Cruelty Never Serves The Cause Of Justice

(Most posts are from the queue)

[chamerionwrites]

Also it brings me zero pleasure to be Cassandra here, but “mass deportation” is a synonym for murder. I need you all to understand this. Even in the absolute best case scenario, it means large numbers of people being warehoused in slapdash facilities where illness spreads quickly and medical care is inadequate. It means government contractors providing food, trying to make a killing, and inevitably cutting corners on costs/quality/safety. It means police violence against people being rounded up. It means US citizen children being removed from their families or deported with them. It means people being returned to countries they fled in fear of their lives, and killed by domestic abusers/gangs/governments. It means bureaucratic mixups (/apathy/malice) that result in people getting dropped off in dangerous cities that they’ve never even visited late at night.

It means all of this and more, and if the government comes for your neighbors you should respond as if you are witnessing an attempted murder.

[chamerionwrites]

Vastly underestimated the degree to which enjoying spy novels would be a practical life experience

[chamerionwrites]

Primarily via instilling the conviction that allllll information is discoverable with enough creativity, doggedness, social graces & connections, and/or willingness to bend the rules

[notbecauseofvictories]

I've seen that "the immortal loses their loved one but not their loved one's family; what if the immortal stayed close, followed them down the generations?" post a dozen times, and I understand it's intended to be sweet---but every single time I see it, all I can think is that it's straight-up the beginning of a horror story.

[notbecauseofvictories]

#wild seed by octavia e butler kind of thesis statement. @nickandros

[chamerionwrites]

Vastly underestimated the degree to which enjoying spy novels would be a practical life experience

[st-just]

I've def. said it before but I find the widespread popularity of soulmates deeply confusing for many reasons, but most fundamentally because if God came down out of heaven and pointed out one specific person in all the world I just had to fall in love with, I feel like the only dignified and self-respecting option is to tell him to get fucked and never talk to them out of spite?

[chamerionwrites]

Watching a cop show and it is ofc copaganda, but also this bit - from a character that I was lulled into believing was Random Extra Here To Play The Role Of Scared Bystander Grandma With No Lines - took me out

[chamerionwrites]

Dal for breakfast remains an all-timer

[annabelle--cane]

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Angela Harding - The Salt Path

[liones-s]

the experience of tragedy in plays specifically because ‘maybe it will end differently this time’ feels possible. This isn’t pre-recorded. This isn’t set down in time and film. This is live, this is now, these people are real and maybe this time when they open the letter it won’t say ‘kill the messenger’. Maybe this time they get to live

[contextfreepatentart]

[chamerionwrites]

Dystopian "fun" fact is that green card holders, refugees, and asylees are all legally required to register for the draft, and failing to do so can affect future attempts to become a naturalized US citizen

[chamerionwrites]

At the end of the day my feeling about AI art is just. If you didn't care enough about this thing enough to dedicate the tiniest bit of time or thought to it, I fail to understand why *I* should care about it

[valtsv]

writhing in agony but i'm getting a little hot with it like arching my back and moaning and baring the smooth, vulnerable curve of my throat and white knuckle gripping the sheets beneath me

[silkenred]

Big fan of that bit that either happens or should happen in all media where a character is critically injured and can't keep fighting but keeps on screaming I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU while writhing around and suffering. We've all been there.

[dilfdyke]

betraying someone who trusts them deeply is one of the sexiest things a character can do its unparalleled. cause either the relationship is irrevocably changed and said character is completely at fault (guilt complex, hot) or it isnt and then both sides have to deal with the fact that they care about each other enough to overlook the betrayal (unceasing devotion, also hot)

[ilynpilled]

trope i really like is self-loathing characters desperate for the catharsis of punishment for frankly rather selfish reasons who r also obsessed with repeatedly pressing others into hating them and hurting them as essentially a method of self harm. yes baby continue making it worse for urself and everybody around u instead of doing an actually productive and effective journey of improvement and redemption

[chamerionwrites]

Here's Every Single Death Linked to Immigration Enforcement Since Trump's Raids Began in 2025 ~ L.A. TACO

We hope this register offers a moment to remember the names and stories of the victims. For each one, we’ve included the backstory we were a