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Maybe the children in cages and the U.S.-funded genocide and the ongoing plague and the censorship campaign and propping Sen. Dianne Feinstein up like a reanimated corpse à la Spinrad's "World War Last" have made me more than usually cynical about the Democrats, but I can't help feeling that Kamala Harris inheriting Biden's place on the ticket is a clear indicator that they are expecting to lose (as their staffers have apparently been saying for weeks), and they've ordered her to take one for the team because they would never run her under any other circumstances.
As a Californian, I am as contemptuous as anyone of Harris and her awful record, but I suspect that's beside the point. I don't think the DNC regards her as a viable candidate — if they did, they would have put her forward much more prominently long before this — and I have a hard time picturing them running any Black woman in a presidential race they thought they could win.
#politics#she's like one of the throwaway shows tv networks#used to stick in time slots opposite highly rated competitors#like the cosby show#where they figured they weren't going to win the slot anyway#and didn't want to waste some program they cared about#it's not that her politics are any worse than the other dems#(or any better -- she's awful)#it's all about her being a black woman#so their supporters can blame black voters for trump#norman spinrad#world war last#antiblackness#misogynoir
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“You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister…you were right.”
#rewatching rotj made me emotional okay#i struggled an unreasonable amount while drawing this#vader and luke with their fifty shades of black clothing#like father like son what can i say#every time i think how luke not only accepted that vader was his father#but also believed that he could return to the light side#how he refused to fight vader untill the last moment#and how he was grieving anakin after his death while everyone else were celebrating#every time i die a little bit inside#luke deserves the world is all im saying#star wars#star wars fanart#luke skywalker#anakin skywalker#darth vader#artists on tumblr#digital art#illustration#украрт#art
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@beradan and I went to the Connecticut Renaissance Faire today as unnamed White Rat and Saint of Steel acolytes.
Emily's embroidery is from art by @magpiemalarkey, mine was designed by my partner based on art from various Kingfisher romance covers.
#Thank you Emily for helping me finish this late last night 😭#The embroidery took. So long. So worth it though!#T Kingfisher#world of the white rat#clocktaur war#Paladin romances#My cosplay
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During a press conference for the newest Justice League member, Phantom, a reporter asks him "Do you have anything to say to all the children who aspire to be like you?"
Phantom looked at the reporter puzzled before saying, "Children wanna be like me? Why? I'm a bad influence."
#dp x dc#dc x dp#dpxdc#dcxdp#hyper prompts#danny gets war flashbacks to his days as a feral traumatized teen in way over his head and shivers#completely forgetting that's he's spent the last few years working closely with the jla to make the world a better place#something that a lot of children dream of#nope instead he's shitting bricks because “am i inspiring child to off themselves to gain powers!?”#and of course all of his naysayers are about to use this clip for everything
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Meditation by Yoong Bae
#star trek#star wars#merlin#atlantis#noragami#altered carbon#over the garden wall#the power#our flag means death#raised by wolves#the last of us#killing eve#the bear#arcane#miracle workers#black mirror#love death + robots#marco polo#the midnight gospel#blue eye samurai#voltron#intergalactic#natsume yuujinchou#steven universe#my memes#alien worlds#gen v#avatar#interview with the vampire#my stuff
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No war au: first time meeting each other at a diplomatic event. zuko, crown prince of the fire nation kisses the hand of katara chief of the southern water tribe.
Beyond diplomacy.
#dema answers#zutara#atla#zuko#avatar the last airbender#katara#atla fanart#zutara au#atla art#National Dema AU Kisses Day#no war au#zuko fanart#fire lord zuko#zuko x katara#prince zuko#katara x zuko#katara art#katara fanart#katara of the southern water tribe#Not being very diplomatic are we#zutara fanart#zutara art#It's their first meeting and they already want to smooch#*sigh* the fate of the world rests on the hands of two smitten young adults#Whatever shall we do#Also Zuzu keeps his scar#Because no matter the AU Ozai still wins the prize of Worst Dad Ever#Maybe the Agni Kai didn't happen. Maybe Zuko caught Ozai murdering Fire Lord Azulon. Maybe Ozai panicked and sent his son to the hospital.#After giving a Villain Confession and admitting he was behind Crown Prince Lu Ten's untimely demise. All so that he would get the throne#Bad Prince Ozai. Bad.
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I really just see the Jedi group wanting anything but being the leader of their new coming together. None of them would feel well equipped. Luke for sure is like the most powerful but he’s also got baby brother energy and has the least training and needs a nap. Ezra at 16 would’ve loved it but now has matured and also needs a nap. Cal has a lot of history…a lot of history but he’s good thanks and would like a nap. Ahsoka is just DONE….and needs a nap.
Basically I see there being a game of “Tag You’re the Leader!!” And running away from each other. You just hear Ezra cackling in freedom as he runs away from Luke who very much does not want to be it.
omg this is so accurate LOL they probably draw straws when someone asks to talk to their leader. but abt that nap they all need:
(commission info // kofi support!)
#watch this i can be so normal abt luke falling asleep on ahsoka even tho this is a world where she never got to be aunt soka: [isnt normal]#luke skywalker#ahsoka tano#cal kestis#ezra bridger#star wars#my doods#thanks for the ask!#the last (4) jedi
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just thinking about how luke was only ever really taught to wield the force as a weapon, but never how to put up barriers in his mind, just wondering, really, what happens to you when you touch the fabric of the universe but don't know how to wash it off your hands again, if sometimes being one with every living thing feels like you are disintegrating, fraying at the seams
#luke skywalker#star wars#this is brought to you by last weeks ahsoka episode#and the relentless cosmic horror luke brainrot it has caused me#i just keep thinking about luke sleepwalking into the world between worlds#like sometimes he just wakes up there like others wake up in their kitchen at 3 am#i am never not thinking about this tbh#this is my roman empire#like just#yoda told him do or do not and luke took that literally#he went and stared straight into the abyss
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gas masking
#my art#world war one#ww1 art#gas mask#if you listen closely you can hear my last two agonizing brain cells grinding together
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OP: Check out. The fully-sexual charged cinematic movement design.
Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?
#china#cdramas#dramas#lmao#They are siblings and they're discussing serious matters#this scene is actually rather heavy because the younger brother is involved in drug trafficking#carrying more than 50 grams of heroin will result in a death sentence in china let alone being involved in drug trafficking#the older brother is a gangster king#but even he doesn't dare to get involved in the drug business because it will bring about the demise of his family#sorry for digression I mean how did the director make this scene which has absolutely nothing to do with sex#so sexually charged?#btw there're many posts with rich information about China's crackdown on drug crimes on xhs and douyin#especially about how the four major drug-trafficking families in Myanmar were wiped out overnight#they buried undercover Chinese counter-narcotics police alive and kidnapped and brutally excuted civilians#so if you're interested you can go with the key words 缅甸四大家族覆灭 on xhs and douyin#cnetizens' views on drugs are related to modern Chinese history#the first chapter of modern history in high school textbooks is the opium wars#There's a very dark joke on xhs about which country in the world would least like China to withdraw from the P5#and the answer is the UK#because it's in the first chapter of China's modern history#the Destruction of opium at Humen in 1839#no offence but Breaking Bad can't last for more than one episode if it happens in china because of the sewer detection technology#they can detect the tiniest amount of drugs in feces in a body of water the size of a lake for up to six months#which can be quickly locked down to neighbourhoods and portals#Once a foreigner was caught smuggling and selling 222.035 kg drugs in China and sentenced to death with two other Chinese associates#his country's prime minister asked for his extradition#cnetizens commented that there was an opium war and he still dare to come to China to sell drugs be like 找死court death#All the above information is to explain the gangster king's attitude towards his brother's drug business
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LETS FUCKING GOOOOO canon vampire minhkhoa khan. once again i experience what it is to win
#minhkhoa khan#ghostmaker#dc vs vampires#dc vs vampires world war V#ghost-maker#khoa khan#CANON VAMPIRE KHOA LETS GO LETS GO#literally found out yesterday bc i've been avoiding spoilers on dc vs vamps oh my god the high will last me forever#scribbled this so quick in response#z draws#I WON#wednesday spoilers#kinda#dc fanart#dc comics fanart#dc comics#the ghostmaker#maybe a WIP bc id love to come back n make this less messy
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Another politically relevant passage from "World War Last":
"The Central Committee, as you can well imagine, is frequently deadlocked,” [Ivan] told them. "In the old days, when you had a live Party Chairman and no one could muster a majority against him, that was that. Now they ask the Bulgorny to break deadlocks." "The Bulgorny!" exclaimed Grishka. "But Pyotr Ivanovich has been dead for four years!" "Eight." "Six." "Whatever. The Chairman is just an embalmed corpse wired for motion and sound; how can such a thing decide anything?" "Each member of the Central Committee has a weighted vote calculated by the computer according to his current rating in the power struggle as determined by secret polling of his rivals. These are tabulated statistically via an Australian ballot system until a mathematical consensus emerges. This is interfaced with the memory banks via an index program which selects and edits old Bulgorny speeches so that the Chairman can announce his decisions in his own familiar deadly prose." "Bulgorny can write his own speeches?" Grishka said. "Better than he did when he was alive," said Boris. "The computer that controls him remembers every boring word he ever uttered, and if he were alive to suffer that, it would surely kill him!"
– Norman Spinrad, "World War Last," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine No. 94 (Vol. 9, No. 8), August 1985: 116–180, reprinted in Other Americas (Bantam Spectra, 1988)
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help fight book censorship
#i’m sorry (not sorry)- i swear this is the last one#i’m in near tears at work & i had to#grace linn#book banning#banned books#book censorship#libraries#public libraries#school libraries#censorship#florida#martin county#us politics#world war two#auschwitz
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a quick guide to avatar
#avatar#avatar: the last airbender#avatar: the legend of korra#atla#atlok#tlok#the rise of kyoshi#the shadow of kyoshi#the dawn of yangchen#the legacy of yangchen#my edits#my posts#katara and suki did all that so every other woman in the atla world could be a war criminal or a gaslighting gatekeeping girlboss
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inverness here they come!!!!
#ignoring canon. does everyone know that esther forces her way back into his life even in a world where they don't have to meet#and then they just ditch london and live an oddly quiet life until the end of the war in scotland. they told me that.#more than anything in the world i am always thinking of the incredible force that these two are and how determined they are to survive#please see: esther genuinely trying to shoot him (makes me laugh everytime i see it) and the way karl blends himself into every scenario#not above lying not above running away just trying to get by. 'i treat others the way they treat me'. distrustful by default#and finally the only reason these two stop kicking and clawing is the budding family they accidentally form#AND THEN THE LAST 20 MINUTES OF EP4 HAPPENS.#ep8 gives me a semblance of peace. theyre in inverness to ME.#i do also rly adore their twin rbf. at any given moment they look as though theyre chatting shit (they are)#AND the gun thing is so funny. the gun fails and instead of giving up esther just tries to shoot him again LLOOOLLLL#no thoughts towards the consequences and with no experience with guns as well. she's literally goated#jacob fortune lloyd's interview on this and his thoughts on their relationship also makes me a tiny bit sick so .#anyways. WATCH BODIES#karl weissman#esther jankovsky#bodies netflix#my art#bodies 2023
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[ These Scars - The proof of your Love ]
#obikaka#kakaobi#obkk#obito#kakashi#hatake kakashi#uchiha obito#obito uchiha#kakashi hatake#hokage#hokage kakashi#obito survives#naruto#naruto shippuden#naruto art#my art#fan art#post war obito#btw the caption goes both ways#the scars on both of their faces. are due to the love they had for the other#hence the sacrifice to save the other#for Post-war Obito#in a world that perhaps most people absolutely hate him (rightfully so) i feel like Kakashi especially the scar on his face are the#last forms of love left for him#and as guilty as he feels for indulging in it . it is also a major source of comfort for him#it's all he has left
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