#UN building

[lefemmerougewriter]

...The U.N. headquarters should be relocated from New York to Johannesburg. After all, it’s the least that can be done. - Mara endorses moving U.N. headquarters out of NYC

From my AO3 fic entitled "A Responsibility to Prevent Genocide?: Royalty, Revolution, and Bloody Zionists"

[lawbreaker13]

It’s actually insane how some of you justify your antisemitism. And yes, this time I’m specifically talking about being anti-Israel.

When Israel is attacked by Hamas, it’s their fault for retaliating. When is Israel is attacked by Iran, it’s ok because it’s retaliation. When Israel calls out the UN for being unhelpful, they’re getting what they deserve. When Israel asks the UN to step up, it’s a sad cry for help.

THEY CAN’T ATTACK, THEY CAN’T DEFEND, THEY CAN’T ASK FOR HELP, THEY CAN’T CONDEMN TERRORISTS, WHAT CAN THEY DO?? BE BLOWN TO BITS??? IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE WAITING FOR? WHAT MAKES ISRAEL SO SPECIAL??

It is no coincidence that Israel can’t do anything right and that it houses 7 million Jewish refugees. It’s the oldest excuse in the book. “It’s just the zionists!” Israeli children are children, too. They have no better of a concept of Zionism than you, and yours is scarce. Zionism IS LITERALLY ABOUT JEWS.

Just say you won’t be happy until half the world’s Jews are dead. It’s a lot better to be an antisemite when you’re comfortable with your identity.

[shinobicyrus]

One thing my brain keeps going back to about Pacific Rim (besides the rad giant robots) is the whole existence of kaiju organ harvesters and their implications.

Like, you have Hannibal Chau, a bizarre and interesting character, but we’re presented with a black market operation that seems mostly interested in the “alternative medicine” uses of kaiju parts.

But my brain demands to know: what does the corporate kaiju harvesting industry look like? Sure kaiju blood is toxic, but there are plenty of toxic materials that have useful applications. Are there chemical companies studying kaiju organs? Big-Pharma jumping on the kaiju bone-powder bandwagon? Are bio-tech firms studying kaiju hide to make tougher materials? Agribusinesses clamoring to acquire kaiju crap for fertilizer?

I’m picturing something like the age of whaling, when humans hunted giant animals and carved them up to feed insatiable industries. Whale-oil lighting lanterns for entire cities, whale-bone being used in everything from knick-knacks, tools, umbrellas, and corsets. Ambergris alone was used in perfumes, medicines, cooking. It was even added to wine as an aphrodisiac.

We glimpsed how kaiju affected pop-culture. Now picture a kaiju smashing a city, but the stock market going up for construction companies (rebuilding the cities), vulture real estate (buying the destroyed land cheap), and all the other corporations that profit from the systematic dismantling of a kaiju corpse and making money off of its parts. Sure, a city was roughed up and who knows how many thousands are dead, but it’s a better windfall when a kaiju makes landfall. It’s always less profitable when jaegers kill them too quickly; sea-based extractions are so much more expensive.

Imagine entire industries, entire economies that don’t just make money from the devastation of kaiju attacks, but grow dependent on them. And then the laws, the squabbles over those valuable, resource-rich kaiju corpses. If a kaiju attacks one country but keeps rampaging and is killed in the country next door, who has claim over the body? The party who was damaged more by it or the country where the corpse physically is? Bidding wars over “cleanup” contracts that cut corners and are only interested in collecting those sweet, sweet, kaiju parts as fast as possible, even if their official mandate is supposed to be the safe removal and cleanup of a toxic substance.

Once jaegers started getting efficient at killing kaiju, the people with all the money became less interested in solving the problem of kaiju attacks and switched to merely managing the industries that kaiju-killing feeds.

What? You want to put more resources into R&D to try and close the Breach? Whatever for? The kaiju comes out, jaegers kill it, and the “host country” gets the proceeds from the kaiju’s body. It’s a win-win for everyone. Why waste time, money, and effort solving a problem that isn’t a problem anymore?

Everything is under control.

[asynca]

[source]

[fast-burn]

another superstition by @emillians

“What the fuck is wrong with your house?” Daniel manages to wheeze out. “Fucking hell, you’re like turbo haunted.” “Yes,” Max says, and he sounds almost excited. “Yes, of course.” ============= Daniel busts ghosts. His ex is being haunted.

(fan cover // original post)

[slutburn]

i don’t know why but these captions are SENDING ME

[madevampselle]

How it (re)started:

How it's going:

The longest foreplay ever is over, you idiots. Get a coffin.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

your dad is in pearl jam? or did I understand wrongly

loool no i wish, my dad is not that cool. i was just calling them dad rock because despite it not quite being the consensus “dad rock” genre, it’s the year 2024 and whenever i tell people i follow pearl jam around they’re like “oh, my parents liked them in the 90s, they’re still alive?”

[kayayayayayayayayayayayaya]

OK so I'm severely suffering from owl Yuan Brain rot and im planing to let it all out tomorrow but like shen yuan as the Duolingo owl.

Imagon a disciple forgets to do their homework and owl Yuan menecingly looking through the window just staring. Like sqq scolding you or punishing you is scary but owl Yuan is straight up a terrifying menece. Everyone fears him and he's so proud of it.

Anways I'm back to looking at cute owl Videos for refrence

[katabay]

while I get commissions done, I’m going to throw some things into my queue and schedule a couple posts since I made a lot of text posts recently and I want to brighten the place up with art. do you guys want to see more Robin Hood/Medieval adjacent stuff, or perhaps. some video games fan art. I got Death Mark, Honkai Star Rail, and Thief fan art I can feed into the queue machine. Assassins Creed as well! tbh if it’s a video game I did fan art of before, I probably have more of it somewhere. there’s even js&mn in the vault! however. it got. very scribbly.

[withloveldn]

moving day ! 📦

boxes from @syboubou

[skiitter]

Feel insane trying to explain to people how emotionally moving the fucking Dungeon Crawler Carl series is, especially and specifically the audiobook version.

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

"fifth race" this, "second evolution" that. I think the Tau'ri specifically are the foretold returned Ancients.

with very few exceptions, Earth is the only place that has people with the ATA gene

Earth is where the Ancients evacuated to after they lost the war with the wraith

the earth stargate programme is the one that has explored, rediscovered, and activated the most Ancient devices and bases (Antarctica, Atlantis, that ship in SGU, the Ancient libraries, all of Merlins stuff, all of Oma Desala's stuff, all of Morgan Le Fays stuff, the list goes on)

Earth has made contact with the Asguard, the Nox, the Tollans, the Wraith and some other allies

Earth has made contact with actual Ancients and even had at least one Ascend and come back (Daniel)

[stonktronk]

The Naked Time is genuinely so good. istg star trek original series is great to study if you want to write good stories...Episodes like this one provide positive examples to strive for. Meanwhile, there are plenty of miserably awkward episodes to watch as counter examples. TV show of all time

[andy-clutterbuck]

[pandebunuelo]

something so poetic about the fact rubius promised foolish a stripper but didn't give it to him bc he didnt "wholeheartedly fulfill" the quest he set him up for JUST for rubius' beloved, vegetta, to end up being foolish's stripper for free