#the world is a dirty place

[vaguely-concerned]

'the hissing wastes suck' wow what a way to admit you've never experienced the joy of listening to iron bull wax archaeologic about ancient dwarven building techniques

[jesuis-snips]

LIES: Palestine is murdering civilians.

TRUTH: Palestine is expelling occupiers.

LIES: Palestine is attacking Israel.

TRUTH: Palestine is standing upon its rights in its own lands.

LIES: Hamas is giving Israel reasons to attack them.

TRUTH: Israel has already been attacking Palestinians without a reason for years. Every resistance counts and weakens Israel.

LIES: Israel is the victim.

TRUTH: Israel is suffering for its sins for the innocent children they have killed.

[jrueships]

Paul George on Stephen A. Smith’s Kawhi Leonard jab: “I didn’t like that moment… Kawhi wants to play… We exhausted a lot out of Kawhi this season. So at some point your body breaks you down… I didn’t appreciate that moment. I know I laughed because the situation was lighthearted, but deep down it was like you gotta let that go, Stephen A.”

Paul George, knight in shining armor

[lidoshka]

Paladin

Listen, sometimes you make a cool sci fy design and other times you don't, but you've spent so much time on this drawing to let it die in oblivion...

So enjoy a weird scify/space opera/idk design for Maedhros.

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ah! @feanorianweek is going to happen this year too! I wannna participate again, but I have no idea what to draw!! T_T

[andromeda3116]

*slithers in under the door*

a ship does not have to be morally pure, you don't need to defend it in terms of its moral superiority. it can just exist without needing to be more pure than another "problematic" one. kill the puritan preacher in your head. he will not protect you. he will only strangle you with a tighter and tighter noose as you beg him to bring you perfection.

*slithers back out through the cracks in the floor*

[carlyraejepsans]

I'm not gonna reblog the post because it's so long it would break my dash, but i would REALLY recommend you check out this incredibly good thread about transmisoginy, TERFs, radfeminism and its radicalization process, the mentality behind it and correlated misconceptions/polarization issues that make deradicalization so hard.

warning for discussion of transphobia, (specifically transmisoginy), racism, rape, and graphic written descriptions of FGM (female genital mutilation)

[enginator2000]

friendship ended with not drawing supernatural fanart, now jack is my best friend

[stargalaxyshooter]

Since it's probably coming up in this cour?? Or maybe in the next, but I will always be salty with how dirty Kubo did Ukitake throughout the whole manga - but especially in tybw. Not really utilizing him the way you utilized Shunsui was one thing, but not even giving him a fight before you take him out was dirty 😭

And don't even get me started on how his death was - from what I remember - ultimately pointless, he was giving up his life for the soul king only for Ywach to absorb him anyways. Maybe that did sorta help, idk my memory of it is kinda foggy, but it forreal felt like a "oh damn this guys still a thing gotta give him this random thing to do and then kill him off".

I appreciate that because he's gone, there was a vacancy in the 13 division but Kubo could've given ukitake a battle in tybw and maybe have him either die from said battle or survive it & choose to retire afterwards due to the injuries he sustained from it (like his body was already frail, so maybe he pushed himself too far after using his bankai WHICH WE NEVER SAW). Which then leads to canon with rukia being captain.

There's sooooooo many sternritter's that are introduced and instead of giving some of them to other characters - or have them group together if you don't want too many individual fights - we instead get the same characters have multiple fights with diff opponents or have some of the sternritter's off screened.

For example, we get characters like Kenpachi or Hitsugaya who are given multiple fights in this arc (not necessarily complaining I do like them), while Rukia, who is the second most important character in this show gets one actual good fight where we finally see her bankai. And is then not really utilized after that. That's wild imagine if Sasuke, who is also a deuteragonist, was only given one fight in the 4th war and then fades into the background while naruto/others go fight madara. Side tangent, but I'm just pointing out how weirdly characters were used from the main cast to side characters.

And it's not like it's just Ukitake, kubo also seemed to not like the visored (vizard?) either. Goddamn were they heavily underutilized, got introduced in the story as being one of the major new factions + given a backstory that gave them a connection to both the seireitei & aizen but were ultimatley cast aside for no reason.

Even their inclusion in tybw was pathetic, had them taken out anytime they tried to do something like what was the point Kubo what do you have against these characters?? At least chose to either have them fade into the background after only serving their purpose during the arrancar saga or have some die a meaningful death. (Not that killing characters off when they "serve" no more purpose = good writing. It just would've been something to actually chew on than what we actually got)

Idk something other than that half assed shit, as someone who likes the visored it was painful to watch. There's so many frustrating things about Bleach when I think about it, you have all these cool characters/designs who have interesting personalities, purpose, backstory and then they never get to do anything other than serve as "characters who get offed or beaten up to make the ones who save them look good", which sucks.

Hopefully, in the second cour, or third, some of these things change? I don't expect Kubo to care about ukitake or the visored now but maybe some other side characters like hisagi or yumichika who can finally complete his character arc of never using his shikai in front of others, he was about to use it but got taken out by a zombie. Oh, and also! Ikakku, similarly to yumichika, he also didn't get to have his character arc come full circle. We never got to see him use his bankai again, it seemed he was about to but got taken out by the same zombie - so maybe next cour...? Fingers crossed 🤞 that at some point both him & yumichika can show their concealed powers without fear of one not being accepted and the other not being allowed in the squad anymore. Especially when we know that at the end of the manga, ikkaku replaces yachiru as lieutenant

[silverhalla]

every day that I wake up in emprise du lion is another day I get closer to storming the black city to take down the maker himself

[hopefulqueer]

if Bean doesnt eat something soon i think i am going to lose it

[ravioligobbler9000]

Hisoka would be so cool if he wasn't a pedo, why is he a pedo, he´s so cool

[magical-xirl-4]

I’m also still pissed about Candace. She’s a lovely and awesome character and I love her design except for you know, the fact that she’s supposed to be Nubian and looks like a tanned white woman

Update:

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN. She could’ve had this. They really just care about sales dont they

[whalehouse1]

I enjoy a good chunk of lesser known/lesser utilized characters (as far as I know) and so far what I have gathered about four of them are:

1: Cissie is plopped back into Arrowette because Cassie said so.

2: Bart is killed off.

3: Anita, you know voudou priestess and dark complexion raising her parents and one of the sweetest characters ever? Villain now.

4: Jaime isn’t going to college because????

[dwellerinroots]

Tagged by: @dirty-bosmer These are so neat, thank you..! c:

• Do you play an instrument?

Used to play the violin, used to play the piano. I still think I've got the hands to do the latter, it'd be nice; but one day I'd love to become a master of the vuvuzela.

• Favourite book characters?

Questions like this are like pulling your own teeth and make no mistake. Since @dirty-bosmer, who tagged me, chose the luggage, I'll add Rincewind because a person who is unquestionably a coward and kind of a failure trying his best is important. (Little me would've gone Red Sonja with no hesitation and less chill.) Possibly Shriek from the very known novel the Dungeon Volume 2.

• What’s your star sign?

Virgo! ♍

• Favourite colour schemes?

Earth-tones. I like green in dark and light shades, blacks and stormy greys, all the shades of soil. Occasionally, add some river blues and cloudy whites, and we're done! Oh, and naturally - the brass of a talon in mid-flight. (Classical antiquity colour schemes as well, really...)

• Naps or long sleep?

I stare in my void-eyes, sworn to Vaerminerinmenrnin. I cannot remember the last time I have 'long slept.' What is 'long sleep.' It sounds lovely, but bewitching. I would like one 'long sleep' please.

• What languages do you speak?

Just the two, English and the one that sounds like Sussian.

• Dreams/aspirations?

Short-term, to lead by example and have certain offline friends and family understand that there are things they can do to make their lives better. Longer term to decouple them from the constant incorrect information that is in their life. Short-term personal, I'd like to travel a bit more and see friends who I've had to leave behind. Long-term personal... Creative efforts, also love, also sleep. I mean, there's not much else, is there...

• Long hair or Short Hair?

Short hair on me because otherwise my entire head becomes an orb of hair. I love both on other people, but think long hair is cooler because too much swords & sandals pulp fantasy instantly makes me think long hair... cool...

• Tea or coffee?

Is this even a question, I'm in the land I am now, it's coffee, dark nectar of the gods. I do like taking tea, don't get me wrong, but it's like a pleasantry, whereas the flavour of dark coffee is the absolute best. Just fantastic.

• Bring a book character to life or go into a fictional world?

Another tough one, for me... I'll go weird, but not too weird, then. I can't recall if it was called Diadem or the Diadem series, but there was a young adult fiction series that had crystals/gems == magic power, but really I just liked the shiny stone descriptions. Shiny rock, good. What, you say, staring, sounds like you could pick something more adventurous sure, but right now I just want magic minerals.

Tagging: Since I just pushed one of this, this one is open - please feel free to join in if you want, and if you're not interested, or want to do it at a later date, go right ahead with that, too! They're very fun though, so you're welcome around any time..!

[lemongrablothbrok]

I think they mean taking 2 or more showers in one day in summer, and only either taking 1 a day or skipping a day in winter.

[orcelito]

Ok so upon consulting some friends it has become clear that I should try to get this video sent before 5 pm today. No sims for me until after it's done. I also need to clean, but I think I can finish all of the essential things in an hour's work or so. Won't be spotless, but so long as it's an acceptable amount of clutter, then it'll have to do.

And then I will start practicing. Scales should be easy enough. Just gotta warm up and all. The song is the tricky part, bc I have no idea what to do yet 😭 but I'm gonna look in my folders and if there's nothing that would work playing solo that would ALSO not be too hard to play after only a few hours of practicing, then I will look in my music books. There's Gotta be a relatively simple solo piece in there.

I may be wildly out of practice, but I WAS the 4th best violinist in my high school, once upon a time. My wrist may be stiff and my fingers unpracticed, but the muscle memory's gotta still be in there somewhere. Just gotta have faith in that.