#this is just to say that this is why it never happened wake up sheeple

[gold-rhine]

anyway, 4.1. SPOILERS, but lets talk about a dragon in the room. a popular consensus i've seen a lot says that traveler's powers are mini-versions of archons of element's region. like anemo's tornado is similar to venti's storm black hole bc it sucks ppl in, for geo you bring the rock down from the skies, kinda like zhongli's meteorite.

but this kinda starts falling apart at electro, bc electro travelers abilities don't look like raiden's. but you can still make a case that part of raiden's kit is energy restoration for other party members and electro traveler has it too, so its eeeeh a stretch but ok. tho energy restoration is just overall electro mechanic but ok ok

where it completely falls apart is dendro. dendro travelers kit is nothing like nahida. dendro traveler has shotgun blast on E and like mushroom spores growing out of the ground on burst, dendro application on limited static spot, while nahida has her radish death mark for all she can get in her selfie. they are not similar neither in function or visuals. you know who does grow grow mushroom spore thingies in set area during fights tho? Apep. Dendro dragon.

hydro is the strongest case, because we now have a confirmed playable hydro dragon and there is no denying that hydro traveler is a bargain bin neuvillette, the pew-pew water pistol is too unique and similar to his hydro beam. i've seen some leaks of furina kit, i'm not going to spoil anything, but it's nothing close.

and if we look at other elements from this angle, you know who has an actual tornado just like traveler? dvalin. And who both throws rocks from above like geo traveler E AND grows spikes from the ground, like traveler burst? Azhdaha. we never met electro dragon, so we can't compare there, but the pattern i think is obvious. traveler powers mimic not the powers of an archon, but dragons of the element. archon powers just sometimes happen to share similarities, but mostly based on element's theme, like most of anemo shares the grouping trend.

i think traveler is a dragon, who traveled for so long and teyvat changed so much that their memories erased. their backstory is that their kingdom was destroyed by the invaders and they traveled the galaxy with their sibling for thousand of years, which tracks with how teyvat is initially was inhabited by dragons and then first throne invaded, destroyed them and humans ruled. traveler is a descender, but also somehow their sibling is part of this world, according to nahida. abyss sibing talks about "restoring homeland", and ppl take it to mean khaenriah, but we know for sure they're not from khaenriah originally. traveler can manipulate elements without a vision, like dragons do, and from neuvi we now know that "archon's authority" is based on power that was taken from sovereign dragons, which means when traveler resonates with archon statues, they resonate with vestiges of dragon powers. wake up sheeple, travelers are princess and princess of the defeated king of the dragons

EDIT post Act 5 AQ: now that it was revealed that gnosis are made out of remnants of third descender, it means that traveler is probs not actually a dragon, because apparently all Descenders have natural ability to absorb elemental powers. Which is interesting, bc like why?? Or maybe not all descenders, bc primordial one is descender too. If any descender could absorb dragon powers, then why gnosis is made out of specifically third descender? is it just bc they had his corpse sdfghj?? anyway, interesting.

[atomheartz]

'why didn't they make simon a love interest for markus it was so easy!!!!!'

because david cage is homophobic. he literally said they don't make games for f*ggots. those tracis? just for show. besides, it's easier for a straight male to write two female sex androids together for a brief moment than planning out an elaborate storyline for two male androids that carries over multiple chapters.

[lgbtqiacab]

Thoughts of an angry feminist lesbian — Pride & Prejudice edition

Disclaimers: I know it's not all that pertinent to judge a 208 year old book with today's values but I never come to tumblr.com in order to be a productive member of society. I just like to rant in the void, like everyone else. I'm a simple woman, after all. Also I'm reading the gay version (Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie because I have no time for the straights anymore). Will update in time.

- Elizabeth Bennet is such an NLOG it hurts my soul. She is annoying as hell. She reeks of internalised misogyny. I'm very ambivalent with her character. I ship her really hard with Caroline Bingley though. Enemies to lovers is the way.

- Lydia should have been the heroine. Get it, girl. Premarital sex is the best sex, so I'm told. She absolutely does not deserve to be cut off from her family. Blame George Wickham. It's literally in his name that he's the culprit. No victim/slut shaming in this house. Ew.

- Kitty/Catherine "becoming good again and marrying some rando after not being around Lydia's bad influence" is slander. Stop.

- Mary does not deserve to be trashed on the tl 24/7. She also should have been the heroine. A woman with ambition? Who wants knowledge? That's my shit. Yeah she's struggling but who isn't??? She trying her best and (hopefully) enjoying herself and that's the most important thing. Also the real treasure was the friends we made along the way.

- About Mary again, she is always portrayed by perfectly conventionally attractive women in the latest adaptations and it makes my blood BOIL.

- Fitzwilliam Darcy, Caroline Bingley and Charles Bingley are all raging homosexuals.

- Darcy and Bingley are hiding a passionate relationship. They are so in love wow. You know I'm right.

- Darcy is that depressed homo™️ (the emo bf) and Bingley is the ray of sunshine who gets him out of his shell. I have so many headcanons about them. OTP. *cheff kiss*

- Give Mrs. Bennet a rest, she's the only one trying to help her daughters having a future. She is not "hysterical" or a comic relief to despise. She is making sure she and her children have a roof over their head after Mr. Bennet dies. That's called parenting. It is expected from a parent. Get ✨ it ✨ together ✨ y'all.

- Mr. Bennet is a horrendous father. I want to slap him. That mf does nothing else but despise the wide majority of his own children and makes fun at their expense. He's like respecting women (my own children too) who do not meet my conversational standards? Heck no. He doesn't give a flying fuck about what happens to his family after he dies. Sure man, read your books and be pedantic/detached from these "crazy women" all you want, so edgy of you. Also cutting his own daughter off?? What's up??? He'd probably be posting "I hate my wife jokes" and "edgy" sexist/transphobic/homophobic/anti-masks memes on facebook nowadays. He would say stuff like "wake up sheeple." Ew again.

- The Bennet family is sO dysfunctional jESUS-

- Catherine de Bourgh is a domineering woman (why is that a such bad thing, Austen???? I think it's very hot of her) and is basically a boomer BUT- in her defence, she is merely wishing for her daughter to be safe. Just like Mrs. Bennet. The times were harsh on unmarried women.

- William Collins is so bland, we get it, Austen. Don't get me wrong, he's a dumbass for sure but we get it, Austen.

- Btw my favourite thing about Austen is that she gives her name (Jane) to all the best/morally-upstanding/prettiest/most candid/kindest/angel-like characters and honestly whaT A MOVE. Our girl be manifesting before it was cool.

- "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you" is such a powerful phrasing. What an drama queen, love it. Ily < ymamttyhaiaaly

[thirstghosting]

I'll never make sense of it, grown adults being like "ive been looking for an affordable place for AGES, I am so shocked and surprised at how difficult it is!" are you??? are you surprised????? because sure as FUCK every communist friend you ever had has been telling you EXACTLY WHY it's like that for years and you didn't wanna hear it because you're so immature you really still believe the US is a meritocracy. and every time somebody tells you that capitalism intentionally has us strung out like this, you shut them down saying they're paranoid or that's weird nobody would ever do that on purpose... youre just fucking stupid. this shit doesn't happen by accident. wake the fuck up. literal sheeple.

[financialsmatter]

Public Confidence Will Never Be the Same

There are multiple reasons why public confidence will never be the same. Let’s start with the CoronaHoax…that we’ve said is:  “The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on Mankind in History.” READ: Stop Trying to Wake Up the Sheep January 27, 2022 And as the Covid laws/mandates in place – around the globe – continue to crumble, public confidence in government continues to deteriorate as well. Cue up:  Canada and Justin Castreau. The reality that the majority of people dying from COVID are the triple and quadruple vaccinated, has finally prompted Canada to end the absurd COVID vaccine mandates. They account for 90% of COVID-related deaths in the past three months. But the clown, Trudeau insists they are “safe and effective.” That’s not a lie. It’s TWO lies. Because they were never “safe OR effective.” Sad to say, countless lives were destroyed over these mandates. People lost their livelihoods and homes. And now they want to pretend everything is ok and sweep it all under the rug. Never Be the Same We need to remember what Trudeau and the globalists did to the people. The unvaccinated were gaslighted and banished from society. And far too many were threatened in multiple ways until they agreed to submit to the government’s order. Unfortunately, we now see how much control the government has over the people. As a result, public confidence will never be the same. What’s truly amazing is how there remains a true mass psychosis surrounding the vaccination. There are now well-established facts including: It does not prevent transmission or infection. Despite that being a known fact, politicians are eager to promote the vaccine. And the media presstitutes continue to push boosters on every platform available. People are still bringing their babies and elderly loved ones to get the latest vaccine. There are people crying online that it is “too soon” to remove the vaccine requirement. So, what happens now when the mask falls (no pun intended) and people realize the truth? And we now know the vaccine only weakened people’s immune systems and made them more susceptible to COVID. But…and this is a Very Big Butt… The sheeple cannot allow their brains to process that they were lied to for years.   So, don’t be surprised if – in a desperate attempt to rig the upcoming elections – we somehow are all going to die again from the newest and deadliest strain of Covid.   And you’ll need another booster.   Ironically (or NOT) public confidence will have a noticeable effect on the markets. Learn how to make the most of it (HERE). And share this with a friend…especially if they’ve had booster shots. They’ll thank YOU later. We’re Not Just About Finance…but we use finance to give you hope. ********************************* Invest with confidence. Sincerely, James Vincent The Reverend of Finance Copyright © 2022 It's Not Just About Finance, LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Read the full article

[dimples-of-discontent]

Hi, I'm new to this fandom. I'm cockles fan. What is tinhat?

Hi Nonnie,

First off, welcome! We are happy to have you in the fandom and also here in the dumpster mansion. I’m sure that there are plenty of fandom glossaries etc. that would be happy to give a history of the term’s origins and how its use has changed etc. but I can just tell you how I use it. The notion of a tinhat comes from the convention/joke that conspiracy theorists wear tinfoil hats (either to communicate with aliens or to keep the government out of their head or something…it probably varies depending on your individual conspiracy theorist). The wearer of a tinfoil hat in media/TV is likely to remind you of this guy:

It’s media shorthand for a mentally unstable conspiracy nut who thinks they have access to truth that regular folks don’t (WAKE UP SHEEPLE!).

So, that’s a tinhatter in general. When used in fandom, it’s It’s a term mostly associated with real person ships (RPS…and when they are made into real person fiction, RPF) because they tend to encourage the kind of “I see the real truth!” attitude a little more than fiction, which is deliberately constructed and can be read for subtext that someone has designed. (I’m sure they get used about people that ship fictional characters too though.)

The way the term is used can vary. If used by the person doing the postulating–which is how I use it–it’s kind of self-depreciating and also serves as a disclaimer: “I know how crazy I sound here so if you want to ignore me I totally understand.” If other people use it about you, it turns into an insult, although that’s maybe not universally true. Personally, I distinguish between being a shipper (or fan) and being a tinhat. When I blog about Jensen making a ridiculously sappy face at Misha (which happens a minimum of once a week) I don’t consider that tinhatting because it involves basically no theorizing. He made a doofy face and I point at it and flail. That’s real person shipping (for me).

Once you start conjecturing about the most probable reason behind face-making or clothes-sharing or whatever, then you are getting into tinhatting. It’s a fine line, because I feel that you can (for example) write meta about body language and not be a tinhatter because you’re saying: “Here’s what I see happening” but not “and from that we conclude that they have a secret love nest on set” or “Misha is the baby daddy.” The edges are fuzzy and, for me, have to do with whether you’re making an argumentative claim. “This looks like outrageous flirting to me” doesn’t meet the tinhat threshold. But a post like mine about JIB 7 and how (I think) they fucked right before the panel 100% does. So when I tag for tinhatting here it means that I feel I have ventured away from the realm of observation and idle speculation into making an argument based on conjecture and deductions that have very little real-world evidence.

Other people may use it differently, especially if they think that all real-person shippers are also tinhats. And not all tinhats are created equal, imo. I can give you my personal take on what this looks like in our fandom, but the fact that it’s my personal take means that it is biased and more sympathetic to Cockles. Within our particular fandom, there are the J2 tinhats and the Cockles tinhats. I would say they are “warring” except that, tbh, I don’t see Cockles people fighting with anyone very often. It’s more like when my aunt’s chihuahua used to bite and snap at her Labrador and the lab would just be all good-natured like “Huh? What is even happening?” as the chihuahua got more pissed off. (Again, that’s how it looks to me.) 

I’ve only accidentally encountered J2 content so I can speak super generally, but J2 tinhats tend to believe that their wives are “beards” enabling them to maintain a secret relationship that’s been going since the start of the show. I’ve seen some stuff suggesting that the pregnancies were somehow “fake” and/or at least didn’t involve actual sex (because no one can see those kids and not know they are related to their daddies, ffs) but I’m going to guess that’s pretty “fringe” behavior even in that group. The J2 tinhats are the ones who send the most hate to the wives. Like, it is vile, vile shit. You can find it pretty easily on any of Danneel and Gen’s social media posts (and often on Jared and Jensen’s too). There’s probably (unfortunately) another subset of people sending hate to the wives too who just wish J2 were single so they could indulge some kind of fantasy about dating them (which–guess what!–you can anyway! it’s a fantasy!). But J2 tinhats definitely do hate on their wives, looking for examples of how much J2 don’t love them and how they are in fact each other’s life partners though not ok with being Out about it for PR reasons.

Oh right, and the craziest J2 tinhat theory I ever saw was that Misha is actually a beard (meard, to be exact) to distract from how much Jensen loves Jared. I am not sure how that helps the J2 case, but at least it means they aren’t blind to those hearteyes Jen and Mish exchange. Honestly, there are probably some very nice J2 shippers who do not hate their wives and who think, like Cockles shippers do, that it can all be one happy non-monogamous party. They probably maintain quiet blogs that squee over hugs and head rubs or whatever. They don’t go on Twitter and scream about stuff. But that means I also don’t know that they are out there and that it feels much more like they’re the exception rather than the norm. I’m also not sure the extent to which J2 believers overlap with Wincest shippers or bronlies…probably a lot? This isn’t my area of expertise though.

The norm for Cockles tinhats, in my (fairly extensive) experience is that everyone believes that everything is done consensually and without angst; they love the wives and assume that, even if they’re not actively involved, they fully sanction (and perhaps even instigated) Misha and Jensen’s relationship. They think that they spend some family vacations together (which was confirmed) and that that means they are kind of raising them together. Essentially, the most extreme tinhatty end of Cockles shipping is still best described as “poly bliss” in which everyone is informed and consenting and full of love. I am not sure I’ve seen anyone pro-Cockles suggesting that Vicki and Danneel are beards, though again it may happen in a small and quieter minority. 

I could go on even longer about why I feel like tinhatting Cockles is less of a reach than tinhatting J2, but essentially it just comes down to the fact that a) Misha and Vicki have a marriage that has included a third serious partner before (in addition to including multiple people in bed) but I’ve never heard anything like that about Jared and b) the suggested scenario where the wives are involved and everyone is happy about it seems like it could actually be emotionally sustainable where what is suggested for J2 doesn’t.

I know that’s a longer answer than maybe you were expecting or wanted, but I have been thinking about tinhatting vs. shipping a lot recently so I thought I’d share those reflections. Again, though, this is my interpretation of the term and my way of using it so YMMV. Either way, welcome to the party!

[wendynerdwrites]

Dear Star Wars Fandom:

Kathleen Kennedy (as annoying as she is) isn’t killing Star Wars. JJ Abrams isn’t. 

George Lucas didn’t kill Star Wars. 

Not even with the prequels. You know, those movies that basically portrayed Yoda, Obi-Wan, and all the Jedi as corrupt, incompetent assholes?

Yes, they were terrible, and guess what? After they were done? I went forward pretending they didn't exist. I just went on pretending the OG trilogy was all there was. 

It was easy. And it's easy now. I don't see Anakin merchandise all over the place. I have an easy time of ignoring things like Jar Jar Binks.

Keep in mind, I went as Queen Amidala for Halloween the year the Phantom Menace came out, okay? And I STILL can pretend that those movies don't exist EVEN THOUGH THERE IS TOTALLY PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE SOMEWHERE IN MY MOM’S ATTIC OF ME WEARING THIS MASK:

It totally scraped up my tender eight-year-old face flesh too. The edges were SHARP (tbf, the gown was comfy and warm).

And I still emerged from those disasters, alright? Star Wars was not ruined because I STILL HAVE LUKE BLOWING UP THE DEATH STAR, LEIA STRANGLING JABA, BOTH INSTANCES OF “I LOVE YOU” “I KNOW”, AND BASICALLY ALL OF EMPIRE.

Years later, I ordered a box set of Star Wars EU books which included this thing

(my copy didn’t have this cover, but I prefer this because of HOW MUCH LEIA LOOKS LIKE PRINCESS VESPA HERE. IT’S AMAZING AND THE ONLY DECENT THING TO COME OUT OF THIS GARBAGE FIRE)

I read The Courtship of Princess Leia when I was 15 and it utterly horrified me. Seriously, I hate that book. It is one of the seminal titles of the @starwars extended universe. At one point, it was totally a canon thing. And for me, it BUTCHERED Han Solo  WHO I LOVED. So you know what I did? I fumed a bit, put the book aside, and WENT TO READ SOME FANFIC WHERE HAN AND LEIA'S RELATIONSHIP WASN'T MARRED BY A KIDNAPPING.

I ALSO NEVER FELT THE NEED TO SEND DAVE WOLVERTON HATE MAIL. I KNOW NOTHING OF HIM. BUT I WILL ASSUME HE IS A LOVELY GENTLEMAN WHO JUST HAPPENED TO WRITE A BAD BOOK. SUCH THINGS ARE FORGIVABLE.

Fanfic exists, and it is a world where Courtship didn’t happen.  See, the funny thing about Fanfic, which so many "true" geeks LOVE to shit on, is that it actually can have a great effect on how you process and experience media you love and can even LEARN FROM IT.

Courtship of Princess Leia was more or less canon for years. And I kind of tolerated that. Because despite that thing's existence, the Star Wars extended universe ALSO gave me Mara Jade and Jaina Solo, and I LOVED THEM.

awwwwwwww yeah.....

They no longer exist anymore in the Star Wars Universe. These badass Lady Jedi that were important to me for years? Poof. Gone. As much as I love Reiy you never forget your firsts. Those characters mattered to me. A lot.

They are gone from canon now. Poof.. I have had characters I loved, like Han, “ruined” in canon. I’ve had characters I loved like Mara and Jaina erased.  And I ACCEPTED THAT.

That's the nature of ongoing franchise media. Shit happens. 

Kirk ordering the OG Enterprise (which isn't even the OG Enterprise anymore) to go Warp 11 no longer makes any goddamn sense.

James Bond... is he a code name or not? Why did Roger Moore visit Tracy Bond's grave if he ISN'T the same Bond as George Lazenby?

Game of Thrones makes NO goddamn sense if you think about it for half a second. (seriously, that show's writing is terrible. WAKE UP SHEEPLE)

But you know what? There's still a ton of Mara Jade and Jaina Solo content out there. I can still enjoy them as characters. And ignore the fact that they are no longer canon. I don't take my disappointment with their erasure out ON PEOPLE WHO WORK TO GIVE ME MORE @starwars

More content, even content I hate, will never completely "ruin" the things I love for me. I still love ASOIAF even though GoT sucks. I still loved Star Wars after reading Courtship and seeing the prequels because I was able to separate fantasy from reality and not let it intrude on what I loved in the first  place.

Questionable content does NOT ruin my enjoyment of what I loved in the first place. Neither do the people who create it even if, like in the case of, say, Kathleen Kennedy, I don’t like them very much!

But you know what DOES dampen the experience?

Fan culture. You know, the stuff that exists in real life and can’t be papered over with head canons and transformative works. What with it being, you know, real and all.

YOU ASSHOLES.

People who genuinely make interacting with people about stuff I love or even EXPRESSING MY LOVE FOR THINGS uncomfortable and unpleasant. Assholes like @RMthelastjedi who  make me embarrassed to be a Star Wars fan. Because when kids are being shoved into internment camps, whiny fanboys are trying to waste people's time, efforts, and energy on a project that will never happen because WAHHH THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT !!!

Or the people who harassed Daisy Ridley, Kellay Marie Tran, Rian Johnson, and John Boyega using "grievances" as an excuse to be garbage bigots. Who HONESTLY MAKE IT UNPLEASANT TO EVEN THINK ABOUT STAR WARS NOW .

BECAUSE MOST STAR WARS NEWS IS NOW ABOUT FANDOM CRUELTY AND ENTITLEMENT. THAT is what has officially ruined Star Wars for me. Not George Lucas, not Kathleen Kennedy, not Rian Johnson.  THEY didn't make being a fan so unpleasant. YOU DID.

No matter what, I still have the characters I love regardless of their creative decisions. I can still love Mara Jade and Jaina and Han and Luke and Empire. No amount of bad movies or books or canon inconsistencies can ruin that for me. But toxic fan behavior can. An inhospitable environment can.

AND IT HAS.

CONGRATS EVERYONE, YOU KILLED STAR WARS.

[kingofthenorth49]

Another King

Another day, another example of the censorship of big tech. They are really going all out to suppress what is really going on.

There’s just not enough coffee in the world for this right now.

Holy crap sheeple, who’s paying attention? Better yet, does anyone really care?

If you haven’t been playing along since the insur-election, there’s much fuckery afoot. That’s likely an understatement, but you’d never know by the sheer lack of coverage by the MSM. Complicit by omission and commission. What is the tin foil hat wearing mostly black coffee drinking guy talking about? Why the Pennsylvania election hearings of course. The decision granted by Judge Patricia McCullough this week to stop the certification due to the constitutionality of the actions of the state Attorney General.

Have any of you even heard about this? Bueller? Bueller?

Of course you haven’t. (ed. Note – for the record, many of you likely do as you wouldn’t be reading this if you were peeking out from a safe space. That sentence was to make a point.) We, and I use the collective we here, have been lulled into a state of indifference, or as I’ve titled this blog spot, a state of confusion. We are not inundated with so much information, fake or otherwise that we can no longer discern for ourselves what is right and what is wrong. Add on the pandemic, information overload combined with rapidly changing conditions, mis-trust, isolation, desperation etc., and then cover all that over a highly corrupt political class and guess what? We are living in a history class for future students to be taught how not to repeat.

I shit-you-not. We are literally living through the start of collapse of western civilization. Cool right?

Ask the Roman’s how that worked out for them. Anyone heard about the Mayan’s? The average society lasts for 250-350 years before it collapses. The loss of cultural identity, failure of government, and a rise in violence has signaled the end of many societies throughout the century and history has taught us that organized human activity is doomed to fail every time. Always.

I’m going to quote what I feel is likely a great quote to make those who remember who said it and why understand completely where I’m coming from. “Why can’t we all just get along?”.

I’ll pause here for effect.

We can’t. Well, we can for awhile but eventually w will resort back to tribalism and start killing each other again. It happens time and time again. We are a predictable species and are arrogant enough to not learn from our mistakes. As a matter of fact we go out of our way to ensure our descendants future failures like we are today by erasing history in the name of political correctness. It’s not like this sort of thing hasn’t happened before, right?

I just didn’t think I’d live to see it. I mean I should have realized I’d experience some sort of mass calamity in my life time, humans aren’t that bright. World wars, famines, genocide, it’s a cycle and we aren’t intelligent enough to figure out how to get along for long periods of time. I just never thought it would happen HERE.

It’s really simple if you take a look at your community as a micro study in humanity. Look at the different people in your neighborhood (ed note – OMG, did that song just play in anyone elses head?) and consider what makes a community work.

We are all different. Different shapes, sizes, dreams, goals, abilities. Some people like to sing in choirs, and some don’t. Some people like to jog at five in the morning (what’s wrong with these people??) and some don’t. I could never be a butcher, but I love steak. My neighbor mows his lawn in late November. One of the kids I went to school with has a son who plays hockey at a high level while I can’t stand up on skates.

Get it yet?

Some people give up a good portion of their paycheck to take an annual trip to watch a sporting event of their liking, to see their hero’s play in person. Those hero’s spent their childhood perfecting their craft because of their passion for the game. Others’ build the stadiums that these people will enjoy their sport in, and yet others’ again will provide health care to those builders should they ever need it.

We can all get along. We all must get along. When we stop getting along, those who are most vunerable suffer most, and that truly is the most unfair thing our societies don’t consider when we allow ideology to run ruckshaw over common sense.

We are at that point now. They estimate over 100 million people will die next year because of the plandemic in 3rd world countries. We will soon see food shortages here in the western world, we are already seeing long food lines in states like Texas.

I get the desire to create a perfect world, but when we rush to find perfection we almost always hinder progress in the name of some lofty ideals.

I’m not sure if it’s too late to stop the momentum of what we are seeing, I can only hope we see the folly of our ways before we repreat the sins of those who came before us.

I’m cautiously optimistic that the story unfolding in Pennsylvania will continue and people will wake up and take a hard look at what is really going on, and stand up and say no.

That’s enough for today, I’m going to go throw balls for the beast of Regent. He’s getting impatient with my pontification and needs to run.

Me too. Happy Saturday!

J out.

[tanlineless]

watch this video you will not believe what you see looks like the facebook Nazi's in the CCP  maybe blocking this video 

Ivan Bradshaw Was it a false flag? Copied and still need to check some details. I put this up so you can do the same. Btw, there is footage of some of the “rioters” wearing earpieces (the ones with the curled wire like secret service etc wear, not normal earphone type) Something wrong here . LOTS of puzzling Questions about the Floyd George Incident: 1. Why does one photo from behind show the man on the road is not handcuffed and the video from the front that he is handcuffed? 2. Why is the cop car in the restaurant surveillance video different than the one Floyd was lying behind (different car numbers)? And why were the cops in the surveillance footage that arrested him different than the police in the actual incident? 3. Why does the video show the diesel fuel price as 99 cents instead of the regular price in the area of $2.49? 4. Is there any cop dumb enough to continue kneeling on someone’s neck for 8 minutes when surrounded by people and being video recorded? 5. Is it possible for the deceased’s cousins and fiancé to be completely tearless during interviews 6. Why does the cop have one hand in his pocket? 7. Why did the kneeling officer appear completely cool and calm, as if he was posing for the camera? 8. Doesn’t it seem strange that Floyd and the officer that kneeled on his neck worked security together on the same shift at the El Nuevo Rodeo Club, the officer for 17 years? 9. Why do the neighbors of this officer say they didn’t know he was a cop and never saw him in uniform? 10. Why has the same attorney been hired as with all the other big supposed police killings  of blacks? Attorney Benjamin Crump. The same attorney that worked on previous cases that resulted in busses bringing in rioters from outside the city? 11. Why does store surveillance video show Floyd calmly and submissively walking with the officer and not resisting arrest while the officer gently allowed him to sit down on the side walk, and multiple officers calmly chatting with him? Is this the kind of suspect that a police officer would feel the need to put on the ground and place his knee on his neck 12. Why did the EMT workers roughly handle and dump the unconscious George on the stretcher? This is not how trained emergency workers lift a person with a possible neck injury. Why did they not try CPR? 13. Why are the two main police officers wearing completely different badges if they work for the same precinct? 14. Can someone really not breath when someone kneels on his neck and is the victim really  able to speak for considerable periods of time if he can’t breathe? 15. Post killing: Why is a white man that looks like an undercover cop in black and a riot gear mask carrying a black umbrella walking around breaking windows (and others dressed similarly starting fires) and instigating a riot?  Is this reminiscent of “umbrella man” during the JFK shooting? 16. Why were almost all the rioters leading the destruction of the neighborhood at the beginning of the riots “white” and not from Minneapolis... in a black neighborhood after a police killed a black man? 

Tom R Frye Tom R Frye I've been checking this stuff out too. This looks like a syops thing. I hope Trump figures it out. It's all a big sham to make sure we're all distracted... Hide or report this Jessica Katharsys Jessica Katharsys Ivan Bradshaw no. It’s not a false flag. Tom R Frye Tom R Frye Jessica Katharsys Some of it may be psyops moves. I gotta wonder why a St.Paul cop was over there busting windows. in that Auto Zone store. Umbrella Man was spotted by his ex. I smell Soros money. So maybe the St. Paul cop is Antifa? I don't know...but I bet we find out. Image may contain: 1 person, text that says 'Black Lives Matter St. Paul Paul 1hr. We caught him. Now stop putting that on US. Police ASS STATE! Fuck12 #JUSTICE FOR #GEORGE #FLOYD ARREST NOW 5 POLICE St. DNI Paud /' Steve Taylor Steve Taylor Hi Tom , yes , this has been some extensive coverage here , I find I t appalling what happened in minosota , I'm glad that those cops are getting charged , that footage of that A, hole on Floyd's neck is disgusting. 😠😠 Tom R Frye Now I see some really strange shit going on. Everyone's got a cell phone. So a lot of things will be seen. Friend Ivan Bradshaw seems to be wondering the same things I am now. It centers around some videos posted on Youtube and a couple of other sites. But they seem to be disappearing...like maybe they hit too close to home. Ivan sent me his list of questions and observations...and they closely match mine. I'll copy and paste them here... so I can get some sleep. It's tired he... Steve Taylor Steve Taylor Got it Tom 👍😎 Steve Taylor And I say again , w.t.f. 🤔🤔👍1 Tom R Frye Tom R Frye Steve Taylor Well...if there is a government...whether it be city, county, state of federal, there's going to be corruption. But there's a reason it got so bad...and that's because people vote it in and keep it. And the keep it because corrupt governments give away free shit. Then once they get people used to that free shit in large enough numbers, they have the country...or even the world by the short hairs. Tom R Frye Same thing I'm sayin'. We need to take this country away from the slime balls. I smell George Soros money here. Steve Taylor Tom R Frye I don't think it's just you guys , all this b.s appears to going on everywhere, maybe we got a bit more aware of what's actually going on since the shit with this " virus" just a thought/ observation from the bottom of the South Pacific, 🤣👍 Steve Taylor Steve Taylor Tom R Frye ohh yes , our commie government are handing money out hand over fist , God knows how we will be able to pay back the billions they are borrowing, and f**k knows who they are borrowing it from , probably freaking Hong Kong. Also I think that …See More Tom R Frye Steve Taylor Well...let's take advantage of the fact we noticed all the B.S. so we don't step in it. That mean voting smart....like vote out the dead wood. of whatever party. Steve Taylor Steve Taylor Tom R Frye amen to that Tom , and I'm not religious 🤣🤣👍 Tom R Frye Tom R Frye Steve Taylor Doesn't matter. You're smart. So vote like it🙂 Steve Taylor Steve Taylor Tom R Frye yeah , I am involved with a lot of like minded people here , no sheeple 🤣🤣👍 Tom R Frye Tom R Frye Steve Taylor This is a much bigger country...so it's taking a bit longer. but people are waking up here. Steve Taylor Steve Taylor Tom R Frye hell yes , I fully get that Tom , it is getting to a stage that there could get to civil disobedience here , they are lying to us , and sad to say most people fall for it hook , line , and sinker , 😢😢👍 End ... or is it the Beginning Write a comment...

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Let’s Read Comics! With Samantha and her girlfriend :D

And this time around we join the West Coast Avengers, as they face off with the MECHANICAL MONSTER of Ultron

Battles will be fought!

A Pool Cleaner Will Fall!

AND WE SHALL KINKSHAME A KILLER ROBOT

My Girlfriend: I thought UIltimate Ultron was the one from Ultimates 3 who leaked Tony Stark’s sex tape and shot the Scarlet Witch because she was fucking her brother

Me: And that is why we do not talk about UIltimates 3

My Girlfriend: HE’S HER PRESENT THIS YEAR

Me: NO

My Girlfriend: JUST LET HER FUCK HER BROTHER

Me: Don’t body-shame Ultron

My Girlfriend: This type of behaviour is why he wants to kill us all

Me: THEY’VE INGENIOUSLY TRAPPED HIM IN A SAUNA

My Girlfriend: The might of Ultron 13 is no match for surplus equipment from the gym down the street that closed down last year

Me: Also got to love how this guys friend “Forgot” that Ultron put his friends wife in a wheelchair

My Girlfriend: “Sorry man…I guess I forgot how your wife will never walk again because of the horrible injuries this guy inflicted on

My demeanour may have been inappropriately jovial as a result”

As Sad Guard takes his leave, he and Forgetful Guard talk about how it’s forbidden to bring ANY electronic equipment of any kind anywhere near Ultron

So of course, as soon as his buddy is gone, Forgetful Guard reveals that he’s smuggled a fuckin Gameboy in there

Me: THE PROFESSIONALISM AND INTELLIGENCE WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM CIVILLIANS IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE

My Girlfriend: It’s like everyone who doesn’t wear spandex got a mandatory lobotomy

Me: Literally risking unleashing a genocidal unstoppable killer robot

So he can play video games

My Girlfriend: Look he is THIS CLOSE to catching a Pikachu okay Samantha

NOTHING WILL STAND IN THE WAY OF HIS QUEST

Me: “I SHOULD obey the safety regulations around this terrifying robot monster

But

I GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL”

But as he plays the game…ULTRONS FACE APPEARS

My Girlfriend: OH NO WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

Me: it is almost as if those rules about not bringing electronic devices near the advanced AI mass murderer were there for a reason

My Girlfriend: But what kind of prison guard would he be if he obeyed the rules?

My Girlfriend: “FIRST OF ALL it’s a CONSOLE for people of ALL AGES”

Me: “How dare you”

Yes, Ultron has somehow been subliminally controlling the guard with the video game….

Me: Okay so that makes…WHAT kind of sense exactly

My Girlfriend: It’s a lot like the way Sega’s been secretly creating mind controlled assassins using the Sonic the Hedgehog fantasy for years

Me: You need to stop browsing conspiracy theory message boards at work babe

My Girlfriend: WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Sonic is in your brain

We then get THIS amazing panel

Me: The Republican Parties new slogan is controversial but they feel it accurately conveys what they stand for

My Girlfriend: TOPICAL

The guard throws the game down in horror but it breaks open to reveal…MILLIONS OF TINY ROBOT INSECTS

Me: An Ultron attack

A deadly ROBOT BEE WEAPON

My Girlfriend: BEES

MY GOD

The guard reacts with horror to the insects but reveals that he ALSO snuck a GUN into the cell

My Girlfriend: I AM HAVING SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT THE SECURITY OF THIS PRISON

Me: Why would a prison be worried about checking people for concealed weapons

HAHAHAHA

That would just be SILLY

My Girlfriend: Your right, what a foolish thing to worry about

But before you can say “Not the Bees!” Ultron’s robo-bugs are swarming the guard and devouring him Ultron declares that he should perhaps call them “My Bytes”

Me: It’s good to know he has a sense of humour about these things

My Girlfriend: HA

HA HA

At least

HAHAHA

At least he has a sense of humour…

Me: NO

DO NOT REFERENCE LAST STAND OF THE WRECKERS

Me: His WHAT inclined

My Girlfriend: Ultron

I do not think that word means what you think it does

Me: HE GON FUCK THE BUGS

My Girlfriend: noooooooooooooooo

The bugs soon free Ultron from his prison just as the guards arrive to see what’s happening

My Girlfriend: “I KNEW WE SHOULDN’T HAVE LEFT JUST ONE INEPT GUARD TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIM”

Me: “Okay guys let’s take this killer robot down!

Then in two days time when we retire we can go home to our spouses and children and settle down with our families like we always planned!”

My Girlfriend: They can’t wait for that retirement party on the boat they bought together called the Live 4 Ever

But no it is not to be and these luckless Green Shirts get massacred by Ultron in quick succession

Me: “It’s almost like we’re just throwaway extras in an opening sequence!”

My Girlfriend: They didn’t even have name tags, they should have known this would end badly

Me: HE IS NOT A NUMBER

HE IS A FREE ROBOT

My Girlfriend: He seems to be having a good time

Me: When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life

We turn our attention to the Avengers West Coast HQ where…

My Girlfriend: the fuck did he just say

Me: He’s talking about the colour of his costume, I promise

My Girlfriend: oh thank god

Me: Though the fact the closest this team has to diversity is the Spanish woman they make be their maid sure doesn’t put them in a good light

My Girlfriend: Ah the progressive writing and commitment to representation we’ve come to expect from Marvel

The cause of the commotion is an argument between Hawkeye and USAgent, with the latter threatening Hawkeye that he’ll be “Using your bow as a bow-tie!”

Me: That can’t even have sounded clever in your HEAD dude

My Girlfriend: “Damn it I had something for this”

The argument is about USAgent secretly working for the government and a group of creeps named The Commission behind the Avengers backs but he angrily declares that he has a right to “Hold down a second job”

Me: It’s the economy

My Girlfriend: He’s just another victim of Reaganomics

Me: Just think, there was a time when working two jobs meant you had enough money to live in a mansion and employ a cleaning staff

My Girlfriend: Just think, there was a time when working two jobs meant you earned more than a basic living wage

My Girlfriend: GRAND THEFT QUINJET

Me:  I think Hawkeye is actually trying to force-choke him there

Hawkeye challenges him that he’s wrong if he thinks he’s indispensable because they’re shorthanded after the death of Iron Man…

My Girlfriend: HE’S DEAD?!?!

Me: Not really…see Tony just FAKED his death, let all his closest friends and people who loved him think he was dead and used that to emotionally manipulate his best friend into taking over the job from him because he couldn’t do it anymore

Because reasons

My Girlfriend: And this guy is the HERO

Me: He’s the only thing keeping us safe from the DEVILISH CHINESE, Rebecca

There’s an emergency alert warning of an intruder and who should it be but…James Rhodes, the new Iron Man!

Me: “We were JUST talking about you!”

My Girlfriend: “What are the odds!”

Me: “Seems almost contrived when u think about it”

Me: The West Coast Avengers

THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO START A FIGHT AT  FUNERAL

My Girlfriend: The solemn occasion of putting someone to rest is the perfect time to start a brawl

Me: “I’M GONNA CONCUSS YOU WITH THE COFFIN”

Iron Man says that he’s willing to join the team if they’ll have him and work with them “When his other duties allow”

Hawkeye flies off into a rage about this talking about his “Lousy attitude”

My Girlfriend: “HOW DARE YOU HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE OF THIS TEAM AND OUR NEEDS”

Me: “THE FACT YOU DO NOT SPEND EVERY WAKING MOMENT BEATING UP MEN IN SPANDEX MAKES YOU LOWER THAN DIRT TO ME”

My Girlfriend: Was Clint just ALWAYS throwing random anger at everything back then?

Me: Remember how he was in the Iron Man animated series?

That’s basically how Clint was written in the comics

My Girlfriend: Just without that weird Brooklyn accent

Me: HE FEELS RAGE

Of the Brooklyn variety

My Girlfriend: nO

Me: “I never unmask until the third date”

My Girlfriend: “You trusted this guy without knowing anything about him”

Me: “He just betrayed the team and stole one of our planes”

My Girlfriend: “Okay I need a better example”

Iron Man says the answer has to be no for now and just…flies off

My Girlfriend: “Excuse me, we were having a conversation”

Me: “Who does that

We were literally RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SPEAKING

He didn’t even say goodbye”

My Girlfriend: “With an attitude like that are we sure it secretly isn’t Tony in the armour”

Me: Someone needs to teach Iron Man

Some Iron MANNERS

My Girlfriend: You need to stop

Before they can think about what just happened or continue the argument with USAgent a phone call comes through for Hank Pym!

Me: “If this is another telemarketer again I swear to god”

My Girlfriend: “Dr Pym?

It’s about those test results….”

With Hank away, Hawkeye takes the call and we find out…

My Girlfriend: That was some top shelf exposition there Clint

Me: “Why yes that IS what I just said to you over the phone

Not sure why you repeated it back to me”              

My Girlfriend: “I suppose it DOES seem kind of clunky and expositional

You know what you just said

Who am I saying this for the benefit of”

Hawkeye sends off MOST of the team to check this out, but Living Lightning has to stay behind as he has college to worry about

My Girlfriend: He wishes he could come with them to protect a dangerous metal from supervillains but he’s got mid-terms

Me: EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT REBECCA

Wanda questions why Clint sent Mockingbird away but is staying behind himself and he says he “Has some thinking to do” and that it will be easier without “The wife who he’s about to be divorced from” far away

Me: DAYS OF OUR AVENGERS

My Girlfriend: All My Avengers Assemble

Me: Never mind the killer robot on the loose

I want to hear more about this straight couples MARITAL DIFFICULTIES

My Girlfriend: It’s what we’re here for

The Avengers arrive at the lab of the good(?) doctor to check things out…but when they are greeted by him he says it was a false alarm!

Me: “Oh sure, waste our time

Not like we’re an ACTUAL SUPERHERO TEAM with serious work to do”

My Girlfriend: “Do you have any idea how many people could have died while we dealt with this”

Me: I bet he prank calls the fire department as well

However the team has doubts that the good(?) doctor is on the level and USAgent charges him!

Me: MOST SATISFYING PANEL EVER

My Girlfriend: I could happily watch USAgent get the crap smacked out of him all day

Me: So what’s worse here

The fact that USAgent was going to try and beat up a frail old man

Or

The fact that the frail old man kicked his ass instead

Wonder Man leaps into the fray to help!

Me: The fact they’re willing to risk their lives to help USAgent is the most unrealistic thing ever printed in a Marvel comic

My Girlfriend: Would ANYTHING of value be lost if he died?

But Wonder Man discovers….

Me: NOW TELL HIM WHERE SARAH CONNOR IS

My Girlfriend: My god

He was Mechakara all along

Me: THAT OR THE CYBORG SUPERMAN

Spiderwoman and Mockingbird leap to the rescue and Wonder Man is soon back in the fight as well

Me: HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO TALK WHILE YOUR BEATING HIM UP

My Girlfriend: “Maybe violence is the answer!”

Me: “VIOLENCE ISN’T WORKING

AND THAT’S ALL WE’RE GOOD FOR”

Me: Wait so he wasn’t sure that it was a robot while he was BEATING IT TO DEATH

My Girlfriend: “This things a robot alright

Which is a good thing too because otherwise this would look a LOT like a home invasion and a murder”

Me: I have an important question, do the Avengers realise that different kinds of scientific expertise are you know

DIFFERENT from each other

My Girlfriend: Bobbi’s a biologist, so she’s ideally suited for examining a killer robot

But hilariously she IS apparently and a study of the dead robot reveals that it is the handiwork of…ULTRON

Me: “HEADS UP GANG

We’ve got a Killer Robot on our hands!”

My Girlfriend: JINKIES                                                        

Me: I’m not sure how they figured out it was him specifically when there’s like

SIXTY mad scientists in the marvel universe who ALL build robot henchmen

Hell Doctor Doom does it every other day

My Girlfriend: While they weren’t looking she peeked at this issues cover and saw who the villain was

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch…

Me: That second thought bubble is HORRIFIC IN HINDSIGHT

My Girlfriend: Unintentionally Horrible Foreshadowing

Me: Bendis read that one panel and based everything he has ever done with Wanda ever on it

A call comes through for Wanda and she finds that it’s USAgent trying to warn of an escape from the vault (A supervillain prison in the Marvel universe)

Only for him to get cut off before he can reveal who!

Me: This is one of the VERY few times when Wanda is SORRY not to be able to speak to USAgent

My Girlfriend: One of the very few times when ANYONE is sorry to not be able to speak to USAgent

Me: He’s like the Mon El of the Marvel universe

My Girlfriend: He’s like the Hook of the Marvel universe

The transmission is interrupted by none other than…ULTRON

Me: Speak the robot devils name and he shall appear

My Girlfriend: CIGARS ARE EVIL YOU WON’T MISS ‘EM

Me: Not that robot devil

My Girlfriend: TENTACLES?

OH FUCK NO

Me: Wanda knows where this is going

My Girlfriend: She has read that fanfic and she wants NO PART OF IT

Me: IT’S TIME FOR US TO KINKSHAME ULTRON

My Girlfriend: HIS ROBOT BRAIN FEELS NO SHAME

FOR ANYTHING

Me: The people who drew these panels certainly should

Wanda tries to get everyone out of the compound warning that Ultron is coming…just as the entire place explodes

Me: YOU TRIED WANDA

My Girlfriend: THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT

Also

Can we address how creepy it is

That the well trained, costumed vigilante group with super powers

Who hide out in a secret headquarters full of advanced technology and weapons

Refer to said base as “Their Compound”

Me: Visit Avengers Mansion, in scenic Waco

My Girlfriend: See it while it lasts!

Me: ULTRON GOT SWOL

My Girlfriend: I suspect Ultron is abusing steroids

I am going to require an oil sample

Wanda asks if Ultron is saying that he doesn’t want to kill anymore…but Ultron clarifies that he has actually clarified that he’s decided wiping out humanity ISN’T ENOUGH…he wants to murder EVERY LIVING THING ON THE PLANET

Me: “I’ve decided I’m not going to kill all humans”

My Girlfriend: “That’s good”

Me: “I’m going to KILL EVERYTHING”

My Girlfriend: “That’s Bad”

Me: My god

What if Ultron was behind the  bacteria in this weeks Doctor Who episode

My Girlfriend: We’re not going over this again

They don’t take place in the same universe

Me: I HAVE THEEEOOORRIIIIIEEESSSS

My Girlfriend: “I want your mommy too”

Me: “Julia Carpenter calls ME mommy”

My Girlfriend: Babe don’t make me shame ur kinks

Me: You know I’m right

My Girlfriend: THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR…A PROFESSIONAL POOL CLEANER!

Me: “JUST LET ME HIT IT WITH A MOP”

My Girlfriend: Ultron watch out…HE HAS A STICK

Me: HE’S GOT A BOARD WITH A NAIL IN IT!

My Girlfriend: RUN ULTRON

But no, shockingly the powers of The Pool Guy is no match for a killer robot who has fought the Hulk and he kills this poor dude while saying he wouldn’t have bothered if he had just run away

My Girlfriend: WE COULD HAVE AVOIDED ALL THIS

Me: Literally none of this was necessary

My Girlfriend:  He’s cleaning the pools of angels now

Me: “I am Ultron

The Ultimate Life Form

THIS

IS WHO I AM!”

My Girlfriend: Now he’s going to show her his REAL power!

Me: Just as soon as he FINDS THE COMPUTER ROOM

The other Avengers swoop in to put a stop to this infamy, with Hawkeye hitting Ultron with…an arrow?

Me: How did an arrow…penetrate ADAMANTIUM

My Girlfriend: ARROWS CAN DO ANYTHING

That is why Hawkeye is the most indispensable Avenger

Me: it DOES explain why he’s on every team

My Girlfriend: Infinity War is going to end with Hawkeye arrowing Thanos to death

Me: SAW IT COMING

An EMP Arrow paralyses Ultron but he strikes out, taking control of a tractor and setting it loose on Julia Carpenter’s daughter

Me: FARMING EQUIPMENT

A TERRIFYING MODERN DAY EVIL

My Girlfriend: When will the senseless tractor related fatalities end?

Me: DUCK

AND COVER

My Girlfriend: Clint’s a product of the cold war era alright

Me: THE SLOW MOVING THREAT OF MILD PERIL HAS BEEN STOPPED

JULIA’S KID IS SAFE NOW

And will get to live long enough to see her mother taken away by SHIELD thugs right in front of her young eyes

My Girlfriend: THANK GOD

Me: What child would want to miss that?

Ultron unleashes his “Bytes” upon the team, declaring that he is “Above” petty slugfests with superheroes

Me: And this is the point a drunk Hank Pym shows up, slurring angrily at his Robot Son

My Girlfriend: “YOU THINK YOUR BETTER THAN ME”

Me: “YOU THINK YOU CAN KICK YOUR OLD MANS ASS”

My Girlfriend: “YOU AIN’T SO BIG”

But no, a drunken deadbeat father Hank Pym does not show up to fight his misbehaving robot son

Instead

Me: WANDA’S EXPRESSION IS HOW I WOULD REACT TO THIS

My Girlfriend: “I HAVE SEEN SOME SHIT”

Me: The Vision is here to indulge in a time honoured family tradition, enjoyed by American families all over the nation

A FIGHT

My Girlfriend: A nuclear family, in the sense they may actually start a nuclear holocaust

Me: VISION

What are you going to do with your Artificial Life?

My Girlfriend: “I’M GON GET WHAT I WANT”

Me: “KEEEEEEEEERRRRRIIIIIIIISSSSSSTTTTTTTTT”

The next issue opens with Vision facing off against Ultron still

Me: He just desperately wants him to come join the family business

My Girlfriend: Ultron doesn’t understand the Young People these days

Me: They’re so strange to him

With their Twitter and their Youtube and their opposition to genocide

Vision of course rejects Ultron’s offer and so Ultron unleashes a swarm of his robo-bugs on Vision

Me: And I thought MY parents were bad

My Girlfriend: Honestly, I’d still rather face this than a family dinner with your folks

Me: FAIR

Vision fights back against the bugs, dealing with them with his head mounted beam blasts quickly…and then turning said beam on his father as well

My Girlfriend: Behaviour like this is why Ultron is banned from coming to Father-Son days at Avengers Mansion anymore

Me: He ALWAYS has to turn everything into a scene

My Girlfriend: it is dispiriting

Wanda and Hawkeye warn Vision that the battle is endangering them and the others who are nearby, including Julia’s daughter

Me: WHY have they not gotten the TINY CHILD away from this superhero battle exactly?

My Girlfriend: They COULD get her to safety but it’s much easier to just stand and gape at what’s going on

Me: Maybe Carol wasn’t in the wrong when she separated Julia from her daughter

My Girlfriend: TOO SOON BABE

My Girlfriend: Oh good, the pool cleaner gets a name post-humously

Me: Alas, poor Carlos

Friend

Ally

Reasonably Priced Competent Pool Cleaner

My Girlfriend: He will be missed

Unfortunately, he was not by Ultron’s blasts however

Me: THAT WAS DARK

Vision admits that his solar gem can’t damage adamantium and so

Me: LEEEEERRROOOOOOYYYYYYY

JEEEEENNNKKIIIIINNNSSSSSS

My Girlfriend: So the POWERFUL LASER BEAM did nothing

So his Plan B is “I’m just going to beat the shit out of him with my fists”

Me: I am certain that where advanced science failed PUNCHING will succeed

But no, the Vision in fact tries to phase inside Ultron!

Me: “I NEED TO BE INSIDE HIM”

My Girlfriend: PLEASE DON’T SAY CREEPY THINGS

Me: Don’t worry I’m sure the actual comic won’t make this creepy

Me: WAIT I WAS WRONG

My Girlfriend: For the second time in two issues

We have to kinkshame Ultron

Me: This dialogue

It is impossibly to read this

And not get the impression Ultron is into some WEIRD SHIT

My Girlfriend: That is your Robot Son Ultron, this is weird and wrong

Me: I’ve read this arc before, it’s going to get weirder and wrong-er

My Girlfriend: of course it is…

As the non-superhero people flee the scene, Ultron and Vision continue their battle, Ultron declaring that the Vision making   his body “Hard as diamond” won’t be any good because Adamantium Punches can shatter diamond

My Girlfriend: They can WHAT

Me: That…doesn’t SOUND right but I don’t know enough about Adamantium Fists to dispute it

Hawkeye comes up with the idea however to use a flare arrow to blind Ultron for a while

My Girlfriend: OF COURSE

Arrows will be the answer!

Me: Arrows are ALWAYS the answer

That’s what we can take away from this tale

Me: DOIN HER A REAL BIG CONCERN

My Girlfriend: STOP THAT

Ultron brings a wall down on top of them while noting that theirs is “A touching display of emotion”

Me: Ultron may want to kill everything but he’s still happy to see his son met a nice girl

My Girlfriend: (Singing) Find a girl…settle down…if you want, you can marry…

Me: NO

NO that song is TOO SAD after Guardians

After a brief scuffle with Hawkeye, Ultron stomps off noting that soon he will wipe out all mankind

Me: I suppose it’s good he’s decided to try and really push himself here

Instead of trying the same old thing every time

My Girlfriend: NO SAMANTHA THE END OF THE WORLD IS NOT GOOD

Me: I’m just saying, at least he is ambitious

Ultron muses that he can’t leave plants or animals alive in case they some day evolve “Into a threat to my supremacy”

Me: THE DOGGO SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH

My Girlfriend: Letting Ultron watch Planet of the Apes during Movie Night while he was in prison was a mistake

It’s directly responsible for all this

Me: He can’t let his mechanical rulership of earth be challenged by DAMN DIRTY APES

Ultron begins collecting past versions of himself, various bodies he’d used that were destroyed before

Me: WHY EXACTLY

Did the Avengers keep these laying around?

Instead of destroying them?

My Girlfriend: I’d like to think that SOMEONE

Anyone suggested that keeping a bunch of powerful killer robot bodies laying around the place was a horrible idea

Me: Then again, this is the super team that thought Carol Danvers going off with a man who brainwashed her into falling for him was romantic so

My Girlfriend: WE DON’T TALK ABOUT MARCUS

Ultron takes off with the old bodies, noting that all this time Hank Pym and co were just “Gathering them for me”

Me: No, that would imply they put any thought into this at all

My Girlfriend: Maybe it’s just a REALLY morbid trophy room?

The other Avengers arrive just in time to tackle Ultron, but USAgent and Spider Woman are soon grounded, leaving

My Girlfriend: I can think of certain OTHER expletives I’d be shouting at this point

Me:  I WOULD JUST BE SCREAMING NON STOP

My Girlfriend: FAIR

As a Giant Robot Skeleton is launching itself right at her

My Girlfriend: Do I WANT to know what ideas are forming

Me: You’ll find out

And then you will wish you hadn’t

With Ultron having made his escape, the team busies themselves…tidying the wreckage as the USAgent says there’s nothing they can do to help her

My Girlfriend: They could call up a few of the hundreds of superheroes they know who can fly, do magic and open portals to hell and ask if they could help

Me: “Welllllll nothing we can do to help now

Nothing that doesn’t require EFFORT anyway?”

My Girlfriend: “EFFORT?!

OH JESUS NO”

Me: “Instead let’s do some light repair work and DIY and just let the omnicidal machine man abduct our friend”

My Girlfriend: “I’d sooner let a thousand criminals get away than have to chase after them”

They find Wanda and Vision, alive and well in the wreckage and Wanda notes that Vision saved her��Vision saying he would do the same for any Avenger which makes Wanda sad….

My Girlfriend: So

WHAT’S going on with them at this point?

Me: Basically, human scientists dismantled the Vision and didn’t even get punished for it because everyone in the Marvel universe is a colossal asshole at all times

And as a result, Vision doesn’t experience emotions like he used to, so he no longer has the love for Wanda he had

My Girlfriend: Awwwwwwww

They also make a LESS happy discovery

My Girlfriend: “EWWWWWW I STEPPED ON HIM”

Me: LEGITIMATELY what her reaction is like

My Girlfriend: I’m sure Hawkeye paused because he’s upset but given this is such a minor character it could also be read as hi not remembering the poor guys name

Me: “It’s

THAT GUY

CLEANY MCPOOLFACE”

My Girlfriend: “CARLOS, CLINT”

Me: “Right, Carlos, what did I say”

Vision reveals that he flew over because he’d heard of Ultron’s escape and him stealing adamantium and asks if Hank Pym is around…being informed that he’s not as Hank is busy doing research

Me: He just won’t stop until he finds out how many licks it takes to get to the centre of a tootsie pop

My Girlfriend: HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT SOMEONE WOULD DO FOR A KLONDIKE BAR

They think on how there’s no way to track Ultron, but Vision disagrees…leading to…THIS

Me: WHAT IS THAT FACE

THAT HAWKEYE IS MAKING

My Girlfriend: MY EYES ARE BURNING

Me: It’s somewhere between “Fighty drunk in a bar” and “In the middle of having a stroke”

Vision begins to apologise and Clint starts going off on him before Wanda interrupts, suggesting he comes with her to cool off

My Girlfriend: “YOUR JUST THROWING RANDOM ANGER AT EVERYONE FOR NO REASON AGAIN CLINT”

Me: “Please calm down and drink decaff or something”

Clint admits that he still loves Bobbi even though they are divorcing and Wanda promises they will find her if they can

My Girlfriend: Can it really be that hard to find an eight foot tall homicidal robot?

Me: I mean, Ultron is not exactly known for his subtlety

It can’t be THAT difficult, you wouldn’t think

Meanwhile over with Hank Pym, he’s in the middle of some research and intently staring at his computer when who should burst in but…OF COURSE…Ultron

Me: He hurriedly tries to close out of those tabs and delete his browser history

My Girlfriend: “COULD YOU PLEASE KNOCK FIRST!?”

Hank demands to know what Ultron wants and the robotic murder machine answers with…

Me: A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

My Girlfriend: All he’s ever wanted is some fatherly affection from his creator

Me: All those homicidal rampages he went on….there all just because he never got that Turbo Man doll he asked for

My Girlfriend: A sobering warning to parents everywhere…don’t ruin your kids Christmas

Me: Only YOU can prevent supervillain origins

Hank says he won’t help Ultron with ANYTHING he wants to do and tries to shrink Ultron down to tiny size with his Pym Particles…only to find that they don’t work on him!

My Girlfriend: Wait, why don’t they work?

Me: Because this story needs to fill a third issue and if Hank could just shrink Ultron super tiny and like, lock him in a shoebox or something, it would be over too soon

My Girlfriend: FAIR

Ultron spares Hank to help him with what he desires…and what does he desire?

My Girlfriend:  THAT PANEL IS GOING TO HAUNT MY NIGHTMARES FOR DECADES TO COME

WHY DID YOU SHOW ME THIS

Me: ULTRON PLEASE WE ARE BEGGING U PLS STOP

WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE DOING

STOP IT

My Girlfriend: Also wait

Ultron has put his plans for omnicide and the conquest of the world on hold

BECAUSE HE WANTS TO GET LAID

Me: That is legitimately what is happening yes

My Girlfriend: “I COULD kill all humans and conquer the globe right now…but first I really want to get myself some SWEET ROBOT ASS”

Me: Let’s not think too hard on the fact that if the Vision is Ultron’s “Son” then any “Mate” he created would also be his “Daughter”

And that he wants to create said daughter…WITH HIS FATHER

My Girlfriend: what the fuckie

Me: And then there’s the fact that the first time he tried to create himself a daughter/wife he used the brain patterns of Janet Van Dyne, who he thinks of as his mother

My Girlfriend: WHY IS THERE SO MUCH INCEST IN THIS CHARACTERS HISTORY

Me: Seriously the Pyms and their robot kids are like an episode of Game of Thrones

My Girlfriend: Just

So much robot incest

Me: The things Ultron does for love….

My Girlfriend: NO

Over with the Avengers, they’ve tracked Ultron down to “Death Valley”…which is ALSO where they know Hank Pym went to “Get away from it all”

Me: if only he’d chosen a less ominously named vacation spot!

My Girlfriend: He considered Terror Lake and Screamville but the house prices there are ridiculous

Julia is also reunited with her daughter….

Me: WAIT

Did

Did she not make finding her daughter

A priority BEFORE now?

My Girlfriend: “My daughter just saw a man get killed

As a parent I really should try and be there for her

On the other hand…GIANT ROBOT FIGHT”

Me: I think we all know who the REAL supervillain is in this story

NEGLIGENT PARENTING                                                                                                                                                        

My Girlfriend: You speak fluent English

Why are you calling Julia “Senora”?

Instead of just calling her Julia or even just “Ms Carpenter”

Me: It is the law in comics that any character from another country HAS to pepper their speech with random words in their own language

Even when the way they speak means they clearly know the English-language equivalent of those words meaning there is really NO logical reason for them to do so

In case the audience you know

FORGETS what nationality they are  

My Girlfriend: Of course…just like how I am always saying “Konichiwa” and “Gomenasai” all the damn time

Me: Wait is he saying that he’s not really that bothered if Hank or Bobbi live or die

My Girlfriend: They may not be able to STOP the people they love being brutally murdered

But they’ll sure as hell avenge them

Me: That line gets worse the more you think about it

My Girlfriend: “Gee Whiz, I’m sorry someone you loved is dead

Well

Better get back to class”

Me: She just told him someone she cared about was murdered and all he cares about is the fact the Avengers didn’t invite him along on their mission

My Girlfriend: “It’s fine

Whatever

I didn’t want to go on your dumb mission anyway

JERKS”

Me: Also how the HELL is that phone still working

My Girlfriend: What is it even plugged into

EVERYTHING IS RUBBLE

As the Avengers make their way to where Ultron is lurking, they wonder what his plan is, reasoning that his old bodies must have something to do with it

My Girlfriend: If only they knew he just wants to use them to make a Robot Wife for himself

Me: To be fair I don’t think ANYONE would come to that conclusion

My Girlfriend: They are still acting like they live in a world of logic and sense

Wanda asks if Vision will be sticking around but he explains that he’s only here to stop Ultron

Me: “All My Circuits” will be back after these messages

My Girlfriend: He cannot love you Wanda

For you see he has

AMNESIA!

Me: “If you two don’t settle down I’m turning this quinjet around

AND NO ONE GETS TO FIGHT ULTRON”

My Girlfriend: This story needs more scenes of people hitting USAgent in the face

Me: AGREED

There is not nearly enough of this

And within Ultron’s Evil Robot Lair

Me: There are not the words for how unsettling it would be to wake up to THIS

My Girlfriend: On a list of creepy ways for your day to begin, a terrifying robot rambling to you about how he “Desires a mate” while calling you by his Robot Wife’s name is PRETTY high up on that list

Me: I don’t think we even want to know what “Robotize” means

My Girlfriend: ULTRON IS SO PROBLEMATIC

Me: Fifty Shades of Silver

My Girlfriend: Bobbi wants to set some hard limits right now

A hypnotised Hank Pym alerts Ultron to the approaching Avengers and he muses how they want to play knights in shining armour and “Rescue the fair damsel”

My Girlfriend: WHY IS THE ROBOT SEXIST

Me: It’s dispiriting to think that even robot men are as awful as fleshy ones when it comes to how they view women

Ultron sends out his old bodies to fight the Avengers, noting that “Armour is better when there is no one inside”

My Girlfriend: That’s not armour that’s a drone Ultron

Me: Don’t argue semantics with the killer robot

My Girlfriend: No, I’m not letting that go

Me: Bringing along a team mate whose powers aren’t working properly and who are so unreliable they may get her and everyone else killed

THAT IS A WISE DECISION

My Girlfriend: Even with her powers not working properly she’s still more useful than USAgent

Me: That’s pretty faint praise though because a guy with a stick is more useful than USAgent

As the battle goes on, USAgent talks shit about how Hawkeye’s arrows won’t be able to do any good against Adamantium robots

My Girlfriend: Right, because smacking them with a shield is going to be SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE

Me: Arrows are useless

This is clearly a job for a guy in a Darker and Edgier Captain America costume

Who just hits things really hard

My Girlfriend: THE HERO THEY NEED RIGHT NOW

Me: And the one NO ONE deserves

Me: “TIME TO TAKE SOME DANGEROUS DRUGS”

My Girlfriend: DRUGS

Clint Barton’s Anti Drug

Having taken his drugs, Clint charges into the robots…and then…

Me: And what happened then?

In death valley they say

Clint Barton grows three sizes that day

My Girlfriend: I guess the drugs DO work

Me: THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY DRUGS

DRUGS

TAKE THEM OFTEN AND INDISCRIMINATELY

Clint and co charge in, with Clint declaring he now wants to be known as “Goliath”

Me: “That way Marvel has to release a whole new action figure of me and I get double the royalties from sales”

My Girlfriend: Imagine if that was the reason why heroes changed their names and costumes

Me: According to a Spiderman story from the 90’s that IS THE ACTUAL CANON REASON they do it

My Girlfriend: I need to read this story

They confront Ultron who notes that Clint’s brain has obviously not grown along with the rest of his body

Me: This brings up the worrying question of if EVERYTHING about a hero grows

I mean

Are their internal organs gigantic while they’re like this?

Does everything end up massive?

My Girlfriend: He would have an enormous schwanzschtücker

Me: …..

Well that goes without saying

Ultron declares that he has saved the pleasure of killing them for his bride…and unveils

My Girlfriend: I CAN’T BELIEVE WE HAVE TO KINKSHAME ULTRON YET AGAIN

Me: He legitimately named her “War Toy”

Ultron what the HECKIE is wrong with you

YA CREEPY FUCKO

My Girlfriend: Everything about this situation is Intensely Problematic

Me: “ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MY SEX BOT DAUGHTER”

My Girlfriend: Also can we talk about the design of “War Toy”

Because really

My Girlfriend: Imagine Ultron

Directing Hank Pym

To design her like this

“GIVE HER BIG OL’ POINTY ROBO TIDDIES”

Me: “GOTTA HAVE THOSE SWEET SWEET ROBO TIDDIES”

My Girlfriend: “Make her waist LITERALLY stick thin”

Me: But give her hips ‘cause Ultron wants his Metal Wife to have a booty

My Girlfriend: “YES FLESHY ONE

ULTRON COMMANDS YOU CRAFT FOR HIM A BIG BOOBED SEX BOT BRIDE”

Me: “OBEY THE DREAD COMMANDS OF ULTRON AND DO NOT FORGET TO GIVE HER SOME LOVELY LADY LUMPS”

My Girlfriend: I am never going to see Ultron the same way after this

Me: Ironically, this is one of the times when his actions would make more sense if the comics had him created by Tony Stark, like the movies do

My Girlfriend: THE ROBOT LOOKS LIKE ITS WEARING THIGH HIGH BOOTS

Me: I think Ultron legitimately had Hank Pym build him a killer robot dominatrix

Me: Right because “War Toy” is so much better

My Girlfriend: “She no longer replies to a ridiculous human name like “Bobbi”

Now she answers to a SENSIBLE ROBOT NAME like War Toy”

Ultron has War Toy attack the Avengers, while adding that she is also known as “Alkhema”

Me: Then why not just call her Alkhema

My Girlfriend: Seriously that name is a thousand times better than “War Toy”

My Girlfriend: Taking some fatherly pride in his wife there

Me: STOP POINTING OUT HOW CREEPY THIS IS

My Girlfriend: SOMEONE HAS TO

And that solemn duty falls on me

Wanda takes charge and has the group split up to fight Ultron and his “Bride”…but notes that Clint has vanished

My Girlfriend: If my wife had been turned into a homicidal sex bot I would not just run off and leave her

Me: AW BABE

My Girlfriend: I WOULD SAVE U FROM ULTRON

Me: Thank u for promising to not let me spend my days as a homicidal sex bot

Me: THE WHAT NOW

My Girlfriend: That’s not a word

I refuse to accept that that is a real world

Me: May I suggest Vision that you don’t call women “Femaloids”

My Girlfriend: I think “Fembot” is genuinely still better than that

Vision believes that he can withstand Alkhema’s blasts, but…

Me: DID SHE GENUINELY JUST CALL HIM “WHITEY”?

My Girlfriend: Alkhema is a RACIST

Me: Destroying humanity is one thing but prejudice is just wrong okay

USAgent  leaps in to the fray just in time to be completely worthless!

Me: EVERYONE finds hitting this right wing asshole a distinct pleasure

My Girlfriend: YEEEESSSSSSSS

MORE SCENES OF USAGENT BEING SMACKED AROUND

Me: This story may have a ludicrous plot but it certainly delivers on that front

My Girlfriend: I could happily read an entire issue of just him being punched in the face

Me: “The Marvel Universe Punches USAgents In the Face”

A twelve issue maxi-series

While the other Avengers do battle with Ultron, Clint we learn has shrunk down to tiny size and is exploring Hank’s lab, noting that he hated to leave the others behind like that

My Girlfriend: As long as he feels bad about leaving his friends to die

Me: That makes it totally okay

Running away while a homicidal robot murders everyone you care about is fine as long as you are sorry about it

Clint reasons that there may be something in Hank’s lab to restore Bobbi to normal…only to hear the sounds of someone alive down there!

Me: WELL HE DID HIS BEST

My Girlfriend: Comics like this make it clear how Clint Barton got a reputation as a Human Disaster in the comics

Me: “I’m just going to take a nap on your body while your trapped underneath all this rubble

Try not to get crushed”

While outside, the Avengers continue to battle Ultron as he declares that wiping out humanity will make the earth a better place

Me: Some days it’s hard to argue with him there

My Girlfriend: Ultron has seen the kind of things people say on the Youtube comments page

And come to the conclusion that mankind is a plague upon the earth

Me: As everyone who has ever looked at a Youtube comments page will also do

Me: ULTRON IS NOT A FAN OF PET NAMES

My Girlfriend: THE JERK

Me: Alkhema is trying to be sweet and romantic you shiny asshole

My Girlfriend: This is why you have to build wives instead of just finding a date like a normal person, Ultron

Because you’re a prick

But this couples spat is interrupted by Wanda…WHO FLIES THE QUINJETT RIGHT INTO ULTRON

Me: AMAZING

My Girlfriend: I love Wanda Maximoff :D

Me: She is having none of these evil robots nonsense

My Girlfriend: “THAT ONE WAS FOR OUR POOL CLEANER!”

Unfortunately Ultron and Alkhema survive while Wanda is knocked out

But before they can try and kill her

My Girlfriend: “We’re going to have a Serious Discussion about you calling me that later on”

Me: “I AM NOT TO BE REFERRED TO BY CUTESY NICKNAMES”

What Alkhema has spotted is none other than Goliath…who proceeds to start smacking the two robots senseless with that big chunk of Adamantium he found in Hank’s lab!

Me: ADAMANTIUM RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGEEEEEEEE!

My Girlfriend: Don’t make me get the spray bottle

I will spritz u in the face

Me: nooooo ;_;

Clint holds his own for a few moments but soon finds himself shrinking down again

My Girlfriend: Clint has some performance issues

Me: It’s okay Clint

It happens to all guys

It’s not a big deal

Me: IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE

My Girlfriend: You’ve got to take time to enjoy them

Ultron and Alkhema flee as the Avengers recover from the battle, with Wonder Man angrily accusing Vision of being as bad as them for not checking if Wanda was alright

My Girlfriend: “You tried to stop two mass murderers escaping

YOU ARE AN INHUMAN MONSTER”

Me: How DARE he make trying to prevent the escape of a genocidal adamantium monster his first priority

But before this argument can go further things are interrupted by the last person any of them expected to see!

My Girlfriend: Wait so Ultron just

Made it up?

Me: HE IS DISHONEST ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE

My Girlfriend: WHY

Why did he pretend he’d turned Bobbi into a robot?

Me: Because issue two needed a cliffhanger

My Girlfriend: AH THAT EXPLAINS IT

Me: And it’s nice to know that all it took for them to fix their marriage was one of them being abducted by a supervillain

My Girlfriend: If only supervillains could abduct ALL bickering couples

It turns out that Hank and Dr MacLain (From the first issue) are ALSO alive and well

My Girlfriend: For a killer robot, Ultron sure did leave a lot of people alive

Me: But only the ones who were important to the plot

Or main characters

My Girlfriend: UNLIKE THAT POOR POOL CLEANER

Me: He didn’t even get given a last name…he was doomed from the beginning

After explaining about how they were forced to create Alkhema they ponder Ultron’s next move…

Me: Fanboys on Reddit proceed to froth at the mouth asking why they don’t store white weapons there too

My Girlfriend: “THIS IS REVERSE WEAPON RACISM”

Me: “Having that many Black weapons in one place is unrealistic THIS IS JUST PANDERING”

As the team worries that the weapons stored there could let Ultron cause a “Super Chernobyl” Hank Pym declares that he has something that can help in his “Hot little hand”

Me: PHRASING

My Girlfriend: Please everyone stop saying terrible things

What does he have in his hand you ask?

Me: He calls it the Spruce Moose!

My Girlfriend: “That’s a nice model Hank”

Me: “MODEL!?!?!”

But no of course not, it’s actually a shrunk down transport that grows to massive size and soon they are off on their way

My Girlfriend: We could use some of those Pym Particles to make your plushies more manageable

Me: DO NOT SHRINK MY PLUSH CHILDREN ;_;

My Girlfriend: They’d be fine just smaller

Me: I CANNOT HUG THEM IF THEY ARE TINY

While over with Ultron and Alkhema

Me: Even the character thinks that “War Toy” is a weird and gross and terrible name

My Girlfriend: He doesn’t own her

She’s not just one of his many toys

Me: He doesn’t own her

Don’t tell her she can’t murder lots of boys

My Girlfriend: STRIKING A BLOW AGAINST THE CYBERNETIC PATRIARCHY

Me: She is a strong independent homicidal robot woman Ultron

And she is not going to take any of your shit

My Girlfriend: Ultron is going to complain on 4Chan about this later

My Girlfriend: Ultron can’t understand why a couple of minutes of murder isn’t enough to satisfy Alkhema

Me: “It doesn’t have to be over and done with SO QUICKLY Ultron

You can take your time

Go slow

Tease the world slowly and sensually towards complete oblivion

My Girlfriend: Alkhema needs to find herself a killer robot who isn’t a One Minute Man when it comes to wiping out all life on earth

Me: SHE NEEDS A KILLER ROBOT LESBIAN

My Girlfriend: A caring, considerate lesbian robot lover who cares about HER needs

Such as her need to agonisingly torture people to death because of her hatred for organic life

Me: We should try and set her up with Airachnid

The Avengers arrive, explaining the situation somewhat and the soldiers asking if they can help

Me: The Marvel Universe

A place where a vanilla coloured robot, a crime fighting archer and a man dressed in what looks like a Captain America themed gimp suit showing up is a cause for RELIEF

My Girlfriend: I wonder if the people of the Marvel universe ever stop and think about how strange their lives are

Me: “THE PLAN WE CONVENIENTLY DISCUSSED OFF PANEL”

My Girlfriend: “Sure is a good thing that scene change gave us enough time to come up with one”

We learn that the plan requires access to the missile silos with the guard noting he’ll probably be court martialled for this

Me: It’ll be okay, he can just say the man in the bright purple costume and his friend the floating robot asked him to do it

My Girlfriend: I feel that will STILL get him discharged from the military

For different reasons

While this plan is put into action, the Avengers tackle Ultron and Alkhema, who put aside their differences to face them

My Girlfriend: First Bobbi being abducted saved her and Clint’s marriage

Now a superhero battle has stopped these two arguing

Me: Proving once and for all that violence is ALWAYS the answer

My Girlfriend: DID YOU WRITE THIS COMIC SAMANTHA

Me: WHAT NO

My Girlfriend: It has a hot robot woman and now it’s got TERRIBLE PUNS

I HAVE SUSPICIONS

Me: >.>;

While they battle Ultron, Spiderwoman and the others battle Alkhema!

Me: WHAT A WITTY REJOINDER

My Girlfriend: She is certainly a master of turning a phrase

Me: She could rival Oscar Wilde when it comes to the acid tongued putdown

Alkhema blasts Wonder Man and then smacks Spider Woman in the face, apparently knocking her out

Me: DO WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN

GET SWATTED LIKE A SPIDER…DOES

My Girlfriend: So Ironic

My Girlfriend: So far his contributions to the plot have been to get punched a whole lot

And now trying to murder his own team mates

Me: WHY do they keep this guy around again?

My Girlfriend: Were the Grizzly and Gibbon the Boy Monkey not taking their calls the day they decided USAgent was someone they needed on the team

Me: The Fabulous Frogman was unavailable

My Girlfriend: And awwwwww…Ultron’s reassuring his wife they’ll be plenty of irradiated survivors for her to hunt and murder after the end of the world

Me: SO TOUCHING

As Ultron and Alkhema depart the battle they find an open missile silo and inside…

Me: GOD DAMN IT NOW WE HAVE TO KINKSHAME THE VISION

My Girlfriend: HIS ATOMIC MISSILE SELF BONDAGE FETISH IS DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC

Me: This is the OPPOSITE of safe sane and consensual Vision

My Girlfriend: This really only meets the definition of that last one

It turns out that they have turned Vision’s body into a POWERFUL MAGNET which draws Ultron and Alkhema towards the missile!

My Girlfriend: ULTRON’S ONE TRUE NEMESIS

MAGNETS

Me: The worst part is that they make him want to sing country and western tunes

The missile is launched up into the air, heading into space even as USAgent finally snaps out of his mind control with Clint reassuring him that “This time” it wasn’t his fault

Me: “Someone was forcing you to be an asshole this time

As opposed to the thousands of other times you did it of your own free will”

My Girlfriend: “For once you weren’t to blame for being a horrible horrible person

But only this once”

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, the missile reaches the stars and

Me: “WE DEALT WITH THE PROBLEM BY JUST MAKING IT SOMEONE ELSES”

My Girlfriend: We just unleashed two omnicidal robots who hate all organic life on a universe that we know for a fact is FULL OF BILLIONS OF SENTIENT SPECIES

But it is OKAY because they won’t be genocide-ing anyone we know

Me: As long as the Avengers don’t personally know and care about the people being violently and horribly slaughtered in a bloody robot rampage it really doesn’t matter

My Girlfriend: This is why every other species in the Marvel universe hates humanity, isn’t it?

Me: This is EXACTLY why every other species in the marvel universe hates us

AND WHO CAN BLAME THEM OH MY GOD YOU DICKS

My Girlfriend: “Who cares if the Shi’ar get massacred

Their like

Bird people or something”                              

But a (Sort of?) happy ending is spoiled by…

Me: OHHHHHHHH my gooooooooood

WHO CARES

My Girlfriend: Why are they ALWAYS going on about this

“I’m not human!”

Neither are half the fucking characters in your fictional universe IT DOESN’T MATTER

Me: You live in a world full of aliens and sentient robots and fuckin MOLE MEN

Why would you WANT to be human

When you can be a superhero?

My Girlfriend: His life is SO HARD

It must be so difficult being a handsome muscular white man with ACTUAL SUPERPOWERS

Me: And he apparently thinks not being human means he can’t have sex with the Scarlet Witch?

Like

No offence dude but I wouldn’t care if I’d just found out I was technically 80% narwhal, it still wouldn’t stop me from trying to romance an awesome kick ass red head

My Girlfriend: AHEM

Me: Um

If I was single I mean

My Girlfriend: Mhmmm

Me: I LOVE U

Final Thoughts

My Girlfriend: What does it say about the comics we riff for this that this is the most sensible story we’ve done yet?

Me: Are you saying that a killer robot making himself a Robot Wife after escaping prison with a mind controlling 3DS is not sensible

My Girlfriend: I JUST HAVE SOME CONCERNS OKAY

Me: I do kind of love how Ultron puts his whole evil masterplan on hold for two and a bit issues because he cares more about having sex

My Girlfriend: HE IS A VERY LONELY PERSON SAMANTHA

You have no idea how hard it is to find a date when you’re a homicidal robot powered by weird science and hate

Me: Though he’s still better than most of the guys on Tindr

My Girlfriend: TRUE

Me: This really wasn’t a good showing for the West Coast Avengers either…the day was saved by a fricking guest star and they spent most of the story either being beaten up or being mind controlled into beating up each other

My Girlfriend: NOT THEIR FINEST HOUR

Me: I promise, they are normally better at what they do than this

Honest

My Girlfriend: And what even happened to Alkhema?

Is she still around?

Me: Sadly not which I feel is a tragedy because there’s not enough lady killer robots out there

She needs to punch through the killer robot glass ceiling, as well as peoples spines

My Girlfriend: Maybe writers are put off by the fact that her origin is Ultron and his dad building him a robot daughter he can marry

And then naming it “War Toy”

Me: I can see why that would be unsettling to people yes

My Girlfriend: Ultron

A robot Donald Trump

Me: LET’S NOT SAY THINGS WE CAN’T TAKE BACK

[intuitivewarrior]

A Brave New World

First of all I would like to thank anyone who has taken the time out of their day to check out this post. We are bombarded daily by the million and one different things that we could be doing. Or should be doing. But you’re here for on this page, in this now moment, for a reason. Why?Because you are meant to be here. Please trust that. Trust what exactly?

Albert Einstein said that “Intuition is man’s greatest gift. And our logical mind; it’s faithful servant.”

We all have this latent potential of intuition and yet of us most push it away time and time again.

How many of you “get the download” or feel that intuitive nudge but then don’t take action on it?

And how effing pissed are you when that shit winds up being on point?

So why do we do that to ourselves?!?

Really really though?

Why?

So guys what I’m gonna do is encourage you to ask yourself yourselves these questions that I’m posing and then I’ll give you my opinions. If it resonates with you; great! Keep reading. You are so welcome here. If not; keep it moving. No bullshit. I’m serious. My intention is to attract and build a tribe of like minded people; not to convince or save or convert people or put a wrongness in your belief systems. If your shit is working for you good for you. Go check out another blog. There are thousands. Bye Felicia. But if you feel a little lost or confused sometimes and are seeking answers; or just want to feel a little less alone and more at home in your own skin and want to feel more connected; or maybe you’re just curious about intuition or what an Intuitive Warrior is; then you’re in the right place.

Let’s begin.

Someone who knows, loves, and trusts themselves enough to develop a connection with source/love and light/the universe so much so that they become sensitive to the point of being psychic.

Intuitive.

A warrior: someone who fights for or on behalf of their tribe.

p>So an intuitive warrior?

Someone who is lionhearted and tenacious enough to stand up for what they feel is right, what they believe in, and on behalf of those that don’t have a voice and/or the power to defend (let alone protect themselves);

yet balance that strong masculine crusader energy by allowing their tremendous capacity to feel and see the love in all things to shine like a beacon for all to see: radiating a warm, and gentle, and nurturing feminine energy and unconditional soul love to those who seek it;

and of course are well intentioned, trustworthy, and gracious enough to use their super powers only to positively effect change; for the highest good of all involved.

An intuitive warrior? Is a fucking badass.

So you wanna be a gladiator in a suit?”

So you think being an intuitive warrior sounds dope?

Here’s what it is when we do what we do.

We take the ball and run with it. We use our powers for good. We share our gifts with the world. We continue to grow and evolve and expand.

Always. We support and nurture and encourage each other to be the best we can be. 💯. We collaborate, never compete. We are safe in the knowing that the Universe is totally totally abundant and there is more than enough for everyone to have exactly what they desire without taking away anything from anyone else. “From abundance he took abundance and still abundance abundance remained.” Right?

We trust that the Universe is friendly and for us; never against us.

We educate, motivate and inspire by living our personal truths. We look at, really see, and more importantly feel in to the Truth of what actually is. We read between the lines. We understand that often times the most important part of communication isn’t what’s being said…it’s what isn’t being said.

We’re willing to roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. We are really able to dig in and examine what’s going on beneath the surface. We get to the root of of the root and the core of the core and unearth the light that shines in all of us. Life is messy sometimes ya know? And I never said it would be easy. I said it would be worth it. Did I say it would be worth it btw? Well just in case I didn’t its totally worth it. 😎

And in doing so we uncover more and more of nature of who and what we all really are: powerful creators, infinite beings living in a human body. We become more and more and more uniquely, unapologetically, authentically ourselves realizing that everyday and in every we are getting better, better, and better.

So we yield that hard earned sense of self and power to nothing and no one. We’re proud of it. We embrace it. We own that shit. We love ourselves. Unconditionally and at all times. Because in doing so we give others permission to do the same.

But here’s the thing: the badassery has to come from a heart centered place of humility and vulnerability. It has to be authentic. And to be authentic we have to be willing to be vulnerable. And being vulnerable and admitting we are imperfect is a bold choice. Why? p>Because it takes courage to stand up and fight for the things that we believe in: especially the things that we feel, sense, that can’t yet be seen or proven by science and therefore are unpopular.

You do; you have to be brave to choose something different for yourself than your friends and family; something that defies logic. Even if it means going it alone at times.

Well good news my friends. We are not alone anymore. You are not alone anymore. We never were. But now I’m making a formal offer: You don’t have to be alone anymore. Not if you don’t want to be.

Why?

Because I don’t want to feel alone anymore. Alone in my awareness. Alone in my frustration with more of the same. The definition of insanity right? Doing the same things and expecting different results. And if I feel this way I know like I know like I know that other people must too.

And the Truth is that most people turn a blind eye because it’s easier. Most people, “the sheeple”, are comfortably numb. The thing is though we don’t get to selectively numb. So when we shut down because we’re so sensitive that it’s just too painful to feel and absorb and be aware of all the negativity and disfunction that’s exists around us and in the world; we shut out everything else too: love, light, joy, happiness.

So what do we get? More of the same. We didn’t want to feel anything. Congratulations. But now we start to notice a lack. A lack of happiness. A lack of of joy. A lack of compassion. A lack of purpose. Apathy. Boredom. Anger. Depression. And then we wonder why and complain.

Why? Why did this happen to? How did I get here? What’s wrong with me? How many people have asked themselves that before? And then we put a wrongness in feeling our feelings because they suck at the moment that you are asking yourselves these disempowering questions. And then we really shut it down and numb ourselves even more. And get more stuck. And feel even more dead inside. It’s a vicious cycle.

As for me I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. I’m sure you are too. I’m sick of more of the same. And we shouldn’t have to be. We have free will. We can create whatever we want. But it requires not going back for more of the same. It requires doing something different. Life doesn’t happen by chance it happens by change. And if you don’t move nothing will change. The problem for me was always: change to what? I didn’t have a lot of role models growing up or people that I wanted to be like because everyone that I knew seemed really unhappy. I didn’t want to be like any of them. So if youre like me and you don’t want to be like most people you know: stop listening to them. Stop spending time with them. Stop giving your power away. Stop drinking the koolaid. Stop putting a happy face on a reality that’s flawed or makes you unhappy. We shouldn’t be grateful for the pox infested blankets. We shouldn’t keep taking the poison because they call it medicine and they tell us it’s good for us or it’s the right thing to do; and the rat will die eventually if we keep doing more of the same; and then become super salty when we realize the only person that’s sick or unhappy is us. We shouldn’t be okay that. Because accepting unhappiness as your reality isn’t okay. Don’t settle for more of the same.

Not anymore. Not now. Because for a lot of us more of the same sucks. It’s okay not to be okay. Sometimes. Because guys as soon as you feel your feelings you can release them and keep going. It really can be that easy. Seriously. And part of that is being honest with ourselves. It’s okay to want something more or better of different for us than our friends or family. This world is what we make it. And the world is waking up. Today is our day and this moment is our moment. But I can’t do it alone.

So enough is enough. It’s time to stop the bleeding. It’s time to stop ignoring the elephant in the room, putting a happy face on the bullshit, and wishing and hoping praying that things might be different. A goal without a plan is just a wish. It’s time to start fucking doing something about it. We can’t allow more good and love and light and abundance in for ourselves personally, as a species, and/or on this planet if we don’t clear out some room and release and eradicate and put an end to what’s holding us back and keeping us down first. Well we can but who likes one step forward and two steps backwards? Personally I hate that shit.

The better it gets the better it gets. So be better. Do more. Stand up. Stand out. Be out of this world. Be an alien.

Be brave. Be a warrior. Trust your intuition. Do it with me. Stand up with me. Stand out with me. Believe in the power of the unseen with me

One alien? Scary? Weird. Not easy to trust. A whole squad of “aliens” that are really happy and abundant and loving and joyful? That are a team bonded by intuition and the unseen? United for for the upliftment and betterment of the planet and our fellow man? It’s fucking powerful.

Feel in to the power and potential of what we can do if we do it together. Really really. Teams win. I’m not competing with anyone I hope we all make it.

So let’s stop hiding our light under a basket and step in to our power. Together. Let’s prove there’s more to life logic. Let’s show those assholes what’s up. And what’s possible.

Because what’s possible is cosmic citizenship. Should we choose to accept the invitation.

So this is it. A call to arms. Raise your weapons. Connect to the light. Feel your feelings. Trust your intuition. See the love in all things. Mother Teresa said “When we judge people we have no time to love them”. So let’s stop blaming and judging each other. And ourselves. It’s time to show up. It’s time to stand up. And stand out. It’s time to say “Our world is flawed. And it’s not anyone’s fault, but shit isn’t okay. Not anymore. Not on my watch”.

The flaw if that we got it twisted. Albert Einstein said that “Intuition is man’s greatest gift. And our logical mind it’s faithful servant.” We use our logical minds and push away our intuition and our feelings. When we really are designed for and meant to feel what is good and bad or right and wrong for us and then use our logical minds to support that.

Because the Truth is that intuition allows us to see the infinite possibilities that lie in what the “sheeple” would label as a solid. That’s where the magic still lies. That’s where the miracles happen.

So let’s change the game. Let’s think less and feel more. And remember “Life isn’t about feeling good. It’s about being good at feeling.”

That’s where transformation occurs. That’s where the change we seek begins. So be it. And so it is. So who’s with me? Until our next fireside chat… May you love yourself and others with your actions. May you love yourself and others with your words. May you love yourself and others with your thoughts. We are one. Namaste. 🙏 -Intuitive Warrior

[sagebodisattva]

Severe Condemnation of Mediocrity

Yeah, it's a shame to have to say this, but somebody's got to do it. Not only for your own good, but also just to go on record as someone in the masses that finally said what needed to be said, concerning the pervasive permeation of rampant vapidity that has saturated the human consciousness. So, you know, the ole roll up the sleeves dirty job requirement thing.

The most shallow superficial individuals with the lowest intelligence concern themselves with people and gossip, the moderately shallow superficial ones with average intelligence concern themselves with places and events, but the truly wise conceptually deep ones with the highest intelligence concern themselves with concepts and ideas. I say this because sometimes people ask me:

“Sage, how come you never do videos about people or current events?”

And, I have to tell you, the reason is simple; because that kind of content is trite, shallow, superficial, air headed, mediocrity, that only appeals to the lowest common denominator; which means, of course, the majority; of which, I have absolutely no interest in appeasing, nor to whom, the appetite of which, I will not be catering to. I am here to wake people up from delusion, not to enable sleeping lemmings to get more comfortable in their delusion by serving up predictable cheesy junk food entertainment that telegraphs all its intentions, so as to be more easily consumed by lazy sedentary brains, that love to get banged over the head with sophomoric catchy unchallenging candy coated tripe, so as to mask the inner quiet desperation with some fake outward appearance of arrogant clever self satisfaction, which upholds a contrived self image as being one who is among those who fit in, and are accepted into some smug group, that imagines itself to be just so great, because it attracts so many others of the same type, of which, you can be sure, is a whole lotta people.

This is the essence of mediocrity, and it's not anything to applaud, condone, encourage or feed into. Mediocrity is the death knell of artistry and creativity, and is a omen of bloated decadence and the rapid decay of intelligence, wisdom, philosophy and mindfulness. We should be careful when maintaining standards of quality to not reward mediocrity, for this only gives it more motivation to repeat itself, which is what it's best at, for one of the great hallmarks of mediocrity is the constant rehash and regurgitation of anything that was previously popular; and in this regard, mediocrity knows no decency, or shame. It will beat a dead horse into a pulp, and then take the pulp and make it into a smoothie, and after you throw that up, it will take the vomit and incorporate it into an energy drink.

This is the degraded state of mainstream pop culture, which began it's gradual degenerative descent into insipid superficiality in 1980, and has gotten regressively worse and worse upon each passing decade. Things got so lame that, after 1999, we even lost our creativity in the clothing styles that usually reflects the particular flavor of bubblegum that represents the pop culture zeitgeist of a decade, which you would think would be the bread and butter. Have you noticed that? If you look at the 50's, 60's, 70's. 80's and 90's, each decade has it's own unique style, but does anything really come to mind when you think about 2000 to 2009? What about 2010 to today? Anything? I can't really think of anything, other then just a mish mash rehash of past styles. There's no more distinct style accompanying the decades anymore. Everything now is either just streamlined brand names and commercial logos, or a x-factor, hipster, socio-historical grab bag of random appropriation, or just the usual formal business attire. Not that I really care all that much, but it is a demonstration of the decline of creativity via the saturation and satiation of mediocrity on the masses, which dilutes, or dries up completely, the wellspring of primary source content and original expression.

And you know that the mediocrity has reached epic proportions, with the reality shows the way they are nowadays, along with all the various parades of side shows freaks, drama queens and attention whores. It's gotten so bad, that they even do FAKE reality shows now. That's right. TV is gonna go to great lengths to indulge your need for sniffing other people's dirty underwear, and providing you with a role model archetype you can identify with, so that you may properly vicariously indulge in all the attention whoring and drama pornography, even if it mean it has to stage events to appear real. Sound familiar? This is seems to be related to a theme we find present here in this reality. This gusto for lies and fakery. Much of the time you even know it's a lie, but you love it anyway. We love fake people and fake personalities, because we are not self accepting people. We hide our pure natures behind the superficial facades of luxury, plastic surgery and extravagant lifestyles. And we keep ourselves happily sedated in this shallow fluff by consuming large amounts of prescription drugs and mainstream popular culture. And, isn't it curious that the biological definition of culture is: the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc., in an artificial medium containing nutrients. Artificial. Got the drift? And so, who is the most popular bacterium of the day? All the sheep want to know.

Yes, sheep. As in, sheeple. It's always been kind of a cool way to refer to the adherents of mediocre conformity, but I always had my own little pejorative label that I liked much better than the sheeple, which has grown into a bit of a cliche. I have always called them, the Ones. I call them the ones because they are the ones that all agree, and they are also called the ones because they are all like little metaphorical number 1's, uniformly basic, all running around in giant packs of identical meaning and purpose. What are all the ones watching? What are all the ones listening to? What does the latest poll by all the ones reveal? Which contestant have all the ones voted off the show? Because, you must be like all the ones. All the ones agree on this. Don't find yourself in opposition to all the ones. All the ones might pass a new law to crush your individuality. Cause you must be like all the ones. You must be like all the ones and (X8)....

So, to appeal to all the ones must mean that you are successful, right? To be celebrated by the lowest common denominator has become the measure of greatness. When all the clones love you, you know you have achieved something magnificent. You are now a popular mainstream product of pop culture mediocrity. Congratulations! Obviously, your appeal must be a reflection of good taste, because all the ones approve of what you are doing. You are normal, non-threatening, and unchallenging to the ones sensibilities, and thereby fit for mass consumption, and other such facilities. Because you know how bubble gum logic works, if it's popular, then that must mean that it's the best. That it's better then all the alternatives. That it's top shelf, crème de la crème, right? Yeah. And that's why fast food cheeseburgers are so much better then filet mignon. This is why junk food is so much better then gourmet cuisine. Are we to believe this? Come now. It's not better, it's just cheaper. Easier. Flashier. It's mediocre. Which, at best, just means supremely average.

How does something like that sound to you? You are so stupendously average. Quite Ordinary. Unremarkable. Standard. Normal. Typical. Regular. Are these descriptors getting you horny yet? No. Popular doesn't mean better. It means mediocre. Which, from the perspective of the refined aesthetics of a creative discerning mind, means complete and utter artistic failure. You got that? Under most circumstances, with few exceptions, popularity means epic fail. Artistically, popularity isn't indicative of success, but of a failure that is obscured by a sort of ironic condescending mocking lionization. Behind all the applause and smiling faces is the secret desire to see your downfall. This is why so many artists who were lauded and celebrated and pushed to the heights of praise and attention are promptly kicked and dragged through the dirt the second they are down. The media and paparazzi just love that, don't they. Like buzzards and vultures circling a fresh corpse. That's why they celebrate you so hard when you're on the way up. It's fresh meat. A future meal. Another mediocre subject for them to rip apart and play in the innards.

You feel bad when you see this happen to someone like Marlon Brando, but not so bad when you see it happen to anyone in this new crop of snarky millennials, who knew or blew their way to the top because it was always their dream to have the lifestyle of an artist. You dig that? The lifestyle. Actual artistry is a glossed over afterthought. They don't have much talent, but talent doesn't matter if you have a really good looking superficial appearance! Don't worry about talent, we got teleprompters and auto tune for that. What we'll loosely call your so called body of work, is really just generic filler to justify the lifestyle of a pop star, which is more important and incidentally, the subject of a new reality TV show, where the lifestyle is the feature showcase of the show! And have you seen one of these shows? They are expositions that provoke misanthropy, which is why they are best avoided; for they inspire the desire for bloodsport. They make you root in favor of the media vultures, and even want to assist them, by sharpening their talons and feeding them cocaine. Give you some privacy? Please. You got what you signed up for, so don't sneer and push the photographers, lest you get thrown to the lions. Yeah. I'm in favor of bringing back the colosseum games wherein reality TV stars and their ilk must engage in gladiator battles to the death. Now that would be something to celebrate!

And speaking of celebrating, the crypto semantics of which brings us the word "celebrity", it's amazing how mediocrity, which works so little and contributes works of such little value, feels it needs to be praised and awarded on a regular basis. You know... The type of mediocrity that is so average and so propped up by nepotistic handicapped assistance that it just simply deserves to be showered by various awards granted from itself to itself!! There's nothing better in the whole wide world then mediocrity patting itself on the back and bestowing itself mediocrity awards. A reward for a job well done, right? And they call this professionalism, which is a real slap to the intelligence. More like professional mediocrity.

But do you know what the real kick to the kidneys is? If you look up the word mediocrity in the dictionary, it's lists as a related synonym: amateur. And this is a common misconception and misassociation, as, obviously most people don't understand the meaning of the word, as it's often wrongly used to indicate a meaning of one being green or unskilled or of lame creative abilities, as we have often heard it spoken in response to displays of buffoonery to "knock it off and stop acting so amateur"... amateur doesn't mean unskilled. It means someone who does something out of a love for doing it, as opposed to the professional, who does something out of a love of profit, which automatically means it just has to be better, right? Making an amateur mistake means that you haven't been thoroughly trained on how to produce to the cookie cutter standard. You aren't formula enough. You need to become more predictable, less thoughtful and cater to someone else's standards. That's funny, considering so many of the styles and techniques that come naturally to the amateur are often later adopted and replicated by the so called professionals. The amateur has heart. The professional wants money. And that's exactly why the quality of all these mainstream projects has gone so low. The motive of profit almost always necessarily equates into a decline in quality and substance. And this truth pervades all arenas of human achievement. Ask yourself, what kind of doctor would you like treating you, or operating on you, one that loved what he was doing, or one that was just doing it just because he loves the paycheck? And what kind of politician would you want representing you, one that loves and serves the people? Or one that will use the office to benefit himself and his corporate pimps? Profit is a recipe that poisons the well. But with art it's even more of a factor that will determine quality. When you are pushing out content for profit you have basically become a pimp who is prostituting an art form, which drastically cheapens everything, despite the million dollar budget, and that's really an unfortunate shame.

And it’s really all quite depressing; which is why I’m done talking about it now... but, uh, yeah it kinda had to be said and uh, I had to say to say it. It was really not really pleasant. But I, you know, had to really deconstruct it. Chop it up, and slice it the other way... into little cubes. Can’t have that. Too much. Too much facade; it has to be chopped. You know? It’s bad enough there’s a facade; but a facade on steroids? No, it has to be chopped, sorry.

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It’s very dark, look at the signs in this commercial. If you know anything about the so called Illuminati or so called satanic group like to use children, as a offering sacrifice. I don’t expect everyone to understand, just keep your eyes open! The signs are there. This system has a agenda!All these sheeple…SMH… when somebody presents an idea that goes against what YOU have been conditioned to believe…all of a sudden that person is crazy…an idiot…a tinman…etc…you all are so brainwashed that the first thing you focused on is her delivery (grammatical errors) but you didn’t focus on the fact that she said research the info before you start questioning what she said.

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She gave you the means to fact check her and all of you who are in opposition to what she is saying totally ignored that part…if you ask me…that’s idiotic on all of your parts…if you’re going to debate someone on the validity of their comments then the first thing you need to do is research whether or not what they are saying is true…you spoke against her before you did your fact check and you all sound stupid as a result…and when you do decide to fact check her…you’ll feel stupid too cause you will realize that she is right.

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I see that many of you have already done your research which is why you agree with her…great job…that just proves that there are free thinkers in this world who don’t mind challenging accepted norms and concepts…people who don’t play follow the leader like the rest of this “dumbed down” society… thank you for being AWARE and AWAKE…hopefully the rest of these sheeple will wake up soon…God Bless!  Believe Best Santa Ugly Christmas Sweater. (Sheeple-people who are still sleep as in brainwashed… for all of you who don’t understand what sheeple means) Now I’ll just sit back and wait for you to attack my comment without fact checking first…go ahead…keep showing us how brainwashed you are.

[antoinespeaks]

This week Britain comes to terms with another terrible extremist attack. 22 people lost their lives and over 59 people were injured. Some people will be waking up for the first of many sad times without a daughter, son, mother, father, brother, sister or friend. This week will sadly be their first of many mornings. Some people, who managed to survive the attack, will live on with injuries, scars and memories that will never truly heal. Some people who were not present during the attack, but will live, work or visit Manchester, will have the ‘that could have been me’ feeling of sorrow and unsatisfying relief. Whereas, some people with very little connection to Manchester, will just mourn for an attack on Britain or for an attack on life itself.

Here are the 22 people that died in Manchester and their obituaries by the BBC

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In the end, our distance from tragedies like these determines how we react. This distance can be geographical, but more so the distance is measured in empathy and knowledge. It is this distance that qualifies the nature of terrorism, extremism, and war in the western world. It is this distance that determines the nature of the statuses you will see going down your Facebook or social media timeline. There will be those whom simply wish well to the families of those affected. I would hope that this is a universal wish. However, this is not always the case. There are those who use tragedies such as these, to say something they always wanted to say. Whether it is anti a certain group or to qualify the death in comparison to what is happening in other countries. In the end, we all have an opinion and for want of a better phrase- ‘viral’ tragedies are the time in which people proclaim their truest opinion of the world, politics, religion and society.

Most of our statuses are born from a prior knowledge, prior ignorance or prior hope. Therefore, a reaction to an event is usually indicative of how a person truly feels about the world. An on-going news story such as the attack on Manchester Arena, London’s Westminster or a New york street, does not immediately give enough information for a person to truly cast an in-depth factual opinion. However, the paradox is that there are more than enough questions yet to be answered, to enable someone to fill the gaps with their own perspective of the world. Whether that perspective is: one of hope- simply asking for unity and united strength; one of cynicism- stating a lack of belief in the events and questioning its authenticity or one of ignorance- using this opportunity to brandish one group of people and to spout generalized rhetoric about their ‘inherent’ evil nature, book or ways.

Yet, a week or so from now the chatter on social media will die down. There will be another news story that will occupy people’s minds, thoughts and social proclamations of truth and guidance. But, as the story moves on for us, we must begin to remember the story does not move on for the people whom actually lived or worst died due to the tragedy. Any tragedy is just a story to some but real life to others. It is this distance in connection to events that should make us realise just how fortunate we are. It is this distance that should make us qualify our reaction and think a little bit deeper on the way we engage with such tragedies.

We should look to ask ourselves how much do we know and how much are we going to find out. If we are simply going to rant and move on with our lives, surely, that is indicative of just how little these events have affected us? Or will we look to actively examine causes, reasons, and solutions on how to stop more families experiencing the heartache of those from Manchester, London and our global community? I would hope it is the latter.

Our discussion, debates and even arguments are only fruitful if they come with the goal of creating a better understanding for a better future. Otherwise, we are simply flexing our self-appointed intellectual chiefdom in order to score likes, shares and the praise of the Facebook sheeple we heard in the echo chamber of our social media ‘friendships’ and followers.

By Antoine Allen @AntoineSpeaker

Why People’s Rants on Terrorism Need To Remember The Bigger Issue This week Britain comes to terms with another terrible extremist attack. 22 people lost their lives and over 59 people were injured…

[thecoroutfitters]

Imagine waking up one morning, to find that your home, which you thought was safe, was in fact, is in danger. Not just a little danger, either; but one which could destroy your home, wiping it off the face of the Earth. What do you do?

That’s the situation which has faced almost 200,000 people in Northern California, as the risk of flooding from the Oroville Dam and Reservoir is increasing. An unusually wet winter has led to the reservoir reaching dangerously high levels.

Erosion damaged the primary spillway, as a 200 foot long, 35 foot wide hole formed in the bottom. Closing this spillway merely caused the water to rise even higher, overflowing the emergency spillway.

However, the emergency spillway only had a concrete lip, with the rest of the spillway being nothing more than an open hillside, leading down to the river below. Not capped with concrete, it was subject to erosion, which the water flowing over it quickly caused, raising concerns about the emergency spillway collapsing and releasing a 30 foot tall wall of water on the towns below.

This prompted an emergency evacuation that touched on four counties, with all the confusion and problems of any mass exodus. People had an hour to get out of their homes and on the road, where they found traffic moving at a snail’s pace and gas stations overwhelmed by people who needed to fill their tanks. As gas stations and then cars ran out of gas, people were forced to abandon them and take out on foot.

What’s Wrong With Conventional Prepper Wisdom

This is where the average prepper says it’s time to grab the bug out bag and put Plan B (for bug out) into effect. While that is a logical conclusion from a near-term survival viewpoint, it may not be the best possible solution from a long-term survival viewpoint. Even if your home is destroyed in such a disaster, there are many things within that home, which you will need as you rebuild your life.

“The clear answer is to bug out to some other urban area, which is far enough removed from the epicenter of the danger your home is facing, to make it a safe haven from the pending disaster.”

The problem is, most of us think of bugging out as something to be done in an emergency, with the intent of living in the wild. But that’s not necessarily the best solution. Living in the wild is infinitely harder than living amongst our fellow humans, where we have the entire infrastructure of modern society to support us. It really only makes sense to bug out into the wild when we need to escape from our fellow man, such as in the case of a breakdown of society.

In those cases, we’re usually referring to a nationwide catastrophe which has led to the breakdown of society. There is no safe populated place to go, leaving us with heading into the wilderness as our only viable option.

On the other end of the scale, we have bugging out to a refugee relocation center, often referred to as a FEMA camp. That option works for those sheeple who expect the government to care for them from cradle to grave, but it doesn’t work for us. Most of us don’t trust the government all that much and definitely don’t want to put ourselves and our families into their hands.

So if prudence dictates that we bug out, but it doesn’t make sense to either bug out to the wild or bug out to a FEMA camp, what are we to do?

It is easier to find the things you need to have in order to survive, if you’re in an urban area, than if you’re in the wilderness. Not only that, but if you have to rebuild your life somewhere, it’s also easier to do that in the company of others, than out in the middle of nowhere.

We have to understand that not all bug-outs are equal. There’s a huge difference between bugging out due to a natural disaster, than bugging out due to a breakdown in society. Because of this difference, we need to adjust our plans accordingly and not use a “one size fits all” style of prepping. The bug out bag might be the only thing we can take with us so make sure you have your bug out bag ready to go.

Planning for an Evacuation

While mandatory evacuations are by no means common, they aren’t unprecedented either.

There was a mandatory evacuation ordered before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A similar order went out for Hurricane Sandy.

If a tsunami was ever to head for any of our shores, you can be sure that a general evacuation order would go out.

But the most common evacuation orders are those that happen for floods and forest fires. This evacuation in California falls into that category.

If we accept that such an evacuation is different than bugging out due to social unrest or a breakdown in society, then we need to determine what we should do differently. More than anything, this affects the things we should being with us.

Since we would not be heading off into the wild, we wouldn’t need a massive amount of wilderness survival gear. Oh, we’d need some, as there would always be the possibility of being forced to abandon our cars and take out on foot. In such a case, it would probably be wise to avoid the roads and head cross-country, especially if a lot of other people were caught in the same predicament.

The simple fact of being prepared makes you and I too good a target for mooching and stealing, for us to stick around others who have had to abandon their cars as well.

In that case, the bug out bag might be the only thing we can take with us. But if we work things right, we won’t have to abandon our cars. In that case, we can take a whole lot more with us. Specifically, we can take the things we’ll need to have in order to rebuild our lives.

So, what are those things?

Clothing: both rough clothing for the wilderness and professional clothing for seeking a new job.

Valuables: there’s no sense leaving valuable jewelry behind to be looted or buried in the mud. Better to take it with you, so that you can use it. If nothing else, it can be sold to provide you with food.

Cash: whatever cash you have on hand will be needed to keep your family going, wherever you are going to end up.

Photos and other important memories.

Professional tools that you would need to have so that you could continue working or working a new job.

Important documents: birth certificates, professional degrees, marriage license, certifications, car titles, property deeds, medical records, kids school records.

Computer: today, so much of our lives and our work is on our computers, that we will need them to help us rebuild our lives, if our homes are destroyed.

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The thing is, with only a few hours to pack up and leave, or even less, chances are that you won’t be able to pack those things up, or even that you’ll think of them all. That’s why you need to have a checklist of things that you should take with you, besides your bug out bag.

In fact, you probably need several different checklists, based upon different scenarios. That way, you’ll be able to choose the checklist that’s most appropriate to the situation.

It’s much easier to think through what you need to do, when there is time, and things are calm. In the moment of crisis, the mind tends to go blank; so don’t wait for that moment to come. Prepare your lists and note where those items are kept. That way, you won’t need to waste precious time looking for it.

Lessons to Be Learned

As with any such disaster, there are lessons for us to learn. Professionals who deal with disasters and crisis situations always do an after-action-review, to see what they can learn. It doesn’t even have to be a situation that they were involved in; they’ll review other actions, so as to find what lessons they can learn.

We can do the same thing, simply by looking at what happened and putting ourselves in the place of the families who became victims of this potential disaster. In doing so, we can see what went wrong and what remedial action needs to be taken, to make sure that it doesn’t happen to us, as it did to them.

Know Your Area

The people living downstream of the Oroville Dam should have known that they were living in an area with a high risk of flooding. It doesn’t matter that there has never been any problem with that dam before, the very fact of its existence creates risk, especially in earthquake-prone California. Knowing that, they should have planned what they would do if anything ever happened to the dam.

Granted, their problem isn’t yours or mine, but we need to ask ourselves what risks we have overlooked. It’s easy to look around us and totally miss the most dangerous things in our area. As preppers, we need a good handle on every risk that exists in our area and we need to know if something happens to increase the risk from any of them.

Keep Your Ear to the Ground

One of the most important elements of an effective bug out is knowing when to bug out. Most survival instructors teach that it’s best to shelter in place as long as you can; but there are always cases that go against that advice. The situation in Northern California clearly fits that description. In that case, getting out sooner is clearly better than getting out later. If nothing else, it helps you to avoid the traffic.

But that requires knowing what’s coming, before it becomes public knowledge. In other words, you need good, solid information about each and every one of the risk elements that can affect you. That way, you can take action before it is too late.

Don’t just depend on traditional sources of information. The news media has proven that we can’t trust them; so why should we trust them for this? They could easily avoid telling of a pending disaster, just to further some political point that they feel is more important. To the left, we are nothing more than pawns in their power game, so they don’t really care what happens to us.

In the case in point, the knowledge that they had just passed through an extremely wet winter should have been a warning to anyone who recognized that dam as a threat. That would then lead to further investigation, finding how high the water was. From there, they would want to keep an eye on the water level, seeing it continue to rise and the mounting risk that it was creating.

Don’t Trust “Expert” Analysis

While experts have their place, we shouldn’t put all our trust in what they say. In this case, experts had said that the emergency spillway was safe for much more water than what was pouring over it. Yet they quickly found that their analysis was incorrect. Hey, they’re human, they can make mistakes too.

Those experts were even faced with complaints, filed by various organizations, which stated that the design of the emergency spillway was inadequate and not up to government mandated standards. Yet, bowing to the pressure of their own senior management, who didn’t want to pay the expense of capping the emergency spillway with concrete, they stood their ground, saying that it was safe.

So listen to what the experts say, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Make your own analysis, based upon the knowledge you have and logic. If something doesn’t look right to you, there’s a good chance that it isn’t.

Trust Your Gut, Don’t Wait

While the people weren’t given much notice, I’m sure there were one or two who had developed their own idea of what was happening. Knowing that, I would be surprised if they didn’t have thoughts of bugging out early. Had they followed their instincts, they would have been the safest and most comfortable people out there.

I understand that we don’t want to disturb our lives for nothing. That makes sense. At the same time, there are situations where we need to disturb our lives. This is such a situation. Maybe nothing will happen; but maybe it will. With that being the case, it’s better to be safe than sorry. You can always call it a practice drill.

Have Gasoline on Hand

Unsurprisingly, one of the problems the evacuees faced was that the gas stations ran out of fuel, leaving them without enough gas to get their cars to where they were going.

Gas stations don’t stock fuel for an emergency, but rather to meet their daily sales. There is no way that they can meet the needs of a mass evacuation.

In this evacuation, as in any other, a large number of vehicles ended up parked on the side of the road, when they ran out of gas.

When you consider that most people run their cars on the bottom half of the tank, that’s not at all surprising. I’ve got a shocking message for those people, it doesn’t cost any more to keep the top half of the tank filled, than it does to keep the bottom half filled.

More than that, you should have a stock of gasoline on hand, all the time. That’s a bit tricky, because gasoline doesn’t store well. But if you rotate that gas supply, putting it in your vehicle’s tank and replacing it with fresh gasoline every six months, you’ll always have a good supply of gasoline for bugging out with, should the need arise.

Have Alternate Escape Routes

Not only are the gas stations inadequate for a mass evacuation, the highways are too. Highways are expensive to build, so they build them based upon actual and projected traffic. Adding enough extra lanes to handle a mass evacuation is impractical.

This means that the highways are going to be overcrowded and that traffic will slow to a snail’s pace in any evacuation. But in most cases, the side streets and back ways will be totally devoid of traffic. There will be ways that will be open, especially country and farm roads that aren’t used a whole lot. Learn those routes and make sure that you have maps to use in figuring out alternate ways to get out of Dodge.

Have a Destination

Finally, make sure you have somewhere to go. I don’t know about you, but the last place I’d want to go is some overfilled school gymnasium, which had been turned into a refugee center. I’d much rather pitch a tent outside and have a modicum of privacy.

Most people will only go as far as they have to, in order to avoid the disaster. So, you can easily get away from the crowd by going a little farther. Don’t stop in the first town you get to, go on through and stop in another, on down the road. There will be less people there competing for hotel rooms and other necessities.

Better yet, scout out some good locations to go to in the case of an emergency. Take a few weekends off and do some traveling, visiting other cities and finding the resources that you’d need to have, if you have to abandon your home. That way, you have some idea of where to go.

Be Prepared

Emergencies can happen at any time. I’m sure that the majority of the people living downstream of that dam had no idea that they were in danger. Their first indication that there was a serious problem was when they were told to evacuate. Since most of them were unprepared, they ended up leaving with whatever they could grab.

The truly sad thing is that they could have received adequate notice, if the authorities were willing to share information about what was happening. But they didn’t.

While they gave a flash flood warning to Sacramento, miles downstream, they didn’t say a thing to the people who lived closer. Those were the people who ended up having to evacuate with a one hour notice.

That’s the way we can expect things to happen. That’s why it’s a good idea to be prepared. We never know when an emergency will happen, how much information will be withheld from us or how much time we’ll have to evacuate, but we can prepare to deal with a disaster.

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This article has been written by Bill White for Survivopedia.

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