#oops all politics

[erosflux]

I hate that conservatives and fascists co-opt tradition as a group signifier. I love traditions. I love rules and etiquette. I just also believe we shouldn’t do genocide and stuff, y’know?

[dallydaydream]

I posted 251 times in 2022

47 posts created (19%)

204 posts reblogged (81%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@haberdashing

@bodaciousspaghettimonster

@annabelle--cane

@wingwaver

@gayagendaofficial

I tagged 248 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#us politics - 12 posts

#anti-monarchy - 11 posts

#uk politics - 8 posts

#puns - 8 posts

#colds - 7 posts

#art by others - 7 posts

#memes - 6 posts

#lgbt+ - 6 posts

#dally's personal life - 6 posts

#ides of march - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 130 characters

#sometimes when i'm doing really mundane things i like to imagine it's part of a studio ghibli movie and i find that quite soothing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Disney Dreamlight Valley is out here asking the important questions, like what would happen if Ariel and Wall-E met, and I am 1000% here for it (though I would be even more here for the pathing to put them both in the same place so they can have the dialogue interaction needed to progress their questline, but hey, the game isn’t finished yet)

8 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

#4

It’s only now that season two is over that I’ve thought to wonder...

How did the Collector get his name?

What does he collect?

11 notes - Posted June 1, 2022

#3

Okay but we stop coming last-- and in fact come bloody SECOND-- in the EUROvision Song Contest-- after we LEFT Europe. I don’t understand and at this point I’m not sure I want to.

Europe please let us non-rightwing countries back in and to the bottom of the scoreboards, I’m scared.

14 notes - Posted May 15, 2022

#2

The only thing wilder to me than the fact I pull up the youtube clip of The Chain scene from Our Flag Means Death to watch basically every day is knowing that I am FAR from the only person who does that. As a fanbase we are just collectly wrecked by that scene and I am 100% here for it.

32 notes - Posted April 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Tory government when faced with a pandemic: “Now let’s not be too hasty, let’s just carry on as usual for now and see what happens”

Tory government when the head of an outdated institution dies: “SHUT IT ALL DOWN”

80 notes - Posted September 16, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

Somewhat gutted but not surprised that my most-tagged topics and most popular post are political in nature

But on the plus side, Ides of March (still political I guess??) made it into my top ten tags, which I think means I'm tumblring right

And puns made it into my top five which means I'm definintely dallying right

[joodeegemstone]

I'm having more half-formed zukka thoughts, so:

Hakoda mentions to Sokka that he has been thinking about making an arrangement with Zuko to marry a woman from the Southern Water Tribe, for political reasons. Something about unity between nations.

Sokka isn't completely sure, but he thinks that Zuko has implied in his letters that he isn't particularly interested in women. Sokka volunteers himself to marry Zuko. For purely diplomatic reasons, of course.

It's not that Sokka is in love with Zuko, or anything like that. It's just that he can't stand the thought of his friend being stuck in a loveless sham of a marriage. And, if he really lets himself think about it, he can't stand the thought of someone else being the one to marry Zuko.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so I watched the most recent episode of succession (oops) and the thought vaguely occured to me "oh dear how are they going to recover from this one?"

and the answer is, of course, that they won't. this is the beginning of the end. this is how they destroy each other.

anyways that's my prediction for the fandom ciao kisses hope u all have a very chill season 4 💋

[diddykitty746]

Polites' mallet. OGH

[moeblob]

OCs today because I really missed them. Since I wanted details still but with less effort (aka no shading) I opted for their DND AU versions.

Not pictured: Paul (a Pauladin if you will) messing up and probably nearly dying for the fifth time.

[the-insomniac-emporium]

made some icons from my mosaic art

feel free to use with credit Miranda's was included very begrudgingly (hers is just nowhere near as good as the others. which, again, makes sense because hers was first. but still.)

[vinkandpaint]

idk my bff rose

[house-of-ivy]

personally i would love if queen elizabeth dying in balmoral and scotland leaving the union happened within AT LEAST 5 years of each other.

so if we could just sneak out now that’d be great.

[theblackphone-incorrectquotes]

Bruce: I'm going to ask you to be respectful.

Vance: I will politely decline.

[ms-all-sunday]

water 7 geopolitics.

water 7 is an independent citystate of the world government despite having a working contract with the world government they don't have to enforce their law because they're not under the world government

it's complicated, the laws are independent and the world government doesn't enforce their law 99% of the time because of the fact galley la could just stop making boats for them and that would be extremely bad

galley la is able to use the boat relationship as leverage politically to the detriment of the world government (this is why they got away with enies lobby no consequences style) as long as they keep making boats for them/in aid of the civil war on pirates.

water 7's political strategy protects their own independence while playing both sides in regards to the civil war on pirates, which you could argue is actively harming other nations independence of the world government (like wano)

[erosflux]

People going to all the trouble of developing less ecologically harmful materials to save the world then patenting them so no one else can use them is gonna be my Joker origin, I swear.

[vonlipvig]

to congress we go.

inspired by and referenced from this leyendecker artwork below the cut

[matcha-goblin]

Ugh I am so pissed at scotus right now. We did not elect these people. We can't get rid of them. Now they have nearly absolute power over us and they're using it to fuck over women (and other uterus owners), poc, people with student loans, and now gay people. We can only watch them strip away our legal rights for the next forty years. And still, people respect these "justices" because of this fucking myth that they aren't partisan and aren't affected by current political movements. Like hell they aren't. They're just bending to the alt right reactionaries like every other politician thanks to the bribes from billionaires and super pacs they receive. Half of them don't even deserve to be on the "supreme" court and wouldn't be if it weren't for the bullshit that congress pulled under Trump. Fuck scotus. Someone please overthrow the government, okay? Soon maybe??

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

we need more vivi hurt/comfort in this fandom. #25 prompt (“I’m going to ask you how you are and I would like you to answer me honestly.”) from Artie to Vi if you're up for it? 💛🩵

(hurt/comfort dialogue prompts)

(oof god i'm rusty with these characters. let's get into it)

"I'm fine," she says, for what feels like the millionth time.

"Bullshit," is Arthur's response. "I'm down an arm, Vi, not my fucking eyes. And ho- honestly, I wouldn't- wouldn't even need th-those to tell right now." A hand lands on her shoulder, pushing her down further into the chair for emphasis. "One more try. I'm gonna ask you how you are, and it'd be nice if you c-could answer me honestly."

She shoves him off and stands up, already stalking away, ignoring the shooting pain all up through her side when she does. "God, fuck you. Fuck off. This is so stupid. I don't need,"

And then her vision whites out.

---

She blinks herself fuzzily awake into a world much softer than the one she was just in. She's in bed, she registers, or at least a pile of blankets. The pain is gone, but it also feels like everything else isn't quite online, either. There's a vague clicking noise from somewhere to her right.

"...you hovering all the time," she finishes her thought, although it comes out too mumbly to really deliver.

"j'you say sa- s-something?" The clicking noise stops, and an Arthur appears in her field of view. He looks worried. So, like normal.

"Yeah, uh, what? Why am I in bed?"

Now he just looks exasperated, throwing his hand up in annoyance, which is an improvement at least. "You passed out, stupid! And th-th-then when I freak out, out about it you're all like oh no never mind it's whatever fr- from the fucking floor. 'Why am I in bed.' Dumbass."

She only vaguely remembers that, not that she's going to admit it. Well, okay, question answered. She tries to get up, and Arthur immediately shoves her back into the pillow.

"Hey," she protests.

He makes his usual staccato ch-ch-ch disapproval noise, which she usually thinks is cute when it isn't directed at her. "Nope. I j-just got done bandaging you up, you are not getting up. You, you are st-staying right here."

She tries to wrestle him off, but he's annoyingly persistent and her angle's all off. "Okay, I'm patched up! So it's fine! Let me out!"

Whup, and her hand is flat against the bed, and Arthur's hanging out of his chair to get his arm over her chest and pin her down. "No."

Probably she could flip him. Maybe. He'd hit the wall behind her but not, like, hard. She thinks about it. It's really hard to lift even the non-pinned arm. Maybe she couldn't.

"Stop being stupid," she tells him instead, sounding normal and not at all desperate. "This is nothing."

"It is- v-very much- not nothing."

"This can't be enough to stop me. It isn't! I'm better than this!"

"Get up, th-then!" he challenges.

"I'm not a fucking tranq'd animal!"

He yells wordlessly at her, she shouts back, until they're both panting.

She shoves him again, no real force behind it this time. This is such a waste of fucking time, when he damn well knows they never have enough of it. "I need to get up. You need me out there, you know that."

"Go to hell."

Now tears are welling in her eyes. She's screaming at herself, internally, but for some stupid reason it's not translating into more strength. "We're wasting time, here. I'm ready to go, I can move, I can work. Let me up."

He flops over, into a less aggressive pin, but not actually a less effective one. Their faces are almost touching, which was maybe the idea. "One more try," he says, again.

His damn stubbornness is another thing that she likes more when it isn't being used on her. This is not a fight she is going to win.

"If I fall asleep," she says reluctantly, "and you're not there when I wake up, I'm going to fucking kill you."

That gets a laugh out of him. "M'not going anywhere, Vi."

[lethalhoopla]

"I could've sworn I was only gone for three days."

"And now here you are, home in my arms at last! Truly, your impeccable timing only serves to brighten my day, divine light of my life and Warden extraordinaire-"

"Pretty sure you're in my arms, Zev, love."

"And what lovely, strong arms they are. Say, that's a fascinating wall behind us, perhaps we ought to test it's integrity..."

"Zevran."

"Yes, my love?"

"Three men are dead in the corridor. And four more in the rest of the building."

"Ah, yes. Terrible liars, really. Awful at covering their connections. Your entrance was stunning, by the way. Are those new lightning strikes? The flair! Not subtle, of course, but I always was a man that could appreciate seeing my beloved arriving to catch me from my dramatic second-floor escape while they were backlit by the death throes of our enemies. Did you know that no less than four sects of the Crows are operating in the same quarter-city here? Messy, messy..."

"Are they the only ones that needed to be taken care of?"

"... Now, if you wanted to woo me so thoroughly, you could not have chosen more enticing words."

"Oh? I wouldn't mind hearing another example or two... for reference."

"Excellent. Five more targets in the next two rooms, and then I do believe I'll spend the rest of the next three nights providing fully interactive demonstrations."