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ffxiv tumblr, twitter.com/ALizardDidIt if your icon is just a photo of a human in sexy lingerie I will block you

[alizarddidit]

time 2 log off and uninstall Tumblr till I get thru Dawntrail bc I trust absolutely zero of y'all not to spoil things

[vermanaward]

found a catboy in sharlayan's dock. this is so funny but also. an interesting insight into raha's brain, bc this is not the first time he's been sitting here worrying about finances. poor boy never got over his broke college student arc. bless him

[ofdarklands]

#PLEEAAAASE ive thought about this every day since 6.55 dropped and i spotted him on the docks #man rly went from head of state where he could tap his peepaw walking stick and rain resources down #back to being a broke ass 24 y/o fresh PhD graduate working 3 jobs so he doesnt embarrass himself when he takes the WOL out to chipotle (@viiioca x)

#really what did they mean by this. are we gonna be able to accompany him on another adventure #or is he starting his onlynyans (@kiodi x)

obsessed with these two tag sets i want them on my blog

[eriyu]

G'raha Tia: Just ghost her 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[eriyu]

hold on i got this

[birues]

"Learn to live with it- I have."

[alizarddidit]

do u ever listen to the Dawntrail theme song and get like sincerely happy in your heart for ur wol to have a fun new adventure waiting for them

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[ambalambs]

"Ah, but there's an idea! I have a matter to attend to at the Agora. Please go inside - I will join you shortly."

[artielu]

Listen up.

Supreme Court ruling makes it harder to bring racial gerrymandering claims

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, reversed a lower court decision that had struck down a South Carolina congres

The current Supreme Court is a 6-3 conservative majority.

Justice Thomas, that corrupt fascist fucker, is 75.

Justice Alito, that biased fascist fucker, is 74.

Each is married to a fascist ultra right wing woman. Ginny Thomas was actively involved in Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Martha Ann Alito is the alleged source of the ultra right wing flags on the Alito homes.

If Trump is elected in 2024, Thomas and Alito will retire, just like Kennedy did in 2018. Trump will get to appoint two more justices in their 50s.

Like sexual assaulter and liar Kavanaugh. Or handmaid's tale Coney Barrett. And the conservative majority will be on lock for thirty years. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett are in their 50s.

Add two more ultraconservative justices in their 50s and you have a five seat conservative majority for 30 years if they live natural lifetimes.

If Trump is elected in 2024, we've not only lost the Court for at least a decade (now) but another thirty years.

What other civil rights would you like to lose? Because YOU WILL. We ALL will.

Can we fucking not? CAN WE FUCKING NOT?

Vote for Biden.

Vote for Democrats for the Senate.

[qqueenofhades]

If I had to guess, if god forbid Trump is elected, I'd put money on Thomas and Alito promptly retiring (as @artielu notes above). Trump will then appoint probably James Ho (the Fifth Circuit insane nutjob whose hardline anti-abortion stance was too much even for the forced-birth anti-Roe wingnuts currently on SCOTUS) and Aileen Cannon, the wildly unqualified district-court hack in Florida who is holding up the Mar-a-Lago documents case at every turn in Trump's favor and is clearly gunning for an appointment to SCOTUS as a result of the personal favors she is doing for the Godfather. James Ho is 51, Aileen Cannon is 42. They will be on the court for another 30 years at minimum. The 6-3 conservative majority will be fucking locked down for the rest of your goddamn adult lives, and anything that gets in front of SCOTUS that your allegedly progressive asses care about? Gone. And somehow it will all be Biden's fault still, apparently? Because This Is Your Brain on Online Leftism.

It can and will get so much worse. Especially while Project 2025 and Trump are doing all the fascist shit they possibly can.

BUT. After 2016 was so epically, cosmically fucked up, in large part because of people shouting that Hillary was evil and SCOTUS didn't matter (and then steadfastly refused to change their opinion even as a wingnut-hijacked SCOTUS functioned exactly as designed), there is still a chance to fix it. It's not GUARANTEED that Thomas would tragically fall off his sugar daddy's yacht and drown, or Alito would mysteriously die on a FedSoc hunting boys' club weekend, but it could also happen. They're both in their mid-70s, and while they won't VOLUNTARILY retire in a second Biden term, there could also very well come a tipping point of scandal when they're forced out. (John Roberts is also a professional ass-saver extraordinaire, and may intervene if they keep making the brand look so bad.)

Biden himself has said the next president will probably have two SCOTUS picks (most likely Thomas and Alito's seats). If we could fill those with progressive/liberal judges, like he's been doing with the lower courts as fast as he can in an attempt to counteract all the Heritage Foundation hacks Trump and McConnell jammed onto the bench between 2017-20, that would flip the court back 5-4 liberal. If Sotomayor retires due to health problems, which is likely even though she's only in her late 60s, Biden would also be able to fortify her seat. The liberal wing would once more have control and could start reversing some of these horrible fucking decisions that SCOTUS pumps out on the regular, even after Biden himself was out of office.

SCOTUS is the way a president's policy keeps functioning long after he is no longer in power. Thomas was appointed by Bush Senior. Alito was appointed by Bush Junior. Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and ACB were all appointed by Trump and they will remain in their posts for life. If Trump is then allowed to fill two MORE posts -- Trump, the most unqualified, sleazy, rapist, treasonous, fascist fucking scumbag to ever seek any American political office anywhere -- then yeah, there ain't gonna be too much left to work with by the time they're done.

This is not about Moral Purity Pearl Clutching. This is about basic pragmatic hard-tacks choices about the basic reality of how the American government fucking works. If you don't want to vote "for" Biden, then don't frame it that way. You are voting for him to give him the chance to fucking get rid of Thomas and Alito, who have infamously distinguished themselves as even more insane than Trump's handpicked lunatics. You might just be able to save us from the carnage of 2016. But only if you LEARN A DAMN THING.

So. Yes.

[elisamaza]

Pizza delivery drivers of Reddit, what are some of the craziest reasons people have ended up on the “no delivery list”?

gameryamen

I worked for a pizza place that was near a very large software company. Deliveries to the neighborhoods or offices where all the tech workers lived was usually pretty awesome because they'd tip rather well. But there was one apartment that started to become a concern for us drivers. The man ordering was always polite, always paid, always tipped $4, and he would have been a perfect customer. He'd order breadsticks and a salad twice a week, and sometimes he'd include a bottle of root beer. Except when he opened his door, you could see an alarming amount of our breadsticks boxes stacked everywhere inside. Not like a few on the counter and a couple by the trash, stacks and stacks of them. Even worse, it was only our boxes in there. He wasn't just ordering from us often, we were the only place he was getting food outside of work. Now, I've worked in some of those tech offices myself, I know that there's enough decent food options just hanging out in the break rooms that this guy was probably not malnourished, but the way his living space was a shrine of greasy cardboard was a clear sign that this guy didn't have a healthy relationship with our food. Our manager was a really cool dude though, and he heard the drivers joking about the boxes and asked a couple of us "Is this like a messy guy or a guy who needs help?" We agreed it was probably the latter. So on his day off, the manager went to the guys apartment with an envelope that had gift cards for several other restaurants that delivered in that area and chatted with him. Manager found out that the guy was an immigrant on a Visa who was struggling to find American food he liked, and too socially awkward to ask anyone. So he talked with him through a few menus and helped him with some recommendations. Then he helped the guy load all the old boxes into his truck to take to the dump, in exchange for a promise not to order from us more than once a week. For a little while, the manager had a note on the calendar showing the last time the guy had ordered, and a couple times he had to hold his ground and refuse the guy's order. But after that chat, I never saw the stacks of boxes again, and the guy would boast about the different meals he'd had.

what the fuck dude, this is so sweet.

[maculategiraffe]

lots of times if I tell my boyfriend that I am proud of him for dealing with a situation, or that I'm sorry he's having to deal with a situation, he will say "no it's my own fault." meaning that he feels like he doesn't deserve praise or comfort for dealing with a situation that is his fault. (for example a financial problem caused or exacerbated by him having been too anxious or absentminded to deal with the situation sooner.) and I tell him this and I will tell y'all this, that I don't believe that. I think you are even braver and stronger for taking steps to deal with a mess that is of or partly of your own creation, because you have to cope with guilt and shame on top of the thing itself, and because you're fighting against the same ingrained dysfunction in yourself that caused the mess. that's like the bravest and most constructive thing you can do and you should be proud and I am proud of you.

[kelpforestdwellers]

also, mistakes don't mean you deserve to suffer

[tatangadragon]

can't stop thinking about this holly clip

[melynnwaters]

she's such a fucking icon for this tbh

[alizarddidit]

which neurodivergency involves having a consonant sound that U really don't like

[ffxivmemes]

Must protect the catboy.

[shalpilot]

last night i had a dream

[deathflare]

g'raha !

[proteasomec]

Sin Eater Urianger.

[ctalimisadventures]

Thinking about our timid catboi

We all love thinking about G'raha Tia as our cute shy catboi that does the ear wiggles and playing with his wrists. It's hitting me now, how much of shake up it would be for him. He left behind everything he knew for the last one hundred years, he was the leader of the Crystarium longer than he lived on the Source.

Of course he'd be timid and a completely different person when he returns home, for him it's like moving to a new city on the other side of the world. He's lucky to even have two people be his emergency contacts. It's such a huge change. He has the Scions, which he wasn't sure if they'd accept him, everything else is unfamiliar to him.

It has never felt like Crystal Exarch and G'raha were two different people to me. The scene of him guiding people to safety at Rahz-at-Han proves that side of him is still there, he knows how to lead people. G'raha is exactly what would happen if someone was given a second chance at life.

I cherish him sloppily munching on a burger. I enjoy him fanboying over Estinien from his stories. I cherish him getting to adventure with his heroes. He's living the best out of his new life, and getting the most out of everything he's experiencing. It makes me wanna sob.

G'raha Tia is truly the embodiment of 'age is just a number.' 😭😭