#me? absolutely not

[river--sea]

@dotmatrixnudes is absolutely correct. Donald Trump has been regularly throwing the word Palestinian at Zionists as an insult. We aren't stupid; we are fully aware how absolutely awful Trump is.

Biden is awful. Biden is awful. You cannot say "Oh, his policies are more progressive," if he doesn't do anything with the policies. His stance on abortion is more progressive than Trump's, but did he do ANYTHING to support women's rights? His policies on immigration are supposed to be more progressive than Trump's, and yet Biden has been funding the fucking border wall and aiding to the border crisis and deporting people left and right.

I'm from the South, so let me tell you something right now: governors are already implementing EVERYTHING Trump wants. Louisiana, right now, just mandated displaying the 10 Commandments from the Bible in every K-12 classroom. Florida is banning every Pride-colored anything from existing. Educational criterias are getting Whiter and Whiter. Abortion rights are non-existent, with some governors trying to get birth control fully banned, too.

Biden's president right now. Why hasn't he stopped any of that? If Biden is so progressive, if Biden is such a stark contrast from Trump, why has everything fallen to such shit?

Your problem isn't that Trump has disgusting policies. Your problem is that YOU might actively be impacted by his policies. Under Biden, those same policies are coming to fruition, but more subtly. Under Biden, the only consistent and obvious example of fascism is the literal genocide massacring my people. I'm ignorable, you're not, so you can shrug off the genocide and complain about the fact that I'm too disillusioned to fall for the same 4-year trap that you believe in.

to be honest it would make me a lot more comfortable if you guys would show a little concern about trump running for president again. Do not inbox me and say you don’t like joe biden omg i already know. but can we show a little concern. about donald trump. being the republican candidate for president. for the third election in a row.

[drsarcasticraspberry]

truly the wildest thing about all the Bridgerton discourse about "is Nicola Coughlan too FAT to be a convincing love interest???" is that in many ways she actually looks better in the period costumes than her thinner counterparts because she has the figure to really fill them out. those dresses are incredibly flattering on larger bodies because they emphasise the bust and cleavage whilst creating a very elegant silhouette. there's something unintentionally hilarious about hearing pearl-clutching in the distance over "idk is this FAT WOMAN sexy enough to be believable as an object of lust??" whilst Penelope Featherington's majestic heaving bosoms are almost spilling out of her dress in a category 5 titty event. if anything she's too sexy. they had to spend the first two seasons putting her in ugly dresses in a desperate attempt to conceal the fact that she's serving more cunt than the entire itty bitty titty committee combined

[muffinlance]

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[cryptic-forge]

fighting art block with silly little projects like this Teapot Animal, sipping from your cup. i finally got to experiment with gold leaf on a bjd & that was a lot of fun.

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[figofswords]

Dungeon food. Ahhhh, dungeon food!

[bruciemilf]

Batman isn’t a mask; It’s a leash. In this essay I will—

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel's protection should have saved Viktor too, and she's trying to figure out why it didn't

(Editing to add: see this post for details on the Mel's armor/shield theory)

S2 ep1 shows a circle of protected stone where Mel and Jayce were during the explosion. My theory is that Mel's magic armor activated and saved them both. It seems like it casts a sphere of protection around wherever Mel is.

The center of this circle is not Mel's seat - it's Jayce's. She ran to Jayce to save him.

No other Councilors were in range of Mel's protection, so they all got hurt or killed.

But Viktor was, in Jayce's words, "right next to" him. He was easily within Mel's circle of protection.

1) Viktor tried to run and mistakenly left the circle of protection. But are we meant to believe that Viktor, close to dying already and using a crutch, would have outrun Mel?

2) Viktor's augmented body clashes with Mel's

Why does Mel try to touch Viktor in episode 1? It seems like a throwaway moment, but not even Jayce touches him in this scene. So why Mel?

She's curious. And possibly, feeling responsible. She's wondering why her protection didn't work.

Is this Hexcore brand of the Arcane trying to reach out to Mel? Or trying to defend itself from her?

Mel was trying to protect both Jayce and Viktor, which is reflected in how she holds Jayce as well as Viktor's cane when she promises to protect Hextech:

But if, for example, Mel's magic is Solari in origin, and Viktor's is from the Void - or the Arcane equivalent of similar opposing forces - then it's possible that their magic rejects or hurts one another. So Mel's circle of protection either rejected Viktor, or was what hurt Viktor, and not the explosion.

[seducedwithlingerie]

Lingerie love

[splendidfemalelegs]

So hot under the long black coat

[spacedace]

What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?

[artkaninchenbau]

Crocodile finds a strange stray cat an 11-year old Nico Robin (AU where they met 13 years earlier. Robin's been on the run from the World Government for 3 years. Crocodile's 27 and has not set up base in Alabasta yet)

It seems like I have become possessed. By some sort of demon.

Bonus:

[ezramire]

if aught but death part me and thee

[gongyussy]

fascinated/horrified by this set of tweets…

[kyuyua]

Proud of my king 👑