#a low bar but...

[marithlizard]

(If anyone missed it, two of the largest papers in the US were planning to endorse Harris, but the owners stepped in to prevent it. Editors have resigned in protest. )

[padmestrilogy]

love how jedi in the acolyte all think about attachment differently…when jecki says that sol shouldn’t keep holos of his former padawans and sol counters that memories help you grow. they feel like a real religion with their differing interpretations! and that’s what it’s all about, truly.

[centrally-unplanned]

55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing. 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year. 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low.

My new calling card/mantra: You cannot policy tweak your way around this

[logicpng]

some comfort doodles

note: i forgot about the whole pianosaurus thing with the hc in the last one... can we just say that was for protection/survival and go with it anyway? lol

[thought-42]

Sincerely love getting "The drinking isn't the problem, it's a symptom." and "It's not the drinking that worries me, it's that you're hiding it in your coffee cup." Love when shows let characters see basic nuance and be understated about it.

[autisti-kat]

In my street, in Germany - the country of the Shoah - there is someone who puts up stickers saying "Killing Jews is not resistance". If they are not scratched off within days, they are covered up with "Fuck Israel" stickers with watermelons in the background or other Pro-Palestine stickers. And to me that's just such a horrifically perfect metaphor for why Israel needs to exist.

[reelaround-deactivated05312024]

2024:

REPEAT THE CYCLE

NEVER BREAK THE PATTERN

COPE IN THE WORST WAY YOU KNOW

DO NOT IMPROVE

CHOKE YOURSELF WITH FALSE ETHICS

LET YOUR FAMILY ENGULF YOU COMPLETELY

ROT

[lucabyte]

i CANNOT stress enough how incompatible the themes of these two pieces of media are. i promise my media literacy ability is actually good im well aware that these character mappings are absolutely nothing. that said. play with me in this space. in this sopping wet miserable space. its bad luck to kill a piou piou

original screenshots (and hypnosis 1904) for reference

[perplexingly]

Quick sketches of my most favourite bg3 relationships

[thebestestbat]

i do think that writers should be aware of the dark topics they're writing about; to me this means that e.g. if you're writing about an abusive relationship, you should know that it is abusive. i don't mean that you need to have a big and important point to make about abuse (especially not a necessarily moralistic one where e.g. the abuser "gets what's coming to them") in order to write it. just like that you should know what you're writing about. otherwise you get batman comics.

[bringbackmaes14]

Y'know I used to think that Marvel would never come up with anything more romantic than "I love you in every universe" but then they just had to put out a movie with the premise "I don't give a fuck about every version of you. I don't even care if you're the worst one out of all of them. I want you, specifically, individually, as you are, forever." and I am falling apart again.

[livingfandomly]

“I seldom cahoot”

Hades is actually King shit. I don’t care what anyone else says. The fact that he immediately offered sanctuary to Percy, Sally and Grover? Yes, he had ulterior motives but they weren’t at the cost of anyone and he made them clear AND he really doesn’t give a shit about his family drama. He really is just an introvert who doesn’t want to be disturbed. He just wants to be bisexual and spend time with his wife. Love it for him.

Side note: the fact that readers know that he put his kids in the casino to protect them just makes it that much better!

[becquerel]

you know geopolitics are BAD right now when people aren't celebrating the pope's death because he "wasn't that bad in comparison"

[snake-spotted]

OK so I know scientifically snakes don't have the emotional intelligence to feel affection right

however

in my heart of hearts I feel like. they can still have affection. if they learn to trust you, is that not a form of affection?

sure they act in ways which would be affection by human standards but are really just survival instincts, I get the science and all but like... I really feel like snakes can *feel* yknow

ik I just have a broad idea of 'affection' but to me a snake enjoying my company, even if its just for my body heat or food or whatever...I feel like that *is* affection of some kind

[sitruuna-art]

AHHHHH I LOVE THE WAY YOU DRAW DOGDAY SO MUCH!!!! by any chance may we get some player and catnap content? :3

you save a weird-lookin' cat ONE time and suddenly it thinks you are an angel sent by god or something, smh

[foggygloves]

what's a little yuri between "lifelong friends"