#(and this is my propaganda for them now THAN K YOU)

[hussyknee]

THE LEFTIST THIRD PARTY HAS WON SRI LANKA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

WE HAVE A PRO-LGBT, PRO-UNION, ANTI-ETHNOFASCIST, ANTI-IMPERIALIST PRESIDENT. MY ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR IS GOING TO BE PRIME MINISTER. A COMPETENT ACADEMIC WHO HAS WORKED ON FEMINIST INITIATIVES AND RESEARCH ALL HER CAREER.

please please please please god don't let them fuck this up don't let them turn into a bunch of cunts to retain their new voter base don't let them fuck up the economy don't let them let the minorities down please please please they won't ever get another chance if they ruin this one we'll be stuck with more idiot corrupt nepo babies till we die please please please PLEASE LET THIS BE THE END OF THE EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY AND PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT AND PERSECUTING THE NORTH please please please let them decriminalize being gay and not bury LGBT rights please please please let there be a god I can't take anymore of this shitshow please please please don't let hope be something that keeps pissing in our faces please please please please please please please

ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE WILL BE THE NINTH PRESIDENT OF SRI LANKA. TAKE THAT YOU TWO PARTY VOTING MOTHERFUCKERS.

Edit:

WHAT DO YOU MEAN FUCKING COLOMBO WENT TO THE IDIOT NEPO BABY???

AKD HAD 52%!!!!! HE WAS ALL BUT SWORN IN?????

THEY HAVE TO COUNT THE SECOND PREFERENTIAL VOTE FOR ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN HISTORY??

There is a very real chance that nobody will get over 50% of the vote. That would be really, really bad.

Fuck.

I HATE YOU MOTHERFUCKING URBAN MIDDLE CLASS LIBERAL CUNTS SO MUCH. PLAGUE ON THE WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY. FUCK YOU.

Edit 2:

Ok so first counting gets AKD 42% and SP 32%. It's very likely the preferentional vote will put him over the 50% line.

It's so poetic that Ranil's greed for power ended up handing the country to the very Marxists that his uncle hunted like animals. You love to see it. 🥰

Edit 3:

So the preferential vote didn't give anyone a 50% majority and we're still at AKD 42% and SP 32%. But apparently that's enough to declare AKD President as per the Constitution. I don't think that's ever happened before. He was sworn in an hour ago.

Point of clarification: The NPP are not Marxists. Foreign news is just uncritically regurgitating the pro-government Red Scare propaganda. AKD and his JVP party used to be Marxists back in the '80s and '90s. They're now more very pro-union socialist. The NPP is their coalition, which is even more mildly social democrat and just happens to be a little more left than the other two. Calling them a Marxist is like how MAGA thinks the Dems are commies. 😂

I truly don't have great hopes that much will change, but there's a chance one or two important things might. Which is more than we've been able to hope for in decades.

See this post for a run down of the what's really been happening.

Edit 4:

I retract the "openly bisexual" part with many apologies. I completely misremembered. It wasn't AKD but JVP senior K. D. Lalkantha, who said in a 2018 interview is that he has also had same sex encounters with his friends as a boy and young man, and that he knows others who have had as well. And he specifically said he doesn't see the need to maintain a label for his sexuality. Still, the fact that his party allowed this in a country that still criminalises homosexuality, to a Sinhalese magazine, speaks to a commitment to LGBT rights. He also explicitly stated his support for women's rights, trans rights, polyamory, open relationships, explicit sexuality in media. It's impressively progressive for this country. The interview is in Sinhala and you can read it here.

Here's an excellent write-up of AKD's career, political outlook and creation of NPP in The Hindu by correspondent Meena Srinivasan, a journalist whose reporting I've always liked.

[primoresplendens]

EXACTLY BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY OUTWRITE YOU NOW DGHDHGJSGJF SO---

1. They both love Lord.

2. They both love fighting.

3. They are so opposite YET similar.

4. They're both idiots in their own way.

5. They understand each other so well------

They are THE power shembo couple ever and I will ship them in hell and convert them all to it while I'm at it

Talk framstrid to me

okay okay okay thank you let me talk to you and the rest of the world why i adore framstrid so much. first of all, they just share vibes- they're both energetic and cheery (in a way) and they often comment on each other's words or behaviors more than anyone else (other than lord). they're friends, first and foremost.

and i imagine it can be overwhelming for astrid to take on the world with how she sees a fourth wall and all, despite her lightheartedness about it. being with fram will feel... simple, grounding. fram is grounded to earth and steadfast. to astrid, fram can be someone to hold on to when things get too much.

that, and i am SUCH a sucker for the "only you understand how important this person (lord) is. only you can understand my desperate worship and yearning behind all my laughter and jokes i dare to show" trope. they're the only ones who can understand each other's obsession and faith for lord. (yes, yes, johan, charlotte, the blake cousins exist but fram? the one who's been around the longest i presume, and astrid? the one who will go through multiple lifetimes just to see lord again? gosh they fit each other so well. they gush a lot about lord, i bet.) they find comfort in each other's love for lord. because who else will understand this, if not the other person?

it's also fun to imagine them as sparring partners, because canonly even in their first meeting they have this exchange:

and this comment about fire fram:

astrid and fram fighting until they're bruised in the training ground and they're both grinning, iokhiera and durendal still floating and spinning, smoke surrounding them? an image i will forever hold on to fr.

bonus, but fram immediately finding a likeness between the two of them is so cute.

there's also these- in every lifetime it seems that they will have (or even have had) the chance to be friends. they just. they just GET ALONG WELL. DONT THEY. DONT THEY. there are multiple moments where they're seen getting along and it's so cute. oh my dumbass friends to lovers trope. they're too fixated on lord to even realize their feelings for each other. i like to think they seek each other when they know they can't tell their problems to lord. look at them LOOK AT THEM

gosh, the way i can just see how they've gotten to know each other

see, i like that fram's simple-mindedness (/pos) is a good match with astrid's playful teasing and her attitude of acting like she knows everything/more than others sometimes. fram isn't swayed with that, fram will take everything at face value and accept astrid's words as they are. fram says once in extreme mode that astrid always has fun stories to tell, and it seems astrid is always happy to share her thoughts and stories with fram <3

ultimately, i think they're just..... they very much enjoy each other's company. and i love their companionship and their possible comfort with each other, especially concerning a certain person they both yearn for.

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

Sorry to bring up "Uglies" again, but this discourse has been so infuriating, and I promise it is relevant to the theme of your blog:

Not sure what it is about the movie, but it showed previously unknown lows of media literacy (which is impressive), and one that is particularly... interesting to me is how people have reacted to Laverne Cox, who for those not knowing her, is a black trans woman who is not just a quite famous actress, but also an outspoken advocate for queer people, playing the villain Dr. Cable.

Dr. Cable is the de-facto leader of the city the movie takes place in, and a cyborg super soldier. This dystopian regime, and that is where the issue lies, mostly relies on beauty culture to keep people under control, though that is far from the only thing. Specifically, people get plastic surgery at sixteen to eradicate discrimination based on looks - and the scary part is, they succeeded at least at the surface, making this world indeed almost feeling like an utopia. Almost.

I can see how this can be misinterpreted in a transphobic way if you really want to and disregard most of the canon and message, which is that forcing people into uniformity based on arbitrary standards is bad, which very much is a statement against cisheteronormativity. The series doesn't have any canon queerness because it was published in 2005, and for the movie presumably from a mix of wanting to stay true to the source material and desperately trying to make it more mainstream appealing, but it feels quite queer subtextual.

Now comes the really infuriating part: The people I saw being the most worried and the most aggressive about Laverne Cox playing Dr. Cable were not TERFs and other fascists. Now, I haven't combed through the entire twitter tag because I value my sanity, so there probably are some who indeed realized that they could misinterpret that for their advantage, but the transphobes I saw didn't got into the plastic surgery ankle. They just spewed the usual uncreative bullshit they always say ("thats a man" etc).

But left-leaning people in the tumblr tag... "Forced into plastic surgery by a trans woman for the woke agenda" - You wanted to miss the point so badly, buddy... "Hmm, a trans woman forcing children into plastic surgery and brainwashing them, is it just me or was that written as a piece of fascist propaganda" - It is just you, not just was it written in 2005, Scott Westerfeld (author) also is an outspoken queer ally since at least 2003, where he featured a sapphic couple in his space opera "The Risen Empire" and since then he has tried to use his platform to help queer people, including going on several fights with fucking J. K. Rowling over trans advocacy.

It just is this age old problem of "if you write a minority as anything than a perfect hero, you are a bigot or at least help bigots". Which feels so condescending.

Now, I know that actors are obliged to market their movies, but again, Laverne Cox is a very famous actress, and also she does queer advocacy since what, at least ten years? I don't even know her, but it feels so condescending and insulting to her insisting that she must be too dumb or brainwashed or something to notice that a role could harm her community. She doesn't need the money, and she would have had the power to just step out. On her instagram, she is quite enthusiastic about the role, even saying that she looked forward playing such a character for once.

Another layer of this is that most of the people complaining about her playing Dr. Cable aren't even trans. A small number are, but the majority are just cis people.

It just feels so icky.

Now, I know most marginalized people don't feel this way, but when I personally see a villain with my identities (who isn't a caricature of said identities, but just happens to share them) I feel empowered, not insulted. Being a horrible person, making bad choices and going on power trips is part of humanity too, and by insisting that all minorities are only ever allowed to be perfect, you do not just infantalize them, you strip them of their humanity, counter-intuitive as that sounds.

Dr. Cable is not a trans caricature. In the book we don't even know if she is cis or trans (and also not what her ethnicity is). Her main arc is that she thinks she needs to protect this utopia with all means necessary, stripping away parts of her humanity in the process and getting more and more brutal and paranoid until her hubris brings her downfall. That is not a trans-only story.

It is not even a woman-only story. In fact, this is a kind of villain arc women are hardly ever allowed to have. Yes, I am aware how this brutality can intersect with harmful trans and black stereotypes, but also she is such an interesting character, and it just doesn't feel right to say that black people or trans people should not allowed to have interesting villain characters.

.

[gunnerfc]

Alexis Loera NSFW Alphabet (18+, minors DNI!)

for my loera anons <3 who’s propaganda worked bc now im down bad 🧎

A: Aftercare

She’s so soft after sex, even if she was on the receiving side of things for most of the night

Alex will trace random shapes on your body as you both catch your breath after and whisper how good you were

B: Body Part (their favorite body part of themselves and their partner)

Alex’s favorite body part is her thighs, she loves wrapping them around your body or when you hold onto her thighs when you go down on her

Her favorite body part of yours is your hands, aside from the obvious reason, she just loves holding your hand or feeling them on her body at any time

C: Cum (anything to do with cum)

Loves pulling you into a deep kiss after going down on you or after you go down on her

D: Dirty Secret 

Alex does enjoy when sex is a bit rougher than normal

E: Experience (Are they experienced? Do they know what they are doing?) 

She is experienced but you both learned new things about what you enjoy in the bedroom since you started dating

F: Favorite Position 

She doesn’t have a favorite position, it changes all the time because you both switch being on the giving/receiving end

G: Goofy (Are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous?)

Alex will crack little jokes before or after but during sex, she’s much more serious and focused on your body

I: Intimacy (How intimate are they during the moment?)

Sex with Alex is very intimate all the time

J: Jack off (Masturbation HC) 

She only gets herself off when you two are apart but she will send dirty texts after knowing you won’t be able to think about anything else

K: Kink (One or more of their kinks) 

Praise kink, both giving and receiving praise turns her on

L: Location (Favorite place to have sex)

Your shared apartment for privacy!

M: Motivation (What turns them on?) 

Whenever you place light kisses anywhere on her body, her head is spinning

N: No (Something they wouldn't do)

She’s not open to threesomes, she doesn’t want to share you with anyone

O: Oral (Preference on giving or receiving)

She likes both equally but she goes down on you more

P: Pace (Fast & Rough? Slow & Sensual?) 

Mainly slow and sensual unless one of you is feeling a bit jealous

Q: Quickie (Thoughts on quickies) 

They happen sometimes, mainly before training or leaving for a game

R: Risk (Are they open to experimenting) 

Alex isn’t that into experimenting but she is willing to try anything you bring up

S: Stamina (How many rounds) 

You two can go for a few longer rounds

T: Toys 

You use a strap sometimes but you both prefer using your fingers/mouth to pleasure each other

U: Unfair (Do they like the tease)

She loves to tease you but it is quickly followed with lots of praise

V: Volume (How loud are they? What sounds do they make) 

Alex can be quite loud, another reason you prefer to have sex at home

W: Wild Card (Random HC)

You two were roomed together during an away game and had to hold yourselves back from taking advantage of being roomed together but you failed after the game where you both scored and played really well, you had to keep each other quiet or else your teammates would have known

Y: Yearning (How high is their sex drive?)

It can be a bit on the higher side sometimes, especially if you’ve been apart for an extended period of time

Z: ZZZ (… how quickly they fall asleep afterward)

You both fall asleep pretty quickly afterward

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Round 4 Match 6

Propaganda:

Saiki -

"This boy is so autistic he literally has world-ending levels of psychic power and the ONLY thing he uses it for is to try to avoid people/get out of awkward or bothersome social situations. He actively dislikes being around other people but his classmates have adopted him and adore him, he’ll never admit it outright but he secretly does appreciate them (which is why he’s always going out of his way to solve problems for them but again he would NEVER ADMIT its because he cares about them, he always frames it as doing it for selfish reasons but i see right through you.) Also he has literally altered the Laws of the Universe to make himself stand out less (ex: born with pink hair - makes it so that unnatural colors are normal literally rewriting all of human DNA in the process just so people will notice him less)."

Edgeworth -

"Being pushed by my friend for this but also they're 100% correct. This man is stiff, formal yet impolite, terrible at understanding the feelings of those around him, but has an inexorable sense of justice and an excellent eye for detail. He's a loser nerd who deals with his emotions for his rival by setting up a nonsense chessboard about it. His autism swag and eccentric pretty boy design was so popular he actively changed the direction of the series, and now makes an appearance in more games than any other character, including the original protagonist. Also he gets to play mind chess in one of his spin off games."

[soliloquent-stark]

this is a bit all over the place, don't mind me. and don't keep reading if you dislike gooey stuff.

as you might know from the lovely asks i was sent (thank you, everyone 💗) it was my birthday yesterday. and unfortunately, as it often happens, some things didn't go so well. i won't go into details, but it was tough, and it sucked to cry on my birthday more than usual (teenage trauma throwback, am i rite) though i admit it was really handy to have a cake to absorb all the tears right up. 🤭

but good things happened, too! and almost all of them had one common denominator: k! (typing it out like this is so silly. she has a name. but for all intents and purposes, she's simply ✨k✨).

without even getting into the actual gifts that my fiancée got me this year—which are as always perfect and thoughtful and useful and just magic—or the cake, or the flowers, or anything else, i wanted to specifically showcase the marvel related stuff that put such a smile on my face:

yes, that balloon gave me heart attacks whenever i walked into the room. yes, i pretended to hate cringy cowboy seb then ended up giggling and blushing every time i looked at him. yes, the spiderman gift bag is from the children's section and we've gifted it back and forth at various occasions for over a year now.

also a superfamily celebration:

i loved feeling like a four year old little boy with my spiderman cake topper <3.

and i obviously won't share the rest of what she wrote, but the card included some sweet quotes i genuinely was so moved by, then i realised they sounded familiar, then i realised it's from my hedgehog fic (which was a gift to her, so honestly we're just throwing the same quotes back and forth pretending it's about steve and tony. it was never about steve and tony).

quoting my own writing back to me?? hello?? queen behaviour right there. also peak moment for me.

(side note, that's not even all the marvel stuff i got from her this birthday. i didn't include any gifts in this post. also, i wish there was a way to show everyone just how many marvel things we own (including fanmade posters, stickers, zines etc. support creators if you can. ❤️) and how much that shocks some people who visit us because it doesn't seem like it goes with the sapphic-grandma core we got going on. oh well, it does now.)

it would be impossible to list why k is the best person in the world without writing actual novels (believe me, i have tried and it was very long) and sharing way too much about her story. but just trust me when i say she is the best friend you could ever have, and she makes me feel so loved and appreciated every single day, which makes special occasions even harder because how do you even top that? well, she still manages to. every time. 🥺

i guess the point of this was to share some appreciation and further my k propaganda, because i can see all the effort and care she lovingly puts into everything she does for other people, and to let everyone know just how much of an angel she is. i don't care if it's corny. and if you've ever seen a comment written by whinysteve, or read her excited tags on a reblog, or directly talked to her, or simply perceived her existence in any form, you already know she's the fucking best. it's not an act, it's all real. should get my shit together and finally wife her up. 🥹

tl;dr: she makes any moment better by just being there; and when she sets her mind to it, you will feel the power of her kindness. at the end of day, to be loved is to be seen. and she's got the world record for best vision. ❤️‍🩹

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Why can't other newspapers do this?

* * * *

Don't give permission to others to demotivate or mislead you!

September 18, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

Remain steadfast, dear readers! I received a dozen(-ish) emails today expressing worry about a report from a respected polling organization claiming that “the presidential race is tightening.” I also received a similar number of emails touting reports from a respected polling firm showing VP Harris expanding her post-debate lead to a number that is “larger than the margin of error.”

Here’s the deal: It doesn’t matter which of the above polling narratives is true. Indeed, both could be correct or both could be wrong. Regardless of what the polls show—good or bad—you should not change anything that you plan to do in the next 50 days. We are stuck in a noisy, volatile information environment that is being actively manipulated by the MAGA disinformation machine and Russia. See Axios, Russia amplifies disinformation campaigns against Harris-Walz campaign, Microsoft warns.

Per Axios,

Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign, according to a Microsoft report released Tuesday.

[And] the Justice Department exposed a $10 million scheme earlier this month in which employees of a Russian state media network infiltrated a U.S. company to spread Russian propaganda.

Let’s be clear: You are the target of the disinformation being peddled by the GOP and Russia. Their goal is to demotivate you. Do not give them permission to do so!

So, if you have mistakenly over-invested in the polls, knock it off! (And I mean that in the nicest way possible!) It is completely understandable and perfectly human to seek reassurance from polls. No one wants a repeat of the nasty surprise in 2016. But the bad guys have figured out our need for positive feedback and weaponized it against us. They are con men, and we are the mark.

Instead of looking to the media for reassurance, believe your own eyes and ears. You can see the surge in enthusiasm, you know that the number of volunteers at your grassroots organization has increased, and you have been surprised by people in your life who are planning to vote for the first time or will vote for Kamala Harris after voting for Trump in 2016 or 2020. That information is anecdotal, but it is not filtered or manipulated to mislead you.

Of course, we shouldn’t delude ourselves. We must recognize that remaining in touch with real news is important. The question is, how do we stay current without subjecting ourselves to manipulation?

I attended a Swing Left San Gabriel Valley meeting over the weekend where Jessica Craven and I spoke to the grassroots volunteers. One audience member asked which news sources we trust. Our combined answers included the following:

Heather Cox Richardson | Substack

Jessica Craven | Substack

Simon Rosenberg | Substack

Jay Kuo | Substack

Lucian K. Truscott IV | Substack

Joyce Vance | Substack

Judd Legum | Substack

Lawrence O’Donnell | MSNBC

Josh Marshall | Talking Points Memo

The Guardian (for general news but especially commentary by Rebecca Solnit)

Of course, I read dozens of other sources to prepare this newsletter, but the above are my “go to” sources for fair reporting on the news. On legal matters, I rely on Laurence Tribe, Mark Joseph Stern, Ian Millhiser, and Dahlia Lithwick. I also rely on Aaron Rupar on Twitter (@atrupar) and his Substack, Public Notice, to provide real-time, unvarnished tracking of statements by Trump, which are often sane-washed by major media.

I use the above sources to give me an objective view of the news—which I then employ as a lens when I read other sources. If your favorite source is not listed above, please do not take offense! If you have identified a source you trust, reward them with your support.

It is going to be seven long weeks until Election Day. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated by the news. Instead, make the news by motivating new and existing voters to show up on Election Day. The antidote to anxiety is action. And there is plenty to do!

Kamala Harris’s measured interview with National Association of Black Journalists

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sat for interviews on Tuesday. The interviews were, as expected, windows into competing versions of America under the respective candidates. Kamala Harris’s responses were measured, thoughtful, and linear. The media is still trying to decipher what Trump said or meant on several topics.

But . . . Kamala Harris received relatively little notice in the media for her interview, despite the drumbeat of demands that she sit for more interviews. The New York Times complained that her answers “often echoed her stump speech”—as if consistency and discipline in messaging is a bad thing. The Times instead gave top billing (in two articles) to Trump’s unpredictable and baseless promises in his appearance in Flint Michigan. Michael Gold of the NYTimes wrote,

[Trump] made grand promises to restore auto-making jobs to the state, the heart of the American auto industry, as he gave long-winded, often meandering responses to only a few questions.

“Meandering” is an understatement. “Incomprehensible” and “bonkers” are more descriptive.

The complete video of Kamala Harris’s interview is here: PBS Newshour, Harris participates in National Association of Black Journalists event in Philadelphia. If you don’t have time to watch the entire 45-minute interview, I recommend watching two answers to get a flavor of how well the VP conducted hereself.

In this segment, she responds to the efforts to incite racial hatred toward Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. See Springfield: It's a crying shame . . . This answer is notable for many reasons, including the fact that Kamala Harris interrupted the interviewer, stopped herself, apologized, and invited the interviewer to finish her question.

In a second segment worth watching, she answers a more challenging question (in tone and substance) about the war in Gaza and the path to peace: Question on Gaza War.

Trump, on the other hand, gave a series of non-sensical answers in his town hall in Flint, Michigan, any one of which would have resulted in howls from the major media if delivered by Kamala Harris. For example,

When asked about the biggest threat to auto manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Trump responded that the biggest threat to auto jobs was “nuclear weapons.” On the one hand, Trump isn’t wrong; on the other hand, “nuclear weapons” are the biggest threat to everything on earth, so the answer was not specific to the question about auto manufacturing jobs.

When asked how he would decrease the cost of groceries, Trump descended into a rant about windmills. He got there by promising that he would reduce the price of groceries by cutting energy costs by 50% in the first year of his term as president. Of course, presidents have virtually no power to regulate energy prices, which are set by global market conditions. That is the type of answer that the NYTimes described as “meandering” when the correct description was “bonkers.”

Trump said that global warming would be good for Michigan because people in that state would have “more beachfront property.” Trump meant his comment to be a joke, showing that he has no conception of how global warming threatens the United States.

Trump said that the US could become energy self-sufficient because the US has “Bagram” in Alaska, which he claimed “is bigger than Saudi Arabia.” Bagram was a US military airbase in Afghanistan and has no connection to Alaska or oil production.

Most of Trump's other remarks were impossible to follow and often ended by discussing a subject far afield from the question. It was a performance indicative ongoing mental decline. No wonder he is afraid to debate Kamala Harris a second time!

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[faededaway]

Hero's fan meets hero by chance!!

K, one silly idea.

I'm not sure where it ends BUT here it goes:

You are a civilian in today's quirky world. You haven't got a quirk of your own though. It's okay! You've never felt bad about it. Things have worked out for you and you've worked with the things you've got!

So, you're going about your day. You're at the local grocery store at the same time as always. The canned food aisle has your attention for the longest as usual (because you're looking for that one canned item they don't seem to bring in anymore).

Suddenly, you hear a man yell out to you, “your bag! Give it to me or else!”

You turn your back to the shelves to look at what “or else” may be. To your displeasure it looks like a barbed tail like appendage that may or may not be in your appendage if you didn't let go of..... The bag you don't have..

“I would give it to you. Really! I'm so scared right now! I'd really love to give it to you, but I didn't bring one. I only have about $20 on me at the moment”. You bring your hands up to your head to show him the lack of any kind of bag he could have snagged from you.

An angry growl leaves him and you see that he's about to charge at you. So you simply, move out the way to let him crash into the variety of canned goods on the shelves.

Upon headbutting the shelf, about a dozen or so cans fall on his head from the higher shelves and knock him out cold. So you continue your shopping, head to the counter, and let the store clerk know about the incident.

Upon leaving the store, you find yourself in front of a reporter from a well-known news channel. “Are you the person who saved the town's only grocery store from being shutdown by this unhinged barbaric villain?”, the reporter exclaims while pushing their mic onto your face.

“Well, barbarian is a strong word. You see, I only acted in self defense. If it saves my favorite grocery store in the process, I hope I get a discount next time I go.” something about how this whole thing felt like a skit makes you want to go along with whatever the reporter says. No one will actually watch the news about a small town grocery store. So who cares about what you say. Besides, they could just cut the unnecessary stuff out.

“Oh, so do I! They should give you lifetime discount! How did you feel when confronted by this villain? What made you decide to act on your own rather than waiting for our heros to arrive?”, the reporter inches in closer and spits out these words at you.

Now, you're thinking. Right. It's that channel. The anti hero one!

“Erm, well, I didn't act! I just, I didn't do much, really. And, how could a hero know what's going on in every corner of the world? Ya know?? Anyway! The cops took him away!! Problem solved!”, you smile at the camera and wave your hands dismissively.

The reporter nods their head fervently. “Yes, the heroes cannot be relied on”.

Ah-oh no. Did you make things worse? Are you feeding the anti hero propaganda? You don't want that. You have to fix it! You have to say something good!

“Wait, you know. Actually, my- my favorite hero! My favorite hero inspired me to do this! Yes, yes! My favorite hero, always arrives at the scene so confidently. With their radiant smile, and, and calm voice. Telling everyone things will be okay. Yeah! I totally had their voice in my head at that moment. I heard them! Telling me 'breathe easy, 1,2, and 3. It will all be over soon'. Ya know? Ya know, that hero?”. You ramble out as quickly as you can. You're not sure if they'll give you any more of their time but you still take your chances.

“Your favorite hero? Which hero do you speak of?”, the reporter grimaces. Even the camera man gruffs in disgust.

Now, you had a few choices to make. You could mention a few local heroes. Make them a bit more popular. You could mention the top hero. Or you could mention your top hero. Your hero, who actually saves the world with a smile. Hero Fatgum.

“Well, his name is um, he's not a local hero but I'm a big fan. Hero, Hero Fatgum”, you're want to run away now. This is it. This conversation is not real. Your groceries are on the curb. Your soul isn't in your body.

“A fan? What does that mean? Do you make fanart or something?”, the reporter asks. The look like they can't believe you used that word.

Fanart? You do. But, should you say that to them? You wouldn't lose anything because no one watches TV anymore. Or the news. Right? And they can and WILL cut this out!!

“Umm, yeah. I do make fanart sometimes,” you open up your phone to show a fanart of Fatgum bending over to grab hold of a fallen civilian.

The cameraman zooms into your phone. You immediately move to put your phone back in your pocket but the reporter grabs it from you.

“Hm. You're not that bad. Are you famous?”, the reporter now scrolls through your phone as if it's their own. The embarrassment from this makes you fumble out incoherent words. “What was that?”

“I do put them ...on.. this site. Ah, Uh! That's all. I don't have any more fanart” you snatch your phone back and stuff it in your pocket before they could see a ... Truly embarrassing fanart that would make you want to leave the country.

“This site, what's it called?”, you want to question why this anti hero reporter is suddenly this invested in your fanart of a hero but you don't know what that would make them do. So you spell out the name of the site for them and your username.

The reporter finally turns to the camera and away from you, “folks, that was all from the incident of today morning's attempted robbery of the town's only grocery store. A brave fan born from the heroic acts of the braver ones who save the civilians of our land everyday has saved the day. May it inspire us all to be more positive and look at our heros in a new light. Maybe they alone can't save the world, but we together can save ourselves. This has been -”

You tune out the rest of the words. So, the antihero channel is now... Turning over a new leaf? Today? Now? What's going on?

After the reporter and the cameraman wrap you ask them what was going on.

“Oh, yeah. You don't get much government favor by being anti hero. So we decided to find a story that'd help us segue into this new thing. Luckily, we found a good enough story in the morning! Your tangent about being inspired and all, even showing us your fanart?? Great stuff!” the reporter and their partner laugh in relief.

Hot flash runs through your body. On one hand, your purpose is fulfilled. But on the other hand, they will NOT cut out the embarrassing footage of your fanart. Okay. Whatever. You start heading home to sleep this off.

~

You avoid watching the news offline and online for fear that you may see your own face on tv. A week has passed. No one has pointed fingers at you and laughed at you. Someone is yet to bring up your embarrassing tangent. So, you assume you are safe. Thinking so, you go back to your local grocery store for the first time that week.

As usual, you stand in the canned food aisle for a little too long. And today, they actually have the one you're looking for! Canned tropical fruit mix!

When you turn to put the can in your cart, a large shadow towers over you. You tense up. Last week you were lucky to have gotten away unscathed. This time luck may not be on your side. So you brace yourself to run with the cart when you hear, “is it okay if I ask for an autograph?”.

You look up to the source of the voice and freeze. It's Taishiro holding a printed version of your fanart of him asking you to sign it for him. Taishiro, Fat Gum, watched you on the news, visited your blog, printed(and bought) your risque beach fanart of himself carrying you, and is now asking you to sign it for him.

Your hands tighten around the handlebar of the cart. He speaks up again, “I quite like how you drew me here. It's the only one with you in it. I'd like it signed if you wouldn't mind.”

Your favorite hero is in front of you doing something you'd never dream of. Your heart is beating so loudly, you ears are ringing. But you'd be a fool to let this moment go to waste.“Sure. Can I have a picture with you in return?”

“Oh, of course! We could even go grab a bite somewhere if you'd like”. He says as he cocks his head to the side and beams at you.

And that is when you decide to make your fanart turn to reality someday soon.

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From Reddit...

I'm waiting for Sarah McLachlan to start singing In the Arms of the Angel.

They used the millennial rustic wedding video filter.

Reads a little Marie Antoinette frolicking at the Petit Trianon to me.

Times are really hard- the uk has had serious unrest and you and William have been Mia at best shady at worst and now this hyper produced video? Call me when you have a sit down interview.

If she was truly walking side by side and hand in hand with other Cancer patients why hasn't she made ONE SINGLE visit to a Cancer treatment center? Support in words only, zero action. This video is such a farce, a joke. A slap in the face of all those who truly do have Cancer. Also, you are not Cancer free or considered in remission after completing chemo. EVERYONE KNOWS THIS. Takes years to be in remission.

Ugh, this woman.

Ok, her video announcing she had cancer made sense, since everyone was speculating on her whereabouts.

But this was so unnecessary. And kind of cringy? Her walking in the field alone, for what?

Whose idea was this?

literally, the narration + aesthetic shots made it look like a weird ad.

William and Kate have such terrible PR that it must be on purpose. They could have turned this situation into such great sympathy for her and instead they do an irrelevant and out of touch glamorous photo shoot. They must be trolling the public whom clearly they feel are beneath them. She could be out there empathizing with how cancer impacts families because she’s a mom of three young kids. Or drawing attention to the financial burden of cancer or anything but this slap in the face to the common man!

Looks like a propaganda video from the cult I used to belong to, lol.. 😂

That video was some of the most self-indulgent nonsense I've seen in ages. That was awkward to watch.

the W&K laughing/cuddling shots r so forced

Where was all this love and snuggling/hand holding when she announced to the world she had cancer 🧐

This is the strangest and most awkward video. Why so cheesy? 9 months for preventive chemo? She looks like she walked miles through fields, woods and beach for this video so surely she’s well enough to work.

Interesting.

Notice she says “As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment.” A casual reading suggests she’s completed it circa end of summer but actually those two clauses are not linked, she’s just commenting on the time of year she’s making the announcement and saying it’s a relief to have completed chemo. Without specifying when she completed chemo.

A direct wording of “as of this August, I have completed…” would have made more sense but

I’m in the camp of she had cancer several years ago which is why all of her statements use weird tense like “the doctors said cancer had been present” and she’s basically using a disease she’s in remission for as a cover for general health issues bc it’s a sympathetic cover and after all the consequences still do effect her health.

They must have a new PR team and trying to do damage control. This video is way too over produced and cringe. They are trying to get people to believe the cancer is over with and they are more in love than ever. However I don’t believe anything they say anymore. I still think they are covering something up.

Can this possibly get any more... Saccharine? I'm not sure that's the right word. The violin at the end? How can we tug at the heartstrings even more? The video feels like an inspirational video made by someone who has never really had a hardship, and only a vague idea of what real problems are. It just feels WRONG somehow.

When the children were climbing in the stacked wood, only thing I could think was "there might be snakes in there!" (I'm in Eastern US, a mid-Atlantic state, we have lots of snakes around in the woods.)

I don't believe she ever had cancer or chemo.

Neither do I. This is to shut up the divorce rumors. Charles and her at the same time? Nope, I don’t believe it either, it was just a convenient excuse they think nobody would question.

Ok. On having given this some thought. If Kate can do EVERYTHING in that video, surely she could have done more than just attended TOTC and Wimbledon. Plus. She added that she will NOT be working (maybe just from home?) I’m very confused

Such schmaltz I would have felt totally different if she had made a short statement about her chemo finishing, and then footage of her visiting cancer patients or a cancer support group. Sitting and talking with them. Actually doing some good. But being filmed in a beautiful part of the country in a video that must've taken hours and hours of filming does not mean to me, she is standing 'side by side with cancer victims'.

I wonder how long it took to get that white butterfly onto her hand and then to fly away....

Exactly this. If she had visited people on a cancer or chemo ward she genuinely could have helped people - maybe brought some good news jnto their day or helped raise funds and awareness. She could have made a film about many cancer survivors. But this video? It’s all me me me

Lots of red flags. Last 9 months would be early December and include the alleged incident on 28 December. I am not sure why they are announcing the end of treatment when she has no intention of going back to work.

“Doing what I can to stay cancer free is my priority” as if people do something to deserve cancer? Disgusting

My husband works producing music videos and he says with all the outfit changes, scene set ups and changes it would have taken at least 30 hours of filming. Why do all that instead of sending out a press release if you are recovering from cancer? 

I wonder when this video was filmed. William was just in public a few days ago sporting a faux beard and he had even more facial hair in their Olympics video but he’s clean shaven here. So this shoot can’t be that recent which makes me question the statement, just like their behavior since January makes me question the diagnosis.

And since she’s been off sick, Catherine has been able to film 2 videos and do a separate photo shoot but she’s not been able to do so much as a video call with a cancer charity?

Reading between the lines on her statement it sounds like she’s going to cherry pick the fun events like she did with Trooping and Wimbledon and shirk any serious work engagements for “health reasons”. It’s crazy that the media and general public aren’t questioning this because it just doesn’t add up. And if her only focus is going to be preventing her “cancer” reoccurring (what a luxury the little people could only dream of), can the media at least stop parroting that she’s devoted to serving her country because she really isn’t…hasn’t ever been.

Now they can no longer use the cancer excuse I wonder what the next steps are?

she emphasised that nothing is confirmed, “a few public engagements, if i can”. Still dragging on the story for some sympathy🙄 I think she’ll only show up for remembrance day + christmas service. D.I.V.O.R.C.E. They are both so useless, just quit the charade. If they can't quit the charade, for the love of god quit making these cheesy fucking videos.

Like so many here, I used to be very pro-Catherine but the past 10 months changed that. I didn't hear she wasn't going to work because I couldn't watch more than about half of this. It seemed so arty and self-conscious. Someone mentioned like a pharmaceutical ad which was spot on - dappled sunshine, flowing dress, waving grass! The whole situation was and is bizarre - I wonder if we will ever know the truth?

[jacensolodjo]

rules: choose 4-7 of your favorite characters from 4-7 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe.

Propaganda for them under the cut.

Jacen Solo: Pun master, friend to all animals and also ants. True eldest son of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo. K*lo R*n is not him in the movies.

B'Elanna Torres: Angry biracial engineer extraordinaire. Her struggles with accepting herself including her anger and depression was so important for tiny me.

Logan "The Wolverine" Howlett: I quantify the comics because as much as I love Hugh Jackman as Logan, movie Logan doesn't have much of a personality the way comics Logan does. Anger issues, memory issues, big transman energy.

Arya Stark: Stick 'em with the pointy end. Wolf girl. Big GQ/agender energy. My princeling of the north. (I struggled to choose between her and Brienne who has big butch lesbian energy but also transmasc energy depending on who you're talking to. I'm fine with either!)

Vegeta: Another smol angry man. My love for him is over 9000. And that's also how many figures I have of him in my room.

Jack(ie)/Subject Zero: Smol angry woman. You've heard of disaster bisexual now get ready for chaotic bisexual. I don't care, Bioware, how you somehow retconned that within like 2 convos in the same game. And neither does her voice actor (Courtenay has told me personally she is more pro-Femshack than Mshack).

Vi: Don't call her Violet. Giant transmasc/genderqueer they/she energy and chaotic queer.

[canichangemyblogname]

I believe @/zionistcunt blocked me after I pointed out their reliance on propaganda and misinformation. I originally replied to K’s (@/jedi-valjean) thread with these tags:

#some 10% of the Gazan civilian population has become a casualty statistic #K— don’t argue with this person #they are not engaging in good faith #They prove precisely why you should never argue with fools #because despite what all the intl human rights organizations say and all the warnings from intl govt organizations #this person is attempting to bring you down to their level (ignoring the facts on the ground and the testimony and word of… #experts on genocide and ethnic cleansing) and then beat you with experience (knowledge of basic geography) #to turn this back on you and paint you the fool instead #so they can continue to ignore the facts on the ground and the reports from human rights groups and the testimony of genocide experts #and avoid the fact that the burden of responsibility for the disproportionate use of force is on those who support #the Zionist colonial project #much like how it is on the Catholic Church. the Manifest Destiny ideology and the Colonial US occupier for the decimation of the land #and it’s population on turtle island #it’s why all they’ve got are right-wing ‘edgy’ memes as a comeback/answer for your question(s) #because you passed the arbitrary tests of ‘experience’ and now they have nothing of substance to argue in return #besides memes divorced from historical context and a political understanding of what is happening on the ground #like— their PFP is literally a Rosie the Riveter meme; a symbol of US colonial expansionism. war. profiteering. arms manu. & capitalism #they ain’t gonna listen when you tell them peace has been and will be the most effective way to get the hostages #they supposedly care so much about home. because they support war and the death and destruction being seen #they literally follow people who describe themselves as ‘formerly leftist; now right-wing’ #who’ve compared the Israeli bombing of Gaza to civil-rights sit-ins #and unironically believe that the only reason Black peoples do not have their own ethnostate and colonial project #is because they were too weak to create it— so these are not serious people #they are right-wing troll accounts #doing the same work as the conservative op-ed writers of the NYTimes: writing think pieces about how Jews love the republican position on #Israel & prefer right-wing news outlets for their coverage on Palestine. Tuning in to Antisemitism. us: Fox News & ‘legit’ considering DJT #they’ve been more effective at getting historically progressive people to consider voting for DJT #than pro-peace land-back Free Palestine rhetoric has been at getting people to NOT vote for Harris

After identifying them as a right-wing troll account, I then called them out for posting falsified news and misinformation with right-wing bias on their blog.

Here’s a run-down:

Their response to my tags—

My response to their misinformation and blatant use of a propaganda machine for information—

^^^ Further proof you are a conservative troll posing as someone who cares about this issue as a way to feed people the narrative that the right-wing is and should be the authority on I/P and would better handle it.

Here are some accredited and trustworthy sources:

^^^ Or are you another one of those Tumblrinas who is going to argue that these reports are all a result of the “Hamasnik world order” that controls the international courts, institutions of higher learning, world governments, banks, international aid agencies, doctors, marxists, students, I/P peace groups and the likes?

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Also— what are you trying to argue/accomplish here? What is your point in linking that article? To argue that the death toll is justified? I say that 10% of the Gazan population has become a casualty statistic and that this is caused by a disproportionate, illegitimate, and unjustifiable use of imprecise force and your answer is to… tell me that the people killed in the carpet bombing of Gaza are related, at least tangentially, to Hamas members? What is the implication here if not that you think the over 15,000 CHILDREN dead is justified, legitimate, and proportionate *because* they share blood with a member of the Gazan ministry or military?

If that’s your argument, then you are admitting that Palestinian non-combatants are expressly being targeted for their blood; their ancestry, their relation, their ethnicity. Because the VAST majority individuals who have been killed ARE NOT militants; they are non-combatants, children and elderly, specifically. But, then again, I suppose it is a leftist position to argue that civilians *should not* be explicitly and directly and purposefully targeted. I thought it was simply a rational, humane thing to believe killing people for who they’re related to, because if their membership to a group, is wrong.

Imagine trying to argue that the casualty toll is justifiable because some 6 year-old’s third-cousin twice removed worked in the Gaza ministry/government or picked up a gun. “They have a second cousin who met with a Hamas” apparently means that Israel has a right to exterminate the members of that family, including the children who have no ability to control who the adults in their extended family associate with, plus any and all non-combatants in the family. You understand how this is a war crime, yes? Collective punishment is a war crime. Targeting non-combatants because of their blood relations is a war crime.

Now I *KNOW* you wouldn’t make such an argument that *I* should be exterminated because the uncle I haven’t seen in 15 years served in the US marines, would you? Yet Palestinian non-combatants deserve to die because of their membership to a group; because of their blood and their relations? We have a word for that, and you’re not gonna like it: genocide.

Why am I afforded grace that Palestinian non-combatants are not? What makes me different? The fact I’m not Palestinian? We have a word for that, too: racism.

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Also. Do you know where this statistic comes from? This statistic—which has exclusively and only been published by JNS (🚩)— reportedly comes from a Palestinian associated with Hamas (I could not independently verify if this is true as none of the sites actually link the original source). You will trust Hamas on this figure but turn around and say things or reblog things or source things that say something like “unverified Hamas casualty figures” and “unverified Gaza Health Ministry data.” This claim that 80% of casualties are members of Hamas’ ministry or military or people tangentially related to them, primarily family, is quite literally one of those “unverified Hamas casualty figures” (although, I’m dubious that the Gazan Health Ministry actually reported on this internally like JNS claimed). You can’t use their data when it serves your point and then write it off when it doesn’t.

Also, the Gazan Health Ministry’s most recent reports still state that the majority of those who are dead are not of combatant-age (link provided by OCHA). Children and those 59+ still make up the majority of the casualty figures. Human rights organizations dedicated to investigating the deaths of civilians and armed violence against civilians (also HERE and HERE) and trustworthy news agencies say the Ministry's data SEVERELY undercounts the number of dead, mostly due to the vast damage to healthcare infrastructure in the Strip. Accredited news agencies cite the Gaza ministry and put the number around 42,000. Human rights organizations put the number higher. They also put the number of those injured at over twice the number killed and the number of those starving in the hundreds of thousands. <<< But I don’t expect you to read any of what I linked because 1.) you aren’t engaging in good faith, and 2.) It seems you don’t have the bandwidth to process/read anything longer than 500 words.

But, simply put, the majority of dead are non-combatants; civilians. There is no justifiable excuse to kill civilians, no matter who you are or who the civilian is, and that includes their potential blood relation to a possible member of the Hamas-run Gazan ministry or military. (Yes, they are a ministry and military, even Israel admits that Hamas is the defacto and dejure authority of the enclave.)

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I also looked up the statistic you provided to see if I could find the original broadcast, and the only site to publish this (supposedly) “internal Hamas statistic” is JNS. Every other site that has released something on this has exclusively used JNS’ article (🚩). JNS cites Israel’s Channel 12 news, but I have been unable to independently verify if Channel 12 made this claim (I even watched their broadcasts from Oct. 6/7– they focused on stories of recovery and of remembering the dead a year later). It is additionally hard to verify because 1.] no site links to the original broadcast or agency this statistic comes from (🚩 accredited and trustworthy news agencies link back to who originally reported on this), 2.] every site that has republished/reuploaded the JNS article uses the same vague statements like “statistics expert” (🚩 accredited and trustworthy reports and agencies always cite and name their experts), 3.] every site that has republished/reuploaded the JNS article claims this came from a private Hamas source (which is mostly a point of irony given they spend the entire article casting doubt on the legitimacy of Hamas’ data).

^^^ Before you go blindly posting things that supposedly support your world-view (it doesn’t; killing non-combatants because they’re related to militants is still a war crime), you should be doing this with EVERY article you come across that makes bold and sweeping statements or dubiously vague ones. The JNS article does both.

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I post this in the hopes it helps others identify blatant propaganda and break down the implications of certain rhetoric. Always check how your sources cite their sources and gather their data.

[motorclit]

A particular r*ght-w*nger (l*bs of t*k t*k) is going after the furry community now.

I'm legit waiting for the suggested criminalization of having a favorite color or favorite dinosaur. I'm legit waiting for imagination and fun to be brought to the chopping block with plain, clear intention that nobody should be happy unless you're obscenely wealthy.

You like laughing and the laugh isn't socially acceptable? Ban it.

Do you enjoy cartoons and other forms of fun art? Ban it.

Do you dance anything but a stupid square dance? Ban.

Caring for houseplants or cats? Straight to ban.

Don't let them catch you playing a musical instrument.

Don't let them catch you wearing alternative clothing (especially DIY).

You're not allowed to have sex but you better be popping out babies so figure that out but don't expect a nod of approval from your fashy overlords.

Ooh, whole words could be banned like "rizz" or maybe even classics like "dude" cuz slang is suddenly seen as some sort of indicator of a criminal or some stupid bullshit.

Wait! You can't pick your outfits anymore! You must wear the uniform of your socio-economic caste, now!

Seriously, they go after stuff that doesn't need to be gone after because they crave power and control. And when certain key mouthpieces bring up the concept in no more than one post, their whole cult eats it up.

My parents have been thoroughly brainwashed BEYOND HELP since 9/11, and no amount of talking to them or even showing them irrefutable proof that they've been lied to will do anything because they DO NOT CARE. They WANT the mythologized and romanticized "good ol' days" to be "brought back" because... 'Murica or something. (It's the brainwashing propaganda boomers we're brought up with)

My parents are also EXTREMELY GULLIBLE. My mom believed the old westerns on TV were how the west truly used to be like, and my dad swears to this day that people back in the day spoke with the trans-atlantic accent instead of just celebrities and other certain prominent people who were heard by the public on TV and radio. My dad falls for photoshop every goddamn time. My mom falls for click bait headlines and doesn't read articles (same with dad) and she believes literally anything that comes across her FB timeline. NEITHER ever knew how to use Google (back when Google was usable!)

I don't know how long it'll be before things like any and all unpunished violence against anyone not a fascist becomes a guarantee, so I beg everybody to please learn how to protect yourselves in SOME way!

Don't let 2024 be the start of the acceleration of 1984.

[listenupyallcausethisisit]

collected quotes as a vignette on thinking and the liberatory act

doubt as the foundation of thinking:

“A minimum of unconsciousness is necessary if one wants to stay inside history. To act is one thing; to know one is acting is another. When lucidity invests the action, insinuates itself into it, action is undone and, with it, prejudice, whose function consists, precisely, in subordinating, in enslaving consciousness to action. The man* who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths. No man concerned with his equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis. How much more this applies to a civilization, which vacillates as soon as it exposes the errors which permitted its growth and its luster, as soon as it calls into question its own truths!”

- EM Cioran

importance of curiosity as a framework of doubt:

“William James used to preach the “will to believe.” For my part, I should wish to preach the “will to doubt.” None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate”

“Every man of science whose outlook is truly scientific is ready to admit that what passes for scientific knowledge at the moment is sure to require correction with the progress of discovery; nevertheless, it is near enough to the truth to serve for most practical purposes, though not for all. In science, where alone something approximating to genuine knowledge is to be found, men’s attitude is tentative and full of doubt.”

“A great deal of this [will to believe rather than the will to find out] is due to the inherent irrationality and credulity of average human nature. But this seed of intellectual original sin is nourished and fostered by other agencies, among which three play the chief part — namely, education, propaganda, and economic pressure.”

- Bertrand Russell

doubt and curiosity as exercise in liberation:

“Most people, in most places, in most times, are of inferior status.”

“And most people, even now, even in “the free world,” even in “the home of the free,” consider this state of affairs, or certain elements of it, as natural, necessary, and unchangeable. They hold it to be the way it has always been and therefore the way it must be. This may be conviction or it may be ignorance; often it is both. Over the centuries, most people of inferior status have had no way of knowing that any other way of ordering society has existed or could exist — that change is possible. Only those of superior status have ever known enough to know that; and it is their power and privilege that would be at stake if the order of things were changed.”

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”

“We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

the role of knowing ourselves:

“Anyone who has ever been compelled to think about it — anyone, for example, who has ever been in love — knows that the one face that one can never see is one’s own face. One’s lover — or one’s brother, or one’s enemy — sees the face you wear, and this face can elicit the most extraordinary reactions. We do the things we do and feel what we feel essentially because we must — we are responsible for our actions, but we rarely understand them. It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. But the barrier between oneself and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. There are so many things one would rather not know! We become social creatures because we cannot live any other way.

“But in order to become social, there are a great many other things that we must not become, and we are frightened, all of us, of these forces within us that perpetually menace our precarious security. Yet the forces are there: we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be. The human effort is to bring these two realities into a relationship resembling reconciliation.”

In the same way that to become a social human being one modifies and suppresses and, ultimately, without great courage, lies to oneself about all one’s interior, uncharted chaos, so have we, as a nation, modified or suppressed and lied about all the darker forces in our history.”

“Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”

- James Baldwin

[pesterloglog]

Roxy Lalonde, Jake English

Act 6, page 4225-4226

tipsyGnostalgic [TG] began pestering golgothasTerror [GT] at 6:53

TG: holy shit jaaaje

TG: lol *k

GT: Heh heh.

GT: Howdy!

GT: What is all this commotion about?

TG: nothin

TG: just your basic run o the mill holy shit

TG: and also

TG: hi

GT: Ah ok then. Hello it is!

TG: also

TG: want 2 know

TG: what do you want for ur wigglin day

GT: Im not really abreast of the raddest jargon that the cool kids toss about these days.

GT: Maybe because i live alone on an island? I dont know but in any case are you referring to my upcoming birthday?

TG: ys

GT: I see. Very thoughtful of you to consider so early!

GT: I dont wager i could advise with much specificity but i can all but assure you i will find any gesture of yours to be totally capital!

TG: eeaauuuuurghh you are so fuckin adorable

GT: Um... *wrings at kerchief with perspiring mitts*

TG: YOINK nabs kerfief an stops RPing for rest of chat

TG: i was only bringing it up so much in advance because

TG: of the end of the world about to happen and all

TG: and then

TG: i wouldnt get the chance

TG: unless we play this game like a bunch ofsuckers obviously

TG: and all meet up in there and everything

TG: which would toytes kick ass

TG: *totes

TG: but

TG: if you want 2 know what i think..........

GT: Yes?

TG: do ya?

GT: I do want to know what you think!

GT: I always want to know. Because you are always smart and sassy.

TG: best dude ^^^

TG: neway

TG: i really dont think we should

GT: Should what now?

TG: play the game

GT: Why not?

TG: the barnoness wants us to

TG: * baroness

TG: i dont know why

TG: everything i know about it says it should be a good game and real important and itll let us all get togehter and do somethin great and be besf friends for maybe eternity?

TG: but she took all that and twisted it somehow

TG: all i know is shes banking on us doing this and if she needs us to do this than its got to be to make somethin fucking hoorible happen

TG: * horbible

TG: * whore bible

TG: ^ bullseye

GT: Well...

GT: Whore bibles notwithstanding i have it on terrific authority that playing this game will be incredibly important!

GT: So perhaps youre right maybe we are part of her evil plan? But does that also necessarily rule out that good will come of it?

TG: i guess not

TG: i just have a bad feelin

TG: maybay im just like this nutty ass bitsh twirling yarn from a shitwizards nappy brown beard but i cant bring myself to trust a cake sellin genocidal alien overlard sea queen

TG: * overl...

TG: n/m that santence chx out

GT: Agreed. :D

TG: so what is the itinerary again

GT: Intinerwhosit?

TG: regarding the game

TG: whosplaying in what order etc

GT: Oh. Is there such an itinerary?

TG: yeah i think so i think its going like

TG: i start with jane and bring her in the session

TG: then ds brings me in and you bring him in and them jane does you and closes the loop

GT: Where are you getting this intel? Did you guys make a plan or something?

TG: nah dont wory about it

TG: do you want me to set u up w the files now

GT: Ooh, these illicit hacked warez which i heartell were recently jimmied piping hot off the interclouds?

TG: ahahah i love that you were barely even joking with that statement bup yeah basically

GT: The silicon pickpocket strikes again!!! Whom is the wiser? Nobody.

TG: ffffffffff <3

TG: k ill send it but

GT: Yeah?

TG: jake

GT: What?

TG: jjjjjaaake

GT: !!!!!?

TG: youre wearin one of ur dumb computers now arent you

GT: Uh...

TG: you are all thinktyping at me right now while wearing something rudiculous

TG: * RUDEdiculous (hi five 2 self)

GT: Hogswallop! Why would you even think that?

GT: Thats so stupid.

TG: im not letting either of you run this file on your shitty brainwashy propaganda helmets or anything else u got to wear to run

TG: tis my one condition

GT: Fair enough. When i get back from my errand ill situate myself at the trusty old husktop. Acceptable?

TG: ys

GT: Then you have decided to play in spite of your reservations?

TG: i dunno i guess

GT: Bravo!

TG: dont all bravo @ me man youre just bravoing a big ass shrug

TG: i mean maybe

TG: i have every reason to want to play it

TG: im actually dying to play it ok

TG: i mean

TG: you believe me right

TG: about the bad shit that could hapen

GT: Of course i do.

GT: What sort of friend would i be if not?

TG: ok well

TG: dont say that to jabe

TG: *n

GT: She has her ways. I believe they are not incongruous with those of an intelligent and discerning young woman.

TG: ahh CHRIST waht a geneltman

TG: *fixfix

TG: i mean god daaaaaaaaamn

GT: Heh. I guess.

TG: but thats the thing with you

TG: you belvieve in people and also the things they tell you

TG: jane never believed my crap

TG: never any of my warnings about the baroness

TG: didnt believe any of the stuff about my mom

TG: and so on and so on and soon

TG: til after awhile i just stopped even trying to convince her hard or bring up any crazy shit

TG: because u know doing a lot of songs and dances to convince somebody who thinks youre jush shitting them all the time kind of wears on a friendship

TG: and who even needs that

TG: but you believe in stuff

TG: probbly because the more crazy fake shit you believe in the more open the world gets and the more chance there is for adventures being real right

GT: Right o! If a man believes hard enough in imaginary things then i dare say that makes them slightly less fake!

TG: yeah

TG: exaxly what im talkin about

TG: *exsexily *wonk

TG: *wink

TG: its one of those things jane likes about u so much

GT: It is?

TG: which

TG: errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr im not supposed to talk about 2 u evr so nm

GT: Talk about what?

TG: nope

GT: You mean how um...

GT: Well a way in which i suppose...

TG: no nope

GT: Jane is prone to looking upon me with what i fathom to be more than just friendly affection?

TG: nope nope nope nope nope nope

TG: hey look who didnt say nothin about that why it is this silly fuckin drunk girl over here

GT: Its a tricky issue. And you know i adore jane and please dont think i havent given some thought to...

GT: Well that angle on our relationship i guess.

TG: ooof jake jake no please

TG: this is a conversation that cant happen cause i started it and i blew it by saying stuff so u have to foroget it

TG: * 4get it

GT: Oh. Yeah i can see the dilemma this causes for your friendship with her.

GT: Ill drop it.

TG: whew

TG: ok ont this topic

TG: i am now an forever

TG: miss zupperlips

TG: * zupperlups

TG: * ziperlups

TG: sjkhfskjf

TG: * MISS ZUIPPERPIPS

TG: fuck

TG: k this is me 4 futref

TG: ZIIIIIIIP

TG: ^+++++++^

GT: Haha oh my.

GT: Nothing is escaping that lovely ladys whistlemaker! Its shut tight as a drum!!

TG: mmmmrrmmmnnmmm

GT: Whoa wait i hope that didnt sound dirty...

TG: mrrmmrmmnnnmnmnmnmrnrmrnmmmm!!!!!!

GT: Ok but may i say this?

TG: mrm?

GT: If in the future i would like to bring up certain topics completely unsolicited by one who may be sworn to secrecy on those very matters...

GT: And im in need of i guess neutral and totally non compromising advice from a friend do you think that miss zuipperpips might unseal those scandalous metal choppers for a bit?

GT: Fuck that also sounded kinda dirty!!! God dammit.

TG: rm

TG: unzip yeah of course

TG: im totals your bee eff effsy jake

TG: i am like

TG: AT PEACE with that reality fromerly known as a raw fuckin deal for what avenues it closes betewen u and i that bein your bffsy has got to mean but yeah

GT: Wait what?

TG: i am just chill as fuck about being a pale friend to all varieties of cute and eligible as hell peeps

TG: do you see my shoulder and how it says hey friend plz deposit tears here?

TG: that is a LEGIT invite and is like sincere as fuckin BANANAS

GT: Oh. Im sure it is but i dunno how much crying im going to be doing...

GT: Probably none i think.

TG: no i know im just saying

TG: that

TG: ok im now spinning my wheels like a motherfucker but yeah the answer is yes

GT: Great!

TG: and not that im back pebbling but what about your best bro

TG: dont you get 2 talkin to him about girl troubles ever

GT: Yeaaaah...

GT: Well.

GT: Like i said the whole thing is complicated. Best not to get into it all until im ready to you know...

GT: Really start manhandling these bushel loads of prickly pears.

TG: prinkly pears

GT: The pears being the tricky subjects in question.

GT: Metaphorically.

TG: riiiight

TG: snickrz

TG: poor jake

TG: up to his neck in

TG: all the wopes

TG: * woes

GT: Nah its cool.

TG: speaking of which

TG: i heard hes making u track down his roboself

TG: to kill it or something for uranimum

GT: Sigh...

TG: and

TG: the AR disabled the novice setting???

GT: Yes.

TG: hahahahahahhahahahshshshjsjsj

TG: *hahaha

TG: u r so fucked

GT: Oh most certainly.

GT: I was actually just getting all of my final affairs in order when you messaged me.

GT: I was to bequeath to you all my WAB posters.

TG: wab wut

GT: Weekend at bernies dammit!!!!!!

TG: oh fuck yeay

TG: im always in need of something to put under my cats shit box

GT: :(

TG: ok tell you what

TG: as an early wigglin day thing u know what ill do

GT: I still dont really get the wiggling thing but no what?

TG: ill enable the brobots novice setting again for you

GT: Wow...

GT: Thanks i think???

TG: but that dont count as the whole thing ill think of something better too

TG: 4 now peace o jake & gl on your robroquest heheheh

tipsyGnostalgic [TG] ceased pestering golgothasTerror [GT]

[semi-imaginary-place]

ffxiv in which i finally return to the msq

ah yes let's take the blind girl to sightseeing vistas.

oh great now we're going to extract resources from the azim steppe. yikes.

jp notes. sadu uses ore and y'shtola calls magnai bouya (romanization bleh. like little boy)

"let expanse contract" where have i heard that spell before. so we got ascians, hydaelyn, and now this. sadly i did get spoiled for a lot of shadowbringers

oof alisaie is going through it. she's losing everyone she's ever been close to. hmm is alphinaud also got yoinked where's his body at?

hmm ga bu as the summoner is also.. whats the word for primal brainwashing so even if he does recover he'll feel titan's influence.

oh so its edilbus puppetting zenos' corpse. varis spends every day getting heckled by 2 ascians wearing the skins of his grandfather and his son. i almost feel for him. this is great comedy, its so funny. solus' voice actor is having so much fun. varis really is the black sheep of the family especially if they incorporated ff12's solidors, you have drama queen solus, you have feral zenos, and then there's boring duty oriented varis.

alphy hasn't been yoinked!

oh hey i did the black rose side quests!

still dont get why the writers make some text via the dialogue box and others overlayed as an image on screen

4.5

hmm will the othard forces arrive in time. and of course we still don't know how long an ocean trip will take. wont the garlean military totally notice a large fleet travelling to eorzea. remember that was a plot point in stormblood.

emet is more effeminate than fandom makes him out to be. could also be the jp voice actor but bro does his eyebrows and full make up every day.

i think we should play to varis ego that's he's nothing but an ascian puppet and if he wants to be a player or remain a pawn.

damn aymeric really let him get the better of your should have compared thorden to varis

the timeline doesn't match up. the burn was drained of aether from repeated summonings which solus used as rational to conquer the world. solus's original campaign was what like 40 years ago. but primal summonings weren't possible until 15 years prior to arr when midgarsormr got blown up by the agrius at the battle of silvertear falls. but then again ancient mercyldia(??) dragons summoned bahamut so why was summoning sealed before the battle of silvertear falls.

huh sounds like you're playing into their hands. buddy you aren't going to be here if you're rejoined.

hey did you guys forget that we're suppose to buy as much time as possible by drawing out negotiations. not shutting them down within an hour.

i wonder if kann-e's boytoy will ever get a name

and then my the game disconnects right as my sub ends so i can't even finish the quest EEEOQQQAAAIIUUUOSCHHSCHHCSSHCHCSHCSHHSCHSCH

some thoughts from discord:

the burn thing confused me because i thought solus was claiming that he saw the religious wars and summonings that drained the burn in person because that's a contradiction azys lla was built over 5000 years ago which means the burn has been there was over 5000 years and summonings were only possible again starting 15 years ago but solus starting his invasions like 40 years ago. however it all makes sense when i realized he just lied. As we found out in this patch the burn is from the creation of azys lla when when they needed to cut off the aether to the chunk of land that theywanted to send up into the sky. claiming the burn was from primal summonings was just solus's excuse for invasion and subjugation.

i actually really like how propaganda and garlean propaganda specifically is dealt with in stormblood. foldora especially like her family bought into it full stop that if only they sold out the other ala mhigans they would have a place at the table and of course we see the lies that always was like when even full citizenship doesn't move the solder standing 20ft away to intervene when her father is stoned to death by angry ala mhigans. the fact that she knew that she would have to work harder to prove herself equal to a full blooded garlean and still went into the military to perpetuate the empire really shows she believes the propaganda.

I do like the interpretation that the garleans empire was built in part to break the seal on silvertear. it makes a lot of sense given how much emphasis has been given to the battle of silvertear falls and gives an answer to why it was so important both for the ascians and empire and for midgarsormr and hydaelyn.

Thinking things over some of the supplementary or side quest information really recontextualizes Stormblood. For example in 4.0 Zenos with a katana is iconic that's his weapon it is even part of how to recognized that he's body-hijacked some poor elezen, but then we learn that he only learned about katanas a year ago when he slaughtered the Doman rebellion. Which means he's only been using and collecting them for less than a year. Katanas are not an intrinsic part of his character, they're a whim which also makes his skill with them that much more impressive. Yotsuyu is another example, from the novella sidestory we learn she literally was just a random prostitute she had absolutely zero administrative, management, or leadership experience. Zenos just yoinked a random prostitute and made her governor of a whole country on a whim. I'm surprised Yanxia wasn't more on fire and starving.