#i shouldn't be here

[71003]

casual interest my ass

[goldenpinof]

can the US be like Moldova and vote normally, that's the question

[nonameidentified]

My mental stability is directly proportional to my yuri intake. Which is, unfortunately, dwindling on account of fucking EXAMS. So, I am currently suffering.

[morzowo]

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[nicenightmare13]

I don't fucking wanna be here. I can't be a good person here.

I feel like I'm the worst.

they're arguing all the time but somehow I'm the problem when I fucking scream because my mother says that mentally ill people shouldn't have families for fucks sake.

[jeahreading]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

Do you have this one?

a nsa agent in a suit looking through my laptop camera: she’s on her phone…….. our data shows that she’s got tumblr open on her laptop but she has tumblr open on her phone………. double check her browser?

some nerd hired straight out of college: *types rapidly* she’s definitely got tumblr open on her laptop

the nsa agent, softly: so why is she looking at it on her phone…..

[payasita]

boss makes a dollar I make a dime

flat top grill penis on company time

[outlovingorpheus]

girls be demeaned by their toxic, domineering and condescending bf and calling it "all men" while not paying heed to the one that's been trying to peel oranges, share sweaters, care endlessly and ready to twist a knife inside for em (you name it)... cmon girl open those perfectly spaced buttons of yours and look around

[strikingamatch]

like i was something they thought could break

[shmingleping]

I'm not doing well. At all. I remember thinking at one point that I was at my absolute lowest low & couldn't begin to fathom that my circumstances &/or my mind/body/spirit/ {basically everything about me that makes me me} could or would get so much worse. But here I am. Honestly wish I could muster up the courage to take one for the team & opt out of this shit. But no I apparently insist upon being a pathetic, selfish, asshole and waste everything my mom has worked so hard to get & sacrificed herself & own happiness for out of fear of the unknown. Dumb. I'm doing her no good being here yet I can't leave. How absolutely fucked of me.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel's protection should have saved Viktor too, and she's trying to figure out why it didn't

(Editing to add: see this post for details on the Mel's armor/shield theory)

S2 ep1 shows a circle of protected stone where Mel and Jayce were during the explosion. My theory is that Mel's magic armor activated and saved them both. It seems like it casts a sphere of protection around wherever Mel is.

The center of this circle is not Mel's seat - it's Jayce's. She ran to Jayce to save him.

No other Councilors were in range of Mel's protection, so they all got hurt or killed.

But Viktor was, in Jayce's words, "right next to" him. He was easily within Mel's circle of protection.

1) Viktor tried to run and mistakenly left the circle of protection. But are we meant to believe that Viktor, close to dying already and using a crutch, would have outrun Mel?

2) Viktor's augmented body clashes with Mel's

Why does Mel try to touch Viktor in episode 1? It seems like a throwaway moment, but not even Jayce touches him in this scene. So why Mel?

She's curious. And possibly, feeling responsible. She's wondering why her protection didn't work.

Is this Hexcore brand of the Arcane trying to reach out to Mel? Or trying to defend itself from her?

Mel was trying to protect both Jayce and Viktor, which is reflected in how she holds Jayce as well as Viktor's cane when she promises to protect Hextech:

But if, for example, Mel's magic is Solari in origin, and Viktor's is from the Void - or the Arcane equivalent of similar opposing forces - then it's possible that their magic rejects or hurts one another. So Mel's circle of protection either rejected Viktor, or was what hurt Viktor, and not the explosion.

[riverswater]

Genuinely crying at work rn. They have thousands of old photos (from the 50s to the 90s) they asked me to scan (so they can create a digital archive). Today I found a photo from a 80s protest with a banner that says "FOR THE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN". It's been 40 years. It has been a lot more than that, actually. And still.

[tenrose]

Also the mom of my bff's boyfriend invited us to have dinner tonight with all the family. So I'll be the only foreigner. I'm feeling super anxious now.

[quiddie]

sorry that this is a screenshot of a reddit post of a screenshot of a tumblr post that is now on tumblr again. but aabria the people need to know.

Hahahahahahahhahahaahhaa! Okay but I do have opinions: 1. Probably not, given that the qualifiers for monsterfucking are like: - the risk of sudden and inescapable violence via predatory instincts/unknowable or unanticipatable psychologies/extreme power differentials - angels can be violent but it's rarely spontaneous and never irrational - funky physiology - this is a yes if they're biblically accurate angels, but European men in tunics and wings? Nah. Like, if your opening line is "BE NOT AFRAID" I don't think you're gonna choke me like you mean it lol 2. No, and furthermore I feel like it's more likely the reverse is true. If a major differentiation between angels and humans is free will, then matters of consent get VERY messy. If Gabriel shows up one night horny and holding his horn and tries to make a move, IS HE DOING SO ON THE LORD'S ORDERS? Does God wanna fuck ME? Because he can get down here and do it himself.

And that IS monsterfucking.

And I absolutely would.

[inkskinned]

one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.

the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.

like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.

but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.

so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.

i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?

but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?

sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?

and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.

nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.

the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!

and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.

[calware]

if i see you demonizing neurological disorders in my notes you're getting blocked. yes even the so-called "bad" or "scary" ones