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*ding dong* heretakethisIloveyourworkbye!! *ditches this on your doorstep*
Please ignore the poor anatomy.
I can't get over the eldritch bird preening Batman's ears.
DANGLEY HOOD LEGS
For reals tho. Clockway's Birdritch AU is scratching an itch in my brain. I had these doodles on a piece of paper for so long... I finally got it on my computer and rendered. I don't trust myself with colors recently tho, so grayscale it is! Except for the bird. He didn't look right with any kinda shading, so startling white it is!
Go read the DP x DC birdritch AU. Is fun!
BONUS:
a reminder that, even after he was graciously allowed to film on nomadic tribal and ancestral lands, george lucas still decided to design a race of nomadic barbaric and savage aliens modelled after the desert dwellers of north africa.
they allowed him to come as a guest and film on their lands and he looked at them and said âwow, i think iâd like to ignore their cultural traditions, dress, and religion and portray them as the barbarians they obviously areâ - and thatâs where the tusken raiders came from
on the left - the original costume of a female tusken raider. on the right - the traditional cultural and religious dress of arabian and north african bedouins.
this traditional dress has extraordinary significance in both cultural and religious spheres, and he took those elements specifically to use as identifiers of an alien group that was known for raiding, pillaging, and slaughtering.
did you know? the phrase "named after" doesn't technically state anything other than the order in which two things were named. I was named after snoopy
Seeing as how the Big Beautiful Bill just passed, here's are some websites that offer discounts on medications:
- GoodRx
- SingleCare
- Pharmacy Checker
- WellRx - this one compares prices across different pharmacies
- Cost Plus - thanks to @thedamnqueenofhell for suggesting!
-NeedyMeds - a nonprofit that helps pay for prescriptions. Thank you to @allitdoesispause for the suggestion! They also suggested checking the manufacturers website for a paitent assistance program, which can give you a coupon for free or cheaper meds.
- Scriptcycle - thank you to @teleomancer for the suggestion!
-Ask for a discount card - thank you to @cccshutdown for the reminder!
Stay safe, everyone. Things are about to get much, much worse in the US.
EDIT: if you're worried about doctor/therapy appointments, see if there's a sliding scale clinic near you (and ask your therapist if they offer sliding scale prices)
Raâs may or may not had met Tim when he was a child, but I believe heâd feel intrigued by this little boy with clear blue eyes, whoâs maybe way too smart for his own good.
The Billionairesâ Plot for Ending Democracy Is Already in Motion
The Butterfly Revolution: A Roadmap to Corporate AuthoritarianismÂ
đ¨ The lesser-known companion piece to Project 2025 that paints a more complete picture of what Trump and Musk are doingâand where we're headed.
Itâs authored by Curtis Yarvin, a name unfamiliar to some but deeply influential in elite tech circles and the Trump Administration.Â
đ¨ Yarvin is a close friend and political guru to Vice President Vance, who has openly cited him as an influence and espouses his ideas.Â
Billionaires have been talking about Yarvinâs political philosophy for yearsâreferencing it in private forums, fanatical social media accounts, podcasts, and tech industry events.
His framework has been cited by sitting senators and policy architects who openly discuss his vision for the future in blogs, interviews, and private summits.
The vision? Destroy democracy, replace it with corporate-led fiefdoms, and eliminate any possibility of returning to representative governance.
đ Project 2025 is the slow, legal route to authoritarian control.Â
đĽ The Butterfly Revolution is its accelerationist counterpartâdesigned to gut the administrative state irreversibly.
đ° The billionaire class isnât just talking about itâtheyâre funding it.
đ¨ The Butterfly Revolution is already underway.
See the roadmap below:
Yarvinâs Vision vs. Reality: Whatâs Happening Now
1. Install a CEO-President
âTrump himself will not be the brain of this butterfly. He will not be the CEO. He will be the chairman of the boardâhe will select the CEO (an experienced executive)...The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments.â â Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolutionâ
âWhat Trump is going to do is to build this regime-in-exile or occupation authority as a private⌠institutionâa larva. By winning a Presidential election, he will then install it in office.â â Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolutionâ
đ Whatâs Happening Now:
Musk now exerts more direct control over federal infrastructure than any cabinet member while avoiding the disclosure, ethics, and congressional nomination process generally required of a cabinet-level position. Â
DOGE has also been granted broad authority, with virtually no transparency, security screening, or guardrails to prevent conflicts of interest. Many have expressed concern and bewilderment about Muskâs outsized role, wondering why Trump would cede so much power to Musk, but this autonomy is a hallmark of Yarvinâs CEO-president.
đ¨ Musk isnât just an advisor. Heâs governing.
2. Dismantle the U.S. Government and Centralize Power
âA government is just a corporation which owns a country. Nothing more, nothing less. It so happens that our sovereign corporation is very poorly managed, and thereâs a very simple way to replace that, which is what we do at all corporations that have failed. We simply delete them.â â Curtis Yarvin in an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show
âAs a butterfly, the new regimeâs authority in every field will be inescapable. Since no field today is independent of power, old power can only be displaced by new power.â â Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolutionâ
đ Whatâs Happening Now:
Muskâs DOGE was established via executive order to advise agencies on efficiency and technology but has far exceeded this mandate. DOGE has moved from âadvisingâ to dissolving entire agencies (starting with USAID), withholding congressionally appropriated funds, and infiltrating at least 18 other agencies and departments.
Over 17 Inspectors Generalâgovernment watchdogs responsible for oversightâhave been fired or forced out, eroding independent checks on financial and legal misconductâ.
đ¨ The government is being hollowed out from the inside.
3. Ignore the Courts
âCongress and the judiciary should serve ceremonial roles, nothing more. The executive must be unchallenged." â Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolutionâ
âI think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts stop youâŚstand before the country, like Andrew Jackson, and say, âthe chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.â â JD Vance in a podcast interview in 2021Â
đ Whatâs Happening Now:
Trump entered office issuing blatantly unconstitutional executive orders, including ending birthright citizenship and freezing congressionally appropriated funds.
Muskâs DOGE moved to slash and defund congressionally approved departments, agencies, and funding. Â
While federal judges have moved to temporarily block these actions, it appears the administration will once again follow Yarvinâs playbook and ignore the courts.Â
Vance, who has expressed a willingness to bypass the courts in the past, is echoing this sentiment again, challenging the courtâs long-standing authority to rein in executive power.
đ¨ Trump is threatening a constitutional crisis without modern precedent. If he continues to follow Yarvinâs playbook, we can expect Trump to ignore the many judicial challenges heâs facing. If the Supreme Court attempts to stop him, Yarvin would have him declare a state of emergency to achieve his objectives.
What Comes Next: Complete Corporate Takeover and the Erosion of Sovereignty
1. Dismantling Legacy Press and Higher Learning Institutions
"...mainly journalism, academia and social media⌠The new regime must seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections. Anything can be nationalizedâso long as the new regime has the staff, the prize crew as it were, to nationalize it." â Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolutionâ
âYou canât continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of Aprilâ â Curtis Yarvin, podcast interview with Michael Anton
đ Whatâs Happening Now:
Musk has weaponized Twitter/X to dominate news narratives. Since acquiring the platform, he hasÂ
fired key investigative teams, including key members responsible for U.S. elections, content moderation, and public policy
suppressed dissenting voices and stripped departments dedicated to tracking misinformation and enforcing rules against harmful content.
Meta has pulled its fact-checking program, further opening the door for unregulated political misinformationâ.
University funding is being systematically stripped:
Federal grants for academic institutions are being revoked or redirected toward private, right-wing think tanks aligned with Project 2025â.
Programs on climate science, racial equity, and democratic governance are being cut, reinforcing authoritarian ideologies in higher education.
Efforts to defund NPR, PBS, and other independent media outlets are underway:
Congress has been pressured to cut federal subsidies to public broadcasting.
Right-wing media conglomerates are consolidating control over traditional media, ensuring that billionaire-backed narratives dominateâ.
đ¨ A coordinated effort is underway to eliminate independent journalism, silence academic dissent, and replace traditional media with propaganda arms.
2. Creating a National Police ForceÂ
âIâm federalizing the police. Iâm establishing direct control over all police departments, the military, of course, it goes without saying, the National Guard. And all of this is happening at a moment when every Trump supporter is in the street.â â Curtis Yarvin in a podcast interview with Jim Rutt
â...within a week, every law enforcement officer in America is wearing a red armband to show that he follows the new Presidentâs direct, unconditional command."Â â Curtis Yarvin in a podcast interview with Jim Rutt
đ Whatâs Happening Now:
The administration has granted immigration-enforcement authority to agencies within the Justice Department, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Marshals Service.
The administration has halted agreements that required reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found patterns of abuse. This move reduces federal oversight and aligns with a more centralized approach to law enforcement.Â
Trump has repeatedly suggested deploying the National Guard and active-duty military to respond to domestic protests and civil unrest.
In June 2020, he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces if states did not take sufficient action to quell protests.
More recently, he has proposed using the National Guard against what he describes as "radical-left lunatics," indicating a willingness to employ military force against domestic political opponents.
đ¨ These developments indicate a concerted effort to centralize law enforcement authority under the executive branch, echoing Yarvin's proposals for consolidating power and diminishing local autonomy.
3. Gaza Inc
âButâwhat if the Gazans left, but still owned the property? Or stock in a company, run by slick Arab MIT graduates, with the right to develop the strip as a new Israeli city? The LA or Vegas of Southern Israel? Perhaps the âinternational communityâ could even get an equity slice, for brokering the deal? That could even fund the 401(k)s of the aid administrators in UNRWA. Theyâll need to eat somehow once their problem is solved.â â Curtis Yarvin, âClearpill yourself on Gazaââ
đ Yarvinâs Future:
Separation of âBlood and Soilâ: Yarvin argues that if the elimination of the Palestinian people is not an option, then the people must be separated from their land.Â
Yarvin proposes replacing traditional democratic governance with a corporate model, where private interests control governance rather than elected officials. This aligns with his broader philosophy, which advocates for centralized, corporate-style authority.
This vision parallels Donald Trumpâs 2025 proposal to displace Gazaâs population and redevelop the territory into a luxury destination under U.S. control.
Yarvin suggests Palestinians could be relocated while Gaza is redeveloped into a high-value economic hub. This approach treats land as a financial asset rather than a cultural or national heritage.
The proposal suggests a profit-driven approach to governance where Palestinians are displaced and without political power.
đ Whatâs Happening Now:
Trumpâs Gaza Plan
The Trump administration has explored privatizing Gaza under a âspecial economic zoneâ model, aiming to transform it into the âRiviera of the Middle East.â This plan emphasizes real estate development and luxury tourism, echoing Yarvinâs vision.
Key Overlaps:
Depopulation: Both plans prioritize removing Gazaâs Palestinian population, framing it as a pragmatic solution to the conflict.
Economic Reimagining: Gaza is treated as a financial assetâYarvinâs âGAZA stockâ or Trumpâs âRiviera of the Middle East.â
Anti-Democratic Pragmatism: Rejects humanitarian or diplomatic norms in favor of transactional, efficiency-driven governance.
đ¨ Yarvinâs vision for Gaza, echoed in Trumpâs proposals, prioritizing corporate control and economic development over democratic processes and human rights. This approach seeks to transform Gaza into a high-value hub at the expense of its current inhabitants.
Final Warning: This Isnât a ReformâItâs a Full Government Takeover
đ° Billionaires arenât just influencing policy; theyâre rewriting governance itself, ensuring that the future belongs to financial stakeholders, not citizens.
This is not speculationâitâs unfolding right now. If Trump successfully follows through with Yarvins plan, we can expect:
â Elections to become obsolete as billionaires consolidate control over media, universities, and the institutions meant to hold power accountable.
â Independent journalism and higher education will disappear, replaced by right-wing think tanks and tech-backed propaganda arms.
â Entire regions are privatized, governed not by elected representatives but by corporate boards deciding who gets rightsâand who doesnât.
â A nationalized police force that assimilates all state and local law enforcement agencies in favor of one that enforces the administrationâs agenda, as opposed to the laws.
â Citizenship is redefined, not as a birthright or legal status, but as a financial investment in a "network state" controlled by the ultra-wealthy.
đ¨ This is not a partisan issueâitâs an existential one. The question is no longer if democracy survives but whether weâre willing to fight for it. The corporate coup has already begun. What happens next depends on us.
đĽ This is the future being built right now. The only question now is: Who will stop it?
If you want to learn more, please check out these resources from folks who have been following the technocrat takeover and helped inform this piece:
The Blonde Politics
Curtis Yarvin on the End of American Democracy - The New York Times Podcast
Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans. - Vox
The Nerd ReichÂ
The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley's Prophet of Urban Doom, The New Republic
Thank you to my partner, Brittany Ellexis Nieto, and her sibling, Dante Nieto, for co-authoring this post with me. While tech is neither of their focus areas, Brittany has worked in national policy and advocacy for the last 8 years, and Dante is a published journalist and studies political ideologies.Â
I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.
you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)
he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.
he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.
It's June, so it's time for a little history lesson:
You probably know that June is Pride Month, but do you know why this month was chosen? Itâs because of the Stonewall Riots that happened in June in the year 1969, in a bar called Stonewall Inn in New York (USA).
In the 60s, engaging in âgay behaviorâ in public (like holding hands, kissing or dancing) was illegal. Violent police raids of gay bars were common.
Especially trans women of color were regularly arrested and subjected to police brutality during those raids. Police officers would also sexually harass them by taking them to the bathroom to âverify their sex.â
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, there was one of those (homophobic and transphobic) police raids happening in the bar mentioned above.
According to many accounts, a woman named StormĂŠ DeLarverie was hit by a police officer with a baton after she complained that her handcuffs were too tight. This sparked the crowd to fight back. They threw objects (such as pennies, bottles and stones) at the police, which ultimately led to several nights of rioting.
These riots are the event that paved the way for the modern gay rights movement. Within a few months, at least two organizations and three newspapers to promote LGBT+ rights were founded.
One year later, there was the first âChristopher Street Liberation Dayâ in New York (named after the street where the riots started). Their official chant was: âSay it loud, gay is proud.â
In the late 1970s, countries like Sweden and Germany celebrated their first âChristopher Street Liberation Dayâ events â the beginnings of Pride in Europe. Nowadays, there are Pride events all over the world.
Of course, this is just a short and simplified overview. If you want to deepen your knowledge, there are plenty of ways online to learn more about the history of Pride Month!
I may have fallen off journaling in May but I am back and have my pages for June finished! I'm doing a Zelda theme, and it is mostly Wilds era themed because I have sunk too much time into those games!
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