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in my trans grief hours *autism yippee*
#tw vent#i never got to have the right childhood#i never got to just be a little kid#that little boy was never allowed to be a little boy#and there's just so much happening now that makes me think about that#like. nex benedict was sixteen#they didn't get to be a sixteen year old kid#did they even know how to drive yet? did they want to go to prom?#they were sixteen years old. they were a CHILD#and they weren't allowed to be one#trans youth aren't allowed to just live and be kids#we have to grow up so fucking fast#and just live every day knowing that something might happen to them#i might go to work tomorrow and someone will see my pronoun pin and decide that because of that pin I'm not allowed to be alive#it's just so terrifying all of the time and it's so exhausting#trans rights#trans grief#protect trans youth
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happier with a life like this
#I think they should've touched foreheads again if they weren't allowed to kiss smh#venom spoilers#regarding the caption x#venom fanart#symbrock#fanart#my art#isagaiia#digital art#csp#venom the last dance#venom let there be carnage#venom#venom 3#eddie brock#tom hardy#venom symbiote#veddie#symbrock fanart#venom movie#digital artwork#were so back guys two drawings in one day? feels like summer break#artists on tumblr#marvel#sony#lowkey hate how venom looks he should be less spindly#my art 2024#realism
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Tony [Gilroy] came up with this great idea of doing four blocks, and each block is a year before Rogue One, right? And it's the last four years, basically. So there is a time jump every three episodes of a year. And it's fascinating, you know, in terms of like, for you, because there is a whole chunk you're going to have to come up with, right? Because there's always this kind of jump in time. It's a great tool, and narratively it's just very interesting to watch I think. — DIEGO LUNA at Superhero Comic Con 2024
#andor#rogue one#diego luna#star wars#star wars cast#i was here too when he said this btw!#we weren't allowed video though :(#*mine: gifs
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I want to know all the scandalous gossips of your village. Is that weird?
It's understandable! I'm not into gossip except when it's animal-related but as a frequent library-goer (a place mainly frequented by elderly women) I end up overhearing a lot of stuff and some of it is somewhat fascinating.
One of my favourite pieces of local gossip is about the Cursed Inn—not the main street inn which is very loved as are its owners, but another inn just outside the village, whose owners keep changing and always seem to meet a tragic end. There have been drownings, kitchen-related accidents (? I don't know), incredibly dramatic divorces, the Fire of 1982, and so on, but the inn is very well-situated (on a hilltop so all the rooms have amazing views) so it always finds new owners.
The new buyers never believe locals about the curse, of course. The people who currently run the inn bought it just before covid started (which is obviously curse-related) (well, people aren't claiming the global pandemic was caused by this modest local curse in the French countryside but you have to admit the timing is suspect), and their son's bakery in another village has recently gone out of business, which is obviously due to the fact that his relatives run the cursed inn. Why else would a bakery go out of business.
Anyway—why is the inn cursed? Because it was built with Resistance money. During WWII, Allied forces would sometimes parachute coffers of money in specific locations for resistants in the mountain maquis, to buy weapons and supplies for sabotage operations, etc, and one day this random cow herder in the village suddenly had enough money to buy this nice plot of land and start building an inn. Everyone strongly suspected he'd stumbled upon some of that parachuted money while herding his cows, and most locals shunned him and his inn (though it still prospered thanks to tourists.) The guy ended up hanging himself for unrelated reasons (family drama) (but still), then the next owners went bankrupt after trying and failing to start an additional fruit tree business on the property. Locals didn't dislike the new owners, who weren't related to the original one, but the reaction was along the lines of "of course they went bankrupt, no one's going to prosper in that place" because of cosmic justice or something. It's been 70+ years and people are still vaguely ill-disposed towards the inn that was built with resistance money and whenever something bad happens to the latest owners the general sentiment is "they live in the cursed inn, what did they expect."
#i first heard about this whole thing during covid#when people used to queue up outside the shops because we were only allowed inside one person at a time#and we were talking about small businesses that were struggling and someone said ''well the people at [hilltop inn] are struggling but#if it weren't for covid it would be for some other reason'' and everyone nodded#and i went 'why?' and someone said philosophically ''there's a curse on the place. It isn't their fault but that doesn't change the facts''
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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.
#suddenly teenagers aren't allowed to experiment???#Charles and Edwin are obviously endgame y'all#her and Charles' dynamic weren't so bad.#y'all just like to fetishize gays and hate stuff that stands in your way#no one hates monty for trying to be with Edwin#just saying#because she's a complex poc female character people don't give her much grace as much as they do to other characters#“oh i just felt yucky about her I'm allowed to feel that way!”#I'll rip your face off#let's take a moment to think about WHY do you feel yucky about her?#what made y'all hate her so much?#let's take a moment to think about stuff okay?#crystal is my queen#crystal palace they could never make me hate you#dead boy detectives#crystal palace surname von hoverkraft#crystal palace#crystal palace von hoverkraft#cryland#painland#payneland#charles x edwin#please don't kill me#dead boy detectives agency#the dead boy detectives#charles dead boy detectives
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Niki Lauda would be so fucking proud of Max, I just know it
#f1#formula 1#formula one#max verstappen#niki lauda#niki 🤝 max 🤝 saying fuck the fia#niki literally just back from retirement organising a boycott because future fia wanted to fuck the drivers over#i say future fia because they weren't called that yet#and all but 1 driver participating#giving us the legendary sleepover/ lock in in their hotel#iconic shit#and they won!#max holding his own press conference#and upon being told by the fia he wasn't allowed to have it where he originally planned#him immediately taking all the gathered press basically like FOLLOW THE LEADER BITCHES#singapore grand prix#singapore gp 2024
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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.
#' gale tops all of you in canon ; also he's the only one who understands how to find answers ... '#' perhaps betty too. if she weren't holding grudges. '#( ghost tags btw bc it wouldn't allow more than than 5 at once sdfsfds )#.crack#.shitpost#.bgu
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Copper Phuriwat as JIN in Episode 11 DEAD FRIEND FOREVER (2023-2024)
#copper phuriwat#jin jinnaphat#dff jin#jin dff#dead friend forever#dead friend forever the series#dff#dff the series#thai series#thai bl#thai actors#lana.gifs#dff.gifs#this is shorter than usual i know#jin didn't have enough moments this episode to allow me to choose and the rest of the gifs i tried to make weren't as good as these#i'm not particularly proud of this one but after 2 days of unsatisfying results i'm just releasing it into the wild the way it is#userbon#userbeoncloud#uservix#userpharawee
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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!
#crappy doodles#not my au#ahaha#these are really badly done sorry#as you can see i did nothing about backgrounds or shoes because i was tired and details are always inconsistent with me#but anyways yea here's the guys for ya!#sorry if they came out a lil wonky i'm still tryna figure out how to draw them#(the way i drew ruin in the second one doesn't sit right with me...)#(and i know it's probably not cannon but i just like drawing sun looking absolutely dead and eclipse just LIVID)#(pov you weren't allowed to drive to the store and the driver is abt to crash into a tree or smthn)#anyways uhh#yea!
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yesterday we went to IKEA and we found it.
THE MOTHERLOAD OF BLAHAJ!!!!
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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.
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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.
#and then. and im putting my most controversial opinion in the tags bc im scared lmao. but like... then... you have the fans..... doing......#the same fucking thing.#the amount of times I have seen Wriothesley used as just a side prop for Neuvillette to feel bad about shit. While Wriothesley is just.....#portrayed as having the inner peace and acceptance of a fucking monk. I was shocked when I read some fics I swear#they really said this man has no trauma at all! the stuff in his past? he's over it!#i hate that passivity when writing victims. like ok if One is written like that#sure. but MHY write all their victims like this#I mean look at fucking Lanoire#and Neuvillette sentenced him to prison after he killed his parents who were never confronted by the law. That's canon.#that's more canon than WRLT itself.#why weren't they confronted? did wriothesley try to talk to someone about it? why did he feel like killing them is his only option ?????#at least have there be some sort of conflict and friction there. How does Wriothesley feel about the court and Neuvillette when#this is the literal system that allowed all that shit to happen to him in the first place???#are you Sure he won't be at least a little wary? the fact that some people think he's Grateful to Neuvillette or even idolises him is crazy#because the man literally subjected him to prison. and if you want to portray his prison life as easy breezy and trauma free#you undermine his entire shitty little 'prison reform' narrative#and if you think he'd be completely 100% accepting of the justice system. Then why the fuck would he kill his parents himself#don't you see that the whole 'I'll accept whatever sentence in order to kill my parents' thing in itself is an act of defying the system#and I Hate#this idea. about being some of the most powerful men in the nation. and yet they can't fucking TRY to set up a better system or smth#i can't believe I read a fic where leaving starving street kids croissants is the most they (the characters and the writer) want to do#like. what the fuck. the whole point of that scene is just to make neuvillette feel bad and be like aw......... poor people exist.... OK???#this is literally how MHY would portray him though.... tbf..... This is what ppl would argue as 'in character'#I just think the character they're in is bad.#I will say I'm giving the fic a lot of grief. there's more to the scene than that. and. ultimately.....#fanfic is (saying this through gritted teeth) ........ recreational....................and free........... in the end.................#i dont think this is reflective of the writer. I do think it is reflective of the way the canon material (genshin impact)#presents in the audience who consumes it. most fans only want these guys to fuck anyway. not think about systemic injustices#canon doesn't make it about the systemic injustices either so why should we. the aesthetic of slums and prisons are just there for fun guys#IM JUST CRAZY OK. I SHOULDNT EVEN BE HERE THIS IS NOT FOR ME . I DONT CARE THAT MUCH FOR PEOPLE FUCKING AND I CARE TOO MUCH
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Cap's got a new voice claim! feat. a tiny bit of Sparrows n her's unchanged vc because 1. it's cute to hear them together and 2. I snorted. The vibes are so different
[songs: So Familiar by Jean Castel and Driving Myself Home by Rose Betts]
#rw#oc tag#oc: caper of euros#oc: three sparrows#philosophy sessions au#ramble time. kai ninyago as Capie of Rossie wasn't Bad but i've been working on him lately- like looking into his faults their causes their#-evolution and what role he's supposed to play beyond Row's death (esp. in Preacher's life (Euros manages to be terrifying for the kid))#n i came to the conclusion that he didn't sound Sharp enough. and bratty but like in a teenager boy band kind of way. oh he'd hate that-#-kinda music </3 fuckin european posh kid#the ''tragedy'' of 'Ros on here is that back when i was answerin questions with the chars 'Ros n 'Row were constantly together and that-#-didn't allow them to really show who they are because they bring out the best in each other. Sparrows is braver with him having her back-#-and he's not a rude fucker (one of the reasons i turned off asks is cuz i figured they weren't actually helpful. only stressed me out n-#-as result the world/character building became lackluster)#Euros is still a silly guy who's scared to hurt someone/thing physically! (his inspos are kai ninyago s0kka and kuzc0 so)#but ill be damned if i let any of my characters be *just* a silly guy that is fucking obnoxious#each of these fuckers is a psychological experiment. also sick shit: new 'Ros vc is french apparently :)#he can sing Zephyr songs in Her Tongue™... get it anime chin boy get that multilinguality
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Frustrating when a VC-funded company gets credit for being the "first" and the "leader," when they had a sub-component demo the same week we had a full-system demo. Like, we are easily 5-10 years ahead of them, it's ridiculous; their approach isn't even yet proven to work. But they get science youtubers talking about them.
Because they're VC-funded, they have a marketing/press department.
And because we're an employee-owned company working off of government contracts, well, most government contracts get slapped with an ITAR label (an old Cold-War-era law saying basically sharing scientific information counts as illegally selling arms/munitions). So if you want to publicize your work, including your company's products, you have to appeal that label. (Universities have specifically negotiated a blanket exemption, so if you spend your whole life in academic science you might never even know about this.)
(My previous employer filed those appeals several times a year in order to do press releases and publish journal articles and apply for patents. I think every single information-release appeal they filed went through, because there's no reason any of this stuff should be labeled as arms--it's literally the same stuff universities are doing. My current employer is afraid to, which I think is wrong-headed; at worst they'll just say no, and anyway, our non-restricted competitors are giving fucking lab tours to youtubers.)
#these restrictions mean you also can't have employees on visas working on these projects#my previous employer tried to appeal that too and failed--they were only able to appeal the dissemination of information part#so we had locked labs that my international coworkers weren't allowed in#(one got a green card and was allowed in eventually)#ironically the VC-funded company is doing it the same way I did it in my PhD thesis#two other people at the company did this stuff in their post-docs#all of us are over 40 (one guy is over 50 I'm pretty sure) so this is not a new technique--I got two MINOR papers on it 16 years ago#the MAJOR papers are like 25 years old#and we're all convinced it's NOT the right approach#granted the technique we are using is about 30 years old#in my literal thesis defense one of my committee members asked why I was using the technique the VC companies are now using#and if I had done the math to prove it was superior to the older technique#and I was like--everyone knows the new technique is superior that's why it's trendy#and my advisor (who was a genius) said the same thing and that it wasn't a fair question#but the guy who asked it was an ancient theorist who REALLY knew what he was talking about#and in retrospect he was completely right--I should have done the math comparing the techniques and the older technique IS better#a few weeks into my job here I did the math and found that if you use the BEST version of the new technique--one that only one group#has demonstrated can even be done and they didn't get all the way to the point of demonstrating an application like this#and you assume some generous efficiency numbers#it breaks even with the old technique#that's not what this VC group is doing so... not a chance lol
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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.
#text#the borgias#lucrezia x cesare#paolo#ursula bonadeo#I MEAN NEIL IF YOU WERE SO AGAINST GOING INTO INCESTUOUS WATERS WITH LUCREZIA AND CESARE#THEN WHY DID YOU ALLOW SHIT LIKE THIS?!?!??#BACK TO BACK SCENES OF THEM WITH THEIR S1 LOVERS#(well cesare's only other 'lover' beside lucrezia)#anyway this is really me just calling bullshit on neil claiming they weren't gonna go there#you literally wrote one of the best love stories do you not realize that dude?!?#BETWEEN SIBLINGS LMAOOO#I know that man thinks he's going to hell for it too#and you know what he probably should#because what do you mean he made the entire audience have no choice but to ship siblings?#(half joking)
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Sparkstember day 22 & day 23 winning combo: Revenge Of Two Hands One Mouth Excerpts from The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman:
"I Am Ingmar Bergman"
The Studio Commissary
Limo Driver (sang by Russell)
"Oh My God"
#yeah they did different songs!!! :D The Studio Commissary is my favourite song from The Seduction and#this version of Limo Driver is one of my favourite vocal performances by Russell EVER#(ROTHOM had a different set list and different performances to THOM - but there's less material out there)#(for most of that tour people were not allowed to record - we weren't allowed to make charcoal drawings either (this was on a poster XD))#anway some US audiences did manage to record some stuff and I am grateful for it!!!#no video of nicotina though (that was the best)#katherine hepburn should be out there somewhere too#(anway go and let this stuff blow you away)#(I am way too eager to talk thom all day but it's already so late and i've got stuff left to do today)#the seduction of ingmar bergman#trothom#'i am ingmar bergman'#limo driver#the studio commissary#'oh my god'#2013#10's#sparks#ron mael#russell mael#sparkstember day 22#sparkstember day 23#sparkstember#november 6 2013#beret
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Okay, show of hands, how many people tried to do the math problem and/or essay after the Bad Kids failed?
#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#tbh I don't think the essay is physically possible without actual training#like I got a five on AP Lang but I got to like ~108 ish#I think the math one you need to be primed to do it and know the process to do in 2 minutes#I was able to figure it out eventually#but the fact that it wasn't clean numbers and calculators weren't allowed put a stick in it#basically you find the equations for each of the trains#add them and set that equal to 135#then solve for t (time)
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