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splatsvilles-fashionista · 3 months

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Splatoon 3 Version 6.1 Patch Notes Breakdown

That time of the month again! Let's take a quick look at these together, and that part is actually important, because people have cross-referenced the Japanese and English patch notes and confirmed that there are several mistranslations in the latter, so stick with me as we roll through these!

This patch is heavily focused on balance changes, and outside of those, the only thing that isn't a bugfix is of course the Mincemeat Metalworks renovation. With that out of the way, let's look at the Main Weapon changes:

N-Zap gets two more damage, which makes it combo better with other sources of damage like the splash damage from the '85's Suction Bomb. There seems to always be a completely unnecessary Shooter buff in every patch nowadays, and this is the one this time, but it's at least balanced out by the fact that this weapon is also getting nerfed further down the notes, but we'll get there.

Dynamo Roller will now deal lethal damage in a wider spread than it did previously. Splat Roller got this buff a while ago and it was pretty good for it, so this is a definitive W for Dynamo mains everywhere.

Flingza Roller gets the exact same buff, plus a buff that cuts 5 white ink frames off its' vertical flick. Some nice quality of life for sure.

Inkbrush now moves faster, cheaper. Three percent doesn't sound like a lot, but I promise you that even such a small change is going to throw your aim off quite a bit, so get ready to get circles run around you in Clam Blitz even more than you already do.

The Brella gets 13% better ink efficiency off its shots, and that's quite a lot! Brella likes to play the long game and draw out fights, and most builds for it run a lot of Ink Saver Main as a result, so this should give it some more ability flexibility.

Undercover Brella can now... do full jumps while firing? I don't think this is a very impactful change, but it is neat, and I think if used properly could be a way to get more mileage out of your shield and avoid damage.

This is a mistranslation!

The first change is actually the complete opposite of what it says in the patch notes. They did not reduce Squeezer's ink consumption when tap-firing, but increase it, making the cost tap-shots 9% more. It'll also paint slightly worse when holding down the firing button, and considering how this weapon has been utterly dominant at all levels of play both of these changes are fair.

Ballpoint gets a small accuracy decrease in long-range mode, which frankly seems a bit uncalled for, because this weapon hasn't been on top of the metagame for a long time. At least it's also kind of a paint buff?

And finally for Main Weapon changes, Stamper gets its charge slash paint cut by 10%. Compared to the changes this weapon has been getting in the past it's a bit of a slap on the wrist, but it does in fairness paint really well, and Neo Splatana Stamper does put out a lot of Crab Tanks, so this isn't an unjust change.

After that comes two Special changes, and these are very interesting:

Wave Breaker will now immediately locate enemies upon being placed for a short while. They don't specify the range or time of the effect, but I have to imagine it'll be within the same area of effect as the Wave Breaker's Waves. Giving it an immediate effect is really cool to me, it makes me think of Splatoon 1's Echolocator, which Wave Breaker already kind of felt like a rework of to begin with.

THIS IS A MISTRANSLATION TOO AND IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN THE LAST ONE

Again, this change is the complete opposite, reading the text you'd think this was a nerf to Ink Storm, but it's actually a buff, because it makes you heal faster in Kid Form when inside your own team's Ink Storms. This is essentially completely unprecedented, as we've never had anything that messes with the health regeneration system like this before, and I'm very curious to see how it shakes out.

And finally we have the Points-For-Special changes:

Neo Sploosh, Forge Pro, Luna, Bamboozler, and Zink Mini all get their Points-For-Special cut by 10 (a change Forge has been begging for since it released, seriously starting it at 210p was completely unreasonable) while Slattershot, N-Zap '85 (here's that nerf I mentioned at the very top of the list), Tri-Slosher nouveau, and Heavy Edit Splatling get another 10p added to their Special charge.

Overall I think this is a pretty good patch that has some really interesting ideas in it, but there is also a very notable omission. They went after all of the most popular Tacticooler weapons, and increased their Special charge, except for Snipewriter 5H. Snipewriter has been skyrocketing in popularity in competitive player for its' ability to serve as paint support, long-range damage, and Tacticooler spammer, all at once, and it got completely overlooked here. I suspect that nanowrimo is coming early in the world of competitive Splatoon 3, because everyone is getting their pencils ready.

#splatoon 3

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utilitycaster · 6 months

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Unpopular opinion: the tower conversation between Caleb and Essek was a define-the-relationship conversation on a 20+ intelligence level and with the context that defining a relationship does not inherently mean "we have decided whether or not we are dating from this point onward with the only options being a static yes or no," and if more of the fandom read it that way, there would be significantly less equivocating over their relationship and how often Essek is mentioned in regards to existing and potential post-canon content

This is very funny to me bc if you were not off anon I'd be like "man what does Megs say about it, she'd know more!" Anyway, after this one I'll be taking a break bc I do need to do a bit of D&D prep and this is going to be a slightly long one. To that point, it's below the cut.

Anyway, thank you, because I very much enjoy Shadowgast but I don't know if I've made as much of a study of it as others have, or as I have for other ships, but this led me to rewatch/reread the transcript for this speech (2x133, btw, starting around 3:26:00 for those wondering) and: yes.

I think this is definitely the 20+ INT level version; it is entirely about theory, and the arcane, and everything is subtext. But it's not unprecedented. If I were to do the mathematical thing, and I will, and reduce it to a problem I already know, this is akin to Fjord and Jester's conversation in episode 2x72. Compare:

LAURA: Would you do anything to get them back?

TRAVIS: No. No, but, I feel like I knew what I was doing, and I realized I have no idea.

MATT: "You spoke once of intent, lot of fortunes have changed since. What is your goal? Ultimately?"

LIAM: I think my priorities have mostly shifted since we last spoke about things like this. I think what's going on right now is more important than my petty, earthly grievances. Still very much fascinated with and attracted to ability and skill. And it's not fashionable to say, but to power. Who doesn't feel the tug of such a thing? But, uh-- yeah, I said it knowing what your reaction was going to be. I see you outside. (laughs) But it doesn't matter. There are bigger things than you and I.

MATT: "I think that's the key. The pursuit of magic, in the ways that we know it, in the ways that we've been disparately, but in some ways similarly raised and studied. At a certain point, it becomes about the self. It becomes about what I can do. And it's impressive that you've deviated at your skill level. I just hope it holds."

LIAM: That's the key, isn't it? Because if you were to put the very thing that I have wondered about for so many years in front of me, I'm really not sure what my reaction would be.

It is, as you say, a definition of the relationship. It's not "we are now dating;" it's them figuring out if they want similar things; if they will be not just compatible but good for each other. It's foundation laying and setting boundaries for something that won't come to fruition for some time yet, but it's undeniably something more serious than mere friendship.

I think the tower conversation is also uniquely important because it's Caleb's first romantic overture after meeting with Trent. He volunteers the information about his past not just willingly, but specifically in order to connect with Essek rather than to protect him or push him away. They are even able to laugh about it together, and that's really it. This is the point where romance becomes an option.

There's more - I think that Essek admiring Caleb's ability to set aside himself despite his rapid progression as a wizard is absolutely a flirtation, as is Caleb saying he's attracted to "ability and skill" - but really in the end it's them saying "this is my condition, and you have met it." I think the relationships that lack some kind of condition and stakes like this - and to be clear, it's okay if, as with several relationships I don't cover here, those stakes and boundaries are set not through a clear conversation that serves as a turning point but rather more implicitly/through actions - end up feeling fundamentally empty and lacking in possibility because there isn't that tension and that recognition of each other.

#answered #essektheylyss #opinions rating ask meme #cr tag

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tolerateit · 1 year

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i think accepting all of these points would fix me:

parasocial relationships are, by definition, one sided. no matter how much we insist that she loves the fans the way we her, there will always be a difference, simply because the relationship is transactional for both of us but in vastly different ways. we are majorly seeking out validation from her (either in the form of likes, reblogs, secret session invites etc) and she's relying on our support to make more art and inadvertently, more money

this doesn't mean she selfishly used her fans for her gains and never cared for us all this time, she is obviously attached to us and has made a brand out of being too engaged with us. that was genuine on her part because i simply can't imagine anyone faking that kind of enthusiasm for more than a decade.

it is fair to feel upset that our artist-fan dynamics have changed so drastically in the past three/four years. it is also important to remember that curating an online experience that is safer for her mental health is not a crime on her part and in fact, should be encouraged

the ticketmaster situation is heartbreaking and any and all anger you feel about it is 100% valid. wanting her to do something about it seeing how she is arguably one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now and has taken down apple and spotify before is also valid. also important is realising ticketmaster's monopoly is a problem on a much larger scale and there's a lot more effort required to take them down.

controversial possibly, but it's okay to want to get access to tickets before casual fans/nonfans but it's also necessary to realize that people who don't like her/care for her as much as you do are still paying for the show! if you purchase goods and services you do have the right to enjoy them/use them, you literally paid for the experience. im extremely upset that many loyal and longtime fans aren't able to see her due to unprecedented demands but wanting anybody who isn't a diehard swiftie to not buy tickets is scary and not encouraged.

not especially related to this rn but you aren't evil for criticizing an artist you like. you also aren't a lame cupcake for actually liking something your favorite artist does.

extra sidenote: online concerts are great, more accessible (especially to international fans, people with disabilities or immunocomprised people) and affordable for everyone and safer for the artists too. highly highly recommend encouraging celebrities to do more of these as opposed to concerts that are so stressful in the making.

#meg talks #Idk did i miss something #taylor swift

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bearfrosts · 12 days

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okay i have reached needletail's death and suffice to say i'm disappointed with her nonexistent character arc and complete lack of dimension. so much wasted potential on her for fucking real. i feel so conflicted about her because i do think i could've actually liked her as a character if she was literally any amount better written but the way she exists in canon is just so flat and unappealing that it makes me strongly dislike her.

needletail had two character traits (rebellious + selfish) and a selfish, manipulative, take-without-return relationship with violetpaw—and absolutely no background, development, context, or conflict to justify any of it. her one singular "change" was just realizing Darktail Bad which i refuse to even call character development because it doesn't take any development of character to realize someone is bad once you have more information about them—it's clear that if she'd known how darktail acted prior to joining the kin, she never would've done it in the first place. ergo, no character development occurred to make her change her mind about it.

her sacrifice was meaningless because it was entirely out of character for her. she may have loved violetpaw to some degree, but at no point in their relationship did needletail make a single small sacrifice to her own comfort for violetpaw. she snuck out of camp with violetkit, sure, but needletail was sneaking out of camp anyway so she wasn't taking risks she wasn't already comfortable taking. she was a major reason why violetkit and twigkit were separated, she is the reason violetkit/paw got involved with the kin instead of going to be safe in thunderclan with her sister, etc. violetpaw got literally nothing in return for her love of needletail. so, back to the original point: needletail's sacrifice for violetpaw was a major, unprecedented shift in their dynamic. there was no leadup to it that showed she was starting to give more in the relationship in smaller ways that would've indicated she was becoming less selfish and more interested in a mutual relationship.

in my opinion, a better decision for her arc at that point would've been for her to listen to darktail and attempt to kill violetpaw. she hesitates, though, giving violetpaw a chance to run. needletail attempts to chase her down, but isn't fast enough, and darktail is interrupted by the attack on the kin's camp in riverclan and needletail skirts by under less suspicion since she did attempt to kill violetpaw.

i haven't read far past her death yet, but since she's dead canonically and there's nothing else left in her arc to work with, i'll offer a possibility for the continuation of this: eventually, she is reunited with violetpaw and claims that she never wanted to kill her and was just trying to help her escape and that they both made it out fine, so it's okay, right? and violetpaw, having been groomed by needletail's emotional manipulation since she was a kit, hesitantly forgives her. at that point, there would be time for needletail's character arc to continue, and for further conflict with violetpaw once she becomes a warrior and comes to realize all that needletail did to her. we could see needletail have an actual character arc in which violetshine eventually confronts her about their toxic relationship (and i want to be clear i'm speaking in a strictly platonic sense, in case that wasn't glaringly obvious), and needletail rejects the idea that she manipulated violetshine since she was a kit at first—then slowly realizes all that she did. but there are a ton of different roads her character could have taken if the sacrifice hadn't happened and this is just one potential path out of dozens.

i love these kinds of toxic relationships where one character is (potentially unknowingly) taking advantage of and manipulating a younger character who doesn't know better than to attend to the emotional needs of the older character. there's so much opportunity for conflict, betrayal, feelings of isolation within the relationship, recovering from trauma, realizing what exactly the older character did, eventually coming to be on equal standing when they're both mature adults and the older character having to face the consequences of what they've done. there was a lot of potential in their relationship and having needletail sacrifice herself out of nowhere did nothing but give a false idea of what their relationship looked like up to that point.

it would have also been majorly beneficial to give more background on how she came to be so opposed to living in the clans + following the rules besides just "idk she's just like that" and perhaps more details on why she so strongly desired a familial relationship with violetpaw (when she had two very much alive parents that she's never shown interacting with in the slightest?).

uhhh tl;dr i think i do actually like needletail as a character but the erins can only write a proper character arc like once in a blue moon and this was not one of those instances. justice for the narrative or whatever. these cats deserved better (or worse. in the characters' perspective at least.)

#wc meta #wc #warrior cats #needletail #violetshine #needletail and violetshine #violetshine and needletail #meta analysis #i could write this series better i swear

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localcryptic · 3 months

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if you dont mind me asking, could you tell me more about Andromeda?

(vibrating with excitement) yeah i'll be really normal about it too

Andromeda (it/he/she/they), also known under their stage name, ANDROI-MEDA (haha because they're an android, get it) is an android pop star in the sci-fi oc verse i've been working on with @vampire-romancer !

he was created and developed as a project by a team from MIDAS records, a major record label, to be the "perfect" pop star. in the 7 years since its debut, ANDROI-MEDA has seen unprecedented success. she's bubbly and fun, friendly and graceful, kind to fans, the whole nine yards.

behind the scenes, however, they're bitter and jaded. Andromeda never asked for the fame they were created for, its never had true privacy or connection with others, and he's treated as disposable by the management team at MIDAS. quite literally.

the team makes more money if she can work indefinitely, so doing crazy things like "powering down/going into 'sleep' mode" or "actually getting repairs for damages" is bad for business. it's faster and cheaper to just keep her working until he breaks down, even artificially accelerating its processors if needed, and then uploading whatever memories remained in tact to a new body and moving on.

andromeda is secretly so very angry and scared and has no way to express it because they're the happy bubbly cutesy pop star with no control over their public image or message. when they start developing feelings for an up and coming alien indie-rock artist, who always tells it like it is and isn't afraid of a little controversy, Styx, (made by @vampire-romancer, if you want more info, ask them <3), it can't tell if the feelings are Jealousy, a Crush, or "I want to hit you with a rock".

but that is my little overview about them ! i think hes sooo silly :P its got light up LED panels along its body that change color to reflect their mood and strands of light up fiber optic cable woven into their hair!

#woah posting art twice in one day things are gettin crazy #my ocs #my art #oc art #oc artist #andromeda #unironically this oc was inspired by (1) saw a pastel gamer computer and thought “that could be a person”#(2) had a period of time where my computer was breaking down + crashing and i thought about how scary that must be for the computer #i should really have more organized tags for things in this oc verse #sci fi verse #sci fi #thatll be a start #i guess i'll make it a project to actually organize things if i wanna start posting more consistently about them all

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yamameta-inc · 8 days

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covid has really made me realize that most people don't have very good risk assessment or sense of scope, especially when it comes to statistics. part of it is definitely a knee-jerk aggressive response to the word even being said, but a lot of the arguments i hear seem predicated on some kind of belief that Low Percentage equals safe, because that's how people talk about things generally.

putting aside for one moment that the percentages are most likely a lot higher than they think, and that the risk of long-term complications after catching the virus is cumulative--i think people have sort of lost sight of how unprecedented covid actually is, because it's so easy to go back to normal life. covid is the first pandemic in the age of super fast and easy plane travel. covid is the first pandemic in the age of humanity's numbers being over 8 billion.

no one is claiming that your risk of catching covid after going out unmasked just once is high (with the exception of peak season during the holidays). in periods where transmission is low, that risk could in fact be negligible. but you aren't rolling that dice once. you're rolling it several times a day, every day. have you ever played a gacha game where the odds of pulling a SSR were 0.5%? did you ever pull one, or did you know anyone who did? how surprised would you be if you were able to pull one after pulling for 10 hours a day nonstop every day? would you really be particularly surprised?

despite all this, you may not catch covid more than once a year, or maybe even every two years. if you're looking at a time-frame of 5 years, that's pretty good, isn't it? the odds of developing severe, permanent complications from one or two covid infections isn't That high. except... why would we look at time-frames of 5 years? we're in the fifth year of the pandemic and this virus has evolved fast, so the research is obviously laser-focused on year to year changes and working with the timeline that it's got. but i don't know about you guys, i anticipate living about 60 more years. do you think, knowing what we know about cumulative damage, that catching covid 60 times will be completely fine for our bodies? hell, what do you think catching influenza 60 times would do? post-viral syndromes have existed long before covid.

vaccines will never be able to catch up to the rate of the virus' mutations if they keep being tailored to specific variants, and it complicates things for developing effective treatments too. this is because this is a virus that circulates every day among essentially 8 billion people. statistically, it's inevitable that a random mutation somewhere will be successful and then begin to circulate. the fact is that 0.5% (a completely arbitrary number) of the global population is a massive number of people. it's 40 million people, more than the population of many countries. but it can be that amount again and again, because there's nothing preventing continuous reinfection.

no other statistics deals with this kind of situation. you can't use that ordinary benchmark or logic to think about covid. because this is in fact an unprecedented situation. and when new situations arise, people have to adapt and change their behaviour. but that's something that humans really hate doing, unfortunately

#covid #it's not new to covid! but again. the scale is so much greater #the impact on the world is unfortunately inevitable--but it could be much less worse if we wanted it to be #unfortunately the third world will once again be bearing the brunt of this #as they're denied vaccines and medications #and as they continue to suffer poverty due to global imperialism #and you know? the best thing we could do is reduce transmission globally overall. because everything is connected now #less transmission in the US means less transmission in europe means less transmission in the world #but we apparently. just hate the idea of health so much

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wavesoutbeingtossed · 2 months

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Can I just say that as much as I'm usually talking into the void here, I'm so grateful for this community, even if I'm usually hanging out on the sidelines?

It's so nice to be able to come on here and write my silly little posts about the things Taylor's music makes me think about and to then have you wonderful people continue the discussion, or to read what you are all observing or analyzing and have my mind blown or chuckle or share in the joy or whatever.

For comparison, there are people who I used to love talking about this stuff with but over the years they've soured on Taylor (totally her prerogative) and we've stopped being able to have these discussions, because the nuance just goes out the window in the process. Like thinking Taylor was obsessive for writing as much as she did about JG because they were only together three months (when those of us who follow her realize it was more complicated than that), or insisting Midnights is a breakup album and the last year and a half of the relationship with Joe was fake going through the motions or fake and that they broke up way before tour (when... it's pretty damn obvious when it happened from the set list alone) and thinking TTPD is just going to be a diss album used to bury a helpless ex (...) or using the situation last May (ahem) as proof of her callousness or whatever, when again a more human answer is that she wasn't exactly thinking clearly and in The Pit in the wake of a life-changing upheaval etc. Or what really gets me, dismissing the Snakegate stuff as her being petty and holding onto grudges and ignoring the really intense mental and physical consequences that she dealt with for years afterwards.

Which is not to say this is all about her personal life, but that by being able to look at the music through a more nuanced lens instead of, like, taking it literally, for lack of better word, it colours in the lines and not only situates the music more in the context in which it was created, but also makes it feel richer to our own interpretations and associations with it. I LOVE when we all go back and find parallels with her other songs, and it's even more fun now because the mash-ups on stage show Taylor does the same thing with her own music! It's such a rich tapestry and we're in such a unique position as fans where an artist is reaching (if not has reached) living legend status in real time, while at an unprecedented level of creative output, and we get to digest the music and study it and watch it evolve before our eyes!

It's just really nice to have a space online where we *can* do that, because I feel like there just is nowhere else to really do that? It seems like people I know in real life either a) actively avoid her music (totally fair, not everyone's cup of tea) b) only care in terms of current pop culture value (also fair, although it gets annoying when it veers into TikTok brainrot into easter egging and shit instead of being about hte music) or c) obsessed with the Travis romance of it all. And I think most online spaces are kind of caught in these camps too. It's either unrelenting criticism (which is fine, not everyone has to like her and there are valid things to critique, even if I don't particularly care to myself) veering into hatred for the sake of hatred, or obsessing over her personal life to the point of dehumanizing her as a person and artist.

I know I'm being a cupcake but like, this is the cupcake website, so who cares. I use this space to delve into the shows and movies and music I love because there isn't anywhere else you can curate your experience as much as you can here. And when it comes to Taylor's music, I love that I can just spill my guts about what sets my brain on fire (affectionate) and the connections that emerge and just how much it makes me feel. And between the reblogs and comments and messages, it's slightly less lonely talking to everyone else too.

So, thank you friends! I don't know why I'm in my feels today but it seems like as good a time as any!

#ttpd time is gonna be a riot #writing letters addressed to the fire #i just... really like writing stuff #without having to get defensive or bite my tongue because someone is yelling BUT ACTUALLY #like believe me i'm a huge celebrity snarker #but i have a taylor shaped hole in my cynicism!#anyway happy weekend everyone!#i'm thinking about how much i've written about midnights (since I'm currently listening to it lol)#and there's nowhere else I would have been able to do that #and there's nowhere else I could spit out all the theorizing about ttpd i'm thinking #and it's just fun!#if detrimental to my social life lol

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phycology-lemon · 7 months

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Omg I just had a thought.

What if The Spot goes to Gwen's dimension? The colors are from the emotions people are feeling. It's absolutely beautiful and amazing for visual story telling.

BUT IMAGINE...the spot, who has been (seemingly) consumed by rage and thirst for vengeance.

Maybe it's not that simple, he may be a vilian but he's not pure evil. He's a normal guy (or he was). Losing everything would be earth-shattering.

He's broken, and traumatized. His body was irreversibly changed, everyone he knew abandoned him, and he can't benefit from any programs to get his life back on track because people are scared of him. There might also be dismorphia too because literally everything about HIS OWN BODY has changed.

Would he be a dark cloud? A swirl of colors reflecting internal chaos? Would he still be black and white, truly now devoid of humanity and emotion?

And there are a lot of ways they could use the physical representation of emotions to their benefit. Spot having a darkness that almost consumes anywhere he is, Miles trying to talk to him and we see a flick of warmth showing that he CAN be saved, or maybe even a moment where he is alone. Where we REALLY get a look at him. His pain, maybe a flashback sequence or him detailing it in his own words.

There are infinite possibilities.

But I'm really leaning toward him being redeemed/helped. He was physically changed and had his life taken from him, it was an accident but it still happened. Accepting what happened and moving forward without causing more pain.

That idea could also be useful in spider society. What happened to you was heartbreaking, mourning is natural, your pain is valid. Beating yourself up about what you could've done isn't the answer, but neither is assuming everyone has to go through that. If you can stop the cycle, than the world will come out better in the end.

It happened, but if we keep paying tragedy forward it never stops. It doesn't need to happen again. Maybe you couldn't change it then but you can change things now.

(Also its kind if unfair to Spot for his whole life to get fucked than when he's angry about it its just like 'he's dead or in forever prison.' Like he is a victim, even if how he chose to deal with it was wrong.

He literally had nobody to fall back on, got called 'villain of the week' by the guy who ruined his life, and was screwed over in a LITERALY UNPRECEDENTED way so NOBODY understands how to fix it or what it's like.

Most people would be in a horrific emotional state, lashing out, breaking down, just not great. I understand how he was pissed that miles didn't remember him and invalidated him by labeling him as unimportant. Like "YOU RUINED ME."

Anyway rant over.)

#atsv #atsv the spot #atsv theory #miles morales #across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse #The spot is my favorite #if you couldn't tell #hes so messed up

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sapphire-weapon · 11 months

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My favourite thing ever is the way Ashley gets Leon to smile. Honest to god, his most sincere and genuine smiles are the ones he's given Ashley.

Now if she could just get him to laugh, that would be something completely unprecedented.

Sorry, it just occurred to me literally today that Leon never laughs -- even one time -- at any point in this series. Other protagonists, at the very least, laugh at how stupid a villain's plan is sometimes. Not this guy. Not our Leon. He's too dead inside. Bro doesn't even laugh at OG Salazar, who may as well have circus music playing in the background any time he's on screen. We stan a depressed king.

I was actually thinking about this a little last night -- again, in the context of the whole "Ashley is Leon's anchor to reality/his road back to himself" thing that I've talked about before, while also paired with the shitpost-but-not I made the other day about Leon's sense of self-worth and identity.

Leon drifts further and further away from himself as the series goes on, and not only does he not smile anymore, he becomes downright sullen. There was a time -- a significant period of time, actually -- where you could have said that one of Leon's defining traits was his optimism. That stops being true by the time of Damnation; Leon's optimism is replaced by hollow machismo in a poor attempt at a coping mechanism in that movie -- and, by the time of Vendetta, even the machismo has fallen to the wayside. By the age of 37, Leon has completely and utterly embraced the creeping sense of despair that's been hounding his steps for years.

That has never been who he was. But it's who he is now.

And, as soon as I had that thought, something occurred to me that I somehow had not noticed in the 18 years since RE4 OG has been out:

Ashley is a foil for Ada.

That wasn't her intended purpose when she was created, but it's the narrative role that she's come to inhabit as the series has gone on and Leon's character has progressed without her.

In OG canon, Leon thinks of Ada as a part of himself that he can't let go. But the longer he clings to her, the less of himself he becomes.

And the last person to actually see him as his true self, lifted up from the despair, and without hiding (fully) behind a veneer of machismo was Ashley -- someone he did let go. Even in OG, he is very genuine and very sincere with his affection for her (platonic or not) in a way he really isn't with anyone after RE4.

So, when you point out that his smiles for her are genuine, there's really something to that. He trusts Ashley with a piece of his heart that he doesn't show to anyone else post-RE2. Like, literally, the last person who probably saw him like that was Sherry, and we already know that Leon estranges himself from her almost completely after they're taken into CIA custody following RE2.

And the Remakes make this way more obvious than the OG games did, too -- not only because of the RE engine being great for facial expressions, but because of the way the script changes make certain parts of Leon's character more noticeable. If you go straight from RE2make to RE4make, the entire opening sequence involving the cops and the hunting lodge is absolutely horrifying. If I was a new fan coming in from RE2make to RE4make, I would be knocked on my ass and going "This is not my Leon. This is not the sweet boy that I know. What the fuck happened to him?"

RE4make does such a good job with sharply juxtaposing who Leon was with who he is now. By the time of RE4make, Leon is so beaten down and tired and closed off and angry and, honestly, scared -- that he almost kind of feels like a completely different character. Except, he's not a different character. He's still Leon -- just, Leon with his blinders ripped off and his heart broken.

And, we know that he's still Leon, because every once in a while, the sweet boy that we know comes back. It's infrequent, and it's only for a few moments, but he's still in there. And it always -- every single time -- is only ever Ashley that pulls it out of him.

And Ada? She forces him to retreat again immediately, and he locks himself back up tight.

So, when Ashley gets permanently erased from Leon's life and Ada becomes more of a permanent fixture in it, that sweet boy from RE2 disappears, and he's replaced entirely by the version of Leon that's heartbroken and angry all the time -- because Ada is a constant reminder of all that he's lost, whereas Ashley, as his only true success story, was a hopeful reminder of all that he could potentially be.

I honestly don't think that Capcom even realizes that this is how they've written Leon's character. I don't think it was intentional for Leon's smile to fade with Ashley's absence in his life.

But that's just kind of how it happened.

#resident evil 4 #leon kennedy #ashley graham #meta analysis #this one kind of hurt my heart ngl #i mean i love that leon suffers don't get me wrong #a happy character is a boring character #but goddamn man #can we give this guy a fucking break #can we get him some pussy that won't bum him the fuck out for once #will somebody please just be nice to him #and then fuck him so hard that he temporarily displaces from time and space #and when he snaps back into it he realizes how ridiculously hard he just came #and how stupid the look on his face probably was #and he just starts breathlessly laughing #CAN WE DO THIS FOR HIM PLEASE???#CAPCOM???#HELLO???

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hi olivie!! big fan i’m in love with ta6 and am looking forward to reading more of your work. one of my social media platforms (my book / pop culture youtube channel!) has gained an unprecedented # of followers! which is great! i suppose the reason i make youtube videos is for people to watch them… but do you have advice for this scenario? where overnight you suddenly seem to have SO many more eyes on you than normal? how do you deal with the pressure of being an “influencer” when what you’re doing is following your passions & you have gained an audience! it’s a good problem to have, i know. im curious for your take <3 thank you!

oh god well you've come to the right place I guess, in terms of people who went from underrated to overhyped over the course of about 48 hours. it's a blessing of course but also in some ways a burden, especially when it comes to creating art, which is by nature subjectively made and interpreted. so, do I have advice... not really! I actually don't think that internet/social media "fame" (microfame lol) is something the human brain is meant to withstand. with every surge of popularity WILL come a surge of haters, that's just the nature of the game, and while I think you can convince yourself on some level to interpret that as a good thing, it's still hard to shake off the effect of what some people think is appropriate to say, especially in those kinds of volumes. not that this is about me

I think I generally have pretty good boundaries, but I've really gotten to a point where I have to admit to myself that there is no conceivable way to have skin thick enough for everything, shy of psychologically warping in a potentially bad way to cope with it. so, I guess my main piece of advice is: remember what you're doing and why you're doing it. always come back to that, because what you're making isn't for everyone, and therefore inevitably people will criticize or complain. don't forget that the people who interact with you, especially the ones who do so to be negative, are only a fraction of your audience, most of whom are consuming your work silently, and they are only a TINY SLIVER of the actual world, which is filled with people who care about you and want you to succeed. go outside. seriously. literally. turn off your devices and remember where life is actually happening. never create content directed at the haters—it only hurts the people who support you and will never do anything to change or educate the trolls. overalll, my advice is the same advice to my husband, who is occasionally frustrated by the problem students in his classroom. address the person in the room who wants to learn from you. focus on the person who is actually listening, because they're the person you will really, meaningfully reach

#big sistering #and thanks for reading my work!

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I forgot about Covid too... she has had so many health issues.... :( -

I lean more towards Derrick because Jessa is still very close to the family and besides Anna, seems to be the female closest to still being in it, minus the pants. -

We all pick our poison and find ways to rationalize things to make them ok in our mind. We speed but only so far over, you know... I guess it isn't physically putting on make up so it is "ok"? -

She does look like she could be a Kenna, lol. -

Tiffany showed a negative pregnancy test in the video of them going to meet Kenna.... also DONT KISS THE NEWBORN!!! -

Thanks and I like lists too, lol

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Ya poor gal, all the Bates girls really seem to have a rough go of it when it comes to health and pregnancies. -

We will see! I've thought Ben was going to be a dark horse in this race for a long time lol, I personally think they're both playing the long game with Jessa's family. Jessa hasn't made the dramatic changes that maybe Jill has but she has made some and I feel like has very purposefully avoided talking about them (and maybe others) publicly. Plus again, Jill and Derick just really weren't around Jinger at this time physically. -

Oh yea I'm 100% sure Tboni can rationalize that in her own mind even if I can't lol. It's like with Jill R, she takes the bible so literally in every area except the parts talking about looks and vanity and I'm desperate to know how she rationalizes that in her head. I got a little peek into in her book and it's just as confusing as I expected (yes those videos are still coming) -

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That makes me feel like all the baby mentions are because they are going to very publicly try to have a baby. Which I guess I shouldn't be surprised just with Lawson being who he is, but that's kind of unprecedented (and personal) I don't think I've ever followed a fundie who openly tried for a baby and took us on the ~*journey*~ with them. Also yes DON'T kiss newborns keep your germ-y mouths away from brand new babies, not just Tiffany but everyone!!! Stop it -

Lists are the best.

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One change I would make to the Rose of Versailles story (ridiculous idea) would be

for Oscar to realize what womanhood CAN be after her life of struggling with gender. Here she is in some moments wishing to be a genuine man so she does not feel the pining of desire and perhaps lust (this is a comic for young japanese girls in the 70s but it is obviously implied) Although!!! Oscar never pines for dresses and despises them. So you see a bit of that strength, that confidence that a truly fully realized woman would know. Instead of wanting to engage in consumerist sexualized feminine games, she constantly hones in on how destitute her life is, with love constantly escaping her grasp. She notices she is being fawned after ... But also she is seen as cold by the same characters.. Even though her heart is filled with fire that she can't let out. Because she doesn't know how. This contradiction plagues her and steals her joy, but she relates that loss of open romance to the fact she isn't a fully realized woman per se. Her father raised her to be a man and she constantly steps back and forth between enjoying her enhanced position in a misogynistic society but also feeling miserably doomed to a life of loneliness. Why is it she can't throw herself in the arms of somebody she loves, man or woman? You have a bit of internalized virtue obsession that in some panels involved a bit of homophobia on Oscar's part. She is ridden with a dark purity that only steals from her.

So, the change: Come her ending involving Andre,(no blatant spoilers for those interested in this magnificent masterpiece) -- she has some sort of epiphany about womanhood, but it only involves the realization of what love can be: being somebody's wife. There isn't much of a perception, at least outwardly expressed by Oscar, in this story that she feels and knows the unique experience of womanhood as being that of ... Well maybe I shouldn't go into the inherent experience of womanhood on here lol. It's getting too controversial if I delve into that. I just wish her realization at least wasn't ALL about giving herself to a man after a life of fighting the desire to do so. Oh hey, I am truly a woman, so I can go out and make love finally?... I wish there was more and she'd have taken pride in it, in a different way. The author being a feminist kind of stinks when you read the story under that impression, but the story was indeed written when Riyoko was very young. That was a chance for Riyoko to set a precedent in a story that was massively popular in Japan by the time it was completed. Still all over the world it remains popular but not as much in the states. That being said, it was considered a romantic historical fiction. Oscar would have just been so much stronger of a character if she finished off by showing the readers what a woman really can be despite the ball and chain of 18th century France holding women down. . . Is anyone understanding? She was so close. She wasn't wearing dresses and makeup and she wasn't giving herself to BELONG to a man; the ingredients were all there to create an unprecedented feminist statement. I'm not gonna tag this as Rose of Versailles cuz all the little weirdo fans are gonna come after me for "misgendering" Oscar (a woman..)

Im just releasing my thoughts into the air as I often do here! My Safe Space

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I was gonna post a Reddit thread but I feel like that's a one-way ticket to misfortune. I wanna listen to music but the silence feels important right now, for this. It's been a while since I posted anything here, and boy am I glad no one knows about this or pays attention to it because I dunno what they'd think. I just found out they're *actually* in a relationship with someone. I thought "Huh okay" at the time and tried to push my conflicting feelings way down to the point that when I finally disconnected, I still felt upset and panicked and wondered why. I know why. They're *with someone*. *They're moving on.* I want that for them. I thought in the moment, "No! they'll realize how much of a burden I am and toss me out on my ass for them! We still kinda have a thing for them somewhere deep down! They're ours!" but...somehow, I was able to bring my unprecedented willpower down on that voice, somehow gently even. "They don't belong to us. We might've felt that way, we still might feel that way a little bit, but that was never in the cards. What they have shown us is an amount of kindness and patience we can never repay, and rarely, properly, acknowledged. We owe them everything, and therefore our humility needs to be our kindness here, and we need to offer them joy and support. For ourselves, we need to offer compassion and a crooked grin. This is precisely what we've been given, as a child of chaos." At least that's what I tell myself now. In the moment it was much less pithy and long, but this is what that response truly meant. And I think I just let it happen in that moment and carried on, not realizing how much distress had ripped me downwards. Coming back inside, I sat with myself, eating my oatmeal bar, thinking. For some reason, The Hourglass was playing in my head, louder than ever, and I realized something, something important. I don't want to third-wheel them. Whether this is a thing or not who cares regardless this will come to a point and I don't want them to have to choose between someone they love, and me. God, I'm such an idiot. I've been sitting here for so long, doing so little with myself, adding so much strain regardless of what they say. Maybe this is only a drop in the bucket as far as waking me up goes, but this is tearing into my soul badly enough that I'm here, writing, thinking, wondering. I don't want to lose them, I want to stay as close as ever, but I recognize that there needs to be more space, more capability, less self-pity. How can I *ever* be the person I want to be if I keep ruining myself? How can I *ever* be the person they need at their back if I can't fight? They've been telling me it's anger I need, and the other's been telling me it's compassion, but what I realize I need, more than anything, is humility. Humility that isn't self-pity, humility that respects those around me, humility that can temper my rage and my noise into something more refined, more discerning, something stronger than I could ever hope to be without it. A humility that understands I am not the most important person in the world, I am not special and therefore a failure as a result of not meeting that expectation, I am not the greatest of all time and I am assuredly not the most chaotic and glorious being that ever lived and should be regarded with awe and love by those around me. A humility that respects, and is respected, one that makes me aware of my flaws and my strengths, tempers my expectations, and reminds me that regardless of all that, I can be great simply by being myself. I can't change what happened to me. I can't change sitting on my ass for all these years, and I certainly can't fucking change my mental illness. But I can still make war while the sun still shines. I can be something, someone different. I can always choose to *be* great, instead of imagining I am. I can be someone better.

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It is, of course, easy to mock Suella Braverman, and I wouldn't be the first to do it, and likely it's been done much better.

But let's do it some more anyway, and pick over that wonderful speech she made recently.

She opens with thanks, which is nice, one supposes, and then we have:

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but as Home Secretary, I do occasionally receive a modicum of criticism.

Ho ho ho. Bet that got a chuckle. I'd say it demonstrated a level of self-awareness but I don't think it quite qualifies.

Sometimes I’m asked if I ever read what my critics say about me. Well, the answer is: yes, I do. I’m made of strong stuff, so I’m prepared to wade through the personal abuse, the wild invective, and the wilful misrepresentation. Because I believe that all of us should strive for improvement. And if we close our ears to anyone who disagrees with us…we are less likely to identify our mistakes.

Suella is one of those people who will have what she said repeated verbatim, in-context, and represented entirely accurately to what she was saying and how she was saying it, and who will still claim she was being misrepresented. This will become more obvious.

More, I would dearly love to see any occasion where any criticism has caused anything on her part that isn't simply doubling down. Improvement doesn't just mean going faster when someone says there's a wall in front of you, Suella.

The world is being transformed by powerful forces. I think the British people see that.

A conspiratorial person might see that as some sort of subtle nudge-nudge wink-wink kind of line, and they might have a point because it's sort of hard to justify otherwise. Forces? What forces? Oh? Powerful ones you say? Well I never. Better shut the doors, then! Pull up that ladder!

Now one of the most powerful forces reshaping our world is unprecedented mass migration.

They really do have a massive hard-on for this, as is noted, but what always annoys me - as I may have mentioned before - is the utter indifference towards the causes of migration. Why are so many people migrating? What might the causes be? Should we endevour to understand this a little better before attempting to deal with it?

No. Icky foreigner bleurgh. Stay out. Country full.

The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th century was a mere gust compared to the hurricane that is coming.

I love this. You see when my parents came over that was fine, because that was good type of migration at the proper time - the past. Now it's totally different. Now it's bad migration. Different. My parents - good, migrant parents today - bad.

And let's not ignore the ever-so-subtle conflation of migration with a natural disaster. Freudian slip, or another deliberate wink? We may never know, but we can speculate!

Every human, every single person, has the right to aspire to a better life. As Conservatives, that is one of the cornerstones of our philosophy. And, indeed, without that dream, I wouldn’t be standing before you today. But Conservatives are also practical and realistic.

That is to say, while it is core to our philosophy, it is our duty to do everything to make it as difficult as possible. You have a right to aspire to a better life, yes, but there's nothing here about us making it easy for you. Practically and realistically speaking, making it harder for you works better for us.

Nobody can deny that there are far, far more people in poorer countries who would love to move to Britain than could ever be accommodated… Even if we concreted over the countryside…. Turned our cities into one vast building site… And erected skyscrapers from Eastbourne to Elgin and from Hull to Holyhead… …It still wouldn’t be enough.

See? Country full. They love that sort of thing.

The decency of the British people cannot be questioned.

I would think anyone paying attention to the Conservative Party Conference will find them questioning the decency of a fair few British people.

For years, too many overseas students were bringing their dependents here to the UK. So we’ve changed the rules to ensure that a student visa is not a route for whole families to come and live and work in the UK.

I'm not an expert on immigration, but I can't imagine this is the enormous problem you seem to be suggesting it is. And is people working in the UK an issue for you? I thought you guys loved people working!

And Conference we will soon begin closing down asylum hotels.

Isn't the whole point of these hotels that people are being put there while their claims are being processed? The problem was that it was taking bloody forever to do it, not the hotels themselves (in theory). So if you're shutting them down does that man you solved the backlog? How? Or what?

This feels like you're missing out some key details, Suella!

Our Illegal Migration Act which will come into force in the coming months, now means that the only route to asylum in the UK is a legal route. The Act means that those arriving illegally, will be detained and removed, back to their home country if possible, or to a safe third country like Rwanda.

There's nowhere really to start on this. It's about coming at something from entirely different angles. For Suella - and a lot of others, sadly - this sort of thing is inherently good. And if you think about it the first paragraph isn't necessarily bad - it's only bad because they're making what constitutes 'legal' immigration ridiculously narrow, specifically to throttle it.

Like, if legal immigration was broader and more efficient, 'illegal' immigration would come down, because coming in legally would be easy. But they don't like anyone coming in, legal or not, so now coming in legally is bastard hard, and if you don't, well, that's illegal, so off to Rwanda with you.

It's totally safe, honest! Ignore the times we said otherwise! And ignore the odd situation where Rwanda is safe and fine but also a threat we'll use to dissuade you from coming.

Eurgh.

And be under no illusion, we will do whatever it takes to stop the boats and deter bogus asylum seekers.

'Bogus' asylum seekers. Classy. We'll get into that again soon, I'm sure.

We will also ensure that legal migration comes down to reasonable levels… and that it occurs only when there is a clear benefit to the British people.

That's kinda gross, don't you think? A reasonable level of legal migration is an acceptable drip-feed of those we feel are sufficiently useful to be allowed in. Arguments might be made that most immigration policy is kind of like this, but there's something in her delivery, don't you think?

And it’s not just negligence or incompetence… although you can be guaranteed of plenty of that if Labour wins.

Suella, I know you're at a party conference, but it's still hard to believe you said that with a straight face.

The biggest reason why Conservative governments have struggled to get illegal migration under control is because Labour governments passed laws that inhibit effective action.

Heh, sure.

Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era. And it is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act. I am surprised they didn’t call it the Criminal Rights Act.

Now that's just lazy - come on, Suella!

Weirdly enough, criminals do actually have rights, because they are still human. Crazy, I know. And this might have something to do with the fact that was a 'criminal' is is largely at the whim of whoever is in charge, which is why making these rights universal is kind of important.

Otherwise you could just say someone you didn't like - oh, a mean journalist saying mean things, say, or some dirty dirty migrant - was a criminal and, poof, they'd have no rights. And that's a bad thing, Suella. Just so we're clear.

Also like the idea that human rights is some dusty relic from the past and what we need here in the future is, uh, no rights, I guess? Brave new world, indeed!

Each time I have gone to Parliament to improve the law on immigration, Labour has tried to block us.

Well, uh, A) They're literally called the opposition and B) That's because most of your improvements are horrendous, Suella. And sometimes just straight-up illegal. Ooh damn those activist judges! With their laws!

Racist. Racist. Racist. They’ve always used that smear. They tried it against Margaret Thatcher… It didn’t work. They tried it against David Cameron… It didn’t work. A couple of years ago they even tried it against Winston Churchill… Our greatest ever leader… And it didn’t even work then.

Um. That would be the famously racist Winston Churchill, I assume? Bengal famine guy? That guy? We are talking about the same person, right?

Also, I'm unsure what she means here by 'It didn't work'. I mean, it didn't do anything, fine, but that doesn't really speak to the validity of the accusations, does it?

We are the Party to confront the challenge of global migration in the years ahead.

Again, a challenge they have absolutely no apparent interest in understanding. This being the party that argued - with a straight face - that what they were doing with their Rwanda plan was directly taking the fight to people smugglers.

Figure that one out.

Man this is hard to get through...

Thanks to our new laws, the police can now get these clowns [Just Stop Oil] off our streets and get traffic moving in a matter of minutes.

These would be the laws that basically give the police carte blanche to declare anything involving two or more people a protest and empower them to handle them however they might feel like handling them, just so we're clear. These are not good.

The Prime Minister and I are firmly on the side of the law-abiding majority. That’s why we have backed our police officers with one of the largest ever rises in police pay… It’s why we ensured we hit our target of 20,000 additional police officers – so that we now have more officers in England and Wales than ever before. It’s why we’ve backed the police’s use of stop and search as an effective way to get knives off our streets.

Like, I just don't think most of that is, you know, true? The stats I mean. They sound like the sort of things that are technically true, if you pick certain parameters and exclude certain things and ignore other parts.

And ah yes, stop and search. Hell, why not bring back sus? It worked great! What riots?

It’s why we’re making sure that police are not inadvertently helping mobs to enforce non-existent blasphemy laws.

The fuck are you talking about, Suella?

And it’s why we’ve made sure that Prevent – the government programme that stops people from sliding towards terrorism – is focused on the main security threat to the British public, Islamist extremism.

This jumps out to me as weird as it seems to imply that Prevent was being used on some unspoken other security threat to Britain, and that was bad, because the real threat is clearly Muslims. This seems like a play to me, you know? Like a "We know who the REAL enemy is, not anyone else! It's THOSE guys! We all know it!"

Hmm.

There’s more to do to reform our vagrancy laws, because we cannot let British cities go the way of San Francisco or Seattle.

Oh my God, I hadn't known this was in here. The other parts I'd kind of picked up elsewhere, I didn't know she said this. That's just...

...no, it's too much, there's too much in there.

Suffice to say, no. Bad Suella, bad. Please don't apply your trademark lack of understanding and dearth of human warmth to anything relating to homelessness. I can see workhouses being on the cards if you get involved.

And let me go on and say this. I have a particular message to those brave police officers who risk their lives to protect the rest of us by carrying firearms into situations where they could be harmed or even killed. You are the thin blue line. You have our support. We are grateful for the vital work that you do, day in, day out. That is why I announced a review, to report to me by the end of the year, to ensure that the legal and operational framework in which they operate is robust and commands the confidence of both officers and the public.

This would be about the firearms offiers throwing a strop because one of them murdered a guy and might get in trouble for it, obviously. They're also carrying firearms into situation where, you know, just people who happen to be nearby might be harmed or killed. Just saying.

I can't imagine you're particularly concerned with what the public think about it, Suella, so I'm not sure why you'd even mention it.

They’ve already started the character assassination against Sue. The distortions. The insults. The lies. That’s what the Labour Party always does: It prefers smears to debate.

This would be Sue, their London mayoral candiate.

And thing is, Suella, Labour - and indeed, everyone else - doesn't really need to lie or distort these days because you're just out-and-out saying the most insane shit. Why lie?

I know they have tried to make me into a hate figure because I tell the truth.

No, it's because you're kind of disgusting and scary. And horribly, horribly unqualified to be in any position of authority. You're a hate figure because you are legitimately making people's lives worse, and doing it for explicitly nasty reasons. It's not complicated.

Our politically correct critics have money. They have status. They have loud voices. They have the luxury of promoting seductive but irresponsible ideas safe in the knowledge that their privilege will insulate them from any collateral damage. The luxury beliefs brigade sit in their ivory towers telling ordinary people that they are morally deficient because they dare to get upset about the impact of illegal migration, net zero, or habitual criminals. And you can be sure of one thing. People with luxury beliefs will flock to Labour at the next election because that’s the way to get the kind of society they want.

Jesus Christ. Where do you even start on that?

For one thing, you're the fucking Conservatives! You have the money! That's you! You've got doners up the wazoo! Happily giving you money to get the kind of society they want! But that's okay, I guess?

Also, who uses 'Ivory towers' unironically? You sound like a crank.

And it's less like 'You're unreasonable for caring about these things' and more 'You're proposed solutions to these things cause more harm than good' - but that's disagreement, so clearly they're just liberal ivory tower moneyed elites.

They like open borders. The migrants coming in won’t be taking their jobs. In fact, they are more likely to have them mowing their lawns or cleaning their homes. They love soft sentences. The criminals who benefit from such ostentatious compassion won’t be terrorising their streets or grooming their children. They are desperate to reverse Brexit. They think patriotism is embarrassing and have no use for a British passport unless it is taking them to their second homes in Tuscany or the Dordogne.

Who are you talking about? And what jobs is anyone taking? And what prisons are people going to be serving your harsh sentences in anyway? And what are the root causes of crime? And do rich Tory doners not have second homes? The fucking PM has an American green card!

Argh!

This is exhausting. Just, the profound incuriosity. The absolute conviciton on how the world clicks neatly into place and what's needed is a firm hand at all times. Criminals? Punish. Borders? Closed. Brexit? Sorted.

What is a criminal? Why do people commit crime? Might there be a way of ensuring that people don't need to commit crimes? What can we do to ensure less recidivism?

NO! PUNISH! PUNISH! PUNISH! That'll teach 'em!

I can feel the will to live leave my body...

The British people have no enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer. They know that he believes in nothing…

A broken clock is right twice a day, so fair.

Imagine what would happen if he became Prime Minister. Luxury beliefs would reign supreme. Britain would go properly woke.

I kind of want to smack the word 'woke' out of everyone's mouth. It's alongside 'fascist' with 'Word that has ended up meaning a person who says things I don't agree with' only for the right, and they are really keen on it.

Also, just, 'luxury beliefs'. Eurgh.

"What's that? You believe in human rights? Well I don't have that luxury." Under the banner of diversity, equity, and inclusion, official policies have been embedded that distort the whole purpose of these institutions. Highly controversial ideas are presented to workforces and the public as if they are motherhood and apple pie. Gender ideology. White privilege. Anti-British history.

Christ, are we nearly done?

What is there to say at this point? I'm so tired.

This is just pandering to a certain audience, and it's obviously that. At this stage in the speech there's no real need to analyse it. It's just bad. She's doing a dance, going through the motions. Whatever.

Although I do like the idea of 'Anti-British history' because it is fairly obvious just pointing out things that happened but which are embarrassing. What's that? Slave trade? How could you be so anti-British as to mention that!

And of course, as always happens when the left gets the upper hand, those who fail to conform are persecuted.

There is something beautifully beautiful in someone building a whole platform out of "We'll cast out and destroy this woke nonsense" claiming that the left are the guys who love to persecute, and that persecution is bad.

Presumably if what you believe is just plain old common sense, what you're doing isn't persecution, it's just sensible.

Blah blah blah, transphobia, naturally, eurgh...

Labour is the party of pressure groups, rich zealots, and trade union activists. But, you know, the Conservative Party is also a kind of trade union. Because we are the trade union of the British people.

You've got some brass, Suella, I'll give you that. Anyone else would have choked on that.

Fuck me that was difficult. Can you imagine actually having to sit through the whole thing? Listening to her? Seeing her? That smug fucking face? As she tells you that Labour is party of rich zealots?

I'm never doing this sort of thing again. I regret doing it this time. Every word is like a turd falling into my drink. I am horrified that this woman is in government and in a position to actually affect the running of the country. I'm horrified people like her exist at all.

The Tory party was always awful, but we've gone so far beyond scraping the bottom of the barrel. We're sub-barrel now. I don't know what we've dug into but it should never have seen the light of day.

And what truly makes my skin crawl is knowing that someone, somewhere, is lapping this shit up.

(Oh, and that the Tories are always guaranteed a solid bedrock of support regardless of what they do. That too.)

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