#coupe day

[rejectingrepublicans]

[navree]

genuinely would love for some of the "both parties are the same" people to name me a single election in the entirety of the twenty first century where the outcome for the country wouldn't have been better if a democrat had won

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[doux-amer]

[justaz]

arthur repealing the ban on magic and sitting merlin and morgana down to figure out who is going to be court sorcerer and ready to mediate a debate but before morgana can even open her mouth, merlin passes to position onto her. arthur and morgana just stare, morgana makes feeble attempts to spark an argument, to instigate merlin to at least fight for it. even arthur is like “…you don’t even want, like, a room or something for your magic work?? none of the perks?? a different position in the court?????” and merlin’s just like “nope! i’m good!” and morgana and arthur exchange a look before arthur asks why. merlin’s answer is that his position, where he belongs, is at arthur’s side. besides. morgana deserves it. she was snubbed from becoming queen so it was only fair.

[the-worms-are-all-right]

friendly reminder that today (9/11/23) marks 50 years since the coup in Chile. I have literally not seen anyone talking about it.

Chile was under dictatorship for almost 17 years. over 3000 people lost their lives, and many others were forced to flee the country. artists, socialists and communists were given absolutely inhumane treatment. the coup leader were never charged for his crimes.

as we all know, history repeats itself when we forget it. i just hope that we’ll never forget what happened in Chile. that we will recognize the early stages of persecution of political opponents, and ensure democracy. that we will remember the ones who gave their lives to the fight.

anyone and everyone who has been affected by the coup in Chile: my thoughts are with you today.

[97-liners]

hello??? HELLO?!?? ??!?

[kingsoverjacks]

Lovely leggy Eliza Coupe!

[cochino-devin]

ROLLIN.

[cringefaecompilation]

thinking about @immult's meta post regarding the end of episode 114. as you do. how vox machina is nice and happy with vax now and that they can have a lovely little "maybe the world is gonna end party" now that the bloody bridge is gone. except… except that leaves the question of the ruidians who weren’t soldiers who were effectively brainwashed into joining the settler-colonization of exandria.

well, now they’re doomed no matter what if predathos does crack open the moon like a shiny red egg. and fans are rooting for ruidus to get nuked. but i guess they’ve been marked as evil. even the rebels who hate their eugenicist leaders like gaz and rashinna, even the little kids that chetney gave toys to, even the ones who just wanted to try apples and strawberries, all of them have been marked as either worthy sacrifices or tainted by association with ludinus. and boy does that form a pattern.

bor’dor deserved to die! imogen should dropkick her mom into a spike pit while bh cheers her on! they deserve it for being so stupid to join a cult! people shouldn’t be upset with the gods for nuking aeor or not doing anything to stop avaliar from crashing! everyone in the age of arcanum was an egomaniac who loved hubris so they all had it coming! why should essek have to apologize or actually try to make amends for the countless people who were killed or enslaved in a war he kickstarted out of spite? that happened so long ago it’s basically ancient history! and he’s the nice quirky twinky bestie of the nein!

see the disconnect? why is it suddenly a bad, awful thing when the hells "make a choice for everyone else" regarding the gods when you had zero problems with all the other parties doing it or them taking out people that "deserved" to die?

[yuwuta]

I am once again thinking about guard dog/boarding school megumi BUT I was wondering about yuuta in that au? Spare any thoughts 🤲

he is nothing but a nepotism baby supreme the world is his playground 😭😭 he’s just like…. like the yearning starving artist type without the starving because he has satoru’s money to fall back on at any given moment. he’s a romantic, he goes to paris every summer to stare at his favorite monet and dreams about falling in love with someone doing the same thing. he likes nice things, but he’s not as frivolous as yuuji. he wears nice clothes but they’re boring like megumi’s—they both have collections of cashmere and knit sweaters valued that tens of thousands of dollars and they’re all the same shades of beige, white, black, or navy. he’s protective of his friends and family. he doesn’t cause nearly as much drama as megumi or nobara, but he’s always there to back them up when they do start trouble.

(within that au there’s a whole lore LOL everyone is pretty much childhood friends, but yuuta and you are particularly close, second to megumi. he feels particularly protective over you, tsumiki, and nobara. he’s a saint most of the time, but been known to pull a few strings to get his revenge when he thinks it’s warranted).

he’s spoiled like all of them too, but in a much more possessive way than megumi. yuuta gets everything he wants and since he doesn’t ask for much (materialistically, anyway) he always thinks the things he gets are deserved. when it comes to love, it’s something he thinks he should earn, and he won’t stop until he’s done that <3

[someoneoffthestreet]

MAWS s2 thoughts before the finale:

I’ve been thinking over what we’ve seen of Krypton this season. Mostly how, even though it feels like a lot, we haven’t actually seen much at all.

Notably, most of the information we have received about Krypton is actually sourced from Brainiac, which- well. Brainiac is a certified liar, or at the very least, has a very skewed perspective of Krypton and what it was supposed to be. I do not doubt that Krypton was at one point a warmongering planet that benefited off of others’ suffering (Jor-El’s account backs this up,) but dialogue from Brainiac in 2x08 suggests that, towards the end at least, Krypton was moving away from this and pursuing a more peaceful existence.

(Speculatively, this could have angered some Kryptonians ((it’s been 20-something years and Brainiac still sounds pissed off about it)) and instigated a coup that then led to the attempted invasions against Darkseid/Apokolips and Earth, and we know how that went.)

The images we see of Krypton show the Kryptonians with superpowers on their home planet. But we don’t? Actually know? If that’s completely true?? Because it seems strange that the show would have this, but keep the red sun weakness. Did Krypton not have a red sun in this universe?

Pushing on that, the images of that Krypton are from the Black Mercy, which Kara outright states is Brainiac’s domain. The world Clark is trapped in is based off of the one Kara shows him in 2x05, but we don’t actually know where that vision originated from. It couldn’t have come from Kara, because she was also an infant when Krypton was destroyed and would have no natural memory of it. So whose memory is that? Is it a memory at all? How do we know Brainiac didn’t tamper with it?

(Like in all likelihood it was just a throwaway line, but my brain keeps getting stuck on Clark noticing Ma and Pa’s doppelgängers in Kara’s Krypton, and I keep wondering if maybe that was a result of Clark’s subconscious infecting the simulation because it isn’t an actual, tangible memory, but Kara doesn’t seem to notice anything unusual with the memory so maybe I’m stuck on nothing.)

More on that, is how all of this interacts with what we see of Krypton from Jor-El’s memories. Admittedly he gives us very little, but the contrast is pretty stark. And maybe it’s just because the planet was mere moments from exploding, but the Krypton we see back in 1x02 is a wreck, in very stark contrast to the peaceful paradise that was Krypton’s Last Days as shown in 2x05. Even more notably, neither Lara nor Jor-El do anything superhuman in Jor-El’s account. Think about that. They are rushing to save their infant son’s life, but they aren’t using flight or super speed: they are very much earthbound.

Now to be fair, there’s another explanation. Krypton was already a spacefaring civilization before the fall, so they definitely discovered how their biology reacted to different suns. Maybe they created some kind of device that could simulate the yellow sun on Krypton (like the red solar shielding around Cadmus in s1) that “blessed” all Kryptonians with superpowers; and then this device was damaged/shut off in the time before the planet’s destruction.

Like it could be both: the above point being true and Brainiac still omitting/manipulating things about how Krypton was, maybe to better preserve his idea of what it should have been.

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[maximura]

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[tomorrowusa]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) is a living national treasure of democracy.

Rep. Raskin visited with Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders-Townsend at MSNBC's The Weekend to talk about a number of issues.

He said Trump "came back to the scene of the crime" with his first visit to Capitol Hill since 06 January 2021. Trump met with GOP members of both chambers who ignored the fact that he put their lives at risk with his coup attempt.

Of course Trump offered no apology for his endangerment of their lives or for his damage to American institutions of democracy. It says a lot about the mindset of most Republicans these days that they will suffer no humiliation too great to show their grovelling loyalty to wannabe dictator Trump.

Rep. Raskin also talked about the GOP Supreme Court's NRA-friendly approval of the use of "bump stocks" – devices that permit assault rifles to be converted into machine guns.

Republicans willingly gave up their claim to being the party of law and order so they could incessantly pander to Trump's lust for dictatorship and to empower the NRA's goal of putting machine guns in the hands of every nutjob in the country.

This election requires more personal effort than previous ones. Be willing to do more grassroots work and make our case to low-information voters you may know.