#Conspicuity

[girldraki]

this is insane

[fantastic-nonsense]

Wicked Act 2 is only a tragedy for Elphaba and Glinda. It's a Grade A comedy for everyone else

[brenshor]

Enid running into the Quad: Guys! Someone pushed Xavier down a flight of stairs!!

Eugene: *looks at Wednesday*

Bianca: *looks at Wednesday*

Yoko: *looks at Wednesday*

Wednesday: I have literally been here with you all the whole time.

[localechoes]

and i felt a prescence beside me, golden warmth and golden light in the darkness, a comfort and a grace that felt holy-

[bucksboobs]

Airplane disaster means Tommy until proven otherwise send post

[laurencin-draws]

pank

[rubensmuse]

3-mage party comp is a very funny way to play da2. entire first part of the game is repeatedly drilling into you that mages outside the protection of the circle + jurisdiction of the chantry are in big danger if they're discovered and here hawke is carting around the whole apostasy fan club. good morning, mr templar ser, fine weather isn't it? what's that? have i run into any apostates lately? no serah, thank the maker, but i'll let you know if i see any. who are all these people standing next to me? why, my beloved and most certainly extremely law-abiding friends from the kirkwall society of quarterstaff enthusiasts, of course,

[windowsloth]

Candidate Ibex

(wip?? might finish this but also I mostly drew this to avoid working on other stuff so we’ll see)

(also guess what I’ve finally made it to the first finale episode of counter/WEIGHT)

[apas-75]

My take on the Inquisitor number is that it's completely arbitrary; I know there's a sourcebook somewhere that says it's based on initiation order but that's just flagrantly Not True, unless you expect me to believe that Trilla was the second one inducted. (Always take lore details where the source is just one obscure sourcebook with a HUGE grain of salt.)

It's not a rank thing either—no way does the Inquisitorius have any strictly defined hierarchy, because that's antithetical to the whole point, Palps wants them squabbling with each other so they don't become a threat. Reva (the youngest, who definitely didn't get initiated as a full Inquisitor at twelve years old and yet has the super low number of Third) obviously doesn't have authority over Fifth.

So my point is: the numbers mean nothing, they're completely arbitrary and not assigned in order, but the Grand Inquisitor doesn't tell THEM whether or not they mean anything. Does having a lower number indicate higher status? Probably not...unless? They're always glancing at each other and wondering and driving knives into each others' backs about it.

And that's the point, because the overall management style of the Inquisitorius is just summed up perfectly by that cage fight in Barriss's first episode: the Sith turning a bunch of captive surviving Jedi against each other and making them fight each other to earn the right to keep living on their terms.

[annabelle--cane]

I totally think alice was fishing for celia lore with her "are you feeling diverse" question, she pointedly turned to include celia in the conversation when she hadn't previously been talking and then dove right in for "btw where are you from is it anywhere unusual"

[tribble-ations]

B’Elanna doodles

[spelllingandthemysteryschool]

recently i’ve come to realize that i actually enjoy being a girl who is kind of permanently unkempt-looking because she just flat-out refuses to partake in most beauty rituals. like i used to look at other women and be like wowwww so sparkly and neat, not a single hair out of place... and now i’m like what freaking ever i will walk around with unshaven legs and an unshaven upper lip and my curls frizzing all over the place and my skin just the way it is without any paint to conceal anything and i’m happy like that and i don’t feel wrong or subhuman for it anymore. like to be clear i never did anything about it in the first place so it’s not that i’ve now abandoned practices i used to keep, it’s that i used to feel bad and gross and want to somehow work to achieve what seemed to come to other girls naturally and now i don’t feel that way at all. i’m sure people find it unpalatable and unacceptable and i know i could be ‘pretty’ for real if i tried but i don’t care and i won’t try

[awsok]

the fact that we now and forever exist in a state of dubious jarchie... schrodinger's jarchie...

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Every editorial board must do the same. Bravo, Charlotte Observer. This is how it’s done.

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THE PARTY TOLD YOU TO REJECT THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR EYES AND EARS. IT WAS THEIR FINAL, MOST ESSENTIAL COMMAND.

TCinLA

Oct 07, 2024

Brian Beutler described this perfectly this morning:

When Donald Trump started telling conspicuous lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, all of MAGA understood the assignment.

His supporters understood they should spread rumors or fabricate anecdotes consistent with Trump’s claims. They should portray their own confusion as government malice or incompetence. They should claim to have witnessed FEMA abandoning Republican-heavy regions and illegal immigrants walking away with relief money first hand. They should even use artificial intelligence technology to fabricate images that reinforce these lies.

Elon Musk and Trump’s other ultra-wealthy supporters understood it as their solemn duty to draw as much attention to these lies as possible.

Its also a trial run for the chaos they intend to sow through the election.

David Simon expressed disgust on behalf of many: “For the chance to gain some political advantage, the Republican nominee for U.S. president is willing to lie, and in doing so, actually impair the ongoing efforts to help the Americans made vulnerable by this hurricane. That level of sociopathy simply astonishes.”

(The old astonishing has been astonishingly surpassed by the new astonishing.)

From The Hill today:

SPEAKER JOHNSON CALLS FEDERAL RESPONSE TO HELENE ‘A MASSIVE FAILURE’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called the federal response to Hurricane Helene a “massive failure” and pointed to the hundreds of people still missing.

“At the federal level, this has been a massive failure. And you can just ask the people there on the ground. I have been there. I was in Georgia. I was in Florida, where Hurricane Helene made landfall, there on the coast. And then we’ll be going to the hardest hit parts of North Carolina on Wednesday of this week,” Johnson told Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”

Johnson said the federal government had advance notice of the hurricane and should have been better equipped to respond.

“When you talk to the people who are directly affected, they will tell you this has been an abject failure. FEMA has lost sight of its core mission, I think, in so many cases, and the administration has not shown that they were prepared for this, this eventuality, and this terrible disaster.

“They had more than a week’s notice of this, and yet we still have people who have not been served and even rescued,” Johnson added. “In North Carolina, it is a heartbreaking, tragic and infuriating situation to have the federal government fail, as they have well.”

The remarks come as Republicans have sharpened their attacks on the federal response to Hurricane Helene, just one month ahead of Election Day.

The federal government and other local and federal officials have fought back against claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is inept.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said recently that he was impressed with the federal response, noting North Carolina’s impact was not expected to be as severe as it was.

“For anybody who thinks that any level of government, anybody here, could have been prepared precisely for what we’re dealing with here, clearly are clueless,” Tillis said. “But right now, I’m out here to say that we’re doing a good job.”

The federal government has also sought to dispel rumors about the lack of federal funding available to residents affected by the national disaster.

FEMA has set up a designated “rumor response page” to fight misinformation and inform residents of available funding.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates responded to Johnson’s criticism by pointing to “a wide range of leaders in both parties and from every affected state” who “have praised the bipartisan response to Hurricane Helene.”

Bates pointed to Tillis’s remarks, as well as to comments made by other GOP officials, including South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who called the federal response “superb,” and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who said he “appreciated” Biden’s offer to “call him directly” if the governor needed further assistance.

Bates also quoted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who said, “This is an incredible experience for me. So, to President Biden, thank you for coming. Thank you for paying attention to our needs. We have had a good working relationship between the federal government.”

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

Not tagging cause it's not exactly fanart but look who I snuck into the background of my assignment

[opabinia-fan]

NOOO KIM, HARRY, REMEMBER TO CHECK EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP!!! YOU’RE GOIng TO GET EATEN BY ZOMBOIDS!!