#selection capacity

[corporateintel]

Getting Your Shot

This month Kamala Harris got a step closer to one of the most coveted jobs in the world. It was anything but a predictable path. The preceding weeks were filled with anxiety and uncertainty. Through it all she remained fiercely loyal to her boss and the inside circle that provided her with the opportunity to someday be considered for the gig in the spotlight. Without much trumpeting, the door…

[maines]

You’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’ve known you all the time. But I couldn’t have, could I?

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) | AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024)

[palmettoshenanigans]

I'm not even gonna write an essay on this one, I'm tired and it's rapidly approaching the witching hour so imma just-

Neil is constantly shadow boxing with his fear of being Just Like My Father NOT because he fears that Wesninski Blood but because he fears the fragility of choice. Everything he knows how to do, all of his skills, combined with his natural disposition and temperament really do put him on par with his father - potentially even worse than his father if you think Nathan lacks Neil's ability to meticulously execute a long con.

Ruthless. Manipulative. Intelligent. Sneaky n Stealthy. Fast. Quick learner. Violent. Cut throat. Selective empathy. Observant. Skilled with weapons. Crime prodigy. Improv. Etc etc etc - Nathaniel truly is Nathan's son when you look at Capacity. Neil had very good reason to fear that - he really is a Wesninski in more than just name.

He just chooses to be kind. Chooses to care. Chooses Exy and friends and family and Andrew and Love.

But choices are both iron clad foundations and flimsy whisps in the wind

Neil isn't different from his father because of difference in Capacity. Neil is different from his father because of difference in Choices. And "Is that enough?" is such a scary question when it suddenly involves people he dared to care about.

[toughttt]

I hate when people use the phrase "go/ing nonverbal" you can't "go nonverbal" you either are or you aren't.

[sanjarka]

i am simply just not built to survive a breakup. when nick and jess broke up i spent the entirety of watching season four crying. not even exaggerating.

[heartbreakincident]

im reasonably confident im not going to cave and flirt with mortum so i think for my rebirth rerun ill make them a woman this time bc uhhhhhh hot mad scientist lady

[brittlebutch]

idk if i can fully articulate this but i find it like, Interesting how often people seem to flinch away from the notion of a character having a genuine difficulty in academic settings that is caused by Intellect — how often people will seemingly try to get around the idea by writing something that amounts to, like “No this character is Smart, they just struggle with XYZ and if they were Accommodated for that, then they wouldn’t struggle in school” but it’s like,, why do they Have to be ‘smart’ though?

[emdotcom]

I get this specific type of cuteness aggression with certain characters, but instead of it being "Teehee! Gonna bite you!! Chomp! ❤️" it's "Teehee. I'm gonna beat you up so bad they need to invent new medical terms to describe what I've done to you. ❤️"

[dnangelic]

i've been considering dark's passive morbidity for a while and i do think that in regards to verses wherein he has more utility freedoms thanks to various handicap aids that help daisuke's body attune to dark's magic (a la reverse1999 or fate) he's not going to rely on brute force (hey he's thin. he might have hidden talons/claws for his hands but he's got bird bones. he would Not win a pure physical fight) nor is his maximum capacity necessarily his free-range elemental prowess, (as a god-like [lucifer-esque] guy who can fuck around with fire, electricity, light, etc) nor is it even his debuff-type magic (putting everyone around him instantly asleep, adjusting/erasing others' memories) but. his absolute thematic peak. is quite literally messing with others' time. the 'chains binding him to the arts' has always one of his utilities already, (and also what he canonically uses against krad) but the way that dark ever destroys anything - soundlessly disintegrating it, turning it into nothing but a black smoulder, isn't any sort of 'physical force' as it is an applied, immediate, infinite aging. when dark breaks an artwork, or even something with a life with his magic, he's putting it through years, hundreds, thousands, centuries, a millennia of wear and aging, until absolutely nothing, not even dust exists. it's not flashy or dramatic, it's not bloody or visceral. anything just crumbles.

[steakout-05]

saw some really triggering and horrible shit in the absolutely rancid shithole that is radfem tumblr so here is a reminder that TERFs are not, never have been and never will be welcome on this blog. i will not tolerate any hate or bigotry for trans people (or any people, really) on this blog, and if i gotta see people spewing any sort of that shit on here, it's blocked on-sight. take your blind hatred somewhere else, preferably where no one else can see or hear it.

[syn0vial]

i know tumblr is the home of "we piss on the poor" reading comprehension, but really, at least we're all still lightyears ahead of fucking reddit

[komcrebi-moved]

whispers v quietly........... I finished that google slides for my muses some time ago, but havent been around to share it. its here if anyone is still around over yonder and interested?

[allbuthuman]

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[toytulini]

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[thinmintfingerprints]

Yes, we do need good men to protect us from men (and women) who wish to do us harm.

This utopia you are imagining is never going to happen,do to the sex differences we have and also the mammal nature of human beings.

Males in general have the force capacity that allows them to do harm, that can be to the detriment of women and also to the benefit.

If some crap goes down, hell yea, I expect my male family members to do their duty and protect me. Emphasis on expect ,even if I don't want it,cause safety isn't about what you want 24-7,duh doy lol.

[llycaons]

oh my god, this file of the episode I legally downloaded doesn't have the tw at the beginning, but this is the one where lestat attacks louis

I remember being so horrified on my first few watches, and now I'm less shocked and more just tremendously sad. claudia and louis are trying to protect each other so much - louis acting as a parent, too. but it's all in vain. lestat does whatever he wants. claudia is horror-stricken and terrified and desperate and powerless. louis is trying to reassure and comfort. and lestat is saying all these nonsense lines about not wanting to fight and being SO restrained. and the sad violin music makes this less a heart-pounding action sequence a more an unfolding of a deeply poignant, though violent tragedy. I'm choking back tears. this is hard to watch

and this ending song....what a gut punch. evil choice on the production's end