#there's a joke to be made about the election

[dekaydk]

On Election Day, I was volunteering at a vote center with mostly retirees and a high school girl. One of the older male retirees made a joke to the girl asking her if she'd been collecting the phone numbers of all the guys who came through the vote center that day. I just turned to him with a grimace and said "What a weird thing to say." (A downgrade from what I originally thought: "Did you just call a highschooler a slut?") He got mad but her presence meant that he couldn't say what he wanted to so he just mumbled something about me being a buzzkill.

[fruitybeverage]

"If only we could see into sherlock holmes genius mind!!!!"

Inside Sherlock Holmes mind:

[moldyycheese]

Y'all need to be taking tips from Sephiroth

I just realized I posted this on the wrong account

[isa-ah]

what are the idiots going turbo racist going to do if it turns out this election was fucked on the back end and all of these numbers are bullshit?

[arcane-ish]

I think it's worth having a bit of a think why they bothered to do that. Since it at least seems to have confused a bunch of normie fans (I watched one season review who thought Silco being there was fanservice and he shouldn't have been in the alt timeline episode).

After all, it's not that they let's say put the letter in season 1 and now had the idea to pay it off. They only placed the letter in seaosn 2, because they wanted to set up Silco being there.

In the end, I think it's an acknowledgement of Silco's character. Both of his role within Zaun and in Jinx's life.

They wanted to set up a universe where Jinx's life is great and happy and where Ekko can come back and tell the suicidal Jinx about it. And for that the oppression needs to be fixed.

They didn't have to go into detail. Ekko could just have been there and the assumption could have been that maybe Vander fixes the oppression himself (especially if the premise is that Vi's death improved relations between the two cities). Or it could have been that Vander and Silco teaming up but Slico's isn't part of the family like that. Like Ekko could have run into Silco on the streets and Silco could just have barked at him to give Vander his regards. Or he could have seen an election poster of Silco or a newspaper article on some charitable thing he's doing.

IMO it is the way it is, just just because it's a funny joke for the Zaundad believers, but because it's an acknowledgement of the writers.

Zaun being better requires that Vander and Silco work together. They are the two sides of Zaun. Neither one can achieve it individually because both approaches have value.

Silco is there because Jinx loved both her fathers, both her families and it wouldn't be truly happy to "our" Jinx if she heard or thought Silco was stil excluded from them in the other world.

Silco's trauma was shaped by Vander. And Vander was shaped by his guilt over Silco. It makes sense that they need a deeper, more meaningful, more complete reunion.

It's an acknowledgement of Silco, of how his point of view on Zaun is important, of how important he's to Jinx, of how important he is to Vander and how important Vander is to him.

I genuinely wonder if they made the whole Felicia bit where they both knew her to have an easier explanation for non shippers why Silco would want to be part of family like that even in the happy universe where he doesn't have a reason to have the kind of relationship with Powder that he had in the main canon (ie intense bonding over shared trauma, her being alone in the world and needing him, him maybe having some resentment against Vander and that adding to the appeal to take her in).

It's so funny to me they included Silco in the alternate timeline because realistically, Vi's death wouldnt have changed his plans. The writers did not need to add him, bc it did slightly confuse us and everyone eventually agreed he probably found Vanders letter in this timeline, changing the reason for the timeline shift from not only Vi. They really sacrificed a bit of established writing just to show that dick couldve fixed him and turned him into a rich wine aunt (and I couldnt be happier about it)

[yorkiegregg]

On the topic of self-sustainability, I genuinely think a HUGE amount of us could benefit from this - just like in many other past situations - and especially now. The joys of being self sustainable is that you can go as deep into it as you want or just do a few things that make you feel involved or good!!! You could hone-in and build your own damn root cellar, then go the food preservation route and understand to not rely on big market chains anymore that are becoming more unreliable - or you could simply watch some people from afar who do partake in being sustainable and support them. You could understand food waste, you could contribute to making your own clothing out of your own harvested materials, you could simply have the mindset that - no matter what, there is a way… there is so much you can do. And so much of it, genuinely, will make things so enjoyable or otherwise so much more clear for you. Trust me.

[everythingsinred]

trying to make teachers' (global) complaints abt kids theyre supposed to be teaching about "generational politics" and saying stuff like "people always complain about the young generation" is so dismissive and ridiculous. atp yall are being purposefully obtuse. these kids cant read. they cant write. they cant think critically. teachers GLOBALLY are begging parents to care, to no avail. kids dont respect their teachers, they dont respect their schoolwork, they dont respect their education, theyre severely behind across the board. to try and write that entire problem off as "complaining about the young generation" is so dismissive i have no words. obviously its the fault of the kids' parents but we are looking at an entire generation of people who are graduating high school with no skills. these people are joining society and dont know how to think. yall should be furious and instead youre trying to write it off as "hating on gen alpha". please get over yourselves

[seaofreverie]

Who else is ready to die

[icedsodapop]

The irony of posting this comment praising Bill Burr for apparently becoming a better person on a video by Elliot Sang that criticizes how wife guys are put on pedestals. Bill Burr does the exact same fucking thing as these wife guys who use their spouses and children for clout when he talks about his wife and kids in his standup. And Elliot Sang actually liked it then 💀 (like eh bro, imagine not actually internalising your video essays)

The dude has always been a misogynist, the 2nd Trump election just made him go mask off.

But yeah, his brand of misogyny is so annoying to me becos he continuously brands himself as a guy who wants to do better and seems to be capable of introspection? And yet his introspection is so performative becos when push comes to shove, he is unwilling to divest himself from the patriarchy. He will continue to make those sexist jokes and locker room talk, and he will keep hanging out with sex pests becos he can't be bothered to actually change.

Bill Burr's 2nd stint on SNL where he spouts vaguely centrist/apolitical crap about White women and the election is 🤡🤡

There's something so annoying about Bill Burr (and other guys like him) trying to hide his misogyny under the guise of criticizing white feminism. His fans are equally as annoying by tokenizing Burr's Black wife and children. The pple he's fooling are primarily White cishet men who don't care about Black and Brown women, and he truly doesn't care about Black women becos if he really did, he wouldn't have criticized metoo since it was actually created by a Black woman.

[no-pasaran-99]

oop. crazy how many people i have unfollowed/blocked today for the cyclical and asinine sentiment along the lines of "well leftists are you HAPPY now????"

girl we've done this 3 elections in a row. definition of insanity to still be blaming this on us especially when the numbers do not support your accusations. like we voted for the fucking war criminals and you STILL lost.

[crowleyaj]

it's two years since I moved to ireland today. the weather is miserable but every day I'm glad I don't live in one of the 14 countries that keep voting no to ceasefire and sanctions anymore ✌️

[userautumn]

Okay I just watched the Moo Deng 💒🚣🏻‍♀️ clip and I don't get why everyone is mad.

[moonsidesong]

i like pokemon diamond and pearl's soundtrack but im also eternally mad at it because the super music collection is sorted in the most annoying manner physically possible and it makes you actively bored of music you otherwise liked

[fandomfairyuniverse]

Watching media from pre-trump presidency and they made a joke about trump running for president. Oh how little they knew then.

[bisexualdinahlance]

Just because an author was a fanfiction writer before publishing ... Doesn't mean that their published original work was based on a fanfiction they wrote. Y'all gotta have more faith in authors than that, we aren't all trying to get r*ylo rpf professionally published

[destiel-news-channel]

when i was born there was nothing and when there was something i was already old

i started putting the whole story in the tags then tumblr fucked me by not allowing me any more tags and i cant bring myself to type all this out again but the story isnt finished so im gonna continue in a whole other post and if anyone knows how to copy tumblr tags into a post that would be really appreciated

i feel a 100 years old