#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/?)

[notasapleasure]

Kay, thanks for this link, reading the essay was almost quasi-religious to this lifelong atheist. It's an absurdly optimistic piece and all the more rebellious for it, I think.

I could quote so much more from it, but perhaps this is the most relevant bit right now...

For radicals, fetishizing the guillotine is just like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.

Those who have been stripped of a positive relationship to their own agency often look around for a surrogate to identify with—a leader whose violence can stand in for the revenge they desire as a consequence of their own powerlessness. In the Trump era, we are all well aware of what this looks like among disenfranchised proponents of far-right politics. But there are also people who feel powerless and angry on the left, people who desire revenge, people who want to see the state that has crushed them turned against their enemies.

Reminding “tankies” of the atrocities and betrayals state socialists perpetrated from 1917 on is like calling Trump racist and sexist. Publicizing the fact that Trump is a serial sexual assaulter only made him more popular with his misogynistic base; likewise, the blood-drenched history of authoritarian party socialism can only make it more appealing to those who are chiefly motivated by the desire to identify with something powerful.

-Anarchists in the Trump Era

Now that the Soviet Union has been defunct for almost 30 years—and owing to the difficulty of receiving firsthand perspectives from the exploited Chinese working class—many people in North America experience authoritarian socialism as an entirely abstract concept, as distant from their lived experience as mass executions by guillotine. Desiring not only revenge but also a deus ex machina to rescue them from both the nightmare of capitalism and the responsibility to create an alternative to it themselves, they imagine the authoritarian state as a champion that could fight on their behalf. Recall what George Orwell said of the comfortable British Stalinist writers of the 1930s in his essay “Inside the Whale”:

“To people of that kind such things as purges, secret police, summary executions, imprisonment without trial etc., etc., are too remote to be terrifying. They can swallow totalitarianism because they have no experience of anything except liberalism.”

[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!

[duncanor]

Do y'all think Jayce will become a rude bastard like his character in LoL (from what I gathered) after act 3?

In the sense that, even if he keeps his moral compass, he might try to distance himself from others after this fuck up of the century?

[rainingmbappe]

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

[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

[sin-grumps]

I randomly got heartburn this week

so you know what THAT means!!!!

[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 😭😭

[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 😅

[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

[luaminn]

Rereading acotar to see for myself the mess that is acofas and acosf wish me luck y'all

[fideidefenswhore]

"She was a ruthless woman who injured many, myself and my sainted mother included. She was quite capable of playing the King false, I promise you. My advice to you, Sister, is to forget you ever had a mother like that." Elizabeth caught the note of obsessive grievance in Mary's voice. She knew instinctively that it would be unwise to provoke her further by arguing with her. "Forgive me, Sister, but I had heard otherwise," she said simply. "Then you heard wrongly. She had me sent to wait upon you when you were a baby, and she told those that had charge of me to beat me for the little bastard I had become. How could you think such a one innocent?" "I am very sorry for your afflictions, Sister," Elizabeth whispered, aware more of the need to be diplomatic than of the desire to defend her mother. "They were not of my making, nor my desire." "How could you think her innocent?" "I heard things," she answered, then grew a touch defiant. "The whole world does not think my mother guilty."

The Lady Elizabeth [Chapter 8: 1544], Alison Weir