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sharlsainz · 6 months

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joe burrow is so hot it's not making me getting thru life any easier

#im literally sitting in my radiology class thinking about how hot he is and daydreaming about him #fucking hell that guy is just soooooo sjebbdbeh #joe burrow #cincinnati bengals #and i don't even watch american football nor that i want to anyway #but my fyp is full of his edits and im somewhat grateful and tortured #nfl football

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rdng1230 · 4 months

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There’s something uniquely frustrating about the state of American politics right now where I feel like democrats are critiquing people for being too far left on certain issues, when the policies those people are actually advocating for are a majority opinion by a large margin. Like a ceasefire in palestine has twice the approval rating Biden has? How am I the unreasonable one? I get it we do have to continue voting because this is what we have right now. But arguably the presidents biggest job is foreign policy. What’s happening in Gaza is the biggest foreign policy issue Biden has faced in his presidency, (second only to maybe the pullout of Afghanistan which was also a huge clusterfuck) and he has utterly failed. Not only was he barely able to obtain a less than week long ceasefire that wasn’t even honored, he has completely gone around congress and approved BILLIONS more in military aid to Israel. His OWN STAFF are quitting/protesting in droves at how he’s handled this.

I can’t be the only one concerned that the Democratic party’s best man for the role of “guy leading the biggest military and the biggest diplomatic corps in the world” is someone breaking federal, constitutional, and international law to further a policy 2/3rds of the nation disagrees with.

no matter what Biden only gets one more term, what is the presidential future of this party? Because from where I sit that future needs to come a whole lot sooner, and in the form of someone who actually will fight for the policy position most Americans (not most democrats, most Americans) believe in.

I get it that trump is a huge threat, I get that trump would be even worse for the people of Gaza, but I am scratching my head as to how having a candidate who advocates for a hugely popular policy position is going to hurt that candidates chances? Like we saw how the pro choice playbook payed off extremely well for the democrats on a domestic policy level. Because safe and legal abortion is actually a hugely popular policy! So why is this not the case when it comes to presidential elections and foreign policy issues? This ain’t the general, it’s the primaries people, so why are we cool with having a candidate with a demonstrated track record of being fucking horrible at the biggest constitutional duty he has, when we could be auditioning other candidates who you know, aren’t war criminals. Just a thought.

#american politics #us politics #palestine #democrats #joe biden #call me crazy I just think people bad at their jobs should not have their jobs amymore #Yeah vote blue not matter who is fine in a general #But this is literally the time when each party picks the best guy for the job #And how is a guy with a 35% approval rating and a horrible foreign policy track record the best we’ve got?

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omegalomania · 1 year

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people bitching and moaning about fob "turning mainstream" as if that was never the entire point of fall out boy. that's In the goddamn dna of the band, it's baked into the ethos of why the band started in the first damn place. to be accessible to kids and especially to girls, who were often ridiculed and shunted out of the hardcore community. to be a gateway to bands that aren't as mainstream. to comment on the society they live in, as they live in it. people act like fall out boy "turning mainstream" was some kind of "betrayal" when from the start they were seizing on the trends of the time, putting their unique, unhinged fall out boy spin on them, and shooting them back out as a funhouse mirror. take this to your grave capitalized on the pop-punk zeitgeist that was big in the late 90s and early aughts and put their own spin on it: enmeshed catchy choruses with high-dexterity lyrical & linguistic skewerwork. infinity on high was basically a massive critique of the scene they were in - this ain't a scene it's a goddamn arm's race is a fucking thesis statement on what it is to be catapulted into fame in an industry that wants nothing more than a thousand cookie-cutter copycat acts of a successful formula, and fall out boy WAS the formula everyone desperately wanted to emulate. american beauty / american psycho blended sampling and modern hip-hop stylings with polished pop-rock and pointed those songs back at the snapshot of the 2010s we all lived in: commenting on racial injustice and the freeze-frame nature of relevancy. but even then they weren't doing it quite right - because fall out boy never does things quite right, they're never quite conventional, whether it's wentz's darkly confessional lyrics double-bagged in metaphor or stump's distinctive clear tenor or trohman's inescapable rock 'n roll edge or hurley's thunderous hardcore-punk-rock soul.

this band has always been too clever for its own critics, is the thing. but then, they always knew that. they knew they had a thriving fanbase of largely female fans so they were going to be mocked and belittled and ridiculed. they weren't quite right. they weren't quite so easy to market. pete wentz had to have all his hard edges filed off and cut down to size, skin lightened, literally whitewashed ("i feel like a photo that's been overexposed") to hell and back, even as he was marketed as the pretty boy of the band. and the other three members never even bothered with the spotlight: the soft-spoken vegan straightedge anarchist drummer and the wry, wisecracking, whip-clever guitarist who was more concerned with being the connective tissue than anything and the reticent vocalist who sang the words and wrote an awful lot of music but wasn't really the guy fronting the band. wentz's charisma carried the band, because the rest of them were really just some guys and never aspired to be anything else.

fall out boy is too pop. fall out boy is too mainstream. fall out boy isn't the real poster child of the emo movement. other bands are better. even within fall out boy's own narrative, they are repeatedly ignored, sidelined, and belittled, as though they weren't one of the only acts from the big 00s emo-pop movement to successfully not just survive the transition from the aughts to the '10s, and then later from the '10s to the '20s, but to thrive in it without banking on nostalgia. this band was supposed to be a flash in the pan. they weren't supposed to last and they weren't supposed to get big. they started off in joe's parents' attic because joe and pete were sick of how exclusionary and homophobic the hardcore scene was.

i think it's high time that people acknowledge how fall out boy has repeatedly succeeded where most of their other peers failed. cunning, clever, capable, and hyper-aware of the space they occupy in the culture surrounding them. that they are just as powerful, important, and artistic as any of the other bands in the scene that others might deify at their expense. that they deserve a hell of a lot more respect than they get from critics or hardcore punks who think they sold out. i hope one day they get that recognition. because they've earned it, time and time again, and the more i see people pushing back against that, the more certain i become of its inevitability.

#fall out boy #fob #*making poasts #this was supposed to be a pithy 3 sentence post but i kept going #just another Day In The Life of someone who sees a lot of garbage takes and gets tired #mostly i just shrug em off cause you know. what else is new. this has been going on since day 1.#but it saddens me. it saddens me that these guys are ridiculed for this still.#it breaks my heart that patrick isnt taken seriously as a composer in some circles because hes the guy from fall out boy.#it breaks my heart that people won't acknowledge pete as one of the most distinctive lyricists of our generation.#it breaks my heart that andy and joe are discredited and shit on within metal circles specifically because they're in fall out boy.#i hope they know that we get it. we get it and we're proud of them. no matter what.

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collecting-stories · 3 months

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okay so i've never requested a platonic fic before, but if you're interested, i'd love to see a best friend!jake seresin x platonic!reader! i dunno anything fluff or just silliness with the guy :)

like when i think about being friends with him, i acknowledge 100% that he is a CertifiedPrettyBoy™ but he's just not my type 😭

but yeah, platonic!jake seresin x fem!reader please :)) i could see sarcasm thrown at him from reader and him spinning it into one of his flirting bits

I was super excited about this request because I'm ace and I love platonic/best friend fics so much.

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"What do we need for fondue?" Jake asked, leaning against the basket of your shopping cart, flexing his arms when a woman walked passed, looking over at him and smiling. You rolled your eyes, you should have known that going shopping for game day would've been easier by yourself. Although you hated driving and Jake was always happy to drive. And brave the absolute headache that was Trader Joes on a Saturday.

"Broccoli, some kind of bread, apples, sausage..." You read over the list that you had unfolded on top of a bag of bagels. You looked up from the list to see him looking behind him, still following the same woman, "Seresin, I swear to god-"

"I'm paying attention darling," he joked, turning back and smiling at you.

"You are not paying attention," you replied, "but I will pretend that you are. What do you wanna get?"

"Hmm," he hummed meaningfully before standing up straight, "broccoli, apples, sausage."

"You just want me to have to go back over to the bread cause you know I hate that lady," you muttered.

"I think you come here too often if you have a literal vendetta against a woman stocking shelves," he replied, "but also, I saw the guy with the kids headed to the veggies and I don't want you to commit murder over a bag of tiny trees."

"A true american hero Hangman," you laughed, turning the cart in the opposite direction.

The first time you met Jake Seresin he'd been out with some friends at the bar you worked at and he'd laid on the charm, pleasantly surprised but unbothered that you weren't interested. From there, something of a strange friendship developed and eventually evolved into him moving in with you when he officially moved to the area and didn't wanna live on base. The whole thing worked out better than you ever imagined that it would, mostly because he was the first roommate you didn't actively hate. You even did things you weren't entirely excited to do, like host Super Bowl parties for his friends.

"Look at this!" Jake interrupted your stare down with the bread shelves, trying to decide between the ciabatta and the french loaves. When you turned he was holding a chocolate cake shaped like a heart, "for Valentines."

"I have a date," you reminded him.

"On Valentines?" He asked, looking down at the cake and then back at you.

"Yeah remember, I told you? I literally put it on the calendar."

"Then we can have it the day before." He insisted, putting it in the cart.

"On Galentine's day?"

"More like Pal-entines day."

"Ehh," you cringed and laughed when he rolled his eyes at you. "Did you get everything?"

"Yeah, and that girl's number too," he smiled, waving his phone at you.

"Naturally," you replied, "hey maybe you can share the cake with her."

Jake shook his head, "first date on Valentines? Yikes," he said and then, "you aren't going on a first date on Valentines are you?"

"No...it's like our third date." You replied, "I've literally detailed both previous dates."

"Yeah and you still haven't told me, your nearest and dearest friend, who it is you're going out with," Jake pointed out. He was right, obviously. You hadn't mentioned who you had been dating. You were usually too transparent with each other and you wanted to tell him it was just that...it was someone he knew and if things didn't go well or fizzled out or anything, you didn't want Jake to feel like he needed to get involved. You loved him and he was your best friend but sometimes he went into older brother mode and you didn't need him thinking he needed to fix something or move something along that didn't need to be fixed or moved along.

"I will...but not right now, when we're supposed to be grocery shopping," you replied.

Jake stuck his tongue out at you and grabbed the grocery list from the cart, scanning over the items you hadn't crossed out yet, "does this guy like football?"

"Why would that matter?" You asked, grabbing the ciabatta bread finally and putting it in your cart, "I don't like football."

"Don't like football?" He practically laughed out loud as he said it, "darling you were literally screaming at the TV during play-offs."

"Um," you dragged out the 'm' as you shot him a skeptical look, feigning disbelief at his claim, "I don't remember that."

"I definitely remember that. Coyote as my witness, I have never seen someone that excited about football outside my dad," he replied. "Hey, it's not Coyote is it?"

"What's not Coyote?"

"This guy you're dating."

"It is not Coyote," you replied, "I promise you will be the first to know if I feel like it's definitely going somewhere...and it won't be Coyote."

"Just checking."

You rolled your eyes, taking back the grocery list from him, "grocery shopping Hangman, grocery shopping."

#jake seresin x reader #hangman x reader #jake seresin drabble #top gun maverick drabble

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berensteinsmonster · 2 months

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imma be honest im not the biggest fan of chubb munch becuz of how hes treated in the games and also how hes designed. so heres a redesign where he's just a regular fat adolescent boy and not a literal roadblock.

i have always been a fan of mrs. munch tho ily fat old women sm omg big fan <3333333

mr. munch is also NOT gonna be included in the munch family becuz idc and i dont trust him to be near children so mrs. munch divorced him pre middle-school era of my riddle school story timeline and is now single and taking care of her grandson Charles "Chubb" Munch all by herself yay

i imagine chubbs to just this really friendly guy who likes to make you laugh and just has really slow metabolism. Him and Joe being friends is mainly spawned from thinking abt how they'd be outcasts in this american school and they decided to stick together to be stronger.

(reblogs help my posts be seen :)

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apollos-olives · 4 months

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it’s even worse when it comes to Americans settling in Israel because a lot of the ones that choose to settle there are registered sex offenders in America, so they’re all provided a fucking paradise under the guise of a “safe haven for Jewish people”. I don’t care whether this guy was American or not or whether he apologised or not, but I will never forget the Israeli rabbi Eyal Shlomo Karim declared Israeli troops are allowed to "sexually assault" Arab women during a conflict to boost their morale. You cannot tell me that the IDF and Israel itself is not a safe haven for criminals. Zionists are not infallible just because they practice Judaism as a religion. They are a disgrace to all of us Jews. And of course Creepy Joe Biden is on board with sending all the sex offenders to a paradise. We’ve seen how you interact with kids, Joe.

you've literally said it all. israel is a safe haven for pedophiles and rapists and the fact that people are equating israel with judaism is disgusting and only harming jews more. i hope all anti zionist jews stay safe and inshallah israel falls within our lifetimes.

#palestine #free palestine

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faithfromanewperspective · 22 days

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was just thinking about how easy it is to compare the current president of Israel (whose name I don’t even remember) to hitler. it fits the way we think, doesn’t it, foreign people do bad things, what we see as familiar is good. but then the more I think about it, about how this whole thing has been set up and the extent (which I have to learn more about exactly still) to which usamerica is driving a literal genocide then the person I’ve gotta do that comparing to is actually… joe biden??? like that’s such a curveball in our brains we never expected but if you trace the power structures, yes there’s a fair deal of being a puppet going on but only because he never stands up against it. because he doesn’t actually care to stop it. and actually how fucked up is it that we’re literally talking about how the best thing is to continue voting for him for president because the other guy is worse like ??? none of us expected it of usamerica. we respected that country. we still respect its people and hang out with them every day

but like. let that sink in for a second. the guy encouraging and allowing a genocide is the better of two options?? if that’s the case I’m sorry but the civilians really don’t have any power. I’m sorry but if that’s the standards we have we have to start imagining better. this is like when your parent asks you if you want to wear a red shirt or a blue shirt but you never got the option to wear a dress instead or simply no shirt at all. it’s the illusion of choice. and as a world how do we turn a blind eye to this?? how do we not call out our dear cousin usamerica who is clearly in a bad state right now? whose leadership desperately needs to do better especially if they’re going to be in a position of leadership in the world as the power structures would have that they are?

because people live and breathe economy I was thinking, what if the rest of us simply boycott usamerica like we boycott Israel?? that would send the global economy to shambles. and I know it’s not gonna happen all of a sudden (so no need to hurriedly account for all the people that would get hurt) but what if we did? simply stop buying and consuming things that come out of America?

now I’m probably one of the biggest and most long-standing swifties you’ll meet (tumblr doesn’t count it’s an echo chamber) but could I? could I simply hold off listening to the tortured poets department when it comes out and stick to her older stuff I already own on cd’s and the like? Taylor doesn’t need my money or my numbers next to her songs and I’m going to be missing a lot if I do this but when this is over, her music will still be there. My favourite author is American. that one might be harder since I really want to read the second sword catcher book (I’m not worried about twp since it’s not coming out til 2026). I know a bunch of technology comes out of usamerica but I don’t need to update any of my devices and if I do there’s probably other brands I can buy from. I think because my iTunes is Australian I might be okay with it?? but I’m trying to transition away from it and buy more cds anyway. And I don’t watch tv, I rarely watch movies now so I could probably forgo that too.

I was actually just thinking about how there are so many songs out there I probably won’t get to listen to. what if, in boycotting some this is my chance to broaden my horizons? and I will preface with the fact that I know many non American artists do live and record in LA: im not gonna boycott them for that. In fact I’ll support their music because I want them to come home. and I might make an exception for green day and good charlotte for generally protesting much about usamerica?? but tell me guys, what do you think?? is this feasible? I might actually do it. I’ll make an exception for tumblr probably and use meta social media to the minimum (maybe I should for tumblr too and google). but also. is this racist?? is it going to do any harm?? because damn it I want to support the people. I want to support marginalised groups and native americans but I also want to be part of a boycott that’s meaningful rather than a token gesture. and I know the usamericans of us can’t do this, but please if I do it see it as me supporting your rights to having your opinions heard on a political level because I come from a country that isn’t great colonialism wise but at least we have that and I can’t imagine not having it

#boycott usamerica #boycott usa #<-genuinely can’t believe this is a tag in the wild gonna check it out #anyway. this is gonna hit hard for the fandoms I’m in on here #if I do it fully #luckily we still have 5sos #but I feel like I’m being up myself about it when Australia’s not really better #at the same time albo has finally gotten mad at israel and we don’t have anywhere near the international power #usamericans please weigh in on this #free palestine #human rights

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the-holo · 2 months

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Before I start this, I'm pretty new to comics, but from what little (and I mean LITTLE I got into the game late 😔) I HAVE read, I do like IDWs Transformers run. All the cool cybertronian lore, cultural things, social hangups things like that? THAT is what's interesting to me about stories based around aliens. Whats their culture? What is typical for them that would be so wild here? What is considered tradition? What is taboo? (Fighting is also REALLY cool but without some sort of emotional backdrop it kinda just turns into taking ur action figures and smashing then together randomly for me.) So since I missed the IDW arc, I thought I'd try the reboot. (Rest below the read more)

ALRIGHT, SO THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF THE POST: I've been debating on getting the skybound TF comics. I don't want to miss out if later on they reach more...interesting, to me, plot beats but I really really don't care about the "oooh back on Eaaaaarth" plot...AGAIN. I care even LESS about the forced G.I. Joe on the horizon. Hasbro. Let it GO. No one cares about the random American military propaganda franchise that literally never does well in ur crossovers.

I'm reading Transformers FOR Transformers, not "you too can help fight evil IRL, join the military!"

Furthermore the art style is uuuuh...not bad just definitely not for me. The random WWE moves are just kinda awkward, especially when paired with the art style (I understand its trying to emulate the G1 style but no). I get some people like em and that's fine but...yeah.

And so far, emotionally I don't really feel anything? From what people have tried to tell me is "good" about it, Its just "starscream is a menace". Which would be perfect as a sideplot, if anything else interesting was going on, but after getting an overview of the first 3 issues, it just seems like its: "fight fight fight", starscream does a war crime, "fight fight fight", the humans get in the way, "fight fight", Starscream is being very naughty, also the humans don't understand anything as usual and have decided the best course of action us to get in the way AGAIN (please ur are the size of this guy's EYE. MOVE)

I dunno, again my interest in the reboot has more to do with POSSIBLE on Cybertron plots that may or may not even happen, so is it even worth it?

If anyone has anything more to say on the Skybound reboot (in favor or against) please feel free to comment or anything, I wanna be more informed before investing in a series I'm just not gonna like or something.

I want something that has...feeling I guess it boils down to. Im not getting that from it so far from what people are trying to use to sell it to me.

#Transformers #transformers skybound #i wanna KNOOOOOOOOW what the council has to say

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enderwoah · 1 year

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we are at the precipice. this is the closest it will ever be. there is less than an hour in the vote and it has been a consistent 50/50 for the past however-long. when i began this post, quackity was leading joe by about 40 votes.

please. please. i am literally on my knees, begging. vote for joe hills. he is the epitome of what a tumblr sexyman in the cryptid category is supposed to be. quackity dabbles in every category of tumblr sexyman, but joe hills is fully submerged in one and does it right.his cryptid energy knows no bounds. there are no headcanons of him just being normal in the grand scheme of the universe, and if there are, it's because everyone else isn't normal and he's, like, a sentient player in a minecraft character's body.

he crafts poetry for almost every single one of his episodes and weaves the hum of the universe into every line. he takes hermitcraft apart thread by thread and crochets it into something new, something beautiful. he made a giant pinball machine with the deep field image made on the side using minecraft blocks. he wrote a poem about how the thought cub's base from season 8 was a gaping maw that lacked an upper jaw, which was so tma-coded it was unreal, among other poems about cub's freakshow of a base (i don't even care if you don't vote for him, read those damn poems). he has alter egos to rival the bursonas, one of which, beetlejhost, is very explicitly a tumblr sexyman. i mean, look at this guy (and etho)! not to mention just joe hills in general! look at this fanart they've seximanified a guy who's minecraft skin is literally Just Steve with a different shirt and hair!

he has cyptid energy up the wazoo! for the tumblr sexyman poll, people have started headcanoning the tumblr checkmarks (you know, the ones he didn't have until a few days ago; the things that exist only in the meta-verse of tumblr and no other canon anywhere else) as either eyes or a halo. this is not a one-time thing. they turned him into a biblically accurate nightmare with his TUMBLR CHECKMARKS for a TUMBLR SEXYMAN POLL.

quackity has no such cryptid energy. the closest thing he gets is being traumatised and also that one time that he showed up riding skeleton horses in a shoddy assassin's creed cosplay. or that time he appeared in fundy's dream, which, by the way, was a RECONSTRUCTION OF Q IN FUNDY'S MIND. NOT actually q.

not to mention joe hills dipping into the pathetic category. he's cleo's best friend, he is the wet cat to her pitbull, he is the wet paper bag to her stolen lunch. he is the universe's punching bag. he is campaigning—campaigning—to win a tumblr sexyman poll. he has spent real American dollars to win the vote from people. he says 'retumbl' instead of 'reblog.' if that isn't the height of patheticness, i don't know what is.

the most quackity has going for him is his patheticness, but what was his response to all this on twitter? a silly disregard for the seriousness of the poll. he was acting suave about it. cool. didn't care. that's not sexyman. there's no ENERGY.

this post has taken 45 minutes to write, and in that amount of time, the gap between them has shortened to six votes. vote. every number counts. quackity has six million subscribers. joe hills has 160k. joe hills has one of the biggest content creators on twitch on the ropes. tango said he didn't care too much about the polls because he figured they were just going to be a popularity contest. help us win this. help us prove him wrong.

let's show everyone the joe hills difference.

#please show love to every single post ive linked here!!#the fans are obviously what really makes these polls special #and this is all /lh and all very /nsrs!#i like debate and i like making points and i like writing essays #i do not like being seriously angry about the outcome of an mcyt tumblr seyman poll #no bueno #may the best sexyman win!#mcyt #joe hills #quackity #mcytblr sexymen poll #mcytblr sexyman poll

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thewritetofreespeech · 2 months

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Could I request Joe and Cherry with an s/o who is a monster at playing casino games?

Joe

Thinks it’s pretty cool.

Joe is a big fan of classic, American Scorsese films. Like Casino or Goodfellas. So the glitz of casinos and gambling as always been of interest to him, even if he doesn’t gamble himself.

They go to a casino on vacation, so Joe can ‘live his dream’, and that’s where he finds out about their skills at poker and card tables. They also have a knock for roulette.

Winning the money is cool, but Joe really just likes the excitement of winning.

He himself is actually very bad at casino games. He has the luck of a broken horseshoe when it comes to it, but he likes living vicariously through s/o.

They have a pretty big stack of chips to enjoy the rest of their vacation in style.

Cherry

Cherry is into some shady stuff. His opener is literally him getting a briefcase full of money from guys in suits. So of course he’s been to an underground gambling casino before.

He would be more interested in traditional Japanese gambling saloons, however. Not the tacky flash of American casinos.

Games like high stacks mahjong or kitsune bakuchi are more of interest to him as they actually take skill verses dump luck.

He doesn’t play often. Unless he knows he can win. And he can’t bring Carla in because that’s obviously cheating.

He’s not surprised that s/o is good at these games. One of the things he loves most about them is their calculating nature. Assessing the risks and making the best outcome possible.

The money is also nice as they can make a substantial little nest egg in one night. Not that he needs the money, since his business is doing well, but you can never have enough right?

#;ask and ye shall receive (request answers)#sk8 #sk8 the infinity #sk8 joe #kojiro nanjo #sk8 cherry #Kaoru Sakurayashiki #sk8 headcanons #sk8 hcs #headcanons

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bonesandthebees · 9 months

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OOOOOHHH what made this gig the best one :00

ALSO SO HAPP FOR U !!!!

thank you icy!!

god so many things made it the best. like me mia and firesnap were literally talking this morning about how even just one of the many things that happened at the gig would've made it a super memorable one, but soooo much stuff went down.

highlights included: wilbur singing I'm in love with an egirl, getting oh yeah you gonna cry and yuwyo since they haven't played those live in quite a while now, they played golden hour even though it wasn't on the setlist, all the cowboy outfits the band was wearing, wilbur telling the crowd a story about how he filmed a music video (directed by ted nivison again) the day before and they were wearing cowboy outfits and only afterwards ted told wilbur the cowboy outfit he was wearing was the same one ryan gosling wore as ken in the barbie movie, the opener doing a great cover of taunt and lovejoy deciding not to play taunt bc the cover was too good and they didn't think they could follow it (ngl I genuinely loved the cover more than the og taunt), wilbur singing the fall in an american accent (after me and mia suggested it), i saw mark break a fence by accident, all of the guys doing meet and greets with everyone after the show (which is how I met ash joe and mark), and so much more

like. I could literally go on. I have so many stories from that day but I'll cut this part of the ask off before it gets too long lol maybe I'll talk about it more if I get another ask

and of course the queue was fantastic. we had a really great group up front and the vibes were so much fun. conversation was great, everyone was giving each other food and water and offering up their motel rooms if people needed to cool off, it was just great tbh

#ask #icyfox17 #lovejoy

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ygsunflower · 8 months

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Yes! Your last post *chefs kiss* from the start of this show I was wondering how this propaganda of the military would play out through the show because when you’re portraying people in the military of coarse it will be full of pro-American and pro-military sense. But I love how Cruz really does break down through the episodes and as sad as the finale was I am obsessed with the fact that she’s finally seen right through this Mission of the military and how she’s against it at the end of the day

If the show’s not literally named Special Ops: Lioness, it’ll be so interesting to follow Cruz and explore what’s next for her… Will she stay in the military? Will she go back to the Marines? Will she try to find Aaliyah on her own? Will she stay in the Lioness ops so she might get a chance to work on ops that could lead her to Aaliyah? Just how and what will happen to this poor woman now that her whole world is shattered and she’s lost in the darkness?

I do think Cruz is someone with a morale, and this whole experience also made her realized that for her, the ends don’t always justify the means: using Aaliyah to kill the dirty oil guy/terrorist; joining the military to get her life a second chance. There needs to be a line drawn to when the ends can justify the means. And maybe she’s just discovering that.

A side note: In my imagination for their future story, Aaliyah is now left with her dad’s business as her brothers are useless and her fiancé who her dad deemed as a heir is dead. She’s overwhelmed by everything but at the same time there’re also threats that required her to run and hide: her dad’s old partners and his enemies are now hunting her for the business. Cruz, on the other hand, may or may not left the military completely, but she’s definitely out of Joe’s lioness ops. She still keeps contacts with the team though, and this is how she heard about Aaliyah being chased by the “bad” and “good” parties. [Good and bad are really no difference in this case because they both are after the access to Aaliyah’s dad’s middle-eastern oil connections… The so called “bad” ones refer to her dad’s friends/enemies and the “good” ones are the CIA and other western governments. ] Once Cruz learns about this, she goes rogue trying to make connections with Aaliyah. And during this journey, she gets to explore where the lines between the means and the ends are drawn for her. While Cruz and Aaliyah still have feelings for each other, so much have happened since, and their relationship now is more complex than ever. Will they work together to stay alive? Can they trust each other? Who else or which side can they trust more?

I wish they could explore more on this storyline, but again, the show’s called Special Ops: Lioness, so if Cruz’s no longer a lioness, she’s not gonna be in s2. Also, let’s be honest, even with this show title, they still focused so much on Neil and the daughter’s drama this season. Sometimes it feels like that this part of the plot is more well-written than the supposedly main Lioness plot. So, I doubt going forward this show will ever give the sapphics the type of main plot I want to see. But you never know, we might get a surprise once in a blue moon, and no matter what, I still have my wild imaginations 😂 Tbh, as much as Aaliyah x Cruz and their characters are so interesting to me, the overall plot of the show is a bit weak. Things are too predictable and almost too one-dimensional for my liking. Whatever happens in s2, I hope they have better writing/plotting of the story. Show the audience the complexity and nuances more!

#sorry i went off again #aaliyah x cruz #cruz manuelos #special ops: lioness #they have so much potential #aaliyah amrohi #laysla de oliveira #stephanie nur

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out of sheer curiosity, what are your thoughts on (if you've seen it) the movie "the death of stalin"?

I have seen it -- a few times in fact-- and honestly, I think it's brilliant. It plays fairly fast and loose with the history and condenses events over weeks/months into a matter of a few days, but a) it's not presenting itself as a historical documentary by any stretch of the imagination and b) in this case, the black comedy/satire is an especially effective approach. Russian humor, especially political humor, is generally very dark, possibly for obvious reasons, and that fits well in terms of the subject material. Secondly, what it does very well is to demonstrate the essential absurdity of life under an absolute dictatorship run by a guy who can either make a joke with you or kill you (as Nikita Khrushchev, played by Steve Buscemi in the film, had an actual quote about in re: what dinners were like with Stalin, and how you were never exactly sure what was going to happen at the end of the night; he could call a car to take you home or straight to prison).

See, for example, the opening scene where Stalin wants a recording of the performance and they have to all rush around madly, kidnap another orchestra conductor, and shove in people off the street to make the acoustics sound right, because if they don't fulfil the request perfectly, there is a very real chance that they will be sent to the gulag. The depiction of a bunch of random people getting arrested for literally no reason at all (and then hastily un-arrested) is also accurate. The Stalin-era NKVD were literally given target numbers of how many people they were supposed to arrest in any given city or region, regardless of whether those people had done anything wrong. It was a completely arbitrary and nonsensical system run by a man who, thanks to being called "Uncle Joe" in the American press during WWII, is still often generally treated as "not that bad" or less than the equally murderous and capricious dictator that he was.

What this does is to demonstrate the sheerly ludicrous ways in which people are forced to act to please an aging tyrant, and the consequences if they don't. As well, so many movies portray the Nazis/the Red Army/insert stereotypical baddie here as maybe evil, but also cool and competent and dashing and serious and otherwise really good at their job. And that is... not true. Hitler was regarded as a clownish loser both before and while he was in office, the Nazis were losers who also happened to be really good at killing people on an industrial scale, and these glamorous, serious portrayals give them a gravitas they don't deserve.

The saying about the banality of evil is also applicable here: we always want to assume supervillains have some grand complicated intellectual plot, but nope, it's just "kill people, steal their stuff, and take over the world." By treating the last years of Stalin's rule as the shitshow that they were, and exposing the essential absurdity of the Soviet system, the film relentlessly demystifies the idea that authoritarian regimes, despite (or even sometimes seemingly because of) their cruelty, are actually smart, well-organized, or highly functional. Instead, they're just a bunch of corrupt idiot cronies trying to keep their homicidal boss happy, get their share of the pie, stay out of trouble, and so forth, and a film that actually shows them as such, rather than evil but competent and cool and good at their jobs, is particularly relevant in this dangerously once-more-authoritarian-curious day and age.

(Also, of course, Jason Isaacs obviously stole the show.)

#andromeda3116 #ask #history #soviet history

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Biden is about to learn the hard way what giving undying support to Israel means when he loses next year. He is alienating a lot of young voters because of this, and young voters make a huge base for democrats. 80% of dems are in favor of ceasefire that is a huge majority of the dem voters. I know I wont be voting for him or anyone else that supports this genocide, can't do it, would feel more guilty than already I do. The dems are really showing their racism and Islamophobia. The way this party is handling this situation shows me that majority of them don't really care Black lives, racism, immigration at home they just know they need these groups to win so they fake their support. If they actually truly cared their foreign policy wouldn't be built on racism and xenophobia. The fact their lumping innocent Palestinians with a Hamas, the fact they're okay with violating every human rights and international law tells me everything I need to know about their true intentions than I could ever know through their campaign promises and slogans. I don't think they truly understand how much younger generations hate wars, hate racism, and aren't easily manipulated through propaganda, like we see everything in real time we don't have to rely on biased news organizations. We can hear from the victims directly.

So who will you be voting for??

Will you be voting for the republican candidate????

Sometimes I look at y'all (Americans) and think

.....

How fucking STUPID can you be????

I see so many people saying they will ABSTAIN from voting bc they dont have a good candidate.

YALL HAVE NEVER HAD A GOOD CANDIDATE IN THE PAST ALMOST 10 YEARS. The last good one you guys had was Obama.

So what????

You're going to vote for the republican choice instead?????

AND MAKE ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE AND WOMENS RIGHTS ELIGIBLE FOR ACTUAL WITHDRAWAL????

YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE SOMEONE IN WHO IS MORE THAN WILLING TO UNDO THE LAWS THAT PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE OF PEOPLE???

Joe Biden is supporting Israel because THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTS ISRAEL.

THAT WONT GO AWAY JUST BECAUSE YOU VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

YOU ARE ALLIES. THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL HAVE BEEN ALLIES SINCE DAY ONE.

IN FACT, MOST OF THE WESTERN WORLD SUPPORT ISRAEL. PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF WORLD WAR 2.

I thoroughly hope you understand just how majorly what you're saying and deciding when voting time comes, will affect your country. And subsequently, the rest of the world.

SO MANY OF US ARE DEPENDENT ON YOU. DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT WHO YOU CHOOSE TO LEAD YOU LITERALLY AFFECTS THE REST OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING WESTERN WORLD???

DO NOT.

PLEASE, I BEG YOU.

DO NOT VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE WITH "BIDEN" ON HOW HE HAS HANDLED THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE ISSUE.

IT WILL NOT CHANGE JUST BECAUSE YOU VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

BECAUSE THE US ARE ISRAELS BIGGEST SUPPORTERS. THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHO IS CURRENTLY PRESIDENT. IT HAS TO DO WITH INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND ALLYSHIP.

PLEASE.

I CANNOT HANDLE ANOTHER TRUMP.

THE REST OF THE WORLD CANNOT HANDLE ANOTHER TRUMP.

AND IF IT'S NOT GOING TO BE TRUMP, IT'S JUST GOING TO BE SOMEONE EVEN WORSE.

USE YOUR VOICE. VOTE DEMOCRAT.

FOR THE SAKE OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD.

YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY AS SOMEONE WHO CAN AFFECT A SUPERPOWER OF THE WORLD.

PLEASE. THE REST OF THE WORLD BEGS YOU.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC OR LIBERALISTIC. PLEASE.

THE WORLD LITERALLY DEPENDS ON YOU.

#Mandy answers #the united states #the us #election #democrats #liberals #biden #obama #trump #PLEASE VOTE #DEMOCRAT #LIBERAL #DO NOT ABSTAIN #YOU WILL KILL ALL OF US

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