#(​as opposed to having a history with them)

[creatorbiaze]

havwnt seen kpop demon hunters either but i liked A Post and so for a while my entire feed was the fandom lmao (& also the songs are cool so they're in my playlist now). from what I've seen i have a very loose idea of the plot;

-Main 3 characters are Demon Hunters. throughout history, there's been korean girl bands that dispell/fight demons

-their magic comes from their songs and/or people believing in them

-Demons also gain power from Belief, so A Demon Guy proposed Demon Boy Band! Humans love music, humans love hot guys, so if they combine the two (& i think all the members except This Guy purposfully play into kpop stereotypes). Demons ridicule him for a minute until Oh Shit It Works

-This is, i think, so demons can enter the Mortal World and take over.

-Main 3 & Demon Bois compete a lot in general bc seem to be Opposing Bands. Main 3 find out The New Boyband Is Demons at some point so the rivalry intensifies (i think they can't just. KILL the new popular boy band out of nowhere. fans would notice! so they can't really do much until Finale)

-One of the Main Three is half demon, and her mother was a hunter from a previous generation (now dead). Her guardian had a hand in the death somehow?

-Oh also she falls in love with The Demon Guy

-The main three have a falling out. not sure ghe cause, presumably bc they found out Half-Demon is Half-Demon?

-Demon Bois take this opportunity to have their Final Concert while the three are separated & try to open a gate to the demon realm or smthn. Crowd gets hypnotized, including 2/3 Main Girls & their manager

-Half-Demon enters stage right. snaps the two other members out of their trance. they fight off the demons together, united again, and stop the apocalypse

-oh yeah also the Demon Bois die. there is no explanation, just a timeskip & The Demon Guy's 2 familiars chilling over a "comeback" sign on a building. fans irl go feral over possible sequel confirmed bc we only actually know the Full Story of one Demon Boi

has anyone asked this

[eraserdude6226]

This is what started it all ...

So, this is the document that started it all … The Declaration of Independence.  I think that on this Fourth of July, take a few minutes and read the 1,461 words in 50 sentences and think about our country and how it was formed.  I am constantly surprised by the amount of people that have never read this founding document – so, if you never have, give it a go.  It’s probably a better read for when you’re on the crapper than anything else!!

The Declaration of Independence

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. -- The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

John Hancock

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

Geo. Walton

Wm. Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

Edward Rutledge

Thos. Heyward, Junr.

Thomas Lynch, Junr.

Arthur Middleton

Samuel Chase

Wm. Paca

Thos. Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

George Wythe Richard Henry Lee

Th. Jefferson

Benja. Harrison

Thos. Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

Robt. Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benja. Franklin

John Morton

Geo. Clymer

Jas. Smith

Geo. Taylor

James Wilson

Geo. Ross

Caesar Rodney

Geo. Read

Tho. Mckean

Wm. Floyd

Phil. Livingston

Frans. Lewis

Lewis Morris

Richd. Stockton

Jno. Witherspoon

Fras. Hopkinson

John Hart

Abra. Clark

Josiah Bartlett

Wm. Whipple

Saml. Adams

John Adams

Robt. Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

Step. Hopkins

William Ellery

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

Wm. Williams

Oliver Wolcott

Matthew Thornton

[everlastingday]

thank you @carlos-in-glasses, @henrygrass, @annoyingcloudearthquake, @heartstringsduet, and @carlossreaders for the tags! 💜

writing has very much been eluding me recently (no surprises there) but i'm hoping to really lock in and finish off the orchestra au in the next couple of weeks.

--

Something shifted between them after they played the Bach double together. It might’ve been that phone call later that evening where they finally talked, really talked, for the first time, but Carlos knows deep down that the change in him happened with the music. It seems like a silly, nebulous thing, to say that the music they created together changed their relationship, but his gut says that he isn’t the only one that feels this way.

Carlos has been playing for long enough to know when a performance really hits, and if anyone had asked him even just a month ago whether or not he thought that playing with TK Strand was going to be one of those moments, he would’ve laughed in their face. Not because he doesn’t think that he or TK wouldn’t have the technical skill to pull it off, but because he didn’t think they meshed well together. They were like oil and water, two very different players who just have such opposing approaches to music, that it seemed impossible to reconcile.

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open tag & no-pressure tagging a few people under the cut!

@whatsintheboxmh @lavenderrdaughter @welcometololaland @reyesstrand @thisbuildinghasfeelings @shipperofsapphics @lemonlyman-dotcom @bonheur-cafe @eclectic-sassycoweyes @firstprince-history-huh @afiendishthingynisba @emsprovisions @paperstorm @herefortarlos @tellmegoodbye @futures-tense @pimento-playing-hopscotch @theghostofashton @ladyknight1512 @strandnreyes @neversleepuntilfive

let me know if you want to be added/removed, and please feel free to tag me as well, i love seeing what everyone else is working on! 💜

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

hero/villain showdown but one of them has a spontaneous medical emergency and the battle gets put on hold while their archnemesis drives them to Urgent Care

[polepositioned]

"prost and senna were so brutus/caesar coded" WRONG.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

My friend told me to start xmen comics and i did just one question what are charles and erik cuz im kinda confused are they a couple or smth my friend wont tell me anything this is my last option to know what im getting into

they can be whatever you want them to be my friend....

[wonder-worker]

"As for the government of the kingdom, [Edward V] had complete confidence in the peers of realm and the queen."

— Dominic Mancini, The Usurpation of Richard the Third / J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Alexander R. Brondarbit, Power Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461-1485

"According to the Crowland continuator, [Elizabeth Woodville] seems to have taken the king's place in listening to his council immediately after Edward IV's death. It does appear that she expected to have some role in her son's kingship, and the Crowland continuator’s report of the letters sent to her by [Richard of Gloucester] indicates that she had good reason to expect to be able to work with him and the other councillors: 'the duke of Gloucester wrote the most pleasant letters to console the queen; he promised to come and offer submission, fealty and all that was due from him to his lord and king, Edward V, the first-born son of his brother the dead king and the queen'."

"[However], in what was Gloucester's first coup, Edward V was separated from his household and Woodville advisors. When the young king questioned the move, Buckingham was reported to have told the boy 'It is not in the business of women but men to govern kingdoms'. The blunt remark referred to the authority of Elizabeth Woodville as queen and the power she must have anticipated within the new political climate left by Edward IV's sudden death. [...] While the veracity of this scene is questionable*, the words attributed to the duke no doubt seemed plausible to Dominic Mancini who believed they exemplified the popular sentiment held by men [...]."

*One of Mancini's key sources seems to have been Edward V's own doctor, John Argentine, who attended to him in the Tower. It's very likely that he was the one who recounted this scene to Mancini, which suggests that it should probably be considered more credible than not.

[mirror-to-the-past]

Oh yeah also Kris and Ralsei give such Ella Enchanted vibes. That's the last thing I wanted to say, k, night y'all

[goldensunset]

no feeling quite like seeing someone make a harmless and valid post and then someone adds on and interprets it in the most vile and stupid manner possible accusing op of being ignorant and wrong and biased etc and that’s the version with a million notes but you’re like guys that is not what they were talking about at all and you know it

[hanzajesthanza]

i do actually headcanon that angoulême had some friends spread throughout beauclair & throughout the sansretour valley. but they weren’t good friends. just… “i know a guy” type of deals. very golan drosdeck type of random association like. you’re nineteen. how do you know all of these people. idk. it’s a small criminal underworld after all. but like drosdeck she would have debts with all of them and none of them would be willing to help her and some still are looking to scam her. and despite her… ‘worldliness’, she is still quite naïve

[ourstarsystem]

i feel like this site leaning heavily into the "pedophilia and incest and rape kinks are good" angle lately can be attributed to the mass expulsion of sex workers and black ppl on here ngl

[secret--history]

I know that 'The Secret History is a satire' is an extremly prevalent take, and I think it came about as a response to the idea that tsh "romanticises" things like classist ideas/substance abuse/murder, but like. It can be unsupportive or critical of the characters without being a satire. Satire is not the word you're looking for here

[generallemarc]

The fact that those who oppose communism have done bad things says nothing about communism itself. I oppose ISIS, so am I a bad person because Russia and Assad did bad things in the process of fighting them?

The largest genocide in human history was the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China, which has an estimated body count running up to potentially nearly twice that of the Holocaust. Additionally, thanks to ruling for twice as long, Josef Stalin killed more people in purges and genocides than Hitler did.

Fidel Castro was a dictator for half a century, why the fuck are you trying to make him out to be a good leader? Why do so many of you tankies try and argue that economic prosperity supposedly provided by communism justifies undemocratic rule? Is that not the same thing you claim capitalism does?

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

thinking about that One scene in the secret history but w cult leader geto (<- having a normal one)

[ouidamforeman]

They should let me make a whole season of Dr who except i only have to think of ideas and not have to do anything except make people execute my vision

[bucephaly]

watching someone's children is work, and people aren't entitled for asking to be paid for working. where did you get that idea /genq

I got that idea from actually learning about other cultures and breaking the hold western capitalist individualism had on my ideas of how the world works

I'm not saying put up a sign on the street saying free daycare, I'm saying that if someone trusts you enough to ask to watch their kids, that has the potential to be a great friendship if you like, actually help them out. I'm not saying never say no or that you are necessarily an asshole for asking to be paid, I'm saying that they aren't entitled or selfish for asking for help from people they trust.

I just don't get this modern entitlement and individualism where like, a friend confiding in you and seeking advice or a listening ear is seen as 'emotional labor' and shit like that. Like. Humans naturally want to help each other and it's so weird to me seeing people just refuse to like... be nice. It's about building community.

Children are raised communally in sooo many cultures and have been throughout most of history, the modern western idea of the nuclear family is so unhealthy for both parent and kid.