#warily

[muchymozzarella]

MrBeast being openly and aggressively a trans ally and calling out transphobia bc his bff Chris (any pronouns according to bio) is on HRT and is getting targeted by transphobes was not on my bingo card, but good for them

I have many problems with Mr Jimmy Beast, but his influence is massive. There's no internet micro or macrocelebrity with more power than him at this point. For him to be openly against transphobia is a big deal no matter what.

Like Disney fighting DeSantis.

[writer-room]

Its so funny that Arin and Sora have shown to have significantly better emotional intelligence than any of the ninja from all of the old seasons combined. "You should be taking care of your mental health" and "yeah saving the world is upsetting! no wonder you're having stress dreams" oh my precious children. You are surrounded by a teen dad with massive self-worth issues, the only one of two people who remembers the genie incident and also turned into the sea once, guy who's died like 3+ times and committed genocide under mind control, and a child soldier who's been living the hard knock life since age 2.

I hope to god you two are prepared to witness the most mentally unwell behavior you've seen in your entire teenage lives. You think you've already seen how bad it can get now? Fools. Just wait until you get a mission involving the Departed Realm

[qqueenofhades]

Idk man, 2022 didn't fuck around?

The Queen dies;

Jair Bolsonaro loses in Brazil, and decides to go away WITHOUT trying a coup (this was not a given)

Putin gets his ass kicked in Ukraine, the world comes together to oppose him;

The GOP's much hyped "Red Wave" in the American midterms is a Big Lol; now they have to contend with the Talented Mr. Santos and the constant clown show that will be a Republican House and Kevin McCarthy trying DESPERATELY to get elected speaker;

The Democrats kept the Senate and even added a seat, while capping off a year of big and meaningful legislative accomplishments; hence if certain unnamed SCOTUS justices snuff it in the next two years, they can fill that seat;

The Tories, after an absolutely laugh-so-you-don't cry year of absolutely surreal comedic incompetence inflicted on the people of Britain, are an average of 26 points behind in general opinion polls;

Sex trafficker and all around miserable misogynist Andrew Tate tries to pick a fight with Greta Thunberg, self owns to an amazing degree, is now being held in a Romanian prison for another month after stupidly giving his location away via pizza box;

Former Pope Benedict XVI, aka a decades-long enforcer of sexual abuse coverups in the Catholic Church as well as various other reprehensible moral positions, kicks the bucket (on the last day of the year)

A new climate deal was made;

And so on.

I mean, various other bad things very much still did happen, and it was a tough year for a lot of us on a personal level, but this is the first year since probably 2016 where it feels like there's actually a bit of hope for the future on a big structural level, and I appreciate that.

[dykedvonte]

Curly not immediately punishing Jimmy for assaulting Anya is something I don’t think a lot of people are viewing in the complex context for Curly as the superior to both of them and closest confidante they had.

Like I am in no way saying he didn’t under react or fail Anya by not being harsh or direct with Jimmy but it really is the case that he really couldn’t. Imagine being stuck in such a confined space with very little areas to genuinely hold someone if they commit a crime. It’s not like this was an event that occurred before they departed or that they have easy communication with The Pony Express to ask for how to proceed when something like this arises. Not to mention, Jimmy’s relative power in relation to Anya as the co-pilot and second in command, he has the knowledge and access to do something to her had Curly directly punished him in this setting.

They were also Curly’s friends. It’s not just the case of him mediating something between his subordinates but people he is personally invested in don’t want to see spiral further in Anya’s case while also not wanting believe his friend go that bad in Jimmy’s actions. They were both suicidal and Curly putting Jimmy’s stability first is both out of bias but also the fact he’s aware at some level Jimmy is a danger to himself and others if not constantly placated. Combined with the fact he was in denial or just not piecing together what Anya said it’s hard to say what he buying time for and what he had treat as urgent. This isn’t even saying he doesn’t care about Anya but he’s not going jump to the worst conclusions about his friends even if part of him acknowledges the evidence saying so. It’s a complicated thing but he’s still human and needed to process it on top of trying to keep a ship that already took on a lot of water from further sinking, metaphorically.

I just personally think that while Curly failed Anya, it was a scenario where there wasn’t much he could do to the best thing by her safely and like Jimmy, we are underestimating what a good leader would do in a very fragile and tense situation like he was in. By the time he may have been ready and had a plan, things were much too late.

[brambletakato]

ive been doing a lot more pixel brush doodles because i think giving myself proper brushes gives me too much art anxiety lol

these are cropped because its doodles for a roleplay BUT food is food here you go des fans . into the koi pond . happy sycamore sunday

(one more AU doodle under cut)

[tinyufoboss]

hmmmmm 2+ years of tomgreg: a retrospective

[write-it-motherfuckers]

[kanerallels]

Starting to think I am physically incapable of falling in love with a ship that doesn't end with one half dead

[starofhisheart]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/unknown/Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle/Florence + The Machine, I'm Not Calling You A Liar/Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks/Cathy Park Hong, Spring and All/unknown/Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath/unknown

And bonus gentlebeard:

Sue Zhao

[july-19th-club]

the bright sword is a book about how even in the highest of all fairytales there was always something higher and more glorious that came before and is just out of reach . which is SO, so very arthuriana, a story about all the many ways in which the golden age is over before it begins, in which the crowning of a king is the cause of his dying

[crimeronan]

Princess AU Lumiter is just Hunter and Amity looking at Luz and going “What did I do to deserve you ☺️☺️” and then looking at each other and going “Seriously, what the Fuck did I do to deserve This Fucking Guy”

they're perfect.

[tracingpapier]

knuckles deserved to have a silly happy little family >:-// locke gets him on alternating weekends ONLY.

wynmacher stepdad supremacy

[withdenim]

If the way they find Zane in dragons rising is not by way of following a falcon to the Falcon Chase OST from season one, then what is even the point

[courtanie]

Okay but like there's a fundamental problem with the common headcanon/wish for the show where Husk gambles Valentino for Angel's soul. (Mind you this doesn't apply to AUs where Husk still has his soul, this is regarding the canon timeline, but I digress.)

Husk would (or SHOULD) know better than to go that route. How did Husk lose his soul again? The man knows how severe the consequences are when you lose that gamble. And Alastor owns his soul so he can't put that on the line, so it's literally going to be 'does Val get full ownership of Angel's soul or none of it'. That is an insane amount of stakes, no matter how confident he is that Val's stupidity will outweigh the potential for his loss. But before 'Loser, Baby' when he's talking to Angel about his loss to Alastor, he's speaking of regret, of understanding the consequences that he inflicted upon himself. So WHY would he potentially put Angel through that? Yes on one side is freedom, but on the other is him knowing that he caused Angel to become completely ensnared. (Great for angst fic, horrible for actual canon plotline god can you imagine.)

And furthermore, giving that role to Husk really belittles what is looking to be a main arc of Angel's character, which is him gaining his agency back. Listen, I want Husk involved in his freedom coming to fruition, desperately, (and vice versa), but Husk shouldn't be the main cause of said freedom. Angel shouldn't once more find himself as just a pretty little toy with no real say in his fate. We can make an argument that Angel could be the one that asks Husk to do that so it's technically "his" decision, but that would detract just the same I feel. Like sure, let the fight start with Husk, but Angel needs to be the one to finish it.

Angel learning to trust is another important part to his arc, but there's a difference between trust and handing over the fate of your soul to yet another person. Such a scenario would come with an underlying feeling of owing Husk something even if Husk insists he doesn't, and what could make their relationship so special is neither of them feeling obligated to be with the other one, they just want to be. That's a freedom neither of them have had for a long time and taking that opportunity from them, even subconsciously, just seems cruel.

[divinekangaroo]

Was amused by the description of pb as ‘the toxic masculinity show’ because like…yes? And also ‘the toxic relationship w one’s ethnicity’ show and ‘the toxic femininity’ show and and and….

I mean the description only makes me feel reactive because it comes across with pejorative and dismissive undertones, with a fair dose of simplistic binary moralising. It is a toxic masculinity show but the label’s about as useful as a fifth prong on a four-prong fork

[skyefeys]

fantastic purchase arrived today