#valid or suspicious

[boneskullravenriver]

Ngl, and I'm gonna piss some people off but I kind of wish the show didn't exist.

Idk it's creating an energy in this fandom that I'm not vibing with that wasn't there before.

[kurara-black-blog]

Damn, Light legit thought people would find it ok to set up an explosive trap in your drawer just cuz you didn't want people reading your diary—

[saltpepperbeard]

✨January 1st Moodboard✨ 😍💖🤡

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

i don't go here and CR SPOILERS but -

im living for Laudna, miss (literally has a head FULL of voices some of which aren't even evil dead women or her own repressed raunchiness recently reincarnated as a rat) also being implied to having always had (RE: "it's finally happened") at least ONE voice who looked at the friend she thinks is the most sensible in the group and still whispered-

"yes but what if he snaps one day and kidnaps Imogen?? Imogen is the best and most amazing i wouldn't surprised at anyone wanting to kidnap her, even Ashton"

XD

AND THE N THE MOMENT IMOGEN AND HIM TROT OFF WITHOUT HER NOTICING she just like (⓿A⓿) I KNEW IT !!!

<3 imogen thinks that's just the sweetest thing <3

seriously is there a higher compliment then believing, even just for a second, that your gf is soooooo great even Ashton Himself would crack under the pressure if given the chance to kidnap her? Laudna's riding that Imogen Is Just Irresistible Actually And Obviously Everyone Else Agrees With Me On That train right into panic sobbing station, where Imogen was waiting with a dopy smile and a reassuring hug

(imogen who's got some of the biggest mom abandonment and shunned by her own dad baggage loves her clingy undead girlfriend good for her good for her) b

[mori-no-majou]

tbh I think I’d be a lot more entertained by the way Wish is getting canned if I thought Disney was actually going to learn anything from it. like ‘maybe 2D animation is still a worthwhile medium’, or ‘maybe we shouldn’t be scrapping almost-finished projects the studios we keep buying are working on’, or even ‘maybe it’s time to start putting more effort into the thing that made us famous in the first place instead of continually deprioritising that in favour of Star Wars and the MCU’. but instead I’m like 99% sure they’re gonna twist it into ‘movies with BIPOC leads don’t sell’ and go right back to making movies about rich blondes. as usual

[nerice]

why do you. wear your nemesis's melody as an earring anyway huh.

[ijustwantaplacetorantinpeace]

Get a god killed, host a shrimp party seconds later... yeah that sounds like what Junior Year was to me

[metaltea]

I tried (Oh I tried)

Basically a Jakyll and Hyde kind of thing (and I suppose normal Sun and Moon thing-)

I was thinking a sundial kind of thing but eh I cannot do that thing

Oooooo cool idea :000 I have no idea who Lunar and Solar are but it'd def be an interesting design. Gonna need to weigh my options, I wanna do something pretty complicated for Eclipse IF I get around to it before my art bug runs out :v

If anyone has more ideas (or u have more design ideas you wanna doodle) I'm all ears! Well, eyes. I love seeing what u come up with :> ❤️❤️❤️

[aeide-thea]

very much an off-the-cuff post so there may well be bugs, i'm still workshopping my thinking here, but—

i seem to see posts fairly regularly in which a member of some marginalized group A is objecting to attempts by less marginalized group B to make connections between discrimination against A and harm experienced by B (the main thing i have in mind here is when people attempt to align themselves with visibly-trans people by pointing out the ways that transphobic legislation also impacts gnc cis people, theatrical crossdressing, &c, but there are definitely also examples along other axes)—

and like. the main objection i've seen from A is 'why do they have to connect my experience to their experience in order to care about it? why can't they just agree that i shouldn't be discriminated against as a matter of, like, compassion for fellow humanity?'

and this reaction does honestly always just seem a little, idk, naive to me?? like, i don't know, it's gotten very popular ime to complain about normies' clumsy attempts to Understand Instead of Just Accepting [this feels potentially linked to like. the way many of us now prefer silently clicking 'like' to producing our own original, maybe clumsy, responses? but don't @ me on that point], probably because a lot of the time they aren't genuinely seeking to Understand but just to point out all the ways our queerness &c doesn't fit their received (unexaminedly conservative) understanding of the world, which feels to us (very reasonably!) like renewed pressure from the establishment to make ourselves fit that established framework, and so we resist… but at the same time, idk, maybe i'm just outing myself as lesser-than-thou here, but for every sort of person i was raised to distrust and have since arrived at genuine loving acceptance/appreciation of, it's involved first coming to understand their frame of reference at least a little? not to say that there isn't a place for shutting up and listening while you're still working to understand, because there definitely is! but i do kind of think this idea that's become popular in certain liberal circles of like, 'you don't have to understand my experience, you just have to respect it,' is fine and true for keeping peace with strangers, but really isn't a recipe for winning friends or influencing people—it's a recipe for keeping people at arm's length where they can't hit you. and then people turn around and want to apply that rule to coalition-building, and get all shocked-pikachu-face when others seek to identify more active points of connection.

...

another ~Radical Objection to Liberal Approaches~ i've seen, though often not specifically in this context (of discussing the way attempts to oppress A have knock-on effects for B), is like—'there's no point in deconstructing their logic because it's fundamentally illogical! insert that sartre quote abt anti-semites!' and like. no, there's absolutely no point in debating their logic with them. but fundamentally when people assert a logical resistance to bigoted positions they are not doing it to Own The Bigots, imo, or at any rate shouldn't be; they're (we're) doing it to reaffirm the basis of their/our own camp's position, namely, we see your knee-jerk fears and reject them; we substitute instead a patient allegiance to logic, that reasons its way into compassion.

that said, obviously there's a conversation to be had here about, like, platforming bad positions, and to what extent deconstructing them is implicitly platforming them! but. i do think that complaining that logic won't win over bigots is missing the very fundamental point that the logic isn't for the bigots: it's for us. we're talking to ourselves; we're affirming ourselves. and yeah, we need to understand that this sort of intra-party discussion doesn't, on its own, constitute sufficient activism! messages need to be communicated beyond the bounds of the party! but i do think i disagree that there's no place for it.

[stainlesssteellocust]

Agent First really did rock up out of nowhere with green hair and alt fashion all like “in order to date me you must first defeat all my evil relations” didn’t she smh

[blankcharti]

FOREVER THIS IS THE ONLY TIME WHERE YOU ARE NOT COOKING WELL

[rambling-robot]

I’ve done a lot of reflection and I gotta say: given the choice between letting a health condition possibly worsen or going to the doctor almost for free, I would choose the former. I am currently choosing the former. My phobia of needles is outweighing any health concerns. “It could get serious!” I know. “You should really go!” I am fully aware. I’ve done the math. There isn’t really a ‘win’ in this scenario. Entirely lose situations. It’s cool tho.

[thecoolnerdblog]

Nah cause the word “sourpuss” always gets me like ???? What does that mean???? The connotation is there but imma need that denotation real quick

[dawning-day]

SPIDERMAN SHINSOU AU ?? 👁👁

here's the vision. he's upside down. he has cat. thank you for coming to my vision.

[scyphers]

[ID: three photos of Belphegor the devon rex cat. In the first two he sits next to different people, clearly interested. In the third, he's sitting in someones lap like they're a chair. His back legs are sticking out while the human gently holds his torso.]

Belphie is like......ludicrously social. he always targets whoever is newest, and cuddles up to them

[queeranarchism]

If your democrat friends start muttering about stolen election conspiracy theories, the time to have a sit down with them and express your concerns is NOW, while you still have a chance to reach them, not 6 months from now when they're fully conspiracy-pilled.

Here's some of the talking points and why they're bullshit:

'10 million votes don't just disappear!' -> Joe Biden's 81 million votes were a statistical outlier, sparked by the recent experience of the Trump presidency. The democrats failed to maintain that sense of urgency, but Harris still got more votes than Hillary Clinton, more than Obama and more than any previous democratic candidate. These numbers are not weird at all.

'The Republicans tried to infiltrate election- and vote counting organizations!' -> yeah, they did, and yet hundreds of independent legal observers didn't see anything go wrong enough to raise any alarms. Independent exit polls are also very consistently similar to the counted votes. Tons of international organizations specialized in this stuff observed the election and didn't see a reason to raise the alarm.

'But I know a dozen democrats whose mail-in votes were not counted!' -> In any election a certain number of votes are registered as invalid because something was wrong with the ballot. In a country the size of the US, that translates to many thousands of votes. The internet allows these people to find each other, creating the false impression that a suspiciously large group of votes was not valid.

'Musk used Star Link to mess with electronic voting!' -> Electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet and dozens of independent media have already debunked this myth. It is absolutely impossible to use Star Link to fake election results.

'There is voter disenfranchisement!' -> This is true. This has always been true, for every election. It's an issue worth talking about but it's not a special secret conspiracy that's unique to this election.

But just as importantly as the facts: sit down with your friend and talk about the anxiety that's behind their conspiracy leanings. Acknowledge their pain and fear. Help them find ways to feel less powerless and regain their sense of agency. Take them to a mutual aid event, involve them in a fundraising event for a marginalized group, invite them to a local community effort. If they spend more time feeling connection and empowerment and less time doom scrolling online, they're far more likely to stay in reality.