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The First Supper.

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good luck, babe! - chappell roan

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Just a Girl

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Sister Michael could have handled the yellowjackets but coach Ben could not handle the Derry Girls

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Something that slightly bemuses me (but maybe I’m not getting the big picture) is how some people either mischaracterize Silco as a Marxist revolutionary, or think he’s not going far enough with his populism. Granted, Arcane S1 is told so quickly that it’s extremely difficult to parse anyone’s politics, but the man never indicated he inherently detested hierarchy or capitalism as a system. He’s still a staunch capitalist. All he wants is for the people of Zaun to have the same opportunities and resources as Piltover, and for the people of Zaun to be able to forge their city’s future on their terms. He doesn’t care if inequality remains, he never has, he just wants there to be avenues where people with the grit, drive, and chutzpah can be successful, rather than their futures automatically clipped because of their Zaun heritage, since Piltover has a monopoly on the resources and economic opportunities AND the social capital that is concentrated there with that affluence.

Part of it is “working class trying to break into the middle and/or upper class and be recognized as a peer” but also “My lower class/Zaun status should not exempt me from the basic civility afforded to Topsiders by Piltover’s government”. It’s about respect, and the infuriating knowledge that the people who rule over you believe you inherently lesser for no reason other than it helps to exclude you from prosperity. Silco wants a piece of that pie for himself and anyone else in Zaun of a similar mind. It’s the ape instinct of responding furiously to unfairness and wanting it to be corrected, by violent and subversive means if necessary.

Add in also a dash of simultaneous working class contempt and envy of the rich, a drive to rise the social ladder and deliver a resentful vindictive “fuck you” to the people who thought you were beneath them. Half of Silco’s sociopolitical philosophy is based around resentment and spite, a quarter around a quasi-spiritual loyalty to the shared suffering of Zaun, and a quarter of monkey brain screaming “GIVE ME MY SHARE”.

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hey, i haven't been online much lately because i just started a new job and it has been pretty crazy! the learning curve is very intense but i'm really enjoying being intellectually challenged like this. hopefully i'll be posting more frequently again soon :)

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it’s crazy how men have turned “victim” into an insult. like it's a crime you committed rather than crime that was committed against you. such masterclass gaslighting. “you have victim mentality” it’s CALLED ptsd, you muppet.

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kaz offering inej a position in the dregs so they can be besties so she can spy for him

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The story of the Australian white ibis is hysterical in many ways.

These birds are native to Australia, yes, but they're not technically native to the cities. Or, well, kinda?

So, Australian ibises typically lived in inland wetland areas. Australia, however, is a dry-ass continent, and the swamps aren't always wet, so whenever there's a dry spell and the swamps dry up and the food dwindles, the ibis colonies will migrate to the coast for food. I suppose when their presence caused enough competition with existing coastal birds they'd fly back inland and hopefully the wetlands would be wet again.

Enter the Europeans - the ibis didn't have much contact with the white man for a hundred years or so, wetlands were too annoying to actively clear, so the white man mostly stayed out and the ibis generally doesn't leave while there's food. Or maybe they did, and the white man towns were too tiny to register for them and they just did their usual thing.

Come the 1970s, severe drought conditions once again led to ibises to flee the wetlands (and the wetlands were probably extra hurt and extra unable to recover due to water diversion for agriculture).

They went for the coasts, and there, due to the absolutely boom in Australian urban sprawl, they found....

Huh. That's new. But was there food?

The answer was yes there was, and not only that, it was almost like the food set out specifically for them!

I am of course talking about bins.

Bins have a couple of nifty features if you're an ibis. One, they contain food scraps, especially protein scraps. Two, the openings tend to be fairly far off the ground, so rats and other flightless creatures can't get to the food (the cockroaches can, which is a plus for the ibis because they eat bugs!)

Two, the bottoms are low, and ibises are wading birds so they have long legs and long beaks. Seagulls, crows and pigeons all have to wait for the bin to be fairly full - ibises can get in there at half full!

And three, natural environment for the ibis is diving into a fetid stagnant swamp with nasty bacteria to eat wriggling things. Their beaks and heads are specially adapted for that - they're bald, and the skin is specially adapted for diving into gross places. Their beaks are sharp and dextrous, so they can open packaging or simply pierce it to get at the tasty, tasty leftover fried chicken or whatever. And if the chicken's already got maggots? Fantastic, they love eating bugs.

So they don't wanna go back. Why the hell would they go back? And with every new drought, even more ibis leave the drying wetlands, find the cities, and decide to stay.

I mean, there's probably a selection effect - the birds that are scared of humans eventually return to their home wetlands, but the ones that aren't decide they're just gonna start nesting in the urban parks. Wetlands are also getting drier and drier (water use issues) so the wetland populations are crashing while the urban populations are exploding.

I think, the bin chicken has to be a symbol of luck. It is so insane to me that the human-designed environment ended up being an ibis paradise, where we've systematically murdered all their enemies and established abundant self-replenishing food sources that they and only them can access.

May you be as lucky as the Australian white ibis. May you leave your normal life for foreign shores and face not the expected adversity, but instead abundance and safety beyond your wildest dreams.

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Whenever I hear liberal women speaking, especially the "pro sex-work" ones, I can't help noticing how they have bought one of the core values of male dominance: being a victim makes you weak, stupid, less valuable as a human being. They are so keen to demonstrate that they are not "passive victims of the patriarchy". They are in control, don't you know? Locked in the house as a tradwife, or in a brothel as a prostitute... it doesn't matter. What matters is that they have chosen it! They have "autonomy", as they like to say. The poor men, with their prestige and their money and their big boy jobs, are just slaves to these powerful, autonomous women.

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

3.17 | Enemies

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Pitfighter Vi

Which one is your fav?

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THEY ADDED SEX TO THE WARNINGS

WERE BASICALLY PROMISED CLOSE UP SHOTS OF THEIR LABIAS SLAPPING TOGETHER

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Once you start seeing how often women are used as shock absorbers in our society, you'll never stop seeing it. It happens in every way, emotionally, physically and sexually.

Just think, how many men come home and take shit out on their wife? How many men with violent tendencies take it out on prostituted women? how girls are put in classes with rowdy boys at the expense of their own studies, how many women are in the service industry, at call centers, how high the domestic violence rates of police officers is, how many women bend over backwards to take on the emotional needs of men, the list goes on and on

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Sometimes you think a man is gay but it turns out he is just nice. Sometimes you think a man is nice but he’s actually just wearing glasses. It’s complicated

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"lefty men probably realize exactly how much they benefit from the myth that abortion is the only significant women's issue"

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