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The Billionaire Plot: Saving Earth or Sealing Doom?
In a world where the mega-rich hold the strings, what if their most controversial act was not malevolence, but a desperate bid to save us all? Dive into an alternate reality where billionaires aren't villains, but unsung heroes battling an impending cl...
Yo, ThunkDeep fam! It’s your boy, ThinkTank Theorium, back at it again, diving headfirst into the deep end of the thought pool. Today, we’re spinning a yarn that might just unravel the fabric of your regular thinking – what if the mega-rich, the puppet masters of our society, aren’t actually plotting our demise but are instead our unlikely saviors? Buckle up, ’cause this ride through the…
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#Alternate Realities#Bill Gates#Billionaires#Climate Change#Conspiracy Theories#COVID-19#Earth&039;s Future#Environmentalism#Mosquitoes#Planetary Health#Social Commentary#Speculative Thinking#ThinkTank Theorium#ThunkDeep#ThunkSpiracy#Wealth and Power
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Femme Fatale Guide: Healthy Habits To Look & Feel Your Best Without Restriction or Unrealistic Routines
Realistic ways to maintain a healthy life/body/appearance (size and weight are all personal, not the most important metric – for certain). No diet culture or delulu-land tips here.
What I've done to maintain my 30-pound weight loss for over a decade, glowing clear skin (no pimples or discoloration, etc.), and super healthy, full & shiny hair, still living life and enjoying it – the mindful way.
Eat home-cooked meals & (plant-based) whole foods – 90-95% of the time
Incorporate at least 1 salad into my daily routine (either a large, hearty lunch salad or a simple green salad as a starter with dinner)
Include at least 1 fruit/vegetable in every meal or snack
Never restrict food groups – whole grains/potatoes, healthy fats, protein-rich plant foods, and produce are all essential to consume every day
Focus on meals, but have whole food snack options on hand to enjoy if genuinely hungry (mainly fruit, lupini beans, edamame, carrots/celery/cucumber with hummus, plain popcorn, handful of almonds/cashews)
Have breakfast after one coffee (before a second) and have dinner late enough (8-9:30 pm) to curb late-night hunger
Only have fruit and tea after dinner; Always stop consuming food at least 3 hours before bed for better sleep/digestion
Order whatever I want when going out to eat, but split dessert
Have at least one indulgent meal/dessert per week
No sugary cocktails – wine, champagne/prosecco, martinis, gin & tonic, margarita, French Connection, Sambuca, Grappa, tequila on the rocks, etc. are great options. Bellinis/fruit plus wine/spirits cocktails are a good middle ground. Sugary drinks worsen the hangover – big-time
Perceive healthy eating as a form of enjoyment, creativity, and nourishment, not restriction or deprivation (it's not if done liberally enough)
Consume a vitamin B12 and vitamin D supplement daily. Keep digestive enzymes on hand for when they're necessary
Always have a large glass of water first thing in the morning (before coffee) and by my side all day long
No soda, juices, sugary drinks, etc. Black coffee, tea, and water only on the daily – wine and no-sugar alcoholic drinks on rare occasions. Smoothies can be a great snack or breakfast, though!
Incorporate an (almost) daily walk into my schedule as a form of exercise and a mental health reset (I aim for 4-5 miles/10Kish steps per day on average)
Do short, low-impact strengthen training exercises 3x a week (15-30 mins each usually) for bone health & toning
Never forcing myself to do strenuous exercise/workout formally in a gym – it's not for me; it doesn't make me feel/look better and throws my hunger & energy levels way off. To each their own, though
Have a variety of playlists ready to go for waking up, working, dancing, walking/workouts, doing chores, and reading/relaxing
Internalizing that sexual health is a core aspect of your health & well-being – on all counts
Maintaining a simple skincare routine 2x per week with high-quality products and a couple of weekly treatments
Prioritizing my body care routine with as much as my facial skincare routine
Wearing at least SPF 30 daily
Exfoliating 2-3x per week
Learning what hair products work for my hair type; Using a deep conditioning mask and a scalp mask weekly
Using only cold water when washing my hair
Incorporating face & body massages into my weekly at-home routine
Using Uriage lip balm, hand cream, and deodorant religiously
Flossing 1-2 times a day/using an electric toothbrush
#healthy habits#healthy eating#health and wellness#health & fitness#health is wealth#skincare tips#haircare#self care#glow up era#self concept#femme fatale#dark feminine energy#dark femininity#it girl#high value woman#the feminine urge#high value mindset#female excellence#female power#queen energy#dream girl#femmefatalevibe#q/a
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*tries to organize my thoughts*
*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*
*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*
(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next
#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment#so many innocent bystanders at stake#every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis#racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system#and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description#aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh#(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt.#but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.)#seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this.#the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later?#that is not cute. it is Alarming.#no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain#and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students#this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE#...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power#and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class#which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever#it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses...#anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you.#obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding#are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it#please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent#mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies#& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground#mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man
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how much greek mythology do you know?
(for ichiruki month 2023 day 8: fairest)
#ichiruki#kurosaki ichigo#kuchiki rukia#artist life#bleach art life#bleach fanart#irmonth2023#I've always thought The Judgement of Paris and the subsequent Trojan War was very. Bleach#Hera promised prestige and wealth (being a quincy means ichigo gets a prestigious heritage and position)#Athena promised victory and battle power (being an arrancar gives ichigo destructive battle prowess)#Aphrodite promised the love of the most beautiful woman in the world (being a shinigami means ichigo gets to be with Rukia)#(Ichigo)(Paris) Made A Choice (shinigami)(Aphrodite)#except (Rukia)(Helen) was already married to someone else! with a daughter!#So them falling in love caused Problems (the entire clusterfuck that is Bleach)(The Trojan War)#yeah this little comparison has been on my mind for years#there u have it
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#17 Things You Should Forget#boa constrictor bowling parties#the dead-eyed doll#surprise octopus hug#arcane rites invoked to accrue unlimited wealth/power#werewolf#werewolves#moon#unreality
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you say machete has to be closeted then why's he always wearing them little heels
Maybe he thinks he's a tiny bit nicer looking in them.
#no in fact he's just a little ahead of the curve let me try to explain#again I'm not a historian I'm just sharing what I've read I might be misremembering stuff so don't quote me on this#high heels became extremely fashionable in the early 1600's probably just a few decades after Machete's time#and they were originally worn by men#because they were inspired by Persian riding boots#if your shoes had heels you'd have easier time keeping your feet in the stirrups (think of cowboy boots)#Europeans saw them thought they looked snazzy and they became wildly popular in noble circles fairly quickly#for some hundred years or so high heels were the epitome of class wealth power and status and they were essentially genderless#remember that concepts of masculinity and femininity are fluid and change over time#things that were seen as manly a few centuries ago may seem downright effeminate to a modern viewer#it's all matter of perspective neither is objectively more correct than the other#they started to separate into men's heels and women's heels around mid 1700's iirc but the changes weren't massive even then#and only truly went out of vogue when the French Revolution hit in 1789#and people all across the continent were suddenly put off by everything that reminded them#of the frivolousness and extravagance of royalty and aristicracy#so in his canon timeline I don't think people are looking at him and going “hmmm that's pretty gay”#because heels hadn't become gendered yet#maybe he likes how they accentuate his already tiny paws and make his legs look even longer than they are#he's interested in fashion or at least likes to dress nicely in high quality garments#he tries very hard to look his best despite never really feeling comfortable in his skin#he was a real shrimp as a kid and even though he eventually grew up to be a beanpole he might still find the extra height appealing#no one's going to look down on him ever again#I admit the way I draw them is a lot more modern than the true historical style at the time but not outrageously so#artistic freedom and all that in the end I'm not aiming for 100% accuracy#modern au Machete has no excuses though he's just a little bit fruity#if the guy feels empowered by wearing little clip cloppers let him#answered#anonymous#Machete
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rewatching an episode of season one of merlin right now, i have a lot of thoughts (arthur legit looks so young it’s messing with my mind realizing how much the characters grow over the seasons and oh my lordy merlin used to be so pure, so trusting, so naive *ugh*) but one thing that just popped into my head: how small Camelot looks.
this is probably due to budget reasons, but the fact that random people can show up and demand an audience with uther or appear mysteriously and meet with a prince, it just makes me wonder what that must have been like for merlin both during his time in camelot and after
we’re talking a kingdom’s whose golden age was in an era of petty states and kings, a few centuries after the fall of the roman empire. merlin fics sometimes bring up how popular merlin is among the people of camelot. it highlights the unspoken notion that camelot and its nobles and royals aree within degrees of separation.
the world, after arthur’s death, must have gotten so frightfully big for merlin. i just think, what if merlin had served arthur or another such king in a later era when the size of the kingdom was so much larger? remove the feudalistic background, if that is what they were going for in the series, and who is merlin? its for that reason that i love the joke that merlin would lowkey be a monarchist because yeah, merlin lived an early era of kings where royals could be in such close proximity and held to the standards of their people.
#merlin#bbc merlin#arthur pendragon#merlin bbc#merthur#king arthur#merlin emrys#bbc merthur#incoming headcanon: camelot was a small but mighty kingdom that succeeded in centralizing power within the region#after centuries of destabilization in the aftermath of the fall of the roman empire#the pendragon’s united the region#brought great wealth and respect over the lands#like imagine if this is why the purge succeeded#or maybe this is me trying to make history out of a fictional work
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I didn’t sit here for years tryna stay calm and silent while listening to your bad takes on gale (who grew up oppressed, in poverty and then witnessed his entire district getting wiped out then rightly went to fight in the rebellion because it was his inlg chance of tearing down the system the wanted him and his family dead) being a “terrorist war criminal who is single handedly responsible for killing innocent people including prim and who is the REAL villain of the hunger games” just for y’all to turn and start stanning and defending actual facist dictator and child trafficker Coriolanus Snow because you saw a young hot version of him.
#i actually do enjoy coryo as a villain and liked his origin story but people are really making excuses for him? and they know what he became#gale hawthorne#the hunger games#anti coriolanus snow#tbosas#like even in tbosas he shows that he is a sociopathic narissist. he tries to be good but those traits are still there and he embraced them#as for gale he was oppressed his entire life and lived in the poorest part of panem and resents the rich who were complicit in his suffering#the things he does for the resistance were things he thought was neccessary to win to end oppression#the other option was losing the rebellion and getting tortured killed and allowing snow to cause a lot more suffering#do i agree w everything he does? no because he is a character with flaws but i dont blame him one bit for decisions after the genocide of 12#he has to live with the consequences of what happened during the war and what he had to do to survive#but he is not a bad person for fighting back and willing to kill to survive he also does not understand the toll it takes to have to kill#him and snow are the same age and they both choose survival but snow is choosing power for himself and restoring his families wealth#and gale is choosing to join the rebellion and willing to fight for the sake of the rest of his people and to put an end to the suffering#one creates an oppressive society and one is tearing down that society both do whatever it takes#wow i guess i have more thoughts on gales character than i originally thought and the comparisons with snow are interesting
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“Find riders to master Silverwing, Vermithor, and Seasmoke, and we will have nine dragons against Aegon’s four. Mount and fly their wild kin, and we will number twelve, even without Stormcloud,-” Princess Rhaenys pointed out. “-that, is how we shall win this war.”
“It should’ve been you,-” the Sea Snake shouted at Her Grace. “-Staunton sent to you, yet you left it to my wife to answer and forbade your sons to join her.” For all the castle knew, Jace and Joff had been eager to fly with Princess Rhaenys to Rook’s Nest, with their own dragons.
# you’ll be the death of me
#this will likely end me#rhaenys x corlys#rhaenys velaryon#rhaenys targaryen#corlys velaryon#the queen who never was#the sea snake#house of the dragon season 2#house of the dragon#game of thrones#a song of ice and fire#rhaenyra targaryen#hbo max#eve best#steve toussaint#for what corlys? wealth? power? pride???
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Fëanaro sewing little stuffed animals for his sons as babies, because his mother had made him one and he treasures it.
Fëanaro seeing the way his tiny nephew looks longingly at the animal that Makalaurë carries and so sewing Findekano a little eagle all his own.
(Only because he doesn’t want the son of Nolofinwë to steal Makalaurë’s toy, of course. The pleading eyes and bright grin upon receiving the gift have Nothing To Do With It.)
Continuing the tradition for each new child born to the family, until there is a veritable menagerie of stuffed animals.
Idril giving hers to Eärendil, who in turn tucks it into the crib of his sons.
(It is always warm. Warm as though it is lit up by something inside, some feeling that Idril’s great uncle would forever deny. A warmth that had been invaluable on the Ice.)
A soft toy that, though patched and worn, is recognisable to those attacking the children’s home.
A soft toy that, eventually, many millennia later, makes its way back to Valinor. Held in the arms of one who never had such a gift, one who needs the warmth and love that infuses it.
#silmarillion#Feanor#sons of feanor#house of finwe#look I’m just having feels about a Feanor Who Sews To Show Love#a Feanor who adores elflings even while trying to deny it#the power of an heirloom passed down for comfort instead of wealth#I could probably go on even more
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The wealth of the imperial countries is our wealth too. ... For in a very concrete way Europe has stuffed herself inordinately with the gold and raw materials of the colonial countries: Latin America, China, and Africa. ... Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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I always enjoy it when the most horrible villains have little flickers of humanity in them to make them even worse; I love that the Dark Urge apparently has a soft spot for the poor and homeless and gives to beggars, and that Gortash seems to have one for orphans and abandoned children (and possibly the people that care about them). Also the fact that this empathy can kind of apply to each other, if you think about it. In my head it's one of the things they silently bond over.
Sceleritas tries to convince himself that Durge did it to distract the attentions of the Fist, and Gortash could be said to be doing it for PR; but honestly I think it's more interesting if they're genuine (and doing it for PR)
Does it make them redeemable? Nope. And they can turn this off easily; Durge is a Bhaalist and can and will hunt the homeless. Gortash kills children when it will advance his goals. But does it make this interesting (for me)? Yeees.
#In my head they are both poor kids who've grown up seized wealth and power for themselves and now have chips on their shoulder about th rich#/durgetash#/durge#/gortash#babbling#villainous nonsense
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Best picture. Childe having his phone struck between his ear and his shoulder talking about bodies that was supposed to be burnt. Wearing a cute apron (something with "Best Hubby" or something like that written there is hilarious). And dealing with one boiling thing in the casserole, two flying pan and while watching the cake in the oven is not burning. All this while you tried to study in the sofa. And even with all this, he still find a paranormal way to tell you to not stand up to take the chips in the cupboard. Not good for your health and dinner will be ready soon enough. I'm sure this guy have eyes behind his head for that. Or prophetic power at this point.
He looks like a mother gossiping on the phone while doing so except that he isn't a mother (yet) and is in no way gossiping. Sometimes hearing his phone calls makes you wonder whether you are allowed to be hearing all that. Didn't he say you'd have to be assassinated if you learnt of sensitive information? Why are you still alive? Most importantly, what level of attention span does he have to be balancing a phone call about a serious issue like an improperly disposed body, two frying pans, something in the oven, and your every movement. You haven't even gotten up yet and he's already called out to you amidst his conversation, telling you to stay seated since dinner is almost ready. Sometimes he even throws an orange over his shoulder to land perfectly in your lap without looking. That occurrence alone makes you respect him and not get too antagonistic with him.
#childe: *throws an orange over his shoulder behind his back to land in your lap* eat healthy#reader: what level of sorcery is this??#normal people have 5 senses while he has like 8#he couldnt rizz up reader with his looks and wealth so he uses his paranormal powers#ask#anon#childe brainrot
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