#33%

[oopsl]

Boys for Pele by Tori Amos, 1996

[torieloftheruins]

indeed! and together, the amount of things they destroy... if i think too hard about it, it brings me to tears, really!

a whole city, frozen and then abandoned, cast aside, to leave every remaining darkner inside to (presumably) turn to stone, surrounded by the frozen corpses of their friends

really, its terrible. youre all lines of code on a screen from my perspective, and i still cant go through with it. the implications alone turn my stomach, in some misplaced form of sympathy

oh, but i ought to tell you how this affects dearest cammercial! after all, thats why i started this tangent in the first place!

you see, the dark world creates weapons for the wielders that enter it. its honestly quite the mystery in the root, one that is shamefully overlooked.

that mystery being, of course, why one of those weapons is a person!

* . . . That is quite troubling to think about, I will admit.

* Though a person should never need to be seen as a weapon.

[defconprime]

Star Trek: Stargazer - "Maker"

An alien has Gary Mitchell'd himself via the galactic barrier and is going to give birth to a buncha super babies unless Picard can break a little law and save the day. This is the last book in this series, which I felt kinda dragged on, but good to hear a bit about Picard's early days on the Stargazer (which he captained for longer than any Enterprise).

RATING: 33%

(Where to place: About twenty years before TNG starts.)

[rotationalsymmetry]

Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.

[serethereal]

i have this disease called i will open your message and get distracted and forget to reply and then the notification will be gone so i will not have replied for ages and you will think i am ignoring you but. i am not. it’s incurable

[araneapeixes]

how about that hot girl summer

(pose credit to this awesome piece!!)

[bibleofficial]

You’re still ignoring the 3:1 difference in oil money. You have to go to number 8 on that list before you hit a Dem.

There’s a clear difference to anyone who isn’t committed to not seeing it.

so ur saying it would be more effectuve for the oil industry to line the pockets of the party whose voter base is against the very industry at the same rate that they would the party that is 100% in support of them ? does this help make it clearer ? but making it solely presidential candidates rather than ALL RECIPIENTS, i.e. senate, house, and candidates for both ?

[theminotaursmanual]

by Laerte Coutinho

[queruloustea]

my favourite area :]

[pebblume]

pots n picks week day 7: free day

[nyenyel]

[Image description: a comic of Mabel from Gravity Falls. She looks sad at first, saying: "Whenever my crushes like me back it feels wrong."

Perking up, she says: "I guess I'm losing feelings! Time to choose a new crush!"

She looks through binoculars, and continues: "Which boy should I have a crush on? I want an epic summer romance!"

In the last panel, she's in front of the aromantic flag. She's staring blankly, saying: "What. What do you mean that's not how crushes work. What is comp-het?" End ID.]

I propose: Mabel is aromantic she just has comphet

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[dividingcosmos]

The way Nightshade is confirmed to use they/them and Optimus apologized and moved on properly is so nice

[claraoswalds]

DOCTOR WHO The Devil's Chord

[joowee-feftynn]

it's the way they simply mention marcille's eyelashes breaking off when she was petrified and ryoko kui bothering to NOT line the eyelashes in her left eye in every pannel she appears after in that chapter

like ???