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Hey lnds fans! I need a favor!

Remember a while back there was an official artwork of the Akso Staff room with several of the doctors kinda hanging out? You couldn't really see any of their faces but there was a comment like "the one in the middle is Dr Zayne" (or something similar).

If you have that photo saved can you please reblog that here for me? I desperately need it and I cannot for the life of me find it and I've been searching for DAYS and I'm about to lose my god damn mind 😭😭😭

Help a fellow lnds lover out and I will sing your praises forevermore ♡

[ahodsonb]

You mean this right here? ✨❄️✨

[fuckyeahisawthat]

While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.

Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.

Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.

The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.

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[alittlebiteverything]

i’m 101% sure that this entire line was improv and tom couldn’t help it

[peppersheart]

“Yeah, that was basically, we did about six different versions of that story, and that was just us standing around while the cameras were rolling and I would just feed them lines and feed Chris ideas for stories. I’d say, “Do another one, in this one say: ‘I was walking through a field, and I saw a lovey Turkish rug in the middle of the grass, and I love Turkish rugs, so I went to stand on it, and it was Loki, and he turned back into Loki and there was a hole and I fell through the hole was was impaled on a whole lot of spikes.’” So we did versions of that, and the one with the snake just ended up being the one we used.” —Taika Waititi, Empire Magazine Podcast, 6/11/17, 00:23:25 (x)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

AMAZING

I choose to beliee every version of this story is true

and is just a different tale of when Loki turned into something ridiculous

and tried to murder his brother

[strangely-normal]

I don’t know what makes this funnier, the idea that Loki kept trying the same prank, or that Thor kept falling for it.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Thor: OH LOOK A PUPPY

Loki: WAAAAUUUGGGHHHHH

Thor: OH NO IT’S YOU AGAIN!

[nai0101]

Unpopular opinion: Fandom needs to realize that there are more about Jumin than just his BE2.

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

Anon, you know you said the most important thing here~ Tbh I don’t understand why some people still entitled/associated him with his BE2 I thought we over that and that was a BE for a reason; both MC and Jumin are at fault; why some people couldn’t see past this? because his character is more than that. I mean c’mon guys, if you really pay attention of his route; in the end of his route he become a wonderful person and tbh his character development was so heart-warming and beautiful. Let me summarize it a little but sorry if it was not really well organized.

1) He is trying his best to not to get so possessive

2) He know he was fucked up and he is always apologizing to you of what he had done; he just need times to sort of his feelings and emotions; he want to become more mature for you

3) He is considering your opinion and even RFA members to help him become a better version of himself; he still learning about ‘relationship’ so please guide him to right path

4) He treats you like the most precious treasure in his life; you are his world his everything; everything is nothing compared to you; he is willing to change just for you

5) Even after married, he still want to be a good husband; a better person just for you

Sorry it become really long lol but well this is me when talking about Jumin Han I got uncontrollable xD

Anyway thank you for sharing your opinion^^

Send me unpopular opinion meme

[ahodsonb]

Does anyone else ever feel like the forgettable NPC to all their cool friends' game of life? They're out there, making a name and a life for themselves, doing all the things you want to do, meeting the people you want to meet, being recognized for their fabulous, glorious selves. And they should be. You're happy for them. And there you are also, trying your best to make a name for yourself, too. Trying to get someone to notice you. Notice the hard work you've put in for your own life. The hard work you've done to build your business, your project, your progress, your *YOU*. Notice you in the background. So you think: "Maybe if I watch them, I'll pick something up. Just maybe, if I stand close enough, or maybe if I stand just right, someone will notice me. Maybe my friend will remember me back here. But I don't want to try too hard, or seem too desperate." So you hang back, watch as the game unfolds, have your moment, smile, and then you're forgotten as a background character.

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Maladaptive Daydreaming Starter Pack™

• “Wait, this isn’t normal?” • “I thought everyone does this!” • Steals every movie and book plot that I know. • Not being able to sleep well because of the urge to daydream before sleeping. • Not being able to wake up because of the urge to daydream after sleeping. • “I actually didn’t study at all because I was too busy daydreaming last night.” • Long car rides are heaven. • Always brings earphones everywhere along with 50 music playlists. • Making facial expressions in public and end up being seen by 50 random strangers. • Overlapping universes and characters that aren’t real. • “Recovery? A life without daydreaming? Nah, I don’t know them.”

[ammosart]

Someone has gone and ruined a perfectly good pair of spectacles, now someone’s about to have a bad day.

I still haven’t decided what exactly to do with this, so I’ll just tuck this version here for right now.

[coolthingoftheday]

Potoos use their body posture to camouflage themselves as part of the tree they’re perched in.

[coolthingoftheday]

GUYS. LOOK IN THE SECOND PICTURE. LOOK AT THE FUZZY BABBY POTOO POSING LIKE ITS MOM. LOOK HOW PROUD SHE IS, LIKE “I’M SO GLAD, MY CHILD IS SO GOOD AT PRETENDING TO BE A FUCKING TREE STUMP”

[coolthingoftheday]

I JUST THOUGHT YOU GUYS WOULD WANT TO KNOW WHAT A POTOO LOOKS LIKE WITH ITS EYES OPEN BECAUSE WOW 

WOWOWOWOW

LIKE ALL AROUND THIS BIRD IS SO RIDICULOUS

NEW AVATAR

[defydamage]

[joachimmurat-archive-deactivate]

HOW COULD YOU REBLOG THIS AND NOT ALSO MENTION HOW THE FUCKING THING *SOUNDS*

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

HOW ARE THEY REAL

[eithnemoon]

Pretty sure the other animals (and us) just stop and look puzzled at them and that’s how they really survive. They are adorable and weird.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

They are too confusing to be eaten

[samdirector24]

Such strange, wonderful birb children

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

They look so startled by the world around them!

[luvologyo-deactivated20231018]

↳     brotherhood   (n.)  a fellowship, a kinship, the camaraderie & loyalty that exists between faithful companions.

[chocoblondie]

When you finish playing FFXV, analyze everyone’s story and realize that:

Ardyn needs a hug

Noctis needs a hug

Prompto needs a hug

Ignis needs a hug

Gladio needs a bunch of cup noodles

Ravus needs a hug

[lucisfenrir]

C’mon guys…this isn’t fair…

[kingcael]

“Smile!”

[livesoundgirl]

Forever. 💖

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Elizabeth Warren Faces President Trump with Rachel Maddow: No ‘Compromise’ on Bigotry

Trump’s toughest rival from the campaign trail is just beginning to adjust to our new reality.

“Well, it happened,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Thursday night when Rachel Maddow asked her how she’s feeling about the unexpected election results. “There was a time to be really despondent about it, but the way I see it now is that we pick ourselves up and we fight back.”

Warren went on to say that there is nothing wrong with acknowledging that the election of a man who repeatedly referred to her as “Pocahontas” on Twitter is “painful” for a lot of people.

“This really and truly hurts,” she said. “And we have to remember how Donald Trump started this whole campaign. He started it with an attack on Mexican-Americans and then he took the escalator down. And his entire campaign was fueled on racism and bigotry, attacks on women, attacks on African-Americans, attacks on Latinos, attacks on Muslims, attacks on people who were disabled. It was one attack after another. And that means we have to think about what this means for America and where we go forward right now.”

As she said in her statement following Tuesday night’s news, Warren indicated that as a Democratic senator she would look for places where she could “compromise” with Trump, but had her doubts. “There are things we’re going to end up losing, because we don’t have the White House, we don’t have the Senate, we don’t have the House of Representatives,” she said. “But on those core issues about treating every single human being in this country with dignity, on that we stand up and we fight back. We do not back down. We do not compromise, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. For me, that’s the starting place on how to understand what’s happened to us.”

Later, Warren added, “You can either lie down, you can whimper, you can pull up in a ball, you can decide to move to Canada, or you can stand your ground and fight back.” She urged people who are angry about the election to get involved politically and volunteer for organizations like Planned Parenthood to help those who might be hurt by a Trump Administration.

As for the protests that have sprung up across the country in opposition to Trump, Warren said, “People are upset and they’re right to be upset. This is our country, and people have a right to have their voices heard.” But, she added, “we also have an obligation to listen.” Not necessarily to Trump, but to those who decided to vote for him despite his “bigotry.”

After a break, Warren told Maddow that she has spoken to Hillary Clinton since Tuesday night and took a long pause before saying their conversation was “good.” She added, “Look, it’s hard. It’s really hard. She worked hard. She has had 25 years of public service, longer. She’s been out there. She has fought for women. She has fought for children. She has fought for health insurance. She has fought for human rights. That has been the defining feature of her life, and this is hard. This is hard. I respect what she has done and tried to do for this country and for people around the world.”

Finally, just as interviewers tried to get Warren to announce her presidential campaign ahead of 2016, Maddow closed her interview by asking, “Who are you going to pick as your running mate in 2020?”

“No, no, no, that is a long way off,” Warren said, not exactly ruling out a run. “We don’t have energy to waste on that. What we have is we’ve got to line up our fights, where it is that we’re willing to say, ‘We’re with you and we’ll help you and we’ll put wind in your sails, President-Elect Trump,’ and where it is that we say ‘On bigotry, on prejudice, on turning loose Wall Street, on saddling our kids with too much debt on student loans, on canceling health insurance,’ where it is we say, ‘No, we will fight you every step of the way.’”

From the 11.10.2016 edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show:

On TRMS, Sen. Elizabeth Warren gets it 100% right. 

H/T: Matt Wilstein at The Daily Beast

[feather-of-maat]

How to change a view?

In the wake of the US election, as well as many other events in other countries recently where we’re seeing a definite shift to the right and to extremism, one that isn’t just silent and private, but open and active, I think many people will find themselves trying to change things in any way they can, one of them being going to the source of the problem and trying to change some very deeply held problematic views.

What follows after the cut is a collection of tips I’ve gathered as a moderator and active member of an online community with more than 250 000 members, one specifically geared towards changing views. Not just a place to debate and yell at each other, but a place where people come specifically to have their views changed (sometimes they actively want to change views that are damaging to them in some way, and sometimes they’re simply open to that change, but still firmly believe in being right.)

I have been at this for two years now. We’re cooperating with college professors who give their students assignments that consist of actively participating in our community. We’ve had studies written about us. I have seen people do a 180 on incredibly emotional social issues - be it race, sexuality, gender, abortion, rape culture, religion, politics in general, etc - more times than I can count. I see it every single day and this is not an exaggeration.

I hope you’ll find it helpful and if you do, consider reblogging so more people see it.

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[gold3nberry]

Dragon Age:Inquisition headcanons - In the aftermath

Cassandra: (holding you tight against her) quit whining and saying sorry. It’s not your fault, you’re not one of the people who did it. Sure if you were, you wouldn’t be there asking forgiveness, right? Now stand up, you’re strong and you’re going to survive this. Of course it will be hard. But you’re harder.

Dorian: vistante kaffase, how this could have happened? Well, what is done is done. No panic, panic won’t solve anything. Breathe, now you’re seeing all dark, but it’s not. There are still good people and the world is not ended. No, it’s not, not even for you, trust him, he knows what he is talking about.  Don’t forget you’re not alone.

Vivienne: dear, you’re going to hyperventilate. Walk with her and breathe. Back straight and eyes forward, dear. You’ve nothing to be ashamed for. What is done is done, and crying about this won’t solve the things. You have to think carefully about your next step and how you can limit the damage. Grab as much informations as you can about what and who can defend you and your rights. 

Varric: it’s ok to be a little dazed, kid. We all are. Here, sit and take a drink. Just one, drinking yourself into a stupor and brooding won’t solve problems, It’ll just make them bigger. So, try to not make things which can ruin your future and try to not think about this mess for a little. Relax for a moment, a relaxed brain finds easier the solutions.

Blackwall: go with him. Manual labor and exhaustion will help you to rest, at least a little. Now you’re full of bad thoughts. Work on something you like, you’ll feel better. No, this won’t solve all the problems, but a good night of rest after a day of hard work, and even better a work for someone who really needs a hand, will help you to see the things differently.

Sera: fucking fuck, what the fuck?! Not even her bees can deal with this mess! Ehi, look, she cannot do much more than drag you to cook horrible biscuits, but… if you need a friend, or more than one, you know where you can find her and the others, right? Look, you’re in this shit together, so it’s not so bad, because you can stay hand in hand, right?

The Iron Bull: shit, this went bad, didn’t it? Do you have a plan? Not yet? Well, you do not need one in the next few hours, but planning now will help you later. And a good team too, for sure. The team is the importan part, they’ll be there for you, and vice versa. C’mon, you can handle this, you’re stronger than you think.

Solas: he’s so, so sorry. But he expected this, even if he had hoped, for a moment… but now, it’s time to close ranks and protect what you hold dear. You have a voice, despite what a bunch of arrogant people is trying to make you believe. Use it. Be ready to fight for what is right.

Josephine: sorry, she didn’t want to cry. Very well, you need a plan and a cup of tea. Better with some spirit inside. It’s time to contact friends and love ones and make sure they’re okay, and that they know nobody is alone or forgotten. Nobody. It’ll be bad for a little, but not forever. Nothing last forever, not even the worst situation.

Cullen: Maker’s breath, he had seen chaos before, but this… whatever you need, he’s there for you. It’s a bad situation, but not a desperate one. Losing a battle is not losing the war. You need to think carefully and be even more careful, but you’re going to win. You’re a good person, never doubt about this. And never let the others tell you otherwise.

Leliana: she knows a Crow. If you need…

(hugs to everyone needs one!)

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[hellagayhooligan]

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