#like doing that ranger shit

[inkskinned]

one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.

the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.

like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.

but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.

so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.

i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?

but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?

sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?

and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.

nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.

the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!

and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.

[thelaundrybitch]

YAASSS

@sharpwindow

My thoughts on the boys and summer activities.

Mikey - If it involves a beach, this guy is there. Surfing, beach volleyball, sandcastles, anything and everything that requires water and sand.

Raph - I see him hanging out all day at one of those outdoor gyms. Showing off to anyone who passes by. "Yea I guess benching 150lbs is impressive...if your a baby. Watch this." Then blows your mind and benches an ubsurd amount of weight.

Donnie - I found this one a little tricky but instead of complex it's very simple. Bonfires. Something about the simplicity and the utter lack of tech makes it meditative for the genius. The crackling wood, the smoky smell, nothing would relax him more. Would definitely have one every night.

Leo - I feel this is predictable but Leo loves to camp. Getting back to something simple, breathing the fresh air all day and night...you've never heard this man snore until you get him in a tent, just totally in his element. He would also show off how he could forage for food and you'd be surprised how good he makes it taste.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[3416]

rempe and the constant defending of him piss me off so bad. that guy should not be in the nhl and probably not be playing hockey period with the level of actual danger he presents for such a tiny sample size. like it is fucking absurd how every time i have to hear his name it's bc he basically mauled a guy or injured him and you have half of rangers fans acting like he's just a baby deer who doesn't know what he's doing and he WANTS to be a hockey player in the nhl based on his merit and not just his physicality 🥺👉👈. like news flash, he's not that and he's actively dangerous. holy shit

[hatergirlrobin]

Emergency (2022) dir. Carey Williams

[lizzardwitch]

I'm sorry but it's so fucking funny whenever people say that they imagine others as whatever pfp they have, because despite being black I have Kendall as my pfp on at least 2-3 different platforms so people are taken aback whenever I make jokes about black people before they're eventually reminded that I look completely different from Kendall and am not just some racist PR fan

[dragonfruitghosts]

So I might’ve gotten a bit too silly with giving Kinito the markings and also decided it would be funny to give them heterochromia

But in my defense: It’s funny and I prioritize my entertainment over everything else (also my brother validated this silly ass design and that’s all that matters) /j

Anyways piebald Kinito real

It’s my favorite beast ever, the silliest guy

[pidges-lost-robot]

I’m not a “everything before season 7 was good” voltron fan, or a “everything before the lion swap was good” fan or a “at least a handful of voltron episodes were good and moving pieces of television” fan

I’m a secret other thing (All of Voltron was bad. No seriously, I recently watched the whole thing and like I’m not even that competent of a writer and even I could tell that every single episode of voltron is either atrociously bad, insulting, or like a good concept that is handled barely competently. Like, if you want to preserve the idea in your head that any episode of voltron was good, only watch Day Forty Seven or Clear Day and skip the plot relevant parts cause that’s it. And before anybody pipes up with ‘The Black Paladins’ was good or ‘the episode where Pidge found her brother was good’ or ‘the first episode was good’, i’m sorry, you’re wrong, it was just the good animation from when they focused the budget on it [on another funny note, if you do watch the whole thing, a great drinking game would be drink every time they do the voltron transformation or that bit where they clearly ran out of animation budget and have a montage if still images slightly zooming in and out of to dramatic music, you will be pissed by the end.] They aren’t good, they really aren’t. Every single episode I watched, I said outloud to the friend I watched it with ‘yeah I think despite remembering this as bad, I still remember it being better written than this’. I will forever have beef with my best friend and Overly Sarcastic Productions for ever recommending this as having good world building.)

[konohamaru-sensei]

saw a meme on tiktok. had to adjust it for @waxingmoonmilktea and me.

[thejugheadparadox]

Chapters: 3/15 Fandom: Riverdale (TV 2017), Archie Comics & Related Fandoms Relationships: Archie Andrews/Jughead Jones, will add others as they appear lol Characters: Jughead Jones, Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Toni Topaz, Cheryl Blossom, Donna Sweett, Dilton Doiley, Bret Weston Wallis, Kevin Keller, Ethel Muggs, Ben Button, jughead and his million billion pet dykes, Hiram Lodge, Alice Cooper Summary:

Well, the first ripe fruit of what is freshly two decades on earth doesn’t taste quite as sweet to Jughead as he’d hoped it would, but he feels a wonderfully heavy sort of satisfaction as he closes the comic, and can’t help grinning. He can enjoy this, he thinks, at least while he’s alone on the dimly lit bottom floor of the Lunar Comics output building, with only the clock faces and moths to see him. He can enjoy this. Even if the ink is obviously a little discolored. And the entire strip has been shoved to the back of the issue. And the first panels are directly next to a full page ad for a uniquely unappetising type of off brand Spam. He hasn’t been taught to expect much more from his employers; like Lawrie, Jughead delights in telling himself, the world ain’t given him much.

[bi-hop]

LMAO WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

[bacchuschucklefuck]

I don't think I've seen you mention it, but for your class!swap au, do you have any idea of what you'd turn the other Bad Kids into?

genuinely love the way this ask is worded first of all. I am like a great magician ur right and the bad kids are my victim. I am like their joker if you will. anyways I do! I've definitely brought this up on this blog before (in nonrebloggable untagged text posts so I don't blame you for not seeing them lol (I don't blame you regardless of that tbh bc that's a weird thing to do)) but the rundown is: kristen -> sorcerer, gorgug -> cleric, fig -> barbarian, adaine -> artificer, fabian -> rogue

[fagbearentertainment]

Honestly I love watching your neon biscuit saga, not because I'm familiar with them but bcs like. This artist (presumably) felt like their work was so unloved that they removed it all. And here you are, devoting so much time and energy into recovering as much of it as you can because you care about their art so much. idk it just makes me feel things

~Charlie anon

:3

[tastelesssandwiches-reheated]

yay

[lizzardwitch]

watching 'edge of extinction' is so funny because i'm equal parts excited that heckyl came back to save kendall (shipping heart going crazy rn) and highly irritated that kendall doesn't even get to be involved in the greenzilla megazord fight and barely gets to do a solo fight since becoming a ranger

like god forbid kendall ever have a solo fight or ever get solo focus on anything or ever get involved in the main fights

she always has to be shoved to the fucking background holy shit

[mothmothwoth]

wow it’s so 2010’s up in here (my media consumption)