#and making more apparent they don't care

[bandzboy]

saw this thread earlier and decided to share

[kaiserouo]

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yay i gave him a name

[epickiya722]

"They're best friends! You can't ship them!"

One, where's the rule to that?

Two, why do you care that people ship them?

Three, sometimes, best friends can also be lovers.

[sir-adamus]

every time a rwby character shows up on those fuckass polls it always gets a bunch of shitheads crawling out of the woodwork to shit on the show with fucking unnecessary, spiteful comments about it (not to mention the people making the polls seem to be fucking allergic to presenting shit with any fairness and stacking the polls against the rwby characters on at least two occasions now)

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Y'know I had a theory about Varric before the reveal.

Because even from the beginning, him getting stabbed with the dagger specifically... was weird. I kept thinking about the dagger still glowing while lodged in his chest, how that dagger was used for Solas' big ol' ritual so there had to be a lot of power in it when he stabbed him... but somehow Varric survived.

That should've killed him [and it did! but shhhh-] but I wake up, and there he is.

Alright. He's fine, he's recovering. He's older now, he can't just bounce back from a stab to the chest like that, and I guess his leg got messed up given he's wearing a brace. Okay, this is how we're setting up Rook as in charge. Fine.

At first I was really good about checking on him just to hear his bits of dialogue, whether it be about the companions or about how he wishes he could get moving.

Something about it felt very... off. Very weird. I kept trying to figure out how the hell he survived getting stabbed like that, with the dagger, and then falling the way he did... and I started to wonder if maybe the fade saved him... that maybe the fade and the lighthouse were the only things keeping him alive.

Once that thought hit me, I was like.... oh fuck, is that going to be the reveal? Is he going to have a little exclamation point on his icon at some point? Is he going to ask to go somewhere because he's feeling better and he could use some fresh air? Maybe go out for a drink? And when we leave the fade, is he going to collapse like he's been stabbed all over again?

Are we going to learn that Varric's trapped?

Is the big reveal going to be that Varric can never go home? That he can never go back to Kirkwall? That Solas fucking doomed him to this... this purgatory state where he can't go home but can't move forward, not really? Because he's trapped in the lighthouse forever unless he chooses to die?

Are my choices going to ultimately affect his fate?

But then I started to forget about Varric... because he didn't do much. More time went on. The plot thickened. I became preoccupied with my companions. Sometimes he'd jumpscare me by being at meetings. I checked on him less and less.

I started to dread that oh.... alright, well maybe they brought Varric back because he's a fan favorite and they didn't actually have much planned for him after he got hurt.... but something's still fucking weird.

And I was right, something was indeed weird because then I got the reveal in the regret prison and I was............ Unwell.

I'm still unwell.

But I guess the fact that he can't ever go back home remains true, so...

[random-autie-fangirl]

I drew another Chara- living with the Dreemurrs edition

"The King and Queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was filled with hope."

I don't like this as much as the last one but oh well... I ended up rambling a huge amount in the tag, so if you want details and headcanons about the actual drawing again, you'll have to look pretty far down this time, sorry (Also, I ran out of tags after a while. Tumblr is tired of me, lol. I might reblog this more tags later if I remember what I was going to say.)

[thelostgirl21]

In case this could be useful to my fellow Canadians right now...

And, to all my American friends and followers, I am deeply sorry that you have more or less been taken hostage by an egomaniac that seems to be playing the game of "let's expose all the flaws in the American and International systems, by testing how many rules I can break, agreements I can shred to pieces, how many institutions I can set fire to, how many allies I can piss off, and how much damage I can cause the world at large before someone finally manages to put a stop to my destructive bullshit!"

Let me be very clear: less than 1% of the Fentanyl coming illegally into the USA make it past Canadian borders.

Just like less than 1% of immigrants coming illegally into the USA make it past Canadian borders.

[Meanwhile, the USA is Canada's largest source of illegal handguns found in our country, just putting things in perspective!]

And, when you remove the crude oil that the USA is buying from Canada for its refineries, the USA has a $58 billion SURPLUS with Canada, not deficit!

CANADIAN CONSUMERS ALREADY BUY MORE AMERICAN GOODS THAN AMERICAN CONSUMERS BUY CANADIAN PRODUCTS!!!

And yet, it's not the Canadian crude oil that he's hitting with 25% tariffs (oil and energy are kept at 10%)!

Of course not!

Because, if the price of gas at the pump suddenly dramatically spikes, American consumers are way more likely to take notice, and perhaps finally realise that tariffs are a driving force behind inflation, and that consumers are the ones ultimately paying for it!

And, despite our decision to invest $1.3 billion to improve our border safety even more than it already is (since Trump started threatening to hit Canada with 25% tariffs, because of the threat that Fentanyl and immigrants coming illegally into the USA from Canada poses to the broad general American population, apparently), he's chosen to go ahead with them regardless!

He's been refusing to either talk or meet with our Prime Minister ever since he took office, showed no interest in negotiating and trying to resolve this through other means (other than suggesting we should become his 51st State, what the actual fuck dude?!?!?! ), and declared a trade war on Canada and Mexico, his two biggest trading partners.

And it's not like any of his demands or expectations are clear, either!

We can't give him what he wants, because he's not even clearly telling us what he wants!

For us to become the 51st State?

Last I checked, we're a democracy. So, it's not like Trudeau can just go "Oh yes! Where can I sign to become part of the USA, and thus prevent you from openly declaring a trade war on Canada?"

Becoming the 51st American state would need to be voted by the entire Canadian population!

Perhaps Trump is totally unaware of foreign politics, but Quebec has been (unsuccessfully) attempting to leave Canada for years to become its own country, because many Quebecers feel like our national identity and French Canadian culture are too different from that of the English Canadians that form the majority of the Canadian population in other Provinces.

And Quebec alone represents almost a quarter (23%) of all of the Canadian population.

If Canada has been struggling with convincing us that there's a place for us and our culture within Canadian society - and we are literally raised from birth to fear and fight against the threat of cultural assimilation within the English majority in Canada - how likely do you think we are to vote for becoming part of the freaking USA?!?!?!

To be clear, the reason why we're still part of Canada is that the majority of Quebecers have ultimately voted against separating on every referendum on Quebec's sovereignty (though it's been an extremely close call at times, with only 50.58% of Quebecers having voted to stay in Canada back in 1995).

And I am amongst the Quebecers that believe that there is a place for cultural diversity in both Quebec and the rest of Canada, and that you can choose to identify with Quebec's, French Canada's, and English Canada's cultures without feeling like you have to betray or sacrifice your French Canadian origins!

I am also deeply ashamed every time I see Quebecers trying to forcefully assimilate immigrants into our own culture, because we should be the first to understand how complex cultural identity is, and that integrating into a dominant culture shouldn't be the same as losing who you are and where you come from. Gaining a new community to belong to, and partaking in that culture, doesn't mean needing to erase all other traces of another culture in order to belong!

So I'm a Quebecer, I'm a French Canadian (there are French Canadian communities all over Canada, not just in Quebec, hence why I feel it important to make the difference), a Canadian, and a North American.

But the fact remains that Canadians are their own people, tend to take great pride in their own identity and culture, and that we can absolutely love and respect our neighbours without wanting to become our neighbours!

We share North America's resources with Greenland, the USA and Mexico, but we aren't a single people, nor do we wish to be assimilated into a single society!

So, attempting to vilify us by pretending that our lack of proper border control is greatly endangering the lives of the American population, and directly taking steps to profoundly harm our economy while spouting half-baked excuses, is the pure work of a bully!

A much bigger, richer, and more powerful bully that seems to delight in trying to make people feel small and at his fucking mercy!

Because nothing we can say or do - short of agreeing to become USA citizens ourselves - will ever seem to be enough for him, apparently!

He's a fucking Nazi fascist bully, and I genuinely have nothing against the American people that I also see as victims in that whole mess, but if we don't fight back and attempt to stand our ground, he'll just keep trying to push other countries around in his attempt to dominate the freaking world!

The one thing I sort of disliked in Trudeau's speech, yesterday, however, is when he said that Canada was the best country in the world (in an effort to rally and reassure us), because we are not.

I don't believe that such talk is relevant in the world today, since the situation isn't about which country is the worst or the best in the world, but striving to do what's right and stopping a bully from continuing to threateningly advance on the world in whichever way we can!

It's not about "putting Canada first", either!

But if Canada capitulates (with what? What are his freaking demands?!), what's going to happen afterwards?

Is he trying to economically cripple us, just so we'll get so desperate that he thinks he'll just be going to be able to buy us like he apparently thought he could buy Greenland at some point?

Scrap that! Still thinks he can buy Greenland?

So yeah, please forgive Canadians for needing to avoid investing any more money into the American economy right now, to hopefully help those of you that haven't been able to see yet that all Trump is doing is generating way more hardships for his people and the rest of the world than he is solving any problems to do so!

He's not making America Great Again, he's Internationally making America be perceived as an unreliable, untrustworthy, selfish, abusive, lying bully!

And we are a population of 40 million vs an American population of 335 million.  

We can't declare war on the USA to liberate you from a problem that your own democracy sadly voted for, although some of us are fully aware of the brainwashing techniques and lies that he used in order to gather those votes!

The only ones that can request more accountability from their own President and revolt against him are the American people themselves.

So, if the prices for building new houses, certain foods, gas, cars, house appliances, electronics, etc. keep on increasing, and people outside of the USA stop buying American products for which they can find alternatives, I'm hoping that the rest of the USA might start catching on to the fact that Trump is a criminal and shitty negotiator that drove his companies to bankruptcy 6 fucking times! Not some white savior that will magically fix every single problem in the world including the USA's economy!

[sukibenders]

tw: mentions of harm against women, particularly black women, organ harvesting, and just overall gross treatment towards black women

It's Black History Month and, tell me why, I stumbled upon a fic for Arcane that features the brutalization of black women (Mel and Sky), stealing/harvesting of their organs and bodies for the use of men (and a white man at that), and just all around stuff that is very reminiscent to how black women are/have been treated throughout medical history for decades? Mind you, it was used to fuel the JayVik ship too, makes me sick. If it wasn't some in that fandom fantasizing Mel being SA'd, then it's this. I can't with this fandom.

[vaguely-concerned]

just going about my day idly contemplating how some of the ways hawke can interact with a romanced anders are not at all unlike how they interact with leandra (and a bit of carver too, especially with a purple hawke), and then thought about my hawke in the timeline where he romances anders and was hit straight in the face with 'was he ever actually in love, or was he just desperately trying to renegotiate with his mother's ghost in any way he could' and now i need to lie down. this is the power of dragon age 2

[superbellsubways]

ithink its hilarious that the ceo would much rather have a public tantrum about """accidentally""" misgendering someone and constantly claiming that her ban was justifiable for hours than talk about actually fixing this god awful mobile app for once or even the search function (which has been bad for years)

[nomidreams]

god i finally watched new episodes my honest reaction is jgiwoaoKzmxmkwkakkak

[azelmaandeponine]

Wow, I sure am glad the BBE4 kids have never done a single thing wrong in their lives!

[longagoitwastuesday]

Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff

[badgirlcoven-official]

"Willow is a bad character because she's a mary sue" me when I missed the entire point of the show

[lisxdumbr]

The whole "if a person is mad at you it's their responsibility to tell you" thing just made me realize how fucked my situation is. Like just. woah

[jils-things]

i went wandering off in my pokespe gallery and had to relieve how wonderful this scene played out. no kidding

please dont read the tags i got emotional there /lh