#Fucking Kidnap them to watch this

[altobug83]

grrrrrr..... frogs....

[hussyknee]

Trying to explain what the fuck just happened in Lankan politics today.

The leftist party has won 159 seats out of 218 in the Parliamentary elections. The single biggest landslide win since we broke from the British and achieved universal franchise in 1948.

Any party achieving a super majority in the executive and legislative is, objectively speaking, bad. It disables checks and balances, which is a catastrophic thing for any democracy, and the only two other times it's happened for us has irrevocably eroded the fabric of civic rights and democratic freedom. Also, the reason the NPP won the North and East is that the colonized, genocided and subjugated people there have no faith in electoralism anymore. The way this government has engaged minority issues has been utterly abysmal and now they've been rewarded for it.

On the other hand:

The winners. Are all. Grassroots. Candidates.¹

We have voted out every single career criminal that's been barnacled into the Lankan political arena since before I've been alive. The fascist party has only three seats.² The other fascists didn't win a single seat. The neoliberal legacy party won none. There are only forty people in Parliament that represent any sort of dynastic political legacy. After 76 solid years of nothing but political dynasties.

This is barely five years after the Rajapaksas swept in and absolutely glutted the Parliament with their family members and cronies end to end.

This is the illegitimate interim government we had for most of the last 18 months. We literally, physically, chased the Rajapaksas out of the country and this fucking demon set up a puppet government just so he could finally sit in that goddamn chair and be the despot he'd always dreamed of in exchange for letting them all come back. He's now gone. His entire circle is gone.

THEY ARE ALL FUCKING GONE.

In US terms, just imagine that, five years from now, when Trump's GOP has control of everything, the entire GOP and the worst of the Dems are all purged from Congress and Senate, the Green Party in control of all three branches of government under a pro-union left-wing President and an unmarried female LGBT rights activist Vice President, and the Dems reduced to barely 20% of the House.

This is my anthropology professor. She joined politics from the small nascent leftist coalition to help keep the government accountable. She's now the Prime Minister and the most popular Parliamentary candidate in the nation's history. (Edit: She was knocked off first place by a dude in the final result. Boo.)

(On the other hand— the woman who helped make me a radical anarchist and literally helped write a book on political dissent and resistance...now is the state. Uh.)

But there are so many women in Parliament! We had the lowest female representation in a South Asian Parliament and some of them were from the list of seats reserved for parties rather than elected ones. Most were either anti-feminist conservative embarrassments, widows and daughters of elite politicians and neoliberal shills. It's still only an increase of a few percentage points (Edit: from the previous 5% to 10% in the final result!) but now we have elected academics, feminist advocates, activists! There Is a representative for Malaiyaha Tamils in the Central Province for the first time in history and it's a young woman! (Edit: now it's two female Malaiyaha MPS!!) This is the plantation community that still live in conditions closest to the slavery the British forced upon them two hundred years ago!

I'm like. Completely mindfucked. To be very very clear, the NPP coalition formed around the nucleus of the JVP that used to be communist but haven't been in 30 years, they're now just social democrats who are left of places like the US and UK, whose "left" is now center-right. They're only threatening to the Western mainstream media for some reason who can't stop bleating about how we have a "Marxist" government now. In reality, the actual chances for radical reform are still quite low, and the opportunity for further erosion is quite high with a super majority government regardless of affiliation.

On the other hand:

What the fuck.

Sometimes living through historical events is really damn amazing.

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¹ Well, nearly. There are a few career politicians and a nepo baby but they aren't so bad either.

² Goddamn it, Baby Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka's answer to JD Vance have wormed their way in using the list of Constitutionally reserved party seats for non-elected members. FUCK the National List.

[flamemons]

[benoitblanc]

making an emily-arc gifset and screaming internally. why the fuck did they do that to scully

[grinchwrapsupreme]

wait so ciri leaves the cabin after jaskier was supposed to be watching her and when she runs into yennefer and then geralt NEITHER of them is like "hi what the fuck are you doing out here where is jaskier??" and he also just doesn't show up again for the rest of the episode after running out to look for her??? like i know there's other more important things going on right now but like one added line would've satisfied me where is that guy

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Not to keep beating dead horses like I so much love to do but I am still completely Flabbergasted and Astonished at how you (Merle Ambrose) could discover the most terrifying fact that a child that is essentially under your care has been indoctrinated into a cult (which, by the way, a process that has taken over the course of years) ((by an agent that has been stationed in a direct position to make it easier to access and manipulate children, that has easily escaped your notice for such a long time)) that worships a nihilistic entity whose ultimate goal is the absolute and total destruction of Everything and Everyone around you, and your one, single, simple-sentenced response to that is to say "Oh, that's a shame. He (Duncan) always was pretty terrible. Hope he gets better someday." And then to move on from those extremely worrying and dangerous bundle of issues permanently without taking any sort of action to protect the vulnerable and make sure nothing like this ever happens again

[sideblogdotjpeg]

i am not immune to launchpad sol and albin thoughts

[zeb-z]

The thing about Forever and Bad is that they don't know how to deescalate, and they start at 100 straight from 0 every time with each other. They will spend hours arguing about semantics that don't matter. They will go to the extreme ends of pranks (which as fun as the audio remixes were, spending hours trying to find the source was literal hell genuine psychological torment). They will go for the throat just to antagonize the other.

So no, I don't think Forever knows a thing about Dapper or the other eggs whereabouts. He just knows better about the way Bad operates, the way he lies and deflects. He's familiar with his crafty words and how he turns a conversation on its head. He knows that what Bad is being accused of is entirely likely, that he is not who he usually is when the eggs are around. And he knows that Dapper, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is who Bad cares for most of all.

This isn't something he can argue hours about, to chip away little by little like he usually does. For both the safety of the worker, because the longer they're locked up surely the worse off they'll be - and for the safety of Bad, who if he wasn't under extreme watch by the Federation, he certainly is now, after Tubbo very loudly accused him in his Federation office.

He goes for the throat, immediately playing a trump card that he knows Bad won't just brush off or ignore, because as much as Bad can be unpredictable, Forever knows that Bad cares about the eggs as much as he does. As questionable as his morals are, as slippery as he can be to pin down, Bad has always placed the eggs as the highest priority - and he needs Bad to have no choice but to be honest, or to knock him off guard enough that he'll give him something to work with.

Is it fair? Maybe not. But when has Bad ever played fair with him?

[the-blossica-fan]

Blossica Christmas headcanons? ^-^ /lh

Me to everyone that sends me Blossica asks

This is the second Christmas they spent together, so they're more used to how Christmas works in the suitcase.

Back at their first Christmas alongside the Team Timekeeper, when there were less arcanists that there are now, it proved hard to get used to their traditions.

Or the amalgamations of these.

Jessica had spent some time confused over the decorations, and the attempts to get her not to eat the Christmas tree is an every day struggle even to this day.

The first year, it had been Jessica learning about this strange tradition. A decorated tree with "candy" that is actually made out of glass, shiny spheres that hang from the ceiling, weird soft triangular hats on everyone's head.

Jessica had to learn some things about Christmas before getting used to it, that being everything.

For Blonney, however, the thing that she had to get used to was the overflowing warmth and companionship. There were no family discussions, no envious comments flying around.

For both, it had been a strange change of pace, but not an unwelcomed one! Especially when Jessica could eat whatever she wanted from the table.

From that first experience to now, I have to say some things stayed the same.

They'd spend the days together watching shitty movies Vertin gave them, wrapping gifts for exchanges and trying to get Jessica not to eat the crystal candy canes.

Tooth Fairy rarely joins them for Christmas, considering she has her own family that's still alive and still shares time with her, but they tend to exchange gifts when she's able to spend some time with them.

Horropedia is their unwanted companion who has made himself a place on their couch to watch shitty movies, sometimes joined by a friend or two.

So far, they'd spend more time together than in company, after all it's time you spend with your loved ones. Though they participate in the suitcase's gift exchanges and dinner time.

And they can never be completely alone with Vertin and Horropedia around, so you can call it quality time with your lover and that one friend that also wants some company.

[sadnessisavegetable]

Modern but not normal AU nonsense. As I do.

(This is the part where King George decides he wants to go home but not take his wife Queen Charlotte with him, by the way. Charlotte instantly was like “well if that’s how it is, your majesty.”)

[desi-yearning]

Yearning extra this November for some reason

[fireboltsfierytail]

Wade Wilson rings the door bell of the x man mansion several times, holding it for a long minute just to hear it ring through the door, giggling.

The door iss summarily opened by a peeved of and scowling Scott Summers, who's frown deepens at the sight of the red merc. All the original x men are there. This is also somehow the Logan universe, so wolverine is sadly dead, but no one else is (*I quietly shush and hold the screaming original timelines and both the x men movies and the TVAs bodies with a chloroform handkerchief at their mouths and then kick them into a shadowy corner*)

The x men gather around the merc who is grinning, giggling and breaking the fourth wall every other minute, behind him is a large brown burlap sack that appears to be alive. The x men all give the writhing coarse material a very wide berth.

Deadpool finally skips off with a very vague "enjoy your family honey" and leaves the bag.

Just as Laura and Rogue go to approach, 6 gleaming adamantium claws rip through the material, and tear the entire bad to shreds, leaving the remains of it and several pairs of handcuffs and restraints sheared into pieces on the ground. A body rolls violently to a stand, legs planted solidly, arms out and claws ready to slash through anyone close.

A wide wave of shock goes through the gathered family school. Scott's mouth drops, Ororo brings a hand to her mouth and Jean reaches for the professor with all the might, unconciously dragging his wheel chair from his office with her emotions. Laura's hands tremble but her eyes are locked and steady. Adamantium ripples under the backs of her hands. Kitty gasps and Rogue eyes darken and become wet.

The professor himself emerges from the door, the students parting from him, and of course, finally released from Jeans accidental reaching.

"Logan"

(I'm in my x men era, can you tell??)

[andorerso]

sorry but comparing whether Jyn or Cassian suffered more in their life like it's the fucking trauma Olympics is fucking ridiculous

they both suffered the same and it's literally not a competition, hope this helps <3

[peachyfnaf]

so uhh uhhhh that most recent tlaes episode huh

spoilers in the tags, beware

[trees-to-meet-you]

Wait waitwaitwait I just saw something on Pinterest hold on

Was Snufkin deadass not aware he had parents??? Until Moominpappa was telling him about them??? Did he think he just spawned one day what