okay it’s been too long, i need to write a dilf!Ari fic like NOW.

from here

dare i say shadow!roach with ur gravesroach thoughts?

omg I was literally just thinking of this hdjshfjiwid you have no idea how excited I was to see you say this, Santi!! This could be SUCH an interesting sub plot

I'm just thinking of the aftermath of Roach's almost death where he's picked up by Shadows and specifically being looked after by Graves

I understand Graves is a cocky backstabber, but his relationship with his Shadows genuinely does seem pretty wholesome, I can imagine if he got a new recruit he'd be a very attentive mentor ( I rewatched the scene in MWII where Graves keeps calling out to his downed Shadows and urging Shepherd to send backup for them, like he def cares for his men)

I was also thinking of having Graves be the one to teach Roach ASL because oof think of that extra internal conflict when Roach has to choose between helping the 141 and staying loyal to SC and specifically the man who helped him adapt to military life post-injury ughhhh

Literally, any Roach-centric pairing has me in a chokehold. Angst for days, I love it.

I feel like this could go either two ways:

Graves genuinely does care for Roach's wellbeing (as seen in canon with his actual shadows) and develops a close bond while helping Roach recover from his injuries (could lead to some interesting dynamics between Graves, the 141, and Shepherd)

or, Graves is fully on board with Shepherd's plan to use Roach as leverage against the 141 and only pretends to form a bond with him (just more trauma for Roach lol poor guy)

either way, they'd lead to some good conflict

and if you factor in the whole GhostRoach focus of this AU, I think adding a GravesRoach sub plot would be extra juicy (think of Ghost's reaction when he finds out Roach is alive and all personal with the commander of SC)

fulcrum….sabine finally wearing her armor…!!! ahsoka flexing and using only one lightsaber against the inquisitor because she only needs one to absolutely destroy them…very snips of her…. “funny, he never mentioned you”!!! carson teva my boy…the way sabine caved because she loves Ezra and couldn’t bring herself to risk losing the opportunity to get him back…fucking ANAKIN AND AHSOKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT FUCKING HAPPENED FUCK I’M NOT OKAY. HER FACE WHEN SHE HEARD HIS VOICE NOBODy TALK TO ME

So what on earth is happening with the Czech election right now? Who is this general? Do people actually want Babiš? How does this vote work?

it's complicated! essentially, what is happening in czech rep right now is the third ever direct presidential election. meaning, every citizen over the age of 18 gets a vote. the last two elections ended with miloš zeman as the winner. miloš zeman is a bitter old man who is a rude drunk but people felt represented by him, and so elected him twice.

the second time around there was a big wave of dislike for zeman but the voters did not manage to pool in to one other candidate but instead spread to at least three fractions, making it impossible to beat zeman. this is not the case this year, with this election.

the first round of the election ended with two favourites. generál petr pavel and andrej babiš. they both had around 30something% of votes and ended within less than a percent to each other.

andrej babiš, the poplusist oligarch, is the head of the biggest political party in the country, ANO. andrej babiš is also a businessman who first went into politics in cca 2011 and his main positive was that "as a rich businessman he would not need to steal from the people as a politician." and "as a successful businessman he can run the country like he runs his company". they essentially built their popularity on populist policies that range the whole political spectrum without much of a system or reliability. they would form alliance with anyone who allowed them to be in the position of power.

the prominence of ANO has indirectly caused a crisis in democracy. the two sides of the political spectrum are out of balance. ANO's populist policies have replaced the political left almost entirely. if you'd watched the last government election last year, you'd see that the fight was no longer between the left and the right but between populism and democracy. the democratic right has won at the cost of forming a giant coalition made out of five different parties. they really needed that many in order to beat the ever so popular ANO, and babiš himself.

and this appears to be happening again. the choice of the second round of the presidential election is between babiš and generál pavel. babiš being a populist who will say just about anything to win (including pointing at the general's millitary past and claiming that he will drag our country into the war, take your kids away and whatever else). generál pavel being a guy with diplomatic experience in NATO, who mostly bases his campaign on his unshakeable calm and order. which, to be fair, following the many years with miloš zeman does seem like a very alluring concept.

both babiš and pavel also have a communist past, much like most people their age in this country. while pavel was a regular party member (and gained part of his millitary training under the old regime), andrej babiš has been proven to cooperate with the secret police at the time, being their secret agent of sorts. the cynics would tell you that there its not a real choice, that its between a communist and an agent, that they both suck. but.

it's not just the choice between two people. it's once again between a real diplomat and a liar. they are many poignant arguments concerning these two, but let me just focus on this one, as it is the most important one to me. babiš as a person does not stand for anything. he will say anything to get what he wants. he contradicts himself on the regular and does not cope well with being called out. he makes himself out to be an underdog but he was the prime minister until last year, and as a prime minister proved himself to be both completely spineless and worthless. and yet, his loyal fans seem to forget. they seem to have a weird sort of parasocial relationship with the kind grandpa in a turtleneck that he presents himself as on the social networks. they don't care what he did or didn't do. they like him as a person. they don't care what he would do to the image or political orientation of our country. they don't care. they care that he baked a delicious vánočka the other day, just like they do, every christmas!!!!

generál pavel has his own minuses, one of the ones that get thrown around a lot-- having millitary past, it's not all clear what he's done while in the millitary. having had diplomatic affiliations before, they say we can't know for sure where all his allegiances lay. and he was a communist after all. but. the thing is. he's the only other option we've got. and he's not all bad. he speaks well, he's consistent in his opinions, and he's willing to listen to marginalised groups for reasons other than to make himself look good.

and he's decent. and unaffiliated with a particular political party. insistent on democratic values. it's a low bar, i know. but it's the best hope we've got...

“Soldier,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #3.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

SYD YOU DO NOT GO OUTSIDE TO TWO FIGHTING GANGS WITHOUT BACKUP THE BEEF IS ALREADY SHORT HANDED

oh thank heaven backup thank you tina and gary

i think tina could take on everyone here. she's got scary mom energy, i love it

"now we're all in various states of knowing each other" she really is improv-ing this isn't she. i love you dearly syd please have a plan

gun in the front richie??? if you blow your balls off carmy is never gonna let you live it down and you'll deserve it

the power of sandwiches to solve conflict! XD it's pretty much the only thing they had as leverage, but 1) the Beef really doesn't have the money for free sandwiches for gangsters every week for the rest of forever and 2) oh boy is this gonna send richie off the deep end. he already feels irrelevant b/c of his [redacted] ex-wife and carmy taking over the Beef, and the episode and the one before it has reminded us he's not doing well

"where you gonna go, Richie?" he's still grieving Mikey, and he doesn't have him anymore. lost his best friend, his wife, thinks he's losing his kid, losing the restaurant, losing the institutions he's so familiar with? things are not going well for richie and it's gonna come to a head

carmy offering an apology to syd here is technically unneeded, but very sweet, and he asks if she's okay just like sugar wanted him to ask her! they're very not subtle with that -- he learns a lesson, he applies it to his relationship with sydney, rinse, repeat. who carmy's deepest relationship with at this point is probably a mix of richie and sugar, but the relationship he puts the most effort into by far is his relationship with sydney. inchresting.

aaaaaand richie called the cops. really, really hoping there aren't consequences for that and it's just illustrating how disconnected he is, because The Beef cannot handle more repair bills, truly

"I mean dad is pretty and he does tend to you know...so I suppose by that technical definition of DILF........Nope, it's still to weird to think about."

"It's hard just accepting Mhoirbheinn fucking dad, nevermind anyone that's thirsty."

"Have you seen that man's thirst? You think anyone could beat that?"

"Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to, ghrèin."

most normal 15 year old friend group

What do you actually deserve

feel free to do this and tag me :)

Death by the hands of someone you love

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged” — I may be mad but I can still be poetic. You are a poetic person but there is no justice about you. You exist only for the sake of spite and have no self awareness about what that spite does to those you care about. People wish they weren’t around you and yet there is still a sense of love there too. You will get forgiveness, but only after you are out of their lives.

and an extra one under the cut >:)

are you a twink, girl, lesbian, man or boy? (LMFAO)

you’re a twink

you reeek of gayness my guy

so so funny I went to read the handbook on narcissism and npd in an effort to learn more about the disorder & it’s complexities from specialists and what I learned instead is that NOBODY CAN AGREE on what it means AT ALL or anything else about it!!!!!

not to actually dip my toes into avatar discourse tm tm but it does actually bother me when people argue that azula couldn’t have abused zuko because she’s younger than him, like……sure, age is a common factor in how much power someone has over someone so it’s probably more likely for older siblings to abuse their younger ones, but it’s still not impossible for a younger sibling to abuse their older sibling. i just feel like you can make your arguments without invalidating a dynamic that real people have actually experienced irl.

which male idol in your opinion has the best style? if we exclude stylists’s outfits and group appearances. Also who do you think dresses up? Like maybe wearing clothes that are not them just bc it’s the trend. would love to read your opinion on that xx

oh dawn, 100%. he has some of the best understanding of fashion and specfically how to use silhouette and statement pieces. key obviously, also. all the guys in a.c.e are pretty well dressed but particularly sehyoon and donghun (whom i think dress the others actually lol)! both of them play around a lot with silhouette also, and sehyoon in particular loves accessories and will pull some insane combos that i am obsessed with:

(that's his mom's watch in the second one btw)

suho also has really great taste, his instagram now that he's come back is just a parade of nice clothes. tbh it can be kind of hard to tell when idols are dressing themselves and when it's a stylist, especially just from pictures, if you don't know what event it is/have the context of what they were doing at the time. and added onto that, a lot of the items in idols wardrobes are gifts, either from sponsorships or fans etc, so in terms of 'people that wear clothes that they wouldn't normally', well that's just most idols lmao. you do also run into the phenomenon of guys with good pieces in their wardrobes but don't seem to be all that versed in fashion (minho, junhee), and this comes down to a grey area where a lot of guys just do not know how to dress. that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't interested in dressing well, it just means that it's not something that they have much experience in and they don't know how to go about asking. so often they end up with those good pieces bc a stylist puts it on them/gives them advice and they either take it home or find something similar to it, which puts them in a kind of a limbo spot in this particular ranking system; they would not have known about or gone out and bought that item if the stylist had not shown it to them, but it also doesn't mean that they're 'dressing up' bc it's something that they do like. you can see minho talk about this in his devil wears jungnam episode actually!

I've only put like 20 posts on my Tumblr in 2023 so far and the first time I meme about TF2 in a decade starts popping off. people around here still really like the funny hat lads huh

not to mention mido is from 19-fucking-80, who knows how hed react to modern food

People will really be like "I am on the right side of the debate" when their only responses are insults 🤡 How badly do you have to lack self awareness in order to get that that point, hm?

"I'm not reading that," well then you're the moron. That's it bro.

"I don't care," it was never about facts to begin with- it was about your moral superiority.