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Kate / Brynn. 30s. they / them. Star Wars. Tolkien Legendarium (Rings of Power Positive). Hellblade (Current). Black Sails. TTRPGs (GM Main). Fic on AO3 is user-locked!

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very much a fan of this post so i felt compelled to make my own. print it out and give it to your coworkers or hang it in your cubicle and go "don't make me tap the sign"

[havingapoemwithyou]

You With the Crack Running Through You by Kim Addonizio

[dictee]

MIRANDA  X CLYTEMNESTRA 

[dronesofthedesert2023-deactivat]

[i.d.: a photoset with images from black sails, with words overlaying each one to form a longer quote. the images are: a younger miranda hamilton and james mcgraw on a boat, young miranda crying, a close up of alfred hamilton, a medium shot of alfred in a chair, miranda screaming in peter ashe’s dining room, colonel rhett holding up a gun, miranda lying on the floor with a bullet wound in her head, below the deck of a ship, flint looking out to a burning charles town, and peter ashe slumped over on the ground. the quote reads, “oh now you pull out your code of justice - call me accursed, demand my exile! what about them? what about him? this man who, without a second thought, as if it were a goat dying, sacrificed his own child. isn’t it this man you should have sent into exile, to pay for that polluted deed? instead you pass judgement on me! well i warn you, threaten me all you like and yes, if you crush me, you’ll be giving the orders. but if some god ordains the opposite, however late, old men, i’ll teach you your place.”]

[fairweathermyth]

Black Sails Season Four + enough

[brynnmclean]

Twice recently now where I've felt a Bad Low before it hit, but it still felt fucking awful. My blood sugar has been WILD this summer.

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

John Silver and text posts part 2 (part 1) (Black Sails 15/?)

[john-silvers]

It wasn’t the man I had come to know at all, but one who existed beforehand, waking from a long and terrible nightmare, reorienting to the daylight and the world as it existed before he first closed his eyes, letting the memory of the nightmare fade away.

[fire-on-fuel]

been thinking about this a lot lately. star wars right now loves a conflicted revolutionary. any character that is armed and dangerous and seeking change in the galaxy, they're never sure about it- whenever tension is needed they become unsure. or maybe it would be more accurate to say that star wars nowadays seems to value a conflicted revolutionary over any other kind. this inner hesitation, this lack of mind-body-soul devotion to a cause, renders them more measured and trustworthy to the audience. let's swing our cameras towards luthen rael, mon mothma, characters that have these Changes Of Heart, lightbulb moments, canon events. when they chose to act it is meaningful, it is more meaningful to choose conviction at the bottom of a long list than to seek it like air underwater from a young age. cassian andor can't have been a separatist, jyn erso cant have been truly dedicated since childhood, that would force them to join metatextual rank with the likes of saw gerrera, the classic unstable radical. self evident conviction is untrustworthy, anger straight from the source of oppression is untrustworthy, really I mean, ignoring all those other useless avenues for social change is suspicious... many people have made comments about the reflections of race and casting and I don't find those untrue or untethered, but there is a larger picture. a larger purpose for this box to keep protagonists in. comfort seems to take precedent in this period of american politics. the purpose of the box is to reassure the audience that everyone else is also having some kind of Awakening Process. googling what fascism is and making bluesky accounts and such- their faves in space included. in a weird way, this leaves the story of luke skywalker- which I can guess all these other characters' Awakenings were modeled after in some way- an odd relic of the 70s. of draft dodging and letters of solidarity from the soviets to the panthers. luke skywalker wastes no time in becoming absorbed into the rebel party, which I guess could be excused by the types of thinking I'm criticizing via the existing clear cut War against the empire for him to pick a side in. I wonder a lot about how many in the andor watching crowd are more scared of the saw gerrera's of the world than of who they see as the "empire". scared to exist in the same room and confront that they didnt get it first. putting revolutionary protagonists in the box creates a sense of spilling-everywhere urgency. if you see yourself in this person, then who will start the war? aren't we all waiting for someone else to do it?

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

#ah well. time to mourn old cassian again via OP

[melyzard]

[mclennonyaoi]

reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

[mclennonyaoi]

Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.

Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.

Elon Musk Deposed In Lawsuit For Falsely Linking Jewish Man To Neo-Nazi Brawl

Elon Musk was deposed in a recent lawsuit for falsely linking a 22-year-old Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk, who attempted to keep the

PLEASE read this

[mclennonyaoi]

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[mclennonyaoi]

[mclennonyaoi]

bankston is my HERO he’s tearing these people apart

[mclennonyaoi]

damn

[mclennonyaoi]

HE LEFT

[mclennonyaoi]

????

[mclennonyaoi]

oh my god

[mclennonyaoi]

KILL HIM

[mclennonyaoi]

he is DONE.

[mclennonyaoi]

HELP ME .

[mclennonyaoi]

wow. ok.

[mclennonyaoi]

[mclennonyaoi]

genuinely first two pages he says that he thinks ben’s lawyer is the one who is actually suing him and admits he has no clue what the lawsuit is about .

[mclennonyaoi]

doing a reread now this is so cunty

[mclennonyaoi]

goddamn .

[cryptotheism]

fun fact: the Mr. Bankston here is Mark Bankston, the same lawyer who absolutely ruined Alex Jones during the Sandy Hook trial.

[ex-libris-craux]

how in the fuck did the muskrat's attorney pass the bar

[ruffboi-mags]

Mark Bankston is gonna make me fucking SWOON.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I don't think Mark can ever top "INDEED, MR. JONES, INDEED" and "AND THAT IS HOW I KNOW YOU LIED TO ME" from the first Sandy Hook trial in Texas (not to be confused with Chris Mattei, the attorney in the Connecticut trial), but this part

MR. SPIRO: Do you give these lectures at all of your depositions? MR. BANKSTON: I do, and you can watch them.

is ESPECIALLY hilarious to me having listened to multiple depositions Mark has had to take in the Sandy Hook case, where he has needed to lecture EVERY. SINGLE. ATTORNEY. at some point in the case about how they're violating Texas Rule XYZ, because they all, to a one, did something seriously ethically questionable during the deposition.

like, YOU CAN WATCH/LISTEN TO HIS DEPOS. HE DOES HAVE TO GIVE THOSE LECTURES EVERY TIME. IT'S NOT EVEN A JOKE.

[inthefallofasparrow]

- April 2024

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags which bands/artists you've listened to the most, lately

[rain-sleet-snow]

THE DARKNESS AND THE STAR, T

Faramir undertakes the Quest of the Ring. Behind him in Minas Tirith he leaves his brother and his brother's wife Éowyn.

“Do not touch the water!” Lady Galadriel warns. Faramir tears himself from the water’s embrace. His face is not wet, and the water is still and undisturbed. But he can feel sweat prickling on his scalp and the back of his neck, and he is breathing as heavily as if he has run all the way through all of those visions. “It is not given that all you see will come to pass,” Lady Galadriel says, watching him closely and not without sympathy. “For good or for evil.” “Some that I saw was good,” Faramir says. He does not elaborate, although he is almost sure that she knows what he saw. Perhaps she too has seen Éowyn in her Mirror. It would explain much. “Some was evil. Some of it has already come to pass, some - I cannot say. How is one to know which is true?” “That comes with time,” Lady Galadriel says. “It cannot be told from the water itself.” Faramir ponders that in silence. It is impossible to know whether she means that one can only wait and see which visions are true, or that experience teaches one. She might mean both. “You saw much that gave you pain,” Lady Galadriel observes. “Yet you will not stray from your purpose.” “I will not,” Faramir replies, though it was not a question. If there is anything he can do to save Éowyn or his city from the battle that is to come, it will be done with the Fellowship. This is their best chance of destroying Sauron, and Éowyn would not thank him for abandoning it now. May the fate he saw in the Mirror never come for her. He thinks uneasily of the day he named her Emeldir, though. The ring of steel that accompanied the name. “I did not think so,” Lady Galadriel says. The water shivers. But all that it reflects is Eärendil’s star in the first pink light of the dawn.

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[warcrimesimulator]

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

[prismatic-bell]

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Go forth. Be free.

[ophilosoraptoro]

Reblog to save a life... and someone's sanity

[stoneoffire]

Shorter edit of my two favorite characters of all time. I'm finally getting into planning my fan fic and it's looking like it'll be a long one. Seriously, will I ever get over them?

Also thank you to everyone who has enjoyed these so far. It makes a huge difference to me knowing I'm not alone.

[mcflymemes]

"STOP PUTTING YOURSELF INTO DANGER!" PROMPTS *  assorted dialogue for expressing your fear that the person you care about might get themselves hurt if they keep acting like this, adjust as necessary

i thought i told you to stay back.

i love you too much to let you get hurt like this.

this affects me, too, you know.

every time you leave, i sit up all night waiting, praying you'll come back alive.

you keep pulling stunts like this and something bad will happen.

do you have a death wish or something?

this isn't fair to me.

i deserve better than this.

i didn't get any sleep last night because i was so worried about you.

you promised me you'd stop going out at night.

i don't like hearing this.

you've been risking your life, and for what? so you can feel like a goddamn hero?

i said i would handle it.

what the fuck are you doing here?

you told me you'd stay put.

so much for laying low.

you remember how bad it was last time.

seems like you haven't learned anything.

i believe you promised me you'd lay low.

i can't keep doing this.

don't give me that look.

we'll discuss this later.

this stops now.

i'm tired of picking up the pieces once you've left.

you keep throwing yourself into danger.

you don't give a shit about yourself, do you?

i'm sitting here, worried out of my mind, while you're out doing god knows what.

that was really stupid of you, and you know it.

i thought you knew better than this.

what's your excuse this time?

you do realize what this does to me, right? seeing you get hurt like this? you know it hurts me, too?

you really don't give a shit how this affects me, huh.

that was the dumbest possible thing you could have done.

i need you to stop throwing yourself into harm's way.

that was completely unnecessary.

they had it handled.

you didn't need to step in like that.

why do you think you're invincible?

the last time you pulled a stunt like this, it nearly got you killed.

i can't just sit here and watch you get hurt.

what are you trying to prove?

you just like fucking with my heart, don't you.

this shit hurts me, too, you know.

you're not the only one affected by this shit.

you've got a lot of people counting on you to come home every night.

what happens if you don't come back?

you think we can just carry on without you?

you think i can handle things if you end up dead?

i'm not sticking around to watch you get hurt.

you're not even slick.

you think you're invincible, don't you.

quit pretending you've got everything under control.

let someone else do it for a change.

you can't keep putting yourself through shit like this and expect me to just sit back and watch.

i'm done with this.

next time you do this, i'm not coming back.

promise me this is the end.

look me in the eyes and tell me you'll stop doing this.

let the authorities deal with it.

you're making a big mistake.

is it worth dying for?

i've dealt with enough pain over the years.

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park

[internutter]

[helvarcult]

does anyone remember the amc show interview with the vampire? one of the greatest things television gave us in its era. heartbreaking that it ended after two seasons when those characters were so beautifully crafted. i really wish we could’ve had more.