#who are we preparing to fight?

[mwagneto]

For what it is, I'm Ukrainian, but I have relatives in Lithuania, and they are also worrying that war comes to them too, and from what I've read you are worrying about that too, so I'll tell you what I told them: no, Russia won't be at dirrect war with your country, cause a) Russia is in war with Ukraine since 2014, actually, officially they aren't declaring current war as war either (special operation bullshit, yeah) b) one of the reasons why they aren't declaring war is cause they're cowards and don't want to go in war with nato, thought their propaganda channels would say otherwise to scare of Europe from helping Ukraine and c) I feel like one of the only perks of your country, Hungary, having conservative president is that he's a total shill of Putin and would never be in direct confrontation with Russia, but being a part of NATO makes it impossible for Russia for being in control of your country allegiance either (see point b))

Hopefully that helps. And about water, in like circa 2016 (might be different year, it was a while) I lived for a whole year in Kiiv without running hot water, which wasn't great, but almost half of city was in similar situation so it helps on psychological level somewhat, like we all in this together... Get a big pot, the bigger the better, put it in a bathroom, better elevated so it won't get cold to quickly, boil smaller pots of water and drain them into Big Pot™ scoop hot/warm water from there to keep yourself clean if needed... Do you have communal, public bathhouses in Budapest? It will be fine. You'll get through this. If you're worried about Ukraine: donate, if you can, but most importantly urge your politicians and EU officials to send us more aid, more weapons... There's this soviet/ukrainian cartoon called Once upon a Dog (Жив був Пес), the dog in that cartoon is old and pathetic and needs theatrics to seem tough. Think of russian army as this dog. In soviet times other soviet republics would be like wolf in that film: acting submissive to get table scraps. There's no USSR anymore. They will loose. А ми переможемо. Слава Україні

If you interested you can watch Once upon a dog on YouTube with English subtitles, I do recommend it, it's funny. Hope you didn't interpret my previous "ask" about water and war as me scolding you: I do understand this tough psychologically for people even outside of Ukraine. But I do believe russian army won't go that far, not cause they don't want, but cause Ukrainian army won't let them, and they are weakest they ever been (Since Chechnya wars, that they barely "won" - by negotiating with Kadyrov faction - and it's inside their own country).

ohhh no no don't misunderstand me i don't think the war will come here and . based on the way things have been going, if we do join the war it'll be on Russia's side which! lmfao! i fucking hate it here!!!! im just sayin it's like. shit like this makes it feel so much more real like there's thousands of people dying or having their lives permanently altered and for fucking what. even if it didnt/doesn't really affect me directly (it does in many ways esp economically but there's no war in my city so yknow. could be way worse) it's still horrific to think about and that this shit still happens like big egomaniac men will still go to war over fucking.. scraps of land. so yknow. also the fact that from november 1st we're officially in a "state of war" which means there's now nothing stopping them from bringing mandatory drafting back for anyone bwn 18 and 25 so! that's fucking fun!

[crossdressingdeath]

On the topic of Nico's fantastic willingness to kill without hesitation or mercy if he deems it necessary, sometimes I think about how in the final battle against Nero when Apollo clears a path for Nico to get to the bastard Nico immediately tries to cleave Nero in half. Like, even when characters fight gods in these books they tend to aim for non-fatal wounds, if only because a "fatal" wound likely wouldn't kill a god anyway (see Percy going for Ares's leg rather than his chest or throat, although part of that might be related to height difference), but not Nico! Sometimes I think about that scene and I'm like "I cannot possibly be remembering that right", but Nico very much is aiming to cut Nero in half! And I don't doubt he could've done it given the chance, honestly. Frankly I'm a little surprised at least one of the emperors didn't die to Nico, I fully expected him to kill Caligula to avenge Jason the first time I read the series. But Nico going for a killing blow the second he's given the chance and only failing because Nero manages to yeet him into a wall before it lands is everything to me.

[moghedien]

im gonna say I'm fully in support of Lan not being the overwhelming source of Rand's mental illness in the show actually

[umblrspectrum]

flashback to -checks wrist- last night when I had to kill a moth that got in

[harringroveera]

People who sort Billy into Slytherin does not know the true meanings of Hogwarts Houses

[waywardsalt]

anyways. my very first attempt at malenia

[creed-of-cats]

The amount of doomerism I've heard from fellow usamericn zoomers/millennials around me is starting to drive me fucking insane.

"We're all gonna die, it's hopeless, it's not worth doing anything. This is our penance as human beings/[insert other guilty identity]"

You know who you guys fucking sound like? Fucking Evangelicals.

Yeah it's fucking scary and big, I'm not trying to say it isn't. But what the fuck is your plan??? Sitting down and dying?? Are you really telling me that this world is not worth you even fucking trying?? That you're just gonna party it out until your miscellaneous end game apocalypse arrives?

This isn't the rapture. The apocalypse is a false concept. People have been living through "apocalypses" every day of their fucking lives for all of human history, especially during the past 400 years. Get up and stop the suicidal idealization of your own tragic death. Our lives in the first world are built off suffering. To lay down and say we don't have any power is to reject the duty we have as beneficiaries of that suffering.

If you are so convinced you're going to die young then die trying instead of baring your fucking throat.

[purlpeiris]

I’m finally watching We Best Love after it being on my list forever. Only to get to the end of series one and What The Actual Hell?!!! How have I managed to miss every spoiler and not know how that one ended?

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by my beloved no.1 chappell roan stan @cordiallyfuturedwight thanks my darling <33 i can only apologise for the lack of ms roan here... i swear good luck babe has been on repeat i don't know what happened

tagging the usual suspects, apologies if i've already missed yours: @aprylynn @jiminsproof @thvinyl @cosmicdreamgrl @visionsofgideontheninth @hoseeok @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi <333 and you dear reader

oh and see here for more of my self-proclaimed songs of the summer if you're interested in that kind of thing

[sincerelyourswhistledown]

AU where before Aemond dies, he curses Lucerys to be immortal. Lucerys was long dead before the end of the war but his soul is viciously ripped from the afterlife and his family as he is forced to live an eternal life alone.

A resurrected Lucerys, his memories intact, roaming the earth for thousands of years with no clue on why he never seems to age. He’s tried to search for answers and kept hoping the rest of his family would come back too but they never do.

When he finally meets Aemond, he’s lonely and desperate. He’s delighted to reunite with the man.

Never mind that his uncle was his own killer.

Lucerys and Aemond eventually get into a relationship and Lucerys falls hopelessly in love with his uncle. Even more so when he finds out Aemond doesn’t age.

Immortality sucks and if given the chance, Lucerys would choose to die to reunite with the family that he’s missed so much but with Uncle Aemond, eternal life is easier to bear.

He never finds out it was his uncle who cursed him into this dreadful life and Aemond is all too happy to keep his nephew right by his side. For all eternity.

[gurenkurosen]

ohh i think im coming to a bit of a realization actually as to why mmos are so scary when im forced to party

[regallibellbright]

Sora: I want to experience this world’s weddings, too!

I was about to make a joke that she already did but you know, the dance party didn’t really have cake. And there was a lot of dancing and TECHNICALLY those aren’t their fancier dresses than usual, so it really was more of a hybrid I suppose.

I’m just saying Mashiro, you have an opportunity here!

[orchideae]

1) Opens up drafts with my head empty, ready to be flooded, not knowing where I'll go. 2) 30 seconds later: Okay but I will go feral any day of my life over Perilous Trail, and the fierce dichotomy of Xiao and Yelan. While they're far from being 'the same', they both view themselves as soldiers in one way or another (it's a very difficult word to use for Yelan, so I'm using it very liberally and very loosely), they have both suffered losses on the 'battlefield' and carry the burden thereof in their own ways. And yet they stand so firmly in opposition throughout the entirety of that questline up until the very end of the 'the end of the line' conclusion of the quest. Yes, I know that she offers him her gratitude in its aftermath and it is genuine, but she still never agrees with him and the decision that he made moments earlier. It simply 'worked out' because of Zhongli's interference, he's the only reason it worked out. And it's because of that, that she doesn't give him a hell of a hard time (obviously she can't go down there, but imagine the inner frustration of severe extents; when you condemn someone who you can't even see anymore). In the same way that she would do to anyone who would sacrifice themselves for others, but in this case, I think it's 'beautiful' that it's to Xiao; the one who seems most adamant to do so (which honestly, fits into the contract that the Yakshas chose to sign with Morax; 'the ultimate sacrifice' to protect for Liyue; 'for Liyue', and Liyue has always centered itself around its people), the one who everyone reveres (and so does she, as she notes in her voiceline, 'if I ever have the honor to fight alongside') and respects for good reason, she stands against him, because in that moment, regardless of his status, he makes a call that she considers wrong. And he doesn't even... fight her on it very fiercely, and that's what actually hurts me the most, it's as if the following line hit the nail directly on the head?

"Besides, if you were really so determined to end it all, you wouldn't have given us the opportunity to share our opinions."

[giantkillerjack]

My gender is whatever the Monkey King has going on; my gender is trickster spirit that would make an excellent anime protagonist

[anotherpapercut]

sometimes people will ask me about working in a library and I have to find a gentle way to tell them they literally would not last a day working in a public library

[scoups4lyfe]

Tarou LOL,,,, Momotani does boss battles 2 times and he complains at the lack of attention 🤪

ey yo

so we just STARTIN like this then huh 👀

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fellas

is it gay to think your entire life was just leading up to the final fight to the death with your archnemsis?

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