#not sure how/if it works for americans ?

[iamthetruestrepairman]

Guys hear me out (enochian psycho??)

[fortjester]

gojo satoru & geto suguru from jujutsu kaisen vs. uncomfortably numb by american football ft. hayley williams

[smal5504]

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[felonytaxevasion]

Can I hear more about the worm vs the boys please if you want to expand on it on tumblr? I love worm and I don’t really like the boys and I can't quite explain to myself why

Yea absolutely! Im sure there's some other Wormblr posts out there that go into this in more depth but I can paraphrase what I was saying to my friends.

We were mainly discussing the concept of "edginess" and excessive anger, violence, and shock value in media and I brought up Worm and The Boys as examples so that I could sort of warn my friend about the tone of Pact without directly spoiling anything. My main thesis is that Worm is incredibly super duper edgy, however it doesn't come across as nihilistic and misanthropic like The Boys does.

I feel as though too often The Boys is usually taking the stance of "well humans suck so if you gave humans superpowers they would find unique ways to suck and the only thing separating normal people from monsters is power. So no one should have power" which I don't inherently disagree with to an extent. It's an exaggerated critique of capitalism and celebrity. But it's also such a gross way to look at humans/the nature of humanity.

Contrast with Worm that says "bad people with superpowers will use their powers to do uniquely horrible things. But good people with superpowers will also be out there doing uniquely and incredibly good things for the benefit of humanity. Every human as the potential for abhorrent cruelty. But it is just as true that those same humans all have the potential to do good."

I think it's really important that the two final and most major antagonists in Worm are motivated by nihilism and hatred of humans. Jack Slash and Scion both have the philosophy of "Humans are cruel. The parts of humanity that are good are losing out to cruelty. Why try and fight it. It's easier to just kill everyone". Contrast Taylor who, I'm 99% sure, never for a second questions if humanity is worth saving. Everyone around her in Gold Morning says "there's nothing we can do so we should at least die happy" and Taylor says "I cannot die happy unless I spend every second of my last day fighting for the miniscule chance to save humanity from extinction". Taylor and the fucking insane lengths she will go to save humans when she doesn't even like them all that much is the heart of Worm. (And like don't get me wrong worm is also about Taylor fucking failing to not partake in human cruelty at basically every opportunity. Quite possibly the worst anyone's ever done it. But that doesn't change the fact that she is trying and in the doing is pushing the audience to try as well)

And on the other hand I think the attitude of The Boys kind of just IS Jack Slashs. I honestly cannot even fathom what the take away is meant to be beyond "people are fuuucked up dude". If I wanted to be especially cruel I would say that I think a large majority of fan base for The Boys was generated on the basis of shock value and the incredibly strong performances from the cast. It's easy to get in to season 1 because it presents a horrible world with no redeeming qualities but you can assume in later seasons "they're gonna figure it out! Good will win out! Or at least good will lose for reasons that connect with the audience and make it a tragedy" but three seasons later theyre floundering to find a message and a reason people should care about the world and it's characters.

At the end of the day TLDR I think worm works because it has something to say and uses edge to support the thesis. The Boys exists more as a framework to explore cruelty in fiction and I just don't think it has a lot to say outside of that.

[2spirit]

i heard recently that most people in my tribe are eligible for Indian status in Canada, which doesn't give you citizenship automatically but gives you most of the rights of being a citizen like living and working there so looking at the next 4 years i think that might be the move...

[nerd-who-likes-cats]

Bazza Tsum!

Bazza belongs to @marigoldendragon!

Bazza is the fourth OC tsum to join our team! I present to you a kangaroo bean ❤️ (story under cut)

The spectacular light show of the portal opening, stopped the game in its tracks. Much to Bazza's indignance. He followed his teammates gaze to see what the hell this was all about.

A large portal had opened above the ramshackle dorm, and little ball-sized things were falling from it. He watched one land delicately on a windowsill of the castle.

One of the things, was falling in the direction of the feild, and with the game on hold, Bazza took the chance to run and catch it. He leapt forward snagging the thing out of the air, only for it to punch him square in the jaw. He wrestled with whatever this thing was until finally it escaped his grasp, and stood a short distance from him.

"You're tougher than you look little guy, what's your fucking problem eh?"

The creature squeaked, glaring at him with deep brown eyes. It's ears and tail were quite familiar to the kangaroo beastman.

"Well come on, have at it!. I'm not afraid of a critter the size of a football"

The tsum launched itself at him, it was incredibly impressive how well it fought given its size and shape. Bazza's team members circled around to watch, none daring to get in between the two.

Finally, Bazza pinned his tsum lookalike as a teammate called out "There's a message from the headmage! You've gotta bring the tsum to his office"

"Tsum?" That moment of distraction was all it took, the tsum wriggled out and suddenly grew in size, now towering over Bazza.

"What in fuckin' hell?"

It would take them a while to meet up with the others.

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[kushamisaru]

Stop giving people moral ocd or I'm gonna pepper spray your underwear drawer

[sadokelevra]

the genocide of palestine absolutely needs to end. there's something that keeps striking me weird about fellow americans making palestine their hard line for domestic politics. it feels egregiously performative, it feels like an extension of the United States cultural belief that we as a nation are the World Police and have a right, no, a duty to intervene anywhere we see fit. this militaristic and orientalist obsession with palestine plays neatly into pre-existing antisemitism, because americans on the whole find it more valuable to hate the Jew than to love the Arab. and that's another reason why it strikes me weird to see US citizens compromise domestic politics based on fanciful notions of the police state of America being used in their best interests rather than against it. Fuck that. You are asking the machine to suddenly reverse motion when it is comparatively easier and more meaningful to stop the running of the machine at all. This whole power system needs to be dismantled. It's disturbing to me to put foreign intervention on a pedestal, specifically in regards to US policy, because fundamentally the belief between the two sides is the same - "The United States is morally beholden to interfering with the political state of Eastern nations." The only disagreements are why and how, pure ideological fluff compared to imperial devastation.

This pressure should be placed upon the United Nations, not a single nation, not the political status of a single nation. So much of the United States power as a hegemonic entity comes from people just accepting that the US is a hegemonic entity! Stop playing ball! We need to protect the people of Palestine and we need to also disempower the imperial core! We can do both! WE CAN DO BOTH!!

[zimshan]

Read it now:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

From the National Archives

[waffliesinyoface]

its always funny looking up okonomiyaki recipes because some of them are like

ingredients: [specific type of flour], baking powder, sugar, rice wine, finely grated japanese mountain yam ("if you dont have that, as a substitute you can try: [different type of finely grated japanese mountain yam]"), pork belly, toasted sesame seeds, fried tempura batter,

and then some of them are like

"just use half a cup of flour, water, and an egg. you need about this much cabbage for one pancake."

ONE of these recipes has understood the assignment, which is "easy cabbage pancake breakfast".

[tealfruit]

unironically I do think a big reason american tourists get such a bad rap in other countries is because the ones who CAN afford to travel internationally? theyre usually the entitled obnoxious ones. not 100% but by and large if you see an American vacationing in like, Europe or whatever, they're probably fairly wealthy. they're at least not in the service industry. and generally speaking, the way they're treating service workers in foreign countries is not very much worse than the way they treat them back home, and we ALSO hate them

[manstrans]

it's funny bc like. usually with anime/other japanese franchises I'll be like "why are people calling these characters white. aren't they supposed to be japanese?" but with pokemon there's different regions that are almost 1 to 1 with several real world locations so it's like "yeah this british guy is probably white"

[justworthlessreblogs]

does anybody know how long it should take for points to apply. i ordered rapunzel a week and a half ago, she was delivered last wednesday, and they haven't applied yet

[pilonciillo]

i genuinely don’t know how i’m supposed to act at my age

[otpadsis]

got rei 5* first pull and witnessed him calling ritsu "pretty sweet angel" lmao