#but like ??????

[reggular69]

once i shipped a gallon of lube to my old apartment (forgot to switch the address) and when i stopped by the next day it was gone. i hope the thief thinks of me every time they use it

stealing packages off peoples porch has to be simultaneously one of the dumbest and most mean-spirited crimes out there. you dont even know what it is you stupid idiot. youre just taking for the sake of taking. genuinely fall down a flight of stairs

[foxounderscorecube]

I understand why a lot of people are uncomfortable with primarchcest because, yeah, those guys are brothers

However, the scene in which Horus is holding a meeting with the Mournival and Sanguinius emerges from his bedroom in a beautiful robe eating from a bowl of ripe fruit? What else are we meant to think other than that they were fucking

[tanadrin]

So like, given that the judiciary is useless and the legislature is useless, what do you recommend Americans do? What mechanism do you think protest will be able to activate, other than starting a violent rebellion?

"constitutional government is in the process of breaking down" does not mean "there is nothing the legislature and judiciary can do."

look, all rule of law is kayfabe to some extent, right? the reason it works is that the systems that operate according to its rules have legitimacy, some degree of abstract popular support that means that people broadly obey the decisions of institutions, and where there's strong disagreement about those decisions, the body of people empowered de jure or de facto to settle those disagreements (which includes, but is not limited to, the people with actual social sanction to use violence) care about upholding the system.

but politics did not begin in 1788 with the invention of modern constitutional government, it is not confined to republican systems of power, and it does not occur solely within the realms of electoral politics, judicial process, and legislative sessions. all these things proceed from politics, and did not create it. coalition-building, popular discontent, divisions among factions of elites, and all these other fuzzy things which are hard to pin down in hard data like approval poll numbers matter--they matter to the extent that they have overthrown kings and dictators throughout history, and are in fact responsible for the republican government under which you live.

the actions of the legislature and the judiciary still matter a lot, because they still have different degrees of legitimacy to different groups within the country. it sucks that decades of the convergence of various factors have hollowed out mass political organizing in the united states, so it's hard to mobilize people for substantive action (protests of the sort where you can actually demand things, instead of just vibe on the National Mall), but even though this shit is harder to do effectively, i think even protests still matter! calling your congresscritters to yell at them still matters--especially if they are a Republican member of the House.

and now i'm gonna get a little bit mean, and i apologize for this in advance, but here's the thing: i have been getting a lot of asks lately about "what should people do." and i am just some asshole on tumblr. this is not even an advice blog. at a certain point in life you have to acquire an orientation to the world which is "i may not know the answer to this question, but i i know i can find it out, or i know i can try to find it out, and if that doesn't work i can keep trying." lotta people online right now seem to have this attitude of helplessness. they are waiting for someone with authority to give them a definitive answer about what to do and how to fix things. these answers do not exist. all there is in this life is varying degrees of individuals deciding that they will try something, and hopefully in the process link up with other individuals who are also trying something and maybe have some advice to share.

this isn't just about politics, by the way; this is an attitude that i think it is necessary for all adults to acquire at some point, if they want to avoid feeling helpless and eventually resentful. the world is not a thing happening to you; it is a thing you are inside and can affect. i have my own opinions on what i'd like to see people doing right now, sure--and some of those things are things only, say, members of the house of representatives can do--but i'm not VI fuckin' Lenin here posting from Switzerland in anticipation of leading the revolution when i return. i don't know where you live or what your situation is or who you know. you must, at a certain point, feel a sense of responsibility and duty toward your own community and to your society, and act commensurately.

[noihavenosanitythanksforasking]

i still find it WILD that straight people will come at QUEER people and accuse them of fetishizing QUEER people

"erm ik im not in ur minority but like i think that yall are not right and you dont know anything about rep"

like dawg do u hear urself???

[elowai]

Well sh*t I need to learn now.

[transfaguette]

gotta say i wish i was canadian right now if only because economically and culturally boycotting the US would feel so fucking good rn

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

why has the fandom decided qi qingqi was a bitch to shen jiu. what if she kinda liked him

[fate-defiant]

something something Mytho's entire character being, as @schafpudel so eloquently put it, associated with self destruction; something something the heartless princes inability to connect with the world and care; something something the raven!Mytho's hair trigger temper and capricioussness; something something Drosselemeyer's personality and what his life and interpersonal relationships must've looked like when he was still a mortal human man; something something Mytho's entire being as an expression of trauma, of loneliness, of psychological struggles of his author.

[pigeonstab]

Actually scary the feeling of having your art tagged as ship when it isn't. I'm being brave about it

[fairytwles]

SHE STILL GOT THAT FUCK ASS HEADBAND ON… GIRL LET IT GO

[opwolfe]

My boyfriend kinda not really (was definitely a joke because he said it after slipping on ice) asked me to marry him a few days ago and my immediate response was "yeah sure, we can do that" I didn't even think about it, anyone else and I would've just laughed it off but like, I actually really like this dude and istg if he doesn't put at least a promise ring on it in the next year I'm showing up at his front door with a rifle and a candy ring

idk who needs to hear this today but you don't have to marry a man if you don't want to

[saruside-01]

I keep thinking about phainon and mydei and it’s infuriating

(I love them so much and I’m genuinely scared about how will their relationship look like at the end of amphoreus’ story bcs I’ve got some speculations… that won’t end well)

[nyanrrator]

Doodles, again :3

Also this is my friend's oc poopoo say hi to them guys

[beach-bear-enjoyer]

me and dogman

[thedissonantverses]

Is there something in the water today? I’ve seen like ten super vitriolic takes this morning lmfao and I’m just like….have fanfic? I guess? Are y’all good?