#none of you will see heaven

[vague-humanoid]

its wild to me how low the bar is. the Biden admin has already directly supported mass murder, and even that isn't enough to disqualify them from our support. people who have lost literal relatives have stated if the dems just stop.. just quit supporting the killing going forward.... they will have their vote.

no punishment for previous actions, no refusal to "engage with politics". just stop these actions moving forward.... and even that massive compromise is seen as unreasonable and fringe. even as poll after poll shows its actually a winning move.

I have seen dead children everyday, and in the face of that, people are going "we'll let that slide, just don't do it again" and that's positioned as the unreasonable position.... not because we'll overlook the horror, but because we won't overlook MORE horror.

[ebullient-prism]

This article is like a black hole of hypocrisy, not even Voltaire could reach such heights of satire.

The ONLY mention of Palestine in this article is to hypothetically compare the current response to the spread of footage from Palestinians to that of GERMAN CITIZENS DISSEMINATING FOOTAGE OF GERMANY UNDER ATTACK AND THUS MAKING IT HARDER TO PROSECUTE THE NAZIS.

Every aggressor made the victim.

Not only is this world cruel, it is also incredibly dumb.

[good-pokemon-center-reviews]

[royalarchivist]

Ironmouse: I love it when you punch me.

Baghera: Yeah, you do? Oh, I'll keep going then. [Punches Mouse off the walkway]

Ironmouse: What a treat. What a treat to be punched by Baghera!

Baghera: You can crush me too, if you want.

Ironmouse: I WANNA CRUSH YOU! YEAH!!! ...If only I had the guts to crush such a beautiful person.

Baghera: One day you will. Oh yeah, please!

Phil: ...What am I hearing right now? 🤨🏳️‍🌈

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Ironmouse: Baghera! :D

Baghera: Hiya! How are you?

Ironmouse: I love it when you punch me.

Baghera: Yeah, you do? Oh, I'll keep going then. [Punches Mouse off the walkway]

Phil: [Laughing in the background]

Ironmouse: Oh, thank you.

Baghera: Yeah, don't worry.

Ironmouse: What a treat. What a treat to be punched by Baghera!

Baghera: You can crush me too, if you want!

Phil: [Dying in the background] Wtf!

Ironmouse: I WANNA CRUSH YOU!

Baghera: YEAH! Do it!

Phil: Oh my god...

Ironmouse: YEAH!!! ...If only I had the guts to crush such a beautiful person!

Baghera: One day you will. Oh yeah, please!

Phil: ...What am I hearing right now?

Baghera: Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah.

Phil: [Cracks up]

[cookies-in-chees]

Jordan Peele was so fucking spot on about the whole “people care more about the spectacle than the tragedy” thing because why the hell did I just see an oceangate x jjba fanfiction

[pisshandkerchief]

"any two dudes can be best friends, you can find a peterick situation at any bar in the world" you will never understand you will never get it

[ssenza]

“With you, I forget my goddess”

“I would much rather gaze into your eyes than hers. Yours are capable of tenderness, and feeling. No god could ever compare.”

[everlastingrandom]

*tiktok influencer voice* okay girlies, here’s how you’re going to standout for New Year’s Eve: (black top + sequin shorts + sheer tights combo that was based on a singular celebrity photo that viral a week ago) (the same outfit but now burgundy and with a fur coat) (the same outfit but the top is sequin and the bottom is leather) (the same outfit now with a blazer) (the same outfit but somehow even more basic and neutral and mainstream and

[crowleysfall]

look at him trying to act devastated about claudia like his ass didn’t orchestrate the whole thing

[tea-cat-arts]

Fuck it, I'm still salty Su She made it past the first round in the official poll

[enbysiriusblack]

soulmate au but they aren't each other's soulmates. the universe actively tries to break them up but they keep fighting their way back to each other.

[visenyaism]

i am so sorry…the psych news for wyll is dire

they gave GORTASH like five times as much stuff as wyll in the patch…

[utilitycaster]

I just want to say, that I agree with almost all of your Critical Role takes and you have 1000% better and more nuanced takes than all of Twitter and I greatly appreciate it! The takes over there regarding Liliana and the gods are just wild and you bring some much needed sanity to the content I see

Thanks! I hope you don't mind because I've been thinking about this re: the Twitter takes but the thing about Twitter and Liliana specifically that I've seen is that there's this really bizarre fetishization of like, the fact that she is a (white) southerner (this also weirdly happened for Birdie though to a much lesser extent, and the person who spearheaded that wasn't even American so I have to assume this is a specific corner of Twitter Culture At Large). And like, here's the thing. It's true that fantasy tends to be very British in its accents, and it's also true that accents in a fantasy world are used to convey the same things we'd assume in our world - RP British for educated, southern American for rural, Cockney for rougher types, etc.

It's also true that laying the exact socioeconomic parallels from our world onto, say, Liliana and Orym (who reads to me as non-regional but I, like Liam, am from the Northeast originally) is a recipe for disaster. Or rather, it's not, but it is going to reaffirm your own biases, some of which are dangerous to reaffirm.

There was a popular post on Tumblr a while back, probably not long after Trump was elected, of someone talking about how they were convincing a relative with the confederate flag towards socialism by appealing to the idea of "isn't in unfair how uneven wealth distribution is and how a small group has so much control" and a number of people were rightfully like "uh, maybe you should focus on the racism" or "hey OP ask your relative who they think that small group in control is because I'm getting a really bad feeling they're going to say it's The Jews." And I feel that a lot of the empathy for Liliana from those spaces feels like that OP. Or in other words: I get that you see your relatives in Liliana. Unfortunately, I cannot help but see me and mine in Orym.

You see someone trapped by circumstance and desperation in a dangerous ideology. I see the fact that I haven't gone to a synagogue in easily 6-7 years without there being a security guard present and usually, the doors locked with someone looking through the window to let you in, and then in the sanctuary there's been an installation so that you can quickly bar all the doors in case an alarm goes off or you hear shots in the lobby.

I think there's a great case for seeing yourself in Imogen, who is in a painful struggle with the fact that her mother does love her very much but is in dangerously deep and has done a number of incredibly terrible and harmful things. That latter point is important, incidentally; I get that cult members sometimes rise through the ranks but all but the leader are being manipulated. But the fact remains that a brainwashed person can still commit atrocities, and in this story, they have, many times over. It's especially true because like...sure, plenty of people are like "I lost my relative to a cult and I just want them back and I couldn't harm them," but also, as we've seen, this cult can and will harm Imogen! Plenty of people are also like "yeah I gotta cut them off, it hurts but unfortunately my horribly bigoted and violent relative, while a victim of brainwashing, is a threat to me too." It's not even the full picture of the Temult side of things, let alone the picture that includes the Vanguard's victims.

I also think the Southern gatekeeping is unhinged because it's like. guys there's QAnon members and other cults across the country; the Confederate flag example above was actually notable in that OP wasn't even Southern so you couldn't even write the flag off as deeply misguided heritage but rather was explicitly being used as a hate symbol. It's awfully presumptive to assume all southerners have the same experience (especially since the Temults are portrayed, physically and in accents, as white southerners, not that the experiences of white southerners aren't also incredibly varied). It's awfully presumptive to assume that people find Liliana threatening because they have no personal experience with people like her; often, it's because they have all too real experience with people like her, and it says something even worse about you if you can say "but you guys, I see me and my family in Liliana" when people are telling you that they see them and their families in Orym. I would not, personally, publicly admit that one's empathy extends to the people who remind you of your family but runs out before it reaches their victims. Nor would I publicly admit that I assume everyone who disagrees with me clearly has never had personal experience with this topic.

I should also note that, as I've noted a number of times before, that these are fictional characters and not real people. Twitter seems to be really fucking bad at grasping that. Like, yes, this is the other thing; I do not think that OP should kill their Confederate flag-toting relative, whereas if Imogen did so to Liliana I'd be like "hell yeah." The former is a real person who I do hope gets deprogrammed, just, you know, maybe adjust those priorities; the latter is a fictional character in a story.

[emiliosandozsequence]

this is such a weird hill for you people to die on lmao

[musical-chick-13]

Yes, capitalism is bad. Yes, we should dismantle capitalism. No, capitalism is not the Sole Thing Responsible for every single bad thing that has ever historically happened to anyone.

[sugar-bi-scuit]

Mu Qing: I hate you sometimes.

Feng Xin: Well according to this picture our followers drew of us holding hands that's not true.

Mu Qing:

Mu Qing: Feng Xin, you drew that.

Feng Xin: It doesn't matter.

Also the picture in question: