#and we have our other planned

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[arsenicflame]

happy "our marriage is never gonna recover from this" day

[klanced]

when adam met 11yo keith he immediately knew that keith was gay and was like i have GOT to support this kid!! (runs into traffic) meanwhile shiro spent years operating under the assumption that keith had like a gender thing going on

[unpretty]

i haven't posted about it much because there's no way to do that without it sounding like an ad, but my favorite purchase this year was probably a carbonator that works on non-water liquids and a special set of refillable CO2 bottles

it only costs like $3 to refill one of these bottles at the sporting goods store (because it's basically just a paintball/airsoft tank lol) and instead of buying special soda syrups i use those cheapo flavor packets they sell for water bottles

the up-front cost was stupid but i justified it to myself with all the money i haven't spent on energy drinks since i started doing this

[snekdood]

so uh

for 1. most people are gonna take advantage of black friday and wont see your specific niche tumblr post, I hate to say it

2. the us isnt running out of money for war any time soon, so...

3. this is just antisemitism???????? all we need is some (((echoes))) around the us and israel and then I'd have no reason to suspect otherwise from op...............

[onesnoopyaday]

I AM AT MY LIMIT

Snoopy #90

30/12/2024

description under the cut

[description: a cartoon-style drawing of Snoopy's head. Snoopy is a white dog with black ears. His eyes are shut and his mouth is a horizontal line. There are two large blue teardrops, one under each eye. The text "I am at my limit" is handwritten across the top of the image.]

[silkjade]

jadetham⋆.༦࿑ོ⁺ museum coworkers au — moodboard (2/?)

spending the holidays alone in the city with only your coworker, who also happens to be your ex, as company

coming out of the opera building after a night at the ballet. christmas bells are ringing in the streets, and the first snow of the season lands a crown of snowflakes in your hair. your laughs are brighter than the stars above, who twinkle as they ponder over how you two could’ve ever fallen out of love

[puppppppppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Folks, if you would kindly take some time to pray for me over the next three or so days. Midterms are hitting pretty hard.

[kazamajun]

well have you considered that maybe the unstoppable force is in love with the immovable object

maybe the reason one refuses to stop and the other refuses to move is because they both long for the collision

[ash-and-starlight]

rotating the first chapter where baoxiang and ouyang interact at 200 mach speed in the microwave of my mind, there’s so much bitter understanding in every line it rlly makes wang’s Insanity Villain Rants and his ouyang haterism in hwdtw so stark in contrast

[starlightmeissa]

*shoves 🎤 in your face* Do you think Tsunade, Oro and Jiraya ever explored each other's bodies, before the fall out???

<leans into mic> yes. probably.

you’re telling me three teenagers to twenty somethings who lived through two back to back wars with weird interpersonal sexual tension DIDN’T fuck at least once??? not even once????

though i imagine it’s also possible they didn’t and all that tension stayed there in their ribs, a bit like a rot. the sannin to me feel like foils for team 7 that never overcome their personal issues and find connection and growth through each other.

in a way, them never exploring each other’s bodies is a part of Their Problem. they could not seek solace or support in each other in anything that wasn’t fighting. which in turn caused them to isolate themselves from each other, and inevitably caused each of them to leave the village. the will of fire is defined by the chains of love and care you have for your comrades making you stronger. tsunade, orochimaru and jiraiya do not allow themselves to be vulnerable with each other. so they lose their will of fire and their trauma controls them.

i think maybe if they Had explored each others bodies, they would have been able to express a certain level of vulnerability together that would have kept them from falling out.

all this is to say, did the fuck in canon? probably not. in fluffy clouds?

:)

[quibble-auk]

More of my transformer OC’s

With @thebrokenmechanicalpencil’s OC, Comet!!!!!! Please go check them out. I’m literally begging yall. Their stuff is amazing!

So anyway, the big ole lights on Sunrazor are not just for show

Originally when I made the background it was pretty dark and then I colored the characters and it got so much brighter

It’s supposed to be at night lol

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[irrealisms]

i lied lol im also dropping some s4 thoughts. i've been doing some thinking about s4 vitalasy & zam recently (when am i ever not thinking about s4 vitalasy & zam) and fairy tales . from vitalasy's perspective they're in the crane wife story, or a similar story. from zam's perspective they're in bluebeard. in both cases you've got one partner keeping a secret in a secret room, and as soon as it's discovered everything collapses and they can't truly stay together anymore. but in the crane wife the secret is self-sacrifice and in bluebeard the secret is hurting others. (notably these are also both gendered--the self-sacrificial victim is the wife, the murderer is the husband. and in lifesteal they're obviously both men and are not playing out traditional fairy tale gendered dynamics lol. this is part of why there isn't a clearcut answer to which of them is right about which story they're in.) either way there is a question hiding in the margins: if the secret is never revealed, will the wife die or will they stay together happily? we don't know. they don't either. they have to open the door. this is how the story goes. there is no version of the story where they don't open the door. the important thing is that the one you love has a room they are hiding from you, with a secret that they know will tear the two of you apart, and you enter it anyway, and things are never the same.

[painted-bees]

maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I really like the way Hi Note is being told. A comic is cool, too, but something about the spontaneity and how casual it is makes it feel more intimate and real somehow.

aw, thank you!! I have a lot of fun with this kinda format (or...lack thereof haha) I feel too that this is the best way for the characters/story to exist.. because otherwise, they simply...wouldn't!