#like. WHAT?

[robotpussy]

can somebody stop this man

[youngerfrankenstein]

“You know I’ve seen… less nonsense in 3H stuff here. Maybe tempers are finally cooling.”

*Looks up Rhea art while not being logged in* “All Rhea fans are Tradcaths and probably fascists.”

“…Oh right. This fandom has not had a normal day in its life and I probably just have most of the egregious people blocked.”

[macchiatosdumptruck]

Man the military recruitment ads have been going absolutely wild lately

[madfoxx]

Errr. Excuse me but i feel like we should talk more about the fact that IZZY LOSES HIS MOTHERFUCKING LEG SOMEHOW!!!!?????????

[aliaoftheknives]

some of you will just start saying anything is tankie. saw a tag on a post that was like yeah imperialism is bad but then people will be like to learn more about anti imperialism read lenin! and it's like i have some bad news about where a sizeable amount of anti-imperialist scholars attribute their line of anti-imperialist thought to

[mintedcats]

The graphic novel's art was amazing and it was a good read but once it tried to start Fire and Ice it went downhill like immediately. Nearly the whole book was skipped over and I was really disturbed by the lack of Graystripe killing Whiteclaw during the riverclan skirmish.

[bookwyrminspiration]

adding on to that previous ask. sorry i had to go do something in the middle of typing 😭

i understand that its not the focus of the books, but i think for how much the two secret societies are tied to the government its a little strange the gov. isnt very reliably elaborated on.

It's almost like the Lost Cities' government is a formality, not an actual governing force. Since its formed under the assumption that elves are good and things like crime and corruption are below them, a problem of other species, and since the Lost Cities are prospering, the point of the government...kind of disappears.

The council enforces and punished broken laws, but since people don't break the laws (or at least so they thought) they're not needed for that. The allocation of resources becomes redundant when they're in constant abundance and never wanting for everything. Resources don't need to be controlled because everyone has access, and all those people can be trusted to be wise and fair because, again, elves are good.

There's just a few things that can't be left to the entire population, like meeting with foreign ruling powers. You need an appointed person. And it's entirely possible that part of having a specific group of people to refer to is for the sake of appearances to the others. It makes them appear more structured and put together, like a cohesive world instead of just a bunch of people left to their own devices, who could be vulnerable to attack.

So I think perhaps the reason we don't see the government elaborated on a lot is because there's nothing to elaborate on. A lot of the typical roles we associate with government aren't necessary here (in precedented times. the current time period is a bit fucked up but this is a temporary blip). It really is a basic and unbalanced as it seems.

It is unusual for a series with non-insignificant secret societies rebellion against and trying to fix the system to not go into more detail or have more detail, but I think it's all connected back to the fact that elves aren't supposed to need that. But these are just my reflections, who knows how accurate they are :)

[ryanthedemiboy]

Everyone I knew in elementary school started having periods in fourth or fifth grade (except for one poor kid who started in 3rd) — including myself.

“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat who taught in public schools and noted that girls as young as 10 can begin having periods.

“It would,” McClain responded.

Unbelievable. Link to article.

[redstonedust]

phenomenom thats been bothering me that i could only express via an mspaint reverse boomer comic

[scaryorganmusic]

what fucking hell dimension are y’all blogging from

[2022dirt]

Things worn down by people.

[guiiay]

jinx and isha visit a walmart

[darklight-owl]

Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[x0401x]

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?