#< just a precautionary

[gooperts-gunk]

one beach day during purgatory could fix all the team vs team vs team trust issues but that'd be too good for them the eyeball does not want that and that hurts me </3

[hotchipsauce]

just learned mitch pulled kniesy up by his jersey when he got hit… and that’s on mother

[accidental-apocalypse]

One minute you're a normal, fairly well-adjusted child and then suddenly you're in your 20s and trying to talk your best friend into promising they'd kill you if you ever accidentally ended the world because you've found that you relate to Jon Sims and Viktor from Arcane a bit too much-

[e-adlirez]

Spoilers for Sinsmas/Sinsmas ramble

So I had Sinsmas paused on my browser to do life stuff as usual, I Will Be Okay was in my head, and I walked back to my computer after life stuff and realized the frame I had it paused on was

D

Do you see what I'm seeing

Their positions aren't just similar, they're reversed. In "I Will Be Okay", Via is on the floor and Stolas's shadow is standing up, looking down on her and reaching a hand to her from above, which she swats away. At the end of Sinsmas, Stolas is kneeling on the floor, with Via looking down at him from above, and her hand resting on Stolas's, which she pulls away from.

AND THE PARALLELS AND REVERSALS DON'T END THERE

From what I could see, it seems like there's only one instance where the parallel doesn't totally apply.

This.

Merry Sinsmas, Helluva Boss fandom :D

:'D

[tiny-katara]

why is everyone targeting zutara shippers recently omg 😭 literally had a z.kka come to my blog despite me having posted a post saying why must we fight.. both ships are so nice.. AND I GET INSULTED

literally do not remember how old this is but i think there are just surges where the antis get really proud of themselves for how much hate they can spread and then they've completed their work of ruining harmless fun and go about their business until the next time they get a bit of energy

anyway hope this helps have fun anon with zutara as you should <3

[iridescentis]

We are back with WWY and BACK WITH A CHOICE!

[hanafubukki]

I had a dream where I posted my more suggestive/mature thought about Knight of Dawn on here and woke up to it just being a dream 🤣🤣

So might as well make my dream come true and post the thought I had there on here 😂💞 (at least the part I can remember):

“The Knight of Dawn is strong that much we know and his stamina must last awhile.

Even if we didn’t know about the past, as we do, we can infer it from Silver. Silver is a knight and from his training we know that he has the strength and stamina to last a long while in battle if need be and without sleep. (When focused and worried about his loved ones, Silver does not fall to the curse)

And it’s not only from his training, is it? As we’ve seen, it comes from genetics as well. Since the Knight of Dawn’s strength is admirable enough to even have the fae fear him.

Can you imagine then? Not only can he hold you and caress you, but he can love you all night long. However long you wish.”

…and that’s all I remember 😂

Why did it have to be a dream about a post? And not the situation? I feel cheated 😂🥲

Well, that’s one way to make my dreams come true. 🤣💞💚

(What is up with father and son? First it was Silver in that Yan dream and now we have Knight of Dawn and a dream about him but yet not??)

[clandestinegardenias]

Look, I understand the desire for a revolution. I do. And it’s possible I might be convinced that we need one, at some point. I am open to the idea that I might be wrong!

But…literal Marxist theory posits that the way you get to a communist society is by working your way through a democracy. That’s the first STEP. Then you move to democratic socialism, then socialism, then communism. Anything that moves us away from a democracy (as I’m concerned another Trump presidency would, that man wants to be a dictator so bad) is a step AWAY from a leftist agenda. Because sure, maybe you get your ‘glorious revolution’ if Trump is president because he literally makes living conditions so unbearable that it triggers widespread revolt but from a critical Marxist standpoint you’d be revolting to get back to a democracy so you can start at that step all over again! This is a big reason theorists posit socialism/communism in the Soviet Union fell apart; too big a change too quickly and skipping steps in between.

We also have to consider that getting to the point of full blown revolution would mean catastrophic levels of suffering for people with lower socioeconomic power—POC, the queer community, folks in poverty, people with disabilities, etc.

AND any US dictatorship or similar government has an entire industrial military complex to back it up. A successful revolution would necessitate either getting that military complex on board, in which case you often end up with a military dictatorship (you can imagine how well THAT goes) or beating it which…I’m sorry, even the entire civilian population of the US cannot do. The military is light years more advanced than it was in Marx’s time, rebellion is so so so so much more complicated. It also sets a precedent for violent exchanges of power that tend to set countries up for a decades/centuries long tailspin of military coups in which the people with the most gun power (again…usually not vulnerable groups) win control.

I’m not trying to be a fatalist, here. I actually think fatalism is a tool of the oppressor and we have to fight against it tooth and nail. I’m just trying to logic out what will happen if Kamala/Walz lose and Trump/Vance win. What does that really look like? What is the next step, the next outcome that will lead us to a better place? And I just cannot, for those reasons above, see a Trump presidency leading us anywhere good. That IS what we will get if people hold out on voting for Harris as a form of protest. I’m all for protest!!!!! But it needs to be in a different avenue, because you have to consider the real life repercussions not voting will have.

I mean, what are the options? What happens if people protest by not voting? (...this assumes you don't start from the position that Harris and Trump will be literally NO different in office, which, well, that's another post)

1. Harris wins regardless, but a signal is sent that people to the left aren’t appeased and democrats need to do more. How effective this would be in moving actual policy is debateable, and it also puts the moral onus/responsibility conveniently on others just so you can feel like your hands are clean while simultaneously risking a worse outcome. Not cool.

2. Trump wins. Far more likely because, as we saw in 2020, the country was nearly evenly split on Trump vs. Biden. Current polling shows more or less the same with Trump vs. Harris. If the left stays home, the likelihood Trump wins skyrockets. So, what happens next?

2.A. Trump wins, but the world doesn’t end. He doesn’t do anything too terribly awful. The left has ideally signaled they will only vote for a Dem if they are liberal enough. I seriously doubt Trump won’t do anything too terribly awful though—look at what his first presidency did!!! Look at Project 2025!!!!! So. Other option.

2.B. Trump wins and the world is on fire. He strips away womens’ rights, queer rights, he tanks the working class and worker protections, starts a war, starts a dictatorship, whatever. He already started a lot of this during his first presidency. In this case, either…

2.B.1. This is still not enough to trigger a revolution. Vulnerable people are hurt and die at a far greater pace than under a Democratic presidency. We go on as before, fighting to regain key protections. Perhaps the Dems put forward a more liberal candidate to try and beat him next time, if democracy still exists, but likely? We end up with a conservative centrist anyway.

2.B.2. Trump does trigger a revolution. All I can see is how many vulnerable people would suffer and die. The military HAS to be involved and either takes control of government (terrible start to socialism!!!!!) or kills revolutionaries en masse and the rebellion fails. If civilians somehow defeated the US military, which is an astronomically low possibility, then we set up a more liberal democracy...how, exactly? With all the conservatives and moderates still in our country? Honestly, HOW. Kill them? Try and make them ‘see the light’? That happens via education, not a civil war. We could try and go straight to communism but theory and history show us that doesn’t work—you have to work your way towards it through democracy.

It is SO much more efficient and would put so many fewer vulnerable people in grave danger to start by keeping the democracy we already have by voting in Harris and THEN working on our protests to shift the needle towards democratic socialism. We’ve seen that these protests CAN WORK!!!!! They got us Biden dropping out!!!!! Harris picked a VP far more appealing to a liberal mindset than many of her other top options! WE ARE ALREADY SHIFTING THE NEEDLE. Keep it shifting, don’t give in to fatalism, and remember that you have to go through the steps to have an actual, stable, reliable socialist or communist republic. Vote.

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

STI test appt. tomorrow!

[doeneb]

[trashyandtiredsol]

Here this is!!!

Which I have been procrastinating on for EVER at this point

Idk if this is considered eyestrain so I'll just add a tag or 2 for that :P

And @ ing @sleepis4theweak cuz this is based on their drawing of Milkshake they did awhile ago!! Which idk where it is now :P

[something-about-sunflowers]

Not pretending that the voting is gonna be unbiased because I know my audience but I AM providing some actually good answer choices;

[trashogram]

Not to mention marriage is thing from holy religion so why the fuck does denizens in hell even give the fuck about sanctity and important of marriage?

Yeah, I don’t really know. I mean I guess it would still work as a contract over lands within the rings? Or support from armies? Or it’s what justifies interbreeding between royal hell beasts?

You know what I once came across an RP for Stella and Stolas where the lore was that the two fought side by side in the war against Heaven. It was intriguing, and if that were the case (and Stolas wasn’t retconned into being Paimon’s child), you could say that they married to establish their alliance/devotion to one another by using the tradition set by Heaven, showing that they still held some attachment to it despite siding with Lucifer.

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

When she got you legitimately looking up how to engage in puncture-level biting kinks safely

[seiwas]

i stg seeing gifs of nanami w the kids makes me wanna cry every time

[persephonyed]

pssst, just popping in to say i start a new job tomorrow, so i'm not sure how my activity might be over the next week or two adjustment period for it. i'm probably going to prioritize things i have the most muse for and be on when i can but might need a lot of r&r time to reboot while i make the transition. it's also a super new kind of job for me ( my first big girl office job hehehe ) so i'm not super sure how to anticipate how i'll feel. i hope that's understandable !