#How to tag this bullshit?

[thefugitivesaint]

I don't normally post politically oriented content because I'm here for art appreciation (outside of the occasional, poorly worded and under baked rant). With that said, after watching this video I thought I might pass it along given that it's a fairly concise overview of the anti-democratic and fascist oriented ideologies that have been circulating in Silicon Valley and it's billionaire class for years now. Much of it isn't news to me as I have been following the circulation of this virulent set of ideas myself since I have an interest in illiberal philosophy and how it manifests in reactionary movements. While not news to me, it might be news to you, dear reader. If some of the actions taken by the Trump administration seem baffling on their face this might help frame some of those actions into something slightly more understandable (keeping in mind that this isn't an adequate explanation for the next four years of American politics, it's just part of elucidating the context). Related material (an incredibly small sampling): The Daily Show: Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires (Brooke Harrington, economic sociologist at Dartmouth College and author of “Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism," sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss modern American oligarchies and the behavior of the ultra-rich.) The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism: "The world that they have brought into being over the past two decades is unquestionably a world of reckless social engineering, without consequence for its architects, who foist their own abstract theories and luxury beliefs on all of us." The Tech Right: Silicon Valley’s Ascendant Illiberalism Understanding the MAGA-Tech Authoritarian Alliance The Guardian piece, 'Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley' Also from the Guardian, 'How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa' (which traces how Musk and Thiel's South African and South West African boyhoods continue to influence Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's worldviews.)

Behind the Bastards - Part One: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy (and Part Two, Part Three, Part Four) (might be a bit much if you're not into the podcast which I sometimes have to step away from for months at a time)

[airlocksandaviaries]

OK TUMBLR PRETEND WE'RE ALL ON SET TOGETHER PICK A JOB

if you actually work/have worked as one of these pls select it and tell me in the tags im curious

if you've worked as multiple, pick your favorite

everyone else, VOTE ON VIBES ALONE!!

[owly-lumi]

I wanted to do this meme since I saw the S2 of Earthspark, but I had the inspiration after complaining about It with @sketchy-mf . so:

(ok time to going back to Ao3 reading Fanfiction pretending they're canon in my mind ���)

[breadstickms]

milgram is my favourite slice of life anime full of wacky hijinks

[evilkitten3]

sick of konan being written as the only sane one in the akatsuki. the lady thinks her bestie is an actual deity and she somehow found the time and energy to make six hundred billion bombs for the purpose of killing a single guy who helped kickstart her terrorist organization bc she thinks he's a bit sus

the only sane one is kisame

[salemoleander]

I think they should just keep adding silhouettes onto the Hermitcraft banner when we aren't looking

[zipmode]

okkk last drawing of the night

[eddienotcursed]

“Couldn’t get lieutenant Bites to smile in the picture though”

Family picccccccc

[wasyago]

we're at it again🕺

[pigeon3gg]

made these color palletes based on screenshots i took in skyrim today, thought tumblr would like these

[lelelego]

hook, line, and sinker

(tav/astarion)

[dizzybizz]

autism been spiking lately hm

[cecoeur]

[absolutechaosss]

Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how elves are shown to handle grief and trauma and how that relates to Mithruns character.

The Canaries care for Mithrun is mostly well intentioned. They legitimately like him! But it is also kind of terrible at times? Most of their care is focused on the Bare Minimum that keeps him alive and his care and comfort isn't really considered because well...to them, he's not capable of understanding it anymore.

We know this because Kabru is assigned as his care taker and Lycion comments that his hair is shinier. This means even in the stressful survival situation of the dungeon with Kabrus terrible cooking and scavenged meals, he is physically healthier than he was with the canaries.

I think it's relevant Kabru was the one to care for Mithrun this way and the one eventually realize he can be capable of new desire because Kabru is intimately familiar with how elves treat trauma. Not only was he a traumatized child but I think the most important parallel here is actually Rin.

If you haven't read her section in the Adventurers Bible, Rin is also a sole survivor of a tragic event and was taken into elven custody. She is catatonic and deeply deeply traumatized. And the elves handle it *terribly*. She's treated as goods or as an animal and she's shown to be unresponsive and not able to speak. Her recovery is directly linked to her meeting Kabru when he's brought in to help her.

Rin and Mithrun are opposites in elven society. Rin is barely a person, Mithrun isn't only an elf, but a prestigious and wealthy one. But both are survivors of horrific circumstances that hurt their ability to care for themselves and perform daily activities. And for both, it's pretty clear that it was assumed that this would become their fixed state, one where care and gentleness was pointless, because they had lost the faculties to process it.

Anyway I guess I wonder if years later when Kabru hears Mithruns story and how his condition is incurable and thus denies him personhood he thought of his. I wonder how much more quickly Mithrun may have been able to adapt to his circumstances if he wasn't told he was "broken". To me at least, Mithrun was always able to react to new things and adapt, but if everyone in the world is acting like you're basically dead and unable to ever do anything than be a weapon again yeah why wouldn't you assume that. No, I don't think Mithrun will ever be back to his former self and have all his desires back but he is able to carve out space for himself so quickly with Kabru, compared to his extensive and leas effective initial recovery with the elves. Perhaps this too is an area where their lifespans hinder them as they assume 20 years is a totally normal recovery period so why would they need to try more.

[mismess]

oh why they ourple

[sforzesco]

miscellaneous roman nonsense lmao I very briefly thought about un curling octavian's hair, but cleopatra 1963's influence remains as strong as ever