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...What are the chances Arabella gets herself killed within the first five minutes on the Isle of the Lost?
#utopia of the lost#girlie has problems#namely a superiority complex mixed with ingrained fear from Villains and thus from Villain kids#she's also kinda in shock??#but also exactly none of these are appreciated by the Isle kids#she goes like. I'm gonna find the trident. it's mine. also all of you look amd talk like losers ngl#and Harry Hook skips any and all thought process and kills her on the spot#CJ's undisturbed. she found Arabella and lead her to the Revenge under the logic of Harry Likes SeaWitches Right??#incorrect. harry likes one (1) sea witch
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Was scrolling the hellsite and saw this gem of a trashfire
be right back guys, I gotta make a malevolently bad map
#art#art critique#specifically BAD art critique#'good art is when i can just instinctively tell that it's good and bad art is when i don't like it and it confuses me'#DRUG METAPHOR: WEED#this guy is getting ratioed btw don't worry#he's pissed people are calling him fascist for this but if he didn't want that maybe he shouldn't have been so obvious about it#love the conservativism shining through in 'forgotten values' they can't be NEW values because fascists always long for a lost past utopia#that has been ~corrupted by the modern world~ and all these darn minorities#no new values exist. all the good things were already there in the past and we just need to get rid of X people to get them back#fascist playbook 101
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Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO
#ambessa setting up the logs on a fireplace while literally adding fuel to the fire with cailtyn... subtelty#silco spent his whole life trying to rile the undercity together STUPID JOKE THAT IT IS you have the chance to pull it off#isha is the true revolutionary after all... jinx get up to her level#was jinx scared of having hallucinations when the girl she released was gonna touch her shoulder??? and then she didn't#what i find really funny is that warwick knows how to use elevators and that funicular to the prison#also there is a lot of blood when he appears in the prison.... it was surprising#vander recognizing jinx with the name of powder after she complained about it eariler its just crazy crazy crazy#people commenting that its unrealistic how caitlyn bests vi when they meet in episode 6 as if there wasn't a montage about how she lost her#edge because of alcohol and living like shit.... she's not like jinx lmao....#rewatching so recently is so weird i imagine it is as close as being dr manhattan as i can get it is literally happening all at once#also the people of piltover are so dumb... lets let the government implement martial law and put this 20 something with 0 political#experience on charge with the army of this outsider agent. alright. i can tell you guys dont vote in this oligarchy you know fuck all#well i guess in that case it isnt the people of piltovers fault... just the important families that contribute in this oligarchy...#putting count fagula in charge.... salo is speciallt dumb but we all knew that#katie leung needs awards btw.... and interviews#“do not test this or you will yearn for caitlyn's dungeons” be careful singed my friend vi fell for that and look at her... her dungeons...#vander reaching for isha not jinx.... OR VI.... she just stopped him#“hes gonna kill you” and vi fighting vander to protect jinx.... yeah#and then she trusts jinx and the beast turns into vander... he serves as a recognizing tool for their true selves...#their mom being so worried about how to name vi and then names the second one POWDER kahdksjsk never not funny... also the barber of zaun#when vi joins with jayce she unlocks this loser flop aspect of her mother's inheritance.... two losers joining to maximize their joint flop#also vander kinda giving up this promise to protect the girls instead of bettering zaun... how it puts him in a standstill bc it's either or#like damn there is nothing as undoing as a daughter for reals. she didnt experience that bc she died so now vander has to and here we are#episide 6 starts with the end of the episode when viktor drops that metal piece..... hello..... is this anything#“do you think this place could work” underground utopia.... DYNASTIES AND DYSTOPIA FEAR IS NEVER AN OPTION SO DYING'S NOT A REAL PROBLEM#didnt ambessa suspect anything when they spent loke a full minite staring at each other 😭😭 she's lost her edge...#just like when she clocked sevika but not jinx... when there's a strong butch in the area her radar gets jammed up#and caitlyn leaving her weapon behind... ambessa thought she was gonna fistfight warwick or something#the metal thing falling when viktor dies repeats THREE TIMES WHAT DOES THAT MEAN#watching arcane season 2
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Some asshat: ouwgh europeans brought the Indians technology and civilized life bwoulg
Shut up. You know what most native peoples have/had that settlers in the Americas STILL don't have?
No homelessness
What we would now call free healthcare
Equal rights and respect for male, female, and other genders.
Care for the elderly and disabled
No racism
Heart knowledge, or what we might call, mental healthcare
What we would now call free education
No one would starve cause of someone else's greed
Yeah, no society is perfect, and we have our faults. But whose society would you rather live in?
Now think about how all of that was stolen not only from natives, but the decendants of settlers too. You, settlers, could also have had better, had people in power been stopped. And it's still your responsibility, settlers, to stand by us and take away those evil people's power.
Land fuckin back.
#sorry im having THOUGHTS#the more i reconnect with my heritage#the more i have to come to grips with what i lost. what my dad and grandparents and great grandparents lost#what my neices and nephews lost#what could have been#i know no society is perfect. native society wasnt a magical utopia but man.#imagine not having to worry about whether or not youll have a home#anyway#landback
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My post about "girlboss eugenics" has reached 10k+ notes, and while i understand i can't control how people take a post once it's escaped containment and will ultimately interpret it to fit their personal blog and tastes, i can't help but resent that a good chunk of reblogs have completely ignored that i was complaining about the trope promoting eugenics. Instead, it's been read to be about chosen one narratives in general which oftentimes aren't about eugenics at all.
Just to be clear, chosen one narratives are not inherently eugenicist! ATLA is a chosen one narrative and explicitly anti-eugenics. The main character being special because she's secretly related to a special person is not eugenics! The Last Skywalker is not eugenicist and its core message that Rey can reject her Palpatine side and choose to be a Skywalker actively goes against bioessentialism. Eugenics isn't when a character is born special because of blood ties, genetic inheritance, or just being magically chosen.
Eugenics is actively breeding people to promote "desireable" traits and neutering, disenfranchising, or even just outright killing those with "undesireable" traits so they won't "pollute" the gene pool. Eugenics is the numerous amount of times I've heard someone casually saying "dumb people shouldn't breed." Eugenics is using genetic disability and illness as a narrative shorthand to convey that a character is twisted and evil, and that the kindest fate for such a "wretched creature" is death. Eugenics is a character saying she never wants to have children so she won't pass on her curse, dwarfism, or whatever else it is to her offspring and being lauded by the story for making the right, selfless choice. Eugenics is calculating how much percent race X character is compared to Y character and using them being more Valyrian/Illyrian/whatever race to justify why X is the better ruler instead of Y.
I get that some people are tired of biological and divine determinism and just want to see characters reject that and carve out their own path, but chosen one and secret princess tropes by themselves are hardly as deleterious as what I noticed in the recently published books I read that have this obsession with breeding. It's English royal family fanatic level of obsession over maintaining the continuation of a bloodline and calculating who's even distantly related to who to justify who gets to receive fame and wealth for basically just existing. It's glorifying a woman's womb and her pregnancy as something absolutely necessary for the continuation of a good and civil society. THAT is what I find absolutely horrific in what's supposed to be my escapist, meant to empower women readers, fantasy fiction.
#vent#personal#eugenics#i made that post explicitly about the asoiaf fandom and korean rofan and romantasy YA#a lot of modern fiction both from the east and west and published and fanmade have this trope#So i get a bit annoyed when people see the post and think it's “drama” about one specific book or series#Surprise! There's a lot of eugenicist values everywhere and it's not just one problematic author you can condemn#You have to look inside yourself and stop saying dumb people should't contaminate the gene pool#long post#i don't think asoiaf itself actively promotes eugenics btw#it just has themes that question the inherent eugenicist nature of feudal monarchy that some readers take totally at face value#So you have fics and analysis that take Valyrian society as lost utopia or unironically espouse the superiority of that race
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If you love Godzilla, giant monsters, horror, found footage, and got 20 minutes to spare, PLEASE look at this!
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Y'know the fun thing abt how I've set up the society that the main stalien cast comes from is that even the most broad general trends across stalien societies tend to not apply to them. So everytime I yap about how most herds form and the general trends in their societies I just get to remember mid yapping that basically none of this will ever be evident or even come up in the main story. Damn isolated motherfuckers
#rat rambles#oc posting#eternal gales#Ive talked abt them before I think but long story short way back the area was both filled with a lot of different plantlife but also a lot#of animals including various predators and pests#and since the seasons in this region are a lost less comically opposed to eachother generally there was less diversity in terms of herd#specialties and migration cycles would tend to be on a smaller scale with less overlap between herds#as such one herd eventually went yknow what would be cool? if we just cut out the parts of the local ecosystem that annoyed us and caved in#the tunnels leading to the rest of the continents cave system so nothing we dont like gets in either!#which was such a bad idea they ofc immediately did it and were faced with about a billion crisis's over the course of forever because of it#starting with the overpopulation problem which lead to them bleeding into the surface and leading into the still ongoing famine#plus again like a bilion other problems over the course of a couple centuries#a lot of the fucked up shit going on in their society all are bandaid fixes to the bandaid fixes to the bandaid fixes of the original chaos#in particular theyre currently being hit hard by their corpse crisis thats been rapidly getting worse and worse#man if only there were organisms that specifically evolved to be able to assist with the breaking down and decomposition of stalien bodies#oh well. anyways lets kill more kids to solve this Im sure that will go well#again cannot emphasize enough that this society has been in an almost comical downward spiral for centuries its Bad#theres a lot more to it on a political level ofc but generally speaking most of the modern day struggles of this society stem from that#initial decision to gut the local ecosystem#now to be abundantly clear. this isnt the only society where shit is fucked. its not like the rest of stalienkind all live in utopias#plus the reason this society is so comically distopian is because well. its kind of on the verge of collapse.#with the way things are going they really dont have much more than a century or so at most before things fully cave in on themselves#technology has been allowing them to hang on by a thread but the ever growing food and general resoruce shortages have eaten away at the#foundations for so long that they again really don't have long before things start going Really badly#starvation is already carving at the working class and they aren't getting enough population intake to keep things up as they are#so either things will need to be wildly reformed like within the decade or shit is going to hit the fan real hard#to be clear Im sure the population wont be completely wiped out but the current society will be dead and gone#again not like right this second but likely within the next century#it wont be overnight but it sure will suck real bad for everyone#so yeah. a real downer but at least we wont have to watch all that happen in the comic. we can say its up to interpretation.
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i am not anti-media-piracy, in fact i support it heartily on the media preservation level, and i have mixed but partially positive feelings about it on the individual choice/saving money level...
but the way some people talk about piracy like it's a heroic thing to do - not in the preservation sense, but in the 'fuck companies!!! if i can get something for free and screw them over, I'm fighting capitalism!' sense - oh some people sound like real goobers with those arguments.
#to me it's ... complicated#bc 100% i don't want media to be lost#and i have lots and lots of issues iwth the way modern entertainment companies try to extract profits/don't share revenue appropriately wit#all the people who actually MAKE the art.#i have lots of issues with that...!#however i am also an artist and have the crazy belief that art including movies tv games etc has value#and in our current world... paying for art/entertainment you enjoy is like... the way to ensure it is possible#do i dream of a utopia with UBI/guaranteed arts funding where we didn't have to depend on corporations to make art as investments?#of course i do!#however i don't believe that is likely to come to pass anytime soon....#and like... no i dont think anyone is a Rotten Person to the Core for pirating tv/movies#however. i do firmly believe that paying for art when you are able and when you value it is important.#some people will be like 'boohoo poor companies are mad that i dont pay for their product when i can pirate it for free!!!!'#like yes? it costs a lot of money to make! of course they want a profit#i have issues with the degree to which profits are extracted to the wealthy few in the present day#and i have issues/worries about the fundamental monetization structures of TV especially at the current moment#but i do not have an issue with the basic premise that companies would fund expensive large-scale art (like tv or movies) and expect to mak#a profit from funding such a large project#imo if u truly wanna pretend you're pirating in an anticapitalist way#you'd pirate something then venmo the normal cost to a random employee who worked on the production#lmao#that's still obviously a little flawed but like. u get my point? good. i hope ur having a good day#hypothetical person who reads my rambling tags this deep.#d
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in search of Atlantis
#ai#ai art#bandcamp#ai generated#ai gallery#ai artwork#fantasy#city#scifi#gotard#atlantis#ancient history#platonic#scifiart#sci fi and fantasy#underwater#lost civilization#futuristic#retrofuture#ancient ruins#visions of atlantis#music#chillout#world music#world#new music#ocean#mare#utopia#Bandcamp
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Hmm wondering if I should give Arabella a love interest.
#i already have a variant that would be the most funny & chaotic#but idk if I wanna go there#utopia of the Lost
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Heyo, you've mentioned that in your AU Crocodile isn't going to try to destroy Alabasta, so I was wondering if his end goal is still Utopia but he's going to try other methods or if he has a complete different end goal?
im thinking his main goal is to secure a safe future for luffy, this version of croc started baroque works and his schemes after luffy was born, so if he's aiming for a utopia of sort it'll mostly be for his kid.
#crocau ask#a 'it's all for you' 'thanks i hate it' sort of thing#the answer is a bit vague because im not sure how else to explain. canon croc's goals.... what are they really. whats up in his head.#an utopia is meant to be a good thing but for someone like him. what does that look like? why does he need pluton for it? is he trying to g#with that 'destroying redline is the final goal' theory thing? why does a villain that'll kill thousands like its nothing and calls out ppl#for having dreams and hopes work towards smth as idealistic as and impossible as an utopia? whats up with him. i really love the parallel#of embodiment of hope and freedom luffy vs nihilistic tyrant who got fucked over and lost all hopes to become pirate king. if their goals#turns out to have been similar all along. man. the croc intrigues me.
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i wish i had more collected and intellectual thoughts on jim and la’an. instead my brain just screams about them all the time
#ohhhh what if i was so cynical of everything. what if i was frigid and closed off and so afraid of other people#and i met someone with a passion for the universe. who loved everything and saw the beauty in it all. and just wanted to explore.#now am i talking about jim or la’an#my fave thing 2x03 does is subvert their traditional roles/characterisations#jim is suddenly that hardened survivalist who needs no one; la’an is wide eyed optimist who believes in the universe’s beauty#bc au jim is from another time!! where there is no earth for him to love!! there is so spock to keep him steady!! he’s lost his brother!!#and his planet!! and in turn his hope and awe#vs la’an from trek’s usual “”utopia“” who now has to convince jim HER timeline is worth saving#‘you could be an explorer’….. she says it with such wistfulness. wanting that role for herself in her own timeline#and YES ofc au jim is also full of whimsy and la’an is still very stiff but that hotel scene makes me crazyyyyyyy#i love how they make jim into the battle hardened soldier. and la’an has to become the beacon of hope#i think that makes her realise a lot about herself :)#i could talk about this episode alone for hours lol but i won’t bc i was meant to go to bed soon#me being like oh maybe i can get an early night :) BOOM struck down by noonirk thoughts#star trek#star trek snw#james kirk#la’an noonien singh#noonirk#ka’an#kirk x la'an
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those playdough ass sims aren't gonna fit in with that beautiful beautiful lighting let's get a move on i wanna see some realistic skin folds (MODELED not a flat texture) and blemishes and subsurface scattering i want that-specific-breed-of-maxis-match-tiktoker-you-know-the-ones tears
#i changed my mind about not liking the hair being clay#as long as people can still make alpha hair i actually like having the option between the two i wasn't thinking#in my dream utopia we get some kind of particle system but in actuality that would make modding way less accessible#and you can't count on ea to give us all the hair we want so that's definitely a no#but i hate the completely smooth plastic skin. away with it#i saw people say those supposed leaks look 'too alpha' YOU'VE LOST YOUR MINDSSSSSSSS#just because the shirt's not painted onto the skin with a shitty low quality jpg graphic doesn't make it 'alpha'. unfortunately#they were on the right track with sims 3 medieval but noo#project olympus has done so much damage it's unreal. in a million years aliens are somehow going to trace the apocalypse back to it#my mom was trapped in the passenger seat of my car today listening to me explain the entire project olympus history. i'm sorry#i mentioned the live stream and she harmlessly asked if it seems better than ts4. like oh man do you have a minute to hear about ts4#but it's on my mind it's such an interesting topic too bad it poisoned my water supply and killed everyone i love
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