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The fact there's 'leading the dance' promt in top Alastor week is so telling. That's why I mute/block anyone who draw him leading the dance with Lucifer. It's stinks with heteronormativity and - what a surprise - it's always from people who 'Alastor have sex to show dominance! He never bottom!' and who usually portray Lucifer as this helpless blushing lamb.
Oh, I forgot top!Alastor week was this week, thank you for the reminder! Imma block the tag before I go to bed.
I'm...not exactly sure how being the one to lead in a dance signifies being a top, but aight.
Although, heheh the phrasing of 'Alastor having sex to show dominance' is actually so funny to me and I like it. I've accepted it into my psyche.
#thanks for the reminder anon#i forgot top!Alastor week was approaching so its much appreciated#still don't like top!Alastor but I do like him having sex as a way of asserting dominance#he doesn't have to top to assert dominance#he does it cuz the sheer act of it throws people off guard#its a tactic#asks#anon#anonymous
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Nightmare on Reroll Street: Part 2 | Into the Arcane Launch Cinematic - Teamfight Tactics
#thanks for the copium TFT#vi in a mess making cupcakes in the last gif is so cute LOL#been playing TFT instead of league bc its wayyyyyy less toxic too its quite fun#league of legends#arcane#arcaneedit#teamfight tactics#arcane league of legends#league of legends arcane#vi#vi arcane#jinx#jinx arcane#powder#powder arcane#arcane powder#arcane jinx#vander#vander arcane#arcane vander#ekko#mel medarda#mel#media: tft
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The unreliable narrator that is Shang Qinghua haunts my thoughts almost daily because he quite literally wrote ten thousand words a day? He survived this long in a world he half remembers, managed to make it as a spy and peak lord, had plans and ideas that were somewhat coherent and worked out in the long run even if not fully in tact, and he still had the audacity to think himself on the lesser end of characters in the world.
??? Buddy. This is poor self-esteem and a life of survival mindset that has you comparing your competency to others. You are, in fact, one of the more dangerous beings on the mountain.
#svsss#shang qinghua#its not even like i think hes overpowered or anything#but i think he definitely is a planner and tactical thinker#he probably has some form of offensive combat that no one in that world is prepared for#and you cant trust anything he or shen yuan says because both of them view the world through lenses#besides shen yuan speaks through privilege and a life of actual given support
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, S3E12 Past Tense, Part II
this episode is about an anti-governmental revolution in 2024 btw. just in case anyone was looking for ideas
#star trek ds9#ds9#ds9 past tense#benjamin sisko#remember when they say it takes time for change#that we have been asking for the same fucking things for the last fifty years. they've had time. no more excuses#also for those of yall who haven't watched the episode -- its a stall tactic to send the swat teams in
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i think tim is high maintenance the way a boarder collie or austrialian shepherd is. like you have to make sure they're not only given space to expend energy but you have to specifically let them get the herding instinct out and challenge them intellectually or they start destroying ur home
#tim drake#red robin#jaytim#i think cohabitating would require resigning yourself to your gear going missing for 2-5 business days before returning slightly improved#or coming back to the microwave disassembled across the couch#this happens and jason is like ok im gonna pop over to the gcpd and grab u a cold case do Not touch my stand mixer#but also have to stop him from reaching critical levels of boredom that results in poking the league with a stick#because then gotham is being overrun by ninja 2 months from now#this is harder for jason to curb because an incensed ra's is so goddamn funny to the both of them#dcu#i know tim hating the ceo job is easy whump but consider he needs minimum 5 plates spinning at all times to keep the Thoughts at bay#and WE probably is such low stakes for manipulation tactics its stress relief at this point
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I don't think I've really sat down and let enough sink in about how brutally real Riz's whole deal is this season. It's a kid raised by his single mother, reckoning with his father's absence, who never had any true friends until this gang of bumblefucks. And now he's faced with a future where his friends failing school is not the problem, no, what's really stressing him out is figuring out how the hell he gets it to where they all end up in the same place. How does he keep them together. Because at the end of the day simply passing isn't gonna cut it if they all go down different roads and he ends up alone all over again.
The feeling of being a kid who has been bullied their entire life, finally acquiring good friends who make you happy, and then the nauseating dread and panic when you start to realize that it can't last forever. Murph you fucking criminal.
#i dont know why its just NOW clicking for me#im having a very so tactical so late response#like i know this feeling so intimately they could confiscate my ace card lol#dimension 20#d20#fantasy high junior year#fhjy spoilers#fhjy#riz gukgak#brian murphy#i love riz
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"They despised you, trampled on you and cursed you, just because you don't belong to the same race as them. How did it feel? Don't you hate them? Don't you feel aggrieved? You're not a sinner, but they still hate you."
FANGS OF FORTUNE (2024). EPISODE TWENTY FIVE.
#fangs of fortune#asiandramasource#dramasource#cdramasource#tvedit#*#faiza gifs#I AM BITING MY KNUCKLES PUNCHING THE WALLS THEYVE GIVEN ME EVERYTHING I EVER WANT IN LIKE. 2 EPISODES.#I KEEP WINNING!#GOD ITS SO SEXY TO ME how its yichen who's being choked and stepped on and YET its li lun that's doing the BEGGING to yichen to become a#demon like OH MAN idk man its just SO SEXY to me. yichen will NEVER beg but li lun ends up doing so like UGHHHH BIG BAD DEMON YAAA BUT HE#SUCCUMBS SO EASILY mannnnnnnn.#but also? A PLUS manipulation tactics and mindgames from li lun but yichen IS NOT GONNA FALL FOR IT HE IS NOT A FALL LI LUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LOVE it when a match meets a match but then the match SURPASSES them COMPLETELY wipes the FLOOR CLEAN oh li lunnnnnn.#anyway in my head im making up 10000000 scenarios of these 2.
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when you first start the cousland origin, you can have some conversations with arl howe, teyrn cousland, and duncan that shed some interesting light on the political situation in ferelden. it’s definitely the origin where you get the most context on the rebellion and on cailan and his father. while howe isn’t exactly the most trustworthy of sources, he is also one of the most openly critical of cailan that we have access to, which i think is worthy of interest
howe remembers maric with what the toolset describes as “genuine fondness”: “your father hasn’t spoken of our time with him? that man took care of his friends. as they say, he was large as life and twice as tall!” i think we should pay particular attention to that man took care of his friends.
what howe’s talking about is a really important aspect of kingship, where you win the consent and enthusiasm of the nobility for your rule by offering rewards like wealth, land, and prestige to the loyal. kingship is always less stable than it’s portrayed, and this is one of the ways that kings must essentially sell to the nobility that answering to them is worth their time, which would be especially important in ferelden given everything we know about its culture. fereldans believe someone only has power when it is given by the loyalty of those below them, who have the right to freely rescind that loyalty. the dao codex says that “the sight of [fereldan kings] asking for—and working to win—the support of ‘lesser’ men is a source of constant wonder to foreign ambassadors.”
i suspect howe is remembering a maric fresh from the victories of the rebellion, who was able to reward those who had followed him with the spoils of those victories. at the end of the stolen throne, we see that in the final days of the rebellion, maric was killing those who had betrayed his mother to the orlesians even when they arrived under truce to meet him on holy ground. in dao, we see no lingering orlesian nobility except for those who married in and continue to be met with marked hostility. i think we can safely surmise that maric elected to make no conciliatory measures and give everything to those who had followed him; with the orlesians on the run and his people out for blood, he was in a strong enough position to do so, and it certainly served to win the fond memories of men like howe.
by contrast, howe goes on to say, “it’s too bad cailan isn’t half that.” the toolset notes establish very clearly that it’s the same issue, elaborating on howe’s thoughts: “bitter turn, i don’t get as much from the current king”, and “disdainful, i have no use for him, he does me no favours”. this isn’t a minor character detail, if howe’s last words when killed by the player are anything to go by. “maker spit on you... i deserved... more...” whatever it is that howe feels he should have been given, by the crown or anyone else, it characterises his actions and his defining treachery.
it’s in these same conversations that we see another side of this demonstrated. there are two points where howe can openly criticise the king, and bryce immediately admonishes him for both. one even has the toolset note: “speaks sharply, as a lord to a lesser man, not a friend to an equal”. it definitely comes across that way; the way he tells howe “that’s enough” is not far off the voice he uses when the player, his child, displeases him. bryce can’t tolerate any criticism of cailan, as the couslands in dao are ardent supporters of the king. to venture some hc, i suspect that this is not merely royalist fervour, and that howe’s resentment for having been given less is matched by bryce’s awareness of the precariousness of having more.
over the centuries, the theirins have consolidated their power and eradicated almost all the teyrns (the noble rank that is second only to the king). with the only other lingering teyrn being loghain, who is essentially part and parcel of the royal family, the couslands stand alone as the only real rivals to theirin power within ferelden. there are rumours that bryce was once considered for king instead of the theirins; he too could have decided to believe he “deserved more”. but unlike howe, and perhaps understandably given his strong position and happy growing family, he is satisfied with what he has. he will not take the risk of even the slightest challenge being made within his hall
(i expect that bryce’s satisfaction with the current situation further spurred howe’s dissatisfaction to its heights, given the complicated cousland-howe history and the fact that he was expected to accept a friend he had fought beside as a superior for the rest of his life.)
i don’t think howe’s judgement on cailan is likely to be without basis. we don’t hear about any victories the young king has to his name, from which he could have passed around spoils. (to be fair, cailan had harder luck than maric in this regard. a king who raises a successful rebellion gets to bring glory and prestige to everyone who follows him, whereas a king trying to rebuild after that rebellion mostly gets to bring, uh, taxes probably. especially on wealthy centres of trade like howe’s amaranthine, one might assume.) cailan also takes a far more diplomatic approach to the question of orlais, which perhaps predictably did not win over many nobles of howe’s generation. it makes sense that cailan’s strongest supporters would instead be men like bryce who hope for things to simply continue, peacefully, as they are. perhaps in another world where cailan had won the battle of ostagar, he might have earned wider respect. (you could actually argue on this basis that there’s more sense and purpose to cailan’s glory-seeking than he usually gets credit for.) but howe already acts before ostagar, which can only demonstrate his certainty in cailan’s failings at this point: his belief that even if cailan could win, he would not be stable enough to pursue justice for the couslands
#i dont like first naming bryce. it made sense here but feels disrespectful#anyway i think that covers most of the thoughts i have here#possibly a lot of this is surface level and obvious but i think abt this a lot so i didnt want to assume anything#you can go on to make a point here about how howe gets land and titles left and right from loghain#because loghain is a battle strategist not equipped for rule so he’s relying on maric’s tactics#and also that land is cheap to him right now (or not a thing he HAS in order to LOSE it when he gives it away)#because theyre at civil war#there’s not a lot of foresight in it is my point its just about winning this whatever it takes and howe is easy to buy now#wouldve caused a lot of problems for anora down the line in a very different timeline maybe#ANYWAY. my point is that im *not* saying all that bc im tired and this post is finished goodbye
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Taking the word "queerbaiting" away from deadpool and wolverine fans and putting it on a shelf because what on earth are you people on about
#i heard someone outright call the movie homophobic??? genuine question wherw r u guys getting this#its not “queerbaiting” or “homophobic” when 2 QUEER men have a homoerotic but ambiguous relationship#begging some people to realize that queerbaiting is a specific marketing tactic not when ur blorbos dont kiss on screen#deadpool & wolverine#deadpool 3#deadpool#wade wilson#logan howlett#poolverine
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hey guys i think somethings up with that octoling on the other team. they seem kinda out of it, maybe we should call a halftime and- is that a fucking knife.
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#in stars and time#isat#poorly drawn isat#isat siffrin#splatoon#image name of 'six_month_ban_from_turf_war.png'#happy end of grandfest everyone. fuck you team past (affectionately)#100 more years in the timeloop#based off my actual ingame loadout- aside from the hat#which i just dont have yet. havent bothered levelling the amiibo for it.#hat is also not colored black like its supposed to be because i simply did not want to.#my squiffrin usually wears more raggedy fits but i like this jacket okay.#i like using respawn punisher and being the most despised guy on the field. it does wonders for my diversion tactics.
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SIFFRIN BLAST
For context because we can't have Odile blast in this au... Siffrin is literally just climbing up giant Odile
#distraction tactics#shes also terrified of him falling#he does fall lol but its okay she catches them#odile loops au#my art#in stars and time#isat#in stars and time fanart#isat siffrin#isat fanart#isat spoilers#in stars and time spoilers#in tales of time au#in tales of time
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New Arcane Vi and Caitlyn Chibi Tacticians for Teamfight Tactics | source
#TFT TAKE ALL MY MONEY NOWWWWWWWW but i rlly hope its not gacha....... i will be in shambles#arcane#arcaneedit#gamingedit#arcane league of legends#league of legends arcane#vi#caitlyn#caitlyn kiramman#vi arcane#caitlyn arcane#chibi caitlyn#chibi vi#teamfight tactics#tft#type: gif#media: tft#please accept these cute gifs bc i posted some angsty ones earlier
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The most fucking annoying thing about all the "conflict of interest" gate is it's going to be F1 Academy and Susie that suffer as a result of it.
They're not going to lobby for Toto to move on and dissociate from Mercedes, they'll want Susie fired, so F1 Academy will lose the person spearheading it, despite her clearly being the best qualified person for the role right now. Just as the series is finally going to get an opportunity to take off, it will lose its rudder and get derailed before its begun.
And even if they DON'T find anything of note, it's Susie's reputation that will end up being tarnished, because its always women that bear the brunt of these things, despite F1 and 'conflict of interest' going hand in hand since records began.
And all this for a tabloid magazine article by someone who not only is banned from the paddock, but has been on the receiving end of numerous libel cases from people inside the paddock.
The FIA are trying to appear like they're being 'fair and thorough and authoritative' but they're not, they're just legitimising the accusations when it's not really their issue to investigate. It's shameful politicking and it's yet another example of the FIAs internalised misogyny. Where was their investigation into the allegations about Mohammed Ben Sulayem? Or is it only when it suits them?
#f1#I'm genuinely really angry about this#There's definitely some shit going on targeting Toto specifically#And I know he's fucking annoying but this feels like dirty tactics#When do we investigate every ferrari employee who works in the FOM/FIA?#You just have to look at the online reaction to know people have already decided its legit#It's a bit of a sham tbh..#'Hi toto have you spoken to your wife this year? Oh well jail then I'm afraid'#If the FOM have told Susie shit then that's the FOM'S fuck up#Like there's nothing of genuine relevance to her that she possibly could have told toto?
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sketch of my warden :] really enjoying origins so far
#dragon age#dragon age origins#grey warden#da:o#dragon age fanart#da: origins#boooo boo another half body with a color square in the background tomato tomato#anyways im like 8 hours in but the learning curve is crazy#im so bad at tactical combat LMAO#IM MAKING IT WORK THOUGH!!! and its super fun to figure out im just built for action combat systems#im kind of deeply obsessed with alistair so far#silly silly guy and im actually really into his voice performance#one of the most real sounding video game characters ive heard#the voice performances in general are actually really good lol#i like playing elf mages it seems also.#im a sucker for spellcasting and just generally never pick humans#also this game's dialogue trees are SO in depth???? love it#itseart
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Once again saw someone yell on here about how "nobody is going to report this aaah the media is evil", closed this app and not even a minute later saw a report with that exact content on a major news platform. Ngl this phrasing is rapidly being added to the list of things i won't reblog on principle.
#Its always an argument as to why the post is more believable or more righteous#And its just a manipulation tactic whether deliberate or not#And I'm not doing that yall#Like either give me solid evidence its being hidden or discuss whatever issue you have in an actual factual manner#None of this reactionary bullshit#Like the amount of 'stories the news outlets aren't covering' where i found an article literally on the front page of the apo#Or with like a single basic search on their app if its a few days old#Like at this point you shouldn't be allowed to add this to your post unless you have googled the topic at least once#We can criticise HOW things are covered and when and by who etc but stop lying to make your point more dramatic
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contemplating what exactly it was about ford that made bill feel important now
#text#gravity falls#billford#because hes had countless worshippers over the centuries#I wonder what made ford special and what made his 'betrayal' more painful#I have no answers its just interesting to think about#and I love hearing peoples feelings on the complexities of mortal/immortal relationships esp with these freaks#whatever it is I do think if we take some of bills feelings as genuine#despite his proclamations that ford was a pawn and a pet#I think there are enough hints that maybe for the first time he viewed a mortal being on a somewhat equal footing#and maybe thats the distinction#he couldve killed ford easily in the first weirdmaggedon ep especially since in the moment he didnt know he was trapped by the barrier#and yet he doesnt#and when he does unfreeze ford he offers him power and a place at his side#which was primarily a manipulation tactic but man...I dont know#of course its hard to tell with a character like bill what was a lie and what is genuine#thats the whole point#I do think there are real feelings he has but theyre so hidden under irony and self loathing that I dont even know if hes aware of them
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