#grub supremacy

[faery-berry-blast]

I had a dream i was telling my middle school/high school crush about the difference between maggots and grubs

at one point I got a fact wrong, i said maggots are beetle larva, then i realized i was wrong, i was like “ugh im sorry im so stupid—maggots are fly larva, and grubs are beetle larva”

and then i kept on going, telling him maggot & grub facts until i woke up

[rametarin]

"Social Justice" advocate: "So you see, this is why the Nazis were bad. They picked out a people for their ethnicity and religion and systematically killed them. Because they weren't white or Christian, they killed them. Because they weren't cishetero, they killed them."

Me: "Ah, I see. So, naturally, discrimination against any people on the basis of their ethnicity is wrong, and you shouldn't discriminate against their sexuality or gender identity or sex, either. Genocide is wrong when the rulership of a society determines that a group of people have no legitimacy or right to exist and moves to propagandize the humanity and validity out of them, and either keeps them as second class citizens, or exterminates them. We need to keep these lessons of history close to our chests and remember not to embrace ideologies that permit them. The Nazis spread propaganda about how the Jews were an evil parasite running around taking over business and government to breed them out and creep a defacto ethnostate in to replace them. Such things are terrible and are to be avoided."

"Social Justice" advocate: "Oh, no. You totally should do those things."

Me: "wat."

"Social Justice" advocate: "The lesson here is that white supremacy is bad, and WW2 was the fault of capitalism. Also that heterosexuality is a harmful myth perpetuated by the Patriarchy, biological sex doesn't mean anything and you're part of the problem if you think it does, even applied only to your self-selected identity, and the Future is Female."

Me: "I feel like maybe it wasn't me that missed the point of why Nazi Germany was bad."

"Social Justice" advocate: "Those money grubbing people whose culture revolves around exploiting the Outsider to their own ethnic makeup, parasiting off of more worthy cultures and people indigenous to their own homelands. They migrate there in waves and corrupt the wholesome people with their decadent ways and culture, taking over places to make themselves the privileged elites ruling over the common folk."

Me: "Hm. I've seen this before, somewhere."

[batboyblog]

Hi I am Jordanian and wanted to say thanks for sharing news of backlash the Jewish community has faced for the actions of Israeli government/IDF. It is not fair that you guys are getting that punishment especially when it was never a Muslim vs Jew issue, rather a conflict of supremacy and control and money. I don’t know if you support the Palestinian cause but I will try to support my Jewish brethren when they are in need. TY

First I'd like to say, antisemitism existed long before Israel.

The events of October the 7th has gotten me thinking about the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, if you're not Jewish it's likely you've never heard of it. Pogrom is a Russian word, for mob violence against Jews, they did it so much in Russia they needed to come up with a special word for it, before the Nazis, Russians were the nightmare of the Jews, and those 19th century Jews could not have imagined worse was waiting for them from the West. Any ways today Kishinev is called Chișinău, its the capital of the tiny country of Moldova, but in 1903 it was the edge of the Russian Empire. Starting on Easter Sunday and lasting for 3 days while Russian police and soldiers looked on mobs hunted the local Jews like animals, beat and killed any man they found, raped as many women as they could.

I've been thinking about Kishinev, because it represents a break, you want to know when Zionism got really serious? it was with the blood in the streets of Kishinev, the idea that life in Russia was no longer viable for the Jews that lived there and they had to leave and go any where, its also the point American Jewry really got organized.

I'm also reminded of the Farhud, in Iraq in 1941, before Israel about 1/3rd of the population of Baghdad was Jewish. In June 1941 a violent riot against the Jews broke out. We'll never know how many people died, maybe more than a 1,000. The violence was unspeakable, and like Kishinev for the Jews of the Middle East it was the break point, they could no long safely live in the countries they had lived in for over 2,000 years.

any ways, my point is I think antisemitism is maybe the world's oldest hate and people are using Israel as an excuse to unleash it, they've used other excuses in the past, may use other excuses in the future.

I would agree it's not a Muslim Vs Jewish thing, much of the violence and threats are happening in non-Muslim countries and coming from non-Muslims indeed atheists. Hate of the Jews is not religious (well sometimes it is, I got called a Christ Killer just yesterday) but an ethnic hate.

"a conflict of supremacy and control and money" ah yes, Jews, Money etc I don't think I need to explain this to most people. Just leave it to say your "support" is kind if misguided, if you believe any group of Jews are money grubbing trying to control the world or have ever said the phrase "Jewish supremacy" well all thats pretty antisemitic

As for the Palestinians, I wish them what I've always wished them, good health, for the Palestinians of Israel I want greater integration and their fair share of the resources of their country, for the Palestinians of Gaza I want them free of a terrorist organization that robs them, beats them, suppresses them, and for the West Bank and Gaza a state of their very own.

[fandomsandfairytales]

Live reactions to Quigley Down Under

Basically a form of liveblogging. I wrote all this down while I was watching the movie.

Putting a "keep reading" cut here because ~spoilers~

The bullet points are split up by lines every now and then, usually based on scene. I'm leaving my phone typos in there for amusement purposes and adding in occasional brackets for clarification.

[Opening scene in the boat] Oooooo he's got manners

AND SASS!

[thought this but didn't write it down at the time] Very good introduction to his character, effectively shows us what his character is like with one interaction right off the bat

Very Max Way like, helping Cora

Also yuck to those guys

Lol to him insulting and then totally doing away with those guys [my autocorrected it to "bugs" and it's not wrong]

My name isn't Roy - gives off "don't call me Shirley" vibes a bit

This man is so sick and tired of everything in this country not even 10 minutes in

They got a body!

LOL at "we sent them back to England"

Trying to grasp the plot here

The look in his eyes is saying "What if I'm actually Roy?" at about 13 min

Severus Snape voice!! [Alan Rickman came onscreen and said "Matthew Quigley"]

Fancy specs there [about the gun]

Cora admitting she doesn’t know him!

Here we gooooooo

Got earplugs sir?

Oooooo he’s got SKILLS [shooting the bucket from far away]

Knew he would, of course, lol

That deserter guy's got VERY blue eyes

Dunno if Alan Ricjmsn [Rickman] is reminding me of someone else or just himself

Well that was a fast execution

Aha, I think it’s Ben Barnes as the Darkling, a bit [the person Alan Rickman was reminding me of, because of the facial expressions]

“yOu WeRe AcTuAllY IN dOdGe CiTy???”

This guy [Quigley] is such an American

Jack Pearson vibes hair & facial hair

Why are u so proud of your mint jelly sir

Aha more plot

OoooOOOOO

“Your American Indian” I’m going to skin u alive

What is that box for? Oh, cigars

This Marston guy is so rude

Ugh white supremacy

He’s making me bristle every other word

I’m wondering if Quigley is gonna become an outlaw

The tears in his eyes!!!!

LOL GET THROWN OUT

The outlaw part might be happening faster than I thought XD

GET WRECKED

Lolllll at the turnabout

Also the guys being afraid bc of the long shot rifle XD

YRAHHH PUT UR FEET UP ON THE TABLE

Lol they’re trying to ambush him

Of course it was the slave who got him bc nobody listens or expects them

Cora is so brave!

I KNEW THEY WERE GONNA THROW TJEM TOFETJER

enemies to lovers via being dumped in the desert, let’s go

Stunning landscape

Oh no, he doesn’t have his gun. Sad

Those rickety wagon wheels!

LOL the whisper

Oooooo he’s gonna knife em

Oh he put down the gun. Big mistake

Cool theme!!! The music!

YES HE CAN SHOOT FROM THERE

YOU CAN DI IT MISRER WYIGKEY

he’s giving beat up Walt Longmire

“On a new job it’s quite common for things not to go well at first” 😂 love how they both laugh

Also she’s lowkey giving Mallory from Studio C character vibes

The way she just leaves the hoop there on the ground

Also serious Thorne and Cress vibes

Had that the moment they said “dump them in the desert” They’re really dying ooof

You’re not just going to LEAVE HER THERE ARE U Of course not. Bc you’re a man with morals

Ouch that sunburn doesn’t look fun

This is also giving Walt Longmire dragging Henry through the desert

The moon!!!

They so want us to think it’s Quigley and Cora [the two people the British guys brought in]

Nope, lol

Aha!!! The guys he killed

Lol GET WRECKED

Aboriginal people!

That shot of the silhouettes against the sun is beautiful

Interesting

More Max Way chivalry vibes! “You okay?”

“The shady side of dead” is a cool phrase

Lolll to the kangaroo bit

Oh, grubs

Her accent is making me think of Ed in the movie where they take the babies [Raising Arizona]

“I don’t eat things that are still moving” then kill it first

Cool montage!

Cora backstory??!

The slow zoom in on her is so nice

Wait. Did she actually kill her baby? The poor woman

Dang

SGE WAS TRYINH TO SAVE HER AND THE BABY!!?!!!!!!!

“I know, cause I watched him leave” ughhhh (around 50 mins in)

This poor man just got trauma dumped on

Oh they’re gone!

Is he playing along with her?!

Oh NOOOOO

The way she’s running even if she can’t do anything. She cares so fiercely

Those guys deserve to die

GET RHEM GET THEMMMMM

Lolll yeah she’s not making this any easier for him

Yay he did good!!!!

This man is like Walt Longmire and Jack Pearson combined

“Are you trying to get your head blown off?” Lowkey Riser and Billie vibes to me

Oh 😭

“I could’ve used some help up there” wdym? she didn’t have a weapon

Awww the hand over her hands

Her smile looks like the aww yeah lady

Literally burst out laughing at “I’m cold.” I see EXACTLY what you’re trying to do there sweetheart

LOL to the flirtation

Oh she’s taking her corset off

He’s sweet

LOL

“Matthew”

“I’m not sharing my bed til I know who’s in it” completely and legitimately fair and you should be that way

This is a man hard pressed to deal with her

So very American Cowboy looking at 57 min

Interestinggggg about her not remembering the night before

I feel like O’Flynn’s going to become more important or something

“Not again!!!” Spider-Man school teacher vibes

And something else too I think ^

“Matthew Quigley is really starting to annoy me.” GOOD

The whole “are we lost” exchange was interesting and amusing, you can see him starting to get it

NOOOO

IM GOING TO KILL THEM TOO Idc that it’s a movie

GOOD THOSE MEN SHOULD FALL

I love Cora so much. Her compassion is beautiful

He feels it too even though he doesn’t say anything

I hope she gets to kill someone too

Lol his sass

“Or I’ll let you live” what a threat

“It’s only 20 miles past the bingabong!”

“You only got one shot left in that shooter. Make the most of it” WOW

Don’t worry Cora I’m sure he’s fine

My heart is going to break

This baby

Him on top of those rocks is a cool sight

This is really turning into that movie with Ed and Hi, isn’t it, lol

I like the lighting in that cave

Hmmmmm Idk if it’s a good idea to leave her alone

I’m scared she’s gonna get kidnapped

“You’re the only man on this continent that would ask me what I think” oh man

Awww “little bit”

The deadpan stare at her asking to find her some other clothes

Very American Cowboy of him galloping off. This is the first time he’s actually been alone since getting here

YEAHHHH RIDE HARD

TJE EPIC MUSIC

Yah! Yah! Get your woman and the baby sustenance!!!

Missed where the long coat came from

Definitely a Longmire shot of him on his horse

Cowboy town here

Doc Brown lookin guy

“She ain’t my woman” yeah yeah they all say that

I’ve been called a lot of things ma’am but never that - Riser way vibes

NO NOT THE KID

Oh NOOOO

Not dingoes

Look at those tails those are good dog actors

NO DONT SMOTHER HIM

KILL THE DINGOES

You have the chance to change history

GOOD LADY

GET THE DOGGIES

Dang I didn’t know dingoes were cannibals

Lollll yes take the gold

Mhmmmm u gotta get back

GUN FIGHT GUJ GOHNY [I don't even know what I was trying to type there)

EPIC MUSIC

He has a habit of throwing ppl through windows doesn’t he, including himself?

FIREEE

Hopefully nobody’s in there

Put your bandada over your mouth!!! Good

Seriously more Jack Pearson vibes with a house on fire

LOLLLL to him jumping syreakght thru the roof

You’re just giving him holes to shoot throuh

Oh nvm he’s out

NOOOOO NOT THE MOM

Whoa okayyyy we are knocking the horse over

YEAHHHH “go tell Marston I’m coming after him” definitely reminds me of something but can’t remember what. Maybe Once Upon a Time “tell the evil Queen we’re coming" or something

“Oh, shut up”

None of these guys want to go, do they? Lol

I hope that black guy does something

Bandana over mouth like Riser on his bike

I knew she was still alive

Awww. She’s back in her old mind. “I killed the Comanches”

And the way he understands and goes “didn’t get any sage hens, but I got the next best thing”

Oh, he GOT HER A DRESS

I like how we see them coming over the same hill he came over

Now giving Court Jesysr [Court Jester which is another movie] vibes with him with the baby

Oh her earrings are pretty too

Uhhh should I be scared that she won’t give the baby back? Oh nvm

Love the fade to white transition

He looks like a general sitting there

Ohhhh is it only one bed type scenario??? I see I see

Oh he’s going off without her!

LOLLL she’s awake

The scene with them!!! Emotions!

That theme again

OH. The way he looks back at her. Tears in my eyes

Nice transition into the house

This fluffy haired guy reminds me of someone

The zoom in!

Oh fluffy haired guy is a Scotsman!! Or something, judging by his glengarry. Not his accent tho

Now I’m wondering. Do horses usually run into their home barn/area and rear when they’ve lost a rider who’s dead?

Lol, they’re all going to be tired, but I bet Quigley got sleep

Alan Rickman is giving me Nic Cage as Hi vibes [once again, character from Raising Arizona]

Is that O’Flynn riding?

Horse chase!!!

Oh goodness. Those poor horses.

“On ya feet ya lazy mongrels!” [Adrian Von Ziegler reference]

“Move you gutless bloody wonder” lollll

Got all the grass on him naturally, you wouldn’t see that nowadays, it’d be all brushed off by hair and makeup

Oh NO

noooooooo

Oh gosh he’s being dragged through the desert?!

Not fun not fun

Knew O’Flynn would come up again

I want that slave guy to kill Marston so bad

“What? Nothing clever to say?” Severus Snape vibes

The way if he stood up straight he’d be taller than the other two—

Oh fluffy haired guy IS wearing a kilt isn’t he?! Wait nvm he’s not, thought so bc of his coat

Okay his name is Dobkin, that’s who he is

“Some men are born in the wrong century. I think I was born on the wrong continent.”

What are you WAITING for???

This ain’t Dodge City - that again?

HAAAAAAAAA

I had honestly really wanted the slave to kill him so that he would be the one actually driving the action here lol

Marston dying in the sand is giving Dr. Brenner from Stranger Things dying

“Never said I didn’t know how to use it” mwahaha

The slave guy is back tho!

Yeah he got his gun!

Wait was HE the one who fired at the other two?

Yes!!! The aboriginal ladies!!! And the man! BE FREEEEEEEE

Oh that makes me so happy

Love the dunking the face in the barrel

Lollll here come the British

Oh he is NOT in the mood is he

Snorted at the guy interrupting the other one reading off that long paper

“In short, this paperwork says we can hang you.”

Oh?? Hmm????

YESSSSSSSS Im not surprised!!!

The aborigine people!!

….he’s giving the ”you were saying?” look

Yay! The aborigine man who was a slave seems to have been the one to bring them back!

And now he’s all alone here on this big ol ranch

Ohh goodness

Oh SHE LOOKS SO PRETTY

SHE’S SO PRETTY IN RED

Ohhhhhh he’s gonna say “Roy” isn’t he

I yelled YEAHHHH

Cobb? I didn’t realize that was her last name

Two, of course, he’s staring into her eyes [not sure what I meant by "two"—I think that was an autocorrect of something else]

She was so right about her being pretty in red

Ooooioooo she called him by his name!

She mussed up his hair!!!

Love the traditional still on the kiss and fade to black, very nice

Catch me clapping like it's a movie theater, lol

Thank! You! SO MUCH for telling us no animals were harmed or killed in the making of this movie. That matters to me

Those are some cool names for the aboriginal group

I’ve come to be fond of the theme track :)

A very good movie and a good way to spend Saturday evening.

1990, okay! Would've thought it was a bit older.

And no ads the entire time, huh. [I figured out after this that it's because I was watching it on the TV at my friend's place, who I'm housesitting for currently, and she told me she has YouTube without ads. I'm SO glad I chose to watch the movie while I'm here XD]

@thegreenleavesofspring bc I know you want to see this :)

[steel-and-fire]

Session Summary: Hags and Hoards

Doodles by our Tiefling bard player, Lynxpitaya, as always~

So, last time the party was on their way to Kolas, the vampire infested village where the various clans battle for supremacy, intending to find the sector of the cult we are after and take it down...

On their way, they met this giant lady, Ruby, who is a half Goliath, and had her leg hurts... agreeing to give her a lift to her home. After a little time of discussion, with Ferenir mostly listening and observing as he drives the wagon, they reach her home...which is an old tower. Ferenir finds it a little curious, but she comments how it belonged to her father, an artificer.

After that, everyone gets to helping her prepare the meal she promised for them. Horny, the tiefling bard, helps butcher the deer meat, Ferenir goes to gather potatoes from outside, and Aramil, the elf rogue, is to bring tea to another one of her guests. A young man that escaped from Kolas, and she has been taking care of him after she found him in bad condition.

But, that's when things start to get weird. First of all, Aramil notices the young man is in a very weird condition, fully healthy physically but mentally confused, and the tea also does not smell right (nat fucking 20 baby). So, in typical Aramil fashion...with barely any explanation, he grabs the guy and they jump off the window from the second floor, landing kinda badly next to Ferenir, who had been beating grub with his hammer and gathering potatoes. Meanwhile, Horny notices some weird expressions from the Goliath, and when she hears the sound of the window breaking upstairs, she drops her mask entirely. She locks the door, and reveals her true self...

A terrible, giant, horned, blue Hag. She grabs Horny easily, who panics and asks for help from his new Archfey Patron, cashing in the free favor he got from her the other day. She helps him, giving him empowered spells, and he uses Hideous laughter to get the Hag on the floor laughing, while also setting her on fire with a Hellish Rebuke.

Ferenir hears that, still extremely taken aback and confused over what's happening, but rushes inside, breaking the door, to see the spectacle of the monstrous hag in the ground, on fire, and laughing. There isn't much time to explain, and he makes the split second decision to just trust his friends, rushing to the Hag and beating her down with his hammer while she's still down.

Which.....worked extremely well, activating his Hammer twice, one with a normal hit and the second with a crit, to do massive damage and destroy her lower body. Aramil then came in as well, and even though the Hag tried to persuade him to spare her, he finished her off with a dagger to the head, dropping her dead.

Theeeen, Horny and Aramil get outside to heal the young man's broken leg from the fall, while Ferenir is still in the kitchen...confused as fuck over what just happened.

Oh well, he goes to loot. He finds a mirror that shows a....creepy rude and stupid clown standing behind you, entirely harmless but fun for pranks (he started with Aramil...hehehe...), a weird blood rob that they can't activate cause none of them has occult knowledge, and....a talking skull! Bill! He was one of her victims, that she enchanted to keep as entertainment. Ferenir takes a liking to him, and as per usual, takes all the silly trinkets alongside him, like the goddamn hoarder he is.

The other guys also decide to take the kid with them, since he barely has any of his memories of himself, whether it was by the enchanted tea or otherwise, and drop him off to a village. There is some roleplay as everyone interacts with each other, especially the new guys, Bill, the talking skull and...Chestnuts, the angsty teenager, as they decide to name him. Aramil has his work cut out for him, kek. But Horny helps with some spells, totally ethically!

They take a stop to rest as night falls, Horny had the first shift as they were approached by a beautiful but unsettling woman with face paint, that offered fresh hunt in exchange for sharing their campfire. Already kind of suspicious from the Ruby incident, Horny and Aramil decide to turn her away. During Ferenir's shift, he chats with Bill, and makes him a nose that can move with his jaw, so he can point at things without aid(?), while discussing about getting him a hat or a wig.

Fen got plans for him.

[nomsfaultau]

I had been bestowed with a mission to discover the true identity of the conceptual who created Red.

So.

Info that I have about them:

- they are a conceptual

- they're represented by a matchstick

- both Red and the Blood God comes from them

- they gave Tommy Red on purpose

- Void hasn't interacted with them (much) and is only vaguely aware of their existence

- they are not Fault!Philza

Now for the questions

1. What are their pronouns? This one is for convenience.

2. I have a theory that each conceptual has a literal concepts they embody and a metaphorical one. (ex. Fire and fury, blood and violence.) Is that true?

3. Is the Blood God aware of why he and the Red are tied together?

4. Is one of the concepts that this conceptual embodies fire?

5. By the fact that the Blood God "comes from them", do you mean that this conceptual created the Blood God or something else?

For reference since this guy has only been revealed in one (1) picture ever in a discord. Very prototype design too. Anyways…

THE BIGGEST FAULT SPOILERS EVER

like seriously this is the bottom of the Fault iceberg, the very foundation of the story that none of the characters have even begin to question

1.Pronouns. Slightly tricky since The Blood God at least tends to borrow his vessel’s pronouns, but [ ] doesn’t have a very close relationship to Tommy. I’ve been mostly using it/its.

2. I’ll compile a list of conceptual titles, at least the ones I remember. This will not include [ ]. Yet unpublished titles subject to change. Fire and Fury (Philza). Slaughter and Supremacy (The Blood God). Gluttony and Grub. Plasma and Parasites (Greg). Fear and Frost. Home and Hoard (Organ House my beloathed). Fathoms and Fester. Reticence and Ravens. Hunt and Hellfire. Monikers and Mirrors. Strings and Schism.

They do definitely tend towards a combination of physical and intangible concepts. There are a few exceptions though, so it’s more unconscious bias in my design.

3. The Blood God is very aware of [ ] and knows why Tommy/it can summon him. He considers it the natural flow of time.

4. Fire is not one of the concepts. The symbolism lies in other facets of a matches’ symbolism. The closest connection is in the word ‘spark’

5. This one is tricky. It ‘created’ The Blood God in the sense that he is the inevitable outcome of [ ]. Of a set of twins, one is always born first.

[haggishlyhagging]

The resistance against accepting the matriarchy is due in part to a false image of "female rule" over men, an inverted version of modern male domination over women. This misconception comes from a failure to take into account the diametrically different nature of the two social orders.

Sexual inequality is one of the diverse manifestations of discrimination and oppression that are bound up with the private ownership of property and division of society into classes. Neither sexual nor social inequalities could exist in the matriarchal epoch when society was both communalist and egalitarian. Briffault writes on this point:

In the most primitive human societies there is nothing equivalent to the domination which, in advanced societies, is exercised by individuals, by classes, by one sex over the other. . . . Neither the notion of economic domination through the ownership of private property, nor the notion of privileged right or authority, is a primitive idea or has any place in truly primitive forms of society. ( The Mothers, vol. I, pp. 433-34)

When the matriarchy was first discovered over a hundred years ago it was unclear how far back in history it went. The high status of women is most visible during the early period of agriculture, which marked the end of savagery and the first stage of barbarism. Women's preeminence as cultivators was registered in the fertility rites and other practices conducted by the female sex, as well as in their glorification as "goddesses." It appeared to some that the matriarchy was limited to the short period of the beginnings of agriculture. This gave rise to the belief that at most there had been only a "partial matriarchy."

In fact, the maternal clan system is as old as humanity itself. The earliest feminids who plied their digging-sticks to get at roots and grubs eventually learned how to cultivate the soil, advancing from gardening in the last stage of savagery to agriculture in the first stage of barbarism. The so-called partial matriarchy of this period is in reality the high point of its development. The second stage of barbarism saw its decline and fall.

The matrilineal kinship system testifies to the priority of the matriarchy no less than does the labor record of women. The discoverers of the matrikinship system correctly inferred it to be a survival from a prefamily period when, as some put it, "fathers were unknown." They reasoned that cases where kinship ties and the line of descent passed through the mothers, without recognizing fathers, were evidence that the matrican had existed before the father-family. The matrikinship system persists up to our times in many primitive regions, even where fathers have become known.

Although the majority of anthropologists today concede the existence of matrikinship, they deny that it originated in a matriarchal epoch. This leaves unanswered two embarrassing questions: How did this one-sided mother-kinship system come into existence in the first place? And why is it found only among the most primitive peoples and not in civilized nations?

The most formidable barrier to recognizing the priority of the matriarchy is the reluctance to accept the maternal clan as the unit of society that preceded the father-family. Such an acknowledgment would invalidate the claims that male supremacy has always existed because men are physically stronger and thereby socially superior to women, and that women as child-bearers are the weak and helpless sex and have always been dependent on men for the support of themselves and their children.

-Evelyn Reed, Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family

[adumbrateddeluge]

guys STOP saying that one caste is better than the others

RUSTBLOODS die quickly

BRONZEBLOODS are great with animals!!

GOLDBLOODS can be used as living batteries until they burn out or die ☺️

LIMEBLOODS

OLIVEBLOODS are cute like purrbeasts ::3

JADEBLOODS have to live underground and oversee our entire species' reproductive process, and then disappear as soon as they reach adulthood‼️ extra points for culling all those mutant grubs before they can escape the caverns and muck up our nice, organized society

TEALBLOODS know the LAW!!!!

CERULEANS get to lie, cheat and steal pretty much unchecked because it's their nature as a caste I guess

INDIGOBLOODS.... uh

PURPLEBLOODS enforce their religious supremacy!!

VIOLETBLOODS are rich

FUCHSIABLOODS rule the whole planet until they get schmurdered by their own ancestor the empress at the ripe old age of 10 sweeps

so you see we ALL have valuable qualities that we can use to contribute to society and we should all be grateful to be here and have each other!!

[candycryptids]

Has ANYBODY gotten a Tricolor battle since it started or are we just obscenely unlucky

Alt question HAS ANYBODY SEEN TEAM FUN? HOW ARE THEY WINNING I HAVE SEEN THEM ONLY TWICE?

[dammarchy211]

Make prolonged eye contact with him.

[loominggaia]

What are some misconceptions about other races?

It really depends on who you ask. But in general, most people think...

COMMONERS

Humans are obsessed with dogs. Some people think that all humans love dogs and treat them better than they treat other people. In reality, a lot of humans don't like dogs or are even afraid of them. Some humans see dogs as nothing more than tools or food.

Dworfs are all alcoholics. It's true that beer was consumed heavily in the dworf's native region of Noalen, and dworfen migrants took their drinking habits with them to Evik when they founded Zareen Empire. But the world's dworfen population is now much bigger and more diverse than it used to be. Dworfs have many cultures, and not all of them value alcohol. Some don't drink at all.

Roshava are gold-grubbing cheats. In ancient times, many roshava made their living as traveling merchants, as they were the only ones comfortable enough to traverse the steep terrain of their native region, the Twisted Canyons. They had many unique and valuable goods to export from this region, but this way of life was hard and some merchants had to be shrewd to survive. In truth, roshava are no more likely to cheat you than anyone else. It's just that they happen to run a lot of businesses and the world of business is crooked by nature, so people associate them with crookedness.

Trolls are obsessed with dung so much that they eat it and bathe in it. While ancient trolls did utilize dung for many things, very few trollish cultures have ever considered it to be food. They also do not--and never have--bathed in it. The closest practice to this is smearing newborn trolls in dung shortly after they're born to boost their immune systems. All of these practices are becoming less common as time goes on, and today, many trolls do not engage in any dung-related activities beyond using the toilet like everyone else. Many of them find the very idea repulsive.

Ogres are bloodthirsty brutes who eat smaller peoples. Some ogrish civilizations have eaten other peoples, but it is not a common practice, and it's usually a response to famine or other extreme conditions. They're no more likely to eat other peoples than anyone else. And while it's true that very large crowds of ogres tend to become aggressive towards eachother due to pheromone overload, this phenomenon doesn't extend to other species. An ogre who is surrounded by a large crowd of fauns, for example, does not become aggressive. Ogres are no more bloodthirsty or aggressive than anyone else.

FAE

Elves are snotty, arrogant, and think they're superior to everyone else. There just happen to be a lot of historical events in which elven cultures ran elven-supremacy campaigns, and these events happened in several regions (namely Mogdir Kingdom, Matuzu Kingdom, Seelie Court, and Unseelie Court). The Divine Titania's conquest is the most notorious. Many of the Great Kingdoms have seen at least one major elven-supremacist event in their histories, and some of these events are quite recent, so they're still fresh in the minds of people. What laymen don't realize is that these events weren't random--most of them were connected in some way, and it became like a domino effect throughout history. In truth, elves aren't supremacist by nature, it's just that one big elven culture had a prime opportunity for power a long time ago and seized it, which led to even more opportunities for this species later.

Goblins are clumsy and unintelligent. Goblins have gangly limbs, knobby fingers, large heads, and poor vision. Between all these features, they are not the most physically graceful species. However, they naturally grasp mental schools of magic such as telekinesis with ease, and many overcome their physical problems with magical solutions. They are thought to be unintelligent, but this stereotype is particularly ridiculous because in reality, a goblin's large skull houses a large, efficient brain that never forgets anything it learns. People only think they're dumb because they also happen to be the most exploited species on Gaia, meaning they are enslaved more than any other species. Slaves are usually uneducated, so people associate goblins with illiteracy and ignorance.

Gnomes are cultish and misogynist. While it's true that gnomes have many insular, isolated communities of their own kind, not all of them live this way. The majority do simply because they are so much smaller than most other species, and trying to live in a city that wasn't built for them is challenging at best and dangerous at worst. They don't live apart from other species out of some weird cultish desire, but simply practicality. As for misogyny, all modern gnomes descend from just 3 cultures that originated on Umory-Ond. These cultures were in close proximity, so they had a lot of traditions in common. One of these traditions was the rigid roles of men and women in the household. Many people think that male gnomes trap their wives in the house all day, beat her, force her to bear children, and treat her like a slave. Maybe some gnomes behave this way towards women, but no moreso than anyone else. In their traditional cultures, women are considered equal to men, they just serve a different role in the household. Most gnomes look down on men who mistreat their wives and find it shameful.

Sirenes are shallow, mean, and their love for you is only skin deep. Sirenes do value physical appearance quite a lot, both naturally and culturally, but it's still not everything to them. They are perfectly capable of loving someone despite their looks. Sirene psychology differs from many other species, and behavior that others consider "mean/rude/abrasive" is not always meant that way by the sirenes. They just don't take offense to certain things as easily as other species.

Cecaelia smell bad and treat women like breeding factories. This one is more subjective, but cecaelia do have a natural "fishy" smell to them that many find unpleasant, but there are others who enjoy it. Due to their biology, just one female cecaelia is born for every ten males. This leaves a huge population imbalance between sexes, and as a result, many cecaelian cultures have had to take drastic measures to protect their females from rival tribes and any other danger. This often means locking females away in so-called "nurseries" where they can raise their young in peace and safety. However, many female cecaelia stay in these nurseries by choice. They also have control over their own fertility to some degree, and they cannot usually be forced to lay eggs they don't want. Women are revered and respected in many cecaelian cultures, and some of these cultures are even matriarchal.

GAIANS

Satyrs are all thieves and rapists. Of course not every satyr on Gaia is a criminal, but it's an unfortunate fact that this species suffers disproportionate poverty compared to others, and as a result, they also suffer much higher rates of substance abuse, lack of education, and nuisance behavior. People tend to think satyrs are malicious by nature and they just enjoy mischief, but this is rarely the case. Satyrs want safety, love, and happiness just like everyone else--it's just that obtaining those things is so much harder for them due to the widespread oppression they face. Their wildly fluctuating hormones don't help matters in the behavior department, but they still don't mean any harm most of the time.

Fauns are satyrs or riddled with disease. Fauns are mistaken for satyrs so often in some regions, it can be a real problem for them because they will face the same discriminations that satyrs do, which holds them back in life. Otherwise, people have this perception that fauns carry all kinds of diseases and will spread them everywhere. This one has some grain of truth to it, as fauns are more susceptible to a wider range of diseases than other species. They can catch a lot of zoonotic diseases, for example, and may act as a "bridge" for those viruses to transfer from animals to other peoples. This problem has been mitigated a lot in modern times with the use of vaccines and advanced medical care. But the ancient fauns themselves also found solutions early on in the form of curative magic and herbal remedies, which saved them from many close calls with extinction. Also, most of the diseases fauns catch cannot be spread to other species, and when they can, they can usually only spread to a small number of them. As long as a region practices good hygiene and has at least half-way decent medical care, no one should worry about fauns spreading disease any more than other peoples.

Minotaurs are dumb and lazy. Minotaurs are no less intelligent than anyone else, but their brains do function in a unique way, which prioritizes different things than the brains of other peoples. This species is just as intelligent as others, it's just a different type of intelligence. What they lack in math and science skills, they make up for with high (non-verbal) language skills and social intelligence. The "lazy" stereotype has many origins in many regions, but regardless, it isn't true either. Some minotaurs are lazy and some are very hard-working. Just like anyone else, every minotaur is an individual.

Centaurs are violent by nature. People think centaurs crave fighting and bloodshed because many traditional centauran cultures value wrestling, and in addition, many are/were war-like. Now, there are a lot of war-like civilizations on Gaia and not all of them are centauran. But centaurs get the violent stereotype because due to their size and speed, they happen to be really efficient at killing. This gives people the perception that they enjoy killing and do it more often than others. Centaurs also have unique psychology in which they aren't as troubled by violence as other species are. That's not to say they enjoy it, but exposure to violence is less likely to leave them with PTSD. This has likely contributed to the stereotype as well.

Gorgons are all cannibalistic. This misconception comes directly from Lamai Nation, a gorgon-dominated culture. In this culture, gorgons traditionally use every part of a dead body so that nothing goes to waste--and yes, that means the meat too. All gorgons descend from this region, but not all of them continue to practice the traditions of their ancestors. Many foreign-born gorgons find this tradition disturbing, and in fact, some Lamaish ones do too. Gorgons have no natural desire to eat their own kind, this is purely a cultural phenomenon.

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[hackbentadventures]

i'd have to say, the shrimptooth bit was really clever. but then again. GRUB LAMPRI SUPREMACY ANYONE?

admiral shrimptooth, just for u

[galvatronsthighs]

Updated their Extriverse design so it’s not so cluttered/a mess and easier to draw! Info below!

Name: Rupture - Paradrox Titles: Heir of Chaar (Later, New Kaon) Nicknames: Rups, Ruppy/Ruppi, Rup-rup. - Drox, Droxy, Pancake - by Galvatron. Gender: Unspecified, they/them. Alt. Mode: Flying jet-like creature. Creators: Galvatron, Cyclonus. Siblings: Many. Voice: Mandy - The Grim adventures of Billy & Mandy (they sound a little less feminine however so even their voice is hard to pin as male or female.)

Personality: Rupture easily comes off as quite cold and aloof to those they’ve just met, being distant and almost condescending in attitude.

It takes a bit of patience and exposure to realise that it’s not exactly ‘like that’.

Rupture simply takes their duty seriously and tries to set an example, but their inability to mesh with social situations as well as anyone else hinders this, prompting some awkward thoughts and concerns about future leadership and they often defer to their twin for help yet they’re perfectly fine to lay out reprimands or concerns on others if they feel they need it. It doesn’t help with the first point.

Despite all this, and probably thanks to their twin, Rupture is quite tolerant and slow to anger, they are perfectly content to spend days at a time simply ‘being’ and of course experimenting and playing with their pride and joy - Their leeches.

Paradrox is a wild card, yet bizarrely responsible.

Mischievous and impulsive ‘droxy can’t help but fidget and move about, their attention seemingly doing the same as they tend to miss out on a few words or forget things such as dates, or annoy people by asking them to repeat things only to cut them off at the second word as they ‘get it now’.

Their energy is only matched by their outgoing, social attitude and absolute inability to leave things alone. They just can’t help themselves from tinkering with devices and items and often need something to fiddle with if you don’t want to find your pens dismantled and paper torn or folded into origami.

Their favourite things to ‘tinker’ with are doomsday devices and teleportation software.

History: Rupture and their twin hatched from an egg spontaneously generated by Galvatron. Orally. Yes, initially the Decepticons believed, or thought, an egg that was coughed up would be nonviable but it shifted and moved. A name was already picked out as Galvatron joked the egg ‘ruptured’ his throat on the way out due to how painful the sudden motion was.

When it did hatch it initially sent quite a ripple of fuss throughout the base as no one expected the egg to hatch, nor were they expecting the odd grub-like creatures that came out of it.

Let alone two.

Their parents, however, were ecstatic, kinda terrified, but ecstatic. It was new, it was something and absolutely a thing neither of them believed they could do.

They adored their 'perfect little creations' and took care to document their development and make as many mental notes as possible. Not only to make sure they're doing it right but for species documentation, no creature like them had been born before. And for possible future reference.

Despite the twins gaining no defining physical feature that separates one from the other, not even scars, their personalities began to differentiate them more than enough.

Being the slightly-older-by-a-minute-or-two sibling Rupture was chosen to be more of a successor to Galvatron's commanding role. It worked out anyway as Rupture was the one who managed to hold enough focus to keep an idea as their priority. Although Galvatron voiced concerns for trying to narrow their life into a role they wanted. Cyclonus agreed and they planned to only nudge them towards the role and cease if they did not wish for it.

These plans', however, were cut short as the rogue DeceptiLord appeared. A figure Rupture and Paradrox were too young to understand the importance of at the time or the problems he had caused. They also were not present during some very loud fuss that occurred, as they grew up they learnt that DeceptiLord had challenged and defeated Galvatron in a battle for Decepticon supremacy and had taken over.

As part of the new rule, the twins and every other child at the time were moved on over to a not-often-used base on the other side of Chaar, it was here they lived being cared for solely by Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge and the remaining number of Sweeps.

The base had more than enough supplies for them however and was well-equipped to keep them well-trained and well-taught as they and the others grew. At some point early on in their 'new home'  Rupture had found one of the many Energon Leeches that live on Chaar and despite initial protests kept the creature as their pet and Paradrox managed to build a device that managed to coat the room in blueberry jam.

It was also at this young and still-not-fully-ware stage that they noticed some new adults had shown up, they talked and talked with Galvatron, it seemed endless and he only seemed sad when he returned from the talks. The other adults left but eventually, others came, the response was the same but it seemed whatever they were after they got.

What clued them in on this was when new children appeared.

It didn’t seem bad, new friends new kids to play with, there was more going on and more to do, it was a bit overwhelming at first and Rupture at first had some difficulty adjusting while Paradrox did not. This had gone on for years. It helped, in the long run, as a lot of the Decepticon parents seem to have a weird idea that their kids are just at a camp. It helped take their minds off it. However, as Rupture and many of the others became sub/young-adults they were thrown into a whole new adventure with the fate of many in their hands.

Notes/Extra:

They both made bat-like chirps when they were ‘grubs’. This drove Ratbat nuts as he tried searching for the source.

Both would cling onto things as babies which meant they could be carried around hands-free.

They have never required a frame change as they grew up, their organic parts negating a need.

They have the same garbage guts as their parents.

Rupture is Autistic.

They often forget to wash leech slime from themselves and can be sticky to the touch.

Speaking of leeches, their primary leech is their (rather spoiled) pet one named Nipper. Rupture often ‘stims’ with Nipper, stroking the leech calms them down and helps them think.

Rupture can barely deny their younger siblings anything, and often finds some comfort in the presence of protoforms/sparklings too.

Hates the smell of wet grass.

Enjoys long scenic flights and hot drinks.

Paradrox helps them when they feel close to a breakdown or if ‘droxy catches Rups missing a ‘social cue’ by giving them a nudge or two.

Paradrox likes to occasionally do something ‘weird’ just to gauge people’s reaction.

The fascination with teleportation technology is a reference to Skywarp.

When they were very young Paradrox misheard the word “Autistic” and thought Rupture had an extra component called an “OT stick”, while they now know and can pronounce it properly they still occasionally refer to it as such in order to make Rupture smile.

Paradrox calls their ‘connection’ to Rupture their “Twinstinct”

One of their ‘Doomsday devices’ exploded and coated the room in Blueberry jam.

Rupture often helps ‘reel them in’ if they’re getting too excitable or overbearing.

Likes Watermelon topped with raw salmon, mustard, hot sauce, mint sauce and blue cheese with a dash of salt. Yes. All in one. It’s gross.

Will absolutely RickRoll you.

[anhed-nia]

THE EMOJI MOVIE

I've actually tried to watch this several times, and never made it past the first twenty minutes or so. The whole concept--that emojis inside a boy's phone struggle for survival when their glitchy antics provoke him to try to wipe the device--is so uninspired that it was hard for me to imagine it even being kitschy enough to justify watching the whole thing. However, since its release (only a year ago, but isn't it starting to feel like it's been with us forever?), THE EMOJI MOVIE has become so notorious that suffering through it feels like some sort of rite of passage. As of this morning, I can say with absolute certainty that this experience is actually much worse than you probably think it is.

I don't even want to get that much into the "plot", but for the sake of whatever: TJ Miller is a "meh" emoji by birth, who is secretly plagued by a full spectrum of emotions. When he is classified as a "malfunction", in a series of repetitive arguments that sound uncomfortably like they're just barely skirting "the R word", Meh goes on the run to avoid destruction by his fellow emoji, who need to manage this crisis before their user erases all of them.

If that is like...not very heroic-sounding to you, then you're hearing me right. THE EMOJI MOVIE is I guess about being yourself or something, but the details of Meh's adventure are so outlandishly stupid that it's hard to even worry about the moral of the story. To my apoplectic shock, our hero's escape from peril is totally dependent on Dropbox. That's almost all you need to know about this movie, actually: That it requires you to somehow reimagine a collaborative file management product as the Millennium Falcon, or Dorothy's ruby slippers, or something. Even if I were able to accept this proposal, it still remains beyond me why a tween boy would have Dropbox on his phone. I mean, is he going to Project Management Junior High or something?

Of course, this is only one example of THE EMOJI MOVIE's inability to produce exciting, easy-to-understand ideas. It may not be surprising, on paper, that an unwieldy chunk of the story involves a loud advertisement for the money-grubbing mobile game Candy Crush. However, it's still jarring when the movie has the sheer nerve to insert its characters into a 3D version of the very-2D Candy Crush board, have them discuss the rules and mechanics of Candy Crush at length, and then have them actually play Candy Crush, in a scene that really accomplishes nothing other than exactly what is on the screen while it lasts. The audacity of the thing makes the McDonald's breakdancing sequence in MAC & ME look downright subtle.

The aforementioned scene should really be enough to sink basically any cinematic ship, but THE EMOJI MOVIE doesn't settle for less than 100% failure. Almost everything in it is so poorly considered that there isn't enough time in my life to get through it all, but I have to get *some* things off my chest. I mean, how the fuck do you take a concept like this, and decide that a whole bunch of your movie should involve DANCING? How can you possibly ask me to look at a bunch of Pac-Mans with little rudimentary limbs, and expect me to be able to tell that SOME of them are really good dancers and SOME of them are really shitty dancers, and ALL OF THE SUSPENSE hinges on this distinction? And while we're talking about physical activity, what are even the rules of this world? Apps are both giant monolithic cubes, like they are on your home screen, that can slide around and crush you between their unyielding walls, and they are ALSO little subdimensions that you can enter (not that we really see how this works) and dick around in. "Internet trolls" are somehow not separate human users, but technological entities that exists inside the world of the phone, right alongside junk mail and computer viruses. And speaking of junk, like, why is the phone owner deleting individual apps WHILE he's on his way to a Genius Bar to get the whole device reset? What the fuck is going on in any part of this movie?

While I'm talking about how ~completely~ disastrous this movie is, though, I should admit that maybe I blew past the plot too quickly. The most remarkable thing about THE EMOJI MOVIE is that it manages to be so fathomlessly moronic, AND so majestically pretentious at the same time. There is something interestingly perverse about the idea of taking humanity's most vapid, dehumanized linguistic development, and using it as some kind of allegory for the supremacy of emotion, and the prismatic nature of the soul. It's disturbing, actually. On the one hand, the movie cannot resist advertising for office products and parasitic IAP-driven games, and all of its ostensible charm is predicated on the viewer's preexisting familiarity with fun icons for human shit and compressed fish byproducts. On the other hand, the movie makes a big deal out of identifying the fascism inherent in controlling how people express themselves, and confining their potential to the dictates of their heritage. At some point the movie even drags in some shallow commentary on the tyranny of gender roles, with a subplot about a "princess" emoji rejecting the few, oppressively girly options for females of the species--just in case there were any audience members left who didn't feel personally condescended to yet.

At this point, you might be wondering why I even bothered to write all this down, having already suffered the unnecessary indignity of watching the thing. The truth is that I have an insatiable curiosity about the psychology of productions like this. When I see something so abjectly catastrophic, I start to have enthralling nightmare visions about what it must have been like to make this movie. Especially considering the fact that it is animated: At what point did people begin to realize that something really bad was happening? Who noticed it first? Was there a protracted period of convincing oneself that everything was going to be fine, or did the darkness sink in at the very beginning? What happened when the movie came out? Have all of the actors even see the whole thing? How did they manage their social lives when it started to become common, international knowledge that they had participated in the creation of one of the worst movies in the visible history of the medium? Does one lose relationships over a movie like this, either among friends who don't know how to address it, or comrades who can't stand the slightest reminder of what they've been through? I am completely entranced by my own fantasies about what happens with movies like this. I would happily watch a documentary about the making of THE EMOJI MOVIE, or better yet, some sort of distorted psychodrama about the emotional environment of the production. Somebody get Peter Strickland on the blower.

PS Mike White, I am so, so sorry. What happened to you?

[mckinleybrooksmorton]

Ignorance personified. Talk about money grubbing shills. $150 to $500 to see a person aligned with white supremacy "honored" for her heroism. I observed the protest as it was right outside my apartment. I was threatened, as were women, people of color, and anyone who got tired of the #freedomconvoy2022 Call it what it is, #racism #whitesupremacyisterrorism #trucker #tamaralich #canada #whitesupremacists #terrorism https://www.instagram.com/p/CdyQqrMLtEl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thelifetimechannel]

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