#ubi pictures

[mvfm-25]

" No arms! No legs! Huge features! "

Play Magazine n15 - March, 2003.

[numberxxisora]

Today, we get our first meeting with Rayman and Globox in their wacky adventure amongst a bunch of hoodlums.

[lulu2992]

Well, this picture looks familiar :’)

[inafieldofdaisies]

Far Cry 5 (2018) | Replay in 2023 | Scenery appreciation (vol. 24) | Rae-Rae's Pumpkin Farm (interior)

[misku-nimfa]

[Image Description: Tweet from Roxi Horror, "'Oh, so you think that everyone should just be handed enough money to live?' lol. lmao. yeah."]

[notjustjavierpena]

Ok so someone said Pedro is so husband in Gladiator 2 and I was wondering if you would possibly do a Marcus and pregnant!wife fic?! Please 🤍

Restless

Main Masterpost | Support a disabled creator

A/N: This was so fun to write and I hope you like it! Just fyi, this is not a part of my series Ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia.

Summary: Being heavily pregnant makes it hard to sleep.

Pairing: Marcus Acacius x f!reader/you (no y/n)

Tags: Pregnant reader, kisses, a general devoted to his wife

Word count: 1k

Link to this work on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60543115

Restless

Since entering the final stages of carrying your child, nights in bed have been restless. You lay awake most of the time, drifting off on your side only to wake up not long after with a foot pressing against your ribs. It is a strange paradox how something so unpleasant can offer you comfort at the same time, serving as a reminder that your baby is healthy and strong. You’ll take watching the sunrise each morning if it means knowing that they are well, even if it means exhaustion from the lack of rest. 

Tonight is no different. You are yet again caught in the realm of the awake, carefully turning over from side to side as you beg God Somnus to show you mercy and grant you some sleep. However, just as your eyes start to flutter closed, you are startled awake by another swift kick to your insides. 

“You are as restless as your father,” you speak quietly and with affection to the life within your belly, pressing your hand over the spot. You glance at Marcus as you say it, already aware of how he is stirring from his slumber because the littlest of things can rouse him. After all, he is a light sleeper, old habits making him as vigilant in bed with you as he is on the battlefield. 

“Another night on slumber’s battlefield?” Marcus asks while sleep still clings to him. His voice is rough, rumbling through his chest as he speaks. 

You nod with a sigh, reaching for your husband’s hand to guide it to rest on your belly. His voice joining yours has woken up the baby even more, and they seem even more enthusiastic in announcing their presence to their parents, “It seems like your child is preparing for a campaign of their own. Feel.”

“My child?” He asks with a fond smile, another jab at his palm making him gently trace patterns across your belly. 

“During nights like these, they’re your child,” you tease lightheartedly and earn a gentle smile, a twinkle in his eyes. 

“I suppose that’s fair,” he chuckles quietly but it is interrupted by another spirited kick. He sucks in a breath, talking quietly as if mostly to himself, “Every time I do this… I still can’t believe—“

“Neither can I,” you say dreamily and rest your own hand on top of his. You guide his palm over the curve of your swollen belly, “But they’re really in there. Feel this. Here’s their back and this… this must be the foot that’s keeping me from sleeping.”

Marcus’ calloused palm is warm as it skims across your stomach, feeling its way around to picture the growing bundle inside of you. His eyes are filled with uninhibited wonder, a joy that seems to be more frequent on his face after Goddess Juno granted you this blessing so soon after your union. He shifts on the bed to bend down and kiss where he has just felt a particularly enthusiastic kick. 

“Listen to me, little one,” he murmurs softly against your skin, “Your beautiful mother is doing all the work bringing you into the world and into my arms. The least you could do is grant her some rest.”

“I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think they’ve inherited some of your rebellion,” you begin but Marcus looks at your face with feigned outrage. He crawls up to hover over you. 

“Their rebellious spirit is directly from you,” he argues with a charming smile, palms flat against the bed on either side of you. In return, you reach up to cup his face and drag him down for a sweet kiss. He smells like olive oil and metal from his armor, proof of him being in the sun all day during today’s training session. He should be exhausted but he kisses you like he isn’t. 

“Then you should know how to tame them just like you tamed me, General,” you bite back with a mischievous expression, a high-pitched giggle interrupting your attempt at an attitude because Marcus maneuvers you onto your side again, this time facing away from him. He crawls up behind you, scooping his arm underneath you so he can cradle your full belly with both hands. 

“Close your eyes,” he tells you, splaying his hands on you until the warmth of his touch starts to calm everything in your body and mind, “Focus on your breathing. In and out. Slowly like the tide.”

You can feel the gentle change in the room, both Marcus and the baby falling into sync with you as sleep comes knocking for all three of you. He talks in a quiet whisper even on the verge of slumber, his chest rising and falling against your back while your belly mirrors it, “That’s it. You’re safe, my love. My heart, my strength, my guiding light.”

“Tell me about our baby,” you murmur softly, eyelids growing heavy until you capitulate and close them. 

“Our baby,” he begins, pressing a kiss to your shoulder, “Will be as beautiful as their mother. When they laugh it’ll be with your laugh, and when they smile, everyone will think of you in an instant. Perhaps, they will be granted the courage of Mars. Or perhaps the wisdom of Minerva, a real strategist.”

His hands continue their slow and gentle pattern over your stomach, lulling you even closer to the edge of sleep. You relax further into his embrace, letting his words wash over you as he continues, “And as for me, I hope they will inherit my heart. I hope to pass on my sense of duty and purpose. They’ll be honorable, stand firm, and protect the ones they love.”

“Marcus,” you say without knowing why. 

“They will be loved,” he adds as if it is the most true of all, his forehead resting against the back of your head, “Loved beyond comparison, beyond comprehension. By us and even the Gods themselves, and they will never doubt this. They will find it to be as certain as Sol and Nox ensuring each day and night.” 

“I like that,” you smile sleepily, barely awake anymore. 

“Me too,” you hear him say just before sleep finally claims you, his voice a calming echo that tells you he’s telling the truth.

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[teecupangel]

Ok so I have had an idea. This is a bit of reference to the ratatouille au continuation of Desmond being able to hear us in the animus servers. So picture this, after a while of us talking to Desmond checking up on him and the others. Someone the group chat somehow makes a mod that gives the players (us) avatars to pilot in the servers for a short amount of time, but instead of the bodies being human they're just random animals from mise to crows to hawks and eagles. So here kinda how I think this would go. So all the ancestors are asleep or resting in the servers, meanwhile the person who made the mod adds it into the server and there's a bit of commotion as the person tells everyone else, and so the players get to work making the avatars. Then morning comes around, Desmond and the others wake up and see this excessive about of rodents just gathered around everyone. After a moment of panic and shock for our dear assassins and templars they come to find out that now the voices "inside" Desmond's head are now here ready to try And cause some havack.

Oh don't forget to drink water and eat something l. I hope you have a great day/night

Thank you, nonny! I hope you're having a great day/night too! (And yeah, I'll be eating my dinner after this hahahaha) The Ratatouille AU where the ancestors can hear Desmond while ‘playing’, its more unhinged cousin, the Ratatouille AU where Desmond can hear us and the outside POV of Al Mualim thinking the Apple broke Altaïr and the sidestory of Altaïr accidentally connecting with Ezio while looking for Desmond

Here’s the horror-esque version of this AU for this interested in that kind of setup.

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Alright, confession time. When I was writing for the voices, my brain immediately to the ‘chat windows’ that popped up in Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint and in The Perks Of Being An S Class Heroine.

Then I thought, you know what would be funny? If it was like an actual chatbox with our preferred avatar kinda like this:

To make this stranger, all the avatar are like stock photos of animals and plants. This way, when their avatar finally comes to form, Desmond will be surrounded by various animals.

What happens to the ones who chose plant avatars?

My initial idea was that they would be floating plants like a leaf or a flower just floating in the air.

But then I realized…

We’re crazy enough to band together and create a ‘strange’ unique flower crown to put on Desmond’s head.

The ones that transformed into animals would go “That’s not fair! Why do you guys get to be that close to Desmond?!”

“Plant ftw, bitches!!!” A dandelion of all things would shout out, accidentally blowing itself up and floating away from Desmond, “Fuck!”

A second passed and the dandelion glitches out of existence.

Only to glitch back into the (technically floating) flower crown on Desmond’s head.

“Hey, guys, did you know it cost 1000 Helix to respawn? Fucking Ubi████.”

For those who don’t care about Ubisoft’s monetization scams (as you should), 1000 Helix is more or less $10 and they don’t sell 1000 Helix, they sell the small pack for $9.99 and it gives 1050 Helix. For reference, AC Valhalla’s complete sets (full armor + 2 weapons + mount and raven skin) usually cost around 1500 Helix.

So yeah… even though the ‘players’ have spawned in Desmond’s world, they are still haunted by monetization. (This does mean Desmond has gotten himself an immortal army of plants and animals)

[22degreehalo]

One thing that I always go back to when I get to thinking about machine-generated art

When I was in primary school, a friend of mine was really good at art. Like, not 'can carefully copy the Neopets Uni artwork' good, actual 'winning awards for her art piece' level good. (Look, for a horse girl back then I think that was not nothing of me!!)

And one time, when we were in year 5 or so - meaning the early 2000s - she entered an art competition with a beautiful picture of a bunch of African animals eating at a table together with the sort of cartoony, whimsical style you could easily see in a published kids' picture book (or so I remember it, anyway).

But during one of our classes, a guy came to the door to speak to her. And then she came back into the class to her cubby, awkwardly and embarrassedly carrying her picture.

Why? Because she's coloured it digitally, which (unawares to her) was against the rules.

She'd carefully sketched out the piece and drawn the linework physically, on A3 paper. And everything - the composition, the art style, every little detail - was her decision.

But she'd used a computer instead of paints or pastels or colouring pencils or whatever. And to the runners of the competition, that was 'cheating.' You weren't doing it yourself. All you had to do was click a few buttons and the computer filled it in for you, automatically.

Even at the time, that seemed wrong to me, though maybe that was just my inability to believe that my artist friend could've ever been wrong about art. But as I got older and tried out my own digital artworks and colouring... yeahhh. It's a hell of a lot less easy than I thought it'd be, if you want to make something look like how you can imagine in your head. To this day I think that my decades of doodling and anime art have made me okay at lineworks, but I never learned shit about colouring and it shows.

And it's just. I don't want to perpetuate the mistakes of the past, you know? Learn from history. The new technology is always going to seem scarily 'too perfect' and 'too easy' and unskilful and dangerous because What About All The Real Artists Who've Struggled Hard To Perfect Their Work? But digital colouring didn't kill traditional methods. They're just different.

(and requisite statement that I'm not thrilled about artists losing jobs but also by and large these would be the dead-end generic boring bullshit jobs nobody would be excited to do anyway soooo this is 99% a jobs and economic issue that has already happened before with countless past technologies and there is absolutely nothing to gain from hyperfocusing in on ai instead of, like, UBI or something to actually fix it.)

[sleepymccoy]

Fuck it, Ive found myself googling topics to start a fight again cos I'm trying to write spones, so I'm creating a list for myself here. If you have suggestions please feel free to add them. You are also welcome to use this as a prompt, although I don't know if it'll really help

These are mostly nicked from other lists, so hey may need tweaking to be more star trek sci fi in vibe. But I think they suit the sort of fights they have. Entertainingly, many of the questions on these lists have already been addressed my star trek. Like, I'm not going to go into eugenics here. They have a whole arc in tos where everyone expresses their opinions on eugenics (against) (the Khan stuff). So like, those aren't included! Or questions about ubi, trek world is a successful communist, they're all pro ubi.

Anyway. I've tried to hash it down to topics where I can easily see either how they disagree, or I can see how they agree but for different reasons. And, as this is for me, I might even include some of those details too!

Is technology making us more or less connected?

Could argue either way. McCoy's only contact with his kid is via tech, so he could be in favour. Same with Spock, but I think vulcans have a lot of physical cultural stuff that form part of gathering that (American) humans don't as much. Like, incense and how the planet is a different temp to the ship. So, maybe Spock is really feeling how tech is a shadow of the real thing more.

OR

McCoy hates and is unimpresssed by tech, and just wants to be home. Spock is perfectly happy with the perfunctory contact w his parents.

Is censorship ever acceptable in art and media?

This one is fun cos you can world build a bit with the premise. What's the art and media? I think McCoy has one of those inspected opinions, he's against censorship until you start listing terrible things then he gets annoyed cos he kind of agrees with a little bit of censorship. He doesn't think dead bodies should be shown on billboards across from schools. But he says, when asked, that he's against any censorship.

I think Vulcan has censored pre reform stuff from society quite a lot. And Spock's opinion on this is a real character choice you can make, does he agree people should only find out about history in university when you're spoon fed it kindly enough? Or does he think everyone should know?

Should we prioritize space exploration or focus on fixing problems on Earth?

This one is hilarious to me, cos they both work exploring space. But I think McCoy could get worked up over the focus and energy being on new space stuff if they're leaving hungry children behind, you know. I think Spock leans bigger picture

Is traditional marriage still relevant in modern society?

Ha! Have a great time! They'll be so off topic within a minute and just discussing their personal life that their opinion doesn't bloody matter

Is privacy more important than national security?

I think Spock is more into privacy then McCoy. Can't put my finger on why, I might come back to this

How can a good diet be used to control certain diseases?

I think the groundwork of this argument is that McCoy is having a go at Spock being vegetarian. So they're discussing broadly, but McCoy keeps slipping in how great meat is lol

Is it better to live in a big city or a small town?

Spock likes cities! McCoy likes small towns! This can devolve into a squabble about feudalism if you want to go crazy

Animal zoos: are they morally acceptable?

This is good worldbuilding too, zoos would be more rehab centres now. But Spock likes to have a go at old earth practices too just to see McCoy go red

Is online learning as effective as traditional in-person learning?

I reckon Spock likes online learning. The little freak

Is online dating more effective than traditional dating?

Heheheheheheh make them fight about dating. Make them list their favourite types of dates in an aggressive way. Heheheh

[beardedmrbean]

[Huey Zoomer Anon]

>Be modern black Hollywood

>Have the ability to showcase our history more with slightly less racist executives to deal with

>More access to our history than ever before

>Blackwash and try to pop feminism girl boss Cleopatra to where Assassins Creed Origins did her better (yeah I’m going back to that later in the ip)

>Lionize the Dahomey despite THEY are the major reason our cultural roots are destroyed and why majority of African Americans can never truly feel a connection to our ancestors birthplace

>Allow Tyler Perry to writer and direct a movie of the Black WAC unit of WW2.

>Perry had a tantrum towards the boondocks creator for making fun of him and made the episode about it be banned on tv for a couple of years (here the clip of that episode, I think 99.9% of black people on here or anyone who watch a Medea movie get the joke https://youtu.be/hJtYVpLAZmI?si=oSFcNG6GFUcTC87u)

>Make the historical black characters and figures more condensing then they were

>Refuse to acknowledge the struggles the MAJORITY of the population was suffering during those times hence why it took the marginalized to get their rights

>Don’t acknowledge how other groups like feminism deny black men proper voting rights and treated black women like shit until they conveniently used them to promote their hedonistic agenda during the 60’s

>Go overboard with their importance and not in the saving private Ryan and Braveheart

>Casually forget that even though there was fuck up status quos like they are today. Not everyone of the majority support it

>Seemly make race racial worsen

I know a lot of people can say Assassin Creed doing this with Yasuke. I think Ubisoft pr need to learn the term they try to be more historically AUTHENTIC rather than accurate as historians can have a tantrum to how much stuff that don’t fit with the 972-77 CE time stamp of AC Valhalla base story.

Though they probably figured out Ubi wanted to cash in on the Viking shows tv craze at the time.

Also one thing about DEI…they don’t really like family driven stories unless it the bastardized fictional young adult “found family thing”

Also they mention they are going to retool some established lore….I mean most of AC lore about Japan is from a long erased mobile AC game. From what I seen they are retooling something but fleshly out more stuff

Ot won’t be the first ac game to retcon shit *Vietnam flashbacks to certain controversies*

Now let me talk about the other MC Naoe, when the devs described her. They mentioned she is hot headed, where her heart on her shoulder….soooo a shounen female mc who is driven by vengeance where Yasuke and the other assassins try to make sure she won’t be consume by it?

Interesting, more personality than most girlboss characters Hollywood pump out

(Also they confirm you can do the Naruto run, LOL)

Than there was a Entertainment Weekly issue (yes they do games now) that dive into the Naoe backstory and they show off this character

https://x.com/ac_landmarks/status/1869806301238439992?s=46

What nice picture-fuck I heard Baal, Azreal, and the Shinto god Raiden arguing who will devour the boy’s soul when he killed off for story reasons

But Naoe got a little brother figure? Perfect!

Shit sorry for these super long anon everyone

I mean for the black WAC unit, they could have down where like in AC black flag you saw the Maroons or in AC mirage you saw the Nestorian Christians in 9th century Baghdad was they were in their respective timeline. So do a anthology series about the lesson known units of WW2 with the that unit getting a episode

Hell I’m very curious about the Japanese American units who I heard are some of our most decorative unit in our military history. Despite the absolute hell we gave them during that time

Just why WHY, have Hollywood got much much worse at telling black historical stories despite us now having more flesh out sources than ever before?

Hope others get it, never seen one of his movies.

The WAC thing is a good story to tell, not sure it's worth a full movie but maybe, theatrical release would depend on if it was something they could make enough money off of.

>I think Ubisoft pr need to learn the term they try to be more historically AUTHENTIC rather than accurate

I like that phrasing there.

>Though they probably figured out Ubi wanted to cash in on the Viking shows tv craze at the time.

I enjoyed the show, what I saw of it at least, dropped out when it started getting a bit too fantastical in places.

>Also one thing about DEI…they don’t really like family driven stories unless it the bastardized fictional young adult “found family thing”

Found family can be good if it serves a legitimate narrative purpose

And since I know you want the full quote

If nothing else this is gonna do a whole thing with getting him into the brotherhood and the two of them someone to lean on here and there. Some learning as well since Japan is still gonna be new to him.

They both have things to learn

>Also they mention they are going to retool some established lore......

They have to do that sometimes, so long as they're not trying to rewrite actual history

I still don't get the opposition to Yasuke, he's a real guy that had the title of samurai and they used him for a game so they could make a historical samurai game but make it different than every other historical samurai game.

>.......Interesting, more personality than most girlboss characters Hollywood pump out

So far it looks like that may be the case, hope things stay that way I'm tired of mary sue's.

>(Also they confirm you can do the Naruto run, LOL)

Nice

>But Naoe got a little brother figure? Perfect!

I hope so

>Shit sorry for these super long anon everyone

They're all tagged with your tag they can filter them out if they like

>........So do a anthology series about the lesson known units of WW2 with the that unit getting a episode

WAC's are so poorly known as a group from WWII that would actually be good anyway, the recruitment mantra of "Free a man up to fight" From the ladies doing the mail room (like in the upcoming thingy) to the clerical workers and everything else in between (like the ones that flew the planes from one coast to the other for delivery) they made a huge contribution, and should be recognized.

So long as we don't get "Red Ball Express" level revisionism, which would be difficult since they get the race of the people right in this film, but they can still get all kinds of other things wrong.

>Hell I’m very curious about the Japanese American units who I heard are some of our most decorative unit in our military history. Despite the absolute hell we gave them during that time

Think they've gotten a movie or two, had a moment with them in the first Karate Kid movie, where we find out Mr Miyagi earned the Medal of Honor as a member of the 442nd Infantry Regiment

while his wife and child were back home in the US, in one of Roosevelt's internment camps, where they died while he was fighting with honor for the country that had put them in there.

If you've never seen the 1984 Karate Kid, it's not all corny wax on wax off stuff, or sweep the leg, or what's it's become since 1984, even as a kid that scene hurt to watch.

There's a few for the "Codetalkers" too, which as codes go, nobody was ever going to break that one.

>Just why WHY, have Hollywood got much much worse at telling black historical stories despite us now having more flesh out sources than ever before?

Inflating the contributions instead of just stating what they were and why they were so important seems to be the method now, while yes sorting mail seems like a silly thing to make a big deal out of, it really was important to the war effort.

Letter from home can make all the difference in the world, anyone that's been deployed can probably confirm.

[mvfm-25]

" A Magical game is at hand! "

Gamer's Republic Magazine n10 - March, 1999.

[smb1610t-sbs7527c]

Irritated sister...

'Ahh panas, tak boleh tahan lah'

Another Hilda drawing but with IRL background.

It can get hot nowadays and you can feel itchy when it irritates your skin. I'm sure everyone doesn't like hot weather right, hah?

Hilda chanced upon an SBS Transit Scania KUB 'Kubbie' Euro V bus - SBS8643T on 63 (Eunos 🔁 Mei Ling St)(HGDEP 63) running along Ubi Ave 2, and she had a little sunburn on her back neck while bus spotting, and fell onto the ground. Her little sister Hazel is present to comfort her while she experiences the heat in her body. Their brother Hilbert and their mum is eating at a local foodcourt.

Added a Singaporean twist to the story: Added Malay captions underneath English captions in the speech bubbles, with real life background picture taken in Ubi, Geylang, Singapore at block 301 and on 9th August 2023. Btw it's Singapore's 58th birthday that already happened 1 year ago.

[bimboficationblues]

"but have certain qualified tankish and socdem positions" what positions do you have in mind?

maybe positions was too strong a word. I dunno, you could ask me about specific things and I'd probably have an opinion. I think I was trying to gesture at...okay, I have my theory of metapolitics: values -> goals -> strategies -> tactics. if I'm being maximally charitable then I think I share some overlapping values with ML(M) and socdem types, and at least some of our goals are going to be similar, though not all. on the level of strategies and tactics, I'm a bit more agnostic, which makes me more willing to hear these other camps out. just by nature of that initial overlap, though, I think there's going to be clusters where I find myself in agreement with one or the other or both and maybe don't take the maximally leftcom stance.

there are plenty of reforms I endorse (both on their own short-term merits, and out of the hope or analytical suspicion that they will be long-term unsustainable for capital, opening up new potentialities), and those seem in the short-term like they are comparatively more realizable than certain ML(M) or anarchist strategies and tactics. full employment, UBI, reforms around the criminal justice and immigration systems, some variation of a "Green New Deal," stuff like that. that's the socdem-ish bit.

the tankish bit is, well, more romantic and big-picture - I've never been an ML, but I retain a broad sympathy towards the position that the various ML parties were in even if many of them ended up doing a bunch of shit that I consider both counterproductive and detestable. those revolutions make for a useful historical dataset, would be one way to look at it, and I feel an instinct to push back when people just default to moral arguments (sometimes masquerading as analytical arguments). regardless of how things ultimately shook out (badly), it's hard for me to not be impressed at the scope of what was achieved in places like Russia and Cuba and Algeria and China. (though, you can say 'well, impressiveness doesn't make it good socialism, and all but Cuba eventually wound up voting or couping their way into capitalism and/or nationalism eventually, so who cares,' and I'm sympathetic to that, but we should still be looking at how and why these attempts at a new social form failed rather than just writing the whole project off as the product of malevolence.) and like, in terms of my theoretical grounding, I am more of a heterodox Marxist than I am a heterodox anarchist (though I consider myself both), which means that I share similar conceptual frameworks to ML(M)s even if I think they have a tendency to reproduce "worldview Marxism."

so like, I don’t feel compelled to be maximally leftcom at all times because being a constant hardliner killjoy feels like a form of magical thinking towards trying to get people to agree with you, or an affirmation of identity, rather than a politics. I think that the political realist thesis of politics as a kind of “war” is true, and committing to that principle means that we have to be level-headed about what the possibilities open to us are. sometimes war means spending time on annoying territorial skirmishes just to prevent the other guy from gaining ground, or building fortifications while you figure out the next move. I'm comfortable with ambiguity, is I guess what I'm saying.

our broad experiences of political disempowerment can lead us to approach politics like it’s a game of SimCity where if we can just perfectly deduce the proper inputs, history will spit out the right outputs. broad swathes of writing and activity from the three “'major' 'left-wing'” tendencies fall into this trap. I just don’t think that’s how politics works! it glosses over the way that social and political forces are unpredictable and volatile and hard to "control." wishful thinking is not enough, deferring into fantasies about idealized futures is not enough.

world revolution is not in sight, the unique convergence of circumstances that made the wave of 20th century Leninist revolutions possible does not seem like it's about to happen. nor does it seem like the insurrectionary uproars of the past few decades sustained momentum or laid the groundwork for communization. this leaves me in a difficult place because most of the paths “forward” (as far as like, less immediate cruelty, more access to basic needs, etc.) look pretty reformist, but I think the critiques of reformism as an end in itself are entirely sound, AND that reformism still has to deal with volatility and unpredictability despite its best efforts. liberalism’s key point in its favor as a sustainable system, that its absence of substantive content lets it absorb enemies and competitors into itself, is also its central weakness. we can see it straining right now, and we have seen it break under that strain previously - and I'm skeptical that that tension can hold forever without breaking again.

as such, I think whatever comes next as far as political and economic forms is probably going to be a surprise - which doesn’t mean “give up” on trying to affect our environment, abandoning any framework and becoming "anti-political" in the nihilist anarchist sense. I would rather we find a good surprise than a bad one, like splintered local fascisms! but it does mean we have to be attentive to which way the wind is blowing, and recognize that it's possible the answers will come from people younger and brighter than us.

[bittersweetblasphemy]

hey sorry you're sick bud. what's your oc with the most tragic backstory? vs an oc with a relatively chill past?

the most tragic? woof that's a tough one. and i'm gonna use it as an opportunity to infodump about a lot of OCs lol

most of my characters have at least some level of trauma. i mean just going through my works (and not touching reader characters):

your First Mate in LLTQ comes from a species known for stealing people away to use as brood queens and where said Queens are usually not consenting, then was sent off to perpetuate that same cycle completely alone for the first time in his life. one has to wonder what he went through to decide your consent actually mattered to him.

Hulo was once a human man whose literal humanity was slowly stripped from his soul and eaten over the course of decades

David's no-contact with his family. mom was neglectful from the beginning and cares more about his half-siblings than him. step-dad is some ex-military jackoff who thinks he's a loser who will never amount to anything. doesn't have many memories of his bio dad who just up and left when he was three

Brizeth and Colovan i won't say much about bc i'm actually going to talk about this in the next chapter for B&D. what i will say is that their childhood was fucked up but also a completely normal childhood for demons like them, so is it really that tragic? 🤔 (and bc im sure people's minds are going there, no, there is no CSA involved despite them being concubi)

Adrian is a fallen angel whose anger got his wings ripped off

Hector watched his first love die

Malak is the bastard child of a palace concubine who very conveniently isn't around anymore so you do the math

Tuq left his herd to live completely on his own due to rampant transphobia

Sasha got his scars from attempted murder via arson by homophobic wannabe monster hunters who were hoping to kill him and Theodore

Viktor's big sister, who he looked up to, was killed by a werewolf hunter

the imps in QR paint a pretty clear picture of the hell (literally and figuratively) they'd lived through before being taken in by Horace

where do i even start with Arro? [1][2][3][4]

but ultimately if i had to pick, i think i'd pick Gage. they were kidnapped and sold into forced sex work where all of their memories of their prior life were completely wiped, effectively factory reset, and they frequently deal with trauma by just erasing memories they can't handle. this includes deleting any knowledge of entire people and friendships because they were either killed or committed suicide, and Gage would rather forget than deal with the pain of missing them.

and while they may not have those direct traumatic memories haunting them, they're perfectly aware of the gaps in their memory and what they mean, which just strikes me as particularly sad.

Chill backstories? I mean,

Willow had a normal childhood and learned her love of gardening from her mom and dad, who she has a good relationship with

Marius came from a decently well off family and just liked having sex enough to make a profession of it

Ahlex grew up in a world with UBI, Universal Healthcare, and where there's always plenty of food and fresh water to go around, so despite being raised by his single disabled mother, he had a pretty easy time growing up

Marble and Button were childhood friends that fell in love as they got older

ignoring the tragedy that led to his current position as Malak's guard, Bic had a great childhood and was being mentored to be a clan storyteller, which is a very highly respected position in goblin clan hierarchy

Nina lived a comfortable life with her mother and father, who taught her the art of monster hunting and also impressed upon her the importance of the honor code she still lives by.

anyone else who i haven't listed either has their chill backstories at least alluded to in their fic (like Melia), or i just haven't given them a backstory yet

[diamondcitydarlin]

the sex work talk is so funny bc you'll have people talking about the lack of consent, how it's degrading, etc etc, while just completely zooming over the bigger issue that maybe ALL work under capitalism is like that to some degree? That true consent cannot really exist in any work position under a system that forces us to work lest we basically die?? Like, you can love your job all you want and lord knows I've had jobs I loved, but at the end of the day we're (most of us) in a situation where if we don't work we lose everything (sometimes including our lives) so how can true consent possibly exist in a power dynamic like that? Why does the lack of consent on behalf of a fastfood or retail worker mean less than that of a sex worker? It's like they get hung up on 'ew sex' and the moral quagmire of all that and cannot POSSIBLY move on from that to see the bigger picture, that if consent on behalf of the people who do services for us is important (it is) THEN MAYBE WE SHOULD BE PUSHING FOR A SYSTEM THAT DOES ALLOW ROOM FOR TRUE CONSENT. GOOD UBI, FOR INSTANCE??

It's almost like some people approach these precipices of 'radicalism', right, of ALMOST seeing the true monster behind the curtain but then they do a 180 turn and plant their butts firmly in the camp of blaming sex workers or sex work customers bc 'ew sex' instead of taking that further and going 'ew capitalism'. It FEELS intentional after awhile.

But then I guess it's easier to hate on and rant about groups of people than it is to realize the system you live in sucks and it's up to all of us to change it.

[inafieldofdaisies]

Collapse (Far Cry 6 DLC) | Revelation “Providence”, John’s room, part 2 & other things | Scenery appreciation (vol. 6-?)

/ Do I still have more unposted pictures of John?

Yes.

Are like 90% of them featuring him holding his knife?

Yes.

/ More John Audios, he's a talker.

/ Can we just say that investigation board has some inaccuracies, still, it looks cool from afar.

/ Ubi needs to add more sitting poses, sharing one attempt of playing with angles so Joseph "sits".