#keep pushing for change

[ninjakittycomics]

adding some good news to this. several states have been voting to un-gerrymander-fuck their states since 2020.

there is hope. and we keep pushing for better.

keep going.

the current electoral system is an unfairly weighted corrupt mess that will not save us, but

abstaining from voting does nothing to destabilize or replace it

participation can reduce harm and be strategically applied to your larger more revolutionary goals

(plus following electoral politics just keeps you aware of what specifically to expect from The Powers you oppose)

there is no materially revolutionary argument against voting if you are at all able.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

In the shape of you, something new.

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[donutfloats]

Shitten doodles

From left to right: Lilith (she/they), Dantalion (she/they/he), Rosier (he/him), Andras (he/they), and Paimon (she/her)

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01, 1.02 & 1.03

I'm not him anymore. And, I won't let myself be.

[bookwyrminspiration]

i need you all to be normal about people deciding they don't want to explore their identities. we're not inherently repressing anything, and we're not lost opportunities for self-fulfillment and finding community. maybe some people are, but we are allowed to decide we're satisfied and digging deeper isn't what we want, and we're valid for it. it is our choice. please stop treating us like we're naive and gonna regret it

[gifti3]

right now i seem like im normal but i promise you that im not

[myokk]

the new fifth-year✨

[d8tl55c]

hey wait a minute

so it's the start of AvA part 7 and Chosen and Dark are talking, right? and the former has this vision of terrible things happening if they don't stop the latter, right here and now.

they see the ViraBots descending on the last remnants of stick kind with Dark as their leader (or Lord if you will. ha ha) and i, trusting viewer, took their assessment as reliable*. we JUST saw Dark getting uncomfortably violent in earlier scenes after all

but

however

notwithstanding

unless Chosen has demonstrable prophetic powers (like how Orange has** in the past seen things currently happening (horizontally-prophetic let's call it: seeing faraway in the current time) (there's probably a better word for this but let's move on)), how did they know this was definitely what Dark was leading up to?

** ⬆ examples of Orange horizontally-prophesizing in AvM episode 11, SkyBlock (unconfirmed but referenced as, "uh? well maybe??? maybe i didn't think about it yet-" (abridged quote from AvG react video)) (op will die /j /extremely pos if this is used again in AvA 11 (HAH they'd both be episode 11 (op just giggled maniacally)))

Dark doesn't even have his control bracelets on.

because Chosen didn't know about them yet.

because this is not a prophetic vision.

Chosen is just that... reactive. what was it. @compressedrage (hi o/ ) had a good wording let me find it. yeah i guess it was reactionary

the ONLY time we've seen them stop to think things through is actually just a terrified anxiety breakdown while they stand there, frozen, imagining the worst, until they snap out of it JUST in time to impact their reality.

but with no time left for debate. reasoning. they assumed Dark was beyond reasoning from the moment he showed off what his device could do............. because they were beyond reasoning out of fear.

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[mzminola]

Fascinated by the difference in how Aral & Cordelia treat Elena, and how Miles does (in Warrior's Apprentice, at least, I haven't reread the later books yet).

Aral & Cordelia are very firmly paying all of their liege-lord obligations to Bothari. He won't let Elena get an advanced education, he's got a very firm idea of the kind of person she should marry (and that marriage is a certainty), and he's lied to her her entire life about where she came from.

Miles rightly points out that Elena is their liegewoman as surely as Bothari is their liegeman, and they cannot owe him everything and her nothing. Don't they have obligations to her? Why does Bothari's narrow plan for her overrule her desires for her own life?

Aral dismissing Elena from the equation makes unfortunate sense from the Barrayar patriarchal structure. Cordelia's dismissal is harder to swallow. She's from Beta Colony and has never accepted Barrayaran sexist cultural norms. She actively rails against them. But when it comes to Elena, suddenly she's hands-off. The trauma bond and sense of debt towards Bothari overrides everything else.

Miles eventually also tries to deny Elena a future of her own choosing by invoking oaths to Bothari...but it's not what he's motivated by (he's motivated by his crush on her, his own personal desire to keep her tied to him), and he reverses that decision.

Aral & Cordelia have kept Elena in ignorance of her origins for 18 years. While there are a lot of secrets wrapped up in the Escobar war, the abuses of prisoners and the origins of the uterine replicators are not a load-bearing one. Outside Barrayar, they're not even a secret at all. Supporting Bothari's lie leads to Elena finding out the truth in the worst way possible (much like keeping the truth of Serg's actions from Gregor also lead to disastrous results). They also spend those 18 years never asking Elena what she wants out of life.

Miles at seventeen years old with no authority but that he borrows from his parents or can bluff, sets out to answer questions Elena has, and when he learns going home will be dangerous, he gives his blessing to the marriage she chose, and tasks her new husband (because Baz has practical experience in this field) with teaching Elena everything she wants to know about her chosen vocation. He dowers her with a fleet.

While Miles definitely knows Elena personally better than his parents do, as she's a peer, he still actually has spent far more of his life with Bothari than with Elena. He's extremely aware that Bothari has saved his life multiple times. But for Miles, a life-debt to Bothari does not override supporting Elena as an independent person, while for Aral & Cordelia it does.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4)

[mysterycitrus]

getting positive feedback about my characterisation in fics (even for characters that only show up briefly) is rewarding cause the creative process for that is having a bunch of sticky notes with lists like ‘nicknames for the titans gc’ ‘brave bows 80s mixtape’ ‘books lian has probably read’ ‘plot relevant injuries from the chemo period’ ‘french comics i am choosing to inflict on dick grayson’ and ‘every dc character that personally relates to the iron giant (it’s a long list)’

[st4rstudent]

Winn + Mac fusion idea. lalala.

[peliginspeaks]

Thinking about Fallen London as a backdrop for the theme of the horror of the inevitable today. I know it's The Classic Cosmic Horror Thing, but it's really woven through all aspects of Neathy life even as the PC is written powerful and capable: the constant backdrop of breath-holding for the Sixth City, the Masters and the Bazaar as a force higher on the Chain with a plan that cares not who it tramples, a ton of the Destinies aside from the LotN ones, literally anything to do with the Dawn Machine, the Flukes...the thing that changes you irrevocably could be around any corner, could drop at any second. Everything else, every other story told, is either dealing with that or written in its shadow. Sometimes the game lets you deal with it by fighting back, with the message that even though you can't hold a candle to all of it, you can change some of it and that's enough reason to try. Sometimes, the game lets you deal with it by getting drunk off your ass with a dozen rats and stealing a painting or something of the sort. Both are honestly such valid ways of dealing with The Cosmic Horror Of It All, as is just rolling out of bed every day and complaining about the weather, and the spread of each that the game's writing has is I think what's made it stick so hard as one of my favourite pieces of horror media despite only about 20% of it reading like horror.

[puckpocketed]

just happy to be a part of the group

[aappleslice]

THEY DON'T KNOW YOU LIKE I DO

[fictionadventurer]

There's nothing like the audiobook experience of driving down the road going into hysterics over a 150-year-old novel.