#Promises Defended

[v-a-l]

The Unbroken Universe has truly ruined my life because simply nothing fucks as hard as this:

Voldemort looked up at him calmly, his voice surprisingly compassionate. "You won't save them, my friend. They're beyond that."

“I know." Sirius smiled a bittersweet smile. "But I don't have to save them. I just have to stop you."

“So you do." At last, Voldemort rose. "Then may this be our final meeting, for I would hate to see you die.”

Chapter 28; Promises Defended

Fifteen year old me read this once and hasn’t looked back since.

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[gorgynei]

hating the prime deities is so hard for me because when u step back from the immediate scope of c3 its like...... im sorry but these are just objectively good gods and they havent done nearly enough harm to warrant attempting to kill them or forcibly oust them. yes the calamity was bad. but they recognized that and removed power from themselves as a result. they caused the fall of aeor. that wasnt their intention and the gods clearly didnt like that outcome. the only time the primes have been on record being mean to mortals and not been shown to regret it was during the immediate buildup to ludinus literally trying to kill them (ie. if ludinus hadnt been trying to do that, they wouldnt have been cruel) AND we DO actually know that at least the dawnfather regrets that behavior. its just like. the anti gods argument makes no sense. it just makes no sense. its a pre-divergence mentality. that was 800+ years ago. get over it

[gloomygloworm]

hi i'm here to cause more problems in the fandom!

ive seen some posts recently talking about "why the hell do people WANT to see slavery in veilguard, why are they so obsessed with oppression?" and i can answer this, as a brand new member of the fandom!

cause i had no fucking idea that elves were considered second class citizens until my friends told me!

i had no idea that the crows were so severely flawed, or that the antaam were proud warriors (other than canon fodder,) or that minrathous and tevinter as a whole had this huge problem with slavery.

i just yesterday after doing research into other games discovered alienages, about the dales, about who andraste was and who shartan was. because even reading the codex entries the game seems to fail to make any general connection to all previous games and the world they crafted at all! what the fuck is the chant of light? whats the major religion? what IS andrasteism? what do you mean the crows buy children and torture them - what do you mean they arent just exaggerated circus clowns that kill people? i get it, part of it is perspective. but you'd think dock town - a VERY POOR section of minrathous, would have an alienage? that we'd see more elves doing menial labor or trailing behind nobles as slaves?

also i keep hearing shit about the viper being the pope? or tarquin? where the hell is this info? quite frankly the game doesnt make the codex tempting enough for me to want to 100% it (ESPECIALLY finding out about this terrible "secret ending" that makes me fear picking up ANY MORE codex entries since i already have 2 out of the 3 you need to get it???)

the obsession with slavery isnt because i want to be oppressed, if i wanted that all i have to do is go be in public because im both queer and disabled living in a red state. its about what THEYYYYY the GAME CREATORS put in their own game. slavery! which now, despite how RAMPANT it supposedly is, i have no clue about! i only know about half the shit i do because my friends have been in the fandom a decade and im playing through origins now with them. which, btw, whoa what a game! not afraid to be icy and bitchy and HARSH in an environment where they cultivated that exact reaction.

i like the scenery in veilguard. i like the amount of mingling npcs in locations that make it feel more full, i like the soundtrack and the graphics and the companions as characters. i dont like the story! i dont like the lack of environmental storytelling or the discrepancies in information that i feel like i should know. it feels like its taken the same landslide that pokemon has - going from being called a loser by Gary to having no less than 3 best friends at any given time. There's such a lack of conflict like the game is scared to express the spectrum of emotions and personalities that people deal with day to day. i like my escapism the same as anyone else but if im walking through a city known for treating elves like second class citizens no i wont be surprised if im called a "knife ear" casually by some drunk moron who cant even stand straight.

no ones looking to be oppressed. we're looking for what you advertised to people ages ago - a complex story with serious consequences for the actions of others!

[demigods-posts]

i was sitting in my room thinking of how convenient it is that the books in the pjo series takes places before or after the school year. then i remembered that ttc happened during winter break. and that percy and annabeth likely returned for their second semester after that quest. what a tragedy.

[yougart]

"ooo amanda's a crazy psycho murderer"

"amanda is evillll"

"amanda's so deranged arggg"

"amanda killed adam oooo I sure do hate amanda"

literally amanda:

[thestrangesthell]

Here’s an idea: if you think fiction affects reality so much that you feel a need to send death threats (a criminal offence btw) to people over the fictional characters they choose to ship, maybe you shouldn’t be on the internet.

You know, since the very thought of these fictional characters being paired together makes you lash out at real, physical, living people. Even though fictional characters cannot be hurt. Maybe talk to someone about why that is.

Just a thought.

[day-mark]

nrg this is why i fuck with you even if you continue to lose and embarrass yourselves every match

[banditblvd]

Prime defenders but it’s only the stupidest things I���ve drawn for them

Banimatic

[seolinguk]

Jung Joon Won as Ku Do Won - Episode 2 RESIDENT PLAYBOOK 언젠가는 슬기로울 전공의 생활 (2025)

[emzyfangirly]

i am very particular about the fact that i wholeheartedly believe in mike wheeler being specifically gay as opposed to bi

[topimpabunny]

Caitlyn Kiramman headcanon is that she loves dating a girl who doesn't have a car so her gf can be a passenger princess I don't make the rules

[razzledazzlin]

i think about the voltron healing pods a lot cause like. what i wouldn’t give to be able to just ✨magically fix everything✨ and have a chance at starting over

[emotionaloof]

merry crisis, have a third chapter

no, i have no explanation why in hanahaki au there's kettle time

[ovaryacted]

I’ve been laughing about this whole topic since yesterday not because it’s funny, it’s absolutely not, but because it’s fucking ridiculous that we are giving history lessons on racism and the people who have been calling this shit out for months are right and have been right despite the constant gaslighting.

Do you know how crazy it is to be a non-American 40 year old conscious human being and intentionally use racist & violent American imagery in a fic for an incredibly minuscule character played by a Latino man of color who’s the child of political refugees? Do you know how crazy it is to also have a reader-insert acknowledge the confederate flag, and still fuck the person that hangs it in their space? Like do y’all see how fucking crazy that shit is? It’s insane just typing that out. When I said y’all move like the feds in this fandom preaching about inclusion & community in one breath while doing the very thing that jeopardizes and harms those that are excluded from said “community”, I meant that shit, and I was right.

As much as we like to deny it, writers have their own motivations and intentions for creating and sharing the projects that they do. If you as a writer actively choose to add racist themes in your writing to intentionally make a character problematic, it’s a reflection of who you are, because you didn’t need to do that and yet you still decided to do it anyway. Would you as black American want to read a fic where the reader insert fucks a racist? No. Then why do you as a white person, especially a non-American, think it’s okay to do the same? Would you fuck a racist? By the way some of y’all keep dismissing the intentions, that’s up for debate because a lot of y’all would rather fetishize the shit out of that man than have a lick of common sense.

If you really are a “brilliant” writer and person, you’d practice what you fucking preached and wouldn’t need to add racism in your fics when we have enough of that shit in real life. Instead, all you are is a coward, a hypocrite, and a loser and that’s all there is to it. This goes beyond fandom and community, this is real life. And if you have a problem with BIPOC individuals in particular talking about this and setting y’all straight, I suggest shutting the fuck up and opening your ears since you’re not gonna fix your mouths to be the allies and advocates y’all say you are. 🤷‍♀️

[contradictory-label-culture-is]

I have been reminded of how much i hate the people who defended the lesboy label when someone makes a post hating on trans guy lesbians and say shit like "omg no lesboy is for like Butchs or genderfluid yada yada yada yada, not trans men, it's soo misunderstood 🥺"