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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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Julian Assange’s shirt at the Cannes Film Festival lists the names of 4,986 Palestinian children aged five or younger who were killed by Israeli forces since 2023.

Sami, a young man from Gaza, was reading the names printed on the shirt… when he suddenly saw the name of his little brother — and several of his relatives — who were killed in the war.

Today, Sami lives in unimaginable conditions. He has four children who are at risk of dying due to hunger, malnutrition, and weakened immunity — all made worse by extreme poverty and skyrocketing prices.

Don’t scroll away... they are now between life and death.

They’re waiting for you to lend a hand — even if it’s just a little. Do something.

https://gofund.me/e85ee330

@alkhleliy-family

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“Have you ever been captured and forced to compete in gladiatorial combat just to delight your disembodied alien jailers? It’s a tough spot to be in, but it happens to the best.

“Gamble on your better instincts and take a risk. What do you have to lose?”

-What Would Captain Kirk Do?, by Brandon T. Snider

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Let me draw u a creatureeee

Commissions open for ink and watercolor sketches! You pick an animal, I draw and paint that animal. If desired, I will also ship the art to you!

Details here: https://ko-fi.com/c/6691d0d83e

Please boost - I just did a costly move, followed by an invitation to appear at [redacted event i've been wanting to attend for years] in October, but still got table fees to pay :P

I also added a few slots to my dino sketch commissions. I'll be working on both these commissions while completing other open jobs.

Thaaaaaaank u critters.

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Farscape 2.08 Dream A Little Dream

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hese Hyalophora cecropia are the largest moths found in North America

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Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg. (1993).

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she's got a big smile!

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In a galaxy far far away and not unlike our own… crazyyyyy diabolical mirror spirk yuri is happening

and also some Jim on Jim love, I think something is wrong with those two. mentally.

(comm for @jelliedlimes !!)

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Valeris

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One of my issues with modern Trek is that these days, the utopianism of the Federation is an informed attribute — the things the Federation does are good, even when they're not, because it's the Federation doing them. This leads to things like Section 31, a plot device originally introduced to challenge the Federation's utopianism and show how easy it is for even the most well-intentioned social projects to fall to darkness, getting its own movie.

I've seen a lot of people say that what we need to fix Star Trek is a return to TNG-era bright and shiny utopian sensibilities, and I see the merit of that position, but I don't agree with it.

Federation ideals have roots in American exceptionalism (yes, I acknowledge that Trek has a global fanbase but also, it's an American TV franchise with a heavily American sensibility), and the last thing we need is to compound that with "Federation fuck yeah, also black ops intelligence agencies are Cool and Good". I think that we live in an era where we're reaping the consequences of the unacknowledged American capacity for evil. The Federation, too, has a capacity for evil which has only barely ever been acknowledged, because — and this is where I show my entire ass as someone who's mostly a Babylon 5 fan these days — people are always going to be people, and "after a few centuries we just evolved past all human conflict" was never a good premise, as idyllic as it may seem.

So we've been getting what looks from the outside like a subtextual descent into fascism that parallels the one the US is going through right now. Why not make it textual? Why not break the cultural, technological, and political stasis of the Federation by showing how in decline the Federation actually is, how conservative and imperialistic it's become, and— most importantly — that people are fighting it, even where no one would expect them to?

I think, when you come down to it, that's how you fix Star Trek. By allowing the Federation to have a dark and ugly side, showing that dark ugliness for what it is, and then giving the people the opportunity to drag it kicking and screaming back into the light.

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Yeah...

GOD I just want to be CREATIVE but all my energy is being used to survive

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captain of the chibi-prise!

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Been loving the Twitter account and realized I'd love the Tumblr too.

Anyway, I've always wondered something... my mom and I began to realize that maybe one of the reasons classic Columbo's formula made such a splash and continues to be unique is that he's basically presented as the story's "villain".

Not in a "he was the real killer" kind of way, I mean structure-wise for most episodes the killer is the main character with the majority of screen time. It occurred to us that all the best episodes really seem to present the murderer as the protagonist, with us seeing them plan and carry out their scheme, even sometimes be privy to their inner thoughts. Then after they've done their killing, this... monster starts stalking them. It seemed to us the best episodes were the ones where WE are put in the killer's shoes the most, and maybe the character and show formula has endured so well because its thrill feels so similar to watching your favorite movie monster pursue dumb teenagers in a haunted house.

We noticed it kinda felt like it had that same weirdly sadistic glee. Like sure the movie might be "about" the campers or family or whatever, but the monster creeping around "getting" everyone is who you really came to see.

I wondered if anyone else had felt this fun "relentless antagonist" vibe from Columbo? Maybe the formula continues to feel unique even today because it isn't set up quite like a detective show. It's a rich arrogant murderer show, we just can't wait for our favorite monster to show up and chase them (with insidious, relentless politeness).

thank you!

not to needlessly intellectualize my own favorite show (i say, maintaining this blog), but there's a real sophistication to columbo, a literary quality that i think appeals to people. though the production appears facile at first, those choices in formula and perspective you mention are indeed very deliberate and part of what made columbo so fresh and special both when it aired and today. it was a very novel approach to the mystery format to have us start off with the murderer and maybe even root for them sometimes against columbo. as i always say, the show evokes dostoyevsky and doyle, not bruckheimer; it's born from old-fashioned drawing room murder mysteries, not CSI.

the mysteries are usually sharp--between columbo and murder she wrote alone, levinson and link were two of the most prolific mysterysmiths of the 20th century. but ultimately, for both the viewer and for columbo, it's all about the chase, the game, the banter. it's about a mangy little guy tussling with someone with more dollars than he has hairs on his body, and winning to boot. the legwork is important, but it does ultimately come second.

steven moffat got torn to shreds for calling columbo a sadist, but he was absolutely right and needn't have apologized. if you get up in arms about that, do you really understand columbo?

the man is a benevolent sadist. that's why he appears borderline villainous. he is a sadist with a level head and good moral compass, but still a sadist. he goes well out of his way to fuck over people who deserve to get fucked over, and he clearly enjoys every minute of it. it's how he's able to remain so relentless without getting burned out. is that so wrong?

just look at the smirk on this man's face. you cannot deny that.

like a fine wine, his power grows with time...

peter falk himself often likened being chased by columbo to "getting nibbled to death by a duck". nobody can stand there and tell me ducks aren't the cutest and also pettiest most sadistic little bastards in the animal kingdom...

sir!!!! SIR!!!!! i don't mean to bother you, i've just got this one little thing on my mind, i thought maybe you could help me...