#I REALLY REALLY DID

[devildevotee]

treating godspousery like it's some kind of harmful or horrible belief to have is so self-hating and bullying-esque i really have to express that gods want to romance you right now and always. you are worth their time, you are worth their love, you are worth their romance. you make them laugh. you have so much beauty in you and they see that. it's attacking to treat strangers like they are somehow below their god's romantic love.

additionally, you are not less equal than their god-status lovers. put yourself on a pedestal because you have truly earned it.

[ender-voidron]

Y'all, I am so sorry

[bgs-cave-o-thots]

yeah so. ok. i cant stay here if its gonna be like this. mutuals dm me and ill give you my discord

[engagedtobefree]

[junkdyke]

well i don't know if it's just me and my own brain or if its absolutely tiktok being the most sensitive people who overhype fucking everything, but i watched the "most difficult, gut-wrenching, hardest documentary anyone has ever had to watch" Dear Zachary and...well, i did not have the same reaction as most people say they've had. Not like in an edgelord way, obviously it's sad but idk man, the only thing i kept thinking the ENTIRE time was "how the fuck did this guy know so many people??"

[lordendsavior]

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[brianerickson]

guess I really, REALLY liked Omori, huh...

[yeagrave]

my contribution to this trend🙇

[chongoblog]

WAIT

I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA

It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.

Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.

Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like

I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully

[razzafrazzle]

Just Checking In! (aka Something About Red Triangles)

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[scionsthings]

Rewatching Arcane

[hellspawnmotel]

the happy end

[dreemurrinthenight]

if y’all see this floating around: yes, it’s from me, and yes, you can find the original post on hoyolab under the same user <3

[i-will-write]

reading my own fics as a reference for a new wip and squinting at it like "how the hell did I do that"

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.