#What were we talking about?

[coldshrugs]

glamtober #22 - ball

this dress is such a blessing tbh. many of the other long dresses have a level of bulk or detail that keep them from looking as elegant as i'd prefer. this dress in red + the duelist's boots were my rdm glam for a long time, but i've since retired it. now i'm considering an evil blue mage glam with it.

zenos is in the edenmorn mask of aiming, hallowed ramie doublet of casting, salon server's gloves, faerie tale prince's slops, and faerie tale prince's boots--all in jet black (plus grape purple on his boots).

items used:

head: mask of azuro (metallic red) body: yorha type-51 robe of casting (jet black) hands: witch's gloves (jet black | metallic red) legs: anabaseios longkilt of casting (metallic red) feet: faerie tale princess's heels (jet black | metallic red)

[talefoundryshow]

As always, if you want one of these lil guys you can find them here.

[vethbrenatto]

(Warning for a bit of Vaxleth critical discussion)

Anyway as someone who is not a Vaxleth anti but is just sort of neutral on them, I really like what TLOVM is doing with them. They have a lot of the same character beats but unlike the campaign, we get a slower burn. I think part of what’s always jarred me about Vaxleth is that because multiple years of character establishment happen off screen, the Vaxleth stuff all happens very fast from my perspective. And they keep elements of that (the Briarwoods fight I love you) but also in a way that feels true to Keyleth have her still struggle with those feelings. It’s both true to campaign and entirely adaptation.

I really like that Vax has come to the acceptance point/turning point of his journey and they’re not together yet. Vaxleth to me is so Angst that in the campaign a lot of their major moments are angst when what I tend to enjoy more in their dynamic is the joy they share together. They’re both weirdos! I also think the heavily angsty relationship in campaign dulls the angst of their parting in the finale (my opinion, I know it’s a rare one) because I was just so used to them already interacting in very deeply intense and emotional scenes. I can see a world in TLOVM where they really get to revel in the joy of their newfound relationship before fate rips it away (reminiscent of how Vaxleth are as a couple in the 80s-90s of the campaign).

This is very much a personal opinion because of how I as an individual react to Vaxleth in the campaign, but it excites me that I’m more excited for them in TLOVM. I think they’ll probably get together next season and I’m not apathetic about it like I thought I’d be.

[hangingoffence]

thoughts on old men

made me think

i mean like other old men lovers i too like me some silver fox but we need to start appreciating old bald men. old men who went through male patter baldness and said FUCK IT and shaved everything off. takes guts to do it bc hair is such a big part of beauty standards. in almost every culture, every time period hair has always been very prominent. and losing your hair is considered a big shame. men(me included) are scared of balding bc its thought that youll lose a part of your attractiveness. and im a firm believer that a bald/shaved head fits everyone. dont listen to ppl who say your features arent 'sharp' or 'angular' enough to rock a bald head. its your fucking head. so the old men who have lived most of their life with baldness and grown into it and become comfortable in it should be appreciated as much as the old men with full head of hair.

[troolyart]

no you don't.. you know nothing of me trooly... you don't know who i am.. but i know you... remember my words.. or else i'll make it this December instead..

This December, I'll remember

Want you to see it when I do, ooh-ooh-ooh,

God knows I do. 🎧🎼🎼🎹

[go-learn-esperanto]

Depends on how traumatising you think getting your head bitten off by an animatronic is

Don't bring the bite of '87 into this!!!!! >:(

[tagswoman]

Are you up for adoption?

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[tsuchinokoroyale]

At a party and a guy was telling me about how one of his coworkers was complaining about how he thought his dealer was lacing his heroin with cocaine and then the party guy was like “but his dealer was his brother” and I said “that’s some cocaine and abel shit” and the joke flopped so hard but I stand by it so I had to share it somewhere

[inkskinned]

you know, you know. no gods, no masters, no kings on pedestals. everyone is fallible. death of the author. you know! you are balanced about your intake of media - you allow the wiggle room, the grace, the gratitude, the skepticism. nobody above criticism.

but still. a weird gut-punch feeling, something akin to betrayal. you read the article. surprise! an author you love is actually: a serial fucking predator.

well, shit. what now. no, you knew he was a person (all people are), but now you're wondering - what have i overlooked by accident? what messages have i internalized that are strange and cruel? and also, like, what the fuck?

his actions lay a thick glaze on top of everything. like each place is now ruined, opaque in a new way. but okay, fine, you've done this before. you knew better, right? you've been betrayed by many a cherished childhood author.

still, this stickiness. fuck. can you pick up that book again. will you read it to your children. you've recommended it to others - will you ever do that again? and of course, of course, no parasocial relationships. you were theoretically above this kind of sentiment. but the artist informs the art, right.

so it's not something as clear-cut as feeling he owed you, specifically (a stranger) better behavior - just that you kind of, in a distant and odd way... sort of trusted him to do better. it's not like a real trust or something speakable, just the faint hope that the product (good books) was a thin representation of the soul. now it feels like the product (good? books?) was a mask. in some small or insignificant way, your previous support of this person lent them power. your money and your time and your laughter.

and the thing is - you have this terrible, echoing sensation. how many times will this happen? over and over. you find out that the singer you love is actually a predator. you learn over drinks that your favorite high school english teacher is in jail for what he did to her. you listen to the news idly and suddenly discover that a woman you used to idolize has been abusing her kids for an actual eon.

what can you touch without the static melting off. you can't even really complain about it too much (you were supposed to know better, and besides, you don't want the same re-split "it's not your fault, love what you love" basic advice), but now it's here. somehow, it feels like - you let him into your life.

it's not that things need to be pure or an artist has to be like, endlessly perfect, mindful. demure. it's more just this terrible truth that has been replayed through your veins so often it feels criminally vain. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. did you want any one person to be worth that power?

it's just that he wrote books where he seemed to understand that. he seemed to know about hierarchies and unfair systems and bigotry and privilege. you thought they were books about what it means to struggle. you thought they were about having power and still using it for good rather than for control. he spooned you a narrative of being a good guy, a kind soul. you fucking bought what that fucking monster sold.

maybe that's why they were fantasies, after all.

[she-is-ovarit]

Just FYI Hillary did something similar with her SuperPAC called #CorrectTheRecord:

Correct the Record was a hybrid PAC/super PAC founded by David Brock. It supported Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. The PAC aimed to "find and confront social media users" who posted "unflattering messages about the Democratic front-runner"

I have stopped trusting almost anything on social media to do with politics because propaganda is everywhere from all sides.

And quite frankly trolling is easy work. The point of paid and unpaid trolling is to solicit an emotional reaction from someone and getting someone upset specifically over politics is money. Bend the culture enough to this degree and people are suddenly not having civil and thoughtful conversations anymore and become afraid to ask questions. Anyone who has even a slightly different opinion or "wrongthinks" even when aligned with a particular group gets cyberbullied either back in the "correct" opinion or exiled from the mainstream.

It was once the mainstream for trolls to be banned and for moderators or even general users to just reply "don't feed the trolls" on internet forums. Civil engagement across differences in opinion was mostly the norm in many online spaces. Anyone trolling stuck out like a sore thumb and were gotten rid of or was thought to be boring.

Now trolling is like, mainstream online culture and especially as it relates to social issues and human rights. It peaks during election cycles. It's one of the more effective forms of propaganda and I'm not sure why liberals/Democrats feel their own party doesn't practice it or that they are safe from it. It especially peaked in 2016 I think because so many third party candidates became popular and more within the public eye and that was threatening to the two-party system. Or perhaps because both parties focused on pouring more money and resources into online propaganda. I saw the 2016 election cycle destroy 20 year relationships, divide families, and make every conversation feel like walking on eggshells. It was nuts. And then the pandemic occurred just a couple of years later and lasted a couple of years which created some distance and isolation for people even though there was some politics that came with that.

Just a thought for the night, but remember in 2016 there were all these accounts that seemed really really telling you all the ways Hillary Clinton was some kind of demon woman, just the worst, and really Trump wouldn't be worse and maybe he'd even be better?

and then it turned out they got banned for being literally Russian agents and never came back because spoiler they were?

does it feel like that all over again? just a thought.

[geezmarty]

karlach and the benefits of having a sorcerer gf

[lizzybeeee]

When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.

[willosword]

Fake, facsimile, forgery.

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF puppet and Michael Afton got beef,,

[lanschpaket]

Can we talk about the two modes of Caitlyn in this scene?! xD This tall beautiful woman walks into the cell, leans onto the wall with so much attitude and then this snazzy, upper-class, smooth, prim godess throws out the most flirty and sultry lines EVER, like we never heard her talk like that and then seconds after, the instant panic and wanting to make things right and wanting to be honest and correct with Vi, throws in the information about her rebound with worry and panic in her voice idkkkkk this was just sooo funny to me. But also I love Cait for that, that she wanted to be honest. She opened up and is all vulnerable again and that it was important to her to disrupt the moment to let Vi know about this

[gascreates]

a new star