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Ahem…
Fascism is dictatorship. It is authoritarian, totalitarian, tyrannical
Communism is just rebranded fascism with a committee rather than a dictator
Socialism is just communism-lite
*but it will go full force communism in a very short time
The Nazi party is just rebranded fascism with a socialist take
None of the above are economic systems, or any sort of systems of government. They are simply the very, very few ruling the very, very, very many… and with tech on their side this time, if they are not stopped NOW, there will be no stopping them later
Anarcho-literally-anything will descend very quickly into authoritarianism, totalitarianism… tyranny… and you will not be able to organize quick enough nor effectively enough to stop it
Change my mind…
… and quit playing cute little childish fucking games with our freedom
Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸
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#fjb#fascism#communism#socialism#nazi party#Marxism#the end of the human race#treason is not cute#you are not being clever#solo roba di angie#non solo roba da angie#born a witch#vampire#here i am#2a#1a
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Nobody tell him.
#good omens#good omens 2 spoilers#Aziraphale#Anthony J Crowley#when I started drawing this i thought I was being clever#and by the time finished there were already like 70 tumblr posts with the same idea lmao#for a while I thought maybe I shouldn't post this at all but you know it's been half a year since I posted anything#so i'm posting this now#originality be damned
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Go you funky little SecUnit! Go!
(One of my favorite scenes from the newest Murderbot novel: System Collapse)
#love when secunit gets a little bit feral#system collapse#murderbot#the murderbot diaries#system collapse spoilers#I'm not good at drawing armor pls go easy on me#I just laughed so hard at this scene it's so fucking funny to me#imagine being the B-E secunit already having a terrible day#your clients are scheming and trying to murder each other#and then here comes the weirdest secunit you've ever seen and you need to neutralize it#you very cleverly disable its projectile weapon with a well-aimed shot oh you're so clever#and just like that it's flinging itself at your head like a fucking feral cat at the vet's office#grace makes art
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I just realized something about Glass Onion and the way it’s structured, and like everything else in the movie it was told to us in the start:
(GLASS ONION SPOILERS AHEAD)
… it’s a fugue. The movie is a Fugue.
During the puzzle box sequence when the music box puzzle opens, Yo Yo Ma tells Peg that the music they’re hearing is Bach’s “Little Fugue in G Minor” he explains:
“A fugue is a beautiful musical puzzle based on just one tune. And when you layer this tune on top of itself, it starts to change and turn into a beautiful new structure.”
Right in front of our eyes, Rian Johnson just told us how the movie was going to go. It starts out with a simple tune, your classic murder mystery setup much like the Clue movie and half of the mysteries Agatha Christie was famous for writing. We meet the eccentric characters, a murder happens, everyone runs around for a while, and the detective seems ready to tell us whodunit…
And then the movie starts over again. The tune is the same, but layered on top of itself with new context and a different point of view. Every new scene from Helen or Benoit’s perspective changes our perspective on the previous half of the movie, scene by scene. This new layer of the film adds to it and forms a beautiful new structure itself.
Addendum: the opening shots of each act also parallel each other. The first half begins with the start of Bach’s Little Fugue as we are introduced to Claire at her home when her puzzle box is delivered, and then we hear the fugue again but further on in the piece when Helen delivers her box to Benoit Blanc in the second half.
UPDATE: Having seen Rian Johnson’s audio commentary of the film, he confirmed that it was intentional! VINDICATION!!!
#knives out#glass onion#benoit blanc#johan sebastian bach#little fugue in g minor#daniella monet#daniel craig#Rian Johnson you did it again you clever motherfucker#now make Knives Out 3 a muppet movie with the whole cast being muppets except for Benoit Blanc
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Tbh this has been on my mind for MONTHS
Human codes… but they’re not actually codes??
A small group of humans is discovered by some curious aliens. Both sides can assume that the other is sentient. The aliens are trying to translate the humans’ language to their own, and the humans are trying to learn the aliens’ language. But since humans are tricky, they’ve decided that they don’t want the aliens to know their language, so they can have secret conversations.
So they go a little crazy. With written words, they randomly use lowercase and capital letters, even using numbers and symbols, and use a lot of slang, occasionally using words incorrectly on purpose. They’ll jumble the words a bit so that only human brains can guess their meaning (that thing where if you use all the letters and put the proper letters at the beginning and end it’ll be comprehensible), and even use additional or unofficial languages (commonly known words like ‘hola’, ‘si’, ‘oui’, etc, and piglatin, in which you typically take the first letter or syllable of a word, place it at the end, and add ‘ay’ to the end).
As for spoken words, they will do a bit of the above, mashing languages and slang, perhaps mispronouncing a few things, and quoting memes, vines, movies, and even singing parts of songs to throw off the aliens. Perhaps they will say something with a somber meaning in a joyful way to throw off the meaning, or even just naturally (‘I wanna die!’ ‘Mood’), or vice versa.
Additionally, there would have to be a TON of body language. Maybe even sign language, should they know any. Gestures and expressions, eyebrow wiggles and poorly-hidden grins. Ah, the beauties of communication.
#I’m sure there’s more#please add more#aliens#humans#humans are space orcs#haso#humans are space fae#humans are space raccoons#humans are space orcs prompts#humans are weird#humans are insane#humans are terrifying#language#communication#lingustics#? I hope this counts as linguistics??#I’ve had this in my head for an unwritten fic I’ve abandoned before its birth#just humans being clever little pricks#aliens: hello humans! we wish to communicate! please speak as you naturally would!#human: ouldshay eway unray?#other human: *offended look* Bethany. I made BISCUITS *subtle gesturing to alien food*#another human: if I stay there will be trouble~ and if I go there will be double~ so I gotta gotta know~ should I stay or should I go#alien: are we sure these are all the same species? because I’m fairly sure they’re all speaking different languages
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For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.
— Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated from the French by Grace Frick
#the wheel of time#siuan sanche#wot edit#wot on prime#clever as a pike#mygifs#mine: wot#you know what I will stop fiddling with it#I wanted a certain vibe I think I achieved it#I picked the wrong copy of the book without my annotations so it took me ages to find the quote#ANYWAY#yes please talk to me about about Siuan and power#Siuan dreaming of a home like her father's hut#knowing it'll ever be just a dream because her power and stability depend on the appearance of power she conveys#she's a prisoner of the Tower but the world depends on her control on it#she's an heretic but her heresy hinges on her ability to follow the law#to be the law#yes I know someday I will stop making Yourcenar-inspired fandom gifsets and tearing my hair to find translations#but the temptation was too great to quote from this because she's such a political being at heart yet driven by such dedication to humanity
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Do you know when in the timeline the Phantom Bride story takes place? ( I love your comics btw)
thank you! :D :D :D
the events tend to be deliberately ambiguous about when they're set, probably so it's easier to schedule them, and to accommodate players who might be at different points in the main story. though I think you have to have finished episode 2 in order to play events, so most of them are kind of...in this nebulous chronological space of somewhere post-episode 2?
that said, the more recent events (I think starting with Fairy Gala IF) have been set after episode 6, since they have Ortho as a student and in his college gear. so there is a bit of a split there that Ghost Marriage/Phantom Bride falls into!
so basically...somewhere between episodes 2 and 6, and that's about as far as I think it can be nailed down! beyond that, whenever your heart tells you is right. 💙
#twisted wonderland#joseimuke games are serious business#twisted wonderland spoilers#(in the tags)#events assume you know everyone and are friends with them already and work from there#(which does lead to some fun scenarios of yuu being like 'WHOS THAT' at a character you have 15 cards of)#though i did notice in tamashina-mina that leona was exclusively referring to malleus as tsunoyarou#which is 1) AMAZING#and 2) was he just feeling clever that day or does he find out about tsunotarou at some point#quick i have to know before the timecops get here
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gog i still can't get over minish cap vaati's Everything. He is So Fucking Stupid (affectionate)
Like. This guy's establishing character moment is, in order:
he's introduced as having won an entire tournament to get to touch a magic chest and get a cool sword, which was the prize for said tournament
turns around and does a goddamn evil soliloquy TEN FEET AWAY FROM THE GUARDS who were about to hand him his macguffin on a platter
(like this man fucks up his own horribly planned daylight heist because he cannot keep a lid on the dramatics for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, IN PUBLIC)
(THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR VAATI, FUCKING GANONDORF PLAYS THE PIPE ORGAN FOR HIS OWN BOSS INTRO AND HE STILL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS SHIT)
proceeds to fight the guards (it is, admittedly, a curbstomp for him, but it still clearly wasn't his plan, because otherwise why bother with the tournament)
gloats evilly
opens chest, unleashing a whole bunch of monsters
exposits out loud about Zelda's powers like a nerd while she is actively charging up her magic powers to kick his ass
RECOGNIZES and IDENTIFIES said magic as the special power carried by the female royal line
completely fails to recognize it as the light force he is currently trying to get his hands on (he spends like 99% of the game not figuring this out.)
petrifies her
(i have no idea if link could have deflected this spell if he had managed to get the right angle with his shield but i like to think somewhere there is a very short and very funny alternate timeline where it happens)
(more importantly: no part of vaati's original presumed plan would have involved doing this. he 100% created this situation for himself by being an dramatic idiot and picking a fight for no good reason.)
looks in the chest
there's no light force
considering his stated goals he might be as confused as you are about the monsters tbh
uhhh
evil laugh
teleports the fuck out
He then proceeds to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out where the light force is and ends up having to wait for Ezlo and Link to figure it out first because he was, as far as I can tell, GENUINELY stuck on this part. He fucking kidnaps and impersonates the King, not for access to Zelda, but to… send guards to go look for the Light Force, presumably because he was either running out of ideas or genuinely thought that would work.
None of the guards even had any idea what he was talking about. He's not even good at impersonating the King. He's already sent like twenty people to the dungeon by the time you get there and it hasn't even been a week. Somehow the game spins this as a cunning plan and clever manipulation or something.
(Meanwhile the guards are just. Poking around in random bushes and shit hoping to find the light force. One of them asks you what you think it might look like.)
Zelda is literally right next to the throne and Vaati does not figure it out until you find an actual honest-to-goodness LORE TABLET spelling out that the Light Force is Stored in the Zelda, at which point he's like "ahahaha you've done my work for me this was definitely my plan all along" and takes over the castle and throws a bunch of monsters at you to stall for time while he figures out how to extract the force from her. Somehow he still doesn't think to actually lock the fucking door.
#vaati#minish cap#loz#mc#he's my stupid little squeak squeak and i love him#meta#op#sorry this got long but i have So Many Words about this little bastard#i think he's a really fun foil to ganondorf tbh -#ganondorf looks like a brute force guy but in practice tends largely toward manipulating and long cons and cunning#the appearance of dumb muscle but is actually refined and clever and skilled while also still being built like a brick wall#vaati looks like a classic scheming squishy wizard guy but actually is just cheating and does almost all his nonsense very directly#and his plans tend to be either Do X / ??? / Profit stuff or barely exist at all#to the point where og four swords is gated primarily by your ability to convince great fairies to help you rather than vaati stopping you#ganondorf is a guy given power who wants a magic wish granting artefact#vaati is a guy given a magic wish-granting artefact who decides he wants more power now actually#vaati has had a significant minion approximately once (shadow link) and that was in shared custody with ganon
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The thing that amuses me about BumbleBY discourse is that RWBY, as a show, is very not subtle about the direction it is taking these two. It is blindingly obvious that this is the direction that the show is going in from V3C11 at the absolute latest.
The writers are not subtle about it. The voice actors certainly aren't subtle about it. The soundtrack isn't subtle about it, Jeff and Casey fed us more in V4 than the show itself did. The series branched out into manga and comics and a spinoff anime and they were also very not subtle about it. The creator himself was not subtle about it.
The show has been pointing more and more arrows at a giant neon sign saying "Blake and Yang are girlfriends!" since it started.
And yet somehow, people still miss that. For whatever reason, people manage to be completely blindsided by a subplot that the show was building for nine seasons and several spinoffs.
If you did somehow watch Burning the Candle, Heroes and Monsters, and Downfall and didn't see where things were going, if you did listen to Wings, Armed and Ready, and All That Matters and didn't realise that these characters were meant to be in love, then either your media literacy is so awful that you should really do some more reading, or you got that take from a Youtuber who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about and you need to start forming your own takes rather than waiting for Youtubers to give them to you.
#This might come across as a little mean#But honestly#The show isn't being clever about it#It's really fucking obvious#And if you missed it#you're either trying to miss it or you're being dense#RWBY#BumbleBY
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and also i just know if adelard dekker and jonah magnus ever interacted, they would've had the craziest dynamic. sexual tension through the roof. tossing around the most unhinged, passive-aggressive, indirect yet cutting insults.
#“i do not respect you or your institute. with that being said would you like to make out on your desk”#“i have a meeting in 30 minutes. make it quick.”#“yeah you look like you'd know a lot about making it quick.”#“hm. clever. i can see why gertrude likes you.”#“i can see why she despises you.”#stop me im inventing rarepairs again#tma#the magnus archives#adelard dekker#jonah magnus#elias bouchard
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Man….
ok so I was like brain rotting on Dead Plate like usual til I noticed something with the items….didn’t Vince say he liked lemons? AND GUESS WHATS LEMON SCENTED THE COLOGNE!!! And then I noticed the woman…..doesn’t she kind of look like Vince? This is when I realized that the god damn matchbox was foreshadowing Ending C / 3!!!!!
#dead plate game#dead plate#Rpg horror#rpg horror game#random ramblings#OH DAMN YOU DEVS FOR BEING SO GOOD AND CLEVER!!!!#visual novel
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He’s red and he’s white and he’s green and he’s grey /
My bonny young dragon, come hither away...
Keith Windham and Nuntius, out of Luzula's stunning Flight of the Heron/Temeraire crossover fic 'The Flight of Dragons.'
#em draws stuff#em is posting about temeraire#temeraire#the flight of the heron#keith windham#PART ONE of the current massive I Need To Illustrate Other People's Tem Crossover Fic project!#luzula's fic is a really cool exploration of eighteenth century temverse britain and explores a lot of things that I too wished to know#about the history and variation of dragon-human partnership even within the british isles!!#really I think that this fic can and should be read by temeraire enjoyers even if they haven't read foth#(but also. if you read this and then want to read foth about this. More power to you &c &c)#other important thing to note here is how much nuntius's design owes to both the incredible tem fanart cataloguing being done by#esteemed tumblr user travellingdragon!! and their own design for greylings!!#...it was so weird to draw keith in a 1740s approximation of aviator uniform. he looks like just some guy now :]#also. caption lyrics are a modified version of real folk song 'my bonny moorhen' because I think I'm v funny and clever
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OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.
#okay starting from the beginning of where ppl usually dislike him. apple woods chapter.#he doesn’t give hero/partner the CHANCE to explain themselves despite them being relatively good recruits up until that point.#and that legit might be my only gripe with that chapter bc!!! stories need conflict! I LIKE the conflict in apple woods!!!#hero and partner being punished so something they didn’t do!#the misunderstanding! how team skull (Skuntank) actually outplays the main duo with a clever yet rotten trick. I LOVE that it segways into-#one of the more sweeter scenes of guild members looking out for eachother. I LIKE APPLE WOODS CONFLICT.#but chatot just. not giving them a chance. is so dumb.#I’d personally fix this by having a lil montage of hero/partner fucking up on jobs. A LOT. and chatot giving them a pass every time.#and let the perfect apple incident BE the one where he puts his foot down and doesn’t listen to them. bc he’d given them loads of chances.#and doesn’t want to hear any excuse.#but yeah. I legit dont mind him during that chapter except for that really stupid and frustrating moment.#NOW. CHAPTER 17.#UGGGGHHH WHERE DO I BEGIN#Him not believing hero and Partner about Grovyle and the future being in ruin? FINE. ACTUALLY GOOD. BC CHATOT WOULD BE SKEPTIC.#IT FITS HIS CHARACTER!!#BUT WHAT DOES SUCK. IS HIM GOING ‘Dusknoir isn’t the bad guy. he didn’t do anything wrong’#WHEN HE LITERALLY KIDNAPPED HERO AND PARTNER RIGHT I N F R O N T OF HIM.#(NO LITERALLY. HIS CHARACTER IS IN THE FRONT ROW WHEN IT HAPPENED.)#and him. having the GALL to tell hero and partner they must’ve been ‘seeing things’ and downplaying the HELL they went through.#despite them being missing for hours/days. his own guild recruits. and his angry sprite showing up.#like. I think that’s when I genuinely despised him.#that and him going ‘OH I BELIEVED YOU THE WHOLE TIME HEEHOO :)’ shit was so fucking annoying.#just playing it off as a joke the second the guild started to believe hero and partner.#IMAGINE IF HE W A S ACTUALLY TESTING THE GUILD’S TRUST. SHOWCASING HIM AS THE MORE RESPONSIBLE AND RESPECTFUL RIGHT HAND OF THE GUILD.#and yes. Brine cave he saves hero and partner. but at that point I just didn’t care anymore.#he fucked those two over so much. that I didn’t care what ‘valiant’ sacrifice he had.#and he grills Team Skull for what they did OFF SCREEN. they couldn’t even give us THAT.#<<< THAT or him outright saying sorry would’ve been nice. IKIK his ‘actions’ or whatever but.#eughh again this is all imo. I’m not trying to make people hate him or change their mind.#I’ll get into positives in the second post cause I’m running out of tags
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sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme
^^^ possibly insufficiently educated
#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way#the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases#the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill#the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour#gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky#the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred#the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset.#do you think the ai wants itself#if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys#but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that#my post#personal stuff#thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~#(￣▽￣)~*#when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about#there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo#the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment#and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms#the real ones went extinct ages ago#when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were#honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating#but I still think about it once in a while
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I want a bill whump so bad, if dipper falls in love with bill every time he reincarnates but hes also a little bit different in every reincarnation, could there be one where hes almost entirely replused by bill, or already in love with someone else?
We all love to see that terrible little man struggling! Typically hurting Bill is accomplished via Dipper-death, but this is a neat alternate scenario.
You know he's definitely going to start out totally full of himself! Winning his husband back should be easy! Until he realizes he has no idea how he did it in the first place.
#answers#To really squeeze the good Angst Juice from a ripe Cipher you gotta put him in a position where he's helpless *despite* being so powerful#Killing Dipper off is a classic; Bill's got a lot of skills but full-on resurrection is outta his wheelhouse#The 'not in love' scenario offers another route that would be fun#One neat part of Bill is his lack of introspection#Sure of course Dipper fell for him! Why wouldn't he! He's great!#It's only when *forced* to look over the situation that Bill has to face facts: He didn't do that on purpose#No manipulation; no clever trick. Not something he can just *repeat* easily#He's gonna be REAL unhappy with trying to get THAT going around again#Of course it ends with him finally winning Dipper over once he STOPS trying to manipulate him into it#For that full-circle narrative#Which is a Good Ending for Bill! But leaves him with the lingering 'what the fuck' of STILL not knowing how he got it done#That's gonna bug you for ages now isn't it Bill
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when you order your thoschei from wish
#it’s 100% a parallel but a really shallow and stupid one#get off your fucking high horse freak you’re not special for being a hedonist nihilist. if you’re so#clever and evolved since you’re from the 51st century then why do you act like you’re 14#jamie catches up#torchwood lb#captain john hart#john hart#jack harkness#torchwood#kiss kiss bang bang#thoschei#tensimm#dw#doctor who#jamie.txt
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