#fuck the US and fuck the EU lol
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Sure fucking love how the West is like "bruuhh we keep nicely asking Israel to cease fire but every time they say no, we just can't do anything about it sorry, that's all we got : (" and somehow everyone loses their ability to sanction, use the military or do anything fucking else but act concerned while watching a genocide unfold for the whole world to see
#I'm telling you I won't be surprised if the west will continue to pretend to be concerned#and drag it out for as long as possible#without doing shit#by the time they do anything if they even DO anything at all#yes please sit in the court for 100 more years trying to figure out if Israel is committing crimes or no because it's clearly so ambiguous#fuck you seriously#fuck you and I hope this all returns to you tenfold#I've been mostly keeping my opinions to my own circles#fuck the US and fuck the EU lol#I'm so tired#yes I know the west has always been like this for the most part#it's nothing new and it sucks#text post#palestine
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rightism is on the rise all over the world in times where we desperatly need compassion and acts to save the climate, but i am just a "stupid misanthrope" for hating humanity and having no hope ..........
#we're all fucked and we're gonna torture eo & the planet as much as we can before earth decides to rid herself of the cancer that's humanit#like the EU election... rightists facsists nazis conservatives climate deniers#people choose cruelty and greed and hate#that is why humans will always lose#it's just so sad to see the small handful of humans that deserve better and all the animals and nature pay the price#im not surprised bc i know humans are worthless but it still sucks seeing it#we're killing the planet at a rapid speed and the entire world is falling apart currently#and what do people choose? greed violence and hatred... and denying the environmental chrisis#there is like genuinely no hope for any of us#the end is already here yet humans are still too fucking stupid to do anything real about it#i wish more ppl cared and there were big groups of eco fascists#eco fascism is the only thing that could save earth#democracy doesnt work because people are so fucking stupid it's painful#if they have the freedom to choose they will always choose wrong#being rich and owning thing and eachother wont fkn matter when we all die bc of the climate change lol#but sure whatever.... nobody gives a fuck that much is clear
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presto (toronto/south ontario) // go pass (saskatoon) // opus (montreal/quebec city) // peggo (winnipeg) // arc (edmonton) // compass (vancouver) // metrobus (st john’s)
#presto supremacy tho and im not just saying that cause im from toronto#wanted to include lethbridge breeze cards but couldnt get a png of them. oh well#rip to winnipeg but ur cards suck. what the fuck is that#the metrobus cards r cool they have a couple different photos on them but i just went with that one#apologies if any of these r incorrect i have only been to a handful of these cities#its hard to label presto cards cause metrolinx is sort of. everywhere#i know ottawa has their own cards of oc transpo but they also use the normal cards#also i couldnt get a png of their cards. but i have seen them because half my job is putting money on presto cards lol#trains#anyways heres one for the canadians#we should all do this for our countries. can we get an eu blogger doing this i wanna see
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are you anti ukraine?
im anti war
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“America has effectively built a Green Zone in our cultural consciousness, replete with the obligatory Maccas. Our imaginations, memories, and selves have been well and truly occupied, and the schizoid psychic agony of mainlining our nation’s duel nightmares is, more often than not, excruciating.”
I Should Be Able to Mute America
wake up cunts new nobel prize for journalism just dropped
#haha kill me#like to a certain extent I did do this to myself#but also no it’s everywhere#I heard a radio program a few months ago where a journalist I otherwise respect spent an entire hour#interviewing former danish politician minister of justice and minister of science tech and education Søren Pind#about his personal hero and source of inspiration: Ronald Reagan#hvad fuck er der galt med dig Søren Pind?#a couple of years ago I came across another radio program where they were interviewing various danish public personalities#about dreams they had had about or featuring Important Societal Leaders#and yeah some of them had like EU presidents and the Queen [danish#not British]#but mostly it was like Obama#a few had Hillary Clinton too I think?#and yeah Obama is a charismatic man and a world leader or whatever but we are not American?#but also USAmerican politics do have a huge impact on us#almost every war effort we’ve been involved in has been lead by the American military#on a more personal level my mom did a part of her PhD in the US on a Fulbright scholarship#so she has an American accent and taught me English by showing me her favourite tv shows from her time there#it’s just so inescapable#oh to go back and clarify: war within the last 30 years#not every war ever lol#USAmerican cultural dominance wasn’t as big until after WW2#also they’re a very young country compared to most of Europe#anyway sorry for the long rant please proceed with your day now
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can you believe someone replied to my pmore post like. a quote reblog with a whole ass paragraph in the tags and they used to be a fyeahparamore type page once apparently and now i check my notifs bc i wanted to read her tags again and not only did she delete it she BLOCKED me and then i go on her blog and shes a swift*e like. girl did you not read my fucking post it's literally right there. i said idc for her at all and the post was expressing disappointment in this choice from them and her name was censored.....like, stop the presses: fork found in the kitchen??? girl huh. is reading comprehension not a thing anymore or....
#*al pacino 'what? oh girlie please...'.jpg*#also just realized i lost the old editor....f in the chat#yall are so stupid goodnight xx#(and by yall i mean ppl like this like sorry im angry bc this sucks only being a pmore fan and not kissing her ass like everyone else#wow anna said something#anna's shitposts#lol girl bye#im so done with having to feign being content with things that evidently DO suck ...like this is not a glass half full#this sucks. there's no other option as far as we know its going to be hella overpriced and impossible#swift*es are gonna get mad for not getting tickets bc of eu pmore fans desperate to see them and vice versa#ppl who are fans of both win but this is a massive fuck you to pmore fans and we're told to deal for not#being content with the shitty card we're dealt....like ok. guess ill take my money somewhere else since this is how u think of us
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Elon Musk became a US citizen in 2002. So, yeah, he may have been born in South Africa and still hold citizenship there, he is still American unless he renounces his US citizenship. People can indeed be multiple things, shocking news.
And I've never mentioned the "bobbies". Nor have I said he was going to get arrested. So funny enough, no, yeah, I am still right. Twitter - the company he owns - will absolutely be fined for millions of dollars.
I don't think I've seen anyone talk about this at all on Tumblr, which is very lax of us all, so I suppose I shall do it myself.
Last week Elon Musk broke European law so badly that the lawyers who will finally put the case to rest have yet to be born.
I'm not exaggerating. Here's the thing: America has terrible data privacy laws. A solid technique for an American website owner in times of financial hardship, such as accidentally buying a loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol, is to take all the data harvested from users and to sell it to third parties for lots of money. It is fun and breezy and lets you pay off at least one lawyer for the month. What a lark.
However, the European Union has an even more fun and breezy law called GDPR.
And the thing is, the EU really, really care about GDPR. Like... they really care. This is not one of those grey area laws like jaywalking where it's basically ignored unless you do it in front of a police officer who is having a midlife crisis because his wife left him and the dishes are piling up and he's down to his third day of wearing the same pants and yesterday a man in the pub laughed at him for getting a football term wrong. This is the sort of law that, if you break it, grey men in grey suits with worryingly little humour will get in touch and unroll terrifyingly long scrolls of legal text and then you are in gaol for the rest of your life. This is a big law. The big one. Big boy law. Do not break.
So, if you're going to be a website owner in times of financial hardship who needs some quick money to cover your many billions of dollars of debt who decides to sell the private data you harvested from the user base, the most important thing you absolutely MUST remember is, you can only use the American data, and never the European.
But.
I mean.
Hypothetically.
If someone were to own an American website in times of financial hardship, such as an accidentally bought loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol... but that someone didn't know the difference between American and European law.
Well then. That person would sell the wrong data.
And if that were to happen, on the scale of a global social media platform, with users ranging from the megalomaniacal Uber Rich to literal world governments...
The ensuing court cases would last for decades, as lawyers began the lawsuits at the richest end of the list, and worked their way down.
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Also he posted a Twitter poll today about whether he should stay in charge of Twitter and he lost lol
#if you want to be nitpicky he is also canadian#also quite literally laughing my ass off#'the bobbies'#I'm not fucking british lmfao#anyway#byebye twitter troll and hardcore defenser of elon musk#I'm outta there laughing in gdpr non compliance#edit: they blocked me lol#after having a fit trying to say naturalized citizens aren't citizens#and showing their poor reading comprehension#i have never been trying to dispute that Europe had no jurisdiction in the US#I've merely tried to show (and succeeded) that it was not jurisdiction or lack of jurisdiction that was going to prevent twitter#from getting fined for lack of GDPR compliance#in fact it already happened in December 2020#so if he did sell EU users' data coming from Twitter#Twitter will absolutely get fined#but this time for a lot more money because this infraction is a lot worse than what they did in 2020#which was not respecting people's choice regarding targeted advertisment#those elon musk defenders are really something lol
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Getting him so worked up and turned on that he can no longer form thoughts in English and starts blabbering in Portuguese
I HAD THIS EXACT ASK TOWARDS ANOTHER SMUT BLOG MONTHS AGO AND THEY ACTUALLY WROTE IT😭only if i could find it now (gonna use google translated portuguese cause your girl doesn't know the language lol)
so imagine you've had him tied up to the bed, and you've given him 3 hard orgasms from toys, blow job and tit fucking his cock...you would slowly sink down onto his sensitive cock, moaning his name as your palms are pressed against his chest for leverage. you can feel him slowly harden inside you. he was a garbled mess, not even trying to break free from the hand cuffs. the sight of him with his sweaty body, eyes closed and brows frowned makes you even more wet, causing you to clench around his worn out cock. he blabbers in portuguese, his brain completely fucked out. "mmmfff...essa buceta...eu...foda..." (this pussy...i...fuck...) you tease him, asking if he can't think straight no more. obviously he's not in a state to comprehend your words. you increase your speed, riding him faster as you cry out his name. "Deus, sim, sim, caralho hhnnnnghhhhh!" (God, yes, yes, fuck) you continue to move your hips back forth rapidly, him whimpering
#asks#steph answers#🎀#ruben dias x y/n#ruben dias x reader#ruben dias imagine#ruben dias smut#ruben dias thoughts
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Uh, I got into the Clone Wars last night. I mean, the Clone Wars wasn’t stored safely out of my reach. I chewed it all up and left the little pieces everywhere like a cat with a roll of toilet paper.
Anyway, you know that one episode where Savage Opress visits Planet Dumpster Fire to rescue Maul with help from the talking snake from Disney’s The Jungle Book?? Cool, yeah, that one.
–so could I have a moment to theorize why Dooku thinks Savage being loose in the galaxy is such a big fucking deal in the first place? When Asajj, who hates him a lot more and has tried to assassinate him repeatedly, is like, right over there? When, actually, the galaxy is full of powerful Force users who want to kill him, including some members of his own family?
Could it be that Dooku, in a characteristic spiral of destabilization after losing Asajj as a Padawan substitute right hand man, actually behaved pretty embarrassingly in front of Savage? Does Savage have some pretty bad shit on him?
Embarrassing Bullshit Dooku Probably Said to Savage During Their Infinitesimally Short Apprenticeship:
multiple incriminating monologues about his plans to "secretly" use Savage to finally fuck up Sidious and take over as the King of Bad Ideas instead of the apprentice*
“Here is my annotated childhood diary containing all my most cringe moments, my feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability, some gay subtext, and the origin story of my daddy issues, beginning at age 12…oh, don’t forget the attached media file, so you can see how cute I was as an initiate…!”
(during movie night) “...and the Wicker Man, for me, as an actor, is definitely the best film…in the end horrifying, but not what I would call a horror film. It was about growth, not decay…”
it’s a EU/Legends situation, and Sifo-Dyas’s corpse is actually in a cryopod in the basement. Dooku monologues at it constantly. Sometimes, Savage swears he can hear two people talking down there, and doesn’t know if that’s real or if Dooku is doing the other voice, and is legitimately unsure which alternative is more terrifying. Sure, he grew up with witches and everything, but this is a bridge too far?!!
*lol this one's real
#the clone wars#count dooku#savage opress#star wars shitpost#star wars meta#star wars theories#oh dooku#there's nothing scarier than your homelife#the sound of crying in the bathtub should probably be on this list too#for real though Wicker Man is Christopher Lee's best film and my favorite movie#I don't tell a lot of people that#because of all the sex and screaming about burning Christians it's just a vibe
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the neuroscience of falling in love ★ chapter four
content warnings: crack. bokuto is very embarrassed. mild suggestions of toxic masculinity. kuroo being horny. jokes about death. mentions of incest.
a/n: grinded this out while freaking out about whether or not my daith piercing is rejecting lol
as always ignore timestamps (and the blue border around that one image. my friend was actively texting me while i was trying to make this)
also -- adding the usual golden border between conversation switches to make y'alls life easier
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translations:
meu amor, meu amigo = my love, my friend
eu preciso de um amigo novo por favor = i need a new friend please
eu nao preciso de tsukishima kei = i do not need tsukishima kei
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hinata does not like being reminded of his height even though he's excellent at volleyball regardless
every now and then, kuroo and y/n discuss ending the situationship but it never happens (mainly because kuroo's really good at giving head and y/n doesn't have the time to find another friend w benefits)
kuroo shamelessly asks for tiddy pics at least 1x a day
when y/n came over that night he fawned over her boobs for like 30 minutes until she told him to get on with it
bokuto has been typing and deleting a text message to y/n for at least three hours to ask when they should reschedule and to apologize for his behavior
despite coming off as a himbo, bokuto has pretty high situational awareness; he's capable of deciphering others' moods even when he doesn't know them that well
yachi using tildes almost always guarantees she's drunk and when she's drunk she starts sending the lyrics to the copypasta rap ("rawr x3 nuzzles pounces on you uwu you so warm...")
y/n would go on a date with bokuto if he wasn't part of the study. he's tall, his hair is cool, and he's buff as hell. also, she's weirdly attracted to people who seem dumb
kiyoko became team bokuto when yamaguchi pointed out it's either bokuto or kuroo
yachi no longer tolerates mentions of hinata anymore -- no one knows why (even though their relationship is good...)
kuroo has definitely moaned out "fuck yeah brother" while fucking y/n and she has definitely teased him about being into incest (he hates it but the phrase is an integral part of his vocabulary)
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bonus!
simply because i've had these songs stuck in my head over the last few days and bokuto + shoyo would totally do this, so would yamaguchi and y/n
#bookskeepers writes#the neuroscience of falling in love#neuroscience#sleep study#haikyuu!!#haikyuu#haikyu#hq#hq fanfic#haikyuu!! fanfic#haikyuu!! smau#hq smau#haikyuu smau#haikyu smau#haikyu fanfic#haikyuu fanfic#bokuto kotaro x reader#bokuto koutarou x reader#bokuto koutaro x reader#bokuto kotarou x reader#bokuto kotaro#bokuto koutarou#bokuto koutaro#bokuto kotarou#tetsurou kuroo#kuroo tetsurou#bokuto#kotaro#koutarou#kotarou
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WARNING : OPINIONATED, AGREE TO DISAGREE, some speculative things. Mercedes shooter/snowflakes who hate getting their opinions hurt/who close their eyes blind fuck off
I'm a Mercedes defender but you CANNOT say that at ONE POINT in George's career, they can be manipulative af.
Two things can be TRUE, AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME:
1. Mercedes helps and choose George, George loves and choose Mercedes
2. At some point of his career, there were manipulative acts performed by Mercedes.
Let's talk from the beginning
I don't think i need to tell the story about George's powerpoint presentation saga anymore because all of us know it. But shortly,
His manager got a hold of Toto's email > George sent his CV > Toto saw em and invited George > George came ALONE to Toto's office and there were other higher ups > presentation > Toto mesmerized because of how George is very brave to go inside his office and present his "why you should pick me" CV alone without parents/manager > Toto want him in the junior team but can only offer an ass team > George refused for an English team (Carlin Volkswagen) > Toto say "i told you you're wrong but let's keep on contact"
Then George blew his expectations. Did a pretty good season in F3 EU first year. But he got into a financial problem which he later resorted to testing for BMW in DTM as he looked for plan B. He cooked their. First on the record, allegedly beat Audi and Mercedes too. BMW liked George so much that they threw him a $$$,$$$ contract directly. But the testing saga was leaked by an ex-BMW employee who moved to Mercedes and Mercedes came back to George.
Okay, if you're saying "oh awreeee, but george chose mercedes" oh amandaaa, for the second time, it was mercedes who approached george.
Although George in the end DID choose Mercedes, you can't look at this statement and tell me "oh my word! this is so pressure-less! i bet they're having tea over this talk!" 🥰🥰🥰 "Oh but Ari this is normal-" you're talking to me here as someone who will NEVER be in the position of money-less and your dream in the verge of getting over.
The keyword here is "It was absolutely clear from Mercedes-Benz". You are EIGHTEEN or SEVENTEEN with a career most possibly focused on racing. And a powerhouse company said "there won't be an option with Mercedes Benz in the future (if you pick BMW)". And if you look at it, you don't need to be a Law Student or a Comms Student to know that the deal they're offering to George is so fucking ass. Do ALL the sims for Merc, they test you on and off the track. All that and they say "oh but we won't be so sure tee hee~ we'll get back to you in October 🩵🩵🩵". All that while not letting him keep the BMW contract. George did choose Mercedes, but you can't tell me that there is no pressure (or minor gaslighting) at all from a big company who had ventures in GT/DTM/F1 to a 17/18 y.o who had financial problems and is desperate to continue his career.
Second. During this "test" period for George's second year at F3 EU. They also did not allow him to continue with Carlin despite George wanting to because Carlin is supported by Volkswagen. He had to opt for Hitech, a completely new team (rumored to get that discounted price seat in exchange for driver coaching his teammate Mazepin, whose father sponsors Hitech)
You can have a different opinion about this and you might say "eh but that makes sense, it's job obligation" but for me "why let go of Carlin VW when they don't even guarantee anything about George's seat in the junior team"
Other saga of this "shady ass slightly manipulative shit" Merc did? Whatever that Red Bull saga is
The fact that they said this while also thinking about someone else in that Merc seat in 2022 LOL 💀💀💀 Even when George was almost out of his seat in 2020, they'd rather send George to GT or DTM than let him go to Red Bull or other team. In 2020, he was linked to a Ferrari or McLaren seat. You can say "why would you want him-" and I'll say that you only say this because you're in the future now and you know George is in Mercedes. But if you were BACK THEN and he's on the verge of getting his seat grabbed by someone else and his team snoozed around just because they won't let him go, you'd want to bite their neck off too.
But yeah as I said earlier, this is my opinion and some of the red flags I see. You can't 100% glorify Mercedes for helping George. I'm very thankful they helped George throughout his career. George is in his place now partly because of Mercedes. But let's not act like Merc is a divine angel for helping someone out. They did some red flags too. George chooses them, YES. But let's not act like there is absolutely no pressure at all to a minor at that time.
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I'm not sure if you've been watching The Acolyte, but my critically high levels of sodium over the Ahsoka series have returned with the revelation that Rosario must have fought Lucasfilm over fight/lightsaber training stipulating in her contract.
Manny Jacinto, who came to the role with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do trained for four months for his fight scenes before filming. Rosario repeatedly said in interviews that she trained for two hours a day while filming, and it was clear that she thought this was a lot.
I tried to write it off last year. Budget and time constraints, George Lucas overspent and Disney is doing things differently, the prequel era is dead-
No.
No, this is not the case.
Prequel era love and care in the arena of bringing characters who are expert sword wielders and martial artists to life is alive and well at Lucasfilm.
Daphne Keen fights like Ahsoka plucked from the middle of the Clone Wars and brought to life. Dean Charles Chapman's saberwork is a beautiful hybrid of Obi-wan and Anakin with lightning fast, graceful Soresu and saber spins, lightsabers are deadly once more and used in ways we haven't seen outside of animation and video games, and characters far, far older than 11 ABY Ahsoka have kinetic, energetic choreography because a 42 year old Jedi is nowhere near over the hill, and I'm done with being gaslit about her age.
There are many issues with this show, yes, but there are no cameos (save for one blink and you miss it), no name dropping to make the audience tear up and feel something based on the hard work of previous content. Nuggets are plucked from the EU and made fresh, like the delightful and creative use of cortosis. New force worshipping sects with their own beliefs are brought to life without being the Nightsisters. The galaxy feels large again.
It's everything Ahsoka wasn't and shows just how soulless an effort that show was. Ironically this is the show that's getting raked over the coals while nearly all criticism of Ahsoka was met with dismissal despite the show being desperately mediocre.
If you had asked me to go in without behind the scenes knowledge and tell you if Filoni or Headland was the one new to Star Wars and who was approaching this effort with genuine love of the material and passion for world building and adventure, it wouldn't be the guy who was recently made Creative Director.
I'm sorry for once again paragliding into your inbox (yes, this is the salty anon from last summer lol), especially if you aren't interested in The Acolyte, but it just sheds so much light on everything wrong with Ahsoka and how valid our criticisms were. Salt doesn't have an expiration date, so I hope this is a little bit of vindication!
Hello, hello! Hang up your paraglider, you're always welcome in my ask box.
I have been watching the Acolyte! I'll admit, I saved off answering this until the final ep had come out so that if there were any more cool fight scenes, they were not missed in my response.
Thoughts I had Pre Finale
All in all I agree completely.
While flawed (personally I feel like the acting on Osha and Mea is the weakest part of the show as a whole, as well as the fact that this very much felt like a movie idea stretched into a tv show) the Acolyte has been legions better than the previous slop that Disney Star Wars has put out recently. You know why? Because I had fucking fun watching it. Sure, afterwards I'd usually say something along the lines of 'wow the pacing is a bit weird' but all in all? Actively enjoyable. It never made me angrily close the D+ tab mid episode.
It's also been a facinating litmus test for what people are able to be chill about Star Wars and which ones are not able to handle it. The amount of reviewers and reactors whom I previously had massive respect for who just are acting like utter tools is really getting on my nerves.
Because in sooooo many ways this has been exactly what people have been asking for. A new perspective, with new ideas that isn't just focused on the Skywalker saga. And on top of that, holy fuck the fights are glorious. You are absolutely right, both Dafne Keen's and Tommon's fights prove just how well you can have lightsaber skills look from a single person, as well as the Wookie fight showing off some truly impressive choreo between the three.
And then you have Manny Jacinto...hello ARMS
The man is by far the standout joy of the series (followed closely by Sol) as the man just oozes charisma. His big fight against everyone was brutal and I'm glad to see that lightsabers are once again deadly in the Star Wars universe. Watching him mow through a legion of Jedi was so incredibly satisfying to watch, and again he is just knocking it out of the park with the choreo. LOVE the way that they've introduced cortosis into live action, especially in a fighting style. Headbutting a lightsaber was fucking amazing to witness. Though it's actually not the first time that it's appeared in Canon star wars, as it appears in the second canon Thrawn book, Thrawn : Alliances!
The exploration of the Dark Side is being done in such an interesting way, because none of the practitioners we've seen would self identify as 'dark side users' at all. Because sure, you have Manny Jacinto who is out being evil because the Jedi were going to label him as dark side either way so he might as well defend himself, for him it's just the way he connects with the Force. But you also have the witches, who's mind infiltration is certainly Dark Side, but are just out here living their best witchy lives. They live by their Thread, regardless of what the Jedi would call it.
As always, also the "the jedi need to be the coolest and the morally purest people in the whole wide world" people are having hissy fits, which is just like...no? Stop being allergic to nuance? We've seen time and time again how the Jedi were in fact a child taking cult (yes, yes they are, if you disagree i'd recommend going and rewatching TPM which spells it out pretty clearly) usually we've just been on the Jedi's POV so it seems justified. The Sol flashback episode I think shows off this mentality very well. He had good intentions, sure, but all in all, he wants to take and even Trinity calls him on it. It's a fascinating examination of what decades later would lead Anakin down a path of desperation.
Speaking of Anakin...People getting suuuuuper protective over Anakin's super special status as 'the chosen one' was also rather surreal to witness. Personally, I don't see how this invalidates his 'the chosen one' in the first place? But people were definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to complain about, as opposed to offering actually constructive criticism, of which there are plenty of options.
Thoughts I had Post Finale
All in all, nothing really changed for me, as usual, the pacing was absolutely fucked and the action was absolutely incredible, and in the end, I enjoyed the experience of watching it.
I certainly appreciate seeing more of the Jedi actively covering shit up, both in little ways as well in big ways.
Also *waves* Hi Plagueis!
My main little gripe
I really don't get why they needed to actively tie Mr. Darth Hotpants over here to Venesta specifically? I get the want to connect him to an established character, it just rang a little hollow for me. I think I'd have preferred it if he was just a rando youngling who never even got to being a Padawan cuz the Jedi kept trying to basically de-dark side him ala grade schools punishing for being left handed. Donno, I just think that would have been a bit more compelling.
My main BIG gripe
Why...THE FUCK...did they split up??? They burned waaaay more time having their little heart to heart then had it been all three of them fucking booking it to the ship. I just don't get it. I don't get why Mae or Osha would want to leave each other again, and I don't get why Manny Jacinto would willingly give up an additional fighter. I get the whole "There can only be two" bit, but A) Plagueis is already there on the island, so Osha makes it three and B) Osha's probably going to be more motivated with a little living reminder of the Jedi's lies being right there and present and C) Osha and Mae are both so fucking powerful why would anyone just let one half of the pair walk away????
It just didn't fit with any of the character's previous actions so it annoys me.
Kinda ended as I began, relatively neutral on it all. Think if pressed would give it a 7/10 just because the action was SO FUCKING GOOD, otherwise it would probably be lower due to the rather painful pacing issues and the meh acting on display from Amandla Stenberg which was just such a huge shame cuz I know she's got more range than this.
Mainly, I just really really hope future shows take from this just how good lightsaber combat can be when you have properly trained performers. THIS should be the standards, and it's painful that its not.
As always thank you for dropping into my ask box! You always give me so much to work with it's a joy to respond :D
#the acolyte#the acolyte spoilers#rambles#star wars#prime responds#as always my ask box is open#i really do love talking about this#so if you've got thoughts you want to share or questions for me#i am always more than happy to respond
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Everything Everything, live @ TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, 01/09/24
First time seeing them in over 6 years ! ! ! I don't travel a lot, but it was worth the trip to NL just for the gig alone, not even the 3 hour delay on my return trip could change that (thanks DB).
Random assortment of thoughts (athoughtment):
venue was a bit of an odd choice, it was a nice building and very central, but they had a bunch of other concert halls (mainly for classical/orchestral music I think?), and EE played in a tiny hall on the sixth floor. for some reason, they made us wait downstairs in the foyer where the queue very quickly blockaded anyone from getting through, so they had to shuffle us around a bunch.
also there was a (classical?) music festival happening in town and some events from that overlapped with the show, so there were two Very Distinct crowds in the building and our queue got some Disapproving looks lol.
despite the weirdness of the venue, the hall where they played was great, good acoustics and very intimate. me and a friend were there pretty early and stood second row from the stage, though we drifted a bit over to the left because I chatted briefly with some folks there.
crowd was great too, good vibes, everyone I met was lovely. someone complimented my ATB shirt and a few people got really excited and started pointing at me at the start of Kemosabe :^) also shoutout to the person in front of me who moved the water bottles on stage so I could see the setlist.
there was a girl directly in front of us in the queue and at the stage who was wearing an AMAZING homemade Mountainhead shirt, a button-down with the logo on the front and "I left my work in the pit to come here" on the back, which (I think) she embroidered herself. really need to step up my game the next time I see them lol.
the show itself was stunning, though sadly Pete wasn't there :( I was hyping him up to my friend (who hadn't seen them live before) because he's usually the only one who matches Jon's energy/stage presence. we were directly in front of Alex and he might as well be wearing an "I'd rather be programming synths right now"-shirt lol.
the setlist was really solid, though leaning very heavily into singles (I think only Metroland and NotLK were album-only, and I was blown away by both), and not playing too many newer songs. I can understand why they do it (people at the front were very into it the entire time, but most of the crowd obviously got much more involved near the end when they played Cough Cough/Distant Past), but it's a bit of a shame anyway.
also 90 minutes every 6 years is not enough I feel like a kid whose parents (british bands and european tours) got divorced, badly. have they considered that they could just play for 3 hours? maybe?? as a treat???
I feel like someone on setlist dot fm is making fun of me specifically, bc they added Violent Sun to the setlist which. it was definitely not on. like I saw the setlist on stage at the start and also if they had played it, I would not be alive any longer (as per my previous correspondance).
I don't really understand Mad Stone as the opener (they could swap Mad Stone and Wild Guess around and it would work much better imo), but I was glad for all of the Mountainhead we got.
Jon very clearly sang Arch-Jeremy for one entire chorus and I tragically didn't record it (only have a couple of videos which I'll post later). but it's real and it happened and it's real also.
burned guitar my beloved but also beloathed. I think Jon's on-stage performance is much more engaging when he doesn't have to play guitar and can move around more freely. but also the burnt guitar is really cool.
Enter the Mirror live fucks so severely. that is all.
the show was completely sold out (I think the venue holds ~600 people) and merch was also pretty much gone by the time I left (I got litchrally the last shirt and they only had a few tote bags left I think), so I hope it made enough money for them to consider an EU tour soon. EE at the Gloria in Cologne is my dream gig, so I'm manifesting that for next year. . .
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MP100 manga liveblog: V. 01
Hello! As some of you may have seen before, I'm on a mission to read all of my MP100 mangas before the ones I've bought arrive — which are volumes 13, 14 and the REIGEN spin-off. During this process, I'll leave here my reactions and opinions to each individual manga. Let's start, then!
Volume 1 most be the one I have read the most, because I keep saying I'm going to read the whole manga and forget to proceed with it. There is not much I can add except for my usual notes.
Everybody is so blunt its hilarious. It's not even only characters of whom this behavior is more expected, such as Reigen: Mob keeps saying things to people's faces.
Reigen is such a huge conman. The manga makes it even more obvious, which scenes such as him keeping guessing what was the "problem" with the client who visited adult sites.
Reigen you were rude as hell on the start I'm sorry.
Tsubomi is much more of a mysterious, unapproachable perfect girl than her anime version, which paints her as more friendly and extroverted individual.
Mob knowing that Reigen is a fraud, even if indirectly, is more clear. He questions Reigen's motives with calling and keeping him on Spirits and Such several times.
Other thing which was made more clear to me is in which sense Mob made a promise to the Telepathy Club. He not only appeared to be convinced to join, but also was about to take the papers to the Student Council. Of course his posterior choice to join the Body Improvement Club made Tome get pissed off...
I love getting to see the other clubs on the Student Council's blacklist. What do you mean Leg Shaving Club. "Flirting with the Chicks" Club? Cussing Club?? Tsubomi Fanclub??? How did they allow these to get created on the first place???????
The comedic timing is impeccable. "How did you guess it?" when the LOL Cult member made her 46477277th guess of what made Mob upset. And she was just. : \
The art is so expressive. This is a huge advantage to me.
Mob your repression is very much interesting to me. The flashbacks don't make time periods clear but he didn't seem to react in a socially acceptable way even before he started repressing his emotions.
The fact that Mob only showed his powers in public during his first school years, yet most people don't react to them as if they were a worldbreaking thing, REALLY caught my attention. This is just my worldbuilding fanatic mind in alert.
Mezato have I ever mentioned that I'm fascinated by you.
The hypnosis forcing the LOL Cult members to laugh in any occasion and making them lose the milk challenge is way more explicit.
Hey what do you mean Dimple's hypnosis with the LOL Cult is low quality.
I'm actually making lots of notes about the info the manga gives about how spirits and ESP work! But this is a separate project.
The omakes are very fun to read! I believe they'll fulfill my need for extra characterization by this time.
THIS PANEL IS SO FUCKING GOOD I'M DYING:
THIS IS THE PEAK OF COMEDY MAYBE.
Unrelated translation notes (this is the Portuguese edition):
The translation felt a bit awkward at times. There are occasions in which I'm confused about if the strange word choices were intentional or a false cognate from an English version.
For example, on Dimple's internal dialogue about how Mob was ruining the ambient he had built for LOL, he says the phrase "Para se tornar deus... é necessário eliminar todos os que disturbem a ordem que eu criei." ("In order to become [a] god... it's necessary to eliminate all those who disturb the order that I created".
The verb "disturbar" is not incorrect, but it's not common either. Most people would prefer to use "perturbar" or even "transtornar" in this context. Even verbs with a different and more colloquial meaning like "romper", "interromper" or "bagunçar" could be used to make a slightly different phrase yet transmit the same message! Because Dimple doesn't talk in a particularly formal or overdramatic form in other dialogues, this choice struck me as weird, and may look like a direct translation from the English "to disturb". But well, it's being used in a correct form so...
(I'm not neglecting the fact Dimple is refered as Hanako on his true form reveal though)
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My mom keeps telling me ive got big boobs and i just thought it was her way of like... Complementing me? Except i dont want boobs lol.
Anyway I've only ever had one "real" bra in my life, i got it as a teen and it is 75C (eu). I just measured and used one of those online calculators and it told me my current size is 70H! 70H! H! What the fuck! I cannot have fucking H size titties what is this shit!
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nora i CANNOT afford (timewise) another mmo but you're making gw sound really fun. is the new player experience good? how is it playing multiple characters? I'm on NA so i'd probably make an EU char and an NA char also eventually
the new player experience is excellent! gw2's horizontal progression makes it so even low level areas are somewhat populated still which i much prefer to mmos where half the maps are dead as fuck cause everyone's just in endgame zones. like i said before the main issue with starting out in the game is just it might be a little confusing cause they don't really explain much and there's a million options of things to do, but if you just do whatever seems fun and don't worry about the rest it's a good time lmao. as for multiple characters gw2 is probably the most alt friendly mmo out there but your server is per account not per character so to play in different regions you'd need two accounts (which i've got tbf though my na one is mostly used for login rewards thus far lol) or there's always the option to change regions with gems which like kinda sucks i feel like you should be able to do it for free but whatever
i do recommend playing multiple characters anyway though just cause it's fun, they really make it sooo easy compared to some games bc most progression (except like levels and gear) is account wide. like mounts are account wide, money, achievements, cosmetic unlocks, mastery levels (what you use your exp on after hitting lvl 80) etc etc are all shared between characters. i say all this knowing full well i spend 97% of my time on my main but yknow,,,,
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