#and i really truly feels crazy

[curioscurio]

I'm rewatching Steven Universe and I will never forgive Fandom for what it did to her

[princesssarcastia]

following congressional politics in the U.S. for the past couple years has been insane. it makes you feel insane. i feel like i'm losing my mind whenever I think about it for too long or too critically.

i want to take tom cotton and kevin mccarthy and jim jordan and shake them by their shoulders so I can determine whether they remember that donald trump and the republican base tried!! to kill them!! they tried to KILL them!! they constructed a gallows on the steps of the capitol and called for politicians to be hanged—and then then broke!! into!! the capitol!! and tried to find you!!! they tried to hunt you down!!!

what do you and your colleagues imagine would have happened if they succeeded in either breaking into the house chambers while members were still present, or in happening upon congresspeople as they were evacuating, or in finding members in the undisclosed locations they were evacuated to. look me in the eyes. look me in the eyes, mr. republican congressman, and tell me what you think would have happened to you if the rioters, the insurrectionists, the trump voters, had gotten ahold of you on january 6th, 2021.

i'll tell you what would have happened: they would have killed you. you would be dead, instead of standing here being shaken vigorously by a woman you've since driven insane.

maybe telling them you were a republican would have saved you—but i doubt it. maybe trying to explain that no, you were perfectly willing to overturn the election, if you very nice people would simply let us do that, would have saved you—but i doubt that, too. i think they would have just attacked you on sight, like dogs fighting over a bone. I think that guy with the military grade zip-ties on his belt would have come for you and killed you.

but they didn't succeed, there but for the grace of god. you live, still, and in doing so, have created the exact circumstances necessary for the SAME THING TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

what do you think is going to happen in january of 2025? what do you think is going to happen, after four years of telling the republican base that the 2020 election was stolen, and elections are vulnerable to fraud, and you can't trust the results of the elections—

what do you think is going to happen after, voters and fate willing, fingers crossed, donald trump loses the presidential election in november 2024? what do you think is going to happen to YOU, mr. republican congressman?

do you think donald trump is going to concede? do you think he's going to quietly fade into obscurity?

or do you know, like I do, that he's going to try it again? one attempted insurrection already under his belt, all the kinks worked out, maybe he even publishes some maps of the capitol so the next round of rioters can find you in your little hidey-holes.

how many hundred of people who were involved in january 6th do you think are still out there? how many proud boys and other white supremacist groups are still out there? how many of them do you think will be calm and reasonable enough to spare you when the time comes?

tl:dr, tonight the republican conference nominated Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to be their next Speaker-Elect. Johnson being one of the major architects behind the 2021 efforts to refuse to certify the results of the 2020 election in Congress. And when a reporter tried to ask him about his election denial-ism, he laughed, and the other republicans booed, and he refused to answer the question.

because it doesn't matter to them, not now. not while there's still power to grab.

I wonder if it will matter to them the next time the insurrectionists come knocking at the chamber doors.

Probably not.

[awsugar]

i can't sleep my brain and body have been all fucked up this week and i'm laying here at 430 being so PLAGUED by the fact that my life's 3 main hyper fixations have been mcr spn and dnp and not only that but the fact that fiction as a whole will never have anything like destiel again, the internet will never reproduce something like phan. celebrities will NEVER be able to do frerard again. i'm not insane. these are the big 3 and not just because these are my favorite things. there are endless amounts of ships and pairings and fics and lore but literally. the specific experience of living through all of these in one lifetime. no one else will ever have that...except us

[spacegirlsgang]

DBD x Met Gala (3/4): Charles Rowland and Punk: Chaos to Couture (2013)

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

QSMP artists who draw egg designs that aren't quite the fandom norm, I love you.

QSMP artists who draw the eggs as African, or Afro-Latina, or Arab/Middle Eastern, I love you. QSMP artists who draw Chayanne with 4c hair wound back in braids and dark skin, I love you. QSMP artists who draw Pomme with a dark complexion and a hijab, I love you. QSMP artists who draw Empanada as East/Southeast Asian, or wasian, or a mix between Asian and Latina, I love you. QSMP artists who draw Tilín with white hair, or darker skin, or features that match up with Luzu's a bit more, I love you. QSMP artists who draw the eggs with varying body types and clothing styles and poses, I love you.

I know that your designs might be uncommon, and they might not fit the quote unquote 'fandom norm', but they're so cool to see. Some of my favorite fanart has been with QSMP eggs that don't look like the typically design-and while the typical design is still absolutely lovely, don't feel like you need to conform to it. The eggs have no canon design. They have widely spread fanon ones, but those are only common because we, the fans, made them common. Draw what you'd like, because it's incredible to watch from the sidelines as casual competitive fanart reblogger.

[shoechoe]

like yeah i get it, diavolo terrible evil trash man and all that or whatever, but it gets to a point where when you make your stupid posts about being a Diavolo Fan:tm: (or worse actual attempted discussion of his character) and you get people in the notes like "ewww what do you mean you're a diavolo fan i hate him he sucks" it is just annoying... make your own post

[waywardly-we-go]

I was doing a thing where I tried every single branch in a good amount of Cyberpunk 2077's dialogue ages ago, and I just have to say it left me surprisingly impressed.

It is largely linear, but not nearly to the degree that I had first thought.

There aren't massive branching dialogue trees, but there are just quiet little diversions that happen so smoothly you don't even necessarily realize you made a branching choice...unless you get in there with time to kill and 6+ reloads. Taking a blue choice or acting in a timed dialogue, for example, can appear to have little consequence at first but has actually quietly shifted you onto one track instead of another.

The effect, I realized, is that as you play it feels like the choices you made are the only ones possible.

First of all, how fucking brilliant. Second of all, it's so thankless - if I hadn't gone back with this silly little project in mind I would have continued on my way thinking it was as simple as it first appears. It reminds me of the first person pov, both in how unpopular it was and how it clearly, carefully supports a beautifully immersive experience. The difference, I guess, is that first person pov smacks you in the face and makes you admit it's brilliant, while dialogue flies under the radar.

Ultimately, I still can't get over how intentional they were with this game, and how willing they were to take risks - and I hope to god that mindset didn't get crushed by the initial reception.

[sideblogdotjpeg]

i am not immune to launchpad sol and albin thoughts

[unbloodiedmartyr]

honestly i feel like we need to talk about child corporal punishment more it feels like... well not quite taboo to discuss having experienced it but like a weird grey area that you cant quite bring up with people because its 50/50 that they'll either be like no thats completely normal why do you even care, or just utterly aghast at it, and so youre stuck in a grey area where you feel either kind of like you're the insane one for caring or like, idk, you almost feel like people are taking it way too seriously. like if anyone calls it abuse you get defensive and uncomfortable about it because that feels so wrong yk? you almost immediately want to go, "no no no its not that deep, you cant seriously be calling it abuse," because that feels utterly unjustified and like it's minimising the experiences of people who have actually been abused. but then again, saying "yeah my dad never hit me, except before i turned 10", doesn't quite feel hashtag normal. like my siblings and i used to fight over which car seat we got in so we could be behind him and therefore less easy to hit. strategically rotating which seat we got during holiday road trips so we could make sure no one got punished 'unequally' is probably one of my most memorable childhood experiences. And its definitely affected the relationship i have with him as well as the person ive become - like i remember when we studied feminist philosophy in highschool we had a socratic circle about the inequality between the sexes and i very confidently brought up that i was frightened every time my dad made a quick move around me or raised his voice as evidence for like, the existing social inequality and inherent power dynamic between men and women??? - but then again its like. well im fine right? i havent been abused. its totally legal (depending on where you live ig) and its not like he ever left a mark, so its whatever!! and its not exactly frowned upon in a lot of social circles. like, ok there was this one time where my brother was being annoying in the car and my dad got angry and yelled at him and then hit him in a bank parking lot and then some elderly man called the police on him, so they came and started interrogating us while we were waiting in line. and the policeman told my dad, "look man i get it but you cant do that in public," and let us leave. the reason i know this is because it became a funny story that my dad would tell to other people, framed as a "wow this crazy old dude called the cops on me one time" story. so like!! clearly what he did is not considered a legitimate issue, which makes me feel so insane for still even caring about it. ik theres definitely a cycle of abuse element here, my dad's father once literally broke down a door to a room my aunt was hiding in because she'd pissed him off, so obviously in comparison my dad is a pacifist and would never even begin to comprehend what he did as anything other than measured discipline. idk maybe this is just privileged white person shit thats trying to make something sound deeper than it is but like, i really do wish we could talk about it more because its so normalised and also so profoundly alienating at the same time

[thesmokinpossum]

Didn't felt like mentioning it immediately but shoutout to my sick and twisted brain for getting so triggered by an unexpected Christmas parade that I ended up havin the absolute worst panic attack of my entire life (potentially the only real one? I've had a couple other episodes I thought of as panic attacks but they were not even close to that so who knows) to the point where I spent the very last day of my 30th year on this earth in the ER, good times, good times 😊

[clits-and-clips]

Since writing the affirmations and starting manifestation again, I've actually been in a much better headspace. It's crazy how things align, and you end up where you need to be, especially through pain

[potionpeddlerpatchy]

I hate that unless I'm the on initiating and planning, that no one chats or hangs out with me.

[bunnyboy-juice]

spent the first hour and change at work deleting some old files and am having a grand ol time laughing at myself for not realizing i was a lesbian sooner

[vancalox]

thought abt solas as eurydice again

[skitskatdacat63]

This is my personal crossover event of the century

[stormyoceans]

trying to remain normal and realistic sooooo bad but internally im like. can't believe im getting poddpapang as the main pairing in a BL series where they're gonna play 30 years old characters on real actual legit television on my screen and a new jimmysea series on top of that in actuality FR