#I saw him as more dangerous than Trump for reasons.

[breaking-everything]

MAY THEY CONTINUE TO DESTROY EACH OTHER

[thewritetofreespeech]

Hell yeah! Delico's Nursery is getting the love it deserves!

Could I request Dino falling for a female reader who's nicknamed the "Queen of Poison" thanks to her vast knowledge on posions and toxins?

Another day. Another murder.

The frequency in which murders kept happening in the city was overwhelming now. The choices in targets getting bolder and more obvious with each passing day. This time hitting another member of the noble class.

“There is much less blood than with the last murders. Perhaps this isn’t our evil?”

“No. Look at the flourish in which the bodies are displayed.” Dali countered Dino’s theory. “This is the same people, just their methods are evolving.”

“They used a coagulant.” [Y/N] announced as she examined the body, then stood to her full height again. “So they didn’t want this to be a bloody mess like the others. Something special about this one?”

“Hmmm….perhaps their blood was too valuable to spill. Or not worth it.”

Dali and the group continued to theorize, but it was clear that there were no other leads here, so they turned to continue their conversation elsewhere and let the police handle the cleanup.

As they all began to leave, there was a flutter of noise behind them, along with a startled sound from [Y/N]. When they turned around they saw one of the assailants holding her from behind in a vice grip. Teeth barred at her neck. “Stay back!”

“[Y/N]-chan!” Henrique called out. Echoing Dino’s sentiments of terror.

He hadn’t been paying attention. He hadn’t been protecting her. He thought someone capable and strong as [Y/N] would be fine if left alone, but it seemed he had let his guard down too far and she was literally a breathes touch away from becoming a thrall.

Was this how Dali felt when his wife was transformed before him? When the woman he loved became a bound slave to another before his eyes?

“Whatever you think this is going to accomplish, I assure you, that won’t be the case.” [Y/N] reasoned with the man over her shoulder. “I don’t know anything about TRUMP and I’m not valuable enough to bargain for.”

“Ha! I don’t think so. You may not know anything about TRUMP, but you’re sure valuable enough to get me out of here.” He snickered while looking at Dino and the others. “Your friends are too scared to even move with you as my shield.”

“Give Lady [Y/N] back and you can go free.” Gerhard instructed. “You have my word as head of the Fra family that we won’t pursue if you release her.”

“Your word don’t mean shit!” His grip tightened and [Y/N] grimaced. An expression Dino mimicked out of anger. “My only guarantee is this one. And I’m not letting her go until I’m free of here.”

“Would that be before the gate or after? I just want to know how far I have to walk back after this situation has ended.”

“Heh! You got a smart mouth on you. I like that.” The men all tense as his fangs poised at [Y/N]’s neck again. “Maybe I’ll keep you around longer after that.”

“Please don’t.” [Y/N] urged him. Though no panic or pleading in her voice just remarkably calm, Almost bored with this pantomime of danger. “I can assure you on this as well, it will not end the way you think. We’ll both just end up in pain and with sore heads.”

“Pain hn? Well, what’s life without a little pain.”

Dino felt his blood run cold as he saw the man bite [Y/N]’s neck. Intent on turning her into a thrall. Unbeckoned he called out, “[Y/N]!” before his cries were drowned out by the screams of the other man.

He screamed and cried as he violently pushed [Y/N] away to claw at his face with both hands. An odd sizzling sound filling the room along with his cries as the flesh around his mouth dissolved away. The skin bubbling and popping before he fell to his knees and eventually on the ground. His smooth, bleached skull where that vicious smile used to be.

“Does anyone have a towel?”

The men all come out of their stupor from witnessing such a horrific scene, and Gerhard gallantly offered his neckerchief substitute. “What the hells was that?”

“A combination of strychnine, arsenic, and a few other special ingredients I have swimming around in my blood. Most of it is a topical defense cream a created for such emergencies.” [Y/N] lifted the neckerchief to see if she was still bleeding and seemed pleased to find it had stopped. “I did warn him that we were both just going to end up with sore heads.”

“His face melted off!” Henrique reminded her.

“Yes, that was an unexpected reaction. Perhaps humanoid saliva compounds cause a more explosive reaction than original testing. I’ll have to do some more research.”

The Queen of Poisons. A name that seemed to strike fear an those that heard it, but none knew of the true power of the doctor turned bioweapons expert for Vlad. Dino honestly didn’t know her power, until this moment. “Are you truly alright? You don’t feel….”

“Enthralled?” She finished for him. “No. My thoughts feel quite my own. Typically, when the host dies, the link with the thrall is severed. He didn’t have time to give me any commands, so I guess we’ll never know. Although I suppose the theory is moot since he won’t be giving any orders, at all, ever.” The toe of her shoe poked at the whitened skull, which nodded in agreement of her hypothesis.

She could keep her theories. Dino was just glad that she was ok. “We should still get you to a doctor. Get you checked out.”

“I am a doctor.” [Y/N] insisted with a pout. But, she eventually saw reason and followed. Muttering about how doctors made the worst patients.

As the group filed out of the crime scene, leaving it to the police to section and clean up, Dino hung back to call out to Dali. “Dali,” the other man stopped and looked back towards him, “if I ever said anything unkind or cold to you after Frida’s death. I—“No need to apologize.”

Dali just offered Dino a smile, like he always did. “You don’t know what it’s like until you have lived it. You couldn’t possibly have known.” He placed his hand on his friend’s shoulder. “Let’s just be grateful that your story ended better than mine. Come, let’s get out of here.”

Dino nodded silently in agreement and followed after the rest to leave. He felt his heart still hammering in his chest, thinking on the what ifs. Dino wasn’t usually one to speculate but it seemed his mind was unwilling to let it go. What if his story had ended up like Dali’s without her ever knowing how he felt? If the roles had been reversed and he was unable to tell her while under another’s spell?

He would have to rectify this immediately, or at least very soon. Dino wasn’t usually one to speculate and he also wasn’t on to leave to chance. He would have to tell her. Perhaps tonight.

[skys-archive]

To me, a very heartbreaking aspect of this election (at least as someone who lives in the deep south) is finding out the sheer number of people who I thought loved me and cared for my safety are happy at the outcome. People I tried to tell about this and what would happen.

My own mother didn't like either candidate from the beginning. I tried to tell her about project 2025 to sway her opinion. She told me those could never pass. She said she couldn't vote for Kamala because she's "basically Biden" to her. She voted for Trump because she thinks he's a smart businessman, and she said she likes Vance.

My own mother, who does genuinely love and care for me and who I have a lovely relationship with, voted for someone who actively wants me dead. For someone who wants her to remain in an abusive relationship she left years ago. Because "they won't pass".

My close friends who know my identity and who I am and I thought respected me for who I am are ecstatic at the results. People I didn't know the political beliefs of are coming out and letting me know they side with someone who wants my death, who wants the erasure of my people.

And honestly, maybe they will have it.

My ex, when I came to him originally about how scared I was of project 2025, thought I was getting upset over nothing. The man who I loved more than anything in this world believed that I was overreacting, that it would all be fine, that it didn't matter. He wasn't there when I was terrified. I almost wish I could look him in the face several months from now and he could see how real my fears are.

Other people like me, other people who are scared like me, are trying to just ignore it. A woman who I don't know too well came up to a group of friends I was with today and went to a couple, a man with his nonbinary partner. She said not to worry, that it was unconstitutional and it wouldn't happen.

This same group of friends discussed it, but it wasn't about fear or what to do now.

I met a friend today, at our usual spot. I was waiting for them, sitting with my head down on the table. I'd only found out a few minutes before. They said my name several times before I looked up. They asked if I wanted a forehead kiss and then led me to the rest of our friends. They said they were scared their father would be deported.

A different friend is probably going to leave their boyfriend. Not necessarily because of him, but definitely due to his friends. They say awful things about people like us every day, and there's certainly a reason their boyfriend hangs out with them.

I sat next to a friend and made fun of a tiktok I saw about Trump, it turned into a velocity edit about halfway through, I thought it was silly. She laughed with me but then said she was "so glad" he won, and doesn't understand why so many of her friends are "in such a mood". Many of her friends are queer.

My black friend is posting videos, jokes about having her rights taken away. I know it's how she's coping. I feel for her, and I understand, but I know I also could never know exactly how she feels.

I'm surrounded by people celebrating, people who I thought wanted me safe. Do they simply not know? Or do they want my death, too? Can they not see how terrified I am, how silent I am now?

I don't know if I should stay out. I hate the idea of using my deadname, of hearing my close friends calling me "she". But that would be safer.

Do I want to be safer? I don't think so. I don't want to die resigned. I don't want to hate myself even more. I want to be who I've been my whole life. Out, proud, safety and inspiration to the younger queer people who are scared. I want to be positive for them so they know that people like them can be happy. But I want to warn them as well, that being like this is dangerous, and hard.

I want disabled people who are scared to get aids, scared to get diagnosed, to look at me and know that there is at least some hope.

My mind is prone to overthinking, to finding the worst possible outcome of every situation. So I wonder if all of the things I come up with won't happen, and for a moment I find comfort in that. But I see others fear. I see how terrified they are of the same outcomes that I am, i see that I'm not the only one seeing them.

And I think, Why?

What am I meant to do now?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

Donald Trump was NOT convicted by Joe Biden, he was NOT convicted by the Judge, he was NOT convicted by the District Attorney.  Donald Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers. A jury, I should note, that Trump was personally “very much involved” in picking per his lawyer Todd Blanche on CNN Thursday night. And that conviction happened in the state where Trump committed his crimes after a full trial that lasted more than a month where Trump was represented by a team of very experienced lawyers who presented his best defense. That is how our Constitution and criminal justice system works. There were no surprises here. As I predicted in my article before the trial began, “Trump is going to be a Convicted Felon by June." That was based on my experience as a trial lawyer and after reviewing the evidence the prosecutors had laid out in their pleadings. Common sense said that the only reason Trump paid Stormy Daniels “hush money” ten years after their affair —but just a week before the 2016 election—was to defraud voters of the truth. To that end, Trump falsified business records to conceal his illegal scheme. The jury saw the facts as they were, hence Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts and is now a CONVICTED FELON.

Yet now we see Trump and MAGA reject the jury verdict by attacking it as “rigged,” a “sham,” etc. MAGA House Speaker Mike Johnson called the verdict, “the weaponization of our justice system.”  Marco Rubio weighed in on Twitter, writing, “The verdict in New York is a complete travesty that makes a mockery of our system of justice.”  The always awful MAGA Rep. Elise Stefanik, posted, “Today’s verdict shows how corrupt, rigged, and unAmerican the weaponized justice system has become under Joe Biden and Democrats.”  Spineless Tim Scott said on CNN Thursday night, “This was certainly a hoax, a sham” with the even worse Ted Cruz stating, “This entire trial has been a sham, and it is nothing more than political persecution.” And the list goes on and on. But this is no surprise, it’s part of MAGA telling us they reject our Constitution and the foundations of our democratic Republic. After all, Trump and MAGA rejected the 2020 election results because Trump lost. They rejected the criminal justice system when they smeared the indictments against Trump as being a sham. And now they publicly reject our jury system, which is one of the cornerstones of the US Constitution as laid out in the Sixth Amendment.

The question that must be asked is given Trump and MAGA reject our elections, our criminal justice system, the rule of law and our Constitution, what exactly do they support?! The answer is simple: Convicted Felon Trump. That’s it. [...] Let me repeat what I’ve been writing and saying for months: Don’t count on the courts, the prosecutors or a jury to save us from Donald Trump. We are the only ones who can do that by coming out in huge numbers to defeat him this November. This may sound jarring but it’s the truth: MAGA is a cancer. If allowed to metastasis, it will kill our democratic Republic that so many sacrificed so much to defend. The good news though is that the cure to MAGA cancer is right in front of us. All it takes is voting in big numbers this November.

The butthurt MAGAs crying and whining about Convicted Felon Donald Trump being convicted on 34 charges for business records falsification is more proof that the extremist anti-American MAGA cult needs to be crushed at all costs.

See Also:

Vox: Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump’s conviction matters

MMFA: MAGA media rage in response to Trump's 34 guilty verdicts

RWW: MAGA Martyrdom Machine Portrays Felon Trump as Victim, Vows Revenge

HuffPost: Right-Wingers Are Already Promising Vengeance After The Trump Verdict

Daily Kos: Republicans choose MAGA lunacy over the law after Trump's conviction

[qqueenofhades]

I just saw an article that said like half of trump supporters would vote for someone else if given a good option, and now all I want is someone else to get the nomination but have Trump refuse to drop out so he splits the vote. I would love nothing more than for the republicans to get 0 electoral votes…well that’s not quite true, what I would really love more than anything is for republicans to get 0 votes in general, but unless all of them forget when the election is and forget to vote for themselves that seems unlikely 😂

Basically, there is about 30 to 35% of America that is just outrageously cruel, racist, stupid, evil, and anti-everything (science, medicine, progress, voting, reason, education, history, civic society, gay people, women, non-white non-Christians, immigrants, anything that is not a fascist white nationalist theocracy) and they are beyond help. They will go down with Trump and his awful cronies to the bitter end, because they think that the primary function of government is to punish their enemies and nothing else. There is no public, social, or economic policy you can offer that will ever appeal to them, because they don't care. Nothing matters as much to them as Hurting The Other. In other words, they suck, and they are loud, dangerous, and militant, but they are not by any means the majority, they consistently suffer when their views are exposed to the mainstream public, and candidates backed by them have been regularly defeated in general elections, because they are just too extreme.

Then there are the rest of the Republican voters, who like low taxes, guns, and "small government" (aka that which doesn't run any risk of helping black people), but aren't quite the militant deranged TrumpCultists. They want a less openly criminal or at least slightly more palatable "moderate" old school GOP alternative, which has absolutely zero chance of getting past the primary-voting rancid shitgibbons mentioned above. We often get various thinkpieces wondering whether the indictments will strip these voters away from Trump, and yes, on the one hand, it is possible -- if, and only if, someone apart from him is the nominee, which for many reasons is deeply unlikely. If it is not, then anyone thinking that Republican voters will vote for anyone other than the Republican candidate, i.e. Trump, is kidding themselves. These people show up every election and vote for every R-name on the ballot. The fact that Democrats have to be wrangled and argued at so hard to do the same is one reason among many that we are in our present mess.

It is true that Trump is barely statistically viable as a candidate at this point, two-thirds of Americans think the charges (especially the J6 charges) against him are serious, and a plurality think he should suspend his presidential campaign (he won't, since it is his last chance to keep from going to jail for probably the rest of his life). It's also true that post-Dobbs, Democrats and Democratic-voting independents have been incredibly more motivated to turn out, and that Trump has never won the popular vote in any election (he only won in 2016, as we all painfully recall, because of the Electoral College). The Republicans have also consistently underperformed in every election since the Greasy Orange God King came along, and this trend is only accelerating.

None of that, again, means that we are safe or can relax or let our guard down about 2024, but it does mean that the only way these shitbags can win is by cheating up the wazoo, which they always try to do. There legitimately are not enough Americans who actually support their heinous crap to properly vote for them otherwise, and if nothing else, we can and should take comfort in that.

[mikaikaika]

Hello I've seen you around the QSMP spaces a lot, but I'm curious!! Do you have any cool headcanons you wanna share?

Hey anon! Thanks for the question and sorry if it took me a while I was recollecting my thoughts. I don't have any set hcs but a few thought sparced around here and there so here they are. They are mostly about the eggs but some people found their way in

Tallulah has all of Wilbur's letters memorised and she repeats them when she finds herself in danger. However sometimes Chayanne hears her muttering in her sleep and if he pays attention he can hear the repeat of Wilbur's words.

Richarlyson does not like to take baths due to his parenthood side that comes from Catboy Cellbit

Flippa and Tilin were very clumsy and often got injured so they had a bet going on with each other about who can convincingly tell their parent the most batshit crazy getting injured story without worrying them too much. Their record was never broken despite their exaggerated shenanigans

Missa was the better chef of the house who used to make diverse meals. Seeing him Chayanne took up cooking because he wanted to help after he saw how exhausted Phil was while taking care of two kids. It now helps him make proper use of all the potatoes and now he has one more skill he can use to provide for his loved ones incase they are stuck in danger

Not mine but someone had a hc that Antoine is an alien due to his moon and the tomska sketch he was a part of. I just wanna add to it that that is the reason his mc skin is layered with an outer layer. So it is him trying to imitate huamans and trying to fit in. That's the reason he has like three faces cause he wanted to fit in by doing his best attempts possible

Since Phil said they shop at hot topic cause they're a emo family, I think Tallulah hates it, so as a little sign of rebellion she keeps choosing tshirts with the most ridiculous captions to take home like one that says "crazy plant lady" with weed on it but Tallulah insists it represents her venues or anything over the top pink that she can find there like I'm talking mable pines level fluffy

Dapper is really good at doing rubix cubes and loves them but Ramon absolutely hates due to how engrossed Dapper got when he was learning it

As Chayanne grows up he end up outgrowing his duck floatie. So he ,with the help of Ramon and dapper, devises a belt with a duck belt buckle on it that can turn into a floatie anytime it is required. It comes in handy more often than you think.

Baghera is deathly afraid of snakes cause she's a duck

Cellbit's family are his anchor anytime his past comes haunting him back. He often gets nightmares that wake him up but all it takes is him seeing the picture of Richarlyson with he Favela Five or turning to his side and seeing the face of his sleeping husband and with one squeeze of his hand - Cellbit comes grounded back to reality and peacefulness.

When he's outside and people are accusing him of being a traitor or when things get too rough, you would often find Cellbit toying with his ring. It serves him as a reminder that his past is behind him and now he's in a better place and no matter what he would always have someone looking out and waiting for him - something he has never had before

The dragon colours that the eggs would be turned into coincides with the signs they use. Flippa's would be green similar to what gegg uses, Bobby's was brownish since he used normal signs, Tilin's would be slight orange as hers was red but she passed hers down to Pomme and Trump is light blue since his was blue but he passed it down to Richarlyson as Richas is more socially "loud" than he is

If Tilin and Juanaflippa were still here, their name together with Tallulah would have been TFT trio

Pac paints his nail but it's always chipped due to him working with Mike but you would never see it completely gone and no one knows how/when Pac reapplies and redamages it

Also I love this hc that all the partners of the people on the server are some kind of godly entity with specific powers that tie into the story

[vintageseawitch]

HEY CHECK IT OUT

what the fuck.

if you're out of the loop, there's been a TON of activity in political tiktok, specifically in the leftist space. an obvious talkie has been attempting to spread the lie that they were paid $15,000 by the DNC (which turns out to be a lie; it was $10,000 from a third party group called Vocal so the content creator can make content about Project 2025) & then made the claim that any content creator speaking well about Democrats were all getting paid to do so, which was also a lie & even if it wasn't, who cares? people put in a ton of work & don't often get paid enough.

the next big issue: this tankie, who is a white woman that lives in California, made an outrageous claim that Angela Davis wasn't a true member of the Black Panthers & now the explosive & entirely valid conversations about racism & white supremacy exist even in leftist spaces are taking that area by storm.

black women have been talking about it quite a bit & by now they're annoyed because it sounds like they're defending Kamala Harris even though they may not like her or her policies even if they may be voting for her anyways or not.

the input & knowledge from black women is important & we all need to listen. the fact is that as white people exist, we're living in a system founded on & upheld by white supremacy & what's worse is in leftist spaces, because people believe they're the ultimate ally, they don't need to put in anymore work.

but then things get sticky. things get uncomfortable. they have to be white saviors & once again, black & indigenous folks living here will pay the price.

certain leftists can claim they're anti-genocide as much as they wish but they're only partially against a specific one going on. i don't blame them for caring because everyone should give a damn about people going through something so horrific. that said, whatever horrors have been going on to our fellow man here don't seem to bother them as much. there may be some compassion here & there but nowhere near the level of devotion to people across an ocean from us.

then you get the shit in the above screenshot. a chaos agent. a putin puppet, who is stanned by the likes of Kshama Sawant, an accelerstionist as far as i can tell as well as Hassan Abdel Salam, both of whom have admitted they know they can't win but they want Harris to lose ignoring the fact that trump wants to deport them & others like them no matter how long they may have lived here. you get jill stein, someone who can immediately call netanyahu & Biden war criminals but when pressed about her precious putin suddenly she has a problem with "name calling" (the KGB should have trained her better). she's received money from Republicans for her campaign. she's getting help from trump lawyers. trump personally thanked her by name in a speech earlier this year because even he knows she's another tool for him.

it's wild how green party voters call those voting for Harris "blue maga" but they themselves are behaving more like original maga than they will care to admit let alone see. i'm not saying that there aren't those who think Harris is perfect, but i hardly see such blind devotion the way i see people have for trump & stein. both are cult leaders. they say things their followers want to hear.

stein's response?

oh no you don't. this was from 2016:

she's full of it. a KKK leader felt safe enough to endorse her & i'm now seeing her cult followers defending her, such as believing that he was paid by Democrats to do this & that we're apparently celebrating Dick Cheney's endorsement (i saw one comment saying people think Cheney is "brat" lmao) even though there had been zero celebrating & mostly trepidation & astonishment. he's clearly not voting for Harris because he has a change of heart; even if it's for selfish reasons, he & a bunch of other old Republicans see the danger that trump possesses. they're not agreeing with policies from Harris because she's "far right" (a bullshit claim anyways); they're agreeing that any extremist takeover is NOT GOOD. leftists refuse to see this perspective.

so like i mentioned earlier, it's white supremacy. jill stein has taken a once noble party & bastardized it to the point that white supremacists & antisemites feel safe in her space (i'm not saying that being pro-Palestine means you're an antisemite. i'm pointing out that Duke is also an antisemite). it's disgusting & disturbing. she's a wealthy white woman who won't be harmed by Project 2025. she wants trump to win & she & her rabid followers are working to make that happen.

third party voters, you aren't safe. you are accelerstionists to me now regardless of reason. your voting this way or not voting at all isn't brave or impressive, it's selfish, a surrender, cowardly. you don't want to get your hands dirty but when things go to shit you will refuse to take any responsibility for your part in it. the revolution you want so badly is nothing more than your version of the Rapture & the only revolution that will be happening is a fascist one because Republicans know how to play a long game to get real results unlike you leftists. they love that your tunnel vision self-righteousness makes you stupid & willing to throw your fellow vulnerable Americans under the bus so you get to feel morally superior.

you're monstrous. i'm not bothering to try to beg or play nice with you lot since you're no better than trump's maga. a former KKK leader endorsed your precious savior & nothing you say will change that. to make excuses is to make your space safe for white supremacy. you're unsafe.

[gothicprep]

this bizarre take pops up around online pretty often whenever new season of the boys drops. it’s not just the boys, it’s also applicable to breaking bad, fight club, other things. “there are SO MANY people who think the VILLAIN of this show is actually meant to be the HERO 😱😱😱”

and to be honest, I don’t buy it. maybe there are a handful of people who do, but I see more people complaining about this than I do engaging in the behavior being complained about. it sounds like a rumor. or seeing irony posting on a fan circlejerk subforum that’s meant to mock people who say this and thinking to themselves, case closed everyone.

with breaking bad, it makes a little bit more sense to me why this conclusion would be drawn. anna gunn did get a lot of really nasty backlash for her portrayal of skyler. so it follows from that how someone could assume that they saw her character as a villain that they didn’t like. but with the boys, it’s like… how? homelander eye-lasers a plan in half in, like, the second episode. for no reason. nobody without a severe vendetta against aviation and airline passengers is going to see this and think, “that’s the role model I didn’t know I wanted”.

and if it’s so prevalent, you should be able to provide me with at least one screenshot that isn’t from r/okbuddyfresca. but no one ever does. it’s almost as if this is making up a guy and getting mad at him.

as for complaining about the trump stuff, bear in mind that we’ve had to endure nearly a decade of trump being in the headlines constantly. it gets exhausting after awhile. not to mention, the “homelander is trump” thing came at the expense of a lot of the tension built up around him from the first season.

think of how this show is initially set up. vought is this universe’s AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's, that’s trying to justify getting defense contracts from the us military. homelander ships out compound v to terror cells around the world to justify this as a necessity. the supes enjoy a lot of public approval, in spite of how reckless and dangerous they are. it’s set up as a military industrial complex critique. and it’s all thrown out in service of more of the same covfefe commander in cheeto laziness. you threw out a perfectly good allegory! you don’t need a maga hat to find this irritating.

[girl4music]

I didn’t think there could ever be hate in my heart until I saw Trump’s ad campaign against trans people. It was like how is it even possible for the “liberal media” to fabricate something like that? The man is legitimately the worst kind of person you could ever encounter. No news program biased towards a political party could make that up so those excuses would never work with me. Divide and conquer in general will not work with me because I know what to look for. I know all the tricks of that age-old war tactic and I’m too I’m educated on the subject. I think what they look for is people that aren’t to be able to use all this propaganda and have it work.

I don’t care about the political party wars. Trump is legitimately a horrible human being and that’s enough of a reason to go against him. And the fact that I’m not an American doesn’t make a difference to me either.

I’m sure a lot of people think that way. The “It’s not happening here so why should I care about it?”

Nope. That doesn’t work with me either. There’s no way to deter me from doing whatever is in my limited power to make sure this horrible man doesn’t achieve his goal.

It’s not the way I’ve been brought up. And by that - I mean Xena and Dragon Ball Z and other forms of art/entertainment that have been very formative and inspirational in my life for me to have the values I have.

I’ve been brought up to be in service to the greater good and fight like fuck for everything I care about.

So don’t try it. It won’t work. I’m the wrong target.

I think the fact I’m not an American has helped with that because I’m not forced to choose a side. It’s on my own volition. I saw that there was a necessity for me to step in and make my voice known and I’ve chosen to.

To some that makes me a mad woman because involving myself in what’s “not my business” is a foolish thing to do to them. And okay, yeah. I get that. But it presents no immediate danger to my life or anyone else I love and I know that it won’t so I don’t think it’s mad.

They ask me “Why?”, I answer with “Why not?”

Because as far as I see it, … if it has more of a chance to help someone else that needs it than it has any chance of hurting me, I’d say that the “madness” is worth it.

So I’m a “mad woman”. I’ve been called worse. I’ll live.

See what I mean? There’s nothing you can say.

Nothing. You can’t stop me, so just stop trying.

I’ve made up my mind and it’s not going to change. That man with the horrific mindset that he has cannot be allowed to have any power over an entire country.

His thought process scares me. He has the mindset of a dictator. Somebody who wants to rule through tyranny.

It’s enough for me to act. It’s enough for me to try.

What comes out of that man’s mouth is how he thinks, what he believes and what he intends. No matter how clever the media is these days, they cannot fabricate something like that. It’s not possible. And that’s all that matters to me. Nothing else is involved in why I do this. I don’t care about political ideology or wars. I don’t care about the fact I’m not an American. I don’t care about anything other than that vile man needs to be stopped.

So I will keep using my voice. I will keep putting my efforts everywhere they’re needed. I won’t stop. And if that makes me a “mad woman” so be it. It’s my choice.

What I’ve been taught growing up is what has lived in me all my life. It continues to influence everything I do or say. I would be an entirely different person otherwise.

I’d be a person that today, as I am, I’d be disgusted by. Interactions in my life have made a huge difference to it. So how could I ever think or believe I wouldn’t ever be able to do the same for someone else? It’s not in me. And I can tell you if enough people believe the same, then there’s absolutely a chance to change the game.

Solid belief. Solid intention. Solid conviction.

There’s not a single force in the world that can break it. And when enough people are unified in that philosophy, then victory is always possible no matter what the odds.

“Causes are only lost when people give up.” - Xena.

That man is targeting people that are my family by solidarity and choice if not by blood or relation and I won’t let him harm them. That’s my solemn promise.

You attack the LGBTQIA+ community, then you attack me personally. That’s the way I look at it. End of rant.

[marta-bee]

I'm thinking today about the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son. It's in Luke 15 if you want to look it up, but briefly:

A man has two sons. The younger asks for his inheritance early, so he can go and live the high life in the city while he's young rather than waiting for his father to die. His father agrees, and off goes the son. He squanders it, he's poor and basically sleeping with the animals he cares for when he remembers: even the servants in his father's house have it better than that. So he returns home, admits he messed up and has no right to the life of a son but could he at least have a job as a servant? To which his father replies: nonsense, let's kill the fattened calf because the son I thought was lost has returned to us.

That's where most peoples' knowledge of the story ends. But there's one more scene, where the older son grumbles a bit about how he's been working in his father's house all this time and never once has his father offered to give a feast in his honor. To which his father replies: his younger brother has squandered his inheritance. That's gone now, and everything the father has will one day be the older son's. It's right to celebrate their return, but they've squandered something important and that doesn't just come back.

It's a surprisingly good parable about the importance of forgiveness and allowing a return, but also what fairness looks like for folks who stuck around the whole time.

This election saw a lot of Republicans endorse Harris, and the aftermath has a lot of Republicans showing frustration and disbelief at some of Trump's options. Similarly, if you look at the numbers there were a lot less liberals and progressives who actually voted than in 2020. It's one reason the Latinos for Trump counts look so high, for instance. So I'm thinking about the ones who turned from the Trump insanity so late, and the ones who may be regretting that they didn't turn yet, or that they didn't vote for whatever reason. The election's lost and just that fact is painful. And the future is scary and dangerous. There's still work to be done, and while we all have to deal with Trump in power and the people who like him being emboldened because they think they won, it still can be better if we fight it in the right ways.

So anyone from any quarter who just now wants to get involved, welcome. You messed up. You lost something and will have to live with that. But you had the bravery to turn away, and that's not nothing. If anything it takes more courage to correct yourself the further you get down the wrong road. There's still a place for you at the table, and room for your hand on the plow.

And as for the rest of us, it's reasonable to be frustrated that people come back while you've been working at this project all along. I get the despising of who they've become and what they've done. It helps me to remember I don't have to pay the price of having been wrong. I didn't vote for Trump, and I did everything I could to fight his re-election; I don't have that stain on my soul, and I don't have to live with my regret and guilt at what my actions will bring about. I still should celebrate my brother's & sister's return, though, and enjoy the extra help. It takes a bit of humility and grace, some days more than I have to offer, but it's still something I aim for.

Ah, well. That's my thoughts for today, at least.

[pscottm]

America Did This to Itself

This time, the nation was on notice. Back in 2016, those of us who supported Donald Trump at least had the excuse of not knowing how sociopathy can present itself, and we at least had the conceit of believing that the presidency was not just a man, but an institution greater than the man, with legal and traditional mechanisms to make sure he’d never go off the rails.

By 2020, after the chaos, the derangement, and the incompetence, we knew a lot better. And most other Americans did too, voting him out of office that fall. And when his criminal attempt to steal the election culminated in the violence of January 6, their judgment was vindicated.

So there was no excuse this year. We knew all we needed to know, even without the mendacious raging about Ohioans eating pets, the fantasizing about shooting journalists and arresting political opponents as “enemies of the people,” even apart from the evidence presented in courts and the convictions in one that demonstrated his abject criminality.

We knew, and have known, for years. Every American knew, or should have known. The man elected president last night is a depraved and brazen pathological liar, a shameless con man, a sociopathic criminal, a man who has no moral or social conscience, empathy, or remorse. He has no respect for the Constitution and laws he will swear to uphold, and on top of all that, he exhibits emotional and cognitive deficiencies that seem to be intensifying, and that will only make his turpitude worse. He represents everything we should aspire not to be, and everything we should teach our children not to emulate. The only hope is that he’s utterly incompetent, and even that is a double-edged sword, because his incompetence often can do as much as harm as his malevolence. His government will be filled with corrupt grifters, spiteful maniacs, and morally bankrupt sycophants, who will follow in his example and carry his directives out, because that’s who they are and want to be.

I say all of this not in anger, but in deep and profound sorrow. For centuries, the United States has been a beacon of democracy and reasoned self-government, in part because the Framers understood the dangers of demagogues and saw fit to construct a system with safeguards to keep such men from undermining it, and because our people and their leaders, out of respect for the common good and the people of this country, adhered to its rules and norms. The system was never perfect, but it inched toward its own betterment, albeit in fits and starts. But in the end, the system the Framers set up—and indeed, all constitutional regimes, however well designed—cannot protect a free people from themselves.

My own hope and belief about what would transpire last night was sadly and profoundly wrong—like many, I have the emotional and intellectual flaw, if that’s what it is, of assuming that people are wiser and more decent than they actually turn out to be. I feel chastened—distraught—about my apparently naive view of human nature.

I dare not predict the future again, particularly as it comes to elections and other forms of mass behavior. But I daresay I fear we shall see a profound degradation in the ability of this nation to govern itself rationally and fairly, with freedom and political equality under the rule of law. Because that is not actually a prediction. It’s a logical deduction based on the words and deeds of the president-elect, his enablers, and his supporters—and a long and often sorry record of human history. Let us brace ourselves.

[timelessdp]

Ghost of Amity

Every city have their own ghost equivalent. Where is Amity's?

He missed the Zone. He grown up there. But when Pariah's reign started he got bannished. He was the younger Dark brother and he was too dangerous for the throne to stay here. Pariah send him away with a trumped-up case.

At first he was angry, but the Clocwork calmed his nerves. They said in the future he will have the chance to rule the zone. Just be patient.

He was the first of the spirits whose fall victim to his brother.

As soon as he left the Infinity Realms he was bounded to the Earth. It was the ending of the Ice age. A changing across the world. And the mortals needed a new support, because they were so fragile.

He became a place which we call Amity.

The natives known his work and respected the spirit. With the passing time, his streigh lessen he wasn't able to protect everyone, who searched for shelter. It made him sad. He tried the best. He given foods and water, for anyone who looking for it.

His land was always stayed close to the other side. Sometimes when a solarstorm hit the Earth, he could see the Aurora, and the Ghost Zone within.

He was homesick. No matter how many people came and went, he missed his old friends. He missed the flying, the freedom. The millenials marked his core. Sometimes he slept centuries, and nobody ever noticed that he is missing. His place gotten bigger as the white people arrived. They noticed his wealth and used it.

He was bored. He started to communicate face to face with the new humans, but most of them just ran away from him. They didn't understand the spirit, and they were afraid of his voice. He wondered what kind of other ghosts did to they in the past, to give this kind of reaction.

He slowly learnt that there is no reasoning with them. The natives disappeared, and he doesn't know if they ever came back. They at the least listened to his advices.

As the years passed the city became more and more crowded. He couldn't see the northern lights anymore. The stars are faded from the view too. He gotten further and further from the nature, and the humans and their pets were the only things whose walked in his city.

He wanted to be free so badly. He would give up his immortality to get out.

Then the first child murder happened. He just looked away for a moment, and Casper Highschool became the first place which got haunted by an other ghost.

He was angry and sad. He was a Zone born. He never though that he will be a witness an Earthly ghost born.

He slowly get to know him. And apologized, for not being here for Sydney. He learned almost too late, that the homicided ghost are vengeful. The grey boy almost killed his bullies when Amity stepped in, and locked away in a mirror dimension.

Then he started looking after the students closer.

One day ghost hunters settled down in his property. He was curious about them, but he was also careful. He started to follow around their son. He was more sensitive than other people. Sometimes he should have sworn the boy noticed him, but the boy just shook his head and went further.

In a summer day when the boy was with his friends, Amity felt something. The change was there again.

The boy and his friends went down to the lab where was the non-working portal to the Zone. To his old home.

Amity saw as the boy stepped inside of it. Amity ran after him. But it was too late for the boy. Green lightning spread across his body

For a moment everything freezed. Amity became visible, and the boy saw him too. Amity knew this is Clockwork sign, and he has to decide fast what he wants from the future.

��Danny, I give you a second chance to live. In exchange you have to take me in. You won't remember anything about this speech.

—What is the catch?

—You will have a ghost side with my powers, and thoughts, If you don't accept me there is no certainity that you will have clear mind as full ghost.

—I feel like I don't have a chance- Daniel took Amity's hand, and the time was clicking again.

[cheemken]

More villain au stuff tho sorry cause I've been thinking™

Like,, what if the Unova kids did get through Dia for some fucking reason

No no, just hear me out, a lil what if scenario yknow hahaha

Like the Great Dragon is there staring down at Dia, Gira, and Yveltal, and like this was probs the first time that Iris, and even the rest of the Champions, ever saw Diantha lose her composure. Bc she didn't predict Zekrom to still be active, that her own pkmn could be taken down, that for once she was the one being cornered, and that kinda messed her up. Like imagine being the most dangerous Champion bc you're always ten steps ahead of everyone, and suddenly you miscalculated a risk now you're lagging behind, shackled as you couldn't take another step, like being trapped in chess, that no matter where you move your king, a rook, a bishop, and a queen would be right around the corner waiting to kill it.

And just chmdndn Dia being so vulnerable at that moment, her mind is running like crazy, thinking of a way to turn the tides still, but shit man everything's so hazy for her, she's still reeling over the fact that the kids bested her, that they still had one more trump card up their sleeves, and she fucking hated it

But like,, yknow, imagine if the kids did try getting through her, to find out just what drove her into doing all this, or at least let her get a taste of her own medicine. Hilbert was still pissed at her yknow, Diantha did some pretty horrible things, and he wants her to feel that pain too, imagine him just going "how would you feel if we kill someone close to you?! It'd feel like shit wouldn't it?!"

And Dia's there laughing like crazy, it's so fucking surreal seeing her like that, and she goes "my brother is safe. My League is safe. I made sure nothing will happen to them." But damn tho imagine if that really got through to her and got her paranoid abt it

Cheren noticing that and he's there stepping up standing next to Hilbert, all "and how are you sure of that? You're not in Kalos with them."

Dia laughs at that, finally catching her breath, she brings a hand to her head, sweeping her hair back a bit, wiping along blood and tears and sweat, she then looks at them, her posture finally upright again, "you're honestly playing this game with me? I have my informants back at Kalos that report back to me, the same way I have them here in Unova."

And ofc, that kinda set them off cause holy shit WHAT, then again no wonder they knew abt Iris' battle w Hilbert. But also damn Diantha's determination was also smth else, that despite being caught off guard, she got herself back up to her feet, and they know better than to just be confident that they can easily win, they may have the Original Dragon now, but they know that what Diantha lacked w great offence she makes up for her strategies, and they'd rather not test that, especially w how desperate she is now

[wickedlybadass]

I think Trump would’ve won in 2020 if there wasn’t a pandemic. America clearly thinks they can’t live without him. Oh, dear! What are they gonna do in 2028?!

Well, there’s only one thing that’s good. Once this term is over, Trump can’t run again so might as well get the next 4 years over with.

So Trump won. That means money talks, racism wins, sexism wins, nepotism wins, women don’t get to choose what they do with their bodies, hatred wins, trans are “fags,” you don’t get to come to the country unless you’re white and from a country who allied with America, any dangerous convicted criminals can become president and get away from being sentenced, bullying wins, intimidation wins, violence wins and misinformation that puts people in danger wins.

We need a leader. How was millions of people in America dying from a deadly virus leadership?

I get people were unhappy especially with the economy. If economy was so significant, then why didn’t he win in 2020? If you say because the election was rigged, that was a waste of time because I’ll just block your fucking ass so don’t bother. I’m sure part of the reason why the economy sucked is because people were lazy to get jobs, because they got fired and decided to blame Biden just like they blamed him for everything and because people spent too money on crap instead of learning to budget their money and spending it on bills and other things worthy.

People were unhappy about “Illegals” coming in. Funny how that was a top priority and not healthcare or housing. I guess people would rather be homeless and dying than let someone with a plastic knife cross the border just because they’re not white or because they’re poor and from a country that caused 9/11 even though they were never even a part of it. It might be a shock to a lot of people but we do already have a lot of violent criminals who are originally from America. Pretty astonishing, isn’t it? People who want immigrants out are clearly hiding their racism and nepotism because they’re narrow minded bigots. I bet Trump is going to close the border to all immigrants, even law-abiding ones who would’ve been considered legal. Remember when he banned Muslims in 2016? Yea, it was temporary but some people can see through his “intentions.” He just made the ban temporary just to make it look like he’s not a nepotistic person but we saw who he really was. He had a lot of “interesting” things to say about un-American people, calling foreigners animals, Mexicans “rapists and drug smugglers,” claimed everyone from Haiti had AIDS and he wanted to ban everyone from Syria because he “didn’t want to take a chance.” Oh, please, give me a break!

People have ignored the foundation of America that our Founding Fathers created America based on. That’s based on love, compassion, integrity, freedom integrity and dignity. Trump is none of those. Instead, because of Trump’s powerful influence, people want to fight dirty and put others in danger. Now we had January 6th, millions of deaths from Covid and a dangerous man running this country because money talks and because hatred just won. Trump have threatened America and people are okay with that as long as they get more money than they need because they can’t learn to budget (young people can’t even hand write!) and are greedy and they’d die on the streets sick and homeless in order to keep out the “fags,” “niggers,” “slopes” and whatever else you want to call them!

After reading what might have gone wrong, I admit that Harris didn’t have the best campaign and should have distanced herself from Biden instead of just continuing his politics so she would have her own plans because clearly, Biden’s approval rating was tanking. We had no choice but to choose between Trump and Harris (though you could’ve elected a Green Party or Libertarian). You just chose the worst of the two. Only thing that went wrong was Harris’ campaign. If she wants to run for president again, she needs to fire her campaign manager and get a whole new team.

Harris was going to help us get back to the foundation of this country: love, compassion, happiness, integrity, dignity and freedom but clearly America will forever change because Trump, a powerful and manipulative cult leader, convinced America that greed, hatred, corruption, control, violence and death were better ways to live in America.

if we’re going to live as happy, healthy and compassionate people, something needs to change back before Donald Trump came into the picture. For one thing, the MAGA movement needs to die down. I don’t care if we’re getting a republican president or if the House and Senate are being controlled by the MAGA. Democrats need to step up their fight to get America’s original foundations back, something our Founding Fathers intended for us. Why? Because before you know it, black and white Americans won’t be able to work together or get an education together or ride the same bus together. Gay people will be put in jail. Women who even steps into an abortion clinic will be put in prison, all the rich will be allowed to do what they want with their money, blowing money away on fancy clothes and property instead of donating them to starving children while middle class families have work harder to put food on the table, people coming in from Canada will be killed. All those will happen because of corruption, greed, fear and hatred. Get the message?

Democrats have a ton of work to do to get back on track before Donald Trump took control of America and created the MAGA movement!

[mandy4ever69420]

i don’t think there’s anything wrong with being interested in iggy for example, there’s no actual indication that he is a nazi so? but also i really don’t give a fuck about him lmao but if people do then that’s ok imo

i mean he stands out a bit from the others in that he hits mickey with "no offense bro" & must only be a year (or MAYBE 2 --i really cant imagine mickey under 16 in s1 but it's not specified) older than mickey given he was in juvie early s1. so i mean we have vague inclinations that he specifically might be fine or whatever. maybe. although some people make "exceptions" to their bigotry for one guy they like. but in general being into older milkovich #4 or wanting to know more milkoviches is very worrying to me. iggy interest is inexplicable but like. fine i guess.

usually i'd agree it's not reasonable to assume the worst of someone but if someone's entire social circle and family is violent white supremacists, it's highly likely they learned those behaviors and viewpoints. like.. id be appreciative if baron trump or hunter biden decided to go on record as a commie in support of BLM but i'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt in the meantime

there's a point to be made also about how: yeah, definitely most of these characters probably grew up horribly & that that doesn't change that their actions & beliefs are very very dangerous which doesn't change that their pain was real. this is a very shameless-esque point to make. it's not one people show interest in as far as i've seen. for some reason people just want to rewrite mickeys family into being nice guys w one bad dad.

framing more of the family as less indoctrinated is also just less flattering to mickey (&mandy) imo. it's natural for anyone raised in that environment to have some fucked up ideas & i think it's fun that mickey has a subtle indication of having grappled with and eventually rejecting those - his racism exists but is never remotely as intense as when we see his family tormenting liam which suggests he already thought this might be fucked up, but we don't see him state openly that he thinks racism is fucked up until much later in the series. idrgaf about his reasoning for fucking with kash but it's entirely possible that in addition to noticing that linda was a hard ass and kash a coward that mickey saw him as an acceptable target in s1 because of his race. it sort of undermines his (&mandy's) intelligence or care for right&wrong to imply that most or all their siblings rejected this. they were very heavily propagandized

mandy tbh is The weird one for not being a particularly hated minority (like mickey or sandy) by her family and still not subscribing to homophobia - apparently a central concern to this family - or probably overt racism. not that dating a person of color makes someone not racist. again, people make "exceptions" & tom brady is a racist fuck who works with Black teammates just fine. plenty of white women are horrible right wing racist homophobes & mandy falls into some really nightmarish internalized misogyny - it's possible she thinks it's LESS bad because it hurts her and people like her than if it hurt others. being a girl doesn't give her the same perspective on her family's specific right wing ideology that being gay in a very gay hating house does. she did that all on her own. so good job i guess

[the-firebird69]

frankenstie comedy - Google Search

I wrote this and I didn't catch what he was saying. Saying it's very very important. Well you'll see him doing is putting a new brain in to someone else's body and you can see that it looks like Dave and the guy is not really stupid and we think that the Frankenstein body is our friend here and it sounds like the Frankenstein is pretty smart hides ducks does a lot of stuff the question is where's the other one and you'll be surprised and he said he is dr Frankenstein because he wants his brother to switch it back using the robot so this is how it goes I read this and I it makes sense it has something to do with my life and he wanted to switch it around and it's now this idiot Trump who who for some reason thinks he can switch brains with him and hold himself hold him hostage and clear his name and have people think it's him. It's horrible he's been doing it as Trump and he is doping on Dolores or something and knows where she is And he's got thin blood a lot and weak bones and the guy is an idiot And he is sicker than hell and he says he's her and it's like well mom can do that pretty good and I now see something these people are dangerous. And the computers are doing it and the more on things that he runs those and he simply does not GHWB wanted to switch the brothers brains And this guy Trump is doing brain surgery on a lot of people and he's not qualified at all. The Borg ships are by GHWB and the program can react to almost any virus and route it out and take control over it and GHWB has facilities that are much larger and all over the world because we looked and it all matches where people are disappearing and the stuff is haywire and he's gonna control these cities from beyond the grave if that's where he is and people like Trump say he's still there and we find out later that usually he's lying because he's hiding the fact that he screws everything up And our friend here says it's probably a bit richer now and it's not people who are in the grave running it and it's definitely not Trump he is a boob. i wills ay one thing trump is emphaitc that i believe it his him doing the robot compuer meg computer stuff and i ask how is the laers light computer buit he hs no clue nd ok the hardware coutnered your viruses.a nd mmore and no i rigged it and i laughed oh come on done befoe you left your own ship and we saw pods go onto your ship. and he says so hat we disabled them nd argues adn gts nailed by us and later others. and it wont stop until he isdead and gone he is so stupid and annoyine as all hell he was rigt it is this incessnt calf rump

brad