#completely outside of your control

[nest-being]

men should be able to wear skirts without it being considered 'gender bending' like babe, it's a piece of fabric, it doesn't say ANYTHING about someone's gender. what it DOES say, is 'these are the kinds of clothes i like' and that's it. just so sick of the fact that pants are the "androgynous" choice that are okay for anyone to wear but put a man in a skirt and he's a weird, sexual deviant.

like, every day gender feels like more of a prison and people are fine to just go along with it instead of trying to break free. i really think that cishet men (in particular) wearing skirts and dresses and traditionally feminine clothing is a small step in the right direction. men's fashion mostly sucks anyway so they'd be doing the world a favour tbh.

[significant-narratives]

quinn has a libra sun / sagittarius moon which is honestly a very sweet whimsical combo that makes him a natural leader with a lot of optimisim and drive and then you look down his chart and it's [glass smashing] mercury in scorpio [horn blaring] venus in virgo [tires screeching] mars in sagittarius

[devondespresso]

i will not dedicate hours to explaining that & pairings are not the lower-focus version of romantic pairings, i will not dedicate hours to explaining that & pairings are not the less important version of romantic pairings, i will NOT--

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

one thing abt being disabled/chronically ill that some people don’t get is that sometimes body maintenance that ensures you have the absolute minimum amount of function can also be something that takes away a lot of control and autonomy. you can argue till the cows come home that making those decisions to try and help yourself (or realistically to try to make sure things aren’t worse than they already are) is something that exhibits control and autonomy and stuff, but they can be so limiting in practice because they’re things that take up so much time but have to be done to do anything else

[salute-desire]

I need to do Jaws of Hakkon DLC for that juicy "history repeats itself" (or somethjng) and "you are not allowed to be A Person as long as people insists you are A Symbol" narrative and practically any Inky narrative but I said to myself I won't play as Adaar until I can figure out his characterisation . GRAHHHHHH

[dnangelic]

dark can b so fun for detective type muses i think. and by fun i mean frustrating as hell ic. the more you try to dig the more there just. isn't anything, apart from daisuke and the niwa family. real legal name? he doesn't have one. birth certificate, literally any kind of confirmation to his existence outside of his heists? nope. he's a magical artwork, a literal curse on a bloodline. place of residence? family? possessions? nothing, nada, zilch. apart from his hosts, he quite literally is and has nothing beyond his influence, and even then, everybody has at least seen or heard of this man but absolutely nobody knows anything him. his presence is omnipresent even if he himself is so half-transient. it's the poto again.

[smute]

i was so excited (well kind of excited) for the hijack series but oh my god it's bad. and i havent even gotten to the good part yet! the first ep alone has so many plot holes (spoiler warning) from the behavior of the crew to the pilot opening the cockpit door just because they're pointing a gun at his fuckbuddy to the fact that he is able to CHANGE HIS MIND about the emergency on board talking to atc like "yeah never mind it's all good now" LIKE YOU HAVE TO LAUGH

[itsplasma]

i wish my parents would stop letting the cats outside they're bringing dead mice/shrews/moles each day i hate it

[gemwolfz]

so anyway got warned about uk law on pokefarm again 👍

[nancywheeeler]

honestly i am salty about that horror poll. slashers are the boogeyman. slashers are the rotting foundations suburban neighborhoods are built on. slashers are a loss of innocence. slashers are chaos incarnate. slashers are the mistakes you know deep down you'd make too. slashers are the failures of one generation coming to haunt the next. slashers are indulging our sickest desires as an audience. slashers are catharsis. the best slashers are more than a body count and a final girl.

[letmeliedown]

if i ever want to feel better about where i’ve gotten in terms of being in touch with material reality all i have to do is look at an occult subreddit for 5 seconds (and then stop because it feels like putting my hand on a stove)

[chiefguideandcentre]

Why is it that the good employees (always on time, do what they are supposed to do, make an effort, actually show up to work) are always shit on and the bad employees (who don’t try, don’t care, leave their coworkers out to dry, and don’t even show up half the time) seem to always be praised and face zero consequences for their actions? If I just decided to not show up I would be fired, but this other girl faces no consequences ever, It’s bullshit

[acekoomboom]

characters that are very me-coded but i can't explain how:

Thanks for tagging me in @outer-edges ;) Gah I wanna explain why they're all me so bad but I can't bc that's not how you play.

@watatsumi-island and @the-portal-rule-book you're next :) if you wanna.

Wendy Darling, Peter Pan (2003)/ Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games/ Jane Villanueva, Jane The Virgin/ Kara Danvers, Supergirl/ Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings/ Melissa McCall, Teen Wolf (TV)/ Dawn Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Moon (1992)/ Angela Montenegro, Bones.

[eorzeashan]

That Princess Mononoke vid and Eight/Nine potential is driving me crazy. I'll always come back to how he's torn between worlds as Jadus' Hand and beloved bride, but Nine remains as his last tie and chance to return to living as a person. He also shares wolf imagery and readily launches himself into a cycle of violence that will lead to his doom, much like San. I'm mad I never saw it sooner when it's my favorite ghibli movie and comfort film

also imagining that convo but between Nine and Jadus in that cave:

"And what happens to Eight? What's your plan, to let him die with you?"

"Typical. Selfish. You think like the insignificant beings that line these stars. Eight is my bride. He is my Hand. When my Vision dies, so does he."

"You must set him free! He's not a tool. He's a person!"

"SILENCE. How you dare speak to me like that? Your precious Intelligence threw him at my feet as they cowered in fear. Instead of destroying him in the cycle of cruelty, I took him as my own. Now, my poor, ugly, beautiful bride is neither of my mind nor yours. How could you help him?"

"I don't know... But at least we might find a way to live."

[serendipitous-mage]

@lynns-art-blog 😘🥰

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.