#24 reasons

[grantwilson]

we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

[arrgh-whatever]

a little comic about my (and Pauk's) Skyrim experience

[eeveekitti]

wqould i be burned at the stake if i stylized him

[f1-stuff]

Austin GP '24 // 📸 by Song Haiyuan & Kym Illman

[reineydraws]

bruce: dick i love that you want to stay connected to your past as an acrobat but can u PLEASE sit NORMALLY while we have this meeting

(poses from aaron tveit's version of "mein herr")

[dnfcliparchive]

dream liked this tweet!

[yorkiepooh]

Edit: hey so I've been scrolling through my likes to find something unrelated to this but during that I happen to come across art from spophiearts of the exact same joke so I must have seen it and then saved that in my subconscious, credits to them I'm sorry for accidentally stealing 😭

[royalarchivist]

Pac: Are you saying this about your roommate, Jotinha? You guys are roommates, you know that, right?

JV: Yeah, we just don't have any rooms in the house.

Pac: But you're roommates, and that's a very strong thing. I had a roommate in the past.

JV: What happened?

Pac: He died. He died.

[uncanny-tranny]

It is my sincerest and unironic belief that we must invest in preserving "old technology." The more we move to a hegemonic, easily-surveilled way of living, the worse we will find this world to be.

Letters, public phones and transport, cash, and so much more are key to ensuring both freedom of movement and information, but also to combat the surveillance state. We need to preserve the ability to both access the world but also to be untraceable. I truly hope more people start to recognize this. It isn't about nostalgia for the past. It is about ensuring that we are actually afforded freedom, from the richest person to the person who lives on the sidewalk.

[egophiliac]

This may be rude, but im so confused what Sebek's UM is. Is it like an electric ribbon? Or like a force field?

yeah, normally they explain them a little more clearly! my read on it is that he's, like, charging himself up with electricity (or maybe he becomes electricity?) until he's just a big Sebek-shaped lightning bolt. it seems like he needs direct contact to zap people, although it's also possible that "physically run at Silver while screaming" is Sebek's default solution to everything.

this didn't turn out as relevant as I thought it was going to be when I drew it, but have some Sebek doing a stunning theatrical performance anyway:

[unlimitedbutchworks]

“im 24 and went to Smith College” aside please be honest did this actually happen or is your persecution complex just that jealous of transfems? when that one guy invalidated your lesbianism how many of your friends were backing you up? do you know how many usually are on a trans woman’s side when her lesbianism is called into question? which of these is constantly apologized for and excused in community? answer quickly

[harbingersecho]

"zuzu, you didn't tell your friends about me? i'm hurt."

[and-his-hands-were-24-crows]

NOT. TALKING.

Three seasons, three variations on everybody's favorite renewal joke. Thank you everybody who joined me today. It's been a normal one.

[mysterycitrus]

i think isolating the bats from their teams and external support systems is like….. functionally bad. like wdym red hood is on dicks speeddial but his actual soulmate donna troy isn’t. why is everyone in gotham. why do these people have no friends

[doydoune]

the worst day of their lives so far, but the night is quiet

[trans-jon-rights]

Hey how about we talk about Sam and Alice right now. Just real quick. I have things to say about them.

I've seen a few takes since the latest episode came out stating that Sam is being an asshole for no reasons to Alice, that he should believe her when she says the things are real, etc.

Well I don't believe that's entirely true.

First, Sam and Alice are exes. Meaning they have a history together, and something that led to them breaking up. They are introduced to us as such, and while their dynamic had mostly been a s3 JonGeorgie friendly exes situation at the beginning, this has clearly changed.

Alice is friendly to Sam, yes, but at a certain point, she starts having an ulterior motive for her friendship. Not a completely bad or malevolent one, but clearly, it's an ulterior motive : she wants to keep Sam away from the Magnus Institute. She probably did not anticipate that this job would make his obsession with the place surge up, and now she tries to keep him out of it.

Alice coming with him to the ruins of the Institute in episode 10 is clearly about bringing an end to Sam's research; she hoped to find nothing, they did exactly that, and she also tried to steer him away from anything weird when it might have happened. When Sam finds the key, she tells him to try, yes, but when it doesn't work, she tells him to stop and get out, while Sam instead starts breaking planks of rotten wood to get in.

When Sam doesn't drop it, she confronts him about it, telling him it's nor healthy and doing her best to stop him, even going as far as deleting a case about the Institute from his computer in episode 21. I don't think she tries to steer him away from Celia entirely out of jealousy, I think she tries to steer him away from Celia because she knows Celia would encourage his tendencies to look for answers about the Institute -- which she does !

So yes, Sam is being an asshole to Alice. But clearly, Alice isn't innocent, and I suspect her doing things behind Sam's back in order to protect him isn't a first, and probably is the reason for their breakup.

Then, in the most recent episode, Sam denies Alice's concerns about the dangerousity of things. I think that's valid from him.

While we, listeners, know that this time, Alice is genuinly believing something is going on and trying to keep Sam safe, Sam doesn't have that context. He didn't overhear Alice trying to comfort Gwen, then admitting things are really dangerous. For Sam, the last bit of context there is is Alice deleting a case from his computer, one that contained important answers for him (he doesn't know which, but he is sure there are). And before that, Alice has basically been dismissive of the supernatural occurences the whole time. If I were in Sam's place, I'd just assume Alice is trying to manipulate me by saying things are dangerous in order to get me to listen to her. To him, she would say anything to convince him not to go to the Institute or seek answers.

So no, in my opinion, Sam isn't being an asshole for no reasons. He isn't acting nicely towards Alice, but she clearly did things to merit what's happening to her.