hello american and british mcr fans!! i’m australian and really wish someone would have done this for me for the 2022 tour so heres a timezone table for all the shows

Running a little cross platform test on reach vs platform with some WIP art from a little #TearsOfTheKingdom something that I'm working on for an eye-catch ^_-

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more wing au! shopping/dress-up with the trio, and some wing mechanics

the one thing i feel pretty certain about for this episode is that america will not decide the election. a decision will be made, a president will be elected, but america will not be the deciding factor.

succession can’t mimic 2016 or 2020 point blank, that would be boring and have nothing to say. it can’t try to outdo trump because it’ll go too whacky and fall flat like veep’s last season (sorry conheads, no way he’s winning). but what it CAN do is illustrate the immensely corrupt, often arbitrary, and hugely influential nature of news media and conglomerations on political processes. i think probably jimenez will be in the lead, then atn/waystar does something to, i don’t know, discount votes or cast suspicion on jimenez or call the election for mencken early, and the tide will shift, even though the votes are already in. the votes don’t actually matter. the actual result doesn’t actually matter. that’s the power logan (and as an extension, billionaires and CEOs in general) hold. shiv says it herself to logan in s4e2: “just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true. everyone just fucking agrees with you and believes you, so it becomes true and then you can turn around and say like, 'oh, you see? see? i was right.'” but it doesn’t matter that logan’s “a human fucking gaslight,” everything he says comes true anyways. not because he was right, but because that’s how it works. he says things and then they happen, regardless of what the truth is or what should actually come to pass. that’s been one of the key throughlines since the very first episode of the entire show when, in response to kendall calling logan out of touch because times are changing and logan isn't changing with them, logan hisses that everyone always says you’re wrong until you do it and prove you were right: “you make your own reality.” you can't miss the bus if you're the one driving it. the election, the votes, the political process? none of that matters. it was always going to come down to the roys and their ilk (allies or enemies, just the top 1%) — that was the whole point of “what it takes” (the mencken episode) last season, after all.

i’ve seen lots of theories about what america will choose and how the candidates will respond and all that and i just don’t think that’s the show’s focus; i think the whole point is to demonstrate the lack of agency, the illusion of democracy. because, i mean, we’ve already seen the fall of democracy via fascist election and fascist election-denial, both in real life and in the countless (usually mid) satires created afterwards. it would be disappointing to see succession use the election to reiterate that same point of 'ohhh alt-right ahhhhh!!!' i don’t think it’ll be about ‘fascism’ at all — at least, not ‘trump-y’ fascism. it’ll be about fascism in the broader sense, the kind that doesn't sport a KKK hood (even when it keeps one tucked away in the attic). it's the fascism that every single roy (very much including shiv and kendall) aid and abet -- the fascism that so many succession fans don't seem to regard as fascism, despite it quite literally being the definition of fascism. trump wasn’t the entrance of fascism into our political process. he wasn’t the lone sign of the failing of american democracy. democracy in america has long been illusory, trump just made it more blatantly evident with his particular brand of hate-speech-ridden masculinist in-your-face fascism.

so i think that’s what this episode will hopefully focus on — america will not decide. corporations, news media, and the roys will. thus, the president will most likely become president not because the country supports his policies the most, but because he’s likely to agree to help block a business deal for a major media empire, and the other candidate is unlikely to. and this will likely come to pass due to said major media empire's interference and influence: they create their own reality. they say it, and everyone agrees with them and believes them, so it becomes true.

[ID: a digital owl house comic spanning three images. Panel 1: The scene header reads "in the not so distant future, post hexsquad and C.A.T.Ts reunion" and features Luz, Lilith and Steve. They're in a forest and there's a tent in the background labeled "Camilla + hexsquad camp". Luz says "okay, so "owl house" is a game where King and The Collector reenact our adventures...using the people of the boilings isles sorta like NPCs in creatures and caverns...roleplaying as people from our lives!".

Panel 2: a close-up of Luz, resting her face on her hand, looking questioningly as she continues "hmm...but if everyone on the isle's been assigned someone from our lives to play in Owl House...then who's the collector playing?"

Panel 3: a shadow descends on Luz and she tenses up as a mysterious voice asks "isn't it obvious?"

The final "panel" is a full length image of the collector, dressed in Luz's season 1 outfit, floating above her menacingly as shooting stars and crescent moons swirl around him, the ground turning into a crescent effigy. White text sits above the collector, reading "I'm you". End ID]

Okay I had to post my predictions before we get a sneak peek. What better way to convince Luz her life is worth living than to have someone literally try to steal it!!

Shout-out to the FinFin discord for being incredibly kind and welcoming! 💙

We might've already figured out a way to get "The Book of FinFin" to you all exactly how it was originally intended in terms of looks! There are folks on there who are wizards with HTML and I bow before them!

That and I'll even edit images that have German text on them to be in English but retain their original charm for the translation!

An example, the original:

the edit:

I am so excited to get to work on this with the team behind the homepage & gift us all a bit more FinFin in our lives! :>

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I’ve been avoiding the PJO tag cuz I haven’t finished TOA yet and I’m afraid of being spoiled but is there a chosen tag for talking about tv show spoilers so we can talk about the books and non-book readers can be unspoiled?

I don’t even think it’s about “Taylor is American ofc she prioritise American markets” as much as Taylor literally only toured the US and Mexico so far… so it makes sense that the film is being shown in the us, and will also be shown in Mexico and Canada. She hasn’t toured the rest of the world yet, why would she distribute the film elsewhere already? It 👏🏻 doesn’t 👏🏻 make 👏🏻 any 👏🏻 sense 👏🏻

I started reading his biography by Jon Lee Anderson. it’s made me mildly fixated oh him and communism💀

idk how to live so im going to talk to myself out loud until i do

daigo fight noises are still so funny to me like boy you cant yell shut up

i am skeptical of a lot of therapy (CBT has done very little for me) but i did end up reaching out to the like. 2 dbt therapists in the country and i might be getting into the group therapy. i doubt it will solve all my problems especially with The Autism and anxiety and the lack of good adhd meds and the physical effects of stress even when doing the slightest thing and living in a place i don't feel comfortable or safe in and the existential dread etc etc. anyhow if i can at least like. gain some basic tools that will at least help me with at least a bit part of it. i'd love to. mostly bc the rest is gradually taking an actual physical toll and me and now i'm more and more exhausted and getting phantom pain mostly bc i tense up so hard and bc any shot of strong emotion leaves me exhausted, overstimulated, and barely able to move, never mind do any task which then worsens all the strong emotions etc etc etc. anyhow. it won't fix me i know that. maybe it can give me basic ways to break some of the worst cycles or at least cope with it. anyhow any usamerican ok with sending me adderall

Bully you?

Love. Why would you ever think I want to bully you?

Sure I haven't exactly been nice at school but I have a reputation, you know better then most that dealing with whitney is a delicate balince. but it's not like that will matter soon.

I'm saving up for a little apartment. Though I must admit it's harder then I thought it would be. Between all these doctors visits and the broken survalence equipment. (Not to mention all the gifts I'm going to spoil you with.)

It's slow going. But soon I'll have you alone to myself. It'll be so worth it in the long run. I can't wait to have you all alone...

Kinda makes me need to use your boxers again...

- <3

...don't call me 'love'.

i get it now, though. you're just a wannabe yandere. but you can't be yandere for someone who is one themselves... that's just common sense. maybe you're too stupid to know that. i have my own darling already, i don't want you... especially not as my yandere! it doesn't work like that!!

you're with whitney's group too..? you probably don't even realize how awful you are, then... well then, have fun in your future apartment alone. i don't even know who exactly you are, why are you so delusional about your so-called love for me?

and my boxers... you're so digusting. give those back! my beloved should be the ones to have them, if anything, not you!

...actually, i'll go give them mine now. maybe i'll leave them as a gift in their room!! that would be good! and then it won't matter if you have one pair since my darling will have fresh ones... and maybe i'll even give them extras... you won't best me.

This whole train derailment thing in East Palestine, Ohio is so horrific.

And those toxic chemicals got into the Ohio River!

And I heard people saying that there was danger that it could possibly get into another body of water?

Apparently, this is going to affect 10% of the country's water supply, as things are? (According to one comment I saw, anyway.)

The place really has become the next Chernobyl, and everything has been handled so badly! (I feel if this had happened in a bigger state, that wouldn't have happened. And I strongly feel they should have evacuated everyone on day one.)

And no one's talking about it! In fact, at first they were covering it up and tried to arrest at least one reporter on the job of reporting the truth (finally more people are starting to discuss all of this, but still not as many as you would think. Especially with the massive ramifications this could have for so many!)

And why hasn't the president or any of the big wigs talked about this or done anything about it? Why didn't people in hazmat suits knock on the people in East Palestine's doors to tell them to evacuate when they finally did give them that order, instead of acting so blasé? You know if it was a place that people actually cared about, people would do so much more. I'm disgusted with my country.