#he is not mine

[coulrosaurus]

I'm very normal about your towers ocs rn. Would you drop some fun (or not so fun) facts?

You betcha anon!! Aaaa I am so flattered, I'm happy you like my little squad 🧡

This got a bit long, but under the cut, it is TRIVIA TIME:

The Nemesis DNA occasionally sparks some predatory animal-esque instincts in Tempo. Raw meat triggers her appetite something fierce. She has to reign that in sometimes, so she doesn't embarrass herself.

Tempo also lives up to her name by being damn good at rhythm games. Catch her throwing down in the Forbidden Valley arcade. You will NOT beat her at Guitar Hero. (It's hand-eye coordination training, she says, as if she's ashamed of being a gamer)

Tempo and Altair are pals! They may not know all the ins and outs of each other's situations, but they definitely share a "something happened to me and now I'm Changed and this is all very stressful" comradery. Pass the Nemesis Lager, I'll drink to that.

Altair almost always sleeps with the lights on. I wouldn't say they're afraid of the dark, but the pitch black makes it easier for their mind to play tricks on them, and can feel a bit too much like the darkness of space. It makes them nervous.

Altair has an incredible bullshit radar. When they heard about a certain Ministry that specializes in making people happy-- with scientists that focus on the idea of oblivion, even?-- they got curious, and went to see if there might be something there that could help them with their existential anxieties. But they took two steps into X-Sector and could immediately tell that the Ministry was up to some questionable stuff, and that marmalisation was NOT for them, so they turned right back around. This little venture is also how they first met Cass.

Their bullshit radar also applies to Cass. They see through his fancy facade to an alarming degree, and are one of the few people that can catch him off guard with their brute honestly and spot-on assessments of him.

Cass is all about his image and reputation, but he does have a secret comfortable and sort of goofy side, that very few people get to see. It mostly comes out when he's at home by himself.

Cass very much dislikes the cold. He gets chilly easily, catch him bundled up most of the time.

Cass makes a damn good omelette. Breakfast is the meal he most often has company over for (make of that what you will), so he's learned a few good recipes and is happy to whip up something yummy, with mimosas to top it off. But when it's just him and he's off to work, his staple is black coffee and sugar donuts.

Cass has a huge dumb superiority complex, but overall he IS fairly pleasant to the average person, if you can stand him. He's got the charisma to carry a conversation, for sure, and generally comes across as quite charming. But how he acts around you is also partially dependent on what he thinks he can get out of the interaction. If he doesn't like you, he simply won't put in the energy. If you get on his nerves he may also be downright nasty to you, though this mostly applies to Kipp (who doesn't seem to realize that he's being snubbed, much to Cass's annoyance).

Kipp thinks Oblivion is a bit of a downer (pun intended?). It looks fun, but everyone is so SERIOUS over there. He'll happily stay over at The Smiler, thank you very much.

Kipp is an early bird and a little workaholic. He'll be up at the crack of dawn to make sure The Marmaliser is in full working order for the day, and he'll stay late to do extra little tidbits like polishing or fine-tuning. To him it's like spending all day with his best friend, and there are very few places he'd rather be. Something something they say if you love what you do

He's also been known to fall asleep in the maintenance bay, and if he wakes up late enough-- or if Asher doesn't come find him and scoop him up and take him home-- then he'll just stay there overnight.

Asher is right up there with The Marmaliser as things that Kipp loves and that make him happy. Asher is so so so good for Kipp, in a lot of ways, but especially because he shows Kipp genuine, tangible affection, not something imagined. And Kipp returns it in spades! He's very affectionate.

Kipp's apartment is MESSY. He isn't unhygienic but he's horribly unorganized, there are tools and clothes and whatever everywhere. He really only spends time at home when he's there to shower and sleep, and doesn't tidy much. To him, it's organized chaos. He knows where things are-- mostly. But to an outside eye, damn bitch, you live like this?

Kipp also cannot cook. The most you're getting out of him is frozen pizza rolls, this guy lives off of snacks and food truck food. He'll also put mustard on anything that makes sense to.

[depressedhatakekakashi]

My kiddo found my new Kakashi figures and wanted to play with them XD i got these for my desk but they might accidentally be new kiddo toys whoops

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

fyi if you're trying to use the fact that that rancid ass muskrat cunt is autistic to be like "oh he didn't know what he did was wrong" about the fact that he threw up a fucking nazi salute then you are one of the stupidest fucking cunts to walk the earth and since we're in a housing crisis you should start offering the massive amount of empty fucking space in your skull for rent

(signed, an autistic person)

[tree-whispering]

everybody say happy birthday pumpkin

[roz-ani]

IS THIS YAOI DOOMED ENOUGH FOR YOU?! IS THIS WHAT YOU PEOPLE WANTED?! 😭

[notrobinsomethingworse]

Dick (Nightwing) and Jason (Robin) stare at Bruce. One sports pleading eyes, the other a shit eating grin. There’s a child between them with black hair and blue eyes.

Bruce, he doesn’t know what’s happening but he doesn’t like it: No.

Dick, grinning: He’s our younger brother now.

Jason, nodding seriously: You’re not gonna take him from us.

Tim, got kidnapped while taking photos of patrol, just happy to be there: Where’s the Batcave?

Bruce: what.

Dick, grinning wider: He’s ours now.

[soapbbox]

A Quintesson attack leaves Megatron in need of repairs.

Let’s pretend this takes place early where Megatron isn’t incredibly paranoid about back stabbing (Starscream) yet

[albinogel]

[michameinmicha]

Do you ever miss a character from a show but not like in the way that you want to rewatch the whole show because theres so much stuff going on and thats not what youre looking for but you miss your boy

[ofswordsandpens]

I can't remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[waveoftheocean]

late and very much still a wip but happy superbat week day 4: on a case/undercover!

[the-vengeful-demon]

He's such a gem

[itswillowneptune]

i love teasing you while you’re denied and locked up for me🔑

[diioonysus]

artists: francisco de goya (1746-1828)