#at almost any given moment

[colorisbyshe]

I'm not a massive fan of the post that's like "No one is protesting anymore cause everyone is too comfortable" because people ARE protesting; I see protests on twitter daily. There are protests happening in almost every capital city but they are... peaceful protests. Peaceful protests with hundreds if not thousands of people but... peaceful protests.

But even peaceful protests in this country can be met with RICO charges and extreme police brutality and we live in a country that CHEERED ON the police brutality and personal consequences against Pro-Palestinian student protesters and especially against BLM protesters. Because, yes, we did actually have fairly massive and more disobedient protests very, very recently from all classes of people, including supposedly respected groups like Professors, and they a. got met with extremely disproportional responses and b. didn't... change... much.

Which is why I think intellectually lazy posts like "people are just too comfortable to protest" (ignoring that a lot of people ARE NOT comfortable and in fact can't protest because they cannot risk losing their jobs or are too busy trying to survive to protest) are not helpful.

We need actual meaningful leadership. Ideas on how to deal with extremely militarized police and national guard that can be called in if anyone so much as looks up where to get cow bells. Planning BEFORE the protests and not just panicked advice on how to deal with chemical gas or which bail funds to prioritize after the fact. (Which often led to incorrect bail funds being linked, one bail fund being donated to past capacity while others got ignored, etc)

And the problem is a lot of people aren't equipped to really do that. Because, again, people are not comfortable. When people cannot afford food or rent, they don't really have money to donate to bail funds. A lot of people, very reasonably, do not know how to deal with militarized cops and... aren't equipped to do so. There are only so many lawyers that can help fight off RICO charges.

America is a massive, MASSIVE land mass which means going to protests often requires travel people need funded. It's a surveillance state, it's a military state. The issue isn't "comfort." It's not even a lack of protests. There are protests happening RIGHT NOW and it seems some of you don't know that because you simply do not go to them.

I think this weird blame game isn't helpful. Like... okay... where are your tips and tricks for successful or at least not-shutdown protests? I know there is a level of discretion required if you are actually participating but also... if everyone is pointedly saying "NOT IT!" for potential consequences... who is really too afraid of losing their "comfort?"

I'll openly say I'm a hypocrite, as I don't have solutions to offer. But I also recognize that I am simply in the same position most Americans are in. I just know going "WHY DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE, WHO IS NOT ME, ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING?" isn't actually impactful and also isn't reflecting what is actually happening. People are trying. They are. They're on the streets, a lot of them are doing boycotts (and I know you know this because I see the posts gloating about how sales are down), and a lot of them are doing what they can elsewhere.

The fact that it's not enough says more about the American elite than it does about the people trying.

[demigods-posts]

headcanon that percy's most reoccurring nightmare about tartarus is the one where he loses annabeth to the pit. the one where he trips over the rogue lace of his left shoe and misses her fingers by centimeters. the one where his hands get clammy due to nerves and she slips out of his grasp. the one where they descend over the cliff together but he isn't strong enough to hold the weight of arachne. the one where she uses her knife to slice his palm and catch him off-guard so she can wiggle free. and the one where she's bleeding from the wound on her head. begging him not to tamper with fate. to let the prophecy play out. and a silent conversation passes between them. an 'i love you' and 'goodbye' in the same breath. and he stares into her eyes for what he knows is the last time and lets go. the one where he has to watch annabeth sacrifice herself to save the world.

[emily-e-draws]

Captains Norrington and Swann and their dragons, Tempest and Scylla ✨ more commissions for @boltlightning, from their PotC + Temeraire crossover fics!!

[jojo-schmo]

If ideas were bubbles,

I'd hope to fill every room I'm in with them! ✨🫧✨

[correct-hermitcraft-quotes]

Doc: Yeah, and I have this other small problem, Pearl, like in my dark oak tree farm, I realised my llama sits one pixel too low and it would require half a rebuild. Maybe you can-

*cuts himself off with a laugh as Pearl walks away with her head hung*

Pearl, pained: I am dying.

[trinrose3]

I need Rookanis dancing the Argentine Tango in the campiest crow inspired outfits imaginable at some sort of ball/gala

[pynkhues]

just came out if loustat ao3 tag... maaaaan it does look bleak for bottom lestat enjoyers. my feed is literally just "bottom louis bottom louis feminization mpreg abo bottom louis"... and so on ad nauseam

sophie you are my only hope :')

It's certainly a fandom with preferences, haha

[arataka-reigen]

I absolutely adore Percy and Nico's relationship throughout the original series. They're always either trying to protect each other or so angry they could kill each other.

[sskk-manifesto]

And so the big sskk shortage begins (no sskk for the next 15 episodes) (and the sskk episode coming after kind of sucks)

[arolesbianism]

I was looking at old photos of some of my nuggets yesterday from before I did my first day 1 reset (aka before I got a mod that lets you keep your agents during day 1 resets) and realized that I accidentally remade Eva wrong. Except! Beautiful world! It's actually a good thing because her current back hair was her dead sister's back hair so actually it was intentional from the start and I'm a genius forever <3333

[quasi-normalcy]

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[whenthegoldrays]

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[bambeptin]

tagged by @ghostpyre !!

post 5 songs you’re loving right now:

SHIFT+DEL - Riikira

Watch out for Golem. - Golemm

GIRL HELL 1999 - Femtanyl

EARDRUM - six impala

You Wouldn't Download - Kaizo Slumber

UHHH I never know who to tag with these. and I'm bad at being tagged myself (but I figured it out this time at least)!! sooo I'm gonna tag @catato @uhohproblems @insane-mane @cloversion @blastoffresearch @avpdyama if you wanna do them!!!

and you know what. bonus track

6. Moon - Wolfgun

[ayasenyaru]

today marks the day i first watched the felix episode, 5 years ago. on miraculous.to, laying in bed at 2AM with evidently nothing better to do. i wanted to do something special to celebrate the half a decade i spent on my ever-growing devotion to a side character from a children's cartoon. but i doubt anyone cares and i doubt i have anything worthwhile to say about it

[j-esbian]

ok here is my hot voltron take in 2024*

it’s all right. it’s not a masterpiece but that’s ok. it holds up and i still think it’s fun

i feel like it suffered from a lot of factors while it was coming out. the rushed production (76 episodes in just 2 years), fandom expectations exploding and exceeding what the show had ever planned to do, the creators running their mouths and people putting more faith in word of god than what made it into the actual show, etc.

it’s not the pinnacle of television. i think a lot of people had high hopes when it came out; i remember a lot of folks talking about how the people who made it had worked on the last airbender, so they were expecting a similar caliber. i think a better analogy would be that this is a mech anime for western audiences where mech animes aren’t really a thing. but it struggled to deliver on that

i do think the biggest thing it suffered from was the production schedule. i still don’t understand why it was divided up the way it was, into a bunch of small, unevenly distributed seasons. there’s a lot of things that could have been executed better, but didn’t get developed in the way they should have. and the final product (for a lot of the character stuff specifically) feels like a line of tropes strung together rather than a coherent narrative, and the plot had very little thought put into it long-term (there’s almost entire seasons that give no screen time to haggar/honerva and like. maybe we could have spent a bit more time showing her pulling the strings and manipulating zarkon/sendak/etc. rather than Only focusing on them, in the seasons where they’re the villains). this is generally something i associate with things that lasted past their expiration date (like supernatural lol). i would have to look more closely into the development of the later seasons, because it really gives the impression they just had to run with their first thoughts and didn’t have time to flesh things out properly, especially in contrast to the seasons with lotor because they were almost cooking with that

for example, they almost sold me that allura had developed feelings for lance, but then in order to make it clear, they started making her all blushy and awkward around him because That’s A Trope People Understand That Means A Girl Likes A Boy, when that was really never who she was. they reached for it as shorthand to signal to the audience but didn’t really think too deeply about Who they were applying it to. the whole thing with shiro’s partner (and ambiguous autoimmune disease that exists only for one scene) would have been nothing if the creators hadn’t hyped it up so much beforehand, and if a little more time had been given and a little more care had gone into the scenes where that mattered, and if there had been literally any indication of it in the previous 6 seasons. they could have thought about how audiences would interpret pidge’s gender fuckery and done something to address that to avoid accusations of queerbaiting. it just added drama to season 1, they made a bathroom joke in season 2, and then forgot it was ever a plot point. whenever keith is on screen he’s the main character. he has the most developed arc out of any of the paladins (finding his family, becoming a leader, learning to not be such a loner) but again, whole swathes of episodes go by without him. and in his absence no one else really takes the spotlight. it just focuses on plot. hunk doesn’t really get anything to do until season 7, and it’s a very good scene where he’s jealous of lance and pidge for having their families back but it also feels like the first time he’s taken seriously in 60+ episodes. et cetera.

*big caveat that i just finished season 7, and season 8 was where i lost interest and never finished. i know The Big Thing that happened in season 8 and i can see where they were coming from. i’m sure they were thinking about doing a Big Damn Sacrifice and making some statement about the loss of the Old World to give birth to the New. i just don’t think they were mindful of 1) who they were sacrificing or 2) the fact that they were telling this story in the real world, where there’s countless other stories about black women being denied happiness in order to further someone else’s story. i don’t think this show Uniquely Hates Women because it has the same level of sexism that’s present pretty much across the board in modern sci-fi. they didn’t need to shoehorn in the romance but they clearly tried to be more mindful than the original (instead of Zero female paladins, there were two for most of the show.) they definitely had huge blind spots and i’m not excusing that but i do think that doesn’t cancel out everything else. it seems to be due to obliviousness rather than active malice. but again, i have yet to watch the final episodes

[befooremoonrisee]

i'm really having a tough time reading an age of madness bc you can't just write a character who is nicknamed the young lion, is the leader of an army at a really young age and his mother is afraid for him and his reckless behaviour as a general and expect me not to think of robb stark