#and that makes it okay?

[codecicle-archive]

MY FAVORITE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS' PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE!!!!

[danlous]

Ignoring the real possibility he intentionally let himself be caught from the little we know so far Luigi Mangione's case is a fascinating combination of astonishing brilliance and confusing stupidity. This young man plans and executes his assassination and escape with such a meticulous care and calmness that it's suspected that he's a professional hitman. He comes up with Riddler-sque moves like writing his manifesto poetically on the bullets and leaving his backpack behind full of Monopoly money. He carefully wears a mask to avoid being identified but removes it because a woman who was checking him into the hostel was flirting with him and wanted to see his smile. He still manages to escape the most surveilled city in the country in the midst of ongoing national manhunt only to get caught in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Pennsylvania while eating at the McDonalds. Because for some reason he had the same clothes and mask as in New York and was carrying the same gun and suppressor. And when the cops detained him he showed them the same fake id he used in New York. And oh yeah he's a frat bro gym rat who has a masters degree in computer science from Penn but reads stupid self-help books about being on the grind and is 'anti-woke' while being bisexual suffering from anxiety and wanting to end oppressive capitalism. Not even god himself could invent a person like this

[jollymalt]

some arcane pirate au sketches

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[lettuccine]

i cant stop thinking about a post by @possamble so i made this

inspired by this

based on a fanart by BugsGay on twitter

[pro-anomalocaris]

My mom is psychologist. She used to work with Social Services. One of her clients had millionaire parents who regularly raped him in front of his siblings as a way to keep them in line. His failure to produce straight-A grades, be straight and meet their expectations in a thousand other ways got him thrown out onto the street when he was 16. They didn't even bother with waiting until he was 18. And the police in Bumfuck, West Virginia were very easy to buy off. When you're rich, you can throw your chronic rape victim away like a used condom and not even have to wait until they hit the normal expiration date.

He tried to get Social Services to remove his siblings from the home. They had enough money to make sure that didn't happen. We will never know what else went down in that house, but I doubt it was anything good. Considering his sister had to have an abortion (against her will, but hey, she's ~rich~, who cares, right?) at 15, I'm guessing his dad switched targets.

A reality people don't want to face is that the first people predators and abusers hurt are their family members, who are the ones they have the most power over. This is why children are more likely to be abused by family than anyone else statistically.

And this applies to rich people, too.

Yeah, this guy was eventually able to find someone who let him crash in their garage, got his GED, and managed to put himself through beauty school so he can work as a hairdresser. He survived. He's also not an oppressor. No one is being oppressed by his struggle with alcohol and his one-room apartment and his PTSD. You are not in class war with him feeling such panic at the sight of Greek columns in front of houses that he grabs his arm and tears little cuts into his flesh with his fingernails. No amount of hating him is going to fix anything. Not for you, not for society, not for the working class.

"But his parents had money!" I DON'T CARE! His mom used to hold him down and watch while his dad raped him on the dining room table and they didn't let him even grab his stuff before they threw him out as a minor!

At some point I have to wonder if it's not people being deliberately obtuse and refusing to acknowledge reality. At some point I have to wonder if it's just that people in "leftist" "progressive" spaces just want someone they can bully with impunity and they know that "eat the rich" is a phrase that'll deactivate people's brains and rob them of their capacity to understand context or nuance.

If your leftist anarcho-commie progressive space looks at people who were thrown out without a coat in winter with 4$ to their name after eleven years of CSA and goes, "this is an oppressor", maybe you're not as leftist, commie, anarchist or progressive as you think you are.

My scalding hot take - controversial, somehow, even on the left - is that child abuse is bad, period. No exceptions.

And it's really creepy that people want to argue otherwise.

As a kid, when your parents are poor, you're poor. If they don't have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone's parents are rich, that doesn't necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples' kids aren't rich kids, they're just some rich freak's exotic pets that can talk but aren't allowed to.

[evercelle]

"tragedies: the love was there"

[housederiva]

Gaby Soto is a gift

Edit: I missed one!

[paintedcrows]

*through tears* HER LITTLE POG CHAMP

[lizzibennet]

chappell roan’s got this sudden very huge burst of attention and since then she has

shown up to jimmy fallon in full drag

shown up to her concerts in even zainier outfits than before

worn a nun costume to one concert and when people were uncomfortable she was like good. toodles!

very clearly stated she will retreat from the public eye if she feels threatened by her fame

put very firm boundaries in place, not caring how that might make her look in today’s ass backward society that thinks artists owe everyone everything

she really is trying the hardest to do this in her own terms, in this industry that pretty much allows no wiggle room when it comes to being as big as she’s gotten. it’s clear to me she doesn’t care about maintaining the level of notoriety she has now, she cares about connecting to the subset of people who her art has always been aimed at and that is it. and i find it so admirable! it must be really hard to get what every artists out there is trying to and not let yourself get influenced by it, but she is remaining steadfastly herself. it’s so refreshing and it makes me like her so much more

[codecicle-archive]

whatever. 15k note post of me being crucified

[source 1] [source 2] [source 3] [source 4]. final art is a physical drawing hanging on my wall

[melonsharks]

au where everything is the same except mabel and dipper have been going to gravity falls every year before the show takes place since like kindergarten.

its a pretty simple premise that derives mostly from my desire to explore interpersonal relationships and the ways a place and people can change from a young child’s point of view. it doesn’t change canon that much either, admittedly, i just wanted to draw childhood friends stuff LOL. ill call it uhhhhhhhh every summer au.

[aesthetic-uni]

It’s that time of the year again

[innieirving]

how to ask the demon you've been smitten over for 6000 years to dance: an angel's guide

bonus:

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[mintytrifecta]

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