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Brains are dumb
I'm watching my GrubHub driver on the app, eagerly anticipating my food, and I see they could get here so much faster if they'd taken the interstate, but they didn't
Normal thought, right?
Except my brain did not provide the word "interstate." I did not think "you could've taken the interstate, it would have been faster."
Do you know what word I did think?
Elevator.
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RAAAAGH i can't sleep
#it's almost 3am#im thinking about......... motorcycles#they're cool#i want one#someday. probably#hopefully#also my room is way too cold rn#it's freezing in here#im supposed to be tired but i can't fall asleep#bleghhh#sorry. im tired enough that my filter is gone and im just rambling all my thoughts into one post#gonna keep doing it for a sec though bc it's making me more tired somehow#uhhh there's like three owls in the trees around our house and they're so loud#like jesus christ they're loud#i keep looking thru my main window and i don't see them but i absolutely hear them#i have this stupid little lego dragon propped up on a storage box on my window seat and the silhouette is fun to look at though#it's pretty outside tbh#it feels weird that there isn't any snow though. it's january already and we still haven't had any snow stick for longer than a few hours#it's wrong on so many levels#.... still thinking about motorcycles#i really really do want one#after top surgery though. and i should probably get a car before a motorcycle. but whatever#i really need to go to bed
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Gerry art??? In the year of our lord 2024????? HUHHHH???? you can blame it on @mangozic and their amazing tma art
#aghgafhsg I needed to redesign him so badly ywy I think the last time I properly drew him was like 2020???#which feels so wrong on so many levels but oh well#anyways I think he would tease his hair#tma#my art#the magnus archives#magpod#rusty quill#tma fanart#tma podcast#fan art#gerry keay#tma gerry#gerry delano#character design
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calling him "the king of mexico" is an even bigger fucking crime
the spaniard winning in mexico is a crime
#f1#formula 1#leclerc-s race thoughts#mexico gp 2024#what the fuck#it's wrong on so many levels#i don't even know where to begin#or how to process this
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Saw a lot of role reversal fanart (a lot meaning. 3 artworks or something) and i wanted to try out for myself. Ned in red looks very cursed tbh
#this feels wrong on so many levels#little and tozer are fundamentally different breeds of dog#herding dog vs. i dont dont know how to describe littles flavor of dog#whoever said that i draw them so pussy forward. thank you for this you’re incredibly funny#but i also think about this everytime i draw their crotch now#the terror#the terror amc#the colors are whack but i aint fixin that#edward little#solomon tozer#solittle#froggerart
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Unfortunately for him and the drifter both, the fishnets kept catching and ripping on the sides of his thighs. But thigh high stockings would do.
Im putting him in the microwave I'm exploding him mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
#warframe#warframe 1999#arthur nightingale#warframe drifter#That one voiceline about a pinny or whatever and him doing dusting like ?????? Arthur????? HELLO>??#There is something catastrophically wrong with this man on so many levels
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tiny animation detail from this scene I really like: rook glances towards the locations of lucanis and bellara's rooms (and possibly where they're most likely to be found in this moment?) respectively when they deliver this line!
(honestly I expect that lucanis is hanging out somewhere other than the pantry during this to give everyone in this unfolding catastrophe some space, but consider: it's so much funnier if he IS sitting in the pantry hearing this all go down on the other side of the wall like

taash stomps in with thunder and trepidation in their eyes like 'hey. I need vegetables. can we make vegetables happen.' and lucanis already handing them a lettuce and tomato like i gotchu fam this is literally the only thing I know how to do for you in this situation go with the maker and these salad ingredients I resignedly already know you'll just put on a plate with no dressing no spices no nothing. just the most sleep deprived caffeinated to the point of vibrating gently in place awkward-yet-painfully-well-meaning man in the world standing there before his friend about to have one of the most difficult conversations of their life like '...can I offer you a turnip in these trying times' while rye desperately treads social water out in the dining room to buy time. amazing. our lives really all do touch each other. headcanon passionately embraced)
#I love this scene honestly. it highlights all the ways taash and shathann struggle to communicate#(they are both people who are so exactly. themselves. for good or ill)#and has so many good 😬 moments for rook like they're watching a traincrash happen depending on how you play it#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#taash#lucanis dellamorte#jeff berg's 'then why did you leave' still one of my fave deliveries in the whole game btw. so soft yet so intense#I've been thinking about building out some more parental figures for rye growing up aside from renn (whomst still is DAD don't get me wrong#and I'm thinking a reasonably high-level watcher who rye occasionally gets flashbacks to while talking to shathann...#could add some delicious dimensions to it all haha#like the moment the watchers realized their little crypt baby was a mage there was a mage watcher set to keep an eye on them#because poor renn cannot be expected to deal with all of all of that alone. hello. buddy cop platonic co-parents#making rye into the person he is today (a delight (to me and lucanis in particular) and also deeply deeply neurotic)???#I'm onto something here baby. it takes a necropolis to inadvertantly fuck up a child#hello. lucanis popping his head out from the pantry after shathann leaves and saving rye from having to eat a whole slab of ham#by claiming he is also hungry and could throw something together. true love. partnership. rye clutching him like I owe you my life etc.#also a good thing to imagine taash surrounded by people who love and understand them after that scene#just. it's nice.
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The way that Pride and Prejudice is often held up as a great love story with a brooding romantic hero makes it all the more confusing when you actually come to read it. The first time I read it, I was deeply confused where this Ultimate Romantic Hero™ that I'd heard so much made of actually was because, honestly... the only thing Mr Darcy did that was swoon-worthy to me during the first two thirds or so of the novel was when he admitted to Caroline that he kept a well-stocked library at Pemberley.
Man who is always buying books? Swoon.
However, man who is always buying books but insults the heroine's looks, is generally a proud, disagreeable snob and makes a marriage proposal where he spends more time insulting the heroine than complimenting her? Ugh. I'll pass.
#pride and prejudice#jane austen#mr darcy#classic lit#i need to dig out the texts i sent to my friend when i was first reading it lol#i was so unimpressed with darcy. i still am. but it's why im so glad i read it before watching an adaptation#i've never been sympathetic towards that man#he was such a disappointment#okay he redeems himself by the end but ??? i was like where is this man i'm meant to get The Vapours for#similar experience reading wuthering heights#darcy is a disappointment in that sense but HEATHCLIFF? oh wow. another level#still love the character and it's one of my favourite novels but... how do people think heathcliff is a brooding romantic hero#people who've never read it ofc#and i fear the adaptation next year will only contribute to this#i knew hardly anything about JA before i read p&p and definitely considered her a romance author#how wrong i was but what an upgrade. expect a sappy romance ACTUALLY get treated to one of the funniest novels ever w#with SO MANY great characters beyond darcy#what a treat .
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So I saw a post earlier talking about Marvel couples and how relatively few long term relationships there are. There was mention of Reed and Sue as being basically the most consistently together couple, crediting that to the nature of the Fantastic Four being about family.
I don't disagree with that.
But then there was a comment about Scott and Jean being "all over the place" and depending on editorial at the time. Sorry for the paraphrase, but I couldn't find the post again to be sure.
And honestly I couldn't disagree with that more.
The thing about Scott Summers and Jean Grey is that, with two exceptions, if they are both alive, and they both know the other one is alive, they are together FULL STOP.
The first exception to this is the original Lee/Kirby years. Because they hadn't gotten together yet. But anyone who has sat through the god knows how many issues it took for the two to actually get the fuck over it and fuck basically gets stockholmed into shipping these idiots.
Because when you go from seeing this nonsense in issue 10:
THIS nonsense in issue 24:
THIS nonsense in issue 3-fucking-4:
And you realize this is only a sampling and that pretty much every issue in between has more of this idiotic bullshit, you'll be screaming at them to "JUST FUCK ALREADY!!!" too.
NGL, it's what turned me into a shipper. Fucking Stockholm Syndrome.
The other time, of course, is X-Factor. Because Scott, in his incredible wisdom and self-perception, happened to marry a woman who looked exactly like Jean Grey, (and asked her if she was Jean Grey on the eve of the wedding).
Scott gets a lot of shit from fans for ditching his wife and son for Jean Grey (which is a vast oversimplification of a very complicated storyline, but fine, for once, let's go with it). So yeah.
A good chunk of X-Factor is basically just these two finding their way back to each other after dealing with a whole mess of other mind-bogglingly traumatizing events and trying to raise a baby while meeting alternate future kids and (in Jean's case) not really handling that well.
But anyway, after that? They're together.
Now, admittedly, the Grant Morrison era of X-Men is a bit complicated. We all know about Emma Frost. I still resent deeply the fact that a man is named cheater for getting taken advantage of by his therapist, but fine. Maybe they'd have broken up over Emma, maybe not. Maybe Jean would finally break down and fuck Logan, maybe not. Sadly she died instead. And then a future version of her decided to push Scott and Emma together for a while. Which was a fucking weird narrative choice, but fine.
When Jean comes back? Immediate romantic scene with her resurrected husband by the way. And yeah, fine, he drops dead again later. And then when HE comes back to life, she's off in another dimension and presumed dead for a bit.
But when they are back, alive, and in the same place? She immediately shoves her tongue down his throat.
On Krakoa, they're the most married they've ever been. They finally get to raise their son together, in a place that isn't a future hellhole. They are explicitly polyamorous, implicitly in a throuple, but when it comes down to the wire, it's Scott Summers and Jean Grey.
And now, in From the Ashes, she's off being a goddess in space. But she's still having psychic phone sex with her patiently waiting husband. It's not clear if they're still doing the polyamory thing, I'd like to think they are because we so rarely get to see portrayals of non-monogamous but still very happy couples. But who knows. What we do know is that even now, even when they're not in the same place: it's Scott Summers and Jean Grey.
I suppose the one exception is young Scott and young Jean when they're brought to the future. But here's the thing. As much as they both try to fight it, as often as they've tried to tease some other kind of ship with Hank or Laura or Jimmy Hudson, or teenaged Vampire Storm, or anyone else. The two still can't ever really escape each other's orbit. (And you know, maybe if they actually got the full story instead of fucked up fragments from incredibly biased people who currently hate at least one of them, they might have felt a little less like escaping. Who knows?)
I guess I can see the argument that the state of their relationship can vary. Sometimes they're very happy, sometimes they're raising a kid. Sometimes they're frayed. Sometimes they fight. Sometimes they fuck other people.
But in the end, as long as they're both alive, it's Scott Summers and Jean Grey.
Reed and Sue still get top billing as the big couple of 616, sure. They're not immune to silly love triangles, but they tend to be dead less often.
But I still think Scott and Jean are up there, as consistent and steady as anything in the Marvel Universe.
#scott summers#cyclops#jean grey#phoenix#I rarely project on a character but I think Scott too read Edith Hamilton's version of Eos and Selene's story and went#“wait - what's wrong with being a Goddess's immortal grasshopper husband again?”#He would happily chirp in her pocket for eternity#and you know it#technically I'm a multishipper so the polyamory thing really works for me on many levels - you get an OTP AND everyone else too!
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Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.
#swedit#starwarsedit#starwarsblr#star wars#poe dameron#flashing gif#nym.gifs#thinking about how in the stuff pre tfa he just. he wants to be a /pilot/ he wants to be a /soldier/ because he doesn't want to have to#carry the burden of the moral calls and the weight of so many people's lives in his hands#especially when strategies go /wrong/#'point me at the bad guys and let me do my thing'#he works alone SO often.#and there's something so genuinely tragic that poe's just. /so/ good at what he does that he ends up catapulting himself into the position#that. he didn't want.#and the thing that /pushed/ him into joining the resistance to prevent from happening again (losing someone he cares about under his#command /keeps/ happening). and worse he ends up in these positions where he /could/ blame himself for things that /aren't/ his call.#like u know he's got to feel responsible for the village on some level not to mention fuckin /kijimi/#it was /his/ idea to go there#the world should've protected you. instead you've been chosen to protect it.#what an honor. what an injustice.#not all of these fit this theme but mostly i just wanted to focus on his reaction/responses to some of the bigger tragedies in the trilogy#and tbh there's also. plenty more shots.
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I had a lot of concerns about the writing direction going into the end of season seven. Hen's story line, Eddie's story line, and Bobby's story line all deeply concerned me. I thought none of them were good and that Hen and Eddie's were also particularly and thoughtlessly cruel. Then season eight was really bringing it back for me. I was having a good time, really enjoying it all, felt like the first five seasons again.
And now this.
Call me when Buddie goes canon, I guess.
#911 spoilers#I fully respect that some of you think this is a fakeout#and I sure do hope I'm wrong#but I personally think it's real#and it's just terrible on so many levels#I really don't have time to suffer to this level in my fiction#I've had the most awful fucking couple of weeks#I don't have time to even be sad or angry about this#so if a TV show is gonna pull this shit and jerk me around then I'm not going to give it my time anymore#I'm not THAT much of a masochist and I know when it's time to leave a party
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Wyll's introduction in Baldur's Gate is so funny because he hops out of the Tiefling camp spouting catch phrases like he's maybe the important captain of their army or a famous traveling mercenary here to save the day and it turns out no, he's just another level one schmuck with a worm in his brain who fell out of a nautiloid a few hours ago, just like you
#baldur's gate#bg3#wyll#wyll ravengard#I love Wyll but that first impression was just.... so silly in how wrong it was#enjoy using your sword wyll because you will not be doing so again for many levels#also I'm playing as karlach and I think he took a swing at me??????????
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i gortta fight the urge to infinitely clarify myself out of anxiousness but i just mean like. i think if u like an animal and u like the inside of mouths im personally a little irritated when that art omits the cool and unique details of the specific animals theyre drawing the mouths of. theres so many cool teeth out there to have fun drawring
#my bemoanings#me complaining about furry vore but im completely from an antrhopological standpoint#i have so much beef with beastars on so many levels but only because it is SO CLOSE to being what i want it to be#it just rubs my animal facts autism the wrong way
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Urban warfare and Gaza's Death Toll
Summary: If anything, the death toll in Gaza exonerates Israel of a charge of genocide--it's lower than expected as compared to two other cities, adjusting for population density. Of course, it doesn't, since that's not how genocide works, but also that argument is false in two ways!
EDIT, April 15, 2025: Since apparently some people who are...used to bad arguments have found this post, my claims are limited to this: 1) The death toll in Gaza, once you account for the density of the population, seems to be about typical or below average and 2) A high death toll is not sufficient, or necessary, for genocide.
I am aware that my approach of taking a limited number of questions (in this case two), answering them, and then letting them mostly stand on their own without jumping from there to a broad, sweeping, claim is unusual, and, if you are used to that, you may read some sweeping subtext into my post of "all Gazans should die" or "what is happening in Gaza is awesome", which do not exist (because they are horrible things to say about any group and any war).
I don't do that here. In this post I address two (2) questions: 1) Is a high death toll, on its own, evidence of genocide, and vice versa? (which I added more because it felt dishonest to not clarify that) and 2) Is the death toll in Gaza unusually high for urban warfare? I have made other, more sweeping, claims before, but not here.
I'm aware the methodology is, to say the least, imperfect, and I welcome other potential sources of data, further comparison, et cetera. I'm working with the data I have, though, and that's limited.
If you disagree with my conclusions, you're welcome to dig into the data, either the sources I've given or other reliable ones, and find out for yourself! If you do so, or know of someone else who's done so, please tell me; I'd love to hear about it and be able to see someone else's conclusions.
Now, with that said, the post:
I've been wondering for a long time if there is any way to analyze if what is going on in Gaza is urban warfare or genocide.
Urban warfare, for those who don't know (and you really should if you've been talking about Gaza) is a term for war fought in urban areas with a lot of people. It's an important distinction to make, because somewhat by necessity, urban warfare will have more civilian casualties than non-urban warfare (assuming equal levels of malice). Imagine fighting a war in New York City or London and the sheer numbers of people who'd die even if both sides were upstanding and trying their very best to minimize civilian casualties (which, of course, is almost never true) and you get the idea.
Let's check this against Khartoum and Mariupol. I would argue Khartoum is a better comparator, being much more climactically similar, but to each their own. Also, Mariupol is a genocide while Khartoum is, as far as I am aware, not.
Khartoum
According to Wikipedia, in 2018, Khartoum state had a population density of around 935 people per square mile. Over 19 months, 60,000 people died. This means that if we go by the Khartoum estimate, when there are ~1,000 people per square mile, 3,100 people die every month.
That's a lot!
Gaza has 14,000 people per square mile and the fighting has been going on for 15 months. By this quick estimate, then, I project that 651,000 people will have died.
But, you might object, that's unfair. Sudan grows quickly. And they were unstable before anyhow, which probably causes a lot of excess deaths. (Gaza was too, but nevermind that.)
Fair enough! Let's say we pretend Khartoum's population density is five times higher than it otherwise would be. That gives us a figure of 130,200 people.
(It's worth noting that there is a genocide going on in Sudan, but not, as far as I know, near Khartoum.)
So our urban warfare projection for Gaza ranges from the generous 130,200 people dead to 651,000 people dead, which is probably on the upper end.
Unfortunately, studies on Gaza's death toll recently that take into account non-immediate factors (as the Sudan study did) aren't common; the one I found analyzed data up until June, 8 months' worth of data. This means our data would yield 69,440 to 347,200 deaths during that period.
Instead, the study--the highest I could find, mind you--said 186,000, on the lower end of that range. So if we go by this estimate, Gaza is actually potentially on the lower end of urban warfare deaths.
Mariupol
Pre-war, Mariupol had, if you look at Wikipedia, around 1,750 people per square mile. That's a lot!
According to Human Rights Watch, there were 8000 "excess deaths" (as measured by burials in five cemeteries) in the first year of war, giving a predicted rate of 6000 deaths per 8-month period without adjusting for population density, and 48,000 once you do. However, this is a figure that doesn't take into account other deaths and is a very conservative estimate, so a much more appropriate figure would be the at-the-time official one of 37,396 (see the link for 186,000) which also counts, e.g., Hamas soldiers. Again, the death toll is lower than projected.
Caveats
Of course, there are many caveats. First of all, my rudimentary assumption that deaths scale linearly with population density is almost certainly wrong. Second of all, the motives and precise circumstances of each of those is different.
Third of all, this does not exonerate Israel from a charge of genocide, and if I had found Gaza did have a huge number of deaths adjusting for population density, that would not convict it. Genocide requires intent, and an unusually high death toll is not enough to prove intent. (This is fairly easy to show by resort to extremes. If the Vatican descends into a war and 10 people wind up dead on side A, with 100 people and 1 on side B, with 900, 10 percent of side A has died, a literal decimation, but that does not a genocide make. If we go by absolute numbers, we are left to conclude that nothing in, say, Bhutan would count, but everything in China--again, absurd.)
However, this argument has been brought up enough that I wanted to do a more complete analysis.
I'd also like to highlight that, although my time was divided, this took me maybe an hour or two to write up, tops. That's not a lot. And I didn't have any special data or anything. Someone less perfectionist than I could probably have done a reasonable debunking in ~30 minutes, or even 15.
#jumblr#jewblr#jewish#judaism#jewish tumblr#israel#death toll does not a genocide make#gaza#urban warfare#khartoum#mariupol#genocide#is what's happening in gaza a genocide? maybe. (no. it's not. words have meaning.)#but the death toll = genocide argument or implication is wrong on so many different levels it's really telling it keeps getting used#because it implies that's one of the best arguments they have--#one that's factually incorrect#and also even if it was correct would still not show much of anything
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something something au where recently divorced but still extremely closeted trent walks into a bar owned by beard and frequently bartended by ted
#thinking of so many facets to this. bartender ted works shockingly well on multiple levels#trent being both divorced and closeted bc Some Shit Is Going On There#something something the divorce was kind of messy but more just exhausted on both sides#neither understanding or willing to admit what exactly is going wrong#trent being like oh shit. i'm fucking. super gay. is actually kind of a relief to both of them even though#for a hot second she fully thinks he's making it up in a misguided attempt to make her feel better/make himself look better#anyway just the idea of trent wandering into a bar post divorce when it's not his day with crimmlet#feeling awful and exhausted and lonely#and more snappish than usual--his coworkers have noticed he's even more biting and standoffish than before--only to realize#a) this is a gay bar b) the bartender is really nice c) oh no he's gay for the bartender d) WAIT IS HE GAY#something something trent previously both deeply closeted and deeply convinced he is generally unattractive/adequate at best#has no idea how to handle multiple gay men hitting on him#some of them are drag queens. many of them are not.#trent blushing so hard his face feels physically hot when some bear flirts with him very explicitly:#oh. oh i didn't know it could feel like this????#and then there's of course the handsome bartender who is very very nice and sweet and trent's developing a megacrush at mach speed#but also feels kinda bad bc he is NOT gonna hit on a bartender. being gay does not change the rules of#flirting with someone who is on the job liek that--who has to be nice to you and cannot leave#is Bad and Rude. meanwhile ted has been making eyes at this newcomer all night and beards like man take your break i will man the bar#you keep forgetting to attend to everyone else bc youre too busy watching newbie twirl his hair at you#anyway the point is. unhappy closeted recently divorced trent accidentally walks into a gay bar#and walks out shyly glowing newly out and with the bartender's number. great bar 10/10 he's going back all the time#man is literally sitting at the bar with a sprite just talking to his bf while they're lovingly harassed by the regulars#about taking notes from lesbians with how fast they fell in love lmao#tedependent#gertspeak#tedtrent
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Worse news from the storm of wbb updates today, was seeing Julie Vanloo waived by the Valkyries. Left her job to go play Euro BB for her country. WON. Skipped celebrating with her country teammates to return to her job. Only to learn she got cut right after landing back in the Bay. Diabolical work.


#wnba#this league and the lack of job security#employee wrongs in my book#julie vanloo#women's basketball#golden state valkyries#valkyries#wbb#wrong on so many levels fr#breaks my heard too her being over the moon with the w only to be dropped like that#filthy work from the league#just another reason rosters should be expanded imo
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