#Adventures in Conspiracy
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{10.07.2024 + 10.08.2024}
Fav coworker is at Disneyland.
She literally left on a plane after our last shift together.
To add insult to the left behind, the last night of my work week was spent with the coworker that allows for no personal productivity.
...and he was on a roll, having just come off his rest days.
Democrats control the weather and Helene was engineered to provide access to resources inside the mountains.
Lasers from China are the reason for California wildfires.
'Illegals' in California are 'voting' conservative because they've escaped the communism of Cuba.
[He saw a FB reel from the Republican National Convention where someone made a big deal about 169 delegates being pledged to Trump from California. He took this to mean the most liberal state in the union is going conservative. A quick Google shows Kamala got 482 delegates from California, so...]
...and then, somehow, re: J6 -- it's entirely possible that the "mob" was 'peaceful,' it's a matter of interpretation', and Trump waiting hours to address the issue wasn't problematic, he shouldn't have addressed it at all, just let it play out.
Me: So, just let them assassinate an entire joint session of Congress?
Him: ... Where were the Capitol Police?
The irony of wanting to wrap my hands around his neck...
Liz says there's no place for violence in our politics.
Liz says there's no place for violence in our politics.
Liz says there's no place for violence in our politics.
Lord help me.
He started in about how there was an 'election' in North Carolina that resulted in the people voting against mining in the mountains and how it's 'really convenient' that those people lost their homes a few months later.
This, of everything, I found somewhat worth fact checking.
[I had not, at any point, indicated that there *would not* be fact checking. 😂]
I Googled 'North Carolina vote against mining.'
Coworker was *not* impressed by the first result:
CBS: Hurricane Helene Conspiracy Theories About Lithium Mining, Weather Control Spread Widely
Searching among those results for something 'unbiased:'
PBS: Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories Cloud Helene Recovery Efforts in Hard-Hit Areas
He came back with: "But who is donating to PBS?" ... VIEWERS LIKE YOU, SIR.
Ultimately, maybe the 'election' he heard about was a 'poll.'
Alternatively, maybe all the evidence of that 'election' and its results have been scrubbed from the internet. They can do that, you know.
He also said the $750 in immediate emergency funds to displaced individuals was insulting. When I explained that wasn't the extent of the aid being offered and asked what he would consider 'not insulting,' he said he didn't think the government should be giving any money at all.
Churches should be helping the people, he said. Then he went off on a tangent about how FEMA has no right to attempt to gather, organize, and direct resources.
Basically, whatever you do, it's going to be wrong.
I tried to interject that the Republican Governor of North Carolina has said publicly, many times, when asked about Trump's claims that aid isn't forthcoming due to impacted areas being 'red,' that Biden was in touch from the beginning and said whatever was needed would be provided, they just needed to ask.
Coworker: Why isn't he there?!
Me: He's an 80 year old man. You want him to contribute physically?
Coworker: He's the President! He should be there!
Me: Are you familiar with the resources necessary to support a Presidential motorcade?
Coworker: No.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Not that he would have pulled a Trump and tossed paper towels at hurricane victims, but Biden has actually been praised for having the insight to stay away from the impacted area for the time being.
You can't reason with folks like this, though.
Thankfully, I finished Issue 4 the previous night. (I miss you, fav! 😢)
I found the second half much more entertaining - my mind engages more effectively when I disagree with what I'm reading.
I also decided, given that I chose to pay $250 for the subscription [and 250 points towards purchasing Bar Prep materials that I won't need for like, 7 years, if ever, and am not likely to purchase from Quimbee, anyway], to see what Quimbee had to say about the relevant cases.
[Much] later, I got my Covid and Flu vaccines...and the now traditional iced coffee reward. This time a Caramel Apple Iced Latte.
About an hour ago I received an e-mail informing me that my manager has submitted her Letter of Recommendation. 🙌🙌
I'm so relieved that, if I wasn't completely mentally spent, I might actually cry. 🤣
For now, I'm gonna crash soon - for probably about 12 hours (that's what happened last time and why we get our vaccines on our rest days) and hopefully wake up refreshed, inoculated and prepared to submit law school applications before vacation so that I can actually enjoy the trip! 🙌
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I don't get to talk about feminism in real life, because it's not an accepted topic here, it's an 'evil harpy movement' still, despite it getting women the right to vote, own property, own a bank account, be able to be paid for work. The consenus is that normal women don't need to be feminists, we already have the right to vote so what more could we possibly want. I do get to talk with young women about it! When I have some teenagers or young adult women in my life, I am telling them all about it, showing them all the violence statistics, instructing them on all possible methods of abortion, and they are genuinely stunned to gain this information they've never had access to before.
But yesterday, I was at plant lady's house, and I breached the topic of feminism, because I had just entered a feminist book club, and joined a little group of croatian radfems, so I was all up in my ideas about it. And I love the plant lady, she's a beloved figure in my life, but she is both against feminism, and a huge fan of conspiracy theories. So when I started talking about feminism, she interrupted me to tell me that she heard that women, are not in fact, responsible for feminism, but it's actually males in power that are pulling the strings. I explained that we don't even allow m*n to participate in what we do, but she was sure she's right, because, males in power thought it would be cool for women to have jobs and pay taxes, so they invented feminism, to collect more taxes and have more workers. And I knew I couldn't argue her about it because conspiracy theories exist to null every argument against them, right, no matter what I say, she'll have a more incredible explanation. So instead I changed the topic to the problems of sexual violence against women, domestic violence, normalization of pedophilia, and treatment of women like objects due to rampant pornography.
And she's like, no, that doesn't happen, most people are normal and have normal marriages and treat women normally, and these problems, are not the problems of 'feminism', these are things everyone is against – and I say no they're not, m*n don't care, they don't fight against any of it, in fact they're the perpetrators of 90% of these crimes. Then she launches into a story of an abused woman who refused to leave her husband because she loved him. I explain to her that this is incredibly common and it's called 'cycle of abuse', and we can resolve this by teaching women very early on about this cylce, that it can easily happen to them no matter what kind of husband they choose, and to recognize the signs early, before it comes to worst, and for women who are going trough it, they need all this euducation too. What is happening currently is nobody is talking about it and we pretend it doesn't exist and then victim-blame women when they get abused. Most abused women don't even recognize they're being abused because they're being isolated and told it's their own fault. Then she launched into another story about a woman who she knows was battered who escaped. Then she mentioned another situation she knew with a violent husband, and another with a drunk one. And I'm listening to her like. Hey. You said this doesn't even happen, that it's incredibly rare, but you personally know this many cases? And you know me, I've been living in violence too, remember?
And she just looks at me. Realizing for a second that it's not that rare. She didn't argue with me. She previously really thought about each and every case she knew as an outlier, something so improbable and rare that it wasn't really a social problem. She told me then, that we can't really help these people, because police only makes it worse, so what do we even do. I told her it's important that we talk about it, that we offer resources and teach women early on to recognize abuse, and to make a point of not blaming women for it, to make it clear any male could do it to them at any point, to be ready for it, to reconsider marrying, to have a separate bank account, to never let their survival and housing be completely dependant on a male.
I also indulged her to think why women can find themselves in these situations in the first place? If we're so equal, how come it's possible women don't have anywhere to go to, and need to stay in the abusers house to just survive. I said it has something to do with parents usually leaving their houses and properties to sons, and expecting daughters to move into their husbands places, and she again said 'no this doesn't happen', and I went 'well why don't these abused women just move into their own houses they inherited from their parents' and she again, had no arguments. It's not the sole reason though, women earn less too, get less promotions, get paid less for the same job, still mostly do unpaid labour, dedicate a big part of their life to raising children on their own, they don't get to accumulate funds and properties in the same ways m*n do.
Anyway, while we were having this entire conversation, her 18yo daughter was there, listening to us, and miraculously, she seemed to agree with me! When the plant lady claimed 'there's so many normal ones out there', the daughter interrupted to say 'no mom, there's no normal m*n out there, I can't find anyone normal', and I immediately supported her claim with agreement. I was so happy to be a little feminist influence on her and to validate her point! She was also wearing a shirt that said 'grl pwr' and I was like 'yes this is great' even though it's just a liberal catchphrase, it's still a sign of wanting women to have power in the world that doesn't believe a word they say.
I think the type of attitude the plant lady has is extremely common for women in our country, in fact she was very receptive to what I was saying. She knew about this many cases of domestic abuse, because she was often the safe person for these women to tell, and she has been helping the ones who escaped, me included.
Most women I know will launch in defense of males and trashing of women as soon as you mention feminism, because it's the only socially accepted thing to do. I believe we all have women in our lives who are not malicious or terribly ignorant, but affected by the mainstream beliefs that women are asking for too much, already have everything, and are at fault for everything that happens to them; this is incredibly pervasive and impossible to debate in a conversation. It's so ingrained in women to go against anything that makes m*n look bad, it's almost considered a sin and a hate crime to even think this way. Like something a bad, selfish, bitter, irrational and greedy woman would do, and nobody wants to be dubbed that. I remember thinking this way myself when I was a teen; I wanted to hold males responsible so bad, but the shame of being seen as this hateful and bitter person was getting to me, to the point where I would silent down and not speak out.
I used to get so angry at anti feminists, and would avoid indulging with the topic because it would irritate me so much, but I've gained more understanding as I go on, and can now tolerate the opposing arguments when I know they've come from propaganda and social pressure, rather than ignorance or hunger for approval. I'm more effective being able to indulge a little! Not a lot though. If I spent a lot of my time trying to argue with anti-feminists I would in fact, wither and die.
#me every day: what about domestic violence#am i posting too much about domestic violence?#no its because the rest of the planet isnt bringing it up enough#i have to pick up the slack#radical feminism#feminism#domestic violence#anti feminists#conspiracy theories#male abusers#trying to share feminism in croatia#deadly adventure#but someones gotta do it
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okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is
#dimension 20#fantasy high junior year#not art#fhjy spoilers#its!!! gods I will Be My Ass in the tags rn. but thats so like. deliciously setting typical#like porter's desire is to transcend and his contempt for the world he's in feels. idk Real#like he plays the game bc he wants to win and be done with it. how do I word this#yknow. being a god would like. be his win state. when he gets that happening thats it his story is done he checks out#meanwhile the bad kids do actually just like playing the game lmao. like they love adventuring!#theyre so solidly Of This World. they carry the values that can only be born of it and they like having mastery over it#its a meta angle that I think is very fun specifically for d20 being in such a unique position in the zeitgeist when it first started#the rat grinders are from DnD Writ Large. porter wants to escape. but this is the bad kids' home its Their Actual Play Show#which makes it so fucking excellent to me that porter's question is somewhat of merit! its their show and it tries very hard to punish them#and they just straight up dont listen to him here lmao bc they hate him but! since the moment the academic track ended its been clear#that they save the world bc they Like Playing. With Each Others#thats what riz thinks the core of adventuring is! thats why fig stayed! and I also think thats why this hovers over elmville now and#a dead god is coming back in the school gym. porter is a shit evangelist but even if hes a good one I dont think it wouldve worked like he#wants it to. the only way he couldve escaped is if he'd not involved elmville at all. thats where the bad kids met dude#its a shitty place that fucks with them but they all come back here bc they wanna play with each others#and in that regard I think thats what the stress tokens ultimately means. Is This Game Still Fun To Play. ITS A RAGEQUIT LIMIT#Im literally running from one end to another of this conspiracy board Ive pulled out of nowhere#Ill draw after this I just wanna get this out. gods this episode has done nothing but furthering my delusion of grandeur actually#Im the hottest smartest manthing on earth Im king fucking midas over here. anyways uh! great ep!
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Everytime I listen to the Ancient Rome Sidequest it destroys me emotionally. But who knows, maybe somewhere there's a world where nothing terrible happens and it's just Sasha and Grizzop having fun adventures in ancient Rome.
#like Sasha and Grizzop stab Ceasar or they investigate a conspiracy around any prominent Roman guy#something like that#That's probably just me being nostalgic cause I read a lot of books like that as a kid#But I just want them to be okay and have some fun adventures together#The first episode of the sidequest was so much fun I need a fic where it just continues like that#I'd say I'd write that myself but it would probably become an ancient rome infodump#Anyway if anyone cares the window thing on the left belongs to one of those ancient roman “fast food” places#I saw a bunch of them in Pompeii and I think they're really cool#The painting on the wall below is also inspired by a fast food shop found there#The houses are supposed to be insulae which were apartment houses where most people were living#Those are your ancient rome funfacts for the day I guess#rusty quill gaming#rqg#rqg fanart#sasha rackett#sasha racket#grizzop drik acht amsterdam#fanart#art
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I've seen people talk before about how zipper man has no eyes because bucciaraiti hates seeing all the awful in the mafia/ world in general but nobody talk about how the zippers themselves are metaphors for him having to hold himself together through someone's death because he had no choice and now he pieces (zips) others back together because that's just what he learned ok bye
#i swear im not a conspiracy theorist im just looking way too deep into this#jjba#jojos bizarre adventure#jojo no kimyou na bouken#vento aureo#golden wind#bruno bucciarati
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okay so yk how I said Jimmy would make a great semi-oblivious shoujo anime protag? well here's my proof! lookit him! he was built for it!
SO much "I can fix them, I can save them from themselves" energy just to be met with "I will crush mountains and boild seas to have him, we will rule this scorched earth together" shot right back at him from both sides
(also I know Kara's eyes are blue canonically, but Kryptonians seem to change eye colour alot based on their power usage so I headcanon that her eyes would be a bright glowy red bc of how often she uses her more destructive powers)
#maws#super science shipping#super science friends#super conspiracy science#is that too wordy?#jimmy x lex#jimmy olsen#jimmy olsen superman#maws jimmy olsen#my adventures with superman jimmy#jimmy olsen x lex luthor#maws lex luthor#my adventures with superman lex#lex luthor#lutholsen#luthorxolsen#kara x lex x jimmy#kara x jimmy#kara zor el#maws kara#crackship#ot3#otp#shoujo au#love triangle#or they're poly#enemies to lovers#if anyone writes fic about them i'll die#then read it from the grave
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2nd Doctor adventures: Conspiracy of Raven yayy
#the 1 art#doctor who#big finish#doctor who audios#2nd doctor adventures#conspiracy of raven#doctor who big finish#Raven Doctor Who#2nd Doctor#second Doctor#doctor who fanart
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Spoilers for episode 6 below!
I think my favorite things about episode 6 of MAWS is the fact that Jimmy didn't figure out that Clark was Superman. No no, Jimmy got a roommate freshman year of college who ripped door handles off and moved faster than the speed of sound and could fly, and correctly came to the logical conclusion that his roommate is an alien. And when, four years later, his alien roommate started flying around in a cape and saving people, was like "Oh neat Clark's got a side job."
#my adventures with superman spoilers#maws spoilers#also that he definitely talked about believing in aliens around Clark for four whole years#trying to get the guy to open up#and Clark was just continuously like A NORMAL SALAD FOR A NORMAL MAN!#maws#my adventures with superman#maws episode 6#Also the idea of Clark gently teasing Jimmy for being such a conspiracy theorist while Jimmy is just giving him this look: -_-#“bitch you're from another planet and the government is covering it up!”
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Requested by anon
#Laytons Mystery Journey Katrielle and the Millionaires Conspiracy#Laytons Mystery Journey#professor layton#video games#gaming#video game polls#polls#tumblr polls#puzzle#adventure
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USA 1997
#USA1997#INSCAPE#EPIC MULTIMEDIA GROUP LIMITED#ADVENTURE#IBM#UNRELEASED#MACINTOSH#DROWNED GOD CONSPIRACY OF THE AGES
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Hear me out cake by me
#corona chan#4chan#memes#hear me out cake#maui#moana#alex jones#conspiracy theories#2000s#hector#mexican#coco#the Egyptian yapper#Egyptian yapper#jojos bizarre adventure#jjba#adventure time#cartoon#cartoon network#pixar#disney#blackhat#black hat#villainos#villainous
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Sometimes I'll just think of insane crossovers with characters I like despite fully knowing no one has read any of these combinations of books, nor would they ever interact. Like, I could go on and on about the similarities between the Bailey and Sorenson siblings (Land of Stories and Favlehaven) or I could go on about three different Jacks from different books (Half Upon A Time, Mighty Jack, Jack Blank). I could look at Nova Artino and Alex Knight (Renegades and The Cloak Society) and while they're for very different ages there's similarities. Alex from Alex Rider and Carson from Codename Zero would likely never interact but by God do I think about it. I could name so many: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Seven Wonders, Revenge of Magic, Beyonders, The Lies of Locke Lamora, etc, etc, etc. I am going insane over so many different books that have little semblance of connection, saying they each have pieces of one another within. And these fanbases (if there are even a fanbase for each of these books) would rarely ever interact.
So I'm just left here, reading books in my pajamas, deranged
#I don't want to tag all of these#But I will bc I can#I want to know if anyone is in multiple of these fanbases anyway ig#fablehaven#land of stories#the seven wonders#alex rider#codename conspiracy#jack blank adventures#mighty jack#the cloak society#half upon a time#the secrets of the immortal nicholas flamel#revenge of magic#beyonders#that's all I'm tagging it's good enough#plate2posts
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I love the idea of Jimmy's conspiracy theories always being right but nobody believes him because it's DC, the stuff that's true there is like. So unbelievable.
Lois: So Smallville's an alien. What next, Martians walking among us?
Jimmy: Oh don't even get me started! Do you want me to show you the charts? I can show you the charts.
Lois: Alright then, if Martians are real, how come we haven't found them yet?
Jimmy: Oh that's easy! It's because they're - are you ready for this? Psychic. Shapeshifters.
Lois:
Clark:
Lois: Yeah you lost me.
#my adventures with superman spoilers#my adventures with superman#jimmy olson#superman#lois lane#martian manhunter#i haven't watched the show pls have mercy on me#jimmy olson conspiracy theories
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I finished my 200k finnfern fic! This thing made me go absolutely feral, I wrote it on my phone in a month lol.
Keep Yourself (redux) is my attempt at giving Fern an actual character beyond a Narcissus reference, he was very engaging as a concept and deserved better, so there's some "how do demons work, how does he deal with being one, where tf did he go in between Do No Harm and the Islands Arc" etc. I have a lot of Fern thoughts, and the fic is all of them vomited out into a more pleasant form.
“I saw Fern, when I was taken by the Lord of Eternity,” he utters against his palm before dropping it, “and he said something that’s stuck with me this whole time. I think about it constantly.” Finn glares towards his feet, narrowing his eyes and baring his teeth. “‘I can’t save everyone, and maybe not everyone needs saving. Do I really think everyone’s better off because of me.’ He was right and I got him killed because I couldn’t just accept that he didn’t need my ‘help’.” His eyes squeeze shut, knuckles turning white as he fists his hand at his side. “I’m tired, Prismo,” Finn whispers, voice crackling roughly over the tar in his lungs.
*I've put out a T rated version, so read that one if you're younger pls. I'm not your mom but let me at least try to be accommodating to your age so you're not blown over with smut. It's important that younger people are given a space in fandom but it's also important that you guys give adults our space, too. You can read the T version here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54722422/chapters/138687334
This is a songfic/series so here's the playlist in order (plus songs for future additions):
#one day ill show yall the sticky note conspiracy string graph i had to make for this lmao#Fern's hair changes color cuz octopus nonsense#keep yourself au#finncest#finnfern#finn/fern#finnxfern#fionnaflora#fionnafern#adventure time fanfiction#fernonna
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Gillian Anderson and Kristin Lehman in The X-Files (1993) Kill Switch
S5E11
Mulder and Scully's investigation into a mass shooting in a coffee shop leads them to believe that the targets were not the low level drug dealers and wholesalers who were killed but rather Donald Geldman who had been sitting at a table working on his laptop computer. The Lone Gunmen tell Mulder and Scully that Geldman was one of the original computer geniuses who disappeared years before. His laptop leads the agents to a hacker, Esther Nairn, who goes by the name Invisigoth. She tells them of a vast government conspiracy involving artificial intelligence that allows them to see everything and take action against all enemies.
*Gillian Anderson's fight scene with the nurses is one of the actress' favorite scenes in the series.
#The X-Files#tv series#1993#1998 episode#Kill Switch#S5E11#Gillian Anderson#Kristin Lehman#hacker#artificial intelligence#conspiracy#thriller#scifi#FBI investigation#Fox Mulder#Dana Scully#satellite tracking#electrocution#explosions#virtual reality headset#internet#the lone gunman#conspiracy thriller#drama#adventure#crime#mystery#just watched#Invisigoth
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I've. I've just had a thought.
What if Princess Bubblegum was trying to make the Lemongrabs more like Neddy, but like always kinda was?
Like because if the first 3 she made were too much like her for them to be able to cohabitate she tried to make her next "first" creation more like Neddy with just a little overlap with her to be able to have a conversation, only she didn't have the trait balance she wanted worked out so Lemongrab came out more like something between the two of them, with some severe social, communication, and sensory issues like Neddy and with the control issues, creativity, (attempted) extroversion of PB.
"He doesn't get along well with others" was her reasoning for holing him up in castle Lemongrab with all his physical needs met and minimal contact with others, which as we see does *not* end up working well for him ultimately, but was apparently the absolute perfect solution for Neddy. It could fall anywhere on a moral scale of misguidedly thinking it would make him happy because it made Neddy happy to thinking it would somehow make him more like she wanted him to be, but either way it's kind of an interesting parallel.
Maybe she saw that he could be more like her with his Lemon creations and maybe that scared her, either for her relatively unchallenged power or that he would suffer in ways he literally wasn't designed to deal with and so she tried to "fix" him in the lab. Maybe she tried to artificially sweeten up his sour a bit leading to an initial docility that quickly spiraled into erratic behavior, and/or tried too late to equip him to be more like her as a ruler, trying to cram centuries of knowledge and experience, resulting in a paranoid despotic rule.
I do think she grew after everything that happened, realizing what she did, plus being overthrown and connecting with emotionally complicated mortals beyond her immediate control probably affected her very deeply, with a big turning point being how she talks about Neddy and the way his mind works to Fin and Jake. That "People get built different. We don't need to figure it out, we just need to respect it" line is probably very tip bit of a mental iceberg of realization.
What she's done, what she can change, what she can't, things she maybe has to just accept and approach differently, processing the contrast of one of the first things she ever knew compared to what she knows now and how wrong it was of her to do. I think she grows and changes, maybe it's enough maybe it isn't, but I do think that growth and change is present.
#adventure time#earl of lemongrab#Lemongrab#adventure time lemongrab#princess bubblegum#adventure time theory#I'm calling this the ''Artificial Sweetener'' theory btw#if you find my fandom theories too depressing just read them in Starchy's voice like it's his conspiracy show and it makes it 60% less sad#cw in universe ableism#has Id or alt text
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