#Highlight Updates

[zaions]

Optimizing React Performance with the Profiler API

[adobe-outdesign]

If anyone is wondering how Neopets is doing rn, there's currently a large majority of users crying and celebrating in the streets because the Auction House finally introduced the groundbreaking idea of commas

(it's me btw, I'm a large majority of users)

[oaksapling]

Ransom, Trey, and Nicky

[fluffyartbl0g]

Leaving the confines of his bedroom, Law met Luffy at the door, the other man grinning brighter than the afternoon sunlight that haloed him. Something in Law's chest shifted again, the thundering of his heart pushing it free with such a violent force that he felt himself reeling, stunned, as he looked down at Luffy.

Law liked him.

Law liked Luffy.

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Callunar’s fic, “Broken Heart Syndrome” is my FAVOURITE ongoing lawlu fic and OMFG IT’S SUCH A GOOD SLOWBURN. THE PACING IS IMMACULATE? It’s 80k rn but their relationship development doesn’t feel snail paced, nor does it feel rushed! It’s JUST RIGHT.

[doortotomorrow]

memori - adjustment protocol

[powcreations]

Missing the Pirates SMP?

Check out this incredible 45 MINUTE LONG compilation of some of the best moments!

(Huge shoutout to @/MCYT_Highlights he did an incredible job putting this together)

Thank you for enjoying our series ❤️

[orange-coloredsky-archive]

The two most popular reads of the synth plight in Fallout 4 are that of the race allegory and the Red Scare/McCarthyist allegory. In the former example, synths get racialized in a similar way to Black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th century, but just barely. The Underground Railroad is quite literally remade, synths are subjected to slavery at the hands of their human creators and punished harshly for escape attempts. Others have likened synths to fears of immigrants or asylum-seekers from nonwhite majority populations. Synths in these imaginings of Fallout 4 are painted as needing to be saved at the same time as they are vilified and dehumanized – sometimes by the same character over the course of the story. This duality could be a great opportunity for a dive into how white saviorism tends to play out, but in reality it ends up being a messy, deeply uncritical exploration of the impact of race and racism in society. The factions doing the racialization and/or saviorism’s motives are never questioned, and there is a very clear depiction of “good vs. evil” being the end-all-be-all of anti-racism work (again, with no critical thought as to how the “good” side is made almost completely of non-racialized people making decisions on behalf of a marginalized group). Worse yet, it’s contrived. The android-racism analogy has been a thorn in the side of the science fiction genre ever since Isaac Asimov wrote the 3 Laws of Robotics. There’s very few iterations on the idea that have come from popular (white, Eurocentric) media that aren’t riddled with the same aftertaste of white guilt and fundamental misunderstandings of how racism plays out in day-to-day life.

The less common, slightly more agreeable interpretation is that of the Red Scare – which, given Fallout’s inspirations and the setting’s original critique of reliving America’s “good old days”, makes perfect sense. In this example, synths take the role of the Soviet spy: watching over everything Americans are doing and reporting back to a secret base that is plotting to overthrow the world as we know it. Psychological screenings as well as inhumane tortures are utilized to pick synth “spies” out from the good, red-blooded residents of the Commonwealth. A neighborhood is founded entirely around the protection of the “old ways of life”, complete with a white picket fence comically decorated with automatic machine gun turrets. While this is a more charitable analogy that’s grounded in a slightly-deeper-than-surface-level exploration of American history, the Red Scare interpretation is victim to the same pitfalls that plague the racism interpretation. Midway through the game, the player discovers that there actually is a secret base of evil villains hiding underneath our feet, plotting to annihilate our beautiful Commonwealth lives. People do get taken and replaced by synths, they are in our governments, there is an actual reason for synths to be feared. Sure, some synths are perfectly fine people with no wish to be made tools of the Institute’s tyranny, but that is greatly overshadowed by the fact that the Institute’s stated goal is to use synths to gain control over the Commonwealth. There is no real critique of McCarthyism, there is no ideology to be challenged, because the Communists are here and killing your loved ones in their sleep.

[mechanismslorearchive]

today's highlights

A before-unknown-to-us video of red signal at dttm (unsure what day as of yet)

WIP never-used TS costume

A very smiley toy soldier

[vaggieslefteye]

♫ When I see him, I know that it won't feel so tough I'll believe him, and not the voice that says I'm not enough ɴᴏ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀɴ ᴀʀʀᴀɴɢᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ, ɪᴛ ᴄᴀɴ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ʙᴇ ʜɪᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴇ I'll set us free, how perfect it could be, when I see him tonight ♫

[merlyn-bane]

secret codywan project kiss counter (will be reblogged and updated as we go), sponsored by @dontbelasagnax

on the mouth: IIIII IIIII I

on the cheek: I

on the head/forehead: IIII

on the hand/fingers: II

on the [REDACTED]: I

[totallynotcensorship]

tags update: palestine is back to the front page at 2nd(no, idk why it isn't highlighted..) with yemen, jerusalem, and gaza under it.

colombia university is at 5th

tel aviv and palestine news are trending as well

do what you can while they are still up

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT INJUSTICE

[mysaldate]

"Rook loves Vil and Neige"

"Rook the biggest NeigeVil shipper"

"Rook wants to be in a thrupple with Vil and Neige"

Y'all seriously need to stay out of relationships if you think what Rook is doing is in any way shape or form love and not blind toxic obsession. His dream Vil has no personality other than blind adoration of Neige. Even his uniform isn't customized at all. He would lay his life down for Neige and that is the only thing that matters about him. Rook's ideal version of Vil is one who isn't a person but just an accessory to another being he doesn't see as a person either. It is incredibly toxic and unhealthy and I wish y'all realized that.

And Vil calling himself ugly and disgusting for having negative feelings and intrusive thoughts – an idea that Rook planted into his head – is just as toxic. Feeling bad about a genuine injustice committed against you isn't ugly and isn't disgusting and it doesn't define you as a person. Vil shouldn't be calling himself that just because Rook refuses to see him as a person instead of a perfect ideal that gets "sullied" by having negative emotions.

[anxiously-sidequesting]

there's 'Doomed By The Narrative' as in it serves their character arcs and the overall plot (Malistaire, Morganthe) and then there's 'Doomed By The Narrative' as in the narrative fucking hates them (Duncan Grimwater)

[thebroccolination]

me all of 2024:

me now that bounprem and kristsingto are actively working on their series:

[confleei]

🍭 Candy Apple Cookie 🍎

[kit-williams]

Space Marine Husbandry Sentience AU Plot Beats

So I decided to write out the BARE BONES Basics of what it means to use my AU

Bonds are the bread and butter of this AU

Warp fuckery: Either it be Space Marines becoming docile (enough) to live with their human or on the human end of being sedated enough to stand the horrors that occasionally slip out... of course they wont remember the nightmarish conditions their Raven Guard said they experienced as a child... the warp wont let that paint their bonded like that

We've got space marines from the unification wars all the way to Primaris marines (Timeline is wide open)

The setting itself is a slice of life with a LARGE importance on domesticity and just humans being humans aka bonding with each other no matter how weird it is all HOWEVER the setting should also (not every story needs it but it is something part of the setting) be aware that there is various flavors of horror (body, fridge, domestic, cosmic, etc) and gratuitous violence in the setting.

The focus of the setting really is about the relationships between people and astartes; either between people who are and aren't affected by the warp; the astartes both early and late into the timeline; and loyal and chaos all having to live together on this one world so deep in the past of the setting.

The fact that Space Marines can do other things and exploring that aspect

What could be explored more?

The fact that they've been around since the 40s (maybe even earlier like the 20s) which means that western culture probably isn't exactly the same (because of Astartes Influence)

Astartes influenced goods/products (Basically there is a whole secondary economy as well as products either made by Astartes for other Astartes or made by Astartes for humans)