the lesser of two evils here’ #it’s ‘these both seem like good people but I think this person would do a better job’ #it’s nice #rambles from the floor #I’m tireeeeed #I had to go like a bajillion places today

[jjkgenweek]

jjk gen week buildup weekly poll:

#jjk leaks #jjk 221 #jjk spoilers #my other poll option was 'who will have to tell gojo that nanami is dead' so here's the lesser of two evils #jjk gen week buildup #polls #also before anyone asks. in order for someone else to forcibly give gojo a nap. i assume they are hitting him over the head hard enough #that he passes out #or maybe just giving him enough melatonin that he has no choice

[lee-hakhyun]

the horrors of having a bright cloud of thoughts (my lovely ideas) and no way to condense it to pass on to the masses (cannot fucking write)

#i am not a writer. i can not write #<- as in i think in sights and colours and feelings and it's just too much energy to actually work it out into words #this isn't about anything important actually i have just been brainrotting over lhh/the side story in general but cannot make meta posts #it's just a bundle of energy so strong i feel like throwing up if i don't do SOMETHING about it. <- does not do anything about it #my thoughts on lee hakhyun will never get out unless i am asked pointed questions that forces me to sort out my jumbled mind #i answer asks to the best of my ability but that's easier because i have something to jump off of. i have never been good at essays #at least. this is my one defense against NOT being a lhh kinnie! i can't be a lhh kinnie if i don't write #even if everything else unfortunately matches up #i'd take being called a kdj kinnie over lhh thank you !! the lesser of two evils i think #yeah kdj is bad but. idk actually they're both bad but thinking about being called a lhh kinnie mortifies me in a way kdj does not #cutting this off here because i *am* using this to procrastinate. heh

[mirrorfalls]

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#I guess I shouldn't shoot off about these things when I never studied political science in-depth #But I find it oddly impressive that nobody's (yet) come out and said #That they consider Trump the... not lesser but more preferable of two evils #*Because* he'll fuck up the USA on top of all the other countries #Which has its own appeal for those who think America is already too far gone (was *born* too far gone) and the only justice is its death #This was - for better or worse - the lesson most people take from World War II #(Not exclusively liberal or conservative *or* Western) #That a country with a long enough rap sheet can't be internally reformed - only burned to the ground and rebuilt externally #(There was a limited version of the sentiment floating around at the start of Covid I think) #(Where people called the body count and Trump's bungling response to it America/capitalism's just deserts) #(I guess they cut that out right quick) #... anyway I'm not too sure why I started writing this #Maybe because I find it headscratchy that every anti-Trump post on here talks about his malice and his incompetence in the same breath #When these two things have basically opposite pulls on the far-leftists that are (supposedly) so crucial to Biden winning #'What is good for the Democratic Party is good for America' is already a shaky sell to people who aren't lifelong Blue voters #'What is good for America is good for the world' - you try that one at your own peril

[tendercoretroglodyke]

liberals get soooo mad when you point out that a choice between two genocidal rapists for president isn't much of a choice lmao

#like vote for him or dont but dont get mad at leftists who dont want to vote for a candidate actively backing genocide #its not like. some minor issue #its a genocide #there are no good options here #no lesser of two evils #there cannot be a lesser of two evils when both evils are genocidal rapists

[ryn-holt]

Hearing the you need to vote for Biden!! Speech every five minutes is getting annoying. Liberals throwing the entire mess of the United States at the feet of the 99% of people who have no real power and then condemning them for not wanting to voting for someone who has a personal investment in GENOCIDE. People are horrifically dying not only in Palestine but across the globe and people are watching it happening live.

I have seen so much shit since October. I’ve seen parents holding bags filled with their children’s body parts, I’ve seen doctors choosing to stay with the patients knowing that they are all going to die. I’ve seen starving children given TOY FOOD instead of real food by the United Nations. 80% of Americans across the political spectrum don’t want to fund this. Don’t want to send kids to go and fight. Because it will be kids, the amount of people being pulled into active service is huge. The system is broken so incredibly broken, and we’ve been told just hold on and trust.

There is no trust, our politicians don’t give a fuck about us and they’ve made it wildly clear. Everytime I hear ‘You still need to vote for Biden’ what is coming through is ‘I care more about upholding my own personal comfort even at the express cost of others lives’. I also hear ‘Yes I am ok with asking people across the county INCLUDING PALESTINE AMERICANS to fund Genocide, to vote for a man who wants to commit genocide because of his own personal gains’

People have been protesting, people have been calling, people have been boycotting, and it is clear that our government does not care. Biden is not backing down on this issue. The problem with changing the system slowly is that you don’t care about the system and the people it’s crushing. You condescendingly kneel next to these people and say ‘I know you’re in pain and activity being killed for me and my country’s benefit but give us a couple of decades then maybe you’ll get out of the machine’ people don’t have a couple of decades. People are loosing hope and are getting close to doing anything to escape it. This country is fundamentally broken no amount of voting for Presidents in is going to change it.

This isn’t saying you shouldn’t vote. Unlike some people I think it’s completely your fucking choice. Especially considering what’s happening on both sides of the party line. What I will say is that if you’re not voting in the more ‘major’ candidates instead focus on local elections. Because this is where you can actually help your community and stop the spread of right wing bullshit, because that’s how they get their power they start small with local elections and school boards and grow from there.

The last note I’m going to leave all of this on is if you’re not voting or doing any activism I highly recommend that you start doing so. It’s all good to rage on the internet but there are things everyone can be doing. You can put up posters, you can march, you can call your representatives, you can boycott, you can educate yourself on what’s happening, you can run for local office, you can start to build community outreaching. Voting for anyone is going a thing you can do but it cannot be the only thing you do.

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #I’m so tired of explaining this shit #I’m so tired of people excusing genocide #why is this country so afraid to get its hands dirty #the French burn shit down #and here we have liberals telling us that they can excuse genocide but refuse to stand for disrupting the system #not to mention the idea of ‘lesser of two evils’ ideology gives both parties no real incentive to change or listen to people because they #are they ‘lesser’ of two evils #Biden will not save you #big fucking feelings today

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Okay but considering that Mark has never said anything transphobic and his sister (who he talks about a fair bit) is queer, and Elon is...for starters, declaring cis a slur, can we agree to back Mark for this one?

#this is a joke but also #i sincerely believe he is the lesser of two evils here #mark zuckerberg #elon musk #zuck posting #finn's flailings #also donna (the sister) is a classics phd. she is unironically my favorite of the zuckerberg siblings by virture of her not being into tech

[delicatebluebirdruins]

So imagine the Duke befriending a child and their parents then the child is very sick and he gets the little family out and away to get the child better medicine and it works and the parents keep away from the village only realising how bad it was when they were away

things happen and the child returns battered and bruised and wanting to make a difference somewhere but they can't and they die and then wake up in a strange world and they walk and find a child who has been there for a lot longer and is so weary for one so young and so old at the same time and they gather the child up and take care of her and they go on many years later (and many more children later who grow as people as much as they are able) they find another battered and bruised child who is not sad (yet) but angry at the world and everything in it and the child doesn't want them yet

and then something different happens something changes a rumble across the world and the first child realises her mother is dead and she feels relief utter relief and the weight on their shoulders on all their shoulders lessens and Eva this time leads them to what remains of a battle field and the two figures embracing one glowing and as they watch the one glowing disappears and they watch as the man gets up and smiles and also disappears

they leave and find the angry child but her edges aren't as sharp as they once and now she is just heartsick or heart broken perhaps where this time they don't say anything to her directly they just sit down and Eva for the first time talks about her mother, they were all aware of her mothers efforts to bring her back and as she spoke she used the mold to make a bowl and taking the cue the others did the same trying something that had been brewing since Miranda died the first time and from the bowl a flower grows

Eva is done talking now and another child takes her place all the while Evie watches despite her self and creeps forward curious and asks how to do that pointing at the 7 flowers and they shrug and just go try it its best if you're not really thinking per say just let your hands do what they want- Evie doesn't she grabs a handful and scoots back again (nervous that they would make her talk as well) and she begins to try and fails and tries again and fails getting frustrated and storming off this time Eva follows and finds Evie and just sits with her and goes you don't have to speak but listen to me and Evie is curious so she stays and listens for hours at the end Evie leaves again this time with a handful of mold and they Eva resumes her story as Evie try and manipulate the mold again going through the same cycle but this time Eva intervenes advising her to count and keep trying and on attempt something Evie is somewhat successful in making a vaguely recognisable shape of a dandelion

and Evies ability to see what happens in the world is still there and she doesn't use it as often but she does visit and observe Zoe who as luck would have it was talking about her and she watches it unfold and hears what Zoe has to say about her and Jack (and what Jack said in the mold to Ethan all those years ago) she goes back to mold and the group who now has a garden

Evie speaks now just the begining (before the Baker house) about the song one of the researchers sang near constantly (Go Tell Aunt Rhody)*1 and the many tests and the lives that were changed and her desire for a family only to be rejected by Miranda and later Mia*2

as she talked with Zoe's words in her head she realised that Mia rejecting her fucking hurt and she is still angry*3 and they understood through their own experiences at mother mirandas hands and things

it takes a lot longer for her to feel brave enough to talk about the Baker House and the Winters and Rosemary. Evie is afraid to be rejected again and condemned for her pain and her hate and her anger (they condem Mia yes but understand her to a extent what they heard about Lucas however? well they got pissed more so then ever before)

Evie grows and she wants to see the Winters again and visits one by one starting with Rose and Mia (she does not know how to talk to them yet just wants to see them), then with her family in tow finds Ethan and they talk (and Evie creates flowers) and listen and go their seperate ways and then Evie puts more thought into finding the Bakers and talking through it with them (it was both harder and easier then it was with Ethan... Marge does hold her hand for a short time)

all the while the mold itself changes grows calmer and more peaceful as a whole they find the masked Duke and heal him they heal the monstorous Rose clones (didn't heal more of changed they look like trees now unless you tilt your head in a certain way and you can see faces once contorted in pain and now looking like they sleep)

the inhabitants don't forget their pain and sorrow and some don't forget nor fully forgive but they do attain some semblence of peace

Developer interview

Mia did reject Evie and I will talk more on it when I finish replaying re7 it will be interesting to write to say the least (well it will be more Evie and Mia and Alan then Evie with the Bakers as a whole)

rejection in children link from pysch central

#resident evil #re evieline #resident evil village #short story? #partially inspired by the show for the haunting of hill house #and the good place #and on the other side by carrie hope fletcher #the last two have so many vibes and they kinda fit but not well they're the only two things that I can think off of the top of my head #mold therapy groups are my favourite headcanons #....also para norman I think of Aggie a lot when I think of Eveline (and Eva to a lesser extent) #the theif lord is another thing #also kinda peter pan #what a bizarre hobpodge of things right I mean to quote the good place put the peeps in the chili pot and add the m&ms repeat forever #does evie have an ability to see the outside world? kinda? again its not something I can definently say without playing it myself #i don't even know what made this come into my head at this point here we are #i like it #Imma go and watch that one scene in paranorman again now #ellie rambles in the tags #ethan winters #mia winters #rosemary winters #zoe baker #orignal characters I might have a list of their names i might not #also fuck Lucas #and #capcom if re9 isn't mia and rose I will hunt you for sport #you hear me? #not quite happy with the ending but idea that i wanted to share #long post #am i perfectionist? yes yes I am

[aelia-aelia]

the ib literally hates it when you live your life like oh you did an something for yourself last week? well tough luck bitch you better document it for cas WHERE ARE YOUR SMART GOALS WHERE ARE THE EVIDENCES TO PROVE THAT YOU ACTUALLY DID THAT HUH WHERE ARE YOUR REFLECTIONS. HUH???!?

#txt #i fucking hate this program #<- i am not here because I wanted to do the ib it was the lesser of the two evils

[polaraffect]

sometimes I truly genuinely forget nuance is dead on the internet and then I have to read people who should be on the same side argue about politics on the internet and I start wanting to bash my head into a wall.

#damien.txt #ohhh my god. rattling the bars of my cage. lesser of two evils is a real and true concept. #revolution and changing a fucking country and keeping marginalized people alive takes many different forms #and guess what! voting for the 'somewhat lesser right wing' president over the 'extremely right wing' president IS one of those forms! #change is not going to happen because you voted third party or didn't fucking vote. it is actively going to make things worse actually #truly i think half the people making these comments have no idea how the us government works. #revolutions and protests and community projects and other revolutionary activity i wont explicitly name here will change things. and we #should also be doing that. but we can't just sink into the idealism of those things and ignore the actions we can take around us in reality #and in our reality at this moment. truly. voting strategically to keep republicans out of office is critical. #do you know why the government has been particularly shit the past couple years? sure yeah biden is a shit president and that's part of it #but also. thinking back to 2017-2020. when trump appointed all those conservative right wing people #to positions that opened up. like the supreme court justices. and laws and things started to take a downturn? #whoa..... almost like.... we should prevent that from happening again..... like that was Bad or something...... #im truly begging you to take a look at project 2025 and see if that's something you're willing to risk #'im still not voting for joe he supports genocide' cool i guess. hope you enjoy your moral superiority complex. let me know how you plan #to actually do anything about the genocide anyways. #politics

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

Arrested and shot on sight for trying to glomp the president

#deer insisted i put this on the internet. so here we are. #guns cw #unreality cw #i don't really want to glomp the president. i don't really like him that much #he is a lesser of two evils kinda guy. that doesn't make him glompable