#yes i think that's the solution

[ironinkpen]

My favorite thing in the world about Rise Leo is that he acts Like That but then at any given moment he's almost always doing something that's like. so fucking clever.

Like in the episode "The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek," the guys are sneaking around Big Mama's hotel to steal something from her guard dog Gus's collar. Raph's idea of stealth is uhhh holding a frond over his head, and Mikey and Donnie spend most of their time scooting a food cart up the stairs. Gus sniffs them all out and they all have to be rescued by Splinter.

And then Leo does this

And it seems so stupid, but like? it's actually not?? there's a strategy here???

The other guys get caught bc Gus is an incredible tracker w a great sense of hearing and smell—which Leo knows from their last run-in with him. So what does Leo do? He eliminates the problem by purposefully sneaking up on Gus in a crowded, noisy, distracting room so Gus won't be able to hear or smell him. And it WORKS—Gus doesn't notice him even when he's right under his nose! He just gets unlucky that the Evil Sports match ends right when he gets his hands on the collar.

It's just. so endlessly funny to me that Leo's the one who gets the closest to actually completing the mission without needing Splinter to bail him out, and no one notices bc he does so with the air of a court jester. A little clown boy. He truly radiates the vibe of someone constantly flying by the seat of his booty shorts, meaning no one realizes until Shredder that he's secretly the only one on the team who regularly uses ANY problem-solving or planning skills lmao

#rottmnt #leo #rottmnt leo #rise leo #i like to think after Many Unhappy Returns Splinter looked back to see if he missed any signs that Leo's like. a strategic genius. #and then thought back on this moment and went '......wait a minute he had a PLAN???' #anyway! I love Leo! he's so good at plans guys!!! #and i'm v bummed the guys never realized that Leo is secretly actually an incredible strategist/problem-solver #because then you look back and realize he solved the most problems on purpose than literally anyone else in the show #(yes including raph. i love that boy but his solution to every problem is smashing through a wall) #(or cutting a car in half with his BROTHER STILL INSIDE RAPH)

[autismserenity]

pretty please, my fellow progressives

Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?

And most of all, that it is false??

No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?

No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?

No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.

It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.

We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."

Doesn't work.

Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.

We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.

Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.

#antisemitism #anti-semitic #yes this is about how gentiles use zionism #yes this is about how fast it went from 'this isn't NECESSARILY antisemitic' to 'this ISN'T antisemitic' #yes this is about claiming that we claim antisemitism to deflect valid criticism #yes this is part of a larger pattern of violating every progressive standard but only for jews #none of us would ever say 'people are just claiming misogyny to deflect valid criticism' #we would never claim that trans people secretly control or “influence” the government #we would never treat Ukrainians like “'noble savages” who need us to speak for them #but we treat Palestinians like “noble savages” who need us to speak for them #we know to center the people affected and uplift their voices in every other situation #but in this situation we ignore the fact that we're supporting palestinians by talking ABOUT them #we swallow far-right Palestinian propaganda channeled through diaspora organizations #while Palestinians in Gaza demand completely different solutions and support #zionists echo Palestinian solutions and experiences because we know people in Israel and Palestine #and we get told we love genocide or just blocked #this is how Hamas propaganda is designed to work. Hamas has systematically silenced Palestinians for 18 years and now it's all you know #it is genuinely terrifying to see the entire progressive community sound exactly like the alt-right while it absolutely insists it's not #we also know to center marginalized people's voices about what harms them -- except the Jews? #honestly I think that progressives listened before Oct 7 and that the “no we just mean ZIONISTS are evil” has done wonders to reverse that #let's be real the zionists-not-jews trope comes from Hamas too #all it had to do was claim it definitely meant Zionists not Jews and that it was the Palestinian resistance and progressives flocked to it #its fighters were calling home from the massacre to boast about how many Jews they had killed. it has not changed. #i suppose that the zionists-not-jews thing gave freedom to unexamined antisemitism that people felt guilty about #but oh my god it caught on like absolute wildfire #wall of words

[captorations]

i want paul to continue to be, like, deeply unsettling to everyone around them just by being chill and calm and content. they give off this distinctly inhuman sense of peace. they are something with a human face that has solved the puzzle of the human condition and thus no longer quite fits in. and they don't change anymore. they're perfect. they have nowhere to go. and them being okay with that is all the more uncanny

#humans are not supposed to be like that! we're not built for it #anyway the solution here is of course to yeet dulcie in there too #she who loves ugly unfinished things #she'd make them worse and shatter their perfection and make them better for it #yes i am just talking about a fic i already wrote at this point but. look. i just think they're neat #the locked tomb #dulcamedes

[fantasykiri5]

Personal headcanon of mine: Kalina doesn’t quite look like a normal tabaxi. Her hands and face are just a liiiittle too human-like, most folks of other species wouldn’t notice, but it’s very unsettling to other tabaxi. Not quite wrong enough to look like something else entirely, but just a little bit uncanny-valley-esque.

#kiri rambles #I just think she should be a little weird #kalina #d20 #d20 fhjy #fhjy #was this thought brought about by me making a family of Tabaxi OCs that live within the world of solace? perhaps #do I draw them more like actual cats than kalina is ever shown in her official art (by either artist?) yeah #do I fucking love the official art though? absolutely yes #solution: she just looks a little odd because she’s a familiar and not actually a normal tabaxi

[vhalesa]

mayakuro in pokemon sleep when???

#mayakuro #kuromaya #revue starlight #pokemon sleep #pokemon #saijou claudine #tendou maya #mareep #wooloo #shiny wooloo #I've been thinking for weeks how to make a mayakuro au out of pokemon sleep. when the solution was so simple #I stared for at least 20 minutes at the mareep animations in the game lol. and then ended up drawing just two frames #yes ofc they have 5 stars #how are they allowed to be this cute??

[shimmerluna]

really it's not that Wille needs to abdicate for him and Simon to be together, it's that he needs to check his privilege and start actually listening to Simon when it comes to things like that. Abdication isn't going to make him less of a privileged brat unless he stops viewing Simon acknowledging their huge wage gap and the downsides of the monarchy as personal attacks and actually becomes open to learning things

#shimmer's thoughts #young royals #simon eriksson #prince wilhelm #young royals season 3 #young royals season 3 spoilers #yr s3 #yr s3 spoilers #a lot of people are saying they can only be together if wille abdicates but i don't think that's true #i don't think that's their main interpersonal conflict #yes it would help his stress levels and that would benefit their relationship but it wouldn't solve the privilege problem #he would probably have less money if he left the royal family but he would still be a white man and would still need to acknowledge that #i think saying the solution is just for him to abdicate kind of misses their *interpersonal* conflict for the season #their individual conflicts are about the crown but that's not why simon is annoyed at wilhelm specifically

[mirandaputsherbestbuttforward]

Some people’s children, I swear.

The fact Ashley isn’t even truly bigoted but instead, distrustworthy given the fact that a) humans have only been a part of Council space for JUST the span of her lifetime, it’s still raw and fresh and riddled with tensions, especially between turians and humans, and b) her family got blackballed because of her grandfather’s surrender so of course she’s a bit bitter about the whole ordeal, and c) literally the normandy is the most high tech ship, and allowing non-Alliance personnel onto it seems suspicious of her CO. 

People really love to take the “I can’t tell the aliens from the animals” line so far, and think it means she hates aliens. I’m tired bro. Especially when Ashley literally hates Cerberus for being pro human terrorists!!!! Why do you think she ALSO gets mad at Shepard for being WITH Cerberus when they spent part of ME1 taking out Cerberus terrorist cells???

Tell me you don’t pay attention to the context of the game without telling me you don’t pay attention to the CONTEXT of the game. 

#ashley williams #yes im reposting bc i cannot be bothered to unblock the OP and reblog #the cerberus thing also goes sideways because TIM thinks CONTROLLING the reapers is the solution and gets INDOCTRINATED you stupid fuck #fandom wank

[whitmore]

really actually kind of enjoy how the big lore moments are sort of quiet on a singular stream (or a small group!) instead of the events solely being the lore; i think there would be this hesitation to develop anything solo if the server reinforced this idea that Big Lore could only happen during scheduled events and days. instead the more narrative-progressing moments (take the baghera hybrid experiments revelation or the philza birdnapping for recent example) are very low-key and almost unhyped up— there’s no expectation for that kind of lore necessarily at the time which makes it more rewarding to experience as a viewer. big fan of how they do the events as player bonding time rather than serious narrative progression because it allows all the players (especially the ones who don’t engage in the rp side that much) to participate and get to know each another more; it’s very neat it’s really smart it’s nicely executed

#eleanor.txt #qsmp #tag expansion time get ready for the nuance #do i think that the events could be executed better in terms of like. coding / design. yes on occasion #i’ve seen some frustration that some players don’t take the events seriously enough and that it’s frustrating as a viewer #which i understand and empathize with i think there’s definitely A solution somewhere but i’m not sure exactly what it is tbh #i try not to criticize what i cannot personally solve i think they’re doing their best with what they’ve got #i also do believe that like the Expectation for Big Lore almost always backfires #it’s something u cannot win i think . the expectation will always in some way let you down #(especially re: character involvement seriousness of the stream amount progressed narratively contribution to general plot etc etc #there’s so many variables when you expect ‘lore’ and what that means to people) #i think there’s always some disappointed group when Big Lore starts to be hyped up & teased #whereas i see a lot less general complaints when it’s an unexpected moment (other than people upset they missed it— #arguably unavoidable whether you advertise the stream as lore focused or not) #there’s still Lore during the events things still occur information is still exchanged #but it’s not structured on lore. lore isn’t the foundation for the event it just occurs by implication #anyway. very good job qsmp impressive stuff very enjoyable

[strawberryamanita]

"Wallace is the only fertile male in the UK?"

---WayneRadioTV

#i think about this more than i should #wayneradiotv #radio tv solutions #rtvs #wallace and gromit #yes this was from the 4k23 stream #why did he say that

[alliebirb]

a hc that i have now just accepted in my mind as fact is that tkb and yami bakura are separate.

tkb: the sole survivor of a senseless massacre, who has so much pent-up agony and rage toward everyone that fed off the death of his people, that it called to a primordial god to use his hatred in their plans for world extinction.

yami bakura: zorc, the blood magic remnants of the millennium items’ creation, and the last shreds of tkb’s vengeful fury shoved into a blender and pulsed until reaching a smooth, paté consistency.

#ramblings #does this partially stem from me finding tkb compelling while bakura is still a bit cringe? #yes #could i be hallucinating any and all differences between yami bakura and tkb and takahashi just intended them to be one and the same? #like yami and atem? #perhaps #am i also more of a tkb rights supporter because he’s beautiful? #absolutely #i cannot deny any of these claims #but i just think #the guy with such a tight tie to the story and good reason to hate the royal court #should not be lumped with the dude whose solution to stop its hand from moving was to stab it #but that’s just me #tkb #yami bakura

[unforth]

Since I've seen several posts floating around that try to rebut the points of @end-otw-racism by saying that AO3 is too big to moderate, can we PLEASE take a moment and remember that AO3 IS ALREADY HEAVILY MODERATED.

We all know the obvious one - that if you post anything about monetizing fic, you will be moderated into oblivion. We also all know why! This is essential to AO3's survival as a non-profit! No one would propose changing this!

But a lot of people seem to forget that AO3 is moderated in other ways! For a personal example, several years ago I got a "change this or we're removing your work" e-mail. The work in question? A collection of pseudo-ficlets that were somewhere between outlines and sketchy fics. What I got moderated for? I said in the a/n that if anyone wanted to expand my kinda-outliney nonsense into fully fleshed out stories, they were welcome to do so! I was told this was a violation of the ToS, because fics that are collections of prompts aren't allowed, and that if I didn't change the a/n I'd have to delete the work. Of course I edited the a/n, and my work was allowed, and I moved on. I did, immediately, delete another work I'd posted, which WAS literally sets of prompts I'd written free to a good home. It was clearly in violation of those rules, and I just hadn't realized content like that wasn't allowed.

Numerous things are forbidden on AO3 and will get moderated and potentially deleted, including:

advertising

"find a fic" posts

spam

plagiarized works

virus spreading

doxxing

actual CSAM

lots of other stuff as listed in the tos

If the foundation of your argument is "AO3 is too big to moderate" your argument is bad. AO3 is already moderated.

So that means your ACTUAL argument is "I think AO3 is moderated enough as-is and I don't think AO3 should be moderated in a way that might better protect fans of color."

Having that attitude despite the many, many, MANY fans of colors who say "hey, we don't feel safe here, can this be better moderated to protect us?" (when, by the way, the existing harassment policy SHOULD protect them but clearly isn't being implemented in ways that actually DOES protect them!)

Well. That's sure a take.

(TO BE CLEAR: I am anti-censorship. I am pro-moderation. I am pro-AO3. I fucking love your dark fic, your underage works, your non-con stories, your kinky pwp with "no redeeming qualities," your dirty-wrong-bad ego fics. I would NEVER want a solution that removed that content. And I believe AO3 is the greatest thing to happen to fic in my lifetime and I want it to continue to be the wonderful thing it is. I think that what AO3 already is can be reconciled with the demands of fans of color that they be better protected. I believe fans of color when they say that the current policies don't protect them adequately, that they don't feel safe, that this drives them out of white western fandom. I've listened a lot, and I've seen a lot, and I've learned a lot, and I want AO3 to be better than it is in this regard. I'm honestly kinda depressed how many people seem comfortable with the status quo.)

#unforth rambles #racism #end racism in the otw #end otw racism #the specific post i saw made me so angry it's taken me the better part of a week to cool down enough to speak coherently about it #way to write a HUGE post that all starts from a very false premise #well two false premises actually #the first is that the end otw racism movement is calling for content to be deleted #which it's not literally no one is saying read billions of words of fanfic to protect fans of color #that's an absurd thing to say and everyone involved knows it's absurd so nice straw man #but even more fundamental than that HELLO THERE IS ALREADY HEAVY MODERATION #enforce the rules that are ALREADY THERE #BE MORE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING #these are not unreasonable requests #i'm really starting to think some people can't be bothered to actually read what's being asked for #and are instead seeing what they want to see there #and to be clear i also am surely reading the text with rose-colored glasses #i don't want to see yes we mean deletion yes we mean removal #i personally want a solution that's both as anti-censorship as possible and also is pro moderation and protects people #so that's the lens I read things through #but I KNOW the lens I'm reading it through and I KNOW that lens may be coloring my interpretations #have you taken a moment to take off your glasses and see how they might be coloring your own intepretations #because maybe you should

[vigilskeep]

"Fortunately unless hes being a bitch to other people about it keir usually thinks this is endearing" Keir confirmed for liking being wanted (don't we all?)

why would you call him out like this

#sfghdjsksk #dont we all!!! #i dont think keir Gets why anders is jealous a lot of the time so hes a bit like ??? but in a sort of amused/fascinated way #either it’s funny endearing or if anders is actually getting upset about it you get to ahem #thoroughly convince him hes the one you want. at home later. can i say that on my good christian blog #does this just encourage the behaviours? yes absolutely. theyre fine with it. #i remember when i was first developing how physically affectionate keir is with everybody #and i was like hmm anders would probably be weird abt that at some point #and the keir in my head was like. SOLUTION! instead of kissing the homies less i simply kiss anders more #and who is anders to stop him at that point

[1101200905]

reparenting Can't be the solution to parentalization. like. i had to parent myself so the only solution is??? i have to parent myself again????????

no offense but I'm actually fucking tired of doing that?

(i also get pissed at the idea that the correct response to loneliness is learning to be alone. that's in direct opposition to how Human Beings Work).

#just shit that frustrates me #part of it is me based #like I'm aware that i have to do work here #but i get so pissed when ppl try to wedge their bootstrap up my ass like. please #the PROBLEM is that i cant rely on anyone! or open up! you think the solution is to MAKE IT WORSE????? #i DID the self sufficiency thing!!! #that's kinda the fucking problem! #and yes yes absolutely inner child shit HELPS #i simply and absolutely resent the notion that health and sanity looks like doing it all on your own #that's puritan ass colonizer mentality please get away from me with it #interdependence is not codependence #interdependence is the fucking point #anti colonialism #rad #bpd #borderline #inner child #reparenting #parentalization #abandonment trauma #yeehaw #my life improved once i realized i could just reject that tho #inclusivetherapists.com is the foreal #unfortunately ppl ain't taking my insurance much but we getting there #therapy #rest is radical #self preservation is a revolutionary act

[maria-aegyptiaca]

Too interested in the lore to actually learn the rules of calculus, hopefully calculus exams are essays on the occult studies of Leibniz and newton 🥰

#humanities brain rot #stemheads please help how do I stop thinking like this #i did actually notice while running some refresher problems today that if I take a deep breath and don’t think too hard #i can literally just intuit the answers correctly ❤️ no I can’t explain my reasoning yes my solutions are correct

[melrosing]

Kind of find it irritating the way people argue that Ned was right to seek to remove Cersei’s bastards from the line of succession, but everyone should leave Rhaenyra’s bastards alone. Like I agree, they should, but I also think the only difference between Cersei’s children and Rhaenyra’s is Joffrey, for whom Tommen and Myrcella end up treated as collateral.

Like Cersei is just as entitled as Rhaenyra to have children with someone she actually wants to have children with, and the person Cersei was married to was an abusive partner - so of course she didn’t want Robert’s. Throwing Cersei’s children to the wolves to get Stannis on the throne is imo as bad as it is for Alicent/Vaemond/whoever to loudly question the Velaryon boys.

#so what was the solution??? not an easy one. but I think Ned would have best benefitted from keeping things fucking calm #and working WITH the Lanns to the best of his ability. and would that be difficult to do? yes. the Lanns have hardly done right by Ned #and he’s still in danger so long as he’s with them #but he KNOWS who Robert truly was and he knows what he was to Cersei. and also Ned…. Robert has killed kids and would’ve killed #ur nephew if he could’ve! there is no good fight here #the only fight left imo would’ve been to get Joffrey’s behaviour in check and hope for an olenna/littlefinger collab sooner rather than #later if that’s not going to plan #plus get Sansa out of there on some thin pretext my god

[mchi-art]

rip skittles pizza 10/30/21 - 10/13/23 good riddance

#rtvs #radio tv solutions #socpens #scorpy #could i have made more effort to define the shape of this thing? yes but i think its funnier if i leave it as a vague mass