#Warp Speed Officials Say

[lemotmo]

I might actually die from anticipation. Anyway I agree with all of this! We're getting Buddie canon!!

Q. The last 5 minutes of that episode felt like they were at warp speed. But the Buddie stuff we got was so good!!! I can't actually believe those scenes are canon! I'm very annoyed at the Ryan stuff and dear god the Lou stuff, but everything else was so good! I feel like I'm flying!

A. The last 5 minutes gave me whiplash, anon, I agree. Any other time I would have said the Buddie scene at the end should have been cut and moved to the beginning of the next episode because it didn't really fit, and they did have to rush through the Maddie rescue to get it into the episode. But the context of that scene was necessary for upcoming episodes, and since I believe we're getting some kind of time jump as we open episode 11, they didn't really have a choice. The scene needed to be there and it was a PERFECT Buddie scene.

I will touch the Lou nonsense in this one ask, and I won't answer another one. For me personally it feels like trolling. He knew exactly what kind of pic to post and it's absolutely the kind of immature bullshit he finds funny. He could have been doing anything. 911 is not the only thing that shoots on that lot. ABC isn't the only studio who uses that lot. I think he knew exactly what he was doing and he found it funny. That's my personal take. Tommy serves no narrative purpose anymore. The Tommy part of Buck's brain officially died last night. There is no story reason to bring him back for a scene. Does that mean Tim won't? Nope, but if he does it would be for the sole purpose of having the audience see Buck actively choose Eddie. It would be used as a way to give Buck back the agency he kind of lost during their breakup. That would be the only reason he was there. And it's not necessary. Now it's possible Tim is tired and so he has written in a scene that would explicitly have Buck say out loud he doesn't want him, and it was never about him. That's also not unlike Tim. So it's one of those options, but I still personally feel like he was just attention seeking and it's nothing.

I haven't seen the Ryan stuff personally, thank god. Yay for my dash curation! I've heard about it from mutuals and asks but I haven't physically seen it myself. That being said, streaming services have obliterated an entire generation's ability to watch television. They genuinely don't know how to watch a television show. They don't understand how to WATCH. They want immediate satisfaction and answers and bullet point explanations for everything. The show has made it clear where this thing is headed. There is no more room for doubt. They are two characters on the same path going towards the same conclusion, however Buck is further along on the path. Eddie is still behind him because Eddie's route on the path has a detour (Christopher and Texas). That means Oliver can make acting choices and interview answer choices that Ryan cannot make yet. Oliver has fully made the turn. He is 100% playing Buck as in love with Eddie. And Buck is going to fully realize it either in episode 11 or 12. It's coming quickly for Buck. Eddie is not at that stage yet though so Ryan has to be more subtle. Ryan played the truck scene (the fact that scene is canon makes me want to climb the wall, twirl my hair, and kick my feet), and the goodbye scene perfectly. He was perfect in those scenes. Not only could you see the weight on him you could feel the weight on him. The uncertainty. The confusion about everything. The dialogue was loud but everything Ryan did with the dialogue, and silently without any dialogue was louder. He didn't look at Buck in the truck when he said 'it's not nothing'. He was awkward at the uhaul when it was time to say their goodbyes. They both played that scene so pitch perfect it gave me goosebumps. He allowed all the emotions Eddie was feeling to play out on his face. The subtle shift with his eyebrows during their hug was heartbreaking because it was Eddie taking a moment to realize what he's walking away from, and all the different emotions happening inside of him in that moment. There is a part of Eddie that knows. Ryan's playing it like that. Ryan is playing it as if Eddie was forced to choose between his son and Buck and he chose his son, as he should have, but that doesn't mean that leaving Buck isn't breaking his heart. And he doesn't have the mental strength to examine that more closely just yet. He's just trying to convince himself that what he's doing is right and for the best so it doesn't matter that he's hurting himself to make this choice. Ryan demonstrated all of that in that scene and anyone who's trying to argue otherwise is lying to themselves. And Eddie looked back! Abby never looked back, but Eddie did!! He looked back at Buck! That entire scene was god tier and I need people to understand that.

I also need people to understand that these scenes are not for the fandom. Obviously we eat them up, but their not for us. These scenes are for the general audience. These scenes are walking the general audience through the tonal and emotional shift in their relationship. They are very romantic coded. The dialogue, the music, the acting choices from both Oliver and Ryan. This is the show's way of making sure the audience as a whole understands and recognizes that their dynamic is changing. The audience is getting to witness the shift for both of them in real time. I desperately need people to understand how fucking good that is. We are getting to watch both men realize what's happening between them in real time and on an individual level. It's their love story! One episode at a time!!What they're doing is glorious and genuinely beautiful. Please don't take this for granted because this doesn't happen often. If you're not capable of following the story as it's told, which includes a week between episodes, and other storylines getting focus as well, then wait for the season to finish and binge the season at that point. But I am begging you all to learn how to watch a television show the way they were intended to be watched. Because that's what's happening here. We're getting ANTICIPATION!!! And LONGING!!! And I'm vibrating out of my skin! 🩷

Thank you Nonny!

Yeah, I agree with Ali on the Buddie of it all. We know where this is going, so let's just enjoy the ride. You know?

Seems I'm the only one who liked how they handled those last 5 minutes of the episode. I think it was a really clever way to go about things in order to make some time for the final Buddie goodbye scene.

I already said what I wanted to say about T and the Ryan stuff. I don't wish to talk about it anymore for today. I just want to enjoy my Buddie high for the remainder of this day. 😋

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[inbabylontheywept]

Hold Your Breath and Burn

Seventeen hours.

Seventeen hours of sitting in his ruined craft, waiting for the carrier to send someone out to save his sorry ass. Seventeen hours of praying that he’d get out before the waste heat from his scrammed piece of shit reactor officially crossed the line from wring-out-your-underwear to meat-falls-off-the-bone. Seventeen hours of praying he was gonna make it.

And now with one blip of radio noise he knew he was gonna die.

Honestly, it was almost a relief.

He punched in a message through the QRAM system.

Hunter-Seeker nearby. Just caught an IFF ping. Being used as bait. Abort rescue.

A drop of sweat rolled down his nose as he waited for a response. He considered letting it drop to the floor. No need to draw this out any more than he already had.

The computer chirped at him. He almost hadn’t expected a response. Any time spent on him would essentially be wasted.

It was oddly comforting to know that they were willing to waste time on a dead man. Helped him feel less like a casualty on a spreadsheet. There was something human about knowing that someone would waste time on you.

He checked the message.

I’m sorry.

He shrugged. What else could be said? He was sorry too. Dying sucked. He’d bitched a lot about living, but honestly, it was starting to look like a pretty great deal.

He cut his self-pity short before it could even grow roots.

He leaned over the QRAM, suddenly tired.

Now what?

There was a longer pause. No sweat dribbled down his nose. He was glad for the reprieve, even if he knew what it signaled.

Hunt-Seekers are dangerous threats.

An obvious statement. Borderline cagey. Something about it made his hackles rise. He waited to see if another message would arrive.

One did.

Would you be willing to make one more sacrifice for mankind?

Ah.

He mulled the question over. Considered every reason he should say no. Considered every way to say no.

Will it hurt?

There was no pause in the response to this. The immediacy was frightening. He’d hoped there’d be something couched in there, but the straightforwardness moved him.

Yes.

He pinched the bridge of his nose and took a deep breath. He wasn’t dead yet.

So be it.

---

The plan was surprisingly simple. Completely unsurvivable, but simple.

First, he would vent the cabin. He had an emergency O2 tank that would last for approximately three minutes. The safest speed that the cabin could be vented at was a little under fifteen minutes. That wasn’t possible, so they’d have to rush the job and see how he made it. The goal was to take exactly as long as the tank would last, and then hold his breath for the last part, because it would, in theory, be very short.

Step two would be overriding the reactor scram. The boric acid would be pumped directly into space, and the reactor would flair up to 1200 F. That was actually the primary reason they needed to vent the atmosphere first: To cool the interior cabin enough that the reactor wouldn’t simply incinerate him in the first five seconds.

Lastly, he would activate a mini-jump. If he was lucky, the Hunter-Seeker would only detect the exit blast, and warp to the end of his FTL cone. It would then drift through space, lost and confused, for at least several seconds. He’d use those last few moments to consider his life up to that point. Then, the reactor would run out of built up xenon.

The rest would be physics.

Are you ready?

The operator's final message hung in the air. Was he ready? Could anyone be ready for this?

Yes.

Pull the trigger. I'm gonna be the first person in two-hundred years to give Oppenheimer a hug on my first day in hell.

---

Another blossom of crimson splattered across his vision as the pressure gauge crept below zero point two atmospheres. He had no idea what the depressurization was doing to his body, but it hurt like hell. The vac-suit was clinging to his body like saran wrap now, damn near tight enough to break a rib, and it still wasn’t done.

He snuck another peek at the pressure gauge.

Zero point zero five.

He went to suck another shaky breath from the tank and found nothing left. His vision was already fading in at the corners. This was even harder than he’d thought.

He stared at the gauge and willed the last bit of air away.

Zero.

Finally.

He leaned across the console and hit the override on the reactor core.

---

The reactor did not roar to life. There was no air to carry the sound, no messenger in this void save light. And the message that light carried was not thunder, no roaring in the canyons, but heat and pain. The energy didn’t flow out of the reactor like it did in air, it was an immediate, searing, flash of agony.

He couldn’t tell if the vacsuit was melting into his skin, or if his skin was melting into the suit, but he could feel a dreadful wetness across his back, the one part of his body exposed to the war god slinging him through space. He barely noticed the sensation of warping, barely noticed the first hesitant blip that appeared on his LADAR screen.

But barely was still enough.

It worked. The stupid son-of-a-bitch had fallen for it. The Hunter-Seeker set a destination at the end of his warp cone and jumped blind. It was catastrophically lazy, and even as his lungs burned from lack of air, even as his back burned with the blowtorch heat of a dying reactor, he knew that he’d won. There was nothing left to do now but wait.

He looked through the display that pretended to be a window to the outside. Imagined the stars, beautiful and gleaming, suspended over the vastness of space. He saw the faint white shine of the reactor reflected across that glossy screen, felt that half numb pain of fire across his entire back, and imagined that last bit of xenon trapped inside, fading away, lost in the sea of neutrons. Fading, fading… gone.

He could almost swear that the flash of light began right there, right as he imagined it would. He died then, ripped apart on a level that few can scarcely imagine, but for one brief moment before death took him, his underwear was dry in the same elegantly understated sense that space is cold and stars are warm. Four hundred kilograms of highly enriched uranium going supercritical is a magical thing.

The Hunter-Seeker never had its moment to look death in the face. All it knew was that in the space where a carrier should have been, it was alone. And then it too was gone. In the space where it used to be, where it had been, there was little more than echoes of fire and heat.

And then those too faded to black.

[bumblekastclips]

Sonic Bravo - Part One

KYLE CROUSE: Here’s a question from Armored Turtle. “Sonic CD, but the only change is that Sonic is the one who gets a crush on Amy rather than vice-versa. How does the rest of the Sonic series play out?”

IAN FLYNN: [chuckling] You finish the uh, Stardust Speedway race and free Amy, and she’s just kinda like, curtsy, “Thank you!” and wanders off, and Sonic’s like, “Aw...” KYLE: [as Sonic] “Oh, whoa, whoa, hey…” IAN: Uh… not a ton to work of— uh, off of in a lot of the Classic stuff in general. Not official, anyway, ‘cause she’s mostly cameo and there’s not a ton of story with her in it… we get to Modern, and I guess by Sonic Adventure, she’s running away from ZERO with Birdie, and Sonic’s like, [suavely] “Hey, you uh, come to this town often?” And she’s like “Running away from a giant robot! Help! Later, bye!” KYLE: [chuckles] IAN: [as Sonic] “Ah nuh nuh nuh— I can help! See, I fight robots! Amy, look at me, I’m fightin’ the robot!” We get to Twinkle Park. [as Sonic, suavely] “Hey, says here, uh, cute couples get in free. What do you think? …Amy? [then, frustrated] Augh, it’s a freakin’ robot! Come on, man!” KYLE: [laughs] Yup, yup… pretty much. IAN: Amy breaks into prison island to bust him outta jail for old times’ sake. [as Sonic] “Ah, so you came all this way to marry me, huh?” [as Amy] “That’s it, leaving the door locked.” [as Sonic] “No, wait, wait, wait, I was kidding! Open the door! Come on!” KYLE: [laughing, then reading chat] So basically Sonic becomes Johnny Bravo? That’s what I’m— IAN: [uproarious laughter] KYLE: [unintelligible] That’s what’s comin’ around here, that’s what the chat says. [laughing] IAN: [really insanely good Johnny Bravo voice] “Do the Monkey with me!” KYLE: [laughs] Oh no! Oh no… IAN: [like, REALLY good Johnny Bravo voice] “Gonna hit me with a hunk ‘a, hunk ‘a piko-piko hammer.” KYLE: [laughing] No… IAN: [as Johnny Bravo] “Come on, Amy, gimme some sugar! Gotta speed, keed!” KYLE: Ohhh, no… IAN: [chuckling, then as Johnny Bravo] “Whatcha see is whatcha get! I’m just a hedgehog who loves adventure!” KYLE: [wheezing laugh] Well… IAN: Okay, add to to-do list, ‘Re-dub entire Sonic series as Sonic Bravo.’ Got it. KYLE: Got it, alright. [laughing] You do that really— IAN: [as Johnny Bravo] “It’s not speed, he’s using a Chaos Emerald to warp!” KYLE: God, why do you do that so well? IAN: [chuckling] KYLE: Why? IAN: [as Johnny Bravo] “No snacks or in-flight movies, I’m outta here! Hyah!” KYLE: [laughing] IAN: Okay, next question, or I’m gonna be doing this all night. KYLE: Yeah, yes, yes, yes. No, no, no, we— we need to move on.

—— TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Please remember that nothing that is said on BumbleKast is canon! It’s just some guys and their opinions occasionally spitballing ideas. If you don’t like an answer, you don’t have to take it as Word of God or anything like that. It’s all just for fun!

[vomitdodger]

For what it’s worth, here’s the press release to tomorrows official release of the 2 year in the making report to the congressional record. I did not read or look at the 500+ page report, just this release which includes a variety of sub topics summarized in paragraph form. I found a variety of those topics at least tracking on the truth when it comes to the corruption, lies, coverup and tyranny but they didn’t go nearly far enough.

I found the sections on the vaccine highly manipulated, wrong or intentionally evasive:

“OPERATION WARP SPEED: President-elect Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — which encouraged the rapid development and authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine — was highly successful and helped save millions of lives.”

Edit: multiple studies show no benefit or even more susceptible to Covid as well as other illnesses including autoimmune and turbo cancer. Calling it highly successful is just wrong and saying it saved millions of lives can’t be proven and studies show otherwise. By this time everyone knows from personal experience and contacts that the vaccine likely didn’t do anything helpful.

“COVID-19 VACCINE: Contrary to what was promised, the COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.

Edit: so the much repeatedly lie of “I’m thankful for the vaccine as it would have been much worse without it” became truth in the report. The medias propaganda and botting this phrase apparently worked.

RUSHED COVID-19 VACCINE APPROVAL: The FDA rushed approval of the COVID-19 vaccine in order to meet the Biden Administration’s arbitrary mandate timeline. Two leading FDA scientists warned their colleagues about the dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the likelihood of adverse events. They were ignored, and days later, the Biden Administration mandated the vaccine.

Edit: ok here is where total BS needs to be called. The report just got done saying Operation Warp Speed was fantastic and the vaccine saved millions of lives. Mission accomplished. Now the report says it was rushed and not safe. Can’t have it both ways. The press release did not address the numbers of side effects or deaths attributed to the vaccine. It also did not address how overall annual mortality did not change the first year of Covid…remember all those posts? People didn’t start truly dying in excess until the vax was rolled out. These are just my short thoughts which could go on and on. Especially with all the mortality and morbidity associated with them. In short…it’s another government report to hide the full truth. Have to see what becomes of it all.

Steve Kirschs substack better explains my last points.

[skeleton-mischief]

Fresh Sans!

Yo, I'm Fresh! Don't you dare forget it, ya hear?¿ I'm the best thing you'll ever need!!

(Headcanons below :-) )

- Official Height: 6'3

- He/Him but doesn't mind gender neutral pronouns either

- Optimistic nihilist

- Confident, honest, assertive, teasing, deceitful, erratic, social, cocky, careless, playful, impulsive, perceptive, self sufficient, loud, self involved, apathetic, nosy, unfiltered, and individualistic

- Often, the parasite will willingly leap to other bodies once the husk is no longer usable, fashion becoming altered by whatever AU Sans it possesses

- a fan of TMNT, he owns action figures even

- carries around gum, figurines, stickers, pins, and other random items that somehow fit inside his pockets

- can do backflips effortlessly and is highly flexible, agile

- Speaks uniquely with words like "yo broseph," "that's not very swag, broski" etc.

- He has multiple versions of bro for him to name others

- skateboards to travel around frequently, his skateboard somehow manages to summon and even be shaped differently based on the AU

- Dances commonly and overall cartoonish with his movements, he can

- Often chews on gum or has suckers to eat since he doesn't smoke

- Uses slang and hardly, if ever, curses. If he does curse, it's beyond a serious reason to believe what he has to say

- Has a giant bat as his weapon of choice, but he has stolen multiple mili weapons and even has a magical nuke of choice

- His glasses express his emotion, or just say what he's thinking/saying

- Gets in others personal space but refuses others to do the same for him. Rarely does he actually worry though, since no one wants him super close to them

- Loves to wreck havoc and does not have any attachments to others as a result

- Annoys Error for funsies, along with Red or others that

- AuDHD

- Magic smells and tastes of taffy/fruity candy

- No one can determine what he does or expect a planned attack, his erratic behavior is worse than any other AU

- Has the ability to warp his surroundings in an odd manner. Not quite a glitch but more of a colorful, chaotic way of altering his surroundings. He doesn't do it intentionally, but doesn't mind. For example, things seem to pop with intense color, things that are depressing altering to something else. Cigarettes = Suckers, Alcohol = Soda, etc

- Loves candy and has a sweet tooth, he rarely doesn't have candy in his mouth

- Travels into other AU's, but people are weirded out by him when he appears. He loves to confuse others

- Often seen as annoying, he has a tendency to not care

- He hardly ever is anything but happy, and even then he is never seen not smiling. There would have to be something wRønG to have him frowning

- Has multiple pins and jewelry, he will give you a gift he has if he likes you. It helps him identify you when he decides to travel and needs to remember what timeline of a character knows him

- Will gift people odd things, once he gave someone a Lego pack while another person was gifted a keychain

- Loves furbies to a concerning extent. He somehow got ahold of one that's conscious and carries it around with him. It's the only thing he's truly attached to

- Even if he doesn't have a lot of compassion, empathy, or sympathy, he won't involve others in his drama for the sake of "them not being able to handle his fun nature" (he actually does care for them, and just refuses to acknowledge it)

- Won't go out of his way to keep others safe often, but on occasion he has saved someone. No one can identify what the reason happens to be

- People tend to say "oh no, not him," when he appears

- He canonically can censor other people with their curse words, and in fact it's impossible to curse when he's around

- April 20th is his official bday (420 joke) but because Fresh doesn't like drugs he lies by telling others his birthday is April 1st

- Apparently has amazing Defense to the point that it's nearly impossible to kill him. Only the husk can die, since nothing can out speed the parasite. The only entity it's ever avoided is Reaper, as Reaper happens to be the only one to actually scare the parasite

- Has explosive furbies. He can activate them as if they were a detonator when thrown. When it lands on any intentional or unintentional target, it will explode into a great explosion of "murderous colors"

- Is horribly blunt, he'll say whatever is on his mind without concern. In fact, it can be absolutely the worst insult you've ever had

- He's quite affectionate. He'll hold people's hands, hug them, press foreheads, and even do a kiss now and again

- Has a lot of 80's and 90's fashion, but he just wears whatever makes him happy at the moment

- He doesn't classify himself as good or bad, as he only worries for himself. (....unless?)

- Usually watches other AU's when they're fighting, sometimes he'll fuck shit up as a result too even if it's someone he was on good terms with

- It rarely happens, but if he's angry enough his parasite will crawl out of his eye socket to wrap its tentacles around his glasses. The parasite often moves around the body, which would be around the ribs or the skull

- If he takes off his hat, usually something is underneath like a rubber duck or even a smaller hat

- Acts like he's friends with everyone, even if they absolutely disagree since he just wants a good time

- Taller than other Sanses usually so he looms over them or uses it to his advantage

- Loves to float around, either in air or in water (don't ask)

- His glasses stay on his head at all times. Always, as it's a "stamp" of his character

- Loves french fries and ketchup, though he doesn't need food often

- Usually likes 80's and 90's music but will listen to any for fun

- Adores seeing kids and spending time with them when it happens. He loves to get them to laugh, to play around

- Tom Cardy and Weird Al is his favorite artists

- Roller skates around and often customizes them

- He is one out of two individuals who knows that Ink is soulless

- Gender does not affect him, but he likes masc and gender neutral pronouns the most

- He is very in control of his emotions, he has never lost control of them. HOWEVER, there is a slim chance that if he ever fell in love or loved someone platonically, he would think that he was dying or that he was sick with something

- He's on the aroace spectrum, and there are no reports of him ever experiencing love or sexual attraction. There is a slim chance of love actually forming, romantic at least, but don't expect it to be anytime soon

- He doesn't care what people think, he would love to wear a dress or a skirt with a cute cardigan. Androgynous or masc outfits are what he likes, but he's not against wearing fem clothes

- Can he get drunk? Well, yes, but what gets him drunk isn't alcohol. He has a high metabolism, and it would have to be a specifically made magical beverage to get him wasted. In fact, alcohol, drugs, and smoking are things he avoids. He once snorted a whole ass pack of fun dip and pixie sticks. He didn't do it anymore after the incident.

Closing Notes: I won't really think about what he's like in a romantic relationship since I personally don't see it happening. If it was ever requested, I might consider it someday. I just think he'd form platonic relationships if anything. Thank you for reading :-))

[darkmaga-returns]

COVID-19 vaccine supporters are fond of sneering at public figures who have called for the Food and Drug Administration to pull or at least re-evaluate the safety of the increasingly unpopular therapeutics, such as Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., cardiologist Peter McCullough and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.

They might have a harder time caricaturing a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director who ran the agency when COVID vaccines were being developed, promoted vaccination and repeat boosting as recently as 2022 and promoted cloth face masks as "one of the most powerful weapons we have" against COVID, before vaccines were available.

Robert Redfield cited "concerns that the mRNA vaccines actually have contaminating nucleic acid in them" but also sequences from Simian Virus 40, "which is a tumor virus," in the debut episode of songwriter, author and Lyme Disease activist Dana Parish's podcast.

Some of the 98 million polio vaccines given from 1955 to 1963 contained SV 40, which is part of the same family as the human papillomavirus associated with cervical cancer, according to the federally convened Immunization Safety Review Committee's 2002 review of the evidence for the contamination's effect on cancer rates.

The review was inconclusive on whether "SV40-contaminated polio vaccine did or did not cause cancer in the vaccine recipients" but affirmed that exposure concerns are "significant because of the seriousness of cancers as the possible adverse health outcomes and because of the continuing need to ensure and protect public trust in the nation's immunization program."

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Me literally like two days ago: Give me a week or so to finish this book before I start planning a new fic, and then I'll probably finish at least one of my current wips on ao3 before I start posting this one

Me now: GUESS WHO WROTE CHAPTER ONE OF ANOTHER NEW FIC

Portrait of a Dead Girl is (hopefully) going up on AO3 today folks! This is my first time writing a fic for the Shadow and Bone trilogy instead of Six of Crows (really branching out, I know) but I am so so excited about it at this point I'm really writing it for myself more than anyone reading it but ah well, and anyway I thought I'd share a lil snippet on here before I post it so I hope that you enjoy! :)

Note: I have completely warped the backstories of these characters and the worldbuilding of the Grishaverse in order to have it mimic the landscape of Western Europe in the mid 1500s, just bear with me I promise it makes sense so long as you lean into it <3

Archive warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Summary:

Alina Starkov was given to Duke Aleksander Morozova of Os Alta in marriage when she was fifteen years old. Within a year, she was dead. The official cause of Alina's death was marked as putrid fever, but many at the time believed, and many in the future will go on to believe, that she was poisoned by her husband.

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This fic is completely inspired by The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrel, which is a work of historical fiction based on the real lives of Duchess Lucrezia d'Este (née de' Medici) and Duke Alfonso ii d'Este of Ferrara. You don't need any prior knowledge of The Marriage Portrait or history to read and enjoy this fic, but know that my writing is very much going to mimic that of O'Farrel in format and although I'm hoping to write the story in my personal usual writing style I will definitely be borrowing a lot of my descriptors, symbols, and so on and so forth from O'Farrel - there will be some of mine too though :)

Snippet from chapter one:

She understands, now, the reason for their sudden journey to such a strange, lonely place as this. He has brought her here, brought her to a stone fortress far away from anything she even vaguely knows, to murder her. It is here that she will die. 

He leans towards her, resting his fingers on the bare skin of her wrist as he says something. She doesn’t listen, though she is aware that she can hear the words. The astonishment of her epiphany has thrust her right up out of her body, and she is fighting the urge to laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all as she floats above the couple at the table and bumps against the ceiling beams like the clumsy ghost she is surely destined to become. She watches herself nodding at him, mumbling a polite and customary reply to whatever it was he said, sipping her wine and taking a bite of her bread. The couple sit together and talk, eat, drink - as though nothing at all is amiss between them, as though this is a normal dinner on a normal day, that it will be followed by a normal evening and a normal night. The Alina sitting at the table is talking about the journey here, about pretty landscapes and her enjoyment of the ride he has taken her on. The Alina floating at the ceiling knows that the version of herself below is a liar; the ride here was dull, through blank and stark fields beneath an ugly grey sky. Her husband had set the pace at a trot, mile after mile of it, Alina’s back aching and her skin chafed by wet stockings. Even inside her squirrel-lined gloves, the fingers clutching at her reins had been frozen with cold. She kept looking at the mane of her horse, half expecting it to have stopped in place, encased by ice. 

Alina had wanted to spur her horse, once they’d reached the countryside and Os Alta faded into the distance. She’d wanted to dig her heels into its flank, feel its hooves fly over the stones and soil, to move over the flat landscape at real speed. She’d wanted to feel giddy and alive and drunk in the wind and rain and sky. But she did not. Because she knew that she must not. Her husband had ridden ahead with two guards either side of him, and her place was behind him - or next to him, if invited. But never in front.

Now she wishes that she’d done it anyway, that she had urged the mare into a gallop and streaked past him cackling like a madwoman, that she had released her hair into the wind as she rode, that her cloak had lashed out behind her and the hooves of her horse had flung mud across him and his guards. Even more than this, she wishes that she’d had the foresight to turn her reins towards the distant hills, where she could have lost herself off among the rocky folds and peaks somewhere he would never find her. 

But, of course, she did not. And now here she is, condemned by the manners she always has to try so hard to remember.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Steve Benen at MaddowBlog:

Across the country, public school districts require children to be fully immunized against, among other things, polio, measles, hepatitis B, chickenpox, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis before they can attend classes. These policies have existed for years; they’ve been incredibly effective; they enjoy the support of public-health officials; and they haven’t been especially controversial. Indeed, up until quite recently, assorted partisans didn’t think to make much of a fuss about it. And yet, there was Donald Trump in Wisconsin yesterday, telling his followers to robust applause, “I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate.” For those who keep an eye on the former president’s rhetoric, the line was familiar. After all, the Republican recently peddled the identical line in Michigan. And Florida. And Washington, D.C. And Texas, Minnesota, and New Jersey. And Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, and Virginia.

And that's just recently. Trump has made the same declaration, word for word, for over a year. Every time, his base applauds, offering timely reminders that Trump often takes his cues from his followers, as opposed to the other way around. Far-right voters oppose lifesaving vaccines, so the Republican candidate is only too pleased to tell them what they want to hear. When Trump first started peddling this vow, there was some discussion about whether he was referring specifically to Covid vaccine mandates or all vaccine mandates, but the presumptive GOP nominee, at least publicly, has ignored the distinction. What’s more, in some instances, Trump has said his policy would apply to all public education, “from kindergarten through college.”

Or put another way, a second Trump administration — if the candidate’s promises are to be believed — would be prepared to cut federal support from every public school district in the United States, as well as most institutions of higher learning. (Remember, all 50 states require vaccinations for students.)

Over the past year or so, Donald Trump has repeated the "I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate" line at many of his propaganda rally events.

What does he mean when he says "I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate"? Is he referring to just the COVID vaccine? Or does he mean all vaccines? Trump's campaign spokesliars have inferred that it's only the COVID vaccine, but Trump hasn't made a distinction.

Trump's dangerous pandering to anti-vaxxer extremists (and it's not just the anti-COVID vaccine-only crowd, but also the anti-all vaccines crowd)-- despite once touting his Operation Warp Speed that got COVID vaccines out in late 2020-- is more proof that he is afraid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating at portions of his base.

If he wins, school vaccine mandates could be drastically altered or removed, especially in red areas.

See Also:

Politico: What can Trump do about vaccines? More than you might think.

HuffPost: Trump Makes Bizarre Threat About Schools And Vaccine Mandates

[toaarcan]

I want to get back to writing eventually, but this is just on my mind at the moment:

Re-integrating a character like Fiona into the Freedom Fighters post-Mecha Sally is weirdly easy, just because of how much shit they’ve been through in the past few weeks.

Fiona: You're being weirdly nice to me. It’s kinda confusing.

Sally: Last month Eggman shot me, rewrote the universe, roboticized me while trying to do the same to the entire planet and nuke every piece of technology on its surface, peeled my skin off with a blowtorch and shoved a bunch of guns in me while I was still awake, rebooted the universe again and tried to kill me with a failsafe when he lost. And while that was happening the council I set up to limit the power of the crown gave said crown to Ixis Naugus, who proceeded to exile one of my best friends from the city and make an alliance with Eggman to assassinate my brother. I'm finding it really hard to care about the small shit* these days.

Fiona: Are... are you okay?

Sally: No.

(*I’m referring to Fiona’s betrayal as “small shit” for a few reasons, 1) People in-universe don’t like or respect Scourge and treat his actions with appropriate scorn, and 2) Sally in particular has recognised that she was an abuse victim and so she’s more vigilant when it comes to other people in similar positions, which includes Fiona (do not challenge me on that, I have receipts), so she is substantially more willing to offer an olive branch than she otherwise would be. Also, 3) It had basically zero impact in the comic itself. Sally already didn’t like or trust her, Amy was upset about what Fiona said for one issue and then immediately got over it and also never exchanged words with her again, Ant took it as motivation to propose to Bunnie and then neither of them ever mentioned it again either, Tails was more angry about Sonic dating Fiona than he was about anything Fiona did within seven issues, and Sonic himself stopped giving a shit after 172 itself closed. Least impactful betrayal ever.)

I have it in my head that Mecha Sally was the turning point. It changed things. These characters just went through an intense amount of trauma, and it’s altered a lot of their perspectives. I recognise that, had this been an official continuation, they likely would’ve snapped back to normal fairly quickly. But I’m not trying to write an official continuation, I’m doing my own thing. And I say “Trauma responses for everybody!”

Eggman overstepped the line at warp speed, and that’s going to cause him problems. And not just because he pushed them so far that they decided that “Waking up the 3000-year-old apocalypse robot” was a risk worth taking.

(Art by @nicholas-anderson)

Fiona either escaping from her previous situation, or being forced to return by circumstance, would be coming back to a group of people who aren’t the same as they were when she left, and are in a position where they’re a lot more capable of understanding her perspective too.

And also, like, Sonic not going back to save her when they were kids is actually addressed. And explained.

(Sidenote: The explanation is that he did go back and save her, but it was actually Auto-Fiona 1.0 that he found. Being young and not knowing what an Auto-Automaton was, he assumed that Fiona had always been a robot and gave up on trying to save her. He didn’t know she was real until she turned up in Knothole after he came back from space.)

Things between her and the FF would still be fairly rocky in places, but honestly that has more to do with Fiona’s own trauma response being anger and self-isolation than anything else, and that the last people who were unexpectedly nice to her really didn’t have her best interests at heart.

[the-penguin-of-baskervilles]

Which popular kink you hate but you have made peace with it as it comes in every fic?

My initial reaction when I saw this was to reply: foot fetish

I know that probably doesn't make sense, but I was in the Salt Lake City airport last weekend and overheard some women discussing guys with foot fetishes... let's just say I had no idea it was such a common kink. 🤮 However, to be fair, I haven't seen that one very often in Tumblr fics.

After some reflection, here’s my official answer: the kink where a male character likes that his love interest is a helpless, incompetent nitwit.

I hate this trope/kink with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. If you'll tolerate my psycho-analysis of why I feel so strongly about it, continue reading below.

Your question made me think of a fic I read a few months ago where the female lead was shown to be excessively helpless. In the story she was trying to use power tools and tackle a home repair or something. (I can’t remember exactly what she was doing, because I clicked out of the story at warp speed just a few minutes later.) Anyways, the female character has a goal, she’s collected her tools and she’s trying to accomplish this goal… and the male character shows up. Of course, he’s furious to find her using big, scary, dangerous power tools. 

Does she slap him across the face? Throw a hammer at him? Nope! She went along with it and was chastised like a two year old.  

My reaction:

Now, I can understand what the goal of the scene was - the author was trying to present the male character as protective and caring. In reality all he’d done was crippled the person he was supposed to love by not allowing them to grow and learn. The second thing I can understand is that from my perspective, as the reader, this scene probably misses the mark for cultural reasons. 

I grew up in an extremely rural area and at ten years old, I could split firewood, shoot a rifle, and with adult supervision, use a miter saw. (For those of you who didn’t take woodshop in high school, a miter saw is a very large power tool for a kid to handle.) When I moved to the city, I can still remember having to explain to someone what an auxiliary fuel tank was. 

Anyways , returning to the main point. When the male character’s attraction to a woman is based on, or enhanced by, her lack of abilities, it disgusts me. The disgust probably stems from fear. Where I come from, incompetent was the most dangerous thing for a human being to be. Not being prepared gets people (and those unlucky enough to be around them) hurt and/or killed. That lesson must have sunk in for me at a very young age, because seeing incompetence praised in fiction really affects me. It especially bothers me in regards to female characters but I hate it just as much in male characters - they're just less likely to be depicted as helpless.

In regards to having made peace with this kink… yeah, that’s not in the cards. 😅

The helplessness kink rankles my survival instincts too much.

[kkrt171]

The one where he saw her face for the first time…

3 weeks ago…

“She’s coming!!! She’s finally coming to San Diego!!!” Hazard squealed as she danced her way into the boat’s mess only to slip on a supposed wet area and slide into a wall before finally sitting down at the table, making us all chuckle at her expense… again.

“Babe, I love you, but I can’t believe they let you fly multi-million planes for a living.” Hangman said with a snicker and a smirk plastered on his face.

It still amazed him how that relationship ever just… happened. They were always “close”. Jake and Annie were in the Naval academy together and right from the get go, they were a team. She was the only one that truly called hangman out on his shit, while still his friend and hooking up with him. But it wasn’t until after “the mission” that they officially got together. Annie always said Jake needed to figure his shit out before she would ever consider it. Apparently saving Rooster’s life and the ultimate hashing out of shit between them afterwards was enough. Even he had to admit that Hangman’s attitude had changed after that mission. The rivalry would always be there… but now there was also mutual respect, and that was enough.

“Bite me, Bagman.” She muttered before turning back to the group with a hundred watt grin. “Clare’s coming to visit!!!”

“Who’s Clare?” I asked now genuinely curious.

“She’s the absolute best! I met her years ago in when I was stationed in the med… we had port call in France and I took a bullet train into Paris for a day… she was studying there at the time and apparently we both have the same taste in wine bars, cause that’s where I found her. She was sitting at the counter and the place was absolutely packed full of locals… I went to the bar to order a glass , expecting just to stand around and experience the atmosphere for awhile, I mean it’s freaking Paris! Anyway, I was standing next to her when I ordered. I had asked the bartender to suggest a dry red and she pipes in with a suggestion instead without even looking up from her phone… still to this day the best wine I’ve EVER had! Anyway, her English accent led me to start a convo with her and now here we are 5 years later.” She said with a nostalgic smile.

“Is this the friend you’re always FaceTiming and Skyping?” Phoenix asks.

“Yup!” She grins, looking for a good photo to show everyone on her phone. “This was last year in Greece!” She grins passing the phone to Phoenix beside her.

“Hmmm” She says passing it off to me next with a pointed stare. Ever since she and Bob started dating, she’s been up my ass recently about settling down finally, but after everything that’s happened in my life, I’m skeptical… and then I look at the photo in front of me.

She’s beautiful… and I have about a million thoughts running through my mind at warp speed and they all involve her. I still haven’t said a word, nor have I looked up from Hazard’s phone. I sit there stunned at the revelation that not only do I want her, I want everything with her. I want it all… and THAT has NEVER happened before.

“Tell me about her.” I say barely over a whisper and still not looking up from the photo. I can hear the smile in her voice when she talks.

“She’s an award-winning pastry chef. She owns an extremely successful bakery and an upscale restaurant in Mayfair, England with 4 of her best friends since childhood. She’s a perfectionist when it comes to her baking and even cooking for that matter. Her family comes from really old money in England. I think there’s royal blood in her lineage way back.”

“I’m going to marry this woman.” The words are out of my mouth before I can catch them and I think the announcement stuns the entire table, including myself. Hangman starts choking on his burger, Payback spits water across the table, and Fanboy is too shocked to react when it sprays him in the face. Bob is laughing softly, Phoenix has a shit-eating grin on her face barely able to contain her excitement, and Hazard is smirking at me while staring at me intently. She does this with people. She studies them almost, like she’s trying to see into their souls to find out what kind of person they are.

“I thought you said you’d never settle down.” She says softly, but with intent. She’s curious.

“I never met her.” I say.

“You still haven’t met her.” Her tone isn’t mean or snarky. She’s merely stating a fact.

“But I will.” I say confidently. I will meet her. I think Hazard even wants me to meet her.

“What if reality, doesn’t meet your expectations?” She counters… she’s fishing now. Trying to see how serious I am about this situation.

“It will.” I say with conviction. And it will, of that I am 100% sure of.

“How can you be so sure?” She says chuckling, genuinely curious at how confident I am.

“Because she’s your friend. You see things in people, you study them and if you find something in them- some redeeming quality, you keep them close. You’ve kept her close, very close, even though she live halfway across the world. She’s already passed the hardest personality test in the world… you. So, if you’re this excited about her coming to visit, I am 100% sure that the reality of her will be just as perfect as what I imagine her to be. “ and it’s true. I KNOW it’s true.

“She could be a wallflower for all you know.” She says with narrowed eyes.

“I can be the extrovert for both of us. Keep the unwanted attention away from her.” And I could. I would do that for her.

“What if she’s boring?” She say grinning.

“She’s not.” I scoff rolling my eyes.

“What if she’s quiet?” Now it’s a thoughtful tone in her voice.

“Trust me, I’ve got plenty to say!” I say pointing down at her picture, making the corners of her mouth turn up just a little more. She’s trying not to laugh.

“What if she’s a bad kisser?” I’m shocked she could even say this with a straight face.

“Good thing I’m an instructor then!” I say laughing trying to lighten the mood.

“What if she tells you she’s waiting until marriage to sleep with you?” Again, fishing. Maybe. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter… which honestly surprises me more than anything else.

“Well, good thing I’m planning to propose on our first date. I can wait.” I say, only half joking.

“You really believe she’s it for you.” She says. It’s a statement, not a questions. She’s appraising me now. She’s starting to get it. The whole table who was just laughing wholeheartedly a second ago, starts to fizzle. Serious faces are appearing around me.

“Holy shit.” Hangman deadpans.

“About fuckin time.” Phoenix says with a smile.

“Dude, if I didn’t know better, I’d say you just fell in love.” Fanboy is still just staring at me.

“I think I did too.” I say softly staring back down at the photo, before quickly sending it to myself so I’d have it too.

“Dude, what the fuck?!” Hazard says trying to reach for her phone back over the table. As soon as it sends I damn near throw it at her. “Are you kidding me?!”

“I needed a photo of my future wife!” I say defensively laughing.

“Jesus fuck.” She facepalms. “Do NOT be this stupid when you meet her!” She’s says pointing at me.

[storiesconsumemysoul]

Excerpts from the Reuters report (by Chris Bing and Joel Schectman) on June 14th, 2024:

A little medical and historical context:

Academic research published recently has shown that, when individuals develop skepticism toward a single vaccine, those doubts often lead to uncertainty about other inoculations. Lucey and other health experts say they saw such a scenario play out in Pakistan, where the Central Intelligence Agency used a fake hepatitis vaccination program in Abbottabad as cover to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind behind the attacks of September 11, 2001. Discovery of the ruse led to a backlash against an unrelated polio vaccination campaign, including attacks on healthcare workers, contributing to the reemergence of the deadly disease in the country.

The capitalist and imperialist motives:

Beijing didn’t limit its global influence efforts to propaganda. It announced an ambitious COVID assistance program, which included sending masks, ventilators and its own vaccines – still being tested at the time – to struggling countries. In May 2020, Xi announced that the vaccine China was developing would be made available as a “global public good,” and would ensure “vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.” Sinovac was the primary vaccine available in the Philippines for about a year until U.S.-made vaccines became more widely available there in early 2022. Washington’s plan, called Operation Warp Speed, was different. It favored inoculating Americans first, and it placed no restrictions on what pharmaceutical companies could charge developing countries for the remaining vaccines not used by the United States. The deal allowed the companies to “play hardball” with developing countries, forcing them to accept high prices, said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of medicine at Georgetown University who has worked with the World Health Organization. The deal “sucked most of the supply out of the global market,” Gostin said. “The United States took a very determined America First approach.” To Washington’s alarm, China’s offers of assistance were tilting the geopolitical playing field across the developing world, including in the Philippines, where the government faced upwards of 100,000 infections in the early months of the pandemic.

The gov. authorization:

In the past, such opposition from the State Department might have proved fatal to the program. Previously in peacetime, the Pentagon needed approval of embassy officials before conducting psychological operations in a country, often hamstringing commanders seeking to quickly respond to Beijing’s messaging, three former Pentagon officials told Reuters. But in 2019, before COVID surfaced in full force, then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper signed a secret order that later paved the way for the launch of the U.S. military propaganda campaign. The order elevated the Pentagon’s competition with China and Russia to the priority of active combat, enabling commanders to sidestep the State Department when conducting psyops against those adversaries. The Pentagon spending bill passed by Congress that year also explicitly authorized the military to conduct clandestine influence operations against other countries, even “outside of areas of active hostilities.”

And one last one following up on the secret order and General Dynamics IT:

The senior defense official said the Pentagon has rescinded parts of Esper’s 2019 order that allowed military commanders to bypass the approval of U.S. ambassadors when waging psychological operations. The rules now mandate that military commanders work closely with U.S. diplomats in the country where they seek to have an impact. The policy also restricts psychological operations aimed at “broad population messaging,” such as those used to promote vaccine hesitancy during COVID. The Pentagon’s audit concluded that the military’s primary contractor handling the campaign, General Dynamics IT, had employed sloppy tradecraft, taking inadequate steps to hide the origin of the fake accounts, said a person with direct knowledge of the review. The review also found that military leaders didn’t maintain enough control over its psyop contractors, the person said. A spokesperson for General Dynamics IT declined to comment. Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s clandestine propaganda efforts are set to continue. In an unclassified strategy document last year, top Pentagon generals wrote that the U.S. military could undermine adversaries such as China and Russia using “disinformation spread across social media, false narratives disguised as news, and similar subversive activities [to] weaken societal trust by undermining the foundations of government.” And in February, the contractor that worked on the anti-vax campaign – General Dynamics IT – won a $493 million contract. Its mission: to continue providing clandestine influence services for the military.

I would highly recommend reading the whole thing (link at the top) especially if this is the first you've heard of this happening. The article goes into the specifics of the Philippines-Us-China relations during this time and the devastating rates the country was facing when the U.S. was doing this shit. There is also a good chunk on how they targeted Muslim majority regions with disinformation about pig derivatives in the sinovac and the attempted pushback by religious scholars to assure their populace that even if it did, taking it would still not be haram under these circumstances.

Framing is centrist-y but still solid reporting and a great read.

i rlly do not think white global northerners understand how fucking bad the anti sinovac psyop was in context of the philippines and other targeted countries being from the global south, with a history of economic and military intervention and destabilization by the usa specifically.

i live in the philippines and sinovac was the only available vaccine for MONTHS of the pandemic. people were fucking dying and we had no pfizer, no j&j, no astrazeneca, no moderna. sinovac was the ONLY vaccine supply we had. and the supply wasnt even enough for even my small city. we do not have the infrastructure to manufacture our own vaccines and tests. we were entirely reliant on imports from other countries who Did have the capacity to manufacture such things

i got up early for several days straight to go to a pop up walk in vaccination site (were talking there by 7:30am) set up in a fucking public basketball court because it was the only way to get vaccinated, and 3 times i had to go back empty handed so to speak after exposing myself to this massive opportunity for transmission because they fucking ran out of shots and prioritized the elderly and disabled and i didnt have my legal pwd (person with disability) card yet. i had to go to a different barangay (local unit of government) to get my shot MONTHS LATER and only got mine because one of my family was in the local govt and reserved some shots for us.

many filipinos use facebook which is where some of the psyop was conducted because you can use it for free on your phone and it is often where news is disseminated. i know we have that joke about People Believing Anything They See On Facebook but i cannot stress enough that people here get local news from fb the same way you (used to) get news from twitter about shit like localized emergencies and whatnot.

because we are third world, you know that the state of our education system is nothing compared to the states. media and news literacy here is dangerously low and the population is sensitive to mis/disinformation, as can be seen during the 2022 presidential elections where the usa Also interfered lol. i cannot stress enough how much of the population was susceptible to this psyop, especially those in poverty who couldnt afford proper education. hell, even educated people fell for this shit. do you think jhunjhun who didnt finish grade 6 would be able to identify disguised foreign intervention that was in his own language?

we were already recovering from public scrutiny of a different vaccine, a dengue vaccine, which lowered public trust in inoculation. and then the usa goes and does THIS??? i cannot emphasize enough that they are directly responsible for the tens and thousands of unvaccinated covid deaths. they are responsible for my friends having to bury their unvaxxed parents and grandparents at the age of 19. they are responsible for mass death and disability.

but were just a country in the periphery. so who cares about us? our lives are worthless to the usa, which is why they admitted that they did this when they would otherwise "never" to their own population. third worlders arent real people to your government. we are merely statistics and a petri dish for experimentation. so who cares if we die? the real important thing isnt our lives, its that the usa has more control over us than china.

[sweetmariihs2]

The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command's brazillian dub is currently lost media.

A small snippet of the brazillian dub of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. By the way, the brazillian dub of this episode "The Plasma Monster/O Monstro de Plasma" is currently lost.

In Brazil, it was first shown on the channel SBT by the now defunct Disney CRUJ, between 2001 and 2003. It was also shown on the channel by the programs Bom Dia e Cia, Sábado Animado and Festolândia. (Found these on Google and in brazillian portuguese):

I have memories of watching this show being advertized in commercials on Disney channel. It wasn't only aired in the 2000s but also during the 2010s on Club Disney.

Personal notes: When I was a child I judged the cartoon by it's looks and refused to watch it, saying it was "bad" because I thought it was a "boys cartoon". Two of my friends on the other way (friends that have today, not childhood friends) loved this show, one of them even had Zurg and Warp Darkmatter as her favorite characters, and she remembers loving the episode "Mira's Wedding". Important info!

Today it's not possible to watch the full show in brazillian portuguese due to most of it being lost media. Still, some episodes were found and posted on YouTube by a channel called Sereia Plus.

On a search for the lost episodes, I tried to find them in "online watch" websites or any place that might have something hidden, but with no success. A famous torrent in Brazil is a website called RedeCanais and the Youtube channel Sereia Plus posted episodes with RedeCanais' watermark, indicating that the owner of the channel found at least some of these episodes there.

There is also a dub of the pilot "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins /Buzz Lightyear do Comando Estelar: A Aventura Começa" in Rede Canais and posted on Youtube in low quality by a channel called P Cartoon.

The list of episodes posted by Sereia Plus is:

NOS-4-A2 /NOS-4-A2

The Return of XL /O Retorno Do XL

Shiv Katall (the channel titled it as "Panic on Bathyos/Pânico em Bathyos" but that's wrong since the episode is Shiv Katall

Super Nova /Super Nova

Clone Rangers /Clone Rangers

The Yukari Imprint /A Marca Yukari

The Starthought /O Pensamento Inicial

Enemy Without a Face /Inimigo Sem Rosto

Good Ol' Buzz /Bom e Velho Buzz

Return To Karn /Retorno A Karn

Speed Trap /Armadilha de Velocidade

Holiday Time /Tempo de Férias

Os Opostos Se Atraem /Opposites Attract

The list of episodes found in RedeCanais is:

A person on the r/BrasilLostMedia on Reddit made a post about the show's missing dub.

"In total, the cartoon has 1 season and 62 episodes. And of these, only 14 episodes are available on Rede Canais and they are not in order."

The Buzz Lightyear game was recently dubbed with a fan's help:

The game "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" for Playstation 1 had an official brazillian dub only for PC. The owner of this channel, Oximaru (A ANGEL ON EARTH) got the dub from the PC and modified the game to be able to support the different language in other devices, even offering a download file. Nothing here is made by AI, all the voices are the official voices from the cartoon and the voice actors actually dubbed the game in the past. Check his project out. You can turn on the subtitles.

About the dubbing:

I would also like to point out here that, differently from the original/USA version, Buzz Lightyear's voice actor is the same as in all the Toy Story movies, shorts, games and almost every Toy Story media, except for the ones that were never dubbed. Our brazillian Buzz voice is from a voice actor called Guilherme Briggs, he is one of the most known and beloved voice actors in our country, his voice is very unique, characteristic, expressive, and easily recognizable.

He's been dubbing cartoons and Disney media for more than 20 years. Some of his charaters that you may know in other languages are: Mickey Mouse, Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove, Cosmo from Fairly Odd Parents, Grinch from the Grinch (Jim Carrey, by the way), Caine from The Amazing Digital Circus. If you are interested, you can search more about his career and watch some of his dubs. He is one of Brazil's favorite voice actors for a reason! You can turn on the subtitles.

That's him dubbing the character "Him" from The Powerpuff Girls ^^^

This is an interview of him talking about Buzz Lightyear ^^^

Personal notes: This character and voice actor are very beloved by the brazillian public and watching Buzz Lightyear with a voice different from Guilherme Briggs feels unusual. I don't have to explain why watching something dubbed in our original language is better than watching in a different one, specially with a character that is too attached to his unique brazillian voice that is Buzz Lightyear. Watching blosc in english is fun, but watching it in portuguese makes me cackle, and it's a shame that me or other brazillians (such as my friends) can't enjoy such a rich dub because it's nowhere to be seen. I would blame big corporations to this loss, since they always own copies of their works in their own personal data but Disney refuses to add Blosc to their Disney+ catalogue, much less publish the episodes online, even less in our language. It feels weird to watch Buzz without Guilherme's voice because he makes such a great job that other dubs feel like the character is missing a piece of himself. When watching the same episode again in portuguese, the missing piece fits amazingly well and the show gets extremely better. Maybe that's just because it's dubbed, but I really think this voice actor is phenomenal and it's a shame that we lost a dub like that.

Media preservation and piracy are not the same! This dub is lost and the owners do not provide a way to watch it, even though they probably have all the episodes hidden somewhere.

@thirddoctor

[darkmaga-returns]

The widespread claim that Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines" saved millions of lies is officially debunked.

Carl Heneghan, head of the Center for Evidence-based Medicine in Oxford, along with Tom Jefferson wrote a piece for The Spectator (United Kingdom) that outlines the "implausible" findings of the modeling study that is widely referenced as proof that COVID jabs saved upwards of 12 million people.

It was the BBC that first made the claim that AstraZeneca and Pfizer had together developed "medicines" that saved the lives of millions of people, citing the findings of a "disease forecasting company" called Airfinity. Similar claims were made here in the United States about Operation Warp Speed.

A study out of Imperial College London calculated that COVID jabs saved 20 million lives between December 2020 and December 2021, the assumption – a false one, just to be clear – being that the jabs conferred protection against COVID infection.

Heneghan and Jefferson downloaded and evaluated data from GitHub to examine the country-specific estimates procured in order to assess whether or not they are realistic. They looked at figures for the UK, Italy and the United States.

It turns out that the figures claimed as evidence that COVID jabs worked are bunk.

"Sadly, many journalists don't check their numbers or facts: many of the assumptions in the model are incorrect, and the estimated number of deaths averted by vaccines is implausible," Heneghan and Jefferson write.

"This isn't surprising. As in medicine, models do not fit anywhere in the pathway for establishing effectiveness. Regulators don't use them for approval, and decision-makers like the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence use economic models with reliable estimates of effect and credible costs."

[overclockedopossum]

OK fuck it. I've seen this post cross my dash twice already and left it but I'm sick of it. Truth is always your ally when you're in the right, and this post is lacking in truth.

Firstly, let me point out what the OP is doing. This is a style of argument called a "gish gallop" - but I've also seen it called a "trump tirade". You make a series of shaky assertions in quick succession. Since it takes a lot longer to demonstrate the truth than it does to assert a half-truth, this is a way to mislead people while being difficult and time-consuming to fact-check (see the length of what follows...).

Since the advised way to deal with this is to focus on the shakiest claim, let's do that. I'll get to Israel as well, because that's relevant. But the absolute worst part is an X in the Trump column for "vaccines and public health". Sure, pick a random antivaxxer and odds are they'll be a trump supporter. However the reality is that the Trump administration were responsible for starting "operation warp speed" and delivering covid-19 vaccines in the USA (and across the world). You cannot sum up a presidency that put tens of billions of dollars into vaccine development with "vaccines and public health: X". That is not truthful.

I do want to briefly mention that some of the items on the list are empty non-items. What's "advocating racial equality"? Is it doing anything, or is it saying words? The number of police killings has gone up under Biden, who opened his presidency by using federal agents in much the way Trump did. His 2022 budget was criticised for increasing the amount of money given to US police. But those are actions, not words. He may advocate racial equality but that doesn't do much.

Anyway, Israel. This is the big one. I'm going to focus on gojira007's addition, as there's more of an argument to engage with, and that will in passing cover the claims made by the OP.

With that said, gojira007's argument is really misleading. Saying that trump's stated goal is to "finish the job" implies continuing forever, but even just clicking through to the article will tell you "he would advise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to swiftly conclude Israel's war in Gaza". Read more into it and you'll find he's said “We’ve got to get to peace. You can’t have this going on, and I will say Israel has to be very careful because you are losing a lot of the world. You are losing a lot of support.” Looks a lot like support for a ceasefire to me! I have encountered people who genuinely read Trump's stance as "nuke gaza" in order to finish the job, but that's obviously completely at odds with his stated concern about international support.

To the other claim - "Biden is one of the only American Presidents in my lifetime to threaten limiting Military Aid to Israel" - that article is from May. Click through to read and it related to an invasion of Rafah, which was carried out. Was the threat carried out? Not according to the guardian:

Biden has not delivered on his threat to curb arms deliveries, which would have triggered outrage from not just Republicans but pro-Israel Democrats. Administration officials have instead sought to parse what “going into Rafah” means. When he issued his ultimatum a month ago, Biden had suggested it meant the IDF advancing to the city’s “population centres”. That has clearly already happened, but US officials are now arguing the forays so far have not been “major operations”.

It is true that Biden had prior to that threat already halted shipments of the very biggest bombs, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything. It's worth noting that both of the Bushes achieved actual changes in Israel's behaviour by threatening loan guarantees (this may or may not be outside gojira007's lifetime). Moreover, this should also be viewed in the context of how extreme Israel's current behaviour is - while there have absolutely been threats to Israel's aid before I'm not sure if there has ever been a period of sustained military action that has killed this many Palestinians. Incidentally, the current war isn't even the first Israeli atrocity during the Biden administration.

It's difficult to say what would be different under Trump when it comes to Palestine, because October 7th doesn't have an equivalent. However while he's clearly no friend to Palestinians, having recognised disputed and illegal Israeli claims, he has also pushed for peace (as long as it doesn't inconvinience Israel). When there was a pretext for bombings Trump did purport to "support Israel 100%", but the result was nowhere near as disproportionate as what's happening now.

Overall I don't think there's evidence that Trump would fail to clear the historically low bar that has been set by the Biden administration when it comes to avoiding killing in Gaza. While there are other aspects of his policy regarding Israel that you can criticise (at least some of which Biden has continued), it is not truthful to suggest he's worse than Biden on the matters of either military support or a ceasefire.

Right. I wish I was done, but one other thing.

if you want to vote for a third party, what you are going to do is vote for biden in november 2024 and then as soon as that’s done, start trying to get ranked choice voting in your state

I would argue this is something like the Nirvana Fallacy. If it's plausible to get ranked choice voting while continuing to vote blue across the board, then it would be a wonderful solution. Do you think it's plausible, reader? Or is it just being said to shut you up?

Personally, I'm old enough to remember the last three election cycles where leftists were told "first vote blue but after that you can try to push the person you already voted for left I guess" (the cycle before that Obama actually looked promising). At some point you have to draw a line.

Besides, I would suggest that ranked choice is far more likely to be adopted by the DNC if lack of it is perceived to be hurting them at the ballot box. That means a third-party vote high enough to swing the election, cast by people who will not be bullied back into voting DNC by pied piper tactics in place of policy improvements.

(Obligatory: obviously not voting at all is pointless, if you can it's worth going to the ballot boxes and voting Green. Furthermore, voting for congresspeople, on ballot measures etc is important - don't take out your dislike of Biden on DNC candidates for congress! Also, the more local stuff can often make a massive difference.)

(by all means take out your dislike of specific DNC candidates on those candidates at the ballot box if there's good reason to but control of congress is very important whoever is in the white house)

Look.

I have made you a chart. A very simple chart.

People say "You have to draw the line somewhere, and Biden has crossed it-" and my response is "Trump has crossed way more lines than Biden".

These categories are based off of actual policy enacted by both of these men while they were in office.

If the ONLY LINE YOU CARE ABOUT is line 12, you have an incredible amount of privilege, AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT PALESTINIANS. You obviously have nothing to fear from a Trump presidency, and you do not give a fuck if a ceasefire actually occurs. You are obviously fine if your queer, disabled, and marginalized loved ones are hurt. You clearly don't care about the status of American democracy, which Trump has openly stated he plans to destroy on day 1 he is in office.