#we invented everything

[ourrace-sexraceandculture]

These South African kids are AMAZING, and I mean ALL of them. But this little girl who came out in her blue sweat suit, she did the damn thing! Tell me we ain't the freshest mother fuckas out there wrapped in human flesh & skin! That melanin is pure magic! Our souls have soul! It's in the hair ain't it, y'all? Them braids be gettin it done, don't they, y'all? 😂 Yeah, we stronger together, but another thing, when we together, we show the fuck out too, now don't we! 😂 I gotta find out who this lil' girl is, I'm gonna adopt her, she special 🙏🏽😊🥰❤

[marthwoller]

mee

[linoyes]

lee know on lee mujin service

[silcobrainrot]

***SPOILERS FOR THE FINALE DO NOT READ UNTIL YOUVE WATCHED***

I know TBSkyen has told us to sit with it for a while before deciding how we feel about the ending but I’m sorry I don’t think any amount of sitting with it is going to make me okay with them killing Jinx. The way she died wasn’t satisfying, the sacrifice meant almost nothing, and all the effort of those around her to keep her alive ended up going nowhere. Isha ends up being completely pointless because she’s only a plot device not a proper character and Jinx dies anyway. I don’t see how this was a satisfying conclusion to her narrative arc and character arc, I just don’t. Any supplemental material that makes it so she’s still alive in the games doesn’t matter to me because in the Arcane canon she is dead. To anyone not playing the games she is dead.

It’s making it hard for me to even want to rewatch it or enjoy what else was there because I’m just. I’m so goddamn fucking tired of seeing mentally ill characters have to die to lift the burden of their existence from others. Vi was so well adjusted and happy after. No mourning. No funeral/end of life rights. Her death was sudden and contrived just for some extra shock value. It didn’t feel like a tragic death, like out of a tragedy, bc this season wasn’t structured like a tragedy the way the first season felt. Her death didn’t feel inevitable and I’m furious because out of everyone. Out of EVERYONE. She deserved to live through this. She deserved to come out the other side of all her pain and suffering. She deserved to walk away from it all. But she didn’t. Because Borderlines are evil people and people with DID are evil and the only way they can redeem themselves is to die. The only happy ending is with them dead. The other two characters who showed suicidal ideation are also functionally dead. Whether or not they’re literally dead, the story’s over, they’re as good as dead.

Dont even get me started on how in her last moments she doesn’t see Isha or Silco (the two characters we SEE HER have a genuine familial bond with), only Vander (whom she has two sequences with in s1, the longer of which had no dialogue and was still less than a minute). She burned down The Last Drop—which she associated with Silco more than Vander now—to break the cycle of violence by killing the last connection to her past, she’s finally free, and then she fucking. Dies. Anyway.

God I want to enjoy what we did get but I just. I’m so tired of the end of my story always being that I have to die so other people can live.

[sorryiwasasleep]

Nadja and Laszlo constantly having matching colored streaks in their hair is so important to me

[chanelpirate]

I feel like as a fandom we’re sleeping on the fact that silco turned the last drop into a club where there are full-on raves. With bisexual lighting.

[millleti]

australian gp

las vegas gp

"one of the mics doesn't work so we'll flirt our way into sharing the other" trope

[superconductivebean]

#1593: kind of a rant on the am

A video appeared in my feed. A Needlessly Thorough Look At HL. Very interesting, I though. This rant isn't directed at the video itself nor the author. I'm sighing at the narrative lead of the game, so, yeah.

I'm also going to be straight: I don't take Mоira's explanation for The CanonTM because it creates a lot of conflicting stances; the second paragraph will be self-explanatory enough, as it's obviously a speech needed for the press. Still.

What the video mentions:

Ancient Magic of the books was ancient in the sense it was rare, often forgotten, complex, or unfathomably dangerous.

Understanding it as existing somewhere on the meta level, aka something only the selected few can interact with yet it explains so a lot, means Mоira Squiеr perhaps understands abstract concepts such as Ancient Magic of the Books on the same level many redditors understood the concept of the Backroоms.

The Backroоm is the Sartre's nothingness. It scares us, because we expect an open field or an open space, like a well-maintained office or a parkin lot, or at least, them being not decrepit that it's obvious they have been abandoned, to naturally have people. Their absence, the quietness, the stillness of the air, all frighten us and sharp our senses.

We fear the vacancy of presence. We dislike being stranded—*alone*.

The Backrooms don't require monsters, almond water, battery packs and other useless items, nor they are a quest. The only thing needed is to realise you fear the inability to describe what you are seeing—to face the most primordial of fears that created us gods and demons.

The *feeling* of unknown that wants to be soothed by a fairy tale.

Ancient Magic, if you look at it like this, looses all charm and purpose and creates another Redditor's Backrоom.

AM wasn't created as an entity of its own—after all, the Backrоoms have few more settings which do work with the original premise. It was thought about as of a kind of an over-explanation and an over-complication for the sake of the…

I will try to explain most eloquently.

Was his ability to control others drawing an Ancient Magic?

When faced with something seemingly inexplicable, she pulls the card conspiracy theories enjoyers like to pull—the All-Explanation Mysterious Force Or Entity.

Ancient peoples build pyramids, but how, must be aliens. Ancient peoples built terrace farms, but how, must be giants. Architecture looks kind of same-y in different cities and towns, but how can it possibly be, must be Fomenko's "Tartаria".

I hope we see the pattern: Grindеwald was amazing and powerful, but how so, if not more wizards we know were, besides Tom maybe, so it must have been the so-called Ancient Magic and not his outstanding ability that made him the formidable wizards and enough power to potentially overthrow the Stаtute of Sеcrecy?

But it has been his skill. Tоm Riddlе was also amazing and incredible at magic. Olivаnders are amazing and incredulous at magic. Hаrry Pоtter, the boy who could cast without incantations, who fought the Dark Lord alone, was able to connect the wands with the rarest spell Priori Incantatum, was seemingly born into becoming a powerful and strong, combat-smart wizards—because he *was*. And the list goes on. Neither of those people had an all-mighty meta-planaric ability.

They all had skill. Trained, grown, groomed, and put to shine.

Calling it Ancient Magic means to disregard the effort, the study, and the dedication; it's equating skill with talent—as if it's an innate ability to be able to pull through challenge after challenge.

And so you lost it the moment you have introduced a very gimmicky kind of magic only the selected few could wield, of whom nobody remembers. Brilliant.

So how to fix it?

Maybe creating a disambiguation. Ancient Magic of Lily Pоtter's is Ancient because it is exceptionally rare. But Ancient Magic of MC's is Ancient because it is the ability to sense certain aspects of magic better than most—and by that I mean, be magick itself in the same way The Eldеr Scrоlls' protagonists are the avatars of Lоrkhan or the same way the Outsidеr picks his chosen.

The magic does not need to be doubled.

It is magical enough to manifest however it pleases.

Magic is magic. Only its manifestations are ancient or modern.

[ourrace-sexraceandculture]

A people without culture is a people who is lost and doesn't know their purpose in life.

All Hail Africa! ✊🏽🙏🏽🖤

[ace-and-ranty]

Always amused to see them carnivore diet types insisting meat-meat-and-more is what our "ancestral diet" looked like.

My man. Do you think our ancestors didn't eat carrots?

WHO DO YOU THINK INVENTED CARROTS?!

[phansterdam]

i hate how predictable my brain is sometimes. like what do you mean i'll get stuck on something teeny tiny that isn't really that memorable to anyone else AGAIN rather than thinking about literally anything else

[teh-nos]

repeated note to self: AVOID FANFIC REDDIT D: D: D:

[ourrace-sexraceandculture]

Idc how many executive orders Donald Trump puts his signature on, Black History Month is here to stay!

We invented EVERYTHING, including White people!

Where's the lie?

[pinacoladamatata]

if they Tamlen solas' ass, that might just be IT for me

[fluffypotatey]

Jayce Talis: the Man of Progress, the Dreamer, Believer, the Catalyst, the first Domino pushed on the path of magical discovery, the Inventor, Piltover’s Pandora, the One At the Center of it All

Jayce Talis….the Fault of it all

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

lois thinks clark is SO lame when she first meets him its so endearing