#ally coalition

[rawliverandcigarettes]

honestly, re: my last reblog, but it's so funny to me how unbearably annoying humans in mass effect are, like you guys!!!!! calm down!!! you JUST arrived!!! maybe take in your surroundings for 5 seconds before declaring you should be treated like the most special princesses of all and have all the advantages ever without any drawback and be recognized as the supreme leaders who have all the clarity and drive and righteousness to solve everything and be the victims of everyone's envy and meanness and the ultimate heroes who will save everyone in spite of themselves...... 😔😔😔

[brinagirlicons]

at ally coalition talent show (like or reblog) 💌

[wolkemesser]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kyle Mantyla at RWW:

Art Ally is a religious-right activist and the founder of the Christian investment firm The Timothy Plan, through which he finances Christian nationalist training programs for pastors such as those run by far-right pastor Paul Blair. Ally appeared on the Truth & Liberty Coalition's program Wednesday night, where he dismissed environmentalism as "a bunch nonsense."

Religious right financier Art Ally went on Wednesday's edition of Truth and Liberty Coalition's The Truth and Liberty Show to peddle climate denialism.

From the 12.11.2024 edition of Truth and Liberty Coalition's The Truth and Liberty Show:

[slipping-through-my-fingertips]

It is the East and Rachel Zegler is the Sun ☀️

[gruesome-beauty]

and if i said i was at the ally coalition show tonight and brendan from turnstile did underwater boi and also remi wolf did a performance of soup that left me shaken to my core and also sabrina carpenter my absolute beloved pranced around that stage and lounged on a piano and also??? alsO???? steel train reunion. steel train performing kill monsters in the rain and bullet. do you fucking understand what kind of a night that was for me specifically.

[mtg-art-daily]

Allied Strategies

Each commander looked at the others and wondered who would be first to break the alliance.

Artist: Paolo Parente

[tayfabe75]

December 19, 2022: Matty joins Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Weyes Blood, Jack Antonoff, and Trey Anastasio to perform a live cover of Nico's 'These Days' at the 8th Ally Coalition Talent Show at the NYU Skirball Center in New York, New York. (source)

[spiegelgestalt]

Damned if you do...

So because I've seen it a couple of times I want to point to an interesting problem: To make change you need allies. You need powerful allies with lots of connections. You need allies who are probably problematic. But if you associate with them you will seem problematic too. So will you do it? Or will you decide to remain pure and accept that you are powerless?

[annieisshehuman]

St. Vincent performing for Ally coalition talent show

19/12/23

📷 by @ pawprints777 on Instagram

[thisblogisforprivatenotes]

Reading about fucking conservative freaks using "judeo-christian values" to justify their bigoted policies towards queer kids in the education system

[eternal--returned]

Lana del Rey (ft. Jack Antonoff) ֍ Hey Blue Baby (Live at The Ally Coalition Talent Show) (2018)

Hey blue baby Put that Hank Williams on It's your little blue baby Callin' for her favorite song Get out that whiskey Pour it right quickly Put them hallway lights on I hope one day you can remember Our love before it all went wrong

But the only stars we saw were in the sky Not the boulevard And the only thing we wanted was to be free And the only girl you had eyes for played downtown At the local bar That was me She was me

Do what you have to do Just know your baby's back here waiting Just know she thinks you're really cool

[sentimental-boulder]

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

[countessrivers]

Not to start talking about aussie politics, but you can't say that you support women and victims and totally aren't a bunch of morally corrupt, grubby, misogynistic assholes and a failure as a political party who think women are lying about being raped, while um...treating brittany higgins the way you're treating her.

[countingprimes]

really hate how they/them pronouns have lost all meaning as a neutral pronoun. like everyone, especially queer people see them as 'third gender' pronouns. and .... that really does defeat the purpose now doesn't it

[satanicspinosaurus]

This keeps popping on my dash, so I wanted to jump in and say that as an ace dude, I don't really see Astarion as a-spec. I think his story rhyme with a lot of our experiences, and obviously it's not like there is a gay-test so we can know for sure. But one thing I'd like to point out is, Astarion showing aesthetic attraction is a poor marker for being allo. Aesthetic attraction (finding certain types of people beautiful, like shockingly beautiful) is one of the things I heard a-spec folks point at to for "why it takes so damn long to figure out you are ace" commonly. I'd actually say it's more common for aces to get a particular flavor of very verbal about their aesthetic attraction than allos. Like this kind of over-the-top romantic-tinged, but weirdly specific thing. (One sapphic Ace I knew described seeing a woman once as 'an existential crisis, because I was on the bus, but she was so beautiful the only logical thing was to scream like a malformed bird, but also that would be rude, so I mostly had a break down quietly in my seat about how beautiful she was'. I have heard a variation of this dozens of times in ace groups, usaully with frantic hand gestures. I have also done the gay version myself so. No judgement.)

Personally, Astarion reads to me as someone who has (a lot of) natal sexual attraction. He's fucking on his grave because he's reclaiming something. He's grabbing your ass (that free-cam moved me towards allo a lot) during his figure it out phase. There's some hints of intrinsic attraction he's trying to dig for *under* all the sex abuse. Which, doesn't read as a sex-favorable a-spec person trying to remember if he likes this thing or not.

Asexuality is little to no sexual attraction. Astarion reads as more of having the world's worst ratio of good : bad sexual experiences, to the point that he ends up in the same space as us at times.

In response to Ace-Astarion:

I think Astarion is likely a very sexual person, actually. There is admittance that he finds you attractive ("you're a vision!"), that he found your experiences together meaningful ("that's the problem"), and that he thinks sex is fun and enjoyable.

Saying "I don't want you to see me in terms of sex" doesn't mean "I don't like sex." It means: I am more than sex. I am more than what Cazador made me, which is the whole point of his story. He is elated when he finds someone who "wants" him for who he is, not who he was made to be.

It is, of course, possible that Astarion is on the asexuality spectrum. He may only want sex with people he cares for, but he is most definitely not sex-repulsed or sex-avoidant. He initiates while in the most vulnerable of situations (confessing his love, choosing his future), so it is clear that it is something he wants.

Considering his sexual trauma and disassociation during strictly sexual experiences (the drow twins), it is most likely that he only enjoys sex with those he loves, but we must be mindful that trauma does not create sexuality/orientation.

People can headcanon whatever - obviously - and it is an RPG fantasy, so like, if your Astarion is ace then that's great. But I don't think he was written that way, and I don't think it's cool to pressure the fandom into thinking he is.