#influential figures

[davy-zeppeli]

my bisexuality has become much more violent these past few months. didn't know the monkees could do that

[bitcoinversus]

Proof Of Work Awards: Meet the 10 Most Influential Bitcoin Leaders in 2024 (Honorable Mention Included)

"This list was built with those in mind who have contributed to the Bitcoin protocol.. A toast to all those who have ultimately let their work speak for itself. Without further ado, Here Are The Most Influential Bitcoiners of 2024"

The 2024 Bitcoin Awards Ceremonial List honors those whose dedication has propelled Bitcoin’s growth and innovation. This list was built with those in mind who have contributed to the Bitcoin protocol in a myriad of ways, via action, research, or education. A toast to all those who have ultimately let their work speak for itself, thereby accomplishing feats that only the most intelligent – and…

[markscherz]

Peer-reviewed instructions for coping with a Bad Day™:

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[cursedtrekedits]

thank you to @brookbee, @gay-spock, @twinkboimler, and @spocksautismdiagnosis for your ideas! writing a vulcan gossip mag was a group effort

[blackisdivine]

Beautiful 😍❤

Graphic Design by J. Slayer

Jay Sims is the artist of this 🔥

[carlyraejepsans]

ghost trick was amazing but how the fuck do you make a game where unburying people is one of its core mechanics and then don't unbury the dead wives. are you kidding me with this crap.

[nyaa]

Watanabe Akio, Comic Market 55 (1998)

[canisalbus]

Was thinking about the earlier asks about machete being remembered in modern times and can't help but think that he'd be a goth icon like Edgar Allen poe and mary shelley to modern folks like maybe he'd be referenced in a goth song or two lol

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[velvetjune]

the reason why control is one of the best games is because they’ll show you the most gorgeous sequence of the foundation of the oldest house overlapped with the beauty of the world, its oceans, forests, rivers. then the scene will conclude with Ahti saying “did you have piss in your sock” and I think that’s beautiful

[charlieconwayy]

Top 50 OTPs of All Time ☆ #44. Naomi Campbell & Emily Fitch

"I’ve loved you since the first time I saw you. I think I was twelve. It took me three years to pluck up the courage to speak to you. And I was so scared about the way I felt, you know, loving a girl, so I learned how to become a sarcastic bitch to kind of feel normal. I screwed guys to make it go away, but it didn’t work. When we got together it scared the shit out of me. Because you were the one person who could ruin my life. I pushed you away. I made you think things were your fault. But really I was just terrified of pain. I screwed that girl, Sophia, to kind of spite you for having that hold on me, and I’m a total fucking coward because I got these… these tickets to Goa for us three months ago, but I, I couldn’t stand… I didn’t want to be a slave to the way I feel about you. Can you understand? You were trying to punish me back and it’s horrible. It’s so horrible, because really, I’d die for you. I love you. I love you so much it’s killing me."

[libraryleopard]

Jayce and Mel in s1 are funny because she’s like ah yes I will introduce the naive scientist to the ways of politicking and mold him into a perfect new councilor aligned with my goals and perhaps a little kissing will strengthen the bond while Jayce is like through the power of my earnest brown eyes I declare us boyfriend and girlfriend

[evermoredeluxe]

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[cursedtrekedits]

it’s been a while since we had a new issue of Logical Updates on Influential Public Figures.

as always, thanks @gay-spock, @twinkboimler, @thetimetostrikeislater, and @surfthevibe for your contributions 🖖

[treestomeetyou]

i hate the “oh they couldn’t cast a blind actress to play toph because it would be too difficult to accommodate them to film”

like yeah imagine a story about a young disabled person who overcomes challenges associated with their disability in order to become successful despite how people might underestimate them or assume them to be helpless. that has no place in avatar the last airbender.

[casannibal]

sometimes i wish i can get good at something on the first try and not struggle because a week ago i tried to practice drawing pelle again and like . although it did look better than the last drawing i posted on here It Does Not Look like him at all. who is this fuckass twink GET OUT OF MY FACE!!!! although i will say i'm proud of this

i have a csp file on my comp where i'm continuing to practice but i'm not posting that shit because it looks like ass

[kissingarthurclaus]

Concept sketch of my new JJBA self insert and her stand, BellaDonna (who will eventually be known as Madonna). Inspired by the song 'Like a Prayer' by...well, Madonna! @sapphire-heart-tippy

(lore dump under the cut, TW for mentions of animal injury and religious trauma)

My self insert (who will also go by Jane) grew up in a deeply religious family and tried to be a good jehovah's witness child that made her parents proud.

One day, she comes up with the power to heal various injuries and ailments, almost to the point of being able to revive the dead. She figures she's given this power by the lord himself and vows to do good with it, but when she's found using them to heal a bird that had been wounded by a cat, her mother falls into hysterics thinking that she MUST be possessed by the devil to have such abilities.

She's punished and shunned by her community while her mother prays for a cure and though she tries to repent her power doesn't seem to go away, so eventually her mother snaps and drags her into the wilderness and attempts to throw her to the bottom of an old well.

Her Stand, which had previously not manifested physically, appears then to cushion her fall and eventually she manages to pull herself out of the well with her Stand's help, who she now believes to be a guardian angel. But not wanting to return home, she runs away to face the world alone, growing jaded and bitter over time. She loses all of her faith, and the power to heal inverts itself, becoming a sort of poison. Something that LEECHES life, rather than heal it.

When she's an adult (my age irl so 25 I guess) she's made her way by becomes a bounty hunter/assassin using her Stand and eventually catches the attention of Dio. Who takes her in and explains to her what her Stand REALLY is, promising to teach her how to properly wield those powers if she agrees to serve him. She reluctantly takes his offer, but starts to see him as a familial figure, since no one else had ever tried to nurture or even accept her gift. Dio is the one who giver her Stand the name BellaDonna, after the deadly plant!