#state standards

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Just your average male living space.

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[girlwiththegreenhat]

team fortress 2 finally getting rid of the bots after 5 years

work on the team fortress 2 comic continuing after 7+ years

half life 3 development looking more likely than ever with legitimate code, file, and voicework leaks referencing a new non-VR single-player game from valve featuring a HEV suit wearing protagonist and Xen creatures and concepts

shoutout to the valve fan that found the genie lamp. you a real one

[odinsblog]

“Freedom from the river to the sea for me, but not for thee.” The blatant hypocrisy is blatant

#It’s another variant of white supremacy. Netanyahu and the Likud Israeli government are nearly indistinguishable from Trump and the Republican Party — Netanyahu is a racist rightwing authoritarian who WANTS TRUMP TO WIN

Netanyahu is on his way to making Israel a pariah state, and he is an unpopular authoritarian who has always opposed an equitable two state solution. In fact, over his career Netanyahu has worked tirelessly to prop up Hamas, in order to sow division and play the West Bank against Gaza (source)

[i-am-aprl]

[rotzaprachim]

im shaking every single student organizer and screaming that they need to separate a demand to divest from arms funding from the demand for a university to cut off all contact with Israeli and Israeli-American scholars and students, a demand which no university will agree to because implementing it would in many cases be very illegal

[worm-fanon-polls]

note that this poll is meant to represent romantic (though not necessarily sexual) ships, not your favorite QPR. If you like, say, Aisha/Alec or Lisa/Taylor as strictly platonic partners, but only in this scenario, then please don't pick it as your favorite ship!

Other less popular taylor ships (like Taylor/Alec) are not included in this poll, I will be posting a second poll with Taylor-specific ships later

make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

[zeiinoviahh]

...and your enemy closer

[canisalbus]

The little Courage the cowardly dog-esque paws on this drawing just sent me for some reason I'm so sorry I just had to quickly doodle a little Machete the cowardly dog XD

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[hoarding-stories]

Because I've been slowly rotating it in my head, here's a rough timeline for everything as far as I can guess:

~??~: The All Hammer, Law Bearer, and Platinum Dragon, at minimum, discuss the calamity/war and how it could end. The spark that would become the divine gate is lit

50-100 years before the fall of Aeor: the gods meant for the Aeor mission start to take their mortal forms (timespan based on Father Milo being an old man. Last god to become mortal is the Dawnfather, 15~ years before the fall)

The All Hammer also becomes mortal to begin the basis for the divine gate (likely as an acknowlement that it will 1) take time to accomplish and 2)it will be the only true way to end the Calamity)

The Fall of Aeor: the topic of distancing themselves from Exandria and the divine gate is fully broached to the majority of the Prime Deities, solidifying it as the solution

~??~: The Moonweaver casts her blessing that would keep the gods from finding mortal avatars. Simultaneously, the Lord of the Hells casts his curse that makes the avatars forget their true nature. (The Moonweaver's blessing could've been a way to protect Garen from any divine influence as prime deties had to be worked around to the idea, and the betrayers had to be kept from stopping it)

~60-70 years before Divergence: The Platinum Dragon, seeing the Lord of the Hells' curse, chooses to become mortal in order to find and protect his brother, having faith that they will be reunited despite forgetting himself. (Timespan based off of the 80 year dragonborn lifespan, Erro was old but not insanely so)

~25-30 years before Divergence: The Moonweaver becomes mortal in order to prove out how the gods' connections to their followers will be changed by the gate but not be blocked completely, as well as to experience the full depths of mortal love

The only event I couldn't roughly place on the timeline without more information is when exactly Garen is captured and imprisoned at Rybad Kol. He was there for a very long time so it could have been before or after the blessing & curse. Either acting as a catalyst for them in order to protect him from being found out, or with the confusion and probable power downgrade from them taking effect making him easier to capture (if not plain bad luck).

[brw]

"but hamas is getting funded by extremist islamic hate groups!" do you think the U.S. government and military giving funding for israeli's war efforts against palestinians is a morally neutral and inherently righteous body that had no influence in the politics of southwest asia as a global colonial superpower. do you really think anything you can say about the people resisting oppression can't be said about the oppressors.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The world if people stopped applying their understanding of "conservatism" and "religion/christianity" through a very modern, deeply American view onto Death Note (a manga from the Early-mid 2000s which is very much set in the cultural and societal context of early-mid 2000s Japan and all that entails):

[i-am-aprl]

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

hi there! love all the homestuck analysis you've shared so far, really fueling the fire for my hyperfixation lmao. i was looking over the shipping chart you made, and was SUPER curious about feferi <3 john. it's an interesting idea i've never seen before, would you mind expounding on that?? what was the inspiration for it??

Admittedly, this one is a little bit just pairing the spares, but IDK, it might be cute. Feferi's intro states that she loves putting ocean fauna in cages, but they always swim through the bars, but that's okay because she loves them - a very John Thing. John, as evinced by his red interest in vriska, is kind of into condescending Mean Girls, which Feferi is, though Vriska proves to be too genuinely dangerous and upsetting for him, and it doesn't work out.

Plus, Roxy (pink girl whose similarities to Feferi are well-documented as part of her foreshadowing for red with Eridan) immediately gets a crush on John based pretty much on appearance alone, which to me indicates that John and Eridan kind of physically resemble each other (black hair and glasses? IDK). Since EriRox is so much in the cards (Wizard Hipster Prince who is also a despotic Harry Potter is basically Roxy's ideal man, and bubbly nice Pink Girl cat-themed Rogue is a combination of Eridan's two red pursuits, Feferi and Nepeta), I kind of take the JohnRoxy thing as a hint that JohnFef is in the cards.

Also, in a less textually evinced way, I think Feferi's the type of rich girl who would see John and go awwww baby i need to get you a diamond studded collar and put you in a handbag <3 <3 <3 like, i think she likes 'em goofy and a little helpless, and john likes 'em a little mean and a lot confident, so it vibes to me

[tomorrowusa]

The media double standard which overlooks Trump's deteriorating mental state. (from PBS Washington Week - 8/30/24)

JEFFREY GOLDBERG (host and editor of The Atlantic): Here's the thing. I'll make this observation. I'll own it. If Kamala Harris went from bacon to wind in her interview with Dana Bash, she would, this morning, not be -- the next morning, she would not be the nominee of the Democratic Party. That would have been a very, very strange -- people would have been like, what is going on? Do we just have an absurdly low standard now for the things that Donald Trump says and does? DOMENICO MONTANARO (panelist and senior political correspondent at NPR): I think that there is definitely a double standard, and I think part of it is how each side's voters interpret their candidate. And someone like Donald Trump, Republicans have had the opportunity for years to say this is not the guy we want. Instead, they've continued to get behind him. In every primary that Donald Trump weighs in on, he wins, and then the general election a lot of those candidates tend to lose. I think that from reporter's standpoint, we do have to be careful about how we -- what level we hold both of them to. When I fact-checked Donald Trump's hour press conference, he told 162 lies and distortions within that time period, 2.5 a minute, compared to Kamala Harris' DNC acceptance speech, where she had 12 statements that I found were contextually misleading or needed more.

Here's the entire episode.

The media has mostly shrugged off Weird Donald's unhinged rantings as Trump being Trump while holding Democrats to a higher standard.

We need to be more vocal about the double standard. When Trump has another crazed rant about sharks, windmills, electric batteries, and bacon which gets brushed off by a media provider, ask that provider: What would you be saying if a prominent Democrat conducted a similar unhinged rant?

[nando161mando]

glad to see this country has its priorities :(

[troythecatfish]