Abyssal Starlight

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[artemisrhodon-deactivated202403]

staff member getting dunked on by one of their favorite bands you love to see it

[babushkaat]

[abyssal-starlight]

@theabyssofhappy @bluestone-dragon

[depsidase]

[lazyscience]

To everyone who thinks "wow this is so violent, gross" - consider that this happens to multiple REGULAR people every day when they're diagnosed with cancer. Oh, not the shark part, but the having to throw all their worldly resources at the equally rapacious predators of the medical billing and insurance industries or they'll die in pain, drowning or both.

I am dead fucking serious. A serious car accident or a major illness is how a lot of the "working" homeless get that way. They played payment roulette with the wrong bills that subsequently snowballed while they were too sick to work/in the 'donut hole' of spend-down before you qualify for medicaid and lost everything.

Bankrupting 3 billionaires to keep literally hundreds of thousands of people housed, fed and part of the social safety net? yeah. don't threaten ME with a good time.

[theinstagrahame]

Lately I've been saying that it requires like, towns full of poor people to free up enough cash for a billionaire to get theirs. It is a little more nuanced than that, I admit, but if you've got a finite system with a billion dollars and a thousand people, the only way one of them gets to a billion is if nobody else has any. And one way or another there is a finite amount of money in the world.

For every Billionaire Healthcare CEO, there must be thousands of patients in medical debt. For every Billionaire Box Store Owner, you need thousands of employees on food stamps. Hell, to get a trillion dollars, you need a thousand would-be billionaires to have nothing.

The fact that it's more complex than that works in their favor, because it's impossible to blame Bezos and the Waltons for the Sacklers' failings. Realistically, you're not poor directly because Elon Musk is rich. But I think we need to start framing it that way because the alternative seems to be, well, Conservative Austerity.

People will keep dying because they can't afford their medications for as long as we continue to allow billionaires to hoard their wealth. Because we're literally starving people (through gutting food stamps) to pay for billionaires (through tax breaks, subsidies, and the stock market).

Those policies get to play at being humane because we don't acknowledge the human costs that come with them. We allow Republicans to pretend that their policies are just politics, and not life or death.

[autistichalsin]

Because SOMEHOW people need to be reminded of things from literally ten years ago:

"Free the nipple" never meant "free to not wear a bra" or "free to breastfeed." Those were adjacent conversations that of course "free the nipple" supporters would boost, but that was NEVER the core of free the nipple.

The core of free the nipple was always that the breasts of people perceived as women ("female-presenting nipples" to use some Tumblr speak) are in no way different than the breasts of people perceived as men. And that since the chests of people perceived as men are not sexualized and are allowed to be exposed, so too should the breasts of people perceived as women. If men can be topless, so can women. If it's inappropriate for women to show their chests, neither should men. It isn't sexual assault for a woman to walk around barechested, because it isn't sexual assault for a man to do so either, and breasts are NOT sexual organs.

Claiming breasts are inherently sexual organs is factually and morally wrong, it is sexist and controlling, it is a tool of oppression, and it defines normal body parts (and bodily functions) as sex which leads to inherent sexualization of people with those parts. It leads to 12 year olds with large breasts being accused of seducing 40 year old men or trying to distract and corrupt their classmates.

"Free the nipple" doesn't mean "free the nipple in a god-fearing way." It means FREE THE NIPPLE, full stop, end of sentence. It means to free the nipple of the faulty social constructs that cast it as a sexualized, malicious force of seduction instead of a normal body part that should be free of expectations of shame or "modesty."

Breasts and nipples aren't shameful, sexual, immoral, porn-adjacent, kinks, a distraction, or things to be feared. They are a part of your body just like your elbows and ankles, and being afraid of them, thinking they will corrupt some innocent person or that being exposed to them is trauma akin to sexual assault, is the entire fucking problem.

Free the nipple, not just for breastfeeding, not just from bras, but from the fucked up social constructs that cast them as malicious instead of innocent. Stop trying to sanitize "free the nipple" for puritanical, conservative audiences who already hate you and the rest of us. You aren't helping anyone.

Free the nipple means FREE THE NIPPLE.

[zk-j]

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.

[teefiesworld]

forever my lineage would use his wrong pronouns but not me

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

[kingcatnine]

guards! read me my bedtime yaoi

[seven-oh-four]

my liege if you keep having all of the guards come to your bedroom to read you bedtime stories, there will be no one to actually guard the castle during that time!

[kingcatnine]

any intruders are welcome to join us for story time

[cvntkisser]

my liege the enemies to lovers yaoi is affecting your perception of the danger of real enemies.

[kingcatnine]

when will it be my turn.

[o-kenki]

[kingcatnine]

holy fuck

[kingcatnine]

happy one year to bedtime yaoi

[rollingstarmp3]

There is something so ironic about Pantalone when it comes to his relationship with Dottore.

The man who always adds a loophole in the contracts to have the advantage, the man obsessed with fair exchange, it's the same man that accepted a relationship where he isn't the one with advantage over the other, Dottore. He can have benefits, and he is the one in power of the money for Dottore's proyects, but that power is nothing compared to Dottore's power over his life. A power close to the divine, unlike his mundane power.

But Pantalone was fine with it, he decided to be in a relationship despite losing a lot, and it's not about money. It's about the loss of Zandik and his segments. He would endure it, bc the benefits of the relationship are bigger for him than how hurt he can feel. The benefits are more than the elixir of immortality or having Dottore as some scapegoat for him, the true benfits are emotionals, the benefit of being alongside someone he feels connected to.

Arlecchino's voice line about him seems pretty accurate. She would say Pantalone lacks "clarity", that his actions are governed by his feelings. She talks about how people like Pantalone, rational people, would believe they're capable of controlling their emotions and that confidence is actually their greatest weakness. Then we have Pantalone talking about his relationship with Dottore in transactional terms, only for him to have acts and certain dialogues that obviously suggests more, acts and phrases that show his emotions towards Dottore. He would go to Sumeru despite field work being risky for him, despite the whole decision of going there to help Dottore being risky. He would remind Dottore of the human he is, he would express he doesn't want him to die. His emotions slips between his words and actions.

The irony of choosing a relationship, a contract where he is at disadvantage in a certain way, where he could loss something important (and he did) But he trusted Zandik, trusted him enough to let him have the power over his life and death. He has to pay for it, he would do it, he is paying for that with the painful grief. That wasn't a totally rational decision, that was an emotional decision.

But why he wouldn't trust Zandik? After all, when the gods ignored him, Zandik was the only one that looked at him, and gave him an opportunity the gods never give despite how much he desired it.

Having a vision is to be special in some way, it's a divine power. Just like Feofan could see the human in Zandik, Zandik could see Feofan as special. That's a benefit, how Zandik makes him feel is his most precious benefit. And that's why Feofan would choose to be with him, because he truly likes Zandik, even if Zandik himself can't believe him.

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[depsidase]

[theinstagrahame]

She insisted that they keep the party line, which was that Good came at the ICE Troopers. The video literally contradicts this, there's no other interpretation. Journalistic integrity at most requires saying "the White House makes this claim", not that their claims are true.

I guess congratulations to the BiAsEd MaInStReAm MeDiA people for finally getting the biased mainstream media they've been so worried about. Anyone heard from them lately, or are they suddenly chill when they agree with the biases?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

You need Government.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS

[theinstagrahame]

Every time I get a soda, I think about the way that Coca-Cola is the biggest producer of new plastic in the world, despite promises to reduce that and use more recycled plastic for literally decades. Like 20 or 30 years, they've been making the promise and never delivering. They're one company; huge, but just one.

Meanwhile, we had "plastic straw discourse" and we separate the plastics from our recycling, and some states have a bottle deposit to make sure we recycle them. If you need an example of why Individual Solutions can't solve Collective Problems, look no further than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

OP is correct: Coke keeps doing this because they don't lose money if they don't, and there's no law against it.

If you want meaningful change, you have to demand it from your elected officials. Even and especially the shitty ones. They're the only ones in a position to make laws, so we have to bully them into doing their jobs.

Defeatism just keeps the status quo alive. "There's no point" is propaganda. It's not going to take just one phone call, or three emails. It's going to take all of us, constant pressure. Coordinated efforts, over time.

It sucks, but that's the system we have right now.

And we can't abstain our way to a better world.

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[newrider]

[wamscoastsmoker]

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac]

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

[wamscoastsmoker]

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[queerpeers]

yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*

[queerpeers]

[xuxii-bunny]

Is there a transfem version?!?

[queerpeers]

ask and ye shall receive

[roseycanvas]

Nonbinary version?

[queerpeers]

enjoy 💛🤍💜🖤

[queerpeers]

like status: sick 😎

[british-catgirl]

happy pride month I fucking love powerpoint slide transitions and gender transitions

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Reblog status: sick 😎

-🌦️🍭

[m0thmancore]

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

[m0thmancore]

oh no! i dropped this screenshot that explains how to bypass this with a free adblocker! you shouldn’t reblog this or anything; it’d be terrible if people used this advice to watch ad-free youtube!!

[legendary-lunatic]

Say it with me: IT. IS NOT. ABOUT. THE FUCKING. KISS!!! That’s not why people are mad.

The Ending SUCKS because the WRITING SUCKS.

NO, I don’t find the concept of ‘tHeY FiNd eACh oThEr IN eVerY uNivErSe’ beautiful.

1) Because they don’t. There’s zero evidence that this is a recurring thing, thats 100% fandom copium- and even then they don’t have any of their memories and aren’t the same people. THATS. NOT. THEM. And it never will be because people are the sum of their experiences AND THEIR CHOICES. You don’t take a comedy Christian satire and make the solution some Buddhist-esque reincarnation philosophy that requires an entirely new suspension of disbelief no one signed up for or wanted. That’s shit writing.

2) So not only does the finale spit on every theme it had prior regarding championing human choice as miraculous and the world being worth fighting for in all its flaws as it is- you are going to sit here and tell me that actually they never had any choice at all, so they decided to toss everything down the garbage disposal for the next life. That is, frankly, terrible, and nihilistic, and not at all sensible for this series.

Aziraphale and Crowley are a wonderful love story because they were on opposite sides and they CHOSE each other, and they CHOSE to love humans. They chose to be hedonistic and compassionate and selfish and ‘human’ as they were because they knew how to make choices. Their love has always been THEIR choice.

So how can you tell me that the ending is great because they sacrificed everything for humans to have free choice- which they already had by the way- and then say the ending is beautiful because Aziraphale and Crowley are Predestined to love each other in every reality. How is that not massively hypocritical to the concept they are trying to sell us last minute out of nowhere? Is predestiny not the antithesis of what they asked for by your own definition?!

How is taking their 6000 years of choosing each other over and over again, and summing it down to a deterministic soul bond, more ‘free will’ or beautiful than them literally defying cosmic powers just to stay together and eat dinner at the Ritz on a casual Tuesday?!

People act like their life was just complete suffering, but they were perfectly happy on their own earth. Season 1 left them exactly where they wanted to be!!! Together with the Earth. It was so EASY to circle back to that, all they had to do was write it, and no one would have questioned it because that’s THEM and what they want to be doing. If Adam defied Satan for humanity, why would Jesus Christ- who’d already died once for the salvation of humanity- not tell God to be merciful?! Why not have the humans make the choice, rather than Crowley- which is another hypocritical move because he’s making choices for them just like he’s telling god not to!

How do we have any evidence this new world doesn’t have a god? Trust? In the woman who just destroyed the world after having a casual laugh with Satan? Okay. They didn’t trade their existence for freedom, they traded the apple of knowledge for ignorance.

The fact is, is that the world that championed choice and love was the one they came from, not the one they sacrificed themselves for- because choice and love doesn’t mean there are no complications, it means you take a stand and you do what you want anyways.

This dystopian nightmare of an ending where they let the universe die and don’t know each other was never a thought in anyone’s mind until it came into existence with the most shallow and contrived justifications of all time ten minutes before close, and that’s because it’s out of character nonsense.

And I’m sick of hearing ‘they were always gonna be human’ ‘it was always gonna be this way’ like there was rational grounds for it beforehand. No it wasn’t, and it certainly didn’t need to be. At most it was everyone’s joke of a worst case scenario, and that’s what they decided to give us- probably after a quick google search to find out what would piss everyone off the most.

This was Neil Gaiman and his team of horror writers, who probably didn’t even consider the source material, throwing a temper tantrum and abusing the fandom for liking Terry Pratchett’s divine optimism more than his petty ass. They designed every ridiculous contingency in this horrible script to justify their own mess.

The Ineffable Husbands were fine as they were. Even as a Demon and an Angel they were already ‘human’ enough, THATS what was funny. What the hell is so great about being mortal and not being able to have a free table whenever they want, and having to deal with real world shit like taxes, and homophobia, and Dying?

Enough Dyin’. No Maur DYIN’. It’s it’s-ITS NOT ON!!!

The two were horribly out of character this entire film. All the film did was spit on the world building and take the magic out of it.

[twilightcitysky]

So just to recap: after MULTIPLE teasers emphasizing the romantic arc of Aziraphale and Crowley and a summary by Muriel showing The Kiss (tm), as well as Prime posting kissing art between the Ineffables, we got:

No second kiss

No I love you

No confession

No 1941 pt 3

No happy ending

No protective husbands

No wing shielding

No hug

No powerful shared miracles

No explanation for az's weird S2 F15 behavior

No acknowledgement of the kiss

No picnic

No Ritz

No surviving main characters

No CATHARSIS

Monkey's paw cottage

Did I miss anything?

There are two things I want to emphasize. 1) They KNEW what we wanted, because that's evident in how they advertised the show. 2) Not giving us ANY of it HAS to be intentional. They had to actually work to not allow the Aziraphale and Crowley arc to resolve satisfactorily. It would have been the most natural thing in the world, and it was actively prevented from happening.