#So there's that!

[kairidaily]

A Something Sunday thought: For a while, a lot of us thought this scene

was Kairi holding back from revealing her traumatic past (bc she does have trauma from Appnort grabbing her and putting her in the arc thingy). It is a common visual trope to crop out the eyes of a speaker to convey that they are hiding something, after all. However, it turns out she honestly didn't remember, according to Melody of Memory and what she said to Aqua in KH3.

Another eyes hidden trope is for a character to hide a strong emotion away from who they're speaking to like anger, fright, or what I think is going on...frustration and sadness

Ok frustration of forgetting your old home, yeah but why sadness? Well, remember the scene with Aqua I mentioned? Take a look at Kairi's expression

Yeah. Sadness :(

This is all to say....Man if they could have squeezed in Kairi exploring Radiant Garden (with Lea in there somewhere) in KH3! The angst opportunities!!! The reconnecting with the past!!!

[the-dragon-hearted]

I love it when a character starts their healing arc only to be immediately thrust back into a similar trauma that forces them to confront their older traumas while dealing with the new shit, causing their personality to be irreversibly shifted as they try to deal with everything on their own but inevitably break down and have someone there to hold them while whispering sweet empty promises like: "It's gonna be okay."

It's not gonna be okay but their lore just got SICK AS FUCK -

[supersantafemslash]

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[akiwitch]

I REALLY ENJOYED THIS WEEK'S LAST LIGHT UPDATE :D!!! i loved learning more about the libraries!

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

[carbonateddelusion]

curling up into a little ball

[empressofmankind]

If you wanna read absolutely useless Greyjoy shenanigans because I felt like writing them, then here you go.

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

[amayikes]

So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.

Source

[vee-lociraptor]

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[bloodbending]

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bootlickers, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[mylittleredgirl]

mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

[szczekaczz]

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, A dog and her puppies

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[stealingpotatoes]

it’s eunuch Tucker’s adoptiversary and defacto birthday today <3