#i refuse to participate

[whositmcwhatsit]

How she resisted just nuzzling her face against his chest I do not know. Missed opportunity, lady.

[ballonleastadiumofficial]

sweet dreams are made of cheese~

Mine are made of besting my enemies in battle and culminate in me reigning as Galar's champion. But I suppose your thing is nice to.

[foreverfearlessred]

no I’m sorry but like WHY in the year twenty twenty three are my team still sending good morning emails??? WHY are we not just saying it in a teams gc??? WHY are we choosing to clog up our inboxes instead???

[rochenn]

Snapshots

[jaycutty]

Me, literally two weeks ago: I guess if Kaner is going to leave, I want him to go to the Rangers to be reunited with Artemi.

Me now:

[poethebeloved]

the issue with discussions of "lore" is that people are thinking about/defining "lore" completely wrong. people beg for lore thinking that there must be universe-altering events constantly happening, and without that the story is not progressing. but large events like q!cellbit's kidnapping or q!roier and everyone going to rescue bobby are only one aspect of "lore" right?

to me, "lore" is anything that tells us something about the way the universe works or who the characters are that was not already known. q!foolish being batman? LORE!!! richarlyson hating baths? LORE!!!

people refuse to take these silly one-off events/comments and dismiss them in favor of major lore events, but that small stuff is necessary for the big stuff to pan out. I mean, without small things like richarlyson telling q!roier that q!cellbit easily falls for flirting, would we have built up to the wedding? without Tallulah/everyone on the server teasing q!quackity about his crush on q!wilbur, would we have had the "wilbur party" explosion?

at the end of the day, 99% of what the creators are doing is contributing to the lore (of at least their character if not the whole server) because they are roleplaying characters and the things they say are part of their character and become their lore. stop hating on creators for "not doing lore" when they are actively taking care of their egg or creating builds or doing silly schemes. because that is still lore that can and often will culminate in these larger narratively satisfying events!

[scopop08]

SHE SAID SHE WANTED FIVE GUYS

[comfymoth]

it’s aliiiiiiiiiiiive!! and it wants to go trick-or-treating, please

[goldensunset]

today my professor was talking about gender and the way kids are raised in society and he brought up kingdom hearts as an example of an unusual piece of media for its time that was seemingly meant to be appealing to both boys & girls and to both adults & kids (presumably cuz like it’s got the anime stuff and the disney stuff and you go through all sorts of different genres and it’s both whimsical and serious) i was like totally zoning out but i snapped awake when he mentioned that lol

[paintpanic]

Sometimes I feel like I haven't been, like, networking properly on here. How do I get invited to like collaborative projects? How do people find out about these? Is it because I'm not on Twitter.

[princesssarcastia]

tumblr is really bad a politics actually. please don't form opinions about political systems on tumblr. oh my god. this made me literally blind with rage and confusion for a second there.

just because the mainstream democratic party has started using "threats to democracy" as part of its campaign strategy this election cycle doesn't mean this is untrue?? please don't let your hatred for mainstream democratic political messaging make you also hate that it has FINALLY cottoned onto the fact that the american right would like us to stop living in a multiracial democracy/pluralistic society. that is a good thing, actually. it's a good thing that mainstream politics are finally willing to acknowledge that one of the two major parties is only interested in trying to destroy the political system we live under, is only interested in shoving gravel down our toilets so they blow up.

we do actually have a democracy. it's not a total direct democracy. there are a shit ton of flaws in the system. this is in part because, in fact, it's a relatively young democracy! I agree with nikole hannah-jones' assertion that the u.s. has only been a democracy for real since the 1960s, when civil rights legislation Black americans fought and died for started going into effect.

which is why this moment, 60 years on, is so important. it's a radical stress-testing of a system that it's important to preserve so that we can continue to make more progress from this point. we have to prove that the system can work this way.

i get it. voting sucks. gerrymandering has backed so many of us into a corner. we've politically and legally incentivized imprisoning members of minority populations so that they can no longer vote. the supreme court actually gutted some of that legislation passed in the 1960s that made us into a real democracy, sending us into the period of backsliding that we're currently in.

do you know how many of the candidates I voted for in my last election won? zero. ZERO. every single one of them lost. I get it, okay? this all sucks! it makes you feel powerless! but you can't let that feeling win.

that feeling is a lie they're trying to sell you so that you give up. so that you stop fighting for the democracy we've got. "bourgeois democracy" get the fuck out of here. oh my god. shut up.

[swestbifire]

Whos going to draw Vere? is he going to draw himself, cause I could see him drawing an exaggeratedly beautiful illustration of himself but I think it would be hilarious to see what the others come up with.

[disast3rtransp0rt]

"Fruits, faggots, genderqueers, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Joanne, not to praise her.

The evil people do lives after them;

The good I've yet to see within her soul.

So let her be forgotten. The 'noble TERFs'

Have wrought chaos on solidarity;

Were we smart enough, such vitriol

Would turn from common ground upon the rich."

(Fuck JK Rowling, protect your trans family and ALL your fellow queers - yes, even and especially the 'freaky' ones you don't understand - or we'll all die together at the bottom of the same pit.)

[khrysalis-best-world]

thinking some spiral sports thoughts

are there other team-based sports like whirlyburly? is whirlyburly just an empyrea thing the way american football is an american thing (in the sense that its only widely popular and played there)? i like to think that a world like marleybone has the soccer/football thing down pact and that theyre very passionate abt it as brits are irl

do different worlds have stadiums/arenas where these sports are played? do they allow different sports to be played there (i.e. some baseball stadiums allow football games to be played)?

do they have championships? do those championships have halftime shows?? i wish we knew more singers/performers in the spiral that have that interspiral fame (id say king thermidor but ehhh he seems more wizard city-centric)

are there interspiral olympics that don't revolve around magic (or at least don't necessarily involve wizards, so not the spiral cup)? does this improve or harm relations between worlds?

are these games syndicated across the spiral for everyone to watch? would these be events that people look forward to watching so they can root for their teams?

these thoughts are very scattered atm but its been chewing at my brain

[blueberry-gills]

Pros and Cons of joining the BB League

Pros:

-It's everything I ever wanted

-I'm able to improve my team setup, and research more into held items and strategies

-Most* of the people are very nice

-The Clubroom has a very nice electric kettle and I can make tea and hot chocolate with it

Cons:

-People won't stop battling me

-People won't stop battling me

-People won't stop battling me

-people wont stop battling me

-people wont stop bat

[bunny-banana]

I think it's also really crucial we keep the pressure up AFTER this week in order to ban Israel from Eurovision. This edition is what it is now, you cant do much about it anymore.

But theres still work to do for next year, for the subsequent years.

In an ideal world, I'd hope the world, and especially the ICJ and any other international institution would wake up and acknowledge the war crimes Israel has been comitting, and make them face consequences in a way that cannot be ignored nor denied and we wouldn't have to have this conversation at all anyway.

But while this is still in process, it's up to us to keep talking about it. And KAN has broken enough rules to warrant disqualification anyway.