#look @ him i'm bALD

[lesamis]

If you're up for it could you explain what is making the Germany government stuff so funny? I can find news articles about it (a coalition is dissolving? There's been tension for a while?) but they're all fairly serious. Thx!

ohhh, sure thing! i'll do my best!

i'll say upfront: this is a pretty serious thing to happen. our chancellor fired our minister of finance, Lindner, which definitively breaks up the governing coalition. germany will likely have snap elections at a moment in which far-right parties are polling extremely well. if news coverage about it seems like people are Worried, that's because, well, they are.

however. the reason it's funny is because our minister of finance was fired. ministers aren't really... ever fired. like, it's not a done thing. i'll fully admit i didn't even know it was an option until yesterday. and our minister of finance wasn't just anyone, he was one of the most mocked and hated figures in politics to germans who vote anywhere left of center.

the coalition that governed until yesterday was made up of the green party, the social democrats, and the neoliberal party (FDP). the FDP is infamous (and i mean, my parents already raised me to hate them for that) for playing kingmaker in coalition governments: they never get all that many votes, but they get just enough that whoever they agree to form a government with will probably succeed. they then tend to force extreme concessions from their coalition partners, because hey, if we walk off, you can't govern at all! so you better play along!

for the past three years, this behaviour has been extremely frustrating for germans who voted for greens or social democrats, because policy from their faction was constantly being blocked by the FDP and often by Lindner personally. the FDP received 11,5% of votes in 2021, but to many of us, it felt as if they were the only party who really had any say in the governing coalition. it made the green and social democratic coalition partners look spineless and passive.

and now, i invite you to imagine how on the day of the US election results, the day the whole world rolled their eyes at the sheer fucking stupidity and pointlessness of it all, at NINE IN THE EVENING, just as germans are getting ready to settle in to bed to dream of nightmare global politics -

the news suddenly breaks that our notoriously invisible chancellor just decided to fire Lindner for that exact behaviour. this chancellor comes out and says, on camera, to the entire sleepy nation, that acting the way Lindner did - blocking necessary policies, refusing to approve budgets unless his party's interests were met - was childish, selfish, irresponsible, and unfit for government, so, whoops, he had to go. shame. coalition over, i guess.

so, politically, that was a long-needed but never-expected moment of triumph for those of us who think the FDP is a clown show made up of human TESLA shares, and it came at a hysterically funny moment.

on a personal level, i can barely explain how uniquely hateable Lindner has always been. he's what would happen if a stock index graph came to life. he hates poor people with a relish; he mocks welfare recipients and would ax minimum wages in a second. he's everyone's business major roommate who shows up in boat shoes fresh off a yacht to discuss NFTs with you. throughout the entire time that he's used his rich boy policy blackmail strategy, he's been smug about it, and he was never taken to task for it, and millions of germans have been longing to throw rotten fruit in his face since 2017. and now we finally get to do it. via memes. on the day of trump's election win.

so that's why it's funny.

[journey-to-the-attic]

the new nightmare is cool but i think not putting them in hanfu was an missed opportunity

(+ long hair version that i wasn't as sure about)

[silusvesuius]

drew my 🐐s in a frenzy

[chalkrub]

challenging myself by engaging in the ancient art known as "dynamic poses", but making it harder on myself by ignoring the noble practice of "using references"

featuring belvedere and florawell

[manycowboypirates]

Smoochable egghead

[whydoihavetoart]

egg

[htub]

Somebody help me I just found the funniest fucking thing and I can't stop laughing

WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME ABOUT THIS

Why is he a train. Why did they do this to him. I can't stop looking at him I need him so bad

[sandiegokpop]

::silently chokes::

[darth-sonny]

Love how absolutely chaotic the disaster twins become post Prime!Leo

i have a slight feeling that Donnie absolutely enjoys this no filter Leo, while Raph is just crying in the background (Mikey is in delight because its hilarious)

love how everyone has agreed that Donnie 100% uses Leo's lack of filter to just to batshit stuff under the guise of "science"

as for the last ask:

poor boy wouldn't even have any hair left for it to turn white

[flying-cat]

unpopular opinion guys. i think. i've never liked the idea of izuku with undercut style hair. i like his untamed hair!! it makes him look softer. he looks too sharp with his hair styled. somehow. do you know what i mean.

[dont-leafmealone]

Zuko's sleeveless look in The Waterbending Scroll I think did a lot of the heavy lifting makign me like him earlier on in the show than most people

[nyxypoo]

i have only two words to say ... endo yamato.

thank you, have a nice day !

now i don't think my day will be nice BUT LOOKIE EHEHEHE

[azuremliam]

Heheh drew my version human scarab after being asked how I'd draw him looking human. Was met with a "nooooooooo" when I hit my pal with balding™ Scarab lol

Mercy revoked lmao

[y-rhywbeth2]

Hello, I have two questions for you: first, may I borrow your idea that the Undercity is a crashed Netherese city for a fic, and second, how would you like the idea credited if it's okay to use?

Sure, and I have no preferences. Probably an unhelpful answer, sorry.

Although if you plan on using the nation/city I mentioned in that headcanon it's worth noting that I need to correct something I got slightly wrong: Rdiuz is the state the city would've belonged to, so the Undercity itself would not have been called Rdiuz.

I don't know how many Enclaves (as the flying cities are called) there are, though there were probably at least seven seeing as in order to become an archmage in Netheril you had to have created a mythallar and an Enclave, and Rdiuz had seven Crown-Sorcerers. Meigg is the only named one.

[songmingisthighs]

ateez : work

ateez's outfits : hobo

[baelavelaryon]

made this template for my courier and her lame-ass boyfriend. (everybody better clap and cheer for him or she WILL blow up this whole building. she's got explosives as a tagged skill)