#ally 400

[margarets-flowers]

JOEY MOTHER FUCKINY LOGANO YOU ABSOLUTE INSANE FUCKER YOU DID JT!!!!!!!!!! I WAS ACTUALLY PRAYING IM SO SERIOUS I ALMOSY CRIED THANK YOU GOD AND PENZOIL

[sortanonymous]

How to view this race?

Do I appreciate what an incredible war of attrition the first five-overtime race in NASCAR history was?

Or do I pull my hair out because Chastain was wrecked out of a potential win by others' carelessness (again), Truex lucked out of a good points day (again), and Logano bumped into another win over someone more interesting (again) in a season where he looked so close to finally having a bad season?

Yes

[harpoonsnotspoons]

HATE.

Part 2

[behindfairytales]

Victor Alli in Bridgerton (s3) as John Stirling

[18catsreading]

I thought i was gonna be ready for it. But when Brennan, as Impressario "double death doggy style" i was so taken aback that when i finally started laughing i nearly peed my pants.

Brennan: he points for both if you to get in the ring. [As Impressario]: both your lives and $800 versus every brick of cocaine.

[comrademango]

Google will show you a variety of crunchy peas but this is the type of crunchy peas I was thinking of:

[lexicals]

Been working on my backup who will be filling in while we see if keo will be returning and this is possibly the most mechanically complex character I have ever built. This guy has got so much shit going on and also I took the tank assignment incredibly seriously so he's a fucking brick wall of a man. This is going to be very interesting to play lmao

[taonpest]

I am SO done with people going "the main character was not relatable therefor I think this story is bad". Sorry you can't enjoy a story in which you're not the main character, you weakling.

[darksxder]

EVENT!

ally’s birthday bash!!! / 400 follower celebration!

thank you so much for following and supporting me! sorry my work has been few and far between lately! but that changes with this event!!!

starts: 06/07/2023

12 PM EST

ends: 09/07/2023

12 AM EST

what will it include?

*headcanons

*drabbles

*mini fics (request away!)

*fics (easy target pt. 3 & to devour -ur welcome)

(FOR ANY CHARACTER(S) ON ANY OF MY MASTERLISTS)

rules

be polite & patient

max. 3 prompts for 1 request

can request without using prompts! be creative! go batty!

look at my request rules before submitting!

only submit a request once please!

but you can submit multiple different requests ( diff prompt / plot/ character(s) )

i do poly! pairings ( no limit ) !!!!

be detailed with requests! I love detail!! but know that it will be a mini fic!

prompts are under #prompts or #ally's birthday bash

reblog to spread the word ( if you'd like ) :)

this event also includes...

*personal questions

*thirsts!

*writing process talks

*fic recs

*moodboards

*snippets of fics near completed

thank you!!! i hope to hear from you all thursday to sunday! i couldn’t think of a better way to spend my 20th birthday tbh :,) ily guys <3

[helpfulbug]

was looking for the straight sex at the gay pride parade tiktok on youtube and it has like. 6k views thats so crazy I thought everyone on earth had seen it

[sentimental-boulder]

wintering live debut by jack and matty on 35mm film @ the ally coalition talent show, december 2022

[glitter50000]

bitches be getting so happy watching the darkling being portrayed as a villain and a toxic lover. It’s me, I’m bitches

[popcorn-plots]

I should be doing homework but instead...

(idek if this is popular anymore, I just need motivation tbh)

1 note and I'll go take a shower

25 notes and I'll get off Tumblr and finish my homework.

50 notes and I'll put away my laundry

100 notes and I'll fix my sleep schedule

150 notes and I'll start eating breakfast before school for the rest of the school year

200 notes and I'll tell my parents what I want for my birthday

250 notes and I'll start handing out my resume/applying to jobs [did not get hired anywhere, and I'm gone most of the summer anyways]

300 notes and I'll start running 1 mile every week

350 notes and I'll finish/publish a wip [trans Stephen fic, the public has determined]

400 notes and I'll finish the next chapter of BtSA [posted here]

450 notes and I'll spend 10 minutes a day working on my novel (;-;)

500 notes and I answer my emails

550 notes and I get a pixie cut (I've been wanting a shorter cut for months) [LOOK HERE]

600 notes and I'll fix my Doctor Strange cosplay (and post pictures)

(1000 notes and I'll come out as genderfluid to my therapist, despite how terrifying it is)

(1500 notes and I'll come out to my favorite teacher OR my ally YW leader)

(if, for some reason, and probably with divine intervention, we hit 20,000 notes..... I may consider coming out to my parents and/or my ward friends.)

[reasonsforhope]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, by some measures, the most popular leader in the world. Prior to the 2024 election, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held an outright majority in the Lok Sabha (India’s Parliament) — one that was widely projected to grow after the vote count. The party regularly boasted that it would win 400 Lok Sabha seats, easily enough to amend India’s constitution along the party's preferred Hindu nationalist lines.

But when the results were announced on Tuesday, the BJP held just 240 seats. They not only underperformed expectations, they actually lost their parliamentary majority. While Modi will remain prime minister, he will do so at the helm of a coalition government — meaning that he will depend on other parties to stay in office, making it harder to continue his ongoing assault on Indian democracy.

So what happened? Why did Indian voters deal a devastating blow to a prime minister who, by all measures, they mostly seem to like?

India is a massive country — the most populous in the world — and one of the most diverse, making its internal politics exceedingly complicated. A definitive assessment of the election would require granular data on voter breakdown across caste, class, linguistic, religious, age, and gender divides. At present, those numbers don’t exist in sufficient detail. 

But after looking at the information that is available and speaking with several leading experts on Indian politics, there are at least three conclusions that I’m comfortable drawing.

First, voters punished Modi for putting his Hindu nationalist agenda ahead of fixing India’s unequal economy. Second, Indian voters had some real concerns about the decline of liberal democracy under BJP rule. Third, the opposition parties waged a smart campaign that took advantage of Modi’s vulnerabilities on the economy and democracy.

Understanding these factors isn’t just important for Indians. The country’s election has some universal lessons for how to beat a would-be authoritarian — ones that Americans especially might want to heed heading into its election in November.

-via Vox, June 7, 2024. Article continues below.

A new (and unequal) economy

Modi’s biggest and most surprising losses came in India’s two most populous states: Uttar Pradesh in the north and Maharashtra in the west. Both states had previously been BJP strongholds — places where the party’s core tactic of pitting the Hindu majority against the Muslim minority had seemingly cemented Hindu support for Modi and his allies.

One prominent Indian analyst, Yogendra Yadav, saw the cracks in advance. Swimming against the tide of Indian media, he correctly predicted that the BJP would fall short of a governing majority.

Traveling through the country, but especially rural Uttar Pradesh, he prophesied “the return of normal politics”: that Indian voters were no longer held spellbound by Modi’s charismatic nationalist appeals and were instead starting to worry about the way politics was affecting their lives.

Yadav’s conclusions derived in no small part from hearing voters’ concerns about the economy. The issue wasn’t GDP growth — India’s is the fastest-growing economy in the world — but rather the distribution of growth’s fruits. While some of Modi’s top allies struck it rich, many ordinary Indians suffered. Nearly half of all Indians between 20 and 24 are unemployed; Indian farmers have repeatedly protested Modi policies that they felt hurt their livelihoods.

“Everyone was talking about price rise, unemployment, the state of public services, the plight of farmers, [and] the struggles of labor,” Yadav wrote...

“We know for sure that Modi’s strongman image and brassy self-confidence were not as popular with voters as the BJP assumed,” says Sadanand Dhume, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies India. 

The lesson here isn’t that the pocketbook concerns trump identity-based appeals everywhere; recent evidence in wealthier democracies suggests the opposite is true. Rather, it’s that even entrenched reputations of populist leaders are not unshakeable. When they make errors, even some time ago, it’s possible to get voters to remember these mistakes and prioritize them over whatever culture war the populist is peddling at the moment.

Liberalism strikes back

The Indian constitution is a liberal document: It guarantees equality of all citizens and enshrines measures designed to enshrine said equality into law. The signature goal of Modi’s time in power has been to rip this liberal edifice down and replace it with a Hindu nationalist model that pushes non-Hindus to the social margins. In pursuit of this agenda, the BJP has concentrated power in Modi’s hands and undermined key pillars of Indian democracy (like a free press and independent judiciary).

Prior to the election, there was a sense that Indian voters either didn’t much care about the assault on liberal democracy or mostly agreed with it. But the BJP’s surprising underperformance suggests otherwise.

The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, published an essential post-election data analysis breaking down what we know about the results. One of the more striking findings is that the opposition parties surged in parliamentary seats reserved for members of “scheduled castes” — the legal term for Dalits, the lowest caste grouping in the Hindu hierarchy.

Caste has long been an essential cleavage in Indian politics, with Dalits typically favoring the left-wing Congress party over the BJP (long seen as an upper-caste party). Under Modi, the BJP had seemingly tamped down on the salience of class by elevating all Hindus — including Dalits — over Muslims. Yet now it’s looking like Dalits were flocking back to Congress and its allies. Why?

According to experts, Dalit voters feared the consequences of a BJP landslide. If Modi’s party achieved its 400-seat target, they’d have more than enough votes to amend India’s constitution. Since the constitution contains several protections designed to promote Dalit equality — including a first-in-the-world affirmative action system — that seemed like a serious threat to the community. It seems, at least based on preliminary data, that they voted accordingly.

The Dalit vote is but one example of the ways in which Modi’s brazen willingness to assail Indian institutions likely alienated voters.

Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest and most electorally important state, was the site of a major BJP anti-Muslim campaign. It unofficially kicked off its campaign in the UP city of Ayodhya earlier this year, during a ceremony celebrating one of Modi’s crowning achievements: the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of a former mosque that had been torn down by Hindu nationalists in 1992. 

Yet not only did the BJP lose UP, it specifically lost the constituency — the city of Faizabad — in which the Ayodhya temple is located. It’s as direct an electoral rebuke to BJP ideology as one can imagine.

In Maharashtra, the second largest state, the BJP made a tactical alliance with a local politician, Ajit Pawar, facing serious corruption charges. Voters seemingly punished Modi’s party for turning a blind eye to Pawar’s offenses against the public trust. Across the country, Muslim voters turned out for the opposition to defend their rights against Modi’s attacks.

The global lesson here is clear: Even popular authoritarians can overreach.

By turning “400 seats” into a campaign slogan, an all-but-open signal that he intended to remake the Indian state in his illiberal image, Modi practically rang an alarm bell for constituencies worried about the consequences. So they turned out to stop him en masse.

The BJP’s electoral underperformance is, in no small part, the direct result of their leader’s zealotry going too far.

Return of the Gandhis? 

Of course, Modi’s mistakes might not have mattered had his rivals failed to capitalize. The Indian opposition, however, was far more effective than most observers anticipated.

Perhaps most importantly, the many opposition parties coordinated with each other. Forming a united bloc called INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance), they worked to make sure they weren’t stealing votes from each other in critical constituencies, positioning INDIA coalition candidates to win straight fights against BJP rivals.

The leading party in the opposition bloc — Congress — was also more put together than people thought. Its most prominent leader, Rahul Gandhi, was widely dismissed as a dilettante nepo baby: a pale imitation of his father Rajiv and grandmother Indira, both former Congress prime ministers. Now his critics are rethinking things.

“I owe Rahul Gandhi an apology because I seriously underestimated him,” says Manjari Miller, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Miller singled out Gandhi’s yatras (marches) across India as a particularly canny tactic. These physically grueling voyages across the length and breadth of India showed that he wasn’t just a privileged son of Indian political royalty, but a politician willing to take risks and meet ordinary Indians where they were. During the yatras, he would meet directly with voters from marginalized groups and rail against Modi’s politics of hate.

“The persona he’s developed — as somebody kind, caring, inclusive, [and] resolute in the face of bullying — has really worked and captured the imagination of younger India,” says Suryanarayan. “If you’ve spent any time on Instagram Reels, [you’ll see] an entire generation now waking up to Rahul Gandhi’s very appealing videos.”

This, too, has a lesson for the rest of the world: Tactical innovation from the opposition matters even in an unfair electoral context.

There is no doubt that, in the past 10 years, the BJP stacked the political deck against its opponents. They consolidated control over large chunks of the national media, changed campaign finance law to favor themselves, suborned the famously independent Indian Electoral Commission, and even intimidated the Supreme Court into letting them get away with it. 

The opposition, though, managed to find ways to compete even under unfair circumstances. Strategic coordination between them helped consolidate resources and ameliorate the BJP cash advantage. Direct voter outreach like the yatra helped circumvent BJP dominance in the national media.

To be clear, the opposition still did not win a majority. Modi will have a third term in office, likely thanks in large part to the ways he rigged the system in his favor.

Yet there is no doubt that the opposition deserves to celebrate. Modi’s power has been constrained and the myth of his invincibility wounded, perhaps mortally. Indian voters, like those in Brazil and Poland before them, have dealt a major blow to their homegrown authoritarian faction.

And that is something worth celebrating.

-via Vox, June 7, 2024.

[weird-color]

dont hug me im a cookie.

(height comparison and abilities below :p) (I am TERRIBLE at describing stats please bare with me)

Rainbow Ink ~ Creative Flow : Summons ink hands from the ground to drag the enemies in place, freezing them in place to cause injury and poison. An ocean of dark ink spawns beneath the enemies, increasing the amount of damage done by the ink hands and keeping them tied. A shield of paper will wrap around the ally with least ATK from the team. Increases Blueberry Clockwork's ATK and DMG Resist by 300%, an HP shield inflicting upon him to protect his current HP. (Similar to Mystic Flour.)

Blueberry Clockwork ~ The Reality Of Time : Freezes the enemy's cooldown and resets it, ignoring any buffs and treasures. Launches himself to attack while slowing his enemies ATK SPD, which will increase his own as he does. Increases Rainbow Ink's Cooldown by 500%, granting them "Future's Sight" buff and allowing their ink hands to survive longer and have a tighter grip on the enemies.

Sugar Heart Butterfly ~ Lover's Ring : Summons his cult members to deal damage and hypnotize the enemies, confusing them into bleeding. As he does, Sugar Heart Butterfly burst heals the entire team, restoring 70% of their HP. At the same time, an explosion of love stunts and charms the closest enemies, dispels any other buffs granted by other supports and curses them for the rest of the fight.

Electric Oats ~ Digital Dancing : Starts the fight with stunt resistance, DMG focus and cooldown by 619% for the entire party. His wires launch and zap the enemies, leaving a stunt debuff and healing reduction on them. Water type enemies will not be affected by this, instead will cause DMG reduction to Electric Oats Cookie. Will focus on any healer or support cookies, inflicting "Computer Virus" debuff to cause injury and silencing them, his ATK increasing by 400% after using the debuff. After his death, he will leave behind a copy of his own digital form, which will only zap and keep the last cookie standing alive for 7 seconds before falling.

Raw Steak ~ Piercing Health : Smashes through with his pitchfork against the strongest enemy, inflicting injury, fear and shackles. Additionally, if his enemy receives health, he will increase his own ATK and becomes invulnerable to any debuffs for 10 seconds. Purifies Spinach Salad and increases their MAX HP with the "Chef's Delight" buff, shielding them from any attacks for a long period of time. Before dying, his ATK will increase by 900%, using his last seconds to heal Spinach Salad and enhance their DMG resist.

Spinach Salad ~ Healthy Stabbings : Summons a pair of giant spinach cans to protect the ally with the least DMG resist and HP, while they jump behind Raw Steak Cookie to attack and stab their utensils on the enemies. Focuses on the enemy with the lowest HP at the moment, targeting them and causes stun momentarily. Gives Raw Steak their "Fork N Tooth" buff, periodic healing him while standing behind him. They become resistant to debuffs (except stuns and fear) by 200%, while also absorbing their target's ATK.

Star Cloud Marshmallow ~ Dreamy Cloud Paradise : Starts the battle by floating with his clouds right above the enemies, crashing down to bomb and release a sleepy gas. The gas inflicts silence and sleep, the moment they wake up, they're striked by freezing debuff. Will attack the enemy with the least ATK and weaken them with injury, decreasing their DMG resist, DEF, Stun resistance, Freeze resistance, Cooldown and CRIT by 200%. After dying, will revive into a cloud monster, using his secondary skill "Drowning In Oil", which pulls the enemies on a void of dark oil, inflicting curse and injury.

(Somehow feel none of these would be meta lmao)

[originalleftist]

Russia blew up a ship carrying humanitarian for Palestine.

"The strike, which killed eight people and injured another 11, hit a Panama-flagged civilian vessel and damaged its cargo of aid. It was the third Russian attack against a civilian vessel in four days.

The U.N. had delivered an order for the aid to be sent to Palestine.

"Ukraine, despite the war, supplies products for 400 million people around the world," said Agriculture Minister Vitalii Koval."'

Russia's attacks on civilian shipping from Ukraine aren't just attacks on Ukraine- they're an attack on the entire world, in particular poorer nations who often rely on Ukrainian grain.

But hey, I'm sure the "pro-Palestinian" Tankies who also love Putin and its Iranian allies because they're against "the West" will not be silent about this. Right?

Any time now, guys.