#POWER STRUGGLES!!!! POLITICS!!!!!
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so I’ve got the empress of ayodhaya (with mai davika) and scarlet heart thailand (with tu tontawan) to look forward to….. icb i’m finally getting some big budget female-led historical thai dramas about political power struggles 😭😭 i have waited so long for this
#I’ve waited so long for more boran lakorns that aren’t only romances 😭😭 (well scarlet heart is going to have romance but i will ignore ❤️)#POWER STRUGGLES!!!! POLITICS!!!!!#historical political dramas are my number one favourite genre and always have been#i need scope i need scheming i need it alllllll#the empress of ayodhaya#scarlet heart thailand#AND with two of the most talented actresses working atm.... i'm very normal about this#ummm but i need to look up the male cast of scarlet heart because i was NOT paying attention to them#did i see win as the ml? dude’s gonna get curbstomped in the acting skills department 😬🙈#god I hope the rest of the demand cast is good. please don’t just focus on the men gmmtv#i mean it’s p’fon directing so I’m hopeful!!!!!#ellistxt#tangentially related but sri ayodhaya 2017 has been on my list for ages.... maybe this is my sign to finally get around to it
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so i saw this old-ish post about an au centering around a villain lewis and a hero arthur,,, and i. may have gotten attached to it,, dkdndkdjs. so i decided to make some edits + doodles based on it!! i also really wanna make a lil oneshot about it as well,, but uh... whether or not i actually follow through on that, we'll see,, skdjsojdks.
edit: good news, gang,, i wrote the fic!!
#my art#mystery skulls animated#lewis pepper#msa lewis#arthur kingsmen#msa arthur#really happy with how their designs came out !!!#it was a bit of a struggle to make lewis not just look like how he is in canon but with a cape;;#but i think the patterns + sugar skull makeup help a lot!#imagining lewis has the power to just turn into a ghost form;; which he uses for villain stuff. think danny phantom#(<- has never watched danny phantom)#and arthur's just kinda like batman; makes his own gadgets and stuff! i imagine his metal arm also has some fun doodads in it#still debating on why exactly arthur is so beat up in the potential fic; so far i'm thinking maybeeee reverb?#or maybe just some unknown new villain guy#and yes i know there's additions in the post i linked where everyone agrees it was actually mystery#not even murder mystery just. mystery.#i am politely ignoring that. bc i don't like that.#mystery is just vivi's not-dog in my version of this au.#'vivi please don't try and break into a dangerous supervillain's lair to try and rescue some hero' he says to her#meanwhile vivi's already halfway there#being vivi's dog is a full-time job
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Sorry no meta this time I'm just fucking obsessed with this interaction and wanted to share it!
Particularly his little "What?" that's the perfect blend between delight and surprise at your audacity. Plus you can call him a good boy and he calls you a cheeky little pup!! The way he says please? I CANNOT with this shit!! Are you seeing this shit???
I'm going insane.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#astarion#astarion x tav#worsties to lovers#oc: hiraeth#you need a diagram to figure out their power struggles in bed#they have the intimate politics of a small war-torn nation#ALSO why is astarion always the only one with an icon over his head? it's been this way in both my playthroughs so far#it's like the game knows what i am
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Say about Luke what you want, but would he have been Roman he'd have punted Octavian into the sun by the time TLT rolled around.
#listen I don't hate Octavian; I actually find him quite interesting tbh#but you CANNOT tell me that Luke would not have beef with him to the point of Octavian “mysteriously” going missing one night#before his body “somehow” turns up face down in a river somewhere#homeboy led a revolution against the GODS#you think he would deal with Octavian's power struggle; political manipulation; borderline corrupt ahh practices???#yeah no he's gonna murder him and never be found out#pjo#luke castellan#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo octavian#camp jupiter
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I just beat the Royal Academy section of Metaphor: reFantazio and I just. I had to sit there with the revelation that we've passed the point of 'this is a GOTY frontrunner for me' and have entered the territory of 'if this sticks the landing- and god I think it's shaping up to do just that- it's going up there with Shadow Hearts: Covenant and Final Fantasy X as one of my favorite video games of all time.'
#m:rf#metaphor: refantazio#it's so so so good I can't#it boogles my mind#and it is so good while being EXACTLY my shit#when we hit the reveal about Rella I fucking LOST IT#the parallels between her and Fidelio her and eupha#grideux's quite admission that he too was one of one of the weak that rella was struggling to save#a revelation that breaks something inside of him#everything at altarburry is just banger choice after banger story choice#all these politics and power struggles and epic clashes of destiny#and beneath it all is quite humanity#human pain and love and anxiety and courage#Fordan and Louis are so consumed by their pride and their greed that they are blind to it#but the game dosen't elevate their point of view#it elevates rella and fidelio#junah and basilio#their pain and their struggles are centered in this moment#not grand men battling over destiny#a pair of siblings who could not be more different#and yet are still suffering despite it all under the callous rule of the church and luis's junta
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How is it this close? How is that fucking possible? How are the odds against us? How are so many people so eager for fascism/authoritarianism? How are so many others so eager to destroy any good along with the bad out of frustration and guilt? I want to claw my own face off from the anxiety. How do I bear this?
#personal#delete later#politics#us elections#like I get it - the US is not a benevolent utopia#there's a lot of fucked up stuff in our history and our present#we need a lot of reform and change#but that does not mean everyone in the country deserves oppression and death??#that's just...insane to me#it's so weirdly puritanical#Americans are all tainted with sin for our country's bloody imperialism (maybe)#so we all deserve to suffer as individuals and collectively? (no???)#I...was not well after last time. I have been struggling with it ever since.#I am so afraid even just for myself of what will happen#because mentally I'm not sure I will be able to stand it and I will need to. Well. Check out.#But I guess I deserve it right? for being born in a powerful country that does bad things
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leading lady of comic: I wonder why, unlike my first husband, my second husband says sweet things so easily. Is it bc he's younger than me? is it bc he used to be kind of a slut?"
me, chin in hands and kicking my feet: ma'am. I think your lawfully wedded boytoy is in love with u
#'character who is incredibly smart at planning political moves but doesn't process emotions at all' is such a great trope#you see if it's a character dissonance thing rather than a plot contrivance ... it's a satisfying arc!!!#the smartest people can struggle with the most obvious stuff. especially if you're a seasoned leader who has been married before but only#now has fallen in love! this is new territory for her! all the booksmarts in the world can't save her#like. her ability to control the tides kf both local nobilty and powerful international figures is a testament to her social skills#but like. figuring out what everyone in the room wants and playing them off each other is sooooo different from. noticing the little#and big ways someone loves you and only you. and reciprocating them because you love this person too.#IT'S SO FUN WATCHING HER SUCCEED AND STUMBLE AND GROW!!#even if the world building is a little helter-skelter i can forgive this because the character arcs of the main lady and her friends are fun#the remarried empress#snowswords
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So I’m still working on the All Ancients Disappear au page for Dark Choco, but this has just been something from there that I’ve been wanting to make for a while because I thought it was funny, so I thought I��d just show you on its own
While I plan to tell this in the full page, I might as well give you some context. So in the Dark Cacao Kingdom, with the king gone, there’s trouble finding someone to properly replace him, considering that the prince is far too young. The First Watcher is put in charge, and they’re trying their best, but it’s not the same. The kingdom holds out for a bit, but with the increasing conflict and no one being able to truly fill Dark Cacao’s role, things start getting worse. This all comes to a head when one day, the Licorice Sea makes a particularly powerful attack, and because the inner conflict inside the Citadel has caused them to somewhat neglect the Wall, it ends up falling and the monsters get in the citadel. While the Watchers put up a fight, it’s ultimately too much and the Citadel ends up falling
Meanwhile, Toffee Cookie (aka Second Watcher), whom I’m keeping as Dark Choco’s caretaker when he was young, saw the attack and decided to take the prince somewhere safe, and when it became clear that the Citadel wouldn’t hold, he fled with him outside the Wall. Considering that the prince now has nowhere to go, Toffee took him in to raise as his own. And I’m saying that Caramel Arrow Cookie is his daughter, though right now she’s only freshly baked. And since Toffee worked at the Citadel, which is no longer standing, destroyed by the Licorice Monsters, he’s kind of out of a job, which is a bit of a problem when you’re now a single dad of two. Ultimately though they manage pull through
But yeah, the image of a stressed Toffee with his two children has just been rolling around in my head. Funny enough, this was also what got me to get back into this au, since I wanted one where Second Watcher raised Dark Choco, and this was my solution
So yeah
#cookie run#cookie run kingdom#cookie run au#all ancients disappear au#dark choco cookie#second watcher cookie#caramel arrow cookie#my au#not a poorly drawn comic#wip#technically#I’ll admit my reasoning for the kingdom falling is a bit weak#I just wanted the Dark Cacao Kingdom to fall and Dark Choco to not live as a prince#I had to try and make up something for that to happen#given all the political intrigue of the Episodes I thought a power struggle/vacuum would be fitting#thought tbh that seems more likely for the Hollyberry Kingdom#given all the noble houses#oh well I don’t really have anyone to bounce ideas off of#oh yeah Crunchy Chip will also join the family#but that comes later#my art
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Reading the second Bloodright Trilogy book and I just know the Captive Prince girlies* would love Bonds of Brass
*gender neutral
#captive prince#bonds of brass#it's got the horrors of intergalactic war with political intrigue#and gay best friends who are resigned to love eachother but should be enemies#you see their genuine affection for eachother but also the resentment you'd expect between a colonial empire and it's subjugated colony#arghhhh and the way power struggles in the plot have an influence on their relationship that niether can shake#the bloodright trilogy
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Actually athy x kiel x lucas x jenny should be endgame. All ship wars resolved by polycue ending. It would be chaotic. It would be the best thing ever. Politically it would be the most unbalanced and confusing thing ever. In and out universe people would scream "sacrilegious!!" Like some puritan while lucathyjennykiel are in the most complicated yet weirdly organized polycue ever made.
#🪐.txt#wait i gotta tag this to everyone listen to the truth#wmmap#who made me a princess#athyette#athykiel#lucathy#lukiel#idk the other ship name....#'3/4 of the ship is blood related!' yeah and?#no actually its funnier in lucas pov. imagine youre this old wizard and suddenly youre in a polycue with cousins that were politically#against each other due to power struggles and what not
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🌈+ Tommy! He’s my favorite in all honesty
I know spring dawn isn’t a colour exactly but it’s the best description - so probably I’m going with a soft yellow gold - the kind you get on a perfect spring morning, when the sun catches on the flowers, the water and the sky is a golden world of soft and gentle colours. And that’s Tommy - a promise made more than good, a sweet wise kind prince who surpasses his legend and more. (Also it says how, I was going to say delicate and that is true but it’s also the way it can been difficult to paint - to get the colours right - it’s beautiful, it is everything promised but it also reflects the way that I think Tommy’s fault is that he struggles so hard to ask for help for himself as a person and sometimes his loved ones are like ‘please please let us help you we feel like we aren’t needed’ and like, if you are far far surpassing your positive legend as both a leader and a person, how much have you internalised that you have to always be responsible for managing your own issues.
send me a rainbow emoji and an OC and I’ll assign them a colour
#otp: gold like daylight#lil and her ridiculous aus#ot3: political power trio#i love him so so much#in some ways also the fact that he is a great parent as well#means that his children feel like..:fuck how do I feel bad that he isn’t like Leaning On Me#(and struggling with the legacy)#meme
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#Studs Terkel#late stage capitalism#anti capitalism#Class war#history#capitalism#capitalist hell#fuck capitalism#socialism#marxism#leftism#karl marx#noam chomsky#the 1% club#the 1%#class warfare#class struggle#Revolution#french revolution#political repression#political revolution#power to the people#hero
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Can't imagine playing DAI without Sera.... she's essential to my Inquisitor's sanity. I cannot fathom being surrounded by oceans of insufferably self-important nobles and the local episcopal see without her to make the experience not only bearable but entertaining. Now where's my guillotine
#also without the red jenny rumours i don't trust these fuckers to mind their manners#unless they're kissing up to someone more powerful#augh sera dragon age thank you for exisiting 🙏🙏#she not only makes the game a joy. but like. she mirrors the themes of the game#her struggle for acceptance. her struggles with faith and identity#remember who scrubs your chamberpot and cooks your food. remember who changes your sheets and cleans your castle#remember the people dying in your name and the families and friends they leave behind#that!!!!! is why she's here and it's what people who insist sera “doesn't fit” the game are missing#because if you want to swan around as a politically-important religious war hero#you need to remember what that ACTUALLY means#and be reminded that you're not better than other people for it#you're just a better target#sera#dragon age#dragon age inquisition
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Friendly reminder that there’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
To my fellow Swifties, let’s recognise this.
Other than the typical immoral strategies used to earn and maintain a billion dollars, we should recognise that an individual with a billion dollars- in accumulated wealth, assets and investments-actively chooses not to ease the suffering of millions, even billions worldwide, instead hoarding a fortune that is too much for one person to reasonably spend.
#A billion dollars in reality is an alarming amount of wealth for one person to earn and maintain#A billion dollars is far more than a single person needs to survive or even enjoy life#the majority of people myself included fail to properly conceptualize just how much a billion truly is.#no one can truly be a good person while owning a billion dollars.#billionaires have the undeniable power to do something major at little cost to themselves#hoarding insane amounts of money while the majority of individuals on Earth struggle to afford basic necessities#taylor swift#taylorswift#ts#the eras tour#free palestine#the tortured poets department#ttpd#ts ttpd#swifties#environment#billionaire#current events#politics#art#artists
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a friend sent me the pod save America episode today that was about trumps hush monies case and something it mentioned was if Trump serves time it’s NY prison not federal so he would be at RIKERS. That alone seals that he won’t serve time since america would not tolerate the embarrassment of a president going to that place.
#I think it seems likely he’ll be under house given the significance of the crime#but if they give a sentence of more than 5 months#then there is risk of embarrassment of getting court approval if he wins election and needs to change residence to the White House#I really struggle with understanding the American political machine#but the one thing I think is true is that as part of maintaining its power status it can’t tolerate is losing face
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i love that when other adventuring parties are doing political games to avoid elves from gaining control on their island, laois is doing shit like this.
#im deeply deeply fascinated with the political and social power side of the dungeon#kabru is very fascinating. he's fastly growing on me#so as namari with her pov as a normal adventurer thats caught in the midst of the struggle#dunmeshi
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