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[taiwantalk]

[thoughtlessarse]

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Outgoing agriculture minister Marc Fesneau and the outgoing delegate-minister for European affairs Jean-Noël Barrot have both expressed their concern over right-wing ideas infiltrating the new government that is currently being put together by newly appointed Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The two, both members of the centrist MoDem party, an ally of Macron’s Ensemble party (Renew Europe),  expressed their concerns in interviews published on Sunday, with Fesneau’s published in La Tribune Dimanche and Barrot’s in Le Journal du Dimanche. “At the National Assembly, even with the votes from the Rassemblement National, there is no majority to pass the removal of [the State Medical Assistance, providing healthcare for migrants, Editor’s Note], as requested by [Barnier’s party] Les Républicans,” stated Fesneau to La Tribune Dimanche. There is, hence, no point whatsoever for the next government to adopt a tougher stance on migration, said Fesneau, calling it to rather focus on implementing new laws, including 2024’s French immigration law and EU’s Asylum and Migration pact. “When one only has 47 MPs, one cannot impose its policy,” said Fesneau, referring to the number of MPs of right-wing Les Républicains.

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That's what you get when you try to keep the Left out of government, undemocratically. It's broadly what happened in the Netherlands, although it was more democratic there.

[tenth-sentence]

I open his collar for him and prop his head a bit more comfortably.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" - Erich Maria Remarque

[asthedeathoflight]

I think an underrated angle on 2x05 is something that either Jacob or Assad said in some interview somewhere, which is that in that episode Louis is addicted to heroin. Thats why he has that whole stash of drugs that he gives to Daniel, that's why he gives Daniel the drugs even though he's already got him alone. He didn't just use those 128 boys for sex he was using them to get high. Bring them home, get them to shoot up, and then drain them to get that secondhand high.

It clarifies something that's always confused me about that scene, which is why Armand saves Daniel the first time. He wouldn't save Daniel as a person, he clearly knows Daniel needs to die, but he's not seeing Daniel as a person there. Daniel is just a substance. He rips him away from Louis to stop him from using.

And i think that adds a whole other layer to the fight he and Armand have to think that this is Louis on a bender, with Armand cleaning up after him because he's not stable enough to. Louis in the bed for a week isn't just healing from the burns, he's going through withdrawal. Him at the table with Daniel giving him the "bright young reporter" speech is probably the first time he's been sober in months.

It adds another layer to Armand's desperation, that Louis has been running from both Armand and himself in this way, and of course Armand wants to erase that memory. Of course he wants to pretend that that fight never happened. Not just to protect himself but in a way to protect Louis from having said those things. When he describes the fight to Louis afterwards, he says "you said the worst things you've ever said to me." And he doesn't really know how to forgive Louis for that so he just wants to bury this rock-bottom moment and move on like it never happened. After all, Louis was high, he didn't really mean it, but if he remembers then maybe he might think that he had a point. Better to wipe the whole experience away.

[brw]

My least favourite type of internet person is the person who claims fanfic is over thousands of years old or whatever. I understand we like to joke but fanfiction is fundamentally tied to fandom culture and is a very specific way of engaging with media. Religious texts based off other religious texts is not fanfiction and it is worrying the only way you can justify your interest is by comparing the two. I promise you you don't have to reinvent the wheel to write fanfic you can just do that but we don't have to say "Shakespeare wrote fanfiction about Richard III", there was not a Richard III fandom in 1592, that was called the divine right of kings.

[anneapocalypse]

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

[catebees]

Technical details regarding a glyphed prosthesis belonging to one Eelis Lavellan

Woke up in a cold sweat and spent three straight days designing Eelis's Veilguard prosthetic arm

close ups:

[laurapetrie]

I was Elvis's doll, his own living doll, to fashion as he pleased. The more we were together the more I came to resemble him in every way. His tastes, his insecurities, his hang-ups — all became mine. My sole ambition was to please him, to be rewarded with his approval and affection. When he criticized me, I fell to pieces. - PRISCILLA PRESLEY

[umblrspectrum]

you'll never guess which movie i finally watched after 2 years of being lazy

[digoload]

19-year-old girldad learning to braid hair

[underpaidimmortal]

the thing about dunmeshi is that they show you a little guy with the SWEETIEST big cutey eyes to have ever existed and then go "you see HIM? with th big EYES? he is the most rotten man to have ever lived on the face of the planet. he is an ALCOHOLIC and DIVORCED and he wants to GO HOME" and well you won't believe what happens next.

[bitchslapblastoids]

V: Not that I’m broke. Because I know where to come if I’m broke.

D: Thank you for buying merchandise at shop.danielhowell.com so that I can pay for my grandma’s…total body workout.

Hard to overstate how much I adore this whole this (saved the parasocial for the tags)

[astrozxmbie]

[whoslaurapalmer]

so in the book of bill there's a part where he gets a bunch of old ladies to make like, precious moments-style figurines of him called The Tri Angels Collection by PudgyLilDarlins, and I was immediately super amused and charmed by this one --

which I was then Compelled to recreate, out of model magic

[odo-apologist]

POV: You're a scientist and the little creatures you've been observing have discovered one of the hidden cameras you placed in their natural habitat

[shuttergremlin]