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1. Freedom vs Safety

ex: Minority Report 

2. Success vs Selflessness

ex: Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Progress vs Preservation

ex: Toy Story 3

4. Individuality vs Community

ex: Snowpiercer

5. Privacy vs Transparency

ex: The 100

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a little while ago i was hanging out with some friends watching severance and at the same time i was browsing ao3 to look for specifically crossover severance fanfiction bc we wanted to see if any brave souls had mapped the innie/outie dynamics onto the miraculous ladybug love square, or vice versa. as of the time of looking they hadn't. conceptual favorites of what i saw there was anya mouthwashing x helly r. yuri and a fic where the cast of the owl house founds ricken's book. but this post is about any of that that this post is the about the fact that while we were doing this i said 'you know who could do a really great severed love square. narumitsu' and in the weeks since i have become increasingly delighted thinking about a world where miles edgeworth gets to essentially kill himself by stepping into an elevator every day.

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The double flan emojis make the identity theft scam just a little more enticing.

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I freehanded this stitchery in about 7 hours today for a pal:

It was, of course, inspired by this post:

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I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat

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Are you an American? Do you love our nation's national parks, our libraries, affordable health care, and essential checks and balances? DO YOU NOT WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH CANADA?

Fuck, are you just a European and you're highly emotionally invested in what's going on?

Well good news, help spread the news. Special elections April 1st and this is going to help break down the narrow majority Republicans hold on Congress.

Florida has two congressional seats up for election April 1st, and Wisconsin has a highly televised race for their supreme court Court that Elon Musk has invested millions into.

If you're Floridian, check to see if you're eligible to vote in either of the elections listed here.

If you're a Wisconsinite, for some ungodly reasons about half of your election information is buried in Google and hidden amongst government websites but, find your polling place now.

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The Tulip Stairs of the Queen's house in LONDON

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what the hell is a circadian rhythm and was i supposed to have one built in

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ink-blue silk lamé opera coat

c. 1905-1910

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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job search

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@mxtr3ssquickly

Manga Alexsandr Kallus Collage

(cuz he's my fav 💖)

I wanted to make a collage of my favorite Star Wars character, Alexsandr Kallus. This is legit every appearance of him from that very short Rebels "webcomic"/manga. Has anyone actually read that manga, even tho its primarily a condensed down retelling of the first season? I learned about it when I found a volume at a big fandom merch flea market/resale place, and it's honestly got a really nice art style! I just love how he is drawn in this manga, and sometimes given such goofy expressions.

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It's that time of year when Tumblr celebrates Easter by posting pictures of crucified anime characters, and inevitably somebody in the notes will pop up to helpfully explain that crucifixion imagery has no cultural significance in Japanese media because Japan is only about 1% Christian, which bugs me because it's completely wrong.

It's true that in the majority of cases, crucifixion in Japanese cartoons isn't meant to be conveying any specific theological message, but something Western audiences are likely to miss is that a large portion of those random crucifixion scenes are referencing Ultraman.

Ultraman's creator was a devout Roman Catholic who explicitly intended the titular hero to read as a Christ figure, and consequently, various Ultramen have been crucified on multiple unconnected occasions throughout the franchise's history. Crucifixion scenes in Japanese cartoons are often directly name-checking particular crucifixion incidents from Ultraman, right down to emulating the compositions and camera angles of specific shots. It's like an especially morbid version of the Akira slide.

The upshot is that, while it's true that the inclusion of gratuitous crucifixion scenes in Japanese cartoons typically has no (intentional) theological message, stating that they have no cultural significance is incorrect. A large chunk of the Japanese viewing audience are going to see them and immediately go "hey, that's an Ultraman reference".

Anyway, as an image tax, have a shot of four crucified Ultramen miraculously resurrecting a fifth Ultraman by shooting laser beams out of their hearts:

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Wild coyote on the roof of a bar, Queens, NY. March, 2015. via

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For the Discworld designs series, the witches of Lancre