#profits today

[sakasakiii]

a while ago i was sent an ask from @waterjewelsspite (answered below) wherein i was asked about different elven fashions.... so from left to right: doriathrim fashion, teleri + nargothrond fashion, vanya fashion :DD these have been sitting in my drafts as uncoloured wips since early 2022 omg, but better late than never i suppose !!!

i didnt have a specific sketch page for the noldor that i did back then hahahaha so i came back to it recently and took it as a chance to do some assorted concept doodles with the kind of outfits i imagine them wearing in mundane situations? i dont quite know how to explain it but i hope my annotations can help show my thought process a bit!!

cant believe it took me this long to give like half the characters proper fullbody refs or designs (im looking at YOU beleg and mablung) but this has been super fun and really refreshing, so thank you again waterjewelsspite for the kind ask!!! sorry again it took. two and a half years. OMG. for me to get it done 😭😭😭 i hope this sufficed!!!

in usual fashion, bonus feanorian shenanigans: caranthir's first business/publishing/entrepreneurship/girlboss venture

[chimeowrical]

Sweetheart 🍯

(Nettle is a they/them)

[petrichara]

Actually I’m not going to listen to you describe a feature of my body like a problem while trying to sell me your product

[butterflysnowflake]

man can I just say how adorable Wolf's interaction with Delia in the wedding scene is? When she's explaining her situation he gives her the most understanding looks and it's because they both effectively had the same cause of death. Delia turned her mourning of Charles into part of her performance art, and died from being scammed with asps who were NOT defanged. Wolf wanted to deliver the most authentic performance possible and died from presumably a negligent armorer who didn't bother to check if the grenade was live or not before shooting. both of them were quite literally killed by their art (not by their own faults to be fair but from someone else's irresponsibility). and it's kind of lovely Delia got such a sympathetic escort back to the netherworld who knows her situation firsthand probably better than anyone else

it's weirdly wholesome and empathetic even as their situations were both played for morbid laughs, and if Delia didn't have eyes only for Charles (what's left of him) and Wolf wasn't in a committed relationship with Janet I'd even say I could have seen things going somewhere between them

[feroluce]

Had the cutest realization last night- so there's a saying we have in English meaning to get something done by any means necessary. It specifically includes dishonest methods, such as violence or lying. So when you're willing to resort to that kind of thing to achieve your goals, you say you're going to do something

"by hook or by crook"

[nekrosmos]

Putting off doing something for close to two years because it seemed scary only for said thing to end up not being that scary 😔​✌️​

[godsfavoriteasian]

More Bootlicking Bullshit from the WaPo.

[remembertheplunge]

The world wants to be deceived

The following is from the book “I and Thou” by Martin Buber. Mundus  vult decipi:, a latin phrase, means "the world wants to be deceived.” 

The truth is too complex and frightening: the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few people acquire…the world winks at dishonesty. It does not call it dishonesty.

From my journal 7/14/2014 page 41 “I and Thou”  “Once a few respected men have fortified a brazen claim with their prestige, it becomes a cliche that gets repeated endlessly as if it were self evident. Any protest is regarded as heresy that shows how those who utter it do not belong”

End of quote and entry.

Note: 11/21/2024

The following is by Emily Tamkin

HR 9495 passed the House this morning. It could very well be used to make things difficult to impossible for nonprofits and their actions—like organizing and advocating—work that is both an important part of a functioning liberal democracy and sometimes a crucial pushback on power”

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I unknowingly was prophesizing the world of post election 2024 in my above mentioned 2014" I and Thou" entry.

Apparently Americans who voted for Trump November 5, and the congress members who voted of HR9495  today “want to be deceived”. 

In the hope of returning to a mythical time where straight whites  and Christian values controlled the land,  they are unable too see the truth that they are actually allowing Trump to slowly build the road to an authoritarian state. HR 9495 is another stone in that road. 

[windupaidoneus]

hildecember 31. maybe not the best but its for me

[brick-van-dyke]

If there's one thing I've respectively noticed from Zionists and defenders of Israeli war crimes, it's that every source, argument and potential avenue to explore each explanation is riddled with cherry picking, moving the goalposts and mental gymnastics to explain why their conclusions, which typically are barely even related to the sources they use, somehow overshadow literal reality and what we see with our own eyes.

While scrolling, one example I came across was the repetitive misrepresentation of BLM, antifa and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr, as well as statistics, scholarly journal articles and government website information. These are all good sources, yet every single time they're mangled completely until the only possible "interpretation" of any of them is "well Israel is right to defend itself after shorting rockets beforehand because the retaliation was brutal and all Arabs are bad by default therefore". As if any of these sources are even about individual exceptions of Israel versus hatred towards Arabs.

I think what I find most absurd, as someone in the middle of their own studies, is how every bit of critical thinking and logic goes out the window as they do every single thing possible to do what professors worldwide say NOT to do when evaluating sources. It's like watching a race to see who can tangle and misconstrue scientific information to fit their world view the fastest. Then said people say "um actually I studied at university before so it's actually not wrong that I'm doing this exact this everyone is warned not to do because I have a permit". Ignorance I can forgive, but willful and arrogant manipulation? That's another thing entirely.

[psykersomatic]

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

[beansnpeets]

Yesterday boyfriend took me on an adventure to Riding Mountain National Park and we went and saw the bison and it was dope as hell. Photos to come. They came RIGHT up to the car. Was super cool.

[dreamieparadise]

I'll draw Colonnello and Reborn as this just you wait.

[jackalopedaily]

Jackalope Daily Day 311

[deus-ex-mona]

when freedom is in sight!!!!!!!!