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I feel like something that people forget when it comes to cheap tat holidays- holidays that have been infected by low taste and workplace acceptable crappy decorations and objects of holiday significance- that there are other ways to enjoy them, and that if they so choose, they can make it theirs in ways that are beautiful that don't automatically mean they're capitulating to the Mars company and Big Plastic.
Holidays are supposed to be fun, or for making time for deep meaning and connection- to others, to your past, to your plans for the future, to the numinous that makes your soul ring deep and low in the center of your being. So instead of sneering at Valentines, or letting it make you fell bad, how about one of these?
Dance (or fuck) your brains out
make a ceremony over remembered loves past, either to cherish the good, or give thanks for the escape
take a leaf out of Miley Cyrus' book and create a perfect date that is peculiar and perfect for you and no one else
blow the money on the vibrator or sex toy you've been coveting but think is too expensive
take the 6 hours to make that Fantcy dessert
colorbound your wardrobe for the week by wearing all the pink and red and purple you can feasibly fit into your outfits
ROM COM MOVIE FEST
Write the most deranged PWP 500 words about your OTP you can think of
Send silly Valentines cards to 20 friends like you are in 3rd grade, bonus points for the worst puns you can think of
Write postcards to the couples in your life that are doing it right, letting them know what you admire specifically about their relationship
Be like OP and savor the silly gimcrack of it all, take a second and appreciate the shininess of the red plastic, as if you are a magpie
Disliking how Others do it is fine, but giving up a chance at a holiday, at making a fuss and occasion for yourself on your terms, that is poverty indeed. Adulthood can suck on many levels, see being the animal and the zookeeper at the same time, but taking time to make meaning for yourself, through the lens of a semi traditional holiday, that can be so fun, or so special, or so satisfying, that it ceases to matter how others play the game. What do you do at your house? Because making it just another day, in FEBRUARY no less, the worst and longest of the months, strikes me as worse than putting up whatever weird decorations Target had in their little deal grotto.
dont understand people who "don't like" valentines day... I personally dgaf that its "made up" and "commercialist"... i love heart shaped things and i love everyone in my life. Its really simple
#valentines day#holidays#being a goddamn adult#the terror of choosing what that means#in the spirit of the person who does new year's resolutions like#Pasta Quest#and trying every kind of fruit the grocery store sells#enrichment#brought to you by my insane attempt to do a Christmas Thing on every day of advent for my 4 year old#thus dooming me for every Christmas advent thereafter#seriously#setting precedents#choosing meaning#will I do any of this?#well I am fond of Jelly Belly's sour pucker lips#and making up a list was fun#we'll see#thanks for the chance to let out such a big rant OP#apparently I needed it
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Scenario where cumplane become friends before the Abyss, and Luo Binghe determines that actually, Shang Qinghua is potentially his biggest romantic rival.
Not because Shang Qinghua is particularly seductive, and not even because of their friendship, but because Shang Qinghua actually seems to be fluent in Shen Qingqiu's weird and at times contradictory signals.
Liu Qingge and Yue Qingyuan can yearn and pine all they want, but they can't even convey romantic interest in a format Shen Qingqiu can or will recognize, so at the end of the day they're making all of these overtures and Shen Qingqiu is just like oh what nice friends :) about it. There's way less risk of him ever accepting their suits when he can't recognize them as such, and when neither of the other guys even realize he can't recognize them as such!
But Shang Qinghua...
Shang Qinghua knows that Shen Qingqiu is unaware, too. And he knows how to make him aware. He knows how to parse Shen Qingqiu's odd double-speak and mixed signals maybe even better than Luo Binghe himself. Plus he can anticipate what things Shen Qingqiu is liable to react strangely or inconsistently towards, when again, even Binghe struggles to do that sometimes!
If Shang Qinghua ever made a move on Shen Qingqiu, he would be able to convey his intentions clearly. And before Binghe has the social standing to actually present himself as a viable alternative, he wouldn't even be able to argue against the match! It would be totally dependent on whether or not Shen Qingqiu was interested, and Luo Binghe cannot say with confidence that he actually wouldn't be? Shang Qinghua may be the weakest and least dashing of the peak lords, but he's not bad looking. He even has certain traits which Luo Binghe himself shares, traits Binghe's deliberately tried to emphasize because he knows Shizun responds to them, like being pathetic, and clingy, and clumsy, and having big eyes and curls in his hair and doing important work that helps make Shen Qingqiu's life more comfortable...!
Luo Binghe starts spying on Shang Qinghua. He is going to get dirt on him, and he is going to blackmail him into swearing that he will never ever attempt to court Shen Qingqiu! At least not until after Binghe has reached his majority and can fairly compete with him for his master's affections!
Of course, this is how Luo Binghe discovers that Shang Qinghua is a spy for Mobei Jun, and is plotting to assist in an attack on the Immortal Alliance Conference.
A revelation which accidentally creates such an untenable situation that the plot shifts irrevocably. All Shen Qingqiu knows about it is that out of nowhere the System has offered to remove the Endless Abyss mandatory plot point but only if Shen Qingqiu agrees to purchase something it's calling The Espionage Path...?
#svsss#bingqiu#cumplane#scum villain#scum villain's self saving system#the only reason luo binghe doesn't immediately expose shang qinghua is because he's also a demon#he doesn't want to necessarily set a precedent for kicking people out of the sect JUST for associating with demons#instead he needs to build an airtight case that shang qinghua is planning to betray the sect on totally non-demon-based grounds#shang qinghua keeps getting weirdly ominous system notifications and sweating#shen qingqiu is just glad that he's somehow(?) nullified the abyss plot
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I think it would be better for everyone if I were to be left alone in the future. Don't you?
#goodomensedit#goodomenssource#goodomensedits#Good Omens#Aziraphale#tusermyra#userfra#tusermich#maria7potter#crowleyanthonys#userbecca#usereena#my gifs#this is not a gifset about Aziraphale being badass or him lying to god being a grand thing or anything because it's not#it's about the actions he takes that go against or bother Heaven in all their variety#it's about his unpredictability and the precedents he has set in taking action#and how he has given up everything he loves for the chance to do good#so once he realises that Heaven won't let him he's gonna Do Something and i can't wait to see what#it's Aziraphale so there is a pretty big chance it'll create a mess in wholly unanticipated ways#either way i hink Heaven is going to have regrets one way or another
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Oughh it’s 2:00 AM and I’m having Thoughts and Emotions about Marceline the Vampire Queen. Like— she’s a punk bisexual and cool as heck but she’s also a terribly sad immortal with mom issues and double dad issues BUT BUT ALL of her parental figures gave her unconditional love so strong that it fundamentally saved the human race. Marceline saved the humans who hated her because her demon dad passed on the legacy that helped her grow powerful and her mom sang her lullabies and her adopted father clung to every shred of his breaking mind to protect her childhood. She was so loved! She was so loved! And that love never went away it stayed inside her even when all three of her parents hurt her so badly that the pain stuck for a thousand years. And all of the ways they hurt her were BECAUSE they loved her, so Marceline never learned to differentiate what it meant to love someone and hurt someone. So she hurts the people she wants to protect, she’s rough with the people she wants gentleness from, she abandons the people she wants by her side. And so much of the show is her collapsing and falling apart because she can’t figure out why why her relationships are all so broken. And then little by little she gets closure with each chapter of trauma— with her demon father, with her mother’s memory, with dear Simon— which then allows her to finally be at peace with herself and accept love— pure as it is— and give it back.
#adventure time gets the congrats for writing the saddest characters in the world award#haven’t even delved into my Fern rant cause I implode each time#and Simon Betty! Ow ow ow!#Minerva…#I will never get over how intricate and human and layered and complex AT’s writing is#phenomenal speculative fiction world building and character writing#In a cartoon that set the precedent for stupid fart gags#anyways if you’ve read this far into the tags marceline is my baby girl and she really really needs a hug#marceline the vampire queen#marceline#adventure time#at#adventure time analysis
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giggling kicking my feet twirling my hair @ geto carving the necklace you've really done it now hina
have i ? :3c
jjk atla!au with @philosophiums
#answered#kikuism#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#gojo satoru#geto suguru#satosugu#fanart#jjk fanart#jjk atla!au#atla!au: illust#atla!au: art#looks at clock by talos this cant keep happening#ive set a precedent of doing draws for asks and no one is making me do it but i get the Visions.....#ive been pavlovd... :(( i see ask i think o draws time.....#gotta draw gojo speechless fr the first time in his gd Life#anyway ive had enough of these homosexuals /affectionate#put a ring on it geto i am going 2 bed VGHDSF
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Dc x dp idea 123
Danny is haunting the watchtower. No regrets. He was just so fed up with the lack of action.
Seriously they had a whole bs site claiming they were pro meta and basic rights. Like it had links on where to “report” breaches. All utter bs.
Nothing about the anti ecto acts. He personally called in and reported it many times. And nothing happened. As the king. He had a duty to his ppl. Now he didn’t want to hurt anyone or declare war.
But he will absolutely in the middle of their meeting change the screens of the computer to the site to report breaches. Mayhaps add bloody green text seemingly dripping in all cap LIARS and maybe YOU IgNORED US.
Was it a tad much to leave a stabbed article about the anti ecto acts in the middle of the meeting room ozzing ectoplasm. Or maybe the whispering in the ears of anyone who slept here.
He certainly didn’t think so.
So now the screens occasionally flickered the failed experiments of the GIW. Sure no one’s been killed yet. But the justice league didn’t know that. Danny is great at breaking them out.
#dcxdp#dpxdc#dcxdp prompt#dpxdc prompt#Danny is pissed#like they ain’t helping#clearly those acts set a bad precedent#at least that’s what sam told him#yet they did nothing!#just ignore them all#like rude#enjoy being haunted#technus helped Danny#ghost king danny#cause i love that#danny is a little shit#danny is a gremlin#danny will prank them for the rest of time if he has to
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I don't want to EVER hear "sexual abuse allegations ruin a man's life and career :(" or "false allegations are just as bad a crime" again. I don't want to hear that ridiculous "imagine the backlash and punishment if the genders were reversed!" argument that shows up every time there's any instance of inappropriate behaviour by women towards men. we don't have to imagine actually!!! we know that in actual real life if a man has a decades long history of sexual abuse and misconduct he gets to be elected president twice!!!!!
#between this and the horrible dangerous precedent set by j*hnny d*pp it feels BLEAK out here#if you speak out you probably won't be believed and maybe you'll even be punished for it#and even if you are believed it won't make a difference anyway#talking
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Dooku didn't leave because of the Jedi.
At least, if you're going by George Lucas' word.
In deleted scenes of Attack of the Clones, when we learn about Dooku's departure and his values, there's no mention of the Jedi or "the Jedi Order as an institution".
And every time Lucas refers to Dooku's disenchantment and reason for falling, he doesn't mention the Jedi.
"When you realize that Dooku is Darth Tyranus, it explains what Darth Sidious did after Darth Maul was killed: he seduced a Jedi who had become disenchanted with the Republic. He preyed on that disenchantment and converted him to the dark side, which is also a setup for what happens with Anakin." - Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones, 2002
"[Dooku is] one of the few Jedi who became disenchanted with the Republic and left the order and he is leading a separatist movement." - Vanity Fair, 2002
"I wanted a more sophisticated kind of villain. Dooku’s disenchantment with the corruption in the Empire is actually valid. It’s all valid. So, Chris plays it as, 'Is he really a villain or is he just someone who is disenchanted and trying to make things right?'" - Starlog Magazine #300, 2002
He probably meant the Republic/Senate in that last one, but you get the point. And you're seeing the pattern, right?
Dooku's problem isn't the Jedi, it's the Republic.
He's become disenchanted with a system that - according to Lucas' prologue in the 2004 book Shatterpoint - worked for 1,000 years...
"For a thousand years, the Old Republic prospered and grew under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the venerable Jedi Knights."
... but has been rendered ineffective because of 1) senators becoming corrupt and 2) corporations gaining political power.
"But as often happens when wealth and power grow beyond all reasonable proportion, an evil fueled by greed arose. The massive organs of commerce mushroomed in power, the Senate became corrupt, and an ambitious named Palpatine was voted Supreme Chancellor."
That's the message Dooku runs on, when he rallies the systems to form the Separatist Alliance.
"By promising an alternative to the corruption and greed that was rotting the Republic from within, Dooku was able to persuade thousands of star systems to secede from the Republic."
The Jedi aren't really a factor in his decision to leave.
Why would they be? Their political status isn't very high, they're virtually powerless, as illustrated by the film's narrative and stated repeatedly by Lucas.
On the contrary, as we already established in this post, Lucas full-on confirmed that Dooku actually carries the sympathies of most of the Jedi. Again:
Most Jedi agree with Dooku, ideologically.
As far as the Jedi are concerned, the politicians are effing up the Republic, and it sucks because the Jedi see this but aren't allowed to interfere in the political process. They have to resort to looking for loopholes in their mandates to actually get stuff done.
That's what that whole "she's a politician" scene is meant to hint at. In the commentary of Attack of the Clones, Lucas uses a similar turn of phrase as he does with Dooku.
"[This scene gives us] a chance to talk a little bit about politics and the Jedi’s disenchantment with the political process, due to the corruption and the ineffectiveness of the Senate." - Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002
Considering all this, it becomes clear that the intended narrative surrounding Dooku's decision to leave the Order is not:
"The Jedi are dogmatic and asleep at the wheel except for Dooku, who is ahead of the curb and sees the system is flawed, so he left."
It's actually:
"ALL Jedi see the system is flawed, Dooku's the only Jedi who decided to take it a step further and leave the Order so he can try to get into politics himself and change things."
That's why they hesitate to accuse him of murder.
That's why in an earlier draft of the Attack of the Clones script, by the end of the second act, Mace STILL has his doubts that Dooku would sign a treaty with the Trade Federation to attack the Republic.

As far as the Jedi are concerned, Dooku is out there fighting the good fight, making noise because whenever they try to protest it falls on deaf ears... until his betrayal on Geonosis.
After all, let's not get it twisted: the Dooku we're introduced to in the films and The Clone Wars, isn't really just Dooku anymore.
He's Darth Tyranus.
A point Lucas makes sure to highlight in his Shatterpoint prologue:
"Unbeknownst to most of his followers, Dooku was himself a Dark Lord of the Sith, acting in collusion with his master, Darth Sidious, who, over the years, had struck an unholy alliance with the greater forces of commerce and their private droid armies."
It's not about doing the selfless thing for Dooku, anymore. He's knowingly part of the problem.
He's all about ambition, now. His personal goals are things like overthrowing Sidious and becoming the most powerful Jedi.
"[Anakin's] ambition and his dialogue here is the same as Dooku’s. He says “I will become more powerful than every Jedi.” And you’ll hear later on Dooku will say “I have become more powerful than any Jedi.” [...] It is possible for a Jedi to want to become more powerful, and control things." - Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002
"If you put two Sith together, they try to get others to join them to get rid of the other Sith. [When revealing the truth to Obi-Wan], Dooku's ambition is really to get rid of Darth Sidious. He's trying to get Obi-Wan's assistance in that and help in that, so that he and Obi-Wan could overthrow Sidious and take over." - Attack of the Clones, Commentary Track 2, 2002
Y'know? Selfish things.
Dooku - like all other Sith, and like the very corporations and Senators he had sworn to destroy - is consumed by his own greed.
#also functionally-speaking Dooku being a Jedi is done to highlight the ambiguity throughout the investigation on whether or not this is#a scorned ex-Jedi or a straight-up bad guy... you're never sure until the end of AOTC. That and Dooku being a former Jedi shows that#even someone who was once selfless and dutiful can crave power and be selfish#which sets up a precedent for Anakin - who's already struggling with being a selfless Jedi - when HE falls to the Dark Side#Dooku being a former Jedi isn't a plot point meant to narratively criticise of the Order... it's meant to hint at Anakin's downfall.#dooku#george lucas#star wars#attack of the clones#long post#collection of quotes
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we needed an arc of blue and adam moving in together at some point. there should be more plotlines where circumstances force you to move in with your ex girlfriend
#rip jon and georgie you set an unbeatable precedent#guy who has a crisis but has zero friends so has to live w his ex. this could be blue and adam to me#blue and adam would somehow be fantasric and terrible roommates
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hey. can people please stop parroting "stan only regained his memory because it's a disney show" like it's an objective fact and somehow a storytelling flaw? because that's reductionist and straight up untrue. stan regaining his memory is not a random deus ex machina, it's clearly established earlier in the season that the memory gun isn't permanent via mcgucket's storyline. as soon as mcgucket watches the tapes in society of the blind eye, he begins to gradually heal and regain his memories. it makes perfect sense that mabel's scrapbook (and in journal three, stan and ford's old home movies) would function the same way for stan.
realistically, stan probably wouldn't have remembered his entire life in the span of a week, but his recovery is obviously being condensed for the sake of pacing. there's a ton of awesome fanworks based on the idea that he's still recovering new memories long after the end of the show, particularly from the darkest period of his life when he was homeless and estranged from his family. but that's not relevant to the finale. what matters for the show's purposes is that stan remembers the events of the past summer, so that his goodbye with dipper and mabel at the end of the episode holds dramatic weight. because THAT'S HOW YOU WRITE A STORY.
#this may or may not have been brought on by the gt live stream#“stan regains his memory because god forbid a story have stakes” THAT'S NOT WHAT STAKES MEAN???#the worst possible outcome does not have to take place in order for a story to “have stakes”. it just needs to be a possibility#THE WORLD ALMOST ENDED#there's your stakes#every time someone says that the scrapbook jogging his memory was a random deus ex machina i want to scream#IS MCGUCKET A JOKE TO YOU???#quick question do you understand the concept of narrative precedent. do you know what set ups and payoffs are.#you can tell i am very calm about this and not at all infuriated#gravity falls#gf#gravity falls spoilers#weirdmageddon#stan pines#stanley pines#grunkle stan#fiddleford mcgucket#society of the blind eye#gt live#being vague posted about lol
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standing in front of a firing squad would have been easier than reading this script i need to be shot
#this is hands down the most insane script ive read i was sitting slack jawed half the time#not because its Outrageous but because. oh my fucking God#frank sure does have too much influence over *gestures broadly* This.#to see their dysfunction presented like this. is. so.#like. of course the reason they cant be nice to each other is because they all expect some kind of Trick. we see this again in s12#they've set a precedent where everyone is unable to be vulnerable out of fear that someone else is going to take advantage of them#its about knowing to Never let their guard down. because they can't afford to be stupid enough to think someone was being nice#its literally about them not trusting each other. they know each other. care about each other. but they're all still at war with each other#anything could be a trojan horse#and even when they try to do something thoughtful it's ruined bc their motives are being questioned and that provokes a defense#''of course i wasn't being Nice that's stupid why would i ever do that for you'' because otherwise theyre leaving themselves open to attack#i think this episode works purely because theyre All trying to change this at once and since theyre all aware of that fact#its like oh okay youre not fucking with me because we've established we're all trying not to be cynical#i cannot even begin to dig into the pure autism of this entire. not even just the episode premise. the whole basis of the gang's dynamic.#like yeah of course a group of weird neurodivergent people is hypersensitive to this#its the same thing as mac and dennis in suburbs questioning wally's intentions/demeanor welcoming them to the neighbourhood#literally in defense mode all the time because they expect the worst from people and they haven't had any reason to think otherwise#marder and rosell get it but thats not exactly new and surprising <3#but wow this script adds so much. at least for me.#iasip#it's always sunny in philadelphia#ada speaks#character meta#for good measure
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#source engine#garry's mod#gmod#half life 2#sandbox#considered putting p'nkblack in as a subcredit here because basically all of the assets are repurposed but it'd set a weird precedent lol#happy valentine's day here's yet another offshoot voidplaces map
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It really does look like pivoting to Harris has thrown the Republican party for a loop. She's speaking clearly, concisely, and with wit; if she were to be put in the ring with Trump, it would be a knockout if only because she's coherent.
I'm voting blue regardless, but I've started to feel like I've moved from voting for the 'least bad' option to someone I might actually be more passionate in supporting.
#US politics#biden harris 2024#Also before people comment or reply or etc#I will NOT be posting more on this matter#I keep politics off this blog because there's already plenty of it out there#also I know that Harris isn't perfect. the media has made it abundantly clear and thrown all of her failures to the public#dems have ALSO criticized some of her work/legislation#but again (and I cannot stress this enough)#WE CANNOT DEMAND PERFECTION RIGHT NOW#I'd argue that a good percentage of Americans (~40-50%) do not have a solid grasp of how absolutely precarious things are right now#and I'm not talking about the economy or the job market or housing#I am talking about looking at the historical precedent for everything the right is trying to do#the water is heating up. They're setting it to boil. If you are not careful#you'll find your rights are slowly starting to slip through your fingers#“Oh Artsekey that's catastrophic thinking! You're making it sound worse than it is!”#Listen. Our nation is extremely young. We're exiting decades of prosperity. People are desperate. They want something to grasp on to#These are the conditions in which people accept more authoritarian rule. Slowly. A little at a time.#It. Can. Happen. Here. Don't let it!
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Can we finally talk about how even if the Dance never happened, Jace ascending the throne would’ve still started a war? Or are we just going to keep acting like the Blackfyre Rebellions don’t tell us all we need to know?
Just wondering….
Oh and if you do want to talk about it, lemme hear you lol 👀
#jace velaryon#fire and blood#hotd#dance of the dragons#blackfyre rebellion#team green#team black#if you disagree & want to argue go somewhere else#Targaryens#aegon iii targaryen#aegon ii targaryen#aemond targaryen#daeron targaryen#jaehaerys targaryen#melor targaryen#viserys ii targaryen#there were too many Targaryen looking men for the realm to be okay with plain Jace on the throne#especially because the precedent he would’ve set would’ve been monumental#pretend that this story has happy endings all you want#but it would’ve ended in disaster too#just my opinion#if you don’t agree with it be glad there are ways to not see this
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Here's canon in-universe pronunciations for most character names I've mentioned more than once, the Faces of God, and Wardi provinces
(character names spoken in typical surname->given name order)
#I've gone back and forth on the pronunciations of Hibrides and Janeys and on the emphasis for Couya so this is it set in stone. For now#Also Wardi used to not have a flapped R but I kept finding myself using it anyway which honestly makes more sense with the linguistic#influences. You flap the R sound in almost all cases where it is both preceded and followed by a vowel sound (exceptions are on an#individual word scale) and most cases where it precedes a vowel. You Usually do not when it precedes a consonant.#So like the Rs in Hibrides and Tigran are flapped but not in Uryashta#A lot of these aren't Wardi names either but most are being pronounced here as they are in Wardi dialects (with the exception#of Ne-Dain Brakul (which would be harder on the 'Ne' and the L in Brakul) Etsushir (which wouldn't have the soft Y at the beginning#and would probably end with a flapped R] and Palo Apolynnon (which would use the /a/ sound instead of /æ/ and many dialects#would go with 'leen-non' instead of 'leenyon')
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