#Marcotte

[mitsulyvan]

choosing Marcotte's rinophore pattern was a pain

[feedbaylenny]

Taser ‘achieved complete neuromuscular incapacitation,’ runaway suspect ‘fell to the ground’ before latest arrest

BUSHNELL, Fla. – A felon who spent years in state prison would’ve marked the tenth anniversary of his release – if he chose to do so – back behind bars, where he’s being held without bond on six new criminal charges. He’s also recovering after two Taser probes hit him in the back and forced him to the ground while he was trying to run away. Steven Mark Marcotte’s latest trouble started as a…

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[mintyminie-hl]

ratatouille

My stupid little critters hehe

I've recently become obsessed with the game and I needed an outlet, so I made a blog for it! I have issues keeping up with multiple twitter accounts (it also gives me stress nowadays) but this might work out who knows :^D

[m1d-45]

Literally a lurker on your blog since ur early days but too shy to slide into ur ask box, hiii!!! I keep seeing cryo anon and teddy anon's brainrots and asks,,,, and like, regarding post impostor AU hehe

imagine after the hunt when your fave character/vessel begs you for forgiveness the most, practically turning their voice hoarse from their pleas to share just a bit of your mercy....

(you never showed your face to them, even when they were your most favored. how selfish of them, wanting more than they could ever deserve. but they can't help it. if you wanted them to die a thousand times over to repent, they would. just please, look at them again.)

post imposter au always tickles an itch in my brain I've never known existed. angry creator? boiling hot rage creator for their acolytes killing them when they've shown nothing but love and kindness for this world?? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP LORD

I wanna see guilt. And I mean GUILT. it's probably cause I'm petty asf and if I would be killed over and over and over again only for them to realize I'm not the fake I would literally lock myself up in whatever tower they built for me and never talk again. Creator's trust? Shattered, irreparable. Followers? Wallowing in the despair.

Thank u and goodbye heh. If it's not too much, can I be called Marcotte anon? Hehe fontaine reference hhhh,, anyways have a good day ily and ur fics <3

post-hunt can be incredibly good, entirely agree

the love you felt for the world is so strong already, and it only grows as you finally get to teyvat. being here, feeling the elemental energy, feeling the world greet you as you return after your rest.. what hate is more powerful than a love turned rotten?

you hid behind your veil, uncertain if you’re protecting yourself or them. it hurts to see their eyes tearing up as they plead, but what else are you to do? your hands shake when they draw close, and you can’t erase your own memory.

(you’d know. you asked nahida about it, but she’d only shaken her head. all she could do was clear the memories of teyvat, but not yours. it hurt, but was probably for the best.)

(despite it being a failure, that day was the calmest you’d felt in weeks. she was easy to talk to, and made lovely tea. perhaps you should visit again, if only to take a break from… everything.)

your solitude is comfortable, most of the time. a few of the hunters are a bit too comfortable with their sin, and are the ones tasked with bringing you food and other necessities. it’s not much better, though, since you can still see the guilt sinking in their eyes.

it’s a lose-lose all around. you want to see them, you want to see the world, but every leaf and branch is stained with the memories of the past, what used to be your favorite retreat now something else to hide from.

part of you is angry. furious at how easily they were tricked. it’s hard to stay mad at those you love, though, so you end up sitting in your window and watching the wind blow safely behind glass. your tea is from inazuma, this time, the faint edge of bitterness keeping you from sinking too far into much of anything.

leaves dance in the breeze. you won’t be seen again until they’ve long turned brown.

[tanlorin]

BABY'S FIRST SCROLL RUN!!!!!!!!!!!

[protoslacker]

Myron Cope

I strongly agreed with Amanda Marcotte's Salon piece, House of hate: Republicans in Congress turn MAGA harassment campaign against trans colleague. Marcotte points out that bullying isolates the victim, because people don't want the mob turning on them. But she emphasizes that truth and power in "There's safety in numbers." Standing with victims of bullying is standing for them.

I was reminded of Myron Cope a Pittsburgh sports journalist who died in 2008. I have very little interest in sports. But in the olden days, if cars had radios in them at all they were most often AM radios, Certainly the pickup truck I drove had no FM capacity. So on my commutes I listened to Myron Cope On Sports.

Myron Cope was a mensch and so many people in Pittsburgh loved him. On his regular talk show he did old school journalism. He got the names of high school players and coaches and filled-in with information so his audience could picture a person who fit those names. It wasn't just stats and wins and losses. Most of the time the portraits were very complimentary.

For me, someone who hardly followed sports at all, a big reason I loved him was he called out gay bashing and bigorty on his show. I feel sure that Myron Cope made many others step up for gay people and against violence against us. It's probably not something that lots of people remember about Myron Cope, but I think almost everyone would say of him that he stood with the underdogs. It's a reason his memory is a blessing to me.

The Wikipedia article is pretty good: Myron Cope.

[peaceinthestorm]

Marie Antoinette Marcotte (1869-1929, French) ~ Young Girl at the Fence, n/d

[Source: nouvellesbranches.fr]

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[worldsofzzt]

Source “Parker World” by Parker Marcotte [PARKERW.ZZT] - “YOUR ROOM” Play This World Online ---- Discover More Information About This World on the Museum of ZZT

[mintyminie-hl]

t h e v o i c e s

they're so cute what do i do with myself I wish there was more Garreth content in the game sighhh

I should probably calm down on the coloring too before I burn myself out trying to do these comic pages lol

[austerlitzborodinoleipzig]

I wanted to be so mad at RikuRyu during their SP. There's barely any choreo in it, it's empty AF... And then they flew past that step sequence (those skating skills....) and they did THAT entrance into the death spiral

[m1d-45]

hey (with the utmost affection for you)

what do you think about the creator being weak to plushies aka the different companions/animals associated with characters? just felt like i wanted to nom some of them so hard rn,,,, they're so unbearably cute. Pers? Rosseland? Colleis bunny thingy, GUOBAAAAAA oh and and baron bunny and scaras cat sprite [heart eyes] they're so squishable and nommable that I want to keep them forever and ever and just treat them all well tbh

it would give rise to some super weird and mostly funny dynamics. your followers/acolytes know how to temper their envy for how you seem so keen on babying them when they're right there...... the sillies

I'm thinking rosseland in your lap, guoba on top of your head, and baron bunny and collei's bunny sleeping on each of your sides. Just genshin character companion appreciation rn ☹️

- marcotte anon

ENTIRELY valid about all of this

brief note that while baron bunny is an explosive amber made, i’m like 90% sure cuilein anbar is something collei made and keeps for personal comfort and hence something im not going to touch, but other than that..

imagine it extends to most animals near them, which i say just because of diluc’s bird. “can you send this letter quickly” sorry, their divine highness has taken him. no more bird.

you visit inazuma and are near constantly followed by butterflies (gorou has a field day when you visit watatsumi). xiangling invites you to wanmin, but you spend most of the time talking with guoba instead. amber ends up making you a non-explosive baron bunny, which you keep close for the extent of your trip to mondstat.

in fontaine, aside from the fact that melusines adore you—their father did too—the various inventors there have certainly received news of your preferences. it doesn’t matter much, though, since when rosseland butted into your leg, you quickly forgot about the clockwork toys you were trying to be given. you picked him up and walked toward where lyney and lynette were calling for him, but when you tried to give him back, he simply curled around your neck, purring. you ended up staying for dinner, after which freminet shyly offered you pers. with a bit of prompting, he told you about all the upgrades hes made over the years, and you listened long after the sun set.

[tanlorin]

looks at my (dc) pvp toon. mwah

[macaroni-rascal]

M/K with two fantastic programs, with actual energy and personality, with excellent music, choreographed by Shae-Lynn and MF, this is the best timeline

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Amanda Marcotte at Salon:

Attempts by Donald Trump and his MAGA minions to create plausible deniability of their violent intentions are getting less plausible by the day. Take for instance the uproar caused last week when Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, threatened a violent crackdown if Trump returns to the White House. "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be," Roberts told host of Real America's Voice Dave Brat, a former congressman who spent his brief time in government claiming the attendees of the Women's March are much more dangerous than white supremacists. Roberts' right-wing group is the primary driver of Project 2025, an initiative that has done the organizing and policy work to turn Trump's dreams of being a far-right dictator into a reality. 

The word "if" is meant to be doing a lot of work there. From Trump on down, the MAGA protocol when issuing violent threats has been to couch them in ambiguous wording. For instance, Trump dropped one "peaceful" in his speech telling the MAGA crowd to "march on" the Capitol on January 2021. Another gambit is to claim the threat is a "warning," as if any violence that could result when Trump doesn't get his way is random and not the direct result of his "warnings." And, of course, there are the fake claims of "self-defense," where Trump and his allies voice violent fantasies justified by imaginary victimization at the hands of "antifa."  The Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, let loose with this recommendation at a recent campaign stop: "Some folks need killing!" Robinson hollered this in a thoroughly paranoid and overheated speech inside a church, calling "killing" a "matter of necessity!" But even here, we can see Robinson trying to construct some wiggle room for himself, by being vague about which people "need killing." 

[...] It's a favorite trick of Trump's, to claim his violent intent is aimed only at a few extremists. For instance, Trump called his fellow Americans "vermin" and implied they needed elimination, but caveated it by saying he's talking about "Communists, Marxists, Fascist and Radical Left Thugs." Anyone who is reassured by this, however, should note that these are the words Trump uses to describe anyone to the left of Steve Bannon, so really, it's not a small group at all. 

Roberts, similarly, appears to be trying the "self-defense" tactic with this "if." But in his excitement over the Supreme Court granting Trump the powers of a dictator, Roberts gives up the wiggle room used to deny that threats are threats. The "choice" offered Trump's opponents is to bend the knee or face the sword. Most people, even journalists wishing to avoid arguments over what a fascist "really" means with their barely-coded threats, can see that there is no choice at all.  Even after the events of January 6, there's often a media skittishness around discussing Trump's eagerness to use violence to silence his political opponents. Understandably so, because every time the press points out that Trump uses unsubtle language and gestures to threaten violence, a sea of disingenuous actors rise up to berate journalists into exhaustion with bad faith claims that Trump is merely "joking" or being "metaphorical." Report accurately that Trump warned of a "bloodbath" if he loses or that he posted an image depicting President Joe Biden being kidnapped, and prepare for the dogpile of gaslighting Republicans declaring they only see someone suffering "Trump derangement syndrome." Of course it is all lies, but journalists fear being seen as hyperbolic or biased, so the bullying works. 

The idea that only pants-wetters would see violence in Trump's rhetoric goes back to the 2016 campaign when journalist Salena Zito wrote in the Atlantic that Trump supporters take their leader "seriously but not literally." Since then, Zito has been exposed as a shoddy "journalist" who, uh, massaged the truth to create Trump-friendly narratives in the press. Her gambit was, in retrospect, obvious enough in its purpose: To browbeat into silence anyone who might raise the alarm about Trump's violent rhetoric, out of fear of being ridiculed as someone who can't take a joke. 

It's become an article of faith in GOP circles that January 6 wasn't violent or was the FBI/antifa or that Trump didn't do it — the excuse changes by the minute. That allows Republicans to ignore the dispositive fact that Trump literally means the terrible things he says, to the point where Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., smoothly lies to cameras by denying Trump's criminal behavior. But, as Roberts's threat of violent suppression of "the left" shows, the ability of Republicans to pretend it's all just a laugh is eroding quickly. 

[...] We should take this seriously, and not just because January 6 proved that MAGA means all the violent talk. Both the comments by Robinson and Roberts show that the MAGA threats are losing the thick swaddling of plausible deniability that they used to have. They're barely trying to pretend there's an "if" in there at all. The yearning to unleash violence on the majority of Americans who oppose the fascist project is right there on the surface. It's very much like MAGA activists know they're on the brink of being able to go hog wild, and can no longer contain their excitement. 

The MAGA threats of violence towards those who oppose their twisted anti-American agenda need to be taken BOTH seriously and literally, as Amanda Marcotte perfectly explains in her Salon column.