my favourite homestuck headcanon is that troll gender is just a drone turning up at your door with some pills to make you grow whatever troll breasts are. "you have been randomly selected for this service to our empress. any attempt to sell or destroy this medication will result in your culling."
in the before times i guess there was some funky plant your lusus made you eat to get stronger. now, in alternia, you have state-ordered hrt.
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pathetic meow meow x apathetic growl growl = best ship dynamic
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Big fan of characters who have never married or even been in a relationship with each other being extremely divorced.
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funniest thing abt spnblr to me is that we all have opinions abt stuff, not just bc of canon or whatever, but bc of the type of person who tends to hold a different opinion.
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Lucien will not fight for Elain.
He won't fight and if Elain is honest and talks about wanting other people, Lucien won't stand up, let alone fight.
Az won't fight either because he would only have Rhys' opposition and even Rhys didn't forbid him to stay with Elain.
To me he just told me to back off so that Elain takes the initiative to reject Lucien first and show him what she wants.
Because so far Elain hasn't told anyone about anything and hasn't even shown that she's going to resolve her situation with Lucien.
And they will be partners for life, the least two mature people should do is make things clear. And Lucien can go to Nortuna without Elain running away because he doesn't want to face his partner.
Sorry to be hard on Elain, but I wonder how going to work things out without dialogue.
Because for me Lucien also needs to talk and make things clear.
He is still an ally and may be important in the future to simply learn things from others talking.
Well, I bet he would be the first to tell Elain to follow her heart.
Lucien is good and fair just talk and end.
And we know that Feyre and Nesta wouldn't be against Elain's rejection.
And at the moment Elain and neither Lucien love someone
Lucien might even love Elain, but nothing else in the book points out that he's going to force her to stay with him.
Elain has never shown that she feels prevented from choosing Az and rejecting Lucien or that she loves someone.
It won't be rejection for Love.
But anyway, I don't know where it comes from that Lucien has shown himself to be someone who will fight for someone even if he screams that she doesn't want him.
I think that Lucien would fight for Elain if he knew that she wanted to be fought for.
To me there is a difference in fighting for something that's worth it, that's wanted, and fighting for a lost cause. He wouldn't fight for a lost cause, e.g. if Elain had feelings for someone else and made her wishes clear. But I totally think that Lucien would fight for her in the sense of "this thing we have is worth it, even if you're being too annoying or stubborn to admit it right now".
But I think that maybe what you are talking about is a fight like a love triangle. In that case, agreed. Lucien wouldn't fight for something that Elain doesn't even want.
Besides it being against Lucien's character, he knows how that fight goes - he watched Tamlin fight for Feyre when she didn't want him to fight for her, and he is watching the aftermath. He feels guilt for trying to help Tamlin bring Feyre back because he knows how wrong it was (e.g. him saying she was a better friend to him than he was to her, which is not true lol neither of them were great friends to each other). It's just... no. It's not going to happen. Do people honestly think it's going to happen? Because lol no.
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Author’s note: Something so beautiful and lovely can be someone else’s worst nightmare. I have never forgotten this realization.
#quotes / #quotes
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Author’s note: Something so beautiful and lovely can be someone else’s worst nightmare. I have never forgotten this realization.
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looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.
and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:
(ANERA donate link)
my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.
it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.
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Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.
Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.
Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.
When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?
Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?
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