#similarly politics

[curiosity-killed]

Not to be like a crotchety old grandpa waving my cane at middle school hooligans but I do wish (especially) young, very online queer folks would take a sec to learn a little more about like political movements and social change

[uncanny-tranny]

This might seem like an "old man yells at cloud" situation, but it's just wild growing up and being told how dangerous distracted driving is - how, at highway speeds, you can traverse the length of a football field (100 yards, 91 meters) in a matter of seconds - how one split second sending a text while driving could result in a potential fatal crash, and then getting on the road as a driver and being surrounded by billboards. Their entire purpose is to catch one's attention, so they're lining major roads, which tend to be highways. How is it that you're told how important it is to never be distracted while driving, but still being advertised to?

At best, this type of advertising is an eyesore to pedestrians and motorists and a general waste of electricity to light it, and at worst, it is an active danger considering they are there to advertise and therefore, must catch people's attention.

I'm not even against advertising in theory, but this particular mode bothers me so much and I hate how pervasive it is - especially in large cities or highways.

[elegantcherryblossomsheep]

the thing is that whats happening is really scary. not because everything is going to fall apart - he may do far less damage than we fear.

but because this outcome has people afraid for their lives and uncertain if they want to live. democracy should never leave such a large proportion of people fearful.

yes, there will always be people upset about the outcome of an election - usually around half. but there should never be people interested in harming others or constructing conspiracy theories, and absolutely never people interested in harming themselves.

American politics, radicalism and individualism has gone too far and its dangerous.

[elfiepike]

so far my one caveat for ballad of sword and wine is, the on screen torture (of both people and animals) can get! intense!! however. those are uhhh less memorable than some of the other on screen events buds, the on screen flirting via threats, the on screen threatening via flirtations, the biting (the biting!)

[carebearcody]

all the labour mps that abstained:

bullshit response by labour mp rushanara ali as to why she abstained on the snp amendment (x):

a completely non-satirical response by labour mp chi onwurah as to why she abstained on the snp amendment (x):

and there are so many more. these people do not care that palestinians are being murdered, that a genocide is occurring or that they are the ones enabling it. please, if you live in the uk, put pressure on your mp; make them realise their seat is not safe and that their constituents demand calls for an end to the occupation of palestine now 🇵🇸

see how your mp voted here

[stiltonbasket]

absolutely love the wrh raises wwx au! is there a reason that the sunshot campaign is happening so many years later than canon in this au? did wwx play any role in delaying the start of the war?

Yes! It's my personal headcanon that novel!Wen Ruohan only started the war because he realized that his own sons were nowhere near as talented as Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen, Lan Wangji, etc; but in this verse, Wen Ruohan postponed the start of the war because he had Wei Wuxian.

As in canon, Wen Ruohan destabilized the Nie sect several years before Wangxian met by murdering Nie Mingjue's father, and Lan Xichen never stood out as a threat because he dropped out of the competitive cultivation circuit to raise Jingyi when he was only 23. Lan Wangji stopped attending tournaments the same year LXC did, so Wen Ruohan paid very little attention to the Lan sect until he stumbled across Jingyi night-hunting with Jin Ling about fifteen years later.

At that point, Wen Ruohan was reasonably confident that Wen Xu would be a decent successor; but Wen Xu and his wife had three daughters and refused to keep trying for a son, and Wen Chao had been unable to father any children despite having a wife and several mistresses. What was worse (to WRH) was that Wei Wuxian was unmarried—under Wen Ruohan's own orders—and had no heirs other than Sizhui, who was categorically incapable of fighting anything but fierce corpses/yaoguai because he was terrified of injuring or killing another person. As a result, Wen Ruohan finally attacked the Cloud Recesses when Sizhui was about 17.

[sybbi]

"If enough of us vote third party for president, we could actually GET somewhere with our policy goals!"

Baby girl you can't even get a majority of third party/independents in a single state legislature. In the past 30 years there have been seven independent/third party state governors, and of those, only three were genuinely independent. The rest either got elected as a R/D and switched mid-term when they alienated themselves from their state party, got elected as I and then switched to R/D during their terms (with some of them having served the R/D parties before), or served as proxy candidates with heavy backing and support from one of the major two parties. Even VERMONT, a relative stronghold for independent/third party candidates -- the place that brought you Bernie Sanders -- doesn't have a majority of third party candidates. And when I call them a stronghold, I mean they are the only state (I know of) that consistently elects (less than a handful of) Independent candidates to the state legislature; the place is still dominated by Ds and Rs.

"The highest power in the land can't actually be voted on so there's no reason to vote for the democrats"

Hey princess here are some high school civics question for you: How are Supreme Court judges nominated? :) By what process are they appointed? Who starts that process? :) Why is the Supreme Court considered reflective of who has won the presidency? :)

[northern-passage]

clem is such an interesting character and so different from what i usually see in IFs like I've yet to see an RO who is scared of everything? in a world of girlbosses and mansplainers we need the clems

thank you!

i'm glad that they feel different :-) when i started tnp, a lot of romance stories, especially fantasy or supernatural, tended to put the mc in Clementine's role. there are exceptions now, of course, i'm not trying to make a broad statement, especially since within IF that's actually something that's changed a lot over the years, but i definitely wanted the mc in tnp to be the competent, protective, "mysterious stranger" type, which is an archetype that used to (typically) go exclusively to love interests.

which means that we get to have poor little meow meows like Clementine as our love interests, instead :-) i also really like having Clem as a bit of balance, because they're life has been so different from everyone else's - Merry is a career criminal, and we've seen that she has no hesitation getting nasty and violent, while Noel, Lea, and the hunter have all been entrenched in the Order for their entire lives, with all of them also being very familiar with violence and comfortable with it or at the very least indifferent towards it.

even though Clementine is running from something, and is just as much as a fugitive as Noel, compared to the others, they really are the "normal" one, who just had their life upturned by running into a group of hardened fighters and criminals. or at least, upturned in a different way than it already was.... we'll get to see their reaction in the second half of chapter 2, but Clementine deals with what happened in Blackwater very differently than everyone else, because it's not like something they've ever really experienced before.

[ravenwolfie97]

i gotta say

the people who put polls on donation posts for engagement feel like the same kind of people who make pertinent political posts and say shit like "don't ignore this you must reblog it or you're a bad person"

[phoenix-flamed]

Man. Thinking about it, my Elwin would have loved to have a daughter. Not that he doesn't absolutely adore the boys, but, y'know.

The closest he came, obviously, was Jill, but 1. he would never force that sort of relationship onto her, nor expect or demand it from her, out of respect for her. 2. He would never force that sort of relationship onto her out of respect for Silvermane and her real family, as well. She is, after all, Silvermane's baby, and nothing will ever, ever change that. Elwin wouldn't want anything to change that. And 3. he would never force having that sort of relationship with Jill upon his wife, either, out of respect for both Jill and the Duchess.

But something about the idea of having a little princess to dote upon, and watch Ana dote upon and adore and(hopefully) thrive with, just made his heart feel warm and fuzzy. Bonus points if she looked like her mother, in the way that Clive looks like him...

[djsherriff-responses]

Instead of making insensitive Nazi jokes about a Jewish person's work regarding how Steven Universe treats redemption/forgiveness, we should've instead talked about the late stage capitalist hellscape the show exists in where it's an example of people (Steven) wanting to do good and make a difference but just unable to actually have the mental strength to both dismantle the corrupt system in place and live with the consequences of that , of having to be responsible of ensuring a better system is put in place. Both the ending of Steven Universe and Steven Universe future is that some people become too mentally exhausted and instead try to compromise with the system in place to try fixing themselves

But I don't think anyone's ready for that discussion

[greatwyrmgold]

Have you checked out Jasmine Sherman and Brittany Jones? They’re both third parties and honestly I checked some of their policies out and it looks very promising. Between them and Claudia De La Cruz I feel hopeful about possible candidates. I just hope one of them wins and are actually able to do what they say they want. Because I know the senate and the house would push them back as hard as possible.

I hadn't heard of Sherman or Jones, but yeah. I like the policies they're talking about.

For people who want to know more:

If none of them end up on the ballot in my state, I will be so pissed. And possibly, so will the poll worker who has to figure out how the bleep to get a write-in vote on their voting machines.

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: The Come Back (1.2, LWT, 1972)

"This wasn't a sudden impulse. It was deliberate and calculated. He had to break in to get at the old man, and then - well, you saw what he did to him. I don't know if he's a psycho or not, but I do know he's a sadist and I know what treatment I'd hand out."

"Yeah, I can guess."

"It's the only way."

"You've a right to your opinion, just don't try and convert me."

"I wouldn't dream of it, I know what you think."

"I think it's just as well your job ends when we catch him."

[adhdo5]

Not tp lie awake thinking abt sword wizards (I am lying awake thinking about things in general) but I really can't say anything after the However. It's taking a second

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

Made a Pillow Talk (1959) playlist but I really don't feel it would be ethical to post. The gender and sexual politics of that movie are soo deeply messed up. It's a good playlist though.

[finnieforshort]

Watched Longlegs on a plane and was kind of disappointed! It was a fine horror thriller that went too middle ground on its *spoiler* supernatural elements. I would have preferred either having it be a very subtle open ended "was it real?" situation by the end OR really go for it. Lee's "powers" were really vague and, when it comes to crime thrillers, it's way less engaging to have our special agent intuit the case through psychic powers than to have her actually solve it. The comparisons to Silence of the Lambs were always going to be made but I do think this took some inspirations from that film, and tbh I wish they have stolen more from it. Good tone throughout but once the final reveal with the mother was made the film becomes kind of lame. ALSO the fact that Longlegs was ostensibly correct in his beliefs (religiously speaking) deflates his character and Lee's mom as well. The issue with movements like Satanic Panic and witch trials is that the people in power are Wrong. The devil isn't mind controlling mass swathes of the population, witches aren't real, a woman didn't her your pig and a gay person didn't turn your child trans. But then movies like Longlegs come out and it's like actually ☝️🤓 what if Satan was real and was mind controlling people into murder. Lame!