#it's truly vicious

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Today, the country indeed looks alien. The America many of us believed we knew now appears stranger in retrospect: The anger and resentment we may have thought was pitched at a simmer turned out to be at a rollicking boil. And one of liberals’ most cherished shibboleths from 2016—that Trumpism is a movement for aggrieved white men—unraveled in the face of a realignment that saw the GOP appear to give birth to a multiracial working-class movement. A second Trump presidency is the result of this misjudgment.

Democrats are a coalition party of the center-left

The Left has traditionally been associated with egalitarianism, which is by necessity concerned with the masses, the common people, the working class, but also the dispossessed, the marginalized, the disadvantaged

The modern Democratic party traces its roots most directly to the New Deal coalition of the 1930s, which it understands to have been a robust working-class and labor-rights movement

They also see themselves in the 1960s cultural revolutions and their repudiation of hierarchy, itself generally seen as the position of the common person, the masses, but also the dispossessed

The party takes its name from Andrew Jackson, great champion of the Common Man, at least as understood at his time, but it goes back to Thomas Jefferson, famous for declaring that "all men are created equal," and now excoriated for failing to live out that egalitarian principle

The Democrats are a party for the people, understood as capaciously as possible, the party that repudiates narrow nationalism and jingoism, in favor of spreading the benefits of American society widely, in opposition to favoring the privileged few

Why am I reminding you of all these things that you already know?

Because they believe so deeply that they are right in every way that matters, or at least incomparably superior to their opponents, they cannot begin to imagine repudiation from the very people in whose interests they thought they were acting, let alone in favor of the very person they swore was an existential, even murderous threat to those very same people

I think to appreciate the sensation, you might imagine a thief broke into your home, and then your family kicked you out in favor of the thief; someone broke in to ravish your spouse and they called the police on you; a sex offender told your children explicitly what he wanted to do them, and your children fought you to get out of your arms so they could crawl into the van knowing full well they'd never see you again

The shock is so existentially horrifying, such a betrayal of reality itself, that it would require rethinking all your most basic assumptions about the political order, human beings, and worst of all, yourself. Why would they do such a manifestly insane thing? Is there something I don't know? What did I miss? What did I do wrong? What do I do now?

Democrats cannot meaningfully internalize that they are the party of the privileged and the elite, by their own philosophy they are themselves the enemy, they write a blank check for the most lurid excesses of anti-colonial violence and call it "exhilarating" without dealing with the fact that given their assumptions, in this society, they are the power and not the resistance

But it's hard to ask yourself these kinds of questions and most people don't have the nerve for it, and so what we see instead, in another little paradox of human nature, is they're going to blame not the ravisher but the spouse

TL;DR, self-examination is hard, so now Democrats hate Latinos

[wardensantoineandevka]

as always, everyone say "thank you, Fjord" for insisting on staging the trap for the Tomb Takers at the initial descent into Aeor rather than in the Praesidis Ward, because he was right about it

[ineffablelvrs]

villains duology is crazy bc one scene its victor killing some guy and maybe dying for a few minutes and the next scene is him coming to his hotel room of the week where his adoptive daughter who can raise the dead, a dog who was raised from the dead a bunch of times and a random hacker guy are like it's a normal tuesday night bc it genuinely is for him

[kaboomthepossum]

Beach House Drawing

Surprise! I actually made some art finally! It’s been, what, 3 months? Wowwwww I’m sorry yall! I’ll try make more soon! This is episode 11 of Kaboom Drawing TMG Songs For Funsies

I listened to this song for the first time a few days ago, and I immediately got this image of a cute seal in my mind - like I cannot bring myself to find seals scary

And so I felt an urge to draw this thought

The general concept is:

“SEALS ARE VICIOUS VIOLENT MONSTERS”

Meanwhile seals: 🦭

As you can probably see, I tried a new shading technique with this, which I enjoyed doing! I think it looks pretty cool so I might use it again in the future

[yansurnummu]

TES fest day 6: abandoned

In the grief of supposedly losing her brother, Lilanwe certainly made some choices. She joined the Worm Cult, becoming a much more cold and cynical person. Granted, it wasn't entirely Auredil's fault for what happened to him, but I don't know that she'll ever really forgive him for leaving her behind.

[adalinevanala]

one of the things that keeps me up at night about the poppy wars is how fang runin’s first name is literally one letter away from ruin,,, there’s just so much foreshadowing in the entire series

they really were doomed by the narrative history // history moves in such vicious circles

[wolfasketch]

Before and after trusting Hades, Draal always worried about Mira getting hurt.

[stardustandrockets]

Do you have a favorite book with disability rep? Drop it below! (Title and author, please.)

July got away from me and I didn't get this disability rep post finished before the month ended.

The rep listed is by no means a comprehensive list, but what I could remember. I know there are a lot of other lists out there with several of these books on them, but some I hadn't seen and wanted to include.

• Photo 2: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (OCD), Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (OCD), The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (anxiety, depression, and OCD)

• Photo 3: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (anxiety), Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei (anxiety and depression), Teacher of the Year by M.A. Wardell (anxiety and ADHD)

• Photo 4: Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (anxiety and PTSD), The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen (anxiety and depression), Heartstopper (anxiety, depression, and anorexia)

• Photo 5: A Neon Darkness by Lauren Shippen (depression and PTSD), The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (depression and PTSD), Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (depression)

• Photo 6: Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan by Gaku Kaze (depression), Perfect World by Rie Aruga (spinal cord injury), Vicious by V.E. Schwab (chronic pain)

• Photo 7: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (blindness), The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (partial deafness), The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew (deafness)

• Photo 8: I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino (deafness), A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard (deafness and select mutism), Everything You Never Said by Jordon Greene (mutism)

• Photo 9: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (dyslexia), Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (dyslexia), All the Feels by Olivia Dade (ADHD)

[langfield]

ngl i do find rewrites of double exposure vastly intriguing ( and want to do one myself ) but the moment people make a huge point of removing amanda and vinh as love interests i immediately lose steam lol. where’s your whimsy … every lis game has romance and max is not some sort of nun character, who is known for putting her feelings aside for the sake of a case. after all, while the world as she knows it is ending, max writes this in her journal about warren and chloe :

like!! she would kiss amanda and vinh!! she would!! max is impulsive and feels things for the people she cares for very, very strongly and i feel like erasing her canon love interests in a genuine rewrite of the game is sort of a null point. no, max wouldn’t think through the logistics of kissing two people while investigating the murder of her best friend. no, max wouldn’t abstain from indulging herself in something she genuinely wants just because she’s sad or busy. idk. double exposure desperately needs a rewrite but the second you write max as someone who’s ‘above’ love affairs i shake my head in disagreement. there’s a difference between including love interests and then allowing the player to have max not romance anyone versus forcing her and the player to not romance anyone at all.

[zukkaoru]

the truth is that if dazai were written as a female character in canon, most of the people who like femzai wouldn't actually like her at all

[mjrdm]

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[lion-buddy]

i found a pen on the floor and have gotten 0 work done since

[seijorhi]

Oml for some reason when you said extremely traumatic event, I never once considered Iwa for an intense apocalypse AU but…that’s so hot now that I’m really pondering

Plane crash???? I was literally just watching a Korean movie with this theme ANJDKSJDJFJ the emotions were sky high even after they were safe so yesss omg so much psychological thrill to pull from there!!!

after what happened, iwa can't adapt. it's like his brain flipped a switch when the plane crash happened. adrenaline and survival instincts kicked in, but he's home now, has been for weeks, and there's it's like his brain refuses to comprehend that it's over and he's safe now.

he can't rest easy or relax, he can't let go of the tension that's dug its way under his skin and sunk its claws deep.

not until he knows you're safe too.

at first it's enough just to get a glimpse. he can convince himself you're alright, you're healing – apart from him, because that's what you wanted. said you needed.

bullshit.

the balm doesn't tide him over for long. he's restless. can't sleep. can't focus. he needs more. needs to talk to you, maybe. or touch you, a physical reassurance that you're there and safe and fine.

(you're not fine, you can't be fine.)

the first decent night's sleep he gets is the night he has you back in his bed. the mattress is a thousand times softer than the cold, hard ground was, his blankets warm, cocooning you both. he tucks you under his chin, his arm slung over your waist, and just like back then, he pretends he can't feel the soft, trembling sobs wracking your body. lets them lull him to sleep like a lullaby

[yaburnaee]

something about being in the center of a big seedy city is dragging kaz out of the trenches of my mind

[prismatoxic]

somehow, against all odds, felix carter has a normal human admirer at the company. his name is sebastian and he likes doing whatever felix asks him to, which makes him very useful

matt does not like sebastian.

[starfallkaz]

I’m reading The Never King series rn and it’s objective trash and im hating it, BUT there is something truly so funny about Vane constantly throwing homegirl across the room, disrespecting her and not taking her shít. like yes, this is exactly how we should be treating people who don’t know the meaning of the word no