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~ chaosmakers ~ and avelin

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not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

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Teach me how to use my tumblog

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STOP THIRSTING FOR HIM IN MY REBLOGS!!!!!! he's like my daughter its grossing me outtttttttt

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There’s a good man within you Arthur, but he is wrestling with a giant

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who the fuck is naming these towns!! yea watch out Sportacus, your balloon might blow off course and send you to BitchTown

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I.... I don't know why I made this comic.

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I've been thinking for a long time about what would happen if the Ring started corrupting Legolas. He is a killing machine and the son of a king easily manipulated by a thirst for power. I think it would be fatal for the whole fellowship.

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I get why a lot of new (and old) fans are getting mad with Wallace for how he treats Gromit, but he’s just a bit absentminded. He definitely cares about Gromit, he built Norbot FOR Gromit he’s just not very aware that not everything he does has a positive impact.

The problem with their relationship is Gromit can’t speak, and Wallace can’t pick up on social cues they’re like a constant miscommunication trope.

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I love how it doesn't matter what expedition it is.

They all turn into excited kids when they meet penguins.

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Kinda gotta admire the tiktok instagram cottagecore tradwife hoes a little bit.

Like. THEY know that the perfect pretty obedient natural-makeup gently-coiffed rural June Cleaver, barefoot-and-pregnant in a sweet little peasant dress, baking fresh bread24-7 housewife doesn't exist.

They KNOW she doesn't exist. They know she CAN'T exist- that nobody can maintain that façade without burning out eventually-

but they also know that the political divide between men and women is deeper than ever in North America, that men as a demographic are getting increasingly angry and conservative and lonely (fuck off terfs and radfems i can sense your bioessentialism coming), and that women aren't legally beholden to them anymore.

This is one of the first generations in North America where women aren't entirely reliant on finding a husband and keeping him happy to survive, to hold a bank account or live apart from their parents, and so what men are dealing with is several hundred years of being told that REAL men have hot fuckable agreeable wives and...a present reality where nobody is lining up to apply for that position.

So what these shills have done- and they ARE shills- is that they've seen that divide, that niche that isn't being filled, that role that's so unpleasant but so desired- and they've constructed a caricature for profit.

Women aren't naturally more gentle, or parental, or submissive. Women aren't naturally, effortlessly smooth and soft and hairless and desiring of simple tasks to fill their time and a big, strong provider to protect them.

But generations of marketing and media have told us it's POSSIBLE, if not for those pesky man-hating feminist libs and their oversensitive woke culture lashing out at Normal Folks for no good reason.

Like- they're selling themselves, the characters they're playing, as an IMAGE, as a FANTASY, and they rely on people BELIEVING in that fantasy to keep the money rolling in.

The people who buy into it sincerely, the women who give up their degrees and careers and financial freedom for this "simple, peaceful life" we ALL desire in some form, away from stress and technology and horrible things on the news... only to get trapped with six children and a partner with all the power who could up and strand them at any moment... they're just collateral.

Like, "Shame it didn't work out for you, have you tried losing weight and trying harder? Maybe some extra Adult Time? He wouldn't have to chase someone younger and prettier if you'd just take care of yourself and put out more."

I on't hate this faux-humble faux-simple wannabe-amish bullshit just because I grew up rural and know it's fucking stupid, hard work and blood and shit and cow piss and placement in the rain kinda crap.

I ALSO hate it because these women are straight-up class traitors, selling off not just their own image as people, but everyone else's, just to make some paper on a grift.

You know Marie Antoinette used to wear sweet little milkmaid-style dresses and play with lambs in the field, just like the poors?

Never mind that she OWNED the land, and the field, and the people, the cute little frocks, and didn't help the sheep birth, or bury the dead premies, or slaughter for meat, or fight off wolves and dogs, ferrets and foxes and rats with a stick in the winter.

It was just fashionable to pretend.

Sweet and coquettish and Quaint.

THAT is why I hate that shit, and THAT is why I give a fuck.

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Bela Lugosi smoking on the set of Dracula 1931

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and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

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sometimes i think about how Robin Hobb started the Realm of the Elderlings series with the premise that damage lasts, which is very rare in fantasy--protagonist FitzChivalry Farseer gets hit hard enough to be knocked unconscious but this also makes him prone to seizures for the rest of the Farseer trilogy. A broken nose stays crooked. The scars from his injuries make it harder for him to move certain ways.

however our dear author beats up Fitz SO MUCH that eventually she has to retcon overkill healing magic into the second trilogy just to fix him back up again after all. nevermind the whole damage thing i guess because the poor man is a shambling bag of scar tissue by that point, but she needs him to carry another 5.5 books so up and at 'em Fitz my boy!!! no rest for the weary here we go again!!!!!!!

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tis the season

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Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, fling across the river at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore

photographs by Philip Chua

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*whispers* holy shit people are amazing.