#and also nonsense

[takingontheworldtogether]

the thing i appreciate about sabrina carpenter is that she knows the best pop music is a little stupid

[misc-obeyme]

SOLOMON HASN'T COME HOME YET AND I'M SAD BUT I'M GONNA GET HIM NO MATTER WHAT! I'VE ALREADY PULLED 20 TIMES AND I WAS SAVING FOR THE ANNIVERSARY BUT NOW I'M AT ZERO

But also THE PREMIUM PICTURE ART HAS HIM WITH A RING !!! A RING !!!! U TREASURE I'M WATCHING YOU

i can't tell what it is, maybe a signet ring?? i had to yell about this, ESPECIALLY RIGHT AFTER I WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RING OF WISDOM

- ✨ anon

Yes I noticed the ring, too! And it does look like a signet ring, which means it likely is the Ring of Wisdom.

I mean, there's no doubt that the Ring of Wisdom is supposed to be the same thing as the Seal of Solomon. They both give him control over demons (or the "supernatural") and they both allow him to talk to animals.

And the Seal of Solomon is pretty famously a signet ring. I mean, it's right there in the name lol.

I don't know if this is supposed to be some kind of official design for the ring, but we don't really get the full view of it anyway. The side of it looks pretty normal. The real interesting part would be the seal itself. I wonder if they would create something unique to the game or if they would go with a traditional hexagram situation?

All I know is that Solomon looks hot af in that premium picture. I really love when they give him outfits in the card art that look very much like something a sorcerer would wear. It's kinda got an old timey vibe to it, too, what with the sorta ruin looking stuff in the background.

I just like it when he looks extra magical lol.

Anyway, I hope he comes home to you!! Consider this my little spell of good luck~

[scorchedcandy]

Unrelated: I have also been injected with praying mantis DNA

[thepoisonroom]

NOTICEABLE positive change in the utilities company lady's mood once she found out i had a girlfriend

[yeehawpim]

[liimonadas]

they are having a samuraiverse dicussion

[rendevok]

Moon dance 🌕✨

[vaxxildamn]

finally…… the legendary Level 20 Scissor Gal-adin

[tpwrtrmnky]

[ID 1: A two panel "Pills that make you green" comic, showing crude digital stick figures for people. A regular black stick figure stands on the Left, and a green one on the right. Panel one shows a regular black stick figure standing on the side with arms crossed, saying, in a screenshot of text, with paragraph breaks added for accessability: "The obvious straw men here weaken your argument because it makes it seem like you need to misconstrue what you and your critics are saying in order to fake-win the argument. If 'green' here is a metaphor for 'male who is taking estrogen and altering his fat distribution,' I don't think anyone is trying to say this is nonexistent or impossible to achieve. "A male can absolutely become a male who takes hormones to alter his appearance, and we all know that. "It would be more accurate to have something saying, 'that person is green" and the green person responds 'I'm transitioning from yellow to blue, but I was never actually yellow because I identify as blue, colors don't exist anyway and if you talk about them you're a bigot, but I'm fully blue now and you have to refer to me as blue, and while you're at it you need to refer to grass as blue, too, to avoid making me question whether you truly see me as blue, and if you call me 'green' you're abusing me and comitting genocide against transblue people, btw I'm bluer than any other blue person because I have to fight to be seen as blue". Panel 2 zooms in on the green person's face as they say, "holy shit they don't even realize they're strawmanning while complaining about strawmanning". End ID.]

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[srfiv]

and whenever they couldn't speak they looked at eachother

[bumblingest-bee]

every day i think about that one illegal high school production of les miserables on youtube where they changed lovely ladies from being about sex workers to being about like... selling bread... but they kept all the lines about "waiting for the customers who only come at night" and "standing up or lying down or any way at all" which paints a strange and delightful picture of some kind of nighttime bread black market

[egophiliac]

so excited for Kalim to save the day by swiper-no-swiping this dip. you can do it! I believe in you!

god I hope this reads properly

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Man. If I had a nickel for every time Zac Oyama and Lou Wilson had to rp a breakup-coded fight between their “platonic besties” characters because Zac’s character was experiencing a hard personal internal struggle and decided to leave a group/cause that he wasn’t actually invested in and mostly just joined because Lou’s character was passionate about it and Lou’s character was canonically very charismatic and good at garnering followers/admirers but Zac’s character was one of his only true friends that he fully trusted and was loyal to and Lou’s character was really hurt when Zac’s character left, less by the actual action of leaving and more by the implication that he didn’t care about Lou’s character enough to stay I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s fucking RUDE that it’s happened twice.

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.