#execution event

[in4newz]

Federal workers are going off.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[tommygotwrittenoff]

i literally do not care about big emergencies on abc's 911. i want to see my characters talk to each other and have stories that are parallels to small, everyday (everyday for first responders) emergencies

[d8tl55c]

"flare-up"

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lol 3d modeling joke

[lastoneout]

Been following what's going on in Florida with Milton and the massive tornado outbreak it's caused and ngl I'm starting to think there is no amount of suffering we could inflict upon oil executives and the politicians they've bought that would ever be enough to make up for the unimaginable hell their malicious greed has brought upon us.

[scribz-ag24]

I've recently seen again a post talking about the Sableye and Dusknoir's relationship so i'd like to put my two cents in the discussion, for I love screaming into the void about PMD. (this isnt meant to discourage any other interpretations btw this is just my take on theirs and Dusknoir's relationship, bc I think they're very fun characters and I am very glad the game actually gives these minions a bit of relevance in se5).

Tbh I don't buy that Dusknoir treats the Sableye nicely, at least not out of kindness. I don't think he's a tyrant or inexplicably mean, of course, and I think his minions ADORE him, but i also believe that doesn't mean he's nice to them, sth that i consider meaningful for their character arcs.

Throughout the entire game he's exclusively giving them orders, in se5 he concocts a plan that involves thrashing them MULTIPLE times (he's lucky Grovyle isn't one to try and kill enemies in battle ig), and the cherry on top is that the first time we see him being fully genuine he does this:

(yes, he is in turmoil in here, but there's not a single thing implying that 1. this is an unusual response towards the sablye, 2. dusknoir feels bad for it at some point or is surprised at himself, 3. this has any impact in the sableye at all. You can argue these reactions happen off screen and we don't see them, they don't happen bc they have pressing matters to attend to or they happen after they return to life, and that's perfectly valid, but i'm sticking with what the game shows us, here.)

I must say, though, the fact that the Sableye, despite having been almost mindless pokémon up to now, STAND UP TO AND ATTACK Primal Dialga for their boss and even try to look after him despite him ordering them to check on Grovyle and Celebi first is SO important to me. they are goons to the bone and they love that scheming ghost so much.

My own view is that Dusknoir is generally polite to them (you wouldn't randomly break your own revolver or weapon without any reason, would you?), but is quicker to get mean with them than with people he doesn't know or he is seeking to manipulate. He doesn't care about their behaviour as long as they get the job done, which is why I think the anime thing of the Sableye climbing onto his shoulder isn't that remarkable, rather it's a very cute moment, one that is showing how they've been working together for long and how their size difference affects their interactions, but it is not necessarily conveying an affectionate bond (this is a bit random, but it reminds me of Disney's Jafar with Iago lmao. throw your pet sableye at your enemies so they mock them and then return to your shoulder). Additionally, Dusknoir letting the Sableye onto his shoulder is probably as close as we are gonna get to a villain turning around in his chair while petting a cat in PMD lol.

[this isn't meant to be a one-to-one comparison, it's just a detail i find cute and shows that this gesture can have multiple interpretations, with none being the only right one]

Leaving that aside, I hesitate to claim Dusknoir trusts his Sableye as allies, as Grovyle makes a point in the main story of how the Sableye (your Sableye, he says, as if objectifying them; not friends, but tools, weapons at Dusknoir's disposal) are lacking compared to the way hero/partner/grovyle support one another (power of friendship and hidden information babyyyy). The Sableye are used to Dusknoir's way of doing things, though, I'm sure. They know what happens when he's displeased, after all.

I think, most of all, the Sableye are meant to look disposable: they are 6 identical pokémon that almost act like a hivemind, and we are not supposed to think at all about how we may hurt them in battle any more than we do with the angry Manectric pack or random dungeon pokémon. This, I believe, is why the game has them stand up against Dialga and gives them unique dialogue at the end of se5. They're meant to show their inner shine, just as Dusknoir managed to do. They suddenly gain an individuality they had never shown while they were working to maintain the dark future.

Where they abandoned Dusknoir in the Old Ruins, now Grovyle has motivated them to look for their dignity and fight for a better world, and that starts with protecting their leader from Primal Dialga's rampage, and supporting his new objective and allies in their quest to save the future. In their own small way, they've also grown as characters throughout SE5.

I believe that, overall, Dusknoir saw the Sableye as tools, but thanks to their growth and clear care for him, there's a possibility he might start to see them (and by extension other pokémon) in a more genuine, less pragmatic / objectifying way in the future. Now that Dusknoir has the chance to live a fulfilling life, he may learn to care for others without surrounding himself by so many walls. If anything, I think their future is quite bright. Not that the Sableye would mind if he still thrashed them around, though lol, they're clearly not bothered much by it (special episode 0 had a great depiction of the sableye imo, you can check that romhack if you haven't yet).

In conclusion, look at these little guys who adore their can-get-mean-but-is-mostly-polite boss and probably have a body count but now are good, they're so cute:

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

Gabriel: Now I’m not an atheist but… pussy doesn’t exist.

I’ve never seen it. Therefore, it doesn’t exist.

Don’t act like you can prove it does.

V1: Shows you a cat named "pussy cat".

Gabriel or maybe the cat: *Meows*

Gabriel: Holy shit.

No way.

Well I stand corrected.

You know... You could correct me more if you showed me a cock. Please?

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[grailknightmonty]

maybe it's all we've got but its all i need, you're all I need.

[dnddykes]

I just wanna say rlly quickly, I’m not complaining! But that wasn’t rlly a match, we had two ads during a 15 minute match, missed most of the actual action, and the cameras barely caught bronson getting punk

[in4newz]

Jasmine Crockett Gets 'Perfectly Honest' With Red States: 'They Are About To Find Out'

The Texas Democrat called out conservatives who "fail to realize" how the Trump administration is dragging them to the "find out phase."

[metalinjector95]

Honestly I wished that Hop Pop’s execution was known in Newtopia and wasn’t just a one time thing. Because before Toad rebellion they were working under Andrias/Newtopia and it would make Sense that they would Approve of Hop Pop’s execution since he technically was an enemy of the crown.

I mean the whole simplification of “the Toads are the bad guys” is overshadowing Newtopia’s role in the toads behavior. Hell they even encouraged it as seen in the end of “Toad to Redemption”.

Which results from the caste system that’s screwed over by Both the Frogs and the Toads,

Like people don’t realize that the Toads weren’t just a random group of criminal bandits, they were also in the caste system working under the Newts

[existennialmemes]

In case anybody's wondering, the federal government forbidding scientists from using specific words in their research is an actual example of a violation of the first amendment.

You'd expect the Freeze Peach™ crowd to be yelling about this, but they're too busy licking boots about it to make any noise.

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And just in case you need a refresher on what "free speech" actually means in the US

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[stardustdiiving]

[5.6 genshin spoilers]

I HAVE some degree of mixed feelings about the quest but ultimately I’m chilling. I am mainly satisfied with the fact it feels the writers cared about the quest and these characters and had fun with it. Thats rlly what I wanted most after feeling their heart just wasn’t into like anything about the Natlan cast much at all.

I have some minor nitpicks with how they seem to be handling Durin but I’m really putting a pin in those for now until we actually get a feel for what the final state of his character is going to be…My main grievance is I’m not a fan of og!Durin being presented as super evil and malicious in this quest when I feel alot of stuff they’ve done about him is centered on implying otherwise. It makes Mini Durin “taking his place” feel kind of…eehhh because I really think “replacing this tragic neglected angry dragon child who was just irreparably evil with a more palatable version of him” really undercuts any thematic message you want to send through Durin’s character :(

Again though I’m withholding a strong opinion on this until I see where they go from here with it…I think my ideal scenario is human Durin has a personality that feels like a merging of Mini Durin and Original Durin, and we get a concrete sense of Original Durin’s character that isn’t some embodiment of undesirable innate evil we need to Get Rid Of and is more “confused monster that didn’t really grasp the damage it was causing due to how it was freaking out” which again I feel is, repeatedly showcased to be who Durin is as a character in both Simulanka and Teyvat! Ideally I think I’d want to see the Original Durin part of Human Durin calming down and finding peace in fully merging into this new identity….

idk! I just want anything that doesn’t have the undertone of “yeah this version of Durin (a character established to be tragic who lived an existence that was entirely confused suffering and alienation that is compared to a child lashing out) was just irreparably evil so we killed it and replaced it with this new better version” 😞 which just feels like a weird sort of retcon if that’s what genshin’s intention was. I don’t feel entirely confident this was the message the quest was trying to send, I could see them writing the “yeah Durin is evil and jealous and wants to kill Albedo” as something you’re not supposed to take at 100% face value and they intend to lean into the “angry/hurt child acting out” aspect of it or have this be a depiction of the fact Durin is often mistaken to be acting out of malice when he’s actually not and it’s just kind of hard for him to exist non destructively in the world .

But hmmm. That was just my reading of the quest, I may have missed something…and either way am waiting for what Human Durin’s characterization’s is like to really gauge my full stance on it!

[thtupidity]

Ariana being homophobic but it's okay because I'd be too if these were the gay people I had to deal with.

my handwriting so ugly yall just have to deal im sorry

[gwemrys]

do you ever think about gwen saying I’ve spent my whole life in camelot it’s all i know i have nothing else

[feroluce]

This was all the way back from the end of 2.3.

Hey Sparkle what the fuck.