Thanks Disney

ALAKAZAM!

I just can't. They're too cute

I'm sorry but I've read too many dystopias to believe this whole "King Magnifico kinda has a point" deal.

He is magically removing his subjects' ability to resist his rule in any meaningful way. He pulls out any ambitions or desires for anything greater and only returns them once he's cleared them of anything subversive. Old man playing the lute to inspire the younger generation is bad because he might inspire them to dangerous ideals like change or improvement or, god forbid, democracy.

"But some wishes are bad!" You know what else is sometimes bad? Emotions. But if you've got a society that says "someone could kill someone in anger so we're going to remove all emotion forever except for the elites that run everything", you'd still get why that is a bad thing and a con. I know the myth of the benevolent dictator has far too much hold on our culture, but the idea that the guy lobotomizing the entire population is definitely doing it for their own good and and it only happens to give him absolute power and control over them is ludicrous.

The problem isn't that Magnifico has a point, the problem is that Disney thought he'd need a magic book to be "really" evil rather than realizing that an absolute monarch running a system Brave New World would envy is already a terrifying villain. Stop trying to half-ass a sympathetic explanation and commit to the bit, Disney! Down with the king!

Does anyone have any accurate sources about the Israel-Palestinian war? Like how it started and the crimes committed? My father is being very “objective” about what he tells my family and I’d like sources to show him. He says Israel is the victim and that they do not want more land. Everything I have heard opposes that. I’d like more information

When my family's house burned down the firemen brought my dead dog outside wrapped in a sheet so I could say goodbye and I lay in the grass petting her soft ears and begging her to get up, be alive for me, and even now 3 years later remembering it rips my heart out.

Someone today had the same thing happen but with their child. Maybe right now, while I pace my bedroom and cry for them.

Art Commission for @kathaynesart !

Thank you so much for your order!!! 🥹🙏💖

I admit it was fun to draw~~

It’s funny when American authors come up with a new European nation so their main character can be a secret royal without the pain of researching a real nation. We should all start doing that with North America, just make up a new state. My protagonist lives in New Utahioshington which is the 51st state and located between Delaware and Maryland

I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

i’ll show you REAL bisexuality *runs directly into the doorframe for some reason*

Nerdy Fact #1434: Wonder Woman was originally based on two women: the wife of creator William Marston and one of his former students that both he and his wife had sexual encounters with. 

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my fav snippets from a shitpost 😭

i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

"I kinda feel like an 🍊"

she lives in my head rent free

Just to let you know, this is the seventh time that Rise has been trending on Twitter this month. New fans are discovering Rise all the time. Keeping the fandom alive, keeping the hope alive, is how we will get new Rise content. Every little effort help.