#which is fine

[berl-balagula]

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I think a lot of Jewish rhetoric, especially online, can make you forget that Orthodox Judaism is an exclusive ideology. It makes claims about the moral, metaphysical, and spiritual nature of reality, and believes these claims to be objectively true.

[scribblescrabbledepartment]

fishes for the homos i mean homies

[ID: nine fish with collaged scales of different colored and patterned paper, each with glittery fins.]

[overthinkinglotr]

Part of why I continue to come back to the original three Lord of the Rings films, despite their many faults, is that they’re not trying to be part of a “cinematic universe?” They are great because they are complete, and self-contained. They have a beginning, middle, and end. They have a clarity of purpose: they know exactly what they want to say and they say it, all within the movies themselves. They have a clear focused narrative with a clear focused message. They build things up and pay them off, and only pay off things they’ve actually built up.

You don’t need to have consumed any of the extended media to understand what’s happening. You don’t need to watch the writers flounder around struggling to find a central theme to their story after it’s already 8 seasons and hundreds of millions of dollars into production, rather than figuring out what they wanted to say at the very beginning of the process. And you don’t need to wait for a spinoff to follow up on the ideas the LOTR movies bring up—- because the movies themselves follow up on their own ideas. Because they are a complete, clear, tight, focused, streamlined, thematically cohesive narrative written by people who knew what they wanted to write and what message they wanted to send, and then Did That.

I’ve got to admit: I’m very tired of “stories” that aren’t actually stories, but a collection of empty commercials for their own spin-offs. I’m tired of tv shows/movies that bring up ideas they never intended to explore, because the projects weren’t planned in advance and the writers were haphazardly making things up as they went along and abandoning significant thematic ideas the moment they got bored of them. I’m tired of endless empty hollow Lore without meaning.

I love it when fantasy stories are streamlined narratives that have beginnings, and endings, and a clarity of purpose! But I guess that’s just life sometimes.

[localceilingdevil]

first rainworld content in a while ???

had to do a small redesign of my favorite gal ever. hi myths!!!! and all her single celled galoreee

[collophora]

My biggest regret is that we never got a shoot where their helmets take damage, they just fly away conveniently v_v

[wejustvibing]

It was very tricky. It went a lot worse than I thought that it would go. The car was really, really hard to drive today. I mean, for me, I'm just grateful that I kept it out of the wall 'cause that's where it wanted to go most of the time. But, a lot to take from it. Also, just getting acclimatized with the new power unit, in the wet conditions, all the settings, it requires a different way of driving, a set up on the steering wheel. And then obviously, I hung out as long as I could, got in the lead at one point. Just the guidance in terms of how much more rain was coming was just missing there. So, I think we missed out. - Lewis

[papercranesandpride]

Begging my fellow aros to realize that "x kind of love is so much better and more special than romantic love" is not actually fixing any of the problems with amatonormativity. That's just replacing one hierarchy for another. And you're screwing over atertiary alloromantics by saying that their preferred kind of relationship is lesser. You know, that thing alloromantics do to you all the time and you hate.

And of course God forbid anyone just doesn't do that whole love thing at all. We can't have that. Even if you're aro, love and relationships must be the most important thing.

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

I really love how Queen have defended the Break Free video. It absolutely destroyed their career in the USA at the time. America was the motherland of musical success, it was their hopes and dreams that they worked their asses off for and they made one video that cost them future hits and lost them their audience and potentially millions of dollars and they VERY EASILY could have immediately backtracked and been like “haha yeah we didn’t really like it, probably wouldn’t do it again but you know how Freddie is”

Y’know trying to please both sides and crap so they could remain business as usual. Or just not taking it as seriously as they did. But Freddie didn’t want to tour there—in protest and probably also for safety reasons—and they were with him completely and have STOOD. BY. THAT. VIDEO

FOR FORTY. Y E A R S

and you see it in interviews from across all those decades, questions like “did you ENJOY dressing up as a woman??” “How much convincing did it take” “must’ve been Freddie’s idea of course”

and every single time both Brian and Roger have been like “absolutely no convincing whatsoever, we loved it, best time we’ve had making a video, it was awesome, we had a blast, this is our favorite one”

THAT is true allyship. Common sense nowadays, sure. But for a musical act of their status in that time and culture/expectation to completely give up their golden ticket in favor of what was (kinda) protest for a social issue (and of course, protecting Freddie I’m sure)…it’s just not what you would expect but it continually delights me

[lettheladylead]

i found a sticky note with a doodle on it so heres a doodle comic based on that doodle

[marinolastnamestan]

[egginthepit]

Personal headcanon that no one asked for: Mhin is a biter. I don’t mean that in a sexual way. I mean it in a they are the type to bite their romantic partner’s cheek or arm way. The need to get the cute aggression out. They will pretend they didn’t just do that.

[blackkatdraws]

Oh hey a Stannarrator art wowowowow no way I haven't drawn one on two years (just kidding I'm just lazy)

[desire-mona]

(me in the hospital after a traumatic medical emergency with no known cause) last night was a house md episode

[noxumboots]

Because I'm curious, and I don't think Al-An actually has set pronouns in game: what do YOU guys refer to Al-An as?

(This is not in regards to gender, btw; it's literally just what pronouns you use when thinking or writing about Al-An. If you're not sure, just pick the closest one and explain in the comments/tags!)

[cambriancutie]

important character info

[doodlesdreaming]

Quick 💀🧼 before I call it a day.