Listen you can prefer any site you want i'm not invested in that but you cannot sit there and say the serial numbers filed off for profit site moderates content because it cares about its readers. You can love the serial numbers filed off for profit site and i will say follow your truth but you cannot assign morals to the capitalism machine as a means of praxis for strangers on the internet. You simply cannot. Your brain will become polished like fine quartz and i will no longer be able to help you

So lot of us really strive to be the kind of person who honors everyone (even people we haven’t met, even people who aren’t like us) with the decency and respect that humans deserve. 

And statistically, it's really unlikely that those billionaires in the capsule strive to see us the same way. When you're that privileged, you lose touch. It literally has to happen in order to stay that privileged. The CEO at least has demonstrated his “money over humans” values in uncountable ways, and the rest of them are of a social class that often enforces and justifies inequity in the name of staying at the top of the pyramid. I really struggle to regard people with that empathy if they’ve demonstrated a callousness towards others’ humanity, because giving the benefit of the doubt and pouring empathy into adults who won't return it just results in them taking advantage of that empathy.

(and I don’t want to treat all members of a class as homogenous either! I will gladly eat my words if it comes out that someone onboard is like, secretly paying off queer disabled folks’ eviction GoFundMes or something. Maybe their response to children in border camps is "how horrifying" and not "what a great deterrent to immigration." I do expect a bland posthumous PR campaign but that’s a post for another day).

Yes, it’s an awful way to die. And so are the hundreds of ways that you and I are going to die, because of the inequity that these guys likely uphold. I really genuinely want to be kind and to give people the benefit of the doubt — but it seems like that kindness and patience are never reciprocated, and only benefit the already-powerful.

At the end of the day there are no Wrong Feelings, so I’m here with one foot on either side of the fence having lots of cringing at the horror, and a lot of schadenfreude, and then guilt at the schadenfreude, and then resentment at the guilt, rinse and repeat.

hello again! it’s been a hot minute, I was sick for a bit, and also living in america is a nightmare at all times and it current events kind of killed my drive to draw this kind of thing 🙃

anyway!! it’s the month of halloween!!! here’s something about some new england goth called john who has an interesting relationship with a small town god and this year, the harvest festival is going with a more ancient take on the celebrations. its about new harvest, new life, you know? and because those festival dates are important, instead of nine months, it’s one.

I've been re-reading @anbu-legacy and decided to do some doodles while I go :)

This set is all from the "ANBU Trials" arc. There is one doodle per chapter, and some random ones thrown in there for fun. I wanted to add something that either made me laugh or thought would be fun to illustrate.

I would highly recommend reading Legacy if you are 18+! It is very good and the writers are amazing!

zionists: "pro-palestine activists are calling for genocide bc they chanted 'from the river to the sea'!"

also zionists:

i'm sorry, who's engaging in genocidal rhetoric again?

yall realize this is the american political situation right now, right??

One of the released Thai hostages mentioned Israeli hostages were treated worse than foreigners.

So far, Hamas has been refusing to release the Israeli Muslim hostages, including an underage hijabi girl they kidnapped (=hostages Israel prioritised in releasing, minors & women).

I'm terrified of the thought these were treated even worse than the Jewish hostages, and we already know the psychological terror the other kids went put through.

Aisha (=the kidnapped hijabi girl) and her brother are supposed to finally be released today and I really hope they are indeed released today and that they get all the psychological help that they need.

Which era of Archie Sonic did you enjoy more? Pre reboot or post reboot?

Hmmm that's a good question. Idk I think I liked some of the writing post reboot better and I did like the new characters. I also personally think the removal of the love triangles specifically made the comic so much more enjoyable for me and opened up for better characterization for Sally. However, reading post sgw I did miss some of the old charcters (rip all those claimed penders ocs) and their now unresolved storylines, was sad at the loss of certain character struggles (like Rotor who was struggling between his health and wanting to be in the field again), and I missed how pre sgw had just some of the most insane or out of the blue plot developments/world building choices.

In terms of enjoyment, though, I'd have to say post reboot for the following reasons:

1. I enjoyed pre reboot for what it was more often than not, but I had my most fun during Flynn era. I liked how the Penders era moved things to being more serious, but I often felt like he had good and interesting concepts/ideas without the writing to back it up. Meanwhile, while Flynn wasn't perfect either, I felt like he was able to make a lot of those established relationships more believable to me, and while he also made some batshit plot choices he had more of the writing skills to back it up. This is all to say that aside from some stuff at the very beginning of pre reboot, it was a long while before I was able to really enjoy what I was reading instead of just taking things I liked where I could. Post reboot was a lotta Flynn, so despite the loss of characters and plotlines I enjoyed greatly, I at least felt like I could enjoy everything post reboot.

2. It didn't have all of those Sonic based love triangles. I know I know I'm a multishipper I ship Sonic with a lot of people but by god. I just could not take the Sonic/Sally drama anymore. Bunnie/Antoine was fine. Flynn actually made me believe in Julie-Su and Knuckles as decent partners. But by that point (and this is coming from someone who loved Sonic/Sally before reading the comic) everything going on re-Sonic and Sally's romance prospects with the opposite gender and each other was like beating a dead horse. And for Sally specifically, she had been recharacterized so so so many times pre-reboot just for the sake of drama that she often...didn't feel like her own character. So post reboot with the love triangles and the romance with Sonic removed I felt like we could really see who she was as a character and a clear vision of her ambitions/cares. I could feel like who she *is* wouldn't be changed on a whim for the purpose of plot.

3. As they say, people get better with practice. And while I thought some of his pre-reboot stuff was interesting, I felt like by post reboot era, Flynn had grown better at depicting the nuance of living under the eggman empire.

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So yeah I guess I'd say, gun to my head? Post reboot. But it's really more complicated than that. I did enjoy both a lot, and especially in the last like 80 issues pre reboot. Pre reboot was wild an interesting in a way that I enjoyed with characters and storylines I loved, but it wasn't always written amazingly and contained much too many ongoing love triangles and mehhh canon relationships to me. Post reboot gave certain characters more time to shine as characters, reverted the pre reboot growth of other characters, delivered some of its nuanced situations better, and was largely written nicely, but you could often feel that the post reboot team was now restricted in a much different way than they were pre reboot (like, pre reboot's struggle was keeping up with existing storylines and relationships and keeping things true to what they have been, but post reboot's struggle feels more like it may have had some of Sega's restrictions we see nowadays).

In the end, though, I miss characters and storylines from both pre and post reboot after the cancelation.

New pet peeve : I hate when I reblog an innocuous post, suddenly recognize the url, and it turns out OP has been reblogging/posting tankie stuff and Russian propaganda about Ukraine.

Fuck you Putin's useful idiot you don't get to know my cat's nicknames.Blocked.🤮

everybody look at stella right now. she just found out that shadowheart is a shar worshipper and she's never gonna let it go

Me while rereading: You should kill him

Also:

They marriages hehe ♥

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oh you know they are fucking dirty after this

about a minute and a half from shoving my copy of the once and future witches in the freezer 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

alaska is great for camping all year round, did you guys know that? anyways mutuals, if you need to visit alaska for camping feel free to reach out to me - myself and my family will take you to whatever campsite you need in the safest areas! no questions asked! people DESERVE a safe campsite in a safe state! 💗🍓

Today, I'd like to thank the artist Xue Jiye (site is: http://drtenge.com/?p=278) for making images (although indirectly) such as these encapsulating the mood we are feeling Right Now (5/3/2022).