#this is how I counter act

[judas-isariot]

My boss: One day I see you on your computer while behind the windows, and all I saw was pictures of birds.

Me: You watch what am I doing from behind the windows ?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

[RHETORIC - Legendary 14]: Convince Kim you are in a timeloop.

(ISAT side of the swap)

[a2zillustration]

(It's ok Yurgir will respawn in Avernus)

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[al-luviec]

compiled whatever this is (and I run out of tag space)

meh HoT gifs (3/?)

[wellnoe]

the thing about a starstruck odyssey. that i run into. is that margaret's position is not really discussed w any depth or specificity at least up to like. the point i have watched to. and that's a bummer specifically bc the position of the show seems to be that: she decided to help this ragtag team and she left the company before she did anything irredeemable. but this is disproven by her position. like it is unbelievable that she did not believe in scummy things and go along with horrible actions in order to reach her level of prestige.

the impression that margaret is a good person, that she's trying to get out of bad company, is largely bc ally plays margaret as someone who is fair and sympathetic to other people. ally beardsley (player) wants to help so margaret encino (character) must also have good impulses. which is nearly impossible to reconcile with margaret's backstory at this point. like. why is she doing any of this. she's such a weird character.

also. the way the show/game reacts to her wielding her power is a little unsettling. none of the crew are good people necessarily, but there is a recognition of the way norman's power and his use of it is abusive. this recognition does not carry through into recognizing the inevitable harm margaret must have actively pursued to have the position she does, and the way that power then influences the crew. its a little bizarre!

[aromanticasterisms]

okay act 3 was kind of nothing to me. setup and all that. but act 4 WOO. seelie lore. confirmed khaenri'ahn capitano. lore drop from the lord of night. i'm thriving

[rainingmbappe]

The rise of "let people enjoy things" is single handedly the backbone of the rise of anti intellectualism

[sin-grumps]

I randomly got heartburn this week

so you know what THAT means!!!!

[truth-bound]

I wanna see a "body language expert" kind of guy playing poker with a table of various autistics. Real fun to see, I think.

[hussyknee]

In one of the 647968 posts going "What You Like Says Nothing About You" (broadly agree) the first comment in the reply section was, "well I'm never going to apologize for being a Swiftie and a Reylo and Destiel shipper and Snape fan and loving ACOTAR and LOTR and Hamilton and B99" and I'm like, actually being this much of a pathological white liberal makes you the exception to this rule 😭😭

[strixhaven]

honestly it’s so weird to see shipping stuff for dunmeshi. that is a story about pure platonic devotion, friendship, and familial love. feels beyond trite to try and shove romance into it

[flashhwing]

please reblog for a bigger sample size! for science!!!!!

[wabbit-bunny95]

This photo of what I found has me screaming, crying, throwing up and biting at the cage bars. Someone on a uranium glass page said it's from Czechoslovakia but that the exact maker is unknown. I've got two more pieces from the same set but the pics don't look anywhere near as cool but I'll still post them 😅

[v-arbellanaris]

To be clear, I'm sending this ask not to start an argument but because talking about S/amson's morality as a subject interests me. This is all intended politely, though I am bad at tone. While my personal thoughts on S/amson's stuff in act 3 are a little complicated (shit of him to do, and they have him be excited about the annulment on the templar route, the latter of which I do have to wonder if they did simply bc the writers hate addicts (they do) or not. Still it did happen and it IS odd when people try to act like he had less part in the attempted genocide of the gallows than C/ullen, who was way more hesitant than S/amson), how did you come to the conclusion that he was purposefully throwing mages at slavers? He says pretty explicitly that he didn't know and was trying to get mages out of Kirkwall, are you assuming he's lying or is there some extra information I'm missing? I guess I could see why he might lie here if that was his intention, but I don't… really think he is? there's nothing to point to it? I see "he gave mages to a slaver" as a point a lot in the S/amson discourse, but I don't know how people are coming to the conclusion that he wasn't genuinely doing the best with the no resources he had at that moment, and the smuggler he was using ended up being a slaver without his knowledge. This being said, the fandom posing him as super good compared to C/ullen is really weird, and while I understand why it happens, it is frustrating seeing people ignore his blatent flaws.

do i think he deliberately gave mages over to slavers? no, i don't think that. i also don't think a lack of deliberateness absolves him of blame. k/irkwall is notorious for slavers - how many do we kill in game? we find a bunch just hanging out in lowtown, and the docks, and near the wounded coast. but the guy who lives on the edge of the docks never suspects that the man taking runaways for free is a slaver?

with regards to f/eynriel, s/amson is very explicit about how he didn't help f/eynriel as much as possible because he didn't have money. instead, he directs f/eynriel to a ship captain he knows. he knew the slaver, and he sent both o/livia and f/eynriel to him. when h/awke says "of course your friend's a kidnapper", s/amson quickly says r/einer's not a friend, but someone who "isn't scared to try out this business". but what business is he referring to? f/eynriel doesn't have coin, that's the entire reason s/amson turned him away. what other reason does a ship captain in kirkwall HAVE to take people on for free? s/amson deliberately sends f/eynriel to someone else to deal with. and when he heard rumours that person was selling people, what did he do? nothing, until h/awke comes looking.

[whiskeyswifty]

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[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

The Meadows

YA dystopian set in a hyper-surveilled future world devastated by climate change

a girl from a rural seaside town is offered a place in a school that only takes the ‘best and brightest’ - and jumps at the chance, but quickly finds out things are not as they seem: they’re there to be conditioned into obedient wives, and become part of the society which enforces the belief that end of the world was caused by people ‘going against nature’

switches back and forth between then and a few years later, when she’s graduated and working as an adjudicator monitoring her fellow graduates, so she can defer her own requirement to get married and search for the former classmate she loved who was taken away after they attempted escape

slow building and twisty, lesbian MC