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if trump does win in the fall, it will not be the fault of people who are against genocide. it will be the fault of biden, his government, and the DNC for holding onto wildly unpopular and horrific policies that are costing them vast swathes of their voterbase.

once again i am asking tumblr to hold public polls for users to vote on potential changes. imagine if you were the 'respect our users opinion website'. like that could be us but apparently not.

ROUND EIGHT CATEGORY: Best Looking

Two will win and go into the yearbook. Who's it going to be?

Round Nine Category: Best Shoulder to Cry On

NOMINATE NOW

Usually I just save stuff like this to my drafts until I calm down but you know what, fuck it, I'm done.

Any so-called leftist who refuses to recognize that our options right now are "genocide abroad, progress at home" and "genocide abroad AND genocide at home" and that there is a significant difference between those two options is cordially invited to eat shit and die. We do not have time to entertain your anti-voting hopeless nonsense. A future in which we are able to move towards less death will always be preferable to the one in which we can't, and if you smug, sneering little clowns sacrifice that future on the altar of your own self-righteousness because you're too high on your own farts to realize how far up your own ass you are, I genuinely hope you fucking drown. Specifically, I hope you drown in the blood of the people who will die all over the world as a result of your bizarre refusal to work towards a future that doesn't include ethnic cleansing.

This is the United States. We sell war, here. I don't know how so many of you are only just now figuring that out, but you better get over your shock like yesterday because we are out of fucking time. We ran out of time when Reagan took office if not long before. You think not voting will improve any of this?

Keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming. Governments everywhere are (slowly) beginning to listen. Democrats are (slowly) beginning to listen. But Republicans never will, and if they seize power again next year (which they will absolutely do their damned to attempt), everything will be so, so much worse for everyone, everywhere. The work is slow and painful and imperfect but it will only get done if we show up and do the work, so keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming-- and when the time comes, you show up and vote for the future that lets us build a better tomorrow instead of just choking to death in the steaming shitpile of today.

thinking about the elections tonight... bad, cellbit, baghera, and forever are four candidates who are devoted to the island- more specifically, to the residents of the island. They care for the eggs, and they care for each other, and the way they exhibit that care through their primary presidential strategies is fucking fascinating.

Bad is who I watch the most, so I know him best. He's a classic mother hen. He doesn't like to take risks with the eggs, and he likes to prepare. If there's any sort of variable that could hurt an egg then he wants to control it. They have a stable relationship with the federation right now- it's not great, but they know the parameters. Don't trust cucurucho. don't follow cucurucho. send the eggs to NINHO every time there's a threat. the time of day changing means you need to run. Other than that they're p okay and roughly safe. But adding a president could potentially change everything. What if the president makes a rule that makes it easier to kill the eggs? And what about the way a president could cause tensions between the players to rise even higher? The dynamics of the island could change drastically. It's safer to neutralize that threat before it ever becomes a threat. It's easier to stop a war before it can start.

Baghera's primary concern is the way the election is designed to pit the residents against each other. All of them know that the Federation is a threat and she, like Bad, is focused on not letting them hurt more people. But, unlike Bad, she's less resistant to change. If the power is spread to multiple players rather than just one, it will be harder for the Federation to corrupt any one of them. Each time before the Federation has gotten to someone it's done so by isolating them. Felps, Cellbit, Jaiden- they've all spent a lot of alone time with Cucurucho. A council isn't just to consolidate the ideals of the island; a council would protect the players themselves. Sure, there might be disagreements and arguments, but they've had those before (and they're having them now!) and there's no reason to think they wouldn't be able to get through them again.

I hit a bit of a wall with Forever and Cellbit's pov here. Everything I know about their plans are from the debates and paraphrased discussions that have been translated here on tumblr, I'm going to talk less about their explicit plan and more about what the result will entail- a single president who takes responsibility for the island. It seems to me like they've recognized the presidential seat as the powerful opportunity that it is, and they want to take advantage of it. Here's some extra personal speculation but, adding rules, adding or removing mods, proposing public works, enforcing laws- those are just the abilities that are listed. Those are incredible opportunities to make the Federation take action, which is more than they've had before. We've seen before that the Federation isn't perfect; the Federation makes mistakes.

By working with the Federation, by making them take action (in a semi-controlled, semi-predictable way) you open them up to more opportunities for them to fuck up (while benefiting you). And, maybe, one of those fuck ups will be the key to taking them down. Maybe they could reopen ender chests. Maybe they could open the nether. Maybe they could learn why the Federation is holding an election in the first place. It's possible to do all these things with Baghera's plan, sure, but that's not a guarantee and, if someone like Bad is on the council, there's absolutely no way to be sure it would get done. And, if there's a council, then that opens up everyone on the council to the Federation's wiles. If there's just one president, then that's where the Federation's focus will be. By using a single person to build a relationship with the Federation, they only risk that single person. By electing ministers instead of a council, they can ensure that the island residents' needs are being heard while placing the federation's focus on that one person. A point can be made that they've done that before- with varying results. like kidnapping. selling your soul. etc. But! overall, I think they've gained more than they've lost by singling out one person. Because of them, we know that Cucurucho can't be trusted. We know that the Federation has a series of tunnels underneath the island. We know that the Federation not only has some sort of cryo technology, but had some unknown reason to use it. We know that there was another person working with Cellbit to take care of Felps (theorized to be ElQuackity), so we know there's at least one more Fed that isn't Cucurucho + blank-faced workers. There's been risk, but there's absolutely been rewards. This is just a very long meandering way to say that their plan to sacrifice Forever to the presidential seat reminds me very much of Cellbit's plan to sacrifice himself to the federation. They're saving their friends by potentially damning themselves and I, for one, think that is cool as hell.

they all care about each other so much. bad's plan means taking on no more risk. baghera's plan means spreading that risk evenly to stand strong together. and cellbit and forever's plan means taking the risk onto themselves so they can reap the rewards for others. am i reading too much into things? no this is tumblr and this smp is about LOVE and i really genuinely think that their election plans are a fantastic example of just how much they love each other

tagged by @cyber-phobia

Rules: Make a 24 hour poll with the names of your WIPs, let it run, then write one sentence work for 10 minutes for every vote the winner receives.

No high pressure tags @moonpaw

SAG-AFTRA is officially set to join the WGA in going on strike. No filming, premiere attendence or other promotion of any kind allowed.

I hope to see nothing but support for this decision.

Hottest JoJo Character Bracket - Match 2-14

Might as well try this: MAKE OPTION 1 WIN IN [PART 8] OF THE POLL

personally i think the best way to look at this election in terms of "who am i (as a viewer) going to vote for" is that first and foremost, for us, this is a STORY. we are watching a story (and also a fun game and funny people doing funnies together, but for election purposes we'll say that)

therefore our goal should not be "which candidate has the best policies" or "which candidate is best for the island". we don't CARE. that's not our business.

we don't care what's good for the islanders. THAT'S NOT OUR BUSINESS. we're not islanders nor are we players. we are the guy in the bar watching the Truman show. our business is "what story do we want to see?"

each candidate offers something different.

(note: i don't claim to understand their platforms, for personal reasons i haven't followed it closely bc i kinda suspected there was gonna be drama and didn't feel like stressing myself over minecraft politics; my local elections freak me out enough lol)

for a rough example:

elquackity: obvious federation plant, clear enemy for the rest of the server. man-vs-government arc.

forever: did you like cellbit's infiltration arc? i could predict something like that following in forever's footsteps (forever sneaks around the federation, learns a few secrets, continues to make his changes to the server but does perhaps experience horrors, most likely a slower burn than cellbit's arc but certainly a lot of espionage and theorycrafting)

gegg: gegg chamg e world

those of y'all with a sounder grasp on candidates, sound off in the notes on what we can expect FROM A STORY PERSPECTIVE; i actively ignore the debates (they make me want to cry lmfao). i don't care what their platform is exactly, where will it take the story?

and i'll repossess your liver if i see any goddamn cc hate or harassment in there. this is more than not a safe space for that, this is an active danger zone. watch yourselves. <3

Made a ladies-only edition following the previous Resurrect A Dead MDZS Character poll.

Might make a guys-only version too...

Reblog for bigger sample size & to show these ladies some love!

do you have a snowball gijinka?

I DOO 😆😆 it looks a bit weird in my opinion

here's this because why not

Return to Dream Land (on account of just being remade) and games that originally released on the Switch have not been included.

My own opinion is in the tags, for those interested!

In a Rhaenys as Queen au what does Otto do if assuming Aemma still dies and Alicent still marries Viserys but he's been pushed down the line of succession and Rhaenyra is set to the future queen consort and Laenor is the prince of dragon Stone?

Okay so...the thing is there's several ways Rhaenys could come into her throne, and the most important note about this is that Rhaenys pushes Laenor's claim and not her own, likely because she realizes that the men will not be okay with her pushing her own. It would be one thing if Jaehaerys had supported Rhaenys' claim since Aemon died but if Viserys still married Aemma and Alicent, that says to me that Rhaenys came into her throne because she won the GC 101 by an incredibly slim margin, and against Jaehaerys' wishes. But it's not Rhaenys that is the claimant - it's Laenor. So if Rhaenys won the GC 101, what I think is more likely is that she is named Queen Regent, and Laenor is named King. I'm not sure what this means for Corlys' title (I'm assuming Prince-Consort but it might be more difficult than that, idk) but I do think this means Corlys is Hand, which means Otto is either something else (Master of Coin maybe) or, again more likely in my opinion, to ensure that her reign is not contested or usurped in any way, she just fires the whole Small Council (because it's Jaehaerys') and puts in her own people.

If she sends him home or demotes him, that makes sense to me that he would then attempt to get in with Viserys instead, and that's how the Viserys-Alicent marriage happens. Because of how close the GC 101 was, Rhaenys' claim is not as tight as she would want it to be. Marrying Laenor and Rhaenyra joins the competing bloodlines and helps her a bit but of course, having too many heirs is a problem and so I think what Otto does is suggest a marriage match between Laena and Aegon, or perhaps some match between Daeron/Aemond/Helaena and one of Laenor and Rhaenyra's kids. Because the thing here is - no one is changing anything here. They are literally just following Andal custom of a daughter before an uncle, and there's nothing in the rules that say that a girl cousin can't remarry back into the family - as a matter of fact, that's common even outside the Targaryens. Rhaenyra isn't doing anything wrong, and since the GC 101 decided to acclaim Laenor, Rhaenys isn't doing anything wrong either. If Otto genuinely tries to push Aegon as the true heir to the Iron Throne, his little rebellion is just going to end with Rhaenys taking Meleys to Oldtown and having a little talk with this upjumped second son and her favorite cousin, and not only would she be right to do so, she'd likely have the backing of a lot of the lords for taking a hardline approach to what is undeniably treason. Otto is just not that stupid, and I do not have a high opinion of that man's intelligence hah.

But an Aegon-Laena match is, imo, not Otto acting particularly "upjumped" (at least, I don't think it would come across that way completely) and considering that it's likely most of the votes against Laenor and Rhaenys were from the Reach (because of it's ties to the Citadel and the Faith and the Hightowers), if Otto pitches this as "this is how you ensure the Reach stays loyal, by having a child that is part Hightower marry back into the main line" that may be a convincing argument. It also may convince Rhaenys that she can't trust Otto, and she pulls the entire Targtower family out of Oldtown and makes them accept her as a pseudo-mother (foster mother?) to keep Otto's influence at bay even as she's agreeing to a match, or just straight up freeze that entire line (minus Rhaenyra) out of KL, the way she was effectively frozen out by Jaehaerys after Aemon died.

The main issue Otto runs into here is that Rhaenys is not the fucking one. If she thinks he's conniving against her, she's just going to get rid of him, not beg for him to come back when things get a lil difficult the way Viserys does (no shade) (well, a little shade). He has to be very careful how he approaches her because she is not going to fuck around, and if he fucks around, he's going to find out.

i just hope that these world leaders end up in a worse place than hell when they pass away or that their days are nothing but awful for the rest of their lives