Possibly The most surprising thing I have discovered on the internet is the number of people who will unironically refer to others as "degenerates" without expecting anyone reading this to immediately assume that they are a straight-up fascist

My headcanon for Modern!Machete before he encounters (re-encounters?) Vasco is that he works in some high-powered but low-profile position for an influential and well-known multinational. Like a corporate lawyer or accountant for Apple or Volkswagon or Shell. He's very, very good at his job, his assistants and staff think he's a good boss, his boss thinks he's great, but half his colleagues can't stand him because they think he got promoted for sucking up to their boss instead of for his skills (it was for his skills). He's got exactly enough interpersonal skills to recognize the problem and not enough to fix it. He gets paid extremely well, well enough to mostly pretend that he's happy and fulfilled (he still ends up happier in the Modern!AU because his job only sucks a little instead of literally destroying him. Also because modern medicine means his medical situation is much better understood and controlled). Yes this is all just the modern equivalent to what canon!Machete's got going on but it's startling how much carries over with no changes.

Oh that's so well thought out actually, I love that.

Battling art block back with a large stick - come join the battle by suggesting some character(s) for me to draw!

mhh…. thinking abt that post with the “being mutuals isnt that important” cause fr I hope no one thinks I’m not liking them if I interact with u but don’t follow u back

oh yeah and it goes without saying the colleikillua isms exists. somehwere.

If you’re afraid of reading anything written by anyone with conflicting views to you because you think consuming media of “the enemy” will lead to thoughtcrime, you should perhaps do some deep thinking on the religious trauma you still need to deconstruct, and examine why you have replaced religious dogmatism with an ideological dogmatism your belief in is somehow so fragile that simply reading the wrong thing could shatter it.

It is important to read things, even doctrine heavy manifestos, by those ideologically opposed to you. It is important to understand their viewpoint and the people that wrote them.

Understanding is NOT agreeing with. Reading is NOT agreeing with. If you do not understand, do you even know what you are opposing? If you do not understand what you oppose, do you even know what YOU believe?

The less you understand those you are against, the less you understand about their beliefs, the shakier your own arguments, the more susceptible you are to propaganda, and moreover, the more likely you are to Other them. Normal human beings are capable of absolutely terrible things. YOU are no less capable of absolutely terrible things because you think the Right Thoughts ™️

Your enemy is still human.

Your enemy is still human.

Your enemy is still human.

Do not cling to political ideology as though it is a new religious doctrine with its own forms of “Sin”.

Important and Good are not synonyms. Many important things are terrible.

They are still important.

me cutely and politely calling a doctor's office in the morning for work related reasons

they r Firm (MEAN!!) to me

Listen if you're gonna send me an ask about why I shouldn't interact with a person, can you at least do it off anon so I can request actual proof privately? I'm not replying to these since the only way to respond to them is publicly and I don't want to contribute to an unsubstantiated rumor about someone. That's not fair.

SETT HAS BAD GIRLS BY MIA ON HIS PLAYLIST. KING SHIT

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it is absolutely doing something to me to see people relating to/loving The Character in spite of the many flaws of how his story is conveyed.

Knowing what this character was meant to be originally (even knowing he kind of returned there a little bit, at least more than what I'd be comfortable with), it does warm my heart to see people connecting to his story regardless. Like yes, the spiral of quite-literal madness and the relentless fights were worth it for this reason, at least.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Verbena | Anthea, Dark Trinity | Shadow Triad, N | Natural Harmonia Gropius, Helena | Concordia Additional Tags: the dog does not die btw the dog is fine, actually none of the humans listed in the tags die either, it's more of a 'haunting the narrative' situation Summary:

Fifteen years after the first time Team Plasma disbanded, Anthea Harmonia runs into someone she never thought she would see again.

I have acquired. Tape recorder

that feeling when you want to write a long post ranting discussing something you feel especially strongly about but you're just. too Tired to actually sit down and do it

I really try not to be petty but the pettiness fills me. Trying not to name an obvious racefaker/national origin faker on here is hard

augh this is so cool in hindsight like now that i Understand the significance of it all

I finally got up the nerve to ask my spanish professor if I could use the nonbinary pronoun elle in class and I was worried the answer would be no since it's not an official pronoun, but he said yes! I got to use the correct gendered words for myself on my test today, and I didn't know just how much gender euphoria writing out the phrase "cuando era niñe" and ending my adjectives with -e was gonna give me but I'm gonna be happy for the whole rest of the day now. I'm also glad bc like... now if any other nonbinary students want to use a pronoun that matches their gender in their spanish class it should be easier for them. I've already done the hard part of coming out to my professor at a community college in the bible belt, explaining the movement for a gender neutral spanish pronoun to him, and providing him with resources from a spanish LGBT organization. And I let my pride club know what he said so now if any other students ask the organizer about using nonbinary pronouns in their spanish class she'll be able to tell them that the prof is okay with it 💛