#no its not even an opt out

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

Gotta wake up at 8ish and its 2am rn ughhhh. I literally GOTTA wake up tmrw bc i slept thru school 2day but ive got 2 n a half hours more than i have had any other day this week so thats just. Tiring. Cant even sleep in school like mannnn. Think i will simply die.

[dukeofthomas]

I need people to realize how horrible 'stalking/constant surveillance/breaking into each other's homes is how the Batfamily show love' is. Like i really need someone to just acknowledge how horrific saying this bullshit is.

Like even fics where they're shown as happy and healthy and with good ties, you've always got this thing where none of them have privacy or any boundaries with each other. Which is directly antithetical to actually having good relationships. And this invasion via hacking and stalking and breaking into homes is portrayed as a positive, good thing; it's just how they show love and care to each other, after all. But for some reason I just personally don't find stalking, lack of privacy or boundaries, and emotional manipulation funny, endearing, or healthy, and just end up disgusted at the attempt to sweep it all under the rug.

[sforzesco]

what ARE the circumstances that made decimation work for Crassus, if you don’t mind me asking?

it was a slave rebellion, and the third servile war would be the last major slave rebellion during the republic.

it's important to remember: roman attitudes towards slaves, and that when the roman army cracks, it shatters.

Decimatio: Myth, Discipline, and Death in the Roman Republic, Michael J. Taylor

here, the decimation cauterized the hemorrhaging morale because the army felt reassured that their commander was more terrifying than spartacus (appian civ. 1.118). even if this is generous take on the situation, either way: the army under crassus' command came together to accomplish the task the senate set for them.

we will not see this specific set of circumstances again, and other commanders will not be jumping at the chance to try their hand at it since it was excessively brutal in practice.

this is probably the only moment where it would be met with any kind of positive reaction by the army. on account of the slaves. I cannot emphasize enough how humiliating it was for the roman identity that they were brought to a standstill by a slave rebellion. which is also why crassus executed six thousand surviving slaves by crucifixion (a death that was humiliating, painful, and most horrifying of all: slow)

tldr; rome is a horrible torment nexus filled with violence from the top down

[lyss-butterscotch]

Peeked at instagram recently and see that its also feeding posts to AI, with no way of opting out in some regions and in the regions they do allow it, they made the process extremely hard and hidden and you have to provide a screenshot to prove your art has been stolen by AI???

God that fucking app is a cesspool now. I really want to just delete all my posts there but IG is the first place i ever posted my art on the internet... I regret it now.

Honestly everything META touches is a cesspool. Remember when they made a twitter copy and made it impossible to delete without also deleting your instagram so they can brag about the high user numbers?

[cookie-dough-writes]

Hm it really sucks that entertainment and especially "immersive" entertainment is rapidly going down hill in quality because the people who are in charge are being as stingy as possible, despite society leaning more heavily into fantasy and escapism every day

[spidergvven]

thinking about colin saying he doesnt want to be a spokesperson in contrast with sam embracing the opportunity to be a spokesperson, how even though being closeted in an extremely heterosexual and homophobic environment is a painful experience colin can blend in but thats never been an option for sam or any other black athlete. sam is obviously the type of person to speak up about injustice whether he's obligated to or not but in many ways he doesnt really have a choice, not in the way colin does as a white guy.

even within the queer community a cis masc white guy like colin is not going to experience the kind of bigotry a gender non conforming or trans queer person would. and thats not to say that being closeted is a privilege (it is so very very not) or that the homophobia people like colin face isnt awful and painful but it's just. different. and we see this all the time in real life, there are so many white queer celebrities who feel the same way as colin about being a "spokesperson" but really no one wants to be a spokesperson, no one wants to have to fight just for their right to exist but we're not exactly given a choice.

[dusty-pistol]

I'm kinda baffled that I've only seen one Callum Crown ask blog so far. And it's... wildly out of character if I'm even allowed to say so. It must've been made before we got all this information on him or by someone who just doesn't know much about him. I don't mean to sound rude in any degree, I'm just surprised, is all.

(Please, someone make an actual callum ask blog, or I may have to do it myself. Which I am admittedly scared to do so.)

[samarecharm]

Endlessly tickled by the idea of Akira being a good shot but a shit gamer. I like to think its cause hes got incredible hand eye coordination and super steady ‘surgeon’ hands; hes very good with precise movements, but panics when he has to do brain melting inputs. His brain can keep up but its hard to make his hands follow suit. Its why u can have him be dogshit at arcade cabinets; panicking with the little joystick and button mashing like mad, while having him be a beast at things like darts and billiards.

The only arcade games he can play is house of the dead-esque shooting games (hes literally at the top of the leaderboards for MILES and he draws crowds whenever he plays) and DDR cabinets (hes just very light on his feet)(NOT to be confused with stepmania; he would die if he had to do arrow inputs with his HAND). Its kinda fun to watch him fumble with the other silly gimmick cabinets, but its more entertaining to watch him do what hes good at. If u take him to play darts, and if the darts are super cheap, he will absolutely try his best to split them down the middle each time. Doesnt always work, but its insane to know that he lands the bullseye literally 100% of the time.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

the insanity of making a new streaming service when the streaming bubble is literally popping Right Now

[moeblob]

Anyway they can change between being tiny and human sized. And when they're tinier they can only be seen by the other fae or their selected humans. So if you just passed Noll on the street while Shavuli was perched on his shoulder chatting away you wouldn't see or hear her.

[garwicbreb]

I'm so fucking sick of ai.

I don't want ai to write my stories for me. I don't want a robot telling me how to make a scene more emotional with stolen words it cannot feel and robbing it of its complexities with forced grammar and nonsensical musings. I don't want it to correct or rewrite anything for me.

I don't want ai to tell me information when I look something up and for it to be the first thing that's shoved in my face spouting false information. I don't want an 'overview' taking over the other pages of information written from heart and interest whether it be a small Wikipedia contribution or a whole blog from 2009 with comic sans and poorly formatted images.

I don't want it there and the very fact that it's pretty much impossible to disable, not even giving me the option of removing it is frankly quite harrowing. The very fact its there slurping up a power grid to steal website headings and make words that have no substance does nothing for my anxieties about the future of the world and don't get me started on ai 'art'. Its not surprising that these big corporate companies are so keen on it, but it doesn't make me any less angry.

[i-cast-zone-of-truth]

Miles Vorkosigan is literally if "curiosity killed the cat / but satisfaction brought him back" was a person. Straight he may ultimately be, but im sorry Lois you CANNOT tell me he has not personally investigated every type of consensual sexual experience offered to him. You're telling me he'll have an intimate and mutually satisfying sexual relationship with a female werewolf but intersex BEL THORNE is a bridge too far? Girl.

[puexii]

friendly reminder to turn this on

go to tumblr website -> settings -> click on ur blog to do blog settings -> scroll down and u will find it as the last toggle in visibility section

i couldnt find it on the mobile app so ye use the website

[kotoneshiomiofficial]

i think its very telling that on this site people are always asking "am i a good person?" and never "am i doing the right thing?" its always about never being able to do harm to anyone, ever. no one stops to ask themselves if what they're doing really isnt hurting people or if they're not listening to the people they are hurting because they dont want to take responsibility. and even then people treat the questioning of one's actions as a sign of Inherent Purity And Goodness. "bad people would never think they're doing something wrong!" actually having doubts or anxiety or whatever about what youre doing is a sign that you should genuinely consider your actions and the consequences they may have. and then yeah, maybe you were worried about nothing or maybe you really do have to change. but youll never be able to do any real good in the world if you never question yourself or the path your on.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

shoutout to those nights where the brain says We Literally Cant Do Anything Even Though We Really Want To <3

[baeshijima]

its the way like,,, half of sundays section in the pinterest board is just outfit inspo for him as a duke bc there is like no art of him as one and i am going insane with all the possibilities he could have

like

THE CUFFLINKS AND CRAVATS AND FORM FITTING CLOTHES AND THE OFF-SHOULDER CAPES AND THE GLOVES AND THE JEWELLERY AND THE FRILLS AND THE EMBROIDERY AND THE AMULET WITH HIS FAMILY CREST AND THE FAMILY COLOURS HE MATCHES WITH ROBIN (and u as well bc ur part of the family now) AND—

IS THE VISION BEING SEEN