#not quite screaming into the void

[crystal-overdrive]

Thinking of pushing on the class aspects of Towards Tyranny a little more.

Idk if it's really obvious in the text at all but Tavarina's motivation is really informed by class dynamics. She rejected her heritage to make a life free of its trappings, one she genuinely sacrificed a lot for and worked hard for, yet she leans so hard into the (unspoken) rules and standards of that noble background. She loves luxury but thinks that others who flaunt it are gauche, she hates how defined by rules the nobility are and yet judges others for not following them, she holds taste and intelligence as a supreme measure of worth.

Her position as Enver's PR draws so heavily on this, her kill-them-with-kindness, polite-but-firm, sit on your hands and bite your tongue style of leadership that maybe we don't actually see that much of because her patron drowns it out.

I think there's a really interesting dynamic in Enver having more money and power than Tav, but none of the background, none of the education, the taste, the trappings, the knowledge of the unspoken. She is absolutely beholden to him in the material sense, but according to the system she grew up in, one she might claim to rationally have disavowed but hasn't truly in her heart, she is better than him. Or she should be.

Tav thinks a lot of her politics are for the greater good and there's an obvious wrongness to this when she's talking about kangaroo courts and militarisation, but I think she's almost most interesting in the early chapters when she's observing the people coming together to rebuild but then drinking expensive imported tea and telling herself that's what she deserves. And those sorts of ideas will sit quite naturally alongside one another until she's confronted by her own hypocrisy. I want to show that she fights for the people and is yet disgusted by them, particularly those who rise above their station financially but not in true class terms. She doesn't believe in the populist platform Enver became Archduke with, just knows she can use it to further her position.

Like, ultimately, there's disgust for Enver himself there, but I don't think she'd notice that because she's not very emotionally intelligent.

[rainbluealoekitten]

love reading old spell books/religious instructions like "pour in the blood of a person who died a violent death" okay girlie ^^ should i get that at tescos??

[copdog1234]

War never changes. War never changes. WAR NEVER CHANGES.

That is the entire point of the series. That is especially the point of the show. War does not change.

Humanity was trying to rebuild, yes. But the entire point is literally that any one single selfish arrogant human can cause it to end it again. War can happen again. War will happen again. It is an endless cycle. And as people covet power, the whole thing will eventually topple.

That is why it is not a whole country that ended the world, it is a handful of heads from corporations.

That is why it is not a whole faction that "ended" the NCR, it is a single man from a bygone era who had a hand in ending the world the first time, that does it.

And I think that New Vegas showed us that the NCR was kinda crumbling already, too. The "fall of Shady Sands" wasn't the bomb itself, it was the beginning of the NCR's struggles. If I'm recalling New Vegas' plot correctly, the NCR was already struggling to hold the wasteland, to integrate people into it. There were resource shortages, it was getting too big, they had other factions battling them for power, and maybe your actions as a player had some pull either direction, but it's possible it wouldn't last.

If it wasn't a bomb, something else could've ended it at some point, too. Because war doesn't change.

As long as there's resource shortages, as long as there's mistrust, as long as people don't learn right from wrong, and as long as people muddy right from wrong.

That's the show, that's the games. Maybe the writing of that isn't always the best, but that's what it dwindles down to.

It is not a retcon, it is the main idea. It is not a "dumb take," it is how the world is.

Even in real life, there is sometimes hope and some things improve, but it doesn't stay improved, ever. Hope and despair comes in waves.

And war never changes.

[thehecklingmouse]

back in the akademiya kaveh was alhaithams first friend+crush so he was quite possessive over him and tried to intimidate other students but the problem was that he was short and had a babyface so he just kinda looked like an angry cat

[petorahs]

ryoji's character be like. "what if the only thing death ever yearned for is life" "what if the answer to accepting death is to try to live" "what if your entire life's purpose catastrophically goes against your every wish yet youre doomed to carry it out anyway" "what if the only way out of it was death" and being shocked when someone important to you... refuses that fate for your sake. that they want you to live.

[spiritofboredom]

I have a bone to fucking pick with the makers of From The Fog /lh

Before I tried the mod, I was a regular Herobrine simp. I was content with just reading self-insert fics and looking at pictures of him.

AND THEN- I stick that mod onto my server to scare my friends. A lil hehe silly secret prank. AND LIKE THE SIMPLE HUMAN I AM, I GET ATTACHED.

SO THE GAME HAS JUST FED MY DELUSIONAL ASS AND NOW I WANNA STRAIGHT UP SEE ME AND HEROBRINE TOGETHER. SOMEBODY SEDATE ME!!

[tardis--dreams]

It's been over 2 years and i still haven't found a drama that captivates me with the intensity of beyond evil or the devil judge. I'm beginning to accept that nothing's ever gonna come close to making me feel this way ever again

[uncriticalbunny]

sydney and carmy have such a deranged dynamic so it's very funny when people try to put them in a "professional coworkers" box like bffr nothing about their relationship is professional

[peaches2217]

A little love can go a long way in lifting dampened spirits. Binx, for his part, refuses to let me forget that I’m loved.

Also, I’m now stuck here until he wakes up, and he’s a very heavy sleeper. It’s been nice knowing y’all.

[h0rny-bee]

i'm literally so cuddleable and no one's here motorboating me wtf 🙄

[transsexualhamlet]

Collage I made about Fëanor and the legacy of the silmarils. Words are mostly cutouts of national geographic, a very terrible poem, a very terrible mystery novel, and painting over the painting "The Initiation" by Charles Sellier.

[unsexynudity]

skinny person using a mobility aid usually means people on the bus will go "a person with invisible illness!" and offer their seat.

if i, a fat man with a disability that has nothing to do with the fact that i am fat, use a mobility aid on the bus, people go "fat freak. it's his fault he's disabled" and stay put

[anime-scarves]

Made a bluesky for my vtubing activities. Twitter is becoming even more of a dumpster fire than it already is (which is impressive tbh). Follow me if you want, or don't I guess. I'll still post stream links here when I do stream but i'll be active there about vtubing stuff probably.

[bitfruity]

i have never been so obsessed and in love with a man before in my life

like as a teenager i liked bands and thought some members were kinda cute but NOTHING has prepared me for the teenage girl in my 20’s level infatuation i have for this man

and then he had the AUDACITY to bring another one into the mix

words cannot explain the amount of gender envy tommy gives me do i want him or do i want to be him?? i look at some pictures of him and go THATS ME THATS HOW I SEE MYSELF

[rabbitsonthemoon]

Sometimes I can't believe Sonic Prime was real. A whole show with Sonic and Shadow interactions, and good characterization, and voices, and animation, and fight scenes, and angst and- urgh, my inner child is healing so peacefully with this one. It's everything she would've wanted. 💖

Thanks for such a great show, even if I loved it so much that thinking about it makes me question the reality of its existence.

[judasofsuburbia]

not getting over nick posting about brat summer for a long time