#and they weren't allowed to be one

[theissuewithred]

in my trans grief hours *autism yippee*

[marypsue]

Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

[skylee-spider-lillis]

Don't get me wrong, I love painland because they're the land of pain payneland dearly & I'm currently writing *multiple* fics about them.

But if I hear one more person saying shit about Crystal and saying she was gross for what she had with Charles I'll fucking scream.

[pushing500]

The poll results are in, and it looks like we're fighting a sanguophage! Let's get 'em!

Here they come! Hopefully, everything goes smoothly, and we don't risk any disastrous—

Oh boy. Excellent timing, Jut 🙄

Welcome back. I hope the harvest went well?

Sanguophage and a bunch of Thralls versus a creepjoiner Fungoid. Place your bets, folks!

Oh? What's that you're doing there, Jut?

HOLY MOLY—

I suppose now is as good a time as any to mention that Jut has level 20 melee skill with a burning passion for it (if you couldn't already tell).

On the other hand, Alistair doesn't have passions for anything yet, but still fares better than Jut does. Good job, Alistair. I love you!

Also, R.I.P. Madelene. One-shotted by a deadpan android with no emotional investment in this fight... what a way to go.

Anyway, Jut tanked the sanguophage while Alistair cleaned up the thralls and now the Sanguophage is in custody. Alistair was uninjured, and I think Jut has magic fungoid (or maybe creepjoiner?) powers that make his wounds auto-tend to themselves so he was shockingly fine after all that. The only other injuries...

... Were the Jones twins, who caught a couple of stray bullets while they stood on the sidelines for moral support or something, idk.

They're fine, though. A bit of coffee and nutrient paste and they'll be back to work in no time.

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[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Niki Lauda would be so fucking proud of Max, I just know it

[sysig]

Enecomimi Banzaiiii (Patreon)

[estarion]

　　　you've been called into his office.

@ nobody 3 - you are much better at cheating than your peers vela and nezumi - they saw answers and still only got 8 correct. @ VELA - EXPELLED. luna too for helping you cheat. @ PERFECTION - then why did you only get 8 !? @ NEZUMI - E X P E L L E D . @ GALE - genuinely impressed by you. the ACTUAL top score. +4 for being on my good side now. @ LUNA BASKERVILLE. - very nice. i see us as equals. @ EMMA - a valiant effort. why do you think i want bitches so badly? @ HANA - you pay more attention than i'd have given you credit for. your wrong answers are inoffensive, also. @ BETTY - you got all the ones that matter correct. well, except one. darling, i'm hurt. you're not still upset, surely... @ oof - this was probably nezumi. @ oh no - or this was ... . . . or was it @bloodtwin ? @ AMAY - attention doesn't matter to me that much, you know ? @ CASSIAN - you got the last one correct. +5 to your score. bravo. @ TARA - your complaining got me in trouble. @ UMBRAL - this isn't a bad score. the final question matters most and you did not hesitate to utter the correct words. +5 for you. @ SIVIR - we've only just met, so this is a sane result. impressed that you guessed my birth city. @ wouldn't you like to know - i need to know who's almost as bad at guessing as i am. are you nobody 3's alter ego ? @ FALL FUCKING ESTO - there are things more important in life than bitches. @ 🥺 - @selunaris, is this you ? you're expelled, luna. understand me, luna? @ RAKATAK - i would have helped you cheat. @ RAPHAEL - it pleases me that you know so little.

[whatwooshkai]

Has 17 been asked already? Maybe a lil Blades 🥺

Blades is attempting to vent properly.

They've been doing it in waves- frontliners like firefighters and enforcer-adjacent first, then engineers, then support.

Heatwave can't seem to keep his hands out of his mouth, feeling at the proper fangs in there. He'd admitted to Blades once, drunkenly, that he'd sharpened his canines himself because he thought they looked cool.

But now his mouth is weaponry.

Boulder seems to be having the same problem, except they've kept it shut tighter than steel trap after they saw Heatwave bite his glossa hard enough to draw blood.

Chase already came with fangs. Blades has his own mouth full of knives, so he's only got to look forward to the other required "enhancements".

Audial, optical, and other sensory enhancements. The fangs are the only required self defense weaponry, but it's encouraged to get more on your own time.

Chase has all the bells and whistles of a proper enforcer, and Blades has them of a proper soldier. So, nothing to worry about there.

Blades looks up at Heatwave, who looks back at him, doing his best at a reassuring smile- he can't quite seem to figure out how it's supposed to feel anymore.

His bright yellow optics have been reduced to soft pinpricks, surrounded by black glass. "The best optics on the market," they were told. "High end stuff."

But they're not Heatwave's optics. They're not Chase's either, cyan now reflecting as a gray in the mirror. His hands hover over his optics as he almost obsessively cycles them.

Blades holds his own hands close to his face, close enough that the green glow of his optics reflects off them slightly. "They make you unique!" Hot Spot would say to him. "They're prettier than mine, that's for sure."

He doesn't want to do this. He doesn't need enhancements.

But he's not like Boulder, who's optics are so reinforced from mining that removing and replacing them would cause damage to their entire optical system, and really are fairly high end to begin with- being able to see in the dark and all that.

If he wants to stay- if he wants this- it has to be done.

It's not like I see myself anyways, he tells himself as a nurse comes up to lead him down to the Academy's medbay. It'll still be me. Only... I'll just look a little different.

I'll be fine.

I'll be fine.

I'll be fine-

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In the mirrors, his optics are small dots of gray behind black glass.

They didn't even bother to keep them green.

[sherrymagic]

Copper Phuriwat as JIN in Episode 11 DEAD FRIEND FOREVER (2023-2024)

[fivequartersoftheorange]

lacoste should put tzp in their shopping bags like those old abercrombie & fitch ones with men's torsos that my catholic school outlawed bec all the girls in school used it as gym bags.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

some doodles for @sunnyys-jarss roommate au that were done over the course of the month...

(if you see inconsistencies in art style or mistakes hush no you don't these were done over the course of several different lunch breaks-)

edit: I WAS GONNA POST THIS NEXT WEEK BUT THIS IS FOR THE LOVELY FANART THEY MADE ME SO- aherm

anyways

(hush they're watchin a movie)

anyways yea just a couple quick things cuz their au is great! if you haven't checked it out already do so, they've got a cool ask blog at @ask-the-atwr-au!

[c00kietin]

yesterday we went to IKEA and we found it.

THE MOTHERLOAD OF BLAHAJ!!!!

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears

I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!

The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.

More:

Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.

Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)

Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.

Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.

Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.

The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.

They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.

And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.

I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.

[lucreziaces]

no no but the insanity that is showing the narcissus (you can't kiss a reflection) scene between paolo and lucrezia which I'd argue is lucrezia seeing a reflection of her brother in paolo (because he'd taken care of the sforza problem at least temporarily) back to back with cesare convincing a hesitant ursula to sleep with him by telling her she might have both his heart and body at her mercy when he really (perhaps unconsciously) means she's a surrogate for lucrezia and then cutting to lucrezia with her skirts pulled up under paolo asking if a good thing can come from a bad thing and then flipping him over, so it ends with her on top and once again it cuts back to cesare and ursula, also having sex with cesare in the dominate position. LIKE REFLECTIONS OF EACH OTHER.

[taibhsearachd]

The same people I saw condemning the Unite the Right Rally in 2017, who would agree with the statement that if there's one Nazi at a table and ten other people sit there allowing him to be there, there are eleven Nazis?

Are the same people I saw entirely ignoring the Swastikas and Nazi salutes at pro-Palestine protests, because that's just some weirdos, they don't represent us.... but you never stood up to and ejected them the way any reasonable person would with a NAZI, did you?

...are the same people who are now condemning Elon Musk for his Nazi salute.

I am not saying everyone is like this? But I've genuinely seen so many people I thought I could trust go through these exact steps, and.... I'm sorry I can't ignore the middle step where you just decided Nazi symbolism was okay because it supported your cause. So many people weren't actually against Nazis, you just disliked them when they opposed you and you were willing to cooperate when they showed up at your protests.

I don't care where a Nazi shows up, you get rid of them. People who allow Nazis to sit with them are Nazis. I'm having a real hard time finding community with people who didn't violently reject Nazis from their protests when they showed up and did Nazi things but now call themselves antifascist. Are you really? Or did you find it convenient to side with antisemites when your goals aligned?

[true-bluesargent]

i am so so normal and calm and not hateful or evil. i am so so normal and calm and not hateful or evil. i am so so normal and calm and not hateful or evil.