#granted there are things that still suck

[huachengapologist]

Hey, friends. I know things have been looking dire ever since the election. It's so easy to give in to the negativity, to let the gloom and fear take control. But. BUT!

- There are more black judges on the federal bench than there have ever been, and the majority of them are women. - There are now 12 openly LGBTQ+ judges on the panel - 4 Muslim judges have been appointed, when there hasn't even been a single Muslim judge previously. - The Right is warring with each other as Trump's racist anti-immigrant MAGAs clash with Elon and his

techbros after Elon straight up admitted that he's specifically hiring immigrants because he doesn't consider Americans to be smart enough for the tech industry (that's his story at least... but I'd also argue that the fact that immigrants have less worker protections played no small part in this decision, which is Not Good, so the MAGA backlash might actually be BETTER for Elon Apartheid Musk's intended immigrant employees? Who will almost certainly have some of the worst possible working conditions.) - More and more Republicans in positions of power are standing up against Trump and Elon and refusing to kowtow. - Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh's attempts to use the CEO killing to further villainize the left backfired spectacularly, causing many of -- if not most of -- their fans to turn on them after their tone-deaf videos caused said fans to finally realize that Shapiro and Walsh's entire business models depended on the working class hating each other instead of the 1%.

I know there's more, but I'm running out of spoons. I just wanted to share a few of the things that have caused me, personally, to gain back at least a liiiiiiiiiittle bit of hope that things might not be as bad as they seem. So yeah. We take our wins when we can, right?

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

a smile would be nice

[moongothic]

Okay but has anybody made a CrocHawk Beauty and the Beast AU

[quetzalpapalotl]

I mean it when I say that transition would fix Impactor, I mean it.

[sparky-is-spiders]

Tbh the thing is I really do love 99% of Jonships it’s just that

I hate j.mart and

95% of things made for non-JE jonships are made by Eliashaters which almost always leads to a flattening of his character (and. Generally doesn’t bode super well for the other characters either…)

And so basically the only habitable corner of the fandom is JE. JE also has it’s share of Eliashaters but most of them are kind enough to announce it immediately so I can avoid them. It also has a good share of Martinenjoyers but to a lesser extent so it’s at least bearable (and also I feel like most Martinhaters drift towards JE lmao).

[deus-ex-mona]

being a hiyoshipper is great bc even if you don’t like nghy,

you still have options, like~~~

[thesmokinpossum]

Not direct deposit messing up while I'm out of town for the next week, trapping my replacement paycheck almost 3 hours away from where I am🙃🙃🙃

[fumitori-forced-me]

I finally drew our favorite emperor, FUMIKADO!!

[tchotchkez]

😮‍💨

[sorry for the hardcore tag rants, y'all]

[recreationaldivorce]

tbh video games are a weird exception for me where i can't stand other forms of media having reactionary politics, like i can't look past it to try enjoy it despite the politics, it just ruins the experience for me, but for video games idgaf lol as long as the gameplay is fun i'm good. i mean i did write like 10k words criticising the reactionary politics of life is strange but that's different cause lis is a telltale game and basically just an interactive movie like there's not much gameplay to compensate for the writing and the politics of the writers. normal games are mostly gameplay and you can kinda ignore the writing if you don't like it. not that gameplay is apolitical, obviously the way the gameplay is designed is political too, but ig it's easier for me to ignore it if i can be distracted by the fun-ness of the gameplay? idk. but generally i'll play games with whatever strategy is most successful for the objectives of the game, like if the goal of the game is to make the most profit possible i'll play as a capitalist, if the goal of the game is to conquer all the land i'll play as a coloniser, if the goal of the game is to overthrow the bourgeoisie i'll play as a communist lol. anyway my main source of income in my rimworld games is harvesting and selling prisoners' organs

[thiefnessman]

“ooooh late-diagnosed people have it so hard it’s so much better for people who were diagnosed in their childhood” stop it! they’re just giving you excuses! i was diagnosed with autism at a young age and my college refused to accept my paperwork because it was “too old”, meanwhile a bunch of my peers are given shit when seeking accommodations and whatnot because “ooh you were diagnosed too late”. no one has it better they’re just telling you bullshit.

[12freddofrogs]

Very weird to be in that stage where a show is grabbing hold of your brain, but you haven't finished the show so you cant interact with fandom because spoilers, and you're watching it with someone else so you can't even just keep watching until you finish

[thenighttrain]

?!?!?!

[brekkie-e]

Almost a year since I read the Masked Empire for the first time and still feral over this.

DO NOT LET THE GAME FOOL YOU. CELENE IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN KINDER TO ELVES. THERE IS NOTHING GIRL BOSSY ABOUT REUNITING THOSE LESBIANS. LET THAT BLONDE DIE. LET HER DIE SO FAST.

[whimsicmimic]

once again sitting with my head in my hands thinking about web weaving with de quotes + trigun. an act of complete self indulgence but i am so deeply unwell about these two things

[diluc33rpm]

astarion is so fucking funny as a character because conceptually he hits all the marks of a wet cat blorbo but in practice he's unbelievably hard to stand. i'll be on the bg3 companion guide and have to start CRYING from trying to find the shit under his section that gains approval. loses -15 points for gently suggesting we not massacre an orphanage in cold blood with the d&d equivalent of a nuclear warhead