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#overkill#weapons of mass destruction#the us has the blood of millions on its hands already#military industrial complex#has the world lost its mind?#afghanistan#gaza under attack#gaza under siege#gazaunderfire#double standard#mass murder#israeli war crimes#save palestine#free palestine 🇵🇸#anti zionism isnt anti semitism
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A character i designed in class today, got the assignment to make a character and for some reason i was thinking about bells
I realized while making her that she'd actually fit into my oc world pretty well and add some really interesting stuff
Have not come up with a name for her yet unsurprisingly, so lets just call her Bell Goat(sheep? cow?) Grandma for now
Also heres the sketches from when i was trying to come up with ideas, first i drew the bells in the corner, then the person in the top right, and then the sketch i ended up refining
#I should really have a proper tag for my oc stuff shouldnt i?#OC#Original Characters#I dont have a name for the world/story/whatever itll be yet either#Thinking about calling it Reverie something.... Reverie Lost has been in my mind for the longest#But i dont really like it much lmao#Also i would like to talk more about my ocs but the problem is that they change so much because my worldbuilding process is a mess#Literally just decided one day “hey im gonna take literally all my current ocs and just mash them together in one universe”#And i ended up getting much more attached to my characters because of it but also#Making everything fit together as im still developing each character fairly seperately is like the worst puzzle ever#Its fun for me so its ok#Ill get there one day
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Thinking about a Durge who has rejected Bhaal, and whatever person they used to be, but still secretly longs for their lost memories. A Durge that, despite the answers the man could give them, would never re-ignite that strange passion they were shown they once had for Gortash. A Durge that has, for all purposes to the others in their party, moved on. A Durge that, six months after that day atop the Netherbrain, at a party celebrating their new life, receives a strange letter with an even stranger gadget hidden inside.
The meeting at the inauguration was a strange one. Despite Gortash's very obvious elation at seeing what he'd called his 'dearest friend', the man had no hesitation very proudly detailing the Dark Urge's grand scheme; their grand design for the world to be.
In front of all their friends and 'new' lover, of course.
They were furious, and rightly so. Gortash must have known what he was doing. To isolate them, to bring them back to him. The person who accepted them for all they were, all they are, and all they could be - together.
It wasn't enough to win the Dark Urge back to him, and although they'd tentatively teamed up in the end - he had died. Not by the Urge's hand, but in some ways, his own. The group had left Gortash's body within the Prism, and simply moved on. There were bigger problems, and no one really was sad to see him go. Right?
The Urge remembers a letter found in Moonrise Towers. Gortash liked gadgets, according to Ketheric. Evidence was abundant enough with the Steel Watchers, among other things. The item is strangely shaped, entirely too small, and with a simple touch, comes to life.
It reminds them of the strange picture they had seen at the Iron Throne. Gortash's visage shone through a glass, moving, talking - warning them to leave. Answering them, praising them for listening.
What a strange contraption, they'd thought all those months ago.
And then, now, there he was again. A picture, in their hand. A moving picture. Speaking with his voice, wearing his weary face - so, so weary - but not the same as before.
This had passed already. The voice did not answer them this time. It was simply impossible - the man was dead, but not quite gone in this moment.
He speaks of the inauguration like it had just happened. His joy at seeing his favourite 'assassin' again, which he says with a sad smile and a moment of silence. A heavy sigh follows, rubbing at his eyes - which they can see are so much darker than they last remember.
He is tired.
Gortash speaks of their time together, before Orin - and how Orin torments him day and night now that they had both confirmed the Urge's return. She appears with their face, taunting him some days. Other days she sends assassins that wear the same, and he simply cannot let his guard down anymore. But he knew it was them that day.
They can see the exhaustion that pulls down his features, makes his words heavier. This is not the Archduke speaking to him in this moment - it is a tired, broken down man that has just seen a ghost.
Yet they cling to every word anyway, because even though this is a broken down man who is terrified of the ghost - the man still hopes the ghost will remember him, too.
They don't. But he doesn't know that, not this little picture of him, anyway.
The picture says that if they are seeing this recording, it means he is already dead - and although he had planned to sway them back to his side, he may not have been given the chance, and refuses to allow the opportunity to share what the two of them once had slip away.
He would gift unto them the memories that he could, even beyond death. The bloody ones, the happy ones, the painful ones.
And he talks, he smiles, he even cries.
And so do they.
#durgetash#dark urge x gortash#i dont usually write gushy things but i am trying to write fic of this i need to yell a bit#this has been sitting in my drafts i release it to the world now#dont look at me im cringe#i just think that my own dark urge would always long for their memories despite withers's warnings and#knows that gortash is the only person who could give it to them and selfishly sides with him because of it#and when gortash dies he knows all is lost. and accepts it. he has a new life now. its okay. (its not okay)#and when they see that funky lil thing in the letter They Know. They KNOW it's from That man#and there's a moment of hesitation as those words from withers flash in their mind again but nope fuck it. selfishness wins.#and even though the man was a monster - they were once eachother's monsters and - there are his answers. some of them anyway.#and he can finally let go of that : )#i dont have a writing tag nor do i want one rn this is a rarity for me#bg3 epilogue spoilers#minor spoilers but still
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i TOTALLY didn't blank at the word "ascend" and forgot i could do something about godtier stuff for @erisolweek AFTER i went "ascend = go up = clouds" what are you talking about?? <3
#tmos has art#eridan ampora#sollux captor#erisol#erisol week#erisolweek#oh its hilarious that the title is so long the link cuts off foghorn. i foghor <3#ANYWAYS. would have lost my own mind if i didnt post this on time today. do you know how long this fic has been 80% ready for.#who remembers when i made that post about accidentally writing the most unhinged yearning. THAT ENDED UP IN HERE.#would have KICKED my OWN HEAD if i didnt put that out in the world during erisol week LMAO
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I can't believe they put my boy Mytho "does fucked up shit to himself because his entire identity and self image relies on being loved(in the right way by the right people)" and my girl Rue "does fucked up shit to everyone else because her entire identity and self image relies on being loved(in the right way by the right people)" togehter in the same show and never did anything to meaningfully juxtapose and explore All That
#princess tutu#rue#mytho#this is a gross oversimplification but you get it you understand#unstoppable selfishness vs immovable selflessness vs unstopable selflessness vs immovable selfishness#these two coulda been so insane their dynamic could've blown minds#i can;t tell you exactly how but it would've#what if the show ended not on them leavig entirely intentionally but lik#e#in the commotion of the story ending they just sorta fall bakc into the story and vanish into the real world#and their ending is them realizing they've both ended up in the fairytale.its not delibarate the way it was in the show#and like. rue has nowhere to go and mytho is still kinda lost in the sauce but they're both unsure how to feel and what to do#so they just kinda. pick a direction and hope for the best#this at least is how i'd tweak it to give us space to imagine they'll have the time to work through everything the show ran outta time for#otherwise id fucking. id tweak the actual show dangnabbit#but yeag.#its just like. there;s this preconcieved notion of the person you are meant to be and sometimes that constructed self has all these surviva#all these survival mechanisms that'll cloud your judgement and someitmes actively harm you the living being the real tangible organism#because you are sad ape and big leaf you need love and sunlight#but the self is an aesthetic it can survive on bad decisions#and a cookie cutter self no matter how painful is better than the uncertainty of being potentially literally anything because in the end#you are sad ape and a big leaf and you can just live however as long as theres love and light and fun and sustenance#and you die either way but the self is a character with a neat narrative attached and the ape is real and messy and uncertain#so the self fights for survival and takes over the sad ape#you Get It. You Understand.#fate.txt
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I just watched "Raya the Last Dragon" for the first time, which is another wonderful movie. And man, am I sad that so many people didn't get to see it because it was overshadowed by Covid:(
#i feel like i slightly like encanto better (if one has to compare them. though i don't know why you would. because in many ways they're#apples and oranges). but really only JUST slightly (and a lot of that is probably because encanto's a musical). but they're both solid and#love both so much#and they're both really they're own thing and completely excel in that thing#also encanto is probably the best action type animated movie disney has ever done and i love it#like that sort of adventure is what i feel what people thought brave was going to be with its trailers and then it wasn't#i wouldn't mind more movies like raya the last dragon from disney#(animated adventures that is. kind of akin to raya and atlantis: the lost empire that is)#we can have the best of both worlds with the musicals AND those
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i swear to g-d im& not even the jealous type but jfc i HAAAAAAATE this feeling when im& just lowkey like. who's :)))))) this :))))) bitch 👀👀👀👀🔪🔪🔪🔪 :))))))
#arcana.vents#& its like. kinda irrational bc we're just friends & just vibing & we're not even together but like. i cant help it so fuck me ig lmao#like obvi he can have friends & shit & w/e so im not gonna like. tell him anything bc i dont wanna like push him away or push anything yk??#& he said he missed me & everything but like. damn. why arent you talking to me like that. i wish you would talk to me like that.#i miss you too & i wish you would tell me you loved me more :<#im just like bitch chill he aint even your man. but he's sweet & good to me & he's deadass one of the funniest ppl ever.#& we have literally so much in common & he said i was a miracle & resilient since birth & that sb should make a documentary about me ehehe.#& we're both autistic poc4poc & have a lotta solidarity between our communities & he makes me blush & giggle & i love his curls & his smile#& the color of his skin's so pretty & he said that it'd be neat if we just. played videogames in a pillowfort#& he makes spongebob refs & he likes anime & horror & buffy & ethel cain nicole dollanganger & lana del rey & he got a nasty ass vocabulary#& he said it'd be cool if we explored abandoned places together & go to concerts together & he has the cutest name ive deadass ever heard#when nicole said ''when i see you i cant find the words to speak my cheeks go as red as two big cherries'' & ''you're so cool''... YEAH.#im gonna start fuckin chewing on the fuckin walls dude. im GNAWING at the bars of my cage. i need him to firmly grasp it.#i wanna feed him the world's sweetest strawberry!!!!#we have lost the entire fucking plot besties lmfaoooo#& i rarely if ever feel like this for cis dudes & my mind is blaring sirens like he gonna leave me im just. getting war flashbacks to. yeah#the red sirens be blaring like HE'S GONNA ABANDON ME!!!!! its so irritating#ill be goddamned if i EVER feel replaced to that degree ever again. id actually rather get hit by a car & throw myself into the sea lmao#UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BPD SPLITTING I HATE YOU#this was from a few hours ago but i forgot to post it so lmao
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i think my constant seething rage is honestly very reasonable. i literally live in florida.
#got in argument with a guy the other day abt idk. trans athletes#was basically him trying to explain what the issue is to me (i know. that's kinda step one to having an opinion on it.)#and then going yeah huh i guess you're actually right (i was)#and i was like okay great cool we're done here let me go to class and he starts talking about like#how he still loves trump for this and that reason kinda unprompted (sorry you lost an argument dude go introspect somewhere else im LATE)#and i was like yeah idk abt that. on account of all the corruption. and the foreign policy youre saying is like manly macho man strong is#mostly just wildly stupid posturing that's going to achieve nothing at best and world war at worst#and he goes no don't worry i think DESANTIS would be better for 2024 actually#and i. UNDERSTANDBLY. was like oh okay i cannot speak to you (because i am visibly shaking with rage)#and he goes well i think you are misattributing my intentions (cunt.)#and i said no no i don't think you're malicious i just think you're stupid and wildly misinformed#and then left bc i was about to either hit him or start crying (bc that guy has been like very tangibly ruining my life for months#and i genuinely cannot fathom what fucking tax issue or whatever one would value over like. my right to idk. Exist atp.#and also this coming from someone who just tried to be like no i know so many trans people i love trans ppl im not like those conservatives#like try to dig deep down into whatever rotted husk of a brain is left in your skull and fathom why i might have a strong reaction to your#support for DESANTIS and the SPACE LASERS WOMAN#you fucking idiot.)#and was that civil. No. and now i have to apologize to him bc i feel bad about it even though i fully meant it#idk its what i get for trying to change peoples minds with stupid things like#' statistics ' and ' a utilitarian perspective ' and ' existing legal basis for my argument '#guys so wrapped up in their right wing bubble they just dont wanna hear it#n they always assume i mustve not heard their talking points and its like look at where we fucking live#and look at the state of the world. NOBODY in any form of mainstream news shares my politics lmao#you think i havent heard every conceivable argument abt trans people??? also you think im dumb enough to form an opinion without looking at#the other side? yeah man i know about the three trans women who have ever won a sports competition ever. do you?#do you even know their fucking names or sports or trial outcomes.#GOD just fucking. pseudo intellectual facist horseshit like pragru and infowars masquerading as legítimate sources#are making so many dumbass illiterate (i truly don't think they have the reading comprehension to decifer a study or even long article)#guys think they're gods gift to politics bc they listened to someone else tell them what a source says through ten layers of propaganda#just. uh. everyone should die forever and also learn to read.
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How do you think queer relationships are treated in canon kotlc? I think maybe less stigma than bad matches but that’s it. It might never be addressed, maybe because the matching system was written to be bad but also maybe accidentally written it as homophobic.
I think I agree with your assessment, and I also don't expect it to be addressed. My hopes are rather low when it comes to queer acknowledgement in the series, but that's a different thing.
My reasoning for the "stigmatized but not as bad as bad matches" status is that you gotta go to the root of why bad matches are bad. So then you gotta look at what makes a match good.
The match office has the words "Progress, Prosperity, Permanence, and Proliferation" above it, which gives us some insight. The elves are concerned with genetics and genetic purity, and bad matches disrupt that. Those that are talentless or bad matches are lesser genetically and have lesser kids.
In that case, queer relationships (this does not encompass all queer relationships) would be somewhere in the middle. On the one hand, these queer relationships aren't supporting proliferation of their species, they aren't having the genetically pure kids they aim for. However, the same could be said of non-queer couples that choose not to have children. And even if those in queer relationships were considered lesser, they wouldn't be continuing their genetic lineage, wouldn't be having genetically lesser kids, and therefore would avoid some of the criticism bad matches get.
I imagine that queer relationships that can be interpreted as straight in whatever capacity would be treated as though they are, in fact, straight. Their queerness would be ignored, and if they go on to have children, they would act as though that proved their "normalcy" (in quotes because straight isn't more normal than queerness).
I believe that any queer relationship within the system people would turn a blind eye to, essentially. If you're a couple keeping to yourselves without offspring, then we don't have to worry about you and can look the other way. If you're a couple that can pass as their version of "normal," then they can ignore everything else going on with you.
So not supportive, but not outright hostile either. At least based on my understanding of the worldbuilding. Also I'm well aware that my word choice and explanations fall well short of the complexity of queerness; it's not a topic that can be easily encompassed in so short a post, so please be lenient with me :)
#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#quil's queries#nonsie#queer kotlc#feels like queerness is such a complex topic at times#like looking at this it's...queerness is undeniable to life. there /are/. without a doubt. queer elves#queerness is natural and the elves aren't an exception#but at the same time. it's a written world. and was not written with (at least overt) queerness in mind#so to what extent is it present? only in the knowledge that it /should/ be there? that it /is/? or is there more?#the text says their world doesn't have the human prejudices of misogyny and racism but does that extend to homophobia?#is this a world where the concept even exists? or does when it was written impact that?#how does shannon constructing the world starting in 2008 and publishing in 2012 impact its queerness?#because it exists. it always has. but it's not /talked/ about#it's this thing you tiptoe around#the same way you tiptoe around bathroom breaks#we all know they're there. we know they're unavoidable and undeniable. and yet#i'm rambling now and unsure this makes sense#anyway. i hope that helped answer your question!#long post
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barbie girl by aqua is one of the most backfired attempts at satire in history
#it actually kind of makes my stomach churn when i think about how the inherent meaning is essentially that barbie is a dumb blonde#it's a very shallow 90s interpretation of the character's meaning#not to say barbie can't be criticized but. like. good criticism pls not just that she's a girly girl who likes to have fun#but it is funny how many people genuinely think the song is a celebration of barbie bc of how fun the song is#its like 'im a barbie girl in a barbie world' 'bitch!!!!! me too!!!!!!!!!!'#this is why they had to announce that the song would not be in the movie and social media lost their minds#does everyone remember that? i do. that was before we knew anything about the plot or even had a trailer#i wonder if barbie world w nicki and ice spice was written after that as a sort of appeasement. but idk#i cant pretend to know when and how the soundtrack was conceived#but the sample of the aqua song on nicki and ice spice's song which is about unironically loving barbie...#everything comes full circle you know?#text post#sorry aqua#to be clear i still enjoy the original barbie girl but i think it's kinda only fun in the way culture has interpreted#it over the years. obviously it's one of the most iconic songs of its time and era#all of those unce unce eurodance meme songs from the late 90s/early 2000s were some of the first music i ever loved
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nintendo hire me i have the best idea for the story of a new zelda game
#krav talks#set in a hyrule where ganon is already like. sealed away like the Main Story already happened#you get details of it from dialogue and journals and stuff#but basically to defeat ganon this new link had to seal him away. in his mind#and so ganon can just fucking Telepathically Talk To Link 24/7#and poor fuckin link man. his zelda died to help him seal this ganon away#but its been DECADES and hes been having to hear ganon in his head#twisting his own thoughts against him#and corrupting this link who is wracked with grief and guilt over zelda dying#so he ends up doing. not so heroic things. goes kinda evil#and being convinced by ganon to find a way to end his reincarnation cycle#but its a fucking TRAP YOU IDIOT#bcus thw ritual hes trying to dowont do what he thinks. its just gonna give ganon full access to his mind/body#and you know who has to fuckin save the world this timw?#ZELDA. HER REINCARNATION THAT WAS BORN AFTER THE LAST ONE DIED LIKE ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO#THAT LINK HAD NO IDEA ABOUT BCUS EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHERS NAMED ALL THEIR NEW DAUGHTERS ZELDA#IN MEMORY OF THE LOST PRINCESS WHO SAVED THEM FROM GANON#so when zelda first confronts evil link hes like ‘…you are not her. you are just another pretender’#but it slowly dawns on him It Is In Fact THE New Zelda#and he tries to convince her to help him stop the reincarnation cycle so their souls can finally just REST#but ahe refuses bcus she knows thats not what ganon actually wants#:(#and link is using the master sword himself so zelda has to forge her own#with a hilt made from the gold of her previous incarnation’s jewelry bcus she grave robs herself#bcus navi/whoever the fuck her guide is told her to
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the personification of hope between 13-2 and LR where hope stands as the desire for humanitys future in 13-2 and even between 13-2 and LR when world got plunged into absolute chaos (no pun intended) and then the absence of hope in the world in LR leading to the worlds doom
#THIS ISNT WORDED WELL BUT ITS JUDT ON MY MIND#like i love love love that#not bc i like hope a lot. i do but like. thats not the point#ok maybe its an excuse to talk about him i could probably talk a lot more about him if i tried LOL#but like everyone looked up to him as the leader for humanity in 13-2 and post 13-2 and i love that his drive to save humanity#is because of his drive to save his loved ones#that quote thats like 'i love the world because it has you in it'#but but but then even while he tried to focus on saving humanity against the chaos. OF COURSE HOPE IS A THREAT TO A GOD#AND THE GOD KIDNAPS HIM FOR 500 CENTURIES LMAO#also i mean. hopes also a threat bc he do be acting like a god (making A WHOLE FUCKING WORLD??????)#after hopes disappearance humanity was just left to further ruins and people lost hope in turn and it just (shakes)#snow speaks#ffxiii#hope estheim
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I’m glad the people understand :)
#noise went away and the world is now full of peace :)#still thinking of the time my friend (who has bpd) was like#owen imagine there’s three blankets on u#i take off the first and it’s autism under it…second one under there’s adhd. Third there’s bpd#and I was just like MAPBY! perhaps#its So funny he has a special interest in psychology and since we became friends he was like. Owen I think you have X#and I just sit there and shrug and go IT MAY BE A POSSIBILITY! I have no idea though#i don’t mind it at all tbh it’s interesting bc I am usually if not all the time lost on what’s going on with myself#And I’m open to Anything being the reason why I am This Way (awesome and cool)#anyways yeah just wanted to share sheugs. This is my blog you listen to my thoughts ok?#ow.txt
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I get so fucking emo about dark souls so fucking fast, I'm so sorry you guys.
#;;ooc#;;tbd#tmi but dark souls really helped me through a few periods of extreme helplessness & loathing#people sometimes give ds a bad rap because of its themes of existential dread & such but ..... there's so much hope in there too?#it really helped me work through my OWN existential dread & look at life in a more lighthearted way#sure everything is falling to shit. governments lie & abuse. same with religions. friendships will collapse & people will die.#nothing in life is certain & everything can feel so vague & open to countless interpretations. but? it's okay! it really is.#i can't face the world a giant flaming sword or solid armor. but i can approach it with an open mind & let go of my desperate need to know.#it's okay to be scared. it's okay to not know. it's okay to feel helpless & lost & confused. but it's not okay to give up.#you can't go hollow. you have to push on & invent your own purpose. you have to learn to be okay with that.#this is probably so lame & sappy but I'm 100% serious. dark souls has helped me work through impossible emotions & im so grateful.#&&& ofc .... my fire swords are so very sexy .... but my point still stands!!!#👏 DON'T 👏 GO 👏 HOLLOW 👏
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