#What Are We Waiting For?

[poprocklyrics]

I've been real, I've been fake Been a sinner, been a saint

RELATE, for KING & COUNTRY

[imnotkosmic]

For King + Country, what are we waiting for?

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'm sure there were days during the Civil War or World War 2 where civilians and soldiers alike thought "you know, it's only a matter of time before things REALLY start going downhill." No matter how bad things get, people get used to it and assume that there will be an undeniable shift from before to after. I'm sure there were people who thought those wars were premature, that they weren't nearly as bad as we know they are in hindsight. "It's no big deal, we shouldn't exaggerate."

We live in a society where murder is not only acceptable but encouraged by the ruling party. Things aren't going to pop off in near the future, they're popping off around us as we speak. They have been for years! Historians will look back at where we are right now not as a transitional period between peace and war, not a prelude, but full-fledged war itself. The only argument will be over what year it officially started. 2016? 2012? 2001? The entire 21st century has been a downward spiral. Hell, the final third of the 20th century is what really set us back; Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, the beginning of the end.

Everyone thinks they'll know for sure when The Change™ comes. They think we're on the precipice of doom, but we need to come to terms with the fact that we plummeted over the edge a long time ago. Cops and domestic terrorists kill with impunity, homelessness is on the rise as wages drop and prices skyrocket across the board, every day the noose gets tighter as women and trans people and gay people and people of color and the disabled have their rights stripped away one bill at a time, and we think that things are normal because we still go to work and watch movies and play video games...

You best start believing in the post-apocalypse, because you're living in it!

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

this song is CRAZY yall

[noodles-and-tea]

Haha… yeah… that’d be crazy…

[urdtarah]

"it's unrealistic to ask for a perfect canidate" I WANT THE GENOCIDE TO FUCKING END!!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[dividingcosmos]

The way Nightshade is confirmed to use they/them and Optimus apologized and moved on properly is so nice

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[kenchann]

love this dude already 🎃

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[sophies-junkyard]

I’m in the South. I’ve got ears to the ground. Republicans are SWEATING at the prospect of Kamala being nominated. They’re not sure Trump can beat her.

Let’s prove them right.

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

We all know the semi-canonical ‘all the Robins know to hide/duck inside of Batman’s cape, even as adults’ thing.

We also know that Danny ‘is LITERALLY a ghost’ Fenton sucks at remembering his own intangibility while ALSO forgetting to look ahead of him.

All I’m saying is, Danny Fenton (or Phantom, if you’d really like) would absolutely SLAM into Batman on accident while running on roof tops and Bruce ‘Brooding Instinct’ Wayne doesn’t even think twice about letting the kid hide and scanning around for danger before there’s a record scratch of ‘wait who tf is this?’ kicks in.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt I good omens but i've never watched it

i've never seen good omens but it's all over my tumblr dash so this is what I've gathered can someone please confirm if i've got it right

there's a demon named crowley

there's a biblically inaccurate angel named aziraphale but like it's very sexy when the demon calls him 'angel'

the demon and angel have been married for 6000 years and they still keep looking at each other all sappily

Neil Gaiman is somehow involved, I think he's the writer but also he's on tumblr (uh, @neil-gaiman) and people keep questioning if he's real

is neil gaiman like a fandom inside joke why is everyone asking if he's real

there actors are called michael and david and amazon prime thought they were the same

there is a bookstore and crowley is sad

they kiss and it is very nice and desperate and crowley says we could have been us. i have no context for this. someone is going to heaven i think.

there is a god, i'm not sure if they're good or evil though

the demon wears sunglasses

it's a comedy but for some reason everyone's crying after whatever the last season was, are you guys okay

things are on fire

they are very gay

there was a book and at one point they switch bodies

more fire and crowley screaming

they are called ineffable husbands i dont know what that means

they fight crime or they do crime or they fight crime by doing crime i really cannot remember which

gay

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[geomimetry]

woe be upon ye

[draculadrawalong]

May 3

My friend Jonathan Harker, food blogger sollicitor from London, is on a work trip in Transylvaina, and he is collecting a ton of recipes for his girlfriend.