#too bad i live in NZ

[bigshot-furbiestm]

im living out my snail farmer dreams guys!!!!

my goal is to be a random npc with a snail farm so you can do snail races and also send love letters to my crush for me

[rojichu]

I really wish they sold my meds in coated pill form here!!!! I accidentally tasted them as I tried to swallow them today!!! Nasty!!!!! The US pharma industry sucks but at least my meds came in actual pills when I lived there

[rodeodeparis]

decolonizepalestine has a great article on pinkwashing (and other types of washing)

Pride month is in four days and heres a reminder not to fall for pinkwashing

QUEERS FOR PALESTINE

OUR SOLIDARITY IS STRONGER THAN THEIR BIGOTRY

[eringobragh420]

🖤 Pairing: Damian Priest x f!Reader 🖤 Summary: Sequel to Hatefucking. Reader thinks she can bad-mouth Damian live on Raw and get away with it. She’s very wrong. 🛑 Warnings: NSFW. Face-fucking, hatefuck (the characters do not like each other), degradation, cum 18+ 🖤 Taglist: In the comments. If you’d like to be added, please click here! 🖤 Requested By: @miss-kuki-nz. Hope you enjoy! 🖤 MASTERLIST

“You know, Damian Priest and I used to be really … really close,” she purred into the microphone, glancing around the arena as the audience murmured. “But I had to end it not too long ago.” She shoved her bottom lip out, blinking, leaning on the top rope, feigning sadness. “Honestly, I just got so tired of saying just a second … I have to get the tweezers every time he took his pants off.” The crowd erupted, mostly in boos, and she simply giggled. “And then,” she continued dramatically, “after he finished—” Her eyes slid sideways to the camera in the corner of the ring. “—that is, if he finished …” More hatred from the crowd, and she shared a proud smile with Liv Morgan.

Damian’s music blasted through the arena and the titantron came to life, and she and Liv unknowingly reached for one another. Surely he wouldn’t come out and try to attack two small women, no matter how big their mouths were. He was probably coming out to try and save face, defend himself from the harsh words they both knew to be a huge lie. When Damian slowly appeared in the entranceway she and Liv had just come from, she thought for sure that’s what was about to happen.

Until he broke into an all-out sprint, and the women scrambled out of the ring, over the barrier and into the time keeper’s area. They turned briefly to see if Damian was following them, and with his long legs and speed, he was already nearly on them. The Judgment Day’s music hit, causing the big man to pause only briefly, but it was long enough for the girls to put a bit more distance between them and disappear into the backstage area. Liv suggested they split up, and the two of them headed down separate hallways in an effort to divide and conquer. The thorn in Damian’s side broke off to the left, into a darkened corridor, grinning wildly because even if he did catch her, what was he really going to do? Yell at her? Chokeslam her? She hadn’t forgotten about the hatefuck from a few weeks prior, certainly not—sometimes, even now, she could still feel the sensation of his thick cock painfully stretching her asshole—but this hallway was a very public place, more public than behind an unlocked door. If she just laid low here for a while, until most everyone had departed the arena for their flights or hotel rooms, Damian included, she should be able to sneak out unnoticed and, more importantly, unscathed.

That’s when she noticed it. The shift in the atmosphere, the rise in temperature only on the back half of her body, the unusual sensation of not only being watched, but that whomever was watching her was incredibly close. The sum of all these parts sent her sprinting for the hallway in front of her, but she didn’t get very far—a hand clamped over her mouth, an arm came around her midsection, and she was yanked back into the dark corridor. Her heart pounded and she kicked her legs, but she never once attempted to scream as Damian wrenched her back deeper into the darkness. Eventually he returned her to her feet, and she would proceed to ignore the disappointment she felt at the loss of his hard body against her as he spun her around to face him. She could hardly see anything with the lack of lighting down this particular hallway, but if she didn’t know it was Damian before, the familiar hand around her throat, forcing her into the nearest wall, made it crystal clear.

“I am so fuckin’ tired of your mouth,” he growled. One side of him was a shadow, but all of him was huge, imposing, formidable. 

Her heart threatened to crack her ribcage, thighs twitching, pussy throbbing. He could throttle her at any moment if he wanted, and she just bet he wanted, which slowly formed a wicked smile on her wet lips. “Aww, did I hurt your feelings?” she pouted. A tiny trickle of fear slipped down her spine as she remembered what he’d done to her ass, realizing he could do it again if he wanted to. It would be risky and it would hurt and she would hate him, but wasn’t that just exactly who they were? A little toxic, a dash of disdain, and a whole lot of sexual chemistry? “What are you gonna do about it?” It was a question only half of her wanted the answer to—the half that Damian Priest happened to own.

Damian said nothing, which was a hell of a lot more unnerving than when he was degrading her or splitting her holes open, and the hand on her throat forced her body down until she collapsed to her bare knees on the concrete floor. He released her neck to fist her hair, forcing her head back, as his other hand worked stealthily to unbuckle his belt and open his jeans. He pulled his still-hardening cock out without the barrier of underwear, and she smirked—he’d either been planning or hoping.

“What else do you do with a filthy mouth?” he asked, stroking his length directly over her face, and she could smell him, that sexy man musk she always smelled whenever her mouth was about to get pummeled. She bit her lip, forcing silence on a desperate moan threatening from her throat, because yes, of course, she wanted this, but she didn’t want anyone to catch her wanting it. “Fuck it until it apologizes,” Damian snarled, still fisting his solid cock, so close to her face now she could feel his fingers grazing her cheek, and she salivated at the now constant craving she had for Damian Priest, especially his big dick—the very one she’d just told millions of people was tiny. 

However, the mere thought of apologizing had her mouth falling open in what would have been raucous laughter if not for the cock that was instantly shoved inside where it didn’t stop until it poked the back of her throat. She gagged, hands coming up automatically, and Damian’s much larger hand smacked both of hers away, his other grip tightening on her hair. After a moment, he pulled almost completely out of her mouth, knowing better than to give her an opportunity to clench her teeth, and then he stuffed himself in the wet cavern again. A deep, vibrating moan came from above, but it was muffled by her coughing and gagging, and she worried she’d be the one to give them away. But fuck, she loved it. She hated the douchebag, egotistical little boy he acted like most of the time, but she’d be a dirty, rotten, filthy liar if she said she hated the way his body made her feel, how much she yearned for his cock in her mouth, even more so in her pussy, and it may have hurt for a week after, but she wanted him to take her ass again. Nobody could satisfy her the way Damian Priest did, and she would never, even upon threat of death, admit to this fact.

“These are the sounds you should be making,” Damian growled. He was pumping into her throat at a leisurely pace, but his length and girth quickly caused her jaw to ache, the corners of her mouth to burn, and the drool built up from the foreign intrusion began seeping down her chin. “Nobody wants to hear you talk,” Damian panted, “we all just wanna hear you gag on my cock.”

Sometimes it’s all she wanted to hear, too—again, a fact she would never share with anyone—but then he forced himself all the way down her throat, her nose bumping his crotch, and she lost the ability to breathe. It was hot until it seemed as though Damian wasn’t going to pull out, and he allowed her this time to slap at his thighs and claw at his jeans before he yanked his cock out of her mouth. She gulped and gasped for air, a dense bridge of spit and drool and precum stretching from the head of his dick to her tongue and lips.

“Fuck you, Priest,” she blubbered, trying to collect herself by steeling her knees to the concrete and wiping her chin with the sleeve of her shirt, and she could feel her own arousal dripping down her thighs

“Yeah, fuck me,” Damian mocked quietly, the wet sounds of him jerking his length echoing throughout the hallway. “Fuck you.” 

She opened her mouth to retort, her words forced back down her throat by Damian’s cock, and he had both hands tangled in her hair now, and he wasn’t even thrusting anymore—he controlled her head, pushing and pulling, using her mouth like it was a fleshlight that felt no pain and had no gag reflex. Her fingers were vices on his jeans and she felt one of her nails crack, but she wouldn’t speak the safe word. Never in a million, trillion years would she allow Damian Priest to break her, to allow him to believe that he was just too much for her, that she wasn’t able to handle him. So she let him have his way, neither encouraging nor discouraging as he fucked her face, gagging, coughing, sputtering when she had to, and gulping down as much oxygen as she could when he allowed it. At some point, her own fingers had snuck within her slick folds, flicking gently against her clit before her middle finger slipped inside her aching cunt.

“Fuck yes,” Damian groaned, “this is what they should be paying you for.” She smiled around his dick, a breathy laugh coming from her nose—she couldn’t argue with the logic; her head game was fire, and the evidence was currently obstructing her windpipe. “You like that idea, don’t you?” Damian chuckled darkly. “Well, I don’t have any cash on me, and I guess you don’t take credit cards.” He was jerking her head back and forth at an uncomfortable pace, though her fingers kept a similar velocity in her pussy. “So I’ll just have to pay you in cum, huh?”

She really didn’t want it any other way, and she added another digit inside her pussy. Her jaw screamed, her throat would be raw for days to come, her knees would likely be bruised, maybe scraped, and she was a little pissed about her nail, but she loved every minute of it. And once she was alone in her hotel room later, she would pull out her toys and think of this very moment. Damian mumbled and repeated obscenities above her, pulling her hair and squeezing her skull, and she was so close to cumming herself that a roar tore through her chest and neck, consequently vibrating down Damian’s cock. He cried out through tightly closed lips, his length buried to the root in her throat, her nose crushed against him, and she could feel him twitching, but she never tasted his cum.

“Straight down your fuckin’ throat,” Damian mumbled. She could feel the warmth of his cum as it fell down her esophagus, and it was the strangest thing to swallow something that was never in your mouth to begin with, and she still couldn’t breathe, and Damian was blissfully riding out his orgasm on her face, and it was finally her turn to topple over the edge, coating her hand in her own juices, body quivering. He pulled out and took a few steps back, and she collapsed onto all fours, coughing, spitting, still drooling a little. A filthy mess. After tucking himself away, Damian squatted down in front of her. “No more talking about my dick on live television,” he advised.

She snickered, sitting up on her knees again. “Why? I only like you when you’re angry.”

[charlidos]

Surfing is another intergral part of the tales from the set of LotR. It was mostly the hobbits and Orlando learning to surf, but apparently "everyone else" was also dragged into it...

Orlando on surfing in NZ:

"When I arrived in Wellington I wanted to find some sort of extracurricular activity we could do outside Lord of the Rings, just to keep us sane. Mountainbiking, fly by wire, anything. Everyone was going 'I don't know', so I said 'How about surfing?' Billy Boyd was into it so that day we bought boards and went down to Lyall Bay, and the guys there were like 'All right lads, nice boards', because we had pristine wetsuits and new boards that were nicely waxed, then getting into the sea and falling off, but it was great and we eventually dragged everyone else in."'

One of these "everyone else" is Viggo. Any other time, Orlando thinks Viggo can basically do anything. But apparently, he can't surf.

According to Orlando, Viggo was so disastrously bad at it, they were all banned from doing it.

Coming to New Zealand was like a rebirth. After living in London for so long, I connected with nature again. I even learned to surf there. After Viggo Mortensen injured his head while surfing one day, they banned it. But halfway through filming, I thought: "I've shot too much film for them to fire me", and I started again.

So were they really banned from surfing for a while? I never heard that before. But seems the wild boys just needed to surf anyway!

The tale doesn't really specify if Viggo only tried surfing this once, when he happened to get injured. But Peter Jackson calls him a "non-surfer" and that he was "lured" into it. How did they actually do the luring? By the promise of a too pretty, shirtless elf, I bet.

Peter Jackson told the story of how Bloom and some of the hobbit actors had lured non-surfer Viggo Mortensen into action. Mortensen had shown up for work ready for shooting in the mines of Moria with "a huge swollen face, his right eye closed like a boxer", after a knock from his surf board. "For the scene we had to always shoot from the left-hand side," Jackson said. "We had no choice."

Orlando definitely looks ready to lure filthy humans into action here. He looks positively evil right there. Up to bad things, for sure.

Billy:

“He had the biggest black eye you’ve ever seen. Initially the hobbits were worried their friend had more than a bruise. When I asked if he was alright, he said, ‘I don’t know, am I?’ And when Viggo says that, you know something’s wrong.”

I never realised until this very moment, that the two pics of Viggo with the surfing magazine weren't actually taken in sequence; in one his hair is dry, in the other wet, and he's wearing a cardigan or something in one and not in the other. It's funny to think someone - possibly Orlando, since it looks like it's from inside the Cuntebago - made the effort to make Viggo pose with the magazine twice.

[xclowniex]

from a realistic point of view, i dont see how zionism doesnt lead to non-jewish palestinian death or at least repression. if you have a state which has it enshrined in its founding documentation that it is For "Jewish People" (israel has been carefree about fucking over people they dont consider to be Jewish in the right way). two state solution doesnt even solve it since the assumption is just to have another israel and shove all the people they dont think count as jews over to palestinian state and pretend like they didnt just make an ethnostate

The reason you do not see how it doesn't lead to palestinian death is because on a fundamental level, you do not understand zionism from a jewish perspective.

Jews can and have, taken DNA tests and proved that we are descdant from cannanites who lived in Southern Levant. There is history too proving our orign from the region. A lot of jews were forced out due to various empires wanting to kill us, however some jews remained in the region.

Zionism is simply about self determination for jews as one of the indigenous peoples to the region. It does not inherently imply that palestinians are not indigenous as you can very much have two indigenous groups in a region, eg Moriori and Maori for example, both are indigenous to land which is part of New Zealand, but are two different groups.

I'm not going to say that no zionist ever wants harm to palestinians as there are, however the majority of zionists want a two state solution or a land for all solution (which is different to a one state solution of israel or palestine).

Indigenous groups do deserve self determination. This applies to all indigenous groups world wide. One indigenous group gaining self determination does not inherently harm another group of people, indigenous or not.

Ideologies can be implemented badly and not mean that the inherent concept is bad. For example, communism. No country has ever sucessfully implemented communism as they never leave the transition phase without something going wrong. Saying that zionism always hurts palestinians is like saying that communism is inherently genocidal because of China and Russia.

There are plenty of zionist solutions which does not harm palestinians which are deemed as ideal solutions by zionists, such as versions of a two state solution and land for all solutions.

Israel is also not an ethnostate. The percentage of israeli jews is almost equal to those who are New Zealand European in NZ, yet no one calls NZ an ethnostate. There are plenty of other countries whose majority population is around a similar percentage of 70% - 75% of a country and that country does not get called an ethnostate. Either, all countries with the majority ethnicity percentage above are ethnostates, or the threshold percentage needs to be higher for a country to be an ethno state, or if its only Israel who is an ethnostate and other countries with similar percentage are not, then you hold an antisemitic belief as the only jewish state should not be an exception for purely being a jewish state.

I would also like to touch on yoru usage of "non-jewish palestinian".

Whilst palestinian jews do exist (and I do know one personally), they are a very small minority of palestinians. It is illegal to be jewish in Gaza and the West Bank, so there are no rabbi's there for palestinians to convert. So I am very confused as to what you mean as there are no palestinian jews in palestine, and those that exist in the diaspora are a minority in both aspects, so whilst they deserve recognising and care, your wording is very strange and dogwhistle like. The reason I say dog whistle like, is because it is a common dog whistle for people to say that palestinians are the real jews and who we refer to as jews today are fake jews, which is obviously antisemitic.

[misspelledwordswizard]

Hi can i request a reader with maybe yan chain who was raised by a tribe maybe like the maori ones but she has ariel red hair and very pale skin so she stands out and when they go to see her island the tribe do the kinda war dance (mainyl the men) how would they react?(also i from nz where the maoris live so i dont think its offensive but first please research so it isnt to others.)

I ended up taking this more as an inspiration than actually using a real and existing culture, after all, I have no authority on the subject. And also, I made it happen in Wind's Hyrule, I thought it would make sense! :)

The strong summer sun was beating down on my skin with intensity, bringing a familiar burning sensation, a sign that I should get out of the sun as soon as possible, considering how easy it was to end up with burns that would leave me looking like a lobster and would hurt for the rest of the week. I was on a high part of the island, which allowed me to see the sea more easily from different angles, and there I could clearly see the large ship approaching on the horizon. 

I went down to the flat part of the island, motivated to warn the rest of the tribe. Let’s say that visitors are rare, especially the well-intentioned ones, so it’s always good to be alert. Everyone was preparing for the ship’s arrival on the coast, especially the warriors and the chief of the tribe, while the elderly, children and most of the women stayed inside the village, where it was safe. Not me, of course, curious as I am, I would never stay still waiting, so I was there among the men with a few other women.  

 The large ship arrived at the coast of the island, and a large number of blond men, very similar to each other, disembarked. One of them, a small one, caught my attention, but I couldn’t see him properly from a distance. As is tradition, the warriors gathered to perform the traditional war dance, which would scare off enemies as a threat, but would also be a welcome to friends, everything would depend on the intentions of this group of outsiders. 

As soon as the dance began, I noticed some of the group backing away, mixed with curiosity and confusion. They definitely didn’t know much about our culture, but the same little boy I had noticed before seemed unfazed, just waiting for the end of the dance to react. 

Throughout the performance, the men remained quiet and observant. They didn’t seem like a real threat, at least not with bad intentions, which made everyone around me relax a little. When the warriors of the tribe stopped, finally the blond boy in light blue robes began to approach, and thanks to that I was finally able to recognize him. 

 That was Link, a young hero who had passed through our island over a year ago and who made a point of helping everyone as much as he could, making him look good in the tribe and welcome to stay here whenever he wanted. I could see that he had located and recognized me, coming towards me with the rest of the unknown men following close behind. It wasn’t exactly a surprise, during the short time the boy had been here in the past I had grown attached to him as if he were my little brother. 

As soon as he reached me the hero jumped into my arms in a warm hug full of longing after so long. The rest of the tribe seemed to recognize him too, which calmed the remaining doubts present. 

— Oh, Link, look at you, how you’ve grown! – I said as we walked away, receiving a shy smile from the boy. – And who are these? ��� I asked, looking at the group of men who looked like the blond, who looked at me with a curious look, probably comparing me to the others, something I’m used to. 

— Oh, so, these are my brothers... well, it’s complicated. – I looked at the girl suspiciously for a moment, knowing that he previously only had a younger sister, but I decided to give this story a chance. 

— Well, how about we take a walk around the island, find a quieter place, and you explain this story to me properly? 

He readily agreed, so I started to guide him into the vegetation that I knew well, followed by the group of men who, although confused, seemed quite calm. How interesting, I think the day just got more fun. 

[sapphia]

The Right Are Engineering A Recession In NZ

tumblr isn't very good at local news, which is why i tend to get my nz politics information from elsewhere. so i can confidently tell you that aotearoa under national is totally, utterly fucked. like, not just in terms of all the social progress they plan to undo, though they do very much do plan to do all of that.

national+act+nzfirst have committed to a financial policy that makes zero fucking economic sense. you know how every time the economy is in bad shape, tories sieze the good economic opportunity to slash services or give tax cuts to the rich? imagine if that was happening for just no reason at all. there’s no crisis we’re facing this would even marginally help, but that's what nact+nzfs tax cut policy is anyway.

aotearoa is currently in a cost of living crisis, like much of the world, and our inflation is, to give it it's technical term, "sticky". This means that it's not still shooting up the graph like crazy, but it should have started to go down more by now according to predictions, but it hasn't, and is sitting at an unsustainably high level.

Inflation is bad because it eats away at the value of your money (not something you want generally) but this inflation is especially bad because it's inflation we created to ward off a recession back in 2020. NZ had the hardest and fastest lockdowns in the world, but at a huge cost -- our economy basically stopped overnight. Without goods and services being bought and sold, we would have been plunged into a financial crisis. But instead the government borrowed money to fund the wage subsidy and pay workers through the lockdowns, injecting money into and stimulating the economy.

This was a bill that was always going to come back to bite us, and for the past several years, the Labour government and the Reserve Bank had been playing a balacing game with our economy, steering us between a recession and a wage-price inflation spiral, with a recession definitely being the preferable one of the two. We actually had short soft one that we’ve come out of, exactly what Grant Robertson and Adrien Orr were aiming for.

Recessions can be small or big - inflation spirals are usually just big. We wanted to aim for a "soft" landing recession by hiking interests rates just enough to bring inflation back under control. The Reserve Bank uses it's tool - the Official Cash Rate, or the OCR, which basically sets the price of interest rates across the country, and the government also can use it's powers to create monetary policy to help the economy. A lot of the criticism Labour received before losing the election was about overspending in areas post-pandemic, as putting money into the economy through government spend by using debt to fund it genuinely causes inflation.

What a government should do during a time of inflation is remove money from the economy. For example, a right wing government would often issue an austerity policy, where the cut the amount of government spending through slashing programmes, benefits, staff, etc etc. A government could also increase taxes so people have less money to spend, could pay down government debt, could invest the money into a fund (e.g. NZ has a superannuation fund that's designed to be eventually self-funding set up by Labour that National have paused payments on when getting into government). It doesn't matter too much what, theoretically speaking -- the point is to get the money out of the economy.

What you definitely, definitely don't want to do during a period of high and sticky inflation is put more money into the economy. That would do the opposite of what you want. Labour were rightfully (at some points) criticised for their inflationary policies. So you'd think National would take their criticisms of Labour’s debt blowout and start paying it down to show how responsible they are, right? No, they’re cutting taxes for (mostly) the wealthy while offsetting this with austerity measures to make this “fiscally neutral”. They will make up for the inflationary effects of doling out money to landlords by cutting back essential government services, trying to frame it as a personnel and budget blowout (it’s not) and saying Labour mismanaged the books and we are in terrible financial shape (we are not; we have a triple A credit rating).

And further, it’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore our infrastructure crisis at nearly every level and every location. Our water systems needs billions of dollars of investment that our councils can’t afford to borrow, our rates are shooting up (and so will our rents), our ferries are old and broken down and Nicola Willis Minister of Finance just canned the “too expensive” deal that was needed to replace them — with most of the money going to into wharf upgrades that are desperately needed. There was a huge sunk cost; we’re not going to be able to to buy shit now. The ferries link the North and the South Island and are vital infrastructure; when they break down (which they did multiple times last year) it causes chaos and brings things to a standstill.

Why are they doing this? Land. It’s always about fucking land. All of National have divested in shares and have bought into land under the guise of this removing the “conflict of interest” that would exist if they had invested into specific companies. The usual alternative that solves this is a blind trust, but that’s not what most of the caucus has money in. Luxon alone sold about 12 million dollars worth of Air NZ shares and now has a property profile worth 20+ million. Oh, and he’s charging the taxpayer $50,000 a year to live in his own house. Thats 2.5 times what I get on the benefit that he’s cutting and putting sanctions on.

Nact don’t care if businesses go under and share prices crash; they’ll just sell their houses and buy stocks for cheaper. Their only concern is propping up the housing market ponzi scheme that they have all invested at the top of. This is why they’ve allowed councils to opt out of densification requirements and why they cut back the brightline test and are trying to boost the population with migrant workers; all of these things make house prices go up, make housing better for investors who make millions in untaxed capital gains.

NACT will not let the property market crash any further. Despite what they’re saying out loud, they actually want it to increase.

And they’re more than happy to wreck the economy to do it.

[halevren]

FHJY Spoilers || my live thoughts as I watch episode 6

I had to pause Taskmaster NZ for this. Did you guys know that the episodes are on YouTube for FREE?!?!?!?!!?!!

Love the intro as usual, Sarah Barrios goes so hard

HELLO ONE AND ALL!!!!!!!

Hiii intrepid heroes!

AYDA AGUEFORT PLEASE COME BACK I MISS YOU

I wonder if adaine will get a new job this episode

rest in peace Conor Counterspell

I forgot how much happened last episode

"Buttered to perfection"

IT'S ALWAYS HAPPY HOUR AT APPLEBEE'S

RAGHHHHHHHHH

SHE OWES OODLE OF STOODLE?!!??!? SHE LOST HER JOB AND SHE HAS TO PAY THEM?

MILK WITH VODKA...??

"I don't do this to you" I can tell this will be a giggly episode

OH NO. OH NO. THE HELIO RAT GRINDER CLERIC. OH NO

"It's filled with water!"

SPIKED MILK

"Who's a bad baby?" FABIAN I LOVE YOU

CAN YOU FILL THIS RED SOLO CUP WITH BAD BABY MILK

"I'm self sabotaging" I feel you Kristen. I feel you.

"I know in my heart that in his final moments he must have repented and gone—" "No.... No..."

"You should go to hell sometime"

ANOTHER SHRIMP JUMP

HELL HOUND FORM ART OH MY GOD LOOK AT HANGMAN!!!!!

"Smells good"

"Whatever you didn't like about your old self, you feel like, oh, it's present in this kid who is also drinking water out of a beer can." Brennan why must you be so good at pulling heartstrings

Double Kristen 🔥🔥

MOLMAN HOLDEN

SOIL CLUB

AVIATION CLUB

We got like 18 votes 🔥🔥

With disadvantage? oh no.

omg ivy has the same accent as garthy

"Your family is from Fallinel" her mom is gone and she killed her they can't help pay for the diamond

"Hot dragonborn is about to know your shit"

oh adaine... I understand you so well

Adaine and Fabian duo is so under appreciated I need more of them

"Everyone can suck a nut, fuck off"

There is so much sexual tension between Gorgug and Ragh rn

"If you push me too hard, I'm going to shit"

CARBO LOAD ON MILK?

"I think I ate some glass— there was vodka in it???" Oh Ragh my beloved....

Riz rambling is so real

Oh Ragh I love you, you're trying so hard to help I love you you are perfect

LYDIA'S MESSAGE BACK I LOVE HER

CRUSTACEAN NATION

ohhhh Fabian.....

The High 5 Heroes...

OISIN AND IVY... ARE THEY PART OF THE RAT GRINDERS????

"It's not the library, you can't rip the pages out!"

This is a very duo episode. Fig / Kristen, Fabian / Adaine, Gorgug / Riz

I'm starting to think Kristen is trying to be the president of the steelworker union at this rate

FETTY WAP AT HOMECOMING

"I'm gonna be kick flipping the system"

Fantasy High Senior Year main objective is going to be getting Fetty Wap to homecoming

"It's gonna be weird to not be you. I feel home here."

ohhh Emily what are you strategizing rn

oh no.. I think Ivy noticed her change

Fabian is struggling rn

ADAINE, PARTY WIZARD!!!!!!

"I can impersonate the dead when I want"

So much destruction of Fabian's property this episode

ivy isn't very nice. don't go for our girl mazey

THE ICE MUFFETS

oh is Brennan about to make Fabian choose between Ivy and Mazey? I swear to GOD

oh no..... Fabian.....

Mazey being straight laced (?) But still being the absolute life of the party is so good

"(Murph Sobs)"

Fuck the record labels

"Just trying to decide if I want to be bard any more..." OH?

Rough day for Fabian. So rough.

Murph rollin' better.

At least none of them actually did drugs. Just. The bad baby milk. What is the drinking age of Spyre? I don't know

Bad Kids Apicology Arc

OHHHH I LOVE GERTIE THAT'S SO CUTE THE BEE

oh no Fabian vs Gertie

actually it's more like Fabian vs everyone

NEW NEMESIS DETECTED???? OH MY GOD

Riz panic is so real, them getting kicked out of school would be awful

Tracker and Kristen call...........

oh no....

"I'm gonna be President, bitch."

I relate to Kristen too much, this is painful for me to listen to because it's too real

"Maybe she had a shrimp allergy, you don't fuckin' know"

"I hope your new partner is really fucking hot." Oh Kristen

"Riz you're the only one who is honest with me"

OH THE POTENTIAL OVERLAP........

"Tough but fair. Have a great life" KRISTEN.....

Drunk texting Aelwyn.

I MISS AYDA.

Murph is going full investigator rn

The egg slurry

"Fuck!"

I was NOT expecting Fig to be the one to do a full class switch but honestly it's understandable

"We're having to destroy ourselves to pass these classes." As someone who was severely depressed in high school, I resonate with that statement a little too much.

I want to go to a Lydia lunch

"So what's up" Kristen's god is dead.

"took an orb to the chest"

Oh Lydia.... I want to hug her so tightly.

"God baby hospital"

Now I'm hungry for chicken parm

downtime

STRESS TOKENS?????

looks like next episode is dice rolling

[russell-crowe]

gimme some random fun facts about russell !!

most of these are going to be young russell because he was. an idiot.

i think my fave is that he chipped his tooth when he was 10 playing rugby, and that he never considered to get it fixed. even arguing that he "shouldn't" need to fix his tooth to get roles. and then the director of 'the crossing' had to sit him down like. this character does not have a fucked up tooth. i do not want you to have this fucked up tooth. i am going to pay for your fucked up tooth to get fixed from my own pocket. it is peak dumbass russell moments. (and he mentioned that after he got his tooth fixed it was A Lot easier to get roles. my man. my dude.)

i also love how silly and dedicated he is to his roles, and that for the sum of us he'd go to bars in the sydney gay scene.... so much so that some people were discussing his sexuality when his girlfriend was in ear shot. 😭

he was fired. for using naughty words. at his gig as a bingo host.

he was actually seriously considering being a musician for someone (thankfully) told him that he should try acting. nowadays he refers to russ le roq (his teen music project) as "the worst performing single in NZ history"

when they were shooting la confidential he stayed in a tiny apartment so he'd feel bigger. 😭 (but tbh they were also trying to squeeze him out of that movie role, so maybe he simply couldn't afford bigger too <3)

i think it's important to remind people of his theatre kid days

speaking of theatre... when he played in rocky horror he dealt with a heckler by saying "if you squirt me one more time with your water pistol, I shall come off this stage and I shall jam my stiletto in the crack of your ass.” which is the greatest sentence he's ever formed, probably

the story he told during is igp concerts last summer about him living in sydney & busking to earn his rent. and sometimes having to choose between food and cigarettes. my bank account can relate

this entire quote: "just yelling and screaming and waving a gun around doth not a bad guy maketh. you have to have something in the ideology or the essential motivations of the character that take it beyond the average. but that is the same of both protagonists and villain, heroes and bad boys, or bad girls. but i haven’t been asked to play a bad girl lately."

i love how he always tries to figure out a way to bond with cast members. during les mis he'd invite people for sing-alongs, the whole master & commander thing with the t-shirts, always giving cast and crew merch from his band/rugby team, taking people to places. he's so often praised by cast members for this <3

[louisisalarrie]

super random q but do you think louis is ever coming back to asia? 😭 lol honestly his team fucked up big time and a lot of the fans are (rightfully) pissed off nfndidks but i think it also had a lot to do with the countries they chose?

i remember the initial announcement was him going to countries he didnt visit during Itwt, which is nice and all i guess but i'm not sure they thought that through... clearly there weren't enough fans in those countries fo then after cancelling those he announce ONE SINGULAR show in jakarta... which, logically, makes sense since it's one of his top cities on spotify. and yet the turnout was terrible skndjdsk

i'm sure a lot of it had to do with fans still holding a grudge (honestly same) and being scared of cancellation again, but i was thinking maybe he should've chosen a different city? manila for instance had to have their Itwt show upsized from a 2k capacity venue to a 12k one if i'm not mistaken?

Hey lovely anon, and welcome to the show! (Late night VIP access for you - I’m only awake because god some of these bands take fucking forever to load out, so apologies if this is a bit scrambled!)

Yeaaaahhhh it’s definitely part of his team’s fault, but could also likely be the promoter’s. I think it was Live Nation for this one. At LN AUNZ they really try everything they can to not cancel shows, and just downsize (usually discreetly only to ticket holders, but sometimes posted on socials), and it comes down to ticket sales, but also supplier issues is a major one too.

I’m honestly not too across Asia’s music scene at the moment, it’s just not a territory I’m deep in, but maybe there were other major acts touring at the same time and therefore caused supplier issues too? Usually ticket sales are the main factor but you’ve got everything from trucking, backline, crew, sound, lights, accomodation, staging, tour manager fees, staffing, flights, venue rental, catering, LED etc. vs the guaranteed fee, so there’s a lot more to consider.

Promoters, like any business, obviously wanna lose as little money as possible, and so they do look at all avenues before having to propose a cancellation to the team because it makes them look bad. They obviously want Louis to choose them next time because they make money, so they don’t just cop out if they have low ticket sales, they try to make it work but sometimes it just… doesn’t.

I’m not sure what kind of deal it was - happy to go into different types of deals sometime with y’all if you’re interested - but depending on budgets and the type of deal, it could’ve just been a lot of artist costs and it would’ve costed louis more money to go there than the payoff would’ve been.

I understand it’s frustrating, 100%, AUNZ, particularly NZ, don’t get half the bands the rest of the world get, because it’s expensive and it’s a gamble. Unless the promoter is willing to put no caps in the tour offer and just gamble with fees because they’re sure of ticket sales and budgets, well, they won’t. And it is a gamble for louis to go to countries he’s not been to before while he’s still establishing a bigger turnout there.

He’s the kind of guy that wants to tour all over the world and see everyone no matter the size of the venue, and it’s ridiculous because with his net worth he can afford to lose some money lol, but his manager and team just… don’t get paid that way. They don’t do their job so they don’t get commission. Idk what kind of contract they have with him, but I doubt he’s gonna give them a free handout if he can’t even make enough money to cover half that shit mentioned above through ticket sales. It’s just not how a business runs. It’s not how management works.

I really hope yourself and the folks up there don’t hold a grudge against him, because it’s so often out of the artist’s control (again, sounds stupid but it is the way this works), and I’ve seen artists offer to pay for a show with like 6% ticket sales because they just wanna make that 6% happy. But it’s not feasible and their management think it’s a waste of time if it’s not successful. I disagree, but, that’s the way the cookie crumbles with the big dogs. And I’m sure he’d love to tour more cities and be with fans everywhere.

With how much of a gamble it is going to cities he’s not been to before, I imagine even with demographic studies, the promoter’s offer would’ve stated for louis to pay for most of the expenses I stated above, so the promoter doesn’t lose money because it’s a risk. The more risky the tour sales are, the more is deemed an artist cost. It’s just… business.

Anyway, ticket sales for all artists are really struggling these days because of this damn economy and “cost of living”. Fans aren’t often buying tickets til the last minute, like you said, for fear of cancellation. Particularly after covid, it’s really hit the music industry hard. Refunds are great, fine, sure, but if you’re spending a chunk of your pay to see an artist and it doesn’t happen, you lose a bit of faith in buying tickets for them/other artists the next time they come to your city.

In Australia, we have a website called Tixel, founded in Melbourne a few years ago. Changed the absolute game. Now folks aren’t buying off Ticketmaster marketplace or official ticketing outlet resales, and are using Tixel instead.

Tixel is a platform where you can sell your ticket to another person with very little fees taken. You can’t list your ticket for over 10% of the price you bought it for, you have to upload/scan your ticket into the system and it verifies its legitimacy, and then you can put it on sale for whatever price you like (with upwards of 10% of og price, or lower if you need to just get rid of it). It’s fantastic, stops scammers because they can’t upsell the ticket by 200% like on ViaGoGo, and all tickets are proved to be legitimate. I’ve waited last minute to a show, to see if I’m free/if it’s going ahead if it’s super far in advance to buy tickets on Tixel, because I know if I buy tickets the day of/a few days before, that there’s like a 1% chance they’ll cancel. Shit happens, sure, but by that time, you’ll know it’s going ahead.

Because of the concerns of buying tickets when they’re released, promoters and management teams can’t guarantee there will be a turnout and whether they will be able to gain a profit/at the very least break even, because it’s just too risky and of course suppliers want money well in advance. But if a band does a show, and it sells out last minute, great, cool, but you can’t bank on that. It’s changed the ticketing game and really fucked with artists, their teams, and promoters, because you can’t rely on the numbers early on.

There have been a few major festivals here that have cancelled, due to “unforeseen circumstances” usually (which is mostly a way to hide the fact it’s ticket sales), and it’s like… a week after tickets go on sale. This happened to a festival I bought tickets to the day of release, and a lot of folks I know were waiting for their next payday or until tickets were on resale closer to the time. It’s such a shame, and hurts a lot of people in the industry financially. It’s not just the big dogs who have a fuck ton of money, it’s the crewing on the ground, the caterers, the venues, suppliers etc. who get hurt the most. It’s devastating down here, at the moment.

You can bank on certain artists selling tickets everywhere, but unfortunately it wasn’t strong enough for Louis.

He couldn’t skip out on Asia all together, no way. He needed to do at least 1 show to cross that territory and fulfil the global deal that he may have with LN (not 100% on if it’s a global deal or co-pro but yeah, either way), because it would’ve looked shit if he didn’t and probably negotiated his touring deal and cost him more money to cancel. Idk, there’s so many moving parts to touring that it’s hard to give you a solid answer, anon, but I’m sure he’ll be back. They’ll focus on Asia to really crack it, I think. We’ll see how competent/how much his team cares, and what promoters are willing to offer to get him back. Deals change throughout the initial offer up until very close to the tour, so, yeah. Hopefully there’s more money from the promoter backing him next time.

It’s shitty, but the money they saved goes towards the next leg of the tour to cover higher artist costs. This can include nicer accomm, better flights, better catering, better LED/Lights/Sound for confirmed shows, depending on the deal. So it’s stretching yourself a bit thinner for more shows that will cost you money, or putting some more money into those shows to make it better. It’s a weird balancing act. And yeah. It’s a multitude of things, not just his popularity.

Anyway, hope this helps a bit! Let me know if any q’s xx <3

[angelfireeast]

Ofmd ep 4 & 5

EPISODE FOUR

- the way the crew chewed Ed out on his walk of shame lol

- The sandwich hitting Lusicus in the face was hilarious and seemed unplanned.

- Ed immediately finds something alive & wants to make it his BBF. He is so needy

- It's Rachel House! I love her. She's hilarious. Really getting some amazing NZ talent now they are filming in NZ

- I'm so glad Ed & Stede worked it out. Ed has it so bad he trusts Stede again to run off after his confession.

- Ed learns a lesson about CHANGING! My heart. Mary & Anne are a cautionary tale but I feel like they both decided not to follow that path.

- Is it crazy that I feel a little hope for Anne/Mary when Anne burn down the house & they decided to move on together facing their fears & showing they love each other. Not saying they aren't still going to be toxic and full of kinks but it's a step in the right direction.

- I knew Bottons would turn into a bird! Yes king!

EPISODE 5:

- So much happened I. These two episodes but can we just appreciate that Roach invented peanut paste aka planet butter & immediately Frenchie was allergic to it

It's the little things honsetly

- Don't think I didn't notice Roach commenting on Frenchie's beautiful body cause that was 100% on my radar

- laughing at making Ed wear a bell

- Lucius was way too into pushing Ed off the ship lol I laughed at Ed yelling "do you feel closer yet"

- Ed hanging on the side of the ship & Fang rowing up and asking him if he wanted to go fishing felt so Marior

- loved Fang calling Ed out. It needed to happen. love that Fang got to tell Ed that those "games" weren't fun. I think Ed delused himself a lot about bad things to live with himself. We know he loves to play pretend & get lost in it. Yet we also know from the gravy bowl that Ed was upset about the way his old Captain hurt his crew & he was talking to himself really...so part of him knows it's wrong, dislikes it & part of him doesn't care or pretends not to care and it's no big deal as way to deal with what is happening.

- The way Olu, Jim & Archie just quietly and quickly rolled into a little united threesome is giving me life. I don't know the state of the romantic relationships and it doesn't matter cause them just being a united them is everything

- Fang is just adorable when he was telling Ed to be quite😂 he's so soft I love him. Kevin Jr lol I want more Fang pls

- Is it possible Ed has ADHD but also has trouble sitting with himself quietly cause he doesn't like himself & feel unlovable.

- the kiss in moonlight🥰

- Buttons & The Swede are off the ship. Archie & Izzy are on

What other changes are to come?

- Black Pete and Lusicus are engaged!!!🥳🍾

[amiralilylovesldr]

intro/introduction !!!!

soooo I'm amira😼um I'm always scared of sharing my age publicly cause ppl scare me BUT I am a minor so pls don't be scary if you're 18+ or I'll cry

𝄞um I REALLLLY like music if you couldn't tell, I likeee lana del rey, nicole dollanganger, elliott smith, jeff buckley, Fleetwood mac, beabadoobee, kmfdm, nirvana, nin, hole, the cure, joy division, ethel cain, and mitski !!! (also alot more but that'd be too much of a rant)

I live in Australia BUT I'm moving to nz next year I'm not gonna specify just yet but I probably randomly will later😭

um I think I'm tcc (?) I'm decently new to tcc but not really true crime♱ (my mother watched alot of tc shows so I kinda just dealt with it😓)

I'm also horrible at spelling and I'm also INCREDIBLY awkward so if you wanna be friends just add my disc😓 (its ldrasaworm ITS BAD ik i was out of idras)

I usually always answer cause i love talking to ppl😼

I also love cats I have three !!! cat haters get out of here

oh also I'm bi !! so homophobes pls piss off

ALSO this is extremely unorganised ik I'll make a proper one next year

[malarkgirlypop]

Misc. Tag Game! ✨

thank you for the tags @1waveshortofashipwreck

Made by the amazing @ronald-speirs 💖

Favorite place in the world you’ve visited?

Just went to Japan and Korea and it was so fucking amazing.

Something you’re proud of yourself for?

Finishing my nursing, getting a job. Like go me, get that big girl job!

Favourite books?

Trial by Fire, I will never not brag about it!

Something that makes your heart happy when thinking about it?

This one person I'm getting to know at the moment. Ah they are the best, literally makes me feel so good.

Favorite thing about your culture? About being American?

Um I am not an American. But NZ is so cool, we are super chill, such a vibe. I'm here for bringing back Māori culture into New Zealand!

When did you join the HBO War fandom? What was the first show you watched?

I think it was August 2023. Band of brothers was the first show I watched with my friend.

Have you read any of Easy Company’s books? If so, which ones were your favourite?

No I haven't. I want to, but im so busy rn. Maybe later.

Favorite HBO War character and your favorite moment with them?

Ah all I have to say is Malarkey, and just all Malarkey things ever. Please and thank you.

Do you make content for any fandoms, if so; what sort of content?

A little, only a teeny tiny amount, only small, not much, hardly any, it doesn't fill my whole brain all the time. I don't constantly live in a fictional story i am writing, I don't know what you're talking about.

Favourite actor/actress and your favourite film of theirs?

Sebastian Stan, The Winter Soldier. like why he so hot. He also scared the shit out of me in Fresh, but that was also a good movie.

Favourite quote/s that you wish to share with others?

"I'm tired of this Grandpa!"

"Well that's too damn bad!"

Holes, 2003.

Random fact your mutuals/followers don’t know about you?

I have no filter on here so there is nothing I don't think people know about me.

If you’re a writer, do you need a beta reader (say yes so I can be your beta reader 🤭)?

what's that? I'm confused.

Three things that make you smile?

My friends

BoB

A really special person

Any nicknames you like?

Kate doesn't have any nicknames, but because of my hair my dad calls me Floss, like candy floss!

List some people you love to see around on tumblr!

@panzershrike-pretz @ithinkabouttzu @executethyself35 @ronsparky @venus-haze @joetoyesbrassknuckles101 @footprintsinthesxnd @mutantmanifesto @jump-wings @mads-nixon @blueberry-ovaries @b00ks1ut @next-autopsy @1waveshortofashipwreck @paula-912 @brassknucklespeirs

What would you do during a zombie apocalypse?

Be a zombie

Favourite movie?

All movies, any movie, I'm good at entertaining myself with bad movies.

Do you like horror movies?

I do, but I'm still scared.

No pressure tags:

@georgieluz, @b00ks1ut, @blueberry-ovaries, @next-autopsy @land-sh @grumpy-liebgott @venus-haze @goneandbackagain

[discogirlsclub]

i havent looked too much into where rn aside from aukland and christchurch since theyre the major cities i know of. i dont really understand the weekly rent thing? very used to it being monthly here.

i lived in japan for awhile as a kid so earthquakes are something i’m prepared for (and all the aftermath of them) but the immigration consultation site i went through allowed me to input my CV and give them permission to send it to potential employers too. ive been nationally certified for almost three years and im licensed in two states here like…i love my job bb i just cant stand the thought of being here through whatever madness might continue or start up ya know? (im definitely not explaining it well lmao)

nah i get it lover:

ok so !! my brother lived in christchurch for a few years, its nice theres plenty to do apparently i wouldnt know ive never been but you get a lot of earthquakes in chch and also its just colder bc south island. expensive to live in christchurch

even more expensive to live in auckland lmao, aukies is four hours from me. i mean its decent for everything being in one place but nearly a third of the countries population lives there so if youre looking for the stress free quiet nz life auk is not the place to beeee

the other major cities are wellington (the capital) which is lower north island and very gay. i mean SO GAY. or dunedin which is south island and kind of just known for the university party culture lmao.

im in the bay of islands but its so rural up here i mean the closest full hospital is a boat ride and an hours drive alone LMAO ive also lived in the manawatu whanganui region and i liked it there

im moving late next year i dont actually know where but i think we were considering auckland? @lotties-ashwagandha ??? i dint think we know LMAO

also yea you pay weekly rent here monthly is crazy. just so you know rent is CRAZY here its getting better slowly but most people flat to save money with how bad it is in the cities

[xclowniex]

So if that terror attack on Lebanon is justified for the death of those 12 Druze children (which I'm sure you wouldn't be as heartbroken about them if they were killed by the IDF instead), what should the IDF punishment be for killing thousands of Palestinians children and how many Israeli civilians are you willing to let die in order to get to those Israeli terrorists? Assuming you think Israelis should even be punished for killing children (or that the word terrorists can be used to describe someone that isn't Muslim)

I wasn't going to answer this as I know it's obviously in bad faith but I'll bite

Stop putting your US centric views onto me. Here in New Zealand, we considering March 15th a terror attack. If you don't know what happened that day, a white supremist opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch. The white supremist who did it? He is a terrorist. I consider him a terrorist. All the media here considers him a terrorist. He is a terrorist.

New Zealand has designated a few white supremist groups and individuals as terrorists

Do you know who else is on this list?

Hezbollah.

Do you know who is not on this list? The IDF. You can check for yourself too

To quote the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002, which is ya know, laws surrounding terrorism, the IDF currently is exempt from it.

"However, an act does not fall within subsection (2) if it occurs in a situation of armed conflict and is, at the time and in the place that it occurs, in accordance with rules of international law applicable to the conflict."

(Sub section two refers to civilians being harmed or killed)

Fun fact about war crimes! Individuals get arrested for them and designated as war criminals, not everyone who is apart of the military. Bibi can be arrested for war crimes. Any individual IDF member who did the war crime can be arrested for war crimes. Whatever the Israeli version of John Smith is, who has never committed a war crime during his service, cannot be arrested for a war crime, and therefore cannot be labeled a terrorist.

But wouldn't Hamas and hezbollah be excempt from being a terrorist group as they're in an armed conflict? They've both committed terrorist acts outside of armed conflicts, ergo, terrorist organizations.

Also, you can read the act I was quoting if you want

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2002/0034/latest/DLM152702.html?search=ts_act%40bill%40regulation%40deemedreg_terrorism+suppression+act_resel_25_a&p=1

So, now that we have established that the IDF has not committed a terror attack as they're currently in armed conflict with Hezbollah, the rest of what you said falls apart, but to address it.

1. I would be equally as sad if the IDF killed 12 druze children

2. I think that any IDF members who have committed war crimes + bibi should be arrested for war crimes as I've stated so many times

3. If I lived in an ideal world, all hezbollah members would simply be arrested and there would be no loss of life. But we don't live in an ideal world. Hezbollah won't allow themselves to be arrested. Hezbollah also remains an active threat. If IDF members who have committed war crimes + Bibi refuse to be arrested and are still an active threat to people (key word active threat), yeah killing them would be best. Considering the exploding pagers had a mortality rate of 0.3%, and not all of that were civilians, I would expect a mortality rate of less than 0.3% of civilians near the individual war criminal to be killed.

Oh whats that? Not the answer you expected yeah I thought so. How about instead of frothing at the mouth trying to find a gotcha you can use to dehumanize me, you actually A) read up on laws* and definitions and B) read through my blog first because I've said many times that individuals who have committed war crimes should be arrested

*I know that NZ law may differ from laws elsewhere but they're pretty similar in the US, Canada and the UK